October 10, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 9, 2025.
0:30 We dive into a major development in New Orleans: U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan says she’s ready to lift the federal consent decree that has governed the city’s police department since 2013. The conversation explores how the decree—originally introduced under Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the Obama DOJ—transformed policing in the Crescent City through oversight, paperwork, and bureaucracy, but failed to bring crime down.
9:30 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 We dive into a major development in New Orleans: U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan says she’s ready to lift the federal consent decree that has governed the city’s police department since 2013. The conversation explores how the decree—originally introduced under Mayor Mitch Landrieu and the Obama DOJ—transformed policing in the Crescent City through oversight, paperwork, and bureaucracy, but failed to bring crime down.
9:30 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- The New Orleans Consent decree is coming to an end as the federal government no longer contends that there is a racial bias problem in the New Orleans Police Department.
- A candidate for the New Orleans city council admits she used campaign funds to advertise for her private business, but insists she's done nothing wrong.
- The last remaining escapee from a mass jail break earlier this year in New Orleans has finally been captured.
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13:30 We return from covering the New York City mayor’s race and shine a spotlight on something closer to home — the creative boom happening in Shreveport, Louisiana. Guest Gregory Kallenberg, founder of Prize Fest, joins the show to share how this once-small film competition has transformed into a national celebration of creativity, innovation, and community impact. Listeners get an inside look at how Film Prize, Music Prize, Food Prize, Comedy Prize, and Startup Prize are turning Shreveport into a hub for filmmakers, chefs, entrepreneurs, and artists from across the country. Kallenberg also highlights Film Prize Junior, which teaches filmmaking, teamwork, and confidence to Louisiana’s middle and high school students — inspiring the next generation of creators.
23:00 We discuss how Northwest Louisiana is becoming a cultural hub thanks to the vision of Gregory Kallenberg, who brought inspiration from Austin’s South by Southwest to Shreveport. PrizeFest now includes Comedy Prize, Film Prize, Music Prize, Food Prize, and the Golden Lens photography competition, making it one of the most exciting creative events in the country — with the world’s largest cash prize for a short film.
Visit PrizeFest.com to explore the event, which draws filmmakers, musicians, chefs, and creatives from all over while showcasing local talent and boosting the state’s cultural profile.
26:00 We Dig Deep into a special session of the Louisiana legislature expected to convene on October 23rd. While there had been speculation this session would address redistricting for Congressional District 6, current reports indicate that lawmakers will focus on moving the closed primary dates to accommodate potential delays in a U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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33:30 We react to the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson's, doubling down on his commitment to resist federal enforcement of immigration laws, framing it as a fight against authoritarianism. Critics argue that his approach prioritizes illegal immigrants over law-abiding Chicago residents, allowing the city to spend taxpayer money on non-citizens for housing, healthcare, and SNAP benefits. ICE agents, contrary to Johnson’s framing, are enforcing federal law, not targeting random residents.
36:30 Plus, we have a little fun guessing the 10 best large cities to visit in America. Play along!
40:30 And we end today's show with a recent report from Baton Rouge highlighting two people who received counterfeit Botox injections. One person ordered it online, while the other received injections from someone not licensed to practice medicine.The Louisiana Department of Health issued a public warning emphasizing the dangers of unregulated, online-purchased medications.
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Speaker 4 (01:02):
US District Court Judge Susie Morgan said today that she
is prepared to lift that consent decree that has governed
the New Orleans Police Department since twenty thirteen. And figure this,
or get this, the Trump administration and the New Orleans
Police Department, the New Orleans Police Chief, they're on the
(01:26):
same page here.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They are even LaToya.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Cantrell and Donald Trump share the same position here, and
that is that the Police Department of New Orleans needs
to be out from under the boot of the federal government.
You remember how all this started.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, it started with Obama.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
No, well, actually it started with Mitch Landrew, then Mayor
of New Orleans. Mitch Landrew back in twenty thirteen, right,
and at the time, he invited the Department of Justice
to investigate the New Orleans Police Department because there were
several high profile incidents of misconduct. So instead of, you know,
(02:09):
Mitch Landrew taking the heat, of course, he called the
Department of Justice and he said, come on in. You know,
the department is a cesspool of corruption and discrimination and
excessive force. You know, this was long before the defund
the police movement, but Mitch Landrew was onto it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He kind of helped push all this, get it all started.
And look and in Barack Obama's Department of Justice was
in on. I think this was a I think this
was a scheme between Landrew and the DOJ. There's a
way for land Drew to cover some of his political
failings of not leading the city.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, no, but I understand, but let's be honest. I mean,
the report on the New Orleans Police Department was very scathing,
but it was not entirely wrong. The New Orleans Police
Department of that era was broken. There was morale was low.
Recruitment was down. Sure, corruption cases were real, but.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Recruitment is still down.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, we don't have the corruption cases we had,
but there's I mean, there's still a lot of morale
problems in the New Orleans people.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well, what should have happened was the mayor should have
worked with Louisiana's own justice system, our own attorney general,
our own state courts, our own voters. But the federal
government came in, decided to occupy the New Orleans Police Department,
and since twenty thirteen, the city has been in what
(03:34):
is known as a consent decree, which is a binding
legal agreement between the Department of Justice and the New
Orleans and they basically handed all this authority over to
the federal government to reform, to oversee, to micro manage
the New Orleans Police Department. So they brought in monitors
(03:55):
and auditors and analysts. They are posts, they IMPERI. Oh, absolutely,
a lot of DEI. They imposed all these new training programs,
reporting systems, and basically it was reformed by spreadsheet. It
is bureaucracy designed or disguised rather as justice. And the result,
(04:19):
you know, here we are to what twelve years later,
as you point out so eloquently, crime is still high,
morale is still low, and the New Orleans Police Department
still can't recruit enough officers to keep the city safe.
So now you've got to.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Justice, there's down hundreds, hundreds of cops.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, now you've got to judge today saying that she's
leaning towards lifting this consent decree altogether, which would return
control of the New Orleans Police Department back to the
New Orleans Police Department. Now is that a good idea?
That's I think it is. Is it any worse? Is
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it any words than having the federal government there?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, look, an ker Patrick is a different police superintendent, right,
She's not the same one that was there when the
problems were identified by the scathing reporter she talked about earlier.
She's been on the job for a year and a half,
two years, something like that, So I do think she
has a different approach to the city's police department. I'm
(05:24):
not saying that she's the person I would have hired,
but I do think that she's at least trying to
do things with integrity in the police department, and that's
at least a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But the other part is New Orleans doesn't need to.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Be under this federal bureaucracy and the handholding and the
oversight and the big brother attitude towards the police department.
I don't think we necessarily need that now. I don't
think LaToya cantrails the person to lead the police department either.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
But I think the other part of the reason morale
cratered in the New Orleans Police Department is that the
consent to Crey made it made police officers feel like
they were the enemy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right, like they were guilty before proven it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Exactly because instead of backing up the officers, the system
somewhat tied their hands, so policing became a paperwork exercise,
not necessarily a pursuit of justice. So we're now cratered.
And then you had crime that they continued to rhyme
right right.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
At least until da Williams was carjacked.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well, in twenty twenty two, New Orleans was named America's
murder capital. H So you have And again, so what
does the federal government do that is successful or heretofore,
I guess other than the under the Trump administration, And
I know a lot of folks say, oh, yeah, of
course you're going to say that, but look look at
the objectively, look at this. You've got a decade of
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federal oversight.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And crime was going up in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Supposedly designed all this oversight was supposedly designed to reform policing,
and yet the city got more dangerous, right, not say right?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And so when the police department, maybe they're doing a
better job with the paperwork, but when the actual job
of the police department, which is to lower crime, is
not getting done, you got to go, well, is this
consent decree helpful? Is this doing what the people of
New Orleans need done? Because again, that's why governments were
instituted among men. The reason why there's a city government
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in New Orleans is to protect the rights of the
people of the city of New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And you know, and I'm going to tie this back
to the National Guard because I know a lot of
folks say, oh, you're champiing local control, right, but yet
at the same time, you're cheering on bringing in the
National Guard into our local communities. Yes, but both those things, okay,
you can right, you can hold both of those.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Thoughts, right, because it would be best if the National
Guard comes in in a supportive role for the local
police department, where the National Guard is working hand in
hand with the police departments.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's going to be how it works best.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
But it's more than that. Long enforcement is inherently local.
