Radio Show Hour 3 – 2026/05/09

[00:00:01] You're listening to the Liberty News Radio Network, and this is The Political Cesspool. The Political Cesspool, known across the South and worldwide as the South's foremost populist conservative radio program. And here to guide you through the murky waters of The Political Cesspool is your host, James Edwards.

[00:00:28] Well, we've got a make-up hour this third hour tonight, and I can't thank Lou Moore enough for his contributions. To the program this evening. I mean, we could have gone on entire other hours. Matter of fact, we left a lot on the table that I wanted to get to with Lou. I'm looking at my notes now, and there is still just so much that I wanted to ask him about. But 90 minutes strong, he did his duty.

[00:00:58] And I want to thank him again, Lou Moore, the great Lou Moore. LibertyNewsRadio.com. Go to the Hour of Decision to get his weekly podcast. Podcast, it's just a can't-miss thing. It's an hour every week you just need to do. But what I'm going to talk about this hour, this is an interesting hour we're going to have here. So the March Around the World was only four weeks this year.

[00:01:24] Sometimes there are five Saturdays in any given month, and we have enjoyed that the last couple of years with March Around the World. And, you know, sometimes two April. Confederate History Month is five Saturdays. Both of them this year were just four Saturdays. So it felt as though we were rushing and getting cut short and couldn't quite get it all in. And then at the end of Confederate History Month, we had this bombshell revelation with the DOJ indicting the SPLC.

[00:01:52] And we had to shift that program to accommodate that story. And a couple of people got bumped. And we're going to have this hour, one of them. And that is John Hill, the founder of the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation.

[00:02:16] He is the last living descendant, the closest living descendant of Confederate General A.P. Hill, one of Robert E. Lee's favorites. And he's going to be on with us this hour. But first, I just want to make mention of the fact that my wife and I just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary. And we celebrated it in a place very near and dear to my heart. And that's Charleston, South Carolina.

[00:02:44] You have heard us broadcast from South Carolina many times in recent years. But that's always been from the upcountry, Greenville, at Dixie Republic. But that is a very special place to me, near and dear to my heart. But my first love in South Carolina was Charleston. And Charleston was founded in April of 1670 by English settlers on the west bank of the Ashley River.

[00:03:15] And it was named Charleston to honor King Charles II. The settlement moved to its current peninsula location in 1680. So, you know, when you're talking about 1670, okay, folks, you're going back basically to the age of exploration. The age of exploration, this pivotal period where European nations led at the time by Portugal and Spain, but, you know, later England and others,

[00:03:44] sailed across the oceans to map and conquer and colonize new regions. And they connected the globe for the first time. But the founding of Charleston also coincides with the golden age of piracy, this romantic, legendary era of the pirates. This was from, you know, circa 1650 to, you know, the mid-1700s.

[00:04:09] This era of intense maritime plunder spanning the Caribbean, the Atlantic, and the Indian Oceans, driven by unemployed privateers. You know, you have the infamous figures like Blackbeard and others. So if you have an American city that was founded, you know, at a time that was basically coinciding with the age of exploration and the golden age of piracy, you've got an historic city to be sure.

[00:04:35] And my first time in Charleston was a long time ago before I was married. And I had a lot of good times in Charleston, I can tell you. And, well, one of those times was with Bob Whitaker. People will remember Bob Whitaker. And Bob came down. We were friends. And I had just started the show, I think. This was in 2005. So we'd been on the air a few months.

[00:05:03] But I'd also gone to Charleston in 04 for the burial of the Hunley crew, which you've heard me talk about before. And Ted Turner. I saw Ted Turner on the Charleston Battery there by Rainbow Row, dressed as a Confederate general on horseback. Ted Turner. I saw that.

[00:05:21] I saw 10,000 people there for this funeral of the Hunley crew, the first crew to ever man a submarine that sank an enemy vessel in the history of naval warfare. I was there for their burial in 2004. But then I went back in 05 because I fell in love with the city. You can fall in love. You can certainly spend the night in love in Charleston.

[00:05:47] But I met Bob Whitaker, who had been on the show, and he became a friend. And Bob was one of my very early friends and mentors in this whole thing. And if you don't know who Bob Whitaker was, I mean, he goes way back to the Reagan administration, Richard Vigery. He goes back to the Vigery era. And I think some of his early books, Bob Whitaker's books, were published by mainstream publishers and got very mainstream critical acclaim.

[00:06:16] But Bob was very much a white nationalist and one of us. And anyway, Bob lived around Columbia. And he came down to meet me in Charleston. And we were staying in downtown Charleston at the Church Street Inn. And it's right there on Market Street. If you know Charleston, Market Street's just right there by the waterfront park with the cruise ships.

