September 22, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Stephen Parr and Louis R. Avallone. This is the full show for September 19, 2025.
0:30 The defense industry is expanding around Barksdale Air Forse Base in Bossier City. The expansion brings new technology and new job opportunities.
9:58 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 The defense industry is expanding around Barksdale Air Forse Base in Bossier City. The expansion brings new technology and new job opportunities.
9:58 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- New Orleans Mayor, LaToya Cantrell has had her trial date postponed until next year.
- The Caddo Parish Commission voted this week to approve a $10 million pickleball facility in south Shreveport.
- A new repair facility is coming to Barksdale Air Force Base in Bossier City.
12:30 Get Performlyte from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
13:30 We discuss the recent Congressional resolution honoring Charlie Kirk and AOC's reaction.
23:00 Plus, the left likes to accuse Donald Trump of racism, but his support of Historically Black Colleges and Universities shows us otherwise.
26:30 We Dig Deep into a grant from the Delta Regional Authority to Build Baton Rouge to bolster development, public transportation, and job opportunities. But is lack of infrastructure really the biggest barrier to economoic growth in North Baton Rouge?
32:30 Get Prodovite from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
33:30 We discuss a horrific crime in Calcasieu Parish, involving a 43-year-old man who befriended a 72-year-old woman, maxed out her credit cards, and later murdered her.
37:00 And we guess the top 10 job-creating states in the country.
40:30 And the barbecue crunch wrap is back at Magnolia Pit BBQ.
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Some very good news, yeah for the weekend. Well love
that Barksdale Air Force Base in Boja sit in Louisiana. Yeah,
the defense industry is expanding around Barksdale in North Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's expanding.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Apparently a company called VRC Metal Systems YEP is going
to build a new one point five six million dollars
facility at Barksdale Air Force Base. Pretty cool to maintain
the B fifty two aircraft and ground equipment, right, I
mean this plane and the folks that maintain the B
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fifty two are amazing. That's some believable that the plane model.
I mean, that's a separate issue here. It's not the
headline here. But you can't talk about the B fifty
two and not talk about the genius of this aircraft
and those over these many years, right because have lovingly preserved,
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lovingly preserved this aircraft.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Because it was first produced in nineteen fifty five, the
first round of B fifty twos, we're now on the
B fifty two to H. They went through the design
phase fairly quickly, at least in the outer the airframe
of the plane. But the B fifty two H came around,
I guess in sixty two sixty three something like that.
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So these planes are sixty two sixty three years old.
The ones that are still flying now, they've had a
lot of changes to the electronics inside the plane. There's
been a lot of work done in changing the avionics,
changing the radar, changing all of the electric jamming. Certainly
the payloads that they're dropping, they're not dropping dumb bombs,
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cluster bombs and stuff like that. They're dropping you know,
guided weapons, they're dropping cruise missiles, I mean these things.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
This thing is a beast.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
It has been in service since what nineteen fifty five?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
She said, that's what I said. That's what I said.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I mean, think about seventy years, seven decades. Presidents have
become and gone, Entire countries have risen and collapsed, but
the B fifty two keeps flying the beef. It's carrying
America's resolve on its enormous wings.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The B fifty two is older than Russia, all right,
It's older than a lot of countries on this planet.
It's it is an old, old airframe. But you have
to have excellent maintenance to keep it going. And that's
what this is about. And it's really kind of cool
this new company that's coming in.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It's VRC. It's this cold spray process.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, so that's the interesting part about this.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
So you take these microscopic metal particles and then you
blast them at supersonic speed onto a surface, right, and
instead of melting, they fuse. So no high heat, welding,
no compromises, just stronger, more effective repairs.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And that's what's really fascinating to me. We're talking about
microscopic Basically, you're just slamming metal particles into it at
supersonic speeds microscopic levels, and it creates a seal. But yes,
you're right, it doesn't melt the metal around it. It
is simply fused into the metal around it and creating
a stronger seal where you're not compromising the integrity of
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the metal that you're welding too.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
So this company building this one point five million dollars
facility in northwest Louisiana. They're going to train the airmen
themselves to use this technology because look, the men and
women who serve at Barksdale, I mean they are already
some of the most resourceful people on the planet. You know.
Give them duct tape and baling wire and they'll keep
a jet in the air well.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You don't keep the B fifty two flying for sixty
three years without being resourceful.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
But now you give them this cold spray technology, I mean,
come on, and you're turning them into on the spot engineers.
But this is so basically what you're doing is you're
expanding mission capability. You're not waiting for a part to
ship from halfway across the world. You're not grounding a
plane for months while it sits in a depot. You're
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giving the airmen and air women the ability to solve
the problem right there with this new technology. Right then,
it's speed, it's independence.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But this is one of those things that I really
feel like Shreatport needs to be making sure we're capitalizing on.
And in recent years I think there's been a little
bit more of a focus on this in that Shreeport
really should be an aircraft maintenance hub. We've got Barksdale
right there, We've got a whole bunch of people that
are in the Air Force. When they finish the Air Force,
where you're gonna go, where you're gonna well, why not
just stay here?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Bell Chase has the naval base down in Bill Chase.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay, you could do that, but I'm just saying Shreeport
Regional Airport now has also got that new contract with
the major carriers on maintaining and refurbishing jet they're at
Shreetport Regional. This is one of those things that Streetport
really can capitalize on it and become basically an aircraft
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maintenance hub for the entire country. So it's a great
place to do it. This new technology at Barksdale, you
take that, then you start you start creating opportunergy centeredy
syenergy cross area. It's it's so important for a community
to know who they are and why they are. And
Barksdale is a huge part of why absolutely of who
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Northwest Louisiana could be. And I feel like in the
past we may not have capitalized on that near enough
that this doesn't why You've got this aircraft, this this
massive air base here, and it is a nuclear capable
aircraft machine right, we are one third of the nuclear
triad right here in northwest Louisiana. But this does not
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feel like a military town. And I've lived in a
lot of them, this one just doesn't feel like a
military town. And I think, I think that's something that
we've missed out on instead of embracing that and saying,
you know what, we're gonna take that and we're actually
gonna incorporate that into the civilian party.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
But hold on, I mean, look, the fairmen and airwomen
at Barksdale, they are embedded in our community. They are
to all of you know, they attend the schools, their
children attend all the schools, the local schools.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I get you.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
They're involved in sports.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean I understand, but having lived in a lot
of military towns. Having been to a lot of military towns,
there are some places where it is more embedded into
the culture in the civilian park than it is here. Well,
maybe there's Fort Hood at Fort Hood in central Texas,
a lot in Oklahoma with Fort Sill.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Well, maybe there's more diversity in the Northwest Louisiana region
than just being focused on being a military town. But look,
there are folks here. I don't know anyone that does
not appreciate the work that the folks do at Barksdale
Air Force Base.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I get that, But are we doing enough of a
chain of going, Okay, once you retire from the what
you're done with your service? Are we also there's a
lot of fire.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of folks that make this this
area their home. Now, this this facility is going to
create twenty one direct jobs. Yes, and a lot of
folks say with twenty one jobs, it's not that big
of a deal. But well, there's not a butt there.
There is a butt there. Well, you're talking about because
they're like eighty thousand dollars a year job.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Those are pretty good jobs.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
And that's one hundred and fifty six percent of the
parish average in terms of compensation or in terms of
the average pay for you know, employment here in northwest Louisiana.
But the other part of that, and I think it's
the synergy. I think it's the momentum that you show.
You show us a company like this bringing new technology,
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investing one and a half million dollars into a community
like the Shreeport Bosier area, and that attracts other folks
because they say, well, how did that company was successful?
They found a skilled workforce? Right, they were able to
get the job done.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You know what, Let us move and it becomes something
our economic development team, if they'll focus on it, can
use to attract other businesses, similar businesses here and you
can build on that success.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Really good news for Louisiana and Northwest Louisiana in particular.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Let's get to the toughy things you need to know
before tomorrow. First thing you meet know before to New
Orleans mayor. LaToya Cantrell has had her trial date postponed
until next year. Originally, she was going to go on
trial this November, but this week a court in New
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Orleans moved back to trial date until October of next year,
coinciding with the trial of her alleged co conspirator and boyfriend,
former officer Jeffrey Vappi. The change in court date means
Cantrell will not be the first sitting mayor in New
Orleans history to be convicted of a crime while still
in office, but she is still the first mayor indicted
for a crime while still in office.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Boy, I tell you, I think this is the ti
of the Iceberg allegedly. I think there's much moar here
that's going to be uncovered, not just during this trial,
but I think following her exit from New Orleans politics.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I wonder about the bribery charges because again, there's already
been someone who is a charge with bribing the mayor.
