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Speaker 1: It's that time, time, time, time, luck and load.

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Speaker 2: So Michael Very Show is.

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Speaker 3: On the air, there's no need to bear Underdog is here.

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Speaker 4: My three highs from Houston last night. Number one, DJ

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Speaker 4: Daniel's father lifting him high to receive his new Secret

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Speaker 4: Service bagggain.

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Speaker 1: I never thought I can do.

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Speaker 5: It's joining us at the gallery tonight. Is a young

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Speaker 5: man who truly loves our police. His name is DJ Daniel.

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Speaker 5: He is thirteen years old and he has always dreamed

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Speaker 5: of becoming a police officer. But in twenty eighteen, DJ

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Speaker 5: was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five

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Speaker 5: months at most to live. That was more than six

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Speaker 5: years ago.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, making on you, I never thought I could feel

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Speaker 1: so free.

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Speaker 2: Five away we air.

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Speaker 5: It's and tonight, DJ, We're going to do you the

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Speaker 5: biggest honor.

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Speaker 2: Of them all.

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Speaker 5: I am asking our new Secret Service Director, Sean Kurrn

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Speaker 5: to officially make you an agent of the United States

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Speaker 5: Secret Service.

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Speaker 6: They had five months to live. I'm gonna keep on

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Speaker 6: going into my gas tanks on him. And that's when

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Speaker 6: God calls you home. You never know when God's gonna

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Speaker 6: call you home. I want to be here if it

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Speaker 6: wasn't for my dad. I know he's pretty proud of

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Speaker 6: And I'd like to thank President Trump because if it

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Speaker 6: wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here today.

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Speaker 1: Fail Free Free.

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Speaker 4: Wayne finds it nearly two thousand Harris County employeloyees are

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Speaker 4: still working from home at least part of the time,

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Speaker 4: which is one third of all county employees. Several departments

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Speaker 4: have just two workers total coming into the office at all.

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Speaker 4: The Office of Management and Budget zero full time employees

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Speaker 4: that actually come into the office.

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Speaker 2: Flashback.

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Speaker 4: Remember data analyst Daryl Blackburn with the now defunct Elections

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Speaker 4: Administration Office that Rodney created. He was charged last year

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Speaker 4: with six felonies over the twenty twenty two general election

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Speaker 4: for working remotely for the county while holding down a

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Speaker 4: full time job in the Woodlands and getting paid for both.

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Speaker 4: Which when you think he was showing up to Wyandel

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Speaker 4: Chafino with the report, it's.

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Speaker 7: Nine am and we're looking for the head of the

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Speaker 7: Harris County Equity and Opportunity.

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Speaker 3: Department, seemon Sis, ex secutive director of DEO, and.

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Speaker 7: You pay her two hundred and fifty nine thousand dollars

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Speaker 7: a year to run Harris County version of DEI, the

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Speaker 7: eleventh highest paid official in Harris County. But on this

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Speaker 7: Wednesday workday, Gonzalez isn't going into the office, and it

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Speaker 7: wasn't the first time we saw that. It turns out

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Speaker 7: she gets to manage her sixty six employees and an

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Speaker 7: eight plus million dollar department from the comfort of her

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Speaker 7: own home when she wants to. Last month, Gonzales didn't

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Speaker 7: even make an in person appearance at the Harris County

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Speaker 7: Commissioner's Court when they wanted an update on just how

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Speaker 7: much DEI we've handed out. The Equity Office is on

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Speaker 7: the sixth floor of the County Administration building. There is

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Speaker 7: real lonely. Records from the Equity Office showed there are

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Speaker 7: fifty four hybrid employees, eleven that are totally remote, including

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Speaker 7: the woman managing how millions in COVID money you spent?

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Speaker 7: You know how many folks in the Equity Office are

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Speaker 7: out of sixty seven. Harris County Commissioner Tom Ramsey is

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Speaker 7: learning just how many county employees are still working from home.

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Speaker 8: I want to understand what we are doing, because I

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Speaker 8: don't think we have got our staff back to work

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Speaker 7: Our investigation confirms that's an understate.

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Speaker 8: Harris County Precinct III, we have four hundred employees. No

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Speaker 7: Adrian Garcia, the commissioner of PRECING two, said all his

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Speaker 3: But we ought to be doing it as a matter

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Speaker 7: PRECING four Commissioner Leslie brionez, I'm.

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Speaker 7: Isn't apparently able to tell us, at least not yet,

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Speaker 7: but Harris County Commissioner Rodniellas did respond.

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna show up as much as I can.

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Speaker 2: I hope you all will be gentle whipping my age.

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Speaker 7: And he may be setting the record for a PRECING

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Speaker 7: They come to the office sometimes fifteen percent of his

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Speaker 7: a twenty five million dollar administrative office. Diana Ramrez makes

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Speaker 7: it's totally unnecessary.

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Speaker 8: We donate a county administ writer period. We don't need that.

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Speaker 7: Office, especially if folks aren't even required to come to

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Speaker 7: they have sixty seven employees who are either hybrid or

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Speaker 7: employee in person. Records obtained by Harris County Commissioner Tom

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Speaker 7: Ramsey helped expose this portrait of inefficiency. There are more

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Speaker 7: than fifty three hundred folks on the taxpayer's payroll, two

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Speaker 7: Three years after the pandemic ended housing in community Development,

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Speaker 7: and the folks we pay to manage the budget, not

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Speaker 7: a single employee is in the office full time, not one.

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Speaker 7: Guess that explains this. A virtually empty multi story parking

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Speaker 8: What we're doing in Harris County is a bureaucracy gone bad.

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Speaker 2: And there you have it.

