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December 14, 2024 54 mins
Hy and Christopher host Louisiana GOP insider and Trump transition advisor Brian Trascher.  He gives us all the insights on the upcoming 2025 Regular (Fiscal) Session and whether Jeff Landry is going to pursue his tax reform agenda even further.  We also talk about the upcoming Washington Mardi Gras and how Troy Carter has become the “go to person” liaisoning between the parties.

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bide holes, the politicians, the dressed, the digitators and magicians.
Who's to see the money then you don't, there's nothing
to fill the holes while then are feeling their pockets
bid holes, the politicians bouncing down the road. Every body'sition

(00:24):
to no moment, corruption and dysfunction's gonna take you, divide
into vention.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
And God bless all out there. 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

(00:54):
on the Eagles Branch. This is none other than your
Spingary Babba of the Republic, Chaplin High mc henry.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
Who with so for tid Mariy' roving reporter, resident radical
moderate and associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at
Louisiana Weekly dot net and ladies and gentlemen, the man
who's been on the sidelines of history of late. He
is one of the great insiders close to the Trump campaign,
close to the transition. In fact, he's been playing a
role in the Trump transition. He is one of the
key players of the Louisiana Republican Party and he's been

(01:25):
negotiating between the various groups. He's also been rescuing people
in North Carolina and knows a few things about sports
and that of course, is my former radio partner and
a frequent guest on the show, Brian Trasher. Brian, always
a pleasure to have you back on the Founder Show.
Thanks for having me.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
And on the sidelines is a good way to describe
where I'm at.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
Because you know, the coach will never put me in
the game.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Well, but he somehow asks you about all the plays.
So this is probably an important position to be. And
there you go. And Brian, you played a key role
in the Trump campaign. You've been involved in advising the
Trump Transition Committee. A lot of things are going up
in DC. But before we get into everything trump wise,
it was a pretty you know what's been amazing is

(02:07):
it was a pretty big day for the Louisiana Republican
Party this past Saturday, particularly East Baton Rouge Parish with
Sid Edwards, and you kind of paid attention. Everybody's like well,
he won. He had an upset victory. This is like
for a Republican to win an Eber. This hasn't happened
in over twenty years, and it was a given that
this could not happen, and yet it did. And I

(02:28):
wanted to get your viewpoint on this.

Speaker 4 (02:30):
Well, this was one of those truly fascinating races for
political junkies like us, because I don't care what anybody says.
I don't know anybody that could have predicted any part
of what happened in East Baton Rouge Parish and the
City of Baton Rouge, because you know.

Speaker 5 (02:47):
The conventional wisdom just a month ago.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
Was that our friend Ted James, former state representative from
Baton Rouge and for SBA official the Biden administration, was
poised to finish first in the Juggle primary and likely
face off either against Coach Sitt Edwards or current incumbent

(03:13):
Mayor President Sharon Weston Broom. And I saw fully numbers
that not that polls are always right, but I saw
fully numbers that showed this was a statistical certainty. And
then all of a sudden the vote came and Ted
didn't even make the run off. He just did not
turn out his base and and and it just didn't

(03:34):
go that way, and so it ended up being a
run off between the incumbent Mayor Broom and Coached at Edwards.
And then the only thing that gave me a little
bit of like wow that really happened when I saw
the results is that I had had lunch with a
good friend of mine who's a Democrat operative recently, and
he mentioned that Mayor Broom was in trouble talking about

(03:57):
some polls and also because of some activities Baton Rouge
on election day.

Speaker 5 (04:02):
I think, like Southern playing football or it.

Speaker 4 (04:05):
Was like he said, a lot of things going on
in Baton Rouge that was going to depress turnout for
her base, and lo and behold.

Speaker 5 (04:12):
I think it was a lot more than that. I
think that there were just.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
A lot of people in Baton Rouge that just had
enough of the crime and which perceived to be poor leadership.

Speaker 5 (04:21):
And George, Yeah, and.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
I think I think the Saint George Angles is very
important because Ted James was running as a Democrat the
Republicans could vote for and that was sort of his
modus operundi. And of course Coach Edwards get this gets
the support gets the runoff, and the general assumption is, well,
he's a dead man walking.

Speaker 6 (04:41):
This is East Batton Rouge Parish.

Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's democratic parish, except when you look at the City
of Saint George, which had a sales tax on the
on the ballot. It had overwhelming turnout. For those that
don't know and the rest of the state, the city
of Saint George is the newest city in the state.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
It is.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
It was an unincorporated area of East Baton Rouge Parish
that was kind of affluent, very Republican, and it went
through a decade long fight to become a city. It
was fought by Sharon Wester in the parish, and people
in Saint George did not forget the fact that Sharon
Western Broom had fought them at every poe.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
It was.

Speaker 3 (05:15):
It was I've never seen anything close to one hundred
percent turnout in my life, but it was pretty close
to that.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
The parish.

Speaker 3 (05:21):
They didn't succeed from the parish from the city. No,
they didn't seceed from the city. This is very important.
They incorporated. They were an unincorporated area of a parish
and so they didn't everybody's like they succeeded. They didn't
succeede they had. They exercised the right under the Louisiana
Constitution to form their own city. And when they did
the thing that is very clearly said, it's supposed to

(05:41):
be a simple vote and a passage of the legislature.
Sharon Western Broom fought them at every single turn, and
finally they were overwhelmed when all the way to the
Supreme Court.

Speaker 6 (05:51):
The whole works.

Speaker 3 (05:52):
And yet it was it was amazing. It was just
looking at it was bipartisan. It was the Democrats in
Saint George that were turning out against her.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
Was it was.

Speaker 3 (05:59):
It was a thing I've never beheld low turnout everywhere
and a hundred percent in Saint George are pretty close
to it.

