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Speaker 1: Michael Arry Show is on the air. Good morning, Michael Berry.

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Speaker 1: It's Sean Connery. But you had a little radio show.

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Speaker 2: This is the Thornton Finch wishing you a good morning,

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Speaker 2: gild morning, Michael, Daddy.

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Speaker 3: Good more Excess.

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Speaker 4: Listen to this good morning, Excess.

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Speaker 3: Morning your car.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Texas is.

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Speaker 4: On this day and we're happy here to talk about everything.

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Speaker 3: Good morning. We're not wearing that.

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Speaker 4: Good Morty, good Lady, Good Laurie, good morning. Wake unsteact god.

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Speaker 5: Damn good morning. Actor George Went, best known for playing

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Speaker 5: Norm Peterson, one of the most beloved sitcom characters of

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Speaker 5: all time, passed away yesterday morning at the age of

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Speaker 5: seventy six, peacefully in his sleep, while at home, surrounded

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Speaker 5: by family. Born in Chicago in nineteen forty eight, speaking

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Speaker 5: of Chicago, one of the all time, he was part

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Speaker 5: of one of the all time great SNL sketches about

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Speaker 5: dub Bears.

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Speaker 6: Oh, my friends, they welcome to another edition of super Fans.

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Speaker 2: And bab Florsky.

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Speaker 6: And I want to thank everyone for sending those cards

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Speaker 6: to my brother Bill, who recently had another heart attack.

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Speaker 6: We are coming to you live from Dicka's here on

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Speaker 6: Thanksgiving Day, a day for giving, thanks for, or taking

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Speaker 6: punishment from a team that is known as Stop Bears.

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Speaker 5: Spars one of nine children. You don't see big families

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Speaker 5: like that any more, Romon, at least not white people.

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Speaker 5: Did you know that his sister, Catherine is the mother

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Speaker 5: of actor and comedian Jason Sedakis of Where the Miller's

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Speaker 5: snl and the insanely popular There for a little while

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Speaker 5: till it jumped to Shark ted Lasso. George went flunked

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Speaker 5: out of Notre Dame, worked at his father's real estate

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Speaker 5: office before graduating from Rockhurst College in nineteen seventy four.

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Speaker 5: He trained in comedy at the legendary Chicago's The Second

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Speaker 5: City Theater, which would birth greats such as Bill Murray, Danakroyd,

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Speaker 5: John Belushi, Mike Myers, and many many more. He said

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Speaker 5: that he was terrible at improvisational comedy. Quote for somebody

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Speaker 5: who made a living at it for six years, I'm

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Speaker 5: probably the worst improviser of all time. It seems odd.

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Speaker 5: Maybe he's just very hard on himself. But the meat

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Speaker 5: of his success, for which he will be most Remembered

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Speaker 5: was one of the greatest sitcoms of all time. Cheers

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Speaker 5: as Norman Peterson, the lovable, overweight, beer loving barfly, six immynominations,

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Speaker 5: and the king of one liners. Here is a best

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Speaker 5: of of his intros.

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Speaker 4: Everybody, what do you know?

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Speaker 7: Not enough?

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Speaker 3: I'm doing m cut the small dug and give me

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Speaker 3: a beer. How's life drinking?

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Speaker 8: You?

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Speaker 4: Norm?

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Speaker 3: It just ran over its dog.

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Speaker 4: Have hear anybody.

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Speaker 3: Joan stout your taps? Anybody? I was treating your nom

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Speaker 3: He caught me in bed with his wife. Everybody was screamage, coach.

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Speaker 9: You what's it going mom? That's rich and mama good looking? Anybody?

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Speaker 9: Oh my nipples, it's freezing out there.

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Speaker 10: Anybody, I'm sorry? All thirsty bar everybody put out to

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Speaker 10: your arm my ears? Oh mom, Science is seeking a

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Speaker 10: cure for thirst. I happened to be the guinea pig.

