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January 31, 2025 54 mins
The newest member of the editorial board of the Times-Picayune/New Orleans Advocate joins Hy and Christopher to talk about the challenges - and opportunities - for the Crescent City in the upcoming election seasons.
His name is well-known in journalism, both locally and nationally. Quin Hillyer has written for National Review, as well as a number of influential publications. His column has run in the T-P for the last two years As of this week, the New Orleans born-and-bred reporter who started his career as a senior staffer for Congressman Bob Livingston in the 1990s, has joined the T-P as a staff editor and writer.
His ‘welcome home’ piece appears in Sunday’s T-P, “Back in Louisiana, where personalities and politics are bigger than life”.
Hy and Christopher question Quin on the challenges Speaker Mike Johnson faces passing a budget, the bitter partisanship of Washington DC, and Louisiana’s incredible influence in the nation’s capital.  Quin observes that with less than 2% of the nation’s population, Louisiana controls many of the senior positions in Congress.
We then turn our attention to the upcoming election elections for Mayor of New Orleans and on multiple levels in Jefferson Parish.  In fact, qualifying happened this week for some of those open seats in the suburban cities. As Christopher writes in this coming week’s edition of The Louisiana Weekly:
Candidates Qualify for 3/29/25 Election
By Christopher Tidmore
Jefferson Parish insiders expressed a degree of shock at the amount of integrity which long-time Gretna Police Chief Arthur Lawson demonstrated in his decision not to seek another term last week. He released a press release before qualifying began on January 29, 2025, thanking the public and announcing his intentions to retire.
Unmentioned but well-known, he hoped that his son Brett Lawson, a seasoned police officer himself, would be his successor. The younger Lawson dutifully qualified last Wednesday upon the opening of registration.  That’s what surprised every insider. Until last Monday, Arthur Larson seemed primed to run for another term, scaring away any opponents, so why not pull a Chehardy?
The famous case of the incumbent Jefferson Parish Assessor—walking into qualifying on the final day with his son, and then watching his son qualify for office unopposed in his place—has constituted a legendary handoff of power to the next generation. At the time, critics called it nepotism at its worst, yet Lawrence Chehardy Jr. remained a popular incumbent who never faced a serious challenge for decades thereafter.
Arthur Larson could have kept his silence until 4:55, walked into the Clerk’s office with his son, and watched Brett sign up for the race unopposed. Instead, he telegraphed his intentions, and gave any candidate to wish to challenge ample time to qualify. Of course, the dilemma of any potential challenger is that campaign dollars may prove scarce this year against the popular Lawson name, which meant that as late as the morning of Friday, Jan. 31 (when this newspaper went to press) Brett Larson had not received a challenger for Police Chief of Gretna.
State Rep. Ricky Templet did, however, in his quest to return to the Jefferson Parish Council.  The Mayor of Jean Lafitte Timothy Kerner Jr. threw his hat in the proverbial ring. This sets up the District 1 race as a ‘Battle of Titans’ from either end of the West Bank seat. A scion of the dynasty from the coastal city text squares off against the principal powerbroker from the main municipality further north. Making this even more complicated for Templet, Kerner’s father serves in the Louisiana House of Representatives with him. Both men are Republicans, but they are joined in the contest by Andrea Manuel, an African-American Democrat.
After losing his reelection to a third term as Westwego Mayor by just 114 votes several years ago, John I. "Johnny" Shaddinger Jr. seeks to return to elective politics in running for the District 1 seat on the Westwego Council. He faces Republican Jason LeBlanc and Democrat Maggie "May" Campbell.
Timothy "Tim" Matherne faces a challenge from Johnny Nobles Jr. in the District 2 contest.  Robert "Bobby" Black runs against Randy Carr (of Carr Drugs fame) for District 4, and Robert "Bobby B" Bonvillian faces Larry Warino for the District 5 seat on the Council. All are Republicans.
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
We're talking with one of the gurus of local politics
back home, editing the daily newspaper. And with that in
this edition of the Founder's Show.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
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Chaplain Hi mcenry, who.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
With Christopher Tidmore, your roving reporter, resident Radical Moderate and
associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly
dot net and joining us on today's edition to The
Founder's Show is Quinn Hill.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Here.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
For those that do not know, he is one of
the legends of local journalism. He's of course made an
incredible career nationally. He was a regular correspondent writer for
National Review. He has been in multiple major publications across
the state. He was actually editorial page editor from the
Mobile Register and Quinn, who was born and bred in
New Orleans of It, has decided to throw his hat

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back into the ring of Louisiana politics and join the
editorial page. Just this past week and a half of
the time speaking New Orleans Advocate and The Advocate newspapers
and Quinn, it is an honor and privilege to have
you back on the air.

Speaker 3 (02:05):
It's good to have you back.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Well, Chris, thank you so much for having me.

Speaker 4 (02:08):
Welcome, Welcome to the show, The Founder Show.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
So let's welcome coming back and being on a Hiana
it's it's sort of a coming home for us. And
we'll tell you this to why but Quinn, you know
you have you have been you have covered some of
the biggest stories in the country. You were as I mentioned,
National Review. It's it's not the limit. You've done the
Wall Street Journal, more publications than I care to ever
mention or could.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
But you've you've covered it. Yet you're coming back.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
To write and editorialized in the day to day life
of politics and life here in Louisiana.

Speaker 3 (02:38):
And some would say, you know, have you lost your mind?

Speaker 2 (02:41):
You've been in the show? Have you come back yet?
To some extent, Louisiana politics is always the show. What
brought you back?

Speaker 3 (02:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 6 (02:49):
Well, and actually my Sunday column uh is actually out
online today and it talks about just that. And it's
as you know of the early twentieth century novelist Thomas
Wolfe famously wrote a book called You Can't Go Home Again.

Speaker 5 (03:10):
Well, Thomas Wolfe was wrong.

Speaker 6 (03:13):
Look, first of all, Louisiana and especially New Orleans is
a wonderful place.

Speaker 5 (03:22):
That is as we all know.

