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The Infomaniacs: October 7th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 8: heard the commercials for this show. Several times on, and it's, like,
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Speaker 8: I am really curious about this.
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Speaker 1: It's intriguing, isn't it?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so we brought in Elena Reese from the Friends
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Speaker 8: of Chamber Music to tell us a little bit about
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Speaker 8: this show that you guys are doing. Now, this is
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Speaker 8: coming up, it's coming up later this week.
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Speaker 1: Friday night.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, Friday night. What is the American Patchwork Quartet, and
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Speaker 8: why is it so cool?
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Speaker 9: Well, you nailed it. Tucker, you said intriguing. It is
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Speaker 9: intriguing indeed.
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Speaker 10: Every year, this organization, Friends of Chamber Music, it's been
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Speaker 10: here in town for 30 years.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 9: It is our 31st season.
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Speaker 8: Crazy.
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Speaker 10: Every year for the past six years, we have been
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Speaker 10: trying to bring one group into our series that is not.
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Speaker 9: Traditional music. Chamber music ensemble.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's very atypical when I think of chamber music
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Speaker 8: to think of this particular group. Because it's a different
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Speaker 8: take on a lot of songs that if you really
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Speaker 8: like folk music or roots of country and things like that.
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Speaker 8: A lot of these are songs that you've probably heard,
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Speaker 8: but they put a whole new spin on it.
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Speaker 9: Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 10: You know everything about it already.
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Speaker 9: You don't have to tell me.
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Speaker 1: I think this is great.
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Speaker 9: You could have explained everything already.
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Speaker 10: Yes, so indeed, yeah, we got interested in this because
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Speaker 10: we never presented this ensemble here locally. They are from
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Speaker 10: New York, and their artistic agenda and artistic identity is
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Speaker 10: in taking old material... old American folk songs and infusing
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Speaker 10: them with the personalities and backgrounds of the musicians who
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Speaker 10: actually compose this group.
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Speaker 9: The musicians are very different.
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Speaker 10: One is Southern Roots aficionado, as he calls himself, Clay Ross.
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Speaker 9: There is an Asian bassist.
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Speaker 10: There is African-American drummer who grew up on gospel tradition
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Speaker 10: and jazz. And there is an Indian violinist and singer
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Speaker 10: who was raised in the classical Indian music tradition.
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Speaker 11: So the result is that very, as you said it,
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Speaker 11: intriguing agglomerate of Old and new.
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Speaker 1: It sounds what I would describe as eclectic in all
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Speaker 1: the best ways.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it depends. If you're someone that's really into music,
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Speaker 8: one of the things that's cool about it is a
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Speaker 8: lot of music we have today that a lot of
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Speaker 8: us listen to, specifically country, it is all-informed music. by
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Speaker 8: folk music.
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Speaker 1: And all of that is coming back. You look at
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Speaker 1: artists like Billy Strings out there that are bringing back
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Speaker 1: bluegrass into a whole new realm.
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Speaker 8: But the difference between the arrangements and how you can
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Speaker 8: take a song that's 100 years old or 150 years
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Speaker 8: old and make it sound modern, it's incredible when you
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Speaker 8: see people do it. And that's what this show is
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Speaker 8: going to be. Now, again, this is going to be
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Speaker 8: at A & M United Methodist Church, Friday night, 7 p.m.
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Speaker 8: Can they still get tickets to this?
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Speaker 9: Yes, actually.
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Speaker 10: Some tickets, a little bit of them is still left.
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Speaker 10: Student tickets are, I would say, symbolic.
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Speaker 12: Okay.
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Speaker 9: Meaning $ 5. There you go. Student tickets.
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Speaker 8: Dang.
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Speaker 10: And considering that A & M United Methodist is right
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Speaker 10: across university from campus, we expect a good turnout of
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Speaker 10: students for this event.
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Speaker 1: Very good. So you can find out more about this.
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Speaker 1: Your website is fcm.edu. That's correct. And you can get
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Speaker 1: tickets there as well?
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Speaker 9: Yes, absolutely.
