The Eagle’s Nest was set ablaze by an arsonist last night in Germany. Harry Cooper of Sharkhunters reports on the crime and provides additional details about this historic site.
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[00:00:31] Ladies and gentlemen, any reason to bring our friend Harry Cooper on the program is always a good one. However, tonight's reason is a little bit more unfortunate than most, and we're going to get to that in just a moment. But first, let's say hello to him, Harry Cooper. Of course, it needs no introduction to this audience, and he is the president of Shark Hunters at SharkHunters.com.
[00:00:55] There is no man, alive or dead, who's an American, who has done more to bring old enemies together as friends and give you the testimonies of the German warriors from World War II straight from their mouths. And he's put it in books, and he's put it in all kinds of things that you can peruse at SharkHunters.com.
[00:01:24] No man has done that to a greater extent than Harry Cooper. He knew these men, and since the mid-1980s, he has made it his life's work to tell their stories, not to do research and write books under his own name, but to take their stories and transcribe it faithfully for you to read. And it's one-of-a-kind work. Now, you know that because he's been such a regular guest.
[00:01:48] Some of his books and signed photos have been featured parts of our Christmas fundraising incentives for the last several years. He spoke at our 20-year anniversary conference just a couple of years ago. So that Harry Cooper is back with us tonight, and we're going to say hello to him now. Harry, welcome back. Glad to be back, James. Well, I wish again we were having you on just to have you regale us with stories about all the veterans you knew
[00:02:18] and all the great times you had with them in the United States and elsewhere, or excuse me, in Germany and the United States and other countries as well. But tonight, unfortunately, we are talking about a crime that took place just last night. Just last night, if you're listening live, the Eagle's Nest was set ablaze and essentially burned to the ground. Harry, give us a little bit more information.
[00:02:43] Yeah, sadly, this beautiful building that was built 1938 under command of Martin Bormann for Adolf Hitler's 30th birthday or 50th birthday, sorry. We've been there I don't know how many times. Whenever I bring a group over there, we always stop at Eagle's Nest.
[00:03:07] It was turned into a restaurant under the leadership of the Haufbrow House of Berchtesgaden, not the same one from Munich. But just awesome. We'd go up there to the upper parking lot. Excuse me.
[00:03:29] We'd go down that long tunnel, up the beautiful brass elevator that was the same exact elevator that was in use back in those days, ridden by famous people, Hitler, Eva Braun, Bormann, Göring, etc., up there and turned into a restaurant.
[00:03:58] Unfortunately, somebody torched it last night, and the only thing remaining is the masonry works, the stone walls, etc. Now, we have to keep saying alleged there was a guy on a motorcycle coming down from the Eagle's Nest, Kehlstein House is the real name, coming down on his motorcycle,
[00:04:29] and it's alleged that he's the guy that torched it, and it's alleged that he was mentally deranged. Which is an excuse that any criminal uses. It's the get-out-of-jail-free card, as we've seen. That is absolutely correct.
[00:04:50] And I've gotten so many questions, so many emails from around the world, because Shark Hunters is an international organization, members in 70-something countries, and the shock and the outrage. You don't have to be in love with the Third Reich.
[00:05:20] Just in love with history. This was a beautiful, magnificent building, and now it's reduced to nothing but stone walls. That's tragic. Harry, how many times have you been there? Oh, dozens. I've been to Germany. I can imagine. Oh, man, 50, 60 times at least, and bringing history groups with us.
[00:05:48] Eddie, what would it be like for you to visit a place like that? I was going to think, I think I know what it would be like. I was going to ask, Harry, I'm extremely emotional, almost I get mystical almost when I go to graveyards and the bridges where my grandfather first came from Arkansas to Mississippi, across Mississippi River to Memphis. What was it like the first, second time you went to? There, if you have any kind of imagination or any kind of emotion,
[00:06:15] you can just feel the people who had been there back in the 40s, people who we read about in history books. I don't know if you can say their spirits are there or just your memory, your mind takes you back there. We have history groups there every year, practically. We're going there again in September of 2027.
