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The Infomaniacs: July 7, 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: seven seven light. Good morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm
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  Speaker 1: will Welch. The College Station City Council met last night
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  Speaker 1: to hear a presentation of the proposed budget for fiscal
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  Speaker 1: year twenty twenty seven. The approximately five hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: seven million dollar budget is broken down into two major
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  Speaker 1: categories and will go mostly towards daily operations and maintenance.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty percent of the general fund goes for public safety,
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  Speaker 2: that is, police and fire, so essentially half of this
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  Speaker 2: money is for police and fire.
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  Speaker 1: That was Mary Ellen Leonard, director of Fiscal Services for
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  Speaker 1: the City of College Station. She says a property tax
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  Speaker 1: increase will be necessary to keep the budget balanced, but
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  Speaker 1: the rate will be dependent on values determined by the
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  Speaker 1: Brass's County Appraisal District. The average College Station resident will
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  Speaker 1: also see an increase of a dollar eighty eight per
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  Speaker 1: month on utility bills. Metered electric, water and wastewater services
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  Speaker 1: will not increase, but roadway and drainage maintenance, and solid
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  Speaker 1: waste services will see increases three and five percent, respectively.
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  Speaker 1: The budget also includes adding six new police officers and
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  Speaker 1: no increase in healthcare premiums for city employees. The City
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  Speaker 1: Council will host budget workshops July thirteenth through fifteenth in
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  Speaker 1: advance of a public hearing on the budget scheduled for
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  Speaker 1: July twenty third at six pm in Council Chambers. If approved,
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  Speaker 1: the final tax rate and budget adoption will take place
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  Speaker 1: on August twenty seventh, and the new fiscal year would
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  Speaker 1: begin on October first, twenty twenty six. You might have
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  Speaker 1: seen heavy smoke coming from near Highway six in Highway
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  Speaker 1: twenty one in Brian yesterday afternoon. The Brian Fire Department
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  Speaker 1: received several calls from people reporting heavy black smoke in
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  Speaker 1: that area around three o'clock. Officers say an individual failed
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  Speaker 1: to obtain a permit to burn trash and that there
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  Speaker 1: was no risk to people property. A woman from Plantersville
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  Speaker 1: is out of jail after stealing what she thought was
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  Speaker 1: a Louis Vauton wallet. The victim went to the College
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  Speaker 1: Station Police Department to report that her knockoff wallet containing
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  Speaker 1: several credit cards, gift cards, a child support debit card
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  Speaker 1: and one hundred fifty dollars cash was stolen from her
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  Speaker 1: shopping cart at the Walmart on Brothers Boulevard. The lost
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  Speaker 1: Prevention team in Walmart was able to retrieve surveillance video
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  Speaker 1: that showed thirty nine year old Ashley Nicole White taking
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  Speaker 1: the wallet. White was able to be identified because footage
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  Speaker 1: from the parking lot showed her walking to her vehicle
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  Speaker 1: and was able to capture her license plate number. She
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  Speaker 1: was later arrested for theft of property of less than
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  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred dollars with two or more previous convictions.
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  Speaker 1: White posted bond in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 1: This was her ninth arrest since twenty seventeen. The Texas
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  Speaker 1: Department of Transportation is asking for your input on future projects.
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  Speaker 1: Text dot is developing its ten year transportation plan. As
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  Speaker 1: the population and economy and Texas continues to grow. Your
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  Speaker 1: feedback will help prioritize funding over the next decade. Text
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  Speaker 1: DOT is developing its twenty twenty seven United Transportation Program
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  Speaker 1: that includes more than ninety five billion dollars for projects
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  Speaker 1: throughout the state. Executive Director Mark Williams says hearing from
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  Speaker 1: the public is vital to helping connect to communities, jobs,
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  Speaker 1: and family, and will enhance safety and quality of life.
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  Speaker 1: Feedback will be accepted through August third at TxDOT dot gov.
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  Speaker 1: A mcclennan County man landed himself in the Brass County
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  Speaker 1: jail after he tried shoplifting from the Walmart on Briercrest Drive.
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  Speaker 1: Brian police caught up with thirty five year old William
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  Speaker 1: Paul Collins at the nearby lows after he fled Walmart
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  Speaker 1: without paying for a dozen or so items totaling two
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, including a rechargeable headlamp, gummy bears, a chocolate bar, suspenders,
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  Speaker 1: and deodorant. According to arrest records, Collins told officers he
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  Speaker 1: was hungry but could not afford to pay for the merchandise.
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  Speaker 1: He was arrested for theft or property less than twenty
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  Speaker 1: five one hundred dollars with two or more previous convictions.