Speaker 6 (06:05):
Brian.

Speaker 2 (06:05):
It wasn't your normal political society. It was a corporate succession.

Speaker 6 (06:08):
What was the question?

Speaker 2 (06:09):
It is not they broke away from battery.

Speaker 6 (06:11):
They did not.

Speaker 2 (06:11):
They didn't break away and become their own indefenden. They're
not their own independence city, are they are they?

Speaker 6 (06:16):
Yes, they did.

Speaker 2 (06:17):
It's a succession.

Speaker 6 (06:17):
It's not sorry, it's it's not necessary.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
And theory in concept that is. But that's okay. We
have different opinions.

Speaker 3 (06:23):
So kind of constitution doesn't allow secession from parishes or cities,
but it allows unincorporated theme.

Speaker 6 (06:28):
I know, I'm sorry that.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
The British Empire didn't allow America to succeed from the
British Empire.

Speaker 6 (06:33):
We did, all right.

Speaker 3 (06:35):
Brian explained that the political dynamics in that election day
and why had the Saint George factor mattered if you would.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Well, also you should mention that former governor Democrat John
Bell Edwards, you know, fought it as well.

Speaker 5 (06:46):
It did. I don't think you really cared that much.

Speaker 4 (06:48):
I think he was just doing the bidding of his
colleagues and the Democrat Party. But yeah, I mean, look,
there was just a lot.

Speaker 5 (06:55):
Of factors where you had the uh, the mayor Broom's
approval in your way down.

Speaker 4 (07:01):
The areas of the city where her strongest base is
was not motivated to vote that day. The areas where
people were against her were motivated to vote, and they
turned out. And look like we said, man Ted James,
it did not turn out his base in the primary.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
And it seems like and Chris.

Speaker 4 (07:20):
You know, you know, I have looked at this for
years African Americans, and I hate to always say because
African Americans don't always vote.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
The same way, but in trending.

Speaker 4 (07:31):
Terms, in terms of like demographic behavior, in a voting pattern,
they don't necessarily go out and vote against an African
American candidate.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
They vote by staying home.

Speaker 4 (07:42):
It happened in a lot of elections, as we saw,
and that's sort of what happened here. They just did
not turn out and that's how they expressed their displeasure
with you know, I believe with Mayor Broom, at least
it's my theory.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
And it was in Sharon Westernbroom. This is a lot
of Democrats wanted to get her out of the race.
There was a very divided party, she had very negative
approval ratings, and she'd been in office for a very
long time three terms. So it's one of those situations
where it kind of was the perfect storm. But I
do want to talk about speaking of perfect storms. I

(08:18):
want to talk a little bit Louisiana politics, but I
know your time, Brian Trasher is limited here on The
Founder Show with Hi mckenry and Christopher tidmore So, I
do want to turn to DC for a second, because
a weird phenomenon is happening. The presidential inauguration will be
on about the Martin Luther King Holiday that Monday, and
then Washington Marti Grass is the following weekend, and everybody

(08:39):
else is leaving town except for the Trump administration officials,
and literally every person from Louisiana is staying and taking
over Washington for an entire week. It is perhaps the
biggest expression of political power in the nation's capital by
the Pelican state that I have ever experienced in my lifetime.
And that's saying something when the Speaker and the Majority

(09:00):
leader are both from Louisiana.

Speaker 6 (09:02):
What are the dates of that, Christopher, This would.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
Be the twenty uh the nineteenth through the twenty fifth.
If I'm like, am I got there?

Speaker 2 (09:09):
I have that right by January twenty five?

Speaker 5 (09:11):
Yeah, I mean that week.

Speaker 4 (09:12):
Yeah, everything's happening that week, And it'd be a fantastic
time to hold a special election in Louisiana because nobody,
who's anybody in positics is going to be there.

Speaker 5 (09:20):
Wow, They're all going to be in Washington, you see,
as you.

Speaker 4 (09:23):
Said, And ironically enough, we're going up there to witness
the second inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, who's going
to be uh one of the only one of the
only presidents to have two terms with a gap in between.

Speaker 2 (09:38):
The second one.

Speaker 6 (09:40):
Cland Cleveland was the first.

Speaker 4 (09:42):
And so but then you're gonna have Washington Marti Gras,
which the chairman of this year's Washington Marti Gras is
Democrat Congressman Troy Carter. The old well, he was the
only Democrat member of the delegation we're gonna have because
of the addition Chick, you're going to have a Congressman
Clio feels As soon to be sworn in as a

(10:05):
second member. But the regardless, it's going to be like
a big week for Republicans. But the party at the
end of the week is going to be run by
a Democrats. So you draw any conclusions you want out
of that, well.

Speaker 3 (10:14):
It's going to be it's also going to be run
by the Democrat who is now number two position in
the Congressional Black Caucus, who, by his own admission, is
the guy who runs between Hakeem Jefferies and Steve Scalise
on a regular basis to carry on negotiations between both
sides and gets everybody in his office for drinks on
Fridays just so they'll talk to one another. So it's
not your conventional Democrat.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
But does he have a blue dog in his office?

Speaker 3 (10:37):
Troy's Troy will tell you. He says personally he's a
very progressive liberal Democrat. But at the same time, he's
got such close personal relationships with both sides of the
leadership that he's like he's become the ambassador for everything
in Washington right now.

Speaker 4 (10:50):
He yeah, and the Democrats, the Democrat Caucus has relied
heavily on courage from Carter for that for his personal
relationships with.

Speaker 5 (10:58):
The Majority leader and with the Speaker.

Speaker 4 (11:00):
That speaker actually has worked on some legislation with a
leader how Keen Jefferies in the past. They do have
so much of a relationship, but that's not necessarily the
case with the Majority leader's office.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
And uh, as you said, dorn.

