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The Infomaniacs: June 26, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch. The Bryant City Council is holding a
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Speaker 1: special meeting this afternoon to consider property tax breaks for
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Speaker 1: the new owner of a data center on the Rellis Campus.
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Speaker 1: Councilman James Edge discussed the proposal during a visit on
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Speaker 1: our show almost three months ago.
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Speaker 2: This is a data center that has been under construction
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Speaker 2: now for about two years and it's nearly finished. They
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Speaker 2: had some financial issues with the previous owner. Those issues
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Speaker 2: have been resolved. We have new ownership.
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Speaker 1: The council agenda does not have the proposed incentive agreement.
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Speaker 1: The agenda does include an opportunity for public comments before
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Speaker 1: a council vote. This afternoon's meeting starts at two point fifteen,
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Speaker 1: with the council meeting in private about the proposed agreement
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Speaker 1: and a discussion about BTU matters that can be done
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Speaker 1: in executive session. It's been more than two and a
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Speaker 1: half years since the cities of College Station and Brian
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Speaker 1: reached an agreement to keep the route of a College
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Speaker 1: Station sewer trunk line project out of a South Bryan neighborhood.
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Speaker 1: At last night's College Station City Council meeting, Capital Projects
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Speaker 1: Director Jennifer Kin reported Phase three of the trunk line
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Speaker 1: project is about ready to go out forbid, and property
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Speaker 1: acquisition for the fourth phase is about ready to begin.
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Speaker 3: We have a number of commercial acquisitions that are going
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Speaker 3: to be happening potentially along Texas Avenue and University, and
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Speaker 3: then we are still working with the A and M
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Speaker 3: system of the Hinzil Park lift station and adjusting that
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Speaker 3: easement there, so that'll be something we're working through in
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Speaker 3: the coming month.
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Speaker 4: Cain says.
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Speaker 1: A sewer line replacement on Coooner Street more than five
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Speaker 1: years ago was built large enough to handle the increased
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Speaker 1: capacity of the trunk line that we'll be serving the
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Speaker 1: Northgate district, among other areas. College Station Police has provided
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Speaker 1: an update on an officer involved shooting that took place
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Speaker 1: in May. A CSPD news release says, following an investigation
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Speaker 1: by the u S the Texas Rangers in the Brass
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Speaker 1: County District Attorney's office. A Brass County grand jury found
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Speaker 1: there was no criminal conduct on the part of the
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Speaker 1: officer that resulted in the officer being allowed to return
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Speaker 1: to regular patrol duty. The man who was shot was
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Speaker 1: treated for non life threatening injuries after he fired a
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Speaker 1: shot into an apartment. Twenty eight year old Charles Mail
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Speaker 1: of Hearn remains jailed in lieu of bonds totaling four
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five thousand dollars on charges of shooting
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Speaker 1: a resident in a neighboring apartment, making a terroristic threat
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Speaker 1: causing fear of serious bodily injury, and two counts of
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Speaker 1: discharging a firearm. The Texas A and M Health Science
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Speaker 1: Center and Burlison County are among the latest recipients of
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Speaker 1: grant money collected through opioid drug settlement agreements with the state.
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Speaker 1: Nine locations of the Health Science Center around the state
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Speaker 1: are getting a combined six million dollars for what is
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Speaker 1: described as treatment and coordination of care services. Burlison County
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Speaker 1: is getting almost seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for
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Speaker 1: what is described as recovery support services. WTAW News has
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Speaker 1: requested details about the grants that were awarded by the
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Speaker 1: Texas Opioid Abatement Fund Council, whose activities are governed by
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Speaker 1: the State Comptroller's Office. For the twenty third time in
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Speaker 1: twenty four years, the Brass County Historical Commission gets a
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Speaker 1: Distinguished Service Award from the Texas Historical Commission. Chairman Henry
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Speaker 1: Mayo accepted the state award at this week's county Commission meeting.
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Speaker 5: Putting up historical markers, researching cemeteries out in the county
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Speaker 5: is a very important part of what we're doing nowadays,
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Speaker 5: and the Texastoric Commission surveys this each year on what
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Speaker 5: activities we've been doing.
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Speaker 1: Burlison, Washington, and Mylam Counties were among the sixty two
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Speaker 1: counties who also received the state award, which is based
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Speaker 1: on local activities during the preceding year. News is presented
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Speaker 4: More News ahead.
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Speaker 1: At eight thirty or any time at WTAW dot com.
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Speaker 1: I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 6: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW Good Morning, where
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Speaker 6: the infomaniacs will Fredo Riley and you can call our
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Speaker 6: textas a time nine seven, nine, six, nine, five, sixteen twenty.
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Speaker 6: It'll be quick looking at a high in the nineties,
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Speaker 6: shocking sunny skies, equally shocking down to the seventies, and
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Speaker 6: feel the difference if you are just joining us. Our
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Speaker 6: last segment was Bill Oliver informing us that he is
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Speaker 6: going to be riding off into the sunsets.
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Speaker 1: Indeed, yeah, Thursday, a week from yesterday, will be Bill's
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Speaker 1: last day as he moves on to some pasture or
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Speaker 1: something in Missouri where he will be teaching the youth
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Speaker 1: of America his his journalistic integrity and the things that
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Speaker 1: he does.
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Speaker 6: There is not there is not a person I would
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Speaker 6: pick to be better suited to teach Anyone that has
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Speaker 6: an interest in reporting or journalism as a career.
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Speaker 1: If he can turn out a young person who is
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Speaker 1: half as good and has half the integrity that he
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Speaker 1: does wild, then then our national news picture gets better.
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Speaker 6: So we would love to hear your text messages and
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Speaker 6: your thoughts on Bill. And there's a lot of people
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Speaker 6: that are they're sending him in so we want to
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Speaker 6: want to get to as many of these as we can.
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Speaker 6: But if you want to add yours nine seven, nine, six, five,
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Speaker 6: sixteen twenty, let's go.
