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Mike Gallagher Podcast
A highlight from The Mike and Mark Davis Daily Chat - 09/12/23
"This was an easy one. 1975 Elton John singing about the city of liberty, the city of freedom, the city of brotherly love. The light was shining on our buddy Mike Gallagher last night. City of a lot of traffic, oh boy. Did you just make it by the skittier teeth? Oh boy, oh boy. I said I can't wait to talk to my buddy Mark if I make it. And Mr. Uber driver, please go faster, please go faster. Memo to self, don't stay in Center City when you've got to go out to the radio station which is in, I don't know, Lafayette Hill or wherever the heck we are. A lot of traffic, a lot of construction and what a joyful night last night. A hundred, I mean it was like over 700 people at the Fuge which you would love. It's a NASA, you know, Center Fuge. It's a reference to the Center Fuge exhibit and stuff like that, yes. And they do like a venue. They've got an event venue there. This is the second or third time I've been out there and Lorenzo and the team here at 990 The Answer in Philadelphia do a fantastic job. Phil Boyce, our boss, the big boss, was the moderator. He does a fantastic job. And of course on stage, Dennis Prager, Pastor Robert Jeffress. Yeah, man. And he is so good. Man, Dr. Jeffress is so good when it comes to defining the battle of good and evil that we're witnessing. He also made a Trump reference. I've heard him say this now many times, we ain't considering a pastor for the competition. And he has been very, very loyal to President Trump, much to the chagrin of some within the evangelical community. And so we dealt with all of that faith and freedom and liberty and tyranny. The great Chris DeGaulle, the local host here who is so strong. Man, oh man. And boy, does he get a hero's welcome last night. This community loves him. So we just had a blast. It was a great night. I told the story about Mike Lindell, who I'm speaking to today, about the way they've targeted him. And much of it started with Mike after he said at the Rose Garden, hey, crack open your Bible and turn to God. They didn't like that. So it was just a great evening of conversation. Of course, lots of concern about Joe Biden, lots of debate and discussion about Joe Biden's dis, his snub, his refusal for the first time in either New York or, you know, Shanksville or DC. What a disgraceful. And, you know, they know what they're doing, Mark. They know what they're doing. Okay. What are they doing? Because I know my first answer. And for yesterday, all of yesterday, if there's anything I really tried to do, and I know you do too, it's to be as fair as possible, as accommodating as possible. So if I am going to come down hard on somebody, it's because I've internationally, you know, doddering around in Vietnam, tough to get back in time for 9 -11. So maybe that's bad planning. Tough to get back. I know. I know. It's the president. He's got Air Force One and get wherever he wants to get. Don't give me that crap. Believe you me, the test did not succeed because even under the harshest light of goodwill and grace and latitude, there is no excuse. He was with troops in Alaska. Anytime you're with troops, it's good. But 9 -11 is about three places, New York number one, not to rank them, obviously New York and obviously the Pentagon or Shanksville. You've got to be in one of those places and to fail to do so is conspicuous by its absence. So my answer to give it back to you is the reason they didn't do it is because they knew that it would have been as big an embarrassment as it was in Alaska where he made up crap again. And David said, Drucker well, Biden has been embellishing for a long time. Yeah, but that's when he knew what he was doing. Now I think Joe actually does believe that he was at ground zero the next day looking into the gaping maw of hell or whatever he said there among the smoke and the debris. He wasn't there. He was on the floor of the Senate. He is mentally unhinged. His White House knew it and that's why they knew they could not have him at any of the important 9 -11 sites. Well, two things. You know, first of all, I think there's a lot of wisdom to the argument that if he was at one of the 9 -11 events, the reception he would get inevitably would embarrass him. Have you seen - Reception? Reception? I'm talking about booing. Nobody's going to boo him on 9 -11. Yes, they are. Yes, they are. Don't underestimate the anger and rage the that people have towards this guy. I mean, look, already he's gotten - I mean, I saw it with my own eyes when, you know, I've seen the loving reception that Trump got when he was being arrested from people in the inner city and people lining the streets cheering him. Look at the reception. And you've seen Biden get booed at various events that he's attended. New Yorkers in particular are aggravated and anger. Listen, ask a 9 -11 family what they think of Biden shaking the hand of the Saudi potentate or whatever he is. You know? And you don't think Saudi Arabia was complicit in 9 -11? I mean, this is - And so, yeah, I think you're right, the reception. And number two, this man's a liar. This man will just flat out - And I want to see how they're going to spin this whopper that he was standing, looking through the gaping jaws of hell the day after on the - as George Bush was. George Bush stood on the pile. George Bush had that bullhorn and George Bush said, I hear you. And soon the people who took down these buildings are going to hear you. Biden's trying to, you know, take away Bush's real life experience. Stolen presidential valor. Exactly. Somebody else was there and he wasn't. And you're lying about it? You're saying I was there? I mean, I know people who do this. Listen, I don't want to mention names, but there are people, frankly, and they're kind of pitiful. They just want to live on 9 -11 infamy and they want to bang that drum and they want to puff up their chest and say, look at me, look at me, look at me. The true heroes are the - And there are people who are trying to rescue people or find people and they've had post 9 -11 sickness and illness and death.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
The Mason Minute
Plant A Tree (MM #4539)
"The Mason Minute with Kevin Mason. My father -in -law passed away last weekend after suffering from Parkinson's disease for the last four or five years. And so this week, all the details were finalized and his obituary went up online in the local newspaper in Lafayette, Indiana, as well as on the funeral home website. Now what's interesting is when you go to the funeral home website, they allow you to plant a tree in Tom's honor. And by the time I got there the first time, somebody had already planted a tree. Oh wow, this is kind of cool. Where did they plant it? So I did some digging on the website, and I mean it's right there in front of you, and it tells you about how you can plant a tree. For $40 you can plant a memorial tree in his honor. This company takes their memorial trees and plants them in places of need. So right now, his tree is going to go somewhere in either California, Idaho, Wisconsin, or Michigan. It's kind of a unique thing. Instead of just giving flowers that, well, once they're at the funeral home, nobody ever sees again, at least it has some positivity to it. It's not that expensive. But I thought to myself, if you're going to plant a tree in his honor, plant it in the state he lived most of his life, Indiana. I like the idea, though I wish it were closer to home.
