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Putin Attacks Ukraine While Putin Puppet and Pedo Pal Trump Attacks NATO; Unified MLK Day Parade in Houston - TPN 1/25/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of January twenty fifth, twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: and this is what's on the People's News. City prepares
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Speaker 1: for winter storm. The illegal Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.
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Speaker 1: We go live from Key. Unity is on display as
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Speaker 1: thousands line the streets for Mlkday parade in Houston. Be
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Speaker 1: a part of a decision making board. Here is how
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Speaker 1: all that and more on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington.
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Speaker 1: This is the People's News, and the People's News starts now.
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Speaker 1: A strong blast of Arctic air behind a cold front
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Speaker 1: is hitting all of Texas and Houston in the Gulf
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Speaker 1: Coast this week, and Houston is preparing for the cold
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Speaker 1: which will be down in the twenties through the middle
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Speaker 1: of this week, with wind chills being down in the
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Speaker 1: single digits. Houston Mayor Whitmyer, along with local affairs, held
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Speaker 1: a press conference to address their preparations for the freezing temperatures.
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Speaker 2: Good afternoon. I call this press conference to discuss very
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Speaker 2: serious matter that will impact every Houstonian in even our region.
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Speaker 2: As you know, I do not call press conferences lightly.
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Speaker 2: I don't waste press conferences, and this one is not
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Speaker 2: going to be wasted because we're fixing to be attacked
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Speaker 2: by a severe arctic blast. It will get here lake
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Speaker 2: Towing afternoon and evening Saturday. Put it in perspective. One
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Speaker 2: hundred and thirty five Texas counties have already been declared
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Speaker 2: disaster by Governor Abbott. The conditions that brought about those
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Speaker 2: declarations are headed this way. And if you don't remember
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Speaker 2: another thing I say today, it's be prepared and be cautious.
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Speaker 2: That's the advice I give my family, and I've given
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Speaker 2: to all Houstonians because I consider all Histonians my family.
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Speaker 2: It's a complex challenge to give accurate, timely and correct,
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Speaker 2: transparent information. I've been in contact since last Sunday with
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Speaker 2: three mediologists. They all have different opinions, so I had
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Speaker 2: to build my own consensus working with my team and
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Speaker 2: talking to advisors and experts, including these meteorologists. And the
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Speaker 2: information that I'm about to share with Houstonians, the directions,
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Speaker 2: the advice, the pleadings is the same ones that we
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Speaker 2: should all follow. I want everyone to know what the
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Speaker 2: city has done in preparation. We started last Sunday. We've
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Speaker 2: checked all the boxes. I have the best team, management, team, directors,
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Speaker 2: in America. They were selected for their expertise, their professionalism,
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Speaker 2: their honesty, and their passion for public service. There's not
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Speaker 2: a weak link in my administration dealing with a crisis
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Speaker 2: such as this. I want Houstonians to hear what the
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Speaker 2: city has done to be prepared, and then I want
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Speaker 2: to talk to Houstonians about their responsibility. So we started
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Speaker 2: last Sunday meeting met all day today. The advice I'm
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Speaker 2: giving folks, built on this coalition of advisors and experts,
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Speaker 2: is that there is going to be a severe storm
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Speaker 2: like very few Houston residents have experienced. Yes, we had
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Speaker 2: a storm last winter, snow, a lot of people playing
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Speaker 2: in that snow, but not the temperatures that were fixing
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Speaker 2: experience over the next seventy two hours. Not the chill
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Speaker 2: factor that we're going to experience, not forty eight hours
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Speaker 2: of possible below freezing temperatures. I cannot stress enough. Listen up, Houstonians.
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Speaker 2: The city is working as we talk, preparing the streets,
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Speaker 2: treating the streets. We're going to open and prepare to
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Speaker 2: open right now, twelve warming centers. They'll officially open at
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Speaker 2: five tomorrow, But we are ready, are there, prepared of
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Speaker 2: the twelve nine will have generators. When I was sworn in,
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Speaker 2: our multi service centers serving as cooling and warming centers
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Speaker 2: had zero generators. Now we have nine of them covered
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Speaker 2: by generators. As we discussed energy in a moment. The
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Speaker 2: other three are top priorities. Logistics kept us from putting
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Speaker 2: mobile generators there. We will be open twenty four hours.
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Speaker 3: No one will be refused.
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Speaker 2: Someone mentioned somebody are going to ask about ice. Don't
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Speaker 2: even bring it up. Houstonians, all residents are welcome. I
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Speaker 2: plead with all Houstonians, regardless of their immigration status, come
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Speaker 2: to the warming center if you need a shelter, no
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Speaker 2: questions asked, food, blankets, cots, We take care of everyone
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Speaker 2: in the city of Houston. These warming centers will be
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Speaker 2: open from five Saturday to Tuesday morning, and we will
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Speaker 2: continue to monitor events even Tuesday morning. So I cannot
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Speaker 2: be more pleased and prepared and confident with where the
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Speaker 2: city of Houston stands as we prepare for this arctic blast.
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Speaker 2: I am urging everyone question at midnight Saturday night tomorrow,
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Speaker 2: be where you need to be for the next seventy
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Speaker 2: two hours. We will monitor things. If there's relief, we
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Speaker 2: will let you know but know where you need to
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Speaker 2: be for the next seventy two hours at midnight tomorrow night.
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Speaker 2: That means we've got twenty four hours to prepare, get supplies,
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Speaker 2: check your pipes, drain your water. I would suggest pipes,
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Speaker 2: don't freeze. Water freezes your plants, your pets. Let me
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Speaker 2: just emphasize the pets. They can't speak for themselves. They're
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Speaker 2: Houstonians in my world for the next seventy two hours
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Speaker 2: and quite frankly afterwards, the pets need to be protected
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Speaker 2: in these conditions. I've asked DPS as they patrol our neighborhoods,
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Speaker 2: be on the lookout for someone abusing pets, and that
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Speaker 2: includes horses in some of our stallsmborhoods. We will enforce
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Speaker 2: animal welfare laws of the State of Texas in city
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Speaker 2: ardances during the storm. We will be in constant touch
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Speaker 2: with our county partners. We will be in touch with
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Speaker 2: the County Emergency Center. I've been in touch with the commissioners,
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Speaker 2: county officials. So we're doing everything we possibly can. But
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Speaker 2: back to what now. I want Houstone Institute be prepared
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Speaker 2: at midnight to be in place, get your supplies, drain
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Speaker 2: your pipes. We ask you not to drip your pipes.
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Speaker 2: It impacts our water pressure, which impacts our water treatment plan.
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Speaker 2: Stay off the streets if humanly possible. Tomorrow night, after midnight,
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Speaker 2: the Arctic Class will be here then.
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Speaker 4: So just to reemphasize a few things, as the Mayor said,
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Speaker 4: this is going to be a serious storm, so please
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Speaker 4: everybody at home take caution, make sure you're prepared at home.
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Speaker 4: The forecast is a little tricky where exactly a freezing
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Speaker 4: line's going to set up, when it's going to set up,
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Speaker 4: who's going to get ice, who's not gonna get ice.
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Speaker 4: A lot of that's to be determined, and it's a
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Speaker 4: very dynamic situation. So as the Mayor mentioned, please get
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Speaker 4: where you need to be Saturday night. Please plan on
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Speaker 4: being there for at least forty eight maybe seventy two hours.
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Speaker 4: Make sure you get groceries, make sure you're prepared to
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Speaker 4: stay there for once again, forty eight to seventy two hours.
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Speaker 4: As far as the cold, we know it's going to
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Speaker 4: get cold, is going to get very, very very cold.
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Speaker 4: Please make sure that we remember the four p's. As
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Speaker 4: the Bear mentioned, people, we're opening twelve warming centers starting
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Speaker 4: Saturday at five pipes. Please make sure that you wrap
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Speaker 4: and prepare your pipes. I can use my family as
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Speaker 4: an example. We are going to drain the water from
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Speaker 4: our house right if I have no water in my pipes,
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Speaker 4: I don't have to worry about something freezing and breaking.
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Speaker 4: So to go the extra mile to be extra prepared.