Speaker 6 (03:24):
It's unique, and it has more personality. It has I
think the most fun people and the most genuinely friendly people.
I think that it's a place that you can never leave.

(03:44):
I've always said this, I could live in timbuckto for
twenty years, and I'd still call New Orleans home.

Speaker 1 (03:51):
Wow.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
And so you know I've kept in touch all these years.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
And obviously the Picking and Slash Advocate have been carrying
my columns on Sundays anyway for about two and a
half years.

Speaker 5 (04:05):
Uh.

Speaker 6 (04:06):
And and I've got a place here that haven't been
getting here often enough, but now I have a good
reason to get here much more often. And uh and
you know even when when I've lived in Mobile all
these years, Uh, you know, I I've got family here.

Speaker 5 (04:26):
This is this is where my heart is. So that's
the first thing.

Speaker 4 (04:29):
Where are you originally? From where you originally?

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Oh I'm from New Orleans? Yeah, from New Orleans, grew
up here.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
Yeah, and uh okay, and big question is big question
is where'd you go to school? Meaning high school?

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Uh? Well, actually I'm gonna start to say that that
I went to school at Trinity Episcopals.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
Oh yeah, through through grade school. Uh and and Trinity
is just part of my heart.

Speaker 6 (04:56):
And and then I went to wonderful, obviously tremendous educational institution.

Speaker 5 (05:04):
Is it ord Newman.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
As somebody went to Saint Martin's. I can simply say, Quinn,
not everybody's perfect. You know, we'll have you out here regardless,
you know.

Speaker 6 (05:12):
So yeah, so went to Trinity and Newman and of
course I got my start in journalism here as a.

Speaker 5 (05:21):
Sports writer the Tom Speckyan forty years ago.

Speaker 4 (05:23):
This year, good.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Quinn Healer is joining Hi McHenry and Christopher Teddmore here
in the Founder Show on w R and O and WSLA,
and he has now joined on a permanent basis the
editorial board of the time speaking in New Orleans Advocate,
And of course you've been reading his column. It's been
in the picking for the last two and a half years,
and those who read National Review and other national publications
are well experienced by that. And Quinn, I'm curious before

(05:49):
we get into some of the political issues, because obviously
it's qualifying week, you know, and a lot of local elections.
We got a lot of different political trends here in
Louisiana and so and so forth. But I'm sort of curious,
from as somebody who writes on national issues as well
as local issues, is there a mind shift that you
have to do when you're when you're writing about something

(06:09):
that is distinctly locals as opposed to the way you
do something nationally.

Speaker 5 (06:14):
That's a good question, and.

Speaker 6 (06:18):
I would have to think about exactly how to give
the better answer to that that I'm going to give.

Speaker 5 (06:25):
The short answer is yes and no.

Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yes and no. That's a good political answer.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Yeah, yeah, no. But but look, there is.

Speaker 6 (06:37):
There is a especially in Louisiana, which I can explain.
There is definitely a national aspect to to a lot
of writing about state and local politics.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
And that's a perspective.

Speaker 6 (06:52):
Having been national for so long, that's a perspective that
I can bring. But still, again, there is no place
like this place, and I think will any local and national.
You know, there's a dichotomy between outlook anywhere you go.
It's especially true here because you can't just come to

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New Orleans or come to Louisiana and immediately start, uh
start saying, Okay, I'm going to pick up on the
local politics and pick up on the local culture and
and and I'll be able to write about.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
In two weeks.

Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, you could love to do that.

Speaker 6 (07:31):
Because yeah, because there is so much, there's so many
layers to it that other places don't have.

Speaker 2 (07:37):
Well being, and I want to ask you about that
because you know, somebody asked me about starting out in
journalism here, and somebody's written in DC and so and
so forth. They said, well, how was it kind of
going the other way? And I said, Louisiana was the
perfect training ground, you know, or the words of you know,
John Nance Gardner. If you think you knew a lot
about politics, go to Louisiana for a postgraduate degree.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
Or it's for us along.

Speaker 2 (07:59):
But the fact of the matter is, it's the nuances
of politics. This is a great training ground to understand
the rest of the world. It leaves people who come
here a little bit lost, But for those of us
that grew up here and grew up in journalism here,
it's kind of a wonderful perspective. And the fact of
the matter is, even though this has happened a few

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times in Louisiana history, the leaders of Louisiana and Washington
d C are quite literally the leaders of Washington d C.
Not the White House, but Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Scalise,
so on and so forth, committee leaders, even Troy Carter,
Congressman for New Orleans, who's really the lynchpin between the
two parties. Between Hakeem Jeffers and the Republican leadership that frankly,

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Louisiana has never been more influential in the nation's capital,
even into the days of Hughey or Russell Long or
for that matter, you know the f Aber or so
and so forth, as it is right now.

Speaker 6 (08:55):
And I actually mentioned that in that column that I
mentioned earlier that's online today.

Speaker 5 (09:02):
This is unprecedented.

Speaker 6 (09:04):
Louisiana has only one point three percent of the US population,
and yet it has the top two ranking members of
the US House of Representatives, the People's House.

Speaker 5 (09:19):
That is extraordinary.

Speaker 6 (09:21):
I mean, Louisianas have a long history of punching above
our weight in Washington. And some of the names you mentioned,
plus Hale Boggs with he was inligned to be speaker,
my old boss, Bob Livingston was speaker, and I mean,
you can go through the names, and they had outsized
influence in Washington. But never has a state punched so

(09:47):
above its per capita weight in the halls of Congress
as Louisiana is doing right now.

Speaker 3 (09:55):
Quinn Hiller is joining us.

Speaker 2 (09:56):
He is, of course just joined the editorial page of
The Times for Ken but he's a well known editorial
writer of national and local publications. His column has been
in the picun And you know, I get a feeling
of that. I ran an event at Washington Marti Graus
last week and for the New Orleans Opera. But the
fact of the matter is pretty much the number of
people who were going to Washington Marti Graus. That what

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started out in nineteen forty nine as a way of
lonely congressional aids having a carnival ball has become the
power center of trumpst Washington. The number of administration officials
and the number of key people who were just going
to Louisiana based events for a Louisiana expatriate community is
just was It was illuminating to see where we are

(10:39):
in the national conversation.

