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The Infomaniacs: September 16th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: Bryan City Council met last night. Council awarded an economic
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  Speaker 1: development grant in the amount of $ 350, 000 for renovations and
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  Speaker 1: rehab at the Bryan Hotel and the Ryan Building. The
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  Speaker 1: city has been hoping the space would be redeveloped for
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  Speaker 1: more than a decade.
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  Speaker 2: The seller of the property. This property was not for sale.
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  Speaker 2: He holds on tightly to his properties.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes. And we have, I guess, wore him down over
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  Speaker 2: 12 years to finally give us this opportunity. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you guys know what the market is right now. It's
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  Speaker 2: a scary time to bite off on a big project,
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  Speaker 2: but we feel like it is mission critical. Everything that
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  Speaker 2: we do in downtown Bryan is because we love it
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  Speaker 2: and we want it to be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: That was Katie Williams, senior planner for the city of Bryan.
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  Speaker 1: The buildings will be transformed into lofts and spaces to
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  Speaker 1: generate food traffic. The Brazos County Commissioner's Court also met yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: There were a significant number of final plots approved. We
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  Speaker 1: hope that means new home construction in Milliken Reserve and
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  Speaker 1: Southern Point, plus a new subdivision in Bryan called Whispering
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  Speaker 1: Willows Estates. near Old Reliance and Merca Road. A teen
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  Speaker 1: already behind bars is facing more charges. Bryan Police delivered
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  Speaker 1: two arrest warrants for deadly conduct to a juvenile who
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  Speaker 1: is already in the custody of the Brazos County Juvenile
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  Speaker 1: Detention Center on a probation violation. BPD says the teen
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  Speaker 1: fired shots in the area of West 24th and Brazos
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  Speaker 1: Streets on August 19th. The bullet struck a home and
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle. No injuries were reported. The case is unrelated
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  Speaker 1: to the West 17th Street homicide. College Station police are
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  Speaker 1: crediting flock cameras with help in apprehending an individual wanted
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  Speaker 1: on felony narcotics warrants. They received a hit on a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle associated with 21-year-old Maki Hammond Tuesday afternoon. Officers located
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  Speaker 1: Hammond inside the vehicle at an apartment complex on Harvey Road.
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  Speaker 1: Hammond was taken into custody on his outstanding warrants for
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  Speaker 1: possession of marijuana and two counts of manufacture and delivery
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  Speaker 1: of a controlled substance. Hammond was found with marijuana during
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  Speaker 1: the arrest and has a new charge of possession. He
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  Speaker 1: is being held in the Brazos County Jail on $ 177, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: This is Hammond's 11th booking into the jail. His previous
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  Speaker 1: charges include possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft
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  Speaker 1: of a firearm, disorderly conduct, failure to identify resisting arrest,
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  Speaker 1: and public intoxication of a minor. A teenager was arrested
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  Speaker 1: Monday after damaging two flock cameras in College Station. Police
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  Speaker 1: say 19-year-old Luke Cordray damaged two cameras near Welburn Road
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  Speaker 1: and Greens Prairie Road on August 28th. He cut the
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  Speaker 1: cameras wiring, draped them with U.S. flags, and placed anti-flock
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  Speaker 1: signs in the ground next to each camera. Those signs
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  Speaker 1: led to Cordray's arrest. They say they tracked barcodes on
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  Speaker 1: the stakes to Lowe's. Their inventory system showed a recent
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  Speaker 1: purchase of a bundle of those stakes and two flags.
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  Speaker 1: The teen's license plate was captured in the parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: and ironically, flock cameras were able to track his movements
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  Speaker 1: and placed him in the area at the time of
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  Speaker 1: the damage. The estimated cost of repairs is $ 400 per camera.
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  Speaker 1: Cordray was charged with criminal mischief involving damages between $ 750
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  Speaker 1: and $ 2, 500. He was released on $ 5, 000 bond. More news
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  Speaker 1: on the way at 6.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW. How do some of you guys wear
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  Speaker 1: long sleeves every day?
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  Speaker 4: One day, I got stuff to do after the show.
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  Speaker 4: I got sleeves on.
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  Speaker 1: And jeans, by the way. You did check the forecast
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  Speaker 1: for today, didn't you?
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  Speaker 4: That's what I mean. I was like, well, you know,
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  Speaker 4: it's not going to hurt anything. Sure, it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be 105 degrees, but no, it makes a huge difference.
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  Speaker 1: Huge.
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  Speaker 2: Huge.
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  Speaker 4: Huge. Again, 100-ish, 98 for the highs with the column
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  Speaker 4: 407 on the feels like. Down to 77 tonight, which,
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  Speaker 4: you know, could be better. And what we are holding
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  Speaker 4: for is the mythical chance of rain. that we told
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  Speaker 4: you on Monday was supposed to be here on Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: How is it looking today, Will?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm pulling up the old weather app here and
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  Speaker 1: seeing what it does say about our potential forecasts.
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  Speaker 4: Because mine ain't good.
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  Speaker 1: I got a 30% chance of rain in the forecast
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  Speaker 1: for tomorrow with a high of 95. Hot and humid Friday, 97.
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  Speaker 1: The rain chances that were in the forecast for next week, gone.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and also the temperatures are also not really.
