The Founders Show #496

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Battles, the politicians addressed the digitdatas and magicians whose to see the money?
Then you don't. There's nothing tofill the holes while then are filling
their pockets bid holes. The politiciansbouncing down the road. Every bat'sition with

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no moth, corruption and ysfunction,it's gone to take divide it Avention,
ladies and gentlemen. We're two weeksbefore Christmas and the controversy is actually connecting
our airports by train. Yeah,you heard me right, And one in
five Americans would not vote for Trumpor Biden, they'd vote for Robert F.
Kennedy would have that say. TheFederal Reserve is acting like it's not

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going to raise interest rates, andyou might find something interesting good for the
holiday season. Toys are one ofthe few things that haven't gone up in
price. In fact, they've gonedown. The White House annual Christmas Dinner
didn't back up the presidential race.We talk a little bit about that the
Shelle Revolution could come to Louisiana ina way that we haven't expected it before.
Could the Shell Revolution be for greenpower? Believe it or not,

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We have that as well, andwe're going to talk, of course,
as we air this weekend, onthe last day of Hanukkah, and the
meaning of that and how it's kindof being botched around the world, very
signified for what we're talking about inIsrael. But as always here on the
Founder's Show, and God bless allout there you are now listening to the
founders. So the voice of theFounding Fathers coming to you deep within the

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bowels of those mystic and cryptic alligatorswamps of the Big Easy, that old
Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up on top of that
old Liberty cypress tree draped in Spanishmoss, way out on the Eagles branches
none other. Then you'll spend Garybye by all the Republic Chaplain Hi mcgenry,

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Christopher Tidmorey, roving reporter, residentradical model and associate editor of the
Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dotnet. But Tim, where you say
another thing? You said shell?Are you talking about marine shale? I'm
talking about hydraulic fracturing shale. It'sinteresting you bring that up because one of
the things that's happened with shale exploration. For those that don't know what shale

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and what we're specifically talking about iscalled hydraulic fracturing. It's often known as
fracker fracking, but hydraulic fracturing isusing heavy amounts of water to go and
break up a level of the bedrockand find hydrocarbons within it. And it's
been we're here in Louisiana. It'sparticularly relevant because we're in the Permian basin

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for hydrogramon. In fact, someof it runs across land. You've been
involved with in on the North Shoreyou know very much so, and it's
but what's different about it is itused to be and they used to be.
This is not ancient history. We'retalking the last ten years. A
lot of these the companies that woulddo the fractor fracking were small companies.
They were about two hundred exploration companiesin America. And the way they learned

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how to make this efficient was theold fashioned way, which is being inefficient.
Everybody tried every possible method and sincethere were small groups they were able
to do it. Wasn't very economic, but when you have that level of
competition, you find the best,most efficient ways of doing it. Of
course, it's a highly controversial issuewhen it comes into environmental groundwater and all
that. But what was interesting istwo things. One you said we had

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the confusion of doing a shale ashell. Well, as it turns out,
now the big boys like Shell inShell, Exxon so and so forth,
VP are taking over a lot ofthe exploration, including some of the
fields where hydraulic fracturing started. Ithought, you mind a meta that shell
oil companies come into. Well,it's kind of I didn't mean that way.
It's appropriate. The North Shore isright now floating literally on billions of

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dollars of tuscaloots of marine shale,and under that is Austin chalk billions of
dollars right now on the north Shore. Now this hits, it's going to
do so many wonderful things for oureconomy. Now, wait, there's something
you forgot in that rendition of theTuscaloosas shale on the north shore. And
you know what that is heat?Okay. Now you're like, well,

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okay, that's so what let meexplain. We're gonna have a volcano.
Christ that means we're gonna have amountain in South Louisiana. Oh Lord,
give it, give it to It'slike a why believe it or not?
Hi, You're more accurate than youthink, but not in a bad way.
Right, Just listen, hear meout. So to understand how fracking
technologies work. It's not like theconventional old dallas where you put something straight

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in the ground, the oil comesup. That's the way you used to
drill for oil, and we've alot of that surface level oil doesn't exist
anymore. We've drilled it out.You know how they originally drove for oil.
I don't want to go for redfascinating. Okay, you're getting off
turate. Back in the eighteenth century, they brought their wagons into certain areas
where the oil was floating on theground and they would just scoop it up
with buckets and put in their wagon. In New York and in the Carolinas.

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Yeah, okay, can we guitarheels? Where you guitar, that's
where we get targets. Can weget back to the subject. So what
happens with fracking hydraulic fracturing is whenonce they have the water go in and
break up the rocks. The actualdrill looks a bit like a clawd or
a clenched hand. So you havedifferent, like five different drills going five
different directions to pap it and sometimesthey get oil. Often they get natural

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gas. And one of the reasonswhy you've had a lot of industrial development
happening up in North Dakota and placesin the middle of nowhere Bismarck, is
because they have most of the timethey just have to release the natural gas
in the atmosphere, so energy literallyis free. There is no exaggeration when
I say they can't get rid ofthis stuff. They can't pump it out

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fast enough. Unlike oil oil's petroleumis very useful because you can put it
in any size container and it kindof makes the size of that container.
Trying to get natural gas to flowis a much more complicated process. But
there's a third thing that happens whenyou go into fracking, and that's what
nobody's talking about except those who arereally looking at what's happening, and that's
heat. You're like, okay,you're under the earth, it's hot.

