Rep. Julia Letlow Joins The Show

The Founders Show kicks off with an interview with Congresswoman Julia Letlow, candidate for the United States Senate in the May 16 Republican primary.  We talk about why flood insurance for Louisiana is more important than a perfect American Conservative Union rating, her endorsement from President Trump, and why she decided to challenge Bill Cassidy.

At the end of the show, we talked to another candidate, former Jefferson Parish President John Young, who is running in the May 16 Republican primary for the LA Public Service Commission to succeed the term limited Eric Skrmetta. President Trump cited the need for data centers to install their own power plants, an idea that began at the behest of the LA PSC with Meta.  Young talks about how Louisiana is setting the trends on data centers nationally, and why who holds this office is extremely important.  He repeats the often given quit in the tech industry that the Interstate 20 corridor is starting to be called “AI-20”.

In between, Hy and Christopher argue about the meaning of the State of the Union address— and whether we should go back to the tradition of our Founders and abolish the verbal speech.

As Christopher writes: End the SOTU Addresses

At February 24th State of the Union address, the New Orleans-born, Houston-area Congressman Al Green defied the ‘polite silence’ instructions of Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries with a protest sign, “Black people aren’t apes.”  Before he was escorted out of the chamber, he answered—before the national cameras—a tweet that Donald Trump forwarded on his TruthSocial account depicting Michelle and Barack Obama  as apes in a jungle.  Green set the tone of the evening with Trump respondingly calling Democrats “crazy”, “evil”, and “ what’s wrong with you?”  Prominent Democrats responded with heckles of their own. 

Very little of the 2026 State of the Union address talked about policy, or even provided any facts about the State of the Union of any particular relevance to the national conversation other than the price of gasoline at the pump. The utter farce staged last Tuesday may signal that time has come to finally get rid the body politic of this horrible Stentorian tradition begun by another racist president, Woodrow Wilson, and return to the practice which stretched from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt of simply the White House sending to Congress a written report on the State of the Union.  Few read those presidential missives today, but they actually provide quite informative historical snapshots on a year-by-year basis on the conditions within the United States. They also show a remarkable insight into the thinking of government leaders at the time. The written SOTUs are serious documents for serious men; in other words, the opposite of what the verbal SOTUs have been for decades. 

Not all the evening was nonsensical.   Trump provided a few heartfelt moments in his address, but these moments had little to do with the current State of the Union. No matter what one’s political persuasion, only the heartless refused to cheer as the US Men’s Hockey Team marched in donning their newly-won gold medals. A tear came in the eyes of most Americans as the Purple Heart was pinned on the lapel of the hero National Guardsman or when the Congressional Medal of Honor was hung on the neck on the 100-year-old veteran Korean War-era Navy pilot. Without those moments, the insults, and the theatrical procession of the Olympic team into the US House gallery with the promise of a Presidential Medal of Freedom to be awarded to Connor Hellebuyck (the goalie for the Winnipeg Jets), Trump’s actual SOTU Address comprised an actually rather short speech bared of much policy content, only approximately a half hour of the actual 1 hour and 48 minutes address. The President did speak of items of legislation already passed from taxes cuts to regulatory relief, as well as referencing the pending SAVE Act to require photo ID to vote (although his dig at his friend “the communist” Mayor Mandami requiring a photo ID and a Social Security card to get a job to shovel snow but not go to the ballot box did draw a laugh).  The President also referenced his Trump RX program claiming that he had lowered prices by 100% (though one doubts drugs are now free), and Trump emphasized his support of the medical transparency bill (with a flash at his bette noir Sen. Bill Cassidy, who has championed and authored this legislation for more than a decade).   In fact, the President’s only statutory request of Congress was to provide more government funds to a retirement subsidy program for those without a 401(k) or pension, originally passed by DEMOCRATS!

Other than to condemn the Supreme Court and defen

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
Levin Congresswoman Julia Letlowe Canada for the United States Senate
and the State of the Union address on this edition
of The Founders.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Show, and God, let's all out there. You are now
listening to the Founders. So the voice of the founding fathers,
You're Founding fathers coming to you deep within the bowels
of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana. And how up
on top of that old liberty cypress tree draped in

(01:03):
Spanish moss, way out on the Eagles Branch is none
other then you's been Gary baby all the republic chaplain.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hi mceinry with Christopher Tidmore, your roving reporter, resident radical
moderate and associate editor of The Louisiana Weekly at Louisiana
Weekly dot net. And Hi, we are going to be
joined by a candidate for the US Senate.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Here on the Founder's.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Show, we're joined by Congresswoman Julia Letlow, and she is
a candidate for the United States Senate, which pretty much
anyone who's turned on the television recently has learned that
it may surprise some people to know I've known Julia
for many years and you are not a close friend
of Nancy Pelosi, despite popular opinion. One of the things
I do want to say is my publisher and we

(01:46):
were talking about this before he came on the air.
My publisher was asking me a question about the race
and about the ads that had gone up, and she said,
what do you think? And I said, well, what I
think is I see a horse race. Ads were the
top two contenders, neither which is the incumbent, Both are
within a statistical margin of era, and out of eleven polls,

(02:08):
Julia tends to be in the first place position in
seven of them.

Speaker 3 (02:11):
So that's pretty much being beaten down. It comes down.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
So what I wanted to start off with is talk
about why you decided to run for the Senate. What
made you come out of this, because you originally it
was your husband. Luke was on the political side. You
were a well known educator here in Louisiana.

Speaker 5 (02:28):
Well, thank you so much for having me on, Christopher.
It's an honor to be.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
With you today.

Speaker 5 (02:33):
And yes, I had no political aspirations going into this.
My husband, Luke had run for this congressional seat.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
And worked so hard to get.

Speaker 5 (02:44):
There, and we were on one of Live's mountaintops and
because he won, it was an incredible, incredible experience, and
I was so proud of him, and unfortunately we lost
him to COVID five days before he was set to
be sworn in. But I worked right alongside Luke when
he was campaign and I fell in love with the
people of Louisiana.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
I think I can tell the public that he Luke
always called you the brains the operation.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
I forgot about that he did.

