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The Infomaniacs: June 26, 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: opustickets dot org. From the WTAW Newsroom. Good morning, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Will Welch. The Bryant City Council is holding a special
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  Speaker 1: meeting this afternoon to consider property tax breaks for the
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  Speaker 1: new owner of a data center on the Rellis Campus.
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  Speaker 1: Councilman James Edge discussed the proposal during a visit on
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  Speaker 1: our show almost three months ago.
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  Speaker 2: This is a data center that has been under construction
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  Speaker 2: now for about two years and it's nearly finished. They
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  Speaker 2: had some financial issues with the previous owner. Those issues
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  Speaker 2: have been resolved. We have new ownership.
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  Speaker 1: The council agenda does not have the proposed incentive agreement.
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  Speaker 1: The agenda does include an opportunity for public comments before
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  Speaker 1: a council vote. This afternoon's meeting starts at two point fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: with the council meeting in private about the proposed agreement
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  Speaker 1: and a discussion about BTU matters that can be done
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  Speaker 1: in executive session. It's been more than two and a
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  Speaker 1: half year year since the cities of College Station and
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  Speaker 1: Brian reached an agreement to keep the route of a
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  Speaker 1: College Station sewer trunk line project out of a South
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  Speaker 1: Bryan neighborhood. At last night's College Station City Council meeting,
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  Speaker 1: Capital Projects Director Jennifer Kin reported Phase three of the
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  Speaker 1: trunk line project is about ready to go out forbid,
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  Speaker 1: and property acquisition for the fourth phase is about ready
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  Speaker 1: to begin.
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  Speaker 3: We have a number of commercial acquisitions that are going
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  Speaker 3: to be happening potentially along Texas Avenue and University, and
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  Speaker 3: then we are still working with the A and M
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  Speaker 3: system of the Hinzil Park lift station and adjusting that
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  Speaker 3: easement there, so that'll be something we're working through in
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  Speaker 3: the coming month.
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  Speaker 1: Cain says a sewer line replacement on Cooner Street more
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  Speaker 1: than five years ago was built large enough to handle
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  Speaker 1: the increased capacity of the trunk line that we'll be
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  Speaker 1: serving the Northgate district, among other areas. College Station Police
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  Speaker 1: has provided an update on an officer involved shooting that
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  Speaker 1: took place in May. A CSPD news release says following
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  Speaker 1: an investigation by the Texas Rangers in the Brass County
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  Speaker 1: District Attorney's Office, a Brass's Couty grand jury found there
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  Speaker 1: was no criminal conduct on the part of the officer
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  Speaker 1: that resulted in the officer being allowed to return to
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  Speaker 1: regular patrol duty. The man who was shot was treated
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  Speaker 1: for non life threatening injuries after he fired a shot
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  Speaker 1: into an apartment. Twenty eight year old Charles Mail of
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  Speaker 1: Hearn remains jailed in lieu of bonds totaling four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five thousand dollars on charges of shooting a
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  Speaker 1: resident in a neighboring apartment, making a terroristic threat causing
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  Speaker 1: fear of serious bodily injury, and two counts of discharging
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  Speaker 1: a firearm. The Texas A and M Health Science Center
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  Speaker 1: and Burlison County are among the latest recipients of grant
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  Speaker 1: money collected through opioid drug settlement agreements with the state.
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  Speaker 1: Nine locations of the Health Science Center around the state
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  Speaker 1: are getting a combined six million dollars for what is
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  Speaker 1: described as treatment and coordination of care services. Burlison County
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  Speaker 1: is getting almost seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
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  Speaker 1: what is described as recovery support services. WTAW News has
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  Speaker 1: requested details about the grants that were awarded by the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Open Void Abatement Fund Council, whose activities are governed
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  Speaker 1: by the State Comptroller's Office. For the twenty third time
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  Speaker 1: in twenty four years, the Brass County Historical Commission gets
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  Speaker 1: a Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Historical Commission. Chairman
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  Speaker 1: Henry Mayo accepted the state award at this week's county
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  Speaker 1: Commission meeting.
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  Speaker 4: Putting up historical markers, researching cemeteries out in the county
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  Speaker 4: is a very important part of what we're doing nowadays,
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  Speaker 4: and the Texastoric Commission surveys this each year on what
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  Speaker 4: activities we've been doing.
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  Speaker 1: Burtlis and Washington and Mylam Counties were among the sixty
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  Speaker 1: two counties who also received the state award, which is
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  Speaker 1: based on local activities during the preceding year. News is
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  Speaker 1: I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW Good morning or
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  Speaker 5: Weather today is shockingly predictable as it will be. Will
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  Speaker 5: was telling me that later on next week we might
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  Speaker 5: have had a chance of.
