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November 8, 2024 54 mins
Hy and Christopher are joining in our post-election roundtable with Jeff Crouere of ringsidepolitics.com and Curtis Robinson of hunter-gathererspodcast.com to analyze Trump’s unexpected landslide victory.  What are the reasons, and how did his coattails make a difference? Two examples are demonstrated in the second and sixth congressional districts in Louisiana, explained below.

Later in the show, we explore Governor Jeff Landry’s tax reform proposal. Answering growing legislative opposition to his tax reform proposals, including the elimination of the film, live performance, historic restoration, quality jobs, and sales tax exemptions on everything from boat storage to wedding planners, Landry appeared before joint session of the legislature, pleading for a repeal of the 1,400-page tax code in favor of a 3% flat tax individuals, 3.5% on corporations, and a broader sales tax on everything but prescription drugs—a tax which would be eliminated.

Carter Re-Elected with 183,897 votes out of 305,019
By Christopher Tidmore
A group of Garden District voters expressed surprise to The Louisiana Weekly on the evening of November 5th that they had found themselves suddenly redrawn into Steve Scalise’s congressional seat. The overwhelming group of Caucasian Democratic voters were perplexed why their “deep blue” precincts ended up in the GOP majority district.
The loss of several key precincts which had long been part of Louisiana’s Second Congressional District, as a side effect of the shifts all across the state to allow the creation of the new minority-majority Sixth Congressional District, could have proven a liability for Rep. Troy Carter.  Some of the incumbent’s most reliable core constituencies were lost just as the sophomore congressman faced a surprisingly well organized challenge from the Left from Democrat Devin Davis.
With new electorates drawn-in to the Second Congressional District by the legislature last year, Carter could have been forced into a runoff.  A perfect storm might have been forming as three Republicans also entered the 2024 contest, drawing away moderate voters.  In the end, these GOP contenders collectively earned 30% of the vote, Devin Lance Graham at 13%, Christy Lynch at 14%, and Shondrell Perrilloux at 3%. This GOP strength on election day proved particularly interesting because the Second District boasts of only 16% Republican registration.  Therefore, such decent turnout on the right matched with a strong Democratic challenge from the left could have cast Carter into a lower turnout December 7 runoff, where any result was possible.
In the end, though, Troy Carter was easily re-elected on November 5 with 60% of the vote in a seat that is 56% Democratic by registration.  The incumbent sophomore congressman campaigned far harder than many observers expected, with extensive television, print, and social media advertising, as well as in-person events.  Carter spent a lot of time and money to win back his office, and it showed.  Devin Davis, his principal progressive Democratic opponent, ended up only getting 11% of the vote, running fourth.
To claim his second full term, Carter managed to win in excess of 70% of the vote in sone of his core Orleans and Westbank Jefferson precincts, offsetting Davis’ campaign efforts in the River Parishes.  Ironically, under the old map, Carter’s margin of victory might have been tighter, but the loss of several Baton Rouge metro precincts to the newly created Sixth District ended up benefiting the New Orleans-based candidate.  Carter over-performed in the areas which once constituted his councilmanic and state senate districts.
The New Orleans Congressman returns to a closely divided US House of Representatives in Washington.  While he serves on the House Homeland Security and Transportation committees, his unofficial role as a conduit of communication between his two long-time personal friends Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has granted him an outsized role.  Carter has played a key role in passing several pieces of legislation.
LA’s Second District Congressman went so far as to create an regular end-of-the-week bipartisan cocktail party in his office for members from all over the country just to keep the lines of communication open between the parties.  As a result, Carter’s almost singular role as ambassador between the factions granted him an outsized influence in the previous Congress—which will likely continue into the next. 

Fields Returns To US House
By Christopher Tidmore
As chairman of the legislative committee charged with creating a new LA majority-minority district, Cleo Fields himself drew the new
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Speaker 4 (01:05):
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of The Louisiana Weekly at Louisiana Weekly dot net, and
ladies and gentlemen. Last week we predicted the elections of
what would happen, and this week we're going to find
out how far away we were from the truth. Joining
us on the line as always as we've been doing these,
the former partners Roundtable puts in their wisdom and coming

(01:26):
here is always a privilege to have my first radio partner,
my longtime radio partner, my dear friend with Hi McHenry,
and I guy who started in radio with us, and
of course is the host of wgso's morning shows, the
general manager WGSO Radio, as well as the siff of
Jeff at Ringside Politics and the host of a nationally

(01:46):
broadcast television show and political commentary show and jeff career. Jeff,
it's always a privilege to have you back on the
Founder Show.

Speaker 5 (01:53):
I'm honored to be the part of the round table,
honored to be here.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
And you got your politics with a punch, right.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
You got it right, we got it Ringside Politics it is.
And of course joining us yet again is Curtis Robinson
from the coast of Maine, who was up in Washington
with us a couple of weeks ago and now he's
back with us, and I think it's fair to say
your guys sympathies came in and Jeff was supporting Donald
Trump pretty actively on the air every single day. For

(02:18):
those that want to join him. By the way, he's
on from seven to nine every morning. And and Curtis
has been pretty active on this program and other platforms,
and you know, his sympathies were more with Harris and
and basically a week ago it looked like and we
came into the weekend, and we came into our Sunday
broadcast as well as our broadcast in WSLA, saying it
looked like Donald Trump was going to win the election.

(02:40):
This was my call, but it would give you narrow.
The Senate would go Republican, but it would be narrow,
and the House would probably go Democrat and there would
be not be any coat tails. Well, I can honestly
say I was well half right.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Let's see.

Speaker 4 (02:52):
It's basically Trump had incredible coat tales. And I want
to start off with Curtis on this first.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Chris, Yeah, my possession is Trump, of course, and you've
heard that before in the show.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
And Christopher, what is your possession? What was your possession?

Speaker 4 (03:06):
I voted for Chase Olive, the Libertarian.

Speaker 2 (03:09):
And so you say, you get quite a variety here,
and I.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Had I had no thought that he and I know that,
and I predicted I predicted a clan sweep.

Speaker 4 (03:18):
If you all remember, Yeah, but you also predict that
in two thousand two if you're correctly so you know
it's you're consistent. I want to start off if I
believed it with Curtis, because Curtis, you were brave enough
to talk about the indignation factor and you thought that
that in the end would be would bring enough of
for Harris to eat out of victory. Though you were
skept you off the air, you were very skeptical about this.

