June 22, 2026 • 54 mins
Hy and Christopher explore several topics, including the upcoming June 27 elections. We break down what’s coming in each Republican runoff, for US Senate, PSC, and BESE.
We also asked the question whether smart phones are the reason for the decrease in fertility. A new study suggests just that.
Finally, we talk about Iran war MOU. One hundred billion dollars; Thirteen American lives; The cost of the Iran War, in exchange for a peace agreement that the terrorist head of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, called “great victory” over the Great Satan. Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said: “The agreement is a record of US failure. People will see it and judge.”
The 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” would unfreeze billions of dollars in Iranian assets as well as assemble a $300 Billion reconstruction fund for Iran (supposedly) funded by regional partners in the Gulf. More importantly, the deal immediately end the US naval blockade on Iranian ports and the issuance of waivers for Iranian crude oil to be shipped abroad. But is it worth it. Even some of Donald Trump’s supporters are calling it a “surrender”, and with the blockhead of the straits, could the president take action?
We also asked the question whether smart phones are the reason for the decrease in fertility. A new study suggests just that.
Finally, we talk about Iran war MOU. One hundred billion dollars; Thirteen American lives; The cost of the Iran War, in exchange for a peace agreement that the terrorist head of Hezbollah, Naim Qassem, called “great victory” over the Great Satan. Iran’s chief negotiator, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said: “The agreement is a record of US failure. People will see it and judge.”
The 14-point “Memorandum of Understanding” would unfreeze billions of dollars in Iranian assets as well as assemble a $300 Billion reconstruction fund for Iran (supposedly) funded by regional partners in the Gulf. More importantly, the deal immediately end the US naval blockade on Iranian ports and the issuance of waivers for Iranian crude oil to be shipped abroad. But is it worth it. Even some of Donald Trump’s supporters are calling it a “surrender”, and with the blockhead of the straits, could the president take action?
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Battles, the politicians addressed, the digitators and magicians are trust
to see the money they did, don't there's nothing to
fill the holes? Well, then are filling their pockets biles,
the politicians bouncing down the road everyvid's wish for no moment,
(00:27):
corruption and itysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I take divide it ofvention.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
The Iran deal.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Conservatives betrayed by Trump, some say so? Or is it
a good deal to lord guests? Before the elections in
the fall and here in Louisiana, will teachers get a
pay raise? Not according to a court decision? And to
stay on this and the elections are happening next Saturday.
Could there be upsets in the psc US Senate and
(00:57):
Bessie races. All this and more on this edition of
The Founder Show.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And God bless you all out there. You are now
listening to the founders. So the voice of the founding fathers,
your founding fathers, coming to you deep within the bowels
of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that old liberty cypress tree draped in
(01:25):
Spanish Moss way out on the Eagles Branch is none
other then yours been Gary Baba of the Republic Chaplain
Hi mcceinry.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
With roving reporter, Resident Radical moderate Christopher Tidmore and associate
editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot com.
And I we got to talk about Iran, We got
to talk about the elections, but I want to start
off with something that happened late Thursday. And I'm not
talking about the special election in Makerfield in the UK,
(01:55):
because you know, I want to talk about that a lot.
But actually what was interesting is if you remember a
few weeks ago when after the legislative session, the governor
came out and said he was going to adjust the
minimum Foundation formula so that the two thousand dollars teacher
pay raises or stipends that had been offering the previous
two years one thousand dollars for support workers would be
(02:17):
continued by taking five percent of the MFP and adjusting it. Now,
the governor says he has that executive authority. However, one
of the questions I raised is, you know, I hate
to say it, but the Louisiana Constitution like the US Constitution.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Is pretty specific.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
If it is not authorized by Congress, you can't spend
the money. If it's not authorized by the legislature, you
can't spend the money. That spending bills must initiate in
the House of Representatives, whether it's the state of Louisiana
or the United States of America. Donald Trump ran into
that with the Kennedy Center when he wanted to change
the name, because that is a bill that was passed
(02:55):
by Congress calling it the John F.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Kennedy Center.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So could the governor, actually Governor Jeff Landry have the
power to unilaterally adjust the MFP Well, one of the
people who sued there were three across the state. One
of them is Orleans Parish school board member Katie Bodowan,
who has two kids in Hinz Charter School, and said
this would take too much money out of the funding
(03:19):
for kindergarten through twelve students. And the one hundred and
sixty eight million dollars in executive order.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Has been shut down by the courts.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
It's going to be going through it's going to be
going on appeal to the State Supreme Court. But at
this point, you know, it's been the courts were pretty specific.
It wasn't like, hey, this is wrong. It's like, you
can't change a major funding formula without an act of
the legislature, and so the legislature has. Part of the
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reason the governor did this, to be honest, is the legislature.
When the Constitutional Amendment was voted down for the second time,
that is the constitutional amendment that would have taken four programs,
paid off state retirement debt, and use the money to
give teachers pay raise. When that was voted down by
the public, a lot of legislators, including Cameron Henry, came
out and said, look, there's no money to pay the
teachers more. This was never a permanent pay raise. Jeff Landry,
(04:15):
to his credit, is the son of a public school teacher,
and he said, I'm not taking away a teacher pay raise.
That'd be really unpopular. What happens at this point, I
don't know. One of my questions is there's not a
lot of time left before the fall. I mean, we
think of ourselves here in June and beginning of July
as heaven all the time in the world. But you
got to remember classes basically start most schools around the
(04:37):
first or second week of August teacher pay and the
budgets have to be solidified in the next week or two.
And if the various school boards around the state can't
make up the funding, there's not going to be a
legislative session in the inanrum, what can the governor do now?
One of the things that was interesting about the legislation
(04:58):
is they had said the Department of Education said something
kind of unusual. It said, you know, if you gave
teachers a pay raise this particular year, you school board,
you perish you whatever, And it equaled the amount you
could take the minimum foundation formula and spend it for
whatever you want. And when I saw that, I said, well,
(05:21):
that's kind of I mean, you can either mandate something
happening or you don't. So what I wondered at the time,
and this was before the decision came out, was was
this a preemptive action by the governor to say it
was his suggestion you spend it on this, Because yeah,
the government can suggest the school boards can do whatever
the hell they want and if they want to spend
the money the way they can and is this his
(05:42):
political defense?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There was a legislative auditor report that says, of these
seventy school districts in the state, not one of them
cannot afford to provide a pay raise. That there's enough
money in the rainy day funds of most school districts
to be able to account for this. But a rainy
day fund is temporary funds. This is not long term funds.
This is an emergency. And as you just saw from
(06:06):
a tropical storm author, we actually do get rainy days
that cause damage sometimes, and hurricane season has just begun.
That's why the rainy days funds are there. It's not
just to make up deficits. It's in case we have
a real ring event and have to pay for serious stuff.
So what will the governor's answer in this? It's a
political pickle, and the courts are not being cooperative for
reasons that conservatives can agree with. Strict construction. You got
(06:29):
to follow what the constitution says.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Very interesting, Christopher Folks. System seem awfully confusing, like a
web of chaos. That's the political world in it. But
you can let me try to simplify this and straighten
it out a little bit. There's certain groups entities in
the government that make law and establish law first of all,
our legislatures, right, they're the ones, the only ones really
(06:53):
supposed to make law. But then they create bureaus and
agencies and they give them the right to make law,
and they do. And many times there's the rub where
the where there's I think bad things happening. I don't
think these bureaus and these agencies do a whole lot
to really help us. And they create a web a
(07:14):
massive amount of law that even they don't understand many times.
So there's a problem. But then the third group, let's
say that makes orders or laws, are the presidents, mayors,
the executive heads of whatever political level of mayors. And
in this case we're talking about the governor. And so
(07:34):
they can make an executive order that establishes a certain whatever,
certain laws, certain action, and uh, and it will stand.
I mean, it's very strong and presidential or governess executive order. However,
the courts can shut it down and the legislatures can
and so that's what's going on here. There's a struggle
(07:55):
between various you know, power groups, let's say the governor
and the courts over is this legal what he has done? Uh,
it seems like he has good intentions he's trying to
make sure teachers get paid well, which is the way
it ought to be. But still did he follow the
law to do it well? If it yet remains for
(08:18):
this whole thing to be ironed out, maybe the legislature
coming they'll make a law that will support what the
governor did.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Didn't you ever watch you know, Schoolhouse Rock as a kid,
or maybe you're a little young, but you know you can.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Look at you. I'm a good bit all on Christopher. Folks,
we didn't have that back then.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm just a bill, just a little little bill, and
I'm making my way to Capitol Hill.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Well, one day I could be a law. I mean,
this is kind of basic.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You got to pass the Congress or passed the legislature,
and he signed in a law.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
The governor executive order is only as strong as the
authority given to it by the legislature. And that's the problem.
A lot of right have abused that.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They've all done parties.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I mean, it's not this is not a this is
not a conservative liberal right left thing. Everybody at some
time or another's abused an executive.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This is this has gone on since the beginning in
the early days of our republic. It was done rarely,
but it was done and uh and they set it
up for like emergency situations. You know, if there's you
can't wait for the government to make a law. Sometimes
the legislatures, I mean, they'll spend years figuring something out,
fighting over, debating over. Sometimes you need a lot right away.
(09:31):
And that's why the president was given and in the
executive heads like the government went, uh, if you will,
emergency powers ways to uh enact something that's necessary through
executive orders. I don't know, they've liked several thousand of
them now that have come out of the White House.
I think the one who did the most was was Obama,
maybe Biden not because they had an auto pen that
(09:53):
I think Obama was controlling. Obama loved executive arties. He
did a bunch of them. So but they've all done it.
They both sides the isle have done it.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
We'll see what happens with the teacher pay raise. But
I wouldn't hold my breath if you're a teacher unless
the school boards themselves ratified out of their budgets.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
This is where we the people need to rise up. Now. Look,
these teachers work very hard they should get paid. They
have very challenging situations and if you wan't good education,
you got to pay for it. So everybody, all Louisiana
folks need to rise up, call their politicians and beat
them to death with getting good legislation in to raise
(10:33):
the salaries of the teachers.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That has to happen Louisiana, and not just liberals conservatives.
