September 30, 2025 • 42 mins
Follow us: americangroundradio.comFacebook: facebook.com / AmericanGroundRadioInstagram: instagram.com/americangroundradioYou're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for September 26, 2025.
0:30 We break down the widespread 911 outages that hit Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Nevada on September 25th. Were these disruptions mere accidents or a sign of something more coordinated?
9:49 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
0:30 We break down the widespread 911 outages that hit Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Nevada on September 25th. Were these disruptions mere accidents or a sign of something more coordinated?
9:49 Plus, we cover the Top 3 Things You Need to Know.
- Federal Flood Insurance subsidies could end next week if the Federal Government doesn't pass a continuing resolution.
- Early Voting for the October 11th election begins this weekend.
- A man in Caddo Parish attempted to impersonate an officer at Captain Shreve High School.
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13:47 After Charlie Kirk’s assassination, we dig into how the media’s use of false labels and distorted headlines fuels division and violence—from misleading coverage of Speaker Mike Johnson to twisted reporting on Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension.
18:02 Shreveport filmaker Alexander Jeffrey joins us to talk about his new film The Power of Pickleball. From the sport’s quirky 1965 origins to its COVID-era boom, Jeffrey shares how pickleball has built community, grown worldwide, and sparked big local investments—including Shreveport’s $10 million project.
23:27 We break down how local headlines twist words for clicks. From Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments on legal migrant worker visas to Shreveport City Councilman Grayson Butcher’s remarks on censorship, they highlight how context gets lost—and how readers are left with misleading narratives.
26:45 We Dig Deep into recent coverage from the Shreveport-Bossier Advocate and what it gets wrong about Louisiana’s legal battles. The spotlight turns to Solicitor General J. Benjamin Aguinnaga—an emerging figure in state politics—who is set to argue a Voting Rights Act case before the U.S. Supreme Court. What’s at stake for Louisiana, and why does the framing of these stories matter?
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33:43 We react to news of Starbucks closing nearly 900 locations nationwide, including in New Orleans. Is it really about tariffs on imported coffee beans, as one University of Houston professor suggests? We break down what these closures reveal about the economy, business strategy, and the stories that shape public perception.
36:38 Plus, we have a little fun guessing the most popular sports to play in America. Play along!
40:44 And we finish off with finish the episode with a word from Magnolia Pit BBQ.
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
Right, what a week it has been. You saw this
story and a lot of folks got texts from Cattle Parish,
from various parishes throughout northern Louisiana that the nine to
one one system, oh yeah, was out our emergency communication
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system out across the jawn so on September twenty fifth.
So here's what happened. Yeah, if you haven't heard, Okay,
on September twenty fifth, AT and T experienced a major disruption,
they say, to the nine one one services across portions
of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Now, the trouble began around
two PM and Mississippi. Okay, that was resolved by late
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afternoon and at and T. Their explanation was it was
a fiber optic line cut by unspecified third parties and
I say third parties in air quotes.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Okay, yeah, because that's a question because this is this
a construction crew that was digging. You know, you're supposed
to phone before you dig. Did they mess that up?
Was this something that was intentional? I mean third party?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Was just incompetence?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Yeah, it was? It was this intention Was this incompetence?
Was this an accident or was this deliberate? Just saying
third party, that still leads a lot open for questioning.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes. Around the same time, there was a multi state
nine one one disruption in Nebraska and South Dakota and
Nevada for about two and a half hours. But that
was explained that there was a light poll that was
being installed by a third third party contractor and they
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accidentally severed a fiber line.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So wait, so we have nine to one one outages
in multiple different states across.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
The Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Nevada.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Okay, But see Nebraska and South Dakota are nowhere near Nebraska.
So how does how does putting in a great come
line in one's place, Because in order to get to
Nebraska and South Dakota you have to go through Wyoming
and Colorado and Utah and Arizona to get over to
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Weyga's not Arizona. You can you just go through Utah
and Colorado to get to South Dakota and Nebraska, or
maybe Wyoming as well. But well, you're talking three states,
and those aren't small states, those a big states.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
These are distant regions. And the question is what common
vulnerability or attacker could chain these events together. I mean,
pure randomness would suggest they're uncorrelated in time, yet here
the same week, the same day window, they occur nearly contemporaneously,
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at least in the same general period. I mean the
odds of an unrelated accident or unrelated accidents.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Taking out the nine to one one system in six
different states, spread across three different time zones.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But you know this, this is not something that is
unheard of. I mean this is not well, there fiber
cuts happen, apparently.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, fibercuts do happen, but six different states across three
different time zones being out of nine to one one
service all at the same time. I'm not sure I
have heard of that before.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
All Right, So you know a lot of this is
speculation and suspicion. You can probably hear that in our
voices in tears of you know, was this some sort
of calculated attack, because whether it's domestic or foreign terrorism,
if that was at play, it certainly If it was not,
it certainly exposes a very weak because there apparently there's
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very little redundancy in our fiber optic network, well.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Especially in our fiber optic network for nine to one
one services, because other services were still able to keep going.
It was the nine to one one services that went down.
People are still able to make phone calls from their
home phones, from their cell phones. It was nine to
one one services that went down. And again I think
I find it very disturbing that we lost nine to
one one services for essentially every parish in the state
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of Louisiana from a fiber that was cut in the
state of Mississippi. How do you have a fiber that
gets cut a state away from Louisiana and all of
a sudden Now, if you're up in Shreeport or Boser City,
you can't call nine one one because of something that
happens near mobile.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, Right, And so the question is I mean beyond
the question was it deliberate? You know, there's a more
urgent one. Yeah, what does this expose about the vulnerability
of our nation's emergency infrastructure? Right, because regardless of attribution,
I mean, we've got to repair the fault lines, whatever
they might be. And you know many nine to one
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to one systems just I mean they rely on a
handful of a physical fiber paths. So those if those
fiber paths are cut, there's no I mean, there's no redundancy.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So that's a very brittle design because you can have
a single cut that can cripple several counties' abilities to
reach emergency dispatch.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yeah, I mean that's a real problem. That is a
real problem that that needs to be dealt with. It's
it's simply an unacceptable vulnerability and we need to deal
with that as a state. That needs to become a
priority for our emergency management. Look, we're a state that
deals with disasters, natural disasters, hurricanes, flooding, stuff, like that
we should be better at ensuring and hardening our infrastructure
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than allowing one fiber to get cut a state away
to bring us all down.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, because I mean, and who's paying attention? Are are
there domestic terrorists that are because look, if you were
going to inflict as much pain and suffering yeah, from
a terrorist attack, yes, and you could at the same
time reduce the amount of first responders, right, I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
People just couldn't get help when they needed it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Then if simultaneously, I don't want to get into speculating,
I guess we all know what could happen here, but it.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Does open up performerability. Look over when there are terror
attacks going on in Afghanistan and Iraq and in the
Middle East. When we were fighting those wars, one of
the things they would do is they'd set off a bomb, right,
and so then you would have people respond to it,
and they would set off a second one. This is
similar to that in that you can cause an outage
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of nine to one one and then you could do
your attack and you would be creating more chaos, more mayhem,
more terror.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, maybe we need to be contacting our congressman wherever
you're listening whoever is rep. Whatever congressional district you are,
and asking Congress, well, we know they're all listening, yeah,
of course, but nevertheless asking Congress for a national resiliency
plan for emergency communication.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
But even if it's not a national thing, this is
something that the state Louisiana can work on too, because
one of the things that President Trump has done is
he said, look, emergency response is now going to be
the state's priority. It's not going to be famous priorities.
So we're giving power to the national Guard. Governor Jeff
Landry has empowered the National Guard. The National Guard at
to this point, the Louisiana National Guard needs to be
taking charge of this. One of the first things they
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can do now that they are in charge of emergency
management in the State of Louisiana is go, we need
to harden our nine to one one system.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, at and T says there is no evidence in
all these you know, the disabling of our nine to
one to one systems this week, they say there is
no evidence of cyber attacked. Great, okay, that's good, all right.
