Radio Show Hour 1 – 2024/12/14

Radio Show Hour 1 – 2024/12/14

James Edwards details his recent struggles with the United States Postal Service with determination and good humor.

[00:00:00] You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is The Political Cesspool.

[00:00:12] The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program.

[00:00:21] And here to guide you through the murky waters of The Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.

[00:00:36] Spirit Falls again, fill up the stocking. I may be rushing things, but deck the halls again.

[00:00:45] Is that the spirit? Yes, we need a little Christmas right this very minute.

[00:01:00] It hasn't snowed a single flurry, but Saturday we're in a hurry, so do I not.

[00:01:05] Thank you, Dame Angela, and thank you everyone for tuning in to tonight's live broadcast as the Christmas season continues to...

[00:01:15] Go by far too quickly this Saturday evening, December the 14th.

[00:01:20] I am James Edwards along with Keith Alexander, and we're now down to the final three shows of our 20th anniversary year,

[00:01:28] and there is a lot to cover tonight, and we're going to get to it all in the course of this three-hour broadcast

[00:01:36] when Brad Griffin and Jason Kessler return to the program.

[00:01:39] We're going to have some fun as we race towards Christmas.

[00:01:43] We're going to be talking about Daniel Penny being found not guilty,

[00:01:47] the assassination of UnitedHealthcare's CEO, threats of violence from BLM,

[00:01:53] the USS Liberty survivor Phil Turney, his recent interview with Candace Owens,

[00:01:57] additional reasons for optimism, and so much more.

[00:02:00] We do need a little Christmas, twice as much if you have to deal with the United States Postal Service

[00:02:07] as much as I do, and that is something that we will begin with tonight.

[00:02:12] If I could pardon your indulgence on this, but I made an announcement somewhere in the second half of the third hour last week,

[00:02:22] and I do believe it generated more email response than any single topic we've brought to the show in quite a while.

[00:02:32] So many of you were ready to share your misgivings with the post office,

[00:02:39] and I do believe since there was so many of you who reached out,

[00:02:43] I'll just in one fell swoop here give you an update on the situation,

[00:02:47] but not before we say hello to Keith Alexander.

[00:02:50] Keith, I mean, Christmas is 11 days away.

[00:02:52] We've got the thing in the den.

[00:02:54] How many days counting down to Christmas?

[00:02:56] It started out at 30, and it's down to 11, and I don't know where the other 19 went.

[00:03:01] It just seems that Christmas is a lot shorter this year, the Christmas season, than it normally is.

[00:03:09] You know, it seems like you have a buildup, but everything's just racing to the finish line now.

[00:03:13] And especially when you're busy, as we have been dealing with this issue that I'm about to address.

[00:03:17] When you're busy, things go by a little bit faster.

[00:03:20] As the Psalms instruct us, we need to be still and know.

[00:03:23] We need to just be in the moment, be present,

[00:03:26] and it's hard to do that when you're working around the clock.

[00:03:28] And also Thanksgiving came late this year, and we've talked about that as well.

[00:03:32] Well, our problem reminds me of the old joke that I used to tell when I was a kid,

[00:03:36] which was what do they call a white man surrounded by five blacks?

[00:03:41] Coach.

[00:03:41] What do they call a white man surrounded by ten blacks?

[00:03:44] Quarterback.

[00:03:45] What do they call a white man surrounded by a hundred blacks?

[00:03:48] Warden.

[00:03:49] And finally, what do they call a white man surrounded by a thousand or more blacks?

[00:03:54] Postmaster.

[00:03:55] I hear that is not an exaggeration.

[00:03:57] And this is the most challenging part of my job.

[00:04:01] I actually had received so much email, we had to put a post up on the blog about it this week

[00:04:07] and send out an email to the list.

[00:04:09] But this is a challenging part of my job.

[00:04:13] Dealing with the U.S. Postal Service or any part of the federal government

[00:04:19] is unfortunately a losing proposition now.

[00:04:22] So here's the situation, folks.

[00:04:26] Over the course of the past 20 years, it's not an exaggeration to say that we have dealt with

[00:04:32] hundreds of thousands of pieces of mail.

[00:04:35] And that is no exaggeration.

[00:04:37] If you take into account the quarterly mailers, that's four times a year times 20 years,

[00:04:42] the shipments, the order, fulfillments, event announcements, reply to the mail we receive on a daily basis,

[00:04:49] replies to that mail.

[00:04:50] I think it's not an exaggeration to say in the low hundreds of thousands.

[00:04:54] That's how many parcels, how many letters both we've received and have sent out over the years.

[00:05:00] And I'm not like Alex Jones on this.

[00:05:03] I don't believe that the Illuminati, you know, everything that happens, Alex Jones,

[00:05:07] is the Illuminati or the Chai Combs.

[00:05:09] Blankes everybody except the Jews.

[00:05:12] But I don't believe that the Illuminati or the Chai Combs infiltrated the local post office here.

[00:05:17] I don't believe that my home delivery person is a member of the Bilderbergers or anything like that.

[00:05:24] I don't think that all things are conspiracies or false flags.

[00:05:28] I'm calm, cool, and collected when I deal with matters, and I deal with them with great precision.

[00:05:33] I don't like to sound alarms prematurely.

[00:05:36] You can only do that so many times, and I don't think we've ever done that.

[00:05:39] But I've been doing this for a long time, long enough to know when something's legitimately off.

[00:05:44] So, of course, let me say this, that anyone who knows me well knows that I am a perfectionist to the point of obsession.

[00:05:52] I pay attention to details, and I micromanage things to my own detriment at times, perhaps.

[00:05:57] But that's my dedication to you to get the job done right.

[00:06:01] And I also track everything.

[00:06:03] You know, talking about all those people, think of all the gifts we've mailed out for these quarter fundraising drives going back many, many years.

[00:06:10] We track everything.

[00:06:11] Everything.

[00:06:12] Everything we have ever sent out, we personally track to make sure it's delivered.

[00:06:17] Every single thing.

[00:06:18] We don't wait to hear from you.

[00:06:19] We track it ourselves until it says, green checkmark, it's been delivered.

[00:06:23] And that's just my level of commitment to service to TPC's donors.

[00:06:27] So when I say I respect and I appreciate you and we go the extra mile, we try to go to the extra mile for you, I mean it.

[00:06:32] But back to this current situation.

[00:06:35] So the day after Thanksgiving, we started mailing out our Christmas fundraising letter, newsletter, quarterly update.

[00:06:43] And we mailed out a badge the day after Thanksgiving, which was November the 29th.

[00:06:49] On November 30th, December 1st was a Sunday.

[00:06:51] We mailed out on December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th as well.

[00:06:55] But the November 30th badge was the one in question here.

[00:06:58] That badge did not go out.

[00:06:59] Now, how do I know that?

[00:07:01] Well, I mail one to myself every day.

[00:07:03] So when I received all of the letters except for the ones sent out on November 30th, I was receiving the ones mailed after November 30th.

[00:07:09] I got suspicious.

[00:07:10] So I called up a few folks who were also on that list, and none of them had received it either.

[00:07:15] So this constitutes about a fifth of our mailing list.

[00:07:18] This is a substantial number of people.

[00:07:22] And I know that a letter mailed on November 30th would have definitely been delivered to my home at least a week later.

[00:07:28] Normally two or three days, and that's pushing it.

[00:07:34] And so I knew that, you know, maybe it had gotten lost, but somebody else would have gotten theirs.

[00:07:39] But nobody did.

[00:07:40] So I knew that none of that badge had gone out.

[00:07:42] So I went up to the post office, and I initiated this investigation a few days ago last week.

[00:07:50] And I didn't think that there was going to be a favorable outcome at that point.

[00:07:53] I'm not saying that I thought that somebody torched them, but I thought that they were definitely lost or misplaced.

[00:07:58] And my leadership style, again, this is not something that has happened before.

[00:08:03] Whether it was intentional or whether it was just negligence, we don't know, but the effect is the same.

[00:08:09] A large part of our fundraising went down the tank.

[00:08:13] Well, I'll get to that.

