October 4, 2024 • 54 mins
Hy and Christopher begin by recounting the lonely bipartisan struggle that has been carried by Congressman Troy Carter (D-New Orleans). While his Louisiana Republican colleagues have been firmly behind him in his fight to convince DHS Sec. Alejandro Mayorkas not to approve the new FEMA maps that would drastically increase flood insurance costs, few Democrats or Republicans on the national level have agreed.
Projected increases in flood insurance cost for those outside of hurricane protection defenses under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are endangering the very existence of many coastal communities in Louisiana. Insurance costs are jumping to $20,000 per year for $100,000 home. Acadian towns like Chauvin are becoming depopulated and nobody either in the Biden or the previous Trump administration has cared
Carter has conducted a lonely fight along with Steve Scalise, Garrett Graves, and Mike Johnson to bring attention to this critical problem. Hy and Christopher lament the lack of progress, and ask the audience to get involved.
Our hosts continue to talk about the flooding in Asheville and Western North Carolina. Most people don’t realize that the area bears a striking resemblance to New Orleans in so far is that it is a bowl, and when floodwaters enter, they are very slow to leave. The example also emphasizes the fact that flood insurance is something that can affect everyone, from the coasts to the mountains.
Later in the show, we talk about how LSU has benefited remarkably in the last couple of years from students matriculating from the northeast and from far out of state. Since 2/3 of college graduates tend to live near their campuses, we have to create new jobs to keep these bright minds in Louisiana. Elimination of the film, live performance, digital, music, and quality jobs tax credits could stop that potential job creation cold.
The governor’s proposal for a flat tax eliminates those job creating tax credits. Jeff Landry doubled down on that proposal at the House Ways and Means committee meeting last Thursday, Oct 3, 2024 proposing a 3 percent flat tax on individuals, and a 3.5 percent flat tax on corporations. The administration also proposed elimination of the corporate franchise tax and major modifications to the inventory tax.
Likewise, in order for Louisiana also to cover the loss of the $455 million in revenue produced from .45 percent sales tax expiring next year, Landry hopes to the legislature to eliminate nearly every tax benefit which goes to the cultural economy as well as many areas of industrial economic development— including the quality jobs credit. Could throwing out “the baby with bathwater” be the economic result of the tax reform?
We can include the show talking about the visit of famed Churchill biographer Sonia Purnell to the Garden District Book Shop on Sunday, October 6 at 4 pm. She is premiering her new book on Pamela Churchill Harriman Kingmaker. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call (504) 895-2266 or visit The Garden District Book Shop website.
Projected increases in flood insurance cost for those outside of hurricane protection defenses under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) are endangering the very existence of many coastal communities in Louisiana. Insurance costs are jumping to $20,000 per year for $100,000 home. Acadian towns like Chauvin are becoming depopulated and nobody either in the Biden or the previous Trump administration has cared
Carter has conducted a lonely fight along with Steve Scalise, Garrett Graves, and Mike Johnson to bring attention to this critical problem. Hy and Christopher lament the lack of progress, and ask the audience to get involved.
Our hosts continue to talk about the flooding in Asheville and Western North Carolina. Most people don’t realize that the area bears a striking resemblance to New Orleans in so far is that it is a bowl, and when floodwaters enter, they are very slow to leave. The example also emphasizes the fact that flood insurance is something that can affect everyone, from the coasts to the mountains.
Later in the show, we talk about how LSU has benefited remarkably in the last couple of years from students matriculating from the northeast and from far out of state. Since 2/3 of college graduates tend to live near their campuses, we have to create new jobs to keep these bright minds in Louisiana. Elimination of the film, live performance, digital, music, and quality jobs tax credits could stop that potential job creation cold.
The governor’s proposal for a flat tax eliminates those job creating tax credits. Jeff Landry doubled down on that proposal at the House Ways and Means committee meeting last Thursday, Oct 3, 2024 proposing a 3 percent flat tax on individuals, and a 3.5 percent flat tax on corporations. The administration also proposed elimination of the corporate franchise tax and major modifications to the inventory tax.
Likewise, in order for Louisiana also to cover the loss of the $455 million in revenue produced from .45 percent sales tax expiring next year, Landry hopes to the legislature to eliminate nearly every tax benefit which goes to the cultural economy as well as many areas of industrial economic development— including the quality jobs credit. Could throwing out “the baby with bathwater” be the economic result of the tax reform?
We can include the show talking about the visit of famed Churchill biographer Sonia Purnell to the Garden District Book Shop on Sunday, October 6 at 4 pm. She is premiering her new book on Pamela Churchill Harriman Kingmaker. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call (504) 895-2266 or visit The Garden District Book Shop website.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Battles the politicians addressed the digitatas and magicians. First to
see the money. They don't, there's nothing to feel the
holes well, then fill in their pockets. Battles The politicians
mountain down the road, every batition for no moment, corruption
(00:26):
and dysfunctional. It's gone to take divideven.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
With the tragedies up in North Carolina and Northern Georgia,
we get a report directly from the Cajun Navy members
and the Cajun Air Force members up there providing relief.
Why is the relief not getting in? And why is
a mountain valley flooding? We're going to tell you some
of that. But first, ladies and gentlemen here on The
Founder Show, we're going to go into what is going
on in the insurance crisis here in Louisiana. Entire coastal
(00:56):
communities are going why And we have a report directly
from a member of Congress about what to do, what
to fight. And we're going to look at the presidential race,
the aftermath of the vice presidential debate. Will it change anything?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And other stories on this edition of The Founder Show.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Cajun Navy Christopher why I was one of the Founders
of the Cajun Navy doing Katrina. Some of our group
went on to start the Cajun Navy almost twenty years ago. Well, folks,
God bless out there, you are now listening to the
founders show the voice of the founding Fathers. You are
Founding Fathers coming to you deep within the bowels of
those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
(01:36):
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that old Liberty cypress tree draped in
Spanish moss, way out on the Eagles branches none other.
And then you'll spend Gary Babbay the Republic Chaplain.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Hi McHenry with Christopher Tidmore, You Roving Report, a resident
radical moderate and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper
at Louisiana weeekly dot net. And Hi, we start off
today's show with a deep population of communities here in Louisiana.
Before we talk about the hurricane damage of Hurricane Helene,
which was extreme and the comparisons to Hurricane Katrina are
(02:13):
tragic but sometimes on par But first I want to
talk about on time speaking an article that came out
talking about the coastal communities of Louisiana and particularly the
town of Chauvam. I use that as an example occasun
community historic roots been around since the seventeen hundreds, and
the young people are not just leaving, their fleeing. And
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the reason is insurance. Now, everybody has seen their insurance
rates go up. As some of you know, I'm a
commercial insurance agent. Amongst my many hats that I wear,
and we write insurance, and I have seen people not
able to afford their insurance under normal basis. I've seen
people in New Orleans go down to fire and flood
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insurance instead of you having a full wind and hail
because they just simply can't afford it. And that's where
when your insurance is a few thousand dollars or one
thousand dollars or one thousand dollars a month, what's happening
outside the flood protection zones in and around what we
call the thousand year protection that was built after Hurricane Katrina,
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these big walls on our coastal communities, is that insurance
rates have now jumped to twenty thousand dollars. And you're like, well,
that's a lot, but you know, I pay expos This
is twenty thousand dollars for homes that are worth one
hundred or one hundred and fifty. In other words, one
fourth too well to twenty percent of the value of
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your home every year is insurance, if not more. That's
the low end. People are finding insurance rates so high
it's in some cases as much as they make in
a year because these are not rich communities, and young
people unable to afford to buy a house because not
the houses being expensive, the insurance being unmanageable. Fleeing people
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are self insuring as far as that is. But basically
these communities are unprotected so much so that I am
never one to believe in conspiracy, but every so often
I believe in intransigence that could be a conspiracy. And
that is this. So this week, HI yours truly had
a long one hour conversation with Congressman Troy Carter. Now,
(04:22):
for those that don't know, Troy Carter is the congressman
from New Orleans, but more importantly, he's one of the
few figures in the United States House of Representatives that
has strong relationships on both sides of the isle. And
I mean the very strongest. So Troy Carter was elected
to his Democratic Majority seat with the support of Steve
Scalie and Mike Johnson. He and Steve have been friends
(04:44):
for decades. They served in the legislature. He served in
the legislature with Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson. And when
I say he regularly talks, I mean every day he's
with him. He's also fraternity brothers and best friends with
Jakim Jeffers, the Democratic leader, and they've been friends years
long before either one of them were in Congress. And
so the we'll talk a little bit about this and
(05:06):
is throughout every all the negotiations. One of the reasons
why you're not hearing the problems that say Kevin McCarthy
had and why Mike Johnson can get things over the line,
is because Troy Carter ends up being the emissary between
both sides. So much so he did something very old Washington.
And don't tell his wife this, but for everybody else listening,
he started hosting congressmen in his office for cigars and
(05:28):
whiskey every Friday, which you.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Are like, you mean like a blue dog, like a
blue dog.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
He basically no, I mean. And here's the thing, because
he said, nobody's talking to each other. There is not
having any social thing. And believe it or not, he
has gotten people talking. So may you may disagree with
his politics, he might disagree with yours because he votes
with the Democrats, but he has a very strong relationship
on both sides. They all for us Louisianians. It's not
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unknown that he was open to the idea if it
had come down to one vote to voting for Steve
Scalie for Mike Johnson to stay in. But he has
been the one trying to do something about this insurance crisis.
And I'll explain what's going on with it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
When I said blue Dog, folks, I was referencing a
gentleman who years ago was able to do the same thing,
a Louisiana politician, and he was able to get people together,
and he was a Louisiana guy. In his home he
had rod Rieg's paintings, and one of rod Rieg's paintings
was its famous little dog that he used to paint
in blue all the time, so they would see this
blue dog. And these Democrats that were coming to his
(06:29):
house started voting to the right and voting for Republican
bills and whatnot, and so they started calling him blue
dog Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You're the person you're referring to, of course, is Billy Tosan,
who is the founder of the Blue Dog Caucus, who
were conservative Democrats, and Billy, of course eventually became a Republican.
That is not going to be Troy Carter. Troy Carter
has a record that's very.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Much understanding that. But still it's getting close to I.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Would disagree what I would disagree. I disagree with that,
so and so would he insofar as it's a more
conventional credit voting record. The difference is not every issue
is ideological. And this is the thing that this is
where the twenty four hour news cycle has done us
a tremendous disservice. There are a lot of things that
Congress does where things get locked up that aren't particularly ideological.
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And sometimes it's just passing a budget and you might
argue with the elements of the budget. But what killed
Mike Johnson's budget from being killed was five members of
the Republican Caucus who didn't get one hundred percent of
what they wanted. They only got eighty percent, and so
that wasn't enough, and so he had to kind of
deal with Democrats to get sixty percent just so he
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could get a budget through. That is kind of what
we're talking about here. But in Joy Carter's case, the
thing that he's taken the lead on is something that
every Republican and Democrat in Louisiana agrees with and nobody
else does. And that is the condition of the insurance crisis.
