The Founders Show #467

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Bite holes. Politicians addressed to jigitatorsand magicians choose to see the money they
did, don't there's nothing to feelthe holes while the feeling their pockets bite
holes. The politicians mounting down theroad, everybody as we shoot the no

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more corruption and dysfunction. It's gonnatake divide intervention. With all the attention
on the presidential race, we're forgettingthat there's a governor's race much sooner.
And has John Schroeder tried to bethe centrist candidate get a Republican with a
lot of Democratic support. Well,he just got a major endorsement. We'll

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talk about that. Also the presidentialrace. Tim Scott joined the race,
as did Ron de Santis, witha little technical problems trying to get held
of Alon Musk hundred and forty millionfollowers. Speaking of Musk, he'll be
in New Orleans in September twelfth andjoining us here in the Founders Show.
But also, ladies and gentlemen,we've got a whole lot to talk about

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the Louisiana legislative session and whether ornot it's a good idea to pay off
debt or start fixing roads. Allthis and more in this edition of the
Founder Show, and God bless allout there. You are now listening to
the founders. So the voice ofthe founding fathers, your founding fathers,
coming to you deep within the bowelsof those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of

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the Big Easy, that old CrescentCity, New Orleans, Louisiana. And
Hi up on top of that oldliberty cypress tree draped in Spanish moss,
way out on the Eagles Branch.This is none other then you's been Geary
Baba of the Republic Chaplain Hi mckenry, who with Christopher Tidmore, you roving
a reporter, resident, radical,moderate, associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly

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at Louisiana Weekly dot net. Andas Tim Scott and Ron De Santisco to
I, it's worth noting that Republicancandidates for governor have been coming to New
Orleans and you're saying, what's whatdoes A have to do with B?
Well, let me give you theoutline, because we've got a governor's race
coming up in October, and it'sa little sooner than the presidential race.

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We're in the presidential primaries, andright now, for most people would say
the governor's race is as locked asthe presidential contest. If you had to
bet money, you're going to sayDonald Trump is going to be the Republican
nominee and Joe Biden's gonna be theDemocratic nominee, And in the governor's race,
you pretty much would say something quitesimilar. Attorney General Jeff Landry has

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anywhere between thirty five and forty eightpercent support. Sean Wilson, the Democratic
former head of transportation for the stateof Louisiana, is running as a Democrat,
usually does somewhere around thirty eight percentsupport. That doesn't, in theory,
leave a lot of room for anothercandidate. However, what most people

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acknowledge is that Sean Wilson can't win. I'd be careful when I say this,
because I happen to say on thisradio show some eight years ago that
a man by the name of JohnBell Edwards couldn't win because a Democrat couldn't
win in Louisiana, and the bestchance for the Republicans to beat David Vitter
was a guy by the name ofJay Darden. Well, Jay Darden,

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of course, did not win andcame in third. He endorsed John Bell
Edwards, and that caused Edwards towin. However, Sean Wilson, in
fairness, is not John Bell Edwards, and this is not putting down Shawn
Wilson. There's not much Sean Wilsoncan do about the fact that he's black
and the fact that Louisiana is notexactly in the most racially advanced state in
the history of time. People willvote voted for Edwards that probably won't vote

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for Wilson. There John Schroeder haslooked at Jay Darden's strategy and he may
be trying to duplicate it. Thecurrent Louisiana Treasurer running for governor, you've
probably seen him on the airwaves.He's outspent almost every gubernatorial candidate, including
Jeff Landry, spending over half amillion dollars in the airwaves by the time
April rolled around. Lots of money. But he's doing something else. He's

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been visiting places atypical for a Republicancandidate. He's been going to historically black
colleges and university's HBCUs, most recentlyto Dillard University. But the place that
he was for me I found themost interesting is he was under the Clayburne
Avenue Overpass about a week ago.Now what was he doing? Was he

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a bump? Was he on thestreet? No, he was feeding the
multitudes. A guest that we've hadon this show many times is the former
head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Reverend Byron Clay of Kenner. He's
one of the legends in the civilrights movement. He's been around for decades.
He's a political guiding post for theAfrican American community. Well, Schroeder

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has been helping Byron Clay's outreach tohomeless communities. Been doing a lot of
feeding of the homeless in the lastfew months, actually the last few years,
to be honest with you, butwe'll do full days where he gets
full meals and brings them various placesNew Orleans. But he's best known for
being under the Clayburn Avenue Overpass.He's often helped, if I may be

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so bold, by giving a freeplug to my friend Kermit Ruffins, who
has the club right across the street. And Kermitt will has barbecued for this
and done a whole lot. Sothey're trying to help the people under under
the bridge. Schroeder was helping andhas done a lot with Clay. So
I get a text message the otherday, and of course we're on the
closest connections of everyone. High mckenryand Christopher said Moore. We get the
political news before anyone else in thestate of Louisiana. And one of these

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things was that Byron Clay. Folks, we break it first every time.
That's why you've got to listen tothe Founders Show on a weekly basis.
We are the number one rated weekendshow on w ARNO, one of the
top talk stations of the Gulf South. Don't miss his, folks. Now
we've patted ourselves on the back.The fact is we get a text message

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Reverend Byron Clay a picture of himand he and John Schroeder, and Clay
is saying, I indorse John Schroederfor governor. He has my endorsement,
my support. And one of thethings I've been noticing is Schroeder going around
and trying to get significant African Americanand other minority supports, but mainly we're
talking about black supports, and hisentire thought process is this, Okay,

