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Civil Rights Giant Jesse Jackson Passes; Trump's Gift to Big Coal: Gut EPA Regs; Early Voting Underway in Texas - TPN 2/22/26 · The People's News

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Speaker 1: It's the week of February twenty second, twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: and this is what's on the People's News. Liberal lion
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Speaker 1: Jesse Jackson passed away early voting is going on in Texas,
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Speaker 1: EPA rolls back in dangerment findings, the Houston Dynamo and curling.
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Speaker 1: All that and more on the People's News. I'm Steve Gallington.
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Speaker 1: This is the People's News, and the People's News starts now.
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Speaker 1: Reverend Jesse Jackson passed away last week at the age
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Speaker 1: of eighty four. He was an important part of the
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Speaker 1: civil rights movement in the United States and across the world.
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Speaker 1: He was a protege of the Great Martin Luther King
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Speaker 1: Junior and was by his side when he was assassinated
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Speaker 1: in Memphis, Tennessee in nineteen sixty eight. He founded Operation
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Speaker 1: Push and the Rainbow Coalition, an international human and civil
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Speaker 1: rights organization. He was the second black person to run
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Speaker 1: for US president, as the first was Shirley Chisholm in
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy two. Many forget the places Jackson went to
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Speaker 1: free Americans held in hostile countries. He went to Iraq, Cuba, Syria,
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Speaker 1: just to name a few. He was a part of
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Speaker 1: many peaceful protests right up until the time of his death.
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Speaker 1: He never stopped fighting for those who could not fight.
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Speaker 1: He made numerous stops in Houston over the years. Former
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Speaker 1: City Attorney for the City of Houston and longtime friend
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Speaker 1: of Jackson talked about bringing him to Houston and the
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Speaker 1: last time he was here.
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Speaker 2: Well, that's a pretty difficult question the answer, because it's
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Speaker 2: full of emotion. It relates to my relationship with the
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Speaker 2: good Reverence. But I can tell you that during the
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Speaker 2: times that we spent together, which we had several meetings
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Speaker 2: here in Houston, Texas between two thousand until last year.
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Speaker 2: In fact, he was at my law office last year
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Speaker 2: and we had a reception for him here. He was
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Speaker 2: literally a walking history book, the pictures and stories of
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Speaker 2: the sixties and the fifties. He literally brought those pictures
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Speaker 2: to life because he was there when those pictures were taken.
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Speaker 2: Losing him means that we've lost for a moment, that voice,
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Speaker 2: But we still have the memories that he had shared
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Speaker 2: with us, both when he ran for national office as
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Speaker 2: well as his persistent cry for justice. Seeing him in
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Speaker 2: the latter stages of his life, I have to say
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Speaker 2: the enemies of his body took a lot from him
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Speaker 2: and it was distressing to see that collapse of help.
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Speaker 2: And I pray to God that where he is now
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Speaker 2: is a more RESTful existence than what he had during
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Speaker 2: the latter part of his life, especially perhaps last year
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Speaker 2: was a pretty difficult year. So while he we lose
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Speaker 2: him as a walking book, his memories and his thoughts
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Speaker 2: and his commitment to justice continue and I take consolation
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Speaker 2: and knowing that that will live beyond his days here
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Speaker 2: as a human being.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, him starting off at an early age at twenty years.
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Speaker 4: Old, and a lot of a lot of.
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Speaker 5: A lot of people came up from especially Black college
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Speaker 5: at HBCU schools and getting involved in the civil rights movement.
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Speaker 4: It took a lot. It took a lot on.
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Speaker 5: Emotionally, a lot on a lot of civil rights activists.
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Speaker 5: But he continued on for years in the same vein
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Speaker 5: not just here in the United States, but internationally, with
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Speaker 5: especially his movements about the part die in South Africa.
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Speaker 6: Well, Jesse was a world figure.
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Speaker 2: He wasn't just closeted in one specific geographic area. Nothing
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Speaker 2: was beyond the pale of his protests against injustice. And
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Speaker 2: I remember, you know he I think your listeners probably
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Speaker 2: know he comes from Greenville, South Carolina, and I'm from
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Speaker 2: green I'm from Columbia, South Carolina, and so you know
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Speaker 2: we had kindred spirits because we could tell all of
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Speaker 2: the South Carolina stories. But I remember his voice was
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Speaker 2: never confined. And when I say his voice, I mean
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Speaker 2: his protests, his accommodations, his insistence on justice were never
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Speaker 2: confined to the shores of just South Carolina, or the
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Speaker 2: boundaries of South Carolina or in Chicago. He saw the
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Speaker 2: world as his stage and that wherever injustice was, he
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Speaker 2: was going to be a voice for justice. And so
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Speaker 2: when I grew up, I remember seeing this little brave
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Speaker 2: brother on television.
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Speaker 7: I remember my parents.
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Speaker 2: Really complimenting his courage on behalf of others and his
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Speaker 2: self sacrifice. And let it be known that Jesse and
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Speaker 2: his family suffered tremendously financially. He would sacrifice his own
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Speaker 2: finances to stand up for justice when other victims could
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Speaker 2: not pay for him to come some place or speak
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Speaker 2: on their behalf. He literally would do that out of
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Speaker 2: his pocket. And so I commend the brother, and I
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Speaker 2: hope that we have more sisters and brothers like him,
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Speaker 2: willing to self sacrifice in order for the cause of
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Speaker 2: justice for all people, not just a few.
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Speaker 1: The president of the naacp here in Houston, the Reverend
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Speaker 1: James Dixon, added his thoughts on the importance of Jackson.
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Speaker 8: Reverend Jeff Louis Jackson represents for us the continuation of
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Speaker 8: the movement. He was a bridge between got the mother
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Speaker 8: of the King Junior, and our generation of civil rights
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Speaker 8: and social justice leaders and fighters. And I think that
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Speaker 8: we have to really honor him as that authentic, legitimate bridge.
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Speaker 8: He's the child of the movement, a mentee of Nott,
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Speaker 8: the King, and an advisor to SDLC. Remember he started
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Speaker 8: this in his twenties. But to understand Reverend Jessice Jackson's
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Speaker 8: death and wealth of resourcefulness, he's incomprehensible in terms of
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Speaker 8: his genius, his brilliant his understanding of organizing and how
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Speaker 8: to impact public policy from the perspective of the Christian
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Speaker 8: he thought and morality. Reverend Jeff Jackson, we've lost, We've
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Speaker 8: lost an amazing and amazing soul in America, said mourn
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Speaker 8: and tried to remember what we learned from him.
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Speaker 5: He for years for you know, people forget he was.
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Speaker 5: He was one of the first black men to run
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Speaker 5: for president, and he took a lot of heat and
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Speaker 5: he always did death threats, et cetera, just because he
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Speaker 5: spoke out. He spoke out in different situations, in marched
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Speaker 5: and prayed in areas that that was so that was
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Speaker 5: extremely dangerous for him and his family.
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Speaker 8: Well, let's say that. Remember he was with doctor King
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Speaker 8: when he was shocked. I mean the blood on his clothes.
