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The Infomaniacs: October 6th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. It
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  Speaker 1: never happened. That's what the Texas A & M University
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  Speaker 1: Police Department says about a robbery involving a member of
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  Speaker 1: the Corps of Cadets last week. The freshman cadet reported
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  Speaker 1: that while in the West Campus garage, she was pepper
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  Speaker 1: sprayed before someone stole her fish spurs. UPD Assistant Chief
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Richardson tells WTAW that the information will now be
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  Speaker 1: handed over to the Brazos County District Attorney's Office for investigation.
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  Speaker 1: Her identity is not being released at this time. Expect
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  Speaker 1: until 3. New numbers show that at ports of entry,
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  Speaker 1: customs agents across the southwest border have caught more than 11,000
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  Speaker 1: people this year who are on the terror watch list.
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  Speaker 1: Experts say these are migrants who under the Biden administration
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  Speaker 1: ports of entry themselves. Art Arthur with the Center for
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  Speaker 1: different story. Border Patrol only caught about 100 people on
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  Speaker 1: the terrorist screening database. Owning a home is becoming increasingly expensive,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not just the taxes. Homeowner's insurance has gone
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  Speaker 1: through the roof.
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  Speaker 2: The average annual homeowner premium in Texas has increased from
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  Speaker 2: under $ 2, 000 in 2020 to over $ 3, 500 today.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Insurance Commissioner Amanda Crawford says there are two things
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  Speaker 1: driving the trend. One is that home values are up.
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  Speaker 1: The cost of building supplies is on the rise, too.
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  Speaker 1: She says there's also been more natural disasters. Attorneys for
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  Speaker 1: a Texas death row inmate says the state's death drug
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  Speaker 1: warrants putting Wednesday's scheduled execution on hold. This following the
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  Speaker 1: botched execution of an inmate in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: Texas uses pentobarbital. Krista Pike got two doses of that
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  Speaker 3: drug last week in Tennessee and remains in critical condition.
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  Speaker 3: Jamal Howard's execution scheduled for Wednesday. Kristen Cuellar, executive director
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  Speaker 3: of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, says
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  Speaker 3: Howard's attorneys want Governor Abbott to issue a 30-day reprieve.
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  Speaker 4: I have been seeking information from the Texas Department of
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  Speaker 4: Criminal Justice about the drug that the agency intends to use,
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  Speaker 4: and to date they have been stymied in that effort.
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  Speaker 3: Howard is condemned for the May 2000 robbery and murder
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  Speaker 3: of a convenience store clerk in the southeast Texas town
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  Speaker 3: of Sillsby. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More than 150 school districts across Texas have switched to
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  Speaker 1: four-day school weeks. The state legislature is holding a hearing
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  Speaker 1: to get a sense of how it's working for them.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath has made it clear he
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  Speaker 1: hates the idea. It's bad.
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  Speaker 5: Data is pretty unequivocal.
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  Speaker 1: Morath says districts who have abandoned the five-day school week
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  Speaker 1: now have lower test scores. And families with working parents
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  Speaker 1: would have to foot the bill for a day of
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  Speaker 1: child care. In 2023, a bill in the legislature would
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  Speaker 1: have banned four-day school weeks, but it failed to make
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  Speaker 1: it out of committee. More news on the way at 7.30
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  Speaker 8: on those roads all day yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I was out on those roads running. I had to
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  Speaker 1: take my stepmother to Temple, to the Scott and White
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  Speaker 1: Temple over there. So, yeah, that's never a fun drive.
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  Speaker 8: I've made that drive not for medical care before. But
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  Speaker 8: like to do like, you know, occasionally we would have
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  Speaker 8: work stuff that would involve Scott and White Temple. It's
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  Speaker 8: a massive hospital. I mean, massive.
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  Speaker 1: It's huge.
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  Speaker 8: Hospital. It's so weird. You drive up on it. It
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  Speaker 8: looks like a city.
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  Speaker 1: It does.
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  Speaker 8: It does. But it is a miserable drive.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's yesterday. Was it bad? Because the weather was fine.
