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Bienvenidos a todo este episodio de Louisiana Uncultare.

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Así que queremos transformar esto para este episodio.

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2023.

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Es un buen día, un día muy bien, un día muy bien, un día muy bien.

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Bueno, ¿qué es el 2024 en nuestro trabajo?

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Eso es lo que vamos a explorar en este episodio de Louisiana Uncultare.

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Así que vamos a dejarlo.

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Vamos a atacar este episodio con nuestros amigos de nuestro trabajo.

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Tenemos Daniel, Katherine y Jordan.

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Nosotros tenemos un 2020, ¿qué tenemos?

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Sí, Karen, nos hemos llegado a un gran listo de compilos de la parte de la historia de la 24.

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Y queremos empezar con el 24.

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Y es bienvenido a la Hallofame, la Louisiana Uncultare.

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Es un proyecto de conductos de la nueva clase.

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Hay tres grandes nombres que están en la ciudad.

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Y yo creo que Jordan es muy contento.

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Tenemos un grupo de brusos.

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Si no te lo sabes, los brusos que están en la ciudad.

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¿Cuál es eso?

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Ok.

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No, no.

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Yo creo que es un gran listo.

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Es tan incidible.

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Entonces Drew Breeze es going to be joining the Hall of Fame.

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Some of my gustos, who I'm very excited to see her name in there.

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And then Daniel Cormier, who is a mixed martial arts,

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USC fighter from Lafayette.

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So those are kind of three of the big names kind of joining the Hall of Fame.

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Yo me puedo cancelar con esto, pero no he sido una insaneza.

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Drew Breeze, me voy a hablar.

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Jordan, desde mi parte del estado, que no escuega tu non-fandom de la insaneza.

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Kingdom, yo creo que te puedo llamar.

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Me en la insaneza, la team y la fanbase, han habido una relación complicada que me quedo en la semana.

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Pero, ya sabes, este es un gran clasio. Obviamente, se ha aumentado mucho la lucea en la espocia.

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Daniel Cormier, fue a la misma escuela que me ha ido.

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Entonces, lo que me he hecho era representar a la ciudad.

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Así que, ya sabes, es una gran experiencia para la primera vez en la persona.

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Yo era una starstruck.

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Entonces, esto es una gran clasio y se ha cambiado mucho a la ciudad.

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¿Y qué es el que se ha cambiado en la Hall of Fame?

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El gran clasio, el gran clasio, para un periodo extendido,

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creo que y todos los granos.

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Drew Breeze, no se ha cambiado mucho a la franchise que nunca había habido.

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Entonces, desde eso, si no se ha cambiado de nada,

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se ha cambiado en la Hall of Fame.

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Y, ya sabes, los gostos de la Fuerza, el final de la Fuerza, el lucea.

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¿Qué es el lucea? El lucea es más visible en la map.

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Sí, es como el mar de Herence, el lucea.

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Pero ya sabes, es que es muy grande.

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Cormier, a mucha gente no sabe que es como la segunda UFC fighter,

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que tiene como 2 UFC como edad y en 2 diferentes divisions.

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Se ha cambiado en la muy popular es como que se continuó a ver.

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Yo he estado en la forgotera de Drew Breeze que no sé que era, obviamente, era un superbolo.

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Pero él ha sabido cómo se ha cambiado.

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Y no sé si Jordyn es no, obviamente, una fiesta de black and gold,

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que no sé que antes que él era más grande.

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Entonces, vamos a hablar de eso later.

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Pero... No, yo he hecho.

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No, curiosamente, yo creo que Jordyn te da un input a este.

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Pero él... Yo creo que él se ha cambiado recordado,

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se ha cambiado a Russian yards, se ha cambiado a Russian yards, se ha cambiado a lo que no.

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¿No, es mi correcto?

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Él ha cambiado recordado en ese tiempo cuando él era planeado, pero

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tenemos que lembrar que Tom Brady era como 40 años,

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entonces luego, él era eventualmente, que se ha cambiado de los records.

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Pero en el tiempo, cuando Breeze era activado, él se ha cambiado definitivamente.

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Sí. Y vamos a ver que el coste de la Ceremonía de la Ceremonía de la Junta,

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que es una acción, así que es un buen tiempo.

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Y eso te lleva a número 23. Es un tráco.

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Así que, desde Katrina, no ha sido en sus servicios reales,

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por el coste de golf. Es una de las cosas que ha sido muy rebuiltadas.

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Y vamos a ver que se viene a la vida en 2024.

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Es una muy grande parte de Mississippi, Alabama, en New Orleans.

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Es una de las cosas que se viene a la vida en 2024.

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Y eso es que se viene a la vida en 2024, gracias a los granitos federales, y en Estados Unidos,

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y en la vida, para que se se veas en el mundo.

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Y para los de ustedes que no están aware, este entrenamiento es que se va a ir de New Orleans a un modelo.

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¿Correcto, Daniel? Pero ¿qué pasó en la Ruiz?

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Esa es una ruiz de baton. Pero a veces, a veces, muchas personas que se van a tener un tráco,

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o sea, es una ruiz de aca, a la ruiz de la ruiz de New Orleans.

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El camino que hemos estado aquí, desde que me ha sido un día.

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Es muy durado. Es muy durado.

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La gran parte de la ruiz de la baton, en New Orleans, es donde se va a poner este paso.

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Hay muchas personas que se van a la vida en el mundo.

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Algunas que van a tener que ir más o menos a ese eson, blubon, que es una área de medallaje de la ruiz de la ruiz de la ruiz de la ciudad.

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Y luego tienes, a la otra parte de la argumenta que piensa que se va a ir en la Norte Bateria, a tener que ir a las personas que no se van a tener acceso a las cosas más fáciles.

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Así que hay una gran debate donde eso va. Hay un gran debate de dinero.

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El debate va a ser continuado por un tiempo. Pero creo que las cosas expertas que están haciendo este paso,

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en el costo de la gente, en el genero de la turismo, por el que se va a poner de la gente de Alabama, en New Orleans, en vice versa,

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es como una cosa que tiene que tener que estar en la baton, en los Orleans, como la gente.

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En este momento, sí, yo creo que si hay una otra opción para la transportación, que no se va a ir a la pura,

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es tiempo en mi camino memory demostración cada tiempo spoil en la trustees

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y ha3000 en tierra es algo a tiempo

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con unos 23.

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A lo intentativo,

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ISIS para tu всем beneficio

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Usted nos requirements

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de supervisar ese tema depadres

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tan mıcusos

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MUSIC crédical

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con Karen, mi favorito sobre este tema era el intamit

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y la personalidad de uno a uno, atención.

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Algunas necesidades de que le hicieron suave.

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Entonces si estás mirando por eso,

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se acuerdan con su gran gran gran y no hay más de un intamit,

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suerte de la Universidad Federal y la Unión de la Universidad,

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tienes.

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Vamos a un pensante no es Flashback,

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pracando dentro del entorno,

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que la verdad una fazificación lo largo de lo normal lo malo es...

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Very tired so based.

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那么 se Tuesday el ten patrons para 25 años se sayin,

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con memorized housing,

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gaat crecer enwach caso.

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La tercera instancia de la autonomy.

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Llego a Kid Rock y Jason Aldean, entre los dos artistas de headline.

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Y es un buen tiempo, por ejemplo, que hagan en cuenta a la ciudad de la ciudad,

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y es así que es un counter de música en la zona.

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- Espera, yo voy a... - Ay, yo voy a...

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- Oh, cújate. - Cújate, cújate.

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Pues, yo quería decir, yo no me lo he visto que Kid Rock era un señor de la ciudad.

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Yo he visto que es un señor de la ciudad, ¿no? - Sí. Yo no sé, pero,

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hasta la sombra de la mano, de una little banner.

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- Sí. - Sí.

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Yo creo que él ha sido un país más grande,

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creo que es un poco de politics, pero...

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He sido muy grande que el país se ha sido.

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Yo era una vez que creo que era un gran chute en la González armada.

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Es decir, no solo a las personas que están en González,

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se ha sido un gran chute en la ciudad de Álvaro, por favor.

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Es decir, cuando hay Martí, no hay solo en New Orleans.

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- El hotel se ha estado en un momento. - Sí.

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Aquí, a veces, las personas están a la abuela, a diferentes partes de la ascensión.

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A veces, están a la abuela, a la abuela, a la abuela, a la abuela.

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Si no están a la abuela, esto es un gran del.

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Es un gran del de la abuela. No se ha llegado a la abuela. No se ha llegado a New Orleans.

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He llegado a la abuela de la abuela. La Martí se ha llegado a la abuela.

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sino que es un gran lugar que rouge este tipo de diagnos,

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es una de las cosillas que podamos creer una hacienda dirección

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en una por conta Presentador por zalada.

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Sindas y últimas confusingas y laszą defatismo

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hangue same.

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El galifica craneig

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m&í se mantiene sangat corta

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ytail de sharpener—

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menos,

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Papá,

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y el género.

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Ok.

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So Jordan won't be there,

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pero ticats are on sale.

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If you want to go ahead and get him tickets,

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we can.

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We'll gift him to you, Jordan.

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Not a saint.

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No, I know, not a country music can.

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I think Jordan will be excited about number 21, though.

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Yes, I think everybody's going to be excited about that.

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And I'll even,

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I'll even tease you with this

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I think majority of us did our Christmas shopping through that.

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Oh, that's quite the tease.

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What is it?

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It's the convenience.

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Yeah, the Amazon fulfillment center is finally going to be open

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at the Old Cortana Mall site.

