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Q Morning Show #786 - 09-11-26 · Riggs, Katelyn, & Erica - The Q Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Houston's Country Leader 93Q, it's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica on
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  Speaker 1: the 25th anniversary of September 11th. What a fitting day
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  Speaker 1: to do our heroes breakfast on a day honoring our
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  Speaker 1: heroes and honoring so many brave men and women who
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  Speaker 1: were running towards danger when so many people were running
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  Speaker 1: away from danger. That's what it's all about this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and it already smells like breakfast in a firehouse this morning.
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  Speaker 2: It does as soon as you walk in.
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  Speaker 3: I think it always smells like coffee in a firehouse,
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  Speaker 3: you know, because they just got that stuff brewing around
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  Speaker 3: the clock.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Caitlin was doing the check-in while Erica was here doing
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  Speaker 1: some breakfast prep, and she was like, oh, there's already coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Plenty of coffee. Plenty of Joe. Well, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: be at the ready all the time. You've got to
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  Speaker 1: have coffee here. I mean, my brother-in-law is a firefighter.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, you've got to have coffee on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you have to.
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  Speaker 1: Two in the morning, no problem. Three in the afternoon, coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Constant coffee. But it's more than just about that this morning.
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  Speaker 1: We're here celebrating all of our heroes, and that's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a great ceremony that they do every single
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  Speaker 1: year here at SciFair because they've got– Not only, I
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  Speaker 1: think they've got a memorial to Brittany, one of the
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  Speaker 1: last surviving dogs from the 9-11 search rescue squad, but
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  Speaker 1: they've got a cool little 9-11 memorial right here.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the location where they have actually a piece
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  Speaker 3: of one of the towers?
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  Speaker 1: I think. I've got to double check because we've been
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  Speaker 1: to a couple of these firehouses for our Heroes Breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: Here is Caitlin.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that they do. We'll check to confirm.
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  Speaker 3: But we're going to have a lot of important people
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  Speaker 3: out here today as it is the 25th anniversary of
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  Speaker 3: 9-11 just coming. Making sure that we do the best
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  Speaker 3: to honor those that we lost and honor those that
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  Speaker 3: helped out. And, God, I can't believe it's been 25 years.
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  Speaker 1: 25 years.
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  Speaker 5: 25 years.
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  Speaker 1: There's some people that did not experience 9-11. People that
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  Speaker 1: were born.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So many people that were not even alive when it happened.
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  Speaker 3: You know, it's so deeply ingrained in our lives, you know,
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  Speaker 3: because we grew up with it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I.
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  Speaker 3: We watched the second plane live on TV in my
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  Speaker 3: school classroom.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: That does something to you as a as a younger kid,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but we don't even feel like it's just
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  Speaker 3: so ingrained in us. Then there's other people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's like something from the history books.
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  Speaker 1: I imagine 9-11 happening in this day and age with
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  Speaker 1: so much social media. I'm actually how different it would
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  Speaker 1: have been.
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  Speaker 3: I'm very thankful that it didn't happen in this day
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  Speaker 3: and age for multiple reasons, but also just because it
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  Speaker 3: was scary enough seeing what we saw from just TV
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  Speaker 3: and reporters that were able to get there quickly and
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  Speaker 3: be live on the scene. I would never want a
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  Speaker 3: firsthand account in the way that we consume information now.
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  Speaker 2: These days is such a horrific day.
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  Speaker 1: You know about we're honoring those heroes this morning will
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  Speaker 1: be plenty of them here at the firehouse today. sharing
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  Speaker 1: their stories about how it's impacted them 25 years after
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  Speaker 1: the fact, what they were doing, because a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Houston was involved in being sent to New York City
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  Speaker 1: from firefighters and police and first responders from around the
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  Speaker 1: country were being sent to New York. So I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: we'll hear those stories as well this morning. It's Riggs, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 1: and Erica in our Heroes Breakfast series. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: if you're like, oh, I'm a firefighter, I'm a first responder,
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  Speaker 1: we'd love to have breakfast at our firehouse. Go to QMorningShow.com,
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  Speaker 1: and you can nominate your firehouse there, right? Yeah, it's 93Q, Riggs, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 1: and Erica. In our Heroes Breakfast series. 93Q is Houston's
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  Speaker 1: country leader. Good morning. It's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica. Some
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  Speaker 1: things are getting a little, I guess we're suspending some
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  Speaker 1: things today. Like normally we would do a three beer
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  Speaker 1: cheers here. We would be having a beer in our
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  Speaker 1: studio as we do every single Friday. But today I
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  Speaker 1: think we would, let's suspend that. Not drinking, bringing beer
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  Speaker 1: into a firehouse feels irresponsible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We're not alcoholics. I mean, we just like to drink.
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  Speaker 6: But, you know, we.
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  Speaker 3: Are today is about so much. We're honoring the 25th
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  Speaker 3: anniversary of 9-11. And we've done this the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years here, no matter what special year it is.
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  Speaker 3: We've always come to this firehouse here for the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of years to honor 9-11. And we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do that again today, but in an even bigger way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I would cheers my coffee or my my monster
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  Speaker 1: energy drink to first responders like I'll cheers an energy
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  Speaker 1: drink to you right now.
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  Speaker 2: I'll cheers my coffee to you right now.
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  Speaker 1: We can cheers that this morning. Do you have anything
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  Speaker 1: else that you're doing this weekend? There's a lot happening
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. We've got a weekend six-pack coming up later
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Well, really, I am going to try and focus on
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  Speaker 3: that walk tomorrow morning. We've got to be up bright
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  Speaker 3: and early to exercise rigs. So don't go off the
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  Speaker 3: rails when we leave here thinking, oh, I get to
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  Speaker 3: have a wild Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: What, because I don't have children? You think I'm irresponsible?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I am.
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  Speaker 2: I know you are.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I am a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: But I am with children, too.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying that out loud to you to also remind
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  Speaker 3: myself we've got to be out at Constellation Field at
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  Speaker 3: like 6 o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: In the morning.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I will say is while we don't
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  Speaker 1: have a child at home, we do have a dog, Bruce, now.
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  Speaker 1: And Bruce has– it gives you more responsibility. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like having a child by any means. I'm not comparing them.
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  Speaker 1: But now that you have something to go home to–
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  Speaker 1: It changes how you act in life.
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  Speaker 5: It does.
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  Speaker 1: It really does. You've got a responsibility. I would imagine
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  Speaker 1: that's how any first responder thinks with kids at home.
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  Speaker 1: It impacts how you think when you go into a
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  Speaker 1: burning building or when you go up to a car
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  Speaker 1: wreck or you go into anything like that and you
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  Speaker 1: think about the first responders and what they were thinking
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  Speaker 1: just going to work like, ah, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a big fire. I'm just going to go in
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  Speaker 1: there and take care of it. And then some of
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  Speaker 1: those people didn't come home. So those are the people
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  Speaker 1: that we're doing our show for this morning and those
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  Speaker 1: people that we're saluting this morning and remembering and honoring
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  Speaker 1: this morning.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, now we do this every time we do a
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  Speaker 3: hero's breakfast. Erica Rico cooks for us. Erica, are you
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  Speaker 3: at a good point to run over here and tell
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  Speaker 3: us what's on the menu?
