Breaking Down Race For New Orleans Mayor

Hy and Christopher breakdown the current NOLA Mayoral race and pose the question of how high African-American turnout will be? If it’s low, Helena Moreno will teeter on the verge of a first primary victory. If it’s moderate, Royce Duplessis has a chance to make the runoff— and unify African-American voters behind him in November.
We then talk about the various Orleans Council races, and after the break, we break down the Slidell Mayor’s race. The major controversy is over buying a former outlet mall, with local government raising sales taxes to buy a private business.
It leads us to a discussion of how Donald Trump is acquiring federal ownership of private corporations, and Nigel Farage, darling of the British right, wants to nationalize companies. Are Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher turning over in their graves?
Finally, moving on to another piece of conservative heresy, we discuss a program that many thought a GOP accomplishment of the 1980s, the H-1B visas.  Hy and Christopher agree on a criticism Donald Trump, for once—the $100,000 is too high a fee.
The True Cost of $100,000 H-1B Fee
By Christopher Tidmore
In another two months, the midyear engineering and finance graduate students will receive their diplomas from Tulane, Loyola, and Louisiana’s state universities.  A plurality of these STEM students are foreign-born but have lived in the Pelican State for years.  Then, upon receiving their diplomas, a disproportionate number of them will be forced to leave the country—after the United States government has invested thousands of dollars in their education through federal funding of postgrad science-based curricula.
The reason, starting in 2026, these recent graduated will have to pay $100,000 just for the chance to apply for a job.  On Friday, September 19, President Trump signed an executive order that requires a $100,000 payment to accompany any new H-1B visa petition, representing a huge jump in costs, up from a few thousand dollars previously. As the White House argued, Trump instituted the new fee to curb abuse in an H-1B system that has been “deliberately exploited to re-place, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor.”
In practice, however, the H-1B visas are determined from the lottery of 85,000 applicants which mostly favors individuals educated at American graduate schools.  In other words, the program tends to select for a plurarity of individuals educated domestically thanks to large federal appropriations to engineering, science, and high-tech University programs.
The federal government has now embarked on a course to invest federal tax dollars to educate individuals which ICE will then will seek to deport.  This is not only a morally bankrupt policy, it is economic idiocy.  We are paying for schooling of the world‘s best and brightest whom we subsequently cast out of our nation.
Moreover, in the interconnected world of the Internet economy, it is as if these individuals will not get hired elsewhere, often by the very US firms which would have employed them domestically.  They just will not pay US income or local property taxes or contribute to the American economy in a fashion necessary to repay the federal tax dollars invested in their education.
The Thursday, September 25, 2025 edition of the Wall Street Journalquoted Ezra Gershanok, chief executive and co-founder of subleasing marketplace Ohana.  He said that he does not expect to sponsor more H-IB visas now that the petition fee jumped to $100,000 under President Trump's new rules. He will hire contractors abroad instead.
“If the intended purpose is to have more domestic hiring, that is not going to be the case for us," Gershanok told the WSJ.
As the financial newspaper went on note, founders of venture-backedUS startups have begun to rethink hiring plans following the imposition of the whopping new fee on H-IB visa petitions.  Some founders expect to bring on foreign workers remotely or to rely more on international offices. Ohana, which has raised $6 million in venture funding, now employs 11 people. Six are based in New York, including a new hire in a business development role who is a U.K. citizen and won the H-1B lottery earlier this year, Gershanok said. The other five people at Ohana are international contractors working in South Africa and Portugal.
Admittedly, amongst some of the well-funded companies, some refuse to rule out paying the high fee in rare cases.  However, the real worry is the loss of the talents these bright young people could bring into the US economy by fulfilling their own dreams and aspirations.  Venture investors express a worry to the Journal that immigration roadblocks will deter the foreign-born, yet American educated, from starting companies in the US.
Trump defends the $100,000 application fee declaring that many Democrats have called for limits on H-IB visa

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
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nothing to fill the holes while then are filling their
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to no moment. Corruption and dysfunction, it's gonna take you
divide it.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Even as early voting begins, where in the home stretch
in the New Orleans Mayor's race, what will happen with
the candidates, what's happening in the various races, and who
should you vote for? And where are the endorsement's going?
All that and more on this edition of The Founder's Show.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
And God bless you all out there. You're now listening
to the Founders Show, the voice of the Founding Fathers.
You're Founding Fathers coming to you deep within the bowels
of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that liberty cypress tree draped in Spanish moss,

(01:14):
way out on the Eagles Branch, is none other than
your Beingeary Bubbay, the republic Chaplain Hi mcgenry.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
With Christopher Tidmore. You wrote a reporter, resident, radical, moderate
and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana
Weekly dot net, which just celebrated its one hundredth birthday
and coming in the edition after the hundredth birthday, Louisiana
Weekly of course made its endorsements, and so organizations that
we're high and are both affiliated with have made endorsements. Now,

(01:42):
most of you heard our murial debate last week here
on the Founder Show. We got a lot of compliments
on it. A lot of people called this and really
said they really liked it.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
It was really probably give him a lot of good
insights into the candidates, which is great.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Now, what was interesting is a lot of people called
me and said, well, where's Royce dupless Us, and mister
Pless's is offered to come in our show. Right, What
he didn't do is go to the crime Fighter's debate,
because well we found out why. Irv Maygray, who was
chairman of the crime Fighters, said there's there's no chance
and well, how should I have clean this up? Heck
he was that Royce dupless Us, in his view, was
going to get the endorsement, So that kind of demotivates

(02:15):
a person to shot that well.

Speaker 3 (02:18):
There was another big political event at the time. There
was half figure that's going to help me better and uh.
And because all of them actually left before it was
over to get to that.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
Oliver Thomas, as as you heard on the debate, kept
saying has to leave. That was because he was going
to It was a comedy event in New Orleans East
that had had sort of a political It was a
get out the vote kind of event, but it was
so he does that. Turns out after all the candidates
went to the Louisiana Weekly. All the four candidates, including

(02:47):
Frank Genusa, the Republican candidate, were interviewed by the Louisiana Weekly.
Louisiana Weekly, My boss Brinette Hall made a different choice.
She chose worse to pless Us, and her argument in
the endorsement that well I wrote it was that he
had the perfect sort of fusion of ideas.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
He had.