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Speaker 1: Laurie says love Bill, and I don't say that about
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Speaker 1: many journalists reporters these days. You do will miss him tremendously,
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Speaker 1: Pam says Bill Oliver sounds like he is the rush
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Speaker 1: Limbo of this area and state.
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Speaker 4: Best wishes Bill.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Konderla Brass County Commissioner, Precinct two. I've always appreciated
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Speaker 1: Bill's commitment to finding the truth about something he is
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Speaker 1: reporting on. There's no agenda other than the truth and
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Speaker 1: getting it right. I've spoken with other elected officials and
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Speaker 1: that is definitely the opinion shared by others. Mike with
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Speaker 1: an attitude of believing that most or all of public
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Speaker 1: figures are not worth caring about because of them playing loose.
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Speaker 4: With the truth.
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Speaker 1: Bill's reporting of the facts small and large has kept
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Speaker 1: me from becoming totally cynical.
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Speaker 4: Bill, you will be missed God's speed, sir.
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Speaker 7: I won't say who who has told me this story.
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Speaker 7: It's actually several people told me the story.
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Speaker 6: They would have conferences with elected officials and with city
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Speaker 6: staffers informing them. And again, you have to be ready
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Speaker 6: when you send these emails out because if you try
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Speaker 6: to sneak something in an agenda, Bill Oliver is gonna
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Speaker 6: catch it. And he might not catch it today, it
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Speaker 6: might not make coverage the next morning, but within a week,
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Speaker 6: if it's interesting, he's gonna catch it.
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Speaker 1: I have watched him comb through agendas for both city
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Speaker 1: council meetings county Commissioner of Courts, I mean, comb through
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Speaker 1: and dig out nuggets that have been buried and create
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Speaker 1: the news stories around them.
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Speaker 7: It's absolutely insane.
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Speaker 6: One of the awards that was not in chat GPT,
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Speaker 6: by the way, and I double checked this the winner
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Speaker 6: of the Charles E. Green Award, which is the best
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Speaker 6: of the best in Texas journalism for the calendar year
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Speaker 6: twenty twenty five. So these are a joint award partnership
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Speaker 6: with Text Association, Broadcasters Texas Managing Editors Organizations, and the
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Speaker 6: way it breaks down is these are essentially this is
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Speaker 6: the best reporter in Texas and it doesn't matter if
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Speaker 6: you are in college station Texas or you were in
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Speaker 6: Dallas or Houston or Austin.
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Speaker 1: I will say that all of the other nominees for
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Speaker 1: this were in major markets.
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Speaker 6: Best radio Reporter Bill Oliver WTAW College Station. So yeah,
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Speaker 6: leaving at the literal top of the pile in Texas journalism.
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Speaker 7: More text messages, Charlie.
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Speaker 6: In all seriousness, this community os Bill a massive debt
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Speaker 6: of gratitude for his hard hitting reporting, particularly at the
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Speaker 6: local political level. He's brought local issues to light that
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Speaker 6: may have otherwise stayed unknown, and for that we thank him.
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Speaker 6: We also very much appreciate the coverage of habitat events
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Speaker 6: and issues over the years. He will definitely be missed.
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Speaker 6: Good luck, Bill, wish you all the best in Missouri.
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Speaker 6: One from Ellen congratulations thanks to Bill Oliver is years
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Speaker 6: of service in the Brass Valley. He'll be missed, but
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Speaker 6: so happy for him and his family. And one more
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Speaker 6: that I got sent to my personal number. Thanks Bill.
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Speaker 6: Or sorry that was me. In my forty years of
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Speaker 6: dealing with reporters, Bill is the best I've ever been around.
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Speaker 6: I've long admired his uncanny ability to get to the
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Speaker 6: heart of every story in a factual, fair, and thorough way.
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Speaker 7: He's been a treasure to our.
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Speaker 6: Community and will be missed. The bottom line is he cares.
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Speaker 6: I'll even miss his never ending text messages and emails
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Speaker 6: on every city council meeting. Bill, thank you, you, and
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Speaker 6: everyone at the City of College Station wishes you the
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Speaker 6: very best. As from Colin Killian. Yeah, and they're just
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Speaker 6: piling in. We could keep going on this forever, but
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Speaker 6: if you've got one you want to send in, please
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Speaker 6: send it in nine seven, nine, six, nine five, sixteen twenty.
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Speaker 6: If you missed the conversation with Bill, it will be
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Speaker 6: online shortly so you'll be able to go and check
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Speaker 6: it out and get everything.
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Speaker 1: Yeah the podcast. Of course, you can listen to the
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Speaker 1: show and its entirety. I strongly encourage you to also
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Speaker 1: check out the social media. There will be individual segments
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Speaker 1: that are posted there from all of our shows, but
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Speaker 1: this one will certainly be up there. One more text
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Speaker 1: message from Greg stassny Oh congratulations to Bill Oliver. He's
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Speaker 1: been a great asset for WTAW. Brian broadcast A little bit,
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Speaker 1: a little bit, a little bit didn't catch his replacement's name.
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Speaker 4: That's Janette Munchow and.
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Speaker 6: She is fantastic and we're very much looking forward to
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Speaker 6: seeing her take off with this thing. Eight fifteen, Hey,
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Speaker 6: seventeen sixteen, twenty ninety four five WTAW Good morning, and
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Speaker 6: of course phone number nine seven nine six nine sixteen
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Speaker 6: twenty hit us up any times. Get to more of
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Speaker 6: these text messages because they're they're all incredible. I hate
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Speaker 6: leaving these on table. This one is Tom. Bill has
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Speaker 6: won the America Texas American Legion Media Awarded twice. His
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Speaker 6: work for veterans in our community speaks for itself from
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Speaker 6: Liz Dicky. Not only is Bill the undisputed goat of
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Speaker 6: local news, which he is, he's also been the unofficial
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Speaker 6: hype man for just about every nonprofit in the Brass
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Speaker 6: Valley also true hell for all Thanks you, Bill, and
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Speaker 6: somehow he's managed to stay a genuinely good dude.
