Rescission Bill Blues at Public TV & Radio, NOLA Mayor Fundraising

Hy and Christopher discuss fundraising in the Mayor’s race and the rising danger of inflation later in the program, but our main issue are the cuts in the PBS budget.

WWOZ management called in all of its senior staff and stakeholders for strategy session to deal with the danger of the recession bill on Wednesday, July 17, when it became clear that Donald Trump’s $9 Billion cut in the foreign aid public media budgets would pass the US Senate in the coming hours.

The “Guardians of the Groove” at 90.7 FM realized the devastating impact of the loss that their portion of the $1.1 billion public TV and radio funding soon to be chopped away by the Republican Congress at the behest of President Trump.  The monies underwrote a considerable portion of the funds necessary to keep broadcast signals on the air.  Like so many critical resources for many public stations around the country, from ice warnings in Alaska to farm reports in the Midwest, the Crescent City’s radio archive of culture may have been dealt a catastrophic cut.

In the 1990s, Newt Gingrich and the GOP Revolutionaries declared their jihad against PBS with a joke.  “Whenever two or more socialists are gathered together, national public radio is with them.”  It took 30 years, but Republican campaign to defund the public broadcasting system of federal monies succeeded with a 51 to 48 party-line vote in the US Senate on July 17, 2025, with only Maine's Susan Collins and Alaska's Lisa Murkowski fully opposed in the GOP caucus. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting stands to lose $1.1 billion meant to fund it through the next two years, while the bill also cuts $7.9 billion in other programs. CPB acts as a conduit for federal money to NPR, PBS, and their TV and radio member stations.

The irony is that the news operations of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Systems receive less than one percent of their funding from the federal government. By corollary, the Republican campaign to defund liberal media sources will likely fail, as large urban public news radio stations should be able to make up the gap in funding.  Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and PBS News Hour will likely endure.  High-quality children's programming, such as Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood as well as cultural programs on history, music, and underserved communities might not.

In particular, specialty music stations like WWOZ as well as rural and small market television stations which received 8 to 15 percent of their funding from the federal treasury find themselves in mortal danger.  Federal grants for unique, cultural programming make up the line share of their budgets.  Local news, including emergency alerts, could be hit worst of all as small market stations face going dark.

In one of the late proposed amendments, Murkowski sought to restore CPB funding while barring any federal money from going to NPR. She mentioned a 7.3 magnitude earthquake that struck the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island on Wednesday.  The Senator had received her alert from a public radio station KUCB in Unalaska, in the Aleutian Islands.  “I'm looking at a text that I received from the station manager there," she declared in the Senate floor.  The text said the local community was instructed to listen to the local public radio station, she added.

“I have an amendment that protects public media, their independence, their ability to provide local news, weather reports and, yes, emergency alerts," Murkowski continued. "We're reminded today this stuff matters, so I would hope my colleagues would recognize what is at stake and vote for my amendment." The GOP majority voted ‘nay’ in reply.

South Dakota Republican Sen. Mike Rounds on Tuesday announced that he had struck a deal for the White House to divert Green New Deal money to funding 28 stations serving Native American listeners in nine states, yet the agreement does little to serve the nearly 1000 more rural stations facing catastrophic cuts.  A Harris Poll conducted last week on behalf of NPR found that overall 66 percent of Americans support federal funding for public radio, with an equal proportion agreeing that such funding stands as a good value for taxpayers. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans and more than seventy-seven percent Democrats said they support public radio funding. The online poll served 2,089 U.S. adults, with a margin of error of 2.5 percentage points. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Battles, the politicians addressed the digit datas and magicians. Who's
to see the money? Then you don't, there's nothing to
fill the holes while then are filling their pockets by holes,
the politicians bouncing down the road. Every body'sition no moment,

(00:24):
corruption and dysfunction, it's gonna date, divide it vention.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
The New Orleans mayors race has had a lot of
inflation in bank accounts. We're going to talk about who's
doing what one point seven million down to two hundred
and fifty thousand and growing. But we also got inflation
across the country two point seven percent. Does that mean
tariffs are in trouble? And speaking about beyond that, ladies
and gentlemen, what is going to be going on with

(00:52):
the definite deflation of the bank accounts of NPR and
of the public radio stations. The recession bill is passing
all that more and this of the Founder Show.

Speaker 3 (01:01):
And God bless you all out there. You are now
listening to the Founders Show, the voice of the Founding Fathers,
your founding fathers coming to you deep within the bowels
of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
that old Crescent City New Orleans, Louisiana. And high up
on top of that old Liberty cypress tree draped and

(01:22):
Spanish moss way out on the Eagles Branch, is none
other then your spingary Baba of the Republic, Chaplain Hi mcnry, who.

Speaker 2 (01:31):
Christopher Tidmorey wrote a reporter, resident radical, moderate and associate
editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net.
And Hi, I'm gonna ask you a question before we
talk about the mayor's race and all the different stuff
WR and O and WSLA aside, because we know those
are our favorite radio stations by all means, what is
your favorite radio station in the city of New Orleans music.

Speaker 3 (01:52):
Wise WTIX WTX for music for music, because I love
rock and roller.

Speaker 4 (01:58):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (01:59):
I heard uh last Wednesday night after I brought all
my kids home and you know, my inner city kids,
and then gone and finished my card act rehab. And
I was pulling up at the house and I love
Coast to Coast, but uh, then that long advertise, so
I switched to w t I X and and guess
what they had Elvis Presley in the ghetto.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
And I'm telling you Christopher. I was.

Speaker 3 (02:21):
I love that song. I was so captivated by it.
I didn't turn it off. I listened even though I
was at the house. I'm just sitting in front of
the house and listening. Someone is over with with Unexpectedly,
I broke down and cried. I didn't even think it
was a powerful song. It's a powerful somebody.

Speaker 2 (02:33):
Our hearts could get mad at me because but Mike
Costello's gonna be very happy. But I'm gonna I'm gonna
promote a different station.

Speaker 6 (02:39):
Though.

Speaker 2 (02:39):
You remember I was on wt I x AM for
many years.

Speaker 5 (02:41):
Yeah, but wr and I doesn't really have music.

