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The Infomaniacs: July 15, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Solar panels and how BTU compensates customers with panels was
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Speaker 1: a hot topic at last night's Brian City Council meeting.
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Speaker 1: The discussion lasted right at an hour and there was
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Speaker 2: This council clearly has the authority to pull the rugout
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Speaker 1: Without the change, nonsolar BTU customers would see an increase
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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen of the seventy one thousand BTU customers
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Speaker 1: The council also approved all items on these statutory agenda,
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Speaker 1: which included twelve million dollars in spending. Approximately two million
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Speaker 1: of that will go towards the design of a new
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Speaker 1: water pump station and design of an aquifer storage and
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Speaker 1: recovery project. Just over five million dollars will cover street
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Speaker 1: maintenance and repair. An amendment to the city code was
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Speaker 1: passed in regards to benches in city cemeteries. All benches
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Speaker 1: installed must now be constructed of natural stone. Existing metal
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Speaker 1: benches will be allowed to remain from up to twelve
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Speaker 1: months grace period before the city will remove them because
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Speaker 1: other elements. Elon musk SpaceX terrafab facility is one step
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Speaker 1: and Iola ISD school boards voted in favor of ten
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Speaker 1: year tax abatements for the project. But it's not a
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Speaker 1: done deal yet. Governor Abbott must still approve the deal.
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Speaker 1: The start of the semester for college station in Bryan
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Speaker 1: ISDS is right at a month away. And if you've
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Speaker 3: Beginning August first, every UIL school must use wet bulb
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Speaker 1: I'm will welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 4: Sixteen twenty nine four to five WTAW where you are
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Speaker 4: at the infomaniacs, Good morning, and your weather today? Not great,
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Speaker 4: not great, kind of gross. Gonna get some clouds, maybe
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Speaker 4: a little bit of sun this morning. We can still
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Speaker 4: to have another shot at a very wet afternoon similar
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Speaker 4: to yesterday, and then maybe those storms stick around a
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Speaker 4: little bit in the evening. We'll see, but it's only
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Speaker 4: going to get up to the low eighties and down
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Speaker 4: to the seventies tonight tomorrow another shot at rain, and
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Speaker 4: then we should start seeing this kind of move on
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Speaker 4: by the weekend. That is not the case. If you're
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Speaker 4: talking about San Antonio and parts west of that, they
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Speaker 4: are just this. Like if you're wondering why we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: That is bad. Yeah, there's a tornado, bad situation, tornado
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Speaker 1: warning that has just been issued for that area, and
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Speaker 1: it's an observed tornado. This is not a radar indicated.
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Speaker 1: So tornado on the ground as of eight oh five,
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Speaker 1: four minutes ago, is located over the Dominion and it
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Speaker 1: was heading out that direction. Looks like it'll be fair
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Speaker 1: Oaks Ranch around right now, Bullverdi around eight twenty five,
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Speaker 1: and Bergheim around.
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Speaker 4: Horrible place, horrible ray for a tornado because the way
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Speaker 4: it's moving, it's going to cut across basically everything on
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Speaker 4: the far north side, which is it's just not that's
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Speaker 4: not on.
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Speaker 1: Those people have been inundated with rain, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: just it's not good done.
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Speaker 4: And they were smart enough to cancel pretty much everything
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Speaker 4: in the city. So hopefully not a lot of people
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Speaker 4: will be out on the roads. But that's we take
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Speaker 4: for granted, Like, Okay, get four inches of rain here
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Speaker 4: and it's like it's a bad day. It's like, you know,
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Speaker 4: it's inconvenient. It's not the end of the world. You
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Speaker 4: get four inch to rain San Antonio, the whole world
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Speaker 4: shuts down, does thing anyway. So that's the tail of
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Speaker 4: the tape this morning and by the weekend, hopefully we'll
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Speaker 4: be able to dry out a little bit. Whether it's
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Speaker 4: so inconsidered it. This last we're talking about getting old
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Speaker 4: and how we're a bunch of crotchety old men. We're
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Speaker 4: not even the one that scheduled for surgery coming up.
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Speaker 4: Riley's working on actual medical well.
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Speaker 1: To be fair, you know, she's still under warranty, under.
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Speaker 5: Warranty on like oh yeah, yeah, yes, I have my
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Speaker 5: second surgery this year. My first one was the end
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Speaker 5: of April, and I have this one and then I'm
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Speaker 5: done for a while, a while, probably two or three years,
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Speaker 5: will probably have to have my an You missed the
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Speaker 5: whole ankle incident at the beginning of the year.
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Speaker 6: What happened with your ankle.
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Speaker 5: Let's just say he had to take me to the hospital.
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Speaker 1: I get a phone call from from Riley. She's like,
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Speaker 1: I'm in the parking lot. Okay, I fell right, and
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Speaker 1: so I come up here, Uh pick her up. We
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Speaker 1: go over to the er. They do the x ray.
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Speaker 1: Fortunately it wasn't broken, but it was it was tore
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Speaker 1: up pretty good. Okay.
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Speaker 5: So what happened was I was leaving work. This was
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Speaker 5: back when I was doing this show and I was
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Speaker 5: just starting out. So I was getting here but almost
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Speaker 5: before I was getting before you were. I was getting
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Speaker 5: here like right at two fifteen in the morning because
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Speaker 5: I was trying to do so much, trying to bounce it.
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Speaker 5: And then on top of that, I had to do
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Speaker 5: Tech SAgs and Louis show.
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Speaker 3: So I was here.
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Speaker 4: For a full day.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it was Friday or I was gonna learn
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Speaker 5: how to do Chip show. I was walking out of
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Speaker 5: the building downstairs with the back parking lot, caught the
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Speaker 5: curb right there herb and rolled my ankle and completely
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Speaker 5: like complete tear of a ligament atop across the top
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Speaker 5: of my foot, and then partial tears everywhere else. I
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Speaker 5: had them all done. They got the results back immediately.
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Speaker 5: Everything was good to go. But he said, eventually I'll
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Speaker 5: have to get it fixed. Okay, but that's gonna be
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Speaker 5: like a nine.
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Speaker 1: You know how many. Eventually I'm gonna have to get
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Speaker 1: it fixed. Items or on my list. I never doug
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Speaker 1: tape wire, string it together.
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Speaker 6: So but this one's a family affair. We talked about
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Speaker 6: a little bit. Yesterday.
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Speaker 4: You're having surgery, and your dad's having surgery like the
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Speaker 4: exactly close to the exact same time.
