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The Infomaniacs: October 19th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
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Speaker 1: Brenham police officer is out of a job, accused of
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Speaker 1: abusing ALPR technology. Officer Gabriel Duran had been on administrative
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Speaker 1: leave until the outcome of an investigation by the Texas Rangers.
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Speaker 1: Duran was relieved of duty on Friday. The department recently
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Speaker 1: upgraded guidelines to access the system, including quarterly audits. It
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Speaker 1: was one of the audits that alerted the department to
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Speaker 1: the suspicious activity. Brazos County election officials are suggesting that
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Speaker 1: those with mail-in ballots drop them off at the main
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Speaker 1: Bryan Post Office. To avoid ballots being routed through Houston
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Speaker 1: where all the outbound mail goes, take your ballots to
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Speaker 1: the counter at the Bryan Post Office on East William
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Speaker 1: Joel Bryan Parkway. Ballots handed to a clerk will be
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Speaker 1: delivered directly to the elections office. But you must hand
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Speaker 1: the ballot to a clerk. If it is dropped into
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Speaker 1: a drop box in the lobby or parking lot, It
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Speaker 1: will then travel through Houston. No other post offices in
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Speaker 1: the area are offering this service. The TxDOT Bryan office
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Speaker 1: is hosting an open house public meeting on Tuesday to
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Speaker 1: discuss proposed improvements to State Highway 30 to address current
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Speaker 1: and future congestion, enhance safety, and provide additional connectivity. The
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Speaker 1: public meeting on Tuesday will be held from 5 until
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Speaker 1: 7 at the Bob and Wanda Meyer Senior and Community
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Speaker 1: Center on Dartmouth. The plan encompasses an approximately 2.1-mile stretch
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Speaker 1: of RV road on the east side of Highway 6
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Speaker 1: from Associates Avenue to FM 158. The roadway is currently
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Speaker 1: one lane in each direction with a center turn lane
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Speaker 1: and limited pedestrian and bicycle accommodations. A study projects traffic
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Speaker 1: on that section of the road to increase approximately 60%
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Speaker 1: by the year 2052. The option that will be discussed
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Speaker 1: would expand the road to two lanes in each direction
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Speaker 1: and Add roundabouts and add pedestrian and cyclist accommodations. The
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Speaker 1: public will be able and is encouraged to provide comments.
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Speaker 1: Learn more on our website at WTAW.com. The USDA is
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Speaker 1: sending over $ 2 million to Texas as part of its
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Speaker 1: Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. $ 86. 6 million will be awarded
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Speaker 1: in all to fund approximately 609 projects throughout the United States.
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Speaker 1: Texas will use the grants for projects to enhance competitiveness
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Speaker 1: of grapes, watermelons, pecans, onions, and spinach. Could Senator John
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Speaker 1: Cornyn and GOP strategist Karl Rove be to blame if
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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton loses?
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Speaker 2: On a Truth Social post, President Trump accused Cornyn and
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Speaker 2: Rove of doing everything possible to make it hard for
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Speaker 2: Paxton to win the upcoming midterm election against Democrat James Tallarico.
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Speaker 2: Trump claims the two are not doing enough to support
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Speaker 2: the Paxton campaign. Trump even saying if Paxton loses, it
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Speaker 2: will be because of weak and ineffective political hacks like
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Speaker 2: John Cornyn and Karl Rove. In September, Cornyn did admit
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Speaker 2: he would not help Paxton in fundraising, but has said
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Speaker 2: he would support the entire Republican ticket. Rove also faced
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Speaker 2: criticism from Trump for refusing to back Republican candidate Beau
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Speaker 2: French for railroad commissioner. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Ken Paxton started an 18-day, 30-stop bus tour on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: No Aggieland stop has been announced. James Tallarico will be
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Speaker 1: visiting College Station on the 30th, although the venue has
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Speaker 1: yet to be determined. More news on the way at 6.30
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Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, everyone. Oh, another beautiful day.
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Speaker 1: Gorgeous day.
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Speaker 3: What can you say about that? Good Lord. 77 for
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Speaker 3: the high. Currently starting off at a flat 50 degrees.
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Speaker 3: It's nice. Yes, ideal. Oh, by the way, it's going
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Speaker 3: to start to warm up a little bit, but we're
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Speaker 3: not looking at 90s. We're looking at mid-80s, like all
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Speaker 3: week long. So it should be a fairly enjoyable seven
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Speaker 3: the difference. Will is back from one day or a
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Speaker 3: three day, a little long week.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah.
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Speaker 1: All day Thursday after we got there, we got there,
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Speaker 1: got there about, uh, we arrived in Oxford probably about
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Speaker 1: six 37 o'clock Thursday evening.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Uh, left yesterday, got home, uh, flew back in Austin
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Speaker 1: about noon.
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Speaker 3: It's a full weekend, man. Very full weekend. So, uh, now,
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Speaker 3: now keep in mind, um, that the thing that, that
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Speaker 3: we've talked about, I don't know how much, it was
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Speaker 3: a little bit on, on air, a little bit off air. Um,
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Speaker 3: There are lots of differences between College Station and Oxford. Yes. Yes.
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Speaker 3: There's a few. Like one of the differences that jumps
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Speaker 3: out to me is the condensation of everything.
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Speaker 1: You take a town that has 30,000 residents.
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Speaker 3: So like Navasota. Like Navasota. Navasota-sized city.
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Speaker 1: And maybe a little bit bigger than 30K, but right
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Speaker 1: about in that 30 to 40K. Then you roll in 30,000
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Speaker 1: college students. Then you roll in a football game and
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Speaker 1: a homecoming and many Greek organizations' parent weekends.
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Speaker 3: So take A & M. Erase Bryan College Station and
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Speaker 3: move it to Navasota.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And then you don't get to build all the stuff
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Speaker 3: around it. No, you're trying to build all of it.
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Speaker 3: You're trying, but you've still got that little bitty downtown,
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Speaker 3: which is where everything is, right? Everything that you want
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Speaker 3: to go to. And then you're going to take that same, well,
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Speaker 3: not as many people in the stands, but still people
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Speaker 3: show up. This old thing with SEC football. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 3: You show up when you're not going to the game.