(03:39):
You were just like saying, this is touching, touch and go,
what are your thoughts looking at this? And then I
want to bring Jeff's analysis of this election, how it posed,
how it affect all this.

Speaker 6 (03:48):
Let me let me be clear.

Speaker 7 (03:50):
Was about the House representative correctly predicted?

Speaker 4 (03:53):
Ah, that's true, you predicted the House.

Speaker 6 (03:55):
Well, if you want to bring up this presidential thing,
I guess you know I had said before that the
animosity index, and I am going to copyright it, the
animosity indicts.

Speaker 2 (04:05):
I thought I thought.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
There was that more people were had animosity toward Trump
than had animosity.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
For toward Uh.

Speaker 6 (04:13):
I would say the Democratic picket in general.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (04:16):
You know, Vice President Harris hadn't been with us in
the in the prey for that long to develop that
much animosity. I think I was wrong about that. And
then then I would say that the other thing I
was wrong about is is I think uh and and
maybe this is the East Coast bubble, is that maybe
I overestimated the animosity toward uh uh President elect Trump,

(04:37):
because as I talked to people, I know people who
really do not like uh, the former president who voted
for him, and they they will never get credit for this,
but but in their way, not that their way, in
any way, they they chose what they thought was best
for the country over other things. And and you could

(04:58):
you can try to pin them down on it. You
can say you voted for a convicted felon and they're like.

Speaker 2 (05:03):
So he's not a convicted fella until the sentence is proclaimed.
It hadn't been proclaimed.

Speaker 8 (05:07):
It.

Speaker 4 (05:08):
Well, that's why he was able to vote.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
Interesting because as soon as I saw him voting, I'm like,
wait a minute.

Speaker 4 (05:13):
He votes in Florida.

Speaker 6 (05:14):
Florida does not make it easy for convicted fellas to vote.
But he's not sentenced yet, so he could vote for himself.
And I will, I will, I will say that. And
you know, and the other thing I didn't really grasp
I think I thought the the choice to elect the
abortion issue. That's when I knew it was going.

Speaker 2 (05:33):
To be Trump.

Speaker 6 (05:33):
When I saw that abortion the six week band vote
in Florida come through, and it was and it was upheld,
and basically they don't get how they would but that
was the referendum to overturn it. And when I saw
that was upheld, I'm like, you know what, I have
overestimated that, and and here we go. And then the
rest of the night wasn't that much of a surprise

(05:54):
to me. And I would be remissed that I thought
of high during the president elect. I don't or Donald
Trump a particularly religious man, but when he talked about
as he does some people say God spared before a reason,
that was a deeply contemplated Donald Trump for a minute,
and I just I thought, I thought, you know what,
for people of faith, that was an interesting moment.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
I think that it over. I need to get Jeff's
comment on that before you and I jump into the Jeff,
I'm going to say something that you know, on the
years we spent together in the air, I almost never
said maybe once you were right and I was wrong.
So let's start off with that. Four years ago, you
and I had this conversation about what was going to
happen with Donald Trump, and I said, there's no way

(06:39):
he could ever return, you know, even the people that
don't like him. I never forgot that, and you made
that statement and it stuck with me, and you got
pretty much proven totally correct coming in election. I mean,
I said he was going to win, but I was
if you'd asked me the same question and how I did.
And we talked about in the air three months ago.
I thought this was a touch and go kind of thing.
When Harris came in and so and so forth. You've

(07:00):
held to that, and you've held basically that there was
a constituency of people who may not like Donald Trump,
but liked him better than the altar.

Speaker 5 (07:08):
Just for your audience, just a little bit of the background.
I mean, I've been with him, Chris, since the day
he came down the escalator. I mean I went on
the air covered his opening speech that day, and I
told the audience that I think it's offering something different.

Speaker 7 (07:25):
Watch him. He's my candidate.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Now, let's see how he does against the Bushes and
the establishment. And I had a guest on at the
time Steve Savaldowski, who said, you're crazy, He's an idiot.
He's not going anywhere. And I said, all right, we'll see.
And of course, look what happened. He wound up getting
elected president and now he just got elected president again.
He is one of the most enduring political figures in

(07:49):
American history. He's just completed the most impressive political comeback
in American history. And he has won the popular vote
for the first time since two thousand and four for
a Republican and really only the.

Speaker 7 (08:01):
Second time since nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 5 (08:03):
And that is a remarkable feat. People voted for him,
I think for a number of reasons. I mean, he's
got a personal connection with millions of Americans.

Speaker 7 (08:10):
They love him. But other people voted for him who.

Speaker 5 (08:13):
Don't particularly like him because they remember the good economic
times they had during his four years.

Speaker 7 (08:20):
Yeah, let's go over a little history.

Speaker 5 (08:22):
When he exited office, the inflation rate was one point
four percent. We had gasoline prices roughly around two dollars
a gallon. We had a mortgage rate of about two
point sixty five percent. You know, we had a secure border,
we had peace around the world, we had a robust
and military, and I think people remember that and they said,

(08:42):
all right, compare to what we've been through, I'd prefer
to go back to that. Even though I don't like him,
I like having more money in my pocket. I like
better economic times. Two slogans come to mind, Chris and
high and Curtis. One is are you better off than
you were four years ago? And that's of course what
Ronald Reagan made famous in nineteen eighty and the question

(09:04):
and the answer to that question is no. And the
second slogan, the Raven Cajun made famous in nineteen ninety two.
It's the economy, stupid. It's always the economy. It's the
number one issue. It is more important than abortion, more
important than personalities, more important than calling him Nazis and
garbage and all the stuff that they called us.

Speaker 7 (09:26):
It's very economy. It's for the economy.

Speaker 5 (09:30):
And that's what I think brought him across the finish line,
his policies as well as his connection with so many Americans.
And he's going back to the White House. And I've
got some advice later for Democrats if you want to
go down that road.