She accepted the gift that the person was trying to
bribe her with, so why isn't she charged with receiving
that bribe? Second thing, and you know before ma all,
the Cattle Parish Commission voted this week to approve a
ten million dollar Pickabawl facility in salth Streetport. The pick
a ball facility will be paid for with revenue bonds,
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but that assumes there will be significant usage of the
facility by paying customers. If there aren't enough people paying
to use the facility on a regular basis, then other
money will have to be allocated to pay back the
ten million dollar bonds. It also puts the parish government
in direct competition with numerous other pickleball facilities in the area,
including a new indoor pickleball park inside the Bowser Boardwalk.
The plan was approved on a nine to three vote.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You know, there's a lot of folks that say this
shouldn't happen, this shouldn't have this, But at the same time,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's not a park, but it is a part It's
not part parks you get to go to for for free,
and only governments can create parks that you go to
for free.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Is anybody can build it park like facility.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It's a business like facility. And the third thing you
know before tomorrow as we are just talking about, and
new repair facility is coming to Barksdale Air Force Base
in Bosa City, VRC Metal Systems announced they are building
a new state of the art maintenance facility for the
B fifty twos. The maintenance area will use a new
cold spray technology that allows for microscopic metal particles at
supersonic speed. It is kind of a replacement for welding
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its most better, stronger repairs. The new facility is expected
to create twenty one direct jobs with an average salary
of eighty thousand dollars a year. The beef It's twos
were first produced seventy years ago, and most of the
aircraft still flying are more than sixty years old.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
You know, the B fifty two is a metaphor for
America itself. Big, tough and built to last.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh and dangerous. Oooh, don't cross.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Them, We'll be back.
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Speaker 6 (13:16):
Oh my goodness, yeah, a.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
C Alexandria Occasio Cortez.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
She brands Charlie Kirk a racist and then apparently, you know,
so she denounced the Republican led resolution.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh yeah, so there was a resolution in Congress today.
Mike Johnson put the resolution up, uh, and I read
through it, and essentially what it does is it talks
about how Charlie Kirk is, you know, Christian, he spread
his faith, how he was in favor of civil dialogue
in political issues, that he inspired a lot of college students.
And the resolution essentially said, therefore, we denounce political violence
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of all, we offer sympathy to Charlie Kirk's family. That's
a sensual what the resolution said.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
But she denounced it. She actually denounced honoring the memory
of a murdered American and her reasoning is she said
it brings great pain to Black Americans who suffered under segregation.
And then she acc Charlie.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Segregation, just real quick, segregation. When when was segregation over a.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Long time before AOC was born?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I mean we were born well, and before Charlie
Kirk was born. So if you're blaming Charlie Kirk, blaming
segregation on Charlie Kirk, you don't know how to math.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
So she says it brings great pain to Black Americans.
To honor Charlie Kirk. I mean, here's a guy, he's
not even here to defend himself.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah. Well, and AOC is she black? By the way,
real quick? Is she black?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
No, she's not black.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
No, she's not any more black than you or I are.
She's Hispanic. She's not black. So why is is okay
for AOC to speak for all black people?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
All right? So take a listen. Here is Socialist Representative
Alexandria o Casio Cortes UH denouncing Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Business Today, the Republican House majority brought to the floor
a resolution honoring quote honoring the life and legacy of
Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's assassination was a horrific and vile
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attack and incident of a of political violence, and condemning
the depravity of Kirk's brutal murder is a straightforward matter,
one that is especially important to help stabilize an increasingly
unsafe and volatile political environment.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Shut real quick.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
If it's an important issue and you're opposed to it,
then why don't you support the resolution? He's saying, I
oppose political violence.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
This is how disingenuous she is. She talks about you know,
this is you know, denounces political violence, which you know, Okay,
that's fine, and that's fine, but then she goes on
to basically denigrate Kirk. I mean, the man isn't even
I mean, the man has not even been buried yet,
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he's not here to defend himself, and she's putting words
into his mouth that he did not say. And then
you've got folks that are listening to this thinking, oh, well,
Alexander O Kaesio Cortez said that he he said these things,
So I I mean, I'm a Democrat. I'm with alexandri
O Keesio Cortez. It must be true.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Well, but it's not true. So if I don't know
what your social media feed looks like, but mine, I
have a whole bunch of videos of different people, all
different colors, all different you know, male and female, all
different racists. But there are a lot of black men
and women on my feed going, I'm being told Charlie
Kirk's a racist, and then I actually go and listen
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to what he actually said and that's not racist. Well
he's not. You've got black Americans going, I'm listening to
what he's actually saying. There's nothing racist about what he's saying.
We're being lied to and these are I'm not saying this,
these are Black Americans who are saying this.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Well, she went on to say she wasn't through with
just the racism. Now she's talking about how he was
anti Semitic. Now you know. Now watch if you watch
an interview of Benjamin Nett and Yahoo, the Prime Minister
of Israel. He says, Charlie Kirk loved the Jewish people. Yes,
Charlie Kirk was a friend to the Jewish people.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Ben Shapiro, who is another conservative firebrand, if you will,
he's also Jewish, very Jewish, and he admired Charlie Kirk
and Charlie Kirk were friends, and Ben Shapiro said, when
Charlie Kirk died, it is now our job to pick
up the microphone. He wants to continue. Ben Shapiro wants
to continue doing the work that Charlie Kirk was doing.
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How why if you were Jewish would you want to
continue anti Semitic work.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And Charlie Kirk also invited Jewish speakers. Yes, he defended
Israel against leftist attack. He wasn't an anti Semite. He
was a friend of the Jewish people. But AOC saying
his races, saying Charlie Kirk is is anti Semitic.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, Now, AOC. Did she endorse Zobron mom Dami in
the New York mayor election? You know what, I.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Don't know if she's come out in favor. We know
that the Governor of New York, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Ho I just did. Okay, mob Domi is a documented
anti simmits one. Mondami, the next mayor of New York,
in all likelihood, has said we need to globalize the
into Fauda. Now, the into Fauda in Arabic. That's the
rising up. So what that was was the murder of
Jews on buses and subways and all across Israel. During
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the nineteen nineties, in the two thousand, there have been
a couple of different intefadas. When you say globalize the Intifada,
what you are literally saying is we need to be
blowing up Jews on buses all around the world. That's
literally what that means. Mondami has come out and said
that multiple times. And Alexander Casey of Cortes has not
condemned Mondammi. I believe she's endorsed him from mayor. So
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how can you say Charlie Kirk's an anti Semite when
he supports Israel, when the Prime Minister of Israel says
he's a friend of Israel, When Ben Shapiro says, I'm
gonna be like Charlie Kirk, And yet you support Mamdami
who says we need to be blowing up Jews on
buses all around the world.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Absolutely, And here's the thing. In Congress to this resolution
denouncing political violence, Yeah, fifty eight Democrats voted against it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's it's worse than that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Another thirty eight couldn't even bring themselves to say yes
or no. All they did was vote present. And then
twenty two didn't even bother to show up. So you
had nearly one hundred and twenty Democrats who couldn't bring
themselves to honor a man who was murdered for his
political beliefs.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's right. And so you had ninety five Democrats who
voted in favor of that resolution. Ninety five Democrats said,
you know what, I will express sympathy for Erica Kirk.
I will say that killing the Charlie Kirk was a
bad thing, and I will denounce political VIDs ninety five.
