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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Bide holes, the politicians, the dressed of digitators and magicians
whose to see the money then you don't. There's nothing
to fill the holes while then are filling their pockets
tied holes, the politicians bouncing down the road. Every bider'sition
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with no more corruption and dysfunction on It's gonna take
divine intervention.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
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 and marti gras alligator swamps
for the big easy New Orleans, Louisiana. And high up
on top of that old Liberty Cypress tree way out
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on the Eagles Branch, draped in Spanish moss, is none
other then your spenary Baby, the Republic Chaplain high Mceenery.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
With Christopher Tidmorey, Roving reporter, Resident Radical Moderaten Associate editor
of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly dot net,
and folks, as we as the weekend premieerest, We're going
to talk about the ten top local stories that we
think are going to influence politics in this state and
the nation for the next year and beyond. But I
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think it's worthwhile saying. We mentioned we got Carnival coming
up next week with Twelfth Night, but it's also the
week of the twenty eighth of December, which two hundred
and ten years ago was the first of the series
of battles of the Battle of New Orleans culminated on
January eighth, but of course the ninth Battle of December
twenty eighth, first December twenty third coming through, and then
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the artillery duels that happened in the twenty eighth and
so we've got to remember Gabriel Villary made his great
run on December twenty third to Warren Jackson's through the
swamps and hey to kill.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
His dog, filled with briars and stickers and his hair
and his skin.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And that was December twenty third, and then December twenty
eighth is of course the first artillery battle where the
British tried to advance and they're stopped, and of course
culminating in the actual Battle of New Orleans that we
think of in January eighth. But all that's going on,
it's been two hundred and ten years. It was ten
years ago that we put on the bisentennial re enactment
of the Battle of New Orleans. The late Great Tim
Pickles was part of that, and uh, it was the
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actually originate of this. He played general package he fell
off his sword, of course.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Yeah. And but to this day declares that the British
actually won that battle. How he comes up with that,
I gotta say.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
Well, what he actually his point was is that the
British won it militarily, but that at the Americans were
so good at decapitating. This makes sense, decappitating the British
commanders that even though they were the soldiers at the
line when Pakiam died, there were no senior commanders left.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
I mean, that's five percent of the Chiny command was
gone exactly. Well, I mean it's never I've never heard
of that happen in any battle fought anywhere. That's astounding.
It's they couldn't function, folks. They had no command structure.
There were no orders. You've got you have to have
artists on that and they're happening quickly. And if you
don't make orders and don't communicate, then the troops get
stuck there not knowing where they're going, and they get slaughtered,
and that's what happened.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
But it's worth going way. We had the Battle lake Borne.
All this happened. So in the end of Christmas week,
as much as we talk about the twelve Days of Christmas,
and we are in the twelve days of course, you know,
started on Christmas Day, the twenty fifth, that's actually the
first day of Christmas, not the last day of Christmas,
the twelve days, and it ends on twelfth night, which
next week, of course, we're going to be joined by
erroll Aboard Carnival historian extraordinaire, also a new columnist starting
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in December fifth for the time speaking a New Orleans advocate,
riding about twelve Night. So next week we're gonna talk
about Carnival, and at length in the beginning of Carnival,
because of course this is New Orleans. You got to
go from party to party to party all the way
through and so it's got to do.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
But we never stopped.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
We never do. We never do, because you know, we
go into Lent. You know, we got a pastor here
of course, you know Ash Wednesday, you.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, Wednesday, And I'm not kidding when I say that good.
I love the piece you love the piece because it
lasted day and a half.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It's like two.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Weeks later from one of the guys, a good Irish
from Saint Patty and uh.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
And then as you pointed out, Saint Joseph to me,
time Saint Joseph. We've got the largest seeing community, you
got the altars, you got the uh. The Islanos Holiday,
which is the Saint in Saint Bernard, which is a
great parade, and they do it the week of the Saint.
Basically the way it breaks down for the different parades
that come after Marty this is a little head of
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schedule is you have Saint Patrick's in the Irish Channel
and then you have Saint Patrick's in Metaie it's the
next day. Then the next weekend you have Saint Joseph
and it Islanos and so you've got basically two weekends
full of parades right after we were in the period
of Lent when we're not supposed to be doing any
of this, but.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You get there anyway, speak New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
It's New Orleans. But speaking of that, now that Christmas
maybe over, it is time for our yearly high night.
Each pick five stories that we think are but local
shares and share Yeah, that's not as precise.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
You know, it's a grant all about ten that we
both provide.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And the idea being is our stories have a point.
They're a major story. They tend to be local, but
they are stories that have an impact where we think
the trends of politics are going. So in other words,
it's just like, hey, it's not just this was a
major thing, but how this is going to influence X,
Y and Z over the next coming year. And these
stories are in no particular order of the great tales,
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but we wanted to share them in some and one
we find about these ten top lists. We've done this now, Hi,
you and I have done this for sixteen years. This
is like the sixteenth year we've been giving these ten
top stories together and each year what's fascinating is half
of our list is nobody else picks up, and we
really kind of get ato things and you're shaking your
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head there.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
It's like, well, I've started this show in twenty eleven
as the founder's show and I was soloed it. Interestingly,
my first recording, i mean studio live show was done
at your house. Yeah, because you wish I'd haven't done
my love but I didn't know how to do the board,
and all the text spoke on a microphone. That was it. Now,
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so I got to do the whole thing. Christopher has
been doing this for years, so he sat there and
coached me on how to do all the stuff you
have to do to produce the show from A to
Z while I'm doing the show.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
But don't you remember it you actually came on my
show and had the morning show and was doing this
with me.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
It's invited me and it turned out it was a
show you were doing with Vincent and the other guy. Well,
my point being that, and so that was when I
first came back. And then a few months later y'all
moved the show to the morning time and you came
to me and said, Hi, the evening's free, you want it?
