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Speaker 4: Summer pools totally closed down, So I guess what they're

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Speaker 1: a gracious, gracious thing. I love Gary P. Nun love

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Speaker 1: that man. Think he's fantastic. Eighty years Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: eighty and you're still out there driving around the state,

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Speaker 1: singing your songs, laughing at people's jokes and drinking red

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Speaker 1: wine afterwards. We'd always get good red wine for him. Oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I had some of doctor Dukeman's. I

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Speaker 1: had his fancy word here. I don't know what this

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Speaker 1: thing is called Agli and Nico or something. Yeah, Agli

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Speaker 1: and Nico, he said, said, he said, what'd you think

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Speaker 1: of the wine last night? And I said it was

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Speaker 1: very good, not that I know the difference between good

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Speaker 1: and bad wine. And he said, Aglianico always gets better

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Speaker 1: with more aging. If you say so.

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Speaker 2: Doc.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, my friend is a wine snob, but not really

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Speaker 1: know why snob. He just loves wine and they have

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Speaker 1: He and his wife Lisa have a winery in Driftwood

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Speaker 1: outside of Austin, and they've won a lot of awards

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Speaker 1: and it. I've had it before, but I decided that

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Speaker 1: it's going to be my family our family wine, because

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Speaker 1: I like to support my friend. And it turned out

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Speaker 1: everybody loved it. It was absolutely fantastic. It's spelled dukeman

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Speaker 1: d u c h M. A N Corabas carries it

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Speaker 1: on the menu. There are some restaurants around town. It's

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Speaker 1: a really good wine without being a really expensive wine.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm giving wine suggestions, but I'm not saying I'm

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Speaker 1: a wine expert by any stretch. I like what I

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Speaker 1: like and it's good. Big Jeff Keane that Trailer Will

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Speaker 1: and Frame tells me that Simos Simo is a Greek

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Speaker 1: owned diner, original owner for decades. So many great comfort

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Speaker 1: foods that rotate, great price. Simos Simo apostrophe s on.

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Speaker 1: Shepherd says it's near Trailer Will and Frame. What are

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Speaker 1: they eighty two to twenty two? Is that their address

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Speaker 1: do you remember, I think it's eighty two twenty two

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Speaker 1: North Freeway north of north of mac where's mac on

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Speaker 1: I forty five. That's probably the most branded directions between

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Speaker 1: Tendwill and Parker out there. My friend Jim Fultz, the printer, says,

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Speaker 1: the real problem with cracker Barrel is I can get

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Speaker 1: better biscuits and gravy at Waterburger. You can't call it

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Speaker 1: Southern food and serve bland ass flour paste and call

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Speaker 1: it gravy. See, Jim is not a real opinionated gown

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Speaker 1: a lot of stuff, but you go sell it, you

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Speaker 1: go putting slop down and calling it biscuits and gravy.

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Speaker 1: You gonna make Ben, You'll make Jiff Matt. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of thing.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: You can raise taxes and do all the other stuff,

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Speaker 1: but that's one of those things up with which he

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Speaker 1: will not put no, sir. I had a fellow in

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Speaker 1: a double Wide sent me an email about the Conroe

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Speaker 1: and about Conroe and Montgomery County. They declared my double

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Speaker 1: Wide that I bought repossessed and declared value by the

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Speaker 1: assessor being ninety two, has had an additional appreciation of

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Speaker 1: four hundred percent over the last year, and they want

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Speaker 1: to tax me at four hundred thousand for said trailer.

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Speaker 1: I'd go across the highway and buy a brand new

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Speaker 1: foundational home for two fifty. This ain't right. His name

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Speaker 1: is justin Windham, so he went in yesterday. I told

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Speaker 1: him to send me a report, and here was his

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Speaker 1: report on meeting to try to get his property taxes lower. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it was insanely interesting, sir. We arrived to protest and

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Speaker 1: were taken into a cubicle to have a quote informal review.

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Speaker 1: Two very incapable trainees that literally just kept asking us

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Speaker 1: if we had any evidence that our property had not

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Speaker 1: gone up four hundred percent in a year. We told

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Speaker 1: them the burden of proof was on them to prove

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Speaker 1: that to us. When they couldn't prove it, they got

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Speaker 1: their supervisor, which was your prototypical HR manager. Can you

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Speaker 1: tell them to an air quotes because he'd got quotes

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Speaker 1: inenter type lady, who then stated that a four hundred

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Speaker 1: percent increase in our tax obligation was completely normal and

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Speaker 1: the only proof they could give was that we didn't

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Speaker 1: protest last year, therefore we couldn't protest this year. We

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Speaker 1: appealed for a formal meeting to the board and were

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Speaker 1: granted that immediately. The board asked before we started if

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Speaker 1: we would like to go first or second in the

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Speaker 1: evidentiary period. I chose to go last, and the board

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Speaker 1: read the claim and at the end of reading the

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Speaker 1: claim agreed that four hundred percent was ridiculously undue and

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Speaker 1: asked us what we would like our appraisaler to be.

