October 6, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 3, 2025.
0:30 We discuss breaking news about Hamas agreeing to a deal — negotiated by President Trump — to release the remaining hostages from the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 We discuss breaking news about Hamas agreeing to a deal — negotiated by President Trump — to release the remaining hostages from the October 7, 2023 terror attack on Israel.
Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- 80,000 Louisiana drivers are about to see their insurance rates go down.
- The Port Of New Orleans is expanding it's Foreign Trade Zone into St. Tammany Parish.
- Governor Jeff Landry has suspended the tolls on the new Belle Chase Bridge after numerous complaints from drivers.
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13:30 After publishing a column that struck a nerve, Louis was surprised when a reader who disagreed didn’t lash out—but instead invited him for a cup of coffee. What followed wasn’t confrontation, but connection.
We dive into how digital communication—texts, emails, and social media—distorts tone and intent, making it easy to assume the worst and forget the humanity behind the words. They reflect on how sitting down face-to-face can restore empathy, understanding, and civility in a deeply divided nation.
23:00 We Dig Deep into Governor Jeff Landry’s plan to deploy the Louisiana National Guard to support police in the state’s largest cities — starting with New Orleans. With 1,000 troops requested through next September, the move aims to restore safety, rebuild trust, and send a clear message: crime will not be tolerated.
We analyze statements from both the Louisiana National Guard and New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick, highlighting a shared commitment to support, not takeover. We discuss how a visible National Guard presence represents not just law enforcement assistance, but leadership through action — a reminder that presence itself can influence change.
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33:30 We discuss allegations surrounding Louisiana Congressman Cleo Fields’ recent stock trades—raising concerns about timing, transparency, and whether elected officials should be allowed to personally invest in the companies they oversee. The conversation digs into broader issues of insider trading, congressional privilege, and the double standards applied to political figures. From the Oracle-TikTok deal to comparisons with past demands for financial transparency from President Trump, we examine what’s legal versus what’s right—and why integrity in public office matters more than ever.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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great a nation to limit ourselves to small dreams.
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sar Evalony So.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
With just a week left before the October eleventh primary
in New Orleans, mayoral front runner Helena Moreno is far
out spending her two major opponents.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well she's the only ones got any money.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, she's sitting on twice as much cash as both
of her opponents of her closest opponents combined. And that's
according to the latest campaign finance report. So Moreno is
an at large city council member and Royce duplessis a
state senator. They both raised more than two hundred thousand dollars.
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This is just in a three week period from September
second to September twenty first City Councilman or council Member
Oliver Thomas brought in just twenty six thousand. And of
course all three are Democrats.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But Moreno had a whole bunch of mine sitting on
that beforehand. She was close to a million dollars if
I'm we're calling correctly Ian. She she had, she had
like nine hundred thousand already in the bank pretty much
before Duplessis even said he was gonna run. She's she's
just been sitting on tons of cash. Of course, she's
the one running all the all the ads. She's the
(02:19):
only one that can afford ads now.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Frank Janoosa is the most conservative candidate in this mayoral
race down in New Orleans. Uh. He stands out obviously
in this field because of other candidates, because they're all
Democrats and independents.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, I'm not sure i'd use the term stand out
because he hasn't gained any attention. I mean, yes he has,
he doesn't have a d next to his name, but
he has not been involved in any of the major
mayor forums. He gets no coverage in the media. I don't.
I don't know how many people in New Orleans actually
(02:57):
know that he's even running. So I don't know if
stands out is the right word.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, I mean, I guess. I mean he definitely doesn't
blend in very well. How about that? No, maybe will
go that way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He's blended in too. Well, he's so blended he's invisible
in this race.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But the last Republican mayor of New Orleans, he died
in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was during reconstruction.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So let that think in for just a moment, the
late nineteenth century reconstruction era. And even then, this Republican
mayor wasn't even elected, No, he was appointed.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Right, it's a reconstruction era mayor.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So since eighteen seventy seven, the city council has been
majority Democrat. Yeah, And the modern seven member council that
was established in the nineteen fifties in New Orleans has
never once, never, once had a Republican majority ever. Can
(04:01):
I say that again? Yeah? Never once. Now, occasionally Republicans
have squeaked into, you know, one or two seats, most
recently like Joe Giaruso in District A, but never more
than that one or two voices in a sea of blue.
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I mean, and the results are exactly what you would
expect a city that is crumbling under the weight of
its own bad ideas, mismanagement, and the rest of Louisiana
oftentimes is holding the bag because it is true. As
so goes New Orleans, so goes the rest of the
state of Louisiana. And I know there's a lot of
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folks that say, why do you say that that you know,
we're you know, maybe wherever you're from, maybe you're from Lafayette,
and you're like, I don't want to be lumped into
New Orleans. But look, that's where folks go. That's where
tourists go. They do first and foremost. Yeah, they may
end up in Lafayette, or they may end up in
poverty point over in Northeast Louisiana, or they may end
(05:06):
up in Shreveport. I mean, they may end up in
Lake Charles. But at the at the beginning of their journey, yeah,
it's always through the port, through the airport, through the
seaport of New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Okay, So New Orleans has been losing population since twenty
twenty latest testaments, it looks like you twenty twenty the
population three hundred and eighty three thousand. Now according to
twenty twenty three, population down to three hundred and sixty
four thousand. But that's not the big deal. New Orleans
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has been losing population since nineteen sixty. In nineteen sixty,
the population of the city of New Orleans was six
hundred and twenty seven thousand people, nearly twice the size
it is now in the nineteen sixties. And real quick,
how many Democrats have been or how many Republicans have
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been in emyer since nineteen sixty zero?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And how many times have the Republicans controlled the city
council since nineteen sixty zero? And this new modern city
council has put in the nineteen fifties right, So the
modern city council comes in the nineteen fifties. Nineteen sixty
is the last time the city of New Orleans experienced
a population increase. So something about this form of government
(06:29):
and the party of government. Quite clearly, it's not just
that it's working, it is that is an abject failure.
This is socialism levels of failure for the people in
the city of New Orleans since nineteen sixty, what other
major city in the United States of America has lost
half of its population in the last eighty years.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But see, you know what, You're absolutely right, But you
know what that sounds like. That sounds a lot like
the state of California. I think New Orleans, Foornia has
at least been growing over that well. But I think
New Orleans is California adminiature. I mean, you've got the
same one party democratic dominance. You do the same embrace
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of progressive policies that drive out the middle class and
empower the politically elite.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Here's part of the difference.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You've got the same sanctuary city, sanctuary state mentality that
prioritizes illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Here's the difference. California had a Republican governor in this century,
Arnold Schwarzenegger. California had Ronald Reagan as a republic governor.
In California had Richard Nixon as a Republican governors. California
had Republican governors through the twentieth century when it was growing. Now,
Republicans never had the trifecta and dominance that the Democrats
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currently have. But after Arnold Schwarzenegger left office, it has
been Democrats who have dominated the state of California, and
this last census was the first time in the state's
history when it lost population. It happens to coincide with
the time when California switched from having at least a
semblance of two party rule to being completely dominated by
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the Democrat Party. New Orleans has been dominated by the
Democrat Party since the ninth really for its entire history,
but certainly since this new form of government, this new
city Council went in into the nineteen fifties and since
then it's been dropping population. California is just now starting
what New Orleans has done to itself since nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, it looks like we are going to be looking
at mayor Moreno, yes, the city of New Orleans. I mean,
just if the polls hold right, right, But again, she's
a Democrat, and what is that going to really mean
for the leadership in New Orleans Because Democrats have had
total control since reconstruction, they have had.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The city council. During this latest round of what the
city council, the city lost one point six percent. Twenty
twenty three, they lost one point nine perd the population.
Twenty twenty two, they lost one point six percent. Of
their population twenty twenty one, that entire time Orlana Moreno
was the head of the city council, right, what was
she doing?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Well? She and along with her fellow Democrats, they've had
every opportunity to prove that their ideas were and they don't.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Let's get to the top of the things you need
no before tomorrow. First thing you need no before tomorrow?
