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Oct. 26, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards
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It all started twenty-one years ago today. Twitter and YouTube had not even been invented when TPC first took to the radio airwaves on October 26, 2004. James Edwards and Keith Alexander mark the special occasion before continuing on with business as usual.

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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.
Just moved in my new house today.
Moving once park, but I got squared away.
Bell started ringing and chains rattle out.
I knew I'd moved in a haunted house.
Still a made up in my mind to stay.
Nothing was going to drive me away.
When I seen something that gave me the treat.
Had one big eye and a two big feet.
Well, that one goes out to Wolfman Jack tonight, Keith, wherever he may be.
And welcome to tonight's live broadcast of TPC.
I'm your host, James Edwards, Saturday evening, October the 25th.
Ladies and gentlemen, as you know, if you are a longtime listener to this broadcast, it all started 21 years ago this week.
In fact, 21 years ago tomorrow.
As we like to remind you, Twitter and YouTube had not even yet come online when TPC took to the radio for the first time on October 26th, 2004.
And James had a full head of hair.
Well, not about full, but it was fuller than it was, October 26th, 2004.
And so we're going to be marking that special occasion tonight, weaving in and out of some reminiscences and some contemporary modern content and current events and headlines and things like that.
It'll be a mostly business as usual type of anniversary show tonight.
We have done all kinds of anniversary shows over the year, but I felt that we celebrated the 20th anniversary so hard last year and so extensively that tonight it'll be, we're certainly going to mark the occasion.
I mean, this show's old enough to drink now.
We're going to take the show out for a drink after we get done tonight.
21 years, but it will be a little more low-key.
Hey, I really love the 20th anniversary.
The whole year last year was a celebration.
We had the monthly TPC at 20 retrospective.
Of course, that incredible conference.
We're going to get into some of that, but it will be a little bit of this and a little bit of business as usual, a couple of call-ins, and then our guest in the third hour.
But nevertheless, here we are 21 years nearly to the day, tomorrow, Keith.
And it has been a wonderful ride.
Yeah, a wild.
It continues to be.
And it still is.
I tell you what, we have succeeded in ways that other similar shows have not.
We ought to talk about that because we have basically built a network of groups and people in politics and whatnot that I don't think very many other groups like us or shows like us can match.
Well, it is true.
And I think that, again, why do we do any of this?
Why have you all supported us for so many years?
What has been the objective of doing a radio program or building an organization, whatever organization that may be on the pro-white right?
I mean, certainly, yes, to influence people, to have your say, to stake a claim on the narrative, to try to shift people in the American public and internationally as well to our way of thinking.
That is very important work, to be sure.
But what are you doing any of this for if it is not to either take power for yourself and for our ideas or to at least have direct access to power?
I think you build your institutions up in order to have the purest application of that success, and that is by tapping into something that is bigger.
I mean, yes, you want to have influence over your peer group.
You also want to establish relationships and build relationships with peer groups above our weight class.
And I think we have been very successful in that in more ways than people know.
And there is a lot of movement behind the scenes in that direction.
We look forward to the next few months.
I can tell you that.
Well, you know, that our basic purpose is to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and to get the truth on current affairs and things like that done.
But on the other hand, unlike so many other people in our movement, we have not developed an allergy yet towards having power and influence in the everyday affairs.
See, that is key.
And that is, I don't want to say you're walking a tightrope because if you're concerned on exactly where you're standing is, you're putting too much thought into it.
You always have to be who you are.
You have to stand for what you believe in, no matter what the temperature is for that.
But you certainly want to advocate for your positions in a way that it makes it attractive to everyone.
People who listen to the program, people who haven't heard of the show, people who have power and influence above that of our own reach and everywhere in between.
And I think what you're talking about, Keith, is the fact that certainly we have been able to do this, and we have not been the only ones that have been able to do this, but there have been precious few that have been able to do it, certainly for this long and at this level of effectiveness, to be able to, again, build relationships, grow relationships, strengthen trust and bonds to where it matures and goes into places that you couldn't,
it evolves and goes into places that you couldn't have originally anticipated without trimming yourselves on the issues, the issues of identity, the issues of race, the issues on all of the things that make this show what it is, certainly race, identity.
We have certainly a southern persuasion, and we are Christians.
And we've been able to weave all of that.
And even though not everybody agrees with every single position that we take here, there is just a universal.
