50 States, 2 Stories: Louisiana, Maryland, and a New Generation Rising

There is so much negativity happening, and I think the younger generation, I'll say 32

“about 20 or the 20 or the 30s, they are just so overloaded with information right now that”

it is just caused an up war. And one thing that I want to encourage the listeners, we are learning and we're growing, and with this information, it's encouraging more people to take action. We are a grassroots organization, and the more people that we have that are going to go out and talk about what they believe, with the free speech, with the founding principles of our country, the more that this happens, the stronger our country is going to become, and I am seeing

a fired-up generation, and it is really exciting to see. And right now, we've been working on working to the next phase of the working family's tax cuts, making sure that every family is able

to get as many taxes back as they can, so then they can live the lives they need to live, and

maybe go have some extra food on the table, and I know that we're going to continue driving that message throughout this year. Americans are capable of achieving extraordinary things when they have the freedom and opportunity to do so. This is American Potential. Welcome to the American Potential podcast, I'm your host, David From. So we're coming to you live from the all-staff meeting for Americans' prosperity. It's such a

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So it's just a great time to be together. We get to see a lot of friends that we've been working with

for years, but today we're going to talk about our next installment, the April installment, of our 50 stars, 50 states challenge. So we have two states that entered the union in April to give you some hints. One is just really known for their food, a very unique culture, known for their food, a mix of French influence, Spanish influence, African influence, others, gumbo might be on the menu, and then another state is actually where our national anthem was penned,

and also a great state for seafood. Both of these states share that in common. So if you're following along at home, you can probably figure out what those are. So I want to welcome our guests for today, Spencer Evans, who is the director of grassroots operations in the great state of Louisiana, and Clayton Rash, who is the organic digital media manager for AFP, and who also is the native of Louisiana. Welcome, guys. Yeah, thank you for having us. Yeah, thank you for having us. Yeah,

this would be great. I don't know if you guys have side bets, and I haven't money on this, but you know, I've made my own. We made a couple, but it was just off to the side, yeah. That's great. Well, that's great. We'll have a secondary market on some on another page.

“Winter gets a lobster rolls thing, right? Right, right. Yeah. Well, I think I found the mention.”

We're in Boston. I think we're talking about before the state, well, let's just say what what states were representing here. So what is Louisiana? Obviously, arguably one of the greatest eating cities in the world, certainly in America. The other's Maryland, which is really known for their crab and seafood there, it has a number of the things going for it, but that's one of the great things about it, and then we're sitting here in Boston. So I mean, we kind of have like the

seafood trifecta, all different types of seafood, but really, you know, you kind of can't beat those, and they're in their own right. All right, let's get to the questions. Let's go. Darwin. All right. So we'll be talking a lot about Louisiana today, but uh, and the other state is Maryland. Sorry, so that who knows when Louisiana became a state? So I can answer that because it's really cool. So fun little fact at the Louisiana State Capitol, if you look at the steps leading up to our

Capitol building, each one of our steps, we have 50 steps leading up to the state Capitol building. And so each state has their own step with the date that they are actually incorporated into the

“United States. It's actually really cool. And if I'm not mistaken, I believe we're the only”

Capitol in the nation that has that arm. And so Louisiana was incorporated into the United States in 1812. That is correct. Let's go. Good job. I'm going to go. I'm impressed. Anyone know when Maryland became state? Maryland became a state in 1788. I'll lock my answer in right there. Wow. What's up, you know? Study. I'm ready. There you go. Who's moving? All right. Yeah. That's true. 1788, which obviously is one of the original colonies and

as a lot of story to history. All right, easy one. What's the Capitol Louisiana? Bad and Rouge, baby. Go Tigers. How about are there you lived in Bad and Rouge? Yeah, I do. You do. Yeah, I live in Bad and Rouge right now as well. Yeah, I'm impressed. Yeah. Great, Teddy. Yeah, we got to play pickleball. Nice. Well, so it begins the Capitol in 1845 when a new constitution mandated that the location is not less than 60 miles from the city of

New Orleans. They did this because the leaders were concerned about the concentration of wealth

I live in Illinois and it would say in a reason that Chicago might be it. We're glad it's not because

