The Political Cesspool - James Edwards - Radio Show Hour 1

Nov. 23, 2025 - The Political Cesspool - James Edwards

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Radio Show Hour 1 – 2025/11/22

After taping a television pilot in Nashville, The Killstream’s Ethan Ralph returns home to his birthplace of Memphis, where he joins James Edwards and Keith Alexander live in the studio! We get the inside scoop and detail his weekend tour of the Bluff City.
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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.
	On the cusp of kicking off the Christmas season programming here on TPC, we are one week away from that.
	We have a very special show tonight, another special show, the likes of which we had earlier this year, this summer, when Remy Tremblay, the French Canadian journalist, came to Memphis, and he was with us in studio for the full three hours.
	Tonight, we have another visiting guest and friend of ours, Ethan Ralph of the Killstream, is actually back in Tennessee this weekend.
	He was flown into Nashville to tape a television show.
	We're going to get him to tell you all about that.
	And he was able to get the production company to fly him into Nashville and fly him out of Memphis so that he could stick around and join Keith and I in studio.
	And that is where we are right now.
	It's interesting because on Ethan's 40th birthday, which was a few weeks ago, we did a full three-hour simulcast crossover where he was live on TPC as it was simulcasting on the Killstream.
	And that was part of his 40th birthday monster multi-hour stream.
	But we got to play a big part of that.
	And we didn't expect to have Ethan back for another full three-hour show so soon.
	But if he was going to be in Memphis, his hometown, he has come home for the first time in several years.
	Well, we couldn't pass up on that opportunity.
	So what we're going to do this first hour, we're going to talk about, well, again, why Ethan was back in Tennessee in the first place.
	We're going to talk about what he and I did last night, what we did with Keith today, take you entirely behind the scenes on what it would be like if you, Mr. and Mrs. TPC listener, came to Memphis and visited us for a weekend.
	And then, yes, we will get into some big issues, news headlines and current events in the second and third hours, including, but not limited to, Marjorie Taylor's Green's surprise resignation from Congress.
	That is a shocker.
	We'll get into that.
	Chuck Schumer has said that he is going to pass a congressional resolution condemning Nick Fuentes.
	It's like the movie Gremlins, where if you pour water on them, they just multiply.
	We'll see what happens.
	Ethan's got a lot of insights about that.
	And anyway, we'll get to all that.
	That's the preview.
	That's the open.
	So let's go to Ethan now.
	Ethan, welcome back and welcome home, my friend.
	Welcome home.
	Thank you for having me.
	You know, you're good.
	Just I'm not used to this microphone setup, so I have to.
	Yeah, we're adjusting this on the first off.
	Thank you to James for being an amazing host.
	And it's just been a great week.
	I was originally flown out to Nashville to participate in this variety show, basically, that they're working on.
	I don't want to reveal too many details.
	But it's a big budget production.
	It's a big worldwide known studio.
	Everybody would know.
	Yeah, it's serious.
	And I've talked about it some on my show, so it's not really a secret.
	Kind of a variety show, I guess you would say not necessarily right-wing SNL, but more edgy and a little right-wing, right?
	Mixed with controversial topics and monologues and guests and stuff like that.
	And so we did what was called a writer's room.
	And we haven't filmed it yet, but they actually did chronicle the writer's room experience.
	And it was a lot of fun.
	I've never been involved in anything like that in my life.
	I thought they were playing a prank on me, actually.
	I said, do you guys know who I am?
	But they brought in some other people that cut from the same cloth.
	Yeah, and I won't name them all, or any of them.
	But yeah, there were a lot of like-minded people there.
	And again, I thought they were kind of playing a prank on me.
	They were not.
	And so I got to participate in that.
	And that's going to go forward, I think.
	You know, still more to work on there.
	But also got a free trip here to Memphis, which is my home.
	And James has been an amazing host.
	And Keith, we did a lot of cool stuff together.
	A lot of laughs.
	A lot of laughs.
	It's been an amazing trip all the way around.
	And so, and we will get into that.
	That is what we're going to do this first hour.
	We're going to bring Keith into the conversation at the halfway point of this first hour.
	And moving forward from there, he will be with us as a three-musketeer, a little three-man round table, as we talk about our weekend in Memphis together.
	Always love when members of the media, when friends of ours, guests on the program show up live in studio.
	And of course, when listeners of the program come into town, we always roll out the red carpet if we can.
	We're going to, again, let you know what we did and get into some other issues in the second and third hours.
	But it is fun doing these things because, well, doing these things like we're doing the show tonight, but I was talking about those TV shows.
	So some experience.
	We've had some experience with that, whether it be network television or some of these production companies.
	We did something with Warner Brothers a few years ago that was aired over in Scandinavia, one of their top things.
	And the whole experience is fun.
	And you never know how it's going to go.
	They had brought me in one season for this show.
