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Speaker 2: Luck and load. So Michael very Show is on.

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Speaker 3: The air, speaking of grapefruits. If you put that pink

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Speaker 2: They call that a Greyhound cocktail.

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Speaker 3: Some people like that, and they put little their cough

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Speaker 2: That's called the Continental Trailways, honey, because you will be

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Speaker 2: gold and black and red all over. What do you

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Speaker 2: call prune juice and vodka? Oh, that's a pile driver.

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Speaker 2: You tell so alcoholic. Why are you gonna try to

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Speaker 2: bust my game?

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure I'm even supposed to announce that I

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Speaker 4: am in possession of it, because that might violate the

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Speaker 4: arc of the covenant.

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Speaker 1: But I have received the email from Richard as of

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Speaker 1: eight point forty this morning, I have received the email with.

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Speaker 4: The note that there will be in addition to that,

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Speaker 4: more to come. I don't know if I don't believe

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Speaker 4: I am. I don't think I am authorized to share

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Speaker 4: the contents at this point. If ever, this may be

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Speaker 4: one of those things like the Kennedy assassination that sixty

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Speaker 4: years later, we're still arguing over how much can be released.

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Speaker 4: But because many of you were concerned. I wanted you

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Speaker 4: to know that, Yes, I am in possession of the email.

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Speaker 1: I am in fact.

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Speaker 4: So let's say your Spring Independent School District. Sure you've

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Speaker 4: had your problems, Sure you're not performing at the level

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Speaker 4: you should. Sure you've got some idiots in charge. But

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Speaker 4: how can you tell the community. Hey, listen, we're the

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Speaker 4: biggest bunch of dumb asses around. Is there one thing.

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Speaker 1: We can do? Well?

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Speaker 4: I suppose you could all go stand naked in the

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Speaker 4: middle of the freeway. No, that's been done before. We

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Speaker 4: need need something that will really enshrine our dumb assery,

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Speaker 4: something that makes people say, how long is that? Wait,

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Speaker 4: this is into posterity. Yeah, well they've done it. The

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Speaker 4: Spring Branch Independent School District Board of Trustees has voted

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Speaker 4: unanimously to rename the Family and Community Engagement Center the

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Speaker 4: Sheila Jackson Lee Center. That happened at their August August

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Speaker 4: board meeting. The superintendent, Lupita Henojosa says, regardless if it

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Speaker 4: Jackson Lee was always by our here at Spring Id

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Speaker 4: like a good dog, always there by your side. She

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Speaker 4: said that she La jacksonally was instrumental during hard times

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Speaker 4: have a dedication for the renamed building after planned renovations.

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Speaker 4: This fall a great honor for a great leader, not

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Speaker 4: La Jacksonlee, and it calls to mind one of her

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Speaker 5: He could keep favorite from that woman regarding something at

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Speaker 6: Doctor jail, Where is it what we're going to see

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Speaker 6: for helping all from you.

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Speaker 2: To leave what I told you about here.

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Speaker 5: I don't want you really, I want you to have

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Speaker 2: I want you to get read it.

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Speaker 5: I want you to be congressman. It was such in

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Speaker 5: such states.

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Speaker 6: That's what I want you.

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Speaker 5: That's the kind of app that I want to have.

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Speaker 5: So some stupid other money did it, and you and

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Speaker 5: I don't have the information.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's sent me.

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Speaker 5: The information I need to ensure my experience schedule and

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Speaker 5: uh you know it.

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Speaker 7: Google did it?

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Speaker 5: App did it?

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Speaker 2: Face did it?

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Speaker 5: And nobody knows what being in my office great nothing.

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Speaker 5: I gave it to you. Your job was to get

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Speaker 5: it on the calendar imprinted in your brain wants to

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Speaker 5: send me the information back, saying Congressman, I made sure

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Speaker 5: that the old ye dunc in teal event that you

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Speaker 2: Nobody's respecting them.

