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Speaker 1: Hello there, Latino USA listener. It's Maria no Rosa and

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you a little origin story right now.

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Speaker 1: So I get this invitation kind of out of nowhere.

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Speaker 1: It was from the Kellogg Foundation and they were asking

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Speaker 1: me to be a part of a group called SCORE,

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Speaker 1: the Solidarity Council on Racial Equity. The idea was to

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Speaker 1: bring together twenty high powered thinkers to talk about solidarity

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Speaker 1: and racial equity. And then the unthinkable happened. The pandemic

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Speaker 1: took over. George Floyd was murdered by a police officer.

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Speaker 1: Protests were now happening twenty four to seven, calling out

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Speaker 1: decades of injustice and in terms of our group score. Suddenly,

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Speaker 1: during this crucial moment, now we couldn't meet in person,

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Speaker 1: and everything had moved to zoom. And it was in

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Speaker 1: that first Zoom meeting that we all decided to try

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Speaker 1: to answer a big question, which is what can we

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Speaker 1: do to create a better post COVID world.

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Speaker 2: How do we use.

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Speaker 1: This opportunity to dream up and reimagine the world from

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Speaker 1: a place of solidarity, of justice and racial equity, And

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Speaker 1: how do we share these big ideas with other people

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Speaker 1: who are looking for ways to be in solidarity with

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Speaker 1: their communities looking to be a part of the change

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Speaker 1: in the world. So it was from that discussion that

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Speaker 1: we came up with the idea for We Imagine Us.

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Speaker 1: It's a production that is centered around two podcast series

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Speaker 1: that we've created here at my new unit, Futuro Hosan.

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Speaker 1: The first series is a compelling fictional podcast. It's paired

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Speaker 1: with a companion interview series based on my conversations with

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Speaker 1: my fellow SCORE members. So these two podcasts are being

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Speaker 1: distributed by our friends at PRX, the same group that

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Speaker 1: distributes Latino USA. There are also animated shorts that go

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Speaker 1: along with the podcast to help you kind of visualize

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Speaker 1: what these solutions for the future might look like in

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Speaker 1: our communities. So in our first ever fictional podcast, titled

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Speaker 1: The Long Way Around, we're going to take you on

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Speaker 1: a journey in the not too distant future. You're going

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Speaker 1: to meet Bumpy and Mercy. They're a father and a

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Speaker 1: daughter and they're traveling the country as they're trying to

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Speaker 1: build new lives and they have to navigate through the

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Speaker 1: same real life issues that many black, Latino, Indigenous and

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Speaker 1: Asian communities face in our country today. I invite you

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Speaker 1: to come along with us for the ride. So here's

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Speaker 1: an exclusive preview of the long way around from Futuro

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Speaker 1: Unidad INOJSA and PRX.

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Speaker 3: H M h yeah.

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Speaker 4: Movement, movement, movement.

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Speaker 3: Among y'all.

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Speaker 5: Welcome to Federal Correctional Institution Beaumont Low Minimum Security Prison. Now,

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Speaker 5: just because you weren't sendenced to Beaumont Media or to

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Speaker 5: the USB Beaumont Max with the guard towers over yonder,

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Speaker 5: do not, and I mean, do not confuse this with

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Speaker 5: a laquinta or comfort in. Now double time it right

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Speaker 5: into R and D. That's receiving and discharge each one

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Speaker 5: of y'all wrapent hours of damn paperwork. But miss young lady,

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Speaker 5: move your vehicle immediately. Visitor parking is the other way

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Speaker 5: movement and I mean, now.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry, officer. They told me for discharge to pull.

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Speaker 5: In here, m show me some ID and you're anra

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Speaker 5: notice of release and arrival. Here you go, Sir Mercy Trinwatkins. Huh,

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Speaker 5: my grandma's name was Mercy. All right, then, well you'll

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Speaker 5: still have to wait till we process these new fish

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Speaker 5: and move the bus.

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, how old are you and why are

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Speaker 7: See on my license.

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Speaker 6: I turned sixteen last month, Officer, and my dad's car

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Speaker 6: is one year younger than me.

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Speaker 8: It was August fifth, twenty twenty two, fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 8: Feels like five hundred, feels like five minutes. My father's

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Speaker 8: story wasn't in the news like some, but I still

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Speaker 8: think it's worth telling you. The others. You might not

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Speaker 8: remember these names anymore, but they still mean something to me.

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Speaker 8: Like Filando Castile, my father had been a cafeteria worker

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Speaker 8: like Sandra Bland. He played in a marching band like

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Speaker 8: Ahmud Aubrey. He loved to jog like Jacob Blake. He

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Speaker 8: was a loving father. Like Breonna Taylor, he was an

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Speaker 8: ace at playing Skippo Uno and Phase ten. And like

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Speaker 5: All right, now, sixteen, well into that spot on the right.

