The Founders Show #500

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Battles, the politicians, the dressed, the digit datas and magicians. Who's
to see the money? Then youdon't, there's nothing to fill the holes?
Well, then are filling their pocketsbid holes, the politicians bouncing down
the road. Everybody'sition for no moment, corruption and dysfunction. It's gone to

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take divide it a vention. Theopen primary is creating some weird alliances in
this week's special session where the rightand the left are getting together against both
parties center in trying to recreate theclosed primary. Will Governor Jeff Landry be
able to thread the needle? Andspeaking of threading the needle, ladies and
gentlemen, one of the foremost femaleauthors of this generation is joining us a

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new author, Mona Lisa Foster,with her new book Threading the Needle,
which has one of the best characters, a fe email veteran, a sniper
who is trying to rebuild her lifeat home but facing a criminal conspiracy,
visiting with us at on the Airand joining us at the Garden District Bookshop
on the nineteenth. All this andmore on this edition of The Founder Show
and God bless all out there.You are now listening to The Founder's Show,

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The Voice of the Founding Fathers.You're Founding Fathers coming to you deep
within the bowels of those mystic andcryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up on top
of that old liberty cypress tree drapeand Spanish moss. That's right, folks,

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I'm a sniper way out on theEagles Branch. Is none other.
Then you have Spen Gary Babao theRepublic Chaplain. Hi mcgnry with Christopher Tidmore.
You're roving reporter, resident radical moderateand associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly
newspaper at louisianaweekly dot net. Andwe've got a fascinating show for you today.
Hi, as a veteran, you'regoing to particularly appreciate this show.

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I have read few books that getto the crux of what it's like to
return home as a highly decorated noncom basically and yet at the same time
find out that life doesn't always letyour past go away. And that is
what we're dealing with with our authorMotally So Foster and you know, Christopher,

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with all my years of military experiencein the various moss I had years
ago, kind of like in thefirst five or seven years of my career,
I developed a great interest in snipingoperations and actually at one point was
trying to become a sniper, whichwas hard to do at my age.
And it went along with everything elseand the O the mos as. I
had the job already had, soyou know, it didn't come about,

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but it's one of the greatest IfI had to do it all over again,
I would have taken that route.And it all happened when I read
the book Marine Sniper if Carlos Hathcott. What's interesting is if you like the
book Marine Sniper, if you're aman, if you would love a needle.
It's a novel, but it's anovel based and it's interesting about it,

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and we're going to talk about itbecause she approaches it from a slightly
different standpoint. You can love thisnovel if you're a general fiction writer,
a lover, or if you're asci fi lover. Let's get to that
with no further ado, Let's welcomeour special guest joining us by phone link
is author Mona Lisa Foster. Sheis the author of the new book,
Threading the Needle, ladies and gentlemen, and I got to tell you,
hi, it is truly one ofthe strongest female characters I've ever read in

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literature. It's one of the greatcharacters of what it constitutes for someone who
is very active in combat. Andhere's the interesting thing. It's one of
the only books I've read in recentmemory that if you love science fiction,
you love this book. If youhate science fiction, you love this book
because the way it's written appeals toappeals to a variety of people. The

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main character, Italian Marit, isa former military sniper whose nickname was the
Death's Handmaiden, but she's also wentedby her past. She's trying to rebuild
a sevillion. We had the DeathAngel, a female. I'll tell you
all about that later, but sheis Mona Lisa Foster. You're going to
be joining us at the Garden DistrictBookshop here in New Orleans on January nineteenth
for a free event free ladies andgentlemen to talk about your book. About

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the Wine, Cheese, and Oderviswill be there. It's free and open
to the public at six pm.That's Friday, January nineteenth and I have
to start off in this interview andask you you know this. I'm reading
this book a friend, a mutualfriend of ours, Justin Watson, said
I had to read it when itwas in the advanced reader copies, and
I read it and I was doingthat an obligation. I read it and

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I said, my god, thisis one of the best renditions I've ever
seen about what the life of areturning soldier is like. And yet at
the same time facing a as we'regoing to talk about a very difficult criminal
conspiracy. How did you get theidea for Talia Merritt, this former military
sniper. I this movie was inspiredby the John Wayne movie El Dorado.

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The part about Talia being a snipercame into the story because even though it
was inspired by that movie, Iwanted to tell my own, my own
story. I wanted to have differentcharacters in a different lu but still have

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that camaraderie between war buddies, whichwas the main thing that I wanted to
take from the Lee Bracket script forEl Dorado. So one of the things
that we had to figure out.And I'm using the royal we hear because
I'm in the process of writing amanuscript where a character uses the royal whee

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a lot. So it's kind ofstuck into my speech patterns. I apologize.
So I came up. I hadto come up with a specialty for
her. So I knew she wasgoing to be a war veteran. I
knew her counterpart or her war buddywas going to be responsible for her disability

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for because she has a cybernetic arm. And I had to figure out what
was the specialty that was realistic andthat made sense for a woman, especially
given the milu here. So eventhough it's science fiction and they are on
a different planet, it's not farfuture. It's there's not a lot of

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high tech on the ground where theyare living at the different Let me let
me say this because I have acouple of friends who are like, I
don't read science fiction. I said, this reads like a Western It really
does, because Lauris Lamore. Yeah, there's well, it's if Louis Lamore
had been a former sniper, youknow, if if one of his characters
were. But it has a certainit has it has a certain element to