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Speaker 5: So my dad surgery is actually tomorrow. This is a
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Speaker 5: whole week ahead of mine.
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Speaker 1: Holy cow.
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Speaker 5: He will be getting everything fixed in the arm basically,
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Speaker 5: so he'll be a week into recovery whenever I have mine.
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Speaker 5: His is much much more severe.
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Speaker 1: Than God bless your mother.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be a bad week.
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Speaker 4: We all bad week to be a flirky. This is flirky,
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Speaker 4: bad week to be a flirt. We'll say a prayer
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Speaker 4: for you. So, but you were saying, he's kind of,
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Speaker 4: I don't say, averse to medical Trumandy, he's a tough dude,
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Speaker 4: tough old, tough old guy.
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Speaker 5: I would say it like this, if he gets hurt,
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Speaker 5: it's the last resort if he wants to go to
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Speaker 5: the doctor, because he's like a typical man.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to doctor. They give you bad news.
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Speaker 4: Why don't you want to go to I ever spent
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Speaker 4: the night in the hospital for your knowledge he has Okay,
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Speaker 4: oh I think I was.
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Speaker 5: It could have been prevented. I was like six years
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Speaker 5: old and he got the flu that turned into pneumonia. Okay, okay,
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Speaker 5: and my mom forced him to go to the UK
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Speaker 5: because hes running one hundred and six fever.
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Speaker 6: He just didn't go in soon enough. I was a problem.
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Speaker 7: That was the problem.
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Speaker 5: And then he had to spend the night there because
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Speaker 5: I had to get him hydrated because he was severely
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Speaker 5: the hylo.
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Speaker 4: I've always got some experience because they're just things that
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Speaker 4: throw you off. If you go into a hospital and
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Speaker 4: you expect like those stupid gowns man like, if.
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Speaker 1: You don't, I've never been hospitalized, you never like a
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Speaker 1: or anything. Never well no, I mean I've had some
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Speaker 1: things that you had to gown up for, you.
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Speaker 4: Know, yah, But nothing, there's nothing worse than the hospital gown.
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Speaker 4: I would argue it's completely unnecessary. I'm sure somebody, I'm
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Speaker 4: sure someone is in the medical community. It tell us
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Speaker 4: why I have to have them.
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Speaker 1: But well, I'll tell you why you have to have them,
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Speaker 1: so they can put it on that list of charges
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Speaker 1: that they give you.
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Speaker 4: Very true, right there with the grippy socks. Yep, right
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Speaker 4: there with the grippy socks.
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Speaker 5: Well, this conversation about hospital gowns is actually so when
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Speaker 5: I went home this past weekend, my dad is a
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Speaker 5: little bit nervous for surgery, and you can tell because
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Speaker 5: this is pretty much his first whatever. Absolutely, and he
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Speaker 5: we were sitting there, him and I were in the
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Speaker 5: living room, We're watching TV, and he goes, you know,
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Speaker 5: he turns to my mom and me, I have a
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Speaker 5: question for y'all, and both of us like, okay, where
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Speaker 5: is this going. He goes, why do you have to
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Speaker 5: tie a hospital gown in the back, you know, because
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Speaker 5: I have to like cover my boody when I'm walking
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Speaker 5: down the hall, he goes. And when he got his
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Speaker 5: MRI done, this is when it happened. He goes, I
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Speaker 5: don't understand why they tie it in the back, and
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Speaker 5: me and Mom kind of looked at him, and I
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Speaker 5: had never thought of that either. I'm like, why do
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Speaker 5: you tie it in the back? Like, why couldn't you
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Speaker 5: just tie it in the front.
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Speaker 4: And then kind of make it like a bath exactly right,
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Speaker 4: that would make more sense.
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Speaker 5: Well. I was in the we like throughout our own
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Speaker 5: personal ideas for like thirty minutes, and then I finally
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Speaker 5: was like, all right, I'm going to the Google.
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Speaker 1: Let's chack this up.
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Speaker 6: There's an answer to this.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 5: So the reason why hospital gowns tying the back is
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Speaker 5: for medical professionals for instant unrestricted access. So when you
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Speaker 5: lay down your surgery, if they need to have like
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Speaker 5: get the gun off you, they untie it and pick
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Speaker 5: your torso up and can slide it off you easier,
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Speaker 5: Versus if they tie in the front, they have to
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Speaker 5: pick you up and get your arms out of it,
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Speaker 5: so it just slides off of you easier.
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Speaker 6: I don't care about that.
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Speaker 1: Have they never heard of tear away jerseys? Come on,
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Speaker 1: this was in the in the seventies in the NFL,
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Speaker 1: Earl Campbell had tear away jersey.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just give me, just give me some of that
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Speaker 4: give you pants shirt and then if y'all need to
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Speaker 4: get in there and fine, rip it off.
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Speaker 1: I mean t Swizzle could change a costume and a
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Speaker 1: heartbeat and in a during a concert. Surely, surely, modern
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Speaker 1: medical technology has advanced to the point where we can
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Speaker 1: upgrade the hospital gown.
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Speaker 6: Question. You're asking the right question.
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Speaker 4: We've been able to improve so many things in society.
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Speaker 4: Why do you still need to have that one little
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Speaker 4: and you can.
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Speaker 1: Never really tie it? No, you can never really tie it.
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Speaker 4: It doesn't work that.
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Speaker 1: Way, and dignity does not exist when you're wearing well,
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Speaker 1: you give you that little.
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Speaker 4: Thing where you're kind of you're clutching the back because
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Speaker 4: you just know that it's gonna be a bad time.
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Speaker 6: And it's when I got.
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Speaker 5: My MRI back in January, I did the same thing.
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Speaker 5: I had to clutch in the back, and right before
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Speaker 5: my dad went in, I said, hey, heads up, I
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Speaker 5: right before I'm like, you got to hold it in
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Speaker 5: the back or you're gonna I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't, it's a hospital. I'm gonna just you're gonna
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Speaker 1: be lucky if I'm wearing the gal.
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Speaker 4: You know what, they've seen it before, exactly, they've seen
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Speaker 4: it before, and Frankly, they have seen so much worse
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Speaker 4: sixteen twenty ninety four to five w ta W you
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Speaker 4: always love seeing your text messages nine sevent nine six
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Speaker 4: nine five sixteen twenty really really stand out. Advice from
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Speaker 4: our friend Jason. At least you get to keep the
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Speaker 4: grippy socks that you are charged for.
