The Founders Show #495

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Battles. The politicians addressed the digitatorsand magicians wus to see the money.
Then you don't, there's nothing tofill the holes. Well, then are
filling their packets bid holes, thepoliticians bouncing down the road. Every bat'sition

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to no month corruption and its function. It's gonna take divide it. Avention
that Louisiana get rid of the incometax, and new appointment by Jeff Landry
says it's possible. And with thedebate last Wednesday night full of sound and
fury, doesn't signify anything. Well, the one person that didn't participate,
Tim Scott, seems to say vicepresidential ones coming in the Battle of the

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Two Gulf Ranges wouldn't matter all thatmuch to New Orleans voters except it's gonna
cost him a lot of tax dollarsand the RTA is cutting bus routes.
Folks, what is the implications ofthat? Should we be looking to uber
it now? Of course, costa dollar one hundred and twenty dollars to
get one hundred dollars worth of goods. We'll talk about that. And one
of the three lines of the TransSiberian Railroad was blown up. With all

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the attention on Israel, nobody's payingattention to the Ukraine Russian War, which
is getting bigger. All these subjectsand more on this edition of the Founder's
Show, and God bless you allout there. You are now listening to
the founders. So the voice ofthe founding Fathers, You're Founding Fathers coming
to you deep within the bowels thosemystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the big

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easy New Orleans, Louisiana, thatold Crescent City, and high up on
top of that old Liberty Cypress treeway out on the Eagles Branch draped in
Spanish moss, is none other.Then you have Spingeary Baba of the republic
Chaplain. Hi mcenry, and I'mwith Christopher Tidmore. You're roving reporter,
resident radical moderate and associate editor ofthe Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot

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new And Hi, I gotta tellyou before we get into the more interesting
local topics, we got to saysomething about the debate of the Republican It
was it was okay. So everybody'sbeen askinglander conference, I said, who
won the debate? And I said, the only person who won the debate

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was the one who wasn't there.That was Tim Scott. And I'm explaining
why Trump won. No, no, no, actually, because Trump is
already winning. So the point I'mgoing to say is Trump didn't win the
debate for a very simple reason.It didn't change anything. It's the same
as before. After the whole handicap. For those that did not watch the
debate last Wednesday night, folks,you didn't miss anything. I didn't watch

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it. I knew it was gonnabe bad. I just didn't want to
waste my well it became it gotmore christ But this is a terrible test
won the Republican Party. They've beento get their act together. Well,
a hardcore republic I agree, Iwholeheartedly agree. I can also say that
the focus ought to be on Trumpis the front runner, not one another.
And and that was what Chris Chrishe said. In fact, there
was a whole point it concentrated onon Nicki Halley's quote corruption versus Ron DeSantis'

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operations as a governor. And itwas so esoteric because it's all basically Ramashawani
came out and attacked Nicki Halley onthe fact she was on the board of
Boeing. Boeing is for those thatdon't know Boeing after you know the Pacific
Northwest. The biggest production plants forBoeing in the United States are in South
Carolina. That's a bit like accusingof South Carolina being on the governor of

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being on the board of Boeing islike somebody from saying somebody from Louisiana isn't
pro oil industry. It's just it'sunknown for the whole thing. Christpher,
you reminded me of for years ofthe addiction counseling and conflict resolution, and
it reminded me of that when you'reengaged in situations like that, don't be
surprised if all of a sudden thepeople you're with are going to start screaming

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hal and young or what another.And that it made me think of that
unbelievable. Well, it's so shameful. I mean, Republica's to get to
that ga the beginning to look likeDemocrats at the beginning, the beginning to
look like Donald Trump and no Democrats. No. But my point about all
of this is obviously Nicky Halley andRon DeSantis are competing for second place and
without whoever comes in. You know, there's there's a lot of argument because

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Ron de Santis is gambling everything onIowa. He's got Bob vander Platz,
a prominent evangelical leader. He's gotKim Reynolds, the governor, behind him.
At the same time that the CokeNetwork in all thirteen hundred eighty eight
contributors nationwide or gotten behind Nicki Halley. The moment of the debate, if
there was one, was down toRamaswani, who is really outrageous as a

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human being. But having said that, he comes up with some good lines
and one of them is you know. They asked, why, mister Ronshawmi,
why do you insist on calling NickiHalley Nihindria which is her actual name.
She's some seek descent though she becamea Christian. And he says,
well, I'll I'll pronounce her nameis Nicky when she pronounces my name,

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right. But this is what Ireally want to articulate, and he attach
started a Christianity, which she's saying, you know, this is this is
pandering because grunt Jean is nothing todo. He holds up he holds up
a notepad and he says, Nickyequals corruption and when I said, at
that moment on the notepad, itwas really bad. And when I when
I looked at that, I said, on the one hand, you know,

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this was the moment that you know, pictures worth a thousand words.
This is gonna affect Nicki Haley ifanybody cares. And then the second moment,
I said, you know, thesmartest person on that stage was the
one who was not there. Andhis name is Tim Scott. Nicki Haley's
fellow South Carolinian dropped out of therace. And what is becoming very clear.
I was asked this question by mygood friend Christopher's screen the other day.