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This has been really a long time coming.

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Demolition started in 2021.

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This thing was supposed to be opened in 2023.

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They were kind of crippled by all the construction delays

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that so many people are familiar with and supply chain delays

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and issues there.

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So they're finally going to be opening in 2024.

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And it's a huge facility.

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If you haven't driven by there, it's just massive.

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It's $200 million.

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It's going to be $3.4 million square foot.

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And this thing is so cool.

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They have some videos on YouTube, on Amazon's YouTube site.

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You can kind of see how these fulfillment centers work.

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And it's crazy how these little robots and drones

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can kind of bring your packages based on QR codes and all that.

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So it's not going to all be robots.

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There's going to be a lot of jobs that are going to be coming

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as well, close to 1,000 full-time jobs to the bad and Nigeria,

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which is definitely never a bad thing to hear.

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I do have to say, I'm excited for the economic development.

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But I am going to miss that delards at Cortana Mall

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that has like 80% off of everything.

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But I do think this is going to be great for the Baton Rouge area

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to add more jobs.

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And so people can get their products a bit quicker now.

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You miss dealers.

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I miss Mesa on Blanche and Service Merchant Difer.

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Are you talking about?

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It's a very large surprise.

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All right, P to the Cortana.

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I remember for a while, they only had like bath and body works open.

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I used to go in there after Christmas gets on in holiday sense.

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I was fired.

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You could order them on Amazon.

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I was going to add that I know it like when we've gone to Dallas,

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the very first time it happened, you order something on Amazon

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and you're hoping, okay, well, before we leave, it'll get here

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and it says it'll be there in two hours.

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And I was like, wait, what?

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Hold on, wait, what?

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It's really going to be here in two hours.

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Like, I felt like a little kid about to get a gift.

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That's probably going to be happening here too.

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We will be getting things that are available within two hours.

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And I think that's about to change a lot.

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Yeah, I've lived in Atlanta and Charlotte

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where you could do kind of like the same day, two hour deliveries.

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And it's super convenient when you're in a pinch or can't get out.

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I've missed that.

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Right now, we're kind of relying on packages from other places.

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Lafayette has the first Amazon fulfillment center in the state.

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Tree portal will be opening up behind Baton Rouge.

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So Amazon's footprint in Louisiana is definitely expanding.

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So it will be a game changer for sure.

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And speaking of game change, we have at number 20,

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we have a new top jag on the bluff.

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The Southern Jags are going to be welcoming their new head coach

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for the upcoming football season.

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And Jordan, he's already kind of started with a big win for the Jags.

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Yeah, Terence Graves was named a new head coach.

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His first order of business was to go coach him in the value class.

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You know, the most popular game for Southern of the year.

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And they were victorious.

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You know, coach Dooly, coach Eric Dooly,

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he, the university party weighs with them after his second season.

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They just, he was over 500 with the 12 and 10 record,

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but they just didn't live up to the expectations of the university and the fan base.

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I mean, you go on a Saturday on social media.

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The Southern fans was letting him have it.

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And it was weird considering that he won more games than he lost,

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but you know, people have certain standards for things and they felt like,

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you know, Coach Dooly didn't live up to it,

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but Coach Graves steps in, fresh voice,

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you know, fresh perspective,

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looking to lead the Jags into more success.

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Next season.

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And the only head coach to win the Bay of Classic with both Grandmoline and Southern,

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which is, which is interesting.

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I wonder how that goes with him for the fans,

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like for the Grandmoline fans,

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like how do they feel that he, I guess, quote unquote, joke ship.

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They might have some animosity there.

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Yeah, and I think, look, I think he's going to be great for the Jags

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for a few different reasons.

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He's, you know, has that special team's background that, you know,

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I think it's going to help elevate the Jags,

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especially in that swag play that's going to be brutal coming up in the next season.

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Absolutely.

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I'm looking forward to seeing what Southern can do.

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I mean, anytime you get rid of a coach, you're expecting new things.

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So I anticipate them, yeah, hoping to make progress,

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but it all depends on, you know, the players,

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you get the players who stay and not jump into the transfer portal and stuff like that.

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And those things change every week, every couple of months.

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So we won't know exactly what Southern all have until maybe our next August,

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because I mean, some kids show up in a spring and then they transfer.

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So he's going to have his hands full, but I think he'll be able to have some success with team.

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It'll be fun to watch on the bluff.

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And then at number 19, we'll also see if Kim Mulkikin do back-to-back championships,

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national championships with her with her Tigers.

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Yeah, the season started off rough.

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They're all related people, not the way people anticipated.

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You lose the first game in Vegas. Then you come out the top-rank team,

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and then you lose the first game.

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You have some issues with your star player, another player who was pivotal in the championship run.

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It's just not on the team anymore. We don't know why.

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So that was like a couple of weeks of strife,

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but I think one of the biggest bright spots for the team has been freshman,

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Michaela Williams. She's been sensational.

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The freshman from Parkway, I saw her in the state championship game.

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The last two years dropped 30 plus the first her dream year they lost, her dream year they won.

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And I didn't think she would translate this fast to the college game,

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but she dropped 42. I think it was earlier this season.

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She's starting. She's producing at a high level, one of the leading scores on the team.

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She's been in like a revelation.

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Obviously they had a Hamie Van Lith. She transferred in running point.

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Flaujay still there. Anisha Moral, another transfer.

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She's ball in double, double monster.

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And now Angel Reese, after that brief hiatus or whatever you want to call it,

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she's stepped back in and she's doing what she does.

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And when they're clicking, they're definitely the most talented team in my opinion in the country,

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but I mean, you still have South Carolina with Dawn Staley.

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They punish your people right now.

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So I think it's a collision court and you got Caitlin Clark,

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who LSUB, and the national championship last year, she's still there ball.

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And so it's I'm interested to see man.

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I'm excited about, you know, women's college basketball.

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And I need to go to a couple of games before the season ends.

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Yeah, I love. I'm hoping that this off court drama is kind of behind the team.

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Because you're absolutely right.

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They're better when they're driving and and Karen,

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how great that some of these are like, you know, household names that Jordan was mentioning

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and that women's basketball and Baton Rouge is like one of the top sports.

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It's so great to see. It really is.

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I mean, to me, I think Jordan, I've had this conversation.

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The best part is the little girls who just, it's amazing to watch them want to go to these games

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because these girls are these women, young women should I say,

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serve as role models. And they are so excited to go to the games and then add to that.

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It can melt these attire that alone has just become, I mean, something of a conversation,

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I guess, that you almost look forward to when she's going to wear.

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What's she going to be wearing?

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And that's your go ahead. I'm sorry.

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No, that's just one of the things about women's college basketball.

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Like in men's college basketball, after a year, some of the best players they're gone.

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And then, you know, we have to look for some more.

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But a lot of times the women's basketball, they stay three years, four years.

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So we get to have that experience.

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They get to have that college experience.

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And I know it's easier not to make millions of NIL deals and stuff like that.

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But just getting to stay and, you know, coach Mokie being here,

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I think is one of the biggest reasons for a lot of these players.

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One to come and play for her and her style of play.

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So I think that this is going to be one of those things where yes,

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Angel will be leaving soon and other Haley Van Litha soon.

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I think she's going to be gone as well.

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But Mikaela will still be here and she'll continue to get more talk.

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Because more and more people want to come to Ben Rouge.

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They're hearing about this experience and they want to play for coach Mokie.

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Who's eligible?

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In 2023, we had two parades in two championships, come to Ben Rouge.

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Can the LSU baseball team do it again?

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There's going to be another thing to kind of watch in 2024.

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They're going to have a long season ahead of them coming up here shortly.

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Yeah, losing Dylan Cruz and Paul Schienz,

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the two top picks in the MLM drive.

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That's kind of tough.

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And you lose some other contributing guys as well.

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But one thing about LSU baseball and athletics in general,

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they get talent in there.

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So I wouldn't be surprised if come February.

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They're ranked in the top 15 in the country top 25 for sure.

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At number 18, we were waiting for a decision to be made on the new Mississippi River Bridge.

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I should say the new Mississippi River Bridge is going to be the bridge built down in Eberville, Parish.

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We have a year or down to three sites.

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2024 is going to be pretty pivotal year.

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They need to narrow down from three to one for that site.

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So that will be expected to come down in around August of 24.

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And the other thing we're waiting for is the kind of the impact that there's a lot of studies still to be doing to be done.

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The environmental studies, one that's expected to be wrapped up by 2024.

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So it should be a big year for that new bridge.

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And what a lot of people have been waiting for a long time to be built.

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A lot of times.

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Yes.

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And I guess let me explain this a little bit.

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I remember when I was at my previous employer, it was just you get people, especially in West Bat Ridge,

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which rightfully so.

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If I think we've all been stuck on the bridge or trying to get back to Bat Ridge in that rush hour traffic,

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at least once in our lives, we've been stuck there.

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You are sitting, y'all.

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It's going to take you forever.

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You're coming home from Lafía, you're coming home from Houston, wherever.

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So it got to a point where West Bat Ridge was almost begging DOTD that do something, do something.

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So we started digging into it and all the environmental studies and every other study, it is required.

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It's not a simple, okay, we're going to put this bridge right here and we're going to start building it today.

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Every study is required as far as how much the environment is going to be impacted.

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And how much other impacts will one building, one bridge cause.

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And after those studies are cleared, that's when you can finally start moving forward.

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And it looks like that's where we're at.

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Yeah, and even once we get those studies, we're still going to have a long wait.

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I think even if things stay on the current track, it's going to be like 20, 30 or 20, 31 before you're able to drive over that bridge.