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  Speaker 1: It was a beautiful day. The traffic wasn't horrible. The
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  Speaker 1: bit of truck traffic, which usually causes all the mess there,
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  Speaker 1: I was able to get through without too many issues.
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  Speaker 1: But we did go to the Baylor Scott and White
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  Speaker 1: Temple up there. And I got angry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I got angry because when we walked in, we had
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  Speaker 1: to go to the clinic. You go to the check-in desk.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm there with my 93-year-old stepmother. And a lady
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  Speaker 1: in a blue blazer comes walking up to me. Sir,
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  Speaker 1: is that a knife in your pocket? Because I had
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  Speaker 1: the little clip-on pocket knife. I mean, it's... It's a
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  Speaker 1: less than three inch blade. So you had it.
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  Speaker 8: You had a pocket knife.
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  Speaker 1: So she saw the clip.
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  Speaker 8: She saw the clip. And then she came over to you.
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  Speaker 1: And said, sir, is that a pocket knife? Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe she needs it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have that in here. I was like, seriously,
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  Speaker 1: you got, you know, more scalpels than you can count.
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  Speaker 1: I could probably find something around here. And let's face it.
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  Speaker 1: I've said this before. My less than three inch blade.
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  Speaker 5: If.
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  Speaker 1: I have a much greater chance of hurting somebody with
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  Speaker 1: my bare hands.
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  Speaker 8: Do you have your pocket knife on you right now?
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  Speaker 1: No, because I had to take it out and leave
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  Speaker 1: it back in my stepmother's car, and I forgot to
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  Speaker 1: get it out.
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  Speaker 8: And now you forgot because it wasn't clipped in your pocket, Will.
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  Speaker 1: Because it wasn't clipped in my pocket.
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  Speaker 8: I was about to say, I wanted to examine this
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  Speaker 8: particular blade.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm missing an appendage without it.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that was my question, is that I didn't know
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  Speaker 8: that was, I don't carry a knife.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't happen here.
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  Speaker 8: I didn't think it did.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, at least they didn't give me any hassles.
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  Speaker 8: Are there places where, have you ever been hassled anywhere
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  Speaker 8: for having a pocket knife?
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  Speaker 1: Got stopped going into a high school football game in Pflugerville.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And the officer's great, and I'm like, Officer, I'm on
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  Speaker 1: your side. Trust me.
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  Speaker 8: And it was like, I assume that you went through
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  Speaker 8: the little magnet thing.
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  Speaker 1: Went through the metal detector. What's up with that knife?
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  Speaker 1: And he's like, got to take that back to the car.
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  Speaker 8: I get that.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I told the officer, you know, and I know
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  Speaker 1: that this is not a weapon.
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  Speaker 8: Because you're going to be going into a school situation.
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  Speaker 8: But if you really wanted to mess someone up in
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  Speaker 8: a high school football game, wouldn't you just shove them?
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  Speaker 8: And then watch them roll down the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many other ways to hurt people that are
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  Speaker 1: more effective.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, like I just don't, I don't see.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a weapon, it's a tool, right? And I
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  Speaker 1: get it, you can use anything as a weapon. I
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  Speaker 1: could hit you with this camera right here and it
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  Speaker 1: would be a weapon.
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  Speaker 8: It's a little odd to me considering the preponderance of knives,
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  Speaker 8: as you mentioned, in the hospitals.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I could be more effective with a defibrillator
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  Speaker 1: than I could with that pocket knife.
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  Speaker 8: You could MacGyver you up a weapon real quick in
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  Speaker 8: a hospital.
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  Speaker 1: Easy.
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  Speaker 8: The place is lethal.
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  Speaker 1: And I probably would have thought about that a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but they actually got us through pretty quick. So I
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  Speaker 1: wasn't staring at the walls going, I bet I could
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  Speaker 1: use that fire extinguisher.
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  Speaker 8: So what did you do with the knife once it
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  Speaker 8: was taken off of you?
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  Speaker 1: I had to take it back to the car. So
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  Speaker 1: I ran back to the car, ran back inside.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Weldon says, I had to take my small pocket
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  Speaker 8: knife back to my car at Santa Land on Highway 6.
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  Speaker 8: At Santa's Wonderland?