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He said, who do you thinkis going to be Trump's running mate?
And I said, I've given uptrying to predict what Donald Trump is
going to do. It's impossible.Having said that, if I had to
choose somebody, and this was overa week ago that happened, I'd say
it's Tim Scott because he kind oftempers Trump. For one thing, he's
positive Trump's angry. On the otherhand, no, no, just just

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let me finish and I'm not puishingdown constantly, and he reacts, Yeah,
I'm going to say attack slandered everykind of way you think of it.
I know that everybody I do notknow that. But let's let's continue.
Let me continue what I'm saying.What I'm saying you might agree with.
Please, Hi, can you listento me for just one second?
All right? What I'm saying isone of the reasons why. And I

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was having this conversation with my cousintoday it was I said, you know,
he said, what about why isTrump keeping? And I said,
the angry American people want somebody justas angry about and pissed off at what's
going on as they do, andso that the Trump is Tim Scott is
naturally a sort of city on thehill, more of a Reaganite personality.
He's also very close to evangelicals,which Trump has good relationships with, but

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it never hurts to get it stronger. But what really accused me of is
is that right before the debate,Tim Scott was, you know, was
trying to downplay criticism of Donald Trumpmade by former GOP rap Liz Cheney.
And by the way, who thechim named. Cheney was very prominent in
the debate, with Rama Shwani comingout and saying you can put lipstick on

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a Cheney and they still will bea proto fascist, a Neil con fascist.
It was, that's the kind oflanguage that happened. This. Oh
Cheney is a communist. No no, no, no, no, Cheney
is not a well like Huey Longsaid. He said, when they're talking
about communism and promote communism, getready, because it's going to be fascism,

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and that's what we are. They'reall promoting communists. Okay, you're
told you're right. Wait communism,I'm sorry, Dick Cheney, Dick Cheney,
Liz Cheney. Oh, come on, let's getting a ridiculous Okay,
this we're talking. No, it'snot true anyway. What Tim Scott said
was we're all flawed, number one. So there's no doubt we're going to
have a flawed individual leading our country, because that's just called humanity. The

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question we should ask ourselves is whatdo we want from a policy position,
and who will provide the best futurefor the average person in our country from
twenty seventeen to twenty twenty with thestrongest economic activity we saw in the lifetime.
In other words, Tim Scott justvery articulately came out and said the
Trump platform should be and I thinkhe's smart about this. It's the economy
stupid and proceed with. You know, we may think he's crazy, but

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he's all kind of crazy, andso the idea because I think Tim Scott
won the debate because he wasn't thereand instead was actually answering essentially Chris Christie's
criticism before it even happened, Scottwas supporting Trump and Scott No, Scott
has come out very deliberately and saidhe's not endorsing anyone in this race,

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which I think is actually Trump.Essentially, he was defending Trump, and
so I think he's the winner ofthe debate more than anybody else, even
though he went there. But thetwo winners were Trump and Scott. Interesting,
basically time the two people that werenot there, I mean Trump.
Trump got the question about being adictator and dictator and he answered it honestly
in a way the base loves andthe rest of the world doesn't, which

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is, I'll be a dictator onday one, which is not what he
should have said, but it's betterthan being a dictator for the whole world
of office. Like Biden, theonly respond only any candidate should ever say,
are you going to be a dictator. Is no, I'm the constitution
elected president. Is he okay?Fine? But is he going to weaponize
our government agencies like dictators do,like Obama did? Yes? Well,

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you know, I hope yes,okay, and we can throw it right
back at them then, but letme let me proceed out. Actually I
hope he doesn't. I don't wantto see that anywhere in a Maria.
The point about all of this,I really don't. But you know,
they have, they have so weaponizedgovernment now it's almost impossible to have to
do anything without getting the FBI onyou. I can spend the next half

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hour widows and and and old ladies, and I can spend the next half
hours just two young kids now onthe terrorist watch list for the FB.
Wow, it's been the next halfhour talking about what Trump has just said
in the last two weeks he woulddo. But I'm not going to And
the reason is because we got totalk about other things. But the point
of the whole debate is the issueof the Republican primary is basically over.

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That debate taught me that this isbecause this election has become a farce.
If Trump had to design the perfectwet level of opposition. He would say
the Coke Network should endorse one theleaders and Ioway should endorse another. You
should have two candidates attacking each otherin stage, not even talking about Donald
Trump. It was pretty much itcould have been Trump. They could have
been following orders from Trump. Itwouldn't have done better in this Maybe they

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are yeah, no, no,no, So he's a powerful man.
Chris ven I is my arden tocomeback, kid. My hope couldn't overcome
impossibilities. My arden hope is everybodywould drop out but one. But that's
not gonna happen. So the questionis, at this point, we're gonna
find out whether or not there isgoing to be a third party challenge.

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And I will say there was apoint of humor. So last week we
had Jennifer Franks from the Draft RomneyMansion campaign initiative. They've got you can
look on the web. They've gota signature, a petition to be able
to try to convince Mitt Romney torun with Joe Mansion for president, no
levels ticket. And what was funnyis right after that happened, right after
we taped it, almost to theminute, we're on I'm watching c SPAN

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and Romney and Mansion are appearing beforethe Senator prop the Senate Finance Committee on
their deficit reduction bill that they're puttingthrough, and that's going to die in
arrival, but it's at least theyknow it's going to die arrival. They're
just trying to talk about the deficitsfrom running. And they came in and
everybody's saying, you know, they'reall sitting down, and Romney sort of
leans in and says, well,you know, I know why I told
you here, but we're actually herebecause we're announcing for president. And the

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whole room started laughing, except therewere a couple people on the Democratic Rohovan
side that almost wanted to leap forwardand say, oh, yeah, you're
making a joke because they were eitherterrified are excited. So that told me
a whole lot of information as towhere our politics are right now. Speaking
of where our politics are right now, I want to change gears just for

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a I think in mass confusion curseglar work situation, well, I mean
weapons of mass distraction would be betteron saying that, but speaking of weapons
of mass confusion, speaking of whatwas not a weapons of mass distraction,
I'm going to say something. I'vebeen pretty hard on Jeff Landry about not
having any economic reform proposals, andI wanted to say, you know,

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we're in a state, and we'rehere in Louisiana. We're between Texas and
Florida. They have no income tax. It's just looking at the economics around
us. And one of the peopleI really liked in the governor's race was
a very young man by the fromMandeville, by the name of Richard Nelson,
state representative. He's still a staterepresentative until the end of the year,
and he was running for governor onthe idea of phasing out the Louisian

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income tax. And he was willingto say some things that well, let's
say who ended. He was willingto say some things that were controversial about
how to do it. One thingis, if we're going to be like
Texas, we have to be likeTexas. And lawyer of the homestay exemption
of twenty five thousand dollars. Butat least he brought in the discussion about
this. Well, I didn't expectto hear much from him anytime soon.