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  Speaker 1: Rain, but the chances are already dwindling.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, they're already. We're already seeing that fade away. Because
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  Speaker 5: that's how it works. We are in the part of
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  Speaker 5: the year where it is up to the golf, yep,
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  Speaker 5: and the golf is where we put our faith if
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  Speaker 5: we want to get some rain. Up to the nineties today,
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  Speaker 1: You don't like the forecast here, Yeah, let's look at
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  Speaker 1: the cast for elsewhere.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, you know what that's actually good because I need
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  Speaker 5: something different to say.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's say from NBC Montana, right, a cold front
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  Speaker 1: moving across the region, today will bring a noticeable change
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  Speaker 1: in weather through the weekend. Widespread rain showers will develop first,
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  Speaker 1: then a cold front. Okay, winter storm watches in winter
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  Speaker 1: weather for these areas. Winter the potential for heavy wet snow,
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  Speaker 1: difficult back country travel down trees, and a heightened risk
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  Speaker 1: of hypothermia for anyone outdoors. What I'd love to be there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh, it sounds delightful, doesn't it well, especially.
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  Speaker 5: Based on your day yesterday. If you missed it earlier
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  Speaker 5: in the show, we'll decide you wanted to spend three
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  Speaker 5: hours from noon till three mowing lawns my usual cesta time. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: mowen lawns and then did some more outdoor work. And
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  Speaker 5: then you got to the point where it's the end
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  Speaker 5: of the day and you had to choose between shower
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  Speaker 5: or pool.
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  Speaker 1: You chose shower shower.
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  Speaker 5: I'm surprised you didn't go for the jump in the pool.
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  Speaker 1: I've done it before. Okay, we're at the point, however,
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  Speaker 1: where I think we're going to have to turn on
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  Speaker 1: the pool chiller.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it starts to start to turn into a bathtub.
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  Speaker 1: Because it literally like I went to shave yesterday and
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  Speaker 1: I turned on the cold water faucet, and that was
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  Speaker 1: warmer than what was coming out of the warm water faucet.
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  Speaker 5: It's interesting because there's this whole thing about whether or
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  Speaker 5: not people shower before they get into a public pool.
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  Speaker 1: Saw this.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, fifty two percent of people say they do not
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  Speaker 5: rinse off before getting into a public pool. Fifty two percent.
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  Speaker 5: Does that matter?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Here's a swimm instructure talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, without either rinsing off or taking a shower.
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  Speaker 3: By rinsing off before it allows the pools.
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  Speaker 1: To stay clean.
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  Speaker 6: The hair full goes Indoor hair actually absorb fresh water,
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  Speaker 6: not the chlorine.
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  Speaker 5: Water well to the best of its ability before you
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  Speaker 5: go into the chlorine, so it's actually an.
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  Speaker 1: Extra layer of protection for your hair.
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  Speaker 3: When you come out, you have still a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of chlorine in your hair, so you want to make
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  Speaker 3: sure you wash it out, rinse it off as well
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  Speaker 3: as rints your body off to get the chlorine off.
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  Speaker 1: So now I ask you, does it matter not to me?
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  Speaker 5: Riley?
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  Speaker 1: What about you?
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  Speaker 6: Well, my button's not working. Uh No, honestly, I don't,
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  Speaker 6: she said. As soon as you get in there, the chlorine,
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  Speaker 6: even after you've showered, doesn't really matter. She literally contradicted herself.
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  Speaker 5: So no, the idea is you rinse off all the
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  Speaker 5: crud so that you've gone, you contaminate the public, don't
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  Speaker 5: contaminate the public pool.
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  Speaker 6: What's the difference then when you get in the pool
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  Speaker 6: and everybody doesn't go to the bathroom while they and
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  Speaker 6: they just constantly pee in the pool.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's that's my biggest question is in a public pool.
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  Speaker 5: I don't think any of this matters whatsoever. And I
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  Speaker 5: know you have.
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  Speaker 1: Well, no you're not gonna do it, then they're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it. And if you're not gonna take.
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  Speaker 5: Care of the public pool, that's why our public pools
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  Speaker 5: are trashy Okay, fair.
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  Speaker 1: Well, see what we put in at the house is
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  Speaker 1: called an ool, an ool, Yeah, it doesn't have a
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  Speaker 1: pe in it.
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  Speaker 5: This is where I was going. Man, with a private pool,
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  Speaker 5: does that change the equation of this?
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  Speaker 1: I don't shower before getting in my pool.
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  Speaker 5: But you did mention that you are very militant about
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  Speaker 5: insisting that no one used the pool as facilities.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's common courtesy.