Eight hundred I'm sorry. Eighty thousand Louisiana drivers are about
to see their insurance rates go down. Insurance Commissioner Tim
Temple announced today that the Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance
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Drop will drop their rates by by eleven point eight
percent starting in January. For Louisiana drivers. This is one
of the largest drops in insurance rates for auto insurance
ever in the state. Temple says there are two reasons
for that. First, a decrease in accident frequency and severity. Second,
and while Louisiana's recent legal reforms have not yet taking
(09:59):
full infect, Farm Bureau says our efforts gave them confidence
that Louisiana is committed to improving the market for insurers
and consumers, said Temple.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, and look, he doesn't have absolute power over these insurers. No,
it's a free market, and that's good.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
The more free market, the more likely we are to
see lowering, lowering prices.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Now, I think the insurance Commissioner can help convince these
folks to hope to come in and write policies in Louisiana,
but he certainly does control the rates.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Second thing you need before all, the Port of Orleans,
New Orleans, is expanding its foreign Trade Zone into Saint
Tammany Parish. This will allow companies working in the trade
zone to receive reductions on duties in tariffs. There are
also easier procedures for customs. The expansion will allow for
industrial areas on the north side of Lake Ponta. Trying
to take advantage of these benefits. Port Chairman Michael A.
Thomas sit together, we will solidify Louisiana's position as the
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next generation leader in global trade.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think that's probably a good thing. I mean, expanding
areas where you can get through customs faster, where you
can have your duties reduced to your tariffs reduced. I
think that's gonna spawn some more investment on the north shore.
And the third thing you need to know before them all.
Governor Jeff Landry suspended the tolls on the new Bellchase
Bridge after numerous complaints from drivers. Tolls began on the
new bridge early this year, being operated by a contract
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to call it Plenary, but drivers are complaining that in
addition to the posted tolls, they're having to pay extra
fees assessed on them by the company. Governor Landry said
he's putting Plenary on notice, saying we're going to get
a better deal for Placumens, a better deal for Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Plenary.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That means lacking nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Huh Well, when it comes to fees, apparently they're lacking nothing.
I don't like the trend of Louisiana government handing over
punishment and fines and fees to private companies like we've
done with the cameras and speed zones. I don't think
that's right. It's what we've done on the toll bridge.
I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (13:13):
Welcome back to American Grand Radio. Steament.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So, I have been writing columns for a very long time,
long time, been published in lots of different publications.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Man, you're old.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
No, I didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They didn't say that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm just quite experienced. But nevertheless, yeah, you know, I
know there's things that I have written before that I'm
sure people have disagreed with me on And sometimes I
I hear from them and they're in writing. Sometimes it's
a phone call. Sometimes it's very vitriolic, and then other
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times it is very friendly, saying at a boy, I
really liked what you wrote. I really liked the sentiment.
It really touched me. So you get a little bit
of both.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Right, That's pretty weird because all the email I get
from people listening to American crownd radios them saying how
smart and whise I.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Am, Well, I you know what. I get the thing
as well, how smart and wise you are. But you know,
today I went to a coffee shop. I was invited
for a cup of coffee, okay because from someone who
had actually read something I had written. They disagreed with it,
(14:30):
all right, And that's not unusual. If you're in the
business of telling the truth or giving your opinion straight up,
you're going to rub some people the wrong way. Absolutely,
But this time it was different. It wasn't just that
they disagreed with me. Okay, I had actually written something
about them. Oh yes, Now what I had written was
(14:53):
absolutely factual and it was honest, but they didn't necessarily
agree okay my perspective.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Okay, So the facts in it were were true, absolutely
interpretation of those facts differed from their interpretation, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But instead of firing off a nasty social media post
or you know, calling me names or demanding a retraction, okay,
this person asked, Hey, can we go get.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
A cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
And we did and just two people face to face,
hashing it out. And you know what, it was good, okay,
And not because we agreed on everything. We didn't, but
because we had a conversation, a real conversation, And I
think that is something that we are losing in America.
(15:45):
And no, this isn't the first conversation that I've ever
had with someone. You know, a lot of folks say, well,
is this the first time you sat down face to face? No, No,
that happens a lot. But in the wake of Charlie Kirk,
this individual chose to talk it out, not to lash out, okay,
(16:09):
And I just had a tremendous amount of respect for
the fact that this individual did that.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Did either one of you change your mind? Did either
one of you see something differently by the end of
the conversation than you did at the beginning?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You know what was interesting? We talked almost none of
the time about what I.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Had written about the issue at hand.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
We just got to know one another a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Okay, So it was more relationship building than it was
hashing out agreement.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, absolutely, And I think that's you know, it reminded
me and hopefully them that behind every opinion is a
human being and you can't see that humanity sometimes behind
a screen.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Well, no, one of the things that and I think
everybody has done this at some point. You read a text,
you read a post, and there's a way that your
the voice in your head interprets what's on the page.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And it happens in a split second. And it's not.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Looks it's subconscious, it's not. I mean, it just happens.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But it happens to all of us, everybody, whether you're
reading a text or an email. When someone comes into
the room and says something, our brain, the way it
is wired, it instantly tells us a story. Yes, and
it says, oh, Stephen walked in and said you're a
little bit late, okay, And then I tell myself a
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story like oh, he's berating me, or oh he is,
because that's the story I'm telling myself instead of saying, oh,
he might be concerned that I might have had car trouble, okay,
or some other issue. Yes. My point is we all
tell ourselves stories, yes, about what messages from other mean,
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and we do it in an instant.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And it's worse in a text message. It's worse in
an email. It's worse on a pass of mind because
you don't hear tone. Your brain will insert its own
tone based upon a variety of other circumstances. So and
two people can read the same email and their brains
will put in different tones, and they will come out
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with different interpretations of the same words. And somebody can
try and you say something. Maybe they think they're asking
a question, and somebody else is like, oh, look, they're
being snarky. No, I wasn't try to be sarcastic. I
was genuinely trying to ask a question.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's just the story you're telling yourself. You don't know
what you do, not know what they're actual, what the
tone was, or intent exactly. But when you really listen,
when you give someone your full attention, what you're saying
is you matter. Your perspective matters, even if I don't
agree with it, I value you as a person. And
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and you know, look, I'm as guilty. Side note, as
anyone you put your phone away, put your phone, and
you know what I did today, And if the person
is listening right now.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You went to lunch with somebody, that's what you did
to No. No, we're just telling us.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
No, No, I went beyond getting coffee.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, I and I.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Know this is very big of me. Okay, the folks
are gonna.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Be oh man Lewis the magnanimous.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I kept my phone in my back pocket the entire time.
Really it was going off like crazy. I mean, the
temptation to go check it quite great. Yes, but you
know what I said. You know what if if this,
if I'm going to practice what I preach here.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, I'm going to give this person my undivited attention.
Absolutely not going to pay attention to all the buzzing
on the phone. I don't care that Steven's texting me
over and over and over because he's got sick, exactly
as he can wait very very important to until I.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Finish my latte. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
But again, I was saying so much about today.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Look, I wasn't expecting fireworks, right, but I did get
some perspective, and I don't know that this person. I
don't think they're upset anymore. I mean they they probably
think I was unfair in what I wrote, even though
it was factual, Okay, But by the end of the conversation,
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and look, this is someone that I've known for a
very long time. Okay, not someone that I'm particularly close to,
but someone that you've known, I've known. But after today,
I feel far more connected to this person than I
have and I'm very grateful for the invitation.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But see, that is what Charlie Kirk was trying to model.
That's what he was doing on campuses all the time.