So really the translation there is we don't know, and
we don't want to dig too deep because then we'd
have to admit we're vulnerable.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Well, if you dig too deep, you cut a cable.
Let's get to the top three things you need to
know before tomorrow. First thing you need know before all
federal flood insurance subsidies could end next week if the
federal government doesn't pass a continuing resolution. Nearly five hundred
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thousand Louisiana residents rely on the federal subsidies in order
to get flood insurance for their homes. That means that
the government shuts down next week, it could be next
to impossible to renew flood insurance in those areas. Louisiana
Commissioner of Insurance Tim Temple said this couldn't come at
a worse time, since we are still in the middle
of hurricane season. Temple said this will be the thirty
fourth time Congress has temporarily extended the program. It's vital
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that we identify a long term solution that stabilizes the
flood insurance market in our country.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, the insurers here are just going to have to
understand that this is what's going on. I mean, you
can't punish Louisiana's for what is going on in Washington, DC.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
But if they can't afford to pay out because the
money's not there from the federal subsidies, and you have
a flooding event, well now you got a real problem.
Second thing you need oble from tomorrow. Early voting for
the October eleventh election begins this weekend in New Orleans.
The mayor's seat, sheriff's office, and city council positions are
all up for grabs and Baton Rouge. Voters will be
voting on three different funding proposals for crime reduction and
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a downtown development district. Voters there will also be choosing
two new judges. Early voting ends October fourth, absentee voting
that the last you can request an absentee ballot is
October seven.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All right, well, everybody needs to get out to vote. Well,
I mean exercise I mean, you know, certainly in the
wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. Yeah, this is one
way your voice can be heard.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, get out. We are all Charlie Kirk turning point.
USA led a very big, especially a young voter turnout operation.
We need to be doing that again. And the third
thing you needed before to while Cattle Parish, a man
in Cattle Paris attempted to impersonate an officer at Captain
Shreef High School. The man was wearing a military uniform
and was asking to speak to the Junior ROTC instructors
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at the school, claiming he was with the Junior ROTC.
But while taking talking with the instructors, it became obvious
the man was not in the military, and he became
visibly nervous before fleeing the school. Cattle Parish Sheriff's office
says they have identified the man, but no arrests have
been made yet. It's not clear what his motive was
for trying to get into the high school.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well, you know, kudos to those teachers that were alert.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The RTC officers.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah, at the high school.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
But if you've identified the guy who is a personating officer,
I don't understand why we haven't had an arrest made.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, yeah, but you also have a resource officer you
should have at the school as well.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
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Speaker 2 (13:17):
America Ground Radio Stephen Parverval, you know it is impossible
to talk about in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination
without talking about the weaponization of words, not bullets, but words,
because long before the trigger was pulled, I mean the
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mainstream media, their social media allies, I mean, they'd already
loaded the chamber. They spent years painting Kirk as a racist,
as a fascist, as a transphobe. First of all, those
were all labels that weren't true. They were designed to uh,
not to inform, but to delegitimize, to humanized. And when
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you dehumanize someone enough in the eyes of the public,
you make violence against them seem not only excusable, but inevitable. Right. So,
here we are northwest Louisiana, and you really don't have
to look too far to see this same machinery at work.
So after Kirk's death, the local media in Northwest Louisiana
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did what the national press has been doing for decades,
that is twist and distort and sensationalized. And all you
have to do is look at the headlines. So the
first headline I want to bring to your attention, to
our listeners' attention, was one about Speaker Mike Johnson. And
this headline was from the Shreeport Boser Advocate, and the
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headline was we need that Speaker Johnson said, we need
migrant workers, as if he was calling for Yeah, okay,
so that was the headline. And so that was as
if he was calling for illegal more illegal immigrant labor.
Right that almost like.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
It sounds like he's defying Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's that's what the wording suggested, right. That was the headline,
We need that. Speaker Johnson said, we need migrant workers. Well,
you know exactly how readers process that. But what did
Johnson actually say? Okay, okay, he was very crystal clear.
He said, people who that we need, people who are
law abiding. We're talking about the people who come from
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another country, they work as a seasonal worker and then
they go home. That system, Speaker Johnson said, has worked well,
but many believe we don't have enough of those visas
available to supply the workforce and the talent that we need.
So Speaker Johnson is not calling for open borders. No,
he's not calling for caravans marching through Texas. What he
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is acknowledging. What he is speaking to is a legal
visa system that has existed for decades, one that fills
labor g apps in agriculture and hospitality. But see the
media with that headline. All they're doing is misleading and
they're letting readers think that Speaker Johnson is suddenly Joe
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Biden with a Southern accent, right, and but that's not true.
It's again it's misleading. But guess what, you know, the
truth doesn't sell newspapers or or drive clicks, so they
sensationalize it. Now, the second example was just as bad
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The Times ran a headline, no place in this nation
for government censorship Treeport councilman on Kimmel's suspension. Now, what
that is referring to is that Councilman Grayson Butcher Sreeport
Councilman Grayson Butcher is blaming the Trump administration or the
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FCC for censoring Jimmy Kimmel. Doesn't. It's like he's standing
up for some poor late night host who, by the way,
joked horrifically about Charlie Kirk's death.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Actually he wasn't. He wasn't even making a joke. He
was just making a fact. A statement that he was
saying was a statement of fact, but it was one
hundred percent wrong. He was saying that the man who
tried to kill Charlie Kirk was a maga Conservative. That
was the statement that Jimmy Kimmel was making. It was
not part of it set up to a joke. It
was just a statement he made and it was factually untrue.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Anyway, there's more to say about this. We'll talk about
this a little bit later on. Do we have a guest,
We have our guest.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah, we actually do have our guests. So we were
talking earlier about this pickleball thing coming to Shreeport where
they're doing that.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Now it's a ten million dollar pickleball.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Court, and I thought maybe we'd talked to somebody who
knows something about pickleball.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, it's the Cattle Pierrish Commission. Ye spending the ten
million dollars. Well, taxpayers and Kettle.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So joining us now on the phone, Alexander Jeffrey, a
filmmaker here in a Louisiana and streetpoort. Alexander, Welcome to
American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
So. I understand that you have made a film called
The Power of Pickleball. What was this film all about?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That is a great question. The film sort of covers
the evolution of pickleball from its inception and invention in
nineteen sixty five, and it follows people who basically took
it from you know, what was considered a game at
the time to the sports that it is now and
the many people who changed and shaped the sport over
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the course of the year, sort of leading up to
the explosion that happened with pickleball during COVID. And it
also really kind of focuses on the lives that have
been changed and the lives that pickleball have touched, you know,
really giving people a sense of community, and you know
the way that it's sort of giving people a sense
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of purpose, I guess in a way.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
So as you've as you've gone around and studied this game,
is my question is is pickleball something that's really on
the rise ince the next big thing or is this
a fad that's just kind of having a moment that's
likely to fade away.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
That's a great question. I don't think it's a fad.
I think that more and more people are adopting the sport.
I think what makes pickleball so viral in a sense
is that it's a really easy game to be good
at and it's a really hard game to master. And
so the difference between pickleball and tennis is that the
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sort of the barrier to entry of tennis is much
more difficult with being able to serve and you know,
learning how to hit the ball and the distance between
the two players and that kind of thing, whereas pickleball,
you can really get on that smaller court and just
start hitting pretty much right away and and you know,
get addicted and get get pretty decent, pretty quickly, and
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then it's that long road to sort of mastery getting
really good at it. So I think that just that
the virality of the game and the way that people
can pick it up so quickly does make it something
that has you know, growth written all over it for
the coming you know, decades, and it's really getting adopted.
