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The Infomaniacs: August 28th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. College Station
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  Speaker 1: City Council met last night to discuss budget and the
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  Speaker 1: property tax rate. The tax rate of 53.02 cents per
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 valuation passed by a vote of 5-2, with Councilman
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  Speaker 1: Bob Yancey and David Smith saying no. Councilwoman Melissa McElhaney
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  Speaker 1: says even though the city's property tax rate is increasing,
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  Speaker 1: the city is doing a great job of making our
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  Speaker 1: tax dollars work.
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  Speaker 2: So when we get to the budget, I think we're
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  Speaker 2: doing more with less. We're adding personnel. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: to provide excellent service level. I also am very proud
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  Speaker 2: of us. We have one of the lowest tax rates,
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  Speaker 2: even at this proposed increase, compared to our sister city
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  Speaker 2: over here, Bryan. I think they're at. 624 right now.
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  Speaker 2: Waco's at.
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  Speaker 3: 755.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that we're the same. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that the valuations are the same.
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  Speaker 4: But we are very.
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  Speaker 2: Responsible in maintaining a tax rate that covers our basis
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  Speaker 2: without being overly pushy toward it.
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  Speaker 1: Council voted 6-1 in favor of the $ 576 million budget
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  Speaker 1: for fiscal year 2027, with Councilman Bob Yancey being the
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  Speaker 1: only nay. Governor Greg Abbott is continuing his push to
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  Speaker 1: remove Muslim foot-washing stations from Texas airports.
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  Speaker 5: Governor Abbott has been asking the Justice Department to investigate
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  Speaker 5: airports in Dallas and Houston for their religious facilities, and
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  Speaker 5: while the feds have not acted yet, he is confident
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  Speaker 5: that they will soon.
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  Speaker 1: We expect them to live up to the standard to ensure...
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  Speaker 1: There's no religious discrimination.
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  Speaker 5: He argues that Muslim-only bathroom spaces in airports are akin
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  Speaker 5: to white-only bathrooms. The mayor of Houston defended the facility,
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  Speaker 5: saying they serve a practical need. And the Texas chapter
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  Speaker 5: of the Council on American Islamic Relations called the push
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  Speaker 5: an anti-Muslim political stunt. In San Antonio, Michael Bord, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The Texas Bicentennial is 10 years away and big crowds
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  Speaker 1: are expected. The head of the Texas Historical Commission says
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  Speaker 1: they're tracking a steady rise in people visiting sites like
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  Speaker 1: the Alamo.
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  Speaker 6: Right now we've got growth that's occurring about 10% to
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  Speaker 6: our historic sites.
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  Speaker 1: That includes another $ 85 million to restore San Jacinto and
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  Speaker 1: finish the museum there. There is also a push to
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  Speaker 1: restore Washington on the Brazos. A mayor in Bexar County
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  Speaker 1: has been arrested and is facing an assault charge against
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  Speaker 1: one of his harshest critics. Court video documents show Balcones
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  Speaker 1: Heights Mayor Johnny Rodriguez deliberately touching the arm of former
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  Speaker 1: council member Lamar Gillian after a fiery council meeting on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: despite being warned not to touch the 78-year-old councilman. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez was arrested by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office and
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  Speaker 1: charged with misdemeanor assault on the elderly. He was released
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  Speaker 1: on a $ 5, 000 bond and has been ordered not to
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  Speaker 1: contact Gillian or have any firearms. The cities of Bryan
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  Speaker 1: and College Station are asking residents to adopt voluntary watering restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: They say with high demand, water tower levels can drop,
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  Speaker 1: affecting water pressure, and that can hamper water availability during
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  Speaker 1: a large fire. Avoid watering during daytime hours and limit
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  Speaker 1: watering to two days per week. News is presented by
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  Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 10: that number today. Getting up to the upper 90s. I mean,
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  Speaker 10: still probably feel 100-ish, but, you know, we're headed in
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  Speaker 10: the right direction. And down to the 70s tonight, and
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  Speaker 10: that's going to be the way we're going to be
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  Speaker 10: feel the difference. Dolly Parton, still everywhere. in the news.
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  Speaker 10: You've got the fact that Nashville's trying to name an airport,
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  Speaker 10: rename their airport after.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a bad idea at all.
