June 27, 2025 • 41 mins
This is the full show for June 26, 2025. We Dig Deep into School Choice in Louisiana. Plus, we have a little fun guessing which NATO countries spend the most money on defense as a percentage. Play along! And we finish off with this week's Chef Special at Magnolia Pit BBQ.
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Speaker 5 (01:04):
Governor Jeff Landry, a great State of Louisiana was in
northwest Louisiana today, specifically in the city of Shreveport.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Ooh, how exciting.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
And he was here to sign a package of bold,
some might say, unapologetic welfare reforms that really we haven't
seen in a very long time.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
And Governor Landry is very clear he treats government assistance
not as a lifestyle, not as you know, something that
you will be taken care of by the state for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
He sees it as what it is, meant to be
a temporary lifeline.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's all it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And so that's what he said. He said, this is
when he signed these bills today. He said, this is
about real mean reform. Welfare should be a bridge, not
a destination. Right, You're helping people re enter the workforce, yes,
and regain independence.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
A bridge, a bridge, not a destination.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That's right. I mean, this is the kind of lifestyle.
Benjamin Franklin. I'm all in favor of doing good for
the poor, just have a different way of going about it.
I want, I don't want to make them comfortable in
their poverty, but drive them out of it. That's what
welfare should be about. It shouldn't be about making people
comfortable in their poverty because dependency.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Dependency doesn't elevate people, No, it traps them.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Right, And look, we see on the show all the
time the greatness of America comes from the greatness within you. Well,
you're not going to achieve that greatness sitting on the
couch at home getting money from the government. You're the
only way you're going to achieve the greatness that is
within you is by going out and doing what it
is God called you to do.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And that's why a paycheck or a check from the
government or or wherever is more than just how we
pay bills. A paycheck is dignity, it's purpose, it's pride,
it's the satisfaction of standing on your own two feet
and saying I earned this.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
The only way you get a paycheck is if you
do something that someone else considers to be valuable. That's
the only way you get an actual paycheck in this role.
I mean unless you're on the government dole, in which
case you're basically getting money just for existing. But to
go out into the workforce, you have to do something
that somebody else says, you know what, that has value
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to me. Here have some of my money. That's the
only way anyone receives a paycheck. And if you are
doing something that someone else sees as valuable, it changes
the way you're able to see yourself.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Because, well, you start to all of a sudden your
life has more meaning, right because because you're participating in
this American dream, building your character, you're providing for your family,
You're teaching your children by example that nothing in life
is free, nor should it be. And of course this
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isn't just economics. This is also spiritual. And there's a
number of examples in the Bible that I certainly will
not get into right now.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But those things are those things are connected more than
people like to understand or like to believe that that
our economy works in part because that's how God designed
some things to work.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Now, one of the bills that he signed, and this
was the one I think really that stood out. There
were some other bills that streamlined in terms of how
someone the seeking assistance from the state, you know, would
only have to go to one agency, you know, wouldn't
have to hop around. In other words, it made it
more convenient, okay. But it also made it more efficient.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It changed some of the programs from this agency to
another agency again.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In an effort to stream make it more efficially, so
the government spends less money giving the money.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Out exactly right. But this bill, the one that stood
out to me, was House Built one p. Fifty three
that Governor Landry signed in Shreveport today, and it's authored
by Representative Thomas Aber. And here's what it does. It
increases the number of weekly job search activities required in
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order to qualify for unemployment benefits. So you used to
it was three. You had to you had to show
that you had actively looked for work, and you had
to show Yeah, I applied to these three companies for example.
But now under this new law, it is requiring you
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to apply or to otherwise search five companies to inquire
about employment opportunities. Uh in a week. Yeah, the number
of weekly job search activities.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So that's one a day by the way, Okay, but
it increases it No, No, but I'm saying you're saying
it could be more.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It should be more.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You've been unemployed, you know what.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
By God's grace, No, I have not.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Two times in my life been unemployed. Before I ever
got into TV news and then uh, before I start
working on American Ground radio, have been unemployed. Man, I
was doing at least five different job searches a day.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
So I agree.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You know, if you're if you're hungry, if you're looking
for something, if you want, if you're like, how am
I going to support my family? How am I gonna
If you're if you're hunting for something, you're gonna be
doing job searches that's gonna be like you're driving. That
should be your driving ideology in that moment is I've
got to find a way to make money at this point.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So Governor Landry says, this ensures that benefits are directed
toward individuals who are genuinely in gauged in the search
for Workah, we're creating incentives, Governor Landry says, for employment
and reducing dependency.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
And given how much is available online, it's easier than
ever to search out jobs and to seek out jobs.
It's easier than ever before to try and find work.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
But you know, I think in order for folks to
understand how we got here, you know, we're not just
saying these things because we're mean, spiteful, you know, heartless people.
I think you've got to go back to the nineteen sixties.
You've got to go back to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Programs in order to see how this new welfare state
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that was created then.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Has destroyed family.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Well, it's not only destroyed families, it has created generational poverty.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Right because before we put these Great Society programs in
with LBJ, unemployment and the poverty rate in this country
was on a PA. It was declining through the nineteen forties,
nineteen fifties, the poverty rate in the country was falling,
falling into the nineteen sixties. And then when we passed
these Great Society Programs under LBJ, the poverty rate stalls
out between about twelve and fifteen percent, and it's still there.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And we've spent trillions of dollars trying to eradicate this.
But of course, as Jesus Christ said, the poor will
always be with us. So yeah, but what do you expect.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
But we were on our pace to eradicate poverty in this
country by nineteen eighty before we put in those Great
Society programs, and we haven't reduced poverty at all since then.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And what Lyndon Johnson did with those Great Society Programs
was basically create a permanent underclasses, not because people were poor,
but because the system made poverty profitable. And the first,
for the first time in American history, Now this was
in the nineteen sixties, the government said, you don't have
to work, we'll take care of you. We'll send you
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a check, credit, subsidize your rent, we'll buy your groceries.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And the more kids you have out of way the
ray money.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Will raise your kids. So what we're doing now, then,
particularly today in the state of Louisiana, is we're trying
to undo all of the evils of the Great Society
programs because they really have not done anyone any benefit.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Let's get to the top two things you need noble
for tomorrow. Firsting need noble from all the National Pharmacy
Chain CVS is denouncing Louisiana's three lawsuits against them. State
Attorney General Liz Meurle filed the lawsuit yesterday, accusing CVS
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of illegally sending political text messages to all of its
customers and abusing its market power to drive up the
cost of prescription drugs and drive out smaller competitors. CVS
released a statement today saying, to be clear, we did
not use any Office of Group Benefits member information and
we agree with Governor Landry and Attorney General Murle that
OGB data should not be used for this type of
(09:58):
outreach CVS, as all three lawsuits are without merit.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Okay, but then how did they reach out to folks
if they didn't use.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So if you go to if you go to CVS
and you're like, hey, I'm gonna get my prescriptions, Like,
would you like us to text you when those prescriptions
are ready? Yes, here's my phone.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Not okay, But but they're saying that, they're.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Saying they didn't get it from the forms of the
insurance companies.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Now that's not that's that's being disingenuous.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Second thing you needed before mart Louisiana Attorney General Is
Merle's investigating the Cattle Parish Commission for violating the state's
open meetings law. The Democrat members of the commission gave
Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders an official proclamation from the commission
when Bernie Sanders visited a s freeport last week, but
that proclamation was never voted on or even put on
an agenda for the Cattle Parish Commission to debate. Ag
Merle said, if members of the Cattle Commission want to
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act as a body, including issuing documents in the name
of the Commission welcoming socialist Bernie Sanders to report, they
are legally required to put it in the agenda at
a properly held public meeting.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
You know, if they wanted to give a greeting to
Bernie Sanders in writing, you know what they could have done.
They could have gone to the Hallmark store, yeah, or
their local greeting card department and just picked one out.