[00:06:49] It doesn't look like it's going to look like it's going to be... Let me step back one. Some of the government officials there in the Bavarian government say they are going to rebuild it to look just the way it was. And God bless them. I hope they do. But it's still not the same thing. It may look like the same thing.
[00:07:11] Like so many castles, we've been in so many castles in Europe, Poland, Germany, and these beautiful 400-, 500-year-old castles are really only 40 and 50 years old because they were destroyed during the war and rebuilt. So that's the way it'll be with Eagle's Nest, according to government officials. There's so many interesting aspects to the Eagle's Nest, too.
[00:07:40] I mean, there is a marble fireplace that was there. I don't know what happened to it or what condition it's in that was gifted to Hitler by Mussolini. So we have to assume that it was also destroyed, but that was there. And, of course, not very special. Well, it's kind of hard to destroy a fireplace. Well, I doubt it's a better condition now than it was 48 hours ago, but I digress.
[00:08:05] Well, let me ask you this, because I had a friend who was there last week, if you can believe it. He was just there last week, and I'm looking at a photo of him. I'll send it to you, Harry, via email after this. But it's a photo of him in front of this fireplace and a photo of him standing at a vantage point even above the Eagle's Nest. You can see the Eagle's Nest below him in the background. So he's pretty high up. But he talked about what you just mentioned.
[00:08:33] He talked about the fact that there were constant busloads of people being trekked up there to see this. And you mentioned that the Bavarian government is eager to rebuild it. And I have to ask you, I can't imagine that the narrated tour is going to give you anything objective. I mean, I would imagine it's going to be some sort of maybe browbeating negative history. But why are the people going there?
[00:08:56] I can't imagine that there's a lot of traffic to Stalin's old house or even Churchill's or even Eisenhower's presidential library. I don't know how many people go there compared to how many were touring the Eagle's Nest. But why do you think people go there? I don't think it's just because they believe everything that they've learned in elementary history class about World War II. Do you think they go there because a man of history once walked those halls?
[00:09:22] I mean, why do you think that it is such a tourist destination that they would want to rebuild after it's been burned down? Yeah, there's no doubt in my mind people go there because so many people of history were there. It's a magnificent place. It is 1,800 meters up in the sky. And I've seen on a clear day, which is usually there, you can see the castle in Salzburg, Austria.
[00:09:53] It's just breathtaking up there. And no matter where you're at in the village below or in the countryside below, you can look up and you can see the Eagle's Nest. And at night, there's a bright light on up there. And people always say that Uncle Adolf is watching you from up there. Why people go there, that's primarily the reason they go there because it's history.
[00:10:17] Also, why they want to rebuild it, my own personal opinion, not so much because it's a place of history, but because it's darn near a license to print money. Harry, can I ask you a quick question, not to interrupt you? Well, hold on. We've got a break. When we come back, Eddie's going to take the floor and ask you the next question.
[00:10:40] But, yes, as you say, for the practical reasons or just the cold-hard economic reasons is because people go there, and it is a cash cow. Let's just call it what it is as far as the bean counters are concerned. But for a lot of people, it's a lot more than that. We'll be right back. Stay tuned. Hey, folks. It's your friend Harry Cooper here.
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[00:13:09] All right. We are back. We're talking with Harry Cooper of SharkHunters.com. Folks, if you haven't gone to SharkHunters.com lately, SharkHunters, one word, SharkHunters, plural, SharkHunters.com, the books, the signed memorabilia, I talked to Harry earlier today. You know, suffice it to say, not all of the top-ranking Germans survived the war. Certainly most in the government and the political realm did not, and the ones that did were hanged in a show trial.
[00:13:37] But then you had, of course, a lot of the military leaders didn't survive it either. But the ones who did, the highest-ranking ones who did, Harry knew them. I mean, personally, in their homes knew them and developed lifelong friendships with them in ways that no other American ever has, in my opinion. I don't know of any other American, living or dead, who befriended the German military leaders
[00:14:04] as Harry was able to do over the course of the last three decades and get to know them and tell their stories in books at SharkHunters.com, signed memorabilia, photos, you name it. I'm talking about skippers in the U-Boat Waffe, talking about pilots in the Luftwaffe. I mean, so many of you have received these gifts as part of our Christmas fundraising drives the last few years. It's really something. If you're a new listener, SharkHunters.com.
