[00:00:01] [SPEAKER_19]: You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network and this is the Political Cesspool.
[00:00:13] [SPEAKER_19]: The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist
[00:00:20] [SPEAKER_19]: conservative radio program.
[00:00:22] [SPEAKER_19]: And here to guide you through the murky waters of the Political Cesspool is your host, James
[00:00:27] [SPEAKER_19]: Edwards.
[00:00:31] [SPEAKER_13]: Well welcome back, Keith Alexander.
[00:00:34] [SPEAKER_13]: Two hours down, one to go tonight.
[00:00:38] [SPEAKER_13]: This Saturday evening, August the 24th.
[00:00:42] [SPEAKER_13]: Have you had a good time tonight?
[00:00:44] [SPEAKER_13]: Yes.
[00:00:45] [SPEAKER_13]: David Zutty in the first hour talking about polling.
[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_13]: Jack Ryan not only providing commentary but the soundtrack to the night show all
[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_13]: about Chicago, the DNC in Chicago.
[00:00:55] [SPEAKER_13]: He was there, he was like just a couple of miles from the United Center when it
[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_13]: was all going on.
[00:01:00] [SPEAKER_13]: Keeping his head down.
[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_13]: Well you had to.
[00:01:02] [SPEAKER_13]: You had to.
[00:01:03] [SPEAKER_13]: I mean what good is it going to do to go?
[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_13]: Interestingly they built those walls around the United Center for the convention this
[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_13]: week.
[00:01:11] [SPEAKER_13]: They certainly think that would work to keep them safe as they gather together to
[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_13]: have their abortions and their vasectomies and all of that but not a good idea for
[00:01:22] [SPEAKER_13]: the country but a good idea for them.
[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_03]: The cash and carry abortions now, you get impregnated we dash and we'll, I
[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_03]: tell you what, I can't, you know I'm stupefied basically with the Cavalier approach
[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_03]: that they take to things like abortion.
[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just, you know, it's not a serious topic to them.
[00:01:43] [SPEAKER_03]: It's just birth control.
[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_13]: It's just that.
[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_13]: You could have your abortion then go cast your vote for Kamala and then go out
[00:01:49] [SPEAKER_13]: and have a good time.
[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_13]: Get pregnant again!
[00:01:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Why don't you at the party that night?
[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_13]: You could do that if you went to the DNC.
[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_13]: So these people are disgusting and repulsive by every and any standard of measurement
[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_13]: but we know that.
[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_13]: We knew that.
[00:02:04] [SPEAKER_03]: They proved it again.
[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_03]: And this is what's driving people outside the United States away from the United
[00:02:09] [SPEAKER_03]: States.
[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_03]: If we insist that sexual perversity is a civil right and everybody needs to get
[00:02:15] [SPEAKER_03]: on board or else you can't be a member of our club, people will say thanks but
[00:02:19] [SPEAKER_03]: no thanks.
[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to be in your club.
[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_03]: For example, Victoria Nuland using the deposits of Russia as a political weapon against them
[00:02:30] [SPEAKER_03]: and keeping their money from them.
[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_03]: That's what started the drive against using the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency.
[00:02:38] [SPEAKER_03]: And when that really takes a firm root, the inflation is going to be incredible because
[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_03]: you can't just start printing money like the Democrats are used to and like a lot of
[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_03]: Republicans are used to as well for your pet causes without consequences if you're
[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_03]: not the world's reserve currency.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_13]: Alright, well that being said, the time has now come for us to go back to our
[00:03:08] [SPEAKER_13]: special series this year.
[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_13]: It is a year-long series.
[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_13]: TPC at 20, a retrospective.
[00:03:14] [SPEAKER_13]: We have one installment per month, 12 installments.
[00:03:18] [SPEAKER_13]: This is installment number eight because we are in August, the eighth month of the year.
[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_13]: Already we have revisited with fresh reaction and commentary to our classic interviews
[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_13]: over these last two decades with former police chief of Montgomery, Alabama, Drew Lackey,
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_13]: former Sirius XM radio star Anthony Kumia, former member of the Croatian
[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_13]: and former general in the Croatian war for independence, Zeljko Glasnovic, former United
[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_13]: States Congressman Walter Jones, former movie star Sonny Landham, Donald Trump Jr. and
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_13]: Hutton Gibson, father of Mel Gibson.
[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_13]: Who do we have tonight?
[00:03:59] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, I'll tell you.
[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_13]: Since Jack Ryan's got us in a singing mood tonight, I thought it would be fun
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_13]: to spend this installment, number eight of 12.
[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_13]: Only four more to go after tonight this year.
[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_13]: Our 20th anniversary year is beginning to rapidly vanish, but tonight since we are in
[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_13]: a singing mood, I thought we would revisit our interview from 2012 with Ray Stevens.
[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_13]: What do you remember about Ray Stevens, Keith Alexander?
[00:04:28] [SPEAKER_13]: It's close to the mic as you wish.
[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_03]: I remember he made some songs that were great but considered politically incorrect
[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_03]: and that he also made a song that was very politically correct that he's known by as
[00:04:40] [SPEAKER_03]: well.
[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_03]: But he's had, he's kept his career going in Nashville.
[00:04:45] [SPEAKER_03]: He's got a show, I think a weekly show in Nashville and he's still touring, he
[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_03]: told me.
[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, I like Ray Stevens.
[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_13]: I've always liked Ray Stevens.
[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_13]: He is a southerner born in Georgia.
[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_13]: He's a plain spoken guy with a lot of common sense and good humor.
[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_13]: And yes, I mean in recent years he has made a lot of politically incorrect songs.
[00:05:10] [SPEAKER_13]: He had a song called Come to the USA which we'll give you some clips from a little
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_13]: bit later this hour about the immigration debate, particularly illegal immigration.
[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_13]: He had a song called The Obama Nation which is of course a play on words.
[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_13]: He has a new song out about the whole transgender nonsense.
[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_13]: I think it's like Bubba changes his name to Sally or something like that.
[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_13]: So, you know, he is known for his novelty songs.
