Football Frenzy: Economic Disappointment or $4B Economic Ad? And is Landry turning socialist?

Hy and Christopher kick off the second segment of this week's show wondering if Louisiana’s Republican Governor has become a socialist? Facing skyrocketing property insurance rates, Landry is proposing a government intervention more to Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warner - or is he?
As the governor stated, "What we've seen with insurance companies is they've enriched shareholders but it's made the American consumer poor," Landry said. "I don't know if it should be against public policy in this country for an insurance company to be publicly controlled. We have to have an honest discussion about it."
But it’s our discussion at the beginning of the show that really captures a question. Is the investment in the Super Bowl worth it?
As Christopher writes this week in his newspaper column: 
There was a weird quiet on Magazine Street the weekend of the Super Bowl. Shops that counted on throngs of tourists often laid empty, not even locals, wanting to brave the chaos – which never came.
The same proved true for bars and eateries downtown, at least those left unrented out for private events. They, too, often sat empty. Wealthy visitors went to private parties or straight to the Superdome from their jets.
America’s powerful and mighty descended upon New Orleans, yet many of the politically unconnected did not benefit from those making their way to the Dome, which seems odd as Armstrong Airport noted 43,188 passengers were processed through their security checkpoint. In contrast, the last day of Taylor Swift's “Eras” tour in New Orleans previously held the record with 32,134 passengers being processed through security on Oct. 27, 2024. An estimated 100,000 people poured into the city for an event expected to generate at least $150 million in profit for the city. National media gushed about the purple-carpeted Bourbon Street and the absence of street crime all weekend, the kind of positive PR for the Crescent City that civic leaders foretell future tourism increases.
The Sports Management Research Institute, a firm that works with sports leagues that include the NFL, issued a press release highlighting the huge economic impact the game delivers to New Orleans and boasting of skyrocketing hotel rates in the New Orleans area – with an average price of $4,625 per night for four-star accommodations and $847 per night for two-star accommodations. A Motel 6 on the West Bank was selling rooms for $750.
Nevertheless, concerns over crime after the January 1 terrorist attack matched with a general inability to board private or public transport out of the barricades littered throughout the French Quarter and CBD entertainment zones left many exterior businesses without customers on Super Bowl weekend. And often even within.
A cursory examination by The Louisiana Weekly on the morning of the game revealed quite a few empty bars and restaurants in the Vieux Carre. Essentially, as one bar owner put it to this newspaper privately, “If you don’t have an event booking out for your place, you were empty…I know my bar was.”
“We had two good nights but it wasn’t busy like we would be for a big convention because it’s hard to compete when the NFL sponsors so many events,” said Dickie Brennan to the daily paper. Nonetheless, he noted the “$4 billion ad campaign for the city of New Orleans.”
“That helps everybody,” Brennan argued. But does it? Only if we capitalize on the publicity to actually lure business to Louisiana, former state Senate and Port of New Orleans President Conrad Appel maintained.
“Pardon my use of an expression from a different sport, but the Superbowl was a homerun! New Orleans was on display and did itself proud as the unchallenged leader in the game of fielding major international events.
“But there is another, much more subtle game at play,” Appel continued, “and it is an open question whether this Superbowl paid off in a way that the major investment by the people should re

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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to see the money? Then you don't, there's nothing to
fill the holes while then are feeling their pockets by holes,
the politicians bouncing down the road. Everybody's wition for no

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more corruption and dysfunction.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
It's gone to day.

Speaker 1 (00:29):
Divide it evention.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Was the Super Bowl a actual economic success for the city,
And what are the positives and negatives of having the
big event it may come again in twenty twenty nine,
And what's the precedent from the founder's standpoint of what
Trump is doing? And is the president Barack Obama? And lastly,
is America's new socialist governor Jeff Landry? All this and

(00:56):
more on this edition of The Founder Show.

Speaker 2 (00:59):
And God bless all up there you are now listening
to The Founders Show, the voice of the Founding Fathers,
your Founding Fathers coming to you deep within the bowels
of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, And high up
on top of that old Liberty cypress tree draped in

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Spanish moss, way out on the Eagles Branch this is
none other then you spend Gary byby the Republic Chaplain
Hi McHenry.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
With Christopher Timore. You Rosing Report, a resident radical moderate
and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly at Louisiana Weekly
dot net. And we got a lot of things to
talk about today. But let me ask you something. How
did you watch the Super Bowl last week? One week
from our main airing?

Speaker 2 (01:46):
How'd you watch? In my den and your dead? Yeah?
So here the way I was going on, Well, but
here's the three thousand dollars per a ticular or something.

Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, it was actually going for over four. So I
had an interesting experience. I was asked to give a
private tour to the president. I didn't know this at
the time, but I learned it when I showed up
at the place and his private security there. But it
was the president and CEO of All State and his
wife and son and brother in law and a wonderful couple.
He would never you know at all, Like the truly

(02:14):
truly successful are the most down to earth people. Yeah,
that's and the and he they're frequent visitors to New Orleans. Trump,
we'll talk about Trump second, but ultimate famous, but ultimately
no I gave him a sort of walking tour. But
they'd been to New Orleans about ten times before because

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as you as you probably know, All State is the
main sponsor of the Sugar Bowl, so it comes down
every year. But it was amazing, and they're big supporters
of the National War Two Museum, so they didn't been before.
It was a really wonderful tour. But what was interesting
about it is it's probably the only way I would
have left the confines of in my case. We did
a we did a thing at the bookstore where you know,

(02:56):
we had you know where we had a big Yeah,
we had Yeah, we had a kind of a we
for people who didn't have a place to come. But
most well, our attendance was pretty good. We had about
thirty five people. But for the most part, what you're
describing is what happened that weekend. And here's the flip side.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
A lot of people stayed home.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Not only did the locals stay home, nobody who came
into town seemed to go anywhere except to pre arranged events.
So one of the things I found out about the
Super Bowl that was fascinating was when I was walking
in the morning in midday of you know, so it's
after twelve and you know, before the game. So it's
afternoon and I'm walking around the French Quarter with these

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people and they're planning on going to a big private
event later, and there's plenty of people. But if you
didn't have a private event, like the restaurant was bought
out or your bar was bought out by somebody, you
were empty in the French Quarter.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
You couldn't find a place to go.