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So we still have a long ways to go to see in that bridge come to fruition.

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Well, and these studies are very comprehensive with the environmental quality standards.

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It's not just like pollution or impact on the soil or whatever.

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You have to look at noise, you have to look at the amount of traffic, the increase in population.

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So, you know, if they have to do multiple locations with these studies, yes, that's going to take a significant amount of time.

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One, because it's multiple locations and two, they're kind of being a little theoretical with these studies,

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because they don't exactly know what the impact is going to be.

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Yep.

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I mean, the note is seriously, go ahead.

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No, you can.

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I was just going to say that the joke has become we're going to do a study about a study that that's how long it feels.

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It's been decades for some people.

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People will tell you spend their lifetime.

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They've been hearing another bridge is coming, another bridge is coming, but I promise.

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This one, it is coming.

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And, you know, speaking to, I guess soon to be former Iberville parish president Mitch Orso,

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he just kind of talked about, you know, they had been one bridge.

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And, you know, they were happy that all three sites, potential sites are in Iberville parish, however.

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You know, another factor is a new administration coming in.

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A new governor coming in that may change some things so that could push the timeline back even further.

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And I think that's one of the things that kind of aids into how long it actually takes to do things like that.

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Different people come in with different ideas, different location, recl...

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You know, suggestions and stuff like that.

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So we can see this possibly, you know, depending on how things go pushing back even further.

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And like he mentioned, from the day that the first slab of cement or whatever they use to start building,

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it takes about at least seven years.

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That's if the weather is perfect every day.

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And we know that it's not possible in Louisiana.

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So we're looking at a long road to a new bridge, but it's a step in the direction that people want to go.

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I mean, I promised it's coming, but I did not say it would be here in a certain time.

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Now, by 2009, I promise it'll be here.

403
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Well, don't make promises.

404
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Yeah, don't make promises.

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You can't keep Karen.

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Karen, one thing you won't have to wait for in 2024 is the newest school in Ascension Paras.

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This has been something that's been needed for a really long time.

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The Ascension Paras kind of deals with overcrowding in their schools.

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We're finally going to have a new school, perabil high school, the hurricanes.

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They're going to be welcoming students for the 24/25 school year.

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Come August.

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That's a big one.

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I mean, in fact, we were all talking just together as a staff that how much growth there has been in Livingston and Ascension Parishes and the fallout from that.

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But one of the elements in that is schools.

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And the overcrowding that happens, which takes an impact on the education standards that are applied to the kids.

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So this is, this is huge for Ascension Parish.

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And the hurricanes are going to be having a huge class.

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We finally have the finalized school zone plans that were kind of unveiled in the late 20th of February.

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So that's going to be, you know, everyone kind of knows where they're going to school.

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And I know you have a lot of students who are going to be joining the new perabil high school that are kind of anxious to see.

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It's coming up fast.

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Like you can, it's really cool to kind of drive by there and see, you know, just the progress on construction.

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It's going to be a beautiful campus.

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So I know it's going to be a really welcome addition to, let's see, you have the Spartans, you have the Griffin, you have the Tigers and the Gators.

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Now you're going to have the hurricane.

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So it's going to be a big deal for Ascension Parish.

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And number 16, we have some kind of legal decisions.

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You know, one of the, one of them is a band on the gender affirming health care house bill 648.

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It kind of banned that for all transgender youth in the state is set to become law in 2024.

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Obviously between now and when the new law kind of set to take place in the summer is a lot of kind of legal wrangling that are going to be playing out.

431
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There's a lot of legal challenges to this.

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But, you know, that's kind of one of them.

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This was one of the bills that during the veto session that the legislature was able to kind of overturn

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a governor John Bell Edwards and veto on this.

435
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So legal challenges took a block the bill from becoming law, but that's definitely going to be one to kind of watch in the new year cap.

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00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:37,720
Yes, so this has been a growing trend and more conservative legislatures and government throughout the United States.

448
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:50,320
But I think we've uniformly seen with the courts that this is just an overreach by the legislative bodies into your privacy rights, which involves health care.

449
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:57,360
You should have your own autonomy when it comes to your health care decisions, especially when it comes to your children as well.

450
00:29:57,360 --> 00:30:02,160
For parents, you know, that is a huge concern is, well, this is my child.

451
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:07,880
If we decide that this is okay, then we should be able to do that.

452
00:30:07,880 --> 00:30:14,640
So it's really interesting just with the Supreme Court leaning super right.

453
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:18,560
I would even argue alt-right at this point.

454
00:30:18,560 --> 00:30:28,120
So what happens if these decisions go all the way up to the Supreme Court and this opens up the question of constitutional rights and whatnot?

455
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:33,200
And, you know, I honestly can't anticipate what that decision would be.

456
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:44,440
You have balancing privacy rights, equal protection rights, but I don't know with this Supreme Court, it could be murky waters.

457
00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:55,800
And it does look like it's going to be heading to as a inquiry because you have other laws that have been kind of blocked in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, and I believe in the end as well.

458
00:30:55,800 --> 00:30:59,640
So this has been, like you said, happening in other states.

459
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:07,760
Some of the bills that, you know, we're not able to get through the legislature in 23 will almost likely be back up in 24.

460
00:31:07,760 --> 00:31:15,240
We have a new Republican governor who is really pushing for these legislative reforms.

461
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:19,800
He's going to have a lot of power in his honeymoon session that's going to be coming up.

462
00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:30,720
So you have to imagine that some of the bills that even weren't passed, especially dealing with like transgender sports and some of the other hot topics are going to be back up in the legislature this year for the new session.

463
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:51,840
Yeah, absolutely. And I mean, to be honest, just when I was learning about the three branches of government, the judicial branch was supposed to be the A political branch, it was supposed to just make decisions based on what the law and the doctrine is, but I can say we have not seen that in a few years.

464
00:31:51,840 --> 00:32:10,080
They are completely tied to politics at this point. And, you know, when when Trump appointed all of those federal judges, that really did sway, I think judges appearance as being a political and it became political at that point.

465
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:22,080
We saw it at the district court level, the court of appeals level and even the Supreme Court level. So who knows what's going to happen coming up, but it's just going to be interesting to watch.

466
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:30,080
During the session, this past legislative session, it was a hefty debate on this topic.

467
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:46,080
The people who were just allowing it were contending that this doesn't affect a lot of kids, not a lot of kids actually go through and get the procedures and things of that nature, which was the biggest thing.

468
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:56,080
The people against it would say, they don't know what they want. This is just a movement across the country that kids are following and whatnot.

469
00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:12,080
It's something that's going to come dial to a new governor and a new legislation and we'll see what happens. But I thought it was interesting that this is something that doesn't really affect a lot of people yet it's brought so much.

470
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:34,080
I think it's a big attention to the procedures are usually reversible. So if a child decides to do something such as taking out their breasts or whatever it is, you can go get breast implants later in life or I don't know exactly the technicalities of other procedures.

471
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:48,080
From what I've heard and legislative sessions with committee meetings, medical professionals have said that. To the extent that's true, I don't know what a lot of the fuss is.

472
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:54,080
It's affecting a very small population of people. Why do we need to make such a big fuss about it?

473
00:33:54,080 --> 00:34:08,080
Because I think it's related to a lot of the other bills that were that was offered the beta as well. Those pertaining to sexuality to a certain extent and orientation.

474
00:34:08,080 --> 00:34:20,080
All of those, it was like three bills, I believe, there were all kind of loved them together that was trying to get passed by a certain section of legislation, legislator.

475
00:34:20,080 --> 00:34:30,080
Number 15, something else we're going to be watching and I'm just going to admit it seems like a really boring topic but it's super important.

476
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:41,080
It dealing when you go vote every year or every few years when you go vote, the voting machines that you use. That's going to be a big part of contention in 24.

477
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:53,080
The new secretary of state is going to have her hands full with overseeing this process which has really turned into a political debate.

478
00:34:53,080 --> 00:35:01,080
To walk everyone through what this means is the legislator basically said that Louisiana needs a paper trail, if you will.

479
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:12,080
Even if you're going to use these computer machines, there needs to be some kind of paper trail to kind of ensure that votes are counted correctly and there's an audit of the votes.

480
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:21,080
The current machines which are really starting to get old, I think they day back to 2006. We got 10,000 of them that have to be replaced.

481
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:35,080
It's a very daunting task and there is opinions on both sides of the political spectrum on what these machines should look like. Should Louisiana go to what a lot of states have or the paper ballots.

482
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:44,080
Should we go forward with other computerized ballots that give you that print out. That's going to be a big debate heading into 2024.

483
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:53,080
We got the elections coming up this year as well. It might be a boring topic but it is a very vital topic.

484
00:35:53,080 --> 00:36:08,080
I think, like you said, there are arguments from both sides. It depends on who the losing side is and then you hear more of an upward from it. That's a tough situation to navigate through.

485
00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:18,080
You don't know what's the best. Do you have a system that puts more work on the people who actually volunteer to work at the polls? How do you go about doing that?

486
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:27,080
Those machines are easy to use regardless of some of them work like they should or not. I think that's something else.

487
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:38,080
You have the clerk or courts or the people who have to check on these machines on election day. If all of them start going out or whatever process being used is malfunctioning at the time of the day.

488
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:49,080
However, they choose to roll this out. It can go either way with it or something new. All of us.

489
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:53,080
Which is going to be so jarring.

490
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:58,080
I think they need to be careful with what they choose to do.

