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The Infomaniacs: September 9th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The Bryan
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Speaker 1: City Council voted last night to approve the proposed tax
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Speaker 1: rate of $ 62. 4 per $ 100 of a home's valuation. No
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Speaker 1: one signed up to speak on a public hearing for
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Speaker 1: the matter. The approved rate is the same tax rate
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Speaker 1: that has been in place since 2023. Council also had
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Speaker 1: to officially adopt the city's $ 569 million budget.
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Speaker 2: Roll call vote.
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Speaker 3: Councilman Torres.
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Speaker 4: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Councilman Arrington. Yes. Councilman Salvato.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Councilman Edge. Yes.
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Speaker 5: Shurtleff.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 7: Berski.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 3: And I'm a yes as well.
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Speaker 9: Motion passes unanimous.
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Speaker 1: That's Mayor Bobby Gutierrez. Councilwoman Ewer Shurtleff shared her optimism
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Speaker 1: over a mid-rise apartment development coming to the 2.2 acres
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Speaker 1: on 600 Woodson Drive.
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Speaker 6: That's not just in my district. It's in my neighborhood,
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Speaker 6: and I think it's going to be a welcome addition
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Speaker 6: to see some progress there. I know it's been a
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Speaker 6: long time. For those of you who don't remember, we
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Speaker 6: approved a PD there. It kind of fizzled out. So
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Speaker 6: we've got some new life, a very innovative concept. This
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Speaker 6: is going to be more for higher-level grad students, a
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Speaker 6: little bit older crowd. A mix of indoor-outdoor use. There's
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Speaker 6: a parking garage. I think it's going to be a
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Speaker 6: great addition, not just to District 5, but to the
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Speaker 6: city of Bryan.
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Speaker 1: Police in College Station now say that someone was injured
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Speaker 1: Saturday night after a gun went off inside a Northgate bar.
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Speaker 1: CSPD says a victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to
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Speaker 1: the hand came forward and spoke with investigators on Sunday.
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Speaker 1: They say that the victim and suspect knew each other
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Speaker 1: and traveled to College Station together. 19-year-old Trey Wheeler remains
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Speaker 1: jailed on $ 145, 000 bond. He is not yet facing additional charges.
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Speaker 1: President Trump will headline the Republican midterm convention Wednesday as
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Speaker 1: he pushes the party to campaign on his achievements. Vox's
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Speaker 1: Jackie Heinrich is in Dallas with the details.
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Speaker 10: The president said the event is sold out and organizers
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Speaker 10: are also, quote, saving the stage for candidates who are
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Speaker 10: in tight races and that he'll be speaking on both nights.
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Speaker 10: In addition to the vice president, some cabinet members and
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Speaker 10: other big names will be spotlighting legislative wins that they
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Speaker 10: say helped Democrats improve the lives of Americans from no
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Speaker 10: tax on tips, overtime and Social Security, to border enforcement,
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Speaker 10: energy and jobs. But House Democrats are counter-programming. They're sending
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Speaker 10: a delegation here to slam Republicans for, quote, partying with
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Speaker 10: their super-rich donors amid an affordability crisis. They're also needling
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Speaker 10: Republicans on absences, saying some Republicans are keeping their distance
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Speaker 10: from the president's low approval ratings.
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Speaker 1: Vice President J.D. Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bissett, Attorney General
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Speaker 1: Todd Blanch, and Donald Trump Jr. will also speak at
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Speaker 1: the convention. Some candidates, like Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn, plan
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Speaker 1: to campaign in their home districts. A bipartisan Texas effort
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Speaker 1: is pushing for a review of the nation's emergency oil
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Speaker 1: stockpile as it sits at the lowest level since the
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Speaker 1: early 1980s.
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Speaker 11: Democrat Lizzie Fletcher of Houston and Republican August Pfluger of
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Speaker 11: San Angelo have authored the 21st Century Strategic Petroleum Reserve Act.
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Speaker 11: This would direct the U.S. Secretary of Energy to request
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Speaker 11: a public report and look at ways to modernize the
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Speaker 11: reserve's operations. These could include strengthening oil storage facilities to
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Speaker 11: withstand frequent drawdowns or encourage oil purchases when prices are
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Speaker 11: lower to keep replenishing the reserve. There would be one
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Speaker 11: year to submit findings to the Energy Department and Congress
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Speaker 11: and make the report available to the public. The Strategic
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Speaker 11: Petroleum Reserve is currently at about 40 percent capacity, holding
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Speaker 11: 287 million barrels of crude oil during the week that
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Speaker 11: ended on August 28th. I'm Kristen Yates, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: More news on the way at 8.30 or anytime at WTAW.com.
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Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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Speaker 13: 1620-945-WTAW, the Infomaniacs, on a Wednesday. Good morning. Thank you
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Speaker 13: to catch up a little bit. Back to the pumpkin spice.
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Speaker 13: Steven says, have y'all tried the pumpkin spice dude wipes?
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Speaker 1: I think that they call that the dumpkin spice. Dude wipes.
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Speaker 13: I'm not excited about it. That product does not do
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Speaker 1: I've not completely jumped on the wipe bandwagon simply because
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're handy. I've got a pack in the car. Bidets.
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Speaker 13: That is the solution for these modern times. Also, a
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Speaker 13: text from Jason. Did y'all continue the metal and rage
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Speaker 13: music conversation this morning? Okay, I remember that we were
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Speaker 13: talking about the fact that you never really expect the
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Speaker 13: people who are so into rage music when they drive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Carrie Underwood put out the Limp Bizkit tune yesterday.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, and a lot of people are shocked to find
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Speaker 13: out frequently that when she's not being one of the
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Speaker 13: greatest country music stars of the last 35 years, whatever
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Speaker 13: it's been, All she listens to is heavy metal. Like,
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Speaker 13: she's so into it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: So into it. But yeah, you never really expect that.
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Speaker 13: And we were sharing some stories with other people in
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Speaker 13: our lives that while they appear to be very chill
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Speaker 13: and just, you know, professional and that type of person,
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Speaker 13: they get into their car and all they listen to
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Speaker 13: is the hardest stuff you've ever heard in your life.
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Speaker 13: So Jason says... He thinks a sing-along might be needed. Jason,
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Speaker 13: I don't have the pipes to be able to pull
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Speaker 13: that off in any version.
