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

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Speaker 2: Michael Very show is on the air. End of the world,

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Speaker 2: come on.

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Speaker 3: And a social media post the president now threatening to

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Speaker 3: ban people from what he has called third world countries.

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Speaker 3: He's vowing to deport anyone who is quote incapable.

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Speaker 4: Of loving our country or.

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Speaker 3: Non compatible with Western civilization.

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Speaker 5: Well, when I heard the secretaries say that they're going

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Speaker 5: to pause immigration from third world countries, I take that

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Speaker 5: as a message that they don't want brown people coming

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Speaker 5: to the United States, and I find that disturbing. We

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Speaker 5: are a country that has always welcome individuals that are struggling,

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Speaker 5: that are fleeing famine, violence, and it would be a

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Speaker 5: fundamental change to the fabric of our nation to change that.

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Speaker 6: In its.

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Speaker 7: We know it nine five, the administration says that it

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Speaker 7: is revoking Temporary Protected status for Afghans, and that is

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Speaker 7: of course significant, has the potential to effect affect very

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Speaker 7: a lot of Afghans. It's already receiving criticism from some

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Speaker 7: of those groups that evacuate Afghan citizen. I just received

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Speaker 7: a statement from one who says the decision to terminate

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Speaker 7: TPS for Afghanistan is not rooted in reality. It's rooted

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Speaker 7: in politics.

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Speaker 6: We know.

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Speaker 2: Don't say that they're all bad.

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Speaker 8: Don't say that people who come from the third world

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Speaker 8: countries are bad. Virginia, about one out of nine of

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Speaker 8: us is an immigrant, and our immigrant communities in Virginia

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Speaker 8: have been.

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Speaker 2: An enormous source of strength to.

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Speaker 7: Our communalists into our country, and it's wrong to target them.

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Speaker 6: All.

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Speaker 9: Afghans that is been living in Oklahoma has been charged

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Speaker 9: with plotting a terrorist attack on election day. For isis

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Speaker 9: twenty seven year old, and as Here Tahiti obtained weapons

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Speaker 9: and ammunition to launch this attack. He arrived in the

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Speaker 9: US in September twenty twenty one, just days after the

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Speaker 7: Now we're going to pause processes or asylum from nineteen

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Speaker 7: to third world countries.

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Speaker 2: You don't know which ones they are.

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Speaker 10: The world, it's the world.

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Speaker 11: We start local today, Harris County, the county larger than

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Speaker 11: I believe three states county, that much of the Houston

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Speaker 11: area is subsisted within, consumed within.

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Speaker 2: And we turn our attention.

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Speaker 8: To the little puppet, the local Joe Biden, the crazy

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Speaker 8: lady who was placed in the county judge seat by

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Speaker 8: Rodney Ellis that was cheating to protect her so that

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Speaker 8: she could stay there longer, but she just couldn't hold out.

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Speaker 2: It was like Joe Biden.

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Speaker 8: They had her there, they could control her, but her

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Speaker 8: crazy just she couldn't keep it in check.

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Speaker 2: It was so important that we love her.

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Speaker 8: It was so important that we not only accept that

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Speaker 8: she is the County judge, but that we love and

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Speaker 8: adore her like Princess Diana. Oh, it was very important.

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Speaker 8: And then we had our own brand of Lena. We

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Speaker 8: had Lena and the Nerd, and a year ago they

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Speaker 8: were married. And on the one year anniversary, this crazy

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Speaker 8: and I mean crazy lunatic Lena added Defundina el Comandante,

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Speaker 8: the Cornrow Coman, Dante the wartime County Judge, Dora the Explorer.

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Speaker 8: She added another title to her list, and that was bride.

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Speaker 8: And it was the most covered wedding in Houston history

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Speaker 8: that I can recall, and I've been here going on

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Speaker 2: Oh was it something else?

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Speaker 8: We were supposed to be very excited over this? It

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Speaker 8: was very exciting. Indeed, in fact, they even had sponsors.

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Speaker 8: There were people who may or may not have been

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Speaker 8: doing business with Harris County getting big contraction. They paid

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Speaker 8: for everything. What are the chances? Oh, let's take it

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Speaker 8: to Channel eleven with the story. Boy, this was something weld.

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Speaker 8: You're supposed to be very excited this afternoon.

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Speaker 2: We're Sudney. Congratulations to Harris County Judge Lena.