You could print it on a printer at home to
my favorite Socialists and the third thing you need but
from a Louisiana Supreme Court has disqualified a baton Rouge
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Justice of the Peace. Justice of the Peace Tracy Baptiste
was removed from her office, effective immediately. The court said
they removed Baptiste based on a finding a probable cause
that responded committed a violation of the Code of Judicial
Conduct imposes a substantial threat of serious harm to the
public or the administration of justice. The court did not
elaborate on what those findings were. The Judiciary Commission of
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Louisiana recommended her suspension to the Supreme Court. WAFB reports
that the Commission had previously been investigating Justice Best Justice
Baptiste for using a racial slur and the retaliating against
person who complained about it. You know, a greeting card
from the Commission to the best socialist ever, and then
they could have all signed.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Back on that.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
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American Radio, Stephen Palmer, lewisar Evaloni. Love this song Nina
ninety nine buck balloon right or to the English version
ninety nine Red Ones. Why we play ninety nine red Balloons?
I mean, other than the fact that it's awesome. Ye,
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I'm gonna listen to that key tar? Why we? Why we?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Why we're listening to this? Okay, we can we can
turn that right now. Okay. So the reason that we're
talking about balloons here is because there was a bill
to ban balloon releases in the Louisiana legislature.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yes, and it sailed right through. It just floated right
on through exactly like like one of those ninety nine
lift balloons.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Absolutely and folks said, well, you know, Governor Landry will
sign this, okay. And one of the reasons that it
was proposed in the first place is a lot of
times they say, these balloons, you know, well, not a
lot of times. They always come back to Earth, right
and enter into our water systems, into our water ways, okay,
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and lives. For example, sometimes if it lands in a field,
livestock will eat the balloons and it gets into the
digestive system.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
It really is essentially just remote littering. Yeah, I mean
I can see that because eventually it does come down.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Somewhere, right, And so you would think, I think most
folks expected, well, of course, Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana,
he will see how logical this is and he will
sign this bill. But he didn't. He vetoed this bill
that would have banned balloon releases, and his explanation, you know,
(14:40):
it made sense. It made sense not to you know,
disparage the author of this bill or the legislature that
voted for it. But Governor Landry said, you know, my
authority is to see that the laws of the state
are faithfully executed. With this authority comes the power to
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veto bills that are impossible or impractical to execute, and
this bill is such a law. Okay, So basically he said,
we can't.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Stop people from Lisa balloon.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Well, he says, look, if I signed this into law,
police departments like across the state will have to track
down locations from where balloons were released based off of
eyewitness accounts. So basically, if you find a bunch of balloons,
uh huh, you know, or the latex of the remnants
(15:34):
of a balloon in a field, yes, now, all of
a sudden, you have to open an investigation. Oh who
who had a gender reveal recently in the area, even
in the area, And guess what balloons no no bounds.
So if you release balloons across day lines in Mississippi,
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that's Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
These are heading towards Mississippi for the most part.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
And you, as a meteorologist, yeah, you know how the
jet stream can carry our tendency?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Sure, well, I mean if it gets up into the
jet stream. Yeah, a lot of these don't quite get
up that high.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
But yes, no, no, I understand. But yeah, but it
makes sense in terms of He's like, okay, yes, it's
a great idea, right, and it would be wonderful if
folks didn't. I don't know if it's wonderful, because I mean,
who doesn't love to release a balloon nip into the air.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I don't care. I'd rather not release a balloon up
in the air. I'd rather keep the balloon. Okay, But look,
the National Weather Service releases balloons every day. You brought
up meteorology. Part of what they do is they launch
weather balloons. And the weather balloons do get up into
the jet stream and they do go very far. And
not only do you have the balloon part of it,
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but they also have this data box. It's called a radiosoone,
and it's a data box that's measuring temperature and wind
speed and humidity all this stuff. Well, how does they
get back down? It falls, the balloon, looon eventually pops.
It goes high enough in the atmosphere that the air
pressure outside of the balloon is so light that the
balloon pops, it explodes, and then you've got this package
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of information that.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
It's a projectile. It's what it is. It falls and
at lands like a death rock.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I mean, it'll drop slow, it's got like parachutes on it,
but it'll it has an address of saying if you
find this mail this back, so I mean the National
Weather Service kind of what they may all be authorized
by law to do so. Well, yes, because we need
that information. There's a lot more benefit of getting the
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data of what's going on in the atmosphere. Then there
is the littering of a popped balloon.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
But if you can't enforce the law, should you pass one?
You know what I'm saying. It's like there's a should
the legislature pass bills that really the enforcement of it
is impossible. I mean, you find you find late a
latex balloon lying on the ground in your parish, Okay,
(18:00):
And then you're like, now what, let's follow that logic,
Let's fall that logic. So right now there is data
that says what something like fifty sixty percent of all
murders cannot be solved, right, fifty six half of the murders.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Can't be solved. Well, it's impossible to enforce, okay, the
law against every single murder.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
But come on, Steven, law enforcement has bigger problems than balloons. Now,
your police departments are dealing with violent crime and drug trafficking,
illegal immigration, organized theft, rings from China, and now you know,
of course, but what we've got to deal with balloon
with Latex, the remnants of a Latex balloon on the ground.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Okay, then should we get rid of every litter law?
Because right now, if you see trash on the ground,
you can't always figure out where that trash came from,
and frankly, drunk.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You can determine illegal dumping. Time we have litter laws.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It's illegal for you to roll down the window of
your car and throw out your cigarette butts, and yet
people do it all the time, and the police don't
have the time to go through and go where'd this
cigarette come from? When we were in the DNA. Okay,
but that's still part of the law. And I still
think we should have anti littering laws. All right, what
about this argument then? Because Governor Landry made this point
as well. He said, local governments have the authority, they
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have the power to ban balloon releases if their communities demanded,
and that is what New Orleans did because New Orleans
kept getting blackouts, remember earlier this last this year actually
is earlier this year, and in part of last year,
they kept having massive sections of the city completely blacked out.
Because they were drinking too much, is what you're talking about. No,
because people were releasing mylar balloons and the mylar balloons
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are going up and hitting the electric grid, and the
electric grid in New Orleans is so fragile that you
take out one station and boom, you've got half the
city gone. And so they it was lasting for hours.
They're struggling to get things back up. You got blown
transformers all because somebody released some mylar balloons directly underneath
the power line and it was happening multiple times. So
New Orleans outlawed the release of mylar balloons. In New Orleans,
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they have that power, and the governor's right, they do
have that power.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Maybe it's not the role of state government to police
every neighborhood birthday party. Maybe it's not the governor's job
to micro manage what floats through the sky on a
sunny Saturday in Ponchatula in Pineville. If it's floating through
the sky, that's not a problem. But if it's landing
on the ground and we've got a litter problem, okay,
but you know, then you get it. But we got
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a little pro hold on. Then you get into intent
because you give a little girl. Yeah, you do, you do, Steven?
You give a little girl a balloon?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Sure, and you're like, hey, little girl, okay.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And then the little girl is she's hold in the balloon,
she's got an ice cream cone in the other hand. Sure,
and you know she and it gets released accidentally. What
are we doing here? But are we going to find
the parents? Now? Are we going to chase down this
little girl, six year old little girl and say were
you holding a balloon earlier? Today?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I get that. All I'll say is go across a
little ridiculous, Go across the state boarder, go to Texas. Now,
Texas has not a low balloons, but Texas does take
littering seriously, Okay, go across the night littering okay, But
go across the border and look in Texas and along
the side of the roads they've got Certainly there's times
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and places where you got trash. They don't have as
much as we do. We got a lot more trash
on our roads than they.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
But with a crime, you have to have two things, right.
You've got to have the intent. Now you've got to
have the act. Sure, and I think that I don't know,
this is a very slippery slope where you know someone
is holding a balloon in the accidentally.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Well, I don't think a balloon's slipping out of a
four year old's hand's going to get anybody out of trouble.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It'd still be a violation of the law.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
But if you have a big balloon, release a couple
hundred balloons going up nine to nine.
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Speaker 5 (22:31):
So many good things come out of Louisiana, all right.