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Speaker 1: I can pull off the texture, but the tone is
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Speaker 1: not there.
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Speaker 13: But it is convenient that you bring that up because
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Speaker 13: I do have metal news today involving these guys.
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Speaker 1: These guys?
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Speaker 13: Greatest metal band in the history of the genre, I
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Speaker 13: would say. Metallica.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 14: Love them.
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Speaker 13: Just love them. And the story has to do with
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Speaker 13: something else we talked about last week on the show,
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Speaker 13: which was the mansion shortage in San Francisco. Remember this?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: They don't have enough mansions. They don't have enough mansions.
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Speaker 13: And by the way, mansion I'm referring to not as
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Speaker 13: the $ 2 million it'll cost you to just get a house,
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Speaker 13: like a two-bedroom in San Francisco. I'm talking about the
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Speaker 13: mansions that cost like $ 10, $ 20, $ 20. $ 30 million.
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Speaker 1: Think of the homeless millionaires that are out there right
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Speaker 1: now without a mansion to buy.
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Speaker 13: One person is thinking of the homeless millionaires, and it's
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Speaker 13: Lars from Metallica. Yeah, because, well, he is a millionaire.
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Speaker 1: He's always there for a good cause.
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Speaker 13: Lars loves money. Lars loves money almost as much as
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Speaker 13: he loves short shorts.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: Wine, fine art, and tennis. That's the type of guy
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Speaker 13: that Lars Ulrich is. Not saying there's anything wrong with that.
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Speaker 13: That's just who Lars is. Lars made $ 90 million yesterday.
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Speaker 13: Would you like to know how?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 13: Lars Ulrich closed the single most profitable day, second single
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Speaker 13: most profitable day in California real estate history yesterday by
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Speaker 13: selling two mansions that are next.
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Speaker 15: Door to each other.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 13: He owned them and wasn't doing anything with them. So
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Speaker 13: he decided to sell them to the CEO of Salesforce
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Speaker 13: in two.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, wait.
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Speaker 13: He bought them from the guy that owned them who
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Speaker 13: was the CEO of Salesforce. He bought two of the mansions.
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Speaker 13: He bought them for $ 36 million at the time and
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Speaker 13: then decided he didn't want them anymore. So he sold them.
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Speaker 13: for a crazy amount of money. In addition, he also
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Speaker 13: sold a separate 161-acre of land plot somewhere, giving him
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Speaker 13: a grand total for the one-day net of $ 84 million
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Speaker 13: in real estate sales.
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Speaker 8: Wow.
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Speaker 13: Lars Ulrich.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thank God he needed the grocery money, I'm sure.
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Speaker 13: You know, it's just great when California millionaires are having
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Speaker 13: a hard time. that there's that guy who can step in.
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Speaker 1: He's just doing his part to help out fellow millionaires.
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Speaker 13: The common man. The common man of San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: Who's living in inadequate housing.
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Speaker 13: There's a tech billionaire out there that is so grateful
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Speaker 13: for Lars.
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Speaker 13: 16, 20, 94, 5, WTOW. Welcome back, gang. It's Wednesday.
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Speaker 13: And once again, going to be hot. And once again,
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Speaker 13: I know it's kind of jarring to hear about a
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Speaker 13: guy who, again, you've just been listening to since the 80s,
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Speaker 13: all of a sudden make almost $ 100 million in a
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Speaker 13: day on real estate. And you're thinking to yourself, good Lord,
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Speaker 13: in these times, in these times?
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Speaker 1: Well, his take home is only going to be about $ 38. 50
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Speaker 1: after California taxes get him.
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Speaker 13: So Let's talk about one of the reasons life is
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Speaker 13: so expensive today. There was a time in America where
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Speaker 13: I was growing up, Will was growing up, where there
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Speaker 13: were a lot of things that you got for free
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Speaker 13: that now... cost you a not insignificant amount of money.
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Speaker 1: No, you get nickeled and dimed for everything these days.
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Speaker 13: Every single thing. It's just another... I use the term
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Speaker 13: weaponized math on the show quite a lot. It's the idea...
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Speaker 13: These companies spend all day with algorithms and spreadsheets finding
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Speaker 13: a way to legitimately nickel and dime you.
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Speaker 1: Going to squeeze you for a little more.
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Speaker 13: If they can get the average sale up 10 cents,
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Speaker 13: then they get millions of dollars in bonus money and
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Speaker 13: everything else like that. And it's led to a lot
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Speaker 13: of things no longer being just what you get. BuzzFeed
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Speaker 13: has put together a comprehensive list of this. Or what
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Speaker 13: they believe to be a comprehensive list of this. And
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Speaker 13: you tell me, Will, if there are any that you
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Speaker 13: feel like they missed.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that there's any that they've missed.
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Speaker 13: I know one. There's one on this list that I
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Speaker 13: know they've missed. And it's going to enrage you. Pizza delivery. Now,
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Speaker 13: it's no longer free. There's a delivery fee.
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Speaker 1: You call a pizza delivery place and they charge you more?
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Speaker 13: It's been more common. There might still be places that
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Speaker 13: offer it, but it's certainly not standard in And it
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Speaker 13: has nothing to do with the tip. The tip is extra.
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Speaker 13: The delivery fee is usually a couple of bucks if
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Speaker 13: you're ordering. Check it. You might be surprised. Free internet content.
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Speaker 13: They ask, why is everything that's worth reading behind a
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Speaker 13: paywall now?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean. There's a whole lot of stuff behind
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Speaker 1: paywalls that's not worth reading. Just FYI. That's so true.
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Speaker 13: YouTube, without excessive ads, now a 10-minute video, can have
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Speaker 13: three ad breaks.
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Speaker 1: Three.
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Speaker 13: Unless you pay to get rid of them.
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Speaker 1: That is pure torture right there because there's a lot
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Speaker 1: of content on YouTube that I watch, and I don't
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Speaker 1: pay for the premium YouTube.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: It drives me nuts. It has gotten a little bit better, though,
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Speaker 1: since they've turned the volume down on some of those
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Speaker 1: commercials that would explode into your eardrums.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: They would crank the volume up on those. I hated that. But, yeah,
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Speaker 1: the YouTube commercials are something that should probably be outlawed
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Speaker 1: by the Geneva Convention.