It is the sheriff, the police chief, the constable. These
are all officials that are closest to the people, very
much so, and they answer to the voters, that's right,
not the federal government, not the bureaucraft.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But when those same folks refuse to enforce the law,
then you've.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Got to bring in the national government, because again the
national government was also instituted to secure rights. And if
the local government won't do it, you've got to bring
in another agencies that will. Because this is why I'm saying,
it will work best if the local officer their job
hand in hand with the National Guard until we get
some of this crime completely taken care of. And to
(08:39):
Anchor Patrick's credit, she has said that she is going
to welcome support and that she will hope that they
work in a supporting role and she will figure out
how to.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Do that cooperatively. I think that's the right approach to.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
This all right. So I think it's good that the
federal government is getting out of the New Orleans Police Department,
that a consenter with this consent to cree going away,
and hopefully that will raise morale, Hopefully that will increase
recruitment and decrease crime.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Let's get to the top three things you needed A
long first thing, need noble from all. The New Orleans
consent decree is coming to an end. As we were
just talking about, both the Trump administration and the New
Orleans Police Department had petitioned to have the consent decree
terminated as the federal government no longer contends that there's
(09:33):
a racial bias problem in the department. US to TO
Judge Susie Morgan ruled that if the Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals overturns her previous rule keeping the decree in place,
she will allow the agreement to expire rather than go
through a phase down period. The decree has been in
place for twelve years and was done during the Biden
the Obama administration's campaign against police departments across the country.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And here's the thing. There have been consent decree similar
consent decrees in Baltimore, Chicago, in Ferguson, and all of
them promised reform and all are still drowning in crime.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
And the second thing you need to before tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
A candidate for the New Orleans City Council admits she
used campaign funds to advertise her private business, but insists
she's done nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
State Rep.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Delisa Boyd paid a marketing company she owns with campaign
funds to advertise for a real estate company she also owns.
The ads are being run on city buses, do not
mention who paid for the ads, and only mentioned the
real estate company, not her campaign for city council. That
appears to be a violation of state campaign finance laws
that ban the use of campaign money for personal benefit.
(10:39):
In an interview with nola dot Com, Boyd said, quote
to have me attacked by that and my daughter, who
simply was doing what she thought was best to market
me not only as a business owner, but as a
legislator as a candidate, is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, I mean, what about the adage of all publicity
is good publicity, you know, just make for name, except
for illegal publicity.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You can't use campaign funds for your private business.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That's a crime. And the third thing you needed before.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Of all, the last remaining escape from a mass jail
break earlier this year in New Orleans has finally being captured.
Convicted murderer Derek Groves was arrested near Atlanta, Georgia, this week.
He was one of ten people who escaped from the
Orleans Paris jail back in May. Inside the hall he
was staying in, police found weapons and drugs, potentially adding
to the charges against Groves. In an arrangement in Atlanta,
Grows waved any childe who extradition back to Louisiana, saying
(11:26):
he wanted to go home.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
However, he won't be going home anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Groves is facing a life sentence for two murders and
will likely see time added onto a sentence for his
escape and crimes committed while on the rout.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Well, yeah, he wants to come home to Orleans Parish jail.
At least there he has a chance of escaping again.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
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Speaker 4 (13:16):
Of course, we are so glad to be back in Shreveboard, right.
We spent some time earlier this week in New York City.
We were re covering the New York City Mayor's race.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We're invited to be part of a.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Town hall conversation with Hugh Hewitt, Joe Piscopo, Mike Gallagher,
some of them, more, Kevin McCullough, yeah, several other people,
and we were invited to be on that panel.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And it was an honor to go.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Up to Salem's radio studios right there at Wall Street
and Broadway.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Dah Man is pretty cool, pretty amazing, And a lot
of folks say, well, why why even cover that race?
And part of the reason is, unlike Las Vegas, what
happens New York City, it doesn't stay in New York City.
So to the extent that some of these policies, folks,
then you would be completely offended by what the leading
(14:12):
candidate for the New York City Mayor's race is advocating for.
And if you've listened to the show this week, you
know exactly what I'm talking about. He is essentially a
communist and you know, we just can't have that. There's
nothing more antithetical to what makes US Americans.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, you talk about how in New York City it is.
Things don't stay there, right, they spread across the country.
So New York City's the financial capital of the country.
What happens on Wall Street affects the entire country. They
are the media capital of the country. What happens in
newsrooms in New York City affects the entire country.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
They have a claim to.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Being the cultural capital of the US. What happens on
Broadway eventually spreads. I mean, look at what happened with Hamilton.
You know how Hamilton comes out and it becomes this massive,
this massive success. But go back to the so join
the revolution and they study what's happening there and they're
very excited about So.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
It's a tremendous place to visit. Yes, but the influence
of the South in the South is rising, and whether
that's with film or art.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
To your point, in Dallas, there are now more people
working in finance in Dallas. I mentioned New York's the
financial capital the US, but there are more people working
in finance in Dallas than in New.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
York and talk about culture.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Culture spreading across the country too, and you have places
where people are working on developing culture in the local
community and it's spreading.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes, it absolutely is. And that is why I am
so excited to be joining us in studio is Gregory Callenberg.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Gregory, welcome back to America Grow Radio. Appreciate you being here.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
It's a true honor to be here, and it's great
to be with you guys, in no doubt.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So now you are in charge of Prize Fest. It
used to just be Film Prize, right, yes, and it
has so. Film Prize was was basically to try and
recognize Louisiana based filmmakers and you guys were given out
a prize for some of the best films made locally.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Well, you know it was a much bigger, more delusional
vision than that. At the very beginning, Uh, you know,
I moved from Austin, Texas to Sreeport. I was trying
to find a way to get my cool Austin filmmaker
friends to come to Shreeport.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
And it was, you know, it worked.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It was it was a it was a fever dream,
to be quite honest, And you know I was.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I was asked, actually by the.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Tourism bureau to come up with a Shreeport International Film Festival,
and I told him it was a bad idea. And
if you want to lose all of your friends, simultaneously
tell them the idea they've been working on for two
years is about and it's and and and they leave.
But you know, as as it is with me. I
I went to my thinking place, which is a fire
with a bottle of tequila someplace very close to me,
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and came up with the Film Prize. And the Film
Prize is a short film competition where we give away
fifty thousand dollars cash, which is the world's largest cash.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Prize for a short film.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
The caveat is a head to come to Shreport to
make the film right. And what maybe I didn't account
for is that it's a you know, it sounds very
attractive to filmmakers from all over the country.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
So filmmakers really beat.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
A path to Shreetport, Louisiana, where we really didn't have
an independent filmmaking seen. And not only did they make
films here, but they stayed in our hotels, they trained
our locals, they started to create here in a way
that is kind of unprecedented anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And now it's not just Film Prize.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
There's food Prize, there's music Prize, there's comedy Prize, there's
Golden Lyn's Photography competition. Is the peak is there still growing?
You got other prizes coming?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well, I mean, you know, if I may, you know,
and you guys did wonderful research. But you know, there
are a couple of programs that are kind of off
everyone's radar that are incredibly important to the economic drivers
of our region. And one is a startup Prize. So
there's something called Startup Prize at Startup Price focus on Health.
(18:09):
This year we'll do so do Startup focus on Startup
Prize focus on health and focus on energy. So the
idea is really to bring energy and health innovators to Shreport,
to meet with investors, get resources and think about Shreeport
as a home. And then the other important one is
something called Film Price Junior, which is really it's while
it's teaching middle school and high school kids about filmmaking,
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truly what it is is it's teaching kids leadership and
confidence in the collaboration.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
The idea of collaboration, which in the.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Year twenty twenty five is kind of an anomaly. And
so what we're really trying to do is we focus
on title Ian schools. We're trying to keep these kids
off the streets. We're trying to really put them into
a place where they can create but also find success
and confidence in themselves.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
No, Actually I was in a Film Prize Junior film
this last lest year and it was actually filmed here,
not in this room, but down the hall. And the
filmmaker who made that graduate from high school last year
and she's now actually in college in New York working
on her film career up there.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I think that that's really what it's all about, right,
I mean, for us, what we're trying to take is,
are these kids that don't think that they have opportunities
out there, They don't think they.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Can find the path to success.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
But through Film Price Junior really point them towards two
and four year institutions or the workforce, and really take
these kids and really help guide them into a place
where they can create success for themselves.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay, so now you guys are coming up to a
very important week here October seventeenth and eight. Actually, you
can start watching films online on October fifteenth.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I yes, and so Price Fest is the culmination of everything.
