Trump's Second Inauguration Followed By D.C. Mardi Gras

This week, while the nation focuses upon the second inaugural of Donald J. Trump on Monday, January 20, 2025 (ironically also the Martin Luther King holiday), the Louisiana political world will be focused on the following four-day weekend in the nation’s capitol.   Hy and Christopher talk about the major event and even go into how Opera influenced Mardi Gras— a major theme of the first event of Washington Mardi Gras.

Washington Mardi Gras may have begun 76 years ago as means for homesick Pelican State congressional staffers to throw themselves a Carnival Ball, yet from Thursday, January 23 to Sunday, January 26 the entire Louisiana political establishment will descend upon the Washington Hilton for a series of receptions so grand and well-funded that the main event of the Ball Saturday night almost feels like an afterthought.

Interest groups have good reasons to put on a cavalcade of parties and mixers, one after another, as every elected official in Louisiana is invited each year to the Ball, and as such, a good party allows facetime with a Parish President, Legislator, or member of Congress, all at the same time. Over 2000 Louisianas attend. Interestingly, this year, thanks to Louisiana’s GOP bent, many of the attendees will come for Trump’s inauguration and stay the week, with extends the parties to Wednesday night—where Gov. Jeff Landry will be feted with a major fundraiser.

Still, Washington Mardi Gras is supposed to stand as a non-partisan event.   New Orleans Democratic Congressman Troy Carter serves as the 2025 Chairman of the Ball Committee, and the various events welcome politicians and their staffs from both sides of the aisle.   This year’s King is Hispanic (Rico Alvendia, a decorated Iraq War vet, West Point grad, and founder of the Krewe of Mars) and Queen is African-American (Kendall Williams, a college student and noted civic volunteer who also founded the ‘Diversity Club’ at Louise McGehee School).

Even the events betray a non-partisan gist.  Thursday kicks off with the New Orleans Opera Association’s fundraiser/concert at the James Beard-award winning Equinox Restaurant from 11:30-2 pm with a Franco-Creole luncheon and a performance by LA-born Metropolitan Opera star Cadie J. Bryan (NOOA’s Susanna in 2023 Le nozze di Figaro) at $350 per person and honoring Opera-supporter LA PSC Commissioner Eric Skrmetta.

That is followed by 'economic development' lunches hosted by “Elevate Louisiana” and “Louisiana Alive”, invitation-only dinners for politicians and their supporters Thursday evening, the Chamber’s luncheon on Friday, then an endless number of private receptions in the Washington Hilton that afternoon, evening, and throughout the day Saturday.  The Ball is Saturday night at the same hotel, and JEDCO underwrites the breakfast-goodbye Sunday morning.

It is not an accident that the bar at the Hilton is draped with a banner reading “Welcome to the 65th Parish”.  It is the center of the political year for interest groups, a series of parties with the purpose of kicking off the legislative session, the state’s priorities in the next Congress, and the simple act of asking every politician necessary for support on a particular issue—when they are assembled in the same place, and unusually pliable after days of libations.

The fact that key political players from other states now clamor to attend the receptions and Ball underpins Louisiana’s growing Congressional power.   Steve Scalise is a long-time member of the Mystic Krewe of Louisianans, and he and Mike Johnson attend multiple events yearly. They draw fellow members of the leadership to the parties.   So does Troy Carter, who often is able to convince his fellow Democrats (sometimes including his one-time fraternity brother Hakeem Jeffries) to come by for a drink, food, or a second-line

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
Who's to see the money?

Speaker 1 (00:11):
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the road, every batter'sition to no moment, corruption and dysfunction,
It's gonna take you, divide it.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Avention God, bless you all out there. You are now
listening to the founders, show the voice of the founding fathers,
your founding fathers coming to you deep within the bowels
of those mystic and cryptic alligator swamps of the Big Easy,
that old Crescent City, New Orleans, Louisiana, and high up

(00:51):
on top of that old Liberty cypress tree draped in
Spanish moss way out on the Eagles Branch, is none
other then your beingary by bother public Chaplain Hi mcgenery.

Speaker 2 (01:02):
With Christopher Tidmore, you roving reporter, resident radical moderate and
associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly
dot net. And yes it is Inauguration week, but more
important for Louisiana, it is Washington Marty Grass where over
two thousand Louisianians and pretty much every elected official is
invited to attend, not just the ball itself, but a

(01:23):
series of events that last over five days and just
so happened to come right after Donald Trump's inauguration. So
for their public hotel, the Washington Hilton and what do
they call it, oh, the sixty fifth Parish. Yeah, I
mean it was. We'll actually talk about it. We'll talk
about how Louisiana is taking over Washington, d C. In

(01:44):
the shadow of President Trump's second in augument.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
The House exactly the most outrageous let's say, I've spoken,
most well known senator is Kennedy from Louisiana. So we
and we're the most pro life state. And certainly that's
a big issue. Well so, certainly it's not a big
shell that we're showing such a large visible presence in
d C.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
During It's the one issue Trump doesn't want to bring up.
But what is interesting, Yeah, actually, let's just jump into
talk about what DC Marty Groth for those didn't understand,
seventy six years ago, a group of Washington staffers feeling
kind of lonely with Marty gros coming in and nobody
knew about it, and Washington, d C. Said we want
to have a carnival by year. Was that Christmas bout

(02:27):
seventy six years from twenty twenty five, you know that
would be nineteen forty nine. I guess really, yeah, I
think that's right. Yeah, I think's right. And it was.
It was basically it was very informal. It was it's
called the Mystic Crew of Louisianians. And it was just
a carnival ball, like you'd have anything else, nothing nice,

(02:48):
but nothing special. And they got people who would come
up to Washington for it. And then what happened was
very slowly. One of the people who got very involved
with the carnival ball was Russell Long, the son of Hughey,
longtime US senator. He was a captain of the organization.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
He was one of my fraternity brothers.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Christ Well, yeah, but a little older than you.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Oh well contemporary age doesn't matter, Yeah, it doesn't matter.
I really was an animal house guy. You're an animal
house now.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
My father debated that, he said that was the Beta,
the beta fraternity at Dartmouth. It was not the Deeks.
And so because because yeah, I know Howard Well, I
believe Russell Long was a Deek. But that Russell that
they based that on the Beta fraternity at Dartmouth because
the guy who wrote it for National Lampoon was a