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Speaker 1: Through all of it. This is Texas's loss. I love
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Speaker 1: the He's a good dude. He's a good dude. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of them out there. Tad texted in
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Speaker 1: Daily Word Today, Give given, it will be given.
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Speaker 4: To you scripture loop six thirty eight.
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Speaker 1: Certainly know one gives the respect time, perfect deep answers,
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Speaker 1: and even the loan of his digital radio. This is
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Speaker 1: a great man, obviously in love with his tasks.
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Speaker 7: Oh man, too good.
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Speaker 6: And yeah, we'll be archiving all of these and yeah,
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Speaker 6: well obviously that last you're gonna hear from Bill week
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Speaker 6: and we'll be doing this a lot. So I do
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Speaker 6: want to talk about a warning out there to the fellows.
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Speaker 7: You gotta watch your wives.
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Speaker 6: You never know, you never know when that wolf is
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Speaker 6: gonna come creeping.
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Speaker 1: My wife last night, after I kind of woke up
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Speaker 1: from my nap, she said, me and the cheer moms
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Speaker 1: are going out. This is a group of cheer moms
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Speaker 1: that have been together since our kids were tots, and
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Speaker 1: there were four of them that went out last night.
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Speaker 1: They were sitting on the patio of a local Brazilian steakhouse,
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Speaker 1: which they like to.
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Speaker 7: Do, which is a fantastic place to hang out with.
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Speaker 1: And just enjoying themselves in a few cocktails when an
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Speaker 1: eighty three year old man pulled up to the table,
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Speaker 1: pulled up a chair, sat down and said, sorry, I'm late.
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Speaker 6: He this was an eighty three year old man who
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Speaker 6: was spitting game. He was at these ladies, Yes, he
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Speaker 6: was at He saw it. He saw an opportunity, and
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Speaker 6: he took that opportunity and inserted himself out.
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Speaker 4: He said, yo, sorry, I'm late. Didn't mean to keep
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Speaker 4: you beautiful ladies waiting.
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Speaker 7: I mean, the guy I cannot imagine.
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Speaker 4: The guy was as smooth as still confidence.
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Speaker 7: As I cannot imagine.
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Speaker 6: So what was his what was what was his process?
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Speaker 4: So his game, his game was that.
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Speaker 1: Apparently he was a very well known illusionist and magician.
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Speaker 1: So he pulls up to the table and he starts tricking.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about pulling a coin out from
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Speaker 1: behind your ear.
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Speaker 7: Give me what was he Okay, give me some of
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Speaker 7: the magic.
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Speaker 1: He poured the water in his fist, opened his hand
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Speaker 1: and it was not there, closed his hand and poured
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Speaker 1: it into a glass. Oh so he's a real Apparently
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Speaker 1: he had a Vegas residency at one point in time,
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Speaker 1: and and he's retired from that. He was here in
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Speaker 1: town because his grandson is graduating graduated, I guess yesterday
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Speaker 1: from the Teak's Fire Academy and is going on to
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Speaker 1: the Paramedic school. So they were in town celebrating that,
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Speaker 1: and he just decided, Hey, here's a table full of
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Speaker 1: beautiful ladies, and I'm gonna go up and I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: give him. I'm gonna give him my shot.
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Speaker 6: I got to ask this because I've heard I've heard
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Speaker 6: this that magic ranks among the unsexiest hobbies.
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Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: Oh well, if so, if a man comes comes to you, Riley,
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Speaker 6: attractive man, I'll say seven or higher, and part of
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Speaker 6: his pitch is I'm gonna show you a magic trick.
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Speaker 8: I'm walking away. Yeah, the other way, my whole life
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Speaker 8: is going to be nothing but him doing dumb magic
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Speaker 8: tricks on you or around you all your life. And
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Speaker 8: then when you go to family events, that's going to
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Speaker 8: be his whole personality. Why the heck would you want that?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I would kind of dig it.
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Speaker 8: Was like a comedian. Absolutely, I think that's all. Okay, Okay,
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Speaker 8: I don't mind if someone roasts me, but if you're
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Speaker 8: gonna pull a.
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Speaker 6: Rabbit out of a hat, him out if the floor
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Speaker 6: is below comedian. The fact that Riley says a comedian
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Speaker 6: is not a disqualifier, but a magician. Magician is tells
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Speaker 6: you exactly how things rank in the hierarchy of the entertainment.
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Speaker 7: I don't know where.
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Speaker 6: Radio talent falls in that hierarchy is probably not much better.
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Speaker 7: Never, ladies never date a commedian.
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Speaker 1: Never.
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Speaker 6: Comedians are the darkest black holes in the unit's where
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Speaker 6: it comes from.
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Speaker 7: It's it's to have to be empty inside they are.
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Speaker 6: They are deeply flawed and yet still more attractive than
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Speaker 6: a magician.
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Speaker 1: Well, apparently this guy had more than just the magic tricks.
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Speaker 1: He had a pretty slick tongue too. Really yeah, so, yeah,
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Speaker 1: he was funny. He was engaging. Uh and and and
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Speaker 1: they really, I mean they she ca before leaving the
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Speaker 1: restaurant to tell me about this.
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Speaker 4: And he had jokes, I mean it was he had it.
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Speaker 4: He had he had a routine.
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Speaker 6: So he sat he sat down, and he was going
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Speaker 6: to go through his routine.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Wow, did he did anybody? Did? Did he get any
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Speaker 7: digits out of there?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 1: No, but he did steal one of their phones by
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Speaker 1: accident by magic?
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Speaker 4: Is by magic, that's what they thought. It was. One
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Speaker 4: of them.
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Speaker 1: One of them reached for her phone, probably to call
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Speaker 1: her husband and tell him about all the cops.
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Speaker 7: Maybe the.
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Speaker 4: Less the phone.
