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Speaker 2: Good morning, Captain, good morning, Captain, good.

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Speaker 3: Morning, Captain, good morning, Captain, good morning, good morning, and

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Speaker 3: Captain the morn out and they wake up for sunshine

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Speaker 4: This rate today good an.

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Speaker 3: Entertain smiling, so we see osby Henry see and the

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Speaker 3: Good timetowns free. Everybody's saying good morning, good morning.

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Speaker 2: Shine.

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Speaker 5: Every morning when I walk in, I look into studio,

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Speaker 5: into Ramone studio as I walk into mind and he

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Speaker 5: always over the years has had some silly thing or another.

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Speaker 5: He would scream out. Sometimes he say what are you

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Speaker 5: doing here? It's always funny like, well, I don't know,

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Speaker 5: you'd have to get it or you don't. Just always something.

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Speaker 5: But for a little while now he has done his best,

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Speaker 5: and it's pretty good. Trump impersonation through the glass so

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Speaker 5: If you see the video, it's stamped into your mind

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Speaker 5: of Trump after he's shot in the head and they

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Speaker 1: Off the stage and he lives up.

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Speaker 5: It's sort of sort of like a kid that's trying

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Speaker 5: he's fighting against him, and he puts his hand up

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Speaker 5: of pumps it that way and says, fight, fight, and

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Speaker 5: you can see his teeth touching the bottom of his lips.

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Speaker 5: It's coming from a deep place, guttural place. And Ramon

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Speaker 5: or I think that moment moved.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if I want to know, but it

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Speaker 5: always interests me that that's what he does these days.

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Speaker 5: And the Astros had been fighting last night with the

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Speaker 5: big win. They clinched their fourth straight American League West

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Speaker 5: title with the fourth three win over the Mariners, overcoming

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Speaker 5: a terrible start of the season. Back on June eighteenth,

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Speaker 5: they were seven and nineteen. They trailed Seattle by ten games,

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Speaker 5: the most they would trail for the season. They would

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Speaker 5: They would improve from seven to nineteen to forty six

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Speaker 5: They are the first team to win the AL West

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Speaker 5: in four straight seasons since Oakland won five times in

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Speaker 1: Well, that was a good team.

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Speaker 5: Gene Tennis, Roley Fingers, Tony Armis, who else was on nine?

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Speaker 5: Oh, that was a team right there. So first time

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Speaker 5: they've won four consecutive division titles. They've won three in

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Speaker 5: a row from ninety seven to ninety nine in twenty

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Speaker 5: seventeen to twenty nineteen. It's seventh Al West crown in

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Speaker 5: eight seasons for the Astros. The only time they were

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty season, shortened to sixty.

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Speaker 1: Games because of COVID.

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Speaker 5: Houston's rotation this year was decimated by injuries early, with

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Speaker 5: in June, from Barra missing most of April because of

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Speaker 5: Wow Arogedy's made twenty eight starts was selected AL Rookie

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Speaker 5: All of this when three times Cy Young Award winner

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Speaker 5: Justin Verlander made just sixteen starts due to injuries. Who

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Speaker 5: Who would have thought that Verlander could basically go down

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Speaker 1: And then what was it to bray you dude?

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Speaker 5: They paid so much at first would turn out to

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Speaker 5: Astros Bergman with a big bomb in the first inning.

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Speaker 7: Just to the left of the batter side. For Alex Brakman,

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Speaker 7: it's twenty sixth of the year. What nothing, Astros.

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Speaker 8: That's the fourth time Bragmant's taking Logan Gilbert deep.

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Speaker 1: That's not easy.

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Speaker 2: And he went to the deepest part of the ballpark.

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Speaker 6: Yeahman found up hitting that four hundred and twenty four feet.

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Speaker 1: You know he's Jewish.

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Speaker 5: I always say he's Jewish when Bragman comes up to bat.

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Speaker 5: to make of that. Ramon. How many famous Jewish baseball

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Speaker 5: Ostma's was a study in contradictions.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get. Did Sparky get lit up last night?

