The Political Cesspool - James Edwards - Radio Show Hour 2 – 2026/03/28
Aired: 2026-03-29
Duration: 54:46


=== Respect for the South (14:18) ===

[00:00:01]  You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is the Political Cesspool.
[00:00:13]  The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.
[00:00:22]  And here to guide you through the murky waters of the political cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
[00:01:01]  Welcome back, everybody, as we transition into Confederate History Month.
[00:01:05]  Once I decided that I was coming here tonight for this event, we made the decision to cut off March Around the World just a little bit early because how could we not take advantage of the people here?
[00:01:20]  And we are going to reschedule our guest from Orania for later, but Philip DeWinter.
[00:01:27]  And Philip DeWinter with a Confederate flag in his office in the Belgian Parliament building.
[00:01:32]  So, I mean, this is, and he was here, you know, and as a matter of fact, we were talking with Ian earlier, who served as Philip's bodyguard and valet and took him around and was keeping me in safe.
[00:01:45]  And there they are.
[00:01:48]  Wow.
[00:01:49]  Okay, so I'm here at Dixie Republic, and we're seeing a video montage of random video montage on the big screen here.
[00:01:59]  And it just showed a picture of Philip DeWinter holding a battle axe here on the grounds of Dixie Republic.
[00:02:04]  And he was hitting the bullseye out there where he was throwing those axes.
[00:02:07]  They have an axe throw here.
[00:02:08]  And I heard from Ian that he was an exceptionally good shot on the range with his pistol and hitting the market politics and on here.
[00:02:17]  Hated that he had a little bit of static in his connection tonight, but what a closer.
[00:02:23]  And now we head into Confederate History Month.
[00:02:24]  You just heard from Thomas Rousseau.
[00:02:26]  And now we are back with Hunter, who is the jolliest of the jolly boys here at Dixie Republic and a great friend of mine and of my family.
[00:02:36]  And Hunter, it's great to have you back on tonight.
[00:02:39]  All the shows we do here, I was telling someone earlier tonight, I spend more hours per week in preparation for the program than I do on the air, except for when I come to South Carolina.
[00:02:50]  And then there's zero prep, and it's one of the best shows of the year because we're just drawing from different people.
[00:02:55]  I mean, we have people like Thomas Rousseau.
[00:02:57]  You just put him on put a microphone.
[00:02:58]  I was just talking to one of our mutual friends that just about the God-given ability to speak.
[00:03:05]  And you've got it too.
[00:03:06]  And it's always fun when we're together and here on the show.
[00:03:09]  How are you doing tonight, Hunter?
[00:03:11]  Good.
[00:03:11]  A little tired.
[00:03:14]  A little tired.
[00:03:15]  Adrenaline's still pumping, but had a really good time tonight.
[00:03:19]  Did you have a good time tonight?
[00:03:22]  I had a great time.
[00:03:23]  And as I was sharing with someone earlier, so we've been here, I don't know, you know, we've done maybe 10, 12 remote broadcasts here the last seven, six, seven years.
[00:03:32]  And my son, and we're going to talk about him in a second, but my son loves coming here so much.
[00:03:38]  And I haven't seen him today.
[00:03:42]  You know, because he's just so integrated into the scene now.
[00:03:45]  He's hanging out with Johnny in the leather shop.
[00:03:47]  He's hanging out with you.
[00:03:48]  He's just walking around.
[00:03:49]  But I feel 100% comfortable and confident in that because everybody here is family.
[00:03:57]  You know what it is here today with all the folks here with Patriot Front and all the regular crew from Dixie Republic and all of our friends here that we see every year.
[00:04:06]  You know, of course, family.
[00:04:08]  I mean, that word gets thrown around a lot here, but never too much.
[00:04:11]  I don't think, in fact, nearly enough to really accentuate the fact that it's probably even better than that.
[00:04:20]  But he is, yeah, just in the mix here.
[00:04:23]  And 100% of the time.
[00:04:24]  There's a common vibration here, like a common frequency.
[00:04:27]  We're all striking the same chord.
[00:04:30]  This is, for today, an ethnostate.
[00:04:34]  This is what they took from us.
[00:04:36]  This is what we want back.
[00:04:39]  A community where friends and patriots and people of like mind and like faith and common language and history and culture and heroes come together as one and you just feel like, I mean, this is what our nation used to be.
[00:04:54]  This is what the South used to be.
[00:04:56]  This is what Europe, you know, the different European nations used to be when they were of one people.
[00:05:01]  But even if you can get it for a day, just to feel what it feels for a few hours, then you remember why you're fighting and what you're fighting for.
[00:05:12]  Yeah.
[00:05:13]  Yeah.
[00:05:14]  And what better thing than combat sports, the love of the South, and beyond that, I met somebody from California today.
[00:05:25]  I met multiple people.
[00:05:27]  International traveler.
[00:05:28]  Yeah.
[00:05:29]  Might as well be.
[00:05:30]  Canadians.
[00:05:31]  There's a whole group from Canadians down here.
[00:05:35]  They were really mixing it up in the ring today.
[00:05:37]  Yeah, they were Canadians.
[00:05:38]  A lot tougher than people might think based on the reputation that came from.
[00:05:42]  That hockey that they play came in handy.
[00:05:45]  Some people from North Dakota were here.
[00:05:48]  New York State.
[00:05:51]  And it's just when we get our white brothers and sisters together.
[00:05:55]  Well, I was talking about that with Philip because it's been an interesting thing, Hunter.
[00:06:00]  And Liz, we'll skip the breaks this hour.
[00:06:03]  It's an interesting thing because it's come up.
[00:06:05]  And I mentioned it with Philip a little earlier tonight.
[00:06:08]  So earlier in the March Around the World Series this month, we had Ruben Callop, who's a former member of the Estonian Parliament.
[00:06:16]  And he was talking about the differences that he sees between Estonians and Russians.
[00:06:25]  And Estonia has the population of about the city of Memphis.
[00:06:29]  And Russia's just right there.
[00:06:32]  And so I'm thinking, you know, from my perspective as a southerner, there couldn't be much difference between an Estonian and a Russian, but he was going through the different differences.
[00:06:41]  And not only does he see them as different, he sees the Russians as being adversarial.
[00:06:46]  And I was thinking, well, that doesn't make sense to me, but perhaps it doesn't make sense to Europeans to see Northerners and Southerners as once adversaries.
[00:06:55]  And, you know, and certainly there's still a different culture.
[00:06:58]  There's some differences, even in the small little jokes.