Speaker 6 (10:41):
Well, and I've got to say, I mean back in
the nineties the Louisiana delegation was pretty darn powerful too,
with Bob Livingston, Billy toadzand John Brow and you could
go on butt.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
And Blue Dog Democrats. Remember the Blue Dog Democrats.

Speaker 6 (10:56):
Well that's why I said, John John Brow, Yeah, yeah
so but but but but never like now, Although there
is a difference back in the past, the Louisiana's that
did a send to power. I've got to say, uh
did it by showing more independence than our current speaker.

Speaker 5 (11:19):
Right now, our current speaker.

Speaker 6 (11:22):
Is not really wielding uh independent power. He is more,
you know, doing whatever this president wants him to do.
That as as long as he can get it through
the House. That's a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (11:39):
It's and I would say Mike Johnson essentially is acting
as chancellor and his only the only times he's in
trouble is when Trump pretty much changes his opinion of
what he's already told him what to do exactly. That's
what happens when you have a one vote majority, which
is where the House is at least into the next
two special elections. Quinn Healier is joining us here, Hi, mckenry,
Christopher more than show and we've got I mean, for

(12:02):
all that's going on in DC, and obviously Mike Johnson
is going to be focusing on trying to get a
budget through. I got to tell you you, I remember
when you worked for Bob Livingston back in the nineties,
and Bob was the Master, he was the Chairman of
the Appropriations Committee. He was Papa Bill to be Speaker,
and he was the person who could put together a
budget that would make the disparate elements of the Republican

(12:24):
caucus come together. And yet I don't think Bob Livingston
could put together a budget right now that would make
all the Republicans in the House agree on one particular
status point. So what are your thoughts on Mike Johnson,
who you and I both known since you know, really
the early nineties.

Speaker 6 (12:39):
Well, first of all, I mean, if anybody could come close,
it would have been the Bob Livingston of the nineteen nineties.
I mean, if anybody could come close today bringing his
the skills that he showed back then. But be bad
as it may, you're right that this is this Republican

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conference right now. And bless Steve Scales's heart because he
has to. He has to try to rope all these
these He's not roping goats, He's roping rabbits. They are
not at all interested in the Madisonian idea of eventually

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compromising to get something done. And I'm not talking about
compromising principles, but I'm talking about compromising at the margins
and trying in the end to say yes.

Speaker 5 (13:36):
The whole point of.

Speaker 6 (13:39):
Having negotiations is actually to reach a conclusion. And you've
got probably nearly half of the Republican Conference and nearly
half of the Democratic Conference right now that don't think
that's their job at all. Their job is to make
enough noise that they can get re elected.

Speaker 2 (13:59):
Well, and I think, I mean it used to be
to give credit where credits do. Even as late even
in nineteen ninety four, ninety five, and eighty six, all
the way to two thousand, the leadership still played a
major role in the fundraising and praying. Now, frankly, if
you create a nuisance of yourself the Matt Gates is
the world you raise one hundred thousand dollars on social media,

(14:20):
it almost being obstructionist for the sake of being obstructionist
is actually a good fundraising tool, if not a good
tool for our overall politics and policy of the country.

Speaker 6 (14:29):
Yes, put, that's put very well and very accurately too.

Speaker 5 (14:35):
And it frankly, it makes me sick.

Speaker 3 (14:37):
Yeah, me too.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
It's one of the things where party actually kind of
disciplines some people into doing something and it's not happening.
And one of the things that but I have found
interesting is the big discussion going on in DC Quinn
Hillier that I'm hearing that I heard last week is
right now. Somebody asked me who is the most powerful
member of the House of Representatives, And without missing a beat,

(14:59):
I turned around and I said Troy Carter. And somebody
looked at me AND's like, what are you out of
your mind? I said, Troy Carter is the only person
who can talk to everybody in the leadership and not
be totally ostracized. He's the only person who can work
between the two things. I said, Troy Carter is a
liberal Democrat, but at the same time, he is literally
the only person who can have Republicans and Democrats in
his office to have drinks, which he does every Friday.

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And he played a role in preserving Mike Johnson the
last time. I said, right now, Troy Carter is the
guy who's been running between HAKEM. Jeffer's office and Mike
Johnson Steevescalise on trying to come together with some way
to raise the debt limit. I don't know if he's
going to be successful, but I said, literally, it used
to be you had at least the blue Dogs a

(15:42):
high reference. You had at least a dozen people who
would work across party aisles on both sides of the aisle.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
Now you basically have none.

Speaker 2 (15:52):
There are eight Democratic moderates and maybe four Republican moderates
and maybe six if you include Valadero, and nobody really
talks to one on the House floor.

Speaker 6 (16:02):
We look, this has been this has been getting really
bad for nearly twenty years or more than twenty years now.
The in the nineties, yeah, you, I mean it, it
was hardball. It was hardball politics. But you still talk
to the other side, and you could still as long

(16:23):
as they didn't lie to you, you could still respect
the other side, and you you know, you would fight
and fight and fight and reach a solution. When I
got back up to DC from two thousand and six
to eleven, When I got up there in two thousand
and six.

Speaker 5 (16:38):
And I would talk to people of either party.

Speaker 6 (16:41):
But let's just say I was talking to Republican friends
and I was asking them about legislation or you know,
about this or that issue going going on.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
On the hill, and you know, did start to tell me, well,
you know, this member and that member.

Speaker 6 (16:58):
Were doing this or that, and I'd say, well, what
about the Democrats and the traditionals say I don't know.
I'd say, well, don't you know, don't you talk to
Democratic staffers?

Speaker 5 (17:09):
Well, no, why should we do that?

Speaker 6 (17:11):
Well, I mean, I'm like, this is Congress that you're
representing the whole country, not just you know, how do
you expect to get anything done if you don't even
talk to the other side.

Speaker 5 (17:25):
And they said, well.

Speaker 6 (17:27):
We you know, if we hold all the Republican votes,
we shove it down their throats, and like that's that's
not how the system is supposed to work.