It's kind of the it's our fourth of July for
lack of a better term, and it's really sort of
when everything comes together and we celebrate really the creative economy.
And so on October fifteenth through the nineteenth is when
Prize Fest happens. The fifteenth is a food prize, and
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Food Prize is important because what we do is we
bring in celebrity chefs around the country, we pair them
with local chefs, and the idea is we always call
ourselves a party with a purpose, right, these celebrity chefs
really do teach these local chefs how to create at
a much higher level, which not only helps these chefs,
but if you look at the history of Food Prize,
there are restaurants that have come out of Food Prize
(20:28):
and out of these chefs just because of this event
and the ability to connect with the celebrity chef.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Then on the.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Seventeenth are the smallest, our little infant Baby Prize, which
is Comedy Prize, which has already become nationally important. So
we have eight comedians coming from all over the country.
They're gonna be performing at a seven o'clock shown a
nine o'clock show down in the prize fest area, and
then on the seventeenth and eighteenth we do Film prize
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and music prize, which you know, again to your point
that you made before so wisely, is it is that
showcase of those filmmakers who have come in from all
over the country, made their films here and they're competing
for the world's largest cash prize music prize.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
But we're also not only just doing one of the
coolest showcases in the country of independent bands, but we're
also putting on a conference this here called MPEA con
that will allow these musicians to really find the resources
that they need to be successful, which you know, the
subtext of it is really to help really recreate or
re energize or reactivate Shreport as a music capital.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I am exhausted listening to all of the activity going
on in Northwest Louisiana. Of course, there's people listening all
over the state of Louisiana, and we've got about thirty
seconds left. So my question is for everyone that could
not keep up with all of these wonderful, wonderful activities,
where do they go to find out more information.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Well, I've got another eighteen minutes to tell you about
that part two. Now I'm just a you can get
a prizefest dot com. I know it's a lot, but
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you guys
letting me be out there loud and proud about this.
I really am a huge fan of you guys and
appreciate the opportunity to be.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Here and the fact that it's a lot is a
really good thing. It's a bright spot for northwest Louisiana.
Thank you so much, Gregy Callenberg for doing all this.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
I appreciate. Hey, hey, Viva you guys.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Seriously, We'll be right back with more American Ground Radio.
Stick around.
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Speaker 3 (22:57):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen par with Lewis
ra Avaltie. I want to go back over.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
We were just talking with Gregory Kallenberg with prize fests,
a whole bunch of really awesome things going on. You've
got comedy Fest, you've got film Fest, you got music Fest,
you got food prize, all the stuff Golden Len's coming up.
Go to prizefests dot com.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And that means, wherever you live in Louisiana, if you're
listening to this, go to that website. Whenever you get
home or you're our home, just dial it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Up because it's a cool event. And he said he
came from Austin. South By Southwest is based in Austin,
and it started off just as a little music festival,
and it's become one of the most important things in
all of culture. And if you're doing that same thing
up here in northwest Louisiana, and again you've got a
bigger prize for short films here than you do in
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south By Southwest or really anywhere.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
That puts Louisiana on the map.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
It absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And it's a great event and you can create really
interesting culture out of that.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And he brought us a gift. Okay, it is the
Maestro Dobell tequila.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Maestro Dobell, some sort of special edition.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
He was describing it to me. Obviously, it's a lot
more sophisticated with regards to tequila than I am I
to appreciate it apparently not, but I'm thinking that, you know,
in honor of Gregory Kallenberg and this very amazing gift,
we should make it tequila Thursdays from here on out,
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and it will be a completely different show. It would
be yeah, and maybe not better, but or maybe it will.
But nevertheless, you know, I guess we're celebrating in this
regard someone in our state that is just creating a
great deal of buzz for our state.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And this is actually I'm much more excited about somebody
building something in Louisiana that attracts other people here than
about us necessarily going out and chasing someone else to
co come here, because what you end up with if
somebody is building something here, they already love the area.
And that's you know, Look, Silicon Valley was created in California,
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not because you had people going to Silicon Valley, but
because the people in Silicon Valley were interested in something
cool and new at the time, and in Silicon Valley
came up from local folks. If you're creating something like
Prize Fast here and you're creating this this interesting and
look fifty cents doing it too. You're creating interesting things
here that has I think more lasting power than just
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bringing in somebody.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
From the outside.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
No.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Absolutely, You see what was going on in Chicago today?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well real quick, because we've got to do it.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Oh yeah, we got the What are we about to
talk about?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Well, it's time out to dig deep, going down, down down.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I didn't want to tell you about what was going
on in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Okay, tell me about Chicago.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Next block, the top of the top of the next block.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Pretty important, okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Okay, all right, Look, this is important to There appears
to be a call for a special session of the
Louisiana Legislature coming up on October twenty third, later on
this month.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Have you heard about this?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Is that for redistricting? Well, that is that for redrawing
congressional district six.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That had been the talk that this would be to
redraw the lines for the congressional districts for a third
time this decade. And this comes because there's a real
possibility that the US Supreme Court could throw out the
current map, could outlaw drawing districts based on racial characteristics altogether.
But that doesn't appear to be what this section. This
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session will actually be about. It's what it was supposed
to be about, what people have been talking about since
this summer. But it doesn't look like that's actually going
to happen. According to the advocate, this session is just
going to be called to move back the dates of
primary elections next year.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
To move back yeah, in order, Well, this is where
folks more time to campaign, or.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
This is what the advocate said.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
We are likely to address.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Only the closed primary dates and wait on the Supreme
Court ruling for the congressional map, said Senator Caleb Kleinpeter,
Republican out of port Allen. Legislatives leaders have agreed that
the Senate will take the lead in moving the main
bill that they tackled during the upcoming special session. It
will be heard by the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee
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that Cline Peter chairs, and he will likely sponsor the legislation. Okay,
so the question is why why would you Just as
you were asking, why are we moving these dates back? Well,
instead of drawing the new maps, if the state legislature
redraws the maps before the Supreme Court finally rules on
this case, because remember they were thinking the state of
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Louisiana was expecting a ruling last spring. The Supreme Court
said no, no, we want to rehear the case, asking
a different question coming up this fall. So it's taking
the Supreme Court a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
To rule on it.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
But if the map are redrawn before the ruling comes down,
it could give opponents the opportunity to demand the Supreme
Court not even rule on this on the basis that
the case is now move If the grotesquely jerrymandered map
doesn't exist anymore, then there's no reason for a lawsuit
against the maps. And if the lawsuit goes away, so
does the reason for the Supreme Court to change the
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interpretation of the Voting Rights Act to ban redistricting on
the basis of race.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
This is about putting the cart before the horse.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Okay, But I think the High Court here, the United
States Supreme Court, is likely going to force Louisiana to
redraw its congressional districts. I mean, I think that's where
we're headed here.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So now we get to why push back the primaries. Well,
the primaries for Senate and House seats were put into
effect last year for the first time in decades. Instead
of the jungle primary. Now I have party primaries. They're
supposed to happen in April, with the runoff in May.
That would give the party several months for the head
to head can paints through the summer in the fall.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
That would culminate an election date next November.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But if the Supreme Court does an issue, it's ruling
in this case before the end of June, which is
when they usually issued.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Which is very possible because they don't recess until June.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Right then the legislature won't be able to redraw the
lines until after the primaries would have already happened, and
that would surely be thrown out of court.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
All right, Well, so we're at the entire system in
the case, so we're covered. Basically, we're covering ourselves depending
on how the Supreme Court. It's not necessarily how the
Supreme Court will rule, which you know that they will,
but in the possibility and apparently for many legal experts,
the likelihood that they will declare Louisiana's sixth congressional district
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having been drawn unconstitutionally, then you need I guess you
need some provision here to cover yourself. And I do
think this is a smart move in terms of convening
the legislature in order to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
But even that may not work.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Even pushing the primaries back to the stage July or
August may not work.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
This is from the advocate.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Secretary of State Nancy Landry, who oversees the election system,
has warned lawmakers that moving back the qualifying period and
the party primary election dates is no simple matter. Landry
has advised them that any revised elections schedule has to
adhere to different federal and state laws and can't interfere
with scheduled local elections for mayor, parish or city council,
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or with local tax votes. Quote, we've been running different
scenarios for legislators and the governor's office. Landry said, it's
more involved than they can imagine. So apparently there's a
whole bunch of land mines in the calendar that you
can't have an election on this date, you can't have
an election on that date, you can't have an election.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
On this date.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You have to have this much time before people can qualify,
and this schedule in all of that becomes way more
complicated than just picking a date for the primaries.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, no, I understand, but I mean, we know what
this was all about. In the beginning. It was all
about race.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And I do think that Governor Landry My operating theory
is that he intentionally pushed the most racially gerrymandered map
he could come up with to force the Supreme Court
to see the folly in their previous rulings saying that
you have to use race, but you can't use race
too much. That makes it impossible for any state legislature
to have any guidance on how to do this.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
So he was just kind of like, Okay, this is
how you want us to operate. Hold my beer.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I think that's what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And I also think that because that's what this is
all about, he couldn't come out and tell you that's
what it's all about because it would have been used
against him in court anyway. At this point, I think
the most likely scenario is if the Supreme Court doesn't
rule on this case until next summer, we might be
stuck with these gone afful maps for a second election
cycle and Cleo Fields would get one more term in office.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Well, I think the United States Supreme Court is going
to be mindful of that as well, we'll.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Be right back.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
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Speaker 3 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Paul lewis so I.