I watched the whole thing voted against the Constitutional Amendment
to give teachers a pay raise. The people have actually
spoken and guess what they said. As stupid as it
sounds to you and me, and it does, teachers weren't
all that important because they it was a political thing
(10:58):
against landry. But it was a lot of conservatives who
shot down that amendment too because they were like, this
is taking permanent funds and turning him into regular spending,
and you know, teachers pay the price.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
What that was, folks, There was already money in the
bank and the amendment was to take the money out
and use it to support the teachers. And that all
five amendments were shot down in that election. You know,
this is somethinghere we that people could go in and
vote on an amendment, and I think we made a
fatal mistake in doing that, but I think the right
understanding of it was not there. And you know, I
(11:31):
know a guy he votes against almost every amendment, but
he really studies them, and he said, hi for the
first and he's very conservative. For the first time, I'm
voting for every one of these amendments. They made sense,
they were good for Louisiana. So obviously the voting population
didn't quite have the education and the knowledge of what
they needed to vote on those things. So don't give up.
We'll go back and demand that our legislators voted in.
(11:53):
It doesn't have to be done through us approving of
an amendment, make sure our legislators do it well.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
That's part of the problem we have at the Louisiana Constitution.
Just for people don't know this, we have dedicated so
many funds in the Louisiana Constitution to specific purposes that
effectively the legislature's ability to spend recurring revenues, money that
comes in year after year is comparatively weak. This is
(12:22):
one of the reasons high night joke. You know what
happens if you go into a library and ask for
the copy of the Louisiana Constitution. They'll probably reply, we
don't have we don't I'm sorry, sir, we don't carry
periodicals because it changes so much. The US Constitution doesn't
US Constitution. It takes, you know, not just an act
of two thirds of the House and Senate. It seems
like an act of God to be able to adjust
(12:43):
the US Constitution the Louisiana Constitution. Now you can get
two thirds. Two thirds of the Louisiana Legislature will vote
for just about anything if they if the political tides
are going, and so it's up to the people to
make a decision. And then people decided against it. Look,
I do want to talk about hurricane and a hurricane
tropical storm author denied people power and we had flooding
across the region.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And it gave us a good wake up call for.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
The nine thousand that were without power in the metro
region and others that suffered around South Louisiana from the tornadoes.
How important the PSC race is and where this is
coming down. And we have some updates in that election.
And we're going to talk about the Iran deal. Why
some conservatives think Trump has not not only delivered a
bad deal, but actually delivered a deal worse than Obama did.
(13:25):
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
Well, how do folks, It's Chaplin High mckenry, and I
want you to know I'm the director and founder of
an inner city ministry here in New Orleans called lamb
LA MB. Please check us out, go to our website
lambnola dot com, or just call me Chaplin High mckenry
at area code five zero four seven two three nine
three six nine folks. Right now, we're in the middle
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of a city wide blitz where we have teams all
over this city going to various places community centers, daycare centers, backyards, parks, schools, whatever,
et cetera, all kinds of places. We're even on the
on the Belchase Naval location Belchi you know the station
there the anyway, we're having a great time. We're doing
(15:03):
five day clubs. We call them five day clubs. It's
like a mini vacation Bible school, and we're seeing hundreds
of kids come to Christ. It's a great experience. We've
got teams all over this city doing it. We're being
helped by people from other locations. They've all come in
to work together with us, and it's amazing to see
the results. We do this every summer. It's a great experience.
(15:23):
So please pray for us. And I want you to
know we work with inner city kids. We're an inner
city ministry with an inner city formula and focus for
inner city kids. It's very challenging, folks, very very challenging.
We're dealing with some of the greatest problems in this
country and it needs a lot of prayer. So I'm
asking you folks, please, we need volunteers, we need prayer warriors,
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and we need financial support. If you have any interest,
please contact me Chapelin hih McHenry at area code five
zero four seven two three nine three six nine, and
thank you so very very much.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
There's nothing better to celebrate the two hundred and fifty
anniversary of America than going to the Louisiana State Museum
at the Cabildo and presbyter and seeing three great exhibits
that are right next to each other. One the Galvez
exhibit at the Cabildo a Galvez and the critical role
New Orleans played in the American Revolution. The exhibit of
Lafayette and the two hundredth anniversary of the visit of
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the Marquis de Lafayette and the role Lafayette played in
our revolution when he made his farewell tour and talked
about it. And of course a third, go to the
Carnival Museum. If you've never seen. It's the second floor
of the presbyter It's got all the great carnivals. You
can feel like what it is to be on a float,
you can feel what it is to be one of
the great balls, and there's a wonderful exhibit on the
Illinois Clubs, the Old Illinois Club and the Young Men's
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Illinois Club, which were the first African American clubs, but
the role they played not only as these great images
of Carnival royalty, but actually as the various launch places
for the civil rights movement. All are available at the
Louisiana State Museum, at the Cabildo and the presbyter through
next March.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Got ohs.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
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So thank you so very much. It's time to start
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Speaker 4 (18:19):
With Christopher Tidmore and folks, we've got a lot to
talk about, but actually, can I throw in something before
we talk about the elections?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's kind of funny.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Have you noticed that it doesn't feel this way to
me because I happen to know a lot of people
that are having babies right now. But the fact is,
the birth rate in the United States has been falling,
and in fact, birth rates around the world have been falling,
and you can't even accredit it to like available abortion.
There are places like Malta where that has zero tolerance
for abortion. It's one of the it's a very deeply
(18:49):
Catholic state, and you can't get an abortion pill, you
can't even get anything in the.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
First six weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And yet the fertility rate has fallen to less than
you know, one point to children per two parents in
some parts of the world. India has for the first time,
which used to have three children in the two thousands,
not very well as prepared, has fallen to one point
six and is falling quickly. And there's a lot of
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reasons why. You know, people have tried to figure out
why the fertility rate goes down. Is it the cost
of raising a child? Some countries like Hungry, for example,
have put in policies that basically women don't pay taxes
after their second child, or something along those lines, but
it hasn't really had been very effective. Why are people
having less children? Is it just money? Is it the
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economic realities? Is that they're having children later? We know
that that's a reality, that's a fact. Is that affecting things?
What is happening? Well, interestingly, there's been a lot of
data in the last few weeks that says the reason
why people are having fewer children and the timing coincides
is smartphones. It's much that basically, well, let's be blunt,
(20:04):
sex takes time, effort, and energy, I mean sighs like
shaking his head. The pursuit of of of shall we say,
intimate relations is takes work to some extent in most cases,
even high is looking like, yeah, ni's a point, and
the theory is high that people find it easier to
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go to their smartphones, either not to be bored, just
for entertainment or for other outlets for their sexual talents.
But either way that basically it's just not worth the
effort to pursue not just children, but relationships. There's there's
been a massive decline in the number of permanent relationships
as well.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Amongst the out and folks, they got cell phones everywhere.
I was in one of the most tribal places in
the world, Afghanistan, and everybody had a cell phone. It's amazing.
But this is something I don't quite get. Yeah, it's
hard ware. It can be work, sure, and you know
nobody likes to work right, it's it's a struggle. You sweat,
you have to work hard and endure the thorns and
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thistles of of jobs. You know. The Bible says that
you'd work by the sweat of your brown and the
earth would yield up thorns and whatnot. So it's a
struggle to do any kind of job and work hard
at it. And but it's hard for me to see
sex as a job. I'm sorry. I see it as
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fabulous entertainment and a wonderful time. I don't mind that
kind of labor. I could do that all day long,
all night long. Not anymore, folks, I'm seventy five years old.
I just don't have what I used to have. But
I remember those days, you know, the Bay, the boomers,
we remember. We remember because we were there when it happened. Anyway,
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but I don't quite get that. But I can understand
this now. People have started using cell phones as a
way to establish relationships in their social lives, and it's
not real. It doesn't work properly. And that could be,
you know, a big part of this. I think that
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there's another cause. I see it. A's supernatural. The Bible
says that when nations go bad, when they really go bad,
one of the judgments that God visits on nations is unfruitfulness,
lack of you know, lack of children. As a judgment
on that nation, they are all of a sudden not
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having the issue. That's the old king James e lsbethan
English word meaning babies. And so maybe that has something
because if you look at all the nations in the world,
they're really getting worse and wors and worse, just like
the Bible said it would happen, and more anti Bible
in their moral codes. Let's say, and so is this
a judgment another judgment, by the way, is aliens God
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would turn aliens loose on your nation? Is this a
judgment on the nations of the world right now? I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Well, I go against the judgment argument because fertility rates
are falling in some of the most devoidly Christian nations
in the world, in Sub Saharan Africa and others that
have always had high birth rates and it's going down.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But here is remember they're in a great persecutions of Muslims,
are killing many of them something to do with it.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
And a lot of these nations where literally abortions illegal,
homosexuality is illegal. You go by every conventional standard that
you know. Sometimes people on the Christian right would judge
and they're are my but you can't argue with the statistic,
when did the birth rate really started falling, particularly in
the United States. Let's use the United States as an example,
two thousand and seven. What was premiered in two thousand
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and seven the first smartphone? And the interesting part is,
originally the smartphone was premiered only on the AT and
T broadband networks. AT and T offered the first iPhones.
Some parts of the country did not really have an
AT and T network. So you could compare that places
in the country that had an AT and T network
in the places they didn't. Guess what, the birth rate
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fell within two within the first year in the places
with a AT and T broadband network for cell phones,
and didn't fall in the places it didn't. Folks's if
I didn't read this data and the raw number is
the way it is, I wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
But it really says.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That makes a lot of sense to me. And one
thing about cell phones, and it's bringing in a lot
of biblical immorality. They do we talk. You just mentioned
it and implied it a little while ago, and so
is that also the cause? But I'm sure, Look, there's
a scientific explanation. I really believe that. But remember God
created science, so he knows how to use science however
he wants to.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well, now, let me be direct about it too.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I think pornography and the readiness at your fingertips quite
literally plays it, sure, but actually one of the data
points that it shows off is it's not just that
part of it is. And this is going to be found.
This is what you would find interesting, the fact that
people are no longer bored. What do I mean by that?
What used to happen when you didn't have anything going on?
(25:03):
You were bored? And what do people do when they're bored?
They tend to think about sex. I mean, I hate
to say that's a human being. When you can go
on your and doom scroll through your cell phone. It
may not be about sexual activites. It might be, but
it may not, but you constantly are. One of the
things they found is people aren't bored anymore. And actually,
boredom is a really good thing for people, because that's
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when your brain activates and you start to get creative,
you start thinking, you let your brain goes in overdrive.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
And if you can't do that because you're doom scrolling.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
And by the way, I'm guilty of this, just so
you understand this, I'm guilty of doom scrolling because it's
easier than just trying to sit there doing nothing. And
that could just as easily be one of the reasons, because.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
You know, you've got your desire to be connected instantly done,
so why spend the time and effort to go have
a human connection?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And you're right, cell phones are denying us human connection
in a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Of ways, right the Christopher. When I was years ago
in high school, I went up to Washington, d c.