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Speaker 3: You show up for the party. So it's the same 100, 200,000 people.
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Speaker 3: Every bit. Every single time. And then just shove them
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Speaker 3: all in a little very condensed space.
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Speaker 1: The best parking that I had to walk to anything.
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Speaker 3: Best parking.
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Speaker 1: The best parking was just under a mile.
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Speaker 3: A mile.
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Speaker 1: I went 1.7 miles at one point in time. How
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Speaker 1: long does it take you to walk that stretch?
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Speaker 3: And again.
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Speaker 1: Average walking speed is three to five.
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Speaker 3: Miles per hour. And keep in mind, in a crowd.
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Speaker 3: And in hills. Oh, big hills there.
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Speaker 1: It was nuts, man. It was really crazy. And the infrastructure,
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Speaker 1: you know, there's no cell. You can't get cell. There's
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Speaker 1: no network. Your GPS doesn't work.
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Speaker 3: They don't even have cell towers that are sufficient to
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Speaker 3: support that many humans. It's just, it's not my favorite thing.
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Speaker 3: Of course, I love to see the kid. Oh, right.
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Speaker 1: And I brought you prezzies.
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Speaker 3: No, you didn't. First of all, I know you like
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Speaker 3: the slaps.
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Speaker 1: Oh, we got stickers.
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Speaker 3: Oh, we got funky stickers. Yep.
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Speaker 1: And then I hope I got the size right on
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Speaker 1: this one.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it'll be just fine. Let's see what we
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Speaker 3: got here. We've got the Proud Larry's.
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Proud Larry's is a great music venue there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, brother. That's really cool. Thank you for these.
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Speaker 1: You're very welcome.
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Speaker 3: Fantastic. Do we want to talk about the drink selection
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Speaker 3: at Funky's? Because I see that on this sticker we have.
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Speaker 1: Funky's is known for their daiquiris, essentially.
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Speaker 3: I feel like everywhere is known for their daiquiris. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: they love a bushwhacker there.
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Speaker 1: Every bar's got a bushwhacker, which is a mudslide with,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, something else in it.
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Speaker 3: The official drink is a bushwhacker. Apparently.
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Speaker 1: Funky's, however, of course, being the next level bar that
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Speaker 1: they are... They went to the pumpkin bushwhacker.
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Speaker 8: Oh.
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Speaker 1: The pumpwhacker.
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Speaker 3: Okay. All right.
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Speaker 1: And honestly.
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Speaker 6: Hmm.
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Speaker 3: Pretty good. I'm sure it is.
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Speaker 1: Now, you get down to the, I was told get
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Speaker 1: a sample size because it's a lot to get through
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Speaker 1: in the regular size. So I had a sample size.
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Speaker 1: I was like, man, that's really good.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And then a couple of bad decisions later, I decided
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Speaker 1: to go ahead and get the full size one.
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Speaker 10: Oh, God.
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Speaker 1: And by the end of the full size one, you
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Speaker 1: were done with it.
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Speaker 3: What was that orange neon thing?
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Speaker 1: That was some sort of ever clear dream cycle.
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Speaker 3: Is it the octane thing?
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Speaker 1: It may have been the octane.
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Speaker 3: So the octane is listed on here. Yeah, that's the one.
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Speaker 3: And you referred to me as, like you just said,
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Speaker 3: an ever-clear dreamsicle, which sounds like the most nightmarish creation
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Speaker 3: under this. Did they tell you in advance? Yes, they did. Hey,
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Speaker 3: this is an ever-clear dreamsicle, and you said YOLO? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I did.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 3: I did. That's not for you.
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Speaker 1: It's not for me. And you know, the worst part
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Speaker 1: about it was.
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Speaker 3: Barely for the kids.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't that it lit me up or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: No, it's the sugar. It's the sugar. It's the sugar.
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Speaker 1: And the acid reflux, man.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I went to the tap a while ago
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Speaker 3: for a birthday party for one of my friends. I
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Speaker 3: was looking at their drink menu, and it was the
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Speaker 3: same thing. It's like, well, look, dude, I... In my prime,
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Speaker 3: the amount of alcohol in here, could it be it?
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Speaker 3: But no, it's just the fact that it's literally all sugar.
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Speaker 3: They're just like, that's going to make me feel worse.
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Speaker 3: Which is the worst hangover, the sugar hangover or the
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Speaker 3: Everclear hangover? You get to find out. I really was not.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I never got to the point where I
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Speaker 1: was drunk because I was there for eight and a
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Speaker 1: half hours.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. You, you, you don't have enough time in
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Speaker 3: a city where the bars are that full. You couldn't leave.
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Speaker 3: You can't consume enough drinks.
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Speaker 1: And dude, the crazy thing is the cover charges in Oxford.
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Speaker 1: And they've always been this way, right? So the later
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Speaker 1: the evening gets, the more the cover is to get
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Speaker 1: into any bar.
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Speaker 3: It's a progressive cover.
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Speaker 1: It is a progressive cover.
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Speaker 3: How is that legal?
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Speaker 1: I don't know how that's legal, but I can tell
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Speaker 1: you this. So, uh, I'm there. They come around and
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Speaker 1: they say, okay, you can't leave and come back in
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Speaker 1: now because we're charging cover. And it started at $ 40.
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Speaker 1: To get in? And this was before sundown.
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Speaker 3: To get into the building. I got to drop for it.
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Speaker 3: So you, if you have you and three friends, it
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Speaker 3: costs $ 120.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Just to access the bar.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Get out of here.
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Speaker 1: And then progressively. So when I left, when I charged
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Speaker 1: down to there in full fullback mode, when I'd finally
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Speaker 1: had a mouth.
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Speaker 3: To plow through. So it was full of people that
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Speaker 3: had paid this money. Full of people. They had removed all.
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Speaker 1: The tables and chairs from the bar at this point
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Speaker 1: in time. And it was, I'm sure they had never
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Speaker 1: heard of a fire marshal that couldn't be bribed.
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Speaker 3: No. It was nuts.
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Speaker 1: And I counted just the estimated the people in line.
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Speaker 1: And they were charging 60 bucks a head at that
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Speaker 1: point in time.
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Speaker 3: $ 60. Before you do anything, you pay the man $ 60.
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Speaker 3: $ 60 to get in.