I was going back and reading some of the we had 20 testimonials for the 20 years last year.
Going back and rereading those, we have really just developed a universal there.
This program and its work has been universally respected on our side.
Well, the thing that I would point out is that when we started this show, and I wasn't really there at the founding, but I was there shortly thereafter.
We were a voice in the wilderness.
You didn't have any other radio shows like ours.
Now there are podcasts, galore, and other, I guess you would call them, exponents of information that are just, you know, it's become so popular.
We have been like, it reminds me of the Beach Boy song, Catch a Wave and You're Sitting on Top of the World.
We have caught the wave, and it's not like we've trimmed ourselves.
It's like society has trimmed its sales.
It has bent to the will of our collective.
And I won't say us.
I'll give you a cliche.
There's no I-EN team.
We have been a part of this.
I mean, yes, we were the first pro-white broadcast media.
Everybody knows that.
So many more now.
There's so many now.
You couldn't even begin to know them all.
But society has bent to the will of our collective in ways that certainly far exceed even my best predictions for when we started this thing.
I mean, those days back then, boy, it was rough.
It was rough in the mid-2000s doing a show like this.
And now, I mean, it's just, if you're not doing a show like this, what are you doing?
We had groups like the ADL and the SPLC gunning for us all the time.
But you know what?
Because we were the only target back then.
And our ideas are so popular that basically we've won the war of ideas.
Well, it's certainly going in that direction.
I just want to give a couple of announcements.
And again, what we're going to be doing tonight, we have had shows on our anniversary years.
We've had conferences on our anniversary years that feature either just we open up the phone lines, we take calls around the country, or we have some of our most regular guests coming in for a segment per person.
And we have, you know, a show where we do 10 or 12 guests.
We're not doing that tonight.
Again, tonight, it's going to be a little more low-key celebration, but we're still definitely marking the occasion.
And we will continue to do that in the next segment while as we continue this Halloween weekend, well, the weekend before Halloween.
Halloween will have come and gone before we're back on with you all next week.
So this is our last show before Halloween.
And this really ushers in just, for me, my favorite time of the year on the show.
I love March Around the World.
I love Confederate History Month.
I love all of the stuff we do.
But this time between Halloween and Christmas, especially Christmas, of course, this is just a fun time.
I mean, it's the holidays are coming up.
It's a festive time of year, and we always are, it brings out the little kid in us.
It does.
And we just have a little more fun with the rest of society, I guess, celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas and New Year's and, you know, tonight with Halloween.
But I will say just a couple of quick announcements.
Congratulations to our producer, Liz, who has had her first baby.
Wonderful.
And that is something we, you know, family, the building blocks of civilization.
And it is good to see good people having kids.
And so we are, that's one for the good guys there.
Well, that's one of our big promotions, really.
You know, we want the families to grow and prosper for white people.
Okay.
That's just, and we make no bones about that.
And also, I meant to mention this last week, but I want to thank our friend Steve King.
So I spoke to a group up in Michigan back in the spring, and they knew that I knew Steve, and they said, James, they do a meeting every spring, every fall.
And their fall meeting was last week, and I forgot to mention it on the show.
Said, is there any way you could possibly get Steve King to go?
I called Steve up in the summer.
He drove 10 hours to Michigan in his car last week to speak to this group.
And they had a great time.
I'll tell you a little more about it next.
Stay tuned.
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I was out in sky There's a light.
In the darkness of everybody.
I absolutely love Halloween.
I will not mince words about that.
I love the harvest season, what it means to us as Europeans this time to come together before the dark, cold winter sets upon us and to bring in the crops and to prepare for those long, dark nights of winter in Europe.
I mean, that is where we became who we are.
And it's just such a fun time.
I mean, this time of year, the weather's so nice.
The leaves are changing.
Picking pumpkins and apples.
I was out at the orchard, as you know, Keith.
We got about $150 worth of pumpkins and we got a nice display on the porch taking the kids through the corn maze.
Trick-or-treating, of course, carving jack-o'-lanterns.
We'll do that in a couple of days.
Scarecrows, bobbing for apples, just all of it.
It's just a fun, fun, fun time.
And we are most certainly having a good time tonight with you on this, the eve of our 21st anniversary of the beginning of the show.
21 years ago tomorrow, Keith, as we like to say, it just so happened, actually got the call to start the show back in the early summer of 2004.
And the station kept having delays in getting its license.