I know a lot of folks say, oh goodness, gracious,
what was he talking about?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
What's talmot willis?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well? Taylor Swift, you know when she came to Louisiana, she.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Didn't come out of Louisa. She's not from Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Okay, that's not my point. Can I finish say? Taylor
Swift came to Louisiana for her Era's.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Toore sold out the Superdome in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And if you remember, on the Superdome, that's where she performed.
Right in Louisia, there was a bracelet, the Friendship bracelet.
The Friendship bracelet.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Big olds, larger than live size of the dome.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Absolutely and it became a huge hit, right and then
very popular.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
It was sent them to our next concert. She went
to Indiana exactly Indiana, took out the Friendship brace and
we shared Louisiana being friendly, shared the Friendship bracelet with
them up in Indiana.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Well, now Taylor Swift has decided she wants to buy
the Friendship bracelet. Oh that's very nice, and it's going
to cost her about thirteen thousand dollars. She's responsible for
the transportation costs picking it up and all. But I
wanted to highlight the fact that that idea for that
Friendship bracelet hanging off the side of the state wasn't
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just something that was brought to Louisiana and then this
was the first concert that it was used. It all
started with Abby Jones, who is the director of sales
and marketing for the local office that is the super Dome.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Well, it's nice, so it's a marketing thing.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It was the Superdome marketing team that came up with this.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
And Taylor liked it so much that she wants to
buy it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
She wanted to buy it, and she's using it at
other venues as you pointed out other concerts.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, well genius, that's great.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I believe that's a good idea. And thirteen thousand dollars.
She's not going to miss that, Taylor. No, no, Well
it's a huge friendship brace So you got a friendship
bracelet that you can't miss, so she won't miss the money.
It's a swifty bracelet and you can't miss the bracelets.
Oh yeah, sure, it's all that sounds pretty good. And
it all started right in Louisiana. In Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Very nice. Let's dig deep, going down down. So the
Trump Department of Education is in favor of school choice.
They've been saying that they're in favor of school choice.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Of course. Well, they're trying to get rid of the
Department of Education altogether.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Well, Donald Trump is to memo earlier in Executive Order
earlier this year telling his government that you need to
try and find ways to support school choice. Well, today
the US Department of Education send a memo to all
fifty states showing how those states can use federal education
dollars to support school choice programs in their states. Said
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it's a top priority for the Trump Department of Education
to help turn around underperforming schools and improve student outcomes,
while also giving students in those underperforming schools better options.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, just before you
get too far along, let me see, because my mind
is racing right now. Because what I'm thinking is, you
have federal dollars that are already pre authorized or allocated
or dedicated for certain expenses for education in every state. Sure,
is what the Trump administration basically saying is you can
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use that money now for school choice type programs. You
don't have to spend it on what it was previously
dedicated to some of those funds. Yes, so now they
can pull funds away from some programs.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
And put it in towards school choice.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
So you have to wonder. You have to wonder because
the La Gator program short was short, right, right, and
the legislature was like, we're not putting any more money
in it, right? Did they know that these federal dollars
might be available soon? And so They're like, you know what,
we're going to pull that money for the La Gator
program out of federal dollars rather than out of our
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state budget.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I don't think so, because all of that seemed to
be going on in the legislature before this was coming
out of the DOA.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Yeah, but you know, Governor Landry and President Trump right
pretty tight.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
But Governor Landry was saying, no, we need the money
that I asked for in the Lagator. What's in Brumley
was saying, I need the money that's going to know
what they were saying, I'm just and there might have
been and the members of the legislature that were saying no,
we cannot. We had was Raymond Cruz. He said, look,
that was the biggest disppointment was that we didn't.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Fund La Gator full Well, maybe legislators didn't know, but maybe.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I'm not convinced because this seemed to be a recent thing,
after the legislature had already done what it was going
to do. So this is, by the way, this quote
was from Haley Sandon is the Acting Secretary for the
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Set every year that
a child spends in school is precious and cannot be wasted.
Students deserve a choice that best meets their unique needs,
(27:25):
while leaders undertake the important work of training schools around.
We hope that every state will lean on the guidance
issued today to support school improvement activities and help more
students routs of potential. Now you mentioned Louisiana, The Department
of Education's press release quoted Louisiana's state superintendent first, like
they were highlighting Louisiana off the top, and this is
(27:48):
what they did. Louisiana's historic education progress is no accident.
It's the result of strategic actions such as expanding school choice.
This welcome step by the Trump administration will place more
students in quality schools, further return critical decision making to
the states, said doctor k Probably, Louisiana Superintendent of Education.
How about that Louisiana's highlight. I understand you think it's
(28:12):
it's helping your conspiracy theory that they already had all
this time.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
There was already kind of a wink wink. You think
that President Trump didn't already know what was going to
happen before the legislative session in Louisiana ended. Yeah, okay,
you don't think he did. I don't think he knew that. Oh,
I think of.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
All the other things that were going on. What I'm saying, wow,
while he said he's in the middle of bombing Iran,
he goes to the G seven, he's on his way
to the NATO conference. He's trying to get the big
beautiful bill pass. A multitasker, I get that, But he's
already multitasking more than any other president in America, has
already given the directive to his Department of Education Cabinet member. Yes,
(28:52):
but do I think that President Trump's been involved in
the details of the Gator Fund?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
No, no, no, no, no, You're taking that the wrong way.
What I'm saying to you is is that he may
have mentioned to Governor Landry just off the cough that
we're going to make federal dollars available to your state,
okay for school choice programs, okay, and that might have
influenced what happened in the Louisiana legislature. It's pure conjecture.
(29:17):
I'm just talking. It's just you and me and our
audience talking here.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, I just I don't think so. I'm not convince you.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Never do you never the conspiracy never it never lands
on you.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
No, it really does, but we can talk about it sure. Now, Basically,
this idea is that schools that are underperforming, that are
classified as underperforming, so they've got a couple of different
categories comprehensive support improvement, targeted support and improvement, and then
this other one additional target support and improvement. They are
eligible for federal funds now as part of the funding
(29:48):
that goes to those schools when they're underperforming. What they're
saying is you could take some of the money that
you were going to spend on programs in those schools,
and you can actually spend it on getting kids out
of those schools. You can on school choice programs. So
the money that you're targeting towards schools that are failing,
schools that are falling behind, you can actually take some
of that money and let kids go to a private school,
(30:10):
or let kids go to another school across town, and
those will pay for the bus ride or whatever.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Well, look at whatever the results. If we can fully
fund that Gator La Gator program, right, I think that's
going to empower parents, it's going to put students first.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well, and I think we need to do a better
job of marketing the La Gator program, because we've got
a ton of schools in the state that fall into
these categories of underperforming, and we should be making sure
the parents of those students know you've got options. You
don't have to stay in a failing school.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
You know when you say, and we've talked about it
before about marketing, we need to market this better so
parents know. Really, what you're saying is we need to
make sure parents are better parents. No, we need to
make more informed parents are more interested parents.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
We need to make sure that they know their rights
when it comes to teaching their kids.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I don't know what's keeping them from learning it now.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Well, not everybody follows the news the way that you
and I follow the news. Most people don't, And most
schools that are underperforming, I don't think they have any
incentive to go tell all their parents, Hey, you guys
don't have to stay here. We're not a very good school,
so you don't have to stay. I don't think schools
do that.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
What it sounds like there's a lot of federal dollars
come in our way to do just that.
Speaker 2 (31:23):
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Speaker 4 (32:13):
Welcome back to American Graberatium. Stephen Parker Lewis sar Evaloni.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Of course, while Governor Landry was in the northern half
of the state, he was in north west Louisiana yesterday
signing welfare reform legislation. Yes then he darted over to
the northeast corner of our state in Richland Parish, and
he went and stood in front of the Meta job site.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
I mean speaking of rich Land. Look at that.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Oh, definitely, it certainly will be talking what ten billion
dollar projects, A lot of money. Take a listen, this
is Governor Landry. Audio isn't terribly good, so but you
can listen to it for just a moment.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Hey, Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I'm enriching of parish visiting the big Meta AI site.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
You know, we've got six to sixty billion.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Dollars for the projects going on all of the Louisiana
Live because it a great things we've been doing since
becoming your governor and giving.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Me a new legislation.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
So the audio kind of gets a little worse there,
but he said that there are over sixty billion dollars
in projects going on across our state since becoming governor.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
And he said since giving me a new legislature. Well,
I mean, you know, it really was it really wasn't
a gift necessarily to.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Him, right, because he wasn't governor when they were elected.