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Speaker 1: The phone wasn't there, so they started calling it and
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Speaker 1: he and his grandson came walking back. He had accidentally
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Speaker 1: picked up that phone. Initially they were thought, you know,
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Speaker 1: this is what their thought was. This is how you
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Speaker 1: get taken this, this is how you get ripped off.
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Speaker 6: Now he's in the phone, and he's now he's got
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Speaker 6: everything you need. He's got he's got all your Riley. Okay,
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Speaker 6: and this is not just yours. We're not just talking
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Speaker 6: about just Riley's personal disqualifiers in your age range. What
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Speaker 6: are some of the other hobbies that tend to run
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Speaker 6: women off just for for for the fellas, for the
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Speaker 6: good of the game, for the good of the audience.
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Speaker 8: Sports, gambling, gambling in general.
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Speaker 6: And that's that's for for most women. They find that
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Speaker 6: they find that to be gross.
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Speaker 8: Yes, it's not that it's gross. It's just one of
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Speaker 8: those things that if he's willing to throw away money
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Speaker 8: on that and one day he thinks he's going to
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Speaker 8: hit a really big number, you could go too. Many
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Speaker 8: bad things can come out of gambling.
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Speaker 6: In my opinion, I think it makes sense and I've
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Speaker 6: heard that. I have heard that from several people, especially
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Speaker 6: now that it's become so superfluous with sports fandom.
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Speaker 1: It's become so easy that people that might have a
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Speaker 1: tendency to get in trouble with it have more opportunity
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Speaker 1: to get in trouble.
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Speaker 6: What else any other ones? I ain't pick your brain
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Speaker 6: on this one.
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Speaker 8: CrossFit Okay, See that really doesn't bother me. No less,
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Speaker 8: Oh no, if you're a competitive okay, so this is
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Speaker 8: just me coming from being a this is me. I
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Speaker 8: was a college co collegiate athlete. I just finish about
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Speaker 8: a year and a half ago. Anybody after you finished
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Speaker 8: college and you gotta give it up. I'm sorry if
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Speaker 8: you're trying to still compete or think you're macho man,
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Speaker 8: or you're not competing in like the w w W
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Speaker 8: I was gonna say, a wrestle, like actual true wrestling,
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Speaker 8: like all of that, and you're not a professional athlete.
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Speaker 8: It's not in.
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Speaker 6: General, not just that it's Weekend Warriors, any of that,
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Speaker 6: any of that. Anyone, you're just holding on to this
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Speaker 6: dream that.
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Speaker 8: You still want to be Like this, I'm a crossfitch athlete. Now,
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Speaker 8: if you're someone like what wants to do a triathlons.
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Speaker 8: I think that's cool. I mean, not that you're trying
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Speaker 8: to win them, but you're just trying to compete in
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Speaker 8: them in general. I think that's pretty interesting. But if
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Speaker 8: you expect me to go watch you taekwondo fight on
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Speaker 8: the weekend and you're in your thirties, I'm not going
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Speaker 8: to do that.
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Speaker 4: Okay, no.
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Speaker 7: For all of us.
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Speaker 8: But some people like to do that, and that's that's
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Speaker 8: their cup of tea. I don't that.
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Speaker 7: I don't judge it.
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Speaker 6: Expected to catch the eyes of the ladies.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, what are.
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Speaker 4: Any of the hobby red flags?
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Speaker 6: Oh man, hobby red flag? And and feel free if
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Speaker 6: you want to share some of yours with us nine
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Speaker 6: seven nine six nine five here.
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Speaker 1: By the way, disagrees with you, says rightly, think of
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Speaker 1: your future children.
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Speaker 4: A magician would be a hit with the kids.
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Speaker 7: You imagine a second generation magician.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, oh, I don't want more than one magician.
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Speaker 1: Having Your grandpa is formerly having a residency in Vegas.
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Speaker 6: How long was he in Vegas? It takes to survive.
18:32
Speaker 6: I don't Las Vegas for like ten years.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and his grandson was there with him last night,
18:37
Speaker 1: you know, he had to walk him back over to
18:39
Speaker 1: get the phone back to one of the ladies.
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Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, amazing.
18:46
Speaker 6: In this person textans it's not the hobby that matters,
18:48
Speaker 6: but if you spend a ridiculous amount of time doing
18:51
Speaker 6: any hobby that gets in the way of the relationship,
18:54
Speaker 6: that is the balance that you have to find.
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Speaker 4: It's all about the ballance.
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Speaker 7: Video games have not come up in this conversation.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Riley, Riley, what do you think?
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Speaker 8: Games don't bother me? Now there's someone that's oh, now
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Speaker 8: that's okay. The whole adding on to the fact of
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Speaker 8: spending lots of money. If you're someone that has a
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Speaker 8: weird collects weird things.
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Speaker 4: This is coming from you.
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Speaker 6: You can't have cool collections and then not with down
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Speaker 6: with other people's.
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Speaker 8: I know some people that I'm not I'm not going
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Speaker 8: to speak what they have collections up on air, but
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Speaker 8: they've got some weird collections of weird items.
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Speaker 4: Some people may consider your collections weird.
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Speaker 1: I just want to know which one are you the
19:33
Speaker 1: pot or the kettle, because I mean you're saying, I
19:39
Speaker 1: mean the collection.
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Speaker 7: These are these are wonderful hobbies, Yeah, wonderful.
19:43
Speaker 8: There are certain collections of items where I would be like,
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Speaker 8: if you were collecting like beanie babies or cabbage patch
19:50
Speaker 8: dolls and you had an entire room of cabbage patch dolls,
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Speaker 8: I would be like that.
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Speaker 4: A sixty seven year old man.
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Speaker 1: That would be very The collection has to mask, yes,
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Speaker 1: Like if.
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Speaker 8: You're collecting Star Wars, I wouldn't care if you're collecting
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Speaker 8: something along. But if you're like I'm collecting like if
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Speaker 8: really weird objects, that.
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Speaker 6: Just well, if you walked into my house and saw
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Speaker 6: an entire room dedicated to American girl dolls, that's what
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Speaker 6: we're talking about.