Speaker 2 (03:07):
He wants forty thousand new affordable homes, but he wants
people to be able to buy their home, so he
wants to create it that he wants to put economic
development to the port, which you've always talked about how
do we have rollover capabilities with this new container port,
how do we do this? And it was sort of
this kind of good fusion that she thought. Interestingly, we
made the observation that dupless Us part of it was

(03:28):
the kind of war. But Duplessis was slightly to the
right of Helena Moreno. Now let's be fair, or if
Magri didn't think that, and it was just depending upon
your viewpoints on economic matters, he actually is to the
right of Helena Moreno. On criminal justice matters, they're about
in the same place. Let's call him a little bit
to the left because Helena Moreno. That was something came up.

(03:49):
It was the argument which one supported criminal justice reform
and IRV said, I can't believe it. Why would you
support to Plessis? He supported, and I pointed out, well,
so did Helena Morena. It's like they both voted for
the bill. It's the same bill you know that you
don't like. So what's the difference between the two. I mean,
I'm like, they're both well, they're both centered left Democrats.

(04:11):
They're not bad not then making bad people.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
But no, if you're saying, yeah, if you're a Democrats,
you're going to vote for all this, Well not every note,
every Democratic support the criminal stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:19):
Well it's not I wouldn't put it quite like that,
but yet that's exactly what it is. But if you're
an African American city, it does kind of come down.
But we've got an interesting position because somebody came up
to me who is sympathetic to dupless this and actually
asked me the question as we're taping this on Thursday.
Came up and said, I guess it's over And I said,

(04:39):
what do you mean? He says, well, I think you
know it's Helena going to get into it. Is she
going to get just win it in the first on
October eleventh? And I said, no, it's all a question
of turnout. Now. That the person I've enjoyed listening to
the most in this entire race, and I'm going to
give him a little bit of a compliment with somebody
I'd never heard of before the race. He doesn't have

(04:59):
a snowball's chance in hell of winning this race, but
he's introduced some really good ideas, and that's Frank Janoosa,
the Republican candidate. He doesn't have a chance, but he
brought up if you heard in our debate something really interesting,
and it's something we've talked about on this turnout at
the last mayor's race was less than twenty nine percent
of all eligible voters, and frankly the local elections that

(05:23):
we should be having a high turnout of elections. If
there's a low turnout, that means white voters tend to
be disproportionately more stronger in New Orleans than black voters,
because usually when you have a low turnout, you have
about the same number of whites turning out and fewer
African American voters. Helena Moreno has a good shot of winning.
This might not have been true a month ago. But
what Moreno has very effectively done is drawn the Republican

(05:46):
vote to her. Now, yeah, I mean so a month ago,
it didn't look like the Republicans were gonna kind of
embrace Helena Moreno. Now fifty three percent of Republicans are
that it looked more like it was going to be
If you remember the two thousand and six race, Meagan
was getting reelected when Republicans were but black backing the
black guy over the white guy. But that's not She's

(06:07):
managed to hold it. She has about a third of
the black vote, and she has an overwhelming command of
the white vote. Does that mean she wins it in
the first It's tight. It's very very possible she wins
this in the first. But it's also equally possible she
gets about forty eight forty nine percent of the vote.
And that's where things get interesting. Who gets in the
runoff with her? Is it Duplessis is it Oliver Thomas?

(06:29):
They are running neck and neck. It could be either
one of them. And in a runoff, one of the
things that happens is turnout tends to be higher. So
the higher the turnout, the better chance is one of
the black candidates has a shot of winning. The worst
chances Helene Moreno does. So I was saying, is that
it's not over. I mean, I'll be honest. I think

(06:50):
Helene is a very nice person who'd make a good mayor. Okay,
this is not They're all center left candidates, their politics
are not all that far apart. Ideologically, Helena can be
stubborn as a rock and the way uh LaToya Cantrell
is good and bad, but she has some really great
ideas and could be a good mayor. The question is
what is going to happen. I mean my choice. I'm

(07:11):
probably gonna vote for, honestly, Royce dupless Us personally because
he's an old friend and I find it. But honestly,
I I see an interesting breakdown of possibilities. But here's
the one that really gets me. Everybody is not paying
attention to the most exciting race this cycle. Nice we're
dealing with is the sheriff's race, and everybody looks at

(07:32):
the sheriff.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yeah, it really is very exciting because here's some really
interesting guys running.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
So we had we had Ed Shorty, and we had
all the candidates actually on our on our debate.

Speaker 3 (07:44):
My favorite as far as personality goes, I don't vote
on personality, but as far as is old fellow. What's
it you know his name? You mean old old guy
who has been working on the jail of all his life.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
So that's that. Senator Ed Murray's cousin, cousin Bob, and
he's he's we had to actually the only we don't edit,
but he had so many how shall we say, colorful metaphors.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
He's my favorite guy. Actually. I love the way he
said that woman, the current warden, she can't do it
because she doesn't even go to the jail. She doesn't
know what's inside that jail. Says, I've been living in
these jails, working in them. He says. When I made
the sheriff, I'm going to set up my office right
inside of the jail. She didn't know they didn't have

(08:26):
locks on the nose, that the locks were working. She
didn't know anything because she never goes into the jail.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
I have to say her response the weakest one. The
reason why the locks didn't work is the city council
did'st me money, and I'm like politics, even the candidates
are like, go buy a.

