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The Infomaniacs: October 28th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
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  Speaker 1: man has been slapped with a third-degree felony charge after
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  Speaker 1: threatening to kill an officer and the officer's family after
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  Speaker 1: an arrest for criminal trespass on Monday. College Station Police
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  Speaker 1: say 44-year-old Reginald Collins, Jr. of Houston, was trespassing at
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  Speaker 1: an apartment complex on Southwest Parkway. Collins made the threats
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  Speaker 1: during telephone conversations while in custody. Investigators determined the statements
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  Speaker 1: constitute threats against a public servant in retaliation for performing
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  Speaker 1: official duties. In addition to two counts of criminal trespass,
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  Speaker 1: Collins was also charged with retaliation. He is being held
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  Speaker 1: on $ 43, 000 bond. It is his seventh booking in the
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  Speaker 1: Brazos County Jail. While holding a rally for Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 1: and Corpus Christi yesterday, President Trump shared some thoughts on Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: And we're bringing out a lot of oil for ourselves,
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  Speaker 2: a lot. It will become a prosperous country, and who knows,
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  Speaker 2: maybe someday soon it will become a prosperous 51st state.
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  Speaker 2: That's possible. Let's make it. Let's make it the 51st state,
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  Speaker 2: and instead of a president, we'll have an election for
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  Speaker 2: a governor.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 2: They have a lot of oil.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S. military captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in January.
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  Speaker 1: and brought him to the U.S. to face criminal charges.
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  Speaker 1: A judge in Travis County has blocked Governor Greg Abbott's
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  Speaker 1: efforts to withhold messages between him and Elon Musk.
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  Speaker 4: The Democrat judge issued a temporary restraining order that requires
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  Speaker 4: Abbott to give Democrat candidate Gina Hinojosa all unredacted phone
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  Speaker 4: calls and text messages between him and Musk.
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  Speaker 5: He denied these, saying they were, quote, intimate and embarrassing.
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  Speaker 4: Hinojosa accuses Abbott of selling Texas out to an oligarch.
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  Speaker 5: We know he redirected a $ 100 million broadband contract to
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  Speaker 5: Elon Musk. We also know that they're planning to sell
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  Speaker 5: our Boca Chica beach a few days after the election.
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  Speaker 4: Abbott expected to appeal the judge's order before letting Hinojosa
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  Speaker 4: see anything.
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  Speaker 1: Eric Lycum, TSN News. A military-grade laser may soon be
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  Speaker 1: tested along the Texas border with Mexico as a way
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  Speaker 1: to stop illegal immigration.
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  Speaker 6: Homeland Security has approved the weapon, which blasts an intense
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  Speaker 6: beam of light that can make it feel like your
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  Speaker 6: skin is burning.
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  Speaker 2: This actually disables the groups coming through at the same time,
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  Speaker 2: giving the agents enough time to respond.
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  Speaker 6: Former Border Patrol agent Art Del Cuerto says it can
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  Speaker 6: be used at a distance, keeping our forces safe. High-ranking
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  Speaker 6: members of the Department of Defense said on social media, quote,
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  Speaker 6: the border is now a battle lab for testing new
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  Speaker 6: systems and the border is locked down. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news on the way at 6.30 or anytime at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 7: What's that thing that just fell? Like when you moved
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  Speaker 7: your mic, something just like hit the deck.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what it was. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: a booger at first.
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  Speaker 8: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: It looks, I guess, like a little ghost maybe.
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  Speaker 7: That just fell out of your.
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  Speaker 1: I moved the microphone and it fell. Somebody must have
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  Speaker 1: set it up here on top of the microphone. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't notice it.
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  Speaker 7: I just found another one.
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  Speaker 1: Is somebody ghosting us?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, is that what this is? I have no idea.
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  Speaker 7: You know, guys.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Do you remember people were doing this with ducks for
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  Speaker 7: a while.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they do it with ducks on the jeeps.
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no. The jeep duck is a whole thing.
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  Speaker 7: What this was, was you would get like, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: this size. This little grain of rice sized duck. And
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  Speaker 7: you would buy them by the bag, and then to
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  Speaker 7: honor someone at your office. You would, like, hide them
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  Speaker 7: all in the office so they're constantly finding these various,
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  Speaker 7: you know, ducks of the little side. I'm serious.
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  Speaker 1: How is annoying the heck out of somebody an honor?
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  Speaker 7: That's a good question, Will. How do you feel about pranks?
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  Speaker 1: I love pranks. Oh, you do?
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  Speaker 7: I hate pranks.
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  Speaker 1: I can't... I cannot.
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  Speaker 7: For the reason you just said, it's... I'm sure if
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  Speaker 7: you pulled a prank on me that was like you
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  Speaker 7: could do one that was good that I thought was awesome.
