Early Voting Underway

With early voting underway, Hy and Christopher interview John Young, candidate for the very competitive public service commissioner post. We talk about the energy grid, the META AI facility in Richland Parish, and the impact to our vulnerable infrastructure of EMP pulse.

Episode Transcript

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Speaker 2 (00:35):
The election is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. Early voting
is here, and we're going to be talking about one
of the really competitive races for the Public Service Commission,
as well as commentary on the US Senate and Bessie races.
And looking a little further down, there's yet another ceasefire
in the Persian Gulf. What's going to happen next? It
may all come down to an intelligence officer in Pakistan.

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All that and more on this edition of The Founder Show.

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Speaker 2 (01:31):
Hi mcenry with Christopher Tidmore, your rosing reporter, resident radical
moderate and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at
Louisiana Weekly dot net.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
And we got a lot to talk about today.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
Hi.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
We're in the final stretch to the election, and right
now we're seeing polls where Julia Letlowe is leading John Fleming,
but not by the extreme amount that everyone would think.
It's actually rather tight race. And an interesting conversation I
had with my publisher, and you know, obviously Louisian Weekly
is not the most conservative paper on earth, but we

(02:05):
endorse in the primaries and we're trying to figure out
who's to endorse. And what's interesting is Fleming has been
trying to classify Julia letlow as more liberal. Now on paper,
the two of them have virtually the same viewpoints. The
only major difference that I can tell is that Julia
letlow has been pretty openly supportive of FEMA, continuing the

(02:29):
FEMA map so people can have flood insurance, which John
Fleming never really voted for, which is kind of an
important issue in South Louisiana, so I'm not going to
play that off. The other issue has to do with
carbon sequestration, and that doesn't seem to be anything that
she's actually supported. But the funny thing is the number
of people. The thing that was really getting me about
this race is the number of times I've read online

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that you can't trust Julia Letlow. This is the president
President Trump's endorsed candidate, because she worked in academia, because
she was a college professor and a college administrator, even
though she came up through Republican politics. And just for disclosure,
I've known Julia and her late husband Luke since college,

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where we were all members of the LSU College Republicans.
She's been a Republican activist working on Republican campaigns since
since the nineteen nineties. This is nothing new, but I
really got that, and it's really there's an interesting political
science things that the number one indicator of political derivation

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on both sides is the number one if you had
to find one thing, it's not, at least amongst Caucasians.
It's not race, it's not religious affiliation. It's whether or
not you have an advanced degree from a university. If
you have an advanced degree from a university, you tend

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to be a graduate degree. I don't mean PhD. I
mean like you have any kind of mechanical graduate degree,
even a B master's degree, even a BA that if
you do not have a college degree, you are, and
you are white, you are three times to four times
more likely to be a Republican. If you do have

(04:16):
a college degree, you're two times more likely to be
a Democrat.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, I mean I'm talking about we'll get that to
a second, but if you have a graduate degree, you're
more likely to be a Democrat. Well, in Julia Letlow's case,
she has a graduate degree and happens to be a Republican.
Has been pretty much her entire life, and pretty consistently
at that. I mean, she was married to a guy
who was a Republican staffer, and I mean, forget remember

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Luke Letlowe got elected to Congress. He had been a
Republican staffer for Bobby Jendall and for doctor Abraham and others. Anyway,
the reason why I'm getting into this is the resistance
to her seems to be that she's well educated. Now
that I find that absolutely fascinating and over and self injuries.
They're suspicious because she's smart, because she actually is well educated.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Well is in Fleming, very well educated doctor Fleming.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
Yeah, you'd think that.

Speaker 2 (05:11):
But the whole thing is that she was an academian,
therefore untrustworthy.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
But well, I understand that because academia has gotten so
corrupt now Chrisford really has in time does not allow
us to go into all that we've covered it before
in the past. It's very corrupt right now.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
This is not Harvard. This is a Louisiana State University,
not even LSU. This was this is louis This is
Louisiana University of Louisiana Monroe.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Well, that was her problem. She missed ls.

Speaker 2 (05:35):
Actually she's a graduate of LSU, so just so she
didn't miss anything. But the point I'm getting at this
is there is a this is getting this is kind
of a frightening trend. A that we're dividing on education
in the first place. But B the resistance to a Canaida.
The stated resistance is not her generally her viewpoints because
they're not that different from Flemings. It's the fact that

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they view her as too well educated, and Fleming is
a doctor. I mean, he's a physician, for God's sakes.
It's not like he's not educated. But they're using this
as an attack point. And I think that's really kind
of fascinating. And I will tell you Fleming is trying
to make himself more maga than now and whether that
works or not against Trump's endorsed candidate. Trump's had a

(06:18):
pretty good record with his endorsed candidates if I'm looking
at it across the board. The only one who he
didn't win really of major races, there might be a
couple small races. Here is the Iowa governor's race, where
the Iowa gubernatorial candidate he didn't endorse is the one
who is advancing. But pretty much across the board, he's
pretty bit in successful.