“the influences. But it's in Springfield. There's just three hours from most of the people who live”

there. So, but in so many places, there's century located, which makes sense because when people are traveling by worse and buggy, you wanted as many people to be able to go to a central location as possible rather than bearing in a one corner. So, so you Pennsylvania gets somewhere like Harrisburg or, you know, some place like Topeka in Kansas. It's just kind of random your peer in New South Dakota, which is in Illinois. Like Austin, Texas, and Texas, you know,

it's like just weird. Austin is weird. You need steady. But it's all right. What's Capitol Maryland? The Capitol Maryland, the only reason I know this is Annapolis. Yes. And I lived in DC for a little while. The city's so big. You don't really see a lot of space. And so, I would usually take a lot of every other week. I'd drive up to Annapolis and come from a Navy family. It's a great, great city for the, for the Navy folk. Absolutely. And a great seafood, very relaxed,

classic culture. And I remember talking with the local there and I, before that day, or for the first time I went, I thought Baltimore would have been the Capitol. Let us know.

“South. Yeah. Annapolis is a great city. I think it's got a great, well kept secret.”

Actually, named for Princess Ann, who was next in line for the throne way back, it used to be, the Capitol used to be St. Mary City. So I don't really know what that is. And, but then became anapolis name for St. Ann. So, and then, so of course, which military academy is located in that was. Maybe. US Naval Academy. Yep. In 1845, the Secretary of Navy George Bankcroft launched in Naval School at a small army post called Fort Severn without any funding from Congress,

which is kind of incredible. It started with 50 midshipmen and seven professors. And in 1850,

became the United States Naval Academy. That's another one. All right. Which European country sold Louisiana to United States in 1803? That's correct. Let's go. Yeah. That was a great purchase. It was a large, large purchase. Yeah. What, what, what president oversaw the Louisiana purchase? Oh, I don't know. Was it, was it Jackson? Was not. It was in 1803. I don't know. I should know this, man. He also wrote important things.

Jefferson. Yes. Oh, very nice. Very nice. Yeah. Yeah. He, he, he took three of the Senate for the treaty with France. I would become known as Louisiana purchase with the 24/7 vote. You know, the United States agreed to pay to buy the Louisiana territory instantly doubling the size of the nation, which is nuts. So what's the largest senior Louisiana? New Orleans. Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Found it. Found it in 1718. So I imagine you all have a lot of really

great stories about. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I'm, I even have good stories about New Orleans. I feel like everybody who ends up going to New Orleans either has a story, whether it's good or bad, it has. Why don't you go to actually, I will say. I, I really appreciate, I like eating at

“place at different places, like eating the food that is local to where you're going. That's why”

I'm Boston. I'm going to eat either lobster, crab or something, but in, you know, Louisiana. I mean, you could spend all week eating different things. And it's fabulous in New Orleans, particular. So once you go ahead, now I was just going to say it's really cool because like one thing about like Louisiana is it's like we have, of course, like our own unique culture of food. But it's cool because like if even if you go like just outside of New Orleans, just the style of that food

just gets wildly different on the way that it makes it. Yeah. So like you can go and just like, you know, you can drop 10 minutes out of New Orleans. You'll get a totally different kind of dish versus if you get the same dish in like Lafayette. Really? Yes. It's totally, totally different and totally different cultures, too. And it's, it's really cool. Um, because like especially whenever you go over to the Lafayette area, that's whenever it gets like really cool and unique and special.

Yeah, in Louisiana, there are very resourceful with their food. So even crawfish or a pogoy, it used to be called a poor boy. It was in a affordable sandwich. Yeah. We turn

cheap affordable food into amazing works of art. And so it's it's really fun and some of the nation.

We want one thing that's cool about New Orleans, too, is we're we all basically talk about small businesses and opportunity. New Orleans is really one of the only metro cities I go to that especially in the French Quarter, you don't see chains. You don't it is they support their local business. They support their local music. And you don't really see that a lot anymore, especially in downtown or in the hubs of major cities. No, you're absolutely right.

New York, totally right. I grew up in New Jersey, which is not at all like Louisiana, but where it grew, it is a great eating state. And you just have a lot of immigrants, a lot of

you know, or something like that. I mean, I went to McDonald's or something like that. But never

“like a chain restaurant. And it was, I always really appreciated it. And I kind of lament that I”

not always around that anymore. But it's a great eating city. All right, for our Maryland fans, what or maybe just a fan of America, what poem written by Francis Scott Key was inspired by the battle of Fort McKenry and later turned into a song that we all sing in though. I'm going to guess the Star Spangled Banner. That's correct. Star Spangled Banner, it happens to be set to an 18th century British drinking song. Wow, really. I know that. I didn't know that. Wow, very cool.