John Bell Edwards was governor when they were elected. But yes,
you know, the Republican lead dominates. You know, there's a
veto proof majority in the Republican House and in the
Republican Senate and some you know, obviously some of those
people were new.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
But I do think leadership matters. I think, you know,
Jeff Landry has done his share of marketing the state
of Louisiana. Sure, I think his association with President Trump,
having Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yeah, I think those are all good things.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
I think overall, we have you know, we've got a
pretty fantastic congressional delegation as well.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
And look, we do have to be fair on this
because some of this money that's coming into the state
is for carbon capture projects, for you know, these Green
New Deal stuff, which you know, Senator Cassidy's been a
big fan of, so you know, for all these I now,
I think all these projects are are going to completely
fall apart once the government subsidies failed, but Senator Cassidy's
(34:36):
helped push some of those the state.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
No, I'm not just to be fair, No, I understand,
but a lot of this is private sector investment, like
the ten billion dollar Meta project. You've got the steel
plant down in Ascension Parish.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Yes, but then you also have you know a lot
of those things are contingent upon government subsidies for carbon capture,
some of that ammonious stuff going on down there, and frankly,
some of the carbon capture stuff going.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
On in Richland Parish where Governor Landry was yesterday and
standing in front of that site. It's a thousand acre field.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
It's a big deal. It's a big deal. Let's play
a game black battleship shall so you know. This week
one of the things we really haven't had a chance
to talk about much. President Trump got all of the
NATO countries except for Spain, to agree to raise their
defense spending to five percent of GDP, which NATO countries
(35:32):
currently spend the most money on defense as a percentage
of their GDP.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Okay, NATO country, NATO countries, man, NATO countries, tough quiz
at the United States number three. We spend three point
three seven percent of GDP on defense, and we've just
agreed to go to five percent. That's a pretty significant increase.
Italy Italy Nope, you know they have pretty big air force.
(36:02):
Italy does.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I just was thinking maybe they put a lot of
money in their military. Apparently not more in maybe pizza
in ice cream Italy.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Italy might show Italy might show up again. As we
continue our conversation.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Okay, spends the most money on defense. Yep, this is
a ridiculous game. I mean, who I understand ever wants
to play a game of Hey tell me which NATO
countries currently spend the most money on defense? I understood,
there's a point to You know, when I when I
don't have the answer, I tend to ridicule you. I
understand that's not fair to you, is it? Well, I
(36:38):
should know the answer. No, I'm not saying you sh
I don't think the audience. That means in the audience.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
It's trivia. Most people wouldn't know that trivial. Yes, exactly,
I get that. I just take okay, So the United States?
Number three? Uh, the UK? The UK exactly, yes, Number
nine on the list, The UK spends two point three
three percent, less than half of the target they're saying
they're going to go to. So let me go through
the list. Number one, Number one's Poland. Poland spins four
(37:07):
point one per two percent of its GDP on defense.
It's promised to go to five percent. No NATO country
spends currently five percent on on on defense. Estonia's number two, USA, Latvia, Greece, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark,
UK and Romania. All right, so which country spend the
least amount.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Of money, the least amount of money, the.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Least you've are in Italy? There you go, number six,
one point four to nine percent. They don't even currently
hit the two percent target. Canada, Canada number five, one
point three seven percent, Spain number one. Spain only spends
one point two eight percent on defense. Did you always
say Germany, I did not say Germany, Germany, Germany. Nope,
(37:53):
the least. Germany now does spend about two percent. Here's
the list, So it's Spain, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Netherlands,
and Slovakia. Slovakia spins one point nine to nine percent
of its GDP on defense. So you've got ten nations
in NATO that still aren't even meeting the two percent
(38:15):
target that Donald Trump was insistent upon eight years ago,
remember when he went to NATO eight years ago. So
everybody's got to spend two percent because that was the target,
and you had most of the countries not even doing that.
You still have ten countries not even reaching that, and
yet all of them except for one, have agreed that
they're going to bump it up to five percent, which again,
currently no NATO country spins five percent on defense. All
(38:39):
of this is because Donald Trump's been putting pressure on
NATO to stand up to Russia, and after Russia invaded
Ukraine NATO's starting to pay attention again.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Are you getting tired of winning yet?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Russia should start getting tired of losing. Frankly, we'll be back.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
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You see this thing with the Shreeport getting involved in
the New York marriage race.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
You see this, No I did not.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
So apparently the Democrat who was nominated Mamdani right, the socialist,
he apparently called out fifty cent Shreeport's fifty cent. He said,
if I if I know fifty cent is listening, He's
not gonna be happy about this. He tends to not
like this tax policy. But I want to make this
very clear. There's about two twenty thousand dollars a year,
so he wants to tax millionaires for some reason. He
(40:40):
calls out fifty cent in the middle of all this.
So fifty cent responds back, and he says, uh, where
did he come from? Whose friend is this? I'm not
feeling this plan. No, I will give him two hundred
and fifty eight seven hundred and fifty dollars and a
first class one way ticket away from New York.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
So apparently fifty cent Shreetport's own fifty cent is now
apparently somehow involved in the mayor's race up in New York,
not because he wanted to be, but because this democrat
socialist called out fifty cent for some reason.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Yeah, that that seems a little random.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
It seems a little random. But I do like the
fifty cents. Like I'm not feeling this socialist. This socialist
needs to go away. And if I have to pay
for the socialist to go away, I will pay this
fool to go away. I like that.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
You know, fifty cent sounds more conservative than not.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
He's at least a capitalist. He believes in you know,
free market and.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
The and the American dream.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
I would imagine he's living it right, He's making life
better for the next generation. We'll be back.
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Governor Jeff Landry, a great State of Louisiana was in
northwest Louisiana today, specifically in the city of Shreveport.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
Ooh, how exciting.
Speaker 5 (01:15):
And he was here to sign a package of bold,
some might say, unapologetic welfare reforms that really we haven't
seen in a very long time.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (01:30):
And Governor Landry is very clear he treats government assistance
not as a lifestyle, not as you know, something that
you will be taken care of by the state for
the rest of your life.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Right.
Speaker 5 (01:47):
He sees it as what it is, meant to be
a temporary lifeline.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's all it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (01:54):
And so that's what he said. He said, this is
when he signed these bills today. He said, this is
about real mean reform. Welfare should be a bridge, not
a destination. Right, You're helping people re enter the workforce, yes,
and regain independence.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
That's what it's supposed to be.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
A bridge, a bridge, not a destination.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
That's right. I mean, this is the kind of lifestyle.
Benjamin Franklin. I'm all in favor of doing good for
the poor, just have a different way of going about it.
I want, I don't want to make them comfortable in
their poverty, but drive them out of it. That's what
welfare should be about. It shouldn't be about making people
comfortable in their poverty because dependency.
Speaker 5 (02:30):
Dependency doesn't elevate people, No, it traps them.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
Right, And look, we see on the show all the
time the greatness of America comes from the greatness within you. Well,
you're not going to achieve that greatness sitting on the
couch at home getting money from the government. You're the
only way you're going to achieve the greatness that is
within you is by going out and doing what it
is God called you to do.
Speaker 5 (02:55):
And that's why a paycheck or a check from the
government or or wherever is more than just how we
pay bills. A paycheck is dignity, it's purpose, it's pride,
it's the satisfaction of standing on your own two feet
and saying I earned this.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
The only way you get a paycheck is if you
do something that someone else considers to be valuable. That's
the only way you get an actual paycheck in this role.