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Speaker 1: That's the best part of the whole baseball season.

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Speaker 5: For me is the night they clinched and then each

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Speaker 1: I love Sparky and I love that moment he is

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Speaker 1: Here come the Astros burning with desire.

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Speaker 4: Here come the Astros.

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Speaker 1: Breen and arms.

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Speaker 3: Here comes winning off the bat, Here come the Astros

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Speaker 3: the boat one infant time.

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Speaker 5: You know I love biographies I was uh reading one

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Speaker 5: this weekend on Alexander the Great. Here's here's a question

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Speaker 5: I came up with for you. What do Alexander the

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Speaker 5: Great and Kermit the Frog have in common? Same middle name?

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Speaker 1: Astro's last out to win the division and break down

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Speaker 1: the the historic run.

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Speaker 6: Fans are ready to explode to two so.

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Speaker 4: You ain't get a mess. Struck them out.

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Speaker 7: The winners and still AL West champions. The Houston Astros

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Speaker 7: for the fourth straight year and the seventh time in

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Speaker 7: the last eight years, the Astros are the best in

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Speaker 6: They'll play in the wild card round. Here admit it

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Speaker 6: made park beginning on Tuesday. One thing that's become old

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Speaker 6: amazing this run that the Astros have been on, getting

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Speaker 6: absolutely remarkable. By far, the majority of the postseason games

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Speaker 6: twenty fifteen, and at least a couple more on tap

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Speaker 5: I told my kids the other day, you can't imagine,

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Speaker 5: like for my generation and particularly the one before, how

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Speaker 5: special this is. We loved our Astros. We love the personalities.

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Speaker 5: Don't make me go around horn again and give you

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Speaker 1: Else is, but I feel that that's the case. But

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Speaker 5: This is I mean, you're talking big red machine kind

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Speaker 5: When the league came after the Astros a few years ago,

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Speaker 5: But I also understand there's there's a lot of gamesmanship

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Speaker 5: I was talking to my mom and she was so

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Speaker 5: and she was so bummed out that she said she

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Speaker 5: couldn't pronounce Loperfido.

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Speaker 1: She's like, this is not good. They got rid of

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Speaker 1: Lupie Fazzi or whatever his name is, low Perfido.

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Speaker 5: Mom, Yeah, they got rid of him, I said, yeah,

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Speaker 5: whatever his name was, low Perfido Mom. Yeah, yeah, three

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Speaker 5: You know, Chance McLain came over last night. I told

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Speaker 1: You know we'll go. Well, I knew Emily will go.

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Speaker 5: So that's what we did, and it was a good time.

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Speaker 5: Same middle name, Ramon Last but not least, you can.

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Speaker 5: In fact, email's coming in going please please don't ever

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Speaker 8: And twenty four. At the beginning of this season, I

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Speaker 4: What'd you think?

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Speaker 9: We never thought that we were dead. That's why we

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Speaker 4: But the key was staying together. We stayed together.

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Speaker 6: We're a good team.

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Speaker 1: We know how to win.

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Speaker 4: We found a way to win, and now here we go.

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Speaker 8: So you're telling me you're going to bed at night,

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Speaker 9: Now, He's a marriage no matter how you start, it's

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Speaker 9: This is this is this is a part of the

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Speaker 4: It's almost the expectations, Joe is. You guys are gonna

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Speaker 6: You guys are gonna go deep.

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Speaker 8: But for you guys to set a culture, how do

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Speaker 4: Because I've been here, it's in my blood.

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Speaker 9: I know.

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Speaker 4: I know the heartbeat of this group, you know, and

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Speaker 4: the same way.

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Speaker 1: If if if I panic, if I if my.

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Speaker 9: Stuff starts beeping too fast, and I show you know,

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Speaker 9: I'm the leader. But we gotta we gotta stay together.

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Speaker 4: Special, special group.

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Speaker 8: And when you guys got off to a slow start,

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Speaker 4: Keep rolling.