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let's assume there's enough Republican competition thatJeff Landry underperforms. Say he gets instead
of thirty five percent, he getstwenty eight to thirty percent. Not so
impossible in a primary. And let'sassume Sean Wilson doesn't really go anywhere.
He's got a core Democratic vote,but he's not really inspiring anybody. Could

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I get into a runoff with this? Schroeder saying? This Schroeder for those
that don't know, he used tobe a state representative from Covington, ran
in two thousand and seven. Actuallywhen I ran, he then became Louisiana
Treasurer. He said, I havea lot of people that support me.
I've been running the unclaimed property foryears. A lot of people very happy.
He says, if I get ina run off with Jeff Landry,

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I will defeat him. And that'sa fair statement. There's no way anybody
in the center or in the leftsupports Jeff Landry. He's too much an
ideologically polarizing figure. Love him,hate him. It's a fact this And
Schroeder says he can come up inthe middle. Now, as I noted
earlier, ladies and gentlemen, thishas been tried before. Jay Darden tried

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this exact strategy and when Jay Dardentried it, you had the chairman of
the Democratic Party, Karen Carter Peterson, and the former US Senator Mary Landrew
telling Democrat telling John Bell Edwards toget out of the race in favor of
Jay Darden because they did not wantDavid Vitter to become governor. And Jay
Darden was He actually was one ofthe conservative young Turks in the legislature.

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But what used to be conservative isnow moderate. But he was considered one
of the sort of Republicans Democrats couldwork with. It didn't work. Jadarden
did not make the runoff. However, he garnered enough support that in the
runoff he was able to deliver essentiallythe election for John Bell Edwards. Now,
David Vitter had a big part ofdelivering the election. Two the sex

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scandals, the prostitute scandals that we'vetalked about so many times came out to
haunt him. But John Bell Edwards. It's still to give you an idea
of how difficult it is for aDemocrat to get elected. John Bell Edwards
is a pro life, pro gunDemocrat, relatively moderate, and his reelection
campaign against Eddie Responi, who wasperhaps the weakest Republican candidate. I've seen

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the GOP get into a runoff forgovernor in fifty years, and I'm including
David Vitter inat he only beat Responingby one point. Democrats do have a
disadvantage in Louisiana, but they alsohave a floor. In any reasonable turnout
situation, a Democrat in Louisiana canget at least forty percent of the vote,

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usually forty three. Any presidential race, Biden carries forty percent of Louisiana
worst case scenario, Republicans will donot can do worse, you know,
getting fifty some odd. You know, republic Democrats can do better getting forty
three, forty six, forty eight, or in Edwards's case, fifty But
most of the time forty three's soSchroder's gambling. But if I were John

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Schroeder, I gotta tell you he'sspending a lot of money, he's doing
a good race. I don't Iwould have set this one out. I
would have waited four years. Andhere's why. And you know, you
never you never want to wait youropportunity because when you wait for your turn,
sometimes your turn never comes. ButI know what John Bell Edwards is

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doing now no, but I haveno proof of this, but I have
enough people close to Edwards who aresort of like, yeah, it makes
sense pulling the Edwards trick. He'spulling the old Edwards trick. For those
that didn't cover our previous shows,it's very simple. Sean Wilson gets into
a runoff. He's doing at JohnBell Edwards is everything. You can elect
Sean Wilson, but he will notget blamed as Sean Wilson loses. He's

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a black Democrat running statewide after twoterms of a Democratic governor. It's very
tough. If Jeff Landry becomes governor, which is a very strong possibility.
What happens he becomes governor at atime when the state budget will go from
its current two billion dollars surplus toprobably a one billion dollar deficit. It

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will be not a fun time.And guess what. John Bell Edwards could
come back and run for governor.My argument was, if I were John
Schroeder, I would have run foranother term as treasurer. It's still possible
he still could jump back in thatrace and just wait four years for this
incredible disaster to unplay itself. Butwill She'll see I will say, I'm
impressed by the fact that Schroeder hasmanaged to garner the black support that he

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has, like the Reverend Byron Clay, some members of the SCLC African American
intellectuals. I just know this.I've seen race to race contests after contest
where Republicans have gotten black endorsements,black leadership, and African Americans voted for
the Democrat. I've even seen races, particularly all around Louisiana, where he

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had two Republicans in the runoff andthe Black community would vote for a down
ticket race and just skip over thetop of the race with two Republicans because
they couldn't bring themselves to vote forsomebody with an UR behind their names.
So I don't know shorter strategy workhigh, but I will tell you that
it is intriguing and it's the onlyshot He's got very interesting insights. As

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always, folks are premier political experton the show, professional journalists. Christopher
ted Moore does a great job asour political septic tank engineer as he negotiates
all of you know what. That'show honestly politics, folks, And because

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of that, I've never really wantedto study it. But Christopher sure knows.
He does a great job. Thankyou, Christopher. It's a good
opportunity to take a quick commercial break. When we come back, ladies and
gentlemen, we're going to talk aboutanother set of candidates that are running.
And that's, of course, thefact that Tim Scott, the African American
Republican Senator from South Carolina, andRhonda Sadas, the Republican governm from Florida,