	I told you about this, the show over in Sweden and some big pop star over there.
	And she was here in the United States and doing a show about her getting the Nashville treatment and experiencing Nashville.
	I guess that's a novelty for people in Sweden.
	But we were up there.
	They brought me up.
	They didn't fly me because I lived close enough to drive, but they did the whole per diem, putting in a nice hotel with the driver and all that.
	And we filmed for hours and hours and hours, all different kinds of scenes, all different kinds of me in different places, interacting, just different things that the producers had lined up.
	And that first season, they used, I think, about out of eight hours of taping, they used about like 90 seconds.
	And sometimes it goes that way.
	Then they brought me back for the second season, and there was an episode sort of all built around me telling her, you know, really, you know, that obviously she can't do the things that men do.
	And they say, let's start playing with her hair and all that.
	But that one went a little bit further.
	But the whole experience is fun.
	You know, working with the production assistants, getting mic'd up, you know, just that whole take, you know, going behind the scenes and experiencing that for every time we've done that.
	But again, you never know exactly what they're going to do.
	You never know how much they're going to use, if they're going to cut it entirely, if it's going to be a big feature.
	And we've been on both sides of that, you know, from prime time on network television to filming things, and then it just didn't go anywhere.
	But you always expect that, of course, they're bringing you on to be the villain.
	They're bringing you on to be the antagonist to whoever is positioning to be the hero.
	I asked you about that, and you said that, well, I'll just use this term, market research.
	They've done some market research, and they think that.
	And again, I don't want to reveal too much, but yeah, they told me they had done some research that basically the current format of the variety show late-night talk show has kind of been killed because it's too preachy.
	And people are.
	Talking about like Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert doing these things where they just preach.
	They're like school marms, as Keith would call them.
	They just preach.
	It's not funny at all.
	Yes.
	And again, there was another guy there with me who was afraid that it was a prank situation.
	And again, I'm not calling him out.
	He's a friend of mine.
	But he's like, hey, can you sign something?
	This is not a prank.
	And I'm like, well, it would be an expensive prank.
	They could have pranked us a lot cheaper than that.
	All over the world.
	I mean, you're living down in Mexico now, and there was another one that was coming from another country.
	Yeah.
	They were paying you, and they were putting you up.
	But you think that, well, whether or not they agree or disagree, and I would imagine that they disagree with our points of view, but that, and we were talking about this earlier, the up-and-coming generation that consumes television, people in high school, people in their early 20s, they're not into Saturday Night Live anymore.
	They're not into the late night talk shows that have just become like MSNBC programming.
	There is definitely a rise of the hard right amongst the people in their preteens, teens, and college years.
	There is a very big audience in the country.
	It exists for alternative programming.
	And maybe you think maybe they may be trying to tap into that because they can see where it's going.
	Well, they told me that.
	They were definitely trying to tap into that.
	And, you know, again, when you first hear this, I thought it was a prank myself at first.
	I don't get called for TV pilots and stuff like that.
	But, and we were, again, not to reveal everything, but we were mic'd up for the creative process and all this.
	So that was kind of the, we technically did film, but we put the show together.
	I won't reveal all the skits because that would be spoiling the show.
	I did put out, I won't give the spoiler away.
	I think I told you the punchline, but a quote-unquote anti-Semitic podcaster walks into a bar.
	A black rapper walks into a bar.
	And a Zionist Christian preacher walk into a bar and they start having drinks.
	And there's a punchline to that.
	They love that skit.
	There were several other skits by other people involved.
	I had another good skit.
	I don't want to give these away, but they seem to be very happy with what we did.
	And I'm hopeful it goes forward.
	I think it will.
	Well, that is what it's brought Ethan from Mexico, where he's currently living, back to Tennessee.
	He was up in Nashville.
	Nashville is tantalizingly close to Memphis, about a three-hour drive down to the southwest, and he just couldn't pass it up.
	And neither could we.
	We'll tell you more when we come back.
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	You never know how media is going to go, but it is always an interesting thing.
	We have had good, bad, and ugly interactions with the media over these many years here on TPC.
	And after the Donald Trump Jr. interview in early 2016, when we were just deluged, an absolute deluge of media requests every and it never stopped him from talking about us, of course.
	I mean, as you know, if you're a regular listener to this program, even as late as August or September of 2016, which was six months after we had talked to Junior, there was three headlines in the Washington Post and the New York Times on the same day, just in a random weekday in the fall.
	And I got really, I never, really enjoyed working with the media, although Serge Kovaleski of the New York Times was a stand-up guy, but the CNN folks were good back in the day, and there were some that were good, and there are some exceptions to anything.
	But I developed a reputation in 2016 and beyond in our ranks of just turning down every media request.
	And I remember specifically at that time, Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer said, yeah, you got to take these requests.
	I mean, eyeballs are eyeballs.
