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The Infomaniacs: August 26th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A Brazos
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Speaker 1: County detention officer has been suspended after an arrest in
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Speaker 1: College Station. 26-year-old Dwayne Andre Richards was off duty at
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Speaker 1: the time of the incident early Tuesday. Reports say Richards
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Speaker 1: was booked on charges of family violence, assault, household member
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Speaker 1: impeding breath or circulation, and interfering with an emergency call.
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Speaker 1: The Brazos County Sheriff's Office suspended Richards pending the outcome
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Speaker 1: of an internal investigation. Richards became a detention officer in
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Speaker 1: August 2024. As of Tuesday evening, he remained jailed on $ 20, 000 bond.
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Speaker 1: No one showed up for last night's public hearing for
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Speaker 1: the City of Bryan's proposed $ 569 million budget. The city
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Speaker 1: will hold a public hearing on September 8th to discuss
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Speaker 1: the tax rate of 62.4 cents per $ 100 valuation. The
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Speaker 1: city of Bryan announced today that the world's largest privately
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Speaker 1: held industrial gases company will be opening shop in Bryan.
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Speaker 1: Messer will construct a state-of-the-art air separation unit in the
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Speaker 1: city that is expected to be complete by late 2027.
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Speaker 1: Messer has over 150 production facilities and over 5,000 employees
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Speaker 1: in the United States, Canada and Brazil, Colombia, and Chile.
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Speaker 1: The Welburn Special Utility District is urging residents to follow
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Speaker 1: guidelines because water stores are low. Watering is prohibited during
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Speaker 1: daylight hours, and all residents are limited to watering their
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Speaker 1: lawns only twice per week, which is based on your address.
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Speaker 1: Visit WTAW.com for more information. There's a new twist in
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Speaker 1: the state's water plans.
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Speaker 2: Currently, the long-term water plan suggests that communities will need
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Speaker 2: to spend a whopping $ 174 billion over the next 50
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Speaker 2: years to avert a crisis. But at a meeting this week,
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Speaker 2: it was revealed that the rapid rise in data centers
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Speaker 2: were not part of this plan.
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Speaker 3: We have already started looking at how we're going to project.
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Speaker 4: For data centers.
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Speaker 2: Matt Nelson with the Texas Water Development Board says that
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Speaker 2: includes working with energy regulators to figure out where these
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Speaker 2: warehouses full of computers are coming and he's confident that
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Speaker 2: the developers will be more transparent in the future.
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Speaker 1: In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News. Lawyers for Minnesota
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Speaker 1: were in a Brownsville courtroom Tuesday fighting Governor Abbott to
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Speaker 1: extradite an ICE agent facing four counts of felony assault
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Speaker 1: in the Gopher State. Agent Christian Castro is accused of
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Speaker 1: shooting through the front door of a Minneapolis house in January,
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Speaker 1: injuring one, then lying about it. Abbott's argument against extradition
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Speaker 1: is that Castro doesn't qualify because he didn't flee to Texas.
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Speaker 1: He was ordered to return by Homeland Security. Castro was
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Speaker 1: arrested in Harlingen in late May. This is very different
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Speaker 1: from the excuse Governor Abbott gave last week when he
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Speaker 1: demanded Minnesota repay the United States for the federal fraud
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Speaker 1: committed in their state.
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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I don't trust Tim Walz on anything,
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Speaker 5: let alone something like this.
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Governor Tim Walz filed suit to prevent Texas from
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Speaker 1: releasing Castro on Thursday. They fear he's a flight risk.
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Speaker 1: A federal grant is bringing new life to a college
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Speaker 1: station park. The $ 185, 000 grant will allow the city to
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Speaker 1: replace playground equipment at John Crompton Park. Work starts Saturday
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Speaker 1: and is scheduled to be completed by the end of September.
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Speaker 1: It appears as though Senator Ted Cruz might be making
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Speaker 1: another run for the White House. When asked if the
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Speaker 1: party is rallying around Vice President J.D. Vance, here's what
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Speaker 1: Cruz had to say.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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Speaker 2: There's going to be a full discussion about who we
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Speaker 2: are and what we believe.
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Speaker 1: Cruz is a lawyer by trade, but shot down suggestions
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Speaker 1: that he could instead be a Supreme Court justice. He
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Speaker 1: says that President Trump asked him three times if he
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Speaker 1: wanted to be nominated, and all three times he said no.
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Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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Speaker 1: news at 830 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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Speaker 1: You know, the price of gold is at an all-time high.
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Speaker 7: glad you did.
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Speaker 8: Check it.
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Speaker 1: Look, you've got the cutest little black kitten.
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Speaker 9: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: In your hands right now.
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Speaker 8: Katrina is in from Aggieland Humane Society because it is
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Speaker 8: kitten season.
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Speaker 10: It is kitten season.
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Speaker 8: And God, don't I know it.
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Speaker 11: Yes.
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Speaker 10: Still going on.
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Speaker 7: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 10: And this little nugget, that's what I'm calling her nugget.
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Speaker 12: Nugget?
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Speaker 10: It's not her official name, but also I don't want
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Speaker 10: to name her because I don't want to get too attached.
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Speaker 13: It happens.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it does.
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Speaker 13: It does happen.
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Speaker 10: My household is full for the long term, but she's
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Speaker 10: my little foster baby.
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Speaker 8: Oh, so this is your personal foster.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 7: Ooh.
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Speaker 10: Yep, I've had her now about a week. And so
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Speaker 10: she came into the shelter all by herself. No siblings,
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Speaker 10: no mom.
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Speaker 14: Really?
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Speaker 13: Really.
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Speaker 10: And so with kittens this little... they can't um they
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Speaker 10: can't stay in the shelter overnight you know they need
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Speaker 10: someone to care for them you know really around the
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Speaker 10: clock yeah and.
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Speaker 1: You said you said i'm the person oh yeah little
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Speaker 1: nuggets got her eyes open oh yeah or is it
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Speaker 1: a he or she what is.
