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Rain Cannot Dampen PRIDE 2026; ICE Deports US Citizens; Gas Over $5 Soon, Thanks Trump! - TPN 6/7/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: Is the week of June seventh, twenty twenty six, and
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Speaker 1: this is what's on the People's News. Pride Houston reschedule,
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Speaker 1: but urgency still persists. Being a US citizen doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: ICE will deport you anyway. The straight up her Moves
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Speaker 1: remains closed and gas will be over five dollars a
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Speaker 1: gallon or more in two weeks. Another look at the
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Speaker 1: runoffs in Texas. Does the World Cup cost too much?
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Speaker 1: Lots of free events around the city for the family.
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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: The death of thirty three year old Persia Amara Conway,
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Speaker 1: black transwomen killed along Bray's Bayou in Houston on May
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Speaker 1: twenty fifth, highlights the increase in violence on transwomen, especially
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Speaker 1: of color. Following the verbal attacks on the LBGTQ community
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Speaker 1: by prominent politicians and community leaders, there's been a rise
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Speaker 1: in the violence as well. A visil was held in
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Speaker 1: honor of Conway ahead of Pride weekend. This year's Pride
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Speaker 1: Houston parade was canceled because of the rain, but that
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Speaker 1: did not detour thousands from coming early to celebrate diversity
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Speaker 1: and at a time when the LGBTQ community is under
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Speaker 1: attack from all fronts, but organizers say they are not
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Speaker 1: going anywhere. Dan Cato is the director of marketing with
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Speaker 1: the Montrose Center. They work to empower the LGBTQ community.
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Speaker 1: They have been on the front line of asking for
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Speaker 1: accountability on the death of Conway.
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Speaker 2: Really important this year, especially right now when there's a
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Speaker 2: quite a substantial sense of regression.
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Speaker 3: For our rights.
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Speaker 2: Being able to come out and celebrate and protests equally
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Speaker 2: this year is very important to all of us. And
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Speaker 2: you know, always for queer folks like us, being in
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Speaker 2: community makes us stronger.
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Speaker 4: What about I know happened a couple weeks ago. We
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Speaker 4: have a class woman, a black woman.
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Speaker 2: I was killed that yeah, Perjia Mara Conway was unfortunately
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Speaker 2: murdered about almost two weeks ago. We don't really know
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Speaker 2: a lot about her case, but what we do know
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Speaker 2: is that she is the daughter of a very of
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Speaker 2: a family who loved her and who were passionate for her.
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Speaker 2: And we're here earlier this week trying to get answers
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Speaker 2: in justice for her, and we were honored to host
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Speaker 2: them at the Center for a candlelight vigil an opportunity
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Speaker 2: for the family not only to kind of make a
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Speaker 2: statement on their own, but also to come together in
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Speaker 2: community and see how we can as the queer community
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Speaker 2: using comes together.
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Speaker 5: For our own.
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Speaker 6: You're in a rhetoric that comes from politicians right now
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Speaker 6: attacking the community, attacking a besiching rights and increasal tax on,
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Speaker 6: a tax on people are people in the public, They're
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Speaker 6: fear now you want.
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Speaker 2: You know, I think I think there's always some some fear.
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Speaker 2: But this is also creating opportunities.
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Speaker 1: For us to.
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Speaker 2: Win back against sort of those policies and those statements
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Speaker 2: and really try and tell the truth about transgender people
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Speaker 2: who are people like everyone else who want to have
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Speaker 2: a happy in fulfilling heights. Okay, quite frankly, all of
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Speaker 2: these politics is getting really in Pavilli that so, yeah,
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Speaker 2: what I would say it is for Persia and her family.
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Speaker 2: You know, the Mantras Center stands with them, and we'll
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Speaker 2: stand with them until justice is done for her, and
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Speaker 2: we will continue to hold everyone accountable who needs to be.
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Speaker 7: We'll have to attack that we had we had the
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Speaker 7: same attacks doubts.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, I mean, unfortunately the intersection between racism and
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Speaker 2: transphobia is pretty strong, and I think it just signifies
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Speaker 2: that we have a lot more work to do. We've
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Speaker 2: come away, but we've got a lot more work to do.
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Speaker 2: And I would just say that some of these issues are,
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Speaker 2: you know, so systemic that even our politicians at the
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Speaker 2: highest level, we represent our cities and counties, aren't fully
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Speaker 2: aware of how their systems.
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Speaker 1: Are working internally.
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Speaker 2: And so we've got work to do, and then is
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Speaker 2: here to.
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Speaker 1: Do that work. Doctor Roy Rivera Junior was one of
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Speaker 1: this year's Grand Marshals along with d Treemitzgerald. Both have
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Speaker 1: worked tirelessly in the LGBTQ community.
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Speaker 7: How important is Pride twenty six with what's going on
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Speaker 7: here in America?
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Speaker 8: Here in the state.
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Speaker 3: So Pride is very important just because all the things
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Speaker 3: that are happening right now politically, not just in in
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Speaker 3: our hometown, but in the nation right there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of us trying to be silenced by a lot of
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Speaker 3: the politics, a lot of the laws that are passing.
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Speaker 3: And if we just if we disappear and kind of
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Speaker 3: fade away into the dark, no, you know, no progress
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Speaker 3: and no change is going to happen. So you know,
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Speaker 3: we're here to show up, have a good time, and
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Speaker 3: then everybody know that we're still around and we're not
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Speaker 3: going anywhere.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I definitely think Pride this year is extremely important,
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Speaker 9: especially with everything that's going on in detectives and in
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Speaker 9: the United States, with a lot of these like trands
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Speaker 9: right and like trans access to healthcare being dripped away,
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Speaker 9: and just like the world seeming so scary right now,
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Speaker 9: and just having this time to like celebrate and like
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Speaker 9: and also like advocate and just be in community with
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Speaker 9: each other to like have this one in like many
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Speaker 9: moments of Julie today and like for therective in woman here.
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Speaker 1: A number of homeless people are black and gay and
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Speaker 1: have nowhere to go and are often attacked. Tony's Place
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Speaker 1: in Houston is a place where a diverse set of
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Speaker 1: services are set to meet the needs of the LGBTQ
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Speaker 1: community and take in people from fourteen to twenty five
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Speaker 1: years old. We talk to them at Pride and name's
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Speaker 1: Scary Rye.
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Speaker 10: I'm the executive director of Tony's Places Rodriguez, I'm.
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Speaker 1: The board member.
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Speaker 7: How important Ride on twenty six in the community, especially
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Speaker 7: with what's going on with the backlash from the right
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Speaker 7: as far as Trenty eliminate different.
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Speaker 11: Types of the different eliminate history, and.
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Speaker 4: A trans community attacking the transformunion.
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Speaker 10: This is a really important time. Tony Space serves young
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Speaker 10: people fourteen to twenty five and they're the ones being
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Speaker 10: under attack. So right now, Pride making that a celebration,
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Speaker 10: celebrating our identities, celebrating these people. Are we need this
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Speaker 10: more than ever?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, And I think Pride's about community and Tony's places
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Speaker 12: the definition of the community.
