September 30, 2025 • 42 mins
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for September 29th, 2025.
0:30 We dig into the brewing legal battle between the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. New Orleans claims the state’s new traffic camera law violates its home rule authority, while Attorney General Liz Murrell says the city’s camera-issued tickets fail basic due process requirements. Is this a principled fight over local autonomy—or just a cash grab from a city staring down a $70 million deficit?
9:46 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 We dig into the brewing legal battle between the city of New Orleans and the state of Louisiana. New Orleans claims the state’s new traffic camera law violates its home rule authority, while Attorney General Liz Murrell says the city’s camera-issued tickets fail basic due process requirements. Is this a principled fight over local autonomy—or just a cash grab from a city staring down a $70 million deficit?
9:46 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- Governor Jeff Landry announced today he's working to speed up the clean up of a devastating fire at Smitty's Supply in Tangipahoa Parish.
- The Oldest open murder case in New Orleans was resolved this morning when the suspect, Keith Kisack pleaded no contest to manslaughter, attempted second-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon.
- Zachary A. Keller was sworn in this morning as the new US Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana.
12:52 Get Brain Reward from Victory Nutrition International for 20% off. Go to vni.life/agr and use the promo code AGR20.
14:20 We discuss how subtle word choices in headlines can distort news and influence public perception. We look at how a headline about Speaker Mike Johnson calling for “migrant workers” misrepresented his focus on legal seasonal workers, and how a Shreveport City Councilman’s comments on government censorship of Jimmy Kimmel were misleadingly framed.
23:29 We examine recent reports of members of Congress members selling stock in a company that makes Tylenol just before warnings were issued about the drug’s potential risks during pregnancy.
26:41 We Dig Deep into the recent enforcement of Shreveport’s anti-squatting ordinance. The law, aimed at preventing homeless individuals from occupying empty properties, has also helped law enforcement uncover and arrest individuals with outstanding warrants for serious crimes like arson, bank fraud, and child endangerment. But is enforcement of this ordigance "uncompassionate?"
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33:42 We break down Louisiana poverty data and which parishes have been hit exceptionall hard.
36:51 Plus, we have a little fun guesssing the most watched Superbowl halftime shows. Play along!
40:45 And we finish off with a word from Magnolia Pit BBQ.
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Speaker 6 (01:04):
So the City of New Orleans is suing the State
of Louisiana. What well. They're arguing that the legislature's new
traffic camera laws. Oh, by the way, happy Monday, Hi,
Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for joining us. Yeah no, So,
the City of New Orleans says that the Legislature's new
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traffic camera law, especially the provisions applying to school zones,
is unconstitutional. They say that the legislature has essentially stripped
New Orleans of their home rule authority, they're claiming that
the state's law ignores how cameras really work on the ground.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Where the cameras aren't on the ground, the poles, yes,
on buildings, know what I mean, the camera's on the ground.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
It's a problem.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
So Attorney General Liz Merle saying, look, the city of
New Orleans has been slapping fines on drivers without following
the proper procedures, right, And I think she's right.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Well, the legislature just passed this law.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, the legislature just said, look, we don't we
don't want traffic cameras out there. It's it's scept in
school zones. It's too much of big brother around. This
came because the street Port City Council and the mayor
in Streeport. This was a bipartisan thing that local government
was trying to add more cameras and more locations, and
the state legislatures went, no, that's that's too much government interference.
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We don't want that in our state. We don't think
that's good for the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Well, and Attorney General Liz Morell says, look, I think
the law is clear on the issue of traffic cameras. Okay,
And that the City of New Orleans is simply wasting
time and delaying returning thousands of dollars in funds people
it collected in violation of the law.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And that's where all this really boils down to, because
the City of New Orleans is broke, folks. The City
of New Orleans does not have like a joke.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Look, you know, broke as a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
There's that old adage. If you owe the bank one
hundred dollars, that's that's your problem. If you owe the
bank one hundred million dollars, that's the bank's problem.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
New Orleans is so broke.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
We're talking about this being a bank problem because they
have a deficit.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
They're staring out.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Of seventy million dollars for this next year. That is
a massive amount of money. And for you to be going, well, gosh,
we just don't want to return the money from traffic
cameras because frankly, we don't have enough money to return.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What do we do?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Oh, let's sue.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, so we're gonna waste some more money in a
lawsuit you're most likely gonna lose to try and postpone
paying back money. You're gonna have to pay back anyway.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Well, see the law. This is according to Attorney General
Liz Merle, the Code of civil procedure in Louisiana requires
personal service of a summons or a ticket. That means
face to face delivery. So a sheriff's deputy or a
licensed process server hands you the summons, right, and you
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can't dodge it. You can't pretend you never got it.
You can't say, oh, the mail must have lost it.
It's air tight.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's more is our constitution gives you the right to
challenge your accuser in court.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
How do you challenge a robot?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
But see Attorney General Liz Mule is saying that the
City of New Orleans has not been following these rules
that they've been descending out traffic camera citations, and the
citations don't meet the standard of service that is required
by law, and so therefore she says they are in
valid period, end of story. That means that the money
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collected by the City of New Orleans is invalid too,
And if the city doesn't stop murle, Liz Murrele is
threatening criminal charges malfeasan's in office against city officials. That's
not just the slap on the risks risk. That is
serious business. And yet the City of New Orleans is like,
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we're gonna sue you, right, and that's that is We're
gonna sue you the state of Louisiana, because we feel
like what we're doing with our traffic cameras is perfectly legitimate.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Now, if you do have a legitimate grievance between one
government jurisdiction and another government jurisdiction, yes, the appropriate place
to let that play out is in the courts. Is
why we have courts. But the city's gonna lose this,
I mean, the City of New Orleans is going to
lose this case.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Well, they say that it's on the new state law
regarding traffic cameras is unconstitutional because it strips them of
home rule authority. Now, in Louisiana, home rule cities like
New Orleans have certain powers to govern themselves without interference,
right to be autonomous to some degree.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They can set thrown, they can sovereignty, they've got taxing abilities,
they've got yeah, they've got jurisdictions that they can do.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
But here's the problem with their argument. Right, home rule
doesn't mean above the law. Right it doesn't mean you
get to ignore statewide standards for due process. You can't
just invent your own legal shortcuts because it's convenient or profitable.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Right, and state law is going to supersens.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Yes, So the state legislature absolutely has the authority to
regulate how citations are issued, how service is made, how
fines are enforced. I mean, this isn't overreach. I mean,
as the City of New Orleans is claiming, this is
basic constitutional governance.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But again, I think this comes back to money. I
think this is New Orleans is trying to pretend that
this is a principled stand that they're taking. It's not.