And that's when I well started this show.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Yeah, but I started. I start the track of when
you first came on the air with me as a
you know, as part of the post.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We did have a show together. Yeah, and that's why.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Yeah, So that's that's when I mean, if we really
were to.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Think in twenty eleven from what twenty four, that's thirteen years,
thirteen years. Well, because Anyways, it's well for a good
number of years.
Speaker 3 (06:47):
Well, I would also counter the first time you came
on the air was with Jeff and I twenty seven.
Well that's years ago, so I mean, you really want
to play this game. But twenty seven years ago you
first came with The.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
First show I ever did was with Vincent with my
Indian Missionary, and you liked it so much Vince and
said you want to be my partner. So that's how
I started, I understand, But that was just a couple
of years before that time with you.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Yeah, so I mean you've been doing shit. You've been
doing shows with me for twenty seven years.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Here and there.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
All right, so all right, thirteen. The point is, each
year that we do this, we come to a list
of things that are kind of different. And I think
I'm going to kick off with this story.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Because Chris I go way back doing that stuff. It's
a pointings making.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, it's it's not a new thing. And we are
actually going to celebrate twenty seven years on the air,
by the way, in January. At the end of January,
Jeff Prayer is going to join us. We're going to
do a kind of evening event to the whole thing.
So it's gonna be it's gonna be kind of fun.
So Jeff's gonna come on the air here, We're gonna
go and Gso we're gonna do. We've got a whole
thing planned for it. But that aside. The first story
I'm bringing up is one that got a lot of
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attention and not very much at all at the same time,
and it is probably singularly the reason why East Baton
Rouge Parish elected Sid Edwards as the Republican mayor. And
it all boils down to a little place called Saint George. Now,
our story of this is that Saint George, the creation
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of the city of Saint George in the East Batton
Rouge Parish, promises more incorporations to come in other parishes,
perhaps even Orleans.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
And Jefferson, yes, and promised to slay the federal dragon.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Well, but this is well know, the state dragon in
this case, and I'll explain this, but also the federal
Well now let me explain this. So you know, we
just went through Christmas. Catalans have Christmas in Spain. They
actually start on the Feast of Saint George. There's two feasts,
once on December November twenty third, the other one's April sixth.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
Nations all around do have different dates on Christmases.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Yeah, well, the interesting in the city of Saint George,
Christmas came early, came April sixth, but that is the
feast day of Saint George. But it came when the
Supreme Court confirmed the East Baton Rouge parish's newest city
was actually legal. And what's important about this The State Institution, folks,
basically says any gathering of more than fifth teen hundred
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people can establish itself as a village, town or city,
depending upon how many people has up to five thousand.
If a majority of those people, if they get a
build through the legislation, the majority of those people vote
that way. When that happens, they control half of their
property taxes and whatever sales taxes are directed towards them.
And Saint George tried originally. This is an area basically
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in Baton Ridge as you're coming into Baton Rouge, and
they tried originally to have their own school district in
any Eastatton Ridge parish and that's not unusual. Central has
its own school district. There are multiple school districts in
East Betton Ridge Parish. They were stopped. So they basically said,
we're going to create our own city, and they're an
unincorporated place of East Baton Ridge Parish. But East Batton
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Ridge Parish is much like Orleans in that it was
considered a city parish. The difference was East Baton Ridge
Parish does still have municipalities within it, city of Central
and Denim Springs. Long story short, everybody realized that if
the city of Saint jo is created East Baton Rouge
Parish government would see a precipitous loss in property taxes
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because they could keep it for themselves. They could still
hire parish officials to be able to do like policing,
they could hire the Sheriff's office, so and so forth,
but they controlled their dollars. And so this went on
to be a fight. It passed the legislature, it was over,
it was vetoed, it was overrun went to the courts.
John Bell Edwards, I don't think he personally cared about it,
but he himself was standing with the mayor President of
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Sharon Weston Broom of East Baton Rouge Parish to fight this.
And it went all the way, all the way up
and down. Finally, the Supreme Court ruled that the City
of Saint George could do it, ironically in Supreme Court
of Louisiana, ironically on the feast Day of Saint George,
at which point they organized, in true Louisiana fashion, the
Crew of Saint George and had a party. But this
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is the point that's interesting. Their first election for the
City of Saint George was corresponded with the December seventh runoff,
and it was to enact a two cent sales tax
within the City of Saint George. It's basically to take
the two cents that were applied for the whole parish
and say it could be used for Saint George. So
it wasn't a new tax, but it was redirecting that revenue.
It overwhelmingly passed. But here's the part that I find
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so fascinating. On December seventh, the only people that went
to the polls statistically there were some elsewhere, but overwhelmingly
went to the polls where the people lived in Saint George,
which is this, as you might guess, hugely not just
white but Republican areas. East Baton Ridge Parish, a parish
that's majority African American. What happened the thing that no
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one thought was physically possible. East Batton Ridge Parish, which
had voted for Harris with sixty some odd percent of
the vote just a month before, elected the first Republican
mayor in over two decades, Saint Edwards. Because of this,
and it was all based on in some level, anger
over Sharon Weston Broom, who's trying to get another term,
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third to fourth term, to do this, but it set
a precedent. This was a fight. Everyone thought the establishment
of cities was something way in the past. They said, no,
the constitution is pretty blunt. Well, fifteen hundred people for
a village, five thousand, first city, you can establish own city.
