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The Infomaniacs: June 24, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: David's jewelryancoins dot com. From the WTAW newsroom, Good morning,
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Speaker 1: I'm will welch. Two portions of Rudder Freeway were closed
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Speaker 1: yesterday afternoon following a chase where the driver fired a
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Speaker 1: gun that hit a Brass County Sheriff's Patrol suv and
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Speaker 1: ended with a suspects car crashing. No one was injured,
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Speaker 1: and the forty three year old driver from Corsicana went
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Speaker 1: to jail on charges of aggravated assault of a public service,
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Speaker 1: unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon, and evating arrest.
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Speaker 1: A news release from the Sheriff's office says the driver
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Speaker 1: fired shots at deputies at two separate locations. This is
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Speaker 1: after the suspect fled from a traffic stop on Highway
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Speaker 1: six between OSR and FM twenty eight eighteen. Nine law
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Speaker 1: enforcement agencies were involved in the chase where a WTAW
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Speaker 1: listener seeing an s D made it twenty five to
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Speaker 1: thirty Law enforcement vehicles where the chase ended in College
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Speaker 1: Station on the northbound Freeway frontage road in front of
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Speaker 1: Bubba's thirty three. A Leon County man is in the
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Speaker 1: Brass County jail for the third time since March of
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Speaker 1: last year.
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Speaker 3: College Station police arrest reports show in the Northgate District
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Speaker 3: after the bars closed last Saturday, twenty year old Elisis
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Speaker 3: Aguilar sped out of the surface parking lot, striking two vehicles.
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Speaker 3: Continuing to speed on the Northgate Street, agulars suv struck
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Speaker 3: an officer who had gotten office bicycle in an attempt
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Speaker 3: to avoid being struck. The officer received medical treatment for
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Speaker 3: a spring and bruised ankle after striking the officer of
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Speaker 3: the pursuit continued, ending in Leon County between Centerville and
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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 1: For twelve years, Brass's County District Judge Kyle Hawthorne has
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Speaker 1: presided at more than forty naturalization ceremonies where new American
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Speaker 1: residents take the oath of allegiance.
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Speaker 4: There's only two terms when I'm at work that I
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Speaker 4: don't make fifty percent of the public mad at me
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Speaker 4: and that's this and adoptions.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow morning, seventy five people will take the oath on
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Speaker 1: the eve of the nation's two hundred and fiftieth anniversary
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Speaker 1: at the Bush Library and Museum's pavilion that is home
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Speaker 1: to a Marine one helicopter and presidential train engine.
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Speaker 4: It's gonna be really kind of neat. It's kind of
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Speaker 4: a sense of the thingle of my spine when I
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Speaker 4: think about doing it out there.
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Speaker 1: Hawthorne encourages everyone to attend the ceremony, which starts tomorrow
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Speaker 1: morning at ten Brass's County commissioners vote four to one
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Speaker 1: to sell Berlison County two hundred and eighty six road
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Speaker 1: signs for one hundred dollars that are no longer used
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Speaker 1: by the Road and Bridge Department. Commissioner Fred Brown, who
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Speaker 1: voted no, asked County Engineer Prathunon Benergee multiple times how
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Speaker 1: Bertlison County could use the signs when she said they
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Speaker 1: were out of compliance for Brasss County.
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Speaker 2: Burroson County can use them, why can't we use them?
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Speaker 5: I mean, are we that different?
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Speaker 6: I cannot speak to the practices that they have internally
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Speaker 6: in their county for the signage.
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Speaker 1: Benergie said the signs have been in storage for over
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Speaker 1: ten years.
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Speaker 6: The sign inventory consists of several pellets of older aluminium
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Speaker 6: traffic signs, including the specialty warning signs, obsolete regulatory signs,
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Speaker 6: and signs that are no longer used under Brazos County's
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Speaker 6: current standard.
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Speaker 1: Benergee also said the science will continue serving a public purpose.
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Speaker 1: Action at this month's regular meeting of the Brian City
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Speaker 1: Council included borrowing more than sixty five million dollars. More
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Speaker 1: than thirty six million is being borrowed for Brian streets
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Speaker 1: and drainage projects, almost twenty six million is going to
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Speaker 1: Brian's new Animal Center and Midtown Park projects, and three
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Speaker 1: million was borrowed for new fire engines. The council also
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Speaker 1: approved refinancing bonds issued by BTU in twenty seventeen that
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Speaker 1: will save one and a half million dollars in interest
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Speaker 1: and prevent raising basic electric rates for the near future.
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Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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Speaker 1: I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five wta W.
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Speaker 7: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five wta W. Good morning everyone.
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Speaker 7: We're the Info Maniacs, Fredo Riley Will and we have
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Speaker 7: a wonderful AC system here in the building, which we
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Speaker 7: are very grateful for. Today it's gonna be hot nineties
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Speaker 7: hundreds on the heat and decks, and then down to
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Speaker 7: the seventies tonight. Same thing for tomorrow, and no real
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Speaker 7: chance of rain, although Will, as a forecast says maybe
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Speaker 7: this weekend.
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Speaker 2: Maybe Sunday, maybe Monday. We'll see. Don't talk about it.
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Speaker 7: a quick side note, we do have pictures of Riley's collections,
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Speaker 7: although the ones we got were Christmas collection.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, those weren't M and MS.
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Speaker 1: Those were all of the I mean, it looks like
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Speaker 1: Santa threw up with all them in your.
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Speaker 7: I am a learning like it's not just Eminem's y'all.
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Speaker 7: I didn't even know M and M's were a collection.