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Speaker 13: So I wish I would have had the Tony Space
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Speaker 13: when I was younger.
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Speaker 14: So it means a lot.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, And you seems like people now are getting people
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Speaker 7: with the biggest users getting the attention as far as
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Speaker 7: as far as the attacking looks.
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Speaker 10: For transformut right, but a squeaky wheel gets the get
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Speaker 10: the attention. Were deep to see an increase in the
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Speaker 10: number of trends and non binary youth coming through our doors.
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Speaker 10: So I don't know if that means that you know,
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Speaker 10: there's a bigger need or people just know about Tony's Place,
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Speaker 10: but we have been such a lot of ras hung
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Speaker 10: to us to get their basic needs, to get their showers,
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Speaker 10: and so it's I'm really at this point in time,
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Speaker 10: it's hard for our young people to succeed, So having
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Speaker 10: Tony's Place gives them a place to do that.
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Speaker 7: How are you fighting attacks? Especially in the state on
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Speaker 7: the state level with the bathroom issues and other issues.
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Speaker 11: Have the only community that they think.
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Speaker 7: Is ruining, cancels protecting, you know, I think.
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Speaker 12: I think now more more than ever, we just need
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Speaker 12: to be ourselves. I think there's a lot of rhetoric,
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Speaker 12: a lot of negative rhetoric, and I think people just
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Speaker 12: need to get to know somebody. And you know, I
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Speaker 12: think that's that's a way to get into the community.
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Speaker 12: You don't have to swing up flag back and forward.
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Speaker 12: But you know, we're not We're not some ave like concert,
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Speaker 12: We're not theoretical.
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Speaker 2: We're here so people all the time, and do they
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Speaker 2: know there's some other people they know.
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Speaker 7: The history or the pop they know about Stonewall, who
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Speaker 7: know about an activism.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: And then a couple of weeks ago at Tony's Space,
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Speaker 10: we actually did a group about Pride.
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Speaker 11: We did Pride one oh one.
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Speaker 10: What is pride about? Pride started as a riot and
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Speaker 10: we've been providing education about pure history with our with
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Speaker 10: our young people.
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Speaker 9: We've been talking about.
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Speaker 10: What are What does it mean for all LGBTQ. Hey,
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Speaker 10: I too spirited and they seem really interesting to learn.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, and I mean even even just for like the
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Speaker 13: Latino community. It's just being out is such a you know,
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Speaker 13: I don't you know, out the norm. So yeah, little bit.
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Speaker 1: Letto Tony's Place can be found at Tony's Place All
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Speaker 1: put Together dot Org. Pride twenty twenty six is to
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Speaker 1: be set for a future date. Houston police are still
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Speaker 1: investigating the Conway death, but others in the community are
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Speaker 1: wanting answers. Brian Jose Garcia was born in Denver, but
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Speaker 1: grew up in Mexico and has dual citizenship. He was
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Speaker 1: riding in a car that was pulled over near Fredericksburg, Texas.
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Speaker 1: He did not have his documents and was held until
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Speaker 1: immigration authorities were called. Despite having the proof that he
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Speaker 1: was a US citizen, they deported him. Kate Lincoln Goldfinch
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Speaker 1: is an immigration attorney that is representing Garcia. She says
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Speaker 1: that this is something all Americans should be concerned with.
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Speaker 1: She also talked about the ongoing problems with the private
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Speaker 1: detention centers like the one in Dilly, Texas, that have
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Speaker 1: been to have abused and caused harm to those held
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Speaker 1: in detention.
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Speaker 15: The reason that Brian's case is a concern is that
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Speaker 15: he is a born US citizen, where his citizenship, from
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Speaker 15: my perspective, is not at question. He was born at
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Speaker 15: a hospital, he has his birth records, he has his
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Speaker 15: baptismal certificate, and he has a certified birth certificate from
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Speaker 15: the state of Colorado. He is living and working in Texas,
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Speaker 15: and he's Hispanic passenger in a work truck which gets
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Speaker 15: pulled over for what they say is a seat belt
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Speaker 15: violation by DPS, and between DPS and the state troopers,
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Speaker 15: he is detained and transferred over several days, ultimately into
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Speaker 15: the hands of border patrol who forces him to sign
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Speaker 15: a piece of paper accepting a deportation under duress. And
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Speaker 15: throughout this entire series of events, he repeated to the
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Speaker 15: various agencies that he was born in the United States,
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Speaker 15: that he was a US citizen, and he was threatened
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Speaker 15: by the officers that if he kept lying to them
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Speaker 15: that they would put him in jail for several years,
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Speaker 15: and so ultimately he stopped talking and signed their paperwork.
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Speaker 15: And now he is in Mexico desperately wanting to be
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Speaker 15: back in the United States, and we have, as his attorneys,
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Speaker 15: have filed a lawsuit asking the judge to order that
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Speaker 15: he can come back with a birth certificate, and we're
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Speaker 15: also seeking damages for what happened to him. But there,
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Speaker 15: you know, there have been some delays on what we're
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Speaker 15: asking for from the court, and I understand the judges
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Speaker 15: being cautious and we respect that. But ultimately, if we
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Speaker 15: start to live in a country where US citizens with
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Speaker 15: valid paperwork can get detained and deported and then told
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Speaker 15: post deportation that the burden is higher on them to
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Speaker 15: prove their citizenship, that obviously could have far reaching implications
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Speaker 15: on a lot of other people. And it shouldn't be
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Speaker 15: on us as US citizens number one, to carry our
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Speaker 15: documentation on us. If we're just living our lives out
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Speaker 15: in the world. There isn't a law that says that,
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Speaker 15: and we don't want to live in a society that
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Speaker 15: can require that.
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Speaker 14: Number Two.
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Speaker 15: In the rare circumstance, with hope it stays rare, where
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Speaker 15: somebody is mistakenly deported, they should be brought back immediately,
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Speaker 15: with how having to go through so many hoops to
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Speaker 15: get back, and that's one of the things that I
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Speaker 15: think is ultimately concerning for me about this case.
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Speaker 4: I got. I got two questions. One if even if
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Speaker 4: you're an immigrant, you still have a right to an
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Speaker 4: attorney and he can still ask at any point of
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Speaker 4: this hecause asked if he asked for an attorney, and
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Speaker 4: they should be able to stop questioning in my career,
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Speaker 4: I'm not a lawyer, but I'm just.
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Speaker 15: Right.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 15: No, he was not being held and he was threatened
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Speaker 15: with criminal charges, but he wasn't charged criminally ever, And
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Speaker 15: it's only criminal cases that provide free legal representation. So
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Speaker 15: he didn't have a right to a lawyer. Now, could
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Speaker 15: he have forced it and said charge me? Called their bluff?
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Speaker 14: Yeah, but he didn't know.
