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The Infomaniacs: November 5th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: to PioneerBoys.com. Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch.
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  Speaker 1: Bryant police are on the hunt for a man after
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  Speaker 1: an argument turned deadly on Tuesday. Police say 20-year-old Cameron
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  Speaker 1: Deshaun Scott is wanted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Scott is accused of shooting and killing 23-year-old Jalen Walter
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  Speaker 1: outside the North Point Business Park in the 2800 block
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  Speaker 1: of North Harvey Mitchell Parkway. Walter was airlifted to a
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  Speaker 1: Houston hospital where he was later pronounced dead. Scott has
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  Speaker 1: several outstanding warrants, including weapons and drug charges. If you
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  Speaker 1: have information on his whereabouts, you are asked to contact
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  Speaker 1: Bryan PD. Two people were injured after a single car
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  Speaker 1: crash in downtown Bryan. Bryan Police and Fire Departments were
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  Speaker 1: dispatched to the intersection. William Joel Bryan and Main Street
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  Speaker 1: around 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday. A car lost control, first
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  Speaker 1: striking a light pole, then a pedestrian, before coming to
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  Speaker 1: a stop against the building that houses the law offices
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  Speaker 1: of Daniel Stark. According to officials with the Bryan Fire Department,
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  Speaker 1: the driver suffered major injuries and is hospitalized. The pedestrian
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  Speaker 1: suffered minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital.
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  Speaker 1: With Democrats sweeping every statewide election in Texas, Chris Fox
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  Speaker 1: has a preview of what's ahead when the state legislature
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  Speaker 1: goes back to work in January.
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  Speaker 2: The last time the Democrats held a majority in the
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  Speaker 2: Texas House was 2003. Texas Majority PAC Director Catherine Fisher
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  Speaker 2: expects changes from the Dems, like failing to renew the
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  Speaker 2: school choice voucher program.
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  Speaker 3: I would expect.
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  Speaker 4: Property taxes and other cost of living measures will also
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  Speaker 4: be high priority in the next session, and probably education
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  Speaker 4: funding in general, even beyond vouchers.
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  Speaker 2: Rice University political scientist Mark Jones believes the Democrats will
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  Speaker 2: bring back initiatives previously rejected by the GOP.
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  Speaker 5: The decriminalization of marijuana, the sending to the voters of
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  Speaker 5: a constitutional amendment to allow for destination resort casinos, and
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  Speaker 5: potentially the extension of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
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  Speaker 2: In Austin, Chris Foxx.
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  Speaker 1: A Republican lawmaker wants Governor Abbott to take steps to
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  Speaker 1: keep Gina Hinojosa from having too much power when she
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  Speaker 1: takes office.
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  Speaker 3: Brian Harrison in Midlothian wants Governor Abbott to call a
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  Speaker 3: special session with the goal of limiting the governor's emergency
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  Speaker 3: powers before Democrat Gina Hinojosa is sworn in in about
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  Speaker 3: 10 weeks. He writes on social media that without action,
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  Speaker 3: Governor Hinojosa will inherit the powers of a dictator. SMU
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  Speaker 3: political scientist Cal Gilson says Democrats won by big margins
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  Speaker 3: and this isn't going to fly.
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  Speaker 6: If I were Gina Hinojosa, I think I would have
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  Speaker 6: a field day with that kind of idea that the
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  Speaker 6: voters have spoken and the Republicans have said no.
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  Speaker 3: Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by Pioneer Steel and Pipe. More news
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  Speaker 1: ahead at 8.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 8: Visit PioneerBoys.com. 1620, 94.5, WTAW, Thursday. Just getting closer to
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  Speaker 8: the weekend. And a beautiful one today. High of 81
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  Speaker 8: down to the, what are we looking at here? Mid-upper 50s.
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  Speaker 1: Mid-upper 50s.
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  Speaker 8: Still great. 76 tomorrow down to the mid-50s. Now, Saturday
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  Speaker 8: night into Sunday, we get another little chance of rain
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  Speaker 8: slash cold front thingy, which is going to be amazing.
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  Speaker 8: Because Sunday, the high is 66. Monday, the high is 67.
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  Speaker 8: And the lows are in the 40s.
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  Speaker 1: I think you were a little premature with your sweaters
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  Speaker 1: in the past couple of days.
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  Speaker 8: I only have so many. I've got to wash them
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  Speaker 8: and then bring them back out.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, I think sweater, official sweater weather may be
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  Speaker 1: next week.
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  Speaker 8: This is a real treat and also a bummer at
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  Speaker 8: the same time.
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  Speaker 1: I think bittersweet.
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  Speaker 8: Bittersweet is the way it's described. Brazos County Judge Dwayne
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  Speaker 8: Peters joins us for your last official visit to the
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  Speaker 8: Infomaniacs as County Judge Dwayne Peters.
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  Speaker 9: Thank y'all for having me.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you for being here. So December 1st is retirement.
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  Speaker 10: Exactly.
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  Speaker 8: So what's going through your head right now, man? How
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  Speaker 8: are you feeling?