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Speaker 10: It it's a little girl little girl little girl she's
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Speaker 10: very inquisitive um and yeah so they have to get
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Speaker 10: you know when she wakes up in the middle of
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Speaker 10: the night she gets up right now around like three
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Speaker 10: o'clock um so then i've got to You know, feed her,
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Speaker 10: make sure that her bed is warm enough, and then
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Speaker 10: we go back to sleep. And so if she was
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Speaker 10: in the shelter, she wouldn't be able to sustain. And
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Speaker 10: so that's why fostering is so critical. The next yoga
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Speaker 10: in the park class.
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Speaker 1: We were tapped out on fosters.
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Speaker 8: You were tapped out on fosters?
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Speaker 10: We were tapped out on fosters. And so that's why
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Speaker 10: I took her home. And so, you know, we need
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Speaker 10: more fosters to really join the life-saving force.
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Speaker 8: So if you want to foster with Aggieland Humane, what
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Speaker 8: are the requirements.
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Speaker 13: To do so?
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Speaker 10: Honestly, pretty easy. You go on our website, AggielandHumane.org, and
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Speaker 10: fill out an application. And really that's so that we
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Speaker 10: know what your preferences are, where to reach you, like
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Speaker 10: how to get in contact. And then we go from there.
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Speaker 10: And so we'll really just have a conversation about what
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Speaker 10: fostering looks like for you. You know, we have for
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Speaker 10: our college students, there's a lot of opportunities to foster.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 10: Um, or for families, especially if you, you know, you've
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Speaker 10: got kiddos and they are saying, I want a pet,
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Speaker 10: I want a dog, I want a cat. Fostering is
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Speaker 10: a great way to teach, you know, responsibility because after,
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Speaker 10: you know, sometimes after a couple of months, their interest
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Speaker 10: wanes off, but fostering is such a short term, you know,
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Speaker 10: just a couple of weeks.
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Speaker 1: So you said, you said it's, it's kitten season and,
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Speaker 1: and all of those are all the kittens available on
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Speaker 1: your website.
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Speaker 10: So little kittens this small are.
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Speaker 1: Not on the website. Not that small, but all the
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Speaker 1: cats that you have.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 10: Otherwise, our adoptable cats are all on our website. And
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Speaker 10: we actually have one more adoption special this month. This
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Speaker 10: Friday will be our last Free Furry Friday where we're
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Speaker 10: doing $ 0 adoptions on Friday from 12 to 6 p.m.
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Speaker 8: This has been a big hit, by the way.
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Speaker 10: Yes. And it's great to help make some more breathing room.
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Speaker 13: In the shelter.
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Speaker 1: I am on the website right now.
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Speaker 15: Okay.
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Speaker 1: And I love all animals and I love cats, but
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Speaker 1: I gravitate toward the dogs.
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Speaker 10: Oh.
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Speaker 13: Boy, do we have dogs for you.
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Speaker 1: I am looking right now at the dogs on here
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Speaker 1: and I've currently got a handful of one dog, a
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Speaker 1: 10-pound Holy Terror is the breed. But it's a good
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Speaker 1: thing that she's cute and has a good heart. But
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Speaker 1: there are some incredible dogs here that I'm looking at.
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Speaker 10: We really, we have such a great variety. I'll tell
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Speaker 10: you some of my favorites right now. Honey, so sweet.
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Speaker 10: She's this like mastiffy, pit bull mix, very sweet, very docile.
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Speaker 10: Let's see, we also have, Peso. Peso's super cute. Just
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Speaker 10: a rambunctious little, like, three-month-old puppy. And then, or, like,
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Speaker 10: a Great Pyrenees, if that's your thing. We have two.
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Speaker 8: Chris and Bella.
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at Chris and Bella right here.
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Speaker 11: They're just, like, big old clouds.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: Very pretty.
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Speaker 12: They're sweet.
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Speaker 8: A little drooly. Can I ask you a question dog related?
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: One of the things that I saw pop up was
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Speaker 8: it's like I know it's mosquito heavy season, heartworm heavy season.
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Speaker 8: And one of the things that you were that I
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Speaker 8: believe y'all were looking at was like we have a
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Speaker 8: phenomenally large amount of heartworm positive dogs.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. So our normal rate to sit at is about
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Speaker 10: 10 percent of our adult dog population at any given
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Speaker 10: time will have heartworm disease. Currently, in this exact moment,
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Speaker 10: we're closer to 35%.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a big deal. Now, heartworms, believe it or not,
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Speaker 8: can be treated.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they can be.
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Speaker 8: It's just not inexpensive to do so. So I believe,
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Speaker 8: are y'all looking for donations to cover some of these
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Speaker 8: costs right now?
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Speaker 10: We are still, we were looking to raise around $ 9, 000
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Speaker 10: to cover the treatment for, it comes out to be
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Speaker 10: about 15 dogs. And so currently we're about halfway there
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Speaker 10: towards our fundraising goal.
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Speaker 1: That's not bad.
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Speaker 8: Which is amazing. Yeah, that's a big deal.
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Speaker 10: It's super huge. And we're very appreciative of the support
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Speaker 10: we've had so far. Um, we're very blessed that we
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Speaker 10: have not one, but two veterinarians on staff at Aggieland Humane.
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Speaker 10: And so if we have the funding.
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Speaker 13: We're able to provide that treatment.
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Speaker 10: So that way pets can go home and they're really
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Speaker 10: starting out their new chapter on a great note.
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Speaker 1: So even if you're not looking to adopt an animal,
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Speaker 1: there's something that you can do to really affect and
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Speaker 1: uplift the Aggieland Humane Society and the animals that they
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Speaker 1: have there.
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Speaker 8: It's a huge thing. Because, again, a lot of us,
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Speaker 8: me included, good Lord.
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Speaker 1: You can't have another one.
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Speaker 16: I can't.