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Speaker 15: You know, he's a young guy who was unaware of
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Speaker 15: this risk even out there for him. And he has
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Speaker 15: a young child, a new baby. You know, he's responsible
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Speaker 15: for this baby's you know, livelihood life and didn't want
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Speaker 15: to be in jail for five years. He believed them
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Speaker 15: when they said that to him, And so no, he
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Speaker 15: didn't have the right to a lawyer.
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Speaker 4: Also, you know you mentioned you mentioned you should have documentation.
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Speaker 4: I mean, are we supposed to have documentation everywhere?
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Speaker 8: We go.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, if we grab a car, is
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Speaker 4: supposed to have a type of license, so much correct.
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Speaker 15: Next, Yeah, there are certain things in this country that
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Speaker 15: require you to have an idea traveling, flying, driving a car,
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Speaker 15: you know, certain other things, entering into certain buildings, for example,
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Speaker 15: But riding in a car, walking down the street, leaving
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Speaker 15: your house absolutely not.
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Speaker 14: You absolutely do not have to have your idea on
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Speaker 14: you at all times in this country.
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Speaker 15: And if I shudder to think how far we will
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Speaker 15: have fallen if we find ourselves in a country where
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Speaker 15: you can be stopped and forced to show your ID
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Speaker 15: at any time to any law enforcement officer, in a
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Speaker 15: country where we've already allowed racial profiling by the Supreme
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Speaker 15: Court of the United States. So let's hope we don't
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Speaker 15: find ourselves in that situation as a nation. That would
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Speaker 15: be very bad.
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Speaker 4: Does this go into the Trump administration's birch right caste
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Speaker 4: that that's going through the courts right now and is
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Speaker 4: at the Supreme Court level.
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Speaker 15: No, Brian would be. Although he did benefit from birthright citizenship,
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Speaker 15: he was born in the United States, he's twenty five
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Speaker 15: years old, and his right to citizenship is not impacted
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Speaker 15: by its executive order even if it were allowed to
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Speaker 15: move forward by the courts, because it's not a retroactive policy.
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Speaker 4: And so where's he staying right now? He's still in Mexico.
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Speaker 14: He did in Mexico.
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Speaker 15: We had a hearing this week before the judge, and
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Speaker 15: the judge said, is I'd like the two sides.
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Speaker 14: To work together.
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Speaker 15: There was agreement that if we agree that he's a
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Speaker 15: US citizen, that he should not have been deported and
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Speaker 15: he should be brought back. And so the judge has
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Speaker 15: asked us to work with the Department of Justice to
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Speaker 15: provide as much evidence as we can of Brian's citizenship.
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Speaker 15: And we can do that, and we are complying there
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Speaker 15: is plenty of evidence. But again, the concern that I
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Speaker 15: have is that if this happens again to the next
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Speaker 15: person requiring additional evidence beyond a birth certificate like fingerprints
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Speaker 15: or an affidavit of your mother or something like that,
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Speaker 15: we might be asking for too much from the wrong person.
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Speaker 15: Meaning we ought to be asking the government to do
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Speaker 15: its diligence before it decides to detain and deport someone,
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Speaker 15: not post deportation, asking a US citizen to provide more
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Speaker 15: evidence proving their citizenship.
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Speaker 14: I think that is a step in the wrong direction.
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Speaker 4: He went through how many agencies before he ended up
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Speaker 4: being deported?
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Speaker 15: Three agencies He was detained by. DPS Gillespie Sheriff and CBP.
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Speaker 4: Gillspie Sheriff were the first ones that pulled up, that
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Speaker 4: pulled them over.
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Speaker 15: Originally correct, I think it was DPS that pulled him over,
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Speaker 15: but it was kind of together. It was DPS and
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Speaker 15: Galastie's sheriff. We're working together that day.
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Speaker 4: And so how long do you think it's going to
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Speaker 4: be to thee he can come back to the United States?
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Speaker 14: Do you have any idea?
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Speaker 15: I imagine this will be achieved quickly, within a couple
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Speaker 15: of weeks, and we will be celebrating his return and
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Speaker 15: also hopefully sending a message to DHS that they should
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Speaker 15: not start to engage in the business of deporting US citizens.
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Speaker 4: And well, we talked about this. We also have we
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Speaker 4: know about the Daily Immigration Immigration Detention Center and the
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Speaker 4: problems we had there in the past, and now you
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Speaker 4: had the same theme going on in New Jersey with
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Speaker 4: the with the immigration center there, and it seems like
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Speaker 4: it seems like homes Security is coming up with their
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Speaker 4: own rules even though they breaking they're breaking constitution rules.
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Speaker 4: Even if you're even if you're in jail, you still
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Speaker 4: have rights.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean, this is this is what we have
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Speaker 15: come to expect from the Trump administration is to enrich
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Speaker 15: private prison companies on the indefinite detention of innocent people
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Speaker 15: and children, to provide them inadequate medical care, sometimes leading
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Speaker 15: to their deaths. Inadequate ambient care, you know, cold environments,
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Speaker 15: hot environments, not enough food and clothing, not enough shelter,
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Speaker 15: not enough adequate food, and to wait to be sued
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Speaker 15: and told by the courts that they can't do that
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Speaker 15: when the courts will step in, even though there are
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Speaker 15: plenty of rules and regulations already in place limiting their
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Speaker 15: ability to mistreat people in the way. But unfortunately, Congress
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Speaker 15: keeps voting for more funding for DHS, and the Trump administration,
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Speaker 15: you know, adopts a policy of you know, asking for
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Speaker 15: forgiveness rather than permission when it comes to human rights abuses.
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Speaker 15: Not that they ask for forgiveness, but they wait to
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Speaker 15: have their hands smacked by the courts rather than proactively
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Speaker 15: thinking about what would be the right thing to do
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Speaker 15: or what delimitations are them on them are legally.
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Speaker 14: Already, and so we see that over and over and
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Speaker 14: over again.
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Speaker 15: And that's why the support for this administration is at
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Speaker 15: the lowest it's been the whole time, and also for
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Speaker 15: any president in decades, and that's why these midterms are
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Speaker 15: going to be so important.
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Speaker 4: Is it scary that they blanche The head of Homland
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Speaker 4: Security says that we might we might go go, we
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Speaker 4: might abide by the court, or we might not now
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Speaker 4: or any also said that we should not be providing
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Speaker 4: ethnic food towards people that are in detention.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: I mean, anybody who's paying attention is concerned about the
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Speaker 15: fragility of our democracy. And one of the indicators that
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Speaker 15: it is falling will be when the administration outright defies
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Speaker 15: a court ruling. Because the administration controls the army, the
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Speaker 15: courts don't control the army, so that will be an indicator.
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Speaker 15: Another indicator could be when we don't have free and
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Speaker 15: fair elections, and those are both things that are very
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Speaker 15: possible in the short term future, and all of us,
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Speaker 15: I think, are feeling a little on.
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Speaker 14: Edge about it.