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Speaker 12: Dalgo ok jo you was the first media outlet in

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Speaker 2: Commissioners and attendees.

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Speaker 12: Applauded at Algo as she entered today's Commissioner's Court meeting.

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Speaker 12: She broke the news last night on social media after

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Speaker 12: telling family and friends first in Algo and her fiance David,

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Speaker 12: have been together for nine years. She told us they

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Speaker 12: bought the pink sapphire ring together earlier this month, still

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Speaker 12: in August, says she was surprised when David popped the

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Speaker 13: As soon as I like what was happening, I.

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Speaker 4: Was like, oh my god, Oh my god.

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Speaker 13: And they said maybe we should get out of the car.

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Speaker 4: So then we got out.

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Speaker 13: We were just like on the street, and you know,

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Speaker 13: it's not like the nicest part of town, so he

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Speaker 13: just so happy and then I finally, you know, went

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Speaker 13: up to him and he got down on me and

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Speaker 13: he said some really nice things, and I was so excited.

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Speaker 13: I don't remember half of it. And then and then

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Speaker 13: you know, he had the ring and it was really sweet.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations to them.

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Speaker 12: A couple wants to do it small wedding later on

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Speaker 12: this year as next year.

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, so wait, he wanted to get out of

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Speaker 8: the car, but you didn't want to get out of

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Speaker 8: the car.

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Speaker 2: But because it's a bad.

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Speaker 8: Neighborhood, aren't you aren't you the county?

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Speaker 2: Would you like to tell us where that is?

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Speaker 8: So you couldn't get out of the car because it's

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Speaker 8: a bad neighborhood in the county that you were in

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Speaker 8: the county judge?

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Speaker 2: For what part of town? Was it, Lena? Was it

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Speaker 2: the poors? Out of town?

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Speaker 13: As soon as I realized what was happening, I was like,

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Speaker 13: oh my god, Oh my god.

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Speaker 4: And they said maybe we should get out of the car.

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Speaker 4: So then we got out.

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Speaker 13: We were just like on the street and you know,

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Speaker 13: it's not like the nicest part of town.

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Speaker 4: We'll do to the post side till you have private security, sweetie.

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Speaker 4: We don't not even the constables are good enough for you,

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Speaker 4: and we voted for Yulena.

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Speaker 6: You gotta.

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Speaker 13: He was like, come on, I was so excited. I

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Speaker 13: don't remember half of it.

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Speaker 6: You spend that me girl.

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Speaker 13: Oh no, I was like, oh my god.

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Speaker 6: Oh my god.

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Speaker 13: He got down on me and he said some really

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Speaker 13: nice things.

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Speaker 2: Side.

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Speaker 4: Equity is a factor, can't us now? Equity is the factor?

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Speaker 6: Get me?

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Speaker 4: It was really sweet from the post side to you.

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Speaker 13: Know, it's not like the nicest part of town. But

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Speaker 13: I didn't sign up to be a wartime county judge.

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Speaker 8: Jen Rice posted on Twitter his breakup album is going

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Speaker 8: to be lit.

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine? Okay, David your nerd? How crazy was she.

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Speaker 13: King in a public forum by a public official a

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Speaker 13: monket Bay show.

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Speaker 4: What are we allowing? Can you just come to three? One,

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Speaker 4: two three? Okay? So I'm one, So we need two

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Speaker 4: and three.

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Speaker 13: We need three votes so that we can can we

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Speaker 13: can we can put this on the ballot. Okay, So

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Speaker 13: so you guys help me count right now?

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Speaker 4: We have one? One?

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Speaker 13: Okay, say one, one, two, three, one, Come on down.

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Speaker 4: Number here, come.

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Speaker 14: On, come on, come on, come on, because this is

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Speaker 14: none of our politics is about kids.

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Speaker 4: Come on down.

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Speaker 14: Excuse me, part of education is respect Travis County. They

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Speaker 14: spent two years working with subject matter experts for excuse me, judge.

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Speaker 4: Please be respectful.

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Speaker 14: At least education is hey heelling.

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Speaker 13: Don't give the kids this example of making things up.

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Speaker 8: Imagine you're the person at the news station in Houston

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Speaker 8: who was running around, screeching in the newsroom saying, we've

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Speaker 8: got to make lenahead Allgo's wedding the biggest wedding in

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Speaker 8: Houston history.