Was he was trying to encourage a discussion between people
he knew would disagree with him, and if he could
sway their opinion, great, If he couldn't sway their opinion
and could just get to go, well, you know what,
we're not going to agree on that. And there's several
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videos go watch Charlie Kirk's videos. There's several times where
he just goes, I understand where you are, We're just
not going to agree. And that was okay.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But if we lose the art of conversation, we lose
more than civility, We lose the nation, we lose democracy itself. Yeah,
because self governing, being self governed requires dialogue, it requires debate,
it requires compromise, and if aires maturity. But if all
we do is just retreat into our echo chambers and
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we blast one another online, then we stop being a
people and we start being warring tribes.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, and that's the real danger in a nation as
large as ours that has become as Balkanized as ours,
that's a real danger right now, and we've got to
overcome it. And it's what Charliekirk was trying to do.
And now there are millions of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So choose a cup of coffee first before firing off
that mean tweet, Well, bear back.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
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Speaker 4 (22:57):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parr with Lewis alone.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So do you put your phone away when you meet
with folks?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Usually what I will usually do is I will set
my phone face down.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Now that that doesn't count, Why not I just think
it sends the wrong message. And look, I am a
number one in my house. What's the heck?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It's uncomfortable in my pockets. I set it down, face
down on the table, and I don't touch it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I look, but I cheat. Look, look I am Look,
I'm the number one offender here. Okay, so I'm certainly
not trying to, you know, throw stones, you're walking to
throw stones when I'm living in a glass house here.
I'm just saying, I think it does send a different
message if you just have the phone put away completely.
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What about a dinner?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
What about a dinner?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
What about a dinner? You go to dinner with Wendy,
and do you have your phone out?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I usually set it face down on the table because
it doesn't fit in my pockets, and and I don't
want to break the screen by sitting on it or
break the phone. I just set it face down the
table and I don't touch it. But you know, but
I do cheat. You want to how cheat? Have a
watch and the watch will buzz and I can sneak
to see who the texas from and see if it's important.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I don't think that's right. I think Wendy deserves your attention.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I don't usually do that with Wendy. Other people, I'll
do that with them.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well, but see, I really do think and I don't
intend to. Yeah, but when you keep your phone out, yes,
I think you're sending a message, whether you mean to
or not, that you know what, You're not my one
hundred percent priority here. Now look in the office and
with your coworkers, it's a little different, I think. But
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when you go to dinner maybe with friends, that's I mean,
I get it. I mean, we're we're many times, you know,
you may have children that are texting you are, or
older parents that that you're caring for, and so I
mean there's certainly there's all of that. I mean, I
don't think you know, categorically, if you have your phone out.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I mean, you may text me while I'm out and
then I have to immediately respond to that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Now you don't necessarily and that and that's fine, I guess,
you know. Just talking about this conversation today and certainly
in the wake of Charlie Kirk, I just think that there.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Is an etiquette thing about putting your phone away and
not having your phone and not being on your phone
and being present with the person you're with present.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yes, yes, And there's a lot of restaurants actually that
have a basket although I don't know that. How comfortable
I feel doing that?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Put my phone into the basket with other people's phones. No,
I don't need that. Tell you what. Let's dig deep,
going down down. So it does look like the Louisiana
National Guard will be working with police in our state's
largest cities, and it also looks like the Louisiana National
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Guard will begin its work in New Orleans. Governor Landry
has requested one thousand troops to help in Louisiana cities
through September of next year. That request has not been
approved yet. It's been put on hold as the government
shutdown goes on. But I expect this as soon as
the government reopens. I would expect this to be approved.
The Louisiana National Guard put out a statement this week
(26:24):
they apparently expect this to be approved as well. They wrote, no,
two Louisiana areas or cities are the same, and each
will require a specific operational approach tailored to their current situation.
I like that, that's absolutely true. Louisiana's got a lot
of diversity within it. Louisiana National Guard Service members are
trained and prepared to support local, state, and federal law
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enforcement to make our cities safe. Lane Service members have
extensive experience in providing and enabling support to local and
parish government during times of emergency. That level of cooperation
and experience will carry forward on this pending operation. That's right.
And I like the word that I liked the best
was support. Louisiana National Guard service members are trained and
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prepared to support local, state, and federal law enforcement. I
think that's the right approach and I think that's the
right attitude.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Well, yeah, absolutely, And of all the liberals in New
Orleans that are crying about this.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
A government takeover, the military coming in, guess what guess
to support you?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah? Absolutely, for all you liberals, you've had your chance.
You've controlled City Hall since reconstruction. Yeah, I mean seriously,
you have controlled that city since reconstruction. And you've tried
every excuse, every program, every soft on crime policy in
the book.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And again, what's the result. Well, and you can say, well,
crime's gone down in the last two years, okay, but
what is the appropriate number of carjackings? What is the
number of carjackings that you think we should be having
in New Orleans. What is the appropriate number of of
murders that you think we.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Should be better in New Orleans? But you're never going
to get those numbers down to zero. But can we
get them down further? Well, you certainly can improve.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Just just because we're not we're off the highs that
we had just a couple of years ago, or even
if you go, okay, well we're at low the lowest
it's been since the nineteen seventies. Okay, but the nineteen
seventies was an unacceptable level of murder. And that is
the whole point here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
But you know we're talking earlier about being present, yes,
and how your presence communicates something very valuable. And I
think leadership, whether you're you know, leading a business or
leading a household, leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.
And influence requires presence, and it requires showing up in
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the moment where the problem is and saying we're here
and we care enough to act. And I think that
is what this National Guard presence represents. It's not just
boots on the ground, and.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It's not a military takeover of a city exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It's the visible sign I think that somebody finally is
paying attention to the cries of the people of New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
So, speaking of New Orleans, New Orleans Police Superintendent and
Kirkpatrick says she's getting the city ready to receive the guardsmen.
She was on WWL radio earlier this week. She said, quote,
my number one issue is I don't want to take over.
I don't want to take over attitude. But politically, I'm
here to serve everyone on each side of the aisle,
and I respect the arguments of each side, but I'm
about your safety and I will do anything to keep
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the people safe in the city. So give me the
assets all make it work. Look, that seems reasonable, and
it's one hundred percent in line with what the Guard
appears to be saying. Remember the Guard said our job
is to support local police. An chor. Patrick says, I
don't want to take over. You guys are saying the
same thing, and you should read the press release that
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the National Guard put out because you're gonna be like, well,
I think this is gonna work then.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
And I think the other aspect of this, certainly, you
want to make the streets safer, right, because crime it
does take lives, right, I mean it does.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
And crime causes poverty. You want to know why there's
so much poverty in New Orleans because there's so much
crime in.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
New Orleans, right, Because, well, crime kills economies because when
the streetsy's neighborhood, because when the streets are dangerous, businesses
don't invest, tourists don't visit, families don't stay, and then.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Property values plummet because people will leave those neighborhoods, and
so you've wiped out generational wealth.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So lower crime leads to higher property values, more jobs,
more investment, more pride, and it all starts with this
message crime will not be tolerated.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
And all of this, by the way, is in the
governor's personal background story. Remember Governor Landry served in the
Louisiana National Guard for eleven years when he was a
young man. He was also a sheriff's deputy at the
same time, so he has experienced working in the Guard
and working in law enforcement, and it seems natural to
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me that he would see a useful connection between the
needs and the duties of law enforcement and the abilities
and strengths of the National Guard. I think this is
with Jeff Lander's look at all this I think he's
going this makes perfect sense. Why haven't we done this before.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Absolutely, it's not just about crime reduction. I think it's
about leadership restoration. Yeah, and I think it sends a clear,
unmistakable message. We will not accept chaos as normal. We
will not let law abiding citizens live in fear.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Louisian National Guard says we will carry out our duties
with honor and treat all with dignity and respect. Protecting
what matters is our motto and protecting our citizens from
from crime fits within this primary mission.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I love the attitude and absolute National Guard.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
We'll be back.