Because remember, flood insurance is federally subsidized and federally underwritten,
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and they changed what all the flood insurance maps, and
it's the reason your flood insurance has gone through the roof,
and I mean literally on that point, because the new
maps essentially say, if you're outside of the thousand year
levee protection, they're going to charge you enough in five
years to cost the value of replacing your house. So
if you want to stay there, every five years, you
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will buy your house again. It is beyond the ability
for anybody to.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Of course, for I don't know if I'll ever be
able to do this, but if I can ever become
self insured, I will.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You can only become self insured if you own your
home outright, as long as you have a mortgage, you
are legally required to have flood insurance. And unless you're
unless there are people who are above the flood zone.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Like we're right here where we are, we're in no
flood zone.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But if you are in most of Louisiana, it is
a requirement to have flood insurans. And so what's happening
is basically there's been a campaign that has been bipartisan.
Mike Johnson supports it as much as Troy Carter, as
much as Cleo Fields if he gets to Congress. Everybody
is in full agreement that these maps are a bit wrong.
And the reason why they're a bit wrong is some
of these houses are actually on higher ground that aren't
(09:07):
as susceptible to flooding. They're not going to flood every
five years. They may flood, they may everything in Louisiana
is susceptible to flooding, but they're not going to happen
all the time. He said, the maps are not representative reality.
And more importantly, as the time speaking, an article did
so brilliantly. It explained that essentially it's chasing people out
of the communities. Terrbone Parish has lost six thousand people
(09:30):
in the last six months, which for a parish that's
a huge number. Here's the interesting thing, almost every one
of them was under the age of fifty, the age limit.
The age of coastal parishes is going through the roof.
And basically it's the old people who can't leave and
the young people who are leaving. And that's been happening
in rural communities for decades. But this is the death
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knell of a culture. Now, why should all of us
on the other side of the levee system care? You're like, well,
that's unfortunate, you know, but you know, we're not leaving.
What's the deal? What is along these communities? Well three things.
One aquaculture. Thirty percent of US aquaculture. That's fishing. That's
our seafood. It's not just Louisiana seafood. It's thirty percent
(10:17):
of the seafood of the United States of America. If
you don't have any fishermen, how do you collect the seafood?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Guess what?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You don't those that remain. If you've got a few
corporate vessels that go in, the price of seafood goes
to the roof and it prices out a lot of
people that have seafood. It destroys a major industry in Louisiana. Second, petrochemicals,
all those coastal ports and Cameron and all this to
export natural gas, all those refining capabilities we have along
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the coast. Guess what happens? They stop? What happens and
then the price of petroleum and natural gas goes to
the roof because you need people to run these plants.
What about the last one? Well, it's simply history. There's
a reason somebody asked me the question. I remember a
couple of years after Katrina, I was covering some stuff
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in Europe and they were like, why would you go
back to New Orleans? I mean, it's got another hurricane
could destroy it. Why would you be there? And I
could give a hundred reasons why I love this city,
but you know, it all boiled down to my blood
is in this mud, that this is our home and
this is where generations have been buried. And I looked
at a house. There's a house in terror Bone. The
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same family lived in this house from eighteen twenty six
to two thousand and eight, the Chauvain family, and they
it was their house. They finally gave up after two
thousand and eight, but it tells you one family for
that long, and it gives you the idea of the
connection to place. Now, I will admit we have pro
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environmental problems. We have coastal erosion, we have water sea
levels that a rising, but that's not an excuse to
give up on people's communities and their homes. And that's
something that Troy Carter was telling me. He has tried
to make the case, first to the Trump administration didn't listen,
then to the Biden administration didn't listen, and nobody neither
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presidential candidate or their staffs seem to care.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Chrispher Great points, You're so right about that. How we
get lost in the cracks, and you know, if it's
not politically going to do something for the candidates, they
just tend to ignore you. And apparently this is not
a big thing for him, so we're being written off.
This is when you start getting really mad and you
start contacting your congressman, legislators, whatever and demanding that they
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take action because this is out of control. Folks. It's
wrong that Louisiana is once again coming under assault from
what at this time, it's it's a government and a
big Brother Corporation, Big Brother Government Alliance. Actually, that's that's
really hurting us right now. So get busy, start writing,
start making phone calls. Remember we have phones and pens also,
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And remember they work for us. They don't know that,
but they really do work for us. We hire and
fire them, and we need to let them know that. So, folks,
it's time for us to take a break. We'll be
right back with the Founders.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Show Sunday, October sixth. This Sunday, ladies and gentlemen, for
those listening on WRNL, a renowned Churchill author is premiering
a new book at the Garden District Bookshop twenty seven
to twenty seven Pritannia. It's free and open to the public.
So if you're hearing this, particularly for our WRNL listeners
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on Sunday, come out to twenty seven to twenty seven
Pritannia and meet Sonya Pronell. Winston Churchill's daughter in law. Pamela,
served as Winston's secretary, his confidante, his linked to the
Americans during World War Two, sometimes in literal ways. He
Churchill trusted Pamela more than almost anyone, even his wife.
(13:55):
Who better to write? Who better than the biographer of
Clementine church his wife to write the story of Pamela
Churchill and who I mean by that? I mean Pamela
Churchill Harriman Sonya Pernell's new book, Kingmaker Pamela Harriman's Astonishing
Life of Power, Seduction and Intrigue, is premiering at four
pm at the Garden District Bookshop on Sunday, October sixth.
(14:18):
It is one of the great stories of America, not
only about how Winston Churchill's granddaughter ended up keeping the
Americans in the war, sometimes through very active ways. The
book kind of reveals her relationship with Everl Harriman during
the war, who she would years years later marry and this,
but also how she comes to America and becomes one
(14:40):
of the political kingmakers of all time, including discovering a
young Arkansas lawyer by the name of Bill Clinton and
managing his career, raising money for him, helping get elected
Attorney General and then governor and essentially to the presidency
of the United States. She becomes America's ambassador France diying
at seventy seven, and was truly the courtisan of all
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the Digby Estate, and ends up in the halls of
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Kingmaker Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction and Intrigue,
(15:23):
premiering October six, that is Sunday at four pm. It
is free and open to the public. You don't need
an RSVP. Just come to twenty seven to twenty seven
to Pretennia the Garden District book Shop, have a drink
and meet Sonya Pronell and hear her fantastic talk about
Pamela Digby Churchill, Haywood Harriman this afternoon, four pm for
our Sunday listeners October six for everybody else, folks.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Now that we've heard about the highest levels of society,
it's time to talk about the lowest levels. And that's
my group, folks. It's chap On High Mike Henry, and
I'm here to tell you about our ministry, a Lamb ministry.
We're an inner city ministry with an inner city farmula
and focus for inner city folks. That's right, folks. We
worked with a down beaten the urban poor of New Orleans,
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inner city kids, the future gang bangers of America, the
future criminals of America in many cases, and we've seen
God do miracles with this group, folks, kids that just
don't have a chance, like our current Vice president candidate JD. Vance,
who grew up in a terribly poor family with terrible
addictions and whatnot, with no father, just like our kids.
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And you know what, it's amazing to see how this
man has succeeded. We've seen our own success stories like that.
No one's become a senator or a president yet or whatever,
a great lawyer, but they've gone to have good wholesome careers,
good wholesome lives, getting married, raising good families. We got three.
We're up to our third generation in our ministry now
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from when we started twenty some odd years ago, close
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We need all the help we can get though. We're
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That's La nb n O LA dot com, or just
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call me Chaplin High McHenry at five zero four seven
two three nine three six nine and thank you so
very very much.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
November eighth and tenth, the one hundred and thirtieth anniversary
of the celebration of Samson Delilah, the opera that premiered
for North America here in New Orleans is coming back
to the Maheia Jackson Theater. Samson Delilah is coming November
eighth and tenth, and you can get tickets right now
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production of Samson Delilah. And for those that want to
get a sneak peek, Rhiann Bryce Davis is coming in
for a special concert at the Garden at the Guild
Home in the Garden District and it's open to the
public on the twenty second of October. You can get
those tickets also at New Orleans Opera dot org.
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not experiencing convenience right now are our brothers and sisters
in western North Carolina, and in.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Many caves they are brothers. This is many New Orleanians
have summer homes up there. They've just moved up there.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Most people don't realize that Highlands, North Carolina and the
related communities like Kickery and Bryson City are exactly equidistant
from New Orleans to New York City. That's why the
train routes used to go through there, and that's how
a lot of New Orleans for generations ended up going
into that micro climate. Where it is consistently about twenty
degrees cooler it's in summer months than it is here
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in New Orleans. And one of the things that's interesting
about this that area is people are saying, wait, this
is mountains, we're swamp So we can understand why New
Orleans floods, but why are these people going through such
a bad experience, because it seems like as bad as
it was. And remember, Helene came ashore as a Category
(20:53):
four hurricane. Even Katrina was a Category three, so it
came a sure worse, but it seems the worst damage
was not as it went across Georgia, and that was
pretty bad, and Atlanta was hit very hard, but it
seemed the worst damage was when it comes into that
bridge of North Carolina to Tennessee, right there on the
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border that part of Appalachia. And why is that Well,
one of the things we need to point out to
people is that area of western North Carolina is actually
a valley plateau. So what do you what I mean
by that? Well, if you I frequently lead tours in
North Carolina, and when I bring people from Charlotte to Ashville,
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I explain, congratulations, you're leaving English colonies and going into
French America. And they look at me like, wait what
I said. Asheville is on the French Broad River, that
was the demarcation line of British and French control prior
to the French and Indian War. That was the west
for which George Washington was trying to explore and get
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the It was actually known as the Ohio Territories, you know,
because it went all the way down the Ohio River
and all the tributaries. And the point of all of
that is, ladies and gentlemen, that that area, you're going
through a mountain range, the Blue Ridge, and then you
come into a raised valley. It's literally a plateau and
there are mountains on all sides of it. Now, what's
(22:18):
interesting about Ashville is in the middle of winter, where
everything else around it is snowing areas to the east, west,
even to the south, Ashville usually doesn't get snow except
on very specific occasions, get very little snow because it's
kind of this protected valley. But what it also meant
is that when you had a storm sufficient that it
made it over the mountains, it kind of got caught
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there and the waters from all around the mountains not
only came in, but the storm slowed down there and
hit it hard. So Asheville historically has always had problems
with flooding, this is not a new thing. It has
gone on for years. But today essentially that area is
cut off. All the interstates and roads leading into that
area of western North Carolina are cut off. And as
(23:02):
the report will give you in a second, it's not
that there aren't supplies or resources. It's that people can't
get in and out.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Folks think of it like this, it's a giant collection basin.
You've got mountains all around it. Now, mountains get rain
just like everything else. And what happens in the mountains,
it goes into the draws and into the little creeks
and small rivers or whatever, all the way down to
the big river down in the valley where Ashville is.
So it actually is a tremendous collection basin for rain.
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And if you get a lot of rain, you get
dangerous flooding. That's what's happened there. By the way, Katrina
came in as a category five, but right as it
approach began to hit the coast, it dropped to a
category three. But we still got the category five tidal surge,
which is what caused so much damage norms. And the
other terrible thing about Katrina was it sat on top
(23:56):
of us forever. If you want if a hurricane's coming over,
you want it to go quickly. You don't want it
to arrive and then just remain. It took a train
of something like twelve hours to pass over its Normally
it's a couple hours. It was here for twelve hours.