Speaker 3 (03:51):
No, in fact, you could find plenty of places to go,
you didn't go anywhere.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
So this is you think it's because they're afraid of
crime TERRORISMO.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
There was.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
There was a little bit of of the January first
leg of this though everybody was enjoying New Orleans, but
it was also because it was physically impossible. Certainly, Magazine
Street was dead, most of the rest of the city
was dead.

Speaker 2 (04:10):
Was very hard.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, I mean, I'll explain it this way. I couldn't
drive my car anywhere near downtown.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I couldn't.

Speaker 3 (04:19):
I wasn't All the streets were barricaded, I couldn't take
public transport. I actually got on the street car and
got off at least Circle and walked to Canal Street
because and then gave a walking tour for three hours.
But the point of all this is there was no
way in or out, so I mean you could walk,
but that was it. You couldn't even get an uber.

(04:40):
You couldn't get anybody. So raised the question that some
people said was the super Bowl really all that economically successful?
Because there's two contrasts. Four billion dollars was spent on
the Super Bowl. It was an incredible advertisement for the
city of New Orleans. Let me let me say this

(05:01):
real quick. It was there. I mean, other than a
few people, was there anybody who didn't think the pregame
show wasn't better than the halftime show. I mean, I
have nothing against rap. Actually good rap is fantastic. It's just,
you know, enough said about that. The whole country's talked
about that. But the point I'm getting at, I would
have rather seen Sabrina Carpenter and Taylor Swift come down

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to the field. By the way, for those that don't
know the two people who've gone on the Aras tour
around the world together. Sabrina Carpenter was there as a
massive Eagles fan. She's from Philadelphia, and Taylor Swift is
obviously is the girlfriend is a girlfriend of Travis Kelsey.
So it would have been a much better show. If
you want an international show, yeah, and then they know

(05:43):
how to do it. They've done one hundred of them Togo.
But more importantly, I'm looking at the game. And on
the one hand, you know, you look at the planes.
My friend Conrad Appell, who was state senator for years,
former head of the Port of New Orleans, he was
at Lake a lake Front Airport, and he was looking
all the private jets and just so you understand, we

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not only have the private jets, saying we actually resurfaced
Downman Road because it was bumpy for the millionaires that
would come in. None of the streets around it, just
the street going from the airport in and we did.
We had all these multimillionaires. So if you had a hotel,
you did really well. The Motel six in Gretna was
charging seven hundred and fifty dollars a night, which I

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thought was incredible. But if you didn't have a private event,
if you didn't have you know, if you weren't, you
didn't have it. There were a lot of people who
were really angry at City Park. And a friend of
mine is actually the director, and I don't blame him.
City park. Most people realize it gets almost no public money.
It doesn't get state appropriations. It doesn't it has. It

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only gets one piece of one millage, which is just
enough to pay for some private some security, some police officers.
It's very little money. It relies almost one hundred percent
on contributions. And on this it GE's no state appropriations.
Even it's a state park. It gets nothing, gets nothing
from the city. And so they were relying on events.
And when you know, Gail Benson comes in and says,

(07:07):
I want to rent the entire park. She did. It
didn't rent one part of the park. You couldn't get
into the park for three days.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
So if you're a local you want to go to
the park on a beautiful weekend, you couldn't go in.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
What was she doing?

Speaker 3 (07:20):
They built an entire set. They brought they had met
through a massive party. It was about three or four
thousand people of the most notable in the world.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
Where did they party.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
They built an entire thing near the botanical gardens. It
was it was like it was a city. It was
basically multiple tents, multiple things. It was. It was really beautiful.
I didn't get to I mean, I didn't get to
go and just look at the pictures.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
But good.

Speaker 3 (07:48):
But the problem somebody brought up to me was, wait
a second, this is our public park and we can't
go in, We can't go around in our city the
streets that are being fixed or frankly only the ones
for the millionaires to come in. We say we spent
only one hundred and fifty million. Our profit off this
game is one hundred and fifty million dollars that was

(08:08):
supposedly the profit to the city. You know how much
we spent on revamping the Super Bowl the Superdome, so
we're keeple and we do it for other events like
the Saints. But you know how much you spent the
city and state. But it's four hundred and thirty three
million dollars. Now, some of that comes from hotel taxes,
so it kind of comes in. But the point I'm
getting in all of this is after the game, there

(08:31):
was this whole big thing about we should have this
every year, and I'm like, well, how much does the
average business owner really get from this? This is not
a racial thing or rich for if you don't have connections,
you don't get anything. Because that was it's become very
sheltered about who comes in. They fly in and has

(08:52):
a very directed only go to parties. Basically some people
just flying game are comeing in their yachts and go out.
The same sort of thing was happening. For example, there
was a massive Saudi prince who had his yacht parked
right next to the Butterfly behind Ottoman Park and they
put up a tent and they had a massive party there,
but it didn't go anywhere else. Yeah, it was huge,
it was huge, and but but how much does this

(09:14):
benefit the city? And I would say, honestly, it doesn't
really provide as much money. There were a lot of
people the best. The reason I told the City Park
story is because I want to tell you this. If
you were an employee at City Park, you were told
you have Saturday, Saturday and Sunday off, Well that sounds great,
right at no pay? Oh no, because they had rented

(09:37):
out it and they didn't need you. They had they
brought in their own people from out of town. Sure,
for a lot of hospitality workers, this super Bowl was
actually a terrible experience because they made nothing. I mean
not only they didn't get any tips, I mean they
literally were put out. So we brought people in to
run these events.