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Speaker 6: That you do not.
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Speaker 1: They are lose. The grippy socks that my wife came
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Speaker 1: home with from her surgery, Yeah, she she kept them
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Speaker 1: on for about a day and then and then Annie
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Speaker 1: the dog decided those were her face, so she took
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Speaker 1: off with the socks. Can, Like, so what do I
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Speaker 1: need to go?
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Speaker 6: Like, is there a can?
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Speaker 1: I just go to a medical supply store and you
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Speaker 1: get Amazon though, okay, I'm sure, okay, just making sure
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Speaker 1: you like the grippy socks.
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Speaker 5: I you never got the grippy socks so that they
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Speaker 5: uses compressing their compression dash that too, so.
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Speaker 6: Like they have the long sounds.
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Speaker 1: I will use the senior parking spot. But I'm not
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Speaker 1: doing that.
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Speaker 6: Did you I got.
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Speaker 5: Those my last surgery. They had it was the compression
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Speaker 5: from the knee down and then it is grippy.
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Speaker 6: On the bottom. Oh that sounds genuinely wonderful.
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Speaker 1: I don't get it.
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Speaker 5: The compression are like for blood clots.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I know what they're for, and they also just
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Speaker 4: feel nice. I think I think they're great, Like I don't.
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Speaker 4: I don't wear them a lot. I think I've got
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Speaker 4: a couple of pairs of them, just because I was like, you're.
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Speaker 1: Going to show up tomorrow wearing those with some sandals.
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Speaker 4: I think it was back when I was you might
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Speaker 4: see me. You might see me in crocs and compression socks.
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Speaker 6: You don't know. I'm not promising anything.
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Speaker 1: No pride were we were.
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Speaker 4: We all here when we were talking about the Great
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Speaker 4: Python round Up in the State of Florida.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, well it's it. Jeez, it's practically gonna be
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Speaker 6: a holiday. Now.
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Speaker 4: There's a there's a restaurant's cashing in on this because
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Speaker 4: what they're offering is the opportunity for you to get
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Speaker 4: a free pizza. I turn it in a python. What
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Speaker 4: bag of python get a pizza? It's a pizza for python.
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Speaker 4: Trade in wildlife pizza? Is that is a wildlife who
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Speaker 4: cares just a bit? It's a It's in Florida.
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Speaker 6: Trust me.
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Speaker 4: If you're looking to bag it you're looking to cash
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Speaker 4: in on a pizza by catching got thirty foot python
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Speaker 4: go nuts? I would it doesn't seem like it's worth
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Speaker 4: the trade to me.
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Speaker 1: But whatever, I mean, if you if you bring in
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Speaker 1: like a tiny python, do you get a personal pizza?
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Speaker 1: And if you bring in a thirty footer, I wait,
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Speaker 1: I want that would make sense to me. I did
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Speaker 1: see that the state of Florida is going old Man's people.
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Speaker 1: They got like a ten thousand dollars prize for the
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Speaker 1: person who kills the most pythons.
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Speaker 4: Oh there's other prizes too, because it could earn you
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Speaker 4: the max out you can earn if you were the
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Speaker 4: python king of Florida. It's something like thirty grand for
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Speaker 4: this hunt. Like just walk away with thirty grand. And
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Speaker 4: I'd want to say, they let you keep the goods,
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Speaker 4: which is a big deal because wild Man's that's what
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Speaker 4: they care about. They're saying, I'll give you a pizza,
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Speaker 4: but I get to keep the python because then they
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Speaker 4: take and they get the python skin, make all kinds
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Speaker 4: of items and sell them, and they use snake oils
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Speaker 4: for skin and cream. The bones get turned into jewelry.
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Speaker 4: They say, they say they waste nothing nothing.
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Speaker 5: So what if I want to, like, I'm not this,
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Speaker 5: What if I want to hunt said pythons, but I
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Speaker 5: don't want to keep them? Can I sell them? Or
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Speaker 5: can I just give them to somebody?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? They're I mean just like an alligator. Yeah, you
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Speaker 1: can sell that skin, you.
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Speaker 4: Can hand it away, But like there's money to COVID
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Speaker 4: is about to drop a line. I want to say
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Speaker 4: it's tomorrow. They partnered with Ray Wiley Hubbard to promote it.
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Speaker 4: It's Captured Florida Python boots because once they get in
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Speaker 4: the wild, apparently they start evolving and their skin gets
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Speaker 4: more attractive designs. Suppose just your regular Python that you have,
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Speaker 4: you know, it's like these are kind of halfway between
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Speaker 4: Python and a rattlesnake skin, is what.
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Speaker 6: It looks like they're gonna be selling those. I don't
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Speaker 6: know what the price is. I guess it's somewhere a
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Speaker 6: grand each. Yeah, exactly, exactly.
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Speaker 4: So what no, no, no, no, you keep you keep those skins? Yeah,
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Speaker 4: keep those skins and use them? Good lord?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely crazy.
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Speaker 1: I don't the only problem with hunting pythons is that
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Speaker 1: you have to be in a swamp with everything else.
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Speaker 5: I'm curious though, So like when you catch your pythons,
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Speaker 5: do you just hold on to them till the end
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Speaker 5: of the competition or do you grab like every day
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Speaker 5: they have a certain time where you can go drop
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Speaker 5: them in.
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Speaker 1: And I bet it's like a fishing tournament. You've got
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Speaker 1: a way in.
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Speaker 6: I bet there's a way in.
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Speaker 5: I want to find the length of the way in.
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Speaker 5: Because it's been going on since the tenth.
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Speaker 6: I can see I can see your brain working over there.
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Speaker 6: Is this something you would do?
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Speaker 5: Uh No, I'm definitely think I see everybody else. I
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Speaker 5: just want to know, Like you know.
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Speaker 6: Can you imagine can you scoreboards? Imagine people watching?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god? Can you imagine it's good enough in Florida? Anyway?
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Speaker 1: How this filters?
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Speaker 6: How is this not televised? Should be his point.
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Speaker 4: As long as we're on wildlife, let's talk about another
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Speaker 4: threat to life and limb, and that is the beaver.
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Speaker 6: You never had any run ins with beaver?
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Speaker 1: I have I have killed the beaver?
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Speaker 6: Have you?
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Speaker 1: They're a problem if they're a nuisance animal, which this
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Speaker 1: one was. And my brother in law and I, uh
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Speaker 1: were We went out and shot it. It was a
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Speaker 1: big old beaver.