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  Speaker 1: Again. Right. I understand.
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  Speaker 8: How would you even notice? I get the magnetometer thing.
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  Speaker 8: If you walked in, it beeps. You're like, what's in there? Oh,
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  Speaker 8: it's a pocket knife.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, great.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: But like, I've never heard someone actually on site. Like,
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  Speaker 8: I think you're carrying a knife in your pocket, sir. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: I certainly am.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Got to go out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a man. I carry a pocket knife.
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  Speaker 8: Ditch the knife. Matt says a Stanley cup with a handle.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: Now, that's a weapon. And they've seen it deployed in
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  Speaker 8: a school build. That's a sledgehammer.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just an emotional support mode.
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  Speaker 8: Because they get you grip that thing if they really swing.
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  Speaker 1: It at you that that's like if you could yeah
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  Speaker 1: if you put a dent in that using somebody's skull
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  Speaker 1: you've done something.
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  Speaker 8: I mean have you are there any places for the
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  Speaker 8: knife people out there and most of you are knife
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  Speaker 8: people i think we've established this on the show you
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  Speaker 8: carry a knife with yeah it's an everyday tool tool Um,
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  Speaker 8: have you, where have you got it lifted off? Cause
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  Speaker 8: even the places where you probably should have it taken
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  Speaker 8: off of you. I've never, never actually seen someone lose
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  Speaker 8: a knife. I'll put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: I've, I've, uh, I mean, I've, I've mentioned this.
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  Speaker 8: This isn't a crocodile Dundee knife. No, you're not going
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  Speaker 8: to surprise me when they'd be like, Oh, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking like my dad used to carry the
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  Speaker 1: little Swiss Army knife with a toothpick in it and
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  Speaker 1: a one-inch blade. I mean, that would have gotten taken up, too.
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  Speaker 8: Our text number and our phone number, same thing. 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 8: It's weird.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: It's weird. And I've been in a lot of hospitals, too.
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  Speaker 8: I've never heard of someone... I've never heard of someone
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  Speaker 8: having to surrender a pocket knife.
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  Speaker 1: Now, when I walked out after we were done, I said, finally, freedom.
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  Speaker 1: I can exercise my constitutional right to carry a pocket knife.
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  Speaker 8: Call us, text us. Have you ever been told you
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  Speaker 8: can't keep a pocket knife in a area?
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to, any time I'm going to be
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  Speaker 1: walking into anything from here on out, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: slip it off the clip and put it all the
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  Speaker 1: way down in the pocket, I guess.
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  Speaker 8: Well, then maybe that'll help you. Maybe it won't. Maybe
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  Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTAW, 979-695-1620 is our phone number. Where did you get
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  Speaker 8: a knife taken off of you? Where were you not
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  Speaker 8: allowed to carry a pocket knife? In the state of Texas.
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  Speaker 8: Apparently Scott and White is one of those places.
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  Speaker 1: Scott and White Temple. And it might be a rule here,
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  Speaker 1: but they're smart enough to realize that I'm not a threat.
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  Speaker 8: I've legitimately never encountered it, but a lot of you
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  Speaker 8: say you've been in the same situation Will found himself
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  Speaker 8: in yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Rowena says the last time I reported for jury duty.
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  Speaker 1: Had to leave my tiny keychain knife with the officers
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  Speaker 1: manning the scanner.
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  Speaker 8: The keychain knife. You know, like the little baby-est knife
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  Speaker 8: of the baby knives? The little Swiss Army guy?
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  Speaker 1: You know what? If I was in a confrontation and
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  Speaker 1: somebody pulled that out, I think I would die from laughing. Seriously?
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  Speaker 8: Chris, lost less than a two-inch knife going into the
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  Speaker 8: Astros game. Totally in my pocket. Was not about to
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  Speaker 8: walk these six blocks back to put in a car. I, yeah. Again,
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  Speaker 8: if it goes off in a metal detector, I kind
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  Speaker 8: of get, I get it. Because what are they going
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  Speaker 8: to do? They can't tell, yeah, okay, just carry the
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  Speaker 8: knife in there. But, like, still, again, it's a less
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  Speaker 8: than two-inch knife.