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We're talking about pockets of extreme temperatures, geothermal temperatures, temperatures. The way
an engine works, folks, partof why you're burning petroleum, why you're
burning coal, why you're burning anything, is to make things hot, so
it gets a wheel moving and thatcreates an energy. That's an oversimplification of

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an engine, but that's from thebeginning of the steam engine. That's what
happens. Heat makes wheel turns,heat goes to steam, makes wheel turn
and then you have power. Well, guess what happens if you've got these
areas of heat and you create andit's going to dissipate. You know,
once it's released, what can youhook up to it? Industry? Industry
that doesn't release hydrocarbons, that doesnot release carbon into the atmosphere, that

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does not pollute. It's just hotair literally compressed hot air. And what
happens If you can put hot airto power industry with no side effects,
you are able. You got todo it. You got it clean energy,
and you got to do it whereyou can do that's energy. Right

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now is Washington, DC. Ifyou thank the politicians and all the hot
air that comes out of So you'regoing to be hearing a lot more about
this. It's gone to the testingstage. But if this is true,
this means Louisiana right now, Louisianahas a challenge, which is the fact
we're a little too far away fromthe Texas Triangle and all the value added
industries that are there. But ifwe're able to not only provide oil and

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petrochemicals, but literally clean energy heat, what you're going to see as the
as the price of gasoline this yearand petroleum and heating goes up worldwide,
is that there's going to be acall for a lot of industry to move
to Louisiana. This is already actuallyhappening for those that haven't paid attention.

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Basf the German company is actually movedmost of their industrial chemical operations from Germany
to Louisiana and the roads on theriver. And there's actually a new methane
plant coming up near Alexandria. There'sa few different ones around. Well,
you know, Christopher, I mightbe passing the new one because I'll be
going up to man Resa in afew days. Well it's up near in

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Alexandria. But you know it's wellyou said on the river, some of
the stuff is in existing plants.They put it in several different locations,
right, So I'm saying on theMississippi River, folks, if you've never
done it, you need to goup river to common Louisiana. Where you'll
find the most magnificentent Greek revival buildingsin the world, and that's where we
have our retreat. Man, it'swondering what's going to happen with the economy

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in the next few years. Well, this has not been lost on power
because one of the things that's goingto happen this year. Last year,
the Ukraine War and everything going aroundit, cutting off of Russian oil and
the fact that the Iranians blew upone of the main refineries in Saudi Arabia
has pushed the worldwide price of oilhigher and higher. It hasn't affected us

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as much. In the United States, oil prices are higher, but they're
not as much because we produce allbut about these days about seventeen percent of
our oil domestically. It's close toit. But one of the things that's
going to happen this year. Theother reason why oil prices, heating oil,
natural gas, and some petroleum didn'tgo through the roof was last year
in Europe there was an unusually warmwinter, so they didn't need as much
to keep out. They could dosome limited brown out, some limited blackouts

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and still caned it. This year, however, guess what we're in for
one of the coldest winters perstead ofthe record, it's gonna be that's already
extremely cold in Europe. And they'llget they'll get the oil for the Middle
East, right, it's not thatthey won't get the oil and natural gas
they need. What about Russians Russia? Right when we blow up the pipeline
that killed a lot of it,what happens. Russia's got enough oil for

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itself. What they have the problemis to Europe there is none. So
the European Union has an absolute banon Russian oil right now. There's only
two exceptions because of Ukraine. There'sonly two exceptions in Hungary and Bulgaria,
and that's coming. What the russhave to do since there are no the
pipelines that used to lead to Europearen't there anywhere they were blown up actually

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literally, is that they have toput them on boats and go all the
way around Europe Africa and go allthe way to China. The only other
way of getting oil to China arethree rail links that go through Siberia,
and guess what happened, as wepointed out last week, frozen. No
one of them was blown up.The Ukrainians, so one of the main
rail christ and guess what. Guesswhat the Ukrainians exactly there are the Ukrainians

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have been moving their strategy to blowingup targets in Russia that were trained in
transit targets. So somebody explain somethingto you about war. It's very important.
Most people don't know this. There'san old saying in the military.
Generals say it, and the sayingis this, Uh, Civilians talk strategy
and tactics, generals talk supply becauseif you can't get the beans and the

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bullets to the troops, you justlost your battles and you scarmish your war,
whatever it is you've lost. That'swhy actually a lot of tactics and
strategies are to cut supply, whichis what this would be. If they
can cut those supply lines, thatmeans it's going to really radically cripple Russia
right now. And if you ifyou not only cripples Russia, world oil's

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price cripples China, it makes Chinacripples, it is prepared to go to
war. And you've got a wholesituation that's part of this bill that's going
on before Congress and what's interesting inall of this is one of the things
that has been the track is thatoil prices have remained a lot more stable
than people thought. Part of thatis here in the United States we are
somewhat sufficient, but as but there'ssomething interesting, you know, prices could

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go up in oil. That's mypoint in all this. Even though we're
self sufficient oil and some of ourprices like natural gas aren't that expensive,
we are still subject to the worldwideprices of oil. And if Europe drives
the price up trying to get oilout of Saudi Arabia and the Middle East
it's near abroad, then you're goingto see all prices go up. And
it makes the decision of the FederalReserve kind of interesting for those that haven't

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tracked it. The Federal Reserve decidedon at a two day meeting of the
Federal Open Market Committee on Tuesday andWednesday, to keep the rate the Federal
Reserves lending rate at five point twopercent to five point five percent. Now
you're like, all right, thatsounds good. It means the average mortgage
is about seven point five percent,and when you think about the average mortgage
rate four years ago was about whatfour or five six percent, you know,

