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Hey, this is Trey. Thank you for joining us for another Tuesday's with Trey. One of the

great byproducts of being able to do a podcast is you get to talk to people that, who knows,

perhaps ordinarily might not return your call. I think this guy would. I've seen him on television,

saw him on television a lot. Always measured, always to me in control of the facts. Doesn't

talk about things where he doesn't have a factual basis, doesn't get drawn in to overtly

political conversations. I always liked him. I always liked him. Loved watching him. And

then he's been kind enough to come on my show. He's got this combination of backgrounds

that, that number one, I miss. And number two, I love, which is former cop, current lawyer

with that. The great Ted Williams. How are you? I am well. I am elated and I'm super happy

to be on with you, Trey. All right. I'm going to start with you like I do everyone else,

which is a little bit different. I want you to tell us about life growing up as a young

Ted Williams. What, what, what, Lake Charles Louisiana, if I'm not mistaken, but what, what

were you like as a kid and teenager and kind of until you decided to go to college?

Well, let me say I was rather, Ram Bonkirch, should I say, or I grew up in Lake Charles,

Louisiana after having graduated from high school, I went into military and from the military,

I was with the DC police department. At that stage, I got an undergraduate degree from

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