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The Infomaniacs: August 27th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: The City of College Station announced a road closure near
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  Speaker 1: the College Station Police Department. Dartmouth Northbound will be closed
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  Speaker 1: at Krennic Tap starting today. The closure is expected to
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  Speaker 1: last two weeks. Aggieland Humane Society says they have seen
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  Speaker 1: a spike in the number of dogs in the shelter
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  Speaker 1: with heartworm disease.
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  Speaker 2: Our normal rate to sit at is about 10% of
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  Speaker 2: our adult dog population at any given time will have
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  Speaker 2: heartworm disease. Currently, in this exact moment, we're closer to 35.
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  Speaker 1: Katrina Ross with the Aggieland Humane Society says heartworms are treatable,
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  Speaker 1: but they need about $ 9, 000 in donation to fund the
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  Speaker 1: treatment for 15 dogs. If you would like to help,
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  Speaker 1: you can visit AggielandHumane.org. The cities of Bryan and College
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  Speaker 1: Station are asking residents to adopt voluntary water restrictions. They
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  Speaker 1: say with high demand, water tower levels can drop, affecting
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  Speaker 1: water pressure and the availability of water during a fire.
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  Speaker 1: Try to limit water during daytime hours and limit watering
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  Speaker 1: to two days per week. Report any suspected leaks immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Texas secured a billion-dollar settlement with Meta, the parent company
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  Speaker 1: of Facebook and Instagram, over child safety issues. Along with
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  Speaker 1: the settlement, Meta has agreed to stricter age verification measures
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  Speaker 1: and a daily two-hour time limit for teens. During school hours,
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  Speaker 1: they will disable all notifications and create a nighttime mode
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  Speaker 1: to restrict access for teens. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 1: calls the agreement historic and a major step forward in
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  Speaker 1: the fight to ensure our kids are protected online. This
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  Speaker 1: follows the $ 1. 4 billion settlement with Meta in 2024 for
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  Speaker 1: unlawfully collecting and using facial recognition data. A student from
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  Speaker 1: A & M Consolidated High School is behind bars after
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  Speaker 1: he was found with a THC vape. The 17-year-old student
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  Speaker 1: was arrested Tuesday after the device fell out of his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with possession of a controlled substance in
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  Speaker 1: a drug-free zone. He remains jailed on a $ 15, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the latest on the Texas wildfires. Data from the
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  Speaker 1: Texas A & M Forest Service shows that the Ross
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  Speaker 1: wildfire in Palo Pinto County has grown to over 80,000
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  Speaker 1: acres and is only 12% contained. Three other major fires
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  Speaker 1: are still burning and active in other parts of the state. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: 197 counties are under a burn ban. Brazos and Burleson
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  Speaker 1: counties are the last holdouts in the Brazos Valley. A
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  Speaker 1: federal judge in Texas ruled that an ICE agent will
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  Speaker 1: not be extradited to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Christian Castro is charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely
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  Speaker 3: reporting a crime. He allegedly shot through a door of
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  Speaker 3: a home January 14th while pursuing a man he believed
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  Speaker 3: was in the country illegally. The man was wounded. Three
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  Speaker 3: others in the house were not injured. He's also accused
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  Speaker 3: of lying about what led up to the shootings. He's
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  Speaker 3: been in the Cameron County Jail, but under Texas law
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  Speaker 3: and barring extradition, must be released after 90 days of detention,
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  Speaker 3: which comes tomorrow. Minnesota authorities believe Castro could flee to Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: Eric Bushman, TSN News.
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW. Infomaniacs, good morning. Remember, you text the same time
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  Speaker 5: at 979-695-1620. Weather, again, we're still going to keep a
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  Speaker 5: chance of rain around.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard for.
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  Speaker 5: Me to get When you say 60% chance of rain
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  Speaker 5: and then we get what we got this morning, which
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  Speaker 5: is that little drizzly.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little bit of a letdown. A little drizzly day.
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  Speaker 5: It's like, okay, well, that had to be what they're
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  Speaker 5: talking about, but everyone says there's still a chance.
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  Speaker 1: So the rain chances dwindle through the day. Yeah. Starting
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  Speaker 1: about 3 o'clock this afternoon, we creep back up to
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  Speaker 1: a 10% chance.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And then we ride a 10% or 15% chance until
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  Speaker 1: about 9 o'clock tonight. Well, 100% chance of hot.
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  Speaker 5: 100 some odd degrees, 107 for the heat index down
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  Speaker 5: to the 70s tonight and back up to the 90s tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Malik, feel the difference. Houston, Texas. You got yourselves a
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump tour stop coming. Apparently, yeah. I've been seeing
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  Speaker 1: stuff about airspace closures and restrictions and that sort of
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  Speaker 1: thing for a VIP.