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Speaker 10: Have anybody.

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Speaker 2: Going on?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 10: I am gonna need something to kill time before my

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Speaker 10: second beer?

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Speaker 2: How about the first one? The sports fans.

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Speaker 3: Want to be on fame? Fortune fast women, how about

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Speaker 3: a beer?

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Speaker 2: Even better?

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Speaker 3: Coach on top of the world. It's a dismal spot

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Speaker 3: in Greenwood.

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Speaker 4: Women.

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Speaker 3: You can't live with them past the beer nuts.

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Speaker 10: That's having a normal that's a doggy dog world, Sammy,

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Speaker 10: and I'm Martin milktone underwear one.

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, I never watched that.

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Speaker 5: I mean I've seen I've seen a scene here and

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Speaker 5: loyal Did you watch it? You never saw it either.

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Speaker 2: I just haven't done it much.

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Speaker 5: A newsletter I follow called Hurd on the Street, John

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Speaker 5: Sindrow starts this morning's newsletter with the following, whether tariffs

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Speaker 5: will stoke inflation may be the most important question in

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Speaker 5: financial markets right now. To answer it, listen to the

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Speaker 5: one setting the prices. On Tuesday. Home Depot maintain its

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Speaker 5: full twenty twenty five outlook while claiming it will not

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Speaker 5: pass on higher import costs to consumers. Yet other retailers,

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Speaker 5: including Walmart will. There'll be earnings reports today from Target

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Speaker 5: lows and TJX. In a recent report, fact Set highlighted

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Speaker 5: that over four hundred companies S and P five hundred

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Speaker 5: mentioned terriffs in first quarter earnings calls. But in fairness

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Speaker 5: to the author, he then says, this says little about

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Speaker 5: corporate behavior. What else are executives supposed to talk about?

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Speaker 5: But it is notable that more firms than ever in

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Speaker 5: the past decade are discussing price haggling with suppliers. Within

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Speaker 5: the broader S and P composite fifteen hundred index, forty

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Speaker 5: companies have mentioned supplier negotiation or cost sharing since April.

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Speaker 5: This is a small group, but it's well above average.

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Speaker 5: But then as you come down, he says, this is

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Speaker 5: indeed the approach to mitigating tariff impacts that is rising

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Speaker 5: earnings call transcripts using large language models, and what they're

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Speaker 5: talking about here is what came to be known as

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Speaker 5: excuse flation after the COVID hoax, where prices rise because

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Speaker 5: firms use other people's pricing to decisions to justify their own.

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Speaker 5: In other words, well we're sorry, we're raising prices. How

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Speaker 5: Commune of the pandemic, but it had nothing to do

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Speaker 5: to see a lot of people using this as an

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Speaker 5: excuse to raise prices. Harris County precinct for Constable is

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Speaker 5: Mark Herman. One of his constable's deputies arrested a couple

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Speaker 5: for getting busy in the pool of an apartment complex

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Speaker 2: Last Saturday, a deputy.

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Speaker 5: From Constable Mark Herman's office responded to a call an

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Speaker 5: apartment complex on Spring Plaza Drive following reports of a

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Speaker 5: couple involved in a sexual act at the community pool.

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Speaker 5: According to a social media post from Constable Herman's office,

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Speaker 5: the couple, identified as Nickel Dedrick and Ariel Sims were

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Speaker 2: How do you think he found them, Ramon?

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Speaker 5: Was it the cries of oh, I'll venture over there,

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Speaker 2: I hope they don't finish too early.

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Speaker 5: In the aftermath of the incident, both Dedric and Sims

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Speaker 5: were taken into custody. Quote Nicholas Dedrick and Ariel Sims

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Speaker 5: public lewdness. The Constable's office stated the couple's bonds were

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Speaker 5: set at one hundred dollars each by County Court number nine.

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Speaker 5: That means ten dollars and you can get out. They

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Speaker 5: may pay the full, they may put up the full bond.