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  Speaker 5: How do you patrol this?
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  Speaker 1: You don't patrol that.
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  Speaker 5: This is this is a gentleman's agreement.
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  Speaker 1: Over to your ear.
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  Speaker 5: You're not going to watch me. And let's say I've
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  Speaker 5: been in the pool for two and a half hours
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  Speaker 5: having some BEVs. You're not going to think to yourself
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  Speaker 5: you ain't gotten out yet.
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  Speaker 1: I might think it to myself, but it would be
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  Speaker 1: uncouth for me to say something in company.
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  Speaker 5: Now it happens, I don't know that it does happen.
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  Speaker 5: I'm actually militant on this.
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  Speaker 1: I will give you the evil eye when I'm laying
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  Speaker 1: down the law and talking about our rule. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you that stern dad, Look, none of this.
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  Speaker 1: I will judge you none of this in our ool.
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  Speaker 5: If I see you in a pool for longer than
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you longer than I'll give you an hour
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  Speaker 5: without getting out, going and relieving.
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  Speaker 1: Yourself, I judge you well.
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  Speaker 5: I might be wrong because if you define a oh dude,
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  Speaker 5: I think we got a pool pier, and then I
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  Speaker 5: see you get up, go find the facilities, you know what?
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  Speaker 1: Okay?
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  Speaker 5: Always forgive you know, because if you get out once,
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  Speaker 5: the person that gets out once is never peeing in
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  Speaker 5: a pool. If you see them leave the pool, you
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  Speaker 5: can take that. You can check this one way or another.
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  Speaker 5: There is not to my knowledge, people that sometimes pee
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  Speaker 5: in a pool or not. It's just it's it's you
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  Speaker 5: are or you are not. And yeah, it is one
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  Speaker 5: of my largest pet piece.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that this is a survey question that
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  Speaker 1: we want to ask.
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  Speaker 5: No, what I will say is that, for the purposes
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  Speaker 5: of the radio show, any text messages we get at
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  Speaker 5: nine seven nine six nine five sixteen twenty for the
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  Speaker 5: next ten minutes, we will not read names associated with
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  Speaker 5: them incognito. You are incognito. This is just you anonymously
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  Speaker 5: throwing this information out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you swim in an ool or do you swim
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  Speaker 1: in a pool? That's right?
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  Speaker 5: Is it an ool where you swim or is it
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  Speaker 5: a pool? Based on your behavior? If you want to
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  Speaker 5: nine seven nine six nine five sixteen twenty. And we
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  Speaker 5: were asking as delicately as we can when you swim
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  Speaker 5: is it an ool or is it a pool?
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  Speaker 1: When you get in?
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  Speaker 5: Notice the difference, Well notice the difference. One of them
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  Speaker 5: has a pe in it. To get where we're going morning,
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  Speaker 5: wt AW. You're up first, What do you got.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, gentlemen and gentle lady.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thank you, sir, good morning.
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  Speaker 7: There's a surefire away to know if you're swimming in
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  Speaker 7: a pool or an ool. Okay, and that is the smell,
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  Speaker 7: the quintessential quote unquote smell of chlorine. Actually it's proof
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  Speaker 7: positive that you're swimming in a pool because chlorine is odorless,
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  Speaker 7: and that smell we all associate with chlorine in pools
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  Speaker 7: actually only occurs when it mixes with enough urrhea.
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  Speaker 5: That's right, you're getting a science lesson we are now
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  Speaker 5: right now?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 7: Saw an Instagram reel from that creator, Mark Rober. I
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  Speaker 7: don't know if you guys have seen him, followed him,
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  Speaker 7: but he did a controlled study and odorless.
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  Speaker 5: So whenever I walk into, uh, the proximity of a
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  Speaker 5: body of water in a controlled like a backyard or
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  Speaker 5: a public place, and I smell chlorine, that is a
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  Speaker 5: pool pool. Not Now if I come around and I'm like,
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  Speaker 5: I don't smell any is it just a nice little bag?
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  Speaker 5: That is an ool? That is an ool?
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  Speaker 1: Holy something asientiate it. We had a text or text
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  Speaker 1: end that says he goes to a particular hotels.
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  Speaker 5: Nice catch. I was gonna say it the same.
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  Speaker 1: Way, will Yeah, and it's an ool, it's a pool,
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  Speaker 1: that it's.
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  Speaker 5: A pool, that's a pool. Uh yeah, I see.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing.
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  Speaker 5: I just I just do not believe in principle that
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  Speaker 5: you should ever pee. And I'll take it further, I
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  Speaker 5: think you should ever pee in a body of water.
