[00:00:01] You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program. And here to guide you through the murky waters of The Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.
[00:00:28] Well, welcome once again, one and all, everybody. Saturday evening, April the 26th, this is our last show for Confederate History Month. We're going to be putting the final touches on this year's Southern celebration. Hard to believe it's already come and gone that quickly. Only four Saturdays in April, and then when you share a little time with Easter,
[00:00:57] and a great message from Pastor Brett McAtee last week, and then that's a wrap. I don't know how Keith and I will function next week going into May without a special series to help fortify the agenda, but back-to-back special series, March Around the World and Confederate History Month. Those nine weeks, nine consecutive weeks of programming coming to a close tonight,
[00:01:25] but we still have that to look forward to, and we're going to send you off in good fashion with Kirk Lyons as our final guest for Confederate History Month, and it has been a good one. Keith Alexander, how are you doing tonight, my friend? Doing great. Couldn't do better, really. How about you? I am fine. As you know, I was up in Michigan earlier this weekend and had the chance, really the honor, to address a pretty prestigious forum up there.
[00:01:52] It has been going on for, well, longer than we've been on the air, so it's pretty substantial and pretty venerable, and some pretty prestigious speakers have addressed this particular forum before, including Pat Buchanan, Sam Francis, Joe Sobran, and many others, and this was actually my second time to have that privilege to go up there and talk to this group.
[00:02:18] The last time I was up there was in October, mid-October of 2016. It was right before the election, and the host of this forum also has a television show in Michigan, and I still maintain to this day that it was that interview I did on his TV show about two weeks before the election that got Trump those 10,000 votes he needed to top Hillary in Michigan. Well, I don't know if that's actually true, but I'm going to keep telling myself that.
[00:02:47] But we were up there right before that election in 2016 and then up there again just, well, earlier today. It was a morning session, 10 o'clock this morning. I was there, and it was just great people, great to see old friends again and a lot of new faces. And we were in Dallas a couple of weeks ago, so TPC stays busy, Keith, and we stay plugged in. And what you and I are doing here means a lot to a lot of people, I can tell you that. Well, that's good to hear. I give my best to everybody up in Michigan.
[00:03:17] I guess you did since it's down in the past. Well, we sure did, and it was well-received. And, you know, talking about just the people we meet, the people we know, people we meet for the first time, I received this in the mail a couple of days ago, earlier this week. And a nice little handwritten note, it reads, James, thank you for helping me get my head straight when I was young, dumb, and having a hell of a time with struggles during college. I hope to return the favor at some point.
[00:03:45] This is a young man I met in person, you know, 15 years ago. And getting a note, you know, it just really means a lot because we really do build relationships, Keith, with, I don't want to call them our audience, they're our family. I mean, it's just, I mean, call them what you will. They know how we feel about them. And it's wonderful to receive this feedback and to go out and be able to meet these people. And, you know, that's two trips now in the last couple of weeks in Texas and then in Michigan.
[00:04:14] And, you know, you can't take it for granted, folks. You just cannot take for granted. And you cannot predict how much longer anything is going to last. I mentioned Pat Buchanan a second ago. A couple of months ago, his former communications director, a man that I worked with on that campaign, sent me a book that he had found. A friend of his was the author of this book. I've still got it on my desk in the studio.
[00:04:43] It's a book about Christian Zionism, but it's a very scholarly professional, I mean, very professionally published book. I mean, it's from a mainstream conservative imprint. And he sent me a little note. And it said, James, you know, I'd love if you could have this guy on. Hope you're doing well. And before I could get the guy booked, his name was Peter. Peter died. Just died, you know, out of nowhere. I couldn't believe it. I just talked to him.
[00:05:12] I just talked to him on the phone, you know, a week before. He wasn't even sick. And it just happened. And then, Keith, you know, one of our – a man that you've met at one of our conferences, he's a guy – I won't tell you who he is on the air. I'll tell you in a break. But he was the guy who encouraged us to have our 10-year anniversary reunion, if you know who I'm talking about. And I – he had come down to Memphis a couple of times to see us, just a longtime friend and supporter.
[00:05:39] And he and I, we text every month, text, email, call every month, at least once a month. And I didn't hear from him in March. And I thought that was unusual. Maybe he's busy. He runs a huge enterprise up in Canada. And I texted him on Easter, you know, a week ago, a week ago. Easter, happy Easter, love you, brother. Didn't hear back. And then I got a little concerned.