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Speaker 6: Nobody give you what you're doing, and you ain't doing

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Speaker 5: And this is an example of me. I gave it

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Speaker 4: Than Jerome would take his own life three days after

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Speaker 5: I remember when I remember, I remember when I lost

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Speaker 2: That even your emotions have an act. Homicide is the

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Speaker 1: Where's the beef?

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Speaker 4: Does that.

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Speaker 2: I stand here as a free slag? Does that me

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Speaker 6: Ar I am outraged.

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Speaker 2: hmm come home now, who do you go ass grow?

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Speaker 1: Let's show so mister speaker, a madam speaker.

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Speaker 4: These children speak Chinese and Spanish.

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Speaker 2: Well, I make your cries.

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Speaker 8: I'm a problem fall. I believe in texting things, helping metro,

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Speaker 8: keeping pools open when they need to be opened.

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Speaker 2: If you look, you will.

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Speaker 8: See a picture of Leda Pelosi and myself and my

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Speaker 8: colleague from Alabama, Missouves. And how well it is that

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Speaker 8: we have lasted some four hundred years operating under constitution.

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Speaker 2: This is Congresswoman Shila Jackson Lee. Vote a straight Democratic

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Speaker 2: ticket which.

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Speaker 1: Would include the president and all of us.

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Speaker 8: Do not after voting the straight Democratic ticket.

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Speaker 2: Vote individually.

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Speaker 1: It will cancel your vote.

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Speaker 2: Vote a straight Democratic ticket. Who paid for that trip

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Speaker 2: for you to go to that memorial service?

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Speaker 9: Well that those resources are resources that I have, and

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Speaker 9: States Conquerctor Mike understricts.

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Speaker 2: Those resources or resources.

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Speaker 4: Jeremy Rayowski has a story on the use of government assets,

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Speaker 4: in this case planes to travel around the state and

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Speaker 1: You know, there is a.

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Speaker 4: A seductive nature to the private plane that has taken

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Speaker 1: Of people over the years. The concept of.

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Speaker 4: walk right up. No tsa, no public no parking, no hassle,

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Speaker 4: the process on the other end. And if someone chooses

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Speaker 4: in this case Dade Feelin did, is grotesque and disgusting,

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Speaker 4: but not in any way surprising. In fact, it's exactly

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Speaker 4: how do you think that happened. That's exactly what they

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Speaker 4: did for Nicki Haley. It's the same group of people.

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Speaker 4: They are undermining the Republican process, the Republican party process

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Speaker 4: using Democrats, and these are blue blood Republicans. These are

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Speaker 2: Of Karl Roves literally Carl.

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Speaker 4: Row the guys who were paid the big money to

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Speaker 4: surprised Dick Cheney is supporting Kamala Harris. These people don't

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Speaker 4: just hate Trump, they hate you. Never forget that very

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Speaker 4: well done story from Khou's Jeremy Rogowski.

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Speaker 1: Texas politicians are flying on private jets.

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Speaker 10: The tech dot owns four jets that are supposed to

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Speaker 10: be used for official state business, but invesigative reporter or

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Speaker 10: Jeremy Rigalski found some lawmakers using the travel perk or

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Speaker 11: We went through hundreds of flight logs and social media

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Speaker 11: posts and found state leaders who flew to attend family

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Speaker 11: and raised thousands for his own political campaign. Speaker of

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Speaker 11: the Texas House Date Feelin, didn't tell the whole story

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Speaker 11: when he hopped aboard a state jet after a conference.

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Speaker 2: In Austin sellout crowd.

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Speaker 11: As we found, he caught a college football game and

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Speaker 12: The main concern here is that you would want just

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Speaker 11: Beyond transparency, there's Texas law which says the state may

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Speaker 12: A public official should serve the public interests.

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Speaker 11: UH Professor Dan Angster is an expert on ethics and leadership.

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Speaker 12: The ethical thing to do is to use public aircraft

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Speaker 11: Feeling's office told us he always makes every good faith

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Speaker 11: effort to remain in compliance with state Wait.