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Speaker 8: I had actually just turned sixteen the week before, but

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Speaker 8: since I just had to be the first thing my

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Speaker 5: Remain in your vehicle until the former inmate exits, R

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Speaker 8: I'll never forget how he said, former inmate. He didn't say,

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Speaker 8: Air Force veteran father, third generation Galvestonian. I wondered, would

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Speaker 8: my dad forever be defined only by the worst thing

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Speaker 8: he ever did? But then I saw him, and.

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Speaker 9: Daddy, I was not gonna cry. I promised not to

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Speaker 7: Oh Dad, you didn't.

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Speaker 5: Tell me Bumpy was your papa. He's all right, Bumpy now.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to see you back here.

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Speaker 10: Here, no worry of that officer. Come on, Mercy, let's

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Speaker 10: get as far away as fast as possible. Had me

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Speaker 7: Dad, you said we were going to share the driving.

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Speaker 10: We've got twelve hundred miles. Baby, you'll get your chance.

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Speaker 10: You took eighty seven here, slow and steady.

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Speaker 7: Yes, Dad, you all right? Daddy, give me a minute.

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Speaker 10: I forgot how free you feel holding a steering wheel full.

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Speaker 11: Take of gas.

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Speaker 7: I missed you so much.

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Speaker 11: I missed you more three years and three months off.

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Speaker 11: You're growing that I'll never get back.

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Speaker 3: You.

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Speaker 11: Having Enrique Pixie.

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Speaker 6: Ac Freeon still leaking, but he said it should last

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Speaker 6: us to Minnesota.

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Speaker 11: Free On. Listen to you all grown.

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Speaker 7: I almost forgot your zapps.

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Speaker 10: Cajun deal dettators, of course, all right.

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Speaker 11: Then feed me.

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Speaker 10: Sweet Jesus, almost throwing us off the road. They are

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Speaker 10: so good, I've forgotten.

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Speaker 7: What if we get pulled over.

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Speaker 11: I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 10: We won't baby speed limit the entire three days, and

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Speaker 10: you had Enrique fix the brake lights.

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Speaker 11: Right, we won't give them any excuse to pull us over.

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Speaker 11: And even if they do, all my paperwork is in order.

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Speaker 11: First stop is my approbation officer.

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Speaker 10: Uncle Chip already sent her a notarized copy of my

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Speaker 10: employment contract, so I'll be cleared to travel out of state,

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Speaker 10: just a regular dad taking this little girl to a

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Speaker 10: better place.

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Speaker 6: Is that your COVID cough or your regular cough?

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Speaker 11: I'm fine.

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Speaker 6: Those prison doctors had no idea what they were doing.

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Speaker 8: I can still repeat almost word for word the news

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Speaker 12: Jump in. The low security unit at the Federal Correctional

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Speaker 12: Complex in Beaumont now has the most active coronavirus cases

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Speaker 8: The only thing going in or out of that damn

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Speaker 10: Royal window down too, A free dad.

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Speaker 6: We paid for the AC and now you don't want

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Speaker 10: Give me a minute. I want to smell the sea

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Speaker 10: towers the same so far, I've passed.

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Speaker 6: This building a million times on the way to school.

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Speaker 6: Didn't know was the probation center.

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Speaker 11: I'm glad you didn't.

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Speaker 10: Now, of course I haven't met my po yet, but

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Speaker 13: Senior Airman Watkins, let me be the first to shake

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Speaker 13: your hand and welcome you back to life and freedom.

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Speaker 13: This must be mercy. Your father never stops talking about you.

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Speaker 13: But you're even prettier than he described. And what did

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Speaker 13: he say? You won the model you in.

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Speaker 7: Nobody wins.

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Speaker 6: It's not like that, ma'am officer. It was a commendation officer.

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Speaker 10: Simmons was a staff sergeant based in Afghanistan. But she

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Speaker 10: was a munition specialist like your uncle Quincy.

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Speaker 13: Now I just shoot off my mouth, which I have

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Speaker 13: to do right now with some bad news.

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Speaker 14: I'm afraid. No, you're still going. Don't worry.

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Speaker 13: But my supervisor I pledged your case and I'm sorry,

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Speaker 13: but he's insisting you wear an ankle monitor till your

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Speaker 13: file transfers over to your new PO.

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Speaker 14: Shouldn't be more than a week or two.

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Speaker 6: No, no, you mean you're making my dad wear a shackle.