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Speaker 1: Garcia still waits to return to the United States. In
21:53
Speaker 1: a related story, eighteen year old Jermae Artega Cruz has
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Speaker 1: been detained by since December sixteenth, even though he was
22:03
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Speaker 1: of fuel, It affects many other products. Parag Emin is
22:46
Speaker 1: the founder of the law office of parag Emin and
22:49
Speaker 1: a business and labor expert. He says we can be
22:52
Speaker 1: looking at five or more dollars at the pump and
22:55
Speaker 1: food prices going up in weeks, not months if the
22:59
Speaker 1: Strait remains closed.
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Speaker 5: Into the White House that oil reserves are running dangerously
23:05
Speaker 5: low and they need to get the overall supply up.
23:10
Speaker 5: The straight up our moves, where about twenty percent of
23:12
Speaker 5: the world's oil flows through being blockaded, is creating a
23:16
Speaker 5: huge problem when it comes to oil inventory. And oil
23:20
Speaker 5: is used in all kinds of everyday items, not just
23:24
Speaker 5: that the gas pump for our cars, but it's used
23:26
Speaker 5: to make plastic, it's used to make clothes, it's used
23:31
Speaker 5: in various kinds of packaging for food, and so oil
23:35
Speaker 5: is used in a number of different areas where one
23:38
Speaker 5: might not think it's necessarily used. And the biggest challenge
23:42
Speaker 5: here is when oil starts to run low and oil
23:46
Speaker 5: reserves start to run low, that causes oil prices to spike,
23:50
Speaker 5: because oil prices don't spike when the last barrel disappears.
23:53
Speaker 5: They start to spike when the market believes that the
23:58
Speaker 5: next series of barrels of oil are going to be
24:01
Speaker 5: extremely difficult to get and when supply is not keeping
24:07
Speaker 5: up with the overall demand. And so that's what we're
24:09
Speaker 5: starting to see, and I think the oil executives are
24:13
Speaker 5: warning both the White House and the market generally that
24:16
Speaker 5: unless the situation with iron improves significantly sometime soon, we're
24:21
Speaker 5: going to see some drastic changes in increases at the
24:26
Speaker 5: gas pump. And realistically, we could also start to see
24:29
Speaker 5: that trickle throughout various kinds of consumer consumer goods because
24:37
Speaker 5: a lot of them also use oil, not just for
24:40
Speaker 5: transportation but also in the manufacturing process.
24:43
Speaker 4: But that's not what I'm getting coming out of the
24:44
Speaker 4: White House. All the press that's coming out of the
24:47
Speaker 4: White House is saying that we were using our own reserves.
24:51
Speaker 4: We have enough reserves here in the United States, even
24:54
Speaker 4: though we do use a lot of oil from Canada.
24:56
Speaker 4: And by the way, how is that affecting us?
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Speaker 5: Well, the White House is obviously in a precarious situation
25:06
Speaker 5: with trying to balance the overall consumer sentiment with which
25:11
Speaker 5: which is not positive on the war in Iran, with
25:16
Speaker 5: rising prices, rising inflation, in various issues, and so, yes,
25:21
Speaker 5: the White House has said that we do have a
25:23
Speaker 5: significant amount.
25:24
Speaker 4: Of reserves, which is true.
25:27
Speaker 5: However, the reserves are not sufficient to offset the limitations
25:33
Speaker 5: in the oil supply overall.
25:35
Speaker 4: We're not going to.
25:36
Speaker 5: Burn through all of the overall reserves for the purposes
25:40
Speaker 5: of the situation with Iran, and we actually consume more
25:45
Speaker 5: per day than the reserves would be able to release
25:49
Speaker 5: per day. And so the issue is not just hey,
25:53
Speaker 5: how much oil reserves do we have today? But you've
25:55
Speaker 5: got to remember that the oil reserves served various that
26:00
Speaker 5: various reasons for being there. And one of them is
26:06
Speaker 5: overall oil prices, but that is one of the lowest
26:10
Speaker 5: issues for the reasons of having them. A big reason
26:15
Speaker 5: that we have the oil reserves is also in the
26:17
Speaker 5: event that the United States is at war and needs
26:21
Speaker 5: oil reserves or has the major disruption in the oil
26:25
Speaker 5: in oil supply. And so the White Houses claim that
26:29
Speaker 5: we're going to be completely okay because we've got oil
26:32
Speaker 5: reserves and that somehow prices are not going to go
26:35
Speaker 5: up is not realistic and it's not accurate.
26:39
Speaker 4: What about Canada, As far as we get a lot
26:41
Speaker 4: of oil from Canada, how is that? But we are
26:45
Speaker 4: trying to restrict oil from Canada.
26:47
Speaker 5: Also, right, So we do get a lot of oil
26:51
Speaker 5: from Canada, but the amount of oil that we get
26:54
Speaker 5: from Canada is not sufficient to be able to offset
26:58
Speaker 5: or completely offset the issues to promose and the disruption
27:03
Speaker 5: and overall oil supply. Something else to keep in mind
27:05
Speaker 5: is that oil is an international market, and so when
27:11
Speaker 5: the price of oil starts to increase, that's the price
27:13
Speaker 5: of oil per barrel overall. And so this idea that
27:18
Speaker 5: somehow Canada, when the value of oil has dramatically spiked
27:23
Speaker 5: because of these disruptions in the world market, and the
27:26
Speaker 5: world market supply is somehow going to undercut themselves and
27:30
Speaker 5: sell it to the United States at a fraction of
27:32
Speaker 5: the price is just not realistic. I mean, you've still
27:35
Speaker 5: got to look at the market factors of supply and demand,
27:38
Speaker 5: and that's what we're seeing right now, and we're going
27:41
Speaker 5: to continue to see.
27:43
Speaker 4: When we have OPEK and the oil prices in the seventies,
27:49
Speaker 4: do you see a difference from then until now, Stacey,
27:54
Speaker 4: because OPEK had a control at that time of the market.
27:58
Speaker 5: Well, it's right, OPEK did have control of the market.
28:01
Speaker 5: And you know, something to keep in mind is, for example,
28:04
Speaker 5: like the nineteen seventy nine Iranian revolution, oil price is
28:08
Speaker 5: more than doubled and you had major issues with people
28:11
Speaker 5: being able to get sufficient gas for their vehicles, and
28:16
Speaker 5: you saw huge spikes by up to ninety percent in
28:18
Speaker 5: terms of what people were paying at the pump. And
28:21
Speaker 5: so you know, overall, OPEC is a little bit less
28:26
Speaker 5: powerful than it was decades ago. But this is still
28:31
Speaker 5: a major issue when it comes to disruption in the
28:34
Speaker 5: world's oil market. And so unless this has resolved very soon,
28:41
Speaker 5: we are likely going to see some traumatic spikes, not
28:45
Speaker 5: just at the gas pob but also probably at the
28:48
Speaker 5: grocery store, quite possibly at retailers for clothing and other things.
28:53
Speaker 5: You're going to see this trickle throughout various parts of
28:57
Speaker 5: the market in the industries, rather than just being isolated
29:02
Speaker 5: to any one area.
