[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
[00:00:31] Oh say can you see Bounds early light What so proudly we hailed At the twilight's last gleaming Whose broad stripes and bright stars Through the spines Or the ramparts we watched Were so gallantly streaming Ever still there Oh say does that star-spangled banner
[00:01:48] Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to our live broadcast from South Carolina tonight It's an annual tradition that I wouldn't break for the world A lot of travel for me in the last week but travel well spent
[00:02:28] And we are back and feeding now off the energy of so much talent here in the room Mark Tommy of the League of the South, Mark and I were just talking about the star-spangled banner Mark I have restated my position on this
[00:02:43] Every Yankee Memorial Day, every 4th of July I don't allow the Union flag on my property Dixie is the only national anthem that I'll place a hand over my heart for But, but, and we may disagree here brother If you look at the words of the star-spangled banner
[00:03:03] And apply it to the calls that we share I think it's a good anthem. I think it's a beautiful song Well as I was just telling Rich Close, close, just as close, yeah You're on, just all the way up to the mic Okay Perfect
[00:03:17] As I was telling Rich just before we were coming out of the break Is that I can appreciate it from a historical context That's right. The only context there is to appreciate it But you know the last line of the song where it talks about
[00:03:33] The land of the free and the home of the brave I take Umbridge with that I don't think we live in a free land anymore I don't think there's any I think you're right Especially for we Southerners You know, we have been a conquered and occupied province
[00:03:50] Of the Yankee Empire since 1865 And so, you know, we've not been allowed to Buy them to order and control our own institutions And celebrate our own way of life It's no mystery that in the last few years especially Everything that we hold dear and love about our ancestors
[00:04:11] Our history and everything has been denigrated, destroyed Vandalized And so, you know, all that's done under the banner of the U.S. flag And the U.S. government, you know, that uh I have an easier time separating the song
[00:04:24] And the lyrics from that time from the flag today I personally do We're not going to get mired down in this little bog But if you go back to, again, I was talking about Francis Scott Key You're looking at that
[00:04:38] They fought and they were facing sure death if they lost And I can respect it from that The Southerners states were a part of that until 1861 So this is, I guess the question that would be interesting to hear you answer Is how do you reconcile all of this?
[00:04:54] You know, on the 4th of July, I like to get together A reason to get the family together and eat And shooting fireworks is fun, you know, for the kids We all enjoy that But more a celebration of a corpse
[00:05:05] Because anything you're celebrating has been dead since at least 1861 Oh yeah 1865 Yeah, no doubt about it I mean, you know, for the average American In air quotes there You know, the 4th of July is nothing more now than just a day to be off work
[00:05:20] And drink beer and barbecue And, you know, yesterday I was wearing a shirt that had the word secede on it And I told the young man that I was with I said, this word right here is what the 4th of July is all about That's right
[00:05:37] And the average American has no idea about that anymore The average American does not realize that the Declaration of Independence Was an ordinance of secession from the British Empire All about if you win or lose, that's what matters
[00:05:49] If you're a patriot, if you win, you're a traitor, if you lose But you're doing the exact same action I'm like Hunter though, I was talking with Hunter, our friend here And I go and buy fire as many as I can afford to the prices these days
[00:06:02] We always get a little assortment for the kids And anyone that has a Confederate flag on it Because of course they're all made in China And you can still find a lot of fireworks with Confederate flags I get them all Oh yeah That's how we shoot those
[00:06:14] Well, you know, for me personally, you know The 4th of July I've told people for many years now That for me it's a day of mourning Because on July 4th, 1863 My ancestors were being surrendered at Vicksburg, Mississippi To the besieging Yankee armies
[00:06:33] Gettysburg was fought on the 4th of July And on the 3rd of July, the Army of Northern Virginia Was limping back home to Virginia from the battlefields of Gettysburg My people were losing their independence On the 4th of July in 1863 They were not celebrating it
