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Battles, the politicians addressed the digitdatas and magicians. Who's to see the
money? Then you don't, there'snothing to fill the holes? Well,
then are feeling their pockets, biles, the politicians bouncing down the road.

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Every bat'sition with no mom corruption anddysfunction, it's gone to take divide it
avention. What would happen if youhad an election and nobody showed up to
vote. Well, that's sort ofwhat happened on November eighteenth, But it
ultimately allowed for the GOP to getsupermajorities in the state Senate, in the

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state House and sweep the remainder ofstatewide offices. And we're going to talk
a little bit about that, butalso the transition and the looming government of
one Governor elect Jeff Landry with amember of the Transition Committee and a election
analysis par excellent Sprian Trasher, andfolks, listen to this. Louisiana is
now the number one red state inthe Union, the most constitutional servative state

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in the Union, and super prolife. Oo rocket and God bless all
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Liberty Cypress tree draped in Spanish mossway out on the Eagles Branch, is
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Christopher Tidmore, you roving reporter,resident radical moderate and associate editor of the
Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dotnet. And we do have a fascinating

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show about what happened in this election, but also what's going to happen in
the next couple of months, andas we teased in last week's show,
may not be a couple months fromnow, with this whole thought of a
special session coming together over the secondCongressional District. This and how the department's
personnel is policy, that's the firstrim of it. And we're going to
talk a little bit about those transitioncommittees and what is happening with all of

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that. And joining us this week'sedition of the Founder's Show is our own
Brian Trasher, frequent guest on theprogram from my former co host and expert
and all things political, and afew things sports, mostly having to do
with LSU and other sports. AndBrian, amongst your many hats that you
wearing, not only are you abrilliant political prognosticator and handicap or and insider,

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but you're actually a member of thetransition committee for Governor elect of Jeff
Landry. So you're seeing this wholeperspective from many different angles. Any Way,
quickly, Brian, Well, froma back guesser of being a great
Trump supporter, can you throw alittle of that in whatever whatever you know
about Trump and the our elections andwhatever. Thank you. Go ahead,
Brian, Well, we can startwith Governor lake Lan Injury, who had

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a had an amazing victory, youknow, winning fifty in the first primary,
when just about everybody thought that,uh that he was going to have
a runoff against Secretary Sean Wilson.I was one of those guys that just
sort of had a little bit ofhubris and put it out there in social

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media back in uh it was likein August or something that uh that I
didn't think there was going to bea runoff, that we my our our,
our mutual friend Chris Timbodier, mayorof Harrahan, Louisiana. We're doing
an event for h for Jeff Landryin Harrahan, and uh, I guess
I was just feeling the Holy spirit. I'm like, there's not gonna be
a runoff. This is over.Brian. Do you think is there any

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credit to Trump for this having beena super Trump supporter Jeff Landry, anything
to that. Well, I thinkthat it definitely helped with I really think
it had a little bit to dowith the the other Republicans in a race
not gaining a whole lot of schemeearly. I think the person that had
the most chance to challenge uh thenAttorney General Landry was Treasurer John Schroeder.

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You know, John's got an impeccablereputation of being a conservative and a government
watchdog type guy. But he justcouldn't put you just couldn't put the money
in the coalition together to really getoff the ground. And well, but
let me let me let me saythis on total honesty of John Schroeder,
who I think is very much anintellectual giant when it comes to fiscal conservative

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issues and so many other things.He's got the about as exciting a personality
as watching paint dry. And hedidn't translate and the I mean it really
it's I can make criticisms of JeffLandry, but one of them is not
that he's not thrilling or interesting tolisten to. He is incredibly charismatic on
the on the post and frankly,John Schroder ain't no matter how you look

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at ye, Jeff's got that cajunyou know what I mean? And uh
yeah, John, I mean youknow, I made a comment to Schroeder
one time that you know, yousound like my account He said, well,
I'm the state's accounting I'm like,exactly, you know what I mean,
like that get that personality at Talentol PM. But I'm not putting
down John Schroeder because yeah, no, I actually he got a piece of

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advice from a consultant I will remainnameless that we're both very good friends with
who was not working for him,and said, John, just make fun
of it. Just say, look, I'm the state's accountant. I got
the personality of this painted wall.But I'll keep your like your accountant.
I'll make sure your taxes are goingdown. I'll make sure I save you
money. Use it as an advantage. Take a negative into a positive,

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gentle one, is it possible thathe could be I could find a place
in this current administration where you couldbe like the watch dog, the bulldog
Jeff. And I like the peoplewho ran against him very much. So
No, No, and John,Look John, John. I don't want
to I don't want to speak forJohn. But John's been very successfu full
in real estate and business. AndI've heard a couple of different from a

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couple of different solid sources that thathe's got some really good opportunities in the
business world ahead of him. Andyou know, he's a free agent now.
He doesn't doesn't need the money.His kids have grown, he's got
grandkids, like you know what Imean. I think he's gonna. I
think he's gonna. And again I'mnot speaking for him. My guess is
that he's going to enjoy life fora little while with less responsibility and have

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some fun, make some money anduh, and then you know, I
don't think maybe we've heard the lastof John Schroeder, but uh, at
least for now. And I don'tsee him joining the landry administration, and
look at it, every about everybodyhad read John Fleming's political obituary and now
he's back in that particular office.So it's just because you lose one election