	I said, if y'all want them, I'll send them to you.
	And I just forwarded everything that I got that year.
	I recommended Jared, you know, and at the time, Richard and of course, that was a big takeoff point in 16.
	But there was one pilot that NBC Universal sent me an email to, and I didn't go, but I recommended, I think Sam Dixon went to that one.
	And it was sort of this live studio audience thing where they come.
	It's like an Oprah Winfrey type of program.
	And they did it.
	And Sam was there, and some other people who've been featured on the show were there, and the audience was there.
	But that was another case where they were taping something just to get a spec on it.
	But I don't think they were ever really intending to pick that up.
	There's all different kinds of experiences you can have in media.
	And we'll see where this one goes.
	Do you know when you're going to have an update on that before we pivot to your time down here?
	I don't know the exact update, but I know they were happy with what we came up with.
	A couple of the ideas they actually said could have been their own shows, basically.
	And everyone from the cast or whatever, the writing crew and the producers seemed very happy with what we produced.
	And I, again, I'm hesitant to talk about too much, but from my understanding, I have a high level of confidence that it will move forward.
	But, you know, it's Hollywood, things change, who knows.
	But I know we had a really nice session, and they did, and I don't know if I should say this, but they chronicled the writing process, too.
	It's going to be interesting to see how establishment media evolves in the changing landscape when there is just the money in the market for the things that they have always been promoting is just drying up.
	So if they're going to survive, they're going to have to adapt, and it won't be sincere, but it is interesting nonetheless.
	So we'll see where it goes, and best of luck to you on that.
	But that is why you are here tonight.
	And tomorrow night at this time, you'll be back in Mexico.
	But right now, you are in Memphis, and we got together last night, and we went down to Bill Street.
	We did.
	We did go down to Bill Street, and it was an eerie thing.
	I mean, you gird your loins, you prepare to go down there, and as you put it, keep your head on a swivel and keep your head.
	My daddy told me that when I was eight years old.
	Bill Street is Memphis' answer to Bourbon Street in New Orleans and Duval Street in Key West.
	But we went down to Bill last night, and there were more National Guard troopers than there were tourists or locals going down for a Friday night in Memphis at 10 o'clock.
	It was a ghost town.
	There was a smattering of people, but not more than that.
	So that was interesting.
	And, of course, the National Guard is everywhere.
	They're at Target.
	They're at Best Buy.
	They are walking in formation.
	We saw them at the bottom.
	At the hotel last night.
	And at the hotel you're staying at.
	And, of course, downtown, they are everywhere.
	And they can make arrests.
	And we're asking some people where is everybody would have to be.
	Of course, we know.
	But take the audience down to what we saw and did on Bill last night.
	It was very eerie to me as well.
	So I've been going to Beale's.
	I mean, again, I'm from Memphis.
	I did live across the bridge in West Memphis most of that time, but born in Memphis, Tennessee.
	This is my home.
	And so I've been going to Beale since I was a teenager.
	And you shouldn't do this, of course, but, you know, you might get a beer down there, even if you're 16, whatever.
	It's a party place, right?
	And I've been on Beale when it's packed, not just where you can't walk down the sidewalk, but the street's blocked off.
	There's no cars.
	You couldn't walk down the side.
	Bill Street is a three-block street of bars and clubs and live music venues.
	And the street is closed off with barricades.
	And, of course, military presence.
	Now it is, yeah.
	But back in the day, back in the 90s and into the 2000s, as Ethan would say, you could not stir the crowd with a stick.
	There were street performers.
	There were all kinds of things.
	But, I mean, from the three blocks, which makes up the length of the tourist part of Bill Street, and, of course, the entire width of the street and both sidewalks, it would be a throng, a mass of people that was just solid.
	Not last night.
	Not last night.
	And I mentioned this.
	There used to be these people, and maybe they're still alive.
	I don't know.
	But they, I think this is even in some movie they chronicled this.
	Maybe it's The Client or something.
	Where they do the flips down the street.
	You've seen them in movies.
	The last time I was on Bill Street, now, of course, I'm 45, married father of three.
	But I think the last time my wife and I went down there was maybe 10 years ago.
	A friend of hers was in town, so we went down there, and they still had them then.
	I mean, these are athletes, acrobats.
	They do juggling tricks and things with fire, and they can do these flips.
	I mean, they can flip for like a whole block.
	It's amazing, actually.
	Yeah.
	The last time I went down there, It was six years ago, and they were still there, and it was packed wall to wall, and it was eerie.
	There were not many people down there.
	Friday night, so, you know, some people like to party on Saturday or whatever.
	Friday night was always kind of my night, really.
	And it was eerily empty.
	People had various excuses for why most boiled down to the National Guard, which, I mean, they were just walking down the street, right?
	Like they weren't bothering people.
	You could still openly drink on Beale and all this stuff.