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  Speaker 5: What I don't lakes, rivers, riley, you won't do that.
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  Speaker 5: You won't, you won't public lines.
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  Speaker 6: There was this story a long time ago. Obviously we're
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  Speaker 6: in the United States, so I'm not worried about it.
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  Speaker 6: But like you know, you can go in the Amazon
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  Speaker 6: River and you pee in something, and then you can
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  Speaker 6: kind up getting an infection and ory catfish can swim up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: They gave me nightmares for years.
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  Speaker 1: I think still this Amazon, Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's an Amazon.
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  Speaker 5: But still you never know, that was propaganda put out
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  Speaker 5: by people like me to stop maybe some people like
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  Speaker 5: some of the other maybe some text message Monday morning
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  Speaker 5: parks reports or not for the weak part or those
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  Speaker 5: with a significant gag reflex.
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  Speaker 1: I had the utmost.
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  Speaker 5: Respect for the person who took care of the city pools.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how.
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  Speaker 5: They did it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, And to say that this is. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they are sanitary, They are taking steps to make them sanitary.
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  Speaker 5: You people might say it's me being completely ocd in
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  Speaker 5: a neat freaking good lord, it's just a body of water, because,
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  Speaker 5: like I said, used to float the river all the time.
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  Speaker 5: He is the least of anyone's concerns, I would still.
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  Speaker 8: And also he is sterile.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, there's lots of but still we all know
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  Speaker 5: if you had to choose, though, you would like to
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  Speaker 5: swim in a ool.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, if you have your choice.
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  Speaker 5: If you have the choice.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a text and agree again we have
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  Speaker 1: agreed to release no text messages. The text in said,
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  Speaker 1: what if it's a salt water pool? Oh no chlorine
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  Speaker 1: smell to indicate you.
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  Speaker 5: Know what that's that's decept that is you did you
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  Speaker 5: you didn't want to rat on yourself? Yeah, your saltwater pool,
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  Speaker 5: That's what that is. I just want anyone to be
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  Speaker 5: able to figure it out. It's a big I think
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  Speaker 5: it's a big mystery. Invite me over, inte me over.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker's gonna find it's gonna show up with this chemistry set.
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  Speaker 5: I have a chemistry set in my eyes. That's all
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  Speaker 5: I need. They're seeing twenty ninety four to five WTL
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  Speaker 5: A little bit of a muggy or start, a little
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  Speaker 5: bit of a warmer start than we had yesterday, starting
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  Speaker 5: in the eighties and going to the same place mid
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  Speaker 5: nineties or highs. He did next a little warmer than that. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: maybe a little feel a little cooler than the evening
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  Speaker 5: I don't know did last night. It was wonderful. But
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  Speaker 5: that's what we're looking at all week and long, very
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  Speaker 1: From the WTAW Newsroom. Good morning, I'm Will Welch. A
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  Speaker 1: College station police officer has returned to regular patrol duty.
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  Speaker 1: That's after he was placed on paid administrative leave following
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  Speaker 1: an officer involved shooting on May sixteenth. A CSPD news
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  Speaker 1: release says a Bres's County grand jury found no criminal
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  Speaker 1: conduct that followed investigations by the District Attorney's Office and
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. A prior CSPD news release said the
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  Speaker 1: officer Shani suspect who refused to drop his gun after
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  Speaker 1: he fired into an apartment, which resulted in a woman
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  Speaker 1: being hit. The man who was arrested, twenty eight year
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  Speaker 1: old Charles Mail of Hearne, remains jailed on charges of
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  Speaker 1: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of discharging
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  Speaker 1: a firearm, and making a terroristic threat causing fear of
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  Speaker 1: serious bodily injury. Bonds on those charges totals four hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five thousand dollars. For months, the Brian City
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  Speaker 1: Council has been negotiating a tax abatement agreement with the
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  Speaker 1: Texas A and M System and the new owner of
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  Speaker 1: a data center building on the Relis campus. This afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: the council will have a special meeting to consider what
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  Speaker 1: is still an undisclosed agreement.
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  Speaker 2: If you're driving down twenty one, you'll see the building.
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  Speaker 2: It's right there, next to all that electrical infrastructure. I
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  Speaker 2: guess is the last thing on the Lees campus. As
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  Speaker 2: you're going west towards Caldwell.
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  Speaker 1: Councilman James Edge said during an interview on our show
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  Speaker 1: April ninth, that there were financial issues with the original
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  Speaker 1: owner of the data center building, which has been under
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  Speaker 1: construction for two years.
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  Speaker 2: This data center, to be honest with you, it's really
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: not large enough for them to generate their own power.