[00:07:00]  There's some differences, even in the small little jokes that we tell, some of the inside mannerisms that we have.
[00:07:07]  Well, it's still, it's totally, it's totally, well, when you're talking about what makes a nation, a nation, the first prerequisite in being a nation unto yourself or being an independent nation is to have a culture that is separate and different from your geographical surroundings.
[00:07:24]  I mean, Europe is one continuous continent, but there's many different nationalities that you can just look at and you see their language and their folkways, and they're very different.
[00:07:34]  I mean, a German is very different than a Frenchman or an Englishman.
[00:07:38]  I mean, obviously, but they're all one white brothers.
[00:07:40]  I get that.
[00:07:41]  So I can understand.
[00:07:42]  We're all facing the same thing.
[00:07:44]  Well, and that's what we started.
[00:07:45]  We're going to start north, south, east, and west.
[00:07:49]  The same thing.
[00:07:50]  Well, I was talking to Philip about that because he is a part of the Flemish parliament in Belgium because there's a big divide between the Flemish and the Walloons.
[00:08:00]  And there's an independent, you know, he's a Flemish nationalist.
[00:08:04]  He wants Belgium to be, you know, to have his own Flemish homeland in Belgium, whereas we want our own southern homeland.
[00:08:10]  But we talked about that and mentioned it briefly, and he had a bad connection, unfortunately.
[00:08:16]  I got what he was driving at, and that is that, yes, there are differences, and here are the differences, and here's why we should maintain our uniqueness.
[00:08:24]  And I love the beauty of the South as we begin to get into Confederate History Month, even a week early, all throughout the month of April.
[00:08:31]  All those accents you heard the last few weeks as we went to all the different European nations going to sound a lot different in April with all these southern guests.
[00:08:40]  But I want the South, and I want all the European nations to maintain what makes them unique.
[00:08:45]  I want them to retain their cultural identity while also at the same time, and this has been a trick that whites have never learned, unfortunately, Hunter, that we are all one people.
[00:08:54]  We are all brothers and sisters and cousins, at the very least, cousins, and no more brothers' wars, but maintain what makes you different.
[00:09:06]  Maintain your local folkways, but band together as a race.
[00:09:11]  And we'll see if we whites have never learned that.
[00:09:14]  As you say, we love to fight.
[00:09:15]  We're fighting today, but in a different way.
[00:09:18]  But we'll see if we can master it.
[00:09:20]  The one thing that really warms my heart, James, is, like I said, I've been meeting all these people from all over the country and even as far as Canada, but they all have a certain respect for the South.
[00:09:32]  They're really, I can sense it.
[00:09:34]  And however, we did lose this war 160, 70 years ago, there is this respect that was gained amongst fellow travelers, no matter where they're at.
[00:09:49]  And that really does warm my heart as somebody that grew up in Confederate heritage groups, feeling a little bit isolated potentially from mainstream culture and media and the whole machine.
[00:10:03]  You meet all these people from all over that really respect and admire the stand that the South made.
[00:10:11]  And perhaps they see it as tragedy almost.
[00:10:17]  It's interesting you bring that up.
[00:10:18]  And I mentioned this earlier, I think, before you joined us.
[00:10:21]  Perhaps I had to have been in the first hour.
[00:10:24]  But so Philip the winner has the flag in his office in Belgium.
[00:10:30]  And Steve King, who was here last year also for our conference, right here at the store.
[00:10:34]  I was watching Steve King making the cash register sing with all the purchases he was making with his Confederate merchandise all over the store here.
[00:10:44]  But he had the Confederate flag on his desk.
[00:10:47]  It's great.
[00:10:49]  You hear the hooping and hollering going out there, James.
[00:10:51]  They can't hear it on the air.
[00:10:53]  Sounds like an army out there, man.
[00:10:55]  Well, who's fighting right now?
[00:10:57]  I guess Dr. Klitschko must have.
[00:11:01]  I think it's just victory cheers, brother.
[00:11:03]  And they're out there singing.
[00:11:05]  We're going to get back to that.
[00:11:07]  We're going to go back to that.
[00:11:09]  So Philip has it in Belgium, and Steve King, who was a member of Congress, obviously, United States Representative from Iowa, had the Confederate flag on his desk in Washington, D.C. when he was in Congress.
[00:11:22]  And we're asking the question, when is a southern politician going to betray that?
[00:11:27]  Because throughout the world, it is seen as a symbol of resistance to tyranny.
[00:11:35]  And that's so shameful that even Here's the thing, right here in South Carolina, Hunter, Steve, our good friend Steve, who's always here at all the Dixie Republic events, and one of the guys.
[00:11:49]  And Steve likes my music.
[00:11:52]  He likes music in general.
[00:11:54]  There was a concert he had to go to tonight, but he likes my music.
[00:11:57]  And he's into all the 60s bands.
[00:12:01]  But he.
[00:12:06]  So I got to shake Thomas' hand here.
[00:12:09]  Thomas said there's not a show.
[00:12:10]  He said, if you listen to any two.
[00:12:15]  If you can't listen to this show for more than three weeks before meeting.
[00:12:18]  You actually turned me on to that music change.
[00:12:21]  I began to respect it and listen to it.
[00:12:24]  And I'm like, okay.
[00:12:25]  Well, I've done my part.
[00:12:26]  I could be called home now.
[00:12:29]  The whole pro-white thing was a psyop.
[00:12:31]  It was to get young men in the doo-up.
[00:12:35]  Anyway, I'm digressing.
[00:12:38]  So Steve had to go to a concert tonight because he's a music lover.
[00:12:41]  But going back to the Confederate flag could be seen in parliamentary offices in Europe.
[00:12:48]  It could be seen in the offices of a United States congressman from Iowa.
[00:12:54]  And Steve was telling me just here in South Carolina, the state legislature just approved there be a statue erected in commemoration of a black slave named Robert Smalls, I believe that's his name.
[00:13:11]  Yeah, yeah.
[00:13:12]  Who was entrusted with a boat, and he, of course, immediately turned it over to the union, and then he became a congressman in the Reconstruction era South.
[00:13:24]  And, you know, so I get why the enemies of the South, the people who hate us, would want, you know, to maybe commemorate him.
[00:13:31]  But they made him out to be like the master and commander of the sea.
[00:13:34]  I mean, he turned over like a dinghy, you know, or something.
[00:13:37]  But anyway.
[00:13:39]  We have a Robert Smalls housing projects around here.