Speaker 4 (09:45):
Actually I do, but I want to hold I want
you to hold that thought, because I do want to
go into what happens next in this whole thing. For
those just joining us, Jeff Corerer, Jim of WGSO Radio,
amongst his many other talents, is joining us with our
own Curtis Robinson, Hunter Gatherers, the podcast of Hunter S.
Thompson Stories, The Yours, Truley, Christopher Tidmore, and Hi McHenry.
As we are here on the Founders Show, we're deconstructing

(10:07):
the election. A little later in the show, I'm going
to pull Jeff's thoughts on the new tax reform proposal.
I was actually at the legislature on Wednesday and get that.
We'll talk a little little local politics here, but I
do want to do looking at this election. I was,
I was sort of analyzing what happened and what went
through and the kind of indignation factor. Even Curtis, you

(10:29):
brought up last week that you know, you thought that
the garbage comments had backfired completely on on the Democrats.
You had actually said Trump and in the garbage truck
was I'm going to take it a step further and
spread it to you. He and I said one of
the things that I was cautioning my Democratic friends about
was saying, you know, you're going around calling Trump a

(10:49):
fascist so much. They were saying fascist, not Nazi. But
let's just it's not that big ad pitvalence. Well they
Harris wasn't. She was saying fascist, but it's it's a
distinct without meaning because it was so over the top
that I'm wondering if that caused a disaffection factor with
some people saying, you know, this is just a little

(11:11):
too much. I don't like Trump at all. But I
actually said this in front of my publisher, Brennette Hall,
and I said, I wrote a column and I said,
after the assassination, I said, we got to bring the
temperature down for reasonable political reasons. I don't like Donald Trump,
but I can't call him a fascist in the strictest
sense of the word. And if you say that enough,
the meaning doesn't have any meaning anymore. And I'm curious

(11:33):
about whether that affected votes.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
One thing in way it affected him was the low
one from our mentioned voter, And there are plenty out there,
maybe half the voting population probably don't even know what
the word fascist means, which is saying that's how poor
education system isn't.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
So a lot of them we're here in the fine
who knows, I don't care.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
What's the us It didn't anything to him minute for
the other ones that were getting tired of it, just
tired of hearing the same thing with no proof, never proved,
no evidence.

Speaker 2 (11:58):
You know, he had a meeting in Madison Square.

Speaker 3 (12:00):
Garden sort of the Democrats sort of many presidents candidates,
they've had meetings in the.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Does that make them all hitler? Now? I mean this
is insane. Well it was. It's absurd, it's stupid, it's silly.

Speaker 4 (12:11):
Hold it.

Speaker 3 (12:12):
It was embarrassing that anybody could even think of saying something. Well,
but let me get get up with my thing.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
Okay, Well I want to. I want to get into this,
but not I want to. I want to hit what
was the unexpected parts of the election. We've given our
sort of post before we get into post mortems. Curtis,
you talked a little bit about your warnings to Democrats
don't worry how we're getting too it. Your warnings to
Democrats about how you saw you spent a month on

(12:38):
a bus going to the manufacturing centers of America in
the midst of this campaign. I want you to ask
you about that. For a client, but in a documentary
you're working on. But I was curious about how this
rhetoric that was supposed to be defending democracy did it
go over the top too much that it actually helped
Trump rather than hurt him. Your thoughts based on this
America tour and talk about this America tour you did.

Speaker 6 (12:59):
I ended up going to several county fair kinds of
things in Minnesota, in the Missouri and other places. And
you know what, I think it went over the top,
and I went over I think it didn't go over
the top with fascists. I think it went over the
top some time ago with the with the indictments and
other things that sort of just merged into this beleaguered

(13:21):
thing to where I really think, look, it's the economy
stupid is absolutely categorically right, That's going to be the thing.
I think there's an undercurrent though that that I saw
with with people around the country that that, uh, Donald
Trump became the defiance vote. And and you knows, as
a hunter Thompson Crony, I can tell you that defiance

(13:43):
is a big thing. And and he became the anti
establishment vote. He he actually became the anti war vote, right,
and and it.

Speaker 4 (13:52):
It took a lot to do that.

Speaker 6 (13:53):
I mean, here here is someone who says, I stand
with Israel put to the last, are the last person
I've stayed with Israel. And he's never waivered from that.
And yet a lot of people I know who are
very concerned about Gaza think he's the first one.

Speaker 4 (14:09):
Who will in that war. If you had asked me
to make a prediction that was impossible, I would say, Oh,
the Republican is going to win both the Muslim vote
and the Jewish vote in certain states. I mean that
one had to be the part even you couldn't have
predicted a few months ago.

Speaker 5 (14:24):
You know, he really did bring different people together. He
brought you know, people the Muslim community, the Jewish community.
He did a good job bringing in more Hispanic and
African American voters. Then of course he brought in people
like Tulsa Gabbert and RFK. He brought in traditional Democrats,
and he really put sort of a unity ticket together.

(14:47):
And it's all about peace and prosperity and secure borders,
healthy lifestyles, and that's what RFK Junior wants to do.
The man didn't start any wars when he was a president.
He just stopped the war against ISA, and he's not
a war amonger. I mean that used to be the Democrat.
The Democrats used to be the beast next. Now the
Democrats are in bed with the Cheneyese and the Bushes

(15:08):
and they want never ending war.

Speaker 2 (15:10):
For the money.

Speaker 7 (15:10):
I'm like, what happened?

Speaker 5 (15:11):
What happened to the Democratic Party, the party of the
common man? Now it's the party of these insufferable elites,
you know, the transgenderism and this wacko set of policies
that are not connecting.

Speaker 7 (15:23):
With people their society politics.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Now, so Trump has been able to, i think, move
into the middle, get some of these disaffected Democrats, those
old remember those old Reagan Democrats, union members, rank and file.
That's why he won the popular vote, because he expanded
the base.

Speaker 7 (15:42):
Bush and Romney could have never done this.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
Let me real quickly on the Muslims side.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
You know, I was a subject matter expert on Islam
and I've been over there a bunch of times. I
know the culture very very well. And one thing about
Muslims is they really gravitate towards strong leaders. After four
years of Biden saying one of the weakest leaders, that
turned them off to the Democratic Party. And the other
thing is they don't like being led by women. I
think that had a lot to do with why have

(16:07):
so many Muslms.

Speaker 2 (16:07):
Vote for Trump? Now?

Speaker 4 (16:08):
This was the thing that came out after the election.
Curtis Robinson and for those joining us, Jeff Carreer and
Curtis Robinson are joining him, Kenny Christopher Tidmore. In this
edition of The Founder Show, before we go into the break,
a friend of a friend of all of ours at
this table, Sharon Brolski posted, and I think I can
say this, She's the one connection we all have. She's

(16:29):
one of the most prominent pr agents in the country.
She's a great political prognostic hereor worked for candidates to
both sides of the political law. And she said, basically,
is it impossible in America to elect a woman as president?
Did people vote against Harris because she was a woman?
Was that kind of rates into part of what High says.

(16:49):
That's not what she said. I'm not trying to put
words in your mouth, but there's a factor. My wife
and her friends were distraught over what happened, but they
kind of saw it through that lens. Is that a
fair statement Curtis, I don't.