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  Speaker 9: You know, actually, I'm ready to go. I've been there
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  Speaker 9: a long time, and I've enjoyed nearly all of it. Occasionally,
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  Speaker 9: there are things that come up that you don't really enjoy,
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  Speaker 9: but overall, I've really enjoyed it, but it's time to
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  Speaker 9: be out. When I got into elected things, whether it's
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  Speaker 9: constable to begin with, I kind of let my ranch go.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I've still been in the ranching business all
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  Speaker 9: that time, but There's a lot of things that I
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  Speaker 9: would like to go back and go to work on,
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  Speaker 9: and I'm looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 8: What a wonderful thing. Now, how many years has it
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  Speaker 8: been since Constable?
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  Speaker 10: 34 years.
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  Speaker 1: Good run.
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  Speaker 8: That is a heck of a run. Heck of a run. Randu,
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  Speaker 8: I was telling you earlier, Randu Steve Smith, who said
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  Speaker 8: he is anticipating. See, he just hit the retirement window.
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  Speaker 8: Now he's cleaning out his office. His timetable for cleaning
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  Speaker 8: out his office is quite generous.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Which, again, makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: You might think it's quite generous until you get in
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  Speaker 1: the middle of it.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know how he's going to get it done
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  Speaker 8: in a year, to be honest with you. And I
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  Speaker 8: got to ask, are you in a similar– are you
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  Speaker 8: prepared for what it's going to take to get 38
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  Speaker 8: years of stuff?
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  Speaker 9: I started working on it a month ago, and I
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  Speaker 9: think I'll have it out of there before December 1st.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, my goodness. Before December– that is– Okay, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: How many truckloads?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're doing U-Hauls.
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  Speaker 10: I'm throwing a lot of things away. See, you move
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  Speaker 10: like I move.
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  Speaker 8: It's like, let's get out of here. For those of
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  Speaker 8: you who would like to see the judge in person,
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  Speaker 8: you are going to have a retirement ceremony. Is that correct?
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  Speaker 9: November 16th, Browse Center, 4 to 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, and it's a come-and-go thing, or do we have
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  Speaker 8: a program happening?
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  Speaker 10: No, not really.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, just show up and do your thing. Is there
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  Speaker 8: anything you're going to miss that jumps out at you?
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  Speaker 9: You know, I mean, over the years, I have gotten
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  Speaker 9: to know very well a lot of people, not only
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  Speaker 9: the constituents out there, but the people in the county,
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  Speaker 9: the employees and department heads and all, and so... You know,
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  Speaker 9: and I've got to interact, you know, like every day.
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  Speaker 9: So I'll miss a lot of that.
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  Speaker 10: I really will. But, you know, it'll be good to
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  Speaker 10: get away.
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  Speaker 8: Since you're here to talk a little business, obviously another
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  Speaker 8: election cycle has come and gone. I'll tell you one
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  Speaker 8: of the things I enjoyed the most about Tuesday. And
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  Speaker 8: it wasn't just me. It was several of the county
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  Speaker 8: officials and other elected officials were out there. There is
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  Speaker 8: something about sitting in the room and watching that process
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  Speaker 8: take place that is both incredibly affirming as an American,
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  Speaker 8: but also just the it's stress relief, like to watch
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  Speaker 8: how good they are and how. fair, they have fast,
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  Speaker 8: all of it. It's an incredible process. Do you have
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  Speaker 8: any thoughts into how it went this year, how everything
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  Speaker 8: went down?
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  Speaker 10: I mean, there's always certain hiccups.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I know you probably were that one of
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  Speaker 9: the voting location place had power issues. And so, you know,
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  Speaker 9: those kinds of things come up. But I will tell you,
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  Speaker 9: our election staff, they do a great job. And And
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  Speaker 9: they seem to overcome all of those things that seem
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  Speaker 9: to pop up. And they've really done a good job,
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  Speaker 9: in my opinion, with taking care of them.
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  Speaker 8: And there would be, there were little things, just usual
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  Speaker 8: things that they have to, and watching them do it.
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  Speaker 8: If you are someone who has never, I wish they
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  Speaker 8: would take college kids through that, high school kids through that.
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  Speaker 8: And then 40-year-old kids through that. Because it will do
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  Speaker 8: a lot to make you feel a certain way about
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  Speaker 8: how strong the system actually is when it comes to
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  Speaker 8: our local elections like they really do an amazing job
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  Speaker 8: speaking of voting i was going in to cast my
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  Speaker 8: ballot this year going through the list and i get
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  Speaker 8: all the way down to the county uh elections and
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  Speaker 8: i see running unopposed a very familiar name for county
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  Speaker 8: clerk see ashley peters bowman who personally We know her
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  Speaker 8: as a former employee here at Bryan Broadcasting. She used
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  Speaker 8: to work the front desk. Never once in a while
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  Speaker 8: I will see her out of the county. I'm down
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  Speaker 8: at the courthouse doing county business. And I just spaced
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  Speaker 8: completely that she was on the ballot. And it brought
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  Speaker 8: a smile to my face that I could cast a
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  Speaker 8: vote for her in the election. Now, obviously, you have
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  Speaker 8: a much more personal connection to her than we do
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  Speaker 8: up here. That is your daughter.
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  Speaker 9: It is my daughter, and she's been, she's worked for Karen,
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  Speaker 9: I think it's 19 years, so she's been there a
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  Speaker 9: long time now, and Karen groomed her to, you know,
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  Speaker 9: Karen knew just like we all do, at some point
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  Speaker 9: she was going to retire, and so she's She's encouraged
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  Speaker 9: and groomed her to potentially be the next county clerk,
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  Speaker 9: and I think she's learned her job well, and so
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  Speaker 9: I think she'll do a great job.
