October 7, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for October 6, 2025.
0:30 We discuss the heartbreaking story of LSU football player Kyren Lacy, whose life ended tragically after being falsely blamed by headlines and social media for a fatal car crash in Thibodaux, Louisiana. We unpack how misinformation, rushed reporting, and the social media “mob” culture contributed to immense pressure on the 23-year-old athlete — even as new evidence revealed that he was not responsible for the crash.
10:00 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 We discuss the heartbreaking story of LSU football player Kyren Lacy, whose life ended tragically after being falsely blamed by headlines and social media for a fatal car crash in Thibodaux, Louisiana. We unpack how misinformation, rushed reporting, and the social media “mob” culture contributed to immense pressure on the 23-year-old athlete — even as new evidence revealed that he was not responsible for the crash.
10:00 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- Exports of Liquified Natural Gas hit a record high last month, with most of it flowing through Lousiana.
- The ACLU is suing the state of Louisiana for housing illegal immigrants at Angola Prison.
- An Orleans Parish Jail employee was arrested over the weekend for trying to smuggle in contraband into the facility.
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13:30 We discuss the tragic fire that destroyed the historic Shreveport Country Club and the social media frenzy that followed. We examine how quickly rumors and assumptions can spread online, the dangers of jumping to conclusions without verified facts, and the real human impact behind viral stories.
23:30 We explore the latest findings from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette showing that more Louisianans are earning two-year degrees from community colleges than ever before. We discuss how these programs are empowering residents to pursue practical, high-demand careers—like welding, HVAC, healthcare, and technical trades—while saving on college costs. The conversation highlights how a skilled local workforce strengthens communities, attracts businesses, boosts wages, and promotes long-term economic growth in Louisiana.
25:30 We Dig Deep into Senator John Kennedy’s recent Senate speech on the government shutdown. Senator Kennedy highlights how Democrats are demanding the restoration of controversial budget items from the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” including foreign aid for projects like circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia, pastry cooking classes for male sex workers in Haiti, and electric buses in Rwanda. The discussion examines the disconnect between these spending priorities and domestic needs, questioning why taxpayer dollars abroad are prioritized over funding for U.S. military personnel and domestic programs.
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33:30 We discuss a recent disruption at LSU in Baton Rouge, where a 20-year-old student, Gabriela Juarez, was arrested for refusing to give up the microphone during a presidential search committee meeting. The student’s actions sparked headlines claiming transgender discrimination by campus police, but the discussion reveals that the issue was not about gender identity—it was about disruptive behavior and refusal to comply with rules.
40:30 And we finish the episode with a discussion about he latest breaking news involving former NFL quarterback Mark Sanchez, who was reportedly stabbing and involved in a downtown Indianapolis altercation. Initial headlines painted Sanchez as a victim, but police reports now suggest he may have been the aggressor, leading to misdemeanor charges including battery, unlawful entry of a motor vehicle, and public intoxication.
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Speaker 6 (01:03):
You know what may have happened to this young man
named Kyne Lacy? Yeah, he's from Louisiana, football player for
LSU and by all accounts, a guy, a man with
a bright future ahead of him. Okay, and in December,
of course, as you may remember, in December of last year,
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he was he was blamed by headlines and hashtags on
social media for this horrific crash that occurred in Thibodeaux.
That one of the occupants of the vehicle in that
accident lost his life. Now, the evidence revealed after the
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accident was that Kyene Lacy was not responsible for that
tragedy at.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
All, even though he was blamed in the media.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Even though he was blamed in the media, okay, and
the media ran with the story because the excuse me.
The Louisiana State Police issued a statement at the time
about the accident. The media ran with it, and they
said LSU player charged in fatal crash. That was the headline,
and then of course the comment sections filled with condemnation
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on social media. The mob assembled like clockwork. Everyone was
ready to pronounce guilt and shame on this young man
before he was ever, before he ever saw the inside
of a courtroom.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I don't think we actually covered this story on American
ground Radio, not much. I don't think not much.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I think we may have mentioned it. But at the
same time, this is the world that we live in now.
Trials are not held in courthouses on social media, but
in comment threads. Now. The reason bringing all of this
up is that Kyne Lacey took his life. He comitted
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suicide as a result. His family is saying that the pressure,
the guilt that he was feeling that somehow he was
believing that he did in fact cause the death of
this individual in that car accident in Thibodeaux. But the evidence,
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the evidence, according to this young man's attorney, tell a
completely different story. So the Lafouche Parish District Attorney's report
found that Kirne's vehicle was seventy two yards behind the
cars at the moment of impact. He was behind the crash,
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not part of it. So let that sink in. He
was seventy two yards nearly three quarters of a football
field and he was not part of this accident.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Then how is he charged in an accident that he
wasn't a part.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Of Because the media, well, because I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
This, the media ran with a story from what the
state police said. The state police say he caused this accident, right,
and yet if the video shows he wasn't even in
an act, this is this is confusing me. Well, this
was if he wasn't in an accident, there wouldn't be
any problems with his car, and any state trooper would
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be able to look at the car and go, well,
this car wasn't involved in an accident.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
But apparently the apparently the vehicle apparently the vehicle or
the evidence. Rather, the video had not been released because
there was a grand jury that was being convened, and
Kyrine Lacey took his own life two days before the
grand jury was to meet. Twenty three years old. Now, look,
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you know, I don't know what else was going on
in this young man's life, but his family said that
he he under tremendous he was feeling tremendous guilt. And
apparently the district attorney did not share that evidence that
Kyraene Lacy was nowhere. He was seventy two yards behind
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where this this impact occurred.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And look, but I again, I'm gonna come back to
if the video shows this car wasn't involved in a
car wreck because you're seventy two yards behind, Well, you.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Don't have to necessarily have an impact in order to
cause an accident. I mean, you could be. You could
be you could slam on your brakes in front of someone.
You can be driving recklessly because the report was that
he was weaving in and out of traffic, and of
course that turns out not to be true. And and
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yet apparently he came to believe what was being said
about him. I mean, this, this is the tyranny of perception.
Once the public perceives you as guilty, you know, it
does it matter what the facts are, because the mob
believes its own emotions.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Sure, but now we run the risk of being on
the other side of that, where now the mob can
run on its own emotions and blame the police for
not having been truthful, when at this point, I don't
think we have all the facts. There's just stuff that's
not adding up. There's just stuff that's not adding up
one way or the other here. So if he wasn't
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responsible for the crash, and there wasn't you know, if
he was that far back from the crash, then his
car wouldn't have any damage on it. So why the
police saying that he was responsible for the crash. If
he was responsible for the crash, then why does the
video show that he's not. We don't there's no way
we have all the facts in this case right now.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Well, so one of the comments made by a news
reporter on Friday is that the state police say they
stand by their investigation, which alleges so the state police.
So see, you've got to distinguish here. You've got the
state police report right that says he was swerving, passing cars,
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and his reckless operation caused the series of events. Okay,
But it's the district attorney who says the evidence does
not support the state police statement.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
So you've got dueling I guess agencies of law enforcement here.