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it. So so for those thatdon't know they're in a colony world,
called Gordon. But the fact is, because it's a colony world, they
don't really have a lot of hightechnology, so people are walking around with
guns, regular old fashioned guns,and a lot of this is could just
as easily been a frontier situation,except that the main character, woman has

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been in some very high end militarycomplex conflicts not dissimilar to what we've experienced
since the war and terror, soit's got It's one of those situations where
you're creating a setting that is veryopen to all readers, whether it's a
sci fi reader or whether somebody isn'tbecause, frankly, other than the fact
that you're in a different place,it's all humans. There's no aliens,
there's nothing, there's no particular wondroustechnology, say for one thing we'll talk

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about, and it's just her tryingto rebuild her life. And I thought
it was kind of an interesting takein all of this on trying to tell
the story of a veteran through thiscontext. Your thoughts mona reason, Well,
you know, I did that onpurpose. I wanted to have this
setting that had that old West,the old American West feel, and the

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setting that also meshed with a Meijirestoration era Japan because Gordon was settled with
the charter of preserving the culture ofOld Japan and their first colonization effort failed.
So one of the reasons we havea Japanese aesthetic and Japanese inspired esthetic
for the entire thing is because ofthat choice to make this planet one where

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they have settled it. It doesn'tneed a lot of terraforming, but it
does need some and they have acity, the main capital, where there's
a spaceport, and where we wouldfeel very comfortable because if they have the
same level of technology that we arefamiliar with. But the further you go
out from Sakura, as you spreadout over the planet, the more primitive

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it gets. And the settlers madea choice to quote unquote put up with
this more primitive way of life becausethey know that it'll mean that they can
their independence from Earth sooner if theydon't need a lot of stuff from Earth.
So that's one of the reasons forthe Malu being the way it is
the way that it is. SoI hope that readers of Westerns will feel

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very comfortable in it. I hope, I mean, after after all,
Votalisa, I mean Talia and theothers are riding horses in it, and
it's very believable because there's not alot of motorized transport available. Yeah,
Afghanistan, we brought the horse back, the Triple Nickel uh, the A
team five five five Uh. That'sUS Army, specially force. That's my

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background. Literally, one one ofthe greatest battles on horseback, and it's
more involved than the horses. Butnever let's say want horseback leading the Northern
Alliance. A battle was supposed totake several months. The battle kable.
They won it in one day.It was a massive slaughter. It's an
amazing story. And so anyway,so that we we understand in the military

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that horses are still the horses cando things no machine can do. That's
why we still use them. Andin certain types of terrain, you can't
beat a horse, lily, SoI had I had this one A couple
of questions. Here, have youseen the movie West World, the one
with you Brenner or yeah, you'llBrenner, Yes I have. Okay,
you know they had anything to dowith your book. Yeah. But one

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of the last thing, do youhave a military background yourself? I do
not, Okay, I thought youdid. Okay, well, let's falk
no no where. It's no word. Look at a clancy. I don't
think of any military background he had. He had the Joint chiefs of Staff
interviewing him to advise them. Hewas so good. So you don't have

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to be in a military to learnabout the military. Author Mona Lisa Foster's
joining us the book is threading theNeedle. She's coming in for an event
at the Garden District Bookshop and she'swe will be signing the book as a
free event at six pm on Januarynineteenth. That's this coming Friday. Ladies
and gentlemen and anyone's free and opento the public. You just can show
up at twenty seven twenty seven,pretend you at the corner of Washington Pritannia,

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Ladies and gentlemen, forty spaces ofparking, and we'll have the event
at six pm on that evening.But Mom, Lisa, I want to
I want to get into a littlebit of your book because one of the
things I found interesting is there's nota lot of as you pointed out,
it's a very frontier setting, it'sa very rule setting. There's not a
lot of high tech stuff there's acouple here and there, but there is
one. And one of the thingsthat your main character, entirely man's trying

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to do is she's trying to havea normal rebuild a normal life. She
doesn't want to be Death's handmade andshe wants to have a relatively normal life.
She's like a lot of former military. The jobs that are available that
she's qualified, that pay well,in this case, helped her pay her
way to this planet were in security, like you know, not quite mercenaries,

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but security, and she kind ofin the midst of that job.
As she's trying to do this,she finds, shall we say, an
entrepreneur that comes in and tries tohire her services, and he's actually a
criminal. He's actually somebody who's trytrying to change it. And when I
read that there's nothing particularly high tech. This could be a Russian oligarch,
this could be somebody who's soon shiftlessand he's trying to get gain control of

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a technology. How did you howdid you frame that kind of conflict.
It's a very it's a very traditionalarchetype of sort of a you know,
a chaotic villain who you could playwho's trying to hire the hero to do
something. Well, we we hadwe had to have a science fiction element
in the story because I had Ihad decided to pitch this to Baine Books

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and their primary their primarily publisher sciencefiction and fantasy. So this is where
the space cows come in and thegenetic engineering involved in that. And by
the way, I need, Ineed, I need to give you compliments
because everybody in the book is makingfun of the fact they don't know what
to call these things, and sothey finally come on space cows and it
was just basically a running joke inthe book. It's set this up because

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this is the The technology of thisfrontier area is not There's not a lot
of machines or harvesters. So theyfigured out that the soil needs help,
and they figured out kind of aninteresting way of making the soil feasible.
And if I'm not mistaken, it'sit's a very old and traditional way and
so can you to explain it?All? Right? So when I was