[00:13:43]  I mean, his name should not even be a footnote.
[00:13:46]  It should not be remembered to history at all.
[00:13:48]  But the state legislature of the state of South Carolina, I don't know if these are carpetbaggers or the very least scallywags.
[00:13:56]  What in the hell are they doing honoring a trainer?
[00:13:59]  I don't care if he was a slave.
[00:14:01]  His master fed him.
[00:14:02]  He housed him.
[00:14:04]  Let's be real about slavery.
[00:14:05]  I tell you who had the worst of it in slavery were the white slaves that went into Arab captivity.
[00:14:11]  They were worked to death.
[00:14:14]  Anyway, I forget all of that.
[00:14:16]  I mean, the South Carolina legislature is honoring this guy.

=== Honoring a Controversial Trainer (13:19) ===

[00:14:20]  I think at best, they're trying to give that portion of South Carolina's population a fair shot, if you will.
[00:14:27]  At worst.
[00:14:28]  At worst, they have white guilt.
[00:14:34]  The conservatives, the Republicans that would even sign something like that, it's either one of those two options or something else I'm not aware of.
[00:14:45]  South Carolina is the cradle of the Confederacy, and it is such a great state.
[00:14:52]  And I mean, not only in its history, going all the way back to the Revolutionary War, we were talking with Ian, who took Philip DeWinter to one of the Revolutionary War battlefields.
[00:15:00]  South Carolina has always been an author of this nation's history.
[00:15:04]  And what a wonderful state.
[00:15:07]  Still a great state.
[00:15:10]  In the upcountry, twice as much.
[00:15:13]  Great area up here in the upcountry of South Carolina.
[00:15:16]  But I just still am flummoxed at how such a great state with such great people still in a conservative state.
[00:15:22]  It went hard for Trump, but Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham and Robert Smalls is who were making a statue to it.
[00:15:30]  It just doesn't compute.
[00:15:31]  And I get it.
[00:15:32]  I mean, the politicians, there is a disconnect between the politicians and the voters as there is between, you know, the Southern Baptist Convention leadership and the people in the pews.
[00:15:41]  But at the same time, we should mention it.
[00:15:44]  If a guy in Belgium can do it, a sitting member of parliament, if Steve King can do it, somebody in the state house can do it, right?
[00:15:53]  Well, we do have Paul Danz that is running against Lindsey Graham right now.
[00:15:59]  And I don't think he's actually originally from South Carolina.
[00:16:05]  But he's got the guts to go to NASCAR.
[00:16:07]  He went to the Darlington race and said, hey, let's bring the flag back to NASCAR.
[00:16:14]  So hopefully Lindsey Graham's a bygone thing.
[00:16:17]  If Lindsey Graham could lose, that would be incredible.
[00:16:21]  I mean, it's almost unimaginable to even consider it happening because he's been in there so long.
[00:16:26]  But do you think there's a chance?
[00:16:27]  Because, I mean, you know, we're talking about people like, you know, these, you know, upstart, you know, candidacies like James Fishback in Florida.
[00:16:36]  I mean, is there a chance that Lindsey Graham could lose or is that just, you know, entirely a pipe dream?
[00:16:40]  I don't know.
[00:16:41]  Does anybody, anybody here actually know anyone that's ever voted for Lindsey Graham?
[00:16:46]  I've never known anyone that's ever voted for Lindsey Graham, but he's still in office.
[00:16:52]  I was there.
[00:16:53]  I booed him.
[00:16:54]  I booed him.
[00:16:54]  I won't even tell you what the people behind me was saying.
[00:16:57]  You're talking about when Trump came to Pickens, which he cut his speech short.
[00:17:01]  I was right there, man.
[00:17:02]  My voice was sore.
[00:17:06]  Lindsey Graham grew up 20 minutes.
[00:17:08]  He's like, I grew up not four miles from here.
[00:17:12]  He got ran off stage.
[00:17:14]  So I remember this.
[00:17:14]  So Trump came when he was.
[00:17:16]  Now, this was not last year.
[00:17:17]  I guess it was when he was running against Kamala.
[00:17:19]  Yeah, two years ago.
[00:17:20]  He was running against Kamala.
[00:17:22]  I remember him coming here.
[00:17:24]  Huge turnout in Greenville, you know, in this area.
[00:17:28]  And Lindsey Graham gave the warm-up act speech and got booed off stage.
[00:17:34]  I love that question.
[00:17:35]  Has anybody in South Carolina ever actually voted for Lindsey Graham?
[00:17:38]  It's true, though.
[00:17:39]  I don't know anybody that's ever voted for Lindsey Graham.
[00:17:42]  So when you go in there, you just leave that one blank?
[00:17:46]  I've never voted for him.
[00:17:48]  John Sanchez.
[00:17:49]  John Sanchez.
[00:17:52]  Amen.
[00:17:52]  That's Johnny Reb from the leather shop here.
[00:17:55]  Well, I want to say something about South Carolina, and that is Kyle McDermott, our friend.
[00:18:00]  You know, I was just actually learning from Thomas today.
[00:18:03]  I thought he was always a South Carolinian.
[00:18:05]  And he was a native New Yorker who came down here during COVID and tried to join the SCV, not knowing that you had to have a family who fought.
[00:18:18]  But when he turned in his application, they came back and said, oh, yeah, your ancestor fought here in South Carolina.
[00:18:24]  I was just learning this earlier today.
[00:18:26]  When I see Kyle, he was supposed to turn out today.
[00:18:28]  I haven't seen him.
[00:18:29]  But I was talking to him just earlier this week.
[00:18:32]  I always thought, because he always looks so good in that Confederate uniform, he's a part of the color card there on the SCV.
[00:18:37]  I always thought he was a native South Carolinian.
[00:18:40]  But he did have that blood in him.
[00:18:42]  And maybe that brought him back home.
[00:18:45]  My best friend behind me has an Ancestry.com account, and we do our Confederate ancestor check on everybody that knew that we meet.
[00:18:54]  And you'd be surprised how many people don't know that they have a Confederate ancestor.
[00:18:59]  And then we check them, and we're like, hey, here he is.
[00:19:03]  Sometimes, you know, the same last name that they have currently.
[00:19:06]  So Kyle's a great guy.
[00:19:09]  He's around a lot.
[00:19:09]  He's a great guy, longtime supporter.
[00:19:11]  Great book, by the way.
[00:19:12]  If you don't have the Declaration of White Independence, I'm looking at some copies for sale here on the book rack at Dixie Republic, and he's got a flag.