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  Speaker 1: Not as nice as they were. We were going to
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  Speaker 1: have like 90-ish, and now it's going to be 95
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, look at there. Friday of next week, our overnight
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  Speaker 1: low could be 69. Did you say Friday of next week? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Of next week.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: So not tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Not tomorrow. Not this week. A week from Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's what we got. Weather brought to you by
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  Speaker 4: we're going to have a lot of wildlife news on
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  Speaker 4: the show today because I need a full bed. I
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  Speaker 4: don't have time to hear the whole story right now
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  Speaker 4: because I'm waiting for it. I'm waiting for it because we'll...
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  Speaker 4: Will got himself into a jam yesterday, man.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't get myself into a jam. I discovered a
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  Speaker 1: jam and now can add wildlife rescuer to my resume.
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  Speaker 4: We will talk about that. The other wildlife story is...
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  Speaker 4: we just discovered that armadillos are no longer a Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they've been spread a long time, but they're a
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  Speaker 1: Texas staple, of course. You cannot, at least when I
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  Speaker 1: was growing up, you could not drive far without seeing
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  Speaker 1: a dead one on the side of the road with
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  Speaker 1: a Lone Star bottle in its hand because somebody was
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  Speaker 1: playing a little roadside joke, and that was great.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't have smartphones back then.
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  Speaker 1: No, you had to entertain yourself.
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  Speaker 4: You had to go with what you had.
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  Speaker 1: So apparently now the armadillos have made it To Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio. Researchers confirming the state's first documented wild armadillo found
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  Speaker 1: dead alongside a road near Oxford in Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: Kind of like roaches. If you see the first dead one,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot more.
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  Speaker 1: They've seen them before, but those cases were armadillos that
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  Speaker 1: apparently hitch rides on vehicles. like it had been on
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  Speaker 1: a truck or something like that.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, like, okay. Like on a semi and fell out.
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  Speaker 4: Somehow it crawled up.
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  Speaker 1: Rolled up into a ball. Can you imagine a spinning
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  Speaker 1: ball of armadillo rolling down the interstate after it fell
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  Speaker 1: off of a truck? That's a mental picture I like. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: That's horrifying.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine, though, these poor people in Ohio who
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  Speaker 1: are perhaps unfamiliar? With the armadillo.
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  Speaker 4: What would you even do if you're from Ohio? And
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  Speaker 4: number one, I mean, hell, they've never even seen seasoning.
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  Speaker 4: They've got no point of reference. Frequently, they don't seem
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  Speaker 4: to see the sun for most of their lives. And
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  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, that thing is walking down
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  Speaker 4: your block.
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  Speaker 1: What would you think? I mean, if you're in Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: I'm betting that chances are good you saw an armadillo
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  Speaker 1: you would probably consider checking yourself into some sort of institution.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you'd either think it was the drugs that you
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  Speaker 4: had consumed earlier in the day, I would assume in Cleveland,
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  Speaker 4: or you'd just start blasting.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like, that would be your other... Because, you know, I'm
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  Speaker 4: not asking any questions. That thing is unnatural.
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  Speaker 1: That's an alien.
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  Speaker 4: That is not from here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I cannot... They just aren't built for that.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: It's like bringing them into the heat. Like you don't,
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  Speaker 4: like Ohio, people from Ohio, they come here and it's like,
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  Speaker 4: it's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: We saw them completely wilt in the heat.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 1: In Austin.
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  Speaker 4: It's like they can play, they can hang for a
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  Speaker 4: couple of minutes and eventually they're, they're, they're, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: People always say, oh, we, we, we live in the desert.
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  Speaker 1: It's 115. Welcome to humidity, buddy. This is what saps
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  Speaker 1: your life source.
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  Speaker 4: This is not, this is not for the faint of heart. It's,
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  Speaker 4: This is a commitment.
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  Speaker 1: Some of it has to.
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  Speaker 4: Do with our wildlife. You don't want that.
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  Speaker 1: No, and some of us ignore it and wear long
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  Speaker 1: sleeves and jeans.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, because I'm trying to flex. This is me trying
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  Speaker 4: to establish dominance.
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  Speaker 1: It is a very nice shirt. Nice shirt.
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  Speaker 4: It's a nice shirt.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. It's a nice shirt.
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  Speaker 4: See, I'm kind of iffy on it. I refer to
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  Speaker 4: this as my grandma's couch shirt.
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  Speaker 1: It does look like that, but Tucker, you're one of
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  Speaker 1: the few people who can pull off fashion choices like that.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, guys. We're the Infomaniacs.
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  Speaker 2: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 4: I know we need to get to reasons to celebrate,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm also curious. You did a walkthrough yesterday of
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  Speaker 4: the new console stage.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I got to do that. So now in the
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  Speaker 1: past two weeks, week and a half, I've seen both
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  Speaker 1: of the high school's new athletic facilities because I was
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  Speaker 1: over for the community pep rally at College Station High
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  Speaker 1: School a couple of weeks ago. And then yesterday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to go tour the new facilities at
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  Speaker 1: A & M Consolidated, specifically because I'm doing... pa for
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  Speaker 1: the first home football game this friday night.