491
00:36:58,080 --> 00:37:17,080
When they held hearings on this, you had 2020 election deniers. My pillow guy being one of them. Basically claiming fraud and all this despite independent auditors that come in and looked at our election system and says, no, there's nothing faulty with them.

492
00:37:17,080 --> 00:37:33,080
We just want that that added protection, if you will. It was a big reason that Carl Ardwan or former secretaries, they were all going secretaries. They chose not to run. He said that these pervasive lies and he took a beating during these hearings.

493
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:40,080
It was a big reason he decided not to run for reelection. You can definitely expect that to be heated.

494
00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:53,080
Yes, locally there was a situation with the voting machine allegedly like in the Livingston Parish area for people who were sending vote for a specific candidate at that time.

495
00:37:53,080 --> 00:38:05,080
So you know, it's not just a presidential election. People have problems with or like a statewide. It's even down to the little precinct by church that people may have issues with these machines.

496
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:20,080
I think with the history of voting just in the south and disenfranchisement, people kind of get suspicious when things change or you know, you can't vote for a specific candidate. So what does this actually mean?

497
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:33,080
So sometimes those suspicions are warranted, but other times it might just be a system failure or a need for a new way of doing things.

498
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:45,080
Switching gears to number 14, we are going to have another total solar eclipse coming up in April. So this is really exciting. We had our last one was in 2016.

499
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:55,080
And this one is going to be kind of crossing the country from from the west from Mexico, kind of going up the middle of the country.

500
00:38:55,080 --> 00:39:06,080
And Louisiana specifically is going to have, you know, close to 90, 95% coverage. So we're going to have a big coverage. This is going to be different than that eclipse we had in 23.

501
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:16,080
That was the annular eclipse. That went kind of just dulled everything down. This one's going to be a complete block into the sun. So things are going to be dark.

502
00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:28,080
If you remember the last one we had a few years ago, you had, you know, the crickets chirping in the middle of the day and it was really kind of cool to see. So you're going to have to get those solar glasses ready because this one's going to be a big one.

503
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:39,080
Yeah, order the solar glasses. And if anybody by any chance is looking for me on April the 8th, I will be in Dallas because in Dallas, you get a 100% view of this.

504
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:48,080
Yeah, in a shrew port, it'll be I think about 95 95% and then here in Baton Rouge will have about 90%. So you're still going to get an amazing view here.

505
00:39:48,080 --> 00:40:06,080
But I still remember in 2016, in fact, Donna Britt and I walked outside and we had made little cutouts and we held those up in the design on the ground. It was just it was beautiful. It was a memory and same thing. It's all about making another memory for this company.

506
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:12,080
You must be taking the camper because there's no hotels to be had in Dallas. So you must be taking the camper with you. Sure.

507
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:19,080
If you want to sit on the side of the interstate station, I'm going. I've heard about these things. I love it. I think it's so cool.

508
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:31,080
Guys, it's crazy from like South Texas all the way to like Cleveland Buffalo. Is it kind of makes that path? There was like no hotels available. They've been booked for for years now.

509
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:45,080
And it's really kind of incredible to see the people that are are going because you're going to have up to four minutes of darkness and kind of the middle of the day and these areas of totality, if you will. So it's going to be it's going to be pretty exciting.

510
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:55,080
And proof I'm not the only nerd out there. So that's up for debate.

511
00:40:55,080 --> 00:41:05,080
Number 13 Jordan. This is going to hit close to home. The speed cameras are finally going to be going up on the chaflaya basin. They've been planned for a few years now.

512
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:11,080
But they're finally going to be up in operation. So you're going to have to watch that. But I'm a little more closely my friend.

513
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:15,080
But Jordan, you're a lot of fighting citizens. So that's not a problem for you. Correct.

514
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:20,080
That's correct for every law enforcement.

515
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:29,080
However, you know in 2022 when this was proposed and when it was passed, I was nervous. And then they were like, okay, it's going to be.

516
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:37,080
I just no reason. You know, I have family that lives in the Latvia and the Latvia area that I visit often.

517
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:48,080
And so you know, I passed on that. I used that path to get to Latvia often. And when it didn't go up in October 2022, I was like, okay, I'm out of dodge.

518
00:41:48,080 --> 00:41:57,080
You know, because it's it's a weird. It's a weird mechanic. Like, you know, they're going to time to see how long you pass on the entire bridge.

519
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:02,080
So if it's 18 minutes or less, you're going to get a ticket. That's wild to me.

520
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:07,080
So like, if you're going 18 minutes, that's fast.

521
00:42:07,080 --> 00:42:21,080
So it's a 17. So it's a 17 mile bridge. So you go a mile a minute at 60 miles an hour. I would think that that's 17 minutes though.

522
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:33,080
So you know, the speed limit is 60. I get you right. Everybody's everybody's not going 60 obviously, but I'm just worried about this because the fines are hefty.

523
00:42:33,080 --> 00:42:44,080
Like a thousand up to a thousand dollars from $1,000. Yeah. Yeah. And you can speed in a school zone and get like 250. So like this is going to be much more than that.

524
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:54,080
So I have to watch it. You know, sometimes maybe a couple times I got off the bridge of 15 minutes, but I can't do that anymore once there's more things going.

525
00:42:54,080 --> 00:43:03,080
Yeah, I'm going to have to chill. I'm going to just start taking 190 or something and speed there. So about 190.

526
00:43:03,080 --> 00:43:09,080
They're on to you. Yeah. The volume of all your poor bearity. They posted waiting.

527
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,080
This is what you can use right here.

528
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,080
They are.

529
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:26,080
But the whole reason behind this is, you know, they kind of looked at the crashes over the years because we all know that one crash can shut down the basin and then you're just you're screwed essentially.

530
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:41,080
So a lot of these crashes were kind of speed induced kind of crashes. They may change over the years to kind of keep the big trucks and in one lane, they kind of alleviate that and nothing's really work. So I guess I'll be interested to see if this does cut down some of the crashes.

531
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:56,080
Well, I know that. Oh, go ahead. I'm sorry. I don't know. I was going to say I know that speed cameras aren't very popular in the legal context because you can't confront the person who is saying that you committed a crime.

532
00:43:56,080 --> 00:44:06,080
So I don't know exactly what legal challenges might come from these speed cameras on the bridge. If there's an emergency.

533
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:17,080
Yeah, nothing made me more angry than we used to have when we used to have those speed vans that would just be put like just on the side of the road people used to over like start banging on those things.

534
00:44:17,080 --> 00:44:20,080
I hated those. I hate those things.

535
00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:28,080
But I think, you know, part of the I know they do a lot of studies on these things, but I feel like the lack of a shoulder on the bridge.

536
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:42,080
I kind of need a lot of these crashes, like sometimes when people have issues with their vehicles, they have to kind of get out of their car and in from there, they get hit like are like a vehicle sticking out because they can't get all the way on the show.

537
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:54,080
Like some parts don't have a shoulder at all. I don't know what you do to fix that, but I think that's also part of it. And then like in other states, people have speed limits that are like 75 and stuff like that on the end.

538
00:44:54,080 --> 00:45:08,080
The accident's aren't the same. I think it's a problem with, you know, drivers, people who drive it. I'll say it through more than just the speed aspect of it. I guess we in fact are in speed with lack of a shoulder.

539
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:17,080
You get more accident. Aren't they expanding the chaffelaya base in bridge to to be three lanes on each side? Are they still doing that?

540
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:22,080
I haven't heard anything. I think that's what you're thinking, Kat. Let's do one bridge at a time.

541
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:31,080
2,100 will talk another bridge. I mean, we won't, but...

542
00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:39,080
At number 12 and guys, I'm not going to lie, this could have been number one on my list because I'm super excited about it.

543
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:48,080
The Savannah bananas are coming to Batmuruch. If you've got sucked down the TikTok hole, like I have, you've seen these guys.

544
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:59,080
I like to say they're kind of like the Harlem gold trotters of baseball. They do all the fancy dance moves and tricks and all these cool things.

545
00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:10,080
They're going to be coming to LSU in 2024. The ESPN called these guys the greatest show on sports, which I think is pretty telling. It's just a wild entertainment kind of ride.

546
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:17,080
They're going to be here for a few days. If you haven't signed up for the lottery, you're probably out of luck for tickets.

547
00:46:17,080 --> 00:46:26,080
We find out soon if we'll get those tickets. I have my fingers and toes and everything else crossed to kind of see them. I think it'll be a good time.

548
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:35,080
Did you have to go through ticket master? No, thank God.

549
00:46:35,080 --> 00:46:48,080
I saw clips of them, but I never knew what it was. And then reading the story and then going, "Look at it. It is basically the Harlem gold trotters of baseball."

550
00:46:48,080 --> 00:47:00,080
I'm going to send that some of the former MLB stars that they had to join. I remember Barry and Joe. Yeah, Barry Zito playing for the AIDS. His curve was filthy.

551
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:13,080
I'm not in the raffle, so I'm not getting any tickets. If I were to know him this at the time, I would try to get some.

552
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:22,080
If you're nice, I'll share tickets with you, Jordan. Oh, you share with me too. Oh, Jesus. March.

553
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:29,080
We should all go. No, we should all go. Karen, you should work your contact so we can all get to go.

554
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:37,080
So if you're listening or watching our entire crew would like tickets March 14 through the 16.

555
00:47:37,080 --> 00:47:48,080
There are a lot of families that are out there trying to get tickets. I know some of the traveling baseball teams, like everyone kind of put for the maximum number of tickets you can kind of put up for.

556
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:54,080
I know there's going to be a lot of people kind of hoping for those tickets. It will be one of the hot tickets of 2024 for sure.