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doesn't mean you lose everything. Sothat that has to be Ryan Trasher,
who's joining us U, Hi mckenry and Christopher Tidmore here on the Founder
Show. I do want to saythere was one thing that intrigued me about
this election, and I was I'mtrying to think it was it the strength
of Landry as a in the firstprimary or what it was That African American
turnout was at essentially a per capitaa third less than white turnout. So

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white turnout, for example, onthe runoff was fifteen percent. African American
turnout per capita was ten percent ofthe communities, and that was part of
the reason why you didn't see SeanWilson make the runoff. It's part of
the reason why you even saw Democrats, incumbent Democratic members of the legislature like
Matt Cormier in the Bell Chase areago down to Jacob Road, even though

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that district's only twenty seven point fivepercent registered Republican with no African American turnout.
He ended up getting sixty percent ofthe vote, So I'm fifty six
percent of the vote. So I'mcurious, Jacob Road, So I'm curious
what you think about the African Americanturnout being so anemic on both races.
Why that came about? Number one? The total the state Democrat parties in

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total shambles right now. They haveno they have no ground game, they
have no money, they have nogo TV apparatus. That's one thing.
Number two, Believe it or not, Jeff Landry pulled better with older African
Americans than with younger African Americans.And I'm not saying he'd be dominated.
I'm saying that he he overpulled fora white Republican candidate with older African Americans.

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It's because of his stance of beingtough on crime and that that's the
that's the portion of the black populationthat has just absolutely had it with out
of control crime. And so Ithink that they, you know, despite
his connection to Trump and all that, I think they had less of a
fear of him and more of like, hey, what have we got to
lose type attitude. Not that notthat you know a lot of them like

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went out on voter form. Ithink that they a lot of them stayed
home because they were like, hey, foregone conclusion. Even if Wilson makes
the runoff, Landry's gonna win,and so we're gonna, you know,
we're just gonna kind of bail out. And if you remember that it was
really nice weather that day. Itwas it was the day of the Auburn
game. Uh, there was alot going on in the state. So

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so yeah, I mean, look, it was a it was a boon,
and you know, I was alittle worried. Although I was very
happy that that that Jeff won inthe first round, I was a little
worried that it might hurt some ofthe down ticket races in the runoff,
and uh, it really didn't otherthan in lafayet Or my friend Mayor President
Josh Gillery went down to a Blancorelative, uh posing as a Republican,

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I guess, but that was unfortunate. But other than that, it worked
out for Let's let's take it astep further. Basically, if you were
in a swing district, it wasalmost a two thirds one third Republican over
Democrats across the state. If itwas closer, if it's two Republicans or
two Democrats runn against each other.But it was amazing to see. I

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brought up the Matt Cormier race verydirectly because that's was considered a white Democratic
district. Nobody considers the Bell ChaseWest Bank area now after that election a
white Democratic district. It's just maybeit's just the turnout. I don't know,
I did. I was reading JohnCouveon's numbers and he said he actually
postulated that about fifteen percent of theblack vote voted Republican across the board basically,

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which is pretty high for Louisiana generally. Yeah, look, you have
a you have a percentage of theblack population that are that are upper middle
to upper class now and they stillcare about you know, meat and potatoes
African American issues. However, theydon't want people coming into the neighborhood and

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robbing their houses in their cars thatthey worked hard to pay for, you
know, just like any other humanbeing on the planet. You know,
they think that that played into it. So so yeah, you know,
again, big big victory. Gota tip my hat to Chairman Lewis Gervich
and the Louisiana Republican party who youand I know traditionally, since at least

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we were college, Republicans didn't reallyplay that much of a factor in the
state election times, almost like beatthemselves, like stole victory out of the
jaws of defeat or the other wayaround, but defeat out of the jaws
of victor. I think they hada habit of endorsing the Canada that we're
guaranteed to get five percent of thevote, you know, see right right,
right right, So but they,you know, Lewis Uh imposed some

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discipline after two very disappointing elections wherehe saw Republicans beating me tell his brains
in and getting us a Democrat governorwho has put us as a state where
we are now in very bad,you know, bad, bad situation.
Man. I'm looking to being onthe transition team. I'm seeing, you
know, some of these state departmentsand some of the people that you know,

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there's a lot of career people whowere you know, good honest people
working just working for the state.But there's a lot of political appointees who
have no business being there. Theyjust you know, knew somebody or donated
to somebody or whatever and got ajob and let me ask you. Let
me ask that Brian Trasher, who'sa member of Jeff Landry's transition can is
joining us and joining himI Kenry ChristopherTidmore here on the Founder Show. And

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one of the questions I got is, there's so many state offices that are
that are to be filled. Arewe going to actually see this governor elect
feel fewer of them, you know, do something unbelievable that frankly, no
Republican has done in Louisiana from mybeloved you know, former co host Dave
tren On down which has actually reducedthe size of government. Is that actually

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going to happen? That's a questionthat is above my pay grade. Certainly,
the governor elects purvey to do that. I know that if he,
you know, fills all the positionthat need to be filled, we have
to hire three thousand people in ashort period of time. Which is why
he's broken up his transition team intofourteen different councils that are that are sort
of focused on each one's focused ondifferent areas of government. And then within

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each council, they had these whatthey call Pelican teams, which are very
a few people that are very laserfocused on on you know, one particular
age see any you know, Iwas very fortunate and honored to serve on
a military Affairs council, which isfunny because you know, I was not
in the military. However, thatis the council that the governor elect has

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put in charge of GOSAP, theyou know, Home to Preparedness, which
I do have a lot of experienceand work with that agency, and so
I think from a disaster response andrecovery perspective from the construction side as well
as the NGO side of my workwith the United kJ and Navy, I
think is what would land in methat spot and very very happy to have