Speaker 5 (03:08):
Yes, but one thing on the trail is just you
can't help but fall in love with the people, and
the people that fit this trick stole my heart and
they've never given it back.

Speaker 3 (03:18):
And after losing Luke.

Speaker 5 (03:21):
Congressman Abraham you know, approached me and said, Julia, you
really should consider possibly stepping up. I know it's a
trying time in your life, but.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
You have the desire.

Speaker 5 (03:29):
You have the credentials, but most importantly, you want to
serve others.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
And I'm so grateful that.

Speaker 5 (03:36):
I did because the last five years has given my
life so much meaning and healing after a very dark time,
getting outside of yourself serving others people every day, and
also showing that my children that when life knocks you down,
because it will, you have.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
A choice to make.

Speaker 5 (03:54):
You can either give up or you can keep moving
forward with faith and hope.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
And you have.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
You have had a meteoric rise in the United States
House representatives. Most people don't realize it's almost impossible in
the first and second term to be get on the
Appropriations Committee. And you've not only been there, you delivered
two hundred million dollars to your constituents.

Speaker 3 (04:13):
That's right.

Speaker 5 (04:14):
It was such an incredible experience. Running for that seat
was probably harder than running for Congress, but we were so
grateful to be on the Appropriations Committee and deliver. Luke
early on said, if you really want to make a
difference for your district and your state, you have to
have a seat on appropriations. We hadn't had an appropriator
in over ten years for Louisiana on the House side,
and so it's been an honor to fight for your

(04:35):
tax dollars to come back to Louisiana in targeted funding.
And so we've had so many projects that I'm proud of,
and yeah, it's been the honor of a lifetime to
serve on that committee.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Congressman Julia Let.

Speaker 4 (04:46):
One of the things that a lot of people watching
these ads don't understand is the American Conservative Union ratings
that put you at seventy five, which is the same
as Cassidy. They don't factor the fact that the part
of the reason you were quote marked down was because
you wanted to defend people to keep their insurance and
their homes. You've been a supporter of extending the FEMA

(05:07):
maps and being able to do that, And can you
explain that sometimes these ratings don't really reflect the reality
of people's lives.

Speaker 5 (05:13):
Sure, I would encourage everybody to do a deep dive
in the formula.

Speaker 3 (05:16):
That these ratings use.

Speaker 5 (05:17):
Of course, I'm going to do what's right for my district,
and my district depends on flood insurance and I'm going
to make sure that they have access to it, and
so for that to make that rating go so far
down It just shows you how disingenuous and desperate the
other side is as far as dragging my name down.

Speaker 4 (05:36):
And what everybody's saying, Well, this is great. You haven't
the election, I mean it's coming on in October.

Speaker 3 (05:40):
No, it's not.

Speaker 4 (05:41):
It's actually, as we record this, seventy nine days away.
How is the dynamics different for a closed primary that
will literally go to the voters for early voting May
second through ninth, and then to the voters in May.

Speaker 5 (05:54):
That's right, It's just a matter of educating everybody that,
just like you said, we're used to follow elections, but
this is new scenario, and confident that the Secretary of
State will get the word out will continue to do
so as well. May sixteenth. Everybody, just come out and
exercise your right to vote.

Speaker 4 (06:11):
And what is the one or two things you'd like
people to know about you that may not be familiar.
You represent a district. It's one of the most sprawling
districts in the state, going all the way from North
Louisiana all the way to the Florida parishes. But in
the metro New Orleans area you're not as well known.
What would you say is the one or two aspects
you'd like people to know about your candidcy what you
want to do if elected to the United States Senate.

Speaker 5 (06:29):
Julia letlop Well, one thing that I've always believed to
be true and I know to be true, is that
this is not my seat. It's the people's seat, and
I've never forgotten that. And I want to represent Louisiana.
Continuing to represent Louisiana. We've had an amazing experience delivering
these last five years, and I'm so proud of President

(06:49):
Trump's encouragement to get in the race and complete in
total endorsement. We've worked so well together to deliver for Louisiana,
and he knows he needs a champion in the Senate
as well. So I want people to know that I
am the endorsed candidate from President Trump, and I won't
let them down. I'm going to continue with it just
as much fervor as I've given in the House over

(07:10):
on the Senate.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
And I know your ads are launching this coming week,
so people will see that endorsement very closely.

Speaker 3 (07:16):
I have to close on this. Obviously, this was.

Speaker 4 (07:18):
The week of the State of the Union address, and
it was, as with most State of the Union addresses
very dichotomy, but two thirds of Americans seem to like
the speech.

Speaker 3 (07:26):
You were sitting in the hall, what were your thoughts
on it?

Speaker 5 (07:29):
Oh, it's always an incredible experience when you get to
be in the room for the State of the Union.
I pinch myself every day, but really, that night is
something special, and I felt like the President gave a
wonderful speech about things that American people are really concerned about, affordability,
how we've delivered there, the border, shutting down the border,

(07:50):
and you know, one thing that stood out to me
that I could not believe is when the President said,
everybody stand if you believe that the United States should
put American descents first, but over illegal immigrants, and my
colleagues half of them refused to stand. And that just
shows you eighty seven percent of the country believes that

(08:12):
you should have to show a ID in order to
vote in our United States elections.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
And it blows my.

Speaker 5 (08:18):
Mind that my colleagues don't believe that as well.

Speaker 3 (08:20):
So that really stood out.

Speaker 5 (08:21):
To me that night that Wow, we've come this far,
so we have a long way to go.

Speaker 4 (08:26):
Congressman Julia Letlow, candidate for the United States and if
someone wants to find out more about your campaign in
these seventy odd days left before the primary, how would.

Speaker 3 (08:33):
They do it?

Speaker 6 (08:34):
Really easy?