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  Speaker 16: Which is pretty sick man that's i'm excited about it
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  Speaker 16: being an alum yeah uh and and honestly fact is
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  Speaker 16: the summer i graduated high school in 1989 i.
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  Speaker 1: Worked on the construction crew that built the stadium that
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  Speaker 1: was just replaced by this one been that while so
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  Speaker 1: yeah it's it's kind of it means a little bit
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  Speaker 1: to me uh and so i was up there getting
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  Speaker 1: the lay of the land figuring out all the connections
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  Speaker 1: that i need electronically and working with the athletic coordinator
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  Speaker 1: up there to get all of the stuff ready, the
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  Speaker 1: voiceover stuff for the new video boards and that sort
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  Speaker 1: of thing. So, yeah, it's a beautiful facility. It is
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  Speaker 1: very utilitarian. They took what they had and were able
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  Speaker 1: to use some of that, like in the field house.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
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  Speaker 1: And then expand on top of it. I spoke to
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  Speaker 1: one of the athletic trainers over there. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: she could smile any bigger. because they now actually have
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  Speaker 1: room to treat kids in that facility.
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  Speaker 4: You know what's funny? And again, I'm not saying the
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  Speaker 4: stadiums are opulent. I'd have to look at it, but
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  Speaker 4: like you said, utilitarian. Sometimes they can get really good
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  Speaker 4: about using what they already have and not being awesome. Now,
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  Speaker 4: some places, some schools, some districts go absolutely haywire.
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  Speaker 1: That stadium they built up, where was it, in Allen? Yeah, Allen.
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  Speaker 1: It just looks like a college stadium.
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  Speaker 4: It is a college stadium.
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  Speaker 1: And then it fell apart, right?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And this is... This speaks to our area in the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it is just what it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: It's not stupid fancy.
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  Speaker 4: It's a good football stadium where kids can play safely,
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  Speaker 4: kids have access to good equipment, and you can watch
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  Speaker 4: the game on a Friday night and have a good time.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it is. Even with that, can you even
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  Speaker 4: imagine playing in these type of situations? Like these type of...
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  Speaker 4: of stadiums and everything when you were a kid?
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  Speaker 1: No, because we played in Kyle field when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid.
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  Speaker 4: I forget.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't even have a football stadium.
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  Speaker 12: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: No, I, I'm, I just remember. And again, this was like,
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  Speaker 4: this is way back, small private school, but I got,
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  Speaker 4: I went to, I went to brass Christian. So I was,
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  Speaker 4: I was the first graduating class at brass Christian, which is,
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  Speaker 4: which is kind of strange today. But when you drive
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  Speaker 4: by it today, they have a beautiful, beautiful athletic stadium.
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  Speaker 4: The football field is immaculate. It's an unbelievable field. They
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  Speaker 4: have weight rooms, training facilities, all these other things. It's really,
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  Speaker 4: really nice. None of that existed. When I was there.
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  Speaker 4: So we were we were the first football team as well,
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  Speaker 4: playing six man football. They basically just mowed a field
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  Speaker 4: and then turned us loose on it. Didn't have locker rooms,
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  Speaker 4: didn't have we had to go into the history classroom
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  Speaker 4: to get changed every single week. And then it was
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  Speaker 4: it was wild.
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  Speaker 18: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you were part of building something.
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  Speaker 4: And and now, yeah, you see what they've got. It's like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you actually can run on the field because it's level.
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  Speaker 1: Because we would be going.
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  Speaker 4: We'd be cutting down the field and all of a
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  Speaker 4: sudden our our ankle would disappear down to, you know,
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  Speaker 4: because we hit.
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  Speaker 1: A gopher hole, which.
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  Speaker 4: Is a different world. But I'd love to see it.
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  Speaker 4: Congrats to everyone at Consol.
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  Speaker 1: And Conversation Eye. They've got their new facility. Just a
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  Speaker 1: great job. Thank you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: And let's get started with reasons to celebrate for today.
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  Speaker 4: And days of significance. There are a few. Actually, kind
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  Speaker 4: of a lot today, which I'm not going to try
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  Speaker 4: to hit all of these because, frankly, I don't know
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  Speaker 4: that I could. I will tell you this. It's Mayflower Day, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Mayflower Day.
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  Speaker 4: It's exactly what you think it is. September 16th, 1620,
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of dudes got on a boat called the Mayflower.
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  Speaker 4: They took it across the ocean. And they, 102 passengers.
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  Speaker 14: In fact.
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  Speaker 4: They originally had set out alongside another ship, the Speedwell.
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  Speaker 4: The Speedwell leaked, and so everyone had to come back.
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  Speaker 4: They had to pack everyone. So this is something they,
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  Speaker 4: it was not supposed to be everyone on one boat.
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  Speaker 4: It became everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Two months. So imagine the road trip, the worst road
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  Speaker 4: trip you've ever had in your life, like a large
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  Speaker 4: road trip. And then imagine everyone, like your family, let's
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: say you have a pretty big family, you have a
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  Speaker 4: Suburban or an SUV, and someone says, hey, car's broke,
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  Speaker 4: get in that Prius, all of you. And then it
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: takes two months. That's how we used to do it
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: back in the day, fam. Those were the OGs. Two
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: months later, they landed, obviously, established the Plymouth Colony. Also,
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  Speaker 4: not everybody on board was a pilgrim fleeing religious persecution.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: Substantial portion were other colonists recruited for the venture because, like,
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  Speaker 4: you know.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have people to grow the crops.