I mean unless you're on the government dole, in which
case you're basically getting money just for existing. But to
go out into the workforce, you have to do something
that somebody else says, you know what, that has value
(03:36):
to me. Here have some of my money. That's the
only way anyone receives a paycheck. And if you are
doing something that someone else sees as valuable, it changes
the way you're able to see yourself.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Because, well, you start to all of a sudden your
life has more meaning, right because because you're participating in
this American dream, building your character, you're providing for your family,
You're teaching your children by example that nothing in life
is free, nor should it be. And of course this
(04:15):
isn't just economics. This is also spiritual. And there's a
number of examples in the Bible that I certainly will
not get into right now.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
But those things are those things are connected more than
people like to understand or like to believe that that
our economy works in part because that's how God designed
some things to work.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Now, one of the bills that he signed, and this
was the one I think really that stood out. There
were some other bills that streamlined in terms of how
someone the seeking assistance from the state, you know, would
only have to go to one agency, you know, wouldn't
have to hop around. In other words, it made it
more convenient, okay. But it also made it more efficient.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
It changed some of the programs from this agency to
another agency again.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
In an effort to stream make it more efficially, so
the government spends less money giving the money.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Out exactly right. But this bill, the one that stood
out to me, was House Built one p. Fifty three
that Governor Landry signed in Shreveport today, and it's authored
by Representative Thomas Aber. And here's what it does. It
increases the number of weekly job search activities required in
(05:30):
order to qualify for unemployment benefits. So you used to
it was three. You had to you had to show
that you had actively looked for work, and you had
to show Yeah, I applied to these three companies for example.
But now under this new law, it is requiring you
(05:53):
to apply or to otherwise search five companies to inquire
about employment opportunities. Uh in a week. Yeah, the number
of weekly job search activities.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
So that's one a day by the way, Okay, but
it increases it No, No, but I'm saying you're saying
it could be more.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
It should be more.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
You've been unemployed, you know what.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
By God's grace, No, I have not.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
Two times in my life been unemployed. Before I ever
got into TV news and then uh, before I start
working on American Ground radio, have been unemployed. Man, I
was doing at least five different job searches a day.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
So I agree.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
You know, if you're if you're hungry, if you're looking
for something, if you want, if you're like, how am
I going to support my family? How am I gonna
If you're if you're hunting for something, you're gonna be
doing job searches that's gonna be like you're driving. That
should be your driving ideology in that moment is I've
got to find a way to make money at this point.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
So Governor Landry says, this ensures that benefits are directed
toward individuals who are genuinely in gauged in the search
for Workah, we're creating incentives, Governor Landry says, for employment
and reducing dependency.
Speaker 4 (07:09):
And given how much is available online, it's easier than
ever to search out jobs and to seek out jobs.
It's easier than ever before to try and find work.
Speaker 5 (07:22):
But you know, I think in order for folks to
understand how we got here, you know, we're not just
saying these things because we're mean, spiteful, you know, heartless people.
I think you've got to go back to the nineteen sixties.
You've got to go back to Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
Programs in order to see how this new welfare state
(07:44):
that was created then.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Has destroyed family.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Well, it's not only destroyed families, it has created generational poverty.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Right because before we put these Great Society programs in
with LBJ, unemployment and the poverty rate in this country
was on a PA. It was declining through the nineteen forties,
nineteen fifties, the poverty rate in the country was falling,
falling into the nineteen sixties. And then when we passed
these Great Society Programs under LBJ, the poverty rate stalls
out between about twelve and fifteen percent, and it's still there.
Speaker 5 (08:16):
And we've spent trillions of dollars trying to eradicate this.
But of course, as Jesus Christ said, the poor will
always be with us. So yeah, but what do you expect.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
But we were on our pace to eradicate poverty in this
country by nineteen eighty before we put in those Great
Society programs, and we haven't reduced poverty at all since then.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
And what Lyndon Johnson did with those Great Society Programs
was basically create a permanent underclasses, not because people were poor,
but because the system made poverty profitable. And the first,
for the first time in American history, Now this was
in the nineteen sixties, the government said, you don't have
to work, we'll take care of you. We'll send you
(08:54):
a check, credit, subsidize your rent, we'll buy your groceries.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
And the more kids you have out of way the
ray money.
Speaker 5 (08:59):
Will raise your kids. So what we're doing now, then,
particularly today in the state of Louisiana, is we're trying
to undo all of the evils of the Great Society
programs because they really have not done anyone any benefit.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
Let's get to the top two things you need noble
for tomorrow. Firsting need noble from all the National Pharmacy
Chain CVS is denouncing Louisiana's three lawsuits against them. State
Attorney General Liz Meurle filed the lawsuit yesterday, accusing CVS
(09:37):
of illegally sending political text messages to all of its
customers and abusing its market power to drive up the
cost of prescription drugs and drive out smaller competitors. CVS
released a statement today saying, to be clear, we did
not use any Office of Group Benefits member information and
we agree with Governor Landry and Attorney General Murle that
OGB data should not be used for this type of
(09:58):
outreach CVS, as all three lawsuits are without merit.
Speaker 5 (10:02):
Okay, but then how did they reach out to folks
if they didn't use.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
So if you go to if you go to CVS
and you're like, hey, I'm gonna get my prescriptions, Like,
would you like us to text you when those prescriptions
are ready? Yes, here's my phone.
Speaker 5 (10:13):
Not okay, But but they're saying that, they're.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Saying they didn't get it from the forms of the
insurance companies.
Speaker 5 (10:19):
Now that's not that's that's being disingenuous.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Second thing you needed before mart Louisiana Attorney General Is
Merle's investigating the Cattle Parish Commission for violating the state's
open meetings law. The Democrat members of the commission gave
Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders an official proclamation from the commission
when Bernie Sanders visited a s freeport last week, but
that proclamation was never voted on or even put on
an agenda for the Cattle Parish Commission to debate. Ag
Merle said, if members of the Cattle Commission want to
(10:43):
act as a body, including issuing documents in the name
of the Commission welcoming socialist Bernie Sanders to report, they
are legally required to put it in the agenda at
a properly held public meeting.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
You know, if they wanted to give a greeting to
Bernie Sanders in writing, you know what they could have done.
They could have gone to the Hallmark store, yeah, or
their local greeting card department and just picked one out.
You could print it on a printer at home to
my favorite Socialists and the third thing you need but
from a Louisiana Supreme Court has disqualified a baton Rouge
(11:14):
Justice of the Peace. Justice of the Peace Tracy Baptiste
was removed from her office, effective immediately. The court said
they removed Baptiste based on a finding a probable cause
that responded committed a violation of the Code of Judicial
Conduct imposes a substantial threat of serious harm to the
public or the administration of justice. The court did not
elaborate on what those findings were. The Judiciary Commission of
(11:36):
Louisiana recommended her suspension to the Supreme Court. WAFB reports
that the Commission had previously been investigating Justice Best Justice
Baptiste for using a racial slur and the retaliating against
person who complained about it. You know, a greeting card
from the Commission to the best socialist ever, and then
they could have all signed.
Speaker 4 (11:53):
Back on that.
Speaker 5 (11:54):
Now.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
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American Radio, Stephen Palmer, lewisar Evaloni. Love this song Nina
ninety nine buck balloon right or to the English version
ninety nine Red Ones. Why we play ninety nine red Balloons?
I mean, other than the fact that it's awesome. Ye,
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I'm gonna listen to that key tar? Why we? Why we?
Speaker 5 (13:14):
Why we're listening to this? Okay, we can we can
turn that right now. Okay. So the reason that we're
talking about balloons here is because there was a bill
to ban balloon releases in the Louisiana legislature.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
Yes, and it sailed right through. It just floated right
on through exactly like like one of those ninety nine
lift balloons.
Speaker 5 (13:36):
Absolutely and folks said, well, you know, Governor Landry will
sign this, okay. And one of the reasons that it
was proposed in the first place is a lot of
times they say, these balloons, you know, well, not a
lot of times. They always come back to Earth, right
and enter into our water systems, into our water ways, okay,
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and lives. For example, sometimes if it lands in a field,
livestock will eat the balloons and it gets into the
digestive system.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
It really is essentially just remote littering. Yeah, I mean
I can see that because eventually it does come down.