So what happens? I'm going to ask this idea if
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let's use a couple of examples. If the city of
Carrollton was a historic city in Orleans Parish, decided to
reincorporate within Orleans Parish. It's not secession, it's not breaking
from the parish, but it's saying we're going to have
a municipality in the parish. Or the city of Lafayette,
which was the originally the Garden District, or more practically the
city of Algiers, which was a city in the Parish
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of Orleans till nineteen fifty nine. Everybody forgets that this
is not ancient history. The city of Algiers only ceased
to exist. Or in another thing, if you want to
use true incorporation, what happens if Mederi decided to become
a city and didn't want their tax dollars flowing to
the West Bank where there are incorporated cities, where Gretna
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in West Leego and so and so fourth, So what
happens if areas that are unincorporated quote unquote decided to
become cities, many of them having been historic cities. Well,
what you find is that the power of parishes as
unified parishes would be highly diminished because immediately fifty percent
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of your sales tax has taken away, fifty percent of
your property tax is taken away, and you invariably will
have a control over sales taxes. And so this is
kind of everyone in the eighties was talking about splitting
apart parishes. There was a big move Lakeview become part
of it. That is almost physically impossible under the state constitution.
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Both parishes have to agree. It's two thirds vote approval
the whole parish. It can't happen. It only takes one
legislature legislator to get majority vote in both houses and
the signature of the governor and one election. And guess
what you control half your tax dollars And what I'm
I actually had this conversation with Adrian Bruneh and I
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basically said, you know, how what would it take for Lakeview,
for example, to do this? And he said, you know what,
Saint George has inspired a lot of us to do this.
And so what we're saying is, I'm making a prediction here.
I don't know who's going to pull the trigger first.
It could be Metaie, It could be Lakeview, it could
be Algiers where Tom where Jeff Arnold Tom Arnoldson has
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been talking about this, could be Uptown. It could be
a place not in one of our parishes, but maybe
in Cattle Parish where Shreeport is. But somebody is going
to say, the city of Saint George has inspired us,
and you're going to start seeing municipalities, typically in parishes
that are of one race as opposed to the other.
So we're talking about Louisiana Cattle Parish, East Baton Ridge Parish,
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Orleans Parish and majority African American this level of incorporation,
and it creates some interesting political questions. But the ultimate
thing is it's so allowed in the state constitution. The
only reason we haven't done it is because people thought, well,
you can and do it, except it was there in
black and white all along that you could do something.
So the City of Saint George's in corporation, I think,
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is going to affect parish politics and therefore the money
for the next twenty years all around the state.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
Yeah, well, Christopher. One way I see this is imagine
a person is drowning and the life guard goes to
save them, and they're trained, they're very good at saving
drowning people, and they know that when a person is drowning,
they're desperate and they're fighting and everything. And if they
don't do it the right way, which usually means you
got to approach the person from the rear and you
might even have to knock them out because they're so
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crazy they'll grab you, and now two people die instead
of one. So to save that person, sometimes he's even
got to get really rough for the person to save
their life. Saves their life well, I'll see that like this,
think of Baton Rouge, the you know it's commons. I'm sorry,
but I'm called the bad part of Baton Rouge, where
a lot of the crime and all that is. That's
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like a drowning person. And Saint George would be like
the life guard, but he'll never save the drowning part
of Baton Rouge if he does not get some kind
of independence and control over himself so he can help
the drowning person. So hopefully now that's a charitable part,
because Saint George is right, and you know it looks faate.
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They're driving back and forth and nobody knows you're going
from one town and the next anyway. It's like Metory
in New Orleans. I remember, No you leave in New
Orleans and go in another area. And so because they're
very integrated of course and everything they do, social business whatever,
then the roads, et cetera, transportation everything. Because of that,
I'm hoping now that Saint George is going to realize
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we need to help the rest of the city, and
now that we're independent, we will have a greater chance
of really helping.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
And this is the point, they're not technically independent, and
this was a disase. Remember, half their taxes still go
to the parish, and I think the argument on the
election of Sid Edwards kind of proves that because they
pulled off something that's supposed to be statistically impossible, and
they did it because of low turn on alls. But
now they have a vested interest in the rest of
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the parish because they still got half their money going there.
So it doesn't have to be as negative.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
As a succession. It's close to being one.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
No, it's not. I believe you love that.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's very important. Just as America seceded from the British
Empire and that's how we got America.
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Well, but this is great, it's very.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
I realized that was a complete separation. It's not at all.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
This is this is this is something. Look, we have
the power of central organization. And I think I'm going
to make my prediction that where I think we're going
to see this first is the sewage and waterboard issue
in New Orleans has reached a fever point across the
racial divide where some communities, when you've matched that with
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the condition of roads and public safety, where some neighborhoods
are like, we've had enough and if we can control that,
because one of the things you control if you become
a municipality is your sewage dollars. You know, your sewage
and road dollars. If we can control that, then this
is worthwhile. And I think that's where you're going to
start seeing it, particularly in rord Leist. But we'll see that.
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The city of Saint George comes as one of the
stories of folks.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
But I'll tell you the key to this whole thing, Christopher,
as always is God. And I'll give you an example.
In Baton Rouge. There's one of the finest men of
God I've ever known in my life. He's a black
preacher and he has a prayer minister, a huge powerful
he's actually has his influence extends all the way to
the White House. He's become so well known and so influential,
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and come out of Saint georgiepher He prayed about a
year ago for thirty days when Baton Rouge experienced the
highest violence I'd ever had, and for thirty days straight
while that man prayed. He has a prayer building. It's
a little house in a lot, and only person who's
going there is he and his wife. He goes in
there and he locks himself in, doesn't come out for
as long as he feels God wants to praying. He
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prayed for thirty days straight and never saw another person,
but prayed solid twenty four to seven. I mean the
whole time, for thirty days. There was no violent crime
in Baton Rouge, a total to the whole city. So
I'm saying we need God in the middle of what
we really need just fix all these problems.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
But here, right now, this is about tax dollars.
