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Speaker 1: Varry Show is on the air. Oh yes, that.

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Speaker 2: Means it's Friday, heavy day.

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Speaker 3: Or happy day when.

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Speaker 4: G does war, whendy war. When G does war, she.

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Speaker 5: Is away he loves me happy day.

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Speaker 4: Or happy dead?

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Speaker 6: Or have you de.

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Speaker 3: Vin Jesu's war, Oh witty war.

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Speaker 4: When Jesus war?

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Speaker 5: Sheel the way he loved it? A happy day, happy

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Speaker 5: day or a happy day?

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Speaker 3: Happy windy those wars, Oh windy wars.

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Speaker 4: Windy therese war?

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Speaker 5: What three is the way he died to love? Happy day?

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Speaker 5: Happy or happy deal of happy day? Oh happy they.

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Speaker 4: When Jesus war waity war? When G those wars.

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Speaker 5: See the way he needed.

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Speaker 7: To up.

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Speaker 5: The oh good gun.

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Speaker 8: And to get us started, phone lines are open seven

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Speaker 8: one three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three

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Speaker 8: nine nine one thousand and to get us started as

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Speaker 8: we always do, courtesy the greatest executive producer in all

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Speaker 8: the land, Chatticoni Nakanishi, you're a week in review. I

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Speaker 8: don't like putting anything in between two pieces of bread

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Speaker 8: that is not a.

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Speaker 1: Regular meat, like a sandwich.

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Speaker 8: My wife eats cucumber sandwiches with ham and cheese and

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Speaker 8: I'm not for that, and she says, well, you say that,

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Speaker 8: but I put butter on that. I don't want a

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Speaker 1: No, I don't do that.

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Speaker 6: Another Texas Republican is challenging incumbent Senator John Cornyn Wesley

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Speaker 6: Hunt announcing his campaign.

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Speaker 9: For Senate will be the biggest race in the state

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Speaker 9: next year. John Cornin already on the attack going after Hunt.

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Speaker 8: They think Texans are stupid, and if I have anything

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Speaker 8: Texan understands that John Cornan worked very hard and very

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Speaker 8: publicly to keep Donald Trump from running for president. A

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Speaker 8: man accused of robbing a nine year old at gunpoint

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Speaker 8: at a Southwest Houston apartment complex.

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Speaker 5: HBD says this was all over some bags of grocery.

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Speaker 8: She'll say, twenty year old Joelle Alfredrees approached and stole

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Speaker 8: the bags of groceries at gunpoint.

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Speaker 1: You can't fix that. That is a broken human being.

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Speaker 8: There is nothing that guy will ever offer society that

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Speaker 7: Former New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez is facing misdemeanor

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Speaker 7: Court documents say the man, who was working with one

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Speaker 4: He's not a bar.

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Speaker 5: It's midnight, and he's from what the reports are saying,

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Speaker 5: he's doing wind sprints in the alley.

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Speaker 8: Okay, what our own, Daryl Konder, the man was out

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Speaker 8: Sanchez drunk, I'm not gonna be doing wind sprints and

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Speaker 8: beating up an old man. I'm gonna be crushing a

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Speaker 8: double meat cheeseburg. I love covers outside the original genre.

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Speaker 4: Stuck on.

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Speaker 5: The beat.

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Speaker 8: And the way I'm getting the South with you, my way.

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Speaker 4: Light day.

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Speaker 1: It's the Michael Barry Show, mom, But I do my

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Speaker 1: best to free well mostly. All right, we have a guest.

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Speaker 1: Let me take two quick calls so that I can

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Speaker 1: get to her. What's that?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, hold on. That's gonna hold right there,

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Speaker 8: and then the caller you're on, Michael Berry, shall go ahead.

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Speaker 6: On, Corey, don't screw it up.

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Speaker 1: What's that?

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Speaker 6: This is Roger.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Roger, go ahead, I'm.

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Speaker 6: Good, You're good, We're all Michael. I tell you I

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Speaker 6: used to be a Democrat. I'll vote it for Bill

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Speaker 6: and now I don't vote so Democrat, that's for sure.

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Speaker 6: I had something else to say, but I forgot.

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Speaker 8: Well, think about it. Hold on, what was it related

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Speaker 6: On, something I've been thinking of.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, when you think of it, calls back

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Speaker 8: In order to take the next car and give it

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Speaker 8: that this person found when they emailed me. So I'll

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Speaker 8: not quite ten years ago, seven eight years ago or so,

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Speaker 8: needed to get rid of, and they came to me.

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Speaker 8: It wasn't like they came to me and then found

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Speaker 8: And if you ever drive into Richmond, and if you're

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Speaker 8: little tex Mex restaurant right there, Laos I think it is.