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Speaker 13: Harry, we're ready for you. This is my coworker, Officer Lee.

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Speaker 13: He's our ankle monitor expert.

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Speaker 15: Mister Watkins.

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Speaker 6: How do you do left ankle or right ankle?

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Speaker 7: Most say right ankle?

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Speaker 11: All right?

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Speaker 15: Could you take off your sock for me?

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Speaker 11: Merce? Why don't you get yourself a coke?

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Speaker 6: Dad?

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Speaker 7: Don't you know I don't drink that stuff.

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Speaker 11: I just meant a drink.

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Speaker 7: I'm already done on green lights flashing.

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Speaker 14: Got it? Signal is clear? Thanks, Harry, I know you're busy.

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Speaker 7: Anything for you, sugar?

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Speaker 13: Oh stop, Senior Armin Watkins. It's very simple. If this

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Speaker 13: GPS light flashes red, which is rare, then there is

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Speaker 13: some sort of malfunction and you need to call me immediately,

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Speaker 13: and I mean immediately. Here's my card. Put it in

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Speaker 13: your phone and commit it to memory.

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Speaker 7: I'll put it in my phone too, Mersey.

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Speaker 13: Just to be safe, Dad, that will be one hundred

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Speaker 13: and fifty dollars, and then ten dollars a day for

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Speaker 10: What mercy officers Simmons, that's almost all my gig money.

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Speaker 14: I figured you don't have to pay it all now.

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Speaker 13: My supervisor said, fifty dollars now, and we'll build the rest.

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Speaker 14: Oh, and here's your charger.

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Speaker 13: It needs at least two hours every night.

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Speaker 6: You graded, Dad, Dad, it's gonna be okay.

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Speaker 10: Donald Neely, It's got damned Donald Neely all over again.

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Speaker 10: He's the main reason I'm getting us the hell out

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Speaker 7: Dad. Then let's go. Let's just get in the car.

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Speaker 8: My father was just a few months into his sentence

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Speaker 8: at FCI Beaumont when Donald Neely, a guy my dad

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Speaker 8: went to Junior High with, made Galveston national even international news.

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Speaker 14: Citizens of Galveston were shocked yesterday by the video of

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Speaker 14: by a rope down city street.

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Speaker 12: Donald Neely, a mentally ill, homeless man and father.

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Speaker 4: Of said wod it, shared online of the two white

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Speaker 4: officers leading Neely using a rope tied to his handcuff

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Speaker 6: Let me just pick up my last paycheck, maybe some

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Speaker 6: lunch for the road, and then we're out of here.

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Speaker 10: You okay, Dad, I will be once we're beyond these

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Speaker 10: city limits. Actually scratch that, maybe I won't be okay

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Speaker 10: to a clear out of Texas.

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Speaker 11: Never thought out of those words.

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Speaker 10: Dare you to find another Galvestonian with deeper roots. You know,

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Speaker 10: your great great great great grandmother was there for the

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Speaker 10: original June teenth, pretty much right here in the bay

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Speaker 10: where your uncle's restaurant now stands June nineteenth, eighteen sixty five,

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Speaker 10: when two thousand Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay and

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Speaker 6: Somewhere near where we're standing, my great great great grandma

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Speaker 11: You got your brains from your mother, may she rest,

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Speaker 11: But you got your good looks from me.

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Speaker 7: Dad.

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Speaker 10: Let's see, I've been dreaming about your uncle shrimp and

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Speaker 11: Wow, Jimmy's doing all right for himself.

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Speaker 6: The weekend crowds are crazy. An investor's talking about helping

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Speaker 6: with another one in Houston.

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Speaker 12: Excuse me coming through.

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Speaker 10: Damn And wasn't the kitchen over there before.

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Speaker 6: The renovation added eighty more seats, two.

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Speaker 16: Shrimp and CRAFTSVA, one vetty, and three Vietnamese iced cuffies.

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Speaker 15: Oh oh, mussy, so lucky ya ya yay, go.

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Speaker 7: Down to de Roy, Yeah go oh, gone to Jimmy.

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Speaker 7: Oh I went on.

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Speaker 6: Oh I get nimping toy, she says. Uncle Jimmy's in

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Speaker 6: the back counting his money as always.

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Speaker 11: When you get so good at being the leeds.

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Speaker 6: But well, I made me go to Saturday Vietnamese school

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Speaker 10: I thought you'd be mad, babe, of course not. Your

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Speaker 10: mother and me talked about it. I'm glad after ten

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Speaker 10: years with your mom. All I can say is how

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Speaker 10: you am and toy sinnoy.

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Speaker 7: And you am and toy SAINLOI. I love you and

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 8: In every language on the planet.