[00:06:41] There's a cruise terminal there for all the big cruise ships and Pineapple Fountain and Rainbow Row. And it's just right there you can walk to anything there is to see in downtown Charleston from the Church Street Inn. And that became my post every time I would go to Charleston back in those days. And anyway, me and Bob went out and we crossed over the market. They saw slaves there. They actually still have the old slave mart. It's a museum now. I mean, that's how far back this whole thing goes.

[00:07:11] And they had places, you know, the old exchange and Provo's dungeon, you know, this dungeon where they would keep pirates. It's all there in Charleston. And, of course, you can still see the Hunley there. The Hunley is on display. The submarine, once they found it in, you know, about 25 years ago, you can go see it. It's in a preservation tank. You can see it. It's there. I have seen it. I saw it.

[00:07:41] And it's wonderful. But anyway, Bob and I went out to drink. And Bob, you know, Bob was pretty old even in the early 2000s. And we went out to this bar called Henry's right across the market from Church Street Inn. And Bob wanted to drink. And he challenged me to, you know, a contest. I said, Bob, you don't want to do that. You know, I'm 24. You know, let's just let's be civil.

[00:08:10] But he challenged me. And anyway, Bob ended up sleeping on the floor at the Church Street Inn that night. And when he woke up the next day, he autographed one of his books to me, which I still have on my mantle at home. It's called The New Right Papers. And it was one of his early books when he was in the Reagan administration. And he wrote to James Edwards, a lowlife son of a bitch and a dear friend of mine.

[00:08:37] You know, these are just some of the stories you pick up over the years. Bob Whitaker was one of those guys. One of those many guys I met at the very first David Duke conference in 04. And he was one of my very early guests on the show later that year and going into 2005. And Bob died, you know, a few years after that. But, you know, I miss all these people. I miss all the people that I've met through my career.

[00:09:06] And I certainly miss all the people that I share times like that with, you know, the times you remember. But my wife, I've always wanted to take my wife back to Charleston. And it was our first time to go together to Charleston. And we were there for the last week. And we stayed at Church Street Inn at the same place. And we walked all the familiar places, Pineapple Park and Waterfront Park and the Battery and Rainbow Row and all these historic sites.

[00:09:36] And it was just a beautiful place. It was so good to be back in Charleston again this week. And I just got back yesterday and have been scrambling to get ready for the show tonight. And, well, here we are. And I hope you have enjoyed it. But it's, you know, anniversaries, milestones, birthdays, life, death, marriages, births, you know, you name it.

[00:10:06] We celebrate and lament all of these things as life's comings and goings here on the program. And I'm looking at a mountain of mail here from people who have written in. And I'm a little bit behind on my correspondence and e-mails and the handwritten letters that you send in, folks, and the phone calls. And I'm going to work very hard this next week to catch up on some of those things.

[00:10:36] But I had a great time in Charleston. I wanted to make mention of Charleston. We're going to stay on a southern theme here. And we're going to bring back with us John Hill of the AP Hill Legacy Foundation to give us a belated two-week late closing to our Confederate History Month series in April. He was scheduled to be on that show that night. And the SPLC thing happened. Got rescheduled. And we're going to do it now. Stay tuned. You don't want to miss it.

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[00:12:00] Can a nation conceived in liberty carry its head high if it denies protection to the youngest and most vulnerable of its citizens? Can a country founded on God-given rights continue to thrive without understanding that life is a precious gift from our Creator? As a physician, I have looked into the eyes of one-pound babies. I have cradled their small bodies in the palm of one hand.

[00:12:30] I defy those who are careless, who would disregard life and look at these tiny little miracles and say, we're not going to protect that. But I believe there will come a time when we are all judged on whether or not we took a stand in defense of all life from the moment of conception until our last natural breath. One thing I promise you, I will always take a stand for life.

[00:12:57] I got to ask John Hill, the founder of the AP Hill Legacy Foundation.

[00:13:48] Do you agree with the sentiments expressed in that particular song, John? Yes. I'm obsessed with Rebel Sun. They're my favorite bands. Well, our guest is John Hill. He exhumed General AP Hill's remains with the utmost honor and respect on December the 13th, 2022. It was shortly thereafter he came on our radar, and he has been a mainstay in our Confederate History Month programming

[00:14:17] and shows beyond that ever since. He was one of the pallbearers at General AP Hill's reinterment on the 21st of January, 2023, in Culpeper, Virginia. And he started the AP Hill Legacy Foundation in his ancestor's honor in 2023. So he has been traveling the country, cleaning and flagging Confederate graves and cemeteries.

