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Hy and Christopher kickoff this week show talking about a new production of Jersey Boys at Le Petit Theatre, running Thursday-Sunday through April 6. Joined in the conversation by Sebastian Rohn (Frankie Valli), Knox Van Horn (Nick DeVito and others), and Stephanie Abry (Lorraine and others), we talk about how the story of The Four Seasons particularly lends itself to a musical theater interpretation.

Jersey Boys follows the fascinating evolution of four blue-collar kids who became one of the greatest successes in pop music history. Winner of Best Musical at both the Tony Awards® and Olivier Awards®, we’ll take you behind the music of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to discover the secret of a 40-year friendship that goes from the streets of New Jersey to the heights of stardom. Tickets are available here.

Hy and Christopher then flashback to a speech that Ronald Reagan gave siding the danger of tariffs. The two hosts debate if Trump has betrayed the conservative revolution? Many of the President’s choices have been spur of the moment. Hy defends the logic behind them, while Christopher notes that it’s not just tariffs that seem so haphazard; it’s extending to appointments as well

The 1st Black bank regulator to be replaced by white GOP insider
By Christopher Tidmore
Maybe it was always too good to be true. For a while, though, it seemed like President Trump had made a surprisingly strong and racially historic appointment for U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, which basically regulates America’s banks.

Rodney E. Hood had already made history in Trump’s first term, becoming the first African American to lead a federal financial regulator – as chairman of the National Credit Union Administration, where he served from 2019 until 2024. That actually constituted his second appointment as an NCUA regulator, also having held that position from 2005 to 2010. 

Both there and throughout his career, Hood has stood as a strong supporter of community banking and perhaps the nation’s loudest Republican advocate for extending credit opportunities to disadvantaged communities. He also maintained a robust opposition to “debanking,” a supposed priority of the Trump administration in its first months back in office.

Therefore, when Hood was named “acting” comptroller on February 10, most observers widely expected that he would eventually be Trump's nominee to lead this critical independent bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department – which supervises all national banks and federal thrift institutions in the United States. Notably, Hood has twice been confirmed by the U.S. Senate without controversy.

But not so fast. Now, the Oval Office is proposing a Caucasian securities lawyer with less experience – yet perhaps possessed of a higher campaign contribution record – for the job.
Donald Trump has often declared that he seeks the best qualified person for each position. “The best people,” as he puts it, and the president certainly seemed satisfied with Hood as chair of the NCUA in his first term. However in a move which has gained little press attention, the Trump White House decided to submit a different candidate to the Senate for confirmation – a politically-connected securities lawyer with only a fraction of Hood’s regulatory experience.

Hood will remain in the job until the upper chamber of Congress accepts or rejects that candidate. 
Considering the comptroller oversees pretty much the entire banking sector, the Senate might wish to consider whether to accept a replacement candidate over one who has better qualifications. After all, that defines the nature of its constitutional “advise and consent” power.

Unless, of course, President Trump has bigger things in mind for Rodney Hood. Currently, no

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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corruption and dysfunction. It's gone a date, divine.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
Is a vention, Trump tariffs, why Marti Gars parades are
at the oddest times when they're rescheduled, And a little
bit of Jersey Boys. All this and more in this
edition of The Founder Show.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
And God bless all out there. You are now listening
to the founders. So 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 old cypress tree way out on

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the Eagles Branch. This is none other than your spend
Gary Baba of the Republic Chaplain Hi mcenry with Christopher Tidmore.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
You Roving, a reporter, resident radical moderate and associate editor
of the Louisiana Weekly Newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot Net
and Hi. Later in the show, we're going to turn
to a little bit of politics, the tariff events and
why parades when they're canceled aren't running at the most
logical times to make up the difference something we saw
on Marty grad Day and something we're seeing with other
things going on in Saint Patrick's Day. But before we

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get in oune of that, we gotta have a little fun.
And the last few weeks been very serious. Last week
was the Jefferson Parish Council debate and all this different stuff,
and we haven't had any fun to talk about. Some
interesting stuff, and of course not everything is the opera
Summer Operetta and those are the great story of the
Jersey Boys Frankie Valley in the Four Seasons coming to
Leer Petit Theater from March fourteenth all the way through

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April sixth, and we're joined by some of the cast.
But you know, God, oh what a night it will be.

Speaker 4 (02:06):
Every day.

Speaker 2 (02:13):
And Hi, that was taking us back to the nineteen fifties.
I feel like I'm an audio DJ as you are
hearing the incredible show Jersey Boys.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
Jersey Boys the Four Seasons, as the fourth. We love
the valley, Nicky Valley. And by the way, they were
jail someone were jailbirds.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
Would you would you be surprised if I said I
have Frankie Valley coming into studio come made not literally,
Sebastian ron It was playing Frankie Valley at Lipetite's production
of Jersey Boys is joining us along with Knox Van
Horne is playing Nick de Vito, and Stephanie Abriy who's
playing Lorraine, and several other characters, and they're joining us
to via phone link. And of course Le Petit Theater

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is opening this fent on March on March fourteenth and
running through the month. Their production of Jersey Boys, and
you guys have been at arsals for several weeks, a
long rehearsal period. Sebastian, how does it feel to step
into the historic and fantastic dulcet tones of Frankie Valley
of the Four Seasons, Sherry, It's a great.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
Way to put it. It's it's truly an honor. I mean,
he has so much history and so much music behind
his career, and I feel like it just represents as
an Italian American myself growing up in Chicago. It represents
my culture really well. And yeah, it's truly an.

Speaker 3 (03:25):
Honor to do this. But are you walking like a man?

Speaker 6 (03:28):
I'm trying.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
I'm trying to talk as well.

Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, those guys are fantastic.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
What I what I love about Jersey Boys, Knox van Horn,
is the fact that you know, there's there's a lot
of productions where people have adapted famous music to the
show and of course everybody remembers you know, Mama Mia
in this What's fascinating about Jersey Boys is you adapt
the music for the here by telling the story of

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the people who are who are making the music. It's
it's it's biographical as well as in music, and which
makes it rare and special in many ways amongst these
musical forms. And you, Knox van Horn, are not just
a Broadway theatrical singer and to do stuff all over
You're Australia actually a classically trained opera singer. So you've
got you approaches it, You've seen it from every possible angle.