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Speaker 8: I genuinely can't. But what they do over there, and
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Speaker 8: especially what you mentioned, the vet care for these animals
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Speaker 8: is so expensive. uh being able to even there's business
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Speaker 8: or an individual or whatever they would love to talk
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Speaker 8: to you and it can make a massive massive massive
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Speaker 8: difference in in in what they can pull off over
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Speaker 8: there and if you can't do that then again be
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Speaker 8: a foster because all you need is time and space.
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Speaker 1: And it's easy to do i have adopted an animal
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Speaker 1: from the agueland humane society and he was a great
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Speaker 1: dog for as long as we had him uh and
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Speaker 1: and so i know that you guys do amazing work over.
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Speaker 8: There Aggielandumaine.org is the website. Remember Friday? Again, their opportunity
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Speaker 8: at free adoptions, which you have plenty of cats and
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Speaker 8: kittens that need to go.
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Speaker 11: Absolutely.
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Speaker 8: So go check them out.
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Speaker 1: Frito.
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Speaker 15: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You have to give the kitten back.
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Speaker 8: I know.
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Speaker 10: I know.
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Speaker 8: I know. I just.
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Speaker 17: All right.
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Speaker 8: We'll deal with this next. Thank you so much for
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Speaker 8: coming in.
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Speaker 8: Because they got puppy yoga. Yes, puppy yoga. with Aggieland
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Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTAW, we're the Infomaniacs. 979-695-1620 is our phone number. 103
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Speaker 8: degrees is what we're going up to today. There is
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Speaker 8: a 20% chance of rain. That would help immensely. At
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Speaker 8: one point, Will had spotted some sprinkles. Something north of town,
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Speaker 8: like closer past Hearn. I imagine that is long since.
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Speaker 1: There's still some little drizzlets up that direction.
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Speaker 13: Ooh.
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Speaker 8: So maybe there's a chance. Down to the 70s tonight.
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Speaker 8: Back up to around 100 tomorrow with a 40% chance.
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Speaker 8: feel the difference. How do you feel about Galveston, Texas?
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Speaker 1: I love Galveston for a lot of reasons, and none
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Speaker 1: of them are necessarily the beach.
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Speaker 8: Well, I agree. It's not... I hate saying this. The
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Speaker 8: city of Galveston I love. I love the beach of
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Speaker 8: Galveston just because it exists.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: That's all I needed to do. I just needed to exist.
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Speaker 1: I don't need to go to Galveston to be beach-focused. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I love the food, and I love the history.
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Speaker 13: Same.
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Speaker 1: The history of the city is just... I follow YouTubers
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Speaker 1: that do history explorations in Galveston. I love it.
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Speaker 8: It's a really cool place, but it does get a
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Speaker 8: lot of heat for having an absolute garbage beach, which
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Speaker 8: I think is mostly from people like Charles Barkley and
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Speaker 8: some of these other dudes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not the prettiest beach in the world, but
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Speaker 1: you know what? It's less than an hour from one
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Speaker 1: of the world's biggest cities.
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Speaker 20: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It gives people an opportunity to go out and touch
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Speaker 1: some sand.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, and get some sea breeze through the hair. But
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Speaker 8: here's the deal. At least it ain't New Jersey. In
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Speaker 8: New Jersey— Beaches were closed after a syringe tsunami.
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Speaker 1: Oh, lovely.
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Speaker 8: A syringe tsunami.
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Speaker 13: Safety is a big deal, and I think that syringes
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Speaker 13: and God knows what's on them.
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Speaker 8: We had no open wounds. We talked about that even
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Speaker 8: before we went in, and we decided to.
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Speaker 11: Give it a try.
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Speaker 19: Plus, if there's a straight needle and you step on it,
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Speaker 19: I was a little nervous about it.
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Speaker 6: One beach cleanup is definitely not enough to say something safe.
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Speaker 6: This is, you know, we can't change what's out in
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Speaker 6: the oceans or what people have done in the past,
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Speaker 6: but we can change our reaction to it.
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Speaker 8: My favorite part about that particular soundbite is the Jersey
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Speaker 8: swimmers who were almost completely unfazed. It's like, yeah, we
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Speaker 8: just want to make sure, you know, just not go
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Speaker 8: in with any open wounds.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That was what was George Carlin did a bit about that.
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Speaker 1: He said, you know, we don't have, we're not sick
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Speaker 1: because we swam in the East River as kids. So
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Speaker 1: there's that.
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Speaker 8: Radioactive George.
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Speaker 1: Look, look, always protect your feet.
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Speaker 13: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Always. Never go barefoot.
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Speaker 1: I've stepped on enough things in my day that I
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Speaker 1: don't go barefoot anywhere now.
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Speaker 8: to identify a suspect in a crime. The suspect found
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Speaker 8: $ 30 on the ground at Walmart and took it and
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Speaker 8: didn't return it.
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Speaker 1: I saw this story.
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Speaker 8: This is real.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Here, I'm going to play the police chief, the chief
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Speaker 8: of police.
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Speaker 1: Who was giving a press conference, by the way, about
16:45
Speaker 1: a series of murders in the area and got diverted
16:49
Speaker 1: to this story.
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Speaker 21: We don't pick and choose. You know, if something is reported,
16:53
Speaker 21: it's no different than a shot lifting. The store wants
16:55
Speaker 21: us to put out the information. We put out the information.
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Speaker 21: And somebody may.
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Speaker 8: Say, well, it's just $ 30.
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Speaker 21: But if you've ever been in a situation that that's
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Speaker 21: all you had left, and then... somebody took it from you,
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Speaker 21: that would put you in a bad spot.
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Speaker 8: Of course. Thank you, officer, for reminding me that $ 30 is,
17:13
Speaker 8: in fact, $ 30. That said... But he.
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Speaker 1: Didn't take it. The perpetrator found it on the ground.
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Speaker 8: What is the largest amount of money that you would
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Speaker 8: pick up off the ground as opposed to going.
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Speaker 1: And turning it into something?