Speaker 4 (33:16):
Really think tequila Thursdays may be a good idea.
Speaker 3 (33:21):
You think so.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Look, zero sugar, okay, gluten free, Yeah, I mean this
is healthy. This is good for you.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
It's it's got a lot of alcohol in it.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I'm not sure that you can say it's necessarily healthy.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Well, nevertheless, and it was made in Mexico. So the
terrorists on this must have just really really did a
number on the cost.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I am sure, it's amazing. We can crack the crack
that open after after the show. Well, all right, all right, well,
and by the way, thanks to Jeffrey Callenberg.
Speaker 4 (33:50):
Gregor Gregor Callenberg.
Speaker 2 (33:52):
With price Fest for letting us forgiving that bottle to us.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Very nice one. All right, So what was going on
in Chicago just absolute utter ridiculousness. Here you have the
mayor of Chicago doubling down on his commitment to fight
for illegal aliens. He wants to lead a resistance against
(34:15):
the federal government and federal authorities over illegal immigrants. And
then of course he claims, oh, this isn't about immigration.
This is about a president who wants to enact authoritarianism
in this country where the rule of law doesn't apply
to him and to one individual alone.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
No, No, he could.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Be nothing further than the truth.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
It's the exact opposite of what's going on Donald Trump.
Johnson doesn't like what Trump's doing because Trump is enforcing
the law.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And that's when we say Johnson's true Mayor Brandon Johnson Chicago.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
He doesn't like that Donald Trump is enforcing the law.
That's the problem here. Donald Trump is following the rule
of law and saying, if you break our immigration laws,
you don't get to stay here and receive free taxpayer money.
You don't get to receive free health care, you don't
get to receive snap benefits, you don't get to receive
free housing. We're gonna send you back, and we're gonna
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let our money be spent on American citizens.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And that's American citizens living in Chicago too.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
And if you want to argue that Chicago is under
siege by ICE agents, just remember it. They're not there.
Ice agents are not there rounding up soccer moms. No,
if they are. If Chicago is under siege because.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
They have too many illegal aliens in the world, well.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
And it's because lawlessness has become the law of the land.
You can't prosecute criminals when your mayor is too busy
giving sanctuary to those who shouldn't even be in the country.
He is so obsessed with being compassionate and I use
air quotes there, with being compassionate, that he has forgotten
his duty to the people who actually pay the taxes
and follow the rules and raise their families in neighborhoods
(35:56):
that are now drowning in chaos and have been for years.
The job, over and over and over, the job.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Of the mayor of Chicago is to be compassionate to
the citizens of Chicago first, not to people who snuck
into the country illegally to take the citizens of Chicago's
taxpayer money. You know what, we need to play a
game black battleship.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
So Conde Nasts that's the travel company. Conde Nast is
a travel magazine magazine.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yeah right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So they did a reader's poll asking what are the
ten best large cities to visit in America? What do
you think of the ten best large cities?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Large cities? So, how do you define a large city?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Just it'd be top one hundred.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Okay, population, let's see, I would say Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Number six on the list. Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And where we just flew in from New York City.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Number nine on the list. New York City.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I'm gonna go with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Not in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Wait, Independence Hall, I know, I mean, come on, I know. Boston,
Boston not in the top ten. Dallas, Texas not in
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Although it's great to visit Dallas.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
No, it's great to visit Dallas is just not in
the top ten. New Orleans number five on the list.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, I shouldn't have left them out there. Orlando, Orlando,
it's a great place to visit.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Not in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Miami not in the top ten. Los Angeles not in
the top ten. San Francisco number two on the list.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
You know, I just finished talking about Chicago. I guess
I'll put Chicago on this list. Yeah, number one, number one,
Chicago is the numbernumber one. Well who paid for this? Uh?
Paying for the advertising in the Conde Nest magazine.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Well, that's what I think is going on. This is
the Conde Nass Traveler magazine reader poll.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Maybe New Orleans. You know who reads Conde Nast magazze.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I don't know a lot of folks, but maybe this
is mostly a leftist crowd. Especially when you look at
some of the other names on this list, you want
to you want to keep guessing.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Maybe maybe New Orleans should have like bought you know,
a full spread, uh, you know, advertising the city. Maybe
their ranking would have gone up a little bit. But
I mean, seriously, Chicago number one the tops.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And they put in San Francisco number two. And San
Francisco has got a map where all the human poop
is on the streets, and you're saying, that's where you
want to go visit.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
What about what about San Diego?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
San Diego is indeed on the list, number seven on
the list.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Let's see here, what about I don't know, uh, large city.
See I'm thinking like the Grand can Onions. But you
know that doesn't necessarily qualify under large city, the large
city classification.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
That's up in the.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Large city too.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Let me go down the list.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Here we got number one, Chicago, number two, San Francisco
number three, Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Okay, I've been to Milwaukee and the people are lovely, yes,
but I'm not quite sure. I went there for the
Republican National Convention.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
How about number four New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I'm sorry Portland, Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, we're home of Antifa. Number five New Orleans, six, Washington, DC, seven,
San Diego.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Eight, Columbus, Ohio, oh No.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Nine New York City, ten seatle Seattle's beautiful, but again,
just it's a little crazy right now.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Look, the people are all great at all these places,
but I don't know about Chicago being number one.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
We'll grab ackstick around.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Welcome back to American rout Radio.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Stephen Farvard, Lewis sar avalon a just a super quick
programming note. Next our American Ground Radio, we will hear
from Curtis Sliwa, who is the Republican candidate running for
the mayor of New York City. We reviewed him and
it is a remarkable interview. It is a remarkable race
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energy of the city. Yeah, absolutely, all right, real quick.
You know, I don't know what's going on, but does
it seem like medications prescription medications are making their way
across state lines more and more. Today there's a report
out that there are two people in Baton Rouge who
(40:57):
received counterfeit botox in. One of them ordered it online.
The other, the boatox was administered by someone who wasn't
even licensed to practice medicine.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Why would you do that? Why?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Why would you have Why would you let anybody inject
a toxin into your life, especially a toxin that you
bought online?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
This?
Speaker 4 (41:22):
No, it, this sounds like Darwin Award material here. But
this is why the Louisiana Department of Health had to
now come out issue a public warning because people are
literally injecting themselves with unapproved, unregulated, and potentially lethal products
that they bought on the internet.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
And what was the warning, don't don't inject, don't be stupid?
Was was that the warning?
Speaker 6 (41:46):
Who?
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Who injects themselves with something they bought online? But why
would you buy boatox online? Have you not seen if
you buy an address from from an online outlet and
it shows up and looks nothing like the picture? Should
that you about your botox?
Speaker 4 (42:01):
No? I get it. But what about abortion, abortion drugs?
The whole abortion pill fiasco? Oh yeah, I mean you
know the Democrats push to make it available by mail,
no doctor visit, no medical exam, no ultrasound, just click
ship and swallow. They call it reproductive freedom. It's dang it.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Is reckless productive.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
It is reckless endangerment. So folks, see your doctor, someone
licensed in your state. Yes, seriously, and don't go.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
To anybody who says that reproduction means killing a baby.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
That's the opposite of reproduction.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
And our audience, we're really not talking to our audience.