It was reformatting from gospel to conservative talk.
And we got pushed and pushed and pushed.
And we were supposed to go on a couple of months prior to when we actually did.
But that first night was, I believe, the last, one of the last nights before the election that year between John Kerry and George W. Bush.
And our first show was an election primer on that particular election.
And that is when it all started.
So as we like to say this time of year, the trick was on the left and it's nothing but treats for us.
And here we are now, 21 years later.
I do want to tell a story, though.
Everybody knows the chain of events that led your humble servant from the beginning to where we are now, sitting together here 21 years after the show began.
But it didn't begin with a call to begin the radio show.
It started with the Buchanan campaign.
Now, everybody who's listened to this show has heard about the first time I met Pat and how all that happened.
But I do want to tell you a story that I don't know if I've told you before.
And when I got back to Memphis and got started on the campaign, and they gave me my first assignment, there were two guys, okay?
Two guys who were members of the campaign national committee.
They said, okay, James, we want you to set up an organizing meeting for the campaign in Memphis, and we're going to drive down.
They were in Nashville.
Their names were Pete Perampsky and J.D. Jones.
I can still name everybody in that campaign, all the district captains, the national committee people, everybody that was a part of it in Tennessee and most of the other states.
They said, set together an organizing meeting.
We'll come down and we're going to do some signatures to get on the ballot.
We're going to try to get people to volunteer to do different things.
And I said, okay, I'll do it.
And I mean, I called everybody I could hogtie to get into that meeting room.
This is the first time I'd ever had any chance to do any sort of political organizing.
This was my first assignment officially ever.
And anybody I'd ever met, I said, I'm working for the Buchanan campaign.
We're having a couple of guys are coming down from Nashville.
They're going to talk to you about voting for Buchanan and what you can do to help.
Can you come?
Can you come?
Will you come?
What can I do?
We had about 60 or 70 people rented a ballroom, ready to go.
60 or 70 people showed up.
And I was just thinking, man, I just, I was hoping for, you know, 100.
100, 200.
You know, I don't know.
I didn't know what was a good crowd, what was a bad crowd.
So when Pete and J.D. got there, I was like, man, guys, I did the best I could.
I hope this was worth your time.
What are you talking about?
We've traveled all over the state.
The biggest meeting we've had yet has been six.
And we did have, I still remember that meeting sitting at the table with these two guys.
Boy, I thought I had arrived.
I was sitting at a table with two guys.
You know, I was on a Buchanan campaign.
That was back in, I believe, I don't know, February of that year.
I met Pat in January, and that was in February.
And then they called, they got back to Nashville.
They said, a guy named Randy Reed was the state chairman.
Pete and J.D. were on the national committee.
And there was, you know, the higher-ups through the regional and all the way up to the national.
And they said, well, James, you know, we were so impressed.
Would you be a district captain for the 7th Congressional District?
Yeah, sure.
And they said, well, you know, I don't know if you have any, I was 19.
They said, we also need a treasurer for the campaign in the state.
Can you do that?
I was like, yep, you got it.
And then they ended up putting me on the, I was ended up being the third national committee member for the campaign in the state.
We all went out to Long Beach.
Anyway, I tell you this story to say this.
I was sitting with Pete.
Pete was originally from New Jersey.
He was a big guy, old guy.
I mean, Pete and J.D. are both dead now.
But I was sitting at a hotel room, the Long Beach Renaissance Hotel.
The enthusiasm and everything was just through the roof.
Everybody was excited.
We were there for the nominating committee and, or excuse me, the nominating convention.
And Pete said, I had just turned 20.
I turned 20 in June of 2000.
And this was in August.
And Pete put his hand on my shoulder.
We were in his hotel room.
And he said, James, I'm an old man.
He said, I've lived my entire life, and I have never seen a group of people who genuinely like each other.
I've never seen camaraderie like this.
And he said, for the last few weeks that we're all together, I want you to remember this.
And I said, oh, yeah, sure, Pete.
Yeah, of course.
I couldn't really relate or understand.
But boy, did I learn it.
And you fast forward, and we are working on something now.
Of course, I have felt that camaraderie with our listening audience, but that's a separate thing.
That's a separate issue.
When you are working on a campaign, you know, it's almost like I haven't been to war, and I can't really relate it to that.
But there's something about just being in the pressure cooker, working on something like that.
Band of brothers.
It is sort of like that.