And I remember going to Washington Square. It was kind
of like a free speech alley area where had all
these protesters and people giving their great speeches political speeches.
Went a lot of hippies there, and there was an
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Indian fella from India and he had gotten caught up
in a dispute about populations and how we had to
reduce the populations because we were overpopulated and the world
was going to die in the next ten years if
we didn't quit them. This was fifty years ago. Folks
obviously made it past those ten years with great population exposures.
But this Indian fella defended India because they were saying
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and he has got too many people. And he says, no,
you don't understand. He says, this fits with what you're saying.
He says, we're a hardworking people. We have very simple
lives and all we have is one another. He says,
you know, you get bored when all you do is farm.
He says, when you get bored, what do you do?
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You make love? That's exactly what.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
There's really truth of that. I mean, what are the
things that would you destract?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It is not my fault. I can't help it.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
And of course that was before the at the beginning
of the agricultural Revolution, which showed that we were capable
of growing fifty times more food on this planet than
any every one ever thought possible, which went to the
whole argument why the Malthusian ideas of overpopulation were really
actually just wrong. But I wanted to bring this out.
So cell phones caused a decrease in humankind. I don't
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know what the answer to that situation is, except I
will say this. This is an argument that right now
there's an argument about banning social media to under sixteen's
in the UK that's hard to enforce because there's something
called VPNs, the ability to use overseas entries to the Internet,
so you can't deny it. But there's a good argument
that we should not have said phones sold to those
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under the age of eighteen, not that I think, you know,
there isn't another argument. There's you know, every big side downside.
Guess one of the things that has decreased rather drastically
since two thousand and seven teen pregnancy. There's fewer teenagers
getting premaral sex premaral pregnancy. Believe it or not, the
age of first sexual encounter has increased by two years.
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Who would have thought that, So, you know, it plays
it off. But I do want to talk a little
bit about the elections. Of course, early voting has passed
this past week, very competitive elections, and John Fleming went
around in the US Senate race putting a few straw
polls that he put out saying that he was leading
in Republican circles. They were basicallylow Fleming rooms.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
He took a lot of flak.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
He endorsed he didn't make it, but he endorsed an
ai one of these AI ads that talked about what
a good thing it was that Luke Letlowe, Julia Letlow's
late husband.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Who got elected to Congress died of COVID.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
What a good thing it was that he died, and
so there's been a counter reaction against that. But ultimately
this race is, while it's Julia Letlow's to lose, it
seems a lot closer than most people do. A lot
of the strongest Trump bites have been skeptical of not
only Julia Letlow, but of Jeff Landry. And I'm gonna
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be honest, you know, there are times I've disagree with
Jeff Landry.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
The one thing I will not.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Criticize him for, and most people would find strange, is
Donald Trump's favorite attorney general in the country who became
one of his favorite governors. Is not sufficiently a Trump bite.
In fact, that's a point of criticism to me, that
he's too close to the president.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
But I find it interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
But the race that I've been really paying attention to
is the Public Service Commissioner's race. And here's why. If
you noticed, we had this tropical cyclone. By the way,
for those that don't know, the difference between a hurricane
and a cyclone is not Pacific versus Atlantic. It's the
direction which the win travel. So a lot of people
are like, why are we calling the cyclone because it
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came from the west, it had a different directional travel
for the winds.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Rarely do we have hurricanes coming from the west, extremely rare.
They start in Africa and they come across and they
get to the Gulf and the Caribbean, they may hit us.
This one started off the southeastern coast of Texas and
then shot up toward US. A very strange story.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
And when it hit Louisiana, it was Fortunately it wasn't
a hurrican, it wasn't a full cyclone. It was a
tropical storm. It's a tropical storm either way, depending on
the winds. But it caused some pretty significant damage. You know,
anybody who was awoken Thursday morning by their cell phones
knows that there were tornadoes all across the region, some
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very devastating ones. Now why am I bringing all this
up in reference of an election, because John Young actually
came on Facebook and he came on and he says, look,
a good public service commissioner, that's what he's running for,
would have already talked to each of the utilities to
find out what their repair plans were, more particularly what
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teams they had ready to go, where they in the
emergency launching, how fast could they get electricity? And he said,
because electricity is not just a comfort, it's life or
death for people with food or with medical conditions, or
so and so forth. Stephanie Hilfredy came out with her
own comment about this. But this has been a really
tight race. This is probably the tightest election we've had.
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And whoever wins the Republican primary in this particular race,
there is a Democrat in it who ran unopposed. There
will be an election in the fall, But for all
intents and purposes, this is a heavily Republican district. Whoever
wins this primary, this closed primary, is going to be
the next Public Service Commission. And there's been this interesting divide.
So John Young has won virtually every parish party office.
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In other words, he's been endorsed by the Jefferson Parish
Republican Party, Blackman's Parish Republican, Saint Charles Parish Republican Saint
Tammy Livingston Saint Bernard, Orleans, where Stephanie Hilferdy lives endorsed her.
But for the most part, she has not won the
party endorsements. However, let's flip this aside. Very few politicians
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have endorsed John Young. Almost everybody has endorsed elected official
Stephanie Hilfordy. Now, the reasons for this has been kind
of complicated, but they all boil down to a guy
by the name of Fred Hebey. Fred Hebey is the
owner of River Birch, the one of the dumps. He's
very big in the trash business. He and his wife
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owned a beautiful home on Saint Charles Avenue and they're
his wife, Jennifer Sneed used to be a legislator. Well,
long story short, Fred Heby and John Young have had
a feud going back to when he was parish president
and it all had to do with the fact that
John Young would not sell Fred Hebey the Jefferson Parish
municipally owned dump. And the argument was that he Bee would,
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you know, shouldn't control all the trash because whoever controls
all the trash basically controls our lot. I mean, I
hate to say it. We talk about crime, have trash
build up on the streets, and see how long a
society survives.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
So he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
He Be has financed every one of John Young's opponents
since then. He put a huge amount of money behind
Cynthia Lee Shang, and he ran a huge amount of
negative ads against John Young. He did the same thing
when John Young ran for Lieutenant governor against Billy Nungesser.
And at last count, he's put one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars behind in a super pack behind Stephanie Hilfridy
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and has been running negative.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Attack ads on John Young.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But one of the things he's apparently done that's been
kind of interesting is he's used his influence with a
lot of elected officials to say, support Hilfordy State Representative
Stephanie Hilferty over John Young. You know I'm putting all
my pressure now, let me be fair to Stephanie Hilferdy,
who's a very smart, very kind, very straightforward person. A
lot of her She's very popular with her fellow elected officials.
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She's a very very popular member of the legislature with
both parties. She's the only republic looking from Orleans Parish.
She has support across the party lines. But having said that,
it's been fascinating to watch this race because by all mathematics,
Young has the longer record of dealing with utilities. He's
the one who's parish president, got things after back up,
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after Katrina. He's the one who got Jefferson as the
state as a member of the council and then this
parish president after Ida and others, and he's the one
normally that would be the overwhelming favorite. But this is
going to come down to the wire, and I don't
think we'll know what the end of this race will
be until very late on Saturday night, the twenty seventh,
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so we'll see what happens. The other, of course, very
tight race is the race that's for the Board of
Elementary and Secretary Education, where Ellie Schroeder, who is the
wife of former state Representative John Schroeder, is running a
very tight race against former Congressman Gau Joseph goo On.
Joseph gou who was appointed to that position by the
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Governor's running for a full term. And the real question
is one of the negatives will go back to the
first race. The fact that Joseph Gao is being supported
by jeff Landry is being used against him in a
Republican closed primary. And I'm fascinated by this. All Right,
We got to finish off today and talk about the
Iran deal. And there's a lot of things I could
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bring about the deal. I've read the fourteen points of
memorandum of understanding. I've gone to this few basic points.
Essentially nothing changes. And this is why you see several conservatives,
and you see frankly Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanalu and Trump
supporters really are saying this is a bad deal. The
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way it works is Iran doesn't have to give up
any nuclear material. It doesn't have to any future agreements
on nuclear material. And they said, we'll agree to talk
in the future. It already guarantees in this memorandum of
understanding that the nuclear material can be changed, processed, and
brought to a lesser not you know, weapons grade on
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Iranian soil. By the way, that was the criticism exactly
that Donald Trump had of the Obama deal, that you
weren't taking the nuclear material outside of the hands of
the Iranians. The three hundred billion dollar fund to rebuild around,
the President has said, is a trillion dollars trillion dollars
domage three one million dollars. Somebody wants to invest. Here's
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the point nobody's pointing out. We are, we are delivering
extra money to the Gulf States, who are then turning
around and putting money to the Iranians. We're we're not
funding the Iranians, but we're funding the people who are
funding the Iranians with extra money. We're actually paying for
part of this.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And it's a.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Pretty obvious point. The Iranians don't have to change their
military policy. The Iranians don't have to give up Hesbelah.
The Iranians don't have to change anything. The only agreement
is that they will have some agreement sometime in the
future to do something with nuclear material that they don't
have to give up, and they'll open the straits of
four moods. Now, I understand why Donald Trump did this,
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because if he didn't do this, gas prices would probably
go up to five to six dollars a gallon again,
and he would lose the House in the Senate in
the fall. Having said that, when this when the Iranian
situation started high, I said, what is Donald Trump's objective?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I support him.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
You can attest this from the very beginning when a
lot of people say we shouldn't be attacking ran, I
was saying, yeah, bomb, But I said, you had to
have a very specific objective. Now there's an Iran that
still has nuclear material, that still produces drones that are
being sold to the Ukrainian that are being sold to
the Russian bomb Ukraine, and one that hates us more.
And the head of Hesbaalah announced to the international public
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on Thursday, America has been defeated and goes in this
can you imagine a worse deal? What was thee hundred
billion dollars in weapons that we and bombs that we
dropped on I ran all.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Four Christopher, We killed most of their leadership. You know,
they're going to brag about all kinds of stuff lying.
It's their pr to make their people think they're so
great and they're winning, but they're not. We took out
almost their entire chain of command. We blew up about
every weapon system and every factor and everything they had.