It's just kind of it's it's scary what folks are
doing to themselves today, Botoks Online.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
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US District Court Judge Susie Morgan said today that she
is prepared to lift that consent decree that has governed
the New Orleans Police Department since twenty thirteen. And figure this,
or get this, the Trump administration and the New Orleans
Police Department, the New Orleans Police Chief, they're on the
(01:26):
same page here.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
They are even LaToya.
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Cantrell and Donald Trump share the same position here, and
that is that the Police Department of New Orleans needs
to be out from under the boot of the federal government.
You remember how all this started.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Oh, it started with Obama.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
No, well, actually it started with Mitch Landrew, then Mayor
of New Orleans. Mitch Landrew back in twenty thirteen, right,
and at the time, he invited the Department of Justice
to investigate the New Orleans Police Department because there were
several high profile incidents of misconduct. So instead of, you know,
(02:09):
Mitch Landrew taking the heat, of course, he called the
Department of Justice and he said, come on in. You know,
the department is a cesspool of corruption and discrimination and
excessive force. You know, this was long before the defund
the police movement, but Mitch Landrew was onto it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
He kind of helped push all this, get it all started.
And look and in Barack Obama's Department of Justice was
in on. I think this was a I think this
was a scheme between Landrew and the DOJ. There's a
way for land Drew to cover some of his political
failings of not leading the city.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
Well, no, but I understand, but let's be honest. I mean,
the report on the New Orleans Police Department was very scathing,
but it was not entirely wrong. The New Orleans Police
Department of that era was broken. There was morale was low.
Recruitment was down. Sure, corruption cases were real, but.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Recruitment is still down.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
I mean, we don't have the corruption cases we had,
but there's I mean, there's still a lot of morale
problems in the New Orleans people.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Well, what should have happened was the mayor should have
worked with Louisiana's own justice system, our own attorney general,
our own state courts, our own voters. But the federal
government came in, decided to occupy the New Orleans Police Department,
and since twenty thirteen, the city has been in what
(03:34):
is known as a consent decree, which is a binding
legal agreement between the Department of Justice and the New
Orleans and they basically handed all this authority over to
the federal government to reform, to oversee, to micro manage
the New Orleans Police Department. So they brought in monitors
(03:55):
and auditors and analysts. They are posts, they IMPERI. Oh, absolutely,
a lot of DEI. They imposed all these new training programs,
reporting systems, and basically it was reformed by spreadsheet. It
is bureaucracy designed or disguised rather as justice. And the result,
(04:19):
you know, here we are to what twelve years later,
as you point out so eloquently, crime is still high,
morale is still low, and the New Orleans Police Department
still can't recruit enough officers to keep the city safe.
So now you've got to.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
Justice, there's down hundreds, hundreds of cops.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Well, now you've got to judge today saying that she's
leaning towards lifting this consent decree altogether, which would return
control of the New Orleans Police Department back to the
New Orleans Police Department. Now is that a good idea?
That's I think it is. Is it any worse? Is
(05:00):
it any words than having the federal government there?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
Well, look, an ker Patrick is a different police superintendent, right,
She's not the same one that was there when the
problems were identified by the scathing reporter she talked about earlier.
She's been on the job for a year and a half,
two years, something like that, So I do think she
has a different approach to the city's police department. I'm
(05:24):
not saying that she's the person I would have hired,
but I do think that she's at least trying to
do things with integrity in the police department, and that's
at least a step in the right direction.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
But the other part is New Orleans doesn't need to.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Be under this federal bureaucracy and the handholding and the
oversight and the big brother attitude towards the police department.
I don't think we necessarily need that now. I don't
think LaToya cantrails the person to lead the police department either.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
But I think the other part of the reason morale
cratered in the New Orleans Police Department is that the
consent to Crey made it made police officers feel like
they were the enemy.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Right, like they were guilty before proven it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
Exactly because instead of backing up the officers, the system
somewhat tied their hands, so policing became a paperwork exercise,
not necessarily a pursuit of justice. So we're now cratered.
And then you had crime that they continued to rhyme
right right.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
At least until da Williams was carjacked.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Well, in twenty twenty two, New Orleans was named America's
murder capital. H So you have And again, so what
does the federal government do that is successful or heretofore,
I guess other than the under the Trump administration, And
I know a lot of folks say, oh, yeah, of
course you're going to say that, but look look at
the objectively, look at this. You've got a decade of
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federal oversight.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
And crime was going up in New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Supposedly designed all this oversight was supposedly designed to reform policing,
and yet the city got more dangerous, right, not say right?
Speaker 2 (07:00):
And so when the police department, maybe they're doing a
better job with the paperwork, but when the actual job
of the police department, which is to lower crime, is
not getting done, you got to go, well, is this
consent decree helpful? Is this doing what the people of
New Orleans need done? Because again, that's why governments were
instituted among men. The reason why there's a city government
(07:22):
in New Orleans is to protect the rights of the
people of the city of New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
And you know, and I'm going to tie this back
to the National Guard because I know a lot of
folks say, oh, you're champiing local control, right, but yet
at the same time, you're cheering on bringing in the
National Guard into our local communities. Yes, but both those things, okay,
you can right, you can hold both of those.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Thoughts, right, because it would be best if the National
Guard comes in in a supportive role for the local
police department, where the National Guard is working hand in
hand with the police departments.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
That's going to be how it works best.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
But it's more than that. Long enforcement is inherently local.
It is the sheriff, the police chief, the constable. These
are all officials that are closest to the people, very
much so, and they answer to the voters, that's right,
not the federal government, not the bureaucraft.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's right.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
But when those same folks refuse to enforce the law,
then you've.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
Got to bring in the national government, because again the
national government was also instituted to secure rights. And if
the local government won't do it, you've got to bring
in another agencies that will. Because this is why I'm saying,
it will work best if the local officer their job
hand in hand with the National Guard until we get
some of this crime completely taken care of. And to
(08:39):
Anchor Patrick's credit, she has said that she is going
to welcome support and that she will hope that they
work in a supporting role and she will figure out
how to.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Do that cooperatively. I think that's the right approach to.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
This all right. So I think it's good that the
federal government is getting out of the New Orleans Police Department,
that a consenter with this consent to cree going away,
and hopefully that will raise morale, Hopefully that will increase
recruitment and decrease crime.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Let's get to the top three things you needed A
long first thing, need noble from all. The New Orleans
consent decree is coming to an end. As we were
just talking about, both the Trump administration and the New
Orleans Police Department had petitioned to have the consent decree
terminated as the federal government no longer contends that there's
(09:33):
a racial bias problem in the department. US to TO
Judge Susie Morgan ruled that if the Fifth Circuit Court
of Appeals overturns her previous rule keeping the decree in place,
she will allow the agreement to expire rather than go
through a phase down period. The decree has been in
place for twelve years and was done during the Biden
the Obama administration's campaign against police departments across the country.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
And here's the thing. There have been consent decree similar
consent decrees in Baltimore, Chicago, in Ferguson, and all of
them promised reform and all are still drowning in crime.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
And the second thing you need to before tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
A candidate for the New Orleans City Council admits she
used campaign funds to advertise her private business, but insists
she's done nothing wrong.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
State Rep.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Delisa Boyd paid a marketing company she owns with campaign
funds to advertise for a real estate company she also owns.
The ads are being run on city buses, do not
mention who paid for the ads, and only mentioned the
real estate company, not her campaign for city council. That
appears to be a violation of state campaign finance laws
that ban the use of campaign money for personal benefit.
(10:39):
In an interview with nola dot Com, Boyd said, quote
to have me attacked by that and my daughter, who
simply was doing what she thought was best to market
me not only as a business owner, but as a
legislator as a candidate, is absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 4 (10:51):
Well, I mean, what about the adage of all publicity
is good publicity, you know, just make for name, except
for illegal publicity.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
You can't use campaign funds for your private business.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
That's a crime. And the third thing you needed before.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Of all, the last remaining escape from a mass jail
break earlier this year in New Orleans has finally being captured.
Convicted murderer Derek Groves was arrested near Atlanta, Georgia, this week.
He was one of ten people who escaped from the
Orleans Paris jail back in May. Inside the hall he
was staying in, police found weapons and drugs, potentially adding
to the charges against Groves. In an arrangement in Atlanta,
Grows waved any childe who extradition back to Louisiana, saying
(11:26):
he wanted to go home.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
However, he won't be going home anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Groves is facing a life sentence for two murders and
will likely see time added onto a sentence for his
escape and crimes committed while on the rout.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Well, yeah, he wants to come home to Orleans Parish jail.
