Does New Orleans Need A Fiscal Administrator?

Mayor-elect Helena Moreno declared last week, “The city of New Orleans should not, and I will not stand for, having a (state) fiscal administrator come in."
Hy and Christopher discuss Gov. Jeff Landry’s proposal that he has the power to appoint a budgetary Tsar over local finances.  Does it carry about as much legitimacy as his idea that President Trump should appoint the next LSU football coach?
Both agree that the Governor’s opinion that a tribune of his should hold power over local finances might have carried a little more weight if he had done everything in his power to kill an emergency $125 million bond issue so that the City of New Orleans could pay its employees through Christmas. Due to his opposition, the city withdrew its request from the state bond commission.
Politics operates by the golden rule; he has the gold makes the rule. The taxpayers of New Orleans will pay the price if their police and fire and critical city employees are laid off at the holidays. They have elected a new Mayor and Council.  Should the new team have the right to make these decisions, as they will experience, the fallout of budget cuts or tax increases?
Perhaps the Governor’s newfound interest in Orleans finances has more to do with the fact that his poll numbers have fallen into historic lows, way below the President’s. A new statewide poll finds Donald Trump’s favorable rating in Louisiana stands at 48%, but Governor Jeff Landry’s has fallen to only 39% JMC Analytics and Polling pollster John Couvillon says Landry had an aggressive legislative agenda during his first year in office and that might have turned off a few voters. Beating up on New Orleans always ranks as a great way to turn North Louisiana voter opinion back in one’s favor.
Hy and Christopher also ponder if Gov. Jeff Landry led advocates of a second Black-majority district into a trap?  By encouraging then-state Senator Cleo Fields to draw a serpentine-shaped district from Baton Rouge to Shreveport—almost impossible to drive across without transversing dirt roads through swamps—the Governor may have not only given the conservative-majority Supreme Court an excuse to strike the current LA 6th Congressional seat out of existence, but every other majority-minority US House district in the nation as well.
In oral arguments one month ago, Justice Samuel Alito largely questioned the specifics of Louisiana’s case and whether the lower courts had faithfully applied the court’s existing Section 2 framework, which requires a minority group to show it is sufficiently large and geographically compact enough to form a majority in a new district.
After lower courts ruled Louisiana’s map with only one majority-Black district violated Section 2, the state added a second one by creating a narrow path stretching from Baton Rouge in the southern part of the state to Shreveport, near its northwestern corner. This oddly redesigned 6th Congressional seat has drew objections ever since.
“There’s a big difference, and there’s a serious question about whether the Black population within the district in question in the illustrative map was geographically compact,” Justice Alito noted.
It is not as if Louisiana had not had a congressional seat struck down for exactly this reason, part of the reason Cleo Fields left Congress nearly three decades ago in the first place. Louisiana's 8th congressional district (which Fields represented from January 3, 1993, to January 3, 1997) was known for its unusual, "Z" shape. Created after the 1990 census, it connected a large and diverse geographic area of Louisiana, including a mix of urban and rural areas as well as stretching east and west of Baton Rouge and up the Mississippi River towards the Arkansas border. When Louisiana lost a congressional seat due to relative population declines following the next census, US Justice Department lawyers thought the 8th looked so odd that the state was allowed to drop this minority-majority seat rather than one of the Caucasian majority districts.
When one adds to the fact that even prior to the current phase of Louisiana’s legal battle reaching the US supreme Court, some members of the conservative majority have long endorsed broad changes to the court’s Section 2 approach. If Louisiana had followed the recommendations of most civil rights lawyers to draw new 6th District from Baton Rouge to Monroe along the Mississippi river, linking geographically connected rural communities with a more “ natural” African-American majority, Louisiana’s case may have received a more skeptical reception by the Justices.
Instead, in all likelihood, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority will use Louisiana’s salamander-shaped congressional seat— the very original definition of a gerrymander— as the justification to eliminate the mandate for all majority-minority seats, and then southern “red state” legislators will engage in a smorgasbord of redistricting to produce

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Battles, the politicians addressed, the digitators and magicians whose to
see the money?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Then you don't, there's nothing to fill the holes?

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Well, then are.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Feeling their pockets by holes, the politicians bouncing down the road.
Every body'sition for no moment, corruption and itysfunction. It's gone
to day, divide it avention.

Speaker 4 (00:35):
It's all Saints Day weekend and the post Halloween the
time of rebirth.

Speaker 5 (00:39):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (00:40):
The question is though we have a rebirth federal government
and where we have employees, they're birth enough to get
a paycheck in Orleans. And a lot of political dynamics
as we go into the runoff elections coming out of
this Halloween as always this and more on this edition
of the Founder's Show.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
Bless all out there.

Speaker 6 (00:58):
You are now listening to the found So the voice
of the founding fathers, your 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 old Liberty cypress
tree draped in Spanish moss, way out on the Eagles Branch,

(01:21):
is none other than your spingary Bubbayu the Republic Chaplain
Hi mcgenry with Christopher Tidmore.

Speaker 4 (01:27):
You're roving reporter, resident radical moderate and associate editor of
the Louisiana Weekly Newspaper, a Louisiana Weekly dot net. And
before we go to the latest machinations in Washington, d C.
You know, Halloween weekend has brought us a fundamental question
that everybody keeps wondering, especially if you're a city employee,
will you get paid. It's not just federal employees that

(01:48):
may go unpaid the next couple of months, it's people
in the city, the city of New Orleans. And I
remember there was a great political cartoon at the end
of the nineteen seventies which really ages me and really
ages you. That New York City was going bankrupt. You
remember this, Oh yeah, and President Ford they asked the
federal government for a bailout, and President Ford, you know,

(02:10):
said now, I don't think we can do that. And
the the the political cartoon on the New York I
believe it was the New York Daily News, was Ford
to city dropped dead? Well, Gerald Ford didn't quite say that,
but pretty much Jeff Landry did. It was pretty close
to what he said when the City of New Orleans