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  Speaker 4: You got to have people to grow the crops and things.
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  Speaker 4: It was a job. Like, hey, you want a job?
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: You want to go to this random place? New universe
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  Speaker 4: over here across that ocean will pay you.
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  Speaker 1: A no expense paid cruise lasts for two months.
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  Speaker 4: A no expense paid cruise. And you can't come back
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  Speaker 4: either because it's going to take forever. You're staying there
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  Speaker 4: whether it works or not. And that was appealing. That's
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  Speaker 4: how rough Europe was.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: That's how rough it was. Collect rocks day. Unofficial observance.
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  Speaker 10: Don't.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: This sounds kind of silly. You're like, hey, who collects rocks?
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  Speaker 19: Women.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Women collect rocks. A lot of them. You've not discovered
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: this yet?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I mean, I know women that collect, like, crystals.
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: Observe your females because they love collecting some rocks.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of like rocks, too. I'm still
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: waiting for... The Bedia site people that we talked about
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  Speaker 1: months ago. Oh, yeah.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: Maybe it's a good day to go find some Bedia sites.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I'd like to learn more about hunting the Bedia site
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: here in our area.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: It is actual Mexican Independence Day, September 16th, 1810. Which
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: is not Cinco de.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Mayo, which people mess that up.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Not the same, friends. This is the day the Catholic
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  Speaker 4: priest Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla rang the church bells in Dolores.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: It's the famous Grito de Dolores. And it called for
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: the people to rise up against Spanish rule.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Is it a coincidence that it is also National Guacamole Day?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: It is also National Guacamole Day, which is a great
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: way to celebrate Mexican Independence Day or any day. Maybe
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: someone needs to walk down to Chipotle today and issue
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  Speaker 4: their own fiery statement about guacamole being extra is fundamentally wrong.
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  Speaker 4: fundamentally in the face of freedom.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Along with that, you need to take a little test
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  Speaker 1: kit and test for English peas.
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  Speaker 4: And also, we'll say it again in case you missed
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  Speaker 4: that show, there are restaurants that sell you English peas
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  Speaker 4: masquerading as guacamole.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker, when you brought this forth, I've had more people
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: ask me about that.
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  Speaker 20: I know.
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  Speaker 4: It's come up a lot. And I'll just, again, if
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: you weren't listening that particular day, it The idea is
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: avocados are expensive. We know it. Times in the restaurant
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: world are hard, but this isn't a recent thing. This
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: is an always thing. If you want to save money
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: on your guacamole, you can take English peas, some avocados,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: and step on the delicious avocado with the English peas,
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: still giving you a delicious green mash, which you can
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: then throw seasoning, lime juice into, and no one's going
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: to like it. knows but if you know what to
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: look for and you you are aware of this certain
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: guacamoles will jump out at you that just seem a
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: little off Those are the English people.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a conspiracy theory that I think
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  Speaker 1: deserves more investigation.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: Again, I don't want to rat anyone out because I
• 20:12
  Speaker 4: don't feel like going down that road. You know, life's hard.
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  Speaker 4: But it is important to me that every single person
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: that is one of those restaurants that is trying to
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: get over on us by serving us English peas masquerading
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: as guacamole knows that we know. They can make their
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: own decision based on that information. Trust me. I know.
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: And even if I didn't, I would be able to
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: tell because, again, try a few of them. You try
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: the English piece thing. It just hasn't done it. You
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: can tell.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Tucker Young, Tucker Frito Young, champion of guacamole. You are
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: going to earn an avocado shaped metal.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Guacamole Independence Day.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Going for it. Also, World Play-Doh Day. Interestingly enough, was
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: not admitted as a toy. Started as wallpaper cleaner. Do
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: you know that?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I did not know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just it was used like a household
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: device and they figured out you could make things out
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: of it. And they repackages as Play-Doh as we know today.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: And then we all, you know, off to the races. Uh,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: school backpack awareness day, third Wednesday in September because of the,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: you know, the weight thing. Don't, don't cripple your kid
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: by putting 50 pounds of books in their bag. Like
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: we all had when we were growing up. And I
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: think that takes care of it. What do we have
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: in birthdays?
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Birthdays. Nick Jonas is 34 years old today.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: They started when they were like 15, man.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Something like that. Alexis Bleedel is 45. Rory on the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Gilmore Girls. Yes, yes. Amy Poehler is 55. Leslie Knope
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: in Parks and Recreation. Of course, many other things. Mark
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Anthony is 58. The former Mr. Jennifer Lopez.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Molly Shannon, 62 years old today.
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  Speaker 4: Holy cow.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Mary Catherine Gallagher on SNL. Richard Marks is 63 today,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the singer. You know several of his songs, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer Tilly is 68, the killer doll Tiffany and herself
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  Speaker 1: in the Chucky movies. She's done other things, too. Magician
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: David Copperfield is 70 today. Haven't heard much from Old
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: David in a while.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: I think he fell out of favor. David Copperfield's kind
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: of a notoriety.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he had some issues there.