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Speaker 10: And we have five concerts coming up after this. So
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Speaker 10: it's only the opening show of our season. And we'll
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Speaker 10: have the acclaimed, internationally, globally acclaimed Academy of Saint Martin
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Speaker 10: in the fields in November. We'll have a Baroque orchestra
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Speaker 10: this time, not a small ensemble.
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Speaker 9: In February, in March, we have a fantastic event.
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Speaker 10: And it is a piano puzzler whom many people, not many,
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Speaker 10: but millions of people around the globe actually know by
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Speaker 10: his show on NPR Performance Today. And two concerts that
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Speaker 10: are of solo musicians will conclude our season. One is
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Speaker 10: the winner of the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Eric
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Speaker 10: Liu in April. And another one is, well, she is
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Speaker 10: a child prodigy. She will be 15 when she performs here.
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Speaker 8: She's 15?
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 9: She will be next May 15th.
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Speaker 8: Holy cow.
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Speaker 13: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Okay, so if you want tickets to any of the shows, again,
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Speaker 8: same website, fcmtx.org.
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Speaker 10: It is same website, and I want to say that
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Speaker 10: two performances of the season are free of charge, but
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Speaker 10: we require registration because they fill up very quickly, and
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Speaker 10: we cannot.
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Speaker 8: Can you get season tickets or is it just one
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Speaker 8: at a time?
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Speaker 10: Unfortunately, this year we don't have season tickets. But we
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Speaker 10: promise for those who stay with us through this season
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Speaker 10: to have season tickets next.
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Speaker 1: This is something that's completely it's very cool. It's completely different.
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Speaker 1: It is not what you're going to get on an
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Speaker 1: average night looking for live music. And it's something that
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Speaker 1: I think would be very rewarding to attend. I think
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Speaker 1: this is very cool.
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Speaker 8: Thank you so much for coming in and giving us
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Speaker 8: the rundown on this.
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Speaker 9: Well, thank you so much, guys. I would love to
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Speaker 9: see you at our concerts.
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Speaker 8: Probably will.
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Speaker 1: You never know.
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Speaker 14: Absolutely.
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Speaker 20: Friends of Chamber Music presents the American Patchwork Quartet, Friday,
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Speaker 20: October 9th, 7 p.m., A & M United Methodist Church
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Speaker 20: and College Station. Grammy nominees for the Best Folk Album,
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Speaker 20: four international musicians reimagine American folk songs through the traditions
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Speaker 20: they carry with influences of jazz and global music. Your
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Speaker 20: ticket's available at Friends of Chamber Music website, fcmtx.org.
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Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTAW. Jason, Tex, and Will, Chamber Music is not a musical.
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Speaker 8: You may enjoy it if.
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Speaker 1: You have never been. Look, I'm very familiar with what
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Speaker 1: Chamber Music is.
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Speaker 2: He knows.
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Speaker 1: Making fun of me just because I don't like musicals.
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Speaker 8: I think it was more the musical thing.
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Speaker 1: Very much so. I get it.
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Speaker 14: Go ahead.
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Speaker 1: I can take it. Bring it on.
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Speaker 8: Have you ever heard a rumor... that you are less
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Speaker 8: likely to get allergies if you grew up on a farm.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I've always counted that as fact.
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Speaker 8: Have you?
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Speaker 1: Anytime that... I mean, it's kind of like Nietzsche, who said,
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Speaker 1: that which does not kill us makes us stronger.
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Speaker 21: Right.
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Speaker 1: Right? I think that if you grow up in dirt,
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Speaker 1: you grow up outside, you grow up experiencing things and
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Speaker 1: being exposed to things, your body's immune system learns how
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Speaker 1: to deal with it.
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Speaker 8: See, the thing is, this seems very easy.
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Speaker 21: Like.
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Speaker 8: Because we're such an agriculturally based area, this seems like
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Speaker 8: the part of the state where you would absolutely be
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Speaker 8: able to talk to some people that somehow avoided that.
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Speaker 8: You know, like if this really worked, you'd have tons
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Speaker 8: of people be like, yeah, never had an allergy in
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Speaker 8: my life.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 8: And and I don't know if that describes you and
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Speaker 8: people have always thought you're crazy. Turns out, maybe not.
