October 1, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for September 30, 2025.
0:30 We discuss Governor Jeff Landry’s bold move to request up to 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to combat violent crime in cities like Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. We break down the realities of rising homicides, carjackings, and gang violence, and why perception of safety matters just as much as the crime stats themselves.
9:52 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 We discuss Governor Jeff Landry’s bold move to request up to 1,000 Louisiana National Guard troops to combat violent crime in cities like Shreveport, Baton Rouge, and New Orleans. We break down the realities of rising homicides, carjackings, and gang violence, and why perception of safety matters just as much as the crime stats themselves.
9:52 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- The Environmental Integrity Project reported today that big oil companies could end up netting $3.5 billion in tax breaks for their carbon capture projects in the state of Louisiana.
- Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill announced an arrest warrant against an abortion doctor in California.
- Today was the last day of operations for Planned Parenthood clinics in the state of Louisiana.
12:30 Get Prodovite Plus from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
13:30 We dig into the Army Corps of Engineers’ $51 million drainage project in New Orleans, a long-promised initiative to protect the city from flooding. The hosts explore why New Orleans is more than just a cultural gem—it’s a critical national security and economic hub, located at the mouth of the Mississippi River, the largest navigable waterway in the U.S.
16:09 Owner of the Louisiana Rouxgaroux arena football team Keith Carter joins us onthe phone to discuss the exciting launch of Louisiana’s only arena football team. From its roots as the Shreveport Rougarou to its statewide rebranding, the team brings family-friendly, high-energy football to Brookshire’s Grocery Arena in Bossier City.
23:30 Following warnings from President Trump and RFK Jr. about potential risks of using Tylenol during pregnancy, three members of Congress sold stock in the company that manufactures the drug. We break down why this raises serious ethical questions, the potential conflicts of interest for lawmakers on committees overseeing the FDA, and how current loopholes make this kind of insider trading legal for Congress.
26:42 We Dig Deep into Shreveport’s new anti-squatting ordinance and the unexpected benefits city police are seeing. Since the law passed, officers have arrested dozens of squatters — and in the process uncovered outstanding warrants and serious crimes (bank fraud, arson, child endangerment). We explore the balance between compassion and public safety, the costs to property owners and neighborhoods, and why proponents say enforcing the law can protect vulnerable people and revive struggling communities.
32:30 Get TrimROX from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
33:30 Plus, today marks a big change in how the U.S. government handles payments: paper checks are being phased out for most federal programs. Social Security, SSI, and tax refunds will now be delivered primarily through direct deposit or prepaid debit cards, with only limited exceptions. We break down what this transition means for taxpayers, seniors, and anyone concerned about fraud, stolen checks, or digital access.
36:35 And we have a little fun guessing the best baseball movies of all time according to the MLB. Play along!
40:35 And we finish off with a word from Magnolia Pit BBQ.
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Speaker 5 (01:02):
Okay, so let's start right here. Yeah, because leadership is
about action, not slogans, and Governor Jeff Landry is showing
Louisiana and the nation what real leadership looks like. He
isn't hiding behind excuses, he isn't playing the usual political
games of finger pointing. He's saying loud and clear that
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law and order matter more than political correctness or ideological posturing.
And that is why Governor Landry and I believe he
made this announcement on Hannity last night. On national television
that he has requested Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to
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provide up to one thousand Louisiana National Guard personnel or
to deploy them within their home state of Louisiana. And
this is this is an act of decisiveness and it
acknowledges a cold reality. Shreetport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans. We
are all experiencing levels of violent crime well above the
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national average, homicides, carjackings, gang related activity. They have created
an environment where ordinary citizens like us just don't feel
safe in our neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Now, at the same time that crime is above the
national average, that is absolutely true. It is also true
that in the three biggest cities in the state of
Louisiana over the last two years, crime has been coming down.
Those two things can be the same, can be true
at the same time, it can be on its way down,
and it can still be higher than it should be.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But here's the other part of that. When you're dealing
with crime, and when you're dealing with people who don't
feel safe, ye, perception is reality, and so you can
tell people all day long, oh, well, crime is declining
in your community. The numbers are down. Things are looking rosy,
but until people feel it, and I think that's part
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of why you have this massive response all across the
country in so many different states to put National Guard
troops in places where crime is running rampant.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
What it's been two states, it's it's Tennessee and Louisiana.
Those are the only two states where we've.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Where we've put Portland Oregon.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Okay, they didn't want that. They didn't ask no, I understand,
I didn't ask for that.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And yes, Donald Trump put the National Guard into Washington
d C. And Washington d C has kind of come
around to the idea. But in Oregon they don't want it.
Now it's coming, but it's only two hundred National Guards heading, uh,
heading to Oregon. And you know, but I don't think
it's I don't think it's right to say that there's
this massive upswell across the entire country, to say state
after state of the states want to do this. It's
Tennessee and Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
That's it. There are a lot of Okay, that's fine,
but certainly President Trump is talking about going into some
of the bluest of inner city where you really, it's
not so much you're talking about the people there, but
the people are criminals. What you're really talking about is
you have folks that are leading those communities that don't
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take a very hard line when it comes to prosecuting criminals,
putting them behind bars, taking them off the street. You
have a revolving door at the at the jail, and
I think that's part of the reason that so many
in our country don't feel safe in their communities. You
have sorrows district attorneys that very frankly aren't putting ordinary
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citizens first, seem to care more about the criminals. And
we got to throw in illegal immigrants in that mix
as well then law abiding citizens.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Well, that's been the biggest problem up in Portland is
that you've had Antifa fighting ICE.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
ICE.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Of course, their job has been to remove illegal aliens.
After night after night, you've got Antifa trying to attack
ICE facilities, trying to cause problems there. And so now
the National Guard, Donald Trump is sitting in the National
Guard to try and help out ICE because they've been
under as salt because the far left in Portland, the
Antifa rioters in Portland want illegal immigrants here, so that
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I'm assuming that the reason they want illegal immigrants here
so they can get more people voting Democrat.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
And look, I hear the critics. I can already hear
the critics saying, you know, well, President Trump and Governor Landry,
they're just building a police state. I mean, that's the narrative, right,
But let's think that through for just a moment.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We're militarizing the police.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Okay, but let's just think that through for a moment.
Because a police state is what you see in an
authoritarian regime, where you have troops that are deployed to
silence dissent, to crush free speech, to control your political opposition.
That is not what's happening here. Now. Some folks may say, well,
this is a slippery slope. It's not starting out that way,
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but of course it could lead to that. But as
long as the mission of the National Guard troops that
are being deployed in Louisiana is to support the.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Local police, which is what Jeff Lander called for today,
then no, that's not going out free speech. You know,
what is the slippery slope creating a ministry of misinformation.
That's a slippery slope. But it wasn't Donald Trump who
did that. That was Joe Biden who did that. It
was the Democrats who tried to suppress the freedom of speech.
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And if you wonder how far that will go, look
over in Britain where there are arresting people in Britain
right now for waving British flags. They're arresting people in
England for waiving English flags. They're arresting people in Britain
for having put out a tweet when they were in Arizona.
I'm not making any of that up. That is all
factual information. That's the slippery slope, and that's the slope
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the left wants to go on. That's not what Donald
Trump's doing here.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Well, and if you look in Washington, d C. Where
the Guard was deployed, each time they were deployed, guess
what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Crime Madew longest stretch without a homicide in Washington.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
D C.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And what thirty years?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Forty years? So that's I guess that's the goal. Well,
and that's the backdrop against which Governor Landry made this decision, right,
and I quote this was Governor Landry saying Louisiana currently
faces a convergence of elevated violent crime rates in Shreveport,
Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, coupled with critical personnel shortages
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within local law enforcement. These manpower shortages limit their ability
to effectively address this public safety threat, and consequently, incidents
of homicide, carjacking, and gang related violence significantly exceed the
national average. That's not spin, that's not pr fluff. That
is straight talk from the governor of Louisiana. And who
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do you have to thank for the critical personnel shortages
within local law enforcement?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh yeah, that's that's the whole defund the police movement,
That's Barack Obama, that's Joe Biden's administration, certainly, But yes,
the left. The defund the police movement led to shortages
in police officers in cities all across the country, including
in Louisiana. We are down officers in Streetport, we are
down officers and Batonuge, and we are down officers in
New Orleans. Basically, for police officer per capita, we're at
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some all time lows and all through those places.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
So I think it is a good I think it
is a good idea to deploy the Guard in Louisiana.