[00:14:32] But we're going to continue on now with the burning, the arson that took place at the Eagle's Nest last night and the significance of this historic site. And Eddie has a question. Yes. It's maybe a question and a statement. Harry, there's something about, you call them Nazis, what do you want to call it? There's something about a feeling you get. And even before I knew the history of World War II or anything, when I was a kid, I was drawn
[00:15:00] to German soldiers in the so-called Nazi spirit. And you mentioned, I think there's something spiritual about the Germans, Adolf Hitler, the SS, the Eagle's Nest. There's something there almost, and I don't want to sound like a religious nut. It's almost religious in a spiritual way that you don't get. And I've been to a lot of sites, but that you don't get in any other site like that.
[00:15:27] Well, I think what Eddie may be stabbing at, Harry, but you take it from there is even as Southerners, even as Southerners, there's something romantic about the vanquished. I don't know exactly what it is. And there's something to that. They were holy. They were fighting for holy calls. Well, we'll let Harry go from there. One last thing. One last thing. I don't know of any other site in the world. I'm probably wrong. And it's in the class of the Eagle's Nest where people would go endless. It's one crowd. I got one. Graceland.
[00:15:57] Graceland. But let's hear it. That's no comment. All kidding aside. I mean, he's asking. I think what he's stabbing at is the continuation of what we're talking about before the break. Why are people going there? It's not to go there to see a man that they believe is the greatest villain in all of history, I don't think. Yeah. He's been demonized something fierce. I remember I was a kid during the war years.
[00:16:25] I was born one day after the Wehrmacht marched into Poland. So I grew up with the war years. And we were told there were horrible Nazis. And, of course, the term Nazi was a propaganda term coined by the Churchill government. And Hitler was a godless Nazi. Well, no. He was a practicing Catholic. I was in the church where he sang in the youth choir.
[00:16:53] But the reason people go there is, I don't know, it's hard to put your finger on, but things connected with the Third Reich, they were fighting for Christianity to prevent the spread of Bolshevism.
[00:17:16] And if it hadn't been for Germany and the Third Reich, people believe, some people believe that the Bolsheviks would have extended all the way to the Atlantic coast. Yeah. And there's no doubt about it. We had a guest recently who wrote a book that I think definitively argues that had there not been Operation Barbarossa, the Russians were coming.
[00:17:45] And they were coming. And they were going to go, as you say, Harry, they were going to go all the way. I mean, that whole war. Forget all the propaganda. Forget what your fourth grade history teacher told you. Forget what your history professor in college taught you. That whole war was an ideological war about nationalism versus communism versus Bolshevism, which was, of course, owned and operated. It was a Jewish enterprise in Russia.
[00:18:08] Now, the Russian people were great, but the people that were in charge of Russia during the World War II era were not Russians as you know them today. And so the whole thing was an ideological thing against Bolshevism and communism. And only, if only, the good guys had won. But, yes, that was coming, and it would have extended far beyond the Berlin Wall had it not been for the sacrifices of the Germans. One more thing. You nailed it again, Harry. You named it. It was Christianity against Bolshevism, Christianity against Satan.
[00:18:38] Western civilization versus it. And you know what? And that's where the spiritual religious aspect comes in, at least for me. I can't name it for anybody else, but it was by God. It was Christianity against the godless Satanism of Russia, backed by the godless Satanist people of the United States. Of course, you know, the Russian people are a different thing than the people who are running Russia. Just so you know, we wouldn't want anybody to judge the United States based upon who owns and controls us today. But we understand what you're saying. Right.
[00:19:08] And as you mentioned, I know the German side better than most because I've been there, and I've been in their homes. And as for the other side, the Soviet side, From 1991 to 97, I've been in and out of Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kronstadt, Kalingrad, Sivestapo, etc.
[00:19:36] And I got to know so many of those people, too. And I met Vladimir Putin, spent 15 minutes talking with him. He's not a madman. He's a hardcore Russian patriot, a right winger. But you go back, if you dig into it like I do, 12 hours a day, every day for 40 years, roughly, you realize that World War II was not what we were told.
