Hour 1: NOPD will begin arresting people sleeping on sidewalks and entryways

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3:09for a whole host of reasons. It seems as though a lot of this is based upon a national center for state courts. The Supreme Court of Louisiana District Court Judicial weighted caseloast node study. That was released in November of 2025. I read it last night and we're going to talk about this with Raphael Gwynethy about what this means and we'll find out whether or not he's in favor of this legislation or not. I'll tell you what I think about it as well at that time. So you want to check in with us certainly at noon for that conversation. Patrick McMath, state senator, Republican District 11 in Mandaville. We'll visit with him about his thoughts about this legislative session. We visited with Kim Carver yesterday from the North Shore on the House side, the Senate on the South side. We're going to try and hit all of the regions here on this show talking

4:09to legislative leaders as to what they think of the pressing issues where they stand on some of these issues and we'll give you updates as to certain pieces of legislation as they move through the state legislature. So that'll be at 1130. Sean Higgins, competitive enterprise institute research fellow. There's a bill, the Railway Safety Act bill. And this thing has some very interesting provisions. A lot of this comes out as a result of the train derailment in Palestine, Ohio. And it seems to me though we are having a little difficulty connecting the dots as to what this actually means. And who's the ultimate beneficiary of it? Is it the public? Does it really increase safety on the railway? Or is this much to do about nothing and maybe just benefiting other folks? And we'll talk about that with Sean Higgins. At 1030 to Port in New Orleans, we'll join us Amanda Coates, Port Nola Vice President of Cargo and also Katie

5:15Jensen, the CEO of Triton Stone. Now we're going to talk about the global trade and how that impacts you know certain businesses. Katie's family Triton Stone was a family owned business that started here in New Orleans. And they have grown exponentially. They are all over the United States. It's an incredible story. And it started right here and I had an opportunity to talk to Katie the other day and really enjoyed it. And it's definitely worth listening to this story because of the impact of what the port has on our economy and what it has on individual lives and family businesses and how they help facilitate growth. And this is a great American story for sure and you're going to want to listen to this as well. And it really gives you kind of a background

6:15flavor of what's going on in our economy and how important the port is to our everyday lives. I wanted to talk about a story that was posted the other day in ola.com, Sophie Casacovs, the Arthur. It was posted two days ago on March 10th. Talking about this policy now that NOPD is going to begin arresting people lying on laying down on sidewalks and blocking the main travel portion for pedestrians, right? And in many cases forcing pedestrians to go into the street. And we know that when you're in the main travel portion of the roadway where cars go, that's not safe, right? Not by any stretch of the imagination. It's horrible. And these folks are laying all over the French Quarter. And all I can say is thank you. Thank you to the NOPD. Thank you for

7:16starting to embark on this, having some consequences for this and not allowing these folks to just take over this place called the French Quarter, which is so important to the economics success of the city. Human nature is the first impression is the last impression. We have visitors that come here. They walk into the quarter. And if the first thing they see are a bunch of these people laying around on a sidewalk, guess what? They're not coming back, right? So we lose these new wallets as my friend puts it. They come into the city of New Orleans every day and we lose the opportunity of them spending their money here with us. Paying sales taxes and a like and contributing to the success of this city. We have to pretty ourselves up. We need to be on our game every single solitary day because as we all know, we are financially stressed and we cannot afford

8:23to let not a single day go by where we do not have our best foot forward. Pretty simple. In my view, we just have to recognize that we need to coordinate. We need to create efficiencies. We got to get on the same page. We got to play like that. We're walking into the boardroom of a major corporation and we look at the French Quarter and other areas in the city, whether it's the warehouse district, midtown, downtown, however you want to refer to at mid city and say, this is our main responsibility. How can we succeed every day? And I dare say that inside that boardroom, I can't imagine that anyone is going to suggest that we should invite people to come and sleep on the sidewalks. That that would help perpetuate

9:23our product and the image of our product and help increase sales and would be a draw of tourists to this area. It's just not the selling point, right? But that's how our mindset has to be every day. I've said this about bucket beaters in front of Galatois. One of the most renowned restaurants in the country, right? A very important part of New Orleans history. And I just cannot imagine that we would walk into a boardroom and say, we think that bucket beaters in front of our restaurant during the dining hours is going to improve on the image and the nature of the experience that we're trying to provide to our dining guests each and every day.