Speaker 4 (11:15):
Km Carter going back to he was in on the
New Warorleans City Council, Louisiana State House, Louisiana State Senate,
and now he's i think on his third term in Congress.
And he's always been known as port of a peacemaker goy.
It gets along with everybody.

Speaker 5 (11:30):
And uh so, yeah.

Speaker 4 (11:31):
I'm glad even though I mean, look, I'm very happy
that the Republicans are going to be controlling Congress.

Speaker 5 (11:36):
But I'm also glad that.

Speaker 4 (11:38):
My congressman and congress from Carter, who you know because
I live in New Orleans, is still going to be
in a position of influence.

Speaker 5 (11:44):
And he's just a good guy.

Speaker 3 (11:45):
Overall, soably arguably he's the most powerful kind of he's
not a swing vote. But when you have a Congress
where currently there's a three seat majority for the GOP
and two of those seats are going to become members
of the cabinet, that means that's a one seat majority
when they're going to be passing a budget in tax cuts.
That's not a position being the guy who kind of
connects both sides. It may be the most powerful position

(12:08):
in the United States House of Representatives right now.

Speaker 4 (12:10):
It could be absolutely yeah and uh yeah. So it's
so funny because we're going to have I think some
people from Louisiana in prominent positions within the Trump administration
and sub cabinet positions.

Speaker 3 (12:25):
And do you think Garrit Graves is going to be
Do you think Gerrit Graves is gonna be a head
of FEMA?

Speaker 5 (12:29):
I personally would like that I'm not sure.

Speaker 4 (12:31):
I don't speak for Congressman Graves, but I've heard that
obviously he's on the short list, And what I've heard
is that it's kind of his if he wants it,
is just not sure if he wants it. He's got
a lot of factors to weigh, like possibly even running
for Congress again in two years. So I'm waiting with
baited breath to see that's gonna happen.

Speaker 3 (12:53):
But I think you'd be a fantastic choice, I would say.
Somebody asked me, well, why would he do that? If
he could run if the sixth congressional district is voted
to be unconstitutionally Jerry mattered, why wouldn't you just run
for that?

Speaker 6 (13:03):
I said, well, let me see.

Speaker 3 (13:05):
What is FEMA control Besides disaster relief, and under Garrett
Grays's plan, the corp of Engineers, it also controls that
little insurance thing called flood insurance FEMA floodmaps, and that
would not be an unpopular If you solve the flood
map insurance situation in Louisiana, that would be a pretty
bright state stance for the rest of your political future.

(13:26):
It's not a that's something you can run on very easily, folks.
Brian Trasher is joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Tidmore here
in the Founder Show, and Brian, I know your time
is limited, but I wanted to look at it. We're
looking at Louisiana and unpressing in a position of power
in DC, across the different departments.

Speaker 6 (13:43):
What's going on?

Speaker 3 (13:44):
And I do want to turn back to Jeff Landry
and the aftermath of the legislative session. You do a
lot of lobbying up there, and obviously Landry got most
of his tax reform, he got the income tax down,
he got this. But I keep hearing this rumor, and
it's that HB one of HB nine, which was the
putting sales taxes and things that are previously might make
another at least revised introduction into the fiscal session coming

(14:08):
up in March, because the governor hasn't finished wanting to
cut corporate income taxes and some other taxes. Have you
heard anything like that or do you think it's pretty
much over? That's just a rumor and that he Jeff
Landry is going on to other brighter pastures legislatively.

Speaker 4 (14:24):
One thing I can tell you two things I can
tell you is it number one? When Jeff Landry wants something,
that doesn't stop until he gets a number two. With
regards to the different tax proposals that were in this
special session, there was a lot of them. Manas sat
in the Senate Revenue Fiscal Affairs Committee of plenty during

(14:44):
that special session, and there was a lot of you know,
agency heads coming to the table to testify saying, hey,
this is you know, we want you to kill this
credit or kill that credit. And you know, senators would ask, okay,
well what are you replacing it?

Speaker 5 (14:59):
Like, what's your plan? Well, we're gonna we're you know, meeting.

Speaker 4 (15:02):
With our advisors and we hired some consults and this
now we're gonna come up with a plan in the spring.
And the senators kept asking over and over again, why
are you asking us to do this.

Speaker 5 (15:12):
Now where you don't have the plan yet?

Speaker 4 (15:13):
Why are we just doing this in the regular session?
And I mean, I think it was a good question,
like and so I think come regular session time, or
maybe even a special before the regular uh, these a
lot of these plans hopefully will be rolled out if
they're going to happen, and I think they'll have a lot.

Speaker 5 (15:31):
More success in Louisiana Senate.

Speaker 4 (15:34):
Uh, you know, being the more deliberative body, and of
course Cameron Henry being you know, very much the political tactician,
not just letting anything sail through just because you share a.

Speaker 5 (15:44):
Same party brand with the governor. I think that. So
my point is, I think that you could see a
lot of these things resurrected, but perhaps a little maybe
a little bit better planned out this time.

Speaker 3 (15:56):
Well it's it's curious because Jeff Landry won to a
three point five percent corporate income tax. He got five
point five percent, which is of course down from seven
point five percent. It was still progress, but it still
puts Louisiana at I think we're twentieth or twenty fifth
in levels of corporate income tax ider us. But overall,
I mean, I you know, sometimes I'm I'm critical of
Jeff Landry, but he conducted more tax reform in a

(16:20):
shorter period of time than the last seven governors combined, which.

Speaker 5 (16:25):
There hasn't even been the willingness of many governors.

Speaker 4 (16:28):
To even try what he tried, and the ones that
tried failed miserably.