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Speaker 8: It's the old style text Mex. It has that same sign.

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Speaker 8: In fact, Larry's Larry's has that same sign. In fact,

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Speaker 8: I talked about that sign at the time. Some of

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Speaker 8: He's up against the cactus and he's got some barrow

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Speaker 7: Right, So.

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Speaker 8: We've got this place and we're willing to make it

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Speaker 8: So for the course of several months, the economic director,

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Speaker 8: don't have time for meetings. Why don't you lay out

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Speaker 8: we're not gonna have drinks. If you have something you

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Speaker 8: we're not doing that. So they lay it out, here's

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Speaker 4: And so.

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Speaker 8: They present that if I think it was if I

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Speaker 8: Would if I would operate it for I think two

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Speaker 8: So I begin my due diligence and I'm searching out everything,

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Speaker 1: You know that this deal is ready to go.

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Speaker 8: And there's an old black guy on the city council

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Speaker 8: to think about this.

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Speaker 1: What do you need to think about?

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Speaker 1: You got a better use of the property?

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Speaker 10: What am I?

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Speaker 8: So they had some fireworks display that night they wanted

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Speaker 8: I'm sitting out walking across them, walking in the mud

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Speaker 10: I did.

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Speaker 8: It wasn't doing them a favor. It was finally a

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Speaker 8: And then pulled the rug out. And so for another

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Speaker 8: about Richmond City Hall because you were a bunch of

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Speaker 8: how you ended up down here, probably some racial thing.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it is.

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Speaker 8: I don't know why you don't like me. I don't

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Speaker 1: I didn't approach them, property wasn't listed. They approached me.

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Speaker 8: They put a lot of time and effort into wasting mine,

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Speaker 8: And it was a bunch of guys that I don't

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Speaker 8: You can't miss it. It's nine oh seven Morton in

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Speaker 8: And it sounds like they're playing the same games. So

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Speaker 1: I didn't know her.

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Speaker 8: Her name is Aubrey Reinhart, but she is our guest.

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Speaker 1: Aubrey, Welcome to the program.

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Speaker 9: Hi Michael, thank you for you had to.

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Speaker 8: Wait through that history so that you would understand why

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and I'm surprised how your ties to this property

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Speaker 9: because I was just looking for support in this navigating

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Speaker 1: So I called.

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Speaker 8: The first time I saw that property, I called the

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Speaker 8: and they met me Uncle Jerry, and I drove up.

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Speaker 8: It was a weekday night when I discovered the house

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Speaker 1: And I lived, you know, forty.

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Speaker 8: So I said, well, it'll take me forty minutes according

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Speaker 8: is fantastic, And I was just blown away by this house.

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Speaker 8: But why don't you tell a little bit about what

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Speaker 8: the City of Richmond has done to you?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I agree with you. The house is absolutely stunning,

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Speaker 9: and it's nearly a century old. And what's happening is

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Speaker 9: I like to restore. I bought this property to restore it,

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Speaker 9: not flip it, not demolish shit, and personally investing to

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Speaker 9: bring this century old building back to life. And I

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Speaker 9: have to work with the city in order to restore

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Speaker 9: the existing building because they don't need code. The new

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Speaker 9: code was written in twenty fifteen for new construction. These

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Speaker 9: the exceptions the variances that I need a I set

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Speaker 9: but they're not positioned on the lot to meet current code.

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Speaker 9: So I've been working with the Planning Department, who recommends

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Speaker 9: approval of every variant because it aligns perfectly with the

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Speaker 9: city's own revitalization goals their Central master Plan. They have

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Speaker 9: a ten year revitalization project and this alignment like leading

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Speaker 9: the charge with it. Because they just published this on

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Speaker 9: Monday the sixth, I went in front of the Planning

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Speaker 9: and Zoning Commission to get approval for this, to help

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Speaker 9: restore it, to get their support and really give them

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Speaker 9: gets restored so I can meet the rest of the code.

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Speaker 9: And the staff gave them the backgrounds and the details

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Speaker 9: and the six variances that I'm asking for, and one

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Speaker 9: commissioner made a motion to deny everything, and the only

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Speaker 9: explanation that he gave is does not meet UDC. Well,

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Speaker 9: I know that. That's why I'm here, because the existing

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Speaker 9: them up and move them, so they're basically saying demolish it.

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Speaker 9: That's their position. In order to meet UDC, the Historic

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Speaker 9: Beautiful CENTRAI old buildings would need to be torn down

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Speaker 9: I can do the same thing. I can do the

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Speaker 9: have to be configured on the lot differently in order

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Speaker 9: to meet code. And I'm shocked by it. The city

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Speaker 9: is doing things like withholding water service. They're not explaining why.