29:05
Speaker 4: People also note that, you know, even though this is
29:08
Speaker 4: going on, they still making record profits.
29:11
Speaker 5: Well, that's true. That's true. And what's interesting is a
29:15
Speaker 5: lot of times the oil prices, despite the price per
29:18
Speaker 5: barrel decreasing, the price of gas is not necessarily keep
29:24
Speaker 5: pace with the decrease as much as it does. When
29:27
Speaker 5: prices increase, you start to see the increases at the pump.
29:31
Speaker 5: And so that is true that oil companies are continuing
29:35
Speaker 5: to make record profits, and that there is an aspect
29:38
Speaker 5: of this that is unclear to the average everyday person
29:43
Speaker 5: in terms of where that money is going, because you've
29:45
Speaker 5: got to remember that it's not just oil drilling and
29:49
Speaker 5: getting the supply of oil, but also the refinement process,
29:52
Speaker 5: which is a complicated and expensive process, and a lot
29:55
Speaker 5: of times the refineries tend to keep and make a
29:59
Speaker 5: lot of record profit when the prices of oil also increases,
30:04
Speaker 5: and so a lot of these major oil companies also
30:08
Speaker 5: have their own refineries, so you know, it's a bit
30:12
Speaker 5: of a shuffle in terms of where the true money
30:15
Speaker 5: is being made that we ultimately see at the pump.
30:18
Speaker 5: Is there an aspect of this that maybe companies just
30:22
Speaker 5: trying to use an excuse to make profit. I think
30:25
Speaker 5: the short answer to that is yes. But I don't
30:28
Speaker 5: think that that's the only factor. This disruption in oil
30:33
Speaker 5: supply is a major disruption overall, and that's the biggest challenge.
30:39
Speaker 5: And countries are using more oil than ever these days,
30:43
Speaker 5: and so this idea of alternative energy has been floated
30:48
Speaker 5: more recently in the last decade plus, but the reality
30:55
Speaker 5: is alternative energy cannot provide anywhere near the amount of
30:59
Speaker 5: the ainable supply right now. That and the equipment being
31:06
Speaker 5: designed to be able to accept alternative energy and run
31:08
Speaker 5: on alternative energy versus oil. The world economy is just
31:13
Speaker 5: not geared for that.
31:15
Speaker 4: So we need that oil. I was gonna say, you
31:17
Speaker 4: added too, that I have jet fuel that's gone up,
31:20
Speaker 4: and it's a crisis of jet fuel around the world,
31:24
Speaker 4: with the airline industries now saying that they don't have
31:27
Speaker 4: they got to cut flights because they don't have enough
31:29
Speaker 4: jet fuel. To flas from these long haul flights.
31:34
Speaker 5: Well, that's right exactly. So it's a part of that
31:36
Speaker 5: refinement process of creating highly refined jet fuel to be
31:42
Speaker 5: able to power these jets, and that costs even more.
31:45
Speaker 5: The additional refinement process to find other refinement needs to
31:48
Speaker 5: be the more expensive it gets. I mean, just like,
31:51
Speaker 5: for example, when we all go to the pump, you know,
31:53
Speaker 5: you've got the low grade, the medium grade, and then
31:56
Speaker 5: you've got the high grade, and you see the difference
31:59
Speaker 5: in price. And it's not just some arbitrary difference necessarily,
32:04
Speaker 5: it's an aspect of it does cost more to be
32:07
Speaker 5: able to refine it at a higher octane level than
32:10
Speaker 5: a lower octane level, and so you see that price
32:13
Speaker 5: at the pump, and it's significantly higher when it comes
32:16
Speaker 5: to jet fuel because it needs to be refined a
32:18
Speaker 5: lot more.
32:20
Speaker 4: So how long do we have, honestly.
32:25
Speaker 5: Before we see higher prices at the pump? I mean, realistically,
32:29
Speaker 5: oil executives have said quite possibly within the next few weeks.
32:32
Speaker 5: I would expect that to be accurate, probably by the
32:37
Speaker 5: end of June. If this isn't wrapped up, I think
32:39
Speaker 5: we're going to be seeing some significant increases in gas prices,
32:43
Speaker 5: especially as we get closer to the fourth of July holiday.
32:47
Speaker 14: Wow.
32:49
Speaker 4: Sure, I'm just I'm shocking about this. I thought you
32:52
Speaker 4: were going to say months, think you're gonna say weeks.
32:55
Speaker 4: So that kind of took me for a surprise there.
33:00
Speaker 4: What do you think if this, if this continues and
33:04
Speaker 4: it increases, because this has this has the ability to
33:09
Speaker 4: to blow up even more so to speak.
33:14
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, I mean it could. It could get
33:16
Speaker 5: a lot worse before it gets better.
33:17
Speaker 15: Uh.
33:18
Speaker 5: And and in terms of how long that's going to take. Uh,
33:21
Speaker 5: that's that's almost anybody's guests. I mean, obviously, with Congress
33:25
Speaker 5: voting to limit President Trump's powers in Iran, UH goes
33:29
Speaker 5: to show that even Congress, which is GOP controlled, is
33:34
Speaker 5: having some serious doubts about these actions in Iran. And
33:37
Speaker 5: obviously the American people uh don't really support it, or
33:41
Speaker 5: at least the popular sentiment doesn't support the action in Iran.
33:44
Speaker 5: So I think President Trump understands that. I think he's
33:47
Speaker 5: looking for a way out, uh and to get this
33:50
Speaker 5: matter in UH, in Iran and in this conflict resolved
33:55
Speaker 5: as soon as possible. But who knows if that's going
33:58
Speaker 5: to be realistic within the next week or two, because
34:00
Speaker 5: we continue to see skirmishes throughout and in violations of
34:05
Speaker 5: the ceasefire, while both sides try to claim that there
34:08
Speaker 5: haven't really been a violation. I mean, we continue to
34:12
Speaker 5: see fighting flaring up, and so hopefully it gets wrapped
34:16
Speaker 5: up here in the next couple of weeks, But there
34:17
Speaker 5: isn't anything indicating that that's a likelihood or a probability.
34:23
Speaker 1: That was attorney parag I'm in on the dangers of
34:25
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. A Texas congressman wants to roll back
35:03
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Speaker 16: Environmental groups in Texas are fighting back against an attempt
35:14
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Speaker 16: Texas Congressman August Fluger of San Angelo co authored the
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35:30
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35:36
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35:40
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35:44
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Speaker 17: They are responsible only for about six percent of the
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35:56
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Speaker 16: Backers of the bill say small oil and gas producers
36:08
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36:53
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36:58
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37:21
Speaker 1: Runoff elections are over in Houston and it's time to
37:25
Speaker 1: get ready for the midterms in November. What have we
37:28
Speaker 1: learned and what direction is the country going? We talked
37:32
Speaker 1: to doctor Michael Adams. He is the director of the
37:35
Speaker 1: Master of Public Affairs graduate program at Texas Southern Universities.
37:40
Speaker 1: Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland's School of Public Affairs in Houston.