I mean, right now, Iran is in a state of
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complete destruction and shambles. That's kind of hard to say
you won when you're in that condition. Most nations would
have surrendered. But then they have an ideological religious belief
system that says that they have to kill the blow
up the whole world or half the world or whatever.
And if they blow up themselves, so be it. They
got there. There's seventy two versions on the other side.
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So they're not worried about it. You're dealing with it
with Cereal, with literally criminally insane serial killers who cannot
think rationally, and they're certainly not looking out for their people.
They don't mind quote for the nation to suffer because
they're not. They still have their mansions and their great wealth,
and one they're not worried about the average person in around.
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So no, I think, I know we've won this thing.
But the thing about these people and this what's so
you could get them to sign anything, it doesn't matter.
They're gonna break it. They do it every time. They
believe that you don't have to honor your word to
an infidel. You don't have to. In fact, it's very
important that you lie to them. According to the Quran, because
Allah is the greatest liar in the universe. Now this
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is in the Kuran. So all these things, the only
thing they understand is power. And they have seen the power,
whether they like it or not, they know it's there
and they know we have a president who will use it.
So that that's where the win is here. Now we've
got to see how all this unfolds. It's an unfolding event.
This is this is just a memorandum. It is not
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a treaty. But even if it was a treaty, they
don't mind breaking treaties. It's nothing to them because we're infidels.
So as a.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Former, as a as a serving soldier who watched thirteen
Americans die in this campaign, you're not the least bit
thing that. We're no better off than before we spent
one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
We're so much better off right now. I'm probably because
everything is destroyed over there. That's how they have almost
nothing they will have. Their navy is at the bottom
of the sea. All their artillery and airporay, it's all gone.
There's very very little left. They have some missiles, they do,
it's not totally gone, but they're down to what five
percent of what they had been militarily speaking, So of
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course they can build back. We know that, and so
we just have to see where this is all gonna unfold.
It is an unfolding event. You can't make a final
call right now, especially when you deal with these people.
So it is time for us to take a break.
We'll be right back after this wonderful commercial break.
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Well, folks are back and you are listening to the
Founders show the voice of the Finding Fathers. And it's
not time for us to go into our chaplain by
by patriotic moment. We just take a brief moment to
remind you of the biblical foundations of our country, our
Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And today we want to talk about
Stephen Hopkins. He was one of the signers of the
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Decoration of Independence. His family came originally his ancestors on
the Mayflower. He was from a very old family in
New England and he lived in Rhode. I was born
and raised and died in Rhode Island. He represented Rhode
Island at the Decoration of Independence. He was there at
the Continental Congress and he signed it. He was a
fascinating fellow. His every everything about him was unusual and
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and and strange, but fascinating and interesting. He was a
real character. He wore a large brimmed hat instead of
the tribe tri corner hats. He wore a wide brimmed hat.
He had long hair. He didn't have a wig along
with Ben Franken, they both have had long hair and
was slightly balding on the top. And by the way,
he never took his hat on off he lived. He
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for whatever reason, he kept it on the whole time.
He was a justice, a Supreme Court justice for the
state of Rhode Island. He was a Governor of Rhode Island.
He served many in many capacities in political office and
also had some very successful businesses. He was also one
of the original founders of Brown University. He was quite
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an amazing guy. And he he did have a couple
slaves that he eventually said free. But when he set
one of them free, named Saint Jago, this is what
he said, But principally in most of all, finding that
the merciful and beneficent goodness of Almighty God, by the
blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ, our Lord, has by the
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blessed Spirit, taught all who honestly obey its divine dictates
that the keeping of any of His rational creatures in
bondage who are capable of taking care of and providing
for themselves in a state of freedom. It is altogether
inconsistent with His holy and righteous will you know, folks.
That makes it very clear God is what this is
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really all about. Our political world should be centered on
Jesus Christ. And by the way, that was in all
of the early documents on the founding of colleges in Americas,
always that Jesus Christ as a chief cornerstone. You'll find
that with Brown University, folks. Here's another case of how
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God was in the middle of all that we were
doing when we were starting this country. And I think
it's wonderful to think about how he understood slavery was
bad even though he was everywhere. Well, yeah, it was
everywhere in America, and some of the states you thought
wouldn't have en they had slaves. So it was a
bad thing. And it's interesting to see how our finding
fathers worked very hard to end it. They were not
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able to accomplish that in their lifetime, but they sure
worked very hard and they laid the groundwork for it.
And then later on Robberty Lee, whose father's lighthearse Harry Lee,
he did set all of his slaves free and put
himself in bankruptcy because every time he set a slave free,
he costs you dearly. At his time, the average cost
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of a slave in our money would be about three
hundred thousand dollars. So it was a very costly affair
to set the slaves free. But these funding fathers believed
it was worth it. As we can see how Hopkins
set his if he had a very few slaves, but
he ended up setting them free. George Washington set his
slaves free through his will. It was amazing how many
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of the finding follows work to end slavery because they
were opposed to it and should have been. So, folks,
it's good to know about all this. And how about
God made America great? And if we ever want to
make America great again, we got to put God back
in the country. Amen. But folks, what about this? Is
God great in you? Because we'll never be able to
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make God great in America if he's not great in you.
And how does God become great in you? But it's
really simple. It's called the Gospel. The scripture says the
Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to whosoever
believeth And our belief is broken up into two things.
It's like a two sided coin. On one side, it's
to believe you cannot save yourself. You're hopeless and help us.
Without God, you're a total loser before your creator. There's
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nothing good you can offer to God to get you
into heaven. So forget it. I don't care how rich
you are, how much you go to church, you know, whatever,
you're all your great religious works are, or whatever. It's pointless.
You can walk down the ale a thousand times. I
won't get you get baptized a thousand times, so many times.
If tadpoles know your Social Security number, it won't get
you in heaven. You can turn from sin like a
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spinning top. It won't get you in heaven because all
that is your righteousness. You've got to give up on
your righteousness by faith, believe you can't save yourself. Now
you're free to believe that only He can, that He did,
and that He will save you from a burning hill
and guarantee you everlasting life because of the Gospel. And
what is the gospel for I declare to you the
Gospel of the Scriptures, that Jesus died for all of
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our sins. According to the Scripture, that he was buried,
and that he rose to the dead to win for
each and every one of us that precious free gift
of resurrection ever lasting length. That's one Corinthians fifteen. Folks,
if you've never believed this before, believe it now. You
may not get tomorrow. You may not. I mean, life
is short. I've had many of my friends pass away now.
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Of course I'm seventy five years old, but still it's
pretty amazing to see people that I thought one in
great shape. The next thing I know, I'm going to
their funeral. Folks, you just don't know when it's going
to be your time. The scripture says it's appointed, and
a man wants to die, and then the judgment. You
have an appointment that you will make. I don't care
how much you want to dodge it. You can. That's
an appointment. Nobody misses. Are no one's late for it.
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Just like your birth, you get your birth established and
you get your death established by God Almighty. So if
you've never done it before, please folks, remember that the
Gospel is the power of God into salvation to whosoever
believed that. The scripture says so right now and believe
you can't save yourself, so then you can believe that
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Jesus really did die for all of your sins. From
the day you're born and the day you die, you
tie us to your greatest sins. And that was half
the job. Once he finished taking care of that your
sin problem, then he took care of your death problem
by rising from the dead to winning for you his
precious free gift of resurrection, everlasting life. Again, do it now,
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don't wait until it's too late, like the old country
preacher said, or like the Word of God says. Now
today is the day of salvation. And if you do,
God will become great in you, and then you can
help make God great in America, which then finally make
America great again the full way that it has to
be done. So, folks, it is time now for us
to go into our testimony time, and we're going to
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take an old preacher named Beniger Harvey Carroll, a wonderful guy,
a Texican. He was with the Texas Rangers. He fought
and for the Confederacy, a Texas unit during the war.
When he's a Texas Ranger, he would the supplies he
was supposed to be carrying in the saddle bags instead,
he had books. He read like a book today. This
god was an autodidac off the charts. He was brilliant,
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and he was an atheist, and he could argue the
atheist's side. He used to make Christians cry. He was
so aggressive and rough and tough with people's beliefs. He
would he loved to trash the Bible and God. Well,
one day he found himself invited to an arbor meeting,
a brush arbor meeting. And those were back in the
old days. They would they would get they'd make canopies
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of leaves and brushes, I mean branches and whatnot, and
it make like a little tent, a little facility for
them to go to out in the woods, and they
would have meetings. Preachers would come, and evangels were coming
and preach. It's a very common thing at that time
in America. This was in the middle of the nineteenth century. Well,
he went to one of these meetings one day, and
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he was very very skeptical, you know, very cynical of
what was being said. This guy was a big guy,
by a big, tall, tough guy. He was quite a fighter.
He had been through a lot of you know, the
Texas Rangers, one of the toughest groups ever of all times.
He had fought in many Indian wars and fought in
the War between the States, and captured a lot of bandits,
and he was a really tough man and you couldn't
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spook him. Well, he went to this meeting just to
prove to himself. It was all a lot of bunk.
And you know what, I guess this was an old
Methodist meeting. I'm not sure, because they did a lot
of it. But then sort of the Baptists. I don't
know which one it was. And of course the Baptists
and Methodists were all over Texas. And you know when
he left, he got halfway home and he said he
met Jesus on the trail in the middle of the
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desert on his way home, and he became a devout Christian.
He got so convicted of his sin and of hell fire.
He turned to Jesus, turned to God with all his heart,
trusting in nothing good he could do, and believed and
was born again. And you know what he did. Then
he went to the ministry. Here's a guy who had
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no interest to the ministry. He went into the ministry
and you know, didn't like the ministry. He didn't like
the Bible. But now he became a devout preacher and evangelist.
He founded two great schools. He founded Baylor University and
he founded the largest school of religion in the world,
and that's Southwest Theological Seminary, Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
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This man was absolutely amazing. If you saw pictures of me,
he looked like a big, old, tall, old Testament prophet.
He had a big long beard. He loved to smoke cigars.
Back then it was okay. They didn't think, they didn't
know there was anything wrong with it. But he could preach.
I mean could he preach. And in fact, Spurgeon said
Spurgeon's may have been the greatest theologian of the past
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several hundred years. He was a British preacher and evangelist.
He said. The greatest theologian in the history of America
who gave us the greatest work of theology, was Benija
Harvey Carrol. This man was dynamic. So, folks, it is
now time for us to close. We've heard another great testimony.
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And the impact these people's lives have on all of us.