10:23But yet we allow it to happen. We allow this to happen. What? How is that? Why is that? I have some people tell me they're culture bearers, really? Who voted them in? There are very few people that I talk to that grew up and born and raised in New Orleans, grew up in New Orleans that remember bucket beaters when they were growing up. Remembering that bucket beaters were influencing the culture of the city by any stretch of the imagination. No, we all know that that's BS, right? But what we have are some leaders that are not willing to consume political capital and not willing to play like they're sitting in a board of directors room making decisions for the viability of their business, the city in New Orleans and take a care of business. Now, you know, interestingly, and we wonder why some of our

11:26competitor cities are so good at what they do is because they're doing exactly as I just described. So let's go to Nashville. We know that Nashville is trying to steal the moniker of being the music city of this country. We have jazz. They're competing with us on that. They have their honky-tonk, whatever they call it, roadway, which is broadway that runs across the city to the Cumberland River over there. And it's called the honky-tonk highway. I knew I had it written down somewhere. And, you know, so I've visited there a couple times, gone down on Broadway Street, and I saw the most incredible thing. I've told this story on this show before. You don't see anybody sitting down on a sidewalk. You don't see anyone sitting down on the

12:27stoops of businesses. Why? They don't allow it. Plain and simple. So I'm sitting there one day and we're, you know, on the corner and I see some people with backpacks sitting on the door a stoop of a business that was closed for the evening. They're like five or six of them sitting there. They're not actually not even really blocking the sidewalk, but they're just sitting there. And there's a guy that walks up. He's got a vest on and he obviously works for whatever the organization that they have there on Broadway. And he says, y'all are going to have to stand up and move on because we don't allow people to sit on the street, on the sidewalk, on the door stoops of these businesses. And it's just not allowed. Well, they started to give

13:30this young man lip. And he says, look, I'm going to say it again. But this time I'm going to expound on what I said the first time is that if you don't get up in the next minute and you don't move on, those police officers, not 20 yards away from me right there standing next that I'd barricade, I will go over there and summon them. They're going to come over here and tell you the same thing. And if you don't stand up and move on within a minute, they are going to take you to jail. And it was really refreshing. You know, I mean, it was not in an argumentative way, wasn't in an aggressive way, it was just laying out the facts. I'm giving you this opportunity. If you want to take this opportunity, you know, that's fine. But if not, I'm going to call the police

14:33over here and then they're going to get involved. And this most incredible thing happened. I mean, you're just not going to believe it. They stood up and they moved on. Because obviously they probably have seen this play out at some other section of Broadway, on Broadway Street in Nashville. And they knew that these people were serious about what they're doing, plain and simple. If you set the bar low, that's what you'll get, garbage in your streets, folks sitting on your doorstep, not following the rules. If you set the bar high and you're not willing to accept anything less and you articulate what the rules are and what human behavior is accepted on Broadway Street or Bourbon Street or Royal Street or whatever, be that as it made

15:34a quarter as a little bit bigger than the Hunky Talk Highway in Nashville. But it's just about being involved, being consistent, articulating the message, articulating what your expectation is of their behavior. And if they don't live up to that, they're gone. They go to jail, plain and simple. No if, ants or butts about it. And the interesting thing about this is that, you know, you hear from some folks sometimes that want to make you believe that you're going to have a chilling effect on the culture, on the feel of Bourbon Street or the French quarter. If you get that intrusive, it's just simply not true. Because I can give example after example, the gas like district in San Diego, other areas that are that deploy the same type of strategies and tactics

16:36that they set the bar, they're not willing to accept anything less. And what's interesting is that, you know, we have folks that want to make apologies for this, really? I mean, you know, our culture is based on things that we've done historically, practices and stuff. Some of the human behavior that we're willing to accept in the French quarter and other areas of the city, we didn't accept that 40 years ago. We didn't allow it. We didn't allow it at all. So why are we allowing this now? The customs and the practices of society are reflected in state statutes, city ordinances. That's all it is, right? But we didn't allow that 40 years ago. But why do we accept that today? Relaisy, we don't want to go about