[00:06:50] And it's an interesting fact That a lot of your listeners may find compelling From 1863 until 1945 At the end of World War II The city of Vicksburg did not celebrate the 4th of July And there was a friend of mine lived there for a while
[00:07:09] And there was a story about some northerners Who moved down there in the 1920s And on the 4th of July they wanted to go out On the banks of the Mississippi River and have a picnic And some power norther the break on his car gave way
[00:07:22] And it rolled off into the river And all the people around Vicksburg said Well, that's what they get for celebrating the 4th of July So, you know, would God That the southern people would circle back to that attitude You know, and realize that the United States
[00:07:44] Is not their country The U.S. flag is not their flag What the United States has always been Does not fit any of the definitions Of the word of nation or country Okay, we were talking about this earlier And I've told people for years
[00:08:04] You know, I'm a word nerd And so I go to the Oxford English Dictionary And I look at the definition of a nation And it says that a nation is a group of people That shares a common ethnicity, language, culture, religion
[00:08:17] History and occupies a certain place on the face of the earth And if you look at the etymology of the word It comes from the Latin word natio Which means to be born So there is an express genetic component of nationhood It's about people
[00:08:35] It's not about a geopolitical boundary And so by that definition The United States does not qualify as a nation And the dictionary defines the country As a nation with its own government So Alabama is a nation Virginia is a nation, you know Or is a country
[00:08:57] The United States is not a country The United States is nothing more than The federal government that was created By the adoption of the U.S. Constitution Statesmen north and south in the antebellum period Never referred to the U.S. as a country or a nation
[00:09:13] They always referred to it as a union That was the universal term All of this nation stuff In relation to the United States Didn't come about until after the war And the advent of reconstruction And then Francis Bellamy's infamous socialist pledge To the U.S. flag
[00:09:31] I just had this idea that the union is sort of like Hotel California, you can check in anytime you want But you could never leave A friend of mine back in Louisiana once said There are only two institutions that once you join You can never leave
[00:09:45] And one is hell and the other is the federal union Alright, so getting to this Let's talk about when it went wrong The thing about Independence Day This is another from our friend Brad Griffin No women signed the Declaration of Independence With the Constitution
[00:10:05] It was white men who fought and died in the Revolution There were no BIPOC people who signed it No trans, blacks were covered in the Constitution By the Fugitive Disclave Clause And three-fifths compromise black Indians Gained American citizenship in 1866 In 1864 respectively The founding fathers created a white republic
[00:10:26] In the Constitution that shaped who could become An American citizen in the 1950s American citizenship was based on whiteness It wasn't just white people who created America And who fought and died in the American Revolution It was overwhelmingly Anglo-Saxons It was the American American's British ancestry
[00:10:42] It was our ancestry who created America's institutions In our image, European immigrants were invited to come here And become Americans which meant becoming like us And adopting our customs The American idea which was radical at the time Was the notion that white men could govern themselves
[00:10:56] In sovereign communities which we call our states It was the Lincoln administration Which reversed the relationship between the states And the federal government prior to the war between the states The government was tiny And the states tended to their own affairs Not the founders who created consolidated despotism
[00:11:11] America was thought of and thought of itself As an Anglo-Saxon and Protestant nation Up until the 1930s This was the dominant view until in fact after World War II In the 21st century, woke progressives have completely rejected America's traditional national identity They have rejected white identity, Anglo-Saxon culture
[00:11:29] Protestant Christianity and now even liberal republicanism And yet these people whose beliefs are so foreign to us They have been converging, call us the extremists We know where it went wrong What could the South have done differently That would have stopped this from happening Had we been successful?
