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

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Speaker 1: Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a new initiative yesterday. The
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Speaker 1: Texas Classroom Commission will allow educators to shape the future
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Speaker 1: of education by bringing together public school educators to identify
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Speaker 1: They will begin their work in the coming weeks to
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Speaker 1: deliver recommendations before the start of the ninetieth legislative session
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Speaker 1: in January. Governor Abbott also sent a letter to the
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Speaker 1: Texas Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner, Stephanie Mooth, directing
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Speaker 1: her to investigate reports of so called birth packages. The
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Speaker 1: letter asked that she looked into reports that the Mission
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Speaker 1: Regional Medical Center, only six miles from the Texas Mexico border,
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Speaker 1: engaged in targeted advertising to foreign nationals looking to give
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Speaker 1: birth in the United States and secure citizenship for their children.
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Speaker 1: Abbot says citizenship is not for sale and Texas will
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Speaker 1: not permit our healthcare system to be used as a
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Speaker 1: been suspended from the bench. The Texas State Commission on
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Speaker 1: Judicial Conduct announced yesterday that Cleeberg County JP Brandon Wayne
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Speaker 1: Berrera has been suspended without pay for being indicted on
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Speaker 1: found with more than one gram of meth amphetamine. The
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Speaker 1: that he completed rehab and asked for the community's support
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Speaker 1: moving forward. Judge Donald Joseph Clark AJP in Colorado County
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Speaker 1: was suspended with pay after being indicted on three charges,
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Speaker 1: one count of official oppression, a Class A misdemeanor, and
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Speaker 1: one count of false report to peace officer, a Class
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Speaker 1: B misdemeanor. Also one count of false report to induce
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Speaker 1: emergency response, a Class B misdemeanor. The indictment against Clark
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Speaker 1: says he knowingly made an unlawful arrest, then called nine
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Speaker 1: to one one with a false report of an emergency
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Speaker 1: to cover up that arrest. The Commission says these suspensions
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Speaker 1: will remain in effect until charges are dismissed, the men
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Speaker 1: are acquitted, or upon further order of the Commission. Texas
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Speaker 1: Land Commissioner Sid Miller urges all Texans to remain diligent
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Speaker 1: against the New World screw worm. There have been thirty
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Speaker 1: two documented cases of infestation north of the border, one
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Speaker 1: in New Mexico and thirty one here in Texas. Miller
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Speaker 2: We have a flybait we've used in the past. We
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Speaker 1: I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW.
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Speaker 1: the last ten minutes. It looks like there's a major
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Speaker 4: Love your text messages, including this one from Jason. I
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Speaker 4: wish someone would bring back the textas Hall of Fame.
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Speaker 1: I did have a personal text that said essentially the
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Speaker 1: same thing. That's the yeah, man, what kind of times
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Speaker 1: do we live in that my daughter has to sneak
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Speaker 1: herself into out of town bars to go country dancing?
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Speaker 3: What out of town bars she.
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Speaker 1: Doesn't sneak herself in? The Western Club is essentially where
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Speaker 1: all the kids go to Downstown there. Ye see, how
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Speaker 1: do we not have how do we not have that anymore? Y'all?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Somebody, somebody should get on it.
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Speaker 4: It's gonna be something that you wish you had about
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Speaker 4: ten twenty years down the road, and all of a sudden.
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Speaker 1: You can have those foggy memories the same as we did.
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Speaker 3: Okay. Speaking of uh well yeah, line dancing. We need
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Speaker 3: to talk some country music.
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Speaker 1: That's what I was doing there. You gob suit.
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Speaker 4: And a cowboy. No story of songs about that, rip
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Speaker 4: them up. Just one of the greatest, in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: It's a good Texas I would say, is the unofficial
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Speaker 1: home cowboys.
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Speaker 4: I mean with the Dallas Cowboys obviously, yeah, yeah, but
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Speaker 4: the cowboys we know it culturally.
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Speaker 1: I mean the voco came up through the South. It
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Speaker 1: was I mean people might say that there's cowboys elsewhere,
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Speaker 1: and there are, but the home of cowboys, would say
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Speaker 1: cowboy culture.