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not even that. Yeah, thatmeans an extra you know, as
much as ten thousand dollars per Foundly, here's another way of putting it.
It is now fifty two percent moreexpensive to buy a house than to rent
a similar house. Yeah, andthat's the first time that has happened in
American history. Idnomic's cursing us again. Well, here's the interesting part of
all this. And I'm not defendingor things. If you say the government

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spending is what causes inflation, it'spart of it. No, well it
was Trump spent seven trillion, Bidenspent six point five trillion, and we'll
spend seven before he's out of office. So the idea the government spending is
you can't say Biden's worse than Trump. They're both bad. Whoever gets in
the presidency, there's right now anavalanche of government spending. And you don't

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just get in there and pull thecork. You would create a major economic
collasse disaster. If it's going tobe correct, it has to be done
slowly, strategically, and guess whatand then that quickly. And Trump had
as much interest as Biden and doingany of that. Trump he said he
loved deficits. Come on, youcan defend a lot of things about Trump.
That's what politicians say. They allsay that. The fact is,

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if you think government spending is causingthis, and I think it's one of
the four factors, many ways notin it. Yes, anyway, he's
always done. That's his business.The point is, the point is blessing
all of us if when it comesdown to it, that's why neither side
is. I will give you alittle bit of hope though, and and
one of the things that I foundthat was interesting was that, you know,

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millennial parents are really overwhelmed this Christmasseason and uh, and they're looking
at it and so let me giveyou some hope. So let's go before
we go on the break about priceseverything going up, let me give some
hope. We need hope. Innineteen ninety three, toys that cost twenty
dollars only cost four dollars and sixtyeight cents today, according to the vice

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the exact toy, the exact toy, yeah, or something almost immediately compromble
to give you. I'll give youa very specific example. The price of
a barbie in nineteen ninety three waseleven dollars and ninety nine cents. You
know what the price of a barbietoday is eleven dollars and ninety nine cents.
And you know why it's hadn't gonedown. The movie, well,

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create a rage for Barbie. Butin theory, that would make it to
go up, because remember, moneyis twenty percent less buyable than it was
four years ago. So my pointbeing the cost in Christopher of China overproduced
barbies. That's why the price isstill went down. Now, that's the
good news. So if it seemslike you have to buy your kids all

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these toys, you're spending as muchmoney as your parents spent on you.
It just that you're able to buymore toys. Now, here's the bad
news. Cost of daycare has goneup two hundred percent since nineteen ninety three.
Tuition is five hundred dollars a monthin nineteen ninety three sixteen hundred dollars
a month. Babysitting rates are nowgoing to twenty dollars an hour. Talk
show hosts don't make twenty dollars anhour babysitters do. Movies will run you

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fifty to sixty dollars for an evening. Yet at the same price for twenty
dollars, you can buy a toydrone that will fly around or a flamingo
that sings and poops on the toiletfor thirty four dollars. So it gives
you this some perspective of going thisholiday season. Speaking of the holiday season,
as we come back, folks,we're going to talk a little bit
about Hanukkah. A way of beingable to beat the holiday drinking could involve

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Ozambic and most importantly, before weget any of that, a important political
issue that's going to come down.That's the train that connects Baton Rouge to
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alerts, it'll alerts you to it. But folks, I will say,
and I rarely, rarely, it'sgot to be a Christmas miracle. High
what we're able to compliment five hundredand thirty actually five hundred and thirty two
members of Congress Republican, I raallywhat they do, even our own Harry

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Hoyler, who's been ranted lately aboutCongress. You know, we've got to
build a monument to this Christ.This is the only person I can't compliment
is believe it or not, RanPaul, because it was just procedural.
Overwhelmingly, I mean, like unanimously, both houses, both parties, voted
to require new automobiles to have AMas well as FM RA. They're saving

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terrestrial radio, folks, And I'mnot ready to die. They're saving us.
And well it was no, itwas die Tom, but I mean
over the next no, it wasit wasn't It wasn't dying, it was
being killed. Let me explain.Let me explain what was happening and the
reasons. And people say I listenedto radio all the time. Here's what
was happening, folks. That streamingis a real thing. We as you
just heard, we talk about streaming. Not only do we on the iHeartMedia

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or listen to our own show,we actually listen to I've been have the
Christmas music things on iHeart all thetime. So we're podcasters as well as
radio hosts. But we got totell you that still more Americans listen to
the radio. We're fortunate we're bothon FM and AM. But I got
to tell you that most talk radioof variety, if it's whether it's conservative
and political talk on one hand,or it's Hispanic talk. And for a

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lot of minority communities, AM radiois extremely things. Whether it's Hispanics,
African Americans in New Orleans, wBOK and so and so forth. AM
radio is essential. And so itwas those one issue and the auto companies
wanted to get rid of it.Here's why, because guess what happens when
you don't have radio in a car. Oh, we can hear, that's

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not a problem. We'll hook youup, will hook you up to streaming
services, whether it's satellite or streamingthat you pay for on your phone,
and we'll make a profit out ofthis. Sure. And what it's doing
is it's destroying radio and local communities, which has already been very heavily taken
over by the corporate and pretty muchforgotten about. And so one of the
things we want to say is complimentto all members of Congress. The only

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one who rejected was Rand Paul.And the reason he objected was not opposition
to the bill. It's because he'sa purist. And he said it was
required unanimous consent. Unanus consent meanseverybody says yes and it flows through.
And he said, because this isa regulatory bill, it could not go
through now it's consent, So ithad to go through a two week process
of being read in all works.But for once, it's one time Democrats

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and Republicans, Thank you, Rand. The Democrats and Republicans looked at the
at the at the auto companies andthe major spiders and the tech companies and
said, heck no, we're nottaking away local community radio. Thank god.
Merry Christmas. I deeply appreciate it, truly for once Congress debate ended
and it was on the side ofthe little guy. And thank you so

