The End of the Clarion Herald / Donald Trump & Ukraine

Hy and Christopher lament the loss of another local newspaper, and question if our society had become more crass and divided as local journalism outlets die?  We then turned to Donald Trump and Ukraine. Christopher contends in a column of The Louisiana Weekly, which he talks about below, that when American needs a Churchill, it has a Chamberlain.  Hy disagrees, to say the least.
Community newspapers unite us. Sometimes they highlight something as consequential as a crime wave or as simple as a pothole, but they emphasize what is best – as well as what is needful – in our neighborhoods.  As national and international coverage pulls us apart, separating us into ideological tribes, local media reminds us what we have in common – for good or for ill. There is no Republican or Democratic way to pick up the trash, after all.  
Local newspapers stand as a key element in the creation of a sense of community, hence the moniker, and with the death of The Clarion Herald, New Orleans becomes slightly less of one. After 63 years of covering everything from high school sports to parish fish fries, the local Roman Catholic newspaper will cease publication in its current form at the end of June.
The move comes after a committee of archdiocesan church clergy voted this past summer to eliminate two main sources of funding for the newspaper, both of which come directly from individual parish coffers: one percent of weekly collections and a $15 fee assessed to each Catholic school family. Collectively, those funding sources constitute roughly half of The Clarion Herald’s $1 million annual budget. Absent those monies, the publication – which has a circulation of 37,000 – can no longer afford to continue as a biweekly newspaper, according to longtime editor Peter Finney Jr.
The Clarion Herald, like The Louisiana Weekly, has often covered stories which could not and would not appear anywhere else. Its print aspect and its wide distribution in Catholic churches and coffee houses made it accessible for those caught iPhone-less in the digital divide.  Despite a valiant effort being undertaken by the archdiocese to resurrect the publication in some quarterly or digital format, the loss of regular reporters covering parish-based or school-based beats cannot be replicated on an occasional schedule. A 2011 report by the Federal Communications Commission found that local newspapers serve as the best medium to provide the sort of public service journalism which shines a light on “the major issues confronting communities and gives residents the information they need to solve their problems.”
The United States has lost one-third of its newspapers and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005, an average of 2.5 newspapers closed each week in the last two years alone. Put another way, 3,000 newspapers have closed in the last two decades, and 43,000 newspaper journalists have lost their jobs. Some of the closures may have proven inevitable, yet the decision to allow corporate chains to buy out the competition and establish monopoly metropolitan dailies has had a chilling effect on the print advertising market – which has historically supported local newspapers. GE stands as the most famous case of becoming a parent company of news outlets despite many corporate interests which might conflict with unbiased news coverage.
The largest 25 newspaper chains own a third of all newspapers, including two-thirds of the country’s 1,200 dailies. Not surprisingly, the number of independent owners has declined significantly in recent years, as family-owned and community papers have thrown in the towel and sold to “the big guys.” Thanks to a lack of antitrust enforcement and economies of scale, the local advertising market has reached a tipping point where it cannot alone support local media. It is up to hometown stakeholders to subscribe, purchase advertising, and contribute financially to keep community newspapers alive.
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Bie holes, the politicians, the dressed of digitators and magicians.
Who's to see the money then you don't. There's nothing
to fill the holes while they are filling their pockets
tied holes, the politicians bouncing down the road. Every bider'sition,

(00:26):
with no more corruption and dysfunction, It's gonna take me,
divide it.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Avention and God bless all out there you and 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 high up

(00:54):
on top of that old Liberty cypress tree draped in
Spanish moss way out on the Eagles Branch is none other.
Then you've been Gary Baba all the Republic Chaplain. Hi
mceenry with Christopher Tidmore.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
You're a roving reporter, resident radical moderate and associate editor
of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot Net.
Got a lot of subjects to talk about, including the
fate of newspapers here locally, and also talking about a
little bit of the machinations in Ukraine and everything. But
we've got to start actually talking about something a little
bit more local, and that's the New Orleans mayor's race.

(01:28):
Oliver Thomas this past week announced that he was running
for mayor of New Orleans, which people were starting to
question if he was going to do so, and of
course he becomes in some ways the most formidable candidate
for mayor, which is extraordinary considering just a few years
ago his political career was considered beyond debt. He was
in prison, but Thomas has not only rehabilitated his time,

(01:51):
having been the councilman essentially for New Orleans East the
Lower ninth Ward. He announced that he was running with
the words, let's create some sustainable momentum where you can
count on being safe in New Orleans. You can count
on city services, you can count on providing housing, you
can count on folks not being gentrified out of their communities,
and you can count on government. Well that's a lot
to count on. That's pretty much give him credit. It's

(02:14):
it's damn near impossible. But okay, he.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Needs to talk with Jala pair. Yeah, it's like, yeah,
you know what he's done.

Speaker 3 (02:19):
Yeah, I know, I know, I know, let's let I
want to brand. But the fact is he joins a
mayor's race that is increasing. Usually mayorial race is historically
in New Orleans, and I'm not talking about like ancient history.
I'm talking about the last few contests would have eighteen
or twenty candidates and it was really up in the
air and you didn't know what was going to happen.
And this year that's not what's happening. Thomas is in

(02:41):
the race. Helena Moreno, of course, is probably some people
would argue the front runner, the council president and the
former TV journalist has been on the council and was
a member of the legislature for several years, and she
herself is sort of running kind of as the reformist candidate.
You have Judge Arthur Hunter, who's kind of running is
the conventional African American candidate. Obviously Thomas is black, but

(03:02):
it's the he's sort as the establishment, you know, of
the old political organizations, and we don't know who else is.
What's interesting is usually we end up with a reform
candidate for mayor. Ray Megan, believe it or not, if
you remember correctly, was a reform candidate for mayor he had.
He supported the Bureau of Governmental Researches, contracting reform promptly

(03:23):
forgot about it when he got into office, but he
ran as a reform candidate other reform he was the
only successful one. Most reform candidates go the way of
the Dodo. Of course, Leslie Jacobs is a good example
of this. Ron Foreman is perhaps the greatest example of this.
I always thought having the zoo keeper, as you know,
mayor of New Orleans, considering how lunar insane we are,

(03:43):
would have been a pretty successful thing. And Foreman, of course,
had had created the Autumn Foundation out of nothing when
he was a junior ad to to moon Landrew. He
took it over and built it into this multi billion
dollar structure, and of course he just retired from.