[00:19:20]  And I like Kyle a lot.
[00:19:22]  Same way.
[00:19:24]  Back to the events of the day, our associate producer here on the ground tonight, as we were waiting for guests to come in, I got this note.
[00:19:32]  Hunter has not yet fought.
[00:19:35]  Excuse me.
[00:19:36]  Hunter has not fought yet.
[00:19:37]  He's next.
[00:19:39]  So you were in the ring today as well as one of these warriors.
[00:19:43]  Yeah, that was the last fight.
[00:19:48]  So how did it turn out?
[00:19:50]  I was winded, and I had this big old boy from Alabama, and he had a cranium like an Alabamian.
[00:19:59]  And he was super tough, and the nicest guy you'd ever meet walking around.
[00:20:04]  But when he gets in the ring.
[00:20:05]  When he got hit, he turned into a monster.
[00:20:09]  And so that's pretty much everybody that I've met around here today.
[00:20:15]  I got to say something about that, Hunter.
[00:20:17]  Is that politely?
[00:20:19]  Yes, brothers going into the ring, and then you can see this fierce, almost berserker-type rage as I watched them fight in the ring today.
[00:20:28]  And there was 40 fights today, 50 fights of different disciplines and different arts.
[00:20:35]  But as soon as it was over, they came back together as brothers.
[00:20:38]  They touched gloves.
[00:20:40]  They hugged.
[00:20:40]  They walked out of the ring together, and then they started fellowshipping again.
[00:20:44]  I'll tell you what, seeing all these guys, I'm looking at a few of their faces now and a bunch more outside.
[00:20:51]  If there's anybody that's out there listening and you're not connected with a movement or a community, just know this.
[00:21:00]  We are going to live.
[00:21:02]  And we're not just going to live.
[00:21:03]  We're here.
[00:21:07]  We're going to thrive.
[00:21:08]  We're not just surviving.
[00:21:10]  We're thriving.
[00:21:11]  And all of these guys that I'm, I mean, there's, how many people would you say was here?
[00:21:16]  300, 250?
[00:21:17]  Total?
[00:21:18]  I was saying two, and I was trying to be conservative on that.
[00:21:21]  And this is a private invite-only event.
[00:21:24]  This was not open.
[00:21:25]  Yeah, turning people away from the general public who wanted to come in to see the – And seeing the caliber and – And I'm like the old guy now.
[00:21:32]  I'm 36.
[00:21:35]  So seeing all these bright, white, smiling faces was just really uplifting and motivating.
[00:21:45]  People here on the property today could.
[00:21:53]  They alone could lead, you know, of course I want to say a revolution, I mean, but you know, you could build a nation state amongst the people who were here today.
[00:22:03]  You could do something.
[00:22:04]  These people can affect the course of history and I think they are people like them.
[00:22:10]  They are because we're not all in one place and you, you never want your, your army, in one location right, you want them spread out and and God's gonna send them here and send them there, and they're gonna go back home and they're gonna create ripple effects where they're at, and that is a force multiplier and that that, that is what this whole Whole, that's what I'm learning today.
[00:22:37]  That's what it's all about, brother.
[00:22:38]  They're going back to where they're coming from, and there's it's like a well, you know, you bring up another interesting point here is that there are people here from all over the country.
[00:22:50]  I would say the majority of people here may not even be southerners.
[00:22:54]  I didn't do a headcount or you're probably check ID, but a lot of Canadians, yes, thank you.
[00:23:02]  And not one of them had a problem being in a place with about 50,000 Confederate flags, including one of the biggest ones in the country right here on the flagpole.
[00:23:12]  They were taking photos of it all day.
[00:23:15]  But what a great event.
[00:23:17]  What a wonderful spectacle it was today.
[00:23:21]  We had a boxing ring out front of Dixie Republic.
[00:23:25]  There was bouncy houses.
[00:23:27]  And a lot of kids, well, we were talking about that with Thomas earlier.
[00:23:30]  Kids, women, young ladies, men of all ages, but definitely, predominantly late teens, 20s, and early 30s, and they were all out there getting the job.
[00:23:42]  And it's just so funny because I met a fella today.
[00:23:45]  This is just a random anecdote here.
[00:23:47]  I'm a big fan of the 1938 Robin Hood film.
[00:23:51]  Oh, I thought you were going to say something else with Errol Flynn.
[00:24:00]  It's like an old swashbuckling film.
[00:24:02]  And I met another guy today.
[00:24:04]  I screen everything that my child watches, okay?
[00:24:08]  And I met another guy today that he lets his kid watch that 1938 film with Errol Flynn.
[00:24:14]  And we started exchanging old films that we would let our children watch that are moralizing films, not degenerate films.
[00:24:24]  So many great people here today.
[00:24:27]  What a great time.
[00:24:29]  Like I said earlier, James's bald head is the capstone on the pyramid today.
[00:24:34]  Don't go anywhere yet, Hunter.
[00:24:36]  I'm not done with you.
[00:24:37]  But we do have to take our bottom-of-the-hour hard break.
[00:24:39]  We've been skipping some floater breaks tonight.
[00:24:41]  We've got to take the bottom of the hour hard break.
[00:24:43]  We're here with Hunter of the Jolly Boys at Dixie Republic, and we'll be right back.
[00:24:47]  So many great friends here today.
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[00:25:03]  Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have claimed a missile launch toward Israel.
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[00:30:00]  Old time there, I'm not forgotten.
[00:30:02]  Look away, look away, look, Dixie Land.
[00:30:07]  In Dixie's land, where I was born in early on one frosty morning.
[00:30:11]  Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land.
[00:30:16]  Better wish I was in Dixie.
[00:30:18]  Hooray, hooray.
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[00:30:35]  So, March Around the World meets Confederate History Month tonight on TPC all throughout the month of April.
[00:30:48]  It's going to be Confederate History Month, and we're going to have nothing but Southern guests on and, well, except for one.
[00:30:57]  Our favorite brick-and-mortar pastor, Brett McAtee from Charlotte, Michigan, will be joining us for his annual Easter message next week.
[00:31:06]  Next week is Easter.
[00:31:08]  Easter is a week from tomorrow.
[00:31:11]  Resurrection Day, if you will.
[00:31:12]  And so we'll have all that good Southern gospel music.
[00:31:15]  Matter of fact, Hunter, I got a question from a listener in New Jersey about Southern rock.
[00:31:20]  We'll get to that in a moment.