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  Speaker 10: That's not a bad idea. A lot of people still
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  Speaker 10: trying to make 925, 925, a holiday to salute Dolly
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  Speaker 10: Parton in the future. I think nothing wrong with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, if we can have May the 4th
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  Speaker 1: be with you as Star Wars Day, we could certainly
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  Speaker 1: have 925 for Dolly.
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  Speaker 10: There's a story that she was willing to try experimental
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  Speaker 10: drugs to help future cancer patients, even when she knew
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  Speaker 10: she was beyond help. In terms of her case, she
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  Speaker 10: was still going through a lot of treatments for the
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  Speaker 10: purposes of scientific data to hopefully make life a little
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  Speaker 10: bit better for the next person to face that particular cancer,
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  Speaker 10: whatever it may have been, which is absolutely incredible. And
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  Speaker 10: the tributes keep coming in. Did you hear the Chris
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  Speaker 10: Stapleton one?
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  Speaker 1: I did not.
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  Speaker 10: Do you like Chris Stapleton?
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  Speaker 11: Of course.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you can't deny he's just a powerful voice,
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  Speaker 1: if nothing else.
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  Speaker 10: Hold on to your butt. This is Chris Stapleton singing
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  Speaker 10: I Will Always Love You.
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  Speaker 12: Release it.
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  Speaker 1: Release it. When you first mentioned the artist, Chris Stapleton,
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  Speaker 1: and then you mentioned the song, I was like, man,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to have to take that down an octave.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 10: No, he doesn't.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 1: He can get there. Boy's got range.
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  Speaker 10: Put it out yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Please. Please.
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  Speaker 10: I need a studio version.
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  Speaker 1: I've been listening to some of the old Stapleton stuff
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  Speaker 1: from his Steel Driver days.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The bluegrass stuff. I like it.
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  Speaker 10: He's just, he's a freak.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: There's no other way to put it. If that wasn't
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  Speaker 10: your particular flavor. I don't understand, but sure. What about
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  Speaker 10: another Dolly Parton tribute?
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  Speaker 1: Who you got?
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  Speaker 10: Vin Diesel.
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  Speaker 13: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, that Vin Diesel.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say, it's better than the stuff we listen
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  Speaker 1: to from The Rock.
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  Speaker 10: It's better than it should be.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: There are some songs they say never try to sing them.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Because you're always, like, honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's only a couple people that can pull that off.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, there's not many of them, but it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 10: don't ever sing I Will Always Love You because you're
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  Speaker 10: never going to be able to get it exactly right.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you're named Whitney Houston or Chris Stapleton.
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  Speaker 10: I'm sure we could make a list if you've got
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  Speaker 10: any that need to be added on that never need
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  Speaker 10: to be covered. Feel free. But there are, that is
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  Speaker 10: one of them. And I would say that, like you said,
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  Speaker 10: Chris Stapleton has proved many times that he's the exception
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  Speaker 10: to most of those rules. Jen, less so.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Jay texted in, one of the best tributes I've seen,
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  Speaker 1: crazy good. From listening for that.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, like I said, usually it's like, wow, that's really cool.
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  Speaker 10: That's awesome. But yeah, moving on. That's one that I
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  Speaker 10: need to have on a playlist. To hear a studio
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  Speaker 10: version of the... Because that's just... That's better than it
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  Speaker 10: has any rights being whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to point this out because Frank texted in.
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  Speaker 1: Dolly was a gem. We all loved her. But we
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  Speaker 1: overlooked yesterday. And Frank, I want to mention that personally,
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  Speaker 1: I did not. But yes, we did on the show. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we did. We did not get this. Stevie Ray Vaughan's
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  Speaker 1: death anniversary 36 years ago.
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  Speaker 14: Oh!
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  Speaker 1: Remember exactly where I was.
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  Speaker 10: That being 36 years ago is relatively... That's a punch
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  Speaker 10: to the gut.
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  Speaker 1: A big one. Because I was on my way back
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  Speaker 1: to school for my second year of college. It was
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  Speaker 1: just outside of Texarkana. I was listening to 98 Rocks
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  Speaker 1: out of Shreveport.
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  Speaker 10: Wow, so you really remember every part of that. See,
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  Speaker 10: I remember SRV.
