May 14, 2025 • 54 mins
May 15-18 will see Gonzofest 2025 at The Rink, 2727 Prytania. It's a celebration of the life and work of Hunter S. Thompson.
Hy & Christopher are joined by two of the organizers, Curtis Robinson and Kent Fielding. Christopher and Curtis actually produce a podcast on Hunter S. Thompson - Hunter-Gatherers - which they exerpt on this week's radio show.
Join us on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - Gonzofest is free! More information is available at gonzofest.net.
Hy & Christopher are joined by two of the organizers, Curtis Robinson and Kent Fielding. Christopher and Curtis actually produce a podcast on Hunter S. Thompson - Hunter-Gatherers - which they exerpt on this week's radio show.
Join us on Friday, Saturday and Sunday - Gonzofest is free! More information is available at gonzofest.net.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bide holes, the politicians, the press of digitators and magicians
whose to see the money leg you don't. There's nothing
to fill the holes while then are filling their pockets
hide holes, the politicians bouncing down the road. Everybody's wish
(00:23):
to know more corruption and dysfunction. It's gonna take you
divide this invention.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And gonzo adventure, fast foods, Hell's angels, fast cars. Folks,
if you like all these things, if you're an adventurer
and excite and excitement geek, if you will, you're gonna
love this show, this edition of the Founder's Show.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And God bless all out there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You are now listening to the founders, the voice of
the founding fathers. You're Founding Fathers coming to you deep
within the bowels of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps
of the Big Easy, that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana,
and high up on top of that old Liberty Cypress
tree way out on the Eagles Branch. This is none
(01:21):
other than your spingary Baba of the Republic, Chaplain High
mcginry with.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Christopher tibmry Eroving Reporter, Resident Radical Moderate and Associate editor
of the Louisiana Weekly Newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net,
and folks, we have a special show going on because
for those fans of Hunter S. Thompson, we're previewing something
that HI and I are having the pleasure of hosting
here in New Orleans. On May the fifteenth through eighteenth,
just a couple of weeks from now, we're going to
(01:48):
be hosting the Gonzo the eleventh Gonzo Fest. For those
that don't know the writing of the famed Hunter S. Thompson,
of course, he's the author, most famously of Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas, but also he's one of the
great political reporters of all the time You're and Loathing
on the campaign Trail seventy two. He wrote for many
different books. He wrote the definitive book on the Hell's Angels,
He wrote many books. He created something called Gonzo journalism, and.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Hunter Thompson has been is sort of the star for.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
All of the people that became great writers and journalists
really in this fourth quarter of the twentieth century. And so, folks,
one of the things we're doing is we're welcoming experts
on Hunter Thompson from all over the World, and we're
welcoming you to twenty seven twenty seven for ten yet
the Historic Rinks shopping Center coming up on May fifteenth
through eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You can find out more at Gonzofest dot net.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
But ladies and gentlemen, it's an opportunity for you to
hear music here, poets and be able to go. It's
at the Garden District book Shops, bar, Epilogue and at
the Chicory House, all in the building all throughout that weekend,
a whole series of events. And what we're going to
do is for the opening of the Founder's Show today,
we're playing a little excerpt from Hunter gatherer which is
(03:00):
the podcast of Huntress Thompson's stories.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yours truly.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Christopher Tidmore host it with one Curtis Robinson, and we
are joined on that edition of Hunter Gatherers by Kent
Fielding calling in from Alaska and he's going to join
High and I and talk about this and then we'll
have some other topics later in the show with no
further ado. Curtis, are you with us?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
How are you doing, Kristopher?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I do very well, Curtis, And you've got a special
guest calling in from the wilds of Alaska. If I'm
not mistaken someone you know very well, and Hunter Thompson
knew very well.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Introduce Kent to our public once more. He's been on
the show before.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Hey, how's it going, Hey, Ken Howard? Things in Alaska?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Rannie Claudy trying to get Strain to come here.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
So yeah, yeah, well you know what New Orleans is
going to be a.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Little bit warmer.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, they'll be provided for you.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So, Kim Field is is, if there is one person
who is able to organize this entire Gonzo Fest, this
eleventh Gonzo Fest. If one person who has tirelessly worked
for the gathering of people that will be in New
Orleans between May fifteenth and May eighteenth at the Historic Rink,
it is one Kent Fielding and can This is a
(04:19):
bit like herding cats, except the cats are drunken, on
in on drugs. But other than that, it's been in
a really interesting process. Wanting you organize Hunter Thompson fans
to talk about Hunter for three full days.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Well, there's there's so many people that have worked hard
to get this events together. So a you know, I
don't wanna take credit, you know, credit for it as
a single person.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It is a you know, as a team.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Matt Well and I know, and it's you and Margaret.
I an't and the others have. But you've been putting
this thing together now for the better part of a year.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And what can you expect coming up at at Gonzo
Fest number eleven. We've talked about how it came about,
but we haven't really given every little event that's happening
in the previous podcast.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Okay, so we have some great beat poets coming, some
great poetry both at the bookstore and at some of
the late night venues. There's also some scholars coming and
some panels with scholars, including the Daughters of Gonzo. There
are some late night events that will be happening music
(05:25):
at various locations including the Halle.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And Wolf, the Always Lounge, the Library Bar, and Cafe Istanbul.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Now all of this is available to find out more
about it at Gonzofest dot net. Folks, that's Gonzo Fest
dot net. And the most interesting thing, Curtis Robinson, is
that this entire event is a low price of free.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yes, yes, yes, you can't beat the rates on that
I want.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I wondered some of the things as we posted.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
The schedule online and as I've shared it with people,
the two things that pop back.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
The questions I get. One of them is how how
will the after hours things work?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And then the other the other thing of a little
more literary.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Since these people asking about the Beat influence and does
that mean that Gonzo Fest, that that Gonzo Fest feels
like Hunter's plat.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Of the Beat legacy, I don't want. My response so
far has been, well, He's.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Not not part of it, right.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, so the answer your first question, so, there's.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
A each night has a different sort of venue for
a late night venue. The all the all the events
during the day are at the Garden District Bookshop, but
at night you have the On Thursday it's the Always Lounge.
It's sort of a pre kickoff event, uh. And then
Friday night it's.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
At the Howling Wolf Club from.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Ten to two am and at Roberts Bar from two
am to four a m. Saturday night it's at the
Library Bar and then from ten to two and then
from on Sunday night set the Cafe Iscambul from from
ten to ten pm to two am.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And all those late night events are also.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Three and you know even Holland Wolf, which is normally
you have to pay.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Take a price to get in, but the owner of
the hollend Wolf was a Hunters fan and so he
graciously donated the venue to us.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That is incredible and it is a real testament to it.
So I was. I was confirmed abou at least one
of my New Orleans colonies.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Who pointed out that they're finally quite.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Amusing that a hundred Thomson group would say that ten
pm is a late night.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So I know, he pros back and said, we were
honoring because of the neighbors of our venue and.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
For those for those that don't know, yeah, the Garden
District has a basic curfew of about ten o'clock at
night for live events, and we're doing this in the
historic Rink shopping center at twenty seven to twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Per ten on May fifteenth through May eighteenth for the panels.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And it's yeah, we had to move the music to
a later venue, but we're going to have music Kent
Fielding at the Rink if we're not, can you so?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Case a couple of questions, a couple of comments. I
won the to the late late night venue, which is you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Know, at Roberts Bar.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
The guy who wanted to organize that guy named Eddie Alonzo.
He emailed me asking about, you know, doing something he
else worked for. He also does ticketing for promotion for
another venue that wanted that Friday night. But when I
was talking to him because I was like, I don't
know if we can add anything else, and he's like,
(08:41):
two am this Hunter's time, I'm like, Okay, I guess
you're right. Let's let's go at two am time, two
am or four am. So so, you know, pretty much
the the Roberts Bar is really going to be kind
of like a gathering for people want to tell how
Maus Thompson stories or you know, have an open mic.
I think there's even going to be maybe a The
Road to Hunter, a film on what was done. I
(09:03):
think in two thousand and six about you know, someone
seeking out or two young girls are seeking out the
Hunter and at his funeral in you know, in two
thousand and five, going back to the Beat question, one
of the things I would say about the Hunter, Stompson
and Beats is that I think a lot of the
Beat posts or you know that look at Hunter as
(09:25):
a figure to look up to and to be inspired
by or to catch a spark from, as they look
at Hunter as this person who stood up to the
establishment and they you know, political statements, and I think
that's what you know, as far as the Beat connection,
I think that's where it is. I mean, most you
know beat posts, you know, have this this a political
(09:46):
statement to their poetry, and I think they see, you know,
Hunter doing the same thing. But I would probably you know,
say that Hunter did not see himself as as a Beat,
even though there are connections in you know, in his
work to Alan Ginsburg and The Hell of Angels, you know,
and I'm sure you considered Ongsburger primed, so there are some.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Connections, but you know, one.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Hundred you know was you know, would probably not appreciate
being label beat. But I do think beats do look
at him or the contemporary beads to look at him
as a as a father figure as far as like
this is this person who you know, made political statements
that they thought that they believe is something that should
be respected and honored and continued typically in our current climate.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And one of the things that Curtis and I have
talked about so often, Kent is the fact that you know,
New Orleans played a much bigger role in Hunter's life than.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Sometimes the fans appreciate.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Obviously, the Nixon obituary was written at the Carousel Bar,
and we're going to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It was also the last fling of Hunter S. Thompson.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
We're going to do a tour on that. But I
want to get your perspective because when a few people
heard about that we're heading eleventh Gonzo Fast in New Orleans,
They're like, you're a little far away from Louisville or
from Asspen. I don't really quite get, you know, why
are you having it in New Orleans? And yet as
Curtis has explained that that it was not an unfamiliar
(11:12):
environment for Hunter.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
In fact, it was a place he really loved. Can
you talk about that, well, it's it does.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Seem to make a lot of sense. I mean, it
was the last place that Hunter visited because death in
two thousand and five. You know, it was it's been
the home to many super luls, which was you know,
Hunter's favorite sport, football and and it you know, and
the big thing was that, you know, we were looking
for a place that was excited to actually host it,
which you know, the bookstore was and that's extremely important.
(11:42):
It also seemed like, you know, after the last Gonda Fest,
which was the last antifest, that that Rona was going
to do that to give it some sort of a rebirth,
that the event needed to go somewhere outside of Louisville
before we returned to Louisville if it ever.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Yeah, and you it seems like you know the perfect place.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
I mean also, it just builds excitement. I mean, everyone
wants to go to New Orleans. So I mean it
seemed to make a lot of sense. And there's some
people that you know, have contacted me that actually a
new Hunter and hosted Hunter in New Orleans. One of them,
Elie Rant, is going to actually be speaking at Gontfest.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
She was a she was.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Out in the late ladies at al Farm helping helping
him as an assistant.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And she also was with him.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
In two thousand and five when he visited New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And so she has some interesting, some interesting stories to tell.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And Curtis, you and I are actually going to be
leading a bit of a walking tour because besides being
hosted at the rink. For those that don't know, the
Garden District Bookshop is part of a historic.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Building called the Rink.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It was originally a skating rink in eighteen eighty four,
and we're going to be actually having events throughout the rink.
The Garden Shop is the center of it, and its
bar Epilogue is one of the few bookstores in the
Golf South that has its own bar in it. We're
very inspired by Hunter, but also we're going to have
the panels all around it. But we're actually leaving the
Garden district for one of the most important events besides
the music at night, a bit of a walking tour.