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  Speaker 2: They can certainly purchase power from BTU, which we're really
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: excited about there as well.
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  Speaker 1: While this afternoon's meeting starts at two fifteen, the council
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: will first meet in private to discuss the proposed agreement
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: and confidential matters involving BTU Before the council. Here's public
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: comments about the data center. A committee in the Texas
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: House shares the results of a new poll on data centers.
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  Speaker 1: State Representative and Angie brad Buckley, whose district includes Fort Hood,
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  Speaker 1: says twenty eight percent supported data centers.
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  Speaker 8: And rural Texas it's twenty two percent.
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  Speaker 1: Buckley also says both sides of the data center debate
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: are so dug in that he doesn't expect polling to change,
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  Speaker 1: and the response rate to a survey that was sent
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: to data center owners about how much power and water
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: they use was under thirty three percent. A semi annual
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: update on capitol projects in College Station was given at
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: last night. City council meeting. Director Jennifer Kin reported, among
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: these sixty nine active projects, is getting closer to starting
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: construction on the city's contract with Brass County to widen
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Greens Prairie Road.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: We are currently finalizing the last piece of design and
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: we had a little bit with several property acquisitions to
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: do and we finally have finalized all of that.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Construction won't start until next year.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: Welburn sud has some utilities in the way at the
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: intersection one of the intersections there at withod Lake, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: so they're going to be moving them this fall. They
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  Speaker 3: have to wait until October to take down their waterline
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: until once we get through the summer season, so they'll
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: relocate and then we'll hopefully start our project. I'm in
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: The City of College Station's website has an interactive map
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: that keeps track of the active projects. This week's Brasi's
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: County Commission meeting included County Judge Dwayne Peters presenting the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Texas Historical Commission's Distinguished Service Award to the Brass County
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Historical Commission.
• 18:29
  Speaker 9: Brad's County is one of sixty two counties with Historical
• 18:32
  Speaker 9: Commission receiving Distinguished Service Awards for an outstanding work for
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: twenty twenty five. The Texas Historical Commission presents these awards
• 18:41
  Speaker 9: each year to the county Historical Commission in recognition of
• 18:44
  Speaker 9: their active and well balanced preservation programs.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Brasis County received the award for the twenty third time
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: in the twenty four years that the state has presented
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the honor, which is based on local activities during the
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: preceding year. Other recipients from the Brassis Founty layor Burlison, Washington,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: and Mileam Counties. The governing body in charge of spending
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: money collected through opioid drug settlement agreements has awarded grants
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to the Texas A and M Health Science Center totaling
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: almost six million dollars. The list of recipients, splitting a
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: combined forty nine million dollars, includes nine health science center
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: locations around the state. The grant money will be spent
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: on what is described as treatment and coordination of care services.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Grant recipients also includes Burlison County, which is getting almost
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for recovery support services.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: WTAW News has requested details about how the grant money
• 19:37
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• 19:40
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• 19:44
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• 20:43
  Speaker 5: When Bill Oliver asks for time on the Infomaniacs, Bill
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: Oliver gets time on the Infomaniacs. Good morning, man, Hi guys,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: it's been a minute.
• 20:52
  Speaker 8: It's been a minute. And let me say as I
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: enter my fiftieth year in this business, fiftieth year in
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: the game count being part of the launching crew at
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: the ten watt FM Powerhouse at Valley High School in
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: Western Malinia, Iowa.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: You got that.
• 21:10
  Speaker 8: Sealed what my fate would be professionally fifty years.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Man. Yeah, what a ride.
• 21:15
  Speaker 8: It changed?
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: It changed a little bit in those fifty years, has it?
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Has it? Yeah? Yeah?
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: Crazy? So what are we talking.
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: About on National Forgiveness Day?
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: On National Forgiveness Day, a day where we should let
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: it go and set all of our bad feelings aside.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I can do that.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I can do that either. I
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: will give you a quick little flashback, so I've been
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: back at the radio station doing I don't know, over
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: a month or whenever it was, and I had not
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: run into Bill. It's like two or three days. I
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: just hadn't run into him. And I think I sat
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: in on the show with you and Riley and Scott,
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: and I was happy.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: It was psyched.
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: I get done. I'm riding that post show high. I
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: opened the door and there's Bill. I say, Bill, and
• 22:00
  Speaker 5: I'm a hugger, so I throw out my arms. He says,
• 22:02
  Speaker 5: you're not gonna want it. Hug me after I tell
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: you what I'm going to tell you, You're probably want
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: to punch me. I was like, nonsense, Bill, nonsense, what
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: did you tell me?
• 22:13
  Speaker 8: Nancy and I are moving to Missouri.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Moving to Missouri, we get to get.