557
00:47:54,080 --> 00:48:13,080
And number 11, we have another legal showdown, the pay parental leave. This was something that Governor John Bell, Edwards did in his last few months was offering pay parental leave six weeks of pay parental leave to the 70,000 state workers.

558
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:33,080
It's been met with a mixed bag of a political angst, if you will, you have some who are a lot really forward. You have many who are against it. You have an incoming governor who is basically saying he hasn't made up his mind essentially on which way he's kind of leaning on this.

559
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:41,080
So it's going to be kind of interesting to see, but that started January 1st. And we'll see how long it lasts, I guess.

560
00:48:41,080 --> 00:48:54,080
Yeah, I always have mixed feelings about the pay parental leave, but I'm usually typically for it. And the basis for that is I have a lot of friends in other countries.

561
00:48:54,080 --> 00:49:07,080
And the amount of friends who have at least six months paid parental leave after having a child or adopting a child or something of that nature is it's incredible.

562
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:18,080
My friend in South America, we talk about this all the time when she had her newborn twins. She didn't work for almost a year because of the paid parental leave that they have.

563
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:31,080
And I think her husband was also afforded paid parental leave as well. And I think it just kind of is going into this larger conversation that people are having about work like balance in general.

564
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:40,080
And it's interesting to see how state workers are going to be able to utilize parental leave and how that might trickle down to the private sector.

565
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:51,080
I think it's important to note too, there are a lot of private companies that offer six, eight, 12 weeks of paid leave, some offering much longer.

566
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:55,080
I know some private companies that offer six months of parental leave.

567
00:49:55,080 --> 00:50:06,080
So you already hit the private sector in a lot of ways. Right now state workers, most state workers are entitled to 12 weeks of unpaid time off.

568
00:50:06,080 --> 00:50:15,080
So a lot of people since PTO is kind of banked for state employees, they bank it and they can kind of use that to kind of get them through.

569
00:50:15,080 --> 00:50:28,080
But this will definitely be a game changer for a lot of people. And like I said, it will be interesting to see you governor Landry, you know, how he tackles this and if there's going to be any changes to it.

570
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:36,080
Yeah, it feels weird. I know they get 12 weeks of unpaid. That's like three months.

571
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:48,080
At that point, like for the people who don't have it banked, I mean, it's like a deterrent to not have children like are, as that will we're trying to do people are dissuaded from wanting to bring kids to this world.

572
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:53,080
Obviously, that's another debate for, you know, wanting to do that with all the stuff that's going on.

573
00:50:53,080 --> 00:51:03,080
But I think that that's definitely something that should happen. I know we're not progressive enough to get to the point where a father should be able to have that as well.

574
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:10,080
And then we can focus on allowing the women's day workers to have that first and then hopefully that stays.

575
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:16,080
And then maybe we could talk about another progressive action in the future.

576
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:20,080
And number 10. No, no, no, no, fine.

577
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,080
I'll pick back up.

578
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:33,080
And then we have another story that's going to be impacting people's safety. It's the new national weather service radar. It's filing it to be operational in the hammond.

579
00:51:33,080 --> 00:51:41,080
This was a big move. It moved from slide out to hammond. This is going to be kind of a game changer when it comes to baton-rood weather.

580
00:51:41,080 --> 00:51:51,080
Not to get all scientific, but right now, based on the location and the direction of the beans and all these crazy things that your mind cannot comprehend if you're like me.

581
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:57,080
It kind of misses a lot of storms for the baton-rood area, but this is going to bring that radar lower.

582
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:04,080
So we're going to be able to pick up on tornadoes and other severe weather events a lot easier.

583
00:52:04,080 --> 00:52:11,080
This has been a move that's been a long time coming. They turned off the radar at the end of 2023.

584
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:15,080
So it's been kind of a hold your breath to make sure there's no severe weather.

585
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:25,080
They obviously planned it at a time where severe weather is not as prominent, but it's still been interesting to kind of see that radar shift and move.

586
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:28,080
And it's a big deal for the national weather service.

587
00:52:28,080 --> 00:52:40,080
At number nine, the Taylor Swift Louisiana era begins. I know not everyone is as swifty on here, but whether you're as swifty or not, you have that heard about the air history.

588
00:52:40,080 --> 00:52:52,080
Before it was the top selling tour of 23, one of the largest selling tours, if not the largest selling tour of all time, Taylor Swift really kind of dominate headlines.

589
00:52:52,080 --> 00:52:57,080
She was times person of the year. And it's finally coming to Louisiana.

590
00:52:57,080 --> 00:53:08,080
If you had tickets to it, you got them late 23. So you've been having a long way to kind of go there and guys with the tickets to this, if you don't have them, the resell tickets are just crazy.

591
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:19,080
Like nosebleed behind the stage or like three grand the ticket right now and some of the sell it. So it's just absolutely crazy. The fandom behind this.

592
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:29,080
You know, and I'm not as swifty, but I respect a hardcore strong headed woman. And that's what Taylor Swift is to me.

593
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:42,080
Like when I read this article, I will say a part of me was like, whoa, I want to go. And then I realized, wait, you're talking about Taylor Swift. Do you even realize you need to buy a ticket now for anything in like 2030?

594
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:46,080
So yeah, that's not going to happen.

595
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:55,080
I'm not a I'm not a Swiftie either. And the last songs I remember her making was like the album when she was like 21 with Shake it off.

596
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:56,080
22.

597
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:57,080
22.

598
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,080
My apologies.

599
00:53:58,080 --> 00:54:00,080
Yeah, that's 22.

600
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:01,080
Filling 22.

601
00:54:01,080 --> 00:54:05,080
All right. Well, there you go. That was the last.

602
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:14,080
That was the last time I remember any of her songs, but yeah, she's very popular. And you know, she started being on my TV a lot.

603
00:54:14,080 --> 00:54:26,080
Of who she's dating. But you know, which that's a whole other subject. The amount of people who are so upset right now that football has turned into Taylor Swift.

604
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:38,080
I mean, I'll just say at the beginning, it was awesome. Like just to get one or two shots of her. But now every single game, it's like let her enjoy her time too. Like she is a human being at the end of the day.

605
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:51,080
And that's what they're waiting for. They're watching football to see her. So it's been a ratings boost for the NFL. You can like it or not, but it has been you know, there's proof that it might be.

606
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:56,080
They might be sending her thank you cards from the NFL.

607
00:54:56,080 --> 00:55:05,080
Yeah, they they totally are, you know, and look, Swifties are they're a crazy group. I mean, they she leaves these like Easter egg clues and music videos and.

608
00:55:05,080 --> 00:55:16,080
I mean, they're watching her at football games is he she's dropping the includes about her next album. So you know, she she she knows what she's doing definitely and I know a lot of people are excited for her.

609
00:55:16,080 --> 00:55:31,080
The finally coming to New Orleans, she didn't come on the first leg of her US tour. So she's coming now. This is going to be a mammoth of a tour. She's going to be in Europe for most of the year before finally coming back back over the pond. And she's got Miami and New Orleans and Toronto among the.

610
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:36,080
This place is she's going to be going on a second leg for tour.

611
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:46,080
At number eight, we have another legal fight that's going to be taking places going to be a few legal things we're going to be watching cap. This one's going to be redistricting.

612
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:59,080
This one is already being watched Louisiana one of a handful of states that was basically told that they have to draw new congressional maps after court ruling in last year.

613
00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:09,080
They basically said the political boundaries to loot the voices of the state black voters and there kind of been left out of having like a black majority district.

614
00:56:09,080 --> 00:56:20,080
And this is a fight taking shape in a lot of different states. There was a Supreme Court ruling for Alabama that really impacted this Louisiana ruling cat.

615
00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:36,080
I know that this is going to be the first thing that Governor Landry is going to be tackling with these special sessions because there are some deadlines that the state kind of has to meet in order to kind of hold up their end of this court ruling.

616
00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:43,080
Yeah, so just going into the history of the Voting Rights Act, there's this thing called pre clearance.

617
00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:52,080
And that's where the federal court gets involved to review the maps that are drawn by the state legislatures or even in the congressional level.

618
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:58,080
I think there's some sort of checks and balances with respect to drawing up district maps.

619
00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:09,080
So they have to follow certain standards of population to make sure there's no gerrymandering, there's no disenfranchisement and things of that nature.

620
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:29,080
So, you know, it's just interesting to see that the back and forth between the legislature and the courts in having to figure out how are we going to make sure that people aren't being disenfranchised and particularly black voters are not being disenfranchised.

621
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:44,080
Yeah, and this is all political bickering. You know, at its finest right here, you had a Republican drawing congressional maps, you had a Democratic governor who basically vetoed the boundaries, but they were able to they've overrobed two vetoes for him.

622
00:57:44,080 --> 00:57:54,080
One was the gender affirming care and the first one was this, you know, previously and basically they overrobed his veto and this has been tied up in the court system.

623
00:57:54,080 --> 00:58:02,080
So it's going to be interesting to see. I know there's some vetted maps that are kind of out there that they're going to be choosing from.

624
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:10,080
So when legislators do meet on this, they're not going to be starting totally from scratch, but it's going to be interesting to see kind of how this plays out.

625
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:17,080
You know, five of the six Louisiana congressional districts are majority white, even though the black populations one third state.

626
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:24,080
So there's going to be some mathematics at work here as long along with the political boundaries of it all.

627
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:32,080
Number seven, we may be waiting for 2030 for a new Mississippi River bridge, but we won't have to wait that long for the college drive flyover.