Capstone Conversation
Kerry Hillis, Moraga Council Member, Talks Fire Preparedness
"You've talked a bunch about fire safety as it relates to a community that has limited access to ways in and out. A cul -de -sac community, as you described it, you're surrounded by open space, hills, trees. What tips do you have for your residents or anybody regarding fire safety and preparing for the upcoming fire season? The Moraga -Arinda Fire District is great. They have drive through Long -Arinda, particularly in Orinda and Moraga and Lafayette. You will see a significant difference between the clearance, the vegetation clearance that's been achieved in Moraga and Orinda versus Lafayette. The difference is Lafayette isn't an MOFD, Lafayette has their fire service handled by ConFire. So ConFire has different regulations. They haven't required as much clearance. We are required to do very similar levels of clearance to what, you know, my mom had to do with our cabin up in the Sierras for the last 30 years, where, you know, you have to clear debris. You have to limb trees up to six feet above the ground to prevent fire. So my advice is to, you know, to, to look to your fire district, to your fire department for what their requirements are. If they are not as forward thinking as our fire district in terms of requiring them, do what you can to meet those requirements. In addition, just like you have to have an emergency go bag in the event of an earthquake that has supplies for your family, water, food, potential clothing, to sufficient to last for 72 hours, you should develop that because you never know. We have one, my wife knows where it is. The, our nanny knows where it is. I'm at work and if something happens, and this, we came close to that point two years back where we were at our other property and we saw the hill that was less than a quarter mile from our house. The one that has the graffiti all over it, ConOnFire. And I was at a business event across the state and my wife is sending me pictures of helicopters coming in and dropping flame work hardened, like right outside of our master bedroom window. And we had to be, and they were ready to go. We had walkie talkies that were charged. We had our backpack with our emergency supplies. We knew our evacuation routes to get in and out of town. And that's the other key thing. It's not always the best, even with seeing that it's not always the best idea to evacuate unless you hear that from first responders. And part of the reason for a community like ours is everyone hit the road at the exact same time to get out of town. No one would go anywhere because we, our fire chief, Chief Winokur has told us that our road system in Merage is already insufficient to handle just the people we have here now. You have a mass casualty or catastrophic event and everyone gets on the road at the same time. No one's going anywhere. So pay attention to law enforcement, public safety. We're also going to be funding for our communities and evacuation study so that we know, so we can better inform our residents what group you're in when you need to get out of town and what other modifications need to be done to ensure that we can keep people safe. Also, if your fire district, fire department has not imposed new fire standards, MOFD, I would say they have one of some of the best fire building standards in terms of what plants are safe to plant in front of your house. What safe distance there should be two feet from the property itself, whether or not you need to have sprinklers on your roof, on top of your roof, not inside your house so they can put out embers. So all of those things, they're expensive, but there's a lot of things that folks can do to prepare.
History That Doesn't Suck
140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More - burst 2
"Perhaps you've already guessed, but today we come to a high flying story, the story of aviation and the Great War. While we've gotten a taste of aerial combat in a few episodes already, we've barely scratched the surface on these wartime celebrities, romanticized as Knights of the Air, as they did a decade before. And of course, as US History Podcast, we'll focus on the American experience. We'll start by going back to 1903, the year the Wright brothers took their successful flight at Kitty Hawk, so we can trace the airplane's rapid transformation from barely being a possibility to soaring through the air with machine guns in little more than a
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
"It isn't always easy deciding how to educate our kids. From log cabin presidents to historical figures who attended the finest institutions, we see success can come in different ways. But for those who want the benefit of a public education, yet need greater flexibility than a traditional brick -and -mortar school can provide, K -12 -powered schools can help your child reach their full potential. K -12 -powered schools are accredited, tuition -free, online public schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It provides an engaging curriculum that's adaptable to individual learning styles. Whether your student is a high -performing scholar, athlete, or perhaps has medical or other needs that necessitate studying from home, they can learn at their own pace while in their own place from state -certified teachers trained in online education. Plus, K -12 offers social opportunities and in -person events. Join the more than 2 million families who have chosen K -12 and empower your student to reach their full potential now. Go to k12 .com slash htds today to learn more and find a tuition -free K -12 -powered school near you. That's the letter K, the number 12 dot com slash htds, k12 .com slash htds. History That Doesn't Suck is a biweekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HTDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 140: WWI Aviators: From the Lafayette Escadrille to the Red Baron and More
"It isn't always easy deciding how to educate our kids. From log cabin presidents to historical figures who attended the finest institutions, we see success can come in different ways. But for those who want the benefit of a public education, yet need greater flexibility than a traditional brick -and -mortar school can provide, K -12 -powered schools can help your child reach their full potential. K -12 -powered schools are accredited, tuition -free, online public schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It provides an engaging curriculum that's adaptable to individual learning styles. Whether your student is a high -performing scholar, athlete, or perhaps has medical or other needs that necessitate studying from home, they can learn at their own pace while in their own place from state -certified teachers trained in online education. Plus, K -12 offers social opportunities and in -person events. Join the more than 2 million families who have chosen K -12 and empower your student to reach their full potential now. Go to k12 .com slash htds today to learn more and find a tuition -free K -12 -powered school near you. That's the letter K, the number 12 dot com slash htds, k12 .com slash htds. History That Doesn't Suck is a biweekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HTDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck.
AP News Radio
U-Haul truck driver who crashed into security barrier at park near White House is arrested
"A man who crashed a U haul truck into a security barrier across from The White House is under arrest. The Secret Service says investigators believe the driver may have intentionally hit the barriers at Lafayette park last night. Police searched the truck and W USA TV posted video showing one officer going through evidence, including a Nazi flag. There were no injuries and authorities have not released the man's identity nor a motive. The park police say he faces multiple charges, including threatening to kill kidnap or inflict harm on a president. Sagar Meghani, Washington.
AP News Radio
Man dies after being placed in headlock on NYC subway
"A New York City subway rider suffering in a parent mental health episode died after being put in a headlock. Video shows Jordan Neely put in a headlock by another passenger on the train floor after he was apparently shouting and pacing. Police say it happened Monday at the Broadway Lafayette station in Manhattan, two other passengers tried to restrain the 30 year old who was still in the headlock before he lost consciousness. Officials say EMTs tried to revive nearly. The subduer, a 24 year old marine vet whose name is not being released publicly, was taken into custody and let go without charges. The Manhattan Diaz office says an investigation was ongoing. As word of his death spread online, people have been remembering nearly for his Michael Jackson performances on the subways and streets, Julie Walker, New York
AP News Radio
Tennessee holds off Louisiana-Lafayette 58-55 in NCAA opener
"It was an upset for the ages when 13th seeded firm in defeated number four seed Virginia 68 67 in the opening game of the south bracket in Orlando's center. It was a long 40 footer for JP that sealed the deal for firm and they now move on to take on number 5 seed San Diego state in the second round as San Diego state held off a late run from 12th rank college of Charleston to get the win 63 57, moving over to the east bracket for the night session. This seated duke has no problem with 12 seed oral Roberts as the blue Devils get the win 74 51, they will take on number four seed Tennessee volunteers after they held off a run from 13th ranked ragin cajuns of Louisiana 58 55. Kyle Cassandra, Orlando.