[00:11:46] To follow the advice of Patrick Henry And smelled the rat and never have joined The federal union in the first place Historians have explored this topic a lot And one thing that, a theme that repeats itself Over and over again regardless of the source
[00:12:04] Is that you had two diametrically opposed civilizations That were trying to compromise with each other And come together under a single form of government And at some point it was inevitable Because of their differences in worldview And morality and politics
[00:12:21] That one was going to pervert this new system To its advantage and to the disadvantage of the other And of course history shows us That the South was on the short end of the stick As far as that goes And so we have been the whipping boy
[00:12:40] Of this glorious union for a century and a half now And I for one am sick and tired of it I would like for our people to wake up from the stupor They've been in for so long Giving their allegiance, giving their blood
[00:12:56] Their children sacrificing them on the altar Of the American empire When that empire hates them And everything that they love and stand for You know I would rather our people wake up to the reality That these, those people as General Lee used to call them
[00:13:10] Are never going to accept us as their countrymen They're always going to look at us as somehow beneath them And that we need to be controlled and kept in check And so you know why would anybody in their right mind
[00:13:25] Want to be a subject of such a ruthless and godless And hateful empire when we could be free And self-governing Alright Mark Tommy from the League of the South Mark a final word, quick final parting shot And by all means plug the league
[00:13:41] Well you know for those of you who think The idea of Southern independence is a good thing The League of the South has been around for 30 years now We've been pushing the idea of Southern independence You know give us a look Take, come and see what we've got
[00:13:56] We've got 30 years of material out there Making our arguments you know Give some serious consideration to the fact That you're never going to be looked upon As a good American by those outside of the south You are always going to be looked upon
[00:14:14] As something lesser than they are And it would be better for us to strike out on our own We've done all kinds of We could be an energy giant We could be an agricultural giant We would be a military giant
[00:14:28] And we would be able to do it on our own Without the overbearing control of the US government You know there's no practical reason Why the south cannot be free and prosperous It's just a matter of our people Finally having their crawl full of all this nonsense
[00:14:47] Donald Trump is not going to save you They're not going to fix, not going to make America great again He's a lesser symptom of the same disease That is the US empire Give it up and strike for your independence God save the south
[00:15:03] There he is ladies and gentlemen There he is, thank you Mark Tommy Thank you James, it's always a pleasure It is difficult without taking a break For you to get off the saddle here Take off your headset and pass the mic around
[00:15:17] Try to do it without too much rumbling and fumbling here We're going to toss it over to Rich Hamblin For a quick word, Rich Long standing dear friend He and his wife Janice Who's always with us on ladies nights Here on TPC
[00:15:32] We went out and had a nice dinner Dinner, yeah we had dinner today At about 12 o'clock, Yankees have lunch We have dinner Alright Rich give us, I don't know Just talk about anything you want to talk about I've set a table for you and set a topic
[00:15:48] You can respond to anything you heard from Sam Or anything you want to say that you think needs to be said Well thank you for having me on I agree wholeheartedly with Mark I've been in the league since Off and on since 1995 or something
[00:16:01] I think I've been in it longer than he has actually And I've seen the organization Develop a coherent body of work On the topic of succession And the nature of the union And what are some possible solutions And I don't personally celebrate
[00:16:22] Fourth of July, I haven't for a long time I don't really care for the Star-Spangled Banner Sam was just admonishing me on text message I said listen I like the tune Let's repurpose the lyrics I think it's a good song But anyway I'm willing to stand alone
[00:16:37] On that one here in South Carolina Southern as I am I do like the song But I separate it from the union And the flag and all that But anyway I'm defending myself too much Go ahead Rich But you know South Carolina is a homeless succession
[00:16:52] So you should be Listen I want you to know ladies and gentlemen There's not a single Yankee flag in the house tonight I see several hundred I see several hundred at least Confederate flags And one Duke for, is that president? Yeah Duke for president had on this gentleman
[00:17:07] And I was just down with David last week Yeah Duke for president, a lot of We're in the right place We certainly are We'll take exception with Sam Dixon on his statement That the founders didn't think very clearly When it came to nation or the country
[00:17:27] It's hard to argue with Sam I've done it before And I've always found out I'd not argue but at some points in my life I have disagreed with Sam Only as I have become older and wiser Found out I was wrong
[00:17:39] Well in particular I think the founders were very clear Or not the founders But let's say the members of the first Congress When they passed the first immigration act And it restricted it to white Christian European I think Sam's argument is In this day of ignorance and apathy
[00:17:59] That all men are created equal That just supersedes everything And we could trot all of these out I mean yes I mentioned the naturalization act And limiting citizenship to free white men Of good standing I mean that would disqualify most free white men today But good character