[00:31:22]  But first, I just want to say, my first time here, Dixie Republic has always been a big supporter of the program, going back to Scott, the previous owner, for years and years and years.
[00:31:34]  And then in 2020, 2019, 2020, when it changed ownership, only more so.
[00:31:44]  And Scott still contributes as well.
[00:31:46]  Great guy all the way around.
[00:31:48]  Can't say enough about Scott.
[00:31:50]  God bless Scott.
[00:31:54]  But with Paul, Mantis Jolly, as we call him, you started having events here, and we started coming.
[00:32:01]  He brought me up.
[00:32:02]  The first time I was here was November of 2020.
[00:32:08]  And I remember that vividly.
[00:32:10]  Yes, November of 20 because my daughter, my youngest daughter, Caroline, was a month old, and she was here.
[00:32:20]  And my wife and I and my youngest daughter came and my other two kids stayed at home.
[00:32:26]  And we were here in November of 20 for the first time we ever did a show from here.
[00:32:30]  And then we've come to all the Dixie Fests, and then we've had two TPC conferences here as a result of Scott's legacy and what Paul has done here.
[00:32:39]  And we did the book signing here for the Honorable Cause that Patrick Martin put together and some other events as well.
[00:32:47]  As I always make mention to you, Hunter, one of my favorite ones, even with all of those being in mind, was just one that I came up by myself.
[00:32:57]  And it was just, it was in the winter.
[00:33:00]  It was in the dead of winter.
[00:33:01]  It was random.
[00:33:02]  Cold as hell.
[00:33:03]  Random.
[00:33:04]  I don't even remember what year that was, but it was just me and you.
[00:33:07]  It was the first time I went to the Confederate Museum with your dad and got to meet him.
[00:33:12]  And then now you fast forward.
[00:33:14]  And last year at the Confederate Museum, your dad is the docent there.
[00:33:19]  Philip DeWinter was there.
[00:33:21]  You know, other elected officials from Europe were there.
[00:33:25]  Two former United States congressmen were there.
[00:33:28]  It was just an amazing thing to see how much this whole thing has grown.
[00:33:31]  So you've always been a part of it.
[00:33:34]  It's just so great to see where we're going with this.
[00:33:37]  And I just feel like I say we, I mean, I feel like a part of it here, but awesome.
[00:33:41]  You are.
[00:33:42]  Awesome.
[00:33:42]  Awesome with Dixie Republic.
[00:33:44]  And to kick off Confederate History Month here.
[00:33:45]  Yeah.
[00:33:46]  Even if it's a week early.
[00:33:48]  So where do you want to go after that?
[00:33:50]  Well, one thing that our friend Thomas just mentioned was, you know, we want to, you know, certainly you can denigrate South Carolina for Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham.
[00:34:02]  And we certainly brought up the Robert Smalls thing, but there is another side to it.
[00:34:07]  Yep.
[00:34:07]  It should be mentioned as well for everybody listening.
[00:34:10]  He brought up a great point.
[00:34:12]  Thomas, I'm not going to be able to name all of the things that are in our statehouse, but I will say the painting of St. Mary's Heights.
[00:34:27]  St. Marie's Heights.
[00:34:28]  There is a beautiful painting, and me and Matt took a photo in front of that painting with the Confederate soldier who Richard Kirkland, who jumped the wall to go water a Yankee, a wounded Yankee.
[00:34:43]  That is a beautiful, it's almost a fresco.
[00:34:45]  It's so big.
[00:34:47]  And so there is that in there.
[00:34:49]  Robert E. Lee is still there?
[00:34:51]  The bust of Robert E. Lee.
[00:34:52]  John C. Calhoun.
[00:34:53]  John C. Calhoun.
[00:34:54]  Now, that's even more radioactive than that.
[00:34:56]  Calhoun's honoring the Confederate standard bearers of some South Carolina that died.
[00:35:00]  Yep.
[00:35:01]  And Wade Hampton's statue out front, which is a beautiful equestrian statue.
[00:35:06]  You were talking about honoring the Confederate standard bearers who died, the people who carried the flag.
[00:35:12]  And the monument out there.
[00:35:14]  That's still in the statehouse.
[00:35:15]  Nick Haley didn't take that down.
[00:35:17]  No.
[00:35:17]  So that's still there.
[00:35:18]  So, I mean, we need to be fair and balanced and even killed.
[00:35:21]  And that is good news.
[00:35:22]  That was a great point that he brought up, I thought.
[00:35:24]  Very good.
[00:35:25]  Very good.
[00:35:26]  Wonderful.
[00:35:27]  And that just came up during the break, and I didn't know that.
[00:35:29]  And anybody that can go to the statehouse should go see it.
[00:35:33]  I will say this.
[00:35:35]  There's marks on the state house for the moment.
[00:35:36]  The stars.
[00:35:39]  Well, people would be surprised.
[00:35:40]  So, you know, maybe we're surprising you tonight with this.
[00:35:42]  Yeah, the audience can't hear that, but there's where the cannon fire had hit the statehouse.
[00:35:48]  There's stars that display where those cannonballs hit.
[00:35:52]  So it's full.
[00:35:53]  I'm looking.
[00:35:54]  Folks, I mean, this makes me regret we're radio and not television.
[00:35:57]  I'm looking.
[00:35:58]  Thomas is showing me pictures on his phone right now of bronze stars on the statehouse building here at the Capitol of South Carolina in Columbia, where cannonballs hit from Sherman.
[00:36:11]  Sherman.
[00:36:13]  I think basically you can.
[00:36:15]  You can still even see the indention never repaired.
[00:36:19]  You cannot go to the South Carolina State House without being confronted with our Confederate enemy.
[00:36:24]  Let me tell you this about that.
[00:36:25]  About that.
[00:36:26]  Now that we're on this thing, Thomas and Hunter, thank you so much for bringing this topic up because when I was in Selma a couple of years ago with Jared Taylor, we did a tour of Selma.
[00:36:37]  But we also went to the Alabama State House, and there still is one of the most on the Statehouse grounds of the state of Alabama, the state capitol in Montgomery.
[00:36:47]  So much history there.
[00:36:48]  I mean, George Wallace, Jefferson Davis, was sworn in as the president of the Confederacy at the state capitol.
[00:36:54]  There's a gold star still in the marble, and it says this is where Jefferson Davis stood when he was sworn in as president.
[00:37:01]  Still to this day, if you go to the statehouse in Montgomery, Alabama, that's there.
[00:37:05]  One of the most beautiful Confederate monuments ever erected is there still, and much more.