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Jeff Landry, you know, Ididn't know what Jeff Landry would do.
And then something fascinating happened. Onthe beginning of last week. Jeff Landry
named him to be the Secretary ofRevenue. Now, the Secretary of Revenue
in Louisiana, ladies and gentlemen's essentiallythe chief tax collector. You're in charge
of the tax bureau for Louisiana.But to put the guy who wants to

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get rid of the income tax incharge of the tax bureau to me sends
a message, which is I wantto do something. And one of the
things that he has talked about,if not get rid of the income tax
is something you'll like, HI,is to phase it out on retirees.
I'd be nice. Another idea,which is to it so the maximum we

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collect an income taxes from anybody fromGale Benson on down, it's about thirty
thousand dollars. If you put acap on that, it doesn't affect the
state budget to start off with,but over the next several decades could essentially
turn the income tax into something thatbillionaires will move into Louisiana. What would
be a graduated cap, No,just be a cap Okay, the richion
I'm saying that is well, actually, if you get billionaires. Yeah.

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The whole idea behind that is richpeople leave louisianionaires, yeah, rich people
or millionaires. Rich people leave Louisianato go to Texas or Florida because it
just makes more economic sense. Ican tell you just driving down Saint Charles
Avenue, New Orleans, I canpoint out the houses. There's one beautiful
white one right on the edge ofExposition Boulevard in Automond Park. A guy

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who used to be a client ofmine, who were named nameless, who
born in Louisiana, raises kids here. Major company moved to Texas because it
was just too expensive the taxes here. He still he still comes. He
owns four houses, he still comeshere. Basically, he doesn't live in
New Orleans legally, but he's hereall the time. This is his hometown.

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But it's it's it, and thishappens over and over. So the
idea. One of Louisiana's first billionairesis a close friend and cousin of mine.
He moved to Houston in the Iguess in the A he's moved his
whole his headquarters, just legal addressand all. Yeah, he still kept
a lot here in the business.But because he's not yeah, because somebody
I mean, yeah. But there'sa way to do it. There's a

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way to do it equitably, whichis the idea that you could put a
tax credit on income taxes, likeone hundred dollars per year, just raised
it up to one thousand dollars overten years of tax credits. On the
lower end, you could get ridof it. For retirees, you could
cap it. There's a whole lotof things. What is the fear though,
why nothing could might happen even withthe super majority of Republicans is remember

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who the leadership of the Senate is. They're the Republicans who came into office
when Bobby Jindall came into office andpassed the Stealy Plan repeal. Now,
however popular that was, and itwas very popular, and people forget at
the time it was very very popular. However popular it was. Remember,
the state went into perpetual deficits forthe next six years, and so there's

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a lot of worry about what wouldhappen if you did that. But rich
the appointment for those disjointing Hi mckenry, Christopher Tidmore here and the Hound Show
by Jeff Landry of state Representative RichardNelson of Mandeville to be the new Revenue
Secretary. Does say that Jeff Landryis doing something on the economic front,
which he basically didn't talk about inhis government race. What did he talk
about. He talked about crime,he talked about changed gender issues. He

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did not talk about economic issues.Chris, let me say something that may
help us understand him. And Iknow this through my twin sister who's close
friends with him and helped mentor himfrom the time he lit over by kid
and even told him once, ifyou study hard. We heard the story
I think you have, but thereare many new listeners all right right,

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and it's very import story to understandhim. She said, if you study
really hard and you apply yourself andwork hard, you could be the governor
Louisiana. One day it came out. But look, this is what I
know about him. He is athinker, and he's a very deep thinker,
which makes him sometimes a slow thinker. He takes his time to figure
things up, and if you wantto have to grapple with something that takes

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an enormous amount of time and it'svery hard to figure out it's the economy
harder than the weather. So Ican understand why he held off. He
doesn't like to move to he feelsabsolutely certain about song. Well, that's
a good song. I would counterthat he's a fifty something year old man.
He's probably thought a lot about it. I would actually all have Christopher,
I have too. That was myprofession for seven five years, and
everybody I knew in it would agreewith what I just said, Ki,

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Mick, Henry. What I wouldsay is the reason he didn't say anything
is because Louisiana is kind of anodd state. It always has been,
Christopher serious stating the obvious. Folks, we all know that. No,
but I mean, it's an oddstate politically in this way, unlike the
rest of the South, unlike alot of the country, We've always been
a socially conservative, fiscally liberal state. We're very much a generation from the

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Huey Longs of the idea that wewere one of the most Catholic and for
that matter, Bible belt buckle statesaround. Very socially conservative, played a
lot of rules in the civil rightselement too, But at the same time
we always had a much more activegovernment than we had elsewhere for better or
force. And so one of JeffLandry's political strategies when he was running for