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much for that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, We've been hearing folks for
over a decade now that rest ofradio that means like a M F M
and you know the other radio methodsthat that was all with antenna's that was
all gonna die and it was gonnabe replaced with Wi Fi and cell phone
radio. And but it looks likewe're there's a salvific work going on right

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now. It's it's to hear thatwho wants to lose a M and F.
I mean, you know, everybodyI talked to really likes Here's what
happens. Let me explain this.You're in a hurricane. That's what does
work emergency your cell phone. Ifyou do not have access to radio,
which are often the only way becauseyou don't have powers, you have a
little handheld radio, you know,transit rat or whatever, you can still

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find out what's going on outside ofthe disaster. ERAa. That happened to
me doing Katrina, and because Ihad you know, battery powered radios,
I was able to pick up thenews where all the news stations everybody knew
how has moved to Baton Rouge andset up one station and they all worked
through that and it was really great. I got to a concert. It
was. We actually were part ofit as it was called you know you

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I didn't it Radio of New Orleans. And it's essentially we joined together with
the entercom stations at what was thencalled Clear Channel. Is iHeart you were
part of them? Yeah, itwas, it was, and we actually
got kind of mad because that's partof the way w r AND started as
a talk station. So it wasbasically we did all this work and everybody
said, oh it's great WWL doingthis. We're the ones providing the station.

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So basically they came to Bob Christopher, to me, to Jerry Portzy
and others said start a talk station. And it was. And that's how
w RNO went from the Rock ofNew Orleans to a talk station and some
you know, seventeen years ago onejust a little over a year after Hurricane
Katrina two thousand and six. ButI do want to ask for you one
of the key players in turning theRock of New Orleans into a rob who

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Rush Radio, I give the creditto Bob Christopher always and he was the
program director. He was the intellectualgiant of this. But I am a
Rob Kooig, and I argue whowas the first voice on the radio,
whether it was mine or his?Which one of us killed the rock of
New Orleans. And it's it's oneor the other of us. It happened
so fast, it was at fiveo'clock in the morning. And the one
that created in Baton Rouge what theycall it Clear Channel, no Clear Channel,

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was the company that iHeart became.So all of that was the corporation
called Clear Channel Radio. So iHeartbought Clear Channel. Now it's the same
company, it's just changed the mostwent it actually went private and then went
public again. That's another that's awhole nother tip. Anyway, back to
actually talking about real quickly. iHeartMediais the largest broadcasting company in the world,

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and that's our flagship. That's whatwe do. Anyway, I want
to talk about one thing that kindof was relevant to me, and I
wrote this story for the Louisiana Weekly. You'll be able to get in a
Monday at Louisiana Weekly dot net.And it's the idea of this train service
that was connect Baton Rouge to NewOrleans. Now, Hei and I have
been talking about this train very muchand this dream of connecting Baton Rouge New

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Orleans the first time since the latesixties, and how essential it is to
interconnect our communities. And we gotfive hundred thousand dollars from the FEDS in
a last month. That's not alot of money. It's on top of
the twenty million we got last year, but we were hoping for two hundred
million. And the FED said somethingthat was really interesting. This is a
part that hasn't been reported very much. It's that, look, we're gonna
give you the two hundred million whenyou decide where your stations are going to

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be for the train. He said, we're not going to give you two
hundred million dollars with you can't tellus where it's stopping. Right to me,
even I got admit, well,I have a lot of criticism of
FEDS. That's a relatively you know, response, responsible, reasonable answer.
And so it launched a debate inthe Baton Rouge Metrocouty. How would you
like to turn the saying lists toLouisiana politicians? There's enough telling where these

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states, Well, guess what happens. So right now the Louisiana Metro County,
each parish has got to maintain.This is what the state Department of
Transportation is saying. Each parish hasgot to maintain. If they have a
train station, they got to maintainthe train station. It's up to the
parish to do it. And there'snot really much debate in New Orleans because
the two train stations will be theUnion Passenger Terminal, which is already a

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train station, and near the airport. Armstrong Airport there's right in a river
town. It's going to train station, and the airport's so enthusiastic about They're
like, no problem, we'll payfor it. Well, we need the
train station. Oh well. Theinteresting part to this entire discussion is the
train will go up along the river. Prospectively, it's appost to stop in
Laplace in Sorrento, and a couplethree stops along the river, and then

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when it gets into Baton Rouge,the idea is that it stops over near
Blue Bonnet near the Baton Rouge HealthComplex, and it stops at Fourteenth Street
and Government Downtown near the capitol.And this is the debate that happened the
Baton Rouge Metro Council to prove itbecause one of the members of the Metro
Council came out and pointed out somethingrather obvious. His name is Cleve Done,

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and Cleve Done is also a besidesbeing an elected official council member,
is one of the commissioners for BatonRouge Metro Airport. And he said,
why are we building a station nextto Jeton Rouge Airport. We already sixty
percent of our business already goes toNew Orleans. But it makes more economic
sense you connect the two airports oneither end. It makes it. But
there's another subtext to it. Thinkabout this logically, who lives in south,

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the southern part of East Baton RougeParish and who lives in the north,
the northern part of East Baton RougeParish where the airport is. I
got news for you. They're twodifferent colors. People who live in the
southern part of East Baton Rouge Parish, this is from Saint George to all
those communities tend to be more Caucasian. Those that live in the northern part
of the parish tend to be notwhat're really blue collar part of exactly.