Speaker 2 (17:36):
We are not a parliamentary system.

Speaker 3 (17:38):
It's not this.

Speaker 2 (17:39):
And even then in parliamentary systems there are coalitions. Folks
joining us for most of the hour is Quinn Hilly.
He is an incredible editorial writer, has written for National
Review and others. But for our purposes he is just
on a full time basis, joined the time speaking to
you New Orleans Advocate and is sharing his expertise from
around the country back with the people.

Speaker 3 (18:00):
Well he grew up with here in New Orleans.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
And when we come back from the break, we're going
to talk a little bit more local politics. Some of
the stuff he's going to be writing about in the
piccun with Hi mckenry Christopher Tadmore, and we're going to
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Speaker 2 (20:16):
With Christopher Tidmore and we are joined by Quinn Hillier.
He's an editor in the editoral page of Times Peaking
New Orleans advocate, major editorial columnist, and he's back on
a full time basis, coming in to a New Orleans
several days a week to write on our politics.

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Quinn, I don't know if you know, with a number
one rated weekend show on w r O. And by
the way, also, where is the Times peaking in headquarter?

Speaker 7 (20:39):
Now?

Speaker 4 (20:39):
You know the old The old one is now a
golf a golf driving range are going.

Speaker 3 (20:44):
To be that may never be finished. But that's another story.

Speaker 4 (20:47):
Put another crazy story.

Speaker 6 (20:49):
Well, the New Orleans office is on Saint Charles, just
just on the uh just on the downtown side of whatever.

Speaker 5 (21:00):
Calling Lee circle now.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Okay, harmony circle, I think circle to me anyway, it's flirt.

Speaker 6 (21:05):
Ly circle, you know it's anyway.

Speaker 2 (21:11):
Yeah, no, actually it's this is interesting and it's kind
of an interesting part. So the New Orleans Advocate offices
and became the Time speaking when when when they bought
out that and merged the New Orleans Office and the
Baton Rouge Advocate and so and so forth. All of
our Times Pickuns and New Orleans Advocates and Baton Rouge
advocates and Kadian advocates are printed right outside, you know,

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right at the edge of Baton Ruge and a wonderful facility.
You can do two hundred thousand copies a day. But
the place where the TP and Advocate offices are here
in New Orleans used to be a restaurant called Me Shawls.
It was a cage and dance place, which I find fascinating.
Before that, it was a car dealership. But I find
that fascinating because it was the first advertiser I ever

(21:52):
had on the radio on w t i X six
ninety am.

Speaker 4 (21:56):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
The first time, the first ad I ever ran was
for Me Shawls on the first day, and the first
day I was ever on the radio was twenty six
years ago, precisely. And it all came about. And I'm
an embarrass Quinn here for a second, because I had
great affection for his father, Heywood Hillier, who actually suggested
that I should have a radio show. Jeff Carreerer and

(22:18):
I I had called Ed Butler about doing a story.
W t i X had just changed over management. I
was writing for the Louies in a weekly and he
and I went and interviewed, and he invited me and Jeff.
We were writing a column to dinner, and Heywood Hillary
he brought his closest friend, Heywood, and we were chatting
about politics and people who had worked for I'd worked
for Morton Blackwell, he knew Morton Blackwell in DC, and

(22:40):
a whole bunch of sample and the end event, Heywood
looks at him and said, and you should really give
these guys a radio show. And Heywood, Hillary was the
reason I ended up on the radio. And we were
talking actually in that conversation a lot about you, Quinn.
At that point you had just gone to the mobile register,
and we were chatting about you quite a bit on
that and so and your father would didn't just make

(23:02):
a suggestion. He would not only call in the radio
show pretty much two or three times a week, he
would write me or call me about once a week
for the first two years I was on the air
and just check in and see, you know, and chat
with me about different stuff. And I'm eternally grateful for
the mentorship your dad gave me. And I wouldn't be
sitting here interviewing now if it weren't for your father.

Speaker 6 (23:22):
That is that is so nice to hear, and that
that that really really.

Speaker 5 (23:29):
Does my heart good.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
And I really appreciate your mentioning it, and oddly enough,
I didn't even realize that this used to be mischlves
But my dad was quite a Cajun dancer.

Speaker 4 (23:39):
I was gonna say, do you all find yourself in
the office occasionally as you're walking from one location the next,
breaking out into a Zydaco dancer. Don't even know why
you're doing it.

Speaker 5 (23:48):
I was wondering that I've been doing that all day long.

Speaker 3 (23:52):
Of course quit is calling us for the time.

Speaker 2 (23:53):
Spicky, you new Orlean's Advocate offices in one of the
cubby holes, and I do, I do find it interesting that,
you know, just to bragg in your father just for
a second, your father was quite literally one of the
founders of the Republican Party in the state at the
time when it was a phone booth. He was one
of the first two or three people in the phone
booth with my family with you along with your family. Highah,
you know, so.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
I remember those days. I was seven years old and
running up and down the street campaigning for the next
whoever we had chosen, who always lost the sacrificial get him,
and we tried and tried, we started our own parties.
We did this, all kinds of stuff and then finally
picked a little guy. Of course, he lost, and we
tried him again and he lost, and then actually we
put him up of all things for US Congress, and

(24:32):
it shocked everybody. He won, Dave Train.

Speaker 3 (24:35):
After several tries.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
Well, yeah, that's what I said. And that was, like
you said, the beginning of the Republican Party, and you
could put us all in a phone booth. I remember
remember those days very very well.

Speaker 5 (24:44):
I remember him too.

Speaker 6 (24:46):
When my dad became a registered Republican in Louisiana, there
were less than ten thousand registered Republicans in the entire state.

Speaker 4 (24:56):
What year was that? Do you remember the year?

Speaker 5 (24:58):
That was probably.