I mean, I'm not going to say that because you work on a political campaign, you're the equivalent to a, you know, a war veteran, but there is a little bit of a.
Especially if you run a campaign like this in which you are kind of rank outsiders, this is that, you know, basically just to stand up and be counted in an organization like the Buchanan campaign, it really distinguished you as being somebody who had the courage of his convictions.
And then from that, when it was over, I knew how much I loved those people.
And again, I can still say, a quarter of a century later, 25 years ago tonight, we were about a week out from the end of that campaign.
And I got to know those people so well.
My entire year in the year 2000, I was on the road every week doing something for the campaign, whether it was in Tennessee or somewhere else.
And again, I can still name everybody who was a functionary on the state level and then regionally and a lot nationally.
And I love those people.
And I didn't want to lose those relationships with those people because they meant so much to me.
And then that's what I said, if I run for the state house in 2002, can we keep this going?
You know, would y'all support Mike?
And they did.
Almost all of them did.
And so we kept it together for another two years.
And though that campaign fell short, it opened up the door for us to get into radio.
That was the campaign that raised my profile here in the local area enough to where we got a call to start the show.
Now, y'all know that.
I know you know that if you're a regular listener, but I am telling you, there has been a chain of events that has been, I believe, God ordained.
I believe that this has been destiny.
We are all still together.
We are working towards something.
What we have accomplished already would be good enough.
But Keith, you know, we are working on something.
And what Pete Paramsky said to me about you may never feel this again for the rest of your life.
I feel it again right now.
We're working on some things behind the scenes, and I'm seeing people sacrifice.
I'm seeing people put a cause, put a goal ahead of their own interest, whether it be financially, whether it be through work and labor and volunteerism.
And I'm feeling that and seeing that again.
And again, it is different than the program.
Yes, we have a very important radio show, a groundbreaking radio show that we're celebrating our 21st anniversary tonight.
A lot of good has come from it.
And of course, I feel that love and connection.
Our audience is our family.
But this is a little bit different when you're talking about working on a mission, so to speak.
And we're working on another mission.
And I am seeing this same sort of sacrificial nature that I saw back then, people just going all out for one another.
And I just can't wait to tell y'all more about it.
And that's going to come.
But there is a lot to be hopeful for.
There is a lot to be excited about.
I will read just one letter that came in.
I want to thank Mitch in Maryland.
Mitch, so much for all of you.
Folks, 21 years keeping us on the air, keeping us going.
The radio show itself is, you know, very important.
But we were able to do things as a result of the radio program that open up even more doors and opportunity.
But Mitch writes, James, I hope all is well with you and your family.
Thank you so much for the autographed copy of Culture of Critique and for the latest Occidental Quarterly.
I enjoy it when you have Kevin on your show and hope to meet him sometime.
I was actually with Kevin a couple of weeks ago.
Really appreciated your letter, too.
It certainly does look like things are changing for the better, but it's always up to us, is it not?
It sure is.
I know you're working hard.
Can't thank you enough for what you do.
Stay well and please give my best to Keith.
So because he mentioned you, Keith, I felt obligated to read that here tonight.
Got a letter also from Ed Fields.
Now, this is another thing.
Ed Fields supports the show, contributes every quarter.
Ed Fields is a legend, a hero.
He's in his 90s.
He was back doing these fights, you know, before my dad was born.
Before you were glinting your father's eyes.
No kidding.
To have the respect of people from young folks that attended our conference all the way through people, you know, in their 90s, people like Ed Fields, who were trailblazers and far more important than us.
It's just, we got something here, folks.
We celebrate it.
We remember the special occasions.
We remember the people who have come before us, on whose shoulders we stand.
Ed Fields, I salute you, my friend.
We'll be right back.
We're going to get into it.
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They have been coming, and we have been bloodied, but not beaten by them all these years.
I mean, a lot of attacks, a lot of attacks over the years.
And thankfully, so many more have joined the party now.
It's a, they can't keep up with the ball anymore.
But going back to those early days, Keith, the ADL and the SBLC you mentioned were on us like white on rice.
The ADL, the SBLC, I mean, every week they were writing an article about what they would do on the show.
There really weren't that many targets back then, and we were not shy about making ourselves, you know, known among people.
And for example, we were talking about Pat Buchanan, but I never can talk about Pat Buchanan without also thinking about Sam Francis.
You know, fortunately, I never got a chance to meet him.
