October 22, 2024 • 54 mins
Early voting for the Nov 5 election began on Oct 18, so Hy and Christopher start the show with the message Go Vote! They interview Connie Payton, whose mother memorized and flawlessly recited the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution to earn her right to vote before the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1964, which eliminated barriers preventing millions of non-white Americans from voting. In light of the Nov. 5 election, Connie and her mother’s great grandchild, student filmmaker Daryanna Barrett, are sharing a powerful personal story in a four-minute short film, "Make Your Vote Count," now available for free and sharing on YouTube.
Then we turn to culture in this “First City of Opera” with our main guest, Raehann Bryce-Davis. The Award-winning mezzo-soprano comes to New Orleans on Oct 22 and teaches the first-ever opera masterclass of students invited from all local universities and HBCUs at Gallier Hall. An evening concert will follow at 2504 Prytania St. in the garden of Opera Guild Home at 5:30 PM—which is open to the public.
She will return to New Orleans on on November 8 and 10 in her role debut as the famed Biblical seductress in Samson and Delilah at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts. NOOA's upcoming performance of Samson and Delilah celebrates the North American premiere of the Camille Saint-Saëns work in New Orleans just over 130 years ago.
Bryce-Davis shares her expertise and perspectives as one of the world's leading African-American mezzo-sopranos with Hy and Christopher. She tells her story of how a girl with Jamacian roots who grew up in Mexico became one of the leading lights of opera. On Tuesday, October 22, 2024 to teach some of the most gifted vocal students from several local universities including Xavier, Dillard, Southeastern, UNO, Loyola, and Tulane. Afterwards her private garden concert for these students as well as patrons of the New Orleans Opera Association at 2504 Prytania St. is also open to the public. A limited number of tickets remain available at neworleansopera.org or by calling the box office at (504) 529-3000.
Here are the two excerpts which Hy and Christopher play on the show: a classical piece Azucena's aria, Condotta ell'era in ceppi from Verdi's lI Trovatore with pianist Kamal Khan at the National Opera Center, and a modern English language piece “The Beauty in my Blackness”.
Then we turn to culture in this “First City of Opera” with our main guest, Raehann Bryce-Davis. The Award-winning mezzo-soprano comes to New Orleans on Oct 22 and teaches the first-ever opera masterclass of students invited from all local universities and HBCUs at Gallier Hall. An evening concert will follow at 2504 Prytania St. in the garden of Opera Guild Home at 5:30 PM—which is open to the public.
She will return to New Orleans on on November 8 and 10 in her role debut as the famed Biblical seductress in Samson and Delilah at the Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts. NOOA's upcoming performance of Samson and Delilah celebrates the North American premiere of the Camille Saint-Saëns work in New Orleans just over 130 years ago.
Bryce-Davis shares her expertise and perspectives as one of the world's leading African-American mezzo-sopranos with Hy and Christopher. She tells her story of how a girl with Jamacian roots who grew up in Mexico became one of the leading lights of opera. On Tuesday, October 22, 2024 to teach some of the most gifted vocal students from several local universities including Xavier, Dillard, Southeastern, UNO, Loyola, and Tulane. Afterwards her private garden concert for these students as well as patrons of the New Orleans Opera Association at 2504 Prytania St. is also open to the public. A limited number of tickets remain available at neworleansopera.org or by calling the box office at (504) 529-3000.
Here are the two excerpts which Hy and Christopher play on the show: a classical piece Azucena's aria, Condotta ell'era in ceppi from Verdi's lI Trovatore with pianist Kamal Khan at the National Opera Center, and a modern English language piece “The Beauty in my Blackness”.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Bie holes, the politicians, the dressed, the digitators and magicians.
Who's to see the money then you don't. There's nothing
to fill the holes while there are feeling their pigeh kits,
pied holes, the politicians bouncing down the road. Every bider'sition
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for no more corruption and dysfunction's gone to take divine
its avention.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And God bless all out there. You are now listening
to the founders show 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 Baghasy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that old Liberty Cypress tree way out
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on the Eagles Branch. This is none other. Then you
spend gary by by the republic Chaplain High McHenry.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
With mister for Tidmore.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You're roting reporter and resident radical moderate, and we've got
a great show for you today. Christopher Tidmore, you're wroteing reporter,
resident radical moderate, Associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper
at Louisiana Weekly dot net, and I we've got a
fantastic show because early voting actually started here in Louisiana
on Friday October seventeenth, on Friday October eighteenth, and it's
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going to be running for another week and then we've got,
of course, the election coming up first Tuesday, November, and
so voting is a constant, but it's something that some
people aren't constantly doing. And that's kind of the subject
of our Internet today.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I've never understand this is the sacred duty and honor
and serious responsibility of all American citizens, legal American citizens,
and it's just tragic that so many people don't realize
the importance of this well.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And that's one of the things that our special guests
have not only voted their time and efforts, but actually
made a movie about.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Really.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, Jeff, Joe Fray and Connie Payton Neville's are joining
us via phone link and Jeff this up in YouTube.
There's this incredible, uh film about this, talk about this
if you would, would you and Connie, what did you
actually add to the body politic in this conversation about voting.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Thank you so much for asking this question and having
us on so we can talk about this important topic. Uh.
We have a film that is inspired by Connie's story
of at the age of a very young age listening
to her mother memorize the preamble to the Constitution. Really wow,
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during the Jim Crow era or just at the very
end of it, because that test was somewhat arbitrary. But
one part of the test to get the right to
vote was you had to recite that preamble. Really, so
Connie had if.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You if you're African American, not if you're white. So
that's the interesting part. Really, So this was this was
one of the literary Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, yes, So the in interviewing Connie about a book
on this era of our country but specifically in New Orleans. Connie,
who is a product of the Desire Projects, and I've
known since I was a little boy, she had told
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me that she had written this article for the Atlanta
Journal Constitution for another election going back to two thousand
and the title of that article was actually, pay respect
to Mama by casting your vote today. And so it
was all about how, you know, Connie's reflection on her
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mother working so hard to get the right to vote,
but then looking at people around her who you know,
could be taking voting for granted. So the video is
about the respect she's paying for her mother just by
the very act of voting. And we turned that into
a little film, semi animated. And I'll just say one
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more thing, which is really cool is that the film
was directed by Connie's great niece, just graduated from Loyola
Film School.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
For those who's joining us, Jeff, Joe Frang and Connie
Peytonil's are joining us talking about a new film.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's up on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You can see it about the challenges that people went
through to vote and how critical it is. Not only
is a duty but an honor. And Hi, you guys
don't know this, but our regular listeners do. Highs A
twenty year veteran, more than twenty year veteran of the
United States Special Forces, has been in three war zones.
And I'm the editor of the Louisiana Weekly, and I
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write every editorial, every endorsements every year for the last
twenty seven years, and they always start with approximately these
words in some variation, people died for the right for
you to vote. Don't give up this this sacred opportunity
or some ovasion because people will say, my vote doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I hate to tell you.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
This, in some states, in this election, it's gonna come
down to a dozen different votes.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's going to be very tight. If ever, there was.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
An example of an election where votes count regardless of
what your pre regardless what side of the political spectrum
you're on, your vote definitely counts. But it shouldn't matter
even if there was you're voting against an overwhelming majority.
The sacrifice that people made, the sacrifice, Connie, that your
mother made to go vote, should remind us of this
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sacred not only duty, but honor that we have. And
can you talk about that and what you say in
this video on YouTube exactly.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
My mother was so focused and so serious about getting
the right to vote, and watching her study the Preamble
to the Constitution, it made no sense to me. I
was in maybe the fourth or fifth grade, which is
where we were learning them out the preamble, and I
asked her about it, and she explained that in order
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to get the right to vote, she had to be
able to recite the Preamble to the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Wow, that was one of.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
A part of the tests.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
And she came back, she took her test, she went
out and she was dressed to the nines and went
to register to vote and came back strutting like a major.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Ret bless her heart out her car. Right, And that's
a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And you know, and we from a very early age,
my mama said, you vote even if your man and
make them count your vote, even if your man's not running.
And I have never missed voting never ever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't either unless yeah, in a war zone. You know,
by the way, it's been five war zones. Christo, that
wasn't disapointing. One of them is off the record, and
the other one was as a missionary in India.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Hi as a member high, as a man of the cloth.
He's actually a minister Baptistminster. And though interestingly I was like,
you know, says this is this is the this is
the prayer book and the gun. He is on both sides,
and it gives you a good perspective about liberty. But uh,
the sword of the truth, the the the importance of
voting as we as we have this and I'm sure
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most of our audience is going to vote, but if
there's a lot of people and I bring this up
regularly who feel a little bit emotionally. I get this
emotion because I feel it too. You're very disaffected by
this race. You may not like either candidate, you may
not like anyone, but the fact is, the ability and
responsibility to vote doesn't go away. Even as Connie, as
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you put it, your if your guy isn't running, if
your guy isn't there, it is. It's it's the trust
and the connection to our ancestors and those that sacrificed
and really died and used their most precious blood so
that we'd have this right.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's how we get back to them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's how it's it's it's our intergenerational promise being fulfilled.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So tell us about the video.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
How how do people see it and hear this wonderful
story Jeff, that Connie is telling you about.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yes, Well, first of all, you can go to our
website for our nonprofit, the four thirty one Exchange that's
four to three to one exchange dot org, and you'll
be able to see the video. It's featured on our website.
But you can also go to YouTube at exchange places
(08:32):
our channel or type in make my vote come and
and that should be able to bring you to the
video as well, where we also also are providing it
to and if any of your listeners are with get
out the Vote organizations, we're happy to provide it for
(08:54):
free so that they can share it on their own networks.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And there's some really good organizations out there that are
helping people get out. You sign up with them and
you get emails from them. They can explain every election
who's running and remind you and have waits for you
to check to make sure you're still on the rolls
the voting roles and all that. So it's very helpful.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And for those listening in our listening audience, whatever parish
you're in, I would point out to you it's never
been easier to vote. There each voter registration office and
the Clerk of Court's office. You can vote anytime Monday
through Saturday through next week and then also obviously on
(09:32):
election day. There's multiple opportunities to vote. Is voting for
holes are open from six o'clock in the morning to
eight o'clock at night. There's multiple times. Do not waste
the opportunity. It may not seem there's a lot of
local things in the ballot, but there's some important local
elections as well as national elections. And the only choice
that's badly made is a choice never made. So give
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out that website one more time, if you would, Jeff.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
For us, Yes, w w D dot four to three
to one exchange dot org.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Four thirty one exchange.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Jeff, would you explain for audience what four to three
to one exchange means? The background of that Why y'all
chose that name.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yes, that's the name of our nonprofit. We promote give
scholarships to adults seeking to transform their lives through education.