	Like, nothing had changed.
	People were still smoking what they wanted to smoke and all this stuff.
	But it seemed like it did put a chilling effect in some people.
	It was eerie.
	It was sort of like the opening scene of The Walking Dead when Rick wakes up in the hospital.
	There's just nobody on any of the downtown streets in Atlanta.
	And the people who were there, and it wasn't entirely empty.
	But I mean, I would say if what we were talking about before was 100% capacity, it was at maybe like 7% last night.
	And you still saw of the seven, the people who were there, it was your normal mix, I guess.
	You definitely had some panhandlers and people like that.
	The black Hebrew Israelites.
	So these would have been the two highlights last night.
	I guess so.
	The two things that really stood out was there was a trio of three black Hebrew Israelites.
	They don't like that turnbrow.
	Well, that's what he was explaining to the audience.
	And they had a big poster that said Jesus was a Negro and all this other stuff.
	And Ethan, you know, went up and Tesariak is a guest on the other side.
	Interesting, interesting exchange.
	So on my show, I have a guy, and he's a friend of mine, actually.
	He's Captain Tazaryak.
	And he's from a different branch of their beliefs or whatever.
	But they knew who he was when I dropped his name.
	And they thought I was coming up there to be hostile to them at first, but no, I just wanted to talk to them and like I talked to him.
	And so eventually we did talk for about 30 minutes.
	And, you know, I find them fascinating, actually, in their theology and their beliefs.
	But at first, I think they thought I was trying to troll them, but no, I was generally trying to talk about it.
	It was an interesting exchange.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And then I think that the standout moment of the entire night.
	So Ethan was live streaming this on the kill stream.
	So it was all impromptu.
	It was, you know, people would see that he was holding a camera.
	Some would come up and talk and things like that.
	But there was one guy, and I don't even think we got it because your phone had died at the end there.
	But there was a guy at the end that we ran into.
	Was he a painter?
	He was a painter, and he painted the house across the street from the mayor.
	Memphis is actually what he said.
	And we did get a reshoot of the interview, but it wasn't the sponsor.
	We tried to recreate it, but it may put that out.
	I mean, the first time was wholly authentic.
	So this guy doesn't know who we are.
	We don't know who he is.
	He's a pain.
	He looked to be in his late 20s, maybe early 30s.
	No older than that.
	I would say late 20s.
	And this is the honest to God truth.
	So he doesn't know anything about us or our politics.
	And we say, you know, why is it so dead on Bill Street?
	And he said, well, you know, the National Guard and the National Guard being here.
	I said, but why is the National Guard here?
	And he said, well, because of the crime.
	I said, but who's committing the crime?
	He said, well, you know, there's 13% of the population in the area.
	It's 80%.
	You would have thought we fed him these lines.
	100%.
	He went right into this.
	We did not.
	He had our talking.
	He could have posted.
	He could have been on this show.
	He could have put cake in my job.
	He went right into it.
	I mean, it did take like two questions.
	He was gingerly prompting him.
	At first, he just said National Guard.
	Then he said, you know, crime.
	The third question, when he, I guess, felt a little comfortable, he kind of knew, I guess he could have deduced that he was talking to somebody that must know if they're asking that question.
	Well, who's committing there?
	Went straight into demographics, went straight into racial realities.
	And that was definitely – and that was at the very end, and that was probably the moment that – And I do have a recreation of it.
	I'm – I may try to edit that and put it out.
	It wasn't quite the same as the live version.
	And it was certainly an experience all the way around and Beale.
	But yeah, it was great.
	We just ran into this guy.
	And you would have thought you could have been a guest on this show, really.
	It was actually incredible.
	And it was totally empty, but there were some still cool interactions.
	And me and James, excuse me, James and I, we get together.
	You know, we're going to have fun regardless.
	But it was eerie.
	I've never seen Beale Street like that ever in my life.
	And I've been going for 30 years.
	This is the picture.
	I mean, what do you explain?
	I mean, look, so he's showing a picture to me on his phone, and it's Beale Street.
	And you can see maybe like seven people in the distance.
	It's totally empty.
	It looks like a ghost house.
	Something.
	And, you know, I guess race has something to do with that.
	You think?
	We'll be right back.
	But it is Memphis, and there's no place like home.
	And we tour the town, Keith Alexander style.
	And we're going to tell you what we love about Memphis when we come back.
	He's going to join us next.
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	I actually just now tweeted out a little promo for the show there on Twitter.
	My Twitter is still more bunny.
	You know, all that audience we lost with a band us is just like Nick Griffin.
	We talked about this.
	Nick Griffin had like 70,000 followers.
	He came back on the same day as me.
	I mean, they're both at like 2,000.
	I don't know where everybody is because the show's audience is certainly not going down any, but Twitter and social media is a different animal.
	But we did just tweet that out.