And there's folks that say this is heavy handed, this
is going to lead to abuses, that this is a
slippery slope toward authoritarianism. But again, what about the civil
liberties of the mother whose son was gunned down in
a drive by?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
What about the civil liberties of a father carjacked on
his way home home from work. What about the business
owner whose store is robbed time after time, you know,
in a very short period of time.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, what about their civil liberties? Let's get to the
top three things you need to know before tomorrow. First
thing you need know before all The Environmental Integrity Project
reported today that big oil companies could end up netting
three point five billion dollars in tax breaks for their
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carbon capture projects in the state of Louisiana. Tax break
included in the big spending bills of the Biden administration
gives companies eighty five dollars per metric ton of carbon
dioxide they pump into the ground. They're currently forty three
announced projects across the state hoping to take advantage of
those tax breaks. However, it's not clear what happens to
all of these projects when the federal government decides to
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pull those tax breaks, like it has with wind and
solar projects in the past.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, what private equity or what private investment is just
waiting in the wings to run? She in to fund
these carbon capture projects.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
At eighty five dollars per metric ton zero Nobody, nobody
wants it, nobody needs it. This does nobody any good.
Second thing you need know before of my Louisiana Attorney
General Liz Merle announced an arrest warn against an abortion
doctor in California. A Louisiana woman says her boyfriend at
the time got her a prescription for mail order abortion
drugs from doctor Remi Kotio in California. The woman says
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she felt pressured by her boyfriend to take the pills,
causing her chemical abortion. The same doctor Kotio is the
subject of a lawsuit in Texas as well, for giving
a woman in that state abortion pills, again in violation
of state law. Both states are also seeking to prosecute
a doctor in New York for prescribing abortion pills across
state lines.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
This is about the sovereignty of Louisiana law. If we
just allow folks to violate it time and time again.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And not overseas, not in some you know hacker or
somewhere in China, freaking California. If California has such little
respect for the state of Louisiana, maybe California needs no
longer be part of the United States. You're either part
of the United States or you aren't. And the third
thing you needed before them all the last. Today was
the last day of operations for Planned Parenthood clinics in
the state of Louisiana. Nations leading abortion provider announced earlier
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this year they were shutting all of their remaining Louisiana
locations as part of nationwide cuts. Planned Parenthood has blamed
anti abortion extremists for removing their federal funding. At the
same time, they've insisted that no federal funds have been
used to pay for abortions at their facilities. Attorney General
Liz Merle celebrated the closing of the clinics, saying, quote,
Planned Parenthood has built its business around promoting death. Louisiana
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proudly stands.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
For life exactly what Ninety percent of their operations are abortions.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, largest abortion provider in the country, and they don't.
So we pull federal funds and now you're like, oh,
we can't exist without that. And yet you weren't spending
that on abortions. That math doesn't work well.
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Speaker 3 (13:14):
Par with Lewis Sar.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
So, apparently the Army Corps of Engineers is spending fifty
one million dollars on a new drainage project in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I mean, this is honestly, it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, this is one that's been kind of knocked around
and promised for for a long time, and now it's
like they're finally getting around doing it, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And there's a lot of folks that say, should the country,
should the federal government just saying I'm i'm I don't
feel this way, Okay, Should the federal government be spending
these kind of dollars like they did post Katrina so
that folks could continue to live in New Orleans? That
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is obviously a danger so far as it is.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Flood prone right it below sea level, Okay. But one
of the things about New Orleans, the reason why Thomas
Jefferson wanted to make the Louisiana purchase in the first place,
is because New Orleans is critical to national security because
New Orleans is at the mouth of the Mississippi, and
the Mississippi is the largest navigable waterway inside the borders
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of any single nation anywhere on Earth. You can get
from the Rocky Mountains all the way over to the
Great Lakes and to the Appalachians, and anything in that
area can flow through the Mississippi River Dela the river
system down to New Orleans and then you can go
out to sea through the Gulf of Mexico. It is
a critical infrastructure juncture and the city of New Orleans,
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that where it is located, actually creates geopolitical power for
the United States of America. It is not a place
you can simply afford as a nation to abandon. It's
simply too important. There are a couple of places in
the entire country that you could argue this New York City,
I think, is one of them. Because of where New
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York attaches to the Hudson, which attaches to the Erie Canal,
because of where it is on the Atlantic Sea board.
You simply cannot afford as a nation to abandon New York.
It's why the British during the Revolutionary War wanted to
have New York. It's too critically important.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Well, in New Orleans is a treasure. I mean, it
is a it's a unique place one in and of
a come Okay, But just because the place is.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Unique, I don't necessarily think that the federal government has
to be spending a whole bunch of money on it.
You need to be spending money on the city of
New Orleans, as the federal government, for national security reasons,
for national economic reasons, that are simply unmatched anywhere else
in the country. All right, speaking of things that are
kind of unmatched anywhere from the country, I thought maybe
we'd have a phone conversation with a friend here of
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the show. Uh, you know, because you know I got
the Rugaroo, this new rug Who who the Rugaroo?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
That's that is that Arena football? That is Arena Football.
And joining us now on the phone, we have Keith
Carter from the Rugaroo. They've got a big press conference
coming up during the day tomorrow. I thought we'd find
out some more about that, find out what is the
Rugaroo for folks that don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I think that's an excellent idea.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
So joining us now on the phone, Keith Carter with
the Rugaroo. Welcome to American Ground Radio, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Great to be on with you guys, and to introduce
the new uh from the shores of New Orleans to
the bayous of Cato and Bozier Parish, Louisiana. Rugaroo.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Now this is for folks that do know. Rugaroo's kind
of this mythical Louisiana creature, kind of like a chupa cabra,
of of Louisiana. For for folks, how'd y'all come up
with that be the name for the for the new
Arena football team.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Well, we you know you want something original. You you
want some team mascot that's original. And there's nothing more
original than the made up half werewolf half man that
lives in the swamps and bayous of Louisiana and lives
in the Faux Poorts and all the all the cultural
books from Uh, you better go to bed, the Rugaroo
is gonna get you. So it was a great mascot.
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It caught on, and uh we we've we've kind of
transitioned to a statewide presence. Uh and and put some
Florida leaves in our new logo and an old gold
color and and made it the Louisiana Rugaroo for statewide.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Now, you guys, when I first heard about the rugero,
I thought y'all are going to be playing in Shreveport.
But apparently y'all are now going to be playing in
boser cities. Is that?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Did I have that wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Is there been a change?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Well, last year we had this is a spring Arena
football season March April and may we play in an arena.
So last year was the first year of the expansion.
It was the Shreveport Rugaroo. We played over in Shreveport
at Hirst Coliseum and throughout the year I took over
one hundred percent ownership of the new franchise and changed
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the name the Louisiana Rugaroo. I'm the sole owner, myself
and my family, and we changed it to Louisiana Rugaroo
and have been working with ASM who is the management
group in Louisiana for multiple arenas including the Supernome and
the Super the Smoothie King, and they manage and run
Brooksher's Arena, and they wanted arena football. They wanted seven
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saturdays filled with fun, family, faith based football. Family fund
here in the architects, and we just came to an
agreement and we signed the contract and we are having
a huge press conference tomorrow at noon there at the
dedication wall at Brooksher's Grocery Arena with a lot of
new exciting details.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Are there other arena football teams throughout Louisiana or is
this the only arena football team in Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
So you know, years ago we had the Battle Wings here.
A friend of mine, Van Newman owned that. He sold
that to an arena football league that the league was
owned by people, and they moved that and that became
the New Orleans Voodoo and that was the arena football
down south for several years. COVID had an impact on
them and they dissolved. Currently, we are in the National
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Arena League, which is a Midwest league of the United States.