Speaker 4 (03:59):
It, but he internationally famous.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Internationally, it's it's considered, it's rated. The Autumn Zoo, for
those that do not know, is rated always in the
top five zoos in the United States, and that's an
incredible thing for New Orans. But having said that.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Actually, if you remember the old zoo, and I remembered
it very well because I love animals and I was
always going there and always dreaming and hoping and wish
and why can't we fix these places?

Speaker 5 (04:20):
Well?

Speaker 3 (04:20):
And I also point out the most the most famous
reform candidate, of course, is Rodney Fertell dressing up in
the gorilla suit because he wanted a gorilla for the
automan Zoo. You know you got. You gotta give him
a little credit. His plaque is still at the Gorilla
exhibit in the Autumn Zoo. I spent a lot of time.
I love the automan Zoo. I've been a member for years.
I'll usually just jog through it in the morning.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Memories of Trading Places, H God, that's great.

Speaker 3 (04:44):
It puts a gorilla.

Speaker 6 (04:45):
Folks, if you haven't seen trading Paces and you don't
know what we're talking about, it is truly the funniest
movie ever made, the point being that that kind of
insanity that you see in trading paces is kind of
what you usually expect in the In the Marya's.

Speaker 4 (04:57):
Right where it happened.

Speaker 3 (04:59):
I'm sorry he left town, but I would love to
get Manny Chevrolet Bruno on this program to.

Speaker 4 (05:04):
Contact did you know what happened?

Speaker 3 (05:06):
Well, he left town, he was heaving, But did you
know that I was the first person who put Manny
Chevrolet Bruno on the rear. And how it happened. Cin
Royo and I were doing the morning show in w
BYU and we would get bored and we're in this
little am station, nothing like WRN NO or even SLA
where you know, basically the audience we had it was
our friends who would tune in. It was just he

(05:28):
had a good signal. But that's about all I could
say for and you know, we'd get bored and try
to We're doing this morning show for two hours. And
so the day after qualifying, when somebody would qualify, in
those days, they still asked for your telephone number. But
now if you called somebody's telephone number, you just got
a voicemail. You know. In those days it was like
your home number, right, And so what we would do is,

(05:50):
live on the air, we would dial their home number
at seven o'clock in the morning and say and they
pick up and said, hello, this is Cinna Royal and
Christopher Tidmore and w b YU. It's all the politics
and you are live on the air. Why are you
running from ayor Well? We did this for several people
and they found it interesting. We had some actually really
great responses. My favorite was Manny Chevrolet Bruno. He gets up,

(06:14):
We get him on the air at seven o six
in the morning and he says, and had no warning,
he'd just qualified the day before, never done an interview.
Nobody knows who Manny Chevrolet Bruno is anyway, says his
is Many Chevrolet Bruno. Why are you run from AYR?
He says, man I haven't had my first cigarette. Man
he got me on.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Then of course he brings on you know, troubled Nan
for troubled Times, and he'd run three times, more troubled
than ever before. And his favorite one is pot for potholes.
I thought was one of the great ones.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
But he lent a little personality to these races, which
are he moved on. Anyway, back to the twenty twenty
five mayors race, Helena Moraino is running, trying to run
kind of as the reform candidate, and she's got some
pretty significant support JP Moraley, her fellow Helseman is effectively
behind her. And the interesting thing though, is Helena Moreno

(07:04):
had a very good local political consultant who's been her
conciliary throughout her races, Greg Buissant, he's one of the
best political strategists there exist and really understands it. And
in this case, for the very first time, she did
not actually hire him, not because of any personal things.
She hired a national Democratic firm. So Helena Moreno used

(07:27):
to be before she went into journalism was Hillary Clinton.
One of clearly Clinton's aids, and she wanted all this
national democratic credibility. And she is running as a white
candidate in an African American city. Though she will be
the first one to say I'm not white, I'm Hispanic.
I'm like, I mean, okay, whatever. But the point is,
you know, she's trying to keep that moniker. She's a minority,

(07:51):
but she's a reformist. The thing is against Thomas. The
reason why Thomas was able to rebuild his political career, folks,
for those that know know he took a nineteen hundred
dollars and he went to serve in prison. He was
actually they investigated him. He's clear of anything else he took. Essentially,
he was short in cash. He took it. I'm not
discusing it. I'm just saying, in the grand scheme of bribes,
it was a relatively minor one. He went to prison.

(08:13):
He's been very honest about his time and he calls
it his little vacation. He talks about what he learned.
The thing why he gets around it is Oliver Thomas
is wont and he's a radio talk straw host. For
those that don't know, he's on w BOKA still with
you know, he's regular. I've been on a show many times.
Oliver is a walking encyclopedia of policy that I'm talking policy.

(08:38):
I mean, he knows everything about city government. He's the
opposite of a politician who doesn't know anything. He's literally
he'll talk about you know it well, this program when
it was instituted in nineteen ninety eight with they spent
one point three million on this particular block. And that's
the kind of conversations when when Oliver wants to get
into you know, when he wants to when he knows

(08:58):
he And so that's why people kind of trust him
because they're like, wait, God, you've forgotten more about city
government than most people. And I think there's after Cantrell
and after you know, there's kind of a desire to
get a policy walk back in. I mean as much
as you might some people and are listening audience might
dislike miss Mitch Landrew. There were two things that were

(09:19):
very honest. One you can debate this, but he was
pretty honest. But the other one was no one questioned
that Mitch Landrew wasn't smart and knew his stuff and job,
even if you disagreed with some of his conclusions, and
obviously a lot of people did. For the monuments on down,
he knew he was a walking Encyclopedia policy and that
created people. And I will tell you something, during Landrew's term,

(09:40):
we actually had a one stop shop for permitting. Now
it's gotten to be an event as labyrinthine as it
used to be. It's horrendous just trying to get your
tour guide license. He and I are both tour guides.
Trying to get your tour guide license right now. Used
to be you would, you know, go in, you'd fill
out a piece of paperwork, walk across the street, get
your federal background check, which is still absurd, but it

(10:02):
was literally just walked down the hall. You know, you
actually just walked a correct poisters, came back, paid your
fifty bucks or paid you one hundred bucks, and then
got your license. And it was all done in about
an hour, very easy, no big deal. Now you have
to get a notarized document, you send it off. Six
weeks later, you can get another things, you can go
do your appointment. I mean, it's just become this thing
because during the pandemic they tried to create social distancing

(10:24):
and they never actually reversed any of it. That's sick
and it really is it. It's horrendous. Cantrell. Look, I
believed in LaToya Cantrell because I saw her a neighborhood leader.
She I've been disappointed by so many politicians for me
to say this statement that she is the greatest disappointment
of any politician I've seen in my entire life.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
Really, that is.