Speaker 3 (08:41):
Pad lock, right, go to the local hardware lows. I'm
sure to give you a good discount, and you got
your locks and wait for the real expensive stuff to
come when it when it ever comes.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
It's just but she still has a corps support about
nine to ten percent of the vote. And right now
now Michelle Woodford, the former NPD interim chief she's from
a legendary family dynasty of police officers, is over thirty
five to forty percent of the vote. Some say that
Michelle Woodford's even higher, but the fact is she's encountering

(09:14):
sort of a below the radar scandal. And I've been
really interested that not more people have brought this up.
So I'm going to do something that is probably going
to get me in trouble, But I'm going to mention
the scandal that's been going on.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
If you're comfortable with that, all right, scandals, So the
history of my life and New Orleans and everything else.
So we have a daily scandal down here in New Orleans, folks.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
Yeah, but this is a juicy one. You know, you know,
you know the Edwin Edwards comment. You know, the only
way I could lose this election was to be found
in bed with a live girl or a dead boy. Well,
this is a live girl. She nearly set on fire.
I feel really bad about this, but wow, it's well
known Michelle Woodford is gay, it's lesbian. That's fine, that's

(09:59):
not a big deal. But what happened was that apparently
there was a major domestic violence charge levied at her
a few years ago, to which she admits happened to
where she broke into her then significant other her it
was a little bit more girlfriend. They've been living together,
and she came to the house and threatened violence, threatened

(10:20):
to set her on fire, and so it's been sort
of the subtext. The way this all happened was Susan Hudson.
The way this all got introduced with Susan Hudson, the
current sheriff walked in and said at a forum in public,
Miss Woodford, is it true that you tried to set
your partner on fire and that woman threatened us? And

(10:44):
I mean it was basically she outed her and threatened
on the vireow. But what happened, what has happened since
then is Woodford has not only admitted that yeah, this
event happened, but there's been rumors that that's the real
reason she didn't become the NPD chief. That this has
been going on suddenly, and it's actually been kind of
in the news a little bit, but it really hasn't

(11:04):
because there's been so much oxygen the mayor's race going in. Now,
let me say I've just now said something really terrible
at Michelle Woodford. I have followed this woman's career for
almost thirty years. She's a veteran cop and a highly
decorated one. It is easily said that the current reductions

(11:25):
on crime started in her watch, and I saw the
program she put in in an LPD and she's done
more not I actually like the current news chief Kirkpatrick,
but it really all started under Michelle Woodford. She's extremely
competent and she'd probably make a good sheriff. On the
other hand, she's facing not only the current sheriff, but
somebody who is brilliantly qualified. He's the Constable of the

(11:50):
West Bank of Second City Court. His name is ed
Shorty and why Ed Shorty? Edwin Shorty is he's a
well known lawyer and interestingly he's the opposite of short
He's like six foot six. He's huge and like daunting
and really a very handsome man in the whole works.

Speaker 3 (12:06):
Oh yeah, yeah, but it shortly.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
Besides being a well known lawyer and the former president
of the Southern University System, he was a major college
and he's still on the board, but he was. He
was like one of the big reformers kept rediad it.
He's got this brilliant record. It's really impressive. He has
an interesting position because his job. He put himself through

(12:28):
college and law school working as an officer in the jail.

Speaker 3 (12:32):
Oh wow, he worked hasackground.

Speaker 2 (12:34):
So I mean he so he doesn't just have like
kind of a backgrod he did. He did it for
for like seven or eight years, and every different he
was he was on the floor. He was also an administration,
So he starts this with a kind of well known
knowledge of the jail. He's in a police position, the constable.
I mean, he serves things, but that is a police position.

(12:56):
He wears the.

Speaker 3 (12:56):
Uniform law enforcement.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
And he's been a practicing attorney for years in the
criminal system, so it's been a criminal attorney. And so
he's mounting this and the real question is will Michelle Woodford.
There's two questions when Michelle Woodford went in. The First,
she's not as powerful as Helena Moreno. I think that
this is about a turnout. But who will her opponent
be because both Ed Shorty there's not a whole lot

(13:18):
of money and Susan Hudson are about ten percent of
the vote, so they're edging in. I mean, if Susan
Hudson gets if Susan Hudson got into a runoff with
Howdy Duty, at this point, I think how To Duty
would win. But Ed Shorty getting in a run off
with Michelle Woodford, even if she's at above forty percent
that's a very different race that becomes a real two

(13:39):
people with long criminal justice experience they are. But speaking
of criminal justice.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Christopher real quickly about the violence, the lesbian violence. There's
been a longstanding knowledge, great understanding and knowledge and law
enforcement that the most violent murdership you'll ever run across,
or homosexual murders. There used to be an entire chapter
and forensic uh textbooks on homoseox actual it was removed

(14:06):
because it wasn't politically correct, but it's still a problem
actually issue.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
Here's an interesting thing that I found. There actually was
a case investigating domestic violence incidents and domestic violence things,
and this is what it said, and it was very
it was very interesting. Some of the highest cases of
breakups and domestic violence are lesbians. The lowest cases are

(14:30):
two men are homosexual men. Really and so I mean
this throws everything on you as the highest levels of
divorce are lesbians, followed by heterosexual couples, and the lowest
levels of divorce are homosexual men, which goes to the
theory of course, you know when two men are men

(14:52):
and women, you know, and women goes out as a
whole thing. I won't say it because I'll get canceled.
But my point being that it's not as simple as
it comes in. It's not a homosex. It's some of
this is a gender thing. But I know somebodies get
mad at this. I know plenty of same sex lesbian
couples who are very committed. It's not an automatic.

Speaker 3 (15:10):
But more lesbians marry than No, no, that's not true.

Speaker 2 (15:14):
Actually there's a higher percentage of homosexual men that marry
than lesbians. It is actually not that it is. It's
kind of an interesting statistic because it goes it's counterintuitive
because you'd say it's be one thing or another. It
actually is very gender based. Homosexual men tend to divorce less,
they tend to have less domestic violence. I don't know why.