[00:14:45] He also saves and preserves Confederate relics, books, letters, and photos, etc. John sees it his duty to take care of all Confederate graves and to preserve all of Southern history. That's not all he does, though. We'll get into the rest of his story and his work as this hour plays out. But, John, it's great to have you back. We had originally intended to have you on a couple of weeks ago, and it kept getting pushed.

[00:15:12] It's great to have you back on for a belated close to April's Confederate History Month series tonight. You have become a favorite of ours, and we had you on for the first time to talk about AP Hill's life and his career and all of the things, his biography. It was a fantastic and wildly informative hour. You'll want to find in our broadcast archives, if you want to talk about General AP Hill, one of Lee's favorites,

[00:15:42] check it out in our broadcast archives. But great to have you back on tonight to talk about this and other things as well. How are you tonight, John? Like we were talking about, I think I got Lincoln's Revenge, some kind of stomach flu or something from Gettysburg. I had 101 fever earlier, and I made sure to take a nap before the interview, and I'm all amped up on Tylenol and coffee, and I'm ready to go.

[00:16:07] Well, you know, as a white man can go to Mexico City, the former Tenosius line, and get Montezuma's Revenge. John was in Gettysburg a few days ago, and he's come home sick. So that's Lincoln's Revenge. John, I have seen you on top of the Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg waving the battle flag, our battle flag. So what were you doing up there this week? Well, I didn't do that this week.

[00:16:37] But I was just there doing paranormal stuff at Cachtown. At Cachtown, that was AP Hill's headquarters during the Battle of Gettysburg. And I was there back in 2024, and I had the whole entire end of myself back in 2024. And one of my friends from Virginia was on the phone with me throughout the night, and I'd call him here and there when it got – it was so bad I couldn't sleep.

[00:17:03] Something kept hitting the door, and it was hitting it so hard it was shaking the lock chain on the door. And I would get up and, you know, open the door, nothing there. It's a small hallway in the Floors Creek. So I would have heard somebody, you know, if they were messing with me. I mean, I was locked in there. So I don't know what was going on. It was paranormal activity. And my buddy in Virginia heard on the phone. So we'd been planning a trip. He wanted to come there in person to experience it.

[00:17:30] So we went there last week, or, yeah, last week. And, of course, I think it's because I brought guests, but not much happened. There was no banging that kept us up. You know, pretty – we had a couple shadows come down the staircase. We had the door – AP Hill's room is room number three. I think the one across from Hill's is room number two. The door handle – they're all locked, all the other rooms.

[00:17:56] The door handle jiggled on room number two, and there was nobody in there. So that happened. And also, we had the end to ourselves. It was me, my friend, and his daughter. And I got there first, and I was waiting on them to arrive, and I started feeling really weird. That's actually when I called you because I was staring at myself in the mirror in Hill's room, which felt – it felt like two to three minutes. I never do that. I'm just, like, zoned out staring at myself in the mirror, and then I come – I'm, like, almost, like, come to him.

[00:18:26] I'm like, what the hell am I doing? So then I called you, and I called Mike, and I told him, I said, hey, you know, are you almost here? He said, yeah, what's going on? I said, dude, I don't know. I said, but I'm acting really weird. I said, I've been pacing Hill's room. I'm staring at myself in the mirror. So when him and his daughter got there, we were sitting in the parlor, and he kept telling me that I was just staring over by the fireplace. For, like, the first 15 minutes they were there, he said I was acting really weird. And he says my – everybody was saying my pupils were real big.

[00:18:54] Like, my eyes almost looked black. It was odd. So then hanging out with them and talking to them, it's almost like I just came out of it. I was perfectly fine. And after, like, 15, 20 minutes, we're just laughing and joking around, and, you know, nothing really major happened. So he ended up falling asleep. And he said he had a blast. He loved it. I was just kind of disappointed because I was like, couldn't they just have done one bang while he was there? They could have just hit a door. They could have done something.

[00:19:22] Well, you know, it's interesting what he's telling you now, folks, is interesting because John did call me last week when I was, you know, on my 20th anniversary trip in Charleston with my wife. It just so happened to be just conflicting trips. And I missed the call. I didn't even see when he called. But after I saw that he had called, I texted him back and said, you know, John, it's our 20th anniversary. We're out of town. And he said, you know, don't worry about it. I'll tell you later. So he's actually telling me about it now when he called about it.