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Speaker 8: It might actually just be the way it is. The
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Speaker 8: way to prevent allergies is growing up outdoors.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think so. And they're actually doing some
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Speaker 1: research now because of the uptick in peanut allergies.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 1: They're actually using exposure therapy with very young kids and getting...
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Speaker 1: some serious results on that.
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Speaker 8: I remember when that first started because when everyone all
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Speaker 8: of a sudden, I don't mean everyone, but when a
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Speaker 8: lot of kids all of a sudden, holy crap, peanut allergies.
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Speaker 22: Never.
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Speaker 1: When I was growing up, it wasn't the thing at all.
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Speaker 1: So it happened between me and you.
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Speaker 8: I never experienced it until, it didn't happen when I
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Speaker 8: was a kid. It happened in like, I want to
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Speaker 8: say the 90s or the 2000s.
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Speaker 1: That's about right. And then, yeah, they.
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Speaker 8: Figured out that like, again, it just, you just have
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Speaker 8: to be around it a little bit. And then, you know,
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Speaker 8: over time, it can kind of help a little.
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Speaker 1: You know, I never had allergies at all growing up.
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Speaker 8: You never had any allergies? That lends it to me
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Speaker 8: because y'all were so plant.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was around that stuff all the time. I
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Speaker 1: developed allergies when I moved back to Texas from Arkansas. Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 1: And I moved to Austin. And my first year of
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Speaker 1: cedar fever, I didn't know what was going on. I
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Speaker 1: thought I was going to die. But, yeah, I never
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Speaker 1: had allergies until then. I wasn't even allergic to poison ivy.
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Speaker 1: Until I had a staph infection. I had to take
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Speaker 1: some serious antibiotics. And after that, I became allergic to
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Speaker 1: poison ivy.
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Speaker 8: You know what's wild? I didn't have allergies here. I
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Speaker 8: got allergies when I went to San Antonio. And then, no,
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Speaker 8: it's reversed. I have allergies here. I've got allergy shots,
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Speaker 8: all that stuff. When I went to San Antonio is
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Speaker 8: when I didn't have any allergies. I was the only
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Speaker 8: person who moved to San Antonio and didn't hate it
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Speaker 8: a lot.
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Speaker 1: That's bizarre.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Most of my friends, everyone else goes, oh, you're going
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Speaker 8: to hate it out there. Because, you know, the cedar,
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Speaker 8: every single spring, it just sheds pollen and everyone's miserable. No,
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Speaker 8: it was great. Best three years I had was allergy-free.
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Speaker 8: Came back to Houston immediately. Right back in it. So
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Speaker 8: I have no idea like how that happened.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I suffer from them now, not to the extent
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Speaker 1: that a lot of people do, but I mean, it
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Speaker 1: gets my attention, man.
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Speaker 8: Do you consider allergies to be sick day worthy?
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Speaker 1: No, but what my allergies can develop into, which is
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Speaker 1: typically a sinus infection.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I have taken a day off for that.
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Speaker 8: That's always the question. Like I, I know that there's
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Speaker 8: always this thought that, Hey, Even though you're in literal
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Speaker 8: allergy hell, you should still just go to work and
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Speaker 8: tough it out because it's not contagious. I don't know
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Speaker 8: that I subscribe to that.
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Speaker 1: Look, I'm not going to force anybody to go to work.
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Speaker 1: I make my own choice when it comes to that.
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Speaker 1: If you don't feel good, I get it. Now, there
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Speaker 1: was a day when I would make fun of you.
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Speaker 23: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh, a little allergy, baby.
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Speaker 14: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: But some people suffer from them to extremes.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it can be a crippling thing.
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Speaker 18: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I know people, it's like it wrecks their whole week. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so I'm not going to downplay it for anybody.
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Speaker 8: Charlie, from one to two, I swear, my kids survived
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Speaker 8: on peanuts and garden dirt.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Zero allergies. And those are healthy kids.
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Speaker 8: The rub some dirt on it method.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it works. I ate carrots straight out of the garden.
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Speaker 1: I washed them off briefly under the water hose where
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Speaker 1: I was also getting my liquid refreshment.
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Speaker 8: Remember that, y'all.
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Speaker 24: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Turn on the hose.