(03:34):
Beta at at Dark Chrestopher.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
That's true. But when twenty twenty did their great documentary
to find the fraternity that then most represented Animal House,
they landed crossing our fruitire plains. They landed at one house,
the Zeta Zeta chapter my chapter Lsu of Delta Kapa
absolom DK.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
Well, I know, I'm quite aware of the Zeta Zeta chapter.
I remember once I was the I kept beginning. They
kept trying to pledge me for a Deep and because
all my friends were Digs, and I kept telling him
no because I at the time I didn't drink and
I but I went to all the parties and I
played an important role, as it turns out, because I
was the one sober guy when the police would show

(04:14):
up every single Friday. But the best example of that
house was what got it banned from campus for two years.
And I get a call and they said, oh, we
got a problem. They said, what, Well, the fraternity brothers
of the Deep Fraternity had some younger brothers had stolen
an Ostrich from the Environmental Research Center and then tried
defeated dog food because they didn't know what an ostrich.

(04:36):
It died. You know how much an ostrich cost one
hundred thousand dollars in nineteen ninety two.

Speaker 3 (04:43):
That was big money.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
Back that big money.

Speaker 3 (04:45):
They were just in America and you could make a
fortune on ostriches. So the I almost bought it an
Ostriche started breeding ostriches. I know the whole story.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Well, this has nothing to do for that. Friends, we
had them, But back back to the subject. Washington, D C.
Marty Gross started out as a small kind of a
crew and then over the decades people from Louisiana would
come up and it was a carnival crew. Except what
started happening by into the seventies as Louisiana's influence was
growing and growing growing, so they began an idea sixties

(05:16):
and seventies they would invite every elected official in Louisiana,
parish presidents, parish councilmen, legislators, PSC commissioners, everybody gets invited
as a guest to the ball if you're an elected
official and your wife or husband, as the case might be.
And so when that happened, suddenly everybody from Louisiana come
and who what is the species of animal that follows

(05:37):
politicians everywhere? They're known as lobbyists. And so you started
having these major events. And since Washington, d C. Marti
Gross is a nonpartisan event, it's not non political, but
it's nonpartisan. Not the Captain, the chairman of the Ball
Committee this year is Troy Carter. To give you a
point of comparison, in his historically it's been a very

(06:01):
bipartisan event. John Brow was captain for years, as was
Bob Livingstone. And Steve Scalise is a very loyal member
of the Mister Cruve of Louisianians Mike Johnson configure. So anyway,
what happens is now all of this is happening, flash
forward to the current day. The Speaker of the House,
the Majority Leader, the Chairman of the Health and Welfare Committee,
that's Bill Cassidy, the chairman, the about to be chairman

(06:24):
of what will be the Judiciary now Appropriations which would
be possibly in the next two years, which would be
John Kennedy. All the Louisianians that are heavily involved in
the Trump administration, and they're not insignificant and the fact
that Troy Carter is arguably the most powerful member of
the Congressional Black Caucus of the chairman because he ends

(06:46):
up in a House of Representatives where there is a
one seat Republican majority. Troy Carter is one of Steve
Scalisee's closest friends. He's also the best friend the fraternity brother.
Back to our conversation, they were fraternity brothers. Really, not
like decades across. They were together as fratorney brothers. It
was about three or four years. But they knew each

(07:06):
other in college of Hakeem Jeffries and so what fnity
it's Howard Okay, Yeah, anyway, the point being that.

Speaker 3 (07:14):
They tattoo their arms, they carved their.

Speaker 2 (07:17):
He is now one of the most influential congressman because
he's the architect. He's the guy who saved Mike Johnson.
He's the guy who whenever any bill comes down to
one or two votes, it's Troy Carter, who in his
office when he gets people there for drinks on Friday,
which has become the place to go, is the guy
negotiating between the two sides. So you got all these
really really powerful Louisiana political officials and one other who's

(07:40):
coming up to this thing, which is of course Governor
Jeff Landry, who is arguably Donald Trump's favorite governor because
he was his favorite attorney Jennis Right, everything that went
on every time Donald Trump wanted to file a suit,
it was Attorney General Jeff Landry.

Speaker 3 (07:53):
It was almost like a ball honoring our new executive
head by Marty people.

Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yeah, it's it's not exactly that. It well, it is
a political, if not.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Partisan by planning. It just happened.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
Well Washington, Marti Graft of those that just joining us
will actually it kicks off officially on Thursday, and you
know what the first event of Washington Marty Girl will
be to explain it's how it can be political but
not in partisan. The New Orleans Opera is having a
fundraiser at the restaurant Equinox at eleven thirty and in
the New Orleans Opera will have a New Orleans born

(08:30):
Metropolitan Opera star by the name of Katie Bryan. Really
she's from here, but she's internationally known and she's singing
and they're having it. But from there. Elevate Louisiana, which
is a good government group, has one at one o'clock,
then Louisiana Live, which is a lot of the economic
development groups. Then Entergy's has one following that. Then we
just and basically the receptions keep going on all the

(08:53):
way until the ball, all the way through Friday. I
mean the chamber has a massive luncheon where it's ten
thousand dollars a table to go and everybody goes in
all and before.

Speaker 3 (09:02):
All this, oh this is a man. This has becomes
such a big deal every every So by the way,
remember those folks, New Orleans is the first city of opera.
We are because opera started in the whole United States
down here in.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Wals seventeen ninety six were sylvane And that's the point
we're making the importance of more importantly, where did every
carnival crew in the nineteenth century after they proceeded we
think about their having a ball. Actually the balls were
going to the opera and having a tableau at the
French opera house with opera seekers. Performing opera has been

(09:34):
a key part of Marty Garth from beginning, and it's
one of the cases that we're making for this opening fundraiser.