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Speaker 1: To say, I was just trying to pair that up
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Speaker 1: with your personality. I'm like, that doesn't fit. Good morning
20:24
Speaker 1: and happy Friday from the WTAW newsroom.
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Speaker 4: I'm Will Welch.
20:29
Speaker 1: A College station police officer has returned to regular patrol duty.
20:33
Speaker 1: That's after he was placed on paid administrative leave following
20:36
Speaker 1: an officer involved shooting on May sixteenth. A CSPD news
20:40
Speaker 1: release says a Bresis County grand jury found no criminal
20:43
Speaker 1: conduct that followed investigations by the District Attorney's Office and
20:47
Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. A prior CSPD news release said the
20:50
Speaker 1: officer shanie suspect who refused to drop his gun after
20:54
Speaker 1: he fired into an apartment, which resulted in a woman
20:57
Speaker 1: being hit. The man who was arrested, twenty eight year
20:59
Speaker 1: old Charles Mail of Hearne, remains jailed on charges of
21:02
Speaker 1: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of discharging
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Speaker 1: a firearm and making a terroristic threat causing fear of
21:09
Speaker 1: serious bodily injury. Bonds on those charges totals four hundred
21:13
Speaker 1: and twenty five thousand dollars. For months, the Brian City
21:17
Speaker 1: Council has been negotiating a tax abatement agreement with the
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M System and the new owner of
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Speaker 1: a data center building on the Relis campus. This afternoon,
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Speaker 1: the council will have a special meeting to consider what
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Speaker 1: is still an undisclosed agreement.
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Speaker 2: If you're driving down twenty one, you'll see the building.
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Speaker 2: It's right there next to all that electrical infrastructure. Just
21:37
Speaker 2: I guess is the last thing on the Roles campus
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Speaker 2: as you're going west towards Caldwell.
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Speaker 1: Councilman James Edge said during an interview on our show
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Speaker 1: April ninth that there were financial issues with the original
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Speaker 1: owner of the data center building, which has been under
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Speaker 1: construction for two years.
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Speaker 2: This data center, to be honest with you, it's really
21:54
Speaker 2: not large enough for them to generate their own power.
21:56
Speaker 2: They can certainly purchase power from BTU, which we're really
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Speaker 2: excited about there as well.
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Speaker 1: While this afternoon's meeting starts at two fifteen, the council
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Speaker 1: will first meet in private to discuss the proposed agreement
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Speaker 1: and confidential matters involving BTU. Before the council. Here's public
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Speaker 1: comments about the data center. A committee in the Texas
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Speaker 1: House shares the results of a new poll on data centers.
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Speaker 1: State Representative and Angie brad Buckley, whose district includes Fort Hood,
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Speaker 1: says twenty eight percent supported data centers.
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Speaker 9: And rural Texas it's twenty two percent.
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Speaker 1: Buckley also says both sides of the data center debate
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Speaker 1: are so dug in that he doesn't expect polling to change,
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Speaker 1: and the response rate to a survey that was sent
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Speaker 1: to data center owners about how much power and water
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Speaker 1: they use was under thirty three percent. A semi annual
22:45
Speaker 1: update on capitol projects in College Station was given at
22:48
Speaker 1: last night. City Council Meeting Director Jennifer Kin reported Among
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Speaker 1: these sixty nine active projects is getting closer to starting
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Speaker 1: construction on the city's contract with Brass County to widen
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Speaker 1: Greenspa Road.
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Speaker 3: We are currently finalizing the last piece of design. We
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Speaker 3: had a little bit with several property acquisitions to do,
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Speaker 3: and we finally have finalized all of that.
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Speaker 4: Construction won't start until next year.
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Speaker 3: Welburn sud has some utilities in the way at the
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Speaker 3: intersection one of the intersections there at with Lake and
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Speaker 3: so they're going to be moving them this fall. They
23:19
Speaker 3: have to wait until October to take down their waterline
23:21
Speaker 3: and sult once we get through the summer season, so
23:23
Speaker 3: they'll relocate and then we'll hopefully start our project in
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Speaker 3: twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: The City of College Station's website has an interactive map
23:31
Speaker 1: that keeps track of the active projects. This week's Brass's
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Speaker 1: County Commission meeting included County Judge Dwayne Peters presenting the
23:38
Speaker 1: Texas Historical Commission's Distinguished Service Award to the Brass County
23:43
Speaker 1: Historical Commission.
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Speaker 9: Bradis County is one of sixty two counties with Historical
23:47
Speaker 9: Commission receiving Distinguished Service Awards for an outstanding work for
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Speaker 9: twenty twenty five. The Texas Historical Commission presents these wards
23:56
Speaker 9: each year to the county Historical Commission in recognition of
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Speaker 9: their act and well balanced preservation programs.
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Speaker 1: Brass's County received the award for the twenty third time
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Speaker 1: in the twenty four years that the state has presented
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Speaker 1: the honor, which is based on local activities during the
24:12
Speaker 1: preceding year. Other recipients from the Brasss Valley are Burlson, Washington,
24:16
Speaker 1: and Milam Counties. The governing body in charge of spending
24:20
Speaker 1: money collected through opioid drug settlement agreements has awarded grants
24:24
Speaker 1: to the Texas A and M Health Science Center totaling
24:26
Speaker 1: almost six million dollars. The list of recipients, splitting a
24:30
Speaker 1: combined forty nine million dollars, includes nine health science center
24:34
Speaker 1: locations around the state. The grant money will be spent
24:37
Speaker 1: on what is described as treatment and coordination of care services.
24:41
Speaker 1: Grant recipients also includes Burlison County, which is getting almost
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Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars for recovery support services.
24:48
Speaker 1: WTAW News has requested details about how the grant money
24:52
Speaker 1: will be spent. The money was awarded by the Texas
24:55
Speaker 1: Opioid Abatement Fund Council, which is administered by the Texas
24:59
Speaker 1: Common Controller's Office. More news throughout the day or anytime
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Speaker 1: at WTAW dot com. I'm will welch sixteen twenty ninety
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Speaker 6: A forty one on sixteen twenty ninety four to five
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Speaker 6: wta W Happy Friday. Already in the eighties, going up
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Speaker 6: to the nineties. Heaton Dex is gonna feel hotter than that.