It's got nine teams. The NAL is made up like
the NFL. I'm one ninth owner of the NAL, so
it is a league owned by team owners, so every
team is owned by their owners. We are the only
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arena football in Louisiana and very proud of that. And
Baton Rouge likes that New Orleans life that and we're
making our home there at Brookshire's Grocery Arena in Bosuer
City starting at noon tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
So what is the draw of arena football? If you had,
you know, a thirty second elevator pitch, if you said,
here's what you're here's what you can expect from arena
football that you don't get from you know, NFL or
from the NCAA.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
So what what I've been a football fan all my life,
play football, But what's sold me is is this is
this is football on a fifty yard field. It's eight
on eight. It's very action packed. It's it's football turf
on a hockey rink. You have the elements of wrestling,
and now you have the elements of the most popular
sport in the nation right now outside of the NFL,
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and that's the Savannah Bananas and that fan involvement, that
fan experience. We're going to have field suites on the
dasher pads on the field, you're actually the kids are
actually there with the players, and you play eight on
eight football. Your team is consists of twenty five profession
athletes that have come from D one or D two college,
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multiple high school experience, college experience. Some of that may
have pro experience or Canadian football experience. And it's an
action packed, high scoring offensive arena. The environment is controlled,
you have a good food, good times. You this is
a family fun experience that can come out and you're
gonna have merch and mascots and we're gonna throw stuff
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to the stands from the field and you're gonna see
a great football game.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
We're talking with Keith Carter with the Rugaroo, the Arena
football team Keith, we got about thirty seconds left. You
guys are having the tryouts coming up right.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
We are October eighteenth. We're partner with D one here
in Shreveport. We're doing all of our tryouts after tomorrow.
We're gonna have all of our links for our season tickets.
We're gonna have our field suites, our ticket packages, our
individual tickets. Of course Brookshire's grocery arena uses ticket masters,
so you're gonna be able to have your tickets on
an app. We've got seven home games in the spring
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of twenty twenty six, and we just look forward to
everyone support.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Keith Carter, thank you so much for joining us here
on the show today, and thank you for what you're
doing to try and bring some some fun and entertainment
to northwest Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you guys well.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
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Of course, last week, we know President Trump warned pregnant
women or the Trump administration. I'd say say, well, President
Trump did, along with RFK Junior, warned pregnant women about
the risks of taking thailandol.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Okay, well before he did, there were three members of
Congress who just happened to dump their stock in a
company that makes you guessed it, thailandaal. How convenient, so
they sing, so they sold early, they avoided losses, and
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you know, and one of them is a Republican from Florida.
And I don't care that he's a Republican, a Democrat,
or a Martian. This is wrong. I mean he's sitting
on the House Appropriation subcommittee that oversees the f the
very agency that regulates tilan All, and then he unloads
(24:05):
stock in the company that makes tilan All. I mean
this is not just an appearance of impropriety. I mean
that is impropriety with a microphone strap to it. And
here's the other part that should make every one of
us furious. This kind of stuff is legal. Legal. These
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people who write the laws that you and I live under,
then they carve out these nice little loopholes so they
can cash in and avoid the losses and then line
their pockets. And you'd think you'd get away with this
if you were trading. I mean, do you think you'd
get away with this if you were trading on insider information?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
No? I don't think I would.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
No, of course not. The SEC would be pounding on
your door tomorrow morning at six am.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
But hey, maybe if I was a member of Congress,
I would.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I mean, you know, it's possible trading on that information.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
But see, yeah, they're they're doing it, and they're getting
away with it, and you know.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
See, And that's why I think that if you're a
member of Congress and you want to invest, fine, that's fine.
Put your money in a blind trust, I absolutely, put
it in an index fund, put it somewhere, or put
it in something where you're not making decisions based on
what you know in a closed door meeting.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, and moreover, we don't need to be creating a
financial incentive for people to go to Congress and just
live there forever. And if you've got laws where you
get to do insider trading and nobody else does. Well,
then you're willing to spend millions and millions and millions
of dollars to get back to Congress because you're gonna
make millions and millions and millions of dollars by being
in Congress.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
But you have folks that go into Congress worth relatively
few dollars, right, right, and they end up after ten years,
twenty years, pretty good, they're multi millionaires. Look at Bernie's Yeah,
how's that happen?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well, tell you what. Let's dig deep, going down, down down.
Earlier this year, the city streetport passed inn Oordins, so
I was supposed to give police officers more ability to
crack down on squatting. You know, that's the pattern of
people living in empty property in the city. The big
problem from squatting was that over and over, homeless people
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living in empty properties were catching those properties on fire
and burning them down the ground. You're been talking about homes,
talking about apartment complexes, and those fires would then threatened
neighboring buildings while also destroying the properties themselves, right, So
the homeowners would just be be out.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
And in many instances it wasn't a threat. It actually
there were other homes nearby or that did on fire.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it wasn't just you know, this is
a risk of it actually happened. Well, since the new
ordinance has gone into effect, the city has been able
to arrest dozens of homeless people who were squatting where
they didn't belong, seventy five so far. It's just been
a couple of months in operation. Now, I think that's
a good thing because allowing squatting to continue is bad
for the property owners. It's bad for the city in general,
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but it's also bad for the homeless people. It is
not compassionate to leave people in their destitution. It is
just not allowing homeless people to remain homeless. People think
that's compassionate. No, it's not. It's intensely cruel. But look,
there's been another upside to this law enforcement to stop
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in the squatting that's going on. By more aggressively enforcing
the no squatting laws, police have been able to stop
or solve other crimes at the same time. It's like
a twofer here. So this is from the Center Square quote.
Suspects facing charges of being in violation of a streetport
squatting ordinance are also facing charges such as bank fraud, arson,
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and child endangerment. So as they're arresting these people who
are squatting, these people who are putting houses at risk
of being burned down because either they're trying to light
a fire or stay warm, or they're lighting a fire
to use their crack or whatever, they are also finding
these same people have other charges. They have other warrants
(28:14):
out for their arrest. So Center Square LaMarcus Brown, arrested
September twenty and charged with squatting, had outstanding warrants for
bank fraud, fugitive for Mansfield Police Department, domestic abuse, aggravated assault,
domestic abuse, battery with the weapon, and two counts of
domestic abuse, child endangerment. They've got Aaron Pitts, another facing
(28:38):
squatting charges, also faces charges for a simple arson. Misty
Talbert charge September nineteenth with squatting, also faces to Burgley charges.
In early September, Cedric Wilson was charged with squatting. He
had nine warrants for other offenses not listed by the department.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
But see, the thing is is that there are a
lot of folks that say that's not being compassion that
you're not being compassionate.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Arresting people because they've got other crimes out, they've got
other warrants out for the rest before you.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Even get to that, because squatting has been a problem
in many communities all across the state of Louisiana, right
for many, many years. I mean, it's not something, it's
not some new phenomenon. But you have a lot of
cities that are led by Democrats. There are a lot
of Democrats that say, that's not compassionate. Oh, these poor people,
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they just need a roof over their head, they don't
have anything.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Let me ask you a question. Compassionate for whom? Okay,
because is it compassionate to leave someone on the streets
and allow them to continue to commit crimes against other people? Absolutely,
it isn't compassionate to allow someone to commit arson because
the person who owns that property is a human being
as well, and you don't need you know, we tend
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to say, well the property owners, well, that's just the
fat cats getting fat. You and I both know someone
who own a small piece of property here in Shreeport
that was burned down last month by a squatter and
This is not a person either one of us would
describe as wealthy. This is a person who's trying to
renovate a home so that you would have a home
that had been in an area, an older area in Shreeport.
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You're renovating that new home to bring it back into
the market and to actually improve the neighborhood around it.
Now he's having to spend I don't know, thousands and
thousands of dollars just to clear.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
The lot, right, But why are Democrats okay with that?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I don't know, Because it's not compassionate to the homeless faulks.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
I say democrats.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's primarily Democrats who make this argument. But it's not
compassionate to the people who are homeless. Leaving someone in
their squalor leaving someone in their destitution is not compassionate.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Well, and it's not compassionate to the other folks living
in a neighborhood to allow it to turn into a
crime scene or a war zone.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Would you invest money in a place that you expect
the neighbors, the neighbor house to burn down from a
homeless person lighting of that on fire. Would you invest
in that?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Well, but a lot of folks who are already invested.