You've got the district attorney saying the evidence doesn't support
that Kyrienne Lacy was responsible whatsoever. Okay, And then you've
got the the state Police that says, no, we stand
behind our our statement, which is that he was swerving,
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he was passing cars, and his reckless operation caused the
series of crash events.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And so okay.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
And in the meantime, so you've got this young man
twenty three years old, caught between the District Attorney's office
and the state police, and he took his own life.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And that's that's sad, and that's awful, and and I
you know, you never want a car wreck to lead
to a suicide. That's absolutely awful. But just because the
DA says the car was some feet behind doesn't necessarily
mean then then he wasn't. If the state police contentions
that he was weaving through traffic and that's what's caused
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the wreck, then just saying that he was behind the
accident doesn't necessarily mean that because this could have happened
ahead of time. So again I'm gonna come with we
don't have all the facts, we don't know anything yet,
and it's it's too early to start. We don't want
to jump to the other side of this, where there
are people online that are absolutely horrendous to this young
play at football player. We don't want to jump to
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the other side of this now and go Okay, well,
the state police are obviously racists, which.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Is where the end of the way. Wait a minute,
why are we bringing race into this?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Well has called for an investigation?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Okay, well, I'm just bringing this up because we're so
quick sometimes, especially those on social media.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I'm sorry, Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, who's calling for that.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I'm just saying that sometimes things happen in life, and
we just need to wait and let the evidence come out.
Let the facts got out before we start castigating and
criticizing everyone and anyone.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
Let's get the top of the things you need over
before tomorrow. First thing you can need no before tomorrow.
Exports of looking financial gas hit a record high last month,
with most of it flowing through Louisiana. The US exported
nine point four million metric tons of LNG in September.
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That beat the previous record of nine point three million
metric tons in August. Louisiana counts are about sixty one
percent of all US L and G exports, followed by
Texas with thirty one percent. Tommy Fox Show, president of
the Louisiana Bid Continent Oil and Gas Association, told The
Center Square, Louisiana's energy industry is revitalizing our state's economy
and creating the opportunities that will keep our kids here
in Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (10:09):
And look, those LNG projects have already brought billions of
dollars in private investment to the state. And that's before
counting the multiplier effect.
Speaker 4 (10:19):
Second thing you need know, BEFO. In a while, the
ACLU is suing the State of Louisiana for housing illegal
immigrants at Angla Prison. The ACLU claims holding the detainees
there while they are awaiting deportation is essentially the same
as jailing them twice for the same crime, violating the
double jeopardy clause of the US Constitution. The group called
Angla America's bloodiest prison and denounced it as inhumane. The
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lawsuit claims the Trump administration purposely chose Angla Prison and
goal of prison for its uniquely horrifying history.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Okay, I'm not quite sure. I'm understanding. Where would they
like them to be housed? Holiday in four seasons? Yeah,
I got you.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
And the third thing you need to know before tomorrow,
There's been yet another incident at the Orleans Parish Jail
and employee was arrested over the weekend for trying to
smuggle in contraband into that facility. Savannah Jordan was arrested
and charged with three counts of criminal conspiracy to introduce
contraband into a correctional facility, two counts of malfeasan's in office,
and two counts of possession with intent to distribute a
(11:18):
scheduled two controlled substance of OXWN. The Sheriff's office is
touting and the arrest as a win, saying they were
able to stop further introduction of contraband into the jail. However,
that jail has had a lot of issues this year,
including a ten person escape where one of those escapees
is still on the loose.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Now this is probably the first time in a long
time that the Orleans Sheriff's Department has caught someone trying
to smuggle in contraband.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, but the problem is who are you hiring? Who
are you hiring?
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Come on, folks, letting folks escape.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yeah, that's exactly right. We'll grab back stick around.
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Speaker 4 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Palmer, thewiss.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Over the weekend in Shreveport, the Shreeport Country Club burned
to the ground. Yeah I saw that, and boy, you know,
and this is what I was talking about off the
top in terms of folks jumping to conclusions because there
was all of this social media, you know, fervor about
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oh well, somebody said it on fire for the insurance money.
Somebody is planning to cash out on this abandoned facility.
The Shreport Country Club one of the most once one
of the most prestigious country clubs in Louisiana. Countless hundreds,
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thousands of receptions and birthday parties, all kinds of you know,
special events and lots of memories. I'm sure there's folks
all over Louisiana who have attended a special event at
the Shreeport Country Club. Well, now it has been burned
to the ground, and it turns out, you know, all
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those allegations that the owners of the Shreeport Country Club
may have even set it on fire or allowed vagrants
into the building, you know, hoping that it would catch
on fire, Well it turns out none of that was true. No, Well,
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there is no insurance policy on the property. Huh, so
the owners of the property were carrying liability insurance only. Okay,
that means that the contents and for reconstruction purposes, there's
no money from any insurance policy whatsoever. But yet those
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on social media, we're so quick to jump to conclusions.
And that's what I'm saying is that, you know, before
we share a story, before we comment on a post,
before we join this digital dogpile that sometimes occurs, we
need to ask ourselves, do I actually know this or
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am I reacting to something someone else wants me to believe?
And if we can't answer that question honestly, we need
to pause. Because behind every name, every photo, every headline,
you know what, there's a human being, there's an organization,
sometimes a church, there's a family, there's a soul. And
(15:54):
you look at this twenty three year old LSU former
LSU football player Kyine Lacey taking his own life, allegedly
because his family says that there were comments being made
online and by the Louisiana State Police saying that he
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was guilty that he had caused this accident that resulted
in the loss of one of the participants in the
in this accident's life and yet it wasn't true.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Well wait, wait, wait, wait, we don't know if it
was true because you, as you said, Louisiana State Police
are standing by their story.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
The district attorney says. The district attorney says that he
was seventy two yards. I get that behind the point
of impact. I understand that what the disattorney said that
caused the loss of that driver or that occupant's life.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I understand that that's that's what the DA saying. Also,
the Louisiana State Police are saying, we stand by our
our investigation. Now Liz Murle, the State Attorney General, is
asking for a review of that investigation. She wants to
get to the bottom of all this.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
And the coach Lshu Tiger's football coach, Brian Landry, you know,
he's out there saying, we need to wait, let all
the facts come out.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
That's what we.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Jumped to any conclusions, which is the response.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
That's what's responsible, right, So you know, we can't say
that none of what the Louisiana State Police said was
true wasn't true. We don't know that yet.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I just think we have all that much miss. This
would be a huge miss if you have the district
attorney there, yeah, who says the evidence that we have
does not support what the Louisiana State Police is alleging.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Okay, but you'd have a huge miss on the other side,
if the Louisiana State Police was alleging something that wasn't
true one way or the other, We're gonna have a
huge miss.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Either the DA is completely wrong well or at least
partially wrong, or the Louisiana State Police is at least
partially wrong one way or the other, there's gonna be
a huge miss. You can't have both of these things
right at the same time. Where this guy was the
guy who was responsible for the wreck or this guy
wasn't involved in it in any way, shape or form.
Those two things can't both be true at the same time.
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And we don't know which one of those is true.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
We just don't. And look, and it does. This happens
every day. I mean, you don't have to be a
public figure or an athlete for folks to pounce on you, right,
I mean it happens every day in workplaces and schools
and in our neighborhoods. A rumor spreads, a post is
taken out of context, a text message is misread, and
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before long someone's reputation or livelihood is gone. There was
a business owner that allegedly here in Louisiana was allowing
underage drinking in his restaurant.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I thought it was on his property.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
No it will, I thought, I know, I believe it
was at at a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Okay, I thought it wasetheless.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Either way, this post is out there. You don't know
if that's true or not. And here is someone that
has invested in a community like Shreveport and Bosier City.