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  Speaker 10: Because I had an uncle that was a really big
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  Speaker 10: SRV fan, so I remember when he passed. The one
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  Speaker 10: that I can remember exactly where, and see, this is
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  Speaker 10: the fascinating thing, is that there are usually some celebrities
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  Speaker 10: where you can remember exactly where you are when you
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  Speaker 10: found out they died. And again, if you've got a
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  Speaker 10: story like that, I'm always interested to see which ones
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  Speaker 10: are the ones for you.
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  Speaker 1: The ones that stick with you, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Like, I can tell you Michael Jackson, because I was
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  Speaker 10: here at the radio station, I was doing Candy 95,
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  Speaker 10: and we had to start playing all Michael Jackson all
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  Speaker 10: the time, which, of course, you did. The one that
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  Speaker 10: I can remember, I can still, I was at a
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  Speaker 10: academic competition for like some, I don't know, like creative
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  Speaker 10: writing or something. I was happy to be going to
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  Speaker 10: school at Allen Academy, and they had a giant TV on,
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  Speaker 10: and that was how I found out Kurt Cobain died.
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  Speaker 10: I can still see the room in my head.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 10: See, I can see the room in my head. And yeah,
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  Speaker 10: it's when one of those gets you. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 10: some of them will be, some people will remember where
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  Speaker 10: they were gone.
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  Speaker 1: And there's the big ones. Everybody remembers where they were
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  Speaker 1: if you were alive during 9-11. Oh, yeah. Everybody remembers,
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  Speaker 1: you know, if you were alive, the Kennedy assassination.
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  Speaker 10: But see, that's the thing, Will. I understand it when
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  Speaker 10: it's 9-11 or the Kennedy assassination. A celebrity dying, it's crazy.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, it's not, you know, no shade, but.
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  Speaker 1: It's a smaller fan base, right? To say fan base.
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  Speaker 1: For example, I was a huge Stevie Ray Vaughan fan,
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  Speaker 1: and I, within a year of that or so, had
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  Speaker 1: seen him opening up for Joe Cocker. down here at
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  Speaker 1: the woodlands yeah uh and i was a huge fan
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  Speaker 1: of steve ravon so that's why i remember that lord
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  Speaker 1: i remember the dj that was on the air that
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  Speaker 1: that uh was was talking about it and it was
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  Speaker 10: Good night yeah still uh still listen to the show
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  Speaker 10: We're the Infomaniacs. You can always call us or text us,
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  Speaker 10: whichever is more convenient, 979-695-1620. is our phone number. Let's see.
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  Speaker 10: What do we have?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Randy says he absolutely remembers exactly where he was when
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  Speaker 10: SRV passed. Says he was traveling back from working in Bastrop.
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  Speaker 10: And here's another one. He says he also remembers Tom Petty.
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  Speaker 1: Which, yeah, dude.
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  Speaker 10: He says he was on a trip to South Dakota
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  Speaker 10: pheasant hunting. Frank, still remember where I was when I
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  Speaker 10: heard Bill Oliver was retiring from uh, crying face emoji.
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  Speaker 1: Bill's doing great by the way.
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  Speaker 15: He is.
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  Speaker 10: He absolutely is like, uh, he's doing quite well. So
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  Speaker 10: not retired. No, just retired from here, from here. Um,
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  Speaker 10: this is going to break a lot of hearts out there.
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  Speaker 10: I know, but I, I, we are going to talk
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  Speaker 10: about it because I think it's, um, it's reasonable to
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  Speaker 10: at least examine this. Uh, I know the answer if I, uh,
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  Speaker 10: ask you, Can you drive a manual transmission vehicle?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. It's been a minute, but I grew up on it. Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Can your kids drive a manual transmission vehicle?
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  Speaker 21: No.
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  Speaker 1: However, the youngest has been after me since she was
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  Speaker 1: about 14 to learn.
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  Speaker 10: She wants to learn.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is finding one.
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  Speaker 10: It is very difficult to actually track one down, which is, again, limiting.
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  Speaker 10: But according to this... We're down to somewhere around like 30%.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: I think that's high.
• 17:06
  Speaker 10: 30% is high?
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I think there's less than that that can drive a
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: manual transmission.
• 17:10
  Speaker 10: This is a moment for no shame. So again, if
• 17:13
  Speaker 10: you want to participate, 979-695-1620. If you're a no, and
• 17:16
  Speaker 10: like Will said.
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: He assumes that it's more than 7 out of 10
• 17:25
  Speaker 10: of us that are all. I get it. We probably
• 17:28
  Speaker 10: have a lot of dudes in this audience.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: There's an age range and a demographic. I think maybe
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: among our audience it might be right there a little higher.