Speaker 4 (02:43):
No, No. It used to be the rock of New Orleans.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
I know, I know I started it.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
I killed the rock of New Orleans, Bob Christopher and
of course the great Jeremy Porsine and I. But uh,
it turned it into this talk station. But the my
favorite radio station President Company Accepted has always been w
w Z ninety point seven, our public jazz and rock
and roll heritage station.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
You know one of the guys that has a show
on that, Yeah, I know, and very good and great
on and.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
It does a lot of music that you can't get
anywhere else. It has intremendous public support, and it's facing closure. Yeah,
and it's facing closure because of this recession bill. So,
for those that haven't been following, there was a nine
and a half billion dollar recession bill. Recession is a
fancy way of saying we're gonna we already appropriated money,
now we're taking it.

Speaker 5 (03:32):
Back state or federal, federal.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
This has been going on, if you've been noticing, it's
the president's cuts. And of the nine billion dollars, one
point one or one point two billion dollars is for
public media, public television, public radio, so and so forth.
And it's part of Donald Trump and also the Republican
Party's long standing sort of crusade against National Public Radio

(03:58):
and TV too well, but also a corporation for public broadcasting.
And look, I'm going to say something that and I'm
saying I'm a huge supporter of public media. I'm going
to say this, and I say, look, I was in
Washington at the time when the joke used to be
as a Washington staffer. Whenever two or more socialists are
gathered together, National Public Radio is with them. But I'm

(04:21):
going to also say something, do you know, hi, this
is and this is really important of that one point
one billion dollars. Did you know that the money that
goes to NPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting all
the liberal media stuff that Republicans complain of is less
than one percent of their budget and almost okay, and

(04:41):
almost all the money that is coming out of that
budget goes to rule television and radio stations, and particularly
stations that are not part of the direct NPR family.
And by the way, one of those stations is WWOZ,
which keep a lot of our culture here alive. So

(05:02):
here's what's happening with this recession bill. There is a
lot of things being cut. We've talked about USAID and
other things, but when it comes to public media in
order to affect NPR and CPB, which will have very
few direct effects from this, they get almost no public money.
If you want to cut one percent out of NPR
and leave the rest of it there, I'd be like, fine, great,

(05:25):
NPR doesn't need any money. But the fact is this
bill is going to kill most public media in rural areas.
You'll still have it in the major cities. The big
cities will still have their public television radio stations. It's
going to happen. But small cities like US that support
three public radio stations WWNO Classical one oh four point

(05:50):
one WASWWAZ guess what these stations will be in serious trouble.
And it's because this bill has been come through. More importantly,
the station in rural communities all over the country, and
a lot of these are in Mike Johnson's district, all
across a very poor part of the Delta, Louison and Louisiana.

(06:11):
They're the sometimes the only radio stations that are local
that exists.

Speaker 3 (06:17):
But yeah, when he said Delta region, he didn't mean
the Misissippi Delta down at the mouth of the river.
He meant the Delta like the Yazoo River and all that,
because that's that goes in and up into North Louisiana.

Speaker 2 (06:28):
The area basically the Delta's thought of in these terms
is everything from Memphis down to about Vicksburg, right, And
so that's basically Yazoo City is actually the ends.

Speaker 3 (06:40):
Mainly in Mississippi, but some of it, it's part of it.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
It's kind of like.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Swamp and marsh area in that it's very weird and
it's a lot of rivers and bayous and all that.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Yeah, And so my point being about all of this
is in order to kill NPR, we're killing rule radio
and television. I mean, Lisa Burkowski brought up a great thing.
She said, you know the ice reports that are done
in rural communities in Alaska, and this is not ice
in Louisiana or ice in most part that's kind of nice.
Ice in there kills people, because we're talking, there's so

(07:11):
much of it on rivers, it's like icebergs. This is
this is a major part is only done by the
public radio because that's the only local radio they have.

Speaker 5 (07:20):
Let me tell you what my insights on this, You've got.

Speaker 2 (07:23):
Some, but I have one question. Now here's the thing.
If this was going to balance the budget, if nine
billion dollars was going to make all the difference, and
even this one billion for all public it's one point
three billion for public media one point one directly and
to two hundred million elsewhere, if that was going to
come anywhere close to balance the budget, be like, great, sure, whatever,

(07:45):
you know what, this won't be so much as one
tenth of one percent of our one point nine trillion
dollar budget. This is not even a rounding area. This
is the amount that the federal government spends on post
it notes and postage. I mean not postage because they
got franking privileges, but you know, the letters and stuff

(08:06):
you use. It is a trivial amount of money in
the federal things. And so we're going to shut down
public media, not NBR, not CBB, not their objective, these
public stations for what is a rounding era that will
make no difference in the deficit. It is insanity to me.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
Yeah, Christopher, I agree with you. There's just one thing
I have about this. All this national public radio and
TV and all that kind of stuff. I've listened to
it for years. And the things that are like the music,
ones like jazz or folk music.

Speaker 5 (08:33):
I love that.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
But the real problem is they do a lot of politics,
and it's always to the left. You get no conservative viewpoint,
and that's wrong. My tax money is not paying for
what I don't believe in, and I don't like that.
I would cut it if it's even a thousand percent
less than what you're talking about, just because it's not right.

Speaker 5 (08:52):
If they did it.

Speaker 3 (08:53):
Fifty to fifty, all right, Half the shows to the left, okay, good,
the other half is to the right.

Speaker 5 (08:58):
They don't do that.

Speaker 2 (08:59):
You want to bring back the fifth does doctrine, and
I no my point, but here's the thing we just established.

Speaker 4 (09:05):
Of course for tax dollars.

Speaker 3 (09:06):
Doctrine is to force I was making private shows to
do what they didn't.

Speaker 5 (09:10):
Want to do.

Speaker 2 (09:10):
I was I was making all to the left.

Speaker 3 (09:13):
You know why, First of all, people don't listen to
the left, so that meant the right shows would be bad.

Speaker 2 (09:18):
Listen when I you just heard me finish saying that
the big misconception of this whole argument is that your
tax dollars are going to NPR and the CPB, the
National Public Radio on the Corporation of Public Broadcasting. They
are not spending your It's less than one percent of
their budget, less than one percent. And if you want
to get rid of that one percent, I'm all for it.

(09:39):
My point being, that's not where this money goes. Your
tax dollars are not going They go to keep the
stations on the air, basically to pay for their transmitters,
to pay their license. And that's what we're cutting, not this.
That's why this whole thing, this whole shahad is lunacy.