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  Speaker 7: And so it's not. I get it.
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  Speaker 1: No, not the majority of them.
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  Speaker 7: The majority of them are done very badly. Yeah, I
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  Speaker 7: don't want to genuinely just are annoying.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to dump a bucket of goo on you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to. But just just little pranks. I
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  Speaker 1: think those are kind of a little friendly sort of thing.
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  Speaker 7: There's a realm where they can. It's like comedy. Anyway,
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  Speaker 7: you know, sometimes comedy can be good. Sometimes people bomb.
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  Speaker 7: It seems like there's a higher likelihood you're going to
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  Speaker 7: bomb with a prank. But basically, it's a prop prank,
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  Speaker 7: which I'm guessing this is. And now I will tell you,
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  Speaker 7: since I have seen... Oh, they do have a little face.
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  Speaker 7: You just can't tell because they.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't... Oh, look. Yeah, they do. I get it close
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  Speaker 1: enough to the right part of my glasses.
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  Speaker 10: How?
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  Speaker 7: All right. I want to have a conversation about this
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  Speaker 7: for one second, specifically with these. And again, little plastic ghosts.
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  Speaker 7: I know you can't see them. This is a radio bit,
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  Speaker 7: but I do want to point I want to make.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine something you hawked up after a night in front
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  Speaker 1: of a campfire. That's what it looks like.
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  Speaker 7: You know, it's shocking.
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  Speaker 1: Dead on.
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  Speaker 7: There's a story about paper straws.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: And the environmental impact of paper straws. You remember paper straws?
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  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I think we're all in the same.
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  Speaker 1: I would leave places that had paper straws.
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  Speaker 7: It's an inferior product that was created because plastic straws
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  Speaker 7: are made of plastic, thusly impact the earth in a
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  Speaker 7: negative sense. And paper straws were supposed to mitigate that harm.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever shoved that straw up that turtle's nose and put
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  Speaker 1: it on Facebook and it went everywhere, that's who I blame.
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  Speaker 1: You know how many times that has actually happened in nature?
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  Speaker 1: A plastic straw going up a tree.
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  Speaker 7: It's a one in a million shot, bro.
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  Speaker 1: A one in three billion shot. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: It's like, could it happen?
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  Speaker 12: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Will it happen?
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  Speaker 7: But anyway, so we thought that we were going to
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  Speaker 7: get rid of this problem with paper straws because paper
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  Speaker 7: straws biodegrade. They go away. And then, hey, guess what?
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  Speaker 7: We don't have more plastics everywhere, which I, hey, look, okay.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 7: That said, the paper straw sucks. And now it's being
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  Speaker 7: discovered the paper straw is actually worse for the environment.
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  Speaker 1: It does. It's got sort of a sealant, which we
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  Speaker 1: all know only works for the first 10 minutes of
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  Speaker 1: your beverage.
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  Speaker 7: And then it turns into goo.
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  Speaker 1: However, that sealant makes it very difficult for it to
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  Speaker 1: be recycled. Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: So you have to basically throw those in the landfill, too.
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  Speaker 7: But now add the sealant. To how you have to
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  Speaker 7: make the paper straw.
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  Speaker 1: The manufacturing process.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 7: You have to cut down a bunch of trees.
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  Speaker 1: Is worse for the environment. Far worse.
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  Speaker 7: Not close.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even close.
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  Speaker 7: It's not close.
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  Speaker 1: More carcinogens.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Acids. Particulate matter.
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  Speaker 7: And because it's paper, it tends to leach into the
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  Speaker 7: soil faster, thusly. spreading these chemicals everywhere, let alone in
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  Speaker 7: your drink because you're sticking this thing in your drink.
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  Speaker 7: And again, all that stuff just kind of goes into
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  Speaker 7: your Diet Coke, your crisp, crisp Diet Coke. Again, so
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  Speaker 7: this is a story that's circulating around. And it got
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  Speaker 7: my mind thinking about, again, just environmental impact to things
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  Speaker 7: and the fact that, yeah, there are a lot of
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  Speaker 7: restaurants that won't give us plastic straws Because paper straws
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  Speaker 7: are what we want to do. What's this made out of?
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  Speaker 1: It's questionable, but I'm going to guess that it's some
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  Speaker 1: sort of plastic.
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  Speaker 7: You know, if we just didn't produce millions of these
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  Speaker 7: tiny little booger-sized ghosts for office pranks, we might be
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  Speaker 7: able to not have to worry so much about plastic straws.
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  Speaker 7: Because we weren't dumping the... You know what this will
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  Speaker 7: do in a sea turtle's nose?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: What do you think that's going to do?
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  Speaker 1: You know what that doesn't do, though, Tucker?
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  Speaker 14: What?