But you had more Democrats who couldn't bring themselves to
do that. Now, there was last year the murder of
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some Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, Minnesota House Speaker and
Marita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. They were murdered
in what's been called a politically motivated assassination. Now, the
House under the Republicans, under Mike Johnson put together a
resolution last year to denounce the murder of the Democrat
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Speaker of the House of Minnesota. Do you know how
many Republicans voted against that resolution last year?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Zero zero zero.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was a unanimous decision. Everyone in the House voted
to condemn the political assassination of Democrats. Every Republican voted
to condemn the political assassination of Democrats, and yet the
majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives could not
bring themselves to vote for the condemnation of the murder
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of a Republican. No, I mean, and you're wondering why
we have so many people trying to kill Republicans stake right,
exactly because the majority of Democrats in the House Representatives
appear to think that politically motivated murder is acceptable, because
if they didn't think it was acceptable, they would have
voted against it.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Well, if this does not show you where the Democratic
Party is, nothing will? I mean, they can't even muster
the basic human decency to say, we honor the life
of a man who was assassinated.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
We offer empathy to his wife and children, and we
denounced political violence of all kinds.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah, he was murdered for his political beliefs. And you're
telling me that one hundred and twenty Democrats and that
sittying congressmen and women couldn't bring themselves to honor this
man who was murdered for his political beliefs.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And the left says we keep needing to lower the temperature.
Are you lowering the temperature by they're calling a dead
man a racist. They just keep raising it up, up, up,
up up.
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How do you say that?
Speaker 4 (22:38):
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Speaker 1 (22:58):
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Speaker 6 (23:01):
Every chance they get, every chance they get. Democrats accused
Trump of being racist, of being bigoted, of being hateful. Right,
and guess what his administration just did. They just allocated
over four hundred million dollars in additional federal funding to
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historically back black colleges and universities or as they are
otherwise referred to HBCUs. Well, you'll remember in Trump's first term,
it was Donald Trump who exactly basically made funding for
a permanent because they used to have to go every
single year hat in hand and beg and beg. And
he was like, why are you having to do this.
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Let's just make it permanent and we'll call it a day.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It was his idea, and the university was like, wait,
what we can do that? Oh yeah, please let's do that.
That's real money, four hundred million dollars. I know a
lot of folks may say, oh, that's not a whole
lot of money. Four hundred million dollars a lot of money.
Who's says that's not a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
That I mean, that's real support. And it's over and
above that. Four hundred million dollars is over and above
what these institutions received the year before. So we're talking
about cold, hard cash. We're talking about walking around money here, Oh,
walking around walking around you know what, I don't want
universities though, treating it like walking around money. That is
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still government I still tax payer money somewhat. Got to
be careful with that. I mean, it's not you know,
we shouldn't be just throwing parties off of this. But see,
here's what you can really But here's what's really great.
Trump didn't just talk about and see, this is what
the left doesn't understand. But we can debate it. We
don't have to hate one another. We can debate it.
But but here's what they don't understand. Okay, Trump doesn't
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just talk about doing something. When he's talking about helping
black communities, he's not just pandering for votes. Right, he's
delivering the goods he's got, He's bringing the receipts as
the young folks say.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Is that what the young folks?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Maybe they do. I've heard that at times. Okay, all right,
you remember Barack Obama?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I do?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I mean he campaigned as obviously as the first black president,
and he was promising hope and change.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Today is the day when the series will stopped a rise.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
So he had eight years in office? Eight years in office? Right,
why did he not put this kind of funding into HBCUs.
I don't know why did he never? He never delivered
this kind of investment into historically black colleges and universities.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, but he talked about how it would look like
Trayvon He said.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
That's a different subject altogether. So but but yet Trump,
the man who actually delivered, that's the racist that that's
what we're supposed to believe.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's what the left wants us to believe because they
need the black vote. If they don't get enough Black
Americans voting for them, they're losing it very quickly. Let's
stick deep.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Going down.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So there's a big investment of money coming to North
Baton Rouge.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
This is from an investment. Are we talking about private
investment now?
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Well not really, it's kind of a public private Wait
a minute, right, Steven, you're talking about investment with respect
to government.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I thought that wasn't government's role.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
You're right, it's not. I'm setting it up. See I
was setting it up.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I fell right into trap.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Build This is from the advocate build a Baton Rouge
announced Friday it received one hundred forty thousand dollars from
the Delta Regional Authority to fund a plan to bolster development,
public transportation, job opportunities, and broadband access in North Baton Rouge.
Deirdre to sell Us Roberts, the president and CEO of
Build Baton Rouge, said she plans on using the corner
(26:54):
of Plank Road and chalk Taw Drive and the area
near Southern University Overpass as to catalytic sites to drive
economic development in the area. I'm not sure what catalytic
sites she's I don't understand, but okay, so that's what
she's trying to do, is create some catalytic sites.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I mean, I know what a catalytic converter is. Yeah, catalytic,
I guess she's trying to create a reaction or some kind.
She said, this is really just a pivotal time not
only for the organization, but the use of land and
infrastructure to be able to deploy different tools and innovative
ideas to really grow and infuse that community. Robert said,
(27:33):
I think it's always a good time to look at
economic development and growth investment. Okay, so catalytic, uh huh
For those who may be wondering, Yeah, and I know
a lot of you folks are a lot smarter, yell,
already knew what this meant. But it's relating to this is,
according to the dictionary, relating to or involving the action
of a catalyst. Yes, so like chemical reactions. Something else
(27:55):
starts a chemical reaction. Okay, all right, so what are
their goals? Well, this is what to say in the article.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
With a seven point six unemployment rate, about three percent
higher than the parish and national averages, and more than
forty percent of residents living below the poverty line, Roberts said,
adding affordable housing, healthy food sources, and workforce training opportunities
will drive the community.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Oh oh, just stop right there, Okay, when so government,
So you're telling me that is it Baton Rouge Parish. No,
the city of Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So this is a Build Baton Rouge.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
And they're trying to provide affordable housing. Let me ask
you something. Yeah, I mean, I'm just just asking for
a friend. Okay. Where in this country has government undertaken
affordable housing initiatives and it proven to be successful, actually
made housing more affordable for those demographics that they were
seeking to assist. Let me think think, let's see it
(28:53):
was not that state.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
No, not their state. Then there's the no not there
there I'm drawn a blank. Yeah, me too, all right,
Look has worked in the past, even in Baton Rouge. Again,
this is from the article. Build Baton Rouge and other
community organizations have launched projects to develop parts of northern
Baton Rouge in the past fifteen years. Build Baton Rouge
kicked off the Imagine Plank Road master Plan in twenty nineteen,
and Scotlandville Community Development Corporation rolled out a Planet twenty
(29:16):
eleven to spruce up commercial development and transportation. By twenty thirty.
Roberts said the North Baton Ruge Strategic Plan will encompass
a larger footprint. Look, they've done this, and yet you
still have problems in North Baton Ruge. We've been doing
stuff like that. We've got a catalyst here, we got
a catalyst there, we got money coming in. Okay, people
aren't building businesses in North Baton Rouge because they don't
(29:36):
have healthy food sources. We've got these things backwards. The
left looks at stuff and they get cause and effect
completely reversed. They think, our problem is we don't have
grocery stores in the area, and so if we'll just
build grocery stores in the area, that will mean we
get businesses coming in and we'll get other No. No, no,
(29:57):
The reason why you don't have grocery stores in the
area is because you've got crime in the area. They
aren't building there because of crime. That area Central and
North Baton Rouge is where you see most of the
crime in our state. Capital crime causes poverty, not the
other way around. Crime drives out businesses, crime drives down
(30:19):
the value of homes, and so you see generational wealth
wiped out overnight because a spike in the murder rate
or the spike in the car degenerator, spike in the
rape rate. So it doesn't matter how much money you're
throwing into these plans. You could come up with all
the master plans. We're gonna put something here, we'll put
a little grocery store there, we're gonna run something over there.