He died in 2005, I believe.
He was driven into the world.
Went to the funeral in Chattanooga.
Yeah, he was a southerner.
He went to the University of North Carolina.
He was a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorialist for the Washington Times.
And Denise D'Souza, may his name live in infamy, made it his personal mission to drive him out of the mainstream and basically impoverish him, which was the situation he was in.
The people that we knew got him on with the Council of Conservative Citizens.
He was the editor of the Citizen Informer newspaper, things like that.
But there was never a brighter mind in our movement than Sam Francis.
And he and Pat Buchanan were, you know, two peas in a pot.
Exactly.
Well, they respected each other immensely.
They were very good friends.
Sam Francis died in 2005.
Of course, we went on the air in the fall of 2004.
Gordon Baum had already arranged for Sam Francis to come on the show, but he died.
He went into the hospital and it looked bleak.
And then I remember hearing that it looks like he's out of the woods and dodged a bullet, and then, you know, he died the next day.
But nevertheless, our webmaster was at that funeral too, by the way.
Anyway.
Well, if you ever get a chance to read anything by Sam Francis, don't pass up the opportunity because everything that he says was like solid gold.
And he knew exactly what the situation was and was an early Paul Revere warning the rest of us of what was coming down the pipe.
Well, talking about the song Armies of the Night, it looks as though we have lived to see the dawn after so many years of horror this Halloween weekend.
And the ADL and the SPLC certainly make up the vanguard of the Armies of the Night, along now with Antifa.
But, Keith, as I say, the dawn.
Brad Griffin at Occidental Descent had a great piece entitled The Mainstreaming of White Nationalism.
And of course, Sam Francis, Pat Buchanan, all of us have all been called white nationalists or child of God.
And see, what happened recently, the ADL and the SPLC were basically banished from being sources and influencers with the FYI.
And I certainly don't mind anybody calling me a white nationalist.
It's a term of endearment, unless the media calls me that because I know that they mean it to be damaging.
But anyway.
The thing is, we are now, it's like jiu-jitsu.
We have turned the tables and we're on top and they're on the bottom.
Well, I mean, they certainly are still lavishly better funded, and they can still pack a punch.
But now their star is waning.
Ours is waxing.
I believe that they are in retreat, whereas our collective, not us, not we, not me, not you, not I, thinks ascendant.
Listen to this, though.
I've got to work through this very quickly.
Roberta Kaplan, who sued the Unite the Right rally organizers in the Signs v. Kessler case, wrote an op-ed about the rise of white nationalism in the New York Times.
It was published just a few days ago.
And this is from the text of her op-ed.
It reads, Message number one, I love Hitler.
Message number two, I wish Hitler had won.
She goes on to write in this op-ed in the New York Times: the first message is from a 2025 Telegram conversation featuring members of the New York State's Young Republican group.
Text number two comes from a Discord server created by white nationalists planning for violence in Charlottesville, Virginia in August of 2017.
Can you tell the difference? She asks.
As a lawyer who sued the organizers of the Charlottesville rally, neither can I.
And that's not the only similarity.
The tactic being used to make excuses for the ugly language in the young Republican Telegram chats, we covered this last week, of course, is the same as the one used in the defendants in the Charlottesville case.
Calm down, it's only a joke.
But last week, Kaplan writes, and if there was ever a ghoul or a goblin, she is it.
Last week, she writes, Vice President JD Vance went on Charlie Kirk's podcast and tried to explain away, of course, Charlie no longer there, but the podcast still lives on.
And just last week, Vance was on it and tried to explain away the behavior, contending, quote, the reality is that kids do stupid things, especially young boys.
They tell edgy, offensive jokes.
That's what kids do.
Brad responds.
Brad responds, and I'll get your response to Brad's response.
Brad responds to Roberta Kaplan by writing, First, I agree there is no difference between the United Right Discord chat and the young Republicans group chat.
There never was any conspiracy to engage in violence in Charlottesville.
In both cases, it was just people doing edgy posts, venting and sharing jokes and memes.
This is the culture, he writes, of the young right, which Kaplan took out of context and twisted into a conspiracy theory.
Number two, the young right of today is far more racist and anti-Semitic than their parents.
And the people staffing the Trump administration are far more radical than MAGA.
I think that is a key takeaway and that he is absolutely right.
Third, all the law affair.
This is key, folks.
Listen to me.