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Speaker 2: Who knows.

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Speaker 5: I wonder if they put them in the backseat of

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Speaker 2: You don't know if if they might be trying well.

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Speaker 5: The Houston Housing Authority one of the most scandalous organizations

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Speaker 5: nose or was he involved? Houston Housing Authority Board releases

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Speaker 5: executive summary of the investigation. They hired an outside law

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Speaker 5: firm to conduct on former president and CEO David Northern.

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Speaker 2: You remember David Northern.

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Speaker 5: Kprctv's Amy Davis previously reported that Northern hired friends from

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Speaker 5: out of state, remember the rapper from Chicago with no

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Speaker 5: experience to install AC window units, lots of them for

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Speaker 5: a lot of money. Investigators revealed that that project went

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Speaker 5: three point one million dollars over budget and despite it

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Speaker 5: by Amy Davis, who does those for KPRCTV, so they

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Speaker 11: We've got to be honest. There are no major surprises,

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Speaker 11: but its confirmation of what we reported last November. Hha's

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Speaker 11: board chairman, though, says getting this independent third party review

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Speaker 11: is important to make sure that the board understands what

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Speaker 11: went wrong so it won't happen again. So the summary

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Speaker 11: reveals the project to install window units at three housing

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Speaker 11: projects in twenty twenty three went three point one million

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Speaker 11: dollars over budget because of mismanagement, inexperienced and unqualified contractors,

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Speaker 11: and a lack of oversight. It found contractors were paid

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Speaker 11: for work that has not been completed even to this day.

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Speaker 11: The Columbia Tap Trail project to connect to Cuny homes

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Speaker 11: with the walking trail left residents without tables, benches, and

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Speaker 2: We were not the board who approved or oversaw either

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Speaker 12: The investigation has proved been extremely helpful to our new

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Speaker 11: Now, former HJA President David Northern resigned last year in

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Speaker 11: exchange for agreement that the board would not investigate or

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Speaker 11: and CEO of the Housing Authority in Flint, Michigan. So

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Speaker 11: third party investigation. We did ask for those payments to

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Speaker 11: took him a couple of months to complete.

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Speaker 5: So he said, hey, guys, I'll leave because y'all know

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Speaker 5: I've been stealing money and funneling a bunch of it

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Speaker 5: through my buddies.

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Speaker 2: I brought here to do work that they never did.

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Speaker 5: I'll leave, but only if you agree nobody can know

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Speaker 5: the crimes I committed here. We cool, We cool, y'all cool,

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Speaker 5: y'all go, y'all, Okay, we coop. Okay, what are you

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Speaker 5: gonna do, David? I'm going to Flint, Michigan to do

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Speaker 5: the same damn thing again. It's not a bad thing

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Speaker 5: to be a black man in America today. No, sir,

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Speaker 5: we're not asking any questions. Meanwhile, Sheila Jackson Lee building

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Speaker 5: named this week. We got the Semester Turner Building coming

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Speaker 5: this week, and I guarantee you they both had their

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Speaker 5: fingers in those pists. I will run tee it. You

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Speaker 5: just watch and see. Fox twenty six is Randy Wallace.

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Speaker 5: Since twenty twenty two, magistrates have given PR bonds that's

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Speaker 5: a personal reconnisance bond, that's sign and go to more

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Speaker 5: than twenty eight thousand defendants charged with felonies, some with

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Speaker 5: extensive criminal records. These are the people that are coming

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Speaker 5: out to get you and your family. Fox twenty six

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Speaker 8: Personal reconnais bons. I'm then for first time offenders and

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Speaker 8: low level misdemeanors, but we found career criminals and even

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Speaker 8: a registered sex offender being granted.

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Speaker 2: Numerous PR bonds.