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  Speaker 1: You know, honestly, and I've told you this before.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, can you, are you just some kind of,
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  Speaker 8: are there just ninjas out there that can just tear
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  Speaker 8: you up with.
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  Speaker 1: A two-inch knife? I guess. I don't know. I keep
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  Speaker 1: knives that I, like, I carry certain knives for air travel.
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  Speaker 13: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: I will get a cheap pocket knife that if they
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  Speaker 1: catch me, I don't mind throwing away. And I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you that the vast majority of the time, I
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  Speaker 1: mean like seven, eight out of ten times, I get
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  Speaker 1: through TSA.
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  Speaker 8: Ryan texts in this. I've had someone else tell me
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  Speaker 8: I can't have a knife while concealed carrying. I just
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  Speaker 8: walked it back to my truck thinking if you only knew,
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  Speaker 8: your head would explode.
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  Speaker 10: See?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 8: That's really what they're there for. But don't tell the security.
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  Speaker 8: Well, that's... Yeah, you can't... You can't take it out
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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• 18:05
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  Speaker 1: She wants to go into nursing. She wants to be a,
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  Speaker 8: I think that's right. I'm not entirely sure, but that's
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  Speaker 1: You can do all the social media influencing you want,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not paying for a college degree that is that worthless.
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  Speaker 8: You wouldn't have paid. You would say, hey, I'm not
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• 18:59
  Speaker 8: pay for it yourself, would you even do that?
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  Speaker 1: She wants to pay for herself.
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  Speaker 8: social media influencing, then go for it. But not not
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: with my money. No, I was I want to know
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• 19:22
  Speaker 8: social media influencing as a major in college, which they
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: can do at many colleges, what would your reaction be?
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  Speaker 1: My hand is raised.
• 19:45
  Speaker 8: And you're in the minority of parents.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: That say.
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: 77% of their parents would be okay with their kids
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: majoring in social media. 33% say no. It's absolutely not
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  Speaker 8: like you. Which is, again, I've got opinions on this
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  Speaker 8: for days now. And they're actually somewhat complex because I
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  Speaker 8: went to college for a journalism degree, and I would
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  Speaker 8: not let my kid go to college for a journalism
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  Speaker 8: degree if I had a kid. Wouldn't let him go
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  Speaker 8: to college for a comms degree. Wouldn't let him go
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  Speaker 8: to college for a whole list of them. But I'm
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  Speaker 8: not sure if I'd let my kid get into the
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  Speaker 8: influencing game at this point. And again, there's reasons for it.
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  Speaker 8: We might discuss this coming up, but I do want
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  Speaker 1: A & M University police say the reports of a
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  Speaker 1: The robbery was reported by a freshman member of the
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  Speaker 1: pepper sprayed in the West Campus garage and her fish
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  Speaker 1: spurs stolen. UPD believes the claims were fabricated. UPD Assistant
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  Speaker 1: Chief Bobby Richardson told WTAW that the information will now
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  Speaker 1: be referred to the Brazos County District Attorney. Her identity
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: is not being released. Three people have been arrested in
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: connection with a drug operation in Bryan. Bryan police were
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  Speaker 1: belonged to 36-year-old Vicenta Castillo and her son, 17-year-old Jacob Melendez,
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  Speaker 1: both of whom have recent drug-related arrests. A search warrant
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  Speaker 1: of methamphetamine and THC weighing in at just over 12 grams.
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  Speaker 1: Castillo was charged with the manufactured delivery of a controlled substance.
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  Speaker 1: possession of a controlled substance, and possession of marijuana. She
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  Speaker 1: substance and remains jailed on $ 90, 000 bond. Melendez was charged
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  Speaker 1: with possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
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  Speaker 1: He is being held on $ 65, 000 bond. 39-year-old Carlos Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: was pulled over for a traffic stop after he was
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  Speaker 1: seen leaving the apartment. He was found with nearly two
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: grams of methamphetamine and was charged with possession of a
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  Speaker 1: being held on $ 28, 000 bond. The Brazos County District Attorney's
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  Speaker 1: 56-year-old David Pennington of Conroe was sentenced to 25 years
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  Speaker 1: with three or more previous convictions. On March 10th, Pennington
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  Speaker 1: contacted College Station Police to say that he felt unsafe
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  Speaker 1: driving because he was seeing double, but he said he
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  Speaker 1: would not stop unless an officer stopped him. Pennington admitted
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  Speaker 1: to drinking nine 16-ounce beers on his drive from Temple.