[00:18:16] But anyway yes And the other thing is I just fundamentally disagree with The need for a centralized government I don't think that was the intention Of the people that fought the war for independence And we had a decentralized government For the first what 17th
[00:18:36] Well the articles were adopted in 1781 And then they were immediately attacked By the people that wanted to make a consolidated government I see what you're saying at that time Although we like some centralized governments In Europe in the 20th century I think you're gonna have to have
[00:18:56] Some sort of authoritarianism You're gonna have to have some sort of strongman It's gonna take a lot more than soap and water To clean up this mess That's another question But if we didn't have that to start with We wouldn't have that problem to be dealing with
[00:19:10] And there was a spirit of that alive in 1861 When the states of the lower south Decided first and then the four states I think it's four, the upper south Decided when Lincoln made a call For troops to subdue the states
[00:19:27] That's when our state of Tennessee got on board Tennessee voting, your audience may or may not know Tennessee voted twice on the station Once before Fort Sumter and once after They got it right though in the end Correct, the vote before Fort Sumter
[00:19:40] Was to stay in the union But once Lincoln made a call for troops Then Tennessee overwhelmingly voted You know, voted to leave the union And it stayed out until the very bitter end But... Thank God for that I don't know what Forrest would have done
[00:19:57] If it had stayed in the union I guess it would have been a copperhead Well Forrest always said he liked the old flag And he liked the old constitution And all that kind of stuff But most people don't realize it The South... Our great warrior
[00:20:07] The South was fighting for the Constitution It was the north that was trying to Rip it asunder And you can see that by the period Of reconstruction The reconstruction acts and the reconstruction Amendments which changed forever As a character of this union
[00:20:22] All right, Rich give us a final word Anything that you think needs to be said And shared and heard on this program tonight You've always got something My phone lights up most shows with corrections And suggestions And of course the program's always made better by it
[00:20:40] Well I'm glad you appreciate my commentary Just everybody needs to stay strong I'm approaching the latter The twilight years of my life We can't spare you though We can't spare any of our older Elder states Regardless, I remember how things were
[00:20:58] In this country as recently as 50 years ago And we got a lot of ground to recover That was something, yes That wasn't that long ago I mean, not really No, when I was a kid We sang Dixie in elementary school Let me tell you something
[00:21:15] I went to a private Christian school In the 1980s And we did the pledge And then we sang Dixie We sang Dixie at Brier-Crest Christian School I'm gonna call them out Because I'm proud of that They'd be ashamed of that They'd be really ashamed of that now
[00:21:30] They're gonna catch hell from me mentioning that But it was a wonderful upbringing in the 80s The 80s are a world apart From where we are today But even then at private Christian schools Which were, of course, segregation academies It was well known
[00:21:43] They didn't even bother to deny it back then Even as late as when I was in school But we would sing Dixie And it was a wonderful upbringing These small private Christian academies And of course, all that's long gone now Because as you mentioned, Rich, with the accred...
[00:22:00] Having to be accredited Accredited They have to go through the same So it's basically like As our friend Drew Frazier in Australia puts it Christian schools now are like MSNBC or prayer You get the same history You get the same all of this
[00:22:15] But you get to say a few Bible verses too They want uniformity and all I can say Is people need to stand strong on their principles Don't put their faith in false prophets No matter how much you like the current... Just like the current regime
[00:22:28] The change may not be one necessarily for the better And just do not be misled We're going to toss it with about a minute or two Remaining this segment to our friend Steve Weitner Who has a fantastic show on the Republic Broadcasting Network
[00:22:43] You can keep that mic, Rich You had Rich on earlier today Tell us about your show Tell us why you're here Always good to see you shaking Steve's hand right now Steve Weitner, you were at our anniversary event Back in May as well
[00:22:55] Oh thanks, thanks for having me as always James, yes it was three years ago At the Dixie Fest that we first met I was... Oh okay, yeah That we first met and it's been great You know, I felt like I came home for Christmas
[00:23:12] The first time I was here y'all It was awesome man It was great to meet everybody That's where I first met Mike Gaddy And it was the second week that I had done The show on the Republic Broadcasting Network And my show is called Fault Crime Live
[00:23:24] It's every Saturday morning, 9-11 Eastern Time And I think of it as Saturday morning cartoons For thought criminals now And I had Richard on today As well as Kyle McDermott Who wrote that book Declaration of White Independence That's available here at the Dixie Republic
[00:23:43] And you know, three years ago I think I have worn a cross A St. Andrews cross shirt Everywhere I've been since then pretty much And not until last week did I get A negative response from anybody You know, I meet more like-minded people You know, absolutely