We advocate for adult education. Our scholars are from eighteen
to seventy five. But we're inspired by the four hundred
and thirty one graduates of a school called the Adult
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Education Center Well that ran in New Orleans between nineteen
sixty five and nineteen seventy two. It was considered one
of the most successful programs of its kind during the
War on Poverty. It graduated four hundred and thirty one
women of color, who were the first secretaries to step
into the secretarial offices of our city's national corporations like
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Texaco and Shell. But even in the offices of city
hall and state government.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Great wow, what a story that is incredible.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Jeff, Jeff Connie, thank you so much for joining us,
and we look forward to to watching the video and
spreading it around to our listening audience. We will put
a link to the video in our description on iHeartMedia
so people can just click the link and be able
to watch the video. And we look forward to it
and thank you so much for joining us. Hi mckenry,
Christopher Tidmore here on the Founder show.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
God blessed, Thank you about the great work. And guys,
go vote the LA Weekly and.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
God bless America.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Hello, I appreciate it, Thank you much.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I remember when the Louisiana Weekly was started, that.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Old oh lord, nineteen really, I'll tell us that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, we're about to celebrate our hundredth years. So if
you're that, you're you're an impressive no.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But I mean, the louis That Weekly was the only
let's give you the for thirty one story. It was
the only newspaper that covered these and it's going to school.
It was the only one that was covering the civil
rights things. And so I'm very proud to be the
associate editor of that newspaper and urge of people vote.
Thank you much, Thank you, Ghan, I appreciate it. Before
we get in our special guest, we've got famed opera
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singer and Bryce Davis is gonna be joining Hi on
nine in just a second. High it's worthwhile to talk
about a lot of people are like, you know, I
don't want to vote in this presidential election, and I
think you need to vote either way. But we forget
that there are other elections going on. So let me
give you a couple of.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Right, yeah, and these are very important folks, certainly the
national or you know, any of the maybe statewide, but
this is local and it's very important. It has it
touches us more closely in many ways than any other
kind of election.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So let me let me give you a little bit
of a background. So, if you live in Orleans Parish,
for example, right, you've got a charter amendment that goes
in to dedicate a large portion about you know, two
percent of the city budget to affordable housing. Now this
is the people have actually divided on this. The Borough
of Governmental Research thinks it's a good idea. It's basically
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providing incentives to developers to make if they get these incentives.
One third of the apartments they develop have to be
affordable housing.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So this is not like government owned housing.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
But at the same time, the Times Beginning doesn't like
it because they say it's a mandate in the city Charter.
I've looked at it and I said, you know, people
can't afford to live in New Orleans. We were going
to talk to a lot of musicians, we always talk
to theirs.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They can't.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
They're moving out of the city because they can't afford rent.
I mean, it's just getting to be absurd. So I
kind of think it's a good idea. If you're a purist,
you don't. But it's because it's incentivizing developers to build
properties that we're a third of are affordable housing. I
don't have a moral problem with that. It's something called
that corporate welfare. Just I think you got to provide
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incentives to get people to do things. Sure, but the
question is the real debate has been whether you should
put it in the charter and do we have enough
money to be able to do it in the city budget,
because this is going to take about two percent of
the city budget. Doesn't sound like much, but it's about
seventeen million dollars a year. That's a lot of police pay.
So how do you come down on that? But there's
other things that that are coming before us. My most
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interesting race and is what's going on in the New
Orleans school board for the Orleans no where I'm getting
Jefferson in St. Tammany and some of the other races
in the second. But this is something your friendly Barrios
is Interestingly, it's one of these issues that cuts across
partisan lines. If you notice New Orleans is no longer
just a charter school city, right they reopened to school
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as a directly run school. Well, it's actually the subtext
of two school board races where two of the candidates
want us to go to a fully charter system and
I'm a big support of charter schools. The other two
are saying, we ought to have a mixed system, We
ought to have some that are directly run neighborhood schools.
And it's what is the best model for public education?
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New Orleans, up until about six months ago, was the
only municipality in the country that had just charter schools. Right,
and so school you know, are they better test scores
say yes, safety says conditions say yes. On the other hand,
there's some people say, no, we by busting kids all
over town. And this is one of the questions I
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want to ask you. It used to be that the
schools within walking distance of house.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
What it meant was if you were really an impoverished area,
you didn't know anybody who had any different backgrounds, and
so the school was the stepping stone to jail for
a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Of these kids. But you deal with inner city kids.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Has the charter school system and remember these are kids
that have been displaced by hurricane storms and COVID so
I know they got other problems, But has the charter
school system had a better response? Because you're in the
third generation of these kids, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
No, we think that the charter schools have been very
destructive to our kids, inner city kids. Really, yeah, because
it's pathetic education. You're talking about the tests. The test
I've been saying so that there's been really no improvement,
and I don't know. I guess there are different tests
out there. And one of the things we we're concerned
about is that Big Brother Corporation has got into this thing.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Here.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The idea of charter school is for me, it's for
the local neighborhood to own the school and run it,
not Big Brother corporation. And yet so many of our
charter schools now control by Big Brother Corporate. They bought
them and they're doing it strictly for profit. And the
unfair I mean kids, the kids are not being tripped school, Okay, right,
there's ways they get okay, anyway, there this is an example. Okay,
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we had our kids going to a local school that
was within walking distance, a charter school, and they liked it.
And I don't know the quality of the education, but
they liked it and they were happy there. Now they're
being bussed, you know whatever, ten miles away, fifteen miles away.
They have to get it, leave, get on the bus,
like at five thirty six o'clock in the morning, they
don't get back till six o'clock a night. And to
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do that to kids, it's very destructive and they hate
it and it's wrong. And the reason they did it
is because some group got in there and got control
of their school and took it away from them, basically
to provide it for the privileged. And that's exactly what
happened with his school. Now that's not good, that's a
bad thing about charter schools. So they're not being run
the way they I think they should they from what
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we originally heard. I love the concept, but I don't
think they're following that.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You know, it's interesting when Hi brings this up. He
has the same viewpoint that my very liberal publisher of
the Louisiana Weekly does, and she.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Really respects it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
The two of you agree, and I and I and
my fellow editor, who have difference of political opinions, both
say no, the charter schools have been at positive because
look at what the conditions of the schools beforehand.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
But Christopher, what they got was they got huge federal
funding that the original schools didn't have. So yeah, the
new buildings are fantastic looking and they look great, but
you know, you can't judge a book, so let's cover
that's literally, that's literally. The physical plans are magnificent. I
can't imagine having a school like that. I grew up
here in Walmsworth.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Schools like that. No, they're falling apart my school and
I went to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
A private school. We loved it and we got a
fabulous education, but the physical plan desired much so.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
We're also going to be We have a while the
congressional races and Orleans and Jefferson aren't competitive. Both Steve
Scale and the Troy Carter have competition, but the real
competition is going to be for the sixth Congressional district race,
and we're going to have actual the congressional candidate come
on and join us here. We also, ladies and gentlemen,
there's a Court of Appeals race going on and throughout
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the parishes, and we're also going to have some other races.
We'll talk about them, but there's a lot on the ballot.
Go vote early, don't vote often, but vote early one
come out, just come and actually go vote. We'll talk
about that next week with some of the other kinds.
But when we come back, ladies and general, we are
joined by Ryan Bryce Davis, a famous operas are will
come out of the break with one of her great
operatic pieces at the at the Metropolitan Opera and talk
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Speaker 4 (20:42):
Come join us in October twenty second at twenty five
oh four Britanny Street to hear Rann Bryce Davis Hearts
on Fire concert five point thirty pm at Sunset. Tickets
available at New Orleans Opera dot org. New Orleans Opera
dot org. And here's an excerpt from Rienn's latest concert.
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And if you heard those adults at tones, ladies and gentlemen,
you were hearing one of the most famed opera singers
in the world that's actually coming here to New Orleans
and she's joining us here on the phone. But as always, Hi,
a lot of people can listen to the show all
over the place, can't they?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yes, from all over Southeast Louisiana, all the way in
the Midstpi, Gulf Coast, the North Shore, you can hear
our show, and y'all will listen up. This is going
to be quite a great story here about opera and
the current opera scene, which is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
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Speaker 2 (22:14):
As long as you can hear this show, I mean,
this show is the number one rated weekend show on
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show stations in the Golf South. So there's a hot
show folks, don't miss it. Don't miss it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Speaking of that, that's almost as hot as the star
again you are, and so hi mckenry, Christopher ted Moore
here on the program, joined by Rianne Bryce Davis. And
this is no ordinary guest, Ladies and gentlemen, in the
opera world. There is a launching shooting star. She is
quite literally the superstar coming upon it. She's currently in
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residence at the Houston Opera. She's been at the Met
on the Met stage, She's been all over the world.
She's one of the leading African American voices in opera,
and she will be making her role in stage debut
in the production of the Biblical seductress herself, Delilah in
Samson and Delilah.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You know, I'm a.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Preacher and I know that story very well, been a
Bible student since that's five years old. So I'm very
excited about this.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
We're actually offering something to a lot of churches are coming.
We've We've got all the seminarians from Saint Joseph Seminary.
We're offering any people in the churches half off to
come to this because it's such an incredible concert and
it's an honor for us, Arianne, not only to have
you come in. Our director, the director, the general and
artistic director of New Orleans Opera, Leilah Palmer, enticed you
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to come to it. But for us, it's a dual
honor because, as many people know, New Orleans is the
first city of opera in the United States. Over fourteen
major North American debuts of a major famed operas. They
are actually about sixty, but they were premiered here. But
there's over fourteen that of the most famous operas in
the world premiered made the North American Review and one
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hundred and thirty just over one hundred thirty years ago
Sincere's Samson and Delilah Samsonindian came and premiered at the
French Opera House. And this is that anniversary, and you
will be taking the stage of one of the most
famous operas that started here. And we're celebrating this and
we're so honored to have you here in New Orleans.