Speaker 3 (10:46):
And I'm a guy who supported David Vitter and then
took him down out of office. So if I'm making
that statement, that's a major statement she That's how much
she has phoned in being there. Everybody talks about her
travel schedule rules, and everybody talks about, you know, her
supposed relationship with that being using the Pontabla apartment and
all that crap. I don't care about any of that.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
What we danced to her. I remember, you guys were
deregal dance and her police detachment.

Speaker 3 (11:18):
But the thing that gets me is that she's basically
phoned in the job for the last for basically the
last three years, if not more, probably probably longer, but
certainly since the last mayor's.

Speaker 4 (11:28):
Race, partying, traveling and everything.

Speaker 3 (11:31):
Christ I mean, it was really kind of funny coming
to the job.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
The the Trump administration is trying to do is eliminate
all these deadhead bureaucrats and politicians who aren't doing their job.

Speaker 3 (11:41):
Well, the you this in this case, in this case,
this is not a phone in worker. This is the
elected mayor. And she's sposed to work. She's supposed to
do it. She's what a public service, the public servant.

Speaker 4 (11:53):
She's not working like a servant.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
I will tell you something just as a sidebar, and
all this so that before we get the mayor's race.
One of the things that's been funny about Washington is Trump.
The other thing Trump has made that it's gotten a
little less attention, though it's gotten attention, is that he's
made everybody go back to work no more remote. And
so the traffic in Washington is horrendous because the city

(12:15):
of Washington has these express lanes and the way it
works is you basically have to pay to be in
the express lanes. They're supposed to be HOV lanes where
you have multiple places, but you can pay to BM
but it's so expensive to pay. And bemy have put
the interstates that what's called the Beltway, the I ninety
five that goes around Washington so much it takes hours

(12:36):
just to get to the district. It's horrendous because all
these employees are having to go back to the office.
And you know, Trump has kind of love him or
hate them, and I have a lot of and we're
gonna I'm gonna be pretty critical on Trump later in
the show. I'll give them the credit. Just getting people
back to work is kind of an accomplishment. They are
afraid for their jobs. These are federal employees who are
afraid of being fired. That has never happened in my lifetime.

(12:57):
So that's kind of news.

Speaker 4 (12:59):
That's good.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
That's good anyway, the Maryor's race, even they can't be
above the law.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Interesting the closing bit on the Maryors race, assuming we
don't have another candidate, and it doesn't look like there's
going to be, because fundraising has been really, really bad
this year. It's going to be a question of whether
voters believe Thomas's experience is more important than his criminal record. Moreno,
whether she can come off as a reformist to Republicans

(13:25):
as opposed to being very liberal in her place, and
she's not doing a very good job. To be a
white candidate, you've got to have a you've got to
have almost a unified white vote and a little bit
of about thirty percent of the black vote. And I mean,
just ask Mitch Landrew what happens when the white vote
gets divided and you're a white candidate against Rob Koig.

(13:48):
You know what happens and a black candidate can get
the white vote if they think you're too liberal. So
it's it's a very difficult thing, but it's one of
the things that's going for Moreno. In her good stide
is she has really close relationships with Jefferson Parish officials.
You're like, well, what does that have to do with
being Orleans. Cynthia Lee Sheng is one of her closest
friends in the world. They did something that's kind of interesting.

(14:09):
If you've ever a lot of people in our listening
audience I'm sure have never been have never or have
been decades since they were on a bus, but it
has always been incredibly difficult to take a bus from
Jefferson to Orleans Parish or where you're back and forth.

Speaker 4 (14:23):
It's it's we've been saying they need to them for
years and.

Speaker 3 (14:26):
That for a lot of reasons, it has never happened.
So one of the things that Shang and Moreno did
just as council members was extend the New Orleans bus
route from downtown to Elmwood Ashner Hospital in Elmwood and
then extend one of the Jefferson routes. So instead of
trying to merge the systems, they just said, well, it's

(14:48):
stupid that you have a bus that goes on Clayburne
Avenue and stops at Jefferson Highway. You know they you
just have it go the whole exactly and just as
one bus route, we.

Speaker 4 (14:57):
Have to get another pay for another bus, but at
least they're there.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
Well, don't have to pay for another bus. It's the
same route. So in other words, so you can already transfer.
There is a way to buy a Jefferson Orleans single ticket.
But no, it was more basic. They were like, why
if you've got a bus going down Clayburne Avenue. Can
it not just go down to Jefferson until and stop
where the shopping centers are and elm would why not
just have it keep going? It was a kind of

(15:20):
a basic common sense idea that was revolutionaries. But if
you're a little old lady who needs to get to
the hospital, it's a really important idea to have a
bus that goes across the lines. So I think we're
going to hear some pragmatic ideas, but I do know
that New Orleans Orleans parishes had a crossroads. For those
that haven't paid attention. The population has gone down from
three hundred and eighty five thousand, which was you know,

(15:40):
a post Katrina high in the last four years, to
three hundred and sixty four thousand, And in fact, across
Louisiana we're losing population. The only two parishes that have
not urban parishes that have not lost population or Jefferson
An East Baton Rouge. Everywhere else has. And we got
a major product and Clinton actually, interestingly, Sat Tammany's lost
in popular Wow. Now, in fairness to Saint Tammany, what

(16:03):
happened was it serves so much after Katrina. Yeah, that
some people move back out, So I mean that that
may not be the fairest analysis, but you know, it's
it's nevertheless true. It's just, you know, one of those things.
So all of that we got to talk about, folks,
but we're going to kind of change gears after the
commercial break, more of the Founder's Show with Hi McHenry
and Christopher Tidmore as we turn our attention to do

(16:28):
we need another Churchill and ladies and gentlemen, the loss
of a historic newspaper, all of that.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
But before I just want to make this final comment
about these politicians right trying to save city Hall, trying
to say they need to look into the City Services
coalition that Jayla Pair is heading up, and they seem
to be doing a.