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  Speaker 1: Aside from the in-house training, I will attest to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that if you can manage the front desk at
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  Speaker 1: a radio station, there's a lot you can handle in life.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot.
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  Speaker 8: If you can have specifically these radio stations, if you
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  Speaker 8: can deal with us... as well as she did. But
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  Speaker 8: I have to ask, what are your feelings about seeing
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  Speaker 8: your daughter on the ballot in the county that you've
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  Speaker 8: spent this many decades serving?
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  Speaker 9: Well, I mean, I'm certainly happy to see her now
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  Speaker 9: going to be the next county clerk. Times are different
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  Speaker 9: from when I got started. I mean, we got social media,
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  Speaker 9: and there's a lot of times people can say things
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  Speaker 9: that are inaccurate, and then.
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  Speaker 10: It just spreads like crazy.
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  Speaker 11: True.
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  Speaker 9: Fortunately, with the county clerk position, they're not making financial
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  Speaker 9: decisions for the whole county, so it's not like they're
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  Speaker 9: right there in the front line. And I think as
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  Speaker 9: long as she, and as Karen did, as long as
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  Speaker 9: you take care of those folks that come in and
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  Speaker 9: have a need and do your best there and make
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  Speaker 9: sure that your employees are pleasant with people coming in
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  Speaker 9: and you do all those things, I think she'll do well.
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  Speaker 10: Amazing.
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  Speaker 8: I know everyone over there is going to miss you, man.
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  Speaker 8: Has everyone been stopping by? Are you getting to check
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  Speaker 8: everyone off the list?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I run into people all the time that encourage me.
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  Speaker 9: They tell me that they hate to see me go,
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  Speaker 9: but they're happy that I'm going to.
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  Speaker 8: But we'll still run into you all the time.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 10: Ain't nothing changing.
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  Speaker 8: But, yeah, and again, if you would like to participate,
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  Speaker 8: I think it's going to be a great time over
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  Speaker 8: at the Brazos Center, and we'll post this information online.
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  Speaker 1: And best of luck with the future endeavor. You may
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  Speaker 1: find that your boss now working on your ranch is
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  Speaker 1: more difficult than what you've dealt with. Land is tough, man.
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  Speaker 10: You never know.
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  Speaker 8: It's a different kind of work.
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  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 8: Hey, but seriously, from all of us, I know you've
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  Speaker 8: been a friend for a long time and also a
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  Speaker 8: friend of the radio stations for a long time. Thank
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  Speaker 8: you for everything you've done over the years.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you all both for having me here, and I
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  Speaker 9: want to thank the people of Brazzaville County for electing
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  Speaker 9: me as many times as they did and putting up
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  Speaker 9: with me, and I appreciate everything everybody's done.
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  Speaker 1: County Judge Dwayne Peters.
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  Speaker 8: We'll take a break. We'll be back right after this.
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  Speaker 8: 16-20, 94-5, WTAW. Good morning, guys. Infomaniacs. Weather, expect another. Well,
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  Speaker 8: I mean, I can't really say it's a bad stretch.
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  Speaker 8: The whole thing is great. You get some overnight rain
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  Speaker 8: on Saturday into Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: But, Lord, this is great. Nothing wrong with this forecast
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 8: This is your warmer day, getting up to maybe 80 degrees.
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  Speaker 8: Then down to 57 tonight, 76 tomorrow. Down to 56
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  Speaker 8: again on Friday night. And then Saturday, low 70s for highs.
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  Speaker 8: And then Saturday night, a front brings us to a
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  Speaker 8: Sunday with slight chance of showers after the morning. And
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  Speaker 8: then a high of 66.
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  Speaker 6: Brother.
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  Speaker 7: On this day, November the 5th, in 1960, singer Johnny
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  Speaker 7: Horton died in a car accident in Milano, Texas. Though
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  Speaker 7: he was born in Los Angeles in 1925, Horton grew
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  Speaker 7: up in East Texas. He attended junior college in Jacksonville
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  Speaker 7: and Kilgore and eventually went to Seattle University. He worked
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  Speaker 7: in the fishing industry in California and Alaska, but embarked
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  Speaker 7: on a country music singing career in 1950. In 1955,
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  Speaker 7: Horton joined the Louisiana Hayride under the stage name The
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  Speaker 7: Singing Fisherman. Recognized for his honky-tonk sound, he scored his
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  Speaker 7: first hit, Honky Tonk Man, in 1956 and achieved his
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  Speaker 7: first number one country recording with When It's Springtime in Alaska.
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  Speaker 7: The singer had crossover appeal on both country and pop
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  Speaker 7: music radio stations, and songs such as the Battle of
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  Speaker 7: New Orleans attracted a wide audience.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Bryan
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  Speaker 1: Police have released more information about a shooting at the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: North Point Business Park in the 2800 block of North
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Harvey Mitchell Parkway on Tuesday. The victim has been identified
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  Speaker 1: as 23-year-old Jalen Walter. He was shot in the torso
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  Speaker 1: after a verbal altercation and died at a Houston hospital.
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  Speaker 1: The manhunt is now on for 20-year-old Cameron Deshaun Scott.