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governor was not to talk about economics, not to talk about traditional business reforms
in state. And I'll give youa perfect example, and we talked about
it here on the air before theelection with John Couvion. Jeff Landry,
unlike Steve wagons Back and every otherRepublican, has never said a word about
tort reform, and I doubt you'llever see a bill come out of legislature

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on tort reform, which has alwaysbeen a major priority of Republican administrations.
Basic limiting punitive damages is as such, not only has he not talked about
it, not only does not supportit. He got overwhelming amounts of contributions
ninety eight percent from the Louisiana TrialLawyers Association now called the Louisian Association Justice,
which would normally go to a Democrat. Almost they always support a Democrat

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because Republican's a retort reform Jeff Landryis not. So guess what they supported,
Jeff Landry. Jeff Landry has understoodthe politics. This is actually a
compliment I'm making about him. He'sunderstood that social issues motivate Louisianians. Economic
reforms are not something people vote onhere, even though we're an economic basket
case of a state, and itshould be something we do so by waiting

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until after the election Richard Nelson cameand also a compliment to Richard Nelson or
criticism of the family to look atit, he dropped out after qualifying.
He was on the ballot, buthe endorsed Jeff Landry early. Mark my
words, he's the only former opponentof Jeff landryes who's not the forgiving sort
of individual that will be appointed tohis cabinet period. End of discussion.
No Schroder, no wagons back ain'tgonna happen. But on that note,

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speaking of Schroter and wags ain't gonnahappen, We're going to turn our attention
before we go ahead. When lifethought or inside into this whole thing.
Perhaps he's waiting for a superior councilon the economics and one of the most
successful businessmen in the Merria history,and I believe one of the greatest presidents
who brought us one of the greatesteconomies. And I'm talking about I don't
know. You don't like that DonaldTrump. He is a great Donald Trump

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fan. Perhaps that may be playingsomething into his delays. He's waiting for
uh Trump to give him some goodadvice. Come on, oh, come
on, Christopher, I'm serious.Please. No, no, no,
on that note, I'm getting offthat. No, I'm changing, Christopher.
You shouldn't show these negative feelings youhave for Donald Trump. It doesn't

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do you well well, and I'msorry you have them. You can have
this recipe for dictatorship. I don'tlook all right. I know when we
got to take what we gotta dois we got to take a break.
We'll be back with mckenry and Tidmorehere on the Founder Show after these important
messages here in W S, lA and WR. I know, stay
tuned when we come back. We'regoing to talk a little bit about tax

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credits going to golf. Believe itor not, that's stame strange, but
it's actually part of a multi billiondollar deal. And we'll talk a little
bit about buses not being enough.Is it signed for people to start actually
looking at ubers or other alternatives forpublic transport? That and over and Lift
are great folks. That and apart of the Ukraine War. You haven't

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heard about the Trans Siberian railroad frontthat could actually play into the price of
oil. And we'll talk about allthat. Just wait to them back and
yell all right, we'll be backafter these important messages. Cab driver,
stay tuned more of the Founder showand mckenry and Tad more right for this

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that high it's the scent of coffee. It is actually this caribl coffee.
But it should be roses. Itshould And here's the thing. Where do
we get this coffee from Hillary's florist? Wait? Wait, flores roses,
folks. For those that don't know, Villary's florest does more than put out
incredible flowers. It actually does thesewonderful food fruit baskets for the holidays.

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And one of the things they haveis their own branded forms of coffee that
are these specially coffee. This isa this is a caramel and we read
this precisely. In fact, itis maybe they say the wild African violet
smells like caramels, so maybe perhapsthat's the smell he's giving us. This
is this is this is a caramellouldotide coffee and it's being sold at Villari's

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Florist at their two locations on oneninety Highway Highway one ninety in Covington and
on Martin Burnman and Metai right offof Veterans. But they're not so well
you couldn't get them by themselves.What it is is part of their Christmas
gift baskets that can be delivered straightto your business associate's friend loved One's door
along with the traditional flowers. AndI went into Villaries the other day and

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I came in into a seed ofthe most beautiful point setts I have ever
seen in my life. It wasa sea of red and it was They're
all available. I came left withtwo of them. And I've got to
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you know, covert operations. Righthere in New Orleans, the Little
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E ri E or Villariesflorist dot com. Go see them on their two locations
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at one eight hundred VI I Ll e R to get all your Christmas
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them you heard it here on theFounder Show. Well, folks, is
Chapahi McHenry. I'm here to tellyou about our ministry, LAMB Ministries.

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We're in an inner city ministry withan intercity formula and focus for inner city
folks. Please check us out,go to our website Lambanolah dot com.
That's LAMB NLA dot com, orjust call me chapel Hi mc henry at
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is very challenging ministry working with intercity poor and the inner city kids in
the urban poor. And you know, there are a lot of challenges there,
lots of challenges. But we foundout with the gospel message that close
to five thousand kids have come intoChrist over the past twenty some odd years,
and hundreds more have gone on tolive very productive and wonderful lives.