Speaker 3 (09:58):
Why do they do it fifty fifty for the political
side of these public broadcasting shows and whatnot, rady on
and television, when all they go fifty to fifty, that's
you know, at least half the people, more than half
the people's country want to hear the right view, the
right side.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Here's right.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Okay, Okay, why are they being excluded? Okay, here's what
I'm going to think of that? Why and it's rigged?

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (10:18):
Let me let me just accident first. Let me let
me say something very directly. I would point out there
are shows that I watch every week. You know what
I do on Sunday mornings when I watch the other things?

Speaker 4 (10:29):
You go to church to the Founder Show.

Speaker 2 (10:30):
Listen after the Founder Show, the first thing that comes
on at nine o'clock is firing Line on wys Willam F.
Buckley Show, which is still run by a conservative and
it's still right. So it's not like there isn't any
public media that's on the right one that Christopher.

Speaker 5 (10:46):
But the thing is that's rare. That's the problem.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
But my but my problem is, and I know we're
blaguering this, there's been a lot of truth in labeling
that has gone. I mean, I'll give you another thing. Thankfully,
you know they they preserve. The one thing that was
taken out of the recession bill was George W. Bush's
AIDS program. It's going to be saved for Africa. That

(11:09):
has saved thirty three hundred and twenty million, thirty two
million lives directly and probably kept three hundred and twenty
million people about ten times that number from dying eventually.
And it would it would start a pandemic, and they
managed to and it was by the sheerest vote because
it was like foreign policy, foreign aid and like this

(11:29):
is human lives and its most basic coreds one of
the most successful programs. And what I'm saying about all
of this is grand. Paul brought it up best. He
said I would have preferred. I saw him on one
of shows and he said the most intellectually honest thing
about this entire debate. He said, you know what, No,
you're right. What we're cutting some of the stuff were
cutting stupid And they said, well, you're going to vote

(11:51):
for it. I says yes. But he said the reason
what I'd like to see is to take one percent
from every program in the earth. And he said, I
have proposed that. And when I bring up taking one
percent away from Social Security. Everybody who screams about these
programs are you can't touch my Social Security. You can't
touch my Medicare, you can't. We're cutting Medicaid a bit,

(12:12):
but you can't touch this. You can't touch it. And
it's not Democrats by the way they're saying it. I'm
not disagreeing with that. It's just as much Donald Trump
and the Republicans who don't want to piss off their voters.
And I'm saying, as a fifty one year old guy,
you know, hey, why don't we do this? Why don't
we freeze entitlements for five years?

Speaker 4 (12:31):
Oh? You don't want to do that, you know why?

Speaker 2 (12:33):
I mean, I understand, we got a two point seven
percent inflation rate. You know, the economy is supposed to
be so great, except tariffs are starting to raise prices.
That has been certified with Finally, the tariffs are starting
to finally impact our prices. So I understand when somebody
doesn't want their Social Security checks not to go up,
because that means in real dollars, they have less money
to spend.

Speaker 4 (12:52):
But you know what, my salary is not going up,
my vast salary.

Speaker 2 (12:56):
Your salary's not going up Minister in fact only the
high Web.

Speaker 4 (13:01):
I'm such a good guy. You know. It's like I
like to joke, you know.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
You know we've been talking about nonprofit institutions.

Speaker 4 (13:08):
You know, I work for an opera, he works for
a ministry. We're kind of in no profit institutions.

Speaker 1 (13:11):
Right.

Speaker 4 (13:12):
It's like he's been all that stuff anyway.

Speaker 5 (13:16):
But the point being great is our reward in heaven Christmas.

Speaker 4 (13:19):
I hope I keep praying.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Our retirement plan.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
Is literally out of this world, folks to look into it.

Speaker 2 (13:25):
So my point about all the cuts, and this just
gets into the Doge cuts, if every Doge cut that
is actually working, because the latest thing, of course, is
firing the personnel at the Department of Education and trying
to shut down the Apartment of Education. Most people don't
realize this Department of Education was not created by Jimmy Carter.
Everybody thinks it was. He just raised at a cabinet level.

(13:46):
You know when the Department of Education was created eighteen
sixty six. Yeah, it's a post Civil war institution. It's
nothing new. It's been part of our body politics since then.
And they're saying we're firing all these people, Well, what
do these people work on special ed programs and educational
programs that are directed for inner city and the poorest kids,

(14:09):
the kids you work with.

Speaker 3 (14:11):
And I wonder why they don't see hardly any of it.
Christopher kids, don't they Actually they don't. I promise you
they're on I'll give you one exactly, very hard try
to get them and getting them in and we can't
do Are they are their parents can't do it.

Speaker 2 (14:22):
Let me give you Let me give you a small example.
Are they on school lunch programs?

Speaker 3 (14:27):
Yeah, they're getting lunch okay, free, free, usually it's sometimes
three meals a day sometimes.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
Well, and that's because parents won't feed. That's that's what
the Apartment of Education does. It doesn't actually do stuff
in the classrooms. It does the free lunch programs, the
associated transportation program, that's what it actually does. Now, the
reason why I bring this up is is there waste?
Are there some lunatic things that Apartment Education done? Sure,

(14:51):
I'm not going to try to defend all this stuff
that that is a little intellectually dishonest, But I'm going
to make an observation. If we fired every federal employee,
and that includes every serving member of the military on
every level, every aircraft carry, every battleship, every government department,
every National park ranger, you name it, any person who

(15:13):
takes a salary up to and including members of Congress.
That would be four point three percent of the federal government.
That's not insignificant, but that's every human being alive in
places that nobody debates. We need a military, we need
border guards, we need whatever. It would not close our deficit.

(15:33):
And that's why this entire thing about the cuts is
getting me angry. You want to cut the federal government, Gray,
I'm not gonna be someone who says these cuts are
dirtor start we can never do anything.

Speaker 4 (15:42):
Well, what's your solution, Well, of course we can't do anything.
Raise taxes. Come on.

Speaker 2 (15:48):
It's the fact that there's this conspiracy of silence on
both sides that says we can't touch Medicare and Social
Security because if we do that, we will be voted at.
And guess what, that's where the deficit comes from. Because
there are more you old people than there are of
me old people. And guess what, I'm pretty close to

(16:08):
being one of those old people. I'm just a few years.