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Speaker 1: Dad, I'm thirsty. Here's the hose.
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Speaker 23: There you go.
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Speaker 8: That's not hard. But yeah, fascinating stuff. We got to
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Speaker 1: including nine conference championships. Sixty-nine-year-old Angela Serra, the owner and
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Speaker 1: You know who we can give credit to for this
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Speaker 1: incredible weather?
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Speaker 2: Who?
38:33
Speaker 1: Our city government, like the mayor.
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Speaker 8: Do you have any wizardry on me? It's all you. Yeah,
38:39
Speaker 8: I would say, hey, you know, if you got the
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Speaker 1: Everybody's always speculated that the government's had a weather machine.
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Speaker 12: No, that's just prayers from above.
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39:02
Speaker 8: This conversation with Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. How you doing?
39:06
Speaker 12: I'm doing great. Just like you say, great weather. Better
39:09
Speaker 12: way to spend the morning.
39:11
Speaker 8: It's pretty dang nice out there currently. Obviously, everyone's staying
39:16
Speaker 8: busy right now as we're coming up on an election
39:18
Speaker 8: and everything else. One of the big things that's... We
39:22
Speaker 8: did this, too. I feel like we were talking budgets
39:25
Speaker 8: and tax rate for a solid Two or three months.
39:28
Speaker 20: Easy.
39:29
Speaker 8: Every day. with you guys and the county and with
39:34
Speaker 8: College Station. And then you come into a cycle where
39:39
Speaker 8: everyone is consistently griping about the tax rates. And I
39:45
Speaker 8: know we've had this conversation before, but as far as
39:48
Speaker 8: the way it all shook out for the city, Brian looks,
39:52
Speaker 8: we did really looks like you're on the, the, the,
39:54
Speaker 8: the good side of, you know, where the rates fall.
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Speaker 12: Well, yeah, we were under the no new revenue rates.
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Speaker 22: So we effectively gave the citizens a tax break at 6.4
40:05
Speaker 22: and 0.64. And, you know, we're, we're able to do
40:09
Speaker 22: that and still keep all our credit rating where, you know,
40:11
Speaker 22: where we keep, you know, adjusting our credit rating to
40:14
Speaker 22: the positive.
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Speaker 12: And it's just, you know, we're out there.
40:17
Speaker 22: We know people are buying our bonds at record levels
40:20
Speaker 22: that we've never seen before. They know that we're growing
40:23
Speaker 22: around the world, not just around our city, around our state,
40:26
Speaker 22: but around the world. People are looking at us and
40:28
Speaker 22: they know things are happening here. And then with these
40:30
Speaker 22: new announcements that we have, the growth and everything else,
40:33
Speaker 22: and you look at our credit rating, you look at
40:34
Speaker 22: what we're doing, we're on a really good trajectory. And
40:38
Speaker 22: at City of Brown, I mean, you see things and
40:40
Speaker 22: you know things are happening. And if you look back
40:42
Speaker 22: know 15 years where we were then or 20 years
40:46
Speaker 22: or where we were 25 years where we were and
40:48
Speaker 22: now you look at where we are now and the
40:50
Speaker 22: momentum that we have is incredible.
40:52
Speaker 8: Yeah the amount like i know i know there's always
40:54
Speaker 8: projects going on i know that you guys stay very
40:57
Speaker 8: very busy um some of the upcoming stuff i know
41:01
Speaker 8: is is it just seems like it's kind of compounding
41:04
Speaker 8: on these these new developments, new partnerships you guys are
41:07
Speaker 8: able to pull together.
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Speaker 22: Part of the thing you do as the mayor is
41:10
Speaker 22: you're the salesman for the city. You go out and
41:12
Speaker 22: you're looking for economic development, or at least this is
41:14
Speaker 22: how I believe this. You're out there looking for these companies.
41:17
Speaker 22: You're proactively going searching the things that you need, the
41:20
Speaker 22: deficiencies that you have, the lack of wherever you're at
41:22
Speaker 22: in your town, in your community. I don't think there's
41:25
Speaker 22: a place I have ever been that I'm not watching
41:27
Speaker 22: every single retail shop or every single industry or every
41:30
Speaker 22: single company that I see there And I'm going, do
41:32
Speaker 22: we have that, or would that even work in our area?