17:38doing the things necessary to create safe spaces for our visiting, folks that come to this city. And the real irony is this. And this has been going on for years, is that we talk about how we have to diversify because we just can't rely on tourism. But diversifying doesn't mean that we turn a blind eye to the things that we need to do every day to make sure that we are providing and developing and nurturing the culture that we need to be able to succeed in the tourism industry and compete against Nashville, right? Now you go to Nashville what you're going to find is all of these parties, young ladies are there, bachelorette parties, you know, this, that, and everything. Why? Because it's safe. That's why they're not going to get

18:43hassled. They're not going to be stepping over people laying on a sidewalk. They don't want to have their bachelorette party and go see crap on the streets. That's not what they want. And we keep looking afar at what's happening there. We've seen, you know, cranes popping up, hotels being built, more and more tourism going to that city. And we're wondering why? Why? Why? Well, we need to stop wondering. It's pretty simple. Act like we're in a boardroom and that we're all going to make a boatload of money off of an activity. If we do it the right way and we offer a product to people that they can simply enjoy that I don't have to work at it. They don't have to be hassled. They can feel they can have a great time. We provide architecture, scenery and stuff

19:49that you can get nowhere else in the world. We have so many attributes that are so positive and yet we don't leverage it. And over the last 40 years we should never allow any of this to happen. We shouldn't have bucket beaters in front of iconic restaurants. We shouldn't have people laying in the streets of the French Quarter. How hard can this be? It can't be that hard. And I say that would full confidence because everybody else seems to figure it out. It's going on. I'm Arch Manning, Viori Athlete and College Quarterback. Whether I'm running, training, traveling or just unlining at home, I love doing it in my core shorts from Viori. With a breathable box or brief liner, they're quick to dry, super versatile and stand up to even my most intense training sessions. Plus they come in three in seems and a ton of colors. Ready to try pair? Go to Viori.com slash Arch and get 20% off at checkout. I think you're going to love

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21:53to the port of New Orleans, our location on the mighty Mississippi River. And you know, the story oftentimes goes untold about the impact that the port has played for hundreds of years right here in the place that we call home. So a while back, I decided to begin to highlight some of the success stories and the impact that the port has had on our local economy. And the more I learned about the port, the more I'm intrigued about the port and the role that they play here in our city. And today we have a special guest, Katie Jensen, the CEO of Triton Stone. It's a really interesting story. I had an opportunity to visit with Katie the other day and really enjoyed hearing the story and really think it's worthwhile for everyone to hear it because it's going to give you an inside look into the importance of the port and the role that it plays.

22:53And also joining us is the Port Nolovice President of Cargo, Amanda Coates. Ladies, welcome to the show. Thanks, Noel. Happy to be here. Thanks, Noel. Katie, thanks for joining us. Yes, Katie. Thank you so much. And let's start with Katie. You know, Katie, when we talk about a global trade business, I would love for you to tell our listening audience the story about your family and your company Triton Stone. Yeah. So, you know, we have been so blessed in our journey of growing and building this company. So, we opened it in 2006 right after Hurricane Katrina. We wanted to do something to kind of give back to the city and help with the rebuilding across the entire region. And my family has a background in trucking and logistics. So, it kind of paired together very well that we would then become an importer and distributor of

23:56natural stone, granite, marbles. And we also fell sinks, tiles and tools. So, now fast forward, we're celebrating our 20th year this year. And we've been able to expand to 15 states and have over 30 locations. And you started in 2006 with five employees, right? Yep, we sure did. You know, we started back. I was 23 years old. So, I like to say that we were too naive to think we could fail. And, you know, we were part lucky in part naive, right? So, but we worked really hard and we took care of our customers and we did what we said we were going to do. And I think the most important part is that we attracted some amazing people to the team. Like you said, it's my family's company. So, I started with my brother-in-law, my sister-soon jewelline. I've worked now with my brothers and other sisters. So, we have an amazing team that was able to make this happen.