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it. And we've already had meetingsinside a GOSEEP they hosted us last Friday,
very very professional over there. Theleadership you know, gave us a
tour, had a very very detailedpresentation for us of the things they've been
working on, things that they're tryingto wrap up before the next administration,

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and things that they know we'll carryon into the next administration. And I
definitely appreciate the right question on that. On that Brian is, did any
of them bring up questions about hardeningthe electrical grid, because I know that's
been in the news quite a bitlately. They did, and there's a
lot of that that. There's alot of that, Chris, that goes
into uh, spills over into theInfrastructure Committee Council, which I'm not on,

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but that is a big one,but it will cross pollinate, I
think from a standpoint of GOCEEP,the electrical grid having backup power I think
is more sort of their their wheelhouse, and then also protecting the grid against
cyber attacks is another part of theirwheelhouse. But the actual grid itself,
the infrastructure of the grid will fallunder that, uh, that Infrastructure Council.

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What about putting checking while around allof our electrical facilities and maybe beef
up security at key places for terroristsituations, uh, you know, farity
cages in the words, around allof us. So that would be pretty
easy to do, I think.And I have another question for you,
Brian. Yeah, and again thatsounds more like another suggestion is a good
one, but a little over mypay grade. My guess would be that

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the Louisiana National Guard would take tacticalcommand over physically protecting our power stations.
Well, they got lots of chickenwire and constantine to wire and everything else
that would be great charity cages.Nah, this is what I want.
Two things. First of all,I wanted to say congratulations of being on
the transition team. I've gotten tremendousresponses and information from various people in the

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know about what a fine group youare. That he has picked the top
of Louisiana the best he can find, and that sounds like he really did.
He really did until he picked me. Oh no, and everybody started
questioning his judgment. You know,well, I would say Mary LaToya Cantrell
is questioning his judgment about the peoplehe put on the committee for New Orleans
who tried to basically ran the recalleffort against her. So you know,

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there's at least been one person that'sbeen questioning it. She wouldn't have liked
in one way the she's that crazy, but anyway. Uh. The other
question is you mentioned about how Johnbell Ewarts Governor Evers had mess things up
a whole, like, can yougive us some specific details about what he
messed up in this state? Iknow you said he put a lot of
dead heads and you know political uhcronies, you know, and people who

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had paid donated his campaign, butit weren't qualified for the job. But
can you tell me, like,let's say the results of the are the
damage results of his administration. Ithink that the I think that a lot
of like she new April here ornew evil kind of an attitude just letting
a lot of things go on thatas long as he didn't know have direct

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knowledge of it, that he wasn'tgonna, you know, do anything about.
And you just look, it wasjust a it took advantage of the
the old longism that still exists inour constitution and in our in our way
of doing things here in Louisiana thatkeep us in the last place and keep
us some you know heep is constantlygetting in their own way. And look,

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let's face it, man, youknow, Governor Edwards had to he
was he was, He came outof nowhere and he was a long shot,
and he became governor and was reelected. You don't just do that
without making a lot of promises,sure and paying paying people back that got
you there. And so just thethis was you know, you could teach
a masterclass on crony capitalism based onthe last eight years in Louisiana, and

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you know, it's made a lotof people very wealthy and something. Look,
some of these companies that got richdid do some good work rebuilding some
some infrastructure and things after after storms, but some of them did not.
But they continue to get contracts becauseof their relations. And so bottom line,
what it means is the complete packagewe could have and should have gotten

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in Louisiana for improving infrastructure, ofbuilding infrastructure, et cetera, we we
got short changed on that. Well, all all the corrupt politicians and political
contract before you got uh. Alot of this has to be proven.
And I think there's gonna be athere's gonna be a debate on this because
I think Bryan Asher that John BellEdwards is looking to run for governor again

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against Jeff Landry in about four years. So we're going to get a public
hearing as to how all this cameabout so long. But I'd be very
very surprised if that happened. Ireally I'd be very surprised if he did
that. I would not count outGovernor Edwards from running for offs again.
I believe he is eyeing a Senateseat, either Cassidy or Kennedy's Senate seat.

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And if he, if he jumpsback into politics, I know that
he you know, is positioned himselfvery well to to do very well financially,
uh in these years after his governorship. Just a matter of you know,
how many yachts can you waterski behind? Right? So you might want
to get back. I would,I will. We can put some money

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down on that, because I've gotpeople close to him who was saying,
you know, it was that theeuphemism. It was another Edwards that would
have luncheon meetings at his law officeevery day and just basically be a government
in waiting for a Republican who gotelected when you know, there are deficits
on the horizons, and we'll seewhat's gonna happen with all of that.
But Brian Trash and the wait.Look, his his polling future would have

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to change a lot because as ofright now, if he was on the
ballot, he would have lost.He would not I don't think he well,
he would have made sure he wasthe only like Democrats that they probably
would have been a runoff, buthe would have definitely lost. Right now.
Now, like you said, itwas some future deficits and challenges that
the state faces. If that getspinned on the future Governor Landry, you

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know, he could be vulnerable.But I think that if he was vulnerable,
to be more so from another Republican, not not Governor Edwards. Well,
it's speaking about a tough nose lawenforcement folks are people who clean up
government whatnot. We just lost achampion, and I'm talking about Warren Montgomery
just passed away. The A goodfriend of yours, Brian, if I'm
not mistakeing, and a good friendof mine. I've known him since since