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Speaker 13: I do think that some work needs to be done
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Speaker 13: on that. uh disney fast pass i don't remember this
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Speaker 13: ever being free but.
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Speaker 1: Yeah i'll take your word i don't think there was
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Speaker 1: you can't say disney without them charging.
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Speaker 13: You uh that if it was man when it dropped
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Speaker 13: that was free that was transformative.
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Speaker 1: Yeah i don't i don't recall i can't imagine that
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Speaker 1: being free not with what they charge and they they
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Speaker 1: modify it all the time it's it's stupid expensive now
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Speaker 1: now let's go.
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Speaker 13: Through a bunch that have to do with flying free
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Speaker 13: airline food Believe it or not, that did used to exist.
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Speaker 1: I remember having to choose between the chicken or the beef.
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Speaker 13: Seat selection on an airplane used to also be free.
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Speaker 13: Where do you want to sit? Okay, cool. That's long gone.
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Speaker 13: And finally, checked airline bags. There was a time where
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Speaker 13: they assumed you would be bringing luggage on the plane,
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Speaker 13: and they just let you do it.
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Speaker 1: Now planes are charging for carry-ons.
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Speaker 13: That's right. Concert ticket fees.
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Speaker 1: Oh, dear God.
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Speaker 13: Remember, you guys, kids will never understand this. You used
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Speaker 13: to be able to get into a concert. I'm talking
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Speaker 13: about a great concert. Less than $ 100. You would walk
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Speaker 13: to the venue, and you would stand in line. Maybe
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Speaker 13: camp in line if you had to, but they would
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Speaker 13: open the ticket window.
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Speaker 1: You would go.
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Speaker 13: You would give them their money, and they would give
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Speaker 13: you physical tickets that would allow you to get into
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Speaker 13: the venue to see this band. And that was it.
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Speaker 1: If you couldn't make it to the venue, say you
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Speaker 1: lived out of town, you went to your local Ticketmaster location.
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Speaker 13: Your Ticketmaster location, which frequently in like a Sam Goody.
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Speaker 8: Hastings.
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Speaker 1: Hastings was. You're right.
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Speaker 13: Hastings was a Ticketmaster location.
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Speaker 1: And so you'd go to Hastings and you'd buy your
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Speaker 1: concert ticket.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, that easy.
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure there was a fee on that, but
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Speaker 1: nothing like you see now.
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Speaker 13: And finally, very appropriate considering we're going to get an
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Speaker 13: Apple drop later today with a whole bunch of careers.
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Speaker 1: Oh, are we?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, well, that's what they, I know you're not interested.
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Speaker 1: I certainly am. Phone accessories.
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Speaker 13: Phone accessories. iPhones used to come with headphones and chargers. Bye-bye.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was one of the early things that Apple
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Speaker 1: did that just said, hey, screw you, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: charge you more.
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Speaker 13: A text message from Kyle. Air and water used to
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Speaker 13: be free at gas stations.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, those are long gone.
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Speaker 1: Now you have to keep changing your car, and if
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Speaker 1: you don't, your wife gets mad at you.
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Speaker 13: Here's one from Sarah, which is one of the ones
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Speaker 13: that came to mind for me, if not the one.
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Speaker 13: Credit card fees, the 3% passed on to customers by
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Speaker 13: the merchants. Some local BCS restaurants have started doing this recently.
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Speaker 13: I think a lot of businesses have been doing this
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Speaker 13: for a long time, Sarah, and I think people are
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Speaker 13: just noticing. But, yeah, that 3% fee is– It's been
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Speaker 13: going a long time. And in fairness, it happens at restaurants.
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Speaker 13: Restaurants are getting the exact same treatment from credit card
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Speaker 13: companies that are also getting worse from DoorDashes and Uber Eats.
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Speaker 13: who are just robbing them blind.
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Speaker 1: Every single day. Yeah, their margins are stupid thin.
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Speaker 13: It's a horrible time to be in.
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Speaker 1: The restaurant industry. Absolutely tough, tough time to be in that.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, and with that said, I'm going to now turn
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Speaker 13: my attention to just roasting them completely because the one
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Speaker 13: thing that was not on this list is guac.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 13: The guac. At one point in time, but not recently,
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Speaker 13: there was a point of time in this nation's history...
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Speaker 13: Where the guac was just what you could order on
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Speaker 13: a burrito. Would you like some guac?
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Speaker 7: Sure.
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Speaker 13: There it is.
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Speaker 1: I remember the first time I was like, the guac
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Speaker 1: is 50 cents extra.
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Speaker 13: Guac is extra.
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Speaker 1: And now it's like.
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Speaker 13: Now they've conditioned us to just believe that the guac
17:41
Speaker 13: is always extra. The guac is not always extra. It
17:43
Speaker 13: has not always been extra. Hell, even Chipotle... Used to
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Speaker 13: run at least one day a month back in the
17:48
Speaker 13: day when they were just getting started.
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Speaker 1: When everyone's like, oh, a burrito place. How quaint.
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Speaker 13: They used to run promotions all the time, Free Guac.
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Speaker 13: All the time. They'd hand out free burritos all the time.
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Speaker 13: All the time. Never happens anymore. They will never give
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Speaker 13: you a free burrito, even in the app. It's like, well,
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Speaker 13: I'll give you a chance.
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Speaker 1: A lot of places, I remember. Give you a chance
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Speaker 1: at Free Guac. I used to be a big-time sub-club
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Speaker 1: card carrier.
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Speaker 6: Goal!
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Speaker 1: Get your club card stamped all over the place. I
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Speaker 13: I don't think they do, man. I think that's gone.
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Speaker 13: They will find it again. That's the problem.
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Speaker 1: Jennifer.
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Speaker 13: Jennifer, wow. Okay, read this one. You tell me if
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Speaker 13: this is real or not, Will, because you have a
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Speaker 1: Convenience fees when buying high school sports tickets.
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Speaker 18: That's insane.
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Speaker 1: I pay $ 6. 50 to go watch my daughter play volleyball,
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Speaker 1: and I'm required to buy it on an app and
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Speaker 1: not allowed to pay cash at the door. The app
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Speaker 13: Is that real?