37:46
Speaker 8: You want to the scope nationally would be in terms
37:49
Speaker 8: of the lay of the land, and of course everything
37:52
Speaker 8: over the last couple of years has been coming from
37:57
Speaker 8: the White House and also out of the Capitol in
38:00
Speaker 8: terms of which party would control the Congress over the
38:05
Speaker 8: next two years. And that's important because we have a
38:10
Speaker 8: government where all three branches seem to be captured by
38:16
Speaker 8: not only the Republican Party, but also in terms of policy.
38:22
Speaker 8: Either it's passing and it's kewed in terms of conservative
38:28
Speaker 8: consideration at least that would be the argument that Democrats
38:32
Speaker 8: or people who tend to skew less of a political
38:35
Speaker 8: spectrum would make. And to be clear, and what I
38:38
Speaker 8: mean captured if you look at the White House and
38:41
Speaker 8: clearly the twenty four twenty twenty four president election, we
38:45
Speaker 8: saw President Trump come back to the White House and
38:51
Speaker 8: his policy have been clear in terms of supporting I
38:58
Speaker 8: would say that the the Maga wine what he defines
39:02
Speaker 8: as make America Great Again, which is the kind of
39:05
Speaker 8: grassroots conservative movement that some people would argue that was
39:10
Speaker 8: birked out of the Tea Party movement, but it's been
39:13
Speaker 8: very effective and children President Trump to the right.
39:17
Speaker 15: Now.
39:17
Speaker 8: There are some fissues there and some divided in terms
39:21
Speaker 8: of the America First movement within the Republican Party. So
39:25
Speaker 8: that's what we can come back later, and we can
39:27
Speaker 8: talk specifically about the Republican Party and what happened in
39:30
Speaker 8: the law off, what it pretends for the general election.
39:34
Speaker 8: Now for the Democrats himself, certainly, I think if you
39:38
Speaker 8: look at the popularity of members of Congress in terms
39:43
Speaker 8: of parties, they don't pay much better than the Republican
39:47
Speaker 8: and I think part of that what we've seen the
39:50
Speaker 8: government shut down, and for the average political scientists or
39:54
Speaker 8: the person who observed politics who watches, you know, like
39:59
Speaker 8: my stuff on a regular base, do nothing government or
40:04
Speaker 8: a stands doing what we call a divided government where
40:08
Speaker 8: you have an executive brand, it's really getting a lot
40:13
Speaker 8: of pushback because of the closeness of the party divisions
40:18
Speaker 8: or party representation. And I think three or four or
40:21
Speaker 8: five seats separates the Democratic Party from the Republican Party
40:26
Speaker 8: that's currently controlling for Speaker Johnson. And so you get
40:31
Speaker 8: all of that and you get this standoff, and I
40:34
Speaker 8: think the American people are really disenchanted or disappointed, or
40:41
Speaker 8: we used to stay distrustful in terms of the our
40:45
Speaker 8: polling or apathetic if you will, and looking at government
40:50
Speaker 8: being the answer in terms of what's happening in Watchington, DC.
40:53
Speaker 8: And so that's why I referenced in terms off you
40:55
Speaker 8: look at the unpopularity not only as President Trump, as
40:59
Speaker 8: we say as post is underwater, but the Democrats in
41:02
Speaker 8: terms of you look at their leadership, leadership and in
41:05
Speaker 8: the Senate Tumor or Jeffreys, they don't fare much better
41:08
Speaker 8: in terms of popularity. Well, your question is houses that
41:12
Speaker 8: still over a hou is it more into the upcoming
41:18
Speaker 8: elections of what we saw on election day In terms
41:21
Speaker 8: of the road, now we have to go back to
41:23
Speaker 8: March third, and we have the primary elections, and primary
41:26
Speaker 8: elections in Texas are closed elections and not like what
41:29
Speaker 8: we see in California and louis the animals. They're open
41:32
Speaker 8: to what we describe as they kind of jungle primary
41:35
Speaker 8: where Democrats run against Republicans in one primary election. And
41:41
Speaker 8: you may have some questions about that and what that
41:43
Speaker 8: means in terms of the balance of power, what it
41:46
Speaker 8: means for the midterms, or even what it means for
41:49
Speaker 8: twenty twenty eight. And we talk about the presidential election.
41:52
Speaker 8: So what happened if you want me to land down
41:56
Speaker 8: come with another question. But I was about to get
41:58
Speaker 8: into March third. What we saw in terms of the
42:00
Speaker 8: primary election Jad mccrockett and Calla Rico, in terms of
42:04
Speaker 8: the marquee election on the Democratic side for the US
42:07
Speaker 8: Senate seat, and also what we saw on the Republican
42:11
Speaker 8: side in terms of between Paxon and Corner. Now Corning prevailed.
42:16
Speaker 8: I'll start there first in the on the March third primary,
42:20
Speaker 8: but you have to be first across the post. And
42:22
Speaker 8: I tell my students is the majority of primary is
42:24
Speaker 8: the majority vote primary and fifty percent plump law So
42:27
Speaker 8: Corning even though he polled at least I think one
42:31
Speaker 8: or two percent better in the regular primary election, he
42:35
Speaker 8: did not succeed because in the runoff elections we saw
42:39
Speaker 8: President Trump a day after voting started, places tomb on
42:43
Speaker 8: the scale, and certainly that favored Paxton, and the President
42:49
Speaker 8: was reluctant, and Packson did everything that he could to
42:52
Speaker 8: say that hey, I'm a Trump lawyer list I'm may
42:56
Speaker 8: nine percent of my votes have been in support of
42:58
Speaker 8: the president. But we also have to go back and
43:01
Speaker 8: remember when Trump was contemplating his second one and caring
43:05
Speaker 8: and then makes some statements about you know, maybe Trump's
43:09
Speaker 8: time has, as you know, has coming gone and he
43:12
Speaker 8: should reconsider the party ship reconsider and Trump never forgot that.
43:17
Speaker 8: And we also we see people like hence he came
43:21
Speaker 8: out this week with the new with with with a
43:24
Speaker 8: new book. But that whole side of the Republican Party
43:29
Speaker 8: and I can take you back, I'm much over than
43:31
Speaker 8: you are. We can call it the Rockefellow wing of
43:33
Speaker 8: the Republican Party. And then it morphed into the Bush
43:36
Speaker 8: wing and where we saw Herbert Walker Bush h this
43:42
Speaker 8: in the sense, you know, coming from Kenny Bonkpoort, Maine
43:44
Speaker 8: and not being a traditional Republican in terms of the
43:48
Speaker 8: Republican Party the way you just transformed and the aged
43:51
Speaker 8: and maybe in the state of Texas has been a
43:54
Speaker 8: kind of conservative movement, has been a kind of middle
43:57
Speaker 8: of the road Republican Party. And then that came in.