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Speaker 4: I recommend if you know how to do it, it's
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Speaker 4: just a lot safer, a lot more certain you're not
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Speaker 4: going to have an issue. If you know how to
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Speaker 4: shut the water off at the street, drain the water
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Speaker 4: out of your house to make sure you don't have
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Speaker 4: any pipe issues. A few other things for the EOC,
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Speaker 4: we're currently at Level three, which means enhanced awareness for us.
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Speaker 4: We've been at level three since Tuesday. We are going
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Speaker 4: to move to what we call Level two, or high readiness,
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Speaker 4: high preparedness on Saturday at five pm. We'll have lots
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Speaker 4: of our partners. The EOC will be filled with a
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Speaker 4: lot of our partners from city, state, and county levels
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Speaker 4: to support us throughout the event. Form messaging. If you'd
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Speaker 4: like to receive Alert Houston messaging, it's okay. If you
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Speaker 4: would like to get Alert Houston messaging, please text Alert
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Speaker 4: Houston all one word to eight eight eight seven seven seven,
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Speaker 4: and you can enroll in our Alert Houston messaging and
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Speaker 4: we'll be able to send you real time updates. We'll
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Speaker 4: also be posting things on social media on our website. Also,
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Speaker 4: keep in mind our website now translates into fourteen different languages,
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Speaker 4: so if you're somebody that would like to get something
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Speaker 4: in something other than English and Spanish, we have several
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Speaker 4: other languages available on our website. As the Mayor mentioned,
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Speaker 4: we are co coordating very closely with.
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Speaker 5: All of our Thank you, Mayor. I'm not going to
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Speaker 5: repeat everything the Mayor said, He's covered it really well.
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Speaker 5: I will highlight a few things. First of all, as
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Speaker 5: far as roads are concerned, we began our pre treatment
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Speaker 5: activities today. Those are going to continue really all through
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Speaker 5: the weekend. We will retreat roads again tomorrow. We are
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Speaker 5: expecting some rain to come in and so that's going
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Speaker 5: to allow us to be a little extra vigilant as
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Speaker 5: we treat those roads. One thing we'd caution people on
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Speaker 5: as temperatures rise and you may see a little bit
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Speaker 5: of melt out there. Remember we're going to be going
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Speaker 5: through extended free cycles, so beware of the freeze faw
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Speaker 5: refreeze cycles out there, especially when it gets difficult with
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Speaker 5: visibility on the roads at night time. Another you may
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Speaker 5: not be able to see even some small glazing on
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Speaker 5: the roads. That could lead to catastrophic conditions. That's why
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Speaker 5: we ask you to say off the roads as far
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Speaker 5: as water is concerned, and this is really important for everybody. Overwhelmingly,
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Speaker 5: when we have an event like this, the number one
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Speaker 5: place we see water breaks is at your own sprinkler system.
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Speaker 5: The best thing you can do, absolutely right now is
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Speaker 5: to make sure that you shut the water to your
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Speaker 5: sprinkler system off, that you drain those pipes, the backflow
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Speaker 5: preventer and so forth, and you make sure that it's
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Speaker 5: wrapped up really well so that you don't experience that.
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Speaker 5: But overwhelmingly, every time we've had a freeze, that's where
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Speaker 5: your first break is going to occur. Remember, those pipes
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Speaker 5: are already above the ground, some of them feet above
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Speaker 5: the ground, and that's why you experience that. We recommend,
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Speaker 5: highly recommend people not to drip their faucets. The Mayor's
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Speaker 5: really covered this very well over the last couple of
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Speaker 5: years of his administration. The water system in Houston is
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Speaker 5: not in the best shape. We've got a lot of
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Speaker 5: investment going into that infrastructure right now, and that means
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Speaker 5: that we really very closely pay attention to where pressures
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Speaker 5: are going. If everyone drips their price, that means that
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Speaker 5: we're going to have extra demand on that system, and
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Speaker 5: it just makes us a little bit more vulnerable, so
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Speaker 5: that if there is something catastrophic that happens, which we
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Speaker 5: certainly hope there's not, but if there is, we're prepared
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Speaker 5: to address it. It makes it more difficult for us
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Speaker 5: to respond. So we ask you not to drip those faucets.
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Speaker 5: I know that that's different from messaging you see all
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Speaker 5: across the state, other states, other cities, but in Houston
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Speaker 5: we are a little bit different, our systems a little
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Speaker 5: bit more fragile. So please don't drip those pipes. As
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Speaker 5: Brian mentioned, the best thing you can do if you
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Speaker 5: want to guarantee that you won't have a broken pipe
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Speaker 5: in your house, shut the water off to the home
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Speaker 5: and drain your pipes from there. The mayor that covers
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Speaker 5: it from public Works.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, very proud of her being on our team.
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Speaker 6: Hi, thank you, Maaron. Hi, everybody. The Houston Health Department
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Speaker 6: has deployed hundreds of essential personnel public health employees to
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Speaker 6: work the warming centers. So we are ready and we
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Speaker 6: will be open. To reemphasize, under the direction and support
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Speaker 6: of Mayor John Whitmyer, we are opening twelve warming centers
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Speaker 6: across the city. The most accurate information on opening enclosures
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Speaker 6: of the warming centers will be on the OEM website
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Speaker 6: or the Houston Health Department website, which is Houstonhealth dot org.
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Speaker 6: Our number one priority to the public, as always is
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Speaker 6: safety and well being. So that will be our goal
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Speaker 6: and as a physician, that is my mission and my
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Speaker 6: promise that under my supervision, we are going to do
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Speaker 6: everything that we can to make sure that Houstonians are
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Speaker 6: safe and well from the cold. Remember that as Houstonians
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Speaker 6: in our climate, we are not acclimatized to the cold,
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Speaker 6: and so hypothermia is a larger concern with a sudden
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Speaker 6: cold like this, So please stay warm, follow the instructions
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Speaker 6: of the health officials, and we're here to serve you.
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Speaker 6: Our warming centers are ready and they're open to anyone
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Speaker 6: and everyone twenty four hours starting on Saturday at five pm.
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Speaker 7: Thank you are constantly communicating during times of inclement weather,
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Speaker 7: so i'd ask one the first thing is if you
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Speaker 7: have to be out, slow down, have enough distance between
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Speaker 7: the car in front of you. Perhaps right now is
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Speaker 7: the time to pack some sort of blanket, some headgear,
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Speaker 7: some gloves in your car. Should you be out and
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Speaker 7: you break down, that our teams will be out all
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Speaker 7: it's all hands on deck. So I understand that if
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Speaker 7: you break down on the road or you have a
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Speaker 7: minor accident, you slide off the road, it'll take us
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Speaker 7: a little bit as a police department to get to you,
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Speaker 7: depending on the weather condition. So i'd ask you to
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Speaker 7: be patient. Police do not call nine to one one
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Speaker 7: for a weather update or a road condition, right, so
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Speaker 7: be smart, help us help you, and we're focused.
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Speaker 3: We're ready.
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Speaker 7: The warring centers will be covered by our police staff
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Speaker 7: and there'll be a lot of staff covering overnight. We're
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Speaker 7: not going to go to twelve hour shifts just yet,
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Speaker 7: but we're fluid and we will work as the information
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Speaker 7: comes in from the Mayor's office. So we're prepared. We're
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Speaker 7: always prepared. This is something that happens in Southeast Texas
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Speaker 7: all the time, in the Houston area, So Mayor, thank
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Speaker 7: you for your leadership. The fires is what we're prepared.
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Speaker 3: We're ready to go.
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Speaker 7: We've checked every facility is working, everything is functioning, so
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Speaker 7: we're ready to go to work.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Man, Thank you Chief and Houston Fire Department plays a
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Speaker 2: very special role during high stressful times and chief menials,
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Speaker 2: thank you. Come give us the best advice someone.
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Speaker 3: Can appreciate you.