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Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 4: I'm not look dude in New York out recovering after
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Speaker 4: he was swimming in Lake George and the beaver tried
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Speaker 4: to take.
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Speaker 6: Him down the first time.
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Speaker 8: My friend ended up picking it up swam back at him.
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Speaker 8: So we were like, okay, just out for blood. This
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Speaker 8: was a puncture. But his teeth went through my stomach.
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Speaker 8: He said, something attacked him. I just jumped in the
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Speaker 8: water and then I grabbed whatever it was attacking him,
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Speaker 8: pulled it out. I was a little freaked out. I
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Speaker 8: didn't like think it was a beaver at first. You know,
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Speaker 8: I just grabbed this little brown blob in the water.
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Speaker 6: What did you think it was?
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Speaker 5: Do you have to get rady shots?
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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm sure you have to get every shot for that.
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Speaker 1: What was he doing? He thought it was a little
16:33
Speaker 1: brown blob in the water. That's what I'm not reaching for.
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Speaker 1: A brown blob in the water, regardless.
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Speaker 4: A brown blob, according to what he was saying, was
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Speaker 4: all teeth and cloth.
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Speaker 6: Like what are you would say?
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Speaker 1: I mean, beavers aren't necessarily vicious animals, but they're equipped
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Speaker 1: to do some damnies.
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Speaker 5: No, they become highly aggressive and sometimes we'll charge at
16:54
Speaker 5: people if you get too close to their dam, or
16:57
Speaker 5: if you just get too close to them. In general,
16:58
Speaker 5: they're very territorial.
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Speaker 4: Is the season, it's them moose obviously, Bison about that,
17:05
Speaker 4: and don't forget the bears.
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Speaker 1: The bears.
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Speaker 6: It's a bad time, bad time to be in the water.
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Speaker 8: Ended up biting me a few times as I got
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Speaker 8: it out of the water. So it was like, I
17:14
Speaker 8: gotta keep a good grip on this thing.
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Speaker 1: Why are you trying to get out of the water.
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Speaker 6: Old boy is hardcore. He took a couple of bites.
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Speaker 1: Shunk it through his sprints.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, get it away from you.
17:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, don't try to grab it way from you.
17:28
Speaker 4: Get a stick, take the can you just take it
17:30
Speaker 4: by the tail and swing it.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure you could, like old like, you know, put
17:34
Speaker 1: some wwe moves.
17:36
Speaker 6: Get that thing. Get that thing out of here, drop
17:38
Speaker 6: an elbow.
17:39
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's better or worse, but you're
17:41
Speaker 4: being advised that if you see an ant in your home,
17:43
Speaker 4: the worst thing you can do is.
17:44
Speaker 6: To squish it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about all that.
17:47
Speaker 6: Are you someone that tries to save the insects or no?
17:51
Speaker 1: Movie, No, not even my dog. My dog eats grasshoppers.
17:56
Speaker 6: I can call them sky raisins.
17:58
Speaker 1: Will sky raisins.
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Speaker 5: I'm not a bug saber. I see something in my house,
18:04
Speaker 5: unless it's a lady bug, I will set a ladybug
18:06
Speaker 5: or a roly pully free. Okay, but if I see
18:09
Speaker 5: an ant, I see a cockroach. Actually, if I see
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Speaker 5: a cockroach, I'm gonna be screaming in the whole neighborhood's
18:13
Speaker 5: gonna hear it.
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Speaker 1: Snakes and cockroaches making my list.
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Speaker 4: When you squish an at, it releases pheromones, a signal
18:20
Speaker 4: to the other ants and the colony, and whenever they
18:21
Speaker 4: get that distress signal, everyone comes to.
18:24
Speaker 6: Get the body.
18:25
Speaker 1: Great, bring it, that's what you want.
18:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's called a trap, Yeah, called bait.
18:30
Speaker 1: Spring it on them and then smash more.
18:32
Speaker 4: Exactly, get in here. We're gonna we're just gonna go,
18:34
Speaker 4: they say. What starts out is one ant can quickly
18:36
Speaker 4: turn into a whole storm, which can get bad, especially
18:39
Speaker 4: if they're fire ants.
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Speaker 1: I look, man, we've lived with fire ants for so
18:43
Speaker 1: long here in Texas.
18:44
Speaker 6: You know, yeah, you know.
18:45
Speaker 1: What you have?
18:46
Speaker 5: What happens to my vacuum them up.
18:49
Speaker 1: Depends on if they get crushed or not.
18:51
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's just saying.
18:55
Speaker 1: I don't know.
18:56
Speaker 6: I think you just found the answer. That's what you do.
18:58
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think.
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Speaker 4: What you'll do one and then bring out the vacuum
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Speaker 4: for the rest. That's how you take care.
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Speaker 1: Of You develop this pherom wone pheromone that they put
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Speaker 1: out right, and then you put it elsewhere and all
19:10
Speaker 1: your ants will go elsewhere.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, like your neighbors.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, anyone you don't necessarily get along with.
19:18
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19:53
Speaker 1: Good morning from the wta W newsroom. I'm will Welch.
19:57
Speaker 1: The Bryant City Council met last night. How BTU compensates
20:01
Speaker 1: customers with solar panels was the hot topic. Several solar
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Speaker 1: customers came to speak out in opposition of the change.
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Speaker 4: Under my contract the power I make councels the power
20:11
Speaker 4: I use under their new contract.
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Speaker 2: They buy mine at one price and sell me theirs
20:15
Speaker 2: at another.
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Speaker 1: The council discussed the issue and included a proposal by
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Speaker 1: Councilwoman Marca Yours shirtlift.
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Speaker 9: A grandfathering in for the original parties to the agreement,
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Speaker 9: so the individuals who signed that original agreement with BTU
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Speaker 9: made the investment in solar for their lifetime, so long
20:32
Speaker 9: as they occupy the property could enjoy the terms of
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Speaker 9: the original agreement. It won't be given to new people,
20:39
Speaker 9: and when those people are no longer with us or
20:41
Speaker 9: remove whichever happens first, the agreement expires.