(15:34):
And hoerosexual couples are in the middle of all the statistics.
So it's not you know, sometimes the it's not one
thing or another. It's kind of the numbers actually tell
you something very different. But anyway, we've got to move
on for a second to a case. I can't believe
we're talking about a local election.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
In this, but that is a scandal.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
It is a scandal. It's good. I want to say
the most interesting race to me has been the district
A race where aids of the incumbent Joe Jeruso are
running for office and Holly Friedman, who we had here
on the show and it coupled. She seems to be
edging her opponents slightly, but there are three people in

(16:14):
the race. They're going to a runoff. Friedman has been
the has had a tagline now in the last three
weeks and all of her things, the only council candidate
with criminal justice experience and not just in her race,
across the board and so she was a cop, and
it's a little bit more involved in that, but basically
she's touting that she came in, touting how much she

(16:37):
did on infrastructure stuff and all this. But it's having
some residents the police, the issue of criminal justice has
been having some residents. Every race has challenges, except interestingly
Council District B. Now, for those that are like, so
what do we care about? Council District B is usually
the one that always has a race. It's the heart

(16:59):
Ever district in New Orleans is hard to represent because
they represent poor and rich areas, But Council District B
is the one that's on steroids everything from Jefferson Avenue
basically where your house is approximately high, all the way
to the lower Garden District and then all the way
through Central City for Broadmoor, Central City not this. In
other words, you're representing the Garden district and you're representing

(17:21):
the hood, you're representing uptown in the Faubourg Bullany, and
you're representing areas towards girk Town. Is It is an
interesting district and you'd think that Leslie Harris. Leslie Harris
is honestly one of the most popular councilmen that ever does.
She works full time as a councilman. She's very responsive
and it shows nobody wanted to run against her. She's

(17:44):
got white and black support, Business and Republican Democrat. All
of her numbers were and that's not true in any
other race. You see a very tight race. I think
Freddie King is gonna win it into council district. See
that's Algiers, the French quarter of marinee bywater crosses the river.
You see. The interesting race to me is Council District E.
Jason Hughes he is He's there's two state reps that

(18:08):
are running against each other. And hughes Uh. He's been
the one talking so much about what do we do
with Meshu, What do we do in the New Orleans
East and New Orleans East. If you've noticed in the
marriage race has become an issue recently because yeah, it's putting.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
The stage area that's way underdeveloped, and he could be
with the right management, you could have a dynamic part
of the city.

Speaker 2 (18:28):
It really is. It's got land, it's got affordable housing,
and it's gonna be all the all the different supply
stuff for the port for the new container port in
Saint Bernard will be in New Orleans East. You've got
the Mashoe facility, You've got all these technical things and
it's kind of this. The the tightest race right now
easily is the Council at large race between their three candidates.

(18:50):
But Matthew Willard and Delisha Boyd, two state representatives, are
going to runoff. And the latest thing is this is
too political, too political dynasties that are facing each other. Both.
By the way, let me say this, Matthew Willard and
Delisiha Boyd are two of the best candidates this season.
I'm including all the mayor's race. It is sinful that

(19:11):
the two best candidates that we have this election cycle
are having to run against each other. Are running against
each other because they both are two of the most
capable people we've had. Matthew Willard, he's the guy tried
to raise the homestead exemption and has been doing all
the property tax things the homeowners. Delicia Boyd is the
one who's been trying to save the insurance industry and
lower insurance rates. I mean, the only people that are

(19:33):
getting anything done right now in the legislature that actually
have impacts on people's lives. And of course they are
running against each other, but what's gotten in is Delicia Boyd.
This is interesting because it's not illegal. So she's been
paying her daughter to run her campaign about thirty nine
thousand dollars. Prince Lisa. This actually there is a state

(19:56):
ethics laws that you can employ members of your FAMI,
except the problem is with campaign contributions. That's not actually
a restriction. If you're not using state dollars, it isn't
So is that a scandal She's being attacked to employed
her daughter, But I'm like, she hasn't broken any laws.
This is money she's raised, So this is one of

(20:17):
those situations where is a scandal scandal and it depends
upon your perfect view. Some people are like, you cannot
have family members on a payroll if you're running for office,
and that's a fair point of view. That's a very
justified point of view about political corruption. On the other hand,
Boyd's like, my daughter is my secretary. She works for
me in my job. She's only doing the job she
normally does. You know, in my Delicia Boid's major realtor,

(20:40):
she owns all kinds of real estate and her daughter
works for there. So is that a scandal. We leave
you the voters to decide if that's a scandal. But
all of this, for those that haven't noted, Early voting
in Orleans Parish is on as of September twenty seventh
and Saturday, and it will be continuing throughout this week
for people who want to vote. And it's one of

(21:01):
the I mean, there's a few other races going on.
The slide. El Mayor's race is going on very actively,
but because of the time sequence, it's an off year
with everyone else in the state, so there's nothing else
in the ballot and that hurts turnout. We all started
this talking about turnout. Well, here's the other problem. When
you have two kne elections, people give up even paying attention.
I'm gonna bet you there are at least fifty percent

(21:24):
of New Orleans voters, of Orleans Parish voters right now
who don't realize there's an election going on October eleventh.
I've had educated people who follow politics and follow everything,
so who said, well, the election's not till November, right,
and it's a logical statement. Yeah, sure, it's nothing unreasonable,
but it's the election day is October eleventh, and frankly,
most things will be settled by then, or pretty close

(21:46):
to it.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
If you don't go out there and start putting their
signs out like now, well that says election in October,
the eleven vote for me, something like that, Well, then.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
They kind of already doing it. They're trying to get
people out of early vote. Do you early vote?

Speaker 3 (21:59):
Yes? Yes, thank you too.

Speaker 2 (22:00):
Going on is there's a US Senate race that has
been cooking up, and we'll talk about that right after
the break.

Speaker 4 (22:10):
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(22:32):
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(22:54):
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Speaker 2 (23:16):
Live under a bridge.

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Speaker 2 (24:57):
Christopher Tidmore and folks, we would look at the local
elections that are of course happening on October eleventh. But
you know, from one election, we got another, and we
got a US Senate race going in and uh, we
got some breaking news that Eric Scremetta, who is running
for the US senate's a public service commission. He's gonna
have a new book coming out, you know, a Conservatism

(25:19):
on uh from the creator and he's it's sort of
a campaign biography that's going to be changing some stuff.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
From the creator. Interesting, sounded like Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 2 (25:29):
It's a it's a very well. The last chapter is
on Charlie Kirk actually who is a friend of who
is a friend of Scrimtta's.