[00:06:05] And just to, you know, put it out of my mind, you know, I found his obituary. He just died suddenly. You know, he didn't take the vax or anything like that. But, I mean, it's just crazy. It's just crazy. And, you know, folks, I don't want to open up the show tonight on a dour and mortal or tragic note.
[00:06:27] But it's an honor to work with you and a privilege to work with you and to have your support. And let's just keep it going and enjoy what time we've got, however long that may be. And I hope it'll be decades from now that we'll still be doing these things together, although we are getting a little older ourselves. But it's just you just never know what's going to happen in life. And so for as long as we've got together, please continue to give us your prayerful and thoughtful considerations.
[00:06:56] And we'll continue to do what we can. Isn't that right, Keith? Yes. We need political cesspool listeners to live as long as possible because we need good common sense to take back over the fallen citadel of America's institutions. Well, that's absolutely right. And I just know from travel, you know, just all the feedback and everything, the travels, just I know that we're making a big difference. And it's not a vainglorious project.
[00:07:24] It's not something we just do for, you know, vapid reasons or concerns. This program is fundamental, I think, in a lot of the things that are happening in our sphere. And I'm just so thankful for all of you who have made that happen. I mean, I was truly heartbroken to find out that a really good friend of mine had passed away in March. And I just found out about it, you know, on Easter. He had never married and didn't have kids.
[00:07:53] And now he's just gone. And I'll never hear from him again. And, you know, I mean, I know we all know that. I know that we all know our time will come. But let's just enjoy the time we've got. How about that? And let's continue it now without any further sadness. But, you know, as you said, Keith, we do need right-thinking people. And we've got a legion of them here in this audience. We've spent too much time on this. We had to spend the time on it.
[00:08:16] But I just want to say one more thing because I had sort of been conflicted about how to address the father of Austin Metcalfe. But Lauren Witzke had posted something. I mean, Lauren's a real firecracker. I mean, she never has any trouble offending people and is never shy to do so if it's telling the truth and love and her particular brand of doing so. But she wrote this. And, of course, Lauren's a good friend of ours, too. But she wrote something that's very wrong with the murder of Austin Metcalfe.
[00:08:46] And she put in a couple of things. She's a great researcher. And she's really just a dogged reporter and investigative journalist. I mean, if she goes after something, she's going to get to the bone of it. And she said that they had confiscated over 70 cell phones from the students to ensure that no footage of this violent, racially motivated murder was leaked. Of course, we know that Austin Metcalfe was stabbed so violently that he bled out in under one minute. Austin Metcalfe's father, Jeff, has a big black handler.
[00:09:14] And she's not exaggerating that. He's like twice the size of Austin's father. And he's following him around. And he keeps him in line. He uses him to stifle any white person who mentions that this was a racially motivated murder that needs to be addressed. And this comes after Jeff Metcalfe's humiliation apology tour in the media where he he sympathizes with his son's murderer why they publicly raise money.
[00:09:40] And believe me, these people aren't about bridging the racial divide as his father is saying he is intending to do. Austin Metcalfe's father. I mean, they're celebrating this. They're fanning the flames. And, you know, we talked last week about how he yelled and cussed at one of the demonstrators who was out there to raise awareness for what had happened to his son. And Lauren writes, bravo to Jake Lang for holding his ground. He is right because of Jeff's behavior.
[00:10:07] There are going to be a thousand more Austin Metcalfe's because these violent blacks now empowered to murder whites without consequence. And, Keith, I think that's where it comes in because you'd been a little bit harder on the father than I wanted to be at first. But I think that there is something to that, in fact, that if you don't speak out about this, we already know that because of low IQ. And, Liz, let's skip this first break if we can. We'll just skip this first break. I want to stay on this. Thank you.
[00:10:32] Because of low IQ and poor impulse control, I mean, they really are genetically predisposed to this behavior. It is genetic predisposition to a large extent. And if you have all of that that you're already working against, but then the example is made that, hey, not only can you just indulge all of these base instincts that you have, but you can be a millionaire if you do it. And the public will support you. It is a golden road to fame and fortune.