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pitching this to Tony, I toldher that it was the publisher, that's
right. I asked her for someinput because I had this idea and one
and really my go to was spacecows. It was kind of a joke
because I love the idea of cowpoop saving the world, And Tony said,

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yeah, you know what, goahead, make it about space cows,
because the other thing I was consideringis maybe mining rights or something else.
I didn't want to get too sillywith it, but the idea of
space space cows and their poop savingan entire planet had a lot of appeal
to me. Well, listen,it has great appeal to our current politicians

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because they're firmly convinced that the onlything that's going to save America is BS
no pie, no comment, nocomment on that. But the point being
that this planet is habitable, it'sgot oxygen, but the soil can't grow
all NaNs. It doesn't have thebio nutrients and it doesn't have the bacteria.
And you're basically trying this. Thisfamily is trying to bioengineer a breed

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of cow whose human whose waste willbe will actually fertilize the soil and make
it capable of crops. And that'ssort of the subtext. The villain wants
this uh, this technology, andhe's willing to kill for it, and
that's where this poor girl is thrownin the middle of this situation with her
former partner as a sniper, andthe genetic engineering that was required to make

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these cows took place on Earth beforethe cow. You know, basically,
the did some genetic modifications and sendthe cow embryos to Gordon with the intent
of finishing up the genetic engineering partof it in a more traditional way,
basically by breeding said cows. Becausethere is a randomness, there are some

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factors that their models could not accountfor. So the plan was to do
the advanced to genetic engineering on Earth, send the embryos to Gordon, and
then finish it up. And whereI got this idea was I is because
I did some work in cancer researchfor a while, so I learned to

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appreciate the randomness of things. Weas you know, a scientist, we
think that we have control of everything, and that's not true. So I
wanted to bring that into a storyand make it be a story solution instead
of a story PLoP, instead ofa story problem. I wanted to be
different with my science fiction in thiscase, and I was just thrilled to

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be able to make it work andhave it make sense for the setting and
then the low that came together atthe end. Author Monalisa Foster's joining us
here in the Founder Show with theirnew book Three in the Needle High.
Yeah. Uh. One thing aboutyour topic or your genre, Let's say,
I think it's very well chosen becauseright now there is a rage for

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science fiction and UFOs. I mean, it's just like it heavily the book.
They're no aliens. You don't haveto have aliens. It's still out
of space. My point, alienscome from out of space. I'm saying,
there's a great interest in this today. You realize how science fiction do
you read it? Yeah? Foryears? Yeah, Well, I'm saying,
starting with Jules Varne. You know. My point in all of this

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is what's interesting, and I'm ahuge sci fi fan. Is that,
oh I am tea. Is thatthis is including those people don't know it.
He's got a great sci fi No, nobody knows that about it.
No, I'm into sci fi forsure. The challenge of writing a book
that crosses over You're right, there'sa huge there's a huge interest in the
future, in the capacities, butthere's also in the literary world a kind

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of resistance to it. And soI think it's yeah much. They think
it's too much. It's not common. And what I found, yeah exactly.
And what I found, Mona Lisa, is how literary this book is.
And I mean that as a complimentthe style of how it's written,
the interior monologue of Talia and inthe book it reads, it reads like

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Aymore Towels as a gentleman in Moscowor something like that, where in how
it crosses over to various genres.And that's one of the reasons why I've
gotten so enthusiastic about having you atthe Moment at the Garden District Bookshop on
January nineteenth, this coming Friday,to talk about this book, because your
style is both readable. It's afantastic story, it's very readable, but

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it's also something that somebody who's nota sci fi fan will enjoy it kind
of it's it's the future, butit's a genre that's very close to home.
And I'm curious having brought all thoseelements together. The thing that I
liked most about Ty was that shewas a believable human being, because sometimes
when characters like her, a formermilitary sniper, written, they're either so

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hard they're superwomen, or they're sobroken, they're not just people who She
lost an arm. She's dealing withthat situation. The arm's malfunctioning, and
so she's she's got a lot ofproblems like a lot of wounded vets have
of just trying to make things work. And at the same time, she's
human. She you know, shehas somebody, you know, she would
like to build a life, she'dlike to have a family, she'd like

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to It wasn't a person that wasa caricature. It was a person that
you were writing about. How didyou formulate that character? I think it
just has to do with the waythat I think about how to properly write
not just characters, but a book. I am not into doing huge info

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dumps. I am not into turningmy fiction into a manual. If I
actually knew how to genetically engineer cows, I would be finding patents instead of
copyrights. So I keep that inmind when I approach a story and I
try to focus and make it verymake it very character focused, rather than

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worry about making sure that I showeverybody all the research that I did for
a said book, I keep maybeabout ten percent of the research that I
did for something in the manuscript itself, and the other ninety percent I keep
to myself because it's really not necessaryto tell the story. Stories are ultimately
about people, and as far asTalia and the type of female characters that

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I like to write, making themhuman first, making them a relatable person
with a personality first has always beenthe thing that I right for because I
don't like the caricatures that are representedthat women are written as as if we
were either always a victim or wewere always trying to be men, or

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we were trying to do things that, you know, because we have a
chip on our shoulder, and thatis one thing that that I do with
my characters. They don't have achip on their shoulder because they are female.
Good Mona Lisa. In the military, you know, I've been I've
had three combat tours and some ofthe finest women I've ever worked with in
combat were women. Soldiers and soldiers, marines, whatever, were women,