(02:33):
went to borrow one hundred and twenty million dollars to
make payroll and the bond Commission. Unlike most states, cities
can't just borrow money, or parishes can't just borrow money
sat Texas, if a county wants to borrow money, it
just goes to the markets and borrows money. In Louisiana,
every parish and or municipality and or whoever taxing authority

(02:55):
has to actually go to what's called the State Bond Commission,
where the only state in the Union that had a
bond commission, and essentially requests the state to allow this
to happen. Now, it would have been dead on arrival
if this were LOTORYA Cantrell asking, But this was Helene
Moreno saying. Look, there's no way. He says, I'm going
to lay off quite a few employees. But there's no

(03:16):
way we can lay off everybody. We can't make payroll.
I mean, even if we were half of our staff,
we don't have enough money to make payroll for the
last couple of months. That means we'd be laying off
cops and firemen and you know people that everybody agrees
are central personnel. And it looked for a little while
like this this amount was going to get right out,

(03:39):
it was going to get right through. And then started
with former state Senator Conrad Appell who did a series
of editorials and newspapers against it, and it was followed
by other people close the administration. Ultimately, Jeff Landry said
in no way to do it, and then he took
a step further.

Speaker 5 (03:58):
He said that the City.

Speaker 4 (03:58):
Of New Orleans should be assigned a legislative auditor, you know,
basically a fiscal agent to oversee the budget. Well, the
challenge in this thought if the state had lent the
money and said, you know, we want a fiscal agent
to make sure you spend the money the right way,
that could have been a reasonable condition. I mean a
lot of people in New Orleans wouldn't like it, but

(04:21):
you know, sometimes you give money, you put conditions on it.

Speaker 5 (04:24):
Bankers put conditions on loans all the time.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
However, in this particular case, the city's like, wait, you're
not giving us any money, and you want us to
give up our authority. This created a rather interesting set
of comments from outgoing councilman Oliver Thomas, and the word
started with Bull and I cannot say the rest for
FCC regulations on a family radio show, but it was

(04:52):
quite a presumptuous comment, and people were under why Jeff
Landry kind of so engaged in this conversation. And John
couvean Republican polster, not a liberal left wing guy, comes
out and says, well, I got a theory. Jeff Landry's
public approval ratings in Louisiana are way below Trump's. So

(05:12):
Trump is about at fifty percent forty nine percent in Louisiana.
Jeff Landry is at thirty nine percent. He's he's trudging
the bottom of public approval ratings. Meanwhile, as you might
have seen, there's something going on.

Speaker 3 (05:27):
He's getting as low as Democrats now.

Speaker 4 (05:29):
Actually interesting, it's interesting you say that Democrats in the
wake of this legislative special.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Session for the Louisiana I mean for the whole cost well, but.

Speaker 4 (05:38):
I mean he's actually, yeah, it's pretty much as low
as Democrats are rated. But Democrats in Louisiana actually are
pretty high right now. They're in they're in the mid forties.
And the reason is there's been a lot of reaction
on what has happened in this legislative session. Now, for
those that don't know, Jeff Landry had great expense to
the state. So this is this is costing us about

(05:59):
thirty or forty million dollars to have the special session
called a special session to move the elections back one month.
You heard me correctly. Remember, Jeff Landry had passed in
the previous legislative session a return to a closed primary
system and for federal elections and Bessie Boord elections and
basically anything that's the size of a congressional seat. And

(06:24):
that was problematic all but he did something different. Instead
of having the primary and runoff for partisan elections in
the fall like we had had the last time we
tried this ill gotten experiment, he decided to do him
in summer April and May. So then he calls this
legislative session to move them back to May and June.

Speaker 5 (06:48):
Now I wonder why he would do that.

Speaker 3 (06:51):
High hmm.

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Let's think about this. When does the Supreme Court announce
their findings for their their term of you know, uh,
their their fall term of office. Oh, could it be
right around qualifying in January?

Speaker 3 (07:09):
Of course.

Speaker 4 (07:10):
And if you have qualifying in February, that means you
can redraw the districts, and that means you can get
rid of Cleo Fields. Is African American UH majority congressional
district and possibly Troy Carter's. Now I've I've told a
lot of people high you know, if if if I
thought more highly of Jeff Landry, I would have said,

(07:30):
this has been a genius plot from the beginning. I
think he did this is this was not quite as
premeditated as you know he might like to think. But
he got Cleo Fields to draw as in I mean,
the guy drew his own seat that he ran for
just so we know, in the State Senate. He drew
a congressional seat that only Cleo Fields could win, not
a black man, only Clo Fields. Because it's stretched from

(07:54):
the African American suburbs of Baton Rouge all the way
through Oppelousas, all the way up towards Shreepol, and the
only thing connecting it is a bit of swamps and
a few alligators. It's so jerrymandered it looks like a salamander.
If anybody knows. Elbridge Jerry, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, a founder of this country, was the creator
of one of the most corrupt practices of politics in America,

(08:18):
that is, of course, jerrymandering.

Speaker 6 (08:21):
It was in Massachusetts, and if you see the map
of it, it really did a lot in many ways
look like a salamander.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
That's why they called it jerryman.

Speaker 4 (08:28):
And what is fascinating is, so does this district if
you look at it, it looks like a salaman.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
It is a terrible district.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
Maybe more like a cotton mouth moccasins.

Speaker 5 (08:38):
I buy that about that. It's that kind of thing.

Speaker 4 (08:40):
But the reason I say it's a terrible district, even
if you agree with African American majority districts, I'm sympathetic
to the idea. There was a very simple one to do,
and it was straight up the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge.
And you're saying, well, that would be long and thin.
But anybody who knows communities along what was historically known
as the Black Belt, and that's not referring to race,

(09:02):
it's referring to the soil, the very rich soil. They're
African American communities up the river. And you could have
easily drawn a district from Baton Rouge to Monroe, Louisiana,
and it was a very cohesive, very logical, Black majority district,
and it made geographic sense. And for those that say, well,
isn't that long and thin, what do they do that else?

(09:23):
The other side of the river is an African American
rural district in Mississippi where Bernie Thompson is. That is exactly.
It's the mirror of what you would draw. It's not
anything out of practice. It makes sense they didn't draw
that well.