[00:20:04] The three biggest lies of World War II are contained in one sentence. The sentence is, Adolf Hitler started World War II to kill all the Jews and rule the world. Well, first off, Hitler didn't start the war. Secondly, to kill all the Jews? I had a friend there named Helmut Schmuckl. Can't get much more Jewish than that. He was a German U-boat commander.
[00:20:33] I've been in cemeteries. There were nothing but Jewish soldiers who died fighting for Germany. And to control the world? That's ridiculous. It wasn't Hitler. It was the East versus the West. That was the control of the world. Communism was trying to take over, as it's doing today, but that's another whole ballgame.
[00:21:00] So Hitler was the last bulwark of the fortress against the spread of Bolshevism. We got off the topic of why do people go to Eagle's Nest. Well, yeah, this was the topic of the hour. The topic, I guess, I mean, the catalyst for bringing you back on tonight is that the Eagle's Nest was burned down last night by an arsonist.
[00:21:24] But talk a little bit more about additional details about this historic site, why people go, your experiences there. You have insights that none of us can even imagine. Yeah, most people don't realize there's a floor below the Eagle's Nest. Everybody knows the big hotel room. Not the hotel, sorry. I've been up since 3 this morning, so I'm a little fuzzy.
[00:21:53] Everybody knows about the grand room, which was where Hitler used to entertain guests. But downstairs of that, people don't realize there's a downstairs. There are several rooms downstairs. One was where Eva Braun, it's not pronounced Braun, it's brown, the German word meaning the color brown. She and the lady friends would have dinner or lunch in that room downstairs.
[00:22:22] Hitler's guards would have their own room down there where they had dinner. That had all been turned into cold rooms and prep, food prep for the Hofbrauhaus of Berksgaden because the main saloon or sal, it's called, has been turned into a restaurant.
[00:22:48] And the reason, my opinion, why it's being rebuilt, it was just an incredible part of the economics of the area. Everybody who visited there dropped an average of about $100. It cost you about $25 to go there.
[00:23:13] You would drive up to the parking lot by where the Platterhof Hotel was. You'd get on a bus. You'd have to pay a ticket. And you could only go up there on their bus because the grade is so incredibly steep. You get up there. You pay $25 now for the ticket to go there. You get off at the upstairs parking lot.
[00:23:35] You get down the long hallway tunnel that Hitler and Goering and Borman went down. You get on that incredibly beautiful elevator. Polished brass walls. They don't have the little seats in there because it's standing room now. And they take a maximum of 40 people. You figure maybe it's only 20 people on there per average.
[00:24:04] Up to Eagle's Nest itself, 400 meters I think it is. And they make that trip up and down every 60 seconds. And you've got maybe average 20 people on there who are going to spend $100, average. That's $2,000 every 60 seconds up and down.
[00:24:28] So for six hours, seven hours, whatever, that's a ton of money every day for like about eight months a year it's open. And, again, I don't hate anybody enough to pay money to go see where they used to live. But I might love somebody enough. Harry, I'm going to take advantage of our friendship and ask you to stay 10 more minutes if you can. We had you booked for 30. If you can go 40, I'd sure appreciate it. We'll be right back. How would you like to help this program reach more people and earn silver at the same time?
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[00:30:09] Folks, on Monday, October the 26th, Monday, October the 26th, will be 22 years to the day of TPC's first ever broadcast. 22 years on Monday. Next week, it will be a party show to remember. It's going to be our anniversary show mixed with our annual Halloween fun broadcast mixed with our last show before the midterms.
[00:30:38] It's all converging next week on TPC, our anniversary show. 22 years. Harry Cooper's been a part of it for at least that long. I first met Harry in the spring of 2004, which was just a few months shy of that first day on the air. And I have, well, suffice it to say, known him ever since, but much more than that. He's been a friend ever since.
[00:31:02] And in these last, well, from the beginning all the way through, but these last few years in particular, such a wonderful part of the program in our fabric gear. A speaker at our 20th anniversary conference. A man whose incredible offerings at sharkhunters.com have been part of our Christmas incentive gifts for the last three years now running. And so much more. Just the wonderful history that he and only he can give.