[00:11:03] And if you're lucky, the victim's father will even go out and advocate on your behalf and not that of his slain son. So I think in this regard, this is where I think you really do just have to throw down the gauntlet and say, no, no, you have to speak out about this because what you are doing is going to lead to the deaths of others. This will encourage more violent behavior because now, I mean, an example is being set where this is a path to prosperity for them. Right.
[00:11:33] Going past to fame and fortune. And, you know, taking a step back from the whole thing, this is a classic case of gaslighting. You know, gaslighting is a term that a lot of people use. I don't know if everybody knows the origins of it. It comes from a movie which was based on a play called Gaslight. Ingrid Bergman got Best Actress Award in 1946 for it.
[00:12:01] Basically, gaslighting is making you feel guilt about something that you have no guilt about or you shouldn't feel ashamed of. You know, that's one of the favorite techniques of the left in America and has been, you know, for a long time. The civil rights movement was basically an exercise in gaslighting, trying to make white people feel guilt about the plight of black people. They never met and, you know, never done anything to.
[00:12:31] And we have that throughout our society. You're made to feel guilt. And apparently the people that are doing this got through to Jeff Metcalf because I've never seen a more cucked father. You know, he's basically telling the world that it's all right to kill young men like my son. And it's just, you know, we're just collateral damage in a cultural war or something like that.
[00:13:00] And it's, you know, everything that, you know, we're talking about the Civil War and things like that now. Slavery, the focus on slavery is as the cause and only real cause of the Civil War in the eyes of, you know, the mainstream today. That's an exercise in gaslighting. That was far down the list of real reasons for the Civil War.
[00:13:25] But you would think that it's the only reason only and anyone that tries to take exception to that analysis is a bad person. They're trying to inflict guilt on people about telling the truth. And the truth needs to be told.
[00:13:41] And, you know, we were talking about the show and how we need people that think like we do to be encouraged and to be basically nurtured in their outlook on things. That's a perfect example of why we need to have this program.
[00:14:00] We've got to provide a corrective for the gaslight-lit misinformation that seems to be, you know, there are so many people like Jeff Metcalf out there. And that's ridiculous. And he's up here patting himself on the back because he's forgiven his son's murderer. And he doesn't realize, like he said, that all that does is encourage black thugs to go out there and kill white people.
[00:14:29] You know, not only is there not punishment for it, it's like we said, the path to fame and fortune now. His parents are living in a mansion now because of it.
[00:14:38] As we said last week, it's just, again, I'm willing to just disregard what he says except for the fact that this atrocious continued, as she put it, apology tour or whatever he's doing is only encouraging more of this. And that's when you just have to call him into account because he's putting the lives of other people at greater risk.
[00:15:07] And this is something that I wanted to just get back to this fundamentally for a minute. There was a really good, it was short, but it was really good article at CounterCurrents that I came across a couple of days that I sort of correlated with this. And it's called The Ignoble Savage. And it just goes back throughout the history of all of these sorts of people groups going back for as far as history has been recorded.
[00:15:35] And he writes, I'll just read this very quickly, Keith. I'll try to keep this just to a couple of minutes. I'm not going to read the entire thing. But he writes, the myth of the noble savage, a vision of indigenous peoples as gentle, egalitarian, and in perfect harmony with nature has bewitched the Western imagination for centuries. It is a myth born not of anthropology or history, but of guilt and escapism. As the industrialized world wrestles with its own ecological and moral failures, it projects onto pre-industrial cultures, imagining them as paragons of peace and sustainability.
[00:16:05] But the record, historical, ethnographic, and archaeological, tells a vastly different story. The obsession with indigenous purity does not withstand even modest scrutiny. And he talks about even the people that Christopher Columbus, when he arrived in the New World, he described them as gentle. And he said even these gentle people practiced cannibalism. They were among some of the more easygoing, I guess, of the primitives.
[00:16:35] But he's not just talking about the pre-Columbian cultures and the American Indians. He goes into, of course, the places like Oceania, Africa, New Zealand, and all of this. And he just talked about, for instance, in the Congo Basin, human flesh was openly traded. I mean, we talk about, yes, there were white slaves and all of this. But, I mean, it was really a lot more than that. You know, in Africa, slaves captured during raids were sometimes not sold for labor but for consumption.