Speaker 6 (09:36):
Jerry manderin folks means that you normally things were done
like within proximity. You know, it might be an area
that was twenty miles by twenty miles or fifty miles
with in a general you know, square or oval shaped
area and that made sense. And then with the center
of it being the seat of the government. But to
get people of other persuasions let's say other party persuasion

(10:00):
and whatnot, to be able to have extra seats, they
started running these doing jerymandering where they would create a
map that wasn't regular. It's very irregular, like a long,
skinny thing or winding thing or whatever. And that's how
they came up with this concept. And the Democrats have

(10:20):
jerrymandered massively.

Speaker 3 (10:22):
All over the country. Oh massive, but well massively.

Speaker 4 (10:25):
I will no, no, I'm not going to disagree that they're.

Speaker 6 (10:27):
They're finally the Republicans are starting to do that. We're
way late, were Johnny cum Lake, but at least still
even the seats up.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
It it'll even it up.

Speaker 4 (10:36):
I bring up right now a Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger,
who is arguing against the Democratic jerrymanderin California. California is
actually one of the few states that have pretty logical
seats for both parties. It's not jerrymandered. It's got an
independent commission that actually is made up equally of Republicans

(10:57):
and Democrats. And that's why a state as liberals California
has so many Republican Congressmen, because they actually have seats
that can't vary more than five percent between the parties.
And of course, Gavin Newsom, in reaction to President Trump's
call on a lot of southern and Midwestern red states
to redraw the districts, has now put a thing on

(11:18):
the ballot in California, and that's on a November ballot
that will say, you know, California can abandon its independent
districting and the legislature can draw more democratic districts. That's
an example of something where the Republican said, let's draw
more seats. I'm not debating that their gerrymander districts in Massachusetts,
New York and elsewhere. But they're also jerrymanager of sixts eware.

(11:40):
Well that's led to this entire Supreme Court case about Louisiana.
And so if you're Jeff Landry, you're in a particularly
interesting political thing since it was your idea to create
a second African American district. You're the one who pushed
it through the legislature to get your political ally, Cleo
Fields elected. They're very close friends you made your Cleo

(12:00):
Fields was the only Democrat who had a committee chairmanship.
I wonder why it was to draw a district, And
now you're going back on it. So the Democrats who
were somewhat sympathetic to Jeff Landry are now mad at him.
And so he needed a way of distracting from all this.
And the way is the common way in Louisiana politics,

(12:21):
attack New Orleans and its fiscal problems. Well, what is
New Orleans going to do Orleans Parish? Nobody is particularly
sure and where It intrigues me. Is early voting is starting, Okay,
polls are opening, and one of the things on the
ballot is a millage to increase affordable housing. Now, by itself,

(12:44):
there are arguments foreign against it, but I'm curious if
a tax increase is going to be really well suited
when the city can't pay its bills for a specific purpose,
and of Chris for why can't they pay their bills? Well,
basically a mismanagement. No, no, oh, yes, no, Actually, I'm
gonna you can say it's mismanagement.

Speaker 5 (13:04):
It's this.

Speaker 4 (13:05):
It started on New Year's Night, remember the terror attack.
The overtime on that terror attack was thirty two million
dollars because we took basically all of our police fire
and essentially this that was unplanned. However, Taylor Swift, everybody
knew Taylor Swift was coming in the city, was doing that,

(13:26):
but they didn't budget for that. That was mismanagement. But
they had overtime. Remember when you have something on the side,
You're like, well, what Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift's co two
concerts were each eighty thousand people. It's like having two
Marti Grass every take, even if every.

Speaker 6 (13:40):
Take tickets are going for like five hundred thousand dollars
a piece, So.

Speaker 4 (13:44):
Let's take that much, and they're usually about eight hundred dollars.
You're right, But if you take it, if you take
eight hundred dollars and you deal to eighty thousand people,
it's never that perfect. That's sixty four million dollars. Hi,
I mean, you do two concerts, that's a that's a
lot of money. I'm not playing it down, but that's
what I remember.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Maybe it meant for her year.

Speaker 6 (14:01):
She could easily have afforded to Penny up and you know,
help for her own concert.

Speaker 5 (14:07):
Well, but here's the thing.

Speaker 4 (14:08):
We don't require that of any other performer, and she
probably wouldn't have come to New Orleans.

Speaker 5 (14:14):
People fly.

Speaker 4 (14:15):
I've got a really good friend who you know, Taylor
Swift is already announced coming to New Orleans. And I said, well,
you know, we're chatting with her lunch. What are you
doing next week? He said, I'm going to Amsterdam with
my sister. Okay, why I'm taking her to a Tailor
Swift concert. I said, you know, Taylor Swift is coming
to New Orleans next month. He said, it's cheaper for

(14:36):
us to fly to Europe and go to the concert
there then pay the tickets that were going at some
rates as much as two thousand dollars in New Orleans.
But back to your question, so that happened, So you
had an event that was unplanned. As much as you
can blame Cantrell, you can't blame her for not knowing
that a terror attack was happening any year's eve. You
can blame her for not putting enough resources on, you know,

(14:58):
on the Tellers Swift Con. And there's a series of
events like that through the year where essentially the overtime
was not calculated and so it blew out the entire budget.
There's also questions of you know, what she's spending money on,
and does she have too many unclassified employees? Those are
employees that are not on the civil service that she appoints.

(15:19):
Right now, she's very unapologetic about this whole thing. Moreno
and her you know, her council team are trying to
put together a transition team. But no one really knows
what's going to happen with payroll, and and we can't
like raise taxes in two weeks to make the payroll.
And this is not like, oh, so what about federal

(15:40):
like state city employees. I'm talking police and fire would
be laid off in this Christopher.

Speaker 6 (15:46):
Uh, you know, it's hard to get down to the
Nicholson dimes and whatnot over what they're really doing with
the money.

Speaker 3 (15:52):
Uh, it's well hidden. Of course, it's not well hidden.

Speaker 5 (15:55):
It's a lot of it.

Speaker 3 (15:57):
What they do is hidden. I'm sorry. Have you had
when they use? Do know is one thing you do? Yes?
You know? You know one thing they do?