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_13]: He is known for his comedy songs like The Streak and Ahab, The A-Rab and
[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_13]: Guitar Zan and songs like that.
[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_03]: Harry the Hairy Ape.
[00:05:45] [SPEAKER_13]: All of those songs are good.
[00:05:46] [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, those are good songs.
[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_13]: Those are comedy songs.
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_13]: But he was also a very serious musician.
[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_13]: He won a Grammy for his arrangement of Misty, which is a beautiful song.
[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_13]: But he is mostly known for novelty songs and comedy songs.
[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_13]: And he sold well over five million records, won a couple of Grammys.
[00:06:07] [SPEAKER_13]: And I guess if you had to ask me my favorite Ray Stevens song, he's got he even
[00:06:11] [SPEAKER_13]: had a big hit with a gospel song that he repurposed Turn Your Radio On.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_13]: He turned that that's an old gospel classic that he turned into a big hit.
[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_13]: So he had songs that were serious, songs that were funny, gospel country,
[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_13]: you name it.
[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_13]: But he's mostly known for his comedic songs.
[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_13]: And my my favorite of those, I think, goes
[00:06:33] [SPEAKER_13]: a little bit something like this.
[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, when I was visiting my granny and her and put it all day long,
[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_07]: climbing trees free of song, one day I happened to catch myself a squirrel.
[00:06:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, I stuffed him down in an old shoebox
[00:06:58] [SPEAKER_07]: and punched a couple of holes in the top.
[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_07]: When Sunday came, I snuck him in the church.
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_07]: I sat way back in the very last view,
[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_07]: showing him to my good buddy Hugh when that squirrel got loose
[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_07]: went totally absurd.
[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_07]: What happened next is hard to tell.
[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_11]: Some thought it was heaven, thought it was hell.
[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_11]: But the fact that something was among us was plain to see.
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_11]: His choir sang I surrender all the squirrel ran up hard
[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_11]: and his cover all the hard lead to his feet said something's got a hold on me.
[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_11]: But they the squirrel with the zerk
[00:07:33] [SPEAKER_11]: in the first self righteous church in that sleepy little town of Pascagoula
[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_11]: it was a fight for survival that broke out in the Bible.
[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_11]: They were jumping the fuse and shouting hallelujah.
[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_13]: That's the Mississippi Squirrel Revival.
[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Interestingly enough, my pastor, the pastor of my Southern Baptist Church,
[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_13]: that I grew up in and a lifelong friend of the family,
[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_13]: he happened to be born in no other place than Pascagoula, Mississippi.
[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_13]: So when we had the chance to have Ray Stevens on the show back in 2012,
[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_13]: I had to call pastor he was a lifelong.
[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_13]: Not only was he born in Pascagoula, he was a lifelong fan of Ray Stevens.
[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_13]: So it's just like a hand in glove.
[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_13]: And he had always liked Ray Stevens and growing up even as a boy,
[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_13]: I knew he was a big Ray Stevens fan.
[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_13]: And then I grow up and get this radio show.
[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_13]: We have Ray Stevens on the show and pastors born in Pascagoula.
[00:08:29] [SPEAKER_13]: He's a Southern Baptist, Ray is a Southern Baptist.
[00:08:31] [SPEAKER_13]: So we all get in there and we have this show and we have a good time with it.
[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_13]: And we're going to listen to that in just a moment.
[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_13]: But that was just one of the songs that Ray was known for.
[00:08:41] [SPEAKER_13]: Of course, we mentioned Misty to go from one end of the spectrum to the other.
[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_13]: This is how you win a Grammy, apparently back in 1975.
[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Take a listen to this and then we'll get to the interview.
[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_13]: If I can get the mute.
[00:08:58] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, I see what I did.
[00:08:59] [SPEAKER_13]: I muted this thing.
[00:09:01] [SPEAKER_13]: Let's let's turn it back up.
[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_13]: That's a beautiful song if you listen to it all the way through.
[00:09:30] [SPEAKER_13]: You remember that one, Keith?
[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_13]: I do. You remember 1975?
[00:09:34] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was I was a law student at that time.
[00:09:39] [SPEAKER_03]: How was 1975 for you?
[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_03]: It was busy. It was a big brain fog.
[00:09:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Trying to make the best grades possible and get out.
[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I graduated in May of 76.
[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_13]: If we didn't have a break coming up here in the next couple of minutes,
[00:09:55] [SPEAKER_13]: I would go ahead and start this thing.
[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_13]: But it was it was a it was a fast, interesting.
[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, I'd say interesting.
[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_13]: It was a fun interview.
[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_13]: It was a fun interview and it took place back in 2012.
[00:10:05] [SPEAKER_13]: So when you hear Ray Stevens talking as we revisit this as part of our
[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_13]: TPC 20 retrospective interview series,
[00:10:12] [SPEAKER_13]: you're going to think that it could have been something that was
[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_13]: taped last week because he's talking about liberals
[00:10:20] [SPEAKER_13]: being in control of the government and this and this and this.
[00:10:23] [SPEAKER_13]: But it was actually taped
[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_13]: or aired live, I should say, back in the Obama era, 2012.
[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_13]: At the height of the Tea Party
[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_13]: fame and we'll listen to it.
[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_13]: It was yours truly and my pastor, David Rogers,
[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_13]: who paid a heavy toll for never bending the knee.
[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_03]: What a great man, unsung heroes of our movement.
[00:10:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Absolutely, absolutely.
[00:10:53] [SPEAKER_13]: But it was yours truly and my pastor who interviewed Ray Stevens.
[00:10:57] [SPEAKER_13]: We're going to revisit it when we come back.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_13]: So stay tuned. All that being said,
[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_13]: we're going to get to it next.
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[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_13]: Karl Marx crafted his communist ideology
[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_13]: with the genocidal goal of destroying the European peoples.
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[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_13]: and communism emerged triumphant by controlling the political system.
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[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_13]: All right, everybody, welcome back.
[00:13:13] [SPEAKER_13]: So you know what we do here, right?