This is a money stand. They don't have the money
to return. They want to be able to make more
money because every dollar they don't have is a dollar
that's added to their hole.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
For next year.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
This again, seventy million dollar hole steering the City of
New Orleans in its face. So when the state comes
and says, well, you can't just be taking money from
people who are driving through because a camera says so
without due process for those people, the city is pushing
back again that they're trying to claim that this is
a principal thing.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
But I don't think it is.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
This is simply the city wants your money.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But unlike other municipalities around Louisiana, I think this fight
by New Orleans ensuing the Attorney General ensuing the State
of Louisiana is not about the cameras, right. I think
it's about power. It's about control. It's about whether government
has to follow the same rules it forces you and
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me to follow. Right, and New Orleans wants to keep
its cash cow. State of Louisiana says no, with regards
to their traffic cameras, that the rule of law matters
more than your revenue stream.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And you know again, I don't think it says much
about power as it is about money. It just comes
down to they don't have the dollars and the driver,
the people driving around New Orleans, well, they've got money
in their bank account, and the city wants that money
in the city's bank account. I just I really think
it's just that simple. I don't think this is a
This is anything more that local power over state power.
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I don't think this is anything about a principled stand
for democracy. This is just simply called hard cash.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Okay. But the flip side of this is If New
Orleans loses this case, yes, then look at Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport.
Any city running camera enforcement programs could be next.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, and should be according to the state law, because
the only place where you're allowed to do camera enforcement
activities is in school zones. According to this new state
law that went through that means red light cameras aren't legitimate,
speed cameras outside of school zones aren't legitimate, and the
ones in school zones have to be highly regulated they
can only be for school zone hours. So any places
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not following the state law, of course they should be
next well.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Kudos to Liz Merle. She is proving herself willing to
do what so many in public office shy away from,
and that has actually enforced the law, especially about regarding
democrats who think they're above the law.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Let's get to the time. Three things you need to
know before tomorrow. First, singing Needo before maw. Governor Jeff
Lantry announce today he's working to speed up the cleanup
of a devastating fire at Smitty's Supply in Tangibahae Parish.
Smitty's supply exploded last month, resulting in a chemical spill
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and the release of toxic gases during the fire. The
EPs is so far they have recovered five point seven
million gallons of contaminated water in the area. However, drone
footage released over the weekend showing the destruction at the
site was able to convince the governor that progress is
not moving fast enough. He released a video saying he
was going to fast track the cleanup. Landry said contractors
contracted by the EPA were supposed to be cleaning that up,
(10:04):
and they're not going fast enough.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Look, I think it's true that it's been thirty days.
They're still oil just floating in the water. And I
don't know what the governor can do about it, but
I am excited that he's trying to do something about him.
Second thing you need to know before tomorrow. The oldest
open murder case in New Orleans was resolved this morning
when the suspect, Keith kiss ackt pled no contest a manslaughter,
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attempted second degree murder, and possession of a firearm by
a felon. The key witness in the case had been
missing for several years, and the defense claimed she was dead.
Turns out she was alive, but the Attorney General's office
was still not able to find her location to issue
a subpoena. So a deal was reached for kiss Ack
to plead no contest, meaning he wasn't admitting guilt, but
he wasn't denying the charges either. He was sentenced to
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sixteen years in prison with time served. Now that doesn't
mean he's going to be released since he's also serving
a life sentence for other charges under Louisiana's habitual fender law. Wow,
sixteen years for a murder case again, this is I
get back to justice laid is justice denied? Sixteen years
is too long for a murder case.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
This should have been taken care of a long, long
time ago.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And the third thing you need to know before tomorrow.
Zachary A. Keller was sworn in this morning as a
new US attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. Western
District covers forty two parishes in Louisiana includes offices in
Streetport in Lafayette. Keller is a graduate of West Monroe
High School and LSU and has been serving as an
Assistant US Attorney in the state of Florida since twenty
twenty one. At a swearing in, Keller said his office
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quote will work to We'll work tirelessly to make Louisiana
a safer place to live, work, raise a family, and
run a business by combating violent crime, gangs, child predators,
immigration and financial fraud and other criminal activity.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And you know what, we have someone here in our
area that will be a partner to the new Department
of Justice basically under cash Ptel.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
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Which, by the way, that's not actually that far fetch,
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Those kinks worked out, we sometimes still have things we
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Absolutely like the sound. Like the sound sound of the show. Yeah,
some folks say it sounds a little different.
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It has, and we're working on that.
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We're working on and I had some friends talk to
me about that this weekend, and oh, we're working on
improving some of.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Those sounds all right, well, very good. Yeah, but we
do have I think we've got better mics though, don't
we have? We have we have better microphones than we
had in the other studio.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think there's good. It's just a matter of getting
because we're working on video. So in the other studio,
you could basically put that microphone right in front of
your face and nobody cared and you could be like
right up on the mic, and that's great. We've got
some mics now that are designed to be a little
bit further back. But you and I have to get
better at being used to using the microphone where we
don't have to be right up on top of it,
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because sometimes you and I still move around and then
we mess up all the audio.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Because we're too far back or we're too close to it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So getting that rhythm down, that's something we're working on to.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You know, a lot of folks are like too much information.
That's just so there's a lot of too much information.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Into creating a show that that is going to be
great for the first.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Well, and look for all of you who are listening,
we want to make it the very best experience for
you to listen, whether you're listening over terrestrial radio, or
listening via the podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Or listening on Facebook or YouTube, YouTube, or whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
You know, we talked last week briefly about local media
and how local media sometimes can twist news and the
headline might might be factual. And we have a couple
of examples here in northwest Louisiana, where the headline was, look,
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I'll give it to them, this is the street port
bowsure advocate. The headline was absolutely correct about Speaker Johnson,
that Speaker Johnson said we need more migrants. But what
that made it sound like the headline the implication was
the implication was that basically Speaker Johnson was Joe Biden
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with a Southern accent.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Right the headline that makes it look like Mike Johnson's
calling for more illegal immigration, like.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
A caravan marching through Texas.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Or because the Left uses the word migrant as a
code word for illegal immigrant, they don't like the term
illegal immigrant. Now Speaker Johnson doesn't. Speaker Johnson believes that
words have meeting, and so he will say illegal immigrant
when he means illegal immigrant, and when he means a
legal migrant who's allowed to work, he'll say that too.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
And that's what he said when he was talking with
regards to I think he's speaking to the chamber. The
sposure in the Shreeport Chambers of Commerce said we need
migrant workers. Now what he was talking about, and he
went on to explain, and I quote what he said
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was people who are law abiding. We're talking about the
people who come from another country, they work as a
seasonal worker, and then they go back home. The system
has worked out well, says Speaker Johnson, but many believe
we don't have enough of those visas available to supply
the workforce and the talent we need. Okay, so if
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you run the headline we need more migrants or we
need migrant workers, that is accurate.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So the author of the reporter, I'm not sure we
know fully because we've got so many illegal aliens here
in the country working and taking jobs. I don't know
if we necessarily know how many migrant workers we would
necessarily need because the whole system has been corrupted by
the illegal immigration the Biden administration brought in.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But I think the headline could have easily have been
we need more, we need more legal migrant workers. That
that would have been more accurate and precise, but that
doesn't you know, that doesn't necessarily sell papers or subscriptions
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or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And again they're not the only ones I think you
can go through.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And if you know, I.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Used to talk about this with with reporters when I
was working on training reporters back in my day in journalism,
and I would talk about how bias can sneak in
in just one word. All it takes is one word
in an article for your bias to sneak in.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
And I gave the example.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
This was back in two thousand and seven, and they
were there was an article said, the increasingly unpopular war
in Iraq. Well at there was one word in that
sentence that made the entire thing false, and it portrayed bias.