Speaker 5 (16:33):
Bobby Gendle being one of them, never even got the
proposal off the ground.

Speaker 4 (16:38):
But Jeff Landry knows we're at a critical point in
time when if you just look, it's you know, getting
rid of the state income tax and lower incorporate income
tax and all that is not even a matter of
you know, conservative, liberal or philosophical. We every single state
that we are surrounded by here in the South, in

(16:59):
the golf cuth even like Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Georgia, they
don't have state income tax anymore, and they've replaced it,
you know with with basically economic development in the corporation also,
but also property taxes, which we sort of as a
third rail here in Louisiana. Correct, correct, So I mean,

(17:19):
you know, like I said, it's one of those things
where when he won, and he won in the first
primary without a runoff, he said that his job was
going to be to make some tough decisions and generational
changes in the state that there hasn't been the willingness
to do before and the votes in the legislature to
get it done. And when he goes in and flexes

(17:41):
his muscles, he can get those few, you know, last
votes seems like that he needs in the legislature. But again,
the Senate is kind of the last stand, and I
think that, as I said before, his agency heads come
back to the table with a better plan on what
they wanted to replace some of these credits with, have
an easier time convincing these senators to UH to make
those changes.

Speaker 3 (18:01):
Brian Trasher has been joining Hi mc henry and Christopher
Tidmore here in the program. We do want to ask
you about your your your your charity work where you've
been rescuing people in North Carolina. But before we close
off on that, Brian, because I know your time is limited,
what are the two or three unexpected things that people
should be watching and upcoming in the political year of
twenty twenty five. Oh wow, easy question, a stress question,

(18:24):
anything that we should be know about the.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
Great I mean, listen, I think that you're going to
see with the Trump administration coming in and Republicans control
them the House and Senate, I think that they're looking
at not a four year window, but a two year window,
meaning between January twentieth and the midterms, of just cramming
through as much much needed reform. I have no idea

(18:52):
what Elon Muskin, Vic Roberts Wam are going to do
with the quasi department of government efficiency, as it's called.
But I think there's going to be put it this way.
I would not be surprised to see major departments in
the US government decentralized out of Washington, d C. Just
take the Department of Interior, move it to you know,

(19:14):
North Dakota, and the Department of Defense and move it
to you know wherever. I don't know, Texas or something,
but I would not be surprised to see that happen.
And the good thing is it really breaks in. Most
of the bureaucrats are working from home now anyway. What do
they need to go into the office in DC for?
But you get it out of DC all of a sudden.
What it created, Chris, what is it? A Prince William County,

(19:34):
Virginia something the most wealthy county. It happened in the
countries because they're all government workers making big salary.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
They're all making one hundred thousand dollars or plus a year,
and it's considered recession proof. But it's it's it's outside
of the business cycles. But the other point being, one
hundred thousand federal employees are about to retire or in
the process of retiring, by moving the departments. The question
is can you do you have to replace them if
you're because as you move it apart and your wholesale requirements,

(20:02):
your wholesale review. But my question is with three votes
in the House of Representatives majority, is there enough votes
to be able to get it's it was hard enough
doing that kind of stuff when the Republicans and Trump's
first term had like a twenty five vote majority. Can
you do it with one to three votes?

Speaker 5 (20:17):
Well, it wasn't hard. He just didn't have any balls.

Speaker 4 (20:19):
It was Paul Ryan's house and he was not a
Trump fan, and he was kind of, you know, almost
in there to try to stop Trump's agenda. And you
have Mike Johnson, who's you know, flying around on Trump
Force one taking selfies with Kid Rock and Jelly Roll.
You know, obviously he's become a big fan, and you know, yeah,

(20:42):
he's got a slim majority.

Speaker 5 (20:43):
He can afford very few defectors. But this time it's
not going to be that. The will isn't going to
be there.

Speaker 3 (20:49):
By the way, for those that begin are saying this,
for Brian and I who were in college in the
college Republicans with Mike back in the early nineties. For
Mike Johnson to be taking selfies with Kid Rock shows
you how much the world has changed in more ways
than we care to count.

Speaker 5 (21:05):
It's like when the main pastor shows up to youth
pastor night or something. You know, it's just uh it.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Showing being the scene, wearing his tattoos, showing you all right.

Speaker 3 (21:15):
One thing we do want to close on, Brian Trasher,
is you get we always bring you here to talk
about politics for occasionally sports with your evil trend. Brian Scott,
we don't give you enough credit for the amount of
work you do with the Cajun Navy, and you guys
overwhelmingly came to help the people in north in western
North Carolina from Ashville all the way to Highlands and
that in that bowl area and rescued a lot of
people just as if it was Katrina in the mountains,

(21:37):
and we wanted to thank you for it. But also
you know, ask you about the parallels what you saw
while you were up there, because you spent a good
amount of time up there donating your time and your money.

Speaker 4 (21:46):
I don't use the I never like to compare natural
disasters to Katrina because you know, like you guys are
from here.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
We lived it, we went through it.

Speaker 4 (21:57):
But I will say without hesitation that what happened in
western North Carolina with Hurricane Helen is far worse than
what happened to the Gulf Coast after Katrina, for a
number of reasons. Number one, just the sheer topography. Forty
trillion gallons of water was dumped into the mountains and
it had nowhere to go but down, and it created
these hydrokinetic landslides.

Speaker 5 (22:17):
It speeds up to.

Speaker 4 (22:18):
One hundred and fifty miles an hour, completely taken out
towns in neighborhoods and communities, and there was just no way.
The roads will washed out, bridges will washed out, There
was no way to get to these people or the
National Guard for first responders.

Speaker 5 (22:32):
And so the Cajun, the United.