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Speaker 1: You're right there all on, so we've busted you. Here's

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Speaker 4: You flew on a state plane to a private fundraiser,

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Speaker 4: and so you could go to a football game. How

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Speaker 4: do you respond to the commission of this crime. Oh,

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Speaker 4: we would like you to know that that uh, mister

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Speaker 4: Fieland he always makes every effort to to stay in compliance.

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Speaker 1: With the laws. Okay, but but that that's yeah, he

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Speaker 2: He uh he he uh he.

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Speaker 4: He's a he's a good person and he always does

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Speaker 4: good things. What if you what if you walk up

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Speaker 4: you catch him on body cam and they've just fired

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Speaker 4: and he says, they say, drop your gun. Hey, So

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Speaker 4: y'all know I always make every effort. I always make

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Speaker 4: every effort to comply with with the law and be

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Speaker 4: answering He always makes every effort. I guess that's what

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Speaker 4: his new high powered team around him has taught him

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Speaker 4: to say. They are attempting to will Daid Feeling to

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Speaker 4: be the speaker no matter what, no matter what he's done.

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Speaker 4: And this is why even in the state of Texas.

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Speaker 4: We have had a breakdown in our laws regarding a

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Speaker 4: legal immigration. It's why we have been unable to get

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Speaker 4: school vouchers because they own Dad, feeling absolutely positively own him.

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Speaker 4: And I've set it for years. The only thing more

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean we used to be next door neighbors,

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Speaker 4: We just we just want y'all know we didn't do

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Speaker 2: We'll do it.

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Speaker 4: We got this emergency center over here, and just so

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Speaker 1: Shipley ooh good supporting the local folks. Y'all should support

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Speaker 4: We put some donuts out and some water and that

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 4: Indeed, meanwhile back to drunk Dad, the Speaker of the

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Speaker 11: The law oggs and social media posts and found state

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Speaker 11: Feelin didn't tell the whole story when he hopped aboard

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Speaker 11: As Yet we found he caught a college football game

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Speaker 12: The main concern here is that you would want just

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Speaker 11: Beyond transparency, there's Texas law which says the state may

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Speaker 12: A public official should serve the public interest.

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Speaker 11: UH Professor Dan Angster is an expert on ethics and leadership.

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Speaker 12: The ethical thing to do is to use public aircraft

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Speaker 11: Feelin's office told us he always makes every good faith

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Speaker 11: But it's not just political. We found other flights that

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Speaker 13: It was stunning to see this level of the boring

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Speaker 11: What's more, Dean paid for the flight with campaign funds,

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Speaker 13: There are always going to be other constituents around, but

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Speaker 11: After the graduation, the flight log shows Representative Dean rushed

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Speaker 11: for an historic event, the impeachment proceedings of Attorney General

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Speaker 11: Ken Poxton. But we found another Texas lawmaker who flew

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Speaker 11: bet State Rep. Kol Hefner said he was going on

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Speaker 1: The how's come to order?

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Speaker 11: But oddly enough, the official record shows him on the

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Speaker 11: Hefner's office never gave us an explanation, but we found

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Speaker 13: This was a historic impeachment vote. This was something where

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Speaker 13: It was critical in this period.

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Speaker 11: Perhaps that's why Representative Hefner tried to return to the Capitol.

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Speaker 11: He's a registered pilot, and record show Hefner's single engine

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Speaker 13: Given these records, there's simply just no way he could

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Speaker 11: But even Moro odd, the record shows Hefner did vote,

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Speaker 11: Another lawmaker reaches over to Hefner's empty desk to cast

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Speaker 13: This is called ghost voting.