628
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:42,080
It's finally opening and if you've driven through the 1012 split, you know how big of a headache this has been. It feels like construction of an item has been going on for years now.

629
00:58:42,080 --> 00:58:51,080
This is going to be a major opening to kind of connect college drive with the interstates and while still kind of keeping the interstates flowing and that's going to be open this year.

630
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:59,080
And I know this is going to hopefully if the OT right alleviate a lot of traffic headaches in Baton Rouge.

631
00:58:59,080 --> 00:59:12,080
Much needed and I'll go back to saying that I remember as a little girl, our drives to Houston and every time we get to Baton Rouge, we would just sit there.

632
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:19,080
And I mean, I'm talking when I was 10 years old. So I mean, technically it's only 11 years ago, but still.

633
00:59:19,080 --> 00:59:20,080
You wish.

634
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:23,080
No, I mean literally it's been decked.

635
00:59:23,080 --> 00:59:37,080
It just feels like the construction in Baton Rouge is never ending that this is going to be huge.

636
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:53,080
It keeps moving and Baton Rouge is just as standstill and is the most infuriating thing ever.

637
00:59:53,080 --> 01:00:14,080
And I'm going to see a huge red wave at the state capitals when we haven't seen in a long time. Every major state elected office is going to be Republican led, including Republican governor Jeff Landry, who won outright during Louisiana's jungle primary in 2023, which is a big deal.

638
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:29,080
And Republicans have already said Landry and some of the other elected officials have already said that their first mission is to kind of overturn or change some of the laws that John Beledward's kind of put in the place.

639
01:00:29,080 --> 01:00:34,080
So it will totally be a new direction for the state in 2024 for the next four years.

640
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:43,080
You don't know what to expect. You kind of have an idea obviously when people run for a certain office, you know some of the things that they want to stand on some of the things they believe in.

641
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:51,080
So that's going to be a complete opposite of what we just had in the outgoing governor there were.

642
01:00:51,080 --> 01:01:07,080
So it'll be a lot of legislative fights, but with a Congress, I mean, I legislate sure that is mostly Republican as well may not be as much, but you know, it's going to be bickering on both sides of it.

643
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:14,080
That's how it is in politics in general. But yeah, we're going to see a lot of conservative ideas pushed.

644
01:01:14,080 --> 01:01:40,080
Some will get through some may not, but I'm interested to see how these things are going to affect, you know, that everyday person because a lot of these things will whether that's a different site for the bridge and every real parents are whether that's hopefully we get rid of those ski carers, you know, but you know, it'll be different things.

645
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:47,080
We'll see what I'm interested to see a little nervous, but interested to see what happens.

646
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,080
Well, I know. Oh, go ahead.

647
01:01:50,080 --> 01:02:06,080
And look, I've had that, I've worked had that Democrat behind his name, but he was really moderate and he really went against other Democratic governors and even the president and a lot of instances with kind of some of the Democratic agenda.

648
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:26,080
He's been pretty moderate. So, and I think people lose sight of that sometimes because of some of the things that he's been very vocal against, but when it comes down to the like what I call the meat potatoes of Louisiana laws, he was he was a really moderate governor and we're really changing the trajectory of that in 24.

649
01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:47,080
Yeah, and I wanted to also just kind of echo on Jordan when I was giving counsel to public entities. One question we constantly got from the governing board was, can you can a new legislative body overturn previous enactments by a previous body?

650
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:57,080
And the answer is yes, absolutely they can. That is the entire role of the legislative body is to try new things.

651
01:02:57,080 --> 01:03:07,080
The Supreme Court has called the legislative body kind of like a scientist. They get to run all of the experiments for the state that they are in.

652
01:03:07,080 --> 01:03:19,080
So, you know, you may like the previous laws, you may not like the previous laws, but with this new legislative body, we're going to see more quote unquote experiments, if you will.

653
01:03:19,080 --> 01:03:35,080
Yeah, some of the laws we were talking about earlier that didn't pass or did pass in the revieto by Edwards. Those are almost certain to become laws. So, it's going to be interesting to see what gets passed first and exactly what the political agenda is going to be for this new legislative body.

654
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:55,080
I think it's definitely going to be interesting to see how, especially this first year pans out, it's going to be incoming governor and Jeff Landry's first year in office and you always have a hundred day plan. So, the first not only year, the first few months even his first 100 days alone are going to be extremely interesting.

655
01:03:55,080 --> 01:04:11,080
So, in the last five we have the presidential primary coming Louisiana that's going to be happening in March 23rd. So, it's right around the corner. It's going to be interesting to see kind of how this shapes out. Trump is the large foregone conclusion to kind of win the state.

656
01:04:11,080 --> 01:04:32,080
We have other primaries and caucuses before them to kind of shape up and kind of see if that could change. You have Nikki Haley who's basically saying after Iowa, you have New Hampshire and South Carolina and she believes it's going to be a Trump Nikki Haley kind of battle for the nomination, which if that does turn out to be the case.

657
01:04:32,080 --> 01:04:39,080
Louisiana is going to have a big say in who the Republican or could have a big say in who the Republican nominee for president is going to be.

658
01:04:39,080 --> 01:05:00,080
Yeah, I think it's going to be an interesting year, especially we have certain states that are removing Trump from the ballot to even begin with. So, it's just kind of like it's going to be a really heated campaign season. I just anticipate especially for the states that are going to keep Trump on the ballot.

659
01:05:00,080 --> 01:05:11,080
And, you know, there are questions about Biden being on the ballot for the Democrats. So, it's just going to be a host of a mess if you will.

660
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:22,080
And voter turnout is going to be interesting. This is something that we talked about a lot during the 23 primary here for the state elected offices and even the general election.

661
01:05:22,080 --> 01:05:36,080
A few weeks later, for turnout was dismal. It was not existent. I think it was 36% and it dropped to like 22 and a half in November. So, for the general.

662
01:05:36,080 --> 01:05:47,080
And, you know, experts are worried that the kind of the state's voter apathy may be even lower for a presidential election, especially with Trump's popularity booming here in Louisiana.

663
01:05:47,080 --> 01:05:56,080
He's just a huge figure here, has a lot of support in Louisiana. So, there's a lot of voter apathy. Do I even need to go out and vote?

664
01:05:56,080 --> 01:06:04,080
Especially if it is a two person race and neither candidate has the nomination sealed and Louisiana does play a factor into it.

665
01:06:04,080 --> 01:06:15,080
It's going to be as you see whether voter turnout is higher. We do know it typically is higher for a presidential election, but we just had a governor election which normally has a higher voter turnout.

666
01:06:15,080 --> 01:06:23,080
It was like half of what it typically is or a little less than half than what typically is. So, it will be kind of interesting how that kind of shapes out as well.

667
01:06:23,080 --> 01:06:35,080
Yeah, and voter turnout overall was low, but didn't even just compare to similar elections. It was lower this in 2023, then in 2019 and 2015 or whatever.

668
01:06:35,080 --> 01:06:54,080
But like you said, people typically come out more for presidential election, which is not funny, but it's kind of when you think about the fact that we have an electoral college system and when it boils down to an our vote means less than a presidential election than it does for governor and for the state local opposite.

669
01:06:54,080 --> 01:07:00,080
And those people have more of a direct impact on our everyday lives than a president.

670
01:07:00,080 --> 01:07:16,080
So, those things are troubling, but with Trump, like you said, he's popular. And I think Biden's performance over the last three years has heightened that popularity to a wider group of other people as well.

671
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:29,080
So, you know, he will definitely have the support here, but like Kat said, a couple of states are leaving him off the ballot right now. Over the last eight years when it comes to presidential elections, that's pretty much what it's been.

672
01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:40,080
I think that's going to continue whether it's cheating accusations or something that happens at the Capitol when they're trying to certify the election.

673
01:07:40,080 --> 01:07:48,080
There's all those type of things. So, I don't see that settling down with an opportunity for someone else to get on.

674
01:07:48,080 --> 01:07:55,080
Well, and kind of going to the electoral college conversation. I think that goes to Daniel's point about voter apathy.

675
01:07:55,080 --> 01:08:04,080
You know, the more we're uncovering the layers of what the electoral college is and what it does, it really makes people not want to vote.

676
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:15,080
I mean, unless you're in a state where they actually do divide the electoral college votes by what this precinct voted, what this precinct voted, and what this precinct voted.

677
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:23,080
It almost makes you feel like why should I even go to the ballot when they're all going to go to whatever the majority of the votes are going towards.

678
01:08:23,080 --> 01:08:30,080
And it doesn't even matter if New Orleans votes this way, Baton Rouge votes this way or Shreveport votes this way, you know.

679
01:08:30,080 --> 01:08:33,080
It's a state of the whole, yeah, which is very red.

680
01:08:33,080 --> 01:08:42,080
Yeah, I think and I just think of for a lot of people individually, I think they just feel like like kind of like you said, their vote does account.

681
01:08:42,080 --> 01:08:57,080
But when you actually think about like presidential know, but when you think about certain things like, man, some of these races locally with such a low turnout, they were, they were decided by like a hundred votes in some cases and some of the.

682
01:08:57,080 --> 01:09:11,080
Some less than that. Yeah, some of their council races list and that those things have come down to like 10 votes like if 10 people and I'm not here to say a lot involved, but I'm just saying that like those things actually matter.

683
01:09:11,080 --> 01:09:15,080
Contra to what people think they do.

684
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:18,080
Well, Jordan may not be saying go vote.

685
01:09:18,080 --> 01:09:20,080
I was about to say.