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  Speaker 1: She's up to her elbows. Here she comes.
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  Speaker 2: I see her head running through the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Today being the 25th anniversary of 9-11, there's other dignitaries
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  Speaker 1: that are going to be here at this firehouse, this
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  Speaker 1: particular one today.
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  Speaker 2: Is that mic on and up?
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  Speaker 1: Turn the mic on. There you go.
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  Speaker 2: Erica's daughter is here helping us.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so we're making chorizo and eggs. We have biscuits
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  Speaker 7: and gravy. We have bacon, sausage, pancakes. We have yogurt parfaits.
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  Speaker 7: We have all kinds of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I saw a bunch of cinnamon rolls on your Instagram
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  Speaker 1: story yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: I made cinnamon rolls last night.
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  Speaker 8: Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Shout out to Erica Rico. Every time we do these,
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  Speaker 3: she cooks. And, I mean, she throws down in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 3: We always know that. But, like, this is a big effort.
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  Speaker 3: It's usually her and a couple of our promotions team
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  Speaker 3: members that are back there cooking.
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  Speaker 7: Pushin' Win actually came today, and he's like, I heard
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  Speaker 7: I'm supposed to be cooking. I'm like, yep, we're going
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  Speaker 7: to put you to work.
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  Speaker 1: Get your gloves on. I love that your daughter was
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  Speaker 1: so kindly holding your microphone, Erica. And then a dog
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  Speaker 1: walked in the room and she just ditched you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was like, bye.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, there's a dog here. Take the microphone.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't it the most beautiful dog?
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  Speaker 2: It is a beautiful dog.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. What is a dog doing here? Is
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  Speaker 1: it here to help?
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  Speaker 2: What is a dog doing here?
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  Speaker 1: What kind of a question is that? I'm wondering if
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  Speaker 1: he's here to help. Is he here to play? Is
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  Speaker 1: it a work? I was wondering if it was a
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  Speaker 1: working dog. Are we allowed to pet it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you can pet it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That's really what I wanted to know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the way you asked was very, is it in
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  Speaker 2: work mode?
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  Speaker 1: Is it in work mode or pet mode? It's in
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  Speaker 1: pet mode right now. Because I want to be in
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  Speaker 1: pet mode right now.
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  Speaker 2: This color is beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to be, you know, it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: a somber day today, but it's also going to be
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  Speaker 3: a fun day today. You know, we're all getting together.
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  Speaker 3: We're all remembering something that was just so, it changed
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  Speaker 3: everything in our nation and our world. And there's just
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  Speaker 3: going to be a lot of stuff going on this morning.
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  Speaker 2: So stick with us.
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  Speaker 1: It changed the way we checked into airports now. You
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  Speaker 1: got to get into airports way earlier now. Everything is
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  Speaker 1: like pre-9-11, before 9-11. I didn't know September was nine
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  Speaker 1: on a calendar until 9-11.
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  Speaker 7: I can't believe it's been 25 years. That's like blowing
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  Speaker 7: my mind.
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  Speaker 2: 25 years is crazy, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So that's all happening this morning. It's our Heroes Breakfast Series.
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  Speaker 2: I am old.
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  Speaker 1: We're Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica on 93Q. It's Houston's country leader.
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  Speaker 1: It's Houston's country leader, 93Q. Good morning. We're Riggs, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 1: and Erica. We're live this morning for our Heroes Breakfast Series.
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  Speaker 1: But there is still stuff happening this weekend. We'll get
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  Speaker 1: to our weekend six-pack in a minute. Erica, how does
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  Speaker 1: breakfast looking so far? You've taken a break just for
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  Speaker 1: the moment, for the time being.
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  Speaker 7: It feels so good to sit down, you guys.
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  Speaker 2: She sat down and goes, I'm tired.
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  Speaker 7: I started cooking last night. I started cooking this morning. Like,
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  Speaker 7: I wanted to make sure that everything was good.
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  Speaker 6: So we're good.
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  Speaker 7: We have the biscuits and gravy ready, by the way.
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  Speaker 7: So you're ready for that.
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  Speaker 6: We're doing the pancakes. We have bacon. We have sausage.
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  Speaker 7: We have chorizos ready.
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  Speaker 6: Cinnamon rolls are ready.
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  Speaker 3: I never want to undermine the work that Erica Rico
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  Speaker 3: does when we do these breakfasts. Because she is hustling
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  Speaker 3: over there in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Riggs and I keep us on the air. Also, I'm
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  Speaker 3: way too ADHD to cook that much at one time.
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  Speaker 3: I would burn stuff, so you don't want me back there.
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  Speaker 6: You didn't hear me?
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  Speaker 2: The biscuits!
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  Speaker 1: Didn't somebody open a package of biscuits for the first
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  Speaker 1: time as well?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so Jose, which is actually my friend's son, and
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  Speaker 7: he's like, so do you have a can opener?
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  Speaker 6: And I said, for what? He goes, the biscuits. I
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  Speaker 6: was like, Jose, I'm.
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  Speaker 2: Calling your mom right now.
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  Speaker 7: I'm calling your mom right now. He's like, I've never
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  Speaker 7: done this.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he did it now. Was he shocked when it opened,
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  Speaker 1: when it popped?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: No, actually, no, he wasn't the first time, but after that,
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  Speaker 7: you could tell he's kind of shy about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's scary every time. It's a little jack-in-the-box.
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  Speaker 7: It scares me every time.
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  Speaker 1: Every time. Let's do the weekend six-pack. Find out what
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  Speaker 1: we have happening this weekend, shall we? Let's do that.
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  Speaker 3: Don't know what to do this weekend?
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  Speaker 5: We got you. Let's crack open the weekend six-pack with Riggs.
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  Speaker 3: Caitlin, and Erica.
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  Speaker 1: Starting off with the Houston Japan Festival at Herman Park
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  Speaker 1: is happening this weekend. It's Saturday and Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The culture and history of Japan. It's two days of
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  Speaker 1: martial arts demonstrations, some kid-friendly fun, food, music, and more.
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  Speaker 1: 10 to 6, both days, Saturday and Sunday, in Herman Park.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't know about that, now you know. Number 2, Caitlin.
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  Speaker 3: Tomorrow morning, Riggs and I are going to be out
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  Speaker 3: at the St. Jude Walk-Run at Constellation Field. Gates open
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  Speaker 3: at 7 o'clock, kids' dash is at 8, and the
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  Speaker 3: actual walk-run is right at 8.30. I love that they
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  Speaker 3: call it that, a walk-run, because you could do either,
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  Speaker 3: and it's appreciated. Nobody makes fun of you.
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  Speaker 6: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: Over 270 teams and over 2,000 participants so far.
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  Speaker 2: So we hope to see you there tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, Erica, you'll be out tomorrow as well.
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  Speaker 7: So I'll be out at the 9-11 Heroes Run, which
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  Speaker 7: is downtown Houston near City Hall.