We've seen a huge boom in America already, you know,
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through COVID, and now the rest of the world is
sort of catching up and it's being really being adopted
internationally in overseas.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Absolutely So if you had and we've got about thirty
seconds here, if you had ten million dollars to build
a brand new pickleball facility, you're just going to stroke
a check for ten million dollars. Would you have it indoor,
outdoor or some combination of both? What? What do you
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what would you say is most successful?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Uh, I'm that's a great question. I think, you know,
probably a combination of both. You know, in the in
the months where people can play outside, it's it's obviously
a great sport to get out there and get fresh air.
You know, we obviously live in a climate where the
summer months are excruciating, but Hey, if you want to
get a really good sweat in outdoor pickleball is super fun.
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And you know, people do play outdoors all the time,
and these much warmer climates like you know, Naples, Florida,
for example, is a massive place to big retirement community,
lots of people playing pickleball there. So it's not it's
not certainly not uncommon for outdoor courts to be, you know,
a thing in the warmer climates. But I think you know,
from my personal taste, having both options is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Alexander Jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us here
on American Ground Radio. We appreciate your time. If folks
want to check out the movie, it's called The Power
of Pickleball, and we appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
We'll be right back.
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Speaker 5 (22:58):
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Speaker 2 (22:59):
Stephen bar with Lewis, So we were talking earlier about
this dishonest headline from the Shreport Bosier Advocate Now, factually, yes,
Speaker Johnson, I suppose said that, yes, we need migrant
workers in this country.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
It just kind of feels like he's suggesting we need
illegal but he's not.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's what he said was we're talking about people who
come from another country, they work as a seasonal worker,
and then they go back home. And he said many
people believe we don't have enough of those visas available
to supply the workforce and the talent we need. And
so from that comment, the headline is, Speaker Johnson says,
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we need migrant workers and for me, legal legally here
migrant workers. There's a visa system that is available for
folks to come and work and then go back home,
not to stay here remain here illegally forever.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
And I'm still not fully convinced we need as much
as we get, okay, because we've had all this illegal
immigration coming in, We've got that's been taking jobs from
Americans here. We still have unemployment in some places higher
than it should be.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I understand, but those migrant workers, I mean, if you
look at it, yeah, I mean those are often as
Speaker Johnson pointed out, those are the law abiding ones.
If you're going to be if you're going to start
deporting folks, right, mass deportations, let's start with the criminals.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, that's what we've done.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let's start with the drug dealers and the murderers and.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
So and that's what we've done, and that's what ICE
is doing. And then I mean, you talk about illegal
the people that aren't breaking the law, Well, if you
broke our immigration law in the first place, then you
should also be second on that list. And let's let
folks who are Americans who are here, who are our
citizens here, Let's let them have the first shot at
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the jobs so that we're not paying unemployment for Americans,
so that foreign workers can come and work on jobs
that the left says Americans won't do.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And then they, you know, they did. The Shreeport Times
distorted the words of Grayson Butcher, a Shreeport City councilman.
You know, he wasn't defending Jimmy Kimmel, no whatsoever. What
he was saying was the government should not be involved
in censorship.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
And the government wasn't. Now, FCC chair Brandon Carr said
some things. I don't think you should have said. But
Sinclair made it clear that they booted Kimmel of their
own decision making, not because of the FCC. Next Tar
made their decision to boot Kimmel because of their decision,
and ABC made their decision to boot Kimmel because Next
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Star and Sinclair were complaining about it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Right, because the shreport city Butcher, he didn't say Trump
censored Kimmel. No, he didn't say the FCC pulled Jimmy
Kimmel off the air. Not even close.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
See me at that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
But that's what the headline implied. And again it it
did not appear to be a misrepresentation, or excuse me,
the misrepresentation didn't appear to be an accident. I think
it was a choice because that grabs attention.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
It does tell you what. Speaking of grabbing attention, let's
dig deep going, all right, So we're talking about an
article industryport Posto Advocate. They did another one that I
thought was kind of interesting, a story that most Louisianans
haven't ever heard of. This person that they're covering. But
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this is someone who's actually very important to the future
of our state. His name is Jay Benjamin Aguinaga, and
he's currently serving as solicitor General. Now that's the person
who actually argues cases for the US or for the
Louisiana in federal court, suppellate courts, and the Supreme Court.
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Current Attorney General Liz Merle was the solicitor general when
current Governor Jeff Landry was the Attorney General. So this
is someone who in the next decade could become potentially
a political force in Louisiana. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Okay, well, yeah, I mean if you certainly, if Liz
Merle is any indication.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Right, it's one pathway to rise up to Attorney General
when she's when she's done with her terms in office,
because at this point I think she's going to be
a two term attorney general.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I haven't heard a lot out of this. Jay Benjamin Aguinaga.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, I believe that's what you said, Aguanaga. So this
is what the article wrote. As Solicitor General, Agunaga represents
Louisiana and federal appeals, handling a sheaf of high profile
legal challenges, many began under now Governor Jeff Landry when
he was Attorney General. From allegations that President Joe Biden's
administration pressured social media platforms to sensor conservative comments against
COVID vaccines, to requiring all public schools to post the
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Bible's Ten Commandments. Okay, so that second one wasn't actually
from when Lantry was Attorney General. That actually came through later.
But anyway, all right. They also wrote, come October fifteenth,
Louisiana will rely on Aguinagua to present its position before
a US Supreme Court considering the constitutionality of the Voting
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Rights Act. The case will decide whether Louisiana will have
two majority black voting districts for the US House. But
the High Court's decision in Cala v. Louisiana could reverberate
across the country if the court overturns the remaining protection
for minority voters in the sixty year old law. And
again that's a misstatement of what the case is all about.
(28:41):
The case isn't trying to take away minority protections. It's
simply saying choosing your districts based upon race is unconstitutional.
So again we come back to the Streetport Bosure advocate
writing some things that aren't quite accurate, And no, the
State of Louisiana is not trying to take away the
remaining protection from my minority voters in the Voting Rights Act.
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We're not trying to bring back poll taxes. So that's
a dishonest framing of it from the from the Sheeport
Post Advocate. But it is interesting that they're covering Aguanagua.
And again, I do think that these cases go forward.
We've got some very important case for the state of
Louisiana and he's going to be the one trying them,
and most people in the state don't know who he is.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Absolutely not, but obviously Attorney General Liz Merle does and
she trusts him, which I would say is pretty high
praise the fact that he is going to be the
lead counsel in arguing this case.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Because she used to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And it's not just she knows what that process. It's
not that she's not. I fully expect her to supervise
all of the proceedings.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
As Jeff Lander did. But when it came to the
Supreme Court cases that she was arguing before the Supreme
Court when she was Solicitor General, she was the one arguing.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
She was Jeff Lanney exactly. Now.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Agnaga is from Metori, but he spent time growing up
in Parland, which is a sub suburb of Houston. He
seems to have both Louisiana and Texas in his veins.
He graduated from LSU law School. He worked for a
law firm in Texas for a while. He's back in Louisiana,
but he apparently has longhorned cattle as pets. He has
clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, one of
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the biggest conservatives on the Court. I think that is
a pretty bright star in his resume.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
No, and look, this case, make no mistake, this case
will have national completely reverberations.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
It could change the entire political landscape.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Of America, because if the Supreme Court decides that Louisiana
doesn't have to jerry mander itself into racial quotas or
racially divided congressional districts, then suddenly a lot of these
protected districts in other states, well, they start looking a
little shaky themselves.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
And again, it's so visive to our culture to say
that the black neighborhoods in Shreveport have more in common
with the black neighborhoods in Baton Rouge than either one
of those neighbors do with white neighborhoods in the same city.
That is so divisive and destructive to the fabric of
America to say that we're more related to people who
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have our same skin tone than people who live next door.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
But you want to know the frank, honest truth, there
are folks in those in those neighborhoods, in both Shreeport
and Baton Rouge. Yeah, that probably feel like they do
have more in common with one another.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
And we've got to change that. And we're not going
to change that through racial gerrymandering and racial quotas. We've
got to stop dividing ourselves on race. And Aguinaga might
be the person to make it happen. We'll be at Backstagram.