686
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:34,080
I mean, I don't think people realize that like Jordan, I've had these conversations that sadly the younger generation is just getting away from voting and I feel like they're starting to be like whatever doesn't matter, but it does matter.

687
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:44,080
And I mean, we're going to keep discussing voting sadly for a little bit for a minute, but you don't understand how vital it is to make sure your voice is heard.

688
01:09:44,080 --> 01:09:53,080
If you sit there, we as reporters, our entire crew, the amount of tips we get in this person to this wrong, this person to this wrong, what, what not.

689
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:56,080
When it comes to voting, go vote.

690
01:09:56,080 --> 01:09:57,080
Make a difference.

691
01:09:57,080 --> 01:09:59,080
Don't complain after the fact.

692
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:11,080
And like it doesn't, to me, I don't really care who you vote for is just you can go and actually make a difference in the way that you want it to be made.

693
01:10:11,080 --> 01:10:15,080
You can control something for your best interests.

694
01:10:15,080 --> 01:10:23,080
Like I may want something and I'll go and vote now they lose, they lose, but there's always that possibility.

695
01:10:23,080 --> 01:10:26,080
It's kind of like sports.

696
01:10:26,080 --> 01:10:31,080
Like you have your favorite team and you're going to show your support the Saints.

697
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:39,080
You're going to show your support by going to games, by buying them or be like, but you don't know that they're going to win at the end.

698
01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:43,080
You don't know if they're going to go to the Super Bowl, but you're still throwing in that support anyway.

699
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:45,080
You're showing up, you're showing out.

700
01:10:45,080 --> 01:10:49,080
That's how voting should be for people in my opinion.

701
01:10:49,080 --> 01:10:52,080
It should be the same thing.

702
01:10:52,080 --> 01:11:00,080
The Saints have about 60 years of not making it to the Super Bowl, so I can pretty much guess they're making it.

703
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:04,080
Jordan, you just, hey, I want to bring in my motivational speech.

704
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:10,080
You really did. You brought back those last 10 seconds of Minnesota and that pain all back.

705
01:11:10,080 --> 01:11:12,080
And it just brings me back.

706
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:14,080
I just want to go back to this really quick.

707
01:11:14,080 --> 01:11:18,080
A couple months ago there was the first preseason game where the Saints look great.

708
01:11:18,080 --> 01:11:20,080
I remember ever talking about it.

709
01:11:20,080 --> 01:11:22,080
We're going to go to the Super Bowl.

710
01:11:22,080 --> 01:11:24,080
And here we are.

711
01:11:24,080 --> 01:11:28,080
People wanted their car out of there and they just lost on Thursday night.

712
01:11:28,080 --> 01:11:33,080
They might lose the division to the books, but let's continue on this topic.

713
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:36,080
Go vote. Go vote. We're going to move on.

714
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:39,080
Yes, and we're going to get to number four.

715
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,080
Jordan, I mean, well, Jordan too.

716
01:11:41,080 --> 01:11:47,080
Jordan, I have heavily covered the schools in Livingston Parish as well as Eastbound Ridge.

717
01:11:47,080 --> 01:11:59,080
This poor guy has sat through hours and hours and hours of meetings, but both of their contracts for superintendents are coming to a close at the end of the 2024 school year.

718
01:11:59,080 --> 01:12:10,080
Yeah, both the leaders of the school districts have people who support and then obviously those against for different reasons.

719
01:12:10,080 --> 01:12:21,080
You know, in Livingston Parish, the whole race thing for teachers that attacks the tax for the reasons for teachers that was a whole contentious issue.

720
01:12:21,080 --> 01:12:28,080
And then not just that, but what happened after that, which was not any solutions being brought to the table.

721
01:12:28,080 --> 01:12:37,080
I think was kind of the strutted broke the camel's back for Joe Murray, which, you know, technically he was retiring, I guess.

722
01:12:37,080 --> 01:12:42,080
But people want to retire in 31 years with the with the district in total.

723
01:12:42,080 --> 01:12:50,080
And you're right, Jordan. You know, that sales tack really put a sour taste in a lot of people's mouth, including employees who.

724
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:58,080
A lot of them who liked Murphy didn't like his leadership and how he handled not only the vote, but the failing of the vote.

725
01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:07,080
And, you know, you talk to a lot of teachers and I have a family that are teachers and you just talk to them and morale is just so low with the district.

726
01:13:07,080 --> 01:13:15,080
So Murphy is retiring, but, you know, there's a lot to be said with him also, you know, stepping aside for kind of a new direction for the parish.

727
01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:27,080
We have test scores that are not up to what we call the comparison parish standards who are traditionally one of the stronger, you know, districts in our area in the state, you know, with that.

728
01:13:27,080 --> 01:13:32,080
So it's going to be interesting to see what direction the parish does go.

729
01:13:32,080 --> 01:13:38,080
I know we talked about this before. You have a lot of people who want to go internally and there's a strong candidate internally.

730
01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:44,080
And you have a lot of people who say, and we need some fresh blood and, you know, some new energy and some new vision for the parish.

731
01:13:44,080 --> 01:13:49,080
So it'll be kind of interesting to see which way the school board goes without.

732
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:52,080
Yeah, he did some things.

733
01:13:52,080 --> 01:13:53,080
Go ahead, George.

734
01:13:53,080 --> 01:14:03,080
Yeah, he did some things, but I think another part of it was that people wanted him to not take the race, even though he said he would donate to charity.

735
01:14:03,080 --> 01:14:10,080
It was just the idea that they felt like you shouldn't get this and he didn't change that language, I guess.

736
01:14:10,080 --> 01:14:16,080
And so that that was just another reason for, you know, people wanting him out of there.

737
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:22,080
And like you were about to say, you know, that kind of summarized the whole Livingston issue.

738
01:14:22,080 --> 01:14:29,080
But when you move on to East Bend Rouge with Dr. Narciso, Narciso, same thing.

739
01:14:29,080 --> 01:14:31,080
Money is an issue.

740
01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:39,080
Super, but for a different reason, obviously, superintendant was going to be, was negotiating a renewal that involved a hefty race.

741
01:14:39,080 --> 01:14:44,080
I think that went up to 255.

742
01:14:44,080 --> 01:14:47,080
Yeah, even the highest paid in the state.

743
01:14:47,080 --> 01:14:49,080
Yeah, one of the hardest.

744
01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,080
So that was a contentious issue.

745
01:14:51,080 --> 01:14:54,080
And a lot of people didn't feel like there was enough being done for certain schools.

746
01:14:54,080 --> 01:15:05,080
Obviously, there was another segment of a minority school, such as capital and other school, Glenn Olds, where schools and people who supported those schools who supported him.

747
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:27,080
It felt like he was doing a great job and other, you know, community advocates and other council members are in support of him because a lot of people feel this is a board issue, not necessarily all the issues that are happening with the money and with some of these other things are the school boards inability to run it properly.

748
01:15:27,080 --> 01:15:40,080
And, you know, the bus issues don't particularly fall on the superintendent. So there's those people who, obviously, like we know, they hailed the rally in December for him showing support.

749
01:15:40,080 --> 01:15:47,080
And, you know, he has a lot of support, but obviously it wasn't enough because the board voted not to renew his culture.

750
01:15:47,080 --> 01:15:50,080
Is it possible for the board to kind of change their mind on this?

751
01:15:50,080 --> 01:16:02,080
I mean, that's kind of the push right now, right? It's to kind of save his contract. It may be not at the race that they were proposing, but, you know, either a steady rate or just a minor race.

752
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:07,080
So there's still a possibility that he can kind of, you know, stay on as superintendent.

753
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:13,080
I just wonder though for the people who were against him, I don't know if it was really about the money.

754
01:16:13,080 --> 01:16:21,080
Like that was something that they mentioned in passing, but more so it was just they didn't feel like he was doing a good job.

755
01:16:21,080 --> 01:16:30,080
And however amount of money you make, if you're not doing a good job, I don't think that that's going to change some people's opinions.

756
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:41,080
I think it really all boils down to trust. And at the end of the day, trust be it the superintendents and taking us even to number three.

757
01:16:41,080 --> 01:16:46,080
The people we consider and talk about voting in some cases, people make their voices heard.

758
01:16:46,080 --> 01:16:55,080
And let's start with number three, Daniel, we have three new faces coming in an Iberville parish, Livingston parish, and in West Baton Rouge parish.

759
01:16:55,080 --> 01:17:07,080
Yeah, it's kind of a big deal for all three parishes is new leadership after long time parish presidents, either lost election or chose not to run for election.

760
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:14,080
You have Randy Delad and Livingston who won by an overwhelming majority in the parish.

761
01:17:14,080 --> 01:17:21,080
You had a very tight sheriff race, but the parish president's race was really Randy's from the beginning.

762
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:24,080
It was kind of his night, if you will.

763
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:30,080
He's been already running a transition team. It's new day Livingston.

764
01:17:30,080 --> 01:17:40,080
His whole kind of philosophy is to give voice back to people in the parish. He feels that hasn't always been the case.

765
01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:51,080
So that's kind of what he's going. He's already kind of done that in his first kind of public statements, if you will, on the carbon emissions hearings that took place on the Lake Marpa.

766
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:58,080
He really wants voters to have a say in that and have a vote in that whether they come out to the polls and votes can be, you know, another topic.

767
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:14,080
But that's kind of what he's running for, you know, and he wants to make some small subtle changes is kind of the way he appears to be kind of tackling it, especially when it comes to development, which is probably the number one topic.