The Bible says by the blood of the Lamb and
the word of their testimony, they overcame the dragon. Your
testimony can have a great impact on people's lives. Think
about it, See how you might be used by God,
and go to work for the Lord. It is now
time for us to close. As we're closed with a
mine Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye, and God bless
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all out there.
Speaker 7 (53:13):
We call you queel goodbye. They think we just wasted
the time A med all three seven say there's time
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for a creo goodbye.
Battles, the politicians addressed, the digitators and magicians are trust
to see the money they did, don't there's nothing to
fill the holes? Well, then are filling their pockets biles,
the politicians bouncing down the road everyvid's wish for no moment,
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corruption and itysfunctional.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
It's gone.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
I take divide it ofvention.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
The Iran deal.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Conservatives betrayed by Trump, some say so? Or is it
a good deal to lord guests? Before the elections in
the fall and here in Louisiana, will teachers get a
pay raise? Not according to a court decision? And to
stay on this and the elections are happening next Saturday.
Could there be upsets in the psc US Senate and
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Bessie races. All this and more on this edition of
The Founder Show.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
And God bless you all out there. You are now
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Hi mcceinry.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
With roving reporter, Resident Radical moderate Christopher Tidmore and associate
editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot com.
And I we got to talk about Iran, We got
to talk about the elections, but I want to start
off with something that happened late Thursday. And I'm not
talking about the special election in Makerfield in the UK,
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because you know, I want to talk about that a lot.
But actually what was interesting is if you remember a
few weeks ago when after the legislative session, the governor
came out and said he was going to adjust the
minimum Foundation formula so that the two thousand dollars teacher
pay raises or stipends that had been offering the previous
two years one thousand dollars for support workers would be
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continued by taking five percent of the MFP and adjusting it. Now,
the governor says he has that executive authority. However, one
of the questions I raised is, you know, I hate
to say it, but the Louisiana Constitution like the US Constitution.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Is pretty specific.
Speaker 4 (02:33):
If it is not authorized by Congress, you can't spend
the money. If it's not authorized by the legislature, you
can't spend the money. That spending bills must initiate in
the House of Representatives, whether it's the state of Louisiana
or the United States of America. Donald Trump ran into
that with the Kennedy Center when he wanted to change
the name, because that is a bill that was passed
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by Congress calling it the John F.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Kennedy Center.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
So could the governor, actually Governor Jeff Landry have the
power to unilaterally adjust the MFP Well, one of the
people who sued there were three across the state. One
of them is Orleans Parish school board member Katie Bodowan,
who has two kids in Hinz Charter School, and said
this would take too much money out of the funding
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for kindergarten through twelve students. And the one hundred and
sixty eight million dollars in executive order.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Has been shut down by the courts.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
It's going to be going through it's going to be
going on appeal to the State Supreme Court. But at
this point, you know, it's been the courts were pretty specific.
It wasn't like, hey, this is wrong. It's like, you
can't change a major funding formula without an act of
the legislature, and so the legislature has. Part of the
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reason the governor did this, to be honest, is the legislature.
When the Constitutional Amendment was voted down for the second time,
that is the constitutional amendment that would have taken four programs,
paid off state retirement debt, and use the money to
give teachers pay raise. When that was voted down by
the public, a lot of legislators, including Cameron Henry, came
out and said, look, there's no money to pay the
teachers more. This was never a permanent pay raise. Jeff Landry,
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to his credit, is the son of a public school teacher,
and he said, I'm not taking away a teacher pay raise.
That'd be really unpopular. What happens at this point, I
don't know. One of my questions is there's not a
lot of time left before the fall. I mean, we
think of ourselves here in June and beginning of July
as heaven all the time in the world. But you
got to remember classes basically start most schools around the
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first or second week of August teacher pay and the
budgets have to be solidified in the next week or two.
And if the various school boards around the state can't
make up the funding, there's not going to be a
legislative session in the inanrum, what can the governor do now?
One of the things that was interesting about the legislation
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is they had said the Department of Education said something
kind of unusual. It said, you know, if you gave
teachers a pay raise this particular year, you school board,
you perish you whatever, And it equaled the amount you
could take the minimum foundation formula and spend it for
whatever you want. And when I saw that, I said, well,
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that's kind of I mean, you can either mandate something
happening or you don't. So what I wondered at the time,
and this was before the decision came out, was was
this a preemptive action by the governor to say it
was his suggestion you spend it on this, Because yeah,
the government can suggest the school boards can do whatever
the hell they want and if they want to spend
the money the way they can and is this his
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political defense?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
And I don't know.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
There was a legislative auditor report that says, of these
seventy school districts in the state, not one of them
cannot afford to provide a pay raise. That there's enough
money in the rainy day funds of most school districts
to be able to account for this. But a rainy
day fund is temporary funds. This is not long term funds.
This is an emergency. And as you just saw from
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a tropical storm author, we actually do get rainy days
that cause damage sometimes, and hurricane season has just begun.
That's why the rainy days funds are there. It's not
just to make up deficits. It's in case we have
a real ring event and have to pay for serious stuff.
So what will the governor's answer in this? It's a
political pickle, and the courts are not being cooperative for
reasons that conservatives can agree with. Strict construction. You got
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to follow what the constitution says.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Very interesting, Christopher Folks. System seem awfully confusing, like a
web of chaos. That's the political world in it. But
you can let me try to simplify this and straighten
it out a little bit. There's certain groups entities in
the government that make law and establish law first of all,
our legislatures, right, they're the ones, the only ones really
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supposed to make law. But then they create bureaus and
agencies and they give them the right to make law,
and they do. And many times there's the rub where
the where there's I think bad things happening. I don't
think these bureaus and these agencies do a whole lot
to really help us. And they create a web a
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massive amount of law that even they don't understand many times.
So there's a problem. But then the third group, let's
say that makes orders or laws, are the presidents, mayors,
the executive heads of whatever political level of mayors. And
in this case we're talking about the governor. And so
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they can make an executive order that establishes a certain whatever,
certain laws, certain action, and uh, and it will stand.
I mean, it's very strong and presidential or governess executive order. However,
the courts can shut it down and the legislatures can
and so that's what's going on here. There's a struggle
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between various you know, power groups, let's say the governor
and the courts over is this legal what he has done? Uh,
it seems like he has good intentions he's trying to
make sure teachers get paid well, which is the way
it ought to be. But still did he follow the
law to do it well? If it yet remains for
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this whole thing to be ironed out, maybe the legislature
coming they'll make a law that will support what the
governor did.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Didn't you ever watch you know, Schoolhouse Rock as a kid,
or maybe you're a little young, but you know you can.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Look at you. I'm a good bit all on Christopher. Folks,
we didn't have that back then.
Speaker 4 (08:36):
I'm just a bill, just a little little bill, and
I'm making my way to Capitol Hill.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Well, one day I could be a law. I mean,
this is kind of basic.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
You got to pass the Congress or passed the legislature,
and he signed in a law.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And I'm sorry.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
The governor executive order is only as strong as the
authority given to it by the legislature. And that's the problem.
A lot of right have abused that.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
They've all done parties.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
I mean, it's not this is not a this is
not a conservative liberal right left thing. Everybody at some
time or another's abused an executive.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
This is this has gone on since the beginning in
the early days of our republic. It was done rarely,
but it was done and uh and they set it
up for like emergency situations. You know, if there's you
can't wait for the government to make a law. Sometimes
the legislatures, I mean, they'll spend years figuring something out,
fighting over, debating over. Sometimes you need a lot right away.
(09:31):
And that's why the president was given and in the
executive heads like the government went, uh, if you will,
emergency powers ways to uh enact something that's necessary through
executive orders. I don't know, they've liked several thousand of
them now that have come out of the White House.
I think the one who did the most was was Obama,
maybe Biden not because they had an auto pen that
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I think Obama was controlling. Obama loved executive arties. He
did a bunch of them. So but they've all done it.
They both sides the isle have done it.
Speaker 4 (10:02):
We'll see what happens with the teacher pay raise. But
I wouldn't hold my breath if you're a teacher unless
the school boards themselves ratified out of their budgets.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
This is where we the people need to rise up. Now. Look,
these teachers work very hard they should get paid. They
have very challenging situations and if you wan't good education,
you got to pay for it. So everybody, all Louisiana
folks need to rise up, call their politicians and beat
them to death with getting good legislation in to raise
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the salaries of the teachers.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
That has to happen Louisiana, and not just liberals conservatives.
I watched the whole thing voted against the Constitutional Amendment
to give teachers a pay raise. The people have actually
spoken and guess what they said. As stupid as it
sounds to you and me, and it does, teachers weren't
all that important because they it was a political thing
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against landry. But it was a lot of conservatives who
shot down that amendment too because they were like, this
is taking permanent funds and turning him into regular spending,
and you know, teachers pay the price.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
What that was, folks, There was already money in the
bank and the amendment was to take the money out
and use it to support the teachers. And that all
five amendments were shot down in that election. You know,
this is somethinghere we that people could go in and
vote on an amendment, and I think we made a
fatal mistake in doing that, but I think the right
understanding of it was not there. And you know, I
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know a guy he votes against almost every amendment, but
he really studies them, and he said, hi for the
first and he's very conservative. For the first time, I'm
voting for every one of these amendments. They made sense,
they were good for Louisiana. So obviously the voting population
didn't quite have the education and the knowledge of what
they needed to vote on those things. So don't give up.
We'll go back and demand that our legislators voted in.
(11:53):
It doesn't have to be done through us approving of
an amendment, make sure our legislators do it well.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
That's part of the problem we have at the Louisiana Constitution.
Just for people don't know this, we have dedicated so
many funds in the Louisiana Constitution to specific purposes that
effectively the legislature's ability to spend recurring revenues, money that
comes in year after year is comparatively weak. This is
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one of the reasons high night joke. You know what
happens if you go into a library and ask for
the copy of the Louisiana Constitution. They'll probably reply, we
don't have we don't I'm sorry, sir, we don't carry
periodicals because it changes so much. The US Constitution doesn't
US Constitution. It takes, you know, not just an act
of two thirds of the House and Senate. It seems
like an act of God to be able to adjust
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the US Constitution the Louisiana Constitution. Now you can get
two thirds. Two thirds of the Louisiana Legislature will vote
for just about anything if they if the political tides
are going, and so it's up to the people to
make a decision. And then people decided against it. Look,
I do want to talk about hurricane and a hurricane
tropical storm author denied people power and we had flooding
across the region.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
And it gave us a good wake up call for.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
The nine thousand that were without power in the metro
region and others that suffered around South Louisiana from the tornadoes.