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  Speaker 1: A breathalyzer showed an alcohol concentration of 0.125. At the
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  Speaker 1: time of his arrest in March, Pennington was on parole.
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  Speaker 1: For a prior DWI offense, he was convicted of felony
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: driving while intoxicated in 2016 and sentenced to 20 years
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  Speaker 1: in prison. Brazos County announced Monday that the burn ban
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• 30:36
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  Speaker 1: They expect the water to be off from 10 until 3.
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  Speaker 1: The state is set to execute Jamal Howard on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The execution would be the first in the country since
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  Speaker 1: last week's botched execution attempt in Tennessee. Two doses of
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  Speaker 1: the normally lethal drug pentobarbital were administered to Krista Pike,
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  Speaker 1: but she survived. She's said to be on a ventilator.
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  Speaker 1: Texas also uses pentobarbital. Howard's attorneys are asking Governor Abbott
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  Speaker 1: Howard is condemned for the May 2000 robbery and murder
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  Speaker 8: a question. Your kid came to you and said, I
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  Speaker 8: want to major in social media influencing. What is your reaction?
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  Speaker 8: Because 77% of parents cool with it.
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  Speaker 1: Not 77% of parents I know.
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  Speaker 8: Not that I'm seeing either. This text, my wife and
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  Speaker 8: I have decided. This is kind of interesting. My wife
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  Speaker 8: and I have decided regardless of the degree, we're not
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  Speaker 8: paying for it. They're welcome to stay at home and
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  Speaker 8: receive provisions if they decide to go to college and
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  Speaker 8: go to A & M, which makes sense. I was
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  Speaker 8: of JUCO were free on scholarships, so I went. The
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• 36:40
  Speaker 8: a degree I didn't want caused me to end my education.
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  Speaker 8: Best financial decision I ever made. Way too many parents
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  Speaker 8: feel like college is the only way to be financially successful.
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  Speaker 8: Let's set that as the baseline for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 8: The juice might not necessarily be worth the squeeze.
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  Speaker 1: There's a million degrees out there that you're going to
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  Speaker 1: get out of college with and not be able to
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: find anything in your so-called career field. There are millions
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  Speaker 1: of jobs out there in the trades that you can
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: make a great living at.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you can have a whole life. Barbara says, pay
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: for it yourself, not wasting my time or money for
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: something that stupid. Rowena texts in, to the hopeful young
• 37:17
  Speaker 8: person who wishes to major in social media, I would
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  Speaker 8: say that she or he may take those courses only
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: if you can pay for them yourself, and also, you
• 37:25
  Speaker 8: better have a plan B.
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  Speaker 1: For sure.
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  Speaker 8: Amy, if my child told me that they wanted to
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  Speaker 8: major in social media, influencing whatever, I would tell them,
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  Speaker 8: not on my dime. They can get a student loan
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  Speaker 8: and pay for that all they want, but I'm not
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: paying it. No way. Is it weird that I think
• 37:41
  Speaker 8: that you almost have to pay for it? Because them
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: getting a loan for that degree is worse.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I think I'd probably, like, okay.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because then you're paying all the interest on it.
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  Speaker 1: You're graduating in debt and not going to make a
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  Speaker 1: lot of money, probably. I mean, let's face it. And
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I knew that, too, with my degree. I knew I
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: wasn't going to be making Howard Stern money.
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  Speaker 8: No, but I thought it was going to get me
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  Speaker 8: further down the line. And some people will be like, well, Tucker,
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  Speaker 8: you got pretty far down the line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you did pretty fair.
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  Speaker 8: You've done a few things. I don't think any of
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  Speaker 8: that was due. I think I could have just never
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: taken a class and done what I did.