(04:17):
Can you talk about how it how Jersey Boys is
a little bit different.

Speaker 6 (04:20):
Yeah, so you know, Uh, In fact, our director on
the on the first day, aj alegra on the first
day of rehearsal gave us a nice kind of overview.
One of our directors gave us a nice overview of
just kind of the history of the jukebox musical and
how Jersey Boys, like you said, there were musicals like
Mamma Mia that you know, took already existing songs and

(04:41):
constructed a narrative around them, and Jersey Boys was really
kind of the first one to, like you said, take
the music of an artist or a group and use
that to tell their story, and it in my way,
in my view, it really elevates the jukebox musical as
kind of an art because, you know, it doesn't feel

(05:02):
like you have this contrived plot that's kind of thrown
together to make the music makes sense. The music already
makes sense. So we have, yeah, we have moments in
the show where they're performing, and we have moments in
the show where they're singing like it's a musical. Especially
some of Frankie's solo numbers, things like My Eyes of Doorgy,

(05:23):
things like Fallen angel Are are kind of worked naturally
into the show, and I think the whole experience is
just really elevated because of how the story is told.

Speaker 3 (05:34):
Now tell me, how do they get the name of
the band Four Seasons. It's a great story.

Speaker 6 (05:39):
It is a great story. I mean they they were
going to an audition at a bowling alley that they
were rejected from, and I think it's it's it's actually
pretty accurate. In the show, the bowling sign lights up
and the bowling alley is called the Four Seasons Bowling Alley,
and that's you know, it kind of inspired them.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
And then they were like their names, they said, were
they were talking about a name? How are they going
to introduce themselves? And there was some discussion and they
weren't quite sure. When I'm looked up and saw the
Four Seasons, I say, what calls? I was the four
that's not? Isn't that amazing? I think it's great.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
And some of these stories come in and and Sephie Abriy,
I believe you have in some ways, in my humble
but accurate opinion, one of the most difficult challenges in it,
because this is very much a story of four guys,
and yet you are kind of one of the inspirations
in the plot for what's happening, and as well as
the key player and take it, take it what it's
like to be a female actor playing off of what

(06:37):
is a very male centric four person buddy musical to
some extent for Good and Frail.

Speaker 4 (06:44):
It's really interesting. And there are five women in our production.
Usually there are only three, so we actually have had
the availability the ability to expand on their presence in
the story a little bit.

Speaker 6 (06:59):
And it is.

Speaker 4 (07:00):
Interesting to who these women were as obviously as an actor,
as actors ourselves, we want to find out who they were,
what they're driving, what their drive was. But they exist
in a lot of ways to further the plot of
the story. It's the we are the women. The women
in his life in all really as they relate to

(07:21):
Frankie exist in different chapters of his life. Monique plays
Mary Delgado, who was his first wife, and so you
see him when he's young and in first love, and
then Lorraine he meets a little later on where he's
been through some stuff. He's they've had a lot of
ups and downs. He's and he meets this nice girl
who and he falls hard and they don't really work out.

(07:42):
And then the third act is Frankie is a father
and the struggles of what his career and lifestyle were
on the people that he left behind at home. So
it's it's fun for us to kind of help inform
the story in that manner and then we get to
shape the scenes all throughout it. The costumes are incredible, well,
the wigs are incredible. We I know, I alone have

(08:03):
six wigs in this production. Our design team, Lauren has
been incredible and catheen with our wigs and costumes and
helping to create the wow the world of the show
and to span the decades that it does. We start
in the fifties and I think end and I think
the show ends in the nineties, anties.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah. Stuff.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
And by the way, I've been very impressed because for
the last for those that don't know, and we've done
a lot of for ler Petite productions over the last
ten years and watched it and Le Petite is not
your This is not your father's leer Petite. This is
Lipetite's productions have become incredibly professional productions where people still think, oh,
it's community theater, No it's not. This is this is

(08:43):
a small stage off Broadway facility that is doing incredible jobs.
And Sebastian, you're kind of hitting the point what I
love about this musical is it's not just hey, we
became our story of how we became success. It's the
story of not only their lives ups and downs, but
of breaking a part and then coming back together. It's
a story of a friendship and redemption to some extent,

(09:05):
which is and it's a true story and none of
this is made up. This is us And can you
speak to that about how the story of Jersey Boys
that you guys are doing at Liberty through the rest
of the month of March is kind of the ultimate
friendship story.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
It's totally the ultimate friendship story and also the ultimate
family story. I feel like one of the reasons why
this musical has just done so well is because it
has such a such a wide range of potential audience
members to come and watch. You have people who you
know grew up during that time and who listened to
the music and who enjoy the music, and then you

(09:40):
also have people who are just a fan of theater
and for a great story. Because it also has that,
you know, because as Naxo was saying, you know, the
music almost fits Frankie's storyline. He was writing his life
as he was progressing throughout his career, so it makes sense.
And yeah, it's just beautifully intertwined these his music and

(10:01):
his life story and it makes for a great musical.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
And it's incredible.

Speaker 4 (10:04):
Go ahead, Seppi Oh, I was going to say, it's
also said. The way that they use all four of
them to tell the story is really fascinating too. The
script writing is so smart and it's an exercise and
I won't see unreliable narrators, but the way that the
story changes depending on who's telling it. They were the
four seasons and the show. The show spans in a way.
Each chapter feels like summer, spring, winter, and fall, and

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each one of them has the opportunity to narrate a
chunk of the story as they saw it. They all
kind of have these monologues at the end where they're like,
you know, none of us could have happened without me,
and each one of them feels this way, and you
get to see why in the way that they tell
their part of the story.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Well, by the way, were they producing songs like you
top forty songs and whatnot all the way into the nineties.

Speaker 5 (10:51):
No, there, Yeah, there was a lot of I mean,
there was a lot of complicated history with the Four Seasons.
You know, a lot of people fell out. Nick Massey,
as you'll hear in the show, tried to start his
own group many times. And then later on in the
show they also introduced to other Jersey boys, Joe Long
and Charlie Collello, who kind of initiated the idea.

