The Founders Show #491

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and God bless all out there.You are now listening to the founders.
So the voice of the founding fathers, your founding fathers, coming to you
deep within the bowels of those mysticand cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,

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that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana. And high up on
top of that old Liberty Cypress treeway out on the Eagles Branch, draped
and Spanish moss is none other thenyou spend Gary Bubba all the republic chaplain.
Hi mcgenry, who with Christopher Timworry, your roving reporter, resident radical
moderate and associate editor at the LouisianaWeekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net.

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And Hi, we are less thana week away from the election and things
are not looking so great for Democratshere in Louisiana. Now this is kind
of in contrast to how well everybodydid for Democrats in Ohio where a major
abortion pro pro choice measure passed,Kentucky where the governor incumbent Democratic governor won,

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and Virginia where Glenn Youngkin had abad night and the Virginia House of
Delegates, their lower house, theirHouse of Representatives flipped. But it's a
lot like what's happened in Mississippi wherein Mississippi, Tate Reeves, the incumbent
governor, scanned plagued actually one reelection very comfortably with over fifty two percent

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of the vote against the cousin ofElvis Presley, Brandon Presley, a state
utility manager who was pro life,anti transgender rights, basically a social conservative,
pro gun that fit in John BellEdward's model when he was first running,
but also wanted to expand medicaid,increase teacher pay, increase early childhood

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education he himself, and get ridof taxes on groceries, which has a
certain appeal across the political spectrum.And he actually went down with just over
forty six percent of the vote,and part of that was low African American
turnout. Well, with really lessthan one week to go until the elections.

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Louisiana could be posed for a Republicansweep without a heavier turnout of African
American votes voters going to the polls. I mean, take this look at
mississipp for example, Presley lost essentiallyfifty six to forty two because Reeves won
all the counties he won four yearsago with fifty five percent of the vote,

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whereas Presley underperformed in traditionally democratic counties, and that's partially because African Americans
didn't go to the polls like theyhave in previous elections. Well, think
the same thing might be happening inLouisiana if early voting proves any indication,
and that means Louisiana Democrats could bein for a difficult time on the evening

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of Diveria eighteenth if nothing changes.Remember, in the primary, Louisiana already
gained a super majority in the LouisianaState House, and Democrats have been trying
to stop the same thing from happeningin the state Senate. In the runoff.
Democratic candidates are openly contesting seats forattorney General, Secretary of State,

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and Treasurer this coming Saturday, buta few Louisiana Democrats have spoken to me
and to this show confidentially, fearingthat a lot of safe legislative seats might
be up for grabs if African Americanvoters continue a lower than hope to turn
out in the runoff. In justone example, last month, Bellchase,

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incumbent Democratic Representative Matt Cormier barely qualifiedfor the runoff less than two hundred votes
in order to face Republican Jacob Roade. Now, Broade got forty percent of
the vote in the in the primary. In the runoff and to get into
the runoff and the forty percent ofthe vote in the primary. Now,
why is this unique? Well,because District House District one oh five on

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the West Bank boasts of forty fourpercent Democratic registration and only twenty seven point
five percent Republican. What that meansis that African Americans and core Democratic voters
in that district just didn't go vote. Our friend, pollster John Couvean of

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JMC Analytics be joining us after theelection to give us the post mortem.
It pointed out that early voting statisticsin this runoff right now continue to reveal
weak Democratic turnout versus strong GOP enthusiasm. Now. One of the things he
told me was, you know,this past Saturday, Saturday a week ago,

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this being November, this being Novemberthird, Saturdays are usually Democratic times
to shine in terms of volume elevatedDemocratic voting percentages on the first day of
early for Saturday of early voting,that didn't happen. While the African American
percentage did increase from Friday, Novemberthird to Saturday, November fourth, from

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nineteen percent to twenty five percent,that's a boost that's less than the twenty
seven percent of Black voter participation forthe twenty twenty three primary. The partisan
composition of November fourth early voting wasplus eight percent Republican forty six to thirty
eight. Overall turnout did drop tocompare to Friday thanks to a drop in

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mail volume, but cumulatively, whileseventy five thousand, nine hundred and seventy
nine voted early by by Monday,by the end of the weekend, fifty
four thousand and four sixty eight inperson, twenty one thousand, five hundred
and eleven by mail accumuliv created anew constituent mail series not President. Before
the partisan makeup of early voting asof Saturday evening remains much more Republican than

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either the twenty twenty three primary orthe twenty nineteen runoff. In fact,
Couvion said he had never seen aforty six thirty forty eight thirty six percent
GOP advantage early voting in a constituencybefore. That means things are going real

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well for Republicans, and jmc's datasuggests without a surge of African America electorates
on Electric Day itself, many Democratsmay had to prepare themselves for a bad
night when the final results come inat eight pm on November eighteen. That
means a Republican sweep across the board, super majorities in both the House and