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  Speaker 4: He's always been a difficult dude in general. He's kind
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: of known as that. I think it went from difficult
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: to way more than difficult and kind of evil.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: So I think that might have something.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: That and the rise of Chris Angel, who kind of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: took Copperfield's shtick and put some other stuff to it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: He and David Blaine definitely drank that man's milkshake.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Let's see here. Mickey Rourke is 74 years old today.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Talk about a weird guy.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Super weird.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Did like him in The Expendables, though.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Did you ever see The Wrestler?
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: My hands-down favorite Mickey Rourke performance ever. One of my
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: favorite movies ever.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Just.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Perfect encapsulation.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: He could act, but I don't know that I'd want
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: to party with him.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Much like professional wrestling.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, much.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't want to.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Ed Begley Jr. is 77 years old today. He's been
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: on Arrested Development and many, many other things.
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  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: On to the stiffs. B.B. King was born on this
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  Speaker 1: date in 1925. Oh, wow.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: That's a big one.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: I got to meet B.B.
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  Speaker 2: King.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: You did?
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, actually. And years later, a good friend of mine,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: a dear friend of mine, texted me. He said, hey,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: the day you took me backstage to meet B.B. King
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: was one of the greatest days of my life. That's wild.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: And I was like, Bruce, I'm sorry. I don't recall
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: that whatsoever. And the reason was is because apparently the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: guy I was sitting next to in front of the
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  Speaker 1: stage before we went backstage was some guy named Elvin Bishop.
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  Speaker 4: I know that name. What am I?
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: You have to Google him up there. All right, Elvin's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: done a few things.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he has.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: I know he has. Yeah, at any rate, it was
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a wonderful experience for my friend.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, that Elvin bit. I'm an idiot.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Okay. There you go.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: Carry on.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Peter Falk was born on this date in 1927, the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Columbo superstar, and finally born on this date in 1924.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Lauren Bacall.
• 23:59
  Speaker 14: Really?
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Lauren Bacall, 1924.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: For those of you who are wondering Elvin Bishop, this
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: is the fun thing about how what is old becomes
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: new again. This song ended up right back in the
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: middle of pop culture awareness.
• 24:18
  Speaker 21: Remember this?
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: Because it ended up in the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: It did.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: It's a great soundtrack. One of the best soundtracks. But yeah,
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: fooled around.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Fooled around, fell in love. Fell in love. Classic song.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: It was Jimmy Vaughn opening up for B.B. King that night.
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  Speaker 2: Jeez!
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good show.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: That's... I feel like this one actually might have come
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: off a cassette tape, this dub.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels a little analog.
• 24:49
  Speaker 15: All right.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: We've got to move on. We've got to get to Deuce.
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  Speaker 1: Correct. And we have a winner.
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  Speaker 6: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: was a busy day in local government. Both the Brazos
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: County Commissioner's Court and the Bryan City Council met yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Fred Brown had concerns about contracting with a grant
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: writer out of state.
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  Speaker 8: And for the last several years, we've used a local
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: grant writer that has brought millions of dollars worth of
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: business into Brazos County. And we pay him $ 48, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 8: And now, again, we're asking to take a company in Illinois,
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: which we would just be a phone number to them,
• 33:52
  Speaker 8: and pay them double.
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Chuck Condola said there were problems last time they
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: used a rider who was not local.
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  Speaker 29: Obviously, like Fred said, there's a big price difference there
• 34:01
  Speaker 29: for local versus out of town. Our experience when I
• 34:05
  Speaker 29: first came on to Commissioner's Court was that we had
• 34:08
  Speaker 29: an out-of-town rider who was sending us responses for grants
• 34:14
  Speaker 29: that had closed already, that wasn't timely in its responses.
