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Speaker 2: The Michael Dairy Show is on the air. Shout on

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Speaker 2: to my fact. Take this job and shove it. Joey,

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Speaker 2: you like movies about gladiators get down in the prone,

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Speaker 2: but sometimes I get the minstrel crabs for your card.

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Speaker 2: This time you pick on tupaks.

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Speaker 3: You gonna sit down in the kitchen and pix me

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Speaker 4: Make my head a.

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Speaker 2: Little high in the whole day, crack his wax.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna lay around the shamdy warm and put a

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Speaker 3: good boy. I'm a guy who can get it for

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Speaker 3: a time cigarettes, a bag of briefer.

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Speaker 1: Profess your thing.

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Speaker 2: Will pass to me, a baby will pass it to me.

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Speaker 1: Slow.

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Speaker 2: We'll take time off to smile a little before.

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Speaker 1: That head go.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna lay around the shampy mom and bought a

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Speaker 2: good buzz on. We have a cast that gorilla would

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Speaker 2: escape from the zoo and punched you an I.

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Speaker 3: You see this story about the guy who got somehow

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Speaker 3: got HIV from a toilet.

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Speaker 2: No, there's always room for more fell in a lighted

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Speaker 2: shut up and clothes. Or because they're gonna lay around

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Speaker 2: the shampy Mars reading the article. It's scary.

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Speaker 3: Apparently the best I can tell, he sat down before

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Speaker 3: the other guy got up.

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Speaker 2: Ed, you're on the Michael Berry Show. What you got?

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Speaker 1: Uh?

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Speaker 5: Well, I normally agree with you on just about everything.

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Speaker 5: But I noticed, you know, voted here recently, and I

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Speaker 5: noticed on your ballet you switched positions on the one

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Speaker 5: thing I haven't agree with you on, and that's the terms.

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Speaker 5: I know it's like your proposed that he were before

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Speaker 5: the term limit books, and I'm curious about this.

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Speaker 3: Ways, Yeah, that's a good question. I'm glad you asked.

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Speaker 3: That's why I went to you first. Let me say this.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna put you on whole for a second. I'll

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Speaker 3: come back to you just so it doesn't make noise

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Speaker 3: in the background. There were ten ballot propositions, and term

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Speaker 3: limits was right in the middle, like five or six.

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Speaker 3: So if I was four nine out of ten and

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Speaker 3: you noticed on of my ballot positions, but I didn't

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Speaker 3: endorse or I didn't I didn't put anyone down as

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Speaker 3: And there were races where I kind of thought. I think, oh,

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Speaker 3: I tried to keep it as small as possible so

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Speaker 3: So if I said yes on one through five and

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Speaker 3: still would have done if I was adamantly opposed to

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Speaker 3: term limits. My position on term limits is not good

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Speaker 3: for political discussion because people don't like nuance. People like

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Speaker 3: good and evil, fat and skinny. And this is what

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Speaker 3: people This is how people like Crenshaw. This is how

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Speaker 3: the experts out of DC or cornets people Crenshaw's people corner.

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Speaker 2: This is what they do. They twist up the voter.

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Speaker 3: Into a pretzel so that the guy that is voting

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Speaker 3: that you want. The guy who works hardest against Trump's

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Speaker 3: agenda is made to be Trump's right hand man, and

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Speaker 2: And this is a great example.

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Speaker 3: I will say, I will tell you my position on

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Speaker 3: term limits, and that has not changed, and that is

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Speaker 3: that you can accomplish what term limits do without needing

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Speaker 3: term limits. People have taken that to mean, oh, well,

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Speaker 3: you were against term limits, now you're form what happened,

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Speaker 3: and it's not that at all. My point has always

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Speaker 3: been stop trying to change the system procedurally when you

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Speaker 3: this and there's gonna be a checkpointing. It's not that hard, right,

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Speaker 3: There are rather simple fixes. And I've said all along

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Speaker 3: Feel like nothing works and they're going to fix everything

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Speaker 3: by writing laws.

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Speaker 1: What we'll do.

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Speaker 3: We're frustrated that Dan Crenshaw gets to Congress and treats

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Speaker 3: treats us like crap. So what we'll do is we'll

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Speaker 3: put in place term limits. And so what I tell

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Speaker 3: I was elected a city council because there were three

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Speaker 3: that happened, and then nobody could stay more than six years.

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Speaker 3: And I will tell you, having studied city council before

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Speaker 3: didn't get a better city council because of term limits.

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Speaker 3: And the reason was you ended up increasing the power

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Speaker 3: of the bureaucrats, and bureaucrats knew because of term limits

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Speaker 2: You'll be gone before you know it.

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Speaker 3: Right, So now you just replaced bad politicians with bad bureaucrats.

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Speaker 3: In both of those cases, the citizenry is not being

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Speaker 3: well well represented. People really want term limits, and I'm

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Speaker 3: okay with that. That's what people want I'm not against it,

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Speaker 3: but I still maintain that there are term limits, that

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Speaker 3: we have the power to impose every single election, vote

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Speaker 3: against every single incumbent.