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Speaker 6: We will get the breeze again yesterday, which was a
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Speaker 6: nice treat in the evening down to the seventies. Tonight
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Speaker 6: and then same old song and dance Saturday and Sunday,
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Speaker 10: Let's talk to the city at College Station.
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Speaker 7: What's up, Bobby, how are we doing today?
25:51
Speaker 8: I'm doing all about yourself.
25:53
Speaker 7: I'm doing good, y'all.
25:53
Speaker 6: Stay in Busy always is a that is a loaded question.
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Speaker 7: Who did we bring with us today?
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Speaker 11: I have a doctor, Heather Way, the principal planner of
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Speaker 11: the Planning and Development Services departments.
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Speaker 7: Oh Heather, how are you doing?
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Speaker 12: I'm doing great, glad to be here.
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Speaker 7: You are someone who's absolutely been pretty busy.
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Speaker 11: Yes's been very busy.
26:12
Speaker 7: We talked about this a.
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Speaker 6: Little bit with with Mayor Nichols, and it's come up
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Speaker 6: several times at this point because this is going to
26:21
Speaker 6: be a monumental type of task at figuring out what
26:27
Speaker 6: to do, how to do it, everything else like that. Obviously,
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Speaker 6: I think the first meeting was earlier this week.
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Speaker 7: I'm correct.
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Speaker 4: Yep.
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Speaker 12: We had an open house.
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Speaker 7: How do we think that went?
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Speaker 13: It went great.
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Speaker 12: We were We had a two hour open house that
26:41
Speaker 12: was available to everyone. We had around forty people show up.
26:47
Speaker 12: It was a mix of residents, visitors, and business owners.
26:52
Speaker 12: And basically the idea was to give people an opportunity
26:56
Speaker 12: to learn about the planning process for how we're going
26:59
Speaker 12: to plan for the area around Harvey Road, present some
27:04
Speaker 12: information about the area, and then really the biggest part
27:09
Speaker 12: was getting their input, so finding out what they like,
27:12
Speaker 12: what they don't like, and what do they want the
27:14
Speaker 12: area to look like in twenty years How much?
27:17
Speaker 6: How much does this make a difference as far as
27:20
Speaker 6: the input goes. Is it still flexible to the extent
27:23
Speaker 6: that if someone brings you a concern and you'll look
27:28
Speaker 6: at it and say, oh, geez, all right, can it
27:30
Speaker 6: be modified?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely?
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Speaker 12: So we are when I say we're in the very
27:34
Speaker 12: beginning stages, that is what I mean. We will be
27:40
Speaker 12: doing input and in well gathering input and doing engagement
27:44
Speaker 12: over the course of a year. But the process is
27:47
Speaker 12: iterative and everything that ends up in the plan will
27:51
Speaker 12: be based off of community input.
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Speaker 6: What are some of the things you're hoping we get
27:56
Speaker 6: to deal with with this well?
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Speaker 12: So the Harvey Road area, for people that might not
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Speaker 12: be familiar with it, it is kind of an older development.
28:08
Speaker 12: So a lot of the development in this area was
28:10
Speaker 12: done in the nineteen seventies nineteen eighties, and so there
28:14
Speaker 12: has been some aging. So I think there's an opportunity
28:18
Speaker 12: to identify areas that could benefit from some improvements what
28:23
Speaker 12: I like to refer to as revitalization and think about
28:28
Speaker 12: ways to support property owners that want to improve their properties,
28:36
Speaker 12: and then of course we have you know, different commercial
28:39
Speaker 12: sites that have lots of opportunities as well that I
28:44
Speaker 12: think the options for what things could look like are endless,
28:51
Speaker 12: and I think that's what's really cool is that we're
28:53
Speaker 12: asking people for their input and you know, we get
28:57
Speaker 12: to use our imaginations and so it's like, if you
28:59
Speaker 12: can think of an idea, share it, because that could
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Speaker 12: happen in twenty years potentially. It's very inspiring.
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Speaker 6: I would say, have you gotten any ideas from business
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Speaker 6: owners they're like, hey, we should do this?
29:15
Speaker 7: Didn't jump out at you.
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Speaker 12: Well, so I think that what I've heard so far,
29:20
Speaker 12: which is, you know, we just started. So Tuesday night
29:24
Speaker 12: was our launch, our kickoff event, so it's still really early.
29:29
Speaker 12: But I do know that, you know, a lot of
29:32
Speaker 12: the business owners that have they showed up, they've given input,
29:37
Speaker 12: some of them have signed up to be on our
29:38
Speaker 12: working group, and they I think are just very excited
29:42
Speaker 12: at the opportunity to have these discussions of what does
29:45
Speaker 12: it look like to revitalize our area because these improvements
29:49
Speaker 12: will help their businesses ultimately. And yeah, I think that
29:55
Speaker 12: they're just ready to be part of the conversation. It is.
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Speaker 6: It's a really wonderful opportunity because you're, like you mentioned
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Speaker 6: a few times, this is the beginning stages. We're in
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Speaker 6: the planning, we're in the research. This is an opportunity
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Speaker 6: that if this directly affects you, you can have a
30:12
Speaker 6: very real voice in what the policy ends up being
30:16
Speaker 6: and what the project ends up looking like. Yes, all
30:18
Speaker 6: you have to do is you have to avail yourself.
30:21
Speaker 6: That's all the opportunities to have these discussions. So again,
30:25
Speaker 6: we had the first meeting. When's the next opportunity for
30:28
Speaker 6: people to get involved with us?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, So there are a lot of ways people can
30:33
Speaker 12: provide input or participate. So we have several ways to
30:39
Speaker 12: sign up for information, which is on our website and
30:43
Speaker 12: I will give that in just a minute, but you
30:46
Speaker 12: can sign up to get updates. But you can also
30:48
Speaker 12: sign up to be on our working group. If you
30:51
Speaker 12: are willing to dedicate four to six days over the
30:56
Speaker 12: course of the year, four to six days probably two
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Speaker 12: hour meetings for each of those days, you could participate
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Speaker 12: on the working group.