Speaker 5 (08:34):
Julia Letlow dot com.

Speaker 4 (08:37):
And I have to say in a personal note, this
is the first time we've had Julia Letlo on, but
not the first time. Her late husband was actually a
substitute host on this radio show multiple times. In fact,
once when I was going to England, I was desperate
and he stepped in for an entire week without restriction,
So I owe you adapted he actually did.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
He was really good to care out.

Speaker 5 (08:57):
I'm sure he talked about a history and ancestry, you know,
all the fun things.

Speaker 3 (09:03):
Julie, thank you so much for joining us. Appreciate it.
But your thoughts on yes, Christ has some great thoughts here.
And Julie, thank you so much for being with us.
This is so fascinating to hear your side of the story,
so to speak. Seems like all we're here now is
the other side. So now we're getting to hear your side.
And chrispher this is fascinating that you've known Julie and
her husband, her deceased husband for all these years and

(09:25):
worked with them. That's very fascinating. So you I'm sure
you know them very well and you can attest to
the fine people that they are. And anyway, uh, you
know you mentioned about the tragic loss of your husband
during COVID and that that indeed was I remember when
it happened. And let me just comfort you with this
the scripture. You know, I'm a preacher, Julie. The scripture

(09:46):
says that, uh, leaving the things behind that are behind,
press on to the high calling in Christ Jesus. And
I'm a veteran and so I've seen a lot of
loss of life and loss of limb, seen a lot
of tragedy military and it hurts. And you know, the
military is a real family. You have a real brotherhood
going on there. It's amazing what it does to you.

(10:07):
And I love it. I've always loved the brotherhood of arms,
the brotherhood of the military, and you really feel it.
It's strong, and when you lose people, it hurts. Man.
It's it's it's a grieving time. And so that has
always comforted me to remember that Jesus said, no matter
what's happened, forgetting the things that are behind, press on

(10:28):
to the high calling in Christ. Jesus, and it seems
like you're doing that. So congratulations, thank you for your
hard work. Looking forward to this coming election, and I
can't wait to hear more. Well, Christopher, I think it's
time now to talk about the state that's right, the
state that might unify us. We got some statements about

(10:48):
the state. You got some forest, Christopher. Let's hear what
you got to say, and.

Speaker 4 (10:52):
Let's turn back to the State of the Union address
one more time if we could. And I've been thinking
a lot about what happened February twenty fourth, and a
lot of people have deconstructed the speech, and I will
a little bit, but we are the founder's show, so
I'm going to make an ascertation right here.

Speaker 3 (11:09):
We should go back to.

Speaker 4 (11:10):
What our founders intended and no longer have a State
of the Union address. It should be a written report
sent to Congress the way it was from Thomas Jefferson
to Theodore Roosevelt.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
Let me explain.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
You know, a lot of people.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Noticed at the beginning of the State of the Union
address how the New Orleans born in Houston area Congressman
Al Green defied the kind of polite silence orders that
minority leader Hakim Jeffers of the Democrats said and had
a protest sign black people aren't apes. Before Green was
escorted out of the chamber. He answered to the national

(11:46):
cameras a tweet that Donald Trump had forwarded on his
truth social account about Michelle and Barack Obama depicted as
age set a jungle.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
That itself, I don't want to address.

Speaker 4 (11:56):
What I said is sort of set the tone of
the evening on both side. Green sce at this tone,
and then Trump responded. After Democrats were hackling, Trump started
calling the Democrats crazy, evil, what's wrong with you? Those
are exact quotes, by the way Democrats heckled more. It
was total political theater. Very little of the twenty twenty

(12:17):
sixth State of the Union Address talked about policy or
even provided any facts particular about the state of the
Union of any relevance to the national conversation other.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
Than the price of gasoline at the pump.

Speaker 4 (12:30):
The utter farce stage last Tuesday may signal that the
time has finally come for the body politic to get
rid over this horrible Senatorian tradition begun by a president
who was frankly a racist. Woodrow Wilson and returned to
the practice which stretched from Thomas Jefferson to Theodore Roosevelt,

(12:50):
of simply the White House sending to Congress a written
report of the state of the Union. Look, few people
read those nineteenth century presidential missives today, but they actually
provide quite informative historical snapshots on a year to year
basis of the conditions within the United States. They also
show a remarkable insight into the thinking of government leaders.

(13:11):
The written State of the Union addresses were serious documents
for serious men. In other words, the opposite of the
verbal state of the Unions that we've been putting up
with for decades.

Speaker 3 (13:26):
I'm thinking about this.

Speaker 4 (13:28):
Not all of the evening, to be fair, I mean,
you always accuse me of being so hard on Trump.

Speaker 3 (13:32):
Not all of it was nonsensical.

Speaker 4 (13:34):
Trump provided some real heartfelt moments in his address, but
these moments had very little to do with the state
of the Union. No matter what person's political persuasion, only
the heartless refused to cheer as the US men's hockey
team marched in donning their newly won gold medals. A
tear came in the eyes of this American and most Americans,

(13:56):
when the lapel of the purple Heart was put on
the neck was put on the National Guardsman's you know, papel,
or the Congressional Medal of Honor was hung on the
neck of one hundred year old veteran Korean Navy pilot.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
That was incredibly powerful.

Speaker 4 (14:14):
But without those moments, the insults on both sides, and
the theatrical progression of the Olympic team into the US
House gallery with the promise of a mental freedom to
be awarded to Connor Holgerbrook. By the way, Connor Hodgerbrook
is the goalie for the Winnipeg Jets in Canada. But
I thought that was just kind of funny for the
US presidential mental freedom.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
He is an American citizen.

Speaker 4 (14:33):
Trump's actual State of the Union address comprised a pretty
rather short speech bared of much policy content.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
Only about a half hour of the.

Speaker 4 (14:44):
Actual one hour of forty eight minute address dealt with policy.