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  Speaker 1: I've often theorized, and it may be different in some
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: other types of fields of study. For me and many
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  Speaker 1: people that I know, most everybody I know, College was
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  Speaker 1: not about what I learned in the classroom.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 1: College was about I'm going to take this massive pile
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: of stuff and dump it on you and see if
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: you can dig yourself out from underneath it successfully.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to learn how to do life.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to learn how to be uncomfortable. and do
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  Speaker 8: things you don't want to do.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: You're going to have to be in a situation where
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: you've got to make tough choices and you've got to
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: get things done.
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  Speaker 8: There was another story I saw today that a lot
• 38:58
  Speaker 8: of kids at this point are going to college and
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: immediately going home and saying, no, I don't want to
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: do this. I want to do online classes, which to
• 39:06
  Speaker 8: me is almost worse than the social media influencing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. One of the reasons my daughter is
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: going to graduate in three years is because of the
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: amount of online classes she's been able to take. Plus
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: the mini masters, the, you know, the, the classes over
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Christmas break and the summer stuff. That's why she's getting
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: out in three.
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: See, that's the thing is like, it can work out well,
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: but I kind of feel like you're missing. because i
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: mean we've all yeah you go to college you get
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: homesick yeah it's hard yeah you have to do life
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: yeah things go your way and some things don't go
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: your way and then you think to yourself okay i'm
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: just gonna go back i think you kind of got
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: to stay there but yeah there's obviously except.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: She's getting that she's getting the best of both worlds
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: because she does take in-person classes too yeah she is
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: she is there at the university she's taking part in
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the college life however those those availabilities of online classes
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: have made it significantly less expensive and i mean especially
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: in a school like old miss where they're growing exponentially
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: she's a lot of classes she can't get into the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: in-person This.
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: Person texts in the major is more valuable than you
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: think it is with social media influence. OK, look, I
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: could see it. I could see it being useful, not
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: as necessarily I'm going to be an influencer, but like
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: there's a bunch of. people our age that own companies
• 40:25
  Speaker 8: that have no clue what they're doing that will need.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Kids to go and do it for them. It's the
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: marketing of the future.
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a marketing degree in essence of maybe, but
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: you could just get a marketing degree.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: It should be incorporated in a modern marketing degree anyway.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: There should not be a separate influencer.
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: That's ridiculous.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: That's not a major. That's, okay, hey, you're a marketing student.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: We're going to teach you a bit about influencing.
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: I just... If you're going to go to A & M,
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: you're going to spend the money to go to A
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: & M. And you want to do something in the
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: marketing scope or field. And just get a major in geology.
• 41:04
  Speaker 8: You know, just in case. Because then at least you
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: can go. Or anything oil. Anything oil. Anything engineering.
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  Speaker 1: Or anything business.
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: Anything business.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: If it comes out of Mays, you're fine.
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: Because you can say Mays. You can point and say Mays.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: You can say I have a business degree and therefore
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I know how to handle my own finances.
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: But again, radio, TV, film was a degree path that
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: you could take for years and years.
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: For years.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: The RTF.
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: A lot of people got their RTF.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: University of North Texas made a huge commitment to.
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: They made so much money on that. And all of
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: those kids are like, why? I don't know one. As someone, again,
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: on the other side, I don't know one person who
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: sits there and is like, you know what? I'm really
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: glad I got was my comms degree.
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: What?
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Not one. What are you saying, Tucker, about my communications
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: major and theater minor? Are you saying it's worthless?
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: No, Will. No, it's got some. I mean, we could
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: put you in community theater if we wanted to.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: You could if I wanted to. Qualified.
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: Have you ever done a local production?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: I have not done any local. I haven't been on
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: stage since college.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In a theatrical role. I mean, it would be fun.
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  Speaker 1: My problem is the time commitment.
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  Speaker 8: It is. It's a huge issue.
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  Speaker 1: And I get to come in here and act every day. Yeah,
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: fair enough.
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: Maybe the social marketing could be the plan. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: If you want to be an influencer and your kid
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: wants to be an influencer, I'll tell you what to
• 42:28
  Speaker 8: tell him, right?
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Go get that minor.
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: No, don't even get a minor. Just start doing it.