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Speaker 1: The wife handles all of the ticket purchases for our
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18:51
Speaker 1: either an app or a website for that. So I'm
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18:59
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Speaker 13: Cut, right? They've got to get the app. Guys, you
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Speaker 13: and they say, holy cow, how am I, how do
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Speaker 13: And yet the stock market is so high and the
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Speaker 6: Fam?
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Speaker 13: Fam? It's this stuff.
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Speaker 1: It's the hidden cost. It's on top of the unhidden cost.
19:43
Speaker 1: I mean, we all know what. Yeah. You know, fuel
19:45
Speaker 1: is cost.
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Speaker 13: All of these all of these little increases are what.
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Speaker 13: keeps people's stock prices going up and up and up
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Speaker 13: and up and up because they are sucking it out
19:56
Speaker 13: of your money without really giving you anything or asking
20:01
Speaker 13: you at all.
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Speaker 1: Found a new way to bleed you dry.
20:04
Speaker 13: And I'm old enough to remember at restaurants.
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Speaker 1: The guacamole.
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Speaker 13: was cut with English peas. What? And, I hate to
20:15
Speaker 13: break it to you, some places it still is.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 13: I can tell you which ones they are, but I
20:22
Speaker 13: will not.
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Speaker 1: Off air, I want to know, because I'll never go
20:25
Speaker 1: there again.
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Speaker 13: There are a significant amount of restaurants that still step
20:29
Speaker 13: on their guacamole with English peas. They are not serving
20:33
Speaker 13: you the poodle. They are not giving you that 99%
20:36
Speaker 13: guacamole pure they are stepping on.
20:40
Speaker 1: It some things should remain sacred.
20:44
Speaker 13: In effort to get more profit and again restauranting is
20:48
Speaker 13: hard but that's a crime.
20:51
Speaker 1: You stoop to the fact that you're gonna put up
20:54
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Speaker 13: Mashed english peas some avocado and then seasoning that is
20:58
Speaker 13: how it is done there's some there are a lot
21:01
Speaker 13: of people that listen to the work in restaurants some
21:04
Speaker 13: of you guys are sweating thinking i'm gonna drop your
21:06
Speaker 13: name and i'm not gonna do that to you But
21:08
Speaker 13: just know that I know, that you know, and now
21:12
Speaker 13: you know that I know, so maybe we should.
21:14
Speaker 4: Deal with it.
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Speaker 1: And he's going to tell me, and then I'm going
21:16
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21:17
Speaker 13: Just, again, want to keep everyone on the same page
21:21
Speaker 13: and respond saying, I could make money selling the list.
21:23
Speaker 13: I would not do that. I will not do that.
21:26
Speaker 13: I'm going to give them an opportunity.
21:27
Speaker 1: To be better.
21:28
Speaker 13: Because, yes, I could burn them.
21:30
Speaker 1: Before you create the app that has a $ 2. 56 service fee.
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21:37
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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Speaker 1: Bryan City Council held a regularly scheduled meeting last night.
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Speaker 1: The main focus was the proposed tax rate of 62.4
28:30
Speaker 1: cents per $ 100 of a home's value. Mayor Bobby Gutierrez
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Speaker 1: asked Alisa Kenney, the city's interim chief financial officer, what
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Speaker 1: the lowest rate could be that would allow the city
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Speaker 1: to maintain its services and bond ratings.
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Speaker 7: So really to keep at that 100 days of cash without.
28:46
Speaker 1: Dipping below it, it would be. 6235.
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Speaker 13: So it would be a very small, small adjustment.
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Speaker 1: Gutierrez was in favor of adopting the lowest possible rate,
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Speaker 1: but a motion to do so did not pass. Councilwoman Marka,
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Speaker 1: your shirt lift weighs in.
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Speaker 6: Where we're coming from, in my perspective at least, the
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Speaker 6: Texas legislature is a bit unpredictable for our municipal bodies
29:10
Speaker 6: right now. I think that, Brian, we're holding the rate steady.
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Speaker 6: We're not increasing it, but we're still responsible for police
29:17
Speaker 6: and fires. We continue to grow, and I really do
29:19
Speaker 6: admire the mayor for being willing to put a motion
29:22
Speaker 6: in front of this council that would lower it. But
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Speaker 6: from my perspective, given the unpredictability and the obligations we
29:29
Speaker 6: have to maintain our Public safety, which as y'all know,
29:31
Speaker 6: is about 85% of our budget. I'm comfortable staying with
29:34
Speaker 6: not raising it, but not lowering it.
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Speaker 1: The difference between 62.4 cents and the 62.3. the homeowner
29:41
Speaker 1: whose value is $ 250, 000. The now approved rate of 62.4
29:42
Speaker 1: cents per $ 100 is the same tax rate that has
29:43
Speaker 1: been in place since 2023. One person is dead and
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Speaker 1: another injured in a single car crash in Bryan Tuesday afternoon.
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Speaker 1: The accident took place around 6.30 on Highway 6 southbound
30:02
Speaker 1: near Tabor Road. Bryan police said that the driver was
30:06
Speaker 1: pronounced dead on scene and a passenger was transported to
30:09
Speaker 1: a local hospital. The cause of the crash is under investigation.
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Speaker 1: The Brazos Valley Food Bank has received some significant contributions recently.
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Speaker 1: Last week, Producers Cooperative Association presented the organization with a
30:22
Speaker 1: check for $ 5, 000. 00. On Tuesday, nearly $ 6, 000 was awarded to
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Speaker 1: the group as part of College Station's inaugural Restaurant Week.
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Speaker 1: The funds will be used to help the BVFB reach
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Speaker 1: their goal of ending hunger in the Brazos Valley. The
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Speaker 1: weekend shooting in Northgate. They say they received reports on
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Speaker 1: but a victim was unable to be located. CSPD now
30:51
Speaker 1: says a victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the
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Speaker 1: hand came forward and spoke with investigators on Sunday. Investigators
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Speaker 1: to College Station together. It's been one year since Texas
31:05
Speaker 1: implemented a ban on cell phones in schools. Experts are
31:08
Speaker 1: reflecting on the changes seen in classroom behavior.