Speaker 4 (11:12):
Of Frankie Valley and the Four Seasons.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
But which is one of the points of contention in
the show, if I'm not mistaken, it's frank get.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
To see you get to see how he became who
he is today because he's still on the road.

Speaker 3 (11:25):
Did you see the movie, the same movie?

Speaker 2 (11:28):
Well, this is the movie. This is the stage version
of the movie. Okay, I didn't know that, so and
it actually.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
Was actually, yeah, the movie was actually written. It was
adapted from the stage version.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Wow. Well the movie was fantastic. Well, it came out
about five years ago.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
But this is why I encourage people to go to
Le Petite. There's things in the stage version knocks that
aren't in the movie, and you approach it from a
much different angle. Forget the most obvious, the intimacy of
having someone singing just a you know, thirty feet in
front of you. The stage production in some ways is
able to be more real to their personalities because it's

(12:04):
there's something a little bit more intimate about it, and
you're not trying to do all these sets. You're trying
to concentrate on the story. Can you speak to that, Yeah, I.

Speaker 6 (12:11):
Mean, I think the movie does a really good job,
but there are definitely some things. The two aspects that
the stage version really kind of catches lightning in a
bottle with are one. So many of the songs performed
are them in concert, them actually performing these songs, and
it just feels more visceral. It feels more real when

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you are actually standing, you know, sitting in an audience
watching people live in front of you do a concert.
You know, it captures things in a way that you
really can on screen. And the other way is, you know,
the movie for reasons I totally understand, but the movie
kind of dispensed with the more musical theater elements of
a character kind of just breaking into song, which I

(12:57):
totally understood is a choice for the movie. But on stage,
especially with some of the more intimate solo numbers that
Frankie does, I think it really comes alive to actually, yeah,
to have a moment or even though, oh what a
night song in the show is you know, kind of
transformed because it's not just them performing it, it's actually

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using the song to narrate what's going on in their lives.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
How do you get what are the instrumentals for the
for the songs are you all actually playing?

Speaker 2 (13:27):
And for those and for those just joining us, Himan
Kennery and Christopher tid Moore here in the Founder show
in w R and O and WSLA are talking to
three of the principal cast members of Jersey Boys that's
going for the rest of the month into the beginning
the next month at Le Petite Theater w CORE and
we'll give you information how to get tickets. But the instrumentization,
I mean, that's one thing that's interesting about doing a

(13:48):
theater I think you're raising a vig risk, is that
you've got the people playing the instruments before you. I mean,
obviously you don't have a full symphony, but you've got
quite a quite an instrumental support for this.

Speaker 3 (13:58):
It's gonna be liker ark drawing.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
Well, not quite an orchestra pit, But can you speak
about how different it is to have people players playing
the instruments right in front of you as you're saying,
as opposed to hearing it on a track or something.

Speaker 4 (14:11):
Oh, there's nothing like a live orchestra. It's it's magic
that the sits pro which is the first rehearsal where
the cast and the orchestra actually sit down together and
play through everything, is my favorite rehearsal of the whole
process because all of a sudden everything comes alive. There
is so much depth. There are melody lines that you
didn't hear. You. You notice that underscoring for certain characters

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ties into the moment that they met Frankie, and it's
consistent throughout the whole thing. Each character has a theme
song or a and the band we have, Jefferson Turner
is our music director and he's phenomenal.

Speaker 3 (14:45):
He really is. And you're so excited. When can I
go play to night? I want to go tonight. I
want to go to night.

Speaker 2 (14:51):
So it is actually so give us this if you would, Stephanie,
When when will this? When will Jersey Boy be at Lipetite?
Because it's it's going on as we're airing the show,
so tell us what's going on.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
So the opening night is Friday, March fourteenth. We will
then run. We'll have weekend performances all the way through
April sixth and it's it'll run Thursday through Sunday, Thursday, Friday,
Saturday Sunday.

Speaker 7 (15:17):
Longer than normal production. Philippity Theater right is much longer.
It is a much longer run and a much longer
rehearsal period. You guys have been in very intensive rehearsals
for the last six weeks.

Speaker 4 (15:27):
Practically, Jersey Boys is a machine. The show is no joke.
There's so many moving parts and so to get any
musical but especially one of this magnitude on its seat
and running like the machine that it should be, it takes.

Speaker 3 (15:40):
Maybe it'll be like The King the time. Maybe it
would be like The King and I on Broadway where
Jo Brenner played the you know, the King of Siam
for what for twenty years. Yeah, I'll be back to
the dream.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
I saw Topel in his twenty first years playing Fiddler
on the Roof. But it was anyway. But I don't
think that. Unfortunately, folks, Jersey Boys won't be at Lipetite
for twenty years and only be here through April sixth.
I encourage you if there is a certain website you
can go to to get tickets. If I'm not mistaken,
why don't you want to volunteer.

Speaker 4 (16:10):
It Lipatitetheater dot com, l E t E t I
T t h E A t r E dot com
and on our website you'll be able to find anything.
You can also find it through our Instagram. If you
search Lipitite Theater on Instagram or Facebook, there will be
links to buy tickets there. We've also got some really
incredible partnerships with some local businesses. We do tell that

(16:32):
on our Instagram as well, so you can get a
discount on your pre show drinks or go grab dinner
somewhere and get a deal. It's been a lot of
fun to work with some of the businesses in the
community on putting those things together and create an exciting
experience for everybody who comes to see the show and
get them out in the French Quarter and involved in
the city.