Speaker 2 (17:02):
I don't think it is.

Speaker 6 (17:03):
I think if if the timing had been in different
I think if Elizabeth Dole would have run with Elector.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Thatcher, a strong woman, a good woman, I think I
think would overcome that.

Speaker 6 (17:15):
And sure there's some people that just aren't going to
vote for a woman, but I think it's it's a
small group. Always for years, and I thought that Elizabeth
Dole would be the first female president, and I.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
Think it's going to be a strong person.

Speaker 6 (17:25):
I would argue that one of the benefits of Hillary
Clinton was she was strong. I mean, no, yeah, I
used to ask people she was strong. Is she going
to if you were one of our enemies, would you think, well,
I can take advantage of her. No, you would not
think that.

Speaker 4 (17:42):
You know, you think she bombed me into the stone Age, and.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
She bombed me so quick in my Hendles, There'll be
a drone behind my car before I can think about it.
So at the end of the day, that's another that's
a valid point, but let's let's not relitigate that. I
would argue this had had Vice President Harris going through
a primary process once. Some primaries, I don't know one,

(18:06):
uh one the primary thing, and had become the candidate
that way, but to have it ordained upon her the way.

Speaker 3 (18:13):
It was by a palace cool I think, I think,
I think, I think that was difficult.

Speaker 6 (18:16):
And then I think the other thing that was I
think she was finding her footing.

Speaker 2 (18:20):
I thought she was.

Speaker 6 (18:21):
I hate to say this, Her concession speech was her
best speech.

Speaker 2 (18:25):
It was you know you're right about that, You're very good.
She did a great job on that.

Speaker 6 (18:29):
By the way, Donald Trump's acceptance speech was one of
his best speeches that I've heard.

Speaker 5 (18:36):
Yeah, yeah, here's what let me just if I could,
just if I could just jump in.

Speaker 4 (18:40):
Sure.

Speaker 7 (18:41):
You know, when when you lose, when you lose.

Speaker 5 (18:43):
An election, it's it's a classy thing to do to
call the person at won offer year congratulations.

Speaker 7 (18:50):
Hillary Clinton did it the night she lost.

Speaker 5 (18:53):
It would have been nice if Kamala Harris had done that.

Speaker 7 (18:57):
She didn't do it until the next day.

Speaker 2 (18:59):
I heard she was too dr to do it. Drunk
drink problem.

Speaker 5 (19:03):
You know, she gets all those people there to the event,
and she doesn't even come out and greet them. She
sends Cedric Richmond out there to tell them to go home. Right,
That says a lot about her character. In my opinion, Jeff,
I think she was.

Speaker 2 (19:21):
People say how drunk she was. I really believe.

Speaker 3 (19:23):
That that's the behind the scene.

Speaker 4 (19:26):
You know, I'm sorry, there's no idea, you know.

Speaker 5 (19:30):
All I would say is that, you know, she was
foisted upon the American people when when Joe Biden bowed out,
she didn't win a primary, she hadn't earned that nomination.

Speaker 7 (19:40):
I think that really hurt her.

Speaker 5 (19:42):
Biden stayed in so long she got in at the end,
she didn't have time to build uh you know, a
connection with the American people. So it was just really
doomed from from the start. I mean they should have really,
neither one of them really.

Speaker 7 (19:56):
Should have been involved.

Speaker 5 (19:57):
They should have brought in somebody knew, like a Gavin
Newsom or somebody with some appeal. Neither one of these candidates,
I think, are candidates that have any appeal after their
four years in office.

Speaker 7 (20:08):
So it was going to be tough.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
They didn't have to do with the money.

Speaker 3 (20:11):
They didn't have to do the money that if they
got another one, all the money they had gathered couldn't
be used.

Speaker 2 (20:15):
Remember that story, Well.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
No, it was it was a big if anything had
to get one of them to two, and this was
something Mark Penn at Democratic Polster put in, Jeff, and
I want you to call in this as the last
word before we go in the break, and we'll continue
after the break talking about the cotails of Trump and
even here in Louisiana that he almost pulled off something
kind of interesting and how it plays off. But the

(20:38):
money issue, everybody kept talking about what hies referencing the
billion dollars. How do you get the fundraising? How do
you get the fundraising in it's interesting to know. Mark
Penn said, you know, in the states that Harris did campaign,
in the swing states where she's spending a lot of money,
a lot of GOTV effort, she she on average would
lose by about one point six percent in the differentials.

(20:59):
There's about a one point six percent swing in the
states where she didn't campaign. Trump tended to improve his
performance from four years ago by about three point nine percent.
Now in some of those states he's still overwhelmingly lost.
But he said, what's interesting is you can spend a
huge amount of money on the ground no matter what
you do, and Trump spend virtually nothing, and yet organic

(21:21):
enthusiasm will always best ground game. Ground game matters when
there is no enthusiasm for each candidate, and in this
particular case, organic enthusiasm was something that no one, including me,
in fact, many Republican pundits didn't really seem coming. And
give you the last word on that, Jeff, before we go.

Speaker 5 (21:39):
To break well, I mean, all you have to do
is look at the rallies. I mean, the man has
done nine hundred and one rallies throughout his nine years
in running for office. And just look at the crowds.
I mean, he has that connection with people.

Speaker 7 (21:53):
He's a rock star.

Speaker 5 (21:55):
The guy was a best selling author, he was a
media star. He had been in the public eye for
day kids he ran for office. I mean, he's just
got a connection with the American people that I haven't
seen since Reagan. So Kamala Harris couldn't buy that. They
couldn't buy that with a billion dollars. It just wasn't
gonna happen. That's right, And we've got that factor that
those others don't ask.

Speaker 3 (22:14):
For over forty years, big famous people had been asking
him to run for president.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
The President's Oprah.

Speaker 3 (22:20):
Every time he was on our show, she would pammer
and be the president, he'd be the best president ever
was and in it's strange, and when all of a
sudden he does it, they turn on him like savages,
and it shows you. Yes, I started to say this
in the beginning the mcmry cardinal rule of historical analysis.
We talked about it earlier. Follow the money, Follow the money.
How are the voters voting the money because they see

(22:43):
their money disappearing under the Democrat you know, administration. So
follow the money, folks, and you're always going to figure
out what people are doing and why they did it.

Speaker 4 (22:50):
Well, I think, and there's a clarity.

Speaker 7 (22:52):
And Christopher I.