Speaker 3 (14:47):
Most of it was calling out people.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
The President did speak of items of legislation already passed,
from tax cuts to regulatory relief, as well as referencing
the pending say A.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
To acquire a photo ID to vote.

Speaker 4 (15:01):
Look, even I'll give him credit his dig at the
quote Communist Mayor Mondahmi requiring a photo ID and a
Social Security card to get a job tool to shovel
snow in New York and won't allow ideas of the
ballot box. That did draw laugh and it was legitimate.
It was a good jig. The President also references Trump
RX program, claiming that he had lowered prices by one

(15:22):
hundred percent, except I haven't really thought that drugs were
free yet.

Speaker 3 (15:26):
Anyway, it was.

Speaker 4 (15:28):
He also emphasized his support of the Medical Transparency Bill
when I found it was really funny about this for
Louisianians because the cameras immediately flash to Senator Bill Cassidy,
who is the author of this legislation and has been
point chambus he had for a decade. Trump's major policy
speech about what we're trying to do in healthcare is
Bill Cassidy's bill.

Speaker 3 (15:48):
In fact, the only presidential.

Speaker 4 (15:50):
Statutory request, the only thing he asked the Congress to
make law, was more government funds to a retirement subsidy
program for those without an hour a for one care
pension originally passed by Democrats.

Speaker 3 (16:03):
Other than the condemned the Supreme Court.

Speaker 4 (16:05):
He saw Amy Connie Barrett the others there and defends
his love of tariffs.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
Trump really didn't include.

Speaker 4 (16:12):
Virtually any new, big ideas in his speech, and to
be honest with you, that makes him no different than
most presidents giving a State of the Union address. It's
a common bipartisan trend for these addresses, especially, and it's
kind of weird when one considers that we've got a
competitive midterm election coming up in eight months. Nevertheless, Trump's

(16:33):
theatrical gestures, full of sound and very signifying, actually very little,
actually worked from a political standpoint. You see, hi, Like
a lot of Trump's recent predecessors, many of those who
watched him speaking this meaningless dribble and by the way,
that's a lot of presidents do that actually made it

(16:55):
through the speech found out according to a stand and Pole,
two thirds of those who heard this beach had a
positive reaction and one third had a negative reaction. A
picture's worth a thousand words, and seeing the Olympic team,
seeing the medals, seeing everything was what people really took
away from the speech. Even though it doesn't have anything
to do with the mandate in the United States Constitution

(17:17):
to provide a report of the State of the Union,
you can have a ceremony for that. It's just not
a State of the Union with a little less policy content,
a little bit more visual historionics of American heroism. Trump,
to be fair, achieved the same as almost every State
of the Union address for the last half century on steroids.

(17:39):
That is to say, the speech was essentially an evening
of meaningless mutterings of partisan posturing.

Speaker 3 (17:46):
When Trump says the American people were quote went in.

Speaker 4 (17:49):
Too much, and we're going to win even more, the
showman elucidated what has been true since Woodrow Wilson began
this ridiculous tendency to speak yearly before Congress. The last
thing ever explained in the State of the Union address
is the state of the Union. Of course, words utter
to truly discuss the current situation of the United States.

Speaker 3 (18:08):
And the ways to solve it. Well, that would cost.

Speaker 4 (18:10):
Votes in the midterm elections are eight months away, you know,
it's just eight months. So the the elections, and Trump
did enjoy the largest form that any politician, much less
he will have before the elections. And it's all at
the public expense. It's just looking at it, and it's

(18:32):
not just Trump. This is something true of Obama of Bush,
of Clinton. I've watched every State of the Union dress
going back to Reagan in eighty six, and I was
trying to think of words and out moments I remembered.

Speaker 3 (18:44):
I remember Clinton Arab dead, government is over.

Speaker 4 (18:47):
But mostly I couldn't remember anything which reminded me of something.

Speaker 3 (18:50):
That's how pointless these speeches are.

Speaker 4 (18:52):
For the love of God, give us back our Tuesday
nights in February and let the White House send you
report to Congress. Heck, you would fulfill the constitutional requirements
High if you simply send him a subscription to the
Wall Street Journal, but send a report, give a State
of the Union, give it a real, thoughtful report, and

(19:13):
spare us these partisan historyonics on both sides.

Speaker 3 (19:17):
It's just gotten old. Your thoughts high, Oh oh, Christopher,
my thoughts so myriad here. And I hate to say it,
but it's really you're really showing it. I guess you
just can't control it. That old Trump derangement syndrome that
you have a really serious case of. I'm recommending you
get treatment for it. You know, it's so funny, because

(19:39):
we've had States of the Union going on for years.
I've never heard you scream and holler about him only
when Trump gives it interesting. Uh. And he did give
lots of facts. If you said he didn't have a
fact for you, tons of facts and figures. You know,
you put too many facts and figures, you're gonna lose
your audience. So that's another thing you have to consider.
You're talking to the American public, and you have to

(20:00):
balance it with various parts of of what make a
good speech. So he had plenty of facts and figures, Chrisopher,
and he went over all the piece he's created around
the world, four stopped eight wars. Uh. He went. He
did a great job on the economy, the facts and
figures on that, and of course energy. Look, our economy
is based on energy. Whatever the price of gas is,

(20:21):
it's gonna tell you what the what inflation's gonna be.
And you know, because gas and energy moves everything, and
so if it's hot, the cost of moving things transportation
are gonna go up. The cost of of of of
making machines run is gonna go up. That means we're
gonna have inflation. But if you bring the energy prices down,

(20:42):
you're gonna you're gonna be able to get you know,
And he's got he's really dropped. He's done a miracle
job of slowing down the inflation. Uh will he ever
get it back down to where it was? Probably not,
because that's one of the tragedies of inflation. Once they
get it up, it's hard to get it down. Those
big brother corporations like to keep it up. As far
as illegal aliens go, he did a great job when

(21:03):
he's pointing out all the tragedy that illegal aliens have caused.
You see the left, the main slign media, the Democrat Party,
they ignore all the tragedies, they ignore the victims, and
all they do is focus on the criminals and gets
to try to feel sorry for them. So Trump was
putting the right emphasis of where our concerns should be.