(13:15):
And you know this route pretty well because you were
on it on the last hurrah of Hunter Thompson a
couple weeks before he died.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Can you talk?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Oh, yes, yes, But certainly I should say that while
the Nixon obituary was begun at the charissell Bar, it
was not finished there. He began it there at the
hotel and finished it later. Because I know all will
get no fewer than fifteen to twenty people say, you know,
he didn't actually right the whole thing there, because you know,
(13:43):
that's my life.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Now, it's last walk you took with Hunter. We're going
to kind of recreate it. Where we're going to go
that remains to be seen. We're going to try to
get not.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Just that walk with some of the favorite places, certainly
some of the bars, and that some of these stories
have surfaced. You know, there's the giant knoxvill story that's
of us from that weekend. There's uh, I think the
Tuckler calls the story was that weekend. So we're going
to try to go to where some of those stories
occurred and talk about that since we are the podcast
of stories. And then I think most notably, I think
(14:17):
we've downplayed the part where it may turn into.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
A bar crawl. I think that's kind of a given.
There are assumptions that can be made. So curtis this
tour which begins at the Carousel Bar. That's that's gonna
be limited to twenty eight people. We're doing a sign
up sheet on the website that's going to launch very shortly.
And there's gonna be another tour on the West Bank,
isn't there, Kent.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Yeah, there's gonna be a tour of Burl's Home. Burl's
Home that's gonna be.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Read that's gonna be led by Kurt Hemmler.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He is he is. He's a beat scholar, but he
has written on Honors Thompson. He actually has his interesting essay.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
In this book that Ron and I are adding on
Pire Mother.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
In Las Vegas, uh seven Vas Vegas and the essays
about seeing that Hunter was sort of a book and
Kari Wacken and Hunter a like bookends of the Sixties
or Karacs on the Road and fear Million. Las Vegas
are the booke nds of like the sixty movement.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Call rac being sort of more of a romagic road that.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Sort of kicks off the sixties and the sixties start
off like innocent and then you know Hunter's you know,
Las Vegas wasn't dark endpoint of the sixties.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
It's a really interesting estate.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
But he's going to lead up You're going to tour
to to Burrows's home treat.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
That's so for a beat fan, I mean, you don't.
Here's the thing I keep telling people.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
A couple of people are like, I.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Like Hunter Thompson, which I can't relate to this personally
because I'm a little bit of a fanatic, but I can't. Yeah,
I like Hunter Thompson, but I'm more of a beat person.
This is if you're if you're if you're follower of
Carollac and all this. This is also a place you
want to go for the eleventh annual Gonzo Fest at
the Historic Ring Shopping Center. A lot of the big
(16:03):
poets laureates are going to be a assembled there.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
We're going to do a lot of poetry reading.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And if you couldn't go, Kent Fielding is joining us
with Curtis Robinson, You're Street, Christopher, Ted Moore and Kent.
Go through some of the panels we're going to have
between the fifteenth and the eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And twenty seven, twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Comtawnity, you mentioned the women of Gonzo, because what are
some of the others.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, let's go on order.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
On Friday night, there is a panel.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
On music and rock and roll in Hunters, you know
the influence of music in rock and roll and Hunter's work.
That was going to be led by William McKean. Actually
going to be moderate about John Book, but you got
William McKean, t R. Johnson, David m m and Dan
McCarty are going to be on that panel. Dan McCarthy
(16:50):
is considered himselves a Gonzo musician. He is, he's a
Canadian but he lives in.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
New York City right now.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Then on Saturday, after all the tours, we do have
the Daughters of Gonzo and it'll be a Saturday night
I think that's at seventy ten. Then there's going to
be a roundtable discussion about Fear and mothern Las Vegas
and really drawing on this. Then on Sunday there is
(17:21):
a panel at one o'clock a Hunter as his Friends
Knew Him, which is going to includes Curtis Robinson, David Stretfield,
Paul Wilcox who is a neighbor of Hunters in the seventies,
David am Ram, Ellie Ram, Christine Ross who is the
daughter of Deborah Fuller.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
And Margaret Harold.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
And he's going to be moderated by Tim the movie
and we have also that day. On that last day
there is going to be Grand Good One is going
to create a live Gonzo piece. He's gonna painted between
two thirty and three thirty and he might auction him off.
(18:04):
There is a reader see of a play from Carlos
Morton called The Brown Buffalo, which is about Oscar Zeta Cosca.
It's actually Ian Oscar's sort of point of view. So
it's going to be slightly different than you know, maybe
the other you know, Acassa and Hunters sometimes disagreed about things,
(18:29):
so you're going to see maybe some of that disagreement,
I think in that play. And then we have, of
course the at the Bookstore, uh, the ol grammam is
going to end the night with some special He's gonna
play with some special guests and some meelings, uh jazz
musicians and his son, Adam Amram.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And that's and.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I gotta say, Kent Curtis, that's the thing of the
so many things that I'm looking forward to about this
Gonzo Faster.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Otherwise we wouldn't host it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
The thing I'm looking for too, is David Amram doesn't
really travel, doesn't make appearances, hasn't been to New Orleans
in a long.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Time, and this made before it was the last time.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And so the point, yeah, that's a pretty important So
the point we're getting in all of this is that
this is going to be the first time he's traveled
and one of the uh, one of the biggest concerts
he's done in a while. For this, for this conso fast,
So I mean, this is kind of a seminal moment,
isn't it Curtis.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yes, And David Amram has that great story about Hunter.
I hope he tells up though, so we can record it.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
But I'll just say that involves upstate New York and UFOs.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That doesn't encourage you to come. Nothing. Well, folks, you
can find out more. You can find out more. That's
I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It just my hourly challenge, of course is setings that
have first come for a surf basis, and when the
fire marshal says we've got enough people, that's all she wrote.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But otherwise it is free to come.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
And this is going to be Gonzo Fest gonzo vest
dot net, the eleventh Gonzo Fest.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It's not. I kept saying, you know, I knew better
than this.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
You fall into the category kent of saying the eleventh
an and you like to realize, no, this thing's been
going on since, you know, since the nineties, because you
want to say it's the eleventh Gonzo Fest that has
taking place over I think it's a twenty to twenty
two year period, twenty three like that.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
All right, ninety I think if you count the Hunter
as Tompsons tribute in ninety six, has been going on
since ninety six.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, so basically I do count that.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
We had a big discussion about those at the last
one ever, and you.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Know, one of the things is like hundred and ninetieth
birthday is in twenty twenty seven, so it could be
important to do something then. So you know, I don't know,
I'm not going to say it's.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The last one. If anybody all I think we've learned anything, well, remember.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Say that it's there's a vampire event that's up, that's
up and has another life.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
For those that listened to Curtis and Man's podcast to
this to us Thompson Stories podcast, Hunter gathers that you
know that this all started because we basically were being
well jackasses. We were looking at Ron Whitehead and you're saying,
as he was on our podcast at Gonzo Fest, he says,
this is the last Gonzo Fest. This is this, to
(21:18):
his credit, said the last one I will do, and
we're like, this is not going to be the last
Gonzo Fest and all this, and basically we came back
and said, I'm like, well, I had a bookstore, you know,
I got a rink and can't slike, well, I'll do
the organizing.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Margaret's like, well, I'll do all the work and and suddenly, you.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Know, uh, these zoom calls start having about organizing a
Gonzo fest. There was a little interim of going to
Dublin in there, but when we're not talking about that,
so you know.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
I will say I will say that Ron, uh, step back.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But he's not absent.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
He's still around.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No one I believed he would be absent.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
He may claim and he's not doing anything, but.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
In fact, at a point of act, Ron Whitehead is
I'm going to give some very brief opening remarks welcoming everybody,
but basically he's giving the opening speech for gone so
fast at the rank.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So you know it's this is very speech is a
little strong when he comes in.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
I think the opening rant, I think the opening ran
I'm gonna I'm giving I'm giving odds that because I
don't I don't think it's possible for Ron Whitehead.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
To have an opening rant without.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
At least, you know, cursing the name of Mitch McConnell
at some point in it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
So I'm giving.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Donald Trump, I expect, and Trump's fine, but Trump's easy
expect every I fully expect, even in Louisiana, a curse
against the name of Mitch McConnell shall.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Happen, because I I don't think it's pot Every time
I'm with Ron it's not impossible to get through a
conversation without that. So we shall say. We shall say
probably the John Kennedy thrown in there just for good measure.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
So well, native I will say that I appreciate some
of the McConnell service.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Well, I think I.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Think you also might want to hear it. He might
say something about Jetty Vance taking the idea of hillbilly, So.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, I mean I actually I was tempted because folks
that tried to you know, Curtis did the Panels. I
was tempted on every I was invited every zoom call.
I stayed out of it because I was like, no,
I don't want to as as the host. I don't
want to be like anyone thinking I'm pushing the events
of anything that's happening. But that was really kind of
the idea what is a hillbilly? What is Hunter's idea
(23:40):
of a hillbilly? And and does the hillbilly llergy? And
what we're doing as it's become the national thing is
that playing. I have to tell you, Kent, that was
the panel that I was that kept circling through my mind.
It's probably too contemporary, but it's it fits so much
of Hunter's identity that that was the one thing I
wish we had, which around of time, I would tell
you that.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
You know, one thing that run and I talked about,
and you know, I think I think if we start
organizing this after the election, the what we have come
up with we been slightly different. I mean, we started
organizing this before the election, and I think we had
some expectations that didn't happen in an election. So the
you know one thing that run out I talked about
(24:21):
is like we.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You know, Hunter's seventy two book is.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Probably the most important book Hunter wrote and at least
right now, and like we should be promoting something on it.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
There's just like there's not a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Of things written on that seventy presidential campaign as far
as like, you know, literary criticism.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I don't know why we've missed.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
That, but that's one of the things that we started
talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
It's for a political journalist, and that's of course basically
the Curtis and I have been most of our careers
that we pretend to do others, things like political consulting.
The fact of the matter is that was our bible.
Doesn't mean we The Vegas Book isn't huge. I've got
of read it twenty seven times probably, but the fact
that the counter as political journalist remains the sine quon
(25:08):
non of understanding. Hunter Thompson just like understanding as a
sports reporter, because in his mind those were the two
same things in.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
The politics and sports are so similar in terms of
structure and that something's.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Going to happen, and you talk about what's going to happen,
and then.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
There's a score, there's a score, and then you're talking about, well,
there's the score.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
What we said.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
It's like it's the disagreement that makes the horse race right.
So it's all the disagreement that makes political the prodiction
such an art and spending about a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
He wouldn't have sected this in seventy two, but starting
in two thousand and certainly by twenty twenty, there's overtime too.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yeah, now that we have extra any and you know it, Yeah, yes, yes,
it gets who like sports by.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
The minute now that I think about it.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
But Unfortunately that sport is that's the football league, and
everybody's rena.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
As fand folks. This is some of the topics you'll hear.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
It's having been I have not been to every Gonzo
Fest like these guys, but if Louisville has any indication,
and I think it's going to be because a lot
of the same people are coming down in New Orleans,
a lot of people are following that. It is the
most esoteric group of genius, brilliant, screwed up, interesting people
you will ever accumulate in one room to come to
a Gonzo Fest talking about the man who's the patron
(26:37):
saint of all. Please come to a Gonzo Fest number
eleven at the Garden, Distric book Shops, Bar Epilogue and
at the Rink twenty seven to twenty seven Pretenna and
our related locations like the Always Lounge, Library, Hollandwolf and others.
All available on the website at gonzo Fest dot net.