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Speaker 1: You stand in line for a long time, then you
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Speaker 1: pay somebody $ 60 to get in.
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Speaker 3: I don't think I ever cared that much about going
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Speaker 3: somewhere in my life.
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Speaker 1: So a friend of my daughter's works there, and he
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Speaker 1: informed me that on Friday night, they did $ 30, 000 in
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Speaker 1: cover charge. Just $ 30, 000 walk-up.
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Speaker 3: Walk-up. And then they bought their drinks.
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Speaker 1: Then they bought their drinks and their pizza, which Bunky's
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Speaker 1: is famous for.
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Speaker 3: It's good pizza. That is insane.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Like, I can't, like, if there are any of the
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Speaker 3: bar owners listening, which I doubt there are at 6
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Speaker 3: in the morning, but there's always a possibility. Always a possibility.
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Speaker 3: They rich. They got this.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: 60 bucks a head, man.
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Speaker 3: 30,000 in cover charges. Yeah, in cash. In cash. That
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Speaker 3: didn't go in the books. I know that didn't go
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Speaker 3: in the books.
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Speaker 11: Oh, no, it didn't?
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Speaker 3: It went straight into a bag.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: This economy?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That paid for someone's college, right?
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Speaker 1: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Probably not. You can't cover it at Ole Miss. No.
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Speaker 3: Did I make a dent? All right, guys. Monday. Good morning.
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Speaker 3: Good morning. We're the Infomaniacs. 979-695-1620 is our phone number.
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Speaker 3: Call us. Text us. All of these things. Let's get
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Speaker 3: to our reasons to celebrate for the 19th of.
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Speaker 3: October 2026. We will start with a few days of distinction.
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Speaker 3: Number one, dress like a dork day. A day to
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Speaker 3: embrace your inner nerd and abandon fashion rules. And they
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Speaker 3: think dork stuff, which isn't really... I mean, you know, look, man.
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Speaker 3: You can focus on nerd attire. That's fine. I think
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Speaker 3: it's more fun to focus on the attire that you
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Speaker 3: wore back in the day that made you... Yes, you...
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Speaker 3: I'm looking right at me as well, a dork. All
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Speaker 3: of us had some regrettable fashion choices. Oh, for sure.
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Speaker 3: It just depends on when you were growing up. You know,
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Speaker 3: even being a top 40 DJ working over at Candy 95,
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Speaker 3: my collar popped a few times, I believe, at some
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Speaker 3: events back in the early 2000s.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I had the tight-rolled jeans on.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: My Vans. Yep. Oh, yeah. Perhaps you decided to roll
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Speaker 3: the JNCO jeans if you were in the 90s. The
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Speaker 3: 80s was just a decade of poor choices.
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Speaker 1: I would consider what I'm wearing today somewhat dorkish.
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Speaker 3: No, that's not dorkish. No, I mean, I look back
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Speaker 3: in style. Is it really? Oh, yeah, dude.
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Speaker 1: Because I feel like I could be on the set
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Speaker 1: of Smokey and the Bandit.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I see. Because you have a puffy vest. You
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Speaker 3: have an 80s slash 90s pearl snap. This is the thing.
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Speaker 1: I look at this more as a 60s, 70s pearl snap.
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Speaker 8: 60s, 70s.
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Speaker 3: That's all coming back around. You pair that with a mullet,
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Speaker 3: you're a 20-year-old. You're a styling 20-year-old.
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Speaker 1: I've got to get that mullet back.
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Speaker 3: Evaluate your life day. Don't do this. Don't do this.
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Speaker 3: This observance encourages people to examine their goals, relationships, career finances,
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Speaker 3: and general happiness. Don't do this. Just don't do it.
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Speaker 1: Just don't worry.
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Speaker 3: Trust me, you're doing okay.
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Speaker 1: Be happy.
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Speaker 3: International Gin and Tonic Day. Kind of interesting because did
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Speaker 3: you know that gin and tonic basically exists because they
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Speaker 3: thought it could fight malaria? Well, it could.
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Speaker 1: The quinine in the tonic.
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Speaker 3: That is the idea. A bunch of British colonials were
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Speaker 3: in India, and they were like, ah, malaria is a
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Speaker 3: real problem.
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Speaker 16: Yes.
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Speaker 3: But what if we mixed our.
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Speaker 1: What if we had a cocktail?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a quinine. What if we had a cocktail? What
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Speaker 3: if we had a quinine that we just poured into
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Speaker 3: our alcohol? Perhaps that would fight off malaria. So they've
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Speaker 3: studied this now. And they say it depends on how
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Speaker 3: much of the good stuff you have in there, but
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Speaker 3: not the gin, the quinine.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But they don't know if there had been enough in
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Speaker 3: the tonic to be an effective malaria preventative. Who knows?
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Speaker 3: They bought it, and after that, the gin and tonic
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Speaker 3: was born. It was. It ain't gone away since then.
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Speaker 1: It came back a little bit because they said there
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Speaker 1: was some indication that the quinine actually had some properties
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Speaker 1: that could help if you got the COVID.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Man, that's funny. That's, I mean, again.
17:35
Speaker 1: Like I needed an excuse to drink during those uncertain times.
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Speaker 3: You were going to have a drink.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Is it going to hurt? Can't prove that it will.
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Speaker 3: Chin and tonic it is. Clean your virtual desktop day.
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Speaker 3: This is the digital equivalent of cleaning your desk. I know.
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Speaker 1: Start working on the unread emails first and then get
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Speaker 1: to your desktop.
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Speaker 18: Right.
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Speaker 3: I ascribe to the same principle. philosophy with things on
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Speaker 3: my computer like files like old old videos i've like
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Speaker 3: created for radio stations bits that i have been particularly
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Speaker 3: like oh that's funny maybe i'll keep that around and
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Speaker 3: listen to it sometime i have a general rule with
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Speaker 3: with physical possessions and digital possessions if i haven't looked
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Speaker 3: at it in two years time to go i'm not
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Speaker 3: gonna look at it in the future It can go.
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Speaker 3: It will change your life. If you are someone who
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Speaker 3: struggles with when to throw something out, like I'm not
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Speaker 3: saying you're a hoarder, but you just, you know, you're
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Speaker 3: bordering it. Set a time limit because again, Oh, I'm
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Speaker 3: going to need this for that. Did you need it
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Speaker 3: in the last two years? No. In the trash it goes.