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  Speaker 6: Starts at 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 7: Y'all they have the most participants they've ever had this
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  Speaker 7: year and you will see like firefighters running in full
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  Speaker 7: gear you'll see police officers running in full gear like
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  Speaker 7: they have flags that are going they have so much
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  Speaker 7: going on there and it's just such a beautiful thing
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  Speaker 7: to see everybody come together and there's lots of vendors
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  Speaker 7: there as well but it's just a beautiful thing to watch.
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  Speaker 1: 25th anniversary i would imagine number four the texans host
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  Speaker 1: the buffalo bills at Reliant Stadium this Sunday, officially kicking
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  Speaker 1: off the NFL regular season opener. against the boys from Buffalo.
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  Speaker 1: Is that Josh Allen? Is that the guy, the big guy?
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. Does he still play for Buffalo? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Why would you ask me?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, are you talking to me?
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a heck of a game, the Bills in town.
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  Speaker 6: Why are you.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at me? Tickets starting at $ 117. Kickoffs at noon,
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  Speaker 1: number five. Caitlin?
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  Speaker 3: The Houston Chicken Wing Festival at the Waterworks in Buffalo
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  Speaker 3: Bayou Park. Houston's best wing spots vie for cash prizes
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  Speaker 3: in this epic competitor's debut. Live music, DJs, KidZone, contests, giveaways,
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  Speaker 3: all types of fun stuff going on.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Houston likes to party.
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  Speaker 5: St.
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  Speaker 3: Arnold going to be on site. $ 14 and up. That's
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  Speaker 3: from 11 to 6.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is the first time they're doing this, too.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like a fantastic time.
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  Speaker 2: To drink beer and eat chicken wings?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Yeah. What more could you ask for?
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  Speaker 7: So you all heard everything that we said, how much
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  Speaker 7: we're cooking and what we're doing over here. If you
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  Speaker 7: want us to do this at your fire station, police station,
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  Speaker 7: all you have to do is go to QMorningShow.com.
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  Speaker 1: QMorningShow.com.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll cook for you.
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  Speaker 7: We'll bring out the whole gang.
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  Speaker 1: It's funny.
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  Speaker 7: I went to Push and Win's office, and I was like, so, guys,
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing a hero's breakfast, and I really need you
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  Speaker 7: guys to come cook.
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  Speaker 6: So they showed up.
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  Speaker 2: Are we supposed to really cook?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: There's really cooking going on, and thank you for doing
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  Speaker 1: that so much. You do this every single year.
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  Speaker 7: No, thank you to the firefighters, you guys, especially, like,
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  Speaker 7: on 9-11 where you see, like, You saw how much
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  Speaker 7: went in, how some of them didn't come out. And
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  Speaker 7: thank you guys for what you do. This is why
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  Speaker 7: we do this, because we appreciate you. None of us
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  Speaker 7: are going to run into a burning building, I promise you.
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  Speaker 7: Not one of us are going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: No, but I respect that.
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  Speaker 6: And we appreciate that you do it.
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  Speaker 7: We appreciate that you go towards the fire and you
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  Speaker 7: guys protect us.
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  Speaker 6: So thank you.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. There's your weekend six-pack. Enjoy responsibly. It's Riggs, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 1: and Erica. We're live this morning for our Heroes Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: series on 93Q, Houston's country leader. 93Q, Houston's country leader.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. It's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica. Our Heroes Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: is happening this morning, and I think it's very fitting
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  Speaker 1: that we celebrate, we do our Heroes Breakfast on the
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  Speaker 1: 25th anniversary of September 11th. We've done our Heroes Breakfast
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  Speaker 1: on a September 11th before, but not the 25th anniversary,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy and alarming to think that 25 years ago.
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, we're out here in the SciFair area,
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: and they do a really, really incredible service each year
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: for 9-11.
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: And we talked about this earlier this morning, Riggs.
• 12:16
  Speaker 3: There's actually a lot of the firehouses around Houston and
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: surrounding areas that have pieces of 9-11.
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure that happens kind of everywhere, you know?
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: Pieces of the structure, of the steel from the building.
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: You've seen that before.
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which is so.
• 12:30
  Speaker 3: When you see that in person, especially as somebody that
• 12:32
  Speaker 3: lived through 9-11 and saw 9-11 happen firsthand, and you
• 12:35
  Speaker 3: see pieces of those buildings in person, it is just...
• 12:40
  Speaker 3: it almost makes like your heart stop for a second
• 12:42
  Speaker 3: because you think about how heavy that material is, how
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: tough that material is, and obviously the really tragic outcome
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: of 9-11.
• 12:50
  Speaker 1: Think of two 110, 100-story-plus buildings falling, each with a
• 12:55
  Speaker 1: floor with people and desks and computers and refrigerators and
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: vending machines and all sorts of stuff.
• 13:00
  Speaker 3: 25 years ago still feels like yesterday. I mean, I
• 13:03
  Speaker 3: can vividly remember where I was. I think most people
• 13:07
  Speaker 3: can remember. I remember going home in the evening of 9-11,
• 13:12
  Speaker 3: and I remember all my family, my brothers, me, my mom,
• 13:15
  Speaker 3: and my dad sitting in front of the TV and
• 13:17
  Speaker 3: just watching the news continuously.
• 13:18
  Speaker 1: That's all we had.
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: That's all we had.
• 13:20
  Speaker 3: And do you remember, this might be a niche thing,
• 13:22
  Speaker 3: but I feel like people will probably remember this. There
• 13:26
  Speaker 3: were certain news agencies that were giving tips on how
• 13:29
  Speaker 3: to prepare your home in case there was some other issue.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: larger scale attack that went on I mean there was
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: the real fear in that immediate aftermath as an American
• 13:39
  Speaker 3: of like was this the end what happened today or
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: is there more coming and you simply at that time
• 13:45
  Speaker 3: couldn't do anything but wait it out hug your loved
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: ones and just try and push through.
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah um I remember a year later uh we went
• 13:54
  Speaker 1: to New York uh September 2002 yep and We were
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: going to Atlantic City, New Jersey to visit. My cousin
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: was in the Miss America competition. Shout out Tanger Wriggle.
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: And we went to New York to visit Ground Zero.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: And you could still smell burning. Like you could just
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: smell like jet fuel. You could just smell a year later.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine. But now 25 years later, here we are,
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: where that's just now a very solemn memorial that they
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: have in New York City, which I think is, it's
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: strange to have something like that in The hustle and
• 14:26
  Speaker 1: bustle of New York City because everything is so go, go, go, loud,
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: crazy everywhere in New York City. Then you go up
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: to a place like Ground Zero where that's memorialist and
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: everything is just quiet and solemn, somber.