Speaker 3 (09:39):
You got a real performance back then, folks, when like
the little things we do. Now it was a professional
like going to the opera.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
It was it was you were literally going to the opera,
I mean a ballet or but one of the things.
But this is just the first of many events. There
are many different organizations that are having it. Some are political,
some are non political. But it's the place where it's
got national and international attention and everybody. And what has
happened is it's been a major political event for Louisiana

(10:07):
for years where all the elected officials go up and
all the Louisiana lobbyists. But we are so powerful now
as a state compared to us fact that everybody is
basically who goes up, who's going up to the Trump inauguration.
Most people just go home. They're staying the whole week,
and so this is going to be the most This
is where Louisiana quite literally with the Washington Marti Gras

(10:30):
events which are every hour wow from the beginning from
Thursday morning all the way to the ball on Saturday,
and then a giant breakfast put on by Jedco the
Jefferson Parish Economic Development on Sunday. It is this major
event where we take over the nation's capital and it
is something that has gotten so little press, and I

(10:52):
look at him like, this is something critical, this is
something massive. I mean, there is a chance senior officials
of the Trump administration will be at this as well
that are not from Louisiana. There's a small chance Donald
Trump could be there.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
He loves parties. By the way, this is, as far
as I know, the first time in the history of
our country where the inauguration had an extension of such
lavish proportions that it's lowally going you know, days past
the normal inauguration period.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
Wait, what are you talking about. Inauguration is always on
the twenties Monday, Monday.

Speaker 3 (11:23):
And then following that begins all the Marti Grass. Oh,
I see what you're saying, going up to the to
the next week. And that's what. We've never had an
inauguration event like that. Well, and we didn't plan it, folks,
it just happened.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Well, it's because in the Washington Washington Marti Gras is
always on around the twenty fifth of January, So it
just happened to be. We've had We've had that's not
really true. We've had Washington Marty Grass right after the
inauguration but they've never quite flowed into it as much
as they have this right as.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
We're talking about, Yeah, all the Louisiana leadership in Washington,
d C. Will be there. Well, yeah, the people who
are who are basically looking to Trump for guidance think
of that.

Speaker 2 (12:02):
Well, and it's it's kind of curious.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
It'd be a mega ball from a maga ball.

Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well, except it won't because and what I mean by
this is important because this is one of the few
events that is left in Washington, D C. That is
very openly bipartisan, where there as many Democrats as Republicans.
It could be more bipartisan the inauguration because the number
of Democrats like Nancy Pelosi who have historically gone to

(12:26):
the Washington Marti Gras Ball, who aren't going to the argument.

Speaker 3 (12:29):
By the way, you know, this could be truly a
unifying event. It could be for Congress. Actually, I'd be
earth shattering off our Congress could start getting along and
starting greenlanding folks.

Speaker 2 (12:38):
One of the things that constantly happens in the Washington
Marty Gras Ball itself, but also the events throughout the
whole thing are second lines, right, and you want to
have a divided people come together. There's nothing like second
lines to do it. Everybody. The number of the number
of jazz and rbs that they're flying to d C
is unbelievable. I mean, now, I'm encourage everyone because here's

(13:01):
the nice thing about a lot of the receptions you
can't go to. But if anybody happens to be going
to Washington, d C for the inaugural and wants to
once to come to the opera fundraiser, I recommended donation
three hundred and fifty dollars. But this is because you're
you're up close and personal with one of the most
famous opera stars ever to come out of Louisiana. And

(13:21):
you know, you know, we've got Senior Eric Scremetta, the
Public Service Commissioners, a chairman, there's a good chance Billy Nune,
guests or the Lieutenant Governor will be there, and a
whole bunch of stuff. And so just give me a
call aeric code five oh four three nine zero four
five seven nine or email me at c TED marrit
New Orleans Opera dot org. We'd love to have you.
But the fact is I'm going to be around and
actually we're doing next week's show from there, and so

(13:44):
I'm gonna I'm about folks, we're gonna be doing from
the Washington Marti gras Ball, So I want, I want
to set it up, but it'll be in the aftermathe
the inauguration. I'm gonna you know, I'm invited to go
to the inauguration. I decided not to go this year,
and people are like, what's any Trump? No, I went
to clars, I went to W's. I went. I've been
to several inaugurations. You know why I didn't. The security

(14:05):
is so unbelievable, and I get it. The man was
almost assassinated and there's a legitimate reason for this. But
it's gonna be the coldest.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
Really week.

Speaker 2 (14:17):
This is gonna be the New Orleans is literally as
we do the show. Well, no, by our Wednesday badcast
where it happened, everybody's talking about this is snow for
New Orleans. So it might be a quarter of an inch,
it's nothing. But in Washington, that same weather system, well,
it's gonna make it arctic. I mean, it's gonna be
several feet of snow. It's gonna be very unpleasant. The

(14:37):
minimum you're gonna have to stand outside at the inauguration
between the lines and security and all this. Even if
you don't go to the parade is six hours and
it's overwhelming. And I'll tell you something. Here's the thing
that I find interesting. I've been to inaugural balls before,
and everybody's like, you've been to the inaugural ball. One
of the things people say, you could go this year

(14:58):
and you didn't want to go, Yeah, I could have.
The reason I don't is they're the cheesiest parties that
you've ever been to. They don't really have O Duv's.
They've got cheap, low level wine. They're hot, they're usually
in a hotel ballroom, and there's no place to sit.
I remember I took a girl I was dating to
George W. Bush's and there's not one ball, there's about seven.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
They have good bands.

Speaker 2 (15:18):
Am, Yeah, they're okay. They're not great.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
They had like great brought in real big time.

Speaker 2 (15:21):
No, no, no, that's not really.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Our jazz players will out performing. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (15:26):
So one I remember. What happens is is that they're
usually these weird accommodations because they don't have one ball.
They have usually nine. They have about nine nine balls.
So what happens is about six or seven states will
get together in club together for a ball and I
remember when George W. Bush had it was the weird
They had some weird Usually it's like, you know, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas,

(15:49):
that makes sense. But I remember in two thousand it
was Louisiana, North Dakota, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and I want
to say North Carol Lina. And it was the oddest.
I mean, what are those states have in common? You're like,
it was the oddest combination. But I remember the girl

(16:11):
I the girl I was dating at the time, very seriously.
Your name was Sarah Schaeffer. I had bought her this
beautiful dress and she was in and you couldn't drive
into the district the.