[00:17:04] And missionary accounts of this all the way through until the late 19th century show human limbs being roasted over open fires while children captured in raids were sometimes consumed as a public display of domination. And he just goes on and on into the details of just how primitive blacks in Africa, the American Indians,
[00:17:25] the people of Australia and New Zealand and Oceania, and in great detail. And he writes that it is no act of respect to excuse these realities. It is patronizing and dishonest. When Westerners strip these people of moral agency by refusing to criticize brutality, they reduce them to symbolic avatars, vessels of whatever values are currently fashionable.
[00:17:53] We do not excuse human ritual sacrifice in other historical societies. We do not celebrate cannibalism as a cultural artifact when it occurs in medieval Europe. So why do we treat these people as sacred when it appears in their practices? These people have nothing to teach us that history has not already made clear. Moral virtue is not an exclusive domain of those untouched by modernity, nor is violence a symptom unique to civilization.
[00:18:18] The human story in every culture, every age is marked by survival, power, brutality, adaptation. And he just says we have to unshackle ourselves from these myths that these primitives were somehow morally superior to us. But again, how this ties into the situation with Austin Metcalfe, I think, is pretty clear and pretty direct. This is how these people always have been.
[00:18:44] And bringing them here and giving them civilization and Christian salvation and all of the conveniences, I mean, they still are on some level what they have always been with modern conveniences. It doesn't change that. And you see it in instances like this. Yes, I mean, a lot of civilization has occurred. A lot of them have been civilized. We can all say, well, I know this black guy and he's much better than this white guy. Yes, exceptions always exist.
[00:19:12] But I think it's just a fundamental thing that will never be escaped. Well, what it is, it's another example of gaslighting. They brought up this noble savage stereotype, which is basically a fantasy, because the reality was just the opposite. If you want to see what the reality is, just look at comparative studies of black versus white crime in cities throughout America and Europe and everywhere else.
[00:19:42] They're trying to say that we have much to learn from these people. That was Franz Boas and the modern anthropology movement turned anthropology from hard science into a social science. But we know intuitively that that is totally wrong, but they want to somehow excuse black misbehavior
[00:20:07] and make us all assume that we're guilty of judging them too harshly. When all you have to do is look at those statistics and the statistics don't lie. You know, we've been gaslit. Gaslighting is probably the foremost technique used by the left to instill guilt trips on white people.
[00:20:36] And apparently they get through to people like Jeff Metcalf. You know, he now feels that it is wrong for him to, you know, criticize a murderer that murdered his son. You know, I remember last week somebody called into the show, I think in a break and said, I wonder if Mr. Metcalf is a Southern Baptist. You know, we got a chuckle out of that.
[00:21:04] Very good odds. Yeah. And the thing is, see, people in fundamentalist Christian groups in particular have been fed this notion that they were evil because of their ancestors maintaining segregation. I think what has really been shown is that segregation wasn't such a bad idea after all. You know, black people, there are more black people in poverty now than there were in 1955.
[00:21:34] And nobody wants to talk about that. It is, are the blood of, is the blood of countless victims of interracial murder, homicide, rape. And again, we go back to this, that still the thing most surprising to me about this murder is that it received any coverage because it is really just not that unique.
[00:22:02] I mean, I guess some of the details that happened at a track meet, broad daylight, just immediate with no provocation, stabbed to the heart, died in a minute. But as far as just black on white murder, that's not even a dime a dozen. I mean, it's just, it's much more common than that. But would you say, Keith, I mean, is it fair to say that the blood of these, of a lot of these kids is directly on the hands of the civil rights movement, the integration movement, busing, Brown versus Board?
[00:22:32] They've got to somehow rationalize. I mean, would you agree with that? I mean, do you believe that? Yeah, I do believe it. And I think that, you know, the supporters of the civil rights movement, the so-called liberals, have to somehow deal with the reality that these people are much more criminally inclined than white people and Asian people and even Hispanic people.
[00:22:56] But so whenever one of these things pops out, you know, it's like whack-a-mole. They try to whack them down, but occasionally one will pop up and become a news story. And when it does, they have this noble, savage rationale at the ready to say that, you know, black people are really good people and don't pay any attention to these crime statistics.
[00:23:24] If you think it's dangerous to be around them, well, that's just showing your inherent racism. But unfortunately, common sense prevails with most people. That's why you have residential segregation. You know, think about how much worse it would be if everybody, you know, had a black next-door neighbor. Well, this is the dad. They need to come to terms with it.