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Speaker 1: After an hour of discussions, the council ultimately decided to
20:48
Speaker 1: pass the ordinance as written. The council also approved all
20:51
Speaker 1: items on the statutory agenda, which included twelve million dollars
20:55
Speaker 1: in spending. Approximately two million of that will go towards
20:58
Speaker 1: the design of a new water pump station and design
21:01
Speaker 1: of an aquifer storage and recovery project. Just over five
21:05
Speaker 1: million dollars will cover street maintenance and repair. An amendment
21:09
Speaker 1: to the city code was passed in regards to benches
21:12
Speaker 1: in city cemeteries. All benches installed must now be constructed
21:15
Speaker 1: of natural stone. Existing metal benches will be allowed to
21:19
Speaker 1: remain from up to twelve months grace period before the
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Speaker 1: city will remove them because the lightweight benches are not
21:25
Speaker 1: standing up to wind and other elements. Elon Musk SpaceX
21:29
Speaker 1: Taro fab facility is one step closer to reality. Last night,
21:33
Speaker 1: both the Anderson schiro CISD and Iola ISD school boards
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Speaker 1: voted in favor of ten year tax abatements for the project.
21:41
Speaker 1: But it's not a done deal yet. Governor Greg Abbott
21:44
Speaker 1: must still approve the deal. Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick
21:47
Speaker 1: is not backing down in his fight against THHC. Cynthia
21:51
Speaker 1: Cabrera with the Texas HMP Business Council questions why there
21:55
Speaker 1: are interim legislative hearings on THCHC while giving tobacco a pass.
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Speaker 3: The Lieutenant Governor and Senator Charles Perry appear to be
22:04
Speaker 3: very supportive of the tobacco and alcohol industries because they
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Speaker 3: never say anything negative about them.
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Speaker 1: She argues that it hurts the state's business friendly image
22:12
Speaker 1: to target an industry that's hadding more than one billion
22:15
Speaker 1: dollars to the state's economy. The Texas Health and Human
22:18
Speaker 1: Services Commission HHSC has completed their investigation related to so
22:23
Speaker 1: called birth tourism. Earlier this month, Governor Greg Abbott asked
22:28
Speaker 1: the commission to look into reports that hospitals near the
22:30
Speaker 1: Texas Mexico border were engaged in advertising targeting foreign nationals
22:35
Speaker 1: who want to secure American citizenship for their children. The
22:39
Speaker 1: Mission Regional Medical Center in Mission and NAP Medical Center
22:42
Speaker 1: in Westlco allegedly had billboards and websites including have My
22:47
Speaker 1: Baby in Texas dot com. HHSC chief counsel Care And
22:51
Speaker 1: Ray says Texas healthcare providers that receive state or federal
22:54
Speaker 1: funding may be soliciting birth tourism in Texas. If true,
22:59
Speaker 1: this conduct is detrimental to the public interest and may
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Speaker 1: violate both state and federal law. In a letter to
23:05
Speaker 1: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Ray adds, I'm referring this
23:09
Speaker 1: matter to your office for investigation and appropriate legal action.
23:13
Speaker 1: HHSC says. The two hospitals are affiliated with the Prime
23:17
Speaker 1: Healthcare Foundation out of Ontario, California. If you've got a
23:21
Speaker 1: student in school sports or marching band, there's a new
23:24
Speaker 1: heat rule to know about. Here's Brie Alvarado with more.
23:28
Speaker 3: Beginning August first, every UIO school must use wet bulb
23:31
Speaker 3: globe temperature readings to monitor outdoor conditions. Unlike the heat
23:35
Speaker 3: index WBGT, also factors in humidity, wind, and direct sunlight.
23:40
Speaker 3: Coaches will have to check conditions before practice in every
23:42
Speaker 3: thirty minutes.
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Speaker 6: After that.
23:44
Speaker 3: Depending on the reading, schools may have to shorten workouts,
23:46
Speaker 3: remove pads, increase water breaks, or cancel outdoor activities Altogether.
23:51
Speaker 3: The goal reduce the risk of heat related illnesses as
23:54
Speaker 3: Texas heads into another scorching fall season. Bri Alvarado TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Teen year old is already a frequent flyer at the
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Speaker 1: Brasss County Jail. Over the weekend, Brian police responded to
24:06
Speaker 1: a call of a vehicle that struck a light pole
24:08
Speaker 1: then fled. They found the team at a nearby home
24:11
Speaker 1: with damage to a vehicle consistent with striking a pole.
24:14
Speaker 1: They noticed that he was swaying and smelled of alcoholic beverages.
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Speaker 1: He admitted to consuming an entire THHC vape cartridge. When
24:22
Speaker 1: officers searched the vehicle for the vape pin, they found
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Speaker 1: a Baretta handgun. The team was arrested for DWI, possession
24:30
Speaker 1: of a controlled substance, and unlawful carry of a weapon.
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Speaker 1: This is his third time in the Brass County jail
24:36
Speaker 1: in the last sixty days. He was arrested May twenty
24:39
Speaker 1: eighth for reckless driving and hit and run. On May seventeenth,
24:42
Speaker 1: he was arrested for possession of a controlled substance, possession
24:46
Speaker 1: of marijuana, possession of perphernalia, and unlawful carrying of a weapon.
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Speaker 1: He was released yesterday on nineteen thousand dollars. Bond more
24:55
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Speaker 1: Will Welch sixteen to twenty ninety four to five WTA Way.
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Speaker 4: Ninety four to five WTA W Good morning, weather today
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Speaker 4: is going to be wet. We know that the question
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Speaker 4: is when, by our latest guess, we were thinking a
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Speaker 4: few hours you know.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. Just have the rain jacket and
25:19
Speaker 1: the goloshes handy.
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Speaker 4: Other than that pretty nice day temperature wise, only getting
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Speaker 4: up to about eighty two and then down to the
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Speaker 4: seventies tonight, and maybe keep a few of those storms
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Speaker 4: around into the early evening hours. We'll find out tomorrow
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Speaker 4: Malick feel the difference back in the building today, Mayor Brian, Bobby, Here's.
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Speaker 6: Good to see you.
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Speaker 7: Good to see you too. It's good to be back, man.
25:50
Speaker 7: I've been doing a lot of traveling and I've had
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Speaker 7: Mayor pro Tim here. I don't know, maybe the last
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Speaker 7: three four times.
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Speaker 1: It's been a minute.
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Speaker 6: James been doing an amazing job holding it.
25:58
Speaker 7: Does He does an amazing job, really does. He's sometimes
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Speaker 7: he's way more preserved than I am. I think you'll
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Speaker 7: like it because I will put those little points out
26:05
Speaker 7: there and don't you.
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Speaker 4: Know me, man, We're glad to have you back, and
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Speaker 4: you have been. We'll get to some of your travels.
26:11
Speaker 4: There's been nuts.
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Speaker 6: I know.
