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Speaker 1: Luck and load. So Michael Very Show is on the air.

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Speaker 1: All right, then I'm gonna let you finish your point

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Speaker 1: because you had originally called in about a mailman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't seem important anymore, but but you know what,

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Speaker 3: at the same time, I'm glad the guy finally established

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Speaker 3: that I had a yacht. So do you admit it?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Okay, maybe, okay, you don't even have anymore. Well, you

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Speaker 3: No, I said I had a yacht.

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Speaker 1: That was Yeah, but it's it's a moot point at

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Speaker 1: a non existent moat.

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Speaker 3: Well it still exists. Well, but you don't have We're

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Speaker 1: No, I don't go ahead.

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Speaker 3: So I was calling in on the mail thing because

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Speaker 3: would have appreciated. When I was a kid, I was

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Speaker 3: He would use his personal vehicle to go out and

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Speaker 3: free of charge because he was an elderly man, and I,

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Speaker 3: that he just never delivered, and he would take them home.

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Speaker 3: That was the reason why I called in, I thought, But.

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Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. Now, Force don't worry that

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Speaker 1: that's a bad call. Kent Withlttle Yacht Sales dot Com. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 1: hold on, I got another are you did you put

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, hold on, let me take Travis's call

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Speaker 1: real quick. Travis, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Hey, sorry to take you off speakerphone there. I just

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Speaker 5: come in mid conversation physical therapy. But I was going

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Speaker 5: to define a yacht for you, Okay, I'd say little

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Speaker 1: Do you have a boat I do? What do you have?

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Speaker 5: It's a Boston Whaler two seventy dauntless.

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Speaker 1: Where do you keep it? It's kept up.

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Speaker 5: Here on Lake Ray Hubbard, but I'm fixing the move

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Speaker 5: it down to the coast where so well, if you're

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Speaker 5: going to run out of the Galvexy yacht basin there,

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Speaker 5: this boat would be the dream boat for you.

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Speaker 3: And let me tell you why.

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Speaker 5: I've run this boat from South Floor.

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Speaker 1: And up in New Hampshire.

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Speaker 5: I didn't run it from there to there, but I

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Speaker 5: I've had this boat in really rough condition, six to

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Speaker 5: motor power pole, it's got twenty two hundred merks radar.

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Speaker 5: It's fantastic, loaded to the gills. How much you want

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Speaker 5: for it, I'll do one eighty just for you.

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Speaker 1: If I buy a boat. I got to buy it

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Speaker 1: from Little Yacht Sales because he's my boat expert. But

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Speaker 5: I'll look he can. He can take a fee off it.

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Speaker 5: If you get it for one I'll let him take

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Speaker 1: Sell it? Why are you getting rid of it?

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Speaker 6: That's right?

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Speaker 5: Well for what I want to do, it's it's not

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Speaker 5: I look like an idiot, you know, I'm driving around

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Speaker 5: this this really fancy boat that's made for the coast,

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Speaker 5: Maybe they they probably think it's a really fine looking boat.

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Speaker 5: This boat, brand new, runs three hundred and twenty five thousand.

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Speaker 5: It's a it's a twenty twenty that I have babied.

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Speaker 5: I've had an indoor storage. I've owned a lot of boats.

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Speaker 5: I grew up around boats. I was driving boats and

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Speaker 5: Breakfast Burritos?

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Speaker 1: And I was like, all right, you got it man

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Speaker 1: Ouvy Kats has done. I am so proud of him.

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Speaker 1: for you and Michael Berry show if you're a Toto fan.

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Speaker 1: They are heavily featured in the yacht Rock special Wayne

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Speaker 1: writes boat versus yacht tzar. Boat manufacturers have corrupted the

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Speaker 1: center console, cabin cruiser, also motor yacht. Those are typically

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Speaker 1: Everybody out there with the boat interest Kent, I have

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Speaker 1: well this is this is a nice boat. But it's not.

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Speaker 1: Is it just a boat? It's not it's not Tilman's

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Speaker 6: the state of the market's very good. We're busy, and

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Speaker 1: Who's that coming and going.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, So who is who is buying boats today

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Speaker 6: I would say we're starting to get younger and younger buyers,

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Speaker 1: And is this younger crowd did they grow up boating

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Speaker 6: We see a lot of people that have grown up

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Speaker 6: I think people kept the boats, they enjoyed the lifestyle

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. I'm surprised somebody new to boating would come

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Speaker 1: But then I came to Houston, and you know, you

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Speaker 5: Boat captain something Wong well, something must be right.