[00:19:51] So this was just a few days ago. But to be back in Gettysburg, I mean, that was the last stand of our people on this continent. I mean, after we lost that one, it was, you know, basically a foregone conclusion that we would lose that war. And once we lost that war, our people lost this continent as far as we know it, as far as it was understood to be.

[00:20:15] And so for you to be back in Gettysburg this week and to have had that past up there is very interesting. What's it like for you to be the descendant of Lee's no longer forgotten general, A.P. Hill, to be back there where they fought? I just, you know, love running around the battlefield and, you know, walking the battlefield with their flag and their honor.

[00:20:40] And, you know, I'll just say I've been doing the carnivore diet since February. And I was 303 pounds on February. I'm tall. But I was 303 pounds on February 4th. And I'm 260 now. So I've lost 43 pounds. So I was running around the battlefield. You were ready to fight. Not half dead. Yeah. I mean, I was going up and down hills. I was walking all the way back and forth on Confederate Avenue. I ran up the lookout tower, which is like eight flights of stairs more.

[00:21:09] But I remember a year ago, you know, well before the diet, when I was at my biggest, I was like 317. I had, I could only make it halfway up the lookout tower and had to stop because my heart felt like it was going to explode. So I really felt like, you know, I've been to Gettysburg probably over 20 times. But I felt like this trip was a great honor to them because I actually walked more than I ever have in any of my past trips because I don't feel. Because I have the heart issue and everything, the aortic aneurysm.

[00:21:37] And when I was so overweight, I would walk around and stuff. But I couldn't do what I did this last trip. So dropping that 43 pounds, I felt great. Well, good for you. I mean, that is a wonderful thing. I mean, everybody should be as fit as they can be. And for you to be there and honoring your ancestors to be able to traverse that same terrain that they fought to win. And, you know, I think being, you know, you're a man from the Eastern Theater.

[00:22:06] I'm a Western Theater guy here in Memphis. And, you know, so for me, my Gettysburg is Shiloh. These are both pivotal battles that we lost. But when I go to Shiloh, I feel the very same way as you do. And Shiloh is a place I've been to many times. I've never been to Gettysburg. I love Shiloh. You've been to Shiloh. You're very close to Memphis when you're in Shiloh. And, you know, that was another pivotal battle.

[00:22:30] And, you know, unfortunately, these are two that we lost, you know, amidst many that we won. But ultimately losing the war and losing our place as, you know, in Western civilization on this continent. But anyway, AP Hill, we've done full hours on this. In the past, I want to transition to your more recent work in the next segment and then get you on contemporary politics before the hour ends.

[00:22:59] But APHillLegacyFoundation.org, APHillLegacyFoundation.org is the website for John Hill. He is the closest living descendant to Confederate General AP Hill. You got one minute to give the elevator pitch on AP Hill. How do you do it? My favorite was Frazier's Farm. Battle of Frazier's Farm when his men were getting bombarded by artillery and he grabbed the colors and turned to his men and said,

[00:23:28] Damn you, if you'll not follow me, I'll die alone. And he rode off at a full gallop and his men followed. That pretty much sums up APHill. And, you know, in his death, very like Forrest, he was a hell racer. And he was the first with the most. And he died at the very end of the war. I mean, if he had lived one more month, he would have made it through. But he died heroically.

[00:23:57] I mean, tell us about his death. That was, you know, William H. Palmer said that it was John Mock that shot AP Hill from Pennsylvania. And William H. Palmer told the real story, that it was AP Hill's courier that actually went over and got the Yankees, tried to get him to surrender. And Hill spurred his horse, went over to see what was going on and got distracted because he pulled Hill's horse's bridle. And John Mock shot.

[00:24:27] And John Mock and the other soldier. And the other soldier missed. And the bullet from John Mock's gun hit AP Hill. Went through his heart. But he had his hand up with his reins. So it went through his thumb, through his heart, and out his back. Hold on right there, folks. We've got to take a break. We'll talk more with John Hill of the AP Hill Legacy Foundation next. Stay tuned. How would you like to help this program reach more people and earn silver at the same time?

[00:24:54] Call or text 801-669-2211 for complete details. News this hour from town hall. I'm Mary Rose. The cruise ship caught up in a hantavirus outbreak is headed to one of Spain's Cannery Islands. The CDC says it is sending a team to the island. Dr. John Lowe with the University of Nebraska Medical Center says Americans from the ship will be headed to quarantine at their facility in Omaha.

[00:25:18] What we've been called on to do is to support the U.S. in bringing back a group of American citizens back to the U.S. safely and to ensure that they're safely monitored. Three people have died since the outbreak and five passengers who left the ship are infected. Authorities say the risk to the Canary Islands is low. No one on board is showing symptoms. I'm Jennifer King. A Frontier plane hits a person on the runway during takeoff at Denver Airport.