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Speaker 8: He's on that Moraine Lorraine Motel balcony, and so having
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Speaker 8: been there, having hurt the gunshot, it still did not
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Speaker 8: silence Reverend Jackson. That would be enough for most people
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Speaker 8: to be so terrified that they would shrink back, but it.
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Speaker 7: Pushed him forward.
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Speaker 8: That's an incredible soul, that mindset, that faith and courage,
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Speaker 8: and to naturally to know that every day you're putting
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Speaker 8: your life on the line for the cause of freedom
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Speaker 8: and justice and equality. His not just his life, but
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Speaker 8: his family's life was on the line. He lived in
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Speaker 8: His family live with death threats, and they knew that
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Speaker 8: cold as a family was if Jesse Jackson does not
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Speaker 8: make it home, if Dad doesn't make it home, if
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Speaker 8: if my husband, my husband doesn't make it home. His
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Speaker 8: instructions were stay in the fight and the insie. Jackson
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Speaker 8: has lived that and lived it with him alive and now.
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Speaker 8: So it's a rare experience for them to have lived
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Speaker 8: that life and continued on behalf of others. But then
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Speaker 8: you also think about the fact that you mentioned he
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Speaker 8: runs for presidency in eighty four and eighty eight and uh,
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Speaker 8: and he changed democratic policy in terms of the party's structure,
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Speaker 8: which paved the way for a Barack Obama to win
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Speaker 8: in two thousand and eight. It's clear to saying, in
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Speaker 8: fact of President Barack Obama himself acknowledges that has that
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Speaker 8: not been Jesse Jackson's run in eighty eight, there would
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Speaker 8: not have been a successful run of Barack Obama in
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Speaker 8: two thousand and eight.
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Speaker 7: We owe him a treasure.
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Speaker 8: And his impact on policy and government and the social
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Speaker 8: conscious of America and the world is unparalleled.
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Speaker 5: And let's not forget what he did about South Africa,
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Speaker 5: and he was he was on the front line of
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Speaker 5: liberty Nelson Mandela and the blacks in South Africa.
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Speaker 8: We talked about that much last night in the in
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Speaker 8: the in the memorial and the individual that reven Jesse
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Speaker 8: Jackson's footprint and fingerprints on UH, the liberation of South
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Speaker 8: Africa from the pier of apartheid UH Majia, but then
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Speaker 8: in the rocks in Iraq and friend hostagists in Iran.
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Speaker 8: I mean, think about this, This man UH, without an ambassadorship,
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Speaker 8: with no government officialdom, was there.
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Speaker 7: Speaking to people.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I mean really dictators UH to free hostageists,
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Speaker 8: American hostagists, and was able to negotiate those things without
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Speaker 8: an official title, but still back government. He understood the
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Speaker 8: prophetic nature of his calling and his anointing, and he
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Speaker 8: stepped into place this of difficulty, challenge, putting his life.
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Speaker 7: On the line on behalf of others. I think so truthfully,
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Speaker 7: I'm honest.
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Speaker 8: America never honored him as as he should have been honored.
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Speaker 8: In fact, he was a threat to the Empire of
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Speaker 8: America who did not understand his true value.
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Speaker 7: They've feared him more than respected him.
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Speaker 8: His brilliance was intimidating for those who could not grasp
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Speaker 8: how this black man, the son of sharecroppers, could have
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Speaker 8: such a depth of brilliance and such a solid face
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Speaker 8: of moral conviction concerning the principles of justice and freedom,
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Speaker 8: and was able to articulate that in such a way
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Speaker 8: that if you listen to him, you couldnt argue against
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Speaker 8: his premises.
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Speaker 7: What is an incredible mind in human being?
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Speaker 8: And I think that it proves again Jesse Jackson was
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Speaker 8: totally prepared to have been president in two thousand and nineteen.
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Speaker 7: Eighty four and certainly in eighty eight.
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Speaker 8: But America was not ready for a black man with
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Speaker 8: that level of brilliance, and structures had to be changed
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Speaker 8: in order for Barack Obama's brilliancy appreciated, respected, and have
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Speaker 8: a fair shot. He did that nationally and internationally, and
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Speaker 8: we orm a great debt of gratitude.
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Speaker 5: A lot of the lot of our civil rights leaders
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Speaker 5: came from the colleges and college campuses. And I remember
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Speaker 5: him at Texas Southern when he came to Texas Southern
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Speaker 5: University to campaign and he's speaking speaking to the speaking
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Speaker 5: to the students and inspiring a lot of students that
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Speaker 5: were on campus at that time. And he did that
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Speaker 5: around the country and that's something that I remember.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 8: He always resonated with you and the young AFL's farewell.
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Speaker 8: Of course, he residated with seniors farewell. But yes, he's
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Speaker 8: spent a great time of a great deal of his
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Speaker 8: time encouraging younger generations to take that place in history,
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Speaker 8: to understand that you're on the planet, uh to do
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Speaker 8: something more than get an education and get a job,
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Speaker 8: pay bills and make money for yourself. He challenged people,
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Speaker 8: young people to understand as doctor King understood, as Jack
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Speaker 8: and himself understood, as you know many others.
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Speaker 7: We talk about young men who were in the movie.
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Speaker 8: Revend Bill Lawton here in Houston was a part of that,
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Speaker 8: of course, and you talk about revend Andy Young in
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Speaker 8: Atlanta was a part of it.
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Speaker 7: They ended the movement.
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Speaker 8: As young young men, young women were there, and so
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Speaker 8: we want to make sure we understand that he understood
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Speaker 8: that and when he's got a chance to be on
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Speaker 8: those campuses.
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Speaker 7: It ignited hope, It ignited power.
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Speaker 8: It noted a sense of self worth and dignity, but
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Speaker 8: also a sense of purpose, purpose beyond preference, purpose beyond
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Speaker 8: pleasure and personal purpose, beyond selfish adverandisement. He encouraged them
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Speaker 8: to understand that they had an assignment on earth that
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Speaker 8: was bigger than a.
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Speaker 7: Car, a house, or some clothes. And don't we need
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Speaker 7: that today?
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Speaker 8: Don't we need to ignite that today in our younger people,
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Speaker 8: For them to understand that life is bigger than your house,
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Speaker 8: bigger than your car, bigger than.
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Speaker 7: Your clothes and wardrobe. Right now, we need a massive army,
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Speaker 7: a massive movement.
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Speaker 8: About our young people as it relates to collective environments.
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Speaker 7: We got to vote. We got to vote.
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Speaker 8: We got to vote and do things that Jessice Jackson
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Speaker 8: and you have to do because for such a time
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Speaker 8: as this, we need that kind of demonstration.
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Speaker 7: Now, how is it for you in the laws? Yes,
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Speaker 7: he never gave up the fight.
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Speaker 8: He was here for Congress Commas Jackson leeds feneral uh.
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Speaker 8: And prior to that, within our church we honored him
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Speaker 8: with the reception.
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Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 8: And uh, I have my god, this vivid pictures in
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Speaker 8: my head of him sitting on the front shie of
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Speaker 8: our church in tears. And then he called me down
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Speaker 8: to pray for me.