AP News Radio
No. 5 Purdue tops Illinois 76-71
"Number 5 perdue saw a 24 point second half lead evaporate, but held on at crunch time for a 76 71 win over Illinois. Brandon Newman had 19 points to lead the 26 and 5 boiler makers and says this type of win is good preparation for tournament games. Obviously it's march, you know, it's a good time of year, beautiful time of year. And it's going to be a lot of close games. It's going to be a lot of back and forth. Pointing at 11 Illinois held Purdue to just 29% shooting in the second half. Matthew Meyer led the align I was 16 points. Tom mccabe, West Lafayette, Indiana
The Dan Bongino Show
Casey Leleux Shares the Story of Losing Her Daughter to Fentanyl
"I'm just let you do the quick story of not only the death of your beautiful daughter but what are you doing now Because you mad as hell and you don't want to take any more and I get better Oh I'm very very mad My daughter lyric Cena verrette Her nickname was bebop everybody knew her around Lafayette and Louisiana She was a tattoo artist And she was wonderfully amazing and a beautiful soul Unfortunately she made a bad decision and got a Xanax off the street to help her sleep Four days after her 21st birthday she took that And she would tell her mom just turned 21 a while back and I said I knew what she was pretty close Yeah It was just unheard of for a mom to you know you're getting ready for work You get a phone call Miss Casey miss Casey I think lyrics dead That's the worst in the world It's the worst thing in the world So now I'm taking action I'm not So first of all you had to go through all your grieving processes far from overnight So let me go there but you decided that you know what You found out about ten no didn't you And I have heard a little bit about it before but I didn't realize how bad it was Until the coroner told me she is the 6th death in 6 days in our area Oh my God Oh my God Two more died the next day So since then I have joined with groups Millie mattered over dosen addiction advocacy which is thousands and thousands of family members that are affected I mean there's so many family members It's like family and friends that are affected by fentanyl poisonings You can't look right or left without hit and see in one It's everywhere It does not discriminate race religion financial status Fentanyl is hitting everybody
AP News Radio
Hood-Schifino helps No. 17 Hoosiers sweep No. 5 Purdue
"Indiana freshman Jalen hood chicano had 35 points as the 17th ranked hoosiers have set in state rival Purdue for the second time this season 79 71. You come to Indiana and you know Indian anniversary rivalry and everything. So, you know, I knew 5 a big time game. I can go down as you know, one of the big time in the end of play. So, you know, it was definitely great to have a performance like I did. The 5th ranked boilermakers were outscored 45 33 in the second half in losing for the fourth time in 16 games. Zach edi had 26 points for 24 and 5 perdue, while Indiana in peruse to 20 and 9. Tom mccabe, West Lafayette, Indiana
AP News Radio
Edey has 21st double-double as No. 3 Purdue tops Ohio State
"Number three Purdue got well in a big way against Ohio State. The 24 and four boilermakers had a 44 to 21 rebounding advantage in an 82 to 55 win. Producer Zach Edie led the team with 26 points and 11 rebounds. We take a lot of pride on the controlling the glass, you know, getting those offensive rebounds. A lot of times, coach pain says, when you take a good shot, a good thing is going to happen, like we got to get offensive rebounds like that. The 11 and the 16 buckeyes have lost 8 straight while Purdue maintains its hold on the top spot in the Big Ten. Tom mccabe, West Lafayette, Indiana
AP News Radio
Braden Smith leads No. 1 Purdue past Iowa 87-73
"Purdue freshman brayden Smith played more like an upper classman in the boilermakers 87 to 73 win over Iowa. Smith had 24 points as number one Purdue improved to 23 and two. Shots just fell and kind of just play how it went. So with shots being able to fall, obviously confidence goes up a little bit. So that's what was happening. So it just felt good to make a couple shots. The boilermakers saw a 21 point second half lead cut to 6 with 6 minutes left, but it was all Purdue after that. Chris Murray had 24 points to lead the 15 to 9 hawkeyes. Tom mccabe, West Lafayette, Indiana
Discover Lafayette
"lafayette" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"I think it's great. It's gonna do well. robbing. I'm thrilled that you were here today. I didn't expect us to talk about some of your ideas. But i'm glad that we went that way. It's kind of shine relied on who you are. And like you. Said what motivates you to to build these special properties into revitalize you know. I think jen. It is harder for people to see because there in that box. I can see it from outside the box. Because i'm coming from another country. Yeah and i know citizen has citizens has to do what they need to go back to community. And i think everyone lau to give back. It is our job to show them how to give it back. It's your job as a moderator to to tell them this is how you can give it back. So i love that we should oriented. I'll look forward to more people learning about you. And also the mouton plantation. The nickerson house is core and for my in laws for people that haven't seen that we'll have those in our show notes like to thank our sponsors for making this possible. First of all iberia bank now part of first horizon ochsner lafayette general and of course raider and in particular jason sikora jason. Thank you for mixing this and make an assessment professional into our listeners. Thank you for your support. Even go to either discover lafayette dot net and find all of our over two hundred interviews or even better. You can subscribe and get our new podcast every friday. We hope they'll do that and be having to several fiat. I'm jan swept thank you..
