Upcoming Elections & Polls Are Tight

We talk about the upcoming elections, how close the polls are, and Hy and Christopher take a few minutes to interview Josie Olivia about the new play at Le Petit Thestre.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Battles, the politicians, the press of digitators and magicians. First
to see the money they did, don't there's nothing to feel.
The holes well then are fill in their pockets that
holes the politicians bouncing down the road. Everybody's wish for

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no moment, corruption and itysfunction. It's gone to take Divide
is aven.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
The legislative session is at seni die or at an end?

Speaker 3 (00:35):
Who won? Did Orleans lose?

Speaker 2 (00:38):
Did Representative Michael Baham have the only original idea to
come out? All that, along with a look at the
results of the primaries, including California and whether or not
Texas and Maine have both lost their minds on either
end of the political spectrum. All this and more and
a little thought about once the great play at Le
Petit Theater on this edition of Founder.

Speaker 4 (01:00):
Show, and God bless you all out there. You are
now listening to the founders. So the voice of the
founding fathers, your founding fathers, coming to you deep within
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and high up on top of that old Liberty cypress
tree draped in Spanish moss way out on the Eagles Branch.
It's none other then Your's Bengary Baba of the republic
Chaplain Hi McHenry, who.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
With Christopher Tidmore, your roving reporter, resident radical moderate and
associate editor of the Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana Weekly
dot net. And I want to get into the legislative
session some compliments and kudos to my friend Mike Baham,
some really good legislation that came out, including one on
the sewage and waterboard that could be positive for New Orleans,
and other legislation might not be as positive. But I

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want to put all that aside and actually talk about
the primaries that have happened over the last week. And
Trump had a mixed bag, but he had more wins
than losses.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
You know.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
He obviously his candidate did not succeed in the Iowa
gubernatorial race as a higher probability of the Republicans will
hold Iowa because his candidate did not succeed, but the
guy was there under other circumstances would still be called
a conservative. People don't understand, even though it's a farm state,
is a very purple state. It's a states. It was

(02:27):
the quintessential swing state up until very recently. But obviously
most of the attention some was on California, where Steve
Hilton looks like he's going to be coming out in
first place in the open primary. Thank god for the
open primary like we used to have here in Louisiana,
across and in LA where nobody would expect it. Spencer Pratt,

(02:48):
the villain from the Hills reality show, has challenged himself
having lost his house and a fire into a populist windstorm.
And actually I agree with Spencer Pratt. Ironically, the reality
star is the adult in the room actually talking about policy.
But I honestly don't want to talk about those. Yeah,

(03:09):
we can, but I want to talk about what happened
in Maine and in Texas's.

Speaker 4 (03:14):
Real comment, we won't know the outcome of the California
race because they've rigged it to where they can take
weeks to count the votes. And isn't it interesting every
time you have a state or an area where they
take a long time to votes, it always turns out
in favor of the Democrats. Just an accident, I guess. No.
Folks that are still in the election and I feel

(03:35):
so sorry for those Republicans. I don't think they're going
to have a chance because the election will be stolen.

Speaker 2 (03:40):
They got all the illegal aliens voting right, and so
one of the things Steve Hilton, and I'm not close
friends with Steve Hilton. I don't even know if he'd
recognize me at a distance, but I knew him in London.
He was one of David Cameron's advisors, and I knew
him at Westminster and he's he is to given when
it comes to political skill. An American comparison, Ron Klain

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or Karl Rove, somebody who really was. He was the
architect of the Tory victory seventeen years ago. Anyway, so
he's running. He's no longer a British subject, by the
way he described his British nation, you know, citizenship into
twenty twenty one. He's an American citizen only. But he's
running to be governor California. He came out first about

(04:21):
twenty eight percent of the vote. Interestingly, the mail in
system benefited him. And here's why, no, listen to me.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Vote christ first. The vote.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
But it is statistical impossibility at this point that because
enough of the votes come in that he wouldn't end
up in the top two. That's not necessarily true in
Los Angeles where Spencer Pratt, where the progressive could come in,
but it is actually true in the governor's race.

Speaker 5 (04:49):
No. No.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
What's interesting about it is if you remember there were
there are two Republican candidates of consequence in that race,
he and the sheriff, Chad Bianco, and Chad Bianco got
eleven percent of the vote came in fourth or fifth.
But the point is, for a while they were even
talked that the two Republicans could shut out all the Democrats.

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And then there was talk but the Democrats Xavier Bricara
and Tom's saying the progressive billion climate person billionaire could
shut out the Republicans. What happened was there was a
break for Xavier Berkara and for Steve Hilton on either
side in the last minute vote. So a lot of

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people waited until the very last minute. And the way
California works is if your votes are postmarked by the
election day, by five pm on election day, in other words,
you brought them to a postal box by five pm
on election day, they can be counted. They have until
the ninth of June, which has already passed to get
him in, and then it takes four while to count it.

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There is a compelling evidence that, interestingly, it actually benefited
Steve Hilton. Because Steve Hilton going into this was about
twenty three percent and Chad Bianco was about fifteen or
sixteen percent. They were relatively close in the polls, and
a lot of Sheriff Bianca's vote went to Steve Hilton.
So this is one of the points John Couvian made

(06:13):
on the radio with us. There are times where mail
in ballots, because they happen to target a lot of
rule voters who tend to be Republicans, are actually a
beneficiary for Republicans. Interestingly, if California votes to put in
photo IDs, mail in votering will cease to exist in California.
And that's what's on the ballot in November. Is one

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of the initiatives along with Steve Hilton. But actually, what
I want to talk about, if you don't mind, is
this weird dichotomy that's going on in Texas and Maine
and how it's showing up for the polls. Now, I'm
what's fascinating about California, as left wing and crazy as
it is, the open primary is the most democratic, little
d way of having election, and it's the closest thing

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to what the Founders were talking about in Federalists forty one.
This is why I've had a problem with Jeff Landry
trying to get rid of it. The founders were very
worried about faction, that it was their term for political party.
They were They hated the idea of close political sessions
in close political primaries. They wrote about it literally in
the in the Founding, in the Federalist papers, this was

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a bad, bad idea.