I'm not defending, and I'm not certainly I don't have
any knowledge of the facts. But the fact of the
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matter is is that you can take someone who otherwise
might have a stellar reputation and by just making a
few assumptions and making that known on social media and
then everyone just dog piling in. I mean, you can
destroy someone and it's wrong. And again I come back
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to this, kiraen Lacy, that that really bothers me, you know,
and you should say, well, he should have had thicker
skin or didn't his family, you know, But we don't know.
You don't know what anxiety that that folks suffer with,
or or guilt, right or what else. You know, everyone
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doesn't process not displeasure, but everyone doesn't process the jabs
and barbs of life. Oh yeah, the same.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And especially you know, younger people when when this becomes
a when you get hit with a really big event
and you've never had anything like this before, it really
can seem like your entire world is just collapsing in
on you. Yeah, I'm not saying even if you know,
even if he did cause the wreck, if he was
responsible for the wreck, I'm not saying that I would
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be happy that he committed suicide at all. That's that's
that's absolutely not what would would be wanted or desired.
I mean, we're pro life people here, and that's pro
all life, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
And this isn't just about Kyrien Lazy. I guess I
bring all of this up because this is really about
who we're becoming as a society. We've built this culture
that confuses accusation with evidence or emotion. For example, you know,
the left is they're very emotional, so they must be
very empathetic, right, you know, or or visibility with virtue,
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you know, whenever there's a television camera covering some awful
tragedy outcomes an elected official stands in front of the
camera and rings, you know, his or her hands, And well,
that's what.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus is doing with this LSU
student's death. They're coming out and demanding an investigation. And
I don't understand why the Louisiana Legs Black Caucus has
to be why? Why is why is race involved in this?
If if the Louisiana State Police was wrong, then they
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were wrong. They weren't wrong because he was black, or
they weren't right because he was black. They're either wrong
or right.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
And look, it's okay to say, you know what, I
don't have all the facts yet. It's okay to hold
your judgment until the dust settles because that pause, that
space between accusation and understanding, well that is where wisdom lives.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
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Speaker 6 (22:58):
Stephen Parvard, the wist sor all right, So apparently the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette has been studying the numbers,
and they say Louisiana is winning. There aren't more Louisianians
getting four year degrees, but there are more receiving two
year degrees from college from community colleges. And I think
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this is huge because I think this means that Louisiana's
are choosing opportunity over dependency. It's it's not They're not
just sitting on their hands there and look in some
of these areas where you have technical training, it's very practical,
meaning that you have a more ready workforce for when
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private businesses come a calling into Louisiana and looking for
good hires.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I think our to year colleges are very, very important
to the state of Louisiana for a variety of reasons.
That technical training you're talking about is very important. But
in addition, even if say you want to get a
four year degree, well, if you go to a community college,
get your first two years out, get your associate's degree,
and then transfer to a four year school, you can
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save thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars from student
debt if you have to, or just even your own
expenses by going to a two year school first and
then transferring, it's much more cost effective. It's good for
the community, it's good for the state. I think this
is a good thing.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Well, and look, these are jobs that are available right now.
I mean the economy, the market has been crying out
for welders and electricians, and healthcare technicians and HVAC specialists,
heavy equipment operators. I mean, these are the people that
actually keep our country running. Yeah, so community. See the
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thing about this is again I'm not hating on conventional
four year colleges whatsoever or graduate schools, but the cost
of the four.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Year college has gone up so much you really do
have to look at cost benefit analysis on this. I
mean it is very different than from just a generation
ago about the cost structure of colleges, because since we
let the government take over student loans, we've just seen
the cost.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Of colleges continue to skyrocket.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
It's gone exponentially up.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
And see the other part of this is there's a
ripple effect because when more people have these skills, then
businesses don't have to import labor from other states.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
It makes Louisiana more attractive to businesses who want to
come into the state because they're saying, yes, there are
people there who can do the job, that do the
work that we need done.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
And then you have wages that rise. Right, you have
families that move in and kind of d themselves in
the community, then your tax base.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Grows and their kids will go to community college.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
So that's how you rebuild communities. Right, this is good news.
This is good news. It is tell you what.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Let's dig deep, going down, down down. One of the
things I really like about Louisianason or John Kennedy is
just how he's able to cut through the noise. You know,
he's able to get to the heart of an issue
in very common language.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Very colorful not only say common language, very colorful language.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Well, the government shutdown is complicated, and it's it's hard
to understand what the Democrats are doing and why they're
doing what they're doing. Well, basically, the Democrats are still
mad that Republicans are able to pass the one big,
beautiful bill over the summer, and they're trying to use
this temporary funding fight as a way to claw back
some spending cuts that were made earlier this year. They
won an additional one point five trillion dollars in spending
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that have been taken out of the budget early in
the year. Well, on Friday, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy took
to the floor of the Senate to share some of
the things that the Democrats are demanding.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Now, he didn't make this up.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You can just look at what the Democrats have said,
this is what we want or we want to open
the government, and then go look at what those spending
priorities are. So he read a list of some of
the things that were cut out of the one big
beautiful bill that Alexander kiss At Cortez and Chuck Schumer
have shut the government down over. They want these things
back in order to reopen our government. All right, So
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see if any of this makes sense to you, take
a listen to Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
We took out and here's what they want us to
put back in. We found that under President Baden they
were spending three million dollars for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia.
We put that, took that out the congresswoman says, We're
going to shut down government till you put that back in.
(27:56):
We found five hundred thousand dollars of American taxpayer money
for electric buses in Rwanda. We found three point six
million dollars for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups
for male prostitutes in Haiti. Can you not I'm not
(28:17):
making this up? Represent in the budget under President Biden.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Isn't he that sound like anything we spend any money on.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
No, but it kind of cuts right to the core.
It's kind of like, hold on, let me pull that
up right back, right back up.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
If why would you want to shut down the government
in order to provide circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Why why do you not want to pay our military
personnel so that you can give circumcisions and best ectomies
to a nation in Africa? Why don't you want to
pay our military here in the United States so that
that's your priory? Tell you what? That was just half
of the list.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
There's more.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Take a listen to Senator to Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You more that we took out. They are demanding we
put back in six million dollars for media organizations for
the Palestinians. Eight hundred and thirty three thousand dollars for
transgender people in Nepaul, three hundred thousand dollars for a
pride parade in Masuitu. Eight hundred and eighty two thousand
(29:24):
dollars for social media and mentorship in Serbia. Four point
two million dollars. We took it out. The congresswoman and
the socialist wing of their party says, we've got to
put that back in for the open government. Four point
two million dollars for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and
(29:45):
intersex people in the Western Balkans and Uganda. I could
spend the rest of the afternoon here. We took all
that out. It upset Congresswoman Ocasio Cortes, It upsets the
sovi This is.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
It's it's insanity. Mean, why would you shut down the
US government so that you can spend money on a
parade somewhere in another continent.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
You know, there is one thing on this list that
I think my wife would actually enjoy, and that is
the pastry cooking classes. Except these three point.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Six million dollars for pastry cooking classes and dance focus
groups for male prostitutes and haiti. Why do we need
pastry cooking classes for men hookers?