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Senate, and a very very easyhoneymoon for governor new Governor Jeff Landry.
Your thoughts high well, Christopher,This is certainly a wonderful thing for Louisiana.
I know the rest of the nationhasn't gone so well. Certain parts
have, but other parts not sowell, as you mentioned earlier, And

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of course the Republican Party needs tolearn how to round up the troops and
mobilize them to start doing early votingall the things that Democrats did to win
past elections over the past few yearssince the COVID lunacy hit, and then
we can really compete with them,will be able to win many more elections

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than we could have before. Weneed early voting, mail and voting what
you know whatever. You know thatwe need to visit all the nursing homes
like the Democrats did and get theold folks to vote for our side.
Uh. It's kind of sad becauseI believe a lot of these old,
older folks, you know, they'rejust not that aware of what's going on,
and they're and the guy the folksgoing around getting their votes may not

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be so honorable on how they collectthe votes. Let us say so,
but we just start need to doeverything they're doing that have given them easy
wins, and we will be smokingthem. Folks. So get in touch
with your Republican leadership and demand thatthey start doing all these things. And

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I've noticed a lot of the Republicanleaders are saying we have to do this.
So that's good news, good news, hallelujah. Uh. And also
I wanted to point out you mentionedabout the African American Tournament. There is
a blexit taking place right now.That means the black exit of the Democrat
Party and is being led by someremarkably wonderful African Americans who are showing tremendous

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leadership talent. And one of themost recent things I've just noticed is that
one of the leaders of BLM,of all groups, is now endorsing Donald
Trump. This is astounding, folks, this is absolutely amazing. Well,
Christopher, looking forward to the nextbit of information you have for us.

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I know it's going to be veryexciting. The final count is not over,
that will come on the eighteenth ofNovember, where we go to the
polls to vote. And I'd liketo know any other future elections, what's
going on. I mean, wegot a lot of different folks running,
and it's a Democrat Party just finallygetting wiped out in Louisiana or whatever.

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Will it remain? Will it everhold any kind of stroke in this city
in this state. Again, ofcourse, we know they're going to control
New Orleans because of the popular relationdemographics, but other than that, the
entire state of Louisiana looks like it'sgoing to be almost completely Republican in every
way you can look at it.Give us some details on that. I'm

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sure you have them, Thank you, Hi. There's a few races to
watch come Saturday evening that will tellus a lot about what the next legislature
will look like, and in oneof them, I'm pretty much The most
probably most notable Senate runoff is nota GOP Democratic contest, but to Shreport

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based Senate District thirty nine, wheretwo big names in the House Democratic Caucus
are going head to head. RepresentativeSam Jenkins, the caucus chairman of the
Democrats, will face a Representative CedricGlover. They're both members of the Legislative
Black Caucus. Jenkins was elected intwenty fifteen, while Glover served in the
House from nineteen ninety six to twothousand and six before serving as mayor Shreeport.

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Ultimately, he returned to the Housein twenty sixteen, and he basically
Society to challenge Jenkins. Jenkins ledin the polls with thirty four percent of
the vote, but Glover barely sweepby the only Republican in the race and
clinching a Ron spot by eighty votes. But this is if he can take
out the Democratic Caucus chairman and theone of the key players in the legislative

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Black Caucus. We're going to seesomething very different come in this next legislative
session. There's a couple of things, and one of the things I love
is House District sixty five where RepublicanBrandon Ivy led a field in the runoff.
But the reason he did. He'sreplacing his twin brother, Representative Barry
Ivy. He's facing Republican Lauren Ventura. I've heard about passing off a legislative

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seat usually doesn't happen between twins inand around the bat Rouge area. The
central based House District sixty five iswhere that's happening. Another Attorney, Dixon
Macon, a Republican, is willface Bessie or Board of Elementary Second Dary
Education member Belinda Davis, a Democrat. In this runoff. This will be

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the controlling seat on Bessie and willsolidify a conservative majority for a lot of
Jeff Landry's proposals to voucherize a lotof public education. We'll see what's going
to happen in this seat, butit should be an interesting fight. It
is a GOP leaning seat, sothe House Freedom Caucus has been having some

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successful runs against Republican incumbents, hesaid represented Mary Dubison. Slide L was
challenged by Brian Glorioso, a Trumpstyle Republican whose attorney in Slide L.
The runoff was Dubison with forty eight, him with forty four. But it's

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always a bad idea when a Republicanincumbent is forced into a runoff. Glorioso
has about twenty thousand dollars more inthe bank account than, of course Dubison
does, and of course, acouple seats we're looking at even closer to
home. Matt Cormier, a conservativeDemocrat in the West Bank and Bell Chase.