At least there he has a chance of escaping again.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
That's a good point.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
We've got more American Ground Radio coming up, so stick around.
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Speaker 4 (13:16):
Of course, we are so glad to be back in Shreveboard, right.
We spent some time earlier this week in New York City.
We were re covering the New York City Mayor's race.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
We're invited to be part of a.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Town hall conversation with Hugh Hewitt, Joe Piscopo, Mike Gallagher,
some of them, more, Kevin McCullough, yeah, several other people,
and we were invited to be on that panel.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
And it was an honor to go.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Up to Salem's radio studios right there at Wall Street
and Broadway.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Dah Man is pretty cool, pretty amazing, And a lot
of folks say, well, why why even cover that race?
And part of the reason is, unlike Las Vegas, what
happens New York City, it doesn't stay in New York City.
So to the extent that some of these policies, folks,
then you would be completely offended by what the leading
(14:12):
candidate for the New York City Mayor's race is advocating for.
And if you've listened to the show this week, you
know exactly what I'm talking about. He is essentially a
communist and you know, we just can't have that. There's
nothing more antithetical to what makes US Americans.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Well, you talk about how in New York City it is.
Things don't stay there, right, they spread across the country.
So New York City's the financial capital of the country.
What happens on Wall Street affects the entire country. They
are the media capital of the country. What happens in
newsrooms in New York City affects the entire country.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
They have a claim to.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Being the cultural capital of the US. What happens on
Broadway eventually spreads. I mean, look at what happened with Hamilton.
You know how Hamilton comes out and it becomes this massive,
this massive success. But go back to the so join
the revolution and they study what's happening there and they're
very excited about So.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
It's a tremendous place to visit. Yes, but the influence
of the South in the South is rising, and whether
that's with film or art.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
To your point, in Dallas, there are now more people
working in finance in Dallas. I mentioned New York's the
financial capital the US, but there are more people working
in finance in Dallas than in New.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
York and talk about culture.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Culture spreading across the country too, and you have places
where people are working on developing culture in the local
community and it's spreading.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Yes, it absolutely is. And that is why I am
so excited to be joining us in studio is Gregory Callenberg.
Speaker 3 (15:45):
Gregory, welcome back to America Grow Radio. Appreciate you being here.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
It's a true honor to be here, and it's great
to be with you guys, in no doubt.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
So now you are in charge of Prize Fest. It
used to just be Film Prize, right, yes, and it
has so. Film Prize was was basically to try and
recognize Louisiana based filmmakers and you guys were given out
a prize for some of the best films made locally.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Right.
Speaker 5 (16:10):
Well, you know it was a much bigger, more delusional
vision than that. At the very beginning, Uh, you know,
I moved from Austin, Texas to Sreeport. I was trying
to find a way to get my cool Austin filmmaker
friends to come to Shreeport.
Speaker 6 (16:24):
And it was, you know, it worked.
Speaker 5 (16:26):
It was it was a it was a fever dream,
to be quite honest, And you know I was.
Speaker 6 (16:30):
I was asked, actually by the.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Tourism bureau to come up with a Shreeport International Film Festival,
and I told him it was a bad idea. And
if you want to lose all of your friends, simultaneously
tell them the idea they've been working on for two
years is about and it's and and and they leave.
But you know, as as it is with me. I
I went to my thinking place, which is a fire
with a bottle of tequila someplace very close to me,
(16:54):
and came up with the Film Prize. And the Film
Prize is a short film competition where we give away
fifty thousand dollars cash, which is the world's largest cash.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
Prize for a short film.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Wow.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
The caveat is a head to come to Shreport to
make the film right. And what maybe I didn't account
for is that it's a you know, it sounds very
attractive to filmmakers from all over the country.
Speaker 6 (17:18):
So filmmakers really beat.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
A path to Shreetport, Louisiana, where we really didn't have
an independent filmmaking seen. And not only did they make
films here, but they stayed in our hotels, they trained
our locals, they started to create here in a way
that is kind of unprecedented anywhere else.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
And now it's not just Film Prize.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
There's food Prize, there's music Prize, there's comedy Prize, there's
Golden Lyn's Photography competition. Is the peak is there still growing?
You got other prizes coming?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Well, I mean, you know, if I may, you know,
and you guys did wonderful research. But you know, there
are a couple of programs that are kind of off
everyone's radar that are incredibly important to the economic drivers
of our region. And one is a startup Prize. So
there's something called Startup Prize at Startup Price focus on Health.
(18:09):
This year we'll do so do Startup focus on Startup
Prize focus on health and focus on energy. So the
idea is really to bring energy and health innovators to Shreport,
to meet with investors, get resources and think about Shreeport
as a home. And then the other important one is
something called Film Price Junior, which is really it's while
it's teaching middle school and high school kids about filmmaking,
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truly what it is is it's teaching kids leadership and
confidence in the collaboration.
Speaker 6 (18:36):
The idea of collaboration, which in the.
Speaker 5 (18:38):
Year twenty twenty five is kind of an anomaly. And
so what we're really trying to do is we focus
on title Ian schools. We're trying to keep these kids
off the streets. We're trying to really put them into
a place where they can create but also find success
and confidence in themselves.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
No, Actually I was in a Film Prize Junior film
this last lest year and it was actually filmed here,
not in this room, but down the hall. And the
filmmaker who made that graduate from high school last year
and she's now actually in college in New York working
on her film career up there.
Speaker 5 (19:12):
I think that that's really what it's all about, right,
I mean, for us, what we're trying to take is,
are these kids that don't think that they have opportunities
out there, They don't think they.
Speaker 6 (19:20):
Can find the path to success.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
But through Film Price Junior really point them towards two
and four year institutions or the workforce, and really take
these kids and really help guide them into a place
where they can create success for themselves.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Okay, so now you guys are coming up to a
very important week here October seventeenth and eight. Actually, you
can start watching films online on October fifteenth.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
I yes, and so Price Fest is the culmination of everything.
It's kind of the it's our fourth of July for
lack of a better term, and it's really sort of
when everything comes together and we celebrate really the creative economy.
And so on October fifteenth through the nineteenth is when
Prize Fest happens. The fifteenth is a food prize, and
(20:06):
Food Prize is important because what we do is we
bring in celebrity chefs around the country, we pair them
with local chefs, and the idea is we always call
ourselves a party with a purpose, right, these celebrity chefs
really do teach these local chefs how to create at
a much higher level, which not only helps these chefs,
but if you look at the history of Food Prize,
there are restaurants that have come out of Food Prize
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and out of these chefs just because of this event
and the ability to connect with the celebrity chef.
Speaker 6 (20:33):
Then on the.
Speaker 5 (20:33):
Seventeenth are the smallest, our little infant Baby Prize, which
is Comedy Prize, which has already become nationally important. So
we have eight comedians coming from all over the country.
They're gonna be performing at a seven o'clock shown a
nine o'clock show down in the prize fest area, and
then on the seventeenth and eighteenth we do Film prize
(20:55):
and music prize, which you know, again to your point
that you made before so wisely, is it is that
showcase of those filmmakers who have come in from all
over the country, made their films here and they're competing
for the world's largest cash prize music prize.
Speaker 6 (21:09):
Same thing.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
But we're also not only just doing one of the
coolest showcases in the country of independent bands, but we're
also putting on a conference this here called MPEA con
that will allow these musicians to really find the resources
that they need to be successful, which you know, the
subtext of it is really to help really recreate or
re energize or reactivate Shreport as a music capital.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I am exhausted listening to all of the activity going
on in Northwest Louisiana. Of course, there's people listening all
over the state of Louisiana, and we've got about thirty
seconds left. So my question is for everyone that could
not keep up with all of these wonderful, wonderful activities,
where do they go to find out more information.
Speaker 5 (21:56):
Well, I've got another eighteen minutes to tell you about
that part two. Now I'm just a you can get
a prizefest dot com. I know it's a lot, but
I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you guys
letting me be out there loud and proud about this.
I really am a huge fan of you guys and
appreciate the opportunity to be.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Here and the fact that it's a lot is a
really good thing. It's a bright spot for northwest Louisiana.
Thank you so much, Gregy Callenberg for doing all this.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
I appreciate. Hey, hey, Viva you guys.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
Seriously, We'll be right back with more American Ground Radio.
Stick around.