Speaker 3 (06:38):
But the guy who's there as a maga anyway, the
new governor is going to be maga. So I mean
he's hitting hard. I mean, I don't think any political
you know, King make or whatever, has ever ever had
such a record close to one hundred percent success For
Trump right now, that's unheard of.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
Well, and here's the thing, the fact that he endorsed her,
that Trump endorsed her. The subtext has been that Jeff
Landry pushed this whole thing, and it's been that Jeff
Landry is trying to engineer this. Jeff Landry is not
running very is not very popular in the general community,
but amongst Republicans, Jeff Landry's number it's like Trump, Jeff

(07:17):
Landry may not be very popular across the board, but
a crux Republicans, Jeff Landry is pretty popular.

Speaker 3 (07:22):
So ten percent of Louisiana's who are not, you know,
MAGA Republicans whatever, that's about ten percent of the state.
They don't support him, but all the rest do.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
CHRISTA Well, you know, I don't know if those numbers
are correct, but your general point is basically correct that
Jeff Landry tends to have MAGA support across the BAZARD.
So I've been watching this race, have been really fascinated
by it. It's not been the most competitive race overall,
but it could.

Speaker 4 (07:47):
Go either way.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
The Board of Elementary and Secondary Education race is interesting
insofar as how little you've heard about it. Joseph Goo
is running for a full term. He was appointed as
the interim member of what is essentially the state Board
of Education, and he's running against in a closed Republican field.
This also has it against people who says he's not
mag enough, even though he's endorsed by Jeff Landry. Same

(08:10):
situation and came out very publicly. We'll talk about that, well,
we'll talk about it now with supporting Landry's move to
pay teachers out of the Minimum Foundation Formula or the
Minimum Foundation Program often called the MFP for those that
don't know. There was a big article in The Times
picking about this that poor school districts rule in urban

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will get a little bit less money, considerable less money
in order for teachers to maintain their two thousand dollars
pay raise they got a couple of years ago as
a stipend to basically make it permanent. And Hi and
I've talked about the fact that there is a subtext
in this entire fight about making the MFP become a

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essentially be phased out over time, and where the state
will take responsibility for paying teachers and say, look, we'll
pay teachers up to the southerneral average, but that's the
only money the state puts up for education. No more
for buildings, no more for textbooks, no more for in
Richmond programs, no more for lab cost classrooms, and that
in a suburban parish is not a big deal. In

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an urban parish, it's a little bit of a big deal.
In a rural parish where there's very little money, it's
a really, really big deal. Though the MFP is what
allows schools to keep standing. In many cases, the question
is how they plays, and that has become the subtext
in the race. But the funny thing is people are
attacking the governor's idea in a Republican primary against his

(09:36):
named candidate, who's a former congressman and is interestingly in
other ways this is Joseph Goal is pretty much more
moderate as a Republican, but he's one of the closest
allies of Jeff Landry. So this is kind of interesting
that the two front runners in those races tend to
be the more moderate ones in a way, even though
they're from a policy standpoint, they're not that much more moderate.

(09:57):
They're being attacked from the right in both cases as
not being conservative enough, even though they've got the endorsements
in Letlow's case of Trump. In Goo's case, it's not
that Trump endorsed somebody else. He doesn't really care about
a part of elementary and second areas, but Jeff Landry does,
and he is very adamant against Joseph gow who you
got to remember, was the first and only Republican ever

(10:19):
to be elected from New Orleans in the second Correscial district.
He did vote for the first version of Obamacare, but
when they changed it so that, you know, abortion would
be allowed to be funded, he voted against it because
he's ardently pro life. So it's nobody here is particularly liberal.
And the reason I'm getting into all this is this

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tells you how skewed these closed primaries have been because
they're not really speaking to the entire state. In fact,
while Republicans are now seven hundred and sixty four people
away from being the majority party in the state, they
still aren't the majority party. Democrats still are the largest
party in the state, not by much, but that's the
end interesting part of this. A lot of people did

(11:02):
become Republicans so they could vote in Republican primaries, and
that's been part of the surge behind Republican registration over
the last year. But there's still more Democrats in Louisiana
than are Republicans. Hi is looking at me crazily. It's
actually every article is talking. The big deal is that
Republicans are on the verge of equaling and slightly overcoming Democrats.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
But it's still it.

Speaker 3 (11:22):
Must be Dixiecrats because you know, the state is so
overwhelmingly MAGA.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's very strange or the state's overwhelming Well, you can
remember something. This state has voted Republican and every presidential race.
But this is also state Clinton carry twice. You've got
to also remember that this is a state John Bell
Edwards one twice, Christopher.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
I mean, look against whom was he running.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
David Vinder was the City US senator.

Speaker 3 (11:50):
It doesn't matter. His reputation had been completely destroyed with.

Speaker 4 (11:54):
All his I know I destroyed it.

Speaker 3 (11:56):
Yeah, it's all his sex accent all.

Speaker 4 (11:57):
I'm the one who exposed it.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
I'm well aware.

Speaker 2 (11:59):
He still was a pretty good candidate, and let's face it,
he ran against another Republican candidate. Again, not the strongest candidate.
But if this were just a magas state. High is
my point, Edwards would not have won. A Democrat can
win here under the right circumstances. Circumstances that I'll be
honest with you. We may be seeing in Texas and

(12:20):
I've been fascinated. I've got quotes about what's going on there.
But if the Paxton tall Rico race, we'll talk about later.
And this tall Rico had some response from Paxton's former
impeachment lawyer, the guy who defended him before the Texas
Senate when he was being under conviction, just endorsed tell
Rico and went on the radio with him, and I

(12:41):
have a couple of clips from it. It's kind of funny,
especially with tell Rico talking about the fact that he's
a huge barbecue fan, the vegan stuff. But weight do
that later in the show, if we have time. But
of all those races, of course, the other race that's
on the ballot is probably the most competitive of all
the races.