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Speaker 8: Good afternoon, Thank you, mayor thank you everyone behind me
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Speaker 8: and all the stakeholders. As ear Mayer mentioned, we've been
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Speaker 8: planning all week when we started getting visibility of this
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Speaker 8: and thanks to OEM and Bryan Masson National Weather Service,
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Speaker 8: we start monitoring our firefighters and our teams. Our command
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Speaker 8: staff along with all the stakeholders have already been working
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Speaker 8: together andsuring that our stations are ready to go, our
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Speaker 8: vehicles are ready to go. Along with that said, one
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Speaker 8: of the key things that we focus on is not
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Speaker 8: only being there for the public and our residents, but
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Speaker 8: safety as well. Every year this time of the year,
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Speaker 8: we have common oxide bests that continue that we see,
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Speaker 8: but thanks to all the education that we've been pushing,
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Speaker 8: we're starting to see that number go down there. So
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Speaker 8: what we do tell peoples, please pay attention where you
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Speaker 8: place your generators. If you place them outside, we encourage
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Speaker 8: you to place them outside through the four feet from
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Speaker 8: the wall of the house outside exterior. Because the houses
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Speaker 8: do have vents, common oxide can get into that. If
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Speaker 8: you're one of these people that want to stay warm
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Speaker 8: in your garage, we discourage you to put on your
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Speaker 8: barbecue pitch. A lot of the barbecue pitch. That's a
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Speaker 8: very common scenario that we see that also causes as
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Speaker 8: a high probability for common oxide poisoning a long as
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Speaker 8: fire fatalities and fires along with that. One of the
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Speaker 8: key things that we do take a lot of pride
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Speaker 8: of is how we work together with partners. In the
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Speaker 8: event there is some electric outage in your area and
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Speaker 8: you're cooking on an electric stove, please make sure you
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Speaker 8: turn it off because in the event that the electricity
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Speaker 8: or when it does come on, that what you have
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Speaker 8: on the stove can't catch fire of your away from
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Speaker 8: the house. But one of the key things that we
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Speaker 8: also focus on, and the marriage mentioned compassion. My mentioned compassion.
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Speaker 8: That's what we do. One of the things we encourage
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Speaker 8: is to please take care of those around you, your
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Speaker 8: neighbors that elderly. We continue to see that, give them
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Speaker 8: a call, make sure that they have everything they need.
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Speaker 8: And again please please has been emphasized stay off the road.
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Speaker 8: Working with HBD tech Dot and the event we do
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Speaker 8: have those areas accidents on the freeways, we're working under
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Speaker 8: our firefighters will be responding. Where are going to just
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Speaker 8: our times come Tuesday and Monday. Sun you in Monday
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Speaker 8: to ensure that our firefighters come in at nine point
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Speaker 8: thirty so without wave, we're not driving into icy conditions
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Speaker 8: because their safety is also important. But again, thank you,
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Speaker 8: and please please stay off the road. It's a bit
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Speaker 8: all possible. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Here is a list of the warming stations in the
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Speaker 1: Houston area. Acres Homes Multi Service Center at sixty seven
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Speaker 1: to nineteen West Montgomery Road, fifth Ward Multi Service Center
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Speaker 1: at forty fourteen Market Street, Northwest Multi Service Center at
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Speaker 1: ninety seven to twenty Spaulding Street, the Kashmere Multi Service
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Speaker 1: Center at forty eight oh two Lockwood Drive, the Moody
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Speaker 1: Community Center at thirty seven to twenty five Fulton Street,
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Speaker 1: Denver Harbor Multi Service Center at sixty four oh two
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Speaker 1: Market Street, the Fond Community Center at one ten Sabine Street,
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Speaker 1: the Metropolitan Multi Service Center at fourteen seventy five West
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Speaker 1: Gray Street, the Southwest Multi Service Center at sixty four
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Speaker 1: hundred High Star Drive, the Magnolia Multi Service Center at
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Speaker 1: seventy thirty seven Capitol Street, the Sunnyside Multi Service Center
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Speaker 1: at forty four to ten Red Road, and the third
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Speaker 1: Ward Multi Service Center at thirty six eleven Ennis Street.
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Speaker 1: Stay off the roads and take advantage of one of
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Speaker 1: these warming centers if you need to stay warm. While
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Speaker 1: the convicted felon and now war criminal in the White
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Speaker 1: House has his own version of Ukraine attacking Venezuela, Russia
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Speaker 1: launched two massive strikes on Ukraine's two major cities. While
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Speaker 1: Russian and Ukrainian officials concluded their second round of trilateral
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Speaker 1: peace talks with Russia the United States in the UAE.
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Speaker 1: There is nothing in the negotiation so far that Russia
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Speaker 1: has to give up anything. They are set to meet
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Speaker 1: again February first in Awoode. Chris Samson is a long
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Speaker 1: time KPFT programmer who now lives in Ukraine and who
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Speaker 1: is a journalist, photographer and documentaryist based in Kiev. We
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Speaker 1: talked to him live from Kiev about what conditions are
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Speaker 1: like in Ukraine.
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Speaker 9: It's very good to tell my wonderful community of KPFT,
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Speaker 9: where I learned most of what I know. I love
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Speaker 9: you guys that his home America does not feel like home.
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Speaker 9: But when I hear KPFT, it's still wired in my head.
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Speaker 9: This is Chris has some music be on Borders ninety
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Speaker 9: one point FM. It is one o'clock and I love KPFT.
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Speaker 9: So what am I doing here? Well, I'm actually kind
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Speaker 9: of doing very much the extension of what I did there.
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Speaker 9: When we were in the news department, we'd go out
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Speaker 9: and kind of do it, do it yourself news team.
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Speaker 9: And I got here four years ago this next week.
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Speaker 9: So I've been here four years. I've never left to
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Speaker 9: go back and forth. I basically committed to learning everything.
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Speaker 9: I had no idea how long this would last or
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Speaker 9: really where to go. But over four years I have documented,
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Speaker 9: pretty much on a daily level, the worst stuff you
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Speaker 9: know that I can imagine, including two mass graves in
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Speaker 9: the first year. Last year alone, at least fifteen different
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Speaker 9: apartment strikes. I don't know what the total number is
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Speaker 9: in the film, but missiles taking out half of an
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Speaker 9: apartment complex, you know, killing up to you know, twenty
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Speaker 9: five thirty people at a time and experiencing life with
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Speaker 9: people who have gone through unspeakable daily torture and part
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Speaker 9: of what is an imperial aggression from Russia. And I
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Speaker 9: want to define it that way on purpose, because one
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Speaker 9: that's what Russia calls it. They might not use the
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Speaker 9: word imperial, but their ambitions are we have to restore
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Speaker 9: what used to be ours revengeism. And it's it's pretty
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Speaker 9: clear the Ukrainian people for the longest time, for centuries,
20:53
Speaker 9: have not wanted to be that they see themselves and
20:58
Speaker 9: genuinely are because I've studied a lot about the culture,
21:00
Speaker 9: they see themselves the way most people would would, you know,
21:03
Speaker 9: sovereign people that need to be able to determine their
21:05
Speaker 9: own future, learning the stuff from the ground up, almost
21:09
Speaker 9: as if a child. When I landed here, I had
21:11
Speaker 9: previous knowledge, extensive knowledge on certain parts of what happened here.
21:15
Speaker 9: But I really tried to wipe the slate when I
21:18
Speaker 9: got here and put my feet on that on my
21:21
Speaker 9: don plaza where the revolutions take place, and say what's
21:26
Speaker 9: to learn?
21:27
Speaker 3: And essentially I've spent four years.
21:29
Speaker 10: They talk about the negotiations, we've talked about that before, there's.
21:35
Speaker 11: No negotiations going on, and it seems like his all
21:40
Speaker 11: negotiations on the Ukrainian side to give up land, minerals,
21:44
Speaker 11: give up arms, especially give up arms in military, and
21:49
Speaker 11: all dictated by the US president.
21:52
Speaker 12: Correct and it's nothing being done. There's nothing, nothing in
21:55
Speaker 12: Russians are getting in return, nothing or asked for by
21:59
Speaker 12: the Rusians, you know, correctly. So just so Russians are
22:02
Speaker 12: just pretty much dictating what's going on. And is that
22:05
Speaker 12: what is that what you feel or that's what you see.
22:07
Speaker 9: Some happening, that's what it is so to have First off,
22:09
Speaker 9: we have to identify that Steve Whitcoff has no legal
22:12
Speaker 9: authority to do anything he's doing, period is entirely ad hoc.