And the word was increasingly because by two thousand and seven,
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the war in Iraq was decreasingly unpopular.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
It wasn't increasingly.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It was still unpopular, but it wasn't getting more and
more unpopular every day. But the media, the ap threw
in the word increasingly to make it sound like that
it was getting worse and worse and worse, when by
that time we had already had the surge, the public
opinion was starting to sway and go back the other way, saying, Okay,
if we can end this with honor, that's a great thing.
It was a decreasingly unpopular war, not an increasingly unpopular war.
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It only takes one word to allow the bias of
the writer to go into the story to corrupt the
entire story.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
No, absolutely, and these matters, you know, or if you
if the press can distort someone's words, Speaker Johnson in
this case about legal migrant visas or Shreveport City Councilman
Grayson Butcher, who said, you know, the government should not
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get involved in censoring Jimmy Kimmel for example.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay, which I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
But of course, the headline about Treeport Councilman Grayson Butcher
was basically suggesting that President Trump or the FCC was
responsible for the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And I would argue that it. My My assumption then,
is that the person who wrote that article believes that.
But but look, but that doesn't make it true.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
No. But but Grayson Butcher, he came out and he explained, Look,
I wasn't saying that at all, right, but the implication
from the headline. And really, all this does, I say, really,
all this does is it robs us of the opportunity
to have an honest discussion about policy in this country.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And by the way, if you're like what Lewis is
talking about, you go to the hay Ride because there's
an article from mister Avaloni in the hay Ride.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Do you see that. No, I did not your article.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
It's in the hay Ride. Oh, exactly what you're talking
about right now.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I did not know that.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
You're famous, my friend, min my my mind.
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Yeah, the Hayride dot Com.
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Speaker 6 (23:02):
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 2 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (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, Thailandal. 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 FD, the
very agency that regulates tilan All, and then he unloads
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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 7 (24:48):
I don't think I would.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
No, of course not. The SEC would be pounding on
your door tomorrow morning at six am.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
But hey, maybe if I was a member of Congress,
I would.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I mean, you know, it's possible trading on that information.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
But see, yeah, they're they're.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Doing it, and they're getting away with it, and you know.
Speaker 6 (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 2 (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 6 (25:43):
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 sand.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Yeah, how's that happen? Well, tell you what, let's dig deep.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Earlier this year, the city streetport passed in the ordinance
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
living in empty properties were catching those properties on fire
and burning them down the ground. You're talking about homes,
talking about apartment complexes, and those fires would then threatened
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neighboring buildings while also destroying the properties themselves, right, So
the homeowners would just be to be out.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
And in many instances it wasn't a threat. It actually
there were other homes nearby or that did go on fire.
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
It's just been a couple of months in operation.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
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, 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.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's intensely cruel. But look, there's been another upside to
this law enforcement to stop 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.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
It's like a twofer here.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
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, and
child endangerment. So as they're arresting these people who are squatting,
these people who are you know, 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
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to use their crack or whatever. They are also funded.
These same people have other charges, They have other warrants
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,
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domestic abuse, battery with the weapon, and two counts of
domestic abuse, child endangerment. They've got Aaron Pitts, another facing
squatting charges, also faces charges for simple arson Misty Talbert
charge September nineteenth with squatting, also faces to Burgley charges.
In early September, Cedric Wilson was charged with squatting. He
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had nine warrants for other offenses not listed by the department.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
But see, the thing is is that there are a
lot of folks that say that's not being compassionate, that
you're not being compassionate.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Arresting people because they've got other crimes out. They've got
other warrants out for the rest.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Before you 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
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poor people, they just need a roof over their head,
they don't have anything.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Let me ask you a question. Compassionate for whom?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Because is it compassionate to leave someone on the streets
and allow them to continue to commit.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Crimes against other people?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
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 to say, well the property owners, well, that's just
the fat cats getting fat. You and I both know
someone who owned a small piece of property here in
Shreeport that was burned down last month by a squatter.
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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.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
An older area in Shreeport.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
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.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Clear the lot, right, But why are Democrats okay with that?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
I don't know. Because it's not compassionate to the homeless.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Folks, I'd say democrats.
Speaker 2 (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 6 (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 2 (30:54):
Would you invest money in a place that you expect
the neighbors, the neighborhouse to burn down. I'm a homeless
person lighting of that fire.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Would you invest in that?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
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 2 (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 6 (31:41):
It's an unintended consequence.
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
We'll be right Backstackground.
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Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen parver Lewis.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Apparently fifty percent of Louisiana households struggled to make ends
meet in twenty twenty three. Fifty percent, fifty percent now
nineteen percent on average. This was in twenty twenty three,
nineteen percent of Louisiana households fell below the federal poverty level.
(33:38):
Now that's pretty significant. Now some of the poorest parishes,
and this is according to the Alice threshold. Some of
the poorest parishes, I mean, this is remarkable. In East
Carol Parish, seventy five percent of all households in that
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parish are experiencing financial hardship. Okay, Clayburne Parish.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
How do they define financial hardship?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Does it say financial heart because those savings, no savings whatsoever. Okay,
let's see here. So the poverty line the poverty line then,
so if you're living below the Alice threshold is which
is the minimum cost to live and work in today's economy. Uh,
(34:30):
that's how they're describing or defining.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
One of my complaints about, though, just using the poverty
level data is that it does not take into account
cost of living. So the poverty level for New York
City is the same as East Carol Parish. But if
you were to look at how much it costs to
rent an apartment in New York City versus how much
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it would cost to rent an apartment in nist Carroll Parish,
those would be drastically different numbers. So simply saying that
you know you're living below the poverty level, and you've
got more people in Louisiana living below the poverty level,
well yeah, but we're not having to actually spend as
much money to live as you have to spend in
some other places. So I'm not sure just looking at
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the poverty level is a good apples to apples comparison.