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Speaker 7: Uh. In this of it week, we were trying to
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Speaker 7: pray for him, but he called me down and prayed
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Speaker 7: for me.
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Speaker 8: Listen, it's the personal law uh, and it's a public law.
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Speaker 7: Uh. No, jess Jackson mentored me.
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Speaker 4: Uh.
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Speaker 7: He he taught me.
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Speaker 8: I watched him, I observed and learn from him as
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Speaker 8: many others did. But it was Reverend Jackson, who gave
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Speaker 8: me legitimacy on the national scene as a as a
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Speaker 8: as a legitimate voice in the conversation about social justice
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Speaker 8: and civil rights.
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Speaker 7: I owe him a.
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Speaker 8: Great that have gratitude, and I've got out on him
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Speaker 8: the rest of my days. But the real way to
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Speaker 8: honor Reven Jackson is by doing We're doing this coming Sunday,
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Speaker 8: leading the souls to the Pole's efforts, driving the voter
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Speaker 8: trend out and encouraging younger people as on the Comfass
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Speaker 8: call the other night with gen Zers, with building another
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Speaker 8: call to Knight with gen Zers, organizing and mobilizing younger
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Speaker 8: generations to understand that it's time for them to step
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Speaker 8: up to be a part of this army. And so
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Speaker 8: we're going to honor his legacy in the way that
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Speaker 8: he would be pleased.
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Speaker 1: Jackson visited the campus of Texas Southern University. Michael O. Adams, PhD,
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Speaker 1: and the director of the Master of Public Affairs Graduate
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Speaker 1: program at TSU's Barbara Jordan Mickey Leland's School of Public Affairs,
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Speaker 1: talked about that and his legacy.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I think the passion of Rev and Jessy Jackson,
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Speaker 9: it's certainly something that we should reflect.
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Speaker 6: On as a part of the black.
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Speaker 9: Diastem the community, because he was not only a national figure.
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Speaker 6: In the eyes of American.
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Speaker 9: Politics or the American leadership. If you remember, he played
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Speaker 9: a role internationally. He was often called upon to assist
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Speaker 9: presidential administration, to go and.
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Speaker 6: To see if he can get the release of hostages.
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Speaker 9: And I remember, well, I think that was the marine
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Speaker 9: person who had been captured if it were not for
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Speaker 9: jess Jackson intervening.
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Speaker 6: Because Jessic Jackson had some respect.
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Speaker 9: Throughout the world because of his politics, and I think
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Speaker 9: those things are positive. Now I'm of age in the
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Speaker 9: sense that I can remember back, and so I don't
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Speaker 9: romanticize about the Civil rights movement.
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Speaker 6: I'm someone who lived through that, who.
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Speaker 9: Was thrown in the throw desegregation, and I often tell
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Speaker 9: my students and also my friends that my only my
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Speaker 9: lived experience in life has centered around Supreme Court decisions,
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Speaker 9: legislation passed by the Congress addressed in civil rights and
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Speaker 9: Supreme Court decisions. I often fall back on the nineteen
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Speaker 9: fifty five Board of Education case I and the subsequent
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Speaker 9: case of Brown Button versus Board of Education two. In
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Speaker 9: the first case, you have to remember they said that
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Speaker 9: the schools were inherently inferior, and certainly we no.
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Speaker 6: Not only there was a movement, there.
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Speaker 9: Was also various tests done by psychologists and that looked
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Speaker 9: at the ugly scars that racism and having such a
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Speaker 9: dual and separate school system would impact upon black people.
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Speaker 9: And I have to say that in order to talk
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Speaker 9: about Jesse Jackson, because after that when during nineteen years,
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Speaker 9: I remember very well Jesse Jackson in Operation.
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Speaker 6: Push that he transformed into Operation.
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Speaker 9: Brett Basket and their two salient movements to me as
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Speaker 9: a black man, one would be what the.
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Speaker 6: Black Panther started. Basically they would have centered.
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Speaker 9: Around Oakland, California, and they had it was a movement
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Speaker 9: in the sense if you look at the literature and
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Speaker 9: you look at some of the things that were saying
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Speaker 9: by both of these organizations that this was a radical organization,
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Speaker 9: but they were doing things in the community in terms
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Speaker 9: of breakfasts and whatever.
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Speaker 6: Jeff Jackson brings that to mind.
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Speaker 9: And being from my native Mississippian, I know Jesse Jackson
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Speaker 9: from one of the Carolinas, South Carolina.
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Speaker 6: I know he went to North Carolina A and T.
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Speaker 9: So we were both men of the South and so
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Speaker 9: I think I've let our experiences were very.
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Speaker 6: Similar in terms of what we went through. But Operation Push.
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Speaker 9: My first wife came from the South side of Chicago,
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Speaker 9: and I had the good fortune of spending many summers
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Speaker 9: most of my relatives in terms of the migratory pattern,
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Speaker 9: they went from Mississippi to Chicago, so I had relatives
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Speaker 9: to this day. But again out of that, no, and
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Speaker 9: I know Jesse Jackson, I'll say some other things.
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Speaker 6: I think he made an indelible impact on the party.
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Speaker 9: And in the real sense he laid the foundation for
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Speaker 9: the election.
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Speaker 6: Of Barack Obama. Because Jesse Jackson, I think he ran
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Speaker 6: twice for President of the United States. And there's always
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Speaker 6: been a kind of challenge.
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Speaker 9: In terms of where we are placed within the Democratic Party.
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Speaker 9: Although Black Americans have been the staple I would put
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Speaker 9: it of the Democratic Party in terms of turning out
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Speaker 9: to vote even till this day. And I think if
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Speaker 9: we not had the delegate selection process being transformed, and
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Speaker 9: I would directly suggest that Jesse Jackson.
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Speaker 6: Had a role in doing that.
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Speaker 9: And going back to Fanta Lou Haymer, when back in
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Speaker 9: the nineteen sixty circus sixty four, when the Democrats did
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Speaker 9: not want to seat the Mississippi Freedom Democrats, and they've
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Speaker 9: been all a continuous struggle within the Democratic Party taking
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Speaker 9: our support and our vote for Dranted. Now on the
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Speaker 9: other side of the assassination, there's some things that have
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Speaker 9: been out there coming from Avenath and some of the
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Speaker 9: others who were whip doctor King on the day of
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Speaker 9: his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee. In terms of the low
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Speaker 9: range motel kind of how can I put this in
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Speaker 9: and revision is kind of rewriting of the leadership within
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Speaker 9: the civil rights movement at that time and looking at opportunities.
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Speaker 6: And there are some things and.
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Speaker 9: I'm not going to go into that that people said
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Speaker 9: about Jesse Jackson tried to take the advantage of that
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Speaker 9: where he smeared doctor Pine's blood on a sweatshirt or
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Speaker 9: something like that.
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Speaker 6: So I'm gonna pause and I'm gonna land.
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Speaker 9: It's always good to have an exchange with you in
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Speaker 9: terms of question to see if I can clean up anything.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just what I just was gonna say. His
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Speaker 5: presence on the Texas University campus was always something that
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Speaker 5: I always remember.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's Jackson, certainly a leader and given the dynamics.
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Speaker 6: I've known him for many years.