Speaker 2 (16:51):
Sephanie Aubrey, Knox Van Horn, Sebastian Rohn, thank you so
much for joining us. We look forward to seeing Guys
on the stage at Lipetit Theater in Jersey Boys running
through March fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth and then all the way
and the weekends Thursdays through Sundays all the way through
April sixth. We look forward to encourage you to get
your tickets at liberty dot com. And guys, thank you

(17:12):
so much for joining us, and we wish you the
best luck. And I'm coming out myself. I'm looking forward
to seeing as well.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, and folks, we can't wait to see you. I'd
blessed you.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
Look, thank you, and we're gonna take a quck commercial
break and come back and actually talk about little politics
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Speaker 2 (20:37):
Christopher Tidmore and folks, you know, we're going into a
little bit of politics and one of my favorite politicians
we're going to be hearing from him from beyond the grave.
But you know, it's always good to remember in New Orleans.
You know, we go into this linen season where you're
supposed to sacrifice, and of course, anybody who's been listening
to this program knows Saint Patrick's Weekend is not appointed
to sacrifice. It's another set of parades. Of course. For

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those listening on our Sunday broadcast, the crew of Argus
is going to be running right in front of the
Mederie Saint Patrick's Day. Unfortunately, the uptown Saint Patrick's Day
was canceled. They're rescheduling for Saturday that all went away,
but we're gonna because storms. But the fact is what's
interesting is once we get out of Saint Patrick's Day,
of course we get Saint Joseph's Day and there is

(21:19):
a parade for several Saint Joseph Parades. My favorite is
actually in Saint Bernard Parish, which is the which is
these lanos Saint Joseph Saint Patrick's Parade. But one of
my favorite things to do is to go to the
different altars and we're kin and I we're talking about
this off air for those that don't know, you know
alters this is this was a Catholic tradition in the

(21:39):
seventeen hundreds and the eighteen hundreds that does not exist
in Sicily anymore. It doesn't exist anywhere except New Orleans
where they create these altars of food for a famine
that was in Sicily and how they can food to
say when they prayed dis Saint Joseph's and please give
us food. And it was brought vice say in immigrants
to New Orleans and then forgotten where it's from. So

(22:00):
it's the only place in the world you can go
around and see the Saint Joseph's altars and usually they
serve meals and.

Speaker 3 (22:05):
With some of the hottest altars are in Baptist churches. Folks.

Speaker 2 (22:09):
Well that's what we were talking about. So this has
become so this is a this is an uber Catholic
tradition where in a very New Orleans where you have
the altars and the Catholic church, but this being New
Orleans and we co opt it. I started every year
I try to go around and see several altars, and
there's a list. It's in it's on nola dot com
and you can get the list of places. Well, some
of the places have been coming in are private homes

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and I started going to one and it's it's listed
where the lady I walked in and this is not
a statement of you know it, but it was a surprise.
You know, I was the only white face in the crowd.
It was an African American home and her Baptist minister
was sitting there along with her church all the church
ladies from this African American Baptist church, and this beautiful

(22:51):
Saint Joseph's altar and they're serving food and cookies and
the whole works. And I'm like, well, well the Catholics
can do it, can't we do it? I'm like, I
don't know if Martin Luther would agreed with the thought process.

Speaker 3 (23:02):
But it's New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
I mean, you know what.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
Hearing all this and watching how festivals have grown in
this city since I was a kid for over seventy
years now, one thing I can I really see that
New Orleans is a super an uber festival city. In fact,
there's never a weekend whether it's not festivals, parades, street party,
something going on all over the city. Folks think of
this Saint Joseph's, it's an Italian thing, but now it's

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been it's been taken over by many other groups. Well,
I mean and while like Christopher said, it's it came
sit for from Sicily, where they no longer do it.
But guess where they're doing in big time here in
New Orleans that someone needs to do a study on this.
They could get there. They actually had doctorate dissertation.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
There was a dissertation done on the Saint Joseph's. It
was and the Italian American Research Library, which is used
to be at the Town of American Center downtown is
now actually in the main branch Jefferson Parish.

Speaker 3 (23:54):
Talking about dissertation on festivals in New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (23:56):
Well, no, they did a dissertation on the tradition of
Saint Joseph's and the altars in New Orleans. It's a
fascinating raad if you want to do it. But of
course we're coming out of a Saint Patrick's weekend. The
Metity parade went, but the Uptown parade did not. And
this is the second time we've seen parades or canceled
in the last few weeks. Obviously, Marty Grauday, you saw

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the Jefferson parades canceled, Argus is running before it, but
the truck parades were canceled too. The truck parades were
also canceled in Orleans. I immediately find out that last Sunday,
right after we were on the air, it actually started
at nine am on Sunday that they had the truck
parades on a route in Uptown New Orleans. This was
the weirdest route I've ever seen, because I thought they

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just do a part of the route. It started on
Napoleon Avenue, turned on Saint Charles, and then went down Louisiana.
I mean, it didn't make a whole lot of sense.
And it started at nine am and this is two
hundred floats.

Speaker 3 (24:53):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
And so it's like people didn't know what was going on,
and it was great if you wanted to catch betools. No,
I went to Louisiana to Clayburne. So in other words,
it was this weird sort of started on Choppatolists went
down Napoleon, went down, Saint Charles, went down Louisiana, and
ended at Clayburne. Very abbreviated route for people who spend

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a lot of time. They these aren't built by float companies.
People get together and they build these truck these truck
parade whatever, and they throw a lot of good stuff.
And I'm not usually a throw person, but I collected
all these, you know, little swords and toys and tomahawks
for my nephews. But all of this. When I'm watching this,
I'm like, it's various points. They people did come out,
thank god, this is New Orleans and we always have

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people that come out for parade, But it was very
obvious that at many points there were more people on
the floats than what they were throwing to, which is
really unfortunate to see on any giving point. And it
was it was a weird time. Who starts a parade
at nine o'clock in the morning. I mean, it was
just kind of like on Saturday on a Sunday morning,
on a Sunday morning, a lot of people at church.
To give you an idea how weird this was.

Speaker 3 (25:54):
So they're still recovering from Saturday and they're.

Speaker 2 (25:56):
Still recovering Satday night. But one of the things that
was brought out by my friend Brian Morgan was the
way this this went through is Saint Stephen's Church and
Napoleon and Our Lady of Good Counsel, which the church
you grew up in high both of them basically had
to shut down their mass schedule because because of this,
with no warning. Most of the time, parades start after

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at noon for that reason on a Sunday anyway. But
the reason I'm looking at this, I'm like saying, this
is kind of a waste because we're going to have
in one week, or at least I thought at that
point in one week we were going to have a
Saint Patrick's parade and I'm getting canceled for the weather too.
But I go up to one of the police officers
and I meant this honestly, kind of lamenting, come up
to him and I said, he's an NPD cop. I'm
not going to name him, but he's a really nice guy.