But what I'm honored to hear is that people are
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going to hear you up close if they want to,
because on Tuesday, the twenty second of October, you're actually
doing a concert at the Opera guild House on Britannia
twenty five six Britannia, and we'll give more information about
that so people can hear you cup close. But what
I'm most excited about is you're coming here and you're
giving of your time and your efforts to do a
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master class for many of our university students. We have
students from at Gallier Hall at their famous former city
Hall of Xavier students, Dillard students, Uno students, two Lane students,
Loyalist students, Southeastern students, all coming to learn from you
that Tuesday morning.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Wow, we're very honored to have you.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I have to ask you know, as we're praising you
and everyone heard how beautifully you sing, how did you
become an opera star? Because let me give you the
side effect. As some people on this audience know and
heard in the last segment, I'm the associated editor of
the oldest African American newspaper on the Gulf Coast. And
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when I went in and I said, you know I'm talking,
I'm excited about you, they all said, well, great.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
What does this have to do with us?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
And I said, well, forget the fact that re End's
African American and afric Jamaican to be precise, and the
entire cast is opera was brought to the United States
by black people from San Deming. And most people don't
realize that this is a creation. This is something that
the culture roots are as much black as white. And
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we say this and a lot of African Americans kind
of feel like this isn't our music and all this,
And I said, oh, contrere, if you'll forgive the French
for the French opera, it is something that we owe
to the black immigants that came here from the Caribbean,
like your forbears. And can you talk about that in
that connection?
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Sure? Well, wow, what a beautiful introduction. Uh. I'm so
happy to have this conversation with you, so excited to
be in New Orleans. It's just the wrong way to
say it. I've been told I look forward to becoming
a specialist after spending time with all of you.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Very simple lens. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Yeah, but I'm so excited to be there and share
this music. Uh, sharing about history, I mean to me.
I came to opera through musical theater. I saw a
show called Carmen Jones, which was a black cast of
a story of an opera called Carmen, and and I just,
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you know, fell in love with the music and the
voices and just how these voices that could come out
of anybody that was trained, could just fill me with
goosebumps and just make you feel something that felt supernatural.
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And that's a feeling that I feel. No matter where
you're from, no matter who you are, opera can touch
you when it's a great voice. So I'm releasing an
album soon, and I as an opera singer, am exploring
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what the intersection of opera with jazz, with afrobeats, with dancehall,
with all of these other genres can look like. And
it's another step in the direction of really joining this
gap that you've been talking about that can exist in
the conversations when people think opera's not for me. Opera
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is something that from the beginning was an experiment. You know.
It's saying, how can humanity create the most expansive, beautiful,
innovative things that we can do? And so that's something
that's continually changing. It's not something that's stuck in the past.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And we've got to say this, that opera in New Orleans,
why was it so popular? Why did all the opera's
premiere here. It was because it was popular entertainment. It
was people spoke French. They were mostly French operas like
Sincere's and people did it. And but you're hitting something.
And one of the things people saying, well, she's an
opera star. She has no connection to me.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
You have a dance album.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
You have, oh really, you have?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
You have?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You've crossed over into so many genres and yet you
sing everything from Puccini to Wagner to everything in between.
And as you're saying, sain c here on November eighth
and tenth, it is just incredible. And if I may,
you are joining us very generously on October twenty second,
Tuesday evening at the Opera guild House on Britannia that's
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twenty five oh four Britannia Street at five point thirty
pm for sense concert and you are You've got an
incredible set list that you're going to be singing for
people if they want to attend, And of course you
can get tickets at New Orleans Opera dot Org. I'm
in the shameless plug, but can you talk about some
of the different things that you like to share with people,
about what you love and the music that you sing.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Absolutely, So basically, I'm going to share with you the
journey that took me from being a business major into
this rich life as an international opera singer that I
have today. So I share with you the song that
made me fall in love with opera. I sing some
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of the repertoire that I you know, that is paying
all of my bills these days verty and some of
the co missions that I've commissioned. One of the pieces
on there is called the Black Writers Freedom Song, and
it's by a black woman composer named Maria Thompson Corley,
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and she's just incredible. She basically wrote a song for
black cowboys. So you hear the Western vibes in there,
but it's through an operatic lens, and you'll hear my pianist,
Gordon Shermer will give you all of these You hear
almost like hoof beats riding and the wind blowing in
your hair. So we go through all of these different
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genres of music that means so much to me and
kind of as my introduction of myself to the city.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And so it's.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
And we're looking forward to having you, ladies and gentlemen
You can get tickets to this by going to New
Orleans Opera dot org and just clicking if it's the
very first thing you see on the website. And it'll
be at five thirty on Tuesday night, October twenty second,
twenty twenty four. And it's a Champagne guarner, so you
can have a champagn or a glass of wine as
part of your ticket. Come and sit in the garden
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the Opera guild House and have this wonderful evening with
Rhianne Bryce Day if you would. For a lot of
young people, and I wonder, you know, we've got a lot.
We do have a varied audience, but for a lot
of young people that listen to us, they look at
you know, well, opera is an old and stage thing,
and you brought up the most key point. It is
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the root of so much of what we do modern
music today. We did a fun thing for Tosca at
the New Orleans Opera. It was kind of we took
all of the cartoons that the opera influenced, and the
music that comes through what we think of as very
old music from the nineteenth century or eighteenth century is
actually the roots of modern music today. It's this intersection
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is not as weird as people think about it. Can
you talk about that a little bit?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Absolutely? I feel like cartoons were a huge part of
how my generation experienced great pieces uh for the first time.
But today we have folks like Laverne Cox Divo that
she is like, she's experimenting a lot with opera. She
she she did a music video of a trap version
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of Summertime and told you does mention a German leader.
You know, everybody is experimenting these days. Beyonce has a
country album, you know who else? All drag in opera
is huge. There's there's so much experimentation and you don't
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have to look at Christina Aguilera has a hip hopera
song that's like trending on TikTok right now. You know,
you don't have to look far anymore. People. Opera is
now and it's interesting and it's exotic and everybody's exciting
excited about it hasn't reached its climax yet. It's still
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on the fringes. But opera is having a moment. Actually,
somebody just did an argument. I think it was Forbes
that was saying opera is having a moment. In pop
culture right now, and so folks need to get on
the bandwagon, like come check us out, see what's happening
in all.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
And I think, and of course, just let me do
one more shameless plug. October twenty second. Man, it's going
to be in a concert. You can get tickets by
going to New Orleans Opera dot org or calling the
box office for those that are less Internet savvy at
five oh four five two nine three thousand. That's five
oh four five to nine three thousand. And she'll be
in concert at October twenty second, or and or hopefully
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you'll come. You can come see her perform as Delilah
at the Mahaia Jackson Theater on November eighth and tenth
Friday and a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
So go ahead, Hi, Yeah, I was just going to say,
being such a great female vocalist, you're going to be
in an auditorium named after maybe the greatest of all
that's Maharia jack And she was awesome. I mean, I
just can't go and tell you how an amazing vote
singer she was. Now, she only did gospel. They tried
to get her to do all kinds of other genres.
She would turn it down, she said no, God called
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her just to do gospel, and with that she still
became one of the top record of salespeople and in
the history of music. I mean, she's just amazing story,
what a great gown.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yet, well, I have to say something.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
The interesting thing about this particular role, and the funny
thing about Samson Delilah in this particular production is it
is the illumination of the Biblical story writ large, and it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Is incredible story.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
So if you've never been to an opera, not only
is the music beautiful, it's not an impenetrable Italian tale.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's something.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
It's a story, you know, and it seems very much.
And I've got to say, in some of the stuff
I've seen that you're gonna be performing, it's just people
are gonna be holding onto their chairs of the Midhelia
Jackson Theater as your voice launches them across the room.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
So and by the way, preachers there there's from one
preacher to another. Remember, you all get in for free,
and your congregation gets a special discount. So you better
check this out. Yeah, were of the cloth, men and
ladies of the cloth.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
We're inviting men of the cloth and their wives or
vice versa, to come and be our guest and to
share with their their congregations a special deal which will
have available where they get where congregations if they If
they do, we'll have a discount because we want them
to come. But we want everybody to come to this
and ladies and gentlemen and see this incredible opera at
the Mehey Jackson Theater. So with that, I want to say, Ran,
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it's been a privilege having you on and and we're
looking forward to uh to once we have you here
in New Orleans for this role in stage debut.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
We're not gonna let you go.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
We want you back here a lot because you're just
that good and all this. And to the young woman
who's listening out there, you've talked about how this is on,
how this is innovative opera. Is this but someone who
started out in musical theater like yours, it's just just
likes to sing. What do you what hope do you
give that young girl and say to look at a
career in opera? What would you what would you say
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to that young girl who is much like you?
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Well, I would say, never forget why you sing. Always
make music that is meaningful to you and connect with
people who know the way, because there are a lot
of obstacles in a road in a classical career, and
so you always need to find somebody who can tell
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you how to jump over.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It, you know.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
To me, find find your mentors and follow your heart.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
To me, one of the greatest I would this would
be a great obstacle for me, at least the fact
that you have to learn Italian and you're giving the
songs an Italian, which.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Is except this is Italian and French and several in German.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
So this is some Saint Sea's saety languages and many others.
But Sampson Delilah is in French. It's a French opera.
That's why I premiered here because everybody spoke French. It
was like this, yeah, so you've got to be a
Linguis is that difficult for you, Rhanne, because it's not
one or two? My grandmother was not for singer, and
she had she spoke about six languages my level, because
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you had to.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You had to learn it to to do the roles
you do.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
I actually went. I was born in Mexico. My family
is Jamaican, but they were in school in Mexico when
I was born. So I took a while to start
speaking myself because I would hear Patwa at home, I
would hear Spanish outside, I would hear Portuguese with friends,
and so I was just observing all of the chaos
around me, like, huh exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And I remember those days myself when I was in Mexico.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Oh okay, but yeah, So being around languages has always
been a part of my life. And it's beautiful to
be able to pop into Italy or France, or Germany
or South Africa and just appreciate all of the new
sounds around you and jump in and make a fool
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of yourself and you know, get to know rich new cultures.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
We look forward to illuminating this particular cultural exercise of
Samson Delilah November eighth and tenth at the Mahe Jackson Theater,
and we are hoping those in our audience will go
to join us on October twenty second at the Opera
guild House on Britannia Street. And you can find out
more information by going to New Orleans Opera dot org
or calling our box office area code five oh four
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three five two nine three thousand and come join us
and meet Ran in person for a Champagne concert and
reception at on Tuesday, October twenty second at twenty five
oh four Pritannia Street in the Garden District of New Orleans.
And it has been a great privilege to have you
on the area. You've got to final thought.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Hi, Yeah, just Ran one thing that's for me. It's
very interesting. One of my ancestors that actually fought in
the Battle of New Orleans. An early arrival came with
the Haitian migration. I call it the Haitian migration in
a New Orleans. Their name was Santana. So I have
connections with the Caribbean also, and I guess you know this.
New Orleans is considered to be the northernmost Caribbean city
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Yeah, we are, we are. We do claim the Caribbean.
