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It is time to leave your worries outside and come
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laugh with us inside the Treehouse. I'm Daniel Malley along
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with Trey Trenholm and Raj Sharma. We will get to
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some laughs today. I promise you we will have a
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good time on this Labor Day episode of the Treehouse.
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But we do need to discuss a major thing that
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happened just a few days ago in the city of Dallas.
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As stewards of the Listeners Foundation, it is our job
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to take our money and disperse it to the families
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of fallen police officers and firefighters in DYFW killed in
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the line of duty. And while we just did that
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a couple of weeks ago, Friday morning, we woke up
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to the news that we were going to have to
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do it again. I've said this many times and I'll
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say it again. I'll keep saying it as long as
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we have to. I hate that we have to do it,
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but I'm proud that we get to. And so on
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Friday morning, Dallas police officer Darren Burks was shot and killed,
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along with two other responding officers who were also injured
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in that shooting, and according to Dallas Police Chief Eddie Garcia,
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it could have been worse, and without sharing too many
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of the details because it's not our place to do it,
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things that we have heard from police sources is that's
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very accurate. It could have been way worse. As it stands,
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it was extremely bad and losing officer Berks, who was
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a math teacher before becoming a police officer.
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A math teacher at the can Academy.
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Oh well, we'll dig in a little bit more into
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his story here in just a little bit. But let
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me just reset quickly as to what happened Thursday night
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Friday morning. This from WFAA. An officer with the Dallas
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Police Department was shot and killed Thursday evening and two
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other officers were injured in the same incident. According to officials,
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around ten ten pm, DPD SET officers responded to an
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officer in distress in the nine hundred block of East
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Ladbetter Drive. Upon arriving at the scene, police said the
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responding officers and the parking lot outside of the facilities
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of the community organization for oak Cliffe. That's actually what
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it's called for. Oak Cliffe found a suspect near a
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squad car belonging to Rookie Dallas Police officer Darren Burks,
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who had been shot. During a press conference on Friday afternoon,
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Chief Eddie Garcia had this to say, mab me just
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a moment to pull this up.
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I know that the word ambush has been thrown around
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in the last twenty four hours or so.
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That's not what happened here.
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Officer Burks was executed. Our officers were targeted by this coward.
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Our detectives have.
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Learned from social media that three days ago Cobb Bay
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approached an unmarked squad car of an unknown law enforcement
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agency and recorded as he questioned the officers about why
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they were parked there, expressed.
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Problems with his personal and professional life.
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Online, and one day ago he made a post indicating
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an event was happening on Friday. The investigation determined last
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night was premeditated, again for no other reason than the
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uniform we wear that my men and women probably wear.
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So there you have it from Dallas Police Chief Eddie
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Garcia that these officers were targeted in an attack by
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the suspect. And obviously I'll lead the name in for
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a Chief Garcia to use, but I'm not saying it.
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So it's obviously a horrific story. Let me get back
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to the let me get back to what originally transpired
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Thursday night into Friday morning. Shortly after Burkes was shot,
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a police dispatcher noticed something was wrong over his radio
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and sent Senior Corporal Jamie Farmer and Senior Corporal Curis
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had David to the scene to investigate. Farmer responded first,
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and the suspect immediately fired a handgun. While Farmer returned fire,
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he was hit once in the leg. Chief Garcia said
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that Senior Corporal Curis had David responded, ran up to
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and shot at her multiple times. The suspect did She
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returned fire, but was hit in the face during the exchange.
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She is the one that's believes. She's still listed in
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critical condition, but her injuries are not life threatening. All
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three officers shot Thursday night were with the South Central
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Patrol Division. In the wake of those initial shootings had
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chastened suit, with law enforcement pursuing the suspect as he
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traveled north from Dallas along I thirty five E. Along
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that pursuit, the Lewisville Police Department was called into assist EPD, and,
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according to an email obtained by WFAA from the Lewisville
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Police Chief to his staff. The suspect was chased by
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police to Lewisville and then fatally shot in the one
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thousand block of Stemons Freeway by Dallas Police officers. The
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Lewisville chief said his officers did not use their weapons,
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so the suspect was killed in Lewisville by pursuing Dallas
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police officers. So Friday morning, we all wake up to
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the news that Dallas Police officer Darren Burks was killed
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in the line of duty in horrific fashion. And the
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Foundation responded as it does by mobilizing, making sure that
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we have things in place, which we do making sure
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that funds from your foundation get into the hands of
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the family of an officer or firefighter when they're killed
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in the line of duty. And that was completed by
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Saturday afternoon board members from the Foundation, Captain Mark Howard
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from Dallas County Sheriff's Office retired, and our very own
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trade Tronholme, delivered a check to DPD headquarters for Darren
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Burks's family, along with a letter to Chief Garcia, which
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I'll share with you in case you hadn't seen it
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on social media, dated August thirty of twenty twenty four.
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Addressed to Chief Eddie Garcia of the Dallas Police Department.
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Chief Garcia, please accept our some serious condolences on the
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loss of Dallas Police Officer Darren Burks. Although his life
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ended on August twenty ninth, twenty twenty four, his name
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and his story will be remembered on behalf of the
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listeners of the Treehouse Podcast and the former Russ Martin Show.