Speaker 4 (12:58):
It's for the Public Service.

Speaker 2 (12:59):
Commission and Stephanie Hilfordy, a State rep from Lakeview in
New Orleans, is running against John Young, the former parish
president of Jefferson Parish, and a district that spreads throughout
the River parishes all the way through Tangibi Hall, all
the way towards Baton Ridge, and is a very important
district when it comes to the issue of not only

(13:19):
our utility bills, but why you know what's happening with
data centers. Let me tell an ancillary story. By the way,
this actually happened in the town I know very well
in Texas. Ever here of Taylor, Texas. It's right in
Williamson County, right, it's out of Austin. So Williamson County
is actually where Tallarico's from. But it's normally a very

(13:39):
conservative county, a very Republican stuff.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
And all this named after Dick Taylor, President Taylor. I
don't know honestly.

Speaker 2 (13:48):
Anyway, this family thirty years ago donated a farm that
was on the edge of town and the town was
growing that way to become a permanent public park. And
it's in the deed this must always be a public park.
And great, there's a public park. People built, had houses

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around it. It's a large public park, so we think
city park sties. But very nice. The town six months ago,
almost a year ago, turned around and sold the park
for ten million dollars to a data center to be
built a data center in the middle of the town.
Because the data center will produce twenty million dollars in

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property taxes without bringing in a lot of extra people.
Data centers don't have many employees. So that's the down
when a lot of people talk about the economic development
element of data centers, and it's one thing is the
truth is it doesn't.

Speaker 4 (14:42):
Actually create a lot of jobs. These are electronics.

Speaker 3 (14:44):
So for the building of them, then you get a
lot of construction jobs.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well, you do it, do so that's true, but ultimately
it's not a long term. But actually for Taylor, Texas,
which was growing as sort of an expurb of Austin,
this was a positive. There wasn't going to be extra
impacts on their infrastructure, on their goruls, so and so forth.
But they get twenty million dollars a year in property
taxes from this place. Well, the family that donated it
was like, wait a second, we we gave this to you,

(15:10):
I think at the price the sale price was one dollar.
We gave this to you perpetually. To be a park,
it says it in indeed it's a park. It must
always be a park. How does a park that the
whole this data centers? Data centers are huge, folks. It
takes up the entire footprint and they said, how can
this happen? And it's we're getting into this idea of

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land in states that are willing to take data centers,
and they're not a lot of them, but we're one
of them. They're starting to you know, call the I
twenty corrid or the the the data center corridor, the
you know, ID cord or The question is what happens
with this And that's one of the issues I want
to kind of talk to John Young about when he's
here on the program in just a few minutes, but

(15:53):
in the meantime, before we get talk about the PSC race,
then well will later in the show, of course, talk
about what's going on and ran piece of information you
may not know about how the negotiation has been coming
through Pakistan, as well as one other little data point.
We're gonna do all that, but why don't we go
ahead and get a breakout of the word.

Speaker 3 (16:11):
One last thought about Tall Rico's He was just mentioned earlier. Gentlemen,
ladies and gentlemen. He is a wolf in sheep's clothing, absolutely,
and no matter what he'd say, he says he's all
you see meat and barbecue night. He's trying to promote that.
But why is his campaign promoting vegetarianism veganism and all that,
and why has he in the past promoted it if

(16:32):
he's such a huge, uh, you know, meat eater. That's
all afront folks. Remember, politicians will tell any la it
takes to win. I promise you they will. And this
man's exceptional at it. He's he's, you know, parading around
us some kind of evangelical Baptist preacher. And he's the
farthest thing you could get from that. Jesus warned us
about wolves and sheep's clothing, he said, not sparing the flock.

(16:55):
This man is dangerous.

Speaker 2 (16:56):
All right, Well, I'm not gonna respond to that. Tallarico
himself respond to that. This is him talking to Ken
Paxton's a lawyer from the impeachment who actually argued Ken
Paxton's case against being impeached and convicted in the Texas Senate.
And he's kind of talking about Ken Paxton all this,

(17:17):
and this is kind of interesting, calling you.

Speaker 5 (17:18):
Low t taala Rico.

Speaker 3 (17:20):
Trump's calling you a vegan.

Speaker 5 (17:22):
I mean, well, I've I'm an eighth generation Saxon. I
know Kim Paxson's not from Texas, but my family's been
here since it was Mexico. So I've been eating barbecue
since before Ken Paxton's first indictment, and I think, you know,
the best they have is lying about me being a vegan.

(17:45):
I feel pretty good about our chances for client.

Speaker 3 (17:47):
Kens Paxton's calling well.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
And I thought it's that kind of line, whether you
like the guy or not, because I've been eating barbecue
since before Ken Paxton's first indictment. The kind of stuff
as a politician that he's doing is the reason why
he's between four and seven points. There's not one pole
that puts Ken Paxton a head in Texas of I
don't care who's doing it. So you might call him

(18:09):
a wolf in sheep's clothing, but the sheep, frankly, I
don't agree with that. But the sheep seems to be
winning in devouring the wolf.