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  Speaker 1: A warrant has been issued for aggravated assault with a
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  Speaker 1: Jail on six previous occasions and has several outstanding warrants,
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• 24:17
  Speaker 1: possession of a controlled substance. If you have information on
• 24:20
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• 24:25
  Speaker 1: single car crash in downtown Bryan. Bryan Police and Fire
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  Speaker 1: Departments were dispatched to the intersection of William Joel Bryan
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: and Main Street around 5.15 yesterday evening after a car
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  Speaker 1: lost control, striking a light pole, then a pedestrian, before
• 24:38
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• 24:41
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  Speaker 1: The pedestrian suffered minor injuries and was transported to a
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  Speaker 1: local hospital. The man who crashed an 18-wheeler into the
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  Speaker 1: DPS in Brenham in 2024 will spend the rest of
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: his life in prison. 45-year-old Clenard Parker stole an 18-wheeler
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and intentionally crashed it into the building, killing two. As
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: part of a plea agreement, Parker pled guilty on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: to capital murder of multiple persons and was sentenced to
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  Speaker 1: life without the possibility of parole. Brazos County Elections Administrator
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  Speaker 1: in that will be sent to the early voting ballot board.
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  Speaker 1: The last day for military and overseas vote to be
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  Speaker 1: accepted is Monday. So far, she says there have been
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: no requests for a recount. The runoff election for city
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  Speaker 1: council races in Bryan and College Station is scheduled for Saturday,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: December 12th. Early voting will start on November 30th. Acting
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  Speaker 1: Comptroller Don Huffines pulled no punches during his concession speech
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  Speaker 10: I blame this on Greg Abbott.
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  Speaker 18: I blame it on Dan Patrick.
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  Speaker 23: I blame it on all the mushy middle people that
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  Speaker 1: He says the current administration had more than a decade
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  Speaker 23: They're going to go for four terms as governor, four
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  Speaker 3: I mean, seriously?
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  Speaker 23: People are tired of it. of the Republicans being in office.
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  Speaker 23: They couldn't campaign on a policy issue. If they campaigned
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  Speaker 24: Guess what?
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  Speaker 23: All that did was remind everybody why you didn't do
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  Speaker 1: He lost to Sarah Eckert, who got 51% of the vote.
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  Speaker 1: Outgoing Ag Commissioner Sid Miller says Republicans will have to
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  Speaker 9: There's only three statewide Republicans left.
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  Speaker 12: Everybody else is gone.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, gone.
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  Speaker 13: You've got Christy Craddock and Wayne Christian, the Railroad Commission,
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  Speaker 9: I don't think you can name anybody else left.
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  Speaker 25: They got us all.
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  Speaker 8: It was a total, total massacre. This wasn't a loss.
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  Speaker 9: This was a nuclear holocaust zombie apocalypse.
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  Speaker 1: Miller has plans after leaving office, including writing books and
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  Speaker 25: Many who cast a ballot said their vote was directly
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  Speaker 25: influenced by who in Austin is pushing for a complete
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• 27:23
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  Speaker 22: I do think our lawmakers are very aware that this
• 27:27
  Speaker 22: is a subject at the top of everyone's mind.
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  Speaker 25: Sarah Todd with the Texas Cannabis Policy Center is hopeful
• 27:33
  Speaker 25: that lawmakers will take this message into next session. She's
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  Speaker 25: focuses policing on the drug cartels, not the hippies with
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  Speaker 1: With new leadership, the fate of the state's school voucher
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  Speaker 6: Gina Hinojosa and James Tallarico were among the leaders of
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  Speaker 1: Clay Robison with the Texas State Teachers Association says the
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  Speaker 8: We're psyched about this one because I was actually reading
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  Speaker 8: one of the press releases you sent out, Christian sent out.
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  Speaker 8: And when you actually see the list of projects, as
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: far as economic development goes in the city of Bryant,
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  Speaker 8: it's long.
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  Speaker 10: It's so long.
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  Speaker 8: And we haven't had a chance to really kind of
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  Speaker 8: dive into this, but today we do with the Director
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  Speaker 8: of Economic Development for Citi Bryan, Todd McDaniel. How you doing, man?
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  Speaker 10: Howdy. Howdy.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, so I'm going to let you kind of lead
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  Speaker 8: the conversation on this because we'll get into some of
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: the details. But there are a lot of projects that
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: you guys are working on that we've talked about, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: I feel like they do kind of get sandwiched in together.
• 31:25
  Speaker 8: And you never realize how many really sizable, sizable improvements
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: are coming to the city of Bryan. It's not all
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: about the Waffle House. It is not. Although, that is
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: going to be the lead for a while. Minus the
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: Waffle House, there are a lot of them. So let's
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: go through and we can start. What do you think
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  Speaker 8: at this point is the most exciting project that's on
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: the horizon for you guys?
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  Speaker 26: Well, first and foremost, allow me to please pay tribute
• 31:57
  Speaker 26: to Judge Dwayne Peters and Mayor John Nichols.
• 32:00
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 32:02
  Speaker 26: Honorable men and great servants to our community. The City
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  Speaker 26: of Bryan, we operate as one team. We also believe
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  Speaker 26: that we're one community, and we need to operate as
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  Speaker 26: one team as a community. And so with that being said,
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  Speaker 26: I will tell.
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  Speaker 10: You that We can look backwards, but we can also
• 32:22
  Speaker 10: look forwards.