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Speaker 1: I try to do that in many ways, but then
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Speaker 1: between the wife and like my, my, Dad's side of
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Speaker 1: the family, especially the elderly, they give me stuff. Oh,
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Speaker 1: this was in your grandfather's closet.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: So I got these boxes. It's cool stuff, but I
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Speaker 1: don't have any place to store it.
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's nice memories for me. My kids don't know anything
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Speaker 1: about it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's a couple of things.
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Speaker 19: I started to throw it out.
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Speaker 3: Oh, you can't throw that away. I sure as hell can.
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Speaker 8: Why?
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Speaker 3: You gave it to me? Yeah, exactly. That's the thing
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Speaker 3: is when you have kids, that's how you throw stuff out.
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Speaker 3: It's like, well, take this. That's what it is. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's like, no, no, but it's family. You can't throw
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Speaker 3: it away. You got to keep it. That's right.
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Speaker 1: Passing the guilt. I'm not going to do that to
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Speaker 1: my children.
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Speaker 3: But then again, Will, that's why we have anything from
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Speaker 3: our grandparents is because it's generationally passing trash down through
19:38
Speaker 3: the lines is how history is preserved. Great. It's like, so,
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Speaker 3: you know. Take that.
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Speaker 1: Wish they'd had some more valuable trash.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for real. All right, birthdays. where do we go?
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Speaker 1: Birthdays today, Jillian Jacobs. She was one of my favorite people. Oh,
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Speaker 1: from Community, yes. Community, she is 44 today. She played
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Speaker 1: Britta Perry. What a fun show that was.
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Speaker 3: Great show.
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Speaker 1: Jason Reitman is 49, son of Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman.
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Speaker 1: He directed Ghostbusters Afterlife and wrote Ghostbusters, Frozen Empire.
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Speaker 3: Pretty cool.
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Speaker 1: Desmond Harrington is 50. Joey Quinn on Dexter. Chris Kattan
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Speaker 1: is 56. Former SNL cast member and Corky Romano. Boy,
20:18
Speaker 1: he was everywhere until he wasn't, right? Yeah, and he disappeared.
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Speaker 3: He was everywhere until he wasn't.
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Speaker 1: Trey Parker is 57. South Park co-creator.
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Speaker 10: Genius.
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Speaker 1: Also conquered Broadway with.
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Speaker 3: The Book of Mormon. Yeah, certifiable genius.
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Speaker 1: Jon Favreau is 60 years old today.
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Speaker 3: Which Favreau? The podcaster or the Marvel one?
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Speaker 1: The Marvel one.
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Speaker 3: Hell yeah. Yeah, guy. Go try to find.
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Speaker 1: The movie PCU these days.
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Speaker 3: And see what you can do. We've talked about this.
20:42
Speaker 3: It's nearly impossible. It's a great movie. I remember watching
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Speaker 3: it when I was in college. It's fantastic.
20:48
Speaker 1: It's a rite of passage college movie. For whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: it is impossible.
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Speaker 3: It's impossible.
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Speaker 1: Favreau and Piven were like, oh, no.
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Speaker 3: This can't be seen. This is inconvenient to our brand
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Speaker 3: if it's ever surfaced.
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Speaker 1: And so, yeah, those two guys have the power to
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Speaker 1: quash things.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they do. They did.
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Speaker 1: Ty Pennington is 62, Extreme Makeover Home Edition. He was
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Speaker 1: the guy who used to be the carpenter on Trading Spaces.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he was.
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Speaker 1: Evander Holyfield is 64 years old.
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Speaker 3: Holy cow. I didn't know he was still alive. Evander? Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Evander's in good shape. Well, I mean, the 99.9% of
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Speaker 1: his body that still exists.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Jeannie C.
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Speaker 1: Riley is 81 years old today, singer of Harper Valley PDA.
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Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Do you know she lives in Brenham?
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Speaker 3: No, she doesn't. She does. She lives in Brenham right now.
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Speaker 3: Right now. Yes. The woman who sang Harper Valley PDA.
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Speaker 10: Yes.
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Speaker 3: One of the most dramatic, most dramatically successful one-hit wonders.
21:41
Speaker 3: Is it a one-hit wonder? I don't know. I don't
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Speaker 3: remember her singing anything else. I don't either. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I'm certain she did. And please do not get offended
21:46
Speaker 3: if you happen to be listening to the show. I
21:48
Speaker 3: would very much like to.
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Speaker 1: Like to take you yeah you can do a dive
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Speaker 1: on it later yeah nothing lives in brenham yeah john
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Speaker 1: lithgow is 81 he was in so many great movies
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Speaker 1: uh including uh the trinity killer on dexter third ride
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Speaker 1: from the sun yeah he was in shrek in one
22:05
Speaker 1: of my favorite movies that i'm gonna say this because
22:09
Speaker 1: i no longer care if i'm embarrassing or not buckaroo
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Speaker 1: bonsai the adventures buckaroo bonsai and the Fifth Dimension.
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Speaker 3: Holy cow. Yeah. Great movie.
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Speaker 1: If you like that sort of thing.
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Speaker 3: If you ever run into him, mention that one. See
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Speaker 3: what he does. Yeah.
22:25
Speaker 1: On to the stiffs. Michael Gambon is dead. He was
22:29
Speaker 1: born on the.
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Speaker 10: State of 1940.
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Speaker 1: Dumbledore on the Harry Potter movies. Took over after Richard
22:32
Speaker 1: Harris died. Robert Reed was born on the state of 1932.
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Speaker 1: Mike Brady on the Brady Bunch. And born on the
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Speaker 1: state in 1920. LaWanda Page. Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son.
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Speaker 6: Ah.