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Speaker 7: But now like this rivals the collection of our boss,
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Speaker 7: the one and only Been Downs. Kind of looks like
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Speaker 7: I'm gonna have to link you guys up because these
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Speaker 7: pictures are kind of I don't know, like somebody's using committed.
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Speaker 7: Maybe this isn't me a different human Okay, this makes
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Speaker 7: more sense.
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Speaker 2: This is Weldon, okay, who is.
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Speaker 7: Sharing his Christmas collection?
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Speaker 6: Oh?
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Speaker 2: I thought that was Ryan.
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Speaker 7: This veteran stay is decorated year round. Somewhere between eight
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Speaker 7: hundred and nine hundred. Santa Claus is Weldon. We're gonna
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Speaker 7: have to get you linked up with our boss. He's
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Speaker 7: a Ben Downs. He is one of the I've never
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Speaker 7: seen the like of it until Weldon and h Weldon.
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Speaker 7: We will share these onlines. These are genuinely impressive. But
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Speaker 7: I want to get to something that's very, very cool.
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Speaker 7: And we've talked about the screwworm situation a few different
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Speaker 7: times on the show, a few different.
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Speaker 2: Capacities in the National news and everything.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a it's a big deal. And if you've
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Speaker 7: been following it from the National News, you would know
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Speaker 7: that A and M comes up frequently when talking about
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Speaker 7: the screwworm response. Best in the world, it comes to
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Speaker 7: this sort of thing, so we want.
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Speaker 2: To mention it.
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Speaker 1: The other day, Tuger that we are completely unaware a
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Speaker 1: lot of times about what we have here in Brian
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Speaker 1: College Station and the people that we have, the organizations
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Speaker 1: and that sort of thing. And one that I think
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Speaker 1: a lot of people are not aware of is the
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M VET, which is an acronym stands
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Speaker 1: for a Vetinary Emergency Team. These guys have when they
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Speaker 1: came into existence as far as I know, and initially,
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Speaker 1: and we have doctor deb Zuran in here with us
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Speaker 1: and she's the director of the Texas A and M VET. Initially, Deb,
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Speaker 1: you guys were kind of put together in order to
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Speaker 1: help the search and rescue canines that are part of
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M Task Force and other search and
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Speaker 1: rescue teams in the country.
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Speaker 8: Is that correct, John, Well, you're exactly right. We were
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Speaker 8: put together for that reason. But also Katrina was a
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Speaker 8: big thing, Hurricane Trina.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was at that point in time when the
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Speaker 1: federal agency said that you have to evacuate animals with
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Speaker 1: their owners upon their requests, that and responders in the
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Speaker 1: field would come across injured animals and not howbody you
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Speaker 1: do have no capacity in order to take care of
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Speaker 1: those and that's not just a problem for the animal,
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Speaker 1: that's a problem for the responder. From a psychological perspective,
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Speaker 1: Yes it is. So the VET team comes into play.
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Speaker 1: They deploy, they've been out the door twenty nine times
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Speaker 1: or so maybe thirty at this last count, and they
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Speaker 1: take care of the search and rescue canines. The statistics
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Speaker 1: when I was working alongside the organization was keeping them
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Speaker 1: in the field thirty percent longer. Imagine that and keeping
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Speaker 1: the dogs and everything else. You have somebody who's now
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Speaker 1: trained who can be in that disaster environment and start
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Speaker 1: treating an animal the minute that they're found or the
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Speaker 1: minute they get injured. Absolutely amazing stuff. They have been
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Speaker 1: described as the Swiss Army knife in the disaster preparation
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Speaker 1: and response for the state of Texas because these guys
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Speaker 1: have done everything right. Not only do they go out
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Speaker 1: the door with folks who you know, have these canines,
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Speaker 1: they take care of animals and disaster. I think back
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Speaker 1: to the Ebola thing, right, the VET Team, you guys
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Speaker 1: are trained in seaburn, chemical, biological, radiological.
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Speaker 2: Nuclear, So you guys did what with the Ebola thing.
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Speaker 8: So doctor Bissitt and I who were the two people
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Speaker 8: deployed up to Dallas, We were the folks that took
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Speaker 8: care of that dog.
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Speaker 7: Get out of here. Really, y'all were the ones that
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Speaker 7: dealt with the Ebola dog.
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Speaker 8: If you saw pictures of the dog with a person
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Speaker 8: in a in a very covered up suit, it was
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Speaker 8: myself and doctor Bissit.
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Speaker 2: Get ow.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 7: I know again, you guys have done some great work
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Speaker 7: up to this point. Clearly the reason we want to
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Speaker 7: have you in is because you guys are obviously going
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Speaker 7: to be doing a lot more work dealing with this,
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Speaker 7: this screwworm situation.
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Speaker 1: So you just got back from your initial deployment with that.
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Speaker 1: Where were you sent it? What were you doing?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, so we were sent to Gillespie County, that's Frederick's
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Speaker 8: And the reason we were sent there is unlike all
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Speaker 8: of the other areas where screwrim is currently very active
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Speaker 8: right now now this is preliminary, yes, but Gillespie is
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Speaker 8: very ranch at lots of ranches, but smaller, a lot
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Speaker 8: more urbany, and so a lot more calls for assistance
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Speaker 8: to how inspectors come look at their animals and be
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Speaker 8: sure they could move them. Or if they needed to
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Speaker 8: go take a horse to a rodeo or take lambs
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Speaker 8: to a show or whatever. There's just so many more
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Speaker 8: small ranches in that area that they wanted more hands.
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Speaker 1: So you were a force multiplier for local vets that
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Speaker 1: you could come in there and take care of that sort.