(21:24):
We should be very concerned for the victims and the
tragedy that this whole thing. So we had cases, he
had examples. He had a tremendous narrative testimony, if you will,
of living people who are bearing witness as to what
the tragedies they've been through. He look at drug costs,
how much he's dropped that, I mean dropping it like

(21:46):
you know, over one thousand percent. Those were amazing stats.
And what he's doing with the pharmaceutical industry and making
them charges what is a fair price? You know, you
go to Europe and you pay five to ten percent
of what we're paying here or Mexico, the the dun
Road doctrine. What he's doing to protect our our side
of the of the globe, which it was very important,

(22:10):
and he's doing a great job of that. I mean,
he's doing so many great things. I don't know how
he's got all this stuff done in one year. It's
absolutely amazing that the accomplishments that this man has done
within a year. And I'm a paulled that you can't
see that, and you don't want to say, just like
the Democrats didn't want to say it, and and and
you talk about political theory theater. I mean, I've never
seen a State of the Union where the Republicans were

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screaming and howling like braying jackasses. And of course that's
a great animal for them, because they are braying jackasses. Uh.
That that was that was really very poor form. And
it showed how low these people are that they would
scream and holler and carry on like they did and
assault the president. You know, he's at least respect the office.
They wouldn't know what that is. They had no idea

(22:54):
unless it's their guy. Now, if this had been a
Democrat president, oh, they'd been singing his praise have been
was wonderful thing in the world. Right, I'm sure you'd
be singing his praises too, because I've never seen you
attack a Democrat. When he was given this a State
of the Union. You don't do it, Christopher, only Donald Trump.
And instantly people are amazed how how powerful this man is.

(23:16):
I mean, I'm talking about mentally and physically that he
was there for two hours, standing for two hours, and
he did a magnificent job. He beat the record. He
now holds the record for the longest State of the
Union speech. I hung on every minute. It didn't bore me.
I didn't think it was too long. I enjoyed every
minute of it. You see a good football game and

(23:38):
the last for two years two hours. You don't cry
and whine about that. Well, that's I saw a great
performance this Tuesday. I'm sorry you didn't like it, Christopher
and I and of course along with the rest of
the Democrats and the liberals and everything else who hated
it and mocked it. And screamed and hollered like again,
like animals, like savages. It's just a shame that there's
such a you just can't be honest the facts. The

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other thing that it is so amazing is that his
mental acuity is so strong at eighty years old. This
guy is an astounding he's something man. They need to
examine that when his presidency ends. They need to do
a heavy duty research on him and what is going
on in his body that he's so strong and and so,
you know, can maintain his mental competence at such a
high level at this age. It's stunning. It's absolutely stunning

(24:24):
the fact that he can run that White House away.
He does. You know, the only reason this stuff has
happened is because he is managed. He is managing things.
He is practicing executive action at the highest levels, the
highest production, like like a finely tuned general. Let's say,
it's amazing how this man works and can get things done.

(24:48):
It's really amazing. And his cabinet sees it. They see
it in him. Folks, we got a miracle here, Donald Trump.
I think he's a gift from God. I'm so sorry, Chrisopher,
you don't like him and you want to whine and
cry and screaming allar a. But his state of the Union.
I know, I knew that was coming. I knew that
was coming. I'm gonna keep praying for you, Christopher. I think,
you know, when we have mental problems, emotional problems, we

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can overcome them. We really can. And I really believe
you can get out of this. I think there's a
way out for you. I'll be praying for you. There's
a way out for all these Democrats. Maybe they'll even
see the light and start straightening up and at least respecting,
you know, the other side. They don't know how to
do that. And by the way, the guy who was uh,
you know, hauled out of the conference, uh, that congressman

(25:33):
he Uh, it wasn't just because it wasn't just because
of what he was saying and screaming Hower and the
sign he was showing his buddies. The Democrat. His Democrat
associates sitting with him tried to stop him because they
saw it was gonna look so bad. Finally they had
to haul him out. I understand it was because he

(25:54):
started waving his cane then, afraid he's gonna hit somebody,
so Anyway, the Democrats come out of this looking like
lowlifes super lowlives, and if it comes out in the
political ads coming up, man, it's gonna hurt them in
the midterms because they just they really shot themselves in
the foot. Christopher. This was bad political action on their part. Anyway.

(26:15):
I know you've got some more good stuff for us,
but you know, folks, something it's time for us take
a break, so we'll be right back as soon as
we finish these commercial messages.

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stations in the Gulf South. So, without further ado, it's
time for us to get going. I know, Christopher, you
got another great interview with another very interesting fellow, John Young,
a really fine man. I've known him for years and
I can't wait to hear what he has to say
to us.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
In our final interview today, we are going to be
joined by the former parish president of Jefferson Parish, John Young,
who is thrown is a hat in the ring for
the public Commission and this is to succeed Eric Scremata,
who got some news of course nationally, the President's proposal
to in the State of the Union address to build

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energy plants actually came out of Louisiana and our procedures
to build a new metaplant, which gives you an idea
of how powerful public Service Commission is. If anything, you know,
it's all your electricity rates, all your regulatory rates. And
John Young, a lot of people will hear you saying,
and they're like, what the hell is a public service commission?

Speaker 3 (30:28):
But can you explain how critical this is?

Speaker 8 (30:30):
The Public Service Commission is a very important position, and
especially now at this critical juncture where we are attracting
AI data centers and this is going to be a
great opportunity for creation of jobs and economic development for Louisiana.
But what the Public Service Commission has done thus form
which we need to continue, is to make sure and

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put in the safeguards that when those AI data centers
come in because.

Speaker 3 (30:57):
They want to come here, because we have.