22:17
Speaker 9: It is actually outside of the Constitution itself.
22:21
Speaker 3: Which talks about who can be appointed.
22:23
Speaker 9: Without getting into a deep history lesson, the founders had
22:27
Speaker 9: this problem at the beginning during the federalist era of
22:30
Speaker 9: America's founding, where everyone had their favorite diplomat, you know,
22:35
Speaker 9: Ben Franklin had somebody, Thomas Jefferson had somebody, and there
22:37
Speaker 9: were problems with that because they would go at hoc
22:40
Speaker 9: to Europe, to other powers and develop you know this
22:43
Speaker 9: kind of the the you know, improvised diplomacy that was
22:48
Speaker 9: not authorized, and Steve Woodcoff literally is operating outside the law.
22:52
Speaker 9: And some people who would say, well it would be
22:54
Speaker 9: is the presidential guys on boy taking up be whatever
22:57
Speaker 9: he wants on paper, I mean and whatever Trump calls him.
23:00
Speaker 3: But he has no legal authority to go be doing
23:02
Speaker 3: any of that.
23:03
Speaker 9: Zero That has to be something at that level that
23:06
Speaker 9: has approved at the congressional level. Right, so we know
23:10
Speaker 9: that that's why it is. Actually, if you don't mind,
23:13
Speaker 9: I mentioned to listeners, I have a sub stack on this.
23:16
Speaker 9: It's basically how he doesn't have legitimacy. And I picked
23:19
Speaker 9: apart the history, the background of it, why that background
23:22
Speaker 9: matters to understand how we do know that the founders
23:24
Speaker 9: understood this problem back then and the consequences. He doesn't
23:29
Speaker 9: speak Russian, he didn't bring a Russian interpreter the way
23:32
Speaker 9: in which Americans have always done. And he is a
23:36
Speaker 9: real estate guy who knows nothing about the politics here.
23:39
Speaker 9: And I don't mean the politics and since of party politics,
23:41
Speaker 9: but how the life lives. So let me break it
23:44
Speaker 9: to the human connection to our listeners, which I think
23:46
Speaker 9: is the most important part. It's not to terrain or
23:49
Speaker 9: as we say, zem La, it's not the land itself.
23:53
Speaker 9: The fascination with that is everyone else. I'm sure on
23:56
Speaker 9: some level people feel that way, and I can understand
23:58
Speaker 9: it's a beautiful country that way. There are people currently
24:01
Speaker 9: in occupation. It is occupied territory. It is legally recognized
24:05
Speaker 9: by everyone, but people like Russian and Belarus and corrupt
24:08
Speaker 9: countries as occupied Ukraine. There are people that are extended
24:12
Speaker 9: parts of my adoptive family, if you will, that are
24:15
Speaker 9: in different parts of this occupied territory. There are displaced
24:19
Speaker 9: people in Ukraine. I've talked to you for four years.
24:21
Speaker 9: I can get a cab all the time and go,
24:22
Speaker 9: you know, where are you're from. I've actually studied the
24:25
Speaker 9: language the entire time, so I can have conversations like that.
24:28
Speaker 9: They'll say wherehere are you from? I'm from Texas and
24:30
Speaker 9: from Houston, and where are you from? I from Mohans?
24:32
Speaker 9: Oh wow, okay, so like have you been here since
24:35
Speaker 9: this time? Well, now I came a little after, but
24:37
Speaker 9: my sister's still there here, my mom's still there or
24:40
Speaker 9: my dad's still there or something, and the whole area
24:42
Speaker 9: is filled with people.
24:44
Speaker 3: Torn in half.
24:46
Speaker 9: And when we say we're just going to give this
24:47
Speaker 9: away so that Trump can get his latest snow built
24:49
Speaker 9: Peace Prize ambitions, we're literally casting millions of people to
24:53
Speaker 9: their doom.
24:54
Speaker 3: The Russians are filtering through those territories.
24:56
Speaker 9: I've documented it, I've written about it sometimes last four years,
25:01
Speaker 9: and it is basically capriciously deciding the fate of human
25:07
Speaker 9: beings that do not want that. And I'll address one
25:10
Speaker 9: part that comes up in that when like Russia tries
25:12
Speaker 9: to say, well, they're protecting Russian language speakers or Russian ethnicity,
25:16
Speaker 9: what country has the right to come into America and
25:19
Speaker 9: say it wants to defend a certain population because it
25:21
Speaker 9: thinks that language is threatened.
25:23
Speaker 3: No body accepts that.
25:25
Speaker 9: I might even be completely in line with protecting the
25:28
Speaker 9: people who have a linguistic class, but still no one
25:30
Speaker 9: would think that the sovereignty of one country should be
25:32
Speaker 9: dictated because of that argument. And number two, it's false.
25:37
Speaker 9: A lot of my family speaks Russian. They'll speak Ukrainian
25:40
Speaker 9: with me, but they speak Russian at the table because
25:43
Speaker 9: in the South and the East it would be a
25:45
Speaker 9: common language because it's the imperial language. It was a
25:47
Speaker 9: language that was required to be spoken. If you want
25:50
Speaker 9: to speak that Ukrainian thing, you go back to the farm.
25:52
Speaker 9: Was the mentality under Russia for a long time. It's
25:55
Speaker 9: actually well written in the Russian codes even before the USSR.
25:59
Speaker 9: So that's missing often that there's this you know, this
26:04
Speaker 9: poor threatened, you know, invisible class. That really is a
26:07
Speaker 9: myth designed to appeal to what is our good instinct
26:11
Speaker 9: for fairness abroad. And I've tried to study how the
26:14
Speaker 9: propaganda works. Well, it works because those of us who
26:16
Speaker 9: are good.
26:16
Speaker 3: People wouldn't want that to happen to people totally understandable.
26:20
Speaker 9: But when we get to the negotiation side, like you said,
26:23
Speaker 9: if you look through that list, and I also wrote
26:25
Speaker 9: a subject on every one of the demands lists, the
26:27
Speaker 9: maximalist demands literally violate the opening clause, which says in
26:32
Speaker 9: the peace plan, what was the twenty nine points peace plan,
26:35
Speaker 9: you know, the sovereignty will be acknowledged. Yeah, but if
26:38
Speaker 9: you look at the rest of the list, it's literally
26:40
Speaker 9: the exact opposite meaning of sovereignty. Sovereignty means in your
26:44
Speaker 9: own borders, you get to decide your fate. If you're saying, well,
26:48
Speaker 9: we'll have sovereignty but we won't only have so much military.
26:50
Speaker 9: We'll have sovereignty, but we're only allowed these alliances. We'll
26:53
Speaker 9: have sovereignty, but we'll only allow this kind of leadership.
26:56
Speaker 9: We have sovereignty, but we have to replace our leaders.
26:58
Speaker 9: We elected to change our constitution. That's not sovereignty. And
27:02
Speaker 9: that will tell you what the Russian model is, the
27:04
Speaker 9: Russian model of reflective control, where they get a stupid
27:09
Speaker 9: person like wikoff to an even more corrupt, stupid person
27:12
Speaker 9: like Trump who thinks in terms of real estate and deals.
27:15
Speaker 9: And as you know with gentrification in Houston, I covered
27:18
Speaker 9: people with that kind of money. They don't give a
27:19
Speaker 9: damn who lives in that building. They don't care what
27:21
Speaker 9: the results are to the people who are going through that.
27:23
Speaker 9: We're just mere ants and tokens in the bigger thing
27:26
Speaker 9: that they think they get to understand.
27:29
Speaker 10: This is just it's such a mess because Zelinski is
27:34
Speaker 10: in a position where he has to do everything that
27:37
Speaker 10: President Trump, the US President Trump wants, and it seems
27:42
Speaker 10: like he's doing like other leaders around the world. It's
27:44
Speaker 10: just kind of doing what ever appeases the US President.
27:48
Speaker 10: That's not really going to benefit the people of you
27:51
Speaker 10: or Ukraine. You know, it seems like it's defeating it
27:57
Speaker 10: the people of Ukraine. And also people forget the energy
28:01
Speaker 10: of Europe comes from come from me, come from there,
28:04
Speaker 10: and that's a big that's a big sticking point.