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Speaker 5 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Stephen Parker lewisar So apparently Starbucks the coffee shop, is
closing some of their stores in New Orleans, but not
just in New Orleans, that's all across the country. Nine
and a lot of folks say, why is this happening?
Why are they closing? Is this a sign of you know,
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is it crime? Is it the economy? And the University
of Houston, there's a professor there named Stephen Craig, and
he says that these closures by Starbucks are the result
of tariffs on imported beans and that changing consumer habits
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are all just part of a little uncertainty in our economy. Now,
this sounds like a guy that is Devin did not
vote for Donald Trump for president.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
So wait, let me see if I have this straight.
He's suggesting that people who buy coffee from Starbucks every
single day are not are are price conscious?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Apparent Apparently he says that it is due to these
tariffs on imported beans.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Or maybe it's just been that all right. So Black,
Oh my gosh, I've forgotten his name. There's a comedian.
His last name is Black, and I don't remember his
first name.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
But he was talking.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
He was talking about several years ago. He says, I
was in New York and I was out of Starbucks
and I walked outside the Starbucks. You know what I
saw across the street another Starbucks exactly. You know, you know,
I mean, when was the last time you had a
cup of coffee and went? You know what I could
go for right now is a good cup of Joe.
He was like, why, Hey, why do I need a
Starbucks right across the street from Starbucks? And we've been
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in New York and yeah, they've had Starbucks right across
the street from each other.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So maybe the problem is they've overbuilt. They've overbuilt, and
they're trying to write size and it has absolutely nothing
to do with tariffs. It has absolutely nothing to do
with the uncertainty of the economy.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
And maybe it's also because their employees are trying more
and more to unionize and that makes it harder for
Starbucks to be to remain as profitable as it is
because the union always adds extra cost to the business.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Okay, but this professor from the University of Houston saying
that this is because of the uncertainty in the economy.
All of the economic data, all of the economic data
in the first nine months of this Trump administration has
been what's been very good. In fact, it's been so
good that they have revised the report. It's the economic
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data reports each and every time. So they the Bureau
of Labor Status up plus quarter, Bureau of Labor Statistics
releases the data and then a month later they come
back and they go, oh, that was a little too low.
Actually it's higher higher than that. So it just anyway, Uh,
Starbucks is closing. But folks, don't some story some some Yeah, exactly,
(36:21):
you'll still get your limited numbers. So folks, don't don't panic.
Don't panic.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
All right, let's play a game.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Black battlesuits, shall we play?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
So we were talking about pickle ball. Earlier, we had
the call with Alexander Jeffrey, who's done the movie The
Power of Pickleball. We've got this new ten million dollar
pick a ball park coming to Shreetport, Bosure, and I thought,
maybe we just see how popular this is. So according
to reports out this year, Yes, what are the most
popular sports in America? By participation? Not by viewership? Because
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not about watching pickleball, It's about going out and playing
pick a ball. So one of the most popular sports
in America by participation?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Does ESPN air pickleball? I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Maybe on the ocho, on the hoop on the ocho.
You have got to watch the movie Dodgeball. I have
so many references from Dodgeball.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I need to get out more obviously. Okay, how about pickleball?
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Pickleball? No, yes, no, no, Pickleball's not in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Not on okay?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Okay, football football, yep US football, American football six million participants,
number eight participation in sport in America.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Okay, so that that would include kids.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
I guess it does kids and aitols.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Okay, basketball number one.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Twenty four million people play basketball.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
And you see it's because you don't you know, The
thing is, you don't need a lot of room to
play basketball court and you go hope and a ball
not as special equipment.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
You could play half court and it'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Let's see sports. What about walking?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Walking? You know, I'm going to kind of give it
to you. It's number three on the list running slash walking.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
You just insulted all of the runners in our audience
because they're like, we're not walkersh No, but it's still
we're runners.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Yeah, but you're using your legs to go forward.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So which there's nothing wrong with walking. No, I think
it's highly recommended by running out of five doctors nineteen
million people. Walking is not really as.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Much as sport. But that's all right. It's exercise, Okay,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Okay, it doesn't really it's not an organized good for you,
it's good for you, absolutely, Okay.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Tennis tennis number six on the list. Eight million folks
play tennis, golf, Golf. Golf is on the list as well,
number nine. Five million folks play golf, hockey, ice hockey,
number ten. One point two million people play hockey.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Let's see, uh uh what other sports are there? It's
pot putt count No, that's account. Okay, sports, Yeah, you
got football, basketball, Oh oh, America's pastime baseball.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Number five on the list, baseball, softball, you got twelve million.
Ten We're starting to run out of time. So number
one of the list was basketball twenty four million people.
Number two is swimming, twenty two million people swim running.
Then soccer soccer.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Lewis focusing or maybe kicks.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Yeah, it's got soccer, fourteen million folks playing soccer. Then
you got baseball, softball twelve million. Tennis. Volleyball comes in
at number seven with seven million folks playing volleyball. Then
you got football, golf, and then ice hockey.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
David Sourprise, I did say soccer. You didn't see. You misunderstood.
I said football.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
You said, yeah, okay, We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Stick around.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
You're listening to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 5 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parler, Lewis r Avalona.
You got to head out to Magnolia Pit Barbecue. Look,
all I'm saying is just once a week, just at
least once a week, go check out Magnolia Pit Barbie.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
I did this week.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
I went to Nates.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Well, it's the real deal.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
I had, I had, I hadn't had before. I had
pulled pork on a HOGI with coleslaw on there, and
then I put the barbecue sauce there. There's smoky barbecue
sauce on there, and it was delicious.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
You went there for lunch?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
Yeah, I went there for lunch.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Did you have to take a nap afterwards?
Speaker 5 (40:51):
I don't know. No, No, I didn't. I mean that's
I mean, I'm a busy guy.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
No, I understand, but I mean it's radioho.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
I didn't have time for a nap.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
No, But that just sounds like a lot of food. Well,
and did you take half of it home? Or you
ate the whole thing? That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
I mean I did eat the whole sandwich, and then
I also had the fried okra and I ate all that.
And then there's.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Also metabolism is different, and there's also I don't know
how you stay so you know s felt. There was
also the side of a dirty rice that I had too,
and that was that and dirty rack yea, yeah, ah,
it was delicious, my lord.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
But what are the barbecue pits? You're gonna go and
get that kind of combination?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Well, I mean when and you're not talking about some
run of the mill chain. No, no, no restaurant you
know with cookie cutter flavors. No, this is hand crafted,
slow smoked, melt in your mouth barbecue that reminds you
that you should savor the soul of Louisiana barbecue.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
So talk about seven to twenty nine Jurday Street in Shreeport.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Well, you know, we uh again, we're in our new studio,
brand new studio. So if you notice the sound of
it all is a little different. We're still making some adjustments,
but we certainly will be sharing with you some photos
of some videos studio video as well.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And I think this weekend we're gonna get posted up
the video that we did with Speaker Mike Johnson in
here earlier this week, and we're gonna try and get
that posted up online, so you guys get actually a glimpse.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
Actually, if you go to.
Speaker 5 (42:20):
Our Facebook page Facebook dot com slash America or radio
or Facebook dot com slash American Mamas, you can see
some kind of behind the scenes footage already right now
of what this new studio looks like. As Speaker Johnson
came on and our American Mama, Kimberly Burlsen did a
great job of putting that together for us.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Absolutely absolutely been a very big week. So we got
more American.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
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Speaker 2 (01:12):
Right, what a week it has been. You saw this
story and a lot of folks got texts from Cattle Parish,
from various parishes throughout northern Louisiana that the nine to
one one system, oh yeah, was out our emergency communication
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system out across the jawn so on September twenty fifth.
So here's what happened. Yeah, if you haven't heard, Okay,
on September twenty fifth, AT and T experienced a major disruption,
they say, to the nine one one services across portions
of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. Now, the trouble began around
two PM and Mississippi. Okay, that was resolved by late
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afternoon and at and T. Their explanation was it was
a fiber optic line cut by unspecified third parties and
I say third parties in air quotes.