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Speaker 4: The thing we're talking about currently is the BTU changes.
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Speaker 6: Uh do you want to catch everyone up on that?
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Speaker 1: Well, so we have we have a lot of infrastructure.
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Speaker 7: It's going on not only in BTU but in the
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Speaker 7: city of Brian, our public works and everything else. If
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Speaker 7: if you watched our meeting yesterday, you see we're doing
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Speaker 7: a tremendous investment into the future of Brian Preses County.
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Speaker 7: You know, our community basically Brian Caused Station. You know,
26:34
Speaker 7: it's a you know call it, you know BCS basic
26:37
Speaker 7: cas scenario, best case scenario. It's just one thing. We
26:40
Speaker 7: should just rename the whole thing best case scenario.
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Speaker 6: You know about T shirt campaign for that exactly.
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Speaker 7: So. But it's true we're we're spending money up front,
26:48
Speaker 7: but those those expenses go up right now, but they
26:51
Speaker 7: also plateau. We're going to be getting them at today's
26:53
Speaker 7: dollars versus having to do them and trying to catch up.
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Speaker 7: And you know, the state of Texas growing very very fast,
26:59
Speaker 7: and everybody's trying to catch up. We're trying, we know
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Speaker 7: what's about to happen. We clearly know what's about to
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Speaker 7: happen to our area, and we're trying to be good
27:07
Speaker 7: stewards of everything and making sure that we are set
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Speaker 7: for it. We're ready for it. We can we can
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Speaker 7: do it. B to you. We had the solar thing
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Speaker 7: last night, so that was one of the things I'm
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Speaker 7: sure you wanted to talk about as a hot case steal.
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Speaker 7: We have one percent of our rate payers, you know,
27:21
Speaker 7: being subsidized by ninety nine percent of them. We truly
27:24
Speaker 7: understand the investment. We understand. You know, when you walk
27:28
Speaker 7: into that building, every single vote you make, you know
27:30
Speaker 7: you're going to make somebody mad. You're making somebody. But
27:33
Speaker 7: I told our counselor said, you got to be able
27:35
Speaker 7: to sit there. You got to look everybody in the
27:36
Speaker 7: eye that nobody shows up to tell you thank you.
27:38
Speaker 7: They're showing up because they're mad. And you've got to
27:41
Speaker 7: be able to where it's five, where there's five hundred,
27:43
Speaker 7: where there's five thousand. You got to understand you're here
27:46
Speaker 7: to represent ninety thousand plus people and you've got to
27:48
Speaker 7: do the right thing every single time, knowing that you're
27:51
Speaker 7: going to, you know, make some of your friends mad.
27:53
Speaker 1: So these people essentially they purchased solar equipment for their
27:57
Speaker 1: homes and they were under an agree met with B
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Speaker 1: to You at that point in time to do what
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Speaker 1: share that that electricity or the excess electricity.
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Speaker 7: I think part of the thing that got me is
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Speaker 7: that we're paying like one hundred and fourteen dollars per
28:11
Speaker 7: you know, kill a white hour, and that's five times
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Speaker 7: more than we pay off the open market. So that's
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Speaker 7: passed on to the other ninety nine percent of the
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Speaker 7: people that are out there that need to have the electricity.
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Speaker 7: And I think it was brought up when the council
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Speaker 7: wor where we have the nineteen year old person hadn't
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Speaker 7: been can't afford that deal. I get that, but we
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Speaker 7: still represent that nineteen and No, that's not what she meant.
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Speaker 7: But that's the analogy, and it kind of struck a
28:32
Speaker 7: nerve because we do represent everybody, whether they're nineteen years old,
28:36
Speaker 7: ninety nine years old, everybody there is one of the
28:40
Speaker 7: you know, we're a cost of services company that B
28:43
Speaker 7: to You does an extremely good job, top five percent
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Speaker 7: in the country of performance, bottom five percent in the
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Speaker 7: country in pay. So if you live in this area.
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Speaker 7: You know, you want to be on b to you.
28:55
Speaker 7: Anybody who lives in Briancas Station area, Bradses County, you
28:58
Speaker 7: want to be on b to you because we do
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Speaker 7: stuff right there. We were the when winterster Yuri came out.
29:03
Speaker 7: You know, it was two weeks. We made a lot
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Speaker 7: of money in two weeks. Other cities didn't lost a
29:08
Speaker 7: lot of money. But because it's or cotton, because it's
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Speaker 7: a co op, we actually had to write a check
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Speaker 7: when we should have got a check back. We had
29:15
Speaker 7: to write a check at the end of this thing
29:17
Speaker 7: to make sure everybody else was hold. We were the
29:20
Speaker 7: case study and how you do things right during that
29:22
Speaker 7: how do you maintain your your your equipment, how do
29:25
Speaker 7: you maintain your generation. We never went offline even though
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Speaker 7: we were out because we had to put power back
29:30
Speaker 7: into the grid. We as b to you never went out.
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Speaker 6: I remember that wild. I mean it's a wild time anyway.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it was. It was truly wild. And
29:38
Speaker 7: everybodys screaming in you and were like, hey, how come
29:40
Speaker 7: you're on? How come you're off in this way? You
29:42
Speaker 7: know you know somebody and it was we didn't know anything.
29:46
Speaker 7: I mean we we didn't know when they were going
29:47
Speaker 7: to do. And and you, of course you have essential
29:49
Speaker 7: service thats you can't like hospitals, emergency services. And if
29:53
Speaker 7: you happen to be on that grid, that particular line
29:55
Speaker 7: and it's not like a block, there are a line
29:58
Speaker 7: that goes out and it just feathers out.
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Speaker 4: Well, let's talk more about infrastructure, because that's I mean,
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Speaker 4: obviously that's where it worked. It worked well. Now we're
30:06
Speaker 4: getting to the point where we're going to start talking
30:09
Speaker 4: about a lot of other things that are going to
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Speaker 4: take a lot of power. It's obvious we're going to
30:15
Speaker 4: have to You were mentioned that earlier, trying to get
30:17
Speaker 4: ready for the growth one of the big ones obviously.
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Speaker 4: I mean, look, you know, Grimes County is going to
30:22
Speaker 4: be looking at a giant windfall.
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Speaker 7: Sure semiconductor manufacturer over that the Terra fab you know,
30:28
Speaker 7: it's anywhere from I think phase one they said fifty billion.