It certainly ends up making states like Shreveport, like Louisiana
and Mississippi look bad. I'm just not sure it's.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
A fair number.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Okay, So in twenty twenty three, household costs in every
parish were above the federal poverty level of fourteen thousand,
five hundred and eighty dollars for a single adult and
thirty thousand for a family of four. But if you
go to Cameron Parish, for example, thirty three percent of
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those living in Cameron Parish in twenty twenty three, we're
living below the federal poverty line.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
West Baton Rouge Parish thirty seven percent, Boser Parish forty percent.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Folks below the party line.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
That is what is being reported. This is being reported
by the Baton Rouge Advocate.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Wow, tell you what, let's play a game.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Black battleship shall.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
So.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Over the week in the NFL announced who would be
the halftime performer at.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
This year's Super Bowl. This is coming up to the.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Super Bowl, Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I thought it would be Taylor Swift, especially since she's
now engaged to an NFL player.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
I thought that'd be well, that'd be a great little halftime.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Now that would fuel all of the conspiracy theorists to
say them you know that this wasn't this is a
sham marriage that this is all for marketing, right between
Kelsey and Taylor.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Well, they named bad Bunny instead.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Have you heard of bad Bunny?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
You know what I could tell you? I have? Yeah,
I have, no, Yeah, bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
That's the most common thing I've seen online is who's that?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
All right?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
So that's brought me to this game.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
What are the most watched NFL halftime shows of all time?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Okay, all right, I can do this. Can ya the
most watched?
Speaker 7 (37:15):
The most watched?
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Michael Jackson? No, are you kidded me?
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:20):
No, Michael Jackson's not in the top ten.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
No, Paul McCartney's not in Paul McCartney not in the
top ten.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Umm oh who Usher?
Speaker 7 (37:39):
H Usher? Usher?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yes, Usher number two. That was in twenty twenty four.
They had one hundred and twenty three point four million
viewers for Usher.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Let's see how about Madonna?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Madonna? Yes, Madonna makes the top ten. She's number eight
on the list. Twenty twelve, she had one hundred and
fourteen million viewers.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Dolly, pardon no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
If Cheer was then, I don't have turn she'd be great.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
But Paul McCartney was, he was one year, yeah, he was,
and so was Michael Jackson, Yeah he was.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Michael Jackson was really kind of what with the changed
diffrom being it was always up with people, and then
they did Michael Jackson and they've had the superstars ever.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Since, all right. Madonna? Yeah, Oh, Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Lady Gaga absolutely number five on the list. In twenty seventeen,
she had one hundred and seventeen point five million viewers.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
Boy, I tell you this is where there's a cliff here. Yeah,
and I'm just about to fall off of it. Yeah, yeah,
I'm out.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Okay, let me run through the list.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I'll start at the bottom here, number ten, Black Eyed
Peas and twenty eleven they had one hundred and ten
point two million. Yet Beyonce and Destiny's Child. Back in
twenty thirteen, you had a Madonna. Then number seven on
the list Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
which was an odd pairing. But twenty fourteen had one
hundred and fifteen point three million Beyonce, Coldplay and Bruno Mars,
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so he makes the list twice. Beyonce makes the list
twice one hundred and fifteen point five million.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
Back in twenty sixteen, you.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Had Lady Gaga, as you mentioned, one hundred and seventeen
point five and twenty seventeen. Katy Perry in twenty fifteen
had one hundred and twenty one million.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Here's the top three.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Rihanna in two thousand and three, Usher in two thousand
and four, and Kendrick Lamar in twenty twenty five. So
the last three are from the top three are from
the last three years. So I think that's kind of
like the NFL feels like, well, I mean, we can't
go wrong.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
Well, no, I think they're trying to obviously attract a
younger and younger demographic, right, and.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
That's that's where they're going with Bad Bunny. And you
and I aren't going to be Bad Bunny fans.
Speaker 7 (39:44):
And that's okay. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I've never heard bad Bunny. I might be a raving fan.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Well, you'll get a chance to hear him coming up
at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (39:54):
We'll be right back Instagram.
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Speaker 6 (41:34):
Yeah. Absolutely, Well, apparently the state of Louisiana has issued
a warrant now yea for the California based doctor who
is accused of mailing abortion pills to Louisiana.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
Another one.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
Yeah, so you know, you get that doctor in New York, right.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Who's in trouble, but not only in Louisiana but also
in Texas.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
But now you have this California doctor that now the
state of Louisiana is issued a warrant. And look that's
this is really good. This is good. And what Attorney
General lives Get.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
The doctor and prosecute them. One in New York we
can't prosecute.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
But I think what Attorney General Liz Merle is doing
is sending a message that you can't traffic abortion pills
like you're mailing out Amazon packages in Louisiana. This is
a serious crime here, and you're going to be held accountable.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Name any state in the country that would allow people
to mail death into their state.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Let me state they would do that.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Our laws mean something here in Louisiana, and if you
violate them, even from California.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
You should be prosecuted. We'll bred back.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
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Speaker 6 (01:04):
So the City of New Orleans is suing the State
of Louisiana. What well. They're arguing that the legislature's new
traffic camera laws. Oh, by the way, happy Monday, Hi,
Happy Monday everyone, Thank you for joining us. Yeah no, So,
the City of New Orleans says that the Legislature's new
(01:27):
traffic camera law, especially the provisions applying to school zones,
is unconstitutional. They say that the legislature has essentially stripped
New Orleans of their home rule authority, they're claiming that
the state's law ignores how cameras really work on the ground.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Where the cameras aren't on the ground, the poles, yes,
on buildings, know what I mean, the camera's on the ground.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
It's a problem.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
So Attorney General Liz Merle saying, look, the city of
New Orleans has been slapping fines on drivers without following
the proper procedures, right, And I think she's right.
Speaker 7 (02:11):
Well, the legislature just passed this law.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
I mean, the legislature just said, look, we don't we
don't want traffic cameras out there. It's it's scept in
school zones. It's too much of big brother around. This
came because the street Port City Council and the mayor
in Streeport. This was a bipartisan thing that local government
was trying to add more cameras and more locations, and
the state legislatures went, no, that's that's too much government interference.
(02:37):
We don't want that in our state. We don't think
that's good for the state of Louisiana.
Speaker 6 (02:40):
Well, and Attorney General Liz Morell says, look, I think
the law is clear on the issue of traffic cameras. Okay,
And that the City of New Orleans is simply wasting
time and delaying returning thousands of dollars in funds people
it collected in violation of the law.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
And that's where all this really boils down to, because
the City of New Orleans is broke, folks. The City
of New Orleans does not have like a joke.