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Speaker 2: How about that? Do it?

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Speaker 3: Do it this time, every income vote against every single incumbent, Cornyn,

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Speaker 3: show all of them. That'll send a message. There are

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Speaker 3: people who who gin up these movements. And we're gonna

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Speaker 3: get prayer in school. Our problem is not the lack

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Speaker 3: of prayer in school.

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Speaker 2: That'll be good. But are you really going.

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Speaker 3: To have the transgender teacher with purple hair and you go,

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Speaker 3: you got pray, crazy man woman creature thing, and that's

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Speaker 3: going to solve it with her. No, the problem is

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Speaker 3: that you put that creature in the school. The problem

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Speaker 3: is the administrators don't care about the kids. The administrators

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Speaker 3: are just trying to raise money for for more buildings

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Speaker 3: because that's how they get promotions.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna do a balanced budget amendment. Well we can't

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Speaker 3: needing an amendment, for sure.

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Speaker 2: Vote for term limits. Apparently that's a big deal. Vote

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Speaker 2: for termaments. Vote for them all day. Put term limits in.

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Speaker 2: Everything's going to be great.

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Speaker 3: Thank god, we won't have Trump another term yes on

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Speaker 3: term limits is that if you're happy? Drove past the

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Speaker 3: karate studio yesterday, it said it was for amputees called

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Speaker 3: Marshall sor it was called partial arts. Let me do

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Speaker 3: that again. I drove past a karate studio yesterday for amputees.

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Speaker 3: Said it was called partial arts. John, Are you the

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Speaker 3: one that called about term liaments?

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Speaker 1: That was ed?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Was that Ed?

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Speaker 2: I was curious?

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Speaker 1: This is John. I wanted to thank you for something

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Speaker 1: you triggered. Your show triggered a high school memory for

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Speaker 1: me that I had about forgotten about. You were talking

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Speaker 1: for the senior years. My senior year. Now, this was

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Speaker 1: And the center was the biggest guy in high school

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Speaker 1: Then I looked at the quarterback with the scissors. Todd Hell,

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Speaker 1: and it got interested in The guy that cut my

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Speaker 3: I bet John, are you the one that used to

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Speaker 1: Oh it's well, you know one reason I'm not in

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Speaker 1: lot of smoke, three joints.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's fine, but you used to sound like a

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Speaker 3: guy that was just gonna fall off in a ditch

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Speaker 3: sound I wasn't even sure that was you.

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Speaker 5: Oh you, I.

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Speaker 4: Think you did some of them.

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Speaker 1: By the way, let me tell you another thing. This

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Speaker 1: found a place called Tippy's Taco that's a Greek restaurant

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Speaker 1: the cheerleader on the Metro going home. I mean, nothing

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Speaker 1: just a fun thing to remember.

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Speaker 3: Well, of course, you know it's funny. I've heard that

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Speaker 3: you should read Huckleberry Finn three times in your life,

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Speaker 3: because you will identify with three different characters, you know,

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Speaker 3: being born in seventy and I was coming up, hippies

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Speaker 3: were it was bad.

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Speaker 2: It shouldn't be a hippie, bad person.

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Speaker 3: And then as I got into my twenties or so,

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Speaker 3: I had a different view of hippies. And now I

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Speaker 3: think to myself, man, wouldn't every conservative, Christian, patriotic American

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Speaker 3: what would you give to go back to the days

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Speaker 3: where your biggest problem was hippies?

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Speaker 2: Imagine that. Imagine when that's what you were worried about.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So in your job, your clients want to get

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Speaker 3: And then when we're done, well, we'll have a law

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Speaker 3: So you're going to lose that, So now you're going

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Speaker 3: a second, I don't want Congress to be able to

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Speaker 3: Congress is in the business of regulating your life and

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Speaker 2: None of it is from Congress.

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Speaker 3: There is the worship of God, government by people in government, educators.

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Speaker 3: And that's that's American history as we know it. But

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Speaker 1: Wished me off every day to see what's going on

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Speaker 3: Eliah sar Herrera sent me a message said thank you

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Speaker 3: You probably don't remember me. We were both in drafting

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Speaker 3: was mostly depressed at the time, and for somebody to cheer.

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Speaker 2: Me up it made my day.

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 3: After graduating from TSTI, I worked for a few years

443
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Speaker 3: at Eagle Couch there in Brownsville. I ended up here

444
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Speaker 3: in Houston in nineteen ninety seven. I've been here ever since.

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Speaker 3: Every now and then, I wonder where would I be

446
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Speaker 3: if you hadn't stopped me and talked to me that day.

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Speaker 3: I have two grown daughters and a grandson, So I

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Speaker 3: would like to thank you. I like to think that

449
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Speaker 3: I'm successful, and I've got you to think. I hope

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Speaker 3: you're doing well and having a good life. I've looked

451
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Speaker 3: you up on Facebook, but it wasn't sure if you'd

452
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Speaker 3: get the message, so I thought I might as well

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Speaker 3: do it now.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. I'm Eli sr. Herrera.