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He barely made the runoff. He'sthe incumbent, barely edged by another
Democrat by some eight hundred votes.We mentioned that in the previous thing,
by some two hundred votes. Wementioned that in the previous segment. If
Cormier is taken out by Jacob Rode, that will solidify the Republicans super majority
in the House. We're also seeinga very similar race going on Saint Bernard,

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where Mike Bayham in an open seatat forty seven percent of the vote.
He's got strong support from Jeff Landryand for most of the Republican caucus.
But it's a fight there, sortof an inter shall met fight between
several factions. We'll see how thatone plays out. But right now,
the Republicans are in a good positionto solidify and pretty much they're control.

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That didn't and rendered the Democrats acrossthe state into minority status, end up
really one of the first times withno Democrats holding any senior positions in Louisiana,
our majorities on any particular board forthe first time ever in history.
Your thoughts, well, Christopher,that's some great investigative reporting and insights into

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our political world down here in Louisiana, and certainly good news for me and
I think good news for most ofthe state because this is the majority of
the state and where the majority istaking this state, and that's to the
far end of the red spectrum,if you will, where we will become
a super maybe the most super redstate in the Union. Wow, that's

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for me, exciting, exciting news. Thank you for sharing that with us.
What are we gonna do about it? Well, you know something,
just because you get the majority,and just because you're getting a lot of
control, you could blow it.You can make an idiot out of yourself.
The Republicans and Conservatives aren't necessarily withoutsin. Let's say, we can
make mistakes, we can blow it. So the big move now is to

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make sure our Republican leadership starts reallydoing the right thing, following our biblical
foundations, following our Constitution, thesupreme law of the land, working to
build the American dream, if youwill, where we focus on individual you
know, effort, individual strength,and ingenuity, where that's the American dream.

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Where you know, now that's goingto be given to you, but
what will be given to you isopportunity, freedom. You will be allowed
to go out and do your bestand get something for it. That's the
American dream. That's what our foundingfathers wanted for Americans. They didn't want
people suppressed. They didn't want speciallyprivileged people lifted up and exalted like we
have now unfortunately too much in thiscountry. So many things our founding fathers

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fought for have have gained a preeminence in this country. So if the
Republicans in Louisiana we'll really fight forthe American dream as our founding fathers saw
it, We're going to have agreat move in Louisiana. We're going to
start seeing prosperity and success in thisstate like we never thought we could see.

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Imagine this, folks. We've sitat the greatest watershed of wealth in
the world. And I'm talking aboutthe Mississippi River, the mouth of the
river, you know, coming downthrough New Orleans, which has the only
city with six railheads. Six Wehave more railheads in Chicago. Chicago's you
know, railroad city. But neverthelesswe have more than they have. We

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have the largest amount of commodities ofone i'd coming down and going up the
river in the world. Making theputting one is the largest in the world.
Folks. We have so much opportunity, and yet we have blown it
so badly because there's so many quicketpoliticians we've had in the past. You've
probably heard me go go on andon about this in the past. But

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listen what chrispher was just saying.We got a chance now, folks,
we got a chance. But ourRepublican leadership better be straight and honorable.
They can go they can get cirkedtoo. Believe me. You wave money
in front of anybody, and it'samazing how their their morality can change it
doesn't have to. Like, forinstance, I think we have a man
now Speaker of the House, thatis a very honorable man. I think

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he's above corruption. He's an untouchable. He's an untouchable like you know,
La and Ness and the untouchables.The mafia couldn't buy him off. Well,
hopefully now we're gonna have a bunchof strong Republican leadership that are very
not just because they stand for conservativevalues, but because they're honorable people.
That's what you really need. Sofolks, I know, Christopher, youve

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got some more good stuff for us. I'm looking forward to the next topic
you're going to bring up. Here. Tell me remember old Judge Roy being
the only law west of the Pecoswas. His place was near l Passlo,
Texas. And remember he was quitea hanging judge, quite an amazing
judge, quite an amazing man ifyou read his history, a man who

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highly valued womanhood. And he wasa really fascinating fellow who was a tough
judge. And you know, Iwonder how he judged on taxes. And
because we're part of the human raceforever the human races had to face what
death and taxes as our finding fathersreminded us, and so are there any

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tax issues that are plaguing us rightnow? Challenging us? Tell us,
Christopher, please tell us, well, Hi, I'm doing this week's show
from El Paso, Texas, whereI watched the election results this week,
and I was particularly interested in oneconstitutional amendment that passed in Texas that I
think has true impact potentially for Louisiana, and that has to do with the

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homestead exemption. Yes, Texas hasa homestead exemption. The homestead exemption in
Texas is forty thousand dollars. Theproposal was to raise it to one hundred
thousand dollars. Remember Louisiana's is seventyfive and it passed overwhelmingly eighty three point
four percent of the vote. Completethings. Now, the reason why this
is important is very specifically to Texas. Remember, Texas has no income tax,