Kent Fielding, Curtis Robinson, It is always a privilege. We'll
(26:58):
be back with Hi McHenry after these messages with more
on the Founders Show.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Right after that.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Subscriptions are available for the New Orleans Operas twenty five
twenty sixth season with DeRozan Cavalier, Dialogues of the Carmelites,
Terrence Blanchard's Fire, Shut Up in My Bones, Carlisle Floyd's Pilgrimage,
and many others. Go to New Orleans Opera dot org
New Orleans Opera dot org for more information.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Hey folks, this is Trappenheim mckenry and I'm here to
tell you about our ministry, LAMB Ministries. We're an inner
city ministry with an inner city formula and focus for
inner cityfolks. Please go to our website LAMB NLA dot
com lamnola.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Dot com and check us out.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
We work with very, very challenging situations, the inner city,
inner city kids, the urban poor, lots of tragedy, lots
of challenges. We need all the help we can get,
So if you're interested in this type of work, please
contact us and let us what would you like to do.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
We need prayer warriors, we need financial support, and we
need volunteers.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Again.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You can go to our website l A m B
n O l A dot com or.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Just call me Chaplinheimick Henry at AERA code five zero
four seven two three nine three six nine and thank
you so very very much.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
As the summer months are upon us, it's a perfect
time to give the gift of flowers. Always available at
Hillaries Florist at one eight hundred VI I L L
e r E or Villaries flooresst for all of your
floral needs. Mother's Days coming up, ladies and gentlemen, and
it's a perfect place to give a Mother's Day basket
from Villari's Florist or a Mother's Day arrangement. Find out
more information at Villariesflorist at villarisflorest dot com or give
(28:42):
them a call one eight hundred V I L L
E R E. And welcome back to the Foundery Show.
You can always hear this program every Sunday from eight
to nine AM on w r n L that's ninety
nine to five FM on your FM doll and on
w s l A ninety three point nine and in
your FM doll fifteen sixty on your AM doll from
(29:02):
eight to nine on Monday, Wednesday and Friday twenty four
to seven, three sixty five on the iHeartMedia app.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It's better than Pandora.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
It's got a fantastic range of music and you can
download it to your phone for the absolute price of free,
or go to our website at the foundershow dot com
or listen to us for those We also say hello
to those out in the Grand Canyon listening to us
on Rattlesnake Radio. As always here on the Founder Show,
I'm Christopher Tidmore.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
With chaplain Hi, McHenry, and folks, I'm here to tell
us about Gonzo, a very special Gonzo person, if you will,
And I'm sorry, but I can see him very in
many ways connected with Hunter Thompson. Even though I'm sure
they would have disagreed about some things, they had a
lot of similarities. They love guns, they love fast cars,
(29:47):
they love the entertainment world. You know, they both come
out of entertainment. They loved their buildings and their houses.
His his what do you believe was his bunker in
Colorado Technics Hunter Thompson. Uh, they were big thinkers, but
they're kind of crazy like and that's what Gonzo means.
(30:07):
Gonzo goes back to an ancient Irish word Gaelic word,
and I don't I can't spell it for you in Gaelic,
but in Southeas that's South Boston, which is a big
Irish area in America. Uh they started it became it
became a street term slang for something that's crazy and
wild and unpredictable and very subjective and personal. And so
(30:29):
Hunter was given that term in one of with one
of his articles back in the in the seventies when
he he reported on something and the and the additor
looked at it and said, this is gonzo. So they
came up with a new nerd term, gonzo journalism. And
all that means is that it's very personal, it's very subjective,
it's very wild and crazy, and it's very interesting. And
(30:53):
so he did. This is back at the time where
journalists were not that they were not really at it.
And it means embedded, that you're in the middle of
the action. You're not just at a safe distance looking
at it. But by that time journalists did everything at
a distance. They were like in the grandstands looking down
on the play, making, you know, writing the story. Hunter
(31:14):
Thomps believe you need to get on the field of play.
He was also great athlete, loved athletics so and he
loved sports writing, was a sports writer for a while.
So he believed that you had to get into the
game to really understand it and report accurately on it.
And he did. Now, he wasn't the first one. Remember
world War Two, we had our embedded journalist and I
worked with someone in Afghanistan two thousand and ten. So
(31:38):
it's been around for a while, but it had kind
of like died out, and Hunter basically revived that concept
of embedded journalists where you get in the middle of
the action. He did that with the Hell's Angels, ended
up getting his butt kicked in too, because he had
a little confrontation with him and did not go well
for a Hunter. When they ganged up on him. He
took a good beating. That's the kind of man Hunter
Thompson was. He was voted the History Channel is one
(32:01):
of the toughest men in America, in all of American history.
And I'll be talking about another tough man later on
in the show we get into our Chapa bab Bah
patriotic moment. But for right now, I have this thought
about a gonzo man in our country. He's very well known,
very well known because he's so outrageous and so crazy,
(32:21):
kind of like Hunter Thompson that and he's very embedded.
This man throughout his career, would always identify with the
people he was leading, and he would embed himself with them.
He was building a building, he would go instead of
going to the fancy restaurants with his rich friends, he
would go and eat lunch maybe McDonald's whatever, with the
(32:44):
construction workers and got to know him really well, got
to know his stay. I've got to know the janitors
and the maids and whatnot in his buildings and became
friends with him. And he had a great way of
looking for talent, and when he would find that talent,
by would he promoted. And there are many many stories
of his employees who went on to do great things
and they and they with tears, they give Donald Trump
(33:07):
the credit. And that's the man about whom I'm speaking
right now. I want to go into Donald Trump's one
hundred first days. Folks, I'm gonna have to do this quickly.
Time is short. You've probably been hearing something about it.
I could elaborate on every topic I'm gonna bring up here,
but the time does not allow it. So bear with
me and maybe do some of your own research to
see what he did in these various areas. But look
at what he's done in the economy terroiffs, which are
(33:27):
going to bring business back to America and going to
revive our economy. Energy. He's doing great things with energy
and removing regulations so we can finally drill baby drill. Manufacturing,
that's part of the tariff thing. It's gonna end up.
We're already He's already gotten beans of dollars for opening
up manufacturing plants. We used to be the number one
manufacturing country country in the world, and we gave it
all the way agriculture. He's got ways to bring back
(33:50):
our agriculture like you did that when he was in
the first four years. The farmers loved Trump. New business.
We're going to start bringing in new businesses and all
these small businesses the Biden administration destroyed.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I think a lot of them are going to come
back now. And you know, it was really wrong to
ruin those businesses. That's always been the backbone of America
small business. During the Reagan years, it was like ninety
percent of all of American financial success came from small business.
They did ninety They were paying ninety five percent of
the taxes, ninety five percent of all new innovation. It's
all coming not from the big brother corporations, but from
the little guys, the small businesses. The stock market. The
(34:27):
stock market, of course has been up and down because
Trump and a gonzo barroom brawler. Uh, you know, just
like Hunter Thompson. He inflation. He's he's gonna he's dropping
inflation already. They went after him for the price of eggs.
When when when he first came in, Biden had destroyed
the price of eggs and they were skyrocketing. He killed
(34:48):
half the chickens in America, and they blamed it all
the Trump. I guess what's happened with prayer dropping like
a rock Right now, eggs are becoming very affordable again.
US debt reduction, he's gonna he's taking that on. He's
doing a great job again. I want to elaborate, but
I don't have time because I only have a few
minutes left to really get all this out. His big
beautiful bill. Think of that, folks, that's going to do
(35:09):
great things for our taxes. And that's o things. He's
dropping taxes if the Democrats don't stop him. Doge Dog
is one of the best things that's ever happened in
this country. I know, I worked in the government. I
saw how corrupt it is. Doge's a battle axe. It's
a reckon ball to all the corruption that had been
going on with our inside the federal government, with the bureaucracies.
(35:31):
Just cleaning us out a budget. He's going to get
us a really good budget, reducing government. Oh my goodness,
we have too much government, folks, and it's destroying America.
Bureaucracy is always destroy whatever they get into. Again, I
don't have time to elaborate on all that I have
in other shows, but I'm running out of time. Illegals,
you know what he's doing with illegals, he'd get rid
(35:52):
of and you seal the border. They have the lowest
crossings ever. That's why nobody's getting hardly nobody's getting arrested
on there. And you're the Democrats. We're under Biden. We
arrested ten times as many as Trump. Yeah, you know why,
because you were letting a thousand times as many people in.
They forgot that part of the story, the UH and
getting rid of the really bad ones. That's what he's
(36:13):
going after. The criminals, the gangbangers, the the you know, cartels,
all the things that brought so much evil into this country.
We're killing over one hundred thousand Americans a year through
the drug drugs that were being brought in. Folks, it's
so bad what happened over the past four years. Trump
has an enormous job, an overwhelming job. I don't know
(36:33):
how he's going to do it, but you know what
he's doing it. We're watching it. And just in the
first one hundred days crime and law enforcements, he's upgrading
our crime and no longer is law enforcement being used
to chase after political opponents like under the Biden years,
where old ladies praying it at abortion clinics. We're being
arrested and thrown in jail and being called terrorists, labeled
(36:55):
as terrorists. That's horrible there. I can't believe that ever
happened in this country. And I hope all these bad
things that were done over the past four years, I'm
hoping and praying like anything, they couldn't really find those
people and prosecute them. They need to go to jail,
they need to be set up as examples, and they
need to pay for the evil they caused this country
and the poor innocent people that had been their victims.
So law enforcements being radically upgraded. The cops loved Donald Trump,
(37:19):
they did not love Biden or his administration. Female sports,
how about that, folks, where women are not going to
get to play women again instead of men. It was
getting to the point where you'd go to see a game.
It hadn't gotten there yet, but it was moving in
that direction. And all the real women on the team
were going to be sitting on the bench, and they
want to be women. The girly men were going to
(37:41):
be playing all the games, getting all the success, stealing
it all from the lady folks. That was wicked and wrong.
They lee, They turned sex perverts loose on a lot
of really good women sports people, but women athletes who
were great athletes, and they were destroying their careers. So
thank god they're fixing that. He's on it all folks.
(38:01):
Promises made, promises kept. He's really doing it. The military.
Look at what's happening in the military. Recruitments skyrocketing under Biden.
Recruitment was crashing and burning, Our military was falling apart
under Biden, equipment everything was going down. Right now, He's
got Russia, Ukraine, China, Career, Israel, Yemen, Iran and the
(38:22):
Gaza Gaza and all the terrorists at Bay and they're
terrified of him now, as they should be, and they're
starting to behave because that's the only thing they listened to.
They listened to force and Trump will use it. He's
created a new term, a new term in our a lexicon,
now our dictionary. It's called fake media, and it is
now listed as a legitimate term. And you know what
I'm talking about. I'm talking about the mainline media. I'm
(38:44):
talking about the big boys, I'm talking about establishing media.
I'm talking about what I call the main slime media.
They are the fake media, and that means they're lying
to us almost every time they open their mouths. I
wouldn't waste my time on it. I wouldn't give them
a minute. I'm so tired of them. I don't want
to hear anything about them. I'm sick of them, all right,
National Affairs. Look at he's upgrading and getting NATO to
start doing his job world peace. I don't think he's
(39:07):
going to totally establish world peace. Nobody ever is, but
he's going to get us as close to it as
we can get. And I still take that over what's
going on right now, the Abraham of Cords that's being
brought back, the Justice Department, the dog, the FBR. Of
course that's part of the criminal situation. But nevertheless he's
upgrading that, he's cleaning it out. He's doing wonderful and
amazing things with the Department of Justice. And boy, it's
(39:29):
high time for art because they again were being turned
into the Gestapo to destroy all Democrat all the opponents
of the Democrat Party, in the words, the Republicans and
constitution Conservatives. They were being weaponized against us. It was
wicked what they did. And again all these people who
are coming who are complacent it to me, who are
(39:50):
compliant for this evil, who participated in this, they need
to go down. They need to be indicted, they need
to face trials, and if they can find them guilty,
they need to go to jail. And I hope they
throw the books at They need to give them long
in jail times, hard sentences for what they did was
so evil. The new ethnic and demographic profiles for the
(40:12):
GOP and in the words from Trump, he's bringing in
tons of voters who would have never voted for the Republicans,
African American, you know, minority voters, Hispanics, Asians, all of them.
He's bringing them all in. He's even turning many Democrats
that white Democrats, let's say, are not turning to Trump.
He's getting the largest group of youth that the Dempublican
party has ever had. This guy is a radical change
(40:35):
agent for the better for the Republican Party, most importantly
for America. I'm first an American before I'm a Republican.