Whether the Caribbean claims us becomes one of those questions.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
But the Kuran is very musical, and so are we
so interesting.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
I mean the roots of opera, the roots of the bamboola,
the roots that we think of as music is basically
because of the Sandaming Haitian immigration into New Orleans. It's
the reason we kept speaking French till the eighteen seventies,
and it's we're very glad another Caribbean import is coming
via Mexico and Houston to us here in New Orleans
with you around Bryce Davis, who is joining us in
October twenty second for this concert at the Opera guild
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House and then on November eighth and tenth. We look
forward to meeting you and seeing it and chatting with
you further.
Speaker 7 (39:49):
Thanks so much. Well, I'll sing some French and I'll
sing some Jamaican folk songs.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Fantastic, can't wait. Oh and by the way, just love
Caribbean music.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I'm being reminded by our producer. For those that don't know,
if you want to come to the Opera to Samson Delilah. Yes,
it's in French, but they have English subtitles above you,
so you do know what's going on. Somebody's like, I
assume that everybody knows that, but they don't know that
all ran.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Have you ever heard of zydaco or Cajun music here?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I think she might have.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
I've heard of it that I look forward to hearing
some authentic.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yes, have you actually listened to it. You may have
heard of it, but have you actually listened to it.
I'm not sure if you need to do that. It's
an experience. I do that every week. I work out
of the gym. I'm dancing all of the gym from
my Xytaco and Cagun music and I love it. It's
just magnificent. You'll love it. Just google it. You can
get it. You know, listen to a little.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Imagine five tonal music with French country music, merge with
the bamboola and you get an idea of the crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Going back to the Middle Ages in France. It's that
the music goes that far back.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
So anyway, on that note, Rand Bryce David, thank you
for joining us. More information on tickets at New Orleans
Opera dot org. And we're gonna have a little bit
more of your music as we go into the break.
We'll be back ladies and gentlemen after this wonderful next edition. Rihanne,
Bryce Davis, bad thank you, but hi. Not everything that
Rihanne sings is an Italian or French. This is from
her album The Beauty of My Blackness, and it is
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a beautiful, beautiful tale.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
I'll be using in a back seasoned using blacks isn't
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Speaker 2 (44:05):
Well, folks, we're back and you are listening to the
Founder's show, the Voice of the Finding Fathers, and it
is now time for us to go into our chaplain.
Bye bye, and that is yours truly myself, Hi mc henry,
our chaplain by by patriotic moment where we just take
a short time to give you a little history lesson
on the biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence.
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And today we want to talk about a great orator.
Think of it, folks. Opera has to do with oration,
but it's musical oration primarily sometimes just words, but usually musical.
And so this guy was one of the greatest orators
of American history. He was considered to be the greatest
trial lawyer of his day. If you need, if you
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had a tough case, you called on Patrick Henry, known
as the orator of the American Revolution. Remember give me liberty,
to give me death? Oh, Patrick Henry a good irishman.
When he was asked how did America win against overwhelming odds.
I mean, there was no chance we could have won
that war. It was impossible. In fact, by the time
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of Valley Forge, every expert considered that the war was over.
The Americans were just basically done in. They had nothing
left to fight to give, and yet we hung on
and we fought and finally shocking the entire world. In fact,
one of the famous British parliamentarians and generals and one
said that this has turned the world upside down, that
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we could win against such overwhelming odds. Well, they asked
Patrick Henrytt, Then how do we succeed? How did we
win against such impossible situations? How did we do it?
And he actually quoted a quote from his uncle, who
was a Lutheran minister. He used that thought that he
had learned I'm sure to learn from his uncle. And
he said, America did not win because of its And
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he said this cannot be too overly emphasized or often
state America did not win because of religion or by religionists.
Oh my god, you say to I thought this was
about Bible based, you know, Christian origins of America. Hear
the rest of the quote. He said, the only reason America.
Win was one was because of its evangelical faith and
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the redeemer of this world, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, folks,
when you hear that, what I hear is a very
powerful message of grace, which is critically important if you're
ever going to come to know God. And it shows
that the man was deep in his theology. He really
understood the word of God. Think of the influence he had,
his biblical influence over this country. He was one of many.
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Believe me, you hear it every show. I mean, they're
like over twenty thousand documents, original documents, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, etc.
That prove the biblical foundations of America to the extreme,
I mean to the extreme. In time does not allow
me to go into all that right now. But I
mentioned just a few seconds ago about how Patrick Henry
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understood grace. What is grace, Well, grace means gift, that's
all it means. It means. And as we're talking about
that now, it's going to be time for us to
go into our chaplain Bye bye gospel moment where I
just took another brief short period to show you how
you can know that you know that you know you know, God,
you're saved from hell and you're guaranteed heaven. Folks, that's
the most important thing that can ever happen to you.
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There's nothing more important than that. Believe me, When you
cross over to the other side, you will realize what
I'm saying, whether you're born again or not, whether you're
going to heaven or going to hell, you will realize
at that point, boy, that was the most important thing
of life, of all life, of all life. Why didn't
I get my eternal life? Or you'll be saying, oh,
praise the Lord, I got my eternal life. Don't you
want to be on that side, folks, the ones who
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are excited and happy that they have eternal life, that
they have been born again. What does that word born
again mean? Strange word, but Jesus used it. It's found
throughout the New Testament and it planning simply means your
dead and dying spirit has now become fully alive and
alive forever. Remember, the people in hell are going to
only know death, but they're going to know existence. That's
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a bizarre thing about it. They're gonna they can be
like zombies, the walking dead. They're gonna have memories the
Bible teaches us, tells us the stories of what they're
like in hell. Uh. They're gonna have, Uh, They're gonna
have desires, they're gonna have they're gonna know what pain is.
Speaker 8 (48:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
They're gonna have memories where they have to remember all
the dumb things they did. It's gonna be a terrible place, folks.
I can't describe you the horrors of hell, just like
I really came to describe you the greatness of heaven.
The Bible says, I've not seen or heard the things
that God has prepared for those who love Him and
who are the called according to His purpose. Heaven's gonna
be fantastic. It's so great. I can't even tell you
about how great it's gonna be. And that's where God
wants you to be. And honestly, folks, that's where I
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want you to be. I hope, like anything, everybody's hearing
this message gets it because it's simple. It was designed
for children. In fact, jesusaid, unless you come as a
little child, you shall have no wives enter in. So
what is this secret? If you will? Because God calls
it a secret. So I'm gonna reveal the secret of
the gospel, the mystery of the gospel, and the word
gospel planning simply means good news, glad tidings. Don't you like?
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I love good news. Saints won Super Bowl? Oh that
was great news, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Folks?
Speaker 2 (48:59):
We need we need good news. Good news is so
good to have. So this is the good news. And
the scripture also says that the gospel is the power
of God unto salvation to whosover believeth. And it tells
us what the gospel is for. I declare to you
the gospel that Jesus died for all of our sins
according to the scripture, that he was buried, and that
he rose from the dead according to the scripture. That's
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plain and simply the gospel. That's simple death, barrel resurrection.
He remember, he died for all sin. That means, folks,
I'm talking about from the day you're born to the
day you die, your tiniest der greatest sins. The scripture says,
ms all washed away with the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now, how do you take this gift? You
got to take a gift if you want to get
it right. If I give you a million dollars cash
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and hold it out to you. But you don't take it,
You'll never get it. You have to actually grab it. Well,
there's a spiritual way to grab the Gospel, you believe.
It's just that simple design for children. Unless you come
as a little child, you still know why's entre in
you just plain and simply believe. The scripture says, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and now shalt be said, believe.
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Can you do that? Can you believe that Jesus really
did die for all your sins, was buried in Rosmund
dead because he did, and he did it for you.
It's got to be just for you.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
You can't do this for your children, your parents, your
best friends or whatever. God only has children, He has
no grandchildren. Your father could be Billy Graham or some
great religious person. It doesn't matter. You don't get in
on that person. You only get in with direct contact
with Christ when you trust him and believe with him
with all of your heart, all of your heart. Well,
how do you do that? It's really simple, folks. All
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of your heart means you quit trusting in yourself. You
give up thinking that you can do something good. You
can do good words, turn from your sins, clean up
your life, do penance, say special prayers, special ceremonies, get baptized,
on and on, so a long list of things you
could be. Oh, maybe just because you're so cool and charming. No,
none of that gets you into heaven. You've got to
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realize that's all garbage to God. It doesn't work. All
of your righteous the scripture says, are as filthy recks.
So what do you have left? Only belief? When you
give up on all that. And when you give up
on all that, that I just the aforementioned that means
you've just repented. That's what repentance is. It's the word
in Greek metaonoi means change your mind. You finally change
your mind by believing you can't save yourself. You're hopeless
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and help us without God, destined to a burning hell.
When you come to that point in your life, and
that will humble you, the scripture says, God resisteth the problem,
give grace to the humble. When you get to that
point in your life, you're free now to put faith
alone in Christ alone, and to believe that only He
can get you into heaven, because He is the key man. Here, So, folks,
you've never done this before, please do it now. Don't
wait till it's too late, like the old country preacher
(51:35):
used to say, and like the Word of God says,
now today is a day of salvation. And folks, by
the way, speaking about time, we're in troubling times right now,
I personally think we're in the end. I think Jesus
coming back very very, very very soon. There are many,
many signs, are over two hundred prophecies. Obviously we don't
have time to go them all. I'm trying to get
them all in before the Lord returns. So I do
one of you know, every week. So here's going to
be a short one. The Bible says, in the end
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it will be like in the days of Noo. Well,
what were the days of Noel?
Speaker 8 (51:59):
Like?
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Well, sin was so rampant and so terrible that God
had to kill every human being except for one family
that he declared as righteous in his generation. And if
you go to the Hebrew, that means his his Dna
was righteous. It had not been corrupted. What was being corrupted? Well,
the scripture says that angels cohabited with human women and
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produced a vile demonic offspring, sometimes called watchers, sometimes called
Nephelim giants. They were. I think they're found in all
of the pagan deities you see pictures. Half men have humans,
I mean humans have half animals and whatnot. And they
had corrupted the entire Dna God. That's why God had
to kill everybody. It was the end for the human race.
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But this small group, this small family, Noah, his wife,
and his three boys and their wives, grand total of
eight people, they made it. Folks, it's getting to be
like that now. They're going to be a lot more
than eight people that God will save out of this
terrible time. But folks, you better get on the gospel train,
like the old old rock and roll singer used to sing,
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Curtis Mayfield, you better get on that train. It's a
great song. By the way, if you're not on it,
when Jesus comes back, you're finished. Get on it now, folks.
Don't wait till it's too late. Get on it right now.