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both announced for president this past week. And what does this mean?
And it all comes down to Iowapolitics. Here's the idea if either of
these guys were to win the Iowacaucuses or the New Hampshire primary, and
remember there's another candidate New Hampshire's namesChris Snewknew, the governor who's running for
president. By winning those early primaries, do they have a shot to take

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down Donald Trump. We're gonna talkabout that, and we're gonna talk about
a rumor that's going around about TimScott that he might not be running for
president so much as vice president.Right after these important messages, stay tuned
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a new Arlen's connection to fame.But before we getting any of that,
of course, I was intrigued bysomething. So for those that hadn't paid
attention or living under a rock orsomething like that, Ronda Santis was going
to announce his presidential campaign on what'scalled Twitter Social. It's the Twitter space
is the place where they do liveevents. It was going to be essentially

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an interview with Elon Musk. Theyhad an interviewer, but you see any
Alon Musk, Elon mus was endorsinghim for president, and the Alon Musk
has one hundred and forty million followers. So the minute that Sanus was going
to announce for a president, onehundred and forty million people would find out.
Now, last time I checked,there are three hundred and twenty million
people in the United States, soone hundred and forty million people would be
a lot. Okay, so it'sabout the whole avoiding population. Well,

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I mean some of them are foreign. I mean not all of them are
domestics. But the point I'm gettingat all of this is they do this
event and so many people tune intoit that the website crashes, that everything
crashes, and they just have thismusac this music that goes on in the
background. It lands so long.The Trump campaign immediately cut an ad with
the commercial the music playing and said, Rhonda Santis failure to launch. I'll

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give him credit. That was awitty commercial. Having said that, what
I thought was interesting about the launchwas then the actual announcement for the most
part, was in this legacy mediacalled talk radio the next day, just
like us. One of it wasactually a Fox News radio affiliate, just
like we are, and then didFox News TV and a whole bunch of
other stuff. But what was interestingabout this, ladies and gentlemen, is

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young people don't watch cable news.Have you ever noticed that cable news?
To give you an idea, wetalk about Trump's town hall, These huge
ratings it had that was less thana quarter of the ratings that celebrity Wheel
of Fortune had that night. Now, Pat say, Jack for those that

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don't know, is actually a brilliantpolitical writer. He's written for National Review
for years. I'm like, Ihave the idea that you're probably better off
announcing your presidential campaign on Wheel ofFortune than you would on CNN. But
for those that say, well,you know Tucker Carlson and Tucker Carlson and
Fairness was having higher numbers when hewas on Fox, then say Jimmy Kimball
was having on ABC. But stillit's a fraction because what happens is if

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you are under the age of fortyfive, you do not watch television.
Wait, how is that possible whenyou've seen you don't watch television because they're
all on their iPhones cell phones.Yeah, it's streaming. In fact,
what do you listen to more andwatch more than anything else? This high
tech idea of two, two orthree people talking audio that you have straight

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going straight to your phones. Basically, ladies and gentlemen, if you're a
Generation ZO or a younger millennial,you'll listen to podcasting. Podcasting is a
fancy way of saying talk radio.That's all it is. What was interesting
about all of that is for allthe comments about De Santis, more people
saw de santiss and now anouncement onTwitter because people are on Twitter by a

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factor of twenty then saw any ofthe announcements of Donald Trump. And so
everybody's making fun of de Santis,the failure to launch and all this.
But it really the question is isit going to have an impact? The
other question is is it going tomake a difference. So Decendus immediately goes
to Iowa. Iowa voters for thosewho've never been to the wonderful state of

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Iowa. I went to school therefor a little time while, and let
me tell you, Iowa voters arewonderful taciturn and they don't decide their presidential
candidate, so they've met you threetimes presidential candidate. It is the last
place of retail politics. It's notan accident. Donald Trump did not win
Iowa when he ran for president becauseit's the kind of place where you've got

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to go around coffee clutches with twelvepeople in a room, which is the
kind of thing Trump doesn't like todo. I'm not judging him these other
politicians who doesn't like to do it. It's all about going to living rooms
and dens, as we used tosay it a certain way business, and
meeting people directly. DeSantis is actuallyquite good at that. But here's a
guy who's in Iowa who's even better. His name is Tim Scott. Now,

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for those that have never googled orlistened to Tim Scott, I've got
to tell you he's probably the beststump speaker the Republican Party has. If
I may be so bold, he'sthe opposite of Herschel Walker of Georgia,
who couldn't go through a speech withoutmassacre at twice. You can't listen to
Tim Scott not be inspired. Andif you don't completely agree with him politically,

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and Tim Scott's a very conservative senator, you're still inspired by his story.
He has a lot of crossover appeal. Now you're the same thing I
was telling you about Jeff Landry goingagainst Sean Wilson applies in this case.
All things being equal, Donald Trumpis going to be the Republican nominee.
There are two reasons. One he'salready got fifty percent support. Two,

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actually about sixty percent to be honest. But two is Republican primaries are not
like Democratic primaries. In Democratic primaries, the vote is divided between the top
five finishers all the way almost tothe convention. There is no such thing
as a winner take all primary.Republicans, everything is winner take all after
Iowa, and so what happens isnot everything, but most of the races.