It times. Yeah, it seems like a difficult song to sing. Yeah, just sing so much. Yeah, I know. I remember being fly regassin when I found out like the poem is a lot longer than just what like our national anthem is. But yeah, it's, it's a lot longer. I don't know, like had no idea. And they did, they did things long back then. No TV, this fan is very long. I have nothing else to do. All right, so Maryland played a key role in the underground railroad.

“What famous abolitionist and conductor had strong ties to the state?”

Maybe one of the most famous. I'm just going to say Harriet Tubman. Boom, you're rough. Yes, she was born into slavery in 1822 and later escaped from Dorchester County, Maryland,

to Philadelphia, where she lived as a free woman. Oh, that's so cool. Yeah, amazing. All right,

what famous festival is held annually in New Orleans? Oh, jazz best. That's true, but we're looking for another one that that that comes before lent. Oh, oh, Martin Martin. Martin. You can't even get about jazz. So, oh, my mind. So, like, take a Martin girl. It's like a fest. Yeah, it's just a day out of staying alive. Like, true. Yeah, it's just normal is. Yeah, it's a three. The time of settlement of Fort Louis, Del Mobile, so celebrated America's very first

Martin. Yeah. What river forms much of Louisiana's Eastern border? The Mississippi River. Correct. The longest river in the U.S. Yeah. Um, I'm sorry. That's the longest. Second longest. I forgot Missouri River's longest. Is it really? Yeah. I had no idea. Yeah. No,

“there's much. Probably. That's true. That's true. I think the Mississippi River has the most”

volume. I think your water is so. It is the biggest driver. Yeah. Right. So, all right, what major estuary borders much of Maryland? Think crabs. Oh, all right. This sounds really bad. I actually don't even know if I've heard that word before. So, yeah, it sounds really bad. It goes away.

We're from Louisiana. It's basically it's where fresh water mixes with sea water. Oh,

and so it comes together. So, it's kind of like thinking like we're a river and a bay might clash into the ocean. Okay. So, is it like brackish water? Could be. Okay. It's Chesapeake Bay. Oh, it's Chesapeake Bay. Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. So, what is Louisiana's official state nickname? Pelican state? It is. Do you know why? It's our state bird. Yeah. The brown pelican. It's beautiful bird. I don't know if you've ever seen

it fish though. You've ever seen a brown pelican fish. Oh, absolutely. It is the most ungracious thing you will ever see in your life. Yeah. And it's funny because like you watch them fly and it's like they're so elegant flying. And then they'll see like a fish. And it almost looks like they just go like limp. It's like they go limp. And then they just like splash into the water. Like they like like stuff me. Yeah, like a belly flop into it. And it makes this big splash.

And the next you notice like they'll pick up their, you know, bill or beak, whatever. Mm-hmm. It's like they got a giant fish in there. And it's it's so funny to watch them because it is like the most ungracious thing you will ever see in it. It's so funny. Well, it's one of the the only birds in America to that can actually go fully submerged into water and take right back off into air. Oh, it's cool. It's wings and its feathers are designed to be able to handle waters flying straight

up. So it's pretty cool. All right. So what, what term in Louisiana refers to people of mixed French Spanish African and Native American heritage? Cajun. Well, Cajun or Creole. Creole. Yep. Okay. Yeah. Is there a distinction between them? Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Do you know what distinction is? Yeah. So whenever it comes to like Creole, Creole comes from like more of like an African descent. Yeah. And so you have like our African natives that live there. And then Cajun's

actually come from from Canada who actually came down and immigrating into the into Louisiana. And so it's it's two totally different cultures and ethnicities. But a lot of people can inflate them, but they're they're two totally separate things. But they both kind of live in the same area that's kind of like around the South Lafayette area. Mm-hmm. And a lot of them still speak Cajun French still. Yeah. Which is a huge thing in Louisiana trying to preserve that kind of

cultural heritage. Yeah. And like Louisiana is one of the few states where we still have like a big

try to keep the culture alive in the language alive though. It's it's very unfortunately just rapidly declining. And well as as this the son of a high school French teacher. I had spent a lot of time with French. I felt like I was immersed in French as well. And if you're, if you're the one here. Yeah. If you're wanting to hear it, you just have to go down to a local French shop, bait shop. And you were on the water. They have these beautiful small businesses that you'd

actually see in movies. Pockets of just really uniqueness that you don't always get everywhere. Yeah.