All the law affair, the censorship, the deplatforming of Trump's first term did not work.
The demise of the alt-right did not stem the tide.
The breakup of organizations did not change anything.
Doxing people and firing them from their jobs didn't work.
Punishing individuals didn't work.
None of this will ultimately change the culture of the young right, which is driven by their own life experiences.
And fourth, the reason why the vice president is waving it away as nothing to be concerned about is because he can read the room and understands where this society and culture is going.
Cover your ears, Keith.
Boomers are a fading force in American politics, Brad writes.
Generational change is inevitable, and that will accelerate over the next decade.
And finally, the primary difference between 2017 and 2025 is that everyone is a little older, which has had the effect of making views of the younger right much more mainstream and visible in American politics, as anyone with a Twitter account can now see on a daily basis.
At the same time, the older Reaganite crowd, which was so prominent in 2016, has retreated across the board and in Congress and in discourse.
The right is gradually being reshaped by one tide that is going out and another that is coming in.
You just mentioned that.
That is where we are going.
I think he is right.
That is why I have never been more bullish, never been more excited, never been more hopeful.
Well, I take issue with one thing that he says, and it's not with the boomers, okay?
Here's the situation.
He says it wasn't effective.
It was very effective.
It was effective in the way that Roberta Kaplan and her peers did not want it to be effective.
It basically made it so that what the protesters at Charlottesville thought is now the current thought of people in the Young Republican Party in New York State.
See, this is what they've done.
Roberta Kaplan, by the way, the thing about boomers, boomers is a term that is used by people that are afraid to name the Jews, okay?
And Roberta Kaplan is the type of Jew that gives Jews a bad name.
She's an activist.
She's a hateful person.
And she wants to destroy white Gentile society.
And that's, you know, that makes her on the exact opposite of what we are.
And her, you know, she still insists and gets paid money by other Jewish people to write articles in the New York Times that hardly anybody reads anymore.
But on the other hand, our ideas have much more currency and much more popularity than hers.
So if you look at where all of this has gone from 2017 to 2025, you extrapolate that another eight years out, and this process is going to be a lot more advanced.
Think of all the milestones that we have already passed in the first 10 months of Trump's second term.
The Jewish question, now, I'm not saying Trump is a driving force in this.
He's not, but it is a matter of fact that the Jewish question has gone mainstream and has ceased to be a taboo.
Shiloh Hendrix raised almost a million dollars for saying the dropping the end bomb in a public park.
Race realist takes on black on white crime has gone mainstream after the Irina Zarutska murder.
Anti-fascism has been defined as domestic terrorism.
The FBI, as you mentioned earlier, quit working with the ADL and the SPLC, who dogged us so much in those early years, even a year ago.
Going back to Brad Griffin, I never imagined that our culture and our politics could change so radically in such a short period of time.
The Biden administration already feels like a bygone age.
George W. Bush's presidency feels like a lifetime ago.
And we're already at the point where there's a lot of people out there that are far more radical than us.
And they're considered mainstream.
And things like the SPLC and the IDL are now the fringe that we used to be.
There are people that are at least as radical as us going through Senate confirmation hearings.
I think the left is cooked.
I think it is cooked.
And, you know, that's not even talking about the stuff we're working on.
It's just, it's just, there's a synergy happening.
You feel you're in the middle of something.
Something is coming.
We got something coming up.
Something kind of big.
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Who's that I see walking in these woods?
Why, it's Little Red Riding Hood.
Hey there, Little Red Riding Hood.
You sure are looking good.
You're everything a big bad wolf could want.
Listen to me.
Little Red Riding Hood.
I don't think little big girls should go walking in these spooky old woods alone.
With all respect to our friend Ray Stevens, that is probably the best novelty song ever recorded.
Well, let me tell you something about Sam the Sham.
We have as our first selection, Haunted House by Jumping Gene Simmons and High Records.
All good Halloween songs?
Right.
Well, I met and talked with Sam the Sham back in the early 70s when he was performing at the Ramada Inn on Lamar Avenue.
Lamar Avenue.
If anybody is out, not from Memphis, for all of you listening tonight from outside of Memphis, how would you describe Lamar Avenue?
A war zone.
I tell you what, it looks, and the road itself is like a minefield now.
But anyway, Sam the Sham, during one of his breaks, I went up and talked to him and told him I had a copy of a song, a rare song of his.
And that was very interesting to him.