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our days at the Friday Night Fellowship, which is a great Bible study for
young single folks forty to fifty yearsago. And uh, talk about somebody
who had inherit a difficult and scandalplagued office, but he would cleaned it
up, and he had he hadsuch high standards. He may have had
some of the highest standards of anypolitician in the history of America. This
guy was so clean, so straight, and so biblically centered, and he

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did a great job. And thechurch was over overflowing that he had so
many people that came came for thatfuneral, big old Catholic church on the
north Shore holy t Yeah, andhe uh, it's it's it's always the
guys like him that that end upgetting shricken with these horrible diseases. Yeah,
and dying lost their time. Ithink guy had worked with Landry,

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he could have worked with Landry.But I think he's got a good guy.
He knew it was coming, soI think he got a really good
good man like himself to take hisplace. Let's see, and the election
should be coming up in March,and it's been. But Brian, before
we go to the break, andwe're gonna hold you over the break,
I do want to look at theelections on November eighteenth, pretty much what
everybody expected, pretty much sixty sixsixty seven percent of the vote in each

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election. But what I kept thinkingabout was in an alternate universe where the
Democratic Party actually had turnout, therewas a chance, if you looked at
it, that Arthur Morel could havebeen in the runoff, either with Nancy
Landry guys, or actually with Collinsgreen Up. If African American turnout in

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the state had actually been what itwas four years ago. This all Republican
day came very close to having twoDemocrats in a runoff. It's just that
because African American turnout was so anemic, the two Democrats, essentially one was
able to barely make it and theother one didn't. And we came very
close to two Republicans being in arunoff in that race. Our friend Mike

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Francis almost made it. So itshows you how much turnout really does affect
elections across the board. You're right, and uh, you know, I
think that anybody that knows and I'vesaid this publicly before, anybody that knows
Sean Wilson knows that he's a gentleman. He is not some fire breeding,
you know, a partisan Democrat.He's a he's an intellectual man, he's

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a he's a very very gracious man. And I think that in the primary
he was not looking to go scorchedearth because he just assumed that there would
be a runoff and there would beopportunities to, you know, ramp up
the rhetoric a little more and geta little tougher. But that didn't happen.
It might have might have forced arunoff had he been attacking Jeff Landry

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in the primary, but that justthey couldn't get him to do it.
And uh, anybody knows him knowsknows that that makes sense. And I
know behind the scenes, I thinkI can reveal this now. Kind of
Steve Wagon's back was hoping he woulddo that because Wagon's back had this idea
that you know, if he,if I, if he attacked Landry,
if Sean Wilson attacked Landry, Wagon'sback would be the benefit. I don't

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know if that's true, but itwas. There certainly were communications going on
between the campaigns about that. Yeah, yeah, and we'd spend it.
We do a whole show about youknow, Wags's methodology of getting in the
race. But you know, yeah, on that note, Brian Trash is
joining us on the show, andwe're going to take a quick commercial break.
When we come back, folks,we're going to ask the question that

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the show right now, Brian Trasher. It's a political analyst, political insider,
member of the Jeff Landry Transition Committee, well known political mover and shaker.
And you got to be dancing becauselet me let's go back to nineteen
ninety six when we're all working forWoody Jenkins, and I remember sharing the
floor with Margaret Jenkins's boyfriend, reallynice, kind of shy guy by the

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name of Mike Johnson, and youknow, working on that Senate campaign in
Woody's living room as we're working twentyhour days, and flash forward. Basically,
you know, everybody that seems tobe in the leadership is an LSU
Tiger, which must warm your heart. Brian Tresher, You know something,
I My LSU experience was pretty prototypicalfor what LSU has a reputation for.

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So I completely forgot that Margaret datedMike Johnson back in those days, my
goodness. And now he's the Speakerof the House, of course. And
but yeah, no, but yeah, Margaret. I had a lot of
political science classes with her, andGod bless her, she took very copious
notes. It would always allow meto come over and study with her because

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she had these great notes. Andso I know my GPA was a lot
better because of Margaret Jenkins. Butbut yeah, you know, look,
if there was going to be likea reunion of nineties LSU College Republican members,
we could just hold it in LouisianaHouse of Representatives because there's so many
of them there. Now, wow, wow, it really is. It's

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become it really it was when wewere there at LSU, you know,
in nineteen ninety two, ninety six, ninety seven. Basically this was the
still the largest college Republican chapter inthe United States. And when you see
them five hundred members, over fivehundred members. And when you see that
not only the members of the LisonaLegislature, but the members of Congress,
including let's face it, the speakingof the Majority Leader who are part of

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it, that you get an ideaof how this played. Now Mike John's
and of course we could. We'vewe've spent a lot of time talking at
the tale how it came in.What's fascinating about this is Steve Scalise may
not have become speaker, but tosay it's the next best thing. He
and Mike Johnson. I'm watching thetwo of them. I have never seen

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a majority leader and a speaker workas closely together, almost like they're running
the same office as these two have. It's amazing. Yeah, Traditionally or
two positions that don't trust each otherbecause it's such a you know, Washington
is such a backstab in place,and you know it's all about the achievement
of power. And when you gotthe guy that's just one heart beat away
from the guy in charge of theHouse, you know you're gonna be looking

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over your shoulder. But that's notgonna be the case with with with Spiger
Johnson and majority Leavers Scalise, andyou know, we talked about John Schroeder
kind of having this like muted personality. I made a jows in DC when
when Mike got elected Speaker, andI made a joke that I said,
Mike, I said, you know, your life's about the change. I
mean, you're about to have acapital security detail the size of you know,
like presidential standards in the secrets nervous, I said, But but the