22:47
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Speaker 6: As a Texan, you deserve your court system to deliver
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Speaker 6: justice that is fair, understandable, and within reach. Chief Justice
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Speaker 6: Jimmy Blacklock says that starts with judges applying the law
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Speaker 6: as written, so the rules don't change depending on who
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Speaker 6: walks into the courtroom. But fairness also means a court
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Speaker 6: system that works for the people it serves. Blacklock has
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Speaker 6: be decided on the facts and the law, not on
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Speaker 6: who can afford the longest fight. Texas courts belong to
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Speaker 6: the people. That means judges should be accountable, rules should
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Speaker 6: be clear, and the system should be accessible to those
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Speaker 6: who rely on it. For Blacklock, equal justice means more
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Speaker 6: than a principle. It means a court system Texans can understand, trust,
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Speaker 1: Clear rules.
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Speaker 6: Accountable courts. Equal justice under law.
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Speaker 14: Every game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of
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Speaker 14: all briskets. The greatest of all cornhole shots. The greatest
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Speaker 14: of all cooler holes. But the Toyota trucks that carry
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Speaker 14: See packages and options at toyota.com for future availability. Every
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Speaker 14: game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of all briskets.
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Speaker 16: What do we really know about James Tallarico? Tallarico said.
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Speaker 17: Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day.
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Speaker 16: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
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Speaker 16: young children. Claimed denying your child's gender identity is abusive.
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Speaker 16: Said the trans community needs abortion care too. and even
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Speaker 16: called Jesus a radical feminist and said God is non-binary.
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Speaker 17: Defending trans Texans is something we have to do every day.
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Speaker 1: But it gets worse.
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Speaker 16: James Tallarico voted to allow biological men access to women's
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Speaker 16: bathrooms in schools and for biological boys to play in
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Speaker 16: girls' sports, saying some things are more important than fair
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Early
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Speaker 1: voting starts today. At 6 o'clock tonight, you can hear
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Speaker 1: from the candidates for city councils of Bryan and College Station.
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Speaker 1: The forum hosted by WTAW and the Bryan College Station
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Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce will take place at the Brazos Center,
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Speaker 1: moderated by our very own Scott DeLucia. If you can't
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Speaker 1: make it out, it will be broadcast live on WTAW
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Speaker 1: starting at 6. If you missed last week's forum with
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Speaker 1: the candidates for Mayor, Commissioners, Court, Precinct 4, and State Representatives,
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Speaker 1: Districts 12 and 14, that is available for streaming on WTAW.com.
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Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia also sat down with each candidate for a
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Speaker 1: one-on-one conversation. Look for Candidate Conversations on Facebook and WTAW.com.
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Speaker 1: There's now a safer way to make sure your mail-in
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Speaker 1: ballot gets to the right place. Officials in Brazos County
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Speaker 1: have worked out an arrangement with the local post office
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Speaker 1: in Bryan. Outbound mail is normally routed through Houston, even
29:18
Speaker 1: if you're mailing something to someone across the street. To
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Speaker 1: keep ballots from traveling through Houston... Brazos County Elections Administrator
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Speaker 1: Trudy Hancock encourages voters to take their ballots to the
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Speaker 1: counter at the Bryan Post Office on East William Joel
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Speaker 1: Bryan Parkway. Ballots handed directly to a clerk will be
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Speaker 1: delivered directly to the elections office.
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Speaker 3: To qualify, you must hand the ballot to the clerk.
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Speaker 1: If it is dropped in a drop box in the
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Speaker 1: lobby or parking lot, then they will still travel through Houston.
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Speaker 1: No other post offices in the area are offering this service.
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Speaker 1: The Texas Secretary of State, Robert Howden, announced that Texas
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Speaker 1: has a record 19 million voters registered ahead of the
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Speaker 1: November 3rd general election. That's an increase of 2% from
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Speaker 1: the March primary and a 2.2% increase from the November
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Speaker 1: 2024 general election. Tomorrow is Brazos Valley Gives. You can
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Speaker 1: support one of 200 nonprofits throughout the Brazos Valley participating
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Speaker 1: in the program. This year, nonprofits will compete each hour
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Speaker 1: to win additional monies from an hourly sponsorship. Here's Julie
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Speaker 1: Porter with Brazos Valley Gives.
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Speaker 22: A $ 1, 000 donation. sponsorship for each of the 18 hours
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Speaker 22: on giving day. So like from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m.
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Speaker 22: is sponsored by somebody for a thousand dollars. And the
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Speaker 22: nice thing is what we have done as in the
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Speaker 22: past is we have assigned a certain game to each
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Speaker 22: hour and the nonprofits compete for that sponsorship.
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Speaker 1: Early giving ends at midnight. The day of giving starts
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Speaker 1: at 5 a.m.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: You can give in person at the Brookshire Brothers locations
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Speaker 1: in College Station and Caldwell, or at the Washington County
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Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce, or give online at bbgives.org. TxDOT is
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Speaker 1: reporting an increase in fatal crashes in the Brazos Valley.
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Speaker 3: From January 1st.
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Speaker 1: Through October 1st, 78 people lost their lives on roadways
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Speaker 1: across the Bryan District. 20 of those happened in the
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Speaker 1: last 60 days. They ask everyone to slow down, stay alert,
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Speaker 1: and wear your seatbelt every trip, every time. Job growth
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Speaker 1: in Texas is leading the nation. Texas employers added over 154,000
31:31
Speaker 1: non-farm jobs over the last 12 months for an annual
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Speaker 1: growth rate of 1.1%. That outpaces the national rate by 0.8
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Speaker 1: percentage points. The manufacturing sector experienced the largest jobs increase
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Speaker 1: in September, adding 4,700 jobs. Government services saw the largest decline.
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Speaker 1: Chinese online retailer Timu has reached a settlement with Texas
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Speaker 1: over accusations of sharing personal information with the Chinese Communist Party.
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Speaker 2: The Texas Attorney General's office sued Timu, claiming it unlawfully
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Speaker 2: deceived consumers by exposing Texans' personal data to the Chinese
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Speaker 2: Communist Party. Reports also surfaced that products sold on the platform,
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Speaker 2: like clothing, children's toys, and baby products, may contain harmful chemicals.
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Speaker 2: Under the settlement, Timu will be required to overhaul its
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Speaker 2: data security and product safety practices that include storing Texans'
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Speaker 2: personal data on American-owned and controlled servers located in the
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Speaker 2: United States. Timu has also agreed to conduct independent product
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Speaker 2: safety testing to identify products containing dangerous chemicals. Timu will
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Speaker 2: also pay Texas $ 3 million. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Members of the New York Army National Guard have been
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Speaker 1: deployed to Texas.