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so almost all of their revenue comesfrom property taxes. So if you
raise the homestead exemption to one hundredthousand dollars, you're seriously impacting government coffers,
not just locally but in the state. And so this is no light
decision by Texans to exempt it,and I think it's showing that the country

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is heading towards a property tax revolt, and this is particularly true in Louisiana.
And I've been warning people when thatconstitutional amendment went down over a year
ago that would have allowed just NewOrleans, but it was a start.
We had Errol Williams on the showsaying, if you could get it pass
for New Orleans, you could getpass for the whole state. He tried
to get it passed with the wholestate. That would have limited property tax

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assessments to know more than increase inyour value of your home. For property
tax assessments to know more than tenpercent a year. Now, it was
a very modest proposal. He wouldhave liked to have done more, but
this would have at least saved peoplefrom the sticker shock they're getting this year
where their home values are shooting throughthe roof and therefore their property taxes are

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in theory, taxes are supposed toroll back in Louisiana, so you end
up paying about the same amount evento your house is valued more. That's
not happening. The head of thesewageon Warboard, as we talked about last
week, has advocated for a rollforward to for Millo's the school board is
doing the same, and so alot of people could get hit with massive
property taxes in Orleans, and we'reseeing the same thing happening in Saint Tammany.

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We're seeing it happening in Saint Bernard. We're seeing it happening to a
large extent in Jefferson, where propertytaxes are starting to really bite on people.
People are in danger literally of losingtheir homes. There are some areas
that have gentrified. I think ofwhere you live high along in the Uptown
area, along the river, inthe Irish Channel, and many points that

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were neighborhoods that were pretty depressed onceupon a time. Now the homes have
gone from being worth eighty thousand tobeing worth eight hundred thousand or one point
two million, and they're still thesame homes, with still many cases the
same people living in them, andthat property tax bills have gone through the
roof. I'm very concerned that ifthese local government of bodies do not roll

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back villages, what we're going tosee is something similar to Texas, except
it won't be raised in the homesteadexemption. It could be, but it
probably would be something much simpler ifyou're over the age of sixty five,
you can freeze your property taxes ifin one year you have less than eighty
thousand dollars an income. I willsee those over sixty five numbers taken out

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of that constitutional amendment and essentially wouldbecome California. The price you bought the
house for is the price. Itstays as long as you are a family
member lives in it the assessment andtherefore your taxable assessment remains to that.
And I think we're in we willsoon see that state of affairs come to

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pass. I don't know how you'veexperienced this personally, with your house being
reassessed, even though it's the samehouse you bought. You live a bought
what is it twenty five years ago, and yet you've seen your tax bills
go up and up. One ofyour thoughts in all of this, Yes,
Christopher, we are bemoaning the currentproperty tax scenario, and yes we've

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seen our taxes go up. Andeven though I was able to prove the
before the whole area really got gentrified, I was able to prove how bad,
you know, the properties around uswere. We were living in the
middle of a tenement city. Itwas amazing, how just a terrible condition
of the homes around us. AndI was finally able to get our taxes

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down to what you might call reasonable. And then they were supposed to be
grandfathered in because of our age.And yet some kind of way, some
mysterious way at city Hall, theyfigured out a way to jack our taxes
all the way back up again,even though we had gone for a year
or two with this, you know, reasonably low number. Of course the
area started getting gentrified, but wewere supposed to be grandfathered in. Well,

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it didn't help us any And Idon't know if they changed that law.
I don't know how they got awaywith that. Uh. And I
believe me, I went down onappeal and all kinds of stuff, and
it's really hard to get get anywherewith city Hall. It's just it's it's
a night it's your worst nightmare togo down there and try to talk to
people. I think what maybe someof them are doing is is that they're

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waiting the problems are out waiting tobe Greece before they give you the real
service they're supposed to give you.I hope not, but what can you
think some time? So hey,if we're going to have a tax revolution,
I'm all for it, and Ithink that's a great idea. You
should pay the taxes based upon whenyou bought the home. That's it.
And you know you can't help propertyvalues going up or down or whatever.

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You know, and if they gocrashing down, how long will it take
them to get the new assessment?Think of that, folks. I'm sure
they're gonna milk us for as longas they can. And we don't want
our property taxes to go down anyway. I mean our property values to go
down. We don't, so,Christopher, very very interesting insight. I'm
all for a tax revolution. Weneed Judge roy Bean to come in in

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hang some criminal politicians for us.That's what we need. We're not gonna
do that, folks, But anyway, it is a nice thought. At
least it's a very pleasant and appealingthought for me, maybe for many others
also. All Right, well,folks, I know we got some more
stuff to go here. I know, Chris, We've got some really good
stuff for us. So let's hearwhat the next thing is going to be.