Speaker 6 (16:03):
They absolutely are constantly in all kinds of scams and
crooked deals. They get caught all the time. They don't
usually have to pay for it. They usually get away
with it. Believes they get caught.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
All right, give me an example of this, Give me
an example.

Speaker 6 (16:16):
I mean, we have a mayor in jail, we have
another mayor in jail. We've got I don't know all
the details. I just keep picking up, okay, and we
all do how corrupt the city is. And what my
point is this, this is what I believe. Here's I
believe that when officials are crooked, they're much more focused
on what they're stealing instead of doing their job. And
that's one reason you have a lot of mismanagement.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
So you believe that.

Speaker 6 (16:39):
So here and then that filters down the lower level
guys say he's stealing it. Well, obno, see what I
can steal now.

Speaker 4 (16:43):
So here's and the reason I'm bringing this up is
I am not a defender LaToya Cantrell by any stretch
of the imagination. The reason why I asked you that
question was the federal authorities that have looked at Cantrell
have found something really interesting. She personally doesn't seem to
have profited off of the office. So one of the
things that happened with Ray Nagan was he was he

(17:05):
was basically selling permits to they wanted to They wanted
to get rid of a whole set of streets to
be able to build the home depot that's now on
the edge of downtown. And so he sold essentially permits
to get rid of streets at at nothing.

Speaker 3 (17:21):
But rock deal going on inside with cabinet making the cabin.

Speaker 4 (17:25):
Because what the deal was that his sons, who had
a countertop business, would have the countertop contracts after the
sweetheart deal with with home Depot for the whole region.
But they've looked at similar situations for LaToya Cantrell. And
here's what they found she's not actually crooked.

Speaker 5 (17:45):
She's just checked out.

Speaker 4 (17:47):
Incompetent wants to go to her you know, her little
city matching things, which is legal, and frankly doesn't really care.
So the reason why I was asking this, you got
to be very careful when you make an accusation it's crooked.

Speaker 5 (18:00):
They stole the money.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
Wasn't she taking unauthorized trips on architect's money.

Speaker 4 (18:05):
No, because what happened, and I know what you're getting at,
is they had never had a situation where a mayor
didn't have the right to spend money ongoing because they've
never had a mayor who didn't care about being mayor.
Even even the crooked ones cared somewhat about being mayor.
They liked, if nothing, for the drappings. And it just
reached a point where she started traveling. Well, what happened

(18:27):
was they tried to restrict her travel and they couldn't legally.
A judge came out and said, no, you can't as
a council say. You could say, look, I'm not going
to reimburse you for the trip, which is that was,
but you can't.

Speaker 5 (18:40):
Tell the mayor.

Speaker 4 (18:41):
It's an independently elected office and a separate branch of government.
You can't tell the mayor they can't go wherever they
want to go, period, end of discussion. And so the
answer is that wasn't crooked. It might have been not
terribly smart. It might have been.

Speaker 3 (18:55):
Thought she was using city funds for she was.

Speaker 4 (18:57):
The way it dunket, the way it worked was she
would pay for the trips and get reimbursed, and so
she just didn't get reimbursed once they passed the ban.
Where she was breaking the rules and breaking you can
say breaking the law was that she would upgrade to
first class and charge the city for that, and she
was forced to pay that the upgrade charges back. Okay,

(19:20):
that's not illegal. That might have been proper, but when
she paid it back, there was no crime. Just like that,
when she and Vappi were having a love nest inside
of the Lower Pentablo, it's that wasn't illegal. That's the
mayor's apartment to do it, the mayor's discretion. We just
never had a mayor who abused it before. So there's
a difference. You got to be very careful when you're

(19:42):
saying that you know they're incompetency or a sheer.

Speaker 5 (19:49):
I don't give a care.

Speaker 6 (19:51):
That when people are focused on stealing, they become incompetent
as far as their real job.

Speaker 4 (19:55):
Actually, I actually have a different thing. Do they not
do their job? Well the answer yes, I'm agreeing with that.
But when people are focused on stealing, they're very focused on.

Speaker 3 (20:04):
Their job and it's kind of stealing part of this.

Speaker 4 (20:07):
Well, no, they're focused, they're focused on not getting caught
for stealing, and so it's kind of a weird dichotomy
when you literally don't care about being mayor you really,
for the most part don't care about stealing because you
don't show up at the office, which is her problem
that you know, never you remember Tidmore's dictum never confuse. Uh,

(20:28):
you know, a conspiracy with simple incompetence will explain, well,
this lessons Donald Trump.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Right, then there's a conspiracy.

Speaker 5 (20:34):
Right.

Speaker 4 (20:35):
I don't think there's a conspiracy Donald Trump. In fact,
I'm gonna no no what I've said about Donald convinced
that what I've said about Donald Trump is interestingly he
tells us exactly what he's gonna do, and some of
it is horrendous, but there's no conspiracy about it. He's
pretty straightforward, you know, running for a third term despite
what the conspiracy, well, running for a third people still

(20:58):
believe it, Chris for some people still pushing it. Well, look,
what I'm telling you about Donald Trump is the threat
I found him is he's totally honest about what he
wants to do. And some of the things that are
honest scared the hell out of me. But that aside,
that's not a conspiracy. That's just Donald.

Speaker 3 (21:14):
Trump buying Greenland. That's scary buying Greenland.

Speaker 4 (21:17):
No, Greenland was just Greenland, just a commit.

Speaker 3 (21:20):
What about Canada?

Speaker 4 (21:21):
Canada actually did and let me explain this very.

Speaker 6 (21:24):
Did you know that they got caught for overdosing with
maple syrup. That's why they were.

Speaker 4 (21:28):
Really come up? Yeah, ok, yeah, I'm sorry they Invermont. No,
I mean, I actually I'm going to place this on
our economy is so entwined and then we guys got
to take a quick break. But our economy is so
entwined with Canada on our entire supply chain. It's not
so Trump's one tariff which he attached this past week.