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Speaker 3: You know, across the board, there was just initial attention
31:16
Speaker 3: in the air. And a lot of teachers that we
31:19
Speaker 3: spoke to, and even personal colleagues of mine, whom are
31:23
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31:28
Speaker 3: this tension in the air initially.
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Speaker 1: School psychologist Dr. Israel Arivalo with Texas A & M
31:34
Speaker 1: Telehealth says while there was initial anxiety among students, parents,
31:38
Speaker 1: and staff, things have since settled back to a normal routine.
31:41
Speaker 1: He says teachers are reporting fewer classroom distractions and students
31:45
Speaker 1: are engaging in more face-to-face interactions. Arivalo says while the
31:49
Speaker 1: new law has been positive, it will take a few
31:52
Speaker 1: more years before experts can say if the benefits are
31:55
Speaker 1: true results of the ban. Another traffic project is getting
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Speaker 1: underway today. Starting this afternoon, the City of College Station
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Speaker 1: begins work on the final section of rehabilitation of William D.
32:05
Speaker 1: Fitch Parkway from Williams Creek Drive to Rock Prairie Road.
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Speaker 1: Alternating one-way traffic will shift to continuous two-way traffic, which
32:13
Speaker 1: will also be maintained for access to and from Williams
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Speaker 1: Creek Drive at the entrance to the Williams Creek subdivision.
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Speaker 1: The project is expected to be completed by mid-December. There's
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Speaker 1: pushback to a request to increase the budget for the
32:26
Speaker 1: state's private school voucher program.
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Speaker 2: Acting Comptroller and GOP nominee for the job, Don Huffines,
32:32
Speaker 2: has requested $ 2, 226, 000, 000 for the next two years. The first
32:37
Speaker 2: year cost a billion. Clay Robeson with the Texas State
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Speaker 2: Teachers Association says his group has opposed vouchers for years
32:44
Speaker 2: and says any increase is too much.
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Speaker 13: This is not a sustainable program.
32:48
Speaker 19: Or they can sustain it, but they're.
32:50
Speaker 13: Going to basically close many more public schools.
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Speaker 2: There's data from the state that shows 7 in 10
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32:59
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33:02
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Speaker 13: 1620-945-WTAW. We interrupt this discussion about English peas posing as
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Speaker 13: guacamole to talk to Mayor Brian, Bobby Gutierrez. Were you
34:03
Speaker 13: aware of this trick?
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Speaker 17: No, I was not.
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Speaker 18: No?
34:05
Speaker 17: No.
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Speaker 13: You really?
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Speaker 1: Really? You too?
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Speaker 13: Will didn't know about this either. There are restaurants that
34:13
Speaker 13: will serve you quote-unquote guacamole. That guacamole is really only
34:19
Speaker 13: partially avocado. What you use to substitute for the avocado
34:24
Speaker 13: is English peas. It makes it less expensive.
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Speaker 1: I never knew that.
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Speaker 13: It is a thing.
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Speaker 1: I would like to ask the mayor where he stands
34:31
Speaker 1: on this issue.
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Speaker 13: Where do you stand on this issue?
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Speaker 9: We should know what we're eating. First and foremost, we
34:36
Speaker 9: ordered guacamole. It should be with avocados. If it's not,
34:39
Speaker 9: you should tell us. We have a substitute or addition.
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 13: Guacamole light. Call it something different.
34:45
Speaker 1: I'm going to get an English pea testing kit, and
34:48
Speaker 1: I'm going to go to... Every place that serves wok
34:51
Speaker 1: here in town. Here in the city of Bryan, surely
34:55
Speaker 1: we don't do that.
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Speaker 13: I see.
34:58
Speaker 1: I know you can't.
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Speaker 13: Hear the eye roll over the radio, but I assure
35:04
Speaker 13: you there are, again, some greater than zero that do
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Speaker 13: the English P trick, which all I'm saying is I'm
35:12
Speaker 13: giving you guys an opportunity to change. Now the mayor
35:14
Speaker 13: is on board. Will is on board. The listeners are incensed.
35:17
Speaker 1: I will crusade. on behalf of the avocado.
35:20
Speaker 13: Well, let's talk City of Bryan. I know we've had
35:23
Speaker 13: the news story several times about the tax rate. Do
35:26
Speaker 13: you want to walk everyone through the meeting last night
35:29
Speaker 13: from your perspective?
35:30
Speaker 1: Sure, sure.
35:31
Speaker 9: You know, I proposed a reduction. I talked to our CFO, and,
35:35
Speaker 9: you know, my answer, my question was, is there any
35:41
Speaker 9: amount that we can reduce the tax rate that still
35:43
Speaker 9: will meet every obligation that we have as a city,
35:45
Speaker 9: you know, for fire, for our safety, for all the
35:47
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35:50
Speaker 9: our city financially strong?
35:53
Speaker 1: The answer was yes.
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Speaker 9: And I think there's a little confusion during that for
35:58
Speaker 9: the numbers and everything else. It was a minimal decrease
36:02
Speaker 9: in taxes, but it's still, I think that every dollar
36:05
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36:08
Speaker 9: And I've said this many times, cities do two things,
36:10
Speaker 9: safety and services, and we get judged on quality of life,
36:14
Speaker 9: and sometimes that thing gets overlooked. The quality of life
36:17
Speaker 9: that we are judged upon is from the tax rate
36:19
Speaker 9: and the citizens.
36:20
Speaker 1: We've done a very, very good job.
36:21
Speaker 9: City of Bryan, our staff, our council has done a
36:24
Speaker 9: great job at holding true to it. If you look at,
36:27
Speaker 9: you know, previous years, and I would say four years ago,
36:30
Speaker 9: four years ago when I was running for office at
36:32
Speaker 9: that point, it was me and Councilman Harrison, and he
36:35
Speaker 9: proposed a tax reduction at that point for us at
36:38
Speaker 9: that time. And I think, you know, he did a
36:39
Speaker 9: phenomenal job, and I think it goes back to the
36:42
Speaker 9: same thing. But it was a different time. So the
36:44
Speaker 9: different time was, you know, we had inflation. We had
36:47
Speaker 9: just kept coming out of COVID, not knowing where we
36:50
Speaker 9: were going to be.
36:50
Speaker 18: Right.