All right, his executive orders, He's set records with executive orders.
He's written more executive orders than just one hundred days
anybody the president's effort. But this is all for the good.
He's reversing all of Biden's executive orders that reversed everything
(40:55):
Trump had done. But most of Biden had written the
most executive orders other than Obama when he came in,
you know, when he was in office, and you know what,
it was, just almost all of them were anti Trump,
something to destroy something good Trump had done.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Not Trump is reversing all that and doing a whole
lot more. His executive orders are designed to make life better,
not to attack or to change the policy of the
guy before him, although he has to in many cases
because those policies are so destructive. All right. Trump's movement
at warp speed, as we can see, folks, in his
one hundred days. That's one of the you know, characteristics
(41:32):
of what's going on right now. He's going to help
build fair elections. We didn't have fair elections for years,
and I know down here in Luisiana, I used to
watch years ago the Democrats bragging about how they stole elections.
They were bragging about it, they were open about it.
They won't do it now because of this focus on
fair elections, but when they thought nobody was looking, they
were quite happy to brag about it. Maha. We're going
(41:53):
to finally have serious health movement in America that the
government's going to help bring about. Trump's religious freedom's he's
he is bringing back religious freedom to America and doing
it in a great way. His own faith is remarkable,
it's real, folks. He's the first president to ever have
a cabinet or a committee of spiritual advisors, preachers and whatnot,
(42:15):
including of other other faiths, other religions that are meeting
with him and advising him on spiritual matters, faith matters.
He has his own spiritual advisor. As about evangelical by
believing preacher. He's he's had several of them in the
past two He keeps his Bible on his desk. That
was the Bible that his mother gave him. That came
(42:36):
from her uncle who led a revival in Scotland. And
he knows it and he loves that, his family history
on that. The Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
He's finally defending us and protecting us with that. That's
vital for the success of America, for our freedoms. He's
(42:58):
reaching we the people, folks. He's reaching the little people,
the flyovers, the deplorables, as the Democrats would cause, the
unwashed minions, the smelly wall Martians. That's how the Democrat
Party looks at the average American. Trump is embracing us
(43:18):
and he's bringing back the little people, if you will,
because that's all the only way the Democrats see is
Promise is made. Like I say, promises kept. He's doing it.
He's even got us a Gulf of America. And he
may end up getting Greenland in Canada and certainly Greenland,
because Denmark is doing a terrible job with Greenland. They
can't afford it. They're not providing the defense. It needs.
We would go in there and radically upgrade Greenland, and
(43:40):
they want it, they know it. I don't know if
it's going to happen, but it's a noble cause. Let's
hope and pray just for the sake of Greenland, the
people of Greenland, that it does work. That we're at
a very precarious situation defense wise, because Denmark cannot provide
the proper defense, so we got to do all the
work and pay for it. And folks, the way I
believe it is that we're paying for it. We shaid it.
(44:00):
So let's see how. I don't know I thought that's
going to work out, but maybe it will. And in
bottom line, he's ended up giving us the most transparent
presidency we've ever seen. I've never heard of the media
allowed and in cabinet meetings they have been. They're now
in our cabinet meetings thanks to Trump, and they just
had one with one of his favorites, the doge A
(44:21):
Committee met. The stories that came out of that were astounding.
It's open to the public, totally transparent. All right, folks, Well,
we've done the first the second half of the show,
and now it's time for us to take another break,
We'll be right back, and we'll be coming back for
our Chaplin by a patriotic moment and gospel moment and
watchmen on the wall about what might be coming with
(44:42):
Jesus returning, We'll be right back, folks.
Speaker 11 (44:49):
Rescuing, recovery, re engagement.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
These are not just words.
Speaker 11 (44:54):
These are the action steps we at the New Orleans
Mission take to make a positive impact on the homeless
problem facing the greater New Orleans area. Did you know
in twenty twenty, homelessness in our community increased by over
forty percent. We are committed to meet this need through
the work being done at the New Orleans Mission. We
(45:17):
begin the rescue process by going out into the community
every day to bring food, pray, and share the love
of Jesus with the hopeless and hurting in our community.
Through the process of recovery, these individuals have the opportunity
to take time out, assess their life, and begin to
make new decisions to live out their God given purpose.
(45:41):
After the healing process has begun and lives are back
on track, we walk each individual as they re engage
back into the community to be healthy, thriving, and living
a life of purpose. No one is meant to live
under a bridge. No one should endure abuse and should
be stuck in addiction. The New Orleans Mission is a
(46:03):
stepping stone out of that life of destruction and into
a life of hope and purpose.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Partner with us today go to www dot.
Speaker 11 (46:15):
New Orleans Mission dot org or make a difference by
texting to seven seven ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
OS God the two shoes.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Well, folks were back, and it's not time for us
to go into our chaplain by patriotic moment where we
just take a brief moment to remind you of the
biblical foundations of our country, our judio Christian jurisprudence. And
today we're going to talk about a barroom brawler. I
think Hunter Thompson would have liked this man. Quite a
great American. He's listed in the Wrestling Hall of Fame
(46:49):
as the greatest wrestler America ever had because he fought
more wrestling matches and he won every one of them.
This guy was a big guy, a big, tall, strong guy.
He was so strong that people would see him lifting
a wagon axle with one hand with the whole wagon attached,
lift the axle, take off the old wheel, and put
(47:09):
the new one on one hand on the axle with
the other hand on the wheel. You got to be
awfully strong to do that. He was quite quite an
amazing guy. Came down in New Orleans when he was
a young man. He had a barroom brawl and that
just arrived in New Walls with his head all bandaged. Stuff. Again,
he kind of reminds me of Hunter Thompson. But folks,
I'm talking about none other than Abraham Lincoln. That's right,
(47:30):
one of the strongest and most powerful UH fighters America
ever had. When I said fighter, I mean you know,
like hand to hand, you know that type of fun boxing, wrestling, whatever,
et cetera. Karate guy was amazing. He didn't do karate,
but I mean he was a wrestler. And anyway, he
loved God and he knew how important it was to
(47:52):
have God in government. And this is what he says.
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended power,
meaning God, to confess our national sins, and to pray
for clemency and forgiveness. He issued this proclamation Prayer Proclamation
in the middle of the Civil War in March the thirtieth,
(48:14):
nineteen sixty three, and folks, things went well for the
Union after that. Now, he wasn't the first one to
do this. From the earliest days before the American Revolution,
great Americans were calling America to prayer, and they'd always
say fasting. When the Constitution was accepted, they had a
national day of prayer and fasting. Thomas Jefferson called for
(48:40):
prayer and fasting when Boston was under see it during
the yeah when Boston was under siege for an entire day.
He called the whole nation to pray and fast when
he was a Virginia legislator. So, folks, this has been
a tradition in America for a long time. There were
over three thousand calls for prayer and fasting in early
(49:02):
America untill we're on the turn of the century, and
then it began to wane. But this gives you again
an insight into the biblical foundations of our country. Are
Judia Christian jurisprudence. Americans wanted God in government, not institutionally,
but certainly philosophically and spiritually. What about you? Is God
in you spiritually? Because that's where it really really counts,
not institutionally but spiritually. You could just because you're in
(49:26):
a church, doesn't make you a Christian. You can go
to church every day of your life and it doesn't
make you a Christian anymore than if you walk into
your garage, you've just turned into their car or a
mouse suits at a cookie jar and now he's a cookie. No, folks,
it's a spiritual thing. So right now it is time
for us to look into that spiritual matter. And as
we go into our chaplain by by gospel moment where
(49:46):
I'm just going to take a short time to show
you how you can know that you know that you
know your God's child, you have saved from a burning hell,
and you're guaranteed heaven. And it goes like this, John
three point sixteen. For God's Soul love the world. That's you,
that's everybody that he gave, It's 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 begotten son. That whosoever that's you again, that's you, folks.
(50:10):
That whosoever believeth in Him, believeth in him. What in
the world does that mean. Well, let's take a look
and see what it means. The scripture says, the gospel
is the power of God into salvation to whosoever believeth.
And the scripture also says, the gospel is, I declare
to you the gospel that Jesus in first Queen and fifteen,
that Jesus died for all of our sins, folks. When
he says that, it means from the day you're born
(50:30):
to the day you die, you tie ins to greatest sins.
All of them went on the cross, and his blood
washed him all the way. That he died on the
cross for all of our sins, was buried and rose
from the dead to win for every one of us, Lord, folks,
every one of us, that free gift of everlasting resurrection life.
If you've never believed this before, do it now. That
(50:51):
whosoever believeth in him, the scripture says, and that word
means two steps of faith. The first faith you need
is to believe you cannot save yourself. You're hopeless and
helps with out God, You're destined to a burning hell
and have no ability of your own to stop that.
When you come to that point, you just repented, and
(51:13):
that's required for your eternal life. Jesus said, repent and believe.
Then the next phase of your faith is to believe
the positive side. Let's say, to believe that only he can,
that he did, and that he will save you from
burning hell guarantee you have in everlasting lives. Folks, if
you've never done it before, do it now. Believe that
(51:34):
Jesus really did die far your sins, was buried, and
rose from the dead with all your heart. That means
you're not trusting anything else because you've repented. You believe
only that Jesus can do this. Do it now, folks.
The scripture says, now today is the day of salvation.
And like the old country preacher said, don't wait till
it's too late. Well, folks, it's not time for us
to talk about Jesus coming back, because he's coming back,
and he's coming back soon. As we now go into
(51:57):
our chaplain by by a watchman on the wall. Did
you know that one of the signs they're over two
hundred prophecies, by the way, they're all current right now
being fulfilled. I mean many am already fulfilled. There's almost
nothing left to do, in fact. But one of the
interesting things is in Daniel the Bible says, knowledge will increase.
Do you realize that up until the looks like say
(52:20):
the fifteenth century, you could take all the books in
the world and put them in a one shelf, and
then as time went on things increased. Then you had
the printing press, and things increased a whole lot more,
and now you able to fill up an entire bookshelf
with books. Folks. Today knowledge is doubling every few minutes.
(52:41):
That means it's beyond comprehension how much knowledge has been accumulated, categorized,
and put into data. Folks. That's why we've got AI now,
and it's all getting out of control. It's becoming so
huge that the creators of all this from Silicon Valley
are building bunkers for themselves because they believe there is
going to be an AI apocalypse coming. That it is coming, folks.
(53:06):
If you're not ready for it, you're in trouble. And
I can tell you the greatest bunker you'll ever get.
The name of that bunker is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Go to him right now for your safe house. Believe
that he died for all your sins, was buried and
Rose's dead. So when he comes back, really soon he'll
be ready for you, and you'll be ready for him.