He's the greatest safe I she'll ever get in these
troubling times that are coming. The end is near, folks,
I promise you you'll see it. It's all unfolding right
now before So do you. Look at all the turmoil
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in the world right now, you can see it. Look
at what's going on in the Middle East right now. Well,
folks at it is time for us to close. As
we close of the mind, Saint Martin singing a creole
goodbye and God bless you all out there.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Does this have to be the end of the night?
Speaker 3 (53:44):
You know I love you.
Speaker 7 (53:46):
In the pamal Land, I can
Speaker 1 (53:51):
See across the million stars when I look at
Bie holes, the politicians, the dressed, the digitators and magicians.
Who's to see the money then you don't. There's nothing
to fill the holes while there are feeling their pigeh kits,
pied holes, the politicians bouncing down the road. Every bider'sition
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for no more corruption and dysfunction's gone to take divine
its avention.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
And God bless all out there. You are now listening
to the founders show 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 Baghasy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up
on top of that old Liberty Cypress tree way out
(00:52):
on the Eagles Branch. This is none other. Then you
spend gary by by the republic Chaplain High McHenry.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
With mister for Tidmore.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
You're roting reporter and resident radical moderate, and we've got
a great show for you today. Christopher Tidmore, you're wroteing reporter,
resident radical moderate, Associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper
at Louisiana Weekly dot net, and I we've got a
fantastic show because early voting actually started here in Louisiana
on Friday October seventeenth, on Friday October eighteenth, and it's
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going to be running for another week and then we've got,
of course, the election coming up first Tuesday, November, and
so voting is a constant, but it's something that some
people aren't constantly doing. And that's kind of the subject
of our Internet today.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
I've never understand this is the sacred duty and honor
and serious responsibility of all American citizens, legal American citizens,
and it's just tragic that so many people don't realize
the importance of this well.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
And that's one of the things that our special guests
have not only voted their time and efforts, but actually
made a movie about.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Really.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
Yeah, Jeff, Joe Fray and Connie Payton Neville's are joining
us via phone link and Jeff this up in YouTube.
There's this incredible, uh film about this, talk about this
if you would, would you and Connie, what did you
actually add to the body politic in this conversation about voting.
Speaker 5 (02:11):
Thank you so much for asking this question and having
us on so we can talk about this important topic. Uh.
We have a film that is inspired by Connie's story
of at the age of a very young age listening
to her mother memorize the preamble to the Constitution. Really wow,
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during the Jim Crow era or just at the very
end of it, because that test was somewhat arbitrary. But
one part of the test to get the right to
vote was you had to recite that preamble. Really, so
Connie had if.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
You if you're African American, not if you're white. So
that's the interesting part. Really, So this was this was
one of the literary Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
Yes, yes, So the in interviewing Connie about a book
on this era of our country but specifically in New Orleans. Connie,
who is a product of the Desire Projects, and I've
known since I was a little boy, she had told
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me that she had written this article for the Atlanta
Journal Constitution for another election going back to two thousand
and the title of that article was actually, pay respect
to Mama by casting your vote today. And so it
was all about how, you know, Connie's reflection on her
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mother working so hard to get the right to vote,
but then looking at people around her who you know,
could be taking voting for granted. So the video is
about the respect she's paying for her mother just by
the very act of voting. And we turned that into
a little film, semi animated. And I'll just say one
(04:09):
more thing, which is really cool is that the film
was directed by Connie's great niece, just graduated from Loyola
Film School.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Oh, that's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
For those who's joining us, Jeff, Joe Frang and Connie
Peytonil's are joining us talking about a new film.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
It's up on YouTube.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
You can see it about the challenges that people went
through to vote and how critical it is. Not only
is a duty but an honor. And Hi, you guys
don't know this, but our regular listeners do. Highs A
twenty year veteran, more than twenty year veteran of the
United States Special Forces, has been in three war zones.
And I'm the editor of the Louisiana Weekly, and I
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write every editorial, every endorsements every year for the last
twenty seven years, and they always start with approximately these
words in some variation, people died for the right for
you to vote. Don't give up this this sacred opportunity
or some ovasion because people will say, my vote doesn't count.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
I hate to tell you.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
This, in some states, in this election, it's gonna come
down to a dozen different votes.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
It's going to be very tight. If ever, there was.
Speaker 4 (05:15):
An example of an election where votes count regardless of
what your pre regardless what side of the political spectrum
you're on, your vote definitely counts. But it shouldn't matter
even if there was you're voting against an overwhelming majority.
The sacrifice that people made, the sacrifice, Connie, that your
mother made to go vote, should remind us of this
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sacred not only duty, but honor that we have. And
can you talk about that and what you say in
this video on YouTube exactly.
Speaker 6 (05:44):
My mother was so focused and so serious about getting
the right to vote, and watching her study the Preamble
to the Constitution, it made no sense to me. I
was in maybe the fourth or fifth grade, which is
where we were learning them out the preamble, and I
asked her about it, and she explained that in order
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to get the right to vote, she had to be
able to recite the Preamble to the Constitution.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Wow, that was one of.
Speaker 7 (06:12):
A part of the tests.
Speaker 6 (06:13):
And she came back, she took her test, she went
out and she was dressed to the nines and went
to register to vote and came back strutting like a major.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
Ret bless her heart out her car. Right, And that's
a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing that. Thank you.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
And you know, and we from a very early age,
my mama said, you vote even if your man and
make them count your vote, even if your man's not running.
And I have never missed voting never ever.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't either unless yeah, in a war zone. You know,
by the way, it's been five war zones. Christo, that
wasn't disapointing. One of them is off the record, and
the other one was as a missionary in India.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
That's true.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Hi as a member high, as a man of the cloth.
He's actually a minister Baptistminster. And though interestingly I was like,
you know, says this is this is the this is
the prayer book and the gun. He is on both sides,
and it gives you a good perspective about liberty. But uh,
the sword of the truth, the the the importance of
voting as we as we have this and I'm sure
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most of our audience is going to vote, but if
there's a lot of people and I bring this up
regularly who feel a little bit emotionally. I get this
emotion because I feel it too. You're very disaffected by
this race. You may not like either candidate, you may
not like anyone, but the fact is, the ability and
responsibility to vote doesn't go away. Even as Connie, as
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you put it, your if your guy isn't running, if
your guy isn't there, it is. It's it's the trust
and the connection to our ancestors and those that sacrificed
and really died and used their most precious blood so
that we'd have this right.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's how we get back to them.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It's how it's it's it's our intergenerational promise being fulfilled.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So tell us about the video.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
How how do people see it and hear this wonderful
story Jeff, that Connie is telling you about.
Speaker 5 (08:10):
Yes, Well, first of all, you can go to our
website for our nonprofit, the four thirty one Exchange that's
four to three to one exchange dot org, and you'll
be able to see the video. It's featured on our website.
But you can also go to YouTube at exchange places
(08:32):
our channel or type in make my vote come and
and that should be able to bring you to the
video as well, where we also also are providing it
to and if any of your listeners are with get
out the Vote organizations, we're happy to provide it for
(08:54):
free so that they can share it on their own networks.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
And there's some really good organizations out there that are
helping people get out. You sign up with them and
you get emails from them. They can explain every election
who's running and remind you and have waits for you
to check to make sure you're still on the rolls
the voting roles and all that. So it's very helpful.
Speaker 4 (09:12):
And for those listening in our listening audience, whatever parish
you're in, I would point out to you it's never
been easier to vote. There each voter registration office and
the Clerk of Court's office. You can vote anytime Monday
through Saturday through next week and then also obviously on
(09:32):
election day. There's multiple opportunities to vote. Is voting for
holes are open from six o'clock in the morning to
eight o'clock at night. There's multiple times. Do not waste
the opportunity. It may not seem there's a lot of
local things in the ballot, but there's some important local
elections as well as national elections. And the only choice
that's badly made is a choice never made. So give
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out that website one more time, if you would, Jeff.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
For us, Yes, w w D dot four to three
to one exchange dot org.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Four thirty one exchange.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Jeff, would you explain for audience what four to three
to one exchange means? The background of that Why y'all
chose that name.
Speaker 5 (10:12):
Yes, that's the name of our nonprofit. We promote give
scholarships to adults seeking to transform their lives through education.
We advocate for adult education. Our scholars are from eighteen
to seventy five. But we're inspired by the four hundred
and thirty one graduates of a school called the Adult
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Education Center Well that ran in New Orleans between nineteen
sixty five and nineteen seventy two. It was considered one
of the most successful programs of its kind during the
War on Poverty. It graduated four hundred and thirty one
women of color, who were the first secretaries to step
into the secretarial offices of our city's national corporations like
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Texaco and Shell. But even in the offices of city
hall and state government.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Great wow, what a story that is incredible.
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Jeff, Jeff Connie, thank you so much for joining us,
and we look forward to to watching the video and
spreading it around to our listening audience. We will put
a link to the video in our description on iHeartMedia
so people can just click the link and be able
to watch the video. And we look forward to it
and thank you so much for joining us. Hi mckenry,
Christopher Tidmore here on the Founder show.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yes, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
God blessed, Thank you about the great work. And guys,
go vote the LA Weekly and.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
God bless America.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Hello, I appreciate it, Thank you much.
Speaker 6 (11:39):
I remember when the Louisiana Weekly was started, that.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
Old oh lord, nineteen really, I'll tell us that.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Yeah, we're about to celebrate our hundredth years. So if
you're that, you're you're an impressive no.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
But I mean, the louis That Weekly was the only
let's give you the for thirty one story. It was
the only newspaper that covered these and it's going to school.
It was the only one that was covering the civil
rights things. And so I'm very proud to be the
associate editor of that newspaper and urge of people vote.
Thank you much, Thank you, Ghan, I appreciate it. Before
we get in our special guest, we've got famed opera
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singer and Bryce Davis is gonna be joining Hi on
nine in just a second. High it's worthwhile to talk
about a lot of people are like, you know, I
don't want to vote in this presidential election, and I
think you need to vote either way. But we forget
that there are other elections going on. So let me
give you a couple of.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Right, yeah, and these are very important folks, certainly the
national or you know, any of the maybe statewide, but
this is local and it's very important. It has it
touches us more closely in many ways than any other
kind of election.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
So let me let me give you a little bit
of a background. So, if you live in Orleans Parish,
for example, right, you've got a charter amendment that goes
in to dedicate a large portion about you know, two
percent of the city budget to affordable housing. Now this
is the people have actually divided on this. The Borough
of Governmental Research thinks it's a good idea. It's basically
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providing incentives to developers to make if they get these incentives.
One third of the apartments they develop have to be
affordable housing.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So this is not like government owned housing.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
But at the same time, the Times Beginning doesn't like
it because they say it's a mandate in the city Charter.