	Picture of Bill Street last night as seen through the eyes of your humble servant and Ethan Ralph.
	And that is at prime time on a Friday night on Bill.
	So you can see what that looks like, what we've been trying to describe.
	You can see it for yourself.
	Now, we did head back to downtown Memphis today with one Keith Alexander who has given his unreconstructed tour of Memphis to members of the media all around the world that have come in to interview us over the years, whether it be reporters from Germany or France or wherever.
	And of course, a lot of friends of ours, guests on the program, fans of the show, friend and foe alike.
	We've done the tour, and it started at Keith's house.
	You want to say a quick word about Keith's house before I toss it over to Keith?
	Well, I said this while I was there.
	Keith's house is like a museum in and of itself.
	We actually could have just went through your house and shown everything, I swear, for hours, and shown all the historical artifacts and history of Memphis type stuff, and just the history of the country, really.
	Even the world.
	It's incredible.
	Your house on the historic registry as well.
	Yeah, it was amazing.
	Your home is amazing.
	And Keith, with that, I'll turn it over to you.
	And the tour started in earnest a little bit past noon today at a very famous shop or barbecue joint.
	Pull your chair over so I don't have to stretch this mic across the desk here at the studio.
	And I'm going to turn it over to Ethan and Keith.
	And, gentlemen, just break down where we went today, who all we saw and spoke with, and what we were doing there.
	Thank you, James.
	And Ethan, good to be with you again tonight.
	I had a great time with both of you this afternoon.
	I think we didn't cover nearly as much as we wanted to, but then, on the other hand, we never do on these things.
	You know, we have to do it extemporaneously and off the cuff.
	And that's the best way to do it.
	But we, I think, covered a lot of things that were, I hope, of interest to Ethan's listening audience.
	I had a great time.
	And Ethan is a Memphian who is relocated in Mexico, but he comes through from time to time.
	And he's always welcome here.
	You know, just give us a call and we'll be glad to meet with you, put you up, or do whatever you want to do.
	Where are we going to eat at?
	And then where do we go from there?
	Well, we went to the rendezvous.
	I thought that the rendezvous would have to be a place that you went to.
	And if you came to Memphis, I think Ethan had been 15 years or something, you said, before you were last in Memphis.
	Well, since I was in Memphis, it was four years ago.
	I just went to the zoo.
	15 years since I've been to the rendezvous, though.
	And, you know, four years.
	I know people rag on Memphis a lot, but this is my home.
	And not to bring things down or anything, I remember my mama a year before she died, and she said, I just want to go home, son.
	And she didn't get to, unfortunately.
	But it has that pull on you.
	And, of course, you know, we make jokes about Memphis.
	We talk about the bad things too.
	But there's only one Memphis.
	You only have one home, right?
	And Memphis is so culturally significant and has so much history behind it.
	And it gets dogged out because of the murders and, you know, urban activities and stuff like that.
	But this is a really special city with a really special history.
	And I talk about it all the time on my show.
	And I feel like people don't really understand it if they've not been there or not from this region.
	And so that's why I wanted to do it, just to have that artifact.
	And you're right.
	You know, we did what, two or three hours.
	It'd probably take nine or ten to really do it.
	But I think we did a really good job today.
	And I wanted it just to point to, hey, this is part of the history of where I'm from and part of why I love it.
	And so.
	Well, Memphis has a bad reputation nationally and internationally for violence and crime.
	But if you live here, you know that there are ways to navigate your life around those things, and people do.
	I was telling Ethan and James that the key concept is what I call the Poplar Corridor.
	Now, what the heck is a Poplar Corridor?
	Poplar Avenue is a street that goes from the river, the Mississippi River, all the way to the boundaries of Shelby County, Tennessee, which is where Memphis is located.
	And it's basically shaped like an Indian airhead.
	The further west you get, the narrower the safe area of the town is.
	The further east you go, the more it widens out.
	And if you're here, you need to realize that if you live within the Poplar corridor, one, you're not going to have to move.
	And two, if you do move, you will sell your home at a profit.
	On the other hand, if you buy a house in some new subdivision outside of the Poplar Corridor, you're probably going to have to move.
	And when you do move, you'll sell your house at a loss.
	And this is, you know, this is a trap for people that are moving here.
	And I don't think that any of the realtors want to say this.
	In fact, they're probably constrained by the law, by the fair housing law and whatnot, to not talk about things like that.
	But we're not similarly constrained.
	And I think it's, you know, basically, if you're in the Poplar corridor, it's 1955 all over again.
	Okay.
	You're just different cars and slightly different clothing.
	But basically, you live in a civilized world.
	And Memphis is not a place that is extremely dangerous.
	You know, the Eliza Fletcher incident that happened about a year and a half ago, where this billionaire was jogging, trying to prepare herself for the New York marathon and got accosted by a black thug and killed, raped, and killed, and her body dumped.