Speaker 5 (02:08):
Okay, yeah, because that's a question because this is this
a construction crew that was digging. You know, you're supposed
to phone before you dig. Did they mess that up?
Was this something that was intentional? I mean third party?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Was just incompetence?
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Yeah, it was? It was this intention Was this incompetence?
Was this an accident or was this deliberate? Just saying
third party, that still leads a lot open for questioning.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Yes. Around the same time, there was a multi state
nine one one disruption in Nebraska and South Dakota and
Nevada for about two and a half hours. But that
was explained that there was a light poll that was
being installed by a third third party contractor and they
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accidentally severed a fiber line.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
So wait, so we have nine to one one outages
in multiple different states across.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
The Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Nevada.
Speaker 5 (03:06):
Okay, But see Nebraska and South Dakota are nowhere near Nebraska.
So how does how does putting in a great come
line in one's place, Because in order to get to
Nebraska and South Dakota you have to go through Wyoming
and Colorado and Utah and Arizona to get over to
(03:27):
Weyga's not Arizona. You can you just go through Utah
and Colorado to get to South Dakota and Nebraska, or
maybe Wyoming as well. But well, you're talking three states,
and those aren't small states, those a big states.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
These are distant regions. And the question is what common
vulnerability or attacker could chain these events together. I mean,
pure randomness would suggest they're uncorrelated in time, yet here
the same week, the same day window, they occur nearly contemporaneously,
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at least in the same general period. I mean the
odds of an unrelated accident or unrelated accidents.
Speaker 5 (04:07):
Taking out the nine to one one system in six
different states, spread across three different time zones.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
But you know this, this is not something that is
unheard of. I mean this is not well, there fiber
cuts happen, apparently.
Speaker 5 (04:21):
Well, fibercuts do happen, but six different states across three
different time zones being out of nine to one one
service all at the same time. I'm not sure I
have heard of that before.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
All Right, So you know a lot of this is
speculation and suspicion. You can probably hear that in our
voices in tears of you know, was this some sort
of calculated attack, because whether it's domestic or foreign terrorism,
if that was at play, it certainly If it was not,
it certainly exposes a very weak because there apparently there's
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very little redundancy in our fiber optic network, well.
Speaker 5 (04:58):
Especially in our fiber optic network for nine to one
one services, because other services were still able to keep going.
It was the nine to one one services that went down.
People are still able to make phone calls from their
home phones, from their cell phones. It was nine to
one one services that went down. And again I think
I find it very disturbing that we lost nine to
one one services for essentially every parish in the state
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of Louisiana from a fiber that was cut in the
state of Mississippi. How do you have a fiber that
gets cut a state away from Louisiana and all of
a sudden Now, if you're up in Shreeport or Boser City,
you can't call nine one one because of something that
happens near mobile.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
No, Right, And so the question is I mean beyond
the question was it deliberate? You know, there's a more
urgent one. Yeah, what does this expose about the vulnerability
of our nation's emergency infrastructure? Right, because regardless of attribution,
I mean, we've got to repair the fault lines, whatever
they might be. And you know many nine to one
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to one systems just I mean they rely on a
handful of a physical fiber paths. So those if those
fiber paths are cut, there's no I mean, there's no redundancy.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
Right.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
So that's a very brittle design because you can have
a single cut that can cripple several counties' abilities to
reach emergency dispatch.
Speaker 5 (06:25):
Yeah, I mean that's a real problem. That is a
real problem that that needs to be dealt with. It's
it's simply an unacceptable vulnerability and we need to deal
with that as a state. That needs to become a
priority for our emergency management. Look, we're a state that
deals with disasters, natural disasters, hurricanes, flooding, stuff, like that
we should be better at ensuring and hardening our infrastructure
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than allowing one fiber to get cut a state away
to bring us all down.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Yeah, because I mean, and who's paying attention? Are are
there domestic terrorists that are because look, if you were
going to inflict as much pain and suffering yeah, from
a terrorist attack, yes, and you could at the same
time reduce the amount of first responders, right, I mean.
Speaker 5 (07:13):
People just couldn't get help when they needed it.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Then if simultaneously, I don't want to get into speculating,
I guess we all know what could happen here, but it.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Does open up performerability. Look over when there are terror
attacks going on in Afghanistan and Iraq and in the
Middle East. When we were fighting those wars, one of
the things they would do is they'd set off a bomb, right,
and so then you would have people respond to it,
and they would set off a second one. This is
similar to that in that you can cause an outage
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of nine to one one and then you could do
your attack and you would be creating more chaos, more mayhem,
more terror.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Well, maybe we need to be contacting our congressman wherever
you're listening whoever is rep. Whatever congressional district you are,
and asking Congress, well, we know they're all listening, yeah,
of course, but nevertheless asking Congress for a national resiliency
plan for emergency communication.
Speaker 5 (08:13):
But even if it's not a national thing, this is
something that the state Louisiana can work on too, because
one of the things that President Trump has done is
he said, look, emergency response is now going to be
the state's priority. It's not going to be famous priorities.
So we're giving power to the national Guard. Governor Jeff
Landry has empowered the National Guard. The National Guard at
to this point, the Louisiana National Guard needs to be
taking charge of this. One of the first things they
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can do now that they are in charge of emergency
management in the State of Louisiana is go, we need
to harden our nine to one one system.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Well, at and T says there is no evidence in
all these you know, the disabling of our nine to
one to one systems this week, they say there is
no evidence of cyber attacked. Great, okay, that's good, all right.
So really the translation there is we don't know, and
we don't want to dig too deep because then we'd
have to admit we're vulnerable.
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Well, if you dig too deep, you cut a cable.
Let's get to the top three things you need to
know before tomorrow. First thing you need know before all
federal flood insurance subsidies could end next week if the
federal government doesn't pass a continuing resolution. Nearly five hundred
(09:26):
thousand Louisiana residents rely on the federal subsidies in order
to get flood insurance for their homes. That means that
the government shuts down next week, it could be next
to impossible to renew flood insurance in those areas. Louisiana
Commissioner of Insurance Tim Temple said this couldn't come at
a worse time, since we are still in the middle
of hurricane season. Temple said this will be the thirty
fourth time Congress has temporarily extended the program. It's vital
(09:50):
that we identify a long term solution that stabilizes the
flood insurance market in our country.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Well, the insurers here are just going to have to
understand that this is what's going on. I mean, you
can't punish Louisiana's for what is going on in Washington, DC.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
But if they can't afford to pay out because the
money's not there from the federal subsidies, and you have
a flooding event, well now you got a real problem.
Second thing you need oble from tomorrow. Early voting for
the October eleventh election begins this weekend in New Orleans.
The mayor's seat, sheriff's office, and city council positions are
all up for grabs and Baton Rouge. Voters will be
voting on three different funding proposals for crime reduction and
(10:28):
a downtown development district. Voters there will also be choosing
two new judges. Early voting ends October fourth, absentee voting
that the last you can request an absentee ballot is
October seven.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All right, well, everybody needs to get out to vote. Well,
I mean exercise I mean, you know, certainly in the
wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. Yeah, this is one
way your voice can be heard.
Speaker 5 (10:51):
Yeah, get out. We are all Charlie Kirk turning point.
USA led a very big, especially a young voter turnout operation.
We need to be doing that again. And the third
thing you needed before to while Cattle Parish, a man
in Cattle Paris attempted to impersonate an officer at Captain
Shreef High School. The man was wearing a military uniform
and was asking to speak to the Junior ROTC instructors
(11:13):
at the school, claiming he was with the Junior ROTC.
But while taking talking with the instructors, it became obvious
the man was not in the military, and he became
visibly nervous before fleeing the school. Cattle Parish Sheriff's office
says they have identified the man, but no arrests have
been made yet. It's not clear what his motive was
for trying to get into the high school.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Well, you know, kudos to those teachers that were alert.