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Speaker 3: You know it's amazing to me. I get emotional over

456
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Speaker 3: things like that because you come across people in life.

457
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Speaker 3: You know, John who called earlier, who's had some rough times.

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Speaker 3: Some of you will remember. I think it's Mark, who's

459
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Speaker 3: at the halfway house in San Anton, who'll call in.

460
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Speaker 3: I've had relatives like this who they are very frustrating

461
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Speaker 3: and you can love them to death, and sometimes you

462
00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 3: just enable them by doing this. I've had relatives and

463
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Speaker 3: friends who end up in this situation where they they

464
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Speaker 3: just can't get it together and they're not proud of it.

465
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Speaker 3: They'll usually make a couple of babies that they have

466
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Speaker 3: nothing to do with along the way. Maybe they started

467
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Speaker 3: with their first marriage started out okay, but by the

468
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Speaker 3: second or third it was just a well, maybe in

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Speaker 3: my life will be better if I get married kind

470
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Speaker 3: of thing.

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Speaker 2: And they end up.

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Speaker 3: Leaving storage units with all their stuff in it because

473
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Speaker 3: they have to leave their trader in the middle of

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Speaker 3: the night. We've all had this, We've all seen this,

475
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Speaker 3: and you think to yourself, Man, if there was just

476
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Speaker 3: if there was just one fork in the road where

477
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Speaker 3: I could have said, no, no, no, no, don't turn left

478
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Speaker 3: right there, turn right, and instead of being that person

479
00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,879
Speaker 3: who hates their life and hates what they've done to

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Speaker 3: themselves and others, if that person could be proud of

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Speaker 3: the person they are, If that person could be someone

482
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Speaker 3: who would have the pride in themselves to say, hey, I've.

483
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Speaker 2: Done well and I want to thank you.

484
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Speaker 3: Boy, if you could, if you could have that power

485
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:29,359
Speaker 3: and we all do, it'd be creepy if we went around,

486
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 3: you know, kind of like right after you learn the

487
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Speaker 3: Heimlt maneuver, you're waiting on somebody to have someone in.

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Speaker 2: How are you talking? There's everywhere?

489
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Speaker 3: No, no, dude, I'm just conversation, okay, cause I just

490
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 3: learned how it'd be creepy to run around looking for

491
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Speaker 3: that person that's at that fork in the road on

492
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Speaker 3: this day at this time. But you know that's the goal,

493
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Speaker 3: right that someone that that that you do something to

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Speaker 3: change a life. Because no one puts a neon sign

495
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Speaker 3: and says Elia Sar is in a bad spot. He

496
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Speaker 3: doesn't know what he's going to do. He's about to graduate. Obviously,

497
00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:13,159
Speaker 3: college wasn't an option. Didn't think about the military. For

498
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Speaker 3: whatever reason, he didn't realize you could go get a

499
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Speaker 3: technical drafting degree and more importantly, experience and contacts with

500
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Speaker 3: people who want to hire that sort of stuff, because

501
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,760
Speaker 3: drafting was a big deal in those days. He didn't

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Speaker 3: know that was an option. Didn't think of himself as that,

503
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Speaker 3: didn't think of himself as worthy, never been told that

504
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Speaker 3: he was, never felt that he was a lot of

505
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Speaker 3: people going through life like that.

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Speaker 2: A lot of people, a.

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Speaker 3: Lot of women who marry a loser and boy, you

508
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Speaker 3: sure are pretty why'd you marry that guy? Because she

509
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Speaker 3: didn't have any confidence, she didn't think of herself as

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Speaker 3: being worthy, and he's the only one ever paid attention

511
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Speaker 3: to her. There are a lot of people who take

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Speaker 3: jobs that you go, you know, you're the smartest guy

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Speaker 3: in here, Why don't you you? Because that person doesn't

514
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Speaker 3: see themselves in that way. You know, there's a Dunning

515
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Speaker 3: Krueger effect of people thinking they're a whole lot smarter

516
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Speaker 3: than they are. But there is the reverse as well.

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Speaker 3: And I guess that's my challenge to you is to

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Speaker 3: identify those people around No, not you ramon, good lord,

519
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Speaker 3: what's the one where you fall upward until you get

520
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Speaker 3: to the point. If you are the ultimate Peter Prince,

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Speaker 3: can I please finish my point? It's very emotional point

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Speaker 3: I was making us getting choked up. I don't know

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Speaker 3: if you knows getting choked up. Yeah, So that's your challenge.

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Speaker 3: And then you think about how many teachers, like you know,

525
00:29:39,600 --> 00:29:41,920
Speaker 3: we all beat up on teachers because of the bad ones.

526
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Speaker 3: Think of how many teachers have a hundred of those

527
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Speaker 3: stories in the course of their life. Right, they changed somebody's life.

528
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Speaker 3: And by the way, it might not be the English teacher.

529
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Speaker 3: It might be the shop teacher, might be the AG teacher,

530
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Speaker 3: might be the FFA sponsor, that guy, that guy may

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Speaker 3: have changed more lives. Yeah, so up to think about

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Speaker 3: seven one, three, nine, niney nine one thousand m