If you can put all those plans together. But if
(30:41):
you don't solve the crime problem first, none of it,
none of it is going to be successful.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Well, first of all, I mean government is really not
They're not prepared, they're not competent to do these all
of those activities that you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Even when that government money then gets filtered through a
non government organization like build Baton Rouge, it's still that
government feed that comes in and the government's like, well,
this is a public private partnership. No, it's still a
failure because you're the first thing that government's supposed to
do is secure our rights to life and liberty. We
can't pursue our happiness if you haven't secured our rights
(31:17):
to life and liberty.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
No, no, no, But every dollar that the government spends first
has to be taken out of the productive free economy,
from me, from the very businesses that actually generate wealth.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So think of Masow's hierarchy of needs. After food and water,
and shelter. People need safety, and without safety, you can't
move off to things like self actualization or grocery stores
or happiness. We've got to solve the crime problem first,
and if you don't solve that problem, nothing else is
(31:50):
going to work. We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen parv with Lewis
and look, I do not mean to bring light to
this situation or bring any sort of humor.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I mean, but at the same time, okay, And then
folks are like, well, yeah, he's about.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
To yeah, because you just said I don't want to
do this. But but which is like a big eraser
for the sentence right ahead.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
So apparently there was a forty three year old man
in Calcashue Parish, Okay, and he had befriended a seventy
two year old woman. Okay, he maxed out her credit
cards apparently without her permission.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
That's not befriending. That's not what a friend.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Does, I understand. But under the guise of big friends, Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
He pretended to befriend her and then rob So she.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Finds out about this. Yeah, and apparently, in a drunken rage,
the forty three year old man who maxed out all
of her credit cards murdered her and kept her body
in the trunk of his car. Oh my gosh for
over a month during the summer in Louisiana, Calcashu perish,
(34:19):
Oh god. And I'm just saying how lazy. Do you
have to be that you?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You?
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I mean, you drive around for a month before you
decide what you are actually going to do with this body.
I mean, first of all, it's horrific. It was absolutely horrible.
It is unspeakable, this this violence. Right, but you drive
I mean a month. I mean you need to, I
mean make a decision. I mean, Fisher cut bait here.
(34:49):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, you're gonna have a hard time reselling?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
So he did he did do This is funny. I
stopped laughing.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
You're right, it's not. It's awful.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
He did do some Google searches, ohka, on how to
get rid of a body and how long will a
body stink after they've been murdered? I mean, this is
this guy is this is a brainiac guy.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, that's genius. That's genius right there.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
To be doing these Google searches after he has committed murder. Yeah, well, allegedly,
how do you cover.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Up a murder after you've killed somebody? That's a great yeah,
google search genius. Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
So nevertheless, apparently he was arrested after he was found.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
They caught him. I'm shocked, Yeah, right, I'm shocked.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Well, he was trying to open up loans in her name.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, that would do it. That's again another really dumb move.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
So anyway, well, actually I said allegedly. Actually a jury
has returned a guilty verdict. No surprise.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
They don't have to use allegedly anymore. This would not
This is what happened. Oh gosh, that is an awful,
awful story. It reminds me strong with people. It reminds
me of the story over in East Texas a guy
named Bernie I don't remember his last name, but they
made a movie off of it. Basically Jack Black played
the guy and he murdered a woman. He befriended this woman,
murdered her, shoved her in her own deep freeze for
(36:18):
months until he was eventually found out.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Well, I mean, this is elder abuse.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
It is.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
And I think there's a lot of folks out there that,
you know, might might befriend someone that is pretending to
be a friend, but obviously.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
They've got bad things in their heart. What's change gears
and play a game.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Black battleship shall so.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
The Bureau of Liberal Statistics put out the list of
states that have created the most jobs over the last year.
Can you name the top ten job creating states in
the United States of America. Which states made them? Just
the raw number the most jobs in the last year,
Texas number one. One hundred and ninety five thousand, six
(37:06):
hundred jobs created in Texas.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Most of those might be California businesses that are moving
to Dexas moved to Texas.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
SpaceX certainly added some of that.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
How about Florida, Florida number four on the list, ninety
eight thousand, two hundred North Carolina, North Carolina number five
on the list, eighty thousand, eight hundred new jobs. South
Carolina number seven on the list, seventy two thousand new jobs.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Tennessee, Tennessee did not make the list. Arkansas, Arkansas did
not make the list. Mississippi, No, No, did not.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Okay, I was being being hopeful, now sure, Okay, I'm
not even gonna bother saying Louisiana. Okay, I'm not not
going to do that, all right, job creating states. Oh
what about Nevada.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Nevada, Nope, Arizona, Arizona was just out of the top ten.
They're number eleven.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
South Dakota, They're on a whole bunch of folks in
South Dakota. Well, that's true, but maybe per capital we're
not doing this, not doing person happy.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
This is raw number, raw numbers.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Yeah, I can't say California. That's a good idea. I
just can't.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Okay, don't say Georgia, Georgia. No.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Yeah, I'm striking out. Okay, I'm gonna do one more. Okay,
do one more, all right? New Jersey, New Jersey, so close.
New York number two on the list, one hundred and
twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
New jobs, and that really surprises surprised me too, But again,
New York is such an economic engine still for the
entire country, So when the entire country's doing well, usually
New York does fairly well. So over the last year,
here here are the top ten. Texas has had the
most jobs created one hundred ninety five thousand, six hundred.
New York was second with one hundred and twenty five thousand.
Pennsylvania was third one hundred and one thousand, two hundred
(38:56):
new jobs in Pennsylvania. Again, a lot of that in Pennsylvania, though,
is oil work, because they've got that big shale going on.
The franking go on in Pennsylvania, Florida ninety two hundred,
North Carolina eighty thousand, eight hundred, Ohio seventy six thousand,
eight hundred, South Carolina seventy two thousand. Then you had Virginia,
which are surprised by this because of all the firings
(39:17):
that have gone with the federal government. But Virginia's net
forty four thousand, four hundred, Michigan forty four thousand, one hundred,
and Minnesota forty two thousand, five hundred. So you had
four red states, five split states, and one blue state,
New York making the most jobs in the country.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
But you know what, a rising tide lifts all ships. Yeah,
and I think.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
More states can be making more jobs for the next
couple of years.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
You think one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
We are going to be talking about that the difference
between the Trump and Biden economies coming up in the
next hour of American Ground Radio Instagram.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avalone
and Steven Parr.
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You got focused on the cheddar cheese, right because they
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Well, and we can talk about, you know, the Democrats
wanting to shut down the government. We can talk about
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Speaker 6 (42:13):
Let me ask you something. I know We've had a
lot of memorable United States senator Senators Russell Long, for example,
Jay Bennet, Johnston. Okay, let me ask you, do you
think that John Kennedy may go down as one of
the most memorable Louisiana Senators in Louisiana history.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Not only that, I think he's going to go down
as one of the best senators in especially in the
Judicial Committee, ever in American history. We'll be back.
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American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avaloni and Stephen Proto.
Speaker 5 (01:00):
This is American Ground Radio. Stephen par with Lewis sar Avlona.
Some very good news, yeah for the weekend. Well love
that Barksdale Air Force Base in Boja sit in Louisiana. Yeah,
the defense industry is expanding around Barksdale in North Louisiana.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
It's expanding.
Speaker 6 (01:20):
Apparently a company called VRC Metal Systems YEP is going
to build a new one point five six million dollars
facility at Barksdale Air Force Base. Pretty cool to maintain
the B fifty two aircraft and ground equipment, right, I
mean this plane and the folks that maintain the B
(01:42):
fifty two are amazing. That's some believable that the plane model.
I mean, that's a separate issue here. It's not the
headline here. But you can't talk about the B fifty
two and not talk about the genius of this aircraft
and those over these many years, right because have lovingly preserved,
(02:05):
lovingly preserved this aircraft.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Because it was first produced in nineteen fifty five, the
first round of B fifty twos, we're now on the
B fifty two to H. They went through the design
phase fairly quickly, at least in the outer the airframe
of the plane. But the B fifty two H came around,
I guess in sixty two sixty three something like that.
(02:28):
So these planes are sixty two sixty three years old.
The ones that are still flying now, they've had a
lot of changes to the electronics inside the plane. There's
been a lot of work done in changing the avionics,
changing the radar, changing all of the electric jamming. Certainly
the payloads that they're dropping, they're not dropping dumb bombs,
(02:49):
cluster bombs and stuff like that. They're dropping you know,
guided weapons, they're dropping cruise missiles, I mean these things.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
This thing is a beast.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (02:58):
It has been in service since what nineteen fifty five?
Speaker 1 (03:01):
She said, that's what I said. That's what I said.
Speaker 6 (03:03):
I mean, think about seventy years, seven decades. Presidents have
become and gone, Entire countries have risen and collapsed, but
the B fifty two keeps flying the beef. It's carrying
America's resolve on its enormous wings.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
The B fifty two is older than Russia, all right,
It's older than a lot of countries on this planet.