That's what make Katrain is so destructive. But Helene has
also in its own way, caused terrible damages in Florida,
(24:18):
gone up into the Carolinas.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Well, this is where the parallel is. Think Helene actually
slowed down over that area. That's where the parallel really
does go extend over Asheville.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Because what Christopher was saying that these systems get caught
and it's surrounded by mountains, so it comes in there
and it takes time to get over those mountains and
that's why it got caught there.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So ladies and gentlemen, we were talking. We tried to
get him on the line here. Brian Trash are our
good friend, frequent and former co host, and he's up
there with the Cajun Navy, and we couldn't do the
connections because it's really very hard to get a full connection.
But basically one of the things we found there's a
few myths, and one of the myths is, for example,
that nothing is going there and nobody's respon. The real
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problem they're having is in order to get towards Nashville,
you're going even the Interstate goes over a mountain range,
it's all washed out, so they're having to lift supplies
by helicopter. And if you go actually on the web
onto Brian Trasher's Facebook page, you'll see him and members
of the Cajun Navy with helicopters bringing supplies in over
the mountains into not small little hollers, but major communities
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and parts of Asheville. Because that's the only way right
now is Hella drops to be able to get supplies
into many of these areas. Some roads are there, not all,
but most of the areas. One of the points that
was made is not that they need because people are
trying to ask how to help, and it's not that
we do need donations to our various charitable organizations. No one,
despite popular opinion as blocking them there's no federal things.
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What's happening is there was a huge amount of supplies,
many of them from Louisianans, people who were helped and
want to help that arrive there, that are just sitting
there because they can't get them anywhere. So what went
out over the press was, please don't bring us any
more supplies. We have plenty of supplies. We just can't
get the supplies to people. It's just taking so long.
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And the more you're building it up, we don't have
any place to put them. And so that was what
was happening. There's an outpouring of support for these poor people.
And you know many reports the death toll has been
extreme for the area, but it is. It does remind
us because our opening topic was about flooding. The federal
government acts like flooding is a coastal problem, and I
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want to explain this and use this draft. It doesn't
matter where you live in America today, you are susceptible
to flooding. If you are in an area that collects water.
That means it could be near a river, can be
near a lake, near a great lake, and within a
mountain range. You are very susceptible to flooding. And that's
why we have a federal subsidized flood system, because you
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can't function without us all putting together in one pool.
That's why there's very There is little bit of a
private flood market, but it doesn't really mostly exist. It's
a federal market. And when the federal government starts picking
winners and losers and who can flood, it's forgetting the
fact that we're all in danger. And if you start
picking winners and losers, suddenly people can't afford to survive
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where they are, and guess what happens. Eventually no one
can survive where they.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Are, right right right? I don't know. I would just
think that FEMA, with all of his assets, could figure
out a way to deal with this, but who knows.
We know that during Hurricane Katrina, FEMA got Blue Ribbon
awards for every state hit by the hurricane. By the hurricanes,
I've got to say include the Misissippi Gulf Coast, which
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was the hardest hit because they got it direct it.
We had much more damage in Nuancena, be a much
larger area, and they didn't have standing water we did,
but they got hit with a wall of water. Twenty
twenty you know, maybe thirty feet high, and it just
cleaned the entire beach front five blocks back. I was there,
I saw it all. It's like it'd been taking our
artillery round, but you know, in our artillery hit. But
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they did a great job there and they got a
Blue ribon Awards. I watched them at the city gates
of New Orleans trying to get in and our governor
would not let them in, so naturally they didn't get
anything done in New Orleans. They could have if the
Democrat governor had let them in, but she wouldn't do it.
So that was a terrible thing that happened to us
here in New Orleans. I don't know what's going up there,
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but I know we're going to find when Brian Trasher
gets back. He is good. He's one of the best
I think research journalists in our city, along with Christopher
right here, and they're good friends. And then we're gonna
be able to give you some really good information on
that quip.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I would I would say the analogous point is what
I just hit. New Orleans. We forget as an island,
and so all the access points were being restricted, and
Kathleen Blanco deserves it. It wasn't femis so much as
it was military response because she wouldn't allow the United
States government to federalize it under possecommatatus, and it was
it was horrendous. Every other state allowed it. She wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
That's routine. You don't even think about it. You know,
like a politics supposed to stop at the water's edge.
It didn't with her. They played politics and they even
replaced the people in charge of various rescue you know, departments,
bureaus with Democrat operators so that they could are Democratic operators.
I think you're supposed to say democratic meaning from the
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Democrat party, so they could play politics for this saying.
And that's what really happened in Katrina. It was inexcuse me.
It was a five day break where she would not
let the federal government and she would even send her
own assets and the assets she had she pulled him out.
One of them would not go. That was a hard police.
She tried to destroy the man's record, but the people
of New Orleance saw was going on, rose up and
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it saved his It saved his career. But she tried
to destroy him because of the fact that he stayed
and saved people's lives, including Fats Domino.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
You can honestly say that Kathleen Blanco is the only
governor in recorded history of any state anywhere who was
given twelve billion dollars to give away and became even
more unpopular she tried to give away money. So I
mean the road Home program that takes a particular degree
of political incompetence. But speaking of non political incompetence, I
want to switch gears here for a second and talk
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about something now, in the words of those wonderful boys
from England, No for something totally different, a positive story,
but an opportunity that we're not paying attention to. An
interesting thing has happened the last three years, but the
stats only got caught up this year. It's the fact
that the number of north kids from the Northeast that
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are going to state schools in Southern states has skyrocketed Georgia, Tech, Alabama,
particularly LSU. So we're used to Northeastern kids coming to
Tulane or Vanderbilt or Duke. That's nothing new, But the
idea that they came to the state schools is different.
And the reason is to go to LSU is twenty
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eight thousand dollars to go to Georgia Tech as twenty
nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
They have winning football teams. Goes fun.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You don't that's an issue. No, No, I don't. Actually,
I would say that is a reason because here's one
of the things that happened during the pandemic. A lot
of these kids are they're in high school, so they're
not can't even go to school, and so they're watching,
you know, they can't go out. Nobody's in college. You know,
they can't leave their dorms if they're there, and they're
watching the Southern States where they had sorority parties and
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football games and life as normal, and it looked like fun.
And one of the interesting parts is that it has
been football in Greek life has been one of the
major draws to these big campuses for that reason. But
there's this is a potential economic windfall for across the South,
but particularly for Louisiana, not so much for New Orleans,
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but for Baton Rouge. Because two thirds of kids who
finish college in a place tend to stay there. They
in and around within an hour to two hours of
the university. One third goes away but about two thirds
tend to stay there. So and we see this with
Tulane all the time. How many people do you know
that came from somewhere else to go to Tulane and
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stay in New Orleans. It's a very common phenomenon. We
see it a little bit with Loyola. What's happening is
it's now starting to happen in large at LSU and
just as it's happening at Alabama and Georgia Tech and
some of the University of Florida and some of the
other big state schools. And why is this important Because
the talent pool of these places will increase the intellectual
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talent the in migration. What is the Louisiana's biggest problem.
We've been a net export of our smart young people. Well,
now we're getting smart young people moving in because they
just basically are tired of the North and want to
come to the South and they have a tendency to stay.
And so this is something that local media hasn't paid
very much attention to here, but they are actually starting
to pay attention to it at other states. The University
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of South Carolina in Columbia is shown it's become one
of the big drawer schools to people. They're used just
like we're used to getting people to land. They're used
to be getting people at Clemson, but they're not used
to getting people coming into states like USA or at
USC you South Carolina, or a University of Florida or
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so on and so forth. And this has a tremendous
economic potential. Now our task is we need to create
the jobs for these people to be able to stay
the economic opportunities. And what worries me and why I'm
saying all of this is I'm looking at the tax
reform proposals that are being pushed right now by the
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Landry administration. And you'll be surprised, folks, to hear me
say I agree with the general goal. I think Louisiana
ought to have a flat tax. I think it's a
great idea. I think we ought to actually be looking
at ways of phasing out the income tax. But you
don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
And I'm the first one to admit, in order to
lower taxes, we have to get rid of some of
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these tax deductions that seem to favor a specific group.
But here's the problem. Russell Long he his son used
to say his famous expression. He says, this is how
you pass the tax. You don't tax you, you don't
tax me, You tax the guy behind the tree. Well,
in this case, some of what's being accused of. The
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taxes behind the tree are some of our most important
economic development tools to get young people to be entrepreneurs.
One of them is the Quality Jobs tax credit, which
encourages people to hire new employees. Here in Louisiana. That's
something that affects across the corporate board and they want
to get rid of. But another one is the film
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tax credit. You want to keep the creative heres the
live performance tax credit, often called Broadway South. I will
claim that I'm not an unprejudiced source. I try to
be unprejudiced for you. I helped write the live performance
tax credits with Roger Wilson, David Vulkern, Bill Hines. We
created it. But most importantly the digital and music tax credits.
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Did you know that Louisiana has some of the most
generous digital tax credits that's for creating software in the country.
And we've been able to create We've never really broken
into the software silicon valley design. What we've done, though,
is when it comes to corporate systems, Baton Rouge is
becoming one of the centers of corporate system design of
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server farms in the country. And you're like, I didn't
hear that. It's true because there's so many incentives for
companies to be able to do research and development here,
and that's the kind of thing that brings young people in.
And the fact of the matter is, folks, if we
get rid of all of these specially tax credits that
are designed to return it on the argument and this
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is the argument that I use the film tax credits.
The film tax credits say is for every dollar that
is created, you get eleven cents back in taxes. And
I said, well, that's nonsense, because they don't count state
local taxes, they don't count sales taxes, they don't count
the property taxes of the people who live here, they
don't count all the rollover effects, and we don't need
some hypothetical system. When Jindall very stupidly said, I'm going
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to limit this to one hundred and eighty million dollars,
even though we spent one hundred and ninety million in
the industry last year and you had film companies not
wondering where there if they were going to get their
tax credits. A chilling effect happened. And you know what happened.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
They went to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
They went to Atlanta. They left the state. This is
not hypothetical. My in law's next door neighbor, who is
the producer in Tremee, who never intended to leave, head
to leave because all the production started leaving out of
the state. We lost thousands of jobs on that one decision,
which wasn't getting rid of the tax credit, it was
just capping it too low. The fact is, folks, we
got to be very careful not to push the baby
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out of the back or water when we talk about
tax reform, which is of course coming in a special
session later in November after the elections.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Okay, some point, folks here, I was talking to one
of the producers when we were, you know, in our
rarod days from movies down here about ten years ago,
and uh, you know what he told me, Actually she
told me, she said, you know, I said, why they
why do they want to do?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I know it's and all that, but is there anything
she said, Yes, one of the biggest reasons movies get
done down here is when they contact the actors, the
famous actors, and they one of the first questions the
actor will ask them is where is it going to
be filmed? If they don't say New Orleans, then they say,
we don't want to do it. We'll do it if
it's in New Orleans. That's how much the actors love
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this city. What a plus we had for building a
humongous you know, a theater business here, a movie business,
television everything. It's just tragic that we keep blowing it. Folks,
what's wrong with our politicians? They're like, there are are
enemies not back in us.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Well before we go in, a lot of people have
written high and I about the vice presidential debate and
what our thoughts are on it, and we talk about
it just for a last year, for it last four
or five minutes. But I want to point out something.
