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

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Speaker 2: The Michael Varry Show is on.

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Speaker 3: The air, and it really looks like ancient Rome here.

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Speaker 4: This is sort of the conquering Republican caesar who's going

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Speaker 4: into the Colisey and that everyone's cheering and he's got

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Speaker 4: his political gladiators with him. That appearance isn't just about

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Speaker 4: him enjoying the applause. He's sending a message to the

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Speaker 4: Senate for not only are you entertained, but these are

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Speaker 4: my people and are you willing to fight?

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Speaker 3: Because here's who I have.

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Speaker 5: I also want to say a big, big thank you

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Speaker 5: to President Donald Trump for being here to hide.

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Speaker 3: Hey, what do you gotta think about.

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Speaker 6: My version of the Donald Trump?

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Speaker 7: Check it out?

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Speaker 8: You say you have, Let's go. That's what I'm proud.

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Speaker 5: I'm proud to be a great American champion. I'm proud

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Speaker 5: to be a Christian American champion down bad.

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Speaker 9: I think the whole point with these nominees, several of them,

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Speaker 9: is their unqualification, is their affirmative disqualification. That's Trump's point,

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Speaker 9: because what he wants to do with these nominees is

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Speaker 9: establish that the congress Unized States will not stand up

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Speaker 9: to him with anything. If they will confirm Matt Gates,

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Speaker 9: they do anything he wants.

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Speaker 10: Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms should be the name of a

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Speaker 10: chain of convenience stores in Florida, not a federal agency.

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Speaker 10: We need to abolish the ATF before they abolish our

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Speaker 10: Second Amendment rights.

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Speaker 11: What kind of power and influence you think R.

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Speaker 12: FK.

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Speaker 13: Junior would have, you know, Martha, I am outraged because

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Speaker 13: lives are at stake here. The head of Health and

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Speaker 13: Human Services touches programs that affect every single life in

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Speaker 13: our country. I've been focusing mainly on the public health

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Speaker 13: impacts you know. As you know, I'm a pediatrician. I

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Speaker 13: practice pediatrics for more than thirty years, and there's nothing

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Speaker 13: that I've done for my patients that I know has

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Speaker 13: more positive impact then getting them vaccinated fully and on time.

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Speaker 13: And to have someone leading AHHS who is one of

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Speaker 13: the biggest deniers of vaccines in our country would undermine

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Speaker 13: the confidence in that program, and likeli, would cost lives.

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Speaker 6: And that year nineteen eighty nine, we saw an explosion

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Speaker 6: in chronic disease and American children. The neurological disease suddenly

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Speaker 6: exploded in nineteen eighty nine, eight EIGHTHD sleep disorders, a

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Speaker 6: language delays ASD, autism, to reg syndrome, tics, narcolepsy. These

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Speaker 6: are all things that I never heard of. Autism went

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Speaker 6: from one in ten thousand of my generation according to

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Speaker 6: the CDC data, one in every thirty four years today.

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Speaker 14: With the time, I could literally read headlines.

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Speaker 2: Of major news stories for the entirety of this show.

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Speaker 2: So many things happening so fast. Trump had built his

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Speaker 2: transition team already prior to winning so that they could

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Speaker 2: immediately begin to move swiftly and build their teams. He

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Speaker 2: had done so with his own money. Now I don't

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Speaker 2: know if that came from campaign money or his personal money,

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Speaker 2: but he had done it with non governmental money. And

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Speaker 2: the reason he did that was to be in a

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Speaker 2: position that the government could not put moles as they

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Speaker 2: did in twenty sixteen. Again, this is the do over.

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Speaker 2: Can't tell you how many guys I've seen got married,

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Speaker 2: on track, got busy at work, got distracted, didn't pay

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Speaker 2: and sort of neglected the family. They start over twenty

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Speaker 2: years later, second time around, and it's a very different

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Speaker 2: approach to marriage and parenting. Having seen what can happen,

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Speaker 2: the twenty sixteen experience has made Trump a very very

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Speaker 2: different transition period president, and I think will make him

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Speaker 2: a very different president altogether. So Friday Night, the Tyson

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Speaker 2: Paul fight and everyone is disappointed at the end because

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Speaker 2: it was silly. He wasn't a real fight, and deep

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Speaker 2: down people knew that, but they still would have tuned in.