Speaker 4 (07:19):
And George Washington's farewell addressed. He warned the nation about
that that we should not factionalize and break up into
different parties, but still continue to be a united government
where we can, you know, we can get together all
as one group, instead of breaking up and going on
the attack with one another. The followers, their followers failed

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to get that wisdom.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
And part of the reason we're the Founder show is
there's a lot of Republicans who are like, no, I
don't want a week you know, wishy washy Republican and
a lot of Democrats have listened to us and we
do actually have some liberals that listen to us who
come out, you know, I want I want a real progressive.
This is kind of defeating the purpose of what the
founders were talking about. And when it comes to faction,
and when I'm going to be honest with you is
you can look at Maine and Texas as a perfect example. Now,

(08:05):
the one thing you didn't hear me say that surprised
you a little bit was I wasn't critical of Donald
Trump last week for endorsing Ken Paxton. You never heard
me say it. And here's why. Because Donald Trump endorsed
Ken Paxton for a very simple reason. He could read
a poll and amongst Republican voters, for example, he didn't

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really need to endorse Julia Letlow. Cassidy was going to
lose that primary here in Louisiana because Republican primary voters
didn't want him to come back. Well, the reverse happened
in Maine. If anybody hasn't been paying attention to the
main race, and you should, because how Maine goes, you
don't often get to say this statement goes Maine, so

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goes the United States Senate. Whoever controls the Maine US
Senate seat controls the Senate. There is almost no pathway
for the Democrats to gain the Senate without gaining Maine.
And you'd think Democrats would like Republican who's in there.
Susan Collins is the most bipartisan of all the senators.
She's essentially a social liberal fiscal conservative. She's never met

(09:07):
a tax cut she doesn't like. She's very hard on regulation,
but she's socially liberal, she's pro choice, so and so forth.
She kind of fits Maine pretty well overall. Well, she
was going to end up in a race for a
while with the sitting governor of the state. Governor's seventy eight.
But she's very, very popular, and she was going to run,

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and a out of nowhere, a so called oyster fisherman
by the name of Graham Platner shows up. He's former
military who has suffered with a lot of PTSD, or
at least that's the excuse, and he would come out run. Well,
the more people learn about Grand Platner, you know, and
the progressives suddenly got behind him to the point where

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the governor effectively drops out of the race. She realized
she can't win, and she's like, you know, I'm seventy eight.
I really don't need this. I'm not going to run.
So he was coasting, you know, having been with this
progressive left wing socialist surge, having been forced out, and
then we begin to learn about this candidate. First of all,
oyster fisherman is an exaggeration. He's an he's an oyster

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hobby farm. He's not really like the stalwart sense of Maine.
He himself got out of the military, and we know
people have been talking about the Nazi tattoo. Apparently now
we know he's a whole series of tattoos on him
that were frankly horrendous. You know, the Nazi tattoo was

(10:33):
the only the tip of the tattoo Iceberg. And of
course you think, well, you know he had PTSD, went
through a bad time. He got married, get ready, folks,
thirteen and a half months ago, and in that thirteen
and a half months he has sent sexually oriented text.
We have the text he sexted ten women in one year.

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This is he's going around saying, well, you and the
media don't want to talk about policy, you want to
talk about this. The sexting scandal was actually brought up
by one of his former aides who came out and said,
the guy's a lunatic. Now, why am I telling you
all this? Because in Maine previously, Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent,
was down twelve points. She was going the way Mary

(11:18):
Landrew once went in Louisiana. And you know what the
polls are now, they're in a statistical dead heat forty
five to forty two with a three and a half
percent margin of error. Now the reason I'm telling you
this and you can respond is the same thing happened
in Texas in reverse, Ken Paxton, it would not have
mattered how Trump acted in this race. I don't think

(11:39):
Trump could have saved Corwin. Ken Paxton is the darling
of the magar write Ken Paxton has all of these problems.
Ken Paxton, I'll say this one positive thing. I don't
think he's a Nazi. But that's about all I can say.
I can say that he was impeached by the text

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a report publican in Texas House, nearly convicted, but by
the Republican Texas Senate. His wife, who's a Republican state senator,
has filed for divorce on biblical grounds because he cheated
on with three or four women. Okay, that's a personal issue.
He's now been brought up on four different corruption charges
of shady deal financial deals he has gotten. He has

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a ring of outrageous comments and he right now, according
to the last four polls that have come in Texas,
James Talerico is leading anywhere from three to seven points. Now,
this is Texas. Tylerico high and I have gone back
and forth about how whether he's a.