Speaker 8 (30:58):
Low rates, because we have an abundant supply of water,
both of which they need in abundance. We need to
make ste a large river running through us, you know,
and we need to make sure that they pay for
their infrastructure, that they added infrastructure they're going to need,
and for the power they're going to need to generate,
so that any additional costs are not passed on to

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our existing ratepayers, both residential and business. And the Public
Service Commission.

Speaker 3 (31:27):
Has done that with the Metal Planet. We need to
make sure.

Speaker 8 (31:29):
That continues to do that program with all these other
data centers because since that one, we have one in Westfley, Sianna,
Saint Francisville, and then two in North Louisiana announced just
this week. So this is a great opportunity. They're now
starting to refer to I twenty as AI twenty and

(31:50):
this is you know, Louisiana's leading the way. And based
on my experience in government, we also have to be
concerned about, you know, a reliable energy during extreme weather events,
not just storms, so I'm very experienced with hurricanes, but
make sure that we have reliable energy at a fair

(32:13):
and reasonable price, and my commitment is to keep those
rates low as possible.

Speaker 4 (32:18):
And I know you've been an advocate for backup systems
of electricity, so this is one of the things you
talked about when you were a parish President. It just
came up in the news about the battery system that
Entergy is offering. But the idea that you know, we
can have secondary and tertiary energy systems so when everything
shuts down, we've got alternatives.

Speaker 3 (32:35):
You talk about that, Yeah, to.

Speaker 8 (32:36):
Make it more redundant and resilient, because we are going
to have issues, and we want to make sure that
we have a backup system in place that when something
untoward happens, whether it be a natural event or for
that matter, a man made event. And now we're experiencing issues,

(32:57):
especially in the city New Orleans with rolling Brown. We
want to make sure that that doesn't become a regular occurrence.
And I've worked with NTG before after one of the hurricanes,
and we put in a proactive system to maintain the
system and make sure it was more resilient, to check

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the polls and make sure they were changed out on
a regular basis, to make sure that we had a
backup plan in case something went down, so that our
citizens would not experience any long periods of uninterrupted power.

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Let's talk a little bit about the politics of this,
because everybody's thinking about, oh, he's running for public service commissions,
so maybe I'll go vote for him in October. Public
Service commissioners, like what we talked with Julia Letlo a
few minutes ago, are a closed primary now, along with
Senate and Congression rates. So that means your election is
seventy odd days from now and in May, with early

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voting starting as early as May second through May ninth,
and the election on the sixteenth.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
That's a sprit, that's not an election. That's a spread,
not a marathon, correct.

Speaker 8 (34:02):
And it's the new system of closed primaries, which of
course what passed in twenty twenty four by the governor
and the state legislature and the only state offices in
addition to the congressional races, Senate and House or Public
Service Commission which I'm running for Bessie Boord, the Board

(34:24):
of Elementary and Secondary Education in the Supreme Court. So
it is coming right around the corner because it's now
a closed Republican primary.

Speaker 3 (34:33):
I am a Republican. I'm running in the Republican.

Speaker 8 (34:35):
Primary, and only registered Republicans or no party people can
vote in the Republican primary. And if you are no party,
you have to elect whether to vote in the Republican
primary or the Democratic primary. You can vote in both,
but if you elect, you can vote in the Republican primary.

Speaker 4 (34:56):
Can you have to let the Secretary of State know
that is your intention primary to do. Letters have been
coming out from the Secretary of State in the last
few days, and independence may play a major role in this,
but it's mostly Republicans registered Republicans.

Speaker 3 (35:09):
You are the best known candidate in the race.

Speaker 4 (35:11):
You've run parish wide, you've run statewide, but you're running
against some well known Republicans as well in there. So
what would you like the public to remember about you?

Speaker 3 (35:19):
Jefferson.

Speaker 4 (35:20):
Parish voters know you very well as there a long
time parish president. But sometimes people in other parts of
the state, while they may know your name, they don't
know much about you. Tell them why, based on your
work and disaster relief post hurricanes and grids, why you're
the best qualified to do well.

Speaker 8 (35:36):
I think if you look at my record and you
look at my experience both in government and outside of government. First,
I'm the only lawyer in the race, only attorney, and
I think that's important when you're looking at all these
regulations and regulating all these utilities.

Speaker 3 (35:49):
You deal with a.

Speaker 8 (35:50):
Lot of laws and regulations but also my work experience
as counselmen and Jefferson Parish President. I have been through Katrina,
rita ustaf Ike, the BPR spelled Tropical Stoneley, and Hurricane Isaac.
I've dealt with serious weather events where power wat's out,
where I had to work with the utility companies to

(36:11):
bring that power back. I have always stood up for
the citizens that I represent UH and I always put
them first. And I have a record of being open, honest,
transparent and accountable and I'll continue to do that as
your Public Service Commissioner, John Young, former Jefferson Parish President,
Canada for the PSC in the May elections May sixteenth election.

Speaker 4 (36:33):
If somebody wants to find out more about your campaign,
how would they do it? They will go to my website,
which we are putting up right now.

Speaker 8 (36:40):
I don't have the actual website up because things are
moving fast.

Speaker 3 (36:44):
But we'll be up. But they can they.

Speaker 8 (36:46):
Can call me on my cell phone at five O
four three five two eight eight five five.

Speaker 3 (36:51):
And I've had that sets public commitment.

Speaker 8 (36:53):
Get that out one more time five O four three
five two eight eight five five.

Speaker 3 (36:56):
And I've had that since the first time I ran.

Speaker 8 (36:59):
And I've never change it, and I'm available anytime to
speak with anyone who has any interest in speaking with me.