But he was telling me that he actually wrote Haunted House and that he was set to record it at High Studios when a producer by the name of Ray Harris, who had been a rockabilly guy back in the 50s at Sun Records, stole it out from under him and had Jumping Gene Simmons record it and he made a hit of it.
So Sam the Sham had typical of a lot of performing artists back there, got stabbed in the back a couple of times, but he kept pushing along and not being deterred.
And what he did, he wound up having probably the biggest surf hit by a non-surf group ever, which was Woolly Bully.
And then he followed it up with Little Red Riding Hood, both of which were gold records.
I will now, this is, admittedly, folks, I'll admit it.
We're not obscuring the fact.
We're not trying to hide it.
This is our 21st anniversary show.
It's Halloween weekend.
We're taking it a little bit lighter tonight.
We're still going to weave in and out of some stories, but this is a little more saccharin type of show to get ready for all the sugar that everybody's going to be eating on Halloween.
But I'll tell you Sam the Sham story.
Now, he's still alive.
He's 88.
Yeah.
And he lives in Arlington.
I've told this story before.
I can remember back years ago driving, just so happened to be driving by his house.
He was out mowing the grass.
It's like the supermarket tabloids celebrities.
They're just like us.
But I'll tell you a story I haven't told you about Sam the Sham.
I don't even think I've ever told you this, Keith, on the air or off.
So, you know, like all cool hip teenage boys, I was a big fan of Johnny Rivers, you know, when I was a teenager in the 90s.
And I saw on Johnny Rivers' website that he was going to be at the pyramid.
So, you know, naturally I wanted to go check that out.
And I've been to several Johnny Rivers concerts, full concerts, right?
I mean, many, many of them with my parents, with friends, grandparents.
Johnny Rivers puts on a great show.
He's retired now.
But it said he was going to be in Memphis.
So I wanted to go see him again.
I'd seen him many times, met him a couple of times.
We met him one time in Chattanooga.
I was walking out of the hotel.
Listen to this.
And the door opens, and Johnny Rivers is walking out of his hotel room.
We went to Chattanooga to see him play the Riverbend Festival.
Chattanooga is a River City.
And Johnny Rivers walked right out of his hotel room right as we were walking down the hall.
I couldn't believe it.
Anyway, we talked.
Great guy, nice guy.
But I saw he was going to be at this thing in Memphis.
So I got my cousin because I didn't want to go by myself and we went down to the pyramid.
The tickets weren't for sale online.
I was like, that's weird.
We'll buy him at the pyramid box office.
Got down there.
Everything's kind of like shut down, but there's a black guy who's like scalping tickets.
So we get two tickets.
I got two tickets on the floor.
So we buy these two tickets.
Me and my cousin.
I started driving in 96.
I was 16 in 96.
This is probably 97 or 98.
And I was like, damn, floor tickets.
That sounds good to me.
So we go in.
And it's the weirdest thing.
It's only the floor of the pyramid.
And it's in these elaborate dinner rounds.
Everybody's in a tuxedo.
I was like, what is going on?
We take our seats at the table we're supposed to be at.
It was an awards ceremony in the music industry.
And Johnny Rivers was emceeing it.
He wasn't even performing.
And we sit down.
Everybody's in a tux.
And I'm like in a Johnny Rivers t-shirt and you know, pants.
And my cousin's like in a t-shirt and shorts.
They said, how did you get in here?
We were at this table.
All these record recording industry insiders.
And I said, well, you know, some black guy on the street gave me a ticket.
They said, oh, well, you can stay.
We thought it was something like that.
You can stay.
So we got to stay.
And Johnny Rivers emceed it.
And he actually, at the very end of it all, did Secret Agent Man.
But to our delight, Sam the Sham was there and he performed Woolly Bully.
So I did get to see Woolly Bully live.
And you know who else was there?
You know who sitting at the table?
Who?
Sam Phillips.
Can you believe it?
Yeah, now I knew I represented Sam Phillips as a lawyer in some litigation he had against that aforementioned Ray Hay.
If anybody doesn't know who Sam Phillips is, Sam Phillips was the founder of Sun Records and the guy that first recorded Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and all of these other, even, you know, Roy Orbison back in the day.
And it's kind of considered to be one of the people who claimed to be.
He recorded.
He was the first one to record Elvis, but then he sold Elvis to RCA.
Well, the reason he did, he knew he didn't have enough money to properly promote him and make him the star that he could be.
