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

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Speaker 1: Michael Verie Show is on the air.

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Speaker 2: Look at me, sure, look at me. Sure, I'm loo

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Speaker 2: come to know. Sure, sailor, I'm looking right at you.

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Speaker 3: My administration has been taking fast, decisive action to solve

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Speaker 3: this crisis.

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Speaker 2: We'll win the fight against the fraudsters. But the political.

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Speaker 3: Gamesmanship we're seeing from Republicans is only making that fight harder.

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Speaker 3: We've got conspiracy theorists, right wing YouTubers breaking into our

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Speaker 3: daycares demanding access to our children. We've got the President

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Speaker 3: of the United States demonizing our Smali neighbors and wrongfully

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Speaker 3: confiscating funds.

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Speaker 2: The Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's day.

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Speaker 3: Republicans are playing politics with the future of the state.

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Speaker 2: It's shameful.

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Speaker 4: In the past three years, eighty seven defendants have been charged,

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Speaker 4: sixty one convicted. The majority of them are Somali American.

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Speaker 4: Minnesota has the nation's largest Somali population. The perpetrators are

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Speaker 4: accused of ripping off state run programs intended to feed

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Speaker 4: low income kids, house that disabled, and provide services to

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Speaker 4: autistic children.

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Speaker 2: What you're seeing is the ultimate opportunity.

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Speaker 5: Cost of electing a vacuus virtue signaler with no skills

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Speaker 5: at all. While he was pushing tampons and trans and

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Speaker 5: men's rooms, the Somalis were ripping off a state like

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Speaker 5: it was a twenty four hour mini bart.

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Speaker 3: Because I reflect on this moment with my family and

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Speaker 3: my team over the holidays, I came to the conclusion

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Speaker 3: that I can't give a political campaign my all. Every

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Speaker 3: minute that I spend defending my own political interest would

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Speaker 6: You know, Minnesota used to be kind of American Scandinavia,

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Speaker 6: very white, kind of earnest, you know, kind of that

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Speaker 2: Genuine people, decent people. And what you learn is you

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Speaker 2: don't this many Somalis on New York.

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Speaker 6: The Puerto Ricans will kick them in the nuts, they'll

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Speaker 6: kind of battle it out. But in Minnesota, they tried

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Speaker 6: to just love these people to death. The Somalis who

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Speaker 6: came here came from a broken culture, not just a

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Speaker 6: broken country, yes, a broken culture, a culture of chaos, disorder, violence.

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Speaker 6: It's all they've ever known. It's a feral culture. Now,

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Speaker 6: if you took one person here in one person there,

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Speaker 6: you brought them into stable families from an early age.

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Speaker 6: You taught them values, honesty, honor, don't steal, golden rule,

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Speaker 6: all of those sorts of things. You would raise some

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Speaker 6: good people, and eventually this was the old melting pot,

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Speaker 6: they would be inculcated into your values, the way the

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Speaker 6: English did with the peoples of the world who came

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Speaker 6: to this country, the savages who were here before that.

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Speaker 6: We keep, Oh, the pure Indians, good grief. Probably no

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Speaker 6: more savage people on the earth, and the Indians of that. Michael,

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Speaker 6: I'm one eighth Indian. No, Elizabeth Warren, you're not. You're

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Speaker 6: at best one oneenty twelve. You like saying that because

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Speaker 6: it makes you more interesting. I'm part Cherokee?

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Speaker 7: Are you?

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Speaker 6: Which part? What exactly about you is Cherokee? You're not

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Speaker 2: From mom?

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Speaker 6: That's not nice. I shouldn't repeat what you say. That's

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Speaker 6: I got you. But my point is I don't know

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Speaker 6: how I got distracted on all that. Some people that

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Speaker 6: are new to this show might not know that years ago.

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Speaker 2: I had war.

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Speaker 6: I had a war cry out for me because I

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Speaker 6: made the point that Americans who don't like affirmative action,

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Speaker 6: because they're black, because two hundred years ago, one hundred

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Speaker 6: away with that. But somehow they think that American Indians

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Speaker 6: weren't oppressed. They lost a war, and that is true.

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Speaker 6: It's not an insult, that's a fact. And oh, the

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, just just say it feels a

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Speaker 6: and like what when people bought it where they're like, yeah,

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Speaker 6: the matter is, if you know anything about American Indians today,

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Speaker 6: it's some guy named Bob living in Omaha, Nebraska, who

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Speaker 2: And so they got all upset.

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Speaker 6: And I didn't have any real credibility, any capitol built

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Speaker 6: I don't know why that was relevant, but they told

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Speaker 6: I would have him on and I would give him

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Speaker 6: an opportunity. This was back when PC was more PC.

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Speaker 6: Trump's changed a lot of this, but it was determined

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Speaker 6: determined that my penance that I would pay. My community

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Speaker 2: And how white he was bad.