Discover Lafayette
"lafayette" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"It took a fact without getting into alvin nitty gritty. Lafayette has continued to lose. We've lost population was involved in this committee and twenty nine thousand nine hundred. We were at fifty one fifty one point six percent of the parish the city laughing at and now we're at fifty point two five point two two years like well. Actually it was twenty twenty. And i mean to not have the mayor always. I mean i'm getting a little bit too on here. But consolidation to me is just not even the issue. It's lafayette needs to have. Its own mayor that can do these other. Mayors have and push if we need any duty if we need another tiff district if there's something that's going to transform lafayette the city of lafayette our hub. City your we need a cheer cheerleader. Just redo on. I think if we need to get something done for the city we don't need permission from the parish right which at the time we conclude that it's not about the current people. Just wake up. But i am. I am one hundred percent. Sure the motivation behind doing one parish and all of this was great in one thousand nine hundred. Six people thought it was going to do a great job but it didn't so now we have to see whether we need to continue doing that. All we had to go our separate ways. We have to see how much of this general fund that that they've been allocated to all this parish all this other neighborhoods. That's coming from lafayette. I don't know. I'm not a marine to that. I don't know. But i think that is something that needs to be studied and if we do deconsolidate than we have a study on how much resources need to be spending deconsolidation yes. We can share the resources. Yeah i don't if it difficult or easy. But i'm sure if consolidation was easier deconsolidation should be also easier in some kind of way they can do it. All titletown consulting. I'll tell you my thing. When i first came to laugh here in twenty two thousand one when i was going to lake charles to gory casino. Whatever lake charles was way for behind. Lafayette lafayette know. Liberals is catching up. Right away i thought before the catastrophes fly correct and his catching up on. I think that is because lake. Charles is not catching up. Lafayette deon grove of beard was where it was. I think good things will happen to laugh. Here there's a lot of good people that want to do a lot of good Administrator an administration has to listen to them. And i think they will have to listen to them. Take the take ideas of all the people who are in this war in working for this. I'm c. is right. What is not right for the city. Not not their ambition. Not their political ambitions are at the end of the day. You are born in lafayette. Whatever you had was given to the city of lafayette. What can you do to improve to put your stamp on that if you don't have a greater good there's no good not just about your family orientations right if laughing at provided you everything that you have today. What did you do for the lafayette. I came from india. And i wanna leave something that people remember for the rest of the life will get a go there mouton house twenty years from now and they would say well. Aerobics distorted the nickerson house or the Or other projects that we do. So if i am the one doing it that don't have anything to do with lafayette. Then they magin. How much responsibilities. Every citizen in lafayette has but sometimes we are all again golfed in our own life. You're not thinking berar renar with think about our own food our own things but there's also a greater good that everybody has to think and say. Hey warble i play. What role do i play now. There are fifty six fifty seven retire. Lafayette gave me everything. Had what do. I do now big trash. That's that's fine. If that is what you wanna do do that i. I think the greater good is something that we need to instill in these guys. That are retired sickener home. Give them something to do. Give them hope. We will remember you so anyway. I don't want to go deep reading my mind. I think we do need at the senior leadership program. Not mass people get them. What do you wanna do to be re-engaged. yes yes. Take all your time to volunteer. But just what do you enjoy in group. Swear would you like to plug in on a nitel people on I go to da. For instance. I might know a few other people in downtown. That has a lot more resources than me. I don't want to name the names but the rich people in downtown. But but it looks to me. Like i'm the only one doing products especially the real estate side. They're all waiting. And i'm like why are waiting guys. You have way more resources with more connections more everything. What are you waiting for. Good but i guess sometimes people are waiting to see how successful we are if we're not successful than they will not do it but if you're successful than they go on to understand that because you're cautious risk. Yeah in the wrist mar. Hopefully we are successful than they will say. Okay well these guys who successful lead story. I think there's a lot of talk among people to do projects in downtown. Lafayette the reason. I say down down here is that is the only place that raises more money in sales tax revenue per square mile per square mile. Why don't you go and put infrastructre somewhere else. Infrastructure there ryan nicholas. Go go up and do it right there. So i trust that point. I know rent in other areas. And and lately i feel like dodging traffic in ranges is is not. What my time Good day did a great job. I mean there are people from new york that comes from studies riverine. Sometimes you know. Let's see how the built everything where he can. Take your golf cart and go anywhere. It's just great. Great concept but i think golota traffic and i just don't like to go down down closer to i ten to forty nine close to everything that you knows. Cool all of that. There's no way dumbed down is not going to be developed. In the next ten years i see down the only way the down down will be developed eased by doing multifamily very happy living in downtown That is the key walking into the stores clubs drinks anything so we are. We are missing some quality Stores i think with time they'll come on look at the last one year. How many stores opened in downtown free. Every weekday dislike opening up and they're very unique. And i think is doing a great job there. Some of the concepts really great. If you go down down on jefferson street you have this look of lot of boutiques the science age. The neon signs. They dig this facade room in grand signed grants and they have done that or you cannot do everything in one year. They've been doing it consistently for the last three years. And now i have guests that came into moot on on the similarly. Your downtown is very unique very nice. Very simple in. Nice silage in nice boutique stores. I think.
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"People in the neighborhood talked them. Show them the plans and then take take their views into consideration. They've been there for years. I'll tell you another one other thing. Jen and i've been researching this myself. I know why people are very sentimental about these things march. Someone coming missing the neighborhood. It typical american will have one house deport all their savings into house. They make so many improvements in their house. How would you feel like someone is coming to mess that up. Oh i've experienced. So i had problems with some of them. A would never take effect but thirties. My investment. i did. They're all male. I worked all my life. Neighbors like this is. This is the big one investment. So i i had problems with my neighbor neighbors one time and i have to learn that myself on reset my own views and say hey this is their life lifetime savings deporting this house. So yeah you have to consider them and and you cannot get everybody on the same level in the same to agree with what you do but if he can get at least eighty percent of the people to buy into your project and say this is gonna change your neighborhood. This is what we're going to do. Then you project successful. You did good energy you need. You know you cannot just piss off everybody else. No matter if you can do that project on are you cannot be safe. Everybody and successful you can have the right. Not only bad karma. They're gonna work bail everyday. They're going through the no. No no i think. I think we should consider the people that that lou in our area. Talk to as many people as you can tell your ideas no matter how baghdad to them. Let them correct you. It's okay them. Correct you on now. You take all the input undo something good for that neighbor name if you wanna do. There is so much land. How to do their sued anywhere. You know there's competition here. Well there's there's a lot of land. But i mean it's easier to use a vacant lot than to have to demolish you talking about money you'd be cleared by the end of the day jenn. It's all about numbers. No matter how much demolition if you want to do the numbers work you do the project you can feel putting in hundred thousand dollars extra but you can make a million more in the numbers work do the project and you know it doesn't matter how much demolition it needs to be done for instance licadho academy the demolition everything including concrete. That's probably because they have something in their mind. That will do better what it is but you know doing something good there. I wanted to ask your thoughts on public private partnerships In lafayette city lafayette. It's a lot more controversial. F- you know doing tip districts and all these different things and you look around us. All the smaller towns been thriving by investing in themselves. But have you ever been involved in anything that yes satellite. So yes i do and if you if you look at this one One acadian organization in lafayette took a lot of entrepreneurs to a trip to greenville up carolina. there's a lot ideas he can get from greenville. I don't have mentioned illegal thing. Doing lots of things happen because there was a public private partnership in every project. I'm not so big to tell the administration what to do and what not to do a small businessman. I will do another day. I'll do it myself. Bart eve the pub. You've the city will collaborate with the developer. Either it might be a parking issue either. See for instance. I'm trying to do a project in downtown. They wanted to charge me. What is called a sewer impact. Free i don't know how much it is executive. Tell you about two percent or whatever. The project for four million years eighty thousand dollars. But but is what differentiate authorities wat- will probably stop the investor from investing with us the ten percent. I was gonna give it to him or twelve percent is going to him. Let's say from a promised twelve. But i ended up. Spending two percent on impact fee is only getting ten. He might not invest with me so that makes a difference bar. I can go to the other side of downtown on the outskirts of downtown on. I don't know how to pick two percent. So there is counterproductive for us. If the city's looking for a long-term day should be the one investing that money in sewer capacity iran anything they have to do infrastructure wise. They have to be the one doing so before before the previous administration left office before. Edd's economic development districts we one in downtown When when the districts were done it was it was said that just because the edd's our existing does not mean the add's will support all the infrastructure in that area. They can only do a small park. The city also held a participate in those things. And then we do it. I think they need to have a vision. I would love. I would love to see someone from the administration telling me what the ten year regions are a twenty year origines. What would you like down to be in twenty years from now. I don't see there's a plan plan. Lafayette but it's back on the shelf. The i don't know where that is. I don't get into politics. But i know there are so many smart people in the administration. They need to come out and say this is. Our plan is than this is the first step we're doing for that plan. This is the second step third. Step i see. Cities like young will car all of these people. They have unity's in place years ago. They don't have metro card. They know the hour of the for instance the company the whoever is trying to do a bill in business here can go to another side on the city outskirts do whatever they wanna do with less restrictions. What would the se here I'm not a professional. Has these are some things that they have to study and see what what we need to do. I her that the administration ease israeli a proactive number days on getting big projects. Done especially a bigger Bigger size projects done and they are also very entrusted to talk to people who can put this project together. Which is good news for me for us. But i think the plan of of a future whatever we wanna do what we wanna achieve at the end of the day. These are all the citizens of lafayette. They no matter their in politics in five years from now ten years from now you need to know where your city would be ten years from now. You need to know what you can do to achieve that goal as a politician Of course everyone has their personal ambitions and whatnot bought the greater good. As what can i do. Their people will remember my name for the rest of their life or without him. This wouldn't be done without joe they won't be. Dvd's right right. What do we have to see but without joe utilities have there but if he can help do all this infrastructure projects have people Help a plan these different things help. Fill the gap where the city doesn't have enough resources. I'm take this infrastructure projects forward than yes joel's name will be remembered for rest of rest are people's life you know since consolidation happened back in one thousand nine hundred eighty six when.