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: But see, I'm a guy.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I can't.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 17:39
  Speaker 13: No.
• 17:40
  Speaker 22: No.
• 17:42
  Speaker 10: See, I need to put it this way because I
• 17:45
  Speaker 10: am unsure. And they actually had like 15% of people
• 17:48
  Speaker 10: that said unsure. I have attempted to drive one back
• 17:52
  Speaker 10: when I was a teenager because my friend had a
• 17:54
  Speaker 10: Jeep with a manual transmission. He was like, I'm going
• 17:56
  Speaker 10: to try to figure this out and didn't do well.
• 17:59
  Speaker 10: Didn't do well, but could get down the road a
• 18:01
  Speaker 10: little bit. So I put it as in if you
• 18:03
  Speaker 10: put me in a vehicle and said, drive me to
• 18:06
  Speaker 10: the hospital, would I be able to get you there
• 18:09
  Speaker 10: in a manual?
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: If he.
• 18:13
  Speaker 10: You know, would we hit a few things on the way?
• 18:16
  Speaker 10: Would I roll backwards down a hill at some point?
• 18:18
  Speaker 10: Would you blow the motor too high? Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Michael Texan first learned to drive on a Datsun stick.
• 18:26
  Speaker 10: OK, so that was back then. Could you do it
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: today if I threw you?
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
• 18:31
  Speaker 10: Is it a riding the bike thing?
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Is that what we're betting?
• 18:34
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's a.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Look, I had a 76 Chevy with a three on
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: the tree that we had purchased a piece of property
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: and the truck came with it. Right. That I drove
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: for a while. And I actually taught a friend of
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: mine's little sister was learning to drive and needed some.
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: There wasn't somebody in her life that really could go
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: out and teach her how to drive. So I took
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: her out. I took her out in that. And I said,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: if you can learn to drive this, there's nothing on
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the planet that you can't drive.
• 19:03
  Speaker 10: Okay, so that was it. It was just figure out
• 19:05
  Speaker 10: the most challenging one. Three on the tree, just, yeah,
• 19:07
  Speaker 10: go with it. Just chunk, chunk, chunk, and then you're
• 19:09
  Speaker 10: good to go. It's just, like you said, they're going
• 19:12
  Speaker 10: away if they're not already essentially gone. Like, if you
• 19:16
  Speaker 10: find one, it's going to be a used car, probably
• 19:18
  Speaker 10: a very used car.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I found one this morning.
• 19:20
  Speaker 10: So I don't, I, it's just, hmm. Shannon texts in.
• 19:26
  Speaker 10: Same as Frito. Might be able to make it, might
• 19:30
  Speaker 10: be able to put it together. Probably would not. And again,
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: like I said, just don't get in that situation with me.
• 19:37
  Speaker 10: That's the situation you don't want to be in. Hey,
• 19:40
  Speaker 10: I'm dying. I need to go to the hospital.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Can you drive my stick shift? I have faith you
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: can figure it out.
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: Your faith is misplaced.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Joseph texts in, speaking of celebrities and manual transmissions. Joseph
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: making this segue for us. I'll always remember where I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: was and what I was doing when Dale Earnhardt Jr. died.
• 20:00
  Speaker 15: Same.
• 20:01
  Speaker 10: Same. And yeah, excellent way to bridge the conversations, my friend.
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: Let's talk about bad days at work. Tense moments in
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: a flight from L.A. to Boston when a Delta captain
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: had to tap out.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this was bad.
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: Listen to this.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Here's the audio.
• 20:26
  Speaker 10: I'm going to taxi the jet to the gate, and
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: then I need to go to the hospital.
• 20:30
  Speaker 15: Roger.
• 20:31
  Speaker 12: Delta 437, you can plan to exit at Yankee 2.
• 20:33
  Speaker 23: They'll give you the quickest route to the gate.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: Yankee 2, left, and we'll call the ramp, Delta 437.
• 20:38
  Speaker 10: I would like to diagnose this from the sound of
• 20:41
  Speaker 10: his voice. Do you know what was wrong?
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I don't. I do.
• 20:45
  Speaker 10: Okay. Any guesses from you guys?
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Also, welcome.