Speaker 6 (22:53):
Wanted I wanted to I wanted to say this. I
know we're going to break, but let me let us
go to break with this. Okay, when did the last
time the president vice president were both both best telling.

Speaker 4 (23:02):
Authors it's true, it's it's not happened. And I'm also
a good point. I'm also going to say clarity of message.
So election night, you both appreciate this. I have a
lot of women who are completely distraught. And I said
this was women because it was it's my wife's friends
and so they were all around. I'm not being sexist,
and they looked at me and said, why would people
vote against their interests? And I looked at all of them.

(23:23):
I said, look, I didn't vote for.

Speaker 2 (23:24):
Trump the interest money.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
No, But I said, I said, let me let me
ask you all the quest for the money. And then
we got to take this break. Let me ask you
all a question. And the question I said was what
concrete campaign promise has Harris made the help's working class voters?
And one of them said a middle class tax cut,
another said maybe a down payment of house. Now I said, now,
all of you, I know none of you voted for Trump.

(23:47):
You can't stay tell me what promise he made. And
they all said, without missing a beat, simultaneously, no tax
on tips, and then proceed to say this is not
a good economic policy. So I said, whether it's not
a good economic policy votes? I said, it resonates with
the working class voters a lot more than what you
just said. And you had to like help around. And

(24:07):
I said, if this is go ahead.

Speaker 7 (24:09):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (24:09):
Other?

Speaker 7 (24:10):
What else resonated?

Speaker 5 (24:11):
Him showing up at a McDonald's and amenes and how
about him showing up in a garbage truck?

Speaker 2 (24:16):
Amen? Exactly?

Speaker 7 (24:17):
That resonated too.

Speaker 5 (24:18):
I mean The guy's a genius for these kinds of
events where you can connect with the average man and
woman in the country. He's a billionaire, but he's really
the common man, and it's an incredible skill that he has.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
One of the last thing about women, and that is
that one of the attacks was that he doesn't like
strong women. When I heard that, I couldn't believe I heard.
I mean, they'll tell any lie, they'll go to any extreme.
The man has been surrounded by strong women his whole life.
It seems like you just nothing but love strong women.
And guess what else happened with strong women. It's the
first time in the histor of America were not one,

(24:53):
but where too strong women were defeated by Donald Trump
the only two elections he's ever been in.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
What strong No, then, the only two LX has ever
been and he was defeated by a man.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Well a third election?

Speaker 4 (25:05):
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Speaker 4 (28:15):
Right with Christopher Tidmore, and we have the ultimate roundtable
of former radio partners joining us on the air. Of course,
Curtis Robinson, who the co host of Hunter Gathers, the
podcast of Hunter s Thompson Stories, has been doing analysis
of this election versus the seventy two election. Check them
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(28:36):
Jeff Carreer. Jeff is not only has the privilege of
being my former radio partner or I've had the privilege
of being his, but he's also the host of WGSAS
morning show Ringside Politics. He's his host of a national
television show on that you know at Ringside Politics dot com,
and he is the general manager of WGSO Radio. And gentlemen,

(28:57):
I want to turn it a little bit beyond outside
of just Trump's victory what happened with that, but the
fact that what made Curtis and I talked on the
Hunter Gatherers podcast about the difference from say Nixon's success
in seventy two was the fact that there was Trump
head coattails, and that's the part that really surprised me.
I predicted he was going to win. I didn't predict,

(29:20):
and I was wrong that. And I predicted the Senate
would go Republican just based on math, but I didn't
predict that the down ticket races would be so affected.
And I want Curtis to chime in because he's been
watching a couple of these races, particularly Maine, but Jeff
here in Louisiana, the sixth congressional district race, Cleo Fields won.
But if you had come to me a week before

(29:40):
and said Cleo Fields would barely eke it out with
just barely making fifty one percent and a district that is,
you know, sixty percent African American, I would have said, well,
that's highly, highly unlikely. Elbert Guilery for a while had
an incredibly strong success and a district that wouldn't normally
do well for Republican. And I looked around the country
and you saw a lot of districts that were going

(30:03):
that where Democrats were ahead in the polls, that Republicans
have narrowly come back or came really close, and it's
why the GOP has a shot at the house that
a lot of people didn't think they had a week ago.
Can you talk about that coattail effect and how it
affected us here, affected us everywhere.

Speaker 3 (30:19):
But way, Chris Roberts always predicted his coat tails and
then yes, always, always, yeah, but you've always heralded his
because they're real. Oh ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead, go ahead.

Speaker 5 (30:27):
I would say that one of the problems was that
Kamala Harris did not have any enthusiastic support and that
I think there was a lack of a turnout among
base constituencies of the Democrat Party. I think the turnout
among African Americans was depressed. I think the turnout among
some other constituency the Democratic Party was down. And then

(30:51):
you add to that the fact that I think Republicans
did a little better in recruiting more Hispanic and African
American votes, and I think com bind that helped people
like Elbert Gillery make it very close to getting into
a runoff with the Cleio Fields in Baton Rouge. You
had a Republican candidate run first in the in the

(31:11):
mayor's race, defying all the expectations. People thought it was
going to be two Democrats in the runoff, but the
Republican ran first, Coach Sid and not.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Only ran first, And Jeff you hit on something. Ted James,
who was the challenging char in Western Broom, had the
Democratic Party nomination out spender three to one. Shared Western
Broom's the incumbent, and yet he didn't make the runoff.
He was bested by a Republican in a parent it's
like in a parish where a Republican's never supposed to
have a chance.

Speaker 5 (31:36):
And the end and the Republican had barely any money.
I mean, Ted James was just overflowing with Lane Grigsby
money and money from big whig Republicans because they thought
that the big donors thought that he was the best
bet to stop sharing Western Broom. But the voters said, no,
we want a Republican candidate. So now you've got Coach

(31:57):
Sid against this Democrat incmbent and we'll see what's going
to happen. But I think, yeah, I think Trump did
better in Louisiana than he did four years ago. He
got sixty point two percent of the vote, which is
a little bit higher. And I just don't think there
was an enthusiasm for Kamala Harris because she hadn't made
that connection with the people. She hadn't been out there
long enough. She was an unpopular VP. They just coronated

(32:21):
her as a nominee. They didn't handle the Biden situation. Well,
Biden should have on the day after mid terms said
I'm not running for reelection right and turned it over.
And that could have been a whole different result if
that would have happened.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
But Jill was determined to keep him in office. We
know that. And well, by the way, yeah, I think
he doubled.