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen part of Lewis
sar AVALONEA.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So apparently Cleo Fields, Congressman Cleo Fields.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Second District, the Gerrymander District of Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Spoke at an elementary school and yeah, and one of
the children said, uh, mister Fields, Congressman Fields, I am
interested in investing. Are there any stocks that you would
you're kidding recommend that I purchase, you know, even just
one share of you know, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
His answer was, Oracle would have been good about two
weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, And that is fake news.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
I was just making that you're playing fake news Friday
in hour early.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
We are going to be playing fake news Friday in
the next hour. But look, this is a big deal,
all right.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
So for folks that aren't aware of what's going on
on September seventeenth and eighteenth, Cleo Fields bought a whole
bunch of Oracle stock one hundred.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Thousand, between eighty thousand and two hundred thousand dollars worth
of Oracle stock.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
On the twenty second, President Trump announced that Oracle was
going to be the new owner of TikTok So. On
the seventeen and eighteenth, Cleio Fields buys Oracle. On the
twenty second, the President says, hey, Oracle's going to be
the new TikTok And then on the twenty third, Cleio
Fields buy is more Oracle, And I'm like, well, what
(34:37):
made you decide you wanted to buy one two hundred
thousand dollars worth of Oracle on the seventeenth and eighteenth.
That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Now. Cleo Fields, in his defense, denies any wrongdoing. He says,
there is not a single stock that I've purchased because
I've had some inside information.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Okay, that's not the question.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
The card I've been doing this for years.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Okay, that's not helpful, says But here's the thing, then,
why did you decide to buy Oracle on September seventeenth
and again on September eighth? What was it that made
you decide you were gonna risk seventy eighty one thousand
and two hundred thousand of your own dollars on a
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single stock on the seventeenth and eighteenth Well, what was it?
That's that's a legitimate question.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
But then he goes on to say, and this is
something that you hear, folks, Well, you hear a lot
of folks when maybe they are guilty of something, they go,
but everybody else is doing it.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
He did not say that.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
He didn't say it in that way, but he did
say that members of Congress routinely trade stocks, and that
he is just doing what others do, said the guilty guy.
But he claims he's doing it ethically by reporting his trade.
So he don't report the trade.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Wa Wait, so if if I'm buying a trade based
off of inside knowledge, but as long as I report
the trade after I've done it, that's ethical. The reporting
of the trade isn't the ethical part. The ethical part
would be why did you make the decision to buy
Oracle five days before Donald Trump said Oracle is taking
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over TikTok? What made you decide Oracle of all the
companies in the world, of all of the companies in
the world.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Why did you decide gin joints in the world.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
I'll give you another example. Tell you what, here's a
stock that he could have bought that would have been
legitimate because you could have said, you know what I'm
going to I'm going to spend one hundred two hundred
thousand dollars on my own on Tesla stock in on
September eighteenth, and the reason being because you would know
that the subsidies for Tesla were coming to an end
at the end of September, and so people were going
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to be buying a whole bunch of Tesla's in this
next month to get in before those rebates ended, and
then you could sell first of October. Right, that would
be a legitimate trade. You be trading on knowledge everybody had.
But if you if you're buying Oracle, and you're buying
one hundred thousands of dollars with the Oracle.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
There's a lot of folks, but there's a lot of
traders on Wall Street that bought Oracle and sold Oracle.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
That happened two hundred thousand dollars more than.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
That in some of these these fund managers.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
But those are fund managers. Those aren't members of Congress.
How much money does Cleo Fields actually have that one
hundred thousand dollars? How big of a risk was that
of his entire network?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I don't know. I don't know that. But look, this
is not just a Cleo Fields story.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
No, but this is an obvious Cleo Field story right now.
And he's trying to hide by saying, well, other members
of Congress are doing insider training, so therefore it's fine
that I do. It's just as long as I report
that I've.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Done insidering it there's allegations of insider trading.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Then tell me what it was that made you decide
you wanted to buy or I.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Need none of your business, that's none of your big.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
If you're representing me in Congress, you're damn right, it
is my business. Well, if you are cheating the American
people by manipulating the stock market based off of information
that you're getting because of your privileged position in Congress,
when your body is supposed to be serving me and
not your own interest, you're damn right. It is my
business about whether you bought that stock legitimately or you
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bought it because some little mouse told you that Oracle's
about to take over TikTok.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Well, then you just need to ban members of Congress
from trading individual stocks altogether, amen, or require them to
put their put all of their investments into a blind
trust that is managed by some third party.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
As the Democrats required President Trump to do when he
went into office in twenty seventeen. Remember they did that.
They insisted that he put all of his assets into
a blind trust. And so President Trump did. If it
was good for the goose, if it was good for
Cleo Fields and for all of his buddies, for Nancy
Pelosi to require Donald Trump to do it, then why
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isn't it good for the American people to require Cleo
Fields to be clean up about this?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Let's see, and I get it. You know, when you
hear people say, well, everybody else is doing it, there's
a difference between something that is legal, yes, and something
that is right, because they're two different things.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Because then in Sodom and Gomorrah, I guarantee you there
was some fool who said everybody else is doing it.
It doesn't make it right.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But it is legal for members of Congress to trade
in individual stock.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
But is it right?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
That's a different question.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
If you're going to be a leader, you have to
hold yourself to a higher standard and just say, because
Nancy Pelosi cheats and she's become a billionaire off of this,
I get to cheat become a billionaire. What kind of
ethics are those?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
And let's be very clear these are only allegation, but
against Congressman Cleiophiel.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
But he owes the people an explanation? Why did you
buy Oracle? Then we'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Welcome back to American Grand Radio. Stephen Palmer Lewis sar
avalon eight. You know I'm going to say it again,
Cleo Fields owes the people of Louisiana and exclam explanation.
What made you decide on September seventeenth and September eighteenth
to spend does it tens and hundreds of thousands of
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dollars on Oracle stock? What was the decision process you
went through? Explained it to me? How did you wake
up those mornings and go, you know what I need
to do is I need to I need to risk
one hundred thousand dollars of my own money.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I read it in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Okay, so what did you read?
Speaker 3 (40:47):
See?
Speaker 4 (40:48):
This is my point. If he can't answer those questions,
then it is just it is right for us.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
As Okay, a buddy of mine recommended that I buy Oracle.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Why, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
I mean, you sit around with your friends, you question them,
you quiz them.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
If somebody is asking me to risk one.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Hundred thousand dollars worth of Oracle because Oracle may be
being acquired by.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
If somebody tells me you should risk one hundred thousand
dollars on one stock and you need to buy it today,
I'm gonna go why. And if they say, hey, I
can't tell you wink weak, nudge, nudge, I'm not buying
it because that's inside trader. That's insider trading, and it's illegal.
If they say, well, look all the cool kids are
doing it, or if they say, well you know, I
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know they're coming out with a new product. Everybody's seen this.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
But anything that a member of Congress invests in, yes,
you can all. I mean, where do you draw the
line here? Because you can always trace it back to something.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
But it's never as good obvious as this. Five days later,
President Trump announced Oracle is the one company in the
United States of America. That's going to buy TikTok no,
but Steve from China.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
But members of Congress, they're very learned people for the
most part.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
They also have access to inside information the impress of
the people.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Don't their constituents contact them with all sorts of information then,
But if your constituency is giving you insider information and
you're trading off of that, that's illegal. He owes the.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
People of Louisiana and explanation more than everybody else is
doing it. That's what guilty people say. He owes us
an explanation.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Like Congressman Jefferson otis where he got all the cash
that he put in his freezer?
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Kind of the exact same logic. Yeah, we'll be right back.
Stick around.
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Speaker 3 (01:03):
With just a week left before the October eleventh primary
in New Orleans, mayoral front runner Helena Moreno is far
out spending her two major opponents.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Well she's the only ones got any money.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Well, she's sitting on twice as much cash as both
of her opponents of her closest opponents combined. And that's
according to the latest campaign finance report. So Moreno is
an at large city council member and Royce duplessis a
state senator. They both raised more than two hundred thousand dollars.
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This is just in a three week period from September
second to September twenty first City Councilman or council Member
Oliver Thomas brought in just twenty six thousand. And of
course all three are Democrats.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
But Moreno had a whole bunch of mine sitting on
that beforehand. She was close to a million dollars if
I'm we're calling correctly Ian. She she had, she had
like nine hundred thousand already in the bank pretty much
before Duplessis even said he was gonna run. She's she's
just been sitting on tons of cash. Of course, she's
the one running all the all the ads. She's the
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only one that can afford ads now.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Frank Janoosa is the most conservative candidate in this mayoral
race down in New Orleans. Uh. He stands out obviously
in this field because of other candidates, because they're all
Democrats and independents.