They can't. A lot of folks, especially the elderly, you
can't pull out it right. I mean that everything they
have is invested right there. They can't they can't afford
to move.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So then you wipe out that person's entire life savings.
Because most people's life savings is invested in their home.
And if you've ruined the neighborhood around by allowing squatting,
allowing arson, that's a problem. But by enforcing these anti
squatting laws, now we're actually getting people who have committed
some other crimes, bank fraud, child endangerment. Getting those folks
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off the street. That's also a good deal. It's a
two for one.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
It's an unintended consequence.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But it's like that broken windows policy in New York City.
When you start enforcing the law, the law ends up
getting enforced. That's a good thing. We'll grab back. Stick around.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Povard, Lewis sar Evalon.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
So, today marks the day that the United States government
is phasing out paper checks for most programs.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh okay, so that the federal government's no longer going
to be mailing out paper checks for most programs like
Social Security.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Direct deposits SSI, tax riff funds.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
They're not banning you from using paper checks.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
No, no, no, But the federal government they're gonna shift
all payments huh and collections to electronic methods. And they say,
that's that's designed to protect taxpayers from fraud and stolen
checks and speed up the processing and cut costs. And
I do believe it will cut costs, all right. But
the other part of that is, and you know, I
(33:58):
know there's folks out there that say, well, not everyone
has access to the Internet. I get that. And if
there are circumstances like that, you live in a rural
area where there is no high speed Internet, for example,
or you're simply unable, maybe you have some sort of
physical disability, all right, you're unable to utilize some electronic
(34:20):
device in order to access your funds, et cetera. Sure,
the federal government will still mail you a check, there
are certain instances, but for they will do it for
the lion share of folks receiving these benefits, and that
is Social Security SSI tax refunds. Of course, they have
plenty of access to high speed Internet and all the electronics,
(34:42):
and you know they're quite adept at technology. Sure, But
at the same time, it is important to remember there
are lots of fraudsters out there impersonating I mean any Amazon,
impersonating UPS, impersonating your credit card company. Right, I just
(35:04):
would warn folks that there are people in this world
that twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
their entire existence.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Is trying to steal from you. Yeah, it's true, and
it you know, it may be a little bit easier
to do that if it's all going digitally and there's
no paper trail and other things like that.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
And if you don't have a bank account. For example,
some folks may say, well, what if I don't have
a bank account, Well, they have what they call a
direct express card, and so your.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
You should probably get a bank account.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Your benefits, whatever is owed to you will be put
on that card and you can use it basically like
a debit card or credit card.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
All right, well tell you what, Let's play.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
A game blag battleshit shall.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
You're more of a basketball fan than a baseball fan, right,
one hundred?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Yeah, okay, so this is gonna be a good game
or bad game for me?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
This is well, it's uh, it's also about it's also
about movies. So the postseason has begun in baseball. We're
now we're now you know, tomorrow's October. Uh, so you
get the postseason. I ran across a list from Major
League Baseball themselves. They published this list about what they
say are the best baseball movies of all time. All right,
(36:36):
so we're talking about baseball and we're talking about movies.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I'm gonna go with an old movie, all right, and
I I might be might be way out there.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
The Bad News Bears.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Mm. That came out just outside of there's it's the Buzzer. Yeah,
that came out just outside of the top tens. That
came in at number eleven.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
All right. How about The Sandlot, The Sandlot, Yes, number
eight on the list, The Sandlot, all right, let's see.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
We had some of the cast members from The Sandlot
in Streetport here for geeks con.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Bull Durham number one, Bull Durham with Kevin Costner, and
just such a great movie Moneyball, Moneyball, number six on
the film with Brad Pitt. Yes, that that made the list.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Let's see here. Oh oh, a league of their own
number two on the list, A League of their.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Own with the Gina Yeah, oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Was yeah, Gina, Gina something.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Where am I blanking on a name? That's it's embarrassing.
Madonna Rosie O'Donnell's in it too.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah, John Love Hanks is in it.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Oh Tom Hanks, yeah as well. Uh oh, Kevin Costner
in I think it's Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Field of Dreams number four. Yeah, so Kevin Costner actually
has two films on this list.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
All right, you know what I am. I'm going to
bow out.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
You're going to bow out.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
You're going to take a ball.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You've done very well, like the one you missed was
number eleven on the list, but you've gotten most of
so number one Bullderham again, Kevin Costner in that you've
got a league of their own, pride of the Yankees
from back in the nineteen sixties. Then you had Field
of Dreams. Eight Men Out. I've never seen eight men out,
but that's about the shoeless Joe Jackson controversy. Then Moneyball.
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I really enjoy Moneyball. There are lots of clips and
Moneyball online. That's Brad Pitton. That one, The Natural, Robert
Redford just passed away. The Natural is a great film.
The sandlots number eight on that number nine, everybody wants
some Never even heard of this film. I don't know
anything about it. And then number ten on the list
Major Lee. There are a lot of people in that one.
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Wesley Snipes is in that one. Charlie Sheen's in that
one about the Cleveland Indians and wild Thing. Charlie Sheen
played wild Thing the Pitcher.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
You know. And MLB and in the NFL, they are
they just seem like they are just wildly different in
terms of how they how they manage their league.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yes, very different.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
I don't think MLB, for the World Series would hire
Bad Bunny as entertainment at the World Series. Now, I
know it's a seven game series.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
He might sing the national anthem at one of them.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Maybe Bad Bunny. I don't think MLB would hire Bad Bunny.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Maybe it's beens Bone, which's team I guess.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Some folks are saying, who is Bad Bunny? Bad Bunny
is going to be performing at the Super Bowl, the
NFL announced yesterday. We talked about that another time.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 3 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Barbara Lewis ar Avalona.
You've got to head on over to twenty nine seven
twenty nine Jorden Street in Shreveport. It's right off Lonta
Avenue that is the home of Magnolia Pit Barbecue. And
you know, one of the things. My parents came up
last week and we went to Magnolia Pit and as
we were walking in, I was like, it's kind of
like a barbecue speakeasy because as you walk in that
(40:36):
first part, you feel like you're going someplace kind of hidden,
someplace kind.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Of special, as you want the real deal.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
And then you get in there and you're like, look
at there's this this barbecue place behind this brick wall
that's kind of sitting here. It's really it's a very
cool ambiance, but just the ambiance doesn't even live up
to as cool as it is, it doesn't even live
up to the barbecue.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
No, absolutely not. Look, this is not some cookie cutter
barbecue where you slap sauce on some ribs and call
it a debt. No, this is carefully crafted, smoke kissed brisket,
pork belly bites melting your mouth. The flavors are layered
in that Cajun and Creole touch that you really can't
find anywhere else. That's why they say you will savor
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the soul of Louisiana barbecue at Magnolia Pit.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Right, so go check them out seven twenty nine Jorden
Street in Shreetport, right off of Line Avenue.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
So the Schumer shut down seems rather inevitable. Yeah, although
they are continuing to vote or to take votes on
the on the floor, but of the Senate, of the Senate.
I mean, do folks understand what Schumer and the Democrats
(41:48):
are proposing one point five trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
In extra spending that's not paid for. They just want
to throw that on top of the thirty seven trillion
dollar debt as if it's nothing. And so much of
what they want to spend that money on is for
illegal aliens. They want to give the money that your
children and grandchildren will be paying to somebody who doesn't
even belong in the country. Right now, and think.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
About all of the listeners right now, especially those who
don't have health insurance, are working a second job just
to be able to pay their premiums or the deductibles.
Should any member of their family need health care to
go to the hospital, God forbid? And here they're hearing
Democrats in Washington fighting for illegal aliens to have free
(42:36):
health care. Is any of that right? Does any of
that make sense to anyone.
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Speaker 5 (01:02):
Okay, so let's start right here. Yeah, because leadership is
about action, not slogans, and Governor Jeff Landry is showing
Louisiana and the nation what real leadership looks like. He
isn't hiding behind excuses, he isn't playing the usual political
games of finger pointing. He's saying loud and clear that
(01:24):
law and order matter more than political correctness or ideological posturing.