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Speaker 1: So the boating business today right now, if you were

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Speaker 6: I think it's already happened. Twenty twenty four was quite

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Speaker 6: We've been busy since the election and had the best

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Speaker 1: What does that mean? How many boats do you sell

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Speaker 6: To say that, well, usually would do about one hundred

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Speaker 1: In November and December each.

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Speaker 6: Combined ten boats a month.

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Speaker 8: And you normally do how many we've done about one

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Speaker 1: What's the top month for boat sails? April and May

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Speaker 6: It is, but we've been as busy because of the

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Speaker 1: Where do you keep your boats?

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Speaker 1: I used to do that boat club, Carefree boat Club,

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Speaker 1: I thought that was fantastic.

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Speaker 6: I think those those clubs, care Free and Freedom both

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm lazy coming down in the wall. If I

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Speaker 6: There's vacancies. And I can tell you there's no lazier

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Speaker 3: And go home.

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Speaker 1: So we we we've leased a house over the years

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Speaker 1: enterprising one. You remember, what was it Dillinger? Who they

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Speaker 1: asked him that they thought he had some issue against

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Speaker 1: the banks, Remember, John, was it Dillinger? Derringer? Do you

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Speaker 1: remember them on check that? I think it was Dillinger.

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Speaker 1: They thought he had some big issue with the banks,

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Speaker 1: you know, banks or evil banks or hoarding the money.

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Speaker 1: Banks are bad people. And they asked him Dillinger. It

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Speaker 1: is Dellinger. Okay, yes, well admit I got it right.

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Speaker 1: So so the press is asking him. You know, they

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Speaker 1: love this guy, you know that the bank robber Bonnie

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Speaker 1: and Clyde. All right, so they asked Ellinger, why'd you

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Speaker 1: rob the bank? Expecting him to give them some big

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Speaker 1: stories so they can make a rice because that's where

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Speaker 1: the money is. So with that in mind, you're thinking

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Speaker 1: to yourself, I don't have any money, but I want

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Speaker 1: some money. I'm gonna go take some money from somebody

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Speaker 1: else that has money. Okay, So where do I go home?

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Speaker 1: I go to Connie and Billy's it a Corey Diamond. No,

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Speaker 1: that place is like Fort Knock, sir. Okay, well, gringos,

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Speaker 1: they're really busy. They got to have a lot of money. No,

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Speaker 1: remember they got hit like ten times. They fixed that.

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Speaker 1: They they went hard. Co don't try, that's a waste

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Speaker 1: of time. Let's see Eddie Martini's house. No, his wife

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Speaker 1: is his armed h Ramon's house No, nobody knows where

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Speaker 1: he lives. Let's see who would we rob? Who would

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Speaker 1: we rob that will have a bunch of money? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Family Dollar? Yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's go steal everything

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Speaker 1: we can at the Family Dollar because if we make

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Speaker 1: out of there with a thousand items, we've got one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars worth of stuff. Because it's not worth a dollar,

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Speaker 1: that is, sell it for a dollar. Family Dollar not

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Speaker 1: the most lucrative spot. A couple along with their nineteen

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Speaker 1: year old son. These are real smart ones arrested for

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Speaker 1: a series of robberies at Family Dollar in the Houston area.

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Speaker 1: But you know it's a family that prays together, the

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Speaker 1: family that robs together. I mean, I guess you got

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Speaker 1: to give them credit for that clip number fourteen.

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Speaker 2: The everyday low price is at Family Dollar. Apparently not

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Speaker 2: low enough for one family. They're on a Jennifer Whittle

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Speaker 2: as well as Jennifer's nineteen year old son at Gavin

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Speaker 2: Harper accused of robbing six dollar stores from May twelfth

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Speaker 2: to June twenty.

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Speaker 9: Seventh, and there was a black ski mess.

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Speaker 2: The Ron Whittle, looking incredulous at times as the tales

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Speaker 2: of his alleged crimes were read out in court. Investigators

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Speaker 2: say the couple and their son would frequently case stores

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Speaker 2: before deciding unwe to rob. It soon attracted the attention

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Speaker 2: of undercover officers who set up surveillance.

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Speaker 9: He can also be seen on video in the store,

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Speaker 9: distracting the employees while the step son robs the store.

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Speaker 2: There were alleged crimes for he came to an end Friday,

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Speaker 2: A police say they saw them pull up to this

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Speaker 2: Southside family dollar. They say the Wittles waited in their

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Speaker 2: car well. Harper got out and robbed the store at gunpoint.

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Speaker 1: Told the clerk he was gonna buy some.