How important the PSC race is and where this is
coming down. And we have some updates in that election.
And we're going to talk about the Iran deal. Why
some conservatives think Trump has not not only delivered a
bad deal, but actually delivered a deal worse than Obama did.
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Speaker 2 (14:16):
Well, how do folks, It's Chaplin High mckenry, and I
want you to know I'm the director and founder of
an inner city ministry here in New Orleans called lamb
LA MB. Please check us out, go to our website
lambnola dot com, or just call me Chaplin High mckenry
at area code five zero four seven two three nine
three six nine folks. Right now, we're in the middle
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of a city wide blitz where we have teams all
over this city going to various places community centers, daycare centers, backyards, parks, schools, whatever,
et cetera, all kinds of places. We're even on the
on the Belchase Naval location Belchi you know the station
there the anyway, we're having a great time. We're doing
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five day clubs. We call them five day clubs. It's
like a mini vacation Bible school, and we're seeing hundreds
of kids come to Christ. It's a great experience. We've
got teams all over this city doing it. We're being
helped by people from other locations. They've all come in
to work together with us, and it's amazing to see
the results. We do this every summer. It's a great experience.
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So please pray for us. And I want you to
know we work with inner city kids. We're an inner
city ministry with an inner city formula and focus for
inner city kids. It's very challenging, folks, very very challenging.
We're dealing with some of the greatest problems in this
country and it needs a lot of prayer. So I'm
asking you folks, please, we need volunteers, we need prayer warriors,
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and we need financial support. If you have any interest,
please contact me Chapelin hih McHenry at area code five
zero four seven two three nine three six nine, and
thank you so very very much.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
There's nothing better to celebrate the two hundred and fifty
anniversary of America than going to the Louisiana State Museum
at the Cabildo and presbyter and seeing three great exhibits
that are right next to each other. One the Galvez
exhibit at the Cabildo a Galvez and the critical role
New Orleans played in the American Revolution. The exhibit of
Lafayette and the two hundredth anniversary of the visit of
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the Marquis de Lafayette and the role Lafayette played in
our revolution when he made his farewell tour and talked
about it. And of course a third, go to the
Carnival Museum. If you've never seen. It's the second floor
of the presbyter It's got all the great carnivals. You
can feel like what it is to be on a float,
you can feel what it is to be one of
the great balls, and there's a wonderful exhibit on the
Illinois Clubs, the Old Illinois Club and the Young Men's
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Illinois Club, which were the first African American clubs, but
the role they played not only as these great images
of Carnival royalty, but actually as the various launch places
for the civil rights movement. All are available at the
Louisiana State Museum, at the Cabildo and the presbyter through
next March.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
Got ohs.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
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Speaker 4 (18:19):
With Christopher Tidmore and folks, we've got a lot to
talk about, but actually, can I throw in something before
we talk about the elections?
Speaker 3 (18:25):
That's kind of funny.
Speaker 4 (18:27):
Have you noticed that it doesn't feel this way to
me because I happen to know a lot of people
that are having babies right now. But the fact is,
the birth rate in the United States has been falling,
and in fact, birth rates around the world have been falling,
and you can't even accredit it to like available abortion.
There are places like Malta where that has zero tolerance
for abortion. It's one of the it's a very deeply
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Catholic state, and you can't get an abortion pill, you
can't even get anything in the.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
First six weeks.
Speaker 4 (18:53):
And yet the fertility rate has fallen to less than
you know, one point to children per two parents in
some parts of the world. India has for the first time,
which used to have three children in the two thousands,
not very well as prepared, has fallen to one point
six and is falling quickly. And there's a lot of
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reasons why. You know, people have tried to figure out
why the fertility rate goes down. Is it the cost
of raising a child? Some countries like Hungry, for example,
have put in policies that basically women don't pay taxes
after their second child, or something along those lines, but
it hasn't really had been very effective. Why are people
having less children? Is it just money? Is it the
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economic realities? Is that they're having children later? We know
that that's a reality, that's a fact. Is that affecting things?
What is happening? Well, interestingly, there's been a lot of
data in the last few weeks that says the reason
why people are having fewer children and the timing coincides
is smartphones. It's much that basically, well, let's be blunt,
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sex takes time, effort, and energy, I mean sighs like
shaking his head. The pursuit of of of shall we say,
intimate relations is takes work to some extent in most cases,
even high is looking like, yeah, ni's a point, and
the theory is high that people find it easier to
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go to their smartphones, either not to be bored, just
for entertainment or for other outlets for their sexual talents.
But either way that basically it's just not worth the
effort to pursue not just children, but relationships. There's there's
been a massive decline in the number of permanent relationships
as well.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
Amongst the out and folks, they got cell phones everywhere.
I was in one of the most tribal places in
the world, Afghanistan, and everybody had a cell phone. It's amazing.
But this is something I don't quite get. Yeah, it's
hard ware. It can be work, sure, and you know
nobody likes to work right, it's it's a struggle. You sweat,
you have to work hard and endure the thorns and
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thistles of of jobs. You know. The Bible says that
you'd work by the sweat of your brown and the
earth would yield up thorns and whatnot. So it's a
struggle to do any kind of job and work hard
at it. And but it's hard for me to see
sex as a job. I'm sorry. I see it as
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fabulous entertainment and a wonderful time. I don't mind that
kind of labor. I could do that all day long,
all night long. Not anymore, folks, I'm seventy five years old.
I just don't have what I used to have. But
I remember those days, you know, the Bay, the boomers,
we remember. We remember because we were there when it happened. Anyway,
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but I don't quite get that. But I can understand
this now. People have started using cell phones as a
way to establish relationships in their social lives, and it's
not real. It doesn't work properly. And that could be,
you know, a big part of this. I think that
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there's another cause. I see it. A's supernatural. The Bible
says that when nations go bad, when they really go bad,
one of the judgments that God visits on nations is unfruitfulness,
lack of you know, lack of children. As a judgment
on that nation, they are all of a sudden not
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having the issue. That's the old king James e lsbethan
English word meaning babies. And so maybe that has something
because if you look at all the nations in the world,
they're really getting worse and wors and worse, just like
the Bible said it would happen, and more anti Bible
in their moral codes. Let's say, and so is this
a judgment another judgment, by the way, is aliens God
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would turn aliens loose on your nation? Is this a
judgment on the nations of the world right now? I
don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:59):
Well, I go against the judgment argument because fertility rates
are falling in some of the most devoidly Christian nations
in the world, in Sub Saharan Africa and others that
have always had high birth rates and it's going down.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
But here is remember they're in a great persecutions of Muslims,
are killing many of them something to do with it.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
And a lot of these nations where literally abortions illegal,
homosexuality is illegal. You go by every conventional standard that
you know. Sometimes people on the Christian right would judge
and they're are my but you can't argue with the statistic,
when did the birth rate really started falling, particularly in
the United States. Let's use the United States as an example,
two thousand and seven. What was premiered in two thousand
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and seven the first smartphone? And the interesting part is,
originally the smartphone was premiered only on the AT and
T broadband networks. AT and T offered the first iPhones.
Some parts of the country did not really have an
AT and T network. So you could compare that places
in the country that had an AT and T network
in the places they didn't. Guess what, the birth rate
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fell within two within the first year in the places
with a AT and T broadband network for cell phones,
and didn't fall in the places it didn't. Folks's if
I didn't read this data and the raw number is
the way it is, I wouldn't believe it.
Speaker 3 (24:19):
But it really says.
Speaker 2 (24:20):
That makes a lot of sense to me. And one
thing about cell phones, and it's bringing in a lot
of biblical immorality. They do we talk. You just mentioned
it and implied it a little while ago, and so
is that also the cause? But I'm sure, Look, there's
a scientific explanation. I really believe that. But remember God
created science, so he knows how to use science however
he wants to.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
Well, now, let me be direct about it too.
Speaker 4 (24:43):
I think pornography and the readiness at your fingertips quite
literally plays it, sure, but actually one of the data
points that it shows off is it's not just that
part of it is. And this is going to be found.
This is what you would find interesting, the fact that
people are no longer bored. What do I mean by that?
What used to happen when you didn't have anything going on?
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You were bored? And what do people do when they're bored?
They tend to think about sex. I mean, I hate
to say that's a human being. When you can go
on your and doom scroll through your cell phone. It
may not be about sexual activites. It might be, but
it may not, but you constantly are. One of the
things they found is people aren't bored anymore. And actually,
boredom is a really good thing for people, because that's
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when your brain activates and you start to get creative,
you start thinking, you let your brain goes in overdrive.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
And if you can't do that because you're doom scrolling.
Speaker 4 (25:33):
And by the way, I'm guilty of this, just so
you understand this, I'm guilty of doom scrolling because it's
easier than just trying to sit there doing nothing. And
that could just as easily be one of the reasons, because.
Speaker 5 (25:46):
You know, you've got your desire to be connected instantly done,
so why spend the time and effort to go have
a human connection?
Speaker 3 (25:57):
And you're right, cell phones are denying us human connection
in a lot.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Of ways, right the Christopher. When I was years ago
in high school, I went up to Washington, d c.
And I remember going to Washington Square. It was kind
of like a free speech alley area where had all
these protesters and people giving their great speeches political speeches.
Went a lot of hippies there, and there was an
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Indian fella from India and he had gotten caught up
in a dispute about populations and how we had to
reduce the populations because we were overpopulated and the world
was going to die in the next ten years if
we didn't quit them. This was fifty years ago. Folks
obviously made it past those ten years with great population exposures.
But this Indian fella defended India because they were saying
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and he has got too many people. And he says, no,
you don't understand. He says, this fits with what you're saying.
He says, we're a hardworking people. We have very simple
lives and all we have is one another. He says,
you know, you get bored when all you do is farm.
He says, when you get bored, what do you do?
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You make love? That's exactly what.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
There's really truth of that. I mean, what are the
things that would you destract?
Speaker 2 (27:12):
It is not my fault. I can't help it.
Speaker 4 (27:15):
And of course that was before the at the beginning
of the agricultural Revolution, which showed that we were capable
of growing fifty times more food on this planet than
any every one ever thought possible, which went to the
whole argument why the Malthusian ideas of overpopulation were really
actually just wrong. But I wanted to bring this out.