Speaker 2 (09:52):
I have some of my kids people. They worked the
Convention Center and the super Bowl and all that, and
they were very busy.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
They were over Let me give the flip side of this.
So the New Orleans Opera, most people don't realize this
has something called the Hawk and Scene Shop. We provide
for those that don't know. I'm the director of External
Affairs for the New World's Opera. We're actually doing the
show from the opera guild House and pretend you and
it was very good for us. We don't get any
Super Bowl money, but our Hawkins Scene Shop, which provides

(10:19):
sets for product theatrical productions in thirty five states, three
Canadian provinces, we did go send sets as far as
Hawaii and Costa Rica, and that's just in the last year.
Our guys were the ones hired to help build the
stage for the halftime show. We didn't put on the
halftime show, just but build a physical stage which I
saw was very high tech. It looked like a checkerboard.

(10:40):
Our guys helped do that and made a decent amount
of money. But the point I'm getting in all of
this is, none of this makes any difference if we're
not using this to attract business. And this was Hank
Pell's Conrad Pell's point, and I wrote about it in
the Louisiana Weekly. I'm going to post what he had
to say on on our iHeartMedia app when we post

(11:02):
this up. By the way, folks, if you ever like
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by going to our website. The founder's show to essays
dot com. But his point was, he said, you know,

(11:24):
we didn't make a lot of money on this, not
really not the average person. However, we're stupid if we
don't use this as a way of drawing business to Louisiana.
All these corporate CEOs are there, and I'm ashamed to
say our mayor wasn't governor was, But we could do
what Las Vegas did. Las Vegas understood that hospitality was

(11:45):
the essence of their economy. They also understood you can't
really make an economy based on it, and so they
spent all of their time. What the Nevada has spent
all of its time doing is attracting California companies to
move to Nevada, where there's no income tax, by the way,
where Las Vegas has the amenities, and they basically said,
you can put your corporate headquarters here. Now, Las Vegas

(12:06):
has become a center of tech and development. But they
did a few things. One is they had tax incentives. Two,
they built infrastructure. Three and this is the opposite of
what we've done. The Universe UNLV, the University of Nevada
at Las Vegas used to be a little bit of
a joke now and then it became a kind of
a sports school, but it was this Now it's one
of the high tech centers really in the country because

(12:27):
they seriously invested. Remember, but well, no, they didn't, and
they had an opportunity. Bob Livingston brought the Navy Tech Center,
which was this great opportunity, five thousand jobs, all the
data banks for most of the Department of Defense, most
of which has gone now, and.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
The U and O has had a lot to do
with it. And they were going to do it at
Pound Shrine Beach.

Speaker 3 (12:49):
Removing they were gonna they built what was called the
Tech Park. And you know what, the state did nothing.
We never rolled off. And those those buildings are they
have a few tech and now they're three quarters empty,
beautiful buildings. They it's and this is sort of a
common tale with us here in Louisiana. And I'm hoping
that this Super Bowl did more than Hey, let's throw

(13:11):
a few parties, put a we put a purple carpet
on Bourbon Street. We carpeted Bourbon Street.

Speaker 2 (13:17):
Really wow.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
It was an incredible party. But the fact of the
matter is if we can't draw business out of it,
it wasn't very good for the locals. It was actually
the average business in most of Orleans Parish, forget the suburbs,
just the parish itself was down thirty percent because most
people didn't want to leave their homes.

Speaker 2 (13:35):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
And the tourist traffic wasn't picking it up either.

Speaker 2 (13:39):
So the economy slowed down for New Orleans peak.

Speaker 3 (13:41):
For the Super Bowl. And nobody really talks about this.
Everybody's been lauding this as this great success, and for
some sectors, including one I work in. There were a
lot of people that were employed, so I think on
balance it probably was a net benefit. I'm not saying that, lets.

Speaker 2 (13:56):
Marti girl help pick up the slack. Well, and I
mean if we made money, right Marti gral we.

Speaker 3 (14:01):
Well, that's the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
We got the whole nation for everybody.

Speaker 3 (14:05):
And I will say it was it was good for
It was a good ad for the New Orleans that
halftime show. The contrast of it between the halftime show
and the pregame show, I don't there were very, very,
very few people who came out and said, you know
that the pregame show did exceed the halftime show pretty much.
And it was and it was across the political spectrum

(14:25):
left right, New York Times, Fox News, everybody was like,
we would have traded Harry Connick Junior any day of
the week, and the Marti Gras Indians for yeah, it
was like and it was it was a good it
was a good bill for New Orleans. I just I
keep thinking that, when do you know that The Time
Speaking did an excellent article, by the way, on all
the history of the Super Bowls, and my favorite one

(14:46):
if you didn't look was when we had this whole
show and then put on the Battle of New Orleans
re enactment at the halftime show. That is a halftime show.
That that's up there with Rocky and Bullwinkle, you know,
And what's the matter you going on and having cannons
because thirty years ago? So no, that was nineteen sixty
that far back. Yeah, I mean, yeah, it's yeah. I
hate to do the math on that one high but

(15:07):
it's a little bit more than thirty years ago, so
it's a anyway.

Speaker 2 (15:12):
I remember that. That was very exciting. That was back
in the days when the bands were high school or
college bands that came.