What it's time for us to close now as we're
closed with a mind Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye
(53:27):
and God bless you all out there, they call.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
You cREL goodbye.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
They think we're just wasted time. All three, Siby, there's
time for a creo goodbye
Bide holes, the politicians, the press of digitators and magicians
whose to see the money leg you don't. There's nothing
to fill the holes while then are filling their pockets
hide holes, the politicians bouncing down the road. Everybody's wish
(00:23):
to know more corruption and dysfunction. It's gonna take you
divide this invention.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And gonzo adventure, fast foods, Hell's angels, fast cars. Folks,
if you like all these things, if you're an adventurer
and excite and excitement geek, if you will, you're gonna
love this show, this edition of the Founder's Show.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
And God bless all out there.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
You are now listening to the founders, the voice of
the founding fathers. You're Founding Fathers coming to you deep
within the bowels of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps
of the Big Easy, that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana,
and high up on top of that old Liberty Cypress
tree way out on the Eagles Branch. This is none
(01:21):
other than your spingary Baba of the Republic, Chaplain High
mcginry with.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Christopher tibmry Eroving Reporter, Resident Radical Moderate and Associate editor
of the Louisiana Weekly Newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net,
and folks, we have a special show going on because
for those fans of Hunter S. Thompson, we're previewing something
that HI and I are having the pleasure of hosting
here in New Orleans. On May the fifteenth through eighteenth,
just a couple of weeks from now, we're going to
(01:48):
be hosting the Gonzo the eleventh Gonzo Fest. For those
that don't know the writing of the famed Hunter S. Thompson,
of course, he's the author, most famously of Fear and
Loathing in Las Vegas, but also he's one of the
great political reporters of all the time You're and Loathing
on the campaign Trail seventy two. He wrote for many
different books. He wrote the definitive book on the Hell's Angels,
He wrote many books. He created something called Gonzo journalism, and.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Hunter Thompson has been is sort of the star for.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
All of the people that became great writers and journalists
really in this fourth quarter of the twentieth century. And so, folks,
one of the things we're doing is we're welcoming experts
on Hunter Thompson from all over the World, and we're
welcoming you to twenty seven twenty seven for ten yet
the Historic Rinks shopping Center coming up on May fifteenth
through eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
You can find out more at Gonzofest dot net.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
But ladies and gentlemen, it's an opportunity for you to
hear music here, poets and be able to go. It's
at the Garden District book Shops, bar, Epilogue and at
the Chicory House, all in the building all throughout that weekend,
a whole series of events. And what we're going to
do is for the opening of the Founder's Show today,
we're playing a little excerpt from Hunter gatherer which is
(03:00):
the podcast of Huntress Thompson's stories.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
Yours truly.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Christopher Tidmore host it with one Curtis Robinson, and we
are joined on that edition of Hunter Gatherers by Kent
Fielding calling in from Alaska and he's going to join
High and I and talk about this and then we'll
have some other topics later in the show with no
further ado. Curtis, are you with us?
Speaker 2 (03:22):
How are you doing, Kristopher?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
I do very well, Curtis, And you've got a special
guest calling in from the wilds of Alaska. If I'm
not mistaken someone you know very well, and Hunter Thompson
knew very well.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Introduce Kent to our public once more. He's been on
the show before.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Hey, how's it going, Hey, Ken Howard? Things in Alaska?
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Rannie Claudy trying to get Strain to come here.
Speaker 7 (03:47):
So yeah, yeah, well you know what New Orleans is
going to be a.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Little bit warmer.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Oh yeah, yeah, they'll be provided for you.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
So, Kim Field is is, if there is one person
who is able to organize this entire Gonzo Fest, this
eleventh Gonzo Fest. If one person who has tirelessly worked
for the gathering of people that will be in New
Orleans between May fifteenth and May eighteenth at the Historic Rink,
it is one Kent Fielding and can This is a
(04:19):
bit like herding cats, except the cats are drunken, on
in on drugs. But other than that, it's been in
a really interesting process. Wanting you organize Hunter Thompson fans
to talk about Hunter for three full days.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Well, there's there's so many people that have worked hard
to get this events together. So a you know, I
don't wanna take credit, you know, credit for it as
a single person.
Speaker 5 (04:41):
It is a you know, as a team.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Matt Well and I know, and it's you and Margaret.
I an't and the others have. But you've been putting
this thing together now for the better part of a year.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
And what can you expect coming up at at Gonzo
Fest number eleven. We've talked about how it came about,
but we haven't really given every little event that's happening
in the previous podcast.
Speaker 6 (05:02):
Okay, so we have some great beat poets coming, some
great poetry both at the bookstore and at some of
the late night venues. There's also some scholars coming and
some panels with scholars, including the Daughters of Gonzo. There
are some late night events that will be happening music
(05:25):
at various locations including the Halle.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
And Wolf, the Always Lounge, the Library Bar, and Cafe Istanbul.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Now all of this is available to find out more
about it at Gonzofest dot net. Folks, that's Gonzo Fest
dot net. And the most interesting thing, Curtis Robinson, is
that this entire event is a low price of free.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Yes, yes, yes, you can't beat the rates on that
I want.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I wondered some of the things as we posted.
Speaker 6 (05:53):
The schedule online and as I've shared it with people,
the two things that pop back.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
The questions I get. One of them is how how
will the after hours things work?
Speaker 5 (06:04):
And then the other the other thing of a little
more literary.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Since these people asking about the Beat influence and does
that mean that Gonzo Fest, that that Gonzo Fest feels
like Hunter's plat.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Of the Beat legacy, I don't want. My response so
far has been, well, He's.
Speaker 5 (06:22):
Not not part of it, right.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Well, so the answer your first question, so, there's.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
A each night has a different sort of venue for
a late night venue. The all the all the events
during the day are at the Garden District Bookshop, but
at night you have the On Thursday it's the Always Lounge.
It's sort of a pre kickoff event, uh. And then
Friday night it's.
Speaker 5 (06:44):
At the Howling Wolf Club from.
Speaker 6 (06:47):
Ten to two am and at Roberts Bar from two
am to four a m. Saturday night it's at the
Library Bar and then from ten to two and then
from on Sunday night set the Cafe Iscambul from from
ten to ten pm to two am.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
And all those late night events are also.
Speaker 5 (07:07):
Three and you know even Holland Wolf, which is normally
you have to pay.
Speaker 6 (07:13):
Take a price to get in, but the owner of
the hollend Wolf was a Hunters fan and so he
graciously donated the venue to us.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
That is incredible and it is a real testament to it.
So I was. I was confirmed abou at least one
of my New Orleans colonies.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
Who pointed out that they're finally quite.
Speaker 8 (07:34):
Amusing that a hundred Thomson group would say that ten
pm is a late night.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So I know, he pros back and said, we were
honoring because of the neighbors of our venue and.
Speaker 4 (07:47):
For those for those that don't know, yeah, the Garden
District has a basic curfew of about ten o'clock at
night for live events, and we're doing this in the
historic Rink shopping center at twenty seven to twenty seven.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Per ten on May fifteenth through May eighteenth for the panels.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
And it's yeah, we had to move the music to
a later venue, but we're going to have music Kent
Fielding at the Rink if we're not, can you so?
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
Case a couple of questions, a couple of comments. I
won the to the late late night venue, which is you.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Know, at Roberts Bar.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
The guy who wanted to organize that guy named Eddie Alonzo.
He emailed me asking about, you know, doing something he
else worked for. He also does ticketing for promotion for
another venue that wanted that Friday night. But when I
was talking to him because I was like, I don't
know if we can add anything else, and he's like,
(08:41):
two am this Hunter's time, I'm like, Okay, I guess
you're right. Let's let's go at two am time, two
am or four am. So so, you know, pretty much
the the Roberts Bar is really going to be kind
of like a gathering for people want to tell how
Maus Thompson stories or you know, have an open mic.
I think there's even going to be maybe a The
Road to Hunter, a film on what was done. I
(09:03):
think in two thousand and six about you know, someone
seeking out or two young girls are seeking out the
Hunter and at his funeral in you know, in two
thousand and five, going back to the Beat question, one
of the things I would say about the Hunter, Stompson
and Beats is that I think a lot of the
Beat posts or you know that look at Hunter as
(09:25):
a figure to look up to and to be inspired
by or to catch a spark from, as they look
at Hunter as this person who stood up to the
establishment and they you know, political statements, and I think
that's what you know, as far as the Beat connection,
I think that's where it is. I mean, most you
know beat posts, you know, have this this a political
(09:46):
statement to their poetry, and I think they see, you know,
Hunter doing the same thing. But I would probably you know,
say that Hunter did not see himself as as a Beat,
even though there are connections in you know, in his
work to Alan Ginsburg and The Hell of Angels, you know,
and I'm sure you considered Ongsburger primed, so there are some.
Speaker 5 (10:04):
Connections, but you know, one.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Hundred you know was you know, would probably not appreciate
being label beat. But I do think beats do look
at him or the contemporary beads to look at him
as a as a father figure as far as like
this is this person who you know, made political statements
that they thought that they believe is something that should
be respected and honored and continued typically in our current climate.
Speaker 4 (10:31):
And one of the things that Curtis and I have
talked about so often, Kent is the fact that you know,
New Orleans played a much bigger role in Hunter's life than.
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Sometimes the fans appreciate.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Obviously, the Nixon obituary was written at the Carousel Bar,
and we're going to talk about that.
Speaker 3 (10:49):
It was also the last fling of Hunter S. Thompson.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
We're going to do a tour on that. But I
want to get your perspective because when a few people
heard about that we're heading eleventh Gonzo Fast in New Orleans,
They're like, you're a little far away from Louisville or
from Asspen. I don't really quite get, you know, why
are you having it in New Orleans? And yet as
Curtis has explained that that it was not an unfamiliar
(11:12):
environment for Hunter.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
In fact, it was a place he really loved. Can
you talk about that, well, it's it does.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Seem to make a lot of sense. I mean, it
was the last place that Hunter visited because death in
two thousand and five. You know, it was it's been
the home to many super luls, which was you know,
Hunter's favorite sport, football and and it you know, and
the big thing was that, you know, we were looking
for a place that was excited to actually host it,
which you know, the bookstore was and that's extremely important.
(11:42):
It also seemed like, you know, after the last Gonda Fest,
which was the last antifest, that that Rona was going
to do that to give it some sort of a rebirth,
that the event needed to go somewhere outside of Louisville
before we returned to Louisville if it ever.
Speaker 5 (11:59):
Yeah, and you it seems like you know the perfect place.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
I mean also, it just builds excitement. I mean, everyone
wants to go to New Orleans. So I mean it
seemed to make a lot of sense. And there's some
people that you know, have contacted me that actually a
new Hunter and hosted Hunter in New Orleans. One of them,
Elie Rant, is going to actually be speaking at Gontfest.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
She was a she was.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
Out in the late ladies at al Farm helping helping
him as an assistant.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
And she also was with him.
Speaker 5 (12:35):
In two thousand and five when he visited New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
And so she has some interesting, some interesting stories to tell.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
And Curtis, you and I are actually going to be
leading a bit of a walking tour because besides being
hosted at the rink. For those that don't know, the
Garden District Bookshop is part of a historic.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
Building called the Rink.
Speaker 4 (12:54):
It was originally a skating rink in eighteen eighty four,
and we're going to be actually having events throughout the rink.
The Garden Shop is the center of it, and its
bar Epilogue is one of the few bookstores in the
Golf South that has its own bar in it. We're
very inspired by Hunter, but also we're going to have
the panels all around it. But we're actually leaving the
Garden district for one of the most important events besides
the music at night, a bit of a walking tour.
(13:15):
And you know this route pretty well because you were
on it on the last hurrah of Hunter Thompson a
couple weeks before he died.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Can you talk?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Oh, yes, yes, But certainly I should say that while
the Nixon obituary was begun at the charissell Bar, it
was not finished there. He began it there at the
hotel and finished it later. Because I know all will
get no fewer than fifteen to twenty people say, you know,
he didn't actually right the whole thing there, because you know,
(13:43):
that's my life.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Now, it's last walk you took with Hunter. We're going
to kind of recreate it. Where we're going to go
that remains to be seen. We're going to try to
get not.
Speaker 8 (13:51):
Just that walk with some of the favorite places, certainly
some of the bars, and that some of these stories
have surfaced. You know, there's the giant knoxvill story that's
of us from that weekend. There's uh, I think the
Tuckler calls the story was that weekend. So we're going
to try to go to where some of those stories
occurred and talk about that since we are the podcast
of stories. And then I think most notably, I think
(14:17):
we've downplayed the part where it may turn into.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
A bar crawl. I think that's kind of a given.
There are assumptions that can be made. So curtis this
tour which begins at the Carousel Bar. That's that's gonna
be limited to twenty eight people. We're doing a sign
up sheet on the website that's going to launch very shortly.
And there's gonna be another tour on the West Bank,
isn't there, Kent.
Speaker 6 (14:39):
Yeah, there's gonna be a tour of Burl's Home. Burl's
Home that's gonna be.