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  Speaker 1: A state jail felony News is presented by Gilmour Electric Express.
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  Speaker 1: More news ahead at seven thirty or anytime at WTAW
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  Speaker 1: dot com. I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to
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  Speaker 3: Slight improvement after that. Yeah that, so you were able
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  Speaker 3: to uh Riley get some some throat coat?
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  Speaker 1: Is that? No? I actually I poured the remainder of
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  Speaker 1: my hot tea. Oh this was your stash? Yes, this
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  Speaker 1: was my stash, my cup of tea that I kept
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  Speaker 1: keep with me. I went, I went and got my
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  Speaker 1: waffle House coffee mug. You gave it the waffle House
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  Speaker 1: out of the news studio. Put the remainder of my
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  Speaker 1: tea in it, heated it up some more, and I
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  Speaker 1: brought it to that is es it is, and let
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  Speaker 1: me Riley's my work kid. Yeah right, so I'm taking
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  Speaker 1: trying to take care of her like I with my daughter.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see here text message from you guys, were asking
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  Speaker 3: you to if you have options remedies, remedies to treat
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  Speaker 3: what is ailing Riley, to text them to us. Nine
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  Speaker 3: sixteen twenty Bob says, one cup with room for one
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  Speaker 3: jigger of wild turkey, one oh one, who there you go?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I haven't heard the name wild turkey in a.
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  Speaker 3: Long microwave for one minute. Add a spoon of honey,
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  Speaker 3: lemon juice and cayenne pepper powder.
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  Speaker 1: That's the second time we've heard about the cayenne. There.
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  Speaker 3: Mary texts in the following gargle with warm salt water.
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  Speaker 3: Heard this one. Oh, I was waiting for this vix
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  Speaker 3: on the bottom of your feet.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh, I got I definitely should do that.
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  Speaker 3: She knows from South Texas, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, country girl.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's it's a thing. Hot shower. Uh, breathe in
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  Speaker 3: through your nose some of the hot water, then blow
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  Speaker 3: it out and then cover your entire body with vix
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  Speaker 3: and just breathe in and get rest.
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  Speaker 1: Mary said, slathering slather? Is it?
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  Speaker 3: You're using the whole jar vix? Vix. I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to say it because I if it works, you're not crazy.
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  Speaker 3: But vix doesn't do anything man gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: That was back in the days where medicine was painful, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it kind of hurts some right, you get
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of burn to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's just it's just a google.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a goog, right, you know, medicine used to
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  Speaker 1: hurt you. I asked you, do you remember mecure chrome?
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  Speaker 3: I do. That sounds horrible. I don't remember.
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  Speaker 1: It was. It was kind of nicknamed monkey blood, mercura chrome,
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  Speaker 1: mercure chrome Riley, any any clue on that. So it
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  Speaker 1: was a topical antiseptic historically used to treat minor cuts, scrapes,
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  Speaker 1: and burns. Discovered in nineteen nineteen, it was a staple
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  Speaker 1: in every first aid kit, in every medicine cabinet. Granny had.
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  Speaker 3: Put a little mercure chrome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it would it would kind of stain your skin, right, uh.
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  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety eight, the FDA did revoke the over
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  Speaker 1: the counter status. I had a little mercury.
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  Speaker 3: In it, a little murcur murcury.
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  Speaker 1: You know what, I don't remember ever getting an infection
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  Speaker 1: after the application of macure because.
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  Speaker 3: Your your your blood was coursing with mercury.
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  Speaker 1: It's sort of invincible because beautiful medicine used to hurt
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  Speaker 1: like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not a pleasant look. Yeah, we could go back.
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  Speaker 3: There's there's plenty of examples of ways used to deal
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  Speaker 3: with some of this stuff as a kid. Yes, I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that it would hold up. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it'd hold up at the clinic today.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. Not the recommended from the American Medical Association, however,
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  Speaker 1: recommended from the World of a I oh no, I
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  Speaker 1: have looked up some no quick home remedies as AI
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  Speaker 1: is recommended for riley saltwater gargle. We talked about this.
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  Speaker 1: Salt and water warm water honey, of course, has been mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm a big fan of that.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think that's probably your best bet.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, little honey, stay hydrated. You want to keep plenty
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  Speaker 1: of fluids in you. Temperature therapy, sucking on ice chips, popsicles,
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  Speaker 1: or sorbet can help them, can help the throat line
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  Speaker 1: or I don't know. Man. I also warm steam. The
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  Speaker 1: shower was mentioned, and I do recall when I lived
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  Speaker 1: in Austin and I had cedar fever, I did at
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  Speaker 1: least have access to a steam layer.
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  Speaker 3: You're supposed to steam yourself until basically the crud comes out.