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Cajun Navy, and other NGOs went and responded and was
able to scramble a lot of aircraft, helicopters and fixed
wing planes and do air ops go and fly supplies
in and bring people out. One of the biggest turning
points in the search and rescue mission was when we
were able to get a bunch of starlink units donated,

(22:57):
which is for anybody that doesn't know. This is Elon
musk'sa's satellite Wi Fi systems that don't rely on on
cell signals or wired means of power. And we were
and we actively used we used what I call eighteen
state of the art eighteen twenty four technology, meaning mules to.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
Deliver twenty twenty four technology.

Speaker 4 (23:21):
Star links up into the mountains and with generators and
hook these people.

Speaker 5 (23:26):
Because it was so many people that were.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
You literally you literally used you literally used horsepower to
get there, you know.

Speaker 5 (23:32):
Horsepower to get their immune power, donkey power.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
And there was people who were quote unquote missing, but
what it was they were just in communicato. Their cell
phones wouldn't work and the ones some of them just didn't.

Speaker 5 (23:42):
Have any power anymore.

Speaker 4 (23:43):
And we were able to power up those cell phones
get connected to the star links, and all of a sudden,
the missing person lists went from thousands down to hundreds
because people start start able to you know, communicate with
their loved ones and uh, very rewarding. But yeah, it's
just ongoing FEMA. This is a way worse of a
disaster or way worse of a failure on FEMA than

(24:05):
even it was after Katrina and FEMA has ten times
the employees they do than they did in two thousand
and five.

Speaker 5 (24:11):
But they've just completely crapped the bed for lack of
a way of a better way of putting it.

Speaker 4 (24:18):
And now that now that the election went the way
it did, it's almost as if they just kind of
checked out and said, Okay, well, this is going to
be the next guy's problem. Meanwhile, people are living in tents,
freezing and starving in the North Carolina gets cold, North
Carolina Mounticas.

Speaker 5 (24:31):
Yeah and uh, and so that's why I call it worse.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
Yeah. Well, I was there, Brian for the Katrina. We
I'll the beginning of the casion Navy started with our
little group right there Napoleon Saint Charles Avenue. We were
pushing floating bodies out of the way to get to
the living while we dodge bullets Nu Orleans like the
wild Western steroids and the report of dead were nowhere
near what the real numbers were. And I'm sure that's
happening in North Carolina right now. And FEMA was here

(24:58):
at our gates day one. Wouldn't let him in. Now,
I understand now that FEMA was able to get in
in North Carolina. Nevertheless, they still chose only Democrat you know,
pro Biden voters to support and help, and they blew
past the Trump people. Can you give us an accurate
story on that place. Let Brian tell us go ahead, Brian.

Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, yeah, So I'm glad you brought that up, because
this is something that was just even Democrat elected officials
that I know that heard the story are absolutely horrified
that there was a policy within FEMA that if if
you went down a road or a community that had
more than three not just Trump signs, but they had

(25:40):
like they had a whole list of.

Speaker 5 (25:41):
Different kind of signs like like I don't don't tread
on me flag, or or maybe just an American flag.

Speaker 4 (25:49):
Well let's go the American flag, let's go Brandon sign
or anything patriotic, they were able to consider that a
hostile work environment, and they were they did not have
to go into that area. And so basically by branding
people that they disagree with politically as creating a hostile
work environment, that's that's how they got around their policies.

(26:10):
And they literally let people freeze and starve because of
their political beliefs. And you know, perhaps that's why you know,
North Carolina went to President Trump.

Speaker 5 (26:20):
You know, you can theorize that.

Speaker 4 (26:21):
And I think that, you know, because that storm also
hit I was Georgia and Tennessee, and I think that's
what flipped.

Speaker 5 (26:29):
You might of flip Georgia as well.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
Well.

Speaker 3 (26:31):
I mean, I will tell you, I will tell you
a story from very democratic Ashville. They didn't have water,
not just to drink, you couldn't bathe, you couldn't do
anything for months. Ashville, which is this incredibly blue spot
in a relatively red area, had some of the highest
triumphs to Trump's. It was the frustration level that was
going on with FEMA. So it's it had a count

(26:53):
that alone shows the counter reaction and the anger that
was going towards FEMA. The fact that even some of
the most democratic areas we're had a higher proportion for Trump.
So you know, that's it said something Brian Tresher. I know,
I promise to get you out of here before we
hit a half hour, and That's what I'm going to do.

Speaker 6 (27:10):
But I have to ask you.

Speaker 3 (27:11):
You know, it's been for those of us that are
LSU fans, this has not been the greatest season, especially
with Alabama going on. Can you offer us any hope. Yeah,
because you you, you as Brian Scott.

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Have alone.

Speaker 3 (27:23):
Yeah, you as Brian Scott have of course been writing
on college football for years, and what are your say
is is we're going into the playoffs.

Speaker 4 (27:30):
Well, you know, the only I think bright spot is
that two Lane and Alabama did can get in, so
at least we don't have to at least want to
have to spend the holidays with LSU going to the
Texas Toilet Bowl and having to watch Alabama or Two
Lane go to the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (27:44):
Man, I'm so happy about the.

Speaker 4 (27:47):
Twelve team playoff, and I you know, I think there's
always going to be controversy about who they let in.

Speaker 5 (27:53):
But you know, LSU, something happened.

Speaker 4 (27:56):
I can't even figure it out, but something happened at
halftime during that Texas and M game, because you know,
l s US, this LSU squad was looking pretty pretty promising,
not not saying championship caliber, but at least postseason caliber,
and then all of a sudden they came out flat and.

Speaker 5 (28:11):
Lost to Texas A and M and then just really
did not have a great go for the rest of
the season.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
You know, they they a couple of games they won looked,
looked looked okay.