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Speaker 8: Sixty two year old Nathaniel Cornell Barnes's leafy criminal history

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Speaker 8: dates back to nineteen eighty nine, but that didn't stop

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Speaker 8: a magistrate from granting him five PR bonds or get

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Speaker 8: out of jail free cards.

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Speaker 13: You've already been given five PR bonds. Guess what, he

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Speaker 13: didn't show up the court. Now he's a wanted fugitive.

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Speaker 13: This is absurd.

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Speaker 8: In just a month of March alone, Mario Garza, President,

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Speaker 8: You're talking about people that six and more bonds and

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Speaker 8: Yes, you have found instances where defendants have PR bonds

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Speaker 8: Since twenty twenty two, magistrates have given PR bonds to

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Speaker 5: I do good bills coming out of the Senate. But

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Speaker 5: for your thoughts on it. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick wants

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Speaker 5: not how you do that. We don't let kids drive,

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Speaker 5: This is not how you solve problems. Here's Lieutenant Governor

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Speaker 15: Many of you are concerned about THC. How's being sold

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Speaker 15: Just in the last three years, over eight thousand plus

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Speaker 15: We can't regulate it. We don't have enough police to

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Speaker 2: First of all, I don't think it's a poison I don't.

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Speaker 5: I think that is an outdated nineteen fifties mins that

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Speaker 5: I wish it did, because I'll tell you what is poison.

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Speaker 5: I'll tell you what is absolute one hundred percent poison,

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Speaker 5: This is going to shock some of you. I have

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Speaker 5: And in my opinion, you are. You are turning a

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Speaker 5: Your thoughts seven one three nine ninety nine one thousand,

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Speaker 5: So we will start with Kevin, then James, then Allen,

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Speaker 7: Uh really don't care what Dan Patrick says or thinks

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Speaker 7: about THHC. I'm going to continue to use it.

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Speaker 14: And enjoy it.

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Speaker 7: I think it's funny though, that you know Dan Patrick,

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Speaker 7: you know, runs around and acts like he's the moral police.

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Speaker 7: When his largest three donors personal donors, John Now, donated

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Speaker 7: four hundred and fifty k. John Now and his family

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Speaker 7: is the owners of Silver Egal Distributors, which is the

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Speaker 7: largest Anheuser Bush distributor in the nation. His second largest

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Speaker 7: donor is the Rymans, who owns Specs, and then the

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Speaker 7: third largest donor is Del Papa, who is also a

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Speaker 7: Budweiser distributor. So I think it's real funny that, you know,

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Speaker 7: the guy that's going after THAC in marijuana, you know,

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Speaker 7: gets all this money from lobbyists and from the alcohol industry.

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Speaker 7: This is the same clown that goes around and acts

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Speaker 7: like he's pro police, and I'm standing up for HVD

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Speaker 7: officers that were killed in the line of duty, and

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Speaker 7: we we're gonna get rid of alcohol. He's a lion turd.

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Speaker 2: Well that's what I got on that.

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Speaker 5: Well, tell us how you really feel, Kevin James. You're

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Speaker 5: on the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, hey, Michael James from Spring. You know, I've got

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Speaker 14: I've got a lot of opinions on this matter from

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Speaker 14: a couple of different, you know, aspects. I mean, first

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Speaker 14: of all, prohibition is stupid, and we know that every

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Speaker 14: time they try to ban something, something a thousand times

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Speaker 14: worse pops up in its place, you know, and look

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Speaker 14: at you know, all the different deal with the spice

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Speaker 14: and all that stuff they came up. They did all

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Speaker 14: the crack down on weed, and all of a sudden they're,

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Speaker 14: you know, have all this you know, incense that people

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Speaker 14: are smoking, and you got people dancing naked on the

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Speaker 14: hoods of cars in traffic. So I think the prohibition

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Speaker 14: is just dumb. I think there should be regulation, and

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Speaker 14: I think adults should be able to do what they want.

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Speaker 14: The second half is a lot more personal to me.