Speaker 3 (16:10):
With the baby boomers, we had a represent a huge
portion of the American public, and we're all getting trying
to cash in on what we supposed to take.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
Well, and that's this is the part I'm wanting to
make to Pep. And look, I'm saying this, and I
got people in our audience who are right now having
voodoo dolls and putting pins in it and say, I'm
never listening to the Founder Show again. Because Tim Moore
was saying, I paid into Social Security, it is my money.

Speaker 4 (16:32):
Well, I got news for you. I hate says it
should be.

Speaker 5 (16:34):
It was originally planned to be that wall.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
It was originally built that way, it was marketed that
way by FDR, and it was a giant law.

Speaker 5 (16:41):
Christopher.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
What I understand now is the original law on Social
Security made each plan your personal plan.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
No, that's what FDR said, and Harry Hopkins said, but
mister President, that's not actually how we're paying for it.
Everyone's going to have a number, and I says no.
He said, people will support a program where they think
it's their account. But here's an interesting thing. How I
can tell you how.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Did it not go in? Is that then they voted died.

Speaker 4 (17:06):
To you when they voted on it.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
It's part of the original discussions because at the time
they started paying Social Security within three years of the program.
No one could save enough money that fast, nobody, but
they needed to get the money out.

Speaker 3 (17:17):
And the time they put it in for like sixty five,
that was about the average lifespan of a male in
the United States.

Speaker 5 (17:24):
They passed, then you're going to get your money on
your death bed.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
They passed the program in thirty six, and they started
paying in thirty nine and earlier. Actually, and my point being,
you couldn't start paying that fast. What they were doing
is they had seven people, seven people who were under
the age of fifty paying for each person who was
over the age of sixty five. And guess what, as
long as you got seven people paying for one person.

(17:47):
Though that math works today it's two people paying for
every one person, which is why the programs.

Speaker 3 (17:54):
Goes boomers, and so we just got to have to
have a mass killoff on our group. I'm kidding.

Speaker 2 (18:01):
My point being, now, what you need to do, and
this is where I'm getting at. The average baby boom
we're receiving Social Security right now will receive roughly forty
percent more than they actually paid into the program. I'm
not exaggerating in my numbers if you calculate the way it.

Speaker 5 (18:18):
Grows because of inflation all that, but Christopher, no, I.

Speaker 4 (18:21):
Mean above the rate of inflations.

Speaker 5 (18:22):
For let me explain something to you.

Speaker 3 (18:24):
Okay, if the money they've taken out of Social Security
from my generation, if they had taken that and put
it into not a great, not a small, but just
an average producing mutual fund, we'd all be retiring on
six figure income at sixty five.

Speaker 2 (18:38):
They would have done that instead, they and this has
been a bipartisan thing.

Speaker 4 (18:42):
How to get away with it?

Speaker 2 (18:43):
And this is not I hate to point out Ron
Reagan's my hero, but how did Reagan pay for the
Reagan tax cuts? It's very simple. They fixed Social Security.
They raised the Social Security tax and so it lessened
basically evened out the tax system, which is a fancy
way of saying, we tax poor people for rich people's cuts. Now,
the economy grew and the deficit was bad, but not

(19:06):
as bad as it is now because we kicked the
program down the road.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah you gelt it.

Speaker 3 (19:10):
We could have had when they they can't fix it,
so they kick it down the road. They did that
with our levees before the hurricane. They had all the signs,
they had all the investigative engineering done saying we got
to fix these levees. And each each year, each politician
kicked it down the road for the next guy. Finally
we had fifty breaches, and you know the rest of
the stories.

Speaker 2 (19:30):
The city flooded, and it's very very goes the twenty
anniversary your career.

Speaker 3 (19:33):
I don't trust politicians, folks, You got it. You have
to watch them like a hawk. You cannot trust well.
They're not honest and they're not on our side.

Speaker 4 (19:41):
There's a few, but not many.

Speaker 3 (19:43):
There are a few good ones, are very few good ones,
just a very few. My plight, Donald Trump, he's one
of the few.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
My point is, I want to say this to the
public very carefully. All these cuts that we're saying, and
we started off talking about public radio, and I just
want to say this very bluntly, it's not going to
make a difference. And when we come back for the break,
were going to talk about inflation. Inflation. Part of the
reason we have inflation is not the tariffs, it's the
fact running a massive deficit. If you're worried about the

(20:07):
deficit and what the fact that your children's children's children's
will pay for the debt you're running up this year alone.
Would you have been willing if you're retiree are about
to retire, to not cut your social security freeze it,
By the way, in twenty thirty two, which last time
I checked, is seven years from now. Do you know

(20:29):
what the current law says about Social Security?

Speaker 4 (20:32):
Right now?

Speaker 2 (20:33):
The current law it says that Social Security benefits have
to be cut by thirty four percent if anyone thinks
that is going to happen. And you know why they
have to be cut by thirty four percent, because we've
spent the last few years paying back the money we
took out of Social Security.

Speaker 4 (20:48):
What you referenced before.

Speaker 2 (20:50):
How did we take it out? We bought treasury certificates.
How do we buy treasury certificates? We borrow from ourselves.
So the fact is the deficit that exists in America currently,
even if you got rid of every government employee, even
if you got rid of every funding of a public debt, own,
foreign aid, everything, every congressional salary, everything, you'd still have

(21:11):
a massive deficit because all we are doing is trying
to make up for the money that was taken out,
but more importantly the fact that people had fewer children,
and so we can't keep the Ponzi scheme designed by
Franklin Roosevelt alive, and no one in politics, most of
all Donald Trump, but frankly the Democrats are no better.

(21:32):
Nobody's This is something that's such a part of plan. No,
there's a very simple plan. You know what the plan is.
It's very simple. You have to freeze all benefits starting today,
no one gets an increase in their benefits. You let
inflation to take part of the work, and then that
will buy you about five or six years. And then
what you have to do over that period of time

(21:54):
is start increasing the amount on medicare. You know how
medicare advantage. You put in one hundred dollars per month
or whatever it is. People have to start contributing to
their medicare. And guess what what does that mean. It's unfair.
Retirees who have struggled their whole lives, are unfixed incomes
pay more, and you know what, it's not fair at all, folks.
But if you really want to deal with the deficit,
don't come back to me and say how critical it

(22:15):
is to cut public television which is basically the TV
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Speaker 3 (22:22):
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But if it's all to the left, it's not right.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
It's just they're right.