Speaker 2 (19:11):
Jeez said, render under stage things.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Well that kind of because we got to take a
break in the second. But let me let me throw
something else in. So violence is kind of an issue,
and you know, the idea of shooting, and one of
the ideas, as you probably followed, is something called constitutional
carry was passed by the state legislature. We talked a
lot about it here in this program. It's the idea
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that you that's the second one, but it's not. That's
actually not the story that I wanted to tell because
that's a big story. But that's already done. That's already done.
But what I think is what it's triggering is something interesting.
So constitutional carry means that you can carry a weapon
pretty much relatively unlimited without without without needing a per
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or anything. And actually sixty three percent of Louisiana's believe
while they believe in concealed carry, they believe you should
have to have a permit to do it. But that aside,
it's been a major issue. NRI has pushed this in legislatures,
and when the legislature is Republican, it was bound to happen.
It's already happened in Texas, Florida and several other places. Well,
what has been the solution that's been kind of interesting
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is in Orleans Parish. One of the places they're worried
about is the French Quarter because people are so tightly
close and so on and so forth. There are only
a couple of exceptions to permitless carry, to constitutional carry,
and one of them is that you can't do it
within a thousand yards of a school. So they had
gotten rid of all the schools in the French Quarter.
Originally there was one mcdonnad nineteen and Cathedral Academy, which
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would have meant the entire French Quarter pretty much couldn't
have concealed weapons. Well, the city of New Orleans got
rid of both them. So what's happening now. It started
off with a vocational school that would be in a
police station, but it's being upgraded to actually an actual
school in the French Corps. They're putting a school in
the French Quarter that within a thousand yards, which by
the way is pretty much most of the French Court.
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It's a pretty small place. By doing that, they can
keep it. And what I'm here's the prediction I'm making. Second,
I have a square mill's essentially the most of the
forty blocks of the French Quarter are are in the footprint.
Speaker 2 (21:18):
Which back, by the way, back in those days, that's
a lart city.
Speaker 3 (21:20):
Yeah. But the point being that one of the things
the side effects of this has been we've seen a
trend in schools. They've been moved outside of the center cities,
They've been moved outlying campuses, so and so forth. This
issue of permitless carry, constitute carry, whatever you want to
call it, is now got urban school districts trying to
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move schools into often historic school properties in the middle
of downtown areas and cities, so as people as their
parents are no longer working in urban areas downtown and
going that' says the schools are beginning to move back
into the downtown area, so the kids will be there
from eight to five, even the parents workt But I'm
intrigued by this because what it's doing is keeping schools
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kind of reinvigorated that would have otherwise been closed. Because
it's two thinks that there's a very directed truth and
a very secret truth. And the directed truth is they're
expensive to maintain these buildings in historic downtown areas. The
secret truth is it's much more valuable to sell these
buildings into make them in a condos or whatever in
downtowns and have schools. And now we have a political
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reason for cities, in particular school districts to actually move
schools in the downtown areas. And you and the first
one you're seeing in the French Quarter will not be
the last. You're going to start seeing a lot of
schools put in heavily trafficked areas in order to make
sure that the quote permitless carry cannot be in those areas.
And it's kind of an interesting juxtaposition of two very
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separate issues. But here's the whole thing. But here's what
it can do. One of the things if you see
police officers who are seasoned who are not rookies, are
incredibly observant, and one of the things they can tell
is most of the time when somebody's carrying a concealed weapon.
And what it used to be is you could go
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up to someone who you had a suspicion they had
a concealed weapon, even if you had no evidence, and say,
do you have a weapon? Can you show me you
have no weapon? And that permitless Carrie stops them because
that becomes illegal search and seizure. It was one thing
if you carried a weapon and had a permit, but
if you carried a weapon you didn't have a permit,
they could then seize the weapon and you know, basically
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you say you're not allowed to have a weapon. Now
they can't even ask that question unless it's within a
thousand yards of a school. And actually there's a couple
other exceptions including banks and stuff, but basically in a
thousand yards at school, the police officer can do the same.
And that's a big issue. When you're like Mardi Grass
at Bourbon Street and people are tightly packed and you
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can have a shooting very easily. You need the police
have to have the power to say are you armed? This?
You know, this is one of the things about costs
cared to days.
Speaker 2 (24:03):
Make the law where they can ask you, but they
can't take your gun unless you're a criminal.
Speaker 3 (24:08):
Well but how do you know that, Well, they have
records on yeah, not not in the middle of Marti Grass.
The thing and this is you can what they what
they do is they take your gun and that you
can pick it up at the police station where they
can check it. It's not like they seize it forever, right,
But this is this idea of putting schools in the
middle of downtown areas. This is a major change in
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our in our demographics. That's why they're doing in the
French Quarter, and that's why they're in the case of
the French Quarter. It's a partnership between n OPD and
the New Orleans school system. But you're starting to see
the same trend happen in Cattle Parish, downtown shreport stuff
like that. So it's actually happening all over the state
because it's changing the role. So anyway, folks, we got
to take a quick commercial break. We'll be back after
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Speaker 1 (27:39):
Battles the politicians, the prayers of digit datas and magicians.