28:06
Speaker 3: Also, well, let's address a couple of things.
28:10
Speaker 9: So Vladimir Zelenski in his operative work, has to represent
28:14
Speaker 9: the interests of the people. And he's done a couple
28:15
Speaker 9: of things masterfully that I really wish more people would see.
28:19
Speaker 9: Maybe some people have seen it.
28:20
Speaker 3: But of course, you know hel you know, he goes
28:24
Speaker 3: up and says his you know, his greetings. He's very friendly.
28:26
Speaker 9: He is as an actor and comedian, he understands human
28:29
Speaker 9: condition really really well. So he's able to kind of
28:31
Speaker 9: morph around and be what's necessary, Yes, these are I understand.
28:36
Speaker 9: He'll say, yes, I understand your demand. Okay, we'll put
28:39
Speaker 9: it to a referendum. When he when he says that,
28:42
Speaker 9: that's the magic ingredient that lets you know where he stands.
28:45
Speaker 9: It's the people that make that decision. It's like codified
28:48
Speaker 9: in the constitution. And think about our constitution in America
28:52
Speaker 9: and compare the difference between the Constitution of America and
28:54
Speaker 9: the Constitution in Ukraine.
28:55
Speaker 3: The Constitution in Ukraine was.
28:57
Speaker 9: Literally written in the reality that Russia would try to
29:00
Speaker 9: do it again. You can tell from the language and
29:03
Speaker 9: the fact that the people would have to decide whether
29:05
Speaker 9: or not there's any kind of land ever parted, instead
29:10
Speaker 9: of a head overlord person and an elected executive to do so,
29:14
Speaker 9: or as some people like to throw.
29:15
Speaker 3: And he's a dictator. You know, even here when people are.
29:17
Speaker 9: Frustrated, when they said, like one guy, I really like
29:19
Speaker 9: he ruins a cafe, he goes, well, you know, in Valencia,
29:22
Speaker 9: bien a dictator. And I said, don't you have policy
29:24
Speaker 9: paralysis in the rada where nothing changes unless everyone agrees
29:26
Speaker 9: on it, as in the population. Yeah, that's the exact
29:28
Speaker 9: opposite of dictatorship. Literally, that dictator wouldn't care. A dictator
29:32
Speaker 9: would just do what he wants and make the people abide.
29:34
Speaker 3: And oh, you know, and he knew this, he understood this.
29:37
Speaker 9: But he's just frustrated, right, he's frustrated with the stagnation.
29:41
Speaker 9: And there's actually there is a populous problem about making
29:44
Speaker 9: decisions to make changes where too many and a lot
29:49
Speaker 9: of it has to do the era of Yhenikovich, which
29:51
Speaker 9: is when Janakovich is basically started gutting the country from
29:54
Speaker 9: twenty ten to twenty fourteen when.
29:55
Speaker 3: He was removed.
29:58
Speaker 9: He didn't care what the people said. And the people
30:00
Speaker 9: had made a pact for trade with Europe. They didn't
30:03
Speaker 9: want a trade with Russia. They didn't mind having the
30:06
Speaker 9: cousins still be friends, and they didn't mind some of
30:08
Speaker 9: those connections. That's fine, that's organic, but the rest they
30:11
Speaker 9: wanted to move to the Western sphere, the European model,
30:15
Speaker 9: and they love America what I call a mythology of
30:18
Speaker 9: America because when they get into conversation with meanings like
30:21
Speaker 9: it's not quite like that.
30:22
Speaker 3: But he decided no.
30:25
Speaker 9: And so if you remember there was a protest last May,
30:29
Speaker 9: I was actually down in the south when all of
30:30
Speaker 9: a sudden, a big protests broke out, and I didn't
30:32
Speaker 9: get to see it. Where there had been changes to
30:35
Speaker 9: the corruption the two corruption agencies that were created in
30:38
Speaker 9: twenty fourteen as a result that there were gonna be
30:41
Speaker 9: some limits put on them. And I kind of understand
30:43
Speaker 9: where that's coming from a little bit, although I agree
30:45
Speaker 9: with everyone and say you don't put that on there.
30:47
Speaker 9: So what happened in seven days, it was all reversed
30:51
Speaker 9: that's how responsive the quote unquote dictator is to the people,
30:55
Speaker 9: Like there is no dictatorship. It's impossible, an emoshna, because
30:58
Speaker 9: the people wouldessentially revault again. They would say the hell
31:01
Speaker 9: we will now, why does this matter? In the case
31:03
Speaker 9: of the war itself as well, the people who have
31:06
Speaker 9: actually done the most sacrificed, the people in the army,
31:09
Speaker 9: the families, the medics and all those people have done
31:11
Speaker 9: all that. They're like, oh, so you're just gonna give
31:15
Speaker 9: away everything we just reconquered and tell me to retreat
31:17
Speaker 9: and give more land over to Russia. Yeah, No, not happening.
31:23
Speaker 9: And that is a reality. Every human being listening right
31:25
Speaker 9: now needs to understand. Would you do the same thing.
31:28
Speaker 9: Would you leave your mom and her garden that she
31:30
Speaker 9: didn't leave and the cat there and say, you know, well,
31:33
Speaker 9: I was told to withdraw and.
31:34
Speaker 3: I'm gonna do that. Are you like? If I do that,
31:36
Speaker 3: they'll kill her, They'll kill my neighbor. Amazing.
31:39
Speaker 11: I don't know how the people there feel about giving
31:41
Speaker 11: good Ball the mineral rights.
31:43
Speaker 13: That's something that was a sticking point. And now that
31:46
Speaker 13: they gave up the mineral rights that was that was used.
31:49
Speaker 13: That seems to be the ploy with a number of
31:52
Speaker 13: these so called peace agreements that's been made across across
31:55
Speaker 13: the world right now by the US the mineral rights.
31:59
Speaker 13: So so Ukraine's has got given up the mineral rights.
32:03
Speaker 9: We haven't given up the mintal rights. They've been entered
32:06
Speaker 9: an agreement. That's that is a very strong powerhanding. Can
32:12
Speaker 9: I give you a model I think really tells us
32:13
Speaker 9: the story better though, Okay, okay, So I I for
32:18
Speaker 9: the listeners I have since I left the station, I
32:20
Speaker 9: have become proficient. I'm avoid the word expert, but I
32:23
Speaker 9: feel like it applies here a little bit, and an
32:25
Speaker 9: expert in certain things like terrorism isis and then Wagner
32:30
Speaker 9: under ighany pregotion and I built a site called Wagner
32:33
Speaker 9: Project where I was tracking what they were doing across
32:35
Speaker 9: these areas. So one of the things I ran into
32:37
Speaker 9: while I was doing that work was they were down
32:40
Speaker 9: in the Central African Republic at other areas and they
32:46
Speaker 9: engaged in what well first time me let me give
32:48
Speaker 9: not give it the title.
32:49
Speaker 3: Yet they start doing these.
32:52
Speaker 9: Concessions with mineral rights, with timber and other natural resources,
32:57
Speaker 9: and they do it in Sedan, They've done it in
32:59
Speaker 9: all these countries are operating. If you look at the map,
33:01
Speaker 9: you'll see I labeled out what they're doing where. Now
33:04
Speaker 9: the proper term for this is called state capture. It's
33:07
Speaker 9: a different form of imperialism Russia entered in twenty twenty
33:12
Speaker 9: five and thirty year state capture put in terms of
33:16
Speaker 9: contracts with those countries, but they're enforced by warlord division
33:20
Speaker 9: where Wagner works, Like in Central African Republic, Wagner works
33:25
Speaker 9: with that particular faction to keep control so that Russia
33:29
Speaker 9: gets what it wants out of that soil. Has nothing
33:32
Speaker 9: to do with the people, is not in the interest
33:33
Speaker 9: of the people. It basically builds the kind of corruption
33:35
Speaker 9: that we're all railing against. And that's really what that
33:39
Speaker 9: was was Donald Trump picking up the state capture model
33:42
Speaker 9: and putting an American tag on it.