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Speaker 8: You guys aren't showing panic. And it's a good thing

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Speaker 8: with this coaching staff, that's right.

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Speaker 1: But you know, we got coaches.

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Speaker 4: We've had these kids from the minor leagues. We know

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Speaker 4: let's go.

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Speaker 5: Man.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm so happy for this group. Good times.

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Speaker 5: She got an update from Jim Dutton. They so Joyce

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Speaker 1: Thank you to Jim Dutton for that. Even if Trump does,

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Speaker 1: You're not even bend down.

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Speaker 4: Riding along.

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Speaker 7: I'll just be on that plan.

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Speaker 4: Begging of.

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Speaker 5: The Moon is one of those people, like my brother

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Speaker 5: and like ray Hunt, who can recall a scene in

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Speaker 1: And it's.

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Speaker 5: So it's in all three of them, my brother, ray

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Speaker 5: Would you like.

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Speaker 10: Something to read?

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Speaker 2: Do you have anything light?

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Speaker 1: How about this leaflet famous Jewish sports legends?

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Speaker 5: Yes, thank you, a fellow named Dane Breitzig. Would you

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Speaker 1: We were guessing. Uh, he sent me.

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Speaker 1: Oh. By the way, Brad Osmas went to Dartmouth, not Princeton.

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Speaker 5: this kind of school year, but they start a month late.

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Speaker 5: There'll be one kid from from the schools that we know,

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Speaker 1: And they will be at Dartmouth.

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Speaker 5: And you know, I always ask, you know, how the

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Speaker 5: And they'll say, well, they're waiting to go to school,

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Speaker 5: and it's I think it's I mean, I'm not positive.

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Speaker 5: that's your Brad Ostmas story.

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Speaker 3: And then.

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Speaker 5: Dame Breitzig threw another Jewish baseball player at me that

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Speaker 1: From there, Here we go again.

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Speaker 5: City of Houston and Harris County crime is out of control,

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Speaker 5: Beginning October first. They're serious about this this time. Beginning

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Speaker 5: October first, City of Houston says they will start towing

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Speaker 5: and impounding any petticabs it finds operating without City of

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Speaker 5: They're keeping you safe, friends. They're gonna make sure whichever

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Speaker 5: because you don't feel like walking five blocks to Federal

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Speaker 5: American Grill, which is where you had dinner in park

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Speaker 5: that petticab. Well, by god, they'll make sure you're protected

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Speaker 5: and that he is licensed. We're not playing here. We're

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Speaker 5: You know the guy peddling along so you can sit

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Speaker 5: past the other people. Maybe he's got a little music going. Well,

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Speaker 5: they're cracking down on days like today.

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Speaker 10: Quicker than any uber taxi.

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Speaker 2: Alonzo Quintanilla will tell you his ten petty caps are indispensable.

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Speaker 10: We go out about two hours before the Astros games.

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Speaker 2: In the past six years, he's been taking fans from

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Speaker 10: Wants to get all sweaty in this Houston heat.

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Speaker 1: Right to the gates at Minute May Park.

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Speaker 2: But just as crucial as the petticaps themselves, the petticap permit.

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Speaker 4: Every petty cap.

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Speaker 2: Needs wanting to operate legally at city leaders say some

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Speaker 10: It seems like whenever we have large events, there's a

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Speaker 2: I'm why starting October first, the city plans to start

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Speaker 2: towing and imbounding any petty gap without this yellow permit

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Speaker 10: Aren't much of a deterrent.

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Speaker 1: So perhaps when we start.

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Speaker 10: Letting them know they're going to be towed, that'll let

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Speaker 2: Twice licensed petty cab drivers we spoke with welcome the crackdown.

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Speaker 10: It has to draw a line somewhere, and I mean,

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Speaker 5: That's the consiplus.

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Speaker 2: In addition to the petty caab permits, all pettyicab drivers

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Speaker 10: That's the safety for the passenger because if you got

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Speaker 2: Mill instead look for a licensed petty cap and got

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Speaker 2: off on the right foot.