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  Speaker 1: What that doesn't do is make me feel better about
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  Speaker 1: my contribution to saving the planet. You know? Because that's
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  Speaker 1: all the paper straw is about.
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  Speaker 7: Well, contribute by saying no to tiny little plastic ghosts, Will. See,
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  Speaker 7: that'll give you the rub, too, I think, right? Like,
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  Speaker 7: all you gotta do is Just say, hey.
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  Speaker 1: And nobody's forcing me into a tiny ghost. People force
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  Speaker 1: me into paper straws.
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  Speaker 7: I'm feeling pretty forced into a tiny ghost right now, Will.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sitting here holding the guy. I'm having to deal
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  Speaker 7: with talking about it on the radio. And who knows
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  Speaker 7: how many of these are in the office right now?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Who even knows?
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  Speaker 1: I know this one is going into recycling right now.
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  Speaker 7: Take that. Throw that right into the quote unquote.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about your silly office games.
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  Speaker 7: Office. I mean, I get it.
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  Speaker 1: It's camaraderie.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, I don't mind the Jeep ducks. The Jeep ducks
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  Speaker 7: are kind of cool.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even like those, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, but if I had a Jeep, I might
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  Speaker 7: want someone to leave me a duck. This does nothing
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  Speaker 7: for me.
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  Speaker 1: It's nothing. Not a thing.
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  Speaker 7: This is not.
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  Speaker 1: Makes me think some of the microphone fell off as
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  Speaker 1: I moved it, which... We've been about par for the
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  Speaker 1: course considering yesterday's start to the show without power.
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  Speaker 7: show grumpy today. Guys, it's only a few days left
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  Speaker 7: until the election. We're all going to give each other
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  Speaker 7: as much space as we can. Back after this.
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  Speaker 1: as drizzlets on the way home yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, what's that? Where does that come from?
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  Speaker 7: pranks with the little plastic ghost guys. I'll post some
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  Speaker 7: pictures of this online so you can see what we're
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  Speaker 7: talking about, because Honestly, I'm just warning you, if they
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  Speaker 7: can prank, if someone can scatter little tiny plastic ghosts
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  Speaker 7: around a radio station, they might be coming for you next.
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  Speaker 1: Just be aware. Just a prank that's out there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is trick or treat, right?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, it is the pranking season. I can't even be
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  Speaker 7: mad about it because that's the point of the holiday.
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  Speaker 7: It doesn't hold a candle to the country music community,
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  Speaker 7: who I would consider to be the most prank-obsessed community. Like,
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  Speaker 7: I don't think there's I don't think there's another group
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  Speaker 7: of people that loves doing weird and slightly obnoxious things
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  Speaker 7: to their friends.
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  Speaker 1: I know that when I was in country radio. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, that was that was kind of in
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  Speaker 1: the in the the the real thing. flamethrowing heyday early
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  Speaker 1: heyday of texas country music yeah yeah got to know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of those guys and those guys on the
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  Speaker 1: road great guys yeah great guys they love to prank
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: each other.
• 16:29
  Speaker 7: They love to party and they love to prank that's
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: what they did it's like an it and that yeah
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: all kinds of things.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: But apparently that's not just for the guys on the
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: texas country circuit no.
• 16:39
  Speaker 7: It's everyone will it's everyone that does country music for
• 16:44
  Speaker 7: some reason loves to rank their coworkers.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: You know, we're celebrating. I'll go ahead and, I'll go
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: ahead and let this one out of the bag.
• 16:51
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Brad Paisley's birthday is today.
• 16:53
  Speaker 21: Is it?
• 16:54
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, how old's Brad? 54 years old today.
• 16:56
  Speaker 7: Dang, Brad for 54. That dude doesn't look that that's.
• 17:00
  Speaker 7: I wish I could look like that at 54.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what, I got the chance to
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: hang out a little bit with him one time in Austin.
• 17:06
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Really impressive guy.
• 17:08
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Just as genuine as could possibly be.
• 17:11
  Speaker 7: He's, he's universally regarded as good people.
• 17:14
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Apparently at one point in time, he filled Taylor Swift's
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: bus with thousands of live crickets.
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: You see, this is what I mean. Why would you
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: do that?
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: That's a great prank, man.
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: She's just trying to get, she's just trying to get
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: her show, get back on her bus and get some sleep.
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: And now, She's living in a cricket farm.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure crickets are somewhere on one of
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: those sleep machines, those sound sleep machines.
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, not when they're jumping on your face, man.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: No, but just put up some nets, you're fine.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Not when they're jumping on your face.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: I think what would be worse than that is the
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: aftermath when they die.
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: We've all lived through a cricket apocalypse before.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 17:52
  Speaker 7: They tend to make a very distinct odor when they
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: are decomposing.