Speaker 3 (16:21):
Security of the ballerina.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
No, No, that was that was later. That was a
mchaelean McEwan. But you know, I remember is my romantic
adventures over the last three decades pretty well. But she
was an engineer. She actually went to design periscopes for
nuclear submarines the Navy surfust Warsfare Center. She was on
our way to take up that job. But I'd bought
her this dress and she looked beautiful and it was
a sort of off rose pinkish Folgate gown. But there

(16:45):
was no way to drive into the district, and if
you had either yourself or a driver or cab or limousine,
you couldn't do it that They always shut that down.
So the only way you could get into the district.
We were staying in the Northern Virginia suburbs with a
friend of mine, Wallace j Malise. It was that you
had to take the metro the subway into the city,

(17:07):
and I remember everybody in the subway was in like
black tie, every single person, hundreds of people. You get
into the city and from the from where we were
to the hotel where they had the Louisiana Ball, which
actually I think was the Washington Hilton come to think of.
It was about a six block walk and it was
heavy snow and it was really unpleasant. We've been out

(17:27):
watching the inauguration that day, and so Sarah's like, I'm
wearing my tennis shoes, and I'm saying, you're gonna embarrass us.
You can't wear your tennis shoes to the inaugural ball.
This is my first ugur this is insane. I'm wearing
my tennis shoes. Whether you like it or not. The
dress is full length, nobody will see them who cares,
So we get it. And as we're cloning uphill in
the snow, she's holding up her dress to the tennis shoes.

(17:49):
She said, you see, I made the right decision. We
get to the ball, there's no place to sit for
any person, and the balls are four hours long.

Speaker 3 (17:56):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (17:57):
By the end of the ball she's showing off her
tennis shoes and she has she's literally the envy of
the entire call. All these women are like, why did
not do that? They're taking off their especially they were horrible.
It was terrible.

Speaker 3 (18:10):
She was so smart. Then. Yeah, by the ways, speaking
of jazz in Washington and parades, Uh, my first experience
with jazz in Washington. Of course, I grew up with
it here in New Orleans and loved it. But there
was this great fair, a folk fair, and all the
different states were there, you know, the Appalachians, and they
were showing their handicrafts, their music, whatever they did, fascinating

(18:33):
bluegrass music, all kinds of great music. Uh. And then
they had New Orleans and part of our folk expression
was jazz, so they had I think they had the
Preservation Hall band there, they may have may have had
the Olympic Brass Band there or whatever, and and they
actually were doing a wonderful job. And then they decided

(18:53):
to have a parade and they just took off marching
down the street. That entire fair emptied itself to follow.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
I believe it.

Speaker 3 (19:00):
It's one of the most impressive experiences I've ever had,
and it made me realize how powerful an art form
jazz is.

Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, and I you know, and I hate to say
it for those that don't know, jazz grew out of
New Orleans because we had because we had the classically
trained musicians of free people of color before the Civil
War that before the Civil War worked worked for well,
originally from Haiti. This is reason why we have the
We had the first opera here in seventeen ninety six.
It was Haitian immigrants, mostly free people of color. And

(19:29):
then they were the musician class classically trained, mostly in Paris.
They would they ran the twenty fourth theaters and twenty
five blocks. They were the ones the French opera house.
And then after this, after reconstruction, they couldn't get a job.
Segregation and the Jim Crow laws kicked in. The only
place they could get a job were in the neighborhood
halls and particularly the the clubs for lack of a

(19:52):
better term, under the legalized bordellos of Storyville, and they
were next to the former slaves who had kept the
bamboo alive. And that it's how jazz came about.

Speaker 3 (20:02):
A lot of people doing in the very beginning. During doing,
the early period of jazz, they weren't just black's doing it,
no an equal.

Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well, let me, let me. Let me explain something that
most people don't know, and I don't want to get
in a long argument about this. The reason there's a
reason there's European, there's a there's a real first. Jazz
is not a European word. It's a Delta word from
Memphis that refers to what people doing. The sheets part
is the original jazz musicians that you know about were
all Secilian Italian and the reason was they lived in

(20:33):
the same neighborhoods, particularly Faburg trumet as the former free
people of color. Whereas black people couldn't perform or could
be recorded in New Orleans, Italians could because they were
considered just white enough to be able to do it,
and so that's why the early jazz musicians tended to
be Italian. It was from the same neighborhood. And you're right,
there was other people doing it, but it was it

(20:53):
was it was coming out of the same place. Anyway,
that's another story for another day, but folks, we got
to take a quick commercial break. When we come back,
we're going to talk about as President Trump comes into office,
a lot is going on. Obviously, the Israeli hostages are
being free, a lot of those are American, a lot
of things are changing. But we're gonna look at the
foreign policy chops of the last four administrations and where

(21:14):
the situation is for Donald Trump. And an interesting thing
is Donald Trump's first term. I'm going to make a
supposition bears a frightening resemblance in some ways, and heis
could disagree. Just wait till after the break to tell
me I'm wrong. I'm gonna explain this. Trump and Obama
were very similar in what ultimately happened in their foreign policies,

(21:36):
and we're going to talk about that as opposed to
what could happen next and it might be very different,
but we're going to talk about the first term and
what could be this and how this is going to
apply to us, particularly here.

Speaker 3 (21:46):
In the USA.

Speaker 2 (21:46):
I'm gonna tell I'm gonna say how they're similar for
different reasons, but they end up being similar. Folks will
be back after these important messages with more of The
Founder's Show with Hi mcchnry and Christopher Tidmore. Stay tuned
more right after this. April fourth and sixth, a special

(22:07):
rendition of Donnazelli's Elixir of Love by the New Orleans Opera.
But it's something you've never seen before. Imagine going to
an opera in cowboy boots, fringe and jeans because it's
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April fourth, a Fay Do Doe featuring a major We're
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Speaker 3 (23:00):
I hearded cows in the swamp when I was in
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Speaker 2 (23:04):
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Speaker 2 (27:02):
With Christopher ted Moore. And you know one thing I'm
curious about. We got to get Harry Hoyler on from
a Rattlesteak Radio formerly general manager KKY. Harry, if you're
listening to this, we want to get you scheduled the
next couple of weeks because one of the things that
is happening, and this was a big triumph for Governor
Jeff Landry, is the fact that we're about to build
a massive steel plant in Louisiana. For those that don't know,