44:01
Speaker 8: We had Rick Perry in terms of the governor's office
44:04
Speaker 8: and George W. Bush, and they were kind of moderates
44:08
Speaker 8: or centrist in terms of Republicans in and then we
44:11
Speaker 8: get the Tea Party movement that pushes it further to
44:14
Speaker 8: the right. And we could start circle two thousand and nine.
44:17
Speaker 8: You can go into that, and it's sort of like
44:19
Speaker 8: has reshaped the Republican Party as we know it in Texas.
44:24
Speaker 8: And I think with Trump putting istamb on the scale,
44:28
Speaker 8: and certainly is clear that Taxes was the person to
44:33
Speaker 8: pervail and one of the worst runoffs of a Republican
44:39
Speaker 8: candidate in a statewide race in the in the United
44:43
Speaker 8: States and also in the state of Texas. And Cornyn
44:48
Speaker 8: took a whipping about as bad as senat Decaffidy in Louisiana.
44:52
Speaker 8: And we saw what happens in maths comings from Mathew
44:54
Speaker 8: in Kentucky. So trump endorsement is very important. He seems
44:59
Speaker 8: to have a a toe hold on the Republican Party.
45:03
Speaker 8: And we know that every president and office he's always
45:07
Speaker 8: considered to be the party leader or the titular ahead
45:10
Speaker 8: of his party. The Trump controls the party, even though
45:13
Speaker 8: he's underwater in popularity. Now all of that, what does
45:17
Speaker 8: it mean for governess between now and the remainder of
45:22
Speaker 8: this year until after the midterms, Well, we see some rebellion.
45:27
Speaker 8: I think on yesterday the House passed a resolution or
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Speaker 8: a deal condemning uh they Iran war in that past,
45:35
Speaker 8: and so it looks like some people are turning against Trump,
45:39
Speaker 8: but still Trump still has sway and some of those people,
45:43
Speaker 8: they're very nervous if you are on the Republican side
45:46
Speaker 8: of the out because if you go against the Trump
45:48
Speaker 8: and President Trump, uh, he doesn't forget and you know, and.
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Speaker 1: You just don't go against the dun So that was
45:56
Speaker 1: doctor Michael Adams. He is the director of the Master
46:00
Speaker 1: Public Affairs graduate program at Texas Southern Universities Barbara Jordan
46:05
Speaker 1: Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs in Houston. The FIFA
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Speaker 1: World Cup starts this week, and with it brings a
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Speaker 1: host of issues. One is affordability, with tickets well beyond
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Speaker 1: the price range of anyone but the most wealthy patrons.
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Speaker 1: Houston has tried to fill that void with a host
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Speaker 1: of activities for free around the city. Herman Park and
46:31
Speaker 1: the Herman Park Conservancy are holding Kicking It in the Park.
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Speaker 1: It is a free public celebration of culture, community and
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Speaker 1: unifying the sport. It will go from June twelfth to
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Speaker 1: July fifth and offer live entertainment and activities for kids.
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Speaker 1: It will be held in the Commons area of Herman Park. Also,
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Speaker 1: the FIFA Fan Zone will have their events that are
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Speaker 1: free throughout the tournament. On the east side of Downtown,
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Speaker 1: the Houston Dynamo and Dash, Houston's professional soccer teams will
47:03
Speaker 1: be opening up their stadium to all for free in
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Speaker 1: what they call the Soccer Celebration Tour. We talked to
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Speaker 1: David Weiss, Carl, VP of Communications and Corporate Affairs with
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Speaker 1: the Dynamo.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, absolutely so. Our Houston Dynamo Soccer Celebration is something
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Speaker 18: that we're really excited about and the goal of this
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Speaker 18: entire thing is to bring more people to the game.
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Speaker 18: It's largely free. We want people to be able to
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Speaker 18: have access to it. And what it'll look like is
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Speaker 18: programming nearly every day of the tournament. Where you want
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Speaker 18: to come and watch a match at the stadium, you
47:38
Speaker 18: can come do that and are shaded and air conditioned spaces.
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Speaker 18: You can come and experience all kinds of offome events,
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Speaker 18: including two international friendlies against clubs from Central and South America,
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Speaker 18: a concert from those Ukonistate Tijuana official live viewing parties
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Speaker 18: for the Mexico watch parties with the Mexican Football Better
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Speaker 18: USA Live Viewings Cova de Credores, led by social media
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Speaker 18: personality Carlos Haspina, all kinds of really great stuff. Loud
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Speaker 18: Fest is a new concert that's still it's not a
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Speaker 18: new concert, it's a it's a concert that has.
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Speaker 1: A lot of roots in Houston.
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Speaker 18: But we'll be coming to Shall Energy Stadium for the
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Speaker 18: first time, Gaming corner and skills challenges. We've got three
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Speaker 18: sixty photo boots. We've got club and Country face painting,
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Speaker 18: Kids Zone, all types of really great, affordable and free
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Speaker 18: items for fans to come and enjoy themselves. We're excited
48:34
Speaker 18: to be here as Houston's you know, professional soccer teams.
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Speaker 18: We're excited to be a compliment to the terrific programming
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Speaker 18: that's going to be going on at Piece of FanFest.
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Speaker 18: Right next door, just outside of our gates, we have
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Speaker 18: the Dash House, which is a separate location just a
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Speaker 18: block or two away at twenty five hundred what's the
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Speaker 18: twenty five hundred Texas have where it's kind of a
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Speaker 18: more cultural space fled by the Houston Dash, low key vibes,
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Speaker 18: just a fun space in partnership with Bratt Tax. We
49:07
Speaker 18: have a million things going on, I think is safe
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Speaker 18: to say, and that doesn't even include our community Tour,
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Speaker 18: which brings structured youth programming to kids across the city
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Speaker 18: for free at parks all across the city throughout the
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Speaker 18: World Cup too. So there's a million things going on.
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Speaker 18: We're excited about all of it and we're excited to
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Speaker 18: welcome people in.
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Speaker 4: When does it start.
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Speaker 18: Yeah, absolutely, So we get started the first day of
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Speaker 18: the World Cup. So six days from now, on June eleventh,
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Speaker 18: we will be open for the Mexico first match. There,
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Speaker 18: we'll have an official SMF live viewing. We will have
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Speaker 18: Like I said, we're collaborating directly with the Mexican Football
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Speaker 18: Federation as part of their Mechs tour and we're going
49:47
Speaker 18: to actually welcome in Mexican legend Francisco Masa Rodriguez for
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Speaker 18: a photo opportunity, and the Gold Cup trophy will be
49:54
Speaker 18: there as well. Fans can come in watch the match
49:57
Speaker 18: with us, hang out with Masa, take a photo with trophy.
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Speaker 18: We're partnering with the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on that.
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Speaker 18: It's going to be an absolute blast.
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Speaker 1: That was David Weiss, Carl, VP of Communications and Corporate Affairs.