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It has been for decades, andit has been for decades. It's the
African American target. Amary and BatonRouge Airport coincidentally happens to be in the
middle of that. So one ofCleve Dunn's point is, if we're going
to pay for this, and we'regoing to have to maintain these stations,
at least extend the rail all theway to our airport, which makes economic
sense. But also you're telling ouraverage our average citizen it's black generally or

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Hispanic, that they're going to haveto find a way to go about five
or six seven miles to get toa station, which means that they're not
going to ride the train, becauseif you've got to go seven miles,
you might as well just drive toNew Orleans find a way there. Instead,
you're ending in a place that whereit's an affluent communities that tend to
be white, and by itself,that would be a social justice issue,
except you add to the fact.If you link, if you connect,

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if you create the terminuss of atrain between two airports, you're actually able
to synergize the plane flights between theairports and have a hole that's bigger than
some of the parts. In orderto do this, you don't have to
build the rails. Remember these traintracks already, right, it's the operation
cost. And so they responded,The state DOTD responded, well, maybe

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in a future expansion. And thelaughter that went up in the Baton Rouge
Metro councils, this is Louisiana.You don't get this in the beginning.
You'll never get it future expansion,one hundred years. I mean, come
on, And it's a very validpoint. And I've been saying this about
the connection, but there's a Imean, who is going to ride a
train people who don't have access toeasy cards. You're gonna build a train

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station not close to them, whenfrankly, it's one thing we had to
build a rail they exist. It'sthese are existing train tracks. It's an
Amtrak train that's riding on freight railthat goes straight toward right as close to
the actually closer than the rail tracksare to Armstrong Airport. It's actually physically
closer. And folks blah blah,Well we're talking about rails. Remember this.

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New Orleans has more railheads than anycity in America. We have six,
and Baton Rouge is tied into that. So we're not short on rail
lines. We got plenty of them. I mean, there's bigger conversations.
Should the mobile to New Orleans traingo to Baton Rouge and all this?
But when I read this whole argument, I wrote an editorial and I said,
look, this doesn't make economic norsocial justice sense. And people have

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been mad at me since I wrotethis. They're like, uh, why
are you getting in the middle ofthis debate, And it's because this is
a true lack of planning. Nobody'sreally paying attention to this. Yes,
I'm the first one to say it'sgoing to be more expensive to get the
train to go to the other sideof East Baton Rouge Parish. You're not
crossing a river, you're just goingfurther north. But I'm saying that if
you're going to have train transport,remember who's riding it, people without cars,

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And that's part of the conversation.Otherwise, this is just a luxury
toy for rich white people and itshouldn't be a train. If we're spending
millions of dollars to subsidize a train, it should have a purpose that links
economy with what's right. But speakingof linking what's right and just with reality,

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High loves when I criticize the Bidenadministration because he always thinks I'm always
in the position. He's like,you're defending on us. Sometimes I'm just
doing it because you go to theother extreme. But even I got to
take this one and and it's reallyyou want to understand this sort of psychological
disconnect when it comes to supporting Israel, where you have some Democrats who are
like in President Biden. As mucha criticism you can make being one of

(32:37):
the ones who said we have tostand with Israel no matter what. You
can be a critical of him.But he's he's getting incredible saying it,
but he's not doing it well.He should do it anyway. That's another
whole debate. I'd say he's he'sdoing it so much more in the left
whateverthing, He's to the point wherehe's losing. He's making a lot of
the folks upset. The Can youever say anything nice about Biden when you

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agree with him? Christopher, he'ssuch a criminal, it's hard to find
ourself. And he's such a mentalcase. We don't need a mentally decrepit
man. Why Trump shouldn't be thereanyway? No, no, no,
no, Christopher, but you caneat. That's an outrageous statement. Yes,
it's absolutely true. Yeah, it'snot true any anyway, Can I

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can? I get you're gonna likewhat I'm gonna say next? All right,
So what makes this story even morefascinating to me is it comes from
somebody who's Jewish. Doug em Off. Now Doug m Off, for those
that don't know, is the secondgentleman. He is. He is Vice
President Kamala Harris's husband, and andDoug em Off. You know, I

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guess this was well meaning, butit should have shows you the psychological disconnect
of what's going on. He sentout what seemingly was a relatively innocuous saying
celebrating Hanukkah, and what he saidwas essentially, we're honoring the Jews that
hid away for eight days to maintaintheir cultural identity and the oil rep and

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everybody heard this, and they shouldhave looked at each other and said,
no, that's not what Hankkah was. Hanikah was. The Jews have risen
up in a war to maintain it, and they're being besieged. By anti
place from being genocide. Yeah,there is an active effort by the doing
today right now, the Jews offighting back, thank God, the Greek

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levels, the Greek rulers of SyriaAnticas and he was Joco Epiphanies. He
was trying to get the Jews tofully culturally assimilate, and he was what
he was actively doing at this pointwas was Palestine will be free from the
river to the sea. His hisactivity was genocide. And they're holding out,
and they're in the temple and theyhave to keep the temple oil lit.