Speaker 3 (15:18):
Remember that, well, I mean that's the whole thing.

Speaker 2 (15:19):
There were There were weren't much to halftime shows at
the Super Bowl.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
There wasn't because it really wasn't the television event that
it became, and it was not yet everybody talks about
the best part was having the Southern University band for
the pregame. It was crazy.

Speaker 2 (15:31):
It was great.

Speaker 3 (15:32):
We know how to we know how to do a show. Guys.
Let me tell they were NFL For future reference when
you come to New Orleans, just we got enough local talent.
You do you have to import it.

Speaker 2 (15:41):
Isn't that the truth?

Speaker 3 (15:42):
I mean, like it really is.

Speaker 2 (15:43):
And the thing is, they dominated the whole halftime show
with rap, and a lot of people don't like rap.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Well it's not that.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
It's not that they really don't. It's not. It's not
just a certain section of America that likes it. Well,
but I mean, what about everybody else We're sitting in here,
well board with it. It's obnoxious, it's not.

Speaker 3 (15:59):
It's not the No, let me say this because you
could make people made the same statement about rock and
roll in the sixties. No, no, no, that's generational. That's generational.

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Rap carries a heavy gangster, murder, crime, abusive women message.

Speaker 3 (16:18):
It really except here's the thing, here's the I'm.

Speaker 2 (16:21):
Living with it, and guess what rap I got wrap
all around me.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
But I'm also I'm also saying, you know, you listen
to your father saying rock and roll is all about sex,
and you and I and you and I both know
the term came from the nineteen twenties in New Oran
rock and and roll in music, which actually did have
that reference.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
So you and I both know. My point about this
was it wasn't the fact that was raped. There's actually
one of Trump's biggest supporters is a famous rapper and
he's white kid Rock, so wrong kid Rock. So my
point being, it's not rap and there's a racial connotation
of this. But there is what I'm actually not concerned
about what how the halftime show went and this because

(17:03):
it wasn't the wrap. It was the fact that there
was a personal vendetta being talked about and a whole
bunch of stuff that wasn't worthy of the Super Bowl,
just like it wasn't worthy of the people in the
Superdome to boat boo Taylor Swift because they were Eagles
fans and she happens to be dating a Chiefs fan.
That's stupid and it's.

Speaker 2 (17:20):
It's never more reasons than that.

Speaker 3 (17:22):
No, there's not real reasons. It was for the people. Really,
there are more reasons to boost Taylor Swift. How give
I'll trade Taylor Swift's Eras tour which brought thirty six
thousand people to New Orleans through that, whereas the Super
Bowl A bought forty three.

Speaker 2 (17:37):
Yeah, what I mean is most football fans, football people,
race car people, sports people, whatever, they tend to be
Trump supporters. It's not really true, yes they are. And
this is it was really the Trump supporters that we're doing.

Speaker 3 (17:51):
Now, this is the thing that first of all, think
about where Philadelphia for the most part, is not a
conservative city to start with. But more importantly, this is
something I'm getting into and a bigger thing. It's professional
football is one of the few areas that we still
have in this country where you basically have a break

(18:12):
from the political world. Yeah, and that becomes problematic when
we try to put in politics in football. So away,
I don't I want to side on that just for
a second, take a sidebarb because when we come back,
did you know the speaking of Republicans, that Louisiana's Republican
governor proposed something that borders on socialism And guess what,
it's something we've endorsed on this program before.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Interesting, Well, we'll get to that.

Speaker 3 (18:37):
We'll get that.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
Let's talk about the fans just real quickly, and the
players and all that. I was amazed at how much
God was was called upon and honored in this in
this game by the coaches and the and the two quarterbacks.
And it was amazing call giving Jesus his respect. Let's
say that he's their lord and Savior and that's how

(19:00):
they won.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
And it's amazing. I used a joke that, you know,
amazing to hear people say there's no prayer in schools.
They would ever looked at it at a classroom before
a test.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
It's like, that's that's the one prayer that can't team
to get rid of it, Sholes.

Speaker 3 (19:12):
It's like, please God help me, and it's a study.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Please. It's like no, no atheist and fond souls. Same concept.

Speaker 3 (19:19):
All right, folks, we'll be back with this concept where
Governor Jeff Landry has proposed something that may come up
in this legislative session that could lower your insurance rates.
But the way to go there is something that no
Republican has actually uttered in this country, at least since
a Republican ran on the joint Socialist ticket in nineteen eleven.

(19:39):
We'll talk about that right after these important messages. Stay
tuned more of the Founder Show right after this. Hi,
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Speaker 3 (25:54):
With Christopher Sidmore and folks. I want you to play
a little game with me here for us second, he says, uh,
let me read you a statement, and let's you tell
me in your brain who who said this statement. What
we've seen with the insurance companies is they've been rich shareholders,
but it's made the American consumer poor. I don't know

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if it should be against public policy in this country
for an insurance company to be publicly controlled, but you
have to have an honest discussion about it. Who did
I just quote, folks? Was it Elizabeth Warren? Was it
Bernie Sanders? Was it some other denizen.

Speaker 2 (26:30):
Of the left. No, our governor Jeff.

Speaker 3 (26:34):
Landry now a few months ago.

Speaker 2 (26:37):
Chris were we tend to have rambunctious and you might
think very conservative governors who still made statements like that,
like Huey Longody.

Speaker 3 (26:48):
Well, I wouldn't. I don't know many people call hughy
Long conservative, but certainly the every man of king every
man a king, you know, would be a millionaire. The
point I'm getting at all of this is, frankly, your
your tribune is in.

Speaker 2 (27:00):
Chris Surey Long was a very hardcore conservative. He was
also a very hardcore liberal. He was everything for everybody,
whatever got in the vote.