Speaker 4 (02:35):
Well, I'm not sure i'd use the term stand out
because he hasn't gained any attention. I mean, yes he has,
he doesn't have a d next to his name, but
he has not been involved in any of the major
mayor forums. He gets no coverage in the media. I don't.
I don't know how many people in New Orleans actually
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know that he's even running. So I don't know if
stands out is the right word.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Well, I mean, I guess. I mean he definitely doesn't
blend in very well. How about that? No, maybe will
go that way.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
He's blended in too. Well, he's so blended he's invisible
in this race.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
But the last Republican mayor of New Orleans, he died
in the eighteen hundreds.
Speaker 4 (03:20):
It was during reconstruction.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
So let that think in for just a moment, the
late nineteenth century reconstruction era. And even then, this Republican
mayor wasn't even elected, No, he was appointed.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Right, it's a reconstruction era mayor.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
So since eighteen seventy seven, the city council has been
majority Democrat. Yeah, And the modern seven member council that
was established in the nineteen fifties in New Orleans has
never once, never, once had a Republican majority ever. Can
(04:01):
I say that again? Yeah? Never once. Now, occasionally Republicans
have squeaked into, you know, one or two seats, most
recently like Joe Giaruso in District A, but never more
than that one or two voices in a sea of blue.
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I mean, and the results are exactly what you would
expect a city that is crumbling under the weight of
its own bad ideas, mismanagement, and the rest of Louisiana
oftentimes is holding the bag because it is true. As
so goes New Orleans, so goes the rest of the
state of Louisiana. And I know there's a lot of
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folks that say, why do you say that that you know,
we're you know, maybe wherever you're from, maybe you're from Lafayette,
and you're like, I don't want to be lumped into
New Orleans. But look, that's where folks go. That's where
tourists go. They do first and foremost. Yeah, they may
end up in Lafayette, or they may end up in
poverty point over in Northeast Louisiana, or they may end
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up in Shreveport. I mean, they may end up in
Lake Charles. But at the at the beginning of their journey, yeah,
it's always through the port, through the airport, through the
seaport of New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (05:22):
Okay, So New Orleans has been losing population since twenty
twenty latest testaments, it looks like you twenty twenty the
population three hundred and eighty three thousand. Now according to
twenty twenty three, population down to three hundred and sixty
four thousand. But that's not the big deal. New Orleans
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has been losing population since nineteen sixty. In nineteen sixty,
the population of the city of New Orleans was six
hundred and twenty seven thousand people, nearly twice the size
it is now in the nineteen sixties. And real quick,
how many Democrats have been or how many Republicans have
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been in emyer since nineteen sixty zero?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (06:08):
And how many times have the Republicans controlled the city
council since nineteen sixty zero? And this new modern city
council has put in the nineteen fifties right, So the
modern city council comes in the nineteen fifties. Nineteen sixty
is the last time the city of New Orleans experienced
a population increase. So something about this form of government
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and the party of government. Quite clearly, it's not just
that it's working, it is that is an abject failure.
This is socialism levels of failure for the people in
the city of New Orleans since nineteen sixty, what other
major city in the United States of America has lost
half of its population in the last eighty years.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
But see, you know what, You're absolutely right, But you
know what that sounds like. That sounds a lot like
the state of California. I think New Orleans, Foornia has
at least been growing over that well. But I think
New Orleans is California adminiature. I mean, you've got the
same one party democratic dominance. You do the same embrace
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of progressive policies that drive out the middle class and
empower the politically elite.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Here's part of the difference.
Speaker 3 (07:19):
You've got the same sanctuary city, sanctuary state mentality that
prioritizes illegal immigrants.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Here's the difference. California had a Republican governor in this century,
Arnold Schwarzenegger. California had Ronald Reagan as a republic governor.
In California had Richard Nixon as a Republican governors. California
had Republican governors through the twentieth century when it was growing. Now,
Republicans never had the trifecta and dominance that the Democrats
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currently have. But after Arnold Schwarzenegger left office, it has
been Democrats who have dominated the state of California, and
this last census was the first time in the state's
history when it lost population. It happens to coincide with
the time when California switched from having at least a
semblance of two party rule to being completely dominated by
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the Democrat Party. New Orleans has been dominated by the
Democrat Party since the ninth really for its entire history,
but certainly since this new form of government, this new
city Council went in into the nineteen fifties and since
then it's been dropping population. California is just now starting
what New Orleans has done to itself since nineteen sixty.
Speaker 3 (08:31):
Well, it looks like we are going to be looking
at mayor Moreno, yes, the city of New Orleans. I mean,
just if the polls hold right, right, But again, she's
a Democrat, and what is that going to really mean
for the leadership in New Orleans Because Democrats have had
total control since reconstruction, they have had.
Speaker 4 (08:52):
The city council. During this latest round of what the
city council, the city lost one point six percent. Twenty
twenty three, they lost one point nine perd the population.
Twenty twenty two, they lost one point six percent. Of
their population twenty twenty one, that entire time Orlana Moreno
was the head of the city council, right, what was
she doing?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Well? She and along with her fellow Democrats, they've had
every opportunity to prove that their ideas were and they don't.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
Let's get to the top of the things you need
no before tomorrow. First thing you need no before tomorrow?
Eight hundred I'm sorry. Eighty thousand Louisiana drivers are about
to see their insurance rates go down. Insurance Commissioner Tim
Temple announced today that the Louisiana Farm Bureau Casualty Insurance
(09:37):
Drop will drop their rates by by eleven point eight
percent starting in January. For Louisiana drivers. This is one
of the largest drops in insurance rates for auto insurance
ever in the state. Temple says there are two reasons
for that. First, a decrease in accident frequency and severity. Second,
and while Louisiana's recent legal reforms have not yet taking
(09:59):
full infect, Farm Bureau says our efforts gave them confidence
that Louisiana is committed to improving the market for insurers
and consumers, said Temple.
Speaker 3 (10:08):
Well, and look, he doesn't have absolute power over these insurers. No,
it's a free market, and that's good.
Speaker 4 (10:17):
The more free market, the more likely we are to
see lowering, lowering prices.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Now, I think the insurance Commissioner can help convince these
folks to hope to come in and write policies in Louisiana,
but he certainly does control the rates.
Speaker 4 (10:30):
Second thing you need before all, the Port of Orleans,
New Orleans, is expanding its foreign Trade Zone into Saint
Tammany Parish. This will allow companies working in the trade
zone to receive reductions on duties in tariffs. There are
also easier procedures for customs. The expansion will allow for
industrial areas on the north side of Lake Ponta. Trying
to take advantage of these benefits. Port Chairman Michael A.
Thomas sit together, we will solidify Louisiana's position as the
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next generation leader in global trade.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 4 (10:56):
I think that's probably a good thing. I mean, expanding
areas where you can get through customs faster, where you
can have your duties reduced to your tariffs reduced. I
think that's gonna spawn some more investment on the north shore.
And the third thing you need to know before them all.
Governor Jeff Landry suspended the tolls on the new Bellchase
Bridge after numerous complaints from drivers. Tolls began on the
new bridge early this year, being operated by a contract
(11:18):
to call it Plenary, but drivers are complaining that in
addition to the posted tolls, they're having to pay extra
fees assessed on them by the company. Governor Landry said
he's putting Plenary on notice, saying we're going to get
a better deal for Placumens, a better deal for Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Plenary.
Speaker 4 (11:35):
Yeah, you know that.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
That means lacking nothing.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Huh Well, when it comes to fees, apparently they're lacking nothing.
I don't like the trend of Louisiana government handing over
punishment and fines and fees to private companies like we've
done with the cameras and speed zones. I don't think
that's right. It's what we've done on the toll bridge.