17:30
Speaker 8: What's the largest amount of money? This is where you
17:32
Speaker 8: guys come in.
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Speaker 7: 979-695-1620.
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Speaker 8: Like, 30.
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Speaker 7: Bucks?
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Speaker 8: Do you take it and completely forget about it because
17:41
Speaker 8: it is 30 bucks? Or is that one that you
17:45
Speaker 8: do the.
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Speaker 1: Right thing on? It's not like you reach into your
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Speaker 1: pocket and pull out two 20s in a tent. This
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Speaker 1: is stuff we're talking about on the ground. You found it.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, man.
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Speaker 8: On the ground. This is in a Walmart. If you
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Speaker 8: look down in a Walmart and you see a 20
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Speaker 8: and a 10 spot.
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Speaker 1: If I'm in a Walmart or any other store, retail store,
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Speaker 1: I'm probably taking it no matter. Well, I mean, if
18:09
Speaker 1: it's a buck or two, if it's anything over 20 bucks,
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Speaker 1: 20 bucks is the line. I'm going to take it.
18:15
Speaker 1: To the lost and found there.
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Speaker 8: I don't think I'd think twice about 30 bucks, but
18:19
Speaker 8: I'll give you this one instance. Like if I'm in
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Speaker 8: the checkout line and I look down and I see
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Speaker 8: some cash on the ground, I will probably look and
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Speaker 8: see if there's someone in front of me because there's
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Speaker 8: a possibility it's their money. Excuse me, did you drop this?
18:38
Speaker 8: And if they just kind of like, no, then it's mine.
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Speaker 8: Then it's mine. It might be the person two spots
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Speaker 8: ahead of me. I don't care. That one person's going
18:47
Speaker 8: to get a chance, and if not, that is a
18:50
Speaker 8: fair game.
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Speaker 1: So let's take that scenario.
18:53
Speaker 8: Apparently, I would be almost going to jail in Georgia.
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Speaker 1: In Georgia. Let's take that scenario now and say you
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Speaker 1: found that in the checkout line.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Do you bless the people behind you?
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Speaker 8: Do I just say?
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Speaker 1: You received this blessing. I'm going to pass the blessing.
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Speaker 8: I'm not opposed to that. Hell, I might just pass
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Speaker 8: it to the cashier and say $ 30 off them and
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Speaker 8: move on with my life.
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Speaker 1: If it's a fine situation like that and you pick
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Speaker 1: it up, there's nobody in front of you, nobody's claiming it, yeah,
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Speaker 1: pass it on.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: And if I had to think about the amount of
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Speaker 8: money where I would start to think maybe I should
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Speaker 8: turn it in, I don't know, $ 500?
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Speaker 6: Really?
19:37
Speaker 1: That high?
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Speaker 8: Fives will look if it's cash and i see it
19:43
Speaker 8: on the ground like even if it's one $ 100 bill,
19:47
Speaker 8: if it's a $ 100 bill, I'm suspicious someone's pranking me, frankly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, very likely counterfeit, something like that.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, or there's some YouTuber in the corner watching me.
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Speaker 1: You got to be aware of that these days.
19:57
Speaker 8: You know, if it's two in a row, I might think, okay,
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Speaker 8: there's no way two, you would just use Human nature
20:03
Speaker 8: would say just throw a $ 100 bill out there if
20:05
Speaker 8: you're going to try to dupe me, too. I assume
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Speaker 8: it fell out of someone's pocket. But even then, I
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Speaker 8: don't care. That's a maybe. $ 500?
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Speaker 13: Yeah, okay.
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Speaker 1: And again, I think it depends on where you find it, right?
20:18
Speaker 1: In the bar?
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Speaker 8: Pocketing. In the bar? It is open season.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
20:24
Speaker 8: It is open season in a party environment.
20:29
Speaker 1: Right.
20:29
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: You have personal responsibility to take care of your own stuff.
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Speaker 8: If it's in church... Put it in the collection. Different story.
20:37
Speaker 8: Completely different story.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of lost funds, did you understand yesterday after our
20:43
Speaker 1: weekly visit with Chamber of Commerce Director... Glenn Brewer.
20:48
Speaker 8: He told me about a little something.
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Speaker 1: He misplaced his wallet.
20:51
Speaker 8: I don't know how he did. Glenn comes in every Tuesday,
20:55
Speaker 8: which you guys probably know. Talks a little bit about
20:57
Speaker 8: Chamber stuff and occasionally brings snacks. We love Glenn.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Glenn goes down the hall to talk to Radio Impresario
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Speaker 8: Ben Downs, area man, local noted celebrity. And- At some point,
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Speaker 8: Will walks down there and sees him holding a wallet.
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Speaker 1: I saw somebody in there.
21:15
Speaker 13: Holding a wallet.
21:16
Speaker 1: Look, I just saw somebody in there. I couldn't remember
21:18
Speaker 1: if it was Ben or if it was Glenn, was
21:20
Speaker 1: holding a wallet. And I don't know why that stuck
21:22
Speaker 1: in my head.
21:22
Speaker 8: But for some reason, you're like, oh, that's weird.
21:24
Speaker 1: Then I get on the elevator with Glenn and he's like,
21:26
Speaker 1: I don't have my wallet. And I was like, I
21:27
Speaker 1: think I remember somebody had a wallet. So he rode
21:30
Speaker 1: back upstairs and shortly thereafter. I get a telephone call
21:33
Speaker 1: from our front desk.
21:34
Speaker 15: Yeah.
21:34
Speaker 1: Do you remember anything about the wallet? I've given all
21:37
Speaker 1: of the information about the wallet.
21:39
Speaker 8: He couldn't find, they couldn't find the wallet anywhere in
21:41
Speaker 8: that office. No idea. I keep my, no one just
21:44
Speaker 8: goes into Ben's office. No people just walk in and
21:47
Speaker 8: walk out. Like you should go in there. If you
21:49
Speaker 8: have something to talk to him about. So I have
21:51
Speaker 8: no idea. It's like it vanished into thin air.