25:02So, Katie, let's, if you would, let's talk about the importance of the port. Obviously, you're now importing a material that's pretty tough to handle. It's not like, you know, throwing boxes in a container. I mean, there's a lot of special packaging, a lot of special things that have to happen so that you don't have significant loss of product and transportation. And describe that for us for our listening audience. Yeah. So, it really is pretty amazing when you think about the global supply chain. I think a lot more individuals in our country became aware of it during COVID when there were so many disruptions in the supply chain. But in our industry, there's actually, we have a segment on our website. It's called from the quarry to the kitchen. And it details the process of literally, you know, a mountain in Carrera, Italy where they quarry a block of marble. It goes down the mountain to a factory in Italy where it gets cut into slabs. At that point, those slabs are then loaded into a container. And like you said, very,

26:04very heavy. So, then it gets loaded onto a container ship from Italy. Traversa is the world, right to ocean, and comes to the border in New Orleans. At that point, our trucking company takes the container, brings it to our unloading facility, we unload it, then it gets on another truck to our showroom. And that is where, you know, your listeners are able to come see, you know, marbles and granites from around the world. And as we think about this, this is to you, Amanda Coates, Port Noel, a vice president of cargo. These same types of stories are told over and over and over again with a whole host of different materials that come through the port, right? Right. And, you know, during this journey, the port really plays a vital role in the supply change. You know, we're one of the country's key gateways for imported and exported goods, moving, moving through this region and what makes New Orleans really unique is that cargo can come in by vessel and then quickly connect to rail or truck or barge and move inland to major US

27:10markets. And so that means that some of, you know, Triton Stones products can arrive in New Orleans and they can end up in Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, the Midwest, and well beyond. And then from an efficiency standpoint, New Orleans really offers, you know, lower congestion, faster fluidity and flexibility for certain global connectivity and cargo. And that matters in supply chains because resilience and reliability are just as important as speed to market. So Katie, back to you, as Amanda talks about this efficiency factor and the ability to move these products through the port quickly, how important was that as y'all began to grow because you're in how many states now again, 12th? Who's that right? 15. 15. And so how important is that to you guys? Well, like Amanda said, New Orleans offers us a big strategic advantage to be able to service truly, you know, a vast portion of the country. And it allows us to kind of centralize our

28:15distribution center where we bring those containers and then they're unloaded and then we're able to kind of truck them across the country. You know, in addition, congestion is a really big thing. We saw less disruption during COVID. If you recall, the Port of Houston, you had vessels sitting for 40, 50, 60 days and New Orleans was much less impacted. So it provides tightness strategic advantage in our ability to kind of get our material in and to the end user. And also in addition, you know, it's all about getting your product to your customer at the best possible price and efficiency. And that's definitely something that the Port of New Orleans strives itself on helping us provide. Time is money, right? It doesn't matter what business you're in. And time has a tendency to kill and all deals as well. When we think about stone, this is to Amanda, how important is this as a product to your cargo mix that comes in

29:17through the port? So this allows us, you know, to really diversify the cargo that we handle and imports like natural stone and companies like Triton are so vital to the port portfolio. It represents the kind of cargo that directly supports the growth of New Orleans and surrounding areas like construction, commercial development, infrastructure, natural stones a great way. Great example of how global trade connects to the local economy. So, you know, building houses and, you know, a lot of people think of retail when they think of container, containerized imports. It's, you know, our shoes clothing, things like that. They're not thinking about, you know, construction materials, you know, steel rod, things like stone, and many other construction materials that are coming in containers. Yeah, in fact, the last time I visited some of the facilities at the port, I saw a lot of tires. I was shocked at the tires I saw.

30:21On the port, I was like, wow, I got a lot of tires here. Katie, back to you, I'm always curious about this when it relates to stone, whether it's quartzite or granite or this. What's the top selling stone right now? What's the big hit item? The big trending item. You know, it kind of like the trends go in flows, right? We kind of have five, ten-year trends. I mean, I think if you were in the remodeling phase in the last five years, everyone was doing light on right white cabinets, white stone tops, whether it was engineered stones. It was actually a manmade product that we also import, or a white marble or a white color granite. I would say currently a lot of people have kind of pivoted more to the warmer tones, more cream, coats. There's a very popular color called Taj Mahal. It actually comes from Brazil. It's a quartzite. So it's a natural stone

31:25and it's just beautiful. You know, I think one of the benefits of natural stone is that each piece is unique. So you truly have like a work of art in your home that no one else has. So I think for that aspect, natural stones really never going to go away. It might just end in flow with the color changes. You know, the symbiotic relationship that you'll have with the port is very interesting to me, and especially I love hearing, you know, I love hearing your story the other day when we had an opportunity to meet. And a woman-run company, a family business growing from one location, five employees to being in 15 states, distributing stone throughout the country. I mean, it's, I love these stories because, you know, I know it comes with trials and tribulations, but I love when I see people just connecting all the dots and leveraging something like the port that we have here that does an incredible job. And it just kicks them off and makes things a lot easier your thoughts.