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Speaker 2: Many people saying, oh, this is an extreme embarrassment for Netflix.

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Speaker 2: It's buffering. Netflix is done. Wait a minute, what competition

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Speaker 2: does Netflix have? Netflix made out like bandits in terms

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Speaker 2: But I would assume that as a result of this,

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Speaker 2: a lot of people bought a Netflix subscription that have

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Speaker 2: want the old movies, you go to Prime. You got

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Speaker 2: to have them both because Prime has all the old movies,

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Speaker 2: or have made. But I heard the question starting to

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Speaker 2: be asked in the boxing circle, who sanctioned this? And

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Speaker 2: that made me think about something. This fight probably wouldn't

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Speaker 2: boxing Commission, almost certainly would not have However, was it

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Speaker 2: good entertainment? Are you not entertained? Yes? It was entertainment,

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Speaker 2: a fight that didn't have the traditional trappings of a

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Speaker 2: didn't have the sanctioning, didn't have all the things that

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Speaker 2: people still watch it? Well, there are a lot of reasons,

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Speaker 2: and it's a social phenomena. It's interesting when you step

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Speaker 2: people who watch that who would never watch a boxing match.

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Speaker 2: I love UFC and Chad's a UFC nut, but there

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Speaker 2: is something about the sweet science. Sitting in a chair

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Speaker 2: next to my dad and watching Larry Holmes fight, watching

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Speaker 2: George Foreman, especially in his later days, fight. Oh it

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Speaker 2: was magical. Savarye and Tyson and Buster Douglas and Leonard

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Speaker 2: Lennox Lewis and all of those guys. And it comes

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Speaker 2: down to this, we didn't need anybody to sanction the fight,

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Speaker 2: regardless of what you thought of the quality of the fight,

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Speaker 2: because sanctioning bodies in this country have lost respect, just

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Speaker 2: as the medical industry has lost respect, the FDA has

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Speaker 2: lost respect. Ivy League education has lost respect. Read an

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Speaker 2: article this weekend on how the respect from the general

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Speaker 2: public for a Harvard and Yelle degree has diminished drastically.

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Speaker 2: Sylvester Turner, the mayor and a human being?

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Speaker 8: Will Michael Benshaw?

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Speaker 15: What y'all want me to stay in this here?

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Speaker 8: Fuck?

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Speaker 12: What is this?

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Speaker 1: Evil?

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Speaker 15: Okay? Yeah, how you pronounced the words?

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Speaker 3: Chuckle?

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Speaker 15: Malut Man, the connect tablot who commits. Goodbye to Texas

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Speaker 15: University of Texas, Goodbye to Urge and White Lord, good

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Speaker 15: luck to them. They're on Texas agis there is the

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Speaker 15: boys who knows how to fight. The eyes of Texas

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Speaker 15: is upon you, Yes, Lord, that is the so they

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Speaker 15: think the way they found like hem, oh, goodbye to

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Speaker 15: take the university now far the agg is looking here

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Speaker 15: chick awing a bone, chicken digadoo, hie out what the

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Speaker 15: world did that mean?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's two weeks until the big day. University of

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Speaker 2: Texas and Texas A and M in Aggie Land to

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Speaker 2: be the hottest ticket in America, maybe the hottest ticket

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Speaker 2: in America for a regular season game this year. I

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Speaker 2: don't know that. I have not checked that. I do

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Speaker 2: know that housing is absolutely insane because College Station. How

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Speaker 2: College Station is not built to have that many people

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Speaker 2: at any given time in that town, so supply and demand. Now,

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Speaker 2: first some reason, ticket prices through the roof, hotel prices

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Speaker 2: through the roof. But I don't hear anybody talking about

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Speaker 2: price gouging. Whatever happened to price gouging. If a gas

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Speaker 2: that's price scouching, and we can't have that. We need

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Speaker 2: to put people in prison. We cannot have price couching.

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Speaker 2: We won't stand for it. You will sell us some

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Speaker 2: even if it was hell to get to the station

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Speaker 2: and open up charge more for tickets. Isn't this exciting?

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Speaker 2: That's how we know we're at the right game, because

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Speaker 2: we have our tickets already right, Why isn't that price couching?