(27:25):
steel has been in the news a lot. The Japanese
firm was going to acquire US steel up in Pittsburgh
and they were told no by the Biden administration. There's
a lot of pressure and things on Donald Trump to
actually approve this deal. We're gonna see what happens. But
this side effect is that you're seeing a lot the
Japanese more than anybody else, are bringing a lot of

(27:47):
industry to Louise, to the United States. Used to be
they built car facilities and all this. Well, the Japanese
population is going in demographic decline, and the way they're
dealing with it is building in. So it means the Japanese.
The reason while you're seeing so much Japanese investment in
building actual manufacturing from the very beginnings of the root
elements like steel, all the way through the process is

(28:08):
because you know, they realize they need to be closed
to their customers and if tariff's hit in, it makes
much more sense to be in the country. So it's
actually fueling right. That's why a lot of people got
really mad at the Biden administration for denying this takeover
of US steel because they're like, this isn't the Russians
of the Chinese, this is the Japanese. There are closest
ally there actually the bridge. It's like telling a British

(28:31):
firm you can't be part of this. But the unions
were very much.

Speaker 3 (28:34):
Again Trump may throw from Japan into the US. Huh.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Well, the funny thing, well, it's interesting you bring that
up because I want to talk about foreign policy for
a second. But there's been one interesting sidebar about this
Canada as the fifty first state thing. Look, folks, I'm
there's there's there's a way for people ask me, on
the left, how do you take this guy seriously? And

(28:58):
on the right, how do you how do they not
take this guy? Why do they take this guy literally?
Here's here's the explanation for the left and the right.
Supporters of Trump don't take him literally, but they take
him seriously. Opponents of Trump take him don't take him seriously,
but take him literally. Trump is a bit okay, I
will say this, we.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Have no concept. You know, they had a great tell
one a person's exaggerating or using a metaphor to make
a point and may even be humorous. They don't get
it well in there.

Speaker 2 (29:28):
I think, Look, I'm not I'm not enjoying life. No,
I wouldn't go that far. I would say, I'd say
Donald Trump, and and please don't go crazy, because I'm
about to say something that was kind of complimentary of him.
So before you go crazy on me, Donald Trump is
a narcissistic self blowhard at times. But there is stop stops. Well, yeah,
of course it takes one to know one.

Speaker 3 (29:48):
I was just saying, yes, okay.

Speaker 2 (29:49):
But the fact of the matter is the interesting part
about this conversation. No, Donald Trump is not going to
make Canada the fifty first state anymore than you just
gonna he was going to take over Greenland. But the
I think the subtext is when all of this was
coming out, Daniel Hannon, he's a member of the House
of Lords, used to be a Conservative member of the
European Parliament, and he's been a long advocate for something

(30:11):
called the Union of the English speaking peoples. This was
Churchill's idea. The idea and he immediately says, he comes
out with a column that got a lot of play
in Canada right when this was happening, and it was
basically this, no, Canada is not gonna be the fifty
first state. What if, however, the English speaking peoples Australia,
New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States created

(30:35):
an arrangement. He called it an Anglo union. You can
call it a union of the English speaking peoples, much
like the EU where they're separate countries. And in this
case they wouldn't even have like Common Parliament. But if
there's free trade between them, there is free movement between them.
So if you're a doctor or a lawyer or whatever,
your cabinet maker in London, you want to move to

(30:56):
New Orleans, you can or to Toronto exactly. Well, you
might need a pass or to go like travel, but
you could just It's no more different than you would
be moving to Jackson, Mississippi, or you know, Washington, d C.
It's the idea, And the interesting part is Donald Trump
has thought of as this isolationist Trump. What happened next
was interesting. When all of this happened, musk on x

(31:17):
unformally known as Twitter comes in and says, I support this.
This is a great idea. Guess what happens next? Donald
Trump gives it a thumbs up. Now, this is kind
of the interesting thumb subject on Canada or this union.
This it would see the English, Yeah, exactly. The idea
being that you know you don't want taris on Canada.

(31:38):
Whether there are two ways you can go about doing this,
and this would be This is kind of interesting because
this is something that Trump's hardcore immigration opponents would hate
because what you're basically saying is, oh, well, frankly, we're
welcoming in the entire English speaking union. But Trump has
an interesting perspective, the same as Boris Johnson others, the

(31:59):
same as Musk does, which is the fact people forget something.
Trump's mother was Scottish. Right, Trump's family is British and
or his mother's family is British, and that.

Speaker 3 (32:09):
He's always asked, you got to watch it.

Speaker 2 (32:11):
British is fine. Not I didn't say English. Musk's mother, grandmother, mother,
grandmother was English, and you can say that. But he
was Scottish. But that's approp. It's appropriate that calls them
in British if you're it's you know, saying that. Right.

Speaker 3 (32:23):
They were part of the British Isles.

Speaker 2 (32:24):
Yeah, they are still part of the UK. They're still
part of the I.

Speaker 3 (32:27):
They used to be independent, remember Brave Heart William Wallace.

Speaker 2 (32:30):
Yeah, not since seventeen oh seven.

Speaker 3 (32:32):
I know when when King James came to England he
united all.

Speaker 2 (32:36):
No, actually it was two hundred years later. It was
under King George the Second when James became the common Monarch.
But they weren't one union until seventeen Scotland.

Speaker 3 (32:44):
When he came he wanted to he was James the
sixth in Scotland, folks, James James the first in England,
which meant he's like uniting the two countries.

Speaker 2 (32:51):
The reason the reason why I bring this up is
do I think it's going to happen. Not on no
one of the current governments that we have. But it
brings up an interesting idea, this ken Zukus idea, This
idea that you could be that together the English speaking
nations could come together. There's support for it, and if
this comes out of Trump's administration, if it really does
come and there's there's believe it or not. Most of

(33:12):
the immigration opponents in as a mission but hate this
idea because it would basically be opening up immigration. You know,
other English speaking countries have large Muslim minority population, so
and so forth. There's enough, there's enough people that would
oppose it. Frankly, I think it would be the way
the United States and the English speaking world stays relevant
because that would give us a combined population of five

(33:32):
hundred almost six hundred million people. It would we would
be the biggest trade block in the world. We would
be the biggest economy. You're the the by the way,
and some people have said, if you ever did that,
you'd have to put Japan into it. Since everybody in
Japan speaks English and Japan has I would say most
people don't realize this. Japan pacifistic. Japan has the second
largest navy in the world after the United States. It's

(33:55):
got the most effective military naval forces in the world.
The only people.