[00:23:49] Well, this is like, I mean, again, the father, well, you know, my son died, but at least I can say I'm not a racist. Yeah. Okay. Well, pat yourself on the back, Jeff Metcalf. But, you know, meanwhile, you had a great son. I don't know how he grew up to be a great son with a pansy like you as his father, but he did. And now you're waiting around for people to pat you on the back and tell you what a great guy you are.
[00:24:16] Basically, most common sense people think you're an idiot. I still feel a little untoward about piling on him when he lost a son, which is a price that no father should pay. But, again, it has – it is deserved in one regard. I think he's putting more lives at risk. He's got to stop doubling down on stupid. Endorsing – tacitly endorsing – you know, this.
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[00:29:56] What are we doing here? Well, what we're doing here tonight is wrapping up our Confederate History Month coverage. Always enjoy these two months of special programming,
[00:30:25] but what we do here every night is we tell the truth, and we tell the truth in love, but tell the truth in deed. And what we were talking about, again, the first half hour, it's really dominated and actually shared the spotlight in a most unfortunate and grisly way. The last three weeks, this topic has continued to be contemplated on this program, but we were talking about the whole fundamental issue of nature
[00:30:53] and the whole nature versus nurture type of thing. But these people have been nurtured. They have been given civilization. They've been given Christian salvation. You know what it reminds me of, James? Yep. It reminds me of my wife's grandmother's old saying, you can dress them up, but you can't take them to town. Well, and this is the... Go ahead. Well, I mean, it's just a matter of you cannot make equal that which is unequal. And all the money in the world will not do that.
[00:31:23] And all of the trying to bring them up to a certain level, no two people... And that's not a knock. You know, that's not. No two people in the world are equal, much less two vastly different people groups. We see how the gaslighting works, though. When something like this happens, it's not the black guy's fault. It's white society at large that is at fault for his aberrant behavior. And unfortunately, as you point out,
[00:31:51] it's not aberrant behavior for people like Carmelo. That's normal behavior. Well, I would say, you know, certainly the majority of blacks have never committed, you know, first-degree murder. But at the same time, when you look at the statistics, they are so much more infinitely likely to do that than whites. I mean, why even take the risk? Why take the risk? And it's... And, you know, we live in Memphis, and it's just about a murder a day
[00:32:18] and a death a day by reckless driving. That's two a day. So, you know, we're not making this stuff up. It's there, but we've got to have an honest conversation about it. We can't try to hide behind, you know, look at the world with rose-colored glasses. And it's not even that. It's making white people responsible. They want you to feel guilt because Carmelo killed somebody. Well, and two, I just...
[00:32:48] I don't want to spend any more time on this. I've said that the last two weeks. I've been trying to get away from this story all month. But the thing is, it goes back to when CNN brought me on in... What was that? 2007? And, you know, for an hour, and I was there to be the advocate on behalf of segregation. It's just common sense. Why wouldn't you want to partition yourselves from this chaos? And we wish all people well, but it's just the responsible thing to do.
[00:33:17] It's the responsible thing for a father to do. Look, integration is bad. You know, look at what has happened to public education in America since racial integration under Brown versus Board of Education case came down from the Supreme Court in 54. I mean, we went from one of the best public education systems in the world to one of the worst. But nobody wants to talk about that. And if there's a problem with public education of blacks, then it's whitey's fault. And again, we go back,
[00:33:46] our friends at the Conservative Citizens Foundation, you hear their ads. They have, as it says, the most comprehensive interactive database that tracks black-on-white violent crime. And it's just, it's been thousands this century, since the year 2000. So how many has it been going back to the 1950s and 60s during all of that upheaval during the so-called civil rights movement? I mean, that's a genocide in some way.
[00:34:13] And just think of all the lives that have been wasted and people that have been underemployed and, you know, impoverished by school racial integration. Think of all the people that used to get good educations that now can't get them. If you're a poor black kid or a white kid, your education, your public education, isn't worth a bucket of warm spit. Well, and it's all because one of two things.
[00:34:41] Either it makes people are afraid to be called a racist or it makes them feel good to be patted on the back and told them they're one of the good whites. You're for all this, right? I mean, you're for this. Oh, yeah. Some of them may be, you know, certainly there are a lot of liberals that believe in this ridiculous notion of equality. Well, they're just wrong and it's time to tell them, no, you're not, you don't just have a different attitude. You are wrong and your wrongness is putting lives at peril. All right.