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This is first and second Maccabees,which I do consider inspired literature.
I do not. It is notfolks. It's great history, but it
is not. It should not shouldbe part of the Bible canon. No,
it should not. Arguing this offthe air, I do believe it
should be part of canon, andit is part of the Catholic cannon.
But my point is, yes,it is part of the Catholic canon,
but it didn't used to be.The patron saint of the Bible, the

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Catholic Bible Letton Vulgate, Saint Jeromevery boldly and emphatically declared that the apocryphal
was not wholly writ and reading.I know Christ Thomas Aquantis and a couple
of other ones disagreed with him,but most of them agreed with them.
Let's get off of this. Weboth believe the story. Yeah, this

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is I do not believe that thingis Martin Luther. Now the Church has
changed many many times decided to bebe on an airan scripture. But this
is side. We both believe thatthe celebration of Hanukkah is the celebration not
of how people hid. It's howpeople fought back right and and they won
and won, and then they hadread Claude, this is a miracle.
Christma didn't quite thoroughly explain it.There was a special way. Everything in

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the temple had to be in acertain special way according to the levitical law,
according to the old Moses' law.And so you had to get the
sacred You had to get a specialcan olive oil, and you had to
do certain things to it. Ittook eight days to prepare it so it
would be officially holy, and thencould be put in the manure which lit
the inside of the temple. Thatwas a seven pronged candlestick. And uh

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and and and they were out ofoil. That meant they were going to
go for like eight days with nooil, and it's an americle happened.
The Manora stayed lit for eight days, and from that they created a new
religious holiday it's not in the OldTestament law called Hanikah. It's very telling
at this point in history that thereaction, that some of the worst reaction
came from liberal Jews who are like, no, right, this is not

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this is not hiding. They're Jewish? How can they deny their office?
And this is psychologically part of it. And you're you're you're standing here.
I can't imagine any Jew would supportHamas. I've just it just sucks.
They don't they want to commit.Maybe they're suicidal, maybe there's they're not,
they're mentally ill and self destructive.Now basically it comes down to one

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thing. I will I will complimentPresident Biden and as opposed to the first
general second gentleman. And he cameout and said, you know, you
don't have to be Jewish to bea Zionist. And I'm a Zionist and
what that means is and I amhe said he was a Zionist. I'm
a Zionist, you're decience. Itmeans a right for the Jewish people to
have a homeland. That's all itmeans. And ultimately what's going on in
it. I have friends of minewho are sending me things about this said,

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Ultimately what has happened was Hamas isusing human shields that they are saying
you cannot leave. Why are Cevicancasualties happening? He said, because they
won't let people leave at gunpoint,and so children and women are dying.
That's how much they have consideration forthe Jewish people. And this is one
of the points that we say,none of this is new. So at

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Christmas I have I have two Jewishnephews, two Jewish sisters. Yes,
And to me, this is nota light statement. This is the statement
where a key part of the holidayseason, which is the human spirit,
does not get defeated. It willstand and it will fight for itself.
And that this is something we gotto remember that ultimately the holiday season is

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about renewal, it's about first andsecond chances, but it's also about defending
what we believe against all enemies,no matter what, because at some fundamental
level, there is right and thereis wrong. Yeah, of course,
Well everybody says no, you knowthat, I know that. You know
what tells us that simple you canboil all the law. Well, first
of all, Jeeves said, youboil all the law down to two commandments.

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Love God with everything, love yourneighbors, You love yourself. So
in words, if you don't likeyourself, you can have a problem loving
other people. The other commandment isthe golden rule. Do unto others as
you would have them do unto you. Now, people do bad things and
say, well, that really wasn'tthat bad, unless they're the victim.
Then all of a sudden, theGolden rule makes perfect sense to them.
That's why everybody is without excuse.Everybody knows right and wrong if they will

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want to know it well, AndI would simply say that for those that
are talking about genocide in Israel andthe Israelis, i'd point out you didn't
say a whole lot about maybe littleabout the Ukrainians, nothing about the Armenians,
which just about a month ago,or about Yemen, or about war
wars breaking out all over the world. So remember, hanka has a meaning.

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But I want to say one lastthing because I want to give everybody
some holiday hope. And I've beenkind of skeptic on ozambik, this new
drug that craves your will you desireto eat this and folks, well,
maybe you like it, Christopher omnisand let me here's I'm thinking. I
pharma is dangerous. The reason I'mthinking about doing it is it's proven to
be very effective on habits. Theseare particularly addictions. In fact, people

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who are on Azambic have noted thattheir desire to have alcohol has gone down
so much that they've effectively stopped drinking. And so azambic has proven. You
know, sometimes drugs have side effects. One of it is that it's actually
curing alcoholics. So it's really yeah, it's like Christopher, how long do
you have to do it? Whenif you're going to do it, it's

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it varies in time, but basicallyyou're looking at month cycles of ozampic,
and it's because it's curbing your soyou do it for a month. You
can you start off with a monthcycle, so it's a series of injections
that you do. But it's notcheap. It's how many times, like
three months, ten months, ayear, it's how long how much weight
do you need to lose it's Imean, it varies from person to person.
How quickly do you lose weight.Usually it's like one to three pounds

(40:30):
a week because you're cutting your desireto eat down considerably. Anyway, So
during this holiday season, as Ialways eat too much and way drink too
much, this happened with most ofus during the pandemic. I hate to
say this, but not only didmost of us put on weight, but
unless you're unless you're as good ashigh here, you basically had two,
three, four cocktails in the eveningbecause there wasn't a whole lot to do

(40:52):
right right, And that has becomea kept the liquor stores in the bar
rooms open. Christopher, Oh,think of that. You close the churches,
but oh, liquor stores and bars, and you could flood them.
And it was it was the interestingabout all of this. They were essential
industry. We have raised alcohol,basically functional alcoholism two levels in our society

(41:13):
not seen since before prohibition. Reallyone of the stats in our society is
that we're actually drinking more right now. And this is with by the way,
Zoomers and post millennials being a generationthat drinks less by a long shot
than their parents. So this isthis is something that millennials, Generation X