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  Speaker 8: Just go out there and start doing it. Just do
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  Speaker 8: it while you do something else. Make it your side
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: hustle thing. until it's not your side hustle. If it
• 42:39
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• 42:42
  Speaker 8: that's great. But there's nothing stopping you from doing it
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: on the side. It's not the same thing. You're not
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: having to convince anyone to let you run a social
• 42:52
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• 42:54
  Speaker 8: something cool.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: You don't go interview for that for the most part.
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  Speaker 1: That's just go do it.
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  Speaker 28: The Aggie football team will meet up against Missouri this
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  Speaker 28: Saturday for the 19th time in program history. And due
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  Speaker 28: the season against Arkansas and took the right step in
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  Speaker 28: gaining momentum ahead of this week's matchup. Head coach Mike
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  Speaker 28: Elko recapped last week's win.
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  Speaker 10: Players of the week. offensively we went with KJ Edwards
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  Speaker 10: 66 yards and 11 carries for two touchdowns it was
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  Speaker 10: great to see him get some more opportunities be able
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  Speaker 10: to get out there healthy and really kind of start
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  Speaker 10: to show what he's really capable of and so excited
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  Speaker 10: for him as he continues to grow into this thing
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  Speaker 10: defensively Tawfiq Bayard led the team of tackles with six
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  Speaker 10: you know really healthy now kind of for the first
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  Speaker 10: time and so it was great to get him out
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  Speaker 10: there and continue to enhance his role as we go
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  Speaker 10: into this thing. And then special teams was pretty easy.
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  Speaker 10: Obviously went with David Alano, who had a really good night,
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  Speaker 10: kicking two for two and plus 50. He was also
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  Speaker 10: named SEC Special Teams Player of the Week today, too.
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  Speaker 10: And so congratulations to him for that. And I think
• 48:19
  Speaker 10: the story of the game was really simple. I thought
• 48:21
  Speaker 10: we did the things you need to do to win
• 48:23
  Speaker 10: football games. We won the turnover margin. We were really
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: good on third down. We were really good getting off
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  Speaker 10: the field on third down. We did a really good
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  Speaker 10: job scoring touchdowns in the red zone. We didn't give
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  Speaker 10: up the touchdown in the red zone the one time
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  Speaker 10: they got in it. And when you're able to play
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  Speaker 10: And so it's nice to have an Arkansas game not
• 48:40
  Speaker 10: come down to the wire like every other one that
• 48:43
  Speaker 10: I've been part of has. And so now we turn
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  Speaker 10: our attention to a really good Missouri team, a really
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  Speaker 10: big challenge and big opportunity for us in Missouri this week.
• 48:51
  Speaker 28: Coach Elko also shared thoughts on the challenges that Missouri
• 48:54
  Speaker 28: will present on Saturday.
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  Speaker 10: I think they're playing really, really good football. They're 12th
• 48:59
  Speaker 10: in the country, only giving up 2.6 yards a carry.
• 49:01
  Speaker 10: And so they've been really, really effective stopping the run
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  Speaker 10: and obviously did a really, really good job against an
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  Speaker 10: really been able to do so far. And then offensively,
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  Speaker 10: I think it starts with the quarterback. He's playing elite football, really,
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  Speaker 10: really running the offense at a high, high level and
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  Speaker 10: then because of that, you've got skilled kids on the
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  Speaker 10: outside that can create separation and get open and a
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  Speaker 10: really talented running back. And so they stress you in
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  Speaker 10: a lot of different ways. And so it'll be a
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• 49:32
  Speaker 28: Kickoff for the A & M versus Missouri game is
• 49:35
  Speaker 28: set for Saturday afternoon at 11 a.m. Aggie men's golf
• 49:39
  Speaker 28: Whedon Ennis won the individual title at the Fighting Irish Classic,
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  Speaker 28: closing with a 3-67 to finish at 7-203. As the
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  Speaker 28: men's golf team placed second in the team's standings yesterday
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  Speaker 28: at the Warren Golf Course. Yesterday afternoon, the SEC announced
• 49:56
  Speaker 28: that Texas A & M Volleyball's Kendall Stowers was named
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  Speaker 8: How many of the videos and pictures did you see
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  Speaker 8: from ACL this past week?