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_13]: We don't play the entire interview.
[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_13]: We play clips from it and then Keith and I revisit these clips
[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_13]: with fresh reaction and commentary to keep it new and current.
[00:13:26] [SPEAKER_13]: There's an interview with Ray Stevens back in 2012.
[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_13]: This is the opening to that interview talking about Obama
[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_13]: and what was going on politically in the year 2012.
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_13]: And again, as I said, my pastor who was born in Pascagoula,
[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_13]: which was the setting for the song Mississippi Squirrel Revival,
[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_13]: was a longtime fan of Ray Stevens.
[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_13]: And I brought him into the studio for this interview.
[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_13]: And we're going to pick it up here with him saying hello to Ray.
[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_13]: And we'll be back with you in just a moment.
[00:13:56] [SPEAKER_13]: Got to let Brother David sit in on this one for me.
[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_13]: And indeed he is.
[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_13]: I'd like to give him the opportunity to say hello
[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_13]: before we get things rolling here, Pastor.
[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_06]: It's great to have this time to talk to you, man.
[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_06]: I've been a fan since I have the Arab and probably before
[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_06]: the end love your work, brother.
[00:14:10] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, thank you. You're admitting you're an old guy, but that's all right.
[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_07]: Us old guys have to stick together.
[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_06]: Yes, we do.
[00:14:17] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm looking at this picture on the wall of you.
[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_06]: And I looked at the video earlier today.
[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_06]: It doesn't look like the same man is a young guy on the wall over here.
[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_07]: Yeah. Well, take care of that picture.
[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_13]: We will.
[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, Ray, it seems as though so many in the entertainment industry
[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_13]: are all too eager to parrot a liberal talking point, but those with the
[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_13]: the courage to swim against the tide and stand up for the traditional
[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_13]: American point of view are few and far between.
[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_13]: You're one of them.
[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_13]: What led you to make the decision to use your talents
[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_13]: on behalf of conservative values?
[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's just an obvious thing to me.
[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_07]: And, you know, I think to me,
[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_07]: the country being in the hands of
[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_07]: liberals at this point, and we're going down the tube real fast.
[00:15:04] [SPEAKER_07]: I mean, we're we're not making any progress.
[00:15:08] [SPEAKER_07]: And it's.
[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_07]: It's very disturbing.
[00:15:13] [SPEAKER_07]: I've been asked the question, aren't you concerned about your career
[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_07]: if you come out for conservative causes?
[00:15:19] [SPEAKER_07]: No, I'm not concerned about my career.
[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm concerned about my country, my country that gave me the opportunity
[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_07]: to do what I want to do and.
[00:15:30] [SPEAKER_07]: Succeed in the profession that I chose to be in.
[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_07]: And I don't think any other country in the world
[00:15:37] [SPEAKER_07]: would have allowed that to happen.
[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_07]: So I'm more concerned about my country than I am my career.
[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, God bless you for taking that principle stand.
[00:15:48] [SPEAKER_13]: And certainly we stand behind you and are very happy to do what we can
[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_13]: to help promote your work today.
[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_13]: And talking about the work, particularly your more recent releases,
[00:15:57] [SPEAKER_13]: which are being very well received, 33 million unique visitors
[00:16:00] [SPEAKER_13]: to YouTube channel.
[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_13]: You're not pulling any punches with the new songs.
[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, I'm just going to give the audience a quick sampling
[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_13]: of some of the titles that you've recently put out there.
[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_13]: Throw the bums out the global warming song, Mr.
[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_13]: Businessman, which is a special tribute to Bernie Madoff.
[00:16:15] [SPEAKER_13]: If 10 percent is good enough for Jesus, it ought to be good enough
[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_13]: for Uncle Sam.
[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_13]: Come to the USA.
[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_13]: Brilliant song covering the illegal immigration issue.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_13]: We've actually played it a couple of times on this radio program
[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_13]: and your newest Obamination, which is actually the song
[00:16:29] [SPEAKER_13]: that you've come on to tell us about today.
[00:16:32] [SPEAKER_13]: What's Obamination all about?
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's kind of an obvious play on words.
[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_07]: And it talks about
[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_07]: what's been going on since he was elected president
[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_07]: and what he said he was going to do
[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_07]: and what he's actually done.
[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_07]: it's pretty
[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_07]: self-explanatory,
[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_07]: the song is, and
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_07]: it's we
[00:17:01] [SPEAKER_07]: we had a lot of fun shooting the video.
[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_07]: I got some cameo appearances with Larry Gatlin and
[00:17:08] [SPEAKER_07]: Billy Dean.
[00:17:09] [SPEAKER_07]: And we were going to get
[00:17:12] [SPEAKER_07]: Charlie Daniels to be on, but he was out of town.
[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_07]: We had to go ahead and put it out before we could get Charlie's part on there.
[00:17:19] [SPEAKER_07]: But it's it's a lot of fun.
[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_06]: Ray, I've enjoyed watching the video, watching a number of times.
[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_06]: One of the things that I noticed in it is you make reference to
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_06]: Obama not paying any attention to the Constitution.
[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_06]: Tell us a little bit about that.
[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's he doesn't he he
[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_07]: flaunches power over the,
[00:17:42] [SPEAKER_07]: you know, the oath of office says you're going to you swear to defend
[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_07]: the Constitution and I recall during his swearing in that he kind of mumbled
[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_07]: through that.
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_07]: And that should have been a tip off right there, but
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_07]: the chief justice, I guess, at the time that was swearing him in,
[00:18:04] [SPEAKER_07]: let him get away with it.
[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_07]: And of course, he probably had no alternative, but
[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_07]: he just tries not tries to go around the Congress and the Constitution every
[00:18:15] [SPEAKER_07]: chance it gets.
[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_13]: Ray, Obama Nation hits everything from health care, the nation's debt,
[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_13]: the president's use of executive orders.
[00:18:26] [SPEAKER_13]: Your music video also includes pictures, statistics about the nation's
[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_13]: unemployment rate and even in my opinion, rightly compares Obama to
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_13]: Marx, Lenin and Engels.