	And the reason that was so alarming to people in Memphis at the time was that she was totally within the Poplar corridor when this happened.
	She ran marathons.
	We have a friend who used to be on the show, Eddie Miller, who is in his late 70s.
	And he still does marathons.
	And when he does a marathon, he told me that you can't just pick up and run a marathon.
	You've got to run at least 10 miles a day to be in shape to do it.
	Well, I took the trouble of charting the mileage from her home down to Second Presbyterian Church on Central, which is where she goes.
	And that was her halfway point.
	Then she'd come back.
	It was exactly five miles from her house to Second Presbyterian.
	So the round trip was 10 miles.
	That's where she was getting her 10 miles.
	But apparently, this guy was working in the cleanup crew at a movie theater out in East Memphis.
	And he traveled through the Memphis state area on his way back to his home and had seen her jogging before and decided that he was going to lay her wait.
	All right.
	So that's what happened with that.
	It was an unusual situation.
	Well, Memphis is plenty dangerous.
	I mean, there ain't no doubt about that.
	We're 116th the size of New York and more murders and rapes and all that stuff.
	Basically, compared to La Ghost not getting Nigeria, it might be a lot of fun.
	But what I'm telling you, though, and you know this is the truth, crime in Memphis is basically a black problem, okay?
	Black people are the perpetrators.
	Black pay the majority of the city, so we all got a problem.
	He had a murder at the mall last week.
	I mean, shot dead since our last show to some point.
	The only one left, Wolf Chase.
	Okay, well, okay, they're out there.
	They basically had to close down the cheesecake factory out there because it became a crime destination.
	Well, there were a lot of shootouts there.
	Anyway, Memphis is very dangerous compared to the other hand, if you're aware.
	Cheesecake.
	That was at the mall, but anything at the mall is closed.
	All right, but anyway, so Keith, I mean, there are safe error parts.
	I mean, Memphis is dangerous.
	I don't know.
	But, I mean, I think that Ethan's point is it is home.
	And I think people would be somewhat surprised, I guess maybe, or our enemies would, would be surprised that if you meet blacks on the street one-on-one, we can always have conversations with them.
	We live with them.
	We know them.
	We understand them.
	It doesn't change the fact that you can have a congenial rapport in a quick one-on-one exchange that doesn't discount any of the racial realities that we all know to be 100% true.
	But Memphis is still an interesting city.
	It's a river city founded by Andrew Jackson and James Overton and James Winchester.
	And then, of course, the history of the city during the War Between the States.
	And then Elvis Presley and the FedEx.
	It's America's distribution hub.
	And there are a lot of cool things about Memphis, and we saw a lot of cool things today.
	So getting back to that, we're going to skip this break, make up a little bit of time, Liz.
	Let's just skip this break.
	We'll take all the other breaks in hours two and three when we get to contemporary news and topics.
	But we went to the rendezvous for lunch, as you mentioned, very famous restaurant, barbecue restaurant, iconic.
	We saw where one of Nathan Bedford Forrest's relatives chased General Washburn down an alley.
	We went to Mud Island.
	We saw this right on Memphis in April of 1870.
	We saw the Mississippi River.
	We went into the Peabody lobby.
	We went to the Lorain Motel where Martin Luther King was killed.
	We went to, well, anything that was anything, we walked again up and down Bill Street during the day today, a little different perspective.
	We passed by a place called Slave Haven, which is misrepresented as being a stop on the Underground Railroad, and they have all sorts of tourists coming in there, but they neglect to tell them that the house that supposedly was the stop on the Underground Railroad wasn't built until the 1870s.
	But anyway, so we saw all of that.
	It was about a two or three hour tour after we got done with lunch or dinner, as we call it in the South.
	Supper is dinner and lunch is, you know.
	But good day.
	So, Ethan, I want to toss it back to you of the things that we saw today and give a good and honest, fair assessment of Keith's ability as a tour guide and what stop you enjoyed most and what you think might have been most interesting to the people watching on the kill stream today.
	Well, first off, Keith is unparalleled as far as knowledge of Memphis and its history and not just that, U.S. history.
	So if I had to pick my, you know.
	The rendezvous was pretty tasty, I have to say.
	You know, I won't turn that down.
	But Going into the Peabody, I guess.
	I said this on air and I wasn't joking.
	I was conceived in the Peabody Hotel.
	And we actually talked to Lansky is the name, right?
	Yeah, Lansky Brothers, Clothiers to the King.
	Clothiers to the King.
	And we talked to the guy.
	And Keith knew him really well.
	He knew everybody.
	No, he knew every unofficial mayor of Memphis.
	Like, literally.
	Everybody from the top on down knew who this guy was.
	And we had a really cool interaction with him.
	There was also this lady who sleeps under a bench in front of the Civil Rights Museum.
	I don't know.