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Please accept this check for Officer Burke's family. We hope
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it provides any immediate financial needs the family may have
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in the aftermath of this tragedy. Officer Burke's selfless commitment
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to his community, first as a teacher and then as
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a police officer should be celebrated and shown as an
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example to us all. We grieve with your officers and
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all who support our first responders. Sincerely, Daniel Maley, Trade Trenholm,
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Captain Mark Howard, the RMS Treehouse Listeners Foundation, and then
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a check for forty thousand dollars accompany that letter to
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the surviving members of Officer Burkes's family. So thank you
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to those that have donated throughout the years and to
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those who continue to donate to the foundation, and just
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know that your money is still going to where it's
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intended and going back to what you were saying, Trey,
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which is vastly important in this situation. When when I
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first heard that he was a rookie, I was like,
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oh my god, you know, it's just someone that's going
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to be so young, just at beginning of life and
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all these sorts of things. Then to find out that
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this rookie was forty six years old, had just recently
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finished his training, and before he decided to put on
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the uniform, he was a math teacher, and Trey, I
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didn't know until you mentioned that he was a math
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teacher at the cant Academy, which specifically helps troubled youths
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in finishing their high school degrees.
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I think that's what just really got me, is the
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fact that he's our age and to you read his
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story and he wanted he didn't feel like he was
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giving enough and wanted to give more to the community,
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so he quits being a teacher at the can Academy
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and becomes a police officer. I mean, that's just it's unbelievable.
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Most of us can can't even be bothered to pick
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up a gum wrapper we see on the street and
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this guy's teaching troubled kids and deciding, you know what,
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I can do more. And I remember after July seventh,
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and then Dallas Police Chief Brown told people because when
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those five officers in Dallas were shot, four DPD and
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one guard officer, all killed at a protest against police.
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So police officers protecting a First Amendment protected situation to
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protest them, they got murdered at and some of those
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some of those officers that were there protecting the citizens
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that had been protesting the mere minutes prior when when
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the shooting erupted. After all that happened, Chief Brown goes
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on television and he says, join us, if you don't
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like what's happening, do something about it. Join us be
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the change you seek in the world. Don't just bitch
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about it. And I don't think he said that exactly.
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That's more about twist on it, but that's that's the
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spirit of what he said. And it's true. We all
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can complain about all these things, but if we don't
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do anything about them, then all we're doing is bitching.
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Darren Burks did something. He was already doing something, and
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then he decided, you know what, Sure, I think I
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think I've taught all the math I need to these
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kids in this community. I can do more. And so
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he did, and someone responded differently, and simply because he
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decided to put on a uniform, he got targeted. And uh,
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it's it's just a sad state of affairs. Look, I
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don't know. I don't know a single police officer that
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will tell you that the profession is without problems. It is.
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They know it. All the all the good cops we've
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known for years have all said, Jesus, we hate the
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bad ones because it brings us all down. And these
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are the things that happen. So again, like like like,
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like we put in that letter to Chief Garcia, I
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hope that the way Officer Burke's life ended is not
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what we all remember, but instead what he gave in
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his life, what his actual story was, and that was,
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to me, a story of commitment and doing good for others.
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And I hope that's what most everyone remembers out of this.
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Yeah, and striving to do more.
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Yeah, And I'll be honest, and I suck at that,
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you know. I mean, I'll put every ounce of effort
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I have into my job into doing certain things for
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myself doing certain things for this show, and I don't
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leave a whole lot else for other people. I am
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selfish in that way. I'm not the most selfish person
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I know, and certainly not the most selfish person I've
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ever known. But you know, I think we're all a
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little bit selfish, and this is a very star reminder
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that that I can I can do more, and I
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can be more.
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Yeah, but here's here's the other thing. That's just you
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said it earlier. You're like, most of us can't be
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bothered to pick up a gun wrapper gum. I'm sorry,
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gum wrapper of it.
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But if you see a gun wrapper, please pick that up.
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I actually don't pick it up. Call Call, call police,
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because I might be evidence.
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Another thing that makes you know, Officer Burke's story remarkable
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is at our age picking up a gum wrapper and
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you know, can be you know, something that hurts us
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for six weeks throwing out our back he went to
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the academy.
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Yeah, that's an excellent point, Tray, I think it was.
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It was the other day. I was sitting right here
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and as I was waiting for my computer to turn on,
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I did this. I went like and I did like
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a little backstretch thing and and and I popped a
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rib outed This man went and is chasing down criminals
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and stuff. I can't even wrap my brain around that.
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Yeah, I I pulled. I was on the couch for
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two days because I I was folding laundry and uh,
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I snapped a T shirt to get the wrinkles out.
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That was it. Tigerbaum on the college for two days,
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and he went through the whole program and all the
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requirements that you know, and you're you know, at forty six.
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He's also in there with you know, twenty one year
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olds and twenty two year olds and twenty five year olds,
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so people substantially younger than him and came out and
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and just the just a wanting to do more is
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just remarkable. And yeah, that's just an amazing story and
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such a tragic into what an amazing story.
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So we expressed our sinceres condolences to the chief, and
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we want to do that here verbally as well, not
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just to him, not just to the Dallas Police Department
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and its officers, but you know, all of our first
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responders who are doing more than the rest of us do,
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and it's appreciated and we are we appreciate you, the listeners, for,
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as I said, not only for donating in the past,
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but continuing to donate to this foundation, which is still
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very operational and very strong because of you. And as
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long as you keep putting money into it, we'll keep
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putting it into the hands of those who need it most.
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And that's for now all I've got to say about that.
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At the time that we've recorded this and it publishes,
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you know on Labor Day, the funeral will happen on
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everything this week, and so we can all take this
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time to think about things that we could do that
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could be a little bit more and at the same
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time honor a man, not just because he died, but
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honoring him for how we lived.
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Hope of Uh. Yeah, you're in the Treehouse. Visit us
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