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  Speaker 5: This is kind of bonkers. So they're going to put
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  Speaker 5: some air restrictions. And if you look at the map
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  Speaker 5: for this, which you can find, basically everything north, Till
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  Speaker 5: past the woodlands. So not quite to us, but close
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  Speaker 5: to us.
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  Speaker 1: Reasonably close.
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  Speaker 5: And then south all the way past the coast of
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  Speaker 5: Galveston is affected. And it's normal stuff. This is what
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  Speaker 5: you do when the president moves around. Because again, they
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  Speaker 5: tend to shut everything down when a president comes to town.
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  Speaker 5: It's a real pain in the butt. Especially if you
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  Speaker 5: happen to live in the city.
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  Speaker 1: Now, does it affect us?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: But if you have.
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  Speaker 5: Friends in Houston, it sure as heck could affect them.
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  Speaker 5: Because here are the activities they don't want you to do.
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  Speaker 5: They don't want you to do flight training, not sightseeing flights,
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  Speaker 5: not banner towing.
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  Speaker 1: Drones.
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  Speaker 5: Drones, Will, is the big thing that they are talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they don't want balloons, skydiving, crop dusting, or several
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  Speaker 1: other aviation operations that go on during what they call
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  Speaker 1: the TFR, which is temporary flight restrictions.
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  Speaker 5: And this goes from this afternoon until tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah. Now, this does not affect commercial air traffic.
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  Speaker 5: No, they want everything but that, basically, out in the sky. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: very interesting. And we will see. If you're wondering why
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  Speaker 5: he is there, it's Artemis II related. They're going to
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  Speaker 5: do a ceremony to honor Artemis. the crew of Artemis 2,
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  Speaker 5: which is pretty dope.
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  Speaker 1: I love that.
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  Speaker 5: You sent me this, and this kind of warmed my heart,
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  Speaker 5: but it also made a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 1: So Dolly Parton, rest in peace.
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  Speaker 5: She had spent the last, I would say, five or
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  Speaker 5: six years doing everything.
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  Speaker 1: She was not a person that would sit down and rest.
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  Speaker 5: She was not an idle woman, and she already had
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  Speaker 5: a lot of interests involved. But they're going to have
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  Speaker 5: a lot of Dolly product coming out in the next
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  Speaker 5: couple of years. And they've documented the list that she
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  Speaker 5: has basically left for projects. that are still in development.
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  Speaker 1: Her people said up until, like, the last minutes, she
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  Speaker 1: was still working, and that was just Dolly. So some
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  Speaker 1: of the things that we can expect to see in
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  Speaker 1: the coming months, Dolly-related. Dolly's Tennessean Travel Stops, which we
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  Speaker 1: have talked about here on the Infomaniacs, will celebrate National
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  Speaker 1: Truck Driver Appreciation Week beginning in mid-September.
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  Speaker 5: Now, remember, that was a big thing for them. They
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  Speaker 5: were like, hey, no, we're not turning away truckers.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 1: We love the truckers.
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  Speaker 5: Bring them in. which, again, interesting angle to play. A
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  Speaker 5: lot of people expect this to be a very significant
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  Speaker 5: gas station development in the South in the next couple
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  Speaker 5: of years.
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  Speaker 1: So the Songteller Hotel and Dolly's Life of Many Colors
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  Speaker 1: Museum are going to have their grand opening next month
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  Speaker 1: as well in Nashville. That's right. She has a hotel.
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  Speaker 5: Which they were mentioning in a couple of the packages, like, yeah, well,
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  Speaker 5: it's not open yet, but they're about to. Yeah, she
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  Speaker 5: has a whole hotel, which is going to probably be,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you know how that's going to go.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be sold out for years. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly Dolls will be available starting next month online as well. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I've not seen anything about the Dolly Dolls and what
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  Speaker 1: they are going to look like. I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: anybody has.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, we've just gone through a gas station, a hotel launch,
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  Speaker 5: and a doll line.
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  Speaker 1: These are just the first three.
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  Speaker 5: There's a coffee line.
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  Speaker 1: A coffee line.
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  Speaker 5: Dolly's Cup of Ambition Coffee.
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  Speaker 1: Brilliant.
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  Speaker 5: Which is going to drop September 29th.
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  Speaker 1: All of this stuff is coming out next month.
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  Speaker 5: Dolly on the holly for the holiday season. You know
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  Speaker 5: what that is.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta be.
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  Speaker 5: That has got to be a Dolly-centric version of The Elf. Obviously, Dolly,
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  Speaker 5: a true original musical. which has been in the works
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  Speaker 5: for a while, but that's still going to open up
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  Speaker 5: January 19th, which would have been Dolly's 81st birthday.