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Speaker 2: I want everybody all hands on deck.

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Speaker 8: This is the greatest love affair in Houston history, and

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Speaker 8: we're covering every second of it.

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Speaker 15: And now great love affairs in American history that ended poorly.

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Speaker 15: We began with Ike and Tina Turner I Cantina's relationship

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Speaker 15: in music eventually led to marriage in nineteen sixty two.

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Speaker 15: The relationship became defined by Ike's violence and control mixed

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Speaker 15: with heavy drug abuse. Tina left the relationship in nineteen

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Speaker 15: seventy six, and they divorced in.

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Speaker 2: Nineteen seventy eight.

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Speaker 15: They say everyone has a soulmate, and Bonnie and Clyde

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Speaker 15: definitely were made for each other. Some couples enjoy the

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Speaker 15: same hobbies and for these two, golf and collecting antiques

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Speaker 15: were replaced with bank robberies, kidnapping, and murders between nineteen

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Speaker 15: thirty two and nineteen thirty four. They were eventually ambushed

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Speaker 15: and killed on a Louisiana highway in nineteen thirty four.

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Speaker 6: Ah.

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Speaker 15: Yes, romance at its core, and finally we have Lena

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Speaker 15: Hidalgo and her nerdy white boy husband. Elle Commandante had

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Speaker 15: big aspirations for her career wherewith no qualifications at all,

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Speaker 15: out of nowhere, she became the Harris County judge in

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Speaker 15: the largest county by population in the great state of Texas.

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Speaker 2: It's almost as if she was illegally placed there.

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Speaker 15: Anyway, she would find the nerdiest of all nerds and

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Speaker 15: marry in twenty twenty four, almost to the day. One

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Speaker 15: year later, the relationship has ended, leaving many to wonder

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Speaker 15: why did Ago was quoted as saying life took a turn,

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Speaker 15: and we can only imagine that turn is because of

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Speaker 15: her unhealthy love for cats. Oh and that she's also

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Speaker 15: absolutely bat crazy. This has been great love affairs in

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Speaker 15: American history that ended poorly.

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Speaker 2: Next week we feature Joe Biden and his love for

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Speaker 2: sniffing hair.

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Speaker 8: What nobody thinks about is some poor sap has to

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Speaker 8: be her therapist?

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Speaker 2: Can you imagine the therapy that person needs?

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Speaker 15: Dear Diary for Therapists, Log, December two, twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 15: Another Tuesday, Another avalanche of emotional shrapnel. Girl directly in

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Speaker 15: my face, and today, well it might have been the worst.

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Speaker 15: My three PM patient. Let's call her Leonora, because Hurricane

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Speaker 15: Lenora feels just about accurate. She arrived clutching a pumpkin

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Speaker 15: spice latte with the same white knuckled intensity one normally

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Speaker 15: reserves for cliff faces or malfunctioning parachutes. She announced before

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Speaker 15: even sitting down that she's spiritually divorced but legally entangled,

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Speaker 15: which I believe is her way of saying the paper

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Speaker 15: were hasn't gone through yet. Today's session began with her

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Speaker 15: reading a list titled reasons my nerdy husband Ruined My Life,

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Speaker 15: which she wrote in glitter gel Pen.

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Speaker 2: The list had sublist Those sublists had bullet.

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Speaker 15: Points shaped like tiny unicorns. The commitment I must admit

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Speaker 15: to stationary esthetics was impressive, yet quite disturbing. She then

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Speaker 15: declared she's entering quote her villain era, which appears to

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Speaker 15: me to involve ordering a fog machine so she can

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Speaker 15: enter curshion HER's court like a rock star. When I

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Speaker 15: gently suggested processing her emotions before investing in theatrical equipment,

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Speaker 15: she accused me to me of limiting her potential. At

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Speaker 15: one point, she lay across the couch like a finging

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Speaker 15: Victorian heroine and demanded I diagnose her ex husband with

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Speaker 15: something dramatic enough for her memoir but not technically defamatory.

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Speaker 15: I explained once again that this is not how therapy works.

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Speaker 15: She sighed so dramatically that I'm fairly certain she expelled

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Speaker 4: Of the facts will be public.

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Speaker 2: This isn't one of those moments.

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Speaker 8: This is not one of those moments at all.