Speaker 3 (16:46):
Really really you know, it's interesting. Jala Pair, for those
that don't know Leatrim, the CEO of Latrum, has been
putting together an analysis and I've seen, forgive my cynicism,
and it's not based on Jay, who I think is
a very thoughtful individual, a corporate leader who is really
given back to the community, and a really exceptional guy.
Yeah that's true. If those who've ever met Jay know

(17:07):
exactly what I'm talking about. But the fact of the
matter is I've watched this happen together in Louisiana, all
these different business groups for reform who've all come up
with some incredibly good ideas that never goes anywhere because
they kind of think, I mean, I'll give an example.

Speaker 2 (17:24):
I don't think they want to fix it earlier. No,
they like it broken because it gives them better advantages.

Speaker 3 (17:30):
I wish it were that simple. It's actually worse. What
I mean by that is it's the attitude that nothing
can really change, and therefore if you try to change something,
you'll make it worse and it'll come back to ricochet
on you. It's it's literally a cynicism that goes beyond
any measurement, and it's just you look at these things

(17:51):
and you're like, wait what. And I've experienced it. It's
actually a very New Orleans thing in a lot of
different areas. It's not just politics. It's sort of like,
we've always done it this way. Even if it doesn't work,
it's the way we do it. I mean, the fear
of change is so overwhelming. So anyway, we will see
about that, folks, But we're going to take a quick commercial.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
Will so maybe we need another Galvez, Christopher he did
a great job or not in the city.

Speaker 3 (18:15):
And Nardo Galvez is arguably the greatest governor we ever had.

Speaker 4 (18:17):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, none.

Speaker 3 (18:20):
As you know, I've been giving these speeches for the
friends of the Cabildo. I teach the Roby Robischow, who
heads the tour guide class, has me in to teach
you about the Battle of New Orleans and about the
Civil War and reconstruction. So your ancestor has come up
and it's through mine quite a lot. But you know,
one of the things I talk about is you cannot
understand what happens the Battle of New Orleans unless you
understand the Galo, the city Galvez created, and the revolution

(18:42):
and what really is important. And he's one of the
he's if he had not died at twenty nine, everything
he did. If he had lived and he died, he
would have probably been one. It's very arguable he would
have become the next Viceroy of Mexico. It's but his father. Again,
it's arguable Mexico probably wouldn't have declared its independence or

(19:03):
they would have made him the Emperor of Mexico. Would
be a very different place. We might be ruled. But
it might not be Americans trying to keep the Mexicans out.
It might be the Mexican's trying to keep Americans acrossing
the border. You know, that could be that kind of anyway, folks,
we gotta take a quick commercial. Brek will be back
after these important messages. More of the Founder show here
on wr O and WSLA with Hi mc henry and

(19:24):
Christopher dead Moore. Stay tuned April fourth, Maheia Jackson Theater.
Prepare for the Fado Dough to end all. Fato does
an opera Fado do Ladies and Gentlemen. Donzetti's comedic classic
Elixir of Love. This whip talk.

Speaker 4 (19:43):
We know about Italian opera, this is not Cajun opera.

Speaker 3 (19:45):
So now it's still done an Italian but it's taking
place at a Cajun cowboys setting where it's about the
whole opera. Donzetti's Elixir Love is about this man who's
in love with this woman in a small town and
supposedly he's given an elixir of love to make her love,
and it's the whole thing's a joke because it's actually
just a glass of wine and old and it's it's
one of these you know that a century or two later,

(20:07):
you know, would be considered a Gilbert and Sullivan kind
of farce. It's hysterical, it's a brilliant opera and it's
fun to watch. And some what we're doing differently is
New Orleans Opera is transporting Donzetti's Elixir of Love to
Western Louisiana to this Cajun cowboy appearance, and we actually
have Amanda Shaw appearing in the opera and actually playing
a Cajun fetid Dodo afterwards. Folks, it's an evening you're

(20:28):
not going to want to miss. Find out more information
at New Orleans Opera dot org. New Orleans Opera dot org.

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Speaker 4 (23:03):
It's not time for us starting this is Chaplain High mckenry.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
With Christopher did Moore And I don't know if you've
ever paid attention High. I think you have, but I
don't know if the average listener has. But every two
weeks there was a new newspaper and it's in every
Catholic parish, but it's also all around the city. It's
called the Clarion Harrold.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Isn't it the oldest church paper.

Speaker 3 (23:22):
It's not the oldest church paper, but it was one
of the largest thirty seven thousand copies each week. And
why a lot of people aware of it that aren't
Catholic is because it did a lot. Peter Finney, who
is the incredible editor of it, longtime editor, was a
sports reporter and so it always had the best sports,
high school sports coverage and these kids are academic stories

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and it did a lot of in depth stories about
not only the church but the community. It really acted
as a community newspaper.

Speaker 4 (23:48):
Newspaper.

Speaker 3 (23:49):
Well, you know, if you hadn't noticed, it's actually coming
to an end. In it says they had two.

Speaker 4 (23:56):
Sources closing everything we are. That made Ormans well, it's.

Speaker 3 (24:00):
This is this is a national problem though, I mean
when it comes to when it comes to newspapers, it's
a national problem because the way the newspaper was paid
for was it would take one percent of parish collections
out of the various parishes, and then there was a
fifteen dollars fee on every parent that send their kids
to parochial school.

Speaker 4 (24:17):
They were headquartered at the Paramore kid Bilding Worthy.

Speaker 3 (24:19):
The Clarion Harold not for several years. Anyway, long story short,
the parish, the priests of the various parishes, the pastors
have voted to discontinue that funding. And so thirty seven
thousand copies of a new of a free newspaper, Folks,
is incredibly expensive to print. There's argument since that some

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dailies don't print thirty seven thousand in a day. It's
gotten so much so one of the things, you know,
that's a shame. But what's what's worrisome about this is
that it moves on Christopher, No, it doesn't because community.
I'm going to postulate something different. I think community newspapers
unite a community. I think they unite off very important.