[00:37:12]  And so it's very similar to this.
[00:37:14]  I mean, they make a big deal about all of the bad things.
[00:37:17]  I mean, they want to promote that, but there's still some good out there that you wouldn't know unless you tune into this show that I wouldn't have known if I hadn't been here at Dixie Republic, at least in South Carolina.
[00:37:25]  But same in Birmingham.
[00:37:27]  Excuse me, not Birmingham, but Montgomery.
[00:37:28]  And I think the State House has the state seal of Alabama has the battle flag still.
[00:37:36]  Still does.
[00:37:36]  Yes, it does.
[00:37:37]  Actually, that's part of my collection over there in my museum.
[00:37:40]  A matter of fact, the state of Alabama still does have that X in its Florida 2 and Arkansas.
[00:37:51]  The state flag.
[00:37:52]  The stars in the state flag.
[00:37:53]  The stars in Arkansas.
[00:37:56]  It's still a lot of state flags, even though they have neutered it.
[00:38:00]  And of course, Mississippi was the last one to fall.
[00:38:01]  And it looks like a golf course country club flag now.
[00:38:06]  I don't even know what that is.
[00:38:06]  It's ugly.
[00:38:07]  It's not even anything, but I don't even want to talk about that, actually.
[00:38:12]  There are still a lot of Confederate symbolism in the state flags of the South.
[00:38:17]  So there's still some good news there.
[00:38:20]  Now, let's talk about this then, because he just walked in.
[00:38:24]  My son just walked in.
[00:38:27]  My 11-year-old boy.
[00:38:28]  I have one son.
[00:38:29]  I have two daughters, and I love them all.
[00:38:31]  I have a 16-year-old daughter.
[00:38:34]  She's just turned 16 last week, sweet 16.
[00:38:37]  My son is 11.
[00:38:39]  My youngest daughter, Caroline, is five.
[00:38:42]  But I texted you, Hunter, a little story about what happened just last week, not even a week ago, last Monday at my son's Boy Scout meeting.
[00:38:53]  And what happened was one of the older scouts was giving a lesson on what he called the Civil War.
[00:39:00]  We don't call it that, but he did.
[00:39:02]  And these are young Southern boys, and it was about how the Union were the good guys, and they were fighting for this, and they were fighting for that.
[00:39:12]  And Henry kind of shook his head, and he said, what, you don't agree with that?
[00:39:17]  And he said, I'm a Confederate.
[00:39:20]  And after the lesson was over, the boys in his scout camp broke ranks to play war.
[00:39:32]  And every boy in my son's camp, and he's been in it a year, and it has been good for discipline and teaching him skills.
[00:39:42]  I don't regret that.
[00:39:43]  I had some reservations because of their worship of the federal flag.
[00:39:47]  I was a little bit hesitant to put him in it.
[00:39:49]  Overall, it's been good.
[00:39:51]  I don't like that part.
[00:39:52]  But nevertheless, every boy in his camp went to the Union side.
[00:39:59]  Henry went alone to the Confederate trench and fought.
[00:40:03]  It was a stick battle, you know, and he fought the rest of the boys in his camp.
[00:40:08]  He got four of them.
[00:40:10]  They did actually put a medic in his trench, but he wasn't keeping scout, obviously, because Henry got bayoneted in the back.
[00:40:16]  But he got four of them before they got him.
[00:40:19]  They got four of them.
[00:40:20]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:40:21]  10 to 1's good odds.
[00:40:23]  He got four of them.
[00:40:24]  They got him.
[00:40:24]  Very almost very true to life of how it was in the war.
[00:40:32]  But I was at once infuriated that Southern boys, I get that they may have gone to public schools and their parents don't care enough to teach them anything.
[00:40:42]  But it is countercultural on the high school level.
[00:40:45]  I was talking to Thomas Rousseau earlier tonight.
[00:40:46]  A lot of the high school young men now are very right-wing.
[00:40:51]  So I was kind of flummoxed to see, I figured it would be a mix, right?
[00:40:55]  A mix, you know, maybe half and half.
[00:40:58]  But for him to be the only one at 11, Peer Pressure's hard at 11, at 11 to walk over to the Confederate trench and fight them.
[00:41:05]  And I told you that, and you responded.
[00:41:07]  And what you were saying was that I was going to say that.
[00:41:08]  Yeah, well, actually, when you sent me that text, I read it to multiple friends of mine because I was that little boy at one time.
[00:41:18]  And I was kind of living that experience of him looking back, reading the text.
[00:41:27]  And everyone that I, when I read the text, I got chills.
[00:41:32]  I told Walter, and Walter was very surprised and impressed.
[00:41:39]  Same reaction from Matthew and others.
[00:41:42]  And so when Henry got here, I went up to him and I said, Henry, I heard what happened, and I know that that was really hard for you.
[00:41:57]  How did he rock my world?
[00:41:59]  He said, that wasn't hard.
[00:42:02]  He said, that was the easiest thing I ever did.
[00:42:05]  I was with you when he said that.
[00:42:08]  And I was like, that was the right answer.
[00:42:12]  I had nothing more to say.
[00:42:13]  I mean, the boy, you've done well with the boy.
[00:42:17]  Well, my dad did well.
[00:42:18]  My dad did well with me, and you try to pass these things down.
[00:42:21]  And you keep, you know, here's the thing about it, I think, is you keep the embers burning long enough to where they can catch flame again.
[00:42:28]  And today, as much as ever, you can feel that there is a possibility of that.
[00:42:35]  Here today with two, maybe 300 people all pulling in the right direction, whether they're Southerners or not, we're all one in that way as white, as men of the West.

=== The Housatonic and Confederate Flags (06:09) ===

[00:42:50]  And yeah, so I mean, of course, I want to keep our, you know, the uniqueness of our nations.
[00:42:57]  And so for my son to do that, I got to tell you, I don't know.
[00:43:00]  In 1991, when I was 11, if I had been there, I don't know what I'd do.
[00:43:07]  You know, I could certainly say what I would have done, you know, by 20.
[00:43:10]  But at 11, that's a different thing.
[00:43:13]  Well, I don't know, James.
[00:43:14]  The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, man.
[00:43:18]  And that's a big shiny apple you got up there.
[00:43:20]  Thank you for that.
[00:43:22]  It really doesn't.
[00:43:23]  And that's kind of what I recognized.
[00:43:25]  I was like, he's going to be like his dad.