And that is why Governor Landry and I believe he
made this announcement on Hannity last night. On national television
that he has requested Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth to
(01:45):
provide up to one thousand Louisiana National Guard personnel or
to deploy them within their home state of Louisiana. And
this is this is an act of decisiveness and it
acknowledges a cold reality. Shreetport, Baton Rouge, New Orleans. We
are all experiencing levels of violent crime well above the
(02:09):
national average, homicides, carjackings, gang related activity. They have created
an environment where ordinary citizens like us just don't feel
safe in our neighborhoods.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Now, at the same time that crime is above the
national average, that is absolutely true. It is also true
that in the three biggest cities in the state of
Louisiana over the last two years, crime has been coming down.
Those two things can be the same, can be true
at the same time, it can be on its way down,
and it can still be higher than it should be.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
But here's the other part of that. When you're dealing
with crime, and when you're dealing with people who don't
feel safe, ye, perception is reality, and so you can
tell people all day long, oh, well, crime is declining
in your community. The numbers are down. Things are looking rosy,
but until people feel it, and I think that's part
(03:03):
of why you have this massive response all across the
country in so many different states to put National Guard
troops in places where crime is running rampant.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
What it's been two states, it's it's Tennessee and Louisiana.
Those are the only two states where we've.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
Where we've put Portland Oregon.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Okay, they didn't want that. They didn't ask no, I understand,
I didn't ask for that.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
I understand.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And yes, Donald Trump put the National Guard into Washington
d C. And Washington d C has kind of come
around to the idea. But in Oregon they don't want it.
Now it's coming, but it's only two hundred National Guards heading, uh,
heading to Oregon. And you know, but I don't think
it's I don't think it's right to say that there's
this massive upswell across the entire country, to say state
after state of the states want to do this. It's
Tennessee and Louisiana.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
That's it. There are a lot of Okay, that's fine,
but certainly President Trump is talking about going into some
of the bluest of inner city where you really, it's
not so much you're talking about the people there, but
the people are criminals. What you're really talking about is
you have folks that are leading those communities that don't
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take a very hard line when it comes to prosecuting criminals,
putting them behind bars, taking them off the street. You
have a revolving door at the at the jail, and
I think that's part of the reason that so many
in our country don't feel safe in their communities. You
have sorrows district attorneys that very frankly aren't putting ordinary
(04:37):
citizens first, seem to care more about the criminals. And
we got to throw in illegal immigrants in that mix
as well then law abiding citizens.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
Well, that's been the biggest problem up in Portland is
that you've had Antifa fighting ICE.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
ICE.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Of course, their job has been to remove illegal aliens.
After night after night, you've got Antifa trying to attack
ICE facilities, trying to cause problems there. And so now
the National Guard, Donald Trump is sitting in the National
Guard to try and help out ICE because they've been
under as salt because the far left in Portland, the
Antifa rioters in Portland want illegal immigrants here, so that
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I'm assuming that the reason they want illegal immigrants here
so they can get more people voting Democrat.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
And look, I hear the critics. I can already hear
the critics saying, you know, well, President Trump and Governor Landry,
they're just building a police state. I mean, that's the narrative, right,
But let's think that through for just a moment.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We're militarizing the police.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Okay, but let's just think that through for a moment.
Because a police state is what you see in an
authoritarian regime, where you have troops that are deployed to
silence dissent, to crush free speech, to control your political opposition.
That is not what's happening here. Now. Some folks may say, well,
this is a slippery slope. It's not starting out that way,
(06:04):
but of course it could lead to that. But as
long as the mission of the National Guard troops that
are being deployed in Louisiana is to support the.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
Local police, which is what Jeff Lander called for today,
then no, that's not going out free speech. You know,
what is the slippery slope creating a ministry of misinformation.
That's a slippery slope. But it wasn't Donald Trump who
did that. That was Joe Biden who did that. It
was the Democrats who tried to suppress the freedom of speech.
(06:34):
And if you wonder how far that will go, look
over in Britain where there are arresting people in Britain
right now for waving British flags. They're arresting people in
England for waiving English flags. They're arresting people in Britain
for having put out a tweet when they were in Arizona.
I'm not making any of that up. That is all
factual information. That's the slippery slope, and that's the slope
(06:57):
the left wants to go on. That's not what Donald
Trump's doing here.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Well, and if you look in Washington, d C. Where
the Guard was deployed, each time they were deployed, guess
what happened.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Crime Madew longest stretch without a homicide in Washington.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
D C.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
And what thirty years?
Speaker 5 (07:14):
Forty years? So that's I guess that's the goal. Well,
and that's the backdrop against which Governor Landry made this decision, right,
and I quote this was Governor Landry saying Louisiana currently
faces a convergence of elevated violent crime rates in Shreveport,
Baton Rouge, and New Orleans, coupled with critical personnel shortages
(07:40):
within local law enforcement. These manpower shortages limit their ability
to effectively address this public safety threat, and consequently, incidents
of homicide, carjacking, and gang related violence significantly exceed the
national average. That's not spin, that's not pr fluff. That
is straight talk from the governor of Louisiana. And who
(08:05):
do you have to thank for the critical personnel shortages
within local law enforcement?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Oh yeah, that's that's the whole defund the police movement,
That's Barack Obama, that's Joe Biden's administration, certainly, But yes,
the left. The defund the police movement led to shortages
in police officers in cities all across the country, including
in Louisiana. We are down officers in Streetport, we are
down officers and Batonuge, and we are down officers in
New Orleans. Basically, for police officer per capita, we're at
(08:34):
some all time lows and all through those places.
Speaker 5 (08:36):
So I think it is a good I think it
is a good idea to deploy the Guard in Louisiana.
And there's folks that say this is heavy handed, this
is going to lead to abuses, that this is a
slippery slope toward authoritarianism. But again, what about the civil
liberties of the mother whose son was gunned down in
a drive by?
Speaker 6 (08:56):
Right?
Speaker 5 (08:56):
What about the civil liberties of a father carjacked on
his way home home from work. What about the business
owner whose store is robbed time after time, you know,
in a very short period of time.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah, what about their civil liberties? Let's get to the
top three things you need to know before tomorrow. First
thing you need know before all The Environmental Integrity Project
reported today that big oil companies could end up netting
three point five billion dollars in tax breaks for their
(09:29):
carbon capture projects in the state of Louisiana. Tax break
included in the big spending bills of the Biden administration
gives companies eighty five dollars per metric ton of carbon
dioxide they pump into the ground. They're currently forty three
announced projects across the state hoping to take advantage of
those tax breaks. However, it's not clear what happens to
all of these projects when the federal government decides to
(09:50):
pull those tax breaks, like it has with wind and
solar projects in the past.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Well, what private equity or what private investment is just
waiting in the wings to run? She in to fund
these carbon capture projects.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
At eighty five dollars per metric ton zero Nobody, nobody
wants it, nobody needs it. This does nobody any good.
Second thing you need know before of my Louisiana Attorney
General Liz Merle announced an arrest warn against an abortion
doctor in California. A Louisiana woman says her boyfriend at
the time got her a prescription for mail order abortion
drugs from doctor Remi Kotio in California. The woman says
(10:24):
she felt pressured by her boyfriend to take the pills,
causing her chemical abortion. The same doctor Kotio is the
subject of a lawsuit in Texas as well, for giving
a woman in that state abortion pills, again in violation
of state law. Both states are also seeking to prosecute
a doctor in New York for prescribing abortion pills across
state lines.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
This is about the sovereignty of Louisiana law. If we
just allow folks to violate it time and time again.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
And not overseas, not in some you know hacker or
somewhere in China, freaking California. If California has such little
respect for the state of Louisiana, maybe California needs no
longer be part of the United States. You're either part
of the United States or you aren't. And the third
thing you needed before them all the last. Today was
the last day of operations for Planned Parenthood clinics in
the state of Louisiana. Nations leading abortion provider announced earlier
(11:12):
this year they were shutting all of their remaining Louisiana
locations as part of nationwide cuts. Planned Parenthood has blamed
anti abortion extremists for removing their federal funding. At the
same time, they've insisted that no federal funds have been
used to pay for abortions at their facilities. Attorney General
Liz Merle celebrated the closing of the clinics, saying, quote,
Planned Parenthood has built its business around promoting death. Louisiana
(11:33):
proudly stands.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
For life exactly what Ninety percent of their operations are abortions.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, largest abortion provider in the country, and they don't.