Speaker 3 (12:43):
Fruit loop or not.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
I don't think he is high as his but I
will say this, he isn't the strongest candidate they could have.
On the Democratic side. He comes off pretty well. He's
not terrible. The fact that in Texas he is defeating
a Republican forty four percent of the people who voted
for Corwin. According to the latest USA USA W Wall

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Street General poll, forty four percent of the people who
voted for John Corwin have said they will vote for
James tallerco they will not cast a vote for Ken Paxton.
Texas is about to go democratic, as Maine might go Republican.
So the point I'm getting to all of this is
there is a danger on reasonable politics because if there

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had been an open primary in either or both of
these states. What would have happened, Well, Corwin would have
probably gotten some Democratic votes and he probably would have
made the top two with Tall Rico. Or it might
have been an all Republican runoff, you know, the general
election might have been Corwin versus Paxton. What would have
happened in Maine, the sitting Democratic governor would have probably
gotten some Republican votes, but at the very least you

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would have had a more open contest. Here's a point
of Parrison, California. We keep making fun of how terrible
California is, but Schwarzenegger put in the same system that
Edwin Eddas put in Louisiana and so and so forth,
and they had sixty one people run for governor. Sixty one,
but guess what, their top five or six candidates were

(14:16):
constantly in competition, and you had an actually good race
with a pretty compelling couple of candidates that have come
out of it. Steve Hilton may be British, but he's
one of the most brilliant political strategists in the country.
And Xavier percar may whether you like him, he's an
establishment Democrat who's actually a little sane. He's not on
the left wing of Stier and the others who want

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single payer and all this. Compare that to Texas and
Maine and you see how really screwed up we've gotten
in our politics because of the closed primary. And frankly,
what scares me is Jeff Landry wants more of this,
not less folk.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
So what if he's British or was British, think of it.
Our founding fathers were all British. England had many great
traditions that we fo to this day, the Magna Carter,
English common law, all based on biblical concepts. So folks,
just because these British.

Speaker 2 (15:07):
Said, you know, so what California has a long tradition
of electing people who may not have been you know,
the central conventional way of having it the election.

Speaker 4 (15:15):
Right foreigners, and so he would Hilton would be the
second foreigner that they voted in as their governor. And yeah,
interesting point. But then you know California's that's outlandish things
for better or for worse. You know, they have a
history of that. Maybe it's Hollywood. I don't know what
it is. There's something crazy there because when I've at
times I visited, had cousines that live in California every time,

(15:36):
and I thought New Orleans was crazy.

Speaker 6 (15:38):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (15:39):
I saw some of the biggest looney tunes who you
would think would be normal people. When you get to
talk to them, ooh man, they're crazy. They are really great,
bona fide, genuine uh super crazy.

Speaker 2 (15:49):
I have the answer to your question actually on that.

Speaker 3 (15:51):
Why is California different? It's simple.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Every other part of the country was elected was settled
by one of four groups from England. To keep this
very short, it was either alban Seed, the albe Unseed,
David Hackett Fisher. They were either from the Midlands of England,
that's the Quakers as we think of it. They were
from the East Anglia that's the Puritans. They were from
the southern counties Westminster. And they also had the Scots Irish,

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which was from the Scottish borderlands in northern Ireland and
the areas that got settled those four areas, those four groups. Today,
if you win three of the four groups should become
president of the United States.

Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's how Trump.

Speaker 2 (16:28):
Trump managed to get the Scot's Irish on his side
and win the Midlanders and the Tidewater, which was the
southern counties of Britain. Which came and settled the South
all four.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
The only group he.

Speaker 2 (16:39):
Didn't win was the Puritans the East Anglians. Well, here's
why is California different. Each of them have individual traditions.
For example, the log cabin came about because the Scots
Irish used to have the English and the Scottish burned
down their houses every other year, and they would build
log cabins because they could rebuild a house every year.
That it's not because they couldn't mild wood, and it
just became their tradition that they kept over centuries. There

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are many other reasons why these groups and the Puritans
were heavily into education, but they also were democratic little
d but tolerated because of that the town meeting democracy,
higher taxes. Historically you go through the whole list, Well,
every state was settled by groups of those people, one
group or another or combinations, except California, because it was

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settled so fast eighteen forty nine they found gold. All
four groups ended up there at the same time, which
is why every bad and every sometimes good idea in
the United States, every crazy idea, and every idea that
revolutionizes the country, everything starts in California.

Speaker 4 (17:41):
So let me explain a little further on that. Wherever
they've settled on the East coast, sooner or later they
went west. That was a big thing. Go west, young man,
go west. So the nation was rapidly moving west, from
the old settlers to the new immigrants and everybody else.
And as they went they brought that tradition with them
to west. You have you have bands across America that

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carry this type of culture and personality of the various
areas that from England and except for two places, California,
like Chris said, they all piled into California for the
goal and then Louisiana because we kind of had a
different background. We have where as mixed, if you will,
as California, and so we kind of have a different
way of voting and doing our politics. Also. And by

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the way, Christopher mentioned Westminster earlier. That's where he knew
Steve Hillton. For those who don't know, Westminster is like
our capitol hill. It's that's what they call it. And
there's Westminster Cathedral nearby, and that's where the big band
is in Parliament and all that. And so when you
hear Westminster concerning England, that means their Capitol Hill, their
government center of government. And by the way, I just

(18:48):
want to say something about veterans and PTSD. You know,
I know it very well because I've worked very closely
with veterans struggling with that, and it's a very real thing.
If you have a guy that's got PTSD that out
of control, like this fella Grant in Maine, don't let
him get near any government position. He will destroy it.

(19:08):
He's not stable, he's dangerous, and he's a maniac. And
you don't want a person like that in office for
those who might be have friends in Maine, or if
even if Maine is listening, because we do get people
from all the country that call in on the show.
I mean not not to talk, but just to give
us their response to you know, their opinions and whatnot.

Speaker 3 (19:27):
Anything about Texas.