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Speaker 1: We told them we'd be good with what the appraisal

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Speaker 1: was prior to the four hundred thousand dollars edition, and

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Speaker 1: they granted in a journal in less than two minutes.

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Speaker 1: I did ask about the system, and they admitted that

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Speaker 1: there's an automated system that a sign's appraisals without any

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Speaker 1: auditing of that which is set. They also said that

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Speaker 1: they suggest every year, though they all said that they

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Speaker 1: suggest every year for everyone to protest their property taxes

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Speaker 1: because they see this all the time and most people

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Speaker 1: never even know that they've been paying that excessive taxes

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Speaker 1: whole time. Very happy that we were able to get

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Speaker 1: past this, but it should have never had to take.

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Speaker 1: Mean to take a day off from work and my

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Speaker 1: wife to be anxious for weeks over what would happen.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for checking back in with us. We also had

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Speaker 1: a gentleman and a lady my wife had met him

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Speaker 1: online through a chat, who were essentially advocates of transparency

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Speaker 1: in this system that joined us there to document the occasion.

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Speaker 1: They were very instructive and helpful to hold everyone on

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Speaker 1: as to what the law is and how they conducted themselves.

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Speaker 1: Thanks justin Needham, Oh sorry, justin Windham. So everybody hates

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Speaker 1: property taxes, so the politicians say, I hate them too,

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Speaker 1: and you're supposed to go you hate what I hate,

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Speaker 1: y then I like you, which is so stupid. Nobody

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Speaker 1: wants to cut the government. Nobody nothing gets cut ever. Ever,

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Speaker 1: we like to think how great Texas is. We are

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Speaker 1: not California, No Surrey, We're Texas. We do it right

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Speaker 1: over here. You ever seen what our tax rate looks like?

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Speaker 1: Do you know how much money we waste in the

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Speaker 1: state of Texas? Well, at least I get this all time.

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Speaker 1: Well I heard you trashing habit trash in Texas today. Well,

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Speaker 1: at least we ain't California, you dumbass. You'll end up California.

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Speaker 1: California wasn't California. You had people like Pete Wilson. And

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Speaker 1: Duke Majin. You had people there saying, hey, we got

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Speaker 1: a real problem with the legal immigration. Go back and look.

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Speaker 1: I think it was eighty two they had a referendum.

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Speaker 1: Go back and look at the big issue, the legal immigration.

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Speaker 1: Pete Wilson called it out. It ruined him. They destroyed him.

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Speaker 1: But there was still a chance to save California. Mexico

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Speaker 1: hadn't fully invaded yet. They just sent the first ones. Right.

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Speaker 1: They had Pancho Villa up there with he had its binoculars.

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Speaker 1: He was looking. We send them over on the right flank,

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Speaker 1: and then he'd pull a maneuver, you know, he pull

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Speaker 1: them around the outside, and they'd take the Home Depot

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Speaker 1: division and they would have them meet at the at

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Speaker 1: the TG and Y, which was halfway between the Home

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Speaker 1: Depot and the Lows, and those two divisions would perform

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Speaker 1: what would create a battalion, and then they'd go over

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Speaker 1: here and they would attack over there at fifty nine

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Speaker 1: at about Chimney Rock, and they would pick up all

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Speaker 1: the stragglers there and they'd put them out front, and

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Speaker 1: then they would go and they go down West Park

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Speaker 1: and attack right there. And then there's stopped the little

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Speaker 1: Mexican joint right there that could eat on the way

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Speaker 1: just basically, uh just corn tortillas and uh some refried

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Speaker 1: beans and some rice and a little piece of pork.

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Speaker 1: But then they that was their rations and then they

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Speaker 1: march on. And then once you start marching south from

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Speaker 1: there on Chimney Rock, it's it's you know, it's like

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Speaker 1: marching into the place. And you know when the Americans

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Speaker 1: came into into France and they welcomed them. You go

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Speaker 1: marching down south south Chimney Rock with the Mexican brigade

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Speaker 1: right there. I mean they all speaking Spanish anyway.

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