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: That would be the worst part of that prank.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: But yeah, it's like some of these guys, like Luke
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: Bryan's been in prank war with pretty much half the
• 18:05
  Speaker 7: industry for like 25 years. It just never ends. It's
• 18:09
  Speaker 7: prank after prank after prank after prank. Don't you just
• 18:12
  Speaker 7: want to have some peace in your life? Not have
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: to worry when your friends come over that someone's going.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: To dump a bag of crickets. You're very anti-prank, aren't you?
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: You shoved thousands of crickets into Taylor Swift's bus, and
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: he's not the first person to pull that prank.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: No, he's not. Randy Rogers did it. I remember Randy
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: talking about it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: Of course Randy did it.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Randy did it. It may have been the Wade Bowens.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 18:30
  Speaker 7: Of course Randy did it.
• 18:31
  Speaker 23: Yeah.
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: Because that's what they... Anyway, we got to move on.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: Let's talk reasons to celebrate for a day. We do
• 18:38
  Speaker 7: have several things to mention. One of which, this is
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: not a reason to celebrate, but it's a fun walk
• 18:43
  Speaker 7: through history. Today on this day in history, almost 100
• 18:46
  Speaker 7: years ago, 1929, Black Monday.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Black Monday.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: Now, obviously, I know it's a Wednesday today, but this
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: day fell on a Monday. That was the day the
• 18:59
  Speaker 7: stock market crashed and lost about 10% to 12% of
• 19:04
  Speaker 7: its total value.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Was that all?
• 19:07
  Speaker 7: Well, then it did it again the next day.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 19:09
  Speaker 7: The next day. And that happens. Stocks don't just go up.
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: It was interesting. There's a book out there called 1929,
• 19:15
  Speaker 7: which I highly recommend that you read. It talks about
• 19:17
  Speaker 7: the culture that was pervasive in 1929. It wasn't just
• 19:21
  Speaker 7: people growing up doing their business. Everyone turned into a
• 19:25
  Speaker 7: stock expert in 1929. People would quit their jobs to
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: sit around and throw their money into the market. There
• 19:31
  Speaker 7: were cafes that popped up. People could go into and
• 19:34
  Speaker 7: do trades everywhere because they never ever thought stocks don't
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: go down. They just thought, how could we not be
• 19:46
  Speaker 7: not actually doing jobs when it's so easy? for us
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: to just throw our money into the market and and
• 19:55
  Speaker 7: live off of the riches which we will surely get?
• 19:59
  Speaker 7: I just say that to remind people that if it
• 20:02
  Speaker 7: sounds familiar, it did happen before.
• 20:07
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 20:08
  Speaker 11: And it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It ended poorly. Oh, but Tucker, they've got safeguards in
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: place now.
• 20:12
  Speaker 23: Yeah, right.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:13
  Speaker 7: An interesting— I will fact-check this because I'm fascinated by the idea,
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: but there are lots of news stories going around. Because
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: AI hadn't actually made any money.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Right. Everything you've got flowing into AI is venture capital.
• 20:30
  Speaker 7: It's causing a lot of debt. Debt from AI companies
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: is allegedly now being prepackaged and sold to retirement accounts,
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: to pension funds, to banks, similar to what they did
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: with mortgages in 2008. Because, hey, it's going.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: To work out all right. It's going to be fine
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: this time.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: So we're overloading all of your pensions and your retirement
• 21:07
  Speaker 7: funds and your 401ks with AI debt because, hey, they'll
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: figure out how to make money on it eventually.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So what you're saying, Tucker, is I should probably go
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: home today, sell some stock, and invest in apocalypse gear.
• 21:20
  Speaker 7: Well, I wouldn't say that because I'm not a financial
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: expert and nothing I say should be taken as financial advice.
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: I believe that's a disclaimer I'm legally required to throw
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: out there. But I'm just saying, again, if it sounds familiar...
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Maybe it's because it should sound familiar.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Maybe it is. You never know.
• 21:38
  Speaker 7: Anyway, moving on to stuff that's actually happy today. It
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: is chocolate day.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Chocolate's good. I like that.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: I just want to remind you that 86% of people
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: are pro-chocolate, but the 14% that aren't, militant. There are
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: people that believe that they can tell the difference between
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: real chocolate and fake chocolate. And by fake chocolate, I
• 21:54
  Speaker 7: mean like chocolate ice cream you buy at grocery stores.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: It has a weird taste to it. Like weird aftertaste
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: tastes like chemicals to them.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: It's artificial chocolate.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: I'm not pro or against. I'm actually chocolate neutral. I
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: just don't care. I'm glad it exists. It's probably good
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: in a recipe once in a while. But I'm not
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: one of those people that craves chocolate. It's just not
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: my bag. But yeah, 86% of people. One of the
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: most beloved things in our culture.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: That's crazy because that means the government still couldn't pass it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 24: No. Ha ha ha ha.