Who's to see the money? Then you don't, there's nothing
to fill the holes? Well, then are filling their pockets
that holes, ruption and dysfunction. It's gone a date Divide show.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
And welcome back, folks. We're covering some of the top
stories of twenty twenty four that we think will have
an impact on our politics, both locally and across the
nation for the next year and beyond. Remember you can
always hear the show, folks, every Sunday from eight to
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Canyon area. And of course, as always here in this program,
I'm Christopher Tidmore.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
With Chapelinhi mcinery and of course, folks, you know, we are
covering the major stories of the year from Louisiana and
of course New Orleans as we're ending the year going
into the new year twenty twenty five, and so we've
had some great stories we've been going over. I'd like
to make one last comment about we were talking about
guns and schools and all that, and that is that
when I was a kid in high school and whatnot,
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it wasn't uncommon for kids to bring guns to school
in the country, you know, like over Mississippi, and I spent
a lot of time. Over there, people would come with
their pickup trucks and their guns in the back of
the pickup trow You could see them. People would bring
their guns inside the schools. Here in New Orleans, I
saw it, shotguns and whatnot because they were going duck hunting.
But you didn't say you'd secure them in your lock.
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Yeah, but did you see let me finish, did you see.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
Nobody ever thought about killing anybody with a gun in
a school. That was unheard of. That would never happen
back then. I'll tell you another story about that. I
knew an old gang lader, big ganglier way back, you know,
in the fifties and sixties. And you know what, Chris,
what he told me. He said, we brought chains, knives, hammers,
but no one would ever bring a gun. If you
brought a gun, you a sissy. These are gangs back then.
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So that gives you an idea of the mindset of America.
And take note, back then the churches were filled. Today
only we only have twenty percent church attendants. I think
we got a messenger. But let's go into the next thing.
Speaker 3 (29:53):
All right, Well speaking, it's interesting you bring up churches.
Good we're talking about stories that will influence the politics Louisiana.
This one will be potentially influenced the politics beyond Louisiana.
But it certainly appears from here, and it's one close
to your heart. The Ten Commandments, the ten.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
Right, folks, the Ten Commandments. And that's another breakthrough we
had here in Louisiana. As you ark, current governor, our
new governor UH through executive action, made a law to
have the Ten Commandments in every school in Louisiana. Now
that is going to be challenging the courts.
Speaker 3 (30:22):
We know that it wasn't just it wasn't just executive
actor actually passed the legislature. You know he's fighting for it,
but no, it's actually.
Speaker 2 (30:28):
A law and the legislature passed. And also, yeah, you
say how important Christopher is on their show. He is
a professional journalist par excellence. I'm not folks. He knows
the latest thing and the greatest thing going on in politics,
I know, the general stuff. Thank you Christopher for making that.
That's a very important point. Now it is a law,
well it could have been a law through executive action,
but no.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
It can't be a law through executive action of order.
It's it's got to be it's got to be passed
by it. But this one was passed by the legislature,
and it's the question, but he was behind it. No,
he's the one who's like force fighting to enforce it.
So what's happened was immediate lee one of the court.
It was kind of it's been a weird court case
and so there were there were some representatives and parishes
that said it was it was an infringement on establishment
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of religion, and so they went to the court to
stop it from being implemented, and the judge agreed as
a stay in only the parishes that sued. So you
have this weird scenario where some parish school systems have
it asked and it's the Ten Commandments being posted on
a wall, and how far does this go? But it's
sparked this national debate over whether the it started years ago,
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but whether the posting and the Ten Commandments constitutes an
establishment of religion. We've been fighting for a long time,
and well, it's that this is the first state that
it's going to be put in schools. And the question becomes,
if this goes to the United States Supreme Court, which
everyone expects it will be, does the Court say the
Ten Commandments cannot be posted. And of course anybody who
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has ever been inside the Supreme Court chambers knows there
is a big freeze of the Ten Amendments being passed
to Moses above the justices.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
On the gable, and the giant statue of Moses with
the Tank Commandments, and all the great philosophers and religious
leaders of the world all looking to Moses with his
tank commandments fro. When you enter the doors, on the
doors of the Tank Commands, and when you go into
the court behind the judges of the Ten Commandments, three
times you see the Ten Commandments. And you know why. Madison,
who wrote the Constitution, made it very clear the legal
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foundation for the Constitution to work was guess what the
ten commands?
Speaker 3 (32:29):
Well? And one of the questions that gets into so
they can.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Put up on the walls and on the grounds of
its civics well, but under civic study. But here's the question,
sure again where here's where the American history, but.
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Here's where the legal question comes down. One of the
reasons why the prayer in school restrictions who are done
by the Supreme Court was what was uncon what's called
unconscious compulsion that would peer pressure to pray make kids
and the three plaintiffs were the children of a outspoken atheists,
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you know, compelled to stand for the prayer, so and
so forth. The interesting part of the debate on the
Ten Commandments is no one's being compelled to pray. So no,
So the question is can the demonstration of a religious
document be actually a contradiction of the establishment cause? And
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the irony of the interesting thing is in many schools
you're compelled to say the pledge of allegiance, and how
does the pledge of allegiance end since the nineteen fifties?
So help us God. So it's it's one of those
it's alls in that under God, one nation, under God,
indivisibly out okay, right, under.
Speaker 2 (33:40):
God, but so help us God in oaths. But Americans officials.
Speaker 3 (33:45):
Well, but I mean under God. You're quite correct. My
point being the word God is used in a regular school.
So there's are real questions on this. A lot of
people have been very critical of me and is saying
you're not standing up for several liberties because to me,
it's not that big an issue one way or another.