33:46
Speaker 10: It's just it's just imperative that I know that people
33:51
Speaker 10: want to stop the fighting, but I'm saying at what
33:57
Speaker 10: costs because it seems like the US is not really interest.
34:01
Speaker 10: Can Europe actually support Ukraine to the point of them
34:07
Speaker 10: making a making a dent in the war?
34:12
Speaker 9: Well for the listeners, because I actually got my show
34:14
Speaker 9: when a certain show outside came in and dropped the
34:17
Speaker 9: name Lockheed Martin. This show's undwritten by Lockheed Martin. But
34:20
Speaker 9: that was that was in that show. I don't forget
34:22
Speaker 9: the mission of Low Hill. I had to talk with
34:25
Speaker 9: one of our great friends, mutual friends from the station
34:28
Speaker 9: a little over a month ago, and I said, well,
34:29
Speaker 9: when we use this generic term weapons, we're not telling
34:31
Speaker 9: ourselves anything.
34:33
Speaker 3: You don't want my building hit with a rocket from
34:35
Speaker 3: launch from Russia? Right, Oh? No, of course not.
34:36
Speaker 9: Okay, So what intercepts that is called a Patriot missile
34:40
Speaker 9: or an Irish tea missile or in a battery that
34:42
Speaker 9: it comes from. All those things are technically called heavy weapons,
34:45
Speaker 9: weapons artillery man. And we have this wiring in the
34:48
Speaker 9: anti war movement to say I don't believe in backing weapons. Okay,
34:53
Speaker 9: well we need to we need to back up a
34:55
Speaker 9: little bit. I think we mean, we don't believe in
34:56
Speaker 9: imperial and a profit motive oriented like warmongering and.
35:01
Speaker 3: These other things. But obviously we do believe that if.
35:04
Speaker 9: A fire department shows up to the house, they should
35:06
Speaker 9: be able to deploy the water, come out, put the
35:08
Speaker 9: fire out all the way to the last sender, so
35:11
Speaker 9: everything's safe. Can Russia be defeated in ways that puts
35:18
Speaker 9: that fire out and preserves Ukraine. Yes, by not playing
35:21
Speaker 9: the games. Donald Trump's currently playing. The ambition to do
35:25
Speaker 9: that has been from the beginning. It's not to fight
35:28
Speaker 9: just to fight party, It's not just to fight to fight.
35:32
Speaker 9: No one here wants that. Everyone wants to go home.
35:33
Speaker 9: The soldiers are tired, the families are exhausted. But the
35:37
Speaker 9: option is is just death. And Europe understands this really,
35:42
Speaker 9: really well because they have fresh institutional or incorporated genetic
35:47
Speaker 9: memory of it on their soil. America does not. America
35:50
Speaker 9: participate in the war for one three hundred and sixty
35:52
Speaker 9: five days. I'm on day one thousand, three hundred and
35:54
Speaker 9: eighty three days of this war for myself. So America
35:58
Speaker 9: did not have any of that land on their soils.
36:01
Speaker 9: That's what gave America as a chance to be a superpower.
36:04
Speaker 9: And that's why there's this disconnect in the policy class
36:07
Speaker 9: between how the Europeans see this battle and how Americans
36:11
Speaker 9: are being fed the battle, both on neutral news TV
36:15
Speaker 9: where they don't really get it very well articulated, but
36:18
Speaker 9: also in the antagonistic class. It's not my war, it's
36:21
Speaker 9: not my war, and it misses that this is exactly
36:26
Speaker 9: what Russia has been wanting to do. Russia is collapsing
36:29
Speaker 9: around a war that Vladimir Putin at this point knows
36:32
Speaker 9: he should have never launched. He thought he could grab
36:35
Speaker 9: the country in a short period of time. That did
36:37
Speaker 9: not happen. He thought he could end at a certain
36:39
Speaker 9: time by getting all sorts of other complicated problems in
36:42
Speaker 9: the West to take over. That still has not happened.
36:46
Speaker 9: And so what can happen next, Well, yes, America's support
36:51
Speaker 9: is extremely needed at all levels. But what is currently
36:56
Speaker 9: happening because of Trump's syphialatic like brainamage problems is that
37:02
Speaker 9: both Ukraine is building its own resources so that it
37:05
Speaker 9: doesn't have to keep asking that's good, that's sovereignty, and
37:09
Speaker 9: then Europe is having to do the same reality check
37:12
Speaker 9: and if we want a less militarized world, what the
37:16
Speaker 9: administration is doing is not getting us there. Europe has
37:19
Speaker 9: gotten used to its good healthcare, it's lattes and it
37:22
Speaker 9: got soft, and now we have a hot war that
37:26
Speaker 9: Europe knows affects them because Russian rockets and drones have
37:30
Speaker 9: landed in Romania. They've landed in Moldova, they landed in Poland.
37:35
Speaker 9: There has been hybrid warfare throughout Europe that includes deaths
37:39
Speaker 9: in several countries including Czechia and you know, Germany, other
37:43
Speaker 9: areas where the I won't get complicated for our listeners,
37:46
Speaker 9: but certain GRU units are definitely known to have been
37:50
Speaker 9: engaged in you know, sabotage. And I always tell people
37:54
Speaker 9: it's incumbent upon them from their position to be engaged
37:57
Speaker 9: in that to destroy what they see as their enemy.
38:01
Speaker 9: But Europe is not interested in being anyone sent to me.
38:03
Speaker 9: Europe kind of wants to enjoy life, you know, It's
38:07
Speaker 9: one thing I understand about Europeans.
38:09
Speaker 3: So they have to get a reality chick. Can they
38:11
Speaker 3: do it? Can UK and Canada do that?
38:14
Speaker 14: Well?
38:15
Speaker 9: I don't think those countries can collectively strong arm the
38:17
Speaker 9: United States to do much. But I think we are
38:19
Speaker 9: seeing a little bit of a reality check, often with
38:21
Speaker 9: mister Taco, where I'm going to do this, and I'm
38:24
Speaker 9: gonna do this, and he does this toddler thing, and
38:27
Speaker 9: not to insult toddlers, but Europe is saying, well, okay, well,
38:31
Speaker 9: if you're going to do that, then we'll do this.
38:34
Speaker 9: And they do have some power. It's just not military power.
38:37
Speaker 9: They don't have the level of weapons making to you know,
38:41
Speaker 9: stop either the war here or to prevent it from
38:45
Speaker 9: happening on their own soil. And in fact, I'm sure
38:48
Speaker 9: they're quite aware that the more they hemorrhage their own stocks,
38:51
Speaker 9: the more vulnerable they are should they have to defend
38:54
Speaker 9: their own territory. So really, what's happening under Trump's you know,
38:59
Speaker 9: psycho you know policy state is not only damaging to
39:04
Speaker 9: Ukraine obviously it's directly resulted in death that didn't have
39:08
Speaker 9: to happen, but also in Europe it is resulting in
39:12
Speaker 9: problems there that I think they'll be okay ultimately because
39:16
Speaker 9: they get it. But America is the one that's going
39:19
Speaker 9: to suffer because the moment these alliances ceased to be,
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Speaker 9: everything that gives America it's you know, supremacy and its
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Speaker 9: kind of cockiness is over. And I was on the
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Speaker 9: phone with an English friend the other day and I said,
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Speaker 9: there's a country, once upon a time, I.
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Speaker 3: Don't know if you heard, what's called England. Oh yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 3: you were. You were the number one power in the world,
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Speaker 3: and now you're not.
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40:15
Speaker 1: The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation TDLR is currently
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Speaker 1: seeking applicants to serve as public member volunteers on ten
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Speaker 1: of its thirty five advisory boards. Board members participate in
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Speaker 1: virtually scheduled meetings, allowing for flexible participation. Advisory Board members
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Speaker 1: play a critical role in supporting tdlr's mission by providing
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Speaker 1: technical knowledge, industry expertise, and real world insight into the
40:41
Speaker 1: Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation and agency staff. These
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Speaker 1: boards are composed of licensees, representatives, regulated businesses and industries,
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Speaker 1: public members, and other professionals. We talk to telegodwin mange
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Speaker 1: communications manager for the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
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Speaker 14: TDLR has forty two different professions that we oversee, and
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Speaker 14: of those, thirty five of those professions have advisory boards.