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  Speaker 1: She did a Kendra Scott deal. That's going to be huge.
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  Speaker 5: Nine to five, the jewelry collection coming out in January.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're missing the boat on that one. They should
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  Speaker 1: roll that out pre-Christmas. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. I, I, well, maybe it could be advanced. The
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  Speaker 5: question that I was reading this, it was like, why,
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  Speaker 5: why would you have all of these? Y'all she knew,
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  Speaker 5: that she was yeah she running out of time and
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  Speaker 5: i think that a lot of this was to set
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  Speaker 5: up generationally as if they weren't already.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these projects were in the works already i
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  Speaker 1: think she worked hard to try to finalize her vision
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  Speaker 1: right for what those were but dolly you know there
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  Speaker 1: was a quote that i read immediately following dolly's death
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  Speaker 1: and that was attributed to her and of course, I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to just kind of mash it up here. It
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  Speaker 1: was something along the lines of she overlooked some of
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  Speaker 1: her own health issues while she was caring for her husband.
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  Speaker 4: True.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't spend the time that she needed on that. So
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  Speaker 1: I think I think she was well aware of what
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  Speaker 1: was coming.
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  Speaker 5: I think this is preparing for her family. Because again,
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  Speaker 5: generational business is what we're talking about with this. She's
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  Speaker 5: turned herself into Walt Disney.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: Is what you see here. There's businesses on top of
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  Speaker 5: businesses on top of businesses that are going to continue.
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  Speaker 5: With Dolly material. And there is even a Dolly avatar
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  Speaker 5: show in the works.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 5: Which, again, if she's prepared it and it's all done yet,
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  Speaker 5: AI Dolly could be something.
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  Speaker 1: That continues all the way down the road. Dolly's Dog Treats?
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  Speaker 5: Dolly's Dog Treats.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll give those because I had a set brand
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  Speaker 1: of dog treats because I actually had a friend that
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  Speaker 1: worked for that company.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But they shut down what they were doing with that,
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  Speaker 1: so I've kind of been looking for the next dog treats.
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  Speaker 9: Unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: I found some blueberry ones that Annie really likes, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll try the Dolly's Dog Treats.
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  Speaker 5: Adam mentions that we didn't even cover the frozen foods
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  Speaker 5: line for Dolly, which is apparently available in.
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  Speaker 1: A whole lot of places. These were just the things
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  Speaker 1: that are about to roll out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, these are just the future products, y'all. And she's
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  Speaker 5: already got a pretty good amount, let alone the music
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  Speaker 5: library and the publishing library. I mean, it's a lot.
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  Speaker 5: I did want to discuss something because I think, look,
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  Speaker 5: we all need to be appreciative of our teachers and
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  Speaker 5: our schools here in the Browns Valley. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: very important because it could be so much worse. Oh, Lord,
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  Speaker 5: you guys don't even know.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I know.
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  Speaker 1: You know. I'm married to a teacher. My mother-in-law is
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  Speaker 1: a teacher.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She was. She just retired.
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  Speaker 5: Take a look at some of the stuff that goes
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  Speaker 5: on in Houston ISD.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, God. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 5: A teacher is going viral in Houston because she has
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  Speaker 5: created a solution to a problem that has plagued her
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  Speaker 5: in her classroom for quite some time. And that is
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  Speaker 5: the fart corner. She is also, I believe, an influencer
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  Speaker 5: of some capacity. She goes by Valencia and Joy.
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  Speaker 6: When I was young, yes, it was absolutely embarrassing to
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  Speaker 6: fart in front of others. We would clench our booty
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  Speaker 6: cheeks and our stomachs would be totally, totally hurting. But
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  Speaker 6: these kids are totally different. I've noticed a huge change
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  Speaker 6: in the last three years. They literally hush their booties
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  Speaker 6: up and fart. There is absolutely nothing. zero change that
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  Speaker 6: is why we created the park corner but i took
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  Speaker 6: your advice and we added the gas station so it's
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  Speaker 6: the gas station now aka the fart corner.
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  Speaker 5: They didn't like the term fart corner so they used
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  Speaker 5: the gas start calling it the gas station which is
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  Speaker 5: brilliant sends them to the corner.
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  Speaker 1: She just says she's trying to keep the funk in
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  Speaker 1: one area It's not, I mean. So she said the
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  Speaker 1: last three years. Losing battle. The last three years, she
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  Speaker 1: has noticed that kids have become less embarrassed about it
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  Speaker 1: and they're just letting it fly. Is that a trend?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. And if it is, if it is,
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to figure out what, what the cause was.