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and I mean they were exceptionally.When I never forget my first tour or
O three Afghanistan that was actually mysecond tour, but first warrant territory,
there was this female from she wasan office thing she was a captain.
She's from Iran, and she wascommanding an ordnance team where they were blowing
you know, they were blowing thingsup, and they were and they were

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we were also gatherings of ordnance,I mean truckloads, taking them under the
desert and blowing them. I've neverseen more guns ammo, you know,
tank rounds, bombs or whatever,mortar rounds ever in my life truckloads every
day. And I worked with her, and I was so impressed with what
a really fine soldier she was.She's Army, but I also had a

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new marine. Female marines like thattoo, And so listen to women in
the military have more than proven themselvesup. You know, they have they
have some that have issues, let'ssay, but there are men that have
issues too, So I mean it'snot like, yeah, the only you
know. So really, I've hada great time working with women in the
military. They've always proven up tobe excellent in whatever their jobs are.

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Well, it got to be abouther, is that I can see her
as someone as a sniper who hadthree hundred kills. Yeah, but at
the same time I could see heras somebody who could be my next door
neighbor. And it wasn't a contradictorythought, which very rarely happened, very
rarely you see in military fiction writtenby men women, you know, Purple,
Green and Gold, And that wasone of the strengths of your book

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Mona Lisa Foster and Threading the Needle, and one of the reasons I thoroughly
enjoy it and I've encouraged people toread it. It does hit a genre
that frankly, and I'm a hugeBaine Books fan. I've read most of
the major authors. I know manyof them, we've had several of them
on the radio show here. Butit's one of the ones that truly does
cross over, and I think it'san example for not only the other Bane

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authors, but a lot of authorswho want to reach different audiences. I
actually came out and I want topose the question this way. I have
been going around telling my staff tellevery teenage frankly older teenage girl that we
have coming into the store, becausewe have a lot of female readers in
high school and beginning of college who'llcome in and spend a lot of money,

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frankly, more money than I hadin high school in college. And
I've told him sell them this book. Recommend this book because it's they'll completely
relate to this character and they'll beinspired by her, not just which her
strength, but her challenges. Shelost an arm. She she's actually somebody
dealing with a disability, but itand the real challenges of it and the

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fact that you know the process isnot working, and that's one of the
subplots of the book. And no, I mean it's it's it's not you
get that very soon. And yetat the same time she's overcoming and that's
that's that's a very hard balance tobe able to achieve in Chris. You
try and like that in the military, no matter what your disadvantage is,
you overcome and you're trying hard likethat. So that fifth you got to

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be really proud. We're really proudto have you at the Garden District Bookshop
on the nineteenth at six pm.I my thoughts is, what would you
like to achieve with people? Youknow, if you're trying to tell people,
obviously you want them to read yourbook, but what would you what
like kind of message would you liketo leave with them as as as they
read this book. I would likethem to come away from reading my book

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and thinking that it was time wellspent, that it's that they enjoyed the
character. They enjoyed either the characteror some aspect of it, and to
put it in there to be readagain pile because they want to be with
the character again. Even though theyknow everything that's going to happen, they're
going to want to come back andspend time with Talia and the other characters.

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I think that's that's ultimately the goalfor everything that I write, but
particularly this book, because again,this character is just the type of woman
that I think we make a greatrole model, not just not just for
any young person in particular, butyoung women. Man. I can't wait
to read your book, Modulists,really can. I'm excited about it,

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and I know Modalists of Foster.You're bringing along some of your backlist of
space opera, a little bit moreconventional science fiction. We look forward to
having that as well at the GardenDistrict Bookshop and having you signed a few
copies. Tell us a little bitabout some of your previous works that you've
had that you'll be bringing along andmentioning and signing a few copies. All
right, My Ravages of Honor seriesis a more traditional space opera. It

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involves court intrigues and there's some spacebattles. It also is written around genetic
engineering. It does not fade toblack, and it's it's a little darker
in tone. But I've been toldthat those who enjoyed that kind of stuff,
that you know, they really enjoyedit. And I'll also be bringing

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copies of my short story Pretending toSleep, which is more of a contemporary
piece that actually falls into the literarygenre itself, that I think people will
enjoy. And men Alsia, Canyou give us again a little bit more
about your background, like where yougrew up, where you went to college
and high school? Whatever? Allright, So I am. I am

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a naturalized American citizen. I wasborn in Romania. I immigrated here with
my family when I was about nineyears old, and I went to I
went to high school and college here. I actually ended up with a degree
in physics and I started working inthe semiconductor industry as an engineer, and

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I somehow ended up in medical researchfor radiation, oncology, interventional radiology,
and nucletar medicine. So where'd yougo to college? What college? I
actually graduated from Arizona State and grewup where I grew up in Arizona.
Well, I love Arizona. Warein Arizona, the Phoenix area. I

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humped through Arizona years ago in seventyeight start in the Grand camp that have
super Indians, lived with him,and then humped all the way through.
Actually I met Geronimo the third upand down near Phoenix, and I ended
up in the Superstitions for forty days. And I'm telling you it's one of
the most amazing experience I've ever hadin my life. If we have time
later, I'd love to tell youmore about it. But I love Arizona.