(21:50):
This is the reason why we're running a three point
five percent inflation rate right now. It is the Tariff's
not you know, some of them going to China, it's
really bad. But the ones that go to Mexico and
Canada is like putting a tariff between I don't know,
Arizona and Louisiana. It's stupid economic policy. There's this great

(22:15):
thing that's on the web. Reason magazine remains my favorite
magazine of politics because it's a libertarian magazine.

Speaker 5 (22:21):
It's a pox on both of your houses.

Speaker 4 (22:23):
And one of the things that brought out is the
mayor of this Texas town saying, we don't want these
Californa We're putting a tariff on California guacamole, California surns up.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
We don't want this. We'll put on cowboy boots.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
And it's the stupid stuff there, go back and forth
that makes sense because we're going to do this in
the end, doesn't have any real economic points. And I
gotta tell you, I really you you want a criticism
of Trump. There was no conspiracy about this. It was
just idiotic. Right when Doug Ford, the Premiere of Ontario,
put out a speech that Ronald Reagan gave about the

(22:58):
importance of free trade, and he was talking about why
he was putting a restriction semiconductors for Japan. So he's
giving you ass but he puts out the speech unedited.
I watched the ad. There's no there's no special editing
to it. And Trump ultimately came out, and I'm just
being very blunt about this. Trump came out and condemned
Ronald Reagan. How can you, as a Republican defend that.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Christopher listen, how can you know a Regan did. That's
a good speech.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
I liked it. But you know what Reagan did after that?
He put tariffs.

Speaker 6 (23:28):
So on what I have, I don't have it in
front of me right now, but I read it the
other day and read it in the newspaper. Christopher, look, Trump, Reagan,
he did. He did put tariffs on things after that speech.

Speaker 5 (23:41):
Reagan.

Speaker 4 (23:41):
Reagan, Reagan the only thing that I know of that
he put a tariff on. And he regretted it, he wrote,
I wrote it. I read his autobiography and he said
it was the stupidest mistake in his ass. He was
Harley Davidson Motorcycles came to him and asked him put
a tariff to save Harley Davidson motorcycles. And he's he
wrote in his biography for that it was the stupidest
move he ever made.

Speaker 3 (24:02):
Reagan is the Japanese for flooding is with the motorcycle.

Speaker 4 (24:05):
Right Reagan Japanese yes, And he said it was dumb
because all it did was increased motorcycle prices and lower safety.

Speaker 3 (24:12):
Look but bottom.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
But Reagan was the architect of the North American Free
Trade Agreement, the architect of the General Agreement of Trade
and tariffs. Do not sit here and say that Ronald
Reagan is doing the same thing that Donald Trump.

Speaker 6 (24:23):
Let's look at all Let's look at the big picture here. Now,
the biggures this. For decades, all the nations of the
world have been slapping us with tariffs, and we've been
paying through the nose far. We've been paying a dear
price for and it's cost us dearly. So Trump has
finally come back and hit him back with an equal
set of tariffs. And now they're backing down. And not
only that, they're pouring trillions of dollars into America to

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build industry in this country. I mean, the net result
of what Trump is doing is tremendous. Maybe we're going
to suffer a little inflation for a while. Maybe that's
part of the results of this that overflow the you know,
but nevertheless, it looks like the big and the big
make sure we're coming out way ahead on this.

Speaker 4 (25:01):
Really because the lead auditorial of the Wall Street Journal,
that liberal left wing publication, is Trump's tariffs have taken
a five point three percent tariff rate that other countries
on responded with between fifteen and one hundred percent tariffs
and caused inflation rates of three and a half percent,
so that frankly, we can't afford. And I know this
because one of my dear friends that you know, is

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a lobbyist for McDonald's. It's forcing the price of McDonald's
hamburgers up to seven dollars a hamburger for a big mac.
Come on, this is this is just utterly ridiculous and
bad policy, because a tariff, after all, high is a tax.
And I never thought i'd see a day when a
republic president is advocating for taxes.

Speaker 6 (25:40):
The reason on other people, the reason that instead of
US taxing us, Christopher, the big jump in fast food
prices like McDonald's came under Biden.

Speaker 3 (25:52):
Let's not forget that.

Speaker 4 (25:53):
Oh really, why is the McDonald's a hamburger gone up?
By two dollars since Trump came into office.

Speaker 3 (26:00):
I did to go up about four dollars. We're doing
a Biden it didn't go up by yesterday.

Speaker 4 (26:04):
On that note, folks, we got to take a quick
commercial break. We'll be back and talk about the government shutdown.
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on The Founder's Show, I'm your roving radical moderate Christopher
Sidmore with.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Chaplain Hamick and Rin. Folks.

Speaker 6 (30:40):
We just want to take a brief time to give
you a little background on Halloween.

Speaker 3 (30:45):
After all, we are going we are in nowid.

Speaker 6 (30:47):
Yeah, Silin Soalin was the Gaelic name for it because
it started started with the Gaelic people, the Celts of Europe.

Speaker 3 (30:54):
Thank you, Christopher, So let's talk about that.

Speaker 6 (30:57):
You know this we are now in the haunting and
spooky time of the year, Halloween.

Speaker 3 (31:02):
What's the origin of it?

Speaker 2 (31:03):
Will?

Speaker 6 (31:03):
It goes all the way back to the Celts, who
they're religious leaders. Their witch doctors were known as druids,
and at this time of the year there was They
believed that the spirit world and the physical world came
the closest together, and so because of that, the spirits
would start entering the physical world and haunting us, and

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they needed.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
To protect the people.

Speaker 6 (31:26):
So the druids would go around and they would request
a daughter, the youngest virgin daughter of the family, to
take them to a place, maybe even Stonehenge, to sacrifice them.
So the druids would would and they would do it
like this, you will either give us it, or you
will give us the treat the virgin daughter, or we
will give you a trick meaning will burn your house

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down or something terile.

Speaker 3 (31:49):
So that's the origin of the whole thing.