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  Speaker 1: Eat soft foods, and rest your voice, Riley. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they say.
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  Speaker 5: That's why I haven't been talking much on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah it's getting worse again, yea, yeah, yeah, so I did.
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  Speaker 1: Don't don't talk, Riley, just just listen, because those were
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  Speaker 1: kind the wisdom. Those were kind of everybody kind of
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  Speaker 1: knows stuff. So I then I dug down deeper in
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  Speaker 1: the AI. I looked for more traditional or home spun remedies.
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  Speaker 3: Oh lord, so it might be the good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: If you can get yourself some slippery elm bark. It's
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  Speaker 1: a classic herbal remedy. Mixed with water. The inner bark
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  Speaker 1: turns into a gel substance and coats ensues the throat.
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  Speaker 1: Which craft is this licorice root?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I've heard the licorice.
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  Speaker 1: Roots anti inflammatory, anti viral. Sipping a little tea can
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  Speaker 1: help calm the tissues in your throat. Marshmallow root, I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea what I thought. Marshmallows? Is that? Is
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  Speaker 1: that a plant? I don't know?
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  Speaker 3: Didn't Yeah, is it is? It? Is it a vegetable?
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  Speaker 3: And we somehow just.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They say it works the same way
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  Speaker 1: as the slippery elm ginger root. Also, ginger is great
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  Speaker 1: for everything.
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  Speaker 3: Just get a get a thing a ginger, and just
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  Speaker 3: bite into it.
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  Speaker 1: Apple cider gargle, apple cider vinegar gargle if you can. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a warm compress can help. Here's where we get into
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  Speaker 1: the nitty gritty. You can use garlic. She's not a vampire,
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  Speaker 1: well or sage. I guess she's not a post either.
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  Speaker 3: I like, I like, you know, supposed to sager. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I guess it's an exorcist.
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  Speaker 1: I guess. So. I was really I was hoping that
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  Speaker 1: there would be some thing because I like old words,
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  Speaker 1: like old medicine. I was hoping there might be something
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  Speaker 1: with an ointment or a sav I believe a pulsis
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  Speaker 1: is my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: Alice is what you're looking for.
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  Speaker 1: You just supply a poultice.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just crush a bunch of stuff up into a
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  Speaker 3: gravy and then apply.
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  Speaker 1: That rubble Bubba says, rubble little kerosene on your neck
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  Speaker 1: not recommended.
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  Speaker 3: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTA W remember call
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  Speaker 3: us Texas chime in on anything, including the benefits of
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  Speaker 3: a nice poultice.
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  Speaker 1: Or a kerosene back.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, whatever, but didn't get rid of fix what ales
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  Speaker 3: nine five, sixteen twenty is our phone number? Are you
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  Speaker 3: staying Airbnb or are you stay Airbnb? Okay? Do you
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  Speaker 3: always stay Airbnb?
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  Speaker 1: I tend to gravitate toward it, right because number one,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a host. Number two it for most cases, especially
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  Speaker 1: if I'm traveling with family, yea or larger group. It's
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  Speaker 1: it's cheaper and it's more comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a big fan of Airbnb's and Burbo's and all
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  Speaker 3: that stuff. Do you rate when you do?
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  Speaker 1: You hand out ratings, so I typically did. However, the
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  Speaker 1: last one I did was spring Break in Nashville, and
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  Speaker 1: I rated it a four star. It was five in
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  Speaker 1: most categories, but there were two categories I rated it
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  Speaker 1: four star.
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  Speaker 3: On and and see. The thing is you as a
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  Speaker 3: proprietor as a host. As a host, I imagine you
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  Speaker 3: would notice.
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  Speaker 1: All of the little. I can be a little critical, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but these these things were were things that weren't perfect, right, right,
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  Speaker 1: and five stars is perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Five stars is perfect. You will save the five star.
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  Speaker 1: I saved the five stars I collect. I've got fifty
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  Speaker 1: one consecutive five star reviews on my personal place. Holy cow,
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  Speaker 1: that's and and I know that that there's there's there's
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  Speaker 1: one coming that's not gonna be. But I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: strive for that all the time. So the enter of
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  Speaker 1: the the place we stayed at in Nashville after I
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  Speaker 1: raided him, yeahs still over a four.
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  Speaker 3: Star, still good, still very good.
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  Speaker 1: He sent me a nasty gram email because she gave
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  Speaker 1: him a four star. Yeah, so I did not. On
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  Speaker 1: our last day in Branson, I did not put a rating,
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  Speaker 1: because you have I would have rated it at a
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  Speaker 1: four star. Sleeps twelve they had six washcloths. So all right,
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  Speaker 1: this is interesting. Okay, I'm gonna give you the story.