Speaker 6 (30:35):
That just yeah, I mean, but see that puts it
right into focus. Because if you're saying, oh, well, the
Republicans are the ones that are shutting down the government
right now, these are your demands. These these are the
Democrat Party demands.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Five hundred thousand dollars for electric buses in Rwanda. Okay,
Why would we spend a single dime on a bus
in another country, much less an electric bus which not
near as effective as advertised? Why would we spend a
single dime for a bus in another country? If there
was any city anywhere in the United States that said,
(31:15):
you know what, we could use government money for a
bus here. Why would we spend any money anywhere in
the US for something that a city here in the
US says, actually, that's what we need. Why wouldn't you
put an American city first? Why would you put Rwanda
above Shreveport?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
No, no, no, I get it. And look back to
your point on Senator Kennedy. You know he can use
five dollars words when he needs to, yes, but he
can also use fifty cent words. But most importantly, he
confronts folks with the facts.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
And I just want to say thank you to Senator
Kennedy for laying this all out in his very unique way.
We'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Grand Radio.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Stephen Farmer Lewis, So you remember I was last week
I believe. At LSU in Baton Rouge, there was a
twenty year old student named Gabriella Laurez.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Okay, oh yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
She was or he was, I don't know which one.
So he okay. He was arrested after refusing to give
up the microphone during a presidential search committee meeting because
at LSU they're looking for a new president.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Right because their last wugs Winter Rutgers.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Now he or she, however, you might prefer to refer.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
To I'm gonna I'm gonna use some facts, Okay, it's
a he, Okay, he can he can think she's a she.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Okay, But he didn't want to give up the microphone. No,
so he was dragged away by police by campus police. Yes,
they were just enforcing the rules, as police were. The
police were just enforcing the rules. Well, now she has
come out and said that the LSU campus police is
hostile towards transgender students.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
No, just the one.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Look, it's not about it's a transgender headline. Now, yeah
it's not.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
But that's what this guy wanted. That's what he wanted.
That's why he intentionally went over his time because one
of the things he was doing was he was railing
against Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not involved in the
search for the next president of LSU. Donald Trump doesn't
care about who the next president of LSU is. He's
got much bigger fish to fry. I think, you know,
(34:47):
I don't even think he knows they are searching for
a new president at LSU. This has nothing to do
with Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
He knows, he knows, he's on top of average.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Okay, this has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This
transgender what was a transgender student wanted to make an impression,
wanted to get attention, wanted to make a headlines, railed
against Donald Trump so that he could get attention, and
claimed to be the victim because, as Terry says often
(35:16):
Terry our American Mama. She says, victimhood is their beauty mark.
He thinks that by claiming to be a victim that
somehow makes him a better person.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Well, it wasn't just that they were hostile the campus police.
LSU campus police was hot or hostile against him her
as a transgender.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
They were simply removing a nuisance.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
So when they brought him to the jail, apparently the
jailers didn't know where to hold him or her because
he's a he who's she said that was cruel, He
said that was cruel.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
No, because what's cruel as using What is cruel is
the world telling you that your mental delusion is correct,
because look at what it has done to this person.
Convincing this person that he is a she has now
led to all of this, this absolutely unrealistic view of
(36:16):
the universe. He thinks she's a she, and therefore he
interprets other people saying you can't violate the speaking time
at an event that has nothing to do with Donald
Trump as to oh, no, they're coming after me because
I'm transgender. When you make everything about being transgender, it
completely warps your worldview and it is not compassionate. It
is not kind to leave someone who has body dysmorphia
(36:41):
stuck in their delusion.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
Okay, but I don't think LSU campus believes that. Certainly
wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Wasn't objective their objective. But let's get the guy who's
yelling and screaming and disrupting a meeting. Let's get that
person out of there, and then all the other people
that are coming around and blocking the cop car, let's
go ahead and remove them. To the police were simply
doing their job. It has nothing to do with this
guy being transgender, but has everything to do with this
guy being crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Right, this isn't a story about discrimination.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Oh, it's a story about mental illness.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Well not from Well maybe you could certainly make it
about that, but I also, if you're behaving in a
way that is not rational in public, your mental status
is disturbing the peace. No, I understand, But what I
guess what I'm saying here is that campus police in
Baton Rouge did not get hostile because this dude was transgender. No,
(37:37):
they acted upon him or her because he refused to comply,
just like anyone else would have been treated under the circumstances,
because actions have consequences. That's how a civilized society works.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
That's exactly right. So there are there were some other
members of this leftist group that were at this President's
search committee meeting, and they talk to the press after.
If any one of them had behaved the way this
supposed transgender person was acting, they would have been treated
the exact same way, even though they go by their
actual pronouns. This wasn't about transgenderism. But the left will
(38:17):
always make something about their victimhood, especially when they're wrong
on the principle. When you know, there's that old adage
if you're a lawyer, right, If you're a lawyer and
the laws on your side, then argue the law. If
the facts are on your side, then argue the facts.
And if neither the facts or the law on your side,
pound your fist on the desk and yell right.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
And that's what this guy was doing.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
He doesn't have the facts on his side, he doesn't
have the law on his side. So what he's doing
is he's trying to make this about transgenderism because his
mental delusion about what his body actually is, his body dysmorphia,
has corrupted his worldview.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
And the other part of this is is that you know,
I know, this is a college campus, but if you
had gone into a city hall or a state legislature
a committee hearing same thing you, you would have been
met with much more violent resistance by capitol police for example.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Quite possible.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
And look, this isn't unheard of. They certainly do this
sort of thing in Supreme Court justice hearings.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
But this guy knew what he was doing. His intent
was to get arrested.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
That was the goal.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Dude, you got what you were after.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
He got attention.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
You got attention, and now talking about it on the show.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Now he's the victim. Now he's the victim.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
That is what he wanted. Okay, well you got what
you wanted. Will you be quiet so the adults can
now do something like, you know, search for a president,
for the next president, the president of LSU. We'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (40:15):
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Speaker 6 (40:18):
Okay, so, I don't know, did you see this story
over the weekend that the New York Post reported Mark Sanchez,
you know, the former New York Jets quarterback and.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Washing Redskins quarterback or Washingt commanders, I don't know which one.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Apparently he was in Arizona. No, he was in downtown Indianapolis, Yeah,
to call the Raiders Colts game on Sunday. And the
report was he was stabbed in downtown in Indianapolis. And
you know what, the first thing that came to mind was, Oh,
(40:52):
that's just terrible. It's a crime, crime infested city, that's
what happens being outlated. That's just terrible. Right, it turns
out apparently he may have been the aggressor. He's been
charged now, He's been charged with battery, unlawful entry of
(41:15):
a motor vehicle, public intoxication, all of which are misdemeanors.
But nevertheless, see this is one of those times where
you read the headline.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
And the first reports that came out, Oh my gosh,
Sanchez is, oh, what awful things that happened to him?
But the police, as I understand, the police are saying
he actually pepper sprayed another guy over a parking space.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
A sixty nine year old man and I'm much older.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
The other man is claiming that he stabbed him in
self defense. So again, this is one of those We're
gonna have to wait for all the facts to come out.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Right, he was allegedly intoxicated. This is according to police.
He was allegedly This is the former Jets quarterback and
professional football player allegedly intoxicated. And it just seems like,
I don't know, you can jump to a lot of conclusions,
but I wouldn't do that, especially after what we.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Talked about early and we got to do the same
thing with the meteorologists down in New Orleans who was
arrested over the weekend. We don't have all the facts yet,
although the mugshot does appear to show some scratches on
his face. But we don't know all the facts yet,
so let's just withhold a little bit of judgment until
we learned some more.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
What's the story on that.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
I got arrested for domestic battery?