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  Speaker 5: I always, I instinctively blame TikTok. I think if this
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  Speaker 5: is a trend and if this is resonating with any
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  Speaker 5: of you out there, it's like, wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: My kids.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have not seen.
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  Speaker 5: Study the Tiki Talk.
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  Speaker 1: Study it. No, I'm not going to. Try to find
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  Speaker 1: out if there's a trend in there. But I will
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  Speaker 1: ask if there's some sort of trend among those people
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  Speaker 1: who I know that are into that sort of thing.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was a COVID thing. Maybe it was a
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: COVID thing. These kids are online schooling, right? They forgot
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: how to be... They went feral. Yeah, they started passing
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: gas all.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Over the place.
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: They went feral, just said, this is what we do now.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: And, of course, there's the popularity of the children's books,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: the series, Everybody Poops and the Gas We Pass. Yes,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that's right. That's right. Who knows? But, you know, while
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily like this development from Teacher Valicia. I
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: do respect it.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Do what you have to do. She saw a problem
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and she found a solution.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: She found a solution and something that the kids will
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: be into to distract them, to allow her to teach
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: them to read and write.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Are they still doing that in schools, by the way?
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: That's debatable.
• 17:35
  Speaker 5: Actually, you don't even have to teach them how to
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: text anymore because AI is about to take that from them.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: No.
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: I'm just going to play this. This is from an influencer.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: This is a new development in chat GPT. And you
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: guys tell us if this is something you.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: would be interested in.
• 17:52
  Speaker 15: ChatGPT has now launched Apple Messages integration on Mac, allowing
• 17:56
  Speaker 15: it to access your entire message history and send text
• 18:00
  Speaker 15: messages on your behalf.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Essentially, this new.
• 18:03
  Speaker 15: Feature launched by OpenAI will allow the chatbot to conduct
• 18:06
  Speaker 15: actions within Apple Messages app. ChatGPT will be able to
• 18:09
  Speaker 15: read your messages, will be able to write your messages,
• 18:12
  Speaker 15: will be able to actually hit send on your messages.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: You can turn your text messaging over now.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: To chat GPT. I started sweating when it said it
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: has access to your messages.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: It has access to all of your messages.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: I don't think there's a statute of limitations on that
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: sort of thing. And I am in some very, very
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: dark humor-oriented chat text groups, you know, that I don't...
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I really would prefer... Chat wants to know about that.
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: No.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: It wants to know so it can help you. I
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: would rather... Help you by... I would rather fart in
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: a corner.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Ha!
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: I would rather do that. So that is the question.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: When ChatGPT can take over that function, I'll consider it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: Can we start a poll? You don't want to weigh in, guys.
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: So you got to choose one or the other.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: You don't allow chat to have access to your text.
• 19:06
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  Speaker 19: Shares of Australian carrier Qantas Airways jumped 4% after the
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: cities of Bryan and College Station are asking residents to
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: adopt voluntary water restrictions. They say with high demand, water
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: tower levels can drop, affecting water pressure and the availability
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of water during a large fire. Try to limit watering
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: during daytime hours and limit watering to two days per week.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Report any suspected leaks immediately. A man who was arrested
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: last week for public intoxication after harassing two female students
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Outside A & M Consolidated High School on August 18th
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: has been arrested again. 36-year-old Bob Esquivel was picked up
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: again by College Station Police Tuesday night. Reports say Esquivel
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: approached a home in the 1200 block of Carolina Street
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: around 10.30 p.m. and tried to talk his way into
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the residence. He reportedly asked the residents if they liked
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: cookies and offered to conduct Bible study with them. He
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: smelled of alcohol and had trouble walking. He was booked
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: into the Brazos County Jail for public intoxication and was
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: again released on a personal recognizance bond of $ 300. The
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: same as last week. This was Esquivel's 27th booking into
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the jail and his 10th arrest for public intoxication. He
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: also has numerous arrests for criminal trespass as well as
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: assault of EMS personnel and possession of a controlled substance.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: A stolen skid steer has been recovered thanks to GPS.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: The Burleson County Sheriff's Office said the John Deere skid
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: steer worth about $ 115, 000 was being used to install fiber
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: optic lines in Burleson County. GPS tracking data provided by
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: the rental company Equipment Share led officers to the equipment
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: in a wooded piece of private property in the Clay
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: community near Snook. They say the equipment was visible from
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the road. After matching the identification numbers, the skid steer
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: was returned to the rental company without damage. Anyone with
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: information regarding the theft is asked to contact the Burleson
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office. Less than a week into the College
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Station ISD school year and a student has been arrested
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: for having a THC vape at school. Arrest records say
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the 17-year-old student from A & M Consolidated High School
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: was arrested on Tuesday after the device fell out of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: his pocket. We are withholding his name due to his age.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: He was charged with possession of a controlled substance penalty
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: group two under one gram in a drug-free zone. He
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: remains jailed on $ 15, 000 bond. Aggieland Humane Society says they
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: have three and a half times the normal number of
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: dogs in the shelter with heartworm disease. Katrina Ross says
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: heartworms are treatable, but they are in need of donations
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: to fund the treatment.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: We were looking to raise around $ 9, 000 to cover the
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: treatment for, it comes out to be about 15 dogs.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: And so currently we're about halfway there.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: If you would like to help, you can visit AggielandHumane.org.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: The central Texas city of Pflugerville near Austin has ended
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: its relationship with flocks. The city covered up all 28
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: cameras Tuesday in advance of their city council meeting. Pflugerville
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: announced on Facebook Wednesday that council voted unanimously to end
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: the agreement with Flock. The city authorized 80 agencies to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: access their data, only to discover that nearly 480 agencies
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: were tapping into the system. Concerns from Pflugerville residents caused
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the city to pause renewal of the contract that expired
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: last month. But after new revelations came to light, council
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: member Jonathan Kaufman says the decision was easy.