41:35
Speaker 12: Is this good? Is this positive? It's not.
41:37
Speaker 22: And I'm just the kind of guy that will pick
41:39
Speaker 22: up the phone and call them and say, hey, we
41:41
Speaker 22: have an opening here. We have a gap in our whatever.
41:43
Speaker 22: We have a supply chain or in our retail. We
41:46
Speaker 22: have this gap. How do we get you guys here?
41:49
Speaker 22: Because I see how successful you are in XYZ City, and,
41:53
Speaker 22: you know, this is our community. You know, whether it
41:55
Speaker 22: be Bryan or whether it be College Station, you know,
41:56
Speaker 22: we just see Bryan has to work a little harder
41:59
Speaker 22: for our retail. We don't have the numbers yet. We
42:01
Speaker 22: don't have the democracy. The demographics in Bryan are a
42:04
Speaker 22: little bit different than they are in College Station.
42:06
Speaker 12: It's a positive. If you still look at our area,
42:09
Speaker 12: we both win no matter where we go.
42:10
Speaker 8: What do people want to see when you're talking about
42:13
Speaker 8: your company coming in retail-wise? What makes a Bryan attractive
42:19
Speaker 8: to some of these businesses?
42:21
Speaker 22: Well, I think it's the growth. I think that we
42:22
Speaker 22: have the spots. Our land values are less expensive, so
42:27
Speaker 22: it's easier for the bears to entry to get into
42:29
Speaker 22: our markets.
42:29
Speaker 12: To get our market.
42:31
Speaker 22: So if you look at our market as Brian calls
42:32
Speaker 22: station and people just don't know where the boundaries are.
42:37
Speaker 22: So you could be one block over or 10 blocks
42:39
Speaker 22: over or a mile over, and you don't know where
42:41
Speaker 22: you're at, but if you can get in for less money,
42:43
Speaker 22: that's always attractive for any business.
42:45
Speaker 12: And if you know, you're going to get the support.
42:47
Speaker 22: A lot of our support is on the, on the
42:49
Speaker 22: front end is where we have a tremendous staff that
42:52
Speaker 22: will go, Hey, I need, we need this, this, and this.
42:54
Speaker 22: And we expedite pretty quickly. We always say this, we
42:57
Speaker 22: work at the speed of business. We don't work at
42:59
Speaker 22: the speed of government. And customer service for us is
43:02
Speaker 22: a big deal. And I know our staff believes that
43:04
Speaker 22: we are one city. I mean, everybody, every department is just,
43:10
Speaker 22: we do this all together. Our city manager has put
43:13
Speaker 22: that into it, and it's like, you know, we're one team.
43:16
Speaker 22: So whether you're on the elected end of it or
43:18
Speaker 22: whether you're on the business end of it, we are
43:20
Speaker 22: one team.
43:22
Speaker 8: It is crazy how many teams. things that keep popping
43:26
Speaker 8: up that are coming in some larger scale, some smaller scale.
43:31
Speaker 8: What are some of the things that are on your
43:34
Speaker 8: radar coming up for the fall?
43:37
Speaker 12: Well, you know, we have Master Brick.
43:38
Speaker 22: If you've gone out to 2818 out there and Highway 6,
43:41
Speaker 22: if you look at that big, massive building, it's come
43:45
Speaker 22: along as Phase 1, and it's going to be a
43:49
Speaker 22: world-class brick manufacturing facility that will supply not only our
43:52
Speaker 22: area but surrounding areas, you know, call stations, You know, Houston, Dallas,
43:56
Speaker 22: San Antonio is going to be their major manufacturing point
44:00
Speaker 22: for that. And that's just phase one. They have the
44:02
Speaker 22: next phase will come along probably hopefully within the next
44:04
Speaker 22: year or so. And just more jobs. And these are
44:07
Speaker 22: high paying jobs, too. You look at what Amazon's done
44:10
Speaker 22: just up next door to them over there. Two hundred
44:12
Speaker 22: fifty high paying jobs over there. Certainties about to break ground.