Speaker 6 (42:35):
Oh? Okay, yeah, well anyway, Mark Sanchez arrested.
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Speaker 6 (01:03):
You know what may have happened to this young man
named Kyne Lacy? Yeah, he's from Louisiana, football player for
LSU and by all accounts, a guy, a man with
a bright future ahead of him. Okay, and in December,
of course, as you may remember, in December of last year,
(01:23):
he was he was blamed by headlines and hashtags on
social media for this horrific crash that occurred in Thibodeaux.
That one of the occupants of the vehicle in that
accident lost his life. Now, the evidence revealed after the
(01:47):
accident was that Kyene Lacy was not responsible for that
tragedy at.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
All, even though he was blamed in the media.
Speaker 6 (01:55):
Even though he was blamed in the media, okay, and
the media ran with the story because the excuse me.
The Louisiana State Police issued a statement at the time
about the accident. The media ran with it, and they
said LSU player charged in fatal crash. That was the headline,
and then of course the comment sections filled with condemnation
(02:19):
on social media. The mob assembled like clockwork. Everyone was
ready to pronounce guilt and shame on this young man
before he was ever, before he ever saw the inside
of a courtroom.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
I don't think we actually covered this story on American
ground Radio, not much. I don't think not much.
Speaker 6 (02:37):
I think we may have mentioned it. But at the
same time, this is the world that we live in now.
Trials are not held in courthouses on social media, but
in comment threads. Now. The reason bringing all of this
up is that Kyne Lacey took his life. He comitted
(03:00):
suicide as a result. His family is saying that the pressure,
the guilt that he was feeling that somehow he was
believing that he did in fact cause the death of
this individual in that car accident in Thibodeaux. But the evidence,
(03:23):
the evidence, according to this young man's attorney, tell a
completely different story. So the Lafouche Parish District Attorney's report
found that Kirne's vehicle was seventy two yards behind the
cars at the moment of impact. He was behind the crash,
(03:45):
not part of it. So let that sink in. He
was seventy two yards nearly three quarters of a football
field and he was not part of this accident.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Then how is he charged in an accident that he
wasn't a part.
Speaker 6 (03:59):
Of Because the media, well, because I mean.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
This, the media ran with a story from what the
state police said. The state police say he caused this accident, right,
and yet if the video shows he wasn't even in
an act, this is this is confusing me. Well, this
was if he wasn't in an accident, there wouldn't be
any problems with his car, and any state trooper would
(04:24):
be able to look at the car and go, well,
this car wasn't involved in an accident.
Speaker 6 (04:29):
But apparently the apparently the vehicle apparently the vehicle or
the evidence. Rather, the video had not been released because
there was a grand jury that was being convened, and
Kyrine Lacey took his own life two days before the
grand jury was to meet. Twenty three years old. Now, look,
(04:52):
you know, I don't know what else was going on
in this young man's life, but his family said that
he he under tremendous he was feeling tremendous guilt. And
apparently the district attorney did not share that evidence that
Kyraene Lacy was nowhere. He was seventy two yards behind
(05:14):
where this this impact occurred.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
And look, but I again, I'm gonna come back to
if the video shows this car wasn't involved in a
car wreck because you're seventy two yards behind, Well, you.
Speaker 6 (05:28):
Don't have to necessarily have an impact in order to
cause an accident. I mean, you could be. You could
be you could slam on your brakes in front of someone.
You can be driving recklessly because the report was that
he was weaving in and out of traffic, and of
course that turns out not to be true. And and
(05:51):
yet apparently he came to believe what was being said
about him. I mean, this, this is the tyranny of perception.
Once the public perceives you as guilty, you know, it
does it matter what the facts are, because the mob
believes its own emotions.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Sure, but now we run the risk of being on
the other side of that, where now the mob can
run on its own emotions and blame the police for
not having been truthful, when at this point, I don't
think we have all the facts. There's just stuff that's
not adding up. There's just stuff that's not adding up
one way or the other here. So if he wasn't
(06:32):
responsible for the crash, and there wasn't you know, if
he was that far back from the crash, then his
car wouldn't have any damage on it. So why the
police saying that he was responsible for the crash. If
he was responsible for the crash, then why does the
video show that he's not. We don't there's no way
we have all the facts in this case right now.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
Well, so one of the comments made by a news
reporter on Friday is that the state police say they
stand by their investigation, which alleges so the state police.
So see, you've got to distinguish here. You've got the
state police report right that says he was swerving, passing cars,
(07:15):
and his reckless operation caused the series of events. Okay,
But it's the district attorney who says the evidence does
not support the state police statement.
Speaker 4 (07:27):
Okay.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
So you've got dueling I guess agencies of law enforcement here.
You've got the district attorney saying the evidence doesn't support
that Kyrienne Lacy was responsible whatsoever. Okay, And then you've
got the the state Police that says, no, we stand
behind our our statement, which is that he was swerving,
(07:49):
he was passing cars, and his reckless operation caused the
series of crash events.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
And so okay.
Speaker 6 (07:56):
And in the meantime, so you've got this young man
twenty three years old, caught between the District Attorney's office
and the state police, and he took his own life.
Speaker 4 (08:06):
And that's that's sad, and that's awful, and and I
you know, you never want a car wreck to lead
to a suicide. That's absolutely awful. But just because the
DA says the car was some feet behind doesn't necessarily
mean then then he wasn't. If the state police contentions
that he was weaving through traffic and that's what's caused
(08:27):
the wreck, then just saying that he was behind the
accident doesn't necessarily mean that because this could have happened
ahead of time. So again I'm gonna come with we
don't have all the facts, we don't know anything yet,
and it's it's too early to start. We don't want
to jump to the other side of this, where there
are people online that are absolutely horrendous to this young
play at football player. We don't want to jump to
(08:49):
the other side of this now and go Okay, well,
the state police are obviously racists, which.
Speaker 6 (08:53):
Is where the end of the way. Wait a minute,
why are we bringing race into this?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Well has called for an investigation?
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Okay, well, I'm just bringing this up because we're so
quick sometimes, especially those on social media.
Speaker 4 (09:07):
I'm sorry, Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus, who's calling for that.
Speaker 6 (09:11):
I'm just saying that sometimes things happen in life, and
we just need to wait and let the evidence come out.
Let the facts got out before we start castigating and
criticizing everyone and anyone.
Speaker 4 (09:26):
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there while they are awaiting deportation is essentially the same
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(10:41):
lawsuit claims the Trump administration purposely chose Angla Prison and
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like them to be housed? Holiday in four seasons? Yeah,
I got you.
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And the third thing you need to know before tomorrow,
There's been yet another incident at the Orleans Parish Jail
and employee was arrested over the weekend for trying to
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and charged with three counts of criminal conspiracy to introduce
contraband into a correctional facility, two counts of malfeasan's in office,
and two counts of possession with intent to distribute a
(11:18):
scheduled two controlled substance of OXWN. The Sheriff's office is
touting and the arrest as a win, saying they were
able to stop further introduction of contraband into the jail. However,
that jail has had a lot of issues this year,
including a ten person escape where one of those escapees
is still on the loose.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
Now this is probably the first time in a long
time that the Orleans Sheriff's Department has caught someone trying
to smuggle in contraband.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
Yeah, but the problem is who are you hiring? Who
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Speaker 6 (11:47):
Come on, folks, letting folks escape.