21:54
Speaker 1: It's a mystery. Or did it? I'm beginning to think
21:57
Speaker 1: that maybe I was mistaken or I saw.
21:59
Speaker 8: You think you hallucinated a wallet?
22:01
Speaker 2: At my age?
22:02
Speaker 1: Possible.
22:03
Speaker 8: We'll get an update on that coming up later because
22:05
Speaker 8: old boy was not happy.
22:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you want to come.
22:08
Speaker 8: As I would have been.
22:09
Speaker 1: If you are one of our standard people that comes
22:11
Speaker 1: in here weekly, like City of Bryan Government today, if
22:13
Speaker 1: you'd like to leave your wallet behind.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, we have a, you're just parking with us.
22:17
Speaker 1: Yeah.
22:17
Speaker 8: Whatever. I'm sure it'll come out exactly how you left it.
22:20
Speaker 1: Exactly. Up to $ 500.
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Speaker 13: With a barbecue for area residents.
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Speaker 12: An early settlement at the site was named Wadsworth until
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
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Speaker 1: Brazos County detention officer was arrested in College Station early Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: 26-year-old Dwayne Andre Richards was off duty at the time
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Speaker 1: of the incident. An investigation by College Station Police resulted
30:38
Speaker 1: in the arrest of Richards on charges of family violence
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Speaker 1: assault of a household member impeding breath or circulation and
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Speaker 1: interfering with an emergency call. The Brazos County Sheriff's Office
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Speaker 1: has suspended Richards pending the results of an internal investigation.
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Speaker 1: Richards was employed as a detention officer since August of 2024.
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Speaker 1: As of Tuesday evening, he remained jailed on $ 20, 000 bond.
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Speaker 1: Last night's Bryan City Council meeting was brief. It was
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Speaker 1: a special meeting with the intention of holding a public
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Speaker 1: hearing on the city's proposed $ 569 million budget. Do we
31:13
Speaker 1: have anyone signed up to speak? All right, then we
31:18
Speaker 1: will close the public hearing. With no one showing up
31:21
Speaker 1: for the hearing, the meeting adjourned in under five minutes.
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Speaker 1: In that time, council was able to approve $ 10. 6 million
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Speaker 1: in spending, as well as agreements for the backup dispatch
31:32
Speaker 1: facility with the City of College Station and Brazos County.
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Speaker 1: Three individuals were reappointed to the Destination Bryan Board of Directors,
31:40
Speaker 1: Spencer Clements, Wade Beckman, and Kendra Fry. The city will
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Speaker 1: hold a public hearing on the tax rate on September 8th.
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Speaker 1: Record-breaking heat, bone-dry conditions, and heavy winds continue to fuel
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Speaker 1: the monster blaze in Palo Pinto and Jack counties. Governor
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Speaker 1: Abbott announced that FEMA has approved a request for fire
31:59
Speaker 1: management assistant grants to help. Over 50,000 acres have burned
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Speaker 1: as the fire grew at a rate of roughly 6,000
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Speaker 1: acres per hour yesterday. Palo Pinto Emergency Services District 1
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Speaker 1: Chief Danny Watkins.
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Speaker 12: Because of the fire conditions and the fuel load, we're
32:15
Speaker 12: going to engage where we can, but the homes are
32:17
Speaker 12: the number.
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Speaker 1: One priority today. At least five structures have been destroyed
32:21
Speaker 1: so far. Evacuations continue in both Palo Pinto and Jack counties.
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Speaker 1: With temperatures around 108, weather conditions aren't helping. Amy Meyer
32:31
Speaker 1: is with the Palo Pinto ESD.
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Speaker 24: With gusts today expected up to 27 miles per hour,
32:36
Speaker 24: it's going.
32:37
Speaker 8: To be a battle.
32:38
Speaker 1: Governor Abbott says Texans must limit activities that can cause
32:42
Speaker 1: a spark and heed the guidance of state and local officials.
32:46
Speaker 1: Wixon Creek and Wellburn are under watering restrictions. Wellburn is
32:50
Speaker 1: urging residents to follow mandatory guidelines because water storage is low.
32:55
Speaker 1: Watering is prohibited during daylight hours. And all residents are
32:59
Speaker 1: limited to watering their lawns only twice per week, which
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33:07
Speaker 1: Some soldiers in Texas are moving into new barracks. The
33:11
Speaker 1: new barracks at El Paso's Fort Bliss were 3D printed.
33:15
Speaker 1: Instead of stacking cinder blocks, a robot squirts a rope
33:18
Speaker 1: of concrete mix to build the main structural walls. The
33:22
Speaker 1: price tag for the dorms came in around 10% cheaper
33:25
Speaker 1: than traditional costs. Colonel Michael Sojka said the housing was needed.
33:30
Speaker 22: A bit more folks down here for the Joint Task
33:32
Speaker 22: Force Southern Border and other missions meant that we were
33:34
Speaker 22: stressed a little bit on our barracks capacity.
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Speaker 1: Sojka says the thermal efficiency of the 3D-printed barracks is better,
33:41
Speaker 1: and it was built three times faster than standard military construction.
33:45
Speaker 1: Governor Abbott continues to fight the extradition of an ICE
33:49
Speaker 1: agent accused of four counts of felony assault in Minnesota.
33:52
Speaker 24: Governor Abbott says he's not obligated to hand over charged
33:55
Speaker 24: ICE agent Christian Castro to Minnesota. In a new filing,
33:59
Speaker 24: Abbott's lawyers raised doubts that Castro qualifies for constitutional extradition
34:04
Speaker 24: because he didn't flee Minnesota. ICE ordered him to return
34:07
Speaker 24: to Texas. That's where he was arrested in May. Very
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Speaker 24: different from Abbott's argument last week.
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Speaker 1: It's time for Minnesota.
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Speaker 5: To step up and repay the United States of America
34:16
Speaker 5: and Americans for all the fraud that they've committed in
34:19
Speaker 5: their state under federal programs.