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: That's the way it is. But we're going to honor
• 14:39
  Speaker 1: all those people this morning. We have many first responders
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: that will be in the building today. We can talk
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: to them about their experiences, including. Today, her name is
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Amy Ramone. The fire chief is going to be here
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: She is a bad mamma jamma.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: She was just awarded International Fire Chief of the Year,
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: which is huge. We'll be talking to her later, which
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: is awesome to see.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: I love seeing a woman do it.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Seeing a woman crush it. So we'll be talking to
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: her a little bit later, and that's what we do today.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: It's the 25th anniversary of September 11th. We're Riggs, Caitlin,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: and Erica. And we're not going to do a full-on
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Jerker Justified, but I have... A Jerker Justified next.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: It's from your own life.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: It's from my own life. And it's actually very interesting.
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: On September 11th. And something that somebody did on that day.
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: Jerker Justified. And I don't think I've ever told this
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: story before.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: My jaw was on the ground when you just told
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: it to me.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: So that's next on 93Q. It's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica.
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: 93Q is Houston's country leader. Good morning. We're Riggs, Caitlin,
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and Erica. So this morning you will not be hearing
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: just the regular... Giveaways and things like that that you
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: would normally hear today. We just didn't feel it was right.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: We kind of need to step back, reflect a little
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: bit today. We're doing our Heroes Breakfast broadcast this morning
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: live in Cyfair up in Cyprus. So Caitlin Cantlieu is
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: kind of taking a break from that this morning. Your
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: money's safe this morning. Just so you know.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, good.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Just so you know.
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: Sit back and relax now.
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: You're fine. You're fine.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Hey, by the way, we are here.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: We are out in the Sci-Fair area, and we've done
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: this a couple different times at this firehouse to, you know,
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: just be here for 9-11, honor those from 9-11 that,
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: you know, gave everything and those that rushed in when
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: everybody else was rushing out. And it's a really cool
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: ceremony that they do here every year. We're going to
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: go live with that on our Facebook page and I
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: believe Instagram as well. It's going to kick off in
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: about 10 minutes here or so.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: Facebook.com? Stop.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: Page?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: Pawpaw.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: What?
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: That's what it is.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: H-T-T-P.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: H-T-T-P slash Facebook.com. So everybody was pretty much united after 9-11.
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: I think we can all agree on that. It was
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: one of those things that everybody was bonded by the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: trauma and just finding what was happening.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: We were all Americans, like no matter what.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there were still things that were still happening
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: in life because life was still happening and unfolding as
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: those tragic events were unfolding. I was in college. I
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: went to the University of Indianapolis University. at Purdue University
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: of Indianapolis. It's called IUPUI. Confusing name for a school. IUPUI. IUPUI,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I get it. I was not the brightest in math,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: so this was my first semester in college.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: That's why we're in radio. I was terrible at math myself.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: So I had an algebra class. Yes, algebra class that
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: I was taking in college. Stop laughing.
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: I had to take it three times in college before
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: my professor finally felt bad and said, just pass.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Just go ahead. So September 11th, I had algebra. I
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: had algebra on Tuesdays and Thursdays. So Tuesday, September 11th,
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I had my algebra class. The class was at like
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: 1030 or so. So this was after because everything happened
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: around like 745, eight, nine o'clock. I had an exam
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: that day and I did not go to that exam.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Well, most of us were checking out of school. Our
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: parents were checking us out or we were headed home.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: So I was I'm going to go home to my mom.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: My dad was in Japan working. So it was just
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: my mom and my little sisters there by herself. She
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: was calling me. Like, I had a cell phone, luckily,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: a little Nokia phone. She was like, hey, I need
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: you to come home. I was like, okay, sure. So
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I just skipped the exam and went home. Thursday, I
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: come back to Algebra to Mr. I think his name
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: was Mr.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Watt.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: His name was something like that. I remember his name.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: Mr.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Jerk is what I like to think of him as.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: And I go in and I go, hey, I missed
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: our exam on Tuesday. Is there a way I could
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: make that up today or maybe sometime in the future?
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: And he goes, no, that's an unexcused absence.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Bruh.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: And I literally said this. I go, did you turn
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: on a TV? Did you see what was happening on Tuesday?
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: And he goes, yeah, and we still had an exam.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: It was after all that had happened. You could have
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: made it here. Other people were here. And I went,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: other people were there taking exams? Who goes, oh, the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: world is under attack. I'm going to go take my
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: algebra exam.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: I do need to take my algebra exam.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: A couple nerds did, I guess. But I was thinking
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: maybe people didn't know. And not everybody had a cell phone.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Not everybody had social media. So it's plausible that somebody
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: could have woken up, not turned on a TV, went
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: to their algebra class that day, maybe heard something was happening,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: but not really knowing the gravity of the situation yet.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Been like, oh, I'm just going to take my exam.
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, those were still the hours where we were
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: trying to figure out what even happened.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: You know, things were starting to settle in.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Was it an accident? Was it intentional? You didn't know
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: for a while. So, yeah. Was he a jerk or
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: was he justified for giving me a zero?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: A total jerk.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I got a zero. You don't even need to ask.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: I got a zero on an algebra exam on 9-11.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Like, for the day, I could imagine him in his
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: classroom that day being like, ah, zero. But then realizing
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: everything that happened.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Yes, looking back.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Okay, we're totally excusing this.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Mr. Watt was a jerk. Gosh, ultimate jerk.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: You know, I, speaking of things that happened on nine 11,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: like the world was continuing to happen. There were a lot,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: we've heard over the years, all these stories about people
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: that were supposed to be on certain planes or, you know,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: in the twin towers and, you know, didn't go to work,
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: didn't go to work that.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: Day or got to work late or whatever.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: Um, I was watching this random video, you know, all
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: my weird niche stuff that I watch online. It's usually
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: like archaeology, history stuff.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: That's Caitlin right there.
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: And I'm reading about this cave in Ohio that they discovered, like,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, a huge cave system with like these bones
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: in it that were millions of years old, like all
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: these different prehistoric bones and all this stuff. And they
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: were set to blast the cave on the morning of 9-11.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: And they only were able to do one of the
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: controlled blasts before everything started happening. They halted everything, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: they never went through with the rest of the controlled blasts.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: And because they didn't, the entire cave and everything in
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: it was still intact. Had they not, had they gone
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: through with all the controlled explosions, they would have lost
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: something like 40% of what was inside the cave system.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Them halting it on 9-11 actually helped it then. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: So, you know, it's just.
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: I know that's such a random story, but it goes
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: to show that people were just living their everyday lives
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: so unaware of the tragedy that was at our doorstep
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: that morning and what was to come. And it just
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: is really crazy when you think about people just waking
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: up and going to another day of work somewhere.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: A lot of people will be honoring those heroes today
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: with a ceremony here in SciFair for our Heroes Breakfast.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: We'll have that live on our Instagram and our Facebook.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: So if you're wondering if you can check that out, absolutely.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: We'd love for you to. And thank you to all
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of our first responders who continue to serve to this day,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: still not knowing. I mean, when you go and you
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: get a call, you don't know if that's going to
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: be your last call. It could be something that's not
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: as maybe impactful or gigantic as 9-11, but a car crash.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Somebody could run into a burning building. It could happen
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: at any moment.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, a firefighter takes that on any time.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Every time they get a call. Yeah. So the utmost
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: respect for our first responders. That's why we do these
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: heroes breakfast. It's Riggs, Caitlin and Erica. And we're live
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: on 93Q, Houston's country leader. Houston's Country Leader 93Q, it's Riggs, Caitlin,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and Erica. We're live this morning for our Heroes Breakfast Series,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: honoring our first responders, the brave men and women that
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: run towards danger when everybody else is running away. And
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: it's the 25th anniversary of 9-11, a beautiful ceremony happening
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: this morning. Caitlin?