[00:24:03] Yeah, and you know I just, you know, one out of three years One time that shows you that Maybe we think we're isolated Because we don't get together like this enough You know, I don't feel like Like, I think in actuality Maybe we surround them
[00:24:20] And you know, we gotta do something about this I remember after the election People would go and say, not my president Right? And well, we need to start saying Not my government Okay? You know, that's a not my government here Mark Cubs! We're gonna take a break
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[00:30:31] They're having a good time Receiving some correspondence from our first-hour guest Sam And I'm going to read it here Francis Scott Key wrote the Anthem in the War of 1812 How about that in this state? Because I don't think I said he wrote it during the Revolutionary War
[00:30:51] But if I did, I didn't mean to The War of 1812 and his life was never at risk A great interest though is the fact that he was on board The board of directors for the American Colonization Society
[00:31:02] We need to make this better known so the rival races and the wosters will demand the anthems be shredded You should mention that Key was a prominent figure in the ACS His policy was repatriation to Africa I mentioned to Sam, we're texting right now
[00:31:19] I'm going to mention that as soon as we come back Sam responds, great I like Key in the Star Spangled Banner, Sam writes Eleanor Roosevelt disliked the Anthem and wanted it changed More from Sam even though he's not on the air
[00:31:32] And as a matter of fact, it was fitting that we share that right then Because we have a guest now joining us, Nick from the UK About an hour before the show started Somehow, someway, your presence here was widely known
[00:31:49] Sam said, please tell Nick that I said hello I'm delivering the message now live on the air Sam says hello to Nick from the UK You and I have been in... this is not Nick Griffin by the way But another great Nick
[00:32:03] We've been in contact for years and years and years Our first time to meet you came all the way over from the UK to be here in South Carolina Yep, I did indeed I didn't deed and I have to say it's an honor to be here sitting here
[00:32:17] You said it's a little bit different than a BBC studio It is, it's very different For the last three months I've been sitting in the BBC studio So it's been a very hostile environment But tonight it's far opposite from being hostile
[00:32:30] And it's an honor to be here tonight speaking to you James I've listened to the SESTV now probably since about 2009 Wow So it's a long time Wow I was 31 now so yes I would have been about 19 at the time God bless you
[00:32:45] What kept you tuned in all these years? It's close to the mic as you can Yep, sorry Just the content, the guests you have been absolutely superb And yeah it's an absolute honor to be here tonight I'm honored to have you
[00:32:58] I mean I thought coming from West Tennessee was a long trip But listen folks coming from the UK to be in South Carolina for Dixie Fest Give it if anybody deserves it right here Well I was here two years ago
[00:33:17] And actually I'd missed Dixie Fest by the weeks So this time I made sure that during my road trip I would make sure it coincided with Dixie Fest though It's so far I've enjoyed, I really have enjoyed myself And I've met so many people
[00:33:33] In all of those years we were in touch and in contact on Twitter before my ban And then of course in the last couple of years we had lost us But when I heard you were here I couldn't believe it
[00:33:42] I've never met him before but we've talked for all of these years And anyway the topic of Nick Griffin came up Of course was on the show a couple of weeks ago And when Nick was on a couple of weeks ago he was sort of
[00:33:53] He was talking about the recent EU elections And then sort of giving a preview for the elections in the UK Which of course came to pass a few days ago And now you can tell us the rest of the story, what happened?
[00:34:04] So particularly the Labour Party, the far left The openly socialist party, which over here, an openly socialist movement That would be a big, big taboo But in Britain and in the rest of Europe it isn't And unfortunately we now have a socialist government
[00:34:20] But do you know what? We've had 14 years of a chetrous So-called conservative party who have opened up the borders More than any other government have in previous governments And do you know what? I'm glad to see the back of them
[00:34:33] So yes we may have socialists in charge now But I'd rather socialists in charge and traitors Hey! Yeah that's right So let's talk about this new PM So he is a human rights lawyer by trade So that basically says everything you need to know about him
[00:34:50] He is extremely left wing, extremely woke He's going to do his utmost best to clamp down on all dissident voices across the UK Which is obviously a reason for concern But do you know what? We had the same happening under the conservative rule
[00:35:10] Things, it's hard to really imagine things getting any worse But they always seem to get worse When you think they can't they always seem to get worse So we'll see what happens But what is important to stress is that the whole of the UK
[00:35:27] Aren't completely nut jobs, aren't socialists We have a very, very unfair voting system in the UK And we have an insurgent party called the Reform UK Led by Nigel Farage who isn't on our wavelength
[00:35:41] But he is a populist, he does speak about a lot of issues that other politicians don't Multiculturalism, demographics, etc I would ask you a quick question about this important interruption But his rhetoric is better than anything we've ever gotten out of Trump
[00:35:55] They asked him recently what are you going to do for blacks He said nothing, I'm not going to do anything for the blacks But at the time he's not going to deliver anything for us, is that right or is that wrong?
