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Speaker 1: It's that time time, time, time, Luck and load. The

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Speaker 1: Michael Very Show is.

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Speaker 2: On the air.

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Speaker 3: Blessed other merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are

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Speaker 3: the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed

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Speaker 3: other peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

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Speaker 4: John.

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Speaker 5: The contours of a potential peace plan are coming together

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Speaker 5: after President Putin's visit here in Alaska. Russia essentially wants

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Speaker 5: control of two terrorries in eastern Ukraine if they are

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Speaker 5: going to agree to cease fire everywhere else. Ukraine wants

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Speaker 5: security guarantees. They want Western troops to come into their

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Speaker 5: country and guarantee that Russia doesn't come back and try

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Speaker 5: anything again.

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Speaker 6: We were together almost three hours and it was very

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Speaker 6: extensive and we agreed with a lot of points. I

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Speaker 6: mean a lot of points were agreeing on, but there's

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Speaker 6: not that much, as you know, one or two pretty

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 6: It's really up to President Zolynsky to get it done.

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Speaker 5: President Zelenski has confirmed for a White House visit on Monday.

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Speaker 8: I refuse to bend the knee to their next endless

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Speaker 8: war in Ukraine. I want peace they want money, and

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Speaker 8: they want conflict, even if it means walking us into

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Speaker 8: the brink of World War three, which frankly it is doing.

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Speaker 5: It was determined by all but the best way to

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Speaker 5: end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to

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Speaker 5: go directly to a peace agreement which would end the war,

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Speaker 5: and not a mere ceasefire agreement, which oftentimes do not

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Speaker 5: hold up.

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Speaker 9: Can you say, if you want Ukraine or Russia to.

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Speaker 8: Win this war, I want everybody to stop dying, dead,

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Speaker 8: dying Russians and Ukrainians.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to stop dying.

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Speaker 10: Friday we had the Trump Putin meeting in Alaska, and

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Speaker 10: today we had the Trump Zelensky meeting in DC. And

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Speaker 10: I am reminded of Matthew five nine. Blessed are the peacemakers,

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Speaker 10: for they shall be called the children of God.

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Speaker 1: You know, I goof a lot.

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Speaker 10: It's how I deal with disease and death and sadness,

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Speaker 10: frustration and corruption. It's hard when you allow yourself to

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Speaker 10: be hopeful, when you take something so seriously. This president

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Speaker 10: has shown that so many things are possible if you

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Speaker 10: so many people don't want there to be peace between

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Speaker 10: Ukraine and Russia. They benefit from the war. And then

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Speaker 10: you understand those poor pawns, those poor boys in Ukraine

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Speaker 10: Russian boys who are getting zapped by the drones. They

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Speaker 10: is a nasty business, nasty, nasty and evil. Evil people

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Speaker 10: perpetuate this nonsense. Donald Trump is committed to peace, and

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Speaker 10: damn it if that can't rally every American. I don't

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Speaker 10: know what can. I really don't know what can. I

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Speaker 1: We have spent.

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Speaker 10: Enough money in Ukraine to have rebuilt our highways, to

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Speaker 10: have given a rebate. We could have done incredible things,

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Speaker 10: but instead we send money so that people can be killed.

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Speaker 10: We have been dragged, We've allowed ourselves to be dragged

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Speaker 10: into what is by historical standards, you take the long

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Speaker 1: This is a civil war.

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Speaker 10: Ukraine has been a part of the Russian Empire for

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Speaker 10: most of that empire. The people are inextricably linked. This

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Speaker 10: is a brutal brutal fight, a nasty, nasty fight, and

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Speaker 10: it takes an adult to pull these guys together and

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Speaker 10: this war. It's hurting him financially, it's distracting him, it's

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Speaker 10: whether he loses a little or a lot. He can

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Speaker 10: of war because he doesn't care how many many loses.

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Speaker 1: But he's ready for the war to be over.