Speaker 5 (14:14):
Somewhere, right, And so you would think, I think most
folks expected, well, of course, Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana,
he will see how logical this is and he will
sign this bill. But he didn't. He vetoed this bill
that would have banned balloon releases, and his explanation, you know,
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it made sense. It made sense not to you know,
disparage the author of this bill or the legislature that
voted for it. But Governor Landry said, you know, my
authority is to see that the laws of the state
are faithfully executed. With this authority comes the power to
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veto bills that are impossible or impractical to execute, and
this bill is such a law. Okay, So basically he said,
we can't.
Speaker 4 (15:11):
Stop people from Lisa balloon.
Speaker 5 (15:13):
Well, he says, look, if I signed this into law,
police departments like across the state will have to track
down locations from where balloons were released based off of
eyewitness accounts. So basically, if you find a bunch of balloons,
uh huh, you know, or the latex of the remnants
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of a balloon in a field, yes, now, all of
a sudden, you have to open an investigation. Oh who
who had a gender reveal recently in the area, even
in the area, And guess what balloons no no bounds.
So if you release balloons across day lines in Mississippi,
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that's Arkansas.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
These are heading towards Mississippi for the most part.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
And you, as a meteorologist, yeah, you know how the
jet stream can carry our tendency?
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Sure, well, I mean if it gets up into the
jet stream. Yeah, a lot of these don't quite get
up that high.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
But yes, no, no, I understand. But yeah, but it
makes sense in terms of He's like, okay, yes, it's
a great idea, right, and it would be wonderful if
folks didn't. I don't know if it's wonderful, because I mean,
who doesn't love to release a balloon nip into the air.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
I don't care. I'd rather not release a balloon up
in the air. I'd rather keep the balloon. Okay, But look,
the National Weather Service releases balloons every day. You brought
up meteorology. Part of what they do is they launch
weather balloons. And the weather balloons do get up into
the jet stream and they do go very far. And
not only do you have the balloon part of it,
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but they also have this data box. It's called a radiosoone,
and it's a data box that's measuring temperature and wind
speed and humidity all this stuff. Well, how does they
get back down? It falls, the balloon, looon eventually pops.
It goes high enough in the atmosphere that the air
pressure outside of the balloon is so light that the
balloon pops, it explodes, and then you've got this package
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of information that.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
It's a projectile. It's what it is. It falls and
at lands like a death rock.
Speaker 4 (17:15):
I mean, it'll drop slow, it's got like parachutes on it,
but it'll it has an address of saying if you
find this mail this back, so I mean the National
Weather Service kind of what they may all be authorized
by law to do so. Well, yes, because we need
that information. There's a lot more benefit of getting the
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data of what's going on in the atmosphere. Then there
is the littering of a popped balloon.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
But if you can't enforce the law, should you pass one?
You know what I'm saying. It's like there's a should
the legislature pass bills that really the enforcement of it
is impossible. I mean, you find you find late a
latex balloon lying on the ground in your parish, Okay,
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And then you're like, now what, let's follow that logic,
Let's fall that logic. So right now there is data
that says what something like fifty sixty percent of all
murders cannot be solved, right, fifty six half of the murders.
Speaker 4 (18:15):
Can't be solved. Well, it's impossible to enforce, okay, the
law against every single murder.
Speaker 5 (18:20):
But come on, Steven, law enforcement has bigger problems than balloons. Now,
your police departments are dealing with violent crime and drug trafficking,
illegal immigration, organized theft, rings from China, and now you know,
of course, but what we've got to deal with balloon
with Latex, the remnants of a Latex balloon on the ground.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Okay, then should we get rid of every litter law?
Because right now, if you see trash on the ground,
you can't always figure out where that trash came from,
and frankly, drunk.
Speaker 5 (18:49):
You can determine illegal dumping. Time we have litter laws.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
It's illegal for you to roll down the window of
your car and throw out your cigarette butts, and yet
people do it all the time, and the police don't
have the time to go through and go where'd this
cigarette come from? When we were in the DNA. Okay,
but that's still part of the law. And I still
think we should have anti littering laws. All right, what
about this argument then? Because Governor Landry made this point
as well. He said, local governments have the authority, they
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have the power to ban balloon releases if their communities demanded,
and that is what New Orleans did because New Orleans
kept getting blackouts, remember earlier this last this year actually
is earlier this year, and in part of last year,
they kept having massive sections of the city completely blacked out.
Because they were drinking too much, is what you're talking about. No,
because people were releasing mylar balloons and the mylar balloons
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are going up and hitting the electric grid, and the
electric grid in New Orleans is so fragile that you
take out one station and boom, you've got half the
city gone. And so they it was lasting for hours.
They're struggling to get things back up. You got blown
transformers all because somebody released some mylar balloons directly underneath
the power line and it was happening multiple times. So
New Orleans outlawed the release of mylar balloons. In New Orleans,
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they have that power, and the governor's right, they do
have that power.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Maybe it's not the role of state government to police
every neighborhood birthday party. Maybe it's not the governor's job
to micro manage what floats through the sky on a
sunny Saturday in Ponchatula in Pineville. If it's floating through
the sky, that's not a problem. But if it's landing
on the ground and we've got a litter problem, okay,
but you know, then you get it. But we got
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a little pro hold on. Then you get into intent
because you give a little girl. Yeah, you do, you do, Steven?
You give a little girl a balloon?
Speaker 4 (20:39):
Sure, and you're like, hey, little girl, okay.
Speaker 5 (20:41):
And then the little girl is she's hold in the balloon,
she's got an ice cream cone in the other hand. Sure,
and you know she and it gets released accidentally. What
are we doing here? But are we going to find
the parents? Now? Are we going to chase down this
little girl, six year old little girl and say were
you holding a balloon earlier? Today?
Speaker 4 (21:01):
I get that. All I'll say is go across a
little ridiculous, Go across the state boarder, go to Texas. Now,
Texas has not a low balloons, but Texas does take
littering seriously, Okay, go across the night littering okay, But
go across the border and look in Texas and along
the side of the roads they've got Certainly there's times
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and places where you got trash. They don't have as
much as we do. We got a lot more trash
on our roads than they.
Speaker 5 (21:28):
But with a crime, you have to have two things, right.
You've got to have the intent. Now you've got to
have the act. Sure, and I think that I don't know,
this is a very slippery slope where you know someone
is holding a balloon in the accidentally.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Well, I don't think a balloon's slipping out of a
four year old's hand's going to get anybody out of trouble.
Speaker 5 (21:47):
It'd still be a violation of the law.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
But if you have a big balloon, release a couple
hundred balloons going up nine to nine.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
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Speaker 4 (22:28):
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Speaker 5 (22:31):
So many good things come out of Louisiana, all right.
I know a lot of folks say, oh goodness, gracious,
what was he talking about?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
What's talmot willis?
Speaker 5 (22:40):
Well? Taylor Swift, you know when she came to Louisiana, she.
Speaker 4 (22:43):
Didn't come out of Louisa. She's not from Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (22:45):
Okay, that's not my point. Can I finish say? Taylor
Swift came to Louisiana for her Era's.
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Toore sold out the Superdome in New Orleans.
Speaker 5 (22:55):
And if you remember, on the Superdome, that's where she performed.
Right in Louisia, there was a bracelet, the Friendship bracelet.
The Friendship bracelet.
Speaker 4 (23:04):
Big olds, larger than live size of the dome.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
Absolutely and it became a huge hit, right and then
very popular.
Speaker 4 (23:12):
It was sent them to our next concert. She went
to Indiana exactly Indiana, took out the Friendship brace and
we shared Louisiana being friendly, shared the Friendship bracelet with
them up in Indiana.