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, join us on our Facebook page where we'll be
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: having the entire live stream of that ceremony that goes on.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: It's a really incredible ceremony, especially with this being the
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: 25th anniversary of 9-11.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: So we'll see you there.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: It's 93Q, Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica in our Heroes Breakfast Series.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Mariella and Eddie went out on a, well, I don't
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: know if you would call it a first date, okay?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: They met at a business mixer, stayed after the mixer
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: was over. Mariella went home with him after the mixer
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: was over.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: Things got.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: They sealed the deal. Yeah.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: And then he woke up to Mariella gone. What?
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: No, no, nothing.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Nothing.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: He hasn't heard from her since, so is she regretting
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: her decisions maybe? We're going to find out right now
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: with Second Date Update.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Hello? Hello?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Hey, is this Mariella?
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: Yes. Who's this?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Hi, this is Riggs, Caitlin and Erica. We're with 93Q
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: here in Houston. Good morning.
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: You OK?
• 23:08
  Speaker 7: Sounds like you know exactly why we're calling.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: Mariella, do you?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God. Is he here?
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is second date update. Eddie will be here. Yes,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: he can hear. But why? We have him on hold
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: for right now.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah, what happened?
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: Okay. Gosh. First, I just want to say Eddie is
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: basically perfect.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Basically perfect. That's not normally how these things start, but okay.
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: We like it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: No, I mean, honestly, he's handsome, successful, funny, easy to
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: talk to. And I had an amazing time with him.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: So why'd you sneak out?
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Because there's just one thing.
• 23:48
  Speaker 7: How big of a thing?
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: Or small? For me?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Or small?
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: Huge.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: What happened?
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: I just, I don't know how to say it. Without
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: completely embarrassing Eddie.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Eddie, are you there? Yeah.
• 24:04
  Speaker 10: What would be embarrassing?
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: I'm confused.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, when we were, you know, having our moment.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got that.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Well, everything was fine until Eddie finished.
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: Finished?
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Can we say.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: That? Completed? Yeah. What happened?
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: A noise he made.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: A noise?
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: What? Yeah, a very, very loud noise.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: So he enjoyed it. So he was having a good time, huh?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: What's wrong with that?
• 24:40
  Speaker 7: What kind of noise are we talking about here? Can
• 24:43
  Speaker 7: you describe it?
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: I don't even know how.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: To describe it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 8: I'm confused. So you're not calling me back because I
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: made a noise, like a sound? Is why you're not
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: calling me back?
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Eddie, it wasn't a normal sound.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Ariella, you're going to have to, like, give us something
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: to go off of. Can you compare it to something?
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, like, maybe make a sound, anything?
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: It sounded like a cow giving birth.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: A cow giving birth? Oh, no.
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was, like, wounded and... Like a wounded moo sound.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: A wounded moo?
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: Like a cow? I do not sound like a cow, Mariella.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: What the hell are you talking about?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: I still don't see how this is bad.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: He obviously really enjoyed you.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, of course.
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: I guess.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I've never heard anything like it. It wasn't great.
• 25:34
  Speaker 7: Eddie, has nobody ever told you that before?
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a vocal guy?
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: No.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: No.
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: I mean, I thought everyone made some kind of noise. Yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, but you moo, evidently, according to Mariela.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: You sound like a cow in distress, apparently, according to her.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: She said wounded.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Wounded.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, fair.
• 25:52
  Speaker 9: Wounded.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: It was so loud. It was just, I was embarrassed.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: We were inside his house. I remember thinking, like, do
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: his neighbors hear this?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Who cares?
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Who cares?
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, if anything, they think it's a cow out
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: in the pasture, right?
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: Well, why would you be embarrassed if it was me
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: making a sound?
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Because I was there.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: What else about me is perfect, but you're going to
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: throw me away because I made one weird noise one time?
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: It's not just a noise. It's permanently stored in my brain.
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: She can't unhear the moo, Eddie.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Is this one of those things where the ick, once
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: the ick comes in, you can't get past the ick?
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: This is like our second case of the icks this week.
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: Can we stop with the calling it.
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: A moo already?
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we can definitely do that. Would you be willing
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to give him another chance if he can contain his mooses?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: He said stop saying that. What?
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: No, I can't. I'm sorry.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: The ick is there. Are you serious?
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. You're a great guy, but I know it's coming, so. Oh, no.
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: What's coming? What are you talking about?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Stop saying that.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Yes, please stop saying that.
• 27:01
  Speaker 10: It's so uncomfortable.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: The sound.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: Can you, like, imitate the sound? Because I can't get
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: it in my head.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Stop making her do it, Erica. No, I want to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: hear it.
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: Oh, no. Okay.
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's it.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: I can't believe this is happening right now, dude.
• 27:22
  Speaker 7: So sorry, Eddie.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sorry this didn't end up the way you
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: wanted it to.
• 27:25
  Speaker 7: But now you know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: I mean, well, thanks, I guess, but now I'm going
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: to be thinking about this for the rest of my life.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: I would have just blamed it on a cow in
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: the pasture and moved on, you know?
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I say ratchet it up the next time. Get louder.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: It's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica, Houston's Country Leader 93Q. We
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: are out at our Hero's Breakfast, which is a different
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Hero's Breakfast than we usually do this morning, Riggs, because
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: it is the 25th anniversary of 9-11. And we just
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: watched a really incredible ceremony that they do every year
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: here in the Sci-Fair area for 9-11.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I think one of the things that's the hardest to
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: hear is when they do that last call because they
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: actually do it over dispatch and they call out some
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: last call for some of the people that lost their
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: lives on that day. And it's chilling to hear something
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: like that.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Full body chills.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Full body chills. Yeah. So we're here this morning. We're
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: going to have it all live on our Facebook and
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: our Instagram page if you've missed it. We are at
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Sci-Fair this morning for our Heroes Breakfast. It's Riggs, Caitlin,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: and Erica on 93Q. 93Q, good morning. Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: It is our Heroes Breakfast series, and we're here this
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: morning with Hannah Lundstrom. What is your official title? Because
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: they've thrown a couple different things at us, and you're
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: leading some cadets as well. You're a new firefighter.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: We want to get it right.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: We want to get it right, yeah. Yes, sir.
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: Good morning. I am a probationary firefighter with the Sci-Fair
• 28:46
  Speaker 11: Fire Department, so I just started three weeks ago. And
• 28:51
  Speaker 11: we have a year of probation when we're new hires.
• 28:54
  Speaker 11: And I am also honored to be our class lead,
• 28:57
  Speaker 11: which means that I mostly am just responsible for trying
• 29:00
  Speaker 11: to get everybody there on time.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Everybody up to speed and on time.