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And I didn't really know him well, but it was
but we were just chatting. I said, you know, I
really appreciate you guys coming out and doing this. It
kind of seems unfortunate that we could have just done
this after the Saint Patrick's parade next weekend uptown and
nobody would have had to work extra and it would
have we would have had people out in the crowd.
And he said, you know, it's interesting. The city didn't
want to do these parades. They wanted to camp the

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completely they and there was so much of an outright
people calling city Hall. They scheduled it. So they scheduled
at a time when when, But we couldn't do it behind
Saint Patrick's. And I was like, what do you mean
you couldn't do it behind you or the truck's too big. No,
it has nothing to do with that. That could easily put
these trucks down Magazine Street. That's not a big deal,
he said. The problem is it wasn't under the Marti

(27:21):
Gras contract. I said, what is that? He said, well,
the parades are contracted not just with NPD, but with
all the other police departments Washington, Paris as far away
to bring cops in to serve details for various parades.
And because we did it this up to the Sunday
after Marti grass it's calculated by by weeks and it

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starts from Monday through Sunday, that we were able to
use the same contracts and be able to get these
guys come in. And he said, I'm the exception. I'm
an NPD cop. I would have been working any way
on a Sunday here uptown New Orleans, but we had
to do it for that reason. But I said, you know,
this is really kind of a waste. It was a
contractual reason to put a rate on when they weren't
a comparatively number of people worthy of it. And that's

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the problem is because for Saint Patrick's Day, it's only
an OPD, or in the case of Jefferson Parish is
only jpso for the metal of Saint Patrick's Day, and
so they can't reschedule it. And why that's important is
this there's talk about rescheduling Saint Patrick's Uptown parade twenty
second others. But the city has a problem because they
can't go into the contract and say, hey, we agree

(28:27):
to this, you have to do this. We've already paid
for it. The police, you know, have They've already deployed
their schedules. They can't bring in police from other parishes.
So this creates a real problem when you create when
you cancel parade because of public safety and the money
to actually pay for this these things, and it's part
of the economics of extended carnival. I mean, Saint Patrick's

(28:48):
Day basically is a continuous of carnival. It's not supposed
to be, but it has become that in New Orleans,
and a lot of people don't realize this. I didn't
realize this.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
I didn't know.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
I mean, I knew cops had paid for parades and stuff.
I didn't know how the different contracts were. And it's
one of the problems they had in Jefferson. They could
argus was able to be big enough. August is so
important argus for those Let me explain something to uptown
people in New Orleans. There is another carnival that people
go to and Jefferson Parish that has just as much

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money and just as much prominent people as Rex. It's
called Argus. Argus is an incredibly beautiful parade. For those
that are listening to our sunny broadcast, I encourage you.
It leaves at ten o'clock on Metie Road at Severne
go watch it. But the point I'm getting at is
they had the political pull to say, okay, we're were
on before Saint Patrick's, but the elks who put on
the truck parades didn't. And because the police they have

(29:41):
to pay extra police time, they couldn't do it, and
so and they may not be Ever, the truck parades
were still wait and see. But it's the economics of carnival.
It takes money to put this stuff on, and people
don't really often recognize that. And at least something's running.
But that was something. Speaking of money and costing things
for things that are utterly frivolous, is there a thing

(30:01):
Donald Trump hasn't put a tarafon lately? Right now? We
got tariffs, the best one the terrafon on whiskey and
respond to one hundred percent tariff on champagne. I actually
found the implications of this. Did you know, And this
is weird factoid about tariffs. Ninety percent of the world's
wine bottles are made in Europe.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
So even for wine that's from the United's you say, well,
we've got California wines, Well, we don't have the bottoms,
so we can't. So if you raise tariffs on European
products on wine, technically that affects the bottles. And so
we got this tariff war going on. And I think
about something all the time. High I think, you know,
and you know how people and you've you've had people

(30:42):
in your congregation, they wear those bracelets WWJD What would
Jesus do?

Speaker 3 (30:46):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (30:46):
And I used to wear one. I had two of
them myself, but they were a little less pious because
one was WWWD and ww RD. You know what those
stood for? What would Winston do?

Speaker 3 (31:00):
Also?

Speaker 2 (31:00):
What would Reagan do? And I was thinking about this
today as I as I was thinking what would Reagan
do about these tariffs and this tariff war? Because we
think Ronald Reagan is the prototypical conservative. To me, is
that one of the greatest presidents of this or any generation.
And I kind of started asking myself, you know, it
would Reagan approve of what Trump has done. And I

(31:23):
leave it to the audience to ask that question. By
listening to this.

Speaker 8 (31:26):
Someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports. It looks
like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products
and jobs. And sometimes for a short violet works, but
only for a short time. What eventually occurs is first
homegrown industry start relying on government protection in the form
of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the

(31:49):
innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in
world markets. And then while all this is going on,
something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably to retaliation by
foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The
result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers,
in less and less competition, shut down, and millions of

(32:11):
people lose their jobs. The memory of all this occurring
back in the thirties made me determined when I came
to Washington to spare the American people the protectionist legislation
that destroys prosperity. Now, it hasn't always been easy. There
are those in the Congress, just as there were back
in the thirties, who want to go for the quick
political advantage, who risk America's prosperity for the sake of

(32:34):
a short term appeal to some special interest group, who
forget that more than five million American jobs are directly
tied to the foreign export business and additional millions are
tied to imports. For those of us who lived through
the Great Depression, the memory of the suffering it caused
is deep and searing, and today many economic analysts and

(32:55):
historians argue that high teriff legislation passed back in that period,
called the Smooth Harley Tariff, greatly deepened the depression and
prevented economic recovery.

Speaker 2 (33:05):
Now that was Ron Reagan when he was President of
the United States one of his radio addresses. So I
thought it was worthwhile to bring Ron Reagan back to
talk about Donald Trump's increasing and somewhat and forgive me
schizophrenic trade war, because all of the stuff that's going
on right now here for us here in Louisiana, this

(33:27):
is shutting down potentially billions in export capabilities and It's
one thing if you're saying, I want to put a
tariff on something specific because we're not being treated well
on this one area by this one country, and you
could say, okay, that's being somewhat retaliatory. You don't have
to have a unilateral disarmament to put one hundred percent
tariff on steel and aluminum on Britain, on the United Kingdom,

(33:51):
who was never accused. To say another thing, the reason
we're putting twenty five percent tariffs on Canada is because
of fentanyl one day and then unfair trade practice the next.
And you can't name any instances. It's particularly finanyl. There
were eight cases. I mean, you want to put tariffs
on Mexico for finanyl? I see where you're coming from.
You put it on Canada? What I mean, come on, hi,

(34:14):
I'm as condom. We're going, We're going.