• 20:49
  Speaker 10: I am going to guess that the only thing that
• 20:51
  Speaker 10: would cause something like that... It's got to be something
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: stomach related. It's got to be gastrointestinal. It's an abdominal
• 21:01
  Speaker 10: related situation. It's an abdominal related situation.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: See, I would think that again, if you get, that's
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: a bad situation beings, if you're a pilot, you know, again,
• 21:11
  Speaker 10: minus a heart attack or something like that in the sky,
• 21:14
  Speaker 10: I would think that the only thing that make you
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: tap out was if, You had the explosive diarrhea parasite.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: No, that was not. That was not it. He was
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: not the salad shooter. Okay. Okay.
• 21:23
  Speaker 15: Jeez.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: So it's not going to be a cough or a
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: cold or something like that. I know he sounded like awful,
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: but like I still.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: One of the more painful things that you can imagine.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And it can be somewhat urgent.
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: Kidney stones?
• 21:37
  Speaker 19: No.
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: Not kidney stones. All right, I'm not going to get this.
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: We're going to keep going around and around probably.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Probably, you want me to tell you? Yes, I do.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: It's my understanding that it was appendicitis.
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: Oh!
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:50
  Speaker 13: Oh!
• 21:51
  Speaker 10: Holy cow.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: So when that reaches the point right before the thing bursts.
• 21:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah. When it's, by the way, a critical, critical thing.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: When it quits hurting, that's bad. Right? When it quits hurting,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that means, oh, yeah.
• 22:05
  Speaker 10: That means you've got about an hour or two to live.
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: You've got some sepsis coming your way. Yeah, so that
• 22:10
  Speaker 10: was rough.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Hey, you want to wash your mouth out with a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: better airplane story?
• 22:15
  Speaker 10: I certainly do.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Surprise wedding on a Southwest Airlines flight.
• 22:19
  Speaker 10: What do you mean surprise wedding?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Surprise wedding. A couple was flying to Las Vegas to
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: get married.
• 22:23
  Speaker 16: Really?
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: And apparently for some reason, the flight attendants decided, hey,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: let's do this on the airplane. By the way, Our
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: captain's an ordained minister.
• 22:33
  Speaker 10: See, that's the thing. There's so many of us that are,
• 22:35
  Speaker 10: are you an ordained minister? No, I'm an ordained minister.
• 22:38
  Speaker 10: I can marry and bury baby in the state of Texas.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Continue. All right. Well, the flight attendants got some onboard supplies.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: They made a bridal veil out of one ply toilet paper.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Also did the wedding dress out of the toilet paper.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: alongside the wedding bouquet made from the coffee stir sticks.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: You know what? I love this. And there's video by
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the way of this. And it's fantastic. They, they walk
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: them down the aisle and the captain, sorry, I can't
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: leave the cockpit, but here over the PA does the ceremony.
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: I would say all what you, the most you can
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: hope for in a wedding is memorable.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: That's it.
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: That's the one probably saved them some bucks on a
• 23:15
  Speaker 10: wedding chapel and an Elvis when Southwest Southwest can be annoying,
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: especially when they're on, when they get it right. Yeah,
• 23:22
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Before
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  Speaker 1: the regular session of last night's College Station City Council
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: meeting got underway, Mayor John Nichols had an announcement of
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: some business from the executive session.
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: Council directs staff to amend the real estate contract with
• 29:55
  Speaker 13: the Corinth Group to sell approximately half of the city's
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  Speaker 13: 28 acres next to Costco to the Corinth Group and
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  Speaker 13: the remaining approximate half to Bass Pro for one of
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  Speaker 13: Bass Pro's retail stores.