Speaker 6 (31:51):
Well, as time went on and much of Europe was Christianized,
the church at that time many times would mix pagan
festivals with Christian festivals, and so today we have Halloween
and stands for all Hollow's Eve, which is the evening
before all Saints Day where we go to the graves
and remember our loved ones, pray for our families and whatnot,

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leave flowers. It's a lovely tradition. And that's the whole
story behind Halloween. It's really not about ghosts and you know,
evil spirits and witches and all that. It should not be,
that should not be the focus, but it is and
the kids love and we all play with it. And
you can see all kinds of great, gruesome things all
over the city.

Speaker 3 (32:38):
If you like that great.

Speaker 6 (32:40):
I personally don't care for it, but I enjoy watching
the kids get all excited about it. So, folks, that's
the story behind Halloween. And now you know the rest
of the story.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
Okay, Paul Harvey.

Speaker 4 (32:51):
You know we can argue that whether or not they
used astronomical clocks to do human sacrifice. I'm not debating
that there was human sacrifice in prehistory. I'm just simply
saying the Druids did not use stonehedge, and and the
circles said, no, they didn't, and you can't make it
maybe because there's and this is how we know there

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were sacrificial elements in pre Christian societies, and yes, they
did sacrifice virgins and others. But here's an interesting statistic.
Did you know that the you know who what, pre
Christian group, pre Colombian group is most associated with assassination, masks,
human sacrifice, human sacrifices. I mean, you can say others,

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but the.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
Were big and the mind is also big.

Speaker 4 (33:39):
Yeah, but did you know the Aztecs their percentage of
their societies that were executed was roughly the same, you know,
in human sacrifice as the number as the percentage of
society in Britain at the same time that was being
hanged or beheaded. So of what let me explain this. No,

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you've said of we in Britain as the percentage of
the society that was being society society that was being
hanged or beheaded, you know, executed during what period of time,
during the same period of time the fourteenth the twelve
hundreds to the fifteen hundreds, right, So what I mean
by that is that what was happening essentially is their
capital punishments. I'm not just excusing it, but if you're

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killing people, and they were killing people some groupsome ways
in Europe, drawing quartering in other ways like that that
were regularly parts of executions. Look at William Wallace, he
was drawn in quartered and they pulled him apart, and
so grow some things all around over My point being
that we keep looking at the Aztecs, as you know,
these frightened people out of the common. The percentage of

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society that was being publicly executed in Europe was roughly
the same. It's just it wasn't human sacrifice. It was execution,
but it was the same.

Speaker 6 (34:54):
There was capital punishment for criminals Chris Word and now
look in the Aztec and the other But here's the thing.
Pre Columbian societies, those mass killings were done with the
local native indigenous populations that were not Aztecs. They would
go out and capture neighboring Indian tribes, bring them in,
keep them as slaves, and then slaughter them.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
Well, here's the thing.

Speaker 3 (35:16):
Different stories than Europe.

Speaker 4 (35:17):
The story in Christian and in from the from the
Crusades on, including the One Hundred Years War. Do you
know that what was the most common way of dealing
with prisoners of war?

Speaker 5 (35:29):
What do we do?

Speaker 4 (35:30):
What did what did what did the British do? What
did the French do? What did the Germans? What did
everybody do? They killed them. Okay, because you didn't have
that's what and so what was happening is they would
kill prisoners who or just.

Speaker 5 (35:44):
Like the Aztecs.

Speaker 4 (35:45):
I'm not excusing the Aztecs, but I'm putting things in
kind of perspective that killing large groups of people was
a common human activity. It didn't make it right. I'm
not defending the activity whether it was in pre Columbian
or you know, or European. But just because you're a
Christian didn't mean you spared a larger portion of your society.

Speaker 5 (36:04):
You didn't.

Speaker 4 (36:05):
And this is something you know a lot of traditions.
By the way, you know you're talking about Halloween. Well,
what I would disagree with what you said is was
there sacrifice by Druidic cultures. Sure, it didn't happen at
this time of year. It happened in summer.

Speaker 6 (36:24):
And the reason the accounts of the account happened also
at Halloween.

Speaker 3 (36:29):
I mean, okay, we got different. No, no, no, let me,
let me let me.

Speaker 6 (36:32):
By the way, you said they didn't do it at
Stone To this day, the Druids meet at Stone Hills
on Halloween this day, Christopher, Okay, I'm not saying they're
sacrifice are in there.

Speaker 3 (36:40):
But they are there.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Do you know why?

Speaker 3 (36:42):
It's just part of they like stone.

Speaker 4 (36:44):
No, no, no no. And we know why they meet
there because it still happens that Stonehedges was an astronaut stars. Yeah,
and they meet and it's they originally wasn't It wasn't
October thirty first. It was the solstice in October was
when they met.

Speaker 3 (37:05):
That established the thirty first was all Saints.

Speaker 4 (37:08):
The next day, so it was that was a Christian
change in the calendar. They would be they'd go to Stonehenge,
but they'd go to Stonehenge because it was the point.
That's why they said. It was where you know, the
the the afterlife and life came together.

Speaker 6 (37:21):
Because it predates the Celts, there's a lot of mystery
behind that, but it is known.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
The Celts did use it.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Yes, they used it as you know, it's religious. They
used it as an astronomical clock. We know this because
we know Roman writers who wrote about the Celts and
wrote about the Druids, and they weren't very complimentary, but
we noticed, but we know what they were doing because
it was it pretty much all right, we got to
actually talk about what's going on Washington. Here's the good news, folks.

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There's arguments. Just like New Orleans withdrew its one hundred
and twenty five million dollar request to the state to
you know, to pay for the salaries. We do know
that there's pressure going on to pay essential personnel because
come November first, that will be a first full paycheck

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that is lost for air traffic controllers.

Speaker 5 (38:11):
For.