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Speaker 4 (13:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio, Stephen Palmer, thewiss.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Over the weekend in Shreveport, the Shreeport Country Club burned
to the ground. Yeah I saw that, and boy, you know,
and this is what I was talking about off the
top in terms of folks jumping to conclusions because there
was all of this social media, you know, fervor about
(13:36):
oh well, somebody said it on fire for the insurance money.
Somebody is planning to cash out on this abandoned facility.
The Shreport Country Club one of the most once one
of the most prestigious country clubs in Louisiana. Countless hundreds,
(13:58):
thousands of receptions and birthday parties, all kinds of you know,
special events and lots of memories. I'm sure there's folks
all over Louisiana who have attended a special event at
the Shreeport Country Club. Well, now it has been burned
to the ground, and it turns out, you know, all
(14:20):
those allegations that the owners of the Shreeport Country Club
may have even set it on fire or allowed vagrants
into the building, you know, hoping that it would catch
on fire, Well it turns out none of that was true. No, Well,
(14:41):
there is no insurance policy on the property. Huh, so
the owners of the property were carrying liability insurance only. Okay,
that means that the contents and for reconstruction purposes, there's
no money from any insurance policy whatsoever. But yet those
(15:04):
on social media, we're so quick to jump to conclusions.
And that's what I'm saying is that, you know, before
we share a story, before we comment on a post,
before we join this digital dogpile that sometimes occurs, we
need to ask ourselves, do I actually know this or
(15:28):
am I reacting to something someone else wants me to believe?
And if we can't answer that question honestly, we need
to pause. Because behind every name, every photo, every headline,
you know what, there's a human being, there's an organization,
sometimes a church, there's a family, there's a soul. And
(15:54):
you look at this twenty three year old LSU former
LSU football player Kyine Lacey taking his own life, allegedly
because his family says that there were comments being made
online and by the Louisiana State Police saying that he
(16:15):
was guilty that he had caused this accident that resulted
in the loss of one of the participants in the
in this accident's life and yet it wasn't true.
Speaker 4 (16:31):
Well wait, wait, wait, wait, we don't know if it
was true because you, as you said, Louisiana State Police
are standing by their story.
Speaker 6 (16:37):
The district attorney says. The district attorney says that he
was seventy two yards. I get that behind the point
of impact. I understand that what the disattorney said that
caused the loss of that driver or that occupant's life.
Speaker 4 (16:51):
I understand that that's that's what the DA saying. Also,
the Louisiana State Police are saying, we stand by our
our investigation. Now Liz Murle, the State Attorney General, is
asking for a review of that investigation. She wants to
get to the bottom of all this.
Speaker 6 (17:09):
And the coach Lshu Tiger's football coach, Brian Landry, you know,
he's out there saying, we need to wait, let all
the facts come out.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
That's what we.
Speaker 6 (17:20):
Jumped to any conclusions, which is the response.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
That's what's responsible, right, So you know, we can't say
that none of what the Louisiana State Police said was
true wasn't true. We don't know that yet.
Speaker 6 (17:33):
I just think we have all that much miss. This
would be a huge miss if you have the district
attorney there, yeah, who says the evidence that we have
does not support what the Louisiana State Police is alleging.
Speaker 4 (17:49):
Okay, but you'd have a huge miss on the other side,
if the Louisiana State Police was alleging something that wasn't
true one way or the other, We're gonna have a
huge miss.
Speaker 6 (17:57):
Right.
Speaker 4 (17:58):
Either the DA is completely wrong well or at least
partially wrong, or the Louisiana State Police is at least
partially wrong one way or the other, there's gonna be
a huge miss. You can't have both of these things
right at the same time. Where this guy was the
guy who was responsible for the wreck or this guy
wasn't involved in it in any way, shape or form.
Those two things can't both be true at the same time.
(18:18):
And we don't know which one of those is true.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
We just don't. And look, and it does. This happens
every day. I mean, you don't have to be a
public figure or an athlete for folks to pounce on you, right,
I mean it happens every day in workplaces and schools
and in our neighborhoods. A rumor spreads, a post is
taken out of context, a text message is misread, and
(18:45):
before long someone's reputation or livelihood is gone. There was
a business owner that allegedly here in Louisiana was allowing
underage drinking in his restaurant.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
I thought it was on his property.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
No it will, I thought, I know, I believe it
was at at a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Okay, I thought it wasetheless.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Either way, this post is out there. You don't know
if that's true or not. And here is someone that
has invested in a community like Shreveport and Bosier City.
I'm not defending, and I'm not certainly I don't have
any knowledge of the facts. But the fact of the
(19:32):
matter is is that you can take someone who otherwise
might have a stellar reputation and by just making a
few assumptions and making that known on social media and
then everyone just dog piling in. I mean, you can
destroy someone and it's wrong. And again I come back
(19:55):
to this, kiraen Lacy, that that really bothers me, you know,
and you should say, well, he should have had thicker
skin or didn't his family, you know, But we don't know.
You don't know what anxiety that that folks suffer with,
or or guilt, right or what else. You know, everyone
(20:15):
doesn't process not displeasure, but everyone doesn't process the jabs
and barbs of life. Oh yeah, the same.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
And especially you know, younger people when when this becomes
a when you get hit with a really big event
and you've never had anything like this before, it really
can seem like your entire world is just collapsing in
on you. Yeah, I'm not saying even if you know,
even if he did cause the wreck, if he was
responsible for the wreck, I'm not saying that I would
(20:49):
be happy that he committed suicide at all. That's that's
that's absolutely not what would would be wanted or desired.
I mean, we're pro life people here, and that's pro
all life, you know.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
And this isn't just about Kyrien Lazy. I guess I
bring all of this up because this is really about
who we're becoming as a society. We've built this culture
that confuses accusation with evidence or emotion. For example, you know,
the left is they're very emotional, so they must be
very empathetic, right, you know, or or visibility with virtue,
(21:25):
you know, whenever there's a television camera covering some awful
tragedy outcomes an elected official stands in front of the
camera and rings, you know, his or her hands, And well,
that's what.
Speaker 4 (21:38):
The Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus is doing with this LSU
student's death. They're coming out and demanding an investigation. And
I don't understand why the Louisiana Legs Black Caucus has
to be why? Why is why is race involved in this?
If if the Louisiana State Police was wrong, then they
(21:59):
were wrong. They weren't wrong because he was black, or
they weren't right because he was black. They're either wrong
or right.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
And look, it's okay to say, you know what, I
don't have all the facts yet. It's okay to hold
your judgment until the dust settles because that pause, that
space between accusation and understanding, well that is where wisdom lives.
Speaker 4 (22:20):
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Speaker 6 (22:58):
Stephen Parvard, the wist sor all right, So apparently the
University of Louisiana at Lafayette has been studying the numbers,
and they say Louisiana is winning. There aren't more Louisianians
getting four year degrees, but there are more receiving two
year degrees from college from community colleges. And I think
(23:25):
this is huge because I think this means that Louisiana's
are choosing opportunity over dependency. It's it's not They're not
just sitting on their hands there and look in some
of these areas where you have technical training, it's very practical,
meaning that you have a more ready workforce for when
(23:50):
private businesses come a calling into Louisiana and looking for
good hires.
Speaker 4 (23:57):
I think our to year colleges are very, very important
to the state of Louisiana for a variety of reasons.