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Speaker 10: Trump wants to be the man who brings peace, who

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Speaker 10: And the reason he can do this is because there

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Speaker 10: for are a lot of powerful Americans on both sides

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Speaker 10: back in their pockets. It is a vast, nasty, evil

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Speaker 1: The truth will be revealed. It may take a while,

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Speaker 1: but it will. The mayor of New.

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Speaker 10: Orleans, Latoria Cantrell, has been indicted on charges for using

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Speaker 10: seventy thousand dollars of city funds to travel with her bodyguard,

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Speaker 10: who she was banging. It was all done, okay, he

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Speaker 10: of official business. Flashback to twenty twenty two, New Orleans

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Speaker 10: City Council threatened to dock the pay of the mayor

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Speaker 10: because she refused to pay the city back for jetting

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Speaker 10: to taxpayer funded first class travel because as a black woman,

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Speaker 10: traveling in kutsch is not safe. You see, you see

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Speaker 10: what we've done. We have empowered this fraud. Your answer

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Speaker 10: to everything you do is as a black woman. We've

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Speaker 10: tolerated this. We've actually encouraged it. We've incubated it. Stop

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Speaker 10: making victims out of people based on their race. Stop

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Speaker 10: allowing race to be the explanation for anything. Stop assuming

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Speaker 10: everyone is a racist. The racist in this country are

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Speaker 10: black people, not white people. And that's a fact. The

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Speaker 10: violence being conducted on the basis of race against another

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Speaker 10: people aren't beating the snot out of other black people.

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Speaker 10: All of those are facts. Everyone knows this. No one

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Speaker 10: says it, nobody ever says it. Everyone is afraid of

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Speaker 10: the truth. Truth is dead in this country because there

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Speaker 10: of authority.

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Speaker 1: That's a fact, all right.

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Speaker 10: WWLV out of New Orleans, Louisiana on the story.

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Speaker 11: On Friday, a federal grand jury charged New Orleans Mayor

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Speaker 11: Glatoya Cantrelle with conspiring with their former bodyguard, Jeffrey Vappi

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Speaker 11: to commit wire fraud and cover up an affair for

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Speaker 11: taxpayers seventy thousand dollars for Vappie's expenses during trips together,

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Speaker 11: and cantrell allegedally deleted thousands of WhatsApp messages and then

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Speaker 11: Acting US Attorney Michael Simpson says, this prosecution isn't about

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Speaker 11: Cantro and Vappi's alleged affair.

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Speaker 12: Did you take pause.

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Speaker 11: At all about bringing criminal charges that at the heart

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Speaker 11: are based on a romantic relationship, especially with the first

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Speaker 12: Of the city of New Orleans.

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Speaker 13: To me, it's irrelevant that it's romance or that it's female.

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Speaker 13: What is relevant is that it is an incredible breach

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Speaker 13: innumerable federal criminal laws.

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Speaker 11: Form obscutor Matt Chester helped convict former mayor Ray Nagan

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Speaker 14: There are serious allegations in here. There are allegations of

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Speaker 14: falsification of documentation to get city money, their allegations of

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Speaker 14: But at its core, those lies, those activities were about

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Speaker 14: hiding the illicit relationship.

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Speaker 11: A twenty eighteen state case in Tennessee also involved the

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Speaker 11: first female mayor of Nashville spending the public's money on

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Speaker 11: an affair with their bodyguard. An associate alleged we warrened

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Speaker 11: Cantreue about that in twenty twenty two, and she texted back,

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Speaker 11: don't accuse me.

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Speaker 10: Remember fat Fanny in Atlanta who was trying to put

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Speaker 10: Trump in prison, and she was riding Nathan's hot dog

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Speaker 10: her investigator. Remember that little story. This is the pattern.

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Speaker 10: This is the pattern Big Tish in New York. This

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Speaker 15: The stage is now set for a November budget showdown,

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Speaker 15: at which the New Orleans City Council will seek to

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Speaker 15: reduce Mayor Cantrell's twenty twenty three salary by thirty grand I.