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Speaker 8: And the Texas Animal Health Commission, because under quarantine, nobody
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Speaker 8: can move an animal out of quarantine zone without an
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Speaker 8: inspection to be sure that they're free. Also, if they
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Speaker 8: had animals that they were worried about, like this animal's
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Speaker 8: got a wound on him and were worried about it,
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Speaker 8: they needed more people to come examine those and say
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Speaker 8: an they're let's treat this wound and that sort of things.
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Speaker 8: Force multipliers the right answer.
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Speaker 2: So the screwworm.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people initially when this stuff came out,
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Speaker 1: they were terrified of it. And I think our Agricultural
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Speaker 1: Secretary did a great job of communicating the fact that
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Speaker 1: this is a pest and it is not a virus
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Speaker 1: or disease that really affects humans. Can you give us
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Speaker 1: more of a routed explanation of that.
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Speaker 8: That is one hundred percent the way to think about it.
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Speaker 8: And the great thing, particularly for animal owners, whether you're
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Speaker 8: have livestock or whether you have dogs and cats or
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Speaker 8: even exotics. We have great medications to kill it. So
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Speaker 8: if it gets in your animals and you see it
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Speaker 8: and catch it, you're doing your due diligence of checking
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Speaker 8: your livestock or checking your outdoor dogs, whatever you have,
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Speaker 8: and you see fly maggots on them, This is exceptionally treatable.
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Speaker 8: You can stop it immediately. We need to gather it,
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Speaker 8: we need to know it. We need to find out
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Speaker 8: whether those are the bad ones or the good ones,
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Speaker 8: because remember regular fly larva are the ones that we
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Speaker 8: want out there. They help clean up the environment when
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Speaker 8: there's you know, tissue that's been damaged. But these, the
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Speaker 8: screw worms are bad.
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Speaker 7: This is what I wanted to talk about, is from
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Speaker 7: an animal owner's perspective, whether that's in the agricultural sense
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Speaker 7: or just you have pets. What can people do?
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Speaker 2: What are do? They want it?
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Speaker 7: And we're going to take a quick break and we'll
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Speaker 7: get into that coming up next on The Infomaniacs sixteen
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Speaker 7: twenty ninety four five WTAW. Just get back into it talking.
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Speaker 2: Screwworm with upper Deb Suran.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Deb definitely is one of the people you'd want
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Speaker 7: to talk to because again she's been doing deployments and
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Speaker 7: I'm sure I'm going to just assume you're going to
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Speaker 7: have a lot more coming dealing with animals in the
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Speaker 7: field and trying to get a get a handle on
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Speaker 7: how this thing is going. And so one of the
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Speaker 7: big things that we wanted to discuss was from an
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Speaker 7: animal owner's perspective. And this again doesn't matter if it's agricultural,
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Speaker 7: although I'm sure there's some differences there agriculture or even
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Speaker 7: down to your outdoor pets. What do people need to
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Speaker 7: do to stay ahead of this to the extent that
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Speaker 7: they can?
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Speaker 8: So education is the most important thing. Educate yourself about it.
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Speaker 8: Texas A and m Agrilife has got some great resources
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Speaker 8: for farm owners, livestock owners, pet owners. All of it
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Speaker 8: go to their website, so does Texas Animal Health Commission,
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Speaker 8: so does the USDA.
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Speaker 9: Really great information at different.
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Speaker 8: Levels, but at the folks at Agrilife have really worked
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Speaker 8: hard to put it into a very accessible, easy to
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Speaker 8: understand way of what you need to do. But the
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Speaker 8: key is watch your animals. We are in a part
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Speaker 8: of the state where it has not been found yet right,
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Speaker 8: But movement of animals is critical.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 8: We all think about it being a fly thing, and
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Speaker 8: it is a fly thing, but flies can't go very
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Speaker 8: far very fast. Animals can get in the truck and
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Speaker 8: move at seventy five mile an hour to four counties away,
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Speaker 8: and now it's everywhere in that county.
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Speaker 9: So that's why the inspections are happening.
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Speaker 8: That's why we don't want animals moving around out of
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Speaker 8: those zones unless we've looked at them and said there's
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Speaker 8: not anything on them. But you can also help by
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Speaker 8: watching your own animals. It's so critical because a lot
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Speaker 8: of farmers and ranchers this time of year, the cattle
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Speaker 8: are out, the babies are on the ground.
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Speaker 9: The ones that we worry.
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Speaker 8: About are baby calves that you know they're umbilicus. We
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Speaker 8: worry about animals that have just been castrated. We worry
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Speaker 8: about any wound. This is a wound attracted fly. And
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Speaker 8: the really scary thing about it is they can't do
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Speaker 8: anything on unbroken skin, but they can get in any
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Speaker 8: broken skin and when they go they go underneath, so
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Speaker 8: you're not going to see them. You've got to look
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Speaker 8: at those animals for wounds and say, hey, how are
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Speaker 8: they acting? Is there anything coming out of that way?
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Speaker 8: You really have to look at.
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Speaker 7: Them, so you should be again a lot of examination,
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Speaker 7: a lot of staying on top of what animals can
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Speaker 7: be at risk. One of the things that's come up
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Speaker 7: a few different times whenever the story comes up is
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Speaker 7: we'll hear from We'll hear from farmers or farmers make
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Speaker 7: it and it's like, I'm not telling anyone like because
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Speaker 7: there's an idea that this will put your livelihood and jeopardies.
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Speaker 7: But you're heard in jeopardy, your stock and jeopardy. Do
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Speaker 7: they need to be concerned about.
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Speaker 8: That, So it's critical that they report, they talk to
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Speaker 8: their veterinarian, it's critical to get it treated. A lot
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Speaker 8: of livestock owners know some of the products that can
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Speaker 8: be put on their animals, and that's perfectly fine and
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Speaker 8: good to get those products and put them on them.