What do we say after the presidential debate It wasn't
going to change any of any of the polls. And
everybody said, oh, no, you're wrong, you're wrong, and hein
and I said it, And guess what. The polls today
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are the same as the poles were that So I
don't think this vice presidential debates could change the poles. However,
there is little doubt. Whereas Trump may have lost the
presidential debate considerably, there's little doubt despite all the things.
And I'm saying this that Vance won this and won comfortably.
That's not to say that Tim Waltz didn't apport himself
pretty well. There's a couple of moments that he had
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and highs, like shaking his head because I can never say,
you know, if Kamala Harris developed the ability to walk
in water, I would say vice President can't swim. But
the fact of the matter is, when it comes down
to it, Tim Waltz didn't win the debate for the
twenty twenty four season by doing as well. I mean
not Tim Waltz, jd Vance. When he won this debate,
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when he came off, a lot of people wondered how
he would come off. Jd Vance came off well enough
that he may have positioned himself perfectly for twenty twenty
eight win or lose. Either Trump wins, Trump loses. He's
in a very strong position because I'm sitting there with
my wife, who is an Harris supporter, and she's looking
at this and she's saying she's going she's sort of
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shaking her head, and she said he won. He took
it away from it because he is basically a better
ambassador for Donald Trump than Donald Trump. The fact is
he takes Trump's philosophy and puts it into a package
that actually seems reasonable and attractive to people. And Franklin,
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heis amy at this whole thing. I said, honestly, I
had the same reaction after this vice presidential debate that
I had in two thousand when Dick Cheney and Joe
Lieberman debated. The next morning, I came on the radio
and Jeff care and I both side and we said,
my god, the adults finally arrived. It's we wish these
guys were the top of the ticket, not the ones
we have.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Interesting, Yes, I think another reason is Christopher about Trump
and Dvance. Trump is a New Yorker. He's harsh, he's aggressive.
That's a New York way. I mean, that's her personality,
that's their style. And it's been like that for two
hundred and fifty years now. It's just the way New
York is and New Yorkers are. Whereas jd Vance, what
is he's old country boy from the mountains. We just
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talk about the mountains, the Appalachians and he and we
just talk about the universities. Another reason the kids are
coming down south is they want to learn how to
be gentlemen and ladies, which is kind of lost in
the North.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Now.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I don't have time to develop that, but I have
a lot of information on that. They want to learn
how to be. They want to learn real history and
real science and whatnot, not all the DEI and all
that other stuff they're pushing in the North. They want
to have developed skills and things that they can use
on a job instead of all the fluff they're getting
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in the northern universities. Now, that has a whole lot
to do, but a lot of us do with the culture.
They like the culture of the South. They think southerns
are more friendly, more polite, it's a nicer lifestyle. And JD.
Vance brings that to the White House, where you would enjoy,
you know, hearing his conversation talking with him. He's a
kind and gentleman, and a real gentleman. Whereas Walts was,
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I'm sorry he came across as a complete buffoon to me.
Rarely did he ever comport himself at the level of
what should be in the White House as far as
I could see, and he exaggerated. And as always, the
Republicans always have to debate the two moderators as well
as their opponent. That happened again. In fact, I love
the way Vance pointed out they were breaking the rules again.
They love to break the rules when it's against the Republicans. Well, Chris,
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I think it's about time for us to.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
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Speaker 3 (42:51):
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Speaker 1 (43:35):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Well, folks are back and you are listening to the
Founders show the voice of the Founding Fathers. And this
is none other then You're Chaplain by ba other Republic
Chaplain Hi mcchgenry with the patriotic moment where you just
take a brief moment to remind you of the biblical
foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And today
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we're going to talk about none other then Richard. I'm
choosing him because this is the time, with all the
trials going on in the stress and whatnot that's going
on in this country, especially with weather like in the hurricanes,
that it is a very important time for preachers. Think
of it. Franklin Graham is doing more work than the
federal government right now up in North Carolina. And today
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I want to talk about Reverend Richard Allen. He was
a great preacher. He goes back to the founding of
the country. He was born to slave parents in Philadelphia
and he was sold to a slave plantation in Dover, Delaware,
and as a young man, Richard's master, Stokely Sturgist, gave
him permission to attend Methodist religious meetings, where he learned
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to read. In the year seventeen seventy seven, at the
age of seventeen, Richard Allen was converted and determined to
work even harder to prove that Christian did not make
slaves slothful, but instead it made him better people. Allan
invited the Methodist minister to visit his master and preach
to him. The Methodists were against slavery. As a founding member,
John Wesley had called it that execrable sum of all villainies,
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so certainly the Master wouldn't gonna do anything good about slavery.
And when he found out that on the day of judgment,
slaveholders would be weighed in the balances and found wanting,
he converted and made arrangements for Richard to become free.
Richard aland became a licensed exhorter evangelist in seventeen eighty three.
He set up preaching in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland,
walking so much at his feet became severely blistered. Richard
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Allen began together with other black preachers from Saint George's
Methodist Episcopal Church to begin their own church. The first
church building was dedicated by Bishop Francis Asbury, one of
the most famous preachers in America in early America. Doctor
Benjamin Rush and George Washington both contributed to Richard Allen's church.
In eighteen sixteen, Allen led to the forming of an
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entirely new denomination called the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which
was the first African American church in America, and they
ended up buying land in Philadelphia that became the Bethel
Ame Church. It's the oldest land still owned by African
Americans in the country. Jerina Lee became the first woman
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to receive authorization to preach. They were bringing female preachers.
Allan supported the Ame missionaries, including the Reverend Scipio Beans
who was sent to Haiti in eighteen twenty seven. Sods.
They had a strong missionary movement out of this church.
It's amazing, folks. At the date of at rich Allan's
death March twenty sixth, eighteen thirty one, the African Methodist
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Epistol Church had grown to over ten thousand members and
today now it's over five million. I mean, that's an
amazing story for a church started like that, and back
then ten thousand was a large number. He went on
to say that God, our Father, Christ, our Redeemer, the
Holy Spirit of our comforter humankind, our family is a
motto of the Ame Church. In his autobiography, he said,
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this land, which we have watered with our tears and
our blood is now our mother country. And we are
well satisfied to stay where wisdom of bounds and the
Gospel is free. Folks, I think Richard Allen really had
its freight. I think he really knew what was going on,
and he would have been there in North Carolina right now.
We're bringing assistance to the needy people there right now,
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just like so many churches are doing right now, just
like they did down here in New Orleans doing Katrina.
We saw many, many more churches and missionary groups helping
down here in the early days of Katrina than we
did see government people. So, folks, what about you. It's
a gospel free for you. You noticed he said it's free.
It's very important to understand the Gospel's free. As we're
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now go into our chapelain by bile Gospel moment where
again we just take a brief moment to show you
how you can know that you know that, you know
for certain and for sure when you die, you're going
to heaven. You're going to be saved from hell and
guaranteed heaven. Folks. It goes like this. The Bible says,
for for we have been saved by grace. That word
grace means free gift. Remember Richard Alnd said, where the
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gospels free, it is free. The gospel is the death
barrel and resurrection of Jesus found in One Corinthians fifteen.
Jans died for all our sins, all folks, from the
day you're born to day you die, you tie us
to your greatest sins. He was better than He rose
from the dead to win for you his precious free
gift of resurrection, everlasting life, to get you into heaven.
So that's the gospel, and the scripture says the gospel
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is the power of God into salvation to whosoever believeth Now,
the word gospel just plain simply means good news. This
is great news, folks, to know that you can have
a place for all eternity. That's you can't even describe
in human terms. According the Bible, it's so wonderful, just
like you can. I don't think you can describe Hell.
It's so terrible. Don't go there, folks, don't go there.
And God didn't want you to go there, so he
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took care of your sin problem. That's why you don't
have to go there. Now. How did God do that? Well,
God knew we had a giant problem. We never fix ourselves.
We never be smart enough, religious enough, holy enough, rich enough,
charming enough, cool enough, or whatever enough to ever get
to heaven. See, he said, Okay, forget it, Gods, I
know you won't make it. I'm gonna do it for you.
And God became a man. That man's name is the
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Lord Jesus Christ. He came to this earth to take
care of our two biggest love problems, sin and death.
When he died on the cross, like I said earlier,
his blood washed away all our sins. The scripture says
he that new note sin. That means Jesus was made
sin made into all of our dirty, rotten sins, every
evil sin you've ever done, from the tiniest to the greatest.
They all went on Jesus and he was turned into
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that sin. He that new no sin was made sin.
That's how intimate God is with us, and how well
Jesus knows us. He's turned into every sin we've ever done,
made into sin, that you might be made the righteousness
of God and Him, And whereas he takes all your
evil to give you all his good. Folks, you can't
beat a deal like that, and it's free. It's free
because He did it all. You can't do anything. If
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you tried, you kill the deal. You don't try to
help God out on the cross. You can't do it.
You got to let Jesus do it, because he did
do it. It's a done deal. You just got to
take that gift. It's a free gift. Where we've been
saved by grace. That means free gift through faith, and
even that is not of ourselves. Faith is how you
take the gift. You believe it's true for you, really
true for you, through faith, not of works, less than
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any mansion bust to see. All your good works aren't
going to work. The Bible says, all of our righteousness
are as filthy REGs. So I don't care how good
you are, how hard you try, you're not going to
get to heaven. Forget it on your own. You got
to realize you'll never make it on your own. When
you do that, when you come to that complete understanding
and you really believe it with all your heart that
you're completely hopeless and helpless, you're a worthless loser without God.
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When you come to that point, you've just repented. That's
what repentance is. It's when you change your mind. That's
literally what the word means. It means change your mind.
Before you thought, well, I can be good enough, righteousness,
I can try hard, I can do this. God will wait. Wait,
you know, put me into scales, and my good, good
good works out weigh my bad works. I'll get to
get into heaven. It doesn't work that way, folks, because
all your good works, a script says, all of your
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righteousness are as filthy reg So just forget it. And
the moment you do, the moment you give up on
trying to help God get into heaven, pay for your
sins and rise and the dead, the moment you quit
doing that, you get it for free, because then you
get free to put faith alone in Christ alone, to
believe with all your heart with childlike faith that Jesus
really did die for all your sins, was buried and
rose to the dead. If you've never done that before,
(51:10):
please don't wait till it's too late. And like the
old that's what the old country preacher said, But like
the scripture says, now today is a day of salvation.
If you've never done this before, do it right now. Folks,
believe with all your heart that Jesus really did die
for all your sins, was buried and rose from the dead. Well,
it's not time for us to go into our testimony
on the wall where we just take a brief moment
(51:31):
to remind you of the end time events and those
events are upon us, folks, They're heavily upon us. What's
going on with weather all around the world. They haven't
major weather problems all around the world. That's one of
the signs of the end. Another sign is wars and
rumors of wars. Another sign is a total annihilation of
the human race. Well, that couldn't happen two thousand years ago,
but it sure can with nuclear and what are we
(51:51):
facing right now, perhaps the first nuclear war in the
history of the world, where they're going to be ballistic
missiles launching all over the place. Now, you know, the
World War iiO was not a nuclear war. Yeah, we
ended it with two small atom bombs, but that was it.