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"For these living places or we do we do. I mean not. stephen is not involved alma projects. And i'm not involved in all of his projects he's for instance is doing the trap bay deal. I'm not in with that He guinea. I think he he. Has this this Vision that or he. He has this talent to envision bigger projects. I liked to stay in my line. You not everybody's cut out for everything you know you have to know your your capabilities and act accordingly. I can go do sixty.
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"I the don't create a good impression. Teach your i tell them when they get mad at me sometimes. But i tell him ma'am. I'm sorry you're having a bad day but you have to be this right right. Do you work at your places to kind of get a the offer what it's like to. Yes ma'am i work all the time. This is not a high employee business. This is just a small business with few employees. So i work make sure every every customer has been properly taken care of Sometimes we do a great job. Most of the time we do a great job but sometimes like any small business. We have some issues that we work with Eventually we saw in a bed-and-breakfast business is like a guest coming to your home. United is not hotel. They're coming to your home. How would you do anything bad to guess. Come to your home. They won the best experience. They can have had them sit on table. Eat enjoy drink with you. That's kind of the atmosphere that we're trying to create the bnb overall. I think I think we're we're doing okay. There's a lot that's a lot of progress that we can make. He's the shop. We have chef. He was the preferred caterer for craig chain point when it wasn't business sunset. Tim is craig kimmel. he's my friend. Now turn chef for us so he doesn't excellent job. We have cajun breakfast. Kind of style. different breakfasts. every day. we have spin occasion spin in different breakfasts. For instance we have x. benedict and it used to be canadian make oregon. It is canadian. Bacon do reshad sausage. So it's kind of like that like the little spin on. We do french doors. French doors donna. French bread riders aspect. But we do it on southern biscuit which is which is a different twist to ride to that in a so. We have a little twist to every Craig handles all of that the bed-and-breakfast the breakfast is in the name the break i have to be online. You know we can go to bed and breakfast and how continental breakfast right good coffee. We still have a long ways to grow. We are not where we wanted to be I am. i'm working hard. Probably by the end of the seventy percent of our guests are from europe so we have host that speak three to four languages My host miss martine. She speaks french dutch spanish german and english. What an asset. yeah so. She speaks all or who speaks. French for sure Except me here. We want speaks french. You know. I did an interview while back with frank randall automatic. You've met him with randall's. I cried but i send a lot of people to but he said the same thing and this was before but he said like sixty to seventy percent of their customer bases. Its out of town and a lot of out of the country randall. Latman goes who's grandma's is known because it is on the fringe guidebooks Publicized in europe. So if he can makes cajun for Good i'm music. That's all coming for. Yeah so you can get both of them at once bar. Marlin they round. They go but also new orleans is very well publicized in europe just like nash. Religion is in england. The english go nashville. They have direct flights from england to nashville restore. Yeah and the An europe france new orleans. They're trying to direct flights. Are i think they did last. Have journalists that took the fussed the first flight after our of paris to new orleans but come they come for three weeks and four weeks they can stay three weeks new orleans so they stay one week on the head. This trail like all the french trail. They go to hormone nuria. Lafayette lafayette. he's the cajun country. This spent two three days. Lafayette and they go to noxious and then two. If sanford on. Either gordon nashville. Altogether from there are some francis will back to new orleans ongo trail that follow and we are on the trail. And i'll be nbc's he's on the is on all the fringe guy guidebook. So do you have to work to get on those guys. How do you get your son. Oh yes i did work. I did a lot of work for them. you know the whole stevens for them. Host the writers that come down but but the previous owner we bought did a good job on getting them on the guidebooks because at the time it was the only one and if someone wants to come to love the bear breakfast random speaks a little freddie order. Gentleman think is ninety one no but he did because of him we were there and then we we took the baton and we did the same thing. I know you're probably ready for all the code. Scared of the over. Some people can just flock back in Cbs but like i said i think this is addressing all entrepreneurs who might be listening. If code is not there there might be something else. We how to figure out a way house an entrepreneur to get over. This ought to wait it out. You do what you need to do on for means you're creative so find a creative way to get over this and then you know maybe he can reset later. I'll take you're right. It could be a stock market crash. Everything you know again. Four just because something happened This is the time because everyone will fall. If that's the case you can say you've got. I just want to mention the names again. It's mouton plantation the nickerson house in esprit core. And i'll put these semi show notes but people can just google beads and they'll come up and you've got nice website. Am is still working but we did a small. Yeah we we want to keep it simple but allow for people to come visit. It's this. i'm not buying this property. Because i warned them is for people for lafayette people. I think they should come and bring friend and have coffee. We have coffee everyday english. Bishop come under have a cup of coffee in the garden and good meeting. What would you sit in the coffee shop where you.
