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Power Causes Brain Damage, Sports Gambling Is a Tax on Stupidity, and Los Angeles Has More Mosquitoes Than New Orleans

Power Causes Brain Damage, Sports Gambling Is a Tax on Stupidity, and Los Angeles Has More Mosquitoes Than New Orleans

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We open with a Louisiana legislative story that doesn't get nearly enough attention — House Bill 225 has passed the Louisiana House 74 to 23, proposing a constitutional amendment that would prevent governors from serving more than two terms total, whether consecutive or not. We dig into why this matters, why the Longs and the Edwards represent exactly the kind of concentrated political power the founders never intended, why power causes brain damage regardless of party affiliation, and why the bill's biggest weakness is that the legislature is willing to put term limits on the governor but not on themselves. We also push back on the argument that this is all just about stopping John Bel Edwards — and explain why true principle requires applying the same standard to the people writing the law.

We also get former Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Scott Angelle on the phone to talk about May 1st — St. Joseph the Worker Day, a recognition he helped shepherd through the Louisiana legislature in 2021 and which has since been adopted by Wisconsin, with Texas in talks to follow. Scott explains why this isn't a day off but a day on — a day to see the truck driver, the nurse, the teacher, the energy worker, and the restaurant worker, and to say out loud that what they do matters. He talks about dignity, about the P's of St. Joseph — protector, provider, prudent, peaceful, patient, and prayerful — and why a country where more people pull the wagon than ride in it would be a fundamentally better country for everyone.

In our Top 3 Things You Need to Know, the lawsuit over the closing of Como High School in Lafayette has been dismissed after the school board rescinded their initial closure vote — but the district may try again since the school is operating at less than 40% capacity and must now pay the plaintiffs' legal fees. Then the Southern University System presidential search is running behind schedule, with the search committee missing its May 12th deadline and no new timeline yet announced. And Jefferson Parish schools logged nearly 2,000 incidents in March alone where buses failed to show up for assigned routes — leaving roughly 88 routes uncovered every single day — while the district says it has been losing bus drivers and March was an outlier.

The Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education has approved updated K-12 English Language Arts Standards that bring back cursive writing — and we make the case that this is more important than it sounds. Handwriting forces the brain to slow down, organize thoughts, and engage muscle memory in ways that typing cannot replicate. And if students can't read cursive, they cannot read the Declaration of Independence. You cannot know what America stands for if you cannot read what America was built on.

We also play former Congresswoman Katie Porter's new California governor's campaign ad — which features her adult son moving back to her couch because he can't find a job, and her solution is to stand up to Donald Trump and get tough on greedy corporations. We ask the obvious questions. What does Donald Trump have to do with the California high-speed rail that goes nowhere, the homelessness crisis, the Palisades fires, the highest gas taxes in the country, or the regulatory burden that's driving businesses to Texas? None of it. Every problem she named was created by the party she's a member of. And the solution she offers — stepping on toes — is apparently fine when Democrats do it but fascism when Trump does.

We dig into Warren Buffett's characterization of sports gambling as a tax on stupidity — specifically his argument that nearly $3 billion in tax revenue generated by sports books in 2025 is ultimately money that working-class Americans are losing instead of saving or investing. We talk about why the house always wins, why the entire system is mathematically designed to extract money from the people who can least afford to lose it, and why President Trump's new IRA savings program is exactly the opposite instinct.

We also cover a new Associated Press poll showing that 61% of Americans — six out of ten — are worried that native-born Americans are losing their economic, political, and cultural influence because of immigration. We make the case that this is not a racial concern — it's a cultural one — and explain why there is a meaningful difference between welcoming newcomers and asking them to assimilate into the ideas that make America worth coming to in the first place.

And just for fun, we play Orkin's 2026 list of the most mosquito-infested cities in America — and spend an unreasonable amount of time being offended that New Orleans, built in an actual swamp, didn't even make the top 20 while Los Angeles, which has no standing water and no lakes, came in at number one. Washington D.C. made the list. We were not surprised.
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