That technical training you're talking about is very important. But
in addition, even if say you want to get a
four year degree, well, if you go to a community college,
get your first two years out, get your associate's degree,
and then transfer to a four year school, you can
(24:19):
save thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars from student
debt if you have to, or just even your own
expenses by going to a two year school first and
then transferring, it's much more cost effective. It's good for
the community, it's good for the state. I think this
is a good thing.
Speaker 6 (24:37):
Well, and look, these are jobs that are available right now.
I mean the economy, the market has been crying out
for welders and electricians, and healthcare technicians and HVAC specialists,
heavy equipment operators. I mean, these are the people that
actually keep our country running. Yeah, so community. See the
(24:58):
thing about this is again I'm not hating on conventional
four year colleges whatsoever or graduate schools, but the cost
of the four.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Year college has gone up so much you really do
have to look at cost benefit analysis on this. I
mean it is very different than from just a generation
ago about the cost structure of colleges, because since we
let the government take over student loans, we've just seen
the cost.
Speaker 6 (25:28):
Of colleges continue to skyrocket.
Speaker 4 (25:31):
It's gone exponentially up.
Speaker 6 (25:33):
And see the other part of this is there's a
ripple effect because when more people have these skills, then
businesses don't have to import labor from other states.
Speaker 4 (25:45):
It makes Louisiana more attractive to businesses who want to
come into the state because they're saying, yes, there are
people there who can do the job, that do the
work that we need done.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
And then you have wages that rise. Right, you have
families that move in and kind of d themselves in
the community, then your tax base.
Speaker 4 (26:02):
Grows and their kids will go to community college.
Speaker 6 (26:05):
So that's how you rebuild communities. Right, this is good news.
This is good news. It is tell you what.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
Let's dig deep, going down, down down. One of the
things I really like about Louisianason or John Kennedy is
just how he's able to cut through the noise. You know,
he's able to get to the heart of an issue
in very common language.
Speaker 6 (26:30):
Very colorful not only say common language, very colorful language.
Speaker 4 (26:35):
Well, the government shutdown is complicated, and it's it's hard
to understand what the Democrats are doing and why they're
doing what they're doing. Well, basically, the Democrats are still
mad that Republicans are able to pass the one big,
beautiful bill over the summer, and they're trying to use
this temporary funding fight as a way to claw back
some spending cuts that were made earlier this year. They
won an additional one point five trillion dollars in spending
(26:57):
that have been taken out of the budget early in
the year. Well, on Friday, Louisiana Senator John Kennedy took
to the floor of the Senate to share some of
the things that the Democrats are demanding.
Speaker 6 (27:08):
Now, he didn't make this up.
Speaker 4 (27:09):
You can just look at what the Democrats have said,
this is what we want or we want to open
the government, and then go look at what those spending
priorities are. So he read a list of some of
the things that were cut out of the one big
beautiful bill that Alexander kiss At Cortez and Chuck Schumer
have shut the government down over. They want these things
back in order to reopen our government. All right, So
(27:29):
see if any of this makes sense to you, take
a listen to Senator Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
We took out and here's what they want us to
put back in. We found that under President Baden they
were spending three million dollars for circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia.
We put that, took that out the congresswoman says, We're
going to shut down government till you put that back in.
(27:56):
We found five hundred thousand dollars of American taxpayer money
for electric buses in Rwanda. We found three point six
million dollars for pastry cooking classes and dance focus groups
for male prostitutes in Haiti. Can you not I'm not
(28:17):
making this up? Represent in the budget under President Biden.
Speaker 4 (28:23):
Isn't he that sound like anything we spend any money on.
Speaker 6 (28:27):
No, but it kind of cuts right to the core.
It's kind of like, hold on, let me pull that
up right back, right back up.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (28:34):
If why would you want to shut down the government
in order to provide circumcisions and vasectomies in Zambia?
Speaker 4 (28:43):
Why why do you not want to pay our military
personnel so that you can give circumcisions and best ectomies
to a nation in Africa? Why don't you want to
pay our military here in the United States so that
that's your priory? Tell you what? That was just half
of the list.
Speaker 6 (29:01):
There's more.
Speaker 4 (29:02):
Take a listen to Senator to Kennedy.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
You more that we took out. They are demanding we
put back in six million dollars for media organizations for
the Palestinians. Eight hundred and thirty three thousand dollars for
transgender people in Nepaul, three hundred thousand dollars for a
pride parade in Masuitu. Eight hundred and eighty two thousand
(29:24):
dollars for social media and mentorship in Serbia. Four point
two million dollars. We took it out. The congresswoman and
the socialist wing of their party says, we've got to
put that back in for the open government. Four point
two million dollars for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and
(29:45):
intersex people in the Western Balkans and Uganda. I could
spend the rest of the afternoon here. We took all
that out. It upset Congresswoman Ocasio Cortes, It upsets the
sovi This is.
Speaker 4 (30:00):
It's it's insanity. Mean, why would you shut down the
US government so that you can spend money on a
parade somewhere in another continent.
Speaker 6 (30:12):
You know, there is one thing on this list that
I think my wife would actually enjoy, and that is
the pastry cooking classes. Except these three point.
Speaker 4 (30:22):
Six million dollars for pastry cooking classes and dance focus
groups for male prostitutes and haiti. Why do we need
pastry cooking classes for men hookers?
Speaker 6 (30:35):
That just yeah, I mean, but see that puts it
right into focus. Because if you're saying, oh, well, the
Republicans are the ones that are shutting down the government
right now, these are your demands. These these are the
Democrat Party demands.
Speaker 4 (30:53):
Five hundred thousand dollars for electric buses in Rwanda. Okay,
Why would we spend a single dime on a bus
in another country, much less an electric bus which not
near as effective as advertised? Why would we spend a
single dime for a bus in another country? If there
was any city anywhere in the United States that said,
(31:15):
you know what, we could use government money for a
bus here. Why would we spend any money anywhere in
the US for something that a city here in the
US says, actually, that's what we need. Why wouldn't you
put an American city first? Why would you put Rwanda
above Shreveport?
Speaker 6 (31:35):
No, no, no, I get it. And look back to
your point on Senator Kennedy. You know he can use
five dollars words when he needs to, yes, but he
can also use fifty cent words. But most importantly, he
confronts folks with the facts.
Speaker 4 (31:49):
And I just want to say thank you to Senator
Kennedy for laying this all out in his very unique way.
We'll be back.
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Speaker 4 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Grand Radio.
Speaker 6 (33:13):
Stephen Farmer Lewis, So you remember I was last week
I believe. At LSU in Baton Rouge, there was a
twenty year old student named Gabriella Laurez.
Speaker 4 (33:23):
Okay, oh yeah, yeah, you know.
Speaker 6 (33:25):
She was or he was, I don't know which one.
So he okay. He was arrested after refusing to give
up the microphone during a presidential search committee meeting because
at LSU they're looking for a new president.
Speaker 4 (33:41):
Right because their last wugs Winter Rutgers.
Speaker 6 (33:44):
Now he or she, however, you might prefer to refer.
Speaker 4 (33:49):
To I'm gonna I'm gonna use some facts, Okay, it's
a he, Okay, he can he can think she's a she.
Speaker 6 (33:54):
Okay, But he didn't want to give up the microphone. No,
so he was dragged away by police by campus police. Yes,
they were just enforcing the rules, as police were. The
police were just enforcing the rules. Well, now she has
come out and said that the LSU campus police is
hostile towards transgender students.