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Speaker 9: When she opened the registr he pulled out a gun

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Speaker 9: on the employee, telling the employee give me all of

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Speaker 9: the money.

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Speaker 1: Or I will shoot you.

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Speaker 2: Police say he only made off with a little more

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Speaker 2: than two hundred dollars. Officers moved in and arrested him

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Speaker 2: and his parents as they were driving away. According to

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Speaker 2: the couple's public defender. Both husband and wife are disabled

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Speaker 2: and only moved to Houston a few months ago. Record

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Speaker 2: show they most recently lived to Kentucky, where deronwood All

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Speaker 2: is due in court for an unknown offense next month.

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Speaker 1: He does have a dollar that's blind, his wife and

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Speaker 1: seven children six months to twenty one years old.

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Speaker 2: Lots of kids, and, according to the hearing officer, lots

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Speaker 2: of out of state arrests, twenty in total.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, your defense of these armed robbers is

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Speaker 1: that they're disabled and blind with a bunch of kids.

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Speaker 1: How about you stop having so many kids? How about

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Speaker 1: you stop being arrested? Twenty kids, twenty arrests. Huh honey,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go celebrate. We got another baby. We gotta

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Speaker 1: go do another stick up, and then maybe we'll come

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Speaker 1: home and have sex again. That's your defense, is that

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Speaker 1: you're disabled. It's an armed robbery. Can you imagine the

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Speaker 1: cop that has to arrest these people? Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: what he's thinking.

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Speaker 10: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by

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Speaker 10: two separate and equally important groups, the police who investigate

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Speaker 10: crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders.

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Speaker 1: These are their stories.

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Speaker 4: You see the thing here is, pal, I don't understand

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Speaker 4: why why the family Dollar Store?

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Speaker 7: We needed them dollar?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know that, but why the Family Dollar Store?

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Speaker 4: I mean, why not let's say the Dollar Tree or

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Speaker 4: the Dollar General.

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Speaker 7: Because we're a family who bobbed together. We robbed a

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Speaker 7: family dollar. We've been in the army. Hell, that Dollar

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Speaker 7: General will be out of the dollars?

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Speaker 1: You feel me?

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Speaker 9: Dog?

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Speaker 4: I think so, But by all means, please go on.

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Speaker 7: It's like this, every store name for the people who

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Speaker 7: are supposed to shop there.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 7: I don't go to no MacDonald's because I ain't irick.

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Speaker 7: I go to that Burger King.

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Speaker 4: Let me guess, because serrat king. You know that's right?

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Speaker 4: So let me see if I got this year? U

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Speaker 4: the genius? You contend that every store is named for the.

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Speaker 7: People who shop there. That's what I've been saying, dolls.

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Speaker 4: So if you're not a cartoon sailor, we don't live

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Speaker 4: in Kentucky. Where do you find your fright chicken?

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Speaker 8: Yo?

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Speaker 1: Were Christian folk?

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Speaker 7: We eat at that churches? Man, because they not denomination

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Speaker 7: and all that stuff.

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Speaker 4: Okay, now I'm really curious where do you go for

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Speaker 4: your shoe?

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Speaker 7: I'm gonna tell you what now, no shoe carnival at

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Speaker 7: clown In fact, what you're saying, no, no, no, nuh.

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Speaker 7: What about Wing, y'all? I'm gonna tell you right now,

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Speaker 7: I don't dig on no bisones. I forget that buffalo

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Speaker 7: wild Wing. I live up in that motropolist dog, Big

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Speaker 7: City Wing.

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Speaker 1: Wait, you managed to work in a show sponsor in

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Speaker 1: a in a comedy bit?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Uh, Jim Mutt and Darryl Kunda bonuses all the way around.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Big City Wings will have to pay for it. Ramon,

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Speaker 1: play that last fifteen seconds. I did not see that coming.

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Speaker 1: Play the last fifteen twenty seconds of that bit. I

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Speaker 1: don't what about.

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Speaker 7: Wing, y'all. I'm gonna tell you right now. I don't

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Speaker 7: dig on no bisones. I forget that buffalo wild Wing.

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Speaker 7: I live up in that moralist dog, be shitty Wing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's clever, I really honestly, one more time, play

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Speaker 1: that last little bit. How does that work?

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Speaker 7: Hey?

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Speaker 3: Guys?

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Speaker 1: Uh, we managed to work you into a bit.

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Speaker 7: What about Wing, y'all? I'm gonna tell you right now,

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Speaker 7: I don't dig on no bises. I forget that Buffalo

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Speaker 7: wild Wing. I live up in that motropolist dog be

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Speaker 7: shitty wing