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Speaker 14: We're looking for members for ten of those thirty five
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Speaker 14: advisory boards, and they range from the Auctioneer Advisory Board
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Speaker 14: to the water well Drillers Advisory Board, to the Orthodists
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Speaker 14: and Prosthetists Advisory Board, Midwives Advisory Board. There's just a
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Speaker 14: wide variety of folks that we're looking for as public members.
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Speaker 14: And a public member is someone who is a consumer,
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Speaker 14: who doesn't have any financial ties or any ties to
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Speaker 14: a particular profession. So if, in other words, you can't
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Speaker 14: be an auctioneer and be a public member of the
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Speaker 14: Auctioneer Advisory Board. If you're an auctioneer, you're welcome to
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Speaker 14: apply to be a volunteer on any of the other
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Speaker 14: advisory boards that we have, but you can't be on
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Speaker 14: a board that has something to do with your own
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Speaker 14: profession because we already have slots for those folks.
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Speaker 10: So you can't be you can't you can't have any
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Speaker 10: type of uh inside interest, so.
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Speaker 14: To speak, right because we already have we already have
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Speaker 14: positions on the advisory boards for people who are in
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Speaker 14: those particular professions. So what what a public member does
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Speaker 14: is they represent all the rest of US Texans who
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Speaker 14: aren't part of that profession. They attend meetings virtually, so
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Speaker 14: you don't have to be in Austin and you don't
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Speaker 14: have to travel to Austin to be able to be
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Speaker 14: an advisory board member, which is great because that opens
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Speaker 14: it up quite a bit more to folks who might
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Speaker 14: be interested in helping out but can't devote, you know,
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Speaker 14: a day and a half of travel to get to Austin. Right,
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Speaker 14: there's no financial compensation for serving on the board or
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Speaker 14: it's just you know, you can feel good that you're
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Speaker 14: helping your fellow Texans. The terms are generally six years,
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Speaker 14: and it's a great stepping stone to be a member
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Speaker 14: of a different advisory board that might be related to
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Speaker 14: your profession. So if you have a license from PDLR
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Speaker 14: and you think, wow, you know, I'd like to be
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Speaker 14: on the advisory board that oversees my profession, then one
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Speaker 14: way to kind of start working your way toward that
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Speaker 14: would be to apply to be a public member, and
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Speaker 14: that way you get to know us and we get
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Speaker 14: to know you. The the public member is, like I said,
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Speaker 14: you know, someone who doesn't have any ties to that
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Speaker 14: particular profession, and they often during these meetings when there's
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Speaker 14: discussion about rules that that we're looking at at instituting,
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Speaker 14: you know, they can be kind of the person says, well,
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Speaker 14: you know, how's this going to affect consumers? How can
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Speaker 14: we how is a consumer going to be able to
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Speaker 14: make sure that this person's licensed or you know what
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Speaker 14: happens if the you know, things don't go as well
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Speaker 14: as as the licensee had said, you know what what
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Speaker 14: avenues do members of the public who maybe have been harmed,
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Speaker 14: what can they do? So it's you know, it's and
44:20
Speaker 14: it's interesting to learn about things that you may not
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Speaker 14: be aware of.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and I was thinking about that because licensing, licening
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Speaker 10: can affect your community. As far as what we deal
44:35
Speaker 10: with is you know, you got motels that are operating
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Speaker 10: the community that that have a lot of advice that
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Speaker 10: goes on different license for even these massage places that
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Speaker 10: open up in communities, and you have enough you can
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Speaker 10: people have hands on experience on what's going on in
44:54
Speaker 10: the community and how some of these type of places
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Speaker 10: affect them, like correct on.
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Speaker 14: It right, Well, we you know, we don't regulate hotels
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Speaker 14: or motels.
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Speaker 3: That's not example.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, but we do. We do licensed massage establishments. So
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Speaker 14: you know, if someone is a member of the public
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Speaker 14: and they you know, have massages and you know they
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Speaker 14: know that, you know, here's what how it's supposed to
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Speaker 14: work or you know, is it supposed to work this way?
45:18
Speaker 14: This is how you know, when I've gone in the past,
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Speaker 14: this is you know, what's happened, and is that a thing?
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Speaker 14: Is it okay? You know, it's a It's a good
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Speaker 14: thing for us to be able to talk with people
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Speaker 14: who receive services and understand you know, what needs they
45:35
Speaker 14: may have.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, and what type of what type of businesses are
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Speaker 10: you know, are hurting or helping their communities?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 14: Yeah. Absolutely. So you know if someone's been thinking, hey,
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Speaker 14: you know, in twenty twenty six, I want to get
45:51
Speaker 14: more involved in in the community and and just you know,
45:55
Speaker 14: kind of be a more active Texan, then this would
45:59
Speaker 14: be an awesome way to be able to do that.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. So when you apply, what happens after that?
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Speaker 14: So once you have filled out it's it's a kind
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Speaker 14: of a lengthy application, but it goes by pretty fast.
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Speaker 14: You just you fill it out completely, you submit it
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Speaker 14: and then what happens is we take all the applications
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Speaker 14: that we've received for a particular advisory board and we
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Speaker 14: just start looking at and thinking about carefully about you
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Speaker 14: know this this what is this person's range of experience?
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Speaker 14: You know is it are they going to be a
46:42
Speaker 14: good fit for this particular advisory board? And you know
46:47
Speaker 14: what do they bring to the table. It's it's much
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Speaker 14: like a job application, except at the end of it,
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Speaker 14: you're not gonna get a job that you're compensated for
46:57
Speaker 14: that you're going to have something that that you can
46:59
Speaker 14: put certainly put on a resume and you can know
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Speaker 14: that you've been helping out the state of Texas.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: And one thing about it also is you're upen in
47:07
Speaker 10: the community that that you're living.
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Speaker 14: Right absolutely, and and you know, the folks who are
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Speaker 14: selected as as being potential candidates, then they are considered
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Speaker 14: by the Texas Commission of Licensing and Regulation, which is
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Speaker 14: the commission that oversees t d l R, and they
47:30
Speaker 14: vote on you know, who is going to be on
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Speaker 14: the advisory boards, and then you know, if you're selected,
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Speaker 14: then then you're notified that that you've been selected, and
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Speaker 14: we start arranging for training for the new Advisory Board
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Speaker 14: members and then they start attending meetings virtually. It's pretty cool.
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Speaker 10: How long is in training and what's what's what's included
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Speaker 10: in that training.
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Speaker 14: The training is usually, you know, probably about an hour.
47:59
Speaker 14: It really just covers the do's and don't you know
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Speaker 14: there's things that you can't because of open meetings laws.
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Speaker 14: And for example, you can't meet in a meeting that's
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Speaker 14: not been announced with your fellow Advisory Board members, and
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Speaker 14: so you know, there's instructions that are given out, like
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Speaker 14: you can't be emailing each other, you can't talk to
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Speaker 14: each other on the phone. If you're going to talk
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Speaker 14: about any kind of business that has to do with
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Speaker 14: the Advisory Board, it has to be done in an
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Speaker 14: open session that has been corrected, correctly posted, because that
48:35
Speaker 14: could be a violation of the law. And we want
48:36
Speaker 14: to make sure that that none of our folks are
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Speaker 14: breaking the law.
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Speaker 10: So if I if I have something somebody, I'm trying
48:43
Speaker 10: to get this right. If somebody's on the board that
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Speaker 10: I'm not close to but that I know, I can't,
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Speaker 10: I can't well, I can't, I can't discuss business from
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Speaker 10: the board with that person, correct, right, Yeah.
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Speaker 14: And that's just that's just something that that you know,
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Speaker 14: that's in state law. You know, it's a it's an
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Speaker 14: actual law that you can't do that. And we're really
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Speaker 14: careful to make sure that we make sure that our
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Speaker 14: our advisory board members are aware of that so that
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Speaker 14: they don't inadvertently end up getting into trouble that could
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Speaker 14: have been avoided if they had known. Hey, you know,
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Speaker 14: we can talk about football, you know, we still have
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Speaker 14: that side bed on on the March madness, but y'all
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Speaker 14: can't talk about what the Advisor board businesses.