[00:35:08] But, you know, the thing is, Keith, a lot of people are getting it now and more so than ever before in either of our lifetimes and in the lifetime of anyone listening, there is more outright open conversation about racial realities and all of the other things that we've been talking about. Hey, yeah, we've been doing it longer, but more people are doing it now than ever before. And this is something that Brad posted up at Occidental Dissent.
[00:35:35] Okay, so Tucker Carlson continues to mainstream white advocacy is the title of this article. Congratulations to him for that. Well, this is the thing. So he had Conor McGregor on his show and they were just outright naming it, saying these words, discussing the anti-white agenda forced on Ireland by the globalists. And they're just having this freewheeling conversation that would not be out of place on the political cesspool at all. And this is what Brad writes...
[00:36:05] What I liked about that in particular was that he said that Conor McGregor wasn't calling out for equality. He was asking for preference for his own white people in Ireland. In Ireland, they should be the preferential group. He said he was a championship fighter. You know, you see a lot of these fighters now, Jake Shields and Conor McGregor and all of this, you know, coming out. But they're having this conversation totally on point and on par with what you would hear here.
[00:36:35] And this is... Brad's comment, and I agree, continuing to identify more and more with the... For lack of a better word, I don't cringe and recoil at this, folks, but the conservative establishment. If Tucker Carlson, a lot of the things he's saying represents the conservative establishment, don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good because he's saying a lot of things. Yes, you can find things he says that you disagree with. I mean, we all can. But they're doing a lot of good work. They're mainstreaming the great replacement. They were even basically...
[00:37:05] I think Joe Rogan read Bob Whitaker's mantra. It's just like the guy who's got the biggest podcast in the world. So this is actually... No, it's like I was... Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Well, I was just going to say very quickly, Keith, we're not in the studio tonight, folks, as you can tell, so we can't give each other the high signs, so we don't mean to talk over each other. We normally do that anyway. So anyway... But Brad said, Keith, and Brad Griffin is right about this, that all of the things we've been talking about
[00:37:34] is becoming conventional wisdom on the right now. It is becoming basically the baseline. And this is something we should celebrate because this was a question that came up. A friend of mine in an email had sent this question out for people to consider, and he said that the question was, you know, what do we think about these... He refers to them as system-approved talking heads. I don't know if I would necessarily say that, but I mean, certainly they're, you know,
[00:38:03] a little bit more establishment than we are. We're talking about Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson and people like that using many of our points on... Many of our talking points now on their programs and on their social media. And I've always said that it's a good thing. Isn't that what we always wanted? Isn't that what the work that we've been doing? I mean, even though we'll never get the credit for it, isn't that what we want is to influence people who have bigger voices and bigger microphones than ours? I mean, the only reason you would oppose that is if you're concerned that your portion of the pie
[00:38:32] is going to be diminished or you're not going to... And that's never been a concern with us. Exactly. So to me, when I see Tucker Carlson and all these other people saying exactly the same things we're saying, I think it's a wonderful thing. I think it's a pivot point that we've reached relatively quickly. Yeah, I agree. For example, what's happening at Harvard? What's happening at Columbia? They're being shut down because they supposedly are allowing people
[00:39:00] to discriminate or to intimidate Jewish people. Well, I wish they were taking this, doing the same thing and saying, we're doing this to the advantage because we need to protect white people, white Gentiles, white Christians. But on the other hand, we've both got the same enemy. And quite frankly, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. And we've, at least for the time being,
[00:39:28] we need to change things. And when you can start talking for the first time about racial reality without being pilloried by the establishment when that's a talking point that they just can't suppress, that's progress, folks. And I like progress for us. We need all the progress we can get. We've always said progress, as the left uses it, means something's getting progressively worse. But in this regard,
[00:39:57] the last five years have been a game changer. These people saying these things now, hey, don't get me wrong. That doesn't mean that we should hang up our hats, that the victory's been won and we'll let these guys take over now. No, it is very important that the people who were doing it first and have been doing it the longest and this radio program, you know, I hear from people, I'm my own worst critic, I think, in a lot of things. I always want to do things better and pour over the things that I should have done
[00:40:27] rather than the things that I have done. But I get emails from people just saying how professional this show is. And it is a professional endeavor. I mean, it's on a professional radio network. That's really what we need to realize. We're blessed to be in this situation. It is good. And I think we have had influence far greater than we'll be given credit for that perhaps even we realize. But it is important that we continue to apply this pressure on the right flank of some of these people. We need to be here. We need your support to continue as always.