[00:08:16] It didn't, but it appeared to have.

[00:08:19] And there was something definitely going on.

[00:08:20] Again, we've done this for so long, something was off.

[00:08:23] But my leadership style is to take matters into my own hands.

[00:08:26] I'm not going to sit around and let chance dictate what happens.

[00:08:29] I'm going to make my own luck.

[00:08:30] So we sent out a duplicate letter to everyone who we believed had been on the missing batch in question on December the 9th.

[00:08:39] That was this Monday, this most recent Monday if you're listening live.

[00:08:43] Now, believe me, believe me, that pained me to do because I am also obsessive about being a good financial steward.

[00:08:50] And we have precious funds here, limited funds to keep our work going.

[00:08:55] And I don't like to waste a cent.

[00:08:56] Of course, the cost of a postage stamp has gone consistently up throughout.

[00:09:00] You're spending over a dollar every time you mail it out.

[00:09:02] It's 73 cents for the stamp.

[00:09:04] You got the letter.

[00:09:06] You got the envelope.

[00:09:08] You're over a dollar into this thing.

[00:09:11] And so we don't like to waste a cent.

[00:09:13] But it was too important and too time sensitive to not do something.

[00:09:18] It's a Christmas newsletter with gift incentives, and they simply have to get out.

[00:09:22] So this is a big deal.

[00:09:23] And also, you know, because direct mail is still the most effective way to communicate.

[00:09:28] Just ask more stees.

[00:09:30] Emails don't even come close.

[00:09:32] Even what we say here on the radio doesn't get a response like direct mail does.

[00:09:35] So we sent out a second letter on December the 9th, this most recent Monday.

[00:09:39] It's costly, but I deemed it necessary.

[00:09:41] Now, here's where the plot thickens.

[00:09:43] Here's where the plot thickens.

[00:09:44] I sent one to my home, as I always do.

[00:09:49] And what I send to myself is identical to the ones that the donors receive, that our supporters receive.

[00:09:54] And I also, though this time, slipped in the middle of the pile a letter that was in a plain envelope that was addressed to TPC's PO box, our business mailing address.

[00:10:05] Two days later, the nondescript letter was delivered to the PO box, but the TPC letter was not delivered to my home.

[00:10:11] So by this point, by this point, I'm on full alert to the point where I start looking up the laws pertaining to the intentional sabotage of mail.

[00:10:22] And actually, I've got them here.

[00:10:23] Now, listen to this.

[00:10:25] I know a lot of you know how this story ends already, but I'm going to explain how we got there.

[00:10:28] And if I can find this.

[00:10:32] Keith, do a song and dance.

[00:10:33] I should have had this pulled up.

[00:10:35] Well, what did they say?

[00:10:37] The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[00:10:39] The music's already playing.

[00:10:40] Well, that's good that the music's playing.

[00:10:41] That'll give me a chance to look this up.

[00:10:43] And we'll do a quick end of this story.

[00:10:45] I think, you know, by the end of it, we'll all have a laugh.

[00:10:49] But it is something I want to tell you what happened in the detail that you deserve.

[00:10:55] And then we've got to get on to the rest of the show, as they say.

[00:10:59] Stay tuned.

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[00:13:39] Well, if nothing else, this is a cathartic exercise for me just to sit here and have a little open discussion about this with everyone.

[00:13:46] So where the plot thickens was when we sent out the replacement letter to this one-fifth of the list affected,

[00:13:55] the one that was in an envelope that didn't reveal it was from TPC gets delivered, but the other one doesn't.

[00:14:02] Now, the one going to my P.O. box is not, that's a different route.

[00:14:06] But the one I mailed to my home, which was the one that the donors would have received, also didn't come.

[00:14:10] So that's two now.

[00:14:11] So I'm looking up the laws on sabotaging mail, and this is what comes up.

[00:14:18] Sabotaging mail, which includes destroying, tampering with, or obstructing the delivery of mail, is a federal offense.

[00:14:24] Of course, I guess you all knew that.

[00:14:25] But it reads that penalties for mail sabotage can include significant fines and up to five years in prison.

[00:14:37] So this is a serious deal, and examples of mail sabotage include opening someone else's mail, destroying mail, hiding mail,

[00:14:44] tampering with mailboxes, or the intentional delaying of mail delivery, which I think, well, I guess intentional is the key word there.

[00:14:52] But now, just because that's the law, Keith, that doesn't mean we can't change it.

[00:14:55] Is that not right?

[00:14:56] Because we certainly, there was a law about what constituted libel, and we got that when we actually rewrote that law.

[00:15:02] So we got that done in about six months.

[00:15:04] So don't ever let anyone tell you TPC hasn't actually changed things legislatively speaking.

[00:15:09] In the state of Michigan, it was a state law.

[00:15:10] We filed that case in state court.

[00:15:13] It wasn't a federal law, but the state of Michigan.

[00:15:15] That law was against our interests.

[00:15:17] Hopefully with the election of Trump, we'll start seeing some movement in the other direction.

[00:15:20] I tell you what, he needs, I know there's a lot of things we need fixing here, but somewhere the post office needs to be on this.

[00:15:26] But anyway, so I'm thinking this is sabotaged at this point, because why would one letter be delivered, but the TPC would not?

[00:15:33] But I just so happened to be checking my mail at the exact same time that my neighbor was.

[00:15:38] And she said, hey, James, have you gotten any mail this week?

[00:15:41] And I said, well, you know, you're not going to believe it.

[00:15:43] I've got a story for you.

[00:15:44] And she knows what I do and how much mail we deal with.

[00:15:48] And I was telling her this whole story.

[00:15:49] And she said, well, you know, the thing is, here on this route, though, I haven't gotten any mail all week either.

[00:15:55] And I think Laquanda's sick.

[00:15:59] And when Laquanda's, this is our mail delivery bird, when Laquanda's sick.

[00:16:05] Quality goes down.

[00:16:06] Well, they're so short-staffed that there's no backup.

[00:16:11] So when she's sick, the mail just doesn't run those days.

[00:16:14] Well, the part-timers that fill in are just not up to par with the other regulars oftentimes.

[00:16:21] Well, if you have a part-timer.

[00:16:23] Out here on the frontier, we don't even have a part-timer.

[00:16:25] So if the regular person's out, then you're just done.

[00:16:28] And her off day is Thursday, so the mail just doesn't run on Thursday.

[00:16:32] I didn't know that.

[00:16:34] She had called the post office.

[00:16:36] So anyway, long story short, the next day, I guess, apparently she was at work.

[00:16:46] It did get delivered.

[00:16:47] And by that time, I am beginning to hear that others had received theirs too.

[00:16:56] And so a listener up in Illinois said he got both of his.

[00:17:01] One was postmarked December 9th.

[00:17:03] That was the one we mailed out.

[00:17:04] Another one postmarked December 6th.

[00:17:06] Now, this is interesting.

[00:17:07] We didn't mail anything on December the 6th.

[00:17:09] We mailed them out on November 29th, 30th, December 2nd, 3rd, and 4th.

[00:17:14] I went up to the post office and filed this complaint on December the 5th.

[00:17:22] What and behold, on December the 6th, something gets postmarked.

[00:17:25] So, you know, it would have been helpful.

[00:17:27] This batch that went out on December the 6th or postmarked December 6th were actually mailed out a week prior.

[00:17:35] They just started getting flushed through the pipeline a week later.

[00:17:37] And it was still almost another week before they actually started hitting mailboxes.

[00:17:41] So you're talking about a two-week turnaround time.

[00:17:43] Now, I don't know what happened.

[00:17:47] If they could have at least called.

[00:17:49] They could have called and said, hey, Mr. Edwards, we did find your mail.

[00:17:52] And we're going to move it on through the system now.

[00:17:54] Apologies.

[00:17:55] I wasn't unaware of this at the time that it was starting to move or else I wouldn't have sent the second letter this week.

[00:18:00] So, anyway, have a little fun with that, folks, if you're part of that one-fifth of the list who are going to get two pieces of mail from us this week.

[00:18:10] Some of them include Christmas cards.