Speaker 3 (18:17):
The wolf is winning.

Speaker 4 (18:19):
Really.

Speaker 2 (18:19):
That's my point being that right now, someone call Ken Paxton, this.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Is too early, okay, yes, oh wait and say what
comes in the wait and say you wait, and.

Speaker 4 (18:27):
Say all right, we'll talk about that later.

Speaker 2 (18:29):
But folks, we're going to come back talk about the
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this is Chaplain High McHenry with.

Speaker 2 (21:21):
Christopher Tidmore here in fifteen sixty, ninety three point nine
and ninety nine point five, and we're joined, ladies and gentlemen,
by the front runner for the Public's the Open Public
Service Commissioner's position to succeed the retiring sort of Eric Scramatta.
Of course, as we've noted on this show, the current incoment,
Eric Scramatta is now the Deputy Secretary of Energy and

(21:42):
the Trump administration. But John Young is running for in
a runoff former Jefferson Parish president against Stephanie Hilfredy, the
state representative, and it's a down to the wire kind
of contest, ladies and gentlemen, So every vote in this
one will count. And John, that's been one of the
biggest problems because a lot of people think the election

(22:02):
is kind of over and they're not paying attention, even
though there's an incredibly competitive US Senate race, an incredibly
competitive Bessie race, and your race, which is very very
competitive though you are according to the polls, leading by
a few points and just getting people to come out
and vote. With early voting having started this past this Saturday.
You know, we obviously air on Friday, on Friday and
Sunday as well as Monday Wednesday, early voting throughout this week.

Speaker 7 (22:25):
Chris, Yeah, Actually it starts on Friday, twelfth, the twelfth, Yes, sir.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
So for our audience on WSLA ninety three point nine
and fifteen sixty. Basically, they can go vote across the region.
John explained starting on Friday when we first aired this program,
explained the mensions of this psc district because it's not
exactly it's the size of a congressional district, but it's
not exactly a congression any of the lines of the

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congressional district.

Speaker 4 (22:55):
Where does it stretch?

Speaker 3 (22:56):
All right?

Speaker 7 (22:57):
First and foremost, it's actually bigger than the congression district
because we have six congressional districts and only five Public
Service Commission districts. So real quickly to go through it,
we have the west bank of Saint Charles all the
East bank of Jefferson. On the west bank of Jefferson,
you have Grand Isle, Lafitte, Barteria. In New Orleans, you

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have part of Uptown and Lakeview and Lake Vista area
between Alan Tucson and the Lake. You have all of
Saint Bernard, all of Placamen's, all of Saint Tammany, all
of Washington, all of Tangibahoe, all of Saint Helena in
the eastern part of Liveston Parish.

Speaker 2 (23:41):
It's a huge district and you have you have managed
to get the h endorsements of the party. Infrastructure and
most of those parish is the vast majority of this district.

Speaker 7 (23:52):
Yes, we now have the endorsements of the Saint Charles Parish,
Republican Executive Committee, Jefferson Parish, are peck uh, Placuamin's Parish
or Peck, Saint Bernard Parish or Peck, Saint Tammany Parish
or PEC, Washington Parish ARPEC, and Livingston.

Speaker 3 (24:09):
Parish ar PECK.

Speaker 2 (24:11):
In a different universe, that would usually mean you were
the endorsed Republican candidate. But of course we've got a
close primary to decide who that will be. And a
lot of people, yeah, a lot of people are confused,
John Young as to the issues in this race because frankly,
a public service commission. They know it has something to
do with electricity, but they really don't know what the
heck you guys do, why it's so important and it is,

(24:32):
and what you're running on in the difference between you
and so, first start off, you've been dealing with energy
and grid matters going back to the Jefferson Parish Council
and especially when you were Jefferson Parish President.

Speaker 7 (24:43):
Yes, I mean I'm the only candidate in this race,
Chris and High that's as an elected official, been through Katrina, Rita,
gustav Ike, the BPOs built Tropical Slowly, and Hurricane Isaac.
I'm also the only candidate that's actually held a utility
company accountable after Isaac, Entergy with slow to respond and
I called them out about that, and then we met

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the day after and worked together actually for a year
to do a proactive pole replacement and strengthen and harden
to grid so that that wouldn't happen again. So in
terms of experience, I'm the only candidate who's actually managed
a major parish through major storms and crises.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
And that's a lot of what you do. You don't
just strike regulate electric rates. You make sure people's electricity
is actually hooked up and operating.

Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yes, you do.

Speaker 7 (25:33):
You know a lot of people unfortunately don't understand what
the Public Service Commission does, but it obviously is a
very important position, a very powerful position, and it hits
everybody in the pocketbook because it's all electricity, water and gas.
Water in the sense of independent systems mostly on the
North Shore, doesn't regulate municipal water systems, all telecom, all

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intrast state trucking, tow incomempanies, waste of water, jailhouse telephones,
and intrastate pipeline. So it's a very very and it's critical.
It's going to play a critical and central role with
the investment by the AI data companies, and that's an

(26:16):
important issue because these AI data companies are the wealthiest
companies in the world. We welcome their investment in state,
but as Public Service Commissioner, my commitment to the citizens
is that those data companies are going to have to
pay their own way, and by pay their own way,
I mean they're gonna have to pay for whatever added
infrastructures needed to power these data centers, and they're gonna

(26:39):
have to pay for their own power generation, so that
those costs are shifted on to us. The rappays, be
it residential, business, commercial, industrial, otherwise.