[00:31:32] There's a reason Jeff Rents has had him on like 5,000 times. It's because nobody else can do it. Twice a month, every month. For years and years and years. Sharkhunters.com. Well, I want to go, Harry, to a friend of mine now that, if I can find this text, I get about 600 text messages a day. If I can find it. Oh, please let me find it.
[00:31:59] Eddie, tread water for 30 seconds while I find it. We've got to move quick here. Oh, never mind. I found it. I found it. Okay. Go ahead. All right. Very quickly. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go. I've got to get to this. I see a wealth of a care. Oh, okay. Never mind. Okay. So a friend of mine was in Germany just last week. And he visited the Eagle's Nest just days before it was raised. And he shared with me, he texted me some observations he made. I made mention to him earlier today that you were going to be on tonight.
[00:32:29] And he shared with me four observations and wanted you to respond to it. And by the way, I just texted you, Eddie, the picture. What a great picture. Two great pictures he sent from the Eagle's Nest. But here's what he said he noticed about Germany. Number one, that there was a negligible amount of black or brown people in East Germany and in the middle of the country, although there were a lot of Asians in the touristy spots. But in Frankfurt, he saw more blacks, Indians, and Arabs than actual Germans. That's number one.
[00:32:59] Number two, that the Germans were very law-abiding and orderly people. They would wait at intersections even when no traffic was in sight. Virtually zero cops or security cameras outside of the western cities. They trust you to pump your own gas before paying. Number three, the best parts to visit in order in terms of his opinion and his experience there. Small villages with medieval walls, churches and monasteries and breweries. The Bavarian Alps. Black Forest hiking trails.
[00:33:28] And number four, the best foods in order. Game goulage, which is venison and cranberries. Crispy pork shank and Berlin currywurst. So those are the four observations from a recent traveler to Germany. Harry, how do your experiences in the fatherland stack up to that? We have always said that in Germany, especially Bavaria and Austria, you cannot get a bad meal. You cannot get a bad beer.
[00:33:58] And you cannot take a bad photograph. And as for law-abiding, I was in Bonn, Germany with Admiral Poser, who had been commander of U-202 during the war. And we're standing. This was a Sunday morning when traffic was next to nothing. And we're standing at a traffic light waiting for the walk sign to come on. And there were about six or seven people standing there. No cars moving at all.
[00:34:27] And one guy looked like a college professor. Had a briefcase. He walked across against the do not walk sign. And Poser looked at me and said, like the animals in Africa. I said, what, what? He said, the man has no discipline. They are hardcore law and order. They really are.
[00:34:56] And I love dealing with those old Germans. A handshake is a contract. And they don't lie to you. I love it. Eddie, I think that Harry needs to take another trip on the river pretty soon. And that is your radio program, Blood River Radio. Yes. This is a guy who we can't hear from enough and often enough. And thankfully, thankfully, Harry has guaranteed me he's going to live to be 120.
[00:35:25] So we've got a little bit of time left with him. 110. 110. All right, yeah, 120 is pushing it. 110, that's fine. Well, that gives you... At age 55, I was talking to Captain... Oh, what the heck? I've gone blank. It's hell getting old. Herbert Werner. And I said, I was middle-aged. He said, middle-aged or 55, you're going to live to 110? I said, yep, guarantee it. Hey, well, look, I mean, the actor and director Mel Brooks is 100.
[00:35:54] Frankie Valli's 92 was doing rock concerts earlier this year. You're, you know, you're... Captain, I heard yesterday, but you got a couple of decades left anyway. He sank the first ship in American waters. I was at his 103rd birthday party when his kids took away his car keys, and he died after 105 years old. So, and as you know, James...
[00:36:19] Hey, Harry, I've got to tell you, if he lived to be 105, I need 20 more years of us meeting at the Ocala, Florida Cracker Barrel to look forward to. Absolutely. We've had some good times at Cracker Barrel, have we not? Well, it's always great visiting with you and your family. My family loves you guys. It's yours. And you guys, yeah. And we love you. We love your wife, Kay. We love Sean. We love the whole Cooper clan. Eddie? One last quick question.