Speaker 3 (34:00):
Whatever they have their military hardware, it's going to be
the best.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
It's the very best and the only only Britain has
more has they have an aircraft carre of Britain has two,
but otherwise the United States has six. No One else
on Earth has a projective aircraft carrier. The Russians what
they have can't get more than one hundred miles outside
of Romansque. What the Chinese have cannot go one hundred
and fifty miles away from Shanghai only only there are

(34:24):
only three nations on Earth that have projective military car.

Speaker 3 (34:28):
You're talking about a group, a naval group. What I
mean by that is it's not just the aircraft carry
it's like twenty other.

Speaker 2 (34:36):
No, it's it's an entire combat. It's the aircraft carry
is the center of it together. Yeah, it's but it's
it's a it's a carrier group, right. But what I
want to talk about, if Trump accomplishes that, he will
have achieved something that no US president will have ever achieved.
If he does it, I don't even know it's a priority.
I don't have a high belief that he will. And
I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you something that's interesting.

Speaker 3 (34:58):
Great a union of these speaking of people's or.

Speaker 2 (35:01):
I don't really think Trump's going to have much of
a foreign policy at all. And the reason is his
first term as a doctrinal foreign policy he did things
in foreign policy, but as a doctoral foreign policy, Trump
didn't really have one. There's there's no thing you could
say is the Trump doctrine. He did a lot of
things all over the place, just like there's nothing you
can really say was the Obama doctrine. And this is

(35:22):
what there is something you can say that. There was
a very distinct doctrine for the Biden administration. And part
of it was horrible and part of it was really good.
So this is let me explain. So having a doctrine
doesn't necessarily mean a good thing. Let me let me
let me get now, Joe Biden's given his farewell address.
Let me let me explain Joe Biden for a second.
Joe Biden was the worst foreign policy president and one

(35:45):
of the best at the same time. What do I
mean by that, Well, the worst is no one could
have done worse in getting US out of Afghanistan than
Joe Biden did. It's it's it's a it's a it's
a blithering joke on every single lay. On the other hand,
and this is what I mean the best, Joe Biden
did something that neither Obama nor Trump, nor for that matter,

(36:06):
George W. Bush or Clinton did, And when he came
into office, he withdrew us formally from the IMF Treaty,
the Intermediate Forces Treaty which had been signed in the
eighties and Royal Reagan. It was the idea that you
couldn't have nuclear forces that could go under five hundred miles,
You couldn't have ballistic forces or hypersonic missiles or anything
like that. It was the idea of the Russians and

(36:27):
the Europeans wouldn't dead. He one thing Biden was good
about was running a meeting, at least in his first
two terms when he still was pretty much mentally there
and he remembered when he was in the eighties these
weapons systems that were being developed, and he actually made
an insistence to start developing it. A lot of the
drone technology that you're seeing in Ukraine, a lot of

(36:49):
the stuff that we're deploying this you're seeing, maybe, but
a lot of the drone tech, a lot of the
intermediate missile forces, and the new technologies that are coming
out now. We're based on things that Joe Biden did
when he took office in twenty twenty. And it's amazing
how fast things have come in because he took that action.
So you got Biden who has done something that will

(37:11):
have an impact on our military forces that hadn't been
because it took definite presidential leadership to change an entire direction.
We hadn't developed any of this since the nineteen eighties,
and he made the major priority of his administration and
pushed it through very actively.

Speaker 3 (37:25):
I think Obama did that.

Speaker 2 (37:26):
No, he didn't.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
I think he was White House.

Speaker 2 (37:28):
That's I don't think. Well, I don't think Obama was.
And here's why I'm about to be incredibly critical. Obama
and Trump are a lot alike for different reasons. What
I mean by that is Obama very smart. But at
the same time, he did not like to have meetings.
He did not He never put forward a policy on
anything because Obama basically for a great charismatic Obama. Obama

(37:50):
didn't like people. He didn't like lobbying, he didn't like
dealing with Congress, he didn't like dealing with people in
his own administration. He didn't like actually meeting with his
own cabinet secretaries. He'd go a year or two without
having a meeting with a cabinet secretary. And I'm talking
major cabinet secretaries, Health.

Speaker 3 (38:04):
And Human Services and labor people. He did no.

Speaker 2 (38:07):
Actually he didn't one of them. I would have been
feel better if he had. He was the most barricaded
president in the Oval office that we have had since
Woodrow Wilson had a heart attack and Edith goult ran
his administration. He was terrible. So, by the way, all
the Democrats now are ready to kill me, let me
explain this. Donald Trump never had a problem having a meeting.

(38:29):
Donald Trump likes people. Donald Trump, there's no critician there.
What Donald Trump doesn't like to do in meetings is
talk about policy. He would have meetings that would talk
about anything else, a lot about himself but also other things.
But he didn't. But no, But the point is he
doesn't like to talk and formulate policy. Donald Trump got
this idea in the first term. I'm not saying it's
going to be the second term. But this is if

(38:50):
history is any guide that the way you did policy
was you tweeted it out and then suddenly everybody picked
it up. No, that doesn't work in Washington. It is
you have to be a bureaurodic warrior. And Trump never
really got this, or at least he didn't have anybody
around him who was able to process it through the
way Biden did. Now, they had some positive side effects
of that with both Obama and Trump. Both of them

(39:12):
were willing then to let the military run the wars.
And because of that, what did Obama do? Obama who
got elected, Obama who got elected on getting out of
Afghanistans put a surgeon. If you remember Trump who got
elected and get his out of Afghanistan. What does he do.
He listens to his commanders and he reduced American casualties

(39:32):
in Afghanistan to zero because basically he said, you guys
run it. The same thing Obama did on the other hand,
he didn't do anything consequential to change anything.