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Speaker 7: That's not bad.
31:06
Speaker 6: That's a that's a pretty light workload.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, it's not bad. And you get to give even
31:11
Speaker 12: more detailed input. And then we also have some interactive
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Speaker 12: map surveys where people can go online they can find
31:20
Speaker 12: areas that they want something changed, and they can let
31:23
Speaker 12: us know, hey, I don't like this, or hey I
31:25
Speaker 12: like this, don't change it, which is also on our website.
31:29
Speaker 12: We're going to be putting out a community survey, and
31:33
Speaker 12: then we will also have a series of workshops. Those
31:36
Speaker 12: are probably gonna happen in August, but as we get
31:39
Speaker 12: those on the calendar, we will be putting notices out,
31:42
Speaker 12: putting out flyers to get people hopefully to show up.
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Speaker 7: I love it. What else do people need to know
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Speaker 7: at this point?
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Speaker 12: The biggest thing I would say is go to our website.
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Speaker 12: So if you go to www dot c S t
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Speaker 12: X dot gov slash Harvey Road, you can find all
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Speaker 12: the information that you need. That's where you'll be able
32:03
Speaker 12: to sign up for the working group, sign up for
32:05
Speaker 12: email updates, and participate online using our interactive map.
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Speaker 7: Incredible.
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Speaker 6: I love it, and congratulations on on on taking the first.
32:14
Speaker 7: Steps on this.
32:15
Speaker 6: I know there's going to be a lot of your
32:16
Speaker 6: life for a long.
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Speaker 4: Time, but for the next year.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's gonna be really cool to see how this
32:21
Speaker 6: turns out, Bobby?
32:22
Speaker 7: Anything else? When you get to.
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Speaker 11: Today, well, you know, Fourth of July is coming up?
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Speaker 8: Are you ready for it? Is?
32:27
Speaker 7: I don't How did I not miss?
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Speaker 11: Really we're pretty much almost a week away?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
32:33
Speaker 11: Are you coming out to celebrate America?
32:36
Speaker 9: Of course?
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Speaker 7: How are you going to miss the How am I
32:37
Speaker 7: going to miss? Josh Abbit?
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Speaker 9: Ba?
32:39
Speaker 11: I know, I know, So you can't miss out the
32:41
Speaker 11: Wolfpen Creek Amphitheater Saturday July four. A Josh Abbitt band
32:45
Speaker 11: will be there, so don't forget.
32:48
Speaker 7: You're gonna have to do.
32:52
Speaker 11: Seven and uh, you know the band will start at
32:56
Speaker 11: eight and the fireworks, you know, the fireworks show will
32:59
Speaker 11: be happening. But also city offices will be closed on
33:04
Speaker 11: next Friday, just a big FYI there, so solid waste
33:09
Speaker 11: and recycling collections will operate as normal on a normal schedule.
33:13
Speaker 11: The Cindy Hallaran Pool and Addison Lagoon Pool will be
33:16
Speaker 11: open from noon until six pm, but other closed facilities
33:20
Speaker 11: will include the ring A Library, the Maya Senior and
33:22
Speaker 11: Community Center, the Lincoln Recreation Center, the Wholet of Nature Center,
33:25
Speaker 11: and the Southwood Community Center.
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Speaker 7: So when we say closed, we mean we mean.
33:29
Speaker 11: We mean closed.
33:29
Speaker 10: Because everyone needs a day to pregame for the fourth
33:32
Speaker 10: of July. Yes, it's the two hundred and fiftieth one.
33:36
Speaker 11: Yes, But also as a reminder, just a gentle reminder,
33:40
Speaker 11: fireworks are illegal to papo.
33:44
Speaker 7: Within city limits.
33:47
Speaker 11: That's why we encourage everyone to come out and enjoy
33:50
Speaker 11: the amazing, outstanding fireworks show. Agree that the City of
33:55
Speaker 11: College Station is going to put on on Saturday night.
33:58
Speaker 11: It's going to be amazing.
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Speaker 7: Has to be there, it's it.
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Speaker 6: I'm not This is not me passing judgment on firework people,
34:05
Speaker 6: because God knows, I've spent some times in some cities
34:07
Speaker 6: with some firework people. Okay, but when you have the
34:10
Speaker 6: opportunity to just watch, just watch and.
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Speaker 10: Enjoy like you're it's so much better. It's gonna be
34:18
Speaker 10: better fireworks, bigger.
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Speaker 11: Fire and you're gonna be able to see it from
34:21
Speaker 11: all parts.
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Speaker 6: Of the city exactly.
34:22
Speaker 7: I mean you don't.
34:24
Speaker 11: Yeah, it's gonna be amazing.
34:26
Speaker 7: Yeah, this is a great thing.
34:27
Speaker 6: Go out enjoy the iHeart America explosion.
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Speaker 11: If you think of patriotism, We're going to need more
34:35
Speaker 11: information about our event is CTX dot gov slash iHeart America.
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Speaker 6: All right, excellent, guys, Thank you so much.
34:42
Speaker 11: Thanks for having us.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, always a pleasure.
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Speaker 6: If you missed any of this, please catch up online
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Speaker 1: Released from the College Station Police Department via social media
35:21
Speaker 1: within the last forty five minutes early this morning, members
35:24
Speaker 1: of the SWAT team executed a search warrant in the
35:28
Speaker 1: twenty three hundred block of Longmire Drive that is essentially
35:31
Speaker 1: between Airline and Brothers Boulevard on Longmire. A suspect has
35:36
Speaker 1: been taken into custody. More information will be released as
35:40
Speaker 1: it becomes available. So if you heard you heard a
35:42
Speaker 1: little action this week, that's what you heard. That's what
35:44
Speaker 1: you heard.