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Speaker 16: Believe that we have to be transparent and accountable when

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Speaker 16: it comes to public funding, the.

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Speaker 15: Council attorney says, Mary Cantrell is in fact a city

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Speaker 15: employee and must follow city policy which requires employees who

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Speaker 15: choose to upgrade travel accommodations to be solely responsible for

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Speaker 1: And I think the City New Orleans policy was very clear.

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Speaker 2: I'm in one hundred percent agreeance and I support them

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Speaker 12: I don't think it's right. I think she should pay

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Speaker 15: In the past, Mayor Contrell has adamantly refused to reimburse

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Speaker 15: the city for her first class business travel expenses, in

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Speaker 17: All expenses incurred doing business on behalf of the city

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Speaker 17: New Orleans will not be reimbursed to the City of

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Speaker 16: I hope we don't have to take it this far,

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Speaker 1: The masters that it sends is that the mayor's above

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Speaker 15: Council President Helena Moreno believes the majority of council members

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Speaker 15: reimburses the city before the November budget cycle.

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Speaker 16: As I've definitely talked to other council members about it,

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Speaker 1: Citizens have mixed views.

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Speaker 17: If you're going to represent me, I want you to

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Speaker 3: You to have to pay for I drive on these

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Speaker 12: You can't see half the powertholes we have in the city.

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Speaker 18: I think that money should be put forward to Getney

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Speaker 10: Then we go back to the former mayorgan who went

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Speaker 1: We as black people. It's time.

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Speaker 12: It's time for us to come together.

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Speaker 19: It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the

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Speaker 19: one that should be a chocolate New Orleans. And I

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Speaker 19: don't care what people are saying uptown or wherever they.

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Speaker 1: Are, this city will be chocolate. At the end of

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Speaker 19: This city will be a majority African American city. It's

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Speaker 19: the way God wants it to be. You can't have

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Speaker 10: So Ray Nagen was there was a great deal of excitement.

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Speaker 10: I remember like it was yesterday at his campaign when

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Speaker 10: he was running for mayor, because he was an executive

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Speaker 18: You are listening to the Michael Berry shows.

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Speaker 10: The sixty four year old was arrested Monday.

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Speaker 10: A sting operation targeted various municipal officials and asked them

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Speaker 10: Elected officials are busted for bribes in reality. In that case,

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Speaker 1: What is it with mayors of Port Allen?

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Speaker 9: The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want. He

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Speaker 1: An enthusiastic greeting.

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Speaker 21: Friday has more problems emerged surrounding Port Island Mayor Di D.

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Speaker 21: This week we showed you the mayor's salary ran out

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Speaker 1: Tell us about your paycheck.

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Speaker 9: I'm only doing my job.

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Speaker 21: The council never approved you to make eighty five thousand dollars,

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Speaker 18: I'm only doing my job.

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Speaker 9: Why did you do that? Yeah, I have a good day.

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Speaker 21: Flutter sited Statute thirty three four oh four, part of

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Speaker 1: Are you comfortable with what you're doing?

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Speaker 18: I have the right with the loss in Act and

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Speaker 1: Of course, she had been which hunt.

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Speaker 18: I've been which hunt since day one.

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Speaker 22: I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisitions.

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Speaker 10: They're always making acquisitions on her Mayor d d Have

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Speaker 17: Went, uh, you know, to Washington, d C. And I

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Speaker 18: I've been which hunt since day one.

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Speaker 22: I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.

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Speaker 10: challenges and contortions in that sentence from can you give

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Speaker 9: I did went uh, you know, to h Washington, d C.

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Speaker 1: And I didn't she did went?

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Speaker 12: She did?

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Speaker 1: Went? Okay, all right?

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Speaker 17: I did, went uh you know to Washington, d C.

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Speaker 10: Integrity is a hard thing to have, but it's a

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 10: Yes, It's like putting both those rs in library or

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Speaker 1: Let's hear that again, the whole thing. Let's say if

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Speaker 17: I did, went you know to Washington, DC, and I

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Speaker 9: I ran on the basis of interrogatuit hunt.