Speaker 3 (34:16):
We're going to the root.

Speaker 2 (34:17):
We're going to the root of Reagan. You got to
you gotta admit the head to have effected jilib.

Speaker 3 (34:20):
Christopher several things. First of all, it's not schizophrenic. Trumps
has very cautiously and well planned this whole thing out. Now, Christopher,
let me speak, okay without interruption. He's a real uh
deal maker, you know the order of the deal. He's
a master at he's a master negotiator. And we have

(34:42):
yet begun to see where this is going to go.
I personally think he is going to give and take
and there'll be fluctuations and ups and downs till it
all settles out and we are we are back to
where we're manufacturing like we should be, and that is
his goal is to create bring American manuf facturing back.
So let's just see how it works out. You can't

(35:03):
figure this out in a day or two or a
week or two. It's going to take months, maybe a
year to be able to really observe all this and
find out was this the right thing or the wrong thing.

Speaker 2 (35:12):
Well, as you say, up and down, so far, it's
only been down. The S and P five hundred down
by ten percent, the Dow down by twenty percent.

Speaker 3 (35:20):
It goes down and it comes back up, and it
goes down, it comes back up. Let's wait and see
how it fleshes that. You're trying to base this thing
on a week or two.

Speaker 2 (35:27):
What's happened now when I'm basing it on is what
I'm watching internationally which is I know you've got you
got a twofold. It's one thing to say we're being
unfairly treated by China. It's in fact there's and when
we give Trump, let me try to give him a
little credit. He brought up the value added tax situation
in Europe where basically the sales tax is don't tax exports.

(35:49):
But we don't even have a sales tax here in America,
so it's not even comparable. So what I'm getting at
in this entire situation is currently businesses like a predictable
atmosphere more than anything else. They lack a predictable atmosphere,
and Trump's not giving it, and it's affecting. I'm hearing
things from the UH from not only manufacturers here in Louisiana,
but the Port of New Orleans itself. I mean, it

(36:10):
really is one of those situations where it is.

Speaker 3 (36:14):
It's going to take a few months to watch this thing.
You jumping the gun on it. Let's see where. Yeah,
let's see where. There's a couple of months. You may
be right, you may be wrong. We'll see.

Speaker 2 (36:22):
I'm going to tell you that I think in some
ways Donald Trump is arbitrary. I and the reason I
say schizophrenic. Let me give you a small example of
what I'm talking about, and one of those examples is
appointments to office. Now do you know, and there's no
reason why you should know this, but have you ever

(36:43):
heard of a guy by the name of Rodney E. Hood? Okay,
that's it's not a trick thing. It's it's a Rodney
Rodney Hood is the Comptroll, the Acting Comptroller of the
Currency for the US Treasury Department.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
He is one of the most distinguished Republicans. He's African American,
one of the highest, the highest black bank regulator that
we've ever had. He served as head of the National
Credit Union Administration under Bush. He was appointed chairman of
it under Trump, and Trump appointed him acting control of

(37:17):
the credit currency and told him control the currency. The
control of the currency, by the way, is the regulator
for all banks in the United States, for all fiscal for.

Speaker 3 (37:26):
Compatrol.

Speaker 2 (37:27):
Yeah, but it means literally, you oversee every national bank,
every credit union, everything. You are the and this is
the And he's the first African American, every physician, and
no one debates he's the gress qualified guy for the job.
And remember the whole removal of DEI stuff is we
want the best qualified, and this is universally considered. Guys
a lifelong Republican, served in three Republican administraty, including Trump,

(37:49):
where he is highly praised. Trump appoints him acting on
February tenth, says we're putting your name up for confirmation
before the US Senate. So he quits his job, takes
this high pranking job. The only high ranking job in
finance and government is the Secretary of the Treasury.

Speaker 3 (38:03):
That's it.

Speaker 2 (38:04):
And what do we find I'm writing about this in
Louisiana Weekly. What do we find last week that this
past week another guy is put up for Senate confirmation
and it gets very little press attention, in fact, none
except for me and the Louisiana Weekly, at louisianaweekly dot
com and actually on my page at Louisiana Weekly dot net.
But another guy's put up because he's a securities lawyer,

(38:27):
has never done any of this fiscal stuff, but he
was a major contributor. He was the general counsel for
the Trump campaign and they wanted to give him a job. Well,
I'm not saying that that doesn't happen. But usually you
don't appoint one guy who's qualified, and then three weeks later,
for no reason, there's no criticism of his job in
those three weeks, appoint somebody else. And the reason I'm
explaining this is because it's an example of how Trump

(38:49):
will do one thing one day and then totally change
course the next day. And it isn't always this grand
secret strategy high It is often just Donald Trump going
whatever happens to be on his head, saying on the
top of his head, and it's unreliable. You can't trust
a consistent measure of action with the man.

Speaker 3 (39:08):
Okay, we'll see. I think he's very consistent. I know
he's dealing with a lot of moving parts and who
knows what is really going on there. Maybe he's got
another position he wants to put that guy in.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
I actually suggest it in my column. Maybe there is
a higher p outcome. But the problem is the only
other happy outcome is Secretary of the Treasury, and the
current secretary was just confirmed, so that would be one
heck of a reversal.

Speaker 3 (39:32):
Of course, you know, we'll see what happened. I don't know.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
I just I'm looking at this from an international standpoint,
and everybody, I'll give you the impact it's having on things.
So we're having this war against Canada, which doesn't make
a lot of economic sense. Are political Trump's were the
Canadian Conservatives. Pierre Pontaver, who is a Trump ally, was
running twenty points ahead in the polls. The election, by

(39:59):
the way, is going to be in a month or two.
Trump six all this stuff in Canada and Canadian and
saying Canada is the fifty first state. I mean, if
you're a Canadian, you're like, no, our entire identity is
not being American. That goes back to the War of
eighteen twelve. Suddenly the Liberals, who had been led by
the most hapless individual on Earth, Trudeau, are even in

(40:20):
the polls with the Conservatives put in Mark Carney, you
want to talk about a globalist who doesn't. Today is
all based on essentially trump fear of Donald Trump's arbitrariess.
And I'm sorry, it does get me a little bit
to see how this comes and you think I'm hitting
this all right, all right.