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Speaker 4: Scary thing is but for Tom Ramsey, we wouldn't know

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Speaker 4: any of what's going on because he's the only Republican

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Speaker 4: on Commissioner's Court. I sent a message to Whitmyer.

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Speaker 2: At the city the other day.

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Speaker 4: Obviously the city is different in the county, and I said,

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Speaker 4: let's do a Houston doge. I'll be your elot And

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Speaker 4: he said, we started last May when we contracted with

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Speaker 4: Ernst and Young. We're going to transform city government.

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Speaker 2: I don't think outside.

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Speaker 4: Accounting firms are going to transform city government. I think

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Speaker 4: we've got to have somebody empowered that knows what's going on.

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Speaker 2: And that's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: When you're listening to the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when the reflection in the class that I hear

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Speaker 2: The varg eight Daniel.

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Speaker 4: Was the young man that President Trump deputized to be

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Speaker 2: Father and then Devar Jay on the show. His father.

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Speaker 4: Theotis Daniel is a veteran of the United States Navy,

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Speaker 4: and he was very upset that Rachel Maddow put what

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Speaker 4: he called her bad energy on us, and he said

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Speaker 4: he was disgusted by Al Green's little stunt that he

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Speaker 4: played New York Post noting that DJ being honored as

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Speaker 4: a Secret Service agent is his nine hundred ninth swearing

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Speaker 4: any trouble. Rachel Maddow said Donald Trump was disgusting for

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Speaker 4: highlighting DJ's heroic battle with cancer. The Otis Daniel was

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Speaker 4: energy on us. The Otis Daniel served as a machinist's

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Speaker 2: I was disgusted. Do you say disgusted like with a

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Speaker 4: al Green stood up and made that rugous, I was disgusted.

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Speaker 2: All right, now I do it with the sea. When

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Speaker 2: al Green stood up and made that ruckus, I was disgusted. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: me too. What kind of messages he sending?

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Speaker 4: As the post ads Still, devar Jay's family will not

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Speaker 2: Of their positivity.

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Speaker 4: Devar Jay has overcome the odds, marveled his aunt Jane.

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Speaker 2: It's all in who you are inside.

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Speaker 4: I think God has given a tough battle to a

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Speaker 4: You know, none of us has promised tomorrow. They said

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Speaker 2: But here's what I take away from that.

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Speaker 4: That young man might make it to fourteen, he might not.

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Speaker 4: He might make it to twenty. Hell, he may modern medicine.

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Speaker 4: His terminal cancer. Life is terminal. We're all gonna die.

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Speaker 4: But he may live out a full life, whatever that means.

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Speaker 4: But to take a moment like that and say, I mean,

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Speaker 4: I'm going to do something with it, that really is

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Speaker 4: And maybe he won't. Maybe he'll just keep on living.

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Speaker 4: But how much life is he packing into those few

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Speaker 4: short years. It's Ramon is walking out of the studio.

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Speaker 4: He says he's going to pick up his boys in

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Speaker 4: go camping right now because You're not promised tomorrow, you fool.

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Speaker 2: Sit down.

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Speaker 4: Here's what Rachel Maddow had to say about President Trump

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Speaker 4: honoring dvar Jay Daniel.

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Speaker 9: For the record, and this is disgusting. The President made

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Speaker 9: a spectacle out of praising a young man who serves

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Speaker 9: thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the President had

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Speaker 9: something to do with that. This was in the midst

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Speaker 9: of him praising Doge. Doge cuts, among other things, have

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Speaker 2: This is what white liberals do.

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Speaker 4: If a black person is honored, promoted, praised by a Republican.

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Speaker 4: White liberals say, sit down, slave, they're making a fool

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Speaker 4: out of you.

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Speaker 2: Only I care about your black ass. Sit down. That

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Speaker 2: is the ultimate racism right there.

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Speaker 4: That is white, angry lesbian racism right there. That is

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Speaker 2: That was Hillary Clinton esque. That was Hillary Clinton asked.

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Speaker 2: That is the I own you slave. Sit down.

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Speaker 4: Don't let the Republicans honor you, because that makes it

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Speaker 4: harder for me to make my point that they're all racist.

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Speaker 2: Sit your black ass down. This is how white liberals feel.

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Speaker 6: Hell, everybody, this.

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Speaker 5: Is Micky Gilly and you're listened to this season radio.

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Speaker 10: Hey, Santiana, we're killing your soldiers below that men wherever

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Speaker 4: Well, it is March sixth, a hallowed day in the

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Speaker 4: The fort captured, inspiring the Remember the Alamo chant battle

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Speaker 4: We're having the event where he's going to swear her in.

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Speaker 4: This was twenty fourteen, so eleven years ago, so Crockett

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Speaker 4: So behind us, he said, we're sitting on a couch.

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Speaker 4: And so he takes this laser shooter out and he

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Speaker 4: He's jumped up on the couch beside us and showing

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Speaker 2: I will never forget.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty proud to be a lifelong Texas.

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Speaker 2: Held and hell again.

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Speaker 5: Then he send more replacements for his wound to and blame.

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Speaker 2: Damn Charged. Don't talk enough about that decision.

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Speaker 4: And I think part of that was Sam Houston was very,

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Speaker 4: My only my only disappointment was not was that I

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Speaker 4: I could. I could visit the Alamo once a month

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Speaker 4: In fact, I wouldn't say that the riverwalk was deserted.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? And then I stayed at the Valencia, which is

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Speaker 4: like to join. Was the Great Alamo Movie scene with

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Speaker 10: I like the sound of the word means people can live, free, talk, free,

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Speaker 10: However they choose. Some words give you a feeling. Republic

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Speaker 2: Dear God, they've not been. You know what.

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Speaker 4: Don't take them camping. You've got air conditioning at home.

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