(41:34):
and baby boomers have fallen into,where a bottle of wine a night or
whatever, three or four cocktails hasbecome the norm when it used to be
the exception. And so maybe thereis an answer for people who don't And
I was pleased to see this inozampic. Who knows what the long term
side effects are. I will saythe reason why I bring this up is
simply this ozampic is so expensive,and people are like, can I really
afford it? Calculate how much youwon't drink calculated against the ozampic, and

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I've realized that it's the small GDPof a South American nation. So at
this point I'm thinking, I'm seriouslythinking about it. It's like this.
Well, on that note, bythe way, this is a sign,
you said, the increase in alcoholism, and I'm sure other addictions that it's
another sign of the end, becausepeople are going to get more and more
depraved as the end gets high thealcohol. The levels of alcoholism in the

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nineteenth century, part of the reasonthat led to the movement of prohibition,
actually dwarf anything we have today.So history depends on you count It depends
on how you came. No,it was, it was. It was
counted very like somewhere about twenty.Yes, they did come on. We're
talking like that, all right,all that. Yeah, you always look
at the mountain of the polling wehave today. They didn't have any of

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that. Hi. People are alwaysthe same, they are. There's always
people, all right. There's alwaysbeen a problem with that when you stop
romantic and the end it all intensifiesthat point. I speaking of romantic we
got to go into our patriot moment. But a little bit about Christmas on
the other side of the break.Well, ho ho ho, And this

(43:05):
is Chappleenhei mcch henry, and I'mgoing to tell you about our ministry Lamb
and ministries where it's Christmas every dayin our world because we're always out there
looking to help folks and give thingsaway. That's what you do doing Christmas
time. It's a giving time,and the Lord loves to give. In
fact, his favorite topic is theword grace. And all grace means is
gift, free gift, folks.God gives us himself for free, and

(43:30):
the only way we get to takeit is if we take it for free.
If someone gives you a Christmas gift, do you try to pay him
for No, you know, it'sa gift. We'll take God like that,
and folks, our kids do that. We've had close to five thousand
kids come to christ over the pasttwenty some id years that we've been operational
in New Orleans, and we haveseen hundreds go on to live good,

(43:51):
wholesome, productive lives and they loveChristmas. By the way, we all
love Christmas. This is my favoritetime. It really is because it's a
time of redemption, forgiveness, giving, you know, love, family,
and I know it's hard for somepeople, and that makes us message all
the more important. They need Godmore than ever right now because it's a

(44:12):
hard, hard time for so manypeople. So if you have any interest,
we need all the help we canget. We need volunteers, we
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seven two three nine three six nine, and thank you so very very much.

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Are you tired of shopping malls?Folks, are you tired of the
Russian Bush? Do you want toactually enjoy the experience of shopping for Christmas
presents for those that you love inan environment that has actual service and help,
well, try the rink Nola.This is the rink at the twenty
seven to twenty seven Pritannia where theGarden District book Shop, chickry House,

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Judy's Masonet are and ladies and gentlemenonly will they provide free wrapping services and
take care of you and be ableto get the best books, materials,
linens even clothes that are available there. They also are going to be open
at night and what do I meanby that? On December twenty first,
they're open. The rink Nola twentyseven to twenty seven Bertennion is not only

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open for its daytimes, it's openfrom five to seven pm with a holiday
stiff and shop. This is freewine, free drinks available to the public
where you can very leisurely go sppingin the evening with a few ouderves.
It is the cultured way of doingthis. It's twenty seven to twenty seven
Britannia. On December twenty first,open from five to seven PM. And
the rink is open all the waythrough Christmas Eve at the end of the

(45:40):
day at five o'clock, So evenif you have last minute gifts, go
to twenty seven to twenty seven Britannia, over forty spaces of all street parking,
very convenient, very easy uptown NewOrleans at the Rink at the corner
of Washington and Britannia for all yourbook needs at the Garden District Bookshop and
the other stores that are available throughoutthis wonderful shopping arcade twenty seven to twenty

(46:00):
seven Britannia. And tell him youheard it here in wr O and SLA
and the Founder's Show. And thisis Chaplinhi mc henry, and you're listening
to the Founder Show. And it'snot time for us to go into our
chaplain by by patriotic moment. Beforewe do that, we're gonna have a
little touch of Christmas again, andwe want to talk about Hanukkah because it's

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a very important time. Do youknow that in the first chapter of John
the word light issues seven times,like the seven lights of the Manora,
And we know that that is anacceptable Jewish feast day, even though it's
not in the Old Testament, asyou know, in the levitical law,
Jesus approved it as so by goingto it, so we know that he

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approved of that holiday. That meansit's a good, good holiday. And
folks, this is my theory.To get cut to the chase. It's
a big debate over when was Jesusreally born. They don't know that he
was born in the dead of winterbecause the sheep worn out in the fields,
so the shepherds pinning their flocks inthe fields doesn't make sense. My
theory is that he was conceived atChristmas time and then nine months later,

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of course he was born. Youcan also prove this out with John the
Baptist's birth, so it all makesit appear that his conception was actually then.
And now there's a big debate onthis. I'm going to give that
credit here. And there's a greattheologians. They don't all agree on this,
so you got to think about ityourself. It's not a major thing.
You know, we know he wasborn, and we don't even know

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the exact year. We know itwas around give or take three years zero,
you know, zero, A,D and BC. So folks,
it is now time for us togo into our chaplain by by patriotic moment,
where again we're just going to giveyou a little brief history lesson on
the biblical foundations of our country,our Judeo Jurispruden. And today we want
to talk about a man who lovedChristmas. One of our earliest Supreme Court