I've looked at it and I said, you know, people
can't afford to live in New Orleans. We were going
to talk to a lot of musicians, we always talk
to theirs.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
They can't.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
They're moving out of the city because they can't afford rent.
I mean, it's just getting to be absurd. So I
kind of think it's a good idea. If you're a purist,
you don't. But it's because it's incentivizing developers to build
properties that we're a third of are affordable housing. I
don't have a moral problem with that. It's something called
that corporate welfare. Just I think you got to provide
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incentives to get people to do things. Sure, but the
question is the real debate has been whether you should
put it in the charter and do we have enough
money to be able to do it in the city budget,
because this is going to take about two percent of
the city budget. Doesn't sound like much, but it's about
seventeen million dollars a year. That's a lot of police pay.
So how do you come down on that? But there's
other things that that are coming before us. My most
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interesting race and is what's going on in the New
Orleans school board for the Orleans no where I'm getting
Jefferson in St. Tammany and some of the other races
in the second. But this is something your friendly Barrios
is Interestingly, it's one of these issues that cuts across
partisan lines. If you notice New Orleans is no longer
just a charter school city, right they reopened to school
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as a directly run school. Well, it's actually the subtext
of two school board races where two of the candidates
want us to go to a fully charter system and
I'm a big support of charter schools. The other two
are saying, we ought to have a mixed system, We
ought to have some that are directly run neighborhood schools.
And it's what is the best model for public education?
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New Orleans, up until about six months ago, was the
only municipality in the country that had just charter schools. Right,
and so school you know, are they better test scores
say yes, safety says conditions say yes. On the other hand,
there's some people say, no, we by busting kids all
over town. And this is one of the questions I
(15:10):
want to ask you. It used to be that the
schools within walking distance of house.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Right.
Speaker 4 (15:15):
What it meant was if you were really an impoverished area,
you didn't know anybody who had any different backgrounds, and
so the school was the stepping stone to jail for
a lot.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Of these kids. But you deal with inner city kids.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Has the charter school system and remember these are kids
that have been displaced by hurricane storms and COVID so
I know they got other problems, But has the charter
school system had a better response? Because you're in the
third generation of these kids, what do you think.
Speaker 2 (15:39):
No, we think that the charter schools have been very
destructive to our kids, inner city kids. Really, yeah, because
it's pathetic education. You're talking about the tests. The test
I've been saying so that there's been really no improvement,
and I don't know. I guess there are different tests
out there. And one of the things we we're concerned
about is that Big Brother Corporation has got into this thing.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Here.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
The idea of charter school is for me, it's for
the local neighborhood to own the school and run it,
not Big Brother corporation. And yet so many of our
charter schools now control by Big Brother Corporate. They bought
them and they're doing it strictly for profit. And the
unfair I mean kids, the kids are not being tripped school, Okay, right,
there's ways they get okay, anyway, there this is an example. Okay,
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we had our kids going to a local school that
was within walking distance, a charter school, and they liked it.
And I don't know the quality of the education, but
they liked it and they were happy there. Now they're
being bussed, you know whatever, ten miles away, fifteen miles away.
They have to get it, leave, get on the bus,
like at five thirty six o'clock in the morning, they
don't get back till six o'clock a night. And to
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do that to kids, it's very destructive and they hate
it and it's wrong. And the reason they did it
is because some group got in there and got control
of their school and took it away from them, basically
to provide it for the privileged. And that's exactly what
happened with his school. Now that's not good, that's a
bad thing about charter schools. So they're not being run
the way they I think they should they from what
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we originally heard. I love the concept, but I don't
think they're following that.
Speaker 4 (17:11):
You know, it's interesting when Hi brings this up. He
has the same viewpoint that my very liberal publisher of
the Louisiana Weekly does, and she.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Really respects it.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
The two of you agree, and I and I and
my fellow editor, who have difference of political opinions, both
say no, the charter schools have been at positive because
look at what the conditions of the schools beforehand.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
But Christopher, what they got was they got huge federal
funding that the original schools didn't have. So yeah, the
new buildings are fantastic looking and they look great, but
you know, you can't judge a book, so let's cover
that's literally, that's literally. The physical plans are magnificent. I
can't imagine having a school like that. I grew up
here in Walmsworth.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Schools like that. No, they're falling apart my school and
I went to.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
A private school. We loved it and we got a
fabulous education, but the physical plan desired much so.
Speaker 4 (17:59):
We're also going to be We have a while the
congressional races and Orleans and Jefferson aren't competitive. Both Steve
Scale and the Troy Carter have competition, but the real
competition is going to be for the sixth Congressional district race,
and we're going to have actual the congressional candidate come
on and join us here. We also, ladies and gentlemen,
there's a Court of Appeals race going on and throughout
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the parishes, and we're also going to have some other races.
We'll talk about them, but there's a lot on the ballot.
Go vote early, don't vote often, but vote early one
come out, just come and actually go vote. We'll talk
about that next week with some of the other kinds.
But when we come back, ladies and general, we are
joined by Ryan Bryce Davis, a famous operas are will
come out of the break with one of her great
operatic pieces at the at the Metropolitan Opera and talk
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to her live here on the Founder Show with Hi
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Speaker 4 (20:42):
Come join us in October twenty second at twenty five
oh four Britanny Street to hear Rann Bryce Davis Hearts
on Fire concert five point thirty pm at Sunset. Tickets
available at New Orleans Opera dot org. New Orleans Opera
dot org. And here's an excerpt from Rienn's latest concert.
(21:28):
And if you heard those adults at tones, ladies and gentlemen,
you were hearing one of the most famed opera singers
in the world that's actually coming here to New Orleans
and she's joining us here on the phone. But as always, Hi,
a lot of people can listen to the show all
over the place, can't they?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yes, from all over Southeast Louisiana, all the way in
the Midstpi, Gulf Coast, the North Shore, you can hear
our show, and y'all will listen up. This is going
to be quite a great story here about opera and
the current opera scene, which is fascinating.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
Remember, folks, you can always get us on wrn O
nine nine five FM every Sunday from eight to nine am,
on WSLA three point nine FM fifteen sixty am every Friday,
Monday and Wednesday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday and twenty four
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Speaker 2 (22:14):
As long as you can hear this show, I mean,
this show is the number one rated weekend show on
wr and O, which is one of the largest talk
show stations in the Golf South. So there's a hot
show folks, don't miss it. Don't miss it.
Speaker 4 (22:27):
Speaking of that, that's almost as hot as the star
again you are, and so hi mckenry, Christopher ted Moore
here on the program, joined by Rianne Bryce Davis. And
this is no ordinary guest, Ladies and gentlemen, in the
opera world. There is a launching shooting star. She is
quite literally the superstar coming upon it. She's currently in
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residence at the Houston Opera. She's been at the Met
on the Met stage, She's been all over the world.
She's one of the leading African American voices in opera,
and she will be making her role in stage debut
in the production of the Biblical seductress herself, Delilah in
Samson and Delilah.
Speaker 3 (23:04):
You know, I'm a.
Speaker 2 (23:05):
Preacher and I know that story very well, been a
Bible student since that's five years old. So I'm very
excited about this.
Speaker 4 (23:11):
We're actually offering something to a lot of churches are coming.
We've We've got all the seminarians from Saint Joseph Seminary.
We're offering any people in the churches half off to
come to this because it's such an incredible concert and
it's an honor for us, Arianne, not only to have
you come in. Our director, the director, the general and
artistic director of New Orleans Opera, Leilah Palmer, enticed you
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to come to it. But for us, it's a dual
honor because, as many people know, New Orleans is the
first city of opera in the United States. Over fourteen
major North American debuts of a major famed operas. They
are actually about sixty, but they were premiered here. But
there's over fourteen that of the most famous operas in
the world premiered made the North American Review and one
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hundred and thirty just over one hundred thirty years ago
Sincere's Samson and Delilah Samsonindian came and premiered at the
French Opera House. And this is that anniversary, and you
will be taking the stage of one of the most
famous operas that started here. And we're celebrating this and
we're so honored to have you here in New Orleans.
But what I'm honored to hear is that people are
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going to hear you up close if they want to,
because on Tuesday, the twenty second of October, you're actually
doing a concert at the Opera guild House on Britannia
twenty five six Britannia, and we'll give more information about
that so people can hear you cup close. But what
I'm most excited about is you're coming here and you're
giving of your time and your efforts to do a
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master class for many of our university students. We have
students from at Gallier Hall at their famous former city
Hall of Xavier students, Dillard students, Uno students, two Lane students,
Loyalist students, Southeastern students, all coming to learn from you
that Tuesday morning.
Speaker 3 (24:53):
Wow, we're very honored to have you.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
I have to ask you know, as we're praising you
and everyone heard how beautifully you sing, how did you
become an opera star? Because let me give you the
side effect. As some people on this audience know and
heard in the last segment, I'm the associated editor of
the oldest African American newspaper on the Gulf Coast. And
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when I went in and I said, you know I'm talking,
I'm excited about you, they all said, well, great.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
What does this have to do with us?
Speaker 4 (25:23):
And I said, well, forget the fact that re End's
African American and afric Jamaican to be precise, and the
entire cast is opera was brought to the United States
by black people from San Deming. And most people don't
realize that this is a creation. This is something that
the culture roots are as much black as white. And
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we say this and a lot of African Americans kind
of feel like this isn't our music and all this,
And I said, oh, contrere, if you'll forgive the French
for the French opera, it is something that we owe
to the black immigants that came here from the Caribbean,
like your forbears. And can you talk about that in
that connection?
Speaker 7 (26:05):
Sure? Well, wow, what a beautiful introduction. Uh. I'm so
happy to have this conversation with you, so excited to
be in New Orleans. It's just the wrong way to
say it. I've been told I look forward to becoming
a specialist after spending time with all of you.
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Very simple lens. Thank you.
Speaker 7 (26:36):
Yeah, but I'm so excited to be there and share
this music. Uh, sharing about history, I mean to me.
I came to opera through musical theater. I saw a
show called Carmen Jones, which was a black cast of
a story of an opera called Carmen, and and I just,
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you know, fell in love with the music and the
voices and just how these voices that could come out
of anybody that was trained, could just fill me with
goosebumps and just make you feel something that felt supernatural.
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And that's a feeling that I feel. No matter where
you're from, no matter who you are, opera can touch
you when it's a great voice. So I'm releasing an
album soon, and I as an opera singer, am exploring
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what the intersection of opera with jazz, with afrobeats, with dancehall,
with all of these other genres can look like. And
it's another step in the direction of really joining this
gap that you've been talking about that can exist in
the conversations when people think opera's not for me. Opera
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is something that from the beginning was an experiment. You know.
