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international space station is ready for

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cbs radio network this is mission

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space station this is bill harwood cbs

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hey bill great to talk to you i have you

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hey reid thanks a lot for taking time to

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chat with us i want to get around to

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your preparations for landing next

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monday and review your mission a little

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bit but first i wanted to touch on last

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week's space news and the loss of the

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and then of course virgin galactic

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spaceship two they've really focused a

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lot of attention down here on the

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commercial space program as it's known

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anyway and i was wondering what thoughts

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well you know this is it's tough to

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watch anything like that and i have

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friends at both of those companies that

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are working on this uh and it and you

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know that touches me pretty closely a

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couple of them are are test pilots that

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i've worked with in the past and i've

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gotten to know pretty well so

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for us personally it's always tough to

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see that sort of thing the great part

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about this industry is uh it will be

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better at the end for both of these

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mistakes or these mishaps i'll say and

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and we'll pull through everybody right

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now has already pulled together and the

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investigations are ongoing and we'll

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figure out what happened and if it's the

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correct time we'll fly again both of

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these vehicles and uh and if they

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determine that they can't then we'll

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look for other options down the road but

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this is a setback that happens in this

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industry and there will be recovery

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there will be healing and then there

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back before you took off in may and you

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clearly think the benefits of space

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exploration outweigh those risks but you

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know you're a test pilot an astronaut so

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different how should the how should the

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public look at the risk of space flight

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a century into this uh it's still

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amount of energy that's required to send

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stuff into orbit you know every once in

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escape and we're going to have an

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accident and this is never going to be a

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perfectly safe environment

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industry and uh but every time you get

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there's always a chance or get in an

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airplane or even just a thunderstorm

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worth the reward and up here the reward

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piloted space flight with human beings

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flew totally civilian crew into uh you

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know above 300 000 feet and and the joy

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amazing i was there with my wife she was

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then my fiancee and it was a great trip

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the technology is there there's going to

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station briefly here you know the

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orbital sciences cygnus cargo ship that

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thousand pounds of supplies and

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research gear i know you guys have

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how big a setback was that in terms of

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loaded much more than some of the

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program it's certainly a disappointment

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resupply through progress and obviously

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long-range resupply with one of your

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russian cargo ships and two different

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the space station behind the camera is a

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european resupply ship and then we still

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management through our diversity in

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hindsight are perfect and and we we have

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all the faith in the world that we're

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photos on twitter and uh and all the

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things you've had

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to share with the public about your

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mission what are you going to miss the

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most about the the whole experience of

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floating there is just nothing better as

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a human being than to experience

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friends obviously is there anything in

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actually pretty good but over six months

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whatever i want and then have my kitchen

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earth the board of soyuz uh your test

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earth change over the six months that

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patterns change seeing summer fall and

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has really captured the imagination of a

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experience this let them try to live

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this with me and uh for that i think it

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the next couple crews coming up here and

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just wait there are bigger and better

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well i find that hard to believe but

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i'll take your word for it read them out

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of time listen have a great trip back

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all right we'll talk to you soon thanks

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reid wiseman joining us live from the

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iss thank you so much for talking with

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hey absolutely it's my pleasure to be

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here talking with my hometown and we've

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done it several times it's great to see

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you again

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so your time on the iss is coming to an

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i think i'm gonna miss everything the

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most so i'm gonna miss uh weightlessness

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uh floating around up here is absolutely

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fantastic i will definitely miss the

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view outside and uh

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you know i miss my my five other

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crewmates we've become quite a family up

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here and it's great to work with these

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we got to watch your spacewalks live and

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it was just incredible can you tell us

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what that's like walk us through it

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walk us through it

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well i can tell you it's uh it is i'm

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not sure what it looks like on tv but

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it's the most difficult thing i've ever

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done in my life there are moments of

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fear there's moments of extreme

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excitement and then looking out with

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with just that tiny visor on at the

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earth everything is so vivid it's so

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clear much more clear than when we look

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through our thick glass windows here on

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but i'll say it is a long day we are in

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that suit outside for six and a half

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hours but even before we go outside

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there's four hours of prep in the suit

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you're physically exhausted it's

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extremely hard work both taxing mentally

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this was your first space flight did

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uh yeah i was worried that i had put way

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too many expectations on this but in the

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end it blew them away just a first

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glimpse out at right after launch of our

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earth and i already knew that everything

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was worth it everything was absolutely

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anything surprise you up there anything

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i didn't expect i'd say 90 percent of it

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i i went through training for a very

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long time and when you come up to the

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international space station this is a

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giant machine and i came through the

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hatch and i realized that i didn't know

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anywhere near enough because when you

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take gravity out of the situation and

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you start floating it changes everything

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so you can work upside down it's hard to

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eat your food it's confusing at times

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you can get lost even though you've

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walked through this thing on earth 100

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000 times you can still get lost up here

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so in the end uh just life initially was

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much more difficult than i thought but

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now i i know how to use the the lack of

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gravity to my advantage and just this

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morning i was working on our toilet

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which is a pretty routine task and i

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couldn't get this connection to go and

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then i thought you know what i'll just

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flip upside down put my feet on the

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ceiling and it worked like like a

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cakewalk so

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we want to thank you for all the photos

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social media just these amazing photos

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and the very first vine scent from space

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in history that was a big part of your

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know that was the easiest part and then

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in the end it was really fun because i

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almost have a journal documenting my

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entire time up here so i can go back and

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look at that feed and i was doing it the

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other day i snuck onto the internet on

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my day off and i was just looking it was

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really neat just to watch the

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progression throughout the entire flight

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and to see people's reaction i really

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like that so for me this was a great

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once you're back on planet earth what

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are you looking forward to the most and

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what's the first thing you're going to

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get carried out of my spaceship because

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it will be tough to walk and then

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about 20 hours later i should be back

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in houston at home and first thing i

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want to do there is hug my wife and kids

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i miss them

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way more than i expected and so i'm very

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much looking forward to that and then

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once life starts to settle down i think

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i'm going to get a pizza a soda perhaps

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because i haven't had anything

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carbonated in a long time and i just

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baltimore's reid wiseman such a pleasure

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talking to you and we cannot wait to

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thanks i can't wait to get there and see

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station this is houston acr that

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concludes the event thank you

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thank you cbs radio network and wjz tv