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And folks out there, for allyou boomers, baby boomers, who
I remember that wonderful game tic tactoe. What fun we had with it.
Well, there's another term today.It's called just ticktak. I'm sorry,
TikTok. And so maybe we needto learn about this new thing TikTok.
Well, I think we're gonna havesome good information on it coming up,
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voice to the Founding Fathers where wework always so very hard to bring you
the truth, the whole truth,and nothing but the truth. So help
us God. Now it's time fora little tiktac toe or just TikTok.
What's the difference. Well, tiktacdoe was a great game. We used
to play with squares and zeros goingthrough you know, a graph, let's
say. And it was fun.It was fun. But there's something else

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out there now that's apparently a lotmore popular. It's called TikTok, a
social media platform. And I believeChris Forh has some very interesting information for
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And I wanted to go a littlehigher and bigger perspective than the elections
this past week and coming up ofcourse for us here in Louisiana November eighteenth,

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and talk about something that I'm seeingthat still plagues us. And that's
kind of the situation with banning TikTokand government computers, and you know,
I get how where people are.You know, they're worried about private day
to fall into the hands of theChinese Communist Party or being victims of algorithms
undermining the American way of life.And even that reached a fever pitch after

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this new security law in China overturning data over to the party. But
the problem is that narrative is kindof wrong, especially since the narrative as
we see, and this is whereI am particularly annoyed and I wish to
editorialize for a min as a sortof audio op ed. Is the fact

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that the media discussion has not pointedout that Mark Zuckerberg and Meta you know,
Facebook has been basically funding this becausethey are mad that their best content
providers have gone over to TikTok.This is essentially corporate greed at its worst.

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Now this to give you a littlehistory. Representative Darra Desatel, a
local Louisiana representative, had been tryingto ban TikTok on Baton Rouge and computers
in Batan Rusian throughout state government.And it was kind of surprising because he's
from Baton Rouge and he's a leadingtech expert and a veteran of the IT
industry. He knows better than mostthat TikTok enjoys a vocal constituency as an

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app that educates and entertains tens ofthousands of Louisianians. More importantly, the
social media platform has allowed a lotof families to keep their small businesses afloat.
I feel this personally as not onlya journalist but the owner of a
bookstore. We rely on TikTok fornew books to premiere and to shop locally,

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and as the owner of the GardenDistrict bookshop, I have a sort
of emotional connection to this. Thisis also true with my wife and the
chickery house and the things. Thishas also been true for a lot of
young African American entrepreneurs, like thekids you work for with Hi, who
constitute one of the fastest growing demographicsin TikTok. The problem is for Mark

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Zuckerberg, at least, TikTok differsfrom other social media platforms in operational sense.
Instagram and Facebook have never been ableto duplicate the filters or algorithmic advantages
that TikTok grants its users. Thevertical video format has never quite taken off
in reels or Facebook verticals in theway it has for TikTok, nor do

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the metaplas platforms allow influencers to makeas much money through their online content now.
Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook,has witnessed an exodus of young influence
makers in recent years to TikTok asa result, so the controversy over Communist
Party in China. Data running mayhave provided a unique political opportunity for Meta

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and for Zuckerberg. He's been floodingcampaign contributions not just into Washington, but
here in Louisiana to stop TikTok onnetworks owned or leased by the state.
Since state governments are the largest consumersin the tech market, the impact and
basically hurt the overall business climate ofTikTok look. According to one estimate,

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there've been over a dozen lobbyists who'vedescended on the twenty twenty three legislative session
here in Louisiana, employed by Meta, by Zuckerberg or its subsidiaries and allied
social media companies, which constitutes amassive, colossal lobbying effort for what would
usually be a rather mundane national securityconcern. It's not of the old Louisiana

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political cliche. If you can't beatthem, have the legislature regulate them out
of business. And there's a partof me who sees how wrong this is.
And for those that are concerned aboutFacebook's political lean you should be now
this raises an interesting idea. Highfor those that are seeing Meta's newfound financial

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commitment to ban TikTok doesn't have alot to do with public spirit compromise to
American independence. It's that Facebook wantsa near monopoly, near exclusive social media
access to a multi billion dollar marketof one hundred and fifty million Americans.
Such funding raises serious free speech concerns. Remember, the free press is only

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free if you own Unless you ownthe press, and if you're the only
game in town, which Facebook seeksto be, this is a real problem.
Yet we're one of the only mediasources that have been willing to discuss
over and over metas lobbying effort inBaton Rouge. For some reason, most

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of our colleagues in the press havebeen afraid of it, Afraid of what
the reaction will be, afraid ofwhat the impact will be. Now,
look, I'm not saying that TikTokdoesn't provoke legitimate national security concerns, But
honestly, how many legislators, howmany people in the legislature, how many
people in the United States have madethe comment that there might be some connection

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to their competitors trying to kill themand a lot of these national security concerns,
What are those motivations for writing thosechecks to facilitate a ban on TikTok.
And let me say this very bluntly, this is something that's happening in
both parties. This is not thereare no goods guys here. Everybody seems
to be on the take to dothis with campaign contributions. Now, this

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last legislative session, the efforts werekind of come but it seems like for
the next session this is going tobe a major issue. And it's fine
to raise national security concerns on TikTok, but the loss of constitutionally guaranteed free
speech because they're competitor with deep pocketswants to put them out of business.