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Speaker 9: I can go back to my first job at Jackson
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Speaker 9: State University.
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Speaker 6: He was a very close friend of a guy by
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Speaker 6: the name of Leslie Macklamore who hired me.
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Speaker 9: He chaired Leslie Macklamore chaired the political science department, and
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Speaker 9: Jesse Jackson would awesome visit Jackson State University.
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Speaker 6: And I don't know if you know it of your audience.
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Speaker 9: He was a basketball fan and he played basketball, and
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Speaker 9: so they would always play pickup games. And then I
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Speaker 9: got to know Jesse Jackson recently through a good friend
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Speaker 9: of mine, Ben Hall, and I had pictures of Jesse
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Speaker 9: Jackson going back two years ago, three years ago, and
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Speaker 9: when he would come into Houston, attorney Benjamin Hall will always.
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Speaker 6: Invite me over and I would go over to meet
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Speaker 6: with Jesse Jackson. So I know Jesse Jackson.
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Speaker 9: I followed Jesse Jackson in terms of his progeny, in
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Speaker 9: terms of being able to get family members involved in
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Speaker 9: politics elected to Congress, and I think he has. He's
22:52
Speaker 9: had two sons to serve, one currently servant servant now.
22:56
Speaker 9: And also the batlements of Chicago politics and serving the
23:01
Speaker 9: Chicago politics can be very tough, going back to Harold
23:05
Speaker 9: Washington and whatever role, I think Jesse Jackson played a
23:09
Speaker 9: role in terms of voter turnout and making sure that
23:12
Speaker 9: Democrats understood the price that we have paid as black people.
23:19
Speaker 9: And I know that there have been fitting starts and
23:22
Speaker 9: even to this day as we move into primary season
23:26
Speaker 9: to talk about the support.
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Speaker 6: That black people have given. We have been the.
23:31
Speaker 9: Most layal constituency. And I think Jesse Jackson did a
23:37
Speaker 9: lot in his life and time to bring about changes
23:41
Speaker 9: in the presidential selection process. And again I repeat, if
23:46
Speaker 9: it were not for Jesse Jackson, that would not have
23:49
Speaker 9: been a Barack Obama.
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Speaker 1: That was Michael O. Adams. He is the director of
23:54
Speaker 1: the Master of Public Affairs Graduate program at TSU's Barbara
23:58
Speaker 1: Jordan Mickey Leland's School of Public Affairs. Jackson will lie
24:01
Speaker 1: in state at Rainbow Push on February twenty sixth and
24:04
Speaker 1: twenty seventh in Chicago. For more information on the funeral,
24:10
Speaker 1: you can go to Jesse Jackson Legacy All put Together
24:14
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24:18
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Speaker 1: bottom and select the People's News. Early voting for the
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six primary election started February seventeenth and last
24:49
Speaker 1: through Friday, February twenty seventh. Election day is Tuesday, March third,
24:55
Speaker 1: which is also the last day for vote by mail
24:57
Speaker 1: ballots to be received not host marked at election offices.
25:02
Speaker 1: We talked to Jessica Pace, the Communications and Civic Education
25:06
Speaker 1: manager at the League of Women Voters of Houston.
25:09
Speaker 10: Early voting started on February seventeenth. It goes through February
25:15
Speaker 10: twenty seventh, and in Harris County, polling locations are open,
25:21
Speaker 10: so candidates or constituents can go to any of the
25:25
Speaker 10: sixty polling locations throughout Harris County. Those can be found
25:31
Speaker 10: at harrisboats dot com and you can go in there
25:34
Speaker 10: and put in your address and see you know what
25:37
Speaker 10: polling locations closest to you, so you can vote at
25:40
Speaker 10: any of those locations. Early voting polling location times are
25:46
Speaker 10: seven am to seven pm Monday through Saturday, and Sunday
25:50
Speaker 10: is twelve to seven pm. But let's go ahead and
25:55
Speaker 10: tech haarris boats dot com ahead of time to see
25:59
Speaker 10: to make sure that you're pulling location matches those hours.
26:03
Speaker 4: And is it true still that you can vote anywhere
26:06
Speaker 4: the city?
26:07
Speaker 11: Yes?
26:08
Speaker 10: Yeah, And if you're Harritt County, it doesn't matter your district.
26:11
Speaker 10: You don't have to vote within your district. You can
26:13
Speaker 10: vote at any of the polling locations.
26:16
Speaker 3: And as far as people of people can hearing things
26:20
Speaker 3: like I don't have an identification or what do they need?
26:23
Speaker 4: But they vote?
26:25
Speaker 10: Yeah, when you show up to the polling location, it's
26:28
Speaker 10: good to bring a valid I D. There's you know,
26:32
Speaker 10: several different IDs that qualify for that. Your Texas driver's license,
26:38
Speaker 10: your military location, your handgun license can qualify for that.
26:43
Speaker 10: Your passport of course, your your citizenship certificate, or even
26:50
Speaker 10: your Texas ID issued by the DPS.
26:55
Speaker 3: Can you have if you're an immigrant and you're you're
26:58
Speaker 3: still going through we have a green card or you're
27:02
Speaker 3: still in an immigration process, can you still vote no,
27:07
Speaker 3: you must.
27:07
Speaker 10: Be a citizen to vote. That's you know, voting law,
27:13
Speaker 10: a federal voting law. So if you recently have obtained citizenship,
27:18
Speaker 10: you can bring your citizenship certificate along with We recommend
27:23
Speaker 10: you know your Voto registration ID number and just to
27:27
Speaker 10: have for extra How hard is.
27:30
Speaker 3: It right now trying to get people out to know
27:32
Speaker 3: about the primaries and know about who to vote, and
27:35
Speaker 3: just trying to.
27:35
Speaker 4: Get people to know this election, this is the election
27:37
Speaker 4: coming up.
27:39
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, thankfully, you know, this is a very heated
27:42
Speaker 10: election year. We have a lot of people very motivated
27:45
Speaker 10: to get out and vote, but Texas and Houston is
27:51
Speaker 10: known to be short fall short of voting goals most elections.
27:57
Speaker 10: The first day of early voting this election on Tuesday,
28:01
Speaker 10: we saw a significant turnout compared to the substantial years.
28:08
Speaker 10: So we saw about I think a total around twenty
28:12
Speaker 10: k of early voters turnout in Texas, which is really
28:16
Speaker 10: really good in comparison to the years before early voting
28:21
Speaker 10: turnout with more around like ten k. So we're really
28:25
Speaker 10: seeing a lot of people motivated to vote this primary election,
28:29
Speaker 10: which is great because this determines so much in our
28:33
Speaker 10: midterms come November.
28:35
Speaker 3: Also, what is if you're voting in the Republican or
28:39
Speaker 3: Democratic primaries, can you still go to any voting booth?