It wasn't like nations were launching against one another and
putting hundreds thousands of nuclear warheads down on one another.
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If that happens, that is the end of the human race.
We all know that. That's why Jesus said, if he
didn't come home, come back to this Earth sooner than
he planned, and guess what, there'd be no flesh left. Well,
that couldn't have happened two thousand years ago. But we're
seeing the possibility of it right now, right before our eyes,
with all the upheaval in the Middle East and the
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things that are happening there. If it continues as it is,
it will then be the fulfillment of the Ezekiel thirty
eight thirty nine prophecy, which begins the last seven years
of planet Earth when we go into what the Bible
calls a tribulation period. Folks, we're here. Jesus is right
at the door. He said, we can see all these
things happen at the same time, and they all are.
Time doesn't allow for me to go over all two
hundred propheties, but they're all happening right now, or they've
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already happened. But there many of them are just happening
right now, or have just happened in the past few years.
He's at the door. He's coming back soon. You need
a safe house, and the greatest safe house you'll ever
get is the Lord Jesus Christ. If you've never trusted
him before, do it now. Don't wait till it's too late.
Believe that Jesus really did die far your sins and
rose from Dad, and you're guaranteed safety when the tribulation comes. Folks,
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it's not time for us to go. As we close
with them on Saint Martin singing a krill goodbye, and
God bless all out.
Speaker 5 (53:24):
There to call you creel goodbye. They think we're just
wasted the time. Put all three sibl.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Me.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
There's time for a creo goodbye.
Battles the politicians addressed the digitatas and magicians. First to
see the money. They don't, there's nothing to feel the
holes well, then fill in their pockets. Battles The politicians
mountain down the road, every batition for no moment, corruption
(00:26):
and dysfunctional. It's gone to take divideven.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
With the tragedies up in North Carolina and Northern Georgia,
we get a report directly from the Cajun Navy members
and the Cajun Air Force members up there providing relief.
Why is the relief not getting in? And why is
a mountain valley flooding? We're going to tell you some
of that. But first, ladies and gentlemen here on The
Founder Show, we're going to go into what is going
on in the insurance crisis here in Louisiana. Entire coastal
(00:56):
communities are going why And we have a report directly
from a member of Congress about what to do, what
to fight. And we're going to look at the presidential race,
the aftermath of the vice presidential debate. Will it change anything?
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That?
Speaker 2 (01:10):
And other stories on this edition of The Founder Show.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
Cajun Navy Christopher why I was one of the Founders
of the Cajun Navy doing Katrina. Some of our group
went on to start the Cajun Navy almost twenty years ago. Well, folks,
God bless out there, you are now listening to the
founders show the voice of the founding Fathers. You are
Founding Fathers coming to you deep within the bowels of
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that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that old Liberty cypress tree draped in
Spanish moss, way out on the Eagles branches none other.
And then you'll spend Gary Babbay the Republic Chaplain.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Hi McHenry with Christopher Tidmore, You Roving Report, a resident
radical moderate and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper
at Louisiana weeekly dot net. And Hi, we start off
today's show with a deep population of communities here in Louisiana.
Before we talk about the hurricane damage of Hurricane Helene,
which was extreme and the comparisons to Hurricane Katrina are
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tragic but sometimes on par But first I want to
talk about on time speaking an article that came out
talking about the coastal communities of Louisiana and particularly the
town of Chauvam. I use that as an example occasun
community historic roots been around since the seventeen hundreds, and
the young people are not just leaving, their fleeing. And
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the reason is insurance. Now, everybody has seen their insurance
rates go up. As some of you know, I'm a
commercial insurance agent. Amongst my many hats that I wear,
and we write insurance, and I have seen people not
able to afford their insurance under normal basis. I've seen
people in New Orleans go down to fire and flood
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insurance instead of you having a full wind and hail
because they just simply can't afford it. And that's where
when your insurance is a few thousand dollars or one
thousand dollars or one thousand dollars a month, what's happening
outside the flood protection zones in and around what we
call the thousand year protection that was built after Hurricane Katrina,
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these big walls on our coastal communities, is that insurance
rates have now jumped to twenty thousand dollars. And you're like, well,
that's a lot, but you know, I pay expos This
is twenty thousand dollars for homes that are worth one
hundred or one hundred and fifty. In other words, one
fourth too well to twenty percent of the value of
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your home every year is insurance, if not more. That's
the low end. People are finding insurance rates so high
it's in some cases as much as they make in
a year because these are not rich communities, and young
people unable to afford to buy a house because not
the houses being expensive, the insurance being unmanageable. Fleeing people
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are self insuring as far as that is. But basically
these communities are unprotected so much so that I am
never one to believe in conspiracy, but every so often
I believe in intransigence that could be a conspiracy. And
that is this. So this week, HI yours truly had
a long one hour conversation with Congressman Troy Carter. Now,
(04:22):
for those that don't know, Troy Carter is the congressman
from New Orleans, but more importantly, he's one of the
few figures in the United States House of Representatives that
has strong relationships on both sides of the isle. And
I mean the very strongest. So Troy Carter was elected
to his Democratic Majority seat with the support of Steve
Scalie and Mike Johnson. He and Steve have been friends
(04:44):
for decades. They served in the legislature. He served in
the legislature with Steve Scalise and Mike Johnson. And when
I say he regularly talks, I mean every day he's
with him. He's also fraternity brothers and best friends with
Jakim Jeffers, the Democratic leader, and they've been friends years
long before either one of them were in Congress. And
so the we'll talk a little bit about this and
(05:06):
is throughout every all the negotiations. One of the reasons
why you're not hearing the problems that say Kevin McCarthy
had and why Mike Johnson can get things over the line,
is because Troy Carter ends up being the emissary between
both sides. So much so he did something very old Washington.
And don't tell his wife this, but for everybody else listening,
he started hosting congressmen in his office for cigars and
(05:28):
whiskey every Friday, which you.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Are like, you mean like a blue dog, like a
blue dog.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
He basically no, I mean. And here's the thing, because
he said, nobody's talking to each other. There is not
having any social thing. And believe it or not, he
has gotten people talking. So may you may disagree with
his politics, he might disagree with yours because he votes
with the Democrats, but he has a very strong relationship
on both sides. They all for us Louisianians. It's not
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unknown that he was open to the idea if it
had come down to one vote to voting for Steve
Scalie for Mike Johnson to stay in. But he has
been the one trying to do something about this insurance crisis.
And I'll explain what's going on with it.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
When I said blue Dog, folks, I was referencing a
gentleman who years ago was able to do the same thing,
a Louisiana politician, and he was able to get people together,
and he was a Louisiana guy. In his home he
had rod Rieg's paintings, and one of rod Rieg's paintings
was its famous little dog that he used to paint
in blue all the time, so they would see this
blue dog. And these Democrats that were coming to his
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house started voting to the right and voting for Republican
bills and whatnot, and so they started calling him blue
dog Democrats.
Speaker 2 (06:37):
You're the person you're referring to, of course, is Billy Tosan,
who is the founder of the Blue Dog Caucus, who
were conservative Democrats, and Billy, of course eventually became a Republican.
That is not going to be Troy Carter. Troy Carter
has a record that's very.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Much understanding that. But still it's getting close to I.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Would disagree what I would disagree. I disagree with that,
so and so would he insofar as it's a more
conventional credit voting record. The difference is not every issue
is ideological. And this is the thing that this is
where the twenty four hour news cycle has done us
a tremendous disservice. There are a lot of things that
Congress does where things get locked up that aren't particularly ideological.
(07:18):
And sometimes it's just passing a budget and you might
argue with the elements of the budget. But what killed
Mike Johnson's budget from being killed was five members of
the Republican Caucus who didn't get one hundred percent of
what they wanted. They only got eighty percent, and so
that wasn't enough, and so he had to kind of
deal with Democrats to get sixty percent just so he
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could get a budget through. That is kind of what
we're talking about here. But in Joy Carter's case, the
thing that he's taken the lead on is something that
every Republican and Democrat in Louisiana agrees with and nobody
else does. And that is the condition of the insurance crisis.
Because remember, flood insurance is federally subsidized and federally underwritten,
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and they changed what all the flood insurance maps, and
it's the reason your flood insurance has gone through the roof,
and I mean literally on that point, because the new
maps essentially say, if you're outside of the thousand year
levee protection, they're going to charge you enough in five
years to cost the value of replacing your house. So
if you want to stay there, every five years, you
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will buy your house again. It is beyond the ability
for anybody to.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Of course, for I don't know if I'll ever be
able to do this, but if I can ever become
self insured, I will.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
You can only become self insured if you own your
home outright, as long as you have a mortgage, you
are legally required to have flood insurance. And unless you're
unless there are people who are above the flood zone.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Like we're right here where we are, we're in no
flood zone.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
But if you are in most of Louisiana, it is
a requirement to have flood insurans. And so what's happening
is basically there's been a campaign that has been bipartisan.
Mike Johnson supports it as much as Troy Carter, as
much as Cleo Fields if he gets to Congress. Everybody
is in full agreement that these maps are a bit wrong.
And the reason why they're a bit wrong is some
of these houses are actually on higher ground that aren't
(09:07):
as susceptible to flooding. They're not going to flood every
five years. They may flood, they may everything in Louisiana
is susceptible to flooding, but they're not going to happen
all the time. He said, the maps are not representative reality.
And more importantly, as the time speaking, an article did
so brilliantly. It explained that essentially it's chasing people out
of the communities. Terrbone Parish has lost six thousand people
(09:30):
in the last six months, which for a parish that's
a huge number. Here's the interesting thing, almost every one
of them was under the age of fifty, the age limit.
The age of coastal parishes is going through the roof.
And basically it's the old people who can't leave and
the young people who are leaving. And that's been happening
in rural communities for decades. But this is the death
(09:53):
knell of a culture. Now, why should all of us
on the other side of the levee system care? You're like, well,
that's unfortunate, you know, but you know, we're not leaving.
What's the deal? What is along these communities? Well three things.
One aquaculture. Thirty percent of US aquaculture. That's fishing. That's
our seafood. It's not just Louisiana seafood. It's thirty percent
(10:17):
of the seafood of the United States of America. If
you don't have any fishermen, how do you collect the seafood?
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Guess what?
Speaker 2 (10:24):
You don't those that remain. If you've got a few
corporate vessels that go in, the price of seafood goes
to the roof and it prices out a lot of
people that have seafood. It destroys a major industry in Louisiana. Second, petrochemicals,
all those coastal ports and Cameron and all this to
export natural gas, all those refining capabilities we have along
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the coast. Guess what happens? They stop? What happens and
then the price of petroleum and natural gas goes to
the roof because you need people to run these plants.