• 31:42
  Speaker 22: You know, I'm not sure if we would have uncovered
• 31:45
  Speaker 22: this evidence and this situation had we gone ahead and
• 31:48
  Speaker 22: voted last time. But certainly this made it abundantly clear
• 31:52
  Speaker 22: to all of us that change was needed.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: There's a tentative settlement agreement between Meta and dozens of
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: states over claims that the company designed its apps to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: be addictive. The tech giant agrees to pay up to
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: $ 17 billion dollars Over the next 10 years and make changes,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: including a daily two-hour time limit, and a ban on
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: displaying likes for users under 18.
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  Speaker 23: This is not just Instagram and Facebook. We have also
• 32:17
  Speaker 23: seen similar cases against TikTok, Snapchat, YouTube, and the acknowledgement
• 32:22
  Speaker 23: that these lawsuits have been targeting the design of these apps.
• 32:26
  Speaker 23: It's not about the content that's on there. This has
• 32:28
  Speaker 23: really been a different legal approach that we've seen states
• 32:31
  Speaker 23: and also individuals to take on these companies, going after
• 32:34
  Speaker 23: specifically those design features, and now this acknowledgement from the
• 32:38
  Speaker 23: companies that those features might change.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: That's Elizabeth Schultz reporting. META will pay over $ 1 billion
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: to the state of Texas, funding remediation efforts including youth
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: mental health services, crisis resources, digital literacy initiatives, after-school programs,
• 32:54
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  Speaker 5: I want to talk City of Bryan, but I want
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: to talk specifically art in the City of Bryan because
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: this is something. Have you noticed the amount of murals
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: that have occurred in the last couple of years, specifically
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: in downtown Bryan, but really in a lot of places
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: around Bryan?
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 36:07
  Speaker 5: Things got real colorful, and I think it's incredible. I
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: love seeing it. So this week we have Zyresha Jackson,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: who is the Community Development Department.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: What do you do there? What is your.
• 36:20
  Speaker 25: I work between community and economic development, and part of
• 36:23
  Speaker 25: my role is overseeing this arts and culture development grant.
• 36:25
  Speaker 18: So I'm really excited to be here with you guys.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: How did you get picked for that? That's a great question.
• 36:30
  Speaker 18: Yeah, you know, wonderful question.
• 36:32
  Speaker 25: I think they just looked at me and just thought
• 36:35
  Speaker 25: that I would do a wonderful job.
• 36:36
  Speaker 19: No.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: They said, hey, look, she's got the ribs right here.
• 36:41
  Speaker 25: No, it was just a great opportunity that presented itself
• 36:44
  Speaker 25: for the city of Bryan to be directly involved with
• 36:47
  Speaker 25: arts and culture in our area and really looking at
• 36:49
  Speaker 25: ways that we could be involved and invest in that.
• 36:53
  Speaker 25: And so with me having a background in grants, we
• 36:55
  Speaker 25: just thought it would be the perfect opportunity.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: We're going to talk to Grant in a second, but
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: since you're so interconnected with the art community, how, I guess,
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: prolific is that group of people in Bryan and the
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: surrounding areas? Do we have a lot of people that
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: are really high-level artists?
• 37:16
  Speaker 18: Oh, absolutely.
• 37:17
  Speaker 25: I think our community is filled with very talented artists
• 37:21
  Speaker 25: in a wide variety of ways, whether it's music or
• 37:24
  Speaker 25: fine arts or anything in between. We have such a
• 37:27
  Speaker 25: great and strong community, which is why it's so important
• 37:29
  Speaker 25: for a city of Bryan to be able to invest
• 37:31
  Speaker 25: and be involved in creating this environment.