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I think maybe sometimes they're something as consequential as a
crime waiver, as low as a pothole. But they talk
about the things that we all agree upon and for
good or for ill. So politics is all local, Well yeah,
it's you're not. There's not a Republican or Democratic way
to pick up the trash, not really, And so they
talk a muskway. Yeah, probably probably shouldn't or my point,

(25:27):
but actually you're getting at something bigger, whether you realize
it or not. When you have a local news sources
and newspapers, by the way, are the only ones that
have ever historically been able to have beats reporters who
actually have knowledge on a particular subject. You're actually getting
less tribal in our ideologies because you're uniting neighborhoods, you're
niting communities, you're noting people in where they are. And

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now that losing the clarion, Harold, We're losing a lot
of coverage of high school sports, We're losing a lot
of coverage of issues. You know, we're we're losing a
lot of part of our soul. And this is true.
I write for another community newspaper, the Louisiana Weekly, historically
African American newspaper that's going to have it's one hundredth
birthday coming in November, and it's got struggles to survive

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in too high It's it's a small newspaper and it
faces many of the different problems. There's an interesting twenty
eleven Federal Communications report that newspapers serve as the best
medium to provide public service journalism, and it was quoted
as saying the major issues confronting communities, it gives residents
the information they need to solve their problems. Since that

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report was written, we have lost two point five newspapers
each week in the United States. Wow, two point We've
lost three thousand newspapers since two thousand alone, two twenty alone,
twenty twenty five years, and so we've lost forty three
thousand journalists. And this is one of the points is that,

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I mean, there are reasons that are big reasons. Under Nixon,
and it was continued Democrats and Republicans. We let big
corporations buy out metropolitan dailies and put their competition out
of business, and it created an advertising environment that essentially
sucked local advertising and put a lot of people out
of work. But part of this is just simply communities
not getting behind something they critically need.

Speaker 4 (27:22):
So of course you said we're losing our tribal status.

Speaker 3 (27:25):
Now, No, what's happening is we're becoming we're becoming more tribal,
more tribal. And I don't mean that is that's not
a compliment. What it means is that as we focus
on national and international issues, on all the things we
talk about, we're forgetting what we have in common as
a community. And so we're becoming a tribe. Yeah, and

(27:45):
that's not a positive thing because no, no, no, listen
to me very carefully. You haven't noticed the societies a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (27:52):
The Indians and went up like godboys and Indians. Huh
take it, Hi.

Speaker 3 (27:57):
You haven't year pastor we've gotten We've gotten a lot
or crass as a society. And what you find out
is when people argue politics on Republicans, Democrats, liberals and conservatives,
it's no longer hey, we have a disagreement. And this
has always been an element of this, but it's gotten
it's gotten much more intense on both sides to where
you can't remember that you know, this is a guy

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who would take in your trash when you're out, you're
out of town. This is your neighbor who you might
disagree with on politics, but they actually share a community.
And one of the things local news, particularly local newspapers
do is kind of remind you of what you have
in common. And sometimes it's things about you're pissed about
that you have in common, like that, who's going to
fix that damn pothole, Who's going to do something about

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the kid who are hanging out in the corner. Who's
going to do something about a local school? And I'll
give you a perfect example of the story that should
be positive and it hasn't been covered anywhere. The Claring
Harold was one of the only magazines that covered the
fact that Lise Francis, which is not a Catholic school,
it's a public charter school that teaches in French. It's
going to take over the old mcdonal on a fifteen

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campus in the French Quarter. It's gonna move to the
French Quarter and be there, so in the French Quarter
we have French language education K through twelve. Now that's
actually really important for community because it's free to go
to the school. You got to be accepted. It's charge school.
That's the kind of stories that we do. It's not
even a Catholic school, right and yet that kind of news.
I will bet you in our audience it's listening. This

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is consequential. It does the French baccalaureate program. We're gonna
talk a little bit about that next week. It does
all these things. It's a free education, a high grade education.
Middle class and upper class kids want to go to
a public school. And guess what nobody knows about it
because we don't have the sources of community community news
like we used to. And this is an example of
what I'm getting at. If it's up, folks, I'm gonna

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listen to this audience, and I'm gonna ask a question.
How many people who listen to high each and every week?
And we really appreciate our listeners, but it's free to
listen to us, whether it's iHeart or the How many
of you have a subscription to a newspaper, any newspaper?

Speaker 4 (29:57):
Not anymore?

Speaker 3 (29:58):
Nobody does. And you know what, it's kind of hard
to support journalism when nobody pays for it. There's not
enough advertising out there. We've monopolized the market to a
few national players, right, And so I hope people you'll
understand that you get the communities that you invest in.
And if you don't invest in news, you get communities

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that are ignorant of literally the person living right next
door to you. So anyway, the loss of the clarion
Harrell left to sixty three years. Even though I know
the archdiocese is going to try to do something, it's
going to be digital. It's not going to be a
print newspaper. It's not going to be regular. It's going
to lose the guys that would show up at the
high school football games and take the sources. It's going

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to lose, essentially the consistency. And that is a tragedy
for all of us.

Speaker 4 (30:44):
Yep, our world is changing because I don't like it
that it is.

Speaker 3 (30:47):
Okay, I'll give you a way that it's changing, and
I don't like either. And it's changing something that's frighteningly familiar.

Speaker 4 (30:55):
Hi have you?

Speaker 3 (30:57):
Do you remember this statement? It was given in nineteen
thirty eight. He said where major leader of a major
nation said that he doesn't want to prepare his nation
to get involved in this conflict of a choral farway
in a far away country between people whom we know nothing.

Speaker 4 (31:19):
Who said that?

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Who said that?

Speaker 4 (31:21):
From our founding fathers to recently, we've heard that from.