Speaker 5 (14:44):
Read that's gonna be led by Kurt Hemmler.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He is he is. He's a beat scholar, but he
has written on Honors Thompson. He actually has his interesting essay.
Speaker 5 (14:56):
In this book that Ron and I are adding on
Pire Mother.
Speaker 6 (14:59):
In Las Vegas, uh seven Vas Vegas and the essays
about seeing that Hunter was sort of a book and
Kari Wacken and Hunter a like bookends of the Sixties
or Karacs on the Road and fear Million. Las Vegas
are the booke nds of like the sixty movement.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Call rac being sort of more of a romagic road that.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
Sort of kicks off the sixties and the sixties start
off like innocent and then you know Hunter's you know,
Las Vegas wasn't dark endpoint of the sixties.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
It's a really interesting estate.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
But he's going to lead up You're going to tour
to to Burrows's home treat.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
That's so for a beat fan, I mean, you don't.
Here's the thing I keep telling people.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
A couple of people are like, I.
Speaker 4 (15:42):
Like Hunter Thompson, which I can't relate to this personally
because I'm a little bit of a fanatic, but I can't. Yeah,
I like Hunter Thompson, but I'm more of a beat person.
This is if you're if you're if you're follower of
Carollac and all this. This is also a place you
want to go for the eleventh annual Gonzo Fest at
the Historic Ring Shopping Center. A lot of the big
(16:03):
poets laureates are going to be a assembled there.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
We're going to do a lot of poetry reading.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
And if you couldn't go, Kent Fielding is joining us
with Curtis Robinson, You're Street, Christopher, Ted Moore and Kent.
Go through some of the panels we're going to have
between the fifteenth and the eighteenth.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
And twenty seven, twenty seven.
Speaker 4 (16:19):
Comtawnity, you mentioned the women of Gonzo, because what are
some of the others.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Yeah, let's go on order.
Speaker 5 (16:25):
On Friday night, there is a panel.
Speaker 6 (16:27):
On music and rock and roll in Hunters, you know
the influence of music in rock and roll and Hunter's work.
That was going to be led by William McKean. Actually
going to be moderate about John Book, but you got
William McKean, t R. Johnson, David m m and Dan
McCarty are going to be on that panel. Dan McCarthy
(16:50):
is considered himselves a Gonzo musician. He is, he's a
Canadian but he lives in.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
New York City right now.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Then on Saturday, after all the tours, we do have
the Daughters of Gonzo and it'll be a Saturday night
I think that's at seventy ten. Then there's going to
be a roundtable discussion about Fear and mothern Las Vegas
and really drawing on this. Then on Sunday there is
(17:21):
a panel at one o'clock a Hunter as his Friends
Knew Him, which is going to includes Curtis Robinson, David Stretfield,
Paul Wilcox who is a neighbor of Hunters in the seventies,
David am Ram, Ellie Ram, Christine Ross who is the
daughter of Deborah Fuller.
Speaker 5 (17:41):
And Margaret Harold.
Speaker 6 (17:43):
And he's going to be moderated by Tim the movie
and we have also that day. On that last day
there is going to be Grand Good One is going
to create a live Gonzo piece. He's gonna painted between
two thirty and three thirty and he might auction him off.
(18:04):
There is a reader see of a play from Carlos
Morton called The Brown Buffalo, which is about Oscar Zeta Cosca.
It's actually Ian Oscar's sort of point of view. So
it's going to be slightly different than you know, maybe
the other you know, Acassa and Hunters sometimes disagreed about things,
(18:29):
so you're going to see maybe some of that disagreement,
I think in that play. And then we have, of
course the at the Bookstore, uh, the ol grammam is
going to end the night with some special He's gonna
play with some special guests and some meelings, uh jazz
musicians and his son, Adam Amram.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
And that's and.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I gotta say, Kent Curtis, that's the thing of the
so many things that I'm looking forward to about this
Gonzo Faster.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Otherwise we wouldn't host it.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
The thing I'm looking for too, is David Amram doesn't
really travel, doesn't make appearances, hasn't been to New Orleans
in a long.
Speaker 3 (19:05):
Time, and this made before it was the last time.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
And so the point, yeah, that's a pretty important So
the point we're getting in all of this is that
this is going to be the first time he's traveled
and one of the uh, one of the biggest concerts
he's done in a while. For this, for this conso fast,
So I mean, this is kind of a seminal moment,
isn't it Curtis.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yes, And David Amram has that great story about Hunter.
I hope he tells up though, so we can record it.
Speaker 6 (19:35):
But I'll just say that involves upstate New York and UFOs.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
That doesn't encourage you to come. Nothing. Well, folks, you
can find out more. You can find out more. That's
I mean.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
It just my hourly challenge, of course is setings that
have first come for a surf basis, and when the
fire marshal says we've got enough people, that's all she wrote.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
But otherwise it is free to come.
Speaker 4 (20:03):
And this is going to be Gonzo Fest gonzo vest
dot net, the eleventh Gonzo Fest.
Speaker 3 (20:07):
It's not. I kept saying, you know, I knew better
than this.
Speaker 4 (20:10):
You fall into the category kent of saying the eleventh
an and you like to realize, no, this thing's been
going on since, you know, since the nineties, because you
want to say it's the eleventh Gonzo Fest that has
taking place over I think it's a twenty to twenty
two year period, twenty three like that.
Speaker 6 (20:26):
All right, ninety I think if you count the Hunter
as Tompsons tribute in ninety six, has been going on
since ninety six.
Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yeah, so basically I do count that.
Speaker 7 (20:35):
We had a big discussion about those at the last
one ever, and you.
Speaker 6 (20:38):
Know, one of the things is like hundred and ninetieth
birthday is in twenty twenty seven, so it could be
important to do something then. So you know, I don't know,
I'm not going to say it's.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
The last one. If anybody all I think we've learned anything, well, remember.
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Say that it's there's a vampire event that's up, that's
up and has another life.
Speaker 4 (20:56):
For those that listened to Curtis and Man's podcast to
this to us Thompson Stories podcast, Hunter gathers that you
know that this all started because we basically were being
well jackasses. We were looking at Ron Whitehead and you're saying,
as he was on our podcast at Gonzo Fest, he says,
this is the last Gonzo Fest. This is this, to
(21:18):
his credit, said the last one I will do, and
we're like, this is not going to be the last
Gonzo Fest and all this, and basically we came back
and said, I'm like, well, I had a bookstore, you know,
I got a rink and can't slike, well, I'll do
the organizing.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Margaret's like, well, I'll do all the work and and suddenly, you.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
Know, uh, these zoom calls start having about organizing a
Gonzo fest. There was a little interim of going to
Dublin in there, but when we're not talking about that,
so you know.
Speaker 5 (21:44):
I will say I will say that Ron, uh, step back.
Speaker 3 (21:48):
But he's not absent.
Speaker 5 (21:49):
He's still around.
Speaker 3 (21:52):
No one I believed he would be absent.
Speaker 5 (21:54):
He may claim and he's not doing anything, but.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
That's not true.
Speaker 4 (21:58):
In fact, at a point of act, Ron Whitehead is
I'm going to give some very brief opening remarks welcoming everybody,
but basically he's giving the opening speech for gone so
fast at the rank.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
So you know it's this is very speech is a
little strong when he comes in.
Speaker 9 (22:16):
I think the opening rant, I think the opening ran
I'm gonna I'm giving I'm giving odds that because I
don't I don't think it's possible for Ron Whitehead.
Speaker 3 (22:29):
To have an opening rant without.
Speaker 4 (22:31):
At least, you know, cursing the name of Mitch McConnell
at some point in it.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
So I'm giving.
Speaker 10 (22:35):
Donald Trump, I expect, and Trump's fine, but Trump's easy
expect every I fully expect, even in Louisiana, a curse
against the name of Mitch McConnell shall.
Speaker 4 (22:51):
Happen, because I I don't think it's pot Every time
I'm with Ron it's not impossible to get through a
conversation without that. So we shall say. We shall say
probably the John Kennedy thrown in there just for good measure.
Speaker 6 (23:02):
So well, native I will say that I appreciate some
of the McConnell service.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
Well, I think I.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
Think you also might want to hear it. He might
say something about Jetty Vance taking the idea of hillbilly, So.
Speaker 4 (23:18):
Yeah, I mean I actually I was tempted because folks
that tried to you know, Curtis did the Panels. I
was tempted on every I was invited every zoom call.
I stayed out of it because I was like, no,
I don't want to as as the host. I don't
want to be like anyone thinking I'm pushing the events
of anything that's happening. But that was really kind of
the idea what is a hillbilly? What is Hunter's idea
(23:40):
of a hillbilly? And and does the hillbilly llergy? And
what we're doing as it's become the national thing is
that playing. I have to tell you, Kent, that was
the panel that I was that kept circling through my mind.
It's probably too contemporary, but it's it fits so much
of Hunter's identity that that was the one thing I
wish we had, which around of time, I would tell
you that.
Speaker 6 (23:59):
You know, one thing that run and I talked about,
and you know, I think I think if we start
organizing this after the election, the what we have come
up with we been slightly different. I mean, we started
organizing this before the election, and I think we had
some expectations that didn't happen in an election. So the
you know one thing that run out I talked about
(24:21):
is like we.
Speaker 3 (24:22):
You know, Hunter's seventy two book is.
Speaker 6 (24:26):
Probably the most important book Hunter wrote and at least
right now, and like we should be promoting something on it.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
There's just like there's not a lot.
Speaker 6 (24:34):
Of things written on that seventy presidential campaign as far
as like, you know, literary criticism.
Speaker 3 (24:41):
I don't know why we've missed.
Speaker 5 (24:43):
That, but that's one of the things that we started
talking about.
Speaker 4 (24:46):
It's for a political journalist, and that's of course basically
the Curtis and I have been most of our careers
that we pretend to do others, things like political consulting.
The fact of the matter is that was our bible.
Doesn't mean we The Vegas Book isn't huge. I've got
of read it twenty seven times probably, but the fact
that the counter as political journalist remains the sine quon
(25:08):
non of understanding. Hunter Thompson just like understanding as a
sports reporter, because in his mind those were the two
same things in.
Speaker 7 (25:16):
The politics and sports are so similar in terms of
structure and that something's.
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Going to happen, and you talk about what's going to happen,
and then.
Speaker 7 (25:24):
There's a score, there's a score, and then you're talking about, well,
there's the score.
Speaker 5 (25:28):
What we said.
Speaker 7 (25:30):
It's like it's the disagreement that makes the horse race right.
So it's all the disagreement that makes political the prodiction
such an art and spending about a lot.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
He wouldn't have sected this in seventy two, but starting
in two thousand and certainly by twenty twenty, there's overtime too.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yeah, now that we have extra any and you know it, Yeah, yes, yes,
it gets who like sports by.
Speaker 5 (26:03):
The minute now that I think about it.
Speaker 7 (26:05):
But Unfortunately that sport is that's the football league, and
everybody's rena.
Speaker 3 (26:10):
As fand folks. This is some of the topics you'll hear.
Speaker 4 (26:14):
It's having been I have not been to every Gonzo
Fest like these guys, but if Louisville has any indication,
and I think it's going to be because a lot
of the same people are coming down in New Orleans,
a lot of people are following that. It is the
most esoteric group of genius, brilliant, screwed up, interesting people
you will ever accumulate in one room to come to
a Gonzo Fest talking about the man who's the patron
(26:37):
saint of all. Please come to a Gonzo Fest number
eleven at the Garden, Distric book Shops, Bar Epilogue and
at the Rink twenty seven to twenty seven Pretenna and
our related locations like the Always Lounge, Library, Hollandwolf and others.
All available on the website at gonzo Fest dot net.
Kent Fielding, Curtis Robinson, It is always a privilege. We'll
(26:58):
be back with Hi McHenry after these messages with more
on the Founders Show.