Speaker 5 (28:23):
Obviously knocking off all miss was a big deal.

Speaker 4 (28:25):
But nevertheless, yeah, in Oklahoma, they looked feeling great, you know,
but again they just sort of didn't have that fire
in him anymore. And then Brian Kelly starts having trouble
with you know, some commits, and that's not really I mean,
people are blaming him, but I mean it's literally like billionaires,
like you know, stepping up to put money up to

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get kids to go to their alma model like Michigan
and things like that.

Speaker 5 (28:48):
But you know, I know of some kids in.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
The transfer portal that are gonna plug some holes that
LSU has, So you know, all we can do, Like
I keep telling people, we were stuck with Brian Kelly.
We're in a bad you know a little bit of
a bad marriage right now.

Speaker 5 (29:05):
But you can't get divorced because it's too expensive. It's
just cheaper to keep her. You know.

Speaker 4 (29:09):
It costs us like sixty million dollars to send him,
uh to send him packing right now.

Speaker 5 (29:14):
So we just kind of have.

Speaker 4 (29:15):
To trust that he's going to bring in the personnel
both on the coaching staff in on the field to
turn things around in the next year or two, and uh,
you know, that's all we can do.

Speaker 5 (29:26):
But like I said, at least we don't have.

Speaker 4 (29:28):
To spend the holidays watching Baman Tulane in the playoffs
while our LSU Tigers are not.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Yeah coming, being the one LSU guy in a TWU
lane family, I just I was it was gonna be excruciating.

Speaker 6 (29:38):
I was. I was the only person smiling when they
lost that game.

Speaker 5 (29:41):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 4 (29:41):
Normally I'll root for Tulane just because they're a you know,
Louisiana team and New Orleans team. But but again, having
having to watch them, you know, win a conference championship
or go to the playoffs would have been a really
tough pill to swallow, was.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
An LSU fan. Uh So, uh, you know, better next year.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
Greenies better luck. Heyway, Brian Trash, Sure, thank you. As
always that we pretty much covered the entire gambit you.

Speaker 2 (30:03):
Except one the last time, we didn't give the date
for the DC Marti Gras.

Speaker 3 (30:07):
It's it's always the twenty fourth and twenty fifth.

Speaker 2 (30:09):
So right at the time of the trensit.

Speaker 6 (30:10):
So it's right, it's literally the.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Final basically the final weekend. Yeah, so you got inauguration
on Tuesday, and then d C. Marti Grooth festivity is
really smart.

Speaker 2 (30:18):
Yeah the ke for those that it'll be the ipon
on the Keg folks.

Speaker 3 (30:23):
We didn't explain this, but every elected official effectively is
invited to d C.

Speaker 6 (30:27):
Marti Gras.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
It's not just the carnival ball of d C.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
Marti Grauth.

Speaker 3 (30:29):
There's a series of perceptions often called the sixty fifth Parish.
We even think about doing one for the opera while
we're up there. And so it's it is. It is
something where everybody in the Louisiana political class goes up
and usually they come up on Thursday or something and
are there on Friday. But this year, of course, with
the inauguration, people are just staying for the whole week.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
So and I have the honor of being nicknamed the.

Speaker 5 (30:50):
President of the sixty fifth Parish of Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (30:52):
So one we're not sure how that happened, but it's
just sort of organically.

Speaker 5 (30:57):
Uh, it is what it is.

Speaker 4 (30:59):
But I I take my role seriously and I anything
I can do for my constituents, whether it's you know,
buy another round at the bar, or get a nurse
to come to the hotel and administer IVS, which is
not something I'm.

Speaker 5 (31:12):
Having to do.

Speaker 3 (31:12):
I have a feeling you will have to do both
in your in your brief but very important tenure as
parish president of the Hilton.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
I have no parish council who.

Speaker 2 (31:25):
Will be the court jester or the harlequin for the
eight ball.

Speaker 5 (31:29):
That position's open.

Speaker 3 (31:30):
That positions over we're looking for to laugh at. So
it's all right, Brian Trash. Always a privilege. I've klled
you over longer than I said I would, but as
you usually.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Your information, Look, you manage the clock better than last mile,
so I appreciate you.

Speaker 6 (31:42):
Appreciate it. Brian Trasher, thankank you.

Speaker 3 (31:44):
She's always and we'll be back with more of the
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Speaker 6 (37:55):
With Christopher Tidmore and ladies and gentlemen.

Speaker 3 (37:58):
We have to point out that it was a thirteen
year civil war, but it ended in eleven days. Syria itself,
of course, the Asad family has fled to Russia. Russia
doesn't even know if they can keep their naval base
and air base right Tartarus. But what's interesting, why do
we care about this because an interesting thing happened that

(38:18):
the press hasn't covered as much. You've heard about this.
It's the fact that Benjamin Dalu, the Israeli Prime Minister,
occupied the demilitarized land below the Golan Heights, which Golan
Heights originally was part of Syria, and it was conquered
during the Six Day War by the Israelis. And it's
not only critical Israeli farm territory. It's where all a

(38:39):
lot of their vineyards and stuff are. It's also their
high land protection because if you control the gol On
Heights you can shoot straight.

Speaker 6 (38:45):
Down into Lowlandusria.

Speaker 3 (38:47):
But the area that conquered is interesting because they it's
actually where the Drews people are. They're good the Jews people. Yeah,
the Jews people are very pro American, very pro Israeli.

Speaker 6 (38:59):
Inc.

Speaker 2 (39:00):
The Jrews conte they don't want to fight with anybody.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
The Jews constitute something like five percent of the like
three percent of the Israeli population. They serve in the
Israeli military. There Israeli citizens. And what's interesting, they're Muslims.
But the peace No, they're not Muslims. I thought they
were like a mixture of other there.