[00:36:03] Well he might say four or five good things And then he'll say something that completely sort of does a complete U-turn But maybe that's strategic, I'm not sure But the point I was going to raise was how unfair our voting system is in the UK
[00:36:20] If you look at the Reform party they've got just over four million votes in the UK And that's translated into one seat, sorry five seats in parliament The Liberal Democrats got 600,000 fewer votes and they have 63 seats in parliament
[00:36:36] So that's how unfair and corrupt the voting system is in the UK Elsewhere in Europe we see parties like the AFD, we see parties like the Front National in France We see them with a lot of representation across the board
[00:36:54] But the reason for that is because they have proportional representation Unfortunately we don't have that in the UK, so that really is holding us back But I'm hoping if Farage can achieve something that will be pushing through electoral reform
[00:37:06] And that will open up the door for the likes of me and you Do you see any good that has come from the recent EU elections Are people trying to vote the right way and they're just not quite as well informed as
[00:37:18] Not necessarily are they well informed but they think they're voting for the right candidates Well exactly, I mean what we've got to show you and I said this earlier Is that people's hearts are in the right place Now you have people like Maloney who's done a complete U-turn
[00:37:33] Exactly like Riffin says And she's been absolutely awful and immigration has skyrocketed under her leadership But it does show people's hearts are in the right place If you look at the AFD in Germany, I was in Germany there a couple of months ago
[00:37:49] They are a party that's just over 10 years old And now they are knocking on the gates of power And in East Germany, states like Saxony, they are actually the dominant force So there is a lot of hope happening right now in Europe
[00:38:05] And yes, I would feel very very black-billed if it was all doom and gloom But it isn't, our people are getting good votes Whether they are civic nationalists At least it's showing that people are on the right discourse
[00:38:19] Alright, I don't know if anyone tuned in to the show live from South Carolina tonight Expected to hear this accent but you just never know Where you're going to get it Dixie first and what you're going to get on TPC
[00:38:32] Now you answered the question earlier today or you made the statement Why you're here What is it about the South and Southern culture and this beautiful flag of ours that attracts you I've always said the South is like my spiritual homeland
[00:38:50] And I've always felt a connection to the South where it's through the music, definitely the food And the hospitality is second to none I arrived here in 2022 for the first time And I met Paul and I met Johnny and I met Hunter
[00:39:07] I met a few of the boys and there was about, say, 10 or 15 of us And I just never felt so welcome so fast This place has that effect, does it not? I mean even as a lifelong born and bred Souther
[00:39:18] When I came here for the first time and met this parallel community That they have established And I don't mean anything extra governmental But I'm just talking about people who bond together through blood And through ties that bind and similar thought processes to help one another
[00:39:38] And grow together It was just intoxicating I cannot come back here enough This has become my favorite place in the entire country I always remember a Scottish proverb being told to me There's no such things as strangers around here Just friends who have never met Yes, yes
[00:39:57] For that many times already That was the first time I'd heard that proverb And that couldn't be more accurate Alright, my friend Nick A final parting shot from you To the audience, anything you want to say about our ancestral homeland Your current homeland in Europe
[00:40:14] Obviously the British Isles and Scotland The Scots Irish and the British These are our people As a matter of fact, Michael Hill is coming up in the third hour To close things out and he said when he took his first trip to the UK
[00:40:30] It stirred his ancestral memory So you are us and we are you But a final word on any of that or any of this Anything you'd like to say? I think first of all a lot of people have got the misconceptions
[00:40:42] That most, 80% of the British population is woke We're not, it's the same over here I suppose Once you leave the cities You do meet real people Real proper people, hard working people Exactly like the people I'm surrounded by tonight So we are all family
[00:41:01] We're all an extended family Part of an extended family And again, thank you very much James For having me on tonight I never thought I'd see the day where I'd be on the cesspool We need to get a picture of this Somebody take a picture of this
[00:41:16] We can text it to one another Janice is going to do it Alright Janice, we got to get this We got to get the universe For, since 2009 Well There we go, alright Make me look good Janice, put in that filter Not the BBC
[00:41:37] But where would you rather be? Here Nick from the UK A big round of applause All the way to Dixie From our ancestral homeland And thank you Nick so much For taking your hand again for 2009 God bless you I was young then, younger
[00:41:58] I don't know if I had it In 2009 it was already gone Alright Hunter Here he comes Yeah, you're the Salem Who do you got? Well Johnny, we never do a show without Johnny Alright, we'll pull up Johnny We've got to be sure not to touch this cord
[00:42:18] Because I've got to shorten it from all this travel I don't know what happened those late nights In Louisiana last week We'll mic you up Hunter Johnny and I will share These are two of the Foundational Jolly Boys Here, we talk about Man's Jolly and the Jolly Boys
[00:42:37] You were both Hunter And Johnny, you're both charter members Of the Jolly Boys Yeah from the start Can we bring Nick back on? Just so we can listen to his accent Alright, I love that accent How did we lose that? We came across here And now we're y'all
[00:42:57] And all that How did that happen? I could listen to him all night You like that? Yeah I do But a lot of people like our accent If you go north Is it reciprocal Nick? Do you like us as much as we like you?