Speaker 3 (37:06):
John Young, thank you for joining us in the Founder
show your thoughts. Hi, Yes, Christopher, this is great. Thank
you so much for having John on the show. And John,
thank you for being on the show with us. And
I just want to remind you I met you through
your father on a Super Bowl night years ago when
he used to host this great party, and that's when
I first met you. I know, christ was known you

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a good bit longer, and I've always been impressed with you,
and I'm very excited to hear what you're doing. I
want to thank you for bringing industry and advanced energy
systems and everything else you're doing to really upgrade the
state of Louisiana. How desperately we need that and for
the also the greater New Orleans area. And I was
part of that meta thing up in North Louisiana. I
saw it happen and it's very exciting and I hope

(37:47):
they can bring it through. It's going to be such
a plus forul Louisiana and we need to get more
of them. We need them down here in South Louisiana.
So let's see what we can do there. Boy, this
state could become wouldn't it be great if this stake
could be another Silicon Valley. Oh man, that'd be fantastic.
Think of the financial blessings that would bring to Louisiana folks,
along with our energy and everything else we have. And
I learned some great things about new things about a port,

(38:09):
about how vital it isn't the amount of income it produces.
We need to learn how to start becoming part of
that income. Instead of letting it go to the Northeast
or other parts of the world. We need to start
learning how to get our share of it. So maybe
we can figure something like that out. John, We used
to do it, but we're not very good at it anymore.

(38:31):
So anyway, this is very interesting. And by the way,
I got to know your father through a prayer breakfast
at John Lambert, the old city councilman and lawyer downtown
started years ago, many many years ago, and I went
to it for years. It's kind of disbanded because our
fatality rates are almost none of us left, but it

(38:53):
was a wonderful, wonderful prayer breakfast. I think you came
a few times and these great memories, such wonderful times.
You really had such a great father, and you've done
him credit, and you've done your community credit. Thank you
John again for all that you've been doing. And so
I guess it's time. We're getting close now for another break.

(39:14):
But before we do, I would just like to thank
our public servants and what they're doing. The good ones,
and I know we got some ones that aren't so good,
But for the good ones, a good public servants that
really do work hard and they do the right thing,
and they serve the best they can. And thank God
for them. So let's try to get more great public

(39:35):
servants who really will run things the way they ought
to be run, and they really run things for the
betterment of all of us. Let's pray for that, folks.
You know, look, we want to make America great again.
Well I'll tell you what. America was made great in
the beginning, really great. And it was made great because
you know what, we knew it made people great. We

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knew it made nations great. God, and so our founding
father put God in the middle of everything. And you know,
I'm working hard to make America great. The Maga movement
of many of us are, but I don't care how
hard we work, it's really going to fizzle out on us.
It's gonna be a flash in the pan if we
forget the most important thing, and that's God, and that's
we the people. It's not the the leadership is very important,

(40:19):
but it all starts with we the people. And if
we the people don't get hold of it and start
having serious getting togethers with God, you know, serious revivals
with our creator, uh and and really turn our hearts
to God, this is this MAGA movement is going to
fizzle out. I hate to say, I hate to thank you,

(40:39):
but now I'm saying this as a preacher, as you
all well know. So let's pray that that we can
go deep in our hearts and minds and really put
God in the middle of our lives so that we
really can complete the MAGA movement and really restore America
to what it used to be and what could it be,
what it could be again. And thank you for all

(41:01):
those who are working hard for that. So it is
not time for us to take our break, and we
will read back shortly.

Speaker 6 (41:13):
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Speaker 9 (43:58):
Much finals the politicians, and we're back and it's long
time for our chaplain by by a patriotic movement where
he just took a brief moment to remind you of
the biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence.

Speaker 3 (44:15):
And today we're going to talk about James Monroe, one
of America's greatest presidents. He was a Virginia, Virginian. He
came in. His presidency was in eighteen twenty five. He
was educated at home by a minister and he was
good friends and which also went to school at Chief

(44:35):
Justice Town Marshall of the first Chief Justice Supreme Court.
And he was quite a remarkable man. He did a
major He played a major role in the Louisiana purchase.
He played a major role in acquiring much of the
south west of the Appellations to bring them into the
Union and also Florida. And then of course he became

(44:58):
the president, and he's the one that is so famously
known for the Monroe doctrine, which meant foreign powers are
not allowed to come into the Americas and interfere with
our affairs. It became a very important doctrine. And of
course our current president has revived in another calling instead
of the Monroe the Dunrow for Donroe doctrine. And I

(45:22):
thought fitting because we just had a State of the
Union and we needed a testimony from a great president.
And of course Donald Trump was Monroe and for what
he did. And during his speech he.

Speaker 2 (45:35):
Spoke eloquently and greatly.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
About the province of God in American life and in
this country.

Speaker 2 (45:43):
And he and he.

Speaker 3 (45:44):
Concluded it with except the Lord keep the city, the
watchman waketh in vain. Folks, I think old James Monroe
really wanted to keep God in government. But what about you?
Is God? And you, you know, you could be the
greatest patriot that ever lived. But if you die and
went to hell, what good would it do you? It
would it be all for naught. So you know, you

(46:06):
need to have to stand for God and to stand
for a biblical foundation of America. The most important thing
you need is to know God and know that He
knows you. And there's only one way of doing that,
and that's through Christ, who is the creator and Redeemer
and savior of the entire universe, including the human race. So, folks,

(46:27):
how does that work when you know the Bible says
the Gospel is the power of God and the salvation.
So that's the key of the gospel. Oh great, what
is the gospel a song? Is it a good feeling?
You know? It could? People have all kinds of crazy
ideas about what the gospel is. But the Bible settles
it for us. It makes it very clear. It says,
for a declared to you the Gospel that Christ died
for all of our sins according to the scripture, that

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he was buried, and that he rose from the dead
according to the scripture. That is the gospel. Folks. If
you don't have that, you don't have God. And all
you have to do, like the scripture says, with childlike faith,
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And this is what
you need to believe the gospel. You need to believe
that Jesus really did die for all of your sins.

(47:10):
I mean, from the day you're born in the day
you die, he dies, the great sins they all went
on Jesus. The bow says, his bood washed him away.
And all says they even went in Jesus, he that
knew no sin was made sin. Jesus was made sin
that you might be made the righteousness of God in him.
He took all your bad.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
To give you all his good. That's a pretty good
deal in it. That's what happened on the cross.