Speaker 3 (27:02):
Right after that.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
Subscriptions are available for the New Orleans Operas twenty five
twenty sixth season with DeRozan Cavalier, Dialogues of the Carmelites,
Terrence Blanchard's Fire, Shut Up in My Bones, Carlisle Floyd's Pilgrimage,
and many others. Go to New Orleans Opera dot org
New Orleans Opera dot org for more information.
Speaker 2 (27:26):
Hey folks, this is Trappenheim mckenry and I'm here to
tell you about our ministry, LAMB Ministries. We're an inner
city ministry with an inner city formula and focus for
inner cityfolks. Please go to our website LAMB NLA dot
com lamnola.
Speaker 3 (27:42):
Dot com and check us out.
Speaker 2 (27:44):
We work with very, very challenging situations, the inner city,
inner city kids, the urban poor, lots of tragedy, lots
of challenges. We need all the help we can get,
So if you're interested in this type of work, please
contact us and let us what would you like to do.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
We need prayer warriors, we need financial support, and we
need volunteers.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Again.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
You can go to our website l A m B
n O l A dot com or.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Just call me Chaplinheimick Henry at AERA code five zero
four seven two three nine three six nine and thank
you so very very much.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
As the summer months are upon us, it's a perfect
time to give the gift of flowers. Always available at
Hillaries Florist at one eight hundred VI I L L
e r E or Villaries flooresst for all of your
floral needs. Mother's Days coming up, ladies and gentlemen, and
it's a perfect place to give a Mother's Day basket
from Villari's Florist or a Mother's Day arrangement. Find out
more information at Villariesflorist at villarisflorest dot com or give
(28:42):
them a call one eight hundred V I L L
E R E. And welcome back to the Foundery Show.
You can always hear this program every Sunday from eight
to nine AM on w r n L that's ninety
nine to five FM on your FM doll and on
w s l A ninety three point nine and in
your FM doll fifteen sixty on your AM doll from
(29:02):
eight to nine on Monday, Wednesday and Friday twenty four
to seven, three sixty five on the iHeartMedia app.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
It's better than Pandora.
Speaker 4 (29:09):
It's got a fantastic range of music and you can
download it to your phone for the absolute price of free,
or go to our website at the foundershow dot com
or listen to us for those We also say hello
to those out in the Grand Canyon listening to us
on Rattlesnake Radio. As always here on the Founder Show,
I'm Christopher Tidmore.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
With chaplain Hi, McHenry, and folks, I'm here to tell
us about Gonzo, a very special Gonzo person, if you will,
And I'm sorry, but I can see him very in
many ways connected with Hunter Thompson. Even though I'm sure
they would have disagreed about some things, they had a
lot of similarities. They love guns, they love fast cars,
(29:47):
they love the entertainment world. You know, they both come
out of entertainment. They loved their buildings and their houses.
His his what do you believe was his bunker in
Colorado Technics Hunter Thompson. Uh, they were big thinkers, but
they're kind of crazy like and that's what Gonzo means.
(30:07):
Gonzo goes back to an ancient Irish word Gaelic word,
and I don't I can't spell it for you in Gaelic,
but in Southeas that's South Boston, which is a big
Irish area in America. Uh they started it became it
became a street term slang for something that's crazy and
wild and unpredictable and very subjective and personal. And so
(30:29):
Hunter was given that term in one of with one
of his articles back in the in the seventies when
he he reported on something and the and the additor
looked at it and said, this is gonzo. So they
came up with a new nerd term, gonzo journalism. And
all that means is that it's very personal, it's very subjective,
it's very wild and crazy, and it's very interesting. And
(30:53):
so he did. This is back at the time where
journalists were not that they were not really at it.
And it means embedded, that you're in the middle of
the action. You're not just at a safe distance looking
at it. But by that time journalists did everything at
a distance. They were like in the grandstands looking down
on the play, making, you know, writing the story. Hunter
(31:14):
Thomps believe you need to get on the field of play.
He was also great athlete, loved athletics so and he
loved sports writing, was a sports writer for a while.
So he believed that you had to get into the
game to really understand it and report accurately on it.
And he did. Now, he wasn't the first one. Remember
world War Two, we had our embedded journalist and I
worked with someone in Afghanistan two thousand and ten. So
(31:38):
it's been around for a while, but it had kind
of like died out, and Hunter basically revived that concept
of embedded journalists where you get in the middle of
the action. He did that with the Hell's Angels, ended
up getting his butt kicked in too, because he had
a little confrontation with him and did not go well
for a Hunter. When they ganged up on him. He
took a good beating. That's the kind of man Hunter
Thompson was. He was voted the History Channel is one
(32:01):
of the toughest men in America, in all of American history.
And I'll be talking about another tough man later on
in the show we get into our Chapa bab Bah
patriotic moment. But for right now, I have this thought
about a gonzo man in our country. He's very well known,
very well known because he's so outrageous and so crazy,
(32:21):
kind of like Hunter Thompson that and he's very embedded.
This man throughout his career, would always identify with the
people he was leading, and he would embed himself with them.
He was building a building, he would go instead of
going to the fancy restaurants with his rich friends, he
would go and eat lunch maybe McDonald's whatever, with the
(32:44):
construction workers and got to know him really well, got
to know his stay. I've got to know the janitors
and the maids and whatnot in his buildings and became
friends with him. And he had a great way of
looking for talent, and when he would find that talent,
by would he promoted. And there are many many stories
of his employees who went on to do great things
and they and they with tears, they give Donald Trump
(33:07):
the credit. And that's the man about whom I'm speaking
right now. I want to go into Donald Trump's one
hundred first days. Folks, I'm gonna have to do this quickly.
Time is short. You've probably been hearing something about it.
I could elaborate on every topic I'm gonna bring up here,
but the time does not allow it. So bear with
me and maybe do some of your own research to
see what he did in these various areas. But look
at what he's done in the economy terroiffs, which are
(33:27):
going to bring business back to America and going to
revive our economy. Energy. He's doing great things with energy
and removing regulations so we can finally drill baby drill. Manufacturing,
that's part of the tariff thing. It's gonna end up.
We're already He's already gotten beans of dollars for opening
up manufacturing plants. We used to be the number one
manufacturing country country in the world, and we gave it
all the way agriculture. He's got ways to bring back
(33:50):
our agriculture like you did that when he was in
the first four years. The farmers loved Trump. New business.
We're going to start bringing in new businesses and all
these small businesses the Biden administration destroyed.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
I think a lot of them are going to come
back now. And you know, it was really wrong to
ruin those businesses. That's always been the backbone of America
small business. During the Reagan years, it was like ninety
percent of all of American financial success came from small business.
They did ninety They were paying ninety five percent of
the taxes, ninety five percent of all new innovation. It's
all coming not from the big brother corporations, but from
the little guys, the small businesses. The stock market. The
(34:27):
stock market, of course has been up and down because
Trump and a gonzo barroom brawler. Uh, you know, just
like Hunter Thompson. He inflation. He's he's gonna he's dropping
inflation already. They went after him for the price of eggs.
When when when he first came in, Biden had destroyed
the price of eggs and they were skyrocketing. He killed
(34:48):
half the chickens in America, and they blamed it all
the Trump. I guess what's happened with prayer dropping like
a rock Right now, eggs are becoming very affordable again.
US debt reduction, he's gonna he's taking that on. He's
doing a great job again. I want to elaborate, but
I don't have time because I only have a few
minutes left to really get all this out. His big
beautiful bill. Think of that, folks, that's going to do
(35:09):
great things for our taxes. And that's o things. He's
dropping taxes if the Democrats don't stop him. Doge Dog
is one of the best things that's ever happened in
this country. I know, I worked in the government. I
saw how corrupt it is. Doge's a battle axe. It's
a reckon ball to all the corruption that had been
going on with our inside the federal government, with the bureaucracies.
(35:31):
Just cleaning us out a budget. He's going to get
us a really good budget, reducing government. Oh my goodness,
we have too much government, folks, and it's destroying America.
Bureaucracy is always destroy whatever they get into. Again, I
don't have time to elaborate on all that I have
in other shows, but I'm running out of time. Illegals,
you know what he's doing with illegals, he'd get rid
(35:52):
of and you seal the border. They have the lowest
crossings ever. That's why nobody's getting hardly nobody's getting arrested
on there. And you're the Democrats. We're under Biden. We
arrested ten times as many as Trump. Yeah, you know why,
because you were letting a thousand times as many people in.
They forgot that part of the story, the UH and
getting rid of the really bad ones. That's what he's
(36:13):
going after. The criminals, the gangbangers, the the you know, cartels,
all the things that brought so much evil into this country.
We're killing over one hundred thousand Americans a year through
the drug drugs that were being brought in. Folks, it's
so bad what happened over the past four years. Trump
has an enormous job, an overwhelming job. I don't know
(36:33):
how he's going to do it, but you know what
he's doing it. We're watching it. And just in the
first one hundred days crime and law enforcements, he's upgrading
our crime and no longer is law enforcement being used
to chase after political opponents like under the Biden years,
where old ladies praying it at abortion clinics. We're being
arrested and thrown in jail and being called terrorists, labeled
(36:55):
as terrorists. That's horrible there. I can't believe that ever
happened in this country. And I hope all these bad
things that were done over the past four years, I'm
hoping and praying like anything, they couldn't really find those
people and prosecute them. They need to go to jail,
they need to be set up as examples, and they
need to pay for the evil they caused this country
and the poor innocent people that had been their victims.
So law enforcements being radically upgraded. The cops loved Donald Trump,
(37:19):
they did not love Biden or his administration. Female sports,
how about that, folks, where women are not going to
get to play women again instead of men. It was
getting to the point where you'd go to see a game.
It hadn't gotten there yet, but it was moving in
that direction. And all the real women on the team
were going to be sitting on the bench, and they
want to be women. The girly men were going to
(37:41):
be playing all the games, getting all the success, stealing
it all from the lady folks. That was wicked and wrong.
They lee, They turned sex perverts loose on a lot
of really good women sports people, but women athletes who
were great athletes, and they were destroying their careers. So
thank god they're fixing that. He's on it all folks.
(38:01):
Promises made, promises kept. He's really doing it. The military.
Look at what's happening in the military. Recruitments skyrocketing under Biden.
Recruitment was crashing and burning, Our military was falling apart
under Biden, equipment everything was going down. Right now, He's
got Russia, Ukraine, China, Career, Israel, Yemen, Iran and the
(38:22):
Gaza Gaza and all the terrorists at Bay and they're
terrified of him now, as they should be, and they're
starting to behave because that's the only thing they listened to.
They listened to force and Trump will use it. He's
created a new term, a new term in our a lexicon,
now our dictionary. It's called fake media, and it is
now listed as a legitimate term. And you know what
I'm talking about. I'm talking about the mainline media. I'm
(38:44):
talking about the big boys, I'm talking about establishing media.
I'm talking about what I call the main slime media.
They are the fake media, and that means they're lying
to us almost every time they open their mouths. I
wouldn't waste my time on it. I wouldn't give them
a minute. I'm so tired of them. I don't want
to hear anything about them. I'm sick of them, all right,
National Affairs. Look at he's upgrading and getting NATO to
start doing his job world peace. I don't think he's
(39:07):
going to totally establish world peace. Nobody ever is, but
he's going to get us as close to it as
we can get. And I still take that over what's
going on right now, the Abraham of Cords that's being
brought back, the Justice Department, the dog, the FBR. Of
course that's part of the criminal situation. But nevertheless he's
upgrading that, he's cleaning it out. He's doing wonderful and
amazing things with the Department of Justice. And boy, it's
(39:29):
high time for art because they again were being turned
into the Gestapo to destroy all Democrat all the opponents
of the Democrat Party, in the words, the Republicans and
constitution Conservatives. They were being weaponized against us. It was
wicked what they did. And again all these people who
are coming who are complacent it to me, who are
(39:50):
compliant for this evil, who participated in this, they need
to go down. They need to be indicted, they need
to face trials, and if they can find them guilty,
they need to go to jail. And I hope they
throw the books at They need to give them long
in jail times, hard sentences for what they did was
so evil. The new ethnic and demographic profiles for the
(40:12):
GOP and in the words from Trump, he's bringing in
tons of voters who would have never voted for the Republicans,
African American, you know, minority voters, Hispanics, Asians, all of them.