So you got it. You got to come down. We'll take you all that. We'll take you Crabon. Speaking of heroin. It'd be cool to send Louisiana. I love that. Yeah. Yeah. I know Louisiana would be with one of our colleagues. And we were at a place in Orange and Virginia near headquarters. And it was shrimp night. And he was just like on these bright Chinese shrimp. These are not Louisiana shrimp from the Gulf of Mexico. I'm not eating these. So it's like yeah. It's, it's a big deal trying to

to keep the industry alive in Louisiana just because like you know talking about like regulation. The shrimpers are are super heavily regulated in the United States, even Louisiana. And it's one of things where like, unfortunately, a lot of people are going to imported shrimp. So it's, it's a big

thing, you know, he talked about, you know, shopping local. It's a big thing Louisiana to, you know,

have Louisiana shrimp. And it's even a law now in Louisiana where if you have imported shrimp and you own a restaurant and you serve that, you actually have to put whether it's imported or not. I mean, you can get fined. Yeah. It's, it's, it's a big deal. Well, barbecueware. It's a big selling point.

“You could sell obviously much more food if it is locally produced. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think”

it's way better. Oh, definitely. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So this is an issue. What unique legal system does Louisiana use based on a French system rather than English common law? We, we have perishes, not counties. That's true. And that's like one unique difference. This one unique thing. Yeah. Yeah. So we have, we have common and we have civil civil law. Yeah. And so I believe that, that means kind of handed down from the French. It means that

the legal system is really based more on written codes than on precedent and court decisions. It's, it's, it's, it's based from like the Napoleonic code. And it's, it's very different. It's unique. And if I'm not mistaken, I believe we are the only state in the country that actually. Yeah. We are. We are. You like it. I mean, it's, it's different. The, the whole legal system and, and apparatus around just like lawyers and attorneys and everything else you practice in the state.

“You have to take a whole separate bar exam and the whole nine yards. And so I definitely think”

there are some positives to it, but there's, there's negatives as well as all. So you mentioned parishes that instead of counties. Yeah. Parishes in Louisiana. Where's that come from, do you know? It's, it's, it's French or Canadian. Right. Yeah. It's, if I'm not mistaken, it's, it's a religious thing. Yeah. It comes from the, the Catholics. Yeah. Who had the French in the Spanish for Catholic? Yeah. So they had, yeah. I mean, even still to this day, like I go to Catholic Church. And so you've

different parishes at which, you know, that's like kind of your sign church. You know, you just would go to, because, and so there's just codifying it into governmental structures. So, so what type of seafood is Maryland, especially famous for? Blue crab. Blue crab is exactly right. Yep. It's so good. I would do anything. I actually want to go to Maryland. Now, the blue crab is the best I've ever had. It is. And it is much better than Louisiana crab. I will say that.

It is delicious. It is. Have you guys ever been to, there's a place near headquarters, the quarterdeck. And they, there's a restaurant there. And this way I love about the Virginia Maryland area. They'll take out. They just come like to your table. When they put down some paper and they put out a bucket of blue crab, just out there. It's been in like seasoning. And you just got to mallet and a fork, you know, like a bib. You just, you're just spots it off. That's enough,

dipping it in the butter and eating it. And it is, oh, I love like this is some of the best things I've ever done. Now, the question is, is do you dust your crabs? In what? The seasoning,

“like do you? Well, these were these were not, these were, I think, soaked in in Maryland. They”

don't do it. They, they're, you know, they wasn't bay. Well, bay. Yeah, that's, that's a big thing of, like a, um, opinion in Louisiana. Oh, yeah. You, you, you dust your crawfish. Yes. You boil them. And, you know, you're, you're typically shunned if, uh, if you dust your crawfish. Mm-hmm. Afterwords. Mm-hmm. What if you do it before for the, you, you, you, all, you all, you, all these boil it. Yeah. It's, you think, for sure. It's just whether you go in on after the fact and put some

extras on the top. Yeah. I was appreciative one time of a colleague, Louisiana Roots, we were eating

crawfish with my first time. And, uh, and then I went to, excuse myself and he said, well,

make sure you wash your hands before you do anything with that again. Yeah. That's your face.

becagencies in a mess of the mind. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I didn't realize that, you know,

“crawfish was a dangerous sport. It really is. Well, yeah. So, get back to food, Louisiana, what”

rate, race, base dish with seafood sausage, just spices is popular. I got two. Yeah, we got two. Oh. You get one. I'll get the other. So, one is gumbo. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And then the other

jumbo lia. Also, yeah. Both absolutely delicious. Yeah. It's incredible now how often

Swiss jumbo lia, you can see in random cities across the country, it is everybody serving jumbo lia. Sure's left, but desired, but it's, it's certainly is caught on in the last few decades. Well, I will. I might call out other states outside of Louisiana. If you go to really any restaurant, uh, they'll they'll try a jumbo lia. They'll try a gumbo, but the easiest way to find out if jumbo lia, if it's made from Louisiana or not, if it's a local, uh, the jumbo lia is dry in Louisiana.