So we pull federal funds and now you're like, oh,
we can't exist without that. And yet you weren't spending
that on abortions. That math doesn't work well.
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Speaker 3 (13:14):
Par with Lewis Sar.
Speaker 5 (13:16):
So, apparently the Army Corps of Engineers is spending fifty
one million dollars on a new drainage project in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Yes, yes they are.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
I mean, this is honestly, it's necessary.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, this is one that's been kind of knocked around
and promised for for a long time, and now it's
like they're finally getting around doing it, you know.
Speaker 5 (13:41):
And there's a lot of folks that say, should the country,
should the federal government just saying I'm i'm I don't
feel this way, Okay, Should the federal government be spending
these kind of dollars like they did post Katrina so
that folks could continue to live in New Orleans? That
(14:03):
is obviously a danger so far as it is.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Flood prone right it below sea level, Okay. But one
of the things about New Orleans, the reason why Thomas
Jefferson wanted to make the Louisiana purchase in the first place,
is because New Orleans is critical to national security because
New Orleans is at the mouth of the Mississippi, and
the Mississippi is the largest navigable waterway inside the borders
(14:33):
of any single nation anywhere on Earth. You can get
from the Rocky Mountains all the way over to the
Great Lakes and to the Appalachians, and anything in that
area can flow through the Mississippi River Dela the river
system down to New Orleans and then you can go
out to sea through the Gulf of Mexico. It is
a critical infrastructure juncture and the city of New Orleans,
(14:58):
that where it is located, actually creates geopolitical power for
the United States of America. It is not a place
you can simply afford as a nation to abandon. It's
simply too important. There are a couple of places in
the entire country that you could argue this New York City,
I think, is one of them. Because of where New
(15:18):
York attaches to the Hudson, which attaches to the Erie Canal,
because of where it is on the Atlantic Sea board.
You simply cannot afford as a nation to abandon New York.
It's why the British during the Revolutionary War wanted to
have New York. It's too critically important.
Speaker 5 (15:32):
Well, in New Orleans is a treasure. I mean, it
is a it's a unique place one in and of
a come Okay, But just because the place is.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Unique, I don't necessarily think that the federal government has
to be spending a whole bunch of money on it.
You need to be spending money on the city of
New Orleans, as the federal government, for national security reasons,
for national economic reasons, that are simply unmatched anywhere else
in the country. All right, speaking of things that are
kind of unmatched anywhere from the country, I thought maybe
we'd have a phone conversation with a friend here of
(16:02):
the show. Uh, you know, because you know I got
the Rugaroo, this new rug Who who the Rugaroo?
Speaker 5 (16:09):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (16:09):
That's that is that Arena football? That is Arena Football.
And joining us now on the phone, we have Keith
Carter from the Rugaroo. They've got a big press conference
coming up during the day tomorrow. I thought we'd find
out some more about that, find out what is the
Rugaroo for folks that don't know.
Speaker 5 (16:27):
I think that's an excellent idea.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
So joining us now on the phone, Keith Carter with
the Rugaroo. Welcome to American Ground Radio, sir.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Great to be on with you guys, and to introduce
the new uh from the shores of New Orleans to
the bayous of Cato and Bozier Parish, Louisiana. Rugaroo.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Now this is for folks that do know. Rugaroo's kind
of this mythical Louisiana creature, kind of like a chupa cabra,
of of Louisiana. For for folks, how'd y'all come up
with that be the name for the for the new
Arena football team.
Speaker 6 (17:03):
Well, we you know you want something original. You you
want some team mascot that's original. And there's nothing more
original than the made up half werewolf half man that
lives in the swamps and bayous of Louisiana and lives
in the Faux Poorts and all the all the cultural
books from Uh, you better go to bed, the Rugaroo
is gonna get you. So it was a great mascot.
(17:24):
It caught on, and uh we we've we've kind of
transitioned to a statewide presence. Uh and and put some
Florida leaves in our new logo and an old gold
color and and made it the Louisiana Rugaroo for statewide.
Speaker 5 (17:39):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Now, you guys, when I first heard about the rugero,
I thought y'all are going to be playing in Shreveport.
But apparently y'all are now going to be playing in
boser cities. Is that?
Speaker 5 (17:49):
Did I have that wrong?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Is there been a change?
Speaker 6 (17:53):
Well, last year we had this is a spring Arena
football season March April and may we play in an arena.
So last year was the first year of the expansion.
It was the Shreveport Rugaroo. We played over in Shreveport
at Hirst Coliseum and throughout the year I took over
one hundred percent ownership of the new franchise and changed
(18:17):
the name the Louisiana Rugaroo. I'm the sole owner, myself
and my family, and we changed it to Louisiana Rugaroo
and have been working with ASM who is the management
group in Louisiana for multiple arenas including the Supernome and
the Super the Smoothie King, and they manage and run
Brooksher's Arena, and they wanted arena football. They wanted seven
(18:39):
saturdays filled with fun, family, faith based football. Family fund
here in the architects, and we just came to an
agreement and we signed the contract and we are having
a huge press conference tomorrow at noon there at the
dedication wall at Brooksher's Grocery Arena with a lot of
new exciting details.
Speaker 5 (18:57):
Are there other arena football teams throughout Louisiana or is
this the only arena football team in Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (19:08):
So you know, years ago we had the Battle Wings here.
A friend of mine, Van Newman owned that. He sold
that to an arena football league that the league was
owned by people, and they moved that and that became
the New Orleans Voodoo and that was the arena football
down south for several years. COVID had an impact on
them and they dissolved. Currently, we are in the National
(19:31):
Arena League, which is a Midwest league of the United States.
It's got nine teams. The NAL is made up like
the NFL. I'm one ninth owner of the NAL, so
it is a league owned by team owners, so every
team is owned by their owners. We are the only
(19:53):
arena football in Louisiana and very proud of that. And
Baton Rouge likes that New Orleans life that and we're
making our home there at Brookshire's Grocery Arena in Bosuer
City starting at noon tomorrow.
Speaker 5 (20:05):
So what is the draw of arena football? If you had,
you know, a thirty second elevator pitch, if you said,
here's what you're here's what you can expect from arena
football that you don't get from you know, NFL or
from the NCAA.
Speaker 6 (20:21):
So what what I've been a football fan all my life,
play football, But what's sold me is is this is
this is football on a fifty yard field. It's eight
on eight. It's very action packed. It's it's football turf
on a hockey rink. You have the elements of wrestling,
and now you have the elements of the most popular
sport in the nation right now outside of the NFL,
(20:43):
and that's the Savannah Bananas and that fan involvement, that
fan experience. We're going to have field suites on the
dasher pads on the field, you're actually the kids are
actually there with the players, and you play eight on
eight football. Your team is consists of twenty five profession
athletes that have come from D one or D two college,
(21:03):
multiple high school experience, college experience. Some of that may
have pro experience or Canadian football experience. And it's an
action packed, high scoring offensive arena. The environment is controlled,
you have a good food, good times. You this is
a family fun experience that can come out and you're
gonna have merch and mascots and we're gonna throw stuff
(21:26):
to the stands from the field and you're gonna see
a great football game.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
We're talking with Keith Carter with the Rugaroo, the Arena
football team Keith, we got about thirty seconds left. You
guys are having the tryouts coming up right.
Speaker 6 (21:41):
We are October eighteenth. We're partner with D one here
in Shreveport. We're doing all of our tryouts after tomorrow.
We're gonna have all of our links for our season tickets.
We're gonna have our field suites, our ticket packages, our
individual tickets. Of course Brookshire's grocery arena uses ticket masters,
so you're gonna be able to have your tickets on
an app. We've got seven home games in the spring
(22:02):
of twenty twenty six, and we just look forward to
everyone support.