Speaker 3 (31:24):
Well in this case. In this case it's Nevil Chamberlain
in his major critic in the Conservative Party and in
all British politics was Winston Churchill, of course, who said
about this. He's talking about the Munich Agreement that basically
signed away the German speaking parts of Czechoslovakia and left
Czechoslovakia defenseless without a security guarantee. He said, you were

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given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor,
and you'll have war. Did you bother to notice that?
This week Trump, let me get play. Let me try
to give him a little credit. He got on the
phone for three hours and thought he had, you know,
some kind of peace agreement, and Pewtin said, I will
not bomb infrastructure, energy and all that. It took him

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six hours to break the agreement. He was laughing when
he did it, to the point where Trump came out
a day later, so let's buy all the nuclear power
plants and electricity. Maybe he will bomb us. The fact
of the matter is the only thing the Russians understand,
just like Pots, is power, brute force po and if
we're signing away the Russian speaking parts Dunensk. You know,

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the last time this happened with Germany, it also happened
with Russia. You remember it was the Hitler Stall impact
took over Poland. They don't stop when you give them
a little bit. They go in and march in a Poland.
You know, they want a little piece of Poland, a
little spot of Greece. They lot a little slice of
Turkey and a little bit of Nie. The fact is

(32:51):
we have a choice in this country, and it's the
choice essentially of del you know, not a allowing Putin
to play us or Donald Trump is a fiddle. And
I know he ran on the issue of trying to
bring peace everywhere. But I'm gonna point out, I'm gonna
point out something the very same week serio, same day

(33:12):
that this conversation is America is not making commitment to
the security of Ukraine. The very same day Donald Trump rightfully,
so I compliment him on it bombed the hoo Thies
who were bombing our shipping, who are being supplied by
whom the Russians. Right The fact in the matter is
we can't play this as a multiple choice kind of game.

(33:34):
When America steps away from the world, we end up,
stepping back with the blood of our children. And you
know this better. I mean, you're to deployment three wars.
This is this is a disastrous Donald Trump has the
choice of being America's chamberlain. The problem is I can't
or he could be a Churchill Churchill, except right now
he's being a chamberlain. He is literally saying the.

Speaker 4 (33:56):
Same words he's negotiating.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
No, he's not he's conceding Ukraine. No he's not, Yes
he is high. Oh come on, no, I mean you
say he's not. You just say he's not. He is
literally said we're not making a security sign over your medals,
and Valanski said sure, I want a security agreement. And
he was called arrogant and egotistical in the White House

(34:18):
for doing for asking that. I watched that interview. There's
nothing arrogant. It was like, wait a second. Every time
you said you'll stop them, this happened in two thousand
and seven, twenty fourteen.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
A president for the first four years, he did stop them.
Unlike Obama and Biden, who has created this entire nightmare
with Obama drawing I don't know how many red lines
that putin just walked right over and in Syria, the
same thing. D retinue to give up everything Obama along
with Biden, and then Biden comes in and does the
same thing, other than the fact that we have pumped

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billions of dollars into a war that's going nowhere.

Speaker 3 (34:55):
But wait, accomplished, Hold hold it, hold it. Wait, Here's
I keep hearing that line going nowhere competent?

Speaker 4 (35:00):
I think it is.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
First of all, let's take the two points you just said.
Donald Trump said, the red line is the energy infrastructure.
Don't bomb. It took in six hours. But let's talk
about going nowhere. One of the things. They haven't just
stopped the Russians at this border. They've actually advanced into Russia.
It is not going nowhere. It's actually been very successful
in the battle.

Speaker 4 (35:19):
And you're like, who who was very successful?

Speaker 3 (35:22):
Have you noticed that in the Kurtz region the Ukrainian
forces were advancing as long as we were sharing intelligence technology. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I mean they actually the definition of successful combat is
running the battle to the edmrch line.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
There, Christopher, let me just kind of put it like this.
When Churchill was finally was realized he was the man
for the hour, let's say, when he took over. He
didn't fix everything in a day or two. I in
a month or two. Took about four or five years
to win that war. Trump's facing that right now. He's
not going to win this thing in the next few weeks.

Speaker 4 (35:53):
You know.

Speaker 2 (35:53):
He's negotiating, and it's a give and take thing, and
he's measuring and planning way ahead of them on what
his next move will be and when it will be.
Believe me, Christopher, you're not presenting this properly.

Speaker 3 (36:06):
Really. When Churchill came into when Cherchiell came into power,
his first words, you ask us what our strategy is. Victory,
victory at all costs, victory at nalys. We will fight
them on the beaches, we will fight them on the
landing grounds. We will never surrender. That's not what Donald
Trump were saying.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
All right, come on, hi, he said it in his
first four years. He did it. Okay, So let's see
how this plays out. He has been handed a super nightmare.
In the military, we call it a soup sandwich. We
call it a it's all fou ball right now, and
that's you don't work your way out of that in
a day or two or week. It's going to take
some time to resolve all this. You're jumping too soon, Christopher,

(36:43):
just to beat up on Trump. I know what you're doing, Christopher.
I know I've seen it too long now.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
I'm genuinely scared of what of how he's sitting away
the world saying it's not our interests of a country
far away of which we know little.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
He's not saying that.

Speaker 3 (36:57):
It's his exact words. His exact way.

Speaker 4 (37:00):
Were little, they know a whole lot about the Ukraine.

Speaker 3 (37:03):
His exact words were, and I'm quoting the Ukraine is
a place far away that has no interest for us whatsoever. Okay,
how far different.

Speaker 4 (37:12):
Is that a political statement? Or is everybody's really planning.

Speaker 3 (37:14):
That's what he I can only take a person at
their word.

Speaker 2 (37:18):
Oh, Christopher, as long as you've been in politics, you've
never seen politicians say things that they don't really.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
Mean, usually when they don't want to stand up the.

Speaker 4 (37:27):
Politics. Okay, I just will say, just let's let's see
how this.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Is how far we've come, I said, Churchill from Reagan.
Trust but verify, Yeah that's not now, this this is
trust but dictator.

Speaker 4 (37:38):
No, it's not.

Speaker 3 (37:39):
Yeah, it is all right, folks, you are listening to
the Founder show here in w r O and w
s l A. I will say there is one final
positive note. We're finally getting our parades back. At Saint
Joseph's Day was looming upon us, we actually got news that, uh,
the Irish channel Saint Patrick's Day Parade is going to

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run in in Orleans Parish, and of course the replay
of the Irish Italian Parade with the truck parades is
running in Jefferson just a few hours after we do
the show for our Sunday broadcast. So at least we're
keeping our parades going in the else in America, there's
something to be said. I got it. I went out
to the Metarie Saint Patrick's Day Parade that had hit

(38:19):
August for the recks of Jefferson Parish. Goat run first
in the parade. It was the most beautiful parade day
I've ever had in my entire life. Wonder the weather
has been beyond perfect and it reminds us of what
we do really well here in Louisiana. So as we
look at these negative times, it's kind of looked good
to look at these positive times.