Speaker 5 (11:34):
The RTC officers.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah, at the high school.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
But if you've identified the guy who is a personating officer,
I don't understand why we haven't had an arrest made.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, yeah, but you also have a resource officer you
should have at the school as well.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Well, you're to American Ground Radio.
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Speaker 2 (13:17):
America Ground Radio Stephen Parverval, you know it is impossible
to talk about in the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination
without talking about the weaponization of words, not bullets, but words,
because long before the trigger was pulled, I mean the
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mainstream media, their social media allies, I mean, they'd already
loaded the chamber. They spent years painting Kirk as a racist,
as a fascist, as a transphobe. First of all, those
were all labels that weren't true. They were designed to uh,
not to inform, but to delegitimize, to humanized. And when
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you dehumanize someone enough in the eyes of the public,
you make violence against them seem not only excusable, but inevitable. Right. So,
here we are northwest Louisiana, and you really don't have
to look too far to see this same machinery at work.
So after Kirk's death, the local media in Northwest Louisiana
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did what the national press has been doing for decades,
that is twist and distort and sensationalized. And all you
have to do is look at the headlines. So the
first headline I want to bring to your attention, to
our listeners' attention, was one about Speaker Mike Johnson. And
this headline was from the Shreeport Boser Advocate, and the
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headline was we need that Speaker Johnson said, we need
migrant workers, as if he was calling for Yeah, okay,
so that was the headline. And so that was as
if he was calling for illegal more illegal immigrant labor.
Right that almost like.
Speaker 5 (15:03):
It sounds like he's defying Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
That's that's what the wording suggested, right. That was the headline,
We need that. Speaker Johnson said, we need migrant workers. Well,
you know exactly how readers process that. But what did
Johnson actually say? Okay, okay, he was very crystal clear.
He said, people who that we need, people who are
law abiding. We're talking about the people who come from
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another country, they work as a seasonal worker and then
they go home. That system, Speaker Johnson said, has worked well,
but many believe we don't have enough of those visas
available to supply the workforce and the talent that we need.
So Speaker Johnson is not calling for open borders. No,
he's not calling for caravans marching through Texas. What he
(15:51):
is acknowledging. What he is speaking to is a legal
visa system that has existed for decades, one that fills
labor g apps in agriculture and hospitality. But see the
media with that headline. All they're doing is misleading and
they're letting readers think that Speaker Johnson is suddenly Joe
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Biden with a Southern accent, right, and but that's not true.
It's again it's misleading. But guess what, you know, the
truth doesn't sell newspapers or or drive clicks, so they
sensationalize it. Now, the second example was just as bad
(16:34):
The Times ran a headline, no place in this nation
for government censorship Treeport councilman on Kimmel's suspension. Now, what
that is referring to is that Councilman Grayson Butcher Sreeport
Councilman Grayson Butcher is blaming the Trump administration or the
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FCC for censoring Jimmy Kimmel. Doesn't. It's like he's standing
up for some poor late night host who, by the way,
joked horrifically about Charlie Kirk's death.
Speaker 5 (17:05):
Actually he wasn't. He wasn't even making a joke. He
was just making a fact. A statement that he was
saying was a statement of fact, but it was one
hundred percent wrong. He was saying that the man who
tried to kill Charlie Kirk was a maga Conservative. That
was the statement that Jimmy Kimmel was making. It was
not part of it set up to a joke. It
was just a statement he made and it was factually untrue.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Anyway, there's more to say about this. We'll talk about
this a little bit later on. Do we have a guest,
We have our guest.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
Yeah, we actually do have our guests. So we were
talking earlier about this pickleball thing coming to Shreeport where
they're doing that.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Now it's a ten million dollar pickleball.
Speaker 5 (17:46):
Court, and I thought maybe we'd talked to somebody who
knows something about pickleball.
Speaker 2 (17:49):
Yeah, it's the Cattle Pierrish Commission. Ye spending the ten
million dollars. Well, taxpayers and Kettle.
Speaker 5 (17:54):
So joining us now on the phone, Alexander Jeffrey, a
filmmaker here in a Louisiana and streetpoort. Alexander, Welcome to
American Ground Radio.
Speaker 4 (18:04):
Thank you for having me.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
So. I understand that you have made a film called
The Power of Pickleball. What was this film all about?
Speaker 4 (18:18):
That is a great question. The film sort of covers
the evolution of pickleball from its inception and invention in
nineteen sixty five, and it follows people who basically took
it from you know, what was considered a game at
the time to the sports that it is now and
the many people who changed and shaped the sport over
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the course of the year, sort of leading up to
the explosion that happened with pickleball during COVID. And it
also really kind of focuses on the lives that have
been changed and the lives that pickleball have touched, you know,
really giving people a sense of community, and you know
the way that it's sort of giving people a sense
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of purpose, I guess in a way.
Speaker 5 (19:06):
So as you've as you've gone around and studied this game,
is my question is is pickleball something that's really on
the rise ince the next big thing or is this
a fad that's just kind of having a moment that's
likely to fade away.
Speaker 4 (19:22):
That's a great question. I don't think it's a fad.
I think that more and more people are adopting the sport.
I think what makes pickleball so viral in a sense
is that it's a really easy game to be good
at and it's a really hard game to master. And
so the difference between pickleball and tennis is that the
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sort of the barrier to entry of tennis is much
more difficult with being able to serve and you know,
learning how to hit the ball and the distance between
the two players and that kind of thing, whereas pickleball,
you can really get on that smaller court and just
start hitting pretty much right away and and you know,
get addicted and get get pretty decent, pretty quickly, and
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then it's that long road to sort of mastery getting
really good at it. So I think that just that
the virality of the game and the way that people
can pick it up so quickly does make it something
that has you know, growth written all over it for
the coming you know, decades, and it's really getting adopted.
We've seen a huge boom in America already, you know,
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through COVID, and now the rest of the world is
sort of catching up and it's being really being adopted
internationally in overseas.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Absolutely So if you had and we've got about thirty
seconds here, if you had ten million dollars to build
a brand new pickleball facility, you're just going to stroke
a check for ten million dollars. Would you have it indoor,
outdoor or some combination of both? What? What do you
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what would you say is most successful?
Speaker 4 (20:59):
Uh, I'm that's a great question. I think, you know,
probably a combination of both. You know, in the in
the months where people can play outside, it's it's obviously
a great sport to get out there and get fresh air.
You know, we obviously live in a climate where the
summer months are excruciating, but Hey, if you want to
get a really good sweat in outdoor pickleball is super fun.
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And you know, people do play outdoors all the time,
and these much warmer climates like you know, Naples, Florida,
for example, is a massive place to big retirement community,
lots of people playing pickleball there. So it's not it's
not certainly not uncommon for outdoor courts to be, you know,
a thing in the warmer climates. But I think you know,
from my personal taste, having both options is fantastic.
Speaker 5 (21:43):
Alexander Jeffrey, thank you so much for joining us here
on American Ground Radio. We appreciate your time. If folks
want to check out the movie, it's called The Power
of Pickleball, and we appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 4 (21:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
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Speaker 1 (22:57):
Welcome back to.
Speaker 5 (22:58):
American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Stephen bar with Lewis, So we were talking earlier about
this dishonest headline from the Shreport Bosier Advocate Now, factually, yes,
Speaker Johnson, I suppose said that, yes, we need migrant
workers in this country.
Speaker 5 (23:18):
It just kind of feels like he's suggesting we need
illegal but he's not.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
That's what he said was we're talking about people who
come from another country, they work as a seasonal worker,
and then they go back home. And he said many
people believe we don't have enough of those visas available
to supply the workforce and the talent we need. And
so from that comment, the headline is, Speaker Johnson says,
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we need migrant workers and for me, legal legally here
migrant workers. There's a visa system that is available for
folks to come and work and then go back home,
not to stay here remain here illegally forever.