Speaker 4 (22:29):
They're cutting.

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Speaker 4 (27:57):
With Christopher Tidmore and gentlemen.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
You know we tease this before the break, but you
know there's been a with a back and forth. The
real question, if you've been noticing, is there's a lot
of questions about banking, particularly central banking. About you know,
apparently President Trump went to a group of Republican lawmakers
and one to fire the head of the Federal Reserve,
Chairman poul and the Chairman Pole's term is up in

(28:23):
May of twenty twenty six, so he's got a little
under a year left. Now, we've never fired a chairman
of the Federal Reserve in the history of the Federal Reserve.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
Well, Christopher, now it's a good time start. Well, there's
I don't like central I don't trust him, and I'll
tell you why.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Well, but here's the thing Andrew Jackson about having a
central central bank. Yeah, and guess what happened. It led
to the Panic of eighteen thirty seven.

Speaker 3 (28:47):
Well, I also gave us one of the finest economs
we've had for the next like fifty years.

Speaker 4 (28:51):
No, it didn't.

Speaker 2 (28:51):
We actually had a boom and bus cycle and it
was one of the causes. You always talk about the
economic causes of the Civil War. This was one of
the causes. Was actually, it wasn't just slavery, folks, it
was economics.

Speaker 4 (29:03):
Sayd no, no, no, my point.

Speaker 2 (29:04):
I'm actually at this point I disagreed at very little, but.

Speaker 3 (29:08):
An important result either removal of slavery. But that wasn't
really why they went to work.

Speaker 4 (29:13):
No, No, I disagree, I disagree.

Speaker 2 (29:15):
But where we will agree is that the economic boom
and bus cycles played a major role in all of
all this. And one of the things I'm going to
bring up about this is the central banks right now
stabilize our currency and our currency even though interesting, Donald
Trump wants the interest rates to go down. That's why
he wants to get rid of him. He wants them
to actually go down lower than they are being on

(29:36):
the international markets. He wants a negative interest rate. He
says that won't cause inflation. Well, this is kind of
interesting because right now his tariffs are causing prices. All
inflation is a fancy word for prices are going up.
That's all it means. Doesn't even include your energy prices.
And so prices at the stores are going up. Anybody
goes to grocery store knows this. And part of the reason.

Speaker 5 (29:58):
Then they came down now now saying where they will go.

Speaker 4 (30:02):
No, it doesn't remain to be saying yes it does.

Speaker 2 (30:04):
Now we know because we just got the inflation report
and we it judged over five thousand items, and we
were the inflation is not out of whack, it's but
it's real. It's the highest we've had in quite a
few years, even under Biden. It's two point seven percent.

Speaker 4 (30:20):
No, then what was the.

Speaker 2 (30:21):
Inflation rate under Biden? I'll tell you right now, what
was the inflation.

Speaker 5 (30:24):
Rate twenty seven percent.

Speaker 4 (30:25):
No, it was not. What was twenty seven percent?

Speaker 2 (30:27):
We haven't had twenty seven percent inflation even the worst
of nineteen seventies.

Speaker 5 (30:31):
I meant for the whole four years.

Speaker 2 (30:32):
No, even in the worst of nineteen seventies, we didn't
have twenty seven four years.

Speaker 4 (30:35):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
The fact, Christopher, I was there in the nineteen seventies,
we had it. I was I was doing construction work,
and I saw things go up four hundred percent.

Speaker 5 (30:43):
I'm not exact. We including gas.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
The inflation rate in the seventies it was really bad.

Speaker 4 (30:47):
It was twelve percent.

Speaker 2 (30:48):
But the fact of the matter is right now we
have a two point seven percent inflation rate, which is
higher than it was in the Biden years, any particular year,
all any years. And part of that is directly results
the fact that the tariffs we're now starting to be
felt across the economy. And the one thing you never
do is cut inflation rates when you have that. And

(31:10):
we also the dollar while this is going on. Usually
that means if you have high interest rates, the dollar
is stronger. The dollar's been falling against most international currencies
in the last four weeks, and so the reason I'm
bringing all of this up is to say very directly
that it's spooking the markets and the one thing Donald
Trump doesn't want is a recession coming in. And there's

(31:32):
real danger of this stagflation which you're talking about in
nineteen seventies is not something that's a historical footnote. And
by the way, just so you know, Bernie Sanders and
the left was talking to some of the same language
four years ago about this is what we ought to do.
It's interesting to see how much Trump's people sometimes agree
with the left on these policies. Now, the reason I'm

(31:55):
bringing up all of this is very simple. It boils
down to the fact that between that and the fact
that we're running a massive deficit that tends to drive inflation,
is that we're not really paying attention to the stability
of the economy, and that puts us in the hands
of people who don't have our best interest at heart.

Speaker 3 (32:14):
Chrispher as far as inflation, you know, you got to
think of this. Sometimes they talk about inflation, but the
things that are going up are things that very few
people ever buy, and that maybe they are going up high.
Now let me finish christ Chicken, Christopher, for I saw
a list of commodities two nights ago, of a large
list of like a hundred different things and every basic

(32:38):
stuff we use in everyday life, they will all either
stable or going. One of the biggest issues going on here,
and almost nobody knows this. It's very hardly known by
even the top experts.

Speaker 5 (32:50):
But it's there.

Speaker 3 (32:51):
It's real, and I'm talking about international banking instrument arbitrage.
You can't call it that anymore. They made it against
a lot of use those terms. That's basically what it
is and what it means is the big central banks
and they are about sixteen of them that play this
game that at the very top of high finance.

Speaker 5 (33:08):
They're all in Europe. There's only one outside of Europe
that fed here in America.

Speaker 4 (33:11):
Maybe a year. There's only one central bank in Europe.