It's saying, how can humanity create the most expansive, beautiful,
innovative things that we can do? And so that's something
that's continually changing. It's not something that's stuck in the past.
Speaker 4 (28:27):
And we've got to say this, that opera in New Orleans,
why was it so popular? Why did all the opera's
premiere here. It was because it was popular entertainment. It
was people spoke French. They were mostly French operas like
Sincere's and people did it. And but you're hitting something.
And one of the things people saying, well, she's an
opera star. She has no connection to me.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
You have a dance album.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
You have, oh really, you have?
Speaker 3 (28:48):
You have?
Speaker 4 (28:48):
You've crossed over into so many genres and yet you
sing everything from Puccini to Wagner to everything in between.
And as you're saying, sain c here on November eighth
and tenth, it is just incredible. And if I may,
you are joining us very generously on October twenty second,
Tuesday evening at the Opera guild House on Britannia that's
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twenty five oh four Britannia Street at five point thirty
pm for sense concert and you are You've got an
incredible set list that you're going to be singing for
people if they want to attend, And of course you
can get tickets at New Orleans Opera dot Org. I'm
in the shameless plug, but can you talk about some
of the different things that you like to share with people,
about what you love and the music that you sing.
Speaker 7 (29:30):
Absolutely, So basically, I'm going to share with you the
journey that took me from being a business major into
this rich life as an international opera singer that I
have today. So I share with you the song that
made me fall in love with opera. I sing some
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of the repertoire that I you know, that is paying
all of my bills these days verty and some of
the co missions that I've commissioned. One of the pieces
on there is called the Black Writers Freedom Song, and
it's by a black woman composer named Maria Thompson Corley,
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and she's just incredible. She basically wrote a song for
black cowboys. So you hear the Western vibes in there,
but it's through an operatic lens, and you'll hear my pianist,
Gordon Shermer will give you all of these You hear
almost like hoof beats riding and the wind blowing in
your hair. So we go through all of these different
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genres of music that means so much to me and
kind of as my introduction of myself to the city.
Speaker 3 (30:44):
And so it's.
Speaker 4 (30:45):
And we're looking forward to having you, ladies and gentlemen
You can get tickets to this by going to New
Orleans Opera dot org and just clicking if it's the
very first thing you see on the website. And it'll
be at five thirty on Tuesday night, October twenty second,
twenty twenty four. And it's a Champagne guarner, so you
can have a champagn or a glass of wine as
part of your ticket. Come and sit in the garden
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the Opera guild House and have this wonderful evening with
Rhianne Bryce Day if you would. For a lot of
young people, and I wonder, you know, we've got a lot.
We do have a varied audience, but for a lot
of young people that listen to us, they look at
you know, well, opera is an old and stage thing,
and you brought up the most key point. It is
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the root of so much of what we do modern
music today. We did a fun thing for Tosca at
the New Orleans Opera. It was kind of we took
all of the cartoons that the opera influenced, and the
music that comes through what we think of as very
old music from the nineteenth century or eighteenth century is
actually the roots of modern music today. It's this intersection
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is not as weird as people think about it. Can
you talk about that a little bit?
Speaker 7 (31:55):
Absolutely? I feel like cartoons were a huge part of
how my generation experienced great pieces uh for the first time.
But today we have folks like Laverne Cox Divo that
she is like, she's experimenting a lot with opera. She
she she did a music video of a trap version
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of Summertime and told you does mention a German leader.
You know, everybody is experimenting these days. Beyonce has a
country album, you know who else? All drag in opera
is huge. There's there's so much experimentation and you don't
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have to look at Christina Aguilera has a hip hopera
song that's like trending on TikTok right now. You know,
you don't have to look far anymore. People. Opera is
now and it's interesting and it's exotic and everybody's exciting
excited about it hasn't reached its climax yet. It's still
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on the fringes. But opera is having a moment. Actually,
somebody just did an argument. I think it was Forbes
that was saying opera is having a moment. In pop
culture right now, and so folks need to get on
the bandwagon, like come check us out, see what's happening
in all.
Speaker 4 (33:20):
And I think, and of course, just let me do
one more shameless plug. October twenty second. Man, it's going
to be in a concert. You can get tickets by
going to New Orleans Opera dot org or calling the
box office for those that are less Internet savvy at
five oh four five two nine three thousand. That's five
oh four five to nine three thousand. And she'll be
in concert at October twenty second, or and or hopefully
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you'll come. You can come see her perform as Delilah
at the Mahaia Jackson Theater on November eighth and tenth
Friday and a Sunday.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
So go ahead, Hi, Yeah, I was just going to say,
being such a great female vocalist, you're going to be
in an auditorium named after maybe the greatest of all
that's Maharia jack And she was awesome. I mean, I
just can't go and tell you how an amazing vote
singer she was. Now, she only did gospel. They tried
to get her to do all kinds of other genres.
She would turn it down, she said no, God called
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her just to do gospel, and with that she still
became one of the top record of salespeople and in
the history of music. I mean, she's just amazing story,
what a great gown.
Speaker 3 (34:21):
Yet, well, I have to say something.
Speaker 4 (34:22):
The interesting thing about this particular role, and the funny
thing about Samson Delilah in this particular production is it
is the illumination of the Biblical story writ large, and it.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
Is incredible story.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
So if you've never been to an opera, not only
is the music beautiful, it's not an impenetrable Italian tale.
Speaker 3 (34:43):
It's something.
Speaker 4 (34:43):
It's a story, you know, and it seems very much.
And I've got to say, in some of the stuff
I've seen that you're gonna be performing, it's just people
are gonna be holding onto their chairs of the Midhelia
Jackson Theater as your voice launches them across the room.
Speaker 2 (34:57):
So and by the way, preachers there there's from one
preacher to another. Remember, you all get in for free,
and your congregation gets a special discount. So you better
check this out. Yeah, were of the cloth, men and
ladies of the cloth.
Speaker 4 (35:11):
We're inviting men of the cloth and their wives or
vice versa, to come and be our guest and to
share with their their congregations a special deal which will
have available where they get where congregations if they If
they do, we'll have a discount because we want them
to come. But we want everybody to come to this
and ladies and gentlemen and see this incredible opera at
the Mehey Jackson Theater. So with that, I want to say, Ran,
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it's been a privilege having you on and and we're
looking forward to uh to once we have you here
in New Orleans for this role in stage debut.
Speaker 3 (35:43):
We're not gonna let you go.
Speaker 4 (35:44):
We want you back here a lot because you're just
that good and all this. And to the young woman
who's listening out there, you've talked about how this is on,
how this is innovative opera. Is this but someone who
started out in musical theater like yours, it's just just
likes to sing. What do you what hope do you
give that young girl and say to look at a
career in opera? What would you what would you say
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to that young girl who is much like you?
Speaker 7 (36:08):
Well, I would say, never forget why you sing. Always
make music that is meaningful to you and connect with
people who know the way, because there are a lot
of obstacles in a road in a classical career, and
so you always need to find somebody who can tell
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you how to jump over.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
It, you know.
Speaker 7 (36:31):
To me, find find your mentors and follow your heart.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
To me, one of the greatest I would this would
be a great obstacle for me, at least the fact
that you have to learn Italian and you're giving the
songs an Italian, which.
Speaker 3 (36:43):
Is except this is Italian and French and several in German.
Speaker 4 (36:48):
So this is some Saint Sea's saety languages and many others.
But Sampson Delilah is in French. It's a French opera.
That's why I premiered here because everybody spoke French. It
was like this, yeah, so you've got to be a
Linguis is that difficult for you, Rhanne, because it's not
one or two? My grandmother was not for singer, and
she had she spoke about six languages my level, because
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you had to.
Speaker 3 (37:10):
You had to learn it to to do the roles
you do.
Speaker 7 (37:13):
I actually went. I was born in Mexico. My family
is Jamaican, but they were in school in Mexico when
I was born. So I took a while to start
speaking myself because I would hear Patwa at home, I
would hear Spanish outside, I would hear Portuguese with friends,
and so I was just observing all of the chaos
around me, like, huh exactly.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
And I remember those days myself when I was in Mexico.
Speaker 7 (37:43):
Oh okay, but yeah, So being around languages has always
been a part of my life. And it's beautiful to
be able to pop into Italy or France, or Germany
or South Africa and just appreciate all of the new
sounds around you and jump in and make a fool
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of yourself and you know, get to know rich new cultures.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
We look forward to illuminating this particular cultural exercise of
Samson Delilah November eighth and tenth at the Mahe Jackson Theater,
and we are hoping those in our audience will go
to join us on October twenty second at the Opera
guild House on Britannia Street. And you can find out
more information by going to New Orleans Opera dot org
or calling our box office area code five oh four
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three five two nine three thousand and come join us
and meet Ran in person for a Champagne concert and
reception at on Tuesday, October twenty second at twenty five
oh four Pritannia Street in the Garden District of New Orleans.
And it has been a great privilege to have you
on the area. You've got to final thought.
Speaker 2 (38:49):
Hi, Yeah, just Ran one thing that's for me. It's
very interesting. One of my ancestors that actually fought in
the Battle of New Orleans. An early arrival came with
the Haitian migration. I call it the Haitian migration in
a New Orleans. Their name was Santana. So I have
connections with the Caribbean also, and I guess you know this.
New Orleans is considered to be the northernmost Caribbean city
in the Gulf of Mexico.
Speaker 4 (39:10):
Yeah, we are, we are. We do claim the Caribbean.
Whether the Caribbean claims us becomes one of those questions.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
But the Kuran is very musical, and so are we
so interesting.
Speaker 4 (39:20):
I mean the roots of opera, the roots of the bamboola,
the roots that we think of as music is basically
because of the Sandaming Haitian immigration into New Orleans. It's
the reason we kept speaking French till the eighteen seventies,
and it's we're very glad another Caribbean import is coming
via Mexico and Houston to us here in New Orleans
with you around Bryce Davis, who is joining us in
October twenty second for this concert at the Opera guild
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House and then on November eighth and tenth. We look
forward to meeting you and seeing it and chatting with
you further.
Speaker 7 (39:49):
Thanks so much. Well, I'll sing some French and I'll
sing some Jamaican folk songs.
Speaker 2 (39:54):
Fantastic, can't wait. Oh and by the way, just love
Caribbean music.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
I'm being reminded by our producer. For those that don't know,
if you want to come to the Opera to Samson Delilah. Yes,
it's in French, but they have English subtitles above you,
so you do know what's going on. Somebody's like, I
assume that everybody knows that, but they don't know that
all ran.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Have you ever heard of zydaco or Cajun music here?