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"Dr martin and we're going to have to second podcast history. So that's how the martin mud avenue came from thank you so much in the house. The memory host stop you. Baby known yeah. It's seen a lot of good energy. Yeah war and all that. I'm just thinking about all. The things said house went period. I don't know what we had here. That was maybe would've endangered the house but still it was close to matthew how to see even the civil war when when the feral the people from the not came you would see that The maps were the maps so when when they when they were come in the river and they were born or they were they were they were born Takeover plantation the plantation owners. Made sure that the maps were not handed over to them at any cost because because they would take the map on go to the next one or the next one go to the next month. The the proof for that is when doing work homeless plantation homeless house day. Phone the map buried under the third floor between the process fascinate to keep it away from troops in another story. They were close to kademi brancaccio to this story there. So i had no idea the also wanna move on to some of your other properties if we may. I'd like to pause listen to a clip from an interview that we did with. Gus resigned as a native of sao paulo. Brazil and gus is also made his home here and he's invested heavily in the downtown lafayette area and he also loves the us. Why don't we take a listen and also please go to discover lafayette dot net. Where you can find robbie's interview gusts is in about two hundred others. Let's listen to us the whole question about the viability of downtown over. The years has been you know is downtown has to grow because the immediate businesses there they need to prosper or because downtown is to grow because they actually helps the entire parish. And i think when you when you have civic mayors from other cities outside lafayette scott which i spoke to the mayor of scar young's ville when when they're coming back from trips and going. Well now i understand power of urban core as actually going to help my city and he's not about competition about tax revenue. It's about growth. Also infrastructure dow ready exists that we don't need to be building out for now. We already probably done enough for now. Let's go back in. And i think that's what he's showing nelson. Abc coming in downtown is a statement of that. You know so. I'm just excited about the moment that we're experiencing Which is good for everyone and welcome back. Discover lafayette with ravi. So you've got these two properties in something and i just this spring right. You closed on his free before. I've been looking at that downtown. That's beautiful yellow husband. That's what would street is it. Face in the corner of garfield faces garfield so anybody going down to resume parks or downtown behind right behind the festival in two on stage. Beautiful property right. it is built in eighteen ninety reduce the same age as nickerson house back then. Um train transportation is a big thing. That's what i believe led to building their house. It's facing the railroad tracks right there. So it's it's seen is. It had seen his. Its heyday one. Before i liked the light the downtown. And i really believe the downtown is on. Its way up and i would love to preserve our love to buy it. Acquire the land by keeping our put some of my touches in the building. We just acquired it so we didn't do much even done anything not much yet and so that was also an event. It's an la not on the barham kalisz credit core and we own the restaurant next door scratch. We own the property the scratch in the building. It's not known operating other. Of course the the ladies operate so. That's three then. event runoff. We have yeah. So what. I want you to plug all of this. What are your favorite type of events. Visit mainly a wedding the are these dickerson. House is catered for bigger. Un's we have seven acres there And i saw you offer packages benefit sweet smell when you open right On the decor is a smaller even space that can fit about one twenty one forty people so we're not trying to do bigger stuff. They're trying to do but three parties bridal showers ours is an airbnb. Also your ganging up stairs. You can have your party to stave step there. He counters. And if you please we. That's one thing i have already done. Is i for nist place to the period There's some things that. I still hard work on belva couches It's it's it's home but it has some southern touch to it so i finished it to that period. You not comfortable who are still in the process. When we had done it would be nice like to see. The point is are just to make a few dollars on the bedroom. Breakfast story airbnb. The point is to create an experience for the travelers. That they won't forget for one and they would wanna come back. I keep telling people i go to. This city hall are eagerly l. s. fiber. I go to all this fuss places that people come go to come to town city hall planning and zoning elliot's fiber not to get the people at work in the friend even though they're not paid as much but these are the first people there like the gateway to lafayette and they are the company. I r cares if the head of the company's nice. If person helping you. Not so i tell them and i see them sometimes are in a good mood in. We all are but but you are the fussed. People that people see the gateway lafayette. You have to be on your tub game. Every day. No matter what the situation at your omens an i tried to say that i also tell that to my friends who are in bigger positions in fiber in areas that the leadership has to work on getting them for me even though they're not paid as much training them training them bell on telling them importance in the greater good of flour in a greater good of the job. It's very very very important. I think if you tell them that and say hey. I know it is the smallest job in the whole farm by the top priority for us. This is the be smiling. Your take care of them like your own family show them you laugh is known for hospitals. The south is known for hospitality She's in a bad mood..
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"Venues in over. Lafayette parish mean. They had holiday but everybody knows. That's that's that's not even places to really put on a fine wedding or a special occasion events and so that was your first prototype plus fun. Yeah i i believe that. Not only twenty percent of people in lafayette probably twenty known to exist existence all historic neighborhood sterling. Forget about my property. Just existence office historic sterling grow neighborhood. I think job to make people know that that way they can come on. See see what we have in lafayette. Enjoy the houses and maybe if someone organized event we can you the places open for them to tour. Yeah did the coverage shutdown affect mouton. He does it does. I think kobe had a big bar We were on our way of growing exponentially and kuwait kinda dampen those that growth but as an entrepreneur food is not co it. It would be something else one day. And i had figured out a way so we'll figure out a way ill-fated wait see the house will provide provide for it. What was your second purchase switch property. The second purchase was the nickerson house which used to be owned by a prominent family in the shop The judy Family in the mail gratitude correct correct and It was the sharply sore. The house to the sharp lines from a from naqqash sharply sworn to move to ob- looses on. I know chris bury well on. Chris offered the deal heavier movement. If you want to buy this chance to buy so it is meant to be an so. I did that. I i am about ninety. Five percent finished with renovation. So it's not opiate. Open chat end of september a month. Yeah yeah we are booked over november and december are congratulations. Yes so it was so roughly anyway. I imagine october november and december. We took extreme care in preserving every inch of that property extreme care. You're you're careful about trees plans on. Every little thing in the house is being preserved or worked on. The word was in good shape. Oh moves are sadness shape but we had to do some things because it's being event through some ups and downs. After after two thousand when the lady was older miss bella cylinder on the kids more doubt. I think your some things that happened but the house was built in one section. The hostess has been added on over the years. So when you that you know it's not on a stable ground uneven surfaces cracks in the walls these than that. I'm pretty sure less than the all the kids out. They have their own houses. And i don't think they put too much effort into their house. I'm curious after the hurricane last year. And then i guess you know the flood in two thousand sixteen at that adverse weather conditions affect these older homes. No no no see where the railroad track is going is the highest pointed in lafayette. So we are closed to rail tracks. We've we flirt. So flood knopfler. The winds haven't hurricane last hurricane. There was some damage. That's done We lost five trees fell in the house. Not not on the main house just nickerson house. We had some damage to the carriage. House outside bathrooms fences some extra but nothing to nothing to the house. See houses were designed so they don't obstruct the win. If you see the moot on it was built on the path of you know it's not directly abstracting. The win it's built on the path of the win so the win force is very less on the house. So don't i don't know how they knew they did. They did in that something. Yeah and you have known that if they were willing plantation home back then they would have built it on the by you. But but the reason is the cajun's never went for the by cajun's van for the oak trees because the lie will will not survive in a continuous flood. So you there are two hundred year old oak trees already there. That's a good dozen flirt continuously. It would flirt because there was no levees back. Then you'd word flyer occasionally by flood for one month at a time visit trees wouldn't have made make it so the also offer shade and other benefits and that's what they went for and the other plantation people weren't for the by us because of the transportation easy transportation. Yeah these guys went for the hawks. Yeah grandma online nickerson story and it was really interesting Like i didn't know simcoe. I had no idea that was named after a place and canada. Yeah goco so. A lot of those streets had personal. Meaning correct to mr nickerson separate developed in that area vet Evidently he made money in gold rush but then into canada and his kids started dying because of extreme weather so he wanna go as salt as possible and he meets this guy from lafayette in the train. He wasn't supposed to come to laugh here. You meet someone in the train and he sees a lot of good things about lafayette so nickerson came to lafayette john. Nickerson and then he bought all the land from the moton plantation. The heck three hundred acres at the time it wasn't under the fam- in the family was was given away to other people at one time. It was owned by dr moss. Sorry dr martin. Not dr martin is a village of the doctor mired. In abraham lincoln dead. The doctor martin that that that had that had treated john wells booth then he jumped off broke his leg. Oh my goodness wow. So.