Speaker 3 (39:42):
Christopher, I don't quite agree with that, because when Trump
turned his military loose, they did the job well. For instance, Obama,
I'm convinced help create ISIS. I don't have time to
develop that. And then and he called it when it
got bad. He was to protect himself. He says, oh, well,
they're just a JV team, no big deal. But then

(40:03):
when they turn out to be really bad, then his
next thing was no one can stop him, and and
his military certainly didn't. Once Trump came in, within a
year he had destroyed ISIS. I mean, he had stepped
on him like they were a bunch of roaches and
then uns that. I think Trump is very well qualified
for dealing with international affairs because he's done it for
most of his life. He has major business holdings all

(40:24):
around the world. He's had to deal with all these
different nations and different cultures and make it work. I'm
talking about big money, big operations. He understands the international world.
He's been very successful in it. So he really does
know how to work at that level and he's good.

Speaker 2 (40:37):
At it all right, So what's your positive thing about Obama.

Speaker 3 (40:41):
Christopher, Oh, he has a nice smile.

Speaker 2 (40:43):
No, I mean, come on, seriously, what can I say?

Speaker 3 (40:45):
He messed up the military, He damaged us and he
was the beginning of a poorest border that that started.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Learning find anything you were, you were in you were
in fantasy.

Speaker 4 (40:57):
Yes, I was when the surge happened. Remember, yeah, Christopher,
Now now you want to know what I know about
that from the inside. What I'm talking about from the headquarters,
the coalition headquarters.

Speaker 2 (41:09):
That means all if you got thirty seconds where almost says.

Speaker 3 (41:12):
I had had a close friend at the top, the
twenty four colonel, and you know what they were doing.
They were running around in circles, accomplishing nothing, and they
were they were in a panic over how are they
going to explain all this one day? How are they
going to explain it? And what is their exit plan? None?
How are they going to win this thing? They don't know? Now,

(41:32):
that's what I heard from the top, and that's Obama's best.
Best he can do it.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
Stanley or Crystal might disagree with you. Who did actually
pacify Afghanistan?

Speaker 3 (41:40):
You know he did some good things. Christ and I
went to his school, by the.

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Way, Yeah, I know, my point being when I get
right down to it, it is frightening and it makes
people there's no.

Speaker 3 (41:50):
Post, all the problems there and got fired because of it.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
Remember, and it also was also the one who did
the surge and also says but.

Speaker 3 (41:57):
Realized the way it was being handled was right. He
couldn't do it. They would not let him run it. Look,
that was the problem. The fact and he exposed that
and he got fired.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
For the fact of the matter is, yeah, and I do.
The fact of the matter is both. So far in
his first term, Trump did not have a doctrine, a policy,
a consistent international view. The question is in his second term,
if he's going to have it, We're going to find
out very shortly. Having a consistent international view sometimes can
be a really bad thing, and can sometimes it can

(42:26):
be a really good thing. The fact of the matter is,
I'm watching and this morning as I'm reading the Wall
Street Journal on the hostages being released, it's fascinating to
watch half of Trump's people think it was the best
thing he could have done, by putting pressure on it
and getting the hostages. The other half said, we get
We're releasing fifty Hamas terrorists for every one personally.

Speaker 3 (42:47):
That's why work.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
Except except Donald Trump. Except Hi, Donald Trump took credit
for it, and Benjamin met and Hi, you called Trump
first and credited him, which Trump accepted.

Speaker 3 (43:00):
He put pressure on them that Biden was not doing it.

Speaker 2 (43:02):
Yeah, but Trump claimed it is his plan and he
did it.

Speaker 3 (43:04):
No, I didn't claim it was his plan.

Speaker 2 (43:05):
Yes he did, Yes, he did. I bet you a
hundred bucks. Go take a look, folks. You let us
know who's.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Created by the Biden administration forced upon Israel and Hamas
and they folded when they realized Trump was coming in.
And they knew that Trump would stick to those guns
and vender sarventime. They better do something, so they did.
But it's not going to work, Christopher, because they break
them ups, will break it. I mean, that's the end.
I think. I think back again, and all we get

(43:32):
is a couple of housages out of it. That's it.

Speaker 2 (43:33):
No, I think we're gonna get. Look, I don't think
it's a great deal.

Speaker 4 (43:35):
I think and they're going to get what ten or
fifty for it's fifty.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
It's fifty for every hostage. So they're gonna release thirty
and we're gonna.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
Have terrorists back into their operation operational.

Speaker 2 (43:47):
I think it's a bad deal. It's the deal, then
then why is Donald Trump assuming creditor?

Speaker 3 (43:53):
That's all? But this is my export politics.

Speaker 2 (43:55):
That's all. Is it good politics? Is it good policy?

Speaker 3 (43:57):
Is it?

Speaker 2 (43:58):
Is it what a foreign policy? So we'll see. But
it's definitely the kind of guy who comes in with.

Speaker 3 (44:03):
When he speaks, people jump or it's not full of wrong.
They know they don't have a weakling and a wimp
in a White house. It means they got somebody who's
really gonna do what he says.

Speaker 2 (44:12):
Really, or maybe just something that they don't know what
the hell he's gonna do. All right, folks, we gotta
take what he's gonna do.

Speaker 3 (44:16):
Really. Yeah. Too many Terrists have been wiped out by Trump,
and Russians had been taken out by the Trump by Trump,
all right, by him saying telling his military go get him,
all right, and I mean he backs off and they
do their jobs.

Speaker 2 (44:27):
So look at we're gonna close with this. You couldn't
say anything positive about a bomb, I'm sure say something negative.
Say something negative about Trump.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
I would say, at times he's too impetuous. Uh, he's
he's uh kind of like Peter in the Bible, you know,
almost every time Peter opened his mouth and put his
foot in it. But Peter was a great man, and
so Trump is has that tendency to to be a
little too bold, sometimes too aggressive sometimes and I think.

Speaker 2 (44:56):
Ladier were too stupid something.

Speaker 3 (44:57):
Yeah, but but now I really tell me something. Can
you think it's good about a boumce?

Speaker 2 (45:01):
I just it?