Speaker 3 (40:13):
I think she might have.
Speaker 7 (40:15):
I've heard of it that I look forward to hearing
some authentic.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Yes, have you actually listened to it. You may have
heard of it, but have you actually listened to it.
I'm not sure if you need to do that. It's
an experience. I do that every week. I work out
of the gym. I'm dancing all of the gym from
my Xytaco and Cagun music and I love it. It's
just magnificent. You'll love it. Just google it. You can
get it. You know, listen to a little.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
Imagine five tonal music with French country music, merge with
the bamboola and you get an idea of the crazy.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Going back to the Middle Ages in France. It's that
the music goes that far back.
Speaker 4 (40:50):
So anyway, on that note, Rand Bryce David, thank you
for joining us. More information on tickets at New Orleans
Opera dot org. And we're gonna have a little bit
more of your music as we go into the break.
We'll be back ladies and gentlemen after this wonderful next edition. Rihanne,
Bryce Davis, bad thank you, but hi. Not everything that
Rihanne sings is an Italian or French. This is from
her album The Beauty of My Blackness, and it is
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a beautiful, beautiful tale.
Speaker 7 (41:31):
I'll be using in a back seasoned using blacks isn't
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Speaker 2 (44:05):
Well, folks, we're back and you are listening to the
Founder's show, the Voice of the Finding Fathers, and it
is now time for us to go into our chaplain.
Bye bye, and that is yours truly myself, Hi mc henry,
our chaplain by by patriotic moment where we just take
a short time to give you a little history lesson
on the biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence.
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And today we want to talk about a great orator.
Think of it, folks. Opera has to do with oration,
but it's musical oration primarily sometimes just words, but usually musical.
And so this guy was one of the greatest orators
of American history. He was considered to be the greatest
trial lawyer of his day. If you need, if you
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had a tough case, you called on Patrick Henry, known
as the orator of the American Revolution. Remember give me liberty,
to give me death? Oh, Patrick Henry a good irishman.
When he was asked how did America win against overwhelming odds.
I mean, there was no chance we could have won
that war. It was impossible. In fact, by the time
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of Valley Forge, every expert considered that the war was over.
The Americans were just basically done in. They had nothing
left to fight to give, and yet we hung on
and we fought and finally shocking the entire world. In fact,
one of the famous British parliamentarians and generals and one
said that this has turned the world upside down, that
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we could win against such overwhelming odds. Well, they asked
Patrick Henrytt, Then how do we succeed? How did we
win against such impossible situations? How did we do it?
And he actually quoted a quote from his uncle, who
was a Lutheran minister. He used that thought that he
had learned I'm sure to learn from his uncle. And
he said, America did not win because of its And
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he said this cannot be too overly emphasized or often
state America did not win because of religion or by religionists.
Oh my god, you say to I thought this was
about Bible based, you know, Christian origins of America. Hear
the rest of the quote. He said, the only reason America.
Win was one was because of its evangelical faith and
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the redeemer of this world, the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, folks,
when you hear that, what I hear is a very
powerful message of grace, which is critically important if you're
ever going to come to know God. And it shows
that the man was deep in his theology. He really
understood the word of God. Think of the influence he had,
his biblical influence over this country. He was one of many.
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Believe me, you hear it every show. I mean, they're
like over twenty thousand documents, original documents, letters, speeches, newspaper articles, etc.
That prove the biblical foundations of America to the extreme,
I mean to the extreme. In time does not allow
me to go into all that right now. But I
mentioned just a few seconds ago about how Patrick Henry
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understood grace. What is grace, Well, grace means gift, that's
all it means. It means. And as we're talking about
that now, it's going to be time for us to
go into our chaplain Bye bye gospel moment where I
just took another brief short period to show you how
you can know that you know that you know you know, God,
you're saved from hell and you're guaranteed heaven. Folks, that's
the most important thing that can ever happen to you.
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There's nothing more important than that. Believe me, When you
cross over to the other side, you will realize what
I'm saying, whether you're born again or not, whether you're
going to heaven or going to hell, you will realize
at that point, boy, that was the most important thing
of life, of all life, of all life. Why didn't
I get my eternal life? Or you'll be saying, oh,
praise the Lord, I got my eternal life. Don't you
want to be on that side, folks, the ones who
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are excited and happy that they have eternal life, that
they have been born again. What does that word born
again mean? Strange word, but Jesus used it. It's found
throughout the New Testament and it planning simply means your
dead and dying spirit has now become fully alive and
alive forever. Remember, the people in hell are going to
only know death, but they're going to know existence. That's
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a bizarre thing about it. They're gonna they can be
like zombies, the walking dead. They're gonna have memories the
Bible teaches us, tells us the stories of what they're
like in hell. Uh. They're gonna have, Uh, They're gonna
have desires, they're gonna have they're gonna know what pain is.
Speaker 8 (48:13):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (48:13):
They're gonna have memories where they have to remember all
the dumb things they did. It's gonna be a terrible place, folks.
I can't describe you the horrors of hell, just like
I really came to describe you the greatness of heaven.
The Bible says, I've not seen or heard the things
that God has prepared for those who love Him and
who are the called according to His purpose. Heaven's gonna
be fantastic. It's so great. I can't even tell you
about how great it's gonna be. And that's where God
wants you to be. And honestly, folks, that's where I
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want you to be. I hope, like anything, everybody's hearing
this message gets it because it's simple. It was designed
for children. In fact, jesusaid, unless you come as a
little child, you shall have no wives enter in. So
what is this secret? If you will? Because God calls
it a secret. So I'm gonna reveal the secret of
the gospel, the mystery of the gospel, and the word
gospel planning simply means good news, glad tidings. Don't you like?
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I love good news. Saints won Super Bowl? Oh that
was great news, wasn't it?
Speaker 3 (48:58):
Folks?
Speaker 2 (48:59):
We need we need good news. Good news is so
good to have. So this is the good news. And
the scripture also says that the gospel is the power
of God unto salvation to whosover believeth. And it tells
us what the gospel is for. I declare to you
the gospel that Jesus died for all of our sins
according to the scripture, that he was buried, and that
he rose from the dead according to the scripture. That's
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plain and simply the gospel. That's simple death, barrel resurrection.
He remember, he died for all sin. That means, folks,
I'm talking about from the day you're born to the
day you die, your tiniest der greatest sins. The scripture says,
ms all washed away with the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. Now, how do you take this gift? You
got to take a gift if you want to get
it right. If I give you a million dollars cash
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and hold it out to you. But you don't take it,
You'll never get it. You have to actually grab it. Well,
there's a spiritual way to grab the Gospel, you believe.
It's just that simple design for children. Unless you come
as a little child, you still know why's entre in
you just plain and simply believe. The scripture says, believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ, and now shalt be said, believe.
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Can you do that? Can you believe that Jesus really
did die for all your sins, was buried in Rosmund
dead because he did, and he did it for you.
It's got to be just for you.
Speaker 3 (50:09):
Now.
Speaker 2 (50:09):
You can't do this for your children, your parents, your
best friends or whatever. God only has children, He has
no grandchildren. Your father could be Billy Graham or some
great religious person. It doesn't matter. You don't get in
on that person. You only get in with direct contact
with Christ when you trust him and believe with him
with all of your heart, all of your heart. Well,
how do you do that? It's really simple, folks. All
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of your heart means you quit trusting in yourself. You
give up thinking that you can do something good. You
can do good words, turn from your sins, clean up
your life, do penance, say special prayers, special ceremonies, get baptized,
on and on, so a long list of things you
could be. Oh, maybe just because you're so cool and charming. No,
none of that gets you into heaven. You've got to
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realize that's all garbage to God. It doesn't work. All
of your righteous the scripture says, are as filthy recks.
So what do you have left? Only belief? When you
give up on all that. And when you give up
on all that, that I just the aforementioned that means
you've just repented. That's what repentance is. It's the word
in Greek metaonoi means change your mind. You finally change
your mind by believing you can't save yourself. You're hopeless
(51:14):
and help us without God, destined to a burning hell.
When you come to that point in your life, and
that will humble you, the scripture says, God resisteth the problem,
give grace to the humble. When you get to that
point in your life, you're free now to put faith
alone in Christ alone, and to believe that only He
can get you into heaven, because He is the key man. Here, So, folks,
you've never done this before, please do it now. Don't
wait till it's too late, like the old country preacher
(51:35):
used to say, and like the Word of God says,
now today is a day of salvation. And folks, by
the way, speaking about time, we're in troubling times right now,
I personally think we're in the end. I think Jesus
coming back very very, very very soon. There are many,
many signs, are over two hundred prophecies. Obviously we don't
have time to go them all. I'm trying to get
them all in before the Lord returns. So I do
one of you know, every week. So here's going to
be a short one. The Bible says, in the end
(51:56):
it will be like in the days of Noo. Well,
what were the days of Noel?
Speaker 8 (51:59):
Like?
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Well, sin was so rampant and so terrible that God
had to kill every human being except for one family
that he declared as righteous in his generation. And if
you go to the Hebrew, that means his his Dna
was righteous. It had not been corrupted. What was being corrupted? Well,
the scripture says that angels cohabited with human women and
(52:21):
produced a vile demonic offspring, sometimes called watchers, sometimes called
Nephelim giants. They were. I think they're found in all
of the pagan deities you see pictures. Half men have humans,
I mean humans have half animals and whatnot. And they
had corrupted the entire Dna God. That's why God had
to kill everybody. It was the end for the human race.
(52:42):
But this small group, this small family, Noah, his wife,
and his three boys and their wives, grand total of
eight people, they made it. Folks, it's getting to be
like that now. They're going to be a lot more
than eight people that God will save out of this
terrible time. But folks, you better get on the gospel train,
like the old old rock and roll singer used to sing,
(53:06):
Curtis Mayfield, you better get on that train. It's a
great song. By the way, if you're not on it,
when Jesus comes back, you're finished. Get on it now, folks.
Don't wait till it's too late. Get on it right now.
He's the greatest safe I she'll ever get in these
troubling times that are coming. The end is near, folks,
I promise you you'll see it. It's all unfolding right
now before So do you. Look at all the turmoil
(53:27):
in the world right now, you can see it. Look
at what's going on in the Middle East right now. Well,
folks at it is time for us to close. As
we close of the mind, Saint Martin singing a creole
goodbye and God bless you all out there.
Speaker 1 (53:39):
Does this have to be the end of the night?
Speaker 3 (53:44):
You know I love you.
Speaker 7 (53:46):
In the pamal Land, I can
Speaker 1 (53:51):
See across the million stars when I look at
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