[00:18:36] [SPEAKER_13]: You know, you mentioned that you're not worried about the effect
[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_13]: that this might have on your career.
[00:18:42] [SPEAKER_13]: Certainly it's being well received by Main Street USA because we talked about
[00:18:46] [SPEAKER_13]: the the number of visitors to your YouTube channel.
[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_13]: It's not going to get you invited to the right cocktail parties, I guess.
[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_13]: But tell us about the overall reaction.
[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_07]: Your political satires are receiving cocktail parties with a bunch of
[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_07]: liberals. What are you talking about?
[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_06]: You sound like you sound like me.
[00:19:04] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not interested in going to the to the best places.
[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm holding up where she's going to the right place.
[00:19:09] [SPEAKER_13]: So that's the voice of my pastor right there, a man who has shaped my life in so
[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_13]: many ways, even still to this day of his imprints on my very most formative
[00:19:19] [SPEAKER_13]: of years. Longtime Ray Stevens fan.
[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_13]: We had Ray on the show.
[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_13]: We had to have pastor in for that.
[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_13]: And it's great to hear his voice here on the radio tonight.
[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_13]: And it just goes to show Keith, we've had a lot of fun over these last
[00:19:31] [SPEAKER_13]: 20 years. And this was a guy that I grew up listening to.
[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_13]: If you'd have told me, I mean, I listen to this, you know, you know
[00:19:36] [SPEAKER_13]: the kind of music I like.
[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_13]: I think our audience does kind of music I like.
[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_13]: I like the old stuff.
[00:19:40] [SPEAKER_13]: And I grew up listening to Ray Stevens.
[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_13]: If you'd have told me, you know, as a little boy that there had been a day
[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_13]: when we would talk and do all of this.
[00:19:48] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I remembered him too.
[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_03]: He was from the early 60s.
[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_03]: I remember close, close, close, close.
[00:19:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I remember listening to him on a had the Arab, which was just
[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_03]: the breakout hit of that particular summer.
[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_03]: I think it was like 1962, 61 or something like that.
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_13]: He never stopped.
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_13]: I mean, he had hits, you know, that was his first big one.
[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And after that, he just had him one after another, one after another.
[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_03]: And they were all good.
[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, I mean, he had, as we said,
[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_13]: a string of hits and we'll try to get that.
[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_13]: I think we got time to work in this clip right here.
[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_13]: Let's see what we say here.
[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_13]: Oh, yeah, this was about when we take aired this originally.
[00:20:33] [SPEAKER_13]: Chick-fil-A was under a lot of fire for their opposition
[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_13]: to Obama's political correctness.
[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_13]: Well, Obama and the whole homosexual marriage issue.
[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_13]: And people were showing their defiance by going to eat at Chick-fil-A.
[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_13]: And so we talk a little bit about that.
[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_13]: It seems trivial now.
[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_13]: Twelve years later.
[00:20:52] [SPEAKER_13]: But at the time, we were all at Chick-fil-A that day.
[00:20:57] [SPEAKER_13]: Hold on. We got it.
[00:20:59] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah, the old man died in the country.
[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_03]: And then his son came in and became very politically correct.
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_13]: That's right.
[00:21:05] [SPEAKER_13]: Which is turned around.
[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_13]: We got to listen to this very quick with this so we can work through it.
[00:21:09] [SPEAKER_07]: Kathy and display for Chick-fil-A.
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_07]: And I'm just overjoyed to see this.
[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm I'm so encouraged by the support
[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_07]: for Christian values and the America
[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_07]: the values that America was founded on and in support of
[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_07]: a gentleman who runs Chick-fil-A.
[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_07]: I'm very encouraged.
[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_06]: We're in Memphis, Tennessee.
[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_06]: I went to Chick-fil-A as a James went to Chick-fil-A yesterday.
[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_06]: The lines around the block, out the door.
[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_06]: And I'm like you, I am thrilled.
[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm convinced that Main Street America has solid American values.
[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_06]: My concern is how in the world did we let the kind of leadership
[00:21:55] [SPEAKER_06]: that we have get in place that they are today?
[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_07]: Where we're sleeping to wheel and we can't be that way anymore.
[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_07]: We've got to really be on guard against
[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_07]: in this upcoming election, against voter fraud, because
[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_07]: the Democrats have proved it time and time again.
[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_07]: They'll cheat every chance they get.
[00:22:17] [SPEAKER_07]: And I've had it with those guys.
[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_07]: We got to really jump in there and police
[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_07]: the voting places this time.
[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, I'm glad you're really feel like what I want to know.
[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_06]: You know, one of the things I enjoy is that
[00:22:31] [SPEAKER_06]: the you talk like a group of guys sitting around a water cooler at work,
[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_06]: not worried about what other people think about your opinion.
[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_06]: I'm not.
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_06]: Well, that's pretty apparent.
[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_06]: And I appreciate it very much.
[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_06]: You made references to Obama's socialist
[00:22:53] [SPEAKER_06]: tend to tendings, leanings in the video.
[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_06]: Tell us a little bit about that.
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_07]: Well, it's obvious he's a socialist.
[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_07]: He he wants to turn America into some sort of
[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_07]: communist state.
[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_07]: And I mean, does a building have to fall on people
[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_07]: to come around to saying that it's obvious?
[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_07]: That's what's going on, folks.
[00:23:18] [SPEAKER_07]: I saw a movie the other night, 2016.
[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_07]: I was invited to a private screening and it's very eye opening.
[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_07]: You should see it if you can.
[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_13]: All right. So I think the big takeaway from that clip is even in 2012,
[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_13]: he's saying voter fraud, he say the Democrats will cheat every chance they get.
[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_13]: How prescient was that?
[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I tell you what, it shows that, you know, there's nothing new under the sun.
[00:23:43] [SPEAKER_03]: This is what the Democrats have done ever since the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_03]: I remember that was cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of one man, one vote.
[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_03]: But what if that man doesn't want to bother to vote?
[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, if he doesn't want to bother to vote, don't worry.