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Speaker 13: The emotion is to set up public hearing on August fifteenth,

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Speaker 4: Bring the kids here and ask each member yes or no? Yes,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, corn of order.

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Speaker 2: They're coming to take me away.

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Speaker 8: Because it's pretty clear how crazy she is. Everyone knows it.

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Speaker 8: However, the power they were able to wield by keeping

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Speaker 8: You process that for a moment, we laugh, because otherwise

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Speaker 2: He fought off the entire slave rebellion.

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Speaker 8: He kicked the junk yard dog's ass three times in

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Speaker 2: Believing them when they told.

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Speaker 8: Us he was Okay, it's our fault for being such believing, trusting,

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Speaker 2: She's getting help. It's very brave. Don't worry. I'm in charge.

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Speaker 4: The hell out of this flame?

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Speaker 10: Your onvery street?

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Speaker 13: Can you guys have anything else?

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Speaker 6: Now?

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Speaker 13: I hope everyone has a really awesome yesterday.

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Speaker 8: Run a private sector business already, I'm so long, so

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Speaker 8: And I've seen it. I've seen it at the City

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of money to be handed out.

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Speaker 8: We had a director of the airport system, and I

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Speaker 16: Okay, that'd be like Mike Elko consulting with a high

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Speaker 8: start looking at who gets that money, These people look

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Speaker 8: for pockets of money and ways to get it out

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Speaker 8: of the budget and redirect it to friends and families

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Speaker 8: and kickbacks.

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Speaker 2: That's what they do. That's what almost all of government does.

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Speaker 8: They're not there to get you on the ground through

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Speaker 8: baggage claim and on your way. They're there to look

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Speaker 8: at the money and figure out how much of this

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Speaker 8: can I steal. So KPRC TV's Mario Diaz Funny Things,

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Speaker 8: Small World. The last airport director was named Mario Diaz,

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Speaker 8: and this Mario Diaz, the investigator reporter used to hound him.

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Speaker 2: It was hilarious, absolutely hilarious.

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Speaker 8: But listen to this story about Jim Sesniak at the

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Speaker 8: Houston Airport system.

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Speaker 1: On any given day, ac of humanity fills up the

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Speaker 1: Houston Airport system, especially this time of year. In fact,

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, the city's airport system had sixty

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Speaker 1: three point one million passengers. What they also have plenty

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Speaker 1: of is art, approximately three hundred ninety pieces with an

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Speaker 1: appraised value of over thirty million dollars, according to the

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Speaker 1: airport system purchased with public dollars through major capital improvement

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Speaker 1: projects where a city ordinance passed years ago requires one

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Speaker 1: point seventy five percent of the project's budget to be.

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Speaker 2: Used to purchase art. Airport what is Mayor John Whitmyer's opinion?

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Speaker 15: Quite frankly, I like art, but I like parking at

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Speaker 15: the airport access and picking up the baggage probably more

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Speaker 15: than I do art.

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Speaker 1: Airport director Jim Sysniak is a fan of the art.

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Speaker 1: In the spring of twenty twenty four, he told city

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Speaker 1: council exactly how proud he was of the airport's collection.

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Speaker 8: We get more people looking at the art and airports

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Speaker 8: than the louver does in France.

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Speaker 2: Come again, wait rewind ten seconds. Listen to this line.

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Speaker 8: We get more people looking at the art and airports

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Speaker 8: than the louver does in France.

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Speaker 2: Come again. People go to the louver for one reason.

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Speaker 1: To see priceless art, including the Mona Lisa. On the

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Speaker 1: other hand, there is a clear reason why people go

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Speaker 1: to the Houston Airports system.

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Speaker 2: You go airport to pick someone up or catch a plane.

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Speaker 2: It is not hard to spot costly art. Airports system

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Speaker 2: you go airport.

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Speaker 8: Fact that this man who's head of the airports would

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Speaker 8: make a statement like that.

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Speaker 2: Tells you a lot. What kind of arrogance.

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Speaker 8: Stupidity, your own nature do you have to have to

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Speaker 8: compare the Houston.

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Speaker 2: Airport to the Loop.

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Speaker 8: You have to wonder did that make sense to him?

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Speaker 8: And then you start to realize, this is what we're

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Speaker 8: dealing with. This is why nothing in the public sector works.

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Speaker 8: This is why there's all the waste in broad this

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Speaker 8: is why you can't believe a thing they say.