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Speaker 1: And I will not respond to them at all.
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Speaker 24: Castro's accused of firing his gun through the front door
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Speaker 24: of a Minneapolis home in January, injuring one and then
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Speaker 24: lying about it. Minnesota is trying to stop Texas from
34:32
Speaker 24: releasing Castro on Thursday. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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Speaker 6: U.S.
34:39
Speaker 1: District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. said he was not inclined
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Speaker 1: to hold Castro beyond Thursday, although an official ruling has
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Speaker 2: Cruz is a lawyer by trade, but shot down suggestions
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35:28
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Speaker 8: Please welcome from the city of Bryan and parts literally
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Speaker 8: everywhere the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 7: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Ryan Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. How are you doing, man?
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Speaker 13: I'm doing great. How are you doing?
38:04
Speaker 8: Do you want to go through the list? Oh, yeah. Well,
38:06
Speaker 8: run me the list of the tour stops.
38:09
Speaker 25: So last week from Monday through, I guess, Friday, I
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Speaker 25: was at the Fed Supernova Capital Factory in Austin and
38:17
Speaker 25: was invited by General Rainey, General Brown. These are T2Conf,
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Speaker 25: Army Futures Command. And, you know, when you talk about
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Speaker 25: our area and who we are, I've been very, very blessed.
38:28
Speaker 25: We're all very, very blessed to represent an area that's very,
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Speaker 25: very pro-military, pro-defense, pro-innovation. And having Department of Defense and
38:37
Speaker 25: having T2Com and Bush Combat and Development Center at RELLIS,
38:41
Speaker 25: we were able to host the Machine Integration Conference here
38:44
Speaker 25: for the last two years. And what we've done, what
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Speaker 25: we've been able to do, the City of Bryan anyway,
38:50
Speaker 25: is we opened up downtown.
38:51
Speaker 13: We hosted them in downtown.
38:52
Speaker 25: We had some music. We showed them around in the
38:55
Speaker 25: merchants' downtown, the retailers' downtown area. really embraced what we
38:59
Speaker 25: had going on. We had about 1,000 people at the
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Speaker 25: last one.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 20: Nice.
39:02
Speaker 25: And these are military from all over the world. So
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Speaker 25: this is Army from all over the world. We are
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Speaker 25: on the map worldwide, City of Bryan, RELLIS campus, Texas
39:12
Speaker 25: A & M, of how we embrace what we're doing,
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Speaker 25: the new stuff that's happening, the things that they're testing
39:17
Speaker 25: out at RELLIS and everything. You have to understand that
39:20
Speaker 25: headquarters of T2Com is in Austin, and they can't even
39:22
Speaker 25: wear their uniforms. for fear of people throwing stuff at them,
39:26
Speaker 25: calling them names and everything else.
39:28
Speaker 1: What a sad state of affairs.
39:29
Speaker 12: Yes.
39:29
Speaker 25: And here, we embraced it. We welcomed them. And literally,
39:32
Speaker 25: they thought.
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Speaker 13: We closed the city down for them, just for them.
39:35
Speaker 13: And everywhere I.
39:36
Speaker 25: Go, I'm invited to speak at different stuff at these
39:41
Speaker 25: different conferences for the Army.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
39:45
Speaker 25: You know, they remember who we are. They remember me
39:47
Speaker 25: because we were the ones who did the host and
39:49
Speaker 25: everything else.
39:50
Speaker 1: And it's really nice.
39:51
Speaker 25: I'm going to be having dinner this Saturday with General Rainey,
39:55
Speaker 25: you know, four-star general. There's not very many four-star generals around.
39:59
Speaker 25: And when you see one, you got to understand they're
40:02
Speaker 25: voted on not only by, you know, they're voted on
40:05
Speaker 25: by everybody. But, you know, you have to have at
40:07
Speaker 25: that point the people that you command vote to say
40:09
Speaker 25: you're worthy of going over. And it's just a tremendous honor.
40:13
Speaker 25: It's been an honor to know them. They're, you know,
40:15
Speaker 25: unbelievable people.
40:16
Speaker 8: It is it is a remarkably unique environment that we
40:20
Speaker 8: have where uh you have so many factors that all
40:23
Speaker 8: come together to where you have an opportunity for the
40:27
Speaker 8: military and people that are developing things to uh to
40:31
Speaker 8: accent the military.
40:33
Speaker 25: To scale so what we're well we were there specifically
40:36
Speaker 25: is to look at these companies these are companies that
40:37
Speaker 25: not are in the proven stages. These are the scaling stages.
40:41
Speaker 25: Where are they going to be? Where are they going
40:43
Speaker 25: to grow? Where do they want to launch? These are
40:45
Speaker 25: advanced manufacturing.
40:46
Speaker 13: These are department. This is just really, really incredible technologies. Obviously,
40:50
Speaker 13: we want them here.
40:51
Speaker 25: Obviously, if there are some tests and stuff, RELLIS is
40:54
Speaker 25: a perfect place for them to test. We're trying to
40:57
Speaker 25: engage them, encourage them to be here. From there, I
40:59
Speaker 25: went to Lubbock. Lubbock, I spoke on a water panel,
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Speaker 25: sustainability on water. And as municipalities do it, and with
41:06
Speaker 25: Senator Perry, it was a really good conference, a good deal.
41:09
Speaker 13: But back on the promised land.
41:12
Speaker 8: Well, you picked a good day to show back up, man.
41:15
Speaker 8: The Messer announcement dropped yesterday, which was impressive news. Like,
41:20
Speaker 8: this is a big deal.
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Speaker 13: It is a very big deal. People don't understand it.
41:23
Speaker 25: When you look at the sheer numbers of what they
41:24
Speaker 25: do and the jobs they create, but the scalability of
41:28
Speaker 25: them as well.
41:28
Speaker 13: We know what was happening at SuperFab. And these are those...