Speaker 2 (26:48):
And in fact, this has been something You've been champion
and Eric Scrimeta before you. It's not been a ubiquitous viewpoint.
A lot of these data centers don't want to pay
for their electrical grid. The interesting part that I find
about it is if they build these electrical plants, they
don't use the same constant amount electricity. Sometimes they can
actually sell some electricity back to the grid and lower

(27:09):
rates invariably correct.

Speaker 7 (27:11):
And then the other thing that the present Public Service
Commission has done is, at least on the META facility,
META is going to pay for thirty percent of storm
restoration charges. And as most people if they look at
their bill, we're still paying storm restoration charges from IDA.
Obviously when there's a storm under federal law, they are

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in tyler recoup the costs the repairs to the grid
post storm. The other thing I want to do is
obviously be proactive and strengthened and hardened the grid not
just against weather events such as hurricanes, but also against
cyber attacks.

Speaker 3 (27:48):
How about EMT E m t EMP. You mean emp
E electromagnetic pulse.

Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, because this is and the HEGH springing up something
that is not talked about a lot better. America's electrical
grid is incredibly vulnerable to an electromagnetic pulse, folks. That's
basically somebody exploded, a terrorist explodes a nuclear weapon in
the upper atmosphere and it shuts down the electrical grid
and computers and everything for twenty seven states.

Speaker 3 (28:14):
Or an exploding sun spot, which happened thanks shortly after
the war between the States, and it fried all of
the telegram lines.

Speaker 7 (28:23):
I talked about that today at a rotary club a luncheon.
And we have to we have to be prepared and
protect ourselves from those sort of issues as well as
you know, cyber attacks by hostile countries.

Speaker 3 (28:41):
We need to carden the grid, put tesla cages around
all of our stuff, all of our you know, power
centers and all that, so that that protects us from
that pulse. It's a lot guy, absolutely, Yeah, it's a
whole lot more if they if they get taken if
they get taken out, you know, half of the country's
going to die even more.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Well, I mean I will say that William Fortune wrote, Yeah, people.

Speaker 7 (29:03):
Aren't talking about that high and that's that's that's.

Speaker 3 (29:05):
Yeah, it's amazing that this should be top priority. It's
like people are asleep on it or something.

Speaker 2 (29:11):
It would shut down pretty much the well, the twentieth century,
much less the twenty first for us. And so this
is why a Public Service Commissioner, John Young is in
a very important position when it comes across and You're
in a very competitive race, Stephanie Hilfredy, and you are
running this and basically people are a little confused and

(29:32):
who to vote for. It's it's it's not clear, you know,
in the other two races, they are very clear endorsements
from the President and from the governor. You guys who
have good relationships across the party are running on each
of your merits, and basically it'll come down to who votes.
What I'm afraid of is people will go in that
voting booth vote for the Senate and not vote for
the down ticket races.

Speaker 4 (29:52):
How do you convince them to do that?

Speaker 7 (29:54):
Well, I convince them to do that, and I've been
trying to convince people that support and how point the
Public Service Commission is. It's not a sexy position, but
it's a very important one, a very powerful one, and
as I said, it's going to play a critical and
central role in transforming our economy in Louisiana with the

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biggans of dollars that are being invested again primarily by
AI companies, but also by Hoyndei Steel and Venture Global.
And my pitch is that if they want an experienced
public service commissioner with extensive experience in both executive and
legislative branches of government, and a commissioner who has proven

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record of leadership with real insignificant results, I'm that candidate.
My name is John Young, and I'm number forty four
in the ballot.

Speaker 2 (30:47):
And John, I will say, you brought up another important issue,
which is the fact that we're about to have one
of the world's largest steel plans, and we are going
to have the most critical LNG export offshore export facility
in the almost in the world that's being built by
Ventric Global, along with two new plants. So for the
most part, when it comes to energy infrastructure, we may
have to double our energy infrastructure here in the state

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in the next ten to fifteen years, or at least
South Louisiana correct.

Speaker 7 (31:14):
And then the other thing I'd like to point out
is that we're also looking toward the future, we also
have to diversify our sources of energy and power generation.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
I e.

Speaker 7 (31:25):
We have to look at nuclear. I think nuclear is
the future, and specifically, I'm not talking about your grandfather's
nuclear like that commercial, your grandfather's Osbobille. I'm talking about small,
modular reactors. We've been blessed in Louisiana with an abundance
of fossil fuels and historically low natural gas prices. But
when they spike, those search charges get passed on to

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the rate pairs. If we diversify and go toward nuclear,
which is clean and reliable, we can pass those cost
savings onto our rate pairs.

Speaker 2 (31:59):
High and I've talked He and I've talked about this
that now you can have a nuclear power plant. This
is not hypothetical. It's already going to most military facilities.
A nuclear power plant is delivered on the back of
an eighteen wheeler truck.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's safe.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
You literally could have parts of cities with their own
nuclear power plants and electricity goes round. But right now,
the regulations in Louisiana do not really allow that.

Speaker 7 (32:22):
No, we have to work on that because, as I said,
it's not your grandfather's nuclear.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
So you're right, it's a lot.