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What are we doing here, folks. Honestly, this is one of those
situations where I hope the public says, you know, if we have concerns
about TikTok, that's one thing,but Facebook and Meta and their social media
competitors should not be able to putsomething out of business, because otherwise we'll
be in a situation where people areregulating our speech because they'll say it doesn't

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fit the market or it's not appropriate, and what they mean is they can't
control it. I do not wantsomebody with a printing press to regulate what
I say. I want to havemy own printing press, and I'll be
the first one to say TikTok allowsme to do that, as does this
radio show your thoughts high whoo,Christopher, you sure do have a lot

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to say here. This is fascinatingto see the battle of the social media,
if you will. And remember now, Facebook was weaponized by our weaponized
agencies like the FBI to try todefeat Trump, to try to hide all
the bad stuff on Biden, andthey complied, and this even came out
in eyewitness testimony from Zuckerberg himself.This is like a giant, you know,

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criminal enterprise. The marriage of bigBrother government with Big Brother corporation,
and Big Brother Corporation is the onewho's in charge, folks, in case
you haven't noticed, And so thisis great insights on this. We need
to fight it for folks, Weneed to do whatever. This is freedom
of speech. Our freedom of speechis being aggressively attacked right now in this

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country. And take note it's almostalways directed against whom, against the right,
against conservatives. Have you all noticedthat? What does that tell you,
folks about who's really in charge?The leftist Democrats? That's right,
the communist Democrats, the progressive communistDemocrats, the jackasses if you will.
Yeah, they're the ones who seemto have gotten a stranglehold on this country

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and they're not going to stop tillthey turn us into either a fascist or
communist state. Either way works forthem. Try to remember before World War
Two, the far left, theliberals, etc. That day, the
libtards of the nineteen thirties, theywere all heralding Adolf Hitler as a savior
of Europe. Time magazine put themon the front cover as the man of

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the year. All the liberal ragswere praising to high heaven, to the
lowest parts of hell, if youwill, the glory of Adolf Hitler.
He did. Funny how they changedafter the war and all of a sudden
they didn't know who he was,and all of a sudden he represented the
right some kind of way. Hebecame a conservative when he was a hardcore
liberal his entire life. I mean, remember it was a socialist movement.

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The Nazis were, they were nationalsocialists. What are the communists doing in
Nazi Germany when the war was over? I mean, when the right,
when Hitler and the Nazis took charge. They were bitter enemies with the Nazis.
But what did the communists do inGermany? They immediately fled to the
Nazis and became Nazis. It wasan easy switch. It's dictatorial socialism.

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They're comfortable either way. Liberals cango either way. Folks. Well,
anyway, we're seeing it happen rightnow. And this is great insight on
this thing with TikTok. And becausewe're talking about TikTok, I have a
TikTok I'd like to play for you. I think it's hilarious. It's called
Jackass. It's not long, butit's very insightful. And I guess this
is the kind of stuff that Zuckerbergwould love love to get rid of.
Take note he still got his terroristorganizations on Facebook and insesting how they get

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the have You know, they're accepted, they're not black ball, they're not
censored. But ours or what's goingon, folks? What is going on?
We are listening to this very briefmessage on TikTok called Jackass. In
the swamps of Washington, d C. We witness a most peculiar event.
A group of tax dollar parasites gathersto discuss funding the lives of the very

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taxpayer that they rely upon for theirexistence. Somehow, these parasites cannot agree
to give the American people any ofthe tax money that has been confiscated from
them against their will. Yet theyhave been sending two hundred and twenty three
million dollars to a corrupt foreign regimeevery day for over a year. This

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group of parasites has become filthy richfrom corruption, insider trading, influence peddling,
and theft. The Alpha parasite,known as a Jackass, and his
offspring, the Dumbass, have beensome of the most successful tax dollar parasites
in history, sending historic amounts ofcash to a corrupt foreign regime and receiving

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kickbacks as ten percent for the bigguy. As if sending all your cash
to Boorat was not enough, theAlpha parasite and his minions have opened the
southern borders in an attempt to garnerenough votes to remain in power. The
parasites have opened the Southern border,allowing millions of unvetted immigrants to suckle at

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the teat of our welfare system,bringing our social services to the brink of
collapse. While gaining new voters.As this elderly jackass nears the end of
its life cycle, a truth evidentby his garbled speech and lack of bowel
control, the elder jackass will attemptto transfer his power and influence to this
younger, more intellectually deficit jackass.However, the younger jackass' lack of intellect