• 34:19
  Speaker 29: And the local grant writer with a phone call was
• 34:23
  Speaker 29: able to jump on things a little quicker, at least
• 34:25
  Speaker 29: that was my experience.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Contracts are awarded on a point system, and commissioners questioned
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: if the current system is the most effective. As we
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: understand from the court's comments, the current holder of the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: contract hand-wrote his proposal, as was specified in the RFP,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and was in turn docked points for actually complying with
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: their request. Commissioners also suggested that points be added in
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: cases where someone has a track record of success under
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: current contracts. The Bryan City Council met last night. Among
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: their business was the city's tax rate. They adopted the
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: tax rate of 62.4 cents per $ 100 of a home's value.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: The consent agenda approved just over $ 5 million in spending.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Some of those monies will be spent on new vehicles,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: vehicle expenses, and tree trimming and landscaping. Just over $ 3
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: million is being allocated to Destination Bryan. Council also paved
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the way for redevelopment of an adjacent building on Main Street.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: They approved an economic development grant in the amount of $ 350, 000
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: for renovations and rehab for the Bryan Hotel and Ryan Building.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: The upper floors will become residential lofts and are expected
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to be available in late 2028. The ground floors will
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: become flexible micro-business spaces and three- to five-year leases to
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: generate food traffic and sales taxes should be completed by
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: the end of 2030. College Station Police are crediting flock
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: cameras with assisting in the arrest of an individual wanted
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: on multiple felony narcotics warrants. The department received a flock
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: alert Tuesday afternoon on a vehicle associated with 21-year-old Maki
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Hammond of Bryan. Officers found Hammond inside his vehicle at
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: an apartment complex on Harvey Road. Hammond was taken into
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: custody on his outstanding warrants for two counts of manufacture
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: and delivery of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: During his arrest, Hammond was found with marijuana and is
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: facing a new charge of possession of marijuana. He is
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: being held in the Brazos County Jail on $ 177, 000 bond.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: A teenager is facing criminal mischief charges after damaging flock
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: cameras near Welburn Road and Greens Prairie Road. College Station
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: police say that on August 28th, two cameras had their
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: wiring cut and were then draped with American flags. Anti-flock
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: signs were also staked in the ground next to each camera.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Barcodes on those stakes led to the arrest of 19-year-old
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Luke Cordray of College Station. They traced back to Lowe's
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and police found three purchases of those stakes. in the
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: days surrounding the investigation. One of those purchases also included
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: two American flags. Surveillance video captured the teen making the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: purchase and walking to a vehicle where they were able
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: to view his license plate. Ironically, flock cameras tracked his
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: vehicle's movements and placed him in the area at the
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: time of the damage. The estimated cost of repairs is
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: $ 400 per camera. Cordray was arrested on Monday and charged
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: with criminal mischief involving damages between $ 750 and $ 2, 500. He
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: is out on $ 5, 000 bond. The Blinn College District is
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: facing a lawsuit after a whistleblower claims retaliation. A law
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: firm in Houston announced yesterday that the suit is against
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: the Blinn Junior College District, the Blinn College Police Department,
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Police Chief John Chancellor and District Chancellor Mary Hensley. The
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: whistleblower reported to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement that
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: a civilian employee impersonated a police officer during the arrest
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: of a student in August 2023. That employee serves as
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: the district's safety and risk manager. a non-law enforcement position.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: He surrendered his peace officer license in 2018 as part
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: of a plea agreement with the Montgomery County District Attorney's
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Office in a domestic violence case. The complaint further alleges
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: that years of body camera evidence from the college, including
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: footage from the August 2023 student arrest, had been destroyed
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: by an unknown person. The lawsuit follows a Title IX
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: complaint filed with the district where the whistleblower was then
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: investigated and dismissed by Blinn's then Human Resources Director, Mary Kirby.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Kirby was recently the subject of an investigation into her
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: criminal background and inquiry into whether or not Blinn leadership
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: hired Kirby knowing of her criminal prosecution for a sex
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: crime with a minor and subsequent revocation of her teaching
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: license in 1998. Traffic alert near Texas Avenue and University,
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  Speaker 1: the right lane of Texas Avenue southbound is closed before
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  Speaker 1: University today for a waterline repair. Hensel Street will also
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: be closed between Texas Avenue and Meadowland Street. The repair
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: is expected to be completed by 7 p.m. More news
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  Speaker 1: You, Tucker, you have uncorked this, man. The first time
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  Speaker 1: we brought it up, I had tons of people asking me.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of people have been very, very serious about
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: this conversation. It's not come up twice.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then Mike texts in today, this morning, it's
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: like the Epstein files. Release the list. The guacamole steam files.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: The guac steam files. Well, I don't... See, this is
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  Speaker 4: the thing. I feel personally bad about... I just don't
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  Speaker 4: like doing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I don't like doing it. But there is another way
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: where we might be able to accomplish the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: And that would be to go in the complete opposite
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  Speaker 4: direction and allow some of our restaurants in town to
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: prove that they actually have the puro or... 100% avocado guacamole, right?
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: Certified guacamole.
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  Speaker 1: So Infomaniac approved and certified.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's how you do it.
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  Speaker 16: Isn't that how, isn't that like the restaurant report?
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  Speaker 1: We would have to personally test all of it.
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: I think, I think that's what we do. I think
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: like we come up with a, we come up with
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: a seal or a certificate or something that we can
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: put in the business. And then we show up, we
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: look at how the guacamole is made. We examine their process.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: We consume it. a order of said guacamole.
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: Or more.
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: Or however much.
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  Speaker 1: We've got to be sure.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: And then once we are satisfied that this is all
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: avocado guacamole, we present them a certificate, and then they
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  Speaker 4: can proudly say that their guacamole is certified via the Infomaniacs.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's brilliant.
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  Speaker 4: Now, again, I like it. It's positive reinforcement. My whole
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: goal isn't to shame you guys. My whole goal is
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: for those of you that do the English pee thing,
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  Speaker 4: to fix it, to fix it on your own.
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  Speaker 1: You have the opportunity.
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  Speaker 4: You have the opportunity. And also to salute places that
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: think enough about you that they serve you 100% avocado guacamole.
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  Speaker 4: That's all I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I'll pay for a little pure guacamole.
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  Speaker 4: I will pay. I want what I'm paying for is
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  Speaker 4: what I'm saying. Because we all know the guac's extra.
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  Speaker 4: If I'm paying extra, I dang well better be getting
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: some avocado in that bowl.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: You want to know what I need to find out?
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I need to find out if I can grow avocados
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  Speaker 1: on my place.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you do need to find out.
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  Speaker 1: I need to learn this.