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Speaker 1: The People's News will continue to cover the stories around
50:15
Speaker 1: this disruptive event in Houston. Next week we'll be covering
50:20
Speaker 1: downtown and how the homeless are affected by the big
50:23
Speaker 1: event and more. All of June is Black History Month
50:28
Speaker 1: and the middle of June is also the celebration of
50:31
Speaker 1: June tenth. Sunday, June seventh, at the old El Dorado Ballroom,
50:36
Speaker 1: the Community Music Center of Houston brought the Fiery String
50:41
Speaker 1: Sistas of New York City for their eleventh annual Legacy Project.
50:46
Speaker 1: We talked to doctor Anne Lundy, director of the Community
50:49
Speaker 1: Music Center of Houston, about the performance and the ongoing
50:53
Speaker 1: program that gets young kids to learn how to play instruments.
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Speaker 11: Well, I'm a Lundy, I'm the music director for the
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Speaker 11: Community Music Center of Houston. We are a music organizations
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Speaker 11: and specializes in performing and preserving Black music traditions so spiritual,
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Speaker 11: hip hop, classical, like we were playing violin, Yes, you
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Speaker 11: name it.
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Speaker 4: We love Black music traditions. And you've got a new
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Speaker 4: project coming up, the eleventh Daniel Legacy Project featuring the
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Speaker 4: Fiery Streams Systems of New York.
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Speaker 11: Y, Fiery String Sisters out.
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Speaker 8: Of New York.
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Speaker 4: All right, as we celebrate June team after you know,
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Speaker 4: June and June teen, So you're bringing them in on Sunday,
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Speaker 4: June seventh at the Eldorado Ballroom. Tell me about that
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Speaker 4: and tell me what to expect.
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Speaker 11: Alrighty good. Julie's also Black Music Month, and I like
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Speaker 11: to remind people of that too, So it's part of
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Speaker 11: the Black Music Month traditions. So if we say it's
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Speaker 11: on Sunday, June seventh at fourth four pm at the
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Speaker 11: Great Eldorado Ballroom, I think a lot of people know
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Speaker 11: where that is in third ward right across from Emancipation Part.
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Speaker 11: I think that address is thirty twenty three ten Elgin,
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Speaker 11: twenty three ten Elgin. And what we're asking for is
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Speaker 11: our generous donations accepted. There is no admissions, but where's
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Speaker 11: the generous donations? As we continue highlighting music traditions based
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Speaker 11: on our black experience, we're celebrating June teenth, getting ready
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Speaker 11: for Juneteenth and Black Music Month, so we are really
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Speaker 11: looking forward to these sisters. Tell me something about this,
52:38
Speaker 11: the Firay Sisters that people that don't know, Okay, this
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Speaker 11: is our first time working with them. I was attracted
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Speaker 11: to the fact that they see I grew up playing
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Speaker 11: the violin and violin as a cousin called viola. And
52:51
Speaker 11: I'm always curious when I see black folks, especially black
52:55
Speaker 11: women that have also are involved in starting in classical
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Speaker 11: but then kind of expand into other kinds of you know,
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Speaker 11: music traditions.
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Speaker 14: So it's got.
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Speaker 11: It has different kinds of music of you know, like
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Speaker 11: I said, jazzy type of sounds and those kinds of things.
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Speaker 11: Instead of just sticking to what's on the page, they're
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Speaker 11: gonna expand on it. There's gonna be a keyboard too,
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Speaker 11: and they've got some other instrumental instrumentals that will be
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Speaker 11: involved in it too, So it'll be a mixture of
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Speaker 11: different kinds of music. That's what I like about it
53:29
Speaker 11: because sometimes we don't we don't always get out of
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Speaker 11: our little box of my case by box of sort
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Speaker 11: of music on the page. And when you've got sisters
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Speaker 11: that do uh, different kinds of music and just sort
53:43
Speaker 11: of expand on it and jazz it up and you know,
53:46
Speaker 11: include other kinds of traditions, it's a lot of fun
53:48
Speaker 11: to listen to. So come on out.
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Speaker 4: Right and again, you know what will people expect to
53:56
Speaker 4: be one of a certain sounds.
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Speaker 11: Well, since this is our first time bringing them, I
54:04
Speaker 11: am looking forward to something new. That's the only way
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Speaker 11: I can explain it. I don't have right now. This
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Speaker 11: is our first time working with them, so I don't
54:13
Speaker 11: have a set thing in mind. But I am looking
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Speaker 11: forward to just, you know, just hearing different kinds of music.
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Speaker 11: So to be honest with you, I'm gonna go to
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Speaker 11: the show and explore and get into different kinds of
54:27
Speaker 11: music too. But it will be something new coming out
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Speaker 11: of New York.
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Speaker 4: So we're looking forward to it.
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Speaker 11: Well, it include some of your some of your musicians
54:37
Speaker 11: in this case, not at this particular show. Not at
54:41
Speaker 11: this particular show. Okay, there will be other things we
54:44
Speaker 11: may be doing, like many times as musicians, some of
54:48
Speaker 11: our musicians may be playing background at the beginning. I
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Speaker 11: believe we're playing background at the beginning and playing some
54:54
Speaker 11: nice jazzy kind of music that'll be fun to listen to.
54:58
Speaker 11: But there really are, it's there. They are our featured guests,
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Speaker 11: so they're they're bringing in the show, all right, and
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Speaker 11: it's all ages, of course, all ages. Absolutely, we really
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Speaker 11: encourage people to bring kids and so forth. You know,
55:13
Speaker 11: school's getting out and you know, just looking for something different,
55:17
Speaker 11: something something unique, something that doesn't happen every day.
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Speaker 4: And of course looking for something to do for the
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Speaker 4: kids this summer. They always you have something going on,
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Speaker 4: it going on too, correct.
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Speaker 11: That's right. We have our annual summer music camp. And
55:35
Speaker 11: we've been doing this for many years, decades at this point,
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Speaker 11: so it's coming out here. We always have it on.
55:43
Speaker 11: It's a two week summer camp. It's Monday, June eighth
55:47
Speaker 11: through Friday June nineteenth. On juneteenth and it's going to
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Speaker 11: be at Boyton Chapel Methodist Church and if you know
55:56
Speaker 11: where University of Houston is on the music side, there's
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Speaker 11: I like to explain to people that there's a little
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Speaker 11: black community right between year of age and the freeway
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Speaker 11: I forty five then until recently, I didn't even know
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Speaker 11: it was then, but it's a lovely little black enclad
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Speaker 11: So the church is, like I said, Boys and Chapel
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Speaker 11: Methodist Church, twenty eight to twelve Milby Street, twenty eight
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Speaker 11: twelve Milby Street, and the kids ranging from our little ones,
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Speaker 11: I suppose our youngest ones might be around five or six,
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Speaker 11: take the pre k all the way up to the
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Speaker 11: high schoolers.
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Speaker 1: Once again. The performance will be Sunday, June seventh at
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Speaker 1: the Eldorado Ballroom and it starts at four pm. It's free,
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Speaker 1: but donations are encouraged. If you want to find out
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Speaker 1: more about the Community Music Center of Houston, you can
56:48
Speaker 1: go to their web page at CMC Houston put together
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Speaker 1: dot org, or you can call them at seven to
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