Speaker 2 (38:37):
So, Chris, what the world is in a very dangerous
state right now. Okay, it's it's it's in fact, it
may be the most dangerous state it's been in ever.

Speaker 7 (38:46):
So.

Speaker 2 (38:46):
As as for the powder keg we're sitting on. This
is not going to be resolved quickly or easily, No
more than Churchill saved Europe in a week or two. Okay,
It's going to take some time, some negotiating, and the
plies acquired. And we know that Trump has punched and
knocked the daylights out of Putin in the past.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
Really, Oh yeah, no, that I do not know. I'm sorry,
I already missed it. Yeah, I'm sorry I.

Speaker 2 (39:09):
Didn't When when the Russian you know, troops were moving
in Syric Trump killed them all, got them all, He
wiped them out, He took out iis Remember that Obama
said it can never be iist can never be stopped.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
Remember that.

Speaker 3 (39:22):
I remember you.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
Okay, he's taking out the hooties right now. You can
only take so maybe he can only take one bad
guy out at a time.

Speaker 4 (39:29):
You may not be able to do it all at once.

Speaker 2 (39:32):
And I don't know what you see. We don't know
what's going on behind the scenes. We do know negotiate.
We only see what they tell the public. We don't
know what's going on behind the scenes with these people.

Speaker 4 (39:41):
We don't.

Speaker 2 (39:42):
I know this, You know that with military intelligence too
long to tell me that's not so.

Speaker 3 (39:49):
I hope you're right that Donald Trump is playing three
G chess right now. He's playing shoots and ladders, all right.

Speaker 4 (39:55):
On that note, you think he is, And you know what,
I bet she wants Putin to think that too.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
On that note for us, we got to take a
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Speaker 2 (41:14):
Well, folks, we're back in this chaplain hih McHenry, and
I'm here to tell you about the biblical foundations of
America are Judeo Christian jurisprudence. So it's not time for
us to go into our chaplain. Bye by patriotic moment,
and today we want to talk about.

Speaker 4 (41:28):
Something to having to do with Churchill.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
We Churchill was in our show earlier and there's a
recent book now that's coming on. I think it's gonna
be a bestseller called The Woman That Saved Christian Civilization.
And this is about a woman named Elizabeth Everest. She's
a kind of an unknown factor in our world, let's say,
because she played she was in the background. She was

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kind of like Dorcas in the New Testament, one of
the most dynamic women. But nobody knows much about her.
This is why she's so important, why she had huge
influence on America, because Churchill himself had a huge influence
on America. And she was Churchill's nanny. She was a
devout Christian. She gave him Bible studies every day, she

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prayed with him and taught him how to pray every day.
And it turns out that years later it comes out
that Churchill relied heavily on what he learned from her
as a kid and how it affected his life, gave
him the backbone and the strength and the wisdom to
do all the amazing things he did. It has said
that Churchill save Christian civilization, but because she had such
an influence on her, this fella is positing that also

(42:38):
she can have that claim, and that makes sense.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
So I thought that one line for the book was
particularly powerful. High when he was under fire in some
remote battlefield, or entangled in troubling details. He found himself
praying the prayers he had learned that Missus Elbert.

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Speaker 2 (44:27):
Well, folks, this is a wonderful story about our country
and the biblical foundations our country. Remember now, I'll give
you stories about not just Americans. And by the way,
Churchill is an honorary American citizen and he's a rock
star here for many people in America's We consider him
to be a great patriot, and he loved America. He
saw himself as part of American because his mother was

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an American. But it's very important for us to have
this understanding of.

Speaker 4 (44:53):
Our biblical foundations.

Speaker 2 (44:54):
If we ever want to make America great again, and
we're working hard for that, we have to remember what
made America great to begin with. And you know what
it was. It was God, It was the Bible. You
hear these stories repeatedly over and over again. But I
don't have to just tell you about our founding fathers
or people in the like Reagan and anybody in our
past or even somebody today. I even take it to

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pre colonial times with Saint Brendan and the impact he
had on this country. It just goes on and on
and on of the Biblical foundations and influence on our
country and folks, this is great to know, But what
about you? Where are you and all this? You could
be the greatest biblical patriot that ever lived. And if
you died without Jesus, you'd go to Hell. And God

(45:37):
doesn't want that. He loves you the Bibles. He loves
you with everlasting love. He wants you to go to heaven.
So now we're going to go into our chaplain by
by our gospel moment, so you can find out how
you can know that, you know that, you know you
are going to heaven and you are safe from a
burning hell.

Speaker 4 (45:50):
And it goes like this.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
God knew you'd never be smart enough, rich enough, capable enough,
holy enough, religious enough, charming enough, or whatever you got going.
He knew that wouldn't never be good enough for him,
because He's perfect. His standards are so above ours. So
he knew we would never make it. So he said,
I know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make it
for him, I'm gonna become a man. God became a man.
I'm talking about God, the Son. His name is Jesus.

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He was perfect God and perfect man, all the way
man and all the way God, and still is to
this day. By the way, he's never lost his humanity.
He came to this earth to take care of this
terrible problem we have of sin and the wages of sin,
which the Scripture says, it is death that means eternal
separation from life, meaning from God. You'll never know God
in eternity. If you go to Hell, all you will

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know is all that is not God, all the darkness
and evil of the world. It'll all be right there
with you forever. Don't go there, folks, and God really
doesn't want you to go to The Bible says God
made heaven for you, didn't make Hell for you. Bayble
says God made help for sin, for devils, for death,
but sadly God's had to add something else to Hell.
The scripture says Hell as being enlarged because He didn't

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originally plan it to have humans there, but he made
us like himself, which meant we had to have a
free will. We had to be able to make choices.
Without being controlled on those choices, we would have a
free will to make choices. And the free will choice
God's asking us to make is to make it for
him and all of his love and all of his

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blessings and all of his glory and all the goodness
he has for us in heaven.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
But we have to choose it. It's given to us
as a gift.