Speaker 4 (19:28):
Then yeah, no, no, no, Christopher, because he doesn't have
PTSD and he's got He's no, no, he's so much
more stable than the guy from me. He's a thousand
times more stable. And I think he's gonna win. All
the experts I've followed said, yeah, these polls are going
up and down like that, but he's still gonna win
because it's Texas. I mean this tallar Riga guy is
a freak, a bona fide extreme freak. He's he's into

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killing babies when they're born. He's in he's he's into
every evil, sick, twisted thing you can think of. He's
got all kinds of sex, perversion things he's promoting. He
he's a vegan or whatever. He doesn't like eating meat
in Texas. He's a pseudo Baptist preacher. He does not
represent the traditional Baptist church at all. He's a and

(20:12):
we have Look, I'm a Baptist. They got every kind
of person who can think of that a Baptist preacher.
So he's one of those weird ones.

Speaker 2 (20:18):
Well, we spent last week arguing in Tall Rico, back
and forth. I will say the most unfair charge.

Speaker 4 (20:24):
And he brought it up.

Speaker 2 (20:25):
Says, they've called me a communist, they've called me not Christian,
they've called you that. But to call me a vegan
in Texas, I grew up on barbecue. I want barbecue
right now. He said, that's the one unfair thing.

Speaker 4 (20:37):
But I heard him promoting Vegetarianis I heard him doing it? Yes?

Speaker 3 (20:41):
No, no, no, no, no, he's not a vegan. They're
not even close to vegan.

Speaker 4 (20:44):
But anyway, on that note, he was promoting it, chrispher
On that note.

Speaker 2 (20:47):
Folks, we gotta take aqui commercial break. When we come
back later in the show, we're going to actually deconstruct
the legislative session. But first we talked about Westminster. We're
gonna turn over to Ireland mesage, say Jane Moore, founder
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Speaker 2 (23:24):
Christopher Tidmore and folks before we get into the legislative
session and where this came down a little bit of culture,
as we always do politics and culture here in the
Founder's Show and some friends of ours from a frequent
guest from Leer Petit Theater, have one of my favorite
musical stage plays that I've ever seen that is actually
being performed. It's Once, and talking about that, we've got

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Josie Olivia joining us.

Speaker 3 (23:51):
Josie.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
For those that do not are not familiar, perhaps have
not seen the movie Once, I have to confess I
saw the movie for the first time on my way
to Ireland going goal Away, so it was a singular experience.
But this is an incredibly romantic story about a songwriter
on the streets of meeting an immigrant and it's it's
just unbelievable.

Speaker 4 (24:11):
Is a silent man.

Speaker 2 (24:13):
He is not the silent man it is. It is
not the it is not the aeron so and so forth.
It can you give us a breakdown because obviously you know,
Once is currently at Le Petite Theater running through the month,
and tell us what it's about if you would.

Speaker 6 (24:28):
Yes, Yeah, so, just like you said, it is based
on the movie Once, but it is just the most
beautiful love story of unfortunately unrequited love.

Speaker 3 (24:41):
We don't actually get together. We'll we'll give that away at.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
The beginning, Yeah, don't. We don't want to spoil it.

Speaker 6 (24:47):
We don't want to totally spoil it, but it is.
It is really just the most beautiful and heartbreaking love story.
It's set in Dublin, and you know, on the streets
of Dublin, so it's just this rustic, raw and you know,
really organic, you know, feeling the entire time. And so
it all revolves around this musician who is struggling to

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find the inspiration to continue his music and that's when
he meets girl, that's the character that I play, who
really kind of gives him that hope and that drive
to continue his work and to really pursue his passion.

Speaker 2 (25:26):
She becomes his muse. And what's interesting is she's not Irish.
She's very Irish, but she's not She's from the Czech Republic.

Speaker 3 (25:33):
Are you playing her that way.

Speaker 6 (25:34):
Yes, yes, yes, she is a tech immigrant. She's been
living in Ireland with her family for I.

Speaker 4 (25:44):
Believe a few years.

Speaker 6 (25:46):
It's not necessarily said or you know, delaying.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
It in the play. But what's the date for this, Josie,
this is how I make Henry. What's the date?

Speaker 3 (25:56):
When? When is the place set? Approximately?

Speaker 6 (25:58):
It is set in the two thousands. We're thinking mid
to late two thousands, around the same time as you
know what the movie would have bet.

Speaker 2 (26:07):
But what's fascinating about it is this comes off You're like,
oh God, this is gonna be depressing. It's not gonna
it's not at all. It's about this man trying to
write a song and she inspires him, and their their
their friendship and their you know, flirting love kind of
inspire one another because he inspires her in her their
own way. And it's it's this incredibly uplifting story that's

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going on. And what was the thing that I mean
some people have seen the movie, some have not, But
what was the thing that.

Speaker 3 (26:35):
The stage play most surprised you about? Josie Ella There.

Speaker 6 (26:39):
I so the thing that I love most, and I'll
say I love the stage play more for this is
that all of the music is done live. All of
the musicians that you're seeing on stage are actively playing
their instruments. We are all creating the world of this play.

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And there's no live thinking, there's no like tracks that
are being dubbed over. Everyone is playing their instrument on
the stage in real time. So you really get a
full live concert of all of his beautiful music, you know,
in in the world and in real time in this show.
So it is that's just the most incredible thing as

(27:22):
a musician, you know, a lifelong musician myself, I can
really appreciate that, and I really really love this show
just for that reason. But it's it's the most beautiful music.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
It's just like that, you know, Irish ballads, Gaelic melodies,
Irish pub songs. Is it that kind of music.

Speaker 6 (27:43):
It's very similar.