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  Speaker 4: We'll make a list.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll come by.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, not a problem. Trust me, we'll be back to
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: this at some point.
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  Speaker 21: Hi, this is Neil Sperry, and I'll be back with
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  Speaker 21: What's the very best time to plant new trees and shrubs?
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  Speaker 21: That's a question I'm asked probably 25 times a week.
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  Speaker 21: And when I say late September and October, why, it's
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  Speaker 21: as if I was speaking a different language entirely, something
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  Speaker 21: with a southern hemisphere accent. Surely he must be thinking
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  Speaker 21: The bad part of the dialogue I quoted is that
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  Speaker 21: I seldom get to hear their follow-up reasoning. By then,
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  Speaker 21: they're off somewhere else asking the same question, hoping to
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  Speaker 21: get results more to their expectations.
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: Fall is the.
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  Speaker 21: Best time for planting. My hope is always that those
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  Speaker 21: folks will stop in and ask a full-time, independent retail
• 45:30
  Speaker 21: garden center owner, because that man or that woman will understand.
• 45:35
  Speaker 21: Summer and drought are the two biggest threats to new
• 45:38
  Speaker 21: plants in Texas landscaping. As you might expect, they go hand-in-hand.
• 45:42
  Speaker 21: The better the root contact with more and more soil,
• 45:45
  Speaker 21: the more likely the plant is to survive. If you
• 45:48
  Speaker 21: set plants out in the fall, they'll have six or
• 45:50
  Speaker 21: seven months to establish new roots before they're called on
• 45:53
  Speaker 21: to stand up to the heat. Plant them in April
• 45:56
  Speaker 21: or May, and summer will present a much bigger hill
• 45:58
  Speaker 21: for them to climb. Fall also finds plants filled to
• 46:02
  Speaker 21: the rims of their pots. They've been growing in nurseries
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  Speaker 21: since early spring. You'll get a plant that may be
• 46:07
  Speaker 21: 20 or 30 percent larger and better developed now than
• 46:09
  Speaker 21: you will if you wait until March or April. If
• 46:12
  Speaker 21: those plants don't sell this fall, nurserymen will just repot
• 46:14
  Speaker 21: them into the next larger containers and mark up the prices.
• 46:18
  Speaker 21: So you might as well take advantage of the bargains.
• 46:21
  Speaker 21: And speaking of pricing, don't be surprised to find some
• 46:24
  Speaker 21: very nice markdowns. Nurserymen are like any other retailer. They
• 46:28
  Speaker 21: have their money tied up in inventory, and there comes
• 46:30
  Speaker 21: a time when it's better to put a product on
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  Speaker 21: sale and sell out of it than to keep your
• 46:34
  Speaker 21: money tied up for too long. So watch for end-of-season
• 46:37
  Speaker 21: markdowns the next six or eight weeks, and as you
• 46:40
  Speaker 21: take advantage of them, Keep reminding yourself that you're first
• 46:43
  Speaker 21: getting bigger plants, second for less money, and third at
• 46:46
  Speaker 21: the perfect planting time. You can't lose. If you'd like
• 46:50
  Speaker 21: a bit of help in planting your landscape, nurserymen have
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  Speaker 21: more time in the fall than they do in the spring.
• 46:56
  Speaker 21: You've been on their lots on Saturdays in April, or
• 46:59
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  Speaker 21: Get there for the best values before the weekend warriors arrive.
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  Speaker 21: Are there drawbacks to planting in the fall? Well, the
• 47:24
  Speaker 21: only one I can really think of would be for
• 47:27
  Speaker 21: plants that you know are tender in your area. You
• 47:30
  Speaker 21: might want to wait to plant those in the springtime.
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  Speaker 21: But otherwise, fall is the very best time for planting
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  Speaker 21: new shrubs. I'm Neal Sperry. Which plants to save for
• 47:40
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  Speaker 11: Good morning, I'm Riley Flurkey with your morning sports update
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  Speaker 11: on 1620-945-WTAW. The 15th ranked Aggie volleyball team got back
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  Speaker 11: into the win column last night after sweeping Stephen F.
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  Speaker 11: Austin at Reed Arena. The Aggies also got back to.
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  Speaker 11: 500 on the year following a dominant showing against SFA
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  Speaker 11: where they outscored the Lady Jacks by 31 points across
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  Speaker 11: the three sets of action. Head coach Jamie Morrison recapped
• 49:17
  Speaker 11: the match and areas the team needs to improve on
• 49:20
  Speaker 11: ahead of their second match this week ups and downs
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  Speaker 11: i think.
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  Speaker 5: It was what i told her team and then the
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: warham started so i send them off to uh celebrate
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: with our amazing fans but i think if you look
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: at the second set there was a lot of good
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: and then i thought it got sloppy in the beginning
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: of the first and then the end of or throughout
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: the third probably So I'm happy with the win. I'm
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: happy that we figured out a way to do that.
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: But one of the things we talked about before the
• 49:40
  Speaker 5: match was holding ourselves to a high standard, regardless of
• 49:42
  Speaker 5: who we're playing. And I thought we did it at times,
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: but it needs to be more consistent. And I thought
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: our offense was really clunky in the first, but I
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: just thought we couldn't get into a rhythm from the
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: passing standpoint was OK. It was just constantly like 13 feet.