Speaker 3 (25:34):
Oh wow, And so he's a fine man. I'm glad
I've got to know you. You introduced me to him.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
And he's he's an interesting, good guy. But he's in
a tough race. He's in a so the real questions
are there's Blake Ramenez, who is running sort of as
the governor's kind of candidate's not really endorsed by him.
You've got it looks like you know, of course, the
Treasurer John Fleming, he's running very hard. Our acquaintance Jeff
Carreer is kind of running his campaign. And so there's

(26:01):
a lot of people that are all lining up against
Bill Cassidy. Well, one of the questions that nobody can
get is will Bill Cassidy get Trump's endorsement? Now before
you say no, Trump is? I mean Trump, you can
be Trump's biggest enemy today and his friend. Look at Zelensky.
Zelensky couldn't do anything right. And now Trump comes before
the started and Trump, well, I mean he kind of

(26:24):
he comes in. I like to think Trump's finally doing
the right thing.

Speaker 3 (26:27):
Zelensky was never really on Trump's side. He was on
the Ukraine side, whereas Cassidy, supposedly a Republican, should have
been supporting the president and voted to impeach it.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
But here's the but here's the thing that was.

Speaker 3 (26:39):
That was the dumbest thing. He thought he had it made.
He thought he could get away with it. Big mistake. Mistake.

Speaker 2 (26:45):
We Republicans first, or Americans first, anyway, Uh, Cassidy lately.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
That was a false impeachment in it, it was so false.

Speaker 2 (26:52):
Okay, I don't I don't want to relegate the impeachment.
I will say, in Louisiana we now have a closed
Republican primary. That's one of the things that was changed
in the last legislative session. So it doesn't it was.
The political calculations are a lot different. It's just Republicans
and federal elections voting for Republicans. However, having said that,
remember Bill Cassidy has subsequently voted on some tough votes.

(27:13):
Particularly it was in the news a lot this week
on RFK Junior. You know, right now, Cassidy and John
Barrasso were very critical of rfk's work on vaccines. But
at the same time, it's not like they get credit
for Democrats because they voted for him. And so how
much will that mean for Trump? Will you know? I've

(27:33):
learned this that there's no such thing as gratitude in
Donald Trump's mind. You could be his friend forever and
he could cast you away. On the other hand, well.

Speaker 3 (27:42):
Come on that question.

Speaker 2 (27:44):
Yeah, I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 (27:45):
You've been in this game too long time I've been
I've been seen.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
I've been in the game long enough to know that
there is if you will forgive the term honor amongst thieves.
There is a situation where you you dance with the
ones who are bruing you. You know, sometimes you have
cast him. Why there'socracy but Donald Trump in a strange way,
this is a compliment. There there is no permanent friend
of Donald Trump. He will cast you away. If you've

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done everything for him and bent over backwards for him
and give him a quarter billion dollars the way Elon
Musk did, he will cast you away. On the other hand,
you could have been his greatest trader. And if you've
been the nee to the man, he suddenly you are.
And right now I think there are knee pads on
the Bill Cassidy's So we're going to see whether or not.

Speaker 3 (28:29):
You know, voting himself is like the greatest Trump supporter ever.

Speaker 2 (28:32):
Well, yeah, he needs he needs to Will Trump go
along with it, and he's done that before. Come on,
here's the facts. Trump every time he's Trump had a
few things. The senator from North Carolina, he attacked him
for not voting with him. That senator turned around and said,
I'm not going to run again. Well, North Carolina, if
you hadn't noticed, is a swing state. Trump only won

(28:52):
it by one percentage point each time it. Democrats can
easily win that state. It's like it's becoming increasing Like Virginia,
it's a place where Democrats are very strong.

Speaker 3 (29:02):
Because all the Northeastern folks are coming down to North
Carolina and also heavily Demos well.

Speaker 2 (29:08):
Also part of it is North Carolina is a highly
suburban state Research Triangle, which is the area of between
wake Forest University, Duke and a Chapel Hills. It's north well.
But as areas become more suburban, suburbs used to be

(29:29):
the strength of the Republican Party. Now the strengths of Democrats.
That's where Democratic voters tend to be these days are
in suburbs, not experbs, not inner cities, suburbs, and so
North Carolina is going to be in play. Trump can't
afford at least if he wants a Republican Senate, and
that's what he that If he loses the House, things

(29:49):
become very difficult for Trump. But it's very difficult for
him to hold on to the House. Just an historical typically,
even in the best of times, the party and power
loses ten seats, but the math should favor a Republican
for the Senate, you know, the Republican Senate. And right
now Trump has managed to drive away. He's got a
problem in Maine where Susan Collins is going to be

(30:10):
facing a tide against it. And so it comes down
to Louisiana. And it's a presupposition that whoever wins the
Republican primary is going to be the center from Louisiana.
But what happens if John Bell Edwards gets in? You know,
somebody made a comment and it talked about haplessis of
Democrats and they said, you know what happens if the
Democrats were to nominate a pro life Democrat for anything?

(30:34):
And guess what happens? Suddenly the math on who you're
voting for changes. You liked Edwards when he was in office,
if I remember cract No, you said you called him,
you said, we've talked about rhinos. Well maybe he's a
Dino Democrat name only.

Speaker 3 (30:49):
Because on social issues, over issues.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Yeah, my point being, he was if you Hi McHenry
could come out and say something nice about a Democratic governor,
he was, you know, say what you will about it. Words.
He wasn't crooked and he wasn't corrupt.

Speaker 3 (31:03):
I don't think so no, I mean no, I mean,
there's there's which is a world plus.

Speaker 2 (31:07):
Yeah, he's pro life, He's on criminal justice matters.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
He's pretty comes from a criminal justice His father and
brothers are sheriffs.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
I mean, you're not gonna you're not gonna get on
the other side of.

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Him justice issues.

Speaker 2 (31:21):
You know, he's uh, he's somebody who's got it. What
happens if you have a really contentious Republican primary.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
And he can slip in, Yeah, I.

Speaker 2 (31:30):
Mean, and you're in an environment it's not so impossible.
I think it's unlikely. Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
Is he talked about running.