It's it is an old, old airframe. But you have
to have excellent maintenance to keep it going. And that's
what this is about. And it's really kind of cool
this new company that's coming in.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
It's VRC. It's this cold spray process.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah, so that's the interesting part about this.
Speaker 6 (03:42):
So you take these microscopic metal particles and then you
blast them at supersonic speed onto a surface, right, and
instead of melting, they fuse. So no high heat, welding,
no compromises, just stronger, more effective repairs.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
And that's what's really fascinating to me. We're talking about
microscopic Basically, you're just slamming metal particles into it at
supersonic speeds microscopic levels, and it creates a seal. But yes,
you're right, it doesn't melt the metal around it. It
is simply fused into the metal around it and creating
a stronger seal where you're not compromising the integrity of
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the metal that you're welding too.
Speaker 6 (04:27):
So this company building this one point five million dollars
facility in northwest Louisiana. They're going to train the airmen
themselves to use this technology because look, the men and
women who serve at Barksdale, I mean they are already
some of the most resourceful people on the planet. You know.
Give them duct tape and baling wire and they'll keep
a jet in the air well.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah right.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
You don't keep the B fifty two flying for sixty
three years without being resourceful.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
But now you give them this cold spray technology, I mean,
come on, and you're turning them into on the spot engineers.
But this is so basically what you're doing is you're
expanding mission capability. You're not waiting for a part to
ship from halfway across the world. You're not grounding a
plane for months while it sits in a depot. You're
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giving the airmen and air women the ability to solve
the problem right there with this new technology. Right then,
it's speed, it's independence.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
But this is one of those things that I really
feel like Shreatport needs to be making sure we're capitalizing on.
And in recent years I think there's been a little
bit more of a focus on this in that Shreeport
really should be an aircraft maintenance hub. We've got Barksdale
right there, We've got a whole bunch of people that
are in the Air Force. When they finish the Air Force,
where you're gonna go, where you're gonna well, why not
just stay here?
Speaker 6 (05:43):
Bell Chase has the naval base down in Bill Chase.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Okay, you could do that, but I'm just saying Shreeport
Regional Airport now has also got that new contract with
the major carriers on maintaining and refurbishing jet they're at
Shreetport Regional. This is one of those things that Streetport
really can capitalize on it and become basically an aircraft
(06:08):
maintenance hub for the entire country. So it's a great
place to do it. This new technology at Barksdale, you
take that, then you start you start creating opportunergy centeredy
syenergy cross area. It's it's so important for a community
to know who they are and why they are. And
Barksdale is a huge part of why absolutely of who
(06:32):
Northwest Louisiana could be. And I feel like in the
past we may not have capitalized on that near enough
that this doesn't why You've got this aircraft, this this
massive air base here, and it is a nuclear capable
aircraft machine right, we are one third of the nuclear
triad right here in northwest Louisiana. But this does not
(06:53):
feel like a military town. And I've lived in a
lot of them, this one just doesn't feel like a
military town. And I think, I think that's something that
we've missed out on instead of embracing that and saying,
you know what, we're gonna take that and we're actually
gonna incorporate that into the civilian party.
Speaker 6 (07:07):
But hold on, I mean, look, the fairmen and airwomen
at Barksdale, they are embedded in our community. They are
to all of you know, they attend the schools, their
children attend all the schools, the local schools.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
I get you.
Speaker 6 (07:19):
They're involved in sports.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
I mean I understand, but having lived in a lot
of military towns. Having been to a lot of military towns,
there are some places where it is more embedded into
the culture in the civilian park than it is here. Well,
maybe there's Fort Hood at Fort Hood in central Texas,
a lot in Oklahoma with Fort Sill.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Well, maybe there's more diversity in the Northwest Louisiana region
than just being focused on being a military town. But look,
there are folks here. I don't know anyone that does
not appreciate the work that the folks do at Barksdale
Air Force Base.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
I get that, But are we doing enough of a
chain of going, Okay, once you retire from the what
you're done with your service? Are we also there's a
lot of fire.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Yeah, there's a lot of folks that make this this
area their home. Now, this this facility is going to
create twenty one direct jobs. Yes, and a lot of
folks say with twenty one jobs, it's not that big
of a deal. But well, there's not a butt there.
There is a butt there. Well, you're talking about because
they're like eighty thousand dollars a year job.
Speaker 1 (08:20):
Those are pretty good jobs.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
And that's one hundred and fifty six percent of the
parish average in terms of compensation or in terms of
the average pay for you know, employment here in northwest Louisiana.
But the other part of that, and I think it's
the synergy. I think it's the momentum that you show.
You show us a company like this bringing new technology,
(08:45):
investing one and a half million dollars into a community
like the Shreeport Bosier area, and that attracts other folks
because they say, well, how did that company was successful?
They found a skilled workforce? Right, they were able to
get the job done.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
You know what, Let us move and it becomes something
our economic development team, if they'll focus on it, can
use to attract other businesses, similar businesses here and you
can build on that success.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Really good news for Louisiana and Northwest Louisiana in particular.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Let's get to the toughy things you need to know
before tomorrow. First thing you meet know before to New
Orleans mayor. LaToya Cantrell has had her trial date postponed
until next year. Originally, she was going to go on
trial this November, but this week a court in New
(09:37):
Orleans moved back to trial date until October of next year,
coinciding with the trial of her alleged co conspirator and boyfriend,
former officer Jeffrey Vappi. The change in court date means
Cantrell will not be the first sitting mayor in New
Orleans history to be convicted of a crime while still
in office, but she is still the first mayor indicted
for a crime while still in office.
Speaker 6 (09:57):
Boy, I tell you, I think this is the ti
of the Iceberg allegedly. I think there's much moar here
that's going to be uncovered, not just during this trial,
but I think following her exit from New Orleans politics.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
I wonder about the bribery charges because again, there's already
been someone who is a charge with bribing the mayor.
She accepted the gift that the person was trying to
bribe her with, so why isn't she charged with receiving
that bribe? Second thing, and you know before ma all,
the Cattle Parish Commission voted this week to approve a
ten million dollar Pickabawl facility in salth Streetport. The pick
a ball facility will be paid for with revenue bonds,
(10:33):
but that assumes there will be significant usage of the
facility by paying customers. If there aren't enough people paying
to use the facility on a regular basis, then other
money will have to be allocated to pay back the
ten million dollar bonds. It also puts the parish government
in direct competition with numerous other pickleball facilities in the area,
including a new indoor pickleball park inside the Bowser Boardwalk.
The plan was approved on a nine to three vote.
Speaker 6 (10:53):
You know, there's a lot of folks that say this
shouldn't happen, this shouldn't have this, But at the same time,
I mean.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
It's not a park, but it is a part It's
not part parks you get to go to for for free,
and only governments can create parks that you go to
for free.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
Is anybody can build it park like facility.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
It's a business like facility. And the third thing you
know before tomorrow as we are just talking about, and
new repair facility is coming to Barksdale Air Force Base
in Bosa City, VRC Metal Systems announced they are building
a new state of the art maintenance facility for the
B fifty twos. The maintenance area will use a new
cold spray technology that allows for microscopic metal particles at
supersonic speed. It is kind of a replacement for welding
(11:32):
its most better, stronger repairs. The new facility is expected
to create twenty one direct jobs with an average salary
of eighty thousand dollars a year. The beef It's twos
were first produced seventy years ago, and most of the
aircraft still flying are more than sixty years old.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
You know, the B fifty two is a metaphor for
America itself. Big, tough and built to last.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
Oh and dangerous. Oooh, don't cross.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Them, We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
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Speaker 1 (13:13):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen Parr with Lewis
r A.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Oh my goodness, yeah, a.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
C Alexandria Occasio Cortez.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
She brands Charlie Kirk a racist and then apparently, you know,
so she denounced the Republican led resolution.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Oh yeah, so there was a resolution in Congress today.
Mike Johnson put the resolution up, uh, and I read
through it, and essentially what it does is it talks
about how Charlie Kirk is, you know, Christian, he spread
his faith, how he was in favor of civil dialogue
in political issues, that he inspired a lot of college students.