[00:25:45] A Frontier plane hits and kills someone who should not have been on the runway at Denver Airport, causing an engine fire and smoke on the plane, forcing an evacuation, according to authorities and this ATC.com audio with the pilot telling air traffic control. We just hit somebody. We have an engine fire. And there was an individual walking across the runway. This all happening Friday night. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a trespasser breached Denver Airport security

[00:26:12] by scaling a perimeter fence and running out onto that runway. Frontier says the 224 passengers and seven crew had to evacuate using the plane's inflatable slides. I'm Julie Walker. The U.S. is still waiting for Iran's response to a proposal to end the Middle East conflict. President Trump told reporters on Friday that he expected a response soon on his framework for peace talks.

[00:26:38] Over a dozen people are injured after a possible boat explosion in waters near Miami. That's according to local fire officials. Authorities were called to the Hallover Sandbar over the explosion just before 1 p.m. Eastern time today. More on these stories at townhall.com. You know, life moves fast. Staying sharp, focused, and clear-headed isn't always easy. That's why the same company that brings you Relief Factor has developed something brand new, Think Factor.

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[00:30:20] We are wrapping up Confederate History Month two weeks after the fact, but that's okay. People's schedules get tangled, and I am so glad we can do this tonight, John, because we wanted to close the Confederate History Month series this year with both you and Michael Hill. We had the Confederate History Month, excuse me, the SPLC development, and then you had some scheduling conflicts and you were traveling.

[00:30:46] Anyway, but we are doing it now, and it's certainly a topic for all seasons. But I want to give a quick shout-out. Be sure to give a quick shout-out to Mitch in Maryland. Mitch in Maryland, who is a loyal TPC donor and friend and contributor and has been to our conferences.

[00:31:09] And Mitch, I just want to let you know again how much we appreciate you and the most recent letter we received from you. And, John, I want to just ask you this. I mean, you were telling ghost stories before. You never have to go too far past a mirror to see a ghost, right? Because, I mean, folks, you've got to check out John Hill's Twitter.

[00:31:37] It's at JohnnyReb1989. And there he has all these pictures. And he has a huge following there, by the way. I guess it's called X now, but 42,000, 43,000 followers. Excuse me, 43,000 followers there on Twitter. At JohnnyReb1989. And you have pictures of you now and your ancestors from generations ago. I think I lost you. Yeah.

[00:32:07] No, no, we are still here. Liz, if you can work on that. Okay, we're going to work on that and see what happens. But he traces his ancestry back certainly to his Confederate ancestor, A.P. Hill. They look identical. It is uncanny. He has regular, you know, impromptu shots of himself taken with, you know, contemporary means, you know, iPhones or whatever.

[00:32:34] And pictures of his ancestors from generations ago going all the way back to the war between the states. It's eerie. It is eerie. And, I mean, you know, certainly, you know, our ancestors all live in us. They never die. So long as we live, their genes are passed on. Their blood still flows within us. There's something very special about that, you know, especially when we're talking about the fallen heroes, the people who didn't emerge victorious from their struggles. Like our Confederate ancestors.

[00:33:04] They still live. They are still here. They were not defeated. But, anyway, John Hill. And you can find that on his Twitter at JohnnyReb1989. John, I was just talking about the uncanny resemblance you bear to your forebears. Yeah, all of us hills look the same. But, see, we were talking about ghosts. And it's funny. I have really odd things happen to me with electronics and signal.

[00:33:33] And I can walk over to, like, one of those old radios on the antenna and it'll go to static. And I back two feet away and the music comes back on. I would walk by my mom's TV at her apartment and the settings menu would come on and nobody's near the remote. I lose signal on my phone all the time. Like, you were talking and all of a sudden it just started breaking up real bad and hung up. That was the ghost of Sherman. That was the ghost of Sherman burning the lines there.

[00:34:03] But, yeah, it's so weird. Like, I heard you perfectly clear and then all of a sudden it just started breaking up real bad. Almost sounded like a robot and then it just cut out. How about that, folks? I mean, live and on your radio right now. It's real and in real time. Let me ask you this, though, very quickly. So I had the opportunity, as I've mentioned before, to go to the burial of the Hunley crew in Charleston, South Carolina. You would certainly think in 2004 that would be the only time you had the chance to do something like that.