32:29Yeah, I mean, you, you, you directly said it. It's all about leveraging relationships and a big part of our decision to step into this business was the relationships that we had and the knowledge about with the port, with transportation, with importing. So that allowed us to kind of kick off this business. And then now it's all about working together and collaborating with our suppliers overseas and then our customers, you know, states side. So I think collaboration is, is like very important, but I also like to say like, Triton might sell stone and tile and sinks, but truly at the end of the day, we're a logistics company. Our job is to move the product safely and efficiently and support plays a vital role in that supply chain. And Amanda, I know, you know, in talking with you guys, and we're talking to Amanda Codes, Portnola Vice President of Cargo, I love the way that y'all get excited when you see this happening and you're making a meaningful impact on

33:32increasing the number of jobs and contributing to the economy. Yeah, you know, it is exciting and, you know, in a company like Triton Stone grows in our region, it's more of the economic impact that, you know, that's our job. You know, Katie's moving stone and we're creating opportunities and it creates direct jobs inside the company, operations, warehousing, transportation logistics, but it also creates the indirect jobs across the local economy and, you know, for every major cargo-related business that expands, that means family supporting jobs, allowing people to build careers by home, support local schools, and then investing back into their communities. And over time, that creates generational value. And so that's where, you know, the impact of cargo development really matters because with every new opportunity moving through the port, there's a really deep connection to local incomes and livelihoods across the state.

34:37You correct me if I'm wrong. I love talking about these stories because they often go untold, right? Yes. So we see, you know, there's so many different companies across. We have, for example, if you look at our imports, we have about 4,000 different importers and many different commodities and where those are going and what those are, what the products are going into. It's really amazing just to see how deeply connected the port of New Orleans is to the local economies and how we are playing into the building of those commodities and communities supporting those products coming across our docks and then the growth and other communities. You know, during COVID, we talked about supply chain disruption and the other side of that, talking about the improvement necessary to achieve supply chain resiliency.

35:43On a scale of 1 to 10, you know, where do you kind of think we fall at the present time? We really learn a lot enough lessons in the pandemic era. On resiliency, I'm going to call this a 10. I mean, we've bounced back from so many different disruptions across the supply chain just in my career and Katie's too. We've kind of ran parallel career there over the last 20 years and we've seen so many different disruptions that we've been able to overcome. That's one of the strategic goals of New Orleans is to continue diversifying, but we're able to pivot very quickly from focus on Asia to focus on Europe and Latin America, but also moving cargo via container when those containers aren't available. We're also able to move products in bulk and or break bulk vessels. So whenever we see disruption, it kind of allows us to be a superstar in supply chains and shifting. We actually saw

36:50some products that don't move typically in break bulk that usually move in containers, shift to break bulk during the pandemic. So those are really, really important things for the poor. A lot of ports are very focused on either break bulk or bulk or container, not all of them. So having a diverse portfolio really is the port's strength in the supply chain solutions. And obviously being Nimble, Katie to you, Katie Jensen, CEO of Triton Stone, final thoughts. Yeah, I would second what Amanda said. I think we have experienced so much, uncertainty in the supply chain in the past few years. It's really taught us all how to be creative and think outside the box. And our position in working with the Port of New Orleans and having the option to pivot on where you're importing material from and knowing that you have vessels calling the port, it just allows you to be able to get things done. And I think it's very

37:52important also that the port is considering or moving forward on opening the new LIT terminal, that'll further open up opportunities for all importers. Like Amanda said, over 4,000 importers that bring it into the port of New Orleans. And that's going to have a very positive impact on everyone. Absolutely. Ladies, thank you all both for all that you do. Congratulations for all of the successes as well. And thank you for joining us this morning and sharing these stories. We truly appreciate it. Thanks for having us, Newell. Yes, thank you so much, Newell. Take care. All right, that's Amanda Coates, Port Nola Vice President of Cargo at the Port of New Orleans, as well as Katie Jensen, CEO of Triton Stone, a great story. We'll be right back 504-260-1870. When Eokelyn Hartjoula is talking, text lines stay with us. What's going on? I'm Arche Manning, Viori Athletic and College Quarterback. Whether I'm running, training, traveling, or just unlining at home, I love doing it in my core shorts from Viori.

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