[00:43:11] I can get a lot more southern If you listened to the show like 15 years ago Rich says it's because I have to talk fast Well they say the southern accent is simply Just the British accent that slowed down The Scottish accent slowed down
[00:43:27] That's so Thomas is doing this You're in the Appalachian Mountains Or the coastal region So he could sound like that If he slowed his speech down to say that Hang out here a little bit longer How long does it take? Generations Many generations
[00:43:45] Because I love the southern accent If you go to the rural south It's like butter And honey Honey in your voice You told me when you saw him today You didn't think I was going to make it this time And you're here Eight hours away
[00:44:03] How was there ever any doubt? You were here in May That's a different time zone He's coming from Mimfrica He's coming all the way To the God's country South Carolina He's got to cross Heavens to get here And he's here I'm here and I'll tell you this
[00:44:25] A week ago last night A lot further than Memphis As soon as we saw you Everybody's face lit up I had a lot of people today I didn't know how they were marketing this How Paul was marketing this But a lot of people said they came
[00:44:41] And they were like, I'm here We've done this three or four years now Three or four at least I think we met more people today So they came because They thought the show might be tonight Than I've ever met at any other Single gathering we've done
[00:44:59] That was very, very, very I don't know if gratifying is even the right word Humbling How widespread This program is known I think are mostly local A lot of the people who were here To hear you were local people
[00:45:15] They're very well versed in the history of the program I know some folks Would you mind coming up You don't have to say your name or anything But would you share with the audience This is a gentleman I had the honor Of meeting earlier today
[00:45:29] Just a quick word about what you said I've been listening to the show Since 2015 This is the first time I've met James Edwards I'm on Nathan Bedford Forrest's book And I was proud to Maybe I had to face it A man So great as he
[00:45:47] But I'll tell you what, thank you so much I'd like to shake your hand again too Coming out to see us tonight But we cut our teeth as anybody who Listened to the show all the way back in 2004 And 2005 we cut our teeth Fighting for the Confederate Parks
[00:46:01] Which included Nathan Bedford Forrest Park In his grave in that whole chapter with Al Sharpton Bill Rowland leading that Guiding me to get the permit to Vigil And that's what gave us our first Blast publicity And from there it was on to the
[00:46:18] Hate Watch list of the SPLC and the ADL And then to see it in The rest is history, all the media But it was on southern issues And that was really one of our foundational pillars So to be here is always
[00:46:30] To go back to the very merits of the program To mirror him, I mean the first time I heard of you From the owner of the store 2015? What took you so long? I had a lot of Experiencing to do Growing up to do
[00:46:46] You're a little bit younger than me Not much, but just a little I didn't know this, I didn't know you were The inspiration For the Brad Pitt movie fight club Until today There's a much better Looking and much better fighters out there Than me
[00:47:04] I've heard you compare to I have Thomas No actually I have heard people compare you To Disney Princess You know the story Royalties for that You know the story I always like to tell you We're not going to do that, we've beat that one to death
[00:47:22] But just from the sound of your voice These things have happened Anyway, we're going to get Johnny on Johnny Reb, lead leather and steel This is my right hand man We're up here every Saturday hanging out We're at Dixie Republic And every Saturday you all have a
[00:47:38] Get together and the show's on Yeah I mean we listen to your show And we gather and hang out There's probably anywhere from 6 to 12 of us hanging out Every Saturday night just hanging out listening to the show And then we do an event Quarterly or
[00:47:54] Even more often than that So we did an arm wrestling tournament In April that was pretty successful We've got That was open to the public It's a way of engaging with the public This campus here you have all of this Wonderful apparel, hats T-shirts, flags
[00:48:12] I mean you name it Anything that you can put the Southern Cross on It's here But it's so much more than that You got Johnny Shop where he does leather work And holsters and belts and things like that You've got, and especially when you have these big events
[00:48:26] You've got arm wrestling, wrestling itself Maybe even a little boxing As we saw today And a lot of fun for the family Dunk takes Axe throwing It is as wholesome and you see Everyone from We had a 10 month old young boy