Speaker 3 (27:07):
He long didn't like at tax that he didn't to levy,
or a spending that he didn't want, So I would not.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
I don't know if anybody he was a big business
christopher you know that.

Speaker 3 (27:16):
It was yeah, as long as you paid him, he
was what I mean's.

Speaker 2 (27:20):
He was a real capitalist. Yeah, he's a hardcore capitalist.

Speaker 3 (27:24):
It was a yeah. They called it, you know, a
crony capitalism or oligarchy or you know whatever. Anyway, the
point I'm getting at it in all of this is
Jeff Landry is retained very little criticism for coming out
and saying, essentially what we need in Louisiana is a
publicly owned insurance company. Why well, it's not as radical
a thought as you might say. We had our workers

(27:47):
compensation system, if you will, fall apart about twenty years ago,
twenty five years ago now, and then Governor Mike Foster
helped reconstitute it as a publicly owned corporation. It was.
It became successful enough, it's spun all into a private
company that's the Louisiana Workers Compensation Company today. This is
being brought up because two things have happened. One, I

(28:08):
don't know if you've noticed, but your insurance rates are absurd.
They are so far beyond where they were. And guess what,
they're about to get worse because who is after State Farm,
the largest private insurer in Louisiana. Do you want to
take a guess at what company that is? Hi?

Speaker 2 (28:26):
All State?

Speaker 3 (28:28):
It's not all State, but all State would be a
good guess. It's up there. It's Travelers. Oh really, And Travelers,
by the way, just lost seven billion dollars in the
California wildfires, and others did as well. And what you're
going to start seeing is, if you think it's been
bad with your home insurance, it's about to get worse.
The actuary the insurance company is.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
People can't handle anymore and can't just people losing your
whole life to pay insurance.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
Well, I mean, that's what's happening your insurance rates.

Speaker 2 (28:58):
Insurance.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Well, I actually melt it personally because I was I
was trying to create a sweetheart deal to sell my
dad's house to a friend of mine who you know,
I wanted them to have it, and I basically wouldn't
have made very little of any profit. And we set
up the whole deal and they were fine. With the
payments that were going to take over the payments for me,
the whole works, and then they saw how much the

(29:20):
insurance was. It was the insurance was as high almost
you know, quite as high as the monthly payments, but
it was pretty close to it. And so they were like, yeah,
it's happened.

Speaker 2 (29:30):
It's all over the place, and folks, it's it's gonne
the past few years, I guess maybe.

Speaker 3 (29:37):
At least at least sometimes if you're in a coastal community,
it's gone up over a thousand percent at basic if
you're outside the levee protection. You know how much it
cost to have a three bedroom home have insurance on
the coast if you're not inside of the direct thousand
year levee protection. One hundred and fifty thousand dollars a

(29:57):
year for one hundred and fifty thousand dollars house.

Speaker 2 (29:59):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
In other words, you pay for your house every year
to just have it. In short, it basically you are
self insured, except you can't keep a mortgage of yourself insured.
So basically this is pushing us. The governors come out
and said, what we have to entertain ideas we never do,
and this is this Republican two thirds Republican legislature is
quite close to using your tax dollars to create a

(30:23):
publicly owned corporation that will go into competition. And part
of the other reason this is happening is used to
be you'd have they may have been unstable. Anybody needs
to know about the Champions insurance crisis back in the eighties.
Knows how local insurance companies could be not exactly above board.
But you had some locally owned companies. Well, guess what

(30:46):
one of them was, Gray Insurance. Michael Gray is a friend,
and they've been bought out by a private equity group.
And guess what they're doing. They're putting a lot of
local people out. I'm sorry, I'm gonna be honest about
somebody who's a client that they're doing some Really they're
based on profit in these our companies. But insurance company's idea,
the private insure is that they would collect dollars from you,

(31:09):
they would mortget they'd put it in the markets, the
markets would perform, they'd make a profit, and they'd have
enough reserve and capital if there's a loss. The problem
is the losses have been so big and the market's
production is not enough to cover their losses. And the
private equities expect and this is where the trick bag is.
Private equities expect a return of twenty two percent per year.

(31:30):
Some will say, no, it's not that bad. That's basically
what they expect. And so for the insurance business, there
isn't enough. And so you have Jeff Landry essentially saying
we need a government owned corporation to levy insurance, one
of the biggest businesses in the United States. But then again,
it was a Republican administration George W. Bush, followed by
the Democrat administration of Barack Obama that essentially nationalized American

(31:54):
Insurance Group AIG. We're reaching a point where and this
is kind of where our politics have gone, kind of crazy,
some of the stuff that Trump comes out with and
the tariffs and protectionist I'm sorry, it's actually this is
the funny thing about our politics. Everybody's criticizing Trump on tariffs.
They're left wing ideas. Putting a twenty five percent tariff
against the whole world on aluminum deal is not good

(32:14):
economic policy. It's not retaliatory charists, it's not a fair deal.
It's protecting a US industry to the point even the
unions were coming on against it, but at the saint
that you know, we shouldn't put it on Canada and
Mexico because it's part of our market. That's what the
Still Workers' Union said. But the fact is it's a
left wing policy that's very popular being done by a
Republican by a Republican president. Our politics are really up

(32:37):
in the air because the cost of living, of doing
things has made people entertain ideas that were never Trump
Here's the Trump is actually, you know, I don't know,
have you heard the tax deal that Mike Johnson has
put together. How they're going to pay for the tip
elimination and tax on tips. They're going to tax wall straight.

(32:58):
It's a Republican administration's called the carried interest deduction, which
was defended by every Republican president as you know, as
a supply side tax cut.

Speaker 2 (33:07):
That you needed to have.