I don't think that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
We'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (13:13):
Welcome back to American Grand Radio. Steament.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
So, I have been writing columns for a very long time,
long time, been published in lots of different publications.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Man, you're old.
Speaker 3 (13:26):
No, I didn't say that.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
They didn't say that.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
I'm just quite experienced. But nevertheless, yeah, you know, I
know there's things that I have written before that I'm
sure people have disagreed with me on And sometimes I
I hear from them and they're in writing. Sometimes it's
a phone call. Sometimes it's very vitriolic, and then other
(13:50):
times it is very friendly, saying at a boy, I
really liked what you wrote. I really liked the sentiment.
It really touched me. So you get a little bit
of both.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Right, That's pretty weird because all the email I get
from people listening to American crownd radios them saying how
smart and whise I.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Am, Well, I you know what. I get the thing
as well, how smart and wise you are. But you know,
today I went to a coffee shop. I was invited
for a cup of coffee, okay because from someone who
had actually read something I had written. They disagreed with it,
(14:30):
all right, And that's not unusual. If you're in the
business of telling the truth or giving your opinion straight up,
you're going to rub some people the wrong way. Absolutely,
But this time it was different. It wasn't just that
they disagreed with me. Okay, I had actually written something
about them. Oh yes, Now what I had written was
(14:53):
absolutely factual and it was honest, but they didn't necessarily
agree okay my perspective.
Speaker 4 (15:01):
Okay, So the facts in it were were true, absolutely
interpretation of those facts differed from their interpretation, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
But instead of firing off a nasty social media post
or you know, calling me names or demanding a retraction, okay,
this person asked, Hey, can we go get.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
A cup of coffee?
Speaker 3 (15:24):
And we did and just two people face to face,
hashing it out. And you know what, it was good, okay,
And not because we agreed on everything. We didn't, but
because we had a conversation, a real conversation, And I
think that is something that we are losing in America.
(15:45):
And no, this isn't the first conversation that I've ever
had with someone. You know, a lot of folks say, well,
is this the first time you sat down face to face? No, No,
that happens a lot. But in the wake of Charlie Kirk,
this individual chose to talk it out, not to lash out, okay,
(16:09):
And I just had a tremendous amount of respect for
the fact that this individual did that.
Speaker 4 (16:18):
Did either one of you change your mind? Did either
one of you see something differently by the end of
the conversation than you did at the beginning?
Speaker 3 (16:25):
You know what was interesting? We talked almost none of
the time about what I.
Speaker 4 (16:32):
Had written about the issue at hand.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
We just got to know one another a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
Okay, So it was more relationship building than it was
hashing out agreement.
Speaker 3 (16:42):
Yeah, absolutely, And I think that's you know, it reminded
me and hopefully them that behind every opinion is a
human being and you can't see that humanity sometimes behind
a screen.
Speaker 4 (17:01):
Well, no, one of the things that and I think
everybody has done this at some point. You read a text,
you read a post, and there's a way that your
the voice in your head interprets what's on the page.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
And it happens in a split second. And it's not.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Looks it's subconscious, it's not. I mean, it just happens.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
But it happens to all of us, everybody, whether you're
reading a text or an email. When someone comes into
the room and says something, our brain, the way it
is wired, it instantly tells us a story. Yes, and
it says, oh, Stephen walked in and said you're a
little bit late, okay, And then I tell myself a
(17:45):
story like oh, he's berating me, or oh he is,
because that's the story I'm telling myself instead of saying, oh,
he might be concerned that I might have had car trouble, okay,
or some other issue. Yes. My point is we all
tell ourselves stories, yes, about what messages from other mean,
(18:09):
and we do it in an instant.
Speaker 4 (18:12):
And it's worse in a text message. It's worse in
an email. It's worse on a pass of mind because
you don't hear tone. Your brain will insert its own
tone based upon a variety of other circumstances. So and
two people can read the same email and their brains
will put in different tones, and they will come out
(18:35):
with different interpretations of the same words. And somebody can
try and you say something. Maybe they think they're asking
a question, and somebody else is like, oh, look, they're
being snarky. No, I wasn't try to be sarcastic. I
was genuinely trying to ask a question.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
It's just the story you're telling yourself. You don't know
what you do, not know what they're actual, what the
tone was, or intent exactly. But when you really listen,
when you give someone your full attention, what you're saying
is you matter. Your perspective matters, even if I don't
agree with it, I value you as a person. And
(19:13):
and you know, look, I'm as guilty. Side note, as
anyone you put your phone away, put your phone, and
you know what I did today, And if the person
is listening right now.
Speaker 4 (19:27):
You went to lunch with somebody, that's what you did
to No. No, we're just telling us.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
No, No, I went beyond getting coffee.
Speaker 4 (19:34):
Okay, I and I.
Speaker 3 (19:37):
Know this is very big of me. Okay, the folks
are gonna.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
Be oh man Lewis the magnanimous.
Speaker 3 (19:43):
I kept my phone in my back pocket the entire time.
Really it was going off like crazy. I mean, the
temptation to go check it quite great. Yes, but you
know what I said. You know what if if this,
if I'm going to practice what I preach here.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Yeah, I'm going to give this person my undivited attention.
Absolutely not going to pay attention to all the buzzing
on the phone. I don't care that Steven's texting me
over and over and over because he's got sick, exactly
as he can wait very very important to until I.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Finish my latte. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
But again, I was saying so much about today.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Look, I wasn't expecting fireworks, right, but I did get
some perspective, and I don't know that this person. I
don't think they're upset anymore. I mean they they probably
think I was unfair in what I wrote, even though
it was factual, Okay, But by the end of the conversation,
(20:42):
and look, this is someone that I've known for a
very long time. Okay, not someone that I'm particularly close to,
but someone that you've known, I've known. But after today,
I feel far more connected to this person than I
have and I'm very grateful for the invitation.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
But see, that is what Charlie Kirk was trying to model.
That's what he was doing on campuses all the time.
Was he was trying to encourage a discussion between people
he knew would disagree with him, and if he could
sway their opinion, great, If he couldn't sway their opinion
and could just get to go, well, you know what,
we're not going to agree on that. And there's several
(21:21):
videos go watch Charlie Kirk's videos. There's several times where
he just goes, I understand where you are, We're just
not going to agree. And that was okay.
Speaker 3 (21:29):
But if we lose the art of conversation, we lose
more than civility, We lose the nation, we lose democracy itself. Yeah,
because self governing, being self governed requires dialogue, it requires debate,
it requires compromise, and if aires maturity. But if all
we do is just retreat into our echo chambers and
(21:52):
we blast one another online, then we stop being a
people and we start being warring tribes.
Speaker 4 (22:02):
Yeah, and that's the real danger in a nation as
large as ours that has become as Balkanized as ours,
that's a real danger right now, and we've got to
overcome it. And it's what Charliekirk was trying to do.
And now there are millions of Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
So choose a cup of coffee first before firing off
that mean tweet, Well, bear back.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
You're listening to American Ground Radio, working to ensure that
talk radio of the people, by the people, for the
people shall not perish from the earth. American Ground Radio
with Lewis r Avalone and Stephen Parr.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parr with Lewis alone.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So do you put your phone away when you meet
with folks?
Speaker 4 (23:05):
Usually what I will usually do is I will set
my phone face down.
Speaker 3 (23:10):
Now that that doesn't count, Why not I just think
it sends the wrong message. And look, I am a
number one in my house. What's the heck?
Speaker 4 (23:18):
It's uncomfortable in my pockets. I set it down, face
down on the table, and I don't touch it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
I look, but I cheat. Look, look I am Look,
I'm the number one offender here. Okay, so I'm certainly
not trying to, you know, throw stones, you're walking to
throw stones when I'm living in a glass house here.
I'm just saying, I think it does send a different
message if you just have the phone put away completely.
(23:45):
What about a dinner?
Speaker 4 (23:46):
What about a dinner?
Speaker 3 (23:47):
What about a dinner? You go to dinner with Wendy,
and do you have your phone out?