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Speaker 7: What other words do you ever need to know?

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Speaker 15: Don't do that, don't say gain, pray Bumpy the man

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Speaker 15: of the hour. I put an extra crawlfish, an extra

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Speaker 11: Do you have another one?

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Speaker 15: Come on back to my office. I have a last

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Speaker 15: paycheck for this little girl. Thank you, uncle, so beautiful,

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Speaker 15: so smart, my best worker. I'm gonna have to hire

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Speaker 15: two to take her place.

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Speaker 11: Thank you, I mean thank You's not nearly enough for everything,

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Speaker 11: None of that.

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Speaker 15: We're family.

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Speaker 11: Tell that to your folks.

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Speaker 15: Believe me, I did I do.

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Speaker 10: If you hadn't talked them out of dropping the custody appeal, they.

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Speaker 16: Got three years with her all to themselves. I told them,

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Speaker 16: giving you these last two so she turns eighteen, ain't

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Speaker 16: too much to ask. Here're your wages, uncle, this is

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Speaker 16: way too much. You'll need school books and a winner

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Speaker 16: code for cold ass freezing cold Minnesota.

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Speaker 7: Thank you.

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Speaker 10: I'll bring it back for Christmas, maybe even Thanksgiving, if

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Speaker 15: No, y'all should go on and eat while the broth

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Speaker 10: Full tank of gas, four bellies, empty bladders.

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Speaker 11: Let's hit the road. Why are you messing with the radio.

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Speaker 11: I'm such a good dad. I'll tell you what I'll do.

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Speaker 11: You can man the OX to Houston.

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Speaker 7: Enrique still couldn't get it to work.

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Speaker 10: What twelve hundred miles and no good music.

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, ain't your fault?

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Speaker 11: Baby.

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Speaker 10: Besides, maybe it's a blessing. We've got so much to

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Speaker 10: catch up on, all those visits hours. I never knew

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Speaker 10: if you were telling me the truth or just what

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Speaker 10: wouldn't make me worry?

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Speaker 7: Dad?

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Speaker 6: It was hard, No, it was terrible Mom's death, you

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Speaker 7: But we got through it. And now, damn it, Dad,

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Speaker 7: what is it?

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Speaker 3: I I don't know.

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Speaker 11: Hopefully just the front druts? Call Enrique?

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Speaker 10: Will you ask him to drop everything to get us

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Speaker 10: back out on the road.

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Speaker 11: A sap.

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Speaker 15: Every que. So what's the good news?

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Speaker 11: I wish I had some of my friend? The front

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Speaker 11: accident is correct? How much would that cost to fit?

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Speaker 2: More than the christ Worth?

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Speaker 12: What?

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Speaker 16: No?

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Speaker 10: I'm sorry, Okay, okay, wait wait, let's figure this out together.

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Speaker 10: I'll trade you that Kia, that Corolla, anything you got

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Speaker 10: in the shop, Bumpy, you do that for you and.

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Speaker 2: Especially for Mercy.

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Speaker 15: I would do anything.

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Speaker 2: See how clearly was when she picked you up she

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Speaker 2: insisted would you tail it like new?

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Speaker 15: I think for bards.

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Speaker 2: I can get you five hundred six.

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Speaker 6: No, Dad, come on, we can take a bus. We

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Speaker 6: can take the train. It'll be an adventure.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, man, Well you can use the computer in

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Speaker 2: my office to pook the tickets. I mean, you're the

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Speaker 2: guy who set it up. Let's make it eight hundred

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Speaker 2: dollars for the car.

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Speaker 10: I'm supposed to stay away from computers for a while,

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Speaker 10: the terms of my parole.

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Speaker 7: I'm already on it, Dad on my phone.

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Speaker 16: I just.

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Speaker 11: I wanted this to be special for us.

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Speaker 7: It will be. You're out today. It's like Christmas.

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Speaker 11: Come here, girl, give your pops a herd.

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Speaker 8: My dad was a big man, but I remember how

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Speaker 8: he suddenly looked so small, like he could fit in

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Speaker 8: my arms instead of the other way around. Amtrak dinner

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Speaker 8: go as far as Galveston, so we had to take

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Speaker 8: a bust up to Houston. It was leaving in twenty minutes.

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Speaker 8: Only problem was Enrique and Uncle Jimmy were too busy

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Speaker 8: the last call. Either my dad or me wanted to make.

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Speaker 1: The Long Way Around was produced by Futurounidad in Hosan

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Speaker 1: as part of the We Imagine Us project. The Long

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Speaker 1: starring Billy Bob Thompson, Marco Antonio Rodriuez, Alison Lee Rosenfeld,

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