30:31
Speaker 7: It's going to scale up to between one hundred and
30:34
Speaker 7: twenty hundred and fifty billion dollars. I've heard all kinds
30:36
Speaker 7: of numbers. A tremendous opportunity for everybody around.
30:40
Speaker 4: And we know that there's going to be some of
30:42
Speaker 4: the residual business or even even more than residual business
30:44
Speaker 4: is going to come our way just.
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Speaker 7: Because if you look at where we are logistically, if
30:49
Speaker 7: you look at where we are not only just because
30:51
Speaker 7: of that next to us, but look at us in
30:53
Speaker 7: the in the Texas Triangle, just ad San Antonio, Austin,
30:56
Speaker 7: and Waco. We're set in the middle. We're directly in
30:59
Speaker 7: the it'll you know, logistically, this is a place if
31:02
Speaker 7: you want to do any kind of logistics, any kind
31:04
Speaker 7: of warehouse storage and distribution, this is probably the place
31:07
Speaker 7: you want to be if you're servicing any of those
31:08
Speaker 7: things and you have tier one, tier two, tier three vendors.
31:11
Speaker 7: Tier one have to be in there within within like
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Speaker 7: an hour two hours, Tier two have to be one
31:17
Speaker 7: day's delivery. Tier three can just be delivery, right, So
31:19
Speaker 7: we're perfectly suited, perfectly set up for tier one and
31:23
Speaker 7: tier two. So I would say, you know that manufacturing facility,
31:29
Speaker 7: the supply chain has other manufacturing facilities to supply that
31:32
Speaker 7: not just warehouse distribution, but there's other manufacturers, there's other
31:35
Speaker 7: different things that whatever that produces have to be produced somewhere.
31:40
Speaker 7: So whether it be a chemical, you know, whether we
31:42
Speaker 7: you know, whether we're scaling up something that we already
31:44
Speaker 7: have here or we're adding new stuff. We want to
31:47
Speaker 7: be ready. We want to be the solution. You know,
31:49
Speaker 7: high paying jobs. If it's a company that can come
31:52
Speaker 7: in higher than our level right now, we can bring
31:54
Speaker 7: them in. Those are the kind of companies that we
31:55
Speaker 7: want here. We want to make sure that, you know,
31:57
Speaker 7: our kids, the next generation, the generation after us, have good,
32:01
Speaker 7: high paying quality jobs that you know, sustain life.
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Speaker 4: And and you know, all that's like you said, all
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Speaker 4: that's going to be accomplished with some some level of
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Speaker 4: foresight of what do you do infrastructure wise to set
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Speaker 4: the table.
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Speaker 7: You know, I was I've been very very fortunate in
32:16
Speaker 7: my life to be able to meet some of the
32:18
Speaker 7: people that I've met, you know, Army Futures Command, T
32:20
Speaker 7: two COOM, all the stuff that's happened, uh with was
32:23
Speaker 7: invited to go to a workshop in Austin and it was,
32:27
Speaker 7: you know, a bunch of four star generals, three stars,
32:28
Speaker 7: two stars, colonels everything else. You know, some congressmens, some senators,
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Speaker 7: state reps and then little o' mayor from Brian and
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Speaker 7: you know, you're talking about this stuff, the race that
32:39
Speaker 7: we have right now, and it's you know, the race
32:40
Speaker 7: for superiority, the race for defense, you know, national defense,
32:44
Speaker 7: and it's focused around data AI data, and it's you know, quantum.
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Speaker 7: There's so much misinformation out there. There's bits of real
32:53
Speaker 7: information modified by you know, the trolls and the bots
32:57
Speaker 7: from China, from Russia, you know from Iran that are
32:59
Speaker 7: put stuff out there that a little bit of information
33:02
Speaker 7: and then you expound on it and you just get
33:04
Speaker 7: the public in an uproar. We're nine months from what
33:08
Speaker 7: I was here, and we're nine months to a year
33:10
Speaker 7: ahead of China and Russia right now in AI, in
33:14
Speaker 7: data in Juanum. The only way we can keep that
33:16
Speaker 7: race is if you have the data. So what they
33:19
Speaker 7: were basically asking us to do is, you know, you
33:21
Speaker 7: need to get this out there. You need to get this.
33:23
Speaker 7: These are not bad this every day something changes every day.
33:27
Speaker 7: You know, if you look at the chips, you look
33:29
Speaker 7: at everything, this was a chip four years ago versus
33:32
Speaker 7: today when you just look at the data center project
33:35
Speaker 7: that we're working on. Second, Yeah, and so it was
33:37
Speaker 7: a sixty sixty million dollars phase one now it's three
33:40
Speaker 7: hundred million dollar Phase one in just four years. So
33:43
Speaker 7: that's the kind of that's what we're seeing.
33:46
Speaker 6: It's going to go over, it's going to go up
33:47
Speaker 6: from there exactly.
33:48
Speaker 7: So that's what we're seeing the pace. And I was
33:51
Speaker 7: at it another thing that was really fortunate to go
33:54
Speaker 7: to another conference and then we're asking a gentleman who
33:57
Speaker 7: was one of the speakers. I get to see the
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Speaker 7: speakers table and he asked me. He goes, what is
34:01
Speaker 7: the what is the thing that scares you the most?
34:04
Speaker 7: Was the thing that insiights you most? And he goes, well,
34:06
Speaker 7: it's it's Ai in his quantum. He goes, it excites me,
34:09
Speaker 7: and it scares me because things that we were doing.
34:12
Speaker 7: This guy ran a startup company that starts up that accelerator. Yeah,
34:17
Speaker 7: five thousand are down to five hundred, and then they
34:19
Speaker 7: help these guys get get off and go and launch them.
34:21
Speaker 7: He goes. People now are thinking about things. The kids
34:25
Speaker 7: now are thinking about things that we never thought of.
34:28
Speaker 7: We would find a solution for you. You need to
34:31
Speaker 7: build a better coffee cup. We find that solution. We
34:33
Speaker 7: build a better coffee cup. They're thinking about things right
34:35
Speaker 7: now that we're going to fix a problem. And we okay,
34:39
Speaker 7: we fixed the problem. We solve that problem, and he goes, no, no, no,
34:42
Speaker 7: problem's not solved because because of this, you're going to
34:45
Speaker 7: have this problem, this problem, this problem ten years, twenty years,
34:47
Speaker 7: thirty years down. They're thinking the things differently because the
34:51
Speaker 7: speed of relevancy now, I mean, when we would fix
34:55
Speaker 7: a problem, you know, you take you five years to
34:57
Speaker 7: get that problem, that that product into the market. Now
35:01
Speaker 7: it's days, it's weeks, you know, it's a month, and
35:04
Speaker 7: the product can go because we have social media, the
35:07
Speaker 7: product can go as fast as if as fast as
35:09
Speaker 7: you can solve a solution, you can create a problem
35:11
Speaker 7: the same speed he goes. But the thing that excites
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Speaker 7: and the most is these kids are so smart and
35:16
Speaker 7: they're thinking about problems that we would never even think
35:19
Speaker 7: about because we're just trying to solve one problem.