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"The nickerson house and predate core. He's also developer of the newly built remain laws situated johnston and vermillion streets. Ravi is a native of india and moved to lafayette to attend l. Lafayette to study computer engineering. He has made lafayette his home his interest in restoring historic properties and his dedication to offering beautiful event venues for downtown north. Lafayette is inspirational. I've been curious. About what motivates you robbie. Welcome to discover lafayette. Thank you thank you jim. Thanks for having me today. I'm excited about your story. You know i had read about you in the paper. But i wasn't putting you together with the different projects you've been involved in and our friend katherine since two maker recommended that i call you and she said i think ravi would be a great gas. So i'm just. I had worked for years to improve a relief fiat. And you know the whole kier is it takes private money and private rask to make these things happen. Yes it does man i started to projects. I wouldn't call it not site in a lot of my friends. Asked me to take the money and invested in the south side of town. Then someone says no motivate you more so i decided to invest money on the outside because i liked the house that i was that i was looking at and monday. Douglas my calling. So i did it and from there i took it one. Step other products game to me. I wasn't looking for any projects after that. All the projects came to me so it is like the houses. It's meant to happen. How did you transition from computer science engineering to developing and renovating properties. See this is the saying alvin. Believe this is when you get to thirty five. You need to know what you want your good. I did several things softer graduating. I know i wasn't meant to work or job. In defy so i did several things i did everything that she can think of to make money in survive but a real estate was my calling. I felt like fit in well in real estate. I enjoy what i'm doing. I'm probably a small a real estate developer in town. But i enjoy what i was doing and then there was interesting stories i i i started to work in lafayette. I didn't have a car. So my cabdriver would bring me from yale all the way to the not syros working in a hotel and he would go around the mouton house to pick up more customers. While i was sleeping in the car so i saw it in two thousand three four than when i bought my first car. I used to go and visit because like the house on one day in twenty sixteen. My bank at the time thought that she knew i was an indian on. This was a breakfast on. Indians are in motels. so see. thought i would do a motel or a bed-and-breakfast so she asked me and i said well it's a coincidence that i liked this house looking at this house for so long without even thinking of buying this an all park could afford it but then it came to me on the bank. Said we'll do alone if you're interested. Wow that was the original those time. That's like yeah yeah wasn't or yeah but an about the property was just by the property as an investment because i was into flipping doing this other things the prize was ride aboard but then i realized that there is a bigger purpose Most people say you know you can't talk to the house or you need to talk to the house so we loud. The house on the house. May what i am today from their house. You felt that it was kind of divine that you're able to buy that correct. End lead weaker. Story to the story is The man i am today is There's a lot of factors. That helped me but i think lafayette help me To be very am as a man so this is my way of giving something back. So i didn't know that from the jump but daddy's how is transforming too so now i enjoy doing. I want to create space. Is his story. It is built in eighteen. Twenty one of the first five one of the five houses of that period existing operational led this time. How are they all in that area right there. note. I think a kafue Will yes mouton house downtown than our place. There's a few places like that that's built at during that time period and that sunday conviction. Yeah i think. Catholic remedial is bit older than our place because all the business was done in the rich and that is where we used to be a hotel back in the day so when i bought the place It was very tough to run. Abedin was business especially for someone like me with very limited resources but the house for wired you made enough to yeah. A few rooms was abedin. Rabi opened a few rooms in the house provided enough to do other work so and moreover see there's a there's a good energy in some of these houses on most of my meetings in. This house are very successful. That helped me other projects so say iran would come to meet me there and they would be an a a meeting would be so successful that we we are partners after that in business partners we do other projects together. So yeah. It's very nice. What on is a. He has a charm. This is the thing the historic properties. He how to look at it like The baton has been passed on to you. A you will have the baton. You are just a you're just a kid. Take a temporary caretaker of the house. You're a steward correct of the house. And in ten years fifteen years you would pass that bat known to someone else but you have to understand that as lafayette are. They cured in areas known for the food. The music the culture. I believe that the houses are part of the culture so in that time period. We all know what happened in those houses in in the plantation. I'm not going to go into that. But the way li li We work To term. The way we do this is to invite people into that home where they were not invited before and treat them with respect and dignity that they didn't have before. Ease the way that we can overcome. What the head went through. And that time. That is my feeling see. There were not invited to their home. They were not invited in in their own table. But now we. I invite everyone can come to my place and this is the place that they were not treated with. Respect with treated with dignity as humans. We all human so and there's such a need no matter what your background house. There's been very few event.
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"This is john swerved in you're listening to discover lafayette a podcast dedicated to the people and rich culture of lafayette the gateway to southeast. I'd like to thank our sponsors. Who make our podcast possible. We take our podcast with ongoing support of raider and jason sikora sound engineer. Reiter is a hands on. It service provider that integrates. All of your needs for advanced technical support. Effective communication options in cybersecurity. Writers motto is. You just wanted to work we understand. Please visit reiter. Solutions dot com for more information iberia bank and i horizon who are now one bank to relationship driven banks. Both in the industry have officially joined forces. The combination of iberia bank and i horizon creates a leading financial services company dedicated to enriching the lives of their clients associates in their communities. I'd also like to thank lafayette general health. Who has joined the.