And the resolution essentially said, therefore, we denounce political violence
(13:59):
of all, we offer sympathy to Charlie Kirk's family. That's
a sensual what the resolution said.
Speaker 6 (14:05):
But she denounced it. She actually denounced honoring the memory
of a murdered American and her reasoning is she said
it brings great pain to Black Americans who suffered under segregation.
And then she acc Charlie.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Segregation, just real quick, segregation. When when was segregation over a.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Long time before AOC was born?
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I mean we were born well, and before Charlie
Kirk was born. So if you're blaming Charlie Kirk, blaming
segregation on Charlie Kirk, you don't know how to math.
Speaker 6 (14:43):
So she says it brings great pain to Black Americans.
To honor Charlie Kirk. I mean, here's a guy, he's
not even here to defend himself.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
Yeah. Well, and AOC is she black? By the way,
real quick? Is she black?
Speaker 6 (14:55):
No, she's not black.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
No, she's not any more black than you or I are.
She's Hispanic. She's not black. So why is is okay
for AOC to speak for all black people?
Speaker 6 (15:05):
All right? So take a listen. Here is Socialist Representative
Alexandria o Casio Cortes UH denouncing Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Business Today, the Republican House majority brought to the floor
a resolution honoring quote honoring the life and legacy of
Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's assassination was a horrific and vile
(15:37):
attack and incident of a of political violence, and condemning
the depravity of Kirk's brutal murder is a straightforward matter,
one that is especially important to help stabilize an increasingly
unsafe and volatile political environment.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
Shut real quick.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
If it's an important issue and you're opposed to it,
then why don't you support the resolution? He's saying, I
oppose political violence.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
This is how disingenuous she is. She talks about you know,
this is you know, denounces political violence, which you know, Okay,
that's fine, and that's fine, but then she goes on
to basically denigrate Kirk. I mean, the man isn't even
I mean, the man has not even been buried yet,
(16:28):
he's not here to defend himself, and she's putting words
into his mouth that he did not say. And then
you've got folks that are listening to this thinking, oh, well,
Alexander O Kaesio Cortez said that he he said these things,
So I I mean, I'm a Democrat. I'm with alexandri
O Keesio Cortez. It must be true.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Well, but it's not true. So if I don't know
what your social media feed looks like, but mine, I
have a whole bunch of videos of different people, all
different colors, all different you know, male and female, all
different racists. But there are a lot of black men
and women on my feed going, I'm being told Charlie
Kirk's a racist, and then I actually go and listen
(17:11):
to what he actually said and that's not racist. Well
he's not. You've got black Americans going, I'm listening to
what he's actually saying. There's nothing racist about what he's saying.
We're being lied to and these are I'm not saying this,
these are Black Americans who are saying this.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
Well, she went on to say she wasn't through with
just the racism. Now she's talking about how he was
anti Semitic. Now you know. Now watch if you watch
an interview of Benjamin Nett and Yahoo, the Prime Minister
of Israel. He says, Charlie Kirk loved the Jewish people. Yes,
Charlie Kirk was a friend to the Jewish people.
Speaker 1 (17:46):
Ben Shapiro, who is another conservative firebrand, if you will,
he's also Jewish, very Jewish, and he admired Charlie Kirk
and Charlie Kirk were friends, and Ben Shapiro said, when
Charlie Kirk died, it is now our job to pick
up the microphone. He wants to continue. Ben Shapiro wants
to continue doing the work that Charlie Kirk was doing.
(18:09):
How why if you were Jewish would you want to
continue anti Semitic work.
Speaker 6 (18:14):
And Charlie Kirk also invited Jewish speakers. Yes, he defended
Israel against leftist attack. He wasn't an anti Semite. He
was a friend of the Jewish people. But AOC saying
his races, saying Charlie Kirk is is anti Semitic.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Okay, Now, AOC. Did she endorse Zobron mom Dami in
the New York mayor election? You know what, I.
Speaker 6 (18:35):
Don't know if she's come out in favor. We know
that the Governor of New York, Kathy.
Speaker 1 (18:39):
Ho I just did. Okay, mob Domi is a documented
anti simmits one. Mondami, the next mayor of New York,
in all likelihood, has said we need to globalize the
into Fauda. Now, the into Fauda in Arabic. That's the
rising up. So what that was was the murder of
Jews on buses and subways and all across Israel. During
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the nineteen nineties, in the two thousand, there have been
a couple of different intefadas. When you say globalize the Intifada,
what you are literally saying is we need to be
blowing up Jews on buses all around the world. That's
literally what that means. Mondami has come out and said
that multiple times. And Alexander Casey of Cortes has not
condemned Mondammi. I believe she's endorsed him from mayor. So
(19:26):
how can you say Charlie Kirk's an anti Semite when
he supports Israel, when the Prime Minister of Israel says
he's a friend of Israel, When Ben Shapiro says, I'm
gonna be like Charlie Kirk, And yet you support Mamdami
who says we need to be blowing up Jews on
buses all around the world.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
Absolutely, And here's the thing. In Congress to this resolution
denouncing political violence, Yeah, fifty eight Democrats voted against it.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
It's it's worse than that.
Speaker 6 (19:54):
Another thirty eight couldn't even bring themselves to say yes
or no. All they did was vote present. And then
twenty two didn't even bother to show up. So you
had nearly one hundred and twenty Democrats who couldn't bring
themselves to honor a man who was murdered for his
political beliefs.
Speaker 1 (20:11):
That's right. And so you had ninety five Democrats who
voted in favor of that resolution. Ninety five Democrats said,
you know what, I will express sympathy for Erica Kirk.
I will say that killing the Charlie Kirk was a
bad thing, and I will denounce political VIDs ninety five.
But you had more Democrats who couldn't bring themselves to
do that. Now, there was last year the murder of
(20:33):
some Minnesota lawmaker and her husband, Minnesota House Speaker and
Marita Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. They were murdered
in what's been called a politically motivated assassination. Now, the
House under the Republicans, under Mike Johnson put together a
resolution last year to denounce the murder of the Democrat
(20:57):
Speaker of the House of Minnesota. Do you know how
many Republicans voted against that resolution last year?
Speaker 6 (21:06):
Zero zero zero.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
It was a unanimous decision. Everyone in the House voted
to condemn the political assassination of Democrats. Every Republican voted
to condemn the political assassination of Democrats, and yet the
majority of Democrats in the House of Representatives could not
bring themselves to vote for the condemnation of the murder
(21:31):
of a Republican. No, I mean, and you're wondering why
we have so many people trying to kill Republicans stake right,
exactly because the majority of Democrats in the House Representatives
appear to think that politically motivated murder is acceptable, because
if they didn't think it was acceptable, they would have
voted against it.
Speaker 6 (21:48):
Well, if this does not show you where the Democratic
Party is, nothing will? I mean, they can't even muster
the basic human decency to say, we honor the life
of a man who was assassinated.
Speaker 1 (21:59):
We offer empathy to his wife and children, and we
denounced political violence of all kinds.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Yeah, he was murdered for his political beliefs. And you're
telling me that one hundred and twenty Democrats and that
sittying congressmen and women couldn't bring themselves to honor this
man who was murdered for his political beliefs.
Speaker 1 (22:17):
And the left says we keep needing to lower the temperature.
Are you lowering the temperature by they're calling a dead
man a racist. They just keep raising it up, up, up,
up up.
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Speaker 1 (22:58):
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Speaker 6 (23:01):
Every chance they get, every chance they get. Democrats accused
Trump of being racist, of being bigoted, of being hateful. Right,
and guess what his administration just did. They just allocated
over four hundred million dollars in additional federal funding to
(23:23):
historically back black colleges and universities or as they are
otherwise referred to HBCUs. Well, you'll remember in Trump's first term,
it was Donald Trump who exactly basically made funding for
a permanent because they used to have to go every
single year hat in hand and beg and beg. And
he was like, why are you having to do this.
(23:44):
Let's just make it permanent and we'll call it a day.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
It was his idea, and the university was like, wait,
what we can do that? Oh yeah, please let's do that.
That's real money, four hundred million dollars. I know a
lot of folks may say, oh, that's not a whole
lot of money. Four hundred million dollars a lot of money.