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  Speaker 26: And I can tell you guys that there are some
• 32:25
  Speaker 26: exciting projects on the horizon. And all of these projects
• 32:30
  Speaker 26: do require a team effort. So with that, just a
• 32:34
  Speaker 26: little bit about kind of how we operate. And this
• 32:37
  Speaker 26: really ties into your point about the nature of the
• 32:41
  Speaker 26: projects that we've worked on and the report that we provided.
• 32:46
  Speaker 26: So in terms of core values of the City of Bryan,
• 32:51
  Speaker 26: you know, beyond integrity and passionate customer service, one of
• 32:57
  Speaker 26: the City of Bryant's core values is economic development. So
• 33:00
  Speaker 26: everybody within City Hall, everybody across our city is involved
• 33:05
  Speaker 26: in economic development. As it relates to the projects that,
• 33:09
  Speaker 26: you know, we've worked through over the past year in
• 33:12
  Speaker 26: economic development, these projects, many of them are multi-year. You know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 26: you get an agreement in place And that project, it
• 33:22
  Speaker 26: may take 24, 36 months for that project to hit.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 33:26
  Speaker 26: Now, there are some, like you mentioned Waffle House, where
• 33:29
  Speaker 26: very exciting. But I'll just use an example. If you
• 33:33
  Speaker 26: talk about a project like Master Brick. So Master Brick, very,
• 33:38
  Speaker 26: very large, $ 150 million plus project. I mean, the scale
• 33:43
  Speaker 26: of that project is hard to understand. I mean, it's gigantic.
• 33:48
  Speaker 26: And it takes time to build the project. It takes
• 33:50
  Speaker 26: time to get the project operational. It takes time for
• 33:52
  Speaker 26: the project to get the employees hired, et cetera. But
• 33:56
  Speaker 26: our approach is really across the board from downtown, critical, midtown, critical,
• 34:04
  Speaker 26: obviously industrial solutions. But we try to look at things
• 34:08
  Speaker 26: in terms of economic impact. For the city of Bryan,
• 34:12
  Speaker 26: our economic development approach is very much a revenue strategy.
• 34:16
  Speaker 26: So we believe that as we help to facilitate economic.
• 34:20
  Speaker 10: Development, it grows the base, it grows the tax base.
• 34:24
  Speaker 26: And as y'all may know, the city of Bryan has
• 34:27
  Speaker 26: not raised taxes since 1999.
• 34:29
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 34:30
  Speaker 26: And so I think a lot of that is a
• 34:31
  Speaker 26: tribute to not only the stewardship of our city leadership,
• 34:36
  Speaker 26: but also economic growth. So these projects that you see today,
• 34:40
  Speaker 26: whether they're in downtown or Texas Triangle Park, Midtown, wherever, um,
• 34:45
  Speaker 26: represent our focus on a holistic approach to economic development
• 34:50
  Speaker 26: from redevelopment to attraction to business retention expansion.
• 34:54
  Speaker 8: Now you've been doing this for, you've been doing this
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  Speaker 8: for a while in the community.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, sir.
• 34:58
  Speaker 8: So you've seen a few things. What's different about Brian's
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: ability to compete for some of these major projects that,
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: that wasn't necessarily there 10 or 15 years ago?
• 35:08
  Speaker 26: Well, first and foremost, I mean, you, you have to
• 35:12
  Speaker 26: give credit to the university system. Um, The vision of
• 35:16
  Speaker 26: the RELLIS campus projects today, like the Semiconductor Institute, which
• 35:21
  Speaker 26: is underway, is very interesting. I mean, these projects, you
• 35:27
  Speaker 26: can almost look at them as sort of magnets. You know,
• 35:30
  Speaker 26: when you bring the intellectual capital, you bring the talent.
• 35:33
  Speaker 26: You know, one of the challenges that we've historically faced,
• 35:36
  Speaker 26: and yes, sir, I've been doing economic development here a
• 35:38
  Speaker 26: long time, has been talent retention. And, you know, so
• 35:44
  Speaker 26: it's kind of a chicken and an egg. I mean,
• 35:45
  Speaker 26: you have to have the companies be able to hire
• 35:49
  Speaker 26: the employees. But because of our geography, being in the
• 35:52
  Speaker 26: center of the Texas Triangle, historically, we've been so close
• 35:55
  Speaker 26: to Houston and Austin that, you know, these companies could
• 35:59
  Speaker 26: come in and pull the talent out.
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: Very difficult to keep people here when you have these opportunities,
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: some of the other locales.
• 36:05
  Speaker 10: That's right. And so today, I would say.
• 36:09
  Speaker 26: First and foremost, the vision and leadership and in partnership, again,
• 36:14
  Speaker 26: going back to the one team approach, even with RELLIS.
• 36:17
  Speaker 26: I mean, our relationship with the university system and the
• 36:19
  Speaker 26: RELLIS campus and the university is excellent.
• 36:23
  Speaker 10: And we very much share the same vision.
• 36:28
  Speaker 26: And so I think that's probably one of the biggest
• 36:30
  Speaker 26: things that's happened. I mean, just think about the investment
• 36:33
  Speaker 26: at the RELLIS campus alone. But I think other things
• 36:37
  Speaker 26: that are very interesting is as our state has grown,
• 36:40
  Speaker 26: and you look at the population base of our state,
• 36:44
  Speaker 26: we are kind of at the epicenter.