Speaker 2 (31:36):
He's been the Demo. If Chuck Schumer could get on
his hands and knees and and kiss the feet and
beg him to run, he would do it because he's
the Democrats know, he's the only Democrat in the case
of John Bell Edwards. He's just he could return and
run for governor and against Jeff Landry, he would have
a real shot. I mean, Jeff Landry has has burned

(31:58):
a lot of bridges. He's in the Republican parties. Despite
popular opinion and embracing Trump is not the most popular
person on Earth, and so if you're Edwards, I think
it'd be a bad idea, but it's not impossible. It's
all about math. Can you win? And even in Louisiana.
This is the problem with Donald Trump's sort of extreme pronouncements.

(32:20):
Sometimes they are factually and true. I mean, I didn't
disagree with some of the stuff he said before the
un was it probably the most politic No, But some
of the stuff he said, probably long overdue, is to be.

Speaker 3 (32:31):
Said absolutely for reasons. I have specific logical, factual reasons
when I disagree. It's not I don't care what they
look like, what they act like. His personality, it's a
difficult personality. He's from New York. Guess what, that's New York.
I accept that. That's okay. Even if I think he
I wish he had maybe a little different personality or whatever.
I really don't care. I care about what he's doing,

(32:53):
and then what he's saying it not how he says it.
He's rough, he's gruff, he's sometimes I go, oh, why
you say that, Donald, or say it that way. Let's say,
but that's his personality, that's the way he was raised.
It's New York. Folks accept it. That's why Ted Cruz
went in the first election said we don't want New
York marls. That's what he was addressing the rough, tough

(33:16):
and tumble attitude and personality of New York City.

Speaker 2 (33:20):
Now I want to if I can truly talk about
rough tumble personality, let's talk about the slighte el mayor's race.

Speaker 3 (33:26):
Okay, all right, we have any yads in it now? Well,
because that's how rough and tumble folks here in New
or well connection. We even sound like we're from Brooklyn.
Our Brooklyn sounds like they're from us.

Speaker 2 (33:35):
Randy Fanal versus Bill Porchett. Of course Bill is the
intra mayor. Randy is the police chief. So this is
the two people that are big. But the subtext of
this race has been if you do you remember going
over the bridge for those being side, Oh, they know
exactly what I'm talking about. And there was an outlet
mall when you got all oh yeah, yeah, okay, Well
that outlet mall has been an iceore for a while,

(33:56):
and the company that owns it has been wanting to
sell it.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
Why isn't it Well, because it's closed.

Speaker 2 (34:00):
It's it's been closed for a long time.

Speaker 3 (34:03):
It's just and did COVID shut it in.

Speaker 2 (34:06):
It was actually dying before, well before COVID, because outlet
malls economically don't really have the same power in the
age of the Internet that they once did. They can
work in some places on they work at the river
and so so there've been plans to redevelop. But the
company that wants to redevelop this and wanted to do it,

(34:26):
they couldn't get the money, so they were going to
sell it piece off, piece by piece, and the problem
with that is it limits the redevelopment potential. So the
current interim mayor, this is all when Greg Cromer left
to be part of the current governor's administration. Current intermayor
has essentially used a economic development district and put another

(34:49):
penny in sales tax on with the council's approval of
very tight vote one vote majority, so he could turn
around and borrow millions of dollars to buy this mall
and it would be owned by the city slide l
It will raise taxes to do this, the idea being
that they could find a buyer or redevelopment in doing it,
and his opponent, the current police chief, has said this

(35:10):
is stupid. Wait we're raising taxes on people. We will
have the highest sales tax in the Louisiana in most
of our shopping districts, pretty much anything from old Spanish
trail across the city in order to buy a decrepit mall.
We have no idea what we're going to do with
it and can keep it. The current inter mayor says, look,
if we don't do this, here's what's going to happen.

(35:32):
It's going to become this abandoned eye sore with pieces
and we'll never get anybody. We have to have one
big piece of property to bring in a major investor.
Could be a plant, it could be an Amazon center,
it could be a whole bunch of They have a
new Amazon center there already, but it could be a
whole bunch of stuff. And so it's kind of raised
an interesting issue that's been raising across politics. You've seen

(35:52):
it with Donald Trump getting his Golden ticket, as he
called it, those were hurries war, it's not mine. The
ten percent innship ownership and intel the idea of government
owning businesses. This used to be called socialism, if you
remember correctly, This idea that you own businesses and you're
a government and these are for profit entities. Is something
we're doing. If Barack Obama had turned around and bought
you know, Force, allowed a merger or whatever, and got

(36:15):
ten percent interest in the company for the federal government,
every Republican would be screaming he's lenin. But with Trump
it was allowed. Well, it's kind of extending beyond it,
and it is kind of a bigger trend. Where's our
politics going? So in the UK where am I taking this?
Nigel Farrage is now almost thirty points ahead of both

(36:37):
the Conservative and Labor parties. They're both at like fourteen
fifteen percent. He is projected to be not only the
next Prime Minister, but have a government with a majority
of one hundred and sixty six. One of the best.
What's interesting about Farages?

Speaker 3 (36:51):
I love them, you like so he's.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Talking about immigration, he's talking about any of the issues that
you hear about that Trump talked about the UN and
so on and so forth. But he's done something that
is kind of what it's Trump like now but would
have been unthinkable for Conservative And that's how Farage described himself.
He says, I'm not a member of the Conservative Party,
but I'm a true conservative.

Speaker 3 (37:10):
You've sa the es I've had in London over there, Well.