28:44
Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, so the polling locations won't be partisan. You
28:49
Speaker 10: can go to any polling location. They will ask you
28:52
Speaker 10: what party you're voting in. And that's because Houston or
28:56
Speaker 10: Texas is open primary, so we don't register as a
29:00
Speaker 10: party when we register to vote. And so for primaries
29:05
Speaker 10: you can only vote per one party and you have
29:08
Speaker 10: to choose the party and a vote down ballot for
29:10
Speaker 10: that whole party on just the candidates available. And that
29:15
Speaker 10: continues into run off. So any runoffs that may come
29:18
Speaker 10: out of our primary election here, which would be in May,
29:22
Speaker 10: you would still have to stick to the party that
29:25
Speaker 10: you chose during early voting or on election day in March.
29:29
Speaker 3: Third and the scene where Congress went hurt was taking
29:35
Speaker 3: pictures of himselves voting.
29:37
Speaker 4: That's not legal, is it.
29:38
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to bring anything into the voting booths.
29:42
Speaker 10: So no phones, tablets, electrical devices are not permitted in
29:48
Speaker 10: the polling location or in the voting booth. There is
29:54
Speaker 10: like a restriction area outside of the polling location where
29:57
Speaker 10: you can take pictures. You know, after you voted away
30:00
Speaker 10: from the polling location, but in the booth, no electronic
30:03
Speaker 10: devices are allowed. That's why we really kind of push
30:07
Speaker 10: for our Houston Voters Guide that we make here at
30:10
Speaker 10: the League. We also have election Readiness ballot worksheet where
30:15
Speaker 10: it has all one hundred and forty offices and you
30:18
Speaker 10: can take notes on your selections, your candidates, and you
30:22
Speaker 10: can take that paper in with you. You could even
30:24
Speaker 10: take the voter's guide in with you to the polling
30:26
Speaker 10: loivation because this is a very big ballot that every
30:31
Speaker 10: constituent is going to see, so it's it's hard to
30:34
Speaker 10: keep track of everything. So we recommend taking, you know,
30:37
Speaker 10: a cheat sheet like that with you. But bones and
30:39
Speaker 10: other electronic devices aren't permitted.
30:42
Speaker 4: Okay, what are the dates? Now? We got the we
30:45
Speaker 4: got the early voting going on now, yes, and the okay,
30:49
Speaker 4: go ahead.
30:50
Speaker 10: Yeah through So early voting started on the seventeenth, that
30:53
Speaker 10: goes through Friday the twenty seventh. Polling locations again are
30:58
Speaker 10: open seven am to seven pm except for Sundays, and
31:02
Speaker 10: then March third is the actual final election day. So
31:07
Speaker 10: we really encourage people to get out for early voting
31:10
Speaker 10: because March third, you're going to see longer lines, longer waits.
31:13
Speaker 10: You know, have a hard time getting in and out
31:16
Speaker 10: of polling locations and you know, fast and quick manner.
31:21
Speaker 10: So we recommend people get out and vote during early voting.
31:25
Speaker 4: And that's the primaries that's in March.
31:28
Speaker 10: Correct, Yes, primaries are in March, and then we'll have
31:32
Speaker 10: runoffs following in May. We have a local election in
31:38
Speaker 10: April for some local races, and then what comes out
31:44
Speaker 10: of the March third primaries, so you know, whichever candidates
31:50
Speaker 10: come out of winning the primaries on different parties are
31:54
Speaker 10: what determines what's on the ballot in midterms in November.
31:58
Speaker 7: So you know, you vote.
32:01
Speaker 10: In your party for midterms and then come November you
32:04
Speaker 10: have a ballot that is both parties combined for all offices.
32:10
Speaker 4: Okay, and where again can you get the voter's guide?
32:13
Speaker 10: Yeah, Our Houston voters Guide is at Houston voters guide
32:16
Speaker 10: dot com. You can also go to our the l
32:20
Speaker 10: w v A Houston dot org. Both sites we have
32:24
Speaker 10: links to our voter's guide for download and the ballot
32:27
Speaker 10: readiness worksheet that I talked about that you can take
32:29
Speaker 10: to the fulling location to be your cheat sheet, and
32:33
Speaker 10: you can download the digital Guide. It's updated regularly. We
32:37
Speaker 10: have a printed guide, but our digital guide is updated,
32:42
Speaker 10: you know, constantly as we have more and more candidates
32:46
Speaker 10: update their bios and responses.
32:48
Speaker 3: And the important thing is all the myths and misconceptions
32:52
Speaker 3: on voting, which is important that you can find out
32:55
Speaker 3: from the Voter's Guide.
32:57
Speaker 6: Yeah.
32:57
Speaker 10: Yeah, the Voter's Guide, A big portion of the front
33:00
Speaker 10: of it is actually talks about the breakdown of what
33:03
Speaker 10: a primary is, what is the purpose of a primary.
33:07
Speaker 10: We talked about how Texas is an open primary and
33:11
Speaker 10: why your participation matters. You know, this is the moment
33:16
Speaker 10: where constituents can have a voice and what develops the
33:20
Speaker 10: ballot in the midterms. So it's really good to vote
33:24
Speaker 10: on your primary so that you get ahead on what
33:26
Speaker 10: candidates you're going to see again in the midterms in November.
33:30
Speaker 1: Again. The League of Women Voters of Texas's nonpartisan Voter's
33:34
Speaker 1: Guide will be distributed throughout Texas and online versions of
33:37
Speaker 1: the guide can be found at LWV Texas put together
33:42
Speaker 1: dot org and at Vote for One One also put
33:46
Speaker 1: together dot org.
33:48
Speaker 12: The epi's decision to roll back the endangement finding, which,
33:52
Speaker 12: mind you, is a conostone of Fedral climate protections that
33:57
Speaker 12: offense that greenhouse gas is up pollutants that endanger human
34:03
Speaker 12: health and well being.
34:04
Speaker 7: Right.
34:05
Speaker 12: So, and this this finding has been scientifically proven not
34:11
Speaker 12: just in the US, across the globe, like you know, family,
34:14
Speaker 12: in the global issue. Greenhouse that's the global issue, and
34:19
Speaker 12: scientists and researchers have confirmed that experts to greenhouse that's
34:25
Speaker 12: is is simple.
34:27
Speaker 13: To human health.
34:28
Speaker 12: Now, if we look into the Texas Gulf coast, right,
34:33
Speaker 12: we know that this is a threat to our health
34:36
Speaker 12: and safety really because in the human area specifically, right,
34:42
Speaker 12: everyone knows Hutan as the petrochemical capital.
34:45
Speaker 13: Of the US.
34:46
Speaker 12: Right And yes, and not only that in terms of
34:52
Speaker 12: all the industry we have. You know, we also have
34:57
Speaker 12: lots of highways and we're continuing to expand these highways
35:02
Speaker 12: and there are more cars on the road today, right. So,
35:05
Speaker 12: transmission emissions are a significant source of our brainhouse emissions.
35:10
Speaker 12: I believe the numbers about forty percent of our grainhouse
35:12
Speaker 12: gas emissions comes from transmission sources. Right and now, so
35:18
Speaker 12: these vehicle emissions does impact health and well being, right
35:22
Speaker 12: because some of them are greenhouse gasines that come out
35:24
Speaker 12: from a saill pipe. So now that the EPA is
35:27
Speaker 12: rolling back this finding that had that required emission standards,
35:34
Speaker 12: right and rules for com manufacturing companies to adhere to
35:41
Speaker 12: to reduce taill pass emissions.