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and mule like face has left itso unelectable that power can only be transferred
through the death of the elder jackass. If you love America, please spay
or new to your political jackasses orvote them out of office. Folks,
I'm sorry, that was hilarious.That was amazing, and folks, that's

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found on TikTok at Presidential Scoreboard.Extremely well done and of course you can
I guess you figured it out.The jackass, the alpha jackass, is
none other than our current president,mister Biden, Joe Biden, and the
dumbass his son is his son Hunter. And then the one that looks like

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a mule. They're trying to transferpower to her, who's more intellectually deficient
than the alpha jackass is of courseKamala. So folks, you get some
pretty good stuff on TikTok, andI guess they're trying to stop that,
but none of that. This isa corporate uh politic, a corporate competitive

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thing where Facebook just wants to takeout the competition. Well, that's illegal
in America. That is an unjustconcept in the American way. You know,
we all have equal opportunity. Wemay not all have equal success,
but we do have equal opportunity.And not because TikTok is doing so well,
Facebook's trying to take him out inthe most illegal of ways, the

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most treacherous of ways, you know, buying politicians and throwing their weight around
so they can get rid of theircompetition. You want that happening to you,
folks. It could if these peopleget enough power, it's over with
in this country. We will becomea communist or slash fascist state. Actually,
our brilliant Governor Huey Long, whowas quite brilliant and one of the
most politically adept people ever for thiswhole history of America. He was quite

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a politician, and he's made itvery clear. And he was a chicken
in every pot kind of guy Iremember he was. He tended to be
a socialist. FDR was terrified ofhim because he knew that Hughey long socialism
would would eclipse, his own wouldwould would come across in a better way.
And so and he was such agreat orator. Interesting he had such
a tragic end, but very convenientfor Fdr huh. More to that story

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another time. Anyway, you knowwhat he said. He said, when
they tell you and they make youthink we're going into a communist state,
beware, we're going into a fasciststate. And that's what's happening right now.
Just like communist China, which issupposed to be a communist country,
it now has declared itself to bestate capitalism. That's fascism. It may

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be in name communism, it's nameonly, but its real operational methods are
fascism in China today. Both arevery evil systems. I mean, you
know, communism has killed many morepeople than fascism and probably has caused more
human misery. But they're both reallyevil and bad. We don't want either
one of them in America for sure, and God have mercy in those poor

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countries that have to go through that. Well, focus's not time for us
to break. We'll be right backafter this brief commercial announcement well, folks,

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three six nine, and thank youso very very much. Fineos well,
folks, this is Chaplain High McKhenry. And again you're listening to the
Founder Show, and it's not timefor us going to our chaplain by by
patriotic moment. We just take abrief moment to remind you of the biblical

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foundations of our country, our JudeoChristian jurisprudence, and today we want to
talk about none other than old ThomasJefferson, certainly one of the greatest patriots
of all. He gave us adecoration of independence, laid down, laid
out the groundwork for the Constitution,as James Madison was his understudy, if
you will. But he had awonderful thing to say. And he began

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making this statement when he was avery young man, when he was fighting
to end slavery in the Virginia legislatureof the House of Burgess. And it's
carved in stone in the Jefferson Memorialand it goes like this, God who
gave us life, gave us liberty, and can the liberties of a nation
be thought secure if we remove theonly firm foundation for the minds of the

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people, that these liberties are indeeda gift from God. We do that,
but with his wrath. I tremblefor my country. For God is
just, and his justice will notrest forever. Now, folks, do
you think Jefferson wanted to kick Godout of government? I don't think he
did at all, especially seeing ashow he went to one of the two

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largest churches in DC when he waspresident. One was held in the Supreme
Court Building and the other one washeld in Congress, the Halls of Congress.
I think Jefferson was a hundred percentbehind the idea of we needed a
philosophical foundation for American and it hadto be the Bible. He knew that,
he understood that. Well, folks, what about you. Do you
have a physical philosophical foundation? Ifyou will, do you have a faith

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in the Bible, especially the veryheart of the Bible, which is the
Gospel. And let me explain toyou what that is. First of all,
you need to understand this, theScripture says and Ephesians, for we
have been saved by grace through faith, and even that is not of ourselves.
It is a gift of God,not of works, lest any man
should boast. Folks, we cometo God because it's a free gift.

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The word grace means free gift,and it's the only way He takes It
only takes us on those terms.If we think we're going to add something
to it, We're going to workour way to heaven. We're going to
do some good religious works, dothis that we're going to contribute to the
to charity, we're gonna we're gonnado special prayers, we're gonna do this
that whatever. All this is calledreligion in the Bible, and it doesn't
work. It just doesn't work becauseyour righteousness will never measure up to God's.