Speaker 4 (23:52):
I usually set it face down on the table because
it doesn't fit in my pockets, and and I don't
want to break the screen by sitting on it or
break the phone. I just set it face down the
table and I don't touch it. But you know, but
I do cheat. You want to how cheat? Have a
watch and the watch will buzz and I can sneak
to see who the texas from and see if it's important.
Speaker 3 (24:15):
I don't think that's right. I think Wendy deserves your attention.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
I don't usually do that with Wendy. Other people, I'll
do that with them.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
Well, but see, I really do think and I don't
intend to. Yeah, but when you keep your phone out, yes,
I think you're sending a message, whether you mean to
or not, that you know what, You're not my one
hundred percent priority here. Now look in the office and
with your coworkers, it's a little different, I think. But
(24:47):
when you go to dinner maybe with friends, that's I mean,
I get it. I mean, we're we're many times, you know,
you may have children that are texting you are, or
older parents that that you're caring for, and so I
mean there's certainly there's all of that. I mean, I
don't think you know, categorically, if you have your phone out.
Speaker 4 (25:10):
I mean, you may text me while I'm out and
then I have to immediately respond to that.
Speaker 3 (25:14):
Now you don't necessarily and that and that's fine, I guess,
you know. Just talking about this conversation today and certainly
in the wake of Charlie Kirk, I just think that there.
Speaker 4 (25:27):
Is an etiquette thing about putting your phone away and
not having your phone and not being on your phone
and being present with the person you're with present.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
Yes, yes, And there's a lot of restaurants actually that
have a basket although I don't know that. How comfortable
I feel doing that?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Put my phone into the basket with other people's phones. No,
I don't need that. Tell you what. Let's dig deep,
going down down. So it does look like the Louisiana
National Guard will be working with police in our state's
largest cities, and it also looks like the Louisiana National
(26:03):
Guard will begin its work in New Orleans. Governor Landry
has requested one thousand troops to help in Louisiana cities
through September of next year. That request has not been
approved yet. It's been put on hold as the government
shutdown goes on. But I expect this as soon as
the government reopens. I would expect this to be approved.
The Louisiana National Guard put out a statement this week
(26:24):
they apparently expect this to be approved as well. They wrote, no,
two Louisiana areas or cities are the same, and each
will require a specific operational approach tailored to their current situation.
I like that, that's absolutely true. Louisiana's got a lot
of diversity within it. Louisiana National Guard Service members are
trained and prepared to support local, state, and federal law
(26:46):
enforcement to make our cities safe. Lane Service members have
extensive experience in providing and enabling support to local and
parish government during times of emergency. That level of cooperation
and experience will carry forward on this pending operation. That's right.
And I like the word that I liked the best
was support. Louisiana National Guard service members are trained and
(27:08):
prepared to support local, state, and federal law enforcement. I
think that's the right approach and I think that's the
right attitude.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Well, yeah, absolutely, And of all the liberals in New
Orleans that are crying about this.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
A government takeover, the military coming in, guess what guess
to support you?
Speaker 3 (27:26):
Yeah? Absolutely, for all you liberals, you've had your chance.
You've controlled City Hall since reconstruction. Yeah, I mean seriously,
you have controlled that city since reconstruction. And you've tried
every excuse, every program, every soft on crime policy in
the book.
Speaker 4 (27:45):
And again, what's the result. Well, and you can say, well,
crime's gone down in the last two years, okay, but
what is the appropriate number of carjackings? What is the
number of carjackings that you think we should be having
in New Orleans. What is the appropriate number of of
murders that you think we.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Should be better in New Orleans? But you're never going
to get those numbers down to zero. But can we
get them down further? Well, you certainly can improve.
Speaker 4 (28:11):
Just just because we're not we're off the highs that
we had just a couple of years ago, or even
if you go, okay, well we're at low the lowest
it's been since the nineteen seventies. Okay, but the nineteen
seventies was an unacceptable level of murder. And that is
the whole point here.
Speaker 3 (28:25):
But you know we're talking earlier about being present, yes,
and how your presence communicates something very valuable. And I
think leadership, whether you're you know, leading a business or
leading a household, leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less.
And influence requires presence, and it requires showing up in
(28:49):
the moment where the problem is and saying we're here
and we care enough to act. And I think that
is what this National Guard presence represents. It's not just
boots on the ground, and.
Speaker 4 (29:01):
It's not a military takeover of a city exactly.
Speaker 3 (29:05):
It's the visible sign I think that somebody finally is
paying attention to the cries of the people of New Orleans.
Speaker 4 (29:14):
So, speaking of New Orleans, New Orleans Police Superintendent and
Kirkpatrick says she's getting the city ready to receive the guardsmen.
She was on WWL radio earlier this week. She said, quote,
my number one issue is I don't want to take over.
I don't want to take over attitude. But politically, I'm
here to serve everyone on each side of the aisle,
and I respect the arguments of each side, but I'm
about your safety and I will do anything to keep
(29:36):
the people safe in the city. So give me the
assets all make it work. Look, that seems reasonable, and
it's one hundred percent in line with what the Guard
appears to be saying. Remember the Guard said our job
is to support local police. An chor. Patrick says, I
don't want to take over. You guys are saying the
same thing, and you should read the press release that
(29:56):
the National Guard put out because you're gonna be like, well,
I think this is gonna work then.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
And I think the other aspect of this, certainly, you
want to make the streets safer, right, because crime it
does take lives, right, I mean it does.
Speaker 4 (30:11):
And crime causes poverty. You want to know why there's
so much poverty in New Orleans because there's so much
crime in.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
New Orleans, right, Because, well, crime kills economies because when
the streetsy's neighborhood, because when the streets are dangerous, businesses
don't invest, tourists don't visit, families don't stay, and then.
Speaker 4 (30:28):
Property values plummet because people will leave those neighborhoods, and
so you've wiped out generational wealth.
Speaker 3 (30:34):
So lower crime leads to higher property values, more jobs,
more investment, more pride, and it all starts with this
message crime will not be tolerated.
Speaker 4 (30:46):
And all of this, by the way, is in the
governor's personal background story. Remember Governor Landry served in the
Louisiana National Guard for eleven years when he was a
young man. He was also a sheriff's deputy at the
same time, so he has experienced working in the Guard
and working in law enforcement, and it seems natural to
(31:07):
me that he would see a useful connection between the
needs and the duties of law enforcement and the abilities
and strengths of the National Guard. I think this is
with Jeff Lander's look at all this I think he's
going this makes perfect sense. Why haven't we done this before.
Speaker 3 (31:23):
Absolutely, it's not just about crime reduction. I think it's
about leadership restoration. Yeah, and I think it sends a clear,
unmistakable message. We will not accept chaos as normal. We
will not let law abiding citizens live in fear.
Speaker 4 (31:38):
Louisian National Guard says we will carry out our duties
with honor and treat all with dignity and respect. Protecting
what matters is our motto and protecting our citizens from
from crime fits within this primary mission.
Speaker 3 (31:49):
Amen.
Speaker 4 (31:50):
I love the attitude and absolute National Guard.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
We'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen part of Lewis
sar AVALONEA.
Speaker 3 (33:15):
So apparently Cleo Fields, Congressman Cleo Fields.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
Second District, the Gerrymander District of Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (33:22):
Spoke at an elementary school and yeah, and one of
the children said, uh, mister Fields, Congressman Fields, I am
interested in investing. Are there any stocks that you would
you're kidding recommend that I purchase, you know, even just
one share of you know, you know.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
His answer was, Oracle would have been good about two
weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
No, And that is fake news.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
I was just making that you're playing fake news Friday
in hour early.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
We are going to be playing fake news Friday in
the next hour. But look, this is a big deal,
all right.
Speaker 4 (34:00):
So for folks that aren't aware of what's going on
on September seventeenth and eighteenth, Cleo Fields bought a whole
bunch of Oracle stock one hundred.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
Thousand, between eighty thousand and two hundred thousand dollars worth
of Oracle stock.