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  Speaker 1: I've been meaning to ask you about this, and I
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  Speaker 1: feel like today might be a.
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  Speaker 3: Good day to do it. My last Airbnb stay, I
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  Speaker 3: go to Santonium, right, I get an Airbnb actually went
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  Speaker 3: through Verbo and nice little house. You know, everything great.
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  Speaker 3: I walk inside and it's about i'd say probably eighty
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  Speaker 3: five eighty six degrees. Okay, whatever, Maybe they just left
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  Speaker 3: the AC off because it's a verbo I go ac
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  Speaker 3: little screeny thing doesn't work.
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  Speaker 1: That's a problem.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm trying to I'm trying to call figure out
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  Speaker 3: what's happening. They're not helpful. I can't get you, can't
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  Speaker 3: get in touch with the host. It's just a nightmare.
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  Speaker 3: So then the fans, some of the fans weren't working
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  Speaker 3: because there were remote control fans and for whatever reason
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  Speaker 3: that wasn't working. There was no Wi fis, all of
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  Speaker 3: these things. So I'm I'm furious, Like I'm just livid.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sleeping drenched in sweat, you know, like we just
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  Speaker 3: kind of lay on top of the starfish and just
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  Speaker 3: hope for the best. Didn't get much sleep that night.
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  Speaker 5: It's horrible.
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  Speaker 3: But the next day, wake up, going about my business,
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  Speaker 3: still trying to get in touch with the host. Can't
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  Speaker 3: figure it out, can't figure it out, can't figure it out. Eventually,
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  Speaker 3: do get in touch with her, and as it turns out,
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  Speaker 3: she lives right next door. Brought over some mote, you know,
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  Speaker 3: portable AC units, whatever the best of Yeah, what do
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  Speaker 3: you think I rated her furbo at the end of the.
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  Speaker 1: Year because one of the categories is communication. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: would say that it was sub five star.
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  Speaker 3: I gave her five stars.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you see, you felt guilty of it, gave it.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's the thing. I feel horrible any time I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to rate someone less than five stars. I can't
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  Speaker 3: do it. I have to because I feel bad because
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  Speaker 3: it's like their business. Yeah, and then like my wife
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  Speaker 3: was like, no, no, no, you need to learn the
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  Speaker 3: power of the negative review. You need to learn that
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  Speaker 3: because that's how you keep everyone in line. You gotta
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  Speaker 3: be one fears getting a negative review. Nothing is gonna
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  Speaker 3: ever change, which I don't know where I fall in this.
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  Speaker 3: So what would you would have given that afford?
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  Speaker 1: What would you have depending on how bad it was,
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  Speaker 1: I mean there was some effort coming back, So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I would have I would have stayed four star. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have gone.
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  Speaker 3: Lower the effort. You would have gotten all the way
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  Speaker 3: them to four star.
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  Speaker 1: Right, I mean they once they became aware of the situation, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they they did their best to take the.
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  Speaker 3: Were lovely, Yeah, they were lovely, but but yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: It's one of the things that bugs me to this
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  Speaker 3: day is that that I, for whatever reason, I have
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  Speaker 3: to compulsively hit the five star review. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know if anyone else is like that out there. Do
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  Speaker 3: you run into a lot of people that are just
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  Speaker 3: like down whatever you feel? Do you feel like this
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  Speaker 3: affects your personal streak of fifty one consecutive.
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  Speaker 1: I try to make a personal connection with everybody that
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  Speaker 1: is staying at the house. I think it's important when
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes I can't, but I always try to meet them,
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  Speaker 1: greet them, give them the lay of the land, and
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  Speaker 1: then leave them alone.
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  Speaker 3: But you you, you do meet them and look at
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  Speaker 3: the eye. Then there's a face.
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  Speaker 1: There's a face face. I can find common ground with
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  Speaker 1: just about anybody. Will have a couple of laughs, and
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  Speaker 1: then I'll say, you guys, enjoy your stay. I'm next door.
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  Speaker 1: My phone numbers on the fridge if you need anything,
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  Speaker 1: Holy cow. And that's that's the way I try to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that way. They can call you directly. Look,
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  Speaker 3: don't worry about going through the thing. Yeah, here's my
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  Speaker 3: numb just holler at me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Trying to take care of the carry it I
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  Speaker 1: want to get to this. I know we're running shore.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever stayed at a short term rental that
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  Speaker 1: was occupied? Right? The people lived there once? I did
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  Speaker 1: in Oxford one time. It was the creepiest thing ever,
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  Speaker 1: because all their stuff is there, right, yeah, all the
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  Speaker 1: drawers are full, all the stuff is there. It's just
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  Speaker 1: like they left for the weekend, right, including on the
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  Speaker 1: wall in the master bedroom sonograms of their seven children.