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Speaker 8: But the point is is we can't stop this if
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Speaker 8: we don't know where it is and we don't put
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Speaker 8: a ring around that. So the state can then come
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Speaker 8: in and drop the sterile flies that we do have
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Speaker 8: in that area. The state can't come in and do
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Speaker 8: trapping and do all of the things that we can
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Speaker 8: do to try to get our arms around it. So
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Speaker 8: that's the first thing. Second thing is reporting doesn't put
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Speaker 8: you in any jeopardy. It actually helps all of your
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Speaker 8: neighbors and all of the ranchers in your region because
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Speaker 8: it allows you to be the person that's helping get
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Speaker 8: this thing stopped.
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Speaker 7: And this goes for people who again, just have youve
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Speaker 7: an outdoor dog, give an outdoor cat, whatever animal you have,
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Speaker 7: you should be doing something because I hear you, what
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Speaker 7: I'm getting from you is that this is going to
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Speaker 7: be a problem that we are going to need to
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Speaker 7: do a lot to wrap our hands around. And the
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Speaker 7: best way to do that is, again, if we're all
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Speaker 7: cooperating on this, we get a better sense of where
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Speaker 7: we have a problem where we don't, and we're not
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Speaker 7: moving animals that are a problem into other areas, thusly
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Speaker 7: carrying this thing further than it needs to go. Is
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Speaker 7: that fair?
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Speaker 8: That is one hundred percent? So let me just you've
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Speaker 8: probably heard the statistic. But one of those flies that
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Speaker 8: puts those eggs into that wound, and then those those
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Speaker 8: pupae fall onto the ground, those maggots fall on one
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Speaker 8: of those makes four or five hundred flies.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 8: So if we get those animals identified and then put
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Speaker 8: the product on whatever species it is, put the product
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Speaker 8: on that we need to put on them to kill it.
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Speaker 8: Because we've got great things for dogs, cats and cows
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Speaker 8: and goats and all of them. We've got great things.
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Speaker 8: But we have to see it, we have to know it,
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Speaker 8: because once it gets off of them, and that's a
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Speaker 8: seven day process, right, it's not very long. So once
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Speaker 8: it gets off of them and it gets into the ground,
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Speaker 8: now it's explosive. And that's why it's so important for
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Speaker 8: everyone to be in this. All Texans need to be
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Speaker 8: in this, not just the folks that are veterinarians, not
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Speaker 8: just the folks that are the Texas Animal Health Inspectors,
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Speaker 8: not just the agrilafdar guys, not just ranchers that are
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Speaker 8: driving around everybody.
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Speaker 1: The response so far has been focused on sterile flies
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Speaker 1: and the production of those flies. But in any situation,
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Speaker 1: no matter what, resources are limited to an extent, So
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Speaker 1: the identification of the areas that let's say Gillespie County
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Speaker 1: for example, seems to be a hotspot. You have animals
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Speaker 1: identified there, at what point do they bring those flies
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Speaker 1: in and what can we expect from that other than
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Speaker 1: freezing temperatures. This seems to be the way to take
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Speaker 1: them on.
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Speaker 8: You're one hundred percent correct. We can't stop this with
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Speaker 8: quarantines alone. We can't stop this with treating animals alone.
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Speaker 8: We can't stop this in any way without the sterile flies.
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Speaker 8: That has to be part of it. And they are
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Speaker 8: building them as fast as they can, and they're doing
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Speaker 8: some very creative things. A and M's doing some very
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Speaker 8: creative things. They are doing some very creative things at
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Speaker 8: the upper levels of the federal government, very.
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Speaker 9: Creative ways to try to get more flies.
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Speaker 8: But that's a process, and you can't build a billion
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Speaker 8: flies overnight, exactly, and you can't spread them out all
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Speaker 8: over the state in the spots that you want unless
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Speaker 8: you have that many.
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Speaker 7: Now, if you are as far as contacting reporting in
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Speaker 7: obviously some people situation might be different. Do they need
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Speaker 7: to reach out to people like you or people at
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Speaker 7: veterinary medicine, biomedical science or can they just go to
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Speaker 7: their own the regular VETSA.
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Speaker 8: Your regular vet is very read into this. Excuse me,
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Speaker 8: Your regular veterinarian knows exactly what to do. They know
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Speaker 8: exactly what products. If you don't have them already that
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Speaker 8: you need to be putting on your animals. They know
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Speaker 8: exactly how to report it, who to report it to.
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Speaker 8: We've gotten calls at the very early stages of this
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Speaker 8: before it was you know, like what like this blast
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Speaker 8: of inform out to the veterinary community. This has to
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Speaker 8: be the way we do it. But everybody's in that now.
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Speaker 8: They know to collect the maggots, they know where to
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Speaker 8: send them. We've got labs where so we can identify
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Speaker 8: this as a good one or a bad one. We
19:13
Speaker 8: can identify the flies. That's less valuable because there's a
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Speaker 8: lot of flies that look like these, and that's a
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Speaker 8: less valuable thing to do. It's more about watching your
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Speaker 8: own animals for wounds, treating the wounds, watching your own
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Speaker 8: animals for evidence of maggots, absolutely treating and collecting them
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Speaker 8: and getting them to your vet.
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Speaker 7: And if you're just joining us and well, you know,
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Speaker 7: I feel like I missed a lot. We will have
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Speaker 7: this posted in its entirety for you to share, listen,
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Speaker 7: to consume, and make decisions on online at WT.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I encourage everybody just go look up the
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Speaker 1: Veterinary Emergency Team at Texas A and m Yes, find
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Speaker 1: out what they have done and how you can support them,
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Speaker 1: because this is one of those things that we have
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Speaker 1: here that is that's one of the best in the
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Speaker 1: country at what they do.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, I.