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: One of the things with art is obviously, I mean,
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: you can do it for free.
• 37:38
  Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: Not really very feasible, especially for these larger products.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Until art, the demand for art that looks like it
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: was done by a second grader comes in, then I'm out.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm not touching any of this. So I need
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: people who have dedicated their lives to getting very good
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: at this type of stuff, which I am not.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Now, with that said, how do you do that?
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: And a great way to do it is offer a
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: grant for some of this art that Now, first off,
• 38:09
  Speaker 5: let's talk about how this is funded.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: So where does the money come from for this?
• 38:12
  Speaker 25: Yeah, so this is funded through our Hotel Augustine tax
• 38:14
  Speaker 25: revenues that the city gains. We have a certain percentage
• 38:17
  Speaker 25: that we can put towards these initiatives. And so, like
• 38:19
  Speaker 25: you mentioned, financial support is one of the greatest ways
• 38:22
  Speaker 25: of doing that. We have so many artists that have
• 38:24
  Speaker 25: been doing great work in our area. So be able
• 38:26
  Speaker 25: to provide a financial investment in the work that they
• 38:29
  Speaker 25: do is just tremendous.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: So the idea is that you apply on your website,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: which you can find it at bryantx.gov. I know there's
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: probably a sub-site, but you can apply. And I want
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: to say the deadline is in early September.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Is it September 11th?
• 38:43
  Speaker 18: It's September 11th, Friday, September 11th at 5 p.m.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: So you don't have a ton of time, but a
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: good amount of time to get in your application. Grant
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: amounts are going to range from $ 2, 500 all the way
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: up to $ 2, 500. thousand dollars, which is a sizable chunk
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: of money.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Uh, And how are you going to decide who gets what?
• 39:09
  Speaker 25: Yeah, so we have a grant review committee that looks
• 39:12
  Speaker 25: over all of those applications that come in. And we
• 39:15
  Speaker 25: have a set criteria that we look at. Most of
• 39:17
  Speaker 25: that is how is that benefiting the city of Bryant?
• 39:19
  Speaker 25: So are you developing, enhancing arts and culture in our area?
• 39:23
  Speaker 25: And also, are you making Bryant a tourism-friendly area? Like,
• 39:26
  Speaker 25: are you driving in out-of-state visitors or out-of-town visitors to
• 39:29
  Speaker 25: come in and explore Bryant in a new and fascinating way?
• 39:32
  Speaker 25: And so those are some of the components that we
• 39:34
  Speaker 25: look at when we have our Grit Review Committee come together,
• 39:37
  Speaker 25: and then we make recommendations to our city manager, who
• 39:39
  Speaker 25: approves those.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: What are some of the projects that catch y'all's eye
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: in general?
• 39:43
  Speaker 25: Yeah, well, we have had, this is probably our fourth
• 39:46
  Speaker 25: year of doing this so far. And we've had a
• 39:48
  Speaker 25: range of different projects from murals, as you mentioned earlier,
• 39:51
  Speaker 25: to live music initiatives. We've done some fine arts exhibits,
• 39:55
  Speaker 25: as well as a fiber festival where it's a knitting
• 39:58
  Speaker 25: group that came in.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: Fiber festival is one that I think we're going to
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: end up talking to at some point.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: This is not internet.
• 40:04
  Speaker 11: No, no, no, no.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: As in textiles, as in knitting, weaving.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: All of that stuff.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: My oldest daughter has just gotten into Needlepoint. The kids
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: are really into Needlepoint.
• 40:17
  Speaker 25: And it just shows the environment that we have in
• 40:19
  Speaker 25: our area of the different creative aspects. And so we're
• 40:22
  Speaker 25: really open to looking at many different types of projects
• 40:26
  Speaker 25: as long as it's making an impact and it's benefiting
• 40:28
  Speaker 25: our residents.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: So this really has very few limits in terms of
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: medium or in terms of like... Because the live music
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: thing is one that a lot of people really respond
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: to here because... it could use a little bit of
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: help in terms of venues and initiatives and things like that.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Are you guys involved? I noticed there's a songwriters festival
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: sort of thing coming up in the city of Bryan.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Is that you guys?
• 40:52
  Speaker 18: I believe Destination Bryan is heavily involved.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: But you work with Destination Bryan being a tourism person
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: with that. That's pretty great.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: So again, if you've got a project in the works,
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: they might have some money for you. All you need
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: to do is go get those applications in By September 11th,
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: which is amazing.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I love this. And I think it does.