It's dry. It's in a bowl and it's seasoned really well. The further you go out of the state, it's very watery. And that's about as good as it sounds. Watery jumbo lia isn't really good. And I've noticed that many, many places. So, it's fake. Fake jumbo lia. What powdered seasoning is often sprinkled on dishes like fries and seafood? Well, we got, we have, is this Louisiana or is this Maryland? Maryland? Maryland will be old bad. Yeah. All right. What about that's

sure what will Louisiana? And then Louisiana probably Tony's Tony's sloppy. I'm almost. It's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, he's like, Jeff's kiss. It is amazing. It's so good. This is a such a cherries. Does it say the Antonio? Tony saturates. Saturize. Yeah. Saturize. Yeah. He was a well known chef when he retired. He wrote a cookbook that included the recipe for his favorite home in season blend because we can show popular in 1972. Tony began to manufacture his theme as

Creole seasoning. Hmm. I didn't know that. Actually, I didn't either. I'm going to start saying

slap your mom. I never did. If you know your way around, yeah, everybody will know you slap your

“mom. Yeah. Is it only for food things or just when something exciting happens? Can I say that?”

Whenever anything happens, it's kind of like a slang to, you know, it's almost like, you know, food and you slap your knee or something. Man, that was good. It's the same thing. My husband's great. Yeah, it's very small. I feel really bad about that. Yeah. Yeah. We don't condone this. We don't condone this. And the other thing is the hot sauce, too. We have to make this go. And then we have Avery Island. A lot of people go there and you can go there and have like a tour and everything else.

And even that even has like a really cool history behind it of just like the Tabasco and the Tabasco factory and everything else. It's that is also a really good seasoning that a lot of people use in Louisiana. So what is the famous sandwich for neurons? It's made of fried seafood or roast beef. I think you mentioned Pope oi. Pope oi. Yeah. The lettuce. Yeah. Which famous jazz musician was born in Orleans? Which one? Maybe the most famous. Think of the airport.

You want it? You want me to do it? You can do it. Louis Louis Armstrong. Louis Armstrong. It isn't an airport isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. That's a great minute. So yeah, he loves school in fifth grade to work and take a job. That's kind of interesting. So you have fifth grade education. Beautiful voice. Oh, amazing. One of the most unique. So yeah. So we got to talk to them. But what cultural group of Louisians known for its French heritage and rural

traditions? Well, Cajun or Cajun. Cajun. Yeah. Cajun. Yeah. That'd be more Cajun for sure. Yeah. What famous New Orleans street is known for its nightlife and music. Burban. Burban street. Yeah. There's a horrible saying, but if you remember going to Burban, you didn't have enough fun. Yeah. I went to Burban. I remember it. Okay. Come back then.

So we're not trying to get you. It's always hard. It was one of the really nice restaurants

that I remember. We went there for dinner. And it was two gentlemen at him from I'm Thompson from Alabama and another gentleman who are both very policy focused. We're wearing you know, Louis sport coats, white shirts, tan pants. I was probably wearing something similar. I

“probably looked a little cooler because it was kind of a place that you had to wear. I think a jacket.”

And they were like, oh, well, walked out of Burban street. And it was like, hello. Look at us. We're walking down this crazy street. Oh, and it was like, man, we were such dorks. Yeah. I will say too, New Orleans. It's so unique that everybody, there are so many different types of ways that people celebrate and everybody really comes together. And it's a whole amazing just pit of fun. Everybody's welcoming everybody's nice. And even people who come

from out of state, it's almost like they adopted for a couple days. So the New Yorkers that come down there are actually nice for a couple days. Now, if we honest, it's real. It's true. It could be fake. There's a communal thing going on where everyone's like, yeah, this is great. So it's

walking by each other. Mm-hmm. So yeah. Then again, you can always get giant, highly alcohol

“drinks like to walk around with. Yeah, we're all going to get a hang, hang grenade. Yeah,”