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Look, you know, broke as a joke.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
There's that old adage. If you owe the bank one
hundred dollars, that's that's your problem. If you owe the
bank one hundred million dollars, that's the bank's problem.
Speaker 7 (03:19):
New Orleans is so broke.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
We're talking about this being a bank problem because they
have a deficit.
Speaker 7 (03:24):
They're staring out.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Of seventy million dollars for this next year. That is
a massive amount of money. And for you to be going, well, gosh,
we just don't want to return the money from traffic
cameras because frankly, we don't have enough money to return.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
What do we do?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
What do we do?
Speaker 7 (03:39):
Oh, let's sue.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Okay, so we're gonna waste some more money in a
lawsuit you're most likely gonna lose to try and postpone
paying back money. You're gonna have to pay back anyway.
Speaker 6 (03:50):
Well, see the law. This is according to Attorney General
Liz Merle, the Code of civil procedure in Louisiana requires
personal service of a summons or a ticket. That means
face to face delivery. So a sheriff's deputy or a
licensed process server hands you the summons, right, and you
(04:11):
can't dodge it. You can't pretend you never got it.
You can't say, oh, the mail must have lost it.
It's air tight.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Well.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
What's more is our constitution gives you the right to
challenge your accuser in court.
Speaker 7 (04:24):
How do you challenge a robot?
Speaker 6 (04:26):
But see Attorney General Liz Mule is saying that the
City of New Orleans has not been following these rules
that they've been descending out traffic camera citations, and the
citations don't meet the standard of service that is required
by law, and so therefore she says they are in
valid period, end of story. That means that the money
(04:46):
collected by the City of New Orleans is invalid too,
And if the city doesn't stop murle, Liz Murrele is
threatening criminal charges malfeasan's in office against city officials. That's
not just the slap on the risks risk. That is
serious business. And yet the City of New Orleans is like,
(05:08):
we're gonna sue you, right, and that's that is We're
gonna sue you the state of Louisiana, because we feel
like what we're doing with our traffic cameras is perfectly legitimate.
Speaker 7 (05:19):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Now, if you do have a legitimate grievance between one
government jurisdiction and another government jurisdiction, yes, the appropriate place
to let that play out is in the courts. Is
why we have courts. But the city's gonna lose this,
I mean, the City of New Orleans is going to
lose this case.
Speaker 6 (05:37):
Well, they say that it's on the new state law
regarding traffic cameras is unconstitutional because it strips them of
home rule authority. Now, in Louisiana, home rule cities like
New Orleans have certain powers to govern themselves without interference,
right to be autonomous to some degree.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
They can set thrown, they can sovereignty, they've got taxing abilities,
they've got yeah, they've got jurisdictions that they can do.
Speaker 6 (06:06):
But here's the problem with their argument. Right, home rule
doesn't mean above the law. Right it doesn't mean you
get to ignore statewide standards for due process. You can't
just invent your own legal shortcuts because it's convenient or profitable.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Right, and state law is going to supersens.
Speaker 6 (06:23):
Yes, So the state legislature absolutely has the authority to
regulate how citations are issued, how service is made, how
fines are enforced. I mean, this isn't overreach. I mean,
as the City of New Orleans is claiming, this is
basic constitutional governance.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
But again, I think this comes back to money. I
think this is New Orleans is trying to pretend that
this is a principled stand that they're taking. It's not.
This is a money stand. They don't have the money
to return. They want to be able to make more
money because every dollar they don't have is a dollar
that's added to their hole.
Speaker 7 (07:00):
For next year.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
This again, seventy million dollar hole steering the City of
New Orleans in its face. So when the state comes
and says, well, you can't just be taking money from
people who are driving through because a camera says so
without due process for those people, the city is pushing
back again that they're trying to claim that this is
a principal thing.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
But I don't think it is.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
This is simply the city wants your money.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
But unlike other municipalities around Louisiana, I think this fight
by New Orleans ensuing the Attorney General ensuing the State
of Louisiana is not about the cameras, right. I think
it's about power. It's about control. It's about whether government
has to follow the same rules it forces you and
(07:46):
me to follow. Right, and New Orleans wants to keep
its cash cow. State of Louisiana says no, with regards
to their traffic cameras, that the rule of law matters
more than your revenue stream.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
And you know again, I don't think it says much
about power as it is about money. It just comes
down to they don't have the dollars and the driver,
the people driving around New Orleans, well, they've got money
in their bank account, and the city wants that money
in the city's bank account. I just I really think
it's just that simple. I don't think this is a
This is anything more that local power over state power.
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I don't think this is anything about a principled stand
for democracy. This is just simply called hard cash.
Speaker 6 (08:25):
Okay. But the flip side of this is If New
Orleans loses this case, yes, then look at Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Shreveport.
Any city running camera enforcement programs could be next.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Well, and should be according to the state law, because
the only place where you're allowed to do camera enforcement
activities is in school zones. According to this new state
law that went through that means red light cameras aren't legitimate,
speed cameras outside of school zones aren't legitimate, and the
ones in school zones have to be highly regulated they
can only be for school zone hours. So any places
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not following the state law, of course they should be
next well.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Kudos to Liz Merle. She is proving herself willing to
do what so many in public office shy away from,
and that has actually enforced the law, especially about regarding
democrats who think they're above the law.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Let's get to the time. Three things you need to
know before tomorrow. First, singing Needo before maw. Governor Jeff
Lantry announce today he's working to speed up the cleanup
of a devastating fire at Smitty's Supply in Tangibahae Parish.
Smitty's supply exploded last month, resulting in a chemical spill
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and the release of toxic gases during the fire. The
EPs is so far they have recovered five point seven
million gallons of contaminated water in the area. However, drone
footage released over the weekend showing the destruction at the
site was able to convince the governor that progress is
not moving fast enough. He released a video saying he
was going to fast track the cleanup. Landry said contractors
contracted by the EPA were supposed to be cleaning that up,
(10:04):
and they're not going fast enough.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
What do you think about that?
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Look, I think it's true that it's been thirty days.
They're still oil just floating in the water. And I
don't know what the governor can do about it, but
I am excited that he's trying to do something about him.
Second thing you need to know before tomorrow. The oldest
open murder case in New Orleans was resolved this morning
when the suspect, Keith kiss ackt pled no contest a manslaughter,
(10:28):
attempted second degree murder, and possession of a firearm by
a felon. The key witness in the case had been
missing for several years, and the defense claimed she was dead.