It's not established prayer. But I am going to tell
you that what starts here in Louisiana on this issue,
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we're going to see fought all over the country and
we're going to see whether and this is.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
The interesting part it comes to national, big national event.
This is going to be an starting in Louisiana. Think
of that, folks.
Speaker 3 (34:16):
Yeah, it's going to be And you.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Heard it where here on the phone.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
Well, I mean also everybody else is talking about.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
I know. But we've how many first have we had
on the show?
Speaker 3 (34:23):
We've had a lot, We've broken a lot of stories
on that. Speaking of issues, we've got to go through
some of these major stories of the year. One thing
we got a lot of press in the last few
days about the fact that for the first year in years,
Louisiana didn't lose population because we had a lot of
foreign born people coming in. But they ignored the most
important part of the story of the states out of
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which most Americans moved in two thousand and four, Louisiana
again ranked first, ahead of California, Illinois, South Dakota, and
New York. So more people have been moving out of
Louisiana then have been moving out of California per capita
or any of the blue states.
Speaker 2 (35:05):
All the big liberal states are losing their populations because
destroying them except for one. There's only one, well but
the two and that's Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (35:14):
There's actually two, So Mississippi, you know, for once, we're
not ahead of Mississippi. Mississippi's eighth on the list. But
if you look at the rest of the sun Belt,
particularly the southern states, the ones that are net the hot.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
The fastest from liberal states.
Speaker 3 (35:27):
The fastest growing states in the United States are Texas
and Florida. New Brunfields, Texas is the fastest growing community
in the US. It has toupled its size inside of
four years. And so why that, you know, Well, it's
because it's it's the Texas Triangle, as Austin, Houston, San
Antonio are growing together as a tech center and so
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and so forth. People are drawing all over the country. Actually,
I had a interesting conversation with my friend Mariogentella, and
he's a DA in the Bastard County and we're talking
about Texas and the political moves and how Hispanics have
moved over to the Republicans. Some of the most the
biggest political shifts for Trump were border counties that were
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Hispanic majority of Texas. And I said, and I said,
does this mean Texas a permanently Republican And I said,
Mario point out. I wanted to point out something. The
people that are moving into Texas into the Texas Triangle
so fast, are moving from California, New York and the
West East and West coast. When that happened in Arizona,
Arizona went from a Republican state to a swing state.
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That same thing. Texas not going to become a democratic state,
but it is going to become a swing state because
of that movement. It's a nice problem to have, though,
when you've got economic opportunity and people want to move in.
We and Louisiana are in the opposite. So all this
talk that the state dodged a big bullet because of
foreign born I'm pointing out to something. It's not looking
at the right statistic because of what because of foreign
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born people that were that moved into Louisiana. That's why
this the first year we didn't lose population. But the
fact of the matter is we lost population when you
really look at what matters where people move to other states.
So that's a major issue. The story that's going to
affect our politics.
Speaker 2 (37:09):
Great and we've been watching this for years. You've sit
at the greatest watershed of wealth in the world, and
we're one of the biggest losers in America. And this
is a shame and I'm sorry. We can look at
the politicians for because of the terrible policies they keep
shoving down our throats in this state, mean mainly Southeast,
mainly the Orleansic Parish, well well the largest.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
But here's the thing, so let's talk about change in this.
Everybody's talking about the fact that the income tax cuts
that Jeff Landry put through by paying for sales tax
increases has shifted it. But I want to point out something,
did you know everybody, So let me defend Jeff Landry
for a second. Everybody's like, you know, saying you're defending
Jeff Landry. Let me do this real quick. A governor
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raises sales taxes by a penny to ward off a death.
He subsequently cuts income taxes substantially. What is the name
of that governor? His name is His name is John
Bell Edwards. So Jeff Landry's tax proposal to cut income
taxes by raising sales taxes. Ultimately is not that different
from what Edwards. Edwards lowered the rate from six to
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four and a half. Jeff Landry lowered by keeping a
full penny of sales taxes, which is what which is
what Edwards raised it in twenty sixteen. He now cuts
it to three percent. But what that is is kind
of a bipartisan look at reversing the legacy of hughing Long.
And this is one of our big stories. Hewing Long's
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great legacy in Louisiana politics is centralization. We keep talking
every man a key and all this. What he did
was he said, I'm going to make the state government
the primary funder of education. I'm going to make the
state government the primary funder of different elements of state government,
whereas in other Southern states like Texas or Florida, tends
to be the counties, our parishes. And what started on
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Edwards and he didn't get a lot of criticism for
and Landry, he's getting a lot of prison for is
as part of those tax reforms, they're shifting tax responsibility
and spending responsibility to parishes. So one of the big
things that happened that hasn't gotten a lot of attention
is there is the state, there's a whole there's a
tax on wholesale items. You know, if you have a warehouse,
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your tax on the items your wholesaling. Except the way
it worked was it was this crazy system the parishes
could tax the items and then the owners of the
companies would get reimbursed dollar for dollar by the state.
So it was kind of this weird where the state's
paying for subsidized the parishes. One of the things that
happened in Jeff Landry's tax proposal, and it's very similar
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to a few things Edwards did, was it's putting the
tax responsibility to the parishes, but they have the ability
to tax higher. So it's it's one of the things
Edwards did it with, you know, property taxes on businesses
for education, so power just could vote to put a
property tax on businesses at the same time Landry's done
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it on wholesale. But it's the kind of shifting power
out of state government to local governments is something that
the two gentlemen done and is ultimately changing what Huey
Long originally intended. So that's one of the big stories
of twenty thirty four. Yeah, we're almost out of time
in these big stories we've got.
Speaker 2 (40:20):
We've also continue this in future shows.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
We can, but I want to give two.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
It'll be relevant.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
I want to give two.