Speaker 5 (23:24):
Well, now Taylor Swift has decided she wants to buy
the Friendship bracelet. Oh that's very nice, and it's going
to cost her about thirteen thousand dollars. She's responsible for
the transportation costs picking it up and all. But I
wanted to highlight the fact that that idea for that
Friendship bracelet hanging off the side of the state wasn't
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just something that was brought to Louisiana and then this
was the first concert that it was used. It all
started with Abby Jones, who is the director of sales
and marketing for the local office that is the super Dome.
Speaker 4 (24:01):
Well, it's nice, so it's a marketing thing.
Speaker 5 (24:03):
It was the Superdome marketing team that came up with this.
Speaker 4 (24:08):
And Taylor liked it so much that she wants to
buy it.
Speaker 5 (24:11):
She wanted to buy it, and she's using it at
other venues as you pointed out other concerts.
Speaker 4 (24:17):
Yeah, well genius, that's great.
Speaker 5 (24:19):
I believe that's a good idea. And thirteen thousand dollars.
She's not going to miss that, Taylor. No, no, Well
it's a huge friendship brace So you got a friendship
bracelet that you can't miss, so she won't miss the money.
It's a swifty bracelet and you can't miss the bracelets.
Oh yeah, sure, it's all that sounds pretty good. And
it all started right in Louisiana. In Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Very nice. Let's dig deep, going down down. So the
Trump Department of Education is in favor of school choice.
They've been saying that they're in favor of school choice.
Speaker 5 (24:55):
Of course. Well, they're trying to get rid of the
Department of Education altogether.
Speaker 4 (24:59):
Well, Donald Trump is to memo earlier in Executive Order
earlier this year telling his government that you need to
try and find ways to support school choice. Well, today
the US Department of Education send a memo to all
fifty states showing how those states can use federal education
dollars to support school choice programs in their states. Said
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it's a top priority for the Trump Department of Education
to help turn around underperforming schools and improve student outcomes,
while also giving students in those underperforming schools better options.
Speaker 5 (25:31):
Wait wait, wait, wait, wait a minute, just before you
get too far along, let me see, because my mind
is racing right now. Because what I'm thinking is, you
have federal dollars that are already pre authorized or allocated
or dedicated for certain expenses for education in every state. Sure,
is what the Trump administration basically saying is you can
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use that money now for school choice type programs. You
don't have to spend it on what it was previously
dedicated to some of those funds. Yes, so now they
can pull funds away from some programs.
Speaker 4 (26:08):
And put it in towards school choice.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
So you have to wonder. You have to wonder because
the La Gator program short was short, right, right, and
the legislature was like, we're not putting any more money
in it, right? Did they know that these federal dollars
might be available soon? And so They're like, you know what,
we're going to pull that money for the La Gator
program out of federal dollars rather than out of our
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state budget.
Speaker 4 (26:33):
I don't think so, because all of that seemed to
be going on in the legislature before this was coming
out of the DOA.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Yeah, but you know, Governor Landry and President Trump right
pretty tight.
Speaker 4 (26:42):
But Governor Landry was saying, no, we need the money
that I asked for in the Lagator. What's in Brumley
was saying, I need the money that's going to know
what they were saying, I'm just and there might have
been and the members of the legislature that were saying no,
we cannot. We had was Raymond Cruz. He said, look,
that was the biggest disppointment was that we didn't.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
Fund La Gator full Well, maybe legislators didn't know, but maybe.
Speaker 4 (27:05):
I'm not convinced because this seemed to be a recent thing,
after the legislature had already done what it was going
to do. So this is, by the way, this quote
was from Haley Sandon is the Acting Secretary for the
Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. Set every year that
a child spends in school is precious and cannot be wasted.
Students deserve a choice that best meets their unique needs,
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while leaders undertake the important work of training schools around.
We hope that every state will lean on the guidance
issued today to support school improvement activities and help more
students routs of potential. Now you mentioned Louisiana, The Department
of Education's press release quoted Louisiana's state superintendent first, like
they were highlighting Louisiana off the top, and this is
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what they did. Louisiana's historic education progress is no accident.
It's the result of strategic actions such as expanding school choice.
This welcome step by the Trump administration will place more
students in quality schools, further return critical decision making to
the states, said doctor k Probably, Louisiana Superintendent of Education.
How about that Louisiana's highlight. I understand you think it's
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it's helping your conspiracy theory that they already had all
this time.
Speaker 5 (28:14):
There was already kind of a wink wink. You think
that President Trump didn't already know what was going to
happen before the legislative session in Louisiana ended. Yeah, okay,
you don't think he did. I don't think he knew that. Oh,
I think of.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
All the other things that were going on. What I'm saying, wow,
while he said he's in the middle of bombing Iran,
he goes to the G seven, he's on his way
to the NATO conference. He's trying to get the big
beautiful bill pass. A multitasker, I get that, But he's
already multitasking more than any other president in America, has
already given the directive to his Department of Education Cabinet member. Yes,
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but do I think that President Trump's been involved in
the details of the Gator Fund?
Speaker 5 (28:55):
No, no, no, no, no, You're taking that the wrong way.
What I'm saying to you is is that he may
have mentioned to Governor Landry just off the cough that
we're going to make federal dollars available to your state,
okay for school choice programs, okay, and that might have
influenced what happened in the Louisiana legislature. It's pure conjecture.
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I'm just talking. It's just you and me and our
audience talking here.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, I just I don't think so. I'm not convince you.
Speaker 5 (29:23):
Never do you never the conspiracy never it never lands
on you.
Speaker 4 (29:28):
No, it really does, but we can talk about it sure. Now, Basically,
this idea is that schools that are underperforming, that are
classified as underperforming, so they've got a couple of different
categories comprehensive support improvement, targeted support and improvement, and then
this other one additional target support and improvement. They are
eligible for federal funds now as part of the funding
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that goes to those schools when they're underperforming. What they're
saying is you could take some of the money that
you were going to spend on programs in those schools,
and you can actually spend it on getting kids out
of those schools. You can on school choice programs. So
the money that you're targeting towards schools that are failing,
schools that are falling behind, you can actually take some
of that money and let kids go to a private school,
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or let kids go to another school across town, and
those will pay for the bus ride or whatever.
Speaker 5 (30:14):
Well, look at whatever the results. If we can fully
fund that Gator La Gator program, right, I think that's
going to empower parents, it's going to put students first.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
Well, and I think we need to do a better
job of marketing the La Gator program, because we've got
a ton of schools in the state that fall into
these categories of underperforming, and we should be making sure
the parents of those students know you've got options. You
don't have to stay in a failing school.
Speaker 5 (30:41):
You know when you say, and we've talked about it
before about marketing, we need to market this better so
parents know. Really, what you're saying is we need to
make sure parents are better parents. No, we need to
make more informed parents are more interested parents.
Speaker 4 (30:54):
We need to make sure that they know their rights
when it comes to teaching their kids.
Speaker 5 (30:58):
I don't know what's keeping them from learning it now.
Speaker 4 (31:01):
Well, not everybody follows the news the way that you
and I follow the news. Most people don't, And most
schools that are underperforming, I don't think they have any
incentive to go tell all their parents, Hey, you guys
don't have to stay here. We're not a very good school,
so you don't have to stay. I don't think schools
do that.
Speaker 5 (31:19):
What it sounds like there's a lot of federal dollars
come in our way to do just that.
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Speaker 4 (32:13):
Welcome back to American Graberatium. Stephen Parker Lewis sar Evaloni.
Speaker 5 (32:16):
Of course, while Governor Landry was in the northern half
of the state, he was in north west Louisiana yesterday
signing welfare reform legislation. Yes then he darted over to
the northeast corner of our state in Richland Parish, and
he went and stood in front of the Meta job site.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
I mean speaking of rich Land. Look at that.
Speaker 5 (32:39):
Oh, definitely, it certainly will be talking what ten billion
dollar projects, A lot of money. Take a listen, this
is Governor Landry. Audio isn't terribly good, so but you
can listen to it for just a moment.
Speaker 4 (32:51):
Hey, Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (32:52):
I'm enriching of parish visiting the big Meta AI site.
Speaker 4 (32:55):
You know, we've got six to sixty billion.