• 29:04
  Speaker 11: Mostly just the administrative side of communicating information. Everybody's done
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: a really great job of being responsible for themselves.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: You know, we want to mention this because we talked
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: about it a little bit off air here, but it
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: is just not as often that you see women in
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: the fire department and, you know, volunteering to do some
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: really heroic work. But to be a class lead, a
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: female class lead is wow.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: That's epic.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: What an honor. Congratulations.
• 29:34
  Speaker 11: Thank you so much. It is statistically there are many
• 29:39
  Speaker 11: fewer women. in the fire service. SciFair has the honor
• 29:43
  Speaker 11: of having a female fire chief, which is really incredible
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: and very uncommon across the country. I appreciate being part
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: of this incredible industry, but the standard is very high, right?
• 29:54
  Speaker 11: So when you're in the minority, you just be the
• 29:57
  Speaker 11: best that you can every single day and set the
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: tone for anyone coming in.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: The international fire chief, by the way.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, international.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: International this year.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: The women are representing here at the SciFair Fire Department.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Incredible work.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: It's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica. We're here for our Heroes
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Breakfast Series. Now, Ms. Lundstrom, it's the 25th anniversary of
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: September 11th. Um, how does that weigh on you? Because you're,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you look a little bit younger. So like when, when
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: did it happen in your life span? And what does
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: that mean to you now entering into the, the world
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: of being a first responder? Yes, sir.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Uh, I am 28.
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: So I was present in the U S.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: But I do not remember.
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: Um, when everything happened, I know my mom was pregnant
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: with my younger brother.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: So it definitely was a stressor in my family.
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: He was born about two weeks after this.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Um, actually exactly 25 years ago.
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: So, I think in the fire service, it is one
• 30:52
  Speaker 11: of the greatest tragedies that has occurred.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
• 30:56
  Speaker 11: And it also shows the strength of our industry and
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: the strength of the fraternity that's built within the fire
• 31:03
  Speaker 11: service and first responders as a community in general. So
• 31:07
  Speaker 11: I am very honored to be part of events like
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: this that remember that event and honor the sacrifice that
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: was made because it's the reality of our job as well.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: It is dangerous.
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: We do the best to take care of our communities
• 31:19
  Speaker 11: and take care of each other, but we can't predict everything.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: You know, during the ceremony that just happened a little
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: bit ago, the fire chief was saying it's our duty now,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: as those that have been here for a while, to
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: we've got new people coming in that weren't even born
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: when 9-11 happened.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Or barely born.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: Or barely born.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: But, you know, it's our duty to make sure that
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: they truly understand the impact of such a day. Being
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: a class lead, what is just maybe a small thing
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: that you can do with your brothers and sisters around
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: you to kind of remember those, you know, those huge
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: events throughout history that really impact what a firefighter does
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: every day?
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: Yes, ma'am.
• 32:01
  Speaker 11: I think it's important to keep talking about it, to
• 32:03
  Speaker 11: have events like this that commemorate those specific events, but
• 32:06
  Speaker 11: also just to take pride in our professions. and do
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: the best we can every single day to show up
• 32:11
  Speaker 11: and represent ourselves and all of our brothers and sisters well.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: Excellent.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Well, Ms. Lestrom, thank you so much for your service,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: for what you're doing, and best of luck in the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: probationary year.
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: You're awesome. We're in good hands with you.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: Yes, we are.
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: We are.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: And we're in good hands with everyone here at SciFair
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: and all of our first responders across Houston, not just here.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: So thank you all for your service and what you
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: do for us. It's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica in our
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Heroes Breakfast series on 93Q. It's Houston's country leader.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: This morning, we're talking with Clint after he went on
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: a first date with a woman named Kelsey that I
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: believe you met on Bumble, right, Clint?
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Good morning.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: Sure did. We met on Bumble, and she just looked
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: also pretty, even better than her pictures.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: All right. Well, can you tell us a little bit
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: about the date?
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: We went to this really nice burger spot that I
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: know of. And I got to tell you, conversation never
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: really stopped. You know, we was just going back and
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: forth all night long. And, you know, we both love
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: live music, which is something near and dear to my heart.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That's good.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Clint, where are you from, Clint?
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: So I'm from a little town south of Tennessee.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: A transplant.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Well, we're happy to have you here.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, welcome.
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Okay, so how did the date end, Clint?
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: I thought things were going well. You know, we originally
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: just planned for one drink, and we ended up staying
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: there for about three hours.
• 33:37
  Speaker 7: Oh, cool.
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: She kept on laughing at my jokes, and... You know,
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: it seemed like she was very comfortable around me and
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: then nothing. You know, I walked her to her car.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: We hugged and she told me that she'd had a
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: great time. I said I'd text her and she said definitely.
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: And that's the last I heard of her.
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: So no kiss, nothing?
• 33:59
  Speaker 5: No.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Nothing weird? No talk about you didn't go to, like,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: politics or talking anything like that or talking about your
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: future wife and kids and anything like that? Sometimes that'll
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: scare them off.
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: I texted her the next morning. No response. I waited
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: about one or two days like a gentleman should and
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: tried once again and got nothing.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Ugh.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: That hurts my heart. All right.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Well, we're sorry being left on read, Clint, and we'd
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: love to help you out this morning if we could.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate it. I mean, this is why I'm
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: so confused. Usually if somebody's laughing that much, they're a
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: pretty good sign for a pretty good match, right?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Well, we'll get Kelsey on the phone and see if
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: we can get some answers for you, buddy, all right?
• 34:43
  Speaker 5: Thank you kindly.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: All right, you hang on just one second. That's coming
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: up next with a second date update. It's Riggs, Caitlin,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: and Erica.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: This morning on Second Date Update, we have Clint who
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: matched with Kelsey on Tinder and they spent almost three
• 34:54
  Speaker 7: hours together. He said she was laughing the whole night.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: They were talking. He said, I'll text you. She said, yeah, definitely.
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: And then nothing. So what did he do on the
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: date that made her run for the hills? We'll find
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: out next on i3Q Second Date Update.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Hello?
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Hi, may I please speak with Kelsey?
• 35:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah, this is her.
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Hi, Kelsey. This is Caitlin of Riggs, Caitlin and Erica. Actually,
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: all three of us are here. Good morning.
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome to our show.
• 35:18
  Speaker 10: Hi.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Hi.
• 35:20
  Speaker 10: Hi.
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: You know what?
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: We're just going to cut straight to it here. You're
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: on second date update. Do you know who we might
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: be calling about?
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Oh, yep.
• 35:29
  Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure. I know exactly what's going on.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Oh, my God.
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: No way.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Wait, you already know?
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 35:36
  Speaker 10: I'm just guessing this is about Clint.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, ma'am.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: He said he had a great date, and then you
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: just aren't texting him back.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: Is there a reason why?
• 35:43
  Speaker 10: You know, okay, the date wasn't bad. Like, he didn't
• 35:50
  Speaker 10: offend me.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: Good.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: He was fine.
• 35:53
  Speaker 10: Like, not inappropriate, but.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: great.