Speaker 4 (34:17):
On the twenty second, President Trump announced that Oracle was
going to be the new owner of TikTok So. On
the seventeen and eighteenth, Cleio Fields buys Oracle. On the
twenty second, the President says, hey, Oracle's going to be
the new TikTok And then on the twenty third, Cleio
Fields buy is more Oracle, And I'm like, well, what
(34:37):
made you decide you wanted to buy one two hundred
thousand dollars worth of Oracle on the seventeenth and eighteenth.
That's kind of interesting.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
Now. Cleo Fields, in his defense, denies any wrongdoing. He says,
there is not a single stock that I've purchased because
I've had some inside information.
Speaker 4 (34:54):
Okay, that's not the question.
Speaker 3 (34:55):
The card I've been doing this for years.
Speaker 4 (34:58):
Okay, that's not helpful, says But here's the thing, then,
why did you decide to buy Oracle on September seventeenth
and again on September eighth? What was it that made
you decide you were gonna risk seventy eighty one thousand
and two hundred thousand of your own dollars on a
(35:19):
single stock on the seventeenth and eighteenth Well, what was it?
That's that's a legitimate question.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
But then he goes on to say, and this is
something that you hear, folks, Well, you hear a lot
of folks when maybe they are guilty of something, they go,
but everybody else is doing it.
Speaker 4 (35:38):
He did not say that.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
He didn't say it in that way, but he did
say that members of Congress routinely trade stocks, and that
he is just doing what others do, said the guilty guy.
But he claims he's doing it ethically by reporting his trade.
So he don't report the trade.
Speaker 4 (35:57):
Wa Wait, so if if I'm buying a trade based
off of inside knowledge, but as long as I report
the trade after I've done it, that's ethical. The reporting
of the trade isn't the ethical part. The ethical part
would be why did you make the decision to buy
Oracle five days before Donald Trump said Oracle is taking
(36:18):
over TikTok? What made you decide Oracle of all the
companies in the world, of all of the companies in
the world.
Speaker 3 (36:26):
Why did you decide gin joints in the world.
Speaker 4 (36:29):
I'll give you another example. Tell you what, here's a
stock that he could have bought that would have been
legitimate because you could have said, you know what I'm
going to I'm going to spend one hundred two hundred
thousand dollars on my own on Tesla stock in on
September eighteenth, and the reason being because you would know
that the subsidies for Tesla were coming to an end
at the end of September, and so people were going
(36:50):
to be buying a whole bunch of Tesla's in this
next month to get in before those rebates ended, and
then you could sell first of October. Right, that would
be a legitimate trade. You be trading on knowledge everybody had.
But if you if you're buying Oracle, and you're buying
one hundred thousands of dollars with the Oracle.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
There's a lot of folks, but there's a lot of
traders on Wall Street that bought Oracle and sold Oracle.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
That happened two hundred thousand dollars more than.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
That in some of these these fund managers.
Speaker 4 (37:22):
But those are fund managers. Those aren't members of Congress.
How much money does Cleo Fields actually have that one
hundred thousand dollars? How big of a risk was that
of his entire network?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I don't know. I don't know that. But look, this
is not just a Cleo Fields story.
Speaker 4 (37:35):
No, but this is an obvious Cleo Field story right now.
And he's trying to hide by saying, well, other members
of Congress are doing insider training, so therefore it's fine
that I do. It's just as long as I report
that I've.
Speaker 3 (37:45):
Done insidering it there's allegations of insider trading.
Speaker 4 (37:49):
Then tell me what it was that made you decide
you wanted to buy or I.
Speaker 3 (37:53):
Need none of your business, that's none of your big.
Speaker 4 (37:56):
If you're representing me in Congress, you're damn right, it
is my business. Well, if you are cheating the American
people by manipulating the stock market based off of information
that you're getting because of your privileged position in Congress,
when your body is supposed to be serving me and
not your own interest, you're damn right. It is my
business about whether you bought that stock legitimately or you
(38:17):
bought it because some little mouse told you that Oracle's
about to take over TikTok.
Speaker 3 (38:21):
Well, then you just need to ban members of Congress
from trading individual stocks altogether, amen, or require them to
put their put all of their investments into a blind
trust that is managed by some third party.
Speaker 4 (38:35):
As the Democrats required President Trump to do when he
went into office in twenty seventeen. Remember they did that.
They insisted that he put all of his assets into
a blind trust. And so President Trump did. If it
was good for the goose, if it was good for
Cleo Fields and for all of his buddies, for Nancy
Pelosi to require Donald Trump to do it, then why
(38:56):
isn't it good for the American people to require Cleo
Fields to be clean up about this?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Let's see, and I get it. You know, when you
hear people say, well, everybody else is doing it, there's
a difference between something that is legal, yes, and something
that is right, because they're two different things.
Speaker 4 (39:13):
Because then in Sodom and Gomorrah, I guarantee you there
was some fool who said everybody else is doing it.
It doesn't make it right.
Speaker 3 (39:22):
But it is legal for members of Congress to trade
in individual stock.
Speaker 4 (39:28):
But is it right?
Speaker 3 (39:29):
That's a different question.
Speaker 4 (39:30):
If you're going to be a leader, you have to
hold yourself to a higher standard and just say, because
Nancy Pelosi cheats and she's become a billionaire off of this,
I get to cheat become a billionaire. What kind of
ethics are those?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
And let's be very clear these are only allegation, but
against Congressman Cleiophiel.
Speaker 4 (39:46):
But he owes the people an explanation? Why did you
buy Oracle? Then we'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (40:07):
Welcome back to American Grand Radio. Stephen Palmer Lewis sar
avalon eight. You know I'm going to say it again,
Cleo Fields owes the people of Louisiana and exclam explanation.
What made you decide on September seventeenth and September eighteenth
to spend does it tens and hundreds of thousands of
(40:28):
dollars on Oracle stock? What was the decision process you
went through? Explained it to me? How did you wake
up those mornings and go, you know what I need
to do is I need to I need to risk
one hundred thousand dollars of my own money.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
I read it in the Wall Street Journal.
Speaker 4 (40:44):
Okay, so what did you read?
Speaker 3 (40:47):
See?
Speaker 4 (40:48):
This is my point. If he can't answer those questions,
then it is just it is right for us.
Speaker 3 (40:54):
As Okay, a buddy of mine recommended that I buy Oracle.
Speaker 4 (40:59):
Why, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (41:01):
I mean, you sit around with your friends, you question them,
you quiz them.
Speaker 4 (41:05):
If somebody is asking me to risk one.
Speaker 3 (41:08):
Hundred thousand dollars worth of Oracle because Oracle may be
being acquired by.
Speaker 4 (41:13):
If somebody tells me you should risk one hundred thousand
dollars on one stock and you need to buy it today,
I'm gonna go why. And if they say, hey, I
can't tell you wink weak, nudge, nudge, I'm not buying
it because that's inside trader. That's insider trading, and it's illegal.
If they say, well, look all the cool kids are
doing it, or if they say, well you know, I
(41:35):
know they're coming out with a new product. Everybody's seen this.
Speaker 3 (41:38):
But anything that a member of Congress invests in, yes,
you can all. I mean, where do you draw the
line here? Because you can always trace it back to something.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
But it's never as good obvious as this. Five days later,
President Trump announced Oracle is the one company in the
United States of America. That's going to buy TikTok no,
but Steve from China.
Speaker 3 (42:02):
But members of Congress, they're very learned people for the
most part.
Speaker 4 (42:05):
They also have access to inside information the impress of
the people.
Speaker 3 (42:08):
Don't their constituents contact them with all sorts of information then,
But if your constituency is giving you insider information and
you're trading off of that, that's illegal. He owes the.
Speaker 4 (42:21):
People of Louisiana and explanation more than everybody else is
doing it. That's what guilty people say. He owes us
an explanation.
Speaker 3 (42:29):
Like Congressman Jefferson otis where he got all the cash
that he put in his freezer?
Speaker 4 (42:34):
Kind of the exact same logic. Yeah, we'll be right back.
Stick around.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
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