Speaker 3 (40:38):
Folks, listen, in case you've forgotten, he's had one of
the most remarkable successful business careers ever of all times,
and when he was declared Mars on Wall Street because
he had the market had shifted against him and he
was gonna he went bankrupt. He was in going to
lose everything. No one would even talk to him. He
came out of it. Nobody could believe you survived it.
Now you don't do that by being schizophrenic, Christopher. This

(41:00):
man has shown over and over again his great capabilities
and dealing with money in business. He showed it the
first four years he was a president. Let's see how
it works out. He's dealing with a lot of extreme situations.
He was left with the ultimate financial nightmare by the
prior administration. You don't come out of that in a
day or two. It's gonna take months or years, maybe

(41:20):
even get to get this country back on track. So
let's just see what he does. Don't you're jumping the gun.
You're moving too fast on him right now, you really are.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
I do you know what's moving is inflation because that
is up because of tariffs.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
But anyway, egs are coming down, by the way, way down.
In fact, in fact, the liberals made a big thing oop.
Trump's just been an officer. Now the price exit sky right, yeah,
because Biden killed half the chickens in the country. Uh,
but they forgot to tell that part of the store.
But guess what's happened to eggs Now? They're starting to
go way.

Speaker 2 (41:49):
Down below where they were a year ago. But that
is okay, let's let's I will I will give you
the benefit of the doubt. We'll revisit this in a week.
I will also point.

Speaker 3 (42:00):
Out week I was going to take a few months grip.
All right, Well, we could talk about it in a week,
but I mean what I will say, we have enough
time of really figuring thing out.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
I want to add close in this because we're almost
at a time obviously there's an election going on, and
this is one of those questions about why we're having
an election right now going into Easter, because there's very
little on the ballot. There's an important council election Ricky
Template we had him on last week versus Tim Kerner.
We've got, you know, a West WeGo election. Young man
by the name of Jason le Blanc got the endorsement

(42:30):
Louis and a Weekly. But basically everything's down to the
four constitutional amendments, and one of those amendments, Amendment number
two is on the ballot but maybe released. And I
have to say this, most of a lot of what's
in it, this is about all the tax reforms. A
lot of what's in it, I actually think is kind
of a good idea, but it's so convoluted and they

(42:50):
don't list it that it actually may violate state election
laws because you've got to be clear about what you're
putting before the voters. It is entirely possible because they
were trying to be more clever than half and sneak
most of this stuff through, which a lot of it
is like capping, you know, expanding the deduction for those
under the over the age of sixty five e stuff

(43:10):
that's kind of popular. But they're so trying to be
so clever by saying this is a teacher amendment when
it's not. It involves paying off state funds and then
in theory having it having the parishes give teacher pay
but it's not required, and putting this change in state funding,
this change. It's all not listed to the point where
we might be having an election. The whole point of

(43:31):
this election was to get that amendment through, and it
may be disqualified with the Supreme Court because state law
says you cannot create a convoluted amendment. And this is
kind of what when you're dealing with the public, you
got to be straightforward and you've got to be consistent.
And that's my overall theme. And folks, we'll be back
after with the patriotic moment. How did you know there

(43:52):
were Louisiana cowboys?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
I sure did. I used to be one, gris for
I used to round up Kyle's in the swamp down
in Sant Benard Power.

Speaker 2 (43:59):
It was Cajun cowboy, it was It was a Cajun cowboy.

Speaker 3 (44:01):
It was also water.

Speaker 2 (44:04):
Yeah, but we also have we also have kind of
prairies in western Louisiana, the prairie Cajun. And one of
the things is nobody's really recognized Louisiana's cowboy culture until now.
Until now, because The Elixir of Love will be at
the Mahaya Jackson Theater and we're setting it in Cajun
cowboy country in western Louisiana, where we're going to have
a local Lindsay Reynolds come in the lead role at

(44:26):
playing a Dina of the classic Donzetti opera, and also
Amanda Shaw, the famous Cajun the Cajun Cowboy Queen of
the Fiddland is going to be not only playing at
Fatodo after the opera, but actually will be in the
opera itself. She's actually playing one of the rules. So
the point is we're telling people, you got it. We
got a great opportunity. If you go to New Orleans

(44:47):
Opera dot orgy, New Orleans Opera dot orgy, there is
a ninety five dollars date night. That's two tickets to
the opera, the ascent tickets. That means you buy it
at a rate and we'll give you the best seats
in the house that we got available, and then two
tickets to go to the Fado Do afterwards with Amanda
Shaw playing, and you'll have an Elixir of Love cocktail,
you have food, the whole works, a whole party. And

(45:09):
this is Friday, April fourth, starting at seven thirty pm
at the Mahea Jackson Theater. Folks, you can find out
more information by girls from New Orleans Opera dot org
New Orleans Opera dot orgy.

Speaker 3 (45:17):
You know that our governor right now, Jeff Landry, he
grew up in Saint Martinville and that's where my sister
got to know him when he's a little boy. And
his aunt was Marcel Bavenue.

Speaker 2 (45:26):
Yes, I know.

Speaker 3 (45:27):
And uh, what's what's interesting is in that family one
of her uncles, you know what, his name was Uncle
Cowboy Uncle. I believe it.

Speaker 2 (45:36):
There's a Cajun cowboy element. And we've invited Jeff Landry
the Cowboy, but we've bene Jeff Lannie to come up
to because this is the only cowboy.

Speaker 3 (45:42):
Grew up with. Caje gobboy. Yeah point.

Speaker 2 (45:44):
This is the only opera you'll ever go to where
you're encouraged to come in blue jeans, fringe cowboy boots
and hats. And we're actually to have a We're actually
going to have a coutur cowboy uh costume contest. All available,
folks at Friday, April the fourth at Mahelia at the
Mahe Jackson Theater. Go online to New Orleans Opera dot
org to get tickets ninety five dollars for two for

(46:07):
the Fato Doo and the opera itself seven point thirty pm, Friday,
April fourth.