• 22:25
  Speaker 7: It just, yeah, it's incredible. With that type of volume,
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: some things will get done once in a while. Statue
• 22:34
  Speaker 7: of Liberty Day. That is the day that the Statue
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: of Liberty was dedicated in 1886, a gift from France
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: to the United States. President Grover Cleveland presided over the dedication.
• 22:44
  Speaker 7: It was really expensive. We actually had to raise a
• 22:46
  Speaker 7: lot of money to get the thing over here. It's
• 22:47
  Speaker 7: one of those gifts you don't necessarily want to get.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: But it's paid off.
• 22:50
  Speaker 7: We're going to give you a statue today. Oh, cool, man.
• 22:53
  Speaker 7: Send it over. No, you must pay to get it.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 22:56
  Speaker 22: Really?
• 22:57
  Speaker 7: Really?
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: But it's very nice.
• 23:00
  Speaker 7: National First Responders Day, which is October 28th. This was
• 23:04
  Speaker 7: passed via U.S. Senate resolution in 2017 honoring all first responders. firefighters,
• 23:11
  Speaker 7: police officers, but don't forget the EMTs, don't forget the paramedics,
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: don't forget the dispatchers, and do not forget the support staff,
• 23:18
  Speaker 7: which makes the whole thing run. Anyone that works in
• 23:21
  Speaker 7: first response, this is their day. Obviously, all of them
• 23:25
  Speaker 7: working long shifts, holidays, overnight hours, and in dangerous conditions,
• 23:28
  Speaker 7: which most of us cannot even comprehend.
• 23:30
  Speaker 22: No.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Texas A & M Task Force 1 deployed right now.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: New Mexico. They're in New Mexico. Yeah.
• 23:36
  Speaker 7: A big thank you to all of them, and a
• 23:38
  Speaker 7: big thank you to everyone that works in those industries,
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: because it is a task and a half. Birthdays, what
• 23:45
  Speaker 7: do we got?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Birthdays for today, Nolan Gould is 28. Who? Nolan Gould.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Luke Dunphy on Modern Family. There you go. Matt Smith, 44.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Damon Targaryen, House of the Dragon.
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: He was a doctor.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He was the 11th doctor. The 11th. Yeah. And he
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: was Prince Philip in the first two seasons of The Crown. Oh,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: that's right.
• 24:04
  Speaker 17: I forgot.
• 24:05
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 24:05
  Speaker 7: He was in that.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Justin Guriani is 48. Lil Sweet in the Diet Dr.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Pepper commercials. He was the original American Idol runner-up.
• 24:15
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: And he starred in the show from Justin to Kelly.
• 24:19
  Speaker 7: It didn't do well.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Did not. Gwendolyn Christie is 48. Breanne of Tarth on
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Game of Thrones.
• 24:25
  Speaker 21: Oh, yeah.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: She's also the shapeshifter principal Weems on Wednesday, which I
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: love that show.
• 24:31
  Speaker 14: She is.
• 24:32
  Speaker 7: You're right.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: There you go. Joaquin Phoenix, 52 years old today. The
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: aforementioned Brad Paisley is 54. Julia Roberts is 59. Andy Richter,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: the Conan O'Brien sidekick, 60 years old today. Jamie Girtz
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: is 61. She was at Square Pegs, 16 Candles, The
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Lost Boys, less than zero. You see her face, you
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: know exactly who she is. Daphne Zuniga is 64 today.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: She was Joe Reynolds on Melrose Place. To me, she
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: will always be Princess Vespa in Spaceballs.
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: Oh, wow.
• 25:07
  Speaker 25: Yeah, good call.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Spaceballs 2 is supposed to be coming out before too long.
• 25:10
  Speaker 7: One of these days.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: One of these days. Bill Gates is 71 years old today.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I hope he's doing okay. He only has a 66,000
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: square foot home. 66,000. All the floors are heated, including
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: the driveway. Good night. Annie Potts is 74. Mary Jo
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: on Designing Women. She's also a Janie in Ghostbusters. The
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: voice of Bo Peep in the Toy Story movies. She's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: in something else right now. A doctor show that I
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: picked up somewhere on streaming.
• 25:34
  Speaker 14: Huh.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Caitlin Jenner is 77. Shares a birthday with Bruce. Very
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: famous Olympian. Dennis France is 82. Andy Sipowicz on the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: NYPD Blue. And one from the stiffs category. It's a
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: big one. Born on this date in 1936. Charlie Daniels.
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: Oh, rest in peace.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Man, the CDB is something else.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: Rest in peace.
• 25:57
  Speaker 26: Indeed.