[00:18:12] And I think there's going to be that second batch is going to be a slightly different card.

[00:18:16] So you can play a little game with that and see if you can spot the differences.

[00:18:19] But, yeah, it had to be done.

[00:18:22] It did ultimately turn out to be unnecessary to send to.

[00:18:26] But leaving it to chance could have been catastrophic because we have to fire at about 100% efficiency.

[00:18:32] It may seem mundane to some of you, but this is our life and, you know, everything that, you know, basically it's our lifeline.

[00:18:44] Well, for instance, a listener in Missouri contacted me.

[00:18:49] Again, we've got a lot of people contacted us this week over this.

[00:18:52] And thank you for caring, first of all.

[00:18:55] And thank you for letting me know because if you don't tell us what's going on, we don't know.

[00:18:58] Another one from New Mexico.

[00:19:00] Well, a lot of people have contacted.

[00:19:02] But this lady in Missouri specifically said she received both letters today.

[00:19:08] So the one that we mailed out on November the 30th, she received today, December the 14th.

[00:19:14] Now, that's first-class mail.

[00:19:16] That's not bulk mail.

[00:19:17] This is first-class mail, premium postage, half a month for her to get that.

[00:19:23] Now, if somebody gets it after half a month and it takes them that long to return their thoughtful consideration, their support, you're talking about a full month to send a letter to someone and receive one back.

[00:19:38] That is absolutely unacceptable.

[00:19:39] And it is damaging to us.

[00:19:42] It's damaging because you're talking about a lot of times people don't have to make a decision on whether or not.

[00:19:49] And then on the other hand, we're very glad that we have the U.S. Postal Service because every other source of communication has been denied to us.

[00:19:59] Well, that's right.

[00:20:01] That is right.

[00:20:01] And there's no doubt about that.

[00:20:03] All of our eggs are in the post office bag, quite literally.

[00:20:08] But I received this from a listener just before the show, actually, talking about how the quality of service had been going downhill for years at the post office even before COVID.

[00:20:21] However, COVID just gave another excuse for non-performance.

[00:20:25] And he says that we're likely never to recover.

[00:20:27] In many ways, it was a mortal wound to this nation.

[00:20:29] If you didn't grow up in the 60s or 70s, you'll never know what has been lost.

[00:20:33] Does anyone remember when the USPS made twice daily deliveries, he asks?

[00:20:38] I remember when they said neither ice nor snow nor gloom of night can keep the postman from his appointed rounds.

[00:20:46] I remember that was a thing that we heard when I was a child in school.

[00:20:51] That's actually posted at the Arlington Post Office branch here in the Memphis area.

[00:20:56] But another listener sent me this.

[00:21:00] Now listen to this.

[00:21:00] In the early days of the Parcel Post, a few parents managed to mail their children to relatives.

[00:21:05] In 1913, an eight-month-old baby in Ohio was mailed to his parents by his grandmother who lived a few miles away, and the baby was safely delivered.

[00:21:17] If you mailed a baby now, he'd be in college before he got delivered.

[00:21:23] And listen, I don't want to be paranoid about this stuff, but we are not a normal organization.

[00:21:29] We actually are under constant attack.

[00:21:31] So we have to be vigilant in ways and have to consider things that most postal service clients wouldn't have to.

[00:21:39] And so again, Keith, as you mentioned, no online processing.

[00:21:43] By the way, we were the first to lose that amongst advocates.

[00:21:47] People in our acquaintance, you know, people in the wide advocacy realm.

[00:21:52] It's true.

[00:21:54] We lost online processing the first time in 2006.

[00:21:59] In 2006, I guarantee you, everyone you know still had online processing.

[00:22:03] We were the first ones to lose it.

[00:22:06] And, of course, we hopped back on with some other providers, and then one by one, Stripe, Square, you name it, they were all denied us.

[00:22:18] And now when we fill out an application, we're denied instantly.

[00:22:23] And so we have been shut down by every credit card payment processor in the universe.

[00:22:28] And so that was 50% of what we would receive would come in online, and 50% would come in through the mail at the time of our final and ultimate banning from credit card processing from our blacklisting, yes.

[00:22:42] And now all of our eggs are in the post office's bag, and it is the way we receive the support that we need to stay alive.

[00:22:50] In the only way.

[00:22:50] Yeah, it is.

[00:22:51] So that's it.

[00:22:52] And listen, again, this is just one time.

[00:22:54] This is just one time.

[00:22:56] We've done these quarterly things for 20 years, and this was just one shipment.

[00:23:02] But, again, even with that, it's enough to cause a lot of trouble.

[00:23:07] And you don't want it to be a case where it is, you know, potentially getting spiked, and then you've got a really big problem because you're going to have to be on your toes for that all the time.

[00:23:16] But ultimately they did.

[00:23:17] I don't know if they were going to flush out or if it was my inquiry that got it going, but they did get delivered.

[00:23:23] But it took two weeks, and that's just not good.

[00:23:27] By the way, go to Google.

[00:23:29] Google the Bartlett, Tennessee post office.

[00:23:32] United States Post Office, Bartlett, Tennessee, and read the Google reviews.

[00:23:35] You'll know what I'm dealing with.

[00:23:37] Read them.

[00:23:39] And I use all of them.

[00:23:40] The criticism they get, the more they draw in their horns and, you know, refuse to change.

[00:23:47] Just read it, folks.

[00:23:48] I'm not going to read it.

[00:23:49] It's the most horrible reviews you could possibly imagine.

[00:23:53] And I know all the local stations around here, and I use them all.

[00:23:56] I constantly am at post offices.

[00:23:58] When we go out of town, my wife always points out a post office.

[00:24:00] There's your post office.

[00:24:02] And I actually take work with me when we are out of town.

[00:24:05] They actually do that.

[00:24:06] That's their vacation to go from one post office to another.

[00:24:10] When I do go into one, and the clerks look a little more like me and a little less like Joy Reed, I feel euphoric.

[00:24:18] It just is the most incredible thing to experience.

[00:24:21] And you could actually do a TV show here in Memphis about the local post offices and just the day-to-day stuff.

[00:24:29] Irregular hours, the long line.

[00:24:32] You've got three or four people in line.

[00:24:33] You're going to be there half a day.

[00:24:35] It's the employment of choice for the black race in Memphis.

[00:24:37] I can tell you that.

[00:24:38] We will be right back.

[00:24:40] We will be right back, and we are going to shift gears and get so many things to get to tonight.

[00:24:47] We've got a couple of great guests to help us get to them, Brad Griffin and Jason Kessler.

[00:24:50] Stay tuned.

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[00:25:59] Secretary of State Antony Blinken says the U.S. is in direct contact with a Syrian rebel group

[00:26:05] that led the overthrow of Bashar Assad's government,

[00:26:08] despite its designation as a foreign terrorist organization.

[00:26:12] Most countries here have, in one way or another,

[00:26:14] become entangled in the civil war at some stage during its 13-year march,

[00:26:18] and each brings their own interests and concerns.

[00:26:21] But key to today's discussions was the American demand that whoever runs Syria

[00:26:26] does so in a non-sectarian way that doesn't pose a threat to surrounding countries.

[00:26:31] That's BBC correspondent Tom Bateman reporting.

[00:26:34] Former soccer player Mikhail Kavalashvili has become president of Georgia

[00:26:39] as the ruling party tightens his grip in what the opposition calls

[00:26:45] a blow to the country's EU aspirations and a victory for Russia.

[00:26:51] Kavalashvili easily won Saturday's vote.

[00:26:54] News and analysis at townhall.com.

[00:27:01] Elsewhere, today is marking National Wreaths Across America Day.

[00:27:06] Recalling that Memorial Day began as Decoration Day.

[00:27:10] In a similar way, wreaths across America has grown as a tradition since 1992.

[00:27:15] An estimated 2 million people took part this year at more than 4,600 locations

[00:27:20] across all 50 U.S. states at sea and abroad,

[00:27:23] most notably at our nation's most hallowed grounds,

[00:27:26] Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac River from our nation's capital.