Speaker 3 (47:30):
But that's just part of the story. There's more to
the story because after he died, that would have paid
for all of us sins. But what about eternity, what
about our life will? Scripture says that when he rose
in the dead, he won for all of us the
free gift of resurrection, everlasting life till he saver. Believeth folks,
if you never believed this before, please do it now.

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Believe that Jesus really did die for all your sins,
that he was buried, and that he's raised in the dead.
Don't wait till it's too late, like the Old Contrition said,
and like the Word of God says, today now is
the time of salvation. Do it now, folks. If you've
never believed this before, it's the most.

Speaker 2 (48:07):
Important thing you'll ever do.

Speaker 3 (48:08):
Remember it comes by grace through faith. That means you
can't work for it.

Speaker 2 (48:12):
You don't earn it.

Speaker 3 (48:12):
Grace means free gift. So since before we've been saved
by grace through faith, and even that is not of ourselves.
It is a gift of God, not of works, lest
any man should boast. So how do you get there?
You have to do that before you believe that Jesus
died for your sins. That what it means, you have
to repent. Repentance means you change your mind. That's the
Greek word menonoia means you have to change your mind

(48:35):
and believe that you're hopeless and help us without God,
and there's no way you can ever get yourself to heaven.
You're totally you're a loser.

Speaker 2 (48:42):
You're totally incapable and incompetent of in any way earning
eternal life.

Speaker 3 (48:47):
Are going to heaven? I'm getting your sins paid for.
You cannot do it? Okay, how good you are, it's
still my good enough for God. The bile says, all
of our righteousness, the best things we own for good
is as filthy rights to Him, because he's just.

Speaker 2 (48:57):
That bigger than we are.

Speaker 3 (48:59):
We can't begin to even think about how huge God
is in every kind of way, his goodness, his creativity
is everything. So folks, believe you can't save yourself, and
you just repented. Now you're free to put faith alone
and Christ alone. With the faith of a little child.
You've never done any like I said early, do it now.
You may not get tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (49:19):
We need never know.

Speaker 3 (49:19):
I've got good friends. You know, I'm seventy five years
old and I've been watching my good buddies. People are
grew dropping on me to the left, to the right,
in front and behind me. You know, when you get
to his age, that's when it's time to check out.
And remember, nobody checks out of her life. Even Jesus
didn't do that, but he came back. I believe that
he did, and that he's your savior, that he paid

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for all your sins. You're going to heaven if you
do all right, folks, It's now time for us to
go into what we call our testimony time, which is
like a brief moment to give you a story, a
wonderful story of some great guy, somebody that did something great,
whether it was in today's war, or it happened two
thousand years ago, it happened in the early man Connor
and whatever. It doesn't mean when the time is. And

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it may be people we know in our own neighborhood
and people in this city. It may be someone from
far away. It doesn't matter. It's a story about somebody
who did something great for God. These are inspiring for us.
They help mold us and give us a vision for
our own lives. They mentor us the stories of other
people's lives. Well, today we're going to take on I

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think one of the greatest men of our time. And
I'm talking about a young man now, Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk,
think of him. That man accomplished more in thirteen years
than I think most people do in several lifetimes. And
I don't know how he did all he did, I
really done. It's stunning to me. I knew he was
great and he was doing a great job. I loved
what he was doing. I picked him up from the

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very beginning, followed him all along the way. But I thought,
you know, Charlie Kirk might have had about, oh, maybe
a hundred locations where he had operations going let's say,
across the country. Given College Council, you know, he had
when he died, he was five hundred chapters across America
three thousand, five hundred chapters. And I used to think, well,

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he probably speaks.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
Twenty or thirty times a year. That's a lot, you know,
that's a no.

Speaker 3 (51:10):
He was speaking having these big meetings since big rallies
four hundred times a year. This guy was astounding. And
then went with his death when he was bootily murdered
by the you know, the sexual provert who murdered him
on the grounds that he because Charlie preached the gospel
and preached right the righteousness of God, he couldn't stand that,
so he had to terminate Charlie. Also because Charlie supported Trump. Uh,

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so he murdered him, boot and murder him, shot him
down in cold blood.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
What a what a.

Speaker 3 (51:39):
What a treachery? What treachery? And he Charlie Kirk's death
probably accomplish more than he could ever do in an
entire lifetime, because since his death, they have opened up
two hundred thousand chapters that have opened up across America. Folks,
This is stunning, This is amazing. So you see what

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a life can do. Don't ever count somebody short just
because they seem like they're just young and noon can't
do much.

Speaker 2 (52:10):
No, look at what God does through Charlie Kirk.

Speaker 3 (52:13):
God in one is a majority. Get on God's side,
Let him be your leader, let him be your master
and the lord. So once you become a Christian, you're
born again. You're guaranteed heaven.

Speaker 2 (52:25):
But you may not really walk.

Speaker 3 (52:26):
With God because you don't know. That's to be kind
of embarrassing. It going to be hard to do whatever.
You need boldness. You need a holy boldness to stand
up and stand out and step forward and serve God.
Now you're working for God, and when you do, the
blessings or enormous, because if you don't, you're probably just
gonna end up being a messing and you'll look more
like hell than Heaven. But if you really walk with God,

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that's when you can bring Heaven down to you and
people will see you and say, I want that, I
like that. That's good to me, folks. Do that make
Jesus You'll not just your savior. That's the most important thing.
But after that, accept Him as your lord and master
and see what God won't.

Speaker 6 (53:06):
Do for you.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
It's a great experience. You want to script yourself by
the bard of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.
We overcame Satan. We'll look at the word of Charles's
testimony and look at the huge impact he made against
the devil and the wickedness of this war. Well, folks,
it's no time for us to close, as we closed
with the mane Saint Martin sion i quill, goodbye and
God bless you all out there, because we were just

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breeze time for