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Speaker 2: He'll try every there, but they won't talk about three

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Speaker 2: Want to talk about family separation, they bury their children.

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Speaker 2: Their children were killed by a member of a member

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Speaker 1: All I can do is crap you can do scrab

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Speaker 4: He lets some. Martina fights through her pain and tears

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Speaker 4: after she says her father, Andres Martina, was arrested from

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Speaker 1: Crab the main. It was hot yesterday, scrap stock market

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Concept, that's fine street food? Okay, it feels pretentious.

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Speaker 1: got to Houston, but I think that place would do.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if there's still in enough Taco Malagro. Taco

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Speaker 1: Malagro was the place that that that kind of fast

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Speaker 1: casual place that might have been owned by Robert del

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Speaker 1: Grande because it had a Robert del Grande feel to it.

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Speaker 1: Remost should we ask people to answer this question for us?

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Speaker 1: You know, of what you've just said, the one that

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Speaker 1: gets me is dinner in a show. Dinner in a

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Speaker 1: show man that would be so nice, and and that

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Speaker 1: show could either be a comedy show or a single

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Speaker 1: acoustic more sort of folk or you know, sit down.

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Speaker 1: The problem at my age, if I'm completely honest, is

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Speaker 1: I don't enjoy shows as much as I used to

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Speaker 1: because they want to be so damn loud, and I

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Speaker 1: admit it, get off my yard. I'm old. I don't

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Speaker 1: like it it. Most people don't know this, but I

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Speaker 1: wore clear earphones earplugs at the RCC every night because

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Speaker 1: it was too loud. In fact, Uncle Ted Ted Nugent

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Speaker 1: It was just when I saw how many speakers they

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Speaker 1: were bringing in, I thought, I can't. I can't destroy

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Speaker 1: my hearing, my living on my hearing. I can't do that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, that is your question. What concept that

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Speaker 1: we need in the greater Houston area. What concept? It

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Speaker 1: can be a concept that what that once existed and

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Speaker 1: you'd like to see that concept come back, or it

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Speaker 1: could be a concept that you experienced somewhere else. So

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Speaker 1: we visited the Pearl District in San Anton recently and

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Speaker 1: they have a kind of a theater in the round.

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Speaker 1: That's an old fashioned theater where it's just the seats

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Speaker 1: and they're kind of stacked going high, and it's not

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Speaker 1: very big, but because you have them on an incline,

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Speaker 1: you can get it belly up. And Colorado has that.

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Speaker 1: You see it a few places like that. The idea

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Speaker 1: of the small intimate music venue like that, I love that,

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Speaker 1: But I thought to myself, man, if I could eat

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Speaker 1: while I'm here, I could consolidate my tasks. See, because

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Speaker 1: I know I need to eat and I'd really like

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Speaker 1: to watch a show. But if I could do both

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Speaker 1: at the same time, all right, seven one three nine

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Speaker 1: nine nine one thousand seven one three nine nine nine

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Speaker 1: months of I will tell you I miss Cafe Express.

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Speaker 1: I wore that place out, don't judge. But they had

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Speaker 1: a black Karan te man. It was so good. I

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Speaker 1: would get the grilled chicken breast h with the pasta.

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Speaker 1: Or if I was trying to lose weight, usually unsuccessfully

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Speaker 1: back then, I do that with some grilled vegetables. That

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Speaker 1: place was good. Get you the uh, what's a pesto

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Speaker 1: on top of it? Man,