41:31
Speaker 13: We have other things that we're working on. It shouldn't
41:34
Speaker 13: all be.
41:34
Speaker 25: Just centered around the TerraFab conversation, but these are the
41:38
Speaker 25: things that bring those supply chains, and they're here because
41:41
Speaker 25: they know that it's about.
41:43
Speaker 13: To happen here.
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Speaker 8: We've talked about that, too, just like you mentioned. One
41:48
Speaker 8: opportunity creates a lot of other opportunities down the road,
41:53
Speaker 8: and this is a pretty sizable... How many jobs are...
41:56
Speaker 8: Are we expecting out of this?
41:57
Speaker 25: To start with this on this one, I think it's
41:59
Speaker 25: going to be between 13 and 16 jobs. But these
42:02
Speaker 25: are jobs that are, you know, $ 85, 000 plus without the benefits.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
42:05
Speaker 25: That's just those things here. Now, this thing they supply,
42:08
Speaker 25: you know, food and restaurants. They supply mechanical metals. They
42:11
Speaker 25: do all the different things that the gases, different gases
42:14
Speaker 25: that build things.
42:16
Speaker 13: So they know what's happening here. They know what we're
42:18
Speaker 13: working on.
42:19
Speaker 25: And this can be expanded rapidly as our infrastructure expands,
42:23
Speaker 25: you know, the infrastructure of the community, the industrial community.
42:26
Speaker 1: So you guys had a meeting last night, a hearing, rather,
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Speaker 1: over the budget for the city of Bryan. Not well attended.
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Speaker 7: No.
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Speaker 25: You know, I think people understand we run a fiscally
42:38
Speaker 25: conservative tight ship. We don't ask for other things. If
42:43
Speaker 25: we can afford to do it, we're going to do it.
42:45
Speaker 25: We get judged on quality of life, but what we
42:46
Speaker 25: do is safety and services. That's what we do. And
42:49
Speaker 25: if there's anything left, we can do quality of life stuff,
42:51
Speaker 25: but that's usually on the backs of the taxpayers if
42:54
Speaker 25: there's money left over. We feel like with the valuations
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Speaker 25: going up, we don't need to do anything.
43:00
Speaker 13: We don't need to raise anything.
43:02
Speaker 25: We just run a tight ship, and people, I think
43:04
Speaker 25: they trust what we're doing. They trust our direction, so
43:07
Speaker 25: I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: So there's going to be another hearing, if I'm correct,
43:10
Speaker 1: on the tax rate coming up, and that's next week,
43:14
Speaker 1: or is it this week? It's this week, Thursday.
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Speaker 25: It should be Thursday. I've got to look at my calendar.
43:19
Speaker 8: You're jet-lagged. That's what happens when you go to Lubbock.
43:21
Speaker 8: I know.
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Speaker 13: Oh, my gosh. That was, you know, I couldn't get
43:25
Speaker 13: out of Lubbock fast enough.
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Speaker 8: You never can.
43:28
Speaker 1: Hey, Matt Davis said it, you know, happiness is Lubbock
43:31
Speaker 1: in my rearview mirror.
43:32
Speaker 13: Yes, it is.
43:33
Speaker 25: There was a red eye that got out at 7
43:35
Speaker 25: in the morning, got me back in Austin at 835,
43:37
Speaker 25: and I was happy to be back home and happy
43:39
Speaker 25: to be back in Bryan here. There's a lot of
43:41
Speaker 25: good stuff happening. Hopefully we'll have some more announcements coming
43:44
Speaker 25: up soon.
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Speaker 13: We'll see what happens.
43:45
Speaker 25: And if we look back at what's happened over the last,
43:49
Speaker 25: you know, five, ten years in our community, it's pretty substantial.
43:53
Speaker 8: Massively, massively substantial. And, you know, we always look forward
43:56
Speaker 8: to any future. Because I think there's going to be
43:58
Speaker 8: a lot of people wanting to get in on the community,
44:01
Speaker 8: considering how everything is developing.
44:03
Speaker 1: Mayor, I wanted to get your thoughts on the passing
44:04
Speaker 1: of Dolly Parton.
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Speaker 15: Yes.
44:05
Speaker 1: And we were actually having a conversation offstage, if you will.
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Speaker 15: Right.
44:10
Speaker 1: That among the people that we know, and we do
44:12
Speaker 1: know some people that have met Dolly, that you were
44:14
Speaker 1: likely to have met her at one point in time.
44:16
Speaker 13: You know, we got to have just been there. You know,
44:20
Speaker 13: Grand Ole Opry and everything else. It was a truly.
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Speaker 25: When I heard that yesterday, I was by myself, got home,
44:26
Speaker 25: got here about 11 o'clock, and it just broke at
44:29
Speaker 25: that point. I was by myself, and you start thinking
44:32
Speaker 25: about the many things that she did. Just an unbelievable person.
44:37
Speaker 25: Her life and her life story, that song, Code of
44:40
Speaker 25: Many Colors, it reminds me of our family. We're a
44:43
Speaker 25: family of 12.
44:45
Speaker 13: There was not a lot of money. There was not
44:47
Speaker 13: a lot of anything to go on. We shared.
44:49
Speaker 25: We gave it to each other. We passed hand-me-downs and
44:51
Speaker 25: everything else for for us to go get something and,
44:54
Speaker 25: you know, just to go out to eat when we
44:56
Speaker 25: were young kids.
44:56
Speaker 1: Big deal.
44:57
Speaker 13: It was a big deal. I mean, I remember, and
44:58
Speaker 13: it was normally Chinese because you could buy the, you know,
45:01
Speaker 13: you buy the bowls and everybody.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
45:03
Speaker 13: Nobody got their own dish.