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So if you win the initial contest, you get so far ahead nobody
can catch up to you. DeSantisis gambling that if he can win in
Iowa and he can have a strongshowing in New Hampshire, where Chris sin
Nu knew, the sitting governor,the ultimate favorite Sun candidate would be running,
those two races could knock back DonaldTrump, and it could do it.
Tim Scott is counting on something similar. But I was talking to a

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certain Republican National committeeman who shall remainnameless. But yeah, we were talking
because there's gonna be a big meaningof the R and C on the third
of June, and there's a bigcontroversy going on about trying to get rid
of an R and C member who'sactually one of the more popular members.
And we can talk about that ina second if you'd like. But I
was talking and I said, doyou think Scott really thinks he can win?

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Here's the other side to it.The more candidates that are facing off
against Donald Trump, the higher probabilityDonald Trump is the Republican nominee. Because
you're dividing the field. This isn'tlike the Democrats, where you have a
lot of people in the field toact benefits. And the answer they gave
was Tim Scott is not running forpresident. He's running for vice president.
And it makes a certain degree sense. The only African American that the Republicans

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have on the front bench, reallythe only senator black senator on the GOP
side, incredibly articulate, even waysTrump is not. And if he runs
in and Trump loses, he won'tget blamed unlike Mike Pence, who's not
going awhere, who's also running forpresident. It would be a springboard for
four years from now. The questionis, and this is what I'm trying

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to figure out, is while thatwon't take him with GOP voters, would
probably make him stronger, would ittain him with enough of Americans? Because
as we've discussed, high and Iyou know, in high distrees, but
Independents are not exactly enthused by Trumpwears independence, love Tim Scott when they
when they hear him. So Idon't know what's happening, but I will
tell you this, The Iowa caucusesare fascinating because they're already underways and you

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have major presidential contenders now a yearand a half out showing up at a
show Niece at eight o'clock in themorning to shake hands. Chris. Does
it have anything to do with thepigs and the corn fields? A lot
of farmers in Iowa and that andmost many of them are very, very
wealthy. They've they've really learned howto make a profit off of pigs and

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corn and I one of that hasanything to do with their style or their
perception of politicians, how they goabout it that you know, it's something
to do with a rural way oflife or whatever. There's three ways to
answer that question. Um, Iwas actually fourth in pigs, and don't
ask me how I know that.It has to do with the fact that
I produced a barbecue documentary. NorthCarolina's first by a long shot, but

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that's still there's a huge number ofit from North Carolina, South Carolina,
South Carolina. He's from South Carolina, which is, by the way,
one of the top five, soyou know he understands pig farmers who tend
to be African American farmers. Bythe way, for those that don't know
this, there are only four placesin the country that have huge African American

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rural farming populations. They are Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South
Carolina. That's it. Everywhere elsein the country there aren't. I'm talking
about black farmer owners, you know, people that are on that. But
one of the things that you wereonto something people think about, Iowa's a
state of corn and it is.I remember when I flew into the University

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of Iowaya City and I was like, I was gonna be landing. I
joke people, I'm landing in acorn field, and I literally the plane
shook a cornfield as we went in. But what people forget is Iowa's the
biggest dairy state. It's actually asbig a dairy state as Wisconsin or Michigan
is. In fact, if you'venever if you ever, you know,

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Louisiana has a state fair up inShreeport and it's extraordinary. But but for
all the ways we do festivals.Well, our state fair is kind of
secondary. In most states, astate fair is the biggest event of the
year. And if you go tothe state Fair in Des Moines, Iowa,
which is a really cool city bythe way, it's it's actually a

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very artistic and it's it's really beengrowing as one of the places that benefited
from the pandemic. It's got ahuge art scene. But you got to
the state fair and as the buttersculptures are human sized or bigger sculptures,
and they're the size of aware,you know, like a warehouse of them.
It's a huge competition of these buttersculptures. And it's always a big

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presidential thing because all of the presidentialcandidates want to be filmed with the butter
sculptures of human beings or animals ormythological creatures or pop culture references. It's
just google it. It's really it'san experience. And if you ever have
a chance to go to the IowaState Fair to do it, folks,
it is a thing. But allof this is and I'm raising something bigger.

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Why does this desanis? Why ishe on the ground in Iowa as
we speak Why is Tim Scott inthe ground in iowas we speak, Because
frankly, if you have a chanceto do retail politics, you can change
opinions. How to Barack Obama becomethe nominee of the Democrats when everyone thought
it was gonna be Hillary Clinton.Obviously the structure of the primaries was different

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from the Democrats. He could wina little bit in each state and build
up. You can't do that.But there's another reason. He was really
good on the stump and she wasterrible. And I don't mean the stump
like big rallies. I mean hecould go into a Roman people liked him.
That is actually how Reagan kind ofpicked up. People could go to
a Roman liked him, And thatis the danger we're getting away with.

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One of the things Biden has areal problem. By the way, for
those that who have not known this, he has propelled South Carolina's Democratic primary
ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire.And there's a major problem in New Hampshire
because not only is the Republican governorand legislature going to push it ahead,
the entire Democratic caucus, including thesenators like Jackie Rosen or like we are

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going to push it ahead, andwe're going to support somebody else, mister
president, if you don't, ifyou don't protect our first the nation status,
and they're arguing for it's pretty good. People in New Hampshire and Iowa
take the time to meet the candidates, They will go to events, they'll
have people in their homes and waysother states do. If you are not
willing to submit yourself to that levelof politics, all we have is an
electronic media campaign, and you ultimatelyhave got to face the voters in a