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Speaker 6: So that's what the company required me to do at

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Speaker 2: And so there he went, and then we go to break.

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Speaker 6: And Chief Greedy, I want to know if I could,

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Speaker 6: if I could pay him, and he would come on

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Speaker 6: the show and he would offer his Indian wisdom. Yes,

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Speaker 6: I'll pay you what it's worth. But you're not good

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Speaker 6: for ratings. You're not very smart, you're not very clever.

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Speaker 6: You take yourself seriously, and you're kind of like that

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Speaker 2: I'm not even sure you're Indians. This is the Michael

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Speaker 2: Berry Show. To all of our.

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Speaker 8: Listeners on w j B O in Baton Rouge or

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Speaker 8: over the country, we wish you a.

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Speaker 2: A delightful commencement.

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Speaker 6: To Marti Grass, our official coon advisor, Anna Johnson, you

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Speaker 6: sent me a message this morning that said happy Epiphany.

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Speaker 2: That is King's Day. You can now officially eat kingcakes

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Speaker 2: Every year.

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Speaker 6: Marty Gross season begins on Twelfth Night, which is January sixth.

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Speaker 6: Twelfth Night represents the Christian Holy day of the Epiphany.

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Speaker 2: The season is a.

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Speaker 6: Time of celebration before Christian Lent and as you know,

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Speaker 6: lasts until a fat Tuesday. January sixth marks the feast

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Speaker 6: of the Epiphany, when the Three Wise Men visited the

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Speaker 6: Christ Child in New Orleans. It also means the launch

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Speaker 6: of Carnival season or Carnival. So happy Carnival. May the

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Speaker 6: odds be ever in your favor. Now you might be

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Speaker 6: thinking to yourself, I thought you grew up on Louisiana border.

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Speaker 6: I thought you would have known all these seasons. I did,

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Speaker 6: but maybe not recalling every detail exactly. And my dear

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Speaker 6: People do that for me all the time, about Moravian

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Speaker 6: culture or anything else, any number of things, how cars work,

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Speaker 6: how ships work, how the military works. Some people think

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Speaker 6: just not true. It's erroneous to believe that everyone should

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Speaker 6: know everything you know. It'd be boring if we all

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Speaker 6: I love that stuff, absolutely love it. So that is

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Speaker 6: things that they know about. So with Marty Grass beginning,

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Speaker 6: I'm sure the Rendazzos will be selling a lot of kingcakes,

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Speaker 6: you know, it's fascinating stories like that, the first generation

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Speaker 6: The Randazzos were that way and you know, uh, he

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so they battle over over the names and all.

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Speaker 2: I love that. I love that kind of drama. Fascinating stuff.

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Speaker 6: Raio's Bakery in Beaumont, long time Big Marti, Gras Cake,

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Speaker 6: MiG King cake Maker. It's a great tradition, you know, Louisiana,

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Speaker 6: in my opinion, Louisiana has the most distinctive traditions that

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Speaker 6: still signs my charity. They are as as Louisiana as

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Speaker 6: He is His dad owned a company, an import company,

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Speaker 6: just they melded into this very cultural identity that was

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Speaker 6: more cultural. Yes it's Catholic in nature, yes it's French

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Speaker 6: You could be Catholic or Evangelical. You could be black

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Speaker 6: A Portland thug sentenced to life in prison for murdering

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Speaker 6: This woman did not deserve what happened to her. This

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Speaker 6: The story, if you will from Katu TV in My

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Speaker 7: The story begins in twenty twenty two, when Rachel Abraham

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Speaker 10: Despite that clear danger, the defendant was released from custody

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Speaker 7: The Portland Freedom Fund disbanded after the controversy over Abraham's murder,

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Speaker 2: We don't show up though, Hey, this person should really

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Speaker 7: Terence Hayes says, his organization would provide employment opportunities in

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Speaker 6: lot of time interacting with listeners through email because it's

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Speaker 6: my best form of show prep. If somebody says I'm

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Speaker 6: a blacksmith and you were talking about blacksmiths the other day,

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Speaker 6: I start firing off questions, Hey, where are you a blacksmith?

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Speaker 6: How long have you done that. Can you make any money?

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Speaker 6: What's the biggest challenge? What's the hardest thing about it?

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Speaker 6: How's the business?

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Speaker 2: I mean, when are you going to have a living,

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Speaker 2: breathing Sure you can do chat, GPT or grock or

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Speaker 2: whatever you do, but those things are just data at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, They're just data. This is a.

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Speaker 6: Living, breathing human being who may not have wanted to

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Speaker 6: be a blacksmith when he grew up, or maybe his

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Speaker 6: dad was a blacksmith and he always wanted to be

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Speaker 6: a blacksmith. But I mean, you're talking about doing something

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Speaker 6: that goes back to for centuries, right, So anyway, I

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Speaker 6: do love when you send me emails. Michael Berryshow dot

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Speaker 6: com is a website and it says, send Michael an email.