Speaker 2 (40:26):
We sorry we couldn't get them all. They we just
got a little too deep into the story.
Speaker 3 (40:30):
We've got two last ones. I'm going to put in
like thirty seconds. One is there racial and demographic changes
in Orleans Jefferson Parish. Orleans is now down to perhaps
as low as fifty four percent African American, which is
why people like Klena Moreno have a real shot at
becoming a mayor. Meanwhile, Jefferson is now up to about
not just thirty four percent black, but almost twenty percent Hispanic.
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So you're wondering why John Bell Edwards won Jefferson twice. Yeah,
it's because the demographics of both parishes are changing. Or
Leans to some extent, it's getting whiter and Jefferson is
getting more brown.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Doesn't have a lot to do with the black flight.
It has to do with some white flight to the
Soburbs fifty years ago, now that.
Speaker 3 (41:11):
There's a black and it's also has Hispanic immigration into
the state. And last one is the insurance crisis that
we have in Louisiana. It is threatening home ownership. And
the last time we had an insurance crisis this bad,
it was a workers comp and what the state did
was they created a company that actually could directly compete
price for price with other workers' comp companies because there
was no other workers comp and it became a private company.
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Expect to see the citizens plan now permanently basically be
a competitor for property insurance. And this is socialism if
you want to get to it's a government owned entity.
But at the same time, if people are losing their homes,
even Republicans like Jeff Landry are like maybe a socialistic answer,
like we guarantee insurance or we we guarantee reinsurance for
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under domestic underwriters going to be part of the system.
Speaker 2 (42:01):
And what the insurance companies are basically, they're they're benefiting
from what I call corporate welfare, which is every bit
as bad as welfare for the poor, uh, every bit,
but substructive. And those guys need to be put in check.
They're they're out of control. This is this look at
the enormous profits in these insurance company folks, they can
afford to charge is less like.
Speaker 3 (42:20):
You just heard. You've just heard my my partner and
both of us have been insurance agents at various points
in our lives ricens and churance agent, and I've done
it for the last decade. You just you just heard. Basically,
Highber can re endorse a public option because that's literally
what it is, is a public option that could be
against the private sector. But the insurance crisis in bad
in Louisiana that even Republicans are advocating this now at
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this point, So folks will give you more stories in
future shows.
Speaker 2 (42:46):
But this gives you the stories the laws just to
cut cut out the bs.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
Because then then you're well, the problem with doing that
is that you've got wage and price controls and that
doesn't work too well either.
Speaker 2 (42:55):
Talking about their profits are enormous and Tom Si haven't win.
You can have a lot enormous they are, but they
are super enormous and they know what they are. The policy.
You could figure it out. It's public for the public record,
and we could go in there and say, Okay, you're
only allowed so much profit. Are you out of here?
Speaker 3 (43:12):
Ki mc henry just endorse the windfall profits tax that
was the center of Jimmy Carter's presidential campaign. This is
really fun to watch anyway.
Speaker 2 (43:21):
It shows you strange thing, folks.
Speaker 3 (43:23):
Yeah, it shows strange. It shows you how the left
and right are.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
No longer makes strange credit fellows.
Speaker 3 (43:27):
All right, folks, we got to take a break. We'll
back with the patriotic moment r after this.
Speaker 4 (43:38):
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facing the greater New Orleans area. Did you know in
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We are committed to meet this need through the work
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rescue process by going out into the community every day
to bring food, pray, and share the love of Jesus
with the hopeless and hurting in our community. Through the
process of recovery, these individuals have the opportunity to take
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time out, assess their life, and begin to make new
decisions to live out their God given purpose. After the
healing process has begun and lives are back on track,
we walk each individual as they re engage back into
the community to be healthy, thriving, and living a life
of purpose. No one is meant to.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
Live under a bridge.
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Speaker 1 (45:15):
How hold the politicians bouncing down the road? Everybody's mission
with no moment corruption and dysfunction. It's gone a day
divine intervention.
Speaker 2 (45:30):
Rack and this chaplin high mckenry just been gary by
all the republic, and it is now time for us
to go into our chaplain. Bye bah, patriotic moment. We
just take a brief moment to remind you of the
biblical foundations of our country, our Judeo Christian jurisprudence. And
today I want to talk about another Supreme Court decision,
and that was Vidal versus Girard in eighteen forty four.
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I wonder if it was one of our gerards, but
I'm not sure. And this is how it goes. This
decided the case in favor of the Bible and schools.
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament
be read and taught as a divine revelation in the schools,
its general precepts expounded, and its glorious principles of morality inculcated.
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Where can the purest principles of morality be learned? Are
so clearly, are so perfectly as from the New Testament?
That was eighteen forty four. Folks, You see throughout our history,
our American patriots, if you will, and the leadership of
this country have been standing for the biblical foundations of
our country unabashedly. So look at that. This is an
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extreme case right here. It's the Supreme Court eighteen forty four. So, folks,
I think we can clearly say we have biblical foundations
and we have a very strong Judeo Christian jurisprudence in America,
even though today many would deny that tragically so because
they don't know our history. So, folks, it is now
time for us to go into our chaplain by by
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gospel moment, where again we just take a brief moment
to remind you of the biblical foundation of you if
you got them, and we want you to have them, folks.