[00:34:31] But you never expected the ghoulish intentions of our enemies to dig up the graves of our ancestors. And then later in life I had the opportunity to go to the, you know, it was a morbid opportunity, but also one that I'll never forget. And one of the most memorable days of my life, I went to the, you know, the final burial to date of Nathan Bedford Forrest. And I was standing just right there at his casket that held his remains. And it was just an incredible thing.

[00:34:57] What was it like for you to be there to exhume your ancestor's body, General A.P. Hill, and to reinter it? What was it like that to receive his remains, to be his caretaker? Or I cannot imagine. It's just you almost can't describe it because the casket was gone, too. So it was just his remains. So it was his skull and some rib bones, leg bone, part of his pelvis bone, and some arm bones and stuff. But, I mean, the casket was completely gone.

[00:35:25] I found a couple of his buttons in the grave. So there was a couple small pieces that looked like of brass hardware that could have been part of the casket. But that was completely deteriorated and gone because the way the capstones were on top of the grave. So he was underneath the monument. They put the three really big capstones on him. And then they built the mound over the capstones. And then they put the monument on top of the mound. Well, the capstones weren't sealed.

[00:35:54] It wasn't like a modern vault. So it would fill with water and then drain and fill with water and drain since 1891 when he was put there. So the casket was completely gone. But I have the gloves still that I used to exhume A.P. Hill's remains. And it's just hard to realize that his DNA is on those gloves, that I was handling a Confederate general. It's almost like it's not real still four years later.

[00:36:23] It's incredible. And you have these pictures. And it's interesting how just time and circumstance intersect. And time brings us all together, as it were. I mean, I've talked to Michael Hill. It's interesting. Your name is John Michael Hill. I've talked to the other Michael Hill, Michael Hill, James Michael Hill, of the League of the South. And now the Southern Nationalist League and our ancestors fought together at Shiloh. We've talked about how through time and space we have found each other in our contemporary struggles.

[00:36:52] But when you were there for the burial of A.P. Hill, the reinterment after you received his remains as his caretaker, and what, you know, an incredible privilege, but certainly one that no one would want to have but to have fulfilled that duty. I salute you, my friend. But there at that funeral appeared Jared Taylor.

[00:37:21] And you and Jared Taylor, who didn't know each other at the time, but you had this wonderful picture that I still have of you meeting each other there at that funeral. And then later you would come and speak at an AMREN conference, and then later still you and I and Jared toured Selma, Alabama together a couple of years ago. You know, what about the people you've met along this path? They're awesome. I mean, that's my favorite picture from the reinterment was me and Jared Taylor shaking hands.

[00:37:50] And it's funny, when we were in Selma, I remember me and Jared were cleaning bird poop off of the forest monument there at the cemetery. Yes. I never thought I'd be cleaning bird poop off of forest's face with Jared Taylor. Let me tell this story. Let me tell this story. So what happened was, this was two or three years ago now, but John and I and Jared, and there were others, Brad Griffin,

[00:38:17] we were all speaking at the Southern Cultural Center conference. That's Mike Wharton's group. He was on with us back in April. And we were all speaking there. We were speakers at this conference. But we stayed a day late to tour Selma. And before we went to, you know, the holy sites of Selma by popular parlance, you know, the Edmund Pettus Bridge and, you know, all of these things that are of civil rights lore. And we gave you that.

[00:38:44] I mean, Jared did an incredible article for AMREN on that and a video on that to show you what Selma is really like. But there is a Confederate cemetery there. And it was amazing to see both John and Jared just instinctively spring to action. There was no coordination. There was no, you know, conversation between each other. They saw these Confederate monuments.

[00:39:14] And, you know, as John said, there was a little bit of bird droppings on one. And they both, I think you had a water bottle. Both of you just went to work instinctively without any, you know, said, you know, maybe we should clean it. You want to clean this? No. Y'all just both started cleaning. It was really something to see. And I was there. I don't even remember what we used to wipe it. I think we used our hands with the water. Well, I mean, one of y'all had a water bottle. It was hot.

[00:39:44] It was hot, hot, hot that day. And we had gone to downtown Montgomery that day. We saw where Jefferson Davis had been sworn in. I mean, we toured downtown Montgomery. There's some beautiful Confederate monuments there. And we went into Selma. We went to the cemetery. One of you had a water bottle. Some of you were using your hands. One of you was using your hands. One of you had dropped a little water on it to try to loosen it up. But both of you were doing your duty. I mean, just flat out.