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Speaker 2: Was just sitting here like, yes, yes, yeah, that's what
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Speaker 2: we do.
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Speaker 7: Thank you so much for coming in today.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
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Speaker 9: Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 1: From the WTAW newsroom. Good morning, I'm Will Welch. On
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Speaker 1: the eve of the nation's two hundred and fiftieth anniversaries,
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Speaker 1: seventy five people will gather tomorrow morning at the Bush
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Speaker 1: Library and Museum to become naturalized citizens. Brass's County District
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Speaker 1: Judge Kyle Hawthorne will administer the oath of allegiance, as
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Speaker 1: he has done more than forty times in twelve years.
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Speaker 4: It's not an easy process and it's long. Most of
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Speaker 4: these people have been doing this for about four to
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Speaker 4: five years before they become a citizen.
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Speaker 1: The judge encourages everyone to attend the ceremony.
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Speaker 4: You've got to come and watch one to see. Now,
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Speaker 4: I'm not going to equate it to people having children,
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Speaker 4: but I mean, these people really get excited about it.
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Speaker 1: Tomorrow morning ceremony, which starts at tenpt, will be in
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Speaker 1: the Bush Library and Museum's pavilion that is home to
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Speaker 1: the Presidential Train Engine and Marine one helicopter. After more
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Speaker 1: than ten years in storage, two hundred and eighty six
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Speaker 1: road signs owned by Brass's County have been sold to
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Speaker 1: Burlison County for one hundred dollars. During yesterday's County commission meeting,
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Speaker 1: County Engineer prathun In Benergee was asked multiple times by
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Speaker 1: Commissioner Fred Brown why Burlison County would buy signs that
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Speaker 1: were considered out of compliance in Brass's County.
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Speaker 5: You gave three or four examples, and those three or
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Speaker 5: four examples you gave are signs that you still see
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Speaker 5: in the county.
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Speaker 6: The type of signs that we have in inventory that
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Speaker 6: are up to be given to Burlison County are not
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Speaker 6: the signs that we would ever be using because they
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Speaker 6: are out of compliance with the latest Texas MUTCD manual.
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Speaker 1: Benergee was also asked why Burlison County would be interested
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Speaker 1: in the signs.
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Speaker 2: So why would Burlason County warn him if they're out.
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Speaker 6: Of that That is a question for Burlison County, I
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Speaker 6: cannot answer that.
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Speaker 1: In addition to freeing up storage space, Benergy says the
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Speaker 1: signs will continue serving a public purpose. The Brass County
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Speaker 1: Sheriff's office has released more information about yesterday's chase that
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Speaker 1: involved gunfire and ended in a crash to arrest and
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Speaker 1: no injuries. The chase began on Highway six north of
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Speaker 1: Bryan and ended in College Station on the northbound freeway
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Speaker 1: frontage road in front of Bobba's thirty three. While the
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Speaker 1: suspects gunfire missed deputies, one round struck the front of
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Speaker 1: a patrol suv, and the sheriff's news release emphasized that
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Speaker 1: there was no return fire by responding law enforcement officers
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Speaker 1: from nine agencies.
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Speaker 2: The driver, a.
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Speaker 1: Forty three year old man from Corsicana, was arrested for
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Speaker 1: aggravated assault of a public servant, unlawful possession of a
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Speaker 1: firearm by a felon, and evating arrest. A forty year
22:45
Speaker 1: old woman from Tigue, who was a passenger, was charged
22:48
Speaker 1: with not wearing a seat belt. A College Station police
22:51
Speaker 1: officer is hit by an SUV that had sped out
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Speaker 1: of a parking lot in the Northgate District.
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Speaker 3: CSPD A Roster reports say this happened after Northgate Bars
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Speaker 3: closed last Saturday. The officer received medical treatment for a
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Speaker 3: spring and bruised ankle, and the suv drove over the
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Speaker 3: office of bicycle value at twenty seven hundred dollars. The
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Speaker 3: driver of the suv was pursued by multiple law enforcement
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Speaker 3: agencies and Brands's and Leon Counties only On County Deputy
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Speaker 3: shriff found the suv near the Leon County Expo between
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Speaker 3: Centreville and Buffalo. Twenty year old Elsius Aguilar Buffalo was
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Speaker 3: brought back to Brands's County on charges of aggravated and
23:26
Speaker 3: sold of a public servant, reckless driving, causing a crash,
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Speaker 3: involving damage, and evading arrest Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety
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Speaker 3: four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 1: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department at those who have
23:38
Speaker 1: hunting and fishing licenses are dealing with a cybersecurity attack
23:43
Speaker 1: not posted to the Parks and Wildlife social media or
23:46
Speaker 1: the agency's website news release page. The department's third party
23:50
Speaker 1: vendor that sells hunting and fishing licenses says someone may
23:53
Speaker 1: have obtained the personal identity information of more than three
23:57
Speaker 1: million customers. That includes driver's licence information, email and residential
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Speaker 1: addresses and phone numbers. The notice on the Parks and
24:05
Speaker 1: Wildlife website under general information says social security numbers, dates
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Speaker 1: of birth and credit card details were not obtained. The
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Speaker 1: Bryant City Council at this month's regular meeting approof of
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Speaker 1: recommendation from the BTU board to pay off debt early
24:20
Speaker 1: to save one and a half million dollars in interest.
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Speaker 1: The refinancing was explained by the cities bond consultant Steven Adams.
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Speaker 2: B TOU and.