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very direct way. And so allof this is coming down to say in
and over till it's over, justlike in the Louisiana race. Just like
here, in and over till it'sover. And Louisiana's got its own situations.
Guiden's last campaign was electronic media.He never left his basement, and
I guess I think we think he'splanning to do the same thing again.
What do you think if you're inBiden's situation, why would you Your only

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real opponent, No disrespect to missWilliamson is Jeff K. Junior, who,
let's put it charitably, has sometimesmore republican supporter of city has democratic
supporters, even though he gets abouttwenty percent of the Democratic vote. If
you're Biden, you don't really haveto fight for the nomination. There hasn't
been a sitting president that has lostthe nomination of their party in well since

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the nineteenth century. It doesn't happen. It does happen that if you're challenged,
you could then go on to losethe presidential race. And that's Biden's
worry. I think one of thereal concerns so that the Democrats have.
They know they have the village idiotas their candidate. They know that he's
a low grade moron. We've seenit repeatedly. The man can't go through

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anything any of his appearances where hedoesn't screw it up some kind of way.
He is an embarrassment to the DemocratParty and that may drive a lot
of Democrat voters to go ahead andgo for a Kennedy because Kennedy's big name.
The Democrat Party, folks, youknow, always has been well.
First of all, to call Bidena village idiot is a bit the same
like calling uh, I don't know, Trump, the giant orange umpa lumpa

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fascist. No, my point beinghigh, you gotta be a little respectful
if you've got to be. Ifyou want respect, you gotta keep respects
for this is a blood sport andI have heard you do the same thing.
I'm sorry, it's very clear,it's unavoidable. This is one of
the worst cases elder abuse I've everseen. And I'll put it all in
the Democratic Party. They never shouldhave put that man up. He is
not right in his head, Christopher, and we all know that and see

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it. Both sides know it.The whole world knows it. Our world
leaders are laughing at us right nowbecause of our president. I would also
point out having a forty four yearold governor of Florida is better than having
an eighty year old former Manhattan businessman. But that aside when it comes down
to the races you're talking about elderabuse. Come on, it's fair.
Wait a minute. No, Trumpis as clear headed, and you know

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he's an energy bunny. I mean, this guy is remarkable. He has
high, high cognizance abilities. There'snothing wrong with him, you know,
in the upper levels of his bodyand his brain. He's doing fine.
I can bring in a dozen examplesof people who had questioned that. But
let's let's get back to the pointabout retail politics. Trump doesn't do retail
politics all that well. He doesstadiums well, he does stump speech as

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well, but he doesn't actually doretail politics well. And this is where
the Republicans. I said this tomy friend the national Commitment, and I
said, look, it's obviously notgoing to change for this year. But
there's a situation where the Democrats areonto something. We make fun of super
delegates, but super delegates are theinterest groups in the Democratic Party that kind
of offer a break against something badhappening. Otherwise, you would have had

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President Bernie Sanders. If you hadthe same rules in the Democratic side that
you have the Republican side that gavethem Trump, you would have had Bernie
Sanders as the nominee. So sometimespolitical parties have to be bigger than the
parties there. Speaking of bigger,obviously everybody's talking about the debt ceiling.
Are we going to go up againstthe debt ceiling? The Treasury Secretary says,

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it's one day. You know,is Biden going to come to a
deal? I'm going to tell yousomething. If I were Biden, he's
got the reverse trick bag of McCarthy. McCarthy, if he goes for a
deal that's too moderate enough of hiscaucus not only rebels against the deal,
they vote to vacate the chair andvote McCarthy out of the speakership. Well,
Biden has a similar problem, Andlet me give you this, Explain

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it this way. Joe Biden,on twenty two separate occasions, has voted
for, supported, or publicly endorsedthe idea of work requirements for government programs.
He was one of the co authorsof welfare reform in the Clinton administration.
Biden's never been a far left wingerwhen it comes to the idea that

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you should have a job, ifyou get government benefits, you should be
giving something back. You shouldn't sitaround and get a check. So it's
the most obvious area for him tocompromise with McCarthy. And it's not ancient
history that he supported this is backin the abomb administration. Was the last
time he was vocal about this.The problem he's got is if he does
that, he's facing a rebellion onthe left because and this is where you've

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got a point less than sixty percentof Democratic voters want him to be the
nominee, and that's a real problemand he can be challenged. So,
I mean, the debt ceiling,by the way, debate is something we
can't play games with. Everybody knowsthat for it. But it's not the
first time we've had these up tothe wire times, and I sincerely believe

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it's not gonna be the last.And there are all kinds of stop gap
safety measures they have realizing this couldhappen. The Treasury Department does all kinds
of fantasy financial footwork to make surewe don't reneg on our debts. But
you know, you don't want toplay it this way. This should have
been resolved weeks ago, but forthe fact that Biden was absent, would
not meet with McCarthy. He's putit off to the last minute, and

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now we're stuck trying to resolve somethingthat should have been worked out way back.
Well, I don't think, andin fairness, the Republicans didn't have
a plan until about a month ago, so you can't start until McCarthy actually
passed it. The reason McCarthy's gota hand to play is because he managed
to do what no one thought hecould do, which was get a very
strong bill out of the House.So I mean, I give the man

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credit that that's not a criticism.It's that you can't start a debate until
you no one believed he could actuallypass anything, and when he did that,
he changed the dynamics. But Iwant to make a comparison. We've
been making the presidential and govern acoral camarison. We talked about Schroeder.
Well, Schroeder came out in somethingelse this week. John Schroeder was elected
in the class of two thousand andseven. Is one of the fiscal turks