[00:40:13] That's what I do all over with Confederate graves everywhere. I always, I mean, I've cleaned hundreds of Confederate graves all across the country. I bring, you know, a lot of times a little weed eater and a shovel in case I need to dig. And, you know, primers and stuff like that. And then D2 is really good. Wet and forget is another one you can use on graves. But it's a little more harsh on sandstone. So the one that's more mild is D2. But, yeah, that's what I use on graves to clean them. And he has done this.

[00:40:42] He has been flagging Confederate graves and cemeteries. He's been cleaning them, getting back the debris, the weeds, the overgrowth all over the country. From Ohio all the way down to the southernmost parts of Dixie and beyond. John Hill of the APHillLegacyFoundation.org. Hey, friends, it's James. Did you know that every issue of the American Free Press now features my own published Q&A interviews with one of your favorite guests from the radio program? That's right.

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[00:43:30] Now you come on. Pretty good show as you're born. Stop jumping around, you'll run out of breath. Why don't you sit back and calm yourself? Carry on now. You must. We'll do what we like, cause thanks for the stars. How do you do? Right, pleasant greeting. Pretty good show as you're born. We'll be in the gift shop of the Confederate Museum in downtown Greenville, South Carolina, where we have had not one but two historic conferences.

[00:43:59] Our 20th anniversary conference a couple of years ago, and just last year our Will to Power conference that we were talking about with Lou Moore in the last hour. There just, with almost walking distance of the hotel we met at in those two years, is the Confederate Museum of Greenville.

[00:44:16] And there in the gift shop you will find copies of Song of the South, that classic Walt Disney movie featuring Br'er Rabbit and Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. And these wonderful stories that have been deemed John verboten to kids these days. But you've been there in Greenville, and you've been to Dixie Republic.

[00:44:43] Just a quick shout out to those incredible people who have been so integral to this program, and to both of us, I think, in many ways. Yeah, definitely. I have a picture of you and I at Dixie Republic, as a matter of fact, for one of the live broadcasts we've done there. I've done so many there, I can't even remember which one it was. But it was one of them, and I can't wait for the next already. Dixie Fest, I think it was in July of 2023. That sounds about right.

[00:45:12] I remember my buddy Nick took our picture, and then he took the picture of me and Michael Gatti, too. And we just played an ad for Michael Gatti's sub stack, and he and Rich Hamblin, and they're doing some great work on radio. Mike Michael's all over the place on radio now with RBN and other places. But I should say this as well.

[00:45:32] One of the other guys there, one of the jolly boys from Dixie Republic, Steve, has sent me this note that South Carolina and North Carolina observe Confederate Memorial Day on May the 10th. If you're listening live, that's tomorrow. If you're listening in the archives, that was maybe yesterday or a few days ago. But Sunday, May 10th is Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina and North Carolina. No, we didn't proclaim that. That is a state-designated holiday.

[00:46:03] The South Carolina government will observe it on Monday, May the 11th. State offices will close in South Carolina on that day. So when we talk about Confederate History Month and all of these things, John, I mean, we didn't make that up. It was widely celebrated throughout the South, you know, in years gone by. And still to this day in proper states. Yeah, I have an original 1907. It's actually one of my later relics.

[00:46:29] But it's a proclamation of Lee's birthday celebration from the governor at that time in Virginia. And it's dated 1907, you know, the 100th anniversary when he was born. And so, I mean, everything has been ruined over the years and trying to take it away from us and destroy our history. And I'm just shocked that, you know, some states still recognize it. Because it's getting to the point where nobody does. But they do. I mean, some still do.

[00:46:59] It's not as many as it was 22 years ago when we first went on the air. But some still do. We just mentioned two of them. And there are still states like Tennessee that still proclaim Nathan Bedford Forest Day, you know, by official proclamation. I mean, it still does happen. But if you're not tuning in to shows like this or websites like APHillLegacyFoundation.org, you don't know. But I want to tell you one thing you maybe don't know. Perhaps you should if you've listened to the show for some time.

[00:47:28] But from October 2nd, 2024 to October 27th, John Hill was in western North Carolina after Hurricane Helene. And, John, you were able to raise over $200,000. And you brought out four truckloads of supplies and 60 generators directly to the people of Yancey, Mitchell, Booncombe, and Madison counties. You rented heavy equipment for communities to fix driveways and roads.

[00:47:58] You put families up at hotels. And you gave out $135,000 in cash to families who lost everything. We had an ad for American Free Press earlier this hour. And we did a Q&A with you when you were doing this in the American Free Press. And I know at least one reader had donated $5,000 to that. But, I mean, you're not just honoring our heroes from the past.

[00:48:25] You are serving the descendants of those people here and now at the APHillLegacyFoundation.org. That address one more time. APHillLegacyFoundation.org. John, what you did there was in many cases, and I think certainly to the people that you impacted more than the local, county, state, and federal governments did.