• 25:57
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  Speaker 23: My name is Peter Michelena, and I'm running for Brazos
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  Speaker 23: County Commissioner in Precinct 4. I'm a Marine veteran, a
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  Speaker 24: In the race for governor, it's chaos versus common sense. First,
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  Speaker 1: That's the choice, Texas.
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  Speaker 30: The chaos that Gina Hinojosa would bring or the common
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• 31:04
  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A Grimes
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: County jury sentenced a man to life in prison on
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Tuesday for repeated sexual assault of a child. The allegations
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: first came to light in October of last year when
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: the now 14-year-old boy came forward and reported the abuse.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: College Station Police took the report and referred the case
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to Navasota Police where the majority of the assaults took place.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Investigators say the abuse dates back to 2015 when the
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: child was only five years old. Sebastian Domingo claimed the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: victim initiated the incidents and blamed drug use for his
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: poor decisions. Continuous sexual abuse of a child is a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: first-degree felony, carrying a punishment of 25 to 99 years
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: or life in prison with no possibility of parole. This
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: offense requires the state to prove the defendant sexually abused
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the victim at least twice while under 14 years of age.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: over at least a 30-day period. The jury returned a
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: guilty verdict in under 20 minutes last week. On Tuesday,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: the jury deliberated briefly before sentencing Domingo to life in prison.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Sebastian Domingo is in the custody of the Grimes County Jail,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: awaiting transfer to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Grimes
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: County Assistant DA Tammy Thomas said the jury saw the evidence,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: convicted him, and now have made sure he will never
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: have the chance to hurt another child. Three people were
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: arrested in Bryan after a traffic stop led to the
• 32:28
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• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Department were on patrol near the Saddlewood Club Apartments in
• 32:37
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• 32:40
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  Speaker 31: Today, we have identified nine additional islands that should legally
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  Speaker 14: President Trump telling folks a vote for Texas Republicans, including
• 34:06
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  Speaker 2: He's the greatest in the history of Texas Attorney General
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  Speaker 14: Paxton, who faces Democratic Senate nominee James Tallarico, reflecting on
• 34:20
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  Speaker 1: He's traveling the country. I've never seen anybody work harder,
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  Speaker 14: The president also weighing in.
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  Speaker 2: These rallies have energized, they've really energized the Republican Party.
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  Speaker 14: Also revealing he'll make more FEMA relief funds available for
• 34:41
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  Speaker 1: James Tallarico was also in Lubbock last night.
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  Speaker 7: I know that we're not the only show in town tonight, and.
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  Speaker 17: I appreciate all 4,000 of you that showed up here
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  Speaker 1: According to a recent Fox News poll of likely voters,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the candidates are tied at 49% each. Is it worth
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: selling out your phone's contacts for a chance to win
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  Speaker 1: a Yeti cooler? Governor Greg Abbott is betting yes. I'm
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: going to walk you through a way to make sure
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  Speaker 1: we keep Texas ready.
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  Speaker 21: This has become a staple at Governor Abbott's campaign stops,
• 35:20
  Speaker 21: getting his supporters to sign up for his new Abbott
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  Speaker 21: Impact app.
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  Speaker 1: When you add your contacts to that app, then when
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: you add the Texas voter database to that app, you yourself.
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  Speaker 21: Those who offer up their contacts get points for pressuring
• 35:35
  Speaker 21: them to vote. Points that can be exchanged for things
• 35:38
  Speaker 21: like a Yeti cooler or a VIP event with Abbott.
• 35:41
  Speaker 21: Lisa Frick with Cal Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute reviewed
• 35:45
  Speaker 21: the app.
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  Speaker 12: This is not a safe app because it does not
• 35:47
  Speaker 12: have end-to-end encryption and it collects information and can infer
• 35:51
  Speaker 12: data from not only primary users but also people who
• 35:54
  Speaker 12: don't even have an account with the app.
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  Speaker 21: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 7: Crazy that you had that story in news about the.
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  Speaker 7: I'll get it correct as far as the title goes,
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  Speaker 7: because I got a text message about this, about the
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  Speaker 7: Greg Abbott app.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah that thing it just that makes me angry.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: I want to i want to because sometimes new stuff
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: slows because this deserves a little bit of a longer
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: uh conversation so yesterday i got uh i got this
• 39:17
  Speaker 7: guy right here another political text one of probably 25
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  Speaker 7: you've already voted i have most of your friends and
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: neighbors haven't find out who by downloading this app and
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: it sends me to abbott impact.org now you're paying attention
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: to news you know that's not what i mean uh.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: What are we doing uh what are we doing Can't
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: we spend some time developing an actual platform and talking
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: about it rather than... Something you do.
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  Speaker 7: Something you.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Do we spend a minute governing?