Speaker 6 (25:00):
Nineteen fifty nine, I think eight or nine somewhere in there.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
That's about when my campaign is started.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
Quinn Hill here, I want to change if we can
change gears here to Louisiana politics a little bit. And
so you're joining the Times Paguns editorial page. Formally they've
been running a column for a couple of years, but
you're formally joining them at a rather interesting time, and
I mean that's the Chinese term of interesting for New
Orleans politics. You have a mayor's race coming up, You've

(25:32):
got a Jefferson Parish president's race coming up. You've got
a Matt You've got the return of the closed primaries
in federal elections as well as Bessie and PSC races,
which means Bill Cassidy is going to have a closed
primary challenge, probably John Fleming, others, Eric Scramata. You're joining
at a rather auspicious time for some a good old

(25:53):
fashioned Louisiana knife fights, and so I wanted to get
your perspective of what you see upcoming.

Speaker 6 (26:00):
That's actually one reason that I wanted to come home
full time is specifically because of that.

Speaker 5 (26:07):
And again I mentioned that in the column today.

Speaker 6 (26:09):
I mean between what we talked about, the way that
Louisiana is punching above its weight nationally, and the mayor's
race and the other local municipal races, and next year's
Republican primary for the Senate with Bill Cassidy, which is

(26:31):
going to be the single most watched primary in the country.
I guarantee you all of that is like a feast
for somebody who both cares about Louisiana and is interested
in how the political system works and look New Orleans,
the rest of the state does depend on New Orleans

(26:54):
to be healthy. It's just a fact. And New Orleans
right now, though it's got a lot going for it,
it's all also definitely regressed in the last four or
five years from some of the gains that made post Katrina.

Speaker 5 (27:06):
This mayor's race and j Lesser Center council.

Speaker 6 (27:09):
Races are epical epoch a l They might they might
also be epic e p I see, but.

Speaker 5 (27:18):
They are so important. We've got to get this one right.
And so.

Speaker 6 (27:24):
I want every citizen of New Orleans and of the
surrounding areas to get engaged and really care about this.
Don't just shrug your shoulders and say politicians and politicians, no,
We've got to get this right, and that means pay
attention and pick somebody good that can lead this city

(27:45):
and this region into the future.

Speaker 2 (27:48):
We you know, I'm getting tired of saying this, but
it's actually accelerated. We are. There was a list of
states that have had the highest use of AVIS rental
buses to move people out. Louisiana beat California and Illinois
in some of the states of people moving out of
the state.

Speaker 4 (28:05):
Why aren't they moving into Luigia. It's such a great
place and so many advantages, especially the snowbirds on it.

Speaker 2 (28:10):
But why it's it's it's economic, it's economic opportunities, and.

Speaker 3 (28:15):
He loves the local politics.

Speaker 6 (28:18):
Here's the set that I just found earlier this week.
I didn't realize in the last uh, the last year,
the last two years anyway, New Orleans has actually lost.

Speaker 5 (28:30):
Five thousand residents. Don't last it's either the last year
or two make.

Speaker 6 (28:34):
Any sense then, they I mean, clari, you would think
that since Katrina there would be you know, there's obviously
you know, there was some regrowth after Katrina, but it's
still nowhere near the population size that it was pre Katrina,
and so you'd think it would be still growing, not drinking.

Speaker 4 (28:53):
Yeah, And so many people talk about how much they
love New Orleans. They they really do offer it for
years and I still hear it. And but this is
a positive question. And I've done this before on the show,
but I'd love to get your insights. New Orleans sits
at the greatest watershed of wealth in the world, going
up the river and going down the river. And we've
been there for a long time. When I was a kid,

(29:14):
back when I said I was campaigning for conservative politics
and all that Republic Party. We were listing in the
top ten cities in the country. We're not even the
top fifty. Now, why do we have We've you know,
a great all production, agriculture, you name, We've got so
many great things. A great city for entertainment, if you will.
People love that, you know, the New Orleans just people

(29:35):
loved to come to New Orleans because of the entertainment
and the food and everything else. Why is it that
with all these advantages, we're sucking hind tit? Do you
know the answer?

Speaker 2 (29:44):
You just had a Baptist minister say that with those words,
so there must be frustration.

Speaker 4 (29:48):
Well, I'm in New Orleans, Baptist minister. What do you expect? Christiva?

Speaker 5 (29:51):
Go ahead?

Speaker 2 (29:52):
Quinn Quinn heal, you're joining us.

Speaker 5 (29:55):
Do you have two hours?

Speaker 4 (29:58):
I understand, No, just give us a two minute summary?
Three minutes?

Speaker 6 (30:03):
Yeah, Well, I mean, first of all, it absolutely does
have something to do with the you know, with the
after effects of Katrina New Orleans. But New Orleans had
lost two hundred and thirty thousand, or two hundred and
forty thousand residents from the early from back before Katrina.
We were going, Yeah, the forty five years before Katrina Uh.

(30:27):
Even with some good leader civic leadership at some point,
some good political local leadership, at some point, we didn't
have enough and and we did not take advantage of
the natural advantages we had. But it's also true that

(30:47):
New Orleans has challenges geographically.

Speaker 5 (30:53):
What's the word.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
We're in a swamp.

Speaker 6 (30:55):
Physiologically that nobody else has.

Speaker 5 (30:59):
And it's does make it hard.

Speaker 6 (31:02):
I mean between the hurricanes and the and the sinking
coastline and the sinking streets, which you know, some of.

Speaker 5 (31:10):
It is bad city management.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
That a lot of it is is because we're below
sea level anyway. Yeah, So so you know, all of
these different things play a role, and what whatever is
playing a role, We need better leadership and frankly, better
civic activism by the by.