Who's says that's not a lot of money.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
That I mean, that's real support. And it's over and
above that. Four hundred million dollars is over and above
what these institutions received the year before. So we're talking
about cold, hard cash. We're talking about walking around money here, Oh,
walking around walking around you know what, I don't want
universities though, treating it like walking around money. That is
(24:21):
still government I still tax payer money somewhat. Got to
be careful with that. I mean, it's not you know,
we shouldn't be just throwing parties off of this. But see,
here's what you can really But here's what's really great.
Trump didn't just talk about and see, this is what
the left doesn't understand. But we can debate it. We
don't have to hate one another. We can debate it.
But but here's what they don't understand. Okay, Trump doesn't
(24:45):
just talk about doing something. When he's talking about helping
black communities, he's not just pandering for votes. Right, he's
delivering the goods he's got, He's bringing the receipts as
the young folks say.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Is that what the young folks?
Speaker 7 (25:00):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (25:00):
Maybe they do. I've heard that at times. Okay, all right,
you remember Barack Obama?
Speaker 1 (25:04):
I do?
Speaker 6 (25:04):
I mean he campaigned as obviously as the first black president,
and he was promising hope and change.
Speaker 1 (25:09):
Today is the day when the series will stopped a rise.
Speaker 6 (25:13):
So he had eight years in office? Eight years in office? Right,
why did he not put this kind of funding into HBCUs.
I don't know why did he never? He never delivered
this kind of investment into historically black colleges and universities.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Yeah, but he talked about how it would look like
Trayvon He said.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
That's a different subject altogether. So but but yet Trump,
the man who actually delivered, that's the racist that that's
what we're supposed to believe.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
That's what the left wants us to believe because they
need the black vote. If they don't get enough Black
Americans voting for them, they're losing it very quickly. Let's
stick deep.
Speaker 3 (25:56):
Going down.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
So there's a big investment of money coming to North
Baton Rouge.
Speaker 6 (26:10):
This is from an investment. Are we talking about private
investment now?
Speaker 8 (26:15):
Well not really, it's kind of a public private Wait
a minute, right, Steven, you're talking about investment with respect
to government.
Speaker 6 (26:25):
I thought that wasn't government's role.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
You're right, it's not. I'm setting it up. See I
was setting it up.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
I fell right into trap.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Build This is from the advocate build a Baton Rouge
announced Friday it received one hundred forty thousand dollars from
the Delta Regional Authority to fund a plan to bolster development,
public transportation, job opportunities, and broadband access in North Baton Rouge.
Deirdre to sell Us Roberts, the president and CEO of
Build Baton Rouge, said she plans on using the corner
(26:54):
of Plank Road and chalk Taw Drive and the area
near Southern University Overpass as to catalytic sites to drive
economic development in the area. I'm not sure what catalytic
sites she's I don't understand, but okay, so that's what
she's trying to do, is create some catalytic sites.
Speaker 6 (27:12):
I mean, I know what a catalytic converter is. Yeah, catalytic,
I guess she's trying to create a reaction or some kind.
She said, this is really just a pivotal time not
only for the organization, but the use of land and
infrastructure to be able to deploy different tools and innovative
ideas to really grow and infuse that community. Robert said,
(27:33):
I think it's always a good time to look at
economic development and growth investment. Okay, so catalytic, uh huh
For those who may be wondering, Yeah, and I know
a lot of you folks are a lot smarter, yell,
already knew what this meant. But it's relating to this is,
according to the dictionary, relating to or involving the action
of a catalyst. Yes, so like chemical reactions. Something else
(27:55):
starts a chemical reaction. Okay, all right, so what are
their goals? Well, this is what to say in the article.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
With a seven point six unemployment rate, about three percent
higher than the parish and national averages, and more than
forty percent of residents living below the poverty line, Roberts said,
adding affordable housing, healthy food sources, and workforce training opportunities
will drive the community.
Speaker 6 (28:15):
Oh oh, just stop right there, Okay, when so government,
So you're telling me that is it Baton Rouge Parish. No,
the city of Baton Rouge.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So this is a Build Baton Rouge.
Speaker 6 (28:29):
And they're trying to provide affordable housing. Let me ask
you something. Yeah, I mean, I'm just just asking for
a friend. Okay. Where in this country has government undertaken
affordable housing initiatives and it proven to be successful, actually
made housing more affordable for those demographics that they were
seeking to assist. Let me think think, let's see it
(28:53):
was not that state.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
No, not their state. Then there's the no not there
there I'm drawn a blank. Yeah, me too, all right,
Look has worked in the past, even in Baton Rouge. Again,
this is from the article. Build Baton Rouge and other
community organizations have launched projects to develop parts of northern
Baton Rouge in the past fifteen years. Build Baton Rouge
kicked off the Imagine Plank Road master Plan in twenty nineteen,
and Scotlandville Community Development Corporation rolled out a Planet twenty
(29:16):
eleven to spruce up commercial development and transportation. By twenty thirty.
Roberts said the North Baton Ruge Strategic Plan will encompass
a larger footprint. Look, they've done this, and yet you
still have problems in North Baton Ruge. We've been doing
stuff like that. We've got a catalyst here, we got
a catalyst there, we got money coming in. Okay, people
aren't building businesses in North Baton Rouge because they don't
(29:36):
have healthy food sources. We've got these things backwards. The
left looks at stuff and they get cause and effect
completely reversed. They think, our problem is we don't have
grocery stores in the area, and so if we'll just
build grocery stores in the area, that will mean we
get businesses coming in and we'll get other No. No, no,
(29:57):
The reason why you don't have grocery stores in the
area is because you've got crime in the area. They
aren't building there because of crime. That area Central and
North Baton Rouge is where you see most of the
crime in our state. Capital crime causes poverty, not the
other way around. Crime drives out businesses, crime drives down
(30:19):
the value of homes, and so you see generational wealth
wiped out overnight because a spike in the murder rate
or the spike in the car degenerator, spike in the
rape rate. So it doesn't matter how much money you're
throwing into these plans. You could come up with all
the master plans. We're gonna put something here, we'll put
a little grocery store there, we're gonna run something over there.
If you can put all those plans together. But if
(30:41):
you don't solve the crime problem first, none of it,
none of it is going to be successful.
Speaker 6 (30:47):
Well, first of all, I mean government is really not
They're not prepared, they're not competent to do these all
of those activities that you were talking about.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Even when that government money then gets filtered through a
non government organization like build Baton Rouge, it's still that
government feed that comes in and the government's like, well,
this is a public private partnership. No, it's still a
failure because you're the first thing that government's supposed to
do is secure our rights to life and liberty. We
can't pursue our happiness if you haven't secured our rights
(31:17):
to life and liberty.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
No, no, no, But every dollar that the government spends first
has to be taken out of the productive free economy,
from me, from the very businesses that actually generate wealth.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
So think of Masow's hierarchy of needs. After food and water,
and shelter. People need safety, and without safety, you can't
move off to things like self actualization or grocery stores
or happiness. We've got to solve the crime problem first,
and if you don't solve that problem, nothing else is
(31:50):
going to work. We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (31:53):
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Speaker 1 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio Stephen parv with Lewis
and look, I do not mean to bring light to
this situation or bring any sort of humor.
Speaker 6 (33:21):
I mean, but at the same time, okay, And then
folks are like, well, yeah, he's about.
Speaker 1 (33:27):
To yeah, because you just said I don't want to
do this. But but which is like a big eraser
for the sentence right ahead.
Speaker 6 (33:32):
So apparently there was a forty three year old man
in Calcashue Parish, Okay, and he had befriended a seventy
two year old woman. Okay, he maxed out her credit
cards apparently without her permission.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
That's not befriending. That's not what a friend.
Speaker 6 (33:47):
Does, I understand. But under the guise of big friends, Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
He pretended to befriend her and then rob So she.
Speaker 6 (33:53):
Finds out about this. Yeah, and apparently, in a drunken rage,
the forty three year old man who maxed out all
of her credit cards murdered her and kept her body
in the trunk of his car. Oh my gosh for
over a month during the summer in Louisiana, Calcashu perish,
(34:19):
Oh god. And I'm just saying how lazy. Do you
have to be that you?
Speaker 3 (34:26):
You?
Speaker 6 (34:26):
I mean, you drive around for a month before you
decide what you are actually going to do with this body.