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_03]: They set up the mechanism in the Voting Rights Act of 65 so other people can vote on his behalf.
[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_03]: And another name for that is voter fraud.
[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_03]: And that's what we've had since 65, particularly in the black precincts.
[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_03]: That's where it was all focused to be and that's where it's all come from.
[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_03]: And that surprisingly protects the Democrats from criticism because they know that if they try to
[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_03]: police it, they will be called racist and being called a racist is kryptonite to a Republican.
[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_13]: And who are we talking to about these things?
[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_13]: Republican party members.
[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_13]: Interview, are we revisiting this hour?
[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_13]: Ray Stevens, I said five million records sold.
[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_13]: It was five million videos sold.
[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_13]: Twenty five million albums sold.
[00:24:45] [SPEAKER_13]: Fifty years in the music business.
[00:24:48] [SPEAKER_13]: And we'll be right back.
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[00:30:56] [SPEAKER_13]: Beautiful stuff and he really could do it all.
[00:30:59] [SPEAKER_13]: 25 million albums sold.
[00:31:02] [SPEAKER_13]: He did it with a career that spanned pop, country, rock and comedy genres.
[00:31:08] [SPEAKER_13]: All of these hits we've played a few of them tonight from the greatest hits album
[00:31:12] [SPEAKER_13]: that I've had since I was a little boy and Ray Stevens made a stop on TPC
[00:31:18] [SPEAKER_13]: back in 2012 and it's that's the interview we are revisiting tonight.
[00:31:23] [SPEAKER_03]: And I'm about 30 years older than you and I have memories of songs from my
[00:31:28] [SPEAKER_03]: childhood of Ray Stevens like Ahab, The Arab I think came out in 60 or 61
[00:31:35] [SPEAKER_03]: and I remember that was just the biggest hit ever.
[00:31:39] [SPEAKER_03]: You know everybody listened to it.
[00:31:41] [SPEAKER_13]: And he did this song because it was his dad's favorite gospel song.
[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_13]: This was actually something I don't know if it's going to be in the clip
[00:31:47] [SPEAKER_13]: a clip we're going to play tonight.
[00:31:49] [SPEAKER_13]: I listened to the entire interview earlier this week but there was a portion
[00:31:53] [SPEAKER_13]: and I don't think we are going to play it but there was a portion of the interview
[00:31:58] [SPEAKER_13]: the full interview where Ray Stevens and my pastor talk about we're all
[00:32:04] [SPEAKER_13]: Southern Baptist and growing up as a Southern Baptist and that was his
[00:32:09] [SPEAKER_13]: religion and he made that song Turn Your Radio On because it was his dad's
[00:32:14] [SPEAKER_13]: favorite gospel song and the record producer said no you're a comedy
[00:32:19] [SPEAKER_13]: singer we're not going to put this out it will never go anywhere.
[00:32:22] [SPEAKER_13]: And he just kept pushing and pushing and pushing and eventually released it.
[00:32:25] [SPEAKER_13]: It was a huge hit and it actually he turned Turn Your Radio On which was an
[00:32:29] [SPEAKER_13]: old time gospel hymn into a pop hit.
[00:32:32] [SPEAKER_13]: And you just heard a little bit of it right there.
[00:32:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Well he was a talented guy there's no doubt about it and he wouldn't have
[00:32:39] [SPEAKER_03]: sustained a career for over 60 years.
[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah now it's 60 it's 50 years in 2012 now you know he's pushing 90 as all of
[00:32:47] [SPEAKER_13]: my favorite singers are if they're still alive and he's probably 70 years now.
[00:32:53] [SPEAKER_13]: Yeah yeah yeah all right this we're going to go back to this interview.
[00:32:58] [SPEAKER_13]: This is sort of I think channels Bob Whitaker the former Reagan
[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_13]: administration appointee who was a friend of ours using comedy.
[00:33:06] [SPEAKER_13]: To make people think and using comedy to mock the left.
[00:33:11] [SPEAKER_13]: Let's see what he had to say about that.
[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_13]: You preempted me on the Chick-fil-A question or the Chick-fil-A issue.
[00:33:17] [SPEAKER_13]: I know you've been on Huckabee's show so I was going to I was going to
[00:33:21] [SPEAKER_13]: bring that up now I got to put you on the spot here.
[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_13]: Did you eat at Chick-fil-A yesterday on appreciation day?
[00:33:26] [SPEAKER_07]: No but a bunch of people in my office did.
[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_13]: Well God bless.
[00:33:29] [SPEAKER_07]: I had a guitar player in the studio I couldn't get away but I would have if
[00:33:33] [SPEAKER_07]: I could have.
[00:33:35] [SPEAKER_07]: But I Chick-fil-A's got eaten on my behalf by several of my employees.
[00:33:43] [SPEAKER_06]: I was at the website or YouTube earlier today and saw a reference to Ray
[00:33:47] [SPEAKER_06]: Stevens encyclopedia tell us about that.
[00:33:51] [SPEAKER_07]: Well I've been it's just out and I've been working on it for over two years and
[00:33:56] [SPEAKER_07]: you know I have a sort of a reputation for cutting comedy songs.
[00:34:02] [SPEAKER_07]: And you know back in the old days I would get some some resistance at
[00:34:08] [SPEAKER_07]: radio when I tried to get radio programmers to play my records.
[00:34:12] [SPEAKER_07]: They'd say oh it's a comedy record.
[00:34:13] [SPEAKER_07]: Comedy is a fast burn here today gone tomorrow and I of course don't feel
[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_07]: that way and didn't then.
[00:34:19] [SPEAKER_07]: And I contend that a good comedy song will stick in people's memories as long
[00:34:25] [SPEAKER_07]: or longer than a lot of the love songs that you hear these days.
[00:34:29] [SPEAKER_07]: And I wanted to do an album of the greatest comedy songs that have ever
[00:34:36] [SPEAKER_07]: been recorded.
[00:34:37] [SPEAKER_07]: And we went all the way back to the beginning of recording and picked the
[00:34:42] [SPEAKER_07]: biggest hits and there are 108 of them in this package.