Speaker 4 (27:44):
So all of this, all of his music was.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
Written and composed by Glenn Hansard, who is himself an
Irish musician. He's very accomplished. He composed once for He
for screen, he composed the score for the movie and
then translated all of that into stage and theater. So
it's all of his original music. It is absolutely beautiful

(28:08):
it's inspired by all of these traditional Irish folk music
and it's sort of Irish.

Speaker 2 (28:15):
There is some folk music in it, but it's sort
of Irish folk music taking to the next level where
it means rock and roll. Yeah, it's yeah, yeah, it's
it's it's really contemporary folk.

Speaker 4 (28:23):
I listen to Irish pub music all the time. I
listened to the gym while I'm working out. I'm dancing
all over the gym to this fabulous music. And uh,
you know, we had one of the number one rated
Irish pubs in America of Flaherty's in the French Quarter,
not too far from the but anyway, it to me,

(28:44):
it's some of the most powerful music I've ever heard
in my life. I'll just love it. And by the way,
the Czechs had their original ethnicity was very Celtic, which
means there's a connection there ethnic connection between the Celts
and the Irish.

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Well they were there were there were Celts in the area.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
They were also slobs.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
But it really plays their two cultural editions coming together
play a sort of subtext and the music. Look, it
is an incredible play. Once that is at Le Petit
Theater in the French Quarta it's right Catechorna to Jackson Square.
And when is it, Josie, When is the play? Is
going on throughout the month if you get us the dates.

Speaker 3 (29:19):
That's on.

Speaker 6 (29:20):
Yes, yes, it runs through the month of June. It
opens on June fourth for previews and we have our
opening night on Friday, June fifth, and then we run
all through June twenty.

Speaker 2 (29:33):
First, this is an incredible show.

Speaker 3 (29:35):
I'm going. I hope I's going.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
And if you love if you do love Celtic music,
if you love Irish music, you will love the show.
If you love contemporary music, if you love not just
Irish music like you two, but contemporary ballads. Actually, if
you even love Clintry music because it has some of
the same roots, you would love this. But more importantly,
if you love a great love story and want to
see people inspired, you've got to.

Speaker 3 (30:00):
To see Once on stage.

Speaker 2 (30:01):
And I saw it being performed in New York in
a couple places, but we're really one of the first theaters.
This is the incredible thing Lipetit does. I mean traditionally
people think of lip Petit as a community theater, but
it hasn't been. It's been at this professional theater that
is premiering productions that are going on to win Emmy,
going on when Tony's you know, it's really incredible.

Speaker 6 (30:22):
Yeah, yeah, it's it's really a privileged, you know, a
privilege to work for Le Patite, especially when I get
to do all of these amazing shows, especially once. This
has been one of my all time favorite shows for
a very long time, and I'm really really excited that
I get to do this one.

Speaker 4 (30:39):
That's great, Josie. Josie, tell us again in your website
and the date tickets.

Speaker 6 (30:43):
For the production on La Petite's website. It's lapatiteater dot
com and you'll find tickets there for one you'll have tone.

Speaker 2 (30:52):
Thank you so much for joining us. It's running through
the month of June. It starts June fourth and is
running all the way through the twenty first, So folks,
I hope you'll go out.

Speaker 4 (31:01):
And see Once at Libertine Theater and give us the
letters for the website because some people don't know how
to spell French Le Petit, please.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Spell it out.

Speaker 6 (31:11):
That's L E P E t I t Theater.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Dot com.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
And thank you much, Josie, and folks, we're gonna go
see Once. We hope it's you see it more than once, and.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
I am excited. I guarantee you. You just can't imagine
how much I love Gaelic melodies and rock and roll,
and incidentally, one of the roots of rock and roll
are Gaelic melodies.

Speaker 2 (31:34):
It comes all together, all right. So we're gonna move
on to our next topic. But if Josie, thank you
so much for joining us here in the Founder Show.

Speaker 4 (31:42):
And yeah, thank you all so much. Brett Well, folks,
whin' that fascinating. I can't wait to see that play.
I love Ireland, I love you know, Irish music. Do
you know that there is a pub that opens? When
I was there in ninety seven, I discovered that every
week a new pub opened in Irish pub in Germany,

(32:03):
and they're pubs all over the world that there's just
people love the music. It's absolutely amazing. It says there's
a song about the Irish pub says wherever you go,
you can find an Irish pub. You need a job
your bartender, well you'll always get one at an Irish
pub because wherever you go, you'll find an Irish pub.
And so, but speaking of pubs and the interesting time

(32:25):
things that happened in pubs. How is the pub of
the Louisiana legislature going, Chris, I think you have some
updates for us on it.

Speaker 3 (32:33):
I was gonna say drunken idiots. But they did do
one thing and forgot.

Speaker 2 (32:37):
The governor had a big press conference and he signed
into law getting rid of the break tag, the inspection
tag on our cars. And it's gonna be everybody's everybody's applauding.
What's curious is there's been nothing but.

Speaker 3 (32:49):
Silence about it.

Speaker 2 (32:50):
Not that this is a major issue in the grand
scheme of things, but there's been nothing but silence about
it from city Hall. And here's why. So the inspection ticket,
which would be directly bought from this state, they'd send
it to you in the mail. It's a QR code
where the cop would just take his phone, look at
it and find out does this person have insurance?

Speaker 3 (33:07):
That's standard? Is the is this car registered?