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Speaker 14: I'm a chronic pain patient. I've got three herdiated discs

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Speaker 14: in my cervical spine. I'm in constant pain every day

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Speaker 14: twenty four to seven. Now they did a huge crack

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Speaker 14: down because of the opioid epidemic, and that's fine. I

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Speaker 14: wouldn't take those drugs personally myself if I could ever

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Speaker 14: avoid it, just because I don't like the way they

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Speaker 14: make me feel. They make me feel jittery. They may

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Speaker 14: not sleep, but I know a lot of people who

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Speaker 14: who rely on pain medication, and you know a lot

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Speaker 14: of people when that stuff got you know, rolled back,

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Speaker 14: because they start to treating doctors like criminals and putting

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Speaker 14: the government between you know, a doctor and a patient.

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Speaker 14: They moved to THC and Texas has been so backwards

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Speaker 14: with the way the compassionate use program has been implemented

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Speaker 14: to where you know, oh, well there's you know, we'll

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Speaker 14: let these people have this, these people have this. Oh

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Speaker 14: but if you're in chronic pain, you just have to

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Speaker 14: suffer in pain. And I've already written Dan Patrick a

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Speaker 14: letter saving as much because they basically try to put

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Speaker 14: us chronic pain patients in a spot to where, oh, well,

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Speaker 14: you're in chronic pain, so we're not going to treat

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Speaker 14: your pain. Oh you found something that works for your pain.

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Speaker 14: Oh we're going to take it away from you. I

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Speaker 14: can't tell you how many people in some of these

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Speaker 14: pain support groups I mean, have committed suicide over the

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Speaker 14: last five or six years. Like it is shocking the

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Speaker 14: number of people that are killing themselves because the government

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Speaker 14: thinks they know better. You know what, People aren't at it.

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Speaker 14: People want to feel normal. And for somebody who has

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Speaker 14: never had to suffer with a chronic, debilitating, painful condition,

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Speaker 14: you don't know what it's like waking up every morning thinking,

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Speaker 14: oh my god, I wish I hadn't woke up this morning.

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Speaker 14: How am I going to get through the day?

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Speaker 2: Thank you James. I think he was the founder and

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Speaker 2: CEO of Texas Roadhouse, who I'm told was a prince

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Speaker 2: of a man. I did not know him.

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Speaker 5: He had apparently debilitating Tonight's and tried every treatment he

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Speaker 5: could find out there to get over it, and this

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Speaker 5: ringing in his ear of such magnitude was so unbearable

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Speaker 5: that he took his own life. Here's a guy that

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Speaker 5: ninety nine percent of people would have traded places with

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Speaker 5: him in a minute. All the money in the world,

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Speaker 5: all the professional success, good looking guy, you know, physically

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Speaker 5: healthy as I understand it other than this issue. So yes,

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Speaker 5: I do think there is a lot to be said

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Speaker 5: about chronic pain. Alan, Mark and Jenny hold with me

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Speaker 5: for just a moment. We'll go to Alan.

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Speaker 2: Alan, be quick so I can get you in before

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Speaker 2: the break. You're there, Yep, yes, sir, Yes.

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Speaker 3: Colley, I'm so lound up. I've been to make it quick.

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Speaker 2: The parents.

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Speaker 14: One thing my kids?

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Speaker 7: Does she come out here?

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Speaker 2: Is she living with me? She told me seventeen years old,

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Speaker 2: she came out here.

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Speaker 6: She was a smokeing weed, and she graduated. She was

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Speaker 6: a year be high. She graduated a.

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Speaker 14: Year only with a scholarship.

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Speaker 6: I've been burning some seventeen years old.

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Speaker 14: But I will want later her damn patchman.

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Speaker 4: A child.

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Speaker 2: I'll do it in English. Now, do right?

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Speaker 14: What you saying about?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 11: Did you.

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Speaker 2: Was that boom I? Or what was that romania?

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Speaker 3: What just happened