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Speaker 2: Ah, yes, that means it's Friday. I must admit I

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Speaker 2: woke up thinking it was Thursday. Friday got here faster

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Speaker 2: than I expect. It is open lines. Let this wash

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Speaker 2: over you and then let us hear from you.

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Speaker 3: Heavy day, having day?

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Speaker 4: When when it war?

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Speaker 5: Whenos tree the way he loved?

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Speaker 4: Habit or happy day? Happy? You're a happy day?

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Speaker 6: Happy? Didn't Jesus wool many way and Jesus war.

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Speaker 4: See the way he loved. It's a habit, a.

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Speaker 3: Happy day, happy day of.

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Speaker 6: Whindred of bars, Oh many war, winds of war?

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Speaker 5: Three a way of happy day.

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Speaker 3: Anything? Have a happy day? Oh happy day?

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Speaker 4: Winter those walls waity world winter those war was the

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Speaker 7: And with that, the phone lines are open seven one

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Speaker 7: three nine nine nine one thousand, seven one three nine

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Speaker 7: one thousand, and of course you can always email through

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Speaker 7: the website Michael Berryshow dot com. We learned so much

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Speaker 7: this week about what state government is not going to

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Speaker 7: do to help the people of Harris County, where Rodney

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Speaker 7: ellis Boss Tweed has become the overlord of the government.

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Speaker 7: We've watched him replace the district attorney that he hand

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Speaker 7: the African Art Museum that he spent your tax dollars

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Speaker 7: probably actually, if you think about it, it would probably

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Speaker 7: actually make for a good movie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, can you imagine.

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Speaker 4: This fall?

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Speaker 2: Hello, I'm riding the yells, I'm here to looking for

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Speaker 2: African painting.

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Speaker 2: Oh, if anybody had an idea of how much tax

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Speaker 2: When I opened my starry Lena Hidalgo riding, I fell

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Speaker 1: Can we go back to the guy Lena anybody's head.

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Speaker 1: You've got more problems A thousand thieves math lesson that

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Speaker 2: The time has come now to do some inventorial my

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Speaker 4: Now, if you look right behind that lion's head.

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Speaker 1: That looks like a fridge going over some troubled water.

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Speaker 4: Now This year is my favorite.

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Speaker 1: I call it Matilda.

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Speaker 4: Now you look at it.

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Speaker 2: This woman's got a funny face.

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Speaker 1: But were we going to building it to certain apartments?

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Speaker 4: What's behind it?

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Speaker 1: Looks like a park to me? Parks and recreation? We

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Speaker 2: Hello, riding a man is surrounded by troubled warm Erica call.

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Speaker 1: You might remember my mom, Sheila Jackson.

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Speaker 5: Oh damn, Ellis coming to that lace this fall.

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Speaker 8: I have a.

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Speaker 4: Real American I hadn't the time.

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Speaker 2: The Michael Berry read a rain weather report this morning.

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Speaker 2: It said tropical downpours could cause isolated flooding this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: What is the very first thing they took up at

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Speaker 1: THC shops.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they'll get it done because they bullied everyone and

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Speaker 1: One three, nine nine, nine one thousand.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever, Mason that I get from the show

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Speaker 2: The headline was ex Astro's CEO says he fully trusted

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Speaker 2: They're on both sides. They're the cable company that's buying

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Speaker 2: that wasn't true. The twelve year case stems from Crane's

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Speaker 2: part of the deal, Crane's company, Houston Baseball Partners LLC,

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Speaker 2: This, this is the Michael Berry Show.

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Speaker 1: The passing this week of.

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Speaker 2: Well, anyway, I don't want to speculate there, but but

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Speaker 1: To the phone lines, we go.

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Speaker 2: Seven one, three, one thousand, Jackwagon, you are the first

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Speaker 1: Make it awesome, Go ahead, my man.

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Speaker 8: Well, yes, Michael, I've happened to be stuck down in

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Speaker 8: Oh that's just where I live now. I used to

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Speaker 8: We Uh. Some of the best Swiss you'll ever get

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Speaker 2: There interesting and why were you running cheese?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 8: Well, when the great Texans want want cheese. I am

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Speaker 1: In What capacity were you doing this?

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Speaker 2: Were you wear anyone juized something emblazoned on the on

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Speaker 8: Well, on the side of the truck it's Texas Paul

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Speaker 8: Stores, Yes, sir, but yeah I did them all I did, HGB, Safeway,

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Speaker 8: People love cheese.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 8: You know what a day without cheese is like. It's

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Speaker 2: It's interesting because as you age, and I think this

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Speaker 2: I certain I'm lactose intolerant, and yet I don't. I mean,

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Speaker 8: You know, it's funny you bring that up, because I

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Speaker 1: Deary, You're so brutal.

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Speaker 8: But then you got uh oh shoot it just oh

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Speaker 2: You know what I read Jack Wagon the reason for

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