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[00:43:22] And you howdy back a little bit of this and a little bit of that. How do you do? Fine, how are you? How do you do? How do you come on? Pretty good, sure. How do you do? Stop jumping around to run out of breath. Why don't you sit back and calm yourself? You can carry on now if you must. We'll do what we like cause that suits us. I thought that last line was appropriate from yours truly and Keith Alexander
[00:43:52] to all of our detractors out there and what a great song. What a great movie. Another one of those things that has been attached to us. That's a Disney movie I can support. You know, back when Walt Disney was in charge and conservatism reigned over at Disney Studios. That was from, that's Brer Rabbit from Song of the South in 1946. That's exactly right. And, you know, as we celebrate Confederate History Month every year, our numbers go down a little bit
[00:44:22] during the special programming. This is a current affairs show. I get it. Now, there are a lot of people who love March Red. I mean, the audience loves these special programs. But, it's a little bit down generally. Some of the more casual listeners, you know, are just, you know, tuning in for the current events and current affairs and stuff like that. But, in any event... You know, everybody isn't a southerner like we are. But on the other hand, they should understand that as a white person,
[00:44:52] they have a dog in the fight. Okay? They really do. Well, and they do. And some people only tune in during Confederate History Month and they leave us out the other 11 months. But it's a good mix and I like having the balance. I like doing the... Look, because we're all in this together as men of the West, as men of Europe, as whites. We're not just southerners. We are Europeans. And that extends from coast to coast here in the United States
[00:45:21] or the North American continent all the way through all the other ports of call we check in on in March. And then, of course, we're southerners here and we're very proud of that as well. And it's not just about celebrating Confederate history, though. It's also about celebrating southern culture at large. And, you know, for a kids movie, Song of the South was just a wonderful movie. I never really understood why it was so attacked. I mean, the whole story is about this nice black man who has a great relationship and tells stories, you know, fun stories
[00:45:51] to the white kids. I never understood what was so offensive about that movie. And, you know, just think about that little girl, Jenny, in there, how ladylike and naturally modest she is. She's supposed to be a lower class white child, but she is a lady to the core. And that's a, that's a wonderful role model that she provides for young women. It is. And the music is great.
[00:46:20] That's one of my favorite songs from the, the film, but the animation is great. I mean, the stories, the adventures of Brer Fox and Brer Bear and Brer Rabbit, of course, it's just good stuff. But, but like everything, evil, evil is perpetual opposition to good and anything good and wholesome and healthy is going to be on the, on their, targets, whether it's this program or cartoons like that. if the left hates it,
[00:46:50] it probably deserves your support. Well, that's right. Now, that being said, let's talk a little bit. This is, we're going to go, we've got Kirk Lyons and we're going to do some more Southern and cultural conversation, engage in some more Southern and cultural conversation in the second hour and then focus a little bit more specifically on the Confederate aspect of Southern culture because Southern culture and Southern identity extends beyond 1861 to 1865. It still exists today.
[00:47:19] It existed before the war and obviously in the years after. So, we try to celebrate it all in April. But, Keith, listen, we got one more segment with you tonight and I want to give you the stab at Confederate history. Favorite Confederates, favorite, nobody's obscure if they serve, but I mean, so often the generals get such a heavy dose of attention and recognition and understandably so, but just favorite stories, favorite anecdotes,
[00:47:49] favorite figures from the South during that time. Well, Jack Henson, the sniper up on the Obine and Tennessee River is, I think, a wonderful story of a person that was not highly ranked. Nathan Bedford Forrest is a great story of how a person with humble origins rose to the top in the South in the Confederate Army. Probably the greatest military general
[00:48:19] native talent to come out of the Civil War on either side according to Williamson Sherman. You know, like Henson, if every Confederate could have operated at a, you know, killing dozens of Yankees and surviving, you know, that's like Forrest alone was like a 30 to zero, had a 30 to, he survived so it wasn't even 30 to one, it was 30 to zero and Henson, of course, the sniper took out so many. And all he shot for the most part were officers.
