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Speaker 1: Varry Show is on the air. You're gonna make a

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Speaker 1: lot of money, right, yeah right, that's not yours? Well

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Speaker 1: it comes ours. How is that not stealing? I don't think.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that. I'm explaining this very well.

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Speaker 3: It's seven eleven, right, you take a penny from the tray.

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Speaker 2: From the crippled children. No, that's the job.

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Speaker 3: I'm talking about the tray the you know, the pennies

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, well those are whole pennies right, all right,

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Speaker 3: I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here, okay,

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Speaker 3: But we do it from a much bigger tray, and

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Speaker 3: we're doing a couple of million times, So what's wrong

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Speaker 2: It's to spend.

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Speaker 1: As the spend.

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Speaker 4: In a post on x, Doge said the Department of

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Speaker 4: Endeavors eighteen million dollars a month to operate an empty

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Speaker 4: Government disclosure forms show its revenues shot up in twenty

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Speaker 2: As the spin as the spend.

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Speaker 5: And when you see people there in Tennessee fifty percent

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Speaker 1: To our enemies.

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Speaker 5: You know, I've uncovered forty million dollars going to the Taliban.

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Speaker 1: A guy named Sean Ryan.

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Speaker 5: Over Middle Tennessee, former Navy seal podcaster. He and another

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Speaker 1: I'm surprised this was still a policy, but apparently it

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Speaker 6: APD is officially banning quotas for traffic stops after a

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Speaker 7: Currently, under state law, there's a there is statue that

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Speaker 7: the past, there have been policy within HPD that required

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Speaker 6: Council Member Edward Pollard says the previous quota causing uptick

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Speaker 7: Past years, and we've seen by the numbers that there

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Speaker 6: Mayor John Whitmyer says the quota was created under previous administration.

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Speaker 6: Other council members showed their support for the ordinance by

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Speaker 8: When I was twenty four years old, I was arrested

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Speaker 1: So I remember the first year I was on city council,

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Speaker 1: Why because the city needed more money. Lee Brown was

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Speaker 1: Barry Well Elon Musk I'm formally announced on Twitter last

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Speaker 2: Who hired you? Tim Collins?

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Speaker 1: Tim Collins heard you? Okay, I think I might have

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Speaker 10: But now remember i'd send in five six resumes, I'd

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Speaker 1: Hut and Empire.

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Speaker 1: And Texas City sting of reeze. Yeah, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: overnight a production.

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Speaker 2: I was just doing. I was recording, dubbing in spots.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, oh wow, okay, and just regular daytime. How

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Speaker 1: many hours?

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Speaker 10: It was part time for a few months, so it

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Speaker 10: was twenty twenty five hours a week.

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Speaker 1: Remember how we talked about talking into the microp.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry about that. I'm not used to talking into

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Speaker 2: the microphone.

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Speaker 1: I know, I know you did not. So were you

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Speaker 1: working another job at the time. Were you living with

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Speaker 1: your parents?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I was down in Galveston working at another radio station,

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Speaker 10: KGBC in Galveson fifteen forty.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's the one that was being run by the

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Speaker 1: guy that turned out to be a fraud. Remember he

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Speaker 1: skipped out on his wife.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So Ramon and I we were driving to Galveston for

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Speaker 1: so we had a meeting for something. And we're driving

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Speaker 1: along and I said, Ramon, tell me something about you

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Speaker 1: that after all these years, I don't know. And he said,

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Speaker 1: have you ever heard of what's the guy's name, Tim Kingsbury?

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Speaker 1: Tim Kingsbury? I said I have not. He said, look

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Speaker 1: him up. I said, well, how about we have more

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Speaker 1: fun with this while we're driving. You tell me why

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Speaker 1: I'm looking him up. He said, well, you skipped out

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Speaker 1: on his wife, faked his own death and relocated. He

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Speaker 1: was in Ohio. Yeah, and relocated in Galiston, Texas. And

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Speaker 1: he ran a radio station that I worked at. And

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Speaker 1: you waited all these years, you know. I love a

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Speaker 1: story like that. All right, So then you were you

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Speaker 1: were in the production department, and then what was the

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Speaker 1: first station you worked for? It was k t RH

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Speaker 1: ktr H doing what overnights?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, overnights and then production and then the morning board

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Speaker 10: op for Lanta and JP was persona on Grada and

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Speaker 10: they who was that.

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Speaker 2: David Hold? Is that his name should to be saying

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Speaker 2: his David?

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeh yeah, okay, that was

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Speaker 1: before me, but I remember, yeah, yeah, okay. And so

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Speaker 1: you did Lanta JP in the morning.

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Speaker 10: Yep, got hired full time? Then all right, and I

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Speaker 10: thought you worked for Randy Lemon. I did remember Randy

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Speaker 10: was on ten am weekdays.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's right, so it would be Landing JP in

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Speaker 1: the morning and then Randy Lemon weekdays. That was when

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Speaker 1: Rush was on nine to fifty. Yeah okay, and then

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Speaker 1: after that after that, what so your career progression? Oh man,

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Speaker 1: it's all a blur.

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Speaker 10: Then we moved over to San Felipe, right, and then

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Speaker 10: some city councilman started doing talk and asked me to

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Speaker 10: help with production. They had brought in Sam Malone and

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Speaker 10: Joe Pegs and Deborah Duncan. So I got more involved

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Speaker 10: in the production site.

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Speaker 1: In the producing site, that's when I enter I think

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Speaker 1: I might be the sum city councilman. People don't know that.

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Speaker 1: We had fobcards with an extender. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you call that. And we used to whip each other

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Speaker 1: with the fobcards. Who could take the bigger whipping? And

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Speaker 1: I went home one day and I have my shirt

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Speaker 1: off and my wife says, what happened to you? I

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Speaker 1: looked like I'd been in a car wreck or something. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Ramona and I play this little game where we whip

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Speaker 1: each other and we just laugh and laugh