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  Speaker 1: Stop it. I was like, no, man, I don't know
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: if I could sleep like this? What you rate? Then?
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I think I gave them a decent review. I think
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: I may have been guilty on that. They said very nice.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Plus the guy, the guy was like a federal attorney.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: He I mean he worked at the federal courthouse level
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: there s Yeah, they did however this and I did
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: send him a message on this. I was like, you
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: guys may want to put away your medications because like
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: in the coffee cup cabinet were all their meds whatever,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: and some of those were controlled substances.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: What on earth? And I was like, brother, come on, guys,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: if you all have any Airbnb stories, Verbo stories or again,
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: I would love to hear some people, as I feel
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: very alone on this. Are you and those people who
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: just cannot leave a bad review, no matter what, no
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: matter how badly. Are you incapable of leaving a to
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  Speaker 3: feel the guild? Do you feel that guilt? Nine seven
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  Speaker 1: The news is presented by American Momentum Bank, building Financial
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• 18:26
  Speaker 1: FDIC from the WTAW newsroom. Good morning, I'm will Welch.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: The College Station City Council met for just over thirty
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: minutes Monday night to hear a presentation of the proposed
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: budget for fiscal year twenty twenty seven. The approximately five
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven million dollar budget is broken down
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: into two major categories, three hundred ninety five million for
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: daily operations and maintenance and one hundred eighty two million
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: dollars for capital improvements. One hundred and sixty nine million
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: will go towards new projects, including a new public works facility,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: improvements in the North Gate entertainment district midtown, including Phase
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: two of Texas Independence Park, and neighborhood parks. Mary Ellen Leonard,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: director of Fiscal Services for the City of College Station,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: made the presentation to the council and says a property
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: tax increase will be required, but the exact rate is
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: dependent on the Brass County Appraisal District's values, which have
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: yet to be determined. Leonard says there will be no
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: rate increase for water this year, but that is likely
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: to change in the future.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: We do not believe that we need to increase the
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: water rates right now because we don't have a need
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: to have to make that debt payment. We do believe that,
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: based on the amount of debt that is needed to
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: build these water wells, that we will have to increase
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: the rates either in f y twenty eight or f
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: y twenty nine.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: While water, wastewater and metered electric won't increase, roadway and drainage,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: maintenance and solid waste fees will increase. It is estimated
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: that residents will see an increase of about a dollar
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: eighty eight month. The budget added six new police officers,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: a cost of living adjustment for public safety personnel of
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: three percent, and no increase in healthcare premiums for city employees.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Budget workshops will take place next week in advance of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: the public hearing scheduled for Thursday, July twenty third at
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: six pm in Council Chambers. Brian Fire Department responded to
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: several calls from people reporting heavy plumes of smoke to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the north and east of Highway six in Highway twenty
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: one around three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Officials say an individual
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: failed to obtain a permit to burn trash and that
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: there was no risk to people or property. A woman
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: from Plantersville is out of jail after stealing what she
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: thought was a Louis Vuitton wallet. The victim went to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the College Station Police Department to report that her knockoff
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: wallet containing several credit cards, gift cards, a child support
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: debit card, and one hundred and fifty dollars cash, was
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: stolen from her shopping card at the Walmart on Brothers Boulevard.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: The lost Prevention team at Walmart was able to retrieve
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: surveillance video that showed thirty nine year old Ashley Nicole
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: White taking the wallet. White was able to be identified
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: because footage from the parking lot showed her walking to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: her vehicle and was able to capture her license plate number.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: She was later arrested for theft of property of less
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: than twenty five hundred dollars with two or more previous convictions.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: White posted bond in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: This was her ninth arrest since twenty seventeen. The Texas
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Department of Transportation is asking for your input on future projects.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Tex DOT is developing its ten year transportation plan as
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: the population in the economy and Texas continues to grow.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Your feedback will help prioritize funding over the next decade.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Tex DOT is developing its twenty twenty seven Unified Transportation
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Program that includes more than ninety five billion dollars for
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: projects throughout the state. Executive Director Mark Williams says hearing
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: from the public is vital to helping connect to communities, jobs,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and family, and will enhance safety and quality of life.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Feedback will be accepted through August third at TxDOT dot gov.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: A mcclennan County man landed him self in the Brasses
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: County jail after he tried shoplifting from Walmart on Briarcrest Drive.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Brian police caught up with thirty five year old William
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Paul Collins at the nearby Lows after he fled Walmart
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: without paying for a dozen or so items totaling two
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars, including a rechargeable headlamp, gummy bears, a chocolate bar, suspenders,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and deodorant. According to arrest records, Collins told officers he
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: was hungry but could not afford to pay for the merchandise.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: He was arrested for a theft of property less than
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: twenty five hundred dollars with two or more previous convictions
• 22:30
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• 23:11
  Speaker 3: to get back to some of the stories from you
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: guys over my inability to be able to leave anything
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: less than a five star review today, Airbnb, Verbo, anything really,
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: Uber doesn't matter.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: You're crippling guilt.