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  Speaker 5: And then defensively, that's where I was really frustrated was
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  Speaker 5: just the easy balls were being sprayed super low or
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  Speaker 5: they're being sprayed left or right. And it just made
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  Speaker 5: Kira's life a little bit harder to get us into
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  Speaker 5: a rhythm. So I think just making sure that piece
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  Speaker 5: is settled, that it's consistent, that if it's easy, you
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  Speaker 5: know where it's going to go. As a setter, it
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  Speaker 5: was probably the first and, I don't know, probably the
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  Speaker 5: most frustrating thing to me throughout the match.
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  Speaker 11: Up next, the Aggies hit the road to Nebraska to
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  Speaker 11: take on the 20th-ranked Creighton on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
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  Speaker 11: The A & M football team is three days away
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  Speaker 11: from kicking off SEC play against Kentucky at Kyle Field,
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  Speaker 11: where the Aggies are looking to start a campaign of
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  Speaker 11: 3-0 and back-to-back seasons for the first time since the
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  Speaker 11: 2014-2016 seasons. Head coach Mike Elko met with the media
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  Speaker 11: earlier this week to preview the upcoming game against the
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  Speaker 11: Wildcats and the challenges they pose.
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  Speaker 30: Now we turn our attention ahead to SEC week, Kentucky
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  Speaker 30: coming in here. Obviously, anytime you bring in an SEC game,
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  Speaker 30: it's going to be a big challenge. A lot of
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  Speaker 30: respect for Will Stein and the job that he does
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  Speaker 30: as an offensive coach has been one of the best
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  Speaker 30: in the country for the last few years. Did a
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  Speaker 30: really phenomenal job at Oregon. Combined him with Coach Sloan,
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  Speaker 30: and it's going to be another formidable offensive attack. And
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  Speaker 30: then obviously have a ton of respect for Jay Bateman
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  Speaker 30: and the job that he does on defense. And certainly
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  Speaker 30: they'll have an intricate working of who we are and
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  Speaker 30: what we're all about. And so that creates its own challenges.
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  Speaker 30: And so we'll have our hands full with Kentucky, and
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  Speaker 30: it'll be another big, big game and big challenge for us.
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  Speaker 30: And so looking forward to getting ready for it.
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  Speaker 11: Like Coach Elko said, a challenge that could cause many
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  Speaker 11: disruptions for the Aggies is that former A & M
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  Speaker 11: defensive coordinator Jay Bateman decided to move programs in the offseason,
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  Speaker 11: becoming Kentucky's new defensive coordinator. Coach Elko spoke about the
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  Speaker 11: familiarity of facing Bateman this week and the changes the
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  Speaker 11: Aggies have made in the program ahead of this matchup.
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  Speaker 30: Probably a mixed bag. Certainly some philosophical things that were
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  Speaker 30: important to me that we ran here on defense that
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  Speaker 30: maybe weren't things that Jay had, some things that we
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  Speaker 30: did that maybe Jay liked. And so I think you
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  Speaker 30: have kind of a mixed bag of what Jay has
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  Speaker 30: maybe traditionally been or wanted to be in his career
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  Speaker 30: combined with maybe a couple things that he picked up
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  Speaker 30: here that he liked and thought fit. And so it's
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  Speaker 30: probably a little bit of a mixed bag. People would
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  Speaker 30: tell you I'm probably on the– extreme paranoid end when
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  Speaker 30: it comes to things like that and so I think
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  Speaker 30: I'm on probably like the seventh version of terminology in
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  Speaker 30: the last eight years and probably the third or fourth
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  Speaker 30: version of offensive terminology in my four years as a
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  Speaker 30: head coach so I probably live on the the uber
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  Speaker 30: paranoid side of that and so then you factor in
• 52:30
  Speaker 30: a coach is leaving this building going to multiple programs
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  Speaker 30: last offseason and you can imagine quite a few things
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  Speaker 30: around here I've had to change.
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  Speaker 11: Saturday afternoon's kickoff time is set for 2.30. The Aggie
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  Speaker 11: men's golf team wrapped up stroke play at the Jackson T.
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  Speaker 11: Stevens Cup yesterday, closing with an even par round to
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  Speaker 11: finish 54 holes. And the Aggies will carry the No.
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  Speaker 11: 2 seed into match play, which begins today. That's your
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  Speaker 11: morning sports update on 1620-945-WTAW. I'm Riley Flurkey.
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  Speaker 12: The Salvation Army of Bryan College Station is offering free
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  Speaker 12: through eighth grade. Classes are every Wednesday from 530 to
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  Speaker 12: 7 p.m. A light dinner is provided and parents are welcome.
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  Speaker 12: Salvation Army volunteers will help with homework and lead classes
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  Speaker 12: in guitar, dance, and art. Free tutoring and creative arts
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  Speaker 12: classes each Wednesday from 530 to 7 p.m. at the
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  Speaker 12: Salvation Army Fellowship Hall, 2506 Cabot Avenue in Bryan.
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  Speaker 1: I have not, actually.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, so this is pretty cool. And they're actually having
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing the math. You're going to save $ 6.
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  Speaker 4: for fall.
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  Speaker 4: Passing it along to you guys. If you haven't checked
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