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Speaker 23: The 204th Engineer Battalion is taking part in Operation Ardent Vanguard.
32:53
Speaker 23: It supports border defense and infrastructure. They had their official
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Speaker 23: send-off earlier this month. Their forward support company provides logistics support,
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Speaker 23: including maintenance and transportation of fuel, supply, and materials. About
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Speaker 23: 120 soldiers from New York are taking part in the mission.
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Speaker 23: They spent 12 months preparing. and expect to be along
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Speaker 23: the Texas-Mexico border for the next year. Stephen Pickering, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: More news on the way at 7 o'clock or anytime
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Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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Speaker 8: We've all heard the promise, I'll eliminate property tax. It
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Speaker 8: sounds great until you ask how. The truth, if the
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Speaker 8: state doesn't pay its fair share for our schools, that
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Speaker 8: money has to come from somewhere. Often, that means a
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Speaker 8: massive hike in sales tax hitting every single thing you
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Speaker 8: buy for your kids. I'm Janet Dudding, and I won't
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Speaker 8: give you a slogan. I'll give you the truth. We
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Speaker 25: This is Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. A great city isn't
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35:13
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Speaker 3: the 50s again tonight. Currently starting off around 50 degrees,
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Speaker 3: tomorrow we're going to get up to around 80 and
35:53
Speaker 3: then we'll just see it warm up throughout the week,
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Speaker 3: but nothing above the mid 80s and no chance of
35:57
Speaker 3: rain for what it's worth. But like, don't don't get
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Speaker 1: I've always known the average intelligence of this community is
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Speaker 1: light years ahead of us.
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Speaker 3: Stupid smart people around here and people that remember things
36:54
Speaker 3: like Kyle, which I thought this was, there was no way.
36:57
Speaker 1: You were freaked out that Jeannie C. Reilly, singer of
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Speaker 1: Harbor Valley PTA, lives in Brenham.
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Speaker 3: Lives in Brenham. But this came in, and I thought
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Speaker 3: there is no way this is true. This has to
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Speaker 3: be just some thing built. Mike Brady from the Brady Bunch.
37:12
Speaker 3: The dad, Robert Reed, is the actor who would have
37:16
Speaker 3: been having a birthday today. Kyle says a little bit
37:19
Speaker 3: of Brass Valley trivia with Robert Reed from the Brady Bunch.
37:22
Speaker 3: He went to elementary school in Navasota, Texas. Tucker and
37:25
Speaker 3: I were like, I don't know. That's a fairly common name.
37:28
Speaker 3: I see how that happens. It could be any other
37:30
Speaker 3: Robert Reed, whatever. So I did the Googles. Guess what?
37:35
Speaker 1: He spent his childhood moving between a few locations, including Navasota, Texas.
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Speaker 3: Muskogee, Oklahoma. He lived in both Navasota and Muskogee back
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Speaker 3: in the day, which are two wild places.
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Speaker 1: For a guy who ended up being a Hollywood actor.
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Speaker 1: Especially back in the 50s and 60s, right?
37:54
Speaker 3: I'd say 40s and 50s. Yeah, probably 50s and 60s
37:56
Speaker 3: is probably a little more accurate. Those are some crazy
37:59
Speaker 3: places to reside and then decide... I'm going to move west.
38:03
Speaker 3: That's just crazy. Great text, Kyle. Thank you so much.
38:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, learn something new. It happens on this show. Maybe
38:11
Speaker 1: once every two weeks, once every three weeks, I will
38:14
Speaker 1: learn something on this show that just blows my mind
38:16
Speaker 1: that I had no concept of.
38:18
Speaker 3: Someone texted me that, well, we were talking about dynamic
38:22
Speaker 3: pricing on cover charges in Oxford, Mississippi, which is– Kind
38:27
Speaker 3: of mind blowing. The idea that you can show up
38:30
Speaker 3: and then number one, start at like 30 bucks to
38:32
Speaker 3: get in the door, but then turns to 40, then
38:34
Speaker 3: turns to 60 and up to get into the bar. Like, hey,
38:38
Speaker 3: that's crazy. But if you heard about the Walmart dynamic pricing.
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Speaker 1: I have heard about this.
38:42
Speaker 3: Listen to this. This is wild.
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Speaker 10: I'm very aware of prices because of how high stuff is.
38:49
Speaker 10: And I go to check out. My prices are higher.
38:52
Speaker 10: So I call the manager over and he comes over
38:55
Speaker 10: and he says, The prices can change from the time
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Speaker 10: you leave the area to the time you get to
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Speaker 10: the register because the computer updates. And I'm like, no, no, no, no.
39:05
Speaker 10: You can't tell me that if I pick up an
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Speaker 10: item that's $ 3. 98, by the time I walk to the register,
39:10
Speaker 10: which is less than two minutes, is this what we're doing, Walmart? Like,
39:14
Speaker 10: are we serious?
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Speaker 3: What is that? I mean, they've gone into the dynamic pricing.
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Speaker 1: The fact that nobody thought about the fact that it
39:23
Speaker 1: could change between the time you pick it up and
39:25
Speaker 1: the time you pay for it is nuts.
39:27
Speaker 3: Which of course it can, just depending, I would assume
39:29
Speaker 3: it's always. refreshing. They can squeeze another couple of pennies
39:33
Speaker 3: out of you. Like, how is that? I don't think.
39:36
Speaker 3: Can you sue over that? Because, again, it is listed
39:40
Speaker 3: as price A.
39:41
Speaker 1: I don't know if you could sue or not.
39:43
Speaker 3: And I guess I'm not as familiar with Walmart. Some
39:46
Speaker 3: of the places have switched to digital pricing. price indicators.
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Speaker 1: Yes, so it changes right there.
39:51
Speaker 3: Walmart has that.
39:53
Speaker 1: But when you pick it up at one price, you
39:56
Speaker 1: get to the register, it's another.
39:58
Speaker 3: Hey, it's changed, homie.
39:59
Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of to get out
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Speaker 1: of this would be not having that just randomly update.
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Speaker 3: You have specific times that everyone knows about, right?
40:11
Speaker 1: Say, say, Hey, we're going to dynamically update our price
40:14
Speaker 1: at two o'clock.