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: To daughters and granddaughters.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: I love to see it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: The granddaughters are ten and fourteen. We've missed enough of
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: their lives.
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: It's it's that time. How many years has it been?
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: Fifty years in the game, fifty years and broadcast news
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: well not well, not just broadcast news.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: I've done everything.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: I've done everything except fixed transmitters and climb towers.
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: What yeah, he's he's I've.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: Taken a few swings at managing. I've done play by
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: play for multiple small colleges and high schools, but this
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: has been my niche for sixteen years and two months.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: So sixteen years and two months doing news at Brian Broadcasting.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: That is nuts.
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: That is a long time to be well, you have
• 23:00
  Speaker 8: institutional history at the company I do.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: But it's but I was I was thinking about this
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: last night because we wanted to talk about this. By
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: the way, what is your your last day so people
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: can be aware next Thursday, next Thursday. I was thinking
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: about this and going over the span of people in
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: my head who have done this job. I don't know
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: anyone's done news director for even half of that. I
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: don't like it might be, but it's it's it's it's
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: a long, long term and uh and yeah it's uh.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: But family calls. What are you going to be doing?
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: I mean, obviously family.
• 23:37
  Speaker 8: Fam Family is the reason for for moving. Yeah, the
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: vehicle to make that happen is that I'm returning to
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: my alma mater. Okay, you can hit I think it's
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: hot key V. If you want to ever play the
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: fight song on.
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: Hold on this, I'll give you a little fight song there.
• 23:56
  Speaker 8: I I do this on occasion during sports season because
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: my album Maters won six national football championships, four men's
• 24:06
  Speaker 8: basketball national champions right.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: They also have a.
• 24:10
  Speaker 8: Few national cheerleading championships. And they purportedly were the first
• 24:17
  Speaker 8: electronic campus in the United States.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: So you're gonna be you're gonna be doing a little
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: bit teaching a little bit of yeah. Broadcast.
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: Since nineteen seventy one, Northwest Missouri State University's had a
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: public radio station KXCV, and they've added a repeater since then.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: And the philosophy since nineteen seventy one has been professionally managed,
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: student operated. And I went through that as a student.
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: And I'm now returning, in fact, to work for a
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: classmate who's now a Hall of Fame broadcaster in Missouri
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: for a sportscasting, and I will be the news director.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: And part of my responsibility is supervising student news producers
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: and student news anchors.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Do these do these kids have any concept, no clue
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: of non of the knowledge that the total package that
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: is Bill Oliver the news goat. They will Bill's gonna
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: lay it down first day.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you here's here's.
• 25:20
  Speaker 8: This well and let me extend this line because when
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: I went to the induction ceremony for the Hall of
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: Fame event, among those who came down from the university
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: was the broadcast news instructor, who I have traded emails
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: over the years because I've been a judge in collegiate
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: student broadcasting and he's been the coordinator. So we have
• 25:44
  Speaker 8: traded emails, and we met in person for the first time,
• 25:48
  Speaker 8: and he's as psyched about me coming as I am
• 25:51
  Speaker 8: as psyched about helping him.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: He should be.
• 25:54
  Speaker 5: There are not many Bill Olivers out there, no, so
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: previously when I was here, my job was, like you know,
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: I identify candidates. I didn't have to identify Bill because
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I wasn't in that job when Bill showed up. But
• 26:04
  Speaker 5: the first thing I thought was, where do you find
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: another Bill Oliver?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: You don't. You don't.
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: And I will prove that point because I did some
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: research last night. If you come to the radio station,
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: you can like walk around. It's basically one big hallway
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: runs past a bunch of studios and ends up in
• 26:22
  Speaker 5: some offices, and you will notice there are plaques everywhere.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: There's no blank space on the walls, there's.
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: No blank space on the walls. Probably ninety nine percent
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: of these awards are awards that have been picked up
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: by WTAW news over the years. So I started trying
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: to research this last night. I was like, geez, you
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: should have just.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: Gone to my LinkedIn page.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Do you have it on your LinkedIn page?
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: I have my list.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, your yours might be accurate. So what I'm
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: going to give you. I did a good hour of this,
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: and then I just turned to chat GPT and I said, look,
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: here's some websites to look for. I need seventeen years
• 26:56
  Speaker 5: of awards from WTAW. What do we have? And it
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: spit out this spreadsheet that is so lengthy that I
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: can't I'm not even bothered scrolling. I gave a summary.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: I will. So here's what I've got for the years
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: of twenty ten through twenty twenty six. And I know
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: it's missed some. I just, frankly do Texas Association of
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: Press Broadcasters ninety nine individual awards, ninety nine, the TBNA
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: thirty five awards.