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Speaker 2: Somebody tell me how that is not price gouging? Over

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Speaker 2: three thousand I saw it was over three thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: always want to be a town. You don't want to

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Speaker 2: a big city. That's the charm a college town. And

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Speaker 2: it is growing. There are more things growing up around

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Speaker 2: will of course change the nature of the town. But

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Speaker 2: for those for that weekend, and you got to do it,

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Speaker 2: I think it's a three day you've got to do.

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Speaker 2: Who wants to do three days? You can't just roll in,

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Speaker 2: I mean you can you pay ten thousand dollars. You

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Speaker 2: for that night. And the tickets they're already they started

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Speaker 2: or I don't know what happened, But anyway, it is

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Speaker 2: a very exciting event. And one of those things is

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Speaker 2: such a great and proud tradition that Longhorns and Aggies

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Speaker 2: that you know, you get the Chicken Ranch aft. Oh

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Speaker 2: you don't get to chicken No more chicken Ranch. Ramon says,

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Speaker 2: there's no more Chicken Ranch. Uh, what's that?

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Speaker 2: In that location they moved it? Where where did they

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Speaker 2: move it? Ramon? Is it rural? The thing about it is,

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Speaker 2: if the Chicken Ranch was in downtown Houston, I mean,

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Speaker 2: nobody would have cared. If it was out off Ost,

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Speaker 2: It was the fact that the alumni were involved there.

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Speaker 2: It was right now there are some people with a smile,

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Speaker 2: being taken to the chicken ranch. And now they're a

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Speaker 2: bank president. They're on the board of directors of a

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Speaker 2: fortune five hundred company. And yeah, ago, are you playing

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Speaker 2: something in the background. Oh okay, I couldn't hear it.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of great traditions, was twenty five years ago today,

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Speaker 2: that every person, whether you're a Longhorn Aggie, should respect

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Speaker 2: one of the great traditions of university life in this country,

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Speaker 2: one of the great institutional traditions. It was twenty five

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Speaker 2: years ago today. The Aggie bonfire collapse November eighteenth, nineteen

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Speaker 16: Today, the Aggie community will never forget. When the sixty

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Speaker 16: foot tall bonfire structure collapsed on November eighteenth, nineteen ninety nine,

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Speaker 16: twenty seven were injured and twelve died. Five years later,

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Speaker 16: the bonfire Memorial was dedicated on campus on the exact

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Speaker 16: location of the fallen bonfire. Decades later, the community continuing

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Speaker 16: to hold onto the legacies of those who passed. But

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Speaker 16: to Aggie fans, it's more than just burning wood. It

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Speaker 16: started out as a scrap heap in nineteen oh seven,

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Speaker 16: to then a stack of vertical logs. The school says.

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Speaker 16: The fight in Texas Aggi bonfire symbolizes the burning desire

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Speaker 16: to beat the University of Texas in football.

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Speaker 12: It's the embodiment of the Aggie spirit, is what I

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Speaker 16: The bonfire even attracting up to seventy thousand people each

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Speaker 12: But we haven't forgotten about them, and a lot of

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Speaker 12: Before it burns, there'll be an outhouse on the top

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Speaker 2: Aggie's the best way to pay tribute to those kids

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Speaker 2: build new traditions. The best way to pay tribute. The

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Speaker 2: prove it. Bring back the university sanctioned bonfire. It's a

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Speaker 2: to twenty two year old kids. Bring it back. It's

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Speaker 11: Michael, It's been revoked.

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Speaker 7: Don't you so ignorant? This is the state song of

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Speaker 17: Pitches Hamker Texas Iba Texas is.

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Speaker 1: Whistling bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey riders, hooskerdoos, hoosker

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Speaker 1: He was born in Austin. His daddy had a store

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Speaker 1: his mom and maroon. Well, the moral love this story

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Speaker 1: is if you listen to this song, where do y'all

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Speaker 1: think he went to college? Well, you just might be wrong.

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Speaker 1: Well he tried both the universities. You don't have to wonder, how,

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Speaker 1: says with all sincerity, I'm a Southwest extpie kidding now,

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Speaker 1: When your eyes are closed and you're in the dars,

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Speaker 1: the colors are all the same.