[00:48:44] Here today all the way up to octogenarians And everywhere in between families My child, a fetus in the womb Yeah Certainly the youngest person here today The unborn And your two year old Yeah, my two and a half year old Johnny is kind of our ambassador
[00:49:02] I mean if they don't get the message in here They'll get the message outside When they visit Johnny in the leather shop Johnny for the next five minutes Johnny Everybody comes in here, they peruse around Not everybody's like us, they're just kind of
[00:49:16] Visiting and seeing what's going on And then they get sent out to Johnny's shop And it's no holds bar Johnny tells them like it is It's a free speech song We use it to the max There is no 11 We go
[00:49:34] So what kind of people do you have coming out there? Everywhere from boomers to People that are lost I mean literally And then we got some really Good Southern Historical people They come out there and we always have a good history lesson
[00:49:57] They teach me or I teach them And do you have a lot of young People that come out there to see Surprisingly, yeah Johnny's extremely gregarious And hilarious My son's there, he loves Johnny Don't you cuss me, I don't know what that word means
[00:50:15] And so everybody that comes Out there gets a dose of that And it's a good entry way I have a good time with it I'm a big fan of Johnny Big fan of Johnny You've ever met him, larger than life Right So we have A lot of people
[00:50:35] That come to the store And we have events going on We try to do a lot of events a year The store has merchandise obviously And And then Miss pretty Lynn The cash register And Johnny's out there at the leather shop
[00:50:53] And we're really just out there in the open And never had any problems And I don't expect we will I do not expect we will It's definitely a strong point I mean that's what we're supposed to be Out there in the open Out there just
[00:51:11] A light on the hill Right Google maps They bring it right to us We don't hide Johnny how's business out there In the leather shop because I mean You have a card and we've been including that In everything we've sent out over the last month Text only
[00:51:31] Can people Take advantage of your craftsmanship Without being here on site Definitely Definitely you can uh We'll do that text only it And like some kind of crazy It's uh That cost extra But uh It just means I'm not going to answer Silly phone calls from telemarketers
[00:51:55] From unknown time zones And area codes Text me first And we'll go from there Because we do mail order And you know your imagination And your wallet are your only limits Talking about belts talking about holsters What else can you do with leather
[00:52:15] If you can wrap a cow around it I'll get my A for effort I don't know exactly what that means Holsters uh Scabards Yeah scabbards everything I've seen him do it And great work And you're staying busy
[00:52:33] I mean you've been out here for this many years so business has to be Has to be good and sustainable It is business has been very good It's uh our people Supporting our people while buying local That's right that's what we want Parallel community building Final word Johnny
[00:52:49] Ongawa, wanna wanna Okay Uh We have another Uh pearl of wisdom From our dear good friend Sam The royal family Nick this is from Sam The royal family's accent When they are speaking among themselves It's a better accent than any other American accent
[00:53:11] Alright Nick says he has heard that before Oh you've never heard that before No no I'm sorry He's never heard that before Well now you know We've gotta inform even the British here Here in Dixie Hunter a final word to you
[00:53:28] Uh I just wanna say it's awesome being here with you James Thank you for having the show here And then for Nick to be here And all these other people that are gathered here It's truly awesome Uh Nick earlier I mean it's just It's really awesome whenever
[00:53:42] You have people all across the globe Canada, the UK Australia, you know in May Brazil, parts of Brazil You've got parts of Europe, Italy All of us California white western people Are going Yeah we're all going through the same Thing and when I talk to somebody like Nick
[00:54:00] It's uh it's reaffirming To me that uh we're going Through the same thing we may be across the Atlantic Ocean but we're going through the same thing We are one people that is one people We are one race, one people Many nations but one race
[00:54:14] And we are all together in this struggle As whites I wanna shake the hand Absolutely I love you brother Thank you for your friendship and for everything I'm proud to be a very small part of what's going on Are we gonna sing Dixie later?
[00:54:26] Yeah in the third hour we will I'm hugging Hunter now Overcome with emotion here Big round of applause, big yell for Listen, people do sound We'll be back with Dr. Michael Hill In the third and final hour Stay tuned everybody