[00:27:30] Green Christmas wreaths with distinctive red bows were set at grave sites

[00:27:35] to honor the lives of those who have served our nation

[00:27:37] as well as family members who are laid together at rest.

[00:27:40] George Williams reporting.

[00:27:42] The Supreme Court says it'll take up a business-backed appeal

[00:27:45] that could make it easier to challenge federal regulations

[00:27:49] acting in a dispute related to California's nation-leading standards for vehicle emissions.

[00:27:55] More on these stories at townhall.com.

[00:28:00] Hey there, TPC family.

[00:28:02] This is James Edwards, your host of the Political Sess Pool.

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[00:29:03] My name is John Hill.

[00:29:05] I'm a descendant of General A.P. Hill

[00:29:07] and the founder of the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation.

[00:29:09] In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene,

[00:29:11] I rented a box truck and set out on a mission to help the victims.

[00:29:14] I was in North Carolina for weeks,

[00:29:16] and I brought out four truckloads of supplies,

[00:29:19] 60 generators,

[00:29:20] gave out over $130,000 directly to families

[00:29:23] who were not getting help from the federal government.

[00:29:25] I rented heavy equipment for communities to fix driveways and roads,

[00:29:28] and I put families up at hotels.

[00:29:30] The media has seemed to forget about these people,

[00:29:33] and they still need our help.

[00:29:34] If you would like to donate this Christmas season,

[00:29:37] my Give, Send, Go is

[00:29:38] givesendgo.com

[00:29:40] slash

[00:29:40] G-D-E-P-E

[00:29:42] Anything you give is going directly to these people.

[00:29:46] Once again, it's

[00:29:47] givesendgo.com

[00:29:48] slash

[00:29:49] G-D-E-P-E

[00:29:50] Thank you,

[00:29:51] God bless,

[00:29:52] and God save the South.

[00:30:09] Jingle bells swing

[00:30:13] Snowing and blowing

[00:30:15] A bushels of fun

[00:30:17] Now the jingle hop has begun

[00:30:20] Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell rock

[00:30:25] Jingle bells timing

[00:30:27] Jingle bell time

[00:30:29] Dancing and prancing

[00:30:31] In jingle bell square

[00:30:32] In the frosty air

[00:31:08] Oh, that's good stuff, Keith.

[00:31:09] At the end of the day, it's still Christmas time,

[00:31:11] and as bad as things may be

[00:31:13] and whatever frustrations you may have,

[00:31:15] this makes it a lot better.

[00:31:17] Bobby Helms

[00:31:19] in 1957

[00:31:20] went together.

[00:31:21] I tell you, that was the best year

[00:31:23] of his entire

[00:31:26] show business career.

[00:31:27] He not only had jingle bell rock,

[00:31:29] he also had his

[00:31:31] other

[00:31:31] big hit

[00:31:33] Special Angel

[00:31:34] You Are My Special Angel.

[00:31:36] We ought to play that sometime, too.

[00:31:37] We can sing it.

[00:31:38] Okay.

[00:31:39] You do it.

[00:31:41] You are my special angel

[00:31:47] Sometimes I regret.

[00:31:51] That's good.

[00:31:52] No, that was good, James.

[00:31:53] Well, normally you join in.

[00:31:55] I was waiting for you to take the next line,

[00:31:56] and you normally...

[00:31:58] The Lord

[00:31:59] smiled down on me

[00:32:01] and sent

[00:32:03] an angel

[00:32:04] to love.

[00:32:05] That's very good.

[00:32:08] You can see why we are not singers.

[00:32:11] But, hey, speaking of music,

[00:32:13] dealing with this post office debacle,

[00:32:16] I, listen, we fired up,

[00:32:18] I fired up

[00:32:19] Please, Mr. Postman

[00:32:20] and returned to sender

[00:32:21] and went to work

[00:32:22] getting this second batch out.

[00:32:24] And by the way,

[00:32:25] another email just came in.

[00:32:26] Thank you so much

[00:32:27] for sending it.

[00:32:28] He received both letters today

[00:32:30] as well.

[00:32:31] So he received the one mail

[00:32:32] November 30th

[00:32:33] and the one mail

[00:32:34] December 9th

[00:32:35] both today.

[00:32:36] You do the math on that

[00:32:37] and figure it out if you can.

[00:32:38] But I actually will make

[00:32:38] a political point about this

[00:32:40] and then we'll get on

[00:32:40] to the rest of the show.

[00:32:42] Hopefully you like us

[00:32:43] taking you behind the scenes

[00:32:45] on some of this.

[00:32:46] But just to read,

[00:32:47] this is just our local branch

[00:32:49] that we use.

[00:32:52] And here are the reviews.

[00:32:53] And I'm going to do it

[00:32:54] like I did the David Duke stuff

[00:32:55] last week.

[00:32:55] I'm not going to cherry pick

[00:32:57] reviews that give me

[00:32:57] some confirmation bias.

[00:32:59] I'm just going to read

[00:33:00] like the top six or seven

[00:33:01] in a row here

[00:33:02] and get it started.

[00:33:05] So here it is.

[00:33:06] The first review up,

[00:33:07] if you go,

[00:33:07] if you type in

[00:33:09] USPS Bartlett, Tennessee

[00:33:11] and you go to the Google reviews,

[00:33:12] the first one,

[00:33:13] one star,

[00:33:14] very ghetto.

[00:33:15] The second one,

[00:33:16] one star.

[00:33:17] This has to be

[00:33:18] the worst post office

[00:33:19] in America.

[00:33:22] The staff is terrible

[00:33:23] and dismissive

[00:33:24] to our face

[00:33:25] in our encounters always.

[00:33:29] The next one,

[00:33:30] one star.

[00:33:30] Preparing to go

[00:33:31] to this location.

[00:33:32] They are very rude

[00:33:33] and have underlying issues.

[00:33:35] I don't want

[00:33:35] the dark-skinned women

[00:33:36] assisting me.

[00:33:37] This is all the Google reviews

[00:33:38] here.

[00:33:40] Another one,

[00:33:40] one star.

[00:33:42] This branch has a lot

[00:33:43] of issues that needs

[00:33:44] to be addressed.

[00:33:45] Google says it opens

[00:33:46] at 8 a.m.

[00:33:46] However,

[00:33:47] when you get there,

[00:33:48] nobody is available

[00:33:49] to assist.

[00:33:50] Another one.

[00:33:51] It's 820

[00:33:52] and no one

[00:33:54] is here to open

[00:33:54] the gate.

[00:33:55] Really sad and pathetic.

[00:33:56] I mean,

[00:33:56] damn,

[00:33:57] it's a whole line

[00:33:58] behind me

[00:33:58] and no one's here.

[00:33:59] They're supposed

[00:34:00] to be open.

[00:34:00] They're large and in charge.

[00:34:02] It goes on and on

[00:34:03] and on.

[00:34:03] A lot of them

[00:34:04] talking about them

[00:34:05] not keeping the posted hours

[00:34:06] and I'm talking about

[00:34:07] and I use this branch.

[00:34:09] This is our branch

[00:34:10] that we run our business

[00:34:11] out of.

[00:34:13] And

[00:34:14] mail is getting

[00:34:15] delivered to us.

[00:34:16] It was a question

[00:34:17] of getting this one batch out.

[00:34:18] Yes,

[00:34:19] it's slow.

[00:34:19] Yes,

[00:34:20] it's frustrating

[00:34:20] but ultimately

[00:34:21] normally

[00:34:21] they do deliver

[00:34:22] but it is bad.

[00:34:24] Okay,

[00:34:24] it's bad

[00:34:25] and this is really bad.

[00:34:26] You know,

[00:34:27] they're large

[00:34:27] and in charge

[00:34:28] and they'll deliver

[00:34:29] the mail

[00:34:30] when they damn well

[00:34:31] please to do it.

[00:34:32] When it takes,

[00:34:33] you know,

[00:34:34] two weeks to get

[00:34:35] over two weeks

[00:34:36] to get a letter out

[00:34:37] that there's something

[00:34:37] wrong with that

[00:34:39] when you're paying

[00:34:39] the first class freight

[00:34:41] and

[00:34:42] it is true

[00:34:43] that they have

[00:34:44] their hours posted

[00:34:45] on the window

[00:34:45] on the door

[00:34:46] and online

[00:34:47] and they

[00:34:49] open late

[00:34:50] and they close early.