768
01:18:14,080 --> 01:18:21,080
What's debated in Livingston right now is how they handle all these developments that are wanting to come in and the overcrowding of the parish.

769
01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:30,080
And you have school districts who are, you know, schools bursting at the seams. They have nowhere to put, you know, students, much less ad building right now.

770
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:35,080
So like, how do you tackle that? And a lot of that starts with these developments are going to be coming up.

771
01:18:35,080 --> 01:18:42,080
So that's kind of, you know, his big thing. And then you kind of go over to Irvigil Parish. And this was kind of the big election night story.

772
01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:54,080
You know, we have a brand new parish president, Irvigil, Chris Dagle, that, you know, he almost didn't even run for this right Jordan and he ended up getting the whole thing.

773
01:18:54,080 --> 01:19:03,080
Yeah, he qualified on the last day, which he said was a strategic move on the last day.

774
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:13,080
He took out Mitch Orso, who had been there for over, I think, 20 over 20 years or something like that. So that was a big win for him. He has some things.

775
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:22,080
You know, he served as a council member. He served on the school board. So he has all of that information that he's bringing into office.

776
01:19:22,080 --> 01:19:29,080
And we talked about that Mississippi River Bridge. I mean, it was, you know, Orso kind of, you know, started the marathon.

777
01:19:29,080 --> 01:19:37,080
And Dagle is going to be really picking up that baton and carrying it for a while, especially with some of these big decisions that are looming for the project.

778
01:19:37,080 --> 01:19:49,080
And a lot of what you said for Livingston Parish, you could honestly resay all that for West Baton Ridge Parish because sadly the crime in Baton Ridge has just gotten so bad that people are starting to move out to other parishes.

779
01:19:49,080 --> 01:20:02,080
You are often here Livingston and Ascension, West Baton Ridge, Iberville's West Side of the River. They're also getting those crowded, the neighborhoods, the schools and whatnot. And same over in West Baton Ridge Parish, Riley Bertolot.

780
01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:10,080
A lot of people know, new MSP, we've burnt a lot. He's no longer the parish president. There's a new parish president over there. Jason Manola.

781
01:20:10,080 --> 01:20:24,080
Back here, Manola was on the school board similar to Dagle and Iberville Parish. So it's something to be said about school board members. A lot of people think that, you know, they're some of the most important elected officials in a parish or in an area.

782
01:20:24,080 --> 01:20:31,080
And, you know, that's something to be said about two pairs of president is kind of coming up from the ranks of former school board members, which I think is interesting.

783
01:20:31,080 --> 01:20:48,080
He was school board president for 17 years, I believe, so really long time. And he is going to be kind of taking a pair of like you alluded to that's, you know, dealing with, you know, developments and overcrowding in kind of which direction to kind of go.

784
01:20:48,080 --> 01:21:02,080
West Baton Ridge has made a lot of inroads last few years with bringing tourism into the area with, you know, expanding Barnagrol Parades and really kind of building up the port all inside of the Mississippi River.

785
01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:15,080
So he's got a lot of work to kind of continue that that legacy because if you haven't been to West Baton Ridge in a while, there's some really, you know, kind of hidden gems in the area. And it's a beautiful area to kind of visit.

786
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:29,080
Yeah, they're working on a bunch of things out there. Obviously two big projects for them are the intercoastal bridge, which is going to be finished in 2024, hopefully, I guess fingers crossed for a lot of people.

787
01:21:29,080 --> 01:21:44,080
But and then also the four 15 connector, that's been like a huge project and they got some good news recently, you know, like in late December about a potential timetable for it.

788
01:21:44,080 --> 01:21:54,080
But I mean, obviously those things are very tentative, but it's just knowing that they're moving in the right direction with a grant that they received to be able to start the project.

789
01:21:54,080 --> 01:22:04,080
Yes, they have some good things going on with Ben Rouge. Jason takes over obviously plenty of years of experience working under P.W. and his administration.

790
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:11,080
So he's looking to that transition should be smooth. Obviously they have a good relationship. So they're working through that.

791
01:22:11,080 --> 01:22:19,080
But yeah, I think West Baton Rouge is heading the right direction with those projects that going on with Jason and Cluj.

792
01:22:19,080 --> 01:22:29,080
And at number two, we have the the long awaited decision of a new police chief in Baton Rouge. We finally know who that's going to be Thomas Morris Jr.

793
01:22:29,080 --> 01:22:35,080
He has 20 years of experience with the Baton Rouge Police Department. He's going to be kind of taking a department.

794
01:22:35,080 --> 01:22:50,080
You know, we talked about this in other areas where morale is low and there's a big crime problem in Baton Rouge. So he's going to have his hands really, you know, full as he takes office and it takes command of the department.

795
01:22:50,080 --> 01:23:01,080
And this is a big one. I think I said this in the past. It's kind of like the house of cards that the very first house, I mean the very first top card once that falls, everything falls.

796
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:13,080
And sadly, he needs to become that very top card once again. It's no surprise. The morale at the police department is probably at its worst right now.

797
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:21,080
The officers just don't feel appreciated. They're overworked. There's a shortage of officers, not that that's the outgoing police chiefs fault.

798
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:39,080
The shortage of police officers, the shortage of people wanting to be police officers, that's a national problem. That's every department is having deal with that. But then you've got what four or five officers working one shift and with four to five officers trying to respond to the entire what eight hours, 10 hours, whatever their shifts are.

799
01:23:39,080 --> 01:23:55,080
That's not even possible. So he's got a lot and then add the internal problems of BRPD to the crime problems. And we're not talking just murders. We're talking the number of just people shooting those have skyrocketed there.

800
01:23:55,080 --> 01:24:02,080
You don't see those stats come out. You might see K last year you had 120 murders. That's not the right number. But I'm just giving you an example.

801
01:24:02,080 --> 01:24:22,080
What you don't know is that the number of shootings, non fatal and it's also not factored. The fentanyl overdoses, you know, I mean we don't talk about that nearly enough. But that's also a problem that not only is his problem. It's a it's an area problem. But it you know his officers are tied up kind of dealing with those as well.

802
01:24:22,080 --> 01:24:28,080
So it just kind of adds to the burden that the department and you know has overall in general.

803
01:24:28,080 --> 01:24:46,080
Okay, drumroll. I think the number one pick was a no brainer. It's another election. But it's will mayor, broom mayor president Sharon Western broom get a third term in office.

804
01:24:46,080 --> 01:24:58,080
She's going to be on the ballot and making that announcement. It was kind of expected. But she's going to be on the ballot. I think the question is Karen, you know, who's going to be running against her?

805
01:24:58,080 --> 01:25:08,080
Will there be any you know, formidable opponents? She's a very polarizing mayor president. She has a lot of support.

806
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:18,080
But then there are a lot of people who think that we need to go in different direction. So it's going to be like really interesting to kind of see how this shapes up and and shakes out.

807
01:25:18,080 --> 01:25:25,080
You know, especially with the president also on the ballot when she is. So it will be a big expected to be a big voter turnout.

808
01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:34,080
And I guess this is where I have to say where people complain. I think mayor Sharon Western broom came in with very, very, very high hopes.

809
01:25:34,080 --> 01:25:43,080
I remember covering Voting White's election that year. And we were waiting on one precinct to come in. And I think everybody suspected that came, Voting's got it.

810
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:52,080
Voting's got it. And they were telling us to be prepared. We're coming to you for live shots, whatnot. And it twisted at the last second. Sharon Western broom won.

811
01:25:52,080 --> 01:26:01,080
I think there was excitement. Oh, okay. Well, she is a historic mayor. This is going to be great. But I think there's been a lot of let down from a lot of people.

812
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:11,080
And now when we get so many people to complain to us, this is what when Jordan was saying, I'm not going to say go vote and Kat and I said, we will say she's got to go vote.

813
01:26:11,080 --> 01:26:19,080
If you want her, that's great. Go vote for her. But if you want somebody else, whoever that might be, I mean, qualifying doesn't happen. What till June, July.

814
01:26:19,080 --> 01:26:29,080
Yeah, it's late. Yeah. We got some time to figure out. We'll see. There's already some rumors out there. Some people were run. So it would be interesting to see if those rumors kind of come their fruition.

815
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:37,080
Some say never. Yeah. Never say never. That sounds like some type of teens.

816
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:45,080
What? You know, there are a lot of rumors out there. Who knows? There are a lot of rumors out there.

817
01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:50,080
Might be I might be qualifying myself.

818
01:26:50,080 --> 01:26:55,080
I think you don't like the things I don't think you have a chance.

819
01:26:55,080 --> 01:27:04,080
That's the problem with our politics here. That's the third. We bleed black and gold purple and gold blue and gold.

820
01:27:04,080 --> 01:27:10,080
I think his expertise on LSU kind of like tilts the scale.

821
01:27:10,080 --> 01:27:13,080
No, no, no, no.

822
01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:21,080
I do like some other politicians if I decided to run I have a saint's hat on I have a Saint Jersey.

823
01:27:21,080 --> 01:27:31,080
I'll be doing all this stuff. Well, guys, that pretty much wraps up our unfelter with Kieran's breakdown of the top 24 for 2024.

824
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:37,080
Obviously, there's going to be so much happening. We plan to hopefully be there and cover every single thing for you.

825
01:27:37,080 --> 01:27:44,080
Again, we thank you all for your support and continuing to support us and watch us listen to us on all our platforms.

826
01:27:44,080 --> 01:27:54,080
But we hope you enjoy this episode and we are going to wrap this one up for you and see you next week. On behalf of our entire Louisiana unfiltered team, I'm Kieran Cháula.

827
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