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Speaker 1: Are you serious? Okay, guys, I'm following my story. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's hear it. What do y'all think?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 1: I think you need to close it with kind of

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Speaker 1: a call to.

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Speaker 5: Action, like, hey, guys, don't support the people who haven't

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Speaker 5: paid a fee to the City of Houston. Get off

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Speaker 5: on the right foot. You a little pun on the

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Speaker 5: end there, I don't know, give a little Oh, that's clever.

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Speaker 5: That's what we're spending our efforts on. Sorry that your

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Speaker 5: grandmother was mugged, your home was invaded. There were three

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Speaker 5: drive bys on your block this week, But damn it,

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Speaker 5: the petticab will have paid.

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Speaker 1: How about the fact that they tried to pass it all? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you don't want an unlicensed petty cab. He may not

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Speaker 1: have insurance.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you gotta have insurance for the guy riding the

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Speaker 5: little cart that you're riding on.

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Speaker 3: Socialist.

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Speaker 1: To quote the line from.

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Speaker 5: Moneyball, imagine playing for this team and hating the taste

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Speaker 5: of champagne.

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Speaker 1: He's there heady times. Wow, Jason and Cyprus writes proud Dad,

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Speaker 1: moments are my son.

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Speaker 5: After some tough love in Brian college, station got a

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Speaker 5: full time job as a junior surveyor. I finally got

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Speaker 5: a good night's sleep last night, forty hours a week

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Speaker 5: at seventeen dollars an hour, all the while pursuing his

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Speaker 5: degree at A and m in construction science at a

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Speaker 5: junior college. He likened it to going into a rainforest

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Speaker 5: with a machete. Proud graduate of Texas A and M.

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Speaker 1: I love that we have degrees in construction science. I

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Speaker 1: love that we should. I'd rather, you know.

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Speaker 5: One of the things I think A and M does

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Speaker 5: extraordinarily well is kind of put the ornate finishes and

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Speaker 5: the impromoter of a great university on the things we

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Speaker 5: need as a society to survive. When I was mayor

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Speaker 5: of pro tim there was a fellow by the name

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Speaker 5: of David Sapristin, and I give Bill White credit for this.

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Speaker 5: Bill White brought him in as the transportations are at

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Speaker 5: a dollar a year. David's a billionaire. He didn't need

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Speaker 5: the money. But he was the founder of Metro Traffic,

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Speaker 5: and he owned a Ford dealership in downtown Baltimore. And

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Speaker 5: he lived outside of Baltimore because Baltimore is a dangerous

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Speaker 5: place and some days his commute would be thirty minutes

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Speaker 5: and some days would be an hour and a half.

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Speaker 5: And he found that very frustrating. So he rented a helicopter,

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Speaker 5: put it up in the air, and UH would have

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Speaker 5: them have the helicopter call in to him the traffic

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Speaker 5: as he flew over the Let's say he let's say

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Speaker 5: he lived in Katie and worked in downtown Houston. It'd

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Speaker 5: be the equivalent of you know, he would just buzz

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Speaker 5: up and down I tend and tell you what Katie

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Speaker 5: Freeway was doing, and then of course that you'd know

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Speaker 5: what time to leave and alternate routes. So he was,

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Speaker 5: you know, sky Mike of his day. It loves Scott Mike.

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Speaker 5: I think I think sky Mike, like Sparky, is a treasure.

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Speaker 5: I try, I try along the way not to take

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Speaker 5: things for granted, but you know, there are little things,

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Speaker 5: little nuggets, little things in the course of your day.

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Speaker 1: That that make things pleasant.

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Speaker 5: You know, if you've got to call your biggest client

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Speaker 5: and the lady that answers the phone is is very cheerful.

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Speaker 5: Little things like that you take for granted and you

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Speaker 5: don't realize it until that person is fired or dies

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Speaker 5: or you know, resigns or whatever else.

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Speaker 1: Little things like that.

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Speaker 5: Anyway, so David went to the radio station and said,

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Speaker 5: I'll provide you with traffic.