Turns out she was alive, but the Attorney General's office
was still not able to find her location to issue
a subpoena. So a deal was reached for kiss Ack
to plead no contest, meaning he wasn't admitting guilt, but
he wasn't denying the charges either. He was sentenced to
(10:50):
sixteen years in prison with time served. Now that doesn't
mean he's going to be released since he's also serving
a life sentence for other charges under Louisiana's habitual fender law. Wow,
sixteen years for a murder case again, this is I
get back to justice laid is justice denied? Sixteen years
is too long for a murder case.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
This should have been taken care of a long, long
time ago.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And the third thing you need to know before tomorrow.
Zachary A. Keller was sworn in this morning as a
new US attorney for the Western District of Louisiana. Western
District covers forty two parishes in Louisiana includes offices in
Streetport in Lafayette. Keller is a graduate of West Monroe
High School and LSU and has been serving as an
Assistant US Attorney in the state of Florida since twenty
twenty one. At a swearing in, Keller said his office
(11:33):
quote will work to We'll work tirelessly to make Louisiana
a safer place to live, work, raise a family, and
run a business by combating violent crime, gangs, child predators,
immigration and financial fraud and other criminal activity.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And you know what, we have someone here in our
area that will be a partner to the new Department
of Justice basically under cash Ptel.
Speaker 7 (11:53):
I like it. We'll we have back Instagram.
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I didn't know that, I think so, okay.
Speaker 6 (14:18):
Don't know a lot of Canadians. Yeah, but I think
they think the the we say processes, Yeah, well they
say process.
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Say a boot, but that has nothing Instead of about
they say boot.
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Which, by the way, that's not actually that far fetch,
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still have to work on here in the studio.
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Absolutely like the sound. Like the sound sound of the show. Yeah,
some folks say it sounds a little different.
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It has, and we're working on that.
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We're working on and I had some friends talk to
me about that this weekend, and oh, we're working on
improving some of.
Speaker 6 (15:25):
Those sounds all right, well, very good. Yeah, but we
do have I think we've got better mics though, don't
we have? We have we have better microphones than we
had in the other studio.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
I think there's good. It's just a matter of getting
because we're working on video. So in the other studio,
you could basically put that microphone right in front of
your face and nobody cared and you could be like
right up on the mic, and that's great. We've got
some mics now that are designed to be a little
bit further back. But you and I have to get
better at being used to using the microphone where we
don't have to be right up on top of it,
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because sometimes you and I still move around and then
we mess up all the audio.
Speaker 7 (16:00):
Because we're too far back or we're too close to it.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
So getting that rhythm down, that's something we're working on to.
Speaker 6 (16:05):
You know, a lot of folks are like too much information.
That's just so there's a lot of too much information.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
Into creating a show that that is going to be
great for the first.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
Well, and look for all of you who are listening,
we want to make it the very best experience for
you to listen, whether you're listening over terrestrial radio, or
listening via the podcast.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Or listening on Facebook or YouTube, YouTube, or whatever the
case may be.
Speaker 6 (16:33):
You know, we talked last week briefly about local media
and how local media sometimes can twist news and the
headline might might be factual. And we have a couple
of examples here in northwest Louisiana, where the headline was, look,
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I'll give it to them, this is the street port
bowsure advocate. The headline was absolutely correct about Speaker Johnson,
that Speaker Johnson said we need more migrants. But what
that made it sound like the headline the implication was
the implication was that basically Speaker Johnson was Joe Biden
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with a Southern accent.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Right the headline that makes it look like Mike Johnson's
calling for more illegal immigration, like.
Speaker 6 (17:27):
A caravan marching through Texas.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Or because the Left uses the word migrant as a
code word for illegal immigrant, they don't like the term
illegal immigrant. Now Speaker Johnson doesn't. Speaker Johnson believes that
words have meeting, and so he will say illegal immigrant
when he means illegal immigrant, and when he means a
legal migrant who's allowed to work, he'll say that too.
Speaker 6 (17:49):
And that's what he said when he was talking with
regards to I think he's speaking to the chamber. The
sposure in the Shreeport Chambers of Commerce said we need
migrant workers. Now what he was talking about, and he
went on to explain, and I quote what he said
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was people who are law abiding. We're talking about the
people who come from another country, they work as a
seasonal worker, and then they go back home. The system
has worked out well, says Speaker Johnson, but many believe
we don't have enough of those visas available to supply
the workforce and the talent we need. Okay, so if
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you run the headline we need more migrants or we
need migrant workers, that is accurate.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
So the author of the reporter, I'm not sure we
know fully because we've got so many illegal aliens here
in the country working and taking jobs. I don't know
if we necessarily know how many migrant workers we would
necessarily need because the whole system has been corrupted by
the illegal immigration the Biden administration brought in.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But I think the headline could have easily have been
we need more, we need more legal migrant workers. That
that would have been more accurate and precise, but that
doesn't you know, that doesn't necessarily sell papers or subscriptions
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or whatever the case may be.
Speaker 2 (19:21):
And again they're not the only ones I think you
can go through.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
And if you know, I.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Used to talk about this with with reporters when I
was working on training reporters back in my day in journalism,
and I would talk about how bias can sneak in
in just one word. All it takes is one word
in an article for your bias to sneak in.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
And I gave the example.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
This was back in two thousand and seven, and they
were there was an article said, the increasingly unpopular war
in Iraq. Well at there was one word in that
sentence that made the entire thing false, and it portrayed bias.
And the word was increasingly because by two thousand and seven,
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the war in Iraq was decreasingly unpopular.
Speaker 7 (20:09):
It wasn't increasingly.
Speaker 2 (20:10):
It was still unpopular, but it wasn't getting more and
more unpopular every day. But the media, the ap threw
in the word increasingly to make it sound like that
it was getting worse and worse and worse, when by
that time we had already had the surge, the public
opinion was starting to sway and go back the other way, saying, Okay,
if we can end this with honor, that's a great thing.
It was a decreasingly unpopular war, not an increasingly unpopular war.
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It only takes one word to allow the bias of
the writer to go into the story to corrupt the
entire story.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
No, absolutely, and these matters, you know, or if you
if the press can distort someone's words, Speaker Johnson in
this case about legal migrant visas or Shreveport City Councilman
Grayson Butcher, who said, you know, the government should not
(21:02):
get involved in censoring Jimmy Kimmel for example.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
Okay, which I agree with you.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
But of course, the headline about Treeport Councilman Grayson Butcher
was basically suggesting that President Trump or the FCC was
responsible for the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
And I would argue that it. My My assumption then,
is that the person who wrote that article believes that.
But but look, but that doesn't make it true.