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problem is is that your capital securitycode name is going to be Mike Johnson
because you're such as such a boringguy, they won't be able to think
of anything good. Laugh. Well, it's that's the point. With one
difference. If you told Schroeder thathe'd be Mike Johnson would like a joke
of it. He and and thisis this is the this is the Mike
embraces Mike embraces his or you know, he's definitely not like but he's just

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but he's just like not he's laidback individuals. He's he got to He's
literally the most laid back individual.If you if Mike, if Mike Jonson
the politician, if Mike Johnson thepolitician was Mike Johnson the litigator, then
you would have a completely different,you know, type of Mike Johnson might
not even be speaker because he wouldjust have a you know, I heard

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his colleagues are such a different opinionof I heard he was a kick but
attorney, but he's actually what theSupreme Court and everything, well, he's
he's going to be a Supreme Courtjustice one day. Remember you heard it
first. Mike is a brilliant lawyer, but he's he's almost a Ben Matlock
kind of if you see him inthe courtroom. He's very soft spoken,
he's very intellectual, which is whatis kind of like in life. And

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it says, you know, peoplehave been calling me since this happened,
when they figured out that we're notclose friends. But I've known the guy
for thirty years and they kept callingme and they said, well, what
do you think about this, Isaid, honestly, he's one of the
nicest guys I've ever met in mylife. That you're not, you're gonna
have a real time plugging something again. And if you're trying to attack him,
because every time you attack him,he's just gonna sort of laugh and
make a joke about her, orhe's just going to sort of smile.

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It's he's not gonna get reactive atall. He's not gonna get it,
and that's it kind of is kindof good that nice guys do finish first
once in a while, Brian Manand McCarthy. McCarthy was a polarizing figure
even within his own conference. Andwhen a reporter called Nancy Mace, who
is one of the you know peoplethat that that McCarthy thought he had with

(30:53):
him, and she was one ofthe ones that turned on him, and
asked her about Mike Johnson, shesaid, well, you know, the
thing about Mike is that nobody hateshim. And I'm like, that's the
highest compliment you can get paid inWashington, DC, is that they can't
think of any enemies that nobody hatesyou. Yeah, I think it's true.
I think it's Trench. So MikeJohnson's first CR Continuing Resolution passes was
essentially it's not even as good asMcCarthy's CR. And it passed, and

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there was they didn't try to takehim out of the speakership, and so
it says something about his capabilities.But I think all eyes are turning here
in Louisiana now that the governor andstatewide elections are over. The primary and
runoff to a little thing called WashingtonMarti gras. I heard yesterday they're going
to be hanging a giant Marti groshead, you know, the sort of

(31:38):
the symbol of mirth the Jokers hadfrom the side of the Washington Hilton.
It's going to be like fifty feettall. And pretty much people are calling
me throwing money, saying can youthrow a reception? Can you can you
like the Garden District bookstores, anythingthat they could figure out as a way
of doing it, because frankly,nobody in Washington really knew who Mike Johnson

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was. I mean, they did, but they didn't. And suddenly everybody
wants to descend on between Kennedy andCassidy and Scale and Johnson, and frankly
still Garrett Graves. They're like,this is pretty much Washington power, you
know. So no, you're right, and look, the DC, Marti
gras Is is going to be absolutelymore insane than usual. You know we

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say that every year. But like, first of all, when the news
came out earlier this year that DrewBrees was going to be the King of
DC, Marti gras I started gettingcalls from all over the country. Can
you get me teas, can getme take some like, I have no
idea if I can get me tickets? Calm down right, Okay, between
this and trying to get my daughterTaylor Swift tickets, I am about to
have to sell my soul I had. I had to do the highest bidder.

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I had to explain to people that. They said, can you guess
press passes? I said, it'sa carnival ball. You're invited by people.
It's not an event, it's events. If you tell them you're press,
they're just going to hang up.They won't even sell you a ticket.
But no, but you're going tohave you know, of course,
the security contingent, he's going tobe even higher than normal because and Kevin
McCarthy did come by a couple eventslast year, but it wasn't like known

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that necessarily that he was going tobe there, so they didn't have to
really wrap it up. But everybodyknows that Speaker of the House and the
majority of these are going to bein the same building that that Reagan got
shot behind. By the way,now I'm not trying to like foreshadow this
in a negative way. I'm justsaying that, you know, it's it's
the property has some history. Yougot to study the sales of cat and

(33:27):
Rye. Well it's awesome. It'sawesome, location of the of the White
House Correspondence dinner every year and hasa lot of stuff. So it's yeah,
right, And then you got DrewBrees, who travels with personal security
at big events like this just becausenot that anybody wants to hurt Drew Brees,
but just that he just gets bombardedwith people, you know, wanting
to take pictures of autographs, talkto him, this, that and the
other. You just can't, like, you just can't talk to everybody.

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So he has to have he hasto travel in a perimeter just to keep
humans away from him, you knowwhat I mean. So it's gonna be
it's gonna be nuts. But it'salways a good time and I'll be very
interested to see how it goes thisyear. But yeah, you know,
going back to h LSU College Republicans, our our good friend, uh Jason
Abeer, who is in the lU c R is Mike Johnson's political consultant.