[00:43:26]  Well, you know, I remember actually, I was a boy when we went to the Dixie Stampede in Pigeon Ford.
[00:43:33]  Oh, yeah.
[00:43:34]  Whenever you're a young boy, young boy.
[00:43:36]  And I asked my dad, I said, you know, what side are we on?
[00:43:40]  He said, what are you talking about?
[00:43:42]  We're on this other side.
[00:43:44]  I got a funny story, too.
[00:43:45]  I remember being about Henry's age or maybe a little bit younger.
[00:43:48]  And my dad pulled out, he had picture books and great illustrative books, and he pulled one out.
[00:43:56]  And I remember I'm in public school, too.
[00:43:59]  And he pulled one out, and I think I asked him who's the good guys or the bad guys.
[00:44:05]  And he said, son, those are the good guys.
[00:44:08]  And it was obviously the Confederates.
[00:44:11]  And I said, well, that's our flag, right?
[00:44:15]  You know, on the American flag.
[00:44:16]  He said, well, things are different.
[00:44:20]  But I remember being impressionable at that age.
[00:44:24]  And that little small comment, he probably don't even remember.
[00:44:29]  But I do.
[00:44:30]  And I'm 36 now.
[00:44:32]  You don't know what you don't know until you know it.
[00:44:33]  But then you remember it once you know.
[00:44:35]  And from that point on, anytime I saw the flag, I'm looking at a bunch of them now.
[00:44:38]  But anytime I saw that flag, I knew that that was me.
[00:44:43]  I knew that that was my daddy.
[00:44:45]  I knew that that was my grandfather and my great-grandfather.
[00:44:48]  That's it.
[00:44:48]  That's it.
[00:44:49]  Well, that's exactly it.
[00:44:51]  So going back to our ancestors during the war, you know, mine from Mississippi and fighting in the Battle of Corinth, fighting at Shiloh, their blood's still in us, and you got to square, you know, you got to square with that and reckon with it one way or the other.
[00:45:07]  And it was just like our friend Kyle, who was from New York and came down here randomly and then found out that he had ancestors from South Carolina who was in the war.
[00:45:17]  But it is a part of us.
[00:45:18]  It is a part of our DNA.
[00:45:20]  It is a part of our identity, whether you know it or not.
[00:45:23]  But it is something to be fostered and it should be tended to and it should be passed down.
[00:45:28]  And so I'm very proud of my son.
[00:45:29]  I'm looking at him right now.
[00:45:30]  I'm looking at him right now.
[00:45:31]  And he's got a, it's a little bit chilly here in the upcountry of South Carolina.
[00:45:35]  So he's got a pullover.
[00:45:36]  But if you look under that pullover, he's got a t-shirt and it's one that we got here at Dixie Republic and it's got a Confederate flag on it.
[00:45:42]  And very proud of my son.
[00:45:45]  My father, you know, my father's listening tonight, Hunter.
[00:45:48]  Let's talk about fathers.
[00:45:50]  Yeah.
[00:45:50]  My father never misses a show.
[00:45:52]  He's tuned in right now.
[00:45:54]  Okay.
[00:45:54]  Never misses.
[00:45:56]  Your father, who hosted all of those dignitaries that we just mentioned, keeping the embers burning there at the Confederate Museum in downtown Greenville.
[00:46:05]  And, you know, we were talking even about the Hundley earlier today.
[00:46:09]  We were there, and we were there together and didn't know it.
[00:46:12]  And I was just a boy.
[00:46:13]  See, think about that.
[00:46:14]  So I was, you know, I met Warren Balog way after the Buchanan campaign, you know, just a few years ago for the first time.
[00:46:22]  But we were both there in Long Beach for the Buchanan campaign.
[00:46:24]  But then shortly after that, that was the year 2000.
[00:46:29]  Shortly after that, we were together in the early 2000s here in Charleston where they had the burial of the crew of the CSS Hunley, the first submarine to ever sink an enemy vessel in the history of naval warfare.
[00:46:49]  That was a Confederate ship.
[00:46:51]  And we were there for that.
[00:46:53]  Little did we know we were there together.
[00:46:55]  Yeah.
[00:46:58]  I was a little boy, and my dad drove me down there, and it was just us two, and he turned me loose.
[00:47:04]  He had his Confederate Heritage thing to do, and he turned me loose with a video camera on the Yorktown.
[00:47:11]  Or like me with Henry here at Dixie.
[00:47:13]  Yeah, pretty much.
[00:47:14]  Pretty much.
[00:47:15]  And the footage was so shaky, I'm not even sure anyone could watch it.
[00:47:22]  But I remember that to this day.
[00:47:25]  I remember, and just in the past six months, I've been musing over what those guys went through.
[00:47:34]  You know, there was two unsuccessful crews of the Hunley that went out beforehand, and then Mr. Hunley himself died on the second mission.
[00:47:43]  And so that third mission, could you imagine?
[00:47:46]  Yeah.
[00:47:47]  Could you imagine, brother, getting into a vessel that's no bigger than that couch with men and you.
[00:47:54]  And they're steering it by pedal.
[00:47:58]  Exactly.
[00:47:58]  And so they're rowing it by pedal under the ocean.
[00:48:02]  And to engage with the USS Yorktown, you.
[00:48:07]  The Housatonic.
[00:48:08]  Excuse me.
[00:48:09]  Excuse me.
[00:48:11]  I said that right earlier today.
[00:48:12]  Housatonic, of course.
[00:48:13]  I don't know why I said York.
[00:48:14]  Anyway, you have to ram it.
[00:48:16]  You have to ram it with your torpedo and then lodge it into the wood of the vessel and then reverse pivot and row backwards from it so it will engage.
[00:48:27]  And it engaged and it sunk the Housatonic and they signaled to the shore.
[00:48:35]  Yep.
[00:48:35]  The blue light.
[00:48:38]  That they were okay.
[00:48:39]  It was successful.
[00:48:40]  And then that they were successful.
[00:48:42]  And then the people on the shore were expecting them back minutes from then.
[00:48:47]  Never did they return.
[00:48:48]  And only in the early 2000s were they discovered.
[00:48:51]  And we were at their funeral.
[00:48:53]  We were there together, man.
[00:48:54]  Didn't even know it.
[00:48:55]  But we came together.
[00:48:56]  We came to know each other later.
[00:48:58]  Sure enough.

=== Elvis Impersonator and Old Country (05:47) ===

[00:48:59]  And there's something about that.
[00:49:01]  And it's like Michael Hill of the League of the South.