Speaker 2 (33:09):
That would be it. There'd be no more go showing
up to the inspection. Everything would be done online or
from mail. Right now, a state inspection ticket, if you're
in any parish but East Baton Rouge, or Orleans, a
state inspection ticket is ten dollars go to your local
gas station everywhere but Orleans. An interestingly, kenner in New Orleans,

(33:33):
an inspection ticket is twenty five dollars and is a
special Orleans. And the legislation does allow parishes that do
a special their own ticket, inspection ticket, their own break
tags to keep doing it. So there's a real question
as to whether New Orleans is going to give up
the revenue, because you know, right now the city's facing
a deficit. Will they give up the revenue? I honestly

(33:53):
think if they don't, this is one of the few
issues that could make people have a rebellion against kolleyda
Morine on the New Orleans City Council because they hate,
they absolutely hate the only fourteen states in the nation
folks that have inspection sectors, and most of those states
have them because they have car taxes, they have personal
property taxes on automobiles, and they use the inspection tickets

(34:16):
to be able to well, for lack of a better term,
seize your automobile if you don't pay your taxes. But
I'm kind of looking at different proposals that are coming out,
you know, I do want to talk next week a
little bit. I want to have State senator former State
Senator Conrad appel On speaking of this, who has an
interesting idea of how to fund Marti Gras in Orleans.

Speaker 3 (34:38):
You know, the city comes out.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
We talked about with a twenty five dollars they propose
per rider tax that you'd pay the city to ride
in Martigar Parade. He actually came up with a different
idea and was that everywhere within like six to eight
blocks of the Martigar Parade an extra penny and sales
tax would be charged for the times of the parades,
not permanently. And I've been talking to business owners They're like,
they won't affect our No, sure why not. That would

(35:01):
actually generate enough to cover the four million dollar deficit
of the prades. But we'll talk about that next week
because I want to talk about this legislative session. And
for those that don't know, New Orleans in particular had
a mixed session, had great success getting the mayor having
more power over the sewage and waterboard. Now basically the

(35:21):
city will have oversight and be able to control what
is essentially a city agency but historically is a state
chartered agency. And that's a good if we're going to
be processing a personal a property fee, which may be
the only way. We now know that the backlog of
sewer work in the city of New Orleans is somewhere

(35:42):
around six billion dollars in a city of three hundred
and fifty thousand people. I mean, as we've talked about
five percent of our pipes, folks, quite literally, we have
found out are cypress logs. I wish we're I wish
I was. I wish that was a punchline, but it's not.
It's actually a statement of fact, and.

Speaker 4 (35:58):
They're probably great. We better leave those things a loan
because they'll last forever and they don't rust, and they
don't develop calcium builds up, you know, minimal build up
on the inside. So they're probably the best pipes we
have right now.

Speaker 2 (36:10):
But the guy I want to complement out of this
legislative session is my friend, Saint Bernard's state representative of
Michael Bayham, who came out and did something that everyone
said it was crazy but actually has some interesting political impacts.
He actually moved a constitutional amendment that would say that
a governor can only be governor not just two consecutive terms,

(36:34):
two terms period, similar to what happens in the US Constitution.
You can't be two consecutive terms as president. You got
to be at This has an interesting political side because
it would mean that Governor John Bell Edwards could not
run again. There's been a lot of talk that John
Bell Edwards might run against Jeff Landry.

Speaker 3 (36:53):
That is debatable.

Speaker 2 (36:55):
But if this constitution amendment is approved by the public,
it would not. Now lately, the public has not been
very conducive to even good ideas coming out of you know,
out of the legislature when it goes to the constitutional amendment.
Did you know the other day, Hi, I went to
the library and asked for a copy of the Louisiana Constitution,
and the library looks at me and says, I'm sorry, sir,

(37:15):
we don't carry periodicals.

Speaker 4 (37:17):
Right, you mean they didn't have that magazine, Christopher.

Speaker 2 (37:20):
It's just like all this, But I have to give
I want to s end on a piece of good news.
The legislature got through quite a lot. But one thing
that I was very happy to see is it's taken
US twenty one years but Louisiana's Insurance of Last Resort
citizens property insurance, which increasingly is becoming the property insurance
of most people, it's not the last resort, it's the

(37:40):
only resort because you don't really have access to a
lot of property insurance. They actually paid off the debt
from hurricanes Katrina and Iida, which means in theory they
might be able to lower premiums over the next two years.
That's going to be up to the insurance Commissioner. But
right now people's premiums are so astronomical and people I
have a client, you know some of that I don't know.

(38:02):
I'm an insurance agent. I had a client who came
out and they were going to cancel as auto insurance.
I mean, this is home insurance because of pipes that
that house hasn't used in forty five years, because they
just assumed that it was an old house in New Orleans,
so it had to have galvanized pipe and not copper pipe.
This is good news that a local domestic insurer may

(38:22):
be able to have some common sense, may be able
to lower insurance rates, and I hope it does. But
on that note, folks, after these important messages, we're going
to be moving on to the patriotic moment as we
approach the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of this United States,
and we're going to talk more in the coming weeks
about our twenty five moments in two hundred and fifty
years of patriotism. But stay tuned more of the Founder

(38:44):
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Speaker 3 (39:03):
On the web.

Speaker 4 (39:06):
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Speaker 2 (40:36):
Much as we approach the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary Of,
america take your, kids take your, grandkids take your, grandparents
take your, Parents take everyone you know down to The
cabildo and The presbyteri to celebrate our. Country there are
two incredible exhibits that you need to check. Out at The,
cabildo the two hundred and fiftith anniversary is being celebrated
by talking About louisiana's role in The revolution and it's

(40:58):
much much.

Speaker 4 (40:59):
Bigger than you.

Speaker 2 (40:59):
Think The Galvez expedition and how we helped to Create
american independence are being highlighted along with the two hundredth
anniversary visit of The marquis De, lafayette and we welcome
this coming weekend all The american friends Of lafayette from
all over the world to come see that exhibit and
come To New. Orleans but at the presbyter you get
to see something even more. Incredible it's a story of

(41:21):
The illinois, exhibits The Illinois Marti Gras, clubs The Old,
illinois and The Young Men's.