Speaker 2 (47:26):
The Bible says we cannot earn it is impossible, So
don't even quit trying to earn it, trying to.

Speaker 4 (47:32):
Help God out. He doesn't need you help it.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
Can you use it? All you do is getting the way.
So you got to just shut down and take this
as a free gift. And when you shut down like that,
when you say I give up, I can't do it,
I'm hopeless, and help us without God, you just repented.
Jesus kept saying repent and believe. The scripture says God
is long suffering, not willing that any should perish, but
that all should come to repentance. And that word repentance

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is the most misunderstood word and holy rich the church.
It's always turned into something it is not.

Speaker 4 (48:03):
It just means.

Speaker 2 (48:04):
The original Greek word means change, your mind metanoia. But
then you got to know, we'll change your mind about
what well. God makes it so very clear in so
many passages that all of our righteousness are as filthy
rags and on and on and on, will never be
good enough for God on our own. So quit trying.
And this I'm telling you that nanosecond you do that,

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you just repented, and now you're ready to put faith
alone in Christ alone. You're ready to believe that only
God did, will and can save you from my burning
hell and guarantee you everlasting resurrection life because Jesus died
for all your sins, was buried and rose in the dead.
If you've never done this before, folks, don't wait, don't

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put it off. You may I'd get tomorrow. No one
knows I've got. I've had so many friends now that
have passed away, and totally unexpectedly they're gone now. They
didn't think they were going to die the next day
or the next week or whatever. No, you never know
when it's going to be your time, folks. Our days
are number, the scripture says, and to be absent from
the body, it's to be present with the Lord. That

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there is a judgment that we all face. You will
face God in heaven and a judgment, and you will
either go to heaven or you go to hell. Go
to heaven, folks, please make that choice for Jesus right now.
Like the old country preacher said, don't wait till it's
too late, and like the Bible says, now today is

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a day of salvation. Well, folks, now that we've completed
this part, we have one last thing to go over,
and that is we either do a testimony time or
a Watchman on the wall. And on this show, it's
time for us to go to the Watchman on the
Wall where we're going to talk about trouble times. We
talked about a trouble man for troubled times early in
the show. Well we're going into seriously troubled times.

Speaker 4 (49:52):
You heard us.

Speaker 2 (49:52):
Talking about it. The world right now is on the
verge of a complete nuclear holocaust. It could happen. It's
extremely dangerous this day. The world's in an extreme state
of danger. You got too many people out there, I
mean right now, they're a grand total of like five
I mean about seven thousand atom baum's out there right
now right now, mainly in American Russia, but others also, folks,

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if any of these countries start throwing them, it could
trigger something. It could be like a worldwide thing and
before you know, and I think you only need about
one hundred them to go up to just completely wipe
out the whole planet. You know, there's a prophecy in
that in the Bible about that happening again, it's an
eschatological message. Eschatology is a theological order. Just means future
events and time events, Biblical prophecy, the Book of Revelation,

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that's all eschatology means. Well, there's one of the prophecies
was from Jesus. He said, if I delay my return,
there'll be no flesh left. He's talking about when he
comes back the second time, and that's coming really soon.
I believe folks, you alze when he said that two
thousand years ago, it was impossible.

Speaker 4 (50:54):
How was the whole world going to die?

Speaker 3 (50:55):
Then?

Speaker 4 (50:56):
Impossible?

Speaker 2 (50:57):
And ever since then, the people who love to criticize
the Bible, up until about fifty years ago, that was
always one of the big things. Look, you see the
Bible says it's possible everybody could die. We know that
can't happen. That's impossible.

Speaker 3 (51:09):
Guess what.

Speaker 2 (51:10):
It's quite possible now. Jesus was serious when he said,
if he delays his return, there'll be no flesh left.
We have enough idiots in charge of this world. That's
sooner or later, somebody's gonna start pressing buttons and it's
over with for this world. If he doesn't come back
pretty soon, there will be no flesh left, folks. But
thank God, he is coming back. Are you ready for him?

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Are you waiting for him? Are you excited about that
He's going to be here soon? Because he is coming
back soon. There's so many prophecies. There are over two
hundred prophecies about Jesus's second coming. They're only one hundred
for us first coming. That means God's telling us the
second coming is very very important. Don't discount it. He's
coming back soon. We know that because all the prophecies

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that have been given us, just about every last one
of them are now complete. Of all two hundred and
Jesus said, when you see all these things happening, He
gave a li of about thirty semi prophecies and his
olive discourse. Jesus did he said, we see all these
things happening, I'm at the door. But they all have
to happen at the same time, Christopher, They're all happening
right now at the same time. Did you know that, Folks,

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it's all happening to get for the first time in
the istry of the world. All these prophecies are coalescing. Yeah,
we've had times the past, war's, rumors of war, epidemics
and all the things that are prophecied famines or whatever.
But now it's all coming together at the same time.
That's never happened in the history of this world. Jesus
is coming back soon. Are you ready? You better be
ready because if you're not, it's gonna be bad at

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the end, Folks, we're getting We're talking about apocalypse off
the charts. You may have seen the zombie Apocalypse and
this and that and all these crazy, uh you know,
apocalyptic movies.

Speaker 4 (52:47):
We see.

Speaker 2 (52:48):
It's gonna be worse than anything you've ever seen in
a movie. It's gonna be really bad, folks. There's only
one safe place to go. You need a safe house,
You need a bunker. You know the name of that bunker,
The Lord Jesus Christ. Right now, Trust him, believe that
he really is your savior. That he really is God,
that he died for all of your sins with Bari
and Rose dead, and that bunker's guaranteed to you. And
no matter what goes bad in the future, you're safe, folks,

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because you're with Jesus. If you've never done this before,
please do it now. It's time for us to close
the close of it or mine Saint Martin singing a
crell goodbye, and God bless you all out there.

Speaker 3 (53:25):
To call you cel goodbye.

Speaker 4 (53:31):
These think we're just wasting out the time.

Speaker 3 (53:38):
All three save

Speaker 1 (53:43):
Love me, there's time for a creo good bye.