Speaker 3 (33:13):
It's called the Europe No Christopher, There's a BIS, and there's
the World Banking all that, But I'm not talking I'm
talking about like they are major, big time banks in Europe.
They are about fifteen of them in Switzerland, Germany, France
and England and Italy as those are the biggest banks
in the world all right now. They exchange financial instruments,

(33:36):
and every time they do, they create money out of nothing.
I will not elaborate on it because we don't have
time right now. We can do it in another show.
We can do a show just on this topic, because
it's fascinating. We'll get the rules and rags from the
International Chamber of Commerce headquartered in Paris, France. Got all
the rules and REGs of how this thing works. Almost
nobody knows about it, Christopher. When I first discovered this

(33:59):
and I went to war work for a mandate, a
guy who's putting these deals together here in Nuorleance. I
worked with him every day, all right, and I saw
what came over the facts machine, and I talked to
some of these big bankers myself this year round. They
do it a lot, and it's how they make money
out of nothing. If you and not you know, I
tried to do this, Christopher, and we did it. We

(34:20):
can't do anymore because thanks going to happen too quickly
in the cyber world.

Speaker 5 (34:23):
But you usedpaill to do this.

Speaker 3 (34:24):
It would be called kiting and you go to jail
for that, all right, So we can't do it, but
they get to do it.

Speaker 5 (34:29):
And because of that I really.

Speaker 3 (34:32):
Think that's why these people started spending money like drunken
navies because they know there's like an endless supply of it.

Speaker 2 (34:38):
Or maybe it's the fact that every major industrialized democracy
is running absurd deficits.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
But yeah, no, I mean and like us.

Speaker 2 (34:45):
And it comes down to some of the same people
that conspiracy theories do tend to fall apart.

Speaker 5 (34:50):
After theory it is not. It is not a conspiracy.
It's out there. You can find it. Christopher.

Speaker 3 (34:56):
When I first started almost wait, you got to hear this.
When I first started this, I went to some of
the biggest bankers that I knew, and they were big time.
Half of them knew nothing about it, but the other
half did.

Speaker 2 (35:08):
There is another area where inflation has been hitting, and
it's it's actually the bank accounts.

Speaker 4 (35:13):
They've been rising.

Speaker 2 (35:14):
Of our mayoral candidates, Royce d pless Is, the newest candidate,
posted two hundred and thirty eight thousand dollars in his
bank account. He lent and his wife lent themselves fifty
But that's still over one hundred and fifty, you know,
basically on hundred fifty thousand of fundraising. Then you compare
that with Oliver Thomas where his money has been raising.
And of course the front runner of the race is

(35:34):
Helena Moreno with one point seven million dollars. She spent
two hundred and fifty on the race. It's so far
and the reason I find that interesting one point seven
million dollars.

Speaker 4 (35:43):
There are three hundred.

Speaker 2 (35:44):
And twenty six thousand people, no, three hundred and forty
six thousand people in the City of New Orleans, in
the Parish of Orleans. We've lost twenty thousand people from
what we were and let's call it the three.

Speaker 4 (35:56):
And fifty thousand. Make it easy.

Speaker 2 (35:58):
And if your factor that that basically to win the
mayor's race, she's going to spend basically five dollars per person. Well,
I got news. There's an easier way to spend all
this money.

Speaker 5 (36:08):
Though.

Speaker 2 (36:08):
Of course, if you want to buy advertising the Foundery show,
you're more than welcome. But at this point we're spending
so much money on these programs and on this that
I don't know if anybody's really paying attention to anything
that's happening. It's hard enough in this bivocated media environment
to get your message out anyway. It used to be, folks,

(36:29):
you could buy TV you could buy a radio, it
would get out there. Now, let's look at ourselves. We
got thirty thousand listeners according to Arbitron on this radio
show on our platforms on wr and WSLA.

Speaker 5 (36:40):
Number one rated weekend show. Folks.

Speaker 2 (36:42):
All right, Even so, there is a good argument that
we are starting to rival that number of things in
our podcasting on iHeart, and that most people don't listen
to the full show, They listen to a piece. In fact,
some people say we're troglodytes because we do an hour.
We used to be Now I used to be on
the radio. I did three to five four hours a day.
People listen to it at the beginning to end. Now

(37:03):
an hour is considered an absurd that we ought to
do a thirty minute broadcast because that's all people listen
to it. Well, my point being that that means they're
not listening to ads. How do you get your political
ads out? And this is what I keep telling people
about this New Orleans mayors race. For one thing, it's
very divided. You got Helena Moreno as a front runner,
but right now she's got a problem consolidating the ninety

(37:25):
percent of the white vote. She needs Caucasians constitute about
thirty eight thirty nine percent of the population of Orleans.
Oliver Thomas usually would pick up most of the black vote.
But and I say this, it's a little unfair. Oliver's
actually a very brilliant, very nice, very smart, policy wise guy.
But they've got a problem. People have a problem with
a convicted felon and so it's even nice. Well, I

(37:48):
mean there's a I've seen guys get a way of
stealing millions, and he went to prison over sixteen hundred dollars.
You got a wonder sometimes. But having said that, I
don't know if he was set up, but I do
know this, the conviction has a problem.

Speaker 5 (38:00):
It's on the books.

Speaker 2 (38:02):
You get Royce du pless It. That's why he's an
author hunter who's running in more from the left. But
Hunters are a very respective figure. And I'm postulating that
I don't know how much money and advertising is gonna
make a difference. And that means that Helena Moreno has
a real problem in this race because and it's not
personal towards her, how do you get the message out

(38:23):
if people aren't paying for media and it's old fashioned.
She has been done very effective on TikTok and social
media with her Helena bits talking about different problems and
they're very compelling. But right now, I think this is
anybody's race, and it reminds me in the New York race,
everybody's like, what's gonna happen is mull and Dami, the

(38:44):
Socialists gonna win. Cuomo Andrew Cuomo is now in the race,
as and who ran against the demery as Eric Adams.
But I keep looking at and I say, Okay, that
means if I'm breaking this down correctly, everybody's about thirty
percent of the vote, and the Republicans twelve percent and
twelve and basically another twelve to fourteen percent which tends
to be moderate voters which believe or not they have

(39:06):
in New York are hell, the Republican would have a
shot in New York City. Silva, who was a police
and a victim's rights advocate, is part of a group
called the Guardian Angels, which is a victory Rice.

Speaker 5 (39:19):
He would normally vote for him anywhere anytime.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Well, he got every day he lost to Eric Adams
four years ago, overwhelming like he's a white guy.

Speaker 4 (39:28):
No, No, it had nothing to do with.