44:15
Speaker 22: Christian Distributing. We just talked about Christian Distributing.
44:17
Speaker 8: We did just talk about Christian.
44:19
Speaker 14: Yeah.
44:19
Speaker 12: I mean, you just have.
44:22
Speaker 22: Axis Pipe and Tube, you know, Palomza, they're expanding. They're
44:26
Speaker 22: doing another, I think it's $ 100 to $ 150 million expansion
44:30
Speaker 22: out there, adding a whole new stream of their powder
44:34
Speaker 22: coating and all the different things because, you know, Texas
44:36
Speaker 22: is growing, and our community is set really good for the,
44:39
Speaker 22: you know.
44:40
Speaker 12: Distribution of everything.
44:42
Speaker 8: That's true.
44:43
Speaker 1: Yeah.
44:43
Speaker 22: So it's just, for me, it's jobs, infrastructure. You know,
44:46
Speaker 22: we've got to be able to keep up with it.
44:47
Speaker 22: You know, we have, you know, TerraFab, the announcement, all
44:50
Speaker 22: the people that I've been calling and talking and saying, hey,
44:52
Speaker 22: We're about to explode.
44:53
Speaker 12: We're about to explode.
44:55
Speaker 22: Not even knowing about this one until six months ago
44:58
Speaker 22: or so. But now they're all calling back and going, hey,
45:02
Speaker 22: we need to come down. We need to take another look.
45:03
Speaker 22: We want to do this expansion.
45:05
Speaker 12: Have you seen some of the pictures of.
45:06
Speaker 1: of uh seen some of the flyovers people have done
45:09
Speaker 1: with drones the construction out there.
45:11
Speaker 8: I'm sure you've seen some of these it's that that
45:14
Speaker 8: the scale of that project is i saw we were
45:17
Speaker 8: talking about the amount of concrete.
45:20
Speaker 1: 13 million cubic yards is what it went out on
45:22
Speaker 1: their rfq from what i understand.
45:24
Speaker 8: Which is such a comical numbers like 13 million but
45:26
Speaker 8: when you compare it to other stuff.
45:28
Speaker 1: I think the plant over in taylor yeah big one
45:31
Speaker 1: there was 650 000 yeah and and like that's a.
45:36
Speaker 8: If you've ever driven by that, you know how big
45:38
Speaker 8: that is. And then you start talking about, we're just
45:40
Speaker 8: going to need to pour 13 million cubic. It's going
45:46
Speaker 8: to be.
45:46
Speaker 1: It's a scale that it's hard to imagine.
45:48
Speaker 8: And that's the thing. It's not just building that is
45:52
Speaker 8: such a monumental task. It creates a whole economy. It's
45:58
Speaker 8: going to create a whole economy for however long it
46:00
Speaker 8: takes them to get. I'm talking 10 years before they
46:02
Speaker 8: can finish the whole thing up.
46:04
Speaker 22: The jobs it's going to create, just on the manufacturing end,
46:06
Speaker 22: not just the jobs after it's here, but the manufacturing
46:09
Speaker 22: end of it is going to be incredible. That will
46:12
Speaker 22: probably be the biggest part of the numbers is being
46:14
Speaker 22: the manufacturing part of it. Infrastructure for us is going
46:17
Speaker 22: to be critical. How do we plan for that? We
46:20
Speaker 22: should already be planning for it. We have been. So
46:22
Speaker 22: I would say have a 100-year plan, implement it 10
46:25
Speaker 22: years at a time because things change. And but have
46:28
Speaker 22: that vision of the hundred years. And we need to
46:30
Speaker 22: be thinking about that right now. And we need to
46:32
Speaker 22: make sure that whatever that is, infrastructure wise, we're ready
46:36
Speaker 22: and we're ready to do this stuff. But I think,
46:38
Speaker 22: you know, with what we've done in the city of
46:40
Speaker 22: Bryan is keeping, you know, trying to keep our taxes low,
46:42
Speaker 22: trying to put all the new money into old infrastructure,
46:45
Speaker 22: new infrastructure and how we've used those dollars wisely.
46:49
Speaker 12: I think it's it's showing now. So we're we're doing well.