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Speaker 11: Ghost voting, Yeah, Riding House says it's actually a common practice,

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Speaker 13: The rules are clear that the person the member has

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Speaker 11: Would ghost voting in European ever be acceptable for a

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Speaker 13: This was definitely the biggest vote of that session, if

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Speaker 11: Now. Records show taxpayers paid for Heffner's state operated flight,

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Speaker 11: Speaker Dade Feelin, A spokesperson told us his flight was

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Speaker 11: paid by Texas Tech University donors, and while in Lubbock,

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Speaker 1: A violation of campaign finance laws by the Speaker of

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Speaker 1: the House. Yet again, then again, he's already crapped all

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Speaker 1: over the people of the state of Texas. Well, when't

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Speaker 1: you crap all over our laws?

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Speaker 2: The Michael Berry Show, how about beat my children?

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Speaker 1: And I don't bear killing us without killing you.

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Speaker 4: Can talk to you about seventy four years ago today

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Speaker 4: Anthony Joseph Perry. He would become Aerosmith's lead guitarist. Joe

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Speaker 4: Perry was born.

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Speaker 1: In Lawrence, Massachusetts.

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Speaker 4: He would leave the band in nineteen seventy nine when

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Speaker 4: would the band three years later with their nineteen seventy

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Speaker 4: I'm Sorry nineteen eighty seven album Permanent Vacation, from which

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Speaker 4: this song would return them to glory.

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Speaker 1: The following year. On this day, September tenth, so what

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Speaker 1: would that be Joe Perry's thirty eighth birthday.

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Speaker 4: September tenth, nineteen eighty eight, Aerosmith would be touring to

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Speaker 4: support the album Permanent Vacation, and the opening act on

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Speaker 4: that tour was Guns N' Roses.

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Speaker 1: And on this day in nineteen eighty eight, as they.

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Speaker 4: Opened for Guns N' Roses, that night, they would hit

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Speaker 1: As an as, I'm sure you know about.

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Speaker 4: Axel Rose's relationship with Don Everley of the Everly Brothers Daughter,

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Speaker 4: Ramon, Let's start with Todd Todd, if you're all on,

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Speaker 4: Michael Berry, shall we welcome you to the program.

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Speaker 2: Sir, Thank you, sir.

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Speaker 6: Hey just calling in about the Centerpoint energy stuff. You know,

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Speaker 1: How do you figure that.

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Speaker 6: Just by the rates? You know, So you know, you

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Speaker 6: have a contract that you get into, whether it's a

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Speaker 6: one year, two year contract, and so our contract was renewing,

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Speaker 6: and so we had to turn around and renew a contract.

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Speaker 6: So you know, our costper kill a lot was around

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Speaker 6: seven and a half you know, cents. Well, so now

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Speaker 6: you know we're up in the twelve and a half

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Speaker 6: cent for range. And then we just got the notice

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Speaker 6: from the PUC yesterday that the September increase, which comes

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Speaker 6: from Centerpoint, is now going up another cent.

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Speaker 2: And a half or kill a lot.

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Speaker 6: So we're all in now around fifteen and a half cents,

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Speaker 6: which you know, historically we've paid around nine cents, right,

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Speaker 6: and you know, for the state of Texas be paying

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Speaker 6: these types of rates for electricity on resident it's just crazy.

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Speaker 6: Aside from all the other issues with Centerpoints.

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Speaker 1: How do you know all this? You just look at

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Speaker 1: your bill?

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 6: I also use one of those uh you know those

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Speaker 6: groups that you know, I use one of those those

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Speaker 6: companies that actually broker year energy, right, and so they're

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Speaker 6: out there researching, you know, the figures. But I keep

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Speaker 6: a really close eye on this stuff.

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Speaker 7: Just because it's dollars that are going out of our household,

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Speaker 7: of course. And you know when you sit there and say, hey,

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Speaker 7: my electricity bill is going from one hundred and fifty

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Speaker 7: dollars a month to you know, two hundred and twenty

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Speaker 7: five to two hundred and seventy.