Speaker 2 (37:13):
That that's actually Tommy, that's actually Tommy Robinson, but that's
still that's not would be the first one to separate
himself from that because he and Robinson get along. But yeah,
it's there's been a big public reaction. Yeah, the Robinson
has a very checkered past. Ferrage doesn't. But anyway, the
point is one of the things Farage has done to

(37:34):
expend his interest in the North of England, the traditional
labor heartlands, the socialist heartlands, is he's been embracing socializing companies,
like buying out coal companies and steel companies and have
them owned by the government. The opposite of Margaret Thatcher,
literally the opposite of Margaret Thatcher. And so you're kind
of like looking at this. A lot of his other

(37:55):
policies are very conservative, but you kind of look at this, wait, wait,
what is politics? Now? Where have we gone? Is there
between the parties in the United States, but even in
the UK is there a clear deliation? You see conservative
parties doing things that are not just like liberal, they're
they're they're left wing, they're socialist. I'm sorry. Owning the

(38:18):
production of labor is a socialist idea. It is straight
out of the communist manifesto, and.

Speaker 3 (38:24):
So they're the same.

Speaker 2 (38:26):
Well okay, but okay, great, because it's we're talking about
Trump Ferraurs whoever. I mean, I don't know if that
most conservatives would like either one of those labels. I mean,
come on. And the point I'm getting at is this
is appealing.

Speaker 3 (38:38):
Because liberals love those labels.

Speaker 2 (38:39):
But I don't think liberals love those people.

Speaker 3 (38:41):
They did before. They love the foscists, they love that outfit.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
Look, the point I'm getting at is no conservative would
have agreed on owning the government owning stars and businesses.
Even the suggestion that al Gore made that we could
take part of the what is then the surplus and
social security and do what you and I do, and
like the government could buy parts of mutual funds just

(39:05):
because they have a higher return, was so rejected because
it would mean government would own stocks and private companies
that there was bipartisan revulsion and that was kind of
minor compared to what we're talking about here, which is happening.
And so one of the things that's going on is,
you know, people ask me, they said, you're a lifelong Republican.
You're a conservative self described. You have these things. Why

(39:28):
are you having a problem. It's just because, Frankly, this
world that i'm in, the politics are changing. I'll give
you an example. I'll give you my perfect example. I'm
writing about it this week, and i'll close with this.
You notice the thing about the H one visas. Trump
is now wanting one hundred thousand dollars to apply for
an H one B visa. You saw that, Yes, okay,

(39:48):
the H one B visas are for high tech professions.
Here's the part nobody's talking about. Almost every H one
V visa that we actually put in the lottery of
eighty thousand that really make it to the lottery are
people who graduate from US graduate programs in science, engineering,
high tech, software, you name it, like the STEM professions.

(40:09):
And so we've spent millions in federal billions and federal
dollars to educate these people. Because most high tech, most
university funding comes from the federal government. We've spent millions
upon millions of south thousands per student to educate these people.
And then we're going to turn around and say, Okay,
you need to pay one hundred thousand dollars to even

(40:29):
get into a lottery to possibly be able to stay
in the United States and get a job. This is
where this whole logic breaks down because what's happening now
in the high tech professions is you don't have to
be physically present to do your job. So what's happening
is these people will get hired by American firms and
they'll go wherever they live, so the biggest South Africa, England,

(40:52):
where you name it, China, it doesn't matter, and they'll
do their same job remotely, except they won't be paying
US income tax, they won't be paying local property taxes,
they won't be paying sales taxes. So in order to
get this hundred thousand dollars, we're chasing off people we
spent million a million dollars to educate, so we don't
get money. And if you can explain how that's a

(41:14):
conservative economic policy, I would love to hear it.

Speaker 3 (41:18):
Okay, good point. We got we gotta work on.

Speaker 2 (41:22):
Why why is Trump doing that? Doesn't it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
There's no telling. Again, some of these decisions are made
in smoke flow rooms, behind the scenes, and there are
other factors we don't hear about maybe till it's in
the history books ten years from now. So I don't know, Christopher,
that's a very good point you brought up.

Speaker 2 (41:38):
I mean, it's just excellent to me. It's not it's
bad economics them, well, it's one we can pay, make
them pay. I mean, we talked about deporting people that
were criminals or alone in What does it benefit a
country to deport people who are like the smart people
who help drive our concrete? How is that? How is
that making it?

Speaker 3 (41:56):
We're doing it the way I say it, or say
it is. We are tripping over dollars to grab pennies,
well said, very well said.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
That's brilliant. I mean it's like that. I'm speechless. That
may be one of the most profound statements you've ever
made on this radio show. I make, Henry very well done.
You know, it's like, well, and I'll use you know,
we actually got one second left, so I'll make this.
There's a lot of people who've been criticizing this metaplant,
this miles of things outside of Monroe, which we refer to.

(42:26):
We're going to talk about in the next week's show
when we talk about this new school up in Monroe.
But everybody's saying this could cost the rate payers of
Louisiana power, it could drive up power cost. I'm like,
this will produce billions in tax dollars and hundreds and
thousands of jobs.

Speaker 3 (42:45):
I mean, come on, think they're going to make their
own power and they're going to do it with a
local gas up natural gas.

Speaker 2 (42:50):
Building three power plants. Yeah, I mean, it's like, no, this.

Speaker 3 (42:53):
Is such a plusful weision. I can't exactly this.

Speaker 2 (42:57):
This is economically I'm gonna remember your comment tripping over
a dollar to save a penny. This is this is
what's our problem in politics today. That's how we're not looking.

Speaker 3 (43:05):
It must have been a louis a local Louisiana politician,
maybe New Orleans politician that advised him for that. I'm sorry,
but that's I've watched it too Longis like, we talked
about growing the economy here, not that was actually real
quickly remember those folks, you've heard me say it. But
it's so important. Every year, billions of dollars, billions, maybe

(43:27):
trillions of dollars pass us on the Missippi River, going
up and down the river. With the greatest water set
of wealth in the world. How much of that, do
we get all of the companies, build businesses, build factors
built up so they can tap into all that. Well,
and we just had to blow right past it.