46:52
Speaker 8: That's a beautiful thing. Anything else you want to get
46:54
Speaker 8: to today? You get free range, man.
46:58
Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 12: That's crazy.
47:00
Speaker 22: Like I was saying, all these people that I've been
47:02
Speaker 22: talking to, talking about downtown, talking about midtown, talking about uptown,
47:07
Speaker 22: all this new redevelopment that we have, they're all calling
47:10
Speaker 22: back now after this big announcement. And we still have
47:12
Speaker 22: several announcements. Hopefully these things, we can get them across
47:15
Speaker 22: the finish line. It's just when I say we work
47:18
Speaker 22: at the speed of business, the city of Bryan works
47:19
Speaker 22: at the speed of business, but sometimes business and industry
47:22
Speaker 22: doesn't work that fast either.
47:23
Speaker 24: True.
47:24
Speaker 12: And it is.
47:26
Speaker 22: You're pent up on these NDAs that you can't talk about.
47:29
Speaker 22: You have these great big projects. What Texas A &
47:31
Speaker 22: M has done out at RELLIS Campus and with the
47:34
Speaker 22: Semiconductor Institute and all the stuff they have around power
47:37
Speaker 22: and generation and nuclear, we're on the cusp of something
47:41
Speaker 22: really big to have a hub for.
47:45
Speaker 12: Truly saving the world.
47:47
Speaker 22: Not just our area here, but having an industry that
47:50
Speaker 22: really does contribute to better quality of life for everybody.
47:54
Speaker 22: If we can make sure that we can keep that
47:56
Speaker 22: quality of life here as well, and that's that 100-year
47:59
Speaker 22: vision that we make these people as they're coming into
48:01
Speaker 22: this thing, you know, pay their fair share of it.
48:04
Speaker 1: Are you considering changing the motto for the city now
48:06
Speaker 1: to Brian Saving the World?
48:08
Speaker 12: Well, it'll be.
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Speaker 8: That's a strong one.
48:11
Speaker 12: That's a good one. But I think Texas A &
48:13
Speaker 12: M does that every day in their research.
48:15
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
48:15
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48:17
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48:18
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48:21
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48:22
Speaker 12: Absolutely. So we're all better for us all being together.
48:25
Speaker 1: No doubt.
48:25
Speaker 21: Absolutely.
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48:29
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48:29
Speaker 12: Thank you.
48:30
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Speaker 1: I have been in the past. I will occasionally... go
51:35
Speaker 1: to a garage sale or something like that.
51:37
Speaker 8: Like a good thrift shop.
51:38
Speaker 1: A thrift shop, yeah, if I'm curious about what's going
51:41
Speaker 1: on there. And you never know what you can find
51:43
Speaker 1: in those sort of things.
51:44
Speaker 8: Yeah, you never do, man. And that's what stories like
51:48
Speaker 8: this are what give me hope that one day, one day.
51:53
Speaker 8: But I don't know that I should have this kind
51:55
Speaker 8: of hope because I don't know how this person identified
51:58
Speaker 8: this painting.
51:59
Speaker 1: I really don't. I don't know either, but she was
52:01
Speaker 1: at a Michigan estate sale in July. And for $ 30,
52:06
Speaker 1: she bought a painting that she recognized as a surrealist
52:12
Speaker 1: 1951 painting.
52:13
Speaker 12: $ 30.
52:14
Speaker 34: $ 30.
52:14
Speaker 1: That was the price.
52:17
Speaker 8: A nice little piece of art.
52:19
Speaker 1: Sold on Thursday.
52:20
Speaker 8: Right.
52:21
Speaker 1: $ 1. 35 million.
52:23
Speaker 24: Yeah.
52:23
Speaker 11: Yeah.
52:24
Speaker 33: Yeah.
52:25
Speaker 8: So there's two sides to this. There's the side of
52:27
Speaker 8: the person that got that and then, you know, snatched
52:31
Speaker 8: it up for $ 30, made herself a cool million and change.
52:35
Speaker 8: And then there's the poor person on the other side.
52:38
Speaker 8: How much would that haunt you?