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We're even having third generation kids inour ministry. Now. They're going on
to get married, which rarely happensin their community. They're getting jobs,
staying out of trouble with the law, developing careers, going to college.
All the good things young folks shouldall be doing, they're doing it.
Folks. That's a difference God canmake in your life. This is a
very very challenging ministry as you canonly imagine it, especially when the holidays

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come. Sometimes the holidays are horriblefor people who are suffering because what happens
to the holidays for cheer family,and if you don't have that, it
can be very painful. You canfeel very alone. Why don't I have
a happy family, Why don't Ihave all the Christmas cheer that I see
all around me. So it canbe a very hard time and we need

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all the help we can get duringthis time. So if you'd like to
get involved, we need all ofthe volunteers, financial support and prayer warriors
that we can find. Please,folks, get involved. It'll bless it.
Remember it's more blessed to give thanreceive. And this is the giving
time, Christmas time. Jesus thereason for this season. And thank you
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Him mcemery and as always Christopher Highworked very hard to bring you the
truth, the whole truth, andnothing but the truth. So help has
gone hi. You might remember lastweek we said that your vote always counts

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because in the Cattle Parish Sheriff's election, the John Nicholson, you know,
Henry Whitehorn defeated John Nicholson, theRepublican Henry light Horne is the Democrat by
one vote, right, right,right. Well, as it turns out
that one vote is not enough,so retired Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Joseph has

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Well it has come out and actuallyruled for another election. Well, I
remember the Democrats won the election byone vote, and so what he said
is there has to be the Democratwon by one keeping us right, keeping
me straight. Right, So whathappened is so in all of this,
it was it was the Republican whosued and said that the election was off.
And I was actually asked by mypublisher. She said, is this

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another bushby Gore, you know electionthing? I said, well, I'll
believe several thousand votes are you know, maybe hard to overturn. I have
trouble believing that there isn't a problemwhen an election comes down to one vote.
And one of the things that wasinteresting about the election was that there
were the ruling says it was provenbeyond any doubt that there were at least
eleven illegal votes cast and counted.This included it was it was really one

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vote. Two people who voted twice, who admitted to this publicly, five
votes that came from absentine mail inballots which shouldn't have been counted for failure
to comply with the law. Fourinvalid votes casted by interdicted persons who are
unqualified voters. But I think that'swhat they mean. Or they could have
meant they could have met films,they could have meant felons. So anyway,

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they've called a new election in theCattle Parish sheriffs race, and this
is one of the things I'm interestedin. Technically, a Republican should be
at a disadvantage running Cattle Parish.It'sh that has pretty much almost an African
American majority. It's a parish thathas consistently returned Democrats for the last twenty
years. Treeport, Cattle Parish isStreeport, the same thing they're gonna they're

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gonna ren No. Cattle Parish isStreeport, Bosure. Bosure is across the
river from the Red River from it. But Catto is Streeport. It's the
county parish for Streetport reports this countyseat. And and so if you're the
sheriff of Cattle Parish, you're thelaw enforcement official Street and so Streeport as
a city has been this. Andso the question is does this benefit the

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Republican or the Democrat. It's interestingmy publisher says, well, they got
redo the election, what could itdo? I said, and I actually
benefit the Democrat because there was anAfrican American turnout was so depressed in the
runoff, because then it actually mightbe a better race for the Democrat than
actually do with this. But itreally says, I mean, it came

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down to one vote. And forthose that say this never happens, I'd
point out to you. You rememberthere was a little election on the tolls
and the Mississippi River Bridge, whichhundreds of thousands of people in Jefferson and
Orleans and Blackham and voted for andit came down to thirty two votes,
and they invalidated in the tolls oneto be continued for ten years. And

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then the judge invalidated it because forsome of the same reasons, you know,
improperly associated abstitute ballots, people sayingit had another election and the poll
and it turned around and I thinkit was it wasn't even close the tolls
were taking. But the point aboutall of this is when an election is
as close to this, you dohave things come across. But I point
out to people more than anything else, if you ever thought your vote doesn't

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count, it was one vote,one vote in an entire parish. This
is tens of thousands of about thisfor years. Don't ever think your vote
isn't important. It really was.So when there's steel in my votes,
I get very angry about it,very very angry. But I want to
turn over steal from speaking of thingsthat are kind of going being stolen away.

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Buses are, yeah, I know, so for those that don't know,
it's gonna be rough on you folks. I'll work with inner city kids
and urban poor and they're critically dependentupon buses and they can't afford ubers.
I don't know, it's gonna berough on that. So what has happened
is the Regional Transit Authority, whichis the bus service for Orleans and for

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Kenner and Jefferson and a few otherplaces, are basically reducing services on twenty
of the twenty seven bus routes towhat it usually a little below what it
usually is on a Saturday, whichis about half as much. So instead
of having a couple of buses anhour, two or three buses an hour,
it might be a bus every houror a bus every hour and a

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half, which is really becoming.And the reason they're doing it is not
because there isn't demand for the buses. There's a huge amount. It's because
there are fewer diesel mechanics that theycan hire. They can't hire decel mechanics
right now. There's such a deficit. And the buses that they have were
mostly purchased after Katrina, and they'reentering there at the end of their useful

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life, so they keep breaking down. So what's happening is whenever they have
a bus route, it keeps breakingdown. There's probably a lot of female
money in the bus those books.It was it was, but I mean
they were placing buses that were destroyed, so that he's somebody doing. But
part of the problem is they don't. And one of the questions I'm bringing
up here is is this an opportunitynow? For people who are like,
what do you mean it's an opportunity? They tried an experiment in Jefferson Parish

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on Metori Road. Now Metori Roadis interesting in that it has always had
it had always had a bus route, but it had very low usage because
it's old mettery and most people hadcars. However, it was very important,
I mean, in fact, Idon't know how else to phrase this,
for the people that worked along MetoriRoad, some of them being domestics,

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maids and servants in the houses andthe big houses, others who worked
in the retail establishments, and soJefferson tried an experiment, and the experiment
has been high controversy. It wasbasically, if you had a bus pass,
you're able to get an uber atyou know, for a couple dollars.
They subsidized uber travel since it wasso low, but it was essential
for people, and you know what, it has cost a fraction of what

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the buses were costing. And atthe same time it has increased transit decreased
transit weight times by a factor ofabout five. And the reason I'm saying
this is there are some routes thatit makes perfect sense to have a bus.
Not having a bus, for example, on Clayburne Avenue is stupid.
It's a lot of people on bothdirections. Not having a bus in certain