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It's a great state. I justI would love to live there.
Author go ahead, MOSELESA, I'msorry, I was going to say,
I agree. It was a greatplace to grow up. Authormon. Lisa
Foster is here talking about her newbook, Threading the Needle Ladies and Gentlemen.
She's going to be able to talkabout it even more because we're extending
here on the Founder Show and invitationto come join us at twenty seven to

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twenty seven Pritannia. That's the GardenDistrict book Shop at the Rink corner of
Britannyan Washington Avenue on this coming Friday, this is the nineteenth of January Friday,
January nineteenth, six pm. She'sgoing to be signing her book at
a free event, free wine andgeese and all this, but you get
to meet the author, see aboutsee what's special about this book, and

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find out and I really encourage youto read it because it's threading the Needle
has one of the strongest female characters. Frankly, if I had daughters,
I have no children, but ifI had daughters, I would buy this
book for my daughters to read.That's how much I believe in this book,
because it literally captures not just notthe human experience, but also captures

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the challenges of women who's been thehell but at the same time has decided
that she's going to build a lifeand and embrace life, and embrace friends
and face off a criminal conspiracy.It's an exciting read. It's not this
is not like the psychological over Legs. It has a lot of elements,
but she's facing down people who aretrying to kill her friends and take over
the small town. And it's reallyvery much a Western type of feel about.

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Yeah, El Dorado is a goodmodel. And having been to the
set where El Dorado was was actuallyfilmed nearly near the Grand Canyon, I
can I can tell you you getthat feel. So I'm only the foster.
We look forward to seeing you onthe nineteenth. And also you can
hear us out in Arizona on RattlesnakeRadio on the on the west end of

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the Grand Canyon, so king inArizona, we're out. And also one
of the last thing about LOYL.L. Moore, Loy La Moore had
thousands of tears stained letters from themothers who's had widows, who had no
husbands, and they would give theirboys loy La Moore books to teach them
character and the positive impact they hadon their lives. The most read book

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in Vietnam was LOYL. Lamore.Lollis Moore is extremely act historically actors can
considered to be one of the greathistorical novelists of all times. So you
just might be creating a new genrelike Louis Lamore, where you're reaching the
women. Liak. That would bewonderful, wouldn't it. Well? He
sold, you know, hundreds ofmillions of books. His books were translated
into like fifty different foreign languages.Of Guy's one of the greatest rock stars

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ever of American literature is an amazingstory. Lisa. Of course, the
book is threading the needle. Ladiesand gentlemen, the author's Mona Lisa Foster
and Mona Lisa. Hopefully everybody cancome on Friday January nineteenth, twenty seven
to twenty seven Pretenua to the GardenDistrict book Shop at six pm. But
if somebody can or wants to findout more about you, I do believe
you have a website that they cango to. I do. It's Wwwmona

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Lisa Foster dot com. And Ialso have a substack for anybody that is
interested in the act or the craftof writing. Oh yeah, I would.
And then and then of course youcan also find me on the Bane
website B A E. N dotcom. That's great, And ladies and
gentlemen, of course, you knowwe want you to buy a print copy

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of the book and its signed byLisa, but of course electronic version the
book is available at bin dot comas well. And my onlys By the
way, I am literally hardly noweverybody's going to know I'm literally planning on
writing a novel, but I don'tknow if that will ever happen, but
I would love to pursue that ifI can get a break from my intent
schedule working with in cit of kidsand they're poor here in New Owns.
That's I may do that my retirementand now I'm looking forward to it.

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When Lisa, one last question beforewe let you go, what's the next
novel you get kicking around in yourbrain. I am currently working on book
four and the Ravages of Honor series, and right now it's kicking me in
the back end rather than me kickingit around. But I hope to have
it worked into shape and then Iwill probably sit down at some point and
consider writing a sequel for tell youthe story, Well, we look forward

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to seeing it. Folks. Comeout and get your copy of Threading the
Needle's premiering the Garden District Bookshop onthe nineteenth of January. That's a Friday
evening. Come by after work sixpm twenty seven, twenty seven, Britannia.
Come meet Mona Lisa Foster and geta signed copy of the book,
or just come and just meet andhave a glass of wine and talk about
these strong female characters. Mona Lisa, thank you very much for joining us

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speaking of strong characters, but witha lot less noble intense. The special
Session here in Louisiana had started,and we're going to be talking about this
objective. What was supposed to bea small special session to draw a second
African American congrecial seat has morphed intoa battle royal over the open primary,
and the essence by Governor Jeff Landryalong with Lewis Gurvich and I got to

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tell you leaders of the Democratic Partyto get rid of the open primary.
It is a war that is cuttingacross party lines. And what was going
to be an otherwise relatively more funspecial session. We'll talk about that when
we come back after these important messageshere with the Founder Show with Hi McHenry
and Christopher Tidmore. Remember, folks, you can always hear this show every
Sunday from eight to nine am andninet nine five WRN NO every Monday,
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three point nine FM fifteen sixty amor twenty four seven three sixty five at
the iHeartMedia app or at the foundershowdot com and Monally, So thank you
again. This was a great show. Can't wait to read your book.
I look forward to meet you nextSaturday. It's Friday Friday. Oh,
Friday Friday. For Friday Friday.I'm sorry, I'm getting my fayth James.
I'm an old man. You knowwe do that. January nineteenth A
right, God bless you, Monaly. We'll be back, flks. Thanks