What about the last one? Well, it's simply history. There's
a reason somebody asked me the question. I remember a
couple of years after Katrina, I was covering some stuff
(11:07):
in Europe and they were like, why would you go
back to New Orleans? I mean, it's got another hurricane
could destroy it. Why would you be there? And I
could give a hundred reasons why I love this city,
but you know, it all boiled down to my blood
is in this mud, that this is our home and
this is where generations have been buried. And I looked
at a house. There's a house in terror Bone. The
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same family lived in this house from eighteen twenty six
to two thousand and eight, the Chauvain family, and they
it was their house. They finally gave up after two
thousand and eight, but it tells you one family for
that long, and it gives you the idea of the
connection to place. Now, I will admit we have pro
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environmental problems. We have coastal erosion, we have water sea
levels that a rising, but that's not an excuse to
give up on people's communities and their homes. And that's
something that Troy Carter was telling me. He has tried
to make the case, first to the Trump administration didn't listen,
then to the Biden administration didn't listen, and nobody neither
(12:15):
presidential candidate or their staffs seem to care.
Speaker 4 (12:19):
Chrispher Great points, You're so right about that. How we
get lost in the cracks, and you know, if it's
not politically going to do something for the candidates, they
just tend to ignore you. And apparently this is not
a big thing for him, so we're being written off.
This is when you start getting really mad and you
start contacting your congressman, legislators, whatever and demanding that they
(12:42):
take action because this is out of control. Folks. It's
wrong that Louisiana is once again coming under assault from
what at this time, it's it's a government and a
big Brother Corporation, Big Brother Government Alliance. Actually, that's that's
really hurting us right now. So get busy, start writing,
start making phone calls. Remember we have phones and pens also,
(13:04):
And remember they work for us. They don't know that,
but they really do work for us. We hire and
fire them, and we need to let them know that. So, folks,
it's time for us to take a break. We'll be
right back with the Founders.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Show Sunday, October sixth. This Sunday, ladies and gentlemen, for
those listening on WRNL, a renowned Churchill author is premiering
a new book at the Garden District Bookshop twenty seven
to twenty seven Pritannia. It's free and open to the public.
So if you're hearing this, particularly for our WRNL listeners
(13:35):
on Sunday, come out to twenty seven to twenty seven
Pritannia and meet Sonya Pronell. Winston Churchill's daughter in law. Pamela,
served as Winston's secretary, his confidante, his linked to the
Americans during World War Two, sometimes in literal ways. He
Churchill trusted Pamela more than almost anyone, even his wife.
(13:55):
Who better to write? Who better than the biographer of
Clementine church his wife to write the story of Pamela
Churchill and who I mean by that? I mean Pamela
Churchill Harriman Sonya Pernell's new book, Kingmaker Pamela Harriman's Astonishing
Life of Power, Seduction and Intrigue, is premiering at four
pm at the Garden District Bookshop on Sunday, October sixth.
(14:18):
It is one of the great stories of America, not
only about how Winston Churchill's granddaughter ended up keeping the
Americans in the war, sometimes through very active ways. The
book kind of reveals her relationship with Everl Harriman during
the war, who she would years years later marry and this,
but also how she comes to America and becomes one
(14:40):
of the political kingmakers of all time, including discovering a
young Arkansas lawyer by the name of Bill Clinton and
managing his career, raising money for him, helping get elected
Attorney General and then governor and essentially to the presidency
of the United States. She becomes America's ambassador France diying
at seventy seven, and was truly the courtisan of all
(15:02):
American politics and the ruler of Georgetown society. It is
a fascinating book that starts in the halls of Chartwell
and Winston Churchill's house in England and her family estate,
the Digby Estate, and ends up in the halls of
the White House. It is an incredible book by Sonya Pronell,
Kingmaker Pamela Harriman's Astonishing Life of Power, Seduction and Intrigue,
(15:23):
premiering October six, that is Sunday at four pm. It
is free and open to the public. You don't need
an RSVP. Just come to twenty seven to twenty seven
to Pretennia the Garden District book Shop, have a drink
and meet Sonya Pronell and hear her fantastic talk about
Pamela Digby Churchill, Haywood Harriman this afternoon, four pm for
our Sunday listeners October six for everybody else, folks.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Now that we've heard about the highest levels of society,
it's time to talk about the lowest levels. And that's
my group, folks. It's chap On High Mike Henry, and
I'm here to tell you about our ministry, a Lamb ministry.
We're an inner city ministry with an inner city farmula
and focus for inner city folks. That's right, folks. We
worked with a down beaten the urban poor of New Orleans,
(16:08):
inner city kids, the future gang bangers of America, the
future criminals of America in many cases, and we've seen
God do miracles with this group, folks, kids that just
don't have a chance, like our current Vice president candidate JD. Vance,
who grew up in a terribly poor family with terrible
addictions and whatnot, with no father, just like our kids.
(16:30):
And you know what, it's amazing to see how this
man has succeeded. We've seen our own success stories like that.
No one's become a senator or a president yet or whatever,
a great lawyer, but they've gone to have good wholesome careers,
good wholesome lives, getting married, raising good families. We got three.
We're up to our third generation in our ministry now
(16:50):
from when we started twenty some odd years ago, close
to thirty years ago. Folks, this is an exciting ministry.
We need all the help we can get though. We're
a struggling ministry. We need volunteers, we need financial support,
and we need prayer warriors. If you have any interests,
please contact us. Go to our website LAMNOLA dot com.
That's La nb n O LA dot com, or just
(17:10):
call me Chaplin High McHenry at five zero four seven
two three nine three six nine and thank you so
very very much.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
November eighth and tenth, the one hundred and thirtieth anniversary
of the celebration of Samson Delilah, the opera that premiered
for North America here in New Orleans is coming back
to the Maheia Jackson Theater. Samson Delilah is coming November
eighth and tenth, and you can get tickets right now
at New Orleans Opera dot org. That's New Orleans Opera
(17:43):
dot org November eighth and tenth to see this fantastic
production of Samson Delilah. And for those that want to
get a sneak peek, Rhiann Bryce Davis is coming in
for a special concert at the Garden at the Guild
Home in the Garden District and it's open to the
public on the twenty second of October. You can get
those tickets also at New Orleans Opera dot org.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
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(19:37):
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Speaker 2 (19:40):
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listen to at your convenience. Well, the people who are
not experiencing convenience right now are our brothers and sisters
in western North Carolina, and in.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Many caves they are brothers. This is many New Orleanians
have summer homes up there. They've just moved up there.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Most people don't realize that Highlands, North Carolina and the
related communities like Kickery and Bryson City are exactly equidistant
from New Orleans to New York City. That's why the
train routes used to go through there, and that's how
a lot of New Orleans for generations ended up going
into that micro climate. Where it is consistently about twenty
degrees cooler it's in summer months than it is here
(20:31):
in New Orleans. And one of the things that's interesting
about this that area is people are saying, wait, this
is mountains, we're swamp So we can understand why New
Orleans floods, but why are these people going through such
a bad experience, because it seems like as bad as
it was. And remember, Helene came ashore as a Category
(20:53):
four hurricane. Even Katrina was a Category three, so it
came a sure worse, but it seems the worst damage
was not as it went across Georgia, and that was
pretty bad, and Atlanta was hit very hard, but it
seemed the worst damage was when it comes into that
bridge of North Carolina to Tennessee, right there on the
(21:13):
border that part of Appalachia. And why is that Well,
one of the things we need to point out to
people is that area of western North Carolina is actually
a valley plateau. So what do you what I mean
by that? Well, if you I frequently lead tours in
North Carolina, and when I bring people from Charlotte to Ashville,
(21:34):
I explain, congratulations, you're leaving English colonies and going into
French America. And they look at me like, wait what
I said. Asheville is on the French Broad River, that
was the demarcation line of British and French control prior
to the French and Indian War. That was the west
for which George Washington was trying to explore and get
(21:56):
the It was actually known as the Ohio Territories, you know,
because it went all the way down the Ohio River
and all the tributaries. And the point of all of
that is, ladies and gentlemen, that that area, you're going
through a mountain range, the Blue Ridge, and then you
come into a raised valley. It's literally a plateau and
there are mountains on all sides of it. Now, what's
(22:18):
interesting about Ashville is in the middle of winter, where
everything else around it is snowing areas to the east, west,
even to the south, Ashville usually doesn't get snow except
on very specific occasions, get very little snow because it's
kind of this protected valley. But what it also meant
is that when you had a storm sufficient that it
made it over the mountains, it kind of got caught
(22:40):
there and the waters from all around the mountains not
only came in, but the storm slowed down there and
hit it hard. So Asheville historically has always had problems
with flooding, this is not a new thing. It has
gone on for years. But today essentially that area is
cut off. All the interstates and roads leading into that
area of western North Carolina are cut off. And as
(23:02):
the report will give you in a second, it's not
that there aren't supplies or resources. It's that people can't
get in and out.
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Folks think of it like this, it's a giant collection basin.
You've got mountains all around it. Now, mountains get rain
just like everything else. And what happens in the mountains,
it goes into the draws and into the little creeks
and small rivers or whatever, all the way down to
the big river down in the valley where Ashville is.
So it actually is a tremendous collection basin for rain.
(23:35):
And if you get a lot of rain, you get
dangerous flooding. That's what's happened there. By the way, Katrina
came in as a category five, but right as it
approach began to hit the coast, it dropped to a
category three. But we still got the category five tidal surge,
which is what caused so much damage norms. And the
other terrible thing about Katrina was it sat on top
(23:56):
of us forever. If you want if a hurricane's coming over,
you want it to go quickly. You don't want it
to arrive and then just remain. It took a train
of something like twelve hours to pass over its Normally
it's a couple hours. It was here for twelve hours.
That's what make Katrain is so destructive. But Helene has
also in its own way, caused terrible damages in Florida,
(24:18):
gone up into the Carolinas.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
Well, this is where the parallel is. Think Helene actually
slowed down over that area. That's where the parallel really
does go extend over Asheville.
Speaker 4 (24:29):
Because what Christopher was saying that these systems get caught
and it's surrounded by mountains, so it comes in there
and it takes time to get over those mountains and
that's why it got caught there.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
So ladies and gentlemen, we were talking. We tried to
get him on the line here. Brian Trash are our
good friend, frequent and former co host, and he's up
there with the Cajun Navy, and we couldn't do the
connections because it's really very hard to get a full connection.
But basically one of the things we found there's a
few myths, and one of the myths is, for example,
that nothing is going there and nobody's respon. The real
(25:01):
problem they're having is in order to get towards Nashville,
you're going even the Interstate goes over a mountain range,
it's all washed out, so they're having to lift supplies
by helicopter. And if you go actually on the web
onto Brian Trasher's Facebook page, you'll see him and members
of the Cajun Navy with helicopters bringing supplies in over
the mountains into not small little hollers, but major communities
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and parts of Asheville. Because that's the only way right
now is Hella drops to be able to get supplies
into many of these areas. Some roads are there, not all,
but most of the areas. One of the points that
was made is not that they need because people are
trying to ask how to help, and it's not that
we do need donations to our various charitable organizations. No one,
despite popular opinion as blocking them there's no federal things.
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What's happening is there was a huge amount of supplies,
many of them from Louisianans, people who were helped and
want to help that arrive there, that are just sitting
there because they can't get them anywhere. So what went
out over the press was, please don't bring us any
more supplies. We have plenty of supplies. We just can't
get the supplies to people. It's just taking so long.
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And the more you're building it up, we don't have
any place to put them. And so that was what
was happening. There's an outpouring of support for these poor people.
And you know many reports the death toll has been
extreme for the area, but it is. It does remind
us because our opening topic was about flooding. The federal
government acts like flooding is a coastal problem, and I
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want to explain this and use this draft. It doesn't
matter where you live in America today, you are susceptible
to flooding. If you are in an area that collects water.