[00:36:50] I don't know how much exposure you have with American soldiers. How would you compare the German soldiers, pilots, sub-mariners, as far as honor, discipline, professionalism with the American soldiers? Do it all. Do it all. Harry, we've got two or three minutes left. Do it all. German versus Americans versus Russians versus Japs. Yes. Yes.
[00:37:15] Well, as far as the Japs are concerned, I will never drive a Jap car because of the way they tortured and butchered our prisoners for their own sick pleasure. And on the island of Chichijima, if they captured an American flyer, they had him butchered and cooked and fed to their troops. So Jap troops, scum. Well, you know, I believe it may be anecdotal, but it may not be true.
[00:37:45] But I have heard that even Hitler said he admired the spirit with which they fought, which was, you know, the kamikaze spirit, which if you're going to win, you're going to have to take hell with you. But to Eddie's point, though, I think this is a little bit more intimate and we should focus on Germans versus Americans in terms of honor and courage. Professionalism, integrity. Yeah. Professionalism, integrity as a soldier. What would you say based upon? Pretty much on both sides.
[00:38:11] Now, on the German side, you know, all you have to do is say SS and people are ready to throw up, you know, because they've been trained. Pavlov dog type training. But the guys in their two SSs, the Algemeine SS, which were Himmler's police, which are one group.
[00:38:34] But the Waffen SS were the fighters, the German version of the Green Beret. And by the way, by the way, Harry, I just have to say you have a great book on the remembrances of the Waffen SS soldiers that you have put to text, which we offered last Christmas, I believe. Yeah, we've got five books in the series on the Waffen SS and four books, five books on the photos taken by the Waffen SS.
[00:39:02] These guys were honorable, decent guys, and they had the worst casualty rating of any of the foot soldiers because they didn't know how to quit. And they were treated so horribly by the Soviets. You know, you couldn't surrender because they butchered you. Tito's partisans were the worst.
[00:39:27] Strip the prisoners naked, tie them with barbed wire, and then shove them off into a mine shaft 400 feet deep. So the guys in the Luftwaffe also, I've had so many flight commanders tell me that the division commander said,
[00:39:52] if I see anybody gunning a man in the chute, I'll kill him with my own pistol when we get on the ground. So the Americans and the Germans fought honorably. They were decent to one another. The Soviet soldiers, they were not well trained, but they had a lot of them. How do you reconcile, with your statement there, Harry, how would you reconcile Dresden? Oh, Dresden?
[00:40:22] That was Air Vice Marshal Harris. Because you're saying they both fought honorably, and I believe that in orders or orders. But, I mean, you know, the American side, well, and we're out of time. It was mostly the British that bombed Dresden. Well, that's a good point. That's a very good point. Very good point. Yeah, Air Marshal Harris is shoveling coal in Satan's hell.
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[00:43:14] First hour, we went to London and talked with Adrian Davis. It's about the situation on the ground in France. Second hour, Ron Paul's former campaign manager, Lou Moore, talking about the political realities. And then Eddie and I started to transition into just a little bit of a preview of next week's show, which will be our 22-year anniversary program. And then going back earlier this hour, Harry Cooper talking about a crime in Germany. And now Scoop Stanton.
[00:43:44] Scoop Stanton is our resident scribe here. And we all remember the fact that he was our longtime international correspondent, stationed in Rota, Spain at the time, then became our D.C. correspondent. But he has been with us for just about as long as the show has existed, either in some sort of an official capacity or just as a listener. And he is the resident scribe of TPC.
[00:44:12] Nobody remembers TPC history quite as well as Scoop. And that includes yours truly. He is truly TPC's resident historian. And as we are on the cusp now of 22 years on the radio, which we'll be celebrating officially next week, Scoop is with us tonight. And he's going to take it in any direction he wants. There's a lot of history in 22 years and only 10 minutes to compact it.
[00:44:38] But nobody is our historical compactor like Scoop. Scoop, take it away. Good evening, James. Good evening, political cesspool family. Right now I'm at a friend's house setting up his home studio. We're having a little bit of difficulty, so I had to run to a payphone, stick some quarters into the payphone. So anyways, a couple minutes, 75 radio will be red hot and rolling.