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to the Louisiana House of Representatives,and he was part of the group that
put on the fiscal caps, whichmeans it takes a two thirds majority to
break the spending caps. That's thedebate going on the legislature. And the
interesting thing it's breaking the spending capsis to build bridges and roads, particularly
two bridges, one in Batton,one in Lake Charles, where you have

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Republican legislators that are tired of trafficjams and on what are two of the
worst roadways on an interstate in theentire country. I don't know if you've
ever tried to go over that bridgein Lake Charles or ever gotten caught in
baton rouge traffic. But you knowwhat I'm talking about, If you have
it is horrendous and it's a realproblem for hurricane evacuation for example. So

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they're making a pretty good argument.But the argument that's countermade is if we
do nothing, we actually put somemoney into retirements. And so you've had
a lot of gubernatorial candidates, includingJeff Landry, pretty silent on this debate.
I understand why the first rule ofpolitics, ladies and gentlemen, is
never getting the way of your opponentwhen the process of destroying themselves. But

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Schroeder came out with a big endorsementsaying we need to stick to the limits,
which none of the candidates at end. So we'll see if this hole
goes to them. But I wantto change gears just for a second,
ladies and gentlemen, and talk aboutsomething I experienced on Tuesday now for those
that do not know this, formy sins, I've been involved with the

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Garden District Bookshop. My wife andI and Carol Gelderman bought it from Britain
Trice and we've had a wonderful lotof events and high and I've been privileged
to have a lot of authors onthis. We couldn't schedule these two authors,
though they have promised they will comeon with us. But these authors
that we had where I'm talking aboutladies and gentlemen, are Academy Award winners.
They're Laura Dern and Diane Ladd,and they wrote a book about Diane

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Ladd's experience almost dying. Now,I think this is a lesson, and
this is a particularly a lesson fromMemorial Day that I want to share with
everybody. So for those that don'tknow the story, Diane Ladd was living
in this beach in Malibu and shehad this dog and the dog was there
was something that was coming out andcoming in the water, and the dog

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got it all over and the dogdied in her arms, and she said,
I lost my beloved dog, andthat dog saved my life because what
they found out is there was abit dig toxic waste thing and she had
been walking in it because she walkedevery day in the beach, and she
could she was going to die.So she goes to the hospital and they
said, you've got three months tolive. You're gonna die. And they

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called her daughter Larder, and shehas two daughters. Larder and of course
is the one that most people know, famous Academy Award win an actress.
And they said, the only thingyou know, you're not gonna live,
miss Ladd, but you're gonna Youcould probably live a little longer if you
took long walks. And apparently DianeLadd doesn't like to walk, and she

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said, is because going to schooland mobile. They canceled school one day,
I had to walk ten miles home. She's from actually the missisipp Alabama
border and that'll come into the storyin a second. But her daughter's like,
mom, come on, we're gonnawalk, and so she tooks off
like six months and they're gonna theystart walking together, and they start,
as Diane at Ladd puts it,she starts, she said, you know,

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as a parent, kind of liedto your kids because you want them
to love you. So you tellyou embellished the best way you can about
stories. And as a kid,you kind of embellished your parents because you
want your parents to love you.He said, you're about to drop dead.
You start telling the truth because youdon't really don't care. You're gonna
die. Well, my daughter said, you know, mom, maybe we
should record these conversations so your grandchildrenhave it. And so what it is.

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The book is entitled Honey Baby Mine, and it's these conversations. But
in telling these conversations and taking thiswalk, a miraculous thing happened. She
got better. So Diane Lad's eightysix years old. She's been in two
TV series in a movie since then, and she came down and she did
this event in New Orleans. Nowwe didn't know we were gonna you'd say

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this has been scheduled for months andall this No. About two months ago.
Our head Josh Wade Ferguson, whois our events manager, we neither
none of us could go. Sowe set them up to something called Winter
Conference and Winter Institute. And hewas talking to somebody and they said,
well, you know, this book'scoming out, and he said, we'll
put on the biggest party they've everseen for a book event. And suddenly

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these two Academy Award winning actresses saidsure, we'll come. So we had
over three hundred and fifty people andthe book is available Honey Baby Mine at
the Garden District. Books are upshined copies by Diane Ladden all that and
uh Laura Dern. But what Ifound fascinating is I couldn't understand why they
were coming. Now. We havehad major authors. We've had Walter Isaacson,
We've had you know, we've we'vebrought in, we had David Baladocci,

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who's a famous mystery writer. Theday before David was in with us.
But I gotta say, this iskind of a different level of authors,
and I'm trying to figure out.And David's very big time though.
He's one of the he's one ofthe very top h you missed. We
got a signed copies by David Baladaccihad the bookstore of his new books.
I wish you had come, youwould have lugged. He was a great
haible study. I hung out withhim all night. He was a really

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he's a really great guy, agreat speaker. But um, we uh
so this was last Tuesday and we'rehaving this event and um and Diane lad
Is he called our good friend BrianBatt himself a Tony Award winning actor.
Of course, he was hazel nutton magazine Street in his husband Tom and

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who's most normous salve for Madman.Well, he did the interview and he's
doing the research and he says,I don't believe this. One of the
things she tells in the book ishow Diane Ladd got her start, and
what it was was she was goingto this Catholic school and Mobile and she
said, this is Mobile, Alabama, and we were all the Jewish and

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Catholic kids from Mississippi. And hesaid, there's not a lot of us.
So there were seven out of class. But I apparently walked really high
in all this. So they said, let's send him a finishing school in
New Orleans. And that finishing school, she said, almost finish me,
he said. But in the finishingschool, I had a chance to act
in this community theater play at thislittle place called Lerpetit Theater. And I

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say this to say, and thisis her words, to say, God
doesn't have a plan for your life. Is to not understand what has happened
to me and what could happen you. In that audience, she named actress
who's not known today as Colin Simmons, who was in town for one night
and her friend said, I gottickets to this play. You know you're
not gonna want to go it's communitytheaters. No, I love the theater.