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Speaker 6: Five dollars a month, whatever it is. I'm blessed to

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Speaker 6: be able to afford all that, you know, because I've

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Speaker 6: got a good job. But when I think about people

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Speaker 6: like my mom, you know, who's living on Social Security,

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Speaker 6: and just people that are on fixed incomes, and you see,

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Speaker 6: all of a sudden, your electricity bill goes up, whatever

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Speaker 6: it is, fifty percent, seventy five. You know that's not

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Speaker 6: to mention car insurance. It's not to mention homeowners insurance.

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Speaker 6: This is all unsustainable and it's really really troubling.

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Speaker 2: Todd.

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Speaker 1: Let me add, Let me add to your point.

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Speaker 4: Harris County is about to raise our property taxes eight

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Speaker 4: percent without a vote, a loophole in a state law,

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Speaker 4: after a after a natural disaster, and.

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Speaker 1: You've got a four point four billion dollar.

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Speaker 4: HISD bond proposal when our schools are already failing. So

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Speaker 4: you've got an eight percent property tax increase, a four

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Speaker 4: point four billion dollar bond proposal, as you noted, yet

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Speaker 4: another increase in our electric bill.

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Speaker 1: It is unsustainable.

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Speaker 4: You you are absolutely eating at the core of our

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Speaker 4: people in a way that that I wonder how many

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Speaker 4: people will will sit by for it. And you know,

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Speaker 4: I think of the old line that mice die and

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Speaker 4: mouse traps because they don't understand why the cheese is free,

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Speaker 4: and the same thing happens with socialism.

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Speaker 1: I wonder how many people realize.

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Speaker 4: That all of the giveaway goodies, all of the self dealing,

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Speaker 4: whether it's the state government, the city government, the county government,

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Speaker 4: at some point the bill has to get paid.

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Speaker 1: And that's I think that's where we are. What do

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Speaker 1: you do for living, Todd?

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Speaker 6: I'm a business owner. I owned an industrial services company.

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Speaker 1: What kind of industrial services?

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Speaker 6: We work on trains? Primarily we clean them and maintain them.

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Speaker 6: All the cars, well, we don't work on the locomotives.

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Speaker 6: We work on the cars that actually take products to market.

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Speaker 6: So from the manufacturers to the you know, to the

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Speaker 6: distributors and so on.

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Speaker 1: How did you get into that.

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Speaker 6: I'm driving around one day and I thought somebody's got

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Speaker 6: to work on those things. That was thirty years ago.

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Speaker 6: Come on, no, seriously, Yeah, I'm just you know, I yeah,

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Speaker 6: I didn't go to school for anything. I'd just been

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Speaker 6: out there hustling. And we just celebrated thirty years in business, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, this past may.

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Speaker 1: All right, I've got a drill down. What were you

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Speaker 1: doing when you were driving around? Did you have a job?

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Speaker 6: You know, my partner and I we had started this

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Speaker 6: small business with a little pressure washer in the back

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Speaker 6: of a pickup truck.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I love it, I love you know.

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Speaker 6: We were out there like, yeah, we were washing trucks,

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Speaker 6: we were washing houses, we were washing fences, you know.

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Speaker 6: And then you know, we got this idea to start

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Speaker 6: washing shopping carts at grocery.

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Speaker 2: Stores and that never worked out, that's okay.

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Speaker 6: But and then we yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, absolutely.

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Speaker 6: You know, a lot a lot of ten times of

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Speaker 6: not taking paychecks or employees could.

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Speaker 1: And how many employees do you know?

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Speaker 6: But it's it's been sitting around sixty employees right now.

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Speaker 6: And no college, no, no, none, barely graduated high school.

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Speaker 6: But you know, I get up every day and I

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Speaker 6: go to work.

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Speaker 1: What's the name of your business.

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Speaker 6: Ems management man or you can find us at railcar

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Speaker 6: cleaning dot com.

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Speaker 1: I love this story so much, Todd. I love this

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Speaker 1: story so much. Can you hang on for a second.

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Speaker 1: Sure this should give people hope. Now it's fast. Have

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Speaker 1: works his ass off. I guarantee you.

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Speaker 10: But