[00:34:51] they sometimes

[00:34:52] are closed

[00:34:53] in the middle

[00:34:53] of the day.

[00:34:53] You can go

[00:34:54] and they'll just

[00:34:55] not be there.

[00:34:56] The lights will be off

[00:34:56] and the doors are locked

[00:34:57] and no explanation.

[00:34:58] There's just nobody there.

[00:34:59] I guess they didn't

[00:34:59] want to come in

[00:35:00] that day.

[00:35:01] I see that a lot.

[00:35:02] I don't know

[00:35:03] if it's like that nationwide.

[00:35:04] I know brother Sam Dixon

[00:35:05] tells me it's like that

[00:35:06] in Atlanta.

[00:35:07] Of course,

[00:35:07] Atlanta and Memphis

[00:35:08] have some common denominators

[00:35:09] but

[00:35:11] you could do

[00:35:12] a TV show.

[00:35:13] If there is

[00:35:13] anybody out there

[00:35:14] who has

[00:35:15] some sort of a line

[00:35:16] to a Hollywood producer

[00:35:17] or a TV exec,

[00:35:19] you could do

[00:35:20] a TV show

[00:35:21] on the local

[00:35:23] Memphis post office

[00:35:24] and it would be great.

[00:35:26] I think

[00:35:27] Samford and Son

[00:35:28] pale by comparison.

[00:35:31] Sometimes when I go

[00:35:32] there's a bum

[00:35:33] that'll be asleep

[00:35:34] in a garbage sack

[00:35:35] outside.

[00:35:35] If I see five

[00:35:36] or six people

[00:35:36] in line

[00:35:37] I think about

[00:35:39] paying him

[00:35:39] to wait in line

[00:35:41] and I know

[00:35:41] I'll have about

[00:35:42] an hour,

[00:35:42] hour and a half

[00:35:42] to go run

[00:35:43] other errands

[00:35:44] and then he can

[00:35:45] just hold my place

[00:35:45] in line

[00:35:46] but

[00:35:47] there's also a guy

[00:35:48] he's retired now.

[00:35:49] You're not going

[00:35:50] to believe this.