Speaker 5 (24:02):
And I'm still not fully convinced we need as much
as we get, okay, because we've had all this illegal
immigration coming in, We've got that's been taking jobs from
Americans here. We still have unemployment in some places higher
than it should be.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
I understand, but those migrant workers, I mean, if you
look at it, yeah, I mean those are often as
Speaker Johnson pointed out, those are the law abiding ones.
If you're going to be if you're going to start
deporting folks, right, mass deportations, let's start with the criminals.
Speaker 5 (24:32):
Well, that's what we've done.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Let's start with the drug dealers and the murderers and.
Speaker 5 (24:38):
So and that's what we've done, and that's what ICE
is doing. And then I mean, you talk about illegal
the people that aren't breaking the law, Well, if you
broke our immigration law in the first place, then you
should also be second on that list. And let's let
folks who are Americans who are here, who are our
citizens here, Let's let them have the first shot at
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the jobs so that we're not paying unemployment for Americans,
so that foreign workers can come and work on jobs
that the left says Americans won't do.
Speaker 2 (25:11):
And then they, you know, they did. The Shreeport Times
distorted the words of Grayson Butcher, a Shreeport City councilman.
You know, he wasn't defending Jimmy Kimmel, no whatsoever. What
he was saying was the government should not be involved
in censorship.
Speaker 5 (25:32):
And the government wasn't. Now, FCC chair Brandon Carr said
some things. I don't think you should have said. But
Sinclair made it clear that they booted Kimmel of their
own decision making, not because of the FCC. Next Tar
made their decision to boot Kimmel because of their decision,
and ABC made their decision to boot Kimmel because Next
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Star and Sinclair were complaining about it.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
Right, because the shreport city Butcher, he didn't say Trump
censored Kimmel. No, he didn't say the FCC pulled Jimmy
Kimmel off the air. Not even close.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
See me at that.
Speaker 2 (26:05):
But that's what the headline implied. And again it it
did not appear to be a misrepresentation, or excuse me,
the misrepresentation didn't appear to be an accident. I think
it was a choice because that grabs attention.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
It does tell you what. Speaking of grabbing attention, let's
dig deep going, all right, So we're talking about an
article industryport Posto Advocate. They did another one that I
thought was kind of interesting, a story that most Louisianans
haven't ever heard of. This person that they're covering. But
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this is someone who's actually very important to the future
of our state. His name is Jay Benjamin Aguinaga, and
he's currently serving as solicitor General. Now that's the person
who actually argues cases for the US or for the
Louisiana in federal court, suppellate courts, and the Supreme Court.
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Current Attorney General Liz Merle was the solicitor general when
current Governor Jeff Landry was the Attorney General. So this
is someone who in the next decade could become potentially
a political force in Louisiana. Is that fair to say?
Speaker 2 (27:17):
Okay, well, yeah, I mean if you certainly, if Liz
Merle is any indication.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
Right, it's one pathway to rise up to Attorney General
when she's when she's done with her terms in office,
because at this point I think she's going to be
a two term attorney general.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
I haven't heard a lot out of this. Jay Benjamin Aguinaga.
Speaker 5 (27:36):
Yeah, I believe that's what you said, Aguanaga. So this
is what the article wrote. As Solicitor General, Agunaga represents
Louisiana and federal appeals, handling a sheaf of high profile
legal challenges, many began under now Governor Jeff Landry when
he was Attorney General. From allegations that President Joe Biden's
administration pressured social media platforms to sensor conservative comments against
COVID vaccines, to requiring all public schools to post the
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Bible's Ten Commandments. Okay, so that second one wasn't actually
from when Lantry was Attorney General. That actually came through later.
But anyway, all right. They also wrote, come October fifteenth,
Louisiana will rely on Aguinagua to present its position before
a US Supreme Court considering the constitutionality of the Voting
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Rights Act. The case will decide whether Louisiana will have
two majority black voting districts for the US House. But
the High Court's decision in Cala v. Louisiana could reverberate
across the country if the court overturns the remaining protection
for minority voters in the sixty year old law. And
again that's a misstatement of what the case is all about.
(28:41):
The case isn't trying to take away minority protections. It's
simply saying choosing your districts based upon race is unconstitutional.
So again we come back to the Streetport Bosure advocate
writing some things that aren't quite accurate, And no, the
State of Louisiana is not trying to take away the
remaining protection from my minority voters in the Voting Rights Act.
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We're not trying to bring back poll taxes. So that's
a dishonest framing of it from the from the Sheeport
Post Advocate. But it is interesting that they're covering Aguanagua.
And again, I do think that these cases go forward.
We've got some very important case for the state of
Louisiana and he's going to be the one trying them,
and most people in the state don't know who he is.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Absolutely not, but obviously Attorney General Liz Merle does and
she trusts him, which I would say is pretty high
praise the fact that he is going to be the
lead counsel in arguing this case.
Speaker 5 (29:42):
Because she used to do that.
Speaker 2 (29:43):
And it's not just she knows what that process. It's
not that she's not. I fully expect her to supervise
all of the proceedings.
Speaker 5 (29:51):
As Jeff Lander did. But when it came to the
Supreme Court cases that she was arguing before the Supreme
Court when she was Solicitor General, she was the one arguing.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
She was Jeff Lanney exactly. Now.
Speaker 5 (30:01):
Agnaga is from Metori, but he spent time growing up
in Parland, which is a sub suburb of Houston. He
seems to have both Louisiana and Texas in his veins.
He graduated from LSU law School. He worked for a
law firm in Texas for a while. He's back in Louisiana,
but he apparently has longhorned cattle as pets. He has
clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, one of
(30:23):
the biggest conservatives on the Court. I think that is
a pretty bright star in his resume.
Speaker 2 (30:29):
No, and look, this case, make no mistake, this case
will have national completely reverberations.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
It could change the entire political landscape.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
Of America, because if the Supreme Court decides that Louisiana
doesn't have to jerry mander itself into racial quotas or
racially divided congressional districts, then suddenly a lot of these
protected districts in other states, well, they start looking a
little shaky themselves.
Speaker 5 (30:59):
And again, it's so visive to our culture to say
that the black neighborhoods in Shreveport have more in common
with the black neighborhoods in Baton Rouge than either one
of those neighbors do with white neighborhoods in the same city.
That is so divisive and destructive to the fabric of
America to say that we're more related to people who
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have our same skin tone than people who live next door.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
But you want to know the frank, honest truth, there
are folks in those in those neighborhoods, in both Shreeport
and Baton Rouge. Yeah, that probably feel like they do
have more in common with one another.
Speaker 5 (31:38):
And we've got to change that. And we're not going
to change that through racial gerrymandering and racial quotas. We've
got to stop dividing ourselves on race. And Aguinaga might
be the person to make it happen. We'll be at Backstagram.
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Speaker 5 (33:12):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio.
Speaker 2 (33:14):
Stephen Parker lewisar So apparently Starbucks the coffee shop, is
closing some of their stores in New Orleans, but not
just in New Orleans, that's all across the country. Nine
and a lot of folks say, why is this happening?
Why are they closing? Is this a sign of you know,
(33:35):
is it crime? Is it the economy? And the University
of Houston, there's a professor there named Stephen Craig, and
he says that these closures by Starbucks are the result
of tariffs on imported beans and that changing consumer habits
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are all just part of a little uncertainty in our economy. Now,
this sounds like a guy that is Devin did not
vote for Donald Trump for president.
Speaker 5 (34:07):
So wait, let me see if I have this straight.
He's suggesting that people who buy coffee from Starbucks every
single day are not are are price conscious?
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Apparent Apparently he says that it is due to these
tariffs on imported beans.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
Or maybe it's just been that all right. So Black,
Oh my gosh, I've forgotten his name. There's a comedian.
His last name is Black, and I don't remember his
first name.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
But he was talking.