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Covington, and tell them you heardit here on the Founder's Show, and
welcome back to the app as alwayshear in the program. I'm Christopher Tidmore
and it's Chapahai mc henry is alwaysmy partner and I were working so very
hard to bring you the truth,the whole truth, and nothing but the
truth to help Uscott and Chrispoher.I have a question, of course,
can our precious new governor and theHeather problem with party Lewis Gerbach, I

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know both of them friends of mine. Lewis a very old friend of mine.
Can they really get this together?And if not, or if they
need help, I think I'm nighthave to give a phone call quis Well.
I will say this. I hopethey cannot. You know why,
uh oh, because they would beviolating the will of the Founders, which
was so what if anybody has everread the Federalist papers, Yes, what

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is Federalist forty nine about the fearof faction? And the Founders had some
very strong language of faction, thefear of faction, faction. Our political
parties have forgotten that long time.Well, and that's that's the point the
founders, and remember the Founders didn'thave a fundamental opposition to political parties.
Jefferson helped found one, as itdid Hamilton. But the point and in

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this case for the Federal's papers Madisonand Jefferson, but the point that they
were making about faction was that youshould not have a small group of ideological
people deciding candidacies and ideologies and phasingit like the Democrats do. Are the
Republicans because no, no primary butboth parties. And let me explain this
one of the things that you're findingladies in general. RFK will guarantee you

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it's much more with the would Iwould say, it's kind of hard to
look at the Republican primaries and saythis. But here I'm going to say
something. Louisiana doesn't do a lotof things right, but we do one
thing right, and that is wehave the most open elections in the country.
Democratic little den What we do iseverybody in order to run for office.

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It's not complicated and one of themost red states in the Union.
Yes, So it's not like we'reparticularly liberal place. What do we do
to run for office? You getfive thousand signatures or you pay about eight
hundred dollars. It's actually less forsome of the local offices. If you
run for the legislation, it's abouteight nine hundred dollars. And then you
run without prejudice, and you canhave whoever gets fifty percent wins, and

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if you don't know if the topif nobody gets fifty percent, the top
two finishers go on to a runoff, and it can be two Republicans,
two Democrats, it doesn't matter.It can be an independent Republican at whatever.
And what it means is that thepublic makes the final decision. You
don't have a group of party idealogs. Here's the thing. Jeff Landry
doesn't like that. Lewis Gurvichin likedthat. And here's the dairyly secret how

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you brought it up right. Alot of the leadership, like the former
adherents of Karen Carter Peterson and theDemocratic Party don't like it either. So
for those that understand what is goingon in the special session, it was
a special session that was supposed tobe called for one reason. The courts
have said, we have one thirdLouisiana as one third African American. That
means you have to have two congressionalseats two out of six one third that

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are black majority seats or close toit. And that's what the session is.
But Jeff Landry, you know,never let a good crisis go to
waste. I give him, Igive him political credit if nothing is said,
this is an opportunity to create theclosed primaries. Now, other southern
states have this, most of theplaces in the country do. But here's
what happens. You know, Iwas when this, before this idea came

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out. I was right before itwas announced. It was kind of the
surprise to everyone at Baton Rouge.I went to Lieutenant Governor Billy Nunn Guesser's
uh An inaugural party, which wasthe middle of the afternoon on Monday on
January eighth. And what was interestingabout that room. It was he and
John Fleming. So it's not justhim, but it's also the treasurer.
It's big. It was of theCapitol Park Museum, beautiful place. And

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here's what I saw a lot ofRepublicans, but a lot of Democrats,
a lot of black faces, alot of his Hispanic faces, a lot
of diversity America room. It wasa in other words, it was a
party that looked like Louisiana and lookedlike America. That's a very accurate way
of saying, and it was becauseboth men are very good at making cross

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party coalitions. Jeff Landry one outright, he won fifty percent. He became
governor. But one of the thingsthat's always sort of nagged at him is
you've got to remember, Jeff Landrywas once in Congress. He was elected
for Western Canadiana and we lost acongressional seat because we lost population after Katrina

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and Rita, and so they mergedthe two his and Charles Bustani's congressional seats,
so he had two incumbent Republicans runningagainst each other, and Bustani beat
Jeff Landry, and he was outof Congress, out of office. Eventually,
he would come back run for AttorneyGeneral, win that and now as
governor. So it didn't work outbadly for him in the end. And
that's an important lesson because Jeff Landrywas always angry about that defeat, and

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he pointed out something in this,he's quite accurate. If it had been
a closed primary of just Republicans.Jeff Landry was to the right of Charles
Bustani, and I got understand byLouisiana standards, we don't mean like Charles
Bustani was a liberal. He waspro life, he was pro tax cuts,
he's pro gunned by any stretch ofthe imagination. He was a conservative.

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But Jeff Landry has always been alittle to the right of all of
that, and heath always concluded thatin it closed congressional primary, he would
have won. So when Louis Gervich, who the chairman of the Louisiana Republican
Party, endorsed him for governor overall the other Republicans in the field,
and it was, if you remember, a very controversial idea at the time.

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It worked out for him, butit was because there was a lot
of very high end Republicans that wererunning Steve Wagon's back. They had a
lobby, the former chief of staff, you know, others, even Billy
nung Guest, who Lieutenant governor waslooking to run at the time. One
of the things Gervage said, look, Jeff, if you win, want
to get rid of the closed primary. I have the open primary. I
want to close primary where only Republicanscan vote, and you get a Republican

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and a Democrat. Well, hi. The problem with that thought process is
the fact that you don't end upwith with competitive districts in various parts of
the state. Let me give youan example. He and I both live
in Uptown New Orleans. It's notexactly known as a bastion of conservatism,
does it not exactly a red areaof this life exactly? Not even a

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lot of rhinos. It's easier tofind It's easier to find a bomb on
the street than it is to finda Republican the place that we live.
Let's be fair, But the factof the matter is our votes count in
Uptown New Orleans. Why because everybody'srunning together in the general election, and
so Democrats will come with a lotof votes. Let's play the flip side.