And he used the money that he got from RCA for selling the rights to Elvis to him to promote Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, and a whole slew of other people.
And what he, what you don't know about Sam, is that Sam, Sam the Sham, that is, not Sam Phillips.
Sam Phillips died in 03, so that would have been a few years after.
Yeah, well, Sam.
Sam the Sham was a Church of Christ preacher for a while.
And they traveled around when they were making their hit records in a hearse.
Yep.
And now, why was he the sham, though?
Was it because he couldn't sing or he couldn't play the piano?
No, he couldn't play the organ.
He had an organ there.
He was trying to get into a band, and he didn't have any discernible talent, but he got up there and pretended that he knew how to play the organ and he, you know, a little Hammond organ.
And he was able to carry it off.
And the band members, after they had hired him, found out that he couldn't do it.
And that's where he got his nickname, Sam the Sham.
Hey, this show comes to you live from AM 1600 WMQM in Memphis, Tennessee.
And every now and then, we remind you just how much from Memphis we are.
This is Memphis through and through.
Sam Phillips, Sun Records, Elvis, Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Sam the Sham.
And we've all got stories.
That was my story as a teenager going and being at this black tie gala with Johnny Rivers, Sam the Sham, Sam Phillips, and we all had a good time.
But now, that having been said, since we are on the topic of Memphis, the National Guard is still here.
Eddie the Bombardier Miller, by the way, you know, Eddie goes running.
He's training for the New York Marathon.
He'll be up in New York in a few days, actually, to run in the New York Marathon.
And he trains in downtown.
Eddie sends me a picture at least once a week of him posing with all these National Guardsmen.
They all gather around him, take pictures, and everybody's having a good time.
But the National Guard is still here, and they've done this.
They're doing a great job, by the way.
But the thing is, you know, we were talking with Steve Stockman, Congressman Stockman, almost a month ago.
And I am telling you, this guy, every time I talk to him, he is always prescient.
He is nothing short of prophetic.
He told me we had him on right when they had the government shutdown, right?
Three weeks ago.
Absolutely.
And he said this thing is going to last at least a month.
And coming up, it's almost a month.
And on November 1st, because it has been a month, all the reserves have been depleted.
The food stamp people, whatever they call it now, SNAP, EBT, those are not going to be funded beginning November the 1st.
Now, what is that going to do to a place like Memphis where you have a majority, minority so-called population?
And certain suspicious minds think that the whole purpose for it was to be sure to have plenty of boots on the ground when the people of Memphis find out that their government benefits are running out and are not going to be replenished because of the government shutdown.
You know, you used to, they call them food stamps.
I'm even old enough to remember this.
Used to, if you were on welfare, you had to pay with stamps, and they looked straight up like a postage stamp.
But then they made it a little more palatable.
Yeah, less embarrassing, maybe.
I don't know.
You said they don't even get embarrassed.
But nevertheless, you get now, it looks like a credit card, so you can't tell the difference if you're in line at the grocery store.
But nevertheless, in a city like Memphis, what do you think is going to happen?
You know, majority black people, yes, there are some whites who receive it, and some people need to get it.
You pay taxes all your life.
For some of these things, it's legitimate.
But however, most people on this are obviously welfare equipment.
They've made welfare a livelihood.
They live in government housing.
They get free government food, things like that.
It was always spent to be a kind of bridge for people down on their luck temporarily, not a lifestyle.
So what's going to happen in places like Memphis and Birmingham and Jackson, Mississippi, and Atlanta, and you name it, Baltimore, Chicago?
What's going to happen when the EBT cards don't have any money?
Well, when you see that mushroom cloud forming over Memphis, that's not going to be a Russian nuclear bomb that hit.
It's going to be the realization.
No joking, though.
I mean, do you think that this could be something that causes some upheaval?
Well, you know, I can certainly see that it might.
Well, thankfully, we have the National Guard here, and Eddie's been down there hobnobbing with them, and Eddie's going to be in New York soon.
And we're going to go to New York with a friend of ours in just a moment.
Stay tuned.
We're going to have more fun like this for the rest of the night.
I hope you're enjoying this change of pace.
It's our anniversary.
It is Halloween weekend, and we're just having a good time tonight.
We can do that, right?
And still talking about some issues.
Don't know if I had a whole segment on Sam the Sham in legitimate.
I hope we did that too.
We'll be right back.
Great songs there.
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