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Speaker 17: Just to bend in hearts not playing any games.

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Speaker 12: You can get them and you get.

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Speaker 2: A hook them.

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Speaker 1: One thing will never change.

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Speaker 17: When your eyes are closed and you're in the dark, colors.

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Speaker 1: Are all the same.

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Speaker 12: When your eyes are.

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Speaker 1: Closed and you're in the dark, the colors.

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Speaker 3: Are all the same.

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Speaker 2: A friend of mine went up to Aggie Land this weekend.

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Speaker 2: His daughter goes to school there, and he said, I

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Speaker 2: sat fuel box row eight right behind the Aggie bench.

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Speaker 2: These are my cousin's seats five thousand per for the

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Speaker 2: ut game. My hotel was eight hundred dollars a night,

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Speaker 2: minimum two nights. That was the George. I'm actually surprised

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Speaker 2: it wasn't nicer in that the nicest I mean, it

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Speaker 2: wasn't hiring now in that the nicest hotel. They kind

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Speaker 2: of built the George. From my understanding, I never stayed there.

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Speaker 2: They kind of built the George for the football season,

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Speaker 2: they said, and consider this. That was all for New

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Speaker 2: Mexico State. They've got Auburn this week. Do the Aggies

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Speaker 2: before University of Texas that Auburn team is I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's sec that Auburn team is not it. That's not

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Speaker 2: a layup in the University of Texas has Kentucky, and

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Speaker 2: that's that's the stoopid boys, and they will sneak up

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Speaker 2: on you. Didn't Kentucky sneak up on somebody this year?

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Speaker 2: I feel like they snuck up on huh who, No,

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Speaker 2: Missispi State's terrible this year, Ole Miss. They might have

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Speaker 2: snuck up on old Miss. Yes, I think you're right.

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Speaker 2: They snuck up on Lane Kiffin's team. You know, it's

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Speaker 2: interesting how everywhere I go. I was sitting out with

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Speaker 2: some well to do Texans last week and they said, yeah,

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Speaker 2: nil's fine, but the portal's got to go. What do

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Speaker 2: you think? And I said, well, first of all, when

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Speaker 2: NIL was announced, I said, within five years, the University

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Speaker 2: of Texas will be the top program in the country,

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Speaker 2: and A and M will be a top five program

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Speaker 2: in the country every year. And that has not happened.

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Speaker 2: That's not happened over twenty five years, that those two

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Speaker 2: would be top five teams year in and year out,

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Speaker 2: the way Alabama now Georgia, but the way Alabama and

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Speaker 2: Ohio State have been consistently over a ten year period,

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Speaker 2: that will be the case. Alabama's not this year. I

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Speaker 2: know that you don't. We're talking about programs, overall programs,

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Speaker 2: I said, I could understand if you're sitting in ann Arbor, Michigan,

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Speaker 2: complaining about NIL, But if you're sitting in Houston, Texas

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Speaker 2: as Longhorn or Aggie graduates, you should embrace NIL because

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Speaker 2: UT Incorporated is by far, by far, the biggest donor base,

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Speaker 2: the most engaged. And what's happened for years is the

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Speaker 2: Longhorn and Aggie for that matter, alumni want to win,

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Speaker 2: so they throw money at the program to win. How'd

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Speaker 2: they do it? Overpaid Jimbo bought out Jimbo's contract for

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Speaker 2: seventy six million dollars, built stadiums, built workout rooms. Listen,

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Speaker 2: a lot of these kids have no money, and they

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Speaker 2: know my chances of going to the pros are not

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Speaker 2: that good. If you can pay them top money to

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Speaker 2: come here, you can get the best talent and that

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Speaker 2: will happen, and once that happens, you're a winner. They

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Speaker 2: want to be on national TV, and they want to win,

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Speaker 2: and they want to get paid a bunch of money,

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Speaker 2: not necessarily in that ordering. If you're going to pay

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Speaker 2: them the most money, then you've got to have the portal.

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Speaker 2: But at the end of it, let me ask you,

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Speaker 2: this is this not the best year for the consumer

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Speaker 2: as a TV watcher. Every single week is compelling games.

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Speaker 2: Look at the parody you've gotten the sec along