(34:15):
Like just as it happened, andwhen I was in DC, Jason
flew up there, you know,when they started taking the vote, and
that poor guy got stuck. Probablyhe was there probably for like eight days
and probably never saw sunshine, justtrying to help the speaker put put his
staff together and just have you know, meetings with various you know, various

(34:35):
people and all that. But I'mvery happy for Jason because he's got a
very famous client now and then oneof the hardest work in College Republicans I
ever met, in my wife MikeBaham is now yeah, representative elect to
the Louisiana House Represents how about that? And he's actually gonna be joining us
next week to give his viewpoints onthe election. Because of course Mike makes
a good copy and we promoted hiscampaign on this radio show. And of

(34:58):
course Mike is was a as Briansays, with a college Republican with us.
Mike's actually my oldest friend in politics. We've been friends since we're fifteen
years old. And the night ofthe election, I'm flying back to Chicago
and I'm on I'm typing in theresults and I'm texting back and forth with
him and I basically said, Isaid, I think the stewardess has just
got really I think I'm a terrorist. And he says, what do you

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mean. I said, when youcrossed the threshold of winning, I just
screamed out at the top of mylungs on this plane. So you know,
it was like this. Hopefully itwasn't like Mike Pahan. For those
that don't know, he dedicated hislife to public service. He was a
Saint Bernard councilman. He had hebasically wrote grants for his own job,

(35:44):
doing all half a dozen things inSaint Bernard. But he ran for the
legislature three times at the same time. Brian and I ran then again.
And he's won on his third track, and so we got to give him
compliments on that. Brian, Beforewe go, I do want to say
that we're talking about LSU College Republicanand all this, there's an interesting subtext
because another guy who was with us, he was a little younger than us,

(36:05):
was Luke Letlow and his you know, unfortunately, he was a dear
friend of all of us. Lawhe got elected to Congress and died to
COVID his widow, Julia Letlow.It would normally be up with the second
Congressional District African American secont Congression districtsto lose her seat or see it substantially
redrawn. But right now it lookslike Garrett Graves might be the recipient of

(36:28):
a change in demographics of his districtbecause of political machinations within the party.
I was curious if you could talkabout that. I could, but I'm
not going to. I'm gonna WhatI'm gonna say is that I like Garrett
Graves personally. I have a lotof respect for him, and he's a
very hard working congressman. My understandingis that there was some you know,
behind the scenes machinations intra party thatwent on that did not go the way

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he wanted them to go, andit might end up hurting his chances to
remain a congressman or least have afavorable district to run in and then going
back to Congresswoman Julia Letlow talk absolutelythe steel magnolia of the delegation, the

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little sister of the delegation. AndI mean that in a respectful way.
Because of the fortunes and misfortunes ofof you know, folks like Conorsman Gray's,
I am hearing that we should keepa very close eye on congress Woman
let Low as a future Louisiana gubernatorialcandidate. Really, I don't. I

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haven't even asked her if it's somethingshe's interested in. I'm just saying I'm
hearing that from some you know whenthey say the money guys, like guys
that donate a lot of money tocandidates, they are very impressed with her.
They are very invested in her future. And I think that if she
decides she wants to advance her careerin public service, I think she is
gonna be very well positioned. Okay, Brian, before we lose you in

(37:59):
our last minute, I want youto get your evil twin, Brian Scott,
who used to work right for BleacherReport, to join us here for
a second, because for those thatknow know Brian, let me open a
beer. Yeah, so, BrianScott, because we used to do a
sports show with Brian Scott for severalyears and LSU has distinguished itself. So
where's LSU going? And the bottleof wine and the cigar? Yeah,

(38:20):
we remember that. Yeah, Jimmy, Lady Jamy Farrenholts and us go ahead.
Well, unfortunately, yeah, Igotta miss Jimmy and and unfortunately,
like you know, LSU had oneof the most explosive offenses we've ever seen
in program history, but one ofthe worst defenses we've seen since the days
of lou Tepper. And nobody reallysaw it coming. We just we knew
that there were some problems, uhwith the defense last season because again,

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you know, we had a goodoffense. We've won ten games, but
couldn't get ourselves beat Bama, butwe couldn't get ourselves into the into the
playoffs because we lost the SEC championshipgame. You know, this year,
a little different defense was even worse. The silver lining for the Tigers this
year twenty twenty three is that Iam I am officially calling it. Jaden

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Daniels will be the Heisman Trophy winnertwenty twenty three, and LSU will get
its third Heisman Trophy winner in programhistory of course, Billy Cannon, Joe
Burrow, and now JD five,that kid Jayden Jayden Daniels, a California
kid who is just so electric andfun to watch. I can't wait to

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watch him hoist a big bronze statueover his head. Wow. And Brian
Trasher is the reason I met BillyCannon because he said he never wanted to
see an LSU two lane game andit was the last one. So he
gave me his press tickets and Isat next to Billy Cannon on the fifty
that version of the run, soyou know that do your teeth also,
he did not do my teeth.He offered its Dennis, but I had

(39:49):
to be an inmate from the doyour teeth. But Brian Trasher, thanks
for the update. We look forwardto hearing much more about the transition when
it comes in and the elections thatare be coming up, because we are
going into the twenty twenty four seasonand we're going to see Look. Next
week, I've got a representative fromthe Draft Romney Mansion organization coming on and

(40:09):
Mansion's looking closer and running, andshe was telling me she used to be
as political director when Romney was governorof Massachusetts. Her name is Jennifer Lawrence,
and she said she thinks Romney isnow relooking at the presidential race.
So that's gonna be next week show. I want to get your take on
that when we you know, afterwe have that interview. So it should
a lot to talk about coming up. I help, but get hit run