Speaker 6 (39:18):
It's it's different.

Speaker 3 (39:19):
It's actually a fusion of Hinduism with a little bit
of the Abrahamic religions brought in Drews. For example, you
do not proselytize. You have to be barn to be
a Drew. You well, you can become a Hindu in theory.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
Wait, Christopher, according to strict Vedic law, No, you can't.
You can be born as a Hindu.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Well, we can get that, we can get the interpretation
of this that I know people in Drews in the
Jews religion, you literally can't. You could, there's no you
can't bury into it.

Speaker 6 (39:51):
You can't.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
But they're also very priest loving and they've kind of
been subject to this. And one of the what ifs
that I'm asking myself about is the occupation of this
demilitarized area. The Drews themselves never were enthusiastic about being
part of Syria. They've wanted their own nation for a while,
and that might be this what I think we're about
to see in Syria. I'm using this as an example,

(40:14):
is the collapse of the Syrian nation as a nation.
There's not going to be this the Muhammad al Johanni
who this guy, by the way, for those that are
charming that Asad leaves and Assad is the worst piece
of work. Not since Hitler have we seen somebody who
is who is a monster. Johanni's not any better. I
hate to tell you. This is the guy who was
head of ISIS, who pledged allegiance to al Qaeda.

Speaker 6 (40:35):
Who is his christ.

Speaker 5 (40:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (40:36):
The only difference is he's not a si I Ali,
he's an Absunni Arab.

Speaker 6 (40:42):
But that's about it. Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 2 (40:44):
It's like for perhaps all we have here is one
monster being replaced with another. One time will tell what.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Well this is where it is because you got a
dreams he's not gonna be supporting Well, he's not, and
he's not supporting a ring Iran ir Yeah, so this
this has.

Speaker 6 (40:58):
Been a Rams proxy.

Speaker 5 (40:58):
He's not.

Speaker 3 (40:59):
He's anti Iranian and he's very anti Russian because remember
it was the Russians that kept us sod in power
by bombing his p right, so Russia is going to
probably lose their one navy base on the Mediterranean.

Speaker 5 (41:11):
This is.

Speaker 3 (41:14):
Well, it's not the only warm water base because they've
got flatty Vostok, but but basically it's the only one
in the Mediterranean and because Crimea is locked off by Turkey.

Speaker 6 (41:24):
But there's an interesting thing.

Speaker 3 (41:25):
If the Drewiz states established the alrights don't want to
be ruled by the Arabs. The alrights are a very
different ethnic group. They're the shia Is, They're the ones
Assad's people are from. They want their own country. And
the real question, and this is where there's going to
be a major geopolitical problem for Donald Trump or for
any president who would be in office. One third of
Syria is Kurdish, and the Kurdish Northern Kurdish Northern Iraq

(41:51):
is barely part of Iraq now, it's only nominally giving
lip service to the government. You put those two together,
you have a huge, a large state nation. And the
one the people that the Turks hate almost as much
as the Armenians, probably more, are the Kurds because one
thirty of their country's Kurdish, and they've been basically trying
to stamp out Kurta.

Speaker 6 (42:12):
The Kurds for the last one hundred.

Speaker 2 (42:14):
And fifty most is the greatest Islamic hero of all
all the time was a cur.

Speaker 6 (42:19):
He was a Curd.

Speaker 3 (42:19):
For those that are Salad Dean sala Deen, he was
a Curd. He is of great Kurtis descent. And the
Kurds are very pro American and very pro Israeli. So
the Kurds, interesting are the only group in the Middle
East outside of the Egyptians who nominally do it, who
have recognized Israel passionately. So net and Tai You has

(42:40):
called he called twenty years ago for the establishment of
a Kurdish state. I think with the Israeli Grand strategy
here is the collapse of Syria as a nation completely.
The problem is if there's a Kurdish state, and this
is where things get really tricky. You will then see
almost immediately Turkey going from an observer on this Middle

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Eastern situation, which to doing what they did to Armenia,
which is invade for those that don't know, they have
taken southern Armenia, not just intogrnal Chowra back, but southern
Armenia as a platform to connect to Azerbaijan. They've conquered
and ethnically cleansed the south of the nation. And don't
think they won't cross the border to do that against
the Kurds because they have a history of doing that.

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So anyway, it's a major geopolitical situation for the next
president to come in.

Speaker 2 (43:27):
Point here, according to the scripture in Isaiah, there's a
prophecy that has to happen before Jesus comes back. Damascus
has to be destroyed completely, and right now Damascus is
in the cross airs of some very powerful people, powerful nations.

Speaker 6 (43:41):
Yes, since I've been so.

Speaker 2 (43:43):
This could be the thing that's one of the final
prophecies coming true.

Speaker 6 (43:47):
All right, we'll be back.

Speaker 3 (43:48):
We'll be back with the patriotic and historic moments right
after these important messages.

Speaker 6 (43:52):
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Speaker 2 (46:23):
Well, folks were back and you were listening to the founders.
So the voice of the funding fathers, and this is
Chaplin High mccenry here. It's been very bye Bah of
the Republic, and it's not time for us to go
into our chaplain. Bye blah, patriotic moment. We just take
a brief moment to remind you of the Biblical foundations
for our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence of today. We're
going to we're going to take a look at President

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Stephen Grover Cleveland, who lived from the years of eighteen
thirty seven to nineteen o eight, a nice long life,
seventy years for those times those days, that was a lot.
He was our twenty second and twenty fourth president at
the life of the over the last fifteen years of
nineteenth century, like starting from eighteen eighty five. I think
it was to the end of the and he missed

(47:07):
the term in between. He skipped four years, so he
was the first. Now we have this second president that's
been elected twice for the term in between, and that's
none other than Donald Trump. Those men are both interesting
in certain ways. They're both from New York. They both
married gals, ladies about thirty years or younger, and they
both had two terms. One was a Democrat Cleveland, the

(47:30):
other is a Republican of course, Donald Trump. But let's
hear what Grover Cleveland had to say about his understanding
of our biblical foundations. He said, and let us not
trust a human effort alone, but humbly acknowledged the power
and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny
of nations, and who has at all times been revealed
in our country's history. Let us invoke his aid and

(47:52):
his blessings upon our labors. I know there is a
supreme being who rules the affairs of men, and dealing
with the government was dealing with the Indian an Indian
issue at the Mohawk Conference, and they were all not
knowing which way to go or what to do.