Speaker 3 (32:40):
I think he doubled all the minority votes from the
past elections that he got that many new minorities on
his side.

Speaker 4 (32:47):
Well, let's you're talking about Trump. And yeah, he got
forty six percent of Hispanic vote, which is higher. It's
not even higher than any Republican It's probably more than
all the Republican presidents put together. He got twenty percent
of African American men in most of the swing states.
We don't know what the whole national taste is, right,
It was. It was a strong things. But most importantly, Curtis,

(33:10):
you've been looking at the at the House district tolls
because you've been fascinated by the one Northeastern electoral vote
that Trump won, which is of course in your home
state of Maine, the second Congressional district of Maine. And
you watched Jared Golden want a bit of a Unicorn,
one of the last conservative Democrats left in the United

(33:31):
States House of Representatives, and you kind of thought it
was gonna be a sl decision. You said, Trump's gonna
win that, but Golden's gonna be Well, Golden wasn't so Golden.
He won, which is always golden, but it wasn't exactly
what you expected. Can you talk about this sort of
cotails effect.

Speaker 2 (33:45):
Well, you have to.

Speaker 6 (33:45):
Realize that that Golden in his ads stress that he
had worked with Trump to bring a Veteran Center of
Badly Needed Veterans medical center to his district, and he
didn't back away from that. But he also didn't you know,
he was he was very he's a very authentic candidate.
What put him over I mean it was neck and

(34:07):
neck what put him over the top of the overseas
vote he's a former marine and and he got a
significant amount of military support. And so so there's that
I've watched the House intently because I've thought that, I mean,
any any kind of unity that we're going to hear
will soon go away. On Hillary Clinton's concession speech when

(34:31):
she lost was eloquent. Remember she said, he deserves, he has,
he deserves a chance to govern and other things. You know,
the Russia, Russia, Russia thing didn't come out for seventy
two hours, and then it was all Russia, it was
he's an illegitimate president.

Speaker 4 (34:46):
It was.

Speaker 2 (34:47):
It started pretty quickly.

Speaker 6 (34:48):
So my concern with the House of Representatives it is
and it's seen as a branch of government, sure, but
it's also the investigative.

Speaker 7 (34:57):
Branch of government.

Speaker 6 (34:59):
If if from now on till the end of time,
if the opposite party holds the House and Representatives, there
are going to be hearings. There's going to be it
is a very effective way to to create a shadow
agenda in government. And you're going to get impeached. You
know what, Trump was impeached twice. Uh So you're you're

(35:21):
that's just going to be a partisan investigative arm. So
now I think uh, I think it's set.

Speaker 2 (35:28):
It was.

Speaker 6 (35:29):
You know, it seemed like it is three hours ago
that that's going to be held by the Republicans. And
I think one of the biggest benefits of that that
people won't get is that it will remove the friction
of investigation from us for the last two years. Then
then you know, here come the mid terms. In Rock
and roll, right, But.

Speaker 4 (35:48):
There is there is one question, Jeff Carreer, and that's
if and that people have been asking me this question.
Curtis and I actually talked about this question off air.
He said, you know, Mike Johnson, you've you've you guys
have worked in politics. You think he is going to
be a challenged He's gonna have the same problem with
Matt Gates and others and getting it. And I said,
I don't think he will this time. I think Trump

(36:09):
is gonna call any of the rebels in. But you
got admit, even if the Republicans do pull off what
it's looking like at a House majority, it's gonna be
about the same as what we've got now. Five seats
are less, and so that's hard to govern for even
the greatest political things. So do you think he's gonna
be challenging.

Speaker 2 (36:27):
Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (36:28):
I think he's gonna survive because Trump backs and I
don't think he's been particularly effective or strong, but I
think Trump is behind him, and I think that'll pull
him through. There's not really anybody who I think has
a stature to challenge him right now. I know Marjorie
Taylor Green is very unhappy with him, and you know
there's been some grumbling from even Matt Gates and others

(36:50):
who supported him that he didn't do enough as Speaker.
But I think their majority might even be less. I
think it might be less than what it was. And
I think we're talking about rays or raised or thin,
and it's just not going to be possible for the
you know, real Maga crew to get somebody who's any
better than him, So they're going to be stuck with him.

(37:11):
And then on the Senate side, it'll it'll be interesting
to see whether thoone.

Speaker 7 (37:15):
Gets it or not.

Speaker 5 (37:16):
It looks like he's got the inside track, and you know,
he's from the Mitch McConnell mold, so you know you're
going to have more moderate leadership in the Congress. Then
of course President Trump, and that's sort of what the
problem was back in the first term, he didn't get
a lot of cooperation from the Congress, so hopefully they'll
be more cooperative with him because he does.

Speaker 7 (37:36):
Have now a mandate. Now he can say I won.

Speaker 5 (37:39):
The popular vote as well as the electoral College, So
I think that might encourage hopefully more support from Congress
for his agenda.

Speaker 3 (37:47):
I'd like to make a few comments here about both
candidates and get your feedback. One of them, it was
first mentioned that Trump is coming out to be a
man of faith. Actually he was at from the very beginning.
He's the first president to actually create a council of
ministers to advise him in the White House. First time
it's ever happened.

Speaker 6 (38:04):
He did.

Speaker 3 (38:05):
He did five prayers for his inauguration. He had his
own personal spiritual counsel from a very strong evangelical pastor,
the pastor First Baptist of Jeffers of Dallas.

Speaker 2 (38:17):
And then, by the way, if you saw.

Speaker 3 (38:18):
The behind the scenes stuff at Trump saying all of
the workers behind the scenes, when he went up in
front of the curtain, they were all back there, and
they had been back there for an hour, praising God,
singing psalms of worship and whatnot. He was there in
that No, I see the man as having a whole
not I will say this, since the last couple of
things that have happened to him, it seems like I've

(38:39):
noticed a real increase in faith, which I think right
almost that happens when hardships come almost give you're a Christian,
usually hopefully you becomes The other thing is I've noticed
many of the I heard three or four Democrat experts,
you know, Democrat Party, and they were all saying that
Trump goes down now as the super number one political
athlete in all of American history. That's quite a insight

(39:00):
from the Democrat side. She she you said, she didn't
connect with the people. She never connected with the people.
That's why she could never win any of the prior things.
And an example, she had one hundred days to go
out and do rallies interviews. She did almost no rallies
and no interviews. She was avoiding everybody. That's one reason she.