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Speaker 10: When she's running on the basis of interrogation, is is

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Speaker 1: And to the people of Port Allen, I would like

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Speaker 19: To know that D. D.

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Speaker 1: Slaughter is running right now. I am right now D. D.

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Speaker 7: In terror, interrogate, and I will DEDE. Slaughter is gonna

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's me, that's me, interrogatuity.

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Speaker 18: I've been witch hunt since day one.

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Speaker 22: I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.

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Speaker 10: Now, imagine that person. Imagine casting a vote for that

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Speaker 10: Just imagine for a moment, imagine thinking that person. We

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Speaker 1: That's what we've come down to.

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Speaker 10: That's that's what we're down And by the way, Sylvester

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Speaker 10: Turner was just a slightly cleaned up D. D. Slaughter drinking.

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Speaker 10: Mitchello ultra. He wasn't any better, just as crooked, just

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Speaker 10: better at hiding it. Play that one one more time.

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Speaker 10: Mind was so good.

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Speaker 17: I did went, you know, to Washington, DC, and I

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Speaker 9: I ran on the basis of interrogating.

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Speaker 18: I've been witch hunt since day one.

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Speaker 22: I've been fighting acquisitions after acquisition.

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Speaker 1: Then what are we arguing about?

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Speaker 18: We just argue about things that we should not be

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Speaker 10: Argue about things this everybody argon just running around argon, ramon,

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Speaker 10: can you give me some of that church organ you

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Speaker 1: George calls this is Mayor d. D. Slaughter preaching a sermon.

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Speaker 10: This is real. She was preaching a sermon after she

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Speaker 1: She went to a church because that's where you hide.

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Speaker 1: She went to a church to preach preaching My step

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Speaker 1: quick is my sweery.

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Speaker 3: Come every.

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Speaker 9: Y'all here.

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Speaker 4: Listening see the Why he's a time that we want wrong?

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Speaker 18: The scriptures in our lives.

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Speaker 9: Don't we want to be read somebody we are right?

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Speaker 8: Why we have.

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Speaker 7: Not hearing her.

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Speaker 9: Worse than they do. Come.

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Speaker 18: There's a fun thing swiping them on.

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Speaker 1: Don't you call me? Don't you call me your chicken, Michael.

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Speaker 8: Chicken.

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Speaker 5: I think back, he said, over the last ten years

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Speaker 1: There have been things that happened in this country. I

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Speaker 10: There have been people I respected who betrayed that respect,

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Speaker 10: Jim Comey. I didn't have any opinion of Jim Comy

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Speaker 10: I wonder how many people could have withstood being spied upon.

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Speaker 10: Lies that were told about Trump. A lot of people,

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Speaker 12: Well.

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Speaker 10: Jim Comey thought he was in the catbird seat. Remember

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Speaker 10: I want to watch it. I want to enjoy it

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Speaker 10: like a fine wine. I want in every sinew of

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Speaker 12: Enjoy this. Hey, everybody, welcome back to my substack.

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Speaker 23: Last week's cold turns out to have been COVID quite

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Speaker 23: a flashback, and Donald Trump is still president and still

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Speaker 23: It's like a dream, a bad dream you can't wake

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Speaker 23: truly inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift. Of course I

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Speaker 23: You see Taylor Swift and I go way back. I

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Speaker 23: ourselves and learned and adapted and dealt with adversity and celebration.

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Speaker 12: She had songs for all of it.

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Speaker 23: I suspect that's something that millions of Americans have also experienced.

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Speaker 12: In their families.

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Speaker 23: I think that's because Taylor Swift produces great art, but

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Speaker 23: also because she models something at every stage of her career.

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Speaker 23: She's shown a certain way of being that resonated with

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Speaker 23: my kids and also felt right to me as a parent,

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Speaker 23: and she's still doing that as.