So cell phones caused a decrease in humankind. I don't
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know what the answer to that situation is, except I
will say this. This is an argument that right now
there's an argument about banning social media to under sixteen's
in the UK that's hard to enforce because there's something
called VPNs, the ability to use overseas entries to the Internet,
so you can't deny it. But there's a good argument
that we should not have said phones sold to those
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under the age of eighteen, not that I think, you know,
there isn't another argument. There's you know, every big side downside.
Guess one of the things that has decreased rather drastically
since two thousand and seven teen pregnancy. There's fewer teenagers
getting premaral sex premaral pregnancy. Believe it or not, the
age of first sexual encounter has increased by two years.
(28:23):
Who would have thought that, So, you know, it plays
it off. But I do want to talk a little
bit about the elections. Of course, early voting has passed
this past week, very competitive elections, and John Fleming went
around in the US Senate race putting a few straw
polls that he put out saying that he was leading
in Republican circles. They were basicallylow Fleming rooms.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
He took a lot of flak.
Speaker 4 (28:47):
He endorsed he didn't make it, but he endorsed an
ai one of these AI ads that talked about what
a good thing it was that Luke Letlowe, Julia Letlow's
late husband.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
Who got elected to Congress died of COVID.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
What a good thing it was that he died, and
so there's been a counter reaction against that. But ultimately
this race is, while it's Julia Letlow's to lose, it
seems a lot closer than most people do. A lot
of the strongest Trump bites have been skeptical of not
only Julia Letlow, but of Jeff Landry. And I'm gonna
(29:21):
be honest, you know, there are times I've disagree with
Jeff Landry.
Speaker 3 (29:24):
The one thing I will not.
Speaker 4 (29:25):
Criticize him for, and most people would find strange, is
Donald Trump's favorite attorney general in the country who became
one of his favorite governors. Is not sufficiently a Trump bite.
In fact, that's a point of criticism to me, that
he's too close to the president.
Speaker 3 (29:39):
But I find it interesting.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
But the race that I've been really paying attention to
is the Public Service Commissioner's race. And here's why. If
you noticed, we had this tropical cyclone. By the way,
for those that don't know, the difference between a hurricane
and a cyclone is not Pacific versus Atlantic. It's the
direction which the win travel. So a lot of people
are like, why are we calling the cyclone because it
(30:03):
came from the west, it had a different directional travel
for the winds.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Rarely do we have hurricanes coming from the west, extremely rare.
They start in Africa and they come across and they
get to the Gulf and the Caribbean, they may hit us.
This one started off the southeastern coast of Texas and
then shot up toward US. A very strange story.
Speaker 4 (30:23):
And when it hit Louisiana, it was Fortunately it wasn't
a hurrican, it wasn't a full cyclone. It was a
tropical storm. It's a tropical storm either way, depending on
the winds. But it caused some pretty significant damage. You know,
anybody who was awoken Thursday morning by their cell phones
knows that there were tornadoes all across the region, some
(30:44):
very devastating ones. Now why am I bringing all this
up in reference of an election, because John Young actually
came on Facebook and he came on and he says, look,
a good public service commissioner, that's what he's running for,
would have already talked to each of the utilities to
find out what their repair plans were, more particularly what
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teams they had ready to go, where they in the
emergency launching, how fast could they get electricity? And he said,
because electricity is not just a comfort, it's life or
death for people with food or with medical conditions, or
so and so forth. Stephanie Hilfredy came out with her
own comment about this. But this has been a really
tight race. This is probably the tightest election we've had.
(31:25):
And whoever wins the Republican primary in this particular race,
there is a Democrat in it who ran unopposed. There
will be an election in the fall, But for all
intents and purposes, this is a heavily Republican district. Whoever
wins this primary, this closed primary, is going to be
the next Public Service Commission. And there's been this interesting divide.
So John Young has won virtually every parish party office.
(31:49):
In other words, he's been endorsed by the Jefferson Parish
Republican Party, Blackman's Parish Republican, Saint Charles Parish Republican Saint
Tammy Livingston Saint Bernard, Orleans, where Stephanie Hilferdy lives endorsed her.
But for the most part, she has not won the
party endorsements. However, let's flip this aside. Very few politicians
(32:10):
have endorsed John Young. Almost everybody has endorsed elected official
Stephanie Hilfordy. Now, the reasons for this has been kind
of complicated, but they all boil down to a guy
by the name of Fred Hebey. Fred Hebey is the
owner of River Birch, the one of the dumps. He's
very big in the trash business. He and his wife
(32:31):
owned a beautiful home on Saint Charles Avenue and they're
his wife, Jennifer Sneed used to be a legislator. Well,
long story short, Fred Heby and John Young have had
a feud going back to when he was parish president
and it all had to do with the fact that
John Young would not sell Fred Hebey the Jefferson Parish
municipally owned dump. And the argument was that he Bee would,
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you know, shouldn't control all the trash because whoever controls
all the trash basically controls our lot. I mean, I
hate to say it. We talk about crime, have trash
build up on the streets, and see how long a
society survives.
Speaker 3 (33:07):
So he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 4 (33:08):
He Be has financed every one of John Young's opponents
since then. He put a huge amount of money behind
Cynthia Lee Shang, and he ran a huge amount of
negative ads against John Young. He did the same thing
when John Young ran for Lieutenant governor against Billy Nungesser.
And at last count, he's put one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars behind in a super pack behind Stephanie Hilfridy
(33:29):
and has been running negative.
Speaker 3 (33:30):
Attack ads on John Young.
Speaker 4 (33:32):
But one of the things he's apparently done that's been
kind of interesting is he's used his influence with a
lot of elected officials to say, support Hilfordy State Representative
Stephanie Hilferty over John Young. You know I'm putting all
my pressure now, let me be fair to Stephanie Hilferdy,
who's a very smart, very kind, very straightforward person. A
lot of her She's very popular with her fellow elected officials.
(33:55):
She's a very very popular member of the legislature with
both parties. She's the only republic looking from Orleans Parish.
She has support across the party lines. But having said that,
it's been fascinating to watch this race because by all mathematics,
Young has the longer record of dealing with utilities. He's
the one who's parish president, got things after back up,
(34:16):
after Katrina. He's the one who got Jefferson as the
state as a member of the council and then this
parish president after Ida and others, and he's the one
normally that would be the overwhelming favorite. But this is
going to come down to the wire, and I don't
think we'll know what the end of this race will
be until very late on Saturday night, the twenty seventh,
(34:38):
so we'll see what happens. The other, of course, very
tight race is the race that's for the Board of
Elementary and Secretary Education, where Ellie Schroeder, who is the
wife of former state Representative John Schroeder, is running a
very tight race against former Congressman Gau Joseph goo On.
Joseph gou who was appointed to that position by the
(34:58):
Governor's running for a full term. And the real question
is one of the negatives will go back to the
first race. The fact that Joseph Gao is being supported
by jeff Landry is being used against him in a
Republican closed primary. And I'm fascinated by this. All Right,
We got to finish off today and talk about the
Iran deal. And there's a lot of things I could
(35:18):
bring about the deal. I've read the fourteen points of
memorandum of understanding. I've gone to this few basic points.
Essentially nothing changes. And this is why you see several conservatives,
and you see frankly Prime Minister Benjamin Nettanalu and Trump
supporters really are saying this is a bad deal. The
(35:39):
way it works is Iran doesn't have to give up
any nuclear material. It doesn't have to any future agreements
on nuclear material. And they said, we'll agree to talk
in the future. It already guarantees in this memorandum of
understanding that the nuclear material can be changed, processed, and
brought to a lesser not you know, weapons grade on
(36:00):
Iranian soil. By the way, that was the criticism exactly
that Donald Trump had of the Obama deal, that you
weren't taking the nuclear material outside of the hands of
the Iranians. The three hundred billion dollar fund to rebuild around,
the President has said, is a trillion dollars trillion dollars
domage three one million dollars. Somebody wants to invest. Here's
(36:22):
the point nobody's pointing out. We are, we are delivering
extra money to the Gulf States, who are then turning
around and putting money to the Iranians. We're we're not
funding the Iranians, but we're funding the people who are
funding the Iranians with extra money. We're actually paying for
part of this.
Speaker 2 (36:39):
And it's a.
Speaker 4 (36:40):
Pretty obvious point. The Iranians don't have to change their
military policy. The Iranians don't have to give up Hesbelah.
The Iranians don't have to change anything. The only agreement
is that they will have some agreement sometime in the
future to do something with nuclear material that they don't
have to give up, and they'll open the straits of
four moods. Now, I understand why Donald Trump did this,
(37:02):
because if he didn't do this, gas prices would probably
go up to five to six dollars a gallon again,
and he would lose the House in the Senate in
the fall. Having said that, when this when the Iranian
situation started high, I said, what is Donald Trump's objective?
Speaker 3 (37:18):
I support him.
Speaker 4 (37:19):
You can attest this from the very beginning when a
lot of people say we shouldn't be attacking ran, I
was saying, yeah, bomb, But I said, you had to
have a very specific objective. Now there's an Iran that
still has nuclear material, that still produces drones that are
being sold to the Ukrainian that are being sold to
the Russian bomb Ukraine, and one that hates us more.
And the head of Hesbaalah announced to the international public
(37:42):
on Thursday, America has been defeated and goes in this
can you imagine a worse deal? What was thee hundred
billion dollars in weapons that we and bombs that we
dropped on I ran all.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
Four Christopher, We killed most of their leadership. You know,
they're going to brag about all kinds of stuff lying.
It's their pr to make their people think they're so
great and they're winning, but they're not. We took out
almost their entire chain of command. We blew up about
every weapon system and every factor and everything they had.
I mean, right now, Iran is in a state of
(38:15):
complete destruction and shambles. That's kind of hard to say
you won when you're in that condition. Most nations would
have surrendered. But then they have an ideological religious belief
system that says that they have to kill the blow
up the whole world or half the world or whatever.
And if they blow up themselves, so be it. They
got there. There's seventy two versions on the other side.
(38:37):
So they're not worried about it. You're dealing with it
with Cereal, with literally criminally insane serial killers who cannot
think rationally, and they're certainly not looking out for their people.
They don't mind quote for the nation to suffer because
they're not. They still have their mansions and their great wealth,
and one they're not worried about the average person in around.
(38:58):
So no, I think, I know we've won this thing.
But the thing about these people and this what's so
you could get them to sign anything, it doesn't matter.
They're gonna break it. They do it every time. They
believe that you don't have to honor your word to
an infidel. You don't have to. In fact, it's very
important that you lie to them. According to the Quran, because
Allah is the greatest liar in the universe. Now this
(39:20):
is in the Kuran. So all these things, the only
thing they understand is power. And they have seen the power,
whether they like it or not, they know it's there
and they know we have a president who will use it.