• 36:46
  Speaker 10: And we're getting to a point now.
• 36:48
  Speaker 26: Where, whether it's electricity or water supply, we have some
• 36:54
  Speaker 26: very unique advantages in position going forward. So I'm very,
• 36:58
  Speaker 26: very bullish on the future of Aggieland and the city
• 37:01
  Speaker 26: of Bryan.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: So- You were looking at some projections on Brian's annual
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: sales tax revenue, which, again, I think speaks to a
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: little bit. It says that our revenue could rise from
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: approximately $ 32 million to more than $ 35 million within five years.
• 37:18
  Speaker 8: And you were connecting that growth to the city's ability
• 37:21
  Speaker 8: to support public safety services. Is that growth on par
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: with some other communities, that high, low, or does that stand?
• 37:30
  Speaker 10: I would say that we're at the upper end of
• 37:32
  Speaker 10: that scale.
• 37:34
  Speaker 26: If you look at fast growth communities, if you look
• 37:37
  Speaker 26: at the state of Texas, it was very interesting. We
• 37:39
  Speaker 26: take this for granted, but in most states, we're very
• 37:44
  Speaker 26: much like the second or third largest community in that state.
• 37:47
  Speaker 26: We just happen to be in a state that has
• 37:49
  Speaker 26: three megapolitans. It's got the Houston Megapolitan, the DFW Megapolitan,
• 37:53
  Speaker 26: and the Austin-San Antonio Megapolitan.
• 37:55
  Speaker 10: When you think about fast growth in places like.
• 37:57
  Speaker 26: Frisco or McKinney or Northwest Houston or or what have you,
• 38:04
  Speaker 26: you know, we're not necessarily at the top of that
• 38:06
  Speaker 26: list because of those locations. But if we were in
• 38:08
  Speaker 26: other states, we'd be like the number one. So I
• 38:11
  Speaker 26: think that growth is inherent. Our connectivity today, you'd ask
• 38:16
  Speaker 26: earlier about what's different.
• 38:18
  Speaker 10: Right. The 249 corridor, you know, the connection, you know,
• 38:22
  Speaker 10: into Houston.
• 38:22
  Speaker 26: I mean, now, you know, you can be in Houston,
• 38:26
  Speaker 26: you know, maybe not in downtown, but you can be
• 38:28
  Speaker 26: in Houston, you can be in the airport today, faster
• 38:31
  Speaker 26: than people that live in far west Houston.
• 38:33
  Speaker 8: Can confirm. Can confirm.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Houston is an hour away from Houston.
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: The first time I realized this, and it occurred to
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: me that this was as big of a difference maker
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: as you're saying it is, is working in Houston. It
• 38:47
  Speaker 8: was based in Richmond. Had to get to Greenway Plaza.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: It was about 40 minutes every single day. And then
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: you'd go out and you'd do things here, there, and everywhere.
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: There's a line that you cross somewhere around, and it's
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: before you get to Tomball, far below that, as you're
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: still inside the Sam Houston tollway, where it actually becomes
• 39:07
  Speaker 8: a shorter distance to drive in actual miles, now that
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: you have 249, home to my house here in Bryan,
• 39:15
  Speaker 8: in College Station. And it was to drive back to
• 39:18
  Speaker 8: my Houston house, which is where I was residing. Frequently,
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: I would just drive home and then come back and
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: forth from Brian because it was faster. a difference that
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: makes in terms of companies there have been several companies
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: in Houston that have been started to eyeball Bryan College
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: Station as part of the Houston metro of their service
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: area and I think that's going to continue I don't
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: see that stopping anytime soon because it's easy to get
• 39:48
  Speaker 8: back and forth. And what opportunity does that present you
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: if all of a sudden you're a reasonable location where
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: you can take business even from the city of Houston
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: and then use it to enrich our tax base?
• 40:03
  Speaker 26: So the university system had us on the map. TerraFab
• 40:10
  Speaker 26: blew us away. And if you think about, to your
• 40:13
  Speaker 26: very point, if you think geographic position between the university
• 40:20
  Speaker 26: and the university system and the Terra Feb project, our geography,
• 40:25
  Speaker 26: and think about it as the greater Brazos Valley, but
• 40:29
  Speaker 26: certainly the city of Bryan, our geography is very conducive
• 40:33
  Speaker 26: for exactly what you're talking about. I do believe that,
• 40:36
  Speaker 26: you know, if we can, you know, kind of try to,
• 40:39
  Speaker 26: you know, look in our crystal ball and think about
• 40:42
  Speaker 26: what's going to happen in the next 10 years.
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's really interesting. Our community, if you can
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: rewind every 10 years, it's different.
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's not just different. It's not even similar. It's
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: a completely different ballgame. It's not even the same sport. Like,
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: growing up in the 80s, we were excited to get
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: a Chili's, and that was a genuine big deal.
• 41:03
  Speaker 10: Big time.
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: And we're way past that now.
• 41:07
  Speaker 26: So I think, you know, it's going to be very
• 41:09
  Speaker 26: interesting to see with this revolution that's.
• 41:11
  Speaker 10: Going on around AI.