Speaker 3 (41:26):
Illinois why is that?

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Important not only their beautiful marty gros, costumes incredible, sets incredible.
Sense you actually learn How carnival In New orleans helped
create the civil rights. Movement so you get to see
all sides of How america got its independence and How
African americans Use carnival as the vehicle to be able
to create the civil rights struggle and win the civil

(41:50):
Rights all available at The cabildo and the presbyter through
Next march worth seeing and tell them when you got
there you heard it here on The.

Speaker 4 (41:56):
Foundership, well folks are back and you are listening to
The founder's, show the voice to The Founding, fathers and
it is now time for us to go into our
chaplain bah bah patriotic. Moment we just take a brief
moment to remind you of the biblical foundations of our,
country Our Judeo christian, jurisprudence and this is yours, Truly

(42:18):
Chaplain High. McHenry today we're going to talk about none
of the than the First prayer In congress held On september,
seventh seventeen seventy. Four this is A Continental, congress the
organization that was formed by our founding fathers to try
to figure out what do we. Do do we stay
With england or do we have a revolution and secede

(42:39):
From Great? Britain what should we? Do, well we know
the results of. That we did, secede we did have a,
revolution and we won our. Independence this first prayer that
was given in congress was by none other Than reverend Mister,
duchet perhaps A cajun boy who was just happened to
be living up. There interesting this Is Opertors hall where

(43:00):
they were first, meeting and this On september, seventh seventeen seventy,
four and he took it from this he read The,
psalter which was a book of prayer in The Anglican,
church The Pittsburgh, church Will church Of, england and this
is the thirty Fifth psalm from The psalter of The

(43:21):
church Of. England plead my, CAUSE O, lord with them
that's frive with, Me fight against them that fight against.
Me take hold of buckler and, shield and rise up
up for my. Help draw also the spear and the
battle acts to meet those who pursue. Me say to my,
SOUL i am your. Salvation let those be ashamed and

(43:41):
dishonored who seek my. Life let those be turned back
and humiliated who devise evil against. Me, well. Folks he
then went on to, pray And i'm going to quote
his prayer to. You, now they just our finding. Fathers
and you know they almost didn't do this because when
it was first presented on the second day of congress,
first you, know they're very very first congressional uh. Period

(44:04):
the there was an, uproar and as, always the Various
christian groups began to fight among, themselves The episcopeians with The,
catholics and The, puritans and The, calvinists The presbyterians of
this or, that and everything is so. Quicker they all
started to fight with one another because they were, saying
wait a, minute who's gonna do. It we're gonna get

(44:25):
a presbytery to, Do we're gonna get a church of,
Inger we're gonna who's gonna lead this? Prayer and so
they had a fight about, it and they and they
and and the mostions made that they not even have
one because they couldn't get. Unity and then Finally Samuel,
adams a great man that he, was he rose up and, said,
LISTEN i am not a, bigot AND i believe that
any man of, piety regardless of his denominational, background if

(44:47):
he praised with, sincerity it's good enough for. Me and
you know, what the finding fathers were, Corrected they stood,
corrected they were convicted in their. Foolishness and guess what we?
Prayed so and this was the prayer, folks be thou, President,
O god Of, wisdom and direct The council of this Honorable,
assembly enable them to settle all things on the best ensurest,

(45:12):
foundations that the scene of blood may be speedily, closed that, order,
harmony and peace may be effectually, restored and the truth and,
justice religion and piety prevailed and flourished among the. People
preserve the health of their bodies and the vigor of their.
Minds shower down on them and the millions that they
represent here such temporal blessings as ou seest expedient for

(45:35):
them in this, world and crowned them with everlasting glory
in the world to. Come all this we ask in
the name and through the merits Of Jesus, christ The
sun and Our. Savior, amen. FOLKS i think this fellow headed,
straight you. KNOW i think he really believed that we
Needed god in. Government we Needed god to help us

(45:55):
and to save. Us and you know what we. Did
and from that we prayed every day In. Congress and
then when we started had to come back and write The,
constitution for the first couple of weeks we had no.
Prayer congress was in uproar Been franklin called for. Prayer
he calmed everything down and we went on and were
able to sell our business and resolve things and come
up with the greatest document that ever. Government and Now

(46:17):
i'm talking about THE Us. Constitution so, folks but you
have to clue the, decoration and they're considered to be
connected and they're both represented the supreme law of the.
Land this was in seventeen seventy. Four ye see what
was going on right now up In. Boston boston was
always stirring the things, up and they were having The
british ships had just, arrived and you, know the military
is being unloaded into the. City it was getting. Bad

(46:39):
it was getting really. Bad they had The Boston Tea,
party The Boston, massacre and the colonies were really alarmed
and concerned That britain was going to come down with
a heavy hand and a brutal heavy. Hand they weren't
called the Bloody british because they were kind and gentle with,
folks uh. Huh they were. Rough and so that the

(47:00):
reason for the calling The americans to congress and to
come up with a plan on how to deal with this,
invasion if you. Will by supposedly our king who was
supposed to be looking out for. Us, instead he was
coming to take. Advantage, well, folks it's no time for
us to go into our chaplain by by a gospel.