That means it could be near a river, can be
near a lake, near a great lake, and within a
mountain range. You are very susceptible to flooding. And that's
why we have a federal subsidized flood system, because you
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can't function without us all putting together in one pool.
That's why there's very There is little bit of a
private flood market, but it doesn't really mostly exist. It's
a federal market. And when the federal government starts picking
winners and losers and who can flood, it's forgetting the
fact that we're all in danger. And if you start
picking winners and losers, suddenly people can't afford to survive
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where they are, and guess what happens. Eventually no one
can survive where they.
Speaker 4 (27:20):
Are, right right right? I don't know. I would just
think that FEMA, with all of his assets, could figure
out a way to deal with this, but who knows.
We know that during Hurricane Katrina, FEMA got Blue Ribbon
awards for every state hit by the hurricane. By the hurricanes,
I've got to say include the Misissippi Gulf Coast, which
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was the hardest hit because they got it direct it.
We had much more damage in Nuancena, be a much
larger area, and they didn't have standing water we did,
but they got hit with a wall of water. Twenty
twenty you know, maybe thirty feet high, and it just
cleaned the entire beach front five blocks back. I was there,
I saw it all. It's like it'd been taking our
artillery round, but you know, in our artillery hit. But
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they did a great job there and they got a
Blue ribon Awards. I watched them at the city gates
of New Orleans trying to get in and our governor
would not let them in, so naturally they didn't get
anything done in New Orleans. They could have if the
Democrat governor had let them in, but she wouldn't do it.
So that was a terrible thing that happened to us
here in New Orleans. I don't know what's going up there,
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but I know we're going to find when Brian Trasher
gets back. He is good. He's one of the best
I think research journalists in our city, along with Christopher
right here, and they're good friends. And then we're gonna
be able to give you some really good information on
that quip.
Speaker 2 (28:36):
I would I would say the analogous point is what
I just hit. New Orleans. We forget as an island,
and so all the access points were being restricted, and
Kathleen Blanco deserves it. It wasn't femis so much as
it was military response because she wouldn't allow the United
States government to federalize it under possecommatatus, and it was
it was horrendous. Every other state allowed it. She wouldn't.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
That's routine. You don't even think about it. You know,
like a politics supposed to stop at the water's edge.
It didn't with her. They played politics and they even
replaced the people in charge of various rescue you know, departments,
bureaus with Democrat operators so that they could are Democratic operators.
I think you're supposed to say democratic meaning from the
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Democrat party, so they could play politics for this saying.
And that's what really happened in Katrina. It was inexcuse me.
It was a five day break where she would not
let the federal government and she would even send her
own assets and the assets she had she pulled him out.
One of them would not go. That was a hard police.
She tried to destroy the man's record, but the people
of New Orleance saw was going on, rose up and
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it saved his It saved his career. But she tried
to destroy him because of the fact that he stayed
and saved people's lives, including Fats Domino.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
You can honestly say that Kathleen Blanco is the only
governor in recorded history of any state anywhere who was
given twelve billion dollars to give away and became even
more unpopular she tried to give away money. So I
mean the road Home program that takes a particular degree
of political incompetence. But speaking of non political incompetence, I
want to switch gears here for a second and talk
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about something now, in the words of those wonderful boys
from England, No for something totally different, a positive story,
but an opportunity that we're not paying attention to. An
interesting thing has happened the last three years, but the
stats only got caught up this year. It's the fact
that the number of north kids from the Northeast that
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are going to state schools in Southern states has skyrocketed Georgia, Tech, Alabama,
particularly LSU. So we're used to Northeastern kids coming to
Tulane or Vanderbilt or Duke. That's nothing new, But the
idea that they came to the state schools is different.
And the reason is to go to LSU is twenty
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eight thousand dollars to go to Georgia Tech as twenty
nine thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (30:55):
They have winning football teams. Goes fun.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
You don't that's an issue. No, No, I don't. Actually,
I would say that is a reason because here's one
of the things that happened during the pandemic. A lot
of these kids are they're in high school, so they're
not can't even go to school, and so they're watching,
you know, they can't go out. Nobody's in college. You know,
they can't leave their dorms if they're there, and they're
watching the Southern States where they had sorority parties and
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football games and life as normal, and it looked like fun.
And one of the interesting parts is that it has
been football in Greek life has been one of the
major draws to these big campuses for that reason. But
there's this is a potential economic windfall for across the South,
but particularly for Louisiana, not so much for New Orleans,
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but for Baton Rouge. Because two thirds of kids who
finish college in a place tend to stay there. They
in and around within an hour to two hours of
the university. One third goes away but about two thirds
tend to stay there. So and we see this with
Tulane all the time. How many people do you know
that came from somewhere else to go to Tulane and
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stay in New Orleans. It's a very common phenomenon. We
see it a little bit with Loyola. What's happening is
it's now starting to happen in large at LSU and
just as it's happening at Alabama and Georgia Tech and
some of the University of Florida and some of the
other big state schools. And why is this important Because
the talent pool of these places will increase the intellectual
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talent the in migration. What is the Louisiana's biggest problem.
We've been a net export of our smart young people. Well,
now we're getting smart young people moving in because they
just basically are tired of the North and want to
come to the South and they have a tendency to stay.
And so this is something that local media hasn't paid
very much attention to here, but they are actually starting
to pay attention to it at other states. The University
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of South Carolina in Columbia is shown it's become one
of the big drawer schools to people. They're used just
like we're used to getting people to land. They're used
to be getting people at Clemson, but they're not used
to getting people coming into states like USA or at
USC you South Carolina, or a University of Florida or
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so on and so forth. And this has a tremendous
economic potential. Now our task is we need to create
the jobs for these people to be able to stay
the economic opportunities. And what worries me and why I'm
saying all of this is I'm looking at the tax
reform proposals that are being pushed right now by the
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Landry administration. And you'll be surprised, folks, to hear me
say I agree with the general goal. I think Louisiana
ought to have a flat tax. I think it's a
great idea. I think we ought to actually be looking
at ways of phasing out the income tax. But you
don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
And I'm the first one to admit, in order to
lower taxes, we have to get rid of some of
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these tax deductions that seem to favor a specific group.
But here's the problem. Russell Long he his son used
to say his famous expression. He says, this is how
you pass the tax. You don't tax you, you don't
tax me, You tax the guy behind the tree. Well,
in this case, some of what's being accused of. The
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taxes behind the tree are some of our most important
economic development tools to get young people to be entrepreneurs.
One of them is the Quality Jobs tax credit, which
encourages people to hire new employees. Here in Louisiana. That's
something that affects across the corporate board and they want
to get rid of. But another one is the film
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tax credit. You want to keep the creative heres the
live performance tax credit, often called Broadway South. I will
claim that I'm not an unprejudiced source. I try to
be unprejudiced for you. I helped write the live performance
tax credits with Roger Wilson, David Vulkern, Bill Hines. We
created it. But most importantly the digital and music tax credits.
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Did you know that Louisiana has some of the most
generous digital tax credits that's for creating software in the country.
And we've been able to create We've never really broken
into the software silicon valley design. What we've done, though,
is when it comes to corporate systems, Baton Rouge is
becoming one of the centers of corporate system design of
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server farms in the country. And you're like, I didn't
hear that. It's true because there's so many incentives for
companies to be able to do research and development here,
and that's the kind of thing that brings young people in.
And the fact of the matter is, folks, if we
get rid of all of these specially tax credits that
are designed to return it on the argument and this
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is the argument that I use the film tax credits.
The film tax credits say is for every dollar that
is created, you get eleven cents back in taxes. And
I said, well, that's nonsense, because they don't count state
local taxes, they don't count sales taxes, they don't count
the property taxes of the people who live here, they
don't count all the rollover effects, and we don't need
some hypothetical system. When Jindall very stupidly said, I'm going
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to limit this to one hundred and eighty million dollars,
even though we spent one hundred and ninety million in
the industry last year and you had film companies not
wondering where there if they were going to get their
tax credits. A chilling effect happened. And you know what happened.
Speaker 4 (36:16):
They went to Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (36:17):
They went to Atlanta. They left the state. This is
not hypothetical. My in law's next door neighbor, who is
the producer in Tremee, who never intended to leave, head
to leave because all the production started leaving out of
the state. We lost thousands of jobs on that one decision,
which wasn't getting rid of the tax credit, it was
just capping it too low. The fact is, folks, we
got to be very careful not to push the baby
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out of the back or water when we talk about
tax reform, which is of course coming in a special
session later in November after the elections.
Speaker 4 (36:45):
Okay, some point, folks here, I was talking to one
of the producers when we were, you know, in our
rarod days from movies down here about ten years ago,
and uh, you know what he told me, Actually she
told me, she said, you know, I said, why they
why do they want to do?
Speaker 3 (36:59):
So?
Speaker 4 (36:59):
I know it's and all that, but is there anything
she said, Yes, one of the biggest reasons movies get
done down here is when they contact the actors, the
famous actors, and they one of the first questions the
actor will ask them is where is it going to
be filmed? If they don't say New Orleans, then they say,
we don't want to do it. We'll do it if
it's in New Orleans. That's how much the actors love
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this city. What a plus we had for building a
humongous you know, a theater business here, a movie business,
television everything. It's just tragic that we keep blowing it. Folks,
what's wrong with our politicians? They're like, there are are
enemies not back in us.
Speaker 2 (37:39):
Well before we go in, a lot of people have
written high and I about the vice presidential debate and
what our thoughts are on it, and we talk about
it just for a last year, for it last four
or five minutes. But I want to point out something.
What do we say after the presidential debate It wasn't
going to change any of any of the polls. And
everybody said, oh, no, you're wrong, you're wrong, and hein
and I said it, And guess what. The polls today
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are the same as the poles were that So I
don't think this vice presidential debates could change the poles. However,
there is little doubt. Whereas Trump may have lost the
presidential debate considerably, there's little doubt despite all the things.
And I'm saying this that Vance won this and won comfortably.
That's not to say that Tim Waltz didn't apport himself
pretty well. There's a couple of moments that he had
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and highs, like shaking his head because I can never say,
you know, if Kamala Harris developed the ability to walk
in water, I would say vice President can't swim. But
the fact of the matter is, when it comes down
to it, Tim Waltz didn't win the debate for the
twenty twenty four season by doing as well. I mean
not Tim Waltz, jd Vance. When he won this debate,
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when he came off, a lot of people wondered how
he would come off. Jd Vance came off well enough
that he may have positioned himself perfectly for twenty twenty
eight win or lose. Either Trump wins, Trump loses. He's
in a very strong position because I'm sitting there with
my wife, who is an Harris supporter, and she's looking
at this and she's saying she's going she's sort of
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shaking her head, and she said he won. He took
it away from it because he is basically a better
ambassador for Donald Trump than Donald Trump. The fact is
he takes Trump's philosophy and puts it into a package
that actually seems reasonable and attractive to people. And Franklin,
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heis amy at this whole thing. I said, honestly, I
had the same reaction after this vice presidential debate that
I had in two thousand when Dick Cheney and Joe
Lieberman debated. The next morning, I came on the radio
and Jeff care and I both side and we said,
my god, the adults finally arrived. It's we wish these
guys were the top of the ticket, not the ones
we have.