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Speaker 9: I've tried to communicate with them respectfully and work with them,

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Speaker 9: but there's no transparency, there's no accountability, there's no explanation.

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Speaker 9: They don't return phone calls. I'm so frustrated at this

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Speaker 9: point that I'm stuck in this state of limbo. Michael,

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Speaker 9: here's the irony. I don't need the commission's approval to

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Speaker 9: bulldoze everything and build new in order to meet code

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Speaker 9: and do exactly the same thing. Or if I use

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Speaker 9: the existing buildings of commercial properties, I can put a

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Speaker 9: and not someone that has conviction where this is their

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Speaker 9: are proud of. I can't. I can do all that

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Speaker 9: without any approvals, without any variances, but to restore them

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Speaker 9: to residences, I can't they're putting up all this red tape.

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Speaker 9: It would drive people away from their own plan, their

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Speaker 9: that they want to see for Richmond. I'm not a

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Speaker 9: big developer, I'm not a big company. I'm a single

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Speaker 9: claims it wants residents to do. But the message that

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Speaker 9: they're sending is don't bother. We won't help you, We

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Speaker 8: Have There's some deep psychological profile at play here, because

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Speaker 8: it became clear to me that at least some people

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Speaker 8: or New York or Chicago, or there's something going on.

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Speaker 8: And I have heard this complaint that you aren't describing

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Speaker 1: Hold on just a moment, what are you doing, Michael.

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Speaker 10: And all prest lame and not so very old and

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Speaker 10: a girl name. It is to blame.

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Speaker 4: For a low blue for the hearts that never played

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Speaker 4: into We should.

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Speaker 8: See how many bread songs we can get on the

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Speaker 8: air at this calendar year, because I think this is

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Speaker 8: probably number four with my guests all have.

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Speaker 1: You heard that song before?

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Speaker 9: I'm named after that song?

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Speaker 1: Are you serious?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: That was my mom's favorite song when I was born,

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Speaker 9: and she named me after it.

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Speaker 1: You might have been made to that song?

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Speaker 9: Is that's my theme song?

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Speaker 7: Right there?

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Speaker 1: How about that? What are the chances, Ramond? Are your

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 1: Okay, you know Bread's Mormon.

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Speaker 9: I did not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're Mormon.

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Speaker 8: So so have you actually purchased the house the problem

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Speaker 8: in March? Okay, I'll have to ask you off air

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Speaker 8: what you paid, because I was negotiating pretty hard on that,

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Speaker 8: and I was actually very very excited about that property.

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Speaker 8: I didn't get to fight with the city properly over

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Speaker 8: there was this sort of sketchy I don't know what.

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Speaker 8: I don't know if apart those are apartments or section

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Speaker 9: That still the Yeah, it's across the street, across the street.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what is that?

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Speaker 9: It is apartment buildings, and that's there was one person

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Speaker 9: has rightful concerns that that property has a bunch of

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Speaker 9: it's a different owner.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's uh.

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Speaker 8: I don't know how they let that in the downtown

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Speaker 1: We walked.

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Speaker 8: When before I buy a property, I go at night

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Speaker 8: I've bought a fair number of properties over the years.

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Speaker 8: This had one of the worst areas around it.

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Speaker 1: Because of that.

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Speaker 8: I don't think that's just a free market apartment complex.

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Speaker 1: I think that's like a halfway house.

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Speaker 9: It was.

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Speaker 1: It was not good. I mean, I was okay, I was.

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Speaker 8: We were going to figure out how to make this

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Speaker 8: proud when they've got what maybe a halfway house or

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Speaker 8: on down there, and they're acting like this property, which

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Speaker 8: that they're going to guard it. You know what's interesting

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Speaker 8: about this, Aubrey, is that my dealings on this property

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Speaker 8: was years ago, and I think when we emailed yesterday,

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Speaker 8: I was negotiating with.

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Speaker 9: Yep.

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Speaker 8: So that means that property has sat on the market

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Speaker 8: all this time, yes, which means you're not the first

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Speaker 8: first person to reach.

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Speaker 1: Out to me.

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Speaker 9: Yeah. In fact, the prior owner said she reached out

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Speaker 9: selling it based on all the things that I'm going

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Speaker 8: She was in a bad way when I was talking

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Speaker 8: there was a lot going on and I felt horrible

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Speaker 8: for the family, and it was going to be a

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Speaker 8: great deal for both of us, and she was excited

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Speaker 8: about us being there. She was a listener to the show.

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Speaker 8: She and I carried on an email conversation for probably

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Speaker 8: three months afterwards, and I was so excited, but I

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Speaker 8: just couldn't. I didn't have a reason to be in

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Speaker 8: Richmond if I didn't have the building at the end

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Speaker 8: of the street. It used to be a woman mayor

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Speaker 8: who was very reasonable. In fact, I was high on

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Speaker 8: her until the conflict started and she clearly didn't want

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Speaker 8: a battle with the city council. Who is the mayor today?