Speaker 2 (39:30):
Him being when the New York is not a majority
of African Americans city. They have a huge block well yeah,
but they also have a few plogi Asians. Usually most
of the mayors of New York have been white. They've
only been two black mayor of New York. But it
has nothing to do with that. It has to do
with the fact as a Republican and he's and and there.
The ratio of Republicans to Democrats in New York is

(39:50):
eight to one. I mean democrats. Republicans are eight to one.
Eight Democrats every republic well is communists Muslim I disagree.
I have I have been saying the more candidates there
are in a race, the less it's easy to predict,
because the one thing they don't have in New York
that we have here in New.

Speaker 4 (40:09):
Orleans is a runoff.

Speaker 2 (40:10):
So no matter what happens, you're gonna end up unless
somebody gets fifty percent of the vote in Orleans, which
is I think damn near impossible. Helena Moreno has been
saying she can get it in the first primary.

Speaker 5 (40:19):
I think that's one of the highest number.

Speaker 4 (40:22):
Yeah, New York.

Speaker 2 (40:22):
It's it's called first past the post. And what I'm thinking,
what I'm seeing is that it could be anybody's race.
And I point out that, you know, it was a
scenario very similar to this that got Rudy Giuliani first elected,
and he was a much stronger candidate overall. He had
been the US Attorney. I mean, people forget that today
he used to be a very popular figure in New York.

(40:43):
He'd be the guy put the most of the mob
in prison. But I'm talking long before mayor of America,
ten years before. But the fact of the matter is,
I'm looking at the New Orleans maya's race and I'm
seeing something very interesting. Basically, the vote is being divided
much more equally. I think Helene is somewhere around thirty
eight percent, so she's a guarantee to run off spot,

(41:04):
but she's nowhere near fifty to handle this. And I
don't know who's going to be in that runoff with her,
And I also don't know. You know, it could be Royce,
it could be Oliver, could be Oliver's raising and fundraising,
but I mean it's it's it's a lagging indicator. When
Royce got in that started cutting into some of his
own support. Author Hunter is a little too liberal, but
he's actually a really brilliant guy and very good on

(41:26):
the stump. And so I'm watching this and I said,
we could be very surprised, and this could be anybody's race.
And frankly this gets to a run off with Helena Moreno.

Speaker 4 (41:35):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
It reminds me a lot of Desiree Charbona four years ago.
How many people well she yeah, she was also no.
I think she was a disaster as a candidate because
what happened, not as a person as a candidate, at
the way she ran the race, because she was so
thought of as inevitable that she had scalice behind her
and she was such a shoe in that it woke

(41:59):
up in the day the election and she lost. And
guess what, That's what I'm seeing with the Moreno campaign.
She's so inevitable that she she could inevitably lose. And
I think that's very much. And I also ask this
fundamental question. In order for a white candidate to win,
the Republican vote has to be behind the white candidate.

(42:20):
That's only twelve percent, the magic number of twelve New York,
twelve in New Orleans, twelve percent of New Orleans. However,
why did Mitch Landrew lose against Ray Nagan. That vote
voted for Nagan or stayed home. Why did Mitch Landry win?
Four years later they came around and said, enough of it,
let's just vote for Mitch. You're seeing the Helena Moreno
has hired a National Democratic firm and is appealing to

(42:42):
tip Key Democratic constituencies. There's no appeal going on to
conservative voters in Uptown or Lakeview, and I'm seeing Duplessis
reach out to them. I've seen a little bit from
Oliver Thomas, not much from Author Hunter, though he's got
a crackerjack. One of the best political consultants that you
can have in New Orleans, Karen car chack r At
running his campaign. The fact of the matter is I

(43:03):
don't know what's going to happen, and since I don't
know what's going to happen, I am going to predict
that no one knows what's happened on that we'll be
back to.

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At all.

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And it's not time for us to go into our
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about none other than the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
in honor of the Army's birthday that was recently held.
And it goes like this. This tomb is found in
Arlington Cemetery, right across the Potomac from Washington, d C.
It was once the home of General Robert E.

Speaker 5 (44:43):
Lee.

Speaker 3 (44:43):
One of the great heroes of America and great greatest
military min in America has ever had, and one of
the strongest and most outspoken Christians, anti slavery advocates and
an abolitionist and a civil rights contender, for all the
you know, for everybody, all Americans, especially his African American friends. Anyway,

(45:06):
on this tomb of the unknown Soldier, it was it
was there for all the men that have been lost
and women have been lost in battle and never recovered.
And this guy was died in World War One, I believe,
and they put him in the tomb, but they didn't
know who he was. So on that tomb is written
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(45:27):
Grant them, o Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. Well,
this is clearly a biblical concept. This comes straight out
of the Bible. Also in Arlington written the words in
God we Trust, which is the official motto of the USA,
which was I think, it seems most think came from
our national anthem that in the Last stands and says

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in God is our Trust. It's also found on our
money in God we Trust. Abraham Lincoln had to put
on our money. This is a very powerful message Lord
for the folks, for the biblical foundations of our country.
The guards go through intense training. I mean it takes
some months and months of very intense training. They have
to know all one hundred and seventy five of the

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notable people laid to rest, like Audie Murphy, most decorated
soldier World War Two, another great president, taf Joe Lewis,
famous boxer. These were all people in military backgrounds. It
is our national cemetery, folks. I think these screams in
my ears that America has biblical foundations, that this really

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is all about God.

Speaker 5 (46:34):
Do you know that?

Speaker 3 (46:36):
Just to show you the dedication of these guards, When
Hurricane Isabella came through Washington back in three, the guards
were told to stand down. It was just too dangerous
to be out and hurricane.

Speaker 5 (46:49):
You know what they did.

Speaker 3 (46:51):
They refused to order, and they went and did their duty,
marching around the tomb, standing guard for the tomb, saying
and their response was, in no way, sir, the tomb
must be guarded.

Speaker 5 (47:01):
Folks.

Speaker 3 (47:02):
What a story about our national cemetery and the biblical
foundations of our country. You know, this is sometimes very
important because it makes us think about the end. We're
all coming to an end one day, folks, We're all
on our way. Are we all going to have perpetual
lights shine on us?

Speaker 5 (47:16):
I hope so.

Speaker 3 (47:17):
But if you want to make sure about that, I'm
gonna tell you how that can happen, as we now
go into our chaplain by a gospel moment where again
I just took a brief moment to prove to you,
beyond the shadow of doubt, that you can know that
you know that you know you're going to heaven when
you die, You're going to get that perpetual light forever.
You're gonna be with God in heaven and with God's
glory and all the beauties and amazing things of heaven forever.