Speaker 4 (34:18):
No, just the one.
Speaker 6 (34:20):
Look, it's not about it's a transgender headline. Now, yeah
it's not.
Speaker 4 (34:25):
But that's what this guy wanted. That's what he wanted.
That's why he intentionally went over his time because one
of the things he was doing was he was railing
against Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not involved in the
search for the next president of LSU. Donald Trump doesn't
care about who the next president of LSU is. He's
got much bigger fish to fry. I think, you know,
(34:47):
I don't even think he knows they are searching for
a new president at LSU. This has nothing to do
with Donald Trump.
Speaker 6 (34:53):
He knows, he knows, he's on top of average.
Speaker 4 (34:55):
Okay, this has nothing to do with Donald Trump. This
transgender what was a transgender student wanted to make an impression,
wanted to get attention, wanted to make a headlines, railed
against Donald Trump so that he could get attention, and
claimed to be the victim because, as Terry says often
(35:16):
Terry our American Mama. She says, victimhood is their beauty mark.
He thinks that by claiming to be a victim that
somehow makes him a better person.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
Well, it wasn't just that they were hostile the campus police.
LSU campus police was hot or hostile against him her
as a transgender.
Speaker 4 (35:34):
They were simply removing a nuisance.
Speaker 6 (35:36):
So when they brought him to the jail, apparently the
jailers didn't know where to hold him or her because
he's a he who's she said that was cruel, He
said that was cruel.
Speaker 4 (35:51):
No, because what's cruel as using What is cruel is
the world telling you that your mental delusion is correct,
because look at what it has done to this person.
Convincing this person that he is a she has now
led to all of this, this absolutely unrealistic view of
(36:16):
the universe. He thinks she's a she, and therefore he
interprets other people saying you can't violate the speaking time
at an event that has nothing to do with Donald
Trump as to oh, no, they're coming after me because
I'm transgender. When you make everything about being transgender, it
completely warps your worldview and it is not compassionate. It
is not kind to leave someone who has body dysmorphia
(36:41):
stuck in their delusion.
Speaker 6 (36:43):
Okay, but I don't think LSU campus believes that. Certainly
wasn't there.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Wasn't objective their objective. But let's get the guy who's
yelling and screaming and disrupting a meeting. Let's get that
person out of there, and then all the other people
that are coming around and blocking the cop car, let's
go ahead and remove them. To the police were simply
doing their job. It has nothing to do with this
guy being transgender, but has everything to do with this
guy being crazy.
Speaker 6 (37:07):
Right, this isn't a story about discrimination.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
Oh, it's a story about mental illness.
Speaker 6 (37:12):
Well not from Well maybe you could certainly make it
about that, but I also, if you're behaving in a
way that is not rational in public, your mental status
is disturbing the peace. No, I understand, But what I
guess what I'm saying here is that campus police in
Baton Rouge did not get hostile because this dude was transgender. No,
(37:37):
they acted upon him or her because he refused to comply,
just like anyone else would have been treated under the circumstances,
because actions have consequences. That's how a civilized society works.
Speaker 4 (37:51):
That's exactly right. So there are there were some other
members of this leftist group that were at this President's
search committee meeting, and they talk to the press after.
If any one of them had behaved the way this
supposed transgender person was acting, they would have been treated
the exact same way, even though they go by their
actual pronouns. This wasn't about transgenderism. But the left will
(38:17):
always make something about their victimhood, especially when they're wrong
on the principle. When you know, there's that old adage
if you're a lawyer, right, If you're a lawyer and
the laws on your side, then argue the law. If
the facts are on your side, then argue the facts.
And if neither the facts or the law on your side,
pound your fist on the desk and yell right.
Speaker 6 (38:39):
And that's what this guy was doing.
Speaker 4 (38:42):
He doesn't have the facts on his side, he doesn't
have the law on his side. So what he's doing
is he's trying to make this about transgenderism because his
mental delusion about what his body actually is, his body dysmorphia,
has corrupted his worldview.
Speaker 6 (38:59):
And the other part of this is is that you know,
I know, this is a college campus, but if you
had gone into a city hall or a state legislature
a committee hearing same thing you, you would have been
met with much more violent resistance by capitol police for example.
Speaker 4 (39:17):
Quite possible.
Speaker 6 (39:18):
And look, this isn't unheard of. They certainly do this
sort of thing in Supreme Court justice hearings.
Speaker 4 (39:25):
But this guy knew what he was doing. His intent
was to get arrested.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
That was the goal.
Speaker 4 (39:31):
Dude, you got what you were after.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
He got attention.
Speaker 4 (39:34):
You got attention, and now talking about it on the show.
Speaker 6 (39:36):
Now he's the victim. Now he's the victim.
Speaker 4 (39:38):
That is what he wanted. Okay, well you got what
you wanted. Will you be quiet so the adults can
now do something like, you know, search for a president,
for the next president, the president of LSU. We'll be back.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
You were listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (40:15):
Welcome back to American graut Radio. Stephen Parmer, lewisar Avaloni.
Speaker 6 (40:18):
Okay, so, I don't know, did you see this story
over the weekend that the New York Post reported Mark Sanchez,
you know, the former New York Jets quarterback and.
Speaker 4 (40:28):
Washing Redskins quarterback or Washingt commanders, I don't know which one.
Speaker 6 (40:31):
Apparently he was in Arizona. No, he was in downtown Indianapolis, Yeah,
to call the Raiders Colts game on Sunday. And the
report was he was stabbed in downtown in Indianapolis. And
you know what, the first thing that came to mind was, Oh,
(40:52):
that's just terrible. It's a crime, crime infested city, that's
what happens being outlated. That's just terrible. Right, it turns
out apparently he may have been the aggressor. He's been
charged now, He's been charged with battery, unlawful entry of
(41:15):
a motor vehicle, public intoxication, all of which are misdemeanors.
But nevertheless, see this is one of those times where
you read the headline.
Speaker 4 (41:25):
And the first reports that came out, Oh my gosh,
Sanchez is, oh, what awful things that happened to him?
But the police, as I understand, the police are saying
he actually pepper sprayed another guy over a parking space.
Speaker 6 (41:38):
A sixty nine year old man and I'm much older.
Speaker 4 (41:43):
The other man is claiming that he stabbed him in
self defense. So again, this is one of those We're
gonna have to wait for all the facts to come out.
Speaker 6 (41:53):
Right, he was allegedly intoxicated. This is according to police.
He was allegedly This is the former Jets quarterback and
professional football player allegedly intoxicated. And it just seems like,
I don't know, you can jump to a lot of conclusions,
but I wouldn't do that, especially after what we.
Speaker 4 (42:14):
Talked about early and we got to do the same
thing with the meteorologists down in New Orleans who was
arrested over the weekend. We don't have all the facts yet,
although the mugshot does appear to show some scratches on
his face. But we don't know all the facts yet,
so let's just withhold a little bit of judgment until
we learned some more.
Speaker 6 (42:31):
What's the story on that.
Speaker 4 (42:33):
I got arrested for domestic battery?
Speaker 6 (42:35):
Oh? Okay, yeah, well anyway, Mark Sanchez arrested.
Speaker 4 (42:42):
I mean, we got more American grab radio coming up.
Speaker 1 (42:47):
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