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Let's say you live in Mandeville andyou're a Democrat. Well, it's
Republican territory, but your vote countsbecause you can throw between the two parties.
And so it's kept that Democrats andindependence very active. And so what
it's meant in the legislature is we'reone of the only states that doesn't break
down on party lines. I'll tellyou a funny story. A guy came

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and was touring the legislature recently,and he was from He was a legislator
from another state. And he's walkingaround with a friend of mine and he's
looking at the thing and he's seeingthat Republicans and Democrats sit together, black
and white, you know, thewhole work's all scattered around. And he
said, don't you have two partiesin the state. And my friend looked
at him and he said, yeah, of course we do. We've got
business and trial lawyers. But Ibelieve what's happening in the legislature is that

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the moderates of both parties are facingoff against not just the Republicans, but
the Democratic leadership who wants close primariesas well. And so I think we're
in danger of killing something that isactually done well here in Louisiana. But
Jeff Landry's got a two thirds majoritylegislature and he's trying to do it of
Republicans. Will be interesting. Youknow, I've always liked the idea of

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an open primary, but I havealso been concerned over the years that if
the Democrats wanted to, they couldform a block to keep our best man
from running by supporting the other let'ssay a rhino or something like that.
So it doesn't give a very reallystraight picture of who the Republicans really want,
the voting public really wants in thisstate. So that that is a

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concern. I can understand why they'reconcerned about that. It's a tough question,
Chris. It's a very tough questionfor me. I stick with the
founders. They didn't like faction,and neither do it then to get rid
of political parties. I mean,I don't get that at all. And
maybe there's another way to look atthat amendment or that that article in the
Federalist papers. I don't think soof them anyway. Well, we'll see

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the legislative special session last for anotherweek and a half and we'll keep you
updated in our show next But folks, this is a very interesting political happening
in Louisiana. We should all bepaying attention and doing our own research and
trying to put our input in.That's what good citizens do. You know,
if you vote, it's very importantthat you vote, but you should
also do research and call your legislators, call the governor, call whomever.

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To put your input in because it'svery Your input is very important. Don't
You're not just a little nobody guyout there. You're important, and act
like it. Be a good citizen. Back after this, remember folks.

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This Friday, January nineteenth, sixpm, twenty seven to twenty seven,
Pritanna Mona Lisa Foster, the authorof Threading the Needle, one of the
best books of new modern literature withone of the strongest female characters. It's
sci fi that West, readers ofWesterns and readers of conventional fiction were like.
It is a fantastic book. Comemeet Mona Lisa Foster this coming Friday,

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January nineteenth, twenty seven to twentyseven, Britannia in the Garden District,
corner of Washington and Britannia, andcome have a glass of wine totally
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the Founder's show, and this ischaplinheimc Internet. Is time for us to
go into our chaplain by a patrioticmoment. We just take a brief moment
to remind you of the Biblical foundationsfor our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence.
And right now I'd like to giveyou a quote from zach Retaylor.
Zacharytaylor was one of the presidents ofthe United States. He was a twelfth
president and he's quite a dynamic fellow. He had a brilliant military career.

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He's originally from the Kentucky Virginia borderand grew up in a small farm there
with no education, no one roomschool house or anything. So he was
taught at home. He his ownschool. He became became one of the
most brilliant military men and statesmen Americahas ever had, of course, making
it all the way to the presidency. Was also a very aggressive fighter against

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slavery. From yes, Luigiana.He had a farm up the river from
here. Anyway, this is whathe said about the Bible. He was
given the gift of a Bible,and to the givers of the Bible,
he said this, and he wroteit, I accept with gratitude and pleasure
your gift of this In SA volumetalking about the Bible, it was for

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the love of this great book,the Bible, that our fathers abandoned their
native shores for the wilderness. Animatedby its lofty principles, they toiled and
suffered till the desert blossomed as arose. The same truth sustained them and
their resolutions to become a free nation, and guided by the wisdom of this
book, they founded a government underwhich we have grown from three million to

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more than twenty millions of people andfrom being but originally a stock on the
borders of this kindon we have spreadfrom the Atlantic to the Pacific and have
been blessed immeasurably by this Holy book. Folks, I think Zachary Taylor believe
very definitely it was very important forus to keep God in government. But

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what about you? Is God inyou? Well, that's important. That's
much more important than God being ingovernment. Because if God is not in
you, and there are enough viewsout there, that's the end of God
in government, and that's the endof our country, according to our founding
fathers. And I believe that historyproves that out back to you, because
you're the one that really counts here, Folks. Have you come to that
place in your life where you knowfor certain, for certain that if you

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die to night, you're going toheaven and you're saved from hell. As
we now go into our chaplain byby a gospel moment, you know,
the Bible says God loves you withan everlasting love and Jeremiah thirty thirty one
three, Folks, God really lovesyou big time. In fact, the
scripture says, for God so lovedthe world, that's you, that's everybody
that he gave his only begotten son. And that's the Lord, Jesus Christ,