[00:49:03]  He'll be on with us next week.
[00:49:04]  The Chief.
[00:49:05]  The Chief?
[00:49:05]  Yeah, that's right.
[00:49:06]  Boy, did he not give a speech here at our 20th anniversary conference?
[00:49:11]  We saved the Fire and Brimstone for Sunday morning.
[00:49:16]  But, you know, I met Michael, obviously, you know, some years ago.
[00:49:24]  But his ancestor and mine were on the same field at Chila.
[00:49:31]  I just think there's something.
[00:49:32]  My ancestor and his ancestor, the gentleman standing behind me, were together and probably Thomas's at some point.
[00:49:42]  Well, let me ask you this.
[00:49:43]  This is a little bit more trivial, but we have to get to this because I promised that we would if I can find it.
[00:49:49]  It's about Southern Rock.
[00:49:51]  It is.
[00:49:51]  It is about Southern Rock.
[00:49:52]  There it is.
[00:49:53]  Okay.
[00:49:54]  So the question is, from a listener in New Jersey, what are some good Southern rock upbeat selections I could play besides Leonard Skynyrd?
[00:50:06]  Most Yankees love this kind of music, and the ones that like it can go flying.
[00:50:11]  Say hey, there's a, there's an unknown southern rock band that's similar to uh, Leonard Skinnyard, that was around the same time, called Crossroads uh c-r-o-s-s-r-o-d-e, and they're pretty dang good, and if you go on youtube you'll find some of that music.
[00:50:33]  Marshall Tucker, yeah, I was gonna say that.
[00:50:35]  Yeah, if you, if you want to go commercial, you know, commercial mainstream you're, you're talking uh, Charlie Daniels BAND, oh man, Charlie Daniels yeah, he had some good stuff on the south.
[00:50:45]  I mean not just, but the good stuff on the south, certainly.
[00:50:48]  Marshall Tucker BAND uh, Allman Brothers, to an extent.
[00:50:51]  If you really want to get into it you, you got to go country.
[00:50:53]  You got to go old country, like Alabama Shenandoah.
[00:50:57]  I think Michael Hill actually played guitar with some of the people in Shenandoah before, like you know, not on the record, of course, but if you met him and uh, OAK Ridge BOYS, then you're getting into a little bit of uh, like southern gospel meets country, meets doo-wop with Elvira, who's just a uh, highway man um, highway song song Blackfoot yeah, blackfoot.
[00:51:21]  People say ZZ Top and 38 Special, I don't know but uh, you know, I mean, that's what's great.
[00:51:26]  Whoever sent that question in.
[00:51:27]  That's what youtube is for, because you can really just go down these uh rabbit holes of southern rock mixes that people have uploaded um and and for us to discover later on.
[00:51:40]  But I would check out that band called Crossroads.
[00:51:43]  They were pretty dang good and way lesser known.
[00:51:48]  No one here has ever heard of them.
[00:51:49]  So now is Elvis considered southern rock?
[00:51:51]  He was born in Tupelo.
[00:51:53]  Uh, you know, Elvis is the king man.
[00:51:56]  I had an Elvis impression.
[00:51:58]  We almost had an Elvis impersonator tonight.
[00:52:02]  Elvis was a little bit too well, you know, you would only know it if you've listened to the political Cesspool, because they've tried to revamp Elvis into a civil rights advocate.
[00:52:10]  And uh, so untrue, uh.
[00:52:13]  But uh, and Donald Trump was just at Graceland on tuesday.
[00:52:16]  Yeah yeah, he was.
[00:52:17]  He was in Memphis on tuesday.
[00:52:18]  Was a private event?
[00:52:19]  Uh, it was not even a private event a private meeting with the local officials to talk about the success in the National Guard in suppressing black crime in Memphis, which has had an effect, I have to tell you, Iran Notwithstanding, Trump has had a positive effect in Memphis by keeping it under military operation, occupation to suppress black criminality.
[00:52:41]  But he was there to talk to the local officials about that.
[00:52:44]  But he did go to Graceland and he toured Graceland, yeah and uh, but you would only know it here if you listen to the political cesspool.
[00:52:51]  But George Wallis's son, George Wallace Jr, testified that Elvis Presley, far from being a rabbit integrationist uh, had a George Wallace for president yard sign on the grounds of Graceland when he lived there.
[00:53:04]  So now you know the truth.
[00:53:06]  Well I, that's what I.
[00:53:08]  I had an Elvis impersonator at my house for a new year's party uh, two or three years ago.
[00:53:15]  And there were some people oh, you should watch that new Elvis movie and i'm like i'm not watching that.
[00:53:20]  I did what I did, watch it.
[00:53:22]  I watched it to watch it.
[00:53:24]  He goes to B.B. King for all of his spiritual wisdom.
[00:53:27]  He hates people who are for segregation.
[00:53:29]  He hates Eastman.
[00:53:30]  He hates, you know, people like that.
[00:53:32]  But he had a George Wallace for president of the yard side in real life.
[00:53:36]  Andy Andy Saint Dixie.
[00:53:39]  He did.
[00:53:39]  He did sing the trilogy.
[00:53:40]  The American trilogy.
[00:53:41]  He also sang Battle Him with the Republican.
[00:53:42]  But he did seem Dixie.
[00:53:44]  He tried to mix it all together as best as he could.
[00:53:48]  But from your show, I was able to talk to the folks about, oh, well, did you know this?
[00:53:55]  There you go.
[00:53:56]  Well, thank you for that.
[00:53:57]  So you learned something on TPC that you could.
[00:54:00]  That is actually powerful, though.
[00:54:01]  To know that Elvis had a George Wallace president yard sign in his yard at the height of the segregation unrest in the South.
[00:54:12]  I mean, the truth is stranger than fiction, or at least more edifying than fiction.
[00:54:18]  James Edwards is our Elvis.
[00:54:21]  We'll be back at the third and final hour.
[00:54:23]  Hunter, a whole hour with Hunter, the jolliest of the Jolly Boys.
[00:54:28]  He said there's no chief of the Jolly Boys.
[00:54:32]  Oh, wow.
[00:54:33]  Oh, that's good.
[00:54:34]  Oh, I got to get there.
[00:54:37]  There are no chiefs of the Jolly Boys.
[00:54:39]  It's a roundtable.
[00:54:40]  It's an Anglo-Saxon type of thing.
[00:54:42]  But Hunter is the jolliest.
[00:54:44]  Thank you, my friend.
[00:54:45]  We'll be back with the third hour