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: It's a guilt. I don't want to jam people up
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: because I know, like you said, you leave a four
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: star review, person takes as an insult because you're messing
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: with their money's even if they even if they deserve it.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: Didn't have AC, didn't have Wi Fi, nothing worked in
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: the house being five star. Moving. But it's like, I'm
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: not gonna I'm sure there was a reason there somewhere, right,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: But yeah, some of you guys have had experiences.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Gary says, no problem at all giving less than a
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: five star review. They don't mean anything if you're not honest.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: That is absolutely right, And says airbnb host for ten
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: years always stated that disclosed in the beginning, that over
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and nobody balked that she lived there right, she she
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: she was living there while her tenants stayed. Wow, so
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: she had three bedrooms in one bath to rent. She
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: provided a full Continental breakfast, chocolates, on the bed in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the evening, a fruit snack basket and a twelfth man
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: towel in the fall. Never had less than a five star.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I can imagine that did not good. Lord, I want
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: to go live there.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: That's a that is a that is a first class experience.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Kelly, however, used a VRBO once Droe Down, Droe down
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: to Crystal Beach, walked into a ninety degree house ac
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: not working, ants coming out of every drain. The owner
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: was nice and apologized, but couldn't get it fixed and
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: we had no other option since we were traveling with
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: our dog. We ended up having to drive all the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: way back home vacation out the door. They refunded our money,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: which blocked me from being able to leave her review.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: You are too nice, Fredo. Here's what she says.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know that's that's that sounds that sounds absolutely yeah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: In hosting, I had somebody fairly recently within the past
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: three months that sent an inquiry through the Airbnb website
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: saying that they needed a booking same day. I happen
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: to have the house ready to go. I try to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: turn it over pretty quickly just in case something like
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: this happens. They said that they could not get into
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: their booked home at all. There was the code wasn't
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: working and they couldn't contact anybody and they could not
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: get in at all. And they said, we just need
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: someplace else to go. Oh wow. And so I was like, well,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: house is ready, come on? Yeah, So I got one
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: for that. You have to stay in contact, right, you
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: have to.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: That's the if I was doing. I can't imagine giving
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: someone access to my property without being able to at
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: least get a visual identification on who to come after
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: if they burn it down, right, And we talked, I
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: just don't see that.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: We talked about that before with me renting it for
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: like graduations and things like that, from student renting it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: And so I always do the same thing. I always
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: eyeball them I had. I had, so our property has
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: two h VAC units in it. I had one of
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: them go out. And this was for an Aggie football
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: game weekend. Oh lord, and there was one. So a
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: mom and an infant were not going to the game.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: They were going to stay in the house. And the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: house wasn't bad because one of the HVAC systems was
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: still working. So it was it was eighty eighty three
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: maybe in the house, but still not real comfortable, especially
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: with an infant. I called, I got people on the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: way to come fix it, but it was going to
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: take some time. Yeah, so I literally I looked at
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: my wife. I said, we've got to invite them over
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to our house. We live next door. I said, I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: can't have this mom an infant uncomfortable in their house. No,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: and my wife looked at me like I was crazy,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and I said, yeah, but I'm doing it anyway. And
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: so you got a room. Yeah, they didn't take me
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: up on it. I was like, you could come rest,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: we can bring the pack and play from down there.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: You can swim in the pool, just you know whatever.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: I'm so sorry this happened because as a as a host,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: that's where I man, I anything goes wrong with that,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'll take it personally.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Man, that's that. It's customer service, my friends.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And also says vrbo does not allow hosts to be
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: living in the home. This is true.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: That's like a thing. And honestly, if you had to
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: pick between the two, and I don't know if this
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: is true, you'd probably tell me. I don't know that
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: I'll book using Verbo. Ever, again Airbnb, Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: but the customer service on Verbo.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Is, I will tell you from the homeowner in Whack.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Verbo is much more complicated to manage. And I get
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: maybe five percent of my bookings through vrbo, so I'm
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: about to drop it. We do have a text in
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: from our area leader. Oh okay, Ben text in, he says,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: so what is your Uber score? I have no idea
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: how to find this?