Speaker 7 (32:29):
The technology has come a long way. I mean, we
have submarines, you know, transverseing the oceans that run on
nuclear power. So we need to really look at nuclear
as far as Louisiana's energy future is concerned.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
Pull up the submarine Louisiana, park it at the docks
and it can pump some zeus into us. And by
the way, what we need here is we need Trump
to come in and deregulate this state.

Speaker 2 (32:56):
Well, that's not exactly how the constitution works, you know,
the tempt of men.

Speaker 3 (33:01):
That's just a joke, but I'm making my point.

Speaker 4 (33:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
But John Young, you are in the ballot. Early voting
is this through this week, and of course the election
will be on the sixteenth. If somebody wants to find
out more about your campaign, your platform, or how to
get in touch and find out more information, how would
they do it?

Speaker 6 (33:17):
Yeah, So I'm.

Speaker 7 (33:18):
Glad you mentioned that you can go to elect John
Young dot com. And I'm also the only candidate as
a twelve point plan with the number one priority being
to protect the rate bears.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
That sounds good, John you dot com and John Young,
I can honestly say you earned the endorsement of my newspaper,
The Louisiana Weekly as well, So.

Speaker 7 (33:38):
Heavin, thank you very much. You know again, that's that's
elect John Young dot com.

Speaker 2 (33:43):
Elect John Young dot com And all right, John Young,
thank you for joining us.

Speaker 4 (33:47):
We wish you the best of the luck through the election.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
Everybody, go vote early vote is through this week, so
go to your early voting stations in each parish.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
Thank you, John. I know you you vote counts, so
go on and vote. Amen, John, thank you so very much.
And I know your father's looking over the rare parts.
I haven't down at us. I'm proud of both you
and Anna me.

Speaker 7 (34:06):
You know, Hi, Mike, you know, just mentioned this real
quick before we go off that the dad's birthday is
the day after the election day, so his birthday would
be June twenty eighth, and the election day is June
twenty seven.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
Yeah, your dad was such an incredible guy and it
has an incredible son.

Speaker 4 (34:23):
So we wish you the best of luck.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
John Young, thank you all very much.

Speaker 7 (34:26):
Thank you much talking with you, Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (34:29):
Bye bye. All.

Speaker 2 (34:31):
So, I did promise something about the back and forth
with the Iranian negotiations and the bombing that happened in
Iran this week and why it wasn't moving very much.
There's something that a lot of the American public has missed,
and it's the fact that there haven't been direct communications
between the State Department or most of our negotiators with Iran.

(34:51):
They actually there was an effort, if you remember JD.
Vance went and sat down with him for twenty hours.
It went nowhere. The Trump administration haven't The actual guy
who's been handling the negotiations, or I should say it's
been the intermediary is a Pakistani intelligence officer. He's now
an Army chief Field Marshal. His name is Azim Mirn

(35:12):
Mirror m U n I R. And he's an interesting
source because he's also the guy who kind of helped
welcome Osama bin Laden to Pakistan, and he's played he
actually encouraged some of the rebel forces to go in
Afghanistan and face our troops. He's been the intermediary between
the Trump administration and everybody for that matter, and the

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Iranians and has been going back and forth. And there's
been a real question when every time we hear Trump
say we're very close to a deal, everybody's saying, well,
Trump's making this up. It may not be that Trump's
making this up. It may be worse in a way,
that he's being deceived. That Azim Mirrar seems to be
telling people whatever they want to hear. He's telling the

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Iranians they'll come to a deal where they could keep
their nuclear stockpile. He's telling the Trump administration they're ready
to give up their nuclear stockpile, and that this may
be a classic experience of a loss in communication. Now,
previously we had lowered Department nowher members of the State
Department who would do these negotiations in the middle of
the Dosee situation. Most of them left or many of

(36:17):
them were fired, but most of them quit, and so
there's actually not a huge number of diplomats that specialize
on Iran and in this situation left in the Trump administration.
So we've been at the mercy of the Pakistanis and
particularly a Pakistani army official who doesn't have our best
interest at heart. I'm saying he's got the Iranians best

(36:39):
interest at heart, but he seems to be playing both
sides against the middle and that's why things seem to
be so confused, or at least that's my take.

Speaker 3 (36:45):
Hi. Yeah, Chris fah, I'm not surprised. If you study
the Qur'an, it is considered to be a great honor
and a great work to lie in the name of Allah,
in the support of Allah. In fact, Allah is declared
to be the greatest and most powerful liar in the universe.

Speaker 7 (37:02):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
You know, it's so interesting. That's one of the definitions
of Satan, by the way that he's a father of
all lies. You know that lying is a way of
life for these people. I lived with Muslims for years.
I am an X. I was a subject matter expert
when I deployed in Afghanistan three for the US my
Special Forces as a kind of intelligence agent. I understand

(37:24):
the whole Islam thing very very well. And they have
a lot of good Muslims. Thank God, they don't read
and they don't take the Korean literally, just like most
Christians don't read the Bible. Uh. That helps us. But
for the ones that are serious, you can expect every
form of deceit and treachery that they can come up with.
They think it's an honorable thing. And that's why, no

(37:45):
matter what these people tell you, you can't take it seriously.
You know, I don't care how much they would swear
that they're not going to ever do it out of
bomba they're lying to you blatantly. And so I don't
know if our people who are you know, analyzing all
this stuff, our analysts and whatnot, are they really getting that.
And you know, and by the way, we don't really

(38:05):
know what's going on in those both of the rules.
We don't really know what our military objective is. And
we know we want to stop the nukes, but we
don't quite know, you know, how that's being playned or
done and so and so and so that's really what's
going on here. And Trump may himself be trying to
get delays out of this for something they're planning to do.
Of course they can't tell us. Players don't tell us

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because then of course well know and can stop us.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
If you remember, folks, a few weeks ago, when the
war started, about four months ago, three and a half
months ago, I came out and I said that we
had a situation, what was the endgame?