52:40
Speaker 1: Apparently, this had hung in somebody's home in a hallway
52:45
Speaker 1: that led to the garage in a dark area. And
52:48
Speaker 1: none of the family knew what it was. So it
52:50
Speaker 1: came up in an estate sale. And everybody's like, oh,
52:53
Speaker 1: that's just the old painting that mom made dad put
52:57
Speaker 1: in the garage.
52:58
Speaker 8: Back in the 50s, it was just hanging on the wall.
53:00
Speaker 1: We didn't know.
53:01
Speaker 8: And, you know, yeah, sure, $ 30 sounds great. Moving on.
53:05
Speaker 1: Yeah. Probably could have got them down some, right? Because
53:08
Speaker 1: that's what happens at the garage sales. This is why
53:10
Speaker 1: I don't like them. There's the price. Somebody's going to
53:14
Speaker 1: come in and offer you $ 0.
53:15
Speaker 8: 05 for it. This is why I don't do garage sales.
53:17
Speaker 8: Not because I have anything particularly valuable, but because in
53:20
Speaker 8: my head, it would be very adversarial with the people
53:23
Speaker 8: that are showing up. I'd be like, they know something
53:25
Speaker 8: I don't know. and they're trying to do the split.
53:29
Speaker 1: A lot of those folks, they just get off on
53:32
Speaker 1: trying to get the price down. And then you have
53:34
Speaker 1: the group, like every time I've had a garage sale,
53:36
Speaker 1: and you say, do not show up before 8 a.m.
53:39
Speaker 8: You can't stop those ladies.
53:40
Speaker 1: 4 o'clock in the morning, you find people peeking in
53:42
Speaker 1: your garage.
53:43
Speaker 8: You can't stop those ladies, dude. Yeah, they are a
53:47
Speaker 8: force to be reckoned with.
53:49
Speaker 1: The last time I had a garage sale, and I declared,
53:52
Speaker 1: do not show up before X. The people that showed
53:55
Speaker 1: up before X, they didn't get any deals.
53:58
Speaker 5: Oh.
53:59
Speaker 1: They're lucky I sold them anything. You didn't. You can't
54:02
Speaker 1: follow directions. I don't want you at my garage sale.
54:05
Speaker 8: Your money's no good here, sir.
54:07
Speaker 14: It is.
54:08
Speaker 8: Yeah, I have actively avoided trying to host a garage
54:11
Speaker 8: sale for years and years just because I fear those women. Like,
54:16
Speaker 8: I just, they fill me with tears.
54:19
Speaker 1: When it comes to the garage sale and junk sales
54:22
Speaker 1: and stuff like that, my parents drug me to all
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Speaker 1: kinds of antique shows. When I was a kid, it
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Speaker 1: was at the beginning of the round top stuff.
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Speaker 8: Oh Lord.
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Speaker 1: And we had places that they had restored and they
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Speaker 1: were looking for antique furniture.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 24: Yeah.
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Speaker 30: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And as a small child, I was, I was drug
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Speaker 1: around all of that stuff and I can't stand it anymore.
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Speaker 1: Just like I don't garden. Right.
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Speaker 8: But is it one of those things you could buy
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Speaker 8: people with it? Like the game might pull you back
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Speaker 8: in one day.
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Speaker 1: I've snuck into a few things. I just don't go
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Speaker 1: seeking them out.
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Speaker 14: Man.
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Speaker 8: We're going to have to take you to Round Top
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Speaker 8: at some point. Can you break that streak? I've been.
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Speaker 8: I need some educated eyes.
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Speaker 1: I'm the guy that can tell you where the shade
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Speaker 1: is that you can go hide and sit at.
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Speaker 8: Where's a good pie spot? Tell me a good pie shop.
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Speaker 1: Where's the beer garden?
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Speaker 8: All right, guys. Remember, we talked about this a little
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Speaker 8: bit earlier. 104 years of WTAW as of today and
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Speaker 8: online at WTAW.com. There's a fantastic gallery of podcasts that
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Speaker 8: talk about the first hundred years. Please go check that out.
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Speaker 8: Listen to it. A wild walk down history lane if
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Speaker 8: you've been in the Brass Valley for a while. We'll
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Speaker 8: see you tomorrow.
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Speaker 14: 1620, 94.5 WTAW.