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Speaker 1: that's a bad call. Kent with Little Yacht Sales dot Com. Yes, sir,

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Speaker 4: Hey, sorry to take you off speakerphone there. I just

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Speaker 4: I'd say little yacht thirty two feet the Bertram MAPI

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Speaker 4: And let me tell you why. I've run this boat

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Speaker 1: If I buy a boat. I got to buy it

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Speaker 4: Breakfast Burritos? Anonymous? I had it there at Inversion coffee House.

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Speaker 5: I would say we're starting to get younger and younger buyers,

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Speaker 1: And is this younger crowd did they grow up boating

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Speaker 5: I think people kept the boats, they enjoyed the lifestyle

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. I'm surprised somebody new to boating would come

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Speaker 5: It's it is but it's like learning anything. Once you

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Speaker 1: You know, I guess my question would be, I didn't

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Michael Barry.

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Speaker 1: All right, see Kent.

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Speaker 1: So the boating business today right now, if you were

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Speaker 5: I think it's already happened. Twenty twenty four was quite

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Speaker 5: We've been busy since the election and had the best

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Speaker 5: Well, we usually would do about one hundred and seventy

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Speaker 5: We've done about one hundred and seventy five, but in

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Speaker 1: What's the top month for boat sails? April and May

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Speaker 5: It is, but we've been as busy because of the

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Speaker 1: Where do you keep your boats?

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Speaker 5: We're well, I've got two offices, one at south Shore

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Speaker 1: I used to do that boat club Carefree Boat Club,

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Speaker 1: I wasn't in the yacht business, although I did go

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm lazy keeping if I if I if I

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Speaker 1: That I think about that the whole. It kind of

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Speaker 5: No, they're not. There's vacancies, and I can tell you

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Speaker 1: So we we we've leased a house over the years

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Speaker 1: and you they they haven't had a slip available in

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Speaker 1: But that was kind of my you know, my barometer

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Speaker 1: of there's not a lot of space for boats Kent.

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Speaker 1: Thank you Buddy Sales dot Com. Damn it all right,

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Speaker 1: this is Mark Chestnut and jar Bizaar of talk radio.

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Speaker 1: Let's say you're an enterprising criminal, not a violent one,

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Speaker 1: Do you remember Romo check that? I think it was Dillinger.

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Speaker 1: They thought he had some big issue with the banks,

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Speaker 1: Banks are bad people. And they asked him Dillinger, It

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Speaker 1: So so the press is asking him. You know, they

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Speaker 1: So with that in mind, you're thinking to yourself, I

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Speaker 1: gonna go take some money from somebody else that has money. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So where do I go on?

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Speaker 1: Connie and Billy's it a Corey Diamond. No, that place

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Speaker 1: is like Fort Knock, sir. Okay, uh, well, gringos, they're

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Speaker 1: they went hard coor don't try, that's a waste of time.

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Speaker 1: Let's see Eddie Martini's house. No, his wife is his

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Speaker 1: armed Ramone's house. No, nobody knows where he lives. Let's

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Speaker 1: see who would we rob?

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Speaker 2: Who would we rob?

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Speaker 1: That will have a bunch of money?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Family Dollar? Yeah, yeah, let's go. Let's go steal everything

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Speaker 1: we can at the Family Dollar because if we make

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Speaker 1: out of there with a thousand items, we've got one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars worth of stuff. Because this stuff's not worth

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Speaker 1: a dollar. They is sell it for a dollar. Family

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Speaker 1: Dollar not the most lucrative spot. A couple along with

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Speaker 1: their nineteen year old son, these are real smart ones

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Speaker 1: arrested for a series of robberies at Family Dollar in

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Speaker 1: the Houston area. But you know, it's a family that

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Speaker 1: prays together, the family that robs together. And I guess

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Speaker 1: you got to give them credit for that clip number fourteen,

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Speaker 1: ABC thirteen.

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Speaker 6: The everyday low price is at Family Dollar apparently not

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Speaker 6: low enough for one family. They'ren and Jennifer Whittle, as

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Speaker 6: well as Jennifer's nineteen year old son, Gavin Harper, accused

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Speaker 6: of robbing six dollars stores from May twelfth to June twenty.

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Speaker 7: Seven, and there was a black ski mask.

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Speaker 6: The ron Wittle looking incredulous at times. It's the tail

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Speaker 6: of his alleged crimes were read out in court. Investigators

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Speaker 6: say the couple and their son would frequently case stores

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Speaker 6: before deciding unwanda rob It soon attracted the attention of

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Speaker 6: undercover officers who set up surveillance.

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Speaker 7: He can also be seen on video in the store,

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Speaker 7: distracting the employees while the step son robs the store.