Speaker 3 (32:57):
Dollars for the projects going on all of the Louisiana
Live because it a great things we've been doing since
becoming your governor and giving.
Speaker 4 (33:05):
Me a new legislation.
Speaker 5 (33:08):
So the audio kind of gets a little worse there,
but he said that there are over sixty billion dollars
in projects going on across our state since becoming governor.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (33:21):
And he said since giving me a new legislature. Well,
I mean, you know, it really was it really wasn't
a gift necessarily to.
Speaker 4 (33:30):
Him, right, because he wasn't governor when they were elected.
John Bell Edwards was governor when they were elected. But yes,
you know, the Republican lead dominates. You know, there's a
veto proof majority in the Republican House and in the
Republican Senate and some you know, obviously some of those
people were new.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
But I do think leadership matters. I think, you know,
Jeff Landry has done his share of marketing the state
of Louisiana. Sure, I think his association with President Trump,
having Speaker Johnson, Leader Scalise Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 4 (34:07):
Yeah, I think those are all good things.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
I think overall, we have you know, we've got a
pretty fantastic congressional delegation as well.
Speaker 4 (34:15):
And look, we do have to be fair on this
because some of this money that's coming into the state
is for carbon capture projects, for you know, these Green
New Deal stuff, which you know, Senator Cassidy's been a
big fan of, so you know, for all these I now,
I think all these projects are are going to completely
fall apart once the government subsidies failed, but Senator Cassidy's
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helped push some of those the state.
Speaker 5 (34:38):
No, I'm not just to be fair, No, I understand,
but a lot of this is private sector investment, like
the ten billion dollar Meta project. You've got the steel
plant down in Ascension Parish.
Speaker 4 (34:48):
Yes, but then you also have you know a lot
of those things are contingent upon government subsidies for carbon capture,
some of that ammonious stuff going on down there, and frankly,
some of the carbon capture stuff going.
Speaker 5 (34:59):
On in Richland Parish where Governor Landry was yesterday and
standing in front of that site. It's a thousand acre field.
Speaker 4 (35:08):
It's a big deal. It's a big deal. Let's play
a game black battleship shall so you know. This week
one of the things we really haven't had a chance
to talk about much. President Trump got all of the
NATO countries except for Spain, to agree to raise their
defense spending to five percent of GDP, which NATO countries
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currently spend the most money on defense as a percentage
of their GDP.
Speaker 5 (35:38):
Okay, NATO country, NATO countries, man, NATO countries, tough quiz
at the United States number three. We spend three point
three seven percent of GDP on defense, and we've just
agreed to go to five percent. That's a pretty significant increase.
Italy Italy Nope, you know they have pretty big air force.
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Italy does.
Speaker 4 (36:02):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (36:04):
I just was thinking maybe they put a lot of
money in their military. Apparently not more in maybe pizza
in ice cream Italy.
Speaker 4 (36:12):
Italy might show Italy might show up again. As we
continue our conversation.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Okay, spends the most money on defense. Yep, this is
a ridiculous game. I mean, who I understand ever wants
to play a game of Hey tell me which NATO
countries currently spend the most money on defense? I understood,
there's a point to You know, when I when I
don't have the answer, I tend to ridicule you. I
understand that's not fair to you, is it? Well, I
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should know the answer. No, I'm not saying you sh
I don't think the audience. That means in the audience.
Speaker 4 (36:43):
It's trivia. Most people wouldn't know that trivial. Yes, exactly,
I get that. I just take okay, So the United States?
Number three? Uh, the UK? The UK exactly, yes, Number
nine on the list, The UK spends two point three
three percent, less than half of the target they're saying
they're going to go to. So let me go through
the list. Number one, Number one's Poland. Poland spins four
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point one per two percent of its GDP on defense.
It's promised to go to five percent. No NATO country
spends currently five percent on on on defense. Estonia's number two, USA, Latvia, Greece, Lithuania, Finland, Denmark,
UK and Romania. All right, so which country spend the
least amount.
Speaker 5 (37:26):
Of money, the least amount of money, the.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Least you've are in Italy? There you go, number six,
one point four to nine percent. They don't even currently
hit the two percent target. Canada, Canada number five, one
point three seven percent, Spain number one. Spain only spends
one point two eight percent on defense. Did you always
say Germany, I did not say Germany, Germany, Germany. Nope,
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the least. Germany now does spend about two percent. Here's
the list, So it's Spain, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Belgium, Canada, Italy, Portugal, Croatia, Netherlands,
and Slovakia. Slovakia spins one point nine to nine percent
of its GDP on defense. So you've got ten nations
in NATO that still aren't even meeting the two percent
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target that Donald Trump was insistent upon eight years ago,
remember when he went to NATO eight years ago. So
everybody's got to spend two percent because that was the target,
and you had most of the countries not even doing that.
You still have ten countries not even reaching that, and
yet all of them except for one, have agreed that
they're going to bump it up to five percent, which again,
currently no NATO country spins five percent on defense. All
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of this is because Donald Trump's been putting pressure on
NATO to stand up to Russia, and after Russia invaded
Ukraine NATO's starting to pay attention again.
Speaker 5 (38:47):
Are you getting tired of winning yet?
Speaker 4 (38:51):
Russia should start getting tired of losing. Frankly, we'll be back.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
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Welcome back to American Grunt Radio Stephen Park with Lewis
sar Evlona. Hey, you gotta check out Magnolia Pit. They've
got their weekly chef's special, the pork Belly taco.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
I mean you're talking sweet, spicy, yeah, smoky pork belly.
Speaker 4 (39:32):
Come on now, they got their pineapple pico degaio and
savory crumbled cootilla cheese.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Come on now, I mean this isn't some bland calorie
counting you know, boring whatever. This is a hand crafted masterpiece.
It's flavor piled on high three delicious handmade.
Speaker 4 (39:53):
Flower cocos right there. So it's sweet, smoky, deliciousness. And everybody,
it's only at Magnolia Pit Barbecue and you can check
them out. Seven twenty nine Jorden straight in Streetport right
off the line Avenue, just one block south of I twenty.
Speaker 5 (40:05):
Yeah, this isn't fast food. No, it's not fake food.
Speaker 4 (40:09):
No, it's real food.
Speaker 5 (40:10):
It's real foods. To listen real good food. Yeah. Absolutely.
Speaker 4 (40:13):
You see this thing with the Shreeport getting involved in
the New York marriage race.
Speaker 5 (40:17):
You see this, No I did not.
Speaker 4 (40:19):
So apparently the Democrat who was nominated Mamdani right, the socialist,
he apparently called out fifty cent Shreeport's fifty cent. He said,
if I if I know fifty cent is listening, He's
not gonna be happy about this. He tends to not
like this tax policy. But I want to make this
very clear. There's about two twenty thousand dollars a year,
so he wants to tax millionaires for some reason. He
(40:40):
calls out fifty cent in the middle of all this.
So fifty cent responds back, and he says, uh, where
did he come from? Whose friend is this? I'm not
feeling this plan. No, I will give him two hundred
and fifty eight seven hundred and fifty dollars and a
first class one way ticket away from New York.
Speaker 5 (41:01):
Oh wow.
Speaker 4 (41:02):
So apparently fifty cent Shreetport's own fifty cent is now
apparently somehow involved in the mayor's race up in New York,
not because he wanted to be, but because this democrat
socialist called out fifty cent for some reason.
Speaker 5 (41:14):
Yeah, that that seems a little random.
Speaker 4 (41:17):
It seems a little random. But I do like the
fifty cents. Like I'm not feeling this socialist. This socialist
needs to go away. And if I have to pay
for the socialist to go away, I will pay this
fool to go away. I like that.
Speaker 5 (41:29):
You know, fifty cent sounds more conservative than not.
Speaker 4 (41:33):
He's at least a capitalist. He believes in you know,
free market and.
Speaker 5 (41:37):
The and the American dream.
Speaker 4 (41:39):
I would imagine he's living it right, He's making life
better for the next generation. We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (41:45):
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