36:51
Speaker 9: And we're strapping the following, the next councils with this
36:54
Speaker 9: tax rate. And, you know, the state of Texas has
36:56
Speaker 9: not done a good job, has not done justice to
37:00
Speaker 9: this local government, so letting us self-rule. They keep taking
37:04
Speaker 9: away these and putting these guardrails on things that we
37:06
Speaker 9: can do that make us maintain. And I actually was
37:08
Speaker 9: with Senator Perry and Senator Schwartner last week, and, you know,
37:12
Speaker 9: Really had a great conversation with Senator Perry. But if
37:15
Speaker 9: you're going to judge cities, judge us by our credit rating.
37:18
Speaker 9: Don't judge us by the size of the city. Judge
37:21
Speaker 9: us by what we've done, how we've been able to
37:22
Speaker 9: maintain our fiscal responsibility, you know, the conservative natures that
37:26
Speaker 9: we have to make sure that we're running a business.
37:28
Speaker 9: And the city is a business. You know, judge us
37:30
Speaker 9: like that. If you're going to put guardrails, we don't
37:31
Speaker 9: have to punish us because of the large cities. And
37:34
Speaker 9: we shouldn't be judged on, you know, area. We should
37:38
Speaker 9: be judged on our balance sheet.
37:40
Speaker 13: Well, the thing I thought was interesting, listening to your
37:43
Speaker 13: comments yesterday and obviously the amount of money in between
37:47
Speaker 13: the floor and the proposed. And again, I do agree
37:50
Speaker 13: with you. The amount of savings is good savings. I
37:53
Speaker 13: think that the– and I don't know if part of
37:56
Speaker 13: this is national election year type things like that. The
38:00
Speaker 13: idea of people screaming about how high property taxes are,
38:04
Speaker 13: it is not that far above the floor, guys.
38:07
Speaker 1: Exactly.
38:07
Speaker 13: And by the floor, I mean– the floor of where
38:10
Speaker 13: you can afford to have things like schools and roads.
38:14
Speaker 1: Exactly. Law enforcement. Law enforcement.
38:17
Speaker 13: And yet the incessant noise around blame getting thrown around
38:24
Speaker 13: for who's in the property, who's in this tax, who's
38:27
Speaker 13: in this tax. Guys, it's pretty close. It's pretty close
38:30
Speaker 13: to the floor. And I think that was mathematically proven. Well, exactly.
38:34
Speaker 9: And I'll tell you that, you know, there's always going
38:37
Speaker 9: to be people who criticize the tax.
38:38
Speaker 13: No one likes taxes.
38:40
Speaker 1: Yay, taxes!
38:41
Speaker 13: I understand.
38:42
Speaker 9: And nobody likes that. And there's going to be people
38:44
Speaker 9: who criticize, and that's why we have these public hearings.
38:46
Speaker 9: But I would say, in our defense, we've done a
38:49
Speaker 9: really good job of holding this floor and holding it
38:51
Speaker 9: very low across the state of Texas. Not one person
38:54
Speaker 9: showed up. Not one person showed up to argue what
38:57
Speaker 9: they would do. So whoever's out there saying this thing,
39:00
Speaker 9: you know, that was your time to come up and
39:02
Speaker 9: speak about it. And I think what we've done for infrastructure,
39:05
Speaker 9: we're a 150-year-old city.
39:07
Speaker 16: Yeah.
39:07
Speaker 9: A 150-year-old city has a lot of stuff that we
39:09
Speaker 9: can do. If we can maintain what we have or
39:12
Speaker 9: even lower them just a little bit like we proposed,
39:14
Speaker 9: and it's a very, very little bit, but I think
39:16
Speaker 9: the fiscal responsibility, the conservative measure that we have, that
39:19
Speaker 9: we can still have the highest credit rate equal to
39:22
Speaker 9: the federal government and still maintain the services, the safety,
39:26
Speaker 9: maintain all of our public safety, all of our public works,
39:29
Speaker 9: all the different departments, within our city, then we should
39:32
Speaker 9: do that. We should do as much as we can
39:34
Speaker 9: for it.
39:34
Speaker 13: Just to make a point about this, the quality of
39:37
Speaker 13: life issue, well, are we spending too much on our
39:40
Speaker 13: quality of life? That's a decision you have to make,
39:43
Speaker 13: but as far as the quality of life goes, did
39:45
Speaker 13: you see the Southern Living piece on the city?
39:47
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
39:49
Speaker 13: If you haven't, I'll share this to WTAW.com. Southern Living
39:52
Speaker 13: wrote a glowing article about the city of Bryan as
39:58
Speaker 13: one of the undiscovered treasures in the South that you
40:03
Speaker 13: may not have ever heard of. Amazing piece. Highlights a
40:08
Speaker 13: myriad of local businesses. Highlights a myriad of local attractions
40:12
Speaker 13: that you can do. And that is what I would
40:17
Speaker 13: assume for most people, something that might be worth continuing
40:23
Speaker 13: to grow.
40:24
Speaker 1: Yeah, and whether or not you agree with it, you
40:26
Speaker 1: have to come to this realization. There was a point
40:29
Speaker 1: in time when the city of Bryan would not ever
40:31
Speaker 1: have been considered being mentioned in that category.
40:34
Speaker 13: Southern Living in particular, I would describe as the froofiest
40:38
Speaker 13: publication in the South. It's Southern Living.
40:43
Speaker 1: Exactly.
40:44
Speaker 13: Yeah, there was a time where we were definitely not
40:47
Speaker 13: Southern living material. Those days have changed, and that time
40:51
Speaker 13: has changed.
40:52
Speaker 9: And it's going to continue to change.
40:53
Speaker 1: Yes, it will.
40:54
Speaker 9: Part of the reason I'll go back a little bit
40:57
Speaker 9: about why not doing it back four years ago and
40:59
Speaker 9: doing it now.
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Speaker 18: Right.
41:01
Speaker 9: We didn't know where we were going in four years.
41:04
Speaker 9: Right now, we know what's about to happen here and
41:07
Speaker 9: why I could justify this growth because we know we're
41:09
Speaker 9: going to have growth.
41:10
Speaker 1: And the city's doing two things.