Speaker 3 (33:08):
Trump's coming out and getting rid of it, and the
end it's it's it shows how upside down a lot
of our politics are for something that would have been
thought of, as you know, a tax cut that has
no economic relevance in the sense of supply side, but
it matters a lot if you work a minimum wage
job and you get a tip, it's it's kind of
an important tax break.

Speaker 2 (33:28):
And so and we have such a large service industry
now in America that it's a.

Speaker 3 (33:33):
Huge it's it's there's a reason why Trump won Nevada.
There's a reason why Trump won some of the swing stakes.
You can hate him. This is what I'm telling a
lot of my friends on the left. I'm like, I said, look,
I worshiped the quick sand Donald Trump walks on But
having said.

Speaker 2 (33:48):
That, because he does walk on water.

Speaker 3 (33:53):
It's really but but having said that, I say.

Speaker 2 (33:55):
Else to worship wrong well, wrong, medium.

Speaker 3 (33:57):
Well my point, my point being in all of this
is that some of the stuff Trump's being criticized for doing,
he's doing it to a greater extent than anybody else.
The latest thing the naming himself ahead of the Kennedy
Center and you know, and naming the board. Well, here's
the problem with that. I was sitting with some of
my arts folks and they were promoting, and I said,
I vaguely remember that Obama did something, not name hisself,

(34:21):
but he interceded politically and renamed the board. And everybody
just sort of went quiet because that's exactly what happened
some of the Department of Economic Efficiency. I'm reading all
the stuff that Musk is quote doing to destroy the republic,
and yes, I'm the first one. This is the founder show.
It is not the power of the executive branch. Before

(34:43):
he contradicts me, let me finish my statement. It is
not the power of the executive branch in any conception
by our founders to control spending and how the allocation
of resources is that is specifically given to Congress.

Speaker 2 (34:54):
Right.

Speaker 3 (34:54):
However, the challenge, Yeah, the challenge is that the stuff
he's doing was done by the Department of Digital Accuracy
under Obama. Just it's doing it to a rate far
beyond what Obama did. The problem, the all of this
stuff that we're talking about is a question of both

(35:17):
sides or abandoning traditional orthodoxy, not one or the other.
Trump's just taking it to its absurd, logical or illogical degree,
depending upon your perspective. But none of it's particularly original.
And everybody's I'm reading all this stuff and I'm saying, well,
you didn't say anything before I did. I'm in the
rare position of being critical of Obama and critical of

(35:37):
Trump and critical this, and everybody's like, well, you know,
don't confuse me with the fact, so let me be
very consistent right now what Jeff Landry wants to do,
and creating a government owned insurance company is incredibly popular.
It's socialism. It will end badly, however, because everybody's paying
too much and the rents too damn high. Party is

(35:58):
more important than anything else that they're willing to turn
to an idea that has been so proven economically inefficient.
When a government creates something, it never dies and it
never works. Well, But that's Jeff Landry's answer, And you
know what, I can't blame him because everybody else in
this crazy world doesn't seem to care about the general

(36:21):
market in anywhere else, so why should Jeff Landry be
any different.

Speaker 2 (36:25):
But Christopher, just remember whenever I contradict you, if I do,
I'm always correct.

Speaker 3 (36:31):
You're always correct, all right, You're just not always consistent.
That's the problem. The consistency is that is not.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
Gobb consistently criticized or contradict I don't like to do
that consistently. On rare occasions that I have to reel
you and Crystal, I'm always correct.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
Now you're always correct, even when you're blatantly wrong, but
you're always correct. Look, I am when all of this
stuff started coming through, we always talk about the founders.
You know what I do. I did recently I started
reading again I've read it before, what was called the
anti Federalist papers. You forget that some of the funerals

(37:11):
were Federalists and that that's Madison Hamilton or when we
in the Constitution. But the anti federalists were the ones
were that was Dickinson, and that was that was Richard
Henry Lee and you know some of the some of
the people, uh some Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry was one
of the leaders of the anti federalists and the anti
federalist who were writing newspapers at the time. What did
they say, Well, when you have an all powerful presidency,

(37:34):
what if the president decides not to do what Congress
says and just do whatever it was, that's when you
centralize power.

Speaker 2 (37:40):
What do you well, so they created the balance, Yeah,
it was. It was a separate branch requirement balanced against
and federal and state balanced against.

Speaker 3 (37:48):
The anti federalist job anti that was the federalist did.
The anti federalists were the ones that said, here's the
here's the facts.

Speaker 2 (37:55):
Even so out of control.

Speaker 3 (37:56):
It only works if the president or in this case whatever,
the chief executive listens to what is being said by
the other branches.

Speaker 2 (38:06):
An example of that Adolf Hitler. Well, yeah, that this
should have never constitutionally happened in Germany, but it did.
He could as soon as wherever he got a little power.
He turned it then into a weapon against all his enemies.
Eventually he controlled everything.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
No, no, we're not supposed to compare, you know, our
leaders to Adolf Hitler. Hi, you know it says, My
point being that.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Like what's just happened over the past for the weaponization
of Barvaria's branches of government, that Trump is now undoing.

Speaker 3 (38:33):
Except he's what he's doing, and at some level I
get it, he's really he's weaponizing it against the deep state,
which is a weaponization of a weaponization after a weaponization has.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
To be stopped. Course, But except he's please behavior.

Speaker 3 (38:49):
No, no, no, two wrongs pastor do not make a right.
And what I'm getting at and all of this.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Is if somebody's breaks into your house and they've just
shot your wife and getting ready, and you pull a
gun and shoot the guy and say that's you can't
do that because that's killing Well no, no, there's a
time where you have to use well.