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Did give me? He says, It's in the upper left
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: corner of your account page, which, uh as, I give
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: me a second, I'll get to that.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: We'll have to. You will have to look at that.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: I am in no way surprised he is rolling at
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: a four point eighty five. That's very It seems very
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: high to me, but that means someone has dinged him
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: in the math.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: That's higher than the guy who runs Uber. We did
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: a story a while back and his was lower. In fact,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: he almost didn't get hired because they looked at his
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Uber score, so he's worked really hard to improve that.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Cry Okay, all right, we need to turn our attention
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: now to an announcement that truly, this is how you
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: keep track of the years Christmas. It's it's uh, New
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: Year's it's the first day of school, and it's the
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: day someone reminds you that you're slowly killing yourself with
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: flip flops.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so again these for whatever reason, they dump these
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: all on the same day, and you'll get like a
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: million stories about how flipflops are wrecking you.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I call them literally crip flops, because they will cripple you.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: My grandfather, who was lieutenant colonel and the airborne in
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: World War Two. Yeah, always said, son, take care of
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: your feet. It's the only thing that can get you
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: out of trouble.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: That's the truth. Yeah, don't.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: You've got to keep on feet.
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: It's not so much that. And again i'll give you
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: the if you haven't ever heard this, Yes, tendonit's blisters, rashes,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: all these things because fungus, fungus. You could even like
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: you can because your toes try to grip them when
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: you walk like you end up getting arthritis, like all
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: kinds of things. I don't even think it's that. I
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: just think that there is an age you get to
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: and that age is probably in your twenties where it
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. You cannot cannot wear open toed shoes, anymore.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I see people doing it all the time.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Heinous it is, it's it's heinous.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I can't stand it because I I wear. First of all,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: i've got horrible ankles thanks to Tiger football. Yes right,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: and so I have to have some very supportive shoes.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: And again, man, I want my shoes to stay on
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: no matter what.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Surely there is that I would say that I don't
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: know what age it is, but like, no one wants
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: to see my feet.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, no one.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I don't want to see my feet. I will say that.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: I think that's why crocs. Crocs are such an important innovation.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: I do own one pair because you don't know you
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: can get the benefits of Oh yeah, I'm just gonna
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: throw these on and wander around without having your your
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: your dogs out for everyone to see.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: You don't want, don't want anybody to see the dogs.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Guys, throw me the trash where they belong for everyone's sake.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Good morning, I'm Riley Blurke you your morning Sports Upday
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  Speaker 4: on sixteen, twenty ninety four.
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• 31:15
  Speaker 4: In the MLB last night, Washington Nationals James Woods grand
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: slam helped power the Nationals to a twelve to eleven
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: win over the Houston Astros. The Kansas City Royals slugged
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: four homers tag Philadelphia Phillies Ace Christopher Sanchez for a
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: career worst nine earned runs in fifteen to one victory.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: Cristiano Ronaldo's World Cup career ended as Spain beat Portugal
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: one to zero and the United States lost four to
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: one to Belgium in last night's game. In NHL news,
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: Alex Obechkin, the NHL's career leader in goals, has decided
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: to return for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven season.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: For his twenty second season with the Washington Capitals, the
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Capitals announced that Obuchkin has signed a one year contract
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: with an average annual of four point twenty five million.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Ovechkin's new deal carries a one million base salary and
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: a three point twenty five million signing bonus. Obechkin, who
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: led the Capitals to the Stanley Cup in twenty eighteen,
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: had said he would decide his future this offseason. After
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: consulting with his family and the capitals. Texas A and
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: M Letterman's Association announced that the university's Athletic Hall of
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: Fame class of twenty twenty six will be honoring two
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Hall of Fame and Lifetime Achievement recognitions. Today, we will
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: be honoring the last individual that earned this Hall of
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: Fame status, which is reserved for individuals who have gone
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: above and beyond in contributions and supports of athletic programs
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: at Texas A and M. The Lifetime Achievement recognizes letter
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: winners who after graduation have gone on to gain promise
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: through his or her efforts in industry, technology, athletics, the professionals,
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: or other worthy endeavors. Next athlete we will be highlighting
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: as Kelly Crosscall. Kelly lettered for Texas A and M
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: women's basketball team from nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: three and served as a team captain during the nineteen
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: eighty two to nineteen eighty three campaign. The Corpus Christie
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: native is a pioneer of the game, having gained nearly
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: thirty years of experience in professional basketball and the WNBA
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: and NBA. Kelly began her career after graduating with her
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: bachelor's degree in journalism from Texas A and M by
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: joining her alma mater as the Assistant Athletic director for
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Women's Sports and Marketing from nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety.