[00:48:48] He looked for officers. So, working class people keep that in mind. But why is it, Keith, that we, in your opinion, in your, why do you enjoy this series? Why do you like doing this? And why do you think it's important that we continue to do this for as long as we're on the air? Because we've done it every year since we've been on the air. Because like I said in the last, before the last break, if the left is opposed to it, it deserves careful attention from you because it's probably
[00:49:18] righteous and good. The left loves the Civil War because it gives them a platform from which to launch into a morality play about bad whites and righteous blacks and whites that helped the righteous blacks are righteous whites. Of course, Mr. Metcalf, Jeffrey Metcalf, probably bought into that whole baloney too. But see, what happened in the Civil War shows you how the left
[00:49:48] manipulates history and what they do. What they did in the Civil War was they divided the white population of America and have between North and South. And they're still doing that today with the Civil Rights Movement, which, that's a movement so good it will never end. You know, they're going to continue to flame the dying embers of the Civil Rights Movement as long as they possibly can. I'm officially banning the name
[00:50:17] Jeff Metcalf on this program until Carmelo Anthony is found not guilty at his trial and then we'll mention it again because I think, you know, after he was released on his own recognizance a couple of days ago, a first degree murder charge and they'd lower his bell and let him just leave. He's living in a mansion now with new sneakers and Escalade and all that. And look at Jeff Metcalf. When everything starts to calm down, then he fans it up again and makes more outrageous anti-white statements.
[00:50:47] Well, I'm beginning to think that you could potentially have another O.J. Simpson type verdict here if you get a majority black jury it's almost guaranteed. So we'll see what happens with that. I mean, we know that and we'll just see. they'll probably wear out the system, you know, by having one mistrial after another. If they have one black on the jury they'll probably have enough to hang up the jury. And if they have a white like Jeff Metcalf, then they'll have two. That's right.
[00:51:17] It's not necessarily a white and black thing, a black and white thing. You're going to have the blacks who are going to be naturally inclined to free one of their own no matter what. And then a lot of whites, self-hating whites are going to help them do it. So I meant to spend a little more time on this. The Pope died last Easter. A lot of people have died since last week unfortunately. But the Pope, the question is do you want a based black pope or a woke white pope that still
[00:51:47] makes you think that whites are in charge? I don't understand why we can't have a conservative white pope but I guess that's not even a possibility. We need a conservative white pope. Most Catholics are white or at least they're not black. We need to remember that and we have to remember that these leftists are the ones that have exchanged the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the gospels of Peter, Paul, and Mary. They're responsible for all of this apostasy that gets
[00:52:17] passed along as Christianity. Again, I hate to say it again, like Jeff Metcalf, he probably got his ideas on race from his church. You're putting a quarter into the cup of everything that's wrong with white America today. There is a great article by Timothy Vorginas, if I'm pronouncing that correctly, at American Renaissance. It was posted April
[00:52:47] 22nd, entitled The Stakes in the 2025 Papal Conclave. I was going to spend a little more time on that this hour, but we just didn't get to it. I think people pretty much know what's going on. I have the feeling it will still be in the news cycle next week, James. They may have a new one. I won't see the puff of white smoke coming out of the chimney between now and next Saturday. You don't think so? You think it'll be in a whole other week? Yeah, I do. But on the other hand,
[00:53:17] I've been wrong before. Well, we will, haven't we all? But I tell you what, us fewer than most, and that's another thing that makes me proud about the legacy of this program is we're seldom wrong. I mean, we have consistently had good takes. We're not infallible. We do make mistakes. We are wrong sometimes. But we have consistently had good If we were wrong, we would not be followed like we are. Let me tell you that way. We've done serious work, okay? I mean,
[00:53:47] it's all been sincere, and it continues to be, but we do serious work with sincerity and humility, but we do it with a great love for our people, but especially our people who are part of this listening family. And we also do it with common sense. common sense has a home at the political cesspool. And I tell you what, common sense is a luxury item these days. It's not something that everybody has. Hey, Keith, love you, buddy,
[00:54:17] and we'll be back second and third hours. We're going to continue. Hey, listen, pretty interesting thing coming up in the second hour before we go to Kirk Lyons. Something sort of breaking that I think you'll enjoy hearing about. It's breaking this weekend, and we've sort of been had our hands on this behind the scenes for the last couple of months, and it's just now coming out. Pretty good and exciting news, I think you'll find. Thank you, Keith. We'll be right back. Everybody else. Stay tuned. Have a great time.