	She seems to have some type of mental issue because I came up to her trying to actually some of her points about them exploiting King for money and stuff, like that actually makes sense, right?
	What's going on with that, Keith?
	Who she is?
	Okay, her name is Jacqueline Smith, I believe.
	And Jacqueline Smith has been out there for time immemorium, shortly after the assassination of Martin Luther King and lived outdoors there, you know, with a sleeping bag and under some, you know, plastic wrap or something like this.
	And she comes out and has signs all around there basically decrying the commercialization of Dr. King's memory and says that this is not what Dr. King would want.
	They should have turned the Lorain Motel into emergency housing for black people down on their luck and stuff like this.
	And Ethan just came up and tried to talk with her, and she started scolding him about because she had seen us from afar and we were laughing about something.
	And she thought it was improper, not proper, etiquette.
	We should come in there like contrite pilgrims to a holy sign.
	Like we should take a knee or something and start saying a prayer.
	And that point.
	Ethan wanted to honestly, as he did with the black Israelites so-called the night before, engage in an honest, live, unfiltered chance to give an exposition on what she was thinking.
	Because she had pictures of coffee mugs and souvenirs that they sell in the gift shop there with, you know, crossed out like the no-smoking sign because King wouldn't have wanted anybody to make money.
	Yeah, and by the way, that's what you do with these.
	They call them IRL streams from my line of work.
	So that's what you do.
	You go up, you see an interesting character, you want to talk to him.
	And she immediately started scolding me.
	And you guys were laughing.
	And, well, I'm from Memphis, as James knows, as Keith knows.
	And she said a couple things I didn't like.
	And I said a few things we can't say here on AM radio afterwards because I was actually kind of angry because I wanted to have an honest dialogue with her.
	Yeah, because what she's saying is not exactly untrue.
	They have commercialized the death of MLK Jr., right?
	They are selling mugs and all this stuff, right?
	You know what I mean?
	Like, that's actually true.
	So I wanted to have that dialogue.
	And she said, well, you guys are laughing and this and that.
	And then she said a couple things, and I said a couple things.
	And I may have told her to perish slowly.
	Don't let the door hit her in the ass when she leaves.
	Yeah, I did.
	I maybe could have de-escalated, but at that point, it was lost.
	She saw us.
	We weren't even laughing at MLK Jr.
	We were laughing about something else.
	So to Ethan's point, all right, so we had a park about a block away.
	We were walking down, and we were just having a normal conversation, and somebody laughed in the course of that conversation.
	And as we approached closer to the Lorain Motel was the motel that Martin Luther King was apparently having all kinds of things the night before he died.
	He died there.
	There's no doubt about that.
	He lived the night before.
	But as Ethan said, he lived the night before.
	But we were laughing about something on the way up that really wasn't related to anything at all to do with the Lorain Motel, which is now the motel facade is still there, but the interior is the so-called National Civil Rights Museum, which I have still not been inside ever.
	But she saw us laughing from a block away about something totally unrelated.
	And she said we should never laugh when we're in this vicinity because somebody died here.
	And I was thinking, well, I'm thinking about all the white people that don't.
	You're not laughing anywhere in Memphis.
	You'd never be able to laugh anywhere in Memphis.
	I was thinking, well, I wonder how many white people have died as a result of what King put forth.
	But anyway, that was that.
	But I still would have liked to have talked to her.
	It could have been interesting.
	But that was just one of the many stops we made today.
	And we went over to Mud Island and we got down on the mighty Mississippi River.
	We saw these barges going against the flow of the Mississippi River going up at a snail's pace.
	We got to see the mighty Mississippi.
	Of course, the Pyramid, all these places that I grew up with.
	But that people from my audience, some of them know, because some of them are Southerners and from this area, but a lot of them don't.
	And we also went back down Beale and we had Keith here with us to give us the history.
	We went into swabs and stuff like that.
	And so just the whole day was great.
	And he's pointing out we went to Elvis' high school.
	We went to Sun Studios, Sun Studio, excuse me.
	And yeah, we packed a lot into like two and a half hours.
	Forest Park.
	Forest Park, yeah, or whatever the whatever they call it now.
	I was about to say something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So it was great.
	And again, I don't get to come back often.
	And it's nostalgia for me.
	I could feel my heart going three sizes like the Grinch while I was going through this.
	And again, Keith, unparalleled.
	We just walked past some guy.
	I guess he was a parking lot attendant or something.
	And he said, hey, Keith, how's it going?
	It's a black guy, dude.
	I was like, so this is the truth.
	So everywhere we went today, the rendezvous, all the weight staff, all of the hosting staff.
	Hey, Keith, how you doing today?
	You going to get your usual today, Keith?
	I was like, Keith, how often do you come down here, man?
	And then we were just walking down the sidewalk, and I think it was like some bum.
	He's like, hey, Keith, how's it going, my man?