Speaker 5 (34:42):
He was talking about several years ago. He says, I
was in New York and I was out of Starbucks
and I walked outside the Starbucks. You know what I
saw across the street another Starbucks exactly. You know, you know,
I mean, when was the last time you had a
cup of coffee and went? You know what I could
go for right now is a good cup of Joe.
He was like, why, Hey, why do I need a
Starbucks right across the street from Starbucks? And we've been
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in New York and yeah, they've had Starbucks right across
the street from each other.
Speaker 2 (35:07):
So maybe the problem is they've overbuilt. They've overbuilt, and
they're trying to write size and it has absolutely nothing
to do with tariffs. It has absolutely nothing to do
with the uncertainty of the economy.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
And maybe it's also because their employees are trying more
and more to unionize and that makes it harder for
Starbucks to be to remain as profitable as it is
because the union always adds extra cost to the business.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Okay, but this professor from the University of Houston saying
that this is because of the uncertainty in the economy.
All of the economic data, all of the economic data
in the first nine months of this Trump administration has
been what's been very good. In fact, it's been so
good that they have revised the report. It's the economic
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data reports each and every time. So they the Bureau
of Labor Status up plus quarter, Bureau of Labor Statistics
releases the data and then a month later they come
back and they go, oh, that was a little too low.
Actually it's higher higher than that. So it just anyway, Uh,
Starbucks is closing. But folks, don't some story some some Yeah, exactly,
(36:21):
you'll still get your limited numbers. So folks, don't don't panic.
Don't panic.
Speaker 5 (36:25):
All right, let's play a game.
Speaker 2 (36:32):
Black battlesuits, shall we play?
Speaker 5 (36:36):
So we were talking about pickle ball. Earlier, we had
the call with Alexander Jeffrey, who's done the movie The
Power of Pickleball. We've got this new ten million dollar
pick a ball park coming to Shreetport, Bosure, and I thought,
maybe we just see how popular this is. So according
to reports out this year, Yes, what are the most
popular sports in America? By participation? Not by viewership? Because
(37:00):
not about watching pickleball, It's about going out and playing
pick a ball. So one of the most popular sports
in America by participation?
Speaker 2 (37:06):
Does ESPN air pickleball? I'm not quite sure.
Speaker 5 (37:10):
Maybe on the ocho, on the hoop on the ocho.
You have got to watch the movie Dodgeball. I have
so many references from Dodgeball.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
I need to get out more obviously. Okay, how about pickleball?
Speaker 5 (37:24):
Pickleball? No, yes, no, no, Pickleball's not in the top ten.
Speaker 2 (37:30):
Not on okay?
Speaker 5 (37:31):
Okay, football football, yep US football, American football six million participants,
number eight participation in sport in America.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Okay, so that that would include kids.
Speaker 5 (37:42):
I guess it does kids and aitols.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
Okay, basketball number one.
Speaker 5 (37:47):
Twenty four million people play basketball.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
And you see it's because you don't you know, The
thing is, you don't need a lot of room to
play basketball court and you go hope and a ball
not as special equipment.
Speaker 5 (38:00):
You could play half court and it'd be fun.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
Let's see sports. What about walking?
Speaker 5 (38:07):
Walking? You know, I'm going to kind of give it
to you. It's number three on the list running slash walking.
Speaker 2 (38:12):
You just insulted all of the runners in our audience
because they're like, we're not walkersh No, but it's still
we're runners.
Speaker 5 (38:19):
Yeah, but you're using your legs to go forward.
Speaker 2 (38:21):
So which there's nothing wrong with walking. No, I think
it's highly recommended by running out of five doctors nineteen
million people. Walking is not really as.
Speaker 5 (38:30):
Much as sport. But that's all right. It's exercise, Okay,
that's true.
Speaker 2 (38:34):
Okay, it doesn't really it's not an organized good for you,
it's good for you, absolutely, Okay.
Speaker 5 (38:40):
Tennis tennis number six on the list. Eight million folks
play tennis, golf, Golf. Golf is on the list as well,
number nine. Five million folks play golf, hockey, ice hockey,
number ten. One point two million people play hockey.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
Let's see, uh uh what other sports are there? It's
pot putt count No, that's account. Okay, sports, Yeah, you
got football, basketball, Oh oh, America's pastime baseball.
Speaker 5 (39:16):
Number five on the list, baseball, softball, you got twelve million.
Ten We're starting to run out of time. So number
one of the list was basketball twenty four million people.
Number two is swimming, twenty two million people swim running.
Then soccer soccer.
Speaker 6 (39:29):
Lewis focusing or maybe kicks.
Speaker 5 (39:31):
Yeah, it's got soccer, fourteen million folks playing soccer. Then
you got baseball, softball twelve million. Tennis. Volleyball comes in
at number seven with seven million folks playing volleyball. Then
you got football, golf, and then ice hockey.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
David Sourprise, I did say soccer. You didn't see. You misunderstood.
I said football.
Speaker 5 (39:49):
You said, yeah, okay, We'll be right back.
Speaker 2 (39:52):
Stick around.
Speaker 1 (39:55):
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Speaker 5 (40:14):
Welcome back to American Ground Radio. Stephen Parler, Lewis r Avalona.
You got to head out to Magnolia Pit Barbecue. Look,
all I'm saying is just once a week, just at
least once a week, go check out Magnolia Pit Barbie.
Speaker 2 (40:27):
I did this week.
Speaker 5 (40:28):
I went to Nates.
Speaker 2 (40:28):
Well, it's the real deal.
Speaker 5 (40:30):
I had, I had, I hadn't had before. I had
pulled pork on a HOGI with coleslaw on there, and
then I put the barbecue sauce there. There's smoky barbecue
sauce on there, and it was delicious.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
You went there for lunch?
Speaker 5 (40:47):
Yeah, I went there for lunch.
Speaker 2 (40:48):
Did you have to take a nap afterwards?
Speaker 5 (40:51):
I don't know. No, No, I didn't. I mean that's
I mean, I'm a busy guy.
Speaker 2 (40:54):
No, I understand, but I mean it's radioho.
Speaker 5 (40:56):
I didn't have time for a nap.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
No, But that just sounds like a lot of food. Well,
and did you take half of it home? Or you
ate the whole thing? That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 5 (41:03):
I mean I did eat the whole sandwich, and then
I also had the fried okra and I ate all that.
And then there's.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Also metabolism is different, and there's also I don't know
how you stay so you know s felt. There was
also the side of a dirty rice that I had too,
and that was that and dirty rack yea, yeah, ah,
it was delicious, my lord.
Speaker 5 (41:20):
But what are the barbecue pits? You're gonna go and
get that kind of combination?
Speaker 2 (41:25):
Well, I mean when and you're not talking about some
run of the mill chain. No, no, no restaurant you
know with cookie cutter flavors. No, this is hand crafted,
slow smoked, melt in your mouth barbecue that reminds you
that you should savor the soul of Louisiana barbecue.
Speaker 5 (41:43):
So talk about seven to twenty nine Jurday Street in Shreeport.
Speaker 2 (41:47):
Well, you know, we uh again, we're in our new studio,
brand new studio. So if you notice the sound of
it all is a little different. We're still making some adjustments,
but we certainly will be sharing with you some photos
of some videos studio video as well.
Speaker 5 (42:08):
And I think this weekend we're gonna get posted up
the video that we did with Speaker Mike Johnson in
here earlier this week, and we're gonna try and get
that posted up online, so you guys get actually a glimpse.
Speaker 2 (42:19):
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Speaker 5 (42:20):
Our Facebook page Facebook dot com slash America or radio
or Facebook dot com slash American Mamas, you can see
some kind of behind the scenes footage already right now
of what this new studio looks like. As Speaker Johnson
came on and our American Mama, Kimberly Burlsen did a
great job of putting that together for us.
Speaker 2 (42:35):
Absolutely absolutely been a very big week. So we got
more American.
Speaker 5 (42:39):
Ground Radio coming up next to around the second
Speaker 3 (42:44):
Hour of American Ground Radio is coming up next
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