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I will go. And she wentthere saw and say she's sixty five
years old and it was She calledthe director John Carroty and said, I
found the girl plays my granddaughter inthis film. And she went out to
house and she said, your lifechanges like that. It was an incredible
story. But she said two things, and it was basically this. She
said, if you have a lovedone and they aren't well or they are
well, talk to them and spendtime with them. And she said,

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I would God gave me a giftby making me almost die, because I
would never have spent this time withmy daughters. Her other daughter was there
as well, who's not a famousactress, but she's wonderful. And Laura
Dern's daughter is a well known actressherself, so she was there and as
were her cousins from Mobile. Itwas really a family affair. It was
really kind of fun. But theywere like she said, if you spend

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the time, if you memorialize andfind out those stories late in life,
it will be a legacy you won'tand what you'll do is not just remember
the stories. You may extend thelife of the person you love. And
so as we go into Memorial Day, I know there's a lot of people
who have a relative who's probably aveteran or who's on the phone front.

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We're losing the World War Two generation, but we're almost losing the Vietnam War
generation, the Korean War generation prettymuch aging out. And what I would
ask them to do is, onMemorial Day or this weekend, take a
long walk with that relative, thatfriend, that father, that grandfather.
Record the conversation, put on youriPhone, talk about a story and tell

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him say, look, I wantyou to do me a favor. I
want you to be absolutely honest.Don't embellish you. It is telling the
real way. We're adults. Tellme the story. Your grandchildren will thank
you for the recording, but youmay be actually saving a life. That's
what Diane Ladd said. And folks, if you want to read the book,
go to the Garden District Bookshop attwenty seven twenty seven per Ten Street,
the corner of Tannian Washington Avenue andget a signed copy of Honey Baby

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Mine by Laura Dern and Diane Ladd. And Happy Memorial Day. We'll be
talking more about that in the patrioticmovement with it's been Gary Bob out right
into these important messages. Stay tunedwell, howdy folks, and this is
is chaplanheih mckinry with LAMB Ministries.We're an inter city ministry with an inner

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city focus and Formula four inter cityfolks. Please check us out, go
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Folks, for a ministry that hasgreat challenges, we deal with lots of

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tragedy, lots of hard times.But folks, we've seen so many victories.
We've seen so many good things comeout of this work. We've seen
close to five thousand kids come toChrist. We have seen hundreds that go
on to live good, productive,healthy, sponsible lives. Ones that would
have you know. These are thethrowaway kids. These are the ones that

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hardly ever have a chance in life, and yet we've seen remarkable success in
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and thank you so very very much. Well, folks were back and you
are listening to the founders show thevoice of the founding fathers, your founding
fathers, and this is none otherthen you spend gary by by all the
Republic Chaplain High mckenry to bring youour regular patriotic moment where we just take

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a brief moment to remind you ofthe biblical foundations of our country, our
Judeo Christian jurisprudence, and today,especially being Memorial Day weekend, we wanted
to talk about perhaps the greatest combatcommander of America ever head and that's General
George Washington, who said to histroops and to the character of a patriot,

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add the more noble character of aChristian. I think George Washington thought
it was a really good idea tomake sure Christianity was in the center of
your life as a patriots, asan American citizen. A story was told
about him during Valley Forge, whenthe American Army was basically finished. We

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were losing like a hundred people aday. We were down about two thousand
people. And one day a verywealthy Tory, a loyalist, a royalist,
arrived home in Philadelphia and told hiswife to pack their bags, that
they were leaving because they had lostthe war. The bridge had lost the
war. She said, what areyou crazy? She said, Our thirty

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thousand strong infantry unit is comfortably quarteredin Philadelphia, having driven the colonials out
of their own capital, and weare enjoying all the merriments and comforts and
wonders of Christmas time, whereas theAmericans are dying in Valley Forge by the
hundreds, dying of famine, ofexposure, of illness, and all kinds

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of terrible things. They've they've lostmost of their battles. Have you lost
your mind, good man? We'vereally basically won the war, And he
says, you don't understand, mydear. I rode past the American camp
this morning, and I heard theircommander, General Washington, praying, any
man that praise like that will win. And by the way, that story

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was told twice, there was aQuaker who actually owned the land they were
on, who also witnessed Washington prayinglike that, and began to declare to
everybody that the Americans we're going towin the war, and you know,
quacks who are not supposed to beinvolved with the war. He took sides
because he said the Americans are definitelygoing to win. With a praying man

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like that. George Washington had runins with his officers. They had a
mutiny one time. They said,he said, you're getting God, spend
all your time getting Bibles and chaplainsfor the army. We need beans and
bullets. Washington didn't back down.There was no mutiny. And guess what,
We won the war because we hadGod on our side. Folks.
Don't you think we need God onour side today? And by the way,

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it's God on your side. Forgetthe nation. When it gets right
down to it, it's just youand God. You know, on the
judgment day, America can't save you. Your favorite politician can't do anything to
help you out. It's just gonnabe you and God on the judgment day.
And you're heading there, so boilsdown to just you and God.
So where are you with God?Are you in with God? Or are

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you out with God? You wantto be in, folks, And I'm
gonna just take a brief moment outto tell you how you can know that
you know that you know you arein with God, that you're God's child,
and that you'll be saved from helland guaranteed heaven. You know,
the Bible says God loves you withan ever lasting love in the bottom line
of the whole Bible. Folks,I've read the Bible through many times.