Speaker 5 (47:40):
Would you like to be there? I sure want to
be there, and I plan.

Speaker 3 (47:42):
On being there because I know for sure what I know,
because God told me in the Bible, and I'm gonna
share it.

Speaker 5 (47:48):
With you right now.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
You know, the Bible says, but as many as received
him to them, gave he power to become the sons
of God, even to those who believe on his name.
That's the Gospel of John chapter one. Folks, well listen
to what it says, as many as received him, So
they didn't tell you how to receive him, as may
received it to them.

Speaker 5 (48:09):
Gave he the power.

Speaker 3 (48:10):
Ah, they get into power now to become the sons
of God. That means you get to go to heaven,
even to those who believe on his name. What in
the world does that mean? Believe in on his name?
And I get a little confused on that one. For
years I tried to figure out. Then it finally came
to me one day. You know, the Bible has puts
great meaning in the definition of names, people's names. What

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is his name? Well, his name is Jesus and Hebrews
pronounced yes sure or Yeshua or sometimes even Joshua or Yashua.
That's his name, and it does have a meaning. You
know what it means, God is your salvation.

Speaker 4 (48:49):
Huh.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
So you mean if you just know that God is yourself,
that's all you gotta know. But he doesn't say God
in you. It just says God. So that brings into
the picture and the concept here of what gi U
just kept saying. Repent and believe. You've got to repent, folks,
And that word repentance means to quit trusting yourself. Believe
that you are hopeless and helpless without God, destined to
a burning hell. There's nothing in you that can save you,

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So just forget it. Quit trying, let go, and let God.
Realize that only God can save you, and there's nothing
you can do.

Speaker 5 (49:21):
I don't care what it is.

Speaker 3 (49:22):
You'll never be rich enough, smart enough, holy, and no
religious enough saying up prayers, do enough this that whatever
whatever you think works, be charming enough, be cool enough.
You know, whatever you deal is, you'll never be good
enough for God, So quit trying. The scripture says all
of your righteouses is as filthy raves, and then it
tells us how we get to go to heaven the
Bible does. It says, the Gospel is the power of
God into salvation to whosoever believeth the Gospel.

Speaker 5 (49:45):
It's a power.

Speaker 4 (49:46):
That's where the power is.

Speaker 3 (49:47):
Folks, what it is Gospel God? The scripture tells us
what the gospel is that Jesus in first going, there's
fifteen that Jesus died for all of our sins. I'm
talking about, folks, from the day you're born to the
day you die. You Tinians to your greatest sins. All
of that, those sins, your sins were paid for by
Jesus on the cross. His blood washed them all the way.
Scripture says, he that knew no sin was made sin.

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He was made into all of your sins, all every
last one of them. He was turned into sin that
you might be made into the righteousness of God. Folks,
that's what Jesus did for you. And then he didn't
stop there because he had one last thing to take
care of. If you didn't, you wouldn't get life. He
rose from the dead to win for you his precious
free gift of resurrection, every lasting life. If you've never

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taken that life before, do it now, folks. Don't wait
till it's too late. Believe right now that Jesus really
did die for all your sins, was buried and rose
from the dead.

Speaker 5 (50:38):
You know.

Speaker 3 (50:38):
The old country preacher said, don't wait till it's too late,
and the scripture says, now, now today is the day
of salvation.

Speaker 5 (50:46):
Well, folks, I'll.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
Leave you with that as we're now going to the
next part of this clothes for our show, and that
is how things going in the world today. Is Jesus
coming back soon? As we now go into our chaplain
bah bah, watch them on the wall. Did you know
that Ezekiel thirty eight and thirty nine predicted something twenty
five three thousand years ago, something that is actually happening

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right now, unfolding right now. In the Book of Ezekiel,
chapter thirty eight and thirty nine, and it says that
the son of Man. It says, son of Man, set
thy face against God, the land of may Good, the
chief prince of Meshak and Tubal, and prophesy against him,
and say, thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I'm against
thee God, the chief prince of Meshek and Tubal. And

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I will turn thee back and put hooks in thy jaws,
and will bring thee forth, and all thy army, horses, horsemen,
all of them clothed with all sorts of army, even
a great company with buckler and shields, all of them
handling swords. And it goes on to list the other
nations that will join them, that are actually including Iran,

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which was Persia, which are right now aligning themselves with
God and may God, who is God. Well, the word
God just means great King. Who is God? That means
the Kingdom of God.

Speaker 5 (52:03):
So who is this?

Speaker 3 (52:04):
When it gives the other nations, you realize it's Russia.
They're talking about Ruths as the Vikings gave it the
name Ruths, the ancient Kingdom of Russia. Folks, it's on
its way, it's coming, and it's going to be here soon.
And when we see what's going on right now with Iran,
we are so close to this event happening. And when

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it happens, the Bible says that that will be the
beginning part of the tribulation. There's going to be a
great war and even describes it as a nuclear war
where the people who die have to be marked because
you can't get near them. You've got to avoid them.
And it's going to take seven years to burn all
the equipment and eliminate the nuclear waste that came from that.
That will happen in northern Israel. It will just be

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contained in that area. But it's going to be bad.
And it's all lining up right now.

Speaker 5 (52:51):
Now.

Speaker 3 (52:52):
Folks, think of all the things they just said here.
There's no way they could have predicted that twenty five
hundred years ago, and now it's unfolding right before our eyes.
A hook in the Russian jaw, the great wealth of
the Middle East, that's what it is. If Russia gets that,
they own all production for the world. They're they're going
crazy trying to get that running. We have a madman

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in charge of Russia Putin. He's a cold blooded KGB
iron fisted kind of guy who wants everything, and he's
very clever. It's lining up, folks, and I think it's
gonna be here soon.

Speaker 5 (53:24):
So get ready.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
If you're not ready, you better get the best bunker
you can find. All advice on the best one going.
It's called the Jesus Christ Bunker. I guarantee you it
will hold. You can't get a stronger and greater bunker
than the Lord Jesus Christ. Get him right now, hide
inside of him, and you're gonna be safe. You're gonna
make it, folks. That'll be the greatest safe out you
could ever have. Well, folks, it is time for us
to close. Kni As we close with the mont Saint

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Martin singing a creole goodbye and God bless y'.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
All out there. They call you cree good man,