[00:45:04] But this is going to be the abridged edition of the political cesspool in 22 years. And 2005, I came across the political cesspool and I was listening to a couple of episodes and I was like, oh my God. James and Austin, who was also co-host at the time, were talking about things, the taboos that people like Michael Savage and Bob Grant were only scratched the surface.
[00:45:33] But you guys were going head deep. And I kept listening and then I decided to go for it. At first I sent an email to you, James. I said, hey, great show. And you replied, hey, thanks. And we kept going back and forth, back and forth. Eventually I took a chance. I said, you know what, this is my chance of going to radio. And I said, hey, can I be your European correspondent? He's like, sure. Now mind you, we'd never met face-to-face, didn't know anything about each other. And 22 years later, we're still here.
[00:46:04] And the thing about this radio show, it's not a radio show, it's a family. The number of people I met throughout the years through the political cesspool were just absolutely off the chain. I was able to meet, besides James, Eddie, the bombardier bail. Is the bombardier over there? He's right here. Say hello to Skip. Do you remember the song? I'm going to get a little bit of TPC historical trivia for you, Eddie. The first time we met Scoop, he came in.
[00:46:34] He walked into the lobby. We were still on AM 1380W LRM at the time. And we switched to the sister station, 1600 WMQM, where we've been ever since. But Scoop came in from Missouri, I think is where you were at the time. And you came in. He came in straight into the lobby, went straight to the bathroom. We didn't know if it was an assassin. We didn't know who the hell it was. But it was Scoop. Well, we knew he was coming. But we were already on the air that night. He went into the bathroom. Then he came in. And we did a show.
[00:47:02] First time to meet him in person, right there in the studio, on the spot, live on the air, after he had been our correspondent for some time. And then we went to a karaoke bar. Do you remember the song we sang, Eddie? Something about Sue. Something about Sue. What was that? That was Dion's runaround Sue. Runaround Sue. Runaround Sue. Me, you, Winston, and Scoop all there on the stage together. Well, anyway, he's here. What do you want to say to Eddie? Scoop, it is so great to hear your voice.
[00:47:30] We've been together, like you said, so many years. I remember when you were just a kid calling in for Road to Spain. You were our foreign correspondent. I'm so glad I'm alive to talk to you tonight, brother. I really am. Same here, Eddie. And like I was telling James, I want to get into radio, have a radio career, go on WABC, one of the big syndicators. But instead, I got a family.
[00:47:54] And everything, and what's funny is that everything that we do on air also happens to us off air. And since even though we branched off to two spinoff shows, guess what? You have all the hosts on Libby News Radio on Saturday night together again. Like, because we're family. Every night's a reunion, actually, on this network. But thanks to Sam Bushman and the Liberty News Radio Network,
[00:48:20] what Scoop's talking about is that people who started with TPC now branching out before and after our broadcast for the three hours before we go on the air. Eddie Miller is captaining his own ship at Blood River Radio. Eddie, a longtime TPC co-host to get his beginning. And then Scoop, as our longtime correspondent, has branched out with 7-5 radio, which we affectionately refer to as our fourth hour every Saturday night.
[00:48:44] Immediately following us, Scoop and Walter Yerkew and friends have a rollicking good time. It's TPC After Dark, the hour following us. But, yeah, for seven consecutive hours, you have TPC family members dominating the AM airwaves on Liberty News Radio Network. It's really something, two spinoff shows as a result of the mothership here at TPC. And we're all brothers. Right.
[00:49:09] But last year was a special moment for us because, James, you came on Blood River Radio. Talk about something in New York. And, of course, you know, as much as I'm a host on Liberty News Radio, I'm also a listener on Liberty News Radio. I said, ooh, let me call in and say a couple words about what's going on with Mayor Mandami and then roll on out. Then Eddie had the premonition. He's like, you know what? This is going too good. James, take over. And then it was just you and I going back and forth. At Eddie, we were just riding a shotgun.