Zachary. All right. Well, I appreciate you guys indulging us and going with the trivia. We probably short gave Mary a little short trip, but Louisiana's not where fun to talk about. Oh, man, that's not from Maryland, but Louisiana's an amazing state. Well, it's really Louisiana, Spencer. You work in Louisiana as one of our leaders there. Tell us what's going on and what your priorities are coming up and where you guys want to take the state. So everybody in the

state of course is talking about, you know, outside of politics is just LSU, LSU football. We got a laying kiff and coming in. We got it. We'll wait now as our basketball coach Kim Mokie doing women's basketball. And so, I mean, you can go to pretty much any restaurant, anything. Everybody's talking Tiger sports right now. And it's absolutely electric. Everybody's super excited for that coming football season. I mean, football season in Baton Rouge is a whole another animal. It's unlike everything you

have ever, you know, seen your life. It is so much fun. But in regards to in politics, we're of course in the middle of session in the heat of it. We got a lot of great reforms past last session. So we got the Rains Act passed last session. And in this session, our big thing is is we got universal ESAs, our LA Gator Scholarship passed a couple of years ago. When we were super duper proud about that and super happy. Now we're kind of in the implementation phase of the program. So they kind of have

like a three year rollout of the program. And so right now, we're going into year two of implementation. And the big thing is just trying to secure funding. So like right now, we had it was around 40

million last year. And this year, we're trying to double the sides of the program. And we actually

have great news at the House Budget HB1 just passed out a committee with our full 87 million budget attached to it for the LA Gator program. And so we're super stoked about that. That's great. Yep. And then how does that? How do you feel about the Senate? Oh, since it's going to be a little tricky. Yeah, we're going to have some headwinds there. And it's going to be, it's going to be interesting to see how it ends up coming out. But we're super pumped because right now we're in the

heat of planning our day at the Capitol or lobby day. And as of right now, we have a little over 350 RCPs with students, parents trying to get from all over the state to come in to advocate for the LA Gator program. And so we're super stoked about it. And we'll think we'll get there. But it's

“going to be tough. It's going to be an uphill battle. But that's what's grassroots is all about.”

It's applying the pressure whenever we need to apply the pressure and being able to get those legislators to come aboard. And so we're optimistic and we're keeping our head up. But it's going to be hard. But we'll get there. Nice. Well, I think there's been some great reforms that happen. You know, I'm particularly connected with the education student accounts, the education savings accounts. But yeah, you guys have been knocking it out of the park down there. And I look forward to you continue to

do. Trying to try and to, I mean, it's one of the things where especially when it comes to education, I mean, you want to try to make a big impact. Not only on somebody's life, but just the direction of

a state. I mean, education is with the first place to look and giving people the opportunity and the

choice to, you know, pick the education that best fits them is the way to go. And parents are super open and receptive about it. And so we're super excited to keep on trying to, you know, do the Lord's work and trying to expand the program and trying to get everybody on board. Nice. Good luck to you. Yeah. Clayton. So you travel around the country, kind of helping to tell stories. Yeah. Uh, through social media and you worked with our team a little bit of me. Yeah, I've been

thrilling. Fine. So what's, what are some of the, what's been some of the most fun and what's some of the best work that you think you're, you're doing? Well, I guess right now, we're, we're we're in such a political climate that it is just so negative. There is so much negativity happening

“and I think the younger generation, I'll say 32 about 20 or the 20 of the 30s, they are just so”

overloaded with information right now that it is just caused an up or and one thing that I I want to encourage the listeners, we are learning and we're growing and with this information, it's encouraging more people to take action. We are grassroots organization and the more people that we have that are going to go out and talk about what they believe with the free speech, with the founding principles of our country, the more that this happens, the stronger our country's

going to become. And I am seeing a fired up generation and it is really exciting to see. And right now we, we've been working on, uh, working into the next phase of the working family sacks cuts, making sure that every family, uh, is able to get as much as many taxes back as they can. So then they can live the lives they need to live and maybe go have some extra food on the table and uh, I know that we're going to continue driving that message throughout this year and encouraging

and affordability and I'm excited. This 2026 is going to be a heck of a year. That's all I got to say. All right, I'm glad you'll be documenting a lot of it and telling the stories. It's been great.

good knowledge. Yeah, thanks. Got to have you come down to Louisiana. Need some. Yeah, I'm like

“good enough. We got boats and food and whatever you want. I, uh, you don't have to just admire”

one of that one. All right. See you soon then. Find some time. That's a good. All right.

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