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: And that's the Text Association of Broadcasters which followed the ap.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Oh, I missed one forty five, it's forty five. It
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: gave me two columns on this TAPB. It also gave
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: we're gonna have to redo this it chat GPT to
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: chat GPD things one hundred and seven TAPB forty five
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: TBNA Headliners. Foundation of Texas four awards, which is a
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: huge deal. National Association of Broadcaster Marcony Awards, two awards, Murrows,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: stinking murrows.
• 28:00
  Speaker 8: Those are regional.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I'd like that. Like that, Yeah, come on, they'll try
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to play it down.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: Edmund Armureau Awards, two awards. There was at some point,
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: I want to say, a ten year streak where WTAW
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: got the same award every single year, which was overall
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: excellence for news products in all of Texas, every market,
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: every radio station WTAW news regardless of size. That is
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: a total of, I mean somewhere in neighborhood one hundred
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: and sixty individual awards based on news content excellence, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: all of them have been under Bill Oliver's watch. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: we could go back and find we once and before.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: I don't think this is where I had to go
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: to sleep last night. I don't know if that's I
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: don't know where that stacks up. It's one of the
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: most impressive things ever. When Scott left, we were doing
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: some stuff and Chip came in and to do an interview,
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: and he said something jumped out of memes like, I
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: don't know if the Brass Valley knows how lucky they are.
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: And it's been something I've thought for a while going.
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: Back, this is not a news desert.
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: It is not a news desert. There is a lot
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: of news that happens.
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: And many organizations, so many very capable, well staffed organizations
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: to cover that news.
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: So I've known for obviously about a month that Bill
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: was leaving, and I've had chance to go and talk
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: to a bunch of people, a bunch of newsmakers, a
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: bunch of people in the community. The level of gratitude
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: that people have mentioned whenever your name comes up is
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: something I don't think I've experienced in a long time.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: And I don't know how someone fills those shoes. But
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: as far as the greats in news, as far as
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: I can tell, Bill Oliver might be might be. He's
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: definitely on the short list of most awarded journalists.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: This is a Texas Broadcasters Hall of Fame career.
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: It's all he needs going to the hall.
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: No, let's get Scott in there first.
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: I thought Scott was in the hall. Is we can
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: put both of the all in.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, both of you guys. They've got room for sure. Yeah,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that's number one. Number two, if you ask the people,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the newsmakers here in town, the city councils, you asked
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the county commissioners, the mayors, you ask people in the
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: state government, the federal government, they will tell you that
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: number one, they are sad you're leaving, and number two,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: they might be happy that you're leaving.
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: That is the reaction. I've gotten a breath of relief
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: because you couldn't sneak You can't sneak something by Bill.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: It's it's I'm sure not say a perfect records pretty
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: dang close.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: I every time I think of Bill Oliver, I think
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: about the fact that he should be wearing the old
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: school for Dora with the press back like stapled to it.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: You remember, like the Clark Kent used to wear. Yeah,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: that's that's not There's not.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: That many people that hold the hold the journalism of
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: the way I think we all expect journalism to be
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: held to, and so I have I have been grateful
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: for all of those seeings.
• 31:14
  Speaker 8: And let me interject my definition of journalism because journalism
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: is too big, is too big of a word, because
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: journalism includes what I do, which is reporting, but journalism
• 31:27
  Speaker 8: also includes opinion, It includes pod Well podcast is part
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: of the vehicle for it.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: It's definitely opinions.
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's I I don't call myself a journalist as
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: much as I call myself a reporter, because that's what
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: I do and apparently that's what I'm good at.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: As far as Texas reporters again and mount rushmore bills
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: on it, and that's and as far as the accolades,
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: I'm sure you're going to be getting a lot of
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: flowers because I'm ready working to get you a lot
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: of flowers, because good Lord, like, what a streak. So
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: how does one Bill Oliver?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Who do we get.
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: Thanks to Will? What happened for recruiting the successor? Who
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: did not know in her wildest dreams that this is
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: going to happen in her life?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Well, you guys have heard Jeanette on the show filling
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: in every so often. Jeanette and I worked together in
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Austin years ago, and when winds started changing up here,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I contacted Jeanette and I said, there's going to be opportunity,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and I think you have the things that that are
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: you know, you can make it possible for you to
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: do this. And all I did was, you know, encourage
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: her to walk through the door. And she's done that
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and she will.
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: She not only walked in the door, it kicked it
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: right through the other side of the wall. And fantastic
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: talent we have.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: We have some texts coming in. Please already Steve Smith.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: As an elected official in this county since nineteen ninety five,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: I cannot overstate the competence and fairness of the coverage
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that Bill Oliver is provided in politics in this community.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Best wishes my friend.