He's bringing them all in. He's even turning many Democrats
that white Democrats, let's say, are not turning to Trump.
He's getting the largest group of youth that the Dempublican
party has ever had. This guy is a radical change
(40:35):
agent for the better for the Republican Party, most importantly
for America. I'm first an American before I'm a Republican.
All right, his executive orders, He's set records with executive orders.
He's written more executive orders than just one hundred days
anybody the president's effort. But this is all for the good.
He's reversing all of Biden's executive orders that reversed everything
(40:55):
Trump had done. But most of Biden had written the
most executive orders other than Obama when he came in,
you know, when he was in office, and you know what,
it was, just almost all of them were anti Trump,
something to destroy something good Trump had done.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
Well.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
Not Trump is reversing all that and doing a whole
lot more. His executive orders are designed to make life better,
not to attack or to change the policy of the
guy before him, although he has to in many cases
because those policies are so destructive. All right. Trump's movement
at warp speed, as we can see, folks, in his
one hundred days. That's one of the you know, characteristics
(41:32):
of what's going on right now. He's going to help
build fair elections. We didn't have fair elections for years,
and I know down here in Luisiana, I used to
watch years ago the Democrats bragging about how they stole elections.
They were bragging about it, they were open about it.
They won't do it now because of this focus on
fair elections, but when they thought nobody was looking, they
were quite happy to brag about it. Maha. We're going
(41:53):
to finally have serious health movement in America that the
government's going to help bring about. Trump's religious freedom's he's
he is bringing back religious freedom to America and doing
it in a great way. His own faith is remarkable,
it's real, folks. He's the first president to ever have
a cabinet or a committee of spiritual advisors, preachers and whatnot,
(42:15):
including of other other faiths, other religions that are meeting
with him and advising him on spiritual matters, faith matters.
He has his own spiritual advisor. As about evangelical by
believing preacher. He's he's had several of them in the
past two He keeps his Bible on his desk. That
was the Bible that his mother gave him. That came
(42:36):
from her uncle who led a revival in Scotland. And
he knows it and he loves that, his family history
on that. The Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights.
He's finally defending us and protecting us with that. That's
vital for the success of America, for our freedoms. He's
(42:58):
reaching we the people, folks. He's reaching the little people,
the flyovers, the deplorables, as the Democrats would cause, the
unwashed minions, the smelly wall Martians. That's how the Democrat
Party looks at the average American. Trump is embracing us
(43:18):
and he's bringing back the little people, if you will,
because that's all the only way the Democrats see is
Promise is made. Like I say, promises kept. He's doing it.
He's even got us a Gulf of America. And he
may end up getting Greenland in Canada and certainly Greenland,
because Denmark is doing a terrible job with Greenland. They
can't afford it. They're not providing the defense. It needs.
We would go in there and radically upgrade Greenland, and
(43:40):
they want it, they know it. I don't know if
it's going to happen, but it's a noble cause. Let's
hope and pray just for the sake of Greenland, the
people of Greenland, that it does work. That we're at
a very precarious situation defense wise, because Denmark cannot provide
the proper defense, so we got to do all the
work and pay for it. And folks, the way I
believe it is that we're paying for it. We shaid it.
(44:00):
So let's see how. I don't know I thought that's
going to work out, but maybe it will. And in
bottom line, he's ended up giving us the most transparent
presidency we've ever seen. I've never heard of the media
allowed and in cabinet meetings they have been. They're now
in our cabinet meetings thanks to Trump, and they just
had one with one of his favorites, the doge A
(44:21):
Committee met. The stories that came out of that were astounding.
It's open to the public, totally transparent. All right, folks, Well,
we've done the first the second half of the show,
and now it's time for us to take another break,
We'll be right back, and we'll be coming back for
our Chaplin by a patriotic moment and gospel moment and
watchmen on the wall about what might be coming with
(44:42):
Jesus returning, We'll be right back, folks.
Speaker 11 (44:49):
Rescuing, recovery, re engagement.
Speaker 3 (44:52):
These are not just words.
Speaker 11 (44:54):
These are the action steps we at the New Orleans
Mission take to make a positive impact on the homeless
problem facing the greater New Orleans area. Did you know
in twenty twenty, homelessness in our community increased by over
forty percent. We are committed to meet this need through
the work being done at the New Orleans Mission. We
(45:17):
begin the rescue process by going out into the community
every day to bring food, pray, and share the love
of Jesus with the hopeless and hurting in our community.
Through the process of recovery, these individuals have the opportunity
to take time out, assess their life, and begin to
make new decisions to live out their God given purpose.
(45:41):
After the healing process has begun and lives are back
on track, we walk each individual as they re engage
back into the community to be healthy, thriving, and living
a life of purpose. No one is meant to live
under a bridge. No one should endure abuse and should
be stuck in addiction. The New Orleans Mission is a
(46:03):
stepping stone out of that life of destruction and into
a life of hope and purpose.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
Partner with us today go to www dot.
Speaker 11 (46:15):
New Orleans Mission dot org or make a difference by
texting to seven seven ninety eight.
Speaker 1 (46:24):
OS God the two shoes.
Speaker 2 (46:28):
Well, folks were back, and it's not time for us
to go into our chaplain by patriotic moment where we
just take a brief moment to remind you of the
biblical foundations of our country, our judio Christian jurisprudence. And
today we're going to talk about a barroom brawler. I
think Hunter Thompson would have liked this man. Quite a
great American. He's listed in the Wrestling Hall of Fame
(46:49):
as the greatest wrestler America ever had because he fought
more wrestling matches and he won every one of them.
This guy was a big guy, a big, tall, strong guy.
He was so strong that people would see him lifting
a wagon axle with one hand with the whole wagon attached,
lift the axle, take off the old wheel, and put
(47:09):
the new one on one hand on the axle with
the other hand on the wheel. You got to be
awfully strong to do that. He was quite quite an
amazing guy. Came down in New Orleans when he was
a young man. He had a barroom brawl and that
just arrived in New Walls with his head all bandaged. Stuff. Again,
he kind of reminds me of Hunter Thompson. But folks,
I'm talking about none other than Abraham Lincoln. That's right,
(47:30):
one of the strongest and most powerful UH fighters America
ever had. When I said fighter, I mean you know,
like hand to hand, you know that type of fun boxing, wrestling, whatever,
et cetera. Karate guy was amazing. He didn't do karate,
but I mean he was a wrestler. And anyway, he
loved God and he knew how important it was to
(47:52):
have God in government. And this is what he says.
It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended power,
meaning God, to confess our national sins, and to pray
for clemency and forgiveness. He issued this proclamation Prayer Proclamation
in the middle of the Civil War in March the thirtieth,
(48:14):
nineteen sixty three, and folks, things went well for the
Union after that. Now, he wasn't the first one to
do this. From the earliest days before the American Revolution,
great Americans were calling America to prayer, and they'd always
say fasting. When the Constitution was accepted, they had a
national day of prayer and fasting. Thomas Jefferson called for
(48:40):
prayer and fasting when Boston was under see it during
the yeah when Boston was under siege for an entire day.
He called the whole nation to pray and fast when
he was a Virginia legislator. So, folks, this has been
a tradition in America for a long time. There were
over three thousand calls for prayer and fasting in early
(49:02):
America untill we're on the turn of the century, and
then it began to wane. But this gives you again
an insight into the biblical foundations of our country. Are
Judia Christian jurisprudence. Americans wanted God in government, not institutionally,
but certainly philosophically and spiritually. What about you? Is God
in you spiritually? Because that's where it really really counts,
not institutionally but spiritually. You could just because you're in
(49:26):
a church, doesn't make you a Christian. You can go
to church every day of your life and it doesn't
make you a Christian anymore than if you walk into
your garage, you've just turned into their car or a
mouse suits at a cookie jar and now he's a cookie. No, folks,
it's a spiritual thing. So right now it is time
for us to look into that spiritual matter. And as
we go into our chaplain by by gospel moment where
(49:46):
I'm just going to take a short time to show
you how you can know that you know that you
know your God's child, you have saved from a burning hell,
and you're guaranteed heaven. And it goes like this, John
three point sixteen. For God's Soul love the world. That's you,
that's everybody that he gave, It's 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 begotten son. That whosoever that's you again, that's you, folks.
(50:10):
That whosoever believeth in Him, believeth in him. What in
the world does that mean. Well, let's take a look
and see what it means. The scripture says, the gospel
is the power of God into salvation to whosoever believeth.
And the scripture also says, the gospel is, I declare
to you the gospel that Jesus in first Queen and fifteen,
that Jesus died for all of our sins, folks. When
he says that, it means from the day you're born
(50:30):
to the day you die, you tie ins to greatest sins.
All of them went on the cross, and his blood
washed him all the way. That he died on the
cross for all of our sins, was buried and rose
from the dead to win for every one of us, Lord, folks,
every one of us, that free gift of everlasting resurrection life.
If you've never believed this before, do it now. That
(50:51):
whosoever believeth in him, the scripture says, and that word
means two steps of faith. The first faith you need
is to believe you cannot save yourself. You're hopeless and
helps with out God, You're destined to a burning hell
and have no ability of your own to stop that.
When you come to that point, you just repented, and
(51:13):
that's required for your eternal life. Jesus said, repent and believe.
Then the next phase of your faith is to believe
the positive side. Let's say, to believe that only he can,
that he did, and that he will save you from
burning hell guarantee you have in everlasting lives. Folks, if
you've never done it before, do it now. Believe that
(51:34):
Jesus really did die far your sins, was buried, and
rose from the dead with all your heart. That means
you're not trusting anything else because you've repented. You believe
only that Jesus can do this. Do it now, folks.
The scripture says, now today is the day of salvation.
And like the old country preacher said, don't wait till
it's too late. Well, folks, it's not time for us
to talk about Jesus coming back, because he's coming back,
and he's coming back soon. As we now go into
(51:57):
our chaplain by by a watchman on the wall. Did
you know that one of the signs they're over two
hundred prophecies, by the way, they're all current right now
being fulfilled. I mean many am already fulfilled. There's almost
nothing left to do, in fact. But one of the
interesting things is in Daniel the Bible says, knowledge will increase.
Do you realize that up until the looks like say
(52:20):
the fifteenth century, you could take all the books in
the world and put them in a one shelf, and
then as time went on things increased. Then you had
the printing press, and things increased a whole lot more,
and now you able to fill up an entire bookshelf
with books. Folks. Today knowledge is doubling every few minutes.
(52:41):
That means it's beyond comprehension how much knowledge has been accumulated, categorized,
and put into data. Folks. That's why we've got AI now,
and it's all getting out of control. It's becoming so
huge that the creators of all this from Silicon Valley
are building bunkers for themselves because they believe there is
going to be an AI apocalypse coming. That it is coming, folks.
(53:06):
If you're not ready for it, you're in trouble. And
I can tell you the greatest bunker you'll ever get.
The name of that bunker is the Lord Jesus Christ.
Go to him right now for your safe house. Believe
that he died for all your sins, was buried and
Rose's dead. So when he comes back, really soon he'll
be ready for you, and you'll be ready for him.
What it's time for us to close now as we're
closed with a mind Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye
(53:27):
and God bless you all out there, they call.
Speaker 3 (53:34):
You cREL goodbye.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
They think we're just wasted time. All three, Siby, there's
time for a creo goodbye
Popular Podcasts
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Ridiculous History
History is beautiful, brutal and, often, ridiculous. Join Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown as they dive into some of the weirdest stories from across the span of human civilization in Ridiculous History, a podcast by iHeartRadio.