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Speaker 5: Their board have been considering over the past few months,
24:32
Speaker 5: is an opportunity to take cash they had on hand
24:35
Speaker 5: from over recovered fuel adjustments.
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Speaker 1: Now retired, b TOU general manager Gary Miller says paying
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Speaker 1: the debt early will prevent an increase in the base
24:44
Speaker 1: electric rates in the near future. We won't have this
24:47
Speaker 1: debt service in our base rates any longer.
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Speaker 2: So doesn't reduce rates, but it pushes out a base
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Speaker 2: rate increase.
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Speaker 1: Will it stabilize It will stabilize our base rate, Yes, sir,
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Speaker 1: it will. At the same meeting, the Brian Council approved
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Speaker 1: borrowing more than sixty five million dollars more than thirty
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Speaker 1: six million is being borrowed for Brian streets and drainage projects,
25:10
Speaker 1: Almost twenty six million is going to Brian's new Animal
25:13
Speaker 1: Center and Midtown Park projects, and three million was borrowed
25:17
Speaker 1: for new fire engines.
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Speaker 7: looking stylish today. Man I got a compliment on that.
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Speaker 7: That is a fine shirt we got today.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's it's my wife's Father's Day present to me
26:12
Speaker 5: and it's a celebration in two hundred and fifty years
26:15
Speaker 5: and it's got a lot of fireworks colored to it. Yeah,
26:18
Speaker 5: it's great. And it's got the A and M logo
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Speaker 5: on it, which is double duty.
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Speaker 7: What are your plans for the fourth? Are you doing
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Speaker 7: the Isle of America thing?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll be yeah, absolutely, seven o'clock over wolf in Amphitheater,
26:30
Speaker 5: big show, Josh Avid band. We've talked about it before
26:34
Speaker 5: and then at what nine point thirty whenever that's over,
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Speaker 5: will be the big, big firework show.
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Speaker 2: Can't wait.
26:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll be there for that whole evening event. Lions
26:44
Speaker 5: Club of courses are running in kids games and giving
26:46
Speaker 5: away some watermelon like we always do. So there'll be
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Speaker 5: a bunch of them around and they're participating in it
26:52
Speaker 5: as well as the city.
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Speaker 7: All right, And you can find more information about that.
26:57
Speaker 7: If you're not going to that. I mean, that's gonna
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Speaker 7: be an amazing time, So biz us to get to
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Speaker 7: It's not on vacation by any stretch of the imagination.
27:03
Speaker 7: You are staying very busy right now? What do we
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Speaker 7: want to start with?
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Speaker 9: First?
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Speaker 7: Do we want to start with the.
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Speaker 2: Highway thirty restructure.
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Speaker 7: That was last night?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, just briefly, that was just the opening meeting of
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Speaker 5: a small what we call smaller area planning activity for
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Speaker 5: the Harvey Corridor. That's everything between Texas Avenue and Earl
27:26
Speaker 5: Rudder along Harvey on both sides. Let's see what the
27:31
Speaker 5: future might bring to that area. What do people want
27:33
Speaker 5: to see? That was what last night's event was. It
27:36
Speaker 5: was just an opening engagement process.
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Speaker 7: How did you feel about the response that y'all got?
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Speaker 5: Well, I didn't stay till the end, but I did
27:44
Speaker 5: see the news last night. Looked like they've been quite
27:46
Speaker 5: a good turnout. I'm happy about that. Doing it in
27:48
Speaker 5: the summertime, you got a lot of residents to live
27:51
Speaker 5: along there, probably are not in town, but they did
27:55
Speaker 5: a walk through of all the businesses along there to
27:57
Speaker 5: try to elevate the businesses awareness in a long Highway
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Speaker 5: thirty on both sides. You got a business quarter there,
28:04
Speaker 5: and of course them all itself is part of this area.
28:08
Speaker 5: So hopefully we got some good feedback. It looked like
28:12
Speaker 5: a fair amount fair turnout, but it's a longer, longer process.
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Speaker 5: This is just the opening shot.
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Speaker 7: And this is going to be a continuing effort. So
28:18
Speaker 7: if you if you know, you will have a lot
28:20
Speaker 7: of opportunities to.
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Speaker 5: Be Yeah, and you know we're still working on you know,
28:25
Speaker 5: what is the problem? How do you define the problem?
28:29
Speaker 5: Under developed properties? Perhaps not as high use as could
28:33
Speaker 5: be there, but it's what the market dictates currently. However,
28:38
Speaker 5: as the AS Highway thirty from Earl Rudder out to
28:41
Speaker 5: one fifty eight Harvey Road section gets redeveloped to four
28:46
Speaker 5: lanes and what in the next five to ten years
28:49
Speaker 5: that will redirect a lot of traffic back into town
28:52
Speaker 5: And earlier we're talking about the potential of SpaceX over
28:56
Speaker 5: and Grimes County could bring a lot more traffic in
28:58
Speaker 5: a highway thirty.
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Speaker 7: Tom going to throw a wrench at a lot of
29:01
Speaker 7: people's plans. I mean that it's in the best way possible,
29:03
Speaker 7: but like, yeah, all of a sudden, now you've got
29:06
Speaker 7: a major manufacturing center in driving distance, and where does
29:12
Speaker 7: that population go, Where do they do the primary business
29:16
Speaker 7: of life? Is it down south or is it in
29:19
Speaker 7: college station? And no one really knows to mind, No, no.
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Speaker 5: I think it just depends on how those people in
29:26
Speaker 5: Grimes County would like to respond in terms of interacting
29:30
Speaker 5: with the with the developers of potential housing and spinoff
29:35
Speaker 5: businesses and so forth. Clearly, College Station has a retail
29:40
Speaker 5: and kind of a housing node that could grow and
29:46
Speaker 5: expand along with the city Brian on the east side.