Speaker 4 (39:18):
Did a lot of rallies. But if she did not, Okay,
she all of a sudden did a couple Let's get
back in the topic. Let's get back in the topic
of coattails real quick. The House of Representatives could actually
come down to David Valadera's seat in the twenty in
the California twenty second, the one Republican who voted who remains,
who voted for impeachment could be the deciding vote for
the United States House of Representatives for organization. And I

(39:41):
find that there's a there's a point of irony that
just goes beyond recognition, and that his seat was may
have been saved by the fact that Donald Trump had
a rally in California has to strike me, Jeff, you
got to admit there's an iron irony factor beyond recognition
for that.

Speaker 7 (39:56):
So yeah, I mean that that that really is. I
mean it's used to.

Speaker 5 (40:00):
It's just amazing when you think about how closely divided
the country is and SARTs reflected in the House of Representatives,
and you know, it looks like the Senate will have
fifty three now Republicans. Looks like Dave McCormick has been
named the winner there, so you're going to have a
little bit, yeah, a little bit of an edge for
Republicans in the Senate, a little bit of breathing room.

(40:23):
So yeah, it's just, yeah, it is amazing at the
House to see what's going on with these races and
how close everything is, and it's going to be difficult
to govern.

Speaker 7 (40:32):
I mean, the House has had a hard time.

Speaker 5 (40:34):
Really getting anything done and I think that's going to continue,
and I think that's going to really lead to more gridlock.
I mean it's going to be hard for President Trump's
get everything through with such a slim majority, if they
even have it in the House.

Speaker 4 (40:46):
Curtis Robinson, because I do want to ask Jeff a
final comment about Louisiana politics. Who has happened. But one question,
is this a realignment election or is this a reaction
election to where we are now in a cycle in
American policys where we're going to vote out everybody every
two to four years because we're such a divided country.

Speaker 6 (41:05):
Well, I would say define realignment. I think it's a
realignment for the Democrats because I think they have to
come to terms within themselves. I think they have to
get you see, you've already see this. California is a
Democratic state. Look at their housing issue where where they're
they're at each other's throats over how to solve the

(41:25):
housing crisis. You see the internals of that. So yes,
I think it's a realignment in some senses around issued.
But one of the things I would point out is
that to this, to the extent that it's a realignment,
it's going to empower the middle.

Speaker 7 (41:40):
What's left of the middle.

Speaker 6 (41:42):
Of the Susan Collins crowd is Susan Collins is going
to be you know, she's no Trump fan, and she's
going to be Those three or four senators that that
are represent the center are going to be are going
to be very empowered the way OLYMPI if no was,
and those people are gonna have extreme time and mention.

Speaker 4 (42:05):
And one of the big differences is.

Speaker 6 (42:08):
Donald Trump does not suffer that lightly.

Speaker 4 (42:10):
He does not know, he does not like, he likes
people to fall in line suffer. We're almost out of time,
and I do want to get Jeff's final comment. Jeff,
I was in the I was in the galleries and
on the floor of the Louisiana House of Representatives on
Wednesday and watched the governor give his speech calling for
a three percent flat tax and a three point five
percent corporate tax. And there's not there wasn't a whole

(42:33):
lot of opposition to that idea. There was a lot
of opposition to the fact that he wants to put
sales taxes on a lot of things, including And the
thing that was brought up to me by three separate
legislators was not my precious live performance tax credits that
helped write. It's not the film tax credits, it's not
the quality jobs credits. It was the fact that he
was going to put sales taxes on the storing of
their boats. And as long as that's in the proposal,
no self respecting legislator from Akadiana, South Louisiana was going

(42:57):
to vote for it. And I got Republicans coming telmties
what the chances for this tax reform proposal, because after all,
it does require a two thirds majority. If he loses
one or two Republicans, he gets it. And I heard
he called Jake la and Mike Baham, friends of ours,
over the mansion, to try to remom out there on
the Ways and Means Committee and said you must vote

(43:17):
for this, and they were skeptical, what are his real
chances for getting this tax reform throw?

Speaker 5 (43:22):
Well, you know, he didn't run on a platform of
renewing the sales taxes, and that's part of this plan,
so you know he's going to really have to sell
the fact that he's reducing income taxes, getting rid of
the corporate franchise tax, reducing corporate income tax as really
worth you know, these other increases in sales taxes, and

(43:43):
he can do it. I mean, he's got a lot
of popularity, he's got a lot of sway over these legislators.
I know Billy nun Gasser now has a competing plan
and that has created some friction between the two of them.

Speaker 7 (43:55):
So it's going to be a real sales job.

Speaker 5 (43:57):
I mean, remember, this is sort of the condensed version
of the constitutional convention that they we're going to have.
And now this is really where he's putting all of
his eggs in this basket.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
And I think he's going to get something through.

Speaker 5 (44:08):
There'll be some horse trading, but I think he'll in
the end be successful getting a plan through. But I
think it'll be a little bit different than what we
see right now.

Speaker 4 (44:17):
Jeff Career, WGSO Radio, Curtis Robinson of Hunter Gatherers Podcast,
thank you guys for joining us. Hi McHenry, Christopher Tidmore.

Speaker 3 (44:25):
One last comment at a time, but one last comment,
and that is the battle has just begun. Folks, we
won the election, but it's not only given us an
opportunity because Trump is going to have a huge job
to do. He's got to fix tons of broken stuff,
and he's got a weaponized government against him. So this
is going to be one of the most challenging administrations
in our history and should be very colorful and interesting

(44:48):
to follow over the next four years. Is that correct, gentlemen.

Speaker 6 (44:51):
I certainly agree with the last part of it, I
will say, I will say.

Speaker 7 (44:55):
Try I agree as well.

Speaker 4 (44:56):
Trump is going to be faced with a tax renewal
and tax cuts is so he's in a similar vote
to Jeff Landry. Gentlemen, thank you so much for joining
us in the Fountain Show. Folks will be back with
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Speaker 3 (45:54):
Own, folks, we're back and it's not time for us
to go into our happened by by patriotic moment. We
just take a brief moment to remind you of the
biblical foundations of our country are Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And
today I'd like to talk about none other then a
great American, a man who had a huge influence on
this country. And I'm talking about Reverend doctor Martin Luther King,

(46:16):
truly a great man, the man who said, it's not
the color of your skin, but the content of your character. Oh,
that our politicians would listen to that today, wouldn't that
be something? Well, folks, you know he said a precedent
that Eden's actually the president was there where good men
and women in the political realm would listen to various

(46:38):
preachers and ministers and whatnot for their direction in their
political lives, their inspiration. There a compass, if you will,
a moral compass, and that's one of the things that
made America truly a great America. We're trying to make
America great again, but we were already made great in
the beginning by that kind of philosophy, listening to God,

(46:59):
reading the Bible, studying the Bible, and certain Martin Luther
King was a great man for that, and he had
a huge impact impact on this country and on the
political life of this country. I thank God that now
that we have a president who has a history of
doing this, and I'm talking about Donald Trump now, who
has in his first term he had an entire board,

(47:19):
an entire committee of ministers that advised him. He had
one man in particular that it was a spiritual guide
throughout his administration. That was a Reverend Jeffers at First
Baptist in Dallas, Texas. He has done many things and
said many things that indicate that he truly is looking
to God for guidance.