I mean, first of all, it's horrific. It was absolutely horrible.
It is unspeakable, this this violence. Right, but you drive
I mean a month. I mean you need to, I
mean make a decision. I mean, Fisher cut bait here.
(34:49):
What are you doing here?
Speaker 1 (34:50):
Yeah, you're gonna have a hard time reselling?
Speaker 6 (34:53):
So he did he did do This is funny. I
stopped laughing.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
You're right, it's not. It's awful.
Speaker 6 (35:00):
He did do some Google searches, ohka, on how to
get rid of a body and how long will a
body stink after they've been murdered? I mean, this is
this guy is this is a brainiac guy.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah, that's genius. That's genius right there.
Speaker 6 (35:16):
To be doing these Google searches after he has committed murder. Yeah, well, allegedly,
how do you cover.
Speaker 1 (35:23):
Up a murder after you've killed somebody? That's a great yeah,
google search genius. Okay.
Speaker 6 (35:30):
So nevertheless, apparently he was arrested after he was found.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
They caught him. I'm shocked, Yeah, right, I'm shocked.
Speaker 6 (35:40):
Well, he was trying to open up loans in her name.
Speaker 1 (35:43):
Yeah, that would do it. That's again another really dumb move.
Speaker 6 (35:47):
So anyway, well, actually I said allegedly. Actually a jury
has returned a guilty verdict. No surprise.
Speaker 1 (35:55):
They don't have to use allegedly anymore. This would not
This is what happened. Oh gosh, that is an awful,
awful story. It reminds me strong with people. It reminds
me of the story over in East Texas a guy
named Bernie I don't remember his last name, but they
made a movie off of it. Basically Jack Black played
the guy and he murdered a woman. He befriended this woman,
murdered her, shoved her in her own deep freeze for
(36:18):
months until he was eventually found out.
Speaker 6 (36:20):
Well, I mean, this is elder abuse.
Speaker 3 (36:22):
It is.
Speaker 6 (36:22):
And I think there's a lot of folks out there that,
you know, might might befriend someone that is pretending to
be a friend, but obviously.
Speaker 1 (36:32):
They've got bad things in their heart. What's change gears
and play a game.
Speaker 3 (36:42):
Black battleship shall so.
Speaker 1 (36:45):
The Bureau of Liberal Statistics put out the list of
states that have created the most jobs over the last year.
Can you name the top ten job creating states in
the United States of America. Which states made them? Just
the raw number the most jobs in the last year,
Texas number one. One hundred and ninety five thousand, six
(37:06):
hundred jobs created in Texas.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Most of those might be California businesses that are moving
to Dexas moved to Texas.
Speaker 1 (37:12):
SpaceX certainly added some of that.
Speaker 6 (37:14):
How about Florida, Florida number four on the list, ninety
eight thousand, two hundred North Carolina, North Carolina number five
on the list, eighty thousand, eight hundred new jobs. South
Carolina number seven on the list, seventy two thousand new jobs.
Speaker 1 (37:27):
Tennessee, Tennessee did not make the list. Arkansas, Arkansas did
not make the list. Mississippi, No, No, did not.
Speaker 6 (37:36):
Okay, I was being being hopeful, now sure, Okay, I'm
not even gonna bother saying Louisiana. Okay, I'm not not
going to do that, all right, job creating states. Oh
what about Nevada.
Speaker 1 (37:53):
Nevada, Nope, Arizona, Arizona was just out of the top ten.
They're number eleven.
Speaker 6 (38:03):
South Dakota, They're on a whole bunch of folks in
South Dakota. Well, that's true, but maybe per capital we're
not doing this, not doing person happy.
Speaker 1 (38:13):
This is raw number, raw numbers.
Speaker 6 (38:14):
Yeah, I can't say California. That's a good idea. I
just can't.
Speaker 3 (38:18):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Okay, don't say Georgia, Georgia. No.
Speaker 6 (38:23):
Yeah, I'm striking out. Okay, I'm gonna do one more. Okay,
do one more, all right? New Jersey, New Jersey, so close.
New York number two on the list, one hundred and
twenty five thousand.
Speaker 1 (38:34):
New jobs, and that really surprises surprised me too, But again,
New York is such an economic engine still for the
entire country, So when the entire country's doing well, usually
New York does fairly well. So over the last year,
here here are the top ten. Texas has had the
most jobs created one hundred ninety five thousand, six hundred.
New York was second with one hundred and twenty five thousand.
Pennsylvania was third one hundred and one thousand, two hundred
(38:56):
new jobs in Pennsylvania. Again, a lot of that in Pennsylvania, though,
is oil work, because they've got that big shale going on.
The franking go on in Pennsylvania, Florida ninety two hundred,
North Carolina eighty thousand, eight hundred, Ohio seventy six thousand,
eight hundred, South Carolina seventy two thousand. Then you had Virginia,
which are surprised by this because of all the firings
(39:17):
that have gone with the federal government. But Virginia's net
forty four thousand, four hundred, Michigan forty four thousand, one hundred,
and Minnesota forty two thousand, five hundred. So you had
four red states, five split states, and one blue state,
New York making the most jobs in the country.
Speaker 6 (39:32):
But you know what, a rising tide lifts all ships. Yeah,
and I think.
Speaker 1 (39:38):
More states can be making more jobs for the next
couple of years.
Speaker 6 (39:40):
You think one hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (39:42):
We are going to be talking about that the difference
between the Trump and Biden economies coming up in the
next hour of American Ground Radio Instagram.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Lewis r Avalone
and Steven Parr.
Speaker 1 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen part with luisar Avalona.
You know what's back. You know what's back, don't you?
Speaker 6 (40:21):
That cheddar? The trying lunch, the barbecue crunch, wrap just
get old tongue tied. Thinking.
Speaker 1 (40:27):
You got focused on the cheddar cheese, right because they
have they top it with the cheddar cheese. But that's
just part of what they do. They've got they've got
chopped briskets where they start right. Then you got mac
and cheese, so you got the chop brisket mixed in
with the mac and cheese, and then they throw in
some Jlopanio chips in that. Then they put that shredded
cheddar on there. They top with ranch and the Magnolia
Pit signature barbecue that Louisiana style barbecue sauce. They wrap
(40:51):
it all up in tortillas. They then grill it to
a golden perfection and then they deliver it to you.
And you're sitting there and you're looking at this and
you're like, I'm not sure that's so good. I've ever
been so good in my life that I deserve something
this tasty.
Speaker 6 (41:08):
You know, it truly is. And look it's not it's
not a national chain, no, and there's nothing wrong with
national chain.
Speaker 1 (41:15):
Oh, but this is authentic Louisiana style barbecue, made by
people from right here in Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (41:21):
Magnolia Pit Barbecue where you can savor the soul of
the Louisiana Barbecue.
Speaker 1 (41:26):
Seven twenty nine Jerna Street, du Street, Port Go check
them out.
Speaker 6 (41:29):
Okay, you don't want to miss this on Monday, Yeah,
Senator John Kennedy will be on the show. He'll be
coming on and talking about all things America. Well then
on American Ground Radio.
Speaker 1 (41:44):
I will definitely show up for work on Monday.
Speaker 3 (41:46):
Then.
Speaker 1 (41:46):
I don't want to miss that at all.
Speaker 6 (41:47):
No. Absolutely, So you're gonna get You're gonna get Senator Kennedy,
you know, unfiltered live right here on AGR. That's nice,
and we're gonna talk about this stuff. Obviously the media
doesn't want you to hear about.
Speaker 1 (41:59):
Well, and we can talk about, you know, the Democrats
wanting to shut down the government. We can talk about
the resolution on Charlie Kirk, we can talk about a
whole bunch of That's the thing about Senator Kennedy. You
can talk to him about just about anything and he's
going to say something amazing.
Speaker 6 (42:13):
Let me ask you something. I know We've had a
lot of memorable United States senator Senators Russell Long, for example,
Jay Bennet, Johnston. Okay, let me ask you, do you
think that John Kennedy may go down as one of
the most memorable Louisiana Senators in Louisiana history.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
Not only that, I think he's going to go down
as one of the best senators in especially in the
Judicial Committee, ever in American history. We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (42:43):
The second hour of American Ground Radio is coming up
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