Speaker 4 (39:48):
Interesting, Yes, I think another reason is Christopher about Trump
and Dvance. Trump is a New Yorker. He's harsh, he's aggressive.
That's a New York way. I mean, that's her personality,
that's their style. And it's been like that for two
hundred and fifty years now. It's just the way New
York is and New Yorkers are. Whereas jd Vance, what
is he's old country boy from the mountains. We just
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talk about the mountains, the Appalachians and he and we
just talk about the universities. Another reason the kids are
coming down south is they want to learn how to
be gentlemen and ladies, which is kind of lost in
the North.
Speaker 3 (40:21):
Now.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
I don't have time to develop that, but I have
a lot of information on that. They want to learn
how to be. They want to learn real history and
real science and whatnot, not all the DEI and all
that other stuff they're pushing in the North. They want
to have developed skills and things that they can use
on a job instead of all the fluff they're getting
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in the northern universities. Now, that has a whole lot
to do, but a lot of us do with the culture.
They like the culture of the South. They think southerns
are more friendly, more polite, it's a nicer lifestyle. And JD.
Vance brings that to the White House, where you would enjoy,
you know, hearing his conversation talking with him. He's a
kind and gentleman, and a real gentleman. Whereas Walts was,
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I'm sorry he came across as a complete buffoon to me.
Rarely did he ever comport himself at the level of
what should be in the White House as far as
I could see, and he exaggerated. And as always, the
Republicans always have to debate the two moderators as well
as their opponent. That happened again. In fact, I love
the way Vance pointed out they were breaking the rules again.
They love to break the rules when it's against the Republicans. Well, Chris,
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I think it's about time for us to.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
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Speaker 3 (42:51):
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Speaker 1 (43:35):
Shoes.
Speaker 4 (43:36):
Well, folks are back and you are listening to the
Founders show the voice of the Founding Fathers. And this
is none other then You're Chaplain by ba other Republic
Chaplain Hi mcchgenry with the patriotic moment where you just
take a brief moment to remind you of the biblical
foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And today
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we're going to talk about none other then Richard. I'm
choosing him because this is the time, with all the
trials going on in the stress and whatnot that's going
on in this country, especially with weather like in the hurricanes,
that it is a very important time for preachers. Think
of it. Franklin Graham is doing more work than the
federal government right now up in North Carolina. And today
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I want to talk about Reverend Richard Allen. He was
a great preacher. He goes back to the founding of
the country. He was born to slave parents in Philadelphia
and he was sold to a slave plantation in Dover, Delaware,
and as a young man, Richard's master, Stokely Sturgist, gave
him permission to attend Methodist religious meetings, where he learned
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to read. In the year seventeen seventy seven, at the
age of seventeen, Richard Allen was converted and determined to
work even harder to prove that Christian did not make
slaves slothful, but instead it made him better people. Allan
invited the Methodist minister to visit his master and preach
to him. The Methodists were against slavery. As a founding member,
John Wesley had called it that execrable sum of all villainies,
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so certainly the Master wouldn't gonna do anything good about slavery.
And when he found out that on the day of judgment,
slaveholders would be weighed in the balances and found wanting,
he converted and made arrangements for Richard to become free.
Richard aland became a licensed exhorter evangelist in seventeen eighty three.
He set up preaching in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland,
walking so much at his feet became severely blistered. Richard
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Allen began together with other black preachers from Saint George's
Methodist Episcopal Church to begin their own church. The first
church building was dedicated by Bishop Francis Asbury, one of
the most famous preachers in America in early America. Doctor
Benjamin Rush and George Washington both contributed to Richard Allen's church.
In eighteen sixteen, Allen led to the forming of an
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entirely new denomination called the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which
was the first African American church in America, and they
ended up buying land in Philadelphia that became the Bethel
Ame Church. It's the oldest land still owned by African
Americans in the country. Jerina Lee became the first woman
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to receive authorization to preach. They were bringing female preachers.
Allan supported the Ame missionaries, including the Reverend Scipio Beans
who was sent to Haiti in eighteen twenty seven. Sods.
They had a strong missionary movement out of this church.
It's amazing, folks. At the date of at rich Allan's
death March twenty sixth, eighteen thirty one, the African Methodist
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Epistol Church had grown to over ten thousand members and
today now it's over five million. I mean, that's an
amazing story for a church started like that, and back
then ten thousand was a large number. He went on
to say that God, our Father, Christ, our Redeemer, the
Holy Spirit of our comforter humankind, our family is a
motto of the Ame Church. In his autobiography, he said,
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this land, which we have watered with our tears and
our blood is now our mother country. And we are
well satisfied to stay where wisdom of bounds and the
Gospel is free. Folks, I think Richard Allen really had
its freight. I think he really knew what was going on,
and he would have been there in North Carolina right now.
We're bringing assistance to the needy people there right now,
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just like so many churches are doing right now, just
like they did down here in New Orleans doing Katrina.
We saw many, many more churches and missionary groups helping
down here in the early days of Katrina than we
did see government people. So, folks, what about you. It's
a gospel free for you. You noticed he said it's free.
It's very important to understand the Gospel's free. As we're
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now go into our chapelain by bile Gospel moment where
again we just take a brief moment to show you
how you can know that you know that, you know
for certain and for sure when you die, you're going
to heaven. You're going to be saved from hell and
guaranteed heaven. Folks. It goes like this. The Bible says,
for for we have been saved by grace. That word
grace means free gift. Remember Richard Alnd said, where the
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gospels free, it is free. The gospel is the death
barrel and resurrection of Jesus found in One Corinthians fifteen.
Jans died for all our sins, all folks, from the
day you're born to day you die, you tie us
to your greatest sins. He was better than He rose
from the dead to win for you his precious free
gift of resurrection, everlasting life, to get you into heaven.
So that's the gospel, and the scripture says the gospel
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is the power of God into salvation to whosoever believeth Now,
the word gospel just plain simply means good news. This
is great news, folks, to know that you can have
a place for all eternity. That's you can't even describe
in human terms. According the Bible, it's so wonderful, just
like you can. I don't think you can describe Hell.
It's so terrible. Don't go there, folks, don't go there.
And God didn't want you to go there, so he
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took care of your sin problem. That's why you don't
have to go there. Now. How did God do that? Well,
God knew we had a giant problem. We never fix ourselves.
We never be smart enough, religious enough, holy enough, rich enough,
charming enough, cool enough, or whatever enough to ever get
to heaven. See, he said, Okay, forget it, Gods, I
know you won't make it. I'm gonna do it for you.
And God became a man. That man's name is the
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Lord Jesus Christ. He came to this earth to take
care of our two biggest love problems, sin and death.
When he died on the cross, like I said earlier,
his blood washed away all our sins. The scripture says
he that new note sin. That means Jesus was made
sin made into all of our dirty, rotten sins, every
evil sin you've ever done, from the tiniest to the greatest.
They all went on Jesus and he was turned into
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that sin. He that new no sin was made sin.
That's how intimate God is with us, and how well
Jesus knows us. He's turned into every sin we've ever done,
made into sin, that you might be made the righteousness
of God and Him, And whereas he takes all your
evil to give you all his good. Folks, you can't
beat a deal like that, and it's free. It's free
because He did it all. You can't do anything. If
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you tried, you kill the deal. You don't try to
help God out on the cross. You can't do it.
You got to let Jesus do it, because he did
do it. It's a done deal. You just got to
take that gift. It's a free gift. Where we've been
saved by grace. That means free gift through faith, and
even that is not of ourselves. Faith is how you
take the gift. You believe it's true for you, really
true for you, through faith, not of works, less than
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any mansion bust to see. All your good works aren't
going to work. The Bible says, all of our righteousness
are as filthy REGs. So I don't care how good
you are, how hard you try, you're not going to
get to heaven. Forget it on your own. You got
to realize you'll never make it on your own. When
you do that, when you come to that complete understanding
and you really believe it with all your heart that
you're completely hopeless and helpless, you're a worthless loser without God.
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When you come to that point, you've just repented. That's
what repentance is. It's when you change your mind. That's
literally what the word means. It means change your mind.
Before you thought, well, I can be good enough, righteousness,
I can try hard, I can do this. God will wait. Wait,
you know, put me into scales, and my good, good
good works out weigh my bad works. I'll get to
get into heaven. It doesn't work that way, folks, because
all your good works, a script says, all of your
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righteousness are as filthy reg So just forget it. And
the moment you do, the moment you give up on
trying to help God get into heaven, pay for your
sins and rise and the dead, the moment you quit
doing that, you get it for free, because then you
get free to put faith alone in Christ alone, to
believe with all your heart with childlike faith that Jesus
really did die for all your sins, was buried and
rose to the dead. If you've never done that before,
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please don't wait till it's too late. And like the
old that's what the old country preacher said, But like
the scripture says, now today is a day of salvation.
If you've never done this before, do it right now. Folks,
believe with all your heart that Jesus really did die
for all your sins, was buried and rose from the dead. Well,
it's not time for us to go into our testimony
on the wall where we just take a brief moment
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to remind you of the end time events and those
events are upon us, folks, They're heavily upon us. What's
going on with weather all around the world. They haven't
major weather problems all around the world. That's one of
the signs of the end. Another sign is wars and
rumors of wars. Another sign is a total annihilation of
the human race. Well, that couldn't happen two thousand years ago,
but it sure can with nuclear and what are we
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facing right now, perhaps the first nuclear war in the
history of the world, where they're going to be ballistic
missiles launching all over the place. Now, you know, the
World War iiO was not a nuclear war. Yeah, we
ended it with two small atom bombs, but that was it.
It wasn't like nations were launching against one another and
putting hundreds thousands of nuclear warheads down on one another.
(52:14):
If that happens, that is the end of the human race.
We all know that. That's why Jesus said, if he
didn't come home, come back to this Earth sooner than
he planned, and guess what, there'd be no flesh left. Well,
that couldn't have happened two thousand years ago. But we're
seeing the possibility of it right now, right before our eyes,
with all the upheaval in the Middle East and the
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things that are happening there. If it continues as it is,
it will then be the fulfillment of the Ezekiel thirty
eight thirty nine prophecy, which begins the last seven years
of planet Earth when we go into what the Bible
calls a tribulation period. Folks, we're here. Jesus is right
at the door. He said, we can see all these
things happen at the same time, and they all are.
Time doesn't allow for me to go over all two
hundred propheties, but they're all happening right now, or they've
(52:55):
already happened. But there many of them are just happening
right now, or have just happened in the past few years.
He's at the door. He's coming back soon. You need
a safe house, and the greatest safe house you'll ever
get is the Lord Jesus Christ. If you've never trusted
him before, do it now. Don't wait till it's too late.
Believe that Jesus really did die far your sins and
rose from Dad, and you're guaranteed safety when the tribulation comes. Folks,
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it's not time for us to go. As we close
with them on Saint Martin singing a krill goodbye, and
God bless all out.
Speaker 5 (53:24):
There to call you creel goodbye. They think we're just
wasted the time. Put all three sibl.
Speaker 3 (53:48):
Me.
Speaker 5 (53:50):
There's time for a creo goodbye.
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