Speaker 4 (38:13):
TSA, all the related transportation professions, not to mention members
of our military. And so we're going to see what happens.
But the one thing that's interesting about this entire fight
is it doesn't seem to be having any political pressure.
Maybe this is a sign of how polarized we are.
Every other time that we've ever had a government shutdown,

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one side or the other usually the Republicans, but one
side or the other usually got blamed pretty quickly. The
interesting part is that public approval on each side for
standing their ground, whether it's the Democrats not wanting to
pass the cr without the subsidies or the Republicans not
wanting to add the subsidies to the Continuing Resolution, is

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getting Neither side is getting more much really horrendous response
from their base. And since we've become a politics of
a base election. Frankly, there's no motivation for the government
shut down to stop because we still pay off you know,
we still pay Social Security checks, we still pay Medicaid payments,
We're still paying that that. I don't expect this thing

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to end until December fifth, Which why that date? Why
everybody keeps asking me why December fifth? The open enrollment
period for Obamacare for the subsidies starts November first and
ends when December fifth. So in theory, and I think
this could be challenged in court very easily. If you

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don't open the enrollment, nobody can enroll, so you effectively
have killed Obamacare without anybody actually coming into it. I
don't think this is necessarily a good thing. There's a
lot of people who don't have health care. And I'm
going to close today with an interesting story. Who is
the father of universal health care in America?

Speaker 3 (40:05):
Do you know?

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Hi?

Speaker 3 (40:06):
Fdr No? No, okay? How about Romney No okay? No Romneycare?

Speaker 4 (40:12):
Member Ron Reaganka And you know, And here's why Reagan said.

Speaker 5 (40:17):
He made it. He passed a law.

Speaker 4 (40:18):
It was his initiative that and it was started with
an executive order and then it became part of a
law that hospital emergency rooms could not deny care to
any person based on the ability to pay or for
any reason. If somebody is hurt and they come into
an emergency room, they must be treated, they must be
admitted to the hospital. So what happened was we ended
up with a system of universal care without any payment,

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in the most expensive way possible. Now I understand Reagan's motivation.
It is horrendous that somebody who's in a car accident
doesn't get treated medically. This is not being cruel, this
is being considerate. But we ended up with a healthcare
system where people would show up at the emergency room
for having a bad case of the flu because they
couldn't be turned So what is Obamacare? Ultimately? What is

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the entire thing? How do you pay for a system
so that people are not constantly using the emergency room.
That's what it basically boils down to. Now you may
think that system is terrible, how it's arranged or good
or however, but this is the one thing we don't
ever talk about. If we're not going to enroll people
in Obamacare, are we going to actually save any money?

(41:22):
And the answer is from a practical standpoint, No, because
what happens is when you're not enrolled in Medicaid so
you can go to a general practitioner for your illness,
what are you going to do? You're going to end
up going to the emergency room. How many of your
kids over the years, when they got sick, who didn't
have a doctor, didn't have health insurance? High, ask yourself
a question, just went to the er because that's really
the only option they had.

Speaker 5 (41:43):
How often was common?

Speaker 3 (41:44):
Was that my kids have been doing that for years?
And ya's our ministry exactly.

Speaker 2 (41:48):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (41:48):
And so what I'm saying is this entire argument in
Washington on the Republicans denying the subsidies and the Democrats fighting.
The fact is we're not going to save any money
by getting rid of Obamacare this way. We're just was
shifting the system because the Feds end up paying for
it anyway. And Chris, so how do we do it
less costly?

Speaker 5 (42:09):
And all?

Speaker 2 (42:11):
Right?

Speaker 6 (42:11):
First of all, Obamacare is a disaster. It was a disaster.
It doubled everybody's insurance rates. You didn't get to keep
you doctor, you didn't get to keep you insurance. All
the promises were broken. It's an absolute disaster. We had
Medicaid before that it worked really well. If they had
just left that alone, we wouldn't have any of these
problems right now. Albeit said, the Obamacare is a very

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bad medical plan.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
It needs to go. Now. We have problems with going
to the emergency room.

Speaker 6 (42:39):
Fine, we need to have a good triage department in
every emergency room. And somebody comes in with the sniffles,
you put them on the side and if you have
time for them, you help them, or you could even
maybe have a thing in their way that when they're
tested and it's proved that they just have the sniffles,
you send them home. But you don't have to take
care of the sniffles, not according to federal law. Well,
I'm just saying they can change the law. That's my point.

Speaker 5 (42:58):
Nobody's tried.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Well try, yeah, but Republicans aren't.

Speaker 3 (43:02):
All right, Well, christoer them. They need to, okay, and
Democrats need to.

Speaker 4 (43:06):
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Speaker 6 (45:00):
We're back and you are listening to the Founders show
the voice of the Founding Fathers. And it's now time
for us to go into our chaplain by a patriotic moment.
We 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 none other than
President Madison. He was the president during the War of
eighteen twelve. He signed a federal bill which economically aided

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the Bible Society of Philadelphia and its goal of mass
distribution of the Bible. An Act for the Relief of
the Bible Society of Philadelphia was approved by Congress in
eighteen thirteen, so we can kind of see how our
Congress was spending money back in them in our days.
Obviously they realized the importance of the Bible in a
healthy and stable society, which is necessary for good government.

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James Madison said, we have all been encouraged to feel
in the guardianship and guidance of that almighty being whose
power regulates the destiny of nations, whose blessings have been
so conspicuously dispensed to this rising republic. Now, folks, do
you think James Madison, along with saying that the foundation

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of the Constitution he was the author of it, was
the Ten Commandments, along with many other quotes like that.
Do you think that he really wanted to keep God
out of government?

Speaker 3 (46:16):
Uh? Uh, No way.

Speaker 6 (46:18):
They all wanted to keep God or the Church institutionally
removed from the government. And that's the Bible teaches that
there are three institutions in the scripture. There is the church,
there is the family, and there's government nations. Those are
the three institutions God ordained to govern the planet, if
you will, and so they have to be separate though institutionally,

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but philosophically you can never separate him.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
I'm sorry, you just can't do it.

Speaker 6 (46:47):
Whatever man's religion is, it's philosophical belief, it's going to
direct what he does in government. And so they knew that,
and they knew the very importance of philosophically always keeping
God in government. Well, folks, what about you? Is God
and you you know, you could be the greatest biblical
patriot that ever lived. But if you died and went
to Hell, what good would it do you? It would

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do you no good. So how do we fix that?
It's really simple. It's simple enough for a child. In fact,
Jesus said, unless you come as a little child, ye
shall in no wise enter in Folks. Thinking like a
child about this is very important. Why because children are simple.
This is a simple message. Children understand grace when you
put breakfast on the table to take them to car school.