Speaker 5 (31:30):
The ordinary citizens.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
Well, I'll tell you, and I can tell you a
hundred stories of people I've known who've left. But one
particular story for those who's showing us. Quinn Hillyer, editorial
page writer for the Time, speaking you New Orleans Advocate
is joining him Chinry and Christopher Timore in the sedition
of Founder Show. But this is you go back to
the mayor's race. One thing we should be able to
get a handle on is crime. And there is a

(31:58):
young woman who actually came here, moved here after college,
wanted to come to New Orleans and move here. She'd
been educated in France, a whole bunch, moved here, got
a graduate degree, ended up working for auctioner, was a
medical administrator, involved in all kinds of civic things, exactly
the type of person. Owned a couple of different homes

(32:20):
and essentially she was caught in a shootout in mid
city and she basically said, you know what, I love
this place. I've tried to build this place, but I
just I'm afraid for my life. And she's not particularly conservative,
she was vincent, but she said I can't and moved
to Gainesville, Florida, and where she doesn't have family or anything,
just because she wanted to live in a sort of

(32:41):
a safer place. And I mean, that's that comes down
to the persistent element of something that should be a
primary focus of our political leadership, and frankly hasn't been.

Speaker 4 (32:52):
We're always at the top for the most violent cities
in the country.

Speaker 6 (32:55):
Well, I've got a good friend, Dan Immobile, whose daughter
moved married, moved to New Orleans, and in the last
year and a half moved back out for exactly that reason.
But then again, I mean, in the late eighties early nineties,
we were in the top two as the murder capital

(33:17):
of the country even back then. And then it got
a little better. And then and then after Katrina, I
actually thought, you know, there were some a lot of
good things that Mitch Landry did, especially compared with with
with Ray Meghan, But in order to balance the ridiculously
out of control budget, he figured, okay, well, the city

(33:42):
has one third less population, therefore it needs one third
less cops.

Speaker 5 (33:46):
I mean, this is sort of rounding numbers here, and.

Speaker 2 (33:49):
It it's pretty effectively rounding numbers. It's pretty actually, what's
exactly what happened.

Speaker 6 (33:53):
And so yeah, and and and so he cut the
police force by a third, and you know, and he
didn't have a lot of good choices, but that that
was it turned out to be a bad choice because
even though the population was less, the area where criminals
could congregate, et cetera, et cetera, all these abandoned houses,

(34:15):
they were still there, right, and we've been off and
on struggling ever since. He actually then did some good
things to cut the crime rate again and then for
whatever reasons it rose, you know, it rises and false.
Right now, we are the ninth highest murder capital, murder,

(34:38):
murder per per capita, murder per capita in the country,
and that's not good and that drives people away.

Speaker 4 (34:45):
Glenn, I'm very involved with that. I work with inner
city kids here, the urban poor. We've had over thirty
five of our kids who you know, didn't make it
to pass twenty twenty five. Our kids, this is how
they see their world. That and this is normal to them.
And this is the great tragedy that they call shark
terments that by your mid twenties you're either going to

(35:07):
be dead in jail for life a living at the
homeless mission. And they think that's normal and they know
no other way. They don't realize you really could have
a good life. You don't have to live like that.
It's tragic. I blame it on the welfare system. It
takes a father out of the home. Denzil Washington is
on a great campaign about this, in fact, but I
know this from dealing with families and what the scripture says.

(35:27):
The Bible says the father in the home is vital
for a healthy home and we're lacking that severely in
this city and so the kids go to crime. It's
very tragic. It's just horrible what's going on, and there's
like no plan to fix it, no plan to fix it.

Speaker 6 (35:42):
Well, yeah, although, yeah, there is this good what's the
name of it is it called the New Orleans Coalition,
But that coalition of what hundreds of groups that formed
about two two and a half years ago that has
been working together making some good recommendation. You do now
have the force I think they call it Force NOLA

(36:04):
where the state police are helping out.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
So things are going in the right direction again.

Speaker 6 (36:09):
And you've always this is one thing that we have
that we haven't taken advantage of enough, is the Metropolitan
Crime Commission for decades and decades has been compiling really
good statistics on crime and making good recommendations for what
to do about it. That doesn't solve the societal problems
you talked about, But if our city elected officials, who

(36:34):
are you know, sometimes they're paying attention now, but if
they really paid attention to the New Orleans Coalition group
and to the Metropolitan Crime Commission, then at least on
that end of things, we could start making weird.

Speaker 3 (36:50):
Me and let me let me say this.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
I have now been in endorsement meetings for mayoral races
and council races and Orleans and Jefferson since nineteen ninety
seven ninety eight, and you know, I've been interviewing candidates
and all this, and I consistently hear, hey, there are
these great recommendations, we need to intimated it, and it
seems like they go out the window. And I was

(37:12):
looking saying, maybe finally we'll have some mayoral candidates, and
here's what I'm seeing, qu Quinn Hilliar that frankly, there's
not going to be a very wide mayorial field coming up.
A lot of the candidates were used to having like
a dozen different candidates and about five or six major
contenders right now. Roysterplasis dropped out, others. It looks like

(37:32):
it's going to be Oliver Thomas and Helena Moreno. And
that's not putting them down, but it's not like we're
going to have a wide variety of choices. What do
you think about the upcoming mayors race? Is it going
to be basically a binary choice? And are we going
to be able to have a discussion about the issues
because of.

Speaker 6 (37:47):
It well, and might not even be binary with two
big names, because Oliver Thomas has said he's not going
to decide till March last I heard, and I've heard
that he's he's lee on the fence right now.

Speaker 5 (38:01):
Helena Moreno has.

Speaker 6 (38:03):
Done an amazing job sort of clearing the field of
people like Roystupleasis, who who you would have thought would
have gotten in the race. I you know, I'm not
for these big twenty person fields, but I do wish
we had some civic leaders considering stepping up, people that

(38:24):
have been trying not not directly through public office, but
through all of the outside organizations that have been trying
to help. I wish somebody like that would step up
just to provide a different voice. And again that's not
saying anything against Helena Moreno or or Oliver Thomas. You know,
they're both very hard working council members, always have been.

(38:47):
I'm just saying it would be nice to get somebody
from the non traditional, uh you know, non elected official field.

Speaker 5 (38:56):
But you know, somebody that's.

Speaker 6 (38:58):
Been in and around I see, but you know, but
hasn't made made it their career.