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
40:15
Speaker 3: Bingo. Like this is when it happens.
40:17
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like you were talking about gambling.
40:20
Speaker 1: It's kind of like, okay, I'm going to pick this up.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to pick this up at one 59. It's
40:24
Speaker 1: either going to be higher or lower by the time
40:26
Speaker 1: I get it to the register.
40:27
Speaker 3: That is something you can bet on by the way. Absolutely.
40:30
Speaker 3: Will had a really fun experience. In case you guys
40:34
Speaker 3: don't know, and you're seeing, everyone sees the commercials now
40:36
Speaker 3: for Kalshi. I saw a commercial that really just threw
40:40
Speaker 3: me for a loop. It's rare that these will, but
40:42
Speaker 3: sometimes they just hit your ear and you have to
40:44
Speaker 3: stop and say, wait a minute, what did you say?
40:46
Speaker 3: It was a goat farmer out in the middle of nowhere.
40:48
Speaker 3: He had his little goat farm and he looked, he
40:50
Speaker 3: obviously was struggling because I cannot imagine what kind of
40:54
Speaker 3: hell it's like to try to make a living as
40:56
Speaker 3: a goat farmer in 2026. But, He was talking about
41:00
Speaker 3: how he bets against what he is doing on Kalshi
41:04
Speaker 3: so he can hedge his action. Oh, my God. So
41:07
Speaker 3: he basically can hedge his income by having a side
41:10
Speaker 3: gig as a professional gambler on Kalshi. And they're like, hey,
41:13
Speaker 3: futures works for everybody. It's like, that's not futures.
41:16
Speaker 1: That's not a life plan.
41:17
Speaker 3: That's straight up gambling. You're just gambling to supplement your income.
41:23
Speaker 3: What are we doing? It's everywhere. We'll discover that the
41:27
Speaker 3: kids are... No matter how much you think the kids
41:30
Speaker 3: are into calci or what kids are into calci, they're
41:34
Speaker 3: all into calci.
41:35
Speaker 1: We had talked about the fact that, yeah, there are
41:37
Speaker 1: a lot of kids. I pictured people who look like
41:39
Speaker 1: me in college, right? Wearing the ball cap and having
41:42
Speaker 1: a beer.
41:43
Speaker 6: Bros.
41:43
Speaker 1: I need to find a way to legally gamble on sports.
41:45
Speaker 1: Had to go down to Lynn's Exxon to place your bets.
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Speaker 21: Lynn's Exxon.
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Speaker 10: Right.
41:49
Speaker 1: No, I'm sitting at the bingo table. Thursday night at
41:52
Speaker 1: Moe's Barbecue.
41:53
Speaker 3: Thursday night at a bingo game.
41:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's about eight or ten of my daughter's
41:59
Speaker 1: friends there at the table. And one of them is
42:02
Speaker 1: looking at her phone and kind of cussing under her breath.
42:04
Speaker 3: Right.
42:04
Speaker 1: Like, oh, what's going on? No, her bets were going sideways.
42:08
Speaker 1: She was watching her bets. While playing bingo.
42:12
Speaker 3: What was she gambling on, Will? There was some football. Oh,
42:15
Speaker 3: it was a Thursday night football game. Some sports action. Yeah,
42:18
Speaker 3: sports betting. Sports action. Sports betting.
42:20
Speaker 1: While, I think she was playing six bingo cards at
42:23
Speaker 1: the same time.
42:23
Speaker 3: That is... It was $ 30 worth of bingo cards. That
42:26
Speaker 3: is a.
42:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, I called her a degen, and then all of
42:30
Speaker 1: her friends came to her defense because they were doing
42:32
Speaker 1: the same thing.
42:32
Speaker 3: You know, one of the most popular markets, they call
42:35
Speaker 3: them markets as opposed to, you know, bets. We all know. Yeah,
42:39
Speaker 3: it's gambling. Yeah. One of the most popular markets you
42:43
Speaker 3: can bet on in the state of Texas is James
42:46
Speaker 3: Tallarico and Ken Paxton.
42:48
Speaker 1: You were talking about this.
42:49
Speaker 3: I'm telling you, I think that depending on how you
42:51
Speaker 3: feel about polls... There could be some money to be
42:55
Speaker 3: made on Ken Paxton today, fellas.
42:57
Speaker 1: I just can't do it.
42:58
Speaker 3: They're giving him 30% chance on Kelsey, which means, you know,
43:03
Speaker 3: that's a pretty substantial super dog in the realm of
43:06
Speaker 3: gambling for a guy who's not out of the margin
43:09
Speaker 3: of error in any poll that I've seen. Similarly, Gina
43:13
Speaker 3: Hinojosa also in the margin of error. She's getting 20%
43:16
Speaker 3: chances against Greg Abbott. You think there's a chance that
43:20
Speaker 3: maybe they're wrong in the other direction. But you would
43:24
Speaker 3: have to gamble on an election. Can't do it. And
43:26
Speaker 3: you can't do it.
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Speaker 1: Look, I've never bet online anyway. I'm a classic degen,
43:32
Speaker 1: I guess.
43:32
Speaker 3: You like to go to Lynn's Exxon. That's right. But
43:36
Speaker 3: I can't imagine. I can't gamble on politics, man. I
43:38
Speaker 3: just can't do it.
43:39
Speaker 1: It's so sick and twisted as it is, I don't
43:41
Speaker 1: want to add another sin on top of it.
43:43
Speaker 3: It feels wrong. Like in every sense of the word,
43:49
Speaker 3: it feels so wrong.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you want to do it.
43:52
Speaker 3: I want to lay a parlay on several, several bets.
43:56
Speaker 3: I don't know if that's even allowed to do as
43:58
Speaker 3: a broadcaster, frankly. Am I allowed to profit off of
44:02
Speaker 3: it anyway?
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Speaker 1: No, no, just don't do it, Tucker.
44:05
Speaker 3: Come on. All right, we'll take a break. We'll be
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Speaker 3: back right after this on the Info Maniac.