Speaker 4 (38:43):
And what I meant.

Speaker 2 (38:44):
Everybody misinterpreted what I said because I came out and
they were confused. I said, I support Trump in bombing
the Iranians.

Speaker 4 (38:50):
One of the things I.

Speaker 2 (38:51):
Said, though, is you have to be very clear with
what you want to do. Was it to get rid
of the nuclear stockpile? Was it to get rid of
the drone factories? Is it to get any one of
these things? Regime change and getting them to behave differently
was never going to happen with the Iranians, and they're
never going to have a negotiation that ends up. Obama

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learned this the hard way with effectiveness. The way you
fight the Iranians is simple. You bomb something, you destroyed,
and you go home. You don't try to negotiate with them.
Because and this is I disagree with some of High's
overwhelming viewpoints about the Quran, but I don't disagree from
the standpoint of the Iranians, and the Iranians themselves are

(39:32):
a death cult. They're twelthymou death cult, and they do
not they will do everything that Haija said, And they're
lying to a man who lied to the United States
about Islamic militants being sent into Afghanistan to kill our
troops and he's our negotiator.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
Right, Christopher. Look, I would love to have a debate
with you over this on the Qouran. Would love to
do that, you know what the chronological Kouran is. Most
people don't. That helps you understand why they're so crazy.
And that's the way the moms read the Korea. Let
me tell you, if you take the Quran literally, you
don't get a choice. You have to kill Christians, Jews, infidels,

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and heretics. And that's another thing that makes them very dangerous.
They have killed more of themselves than they have us.
They're that crazy. So this is a very dangerous cult,
and it's because the Korean is the driving force behind
it all. Now we have to leave it that because
we've weren't out of time and we got more common.
After this brief commercial break, it's.

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Speaker 3 (43:31):
Well, folks, we're back and you are listening to the
Founder's show, the voice to the finding Fathers, and this
is none of the Then your Spingary Babbao the republic
Chaplain High McHenry to share with you because it's our
time for the discover the biblical principles of America are
Judio Christian jurispordens. This is the Chaplain Bye bye patriotic moment.

(43:52):
And today we want to talk about a guy named
John Witherspoon. Now we're covering the original founding fathers of
the from the Decoration of Independence, end of the Constitution period.
And there may be military men, they may be statesman.
This is John Witherspoon. He was a great statesman. He
was one of the signs of Decoration of Independence. He

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was a member of kind of Congress who's served on
over one hundred congressional committees. I think he was very
familiar with the group and what they were trying to do.
He was a president of Princeton College, and the model
for Princeton was under under God's power, she flourishes. His
predecessors said, cursed be all that learning that is contrary

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to the Cross of Christ, and certainly Witherspoon believed that himself.
Every major, i mean many major people in America were
his students who played a major role in this country.
We had a president James Madison, three Supreme Court justice,
ten cabinet members, twelve governors, twenty one senators, thirty nine representatives,

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as well as numerous delegates to the continal conventions around
in the very state of the various states. His numerous
students included leaders such as Gunning Bedford, David Beersley, and
of course James Medicine, one of our most famous presidents,
who actually is the father of the Constitution. And remember,

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for Princeton College, take note every minute every professor was
a minister. All the way up to nineteen oh two.
I think they had a strong, strong foundation in the Bible,
and for God being in the middle of all that
we're doing. In seventeen seventy six May, the Continental Congress
called for a day of prayer and fasting and national

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humiliation because they were going through great struggles about establishing
the independence of America, and they weren't sure they could
do it, so they cried out to God to get
them through this. And this is what he said. He said, Well, well,
give praise to God during this day of fasting in prayer,
the supreme disposer of all events, for his interpositions on

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our behalf. Let us guard against the dangerous era of
trusting in or boasting in the flesh. If your cause
is just, your principles are pure, and your conduct is prudent,
you need not fear the multitude of those who oppose you.
What follows from this is that whoever is an avowed

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enemy of God, I scruple not in the words hesitate
to call him an enemy of his country. He went
on to say, gentlemen, New Jersey is ready to vote
for independence. In our judgment, the country is not only
ripe for independence, but we go in danger of becoming
rotten to the want of it if we delay our

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any longer. I mean, this man really wanted independence, but
he wanted God in the middle of it. He said
in New Jersey, because he was representing New Jersey being
the principle of Prince. Well, folks, you can see how
much they wanted God in government. You know what made
America great in the beginning was God. It's because we
made we the people made God great in us, which