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Speaker 7: I would imagine that would be very audible action.
35:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably, so maybe some flash bangs night.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
35:50
Speaker 4: Okay, good stuff, Good job swat.
35:52
Speaker 6: Let's talk about the weekend, guys, because we got a
35:55
Speaker 6: busy weekend in town.
35:57
Speaker 1: Here in town, there's a swimming event going on the
36:00
Speaker 1: Texas Seniors. That's happening. That's what my guests are here for.
36:04
Speaker 1: For the Airbnb seven on seven is going on.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's one that's always a beast.
36:10
Speaker 4: It's huge. Yeah.
36:11
Speaker 1: So there's lots of people in town that may not
36:13
Speaker 1: exactly know where they're going, but fortunately the population is
36:17
Speaker 1: we're in the ebb of the ebb and flow of
36:19
Speaker 1: our student population currently.
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Speaker 7: I always just take it.
36:23
Speaker 6: Look, if you're going to be involved in these things,
36:25
Speaker 6: that's great, that's awesome. If you would like to just
36:28
Speaker 6: camp out of the house and let shelter in places, look,
36:31
Speaker 6: I'm a big fan of shelter in place on busy weekend.
36:33
Speaker 6: Yeah not you know, sometimes you get out and enjoy it.
36:36
Speaker 6: But I'm a big fan of just let the people
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Speaker 6: enjoy the I get to enjoy it three sixty five, right,
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Speaker 6: I you know, let.
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Speaker 7: Them have a weekend.
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Speaker 6: I'll I'll just hang out at the house of the
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Speaker 6: ac and then they can.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 13: It always like seven on seven to the outdoors, like
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Speaker 13: these kids, and it doesn't phase them, not in the least.
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Speaker 13: I don't understand this, like they're out there in the middle.
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Speaker 1: Their conditions, not their condition And man, oh, I remember
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Speaker 1: I used to be conditioned.
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Speaker 4: Do you do you?
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Speaker 7: I don't know that I was ever that conditioned, and
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Speaker 7: I was. I was pretty conditioned.
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Speaker 4: I was back in the day of two days.
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Speaker 1: Man. I mean you know again, we had to we
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Speaker 1: had to earn our water breaks that we had.
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Speaker 8: Two a days about. I did that about two years ago.
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Speaker 8: We got to have water breaks when every one of them.
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Speaker 8: But man, we would work out and here in college
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Speaker 8: station at two thirty in the afternoon. Oh, I cannot
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Speaker 8: even explain to you. That's the hottest I've ever been
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Speaker 8: in my life. And I thought I was gonna die
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Speaker 8: ninety nine percent of the time.
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Speaker 4: I remember the weigh in.
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Speaker 1: So we'd have to have a before and after practice
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Speaker 1: way in during two days to see how much water
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Speaker 1: volume you had lost lose it could be up to ten.
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Speaker 4: Pounds ten pounds of water volume. I mean, it was crazy.
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Speaker 7: That's that's why you mentioned the swimming thing. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 7: why swimming is the peak sport now.
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Speaker 8: Swimming in colleges indoors.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, for the most part, that's okay. But again, like
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Speaker 6: you're just never worst case scenario. You're in high school,
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Speaker 6: we get an outdoor natatorium.
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Speaker 7: No, it's still in the pool.
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Speaker 8: You know, I want to be in the sun. I
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Speaker 8: understand why there's indoor though, because during the winter months
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Speaker 8: too cold. But if it's summertime right now, I would
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Speaker 8: want to be outside in the pool, even if I'm
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Speaker 8: competitively swimming, I want the tan. Yeah, I'm sorry, I'll
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Speaker 8: selfishly say I want the tan.
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Speaker 1: Knowing competitive swimmers and some at a very high level,
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Speaker 1: and my daughter swam for a little bit. The problem
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Speaker 1: is that for practices you're getting in that pool about
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Speaker 1: six am.
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Speaker 7: That's true, and they're very rarely.
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Speaker 1: He is very rarely, he did. So there's I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's still some chill going on about the system. In
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Speaker 1: case you missed it earlier this morning, we do want
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Speaker 1: to mention it. Bill Oliver has announced he is going
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Speaker 1: to be heading up North.
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Speaker 4: Thursday is his last day.
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Speaker 6: Uh yeah, and so we again very thankful for Bill,
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Speaker 6: but he does not he's going to be going on
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Speaker 6: to other things.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and we're we're very excited for Bill and for
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Speaker 1: what he's going to get to do, and that is
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Speaker 1: a shaping and molding young minds into journalists in a
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Speaker 1: college setting, which is yeah, absolutely perfect for him, absolutely
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Speaker 1: perfect for.
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Speaker 6: I do want to read this text message O com
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Speaker 6: It's from Brad. It's another guy we're gonna miss from
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Speaker 6: the radio station. For the longest time, I would report
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Speaker 6: heading home traffic because I see it behind my steering wheel.
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Speaker 7: And Bill was usually the man that would report the
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Speaker 7: inconsistencies of the listeners.
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Speaker 6: Sometimes you'd share it, sometimes you wouldn't, but I always
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Speaker 6: get a comforting thanks Bill text in return, Bill, We're
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Speaker 6: going to miss you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah for sure.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well Jeannette, je Jeanette will be here to take those texts.
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Speaker 1: She'll be stepping into those shoes.
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Speaker 4: Again.
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Speaker 1: You can't fill Bill Oliver's shoes, but I'm sure Jeanette
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Speaker 1: has a great shoe collection of her own.
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Speaker 7: Yes she does. We know that's true. All right. That's
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Speaker 7: going to do it for this week.
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Speaker 6: Guys. Be careful out there again, busy weekend, lots of visitors.
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Speaker 6: You know what to do, drive saying you know, I mean,
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Speaker 6: take your time and catch back here on Monday sixteen,
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Speaker 6: twenty ninety four five WTA W