• 41:14
  Speaker 26: And again, even across the board in energy. I mean,
• 41:16
  Speaker 26: you know, what the system is doing at Aurelius related
• 41:19
  Speaker 26: to small modular nuclear and the future of energy generation,
• 41:23
  Speaker 26: not only in our state, but for our nation globally.
• 41:28
  Speaker 10: It's very, very interesting.
• 41:30
  Speaker 26: So yeah, I hear you loud and clear on the
• 41:33
  Speaker 26: opportunities related to effectively kind.
• 41:36
  Speaker 10: Of emerging as being part of Greater Houston.
• 41:39
  Speaker 26: But again, what's cool for us is that, yes, for
• 41:44
  Speaker 26: sure Greater Houston, but then also our connectivity to Austin
• 41:47
  Speaker 26: and even the Metroplex.
• 41:48
  Speaker 11: True.
• 41:48
  Speaker 10: Even the Metroplex.
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 41:49
  Speaker 26: You know, I mean, if you look at the triangle,
• 41:52
  Speaker 26: there are 21 million people that live in that triangle.
• 41:54
  Speaker 26: And when you think about three-hour drives, I mean, we
• 41:57
  Speaker 26: basically cover all of that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 10: You know, we don't quite touch San Antonio. We're almost there.
• 42:02
  Speaker 10: But for the rest of the triangle, it's three hours.
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Well, once the flying cars come out. Game changer.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: Let's talk about downtown, Brian.
• 42:11
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 42:12
  Speaker 8: Obviously, a couple of new reno projects down there. What
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: do we think the next steps are? I mean, not
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: say because, again, the transformation downtown is insane. But what
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: what are you looking at five years down the road?
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: Like what are the next phases to keep growing that sector?
• 42:27
  Speaker 10: That's a great question.
• 42:28
  Speaker 26: So, yeah, some really cool projects in downtown and the
• 42:32
  Speaker 26: teams work very hard. You know, going back many years,
• 42:36
  Speaker 26: you know, whether you look at, you know, just the
• 42:39
  Speaker 26: transition of the LaSalle, the Marriott, certainly projects like Hush
• 42:42
  Speaker 26: and Whisper, Kimble Feed, even the Owl and Sunbeam, which
• 42:47
  Speaker 26: is a really cool project.
• 42:50
  Speaker 10: You know, what we're thinking about right now, and we need.
• 42:52
  Speaker 26: Guidance from our city manager and our city council, is,
• 42:56
  Speaker 26: you know, what does version 2.0 of downtown look like?
• 42:59
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 43:00
  Speaker 26: And most people think of downtown Bryan as Main Street
• 43:03
  Speaker 26: and maybe Bryan Avenue. And so we're beginning to think about,
• 43:06
  Speaker 26: you know, what are really the boundaries of downtown?
• 43:10
  Speaker 10: You know, what are truly the boundaries of downtown? And
• 43:12
  Speaker 10: you could.
• 43:13
  Speaker 26: Argue that really, once you cross 21 at Texas Avenue
• 43:18
  Speaker 26: coming south, you've more or less hit downtown. You can
• 43:23
  Speaker 26: think about the east side and the west side of
• 43:25
  Speaker 26: Texas Avenue, and how does that define downtown? So, That's
• 43:29
  Speaker 26: something we're very interested in. There's plenty of opportunities for
• 43:33
  Speaker 26: revitalization and redevelopment, whether it's housing, whether it's commercial retail,
• 43:39
  Speaker 26: across the board. And then, again, continuing to focus on
• 43:43
  Speaker 26: projects that can have impact and that can help small
• 43:47
  Speaker 26: businesses and help our local, you know, small businesses and
• 43:52
  Speaker 26: these organic, you know, businesses.
• 43:55
  Speaker 10: That is really what we love as a city.
• 43:58
  Speaker 26: Continue to thrive and grow. And so that's really kind
• 44:01
  Speaker 26: of where we're at. So hopefully it's a great, I
• 44:03
  Speaker 26: appreciate that question because that's, that's something that's very much
• 44:06
  Speaker 26: on our mind right now.
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: Well, it's, it's, it's always a fascinating thing for me personally,
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: because I've been a big, I could not be a
• 44:13
  Speaker 8: bigger fan of what what downtown has become. But it's
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: an intriguing thing when you actually walk around there and
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: you start to see that, Hey, there are a lot
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: of opportunities beyond, as you said, those two streets, the
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: residential areas and places like that where you can integrate into,
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: I mean, who knows what we'll see in 10 or
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: 12 years, but you could have a really one-of-a-kind district
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: down there.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Very much so.
• 44:39
  Speaker 8: Where you have, again, historic properties and maybe some opportunities
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: for more lofts or condos and commercial properties, small businesses, art.
• 44:49
  Speaker 8: You know, I've been getting tattoos from Cliff down at
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: Arsenal since I was, since forever. His gallery is a
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: little bit past, but it fits right in.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: It's perfect.
• 45:00
  Speaker 10: That's downtown.
• 45:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's downtown. That's absolutely downtown. You know, I lived
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: off of 32nd Street. And, you know, when I would
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: tell people where you live, I would generally just say downtown. Because, again,
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: I was within walking distance. Great parks, great everything. It's, anyway,
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: it's a special place. What else do we need to
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: get to today?