Speaker 6 (21:34):
No. But but Grayson Butcher, he came out and he explained, Look,
I wasn't saying that at all, right, but the implication
from the headline. And really, all this does, I say, really,
all this does is it robs us of the opportunity
to have an honest discussion about policy in this country.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
And by the way, if you're like what Lewis is
talking about, you go to the hay Ride because there's
an article from mister Avaloni in the hay Ride.
Speaker 6 (22:04):
Do you see that. No, I did not your article.
Speaker 7 (22:06):
It's in the hay Ride. Oh, exactly what you're talking
about right now.
Speaker 6 (22:08):
I did not know that.
Speaker 7 (22:09):
You're famous, my friend, min my my mind.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
Yeah. Well, you know what, We've got a lot more
American ground radio.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
That's the Hayride dot Com.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Yeah, the Hayride dot Com.
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and ground radio.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
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Speaker 6 (23:02):
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 2 (23:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (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, Thailandal. 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 FD, the
very agency that regulates tilan All, and then he unloads
(24:04):
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 7 (24:48):
I don't think I would.
Speaker 6 (24:48):
No, of course not. The SEC would be pounding on
your door tomorrow morning at six am.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
But hey, maybe if I was a member of Congress,
I would.
Speaker 6 (24:56):
I mean, you know, it's possible trading on that information.
Speaker 7 (25:01):
But see, yeah, they're they're.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Doing it, and they're getting away with it, and you know.
Speaker 6 (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 2 (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 6 (25:43):
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 sand.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
Yeah, how's that happen? Well, tell you what, let's dig deep.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Going down, down down.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Earlier this year, the city streetport passed in the ordinance
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
living in empty properties were catching those properties on fire
and burning them down the ground. You're talking about homes,
talking about apartment complexes, and those fires would then threatened
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neighboring buildings while also destroying the properties themselves, right, So
the homeowners would just be to be out.
Speaker 6 (26:41):
And in many instances it wasn't a threat. It actually
there were other homes nearby or that did go on fire.
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 7 (27:00):
It's just been a couple of months in operation.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
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, 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.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
No, it's not.
Speaker 2 (27:23):
It's intensely cruel. But look, there's been another upside to
this law enforcement to stop 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.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
It's like a twofer here.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
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, and
child endangerment. So as they're arresting these people who are squatting,
these people who are you know, 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
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to use their crack or whatever. They are also funded.
These same people have other charges, They have other warrants
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,
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domestic abuse, battery with the weapon, and two counts of
domestic abuse, child endangerment. They've got Aaron Pitts, another facing
squatting charges, also faces charges for simple arson Misty Talbert
charge September nineteenth with squatting, also faces to Burgley charges.
In early September, Cedric Wilson was charged with squatting. He
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had nine warrants for other offenses not listed by the department.
Speaker 6 (28:54):
But see, the thing is is that there are a
lot of folks that say that's not being compassionate, that
you're not being compassionate.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Arresting people because they've got other crimes out. They've got
other warrants out for the rest.
Speaker 6 (29:06):
Before you 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
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poor people, they just need a roof over their head,
they don't have anything.
Speaker 7 (29:32):
Let me ask you a question. Compassionate for whom?
Speaker 6 (29:35):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Because is it compassionate to leave someone on the streets
and allow them to continue to commit.
Speaker 7 (29:43):
Crimes against other people?
Speaker 2 (29:44):
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 to say, well the property owners, well, that's just
the fat cats getting fat. You and I both know
someone who owned a small piece of property here in
Shreeport that was burned down last month by a squatter.
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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.
Speaker 7 (30:14):
An older area in Shreeport.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
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.
Speaker 6 (30:27):
Clear the lot, right, But why are Democrats okay with that?
Speaker 7 (30:32):
I don't know. Because it's not compassionate to the homeless.
Speaker 6 (30:34):
Folks, I'd say democrats.
Speaker 2 (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 6 (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 2 (30:54):
Would you invest money in a place that you expect
the neighbors, the neighborhouse to burn down. I'm a homeless
person lighting of that fire.
Speaker 7 (31:01):
Would you invest in that?
Speaker 6 (31:02):
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 2 (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 6 (31:41):
It's an unintended consequence.
Speaker 2 (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.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
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Speaker 2 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen parver Lewis.
Speaker 6 (33:15):
Apparently fifty percent of Louisiana households struggled to make ends
meet in twenty twenty three. Fifty percent, fifty percent now
nineteen percent on average. This was in twenty twenty three,
nineteen percent of Louisiana households fell below the federal poverty level.
(33:38):
Now that's pretty significant. Now some of the poorest parishes,
and this is according to the Alice threshold. Some of
the poorest parishes, I mean, this is remarkable. In East
Carol Parish, seventy five percent of all households in that
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parish are experiencing financial hardship. Okay, Clayburne Parish.
Speaker 7 (34:06):
How do they define financial hardship?
Speaker 6 (34:08):
Does it say financial heart because those savings, no savings whatsoever. Okay,
let's see here. So the poverty line the poverty line then,
so if you're living below the Alice threshold is which
is the minimum cost to live and work in today's economy. Uh,
(34:30):
that's how they're describing or defining.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
One of my complaints about, though, just using the poverty
level data is that it does not take into account
cost of living. So the poverty level for New York
City is the same as East Carol Parish. But if
you were to look at how much it costs to
rent an apartment in New York City versus how much
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it would cost to rent an apartment in nist Carroll Parish,
those would be drastically different numbers. So simply saying that
you know you're living below the poverty level, and you've
got more people in Louisiana living below the poverty level,
well yeah, but we're not having to actually spend as
much money to live as you have to spend in
some other places. So I'm not sure just looking at
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the poverty level is a good apples to apples comparison.
It certainly ends up making states like Shreveport, like Louisiana
and Mississippi look bad. I'm just not sure it's.
Speaker 7 (35:28):
A fair number.
Speaker 6 (35:29):
Okay, So in twenty twenty three, household costs in every
parish were above the federal poverty level of fourteen thousand,
five hundred and eighty dollars for a single adult and
thirty thousand for a family of four. But if you
go to Cameron Parish, for example, thirty three percent of
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those living in Cameron Parish in twenty twenty three, we're
living below the federal poverty line.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Wow.
Speaker 6 (35:56):
West Baton Rouge Parish thirty seven percent, Boser Parish forty percent.
Speaker 7 (36:05):
Folks below the party line.
Speaker 6 (36:08):
That is what is being reported. This is being reported
by the Baton Rouge Advocate.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
Wow, tell you what, let's play a game.
Speaker 6 (36:21):
Black battleship shall.
Speaker 3 (36:24):
So.
Speaker 2 (36:24):
Over the week in the NFL announced who would be
the halftime performer at.
Speaker 7 (36:28):
This year's Super Bowl. This is coming up to the.