Speaker 3 (39:07):
Let me, let me, let me play, let me play,
let me play. At the other side, so Trump was
let's say he is a victim of law fair and
hit people around Trump, I'm not I'm not arguing. I'm
using that as a as a comparison. I mean, right now,
you got Pam Bondy and there was filing suits against
uh states that aren't doing what he says they have

(39:30):
to do.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Now, but Christopher, no, they're not a right.

Speaker 3 (39:33):
Here's that.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Okay, now we can debate all that. Now take let's
just say this just time out. I believe that everything
that they should do that Trump is doing and should
be doing, they need to follow the law to do
it instead of just making stuff up like the Biden administration.
Did you know evidence that would never make an evidence
book and you'd use againstant things like that Star Chambers,

(39:54):
none of that, Like Trump went through all that. I'm
talking about following the Constitution and the laws of the
one implementing proper jurisprudence. If Pam Bundy can do that
and stop these monsters, then go far.

Speaker 3 (40:08):
Let me give you an example, the Civil Service Act
of eighteen seventy one, and this is where we're almost
out of time. Civil Service Act of eighteen seventy one
is very specific that the chief executive or the executive
branch head does not have the direct powering to hire
and fire individuals at will. They have to go through
a certain process. So Trump's figure out to do it

(40:32):
two ways. He's the way that we've been hearing a
lot about is a voluntary retirement, which is basically, you
will go. But the latest thing that happened this week,
and I knew it was going to happen, you know,
the voluntary retirement is we'll pay you for the rest
of the year if you quit. That is actually not
in the law that is exceeding his authority, but at
some level it's a voluntary act. What did you do

(40:53):
this week? If you're on probation and you can be
put on probation as a federal employee for anything, I
mean that happens all the time. You're automatically fired, which
goes through the entire process against of the Civil Service.
None of the things. What is the latest thing, and
this is the thing that is being proposed, and this
is what got did, and this is exceeding his statutory authority.

Speaker 2 (41:14):
We'll find out.

Speaker 3 (41:15):
It's very simple. Donald Trump is now at the point
and that Elon Musk was talking about of saying, oh, okay,
we can't fire the top the bottom twenty percent. Here's
what we'll do. We'll just stop paying him. We'll just
hold the money in reserve because we can control it.
So I'm sorry, that's kind. Barack Obama actually did that
in a couple of cases, and just because he did
it doesn't mean Donald Trump should have the right to
do it. It's a violation of what the founders intended. And

(41:38):
Donald Trump, if you're supposed to be this defender of
conservative thing, do not become like socialist governor of Louisiana
Jeff Landry. On that note, folks will be back with
the patriotic moment right after this.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
It's a weird time. If we only had time on
which you could hear what I have to say.

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Speaker 2 (43:53):
We're back and you are listening to the founder's show.
And it's not time for us to go into our
chaplain by by patriotic moment. We just take a brief
moment to bring you the biblical foundations of our country,
our Judeo Christian jurisprudence, and again this is Chapel High.
Make Henry, you've been gary by by all of the republic.
Today we're going to talk about presidents. Well, we can't
mention them all, we don't have time, but I can

(44:14):
say that make this statement that every president we've had,
some with very bold and numerous quotes and appeals to
God and our Creator for the success of our country,
to maybe just a couple of brief statements, but every
last one of them have included God in their public speeches,

(44:36):
some of them many times. Like I just said, George
Washington was amazing, and in fact, presidents day coming up
right now, was started really in his honor. And hear
the few words of George Washington. Here what students would
learn in America schools above all is the religion of
Jesus Christ. It is impossible to rightly govern the world

(44:57):
without God or the Bible. Of all the amendments and
the Constitution, the most important is the first one, freedom
of religion. Folks, listen, George Washington and all of the presidents,
but him especially had such a conviction of the need
for God. He said, and to the character of a soldier,

(45:21):
add the more noble character of a Christian. He said
that to his me, and he said, the character of
a soldier and a patriot, add the more noble character
of a Christian. So, folks, you can clearly see that
our founding fathers, and even before the founding period, and
ever since up till his day, have all greatly included

(45:42):
the need for God and government. But what about you?
Is God in you? Because you know you could be
the greatest patriot that ever lived, and use the Bible
bet more than anybody, know more about it whatever, and
you know you can still die and go to hell.
There are cases of that in the Bible. Folks, you
don't want that to happen. And you don't have to
be a master of scripture to know God. You really don't.

(46:04):
You just all you need to do is know Him
like a child. And they don't. Children don't have a
lot of knowledge of scripture, but they get They seem
to get through to God better than all of us
because they listen to Him better than all of us.
It's just that simple. So if you can put on
your child thinking ways, if you will think about this,
God loves you with an everlasting love, the Scripture says.

(46:27):
Because in the end, this whole thing is about love.
It is not time for us to go into our
chaplain by bye gospel moment where I'm gonna show you
how you can know for sure that God is in you.
God loves you with an everlasting love, the Bible says.
For God's so love the world, that's everybody that includes you.
That he gave his only begotten son, that's the Lord
Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect man, all the way
God and all the way man. He gave his only

(46:48):
begotten son. That whosoever that's you Again believeth in him. Well,
what does that mean? Believe in him? And just what
believe he's there? Believe what you got to believe something
about him?

Speaker 3 (46:57):
Right?