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Speaker 6: It comes straight to me. So I get any from

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Speaker 6: a fellow named Gary Herod and he says, when will

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Speaker 6: this eir ever end? Florida congressman indicted was the subject.

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Speaker 6: I missed this story when it broke. Obviously mainstream media

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Speaker 6: is not going to cover it. Found the article buried

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Speaker 6: deep in my local conro paper. Oh this is north

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Speaker 6: of This guy lives in Houston. While enjoying a nice

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Speaker 6: lunch at the Greenoes on I forty five North in Conro.

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Speaker 6: Always a treat when I have time to pop in.

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Speaker 6: That is a restaurant that he knows. It's owned by

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Speaker 6: a friend of mine. He has twenty twenty three Text

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Speaker 6: mex restaurants, very very popular. Text mex has become the

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Speaker 6: most popular cuisine in Houston. And if you're outside of Texas,

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Speaker 6: you would call it Mexican food, but it's not Mexican food.

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Speaker 6: It is a unique blend that is a regional cuisine

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Speaker 6: that is really special to our region and nobody else

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Speaker 6: does it well. And I'm sorry for you if you

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Speaker 6: live outside of Texas, but your text Mex is not

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Speaker 6: tex mex and your Mexican is not Mexican. It's some

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Speaker 6: asteridized version. But that's another subject for another day and

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Speaker 6: why that is the case. But this is about a

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Speaker 6: congress This was a sitting congressman.

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Speaker 2: Florida.

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Speaker 6: Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus McCormick, Democrat from Florida.

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Speaker 2: Of course she knew she was a Democrat, was.

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Speaker 6: Indicted in November twenty twenty five on federal charges including

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Speaker 6: conspiracy theft of five million dollars in FEMA funds, money laundering,

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Speaker 6: false statements stemming from an alleged scheme to disaster relief

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Speaker 6: funds meant for her family's healthcare company for personal use,

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Speaker 6: including her twenty twenty one campaign. Every single day there

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Speaker 6: is something about fraud in government, maybe not on the

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Speaker 6: scale of the Somali fraud, although I believe there's a

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Speaker 6: thousand of those around the country, daycare centers that are

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Speaker 6: getting millions of dollars that don't even exist. And if

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Speaker 6: you ever notice, the most likely money that is going

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Speaker 6: to be stolen by Democrats is always in some sort

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Speaker 6: of a fund or account or intention of do gooderism.

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Speaker 6: It's always a children's program, it's always a poor people's program.

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Speaker 6: It's always an emergency relief program, which makes it even

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Speaker 6: more disgusting if you think about it, but it should

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Speaker 6: tell you something. These con artists, and that's what they are.

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Speaker 6: The way they get more money to be spent is

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Speaker 6: to talk about the children and the poor people. They

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Speaker 6: may throw in the minorities, I may occasionally throw in

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Speaker 6: the old people, but usually it's the children and the

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Speaker 6: poor people. And everybody says, ah ah, here's awesome alms

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Speaker 6: for the poor. Well do children and poor people, and

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Speaker 6: then nobody ever follows up and money just pours into

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Speaker 6: these things. The amount of money that is stolen from

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Speaker 6: DEI programs we used to call them affirmative action. The

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Speaker 6: amount of money that is stolen from scholarship funds. The

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Speaker 6: amount of money that is stolen from do gooder causes

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Speaker 6: by evil Democrats who constantly talk about caring for people

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Speaker 6: and compassion. Shut them all down. Shut down the funding

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Speaker 6: for non government organizations. Americans are tired of handing money

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Speaker 6: to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Speaker 2: And guess what.

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Speaker 6: Their funding was cut by Congress and they have dissolved

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Speaker 6: the private quote unquote nonprofit corporation after fifty eight years.

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Speaker 6: They were getting billions of dollars to tell us that

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Speaker 6: Americans were racist and Democrats were great, and the Clintons

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Speaker 6: were heroes and Obamas and now they.

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Speaker 2: Don't exist anymore.

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Speaker 6: And guess what, that's just the start stop fund being

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Speaker 6: all of this nonsense. Go into every public school. Cut

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Speaker 6: the budget in half. No more, illegal aliens go into

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Speaker 6: every hospital. Cut the illegal aliens, cut the budget. Take

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Speaker 6: your country back good pray Paul Ready. I love you, folks,

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Speaker 6: I love everything you stand for. I love your service

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Speaker 6: to this country. I love your patriotism, I love your votes,

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Speaker 6: I love your willingness to stand up.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you.

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Speaker 6: We get to do what we do because you support

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Speaker 6: what we do and you support our sponsors, and I

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Speaker 6: love you for it. Now send me an email, tell

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Speaker 6: me who you are and where you are, and I'll respondent.

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Speaker 2: Good thank you, and good night,