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: She then joined the Southwest Conference as the Assistant Commissioner
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: in nineteen eighty seven. Kelly began her career in pro hoops,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: joining the WNBA's league office as the Director of Operations,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: where she held that position till two thousand. At the
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: turn of the century, she became the Indian Fever's first
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: ever general manager and was promoted to president in twenty twelve.
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: With d the Fever, Kelly led the team to thirteen
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: WNBA playoff appearances, three Eastern Conference championships, and a twenty
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: twelve w NBA title. In twenty nineteen, Kelly became one
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: of the first women to hold a front office role
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: in the NBA franchise when she was hired as assistant
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: general manager of the Indiana Pacers. After six years with
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: the Pacers, she returned to fill the role of president
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: of the Indiana Fever in twenty twenty five where she
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: currently works. Kelly is a guardian of the game, and
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: she's become a beacon of hope for young women hoping
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: to break into the industry.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Her hard work and commitment.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: To the game of basketball will last forever and will
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: always be remembered. That's your morning sports update, brought to
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: you by air Serve of Aggie land On sixteen, twenty
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: ninety four.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: Five WTAW. I'm Riley Flerkey.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get back to the text from our boss.
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  Speaker 3: Ye airman been Downs who sent it of.
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  Speaker 1: Hope, Arkansas.
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  Speaker 3: But have you checked your Uber rating? He was clocking
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  Speaker 3: at a four point eight five?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Have you had a chip? By the way, if you
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  Speaker 3: just open it, it's so little number right under there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you go into your account page, just blow your name.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, feel free to play along.
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  Speaker 1: I had never checked mine before.
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  Speaker 3: What do you got five point h son of a gun?
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  Speaker 1: I think I need to put that on my resume.
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  Speaker 1: How do you have a five point I've had maybe
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  Speaker 1: six or eight uber rides in my life.
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  Speaker 3: Is that okay? All right?
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  Speaker 1: Some problem?
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  Speaker 3: Sample size?
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  Speaker 1: Small sample size. Also, I'm kind of like the guy
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  Speaker 1: on the insurance commercials becoming energy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I tend to have conversations now with the rioters.
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  Speaker 3: That's that you humanize yourself quite a bit trying.
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  Speaker 1: To make a try to make a personal connection.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I had a four point seventy five,
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  Speaker 3: and then I thought to myself, can I find the
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  Speaker 3: individual reviews? And there's a way to do it. You
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  Speaker 3: go to settings, go to privacy, go to privacy center,
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  Speaker 3: and you pull the data and all that other stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I have gotten two forced reviews.
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  Speaker 1: Really, I've gotten.
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  Speaker 3: Two three star reviews. No, I have gotten two star reviews,
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  Speaker 3: a one to two star review. And there is someone
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  Speaker 3: out there at some point that gave me, as a
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  Speaker 3: passenger a one star review.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't know who you were, did.
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  Speaker 3: Are you sure about that? Who get a one star review?
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  Speaker 3: I'll never crawl out of this four point seven five
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  Speaker 3: hole forty seven, five stars forty seven.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think a driver will take a look
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  Speaker 1: at that. I don't think that's bad. I really don't.
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  Speaker 3: I'd oh, I wish that's that. That's the thing, like
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  Speaker 3: all of that work, I go through all of that
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  Speaker 3: effort to never leave a bad review, and that and
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  Speaker 3: that is not reciprocate. That is absolutely racing.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned this to you off air. Yes, I thought
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  Speaker 1: that Uber's CEO had a lower rating than you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: apparently four point eighty three.
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  Speaker 3: Dang it, he's got me beat.
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  Speaker 1: He does bye.
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  Speaker 3: Bye slumming it with four point seventy five. Am I
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  Speaker 3: a problem, Uber passenger?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, is that there was a time I mean,
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  Speaker 1: look at the timeframe on these right, there was a
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  Speaker 1: time when I think that perhaps you might have been
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  Speaker 1: if you got into the truly unruled.
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  Speaker 3: That was thirteen years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Things stick with you.
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  Speaker 3: I could get a felony exponge in a certain amount
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  Speaker 3: of time. I shouldn't be carrying around this if this
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  Speaker 3: is truly a consequence. These one stars and two stars
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  Speaker 3: are truly a consequence of my drinking career. I feel
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  Speaker 3: like I should be able to get in touch with
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  Speaker 3: Uber and we should be able to get to the
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  Speaker 3: bottom of this thing. Those need to come off of
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  Speaker 3: the record decade. I am not the same man that
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  Speaker 3: I once was.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, I've a changed man.
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  Speaker 3: y'all for being here today. Sixteen twenty WTAW College Station,
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  Speaker 3: Brian