[00:35:50] You're going to think

[00:35:51] I'm making this up

[00:35:52] but

[00:35:54] there was

[00:35:55] he's retired now

[00:35:56] but for years

[00:35:57] he was at this

[00:35:57] local station

[00:35:59] a white guy

[00:36:00] old white guy

[00:36:00] always wore a sweater

[00:36:02] one of those sweaters

[00:36:03] that would button

[00:36:04] up the middle

[00:36:05] but he wore it

[00:36:06] you know

[00:36:06] like Mr. Rogers

[00:36:07] yeah like Mr. Rogers

[00:36:08] exactly like Mr. Rogers

[00:36:10] and he had a pocket

[00:36:11] protector with

[00:36:11] I swear

[00:36:12] 87 pens

[00:36:14] and pencils

[00:36:14] in his pocket

[00:36:17] and

[00:36:18] he knew me

[00:36:19] he said

[00:36:20] you're the

[00:36:20] we knew each other

[00:36:21] for years

[00:36:22] but the first time

[00:36:23] he recognized

[00:36:23] you're the guy

[00:36:24] that does

[00:36:24] the political cesspool

[00:36:26] and

[00:36:27] but he knew

[00:36:27] a lot of people

[00:36:29] he knew a lot

[00:36:30] of people

[00:36:30] in our

[00:36:31] in our ranks

[00:36:31] and I

[00:36:32] was shocked

[00:36:32] that anybody

[00:36:33] now he was

[00:36:34] the only white guy

[00:36:35] at this branch

[00:36:35] but

[00:36:36] it was shocking

[00:36:37] to know

[00:36:38] that he knew

[00:36:38] so much

[00:36:39] but he was

[00:36:40] a confederate

[00:36:40] reenactor

[00:36:41] and he had

[00:36:42] a car

[00:36:42] that had

[00:36:43] about 50

[00:36:44] confederate bumper

[00:36:45] stickers

[00:36:45] and I've been

[00:36:47] to this post office

[00:36:47] so much

[00:36:48] I've seen

[00:36:48] everybody

[00:36:49] come in

[00:36:49] come out

[00:36:50] I've seen

[00:36:50] start of shifts

[00:36:51] end of shifts

[00:36:53] in between

[00:36:54] and

[00:36:55] every time he would

[00:36:56] come out

[00:36:56] and open his register

[00:36:57] he would bring

[00:36:57] a little cannon

[00:36:58] and put it

[00:37:00] on his cash register

[00:37:01] and a couple

[00:37:02] of army soldiers

[00:37:04] blue and gray

[00:37:05] and nobody cared

[00:37:07] he got along

[00:37:08] with everybody

[00:37:09] anyway

[00:37:10] I'm just telling you

[00:37:10] there's a cast

[00:37:11] of characters

[00:37:12] at these places

[00:37:12] that you wouldn't

[00:37:14] believe

[00:37:15] it wouldn't

[00:37:16] make a good

[00:37:16] TV show

[00:37:17] you hear the term

[00:37:18] going postal

[00:37:19] just being a customer

[00:37:20] makes me have

[00:37:21] very unhealthy

[00:37:21] thoughts

[00:37:23] I can't even

[00:37:24] imagine

[00:37:24] the psychological

[00:37:25] damage

[00:37:26] that actually

[00:37:26] working there

[00:37:27] would inflict

[00:37:28] but they do

[00:37:28] get government

[00:37:29] benefits Keith

[00:37:30] they get lots

[00:37:30] of days off

[00:37:31] Juneteenth

[00:37:32] King Day

[00:37:32] and what not

[00:37:33] I mean

[00:37:34] why don't

[00:37:34] whites work

[00:37:35] at the post office

[00:37:36] because

[00:37:37] black people

[00:37:38] get preference

[00:37:39] for government

[00:37:40] jobs

[00:37:40] and government

[00:37:41] jobs have a

[00:37:42] special allure

[00:37:43] to black people

[00:37:44] they much

[00:37:44] prefer those

[00:37:45] to these

[00:37:47] you know

[00:37:48] inferior jobs

[00:37:49] in the private

[00:37:50] sector

[00:37:50] they want

[00:37:51] to know

[00:37:51] that they

[00:37:53] can't be

[00:37:54] fired

[00:37:54] easily

[00:37:55] they know

[00:37:57] that they

[00:37:57] are entitled

[00:37:58] to promotions

[00:38:00] regardless of

[00:38:01] merit

[00:38:01] and it just

[00:38:03] fits right in

[00:38:04] with their

[00:38:05] lifestyle

[00:38:05] that's what

[00:38:06] they want

[00:38:07] that's what

[00:38:07] they expect

[00:38:07] a job to be

[00:38:08] some of them

[00:38:09] do a good

[00:38:10] job

[00:38:10] I've dealt

[00:38:11] with these

[00:38:12] people

[00:38:13] for decades

[00:38:15] some of

[00:38:16] them

[00:38:16] black or white

[00:38:17] they can do

[00:38:18] a good job

[00:38:19] but there is

[00:38:19] something very

[00:38:20] bad about

[00:38:21] the USPS

[00:38:23] we always

[00:38:24] send

[00:38:25] when you

[00:38:25] donate

[00:38:26] and you

[00:38:26] want one

[00:38:27] of the

[00:38:27] gift

[00:38:27] incentives

[00:38:28] we always

[00:38:28] send it

[00:38:29] priority

[00:38:29] mail

[00:38:29] we pay

[00:38:30] the top

[00:38:31] dollar

[00:38:31] to get

[00:38:32] it to

[00:38:32] you as

[00:38:32] quick

[00:38:32] as

[00:38:32] possible

[00:38:33] priority

[00:38:33] mail

[00:38:33] is

[00:38:33] guaranteed

[00:38:34] two to

[00:38:34] three day

[00:38:35] delivery

[00:38:35] and sometimes

[00:38:35] it's

[00:38:36] two to three

[00:38:36] weeks

[00:38:38] I know

[00:38:38] we sent

[00:38:39] one out

[00:38:39] to a

[00:38:40] listener

[00:38:41] and it

[00:38:42] took like

[00:38:43] nine days

[00:38:43] he just

[00:38:44] emailed me

[00:38:45] he got

[00:38:45] it

[00:38:45] by the way

[00:38:46] some people

[00:38:46] are already

[00:38:47] emailing

[00:38:48] us

[00:38:48] showing off

[00:38:49] their wares

[00:38:50] we have

[00:38:50] a great

[00:38:51] incentive

[00:38:51] package

[00:38:52] right now

[00:38:52] so don't

[00:38:54] stop

[00:38:54] giving

[00:38:56] just because

[00:38:56] we've had

[00:38:57] a little

[00:38:57] thing

[00:38:57] you gotta

[00:38:57] keep

[00:38:57] mailing

[00:38:58] them

[00:38:58] we will

[00:38:59] get it

[00:38:59] eventually

[00:39:00] send in

[00:39:01] the support

[00:39:01] we gotta

[00:39:02] do it

[00:39:02] through

[00:39:02] mail

[00:39:03] but

[00:39:04] some

[00:39:04] people

[00:39:04] have

[00:39:04] already

[00:39:05] sent me

[00:39:05] some

[00:39:05] emails

[00:39:06] of them

[00:39:06] with

[00:39:06] their

[00:39:06] ducats

[00:39:07] and these

[00:39:07] ducats

[00:39:08] these hats

[00:39:09] are 34

[00:39:10] years old

[00:39:10] and they look

[00:39:11] brand new

[00:39:11] they've just

[00:39:12] been sitting

[00:39:12] in a box

[00:39:13] in storage

[00:39:13] for 34

[00:39:14] years

[00:39:15] and they're

[00:39:16] pristine

[00:39:16] and their

[00:39:17] hand

[00:39:17] signed

[00:39:18] they're

[00:39:18] crisp

[00:39:18] and a lot

[00:39:19] of people

[00:39:19] are like

[00:39:20] this is

[00:39:20] great

[00:39:22] and some

[00:39:23] people are

[00:39:23] getting shadow

[00:39:24] boxes for

[00:39:24] these things

[00:39:25] but again

[00:39:26] folks

[00:39:26] $100 or

[00:39:27] more

[00:39:27] you're gonna

[00:39:27] get

[00:39:28] Lou Moore's

[00:39:28] signed

[00:39:29] book

[00:39:29] that was

[00:39:30] Ron Paul's

[00:39:30] campaign

[00:39:30] manager

[00:39:31] and chief

[00:39:31] of staff

[00:39:34] in Washington

[00:39:35] for another

[00:39:36] congressman

[00:39:37] Jack Metcalf

[00:39:38] but his

[00:39:38] book

[00:39:38] and above

[00:39:39] time

[00:39:40] coffee

[00:39:40] the studio

[00:39:41] smells so

[00:39:42] good

[00:39:42] it smelled

[00:39:43] so good

[00:39:43] for like

[00:39:44] three or

[00:39:45] four weeks

[00:39:46] because we

[00:39:46] got all

[00:39:46] this stuff

[00:39:47] in in

[00:39:47] advance

[00:39:47] so you're

[00:39:48] gonna get

[00:39:48] some coffee

[00:39:49] you're

[00:39:49] gonna get

[00:39:49] some discount

[00:39:50] coupons

[00:39:51] for above

[00:39:51] time

[00:39:51] you're

[00:39:52] gonna get

[00:39:52] a sample

[00:39:52] you're

[00:39:53] gonna get

[00:39:53] the book

[00:39:54] $175

[00:39:55] or more

[00:39:55] you get

[00:39:55] the hat

[00:39:56] and I'm

[00:39:56] telling you

[00:39:57] if you put

[00:39:57] this hat

[00:39:58] on eBay

[00:39:59] I guarantee

[00:40:00] you you're

[00:40:00] walking

[00:40:00] into equity

[00:40:01] I bet

[00:40:01] you money

[00:40:02] you could

[00:40:02] get more

[00:40:03] money

[00:40:03] than what

[00:40:03] we're

[00:40:04] and it

[00:40:04] helps

[00:40:04] us stay

[00:40:05] on the air

[00:40:05] and you

[00:40:05] get some

[00:40:05] good stuff

[00:40:06] and we're

[00:40:06] helping all

[00:40:06] these other

[00:40:07] people too

[00:40:07] so

[00:40:09] please give

[00:40:10] anyway

[00:40:10] we spent

[00:40:11] three segments

[00:40:11] on this

[00:40:12] we're not

[00:40:12] going to

[00:40:12] been another

[00:40:13] one

[00:40:13] but there

[00:40:13] is a

[00:40:14] political

[00:40:14] point to

[00:40:15] be made

[00:40:15] and by

[00:40:15] the way

[00:40:15] Canada

[00:40:16] we have

[00:40:17] a lot

[00:40:17] of listeners

[00:40:17] in Canada

[00:40:18] forget it

[00:40:18] the Canadian

[00:40:19] post office

[00:40:20] has been on

[00:40:21] strike since

[00:40:21] November

[00:40:22] they are

[00:40:23] totally shut

[00:40:24] down

[00:40:24] for over

[00:40:25] a month

[00:40:25] no mail

[00:40:26] has moved

[00:40:27] at all

[00:40:27] I was told

[00:40:28] by the local

[00:40:29] post office

[00:40:29] here when I

[00:40:30] was sending

[00:40:30] out some

[00:40:31] Christmas cards

[00:40:31] to people

[00:40:32] said forget

[00:40:33] about sending

[00:40:34] anything to

[00:40:35] Canada

[00:40:35] they're just

[00:40:36] in a deep

[00:40:37] freeze

[00:40:39] nothing

[00:40:40] no Christmas

[00:40:40] cards

[00:40:41] no mail

[00:40:41] and no end

[00:40:42] in sight

[00:40:42] to this

[00:40:43] strike

[00:40:43] in Canada

[00:40:44] so unfortunately