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Driving to school in your car, they don't try to
pay you as a taxi driver or as a restaurant.

Speaker 3 (47:35):
They know it's free. They get free free. It's free.

Speaker 6 (47:38):
Well, the gospel is free to you because Jesus paid
for it all, and you can only get it on
those grounds. The Bible says, they's no other way. If
you try to earn your way to heaven or help
God out, let him do half of it, you do
the other. It cancels the deal. It cancels a contract.
We literally have a contract with God about this. He
signed it in his blood. We sign it with our

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faith by just playing simply believing the truth of the gospel.
The scripture says, the gospel is the power of God
and salvation. So what is this power? What is this gospel? Well,
the scripture tells in one Corinthians fifteen, for I declare
unto you. The gospel that Christ died for all of
our sins. According to scripture, was buried and rose from
the dead. When he died for all of our sins.
He died from your first sin to the elast sin.

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He died for your tiniest sin, to your greatest sin.
He died for them. All all went on Jesus and
his blood washed him away. The scripture says, that's powerful, folks.
That means your sins are in God's eyes are gone
except for one sin. There's one sin that casts you
into hell. The Bible's really clear on that. It's called
the sin of final unbelief. The it called blasphemy of

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the Holy Spirit of the scripture. Je said that for
that sin there's no forgiveness, but all of the sin
is paid for everything, no matter what you did, how
bad it was, it's washed away with the precious blood
of Jesus. Now you just have to take that as
a free gift. That's where your belief comes in. And
if you reject that belief, that rejection of that belief
in Jesus will cast your soul to hell. You are

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rejecting God's love. He has great love for you. That's
why He did all this for us. He's long suffering.
The scripture says, not willing that any ship perish, but
that all should come to repentance. God wants you in
heaven with him forever. And that word repentance means you
stop trusting yourself, believing you cannot save yourself. You're hopeless
and helps without God, destined to a burning hell. When

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you come to that point in your life, you just
repent it. You change your mind. The Greek word there
is metanoia. It means change your mind. You've changed your mind. So, folks,
change your mind and believe you cannot save yourself. And
the split second you do that, then you're free to
put faith alone in Christ alone. You're free to believe
that He really did die for all your sins, was
buried and rose and the dead. The nato second you
do that, you become a child of God. You are

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born again. That means you're dead and dine spirit has
become fully alive. Folks, if you've never done this before,
do it now. Don't wait till it's too late. Like
the old country preacher said, and like the Word of
God says, now today is a day of salvation. Well, folks,
there's another day of coming, and it's really the day
of the world salvation, and that's the day that Jesus
comes back. And that day is coming soon, folks. All

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the signs are here. There are over two hundred prophecies
telling us that Jesus is coming again. For his first coming,
there were only one hundred. Of course that's a lot,
but still one hundred prophecies. He doubled the number for
a second coming. And the key to all these prophecies
is one very important thing, and that is convergence when
they all come together at the same time. This is

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what Jesus said. When you see all these things happening
at the same time, he says, then I'm at the door.
So right now all those things have happened are happening
right now. So many things. You know, the Jews are
back in the land. The knowledge is in creeds. We're
doubling knowledge every every hour or whatever. It's astronomical earthquakes gone.
We've gone up like ten thousand percent earthquakes around the

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world over the past one hundred years.

Speaker 3 (50:57):
Folks.

Speaker 6 (50:58):
Everything is exploding right now for all these signs. It's amazing.
It's absolutely stunning and amazing. Think of it, folks, What
was printed two thousand things that could never happen two
thousand years ago, Like, for instance, a two hundred million
man army. That was impossible there weren't They didn't know
that there were two hundred people in the whole world
at that time. And yet there's gonna be a two

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million man army that will march to Jez's Reel, the
Valley of jez Reel where the battle of arm again
will be fought. Kings of the East are going to
bring two hundred million people. They've already built all the
big highways. The China alone has both. He could raise
a two hundred million man army with his back against
the wall. But then when you got India and another
you know, billion plus country, you got all these other

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areas of Asias teeming with people, they can easily put
together a two hundred million man army. Folks, it's coming,
it's coming, and it's coming soon. You know the Bible
suit if Jesus delayed is coming, there'd be no flesh left, folks.
That couldn't have happened two thousand years ago. Please, isn't
they just want enough swords and spears for everybody around
and kill onether. What about the last person? Would he
then kill himself? It's it's stupid. It made no sense

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back then. But guess what can the whole world be
destroyed and in a second, in a minute, in a
very short time, can it? Yes, we know now with
the nuclear bombs, the whole world can be taken out.
So that prophecy is now on the table. All of
it's here.

Speaker 3 (52:17):
Folks.

Speaker 6 (52:18):
Are you ready for Jesus? You better get ready because
he's coming and he's coming soon. When he comes back,
he's coming back with sword. He's not gonna be dancing
through the tulips singing sweet songs. He's coming back as
a warrior, a fierce warrior, to take out all of
the evil people that are left on this earth, and
there are a lot of evil people. He's coming back soon. Folks,
you better get ready. You need a bunker, and the

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greatest bunker you can ever get is call the Jesus
Christ bunker.

Speaker 3 (52:42):
Go get yourself one right now.

Speaker 6 (52:44):
By believing that Jesus did die for all your sins,
was buried and rose and the dead, and you will
be safe. Your safe house will be secured because you'll
be in Jesus. If you've never done this before, I'm
telling you do it now, Do it now, folks. It's
time well, folks, is now also time for us to
put a.

Speaker 3 (53:00):
Rap on this show?

Speaker 6 (53:00):
As we're not closed with a mont Saint Martin singing
a creole goodbye and God bless all out there?

Speaker 3 (53:08):
Does this have to be the end of the nerd?
You know I love you.

Speaker 8 (53:15):
In the pamon land, I can see across a million
stars when I look in, we can mosey it's the
sun time. I suppose you couldn't call it a crap

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if we take just a little little longer to see
our good, to call it creel good