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Speaker 4: See that's I try not to think about that at
35:23
Speaker 4: all because it's terrifying.
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Speaker 7: But it does excite you. And that is the thing
35:27
Speaker 7: that scares me the most, and the thing that excites
35:29
Speaker 7: me the most. We're in this period, we're seeing it
35:32
Speaker 7: in our lives. I mean I watched my granddad, they
35:34
Speaker 7: asked him, you know, CNN came over. It was during
35:37
Speaker 7: a drought and he's, you know, rancher ten generation of
35:39
Speaker 7: ranch and and they asked him at you know, I
35:43
Speaker 7: think he was eighty nine years old at that time,
35:45
Speaker 7: but he's lived you know, the whole, that whole, you know,
35:49
Speaker 7: millennium that he lived through. You know, that's what's the biggest,
35:53
Speaker 7: the biggest thing that helped you in your ranch and operation.
35:56
Speaker 7: And you know he was horseback doing trail drivers. You know,
36:00
Speaker 7: they were horse and waggis and buggies and stuff. Then
36:02
Speaker 7: he saw the automobile. He saw all this stuff happening,
36:05
Speaker 7: and he was thinking, you know, we would round up
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Speaker 7: cattle with helicopters and horseback and you have twenty people
36:09
Speaker 7: out there rounding up and he's thought for a little bit,
36:13
Speaker 7: and you would think he would say, like the automobile,
36:16
Speaker 7: he goes the cattle cube huh. And the guy goes
36:20
Speaker 7: the cattle key. He goes, oh, yeah, what used to
36:22
Speaker 7: take us twenty cowboys to round up all one pasture.
36:26
Speaker 7: We'd have to have a helicopters and cattle and rancher,
36:28
Speaker 7: you know, all the cowboys out there pushing all this stuff.
36:30
Speaker 7: He goes, now, I just take a bag of cattle
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Speaker 7: cube shake the bag, and they all follow me into
36:36
Speaker 7: the track he goes. So things that took a week
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Speaker 7: to do will take me an hour to get them
36:41
Speaker 7: in there. And you will always have some stragglers. So
36:43
Speaker 7: you'd have one cow and a cowboy with some dogs
36:45
Speaker 7: and you push them all in. But now from a
36:48
Speaker 7: week to two weeks of working cattle to one day
36:51
Speaker 7: to two days, that is transformed. But you think something
36:54
Speaker 7: so simple, it's just a cattle cube. And from somebody
36:57
Speaker 7: who lived through horse and buggy and guns and pistols
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Speaker 7: and you know range, I mean.
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Speaker 4: Just yeah, literal Old West, exactly crazy, Bobby, thank you
37:05
Speaker 4: so much for coming in man.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Bobby Goudiere is mayor of Brian Love. Any chance we
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Speaker 4: get to get you in the building and chop it
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Speaker 4: up for a bit.
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Speaker 7: Well, I just I canna tell everybody you can choose
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Speaker 7: to be anything you want, just choose to be kind.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, sir.
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Speaker 4: If you've missed any of this, please catch up. I
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Speaker 4: WTAW Have you looking on rain over there?
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Speaker 6: Will?
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Speaker 1: I just hadn't looked at the radar in a second
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Speaker 1: because we were visiting with the mayor. Looking at it now,
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Speaker 1: it's about the same about the same timeframe. I'm calling
37:35
Speaker 1: it another maybe two hours for the college station Brian
37:39
Speaker 1: metro area to experience this blob that's moving up around
37:43
Speaker 1: a cat's spring heading into Brenham.
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Speaker 4: Right now, I'm gonna be watching for some video out
37:48
Speaker 4: of like Santonio and Honto and you've aldi because I cannot,
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Speaker 4: I can't fathom the amount of rain that's coming out
37:54
Speaker 4: of there, telling about years worth of rain.
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Speaker 1: And center the videos that are on social media are nuts.
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Speaker 1: That tornado down there by the way, that warning has
38:00
Speaker 1: been lifted and guys, so that's that situation is no
38:03
Speaker 1: longer urgent.
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Speaker 6: Mm hmm uh.
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Speaker 4: And for us getting up to the low eighties and
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Speaker 4: obviously you know, some showers here and there and then
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Speaker 4: we'll uh, well, we'll see what tomorrow holds. Still getting
38:12
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38:24
Speaker 4: all of these snake pictures?
38:26
Speaker 5: I don't know, but I had to click out of
38:28
Speaker 5: it is making me.
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Speaker 4: Riley has closed her text message screen and uh and yeah,
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Speaker 4: this is a this is a massive see, this is
38:35
Speaker 4: the thing. It's like people will keep reptiles as pets.
38:39
Speaker 4: I get that, I get their great pets. The problem
38:42
Speaker 4: is like for every person who just loves that Burmese python,
38:46
Speaker 4: there's a person who got one and thought it was
38:47
Speaker 4: gonna stay small, then turns into a ten foot beast.
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Speaker 6: It ends up in them the glades. No is how
38:53
Speaker 6: we get there.
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Speaker 1: No love for the snakes, not.
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Speaker 6: A not a snake person.
38:56
Speaker 1: No, I'm not afraid of them necessarily, just I mean
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Speaker 1: they enact in natural fear response in humans.
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Speaker 4: He also seems to have some hissing cockroaches here. That
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Speaker 4: is the you ever seen one of those the Madagascar?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a big old centipede that look good.
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Speaker 4: Thing here too, And we don't know who he is.
39:14
Speaker 4: He just texted in glad he's listening. I love I
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Speaker 4: love there. Some of you guys out there that have
39:20
Speaker 4: the uh, have something more unusual than a cat?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Nice stuff that brings my fear levels up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we all know how to now irritate Riley when necessary.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're making a phobia list. Riley, don't worry, we'll
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Speaker 4: we'll add to that. If you want to hear the
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Speaker 4: full show, if you're just joining us, we have it
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