• 45:18
  Speaker 26: The only other thing I would add, too, so in
• 45:20
  Speaker 26: addition to the things we've talked about on the attraction side,
• 45:24
  Speaker 26: A big focus of ours for this year is going
• 45:26
  Speaker 26: to be business retention expansion. And again, really trying to
• 45:30
  Speaker 26: support small business development, small businesses, because that is the
• 45:34
  Speaker 26: lifeblood of our city and our community outside of, you know,
• 45:39
  Speaker 26: these major projects we talk about. So look for that
• 45:42
  Speaker 26: on the horizon as well. And we're ready to go.
• 45:45
  Speaker 26: We are ready to go. We're going to hit the
• 45:47
  Speaker 26: ground running in 2027 and try to just keep moving forward.
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: Love to see it. Love to see it. And are
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: there any other projects, anything you got cooking you want
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: to throw out there?
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: Put some secrets out.
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: Again, we had Waffle House last week. We got another
• 46:03
  Speaker 8: one you want to tack on. We'd love to see it.
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: Well, I do have to give credit to our mayor.
• 46:07
  Speaker 26: I mean, I'll tell you all, this is the absolute fact.
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: So, you know, that's been on everybody's mind for a
• 46:14
  Speaker 10: long time.
• 46:14
  Speaker 17: Oh, yeah.
• 46:15
  Speaker 10: And I got a call from the mayor one day.
• 46:18
  Speaker 26: I said, hey, I talked to somebody that I know
• 46:20
  Speaker 26: pretty well that told me that Waffle House is interested
• 46:26
  Speaker 26: in expanding. And they're looking in this area. And I said, okay,
• 46:31
  Speaker 26: if you could give me their contact, I'm happy to
• 46:34
  Speaker 26: run the traps on it. And from that point forward
• 46:37
  Speaker 26: as a team effort with all of our team, Kevin Russell,
• 46:39
  Speaker 26: who you mentioned, I mean, you know, the full team effort,
• 46:44
  Speaker 26: you know, we were able to, you know, to work
• 46:47
  Speaker 26: towards landing the plane. And so, you know, that, and
• 46:50
  Speaker 26: we'll continue to do that. Again, it's a one team
• 46:53
  Speaker 26: effort and, it's a core economic, it's a core value.
• 46:57
  Speaker 10: Of the city. So there's interesting stuff on the horizon.
• 47:01
  Speaker 10: I'll just tell you guys that.
• 47:03
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 47:03
  Speaker 10: Very good.
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• 47:08
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  Speaker 8: It's getting there. And don't, if you're someone, and some
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  Speaker 8: There will be a point where that becomes high value.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it will make its way past Bryan College Station
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  Speaker 8: up north there, too. It's going to lead to some
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  Speaker 8: interesting things. Jason texted a really good question. Does the
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  Speaker 8: TerraFab project keep moving forward with the elections in mind?
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  Speaker 1: I would say that there's no changes to that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: everything is in place. I don't know that, number one,
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  Speaker 1: there's anything that's revocable. or number two, that you would
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  Speaker 1: want to. I mean, that is bringing massive amounts of
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  Speaker 8: Not only is it a big deal, and again, things
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  Speaker 8: to watch, because we don't really know, but not only
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: is that a big deal just in and of its
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  Speaker 8: own right, the amount of eyes, because he dropped that
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  Speaker 8: where he did, that are coming here looking at similar projects,
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  Speaker 8: I would imagine, are pretty high.
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  Speaker 25: They are.
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  Speaker 8: Because again, there's a lot of shine. on the Brazos
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  Speaker 8: Valley right now in terms of, oh, this might be
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  Speaker 8: a place that is pretty good to do some work
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  Speaker 8: in a variety of different areas. Rellis is the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Very much so.
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  Speaker 8: Because everything's going to Rellis. A lot of people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 8: maybe I should check out Bryan. Maybe I should check
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  Speaker 8: out College Station. Maybe I should check out Grimes County.
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  Speaker 8: And that's a wonderful thing. Also, Jennifer texts in the following.
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  Speaker 8: I'm confused by the congressman who wants to call a
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  Speaker 8: special session in order to change the governor's power. We
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  Speaker 8: started the show with this, Jennifer. He says that unless
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  Speaker 8: they do something to the new governor, he's going to
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  Speaker 8: be a dictator. So does that mean our current governor
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  Speaker 8: is a dictator as well? Also really enjoyed the interview
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  Speaker 8: the book offered and would love to be in the drawing.
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  Speaker 8: I already put you in there, Jennifer. But yes, it's baffling.
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  Speaker 8: The only thing more baffling than that? Did I not
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  Speaker 8: know Don Huffhine sounds exactly like Dale Grover?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: You said that, and I nearly fell off my chair.
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  Speaker 8: I have been looking for more interviews. It might just
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  Speaker 8: be when he's mad. I don't know. But go back
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  Speaker 8: and listen to this in the podcast. Tell me that
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  Speaker 8: Don Huffhine's concession speech did not sound exactly like it
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  Speaker 8: came out of Dale Gribble.
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  Speaker 1: It was either out of Dale Gribble or Rusty Shackleford.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe it could have been more Rusty Shackleford than Dale Gribble.
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  Speaker 10: Who knows?
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  Speaker 1: It's funny when you listen to that perspective.
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  Speaker 8: That's incredible. I feel like you should have called attention
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  Speaker 8: to that during the campaign.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Maybe it would have humanized you.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 10: Either way.
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  Speaker 17: All right.
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