35:44
Speaker 7: Right.
35:45
Speaker 12: The major impact of the key impact that we're concerned
35:48
Speaker 12: about is, you know, with that rollback, how would that
35:52
Speaker 12: impact the levels of brainhouse gases in the Houston area,
35:56
Speaker 12: given that you know they're no longer in inhibitions right
36:01
Speaker 12: to those.
36:02
Speaker 13: Right now, even with the.
36:05
Speaker 12: When this role was in place, we already had significant
36:09
Speaker 12: amounts of greenhouse gas emissions in the Houston area right
36:13
Speaker 12: from transportation sources, from industrial souces. And now with the showback,
36:16
Speaker 12: we're worried like, Okay, what's what what's it going to
36:19
Speaker 12: be like?
36:20
Speaker 4: Right?
36:21
Speaker 12: And not only that, knowing that Houston, the Huston area,
36:25
Speaker 12: we have very lack zoning laws, so you have a
36:31
Speaker 12: lot of pollutions of highways that disproportionately affects vulnerable communities
36:38
Speaker 12: because they live closer to these busy rules and have
36:41
Speaker 12: the fury for we can protect themselves.
36:43
Speaker 13: Right, So those are major consents.
36:47
Speaker 7: Right.
36:47
Speaker 12: And research continued to show that traffic related air pollution
36:50
Speaker 12: has been linked to several or worst names of several
36:55
Speaker 12: bus conditions ranging from asthma to heart rates to premature.
37:02
Speaker 13: Effects on the.
37:04
Speaker 12: Tetus, right, and all those things are prevalent in the
37:08
Speaker 12: Houston area. So it is a concern, a big content
37:12
Speaker 12: to us certificate to Houston.
37:15
Speaker 5: I was just gonna say it also concerns kids, and
37:19
Speaker 5: the children in the eastern are, especially people in on
37:22
Speaker 5: the East Side where these plants are, and you already
37:27
Speaker 5: saw seeing a spike.
37:29
Speaker 4: In respiratory problems with kids.
37:33
Speaker 5: So this is this is something that's that's gonna gonna
37:37
Speaker 5: hurt especially low incoming people in the community.
37:41
Speaker 12: Absolutely, I mean, you're right, the EPs mandate is clear,
37:45
Speaker 12: it's supposed to it's a human health and environment. Unfortunately,
37:49
Speaker 12: it's beginning to seem like they are more concerned with
37:52
Speaker 12: you know, the economy, you know, and and yeah, looking
38:00
Speaker 12: without looking into the long term hands that roll back
38:04
Speaker 12: like this would have on vulnerable communities, right and and
38:10
Speaker 12: children of course, because you know their loans are more
38:13
Speaker 12: sensitive to these exposures. Right, So not only those that
38:20
Speaker 12: leave near highways and process of greenhouse gases, also though,
38:27
Speaker 12: that go to school in those areas. So think about
38:29
Speaker 12: a playground near any of the sussices on near a
38:32
Speaker 12: major highway. All those emissions will impact of children.
38:38
Speaker 13: So yeah, it's it's concerning to say the.
38:44
Speaker 12: List of that we're having to deal with this at
38:48
Speaker 12: this time when it's been globally known that greenhouse gasses
38:57
Speaker 12: impact human health and we're all being poor. Right, there's
39:01
Speaker 12: there's no contention to that, So.
39:08
Speaker 13: Go ahead.
39:09
Speaker 5: I was just curious on the e p A is
39:11
Speaker 5: doing this? Did you have did any environmental groups have
39:15
Speaker 5: a hand at the table to discuss this or was
39:18
Speaker 5: this just the e p A just making a blanket
39:20
Speaker 5: a blanket decision?
39:23
Speaker 4: Also, is it that what do you what is.
39:26
Speaker 5: The airlines and other organizations doing to try to counteract
39:30
Speaker 5: this this turn this turnback?
39:34
Speaker 12: So they when when this this was first announced sometime
39:39
Speaker 12: late last year that the USCP was planning to roll
39:44
Speaker 12: back these regulations, this and several other regulations.
39:49
Speaker 13: Right, so we're having them come down the pipe one
39:51
Speaker 13: after the other, right, And.
39:53
Speaker 12: Typically when this happens, the EPA would ask for public right,
40:00
Speaker 12: so the public comment period opened and there was a
40:04
Speaker 12: lot of comment. I believe over five hundred thousand comments
40:08
Speaker 12: are submitter to the federal exist. Now this comments could
40:12
Speaker 12: have come from I know, several scientifics, several organizations, several
40:17
Speaker 12: environmental organizations, submitter comments asking the EPI not to roll
40:24
Speaker 12: back the endangermous signdings. You know, several groups like the
40:28
Speaker 12: National Academies for Science, Engineering, and Medicine, the renowned, well
40:32
Speaker 12: respected nonpactisan organization right also wrote wrote submitted the comments
40:38
Speaker 12: and a report proving that and encouragingly to see that,
40:42
Speaker 12: you know, rolling back this regulation would impact the lives,
40:49
Speaker 12: the health and well being of several Americans. Right, So,
40:54
Speaker 12: even after that comment period, next step would be to
40:57
Speaker 12: have a public meeting, and they did have a public
41:00
Speaker 12: Madia believe that public media lasted I think three days
41:03
Speaker 12: or so, right, and it was hybrid online, and so
41:06
Speaker 12: you could call in and share your comments right on
41:10
Speaker 12: why you want the ep not to go back or
41:13
Speaker 12: to roll back to this finding. So of course you
41:16
Speaker 12: had people from both sides, you know, the environmental scientists
41:20
Speaker 12: or calling in to say.
41:22
Speaker 13: This is this is a bad decision.
41:24
Speaker 12: And on the other hand, you also had industry lobbists,
41:27
Speaker 12: industry organizations, automobile companies calling in to say, yes, you know,
41:36
Speaker 12: roll back to this finding.
41:39
Speaker 13: Right, roll back to this regulation.
41:41
Speaker 12: So now after that, you know, the EPA supposed to
41:44
Speaker 12: review all those comments and all that and waging and
41:47
Speaker 12: make that decision. So apprently, I guess after they deliberated
41:52
Speaker 12: amongst themselves, they still decided to go ahead and roll
41:56
Speaker 12: back this regulation right in the interest of the economy,
42:00
Speaker 12: because the reasons they gave was basically, all, you know,
42:05
Speaker 12: it's gonna help they're some abile to mobile industry, right,
42:10
Speaker 12: you know, so they don't have to you know, un
42:12
Speaker 12: reduce easy and allow.
42:14
Speaker 13: People to the industry to produce trucks, diesel trucks, diesel engines, whatever,
42:19
Speaker 13: and all this contributes to greenhouse bases, right, Yeah, So.
42:27
Speaker 5: I was gonna say, it seems like we're in an
42:28
Speaker 5: environment now that greenhouse effects or something that's looked upon
42:33
Speaker 5: by this administration as a myth.
42:37
Speaker 13: For the most part.