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  Speaker 1: The final sale must still be approved, but we finally
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: have an idea of what will be happening with the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: land around Costco. Council adopted the 2027 fiscal year budget
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: of $ 576 million and the property tax rate of $ 53. 02
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: per $ 100 valuation. Two men are jailed after a drug
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: bust Wednesday. Bryant Police conducted surveillance of suspected cocaine sales
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: in the 1300 block of Moon Street. Officers say they
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: observed men repeatedly walking between a fence and vehicles as
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the vehicles briefly stopped at the address. The men were
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: identified as 68-year-old Bobby Perry and 38-year-old Quinton McMiller. A
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: bag discovered at the fence contained 7.4 grams of white
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: powder and 0.15 grams of rock cocaine. Perry was found
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to have just over 20 grams of crack cocaine inside
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: his car. and was arrested for manufactured delivery of a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: controlled substance. He is being held on $ 50, 000 bond, and
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: it was his 17th time at the Brazos County Jail.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: McMiller had just under 2 grams of crack cocaine and
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: more than 10 grams of marijuana. He was charged with
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: manufactured delivery of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: He is being held on $ 50, 000 bond, and it was
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: his 29th booking into the Brazos County Jail. After a
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: federal judge in Texas ordered that ICE agent Christian Castro
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: would not be extradited to Minnesota, he is now free
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: from jail. Castro was released from the Brownsville jail at
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: dawn Thursday. He waved to reporters, got into an SUV,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: and drove off. It was an apparent victory for Governor
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, who did not sign the extradition papers to
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: send Castro to Minnesota, where he is facing four counts
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: of felony assault after authorities there said he fired through
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: the front door of a home, hitting a man in
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the leg. Minnesota authorities say jailhouse phone logs give them
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: reason to believe he will flee to Mexico, where he
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: owns a home and was planning to retire. A spokesman
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: for Abbott released a statement saying if their investigation determines
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: that Castro is a fugitive, they will track him down
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and arrest him. Some college students in Texas could have
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a degree in hand one year sooner.
• 32:13
  Speaker 26: There's a push to create three-year bachelor degree options for
• 32:17
  Speaker 26: certain high-demand job fields. Governor Abbott says this would lower
• 32:21
  Speaker 26: tuition costs and hopefully give students an incentive to finish school.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: We want to make sure all those students are going
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: to have access to the best education they can get
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: at an affordable price.
• 32:31
  Speaker 26: Abbott says information technology, IT, is likely to be one
• 32:34
  Speaker 26: field eligible for a three-year bachelor's program. Others have yet
• 32:38
  Speaker 26: to be decided. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will
• 32:41
  Speaker 26: work with state lawmakers to draft a bill to go
• 32:44
  Speaker 26: before the legislature in January. Abbott says he is confident
• 32:47
  Speaker 26: the program will pass and that by next fall, students
• 32:50
  Speaker 26: could be starting to earn a three-year degree. I'm Kristen Yates,
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  Speaker 26: TSN News.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: One witness is still being held in the Houston ice
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
• 33:00
  Speaker 27: Araujo was killed while driving his construction work van July 7th.
• 33:04
  Speaker 27: Two others in that van have been released from federal custody.
• 33:08
  Speaker 27: Harris County District Attorney Sean Teer tells Hello Houston his
• 33:11
  Speaker 27: office is now free to interview them.
• 33:13
  Speaker 21: Where they're not concerned that someone else is overhearing them,
• 33:16
  Speaker 21: they can be free to speak and give us their
• 33:19
  Speaker 21: actual rendition. We intend to get them in front of
• 33:22
  Speaker 21: a grand jury at some point relatively soon.
• 33:25
  Speaker 27: Araujo's brother, Victor Salgado Araujo, who is in the passenger
• 33:28
  Speaker 27: seat still in custody, here's office has sent a letter
• 33:31
  Speaker 27: to be presented in open court that the brother is
• 33:33
  Speaker 27: a material witness and should be released. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott was in Dallas to celebrate the grand opening
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: of the New York Stock Exchange Texas headquarters on the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: historic Old Parkland campus. He rang the closing bell of
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: the exchange from the New Dallas headquarters surrounded by Jerry Jones,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: a large group of Texas CEOs, lawmakers, and Lynn Martin,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the president of the New York Stock Exchange Group.
• 33:58
  Speaker 25: More NYSE companies are based in Texas than any other
• 34:03
  Speaker 25: state in this great nation.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott pointed out how they've been building toward this
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: day for more than a decade. Texas has now been
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the home of the most capital of any state in
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: the United States of America, and it just makes sense
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: that Texas is now home of capital markets. It's a
• 34:20
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• 34:24
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  Speaker 31: Aggie soccer team secured its second consecutive victory in a
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  Speaker 31: Head coach Bobby Shuttleworth recapped the game and gave insight
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  Speaker 31: on some of the in-game mistakes that the team needs
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  Speaker 15: I think we had a bunch of chances to go
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  Speaker 15: And then they grew into the game, and I thought
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  Speaker 15: thought our transition was not good enough tonight in defensive transition.