• 35:56
  Speaker 10: Honestly like once i met in person i there was
• 36:00
  Speaker 10: just no attraction because the way.
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: He looked or like like what changed because obviously you
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: liked him you know talking on the phone and stuff
• 36:07
  Speaker 7: oh we.
• 36:07
  Speaker 10: Hadn't talked on the phone we just texted like in
• 36:10
  Speaker 10: the app and i hadn't talked to him um i
• 36:15
  Speaker 10: mean you guys have talked to him so i don't like.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah he sounds like he's a very nice guy he
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: sounds respectful he sounded like he you know he said
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: he held the door open for you and everything he's
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: i mean he's he's a transplant Is it the way
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: he talks?
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 36:28
  Speaker 10: You've heard him speak.
• 36:30
  Speaker 7: I thought it was just me.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: I honestly thought, like, he might have... I was like,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: is this this guy's real voice?
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: I thought I was being punked.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with the way he talks?
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: Wait, so he does talk like that all the time?
• 36:41
  Speaker 10: All the time. It's so distracting. Like, that's it. I'm
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: so glad you said it, and I didn't have to
• 36:48
  Speaker 10: say it. Like, that's it, his voice. Like.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, come on now.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: I don't... No.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: What?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Clint... Clint, are you still there?
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Yes, I am.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with the way that Clint talks?
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: Nothing's wrong.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: It's just different.
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know. rightly understand. This is just
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: my voice.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
• 37:08
  Speaker 10: I'm not trying to be mean, but your voice just
• 37:11
  Speaker 10: doesn't match your pictures. I thought you were attractive in
• 37:15
  Speaker 10: the pictures, and I'm sorry. I just can't.
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: It's just too goofy?
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: Is that what you're saying? Too different?
• 37:21
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's just slow. The intonation, I don't want to
• 37:26
  Speaker 10: say dopey because he's very smart, but it's just weird.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: It's goofy.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: It's giving I do declare.
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: Are you saying something's wrong with my voice?
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I don't think anything's wrong with your voice.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: It just doesn't sound real.
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: It sounds like when you're pretending to be something.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: You know what I'm saying?
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: Like, you know, I'm not good at accents.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: It does sound like he's making an accent up, but
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: if that's your voice, I mean, you can't control that.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: No, not at all.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Honestly, I can't keep laughing.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Like, I can't.
• 37:53
  Speaker 10: Like, every time he said something, I wasn't laughing, like,
• 37:56
  Speaker 10: at him or, like, what he was saying. I mean, like,
• 38:00
  Speaker 10: whatever he was saying, I'm laughing kind of just the intonations.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: So you liked everything about me except the sound coming
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: out of my mouth?
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: I just can't.
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: I'm sorry.
• 38:12
  Speaker 10: I'm so bad. I'm like, I'm not a mean person,
• 38:14
  Speaker 10: I promise. I'm just, I can't. Like, I just can't
• 38:17
  Speaker 10: take you seriously.
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's a pretty mean thing to say.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: Oh, that hurts me.
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: Now I feel bad.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: I thought you were just kidding.
• 38:26
  Speaker 10: No that's the whole night though like that was the
• 38:28
  Speaker 10: whole night i can't date someone like that i just
• 38:32
  Speaker 10: i call me shallow i'm just yeah i can't i'm
• 38:35
  Speaker 10: sorry i'm so embarrassed well i mean.
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: Obviously there's nothing that he can do about that is
• 38:41
  Speaker 7: the ick too big where you can't continue like you
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: can't go on a.
• 38:44
  Speaker 10: Date okay no no i i just because like i
• 38:47
  Speaker 10: can't stop laughing about it like i truly can't.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Like So if people said this to you since you've
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: moved down here to Houston is a little more faster
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: than it sounds like you said you're from a town
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: in Tennessee or things probably a little bit more slower
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: pace there.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, it's a slower pace, but, you know,
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: people have told me I got a unique way of speaking,
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: but I didn't think there was nothing wrong with it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: No, there's nothing wrong with it.
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: You'll find somebody, especially here in the Texas area.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: I think that we'll love that.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, too. It's just not going to
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: be Kelsey, unfortunately.
• 39:18
  Speaker 10: No, I'm sorry. Unique is a good way to put it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: How did you picture his voice was going to be, Kelsey?
• 39:27
  Speaker 10: Like, just more manly? like just more like low and rougher.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 39:33
  Speaker 10: Just not that.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: Well, I think we got our answer. You understand what's
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: going on now?
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: I reckon so. I still think that's a little unfair.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Nothing a man can do with how he sounds.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing at all.
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's totally fair. That's totally fair.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: You keep being you, Clint, and I don't think you
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: need to change a thing at all. I think you'll
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  Speaker 1: find somebody that likes your voice and you just the
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  Speaker 1: way that you are. But it's just not going to
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: work out with Kelsey this morning.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thank you, folks.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Have a good day.
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  Speaker 4: Bye.
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  Speaker 1: It's 93Q, Houston's country leader. Good morning. We're Riggs, Caitlin,
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  Speaker 1: and Erica. This morning is our Heroes of Breakfast series,
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  Speaker 1: and we are graced with the presence of Dr. Chief
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  Speaker 1: Ramon Esquire. Miss Amy Ramone. We were told to say
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  Speaker 1: that because that's your title. It's official. You don't want
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  Speaker 1: to call yourself that, but we should put some respect
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  Speaker 1: on your titles because you've earned them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you have.
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  Speaker 1: Don't poo-poo them, Miss.
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  Speaker 2: She's going to kill you along with all the other
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  Speaker 2: guys here today.
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  Speaker 1: Because you are a, pardon my French, a badass in
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  Speaker 1: your own right. I'm going to say that right now
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  Speaker 1: because you are, Miss Ramone. Thank you so much for
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: being here and for your service. Because last year you
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: were honored as Chief... Of the state of Texas, right?
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: You won an award for the state of Texas?
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  Speaker 6: For 23. I got it in 24. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: And now you are the international fire chief.
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  Speaker 1: Is that 2026?
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  Speaker 2: Yes. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: How do you beat out all the other countries in
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  Speaker 1: the world? Is there international competition?
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  Speaker 6: It's my commissioners that allow me to do it.
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  Speaker 9: I participated both at regional level or regional and state,
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  Speaker 9: and I'm involved nationally. that way and then that also
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  Speaker 9: allows me to do things outside of just Sci Fair.
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  Speaker 9: And I have the ability to do that because of one,
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  Speaker 9: the super smart people that I surround myself with. And
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  Speaker 9: then some amazing commissioners that support what I do.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I do. I think I work with two
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  Speaker 1: smart women in the morning. That's what I do.
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  Speaker 6: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: We elevate him.
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  Speaker 4: See?
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  Speaker 6: That's what I say about my chiefs.
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  Speaker 3: Can I tell you something that I think from the
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  Speaker 3: outside looking in is what we would consider a great
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: leader is that we watch you, you know, converse with
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  Speaker 3: everybody here and the camaraderie of everything here.