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I've been saying the Bible since iwas five years old. I'm seventy two
now, so you can kind ofget an idea of my depth and breadth
of experience with holy writ I lovethe Bible, but what I've come to
see is that if you really wantto boil it down about what is the
Bible all about, you can boilit down to a little four letter word
l O v E. It's allabout love, folks. You see,

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God made you because he loved you, and then he knew you got yourself
in trouble, but he didn't quitloving you. Bobble says he's long suffering,
not willing that any shiit parish,but that all should come to repentance.
Scott wants everybody going to heaven.So he knew you had a love
problem, sin and death. Heknew you could never fix it. You
never be good enough, smart enough, righteous enough, holy enough, religious

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enough, rich enough, charming enough, or whatever you think you got going
for you. You would never begood enough because God's perfect and we're not.
So he decided to do the jobfor you. He did that when
he became a man, and thatman's name is the Lord Jesus Christ.
He's God, the Son, perfectGod, perfect man, all the way
God and all the way Man.He came to this earth to die on

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the cross for your sins so theywould all be paid for, all washed
away. And then after he didthat, he rose from the dead to
defeat, to overcome your second bigproblem, death, where he won for
you his everlasting resurrection, life thathe offers to you freely, folks.
You can't earn it, you can'twork for it. In fact, you

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can only take it for free.That's right, free f r E.
That's how you get heaven. Andwhen you try to add something to it,
like oh, I'm gonna help Godout, I'm gonna do this,
I'm gonna do that, you fail. Jesus kept saying repent and believe,
repent and believe that word repentance ispart of your belief system. The word
repentance in Greek means change your mindmedinoia, change your mind, your mind

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about what well before you thought youcould help God out, you could do
something good, you could clean upyour life, turn from your sins.
Whatever you know. There's many thingsto say, certain prayers, do,
certain religious acts, whatever, AndGod's saying, that's all filthy ranks.
A scripture says, all of ourrighteousness or its filthy ranks, because He's
so much better than we are.There's no comparison. He's infinite. We're

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finite. So quit trying. Letgo of all your efforts, so then
you can let God have his waywith your life, save you from hell
and guarantee you heaven. He reallywants you to heaven, Folks forever.
Don't miss it. Don't wait tillit's too late. Believe right now that
Jesus died for all of your sins, was buried and rose in the dead,
and believe only that faith alone inChrist alone. Don't bring any of

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your righteousness to the table. Itkills the deal. God won't accept it
until you come to him empty handed, helpless and help us knowing that He
is your only way, your onlyhope, and then when you do that,
you're believing with all of your heart, You're going to heaven. Folks.
It's that simple, and it's designedfor children. Unless you come as
a little child, you shall knowwise and are in Well, folks,

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I'll tell you something else that's happeningright now, and I'm talking about end
time events. Folks. We arein the end and there's very little time
left. There are many signs givento us, over two hundred prophecies in
the Bible. They're all happening rightnow, all at the same time.
And Jesus said it would have tobe like that, they'd all have to
coincide together at the same time.Well, now, for the first time

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in the history of the world,all these prophecies are happening right now.
One of them is persecution. Doyou know that more Christians have been martyred
over the past hundred years than thenineteen hundred years combined before that, That
five hundred Christians today are going todie for their faith, usually in Communists

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or Islamic countries. But they're gonnabe five hundred them who are going to
pay the price of their faith.With their lives. Thousands more will be
thrown in jail, will be tortured, lose their families, lose their jobs,
lose their homes. There is ahuge persecution happening to the Church right
now. And that is one ofthe things Jesus said. He said,
you'd be hated of all nations formy namesake, right before I come back.

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And this is true not just forChristians, but for Jews also.
We're in the same boat, folks. So it's happening right now. You
can't avoid it, you can't missit. There's another sign, folks,
you better get ready. You needa bunker, You need a hiding place.
You need a safe place, becauseit's gonna get bad. When the
end gets here, it's gonna bethe word Jesus said. It's gonna be
the worst the world's ever seen,the worst, term ral, the worst

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suffering, the worst horrors and terrorsof an apocalypse. It's gonna be apocalyptic,
beyond your imagination, worse than azombie apocalypse. It's gonna be bad.
Folks. You need a safe house, you need a bunker, and
I'm gonna tell you right now thatyou'll get no greater bunker than the Lord
Jesus Christ. He is your bestand your safest house you could ever get

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it. So trust in him,believe that he died for all your sins
and roseman dead, and he guaranteesyou his everlasting resurrection life. Well folkus,
it's not time for us to close. As a close of the mind,
Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye,and God bless all out there.

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We call queed a goodbye. Theythink we're just tweased fo timemuted all three
sibyl see lovely this time for Dree. Goodbye,