Speaker 2 (47:38):
And course recently with the great uh.

Speaker 3 (47:40):
Disasters and terrible things that have come to him, I
can see that it's even pushed him closer to the Lord,
which is the way it should work with a real Christian.
Tribulations come to us to make us stronger in our faith.
I see that in Donald Trump right now. And so folks, Uh,
there's another example, doctor Martin Luther King and Donald Trump,
who have clearly given us a picture of what it's

(48:02):
like to have a biblical foundation in our government.

Speaker 2 (48:05):
But folks, what about you? Do you have a bigical
foundation in you?

Speaker 3 (48:08):
As we now leave our chaplain By by patriotic moment
where we talk about the Judeo Christian jurisprudence in America,
the biblical influence, But what about you? It's an individual?
Where are you on? That is God in your life?
Is he guiding you?

Speaker 2 (48:22):
Well? You need to have him. You know.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
The Bible says, as we're now going to our chaplain
By by a gospel moment, that God loves you with
an everlasting love. The picture the Scripture says, for God's
soul love the world. That's you, that's everybody. He so
loved the world that he gave you. See, because God's
a lover, He's a giver. He gave his only begotten son,
that's the Lord, Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect man.
All the way God and all the way man. He

(48:43):
gave his only begotten son. That whosoever that's you again,
believeth in him? Well, okay, believe in him? What does
that mean?

Speaker 2 (48:51):
Well, let's take a little deeper look, a little broader.

Speaker 3 (48:55):
Look, if you will, from the Scripture of what that
belief means that who's ever believe in him. That's what
you have to believe, folks. First of all, you have
to believe. You can't save yourself, your hopeless and helps
the love of God destined to a burning health.

Speaker 2 (49:05):
You're just not gonna make it.

Speaker 3 (49:07):
You're not religious enough, holy enough, smart enough, charming enough,
rich enough, or whatever you think you are to be
good enough for God. So forget it because you can't
do it. Give it up, Give it up, and let
God go in your life. He's the one who's going
to fix it. He's the one who's going to get
you to heaven. And the way he did it was
Jesus died for all of your sins on the cross.

(49:29):
That's Jesus Christ, the Lord, Jesus Christ, perfect God and
perfect man, all the way God and all the way men.
He died for all of your sins. I mean, from
the day you were born, in the day you die,
your tiniest, too greatest sins. He died for all of
your sins so that your sins would be washed away.
But that was just the first problem he had to fix.
Your second problem was death. And when he rose from
the dead. He saved you from the second death, that

(49:51):
means in an eternal damnation and a burning hell. He
saved you from the second death by rising from the dead,
winning for you his precious free gift of resis direction
everlasting life. That's what you have to do when it
says believe it in Him, that whosoever believeth in Him
should not perish, not go to hell, but have everlasting life.

Speaker 2 (50:10):
Folks, if you've never done this before, do it now.

Speaker 3 (50:13):
Don't wait till it's too late, like the old country
preacher said, and like the Word of God says.

Speaker 2 (50:17):
Now today is the day of salvation.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
Right now, I believe with all your heart, because you're
not trusting anything else, including yourself, believe with all your
heart that Jesus, with the faith OFU, a little child,
really did die for all your sins, was buried and
rose from the dead. Well, folks, it's not time for
us to go into our just a brief testimony time
where we take someone from the past or could be
someone today who had a great testimony about his life

(50:41):
and how his life affected other people. The scripture says
that by the blood of the Lamb and the word
of their testimony, they beat the devil. So hear this
great testimony is by the man that lived many years ago,
many hundreds of years ago, Saint Maurice of Thebes. He
ended up being a Roman commander. He commanded an entire legion,
and they were one of the finest units the entire

(51:02):
Roman army had. He was up and them in this
around Switzerland, up in the Alps, fighting the Gauls, those
great and fierce warriors like the Irish, you know, the Celts,
the Goddish, but it was it was another band. And
they were all over Europe, the Celts, and uh, and
they were the Roman armies greatest fear, the great, greatest
danger of Roman saw was from the Celts, and so

(51:24):
uh he was sent in to defeat them. And and
but what happened was the Roman emperors had become so insane,
this was Emperor Maximilian, that they wanted everybody to worship
them as gods. And as a Christian, he couldn't do that.
He was a divioute Christian. He's an entire army was
And when when challenged with that, he said, I'm sorry,
whether I serve God a serve man, I have to

(51:45):
serve God. I cannot follow these orders. And guess what.
He and his entire unit were sacrificed, were martyred by
the Roman officials because they refused to worship any God
but Jesus. What a testimony, what a man of God.
By the way, we have a statue here in New Orleans.
We even have a church for him, Saint Marie's Church
here in New Walls. But we have a statue in

(52:07):
the Saint Jude Chapel there where and there his name
is Saint Expedite, Saint Expedite where the local pastor priests
there has given him the nickname the patron Saint of FedEx.
That's another story. It's a funny story. We've said it
on this show before, I have to tell you again.

(52:28):
But anyway, this guy was an amazing man, an amazing man.
So if you want to see him, go to the
Saint Guadeloupe church there the the march where cemetery where
they brought all the yellow fever victims one hundred fifty
years ago. And it's right where at the Saint Jude
shrine there on North frank Part Street, right across from
the French Quarter, and you can see Saint Expedite statue

(52:51):
right there. He's in the back, dressed like a Roman soldier.
It's an amazing experience. Well, folks, it is not time
for us to go. As we close with them on
Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye, Thank God, bless all out.

Speaker 9 (53:02):
There, the calling CEO goodbye. They think we're just wasted
our time.

Speaker 2 (53:21):
For the mead.

Speaker 10 (53:22):
All three savon say there's time for a creoke.

Speaker 9 (53:32):
Goodbye,
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