Speaker 6 (36:30):
Super Bowl, Okay.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
I thought it would be Taylor Swift, especially since she's
now engaged to an NFL player.
Speaker 7 (36:35):
I thought that'd be well, that'd be a great little halftime.
Speaker 6 (36:38):
Now that would fuel all of the conspiracy theorists to
say them you know that this wasn't this is a
sham marriage that this is all for marketing, right between
Kelsey and Taylor.
Speaker 7 (36:50):
Well, they named bad Bunny instead.
Speaker 2 (36:53):
Have you heard of bad Bunny?
Speaker 6 (36:56):
You know what I could tell you? I have? Yeah,
I have, no, Yeah, bad Bunny.
Speaker 2 (37:01):
That's the most common thing I've seen online is who's that?
Speaker 6 (37:04):
All right?
Speaker 7 (37:05):
So that's brought me to this game.
Speaker 2 (37:07):
What are the most watched NFL halftime shows of all time?
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Ah?
Speaker 6 (37:11):
Okay, all right, I can do this. Can ya the
most watched?
Speaker 7 (37:15):
The most watched?
Speaker 6 (37:16):
Michael Jackson? No, are you kidded me?
Speaker 3 (37:20):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (37:20):
No, Michael Jackson's not in the top ten.
Speaker 6 (37:23):
Paul McCartney, Paul McCartney.
Speaker 2 (37:26):
No, Paul McCartney's not in Paul McCartney not in the
top ten.
Speaker 6 (37:31):
Umm oh who Usher?
Speaker 7 (37:39):
H Usher? Usher?
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Yes, Usher number two. That was in twenty twenty four.
They had one hundred and twenty three point four million
viewers for Usher.
Speaker 6 (37:49):
Let's see how about Madonna?
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Madonna? Yes, Madonna makes the top ten. She's number eight
on the list. Twenty twelve, she had one hundred and
fourteen million viewers.
Speaker 6 (37:58):
Dolly, pardon no, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:01):
If Cheer was then, I don't have turn she'd be great.
Speaker 6 (38:04):
But Paul McCartney was, he was one year, yeah, he was,
and so was Michael Jackson, Yeah he was.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
Michael Jackson was really kind of what with the changed
diffrom being it was always up with people, and then
they did Michael Jackson and they've had the superstars ever.
Speaker 6 (38:16):
Since, all right. Madonna? Yeah, Oh, Lady Gaga.
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Lady Gaga absolutely number five on the list. In twenty seventeen,
she had one hundred and seventeen point five million viewers.
Speaker 6 (38:31):
Boy, I tell you this is where there's a cliff here. Yeah,
and I'm just about to fall off of it. Yeah, yeah,
I'm out.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Okay, let me run through the list.
Speaker 2 (38:41):
I'll start at the bottom here, number ten, Black Eyed
Peas and twenty eleven they had one hundred and ten
point two million. Yet Beyonce and Destiny's Child. Back in
twenty thirteen, you had a Madonna. Then number seven on
the list Bruno Mars and the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
which was an odd pairing. But twenty fourteen had one
hundred and fifteen point three million Beyonce, Coldplay and Bruno Mars,
(39:02):
so he makes the list twice. Beyonce makes the list
twice one hundred and fifteen point five million.
Speaker 7 (39:06):
Back in twenty sixteen, you.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Had Lady Gaga, as you mentioned, one hundred and seventeen
point five and twenty seventeen. Katy Perry in twenty fifteen
had one hundred and twenty one million.
Speaker 7 (39:15):
Here's the top three.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Rihanna in two thousand and three, Usher in two thousand
and four, and Kendrick Lamar in twenty twenty five. So
the last three are from the top three are from
the last three years. So I think that's kind of
like the NFL feels like, well, I mean, we can't
go wrong.
Speaker 6 (39:33):
Well, no, I think they're trying to obviously attract a
younger and younger demographic, right, and.
Speaker 2 (39:39):
That's that's where they're going with Bad Bunny. And you
and I aren't going to be Bad Bunny fans.
Speaker 7 (39:44):
And that's okay. Well, I don't know.
Speaker 6 (39:46):
I've never heard bad Bunny. I might be a raving fan.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Well, you'll get a chance to hear him coming up
at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 7 (39:54):
We'll be right back Instagram.
Speaker 1 (39:56):
You are listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (40:16):
Stephen Barbara Lewis, are Avalony You know, Magnolia Pit Barbecue
is the place to go. If you want some Louisiana style.
Speaker 7 (40:24):
Barbecue, you gotta go check them out.
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It's unique, it is it is full of Louisiana flavor.
Speaker 7 (40:31):
Like I went last week. I want last week.
Speaker 2 (40:34):
You know you can get a get a pulled pork
sandwich anywhere, right, you can't, I mean most play places, right,
So I get, I get.
Speaker 6 (40:41):
The not might not always be what you're expecting, right,
I get.
Speaker 7 (40:45):
I get the cochon doul.
Speaker 2 (40:47):
That's what they call cochon, which in French means you know,
pig with milk.
Speaker 7 (40:50):
But that's what they call that.
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That sounds fansy.
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It's so you got the pulled pork on a HOGI
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Speaker 7 (40:59):
I put the barbecue sauce in there.
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Yeah, and now you're having a Louisiana style barbecue right there.
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Well, then you can get your side.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
They got the fried Oprah and I got the the
the dirty rice. Now how many barbecue places can you
go to and get dirty rice?
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You see what I'm saying?
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Speaker 6 (41:34):
Yeah. Absolutely, Well, apparently the state of Louisiana has issued
a warrant now yea for the California based doctor who
is accused of mailing abortion pills to Louisiana.
Speaker 7 (41:48):
Another one.
Speaker 6 (41:49):
Yeah, so you know, you get that doctor in New York, right.
Speaker 2 (41:52):
Who's in trouble, but not only in Louisiana but also
in Texas.
Speaker 6 (41:56):
But now you have this California doctor that now the
state of Louisiana is issued a warrant. And look that's
this is really good. This is good. And what Attorney
General lives Get.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
The doctor and prosecute them. One in New York we
can't prosecute.
Speaker 6 (42:12):
But I think what Attorney General Liz Merle is doing
is sending a message that you can't traffic abortion pills
like you're mailing out Amazon packages in Louisiana. This is
a serious crime here, and you're going to be held accountable.
Speaker 2 (42:26):
Name any state in the country that would allow people
to mail death into their state.
Speaker 7 (42:33):
Let me state they would do that.
Speaker 6 (42:34):
Our laws mean something here in Louisiana, and if you
violate them, even from California.
Speaker 7 (42:39):
You should be prosecuted. We'll bred back.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
Stick around.
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