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justices, who was considered to beone of the greatest of all the Supreme
Court justice. He was one ofthe originals, was a superstar at Yale
and founded the Yale Law School andall that. This is what John Jay
said. He said, Providence hasgiven to our people the choice of their
rulers, and it is the dutyas well as a privilege and interest of
our Christian nation to select and preferChristians for their rulers. Well, he's

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certainly believed we need to keep God, the biblical God in our world and
in Christmas. The founding fathers loveof Christmas. They didn't try to say,
oh, we can't celebrate it.We're not a religious nation. No,
they knew we were of an exceedinglyreligious nation. But they understood the
separation that God establishes in the Biblebetween the institutional effect of religion in government

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and the philosophical You see, Godnever wanted to have a theocracy after Christ
was born. He changed it towhere it would be a philosophical influence over
government. Whosoever, well, whatevergovernment wanted to include God in their country.
Well, America certainly did every kindof way you can think of.
And you know you've heard this fromme so many times, so many ways.

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There's such a preponderance of evidence that, yes, our finding fathers believed
in Christmas, believed in having abiblical foundation, and they love to say
Mary Christmas. It's still okay tosay that, folks in America. All
right, Well, folks, youknow, how can you say Marry Christmas
if you don't even know the sourceof Christmas? You don't even know what
it's all about. The center ofthe center, the reason for the season

(49:24):
is the Lord Jesus Christ. Andso now I'm here to tell you about
him and his great message of love. Call the Gospel as we go now
into our chaplay by chaplain by bya gospel moment. Folks, did you
know that God loves You've been everlastinglove. He loved you so much,
he did something very very special twothousand years ago he became a man,

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which is a very very serious challengeand struggle for theological logic. How could
a spirit become fully human? Goddid it, don't. We don't have
to know how he did it.We just need to know he did it.
It's considered be one of the greatestmysteries and the whole scripture, and
it's one of the things that whereyou rest your case on who is the

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Antichrist, because the Antichrist will denythat that Christ came in the flesh.
He did, folks, he didtwo thousand years goes a little baby in
the major. He did that allfor you. There's a lot more than
just being born. Now. Hehad to end up taking care of a
problem. We couldn't fix two problems, our sin problem and our death problem.
He did that when he died onthe cross. For all of our
sins, all of your sins,from the day you were born to the

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day you die, your tiniest toyour greatest sins, all went on Jesus.
They went in him, and theBible says he was turned into that
sin so he could give you allof his righteousness. Took all your sin
to give you all of his righteousness. But the Bible says his blood washed
away all of your sins. Folks, I'm talking about sins from the day
you're born and the day you die, your tiniest to your greatest sins.
But there's something required of you.The Bible makes it very clear. It's

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just not you're just there and soit happens for you. Know, You've
got to do something, and it'splain and simply. All you have to
do is believe with the faith ofa little child, like kids believe in
Chris, in that wonderful hossweet thatis and this is real. We know
that Santa Claus doesn't come down thechimney. We know all that. But
by the way, Santa Claus isa great, true, one of the
greatest Christian Saints of all times.But that's another story, and you heard

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it on the last show. Soyou have to believe with all your heart
that Christ did become a man,that he did die for all your sins,
that He is God, and thathe rose in the dead to win
for you that precious free gift ofresurrection, everlasting life. The split second
you do that, you have justbecome a child of God. You are
born again. That means you're deadand dye in spirit has just become fully
alive, and you will never seethe second death. That's how he beat

(51:31):
death for you, when he rosefrom the dead to win for you his
special free gift of resurrection, everlastinglife. If you've never taken this gift
before, do it now, please, folks, do it now. Don't
wait till it's too late. Andlike the old Country Bridger said, now
today is the day of salvation.Believe you can't save yourself, that's repentance.
So then you're free to put faithalone in Christ alone. And folks,

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it's no time for us to gointo our chap them by about Watchmen
on the Wall. We already talkedabout that earlier in the show. All
the privity that's sweeping our world,all the wars, all the bad things.
There's so many things to talk about, folks. These were all signs.
At the end. One of thesigns would be like a woman giving
birth. Well, what happens whena woman's in labor pains. It first
starts as a little teeny thing.Then it grows and grows and grows before

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you know it. It's not everythirty minutes or whatever, it's every thirty
seconds with extreme pain. And that'show this new world will be born,
that Jesus comes back to rule tobring his kingdom. And I can't wait
for it, folks. We're finallygoing to have a beautiful world for true
where everything's going to be wonderful.But until that time, we endure and
we look. The Jeefs said,look, wait, keep your eyes on

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it. Don't let this day catchyou unawares. He is coming back and
he's coming back soon. Are youready, folks, You may need a
bunker, Jeeves said, go tothe hills, go to the caves,
hide, hide in the caves youcan. A bunker will work also.
So I got a perfect bunker foryou. It's made by the Heavenly Manufacturing
Company. And then this special brandname is the Lord Jesus Christ Bunker.

(52:59):
That be your safe house, folks. Right now, believe that Jesus died
for all your sins, was buriedin Rose dead, and you get a
free bunker. It's yours, forfree, and you can make it through
these tough times that are on thatwe're even in right now, but only
gonna get worse. Folks, Ihate to tell you that, but that's
just the way it is. Iknow nobody likes to bed message, so
they shoot the messenger. You canshoot me. You'll send me to go
faster than I thought I was going. It's gonna be okay with me.

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But folks believe that Jesus really diedfor all your sins in Rosam dead,
so it's not time for us toclose. Listen to the magnificent song Have
yourself a Merry Christmas by Analyiah Smith.