[00:48:52] Yeah, I was told by people that I helped more than the entire government did. But it's really funny. I think I've told this to you on the show before. But there was hardly any signal when I was there. And the first day I went out, the first day I was there, I was out for like 13 hours. There was hardly any service anywhere on my phone. And I went to a gas station to fill up that Penske truck. And at the gas pump, I actually had service.

[00:49:20] And that's where I made that post that went viral that raised over $200,000. It got over 5 million views on X. I was sitting at a gas pump at like 930 at night the first day I was there. It's just crazy to think that if I wouldn't have made that post at that gas pump, maybe it wouldn't have worked out the way it did. So that's the moral of the story.

[00:49:46] If you have service and you feel like making a post, you think it's going to be important, go ahead and do it. God's will be done. If I didn't, I don't know what would have happened. You helped so many people. And I saw these pictures of these folks receiving these. So people have donated to you. I mean, just common people, maybe listeners of this radio program, readers of American Free Press, people that you had reached through your Twitter, which is numbering your followers number now in the tens of thousands. But all of them, this collective.

[00:50:17] You know, had given money to you and you had given it to the community. And you see these pictures of these people, you know, who had lost everything. I mean, you know, their houses had just been washed away in this hurricane. You know, how many hurricanes reached the highlands of, you know, East Tennessee and North Carolina and the country of South Carolina? I mean, you know, never, you know, is the answer. And in some cases, these houses had been just completely washed away. They were gone.

[00:50:46] And then you show up with a check. I mean, John, that's what your ancestors, AP Hill, was fighting for. I mean, to benefit his people, to advance his people, to protect his people. You did that in a different way, but no less important way. To help save the white race and preserve our heritage is what I'm doing. That's my main goal. I mean, doing the graves and the relics and all that is part of it. So they're never forgotten.

[00:51:15] But also helping our race, it's just, that's number one to me. And you are at JohnnyReb1989 on Twitter. And there, folks, you can follow him and join him in his efforts with the AP Hill Legacy Foundation, APHillLegacyFoundation.org. And, John, it's just, it's been an honor.

[00:51:43] It's always an honor to talk to you, to be with you that day in Selma. I'll certainly never forget, but you talk about contemporary politics as well. And we've got about two minutes remaining. So let's just open up an entirely different can of worms. The current year, where we are now, Jewish power and influence, the white race, two minutes. Where do you want to go with that? We currently live in the United States of Israel.

[00:52:12] And Trump is bought out by Netanyahu, or however you pronounce his name. He's basically the president. I mean, it's just all Jewish influence. And they run everything, the media, the Hollywood, what brainwashes everybody to hate their own race and hate their own ancestors. And all the politicians are in on it. And I did a post on X about the Epstein files. I was over 14 hours deep in those.

[00:52:39] And I posted over 200 screenshots from them showing Trump was mentioned over 5,000 times. And all the different stuff they talked about and talking about Jews, how they control us. And I just posted all that on X and it got over a million views. So, I mean, I had to stop after like 14, 15 hours of Epstein files. It was too much. I was getting too angry. I didn't want to break my phone or something. It was just, it was ridiculous.

[00:53:08] So, it's just pretty much the left and right are the two wings of the same bird. And our ancestors would be stacking bodies right now. That's all I can pretty much say. Everything is completely gone. Well, you know, you take that back to that cliche from the 1700s. Pat Buchanan had said this in one of his speeches. You know, if our ancestors were ready to go to war over a little bit of tax on tea, what do you think they would say these days?

[00:53:36] And his answer was rhetorical, lock and load. But, you know, I'm looking at your Twitter right now, x.com, at JohnnyRev1989. And on May 5th, you have this photo, hanging out with General Lee in Gettysburg at night. You know, the General Lee statue no longer exists in Charlottesville, Virginia, but it's still there at Gettysburg. And it's, wow.

[00:54:05] You know, that was the night of my anniversary, by the way. I was married on May 5th, 2006, 20 years ago. I was there, you know, May 5th of this year, a couple of days ago. I was in Charleston, South Carolina with my wife. And there you were in Gettysburg under the stars with General Lee. Hey, I appreciate you so much, John. And I appreciate you. Thank you. Yes, indeed.

[00:54:33] I can't wait to see you again and collaborate with you again. Confederate History Month wrapping up two weeks late, but not a moment too soon. Follow A.P. Hill, John Hill of the A.P. Hill Legacy Foundation. Good night, everybody. God bless you. God bless you.