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Speaker 1: Forgive me. I've told the story before, but it's such.

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Speaker 5: It may not be rush Limbaugh level big, but in

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Speaker 5: the radio world it's a little known story that I

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Speaker 5: happen to have some insight on that I'm fascinated by,

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Speaker 5: because this really doesn't exist at this time. He goes

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Speaker 5: to the local radio station says, I'll give you traffic,

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Speaker 5: and they said, ah, we don't have any money.

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Speaker 1: To pay for traffic. What we do now is.

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Speaker 5: We put some spotters out and that's good. You know,

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Speaker 5: Scott Michael will have people call in. I don't need

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Speaker 5: the traffic route.

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Speaker 1: So much as I enjoy listening to the people.

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Speaker 5: I enjoy listening to this guy might give him banana stickers,

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Speaker 5: and I enjoy listening to him interact with them. I

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Speaker 5: also enjoy when he takes clips of share us saying

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Speaker 5: this or that, and insert them in there and share

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Speaker 5: us a good sport for letting him. The whole crew

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Speaker 5: is a good support for letting him do that. That's

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Speaker 5: good quality radio.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I find that to be very entertaining.

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Speaker 5: So anyway, so David sells the package to radio station,

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Speaker 5: but they say, we love it, but we don't have

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Speaker 5: any money. So he says, I tell you what, I'll

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Speaker 5: sell the advertising, which will be embedded into the traffic reports.

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Speaker 5: And they said no, because then you're competing against us.

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Speaker 1: We sell advertising.

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Speaker 5: He said, Okay, how about this, I'll sell five second spots.

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Speaker 5: Eventually it became ten second spots. Well, radio only sold

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Speaker 5: thirties and sixties sixties at the time sixty second spots,

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Speaker 5: so a ten is really just is just a name idea,

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Speaker 5: and they agreed to it. And I believe his first

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Speaker 5: client was Frank Lorenzo. I believe who I'm interviewing. I

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Speaker 5: think I'm interviewing Frank Lorenzo tomorrow. Remind me to come

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Speaker 5: back to Frank Lorenzo anyway. He's written a book. I

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Speaker 5: don't know he's still alive.

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Speaker 1: Anyway.

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Speaker 5: So I'm almost positive Frank Lorenzo was his first client.

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Speaker 5: It's funny that just popped into my head. And then

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Speaker 5: I'm talking to Lorenzo for so he goes to the

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Speaker 5: station and says, you know, I'll keep at ten. So

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Speaker 5: I'll do a sixty second traffic report and keep ten

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Speaker 5: seconds for myself, and so he hires. He starts going

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Speaker 5: market to market, and he got up to he got

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Speaker 5: up to over one hundred markets, that's what was metro traffic.

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Speaker 5: And then he he ends up Westwood One, which is

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Speaker 5: which is a competitor to the company. We work for

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Speaker 5: and a syndicator and a kind of aggregator of radio products.

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Speaker 5: They come to him to buy the station, I mean

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Speaker 5: to buy his company, and he ends up getting them

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Speaker 5: in a bidding war, and it was originally going to

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Speaker 5: be ten times.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: He moves to Houston at some.

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Speaker 5: Point along the way, lives on River Roads, Bulevard at

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Speaker 5: the time, and he gets them in a bidding war

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Speaker 5: with another company, and he ends up selling the company

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Speaker 5: for forty times annual revenues, So a forty x seal

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Speaker 5: annual revenues with thirty million dollars one point two billion dollars.

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Speaker 5: But of that one point two billion dollars, he had

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Speaker 5: to share that with his business partners and shareholders, except

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Speaker 5: he didn't have any all. David, Yeah, brilliant idea brilliant execution.

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Speaker 5: He went out and sold it, he said, He tell

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Speaker 5: me his week. He lived on the road, He met

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Speaker 5: with program directors at radio.

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Speaker 1: Stations, and he sold it. An innovative idea.

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Speaker 5: Incredible attention to detail, execution and timing.

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Speaker 1: American dream right there,