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  Speaker 2: And there is this.
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  Speaker 3: Air of respect that happens when you walk in the room,
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  Speaker 3: but then that quickly kind of subsides to this comfort,
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  Speaker 3: you know, people being comfortable in your presence, people feeling
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: like you're just another one of them. And not every
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: leader can say that sometimes a leader sits on top
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  Speaker 3: and everybody is underneath them. It never feels like that
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  Speaker 3: when you're around the other men and women here at
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  Speaker 3: the fire department. And I think that's probably part of
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  Speaker 3: what makes you such an incredible leader.
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  Speaker 2: It's cool. It's very, very cool to watch.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, it's definitely, I think part of that is
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  Speaker 9: because I came up through the department. I was on
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  Speaker 9: the volunteer side first before ever going paid. And part
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  Speaker 9: of what that instills in you is, I know the
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: new buzz thing is, you know, if you say your
• 42:33
  Speaker 9: department is a family, you're dysfunctional. Well, you have to
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: be dysfunctional to be in the fire department anyway, right?
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  Speaker 9: But it truly is a family. And I mean, anytime,
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  Speaker 9: even if there's difficulties, right? If there's squabbling or anything
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  Speaker 9: like that, when there is a need in the department,
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  Speaker 9: when there is a department member that, has had something
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: tragic go on in their life, the amount of people
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  Speaker 9: that rally around you, good or bad, whether you've fought
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: or whether you haven't, is just truly amazing. And this
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  Speaker 9: has really become my family. I've known some of these
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  Speaker 9: people for 36 years, you know, which is longer than
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  Speaker 9: I can say I've known my husband. So, you know,
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  Speaker 9: it's just one of those things where, you know, for
• 43:17
  Speaker 9: a while. You knew who people were married to, who
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: their kids were, you know, what they like to do
• 43:23
  Speaker 9: in sports and stuff. So you had the ability to
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  Speaker 9: have conversations with people that were on a much more
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  Speaker 9: personal level. And I think that I have continued to
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  Speaker 9: carry that through. The other thing is, is my chief
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  Speaker 9: of operations came up with a super smart, you know, hierarchy.
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  Speaker 9: We are at the bottom of a triangle. So it's
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  Speaker 9: basically an upside down pyramid with a The community is
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  Speaker 9: sitting on top and we're on the bottom because we
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  Speaker 9: want to support everybody else. We don't look at it
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  Speaker 9: as we sit on top.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 9: It's every decision we make is with the field personnel
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  Speaker 9: in mind because we need the community to be in
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  Speaker 9: their minds.
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  Speaker 1: We're here with Chief Amy Ramona of the Sci-Fair Fire Department.
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  Speaker 1: The 25th anniversary of 9-11 today. You were obviously here
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  Speaker 1: in Houston when that was happening, I'm assuming.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: So what was that day like for you?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, extremely memorable. At the time, I was not the
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  Speaker 9: fire chief. I was a volunteer with the fire department
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  Speaker 9: at the time, so I had a regular accounting job.
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  Speaker 9: We were in a multi-story building when it occurred. There
• 44:30
  Speaker 9: was a person across from my office that had a
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  Speaker 9: small television on, and she started talking about it, and
• 44:37
  Speaker 9: we were watching it. And then when the towers fell...
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  Speaker 9: You know, there were oohs and ahs and things like
• 44:43
  Speaker 9: that in the office. But immediately I said, oh, my God,
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  Speaker 9: the firefighters are inside.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 9: So it hit on a different level, you know, watching
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  Speaker 9: that happen to everybody else around me who didn't understand.
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  Speaker 9: All the people that came out, and then we went in.
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  Speaker 6: So it's still... Like right there at the top of
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  Speaker 6: your memory.
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  Speaker 3: And that's part of a daily precaution with work as
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: a firefighter is, you know, you're worried about things like
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: a roof collapsing or maybe, you know, a couple stories
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  Speaker 3: of a building when you're talking about going into these
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: major fires. But like you said, to see these entire
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: buildings collapse, knowing that your brothers and sisters are inside,
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: it's just it's still so awful to relive even 25
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: years later. And we were able to confirm during the
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  Speaker 3: ceremony earlier that there is actually a piece of one
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  Speaker 3: of those towers here in front of the Sci-Fair Fire Department, correct?
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Former Fire Chief Joe Davis. helped acquire that.
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  Speaker 9: There was a point in time when they were clearing
• 45:47
  Speaker 9: off the site and trying to do that. And so
• 45:49
  Speaker 9: as a governmental entity, we were able to attain a
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  Speaker 9: small piece of that to help memorialize it.
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  Speaker 3: There was one point during the ceremony earlier where I
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: was in just full body chills because the sun was
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: starting to come up and it was... hitting right behind
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  Speaker 3: that piece. I believe it looks like a piece of
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: a beam.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And the sun was coming right behind it, and the
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: wreath was out, and you guys were out there standing
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  Speaker 3: and just talking about, you know, what this type of
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: day means for you. And it was one of those
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: moments where, as an American, I was just like, wow,
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: this is really special here.
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  Speaker 1: And I like the significance of Brittany as well, the
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: last surviving search and rescue dog from those 9-11 attacks.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, so Denise Corliss is still active with our department.
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  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 6: She had Brittany at.
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  Speaker 9: The time, and she's still running dogs today. She actually
• 46:36
  Speaker 9: is running a dog that is a descendant in the
• 46:39
  Speaker 9: line of Brittany. So it's quite memorable, and it helps
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: relive the positives of those things.
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: I will say she was at 9-11, and we have.
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: A large group of people in our area that were there.
• 46:57
  Speaker 9: And I believe because of the medical director at the
• 46:59
  Speaker 9: time for the task force who told them from the get-go,
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  Speaker 9: you need to wear respirators, you need to wear masks,
• 47:06
  Speaker 9: that that.
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  Speaker 6: Helped save most of them.
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  Speaker 9: That was something that was recognized early on by our
• 47:15
  Speaker 9: group that was not in anybody's mind at the time
• 47:19
  Speaker 9: when it happened there. from New York right in New
• 47:22
  Speaker 9: York it was just we need to get in there
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  Speaker 9: and we need to save our people and the thought
• 47:27
  Speaker 9: of the harm that may or may not come to
• 47:29
  Speaker 9: them down.
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: The line it was it doesn't come into your mind.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah those kind of things yeah Well, thank you for
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: your service. We appreciate everything you've done here with your
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: incredible run here at SciFair in the Houston area.
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  Speaker 2: You're so cool. I love you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Dr. Chief Ramon Esquire.
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  Speaker 2: You're really cruising for a bruising.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: I really am, but I've got to put respect on
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: her name.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you so much, and I appreciate you guys being
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: here every year. It really does mean a lot. I
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: know you have a lot of places that you could
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  Speaker 9: pick to go, and the fact that you pick our
• 47:57
  Speaker 9: department is honorable.
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  Speaker 6: So thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for letting us be here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. It's Riggs, Caitlin, and Erica, our hero's breakfast
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  Speaker 1: with 93 Cutes, Houston's country leader.