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"It's just kind of his entertaining any super bowl ads if you watch us that only so funny but have you ever bought their product. Probably not saints. There's gotta be some substance in there to make you want to go out and do that and the same thing that around. It's just not jake and it doesn't say anything it doesn't get you emotionally connected. Then it's worth so we try to combine those two things in make it to where it's not just about cost. It's not just about values a lot of people you know we work with or hospitals and the best service and we have the best this so does everybody else and you can't you can say it but you're so. Is this guy saying that guy saying that guy saying were you. Seeing that's different. We talked about a lot is called. change in compensation. How do you change the conversation from. It's already being said because it's all been set right. We're not reinventing the wheel here. So how do we set differently. How do we put it upside down. So look at it now. Does it look different now before we get into more of the book I'd like to pause. This is really the meat of the conversation about what your book is about. I'd like to take a break. And listen back to a clip from my first interview with jackie russo. When she appeared on discover lafayette along with correct wall teaches speech and debate at her lungs. We spoke of many things past and present and how people of always use media to get their message out but in this clip jackie. You're looking back. Two thousand eight. You just mentioned when social media really spiked in popularity you can listen to this interview along with about two hundred twenty others at discover lafayette.
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"lafayette" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"This is john swerved in you're listening to discover lafayette a podcast dedicated to the people and rich culture of lafayette the gateway.
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"lafayette" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"This is john swerved and you're listening to discover lafayette a podcast dedicated to the people and rich culture of lafayette the gateway.
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"lafayette" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"This is john swerved in you're listening to discover lafayette a podcast dedicated to the people and rich culture of lafayette the gateway.
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"Here to find out because i'm sure he's concerned what's going on in my neighborhood and i just went just very pleasing to me as police chief. And i'd like to see that repeated dozens of times over and over every day. Let's talk about Let's say the police crisis negotiating team. I saw that in the news in the past week. And i know that you have a team. I think it's led by women unless the paper was wrong but it's about De escalating situations before they get out of control including people that may have mental illness that needs to be dealt with. They might be causing a disturbance. But they're not criminals per se. They're just experiencing difficulties. Can you talk about that. Because i know there's been so much. Talk the system the infant stage right now. We're looking at producing what we call a right care team and this would be an expert in mental illness crisis intervention. Who rides alone. They sworn police officer in a uniform and when calls are dispatched to officers involving a person who may or may not be experiencing emotional crisis psychological letdown. This person would be responsible for the first interaction with that subject in a very concerted effort to reduce and minimize the likelihood of any type of physical altercation. Taking place between the officer and the subject. We are not complete yet. It's in the beginning stages. There are people in the department that have been identified as people who will eventually work on this team but the main thing is we have to address does crisis and if you look at the use of force around the nation and you look at the use of deadly force around the nation a very large proportion of those encounters are with people who are suffering some type of mental trauma and we hope we hope in our our. Our hope is to identify those type situations and reduce the likelihood of having force encounter by having that person who's an expert in the mental illness field and deal with that person right on the spotlight said. Police officers don't typically get trained in depth about dealing with mental illness. I can say that we get trained but there's always always room for enhancement and always room to build on but this department is required now offices to get training in mental mental illness besides In dealing with such where. You have a mentally ill person that needs assistance. You also have other situations where things can escalate and get out of control and your crisis. Negotiating team helps with that. Also if you can touch on that yes we do have a time group of people that address issues where you might have a barricaded person hostage or whatever. How swat team will respond. Swipe team has to negotiators. Signed to talk to try to reduce the likelihood of having a encounter with any type of force and that is lead like you say it by two females. In fact we had a very good article that recently came out in the news highlighting Both of those both sergeant broussard and sergeant oaks. Who do a very good job at that. I don't know that. I could ever be a police officer. I've told bridget. Do guy that. I wanna take my hat off when griffin here with with us also i admire so much people that are willing not just once in a while but every day to suit up and show up at work and you don't know when you show up for work with the day's going entail so the takes some pretty intensive training to keep your cool right. It really does. It's it's something that i refer to as calling because a lot of us could do other things. I've had opportunities to go into private business and make tons of money but you. I'm sorry we're not getting tons of money here. I didn't look up your salary. It's never enough. Let's just leave it at that correct. We do it because we love people. We like solving problems. And we'd like to make a difference in the community and that is the core of what a police officer is. And if you find someone who does not A spouse or subscribe to those values. They're not going to be a good police officer. Because you have to. You have to love people. I know you're interested in The junior police academy to look at recruiting young people to serve. And so if you can talk about that. I know that will give people an opportunity. Young people to see. Is this something meant to do. When i'm very excited about the possibility of there simply. Because i wanted to mira. What professional sports do. Let's look at major league baseball. A person in major league baseball started in elementary school. Would we call tibo. And then they go to coach pitch and then they go to a junior high school ball and senior high school ball. And then they go to college and then the minors and then the majors phases and police and can be just like that. We identify people who are in elementary school fifth and sixth graders and we put out handing out stamp on them and we mentor them throughout elementary junior high high school into college and subsequent to that they graduate or get enough college. They become police officers. And i want to touch that because i think if you look at today's date it is february. Second two thousand and twenty one. We can go to any fifth sixth grade class in the city of lafayette in touch people and ten years from now they're going to be eligible to be lafayette police officers. And we got to increase that pool and the junior police academy we do some things that will attract them a lot of the children that we've encountered in law enforcement. They like to hear the siren. See the red light so they love. the police. Forces are the motorcycles out. Traffic officers wear or they love the look of the person in the newly pressed and starts a uniform. And i think when we can attract those children at an early age and keep them throughout their matriculation through elementary junior high school we can do a good job of so to speak put now hook sent him. They learned the profession. like they'll be taking classes. They'll be visited the police department. Police officers of all ranks ethnicities. Go out and talk to them and we'll be teaching them of..
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"lafayette" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"This is john swerved and you're listening to discover lafayette a podcast dedicated to the people and rich culture of lafayette the gateway.
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"lafayette" Discussed on Discover Lafayette
"This is john swerved and you're listening to discover lafayette podcast dedicated to the people and rich culture of lafayette the gateway to south louisiana. I'd like to thank our sponsors. Who make our podcast possible. We take our podcast with ongoing support of raider and jason sikora sound engineer. Reiter is a hands on. It service provider that integrates. All of your needs for advanced technical support. Effective communication options in cybersecurity. Writers motto is. You just wanted to work we understand. Please visit reiter solutions dot com for more information iberia bank and first horizon. Who are now one bank to relationship driven banks. Both in the industry have officially joined forces. The combination of iberia bank and first horizon creates a leading financial services company dedicated to enriching the lives of their clients associates in their communities. I'd also like to thank lafayette general health. Who has joined the national.