God wants you to have him. He loves you. This
is all about love, folks. It's all about God's greatest
gift of all, himself to us. He gave himself to
us in every kind of way, even becoming material. Remember
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he's spiritual, not material, far from it. But he did
create the material world. He created everything. He created the
angels in the course of their spirits. He created the
entire universe. In fact, the Bible says, Jesus spoke it
into existence. That's powerful, folks. And so where are you
on this? Do you have God in your life? Do
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you want God in your life? It's really simple how
to do it? It's so simple, folks. The Bible says,
for God's soul loved the world. That's right. He loved
us big time, folks. For God so love the world
that he gave, He gave us his only begotten son.
The scripture says that whosoever, and by the way, for
God so loved the world that he gave his only
begotten son. That's the greatest gift every God given in
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the history of the universe. There's no greater gift than that.
And when it says for God's to love the world.
That means you, folks. That means everybody that He gave
has only begond somen that whosoever that's you again, believeth
in him. Hmmm, what's that mean? Believeth in him? That's
kind of a good question there. What does it mean
believing in him? Well, you need to believe what he
did for you. That's what it means when it says
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believing in him. And who's ever believing in him?
Speaker 1 (48:24):
What do we believe?
Speaker 2 (48:25):
We have to believe what the Bible calls the gospel.
The gospel just plain simply means good news. And the
scripture says the gospel is the power of God under
salvation to whosoever believeth And the Bible tells us clearly
what the gospel is. For our declare to you the
gospel that Jesus died for all of our sins. That
means all of them, folks, For the day you're born
and the day you die, you tinian's the greatest sins.
They all went on Jesus. Boy says they went into Jesus.
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The bost says he was turned into sin to give
us his righteousness. That's a very powerful thought that God
would literally be turned into sin. I can't mag I
can't handle that. It's so big for me. But it's true,
because the Bible says he gave us his only begotten son,
that who's ever believeth in him, believe that he died
for your sins, was buried and roseman dead to win
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for you his precious free gift of resurrection, everlasting life.
If you've never believed that before, you need to do
it right now. You may not get tomorrow. Folks. The
script says today now is the day of salvation. And
like the old country preacher said, don't wait till it's
too late. So folks, don't wait till it's too late.
Believe right now with all your heart that Jesus really
did die for all your sins, was buried in Rosemandad,
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and you can do that. The moment you say, I
can't save myself, and that means repentance, when you realize
you're foot holy inadequate to do anything to help God
out or to any way save yourself, He just repented.
That takes some humility, But you know, a little humility
worth being saved from a burning hell forever. I think
it is so, folks, if you think there's something good
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you can bring to the to the table, you can't
forget it. Leave it alone, leave it behind, you don't
have it. Just put faith alone in Christ along with
the faith of a little child. That's all you need
to do. Believe it right now. Do it right now, folks,
because it means it guarantees you your eternal security that
you'll be with God in heaven forever. Well, folks, I
want to tell you another story about another great some
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great men. This time it's not just a testimony of
a person, but it's about some folks that came to
old Jerusalem two thousand years ago. They were very important people.
They were kings. They were actually also sorcerers. We might
call him, which doctors and they would called mesi that
means magicians from the east. In some kind of way,
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they figured out that the King of the universe, the
creator of the universe, was going to be born as
a man. So they came to worship him two thousand
years ago. We call him the Three Kings, right. They
came to Jerusalem, couldn't find him, so they got the
religious leaders to tell them where he would be born.
So they went there, They went to Bethlehem. They found
him and they worshed him, and they brought him gold.
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Sovereign frankinsonce where there are three kings, nobody really knows.
They could have been three kings. There could have been
they could have been thirty kings. It doesn't say in
the script. We just know king's plural. The reason we
say three is because three gifts were bought, were brought.
But you know, you could had ten kings that brought gold,
ten kings that brought Frankinson's ten kings have brought murr.
We don't really know. It doesn't matter. They were there,
and of course we have their traditional names of gas
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from Melcor and Belshazzar. They're also the Ethiopians have three
different names fro him, another of the Coptic Christians having
three different names from them. So it doesn't matter. The
point is they were there and they came as pagans.
That's so astounding to me that people that would have
no way of knowing the biblical message, yet they got
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this one straight. Did it come from Daniel maybe, so
we don't know. Daniel was a rock star in the East.
Everybody knew about him. He was a meji himself, even
though he was when he was a majia, in that
he studied the ancient Biblical astrology, which tells the whole
Bible story. It's not like what you see today in
the papers whereaf yours whatever you know, Hermes, I mean,
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what are you a leo? You have these characteristics. It
has nothing to do with that. That's actually comes out
of pagan witchcraft. The ancient, most oldest astrology comes from
the Bible, and it tells the whole Biblical story to
a man, we don't have time for me to tell you,
but it's an amazing story. So, folks, this is a
wonderful testimony about men, great men from the East that
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came to worship the True God. They sought him back then.
Do you know that wise men to this day still
seek him. Are you one of those? Are you a
wise man that would go that far away and go
through all of that just to find the true King
of the universe, the true Savior of the universe, the
true God of the universe. Would you do that? They
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did it. You don't even have to go that far
because you're hearing about it right now. So the way
you can find him right now is just to believe
in your heart that he really did die far your
sins was bred and rosem the dead. If you've never
done it before, do it right now, folks, because you
may not get tomorrow. Well, it's not time for us. Closer, closer,
the mon Saint Martin singing a creole goodbye and God
bless all other.
Speaker 1 (53:08):
Does this have to be the end of the nerd?
Speaker 3 (53:13):
You know I love you. In the pamon land, I can.
Speaker 1 (53:20):
See across an million stars when I look at.
Speaker 3 (53:31):
We can mosey. It's the sun time. I suppose you
couldn't call it a cray.
Speaker 1 (53:43):
If we take just a little little longer to see
algou
Speaker 2 (53:55):
The calling creel good