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Speaker 9: Such a good question. I would have to look it up.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's disappointing because Richmond has so much to offer,

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Speaker 8: such a beautiful beauty. You know, there's as you know,

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Speaker 8: there's that cemetery just around the corner, right there out

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Speaker 8: your front door, about three blocks. I'm sure you've been

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Speaker 8: over there. There is a little bar located there, and

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Speaker 8: it's a perfectly nice bar. But that cemetery has Deaf

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Speaker 8: Smith and some of the Texas historic legends. I don't

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Speaker 8: know if your lifelong textan or care about that sort

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Speaker 8: of stuff, but there are some very very famous Texans

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Speaker 8: buried in that cemetery, and a lot of Texas history

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Speaker 8: is based in Richmond.

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Speaker 9: It is, and there's a lot of great places to go.

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Speaker 9: There's the Italian restaurant Gino's. There's a bar around the

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Speaker 9: corner that does live music.

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Speaker 8: Oh you know what, I just found out Aubrey. My

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Speaker 8: friend John McLear, who owned whose father founded Buffalo Grill

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Speaker 8: many years ago, sent me a message and said Larry's

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Speaker 8: was founded by Mammaepha and that Felix Tierna was involved

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Speaker 8: in It was founded in nineteen sixty and Mamma Ninpha

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Speaker 8: was the one.

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Speaker 1: Who set it up.

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Speaker 9: But that how interesting. I actually have been there. I

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Speaker 9: did go and have some Mexican foods are one evening.

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Speaker 8: It's fantastic. It's absolutely fantastic. All right, I've got about

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Speaker 8: three minutes. I know you had your your surveyor on.

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Speaker 8: I want to get his perspective in. I don't know

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Speaker 8: what that is, but his name is Seth.

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Speaker 1: What do you have for me? Seth?

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Speaker 8: We're still figuring out our phone lines, so we may

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Speaker 8: not be able to get him on.

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Speaker 1: Did you get him on? Seth? Are you there? There

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Speaker 1: we go? Seth? Are you there?

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Speaker 8: We may have to do it another day when we

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Speaker 8: have actual phone lines. We're still figuring out our phone lines.

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Speaker 1: Go on here, Oh there we go?

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Speaker 8: All right, go ahead, my man. I'm short on time,

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Speaker 8: but go ahead, tell me what I need to know.

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Speaker 1: Seth, you think it's on his end, I'm not sure.

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Speaker 9: Do you want me to try to three way him

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Speaker 9: for me?

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Speaker 7: No, it's context. Yeah, I hear anything else going on.

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Speaker 7: But I've worked with Ms Reinhart on this project for

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Speaker 7: the last nine months and the frustrating events that have

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Speaker 7: occurred with the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City

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Speaker 7: of Richmond, not the Planning and Zoning Department, who's done

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Speaker 7: an admirable job of trying to get this project through

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Speaker 7: and recommended approval, the less, It's been difficult, to say

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Speaker 7: the least, to try and get everybody to understand that

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Speaker 7: this property is beautiful and we want to preserve it

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Speaker 7: in every aspect that we can, while at the same

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Speaker 7: time conforming to the revitalization plan that was published in

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Speaker 7: July of this year to do this very thing. And

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Speaker 7: it feels like the Commission is wielding their power simply

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Speaker 7: to wield their power. And that's the only conclusion we

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Speaker 7: could come up with as we walked into what seemed

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Speaker 7: to be a predetermined decision to and I with no basis,

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Speaker 7: no foundation, no evidence and in contradication to the doctrines

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Speaker 7: they're supposed to uphold. And that's where we were left,

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Speaker 7: that delayed.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly how I felt.

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Speaker 8: It was just an arbitrary show of their power because

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Speaker 8: they were very happy to have a little power.

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Speaker 1: That that was exactly what I felt.

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Speaker 7: That's what I explained to Miss Reinhardt day for two

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Speaker 7: hours a month, they wear their crowns and wield their scepters,

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Speaker 7: and and so that's that's where it was left. So

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Speaker 7: Miss Reinhardt is left paying taxes, paying interest, paying mortgage

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Speaker 7: on a structure that she cannot not only not occupy,

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Speaker 7: but cannot bring to fruition.

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Speaker 1: Good grief.

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Speaker 8: City of Richmond should be ashamed. I hope they're overwhelmed

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Speaker 8: with phone calls. I hope they fixed their system. If

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Speaker 8: you have had a crazy story with a government wielding

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Speaker 8: crazy power seven one three nine nine nine, one thousand,