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: True, absolutely true, and yeah, I feel free to text
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: us your thoughts if you want to, and we will,
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: we will, we will talk about this again. But congratulations
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: on absolutely unparalleled stretch here in Texas. And thank you
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: from someone who has benefited quite a lot from having
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: a unbelievably solid radio newsroom in the building. And it's
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: been a pleasure, absolute pleasure every day watching you work.
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: Man.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You're welcome, man. Yeah, for sure, we're.
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Back after this.
• 33:33
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  Speaker 6: year's Director's Cup. The Aggi's earned nine hundred and eighty points,
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  Speaker 6: finishing fourth among fellow SEC schools. The Maroon and White
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  Speaker 6: locked in their fourteenth top fifteen ranking and third straight
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  Speaker 6: dating back to the twenty twenty three to twenty twenty
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  Speaker 6: four campaign. The Director's Cup assigns a point value to
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  Speaker 6: each team based off its postseason finish, with one hundred
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  Speaker 6: points being given to the sports respective national champion. Texas
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  Speaker 6: A and M, led by volleyball and women's tennis, both
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  Speaker 6: secured national titles this season. Fourth year head coach Jamie
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  Speaker 6: Morrison's volleyball program brought home its first national championship after
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  Speaker 6: an historical twenty nine to fourth season where the Aggies
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  Speaker 6: took down three number one seeds in the NCAA tournament
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  Speaker 6: and swept their way through the final four. Mark Weaver
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  Speaker 6: and the women's tennis team secured their second national title
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  Speaker 6: in three years with a twenty eight to five ledger
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  Speaker 6: that was highlighted by an epic four to three victory
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  Speaker 6: over number one overall seed Georgia in the semifinals on
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  Speaker 6: its home court and a dominant four to one display
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  Speaker 6: against Auburn for the championship. Texas A and M since
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  Speaker 6: seventeen of its nineteen programs to the postseason this year.
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  Speaker 6: Leading the way, along with volleyball and women's tennis, was
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  Speaker 6: men's indoor track and field and football, who garnered seventy
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  Speaker 6: three point five and seventy point five points, respectively. The
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  Speaker 6: men's indoor track and field team played sixth in the country,
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  Speaker 6: while football hosted a playoff game for the first time
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  Speaker 6: in school history with an eleven to two overall record.
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  Speaker 6: As the final whistle blue in the United States men's
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  Speaker 6: national team three.
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  Speaker 5: To two lost to Turkey.
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  Speaker 6: It was difficult to know what to make of the
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  Speaker 6: US's team during the game. The US had the team's
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  Speaker 6: least experienced players perform and show growth throughout the game. However,
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  Speaker 6: it was still frustrating to lose. During the World Cup,
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  Speaker 6: at times in the first half, the US looked overwhelmed
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  Speaker 6: by Turkey's technical proficiency, but the Americans responded with a
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  Speaker 6: gutsy second half performance that appeared to have them headed
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  Speaker 6: into a two to two drawl until Turkey had the
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  Speaker 6: last word, scoring in the eighth minute of stoppage time
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  Speaker 6: to secure a three to two win four the Crescent Stars.
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  Speaker 6: The next time the US hits the field will be Wednesday,
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  Speaker 6: July first. In the MLB. Last night, Houston Astros pitcher
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  Speaker 6: tatumia I mind struck out ten as the Astros beat
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  Speaker 6: the Detroit Tigers two to one and extended their winning
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  Speaker 6: streak to three games. Texas Rangers outfielder Wyatt Langford hit
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  Speaker 6: a three run home run. Jake Berger and Jock Peterson
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  Speaker 6: also went deep as the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto
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  Speaker 6: Blue Jays six to five. Rangers manager Skip Schumacher recap
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  Speaker 6: the game.
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  Speaker 10: That started everything for us. The momentum started because of
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  Speaker 10: Jock and that ten to eleven pitch at bat or
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  Speaker 10: whatever ended up being a home run. You know, we're
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  Speaker 10: just hoping for, you know, start us off, get on
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  Speaker 10: base walk, whatever it was. But for him to lead
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  Speaker 10: it off like that really set the tone, and then
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  Speaker 10: offense kept going I think that was the biggest thing
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  Speaker 10: as well, was just a one round lead. It gave
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  Speaker 10: Mackenzie a cushion to go out there and pitch, and
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  Speaker 10: you know, other than that one inning, he did an
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  Speaker 10: excellent job.
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  Speaker 6: The Rangers hit the field again tonight to play Game
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  Speaker 6: two of their series against the Blue Jays. That's your
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