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Speaker 3 (22:57):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen par with Lewis
ra Avaltie. I want to go back over.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
We were just talking with Gregory Kallenberg with prize fests,
a whole bunch of really awesome things going on. You've
got comedy Fest, you've got film Fest, you got music Fest,
you got food prize, all the stuff Golden Len's coming up.
Go to prizefests dot com.
Speaker 4 (23:16):
And that means, wherever you live in Louisiana, if you're
listening to this, go to that website. Whenever you get
home or you're our home, just dial it.
Speaker 2 (23:25):
Up because it's a cool event. And he said he
came from Austin. South By Southwest is based in Austin,
and it started off just as a little music festival,
and it's become one of the most important things in
all of culture. And if you're doing that same thing
up here in northwest Louisiana, and again you've got a
bigger prize for short films here than you do in
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south By Southwest or really anywhere.
Speaker 4 (23:49):
That puts Louisiana on the map.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
It absolutely does.
Speaker 2 (23:53):
And it's a great event and you can create really
interesting culture out of that.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
And he brought us a gift. Okay, it is the
Maestro Dobell tequila.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
Maestro Dobell, some sort of special edition.
Speaker 4 (24:06):
He was describing it to me. Obviously, it's a lot
more sophisticated with regards to tequila than I am I
to appreciate it apparently not, but I'm thinking that, you know,
in honor of Gregory Kallenberg and this very amazing gift,
we should make it tequila Thursdays from here on out,
(24:28):
and it will be a completely different show. It would
be yeah, and maybe not better, but or maybe it will.
But nevertheless, you know, I guess we're celebrating in this
regard someone in our state that is just creating a
great deal of buzz for our state.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
And this is actually I'm much more excited about somebody
building something in Louisiana that attracts other people here than
about us necessarily going out and chasing someone else to
co come here, because what you end up with if
somebody is building something here, they already love the area.
And that's you know, Look, Silicon Valley was created in California,
(25:10):
not because you had people going to Silicon Valley, but
because the people in Silicon Valley were interested in something
cool and new at the time, and in Silicon Valley
came up from local folks. If you're creating something like
Prize Fast here and you're creating this this interesting and
look fifty cents doing it too. You're creating interesting things
here that has I think more lasting power than just
(25:32):
bringing in somebody.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
From the outside.
Speaker 5 (25:33):
No.
Speaker 4 (25:34):
Absolutely, You see what was going on in Chicago today?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Well real quick, because we've got to do it.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
Oh yeah, we got the What are we about to
talk about?
Speaker 2 (25:43):
Well, it's time out to dig deep, going down, down down.
Speaker 4 (25:52):
I didn't want to tell you about what was going
on in Chicago.
Speaker 6 (25:54):
Okay, tell me about Chicago.
Speaker 3 (25:55):
Next block, the top of the top of the next block.
Speaker 4 (25:58):
Pretty important, okay, fine.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Okay, all right, Look, this is important to There appears
to be a call for a special session of the
Louisiana Legislature coming up on October twenty third, later on
this month.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Have you heard about this?
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Is that for redistricting? Well, that is that for redrawing
congressional district six.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
That had been the talk that this would be to
redraw the lines for the congressional districts for a third
time this decade. And this comes because there's a real
possibility that the US Supreme Court could throw out the
current map, could outlaw drawing districts based on racial characteristics altogether.
But that doesn't appear to be what this section. This
(26:37):
session will actually be about. It's what it was supposed
to be about, what people have been talking about since
this summer. But it doesn't look like that's actually going
to happen. According to the advocate, this session is just
going to be called to move back the dates of
primary elections next year.
Speaker 4 (26:55):
To move back yeah, in order, Well, this is where
folks more time to campaign, or.
Speaker 3 (27:01):
This is what the advocate said.
Speaker 6 (27:03):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (27:04):
We are likely to address.
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Only the closed primary dates and wait on the Supreme
Court ruling for the congressional map, said Senator Caleb Kleinpeter,
Republican out of port Allen. Legislatives leaders have agreed that
the Senate will take the lead in moving the main
bill that they tackled during the upcoming special session. It
will be heard by the Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee
(27:25):
that Cline Peter chairs, and he will likely sponsor the legislation. Okay,
so the question is why why would you Just as
you were asking, why are we moving these dates back? Well,
instead of drawing the new maps, if the state legislature
redraws the maps before the Supreme Court finally rules on
this case, because remember they were thinking the state of
(27:47):
Louisiana was expecting a ruling last spring. The Supreme Court
said no, no, we want to rehear the case, asking
a different question coming up this fall. So it's taking
the Supreme Court a long time.
Speaker 3 (27:57):
To rule on it.
Speaker 2 (27:59):
But if the map are redrawn before the ruling comes down,
it could give opponents the opportunity to demand the Supreme
Court not even rule on this on the basis that
the case is now move If the grotesquely jerrymandered map
doesn't exist anymore, then there's no reason for a lawsuit
against the maps. And if the lawsuit goes away, so
does the reason for the Supreme Court to change the
(28:20):
interpretation of the Voting Rights Act to ban redistricting on
the basis of race.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
This is about putting the cart before the horse.
Speaker 4 (28:28):
Okay, But I think the High Court here, the United
States Supreme Court, is likely going to force Louisiana to
redraw its congressional districts. I mean, I think that's where
we're headed here.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I do too.
Speaker 2 (28:42):
So now we get to why push back the primaries. Well,
the primaries for Senate and House seats were put into
effect last year for the first time in decades. Instead
of the jungle primary. Now I have party primaries. They're
supposed to happen in April, with the runoff in May.
That would give the party several months for the head
to head can paints through the summer in the fall.
Speaker 3 (29:01):
That would culminate an election date next November.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
But if the Supreme Court does an issue, it's ruling
in this case before the end of June, which is
when they usually issued.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
Which is very possible because they don't recess until June.
Speaker 2 (29:13):
Right then the legislature won't be able to redraw the
lines until after the primaries would have already happened, and
that would surely be thrown out of court.
Speaker 4 (29:21):
All right, Well, so we're at the entire system in
the case, so we're covered. Basically, we're covering ourselves depending
on how the Supreme Court. It's not necessarily how the
Supreme Court will rule, which you know that they will,
but in the possibility and apparently for many legal experts,
the likelihood that they will declare Louisiana's sixth congressional district
(29:43):
having been drawn unconstitutionally, then you need I guess you
need some provision here to cover yourself. And I do
think this is a smart move in terms of convening
the legislature in order to do that.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
But even that may not work.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Even pushing the primaries back to the stage July or
August may not work.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
This is from the advocate.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Secretary of State Nancy Landry, who oversees the election system,
has warned lawmakers that moving back the qualifying period and
the party primary election dates is no simple matter. Landry
has advised them that any revised elections schedule has to
adhere to different federal and state laws and can't interfere
with scheduled local elections for mayor, parish or city council,
(30:28):
or with local tax votes. Quote, we've been running different
scenarios for legislators and the governor's office. Landry said, it's
more involved than they can imagine. So apparently there's a
whole bunch of land mines in the calendar that you
can't have an election on this date, you can't have
an election on that date, you can't have an election.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
On this date.
Speaker 2 (30:44):
You have to have this much time before people can qualify,
and this schedule in all of that becomes way more
complicated than just picking a date for the primaries.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
Yeah, no, I understand, but I mean, we know what
this was all about. In the beginning. It was all
about race.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
And I do think that Governor Landry My operating theory
is that he intentionally pushed the most racially gerrymandered map
he could come up with to force the Supreme Court
to see the folly in their previous rulings saying that
you have to use race, but you can't use race
too much. That makes it impossible for any state legislature
to have any guidance on how to do this.
Speaker 4 (31:23):
So he was just kind of like, Okay, this is
how you want us to operate. Hold my beer.
Speaker 3 (31:28):
I think that's what this is all about.
Speaker 2 (31:30):
And I also think that because that's what this is
all about, he couldn't come out and tell you that's
what it's all about because it would have been used
against him in court anyway. At this point, I think
the most likely scenario is if the Supreme Court doesn't
rule on this case until next summer, we might be
stuck with these gone afful maps for a second election
cycle and Cleo Fields would get one more term in office.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
Well, I think the United States Supreme Court is going
to be mindful of that as well, we'll.
Speaker 3 (31:53):
Be right back.
Speaker 1 (31:55):
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen.
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Paul lewis so I.
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Really think tequila Thursdays may be a good idea.
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You think so.
Speaker 4 (33:21):
Look, zero sugar, okay, gluten free, Yeah, I mean this
is healthy. This is good for you.