(40:29):
over by a train before we haveto talk about that prospect of a Romney
mansion. It should be interesting.Well, always a pleasure, Brian,
thank you for joining us. Aright, guys, thanks for having me,
Thank you, thank you, andHi, just to change gears before
we go to break. New Orleansgot an interesting distinction this week, and
I wanted to bring it up becauseit kind of plays into this property tax

(40:51):
debate we've been talking about over thelast few weeks about valuations of housing going
up. Did you New Orleans ofthe top twenty gentrifying cities in the country,
Orleans is number five. I believeit, and so in other words,
I've watched it. It happens,happened all around. Well, that's
what I was getting at, becauseyouve got a particular perspective in this Orleans
Parish has had more influx and gentrification, which is really I mean, there

(41:12):
are many races that gentrify. It'snot. But let's face it, New
Orleans has seen a per capita increasein the percentage of its white population,
more than most other cities have inthe country. It is you've seen a
much bigger white popular It's not somuch that whites are moving in droves,
though that's happening. It's that whitesare maintaining and expanding their population as African

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Americans are moving to the suburbs.So the flip side of this, for
example, is Jefferson Parish is nowover forty percent African American. It is
closely approaching forty percent African American.You see it, but you've seen in
your own neighborhood. You've seen,you've seen, you've got a beautiful house,
but the neighborhood you moved in wasnot like a high end neighborhood when
you moved in. Folks we hadin the sixties, we had the white
flight of white folks moving to thesuburbs, and now we've got the black

(42:00):
flight and the white flight black folksmoving to the suburbs, white folks moving
back into the city. This isa crazy place, folks. No one,
no place like New Orleans can havesuch a story, if you will.
So many weird stuff goes so much, so much, well say,
so many colorful things and unusual thingshappen in this city as far as my

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area goes. Uh. I wassurrounded by tenements. We had a couple
of really bad some of the worstgangs in the city, right, especially
one of them, and they threatenedus and we had a fight with them.
Actually, and you live in theuptown area closer to the river.
Beautiful neighborhood in architecture wise, butit was one that is it was frankly

(42:42):
was a slum. It was aslum. Yeah. Sometimes it was called
a borderline neighborhood. We had twohouses around us, next door and right
across the street that were in goodcondition. The rest of them were just
one of them was in semi goodcondition. The rest of them were trashed.
I mean, these were tenements.We knew them all. We were
in side. Because what's interesting is, uh, these people, many of

(43:04):
these people were very good friends.Uh, even though they may have been
very poor, they were wonderful peopleand very good friends. Now, the
rest of them were very bad let'sface it, these were the future criminals
of America. These were the druglords and all that and rapes, murders
going on all around us, adrug deal every every night in our side
of our house. Every night,we'd hear it. And uh, now
it's changed the reason we be thisis what this is our consternation. Before

(43:30):
we had all these wonderfully really goodfriends. We love them black folks,
very few white folks in the neighborhoodand the the uh in our audience,
if you will, our congregation,we're black folks, a lot of inner
city kids and we and we wereseeing these kids change, leaving the gangs,
getting good lives, et cetera.And and now they're all gone.

(43:50):
So we basically lost audience and hasbeen replaced by a bunch of uh,
wealthy young you know, upward upwardlymobile. We used to call them yuppies,
who all of them tend lean tothe to the left or the far
left. They hate us, theyvandalize us. We never had any of
that from the black community. Sobut the nice thing is our property values
have skyrocket, and that's fine.It's nice to know that all the houses

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of run and now are these beautifulhomes because they came in and remodeled them.
All we've been gentrified. And soit's a strange situation envins and it's
affecting the overall politics of areas.Oh yeah, in some ways becoming more
left wing and somebody's becoming kind ofhad a counter reaction and the funny count
of reaction. The reason I broughtthis up was what you're seeing with older
African Americans are kind of One ofthe strange things is they're reacting against white

(44:37):
liberal, rich liberals and so,I mean, people aren't seeing this happen.
You know those folks. Yeah,they call them the atheists and they
don't like them, and it's kindof kids do not like these rich white
liberals. And so it's actually havinga political impact that no one saw coming.
And we're going to talk about thatin the coming weeks where it comes
in. But folks will be backup to these important messages with the Patriarch

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it's not time for us to gointo our chaplain. Bye bye, patriotic
moment. We just take a briefmoment to remind you of the biblical foundations
of our country, our Judeo Christianjurisprudence. And today we're going to talk
about Thanksgiving. After all, thisis the Thanksgiving weekend and we're still enjoying
the ambience of this wonderful past Thanksgivingwe've just had with friends and family members,
etc. What is Thanksgiving? Well, it's the time to thank God.

(46:52):
Do you realize it is the onlyofficial religious holiday established by Congress by
law that has its origins in America. So America actually has a religious holiday
under our government. Hmmm. Doesn'tsound like they want to keep out of
government with all that. Huh.Thanksgiving. The first Thanksgiving was in Jamestown.