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perfect God, perfect man, allthe way God, and all the
way man. He gave his onlybegotten son. That who's server. That's
you again, that's anybody, that'severybody. That whosoever believeth in him.
Well, what do you believe whenyou say believeth in him? It's kind
of mysterious believing in him? Whatbelieves us? That he was neat God,
great God. It's a little morethan that. It's called the Gospel.
The scripture says, for the Gospelis the power of God into salvation

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to whosover believeth. And then infirst Greening's fifteen it tells us what the
gospel is. For I declare toyou the Gospel. That word plain and
simply means good news. For Ideclare to you the gospel that Christ died
for all of our sins according toscripture. When he says, he means
all of them, from the dayyou're born, in the day you die,
you tinians to your greatest sins.That Christ died, according to the
scripture, for all of our sins, that he was buried, and that
he rose from the dead according tothe scripture, and that whosoever believeth in

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this great Gospel message will not perishbut go to heaven. Folks. Now
that's the last part of that.I paraphrase, but that's basically what it's
saying. It's about five verses long. Don't have the time, so folks,
it says that who's sever believed inhim, and back to John three
sixteen, that who's server believed inhim shall not perish, not go to
hell, but have everlasting life.Have you ever done that in your life?
Folks? Have you ever come tothat point in your life where you're

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knew for certain you a complete loserbefore God, that you will lost,
sinner, damned and going to hell, that there's nothing good you could do
to help God out or in anyway get yourself into heaven. Have you
ever gotten to that point that's calledrepentance, and Jesus kept saying repent and
believe you got a repent and itjust means believing you can't save yourself.
You're that big of a loser.You are, folks, we all are.

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Don't feel like the lone ranger andthat everybody has that problem and the
moment you come to believe that,you can fall into the most positive experience
you've ever had. You can experiencepositive thinking off the charts by then believing
that Jesus really did die for allyour sins, was buried in Rosen did
and at that point he turns youinto complete union with himself. You actually

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gain deity. At that point inyour life, you are born again.
That means your dead and dye inspirit has will come fully alive because the
Holy Spirit is now in you andin your spirit and has turned it into
a very live and vibrant spirit forever. You can never lose his, folks,
It's yours forever. God loves youthat much, Jesus said, he
puts you in the palm of hishand. He says, my Father puts
you in the palm of his hand. It means God's got a double grip

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on you. Because remember Jesus,God the Son. You can't get away.
How can you beat that? Howcan you beat that? You can
There's just nothing better than that,Folks. You need that right now.
If you've never believed before, doit now, And like the old country
preacher said, don't wait till it'stoo late. Or like the Holy Bible
says, now today is the dayof salvation. Well, folks, we

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know that today is for us tocome to Christ if you never had before.
But there's something else about today.Do you know that we're living in
the final days right now? Youknow, there's so many signs. There
are two hundred signs about Jesus's secondcoming, they're only about one hundred for
us first coming. They all camethrough and now these are just about almost
completely done. And Jesus said,when you see all these things happening at
once, I'm at the door.We don't have time to go over all.

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Of course, I'm gonna go overone right now. Earthquakes and volcanoes.
You know, every time there's avolcano, there's an earthquake. Jesus
said that these were going to intensifyin the isle of that discourse when he
was telling his disciples when he wouldcome back. These are one of the
signs. He says, when yousee all these things happening at once,
I'm at the door. So thisis one of them. What about earthquakes,
You realize that about two hundred yarsago, earthquakes started to increase,

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and we used to have like earthquakesonce every a big earthquake, like once
every fifty years. Now we're havingthem multiple times a day. In fact,
there's a giant volcanic eruption out onthe Pacific right now that is ongoing.
It's one of the biggest volcanic eruptionsin the world. It's under the
water, you can't see it,but it's happening, and it's pumping billions

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amounts of pollution into the water becausevolcanos produce more pollution and more carbon dioxide,
you know, more carbon, alarger carbon footprint than all the cars
and all the factors doing in theyear's time. This one is doing this
every day, every day. It'spolluting the oceans, it's destroying, it's
helping bring about the final end ofthis world. The human race actually is
not responsible that we're responsible for alot of bad things. We really all

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were as rumors wars. We canself destruct with the Adam Bona. Now
we got a lot of bad thingsmarks against us right now, But this
is actually happening. Mother Nature's doingthis to herself because it's one of the
signs that had to come in theend. Remember, the apocalypse is just
that it's a bad time, folks. It's designed to try to wake everybody
up to follow God instead of followingthe most evil man that ever lived,

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called the Antichrist, who is alsorising right now, and his heralding is
coming out from many sources, includingmany Christian denominations there beginning to praise this
man as some kind of savior.It's happening right now, folks. The
signs are all around us. Sowhere are you on this? Are you
ready for Jesus to come back?He said, it's going to get so
bad. Go hide in the mountains, hide in the caves where you get

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a bunker that's like a cave downhere in Louisiana. And you know what,
I'm gonna advise you where to go. You go to a heavenly manufacturing
company and you buy the Jesus Bunker, and I promise you, folks,
you will be safe. It's thegreatest safeile she'll ever get. And really
that's all you need to make itthrough these tough times that are coming.
So it's not time for us toclose as we close with them on Saint
Martin singing a creole goodbye and Godbless all out there, Does this have

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to be the end of the night? Do I love you? In the
pamal Land, I can see across