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Speaker 18: the most durable of all landscaping shrubs in Texas. It
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Speaker 18: grows to 4 to 5 feet tall and 5 or
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Speaker 18: 6 or 7 feet wide. Its leaves are the darkest
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Speaker 18: as a relief to taller coarse textured shrubs. It grows
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Speaker 18: Then there's Primrose Jasmine. If you want something just a
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Speaker 18: Italian Jasmine. Primrose Jasmine is arching, but it gets five
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Speaker 18: or six feet tall and six or seven feet wide,
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Speaker 18: More than one row of petals, it's reliably winter hardy
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Speaker 18: in the southern two-thirds of the state. It deserves much
47:37
Speaker 18: wider planting. Its flowers really are showy. Oh, one of
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Speaker 18: my favorites of all time is Chinese Photinia. Just when
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Speaker 18: you thought you'd give up on Photinias forever because of
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Speaker 18: the disease problems, you realize there's been an old standby
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Speaker 18: waiting in the wings. Chinese Photinia has been in our
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Speaker 18: landscapes for a century or more. It doesn't have the
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Speaker 18: coppery new growth that Red Tip does, but it also
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Speaker 18: doesn't have those problems. It grows best in full or
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Speaker 18: nearly full sun. It'll get 15 to 20 feet tall.
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Speaker 18: The main problem is availability. Your best bet would be
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Speaker 18: to find chance seedlings and then grow your own. It
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Speaker 18: does have powdery mildew problems in the spring that Red
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Speaker 18: Tip doesn't have, but the fungal leaf spot that's just
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Speaker 18: killing Red Tip Photinia does not bother Chinese Photinia. Oh,
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Speaker 18: and a couple of plants that I like a lot
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Speaker 18: and I don't really have much time to talk about them.
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Speaker 28: Good morning, I'm Riley Flurkey with your morning sports update
50:25
Speaker 28: on 1620-945-WCAW. The Aggie football team won their final non-conference
50:31
Speaker 28: game 41-0 over the Citadel Saturday afternoon from Kyle Field.
50:36
Speaker 28: The Maroon and White accumulated 501 yards of total offense,
50:40
Speaker 28: including 264 rushing yards and 337 receiving yards. Head coach
50:43
Speaker 28: Mike Elko recapped the win.
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Speaker 11: Told the guys in the locker room, obviously proud of
50:50
Speaker 11: how they handled it, the professionalism it took to go
50:52
Speaker 11: out there and play that game the way they did.
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Speaker 11: Four for four on offense in the first half with
50:56
Speaker 11: four touchdowns. Defensively, to pitch a shutout, thought we were able.
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Speaker 15: To get a lot of guys, a lot of reps.
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Speaker 11: That was really, really important with where we are right now.
51:04
Speaker 11: You saw some young, talented kids starting to get a
51:07
Speaker 11: little bit more comfortable. Obviously the opponents are different, but
51:11
Speaker 11: just to see Aaron Gregory, T.K. Norman, K.J. Edwards, Carson Baker,
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Speaker 11: a lot of the young, talented players, and then it's
51:17
Speaker 11: good to get Marle back healthy with three touchdowns. So
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Speaker 11: excited with where we're at. Coming off the field today,
51:22
Speaker 11: we were able to get done what we wanted to
51:25
Speaker 11: get done. Now it's back into SEC play and obviously
51:28
Speaker 11: a big challenge next week in Tuscaloosa.
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Speaker 28: Next up, the Aggies head over to Alabama to take
51:33
Speaker 28: on the Crimson Tide this Saturday with kickoff set for 2.30.
51:36
Speaker 28: The A & M volleyball team got back into the
51:39
Speaker 28: win column after downing Auburn 3-1 yesterday afternoon at Reed Arena.
51:44
Speaker 28: Head coach Jamie Morrison recapped the game.
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Speaker 29: First of all, to our seniors, I just said I
51:49
Speaker 29: came from a world where if people were good enough,
51:51
Speaker 29: they were around for a really long period of time.
51:53
Speaker 29: And that's people in my life, the national teams that
51:55
Speaker 29: were part of a team for 12 years. So It's
51:58
Speaker 29: new on me that athletes have to leave, and it's
52:02
Speaker 29: not obviously the end of the season yet, but just
52:04
Speaker 29: to know that that's coming. And I just said to
52:06
Speaker 29: the team and thanked them for everything that they've done
52:08
Speaker 29: for this program, whether that be they've been here for
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Speaker 29: one year or they've been here for four. As for
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Speaker 29: the match, I'm happy with the way we played. Again,
52:16
Speaker 29: the result's the result, but I thought we were starting
52:18
Speaker 29: to get back on track to being the team that
52:19
Speaker 29: we need to be, and that's the most important thing. Actually,
52:22
Speaker 29: the most encouraging thing was to drop the set and
52:24
Speaker 29: play like we did at 0-0 in the fourth, actually,
52:26
Speaker 29: to me. And I was joking around with Jim before
52:28
Speaker 29: the match. I was like, I hope we win two
52:30
Speaker 29: of these handily because we're playing, and I hope they
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Speaker 29: push us at some point and we have to respond.
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Speaker 29: And then sure enough, the match kind of turned out
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Speaker 29: in that way. So I think I was more pleased
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Speaker 29: about the response that we had in the fourth.
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Speaker 28: Up next, the Maroon and White are back on the road,
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Speaker 28: heading over to Georgia to face the Bulldogs on Friday
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Speaker 28: night with first serve set for 6 o'clock. The Aggie
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Speaker 28: baseball team battled McNeese through a back-and-forth 12-inning scrimmage, claiming
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Speaker 28: a 13-10 victory Friday night from Olsen Field. concluding fall
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Speaker 28: exhibition action for the Aggies as they now set their
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Speaker 28: sights on the 2027 regular season, where the Aggies are
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Speaker 28: set to face Milwaukee on opening day at Olsen Field
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Speaker 28: on February 19th. The Aggies soccer team suffered a heartbreaking
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Speaker 28: 4-3 defeat to LSU within the last minutes of their
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Speaker 28: match yesterday at Ellis Field.
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Speaker 3: Next up, the Ags are back.
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Speaker 28: On the road, heading to Missouri to take on the
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Speaker 28: Tigers Thursday night with first kick set for 8 o'clock.
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Speaker 28: That's your morning sports update on 1620-945-WTAW. I'm Riley Flurkey.
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