Speaker 2 (43:42):
That's literally have you joined the frustrate? Have you joined
the race to place this campaign? You just gained his
entire campaign platform.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
Well, good for him.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
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by patriotic, moment we would just take a brief moment
to remind you of the biblical foundations of our, country
Our Judeo christian. Jurisprudence and TODAY i want to talk
about something that happened In america in the seventeen fifties that,

(46:28):
experts scholars throughout the decades have declared to be the
most influential part of The American revolution because it Prepared
america for such an amazing, event an impossible a task
that The americans had taken upon. Themselves they were going
to take on the greatest empire in the world with
the greatest, military and we were just a little peep
squeak operation here in the. Colonies how could we possibly

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win that? War what could we? Do? Well what we
needed is we didn't have, resources that The british, said
but we did have, heart we did have soul if you,
Will we had the courage and the wisdom to pull
off such an impossible. Dream and we did it Because
god did it in. Us and this is what historians

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believe was the major, cause a major reason for the
success Of, america what actually Made america great back, then
and it was. This in the seventeen, fifties there was
a great awakening that started In, america started up In
New england with one of my favorite of all theologians and,
preachers and that Was Jonathan edwards who we all read
about it and WHEN i was in high, school centers

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in the hands of an Anger. God it was that
sermon that set a, fire a flame that swept through the.
Colonies Now Jonathan edwards did not really continue on that,
mission but there was a man who really liked him
From england Named George, whitfield a, minister and when he
came under the influence Of Jonathan, edwards he took off
and was the driving force behind The Great. Awakening that

(47:57):
was a great revival that swept the colonies and then
also went back across The, atlantic swept The British isles
and even Into. Europe it had a huge impact On western,
culture but especially here In. AMERICA i believe its greatest
activity was In. America whitfield went and got a couple
of his, buddies The wesley, Brothers john And Charles, wesley
and they also were heavily supported and influenced by a

(48:21):
little tiny group of missionaries known as The moravians From, Moravia.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA i believe his area by a famous preacher and.
Duke he was a famous aristocrat In europe Named Count,
zissendorf and he started a prayer meeting in his chapel
on his estate with. Supporters now they had come in

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from all Around. Europe, Catholics, Protestants, baptists, whatever all different
types of groups all met there and they created a
commune there and he started a little prayer meeting in
their chapel that. Day do you know how long that
prayer meeting lasted in that? Chapel twenty four, hours half a,
day maybe even a couple of days or a. Week, no,
folks that prayer meeting lasted for the next one hundred.

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Years and it made The moravians the First protestant missionaries
in church. History the impact it had On america is.
Overwhelming it's absolutely. Stunning and to give you a wrap
up on, This Benjamin franklin became very good friends With
george Would. Feld really loved the. GUY i really respected.
Him he followed him when he. Could he measured his

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crowds to be upwards of twenty and thirty. Thousand he
couldn't understand that the farthest person could still Hear whitfield
with no public address. System this was the work Of, god.
Folks people would come from nowhere out of nowhere by
the thousands to hear him. Speak they don't even know
how they found out about, it but they would come
well to give you an idea of the impact it
had On. America nearing the end of this Great, Awakening

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Benjamin franklin made this. Comment he wrote it down in
his newspaper and, whatnot and the Poor richard the porridge
all the. Night he. Said it never ceased to amaze
me the impact that this had on our. Colonies he.
SAID i would walk through the streets Of philadelphia and
find out that the jails were shut, down the whorehouses were,

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closed the taverns had no more, drunks he, Said and
as you walked through the streets throughout the, city you
would hear the melodious voices and songs and hymns of
the families inside through their, windows open windows wafting out
into the, street crying out and Praising god for his. Glory,

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folks this Was Benjamin franklin what he, observed the impact
it had on, society and historians throughout the centuries now
have declared that that was the single most important thing
that gave The americans the backbone and the cards to
do what they. Did, Well, folks you, know you may
find think this is fascinating and. Interesting it certainly. IS

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i think we're on the verge of one right now
because with what's just happened With Charlie, KIRK i didn't
know he had gotten this, huge but when he died
he Had there were over three thousand and five hundred
chapters around the. COUNTRY i had no idea'd gotten that.
Big do you know? It right now they're over one
hundred and twenty thousand applications for a turning, POINT i

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think we're on the verge of literally a youth. Revival
and if that hat it's it's going to have an
impact On america like The Great awakening. Did we're going
to have a Great awakening before The Lord jesus comes,
back AND i think he's coming back. Soon you'all have
heard me on that. Before but, folks in spite of
all this good, stuff what about? You where are you
and all of? This do you know that when you
die you're going to go to? Heaven you could be

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the greatest biblical pature they ever? Lived but Without, christ
it does you know? Good So i'm gonna quickly tell
you how you can know for sure you're going to.
Heaven first thing you need to, do, folks you need to,
repent and that word repentance just means you quit trust in.
Yourself you realize you're hopeless and helpless and destined to
a burning. Hell Without, god you have nothing good to
lay on the, table nothing good For. God no, man
how good you, are it's it's never going to be

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good enough For god Because he's. Perfect so forget, it no,
Worries let go and Let. God and this is how
you Let. God you believe what the scripture says In
john three and. Sixteen For god's soul love the. World that's,
you that's everybody that he. Gave it's only begotten. Son
that's The, Lord Jesus, christ Perfect, god perfect, man all
the Way, god all the Way. Man he gave his
only begotten, Son, god The son that whosoever that's you

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again believeth in. Him what do you? Believe you got
to Believe he died for all of your. Sins that's
called the. Gospel the gospel is the power Of god into.
Salvation the scripture, says you have to believe That he
died for all of your, sins and the day you're
born and the day you, die he ties to the greatest.
Sins that he was, buried and that he rose from
the dead to win for you his precious free gift of,
resurrection ever lasting. Life, folks if you've never believed that,

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before believe it. Now that whosoever believeth In him shall not,
perish not go to, hell but have everlasting. Life do
it right, now before it's too, late. Folks don't wait
till it's too. Late and like The word Of god,
says now today is the day of. Salvation, well, folks
time for of course Mont Saint martin's singing a creole
goodbye And god bless all out? There does this have

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to be the end of the? Nerd you KNOW i love.

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You in The pammon, LAND i can see across a million.

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Stars WHEN i look.

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At we can mosey it's the sun.

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TIME i suppose you couldn't call it a cray.

Speaker 1 (53:43):
If we take just a little little longer to see
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The calling cel good