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Speaker 3 (46:49):
Well, folks, we're back in this Chappiahi, Mick Henry. I'm
here to tell you about the biblical foundations of our country,
our Judeo Christian jurisprudence, and our chaplain Bah bah patriotic moment.
We just take a brief to give you a little
history lesson here about America's godly background biblical foundations. You know,
we go way back, a lot further back than people realize,

(47:11):
because there was once a famous monk, an Irish monk,
who sailed from Ireland. But instead of going east, all
the monks went, all the Irish evangelists, preachers, and all
the missionaries. They all went headed in an easterly direction.
Except there's one guy. He went west, and he landed
in America, and he went down the coast, and he
was gone for a couple of years. When he came

(47:32):
back by the way, this is the National Geographic Back
in the sixties, I believe the late sixties he had
a whole special feature on Saint Brendan of Clonfort the Navigator.
You can also find his stained glass window in the
Naval Academy in Annapolis in their chapel. He was such
an inspiration. Anyway, when he came back, he was amazed

(47:53):
at what he had seen and what he'd experienced, and
he said that he truly thought he had found the
land that God had given to the world to one
day be a light on the top of a hill,
to bless all the nations of the world. There was
a prophet scene. It's actually come true. Think of it.
Something like ninety percent of all schools, hospitals, and whatnot

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all around the world have been built by Americans, by
American churches and also European churches, but in the past
ten years it's mainly been America. So this is an
amazing story, folks. Anyway, So we're talking way before the
founding Fathers ever showed up here. We're talking like, you know,
over a thousand years before them. That's quite a story.

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Now you think God didn't have his hand on this country.
He has well, it is not time for us to
go into our chaplain by by gospel moment, because you see,
does God have his hand on you? And that's the
most important thing. You could be the greatest biblical patriot
in the world, but if you died and went to hell,
what good would it do you? So right now I'm
going to take us to the first chapter of John
where we go into what's known as the incarnation of Deity,

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that God became a man, and I'm talking about Jesus. Now,
we know that we have the narrative accounts in Matthew
and in Luke about the shepherds and the wise man
and all that, But in John's discourse on this, it's
the philosophical of the theology behind God becoming a man.
And it starts off in the beginning was the Word,

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and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,
and everything in the world was created by the Word.
Now we're talking about is the Bible. So in other words,
what we're finding out here is that the Bible is
actually Jesus. And it's not the paper and the leather
and the ink. It is the message, the abstract concept
of the Bible man being God being God the Son,

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and it goes on to say, and the Word became
flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory
as if the only begd of the Father, full of
grace and truth. The Word became flesh, folks, God became
a man, all the way God, all the oh Man,
perfect God and perfect Man. And that's the Lord Jesus Christ.
And he came in for a very important reason because
in the same chapter, in verse twelve, it says, but
as many as received him talking about Jesus, as many

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as receivement to them, gave he the power to become
the sons of God, even to those who believe on
his name. What does that mean, believing on his name. Well,
that's what it means. His name means Jesus means God
is salvation. If you could just get that far and
you really mean it, and your trust in nothing else,
because you've repented believing, you can't save yourself. You're hopeless

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and helps without God. You know. That's how Abraham became
a believer. That's how all the Old Testament saints. They
didn't know that God was going to actually become a
man and die for our sins. On the cross. But
we have that information now, so we're required to know
that now. Because the scripture is under who much is given,
much is required. So we're required to understand that Jesus
really did die for all of our sins. From the

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day you're born, the day you die, you titians your grace.
He was buried, and he rose from the dead to
win for you his precious free gift of resurrection. Ever,
let life. The moment you do that, folks, the very
moment you do that, the scripture says you were born again,
you become God's child, You're saved from Helen, You're guaranteed heaven.
All it takes is a moment, even to those who
believe on his name. If you've never done this before,

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please right now believe that Jesus really did die for
our your sins, was buried in Roseen the dead. Well,
focus on time for us to go into our testimony.
Time we just again take a brief moment to tell
you a story about someone, maybe from hundreds of years ago,
maybe from somebody today, a person, a man, a woman, whomever,
who has lived a life that's such a powerful message

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of God's goodness and his love and his mercy. And
the fellow we're going to talk about today is none
other than a good old Saint Patty, Saint Patrick, because
after all, we're in the Saint Patrick's date period now season,
and Saint Patrick was a slave in Ireland. He was
he escaped, went to Europe, found God. When he was
in Ireland through all those oppressive experiences, is when he

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found the Lord. He came and when he was there,
God called him to go back to Ireland, and he did,
and he came back to Ireland facing certain death, and
yet nevertheless he stomped up and down the Emerald Isle
preaching the gospel. Stern it up and within his lifetime
just about the entire island had turned to Christ. And

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let me tell you the results of that. The Irish
went out becoming some of the greatest missionaries and evangelists
the world has ever seen. For the next four hundred years,
they went all over Europe, even into Asia and Africa.
The entire Bridge House in every and pagan area they
went into, they evangelized those areas, they educated those areas,
and they civilized them. And because of that, there was

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a book written thirty forty years ago a guy named
Cahill called how the Irish Saved civilization, because literally that's
what they were doing. They were there to preach the gospel.
But what they did is they were able to save
so much of the ancient works in great classics of
the Greeks and the Romans in the process, and so
they along the way they actually saved so much of
what the barbarians were destroying at the time. This is

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an amazing story, folks. They're over one hundred universities founded
by those Irish holy men, all from one man, Saint Patrick.
Think of it, folks, The power and impact that that
man had on the world. It's an amazing story. You see,
any of us could do that. You know, God in
one is a majority. You don't know what God's calling
you to do. Saint Patrick didn't know back when he

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was a slave, back when he was running for his life,
back when he had the howers and thoughts of he'd
have to go back to Ireland again. But he obeyed God. Folks,
that's all it takes. Obey the Lord and you'll get
God will give you the victory. Well, folks, it's not
time for us to go. As the close of the
Monde Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye and God bless
all out there.

Speaker 1 (53:48):
Does this have to be the end of the night?

Speaker 3 (53:54):
Do I love you?

Speaker 4 (53:55):
In the pamal Land