(47:13):
The second one was in the BerkeleySettlement right up from Jamestown. And
these guys were like Pilgrims the BerkeleySettlement, and they for their Thanksgiving holiday
and time to thank God. Theyactually fasted and prayed all day long.
And then the third one, ofcourse, was the Pilgrims. We know
about that because that's the one thatalways gets promoted, but the first one
was actually Jamestown. In all cases, they gathered together to thank God for

(47:35):
the many blessings of the harvest andthe fact that they were surviving and being
able to establish a new world,a new life in a new world.
And so I would certainly thank folksthat with a mindset like that, our
finding fathers had no intention of kickingGod out of government. What about you?
Have you kicked God out of you? Well, if you have,
you need to reconsider, as we'renow go in our chapelain by a gospel

(47:59):
moment where I'm going to show youhow you can know that you know that
you know you are God's child.You have not kicked him out and you
will never kick him out because ofGod's great love for you. It's all
because of God. Really, folks, we're not too good, we're not
good at all, But God isgood and he keeps making up the difference.
When we blow it, and weblow it, I blow it all

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the time. We all do.We're all sinners, and God knows all
of that. And he knew wecould never save ourselves. So he came
with a plan, a love planon how to save us. And this
is a love plan. God knewthat he had to have a man to
get this job done, to fixa man, So God fixed it really
easily. God the Son became aman. That man's name is the Lord

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Jesus Christ. He's the King ofkings and Lord of lords. He's the
Lamb of God which taken away thesins of the world, the lion of
the tribe of Judah. He cameto this earth to fix our love problem,
broken up into two things, sinand death. When he died on
the cross for our sinens, andthe Bible says his blood washed them all
away, all of them, folks, from the day you're born and day

(49:04):
you die, your tiniest to greatestsins were all washed away with the blood
of the Lord Jesus Christ. Atthat moment in time, he became more
intimate with you than you are withyourself. Because the Bible says he that
knew no sin that's Jesus was madea sin. He was literally turned into
your sins, my sins, andsins of the whole world. He was
turned into sin. That's how intimatehe got that we that you might be

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made the righteousness of God in himHim. That's first Quinn, He's five
twenty one, folks. God lovesyou with an everlasting love. Why would
you pass that up? Why wouldyou ignore that? Why would you think
that's not important or not necessary.It's vitally necessary, folks. It's one
of the most important things will thatwill ever happen to you. So if
you've never made that choice before,repent and the bile Jesus kept saying,

(49:49):
repent and believe, And now I'llexplained repentance. Repentance is not doing a
lot of good works. Turning fromyour sins all these great things you think
you can do, that's not repentance. That's religion, and that will damn
your soul to hell. You haveto completely remove that from your life.
You have to realize and understand yourhopeless and helps without God, destined to
a burning hell. You're just notgood enough. You're a big time loser,
just like I am. And whenyou come to that point in your

(50:12):
life, that hopeless state about yourself. You have just repented. It takes
place in your mind and your heart. It is not a work. It
is not a religious work. It'snot turning from your sins or whatever you
might think. It might be givenmoney, so many things, you know,
singing in a choir or whatever.Folks, when you repent, you
are now ready because nothing's in theway to believe with all your heart that
Jesus did die for all your sins, was buried and rose from the dead.

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Folks, if you've never done thisbefore, do it now, like
the scripture says, now, todayis the time of salvation. Don't wait
till it's too late. Like theold country preacher said, don't wait,
folks. And one thing you don'twant to wait for is the end of
the world. Let's just say itas it is, as we know it
today. It's not going to totallyend, but as we know the world

(50:57):
today is coming to a very hugechange. Yes, folks, what's coming
is the Lord Jesus Christ. Andwe could, you know, in our
thanksgiving mode, we could certainly bevery grateful that he is coming, because
he's going to fix all the problemson this earth. This earth isn't a
mess. It's a mess. Andthe Bible has all the prophecies warning us
about what would happen at the end, so it wouldn't catch us unawares.

(51:19):
Jesus said, don't let it catchyou unawares. You've got all the signs,
and he says, when all thiscomes together at the same time,
that's when I'm at the door.All these signs are coming together right now
at the same time. One ofthe signs is that all the nations would
turn against Israel. Do you realizethe level of Jew hatred all around the
world right now? It's shocking,It's absolutely stunning. In universities, all

(51:40):
these supposedly compassionate groups, they allhate the Jews now and they're blaming them
for all the problems of the world. That was a prophecy that would happen
at the end. It's happening rightnow and right in front of us,
in living technicolor and tragically through thehorrors of war. We're watching it on
TV every night if you want to. So, folks, Jesus is coming

(52:00):
back soon. Are you ready forhim? You know, we just had
Thanksgiving, our national religious holiday thankingGod for all the many blessings. Well,
the greatest blessing you can ever getin your life is to have the
safest bunker for these trying times thatare coming. You Jeeves said, go
to the caves. You need abunker. And I'm going to recommend a
bunker to y'all. I'm free advertisementhere part of the advertisement. But there

(52:24):
is a bunker you can purchase madeby the Heavenly Manufacturing Company. And the
name of that bunker is the LordJesus Christ. And guess what the price
is f R e E. It'sfree. Folks. Just believe in Jesus.
Believe that he died for all yoursins in Rosemen debt. And the
moment you do, you got thatbunker. You're ready for these hard end

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times that are coming, and theyare coming down, and they're coming down
on us fast and furiously. Rightnow, it's time for us to go
now, and I want to thankyou so much for being with us on
the show. And we'll close withthe Monset Martin singing a Creole goodbye,
those allerdic wonderful songs. You know, we probably all had Creaga bonds as
we left our Thanksgiving dinner this pastthirsty God, bless y'all out there.

(53:07):
Does this have to be the endof the nerd? You know I love
you In the pamon land, Ican see across the million stars when I
look at you, we can mosey. It's the sun time. I suppose

(53:37):
you couldn't call ittle crap. Ifwe take just a little little longer to
see our good night, call itcreel good