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streets, you know, like twoLane Avenue also stupid. But there's a
question as to whether or not youneed buses. I live on Magazine Street.
You live right off the Magazine Street. I take the bus on Magazine
Street all the time. I lovethe bus. I use it as a
primary source of ins. I'm goingto tell you something. It's empty most

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of the time. It's a fact. It's it's got three or unless people
are going downtown to like go outat night. It's empty a lot of
the times. And it's critical forpeople trying to get the children's hospital.
In the end, there are peoplewho desperately need the route because it doesn't
just go down Magazine, it actuallygoes up to Choppatool's Children's Avenue comes down
Jefferson. But I'm using as anexample that if you get a month's bus

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pass, which isn't cheap, itworks out to it's like one hundred and
ten hundred and twenty dollars, whichto put another way, you'd have to
ride a bus twice a day everyday just to break even with it.
But you're paying a decent amount ofmoney if you have that, and we're
able to and the way they doit in Jefferson is you have to have

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a bus pass and have essentially anEBT card what it used to be known
as food stamps, or you haveto be on medicator something like that.
There is an economic concern for it, but when you do that, you
basically can get an Uber for threeor four dollars or less. And to
be honest with you, it's work. The Uber drivers like it. I

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know there's some people who say,you know, Uber drivers and Lyft drivers.
You know it's it's not as safeas it If you don't want to
use that. There actually is anequivalent one that is for the cab companies
you're not in. Cab has itsown app as well, but the idea
is that do we have to belocked in the same idea that we need

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these big commercial bus systems when frankly, everybody and I do mean not everybody,
but I'd say ninety percent of peoplewho get on buses that are locals
in New Orleans. So I'm notincluding street cars, which tend to have
a lot of tourists in front ofthem. But ninety percent of the people
that get on get on buses.They don't even pay cash anymore. They
all, even the poorest people havecell phones because you can't operate without it,

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and they just use the app.But it's singed in. It's no
different than running uber. It's nota digital divide. So why aren't we
talking about this as a way ofdoing it? And I keep bringing up
to people and I keep looking at, Well, you don't understand. I
actually don't understand what the issue is. I really don't. Well, part
of it is people develop a certainwe all have cultural ways about us,

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and when you've been doing something acertain kind of way for a long time
that it really literally becomes part ofyour culture. So people have been doing
buses for years and they enjoy thebus. I love buses, I don't
know why I enjoyed getting on busesand we're riding on them, I really
do. And I've done that allover Europe, all over Asia, of
course, all over New ones Idon't hardly anymore, but years ago I

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took the bus all over the placein New Orleans, and so it becomes
like part of your culture, andthat could be the resistance. They don't
want to lose that experience. Theylike get on the bus. By the
way, a bus is no moresafe than an uber it really is.
It's it's basically and lists are veryvery safe. The drivers are exhaustively checked

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out, background checks, everything else. And I don't know if any incidences
with uber lyft drivers that have createdsome kind of problem, But you do
have incidences on buses. I mean, you get some crazy guy on a
bus and they can cause problems ona bus. They kill people on bus.
I will say of everybody. Transitis important because it is more expensive
to live before we close outs.It now requires one hundred and nineteen dollars

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and twenty seven cents to get thesame amount of goods that you could get
before the pandemic for one hundred dollarsthat's CORET Council of Economic Advisors. That's
just since twenty twenty. Groceries areup about twenty five percent. Used car
prices are thirty five percent higher.Ye auto insurance is thirty three percent higher,
rents twenty percent higher. Then forthose that say well, pay is

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higher, wages have increased by twentypercent, But when in considering inflation,
real wage growth in the United Statesis zero point six percent, which is
to say that in general, wageshave kind of kept up with inflation on
the lower end, not across theboard on the lower end. But the
fact is that if you haven't receiveda twenty percent increase in your pay and

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re mission areas have received a twentypercent in grades, now you're behind.
You've fallen them behind. Christopher,I appreciate these numbers, but if you
look at certain items like gasoline andeggs and other things that are commonly used,
those prices are doubled and tripled.So even that's a general of everything
combined, but think how much gasolineand energy colls gas. No, gasoline's

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gone up, but asn't double ortriple. It's it's running about three point
thirty. It was running about andit's the signific it was running about two
twenty. Yeah, but I meanit's not it's it's increased as much higher.
I'm not killing the people. There'skilling people argue that it's really which
brings it back to a lot morethan a twenty prease, which brings it
wide back to having a viable transportsystem if we can't have buses is so

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important because people need to be ableto get to work otherwise they're falling further
for the pine before we close itout. I want to look in and
there's been a lot of there's beena lot of talk about, you know,
Israel, and people are taking theireyes off of Ukraine and a couple
of things interesting you happened. TheUkrainians have actually crossed the Dipna River and
have beachheads on the Crimean side.And you know, there's actually it's everybody

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says this has been a stalemate ofwar of attrition. It's not. It's
actually major moves have happened, right. But the other thing that everyone the
war is happening around the world rightnow, we're not hearing anything about it.
We're not. I mean, somebodytalked about I oppose the Israeli ethnic
cleansing. I thought about this andI said, okay, have you what
did you say about the Armenians afew months ago? The who? What
did you say about this? Aboutthe the Syrians? What the m and

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Ees? What did you say aboutthe Ukrainians? What did you say about
the Ugers? And it's amazing allthese people like who suddenly are against ethic
cleansing. I'm like Guyana Guanians,and Venezuela's invading Guyana right for those that
don't know, Venezuela has just hada referendum to conquer one third of Guana
because it's full of oil. Imean, this is a lot going on

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in the world. But the battleI want to close with that nobody's talked
about. And I've been searching Americannews and it's on the international stuff.
Is something very important happened last weekand on the Trans Siberian railroad just west
of Baikal bykal Is, the cityit's the sort of the midpoint, the
most important strategic point in all ofSiberia, and the tunnel that leads across

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Siberia there was blown up, aswas the secondary way of getting across,
called the Devil's Bridge. Now,let me explain for those that are like,
oh, that's nice. There areonly three rail lines to get oil
from Russia to China. This isone of the three. The Ukrainians have
claimed responsibility for blowing it up.This is thousands of miles from Ukraine.