Speaker 3 (33:29):
It's it's got a lot of alcohol in it.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
I'm not sure that you can say it's necessarily healthy.
Speaker 4 (33:33):
Well, nevertheless, and it was made in Mexico. So the
terrorists on this must have just really really did a
number on the cost.
Speaker 2 (33:41):
I am sure, it's amazing. We can crack the crack
that open after after the show. Well, all right, all right, well,
and by the way, thanks to Jeffrey Callenberg.
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Gregor Gregor Callenberg.
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With price Fest for letting us forgiving that bottle to us.
Speaker 4 (33:55):
Very nice one. All right, So what was going on
in Chicago just absolute utter ridiculousness. Here you have the
mayor of Chicago doubling down on his commitment to fight
for illegal aliens. He wants to lead a resistance against
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the federal government and federal authorities over illegal immigrants. And
then of course he claims, oh, this isn't about immigration.
This is about a president who wants to enact authoritarianism
in this country where the rule of law doesn't apply
to him and to one individual alone.
Speaker 3 (34:36):
No, No, he could.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Be nothing further than the truth.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
It's the exact opposite of what's going on Donald Trump.
Johnson doesn't like what Trump's doing because Trump is enforcing
the law.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And that's when we say Johnson's true Mayor Brandon Johnson Chicago.
Speaker 2 (34:50):
He doesn't like that Donald Trump is enforcing the law.
That's the problem here. Donald Trump is following the rule
of law and saying, if you break our immigration laws,
you don't get to stay here and receive free taxpayer money.
You don't get to receive free health care, you don't
get to receive snap benefits, you don't get to receive
free housing. We're gonna send you back, and we're gonna
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let our money be spent on American citizens.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
And that's American citizens living in Chicago too.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
And if you want to argue that Chicago is under
siege by ICE agents, just remember it. They're not there.
Ice agents are not there rounding up soccer moms. No,
if they are. If Chicago is under siege because.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
They have too many illegal aliens in the world, well.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
And it's because lawlessness has become the law of the land.
You can't prosecute criminals when your mayor is too busy
giving sanctuary to those who shouldn't even be in the country.
He is so obsessed with being compassionate and I use
air quotes there, with being compassionate, that he has forgotten
his duty to the people who actually pay the taxes
and follow the rules and raise their families in neighborhoods
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that are now drowning in chaos and have been for years.
The job, over and over and over, the job.
Speaker 2 (36:03):
Of the mayor of Chicago is to be compassionate to
the citizens of Chicago first, not to people who snuck
into the country illegally to take the citizens of Chicago's
taxpayer money. You know what, we need to play a
game black battleship.
Speaker 3 (36:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
So Conde Nasts that's the travel company. Conde Nast is
a travel magazine magazine.
Speaker 3 (36:34):
Yeah right, Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
So they did a reader's poll asking what are the
ten best large cities to visit in America? What do
you think of the ten best large cities?
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Large cities? So, how do you define a large city?
Speaker 3 (36:48):
Just it'd be top one hundred.
Speaker 4 (36:49):
Okay, population, let's see, I would say Washington, DC.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Number six on the list. Washington, d C.
Speaker 4 (36:58):
And where we just flew in from New York City.
Speaker 3 (37:01):
Number nine on the list. New York City.
Speaker 4 (37:05):
I'm gonna go with Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3 (37:07):
Not in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Wait, Independence Hall, I know, I mean, come on, I know. Boston,
Boston not in the top ten. Dallas, Texas not in
the top ten.
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Although it's great to visit Dallas.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
Are you kidding me?
Speaker 3 (37:23):
No, it's great to visit Dallas is just not in
the top ten. New Orleans number five on the list.
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Speaker 4 (37:29):
Yeah, I shouldn't have left them out there. Orlando, Orlando,
it's a great place to visit.
Speaker 3 (37:33):
Not in the top ten.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
Miami not in the top ten. Los Angeles not in
the top ten. San Francisco number two on the list.
Speaker 3 (37:48):
San Francisco.
Speaker 4 (37:50):
You know, I just finished talking about Chicago. I guess
I'll put Chicago on this list. Yeah, number one, number one,
Chicago is the numbernumber one. Well who paid for this? Uh?
Paying for the advertising in the Conde Nest magazine.
Speaker 2 (38:06):
Well, that's what I think is going on. This is
the Conde Nass Traveler magazine reader poll.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Maybe New Orleans. You know who reads Conde Nast magazze.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I don't know a lot of folks, but maybe this
is mostly a leftist crowd. Especially when you look at
some of the other names on this list, you want
to you want to keep guessing.
Speaker 4 (38:22):
Maybe maybe New Orleans should have like bought you know,
a full spread, uh, you know, advertising the city. Maybe
their ranking would have gone up a little bit. But
I mean, seriously, Chicago number one the tops.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
And they put in San Francisco number two. And San
Francisco has got a map where all the human poop
is on the streets, and you're saying, that's where you
want to go visit.
Speaker 4 (38:43):
What about what about San Diego?
Speaker 3 (38:45):
San Diego is indeed on the list, number seven on
the list.
Speaker 4 (38:50):
Let's see here, what about I don't know, uh, large city.
See I'm thinking like the Grand can Onions. But you
know that doesn't necessarily qualify under large city, the large
city classification.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
That's up in the.
Speaker 4 (39:08):
Large city too.
Speaker 3 (39:10):
Let me go down the list.
Speaker 2 (39:11):
Here we got number one, Chicago, number two, San Francisco
number three, Milwaukee.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Okay, I've been to Milwaukee and the people are lovely, yes,
but I'm not quite sure. I went there for the
Republican National Convention.
Speaker 2 (39:25):
How about number four New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
I'm sorry Portland, Portland, Oregon.
Speaker 2 (39:31):
Yeah, we're home of Antifa. Number five New Orleans, six, Washington, DC, seven,
San Diego.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
Eight, Columbus, Ohio, oh No.
Speaker 2 (39:40):
Nine New York City, ten seatle Seattle's beautiful, but again,
just it's a little crazy right now.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
Look, the people are all great at all these places,
but I don't know about Chicago being number one.
Speaker 3 (39:52):
We'll grab ackstick around.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Welcome back to American rout Radio.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Stephen Farvard, Lewis sar avalon a just a super quick
programming note. Next our American Ground Radio, we will hear
from Curtis Sliwa, who is the Republican candidate running for
the mayor of New York City. We reviewed him and
it is a remarkable interview. It is a remarkable race
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energy of the city. Yeah, absolutely, all right, real quick.
You know, I don't know what's going on, but does
it seem like medications prescription medications are making their way
across state lines more and more. Today there's a report
out that there are two people in Baton Rouge who
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received counterfeit botox in. One of them ordered it online.
The other, the boatox was administered by someone who wasn't
even licensed to practice medicine.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
Why would you do that? Why?
Speaker 2 (41:11):
Why would you have Why would you let anybody inject
a toxin into your life, especially a toxin that you
bought online?
Speaker 1 (41:21):
This?
Speaker 4 (41:22):
No, it, this sounds like Darwin Award material here. But
this is why the Louisiana Department of Health had to
now come out issue a public warning because people are
literally injecting themselves with unapproved, unregulated, and potentially lethal products
that they bought on the internet.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
And what was the warning, don't don't inject, don't be stupid?
Was was that the warning?
Speaker 6 (41:46):
Who?
Speaker 2 (41:46):
Who injects themselves with something they bought online? But why
would you buy boatox online? Have you not seen if
you buy an address from from an online outlet and
it shows up and looks nothing like the picture? Should
that you about your botox?
Speaker 4 (42:01):
No? I get it. But what about abortion, abortion drugs?
The whole abortion pill fiasco? Oh yeah, I mean you
know the Democrats push to make it available by mail,
no doctor visit, no medical exam, no ultrasound, just click
ship and swallow. They call it reproductive freedom. It's dang it.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
Is reckless productive.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
It is reckless endangerment. So folks, see your doctor, someone
licensed in your state. Yes, seriously, and don't go.
Speaker 2 (42:31):
To anybody who says that reproduction means killing a baby.
Speaker 3 (42:34):
That's the opposite of reproduction.
Speaker 4 (42:36):
And our audience, we're really not talking to our audience.
It's just kind of it's it's scary what folks are
doing to themselves today, Botoks Online.
Speaker 3 (42:43):
We'll be right back.
Speaker 1 (42:45):
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