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Speaker 6: Their alleged crime spree came to an end Friday. A

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Speaker 6: police say they saw them pull up to this Southside

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Speaker 6: family Dollar. They say the Wittles waited in their car well,

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Speaker 6: Harper got out and robbed the store at gunpoint.

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Speaker 7: Told the clerk he was going to buy some chips.

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Speaker 7: When she opened the register, he pulled out a gun

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Speaker 7: on the employee, telling the employee give me all of

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Speaker 7: the money or I will shoot you.

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Speaker 6: Police say he only made off with a little more

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Speaker 6: than two hundred dollars. Officers moved in and arrested him

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Speaker 6: and his parents as they were driving away. According to

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Speaker 6: the couple's public defender, both husband and wife are disabled

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Speaker 6: and lonely. Moved to Houston a few months ago. Record

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Speaker 6: show they most recently lived to Kentucky, where Deron Weddell

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Speaker 6: is due in court for an unknown offense next month.

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Speaker 1: He does have a daughter that's blind, his wife, and

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Speaker 1: seven children six months to twenty one years old.

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Speaker 6: Lots of kids, and, according to the hearing officer, lots

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Speaker 6: of out of state arrests, twenty in total.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, your defense of these armed robbers is

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Speaker 1: that they're disabled and blind with a bunch of kids.

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Speaker 1: How about you stop having so many kids? How about

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Speaker 1: you stop being arrested? Twenty kids, twenty arrests. Huh honey,

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Speaker 1: we gotta go celebrate. We got another baby. We gotta

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Speaker 1: go do another stick up, and then maybe we'll come

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Speaker 1: home and have sex again. That's your defense, is that

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Speaker 1: you're disabled. It's an armed robbery. Can you imagine the

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Speaker 1: cop that has to arrest these people? Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: what he's thinking.

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Speaker 8: In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by

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Speaker 8: two separate and equally important groups, the police who investigate

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Speaker 8: crime and the district attorneys who prosecute the offenders. These

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Speaker 8: are their stories.

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Speaker 3: You see. The thing here is Pal, I don't understand

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Speaker 3: why why the family Dollar Store because we needed them

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Speaker 3: dollar Yeah, I know that, But why the family dollar Store?

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Speaker 3: I mean, why not let's say the Dollar Tree or

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Speaker 3: the Dollar General. Because we are a family who robb together.

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Speaker 3: We robbed a family dollar. We've been in an army. Hell,

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Speaker 3: that Dollar General'll be out of them dollars. You feel

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Speaker 3: a dollar? I think so, But by all means, please go.

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Speaker 3: It's like this, Every store name for the people who's

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Speaker 3: supposed to shop there, right. I don't go to no

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Speaker 3: McDonald's because I ain't irick. I go to that Burger King.

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Speaker 3: Let mean guess because serra King. You know that's right.

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Speaker 3: So let me see if I got this here right there? Genius,

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Speaker 3: you contend that every story is named for the people

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Speaker 3: who shop it. That's what I've been saying.

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Speaker 7: Dog.

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Speaker 3: So if you're not a cartoon sailor, we don't live

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Speaker 3: in Kentucky, where do you buy your fright chicken?

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Speaker 6: Yo?

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Speaker 3: We Christian folk. We eat at that churches, man, because they'

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Speaker 3: not denomination and all that stuff. Okay, now I'm really

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Speaker 3: curious where do you go for your shoe? I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: tell you what now, no shoe carnival. I ain't no

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Speaker 3: clown if that's what you saying. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: what about Wings yo? I'm gonna tell you right now,

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Speaker 3: I don't dig on no bises to forget that Buffalo

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Speaker 3: wild Way. I live up in that motropolist dog, Big

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Speaker 3: City Wing.

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Speaker 1: Wait, you managed to work in a show sponsor in

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Speaker 1: a in a comedy bit.

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Uh, Jim Mudd and Daryl Kunda bonuses all the way around.

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Speaker 1: I mean Big City Wings will have to pay for it. Ramon,

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Speaker 1: play that last fifteen seconds. I did not see that coming.

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Speaker 1: Play the last fifteen twenty seconds of that bit. I

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Speaker 1: don't what.

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Speaker 3: About Wing yo, I'm gonna tell you right now, I

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Speaker 3: don't dig on no bisones. So if we get that Buffalo

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Speaker 3: wild Way, I live up in that motropolist dog, Big

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Speaker 3: city Way.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's clever, I really honest it. One more time?

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Speaker 1: Play that last little bit. How does that work?

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Speaker 2: Hey? Guys?

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Speaker 1: Uh, we managed to work you into a bit?

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Speaker 3: What about Wing yo? I'm gonna tell you right now,

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Speaker 3: I don't dig on no bisones. If we get that

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Speaker 3: Buffalo wild Way, I live up in that metropolis dog

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Speaker 3: these city Wing

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Speaker 1: Days around July, I love you day day