[00:40:45] I got a whole

[00:40:45] stack of

[00:40:46] letters and

[00:40:46] stuff that we

[00:40:47] wanted to send

[00:40:47] to our Canadian

[00:40:48] supporters

[00:40:49] it'd be a

[00:40:50] waste

[00:40:51] you wouldn't

[00:40:52] get it

[00:40:52] I mean

[00:40:53] they're here

[00:40:53] I'm trying

[00:40:53] to wait

[00:40:54] until the

[00:40:54] embargo is

[00:40:55] lifted

[00:40:56] and those

[00:40:58] international

[00:40:58] stamps are like

[00:40:59] two bucks

[00:40:59] maybe never

[00:41:00] we'll be right

[00:41:01] back

[00:41:02] hello there

[00:41:03] everyone

[00:41:03] it's Lacey

[00:41:04] again with a

[00:41:05] friendly reminder

[00:41:05] from James

[00:41:06] Edwards that

[00:41:07] TPC's Christmas

[00:41:08] fundraising drive

[00:41:09] is now

[00:41:09] underway

[00:41:10] and your

[00:41:10] response would

[00:41:11] mean so much

[00:41:12] to us

[00:41:12] 20 years ago

[00:41:13] this radio

[00:41:14] program was

[00:41:14] the first of

[00:41:15] its kind

[00:41:15] and paved

[00:41:16] the way

[00:41:16] for so many

[00:41:17] others that

[00:41:17] would follow

[00:41:17] today TPC

[00:41:19] continues to

[00:41:19] lead the way

[00:41:20] in mainstreaming

[00:41:21] our movement

[00:41:21] by attractively

[00:41:22] presenting our

[00:41:23] message in a

[00:41:24] way that comes

[00:41:25] across as

[00:41:25] well-reasoned

[00:41:26] relatable and

[00:41:27] trustworthy

[00:41:27] we remain so

[00:41:28] thankful for the

[00:41:29] relationship that

[00:41:30] we share with

[00:41:30] our incredible

[00:41:31] audience

[00:41:32] nothing would

[00:41:32] be possible

[00:41:33] without you

[00:41:34] and it continues

[00:41:34] to be an honor

[00:41:35] to serve you

[00:41:36] as our 20th

[00:41:37] anniversary year

[00:41:38] comes to a

[00:41:38] close in

[00:41:39] December we look

[00:41:39] forward to building

[00:41:40] on the unprecedented

[00:41:41] success we have

[00:41:42] shared together

[00:41:42] our Christmas

[00:41:43] fundraising drive

[00:41:44] is by far the

[00:41:45] most important of

[00:41:46] our quarterly

[00:41:46] appeals and we

[00:41:48] would be thrilled

[00:41:48] if you could

[00:41:49] remember TPC

[00:41:50] during this season

[00:41:50] of hope and

[00:41:51] goodwill

[00:41:52] thank you for

[00:41:52] your support of

[00:41:53] this groundbreaking

[00:41:54] broadcast

[00:41:54] Merry Christmas to

[00:41:56] you and your

[00:41:56] family from all of

[00:41:57] us here at TPC

[00:42:28] former sheriff

[00:42:30] do you know what

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[00:42:39] appreciate and be

[00:42:40] grateful for the

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[00:43:55] that's good stuff

[00:43:56] right there and I

[00:43:57] think that brings to

[00:43:58] mind the Christmas

[00:43:59] truce as we approach

[00:44:00] Christmas again of

[00:44:01] course that widespread

[00:44:02] but unofficial

[00:44:03] ceasefire along the

[00:44:04] Western Front around

[00:44:05] Christmas 1914

[00:44:07] 1914 110 years

[00:44:09] ago the week leading

[00:44:11] up to the holiday

[00:44:12] the German and

[00:44:12] British soldiers of

[00:44:14] course crossed

[00:44:14] trenches to exchange

[00:44:15] seasonal greetings

[00:44:16] and to talk in areas

[00:44:18] play soccer

[00:44:19] yeah football

[00:44:20] men and from both

[00:44:22] sides ventured into

[00:44:23] no man's land on

[00:44:24] Christmas Eve and

[00:44:24] Christmas Day to

[00:44:25] mingle and exchange

[00:44:26] food and souvenirs

[00:44:27] and there were joint

[00:44:28] burial ceremonies and

[00:44:29] prisoner swaps and

[00:44:31] several meetings that

[00:44:32] ended in carol singing

[00:44:34] that happened in World

[00:44:34] War II as well but

[00:44:36] not like this but men

[00:44:38] played games of

[00:44:39] football giving and

[00:44:41] took pictures together

[00:44:43] giving one of the

[00:44:44] most enduring images

[00:44:45] of the of the truce

[00:44:48] and you know thinking

[00:44:49] about that those world

[00:44:51] wars especially those

[00:44:52] world wars World War

[00:44:54] II even more so just

[00:44:56] so heartbreaking both

[00:44:57] sides so clearly

[00:44:59] why genocide is what it

[00:45:01] was they lost that war

[00:45:03] in catastrophic fashion

[00:45:05] I mean the very best and

[00:45:07] most fit of European

[00:45:08] mankind were decimated

[00:45:09] and it created a vacuum

[00:45:12] that has been filled by

[00:45:13] the weak the timid and

[00:45:14] the apologetic so this

[00:45:16] Christmas we've never

[00:45:17] really recovered from that

[00:45:18] genocide no and this

[00:45:20] Christmas I pray that

[00:45:21] our people never again

[00:45:22] go to war against one

[00:45:24] another but that was

[00:45:25] just a particular World

[00:45:26] War II and the enemies

[00:45:28] of the white race for

[00:45:29] example love this

[00:45:30] Ukrainian war because

[00:45:31] they love seeing two

[00:45:33] groups of white people

[00:45:34] Ukrainians and Russians

[00:45:35] killing one another off

[00:45:37] it's absolutely just a

[00:45:40] tragedy of civilizational

[00:45:42] proportions and at this

[00:45:44] Monday I could never

[00:45:47] forget my wife's birthday

[00:45:49] I never would there

[00:45:50] would never be a chance

[00:45:51] of it so but my wife's

[00:45:52] birthday is this Monday

[00:45:54] which happens to

[00:45:55] coincide with December

[00:45:58] 16th December 16th is

[00:46:01] also the day that the

[00:46:02] Battle of the Bulge

[00:46:03] began and I was born on

[00:46:05] June 22nd which is the

[00:46:06] day that Operation

[00:46:07] Barbarossa began so I

[00:46:09] guess we were meant for

[00:46:10] each other in that regard

[00:46:11] but those two historic

[00:46:14] offenses well my father

[00:46:15] was a GI in Patton's

[00:46:17] army during the Battle of

[00:46:19] the Bulge and he wound up

[00:46:20] getting two bronze stars

[00:46:21] did he fight for the

[00:46:22] right side well I don't

[00:46:24] know that he did

[00:46:28] but still the gallantry

[00:46:30] and the heroism of of

[00:46:32] that is it cannot ever be

[00:46:35] taken away I mean they

[00:46:36] were fighting for what

[00:46:37] they told they needed to

[00:46:38] be fighting for Harry

[00:46:39] Cooper you know breaks it

[00:46:40] down so excellently every

[00:46:42] time we talked him about

[00:46:43] this but nevertheless it

[00:46:46] does not mute the

[00:46:48] devastation of it all but

[00:46:51] if you get a chance to

[00:46:53] watch the film Joey Noel

[00:46:55] there's a great fairly

[00:46:59] recent movie that has a

[00:47:01] good depiction of that

[00:47:05] Christmas truce of 1914

[00:47:07] overcame that to make the

[00:47:09] same mistake again or well

[00:47:11] you say mistakes I guess

[00:47:13] you could call it that but

[00:47:14] I mean certainly it was an

[00:47:14] engineered thing that that

[00:47:17] the leaders of the

[00:47:18] western governments were

[00:47:19] complicit in but that's not

[00:47:21] to say that the of course

[00:47:23] you know our boys were bad

[00:47:26] I mean it does bring up

[00:47:26] to mind the meme though

[00:47:30] these boats on D-Day as

[00:47:32] saying you know I'm over

[00:47:34] here for fighting for

[00:47:35] interracial marriage and

[00:47:37] transgenderism and all of

[00:47:39] that but no I mean you

[00:47:41] know obviously those were

[00:47:42] brave men okay fighting for

[00:47:45] a flawed cause seeking

[00:47:47] seeking speaking of mail

[00:47:49] let's go through because

[00:47:50] we have been getting it

[00:47:51] every day don't let me

[00:47:53] lead you to believe that

[00:47:55] the mail never is

[00:47:56] delivered we are getting

[00:47:56] your money we are

[00:47:58] getting your mail there

[00:47:58] was just one out of five

[00:48:00] of ours that we had

[00:48:01] that issue with Randy up

[00:48:04] in Iowa very nice card from

[00:48:06] Randy with his

[00:48:06] contribution thank you for

[00:48:08] that Randy and I know

[00:48:08] we're going to be getting a

[00:48:09] lot more now that a lot of

[00:48:10] people are getting theirs it

[00:48:11] took half a month but

[00:48:12] you're getting them Doug in

[00:48:14] Richmond Virginia the

[00:48:16] capital of the

[00:48:16] confederacy dear James

[00:48:18] Merry Christmas I

[00:48:19] appreciate what you do

[00:48:20] here's a donation to keep

[00:48:21] the show going further down

[00:48:22] the road well thank you for

[00:48:24] that here is one from John

[00:48:27] in California dear James

[00:48:29] wishing you and Keith and

[00:48:30] yours a blessed white

[00:48:33] Christmas looking forward

[00:48:34] to your guests this month

[00:48:35] he mentioned David Duke and

[00:48:37] last week Christine who

[00:48:39] aren't afraid to tell it like

[00:48:40] it is here's one from Pat

[00:48:42] Godwin she's a dear sweet

[00:48:44] lady down at Fort Dixie in

[00:48:47] Selma Alabama I mean she's

[00:48:49] talking about people I

[00:48:50] didn't mean lines I love

[00:48:51] her her late husband

[00:48:53] Butch they were here

[00:48:54] helping us defend

[00:48:55] Confederate Park against

[00:48:56] Al Sharpton in 2005 that's

[00:48:58] how far we go back and she

[00:48:59] sent in a nice handwritten

[00:49:00] note and her support and

[00:49:03] first time donor this is a

[00:49:06] great letter Keith dear Mr.