Speaker 2 (39:04):
And I've brought up this to people, and they've said, well,
do you want to go the way of Ron Foreman
or Leslie Jacobs or the many people in civic arrangements
who have tried and ended up, you know, going nowhere
in their races. Even Ray Nagen in theory, came from
such a background he got elected, you know, but it
didn't go anywhere. So and what I find it interesting

(39:25):
is because I'm contrasting this with all the discussions of
people running for parish president Jefferson Parish, which, by the way,
is an office that has a fraction of the power
of New Orleans mayor. And yet you have a crowded
field of people looking at that, and you know, in
essentially a parish that now has much more people than
than Orleans.

Speaker 3 (39:43):
But it's kind of the twin of it.

Speaker 2 (39:44):
It's it's an invisible line, and yet you have so
much more civic engagement just across the seventeenth Street Canal.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
And I find that astonishing.

Speaker 6 (39:52):
Well, here's here's an example mobile has had exactly the
kind of person I'm talking about. His name is Sandy Stempson.
He is in his twelfth year as mayor. He's not
going to run full fourth term, but he he came
in as a businessman, and you know, you often hear
people say, oh, we need a business man, we need

(40:13):
a businessman, and some of that is sort of too
facile to say, but he is in this case. He
has done a fantastic job because he has brought non
political experience combined with civic leadership and non political civic
leadership experience.

Speaker 5 (40:33):
I mean, he was very involved. He is an example Inmobile.

Speaker 6 (40:37):
Of the kind of person I would hope would enter
this race. I'm not saying that's the person that should win.
I'm not saying don't vote for Jleno Moreno or Halibar Thomas,
but I'm saying we need a voice like that who
might raise issues in a different way and make people think.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
And look, I don't the jury is still out on
what kind of mayor he's going to be. But I
will tell you if you I would have bet money
that's Edwards would not have won in Baton Rouge. And
I mean on the night of the Prime Area, I
was like this a mutual acquaintance who shall remain nameless,
and I on Louisiana Network I had a running bet

(41:13):
and it was basically, you know, will you take odds
that this got how badly the defeat will be. And
yet you saw a Republican mayor in a place where
it couldn't get elected. We'll see how what kind of
record has But you're seeing, I will say, you're starting
to see a lot of discontent go in other directions.
The City of Saint George arguments for all that's going
in theyre having the music selections. That simple incorporation effort

(41:37):
kind of showed that people are willing to entertain ideas
that would have been previously politically unthinkable, though constitutional in
the Louisiana Constitution.

Speaker 5 (41:45):
Yes, I like that.

Speaker 6 (41:47):
All I'm saying is is we again, we need a
lot of engagement, but we need.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
And the fresh thinking. We need fresh thinking.

Speaker 6 (41:59):
The fresh thinking we might come from Hallanna Moreno, but
we need somebody who isn't just going to do the
same business as as usual.

Speaker 2 (42:09):
Well, Quinn Hilly, it is always a privilege to have
you on the air. We want to invite you to
actually come and join us here. We do the show.
We tape our show at the Opera guild House and
Britannia and the Historic Opera guild House. We'd love to
have you in person sometime and keep us posted when
anything comes in.

Speaker 3 (42:23):
We'd love to hear you.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
And most importantly, welcome back home to being a permanent
figure on the editorial pages of the Times picking New
Orleans Advocate.

Speaker 6 (42:32):
Well, thank you, as Dorothy Dale and I said that
there's no place like home, and I'm glad to be back.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
It's always a privilege.

Speaker 2 (42:40):
And folks, we'll be back with a patriotic moment and
more on The Founder Show right up for these important messages.
Tune more of The Founder Show right after that April fourth.
It's a Cajun hoedown experience at the New Orleans Opera. Yes,
you heard me correctly. Did you know how there are
actually Cajun.

Speaker 4 (42:59):
Cow boy Oh I was won in high school.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:03):
What they're doing late, what we're doing at the New
Orleans Opera, ladies and gentlemen, is putting on Donzetti's Elixir
of Love in an old West town and having this
incredible experience where we're asking people to come in Denman
Fringe and all their cowboy bods, and afterwards, the ultimate
Fado dough Cajun cow girl herself, Amanda Shaw, the Cajun fiddler,
is going to be playing with her band, the Cute

(43:25):
Guys right after this incredible experience on April fourth at
the Mehe Jackson Theater. You get to get an incredible
opera and then have an entire Fato dough right after
at seven thirty pm April four.

Speaker 4 (43:38):
Fantastic is unbelievable, and.

Speaker 2 (43:41):
She's going to be before most. It's going to be fantastic.
Come in your fringe, coming your cowboy boots, coming to
the cowboy hats. Come to the opera in an Old
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Speaker 4 (45:44):
Folks were back and again it's Chappahi mcchenry and it's
not time for us to go into our chaplain by
Bob patriotic moment. We're on the Founder's Show. We take
a brief period to give you a little history lesson
of the biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence.
And today we're going to talk about none other than
William Henry Harrison, a early president from Virginia who was

(46:04):
a great military man, won the Battle of tippek Canoe.
And remember his motto his campaign, the theme was TIPPICANU.
And Tyler too, who was his vice president, went we
He gave a great inauguration speech and it's really interesting
what he said. He said, I'm not going to quote
the whole thing. He gave a very long, it's like
two hour long speech. Back then, you needed to give

(46:26):
long speeches that otherwise people felt like they were cheated.
So he said that if America did not keep God
in the middle of it, if we did not follow
God with all our hearts, the Americans of our country,
the ones who voted for him, that it wouldn't be
long before America would raise up the Antichrist, who would

(46:49):
destroy the world. And that's from Biblical eschatology in time events.
Since you know the Apocalypse, armagedd and all that, folks,
I think this guy was serious. Now, it was very
cold and very dangerous. The cold was so bad. Everybody
said he should go inside. He wouldn't. He was going
to be a real tough guy because he was a
really tough guy, a military man. He stood out there

(47:11):
and brave the sleet and the ice and the snow
and gave this great speech. And then and then when
it was over with, later that evening, he caught the flu.
Two months later he died of pneumonia. And it was
Tyler who became the next president. But it's an interesting
story of a man who really saw that we needed God.
And you know, we hear this, make him maga make