So that that's where the win is here. Now we've
got to see how all this unfolds. It's an unfolding event.
This is this is just a memorandum. It is not
(39:42):
a treaty. But even if it was a treaty, they
don't mind breaking treaties. It's nothing to them because we're infidels.
So as a.
Speaker 4 (39:49):
Former, as a as a serving soldier who watched thirteen
Americans die in this campaign, you're not the least bit
thing that. We're no better off than before we spent
one hundred billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
We're so much better off right now. I'm probably because
everything is destroyed over there. That's how they have almost
nothing they will have. Their navy is at the bottom
of the sea. All their artillery and airporay, it's all gone.
There's very very little left. They have some missiles, they do,
it's not totally gone, but they're down to what five
percent of what they had been militarily speaking, So of
(40:21):
course they can build back. We know that, and so
we just have to see where this is all gonna unfold.
It is an unfolding event. You can't make a final
call right now, especially when you deal with these people.
So it is time for us to take a break.
We'll be right back after this wonderful commercial break.
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Well, folks are back and you are listening to the
Founders show the voice of the Finding Fathers. And it's
not time for us to go into our chaplain by
by patriotic moment. We just take a brief moment to
remind you of the biblical foundations of our country, our
Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And today we want to talk about
Stephen Hopkins. He was one of the signers of the
(42:51):
Decoration of Independence. His family came originally his ancestors on
the Mayflower. He was from a very old family in
New England and he lived in Rhode. I was born
and raised and died in Rhode Island. He represented Rhode
Island at the Decoration of Independence. He was there at
the Continental Congress and he signed it. He was a
fascinating fellow. His every everything about him was unusual and
(43:14):
and and strange, but fascinating and interesting. He was a
real character. He wore a large brimmed hat instead of
the tribe tri corner hats. He wore a wide brimmed hat.
He had long hair. He didn't have a wig along
with Ben Franken, they both have had long hair and
was slightly balding on the top. And by the way,
he never took his hat on off he lived. He
(43:37):
for whatever reason, he kept it on the whole time.
He was a justice, a Supreme Court justice for the
state of Rhode Island. He was a Governor of Rhode Island.
He served many in many capacities in political office and
also had some very successful businesses. He was also one
of the original founders of Brown University. He was quite
(43:57):
an amazing guy. And he he did have a couple
slaves that he eventually said free. But when he set
one of them free, named Saint Jago, this is what
he said, But principally in most of all, finding that
the merciful and beneficent goodness of Almighty God, by the
blessed Gospel of Jesus Christ, our Lord, has by the
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blessed Spirit, taught all who honestly obey its divine dictates
that the keeping of any of His rational creatures in
bondage who are capable of taking care of and providing
for themselves in a state of freedom. It is altogether
inconsistent with His holy and righteous will you know, folks.
That makes it very clear God is what this is
(44:42):
really all about. Our political world should be centered on
Jesus Christ. And by the way, that was in all
of the early documents on the founding of colleges in Americas,
always that Jesus Christ as a chief cornerstone. You'll find
that with Brown University, folks. Here's another case of how
(45:03):
God was in the middle of all that we were
doing when we were starting this country. And I think
it's wonderful to think about how he understood slavery was
bad even though he was everywhere. Well, yeah, it was
everywhere in America, and some of the states you thought
wouldn't have en they had slaves. So it was a
bad thing. And it's interesting to see how our finding
fathers worked very hard to end it. They were not
(45:25):
able to accomplish that in their lifetime, but they sure
worked very hard and they laid the groundwork for it.
And then later on Robberty Lee, whose father's lighthearse Harry Lee,
he did set all of his slaves free and put
himself in bankruptcy because every time he set a slave free,
he costs you dearly. At his time, the average cost
(45:46):
of a slave in our money would be about three
hundred thousand dollars. So it was a very costly affair
to set the slaves free. But these funding fathers believed
it was worth it. As we can see how Hopkins
set his if he had a very few slaves, but
he ended up setting them free. George Washington set his
slaves free through his will. It was amazing how many
(46:08):
of the finding follows work to end slavery because they
were opposed to it and should have been. So, folks,
it's good to know about all this. And how about
God made America great? And if we ever want to
make America great again, we got to put God back
in the country. Amen. But folks, what about this? Is
God great in you? Because we'll never be able to
(46:28):
make God great in America if he's not great in you.
And how does God become great in you? But it's
really simple. It's called the Gospel. The scripture says the
Gospel is the power of God unto salvation to whosoever
believeth And our belief is broken up into two things.
It's like a two sided coin. On one side, it's
to believe you cannot save yourself. You're hopeless and help us.
Without God, you're a total loser before your creator. There's
(46:51):
nothing good you can offer to God to get you
into heaven. So forget it. I don't care how rich
you are, how much you go to church, you know, whatever,
you're all your great religious works are, or whatever. It's pointless.
You can walk down the ale a thousand times. I
won't get you get baptized a thousand times, so many times.
If tadpoles know your Social Security number, it won't get
you in heaven. You can turn from sin like a
(47:11):
spinning top. It won't get you in heaven because all
that is your righteousness. You've got to give up on
your righteousness by faith, believe you can't save yourself. Now
you're free to believe that only He can, that He did,
and that He will save you from a burning hill
and guarantee you everlasting life because of the Gospel. And
what is the gospel for I declare to you the
Gospel of the Scriptures, that Jesus died for all of
(47:35):
our sins. According to the Scripture, that he was buried,
and that he rose to the dead to win for
each and every one of us that precious free gift
of resurrection ever lasting length. That's one Corinthians fifteen. Folks,
if you've never believed this before, believe it now. You
may not get tomorrow. You may not. I mean, life
is short. I've had many of my friends pass away now.
(47:56):
Of course I'm seventy five years old, but still it's
pretty amazing to see people that I thought one in
great shape. The next thing I know, I'm going to
their funeral. Folks, you just don't know when it's going
to be your time. The scripture says it's appointed, and
a man wants to die, and then the judgment. You
have an appointment that you will make. I don't care
how much you want to dodge it. You can. That's
an appointment. Nobody misses. Are no one's late for it.
(48:17):
Just like your birth, you get your birth established and
you get your death established by God Almighty. So if
you've never done it before, please folks, remember that the
Gospel is the power of God into salvation to whosoever
believed that. The scripture says so right now and believe
you can't save yourself, so then you can believe that
(48:38):
Jesus really did die for all of your sins. From
the day you're born and the day you die, you
tie us to your greatest sins. And that was half
the job. Once he finished taking care of that your
sin problem, then he took care of your death problem
by rising from the dead to winning for you his
precious free gift of resurrection, everlasting life. Again, do it now,
(49:01):
don't wait until it's too late, like the old country
preacher said, or like the Word of God says. Now
today is the day of salvation. And if you do,
God will become great in you, and then you can
help make God great in America, which then finally make
America great again the full way that it has to
be done. So, folks, it is time now for us
to go into our testimony time, and we're going to
(49:23):
take an old preacher named Beniger Harvey Carroll, a wonderful guy,
a Texican. He was with the Texas Rangers. He fought
and for the Confederacy, a Texas unit during the war.
When he's a Texas Ranger, he would the supplies he
was supposed to be carrying in the saddle bags instead,
he had books. He read like a book today. This
god was an autodidac off the charts. He was brilliant,
(49:46):
and he was an atheist, and he could argue the
atheist's side. He used to make Christians cry. He was
so aggressive and rough and tough with people's beliefs. He
would he loved to trash the Bible and God. Well,
one day he found himself invited to an arbor meeting,
a brush arbor meeting. And those were back in the
old days. They would they would get they'd make canopies
(50:09):
of leaves and brushes, I mean branches and whatnot, and
it make like a little tent, a little facility for
them to go to out in the woods, and they
would have meetings. Preachers would come, and evangels were coming
and preach. It's a very common thing at that time
in America. This was in the middle of the nineteenth century. Well,
he went to one of these meetings one day, and
(50:31):
he was very very skeptical, you know, very cynical of
what was being said. This guy was a big guy,
by a big, tall, tough guy. He was quite a fighter.
He had been through a lot of you know, the
Texas Rangers, one of the toughest groups ever of all times.
He had fought in many Indian wars and fought in
the War between the States, and captured a lot of bandits,
and he was a really tough man and you couldn't
(50:54):
spook him. Well, he went to this meeting just to
prove to himself. It was all a lot of bunk.
And you know what, I guess this was an old
Methodist meeting. I'm not sure, because they did a lot
of it. But then sort of the Baptists. I don't
know which one it was. And of course the Baptists
and Methodists were all over Texas. And you know when
he left, he got halfway home and he said he
met Jesus on the trail in the middle of the
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desert on his way home, and he became a devout Christian.
He got so convicted of his sin and of hell fire.
He turned to Jesus, turned to God with all his heart,
trusting in nothing good he could do, and believed and
was born again. And you know what he did. Then
he went to the ministry. Here's a guy who had
(51:36):
no interest to the ministry. He went into the ministry
and you know, didn't like the ministry. He didn't like
the Bible. But now he became a devout preacher and evangelist.
He founded two great schools. He founded Baylor University and
he founded the largest school of religion in the world,
and that's Southwest Theological Seminary, Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth.
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This man was absolutely amazing. If you saw pictures of me,
he looked like a big, old, tall, old Testament prophet.
He had a big long beard. He loved to smoke cigars.
Back then it was okay. They didn't think, they didn't
know there was anything wrong with it. But he could preach.
I mean could he preach. And in fact, Spurgeon said
Spurgeon's may have been the greatest theologian of the past
(52:25):
several hundred years. He was a British preacher and evangelist.
He said. The greatest theologian in the history of America
who gave us the greatest work of theology, was Benija
Harvey Carrol. This man was dynamic. So, folks, it is
now time for us to close. We've heard another great testimony.
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And the impact these people's lives have on all of us.
The Bible says by the blood of the Lamb and
the word of their testimony, they overcame the dragon. Your
testimony can have a great impact on people's lives. Think
about it, See how you might be used by God,
and go to work for the Lord. It is now
time for us to close. As we're closed with a
mine Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye, and God bless
(53:09):
all out there.
Speaker 7 (53:13):
We call you queel goodbye. They think we just wasted
the time A med all three seven say there's time
(53:35):
for a creo goodbye.
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