[00:49:07] Edwards I've been

[00:49:08] listening to the political

[00:49:09] cesspool for many years and

[00:49:10] want to thank you and Mr.

[00:49:12] Alexander and your guest

[00:49:12] and crew for doing an

[00:49:13] excellent job for the last

[00:49:16] 20 years educating informing

[00:49:18] and you're ever entertaining

[00:49:19] a broadcast more importantly

[00:49:21] I appreciate and this is

[00:49:22] important folks I want you

[00:49:23] to listen to this I

[00:49:24] appreciate the way you've

[00:49:25] been able to stay above the

[00:49:26] fray and all the different

[00:49:27] personalities and their

[00:49:28] rivalries in our struggle

[00:49:30] over the years I know it's

[00:49:31] been difficult I know how

[00:49:33] difficult rather that can be

[00:49:34] since I've been involved in

[00:49:35] our struggle for quite a while

[00:49:36] myself he talks about some of

[00:49:37] the people who he has worked

[00:49:38] with and it is an impressive

[00:49:40] list to be sure and he

[00:49:41] talks about how sometimes

[00:49:43] people have big egos and

[00:49:44] personalities and that they

[00:49:45] can't get along with one

[00:49:47] another and how that's been a

[00:49:49] point of frustration for him

[00:49:51] and that the only way for our

[00:49:52] people to prosper is for us to

[00:49:54] focus our efforts on those who

[00:49:55] are promoting our destruction

[00:49:57] and not our own internal drama

[00:49:59] and he talks about how big of a

[00:50:01] problem that is and how we and

[00:50:03] our team have been able to rise

[00:50:05] above it well thank you so much

[00:50:06] for that thank you for your

[00:50:07] contribution we have sent

[00:50:08] already to you and we are

[00:50:10] trying to get these out as

[00:50:11] quickly as possible these gift

[00:50:13] packages that are so good I'm so

[00:50:15] excited I mean when you add the

[00:50:18] book by Lou Moore the hat the

[00:50:20] coffee it's just a great package

[00:50:22] we want so many of you to get

[00:50:23] them before Christmas as we can

[00:50:25] so what you can do is if you

[00:50:27] intend to give this month you can

[00:50:31] email me james edwards at the

[00:50:32] political cesspool.org if you tell

[00:50:34] me you're going to give we'll put

[00:50:35] it in the mail even before you

[00:50:36] do and I'm happy to do that and

[00:50:39] by the way if you need to give

[00:50:41] online email me again james edwards

[00:50:44] at the political cesspool.org I

[00:50:45] thought you said well hang on a

[00:50:46] minute James you've been banned by

[00:50:47] everybody yes we have but we do

[00:50:51] have a backdoor private through a

[00:50:54] personal account not technically

[00:50:57] tied to the political cesspool if

[00:50:58] you put in the political cesspool you

[00:51:00] banned but we do have one we can't

[00:51:02] mention it publicly we can't post

[00:51:03] it publicly because the advocates

[00:51:05] of tolerance and diversity would be

[00:51:07] very intolerant of that but if you

[00:51:10] do need to donate online we have a

[00:51:11] backdoor that we have opened between

[00:51:13] now and at the end of this month to

[00:51:15] help aid this Christmas fundraising

[00:51:18] drive this beleaguered one under the

[00:51:20] circumstances so if you need to

[00:51:22] donate online email me james edwards

[00:51:24] at the political cesspool.org and we

[00:51:25] will privately tell you how you can do

[00:51:27] that just for this month only bill in

[00:51:31] Arlington Virginia Merry Christmas to

[00:51:33] you James and Keith the entire TPC

[00:51:35] listening audience God bless you and

[00:51:37] what you do beautiful card there from

[00:51:38] bill listener in Canada who has sent a

[00:51:44] letter ed up in British Columbia always

[00:51:46] love reading his updates so two of the

[00:51:48] dearest people I've ever met I don't

[00:51:52] think they'll mind me using their names

[00:51:54] bill and Ruth Ann up in middle Tennessee

[00:51:56] with a great book a new Thanksgiving

[00:51:58] tradition for our home they sent us a

[00:52:00] nice Thanksgiving time book and enjoyed

[00:52:05] reading that to the kids Gene Andrews

[00:52:07] you know even our guests get in on the

[00:52:09] action and help support the calls here and

[00:52:13] Gene talking about how what a good time

[00:52:15] he had meeting with Warren and Alan

[00:52:17] Baylog we set that up back in the fall

[00:52:19] we're always about plugging in people

[00:52:21] together Keith and getting people

[00:52:22] together and I'm so glad Gene had a

[00:52:24] good time with them he showed them the

[00:52:26] forest home and they had a good time

[00:52:29] and Virginia Abernathy with just a

[00:52:32] beautiful letter I'm not going to read

[00:52:35] it it's personal but you know we've

[00:52:37] worked with these people for so long and

[00:52:39] she longer than any I met Virginia

[00:52:41] during the Buchanan campaign I've

[00:52:42] literally known Virginia longer than

[00:52:44] anybody I've come in contact with as a

[00:52:46] result of this work and she's still she's

[00:52:50] still up there and kicking in Nashville

[00:52:52] and age-proof and waterproof wonderful

[00:52:54] wonderful lady so many of you so

[00:52:56] wonderful that this whole collective of

[00:52:58] ours our guests our audience our

[00:53:00] supporters the behind-the-scenes staff

[00:53:03] here at the network Sam and Jay and

[00:53:05] Liz and everybody who helps us go in the

[00:53:09] studio the producers and yeah it's it's

[00:53:14] just it's great it's great so I think

[00:53:17] yes this first hour we spent a little

[00:53:19] time on that that otherwise would have

[00:53:21] been spent on other things but I

[00:53:24] promise you we're gonna double down on

[00:53:27] the rest of it all in the next two hours

[00:53:28] we're gonna cover about two dozen

[00:53:30] different topics with Brad Griffin and

[00:53:32] Jason Kessler I think this time of year

[00:53:35] is a time of year you can just kind of

[00:53:36] settle down a little bit take it a little

[00:53:38] bit slow just talk about things that are

[00:53:40] going on share a little bit of feedback

[00:53:41] from the audience and I know a lot more

[00:53:44] going to be coming in now that

[00:53:45] everything has finally been delivered

[00:53:46] I mean it only took half a month but

[00:53:48] we'll look forward to reflection the

[00:53:50] past the present in the future we'll

[00:53:52] look forward to hearing back from more

[00:53:54] of you as well over the coming days

[00:53:55] still two hours tonight and two more

[00:53:58] shows forthcoming and we've got some

[00:54:00] great stuff I'm telling you I've looked

[00:54:01] at the big board we have board in the

[00:54:03] studio here with our a layout of the

[00:54:05] next four or five shows coming up even

[00:54:07] going into the early part of next year

[00:54:09] 2025 January and we've got some great

[00:54:12] stuff coming up great stuff going on

[00:54:15] tonight in Texas we'll talk a little bit

[00:54:18] about that in the next segment when we

[00:54:19] bring Brad on good stuff going on

[00:54:22] behind the scenes that could really

[00:54:26] develop into something very special

[00:54:28] give you a little bit about that

[00:54:30] without giving away too many details we

[00:54:32] don't want to stunt the growth or stop

[00:54:34] it but things are happening that I'm

[00:54:37] very excited about and I think you

[00:54:38] should be too we'll be right back with

[00:54:40] the second hour stay tuned

[00:54:41] you