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Well, the Bible makes it very clear what you have
to believe. In fact, the scripture says, the Gospel is
the power of God into salvation to whosover believeth And
the scripture tells us clearly what it is. For I
declare to you the gospel that Christ died for all
of our sins, folks. That means from the day you're
born to the day you die, you Tinians, to your
greatest sins. Christ died for all of our sins, was buried,
and rose from the dead, according to the scripture. So

(47:20):
it's just that simple. If you will believe that Jesus
really did pay your sin debt on the cross, took
it all on himself. The scripture says, he that knew
no sin was made sin, that's all your dirty, rotten sins,
that you might be made the righteousness of God in him.
And then the scripture says that all the sin of
the world came on Jesus and his blood washed him

(47:40):
all away. Folks. That's a lot of love. Think of it.
That's a lot of love to do that much. But
now that was just half the job. The rest of
the job was he had to beat death, and he
did when he rose in the dead. He did all
that for you to take care of your sin problem
and your death problem so that you could be with
him in heaven. For however you could have, you could

(48:01):
claim forever his everlasting resurrection life. How do you get it? Well,
first of all, you need to know about it. Now
you know about it. But the next thing is, it's
more than just knowing about other wives. Says thou believes
in God, thou doest well. The devil's believe in trouble.
Devils have knowledge, more knowledge than any of us in fact,
about God, but they don't follow him. They're not trusting

(48:22):
in him. You have to trust in him, and the
only way to do that is you got to quit
trusting yourself, because he demands one hundred percent trust. So
if you're hanging on to anything like, oh, I I
make big donations to the church, or I'm in church
all the time, or I'm a really good guy, or
all kinds of things you can think of. The script says,

(48:42):
all of that righteousness to God is his filthy ranks.
We're just not good enough, folks, So just face up,
just to face it up. I mean it's there. You're
just not good enough. Nobody is. I'm not nobody is.
We're all lost and damned to a burning hell without Christ.
When you come to that point in your life where
you know for certain there's no way anything you can

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do to get you into Heaven, that you're just not
good enough, you have just repented, and that's when you
can freely put faith alone in Christ alone. You will
then believe with all your heart as He called us
to believe with all his art I mean all of
our hearts in Him. That you will then finally come
to that point and you can know for certain that
you didn't trust yourself, you only trusted Jesus. When you

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come to that point, folks, you are going to heaven.
The Bible says, you're born again. When you claim and
you know you cannot save yourself. That's called repentance, and
it's very important. Without it, you can't go to heaven.
Repentance is caused by godly sorrow, the Scripture says, because
you face up and have to realize what a low
life no good bum you really are that you're not

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good enough for God, because none of us are. But
don't worry about it. Jesus is the one who is
good enough for God, and he's for us. So we
write in on him. So take him as your savior.
Believe that he really did die for our your sins,
was buried in Rosema dead. And I promise you, folks,
it's not just because I promise you. The Bible promises
you you will go to Heaven. Trust him right now

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with all your heart, folks. Don't wait till it's too late,
like the old country preacher said, and like the scripture says,
now today is a day of salvation. Well, folks, we're
going to have another testimony time right now, and this
time we're going to talk about someone living well, just
recently living today, one of my oldest and best friends,
William Hardy Houseman. And what a testimony he had. You know.

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We give you messages about the end time events and
then also about people who have lived from the ancient
world till today who were great people of God. Their
message to the scripture says that by the blood of
the Lamb, that's the gospel and the word of their testimony.
They defeated Satan. So our testimony, our story, our life story,

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is so important. Let me tell you this man was
an amazing man. I knew him for many many years,
and folks, he had a very full life. We were
very close friends. He was on my board, he was
We just did many things together for many many years.
We were very similar type of people. We got along
really well. Although we had some tension. It's you know,

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happens anyway. He passed away February eighth, twenty twenty five.
On that Saturday, we got the tragic news. We knew
he was in tough, tough shape, but it took him
five months and six terminal diseases to finally take him out.
But he's with his Lord and Savior now, Jesus, And
I'm nominating him in the Army Ranger Museum for the

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toughest ranger on record to go through all that, all
that pain, all that hanging in there, fighting it to
the very end. He was a warrior, poet, a son
of US Marine Corps World War Two hero, one of
the top ones. In fact. He was a philosopher, a teacher,
a cafe rack on tour, an intellectual, an author, a
high school wrestler, a cherokey hillbilly, a tugboat captain, deep

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sea diver, investor, and and by the way, he loved
jazz and folk music and bluegrass music and a great
friend of A very unique and special person. He was
who dropped out of college, yet he ended up with
more graduate level college degrees thannyone I've ever known. His
military career began during Vietnam. He had more accommodating you know,

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honors and awards and one other than Debudy but I've
ever known. In the military. He started with the US
Army Sports Special Forces during Vietnam. He continued with me
and we actually ended up in the same unit, twenty
Special Forces Group in Afghanistan. But Harty's greatest love was
the ministry, where he was on our land board and
the solid rock in the National Ministry's board that's in India. Uh.

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He taught many Sunday schools, Bible studies, Bible college courses
and we will miss him. We're not sure when his
funeral is going to because there are issues we're working
on right now, but it's coming up in the next
few weeks probably, and we're gonna have it. We're gonna
have it. He's from Nashville. I'm going up there to
do the service in the Veterans Cemetery up there, and
we're gonna have a memorial service down here in New Orleans.

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So those of you who knew Hardy and I knew
a lot of people knew them. I've sent messages out
on this and I'm getting astounding results. Everybody going, what out, Oh,
we loved Hardy. He was the best guy in the world.
That's a testimony, folks. That's the kind of story we
want to leave for I loved ones. Well, folks, it's
time for us to go. I want to thank you
for being with us on the Finder Show, and uh

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so thank you for everything out there, your prayers, you
support everything, and it's now time for us to close
with the mont Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye and
God bless you all out there.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
Does this have to be the end of the night?

Speaker 2 (53:41):
You know, I love you. In the pamal Land, I
can

Speaker 1 (53:48):
See across the millions stars want to look in