• 39:55
  Speaker 14: Right?
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: There's an app. Abbott Impact app. The goal of the
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: Abbott Impact app is to get you to send in
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: your friends' contact information, your family's contact information. Because if
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: you do, Will, you might get a cooler or a
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: chance to meet Governor Abbott. or probably a chance to
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: win any number of things just by, and there's no
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: other way to say this, selling out your family and friends.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: And I had the thought, and then Jason texted in
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: the same thought. Would you still be friends with somebody
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: that shared your contact information? Not only would I not
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: be their friend.
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: That's a great question.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: I would be their enemy. And, I mean, pranks... As
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: we were talking about earlier?
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's not– this is a way higher level.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: No, it would be revenge.
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: I want to be clear about this because we know
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: what that will be used for. It will be used
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: so Greg Abbott can sell it– or Greg Abbott's campaign.
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: I'm not saying he would personally profit over it. I
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: doubt he would. That's a very valuable thing to have
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: a database. That database can be sold to Republicans, Democrats, anyone.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: It will be. It will be.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: How do I know that, Will? Because I am drowning
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: in these stupid text messages. Every one of you is
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: drowning in these stupid text messages.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I feel so fortunate that I have received a total
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: of four.
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: Whatever you're doing, you're doing it right. Michael, I received
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: a text last night that said, you have voted. Many
• 41:22
  Speaker 7: of your neighbors have not clicked to see who hasn't
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: voted yet. And then it said, join the Greg Abbott app.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: It is real.
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: Of course it's a real thing. Of course it's a
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: real thing.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: It's a real disturbing thing.
• 41:34
  Speaker 22: Guys, I.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Every time I think that we can't take a step
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: closer to stupidity, we do.
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: This is... There have been a couple of commercials I've
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: seen just to make sure this isn't... I don't think
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: it's just Greg. I have seen some commercials already talking about, hey,
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: did you know That you can tell whether you voted
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: or not in an election? How embarrassing would it be
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: for your friends and neighbors to know that you haven't
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: voted in this, the most important election of our lifetime, blah?
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: You're really bracing me if I don't want to vote?
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: You're trying to use peer pressure on me? The things
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: your schools teach our children to stay away from?
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: You're trying to blackmail me? If I don't want to
• 42:26
  Speaker 7: get out and vote.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: You know what my reaction to peer pressure is? I
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: go the other direction. Go the other direction. And I go.
• 42:35
  Speaker 10: Hard.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: There's a lot that I think universally across party lines
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: we are disgusted by as far as this process goes.
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: And how it is played out, like the fact we're
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: spending half, or sorry, is it half a bill for
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: the Senate race? And then another probably quarter bill for
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: the governor's race while you can't afford to buy the
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: stuff you need to buy to run your life. Or
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: just the constant stream of just.
• 43:10
  Speaker 23: Just whatever.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: The constant stream.
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: It takes a lot, a lot for me to get
• 43:16
  Speaker 7: physically angry. over a political message it just does because
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: i've trained myself over nigh under 45 years to just
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: remember that it's just politics and it's just that this
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: is this is theater this is the most enraging thing
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: that i have seen in this election so far and
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: the unchecked audacity the absolute, unmitigated audacity to not only
• 43:47
  Speaker 7: think that you could do it, but to think that
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: I'd do it for a Yeti.
• 43:53
  Speaker 31: Or.
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: I don't even know what to say anymore. Other than...
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: How many days left?
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Six days. Six, five.
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah, six days.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: There'll be some aftershocks, I'm sure.
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'll give you a week. But then guess what?
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: Whoever wins can be quiet as a church mouse. And
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: that's what really we should all be watching. After you've
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: spent all that money, are you actually planning on doing
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: something this time? Or are we just going to wait.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Another two years? Jason texts in.
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: What do you got?
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Does Tucker get green and bulky when he's angry?
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: I'm telling you, it doesn't happen much.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I genuinely try not to. I was going to answer
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Jason by saying I've never really seen it. I try
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: not to. I, on the other hand, can... I can
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: go Hulk pretty quick.
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: It takes a lot. It takes a lot to make
• 44:48
  Speaker 7: me actually mad. But in this era of where your
• 44:51
  Speaker 7: data is being sold to everyone, someone going up in
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: front of my parents and my grandparents and old people
• 44:57
  Speaker 7: that turn out to these rallies because I don't know. Look,
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: it's a specific type of person that's going to go
• 45:02
  Speaker 7: and get all hyped up and saying, hey, I need
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: you to give me. Not only your information, but make
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: sure you give me your kids' information. Make sure you
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: give me your coworkers' information. Make sure you give me
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: everyone's information. Just so I can make sure they voted.
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: Because remember, it's really important.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: That they vote.