[00:34:46] [SPEAKER_07]: And I put together a little coffee table book that comes with it.
[00:34:50] [SPEAKER_07]: It's nine CDs 108 songs and an owner's manual or coffee table book if you
[00:34:56] [SPEAKER_07]: want to call it that that comes in the package and it's called the
[00:35:00] [SPEAKER_07]: encyclopedia of recorded comedy music.
[00:35:04] [SPEAKER_07]: And we got everybody in there from Spike Jones to the coasters to the
[00:35:12] [SPEAKER_07]: big bopper you name it.
[00:35:15] [SPEAKER_07]: If it was a big comedy hit it's in there.
[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_06]: Well I've ordered mine and I'd encourage people to order it.
[00:35:22] [SPEAKER_06]: One more thing I want to say.
[00:35:23] [SPEAKER_06]: James and I were talking earlier your material is satirical.
[00:35:28] [SPEAKER_07]: Some of it is yeah.
[00:35:32] [SPEAKER_06]: We were talking about Jesus used satire.
[00:35:35] [SPEAKER_06]: Of course I'm a pastor been a pastor for 30 years.
[00:35:38] [SPEAKER_06]: Jesus used satire very effectively he said it's easier for rich men to
[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_06]: get into heaven than it is for a camel to go through the eye of an eagle.
[00:35:46] [SPEAKER_06]: That's satire.
[00:35:48] [SPEAKER_06]: Do you think your satire is going to be more effective than maybe some other means are?
[00:35:56] [SPEAKER_07]: Well you know that's kind of what I'm known for and so I figured I'd go with my strong suit
[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_07]: and if you can get people to laugh maybe you can get them to think and change their
[00:36:05] [SPEAKER_07]: mind about if they were going to vote liberal maybe they'll think twice before doing that
[00:36:11] [SPEAKER_07]: again.
[00:36:12] [SPEAKER_07]: If you stick your hand in the fire one time don't do it again you know.
[00:36:18] [SPEAKER_07]: You could get fooled the first time but that flame's still hot and those liberals are still liars.
[00:36:25] [SPEAKER_13]: Well thanks to people like you we have modern day Paul Revere out there pastors
[00:36:29] [SPEAKER_13]: over here laughing as he listens to your comments but pumping his fist as he does so.
[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_13]: What's next for Ray Stevens?
[00:36:36] [SPEAKER_13]: I mean you probably only got about four or five decades left in you.
[00:36:39] [SPEAKER_13]: Presidential bid perhaps?
[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_07]: Oh no, no no I'm from the rural south but I'm still smarter than that.
[00:36:52] [SPEAKER_07]: Your program is aptly named SESPOO.
[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_13]: Well that's a little satire there.
[00:36:58] [SPEAKER_13]: I can remember eight years ago when we first went on the air we were trying to come up
[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_13]: with a name that would get attention and maybe cause people to come and take a look.
[00:37:06] [SPEAKER_13]: The political cesspool is what we talk about.
[00:37:08] [SPEAKER_13]: What we find ourselves navigating those murky waters if we're talking about modern day
[00:37:13] [SPEAKER_13]: politics so appropriately enough and then now here we got the king of satire on.
[00:37:17] [SPEAKER_13]: Again ladies and gentlemen.
[00:37:19] [SPEAKER_13]: So this is Ray Stevens we're playing clips from this interview from my god 12 years ago
[00:37:25] [SPEAKER_13]: now I just heard by saying when we went on the air eight years ago that was 2012 talking
[00:37:29] [SPEAKER_13]: about 2004 now here we are in our 20th year 2024.
[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_13]: We are still doing it though and do you remember songs like this talking about comedy?
[00:37:40] [SPEAKER_13]: Some of the comedy songs we played some of the country songs some of the grammy winning songs
[00:37:45] [SPEAKER_13]: some of the other songs but you remember this one I think this is maybe the song he is best known for.
[00:38:11] [SPEAKER_13]: You know I hate to see more and more people like this getting older.
[00:38:18] [SPEAKER_13]: I gave a joke in my talk last week in Alabama.
[00:38:21] [SPEAKER_13]: My phone is like the hotel California once you check in you can't check out but about half the
[00:38:26] [SPEAKER_13]: people in my phone contact list are gone now they've gone on to their eternal reward.
[00:38:32] [SPEAKER_13]: This was a better America when stuff like that was seen as comedy and not the filthy
[00:38:37] [SPEAKER_13]: wretched degenerate stuff we have now.
[00:38:39] [SPEAKER_03]: This was a good guy all the way around Ray Stevens.
[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_03]: You know modern music is the big problem is it's no talent music I mean all the same the
[00:38:47] [SPEAKER_03]: women moan the men groan and they all sound alike and you know I can't back in the 50s
[00:38:55] [SPEAKER_03]: and 60s I could tell you what the top 10 songs were on the billboard of you know top 10.
[00:39:02] [SPEAKER_03]: I can't tell you any songs right now that are on the top 10.
[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_03]: You know what and how do they even determine what's on the top 10 now because
[00:39:11] [SPEAKER_03]: you don't hear that much on the radio the right most of you know at least half of the radio
[00:39:16] [SPEAKER_03]: doesn't play contemporary music anymore and that's not the way it was back in the 50s
[00:39:20] [SPEAKER_03]: and 60s for sure and that's because the contemporary music of the 50s and 60s was so
[00:39:26] [SPEAKER_03]: superior to what we have now in my humble opinion.
[00:39:32] [SPEAKER_13]: And your humble opinion to be sure well let's get to some of the goodbyes that we had
[00:39:41] [SPEAKER_13]: during that particular program.
[00:39:46] [SPEAKER_13]: I don't know if we have time to get to the goodbyes I don't know if we have time for that.
[00:39:49] [SPEAKER_13]: How much time do we have left Liz before the next break?
[00:39:52] [SPEAKER_13]: I know it's seconds it's not minutes so probably do it anyway yeah well we can't do it and then
[00:40:00] [SPEAKER_13]: run into the wall so we'll do it at the top of the next segment well that's what we'll do.