Speaker 4 (48:07):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (48:08):
President Cleveland through the Bible on his desk and said, gentlemen,
after all that book has got to settle our Indian issues. Folks,
I think Grover Cleveland believe God should be in government.
I know he did. Once again, we have one of
the many billions of evidences on that could make an

(48:30):
evidence book, by the way, to prove beyond the shadow
of it out America was founded upon biblical principles, upon
the Word of God, and that it maintained that that
condition throughout its time. Even today. Look at Donald Trump.
He's got He's had more Biblical influences and issues in
his life than you could possibly imagine. He car keeps

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a Bible from his uncle from from Scotland. That was
a Bible used in that Great Revival. It's sitting on
his desk. That's the one he waived when we went
out to dedicated church. He has a committee of spiritual advisors,
preachers who are his advisors. He has his own personal

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spiritual council. One of the strongest Biblical preachers in America today,
and that's the minister, the pastor of First Papist Church
of Dallas, Texas, Jeffers. He's in his acceptance speech behind
the curtains. There were about one hundred to hundred people
that were part of his staff campaign staff. For the
past several hours, they have been praising and praying, praising

(49:35):
God and praying as he walked out, before he walked out,
and as he walked out on the stage. Folks, we
have had a very strong biblical foundation in this country.
We better not forget if we want to make America
great again, If we really want to do that, then
you know what we better do. We better go to
what made America great in the beginning and has kept
us great all along, and as the Word of God,

(49:56):
the Holy Bible. But what about you do you have
got in your life? Do you have the Bible in
your life? Well, you can. And the way you get
it is what's called the Gospel. The scripture says, a
gospel is the power of God and salvation to whosoever
believeth the Gospel. And this says for our declarity of
the gospel, that Jesus died for all of our sins
according to scripture, that he was buried, and that he
rose from the dead according to the scripture. And that

(50:18):
simple childlike faith in this gospel message is what guarantees
you ever lasting life death Baryl in resurrection. That is
the gospel. Have you believed that yet, folks. If you haven't,
you better get with it. We don't live forever. And
guess what, no one checks.

Speaker 6 (50:36):
Out of here alive.

Speaker 2 (50:37):
Everybody leaves through the coffin. Even Jesus, God, the Son,
our Savior, had to pass through death because he was
going to be the one that was going to be
the man that would save us as well as God.
He was all the way God and all the way Man,
perfect God and perfect man. Folks. If you've never believed
this before, don't wait till it's too late. Believe you

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can't save yourself. That's repentance. And the moment you repent
and you believe you can't save yourself, then you've got
the wide open opportunity. Then at that point, with all
of your heart because you're not trusting anything else, you're
not trusting yourself or anything else, to put all your
faith and all your trust in Jesus, that he in
fact did die for all your sins, was buried and

(51:19):
rose from the dead. You say we've been saved by grace,
that means a gift. We've been saved by grace, a
free gift through faith. And even that is not of ourselves.
It is a gift of God, not of works, lest
any man should both, folks, It's all about grace and faith.
God's gift to us, his love gift to us Jesus,
so we would be saved from hell and guaranteed heaven. Please, folks,

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do it now. The script says, now today is a
day of salvation. Well, folks, it's not time for us
to go into our watchmen on the wall because we
think times are short. We think Jesus is coming back
very very soon. And you know, one of the signs
of his coming back earthquakes. That's right, earthquakes. Jesus says
it'd be earthquakes all over around the world, your lesson.
In seventy three, we had close to five thousand earthquakes

(52:02):
in nineteen seventy three all around the world. You know,
this past year we're going to be probably, if not
breaking the five one hundred thousand mark, close to it,
five hundred thousand earthquakes and increases over ten thousand percent
since nineteen seven. And by the way, in the nineteen
seventies were records because if you go back to the

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turn of the century. They're only maybe like one hundred
earthquakes every year. Folks, the signs are ever growing on us,
and there's so many of them. They're over two hundred prophecies.
They've just about all happened. So if you don't know
where you're going, you better figure it out. Because if
you need a safe house for these apocalyptic times that

(52:43):
are upon us, the greatest safe house she'll ever get
is the Lord Jesus Christ. Believe on him right now
that he died for your sins and roasem the dead.
So now as we close, we want to say a
quick prayer. Dear God, we thank you so much for
Jesus that he died for all of my sins, that
he was buried, and that he rose from the dead.
It went for me that precious free gift of resurrection
ever life, asking life, Lord, prepare me for the end
that's coming, because it's coming soon upon us, the apocalyptic

(53:06):
revelation time of this earth. Prepare us Lord for it
by having Jesus as our savior. We love you in
praise and ask all these things, and are precious mighty
Savior's name, The Lord Jesus Christ, God incarnate a man.
It's not time for us to close close to the
Mond Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye, God, bless all

(53:27):
out there.

Speaker 6 (53:31):
To call you cel goodbye. Think we just teteed?

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Time put a meed all three sibony, there's time for
a creo goodbye.
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