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then allowed God to get great in America and make
America great. We're trying to make America great again. Don't
you think we're going to follow the same concept. Well, folks,
it's God great in you right now. He was certainly
in Witherspoon and so many of our funding fathers and
the everyday average citizens, because they the ones who ready
to do the heavy lifting. They're the ones who really
want our independence, the everyday average American, and they had

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an enormous amount of belief in God in the early Republic. So, folks,
what about you? Are you there? Have you let God
be great? And you almost show how you can do that.
As we now go into our chapelin by by a
gospel moment, we're going to just take a short time
to show you how you can know that. You know that,
you know when you die, you go into heaven. You

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know the gospel the Bible says, the Gospel is the
power of God and the salvation. What does that mean?
In fact? What is even the gospel? Well, the gospel
the Bible says in one queenings fifteen before, I declared
the gospel that Christ died for all of our sins
according scripture, that he was buried, and that he rose
from the dead according to the scripture, and then paraphrasing
that whosoever believeth in this great Gospel message will be

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saved from Helen guaranteed heaven. Folks, have you done that?
Have you truly believed that only Jesus can save you,
That He's the one who died for all of your sins?
I mean, from the day you're born to the day
you die, you tell yours the greatest sins? Do you
believe he's really the key? Man here? And I say
man because he had to be a man to do it.
That's right, he had to be a man. He was
one hundred percent man, one hundred percent God. But he

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was I mean one hundred percent human. But let me
tell you some folks, I mean perfect human. He was
all the way human, in perfect human. But he also
had to be all the way God and perfect God.
And he was. He was both. He was one hundred
percent God one hundred percent man. So to be a man,
he had to do this as a man. And that

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man went to the cross and paid the enormous price
of sin, something I cannot even describe to you. It's
so huge. It all went on him and all win
in him, the Bible says, And he was turned into
sin to pay that terrible price of sin for the
entire human race, for everybody. Then he was buried, and
then he rose from the dead to show that death

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could not had no power over him. He could beat death,
and he did. When he rose from the dead, he
went for you and that precious free gift of resurrection,
everlasting life. Now our sins are paid for. Now we've
got heaven and resurrection, everlasting life to our credit for us,
for you. But folks, to get that, you've got to believe.
First of all, you can't save yourself, because if you

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think you're going to do something here, you kill the deal.
It has to be all of Jesus and none of him.
Do you believe, folks, that He is the only one
that can truly save you. If you do that, then
you've got to believe that you cannot save yourself. You're
hopeless and helps without God, destined to a burning hell.
You're not good enough, no matter how smart you are,
how charming you are, how rich you are, how this that,

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or whatever you are. No matter what you bring to
the table, it's filthy rags before God. The Scripture says,
all of your righteousness are as filthy rags. So, folks,
quit trust in yourself, let it go so you can
let God have your soul for heaven. If you've never
done this before, please do it now. Don't wait till

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it's too late. Like the old country percent, and like
the Bible says, now today is a day of salvation. Folks,
believe that you cannot save yourself. That's called repentance. It
is not an action. It is not turning from your sins,
cleaning up your life, this, that, whatever, It's none of that,
because that means that's your righteousness, which doesn't count in

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this deal. The only righteousness that counts is Jesus's put
one hundred percent faith in him. That means you believe
with him with all your heart, because you're not trusting
anything else. It's not how big your heart is, how
passionate your heart is, how hard you you strain with
your art, any of that, that's all a lot of foolishness.
It just means you don't trust anything else. It's only Jesus.

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If you will do that, then you become instantly a
child of God. You're guaranteed heaven forever. You're saved from hell,
guaranteed that your help proofed you can't go to hell,
and you're guaranteed heaven with God's precious free gift of resurrection, everlasting,
sinless life. If you've never done this before, do it now? Well, folks,

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there's one more thing for us to cover. It has
to do with Jesus coming back. And he's coming back soon, folks.
Do you know that right now? And this is our
chaplain by by witness on the wall, where the Bible
tells us to be a good witness and warn the people,
otherwise their blood will be on your hands. Well, I
don't want your blood on my hands, So I'm telling
you right now, Jesus coming back soon. And there's ample proof,
for there's over two hundred prophecies and they're just about

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all done or have happened on there here now, there
here now. Jesus said, when you see all these things
coming together, that I'm at the door. Never before in
the history of the world have they all been together
as they are now. One of the more recent things
I brought up before. It's EXeCO thirty eight thirty nine prophecy.
I'm saying it right now because just recently Turkey has
met with the other members of this group and they're

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planting things right now. They come up with some kind
of treaty. It's all being done in secret, but they
have to be united in their effort to attack Israel.
It's Turkey, Iran, Libya, and Ethiopia. When those groups gather together,
according to Ezekol thirty eight thirty nine, they're going to
attack Israel and God is going to destroy them and
it's going to actually be a localized nuclear holocaust. So, folks,

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if you see that happening, what that means is that
tribulation has just begun and you got seven years. If
you need a safe house, if you need a bunker,
go to Jesus, go to him. Right now, believing that
he died for all your sins. Was Bernie Rosem dead?
You can't get a safer place than our savior, the
Lord Jesus Christ. When it's time for us to close,

(52:59):
knows close with a mind Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye,
and God bless all us.

Speaker 1 (53:11):
We call you cre goodbye.

Speaker 3 (53:16):
They think we're just wasted a time for the men.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
All three Simon say there's time for a creoke goodbye.