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This is Russia's been able to survivebecause they've been able to sell their oil.
If the other two are taken out, two things are gonna happen.
One is that Russia is not gonnahave the money. But two, the
oil prices we just talked about aregoing to skyrocket because if you take Russian
oil, even though we import inthe United States less than twenty percent of
our oil, Russian oil will helpset an international price. And if you

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take it off the market and theSaudis don't. The Saudi's have taken about
a third of their oil production off. But if you don't, they don't
replace it. Oil prices could goup above five dollars a gallon. And
here's the problem. The other thingnobody's been talking about is the Iranians bombed
one of the Saudi facilities a fewmonths ago, almost a year ago,
and so now we're in a situationwhere the oil prices and everything could get

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worse as we go on the holidayseason. So I leave that. Hopefully
when we come back for the break, we'll talk about something a little bit
more. But as we're talking aboutthe transfi vaer and rail, where is
inspective pen He solved the murder onthe Orient Express, certainly he could fix
this from right Christmas. I thinkthey know who did it. They can't
out. We'll be back with astory about Saint Nicholas right after this.
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McHenry. I got a question theother day. Somebody said, I don't
teach my children about Santa Claus.It's Unchristian. And I walked back with
absolute horror. That is absurd.Santa Claus and the story of Santa Claus
one of the most wonderful Christian storieswe can have that you know, the
Bible says, by the blood ofthe Lamb and the word of their testimony,

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they overcame the dragon. Well.Saint Nicholas, who was the Bishop
of Myra. He's a Greek bishopof Myra, Turkey. This man goes
down as one of the greatest saintsof God, like Mother Teresa, that
of anybody I've ever studied in churchhistory. He was a remarkable man.
He was born to great wealth,he was left a huge inheritance, and

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then he proceeded to give it justabout all the way. And this is
how he gave it away. Whenhe would find out that parents were selling
their children into slavery because they werepoverty stricken. It was a desperate action
and it was acceptable in their culture. And he loved children. So what
he did was he started going andgetting his money and giving it to the

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poor folks so they wouldn't have tosell their children. And he did it
anonymously, secretly, just like SantaClaus. He would go to their places.
He'd usually throw gold coins up throughthe window and on the window.
Gets what was hanging on the windowtheir socks. Hence we had stockings at
Christmas time with presents in them.Saint Nicholas went on to be one of

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the greatest saints. Error He foughtfuriously for sound doctrine at the Council of
Nicea, and he won. Hewas a brilliant, remarkable man. He
died in poverty because he gave allhis money away. This man was one
of the greatest examples of Christianity I'veever seen. And what does Santa Claus
do? He gives? What areChristians supposed to do? Was supposed to
give? What did we give?Because the greatest gift ever given was Jesus

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Christ two thousand years ago. There'sno greater gift. And the way we
receive it by taking it only asa gift. We can't work for it,
we don't earn it. Christmas andSanta Claus are wonderful times for the
Gospel. And with that being said, it is now time for us to
go into our chaplain by by patrioticmoment, followed by the gospel moment,
and then the watchman on the wall. And so, folks, I'd like

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to tell you a wonderful story,a Christmas story that happened over one hundred
year well, yeah, over onehundred years ago. It happened in Europe.
It was in the throes the hothardest time of World War One,
which I think may have been themost bloody and terrible combat time in American
history. It was brutal, Itwas brutal. The tactics were not familiar,

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and it caused huge death rates.And you know, they were all
in the trenches. You've seen probablyseen that hurdle and all slaughtering one another,
dead man's land. The horrors ofthat. You go over the hill
and only three of them would comeback from an entire company men. It
was horrible. It was absolutely horrible. Well, it was Christmas time,
and this spirit of Christmas was heavilyupon the troops of both science with the

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British thing, it's the French andthe Germans, and so all of a
sudden, on one side there appeareda man walking in no man's like.
He didn't care I who got shot, and he had a soccer ball.
He started playing soccer. The otherside saw it and they thought, we
want to play soccer to after allthis Christmas time, which did have fun,
So do you guys. There wasan unofficial truth. Nobody forgot something.

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When he came walking up. Hehad a soccer ball in one hand.
He had a flag, the whiteflag in the other. But what
was he singing? Oh, that'sright, he was singing a German Silent
Night. But which started, whichwas it's a German song? And he
sang he started singing a christ thiswonderful Christmas Charas and he sang it over

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and he came up and it wasjust him alone. It was right near
Flanders, and a couple of theBritish soldiers and the United States had gotten
the war at that point, itwas before this is the first Christmas.
He responded and singing in the French, started singing Silent Night in French and
the British and English, and theymet in the middle ground right right,

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and they had a soccer game,and they saying, so Christmas song is
the whole rest of the day.And there was peace in the valley and
everybody was having the Christmas spirit prevailed. What this is telling me, folks,
is the enormous influence of the Biblein Europe and in Christendom, but
especially in Europe, which includes America, because we were part of the West,
and of course we weren't there rightat that time, but we came
right after, and we had thesame understanding. That's what has made America