Speaker 3 (22:05):
Keith Carter, thank you so much for joining us here
on the show today, and thank you for what you're
doing to try and bring some some fun and entertainment
to northwest Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (22:14):
Thank you so much. I really appreciate you guys well.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
Coming up next to here on American Ground Radio, we're
gonna be digging deep just to ground.
Speaker 7 (22:22):
We're right back.
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Speaker 5 (23:03):
Of course, last week, we know President Trump warned pregnant
women or the Trump administration. I'd say say, well, President
Trump did, along with RFK Junior, warned pregnant women about
the risks of taking thailandol.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
Okay, well before he did, there were three members of
Congress who just happened to dump their stock in a
company that makes you guessed it, thailandaal. How convenient, so
they sing, so they sold early, they avoided losses, and
(23:44):
you know, and one of them is a Republican from Florida.
And I don't care that he's a Republican, a Democrat,
or a Martian. This is wrong. I mean he's sitting
on the House Appropriation subcommittee that oversees the f the
very agency that regulates tilan All, and then he unloads
(24:05):
stock in the company that makes tilan All. I mean
this is not just an appearance of impropriety. I mean
that is impropriety with a microphone strap to it. And
here's the other part that should make every one of
us furious. This kind of stuff is legal. Legal. These
(24:27):
people who write the laws that you and I live under,
then they carve out these nice little loopholes so they
can cash in and avoid the losses and then line
their pockets. And you'd think you'd get away with this
if you were trading. I mean, do you think you'd
get away with this if you were trading on insider information?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
No? I don't think I would.
Speaker 5 (24:49):
No, of course not. The SEC would be pounding on
your door tomorrow morning at six am.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
But hey, maybe if I was a member of Congress,
I would.
Speaker 5 (24:56):
I mean, you know, it's possible trading on that information.
Speaker 3 (25:01):
But see, yeah, they're they're doing it, and they're getting
away with it, and you know.
Speaker 5 (25:07):
See, And that's why I think that if you're a
member of Congress and you want to invest, fine, that's fine.
Put your money in a blind trust, I absolutely, put
it in an index fund, put it somewhere, or put
it in something where you're not making decisions based on
what you know in a closed door meeting.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Well, and moreover, we don't need to be creating a
financial incentive for people to go to Congress and just
live there forever. And if you've got laws where you
get to do insider trading and nobody else does. Well,
then you're willing to spend millions and millions and millions
of dollars to get back to Congress because you're gonna
make millions and millions and millions of dollars by being
in Congress.
Speaker 5 (25:44):
But you have folks that go into Congress worth relatively
few dollars, right, right, and they end up after ten years,
twenty years, pretty good, they're multi millionaires. Look at Bernie's Yeah,
how's that happen?
Speaker 3 (26:02):
Well, tell you what. Let's dig deep, going down, down down.
Earlier this year, the city streetport passed inn Oordins, so
I was supposed to give police officers more ability to
crack down on squatting. You know, that's the pattern of
people living in empty property in the city. The big
problem from squatting was that over and over, homeless people
(26:25):
living in empty properties were catching those properties on fire
and burning them down the ground. You're been talking about homes,
talking about apartment complexes, and those fires would then threatened
neighboring buildings while also destroying the properties themselves, right, So
the homeowners would just be be out.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
And in many instances it wasn't a threat. It actually
there were other homes nearby or that did on fire.
Speaker 3 (26:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it wasn't just you know, this is
a risk of it actually happened. Well, since the new
ordinance has gone into effect, the city has been able
to arrest dozens of homeless people who were squatting where
they didn't belong, seventy five so far. It's just been
a couple of months in operation. Now, I think that's
a good thing because allowing squatting to continue is bad
for the property owners. It's bad for the city in general,
(27:10):
but it's also bad for the homeless people. It is
not compassionate to leave people in their destitution. It is
just not allowing homeless people to remain homeless. People think
that's compassionate. No, it's not. It's intensely cruel. But look,
there's been another upside to this law enforcement to stop
(27:30):
in the squatting that's going on. By more aggressively enforcing
the no squatting laws, police have been able to stop
or solve other crimes at the same time. It's like
a twofer here. So this is from the Center Square quote.
Suspects facing charges of being in violation of a streetport
squatting ordinance are also facing charges such as bank fraud, arson,
(27:54):
and child endangerment. So as they're arresting these people who
are squatting, these people who are putting houses at risk
of being burned down because either they're trying to light
a fire or stay warm, or they're lighting a fire
to use their crack or whatever, they are also finding
these same people have other charges. They have other warrants
(28:14):
out for their arrest. So Center Square LaMarcus Brown, arrested
September twenty and charged with squatting, had outstanding warrants for
bank fraud, fugitive for Mansfield Police Department, domestic abuse, aggravated assault,
domestic abuse, battery with the weapon, and two counts of
domestic abuse, child endangerment. They've got Aaron Pitts, another facing
(28:38):
squatting charges, also faces charges for a simple arson. Misty
Talbert charge September nineteenth with squatting, also faces to Burgley charges.
In early September, Cedric Wilson was charged with squatting. He
had nine warrants for other offenses not listed by the department.
Speaker 5 (28:55):
But see, the thing is is that there are a
lot of folks that say that's not being compassion that
you're not being compassionate.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
Arresting people because they've got other crimes out, they've got
other warrants out for the rest before you.
Speaker 5 (29:06):
Even get to that, because squatting has been a problem
in many communities all across the state of Louisiana, right
for many, many years. I mean, it's not something, it's
not some new phenomenon. But you have a lot of
cities that are led by Democrats. There are a lot
of Democrats that say, that's not compassionate. Oh, these poor people,
(29:28):
they just need a roof over their head, they don't
have anything.
Speaker 3 (29:32):
Let me ask you a question. Compassionate for whom? Okay,
because is it compassionate to leave someone on the streets
and allow them to continue to commit crimes against other people? Absolutely,
it isn't compassionate to allow someone to commit arson because
the person who owns that property is a human being
as well, and you don't need you know, we tend
(29:54):
to say, well the property owners, well, that's just the
fat cats getting fat. You and I both know someone
who own a small piece of property here in Shreeport
that was burned down last month by a squatter and
This is not a person either one of us would
describe as wealthy. This is a person who's trying to
renovate a home so that you would have a home
that had been in an area, an older area in Shreeport.
(30:17):
You're renovating that new home to bring it back into
the market and to actually improve the neighborhood around it.
Now he's having to spend I don't know, thousands and
thousands of dollars just to clear.
Speaker 5 (30:28):
The lot, right, But why are Democrats okay with that?
Speaker 3 (30:32):
I don't know, Because it's not compassionate to the homeless faulks.
Speaker 5 (30:35):
I say democrats.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
It's primarily Democrats who make this argument. But it's not
compassionate to the people who are homeless. Leaving someone in
their squalor leaving someone in their destitution is not compassionate.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
Well, and it's not compassionate to the other folks living
in a neighborhood to allow it to turn into a
crime scene or a war zone.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Would you invest money in a place that you expect
the neighbors, the neighbor house to burn down from a
homeless person lighting of that on fire. Would you invest
in that?
Speaker 5 (31:03):
Well, but a lot of folks who are already invested.
They can't. A lot of folks, especially the elderly, you
can't pull out it right. I mean that everything they
have is invested right there. They can't they can't afford
to move.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
So then you wipe out that person's entire life savings.
Because most people's life savings is invested in their home.
And if you've ruined the neighborhood around by allowing squatting,
allowing arson, that's a problem. But by enforcing these anti
squatting laws, now we're actually getting people who have committed
some other crimes, bank fraud, child endangerment. Getting those folks
(31:39):
off the street. That's also a good deal. It's a
two for one.
Speaker 5 (31:42):
It's an unintended consequence.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
But it's like that broken windows policy in New York City.
When you start enforcing the law, the law ends up
getting enforced. That's a good thing. We'll grab back. Stick around.
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Speaker 3 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Povard, Lewis sar Evalon.
Speaker 5 (33:16):
So, today marks the day that the United States government
is phasing out paper checks for most programs.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
Oh okay, so that the federal government's no longer going
to be mailing out paper checks for most programs like
Social Security.
Speaker 5 (33:30):
Direct deposits SSI, tax riff funds.