	And then when we went into the clothing store, he was like, Keith, you know, they're talking familiar.
	Okay, what's Gordon up to today?
	Talking about one of Keith's friends.
	And just everybody we went, everybody Keith walked past in downtown Memphis came up and said hello to Keith by name.
	So that was interesting.
	And then Keith gave a pretty good expose while we were there on the banks of the Mississippi, which is, you know, just an incredible river to see.
	I mean, just you got to see it up club.
	It's one of the most famous, most volumous, longest, widest rivers in the world.
	And he gave a quick quick explanation of the Sultana.
	Yeah, the tallest.
	Give us a minute on that, and then we'll let Ethan wrap this hour up.
	And then in the second hour, we are going to get onto Marjorie Taylor Greene's resignation.
	We're going to get into the standard fair, current events, going to have Ethan just sitting with us as a co-host.
	We're going to hand it to Chuck Schumer saying Congress needs to denounce Nick Fuentes.
	We've been there, done that as well.
	But we're going to get into all of it.
	And Ethan's very interesting ties to Fuentes, to Candace Owens and others.
	Ethan, well, we'll get into all that.
	But Sultana, Keith, one minute and then we'll let you get it.
	The Sultana was a steamboat that was commissioned by the U.S. Army to take frail and People, ill people who had been in the Union Army up north because they couldn't really travel the way that people normally do because of their ill health.
	And they were stacked like cordwood on the deck of the Sultana, which was a large steamboat, Sternwheeler.
	And basically, they were beyond what was safe to carry them.
	They left Memphis at about midnight, went up what is now called Dacus Lake.
	That used to be the main course of the Mississippi River.
	It changed in 1870, but this happened in 1865.
	The boiler blew up, and all of these disabled people were on there.
	And because of their ill health, most of them just perished.
	Very few people had enough strength to try to swim to shore.
	And it wasn't that far from shore, but there are actually about 300 more people that lost their life in the Sultana sinking than with the Titanic.
	And it was, you know, there's a friend of mine who is a lawyer that found the remains of the Sultana in a soybean field over in Arkansas.
	But I thought that was an interesting thing.
	I've done before a YouTube video on the, it should be on YouTube or something like that.
	But I hadn't seen it in a while.
	I will say this.
	Shout out to my granny in heaven.
	I have fish in Dacos Lake, actually.
	So I didn't mention that earlier, but I have done some fishing in Dacos Lake.
	And thank you to you both.
	It was an awesome day the whole time.
	That's what I wanted to do as we end this hour.
	We've established why you're in town, what we've been doing last night and today, getting you reacquainted with your place of birth.
	Give a final few seconds just on your experience this weekend and a final word to the city of Memphis from Ethan Ralph.
	I love Memphis.
	Always will.
	I've had a great experience.
	There's no place like home.
	TPC has treated me like family, treated me, actually, I'm not doubting anybody in Nashville or whatever.
	I've been treated greatly here in Memphis, and it's a pleasure to meet these guys in person.
	I've been on the show a few times, and it's just amazing, and they're great people, and they're doing great things.
	And I am honored that they've included me into their roster here.
	Ethan, it's been great to have you.
	I know you're going to be with us the next two hours as we transition back into politics as usual or business as usual.
	But we always enjoyed doing a temporary departure.
	And when we have guests in town, doing things like this, and then talking about it, taking people behind the scenes if they couldn't experience for themselves.
	So from your TV show that you taped up in Nashville to last night on Bill and today with Keith and all that we saw, it has been a lot of fun.
	You got to be my family before we came to the station tonight, too.
	By the way, this guy has the most amazing family, the most amazing wife.
	He is blessed beyond belief.
	And I won't go into my own controversies or whatever, my own situations.
	I do have two children.
	It's a little more complicated.
	As all I'll say, this guy has, you know, just an amazing family.
	So supportive.
	All of his kids, you can tell, just love them so much.
	And, you know, that's a blessing that, honestly, I don't have.
	I'm struggling with some things with my kids, but bless me on belief.
	And you're doing great.
	I'm shaking the hand of Ethan Ralph.
	He's not going anywhere.
	But Ethan, I just want to tell you live on the air as we wrap up this first more personal hour that I've had a great time with you last night.
	Great time with you every time we're on the air together with on the Kill Stream or here on TPC.
	And you're with us for the next two hours.
	But you are part of our family, and I appreciate you being here tonight.
	And I appreciate you sticking with us for the next two hours.
	And that goes for you as well, Mr. and Mrs. Listener.
	We are going to get into the Marjorie Taylor Green, Chuck Schumer, Trump, and Mamdani at the Oval Office, and so much more.
	And some more behind the scenes with Ethan about some of the people he's worked with and the dawn of the kill stream there at the dawn of the explosion of content creators in the 2015, 2016.
	So much more to come.

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