• 45:20
  Speaker 7: I need to be able to monitor that. If y'all
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: are angry about flaw cameras and this just somehow slides
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: by you, I don't even know what to tell you.
• 45:28
  Speaker 7: I don't want to hear you whine, frankly, if If
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: I don't, I want to hear from all those, all
• 45:38
  Speaker 7: those floppers who have been blowing up our inbox because like,
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: we're not, I'm not militantly, whatever it is. I don't hear,
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: if I don't hear anything from this on, I don't,
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: I will, we're just going to move on from that topic, boy. But,
• 45:54
  Speaker 7: but yeah, the countdown is on. Cannot end soon enough. And, yeah,
• 46:01
  Speaker 7: if you are interested, I can always just give you
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: the link in case one of those people thinks it's fake.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's right there. It's actually a thing.
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  Speaker 25: The clear focus of your public landscape, that is, the
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  Speaker 25: should be the front door. If it's turned at right
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  Speaker 25: angles to the street, then the focal point becomes the
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  Speaker 25: viewers' eyes to the entry point of your house. That
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  Speaker 25: where they'll break that line of sight to the door.
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  Speaker 25: Use them instead off to the sides where they can
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  Speaker 25: act as the frames to your entry, much as decorative
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  Speaker 25: moldings in frame of fine painting. On the other hand,
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  Speaker 25: feature flamboyant color very near the front door to draw
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  Speaker 25: maximum attention to that most prime part of your plantings.
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  Speaker 25: Use container plants there too, or an attractive piece of
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  Speaker 25: job is to rivet people's attention right where you want it,
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  Speaker 25: the entry point of your home. Your rear landscape takes
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  Speaker 25: on quite a different personality. Unless it's on public display
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  Speaker 25: from the alley, your backyard is going to be viewed
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  Speaker 25: by far fewer people, primarily you, your family, and friends.
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  Speaker 25: It'll be seen most commonly from the back patio door,
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  Speaker 25: and it will often be viewed statically while folks are
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  Speaker 25: sitting or standing quietly. Once again, you'll want a focal
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  Speaker 25: point for your rear landscape. It should be toward the
• 49:23
  Speaker 25: back of the garden so your eyes will be drawn
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  Speaker 25: over the patio across the grass and to the back
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  Speaker 25: of the lot. It might be a prominent shade tree
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  Speaker 25: or it could be a lamp or fountain or statue.
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  Speaker 25: It might be a bed of bright floral color or
• 49:37
  Speaker 25: it could be something as simple as as a flowering
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  Speaker 25: vine trailing across the top of the fence. Whatever it is,
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  Speaker 25: it needs to be clearly visible from the house, and
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  Speaker 25: it needs to be attractive year-round. By placing it in
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  Speaker 25: one corner or the other, you'll break up the rigid
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  Speaker 25: symmetry of a rectangular city lot. That'll make it a
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  Speaker 25: lot easier to develop the rest of the landscape around
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  Speaker 25: it and alongside it. We all want privacy in our
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  Speaker 25: backyard environments. We also want peace and solitude Those are
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  Speaker 25: not easily achieved if neighbors, traffic, or school kids are
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  Speaker 25: raising a ruckus around us. That's when dense, tall shrubs
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  Speaker 25: like Nellie R. Stevens hollies and willow leaf hollies can come.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: To our rescue.
• 50:16
  Speaker 25: However, again, you need to be careful that you don't
• 50:18
  Speaker 25: block the line of sight to the back of your garden.
• 50:21
  Speaker 25: Arrange the screening shrubs in random clusters around the edges
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  Speaker 3: Charles Schwartner has a record of fighting for Texas and
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  Speaker 3: He passed safeguards against dangerous uses of AI, and he
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  Speaker 18: AI, big tech, and online predators are creating new threats
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  Speaker 18: knows how dangerous these platforms can be. That's why he
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  Speaker 18: passed a law stopping big tech and predators from targeting
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  Speaker 18: used as a weapon against our kids. State Representative Paul
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  Speaker 1: Attention, everybody.
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. Text message Eric sends in. This is, to me,
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  Speaker 7: the same thing as the fundraiser they do for kids'
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  Speaker 7: sports or kids' school where they ask for, again, all
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  Speaker 7: of the contact information.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: You're not wrong, Eric.
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  Speaker 1: Get that database. Sell it.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I do. And a lot of people are
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  Speaker 7: kind of in disbelief that Will has somehow managed to
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  Speaker 7: avoid almost every play. We're going to get Will advice
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  Speaker 7: coming up after we get news. If Will has a
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  Speaker 7: way to opt yourself out of this mess, then I
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  Speaker 7: think we all would be interested in hearing it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, where there's a will, there's a way.
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  Speaker 7: Start putting those strategies down.