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: It adds a lot because you have some of these
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: things pop up. Obviously, you have some visual art. You
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: have some some art that you can participate in and
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: things like that.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: It really, really. There's no butter carving. We were talking
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: about that earlier with the Iowa State Fair.
• 41:29
  Speaker 18: Not yet.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Not yet. By the way, in answer to the initial
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: question that we asked you of how you got that job,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: we do have a text from Deputy City Manager Hugh Walker.
• 41:39
  Speaker 14: Oh.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Who says, Zai got the job because she rocks.
• 41:41
  Speaker 18: Oh, thanks.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Well, we saw. That's clear. Clear. We got that. 30
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: seconds with her. We know why she got the job. Yeah,
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: she's solid.
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Anything else we want to get to today or anything
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: else that people need to know about this?
• 41:54
  Speaker 18: Yeah, just know that it's a wonderful opportunity.
• 41:56
  Speaker 25: We would love to have you submit an application if
• 41:59
  Speaker 25: you do have a project or program that enhances or
• 42:02
  Speaker 25: elevates the arts and culture in our community. And if
• 42:05
  Speaker 25: you have any questions, feel free to check out our website.
• 42:08
  Speaker 25: Like you mentioned, bryantx.gov is a great way to find
• 42:11
  Speaker 25: that information and reach out if you have any questions.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: Again, yeah, apply. September 11th is the deadline. And thank
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: you all so much for coming in.
• 42:19
  Speaker 18: Thank you for having me.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: If you missed any of this or you want more details,
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: you want to share it with an artist that you know,
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: someone that might be interested in participating in this.
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• 42:28
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  Speaker 5: One more time for everybody in the back. Pretty much
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Other than that, hot today. It's also very humid, which
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  Speaker 1: An Apple man. You mean like Apple man, Apple man,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: you mean like the Macintosh like this? No, never going
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  Speaker 1: to happen.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: You just said just blank, blank, never going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I do not Apple. I cannot Apple. I don't, it
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  Speaker 1: is not intuitive to me to use that platform. And
• 47:30
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• 47:33
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• 47:36
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  Speaker 1: only use their stuff.
• 47:42
  Speaker 14: Yes.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 47:43
  Speaker 14: Yes, yes.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: It's all proprietary. And it works. There's one in that bag.
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: There's two, three, four, five.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm walking around with six Apple.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: Devices right now. I feel so sorry for you. But
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: everything runs seamlessly. It blends. It's beautiful. I just love it. Again,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I've You, I get the little green bubbles from on
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: my text. I don't care. That's an Apple problem. Is
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: this a, in your household, are you the only one
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: that's like this? Yes, I am the lone holdout.
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: You're the lone android. Then I assume your daughters and
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: your wife have been trying to hurt you.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: No, they gave up.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: No, they gave up. Yeah, they gave up on that
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: just like they gave up on me going on vacation
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: to New York or California. Okay.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: Well, you might have heard that Tim Apples, as I
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: like to call him, or Tim Cook, whatever, the not
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: Steve Jobs CEO, he's out.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Really? He's leaving.
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: And now there's a new guy that's coming in. And
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: he is calling his shot, Will. He's stepping out of
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: the batter's box.
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: He's pointing at the fence.
• 48:48
  Speaker 5: He's pointing to right field, saying, we're about to go
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: yard because a new launch event is coming up. September
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: 9th called Surprise and Shine. And they are going to debut, allegedly,
• 49:08
  Speaker 5: the foldable iPhone.
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: Meh.
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: Meh?
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: Meh. A foldable iPhone. I don't care.
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: Like this, but it could turn into like.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Twice as big. There's been Android devices that have been foldable.
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: now for a long time, and I haven't gravitated toward those. Yeah,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: but I don't care because that's an Android device, Will.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: Why would anyone use that? Like most of the world?
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: Because most of the world uses an Android device. Most
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: of the world do a lot of things, Will. Most
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: of the things. But it comes to phones. But in
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: this house. The foldable ones and a lot of other phones,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: they just, they're not durable enough for me. It does
• 49:41
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• 49:41
  Speaker 5: I don't know that I'd jump on this one. The
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: idea of a foldable screen is a little bit, I mean,
• 49:48
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• 49:50
  Speaker 5: point where they don't shatter into.
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: A million pieces immediately when they hit something. Or you sneeze.
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: Or, yeah.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: Because they are the most delicate devices ever. The phones
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: I get are kind of a brand that nobody has
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: ever heard of. They are on the Google platform, but
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: they are mil- So they are ruggedized. And the one
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: I had before this was even more ruggedized, but you
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: could use it to drive a nail if you wanted to. Really? Yeah.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would throw it across the room to demonstrate.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Don't do that.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: No, no, don't.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not doing it with this one. I like this
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: one a lot. But they all survived. They all were
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: great phones.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: There's also rumors of maybe a new Apple Watch or
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: a new variant of the Ultra, which is that one
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: that's like the size of your face.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Look, you know what my watch does? My watch tells time.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: It does. And this particular watch actually has a magnifier
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: over the date. And that's as high-tech as I want
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: to get.