[00:40:05] [SPEAKER_13]: But in any event folks we will remind you that TPC's third quarter fundraising drive will be
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[00:40:44] [SPEAKER_13]: hopefully sometime between now and the next show because we sure do need your help in the
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[00:40:58] [SPEAKER_13]: we'll get to the end of this show next as we revisit this classic interview with Ray Steeves.
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[00:43:01] [SPEAKER_07]: on a chicken farm just downstream from Oak Ridge Tennessee
[00:43:06] [SPEAKER_07]: a nuclear reactor leaks of water accidentally
[00:43:12] [SPEAKER_07]: what happened next is like a horror story by Ralph Nader
[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_07]: that toxic waste leaked into a brood house incubator
[00:43:25] [SPEAKER_07]: inside that chicken coop they always kept the tv on
[00:43:30] [SPEAKER_07]: so
[00:43:31] [SPEAKER_07]: send the programs up the chicks to grow help to keep them calm
[00:43:36] [SPEAKER_07]: as four little chickens put that heavy water down their gullets
[00:43:41] [SPEAKER_11]: the kung fu show was on the air something happened to those bullets
[00:43:46] [SPEAKER_11]: they began to grow and grow with that kung fu show locked in their brains
[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_11]: so
[00:44:15] [SPEAKER_13]: you know using comedy and satire to attack the left he's on that he even mentioned Ralph Nader
[00:44:23] [SPEAKER_03]: in the lyrics of that when his songs went from of course that was referring to teenage
[00:44:28] [SPEAKER_03]: mutant ninja turtles that were big at that time my children i remember when they were young
[00:44:34] [SPEAKER_13]: were entrenched by that particular show well i was too i was about the same age as your boys
[00:44:40] [SPEAKER_13]: so right but we'll get to some of the parting shots in this interview that my pastor and i
[00:44:48] [SPEAKER_03]: did with ray stevens 12 you know one of my children that was motivated by that teenage
[00:44:55] [SPEAKER_03]: me mutant ninja turtle show to take ninjitsu and i tell you it was really a great
[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_03]: advantage for him growing up because nobody could beat him up and that didn't go unrecognized
[00:45:08] [SPEAKER_03]: particularly by the girls so he has that to thank i guess for you know that was one of the
[00:45:16] [SPEAKER_03]: positive reactions that have happened from modern culture what teenage mutant kung fu chickens by
[00:45:22] [SPEAKER_03]: ray stevens or what no well the whole teenage mutant ninja turtle thing got him into a good
[00:45:29] [SPEAKER_03]: really serious martial art uh skill no right all right well let's one that had a lot of
[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_13]: practical value this is how we said goodbye 12 years ago it's just a pleasure to talk
[00:45:39] [SPEAKER_06]: raymond stevenson his own self where'd you find that man i've been listening to that for
[00:45:46] [SPEAKER_07]: many years many years that's on one of those uh what uh one of the songs i forget which one
[00:45:54] [SPEAKER_06]: uh that that's when uh the highway patrolman pulled you over yeah saw your license said is
[00:46:00] [SPEAKER_07]: raymond stevenson his own self dudley do right right now how many i gotta ask you
[00:46:06] [SPEAKER_13]: in closing how many pastors from pascagoula do you really know i may not know any tell you
[00:46:13] [SPEAKER_07]: but i i know the uh the type of guy that would be a pastor in pascagoula sure do i was
[00:46:21] [SPEAKER_07]: raised in the southern baptist church my mama was a sunday school teacher
[00:46:25] [SPEAKER_13]: and they go on from there and pastor and he connect on they talk about having grown up
[00:46:31] [SPEAKER_13]: that you know at that time the keith in the 60s and 70s and all of that i mean it was just a
[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_03]: beautiful expression 60s it started to go south in the 70s as i say but basically the 50s and
[00:46:43] [SPEAKER_03]: 60s in the south even despite all the civil rights agitation that happened at the time
[00:46:48] [SPEAKER_13]: was a wonderful place to live in it was and they reflected on that for a few minutes and
[00:46:54] [SPEAKER_13]: then i know my dad always listens to every show and he may not remember this in fact i
[00:46:59] [SPEAKER_13]: didn't even remember it until i revisited the interview this week in preparation for tonight
[00:47:05] [SPEAKER_06]: i was in the church when the squirrel got out you knew that didn't you
[00:47:10] [SPEAKER_13]: well we're all southern baptist here and the man who uh first took me to to pastor's church
[00:47:16] [SPEAKER_13]: when i guess i was an infant is my dad he's been in studio with us for this uh very
[00:47:20] [SPEAKER_13]: memorable interview dad i gotta get you while while we're still taping here on the air to
[00:47:23] [SPEAKER_21]: say lode ray i already got to say hello to ray but i really haven't appreciated you over
[00:47:27] [SPEAKER_13]: years well thank you very much thank ray stevens everybody ray take care of my friend thanks again
[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_13]: for taking the time out of your busy so uh we all had a good time that time we've had a lot
[00:47:37] [SPEAKER_13]: of good times over the 20 years here on tpc have we not keith alexander yeah and you know
[00:47:43] [SPEAKER_03]: that's a typical show right there that is um you know like southern porch talk as you said
[00:47:48] [SPEAKER_13]: it was it was i i think the big takeaway from that now you gotta remember the democrats had
[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_13]: all of these pop stars at their we were talking about this in the second hour of course
[00:48:00] [SPEAKER_13]: the democratic national convention all of the pop stars that were there i would you couldn't pay me
[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_13]: to listen to lame brain james taylor and him talking through a song as he does and all
[00:48:12] [SPEAKER_13]: lady gaga or something like that well some of her songs are kind of catchy but i gotta be
[00:48:16] [SPEAKER_13]: honest about that but but she was i don't think she was there though i mean i know
[00:48:19] [SPEAKER_13]: she's like far left and anti-white and pro yeah she's a weirdo anyway anyway anyway