42:38
Speaker 12: Yeah, they don't appear to believe in climate change, you know,
42:43
Speaker 12: and climate change is real, it's upon us, right, It's
42:47
Speaker 12: why you're saying a lot of you know, extreme weather
42:51
Speaker 12: events more often than not. Right, That's why you think
42:55
Speaker 12: currently the scene area is still in non attainment of
43:01
Speaker 12: all zones. Allzone is the criteria air Politan that is
43:04
Speaker 12: regulated by the EPA. We're also non attainmenttal PM standards, right,
43:09
Speaker 12: so we've been we've been ranked most polluted visions for
43:12
Speaker 12: older them, particularly matters, you know, which are two criteria
43:16
Speaker 12: pollutants that are very harmful to help. So it appears
43:20
Speaker 12: that even in the abundance of information and signs proving
43:27
Speaker 12: that climate change is real, that greenhouse staff is a
43:31
Speaker 12: hampful to health that you know, fulfill for wealth contribute
43:36
Speaker 12: to climate change. Our feder our regulatory agency, doesn't seem
43:44
Speaker 12: to agree anymore that that is true, which is which
43:49
Speaker 12: is very concerning. I mean, now it's the the I
43:53
Speaker 12: think the endpoint is really to hope, and I'm an
43:56
Speaker 12: optimistic person, so it's almost like you can only hope
44:02
Speaker 12: that the cat For example, the automobile manufacturing industry still
44:08
Speaker 12: does its part in ensuring that they're producing cars with
44:12
Speaker 12: all these standards, you know, mechanisms to reduce emissions, you know.
44:21
Speaker 13: But then when the cars are trucks or.
44:24
Speaker 12: Legals are dependent on fossil filth, so didal run vehicles
44:30
Speaker 12: and gasline rue vehicles, you know, and it appears that
44:34
Speaker 12: you know, there's going to be a decline and easy
44:37
Speaker 12: you know, electric vehicles, which you know, they have the
44:40
Speaker 12: pros and cons, but for the most part have do
44:42
Speaker 12: not produce or do not contribute to just win healthy accidents.
44:47
Speaker 13: So we can only hope.
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Speaker 15: to start having it, having a game ironically, and then
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Speaker 15: we give them the goal and I gave a little confidence.
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Speaker 14: But second half of one or two little adjustments, the
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Speaker 14: guys did a good.
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Speaker 15: Job on that and the second half was was pretty
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Speaker 15: sharp and it was work for promise.
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Speaker 14: As far as the guys together and something people.
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Speaker 15: Coming home too well or the MLS right, You see turnovers,
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Speaker 15: you see the wacky goals. Sometimes it takes a little
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Speaker 15: bit to figure out the opponent because you don't know
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Speaker 15: them that well because they haven't had a lot of
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Speaker 15: league games, so there's a mystery to it. You talk
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Speaker 15: about that is you've got to find ways to win
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Speaker 15: games early. It's not perfect, and can you have the personality?
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Speaker 15: Can you have a resiliency to figure out how to
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Speaker 15: get three points? And that's usually in both boxes. So
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Speaker 15: the story will be guerme. But I felt the back
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Speaker 15: three in particular were stuts and I thought Lawrence did
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Speaker 15: a great job tonight. Dwayne was in an uncomfortable position.
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Speaker 15: But it hasn't had a lot of time and way back,
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Speaker 15: all of a sudden Griffin's go on the week before
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Speaker 15: the game. So there's a lot to this game that
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Speaker 15: I'm proud of that this team pulled through.
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Speaker 1: Former US men's head coach now with the Chicago Fire,
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Speaker 1: Greg Berhalter, leads a team looking for improvements.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean a frust it's about in the moments.
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Speaker 16: There's going to be moments where you're playing away from
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Speaker 16: home and the home team gets the advantage, and I
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Speaker 16: think that's fine. We just have to be smart in
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Speaker 16: those moments, and we weren't in today's game. You know,
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Speaker 16: I was very critical Chris Brady and his decision making and.
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Speaker 6: Build up and goalkeeper.
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Speaker 14: You know, they're building their pressure and we just need
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Speaker 14: to move.
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Speaker 16: We need to move the field up. We need to
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Speaker 16: get the team up and we kick from a close
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Speaker 16: position and you know we're playing into their hands and
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Speaker 16: bringing seven guys forward to press.
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Speaker 14: Out and give them credit. I mean, they've earned this victory.
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Speaker 14: Houston did a great.
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Speaker 16: Job in the second half, but a lot of this
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Speaker 16: is I mean, a lot of what we're looking.
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Speaker 6: At can be improved.
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Speaker 1: Every four years, the Winter Olympics brings us a glimpse
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Speaker 1: into the weird and wonderful sport of curling. The sport
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Speaker 1: is filled with weird terminology and interesting rules, but you
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Speaker 1: can find out what is going on. Houston has one
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Speaker 1: of the oldest curling clubs in the United States. The
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Speaker 1: Houston Curling Club meets at seventy three hundred Belle Reeve Drive, Houston, Texas,
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Speaker 1: seven seven zero three six, right off the Southwest Freeway.
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Speaker 1: Andy cho is president of the Curling Club of Houston.
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Speaker 1: He talked about the sport how to play and invited
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Speaker 1: anyone with an interest to come down and find out.
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Speaker 11: Every four years, you know, everybody in America gets swept
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Speaker 11: up by the curling bug and wants to learn more
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Speaker 11: about what this particular sport is. You know, see the
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Speaker 11: Olympians yelling on TV and sweeping like crazy and wants
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Speaker 11: to come out.
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Speaker 7: And try themself.
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Speaker 11: It is a very popular sport in Canada, and there
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Speaker 11: are many clubs up north in you know, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
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Speaker 11: in Michigan, but there are few clubs down in South.
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Speaker 11: But I've seen a far and few in between. But
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Speaker 11: the sport originated in over in Scotland in the you know,
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Speaker 11: sixteen hundreds, and then Canada, I as mentioned, is really.
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Speaker 7: Popular with it.
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Speaker 11: But our club has been in existence since nineteen seventy three,
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Speaker 11: so we're one of the oldest continuous running arena clubs
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Speaker 11: here down in the South and it was started by
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Speaker 11: you know, Canadians coming down here for jobs and wanting
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Speaker 11: to continue curling and set up a club with a
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Speaker 11: few other enthusiasts and that's how we got started.
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Speaker 5: You playing over at Bellevue Ice running Now, I used
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Speaker 5: to you guys used to peril over at Sharp's and
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Speaker 5: not sharp'stown went over at the Galleria.
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Speaker 11: Yes, actually early and this is before my time, but yes,
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Speaker 11: they used to curl at the Galeria. And there's actually
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Speaker 11: a funny story that during the Christmas time when they
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Speaker 11: set up the Christmas tree, we would have to shorten
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Speaker 11: one of the sheets because you know, we have to
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Speaker 11: have curl around the Christmas trere go around it. So
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Speaker 11: it was a fun time during the Christmas time. But yes,
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Speaker 11: now we currently curl at the Bellery of Ice Rink and.
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Speaker 5: The Beller Reeve was under construction for what and it
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Speaker 5: just opened back up and Mark Rick.