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Speaker 10: Okay, that makes sense.
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Speaker 3: That makes sense.
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Speaker 10: Why don't you tell people how to apply and all
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Speaker 10: the details on that.
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Speaker 2: Great.
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Speaker 14: If you're interested in becoming an Advisor board member or
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Speaker 14: exploring that, you go to the T d l R website,
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Speaker 14: which is www dot t d l R dot Texas.
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Speaker 14: You spell out Texas T e X A, S dot
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Speaker 14: G O V And when you go to our page,
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Speaker 14: there's a section at the top the page that says
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Speaker 14: open meetings. You just click on that and then scroll
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Speaker 14: down to the bottom of the page and there's a
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Speaker 14: little blue box that says interested in serving on an
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Speaker 14: Advisory boarder committee? And you click on the board vacancy's page,
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Speaker 14: and it'll take you to the page that has all
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Speaker 14: the boards that currently have vacancies, and they'll say what
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Speaker 14: kind of vacancy it is, and they'll be one that says,
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Speaker 14: you know, public member, and you just click on that
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Speaker 14: particular one for that program and it'll take you to
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Speaker 14: the applications page where you'll create an account, and then
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Speaker 14: you'll just go from there.
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Speaker 1: That was Tella Goodwin, Mange communications manager with the Texas
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Speaker 1: Department of Licensing and Regulation. For more information, you can
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Speaker 1: go to TDLR dot Texas dot gov, find the section
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Speaker 1: that says open meetings and scroll through the list and
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Speaker 1: apply for the one you're interested in. For over thirty
50:54
Speaker 1: years in Houston, there have been two Martin Luther King
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Speaker 1: Day Junior Parades. For the first time in thirty years,
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Speaker 1: the two parades are one. Thousands line the street of
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Speaker 1: downtown Houston to watch over three hundred entrants in this
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Speaker 1: year's MLK Day parade. It was a day of unity
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Speaker 1: and the weather was perfect. Houston Mayor John Whitmyer was
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Speaker 1: there to lead the parade.
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Speaker 2: This is a special day, special day for all Houstonians
51:21
Speaker 2: come together for unity and this honored Doctor King. But
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Speaker 2: you know, this is what makes Houston a special city.
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Speaker 2: We come together. We come together in good times bad times,
51:32
Speaker 2: and today it's truly a unity pread.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Martin Luther King's nephew, the Reverend Doctor Derek King,
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Speaker 1: was on hand to give his thoughts on the day
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Speaker 1: and the events going on.
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Speaker 15: Some things you shouldn't forget, some things you shouldn't let
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Speaker 15: other folks forget. One of the things had a significant
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Speaker 15: of a King Parade is that we remind not only
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Speaker 15: through and throughout the city of Houston, but the whole
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Speaker 15: country and the world. And there was a man named
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Speaker 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. Who tried to make this country
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Speaker 15: do what he said It was on faith, and it's
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Speaker 15: up to every generation to keep doctor King's name alive.
52:25
Speaker 15: But not just the name, but the work.
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Speaker 16: So a lot of people forget about the work that
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Speaker 16: was going people behind the scenes.
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Speaker 15: And it wasn't him by him, He was not alone.
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Speaker 15: There were a lot of unnamed people. So the holiday
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Speaker 15: still had meaning and relevant.
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Speaker 1: The Mlkday Grand Parade President Charles Stamps said, it was
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Speaker 1: a great day.
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Speaker 2: Oh thank god, every day they allowed to live Colona
52:55
Speaker 2: after city state coming to a suation and.
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Speaker 16: The importance of it, the Mlkday and what's going on
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Speaker 16: in the country right now and you're having to pray
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Speaker 16: like this and everybody coming together.
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Speaker 7: Oh it's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 10: We flitted that. We hope to other cities across the county.
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Speaker 12: We replication.
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Speaker 2: It's more than just a celebration.
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Speaker 3: How can happen that a celebration of people.
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Speaker 5: All over the world.
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Speaker 1: One parade, but many entrants in this year's parade.
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Speaker 16: People high points with MLKDA and talking about you know
53:29
Speaker 16: you've been in the community at community service.
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Speaker 3: It's very important. We all need to be a relationships.
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Speaker 12: Uh, quart of their life is effective by the relationships
53:39
Speaker 12: that we have.
53:41
Speaker 3: Let's get together, come together and be a community in
53:44
Speaker 3: that race. Children help take care of the series and
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Speaker 3: we can all be s one.
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Speaker 16: How hard is it right now? You know you have
53:52
Speaker 16: people don't understand community policing and how important it is,
53:55
Speaker 16: especially having the black latudos out there in the field.
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Speaker 3: It's very important.
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Speaker 17: All right, this can be your name for the recording
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Speaker 17: James Tallerico Runney the US Senate and how important is
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Speaker 17: the KA.
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Speaker 5: For you and for your your your run well?
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Speaker 17: Doctor King is a personal hero of mine. He showed
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Speaker 17: us exactly what it means to love our neighbors as ourselves.
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Speaker 17: And my frustration is when the worst politicians in this
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Speaker 17: country quote doctor.
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Speaker 3: King on this day.
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Speaker 2: You can't quote I have a.
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Speaker 1: Dream on MLK Day and.
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Speaker 17: Then legislate against that dream every other day of the year.
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Speaker 17: So it's on us to make that dream of reality.
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Speaker 8: Through our actions.
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Speaker 16: What's what's going on in Minnesota happen here. We've been
54:36
Speaker 16: happening here with the immigration issue in ice in Houston.
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Speaker 17: I wonder what doctor King would say about mass men
54:43
Speaker 17: and unmarked vehicles kidnapping people off of our greet And
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Speaker 17: I think he would have bowed the protesters of Minnesota,
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Speaker 17: the protesters all over this country putting here in Texas
54:55
Speaker 17: that are standing up for our neighbors.
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Speaker 16: We have a major city, you know, Austin houstay in Dallas.
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Speaker 16: How are you gonna go and talk to the people
55:01
Speaker 16: in the Grange and the outlying communities are Uh?
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Speaker 18: I'm saying totally the.
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Speaker 3: Support of cruise and all times, that's what we have
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Speaker 3: to do.
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Speaker 17: We have to go everywhere and talk to everyone. Our
55:12
Speaker 17: campaign in visiting big cities like Houston superins like for men,
55:16
Speaker 17: but also going out to small town like gomot Uh,
55:20
Speaker 17: like long View.
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Speaker 3: We're going everywhere. We're talking everyone, nothing to do.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna win.
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Speaker 10: Today.
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Speaker 15: It's you and.
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Speaker 17: You'll be Okay.
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Speaker 18: It's sixty day for America and sadly, as a member
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Speaker 18: of ALCO, with all the products of the work, the
55:36
Speaker 18: legacy that I was the love brother left towards the world.
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Speaker 18: So this there's always a switch to day. But we
55:43
Speaker 18: hope that the off of morality is still in the place.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 19: With a European gun club in Houston chapter, I will
55:56
Speaker 19: mention it's a training, educate and serve our community. But
55:59
Speaker 19: we're you know, right now is supporting our community by
56:03
Speaker 19: marching along with Houston Houston Unsolved Murders and we're supporting
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Speaker 19: John Marston and his organization.
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Speaker 3: So what else do you want to know? How important?
56:21
Speaker 12: How hard is it?
56:22
Speaker 16: Because the gun culture in Houston is is very high.
56:24
Speaker 16: Everybody seem like everybody and the mother has a gun.
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Speaker 19: So what we do is train people how to use
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Speaker 19: it in a proper way, to store it the proper way,
56:34
Speaker 19: to teach them how to de escalate situations before it
56:38
Speaker 19: turns into gun violence, and we use the escalation tactics
56:45
Speaker 19: and so forth. We also train teach them how to
56:48
Speaker 19: load safely, tease him, how to shoot, gun laws and
56:54
Speaker 19: so forth, and.
56:55
Speaker 3: How to get into the organization.
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Speaker 19: hPG at gmail dot com.
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