41:11
Speaker 9: It's living or it's dying or it's growing. If you're
41:13
Speaker 9: just living, that tax rate will never be able to
41:16
Speaker 9: keep up with just the living part. You have to
41:18
Speaker 9: be growing. You've got to be growing ad valorem value,
41:20
Speaker 9: sales tax value. You've got to grow all that stuff
41:22
Speaker 9: because inflation is going to keep up. We know we
41:25
Speaker 9: have the tariff app coming. We know what we're doing
41:27
Speaker 9: around relatives. We know what's happening. And I want to
41:31
Speaker 9: give grace to the council because our council is really,
41:33
Speaker 9: really good. And being the mayor, you get to hear
41:37
Speaker 9: things firsthand. with the companies that are potentially coming in
41:40
Speaker 9: the stuff. But we've done such a good job. We
41:42
Speaker 9: have a lot of wins. I mean, you look at
41:44
Speaker 9: Access Pipeline, you look at Messer, you look at Amazon,
41:46
Speaker 9: you look at all the stuff that's just been recently
41:48
Speaker 9: announced and the stuff that we're about to announce. You know,
41:52
Speaker 9: I get to hear the stuff that's coming six months
41:54
Speaker 9: and a year from now that council doesn't necessarily know
41:57
Speaker 9: about until it becomes this. And we're all under NDA,
42:00
Speaker 9: so we can't talk about it. And it's all that stuff.
42:03
Speaker 9: And then we have the ethics policy that you can
42:04
Speaker 9: talk to two people but you can't talk to three.
42:06
Speaker 9: So somebody always feels left out in the conversation, but
42:10
Speaker 9: we have strengths in our council that, you know, I
42:13
Speaker 9: rely on. I mean, I know who's my guy that
42:15
Speaker 9: I need to talk to about finances, and that's going
42:18
Speaker 9: to be, you know, Councilman Salvato. He's the guy that's
42:20
Speaker 9: the number guy. You know, he's the guy I can
42:22
Speaker 9: talk to about that. I know the government guy is
42:24
Speaker 9: going to be, you know, Mayor Pro Tem James Edge.
42:26
Speaker 9: He will be the guy who has the institutional knowledge
42:28
Speaker 9: in the government and can do that. But it goes
42:30
Speaker 9: to time that, you know, we're at a point in
42:33
Speaker 9: Bryan where an inflection point that we know what's about
42:36
Speaker 9: to happen so I could safely say, you know what,
42:38
Speaker 9: anything we can reduce, we can reduce right now. And
42:41
Speaker 9: even if we hit the mega deal, we have a
42:44
Speaker 9: $ 10 billion, you know, our city's basically $ 10 billion worth
42:48
Speaker 9: of value. If we hit something, the big one that
42:52
Speaker 9: everybody keeps talking about, and it's, you know, potentially $ 15 billion,
42:55
Speaker 9: which will more than double what we bring in right now,
42:59
Speaker 9: you could almost take our tax rate to zero. But
43:01
Speaker 9: I would never do that to anybody because of the
43:03
Speaker 9: conservative nature that I have. I would say, okay, look,
43:06
Speaker 9: if we can get this, we could take this to zero.
43:08
Speaker 1: But what would.
43:09
Speaker 9: Happen in 20 years?
43:10
Speaker 13: Exactly. It just goes out of business.
43:13
Speaker 1: It's not relevant anymore.
43:15
Speaker 13: I think to your point that there's deals that are
43:18
Speaker 13: being discussed and legitimate, multiple deals that are out there
43:21
Speaker 13: that can have tens of billions of dollars of impact
43:25
Speaker 13: is also something that did not exist 10, 20 years
43:27
Speaker 13: ago and not for any reason, where a lot of
43:30
Speaker 13: these technologies, a lot of these companies didn't exist, they
43:32
Speaker 13: didn't have the capital to drop in.
43:33
Speaker 9: And it changes daily. So I would say, okay, we
43:36
Speaker 9: leave the tax rate the same, but give everybody a
43:38
Speaker 9: reimbursement check at the end of the year. Because you
43:41
Speaker 9: can keep the same, you can't strap your next councils
43:45
Speaker 9: with something, because the way the state has taken this away,
43:48
Speaker 9: you can never raise your taxes up again, basically, without
43:51
Speaker 9: an election with the people, and nobody's going to vote
43:54
Speaker 9: for a tax increase. So how do you kill your
43:56
Speaker 9: city so Just give them a rebate check, and if
43:58
Speaker 9: the company goes away, then you just don't get that
44:00
Speaker 9: rebate check that year. Or something, we'll backfill or we'll do.
44:03
Speaker 9: Things are going to continually change, but I think you've
44:05
Speaker 9: got to work through this thing the smart way, and
44:08
Speaker 9: I think you've got to be fiscally conservative about it
44:11
Speaker 9: to make sure you can hold up all of your
44:13
Speaker 9: credit rating. Right now, the credit rating is everything because
44:16
Speaker 9: we can borrow money cheaper than just about anywhere.
44:18
Speaker 1: And we've just done it.
44:21
Speaker 9: Previous councils, and to your point, what Brian was before,
44:24
Speaker 9: You think about the previous councils that have gone through that.
44:28
Speaker 9: This is the worst idea I've ever heard of in
44:30
Speaker 9: my life. Why are we dumping money over there? Why
44:32
Speaker 9: are we doing this?
44:32
Speaker 1: Why are we doing?
44:33
Speaker 9: Those are those brave people that were before us that
44:36
Speaker 9: we're getting credit for right now that it's us.
44:38
Speaker 1: And we didn't do that.
44:39
Speaker 9: And I tell my council all the time, don't we're
44:41
Speaker 9: we're cutting ribbons on the decisions that were made. The
44:43
Speaker 9: council's before us and they'll be, you know, our decisions
44:48
Speaker 9: we're making now. There'll be other council will be cutting
44:50
Speaker 9: those ribbons because these just take time.
44:52
Speaker 13: Yeah, no doubt. What else do we want to get
44:54
Speaker 13: to today?
44:56
Speaker 9: You know, there's so much going on. You know, I
44:59
Speaker 9: spoke at a water conference about two weeks ago.
45:01
Speaker 1: That's right.