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Speaker 12: A grown up.

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Speaker 23: Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to

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Speaker 23: stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me

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Speaker 23: and change me. You may have seen that the governor

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Speaker 23: of California has been generating a lot of attention lately

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Speaker 23: by posting on social media in a satirical way where

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Speaker 23: he mocks Donald Trump and his all caps megalomania and

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Speaker 23: his absurdity. And I find it very funny, hilarious even sometimes,

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Speaker 23: but I gotta be honest, it also leaves me with

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Speaker 23: a strange feeling at times, because I don't want us

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Speaker 23: to become like Trump and his followers. There are far

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Speaker 23: more decent, honest, kind people in America than there are

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Speaker 23: mean jerks.

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Speaker 12: And don't get me wrong, we have our jerks, millions

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Speaker 12: of them.

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Speaker 23: You may have noticed in particularly, there's a stunning coarseness

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Speaker 23: and ugliness in the Republican Party today. It's upsetting, but

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Speaker 23: it's also a minority of America on the whole.

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Speaker 12: We aren't like that, and we don't like that.

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Speaker 23: I think that's a big part of the reason so

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Speaker 23: few Americans support Donald Trump when they have to see

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Speaker 23: him and that up close, and why Republicans are so

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Speaker 23: worried about what's coming for them next year.

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Speaker 12: And to be clear, I am not an advocate for weakness.

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Speaker 12: Of course, we need to stand.

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Speaker 23: Up to jerks and defend what matters, but I think

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Speaker 23: we have to try to do that without becoming like them,

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Speaker 23: which is what makes me think about Taylor Swift. She's

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Speaker 23: made clear that she sees Donald Trump for what he is,

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Speaker 23: and last year she urged Americans not to make the

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Speaker 23: serious mistake of electing him.

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Speaker 12: Of course, we're now living with the consequences of that mistake.

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Speaker 23: But while our elderly, makeup covered president is posting about

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Speaker 23: whether Taylor Swift is still hot and declaring that he

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Speaker 23: can't stand her, what's she doing living her best life,

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Speaker 23: producing great music and as she urged all of us

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Speaker 23: to do during the podcast, not giving the jerks power

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Speaker 23: over her mind.

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Speaker 12: She said something about dealing with internet trolls that stuck

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Speaker 12: with me.

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Speaker 23: Think of your energy as if it's expensive, she said,

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Speaker 23: as if it's like a luxury item.

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Speaker 12: Not everyone can afford it.

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Speaker 23: I really enjoy reading Arthur Brooks, who writes columns about

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Speaker 23: happiness in The Atlantic.

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Speaker 12: I don't know if he's a swifty.

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Speaker 23: But last week he wrote about research on the way

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Speaker 23: that being rude or snarky actually hurts the rude person.

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Speaker 23: As he wrote, when you become less polite, the alteration

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Speaker 23: in your conduct can make you less happy, more depressed,

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Speaker 23: and angrier about life.

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Speaker 12: I know you get that even without the research. Just

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Speaker 12: watch Fox.

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Speaker 23: News or hang around a X and you'll see what

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Speaker 23: he means. We can't stop people from being jerks. What

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Speaker 23: we can do is stop it from hurting us, from

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Speaker 23: changing us. At my second Taylor Swift concert in Hartford, Connecticut,

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Speaker 23: fourteen years ago this summer, she sang a song about

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Speaker 23: this topic, asking why you got to be so mean?

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Speaker 23: And she spoke directly to the nasty people. I bet

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Speaker 23: you got pushed around, somebody made you cold. But the

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Speaker 23: cycle ends right now because you can't leave me down

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Speaker 23: that road. You'll be glad I didn't sing that. That's

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Speaker 23: right because down that road is unhappiness. Nobody should have

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Speaker 23: that power for us. Thank you, Kellen Swift.

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Speaker 13: Keep the thing.

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Speaker 18: Nobody Elvis has some vertuity. Thank you, and good nightsh