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  Speaker 1: I just saw pictures, and I could smell the pictures.
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  Speaker 1: It was just this mud pit.
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  Speaker 8: Did any of y'all go to ACL? I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: guess the answer is probably no. If you did, this
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  Speaker 8: is mandatory that we hear from you about your experience.
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  Speaker 8: If you were there, I need to know what it
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  Speaker 8: was like because that looked– heinous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nothing I ever want to be a part of.
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  Speaker 1: The picture I saw was, you know, it looked like
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  Speaker 1: little college co-ed girls in their fancy white shoes walking
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  Speaker 1: across This mud pit.
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  Speaker 8: Some people were up to their knees, up to their
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  Speaker 8: knees in mud. They laid down fake turf over the mud.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that doesn't work.
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  Speaker 8: No, it didn't work. It did nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you talked about it beforehand. You said they use
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  Speaker 1: that dillo dirt stuff, which is not dirt.
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  Speaker 8: It's fertilizer that is treated with human gray water. It's
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  Speaker 8: just bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's bad, y'all. It smells like your septic tank right
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  Speaker 1: after the sprinkler goes off.
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  Speaker 8: Is there any festival that you would... attend that's out
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  Speaker 8: there today, to your knowledge, like a music festival.
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  Speaker 1: Not at this age.
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  Speaker 8: You'd have a pretty good time going to. Every year,
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  Speaker 8: I struggle more and more. There used to be one
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  Speaker 8: called Old Cella, where they got all the rock acts
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  Speaker 8: from the 80s and did it around the place. They
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  Speaker 8: did Coachella. Again, mud problems there. They're out in the desert. Okay.
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  Speaker 8: All right. We're kind of getting close.
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, no. I it's it's wild to see if
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  Speaker 8: you have not seen what people were dealing with out there,
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  Speaker 8: please do yourself a favor. Jump over and Google because
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  Speaker 8: it was truly nasty, truly a side to behold. They
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  Speaker 8: obviously have one more weekend of it. I don't think
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  Speaker 8: anyone's calling for it. How long does it take to
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  Speaker 8: dry out a giant mud trough? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, they'll have to go like
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: ski slopes. They got to groom it like.
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  Speaker 8: It's just going to be dirt because whatever grass.
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  Speaker 1: To begin with, I think there was grass this year.
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  Speaker 8: That's just absolutely, absolutely gnarly. What you need to follow
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  Speaker 8: is I need to know how many staff infections are reported.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 8: I don't want I don't want to think about it.
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  Speaker 8: But that's the first thing that came to mind is like, OK, great.
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  Speaker 8: They're having a miserable day out there. Miserable couple of days.
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  Speaker 8: But the real test is how many of them have
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  Speaker 8: a miserable couple of weeks afterwards because all of a
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  Speaker 8: sudden you end up with this crazy flesh-eating bacteria.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you can invest in dermatologists in the greater
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: Austin area, not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 8: You watch all these people who are thrilled. It's them.
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  Speaker 8: It's those guys. Like, oh, this is going to be great. Like,
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  Speaker 8: we're going to be booked for– for a long time. Hell,
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  Speaker 8: even dermatologists in Houston or dermatologists here, I'm sure, are
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  Speaker 8: going to see an uptick. Do your daughters get into
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  Speaker 8: this stuff? No, they're not festival people. They really haven't
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  Speaker 8: had a whole lot of opportunities to do festivals. Now,
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  Speaker 8: they love some concerts.
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  Speaker 1: I love them some concerts, but I think they like
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  Speaker 1: the ones that are just, I'm going to go there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be seen. I'm going to hear my music.
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  Speaker 8: Festival people have to be exhausting to be around.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, I think so.
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  Speaker 8: How do you have enough energy? In your life to say, okay,
• 56:40
  Speaker 8: two days of swimming through a mud pie to see
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  Speaker 8: various bands. Presumably bands.
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  Speaker 1: Many of which I don't want to see.
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  Speaker 8: And the cost, not any. We've got to move on.
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