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  Speaker 15: I thought our commitment to sprint back wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 15: I thought our defending, our 1v1 defending, I think we're
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  Speaker 15: jumping in, especially around the box, we're jumping in way
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  Speaker 15: too often. And then I think they picked up a
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  Speaker 15: lot of second balls in the second half. So I
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  Speaker 15: think a lot of stuff that we can control and
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  Speaker 15: I think stuff that we have to improve upon.
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  Speaker 31: Up next, the Aggies continue their home slate on Thursday,
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  Speaker 31: Friday evening's game against Arkansas State. Head coach Jamie Morrison
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  Speaker 14: They're good I think he's number one and again going
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  Speaker 14: through scouting it's just I'm trying to I think my
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  Speaker 14: challenge this year is I think the quote expectation is
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  Speaker 14: So we're just getting this influx of really high end
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  Speaker 31: So, Coach Morrison also gave a scouting report of the
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  Speaker 14: I think they all have their own identity and play
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  Speaker 14: in some different ways. Grand Canyon is going to be
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  Speaker 14: a lot different than what we had last year. So
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  Speaker 14: And then Arkansas State has traditionally been really, really good.
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  Speaker 14: And they've won that conference. They've been at the top
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  Speaker 14: of it for a lot of years. So they play really,
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  Speaker 14: really good volleyball. They have some unique systems that we're
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  Speaker 14: going to have to adjust to. And then you get
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  Speaker 14: Cal Poly to wrap things up, but a sweet 16 team.
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  Speaker 14: And they upset two teams to get to there, and
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  Speaker 14: it wasn't an accident. They did really well in the
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  Speaker 14: outside and a pretty good jump spinner that we'll have
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  Speaker 14: So I think it will be three really good volleyball matches.
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  Speaker 31: The Aggies will hit the court this morning with their
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  Speaker 10: X that is... amazing to me it is every state's
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  Speaker 10: least favorite state so whatever state you that's funny just
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  Speaker 10: on the surface now you know what ours is what
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  Speaker 10: our least favorite state is you know what ours is
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  Speaker 10: yeah i i mean i take a guess it's california
• 53:40
  Speaker 10: yeah that that would be my guess but you know
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  Speaker 10: what's great to see we are not the most hated
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  Speaker 10: state in america far from it the most hated state
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  Speaker 10: in america is california pretty much everything west of the
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  Speaker 10: mississippi With the exception of a few. All hate California. Now,
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  Speaker 10: the exceptions are Oklahoma, New Mexico, and California. Now, those
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  Speaker 10: three states have a real problem with us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, okay, Oklahoma's problem is jealousy.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's just what that is. We know where that
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  Speaker 10: comes from.
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico's problem is.
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  Speaker 10: Haters are going to say, well, your neighbors can't stand you.
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  Speaker 10: Louisiana and Arkansas are just fine with us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're fine with us.
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  Speaker 10: We can get along great.
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico, I think it's more of a political thing.
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  Speaker 10: The problem is y'all. The problem is y'all. Now, here's
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  Speaker 10: the one I don't quite understand. Alaska hates Texans. I
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  Speaker 10: feel like we're, what's that about?
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  Speaker 1: I think, I feel on the surface we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot more in common with Alaska than many other states do.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, there's a kindred thing. Now, obviously, they do the
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  Speaker 10: cold thing, we do the hot thing. But yeah, look,
• 54:47
  Speaker 10: Texans are a little bit crazy. Alaskans are a little
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  Speaker 10: bit crazier.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: They're insane. You have to be insane to live in Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people in Alaska believe in personal freedoms
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  Speaker 1: and liberties, much like a lot of people in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Only so turned up.
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  Speaker 10: So turned up.
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  Speaker 1: Is that it? There's like, oh, you're like a light
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  Speaker 1: version of us? I think there might be some jealousy involved.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they're a petroleum-based state, too. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't understand particularly why. Again, your sample
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  Speaker 1: size is going to be small in Alaska, the people
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  Speaker 10: Now, here's the great one. Hawaii, none.
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  Speaker 1: Hawaii hates itself. Hawaii is a self-hating state.
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  Speaker 10: Wisconsin also said we don't hate anyone, which I know
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  Speaker 10: that's not true because Michigan is like right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Wisconsin, the problem with them is they're just
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  Speaker 1: too polite.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, they just don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, we don't really care for them too much,
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  Speaker 1: but I couldn't say we hated them.
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  Speaker 10: The problem is you ask them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
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