(47:21):
Moment you notice that The Reverend duchet pointed out that
we Needed, god we Needed jesus as our. Savior, well,
folks what about? You Is jesus your? Savior you, know
we think about this and we talk about, it but
many times we just don't quite understand what it. Means
we don't. Understand how do you get? It how does
it come to? You, well it can be described very
simply in one. Word. Gift your eternal, life your salvation

(47:46):
from a burning, hell can only come to you as a,
gift just like your life was given to, you your biological,
life your soul, life if you, will it was given
to you By. God you were made In his image
and it was given to. You it comes as a.
Gift nothing you can, earn or, do or make or do.
Yourself you. Cannot it's. Impossible in The Great, passage there

(48:08):
are many passages that tell us, us but you, know
probably the most quoted and one of the best ever,
said Was ephesians two eight and. Nine for we have
been saved by. Grace the word grace just plain and
simply means, gift a free. Gift we've been saved by
grace through. Faith how do you take a? Gift, well,
normally you, know you reach out your hand and you
grab the, gift or you grab. It may be a
check somebody's given you for your birthday or. Whatever who, knows, cash,

(48:32):
Whatever but we can't do. It you don't physically. Grab
for a spiritual, gift it's done in your. Heart you
can only get it by believing. Faith we've been saved
by grace through. Faith there's your hand taking the gift through.
Faith and even that is not of. Ourselves it is

(48:52):
a gift Of. God even your faith can't originate with.
You it comes From. God but The bible he puts
faith in all of, us the word of faith in
all of the old human, race he, says he puts it,
in and then it, says the grace Of, god which bringing,
salvation hath appeared unto all. People that means everybody gets a.
CHANCE i don't care where are you, from what your background, is,
where if you've never even heard of A, bible it doesn't.
Matter you'd be living in the, bush a hot and

(49:13):
tot feasting on on you, know, ALBINE i mean, elephants
a pigmy living off of elephant. Meat it doesn't. Matter
god loves you and he's getting his message to you
because it's, simple simple enough for a. Child Effect jess,
said unless she come as a little, child you show
no eyes enter. In you've been saved by grace through.

(49:34):
Faith and even that it's not of. Yourselves it is
a gift Of, god not of, works lest any man should.
Boast so where is this. Gift the gift Is, jesus
by the fact that he died for your. Sins the scripture,
says the gospel is the power Of god and salvation
to who's ever Believe he died for all of your
sins on the cross of the day you're, born in
the day you, die her times to your Greatest, god The,

(49:56):
son Perfect, god perfect, man all the Way, god all
the Way. Man jesus died on that, rugged, old dirty
old cross for your rotten self. Included And i'm one
of those rotten. People To we're all rotten Before, god
for all have sin and come short of the glory Of.
God The bible says that means. Heaven we comes short
of heaven because we're so. Filthy The bible, says the
heart is deceitful and desperately wicked above all. Things who

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can note you don't even know how bad you. ARE
i don't, Either. GOD i think that's an act of.
Mercery if we saw how bad we really, were it
might just knock us dead right. There, so, Folks jesus loves.
You he paid for all of your, sins was, buried
and rose in the dead to win for you his
precious free gift of, resurrection of a lasting. Life and
that is the. Gospel all you got to do is

(50:38):
believe that with all your. Heart you believe that with
all your. Heart when you quit trust in anything and everything,
else that's called. Repentance when you decide you're not good,
enough smart, enough religious, enough holy, enough you've never done
enough good. Things never will you just repent. It it's
an act in your, mind an act of. Faith believing
you can't save, yourself so then you're free to believe
that Only jesus, can that he, did and then he

(51:00):
will save you from a burning hill and guarantee you
ever lasting. Life if you've never done this, before please
do it, now don't wait till it's too. Late, well,
folks it is no time for us to conclude the
show with one and last short history lesson on a wonderful,
man a man Named Samuel. Adams you've heard Of Samuel adams.
Beer he actually did have his own brewery In boston

(51:21):
way back. Then he's one of the most remarkable men
of the Entire American. Revolution now this is our testimony
time where we take somebody who had a great testimony For.
God he's known as the father of The American. Revolution
along with his Cousin John. Adams he spent twenty years
working for the to bring about The American. Revolution he

(51:43):
was at The Boston Tea, party he signed The decoration Of,
independance he was at the first this you know. Then in,
fact he's the one to call for the, prayer and
he's the one who actually convinced everybody that it's okay
if we have different, denominations we can all pray. Together
he's an amazing. Man one of the biggest things he
did is he produced The committees Of, correspondence which is

(52:06):
what kind of united all the colleagues together and gave
us the reasons why we should be doing. This in,
it he, wrote we concluded from as their research on
why were we doing this and what we needed to?
Do he, said the right to freedom being the gift
of The. Almighty the rights of the colonists As christians
may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the
institution of The great Law giver and the head of

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The Christian, church which are to be found clearly written
and progue promulgated in The New. Testament, folks this man
was a man among. Men he lived a very long,
life a great. Life he was a governor Of. VIRGINIA i,
Mean i'm sorry Of. Massachusetts he had a remarkable. Life
so kudos for good Old Sam. Adams Go Sam adams.

(52:54):
Anyway you can see what. Happens if you really live
your life For, christ you can have a great. Testimony
if you've never done it, before do it. Now learn
how to live For. Jesus you could be Another Sam.
Adams think of the stories that would be told about
you and how and in, heaven the glory that will
come to you in heaven when you get. There because
if you lived your life For, jesus you had a

(53:15):
great life. Story that's your. Testimony and so now we
conclude with our. Testimony time as it, says now time
for us to close with am On Saint martin singing
A creole, goodbye And god bless all of.

Speaker 1 (53:27):
It we call you cREL.

Speaker 4 (53:34):
Goodbye they think we just wasted.

Speaker 1 (53:40):
Time all, Three, sibyl there's time for A creo, goodbye