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great because we have kept God ingovernment, not institutionally but philosophically, where
God belongs in our government. Andthat's exactly what our finally follows war.
So that isn't my patriotic moment fortoday's lives. Short history lesson on the
biblical foundations of America are Judeo Christianjurisprudence. And now I'd like to go

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into our gospel moment, because afterall, that's what Christmas is at all
about. Jesus is the reason forthe season, and he's the greatest gift
of all. We talk about givinggifts, Well, he's the greatest gift.
And we remember the gifts of praiseand worship that the shepherds brought to
him the night he was born.And we remember some time later, because
it wasn't the next day, orwasn't that night where the kings came,

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some of the richest, most powerfulmen in the east. They all came
to worship God and bring him whatgifts. God who'd become a man,
they understood that, and we're talkingabout Jesus. They brought gifts. So
Christmas is a giving time because thegreatest gift of all is our Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. Folks,do you know that savior? Do you
know who he is? You needto know, you need to get that

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gift. Remember, the gift isfree. You can't work for it,
you can't earn it. You're notgood enough, none of us are.
And the split second you realize I'mnot good enough, I'm not smart enough,
rich enough, or whatever you thinkit is, I'm cool enough you
name it to deserve heaven. Thesplit second you realize your righteousness is as
filthy reaction will do you no goodbefore the throne of God. You've just

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repented. It takes place in yourheart, in your mind. The Greek
word means change your mind, metanoia, change your mind. And when you
change your mind, then now you'refree to put faith alone and christlane you're
free to believe that only He could, that he did, and that He
will save you from a burning heldand guarantee you everlasting resurrection in life because

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He died for all of your sins. I mean, from the day you're
born to the day you die,you Timeson's greatest sins in his blood washed
them all the way that was buried, and that he rose from the dead,
according to the scriptures, to winfor you his precious free gift of
heaven. Folks, if you've nevertaken this gift before, take it now,
even do it this Christmas season.You can do it quietly, You
can do it alone. You don'thave to tell anybody about it. Sooner

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or lady, you should if it'sthat important to you, I would be
telling people. But you have todo it as God leads you. So
the most important thing, though,is to believe. Whether you tell anybody
or not, you've got to believein your heart. Do it now,
folks. Have you've never done itbefore, do it now. Don't wait
till it's too late. Like theold Count Bridger said, and Santa Claus
said that too. I believe that'swhat hurt anyway, and did a lot

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of things about Santa Claust And likethe scripture says, now today is a
data salvation. But folks, it'snot time for us to go to our
watchman on the wall. We takeit just a brief moment to remind you
of Jesus Its coming back soon forthe second gift. The first time he
came, he was kind and gentleand sweet and loving and merciful. The
next time he's coming and as ahumble man, by the way, a

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humble poor man. Next time whenhe's coming back, he's coming back to
the most powerful, wealthiest king thatever lived, and he's coming back with
an army. He's coming back todestroy evil, and he's going to have
to The Bible says, if hedelayed his coming, there'd be no flesh
left. That's the condition of thehuman heart, of the human race of
this earth. Right now. Weare cruising rapidly toward total self destruction,

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total annihilation, and we're creating itourselves. We talked about the Four Horsemen
and Apocalypse slash show. I wantto elaborate a little bit more on that.
First one was the White horse carryinga weapon, but no, no,
no arrows. So how's he goingto start a war? I'll tell
you why. How I tell youwhat this man's doing. He is the
deep sake, the power behind thescenes, and he is stirring the nations

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and they will do the war.He's manipulating. He's a master conspirator.
That's saying he is guilty to theextreme of criminal conspiracy, which is a
legal term. The next horse isa black horse, No, the red
horse, I'm sorry, the redhorse. That's the horse that represents war.
There will be wars and rumors ofwars all around the planet, millions
dying from war as his day,as Jesus comes back, as his day

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approaches. The next horse is black, stands for famine and inflation. By
the way, the Bible mentions inflationin that passage, great inflation, which
can cause great famine. But youknow what causes famine, wars And then
after faminees would come pestilence. Andwhat is the fourth horse. It's the
pale green, representing illness, playdisease, and it says the name of

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that one is death and hell followsafter it. This is a terrible situation,
and folks, we're facing and we'reseeing it all in the beginnings,
we heard a lot of what wesaid in this show. These are all
heralds, these are all omens,if you will, they're calling us to
wake us up that this day iscoming this time on Earth, the last

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seven years which will be the worstin human history, and actually the last
three and a half years of itis going to be the worst, worse
than in the days of Noah,Jesus said, folks, worse than the
days of Sodom. And the more, folks, it's going to be bad.
Are you ready, Jesus said,Go to the mountains, go to
the caves. You want a cave, we may have bet phone on it,
but we can get a bunker here. And I know the greatest manufacturing

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company for bunkers in the world.It's named the Jesus Manufacturing Company, the
Heavenly Manufacturing Company, and they've producedthe greatest bunker of all the name of
that bunker is the Jesus Bunker.So all you need to do is go
to him. Folks, believe thathe died for our sins and roast in
the dead. And you've got yourbunker, You've got your safe house.
You're going to be okay through thegreat tribulation that is coming soon in a

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neighborhood near you. It's going tohit the whole world. Well, folks,
thank you so very much. It'stime for us goes. We're not
closing with the mont Saint Morning singinga creole goodbye and God bless you all
out there. Does this have tobe the end of the nerd. You
know I love you. In thePammon Land, I can see across an

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million stars. When I look atwe can pose it's the sun time.
I suppose you couldn't call it acray if we take just a leave little

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longer to see our con