[00:49:39] And it worked. And it reminded me of the movie The Blues Brothers where they get a band together. And Donald Duck Dunn, who's from Memphis, said, we had a band so powerful we can turn and go piss into gasoline, which we did. But just, again, the amount of people I've met through the political cesspool is just unreal. You know, James, Eddie, Sam.
[00:50:07] I spoke to Bill Rowland once. And, you know, I was on air with him once. And James was like, oh, you, Bill, and Keith handle it. And he's like, okay. We never spoke before. And he thought we were on together for 10 years. And then I said, you know what? With my work schedule and everything going on, I think, how about a fourth hour, a spinoff? Nobody has a spinoff show on radio except us.
[00:50:33] And then I branched off and Eddie branched off into a spinoff. And guess what? We're back on the political cesspool like we never were. We were all here together. I was on Eddie's show earlier tonight. Eddie's been intermittently on and off with me tonight. And then you're coming up next. And really, you know, Scoop, as I said before, you know, when we did these things five years into our run, 10 years, you could get most of the highlights in a three-hour broadcast if you dedicated yourself to it.
[00:50:58] And you've done such a good job of concisely recalling so many of the highlights in a short period of time. But it's just impossible to do that after 22 years. All the guests, all the memories, all the behind-the-scenes stories, the events, the news coverage. For some reason right now, Sonny Landum is coming to mind. I mean, we were talking about guests and stories. And Sonny was another great one, the movie star, Predator, 48 hours in a lot of movies.
[00:51:26] And, you know, his relationship with the show when we first got started, he was our keynote speaker at the kickoff party in December of 2004. And it's just impossible to remember it all. But you were there for it all, Scoop. And on the cusp of our 22nd anniversary, I remember that tonight. Even if we don't have the time, if there would never be enough time to permit us to remember all the memories, we can remember some of the people who were part of it. And that's you. Right.
[00:51:55] And you brought up a good point because I got to spend hours of putting everything together. And of course, we can't, like I said, we can't just squeeze everything ever in like one or two hours or one or two shows now because we've done so much. The best part is that what you hear on the air is exactly what you hear off the air, except it's much more colorful language. Yes. And how many... More profanity off the air. Right.
[00:52:25] And everything that happens is like, it is all the chaos, disorder, and things that go right in the toilet. Like right now, my buddy Ken and Tony are trying to get this home studio up and running and I'm talking to you on the telephone again. But hey, you know, it's the political cesspool. But just again, I just... You know, another thing about us is that we are family and nobody goes anywhere. That's a running joke. We've been with...
[00:52:52] I've been with you for 21, 22 years. Eddie's been with us for that long. We've been with Sam for over a dozen years. And we're not going anywhere. You know, Walter on 75 Radio is not going anywhere. Mike Regbrandt is not going anywhere. And for whatever reason, Danella Rodriguez, our spokesmodel, the very first spokesmodel in radio, is still not going anywhere yet. But I'm working on that. She'll be running for the hills. And that's another thing.
[00:53:22] We've been there. We've done that. We're literally decades ahead of everybody else about everything, every taboo subject we've been talking about. And now you go on YouTube, you go on all these podcasts, and guess what? Johnny come lately. And, you know, some people, Mark Dice, the Hodge brothers, Matt Walsh, that movie. Everybody you could possibly mention, and there are too many to even know, much less recall,
[00:53:49] they're all derivatives of really what we were doing more than two decades ago together. Together, gentlemen. All of us. The three of us. Here, Keith, Bill at the time, Winston Smith, all the others that have been a part of the program, behind the scenes and on the air. Scoop, you know, I love you. And, by the way, if you want a taste of what Scoop's own show is all about, stay tuned. 775 Radio is up next. His co-host, Walter, was a star in one of the most watched Netflix documentaries in the history
[00:54:18] of the streaming platform. So, Walter Yerkew. And their name comes from that particular documentary. And it's just, it's a lot of fun. It's a different kind of fun than you have even on here. And they're wonderful. For Eddie the Bobadier Miller, for Lou Moore, for Adrian Davis, for Harry Cooper, for Scoop Stanton, for everybody, I'm James Edwards. 22nd anniversary show coming up next week. Thanks for getting the party started early, Scoop.
[00:54:48] God bless you all.