Speaker 3 (45:01):
Well, I I can agree with that, so all right,
but it was good.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
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Speaker 3 (46:24):
Well, folks are back in this chapel HIGHMC comunity, and
it's not time for us going to our chaplain. Bye bye.
Patriotic moment where we just take a brief moment to
remind you of the biblical foundations of our country, our
Judeo Christian jurisprudence, and today we're going to talk. Give
a quote from Millard Fillmore, who was the thirteenth President
of the United States, and in eighteen fifty he said, this,
may God save the country, for it is evident that

(46:46):
the people will not folks. You know, today we're talking
about MAGA right, and I believe in that make America
great again. But I think it's very important to find
out what made America great in the beginning, in the
very beginning, and our finding fathers all new it. They said,
every which way you can possibly say, it is a
preponderance of evidence. For this time does not allow me
to go into really any of it. But milland fieldmore

(47:07):
was echoing that belief of the founding fathers that it
was God that made America great. And folks, if we're
going to be great again, we got to get God
back in the picture. Right. Listen to millenfilm er. He says,
may God save the country, for it is evident that
the people will not. If we don't include God in

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making America great again, We're just going to make a
big mess. So remember that, folks, as you fight, as
you pray, as you work to bring back our great republic.
If you will remember, we better keep God right in
the middle of it, or we're never going to make it.
And those are my thoughts. For the biblical foundations of
our country. We have enormous evidence to prove this that

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America was founded as a Biblical based country. Our laws
and rules and jurisprudence are clearly based on the Scripture.
Madison said that it was the Ten Commandments upon which
the Constitution was written and the only way the country
could work. These stories go on and on and on. Anyway,

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what about you, folks? Is God in the middle of you?
Is God going to make you great? He wants to
and lead on. I'm gonna tell you how God made
me great, if you will, and let me define that
word great. I mean big in God's eyes. I mean
great in the sense of being redeemed. I mean knowing
that you are a child of God, you belong to
his royal family, you are a priest in his religion.

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If you will, this is how it works, folks. The
Bible says that God loves you with an everlasting love.
And the Bible says that we're a mess, an unholy mess,
just like Fillmore was referring to here, We're a big mess,
and without God we don't have a chance. I'm talking
about it as an individual. Now, forget the country, forget
your religion or denomination, whatever, Just you, you and God, because

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that's what this is really all about. Your denomination won't
get you to Heaven. I don't care what it is.
I'm a Baptist. I work real closely with Catholicis. If
actually we work with we're interered denomination. Work with all
the different religions, they're all good. I've even done Jewish weddings.
I love them all. I work closely with them all.
They all have such good things. But that's not what's
going to get you to heaven, because the only good

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thing that gets you to heaven is a great work
of Jesus on the cross, when the Bible says he
died for all of your sins, that he was buried,
and that he rose from the dead to win for
you his precious free gift of resurrection, ever lasting life
to whosoever believeth Folks, if you've never believed this, now
you better believe it. You better believe that. First of all,

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you can't save yourself. You're an absolute unholy mess, and
there's no way you I don't care how good you
are on the good things you try to do. The
Bible says all of our righteous are as filthy rags.
So no matter how hard you try, it's just not
going to be good enough. So what you have to
do is give up on that. You have to believe
you can't save yourself, that your hopeless and helplessly lost
destined to a burning hell. When you come to that

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point in your understanding, the Bible says, you just repent it.
That is what repentance is. Jesus kept saying, repent and believe.
And then the second party you believe is to believe
that he did, that he is, and that he will
save you from a terrible burning hell and guarantee you
everlasting life in heaven with his resurrection life. If you've

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never got there before, do it now. Believe right now
that Jesus is the only way. Nothing else works. Your religion,
your good works, your money, what your good looks, your charm,
whatever you think you got, going to give it up.
That's repentance. And now you're free to put faith alone
in Christ alone. If you've never done this before, please
do it now, like the Bible says, now today is

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a day of salvation. Like the old country preacher said,
don't wait till it's too late. Well, folks, now it's
time for us to go into our testimony time where
we just take a brief moment to remind you of somebody.
It might be someone living today. It might be somebody
from the first century church. It could beat somebody from
the Old Testament period. It could be any great or

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even pre Abraham. Jonah, I mean job was before Abraham.
So there are many many stories we can tell about
the great things that God did through people. And today
I'm gonna tell you about me. I'm gonna give you
my testimony. It's gonna be short, we're running out of time.
But I was a little bit of kid. First memory
I ever had was that God was good. And I

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love God. I thought he was it. He was everything
to me. And then I began to realize I had sin,
and my sin would take me to hell. Well, man,
I began to do everything I could. I followed my
religion to everything they wanted me to do. I was
doing it morning, noon and night. I got in church,
every tomic. I did everything I could to earn God's salvation,
to earn a place in heaven. And then finally, when
I was eleven years old, I realized that won't ever happen.

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I'll never be good enough. I found it out through
the Bible, because the Bible says all of your rights
is filthy rigs. And I learned that all I had
to do was trust Christ. And when I heard the
Verse for God, so loved the world that he gave
his only begotten son, as Jesus said, who's server believe
in him, Believe that he died for your sins in
Rosemond shall not perish, but have every last night. When
I heard that verse and I saw where it fit,

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and that all my religious activities were never going to
get me into heaven, I believed with all my heart
because I quit believe in anything else. So now my
whole heart was free to put faith alone and Christ alone.
I did it. I was eleven years old and ever
since then, folks, it's been quite an experience. It's been
one amazing experience after another as God has brought me
through time to this time in my life where I

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have been able to do ministry and serve God in
so many different ways, so many places, and it's been wonderful. So, folks,
that's my testimony. And really it's a lot longer, but
time doesn't allow for me to elaborate. Maybe next time
I will later in the year or whatever. So anyway,
it's time for us to go now. And remember now,
let me tell you, folks, if you've never done this before,
you better do it. You better believe like I believed,

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believe that Jesus really did die for since Jesus, perfect God,
perfect man, all the way, God, all the way Man,
he died for all your sins, from the day you're born,
in the day you died, you Italians to your greatest sins.
Believe in that right now, folks without hesitation, believe and
let us pray. Dear God, thank you for this show.
Thank you for allow many blessings. There's anyone out there
that needs to know you make it clear to them,
bring them to that point in their life where they

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will put faith alone and Christ and they really believe,
real believe with all of their heart. We love you
in praise, and we ask all these things in our
Mighty Savior's name, the Lord Jesus Christ, God Incarnate. Amen,
arman Oman, say Martin, take it away with a creole goodbye.
Does this have to be the end of the neld?

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See across the million stars.

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