[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_13]: talking about weirdos she would qualify all right now that's for sure all kidding aside
[00:48:31] [SPEAKER_13]: that's for sure now beyonce all of them but you know that's another reason i wanted to
[00:48:36] [SPEAKER_13]: actually bring this one up tonight it's because they had all of these so-called
[00:48:39] [SPEAKER_13]: celebrities up there and oprah windfrey and everybody shucking and jiving for the democrats
[00:48:43] [SPEAKER_13]: and their astroturfing this thing but you know you got hey listen i say thanks for reminding
[00:48:48] [SPEAKER_13]: me why i don't want to vote for you you got tony orlando and ray steven still out there
[00:48:53] [SPEAKER_13]: running for the other side i guess but uh you know that was all good stuff and uh no it was
[00:48:59] [SPEAKER_13]: it was a fun interview it wasn't necessarily profound i think the biggest takeaway would be
[00:49:03] [SPEAKER_13]: him saying in 2012 watch out for voter fraud how precious was he on that one now get close
[00:49:10] [SPEAKER_13]: to absolutely i'm taking away your stationary mic it hasn't helped but putting it back in
[00:49:15] [SPEAKER_03]: no let me tell you that it was uh you know it was wonderful really you know to have him know
[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_03]: even back then that voter fraud was going to play a ever increasing uh uh importance in our
[00:49:31] [SPEAKER_03]: election system it's basically voter fraud has ruined our elections and the elections are the
[00:49:36] [SPEAKER_03]: bedrock of our constitutional government if we don't have fair and free elections then
[00:49:44] [SPEAKER_03]: nothing else matters nothing can hold back the damn if we can't elect the right type of people
[00:49:48] [SPEAKER_03]: to serve in our government we see now how effective our government or how ineffective
[00:49:53] [SPEAKER_03]: our government is when you have the wrong people elected doesn't matter what the rules
[00:49:58] [SPEAKER_13]: say they'll just ignore them so anyway that was a fun interview it uh you know again
[00:50:05] [SPEAKER_13]: being able to talk to people like that is a privilege you have when you do something like
[00:50:09] [SPEAKER_13]: this and not many people have the chance to do that and i don't know how many people
[00:50:13] [SPEAKER_13]: know who ray stevens is or how many people listen to those songs but he had a lot of those
[00:50:17] [SPEAKER_13]: songs and a lot of hits ahab they rabbi didn't play that with the night is me again margaret
[00:50:21] [SPEAKER_13]: guitars and all of these songs were big hits harry the hairy ape i remember
[00:50:25] [SPEAKER_13]: but i even bought that record this was one that was uh came out much more recently ray
[00:50:31] [SPEAKER_13]: stevens singing about illegal immigration now listen to the lyrics of this folks listen to
[00:50:42] [SPEAKER_07]: choosing the nation is breaking the law in some countries is frowned upon imagine that sneak
[00:50:49] [SPEAKER_07]: into china they'll call you a spy ship you to mongolia till you die and then the sudan
[00:50:55] [SPEAKER_07]: they'll hang you in the camel you rode in off yeah don't go hiking and enter iraq
[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_07]: or you might never be heard from again and in mexico you might face a firing squad
[00:51:08] [SPEAKER_07]: oh yeah get all about going to north korea that's a great example of a bad idea so when
[00:51:14] [SPEAKER_07]: it comes down to it there's only one option you got yeah come to the usa there's no penalty
[00:51:23] [SPEAKER_11]: to raise you get caught illegally in a grave come to the usa it will be your lucky day
[00:51:34] [SPEAKER_09]: do you get in there's lots of good is way like health care welfare free education
[00:51:42] [SPEAKER_09]: help with your voter registration and drivers license and credit cards and license plates
[00:51:48] [SPEAKER_09]: for your car lots of jobs for you to do and employers who'll turn a blind eye to come to
[00:51:57] [SPEAKER_07]: the usa no need to worry about the constitution will help you start a house of prostitution
[00:52:10] [SPEAKER_07]: if that's the kind of work that you want to do you see those gringo infant bells are crazy
[00:52:18] [SPEAKER_11]: they'll give citizenship to your new baby so you see there's really only one choice for you
[00:52:34] [SPEAKER_11]: ah
[00:52:43] [SPEAKER_07]: yeah you get public housing and cable tv and food stamps and even government cheese
[00:52:51] [SPEAKER_07]: the borders are a swinging door go home for a visit and come back for more of this sanctuary
[00:52:57] [SPEAKER_11]: and amnesty bring the whole family eventually yeah come to the usa now that's our kind of
[00:53:06] [SPEAKER_13]: stuff is it not keith alexander that's it is it not well you can tell there's wit behind
[00:53:10] [SPEAKER_13]: it you know and thought wit and it's satire but it's also true and it rhymes and that's
[00:53:20] [SPEAKER_03]: going to miss him when he's gone so listen to him while we can that's absolutely right
[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_13]: the one and only ray stevens 12 years ago on this show and 12 years from now who knows where
[00:53:30] [SPEAKER_13]: we'll all be but we're here tonight we were here then and we've been here for the last 20
[00:53:35] [SPEAKER_13]: years and we need your support stay on another month so when you get that letter in the mail
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[00:53:54] [SPEAKER_13]: well for david zutty and jack ryan from chicago jack got us in the singing mood
[00:54:01] [SPEAKER_13]: and all of those brain dead celebrity singers in chicago
[00:54:07] [SPEAKER_13]: yeah no talent bombs basically yeah you can take us out liz i'm sorry just forget all of that
[00:54:12] [SPEAKER_13]: the music playing you can take us out we'll talk to you next week ladies and gentlemen
[00:54:17] [SPEAKER_13]: all that seemed to lead to us revisiting this ray stevens interview tonight is uh
[00:54:24] [SPEAKER_13]: installment eight of 12 is in the can we'll see you next week we still got a little bit
[00:54:31] [SPEAKER_13]: of time left this year going by far too fast good night everybody god bless you thank you
[00:54:37] [SPEAKER_13]: and keep us in your hearts and your minds and we'll be here for as long as we can good night