Speaker 3 (33:33):
They're not banning you from using paper checks.
Speaker 5 (33:36):
No, no, no, But the federal government they're gonna shift
all payments huh and collections to electronic methods. And they say,
that's that's designed to protect taxpayers from fraud and stolen
checks and speed up the processing and cut costs. And
I do believe it will cut costs, all right. But
the other part of that is, and you know, I
(33:58):
know there's folks out there that say, well, not everyone
has access to the Internet. I get that. And if
there are circumstances like that, you live in a rural
area where there is no high speed Internet, for example,
or you're simply unable, maybe you have some sort of
physical disability, all right, you're unable to utilize some electronic
(34:20):
device in order to access your funds, et cetera. Sure,
the federal government will still mail you a check, there
are certain instances, but for they will do it for
the lion share of folks receiving these benefits, and that
is Social Security SSI tax refunds. Of course, they have
plenty of access to high speed Internet and all the electronics,
(34:42):
and you know they're quite adept at technology. Sure, But
at the same time, it is important to remember there
are lots of fraudsters out there impersonating I mean any Amazon,
impersonating UPS, impersonating your credit card company. Right, I just
(35:04):
would warn folks that there are people in this world
that twenty four hours a day, seven days a week,
their entire existence.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Is trying to steal from you. Yeah, it's true, and
it you know, it may be a little bit easier
to do that if it's all going digitally and there's
no paper trail and other things like that.
Speaker 5 (35:28):
And if you don't have a bank account. For example,
some folks may say, well, what if I don't have
a bank account, Well, they have what they call a
direct express card, and so your.
Speaker 3 (35:39):
You should probably get a bank account.
Speaker 5 (35:41):
Your benefits, whatever is owed to you will be put
on that card and you can use it basically like
a debit card or credit card.
Speaker 3 (35:52):
All right, well tell you what, Let's play.
Speaker 7 (35:55):
A game blag battleshit shall.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
You're more of a basketball fan than a baseball fan, right,
one hundred?
Speaker 5 (36:08):
Yeah, okay, so this is gonna be a good game
or bad game for me?
Speaker 3 (36:12):
This is well, it's uh, it's also about it's also
about movies. So the postseason has begun in baseball. We're
now we're now you know, tomorrow's October. Uh, so you
get the postseason. I ran across a list from Major
League Baseball themselves. They published this list about what they
say are the best baseball movies of all time. All right,
(36:36):
so we're talking about baseball and we're talking about movies.
Speaker 5 (36:39):
I'm gonna go with an old movie, all right, and
I I might be might be way out there.
Speaker 3 (36:46):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (36:47):
The Bad News Bears.
Speaker 3 (36:49):
Mm. That came out just outside of there's it's the Buzzer. Yeah,
that came out just outside of the top tens. That
came in at number eleven.
Speaker 5 (36:59):
All right. How about The Sandlot, The Sandlot, Yes, number
eight on the list, The Sandlot, all right, let's see.
Speaker 3 (37:08):
We had some of the cast members from The Sandlot
in Streetport here for geeks con.
Speaker 5 (37:12):
Just a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (37:13):
Bull Durham number one, Bull Durham with Kevin Costner, and
just such a great movie Moneyball, Moneyball, number six on
the film with Brad Pitt. Yes, that that made the list.
Speaker 5 (37:27):
Let's see here. Oh oh, a league of their own
number two on the list, A League of their.
Speaker 3 (37:37):
Own with the Gina Yeah, oh my gosh, I.
Speaker 5 (37:41):
Was yeah, Gina, Gina something.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Where am I blanking on a name? That's it's embarrassing.
Madonna Rosie O'Donnell's in it too.
Speaker 5 (37:49):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (37:50):
Yeah, John Love Hanks is in it.
Speaker 5 (37:54):
Oh Tom Hanks, yeah as well. Uh oh, Kevin Costner
in I think it's Kevin Costner in Field of Dreams.
Speaker 3 (38:03):
Field of Dreams number four. Yeah, so Kevin Costner actually
has two films on this list.
Speaker 5 (38:08):
All right, you know what I am. I'm going to
bow out.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
You're going to bow out.
Speaker 5 (38:13):
You're going to take a ball.
Speaker 3 (38:14):
You've done very well, like the one you missed was
number eleven on the list, but you've gotten most of
so number one Bullderham again, Kevin Costner in that you've
got a league of their own, pride of the Yankees
from back in the nineteen sixties. Then you had Field
of Dreams. Eight Men Out. I've never seen eight men out,
but that's about the shoeless Joe Jackson controversy. Then Moneyball.
(38:40):
I really enjoy Moneyball. There are lots of clips and
Moneyball online. That's Brad Pitton. That one, The Natural, Robert
Redford just passed away. The Natural is a great film.
The sandlots number eight on that number nine, everybody wants
some Never even heard of this film. I don't know
anything about it. And then number ten on the list
Major Lee. There are a lot of people in that one.
(39:01):
Wesley Snipes is in that one. Charlie Sheen's in that
one about the Cleveland Indians and wild Thing. Charlie Sheen
played wild Thing the Pitcher.
Speaker 5 (39:11):
You know. And MLB and in the NFL, they are
they just seem like they are just wildly different in
terms of how they how they manage their league.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
Yes, very different.
Speaker 5 (39:25):
I don't think MLB, for the World Series would hire
Bad Bunny as entertainment at the World Series. Now, I
know it's a seven game series.
Speaker 3 (39:36):
He might sing the national anthem at one of them.
Speaker 5 (39:38):
Maybe Bad Bunny. I don't think MLB would hire Bad Bunny.
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
Maybe it's beens Bone, which's team I guess.
Speaker 5 (39:45):
Some folks are saying, who is Bad Bunny? Bad Bunny
is going to be performing at the Super Bowl, the
NFL announced yesterday. We talked about that another time.
Speaker 3 (39:54):
We'll be back.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
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twenty nine Jorden Street in Shreveport. It's right off Lonta
Avenue that is the home of Magnolia Pit Barbecue. And
you know, one of the things. My parents came up
last week and we went to Magnolia Pit and as
we were walking in, I was like, it's kind of
like a barbecue speakeasy because as you walk in that
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first part, you feel like you're going someplace kind of hidden,
someplace kind.
Speaker 5 (40:39):
Of special, as you want the real deal.
Speaker 3 (40:42):
And then you get in there and you're like, look
at there's this this barbecue place behind this brick wall
that's kind of sitting here. It's really it's a very
cool ambiance, but just the ambiance doesn't even live up
to as cool as it is, it doesn't even live
up to the barbecue.
Speaker 5 (40:57):
No, absolutely not. Look, this is not some cookie cutter
barbecue where you slap sauce on some ribs and call
it a debt. No, this is carefully crafted, smoke kissed brisket,
pork belly bites melting your mouth. The flavors are layered
in that Cajun and Creole touch that you really can't
find anywhere else. That's why they say you will savor
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the soul of Louisiana barbecue at Magnolia Pit.
Speaker 3 (41:23):
Right, so go check them out seven twenty nine Jorden
Street in Shreetport, right off of Line Avenue.
Speaker 5 (41:28):
So the Schumer shut down seems rather inevitable. Yeah, although
they are continuing to vote or to take votes on
the on the floor, but of the Senate, of the Senate.
I mean, do folks understand what Schumer and the Democrats
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are proposing one point five trillion dollars.
Speaker 3 (41:53):
In extra spending that's not paid for. They just want
to throw that on top of the thirty seven trillion
dollar debt as if it's nothing. And so much of
what they want to spend that money on is for
illegal aliens. They want to give the money that your
children and grandchildren will be paying to somebody who doesn't
even belong in the country. Right now, and think.
Speaker 5 (42:14):
About all of the listeners right now, especially those who
don't have health insurance, are working a second job just
to be able to pay their premiums or the deductibles.
Should any member of their family need health care to
go to the hospital, God forbid? And here they're hearing
Democrats in Washington fighting for illegal aliens to have free
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health care. Is any of that right? Does any of
that make sense to anyone.
Speaker 3 (42:41):
We've got more American ground Radio coming up instack Ground.
Speaker 2 (42:45):
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