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So what you have to do isyou have to quit trusting in yourself,
believing that you cannot save yourself,your hopeless and helps without God.
You're destined of burning hell without Christ. And the moment you do that,
you have just repented. That's whatrepentance is. It means change of mind,
methanoia. You've changed your mind.And you understand grace now that it
is strictly the grace of God,the good works of God, not your

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work. So the Bible says,lest any man should boast, it is
strictly God's great work on the cross, where God, the Son, the
Lord Jesus Christ died for all yoursins, where Bible says his blood washed
away all your sins. Where thenhe was buried, and then he rose
from the dead. The Scripture says, according to the Scripture, that he
rose from the dead to win foryou his precious free gift of resurrection,

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everlasting life. And the very momentyou repent by believing you can't save yourself,
and now you're free to put faithalone in Christ alone and believe that
only He did, that he can, and that He will save you from
a burning hell and guarantee you everlastinglife. Because you have believed with all
your heart that Jesus did die forall your sins, was buried and roasman
dead. The split second you dothat, Folks, you are a child
of God. You have been bornagain. That means your dead and dying

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spirit has just become alive. You'realive in Christ now and you're guaranteed heaven
forever. Nothing can ever take thataway from you. That's how giving God
is, that's how great his giftof love and redemption and mercy is take
it, folks, if you've nevertaken it before, don't wait un till
it's too late. And like theBible says, now today is a day

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of salvation. Believe right now withall your heart that Jesus did die for
all your sins and rose from thedead. Well, folks, now it's
time for us to go in.That was a gospel moment. Now it's
time for us to go into ourchaplain watchmen on the wall. We just
again take a brief moment to remindyou of the second coming of our Lord
and Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is coming back, and he's
coming back soon. There are manysigns in the scripture. There are over
two hundred prophecies in the Bible sayinghe is coming back. Quote a lot

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of the ones from the New Testament, like the Book of Revelation, and
of course all of a discourse whereJesus said, when you see all this
happened at the same time, that'sthe now, you know, now's the
time. I'm even at the door, he says. But they all have
to happen at the same time.Guess what, folks, are all happen
at the same time. Here's onethat's happening right now. You know,
Israel was considered to be a landof desolation when Mark Twain went there,

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uh, you know, one hundredand fifty years ago, he said,
Israel Jerusalem and Israel was a landof desolation. It was a ghost time.
There was nobody there, There wasno hope. It was in,
it was over with. People didn'teven live there, very few people,
just some marauding you know, nomadicuh Bedouin tribes and that was about it.
And there were a few very smallJewish communities scattered around, but they
were very small. You hardly knewthey were there. They'd been there since

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the time of Christ, by theway, they never left anyway. So
it was basically a land without anyany you know, government. Really well,
it was under under the you know, the Turks owned it, and
then it came under the the BritishMandate where they had control of it after
World War One. But it wasreally a land of nowhere, and yet
it has become one of the mostprosperous nations in the world today. The

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desert is blooming, as Old Testamentscriptures said would happen when Jesus comes back.
These are some of the Old Testamentpropheers about Israel, that it would
come back, that the people wouldcome back. That's never happened in the
history world before. It's happened inIsrael. It's happened there three times.
Now this is the third time wherethe Jews were basically their culture was genocide.
They were genetically They attempted to genocidethem as a people, and that

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almost worked, but it didn't.They're back, folks, as we all
know, and they're prospering just likethe Bible said they would do. It
said that they would become one ofthe greatest nations in the world. They're
becoming that right now, folks.We're seeing it all unfold right before our
eyes. They are the number oneally of America, were the greatest military

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in the world, and yet ournumber one ally is of all places lit
a teeny tiny country. Why they'rethe guard dog at the gate. They're
the guard dogs at the gate,keeping the terrorist at bay. And they're
having to do it again right now, as we know, as we well
know, after having suffered that terriblestrategy that happened there. Well, folks,
as the end unfolds. It's gonnaget really bad. And I mean,

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I don't want to be here,but I may be here, still
here, going through the final years, the last seven years of this planet.
And if we are here, you'regonna need a safe house. You're
gonna need a bunker Jesus that goto the mountains, go to the caves.
You better learn how to hide yourselfand protect yourself because it's gonna get
really, really bad for the righteous. It's going to be a death sentence.
We will all have death sentences,honest, and we'll be running for
our lives. So what kind ofbunker can we get? Well, I

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know about a bunker. It's wherethe finest bunker made. It's made by
Heavenly Construction Company. And the nameof this bunker is the Lord Jesus Christ.
That's right. You go to Jesusright now, and you can't get
a better safe house, you canget better protection. You need him right
now. Don't wait, folks tillit's too late. Go to Jesus right
now and believe that he really diddie for all your sins, was buried

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in the dead. Well right now, folks, about time for us to
close. But I mind Saint Martin'ssinging a creole goodbye, and thank you
so very much the Lord pleasure,and we look forward to seeing you on
the next show. We call youcREL goodbye. They think we're just wasting

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our time for the meeting all threeseven. There's time for a creo goodbye.