45:03
Speaker 9: And I was on panels with, you know, right before
45:06
Speaker 9: us was Senator Perry, which is why we had that
45:08
Speaker 9: follow-up meeting last week. And I'm just telling you, he
45:12
Speaker 9: gets it. He understands that we need to bring back
45:15
Speaker 9: local control. You know, the citizens, the city councils, the mayors,
45:19
Speaker 9: We deal with these people every day. We have to
45:21
Speaker 9: look at people in the grocery store when you're filling
45:23
Speaker 9: up with gas. You have to make these decisions. They
45:25
Speaker 9: cannot take these decisions away from us and, you know,
45:28
Speaker 9: strangle us from the state and rule us. When we're
45:33
Speaker 9: doing self-rule, don't punish us for being good. We can
45:36
Speaker 9: help the other cities do better if you just, you know,
45:38
Speaker 9: do it on credit. Like I said, do it on
45:39
Speaker 9: credit rating, not on size.
45:41
Speaker 1: Interesting.
45:42
Speaker 13: Interesting. We'll have this posted later this morning on WTAW.com.
45:47
Speaker 13: Thank you so much for coming in, my man.
45:48
Speaker 1: My pleasure.
45:48
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45:49
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Speaker 13: I don't know that much about this. All I know
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Speaker 1: The cookie mafia started sending out the stuff this morning.
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Speaker 13: The cookie cartel.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. That's a better term.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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51:11
Speaker 1: So today's show yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Girl Scouts announced that they are introducing what they're calling
51:16
Speaker 1: Patch Pals.
51:18
Speaker 13: Patch Pals.
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Speaker 1: And this will launch in January when the cookie season launches.
51:24
Speaker 19: Right.
51:24
Speaker 1: These are soft-baked blueberry muffin-flavored cookies for dogs.
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Speaker 13: For dogs.
51:32
Speaker 1: So here recently... I picked up some new treats for
51:34
Speaker 1: Annie for her birthday back at the beginning of the month.
51:37
Speaker 18: Yeah.
51:37
Speaker 1: And these were little blueberry treats. I like the blueberries.
51:41
Speaker 1: I didn't know if Annie liked the blueberries, but I said,
51:45
Speaker 1: we'll try it out. Annie loves the blueberries.
51:47
Speaker 5: Right.
51:48
Speaker 1: So I'm thinking this will be kind of a big deal.
51:50
Speaker 13: Have you tried?
51:51
Speaker 1: I haven't tried the dog snacks, no.
51:55
Speaker 13: The first thing that comes to mind is that, is
52:00
Speaker 13: it that close to where you might enjoy one of
52:04
Speaker 13: these Patch Pals cookies yourself.
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Speaker 1: Look, I might. I'm not going to tell anybody about it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. If an Aggie game goes wrong and
52:16
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52:18
Speaker 13: Yeah, this says they got Roker to try one. He
52:21
Speaker 13: said they were not bad. Actually, when you hear someone
52:23
Speaker 13: say not bad on a television show where they're sampling product,
52:26
Speaker 13: it usually means bad.
52:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, usually.
52:28
Speaker 13: If it's good, they want it to be good. You
52:32
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52:34
Speaker 13: And you certainly don't want to step over a bunch
52:36
Speaker 13: of kids, tell them their product sucks. So not bad,
52:38
Speaker 13: not a ringing endorsement in this case.
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Speaker 1: But, you know, Al Roker does not have the palate
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Speaker 1: of Rover.
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Speaker 13: That's true. That's true. Sparkables is the only new human
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Speaker 13: cookie that they have reviewed.
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Speaker 1: Okay. A new human cookie.
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Speaker 13: That is oatmeal cookies with chocolate chip and sprinkles.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: You can sign up to get notifications give your data
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Speaker 13: to the scouts uh also you can text uh apparently
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Speaker 13: they have a text database you can again just do
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Speaker 13: what you need to do because when the season comes
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Speaker 13: around and the cookie cartel is.
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Speaker 1: Out of these streets they're out on the corners.
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Speaker 13: You know pushing yeah you know this is they're they're
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Speaker 13: pushing that product and that product calls us all It's
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Speaker 13: a ruthless game every single year.
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Speaker 1: Where do you go when you're reaching for the Girl
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Speaker 1: Scout cookie?
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Speaker 13: Well, see, I'm back new. I don't have a connect.
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Speaker 13: I don't have a plug.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I know several.
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Speaker 13: Oh, I know you do. I don't know. I feel
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Speaker 13: like I should be fair. give people a chance to
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Speaker 13: bid out my business.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I was talking more along the lines of the flavors.
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Speaker 13: Oh, the flavors? No, I was talking acquisition. Good Lord.
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Speaker 1: You can find those anywhere. No, yeah.
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Speaker 13: I mean, you know, always the thin mints, always the
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Speaker 13: thin mints.
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Speaker 1: I discovered in my freezer last month that somebody had
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Speaker 1: stuck a box of thin mints in the back and
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Speaker 1: apparently forgot about them.
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Speaker 25: What?
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: You know, that's better than finding a 20 in your jacket.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much.
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Speaker 8: Honestly.
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Speaker 13: Like that really is not.
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Speaker 1: As good as two twenties and a.
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Speaker 13: 10, but not bad. Well, it's a problem.
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Speaker 1: That's all.
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Speaker 13: We're going to do a deep dive into that song.
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Speaker 13: I don't think people know.
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Speaker 1: I don't think people.
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Speaker 13: Realize it's as sad as it is. It's just, it's anyway, we're.
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Speaker 1: Not going to talk sad. Let's talk my favorite. Maybe
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Speaker 1: the pepper, the, the peanut butter ones, the peanut butter,
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Speaker 1: the peanut butter. That's also solid.
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Speaker 13: Super strong.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: I look, I'll be real. It's a, it's a, it's
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Speaker 13: a significant investment.
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Speaker 18: It is.
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Speaker 13: It's a significant investment every year. And, you know, I
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Speaker 13: don't feel bad about that.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 13: Never have.
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Speaker 1: You can't.
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Speaker 13: Never will. Okay, coming up on WTAW.com, remember an interview
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Speaker 13: with Jackie Sherrill and also a chat with Bobby Gutierrez.
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Speaker 13: We'll see you tomorrow, 1620, 945, WTAW.com.