29:49
Speaker 5: So we'll see along Highway thirty, I would think you'd
29:52
Speaker 5: see quite a bit of dynamic growth and a lot
29:55
Speaker 5: of redevelopment of existing properties.
29:58
Speaker 7: I think that a lot of times people think in
30:00
Speaker 7: terms of a bron College Station commute, like, well, why
30:02
Speaker 7: would you commute down like you just live close if
30:06
Speaker 7: you're coming from Houston. On a lot of these workers Houston, Dallas,
30:09
Speaker 7: Austin living an hour away from work is not the deal.
30:13
Speaker 2: Houston's an hour away from Houston.
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Speaker 7: So I do think there is the possibility that you
30:19
Speaker 7: could get a lot of that workforce here in Brasses
30:23
Speaker 7: commuting down.
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Speaker 2: We we certainly got crmes.
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Speaker 5: We certainly got to think about it.
30:26
Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, all right, So counsel tonight, what are we looking.
30:29
Speaker 5: At, counselors Tomorrow night. Tomorrow night, that's always a Thursday night.
30:34
Speaker 5: That's almost always a Thursday night. It's really you know,
30:37
Speaker 5: we've talked about long meetings. We really had some short
30:40
Speaker 5: meetings by our standards.
30:41
Speaker 2: The last what is the shortest standard.
30:44
Speaker 5: By my standards, If I get home before ten o'clock news,
30:47
Speaker 5: then I think it's a pretty short meeting. We do
30:50
Speaker 5: start at four o'clock in the afternoon in an executive session,
30:52
Speaker 5: and that's got a lot of stuff in the background
30:54
Speaker 5: that we're working on. But we've been able to get
30:57
Speaker 5: out around six o'clock to start the regular meeting, and
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Speaker 5: if we can get that done in three hours, that's
31:03
Speaker 5: pretty good meeting. And I think other than the north
31:06
Speaker 5: Gate discussion, which is on the workshop agenda, most of
31:10
Speaker 5: the other there's only three or four consent agend items
31:13
Speaker 5: and only one vacating and easement on the regular agend.
31:19
Speaker 5: Only one item on the regular agenda. That means that,
31:22
Speaker 5: you know, we'll spend most of our time on workshop,
31:24
Speaker 5: which is good because public can engage with us in
31:27
Speaker 5: Northgate where we left it, What are the priorities, what's
31:32
Speaker 5: the real issues we're trying to address there? They we'll
31:34
Speaker 5: have a conversation with staff and the public and among
31:38
Speaker 5: council members, and that'll probably be the longest item on
31:42
Speaker 5: the agenda.
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Speaker 7: From your perspective, where does this rank on an issue
31:48
Speaker 7: that is just difficult to solve with Northgate when you're
31:51
Speaker 7: balancing all of the interests involved.
31:54
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, there's a lot of interests involved. From the
31:56
Speaker 5: university owns all the land on one side of the
31:58
Speaker 5: highway has a great interest there because of the cost
32:02
Speaker 5: of maintaining the public safety and the properties in that
32:08
Speaker 5: area that we have. However, the market is driving. The
32:13
Speaker 5: demand in the market is driving everything.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 5: And you've got a small area in there, in the
32:20
Speaker 5: in the bar district, so to speak, that has not
32:23
Speaker 5: yet yielded to the demand for high rise student housing,
32:29
Speaker 5: but all around it you begin to see the twenty
32:31
Speaker 5: story buildings popping up. We we have some of the
32:37
Speaker 5: city owns property over there that we'd like to figure
32:39
Speaker 5: out what to do with. But really it's a it's
32:42
Speaker 5: a public finance issue. Are we generating the kind of
32:46
Speaker 5: revenue out of that area that offsets the cost of
32:50
Speaker 5: public safety, which is a big cost. And we've talked
32:52
Speaker 5: about it over my time one council half a dozen
32:56
Speaker 5: times that the the property tax yealed and sales tax
33:02
Speaker 5: and alcohol beverage tax coming to the city in that
33:05
Speaker 5: in that area where there's thirty plus bars does not
33:09
Speaker 5: equal the cost of our policing unit that we put
33:12
Speaker 5: over there. We have to have and you just saw
33:14
Speaker 5: it last week another incident that yeah, that that even
33:18
Speaker 5: you know, the bar owners really do want our presence there, absolutely,
33:23
Speaker 5: but we have to have a pretty strong presence there,
33:25
Speaker 5: including fire emergency response people because of some of the
33:29
Speaker 5: incidents that come up. It isn't just policing, it's it's
33:32
Speaker 5: the recovery of people that have either overdosed or or
33:37
Speaker 5: got in trouble one way or another that needs medical health.
33:40
Speaker 2: There is a cost to this.
33:41
Speaker 5: Well, that's that's the that's the measure that the police
33:44
Speaker 5: department and the fire department, City Managers Office looks at
33:47
Speaker 5: and they say to staff, Well, say the council, you know,
33:50
Speaker 5: we're spending this much money over there. We don't have
33:52
Speaker 5: any choice. We've got to do that. But is that
33:54
Speaker 5: fair to the rest of the city when when they're
33:56
Speaker 5: not really generating the revenue out of that property. Well,
34:00
Speaker 5: when you add all those high rises, there's going to
34:02
Speaker 5: be a lot more revenue coming in, but they won't
34:05
Speaker 5: be adding inside those buildings. A lot of need of
34:09
Speaker 5: the of the emergency response, but on the street you'll
34:14
Speaker 5: have more people congregating and and it's a worrisome thing.
34:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, with the along those lines, with the increase of
34:23
Speaker 1: population in that area, living in that area, and the
34:27
Speaker 1: existing issues that that we are talking about with public safety,
34:31
Speaker 1: has there been any consideration to providing sort of like
34:35
Speaker 1: a police substation in that area.
34:38
Speaker 5: Well, we have state I won't talk about police substation
34:41
Speaker 5: because we don't really want to share all that information,
34:45
Speaker 5: but the there is a staging areas there. The discussion
34:50
Speaker 5: about what we were going to do originally on the
34:53
Speaker 5: on the existing parking lot did include a identifiable police
34:58
Speaker 5: substation book that would be an integral part of whatever
35:05
Speaker 5: we're going to build on or whatever we wanted a
35:06
Speaker 5: private sector to build there. Remember that was a public
35:09
Speaker 5: private partnership in the specs for that was or several things,
35:13
Speaker 5: four or five of them, but one of them was
35:16
Speaker 5: a police substation.
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Speaker 2: Anything else we need to get to this week, Well.
35:21
Speaker 5: I'd just say that the north Gate discussion is an
35:23
Speaker 5: ongoing discussion. We're as a city, we're trying to frame
35:29
Speaker 5: the discussion with regard to what we believe the problems
35:32
Speaker 5: are there, public safety being a big one, but fiscally,
35:36
Speaker 5: the city is facing some pretty tight times coming up.
35:39
Speaker 5: What we hear from the legislature, they're not going to
35:41
Speaker 5: take the foot off the pedal and so we'll be
35:44
Speaker 5: under from pretty tight restrictions on revenue. So if we
35:48
Speaker 5: can generate redevelopment appropriate redevelopment, and that's really a question
35:53
Speaker 5: what does the public think appropriate is And given that
35:58
Speaker 5: a lot of that's privately owned property, we don't have
36:01
Speaker 5: a lot to say about it. If we just don't
36:02
Speaker 5: do anything. We know what's going to happen over there,
36:06
Speaker 5: it's happening already. It'll just creep into some of those
36:08
Speaker 5: other areas. And if that's what you like, that's that'll
36:12
Speaker 5: be what It'll be.
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Speaker 7: Every one way to do it.
36:15
Speaker 5: But I think but again, on the public safety side,
36:18
Speaker 5: that's our role, that's our responsibility. And the pedestrian safety
36:21
Speaker 5: crossing University Drive is our role, our responsibility as well.
36:24
Speaker 5: And if we can work with text out and the
36:27
Speaker 5: property owners on both sides to get something done there,
36:29
Speaker 5: and we are and I think that will happen. It
36:32
Speaker 5: won't be easy. It won't be in the next year
36:34
Speaker 5: or two but that'll be part of the discussion.
36:36
Speaker 7: Well, we always love getting you in here, man, thank
36:38
Speaker 7: you for taking the time. We appreciate it.
36:40
Speaker 5: Well, I'm happy to be here, happy to have an
36:42
Speaker 5: opportunity to share some ideas with the public. Thank you
36:45
Speaker 5: very much.
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Speaker 2: Have we nothing? I'm aware.
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Speaker 7: I know some of you guys may be aware. There's
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Speaker 7: a little contest we do every single year, Best of
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Speaker 7: the Brasses. A lot of businesses. A lot of businesses
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Speaker 7: want these wins, and we like to give them these.
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Speaker 2: They display the prize proudly.
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Speaker 7: They should, because it means they are the best what
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Speaker 7: they do here.
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Speaker 1: That's because it's chosen by people who frequent those businesses
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Speaker 1: and experience them.
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Speaker 2: It's not chosen by us.
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Speaker 7: If you've got a personal favorite, there's probably a category
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Speaker 7: for it. Go and make your votes today. Did you
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Speaker 7: know will there is a best radio category in Best
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Speaker 7: of the Brasses.
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Speaker 1: I have been aware of that. It's it's nothing. I've
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Speaker 1: never wonted it.
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Speaker 7: Rightly, jump over and go to Best at the Brass
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Speaker 7: dot com if you could, very quickly. If you find
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Speaker 7: Lifestyle and Entertainment, you scroll down, you will find that
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Speaker 7: there's a litany of nominated radio programs that are available
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Speaker 7: for you to vote, including The Infomaniac.
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Speaker 1: Which I mean, let's face it, looking back on today's show.
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Speaker 7: It's a show that you can vote for.
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Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying.
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Speaker 7: It's a show that you can vote for. What is
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Speaker 7: it the best of the Braws?
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Speaker 9: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: This is for you to decide.
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Speaker 1: What a wild day, man, What a wild day? What
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Speaker 1: an amazing good time? Today with great show today. It's
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Speaker 1: always a pleasure having you guys join us for it.
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Speaker 7: And if you missed any of it, remember Riley works
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Speaker 7: real hard on them podcast, she does, and she is
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Speaker 7: going to be posting the entire show coming up here shortly,
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Speaker 7: so if you missed anything, please go back and catch up.
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Speaker 7: Have a lot of valuable things in there, not relating
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Speaker 7: to the Thunderstruck conversation.
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Speaker 1: Look, we have covered everything from drinking games to screwworms
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Speaker 1: to city council meeting today.
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Speaker 2: Where are you gonna get that anyplace else?
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Speaker 7: It is a show you could vote for if you
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Speaker 7: saw so fit. But yeah, go check out the podcast
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Speaker 7: and we will obviously be back on the radio tomorrow.
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Speaker 7: And again, thank you guys for being here.
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Speaker 2: We appreciate it.
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Speaker 7: We're sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW Happy Wednesday, and
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Speaker 7: we'll see it back on the radio tomorrow