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Speaker 11: On that, yes, we've been there for the last quite
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Speaker 11: a few almost quite a few years now, but yes
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Speaker 11: we've we've moved around, but we've been curling at the
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Speaker 11: Bellery of Ice Rink for the last you know, several years.
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Speaker 5: What is the as far as what do you have
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Speaker 5: to do to get ready for a cooling.
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Speaker 4: Event or a session creoling session.
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Speaker 3: Do you have to do anything to the ice or
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Speaker 3: what goes into it?
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Speaker 4: Because I know you have figure.
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Speaker 3: Skating going on there, you have hockey going on there.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, that's a great question. So there's two types of
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Speaker 11: curling venues around the world, and in America there are
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Speaker 11: dedicated clubs which you'll find up north where it's a
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Speaker 11: little bit more popular and there's.
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Speaker 1: The men for it.
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Speaker 11: Down here in the Southern States, we curl at what's
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Speaker 11: called Arena Ice, which is mixed use facility shared with
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Speaker 11: figure skating and hockey leagues. So when we reserve our
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Speaker 11: time for our club league nights, we'll once these mboni
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Speaker 11: gets off the ice, we'll go out there, have all
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Speaker 11: the eyes, get all the hackset up, take out all
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Speaker 11: the rocks, get them set up, and then we'll curl
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Speaker 11: for about two hours and when we're done we have
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Speaker 11: to put it all back up so the next group
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Speaker 11: can go on. So it's quite a bit of process,
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Speaker 11: but we've had a lot of practice so we can
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Speaker 11: get that set up and take them down in about
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Speaker 11: twenty minutes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you mentioned the rock.
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Speaker 5: People don't know if you've seen curling, the rock is
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Speaker 5: what is thrown down the ice.
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Speaker 4: You might want to.
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Speaker 5: Tell people how curling operates for those who don't know.
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Speaker 11: Sure, Yeah, So just to give the the basic understanding
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Speaker 11: of curling. The sport is played with two teams of
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Speaker 11: four or mixed doubles of two teams of two. But
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Speaker 11: the basic philosophy of the game is to throw these
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Speaker 11: forty two pound rocks down from one end of the
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Speaker 11: sheet to the other. And what's called a house, which
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Speaker 11: is these concentric rings. And the goal is to get
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Speaker 11: your rock closest to the center for the opportunity to score.
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Speaker 11: And how many of your rocks is the closest center
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Speaker 11: until your opponents is how you can score at an end.
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Speaker 11: And we play eight to ten ends for a game.
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Speaker 11: And at the same time as your teammates are rotating
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Speaker 11: to throw these rocks down the ice, you have two
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Speaker 11: teammates sweeping the entire time to help control the speed
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Speaker 11: and the direction of the rocks.
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Speaker 5: It's a lot to come in handy, and you guys
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Speaker 5: are teaching people how to curl for the next week.
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Speaker 11: Or so, right, Yeah, so you know, the when the
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Speaker 11: Olympic comes here, you know, this is a great time
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Speaker 11: for us, great exposure for our club. Everybody wants to come,
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Speaker 11: you know, try it out and see what the all
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Speaker 11: the yelling and all the you know, the sweeping.
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Speaker 7: Is all about.
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Speaker 11: So we offer Olympic learn to Curl experiences every weekend
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Speaker 11: and we cleared about two hundre We actually had about
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Speaker 11: two hundred and fifty brand new curlers come out on
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Speaker 11: ice last weekend. We're expecting another one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 11: and the demand is really strong, so we're actually kind
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Speaker 11: of sold out for February by looking to add more
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Speaker 11: dates in March. But anybody can come out. There's no
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Speaker 11: experience required. The club provides all the equipment necessary and
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Speaker 11: we'll give you about an hour of instruction on how
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Speaker 11: to make the throw, how to sweep, how to strategize,
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Speaker 11: and then we'll spend the next hour playing a short game,
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Speaker 11: so so that you know, when you're watching the Olympics,
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Speaker 11: you know exactly what they're doing and you know you
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Speaker 11: can pull the shots as they see them on TV.
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Speaker 5: Wait a minute, you said two hundred and some people
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Speaker 5: signed up.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, so we're estimating over the month of February we'll
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Speaker 11: probably have about five hundred brand new curlers come through
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Speaker 11: our club. So last weekend alone, we had an open
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Speaker 11: house and we had about two hundred and fifty folks
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Speaker 11: come out and try it. This weekend, starting tonight, we're
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Speaker 11: expecting another one hundred and twenty two hundred and fifty
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Speaker 11: new curlers.
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Speaker 7: Wo, what is it?
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Speaker 4: What is the arena saying about that? Because then that
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Speaker 4: many people showing up.
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Speaker 5: Not for ice hockey, not for figure skating, but for curly.
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Speaker 11: Now, they're very supportive the baleries, the management and all
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Speaker 11: the staff are at Beallery of Vice Rink are very
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Speaker 11: supportive of us and all the other clubs in leagues.
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Speaker 11: And it's good promotion for them as well because they
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Speaker 11: want more people coming into the ice rink and seeing
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Speaker 11: what all the different clubs that they offer. Come join hockey,
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Speaker 11: come try figure skating, and of course come and try
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Speaker 11: curling as well. So they're very they're very helpful and
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Speaker 11: we're really appreciated of that.
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Speaker 5: Now, do you have to bring anything which you too
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Speaker 5: is to to curl or you gotta provide everything?
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Speaker 7: So the club will.
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Speaker 11: Provide all the equipment. We'll have the brooms, the sliders.
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Speaker 11: We just recommend that you wear a good thick sock
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Speaker 11: kind of shoes and some flexible clothing with layers so
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Speaker 11: that you can move around. There's a little bit of athletics, uh,
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Speaker 11: you know a little bit of athleticism involved, you know,
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Speaker 11: with all the sweeping and all the bending. But you know,
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Speaker 11: we welcome anybody to come and if you have any
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Speaker 11: mobility or or hip issues. We also offer stick curling
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Speaker 11: as well.
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Speaker 4: Is it a cost for trying it out?
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Speaker 11: So the for our learn to curl events which are
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Speaker 11: held weekly, usually on Fridays and Sundays, the cost is
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Speaker 11: forty dollars per person or thirty dollars per student. We
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Speaker 11: also offer private events or private parties as well, if
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Speaker 11: you have a large group enough that you guys want
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Speaker 11: to come out and rent the rink and have a
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Speaker 11: good time curling.
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Speaker 3: All right, tell the people how to get in touch
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Speaker 3: with your organization if they want to get in touch.
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Speaker 11: Sure, anybody can visit our you know social media Facebook
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Speaker 11: or Instagram at Houston Curling and our website is Houstoncurling
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Speaker 11: dot com and they can go in there and see
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Speaker 11: what all the dates for the upcoming learn to curls
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Speaker 11: and reach out to any of the members for any
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Speaker 11: questions that they might have and we'll be happy to
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Speaker 11: answer them and then hopefully see them on.
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Speaker 7: The ice soon.
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Speaker 1: That was Andy cho president of the Curling Club of Houston.
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