(47:31):
America great again. I'm I'm all for that, folks, I'm
big time for that. I have been for a long time.
But I keep telling people, if you can want to
make America great again, you got to go to what
made America great in the beginning. And you know what,
that was God And all the early Americans understood that
so well, and they really believed that. So, folks, if
we really want to make America great again, we're going
to have to put God back in the middle of

(47:53):
our country. And if we don't, you can forget Maga's
going to have some good positive effects, but it's not
going to be what it could be. So please, folks,
think about that. Think about how you can put God
in the middle of you. And right now I'm gonna
tell you how you can do that. It's called the Gospel.
The Bible says, for I declare unto you the Gospel,
as we now go into our chaplain by by a
gospel moment, For I declare unto you the Gospel in

(48:13):
First Queenans fifteen, that Jesus died for all of our sins.
That means all the folks. That means from the day
you were born in the day you die, you tiny
is the greatest sins. He paid for them. All the
sins went on our sins went on him and his
blood washed them way. It also says he was literally
turned into that sin. They went into him and he
was turned into sin. He got that close to that
intimate with our problems, and he defeated him. He won

(48:36):
on the cross beat sin. But that was just half
the job. So the scripture says that for declaring the gospel,
Christ died for all of our sins, according to the scripture,
that he was buried, and that he rose from the
dead according to the scripture. You see, the second half
of the job was to beat death, and he did that.
He did that to win for you his precious free
gift of resurrection, everlasting life to whosoever believeth The Bible says,

(49:00):
if you've never believed before, you need to believe now.
You know, Jesus kept saying, repent and believe, repent and believe.
What does that mean? Repent? There's so many different ideas
about what that means. It's really sad, but it's so simple.
The Greek word is metanoia. It just means change your mind. Okay, great,
change your mind about what you got at least know that, right, Yeah,
you do? All right, So this is what you change
your mind about before you thought you'd be smart enough,

(49:21):
good enough, charming enough, rich enough, cool enough, whatever you
think you are, religious enough, holy enough, whatever. Folks, none
of that's going to get you, because the scripture calls
that your righteousness, and it says all of your righteousness
are its filthy rags. He's just not good enough for God.
He's perfect in Demand's perfect perfection. No matter how good
you are, you still fall quite far from perfection. So, folks,

(49:42):
take his perfection. But you got to give up yours
to do it. You gotta believe you cannot save yourself.
You hopeless enough about God destined to a burning hell.
And the moment you do that, you have just repented.
And then the next step is really pretty easy. You
just trust Jesus. Let him carry you over the finish line.
Give it to him. Folks, believe in him with all
of your heart, all your heart. If you're trusting something
else only part of your heart's trusting in him, you

(50:04):
got to get rid of it all. And that means repent.
Believe you can't save yourself. If you've never done this before,
do it now. Believe that Jesus, and remember he's perfect,
God perfect, man, all the way God, and all the
way man. Believe that he really did die for all
of your sins was bredon rosemanth dead. Do it now?
This script says, now today is a day of salvation.
And like the old country preacher said, don't wait till

(50:25):
it's too late. Well, folks, it's now time for us
to go into our testimony time. You know, every week
we've swapped from either an eschatological message meaning in time events,
or we tell a story about somebody, what their life
was like, how their life affected their friends, family members,
their environment, affected the whole world. In fact, we Theresa

(50:46):
was a great one. We've given her story. We did Cabrini,
We've done a bunch of great people, Hudson Taylor, many
many great saints of God. We've even done local people.
You don't have to be some famous guy. Well today
we're going to do a famous one, and that's ct
stud He was an Oxford graduate. He was born one

(51:07):
of the wealthiest, most powerful families in all of Mary
Old England in the nineteenth century. His home looked like
Gallier Hall here in New Orleans, and his magnificent home
a real palace, and his father had made it very
big in trade, you know, the British empires all around
the world, and his father had made it big, really
big and so and he was a great sports players,

(51:29):
big tall fella and a famous I mean he was
one of the most today. You know, we our famous
sports players usually are professional players. Well, they didn't have
professional players back then. So it was a college people
that were the famous sports people of that time, and
he was one of them. He belonged to the Oxford
Five Horsemen, who were famous cricket players. Now that was

(51:49):
a big thing. In fact, you know, it's the second
largest sport in the world today because of the Bridge Empire.
Cricket more than baseball, football, landing anyways, and you go
to those places, man, they're fanatical on critic cricket. It's
a fun game. It's kind league baseball. But he was famous, famous,
and when he finished college, they thought he might go
on to continue to play cricket. But of course, going
to his father's bidsweb, you know, he did. He became

(52:11):
a missionary. He went to China, he signed up with
with Hudson Taylor. He married an Irish bride and he
went and lived on the level of poverty serving the
poor Chinese peasants, bringing Jesus to them and had a
great life. You know. Twenty years later, I guess twenty
years into his marriage, his father passed away and he

(52:33):
received an enormous inheritance. She could just imagine what it was.
You know, he did with it. He gave it all
the way. He just kept enough to keep funding him
and his family, his wife and you know, his wife
told her, told him, she said, c T. If you
hang on to that, you're not really going to trust God.
So guess what, he gave it all the way. He
had a great missionary career, came back to England's wife

(52:56):
had passedway as an old man, just you know, hanging
out at the old folks home, wander down the street.
One day he saw signed missionaries for Africa. He thought,
you know what, why should I finish my life in
old folks on, I'm going to Africa. He signed up.
You know, he founded one of the largest mission boards
in the hist of the world, African Inland Mission. I mean,
this is an amazing story, folks set stud he lived

(53:16):
in his nineties, an amazing and he suffered many trials
and tribulations, ill tropical illnesses, you know, illnesses and Asian illnesses.
Whatever he survived at all, What a story. Well, folks,
it is time for us to go now, and we're
going to close with the mont Saint Martin singing a
creole goodbye, God, bless you all out there.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Does this have to be the end of the night?

Speaker 4 (53:41):
Do I love you?

Speaker 1 (53:42):
In the pamal Land, I can see across the million stars.
Look a
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