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: See, the new ones, and I haven't had an Apple
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: Watch in a minute, but the new ones will tell
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: you whether you have hypertension.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: I know all the answers to that stuff. I don't
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: want to be reminded.
• 50:52
  Speaker 5: The answer is yes, Will.
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: I have no doubt in my mind what that is
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: going to tell me. Another development, which I didn't know,
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: this goes straight into the list of things I had
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: no idea we needed. Premium paid parking at the mall.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Not our mall.
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: But a mall, malls in New Jersey are starting to
• 51:18
  Speaker 5: siphon off parking, 120 spaces in this instance, near the
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: entrance for $ 2. 45 an hour because they need it at
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: the mall. They say they've instituted it in malls across Kentucky,
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: across California, across Maryland, all over the place. They're saying, okay,
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: people will pay us. for a VIP parking spot at
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: the stupid mall.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: I don't think that there's a mall, maybe a handful
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: of exceptions in America that really has a parking issue
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: because I don't know many people who still go to
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: the mall. That's what I mean.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: What kind of mall is this.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: Where you've... This is a mall that is discriminating against
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: the lazy. They're just saying that. They're saying, hey, you know,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: people don't want to walk that far, and they've set
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: this price at $ 2. 50 an hour.
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: $ 2.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: 50 an hour. So that's right there at the should
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: I stay or should I go mark for people who
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: don't want to walk an extra 100 feet.
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: And you're like, okay, so how long am I going
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: to be in this mall?
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: Eh, let's say two. You're not like a teenager back
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: in the 90s, so like an hour max. Like, okay, $ 2.
• 52:17
  Speaker 20: 50.
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: Maybe five at the outside. Yeah. They're going to get
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: people that pay for this. Those are lazy people.
• 52:26
  Speaker 5: See, that's the thing. I will not go somewhere over
• 52:32
  Speaker 5: paid parking.
• 52:33
  Speaker 13: Absolutely.
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: I will not drive out there. I will not frequent it.
• 52:37
  Speaker 5: And I know it's fairly dumb of me to do
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: that because I, you know.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: I'll be stupid with you.
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: But like, especially with Century Squares. Because it creeps up
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: on you. You forget about it, then you show up,
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: and you're like.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Northgate. And then you have to start thinking, is it
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: one of the magic hours? You've got to get on
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: the app, and it gets in your phone, and it
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: gets all your data.
• 52:58
  Speaker 11: Yeah, it just....
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: You can't even drop a coin in them anymore. The
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: one place you should be able to find parking for free. Yeah.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: The mall. Is where you're about to spend some money.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: And you know what? That's the best gambling you do.
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: Driving to the mall back in the day.
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: Take that loop around and see someone pulling out.
• 53:15
  Speaker 11: Oh, dude, that was.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: It was a win. Yeah, you get that.
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: Catch that prime spot.
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: That game is ongoing right now at grocery-atoriums across our
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: fair cities. Oh, yeah, at H-E-B. You know that feeling. Yeah.
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: You're driving, and all of a sudden, you see those
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: lights from the brake lights.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: But you can't focus on those because you might roll
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: over a pedestrian.
• 53:34
  Speaker 15: Exactly.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: Because those people will dart out like nobody's business.
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: You have got to have your head on a swivel.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: You do. Right now. When I drove up to campus
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: and went to Rosenthal earlier.
• 53:46
  Speaker 15: In the week.
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: I just go at about two miles an hour on campus.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Exactly, dude. I was idling and braking. Because people were
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: popping out between cars and everywhere else.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: You thought the animals out in your neck of the
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: woods at a death wish, Will. Nothing like Texas A
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: & M Freshman.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I will get chastised for running over an armadillo or
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: a possum by you and others. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: I run over an Aggie, I'm probably going to catch
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of grief. Depends on the Aggie. I mean,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: two percenter or no. No, I think all of them
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: would be a negative when it comes to my PR.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: It would definitely be a negative. There would definitely be
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: some consequences to that. But, yeah, just your daily warning.
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: We're still not safe, y'all.
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: Nope.
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: It's going to take at least three months before everyone
• 54:35
  Speaker 5: kind of knows what they're doing around here.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: And in that process, we're going to bring in hundreds
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: of thousands of other people who don't drive here every day.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: All right, guys, have a great day. We'll see you
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: back on the road.