45:04
Speaker 25: You know, dad would order this, this, this, and this,
45:06
Speaker 25: and everybody shared everything was there, but it just, you know,
45:09
Speaker 25: humility is great. Gratitude is unbelievable. And it clearly, she
45:12
Speaker 25: had all that stuff. She had a given heart and
45:14
Speaker 25: she gave back, you know, millions and millions of just
45:17
Speaker 25: through her reading her book project and all the different
45:19
Speaker 25: things like that. So, you know, My condolences to the family,
45:23
Speaker 25: you know, to the state of Tennessee.
45:26
Speaker 13: To our country and our world. I mean, she was
45:27
Speaker 13: a humanitarian of the ultimate.
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Speaker 8: Is there anyone that, as we were trying to figure out,
45:33
Speaker 8: because it has to be a short list, is there
45:35
Speaker 8: anyone that is that universally beloved still standing?
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Speaker 13: I don't know if there is. You know, that's a
45:41
Speaker 13: great question. And, you know, I'll put some thought in.
45:43
Speaker 13: In two weeks, I'll give you an answer.
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Speaker 8: Anything else we want to get to today?
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Speaker 13: No, just, you know, I say all the time, you know,
45:50
Speaker 13: we can be anything. Just be kind. I love it.
45:52
Speaker 15: All right.
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Speaker 1: tell all the women in my family, secure your gear.
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Speaker 24: Yes.
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Speaker 1: Secure your gear.
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Speaker 8: Very important. Text messages. Start with Bradley. I found a
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Speaker 8: $ 100 bill in the yesterday's parking lot.
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Speaker 11: Nice.
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Speaker 8: That is so good. Not long after, I found a
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Speaker 8: concert tickets in a campus building. I posted a notice
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Speaker 8: and nobody reclaimed it. So I attended said concert. It
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Speaker 8: was Jerry Seinfeld at.
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Speaker 1: The majestic theater. That is not a cheap seat right
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Speaker 1: there in a beautiful theater.
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Speaker 8: I was summarily ejected when the ticket holder, who I
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Speaker 8: recognized from the campus building, showed up with his reissued ticket.
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Speaker 8: I learned a good lesson that evening. Always charge your
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Speaker 8: concert tickets because they may be able to replace them.
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Speaker 8: Still bitter over missing that Seinfeld set.
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Speaker 1: Well, you got to spend some time in San Antonio.
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Speaker 8: Oh, yeah, the river. Look, yeah, you can find ways to.
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Speaker 1: I can kill some hours there.
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Speaker 8: Dang, Lord knows I can. Shannon, I found $ 200 sticking
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Speaker 8: out of the ATM at my bank one time. $ 200
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Speaker 8: at the ATM just hanging out. I backed up and
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Speaker 8: told the teller in the drive-thru and sent it through
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Speaker 8: to them.
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Speaker 7: Hey.
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Speaker 1: Props to you.
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Speaker 8: You're at the bank.
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Speaker 1: It's probably for the best.
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Speaker 8: There's cameras. There's a lot of reasons.
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Speaker 1: Well, and you can see exactly what happened there.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 18: 100%.
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Speaker 23: 100%.
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Speaker 8: Terry. Wallet with an ID is one thing. I would
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Speaker 8: attempt to track them down myself because I don't trust
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Speaker 8: others to do so. Cash on the ground. Then I
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Speaker 8: would walk around the store looking for someone in a
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Speaker 8: panicked state. Offer help. And if they tell me they
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Speaker 8: dropped some money, then I would know it was theirs. Otherwise,
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Speaker 8: I keep it because I feel others at Lost and
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Speaker 8: Found making minimum wage would also likely be keeping it.
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Speaker 8: That's fair, Terry. Terry, you went further than I would
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Speaker 8: have gone.
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Speaker 1: Tanya, by the way. Tanya says, I found a $ 100
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Speaker 1: bill in front of a gas pump at a gas station.
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Speaker 7: Oh!
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Speaker 1: And I found a $ 100 bill flying across the parking
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Speaker 1: lot over by Kirkland.
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Speaker 8: Oh, flying hundreds, Tanya.
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Speaker 1: I am going to hang out with Tanya.
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Speaker 8: Tanya, the universe is throwing money at you, Tanya.
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Speaker 1: That and big bills. We're not talking about, you know,
53:35
Speaker 1: low denominations here.
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Speaker 8: Spurs texted, I found a really nice pocket knife that
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Speaker 8: was laying right out in the open on my brother-in-law's dresser.
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Speaker 1: Oh, come on, man. Steal from your brother-in-law.
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Speaker 8: I want to go through a few of these Dolly
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Speaker 8: Parton facts because some people have been throwing out some
53:56
Speaker 8: just lists of things you might not know about Dolly,
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Speaker 8: which share with your friends. Didn't like roller coasters.
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Speaker 1: Really?
54:02
Speaker 8: Despite owning Dollywood. She refused to ride any of the
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Speaker 8: coasters because she suffered from severe motion sickness, but more importantly,
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Speaker 8: didn't want to mess up her hair.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Jolene and I will always love you. You probably know
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Speaker 8: this one. Written on the same day.
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Speaker 1: Just the... Written on the.
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Speaker 8: Widely considered, by the way, by people in the business
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Speaker 8: to be the single greatest day in songwriting achievements by
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Speaker 8: an artist ever.
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Speaker 1: That has to be.
54:31
Speaker 8: I mean, you're talking about... Two of the greatest songs
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Speaker 8: of all time. She just sat down. Both of them
54:36
Speaker 8: came out at the exact same session.
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Speaker 1: What talent.
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Speaker 8: Her Imagination Library program gifted over, ready for this, 300
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Speaker 8: million books.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you're not familiar with this program, you sign
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Speaker 1: up for this program when your child is born. And
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Speaker 1: up until the age of, what is it, five?
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Speaker 8: Something like that.
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Speaker 1: A book a month will be sent. Up until the
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Speaker 1: age of five.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, 300 million free books for kids from birth to
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Speaker 8: age five. Top that anyone. Rest in peace with the
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Speaker 8: absolute legends, legends of American life.
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Speaker 13: Icon.
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Speaker 12: 1620 WTW.