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Speaker 3: Florida wants to take it back back.
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Speaker 1: They never had it. Oh they could be read now.
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Speaker 3: Oh interesting that you would say that will interesting?
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Speaker 4: You would say that Florida says that they are actually
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Speaker 4: the home and the original originator and the birthplace of
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Speaker 4: the American cowboy.
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Speaker 1: No, no, they can say it. They can say that,
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Speaker 1: just like Arkansas claims to be the home and the
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Speaker 1: originator of Caeso, Florida can say this. If you have
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Speaker 1: a band that has your state's name in it that
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Speaker 1: is Florida Georgia line, you're not country.
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Speaker 4: Well, I mean, there's all kinds of reasons I would
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Speaker 4: point to that.
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Speaker 3: That's again, will completely accurate.
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Speaker 4: But they say in fifteen twenty one points de Leone
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Speaker 4: introduced the first cattle in North America in Florida.
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Speaker 3: That obviously you need the people to work those cows.
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Speaker 3: That is the cowboy back in fifteen twenty one.
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Speaker 4: Therefore, Florida is the home of the American cowboy, and
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Speaker 4: they're gonna take it back. They're gonna try to get
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Speaker 4: it back from the state of Texas.
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Speaker 1: Good luck, you can take the cowboy, Moniker when you
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Speaker 1: pry it from my cold dead fingers.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely true.
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Speaker 4: Now with that said, does it make it a little
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Speaker 4: difficult when the biggest thing that.
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Speaker 3: You're wrangling in the state of Florida is snakes. Pythons,
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Speaker 3: python's big snakes.
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Speaker 1: Those things. I saw a video of some guy jumping
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Speaker 1: out of a skiff, like taking a dive out of
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Speaker 1: a skiff to land on. This one was probably a
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Speaker 1: small one. It was about ten feet python.
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Speaker 3: This is what the kids refer to as putting. Y'all
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Speaker 3: on game.
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Speaker 4: Watch your social media for Florida snake videos for the
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Speaker 4: rest of the month.
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Speaker 3: And the idea why.
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Speaker 1: It's Florida Snake Month, I don't know.
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Speaker 3: It's time for the great Boa Constrictor round Up.
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Speaker 1: Look what you're gonna call yourself a cowboy state, and
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Speaker 1: the best you can do is a boa Restrictor round up.
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Speaker 1: Let me introduce you to the Rattlesnake round.
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Speaker 4: The Florida Python Challenge will no rattles involved for ten
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Speaker 4: days from June to July tenth to July nineteenth, So
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Speaker 4: starting day after tomorrow, all you gotta do is register
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Speaker 4: and then you go out in the glades and you
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Speaker 4: can take them all. You also can go into any
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Speaker 4: public lands to hunt invasive Burmese pythons. The goal isn't
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Speaker 4: thrill seeking for its own sake. They're still trying to
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Speaker 4: keep these things from taking over the literal entire state.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, that's what that's what you.
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Speaker 3: Cowboy out there, you cowboy up, you get on a
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Speaker 3: pontoon and you go out there to take a dive
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Speaker 3: and like twenty five foot.
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Speaker 1: Pythons until I see somebody on an air boat with
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Speaker 1: a lasso and trying to rope and ride a python. No, see,
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Speaker 1: I think you can do it.
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Speaker 3: Kind of works, done it a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Give me. I should have been a cow should have
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Speaker 1: been a sneak boy.
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Speaker 4: Road snakes wearing mass pontoon, pontoon snakes.
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Speaker 1: Many where's arms.
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Speaker 3: Just like Joe ex on it just like yeah, there's potential.
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Speaker 1: No, no, but dude, it'll.
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Speaker 3: Get you twenty five grand. It could if you haul
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Speaker 3: in the if you haul in the boat again.
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Speaker 4: I just gotta get back to of a maniac jumps
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Speaker 4: into the everglades.
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Speaker 1: No, there's a lot of things that will kill you.
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Speaker 3: What kind of maniac is like rooms? Take out this python? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: like you said, will it's other things in the waters.
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Speaker 1: My dude, That maniac is named Florida Man.
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Speaker 4: Eight nineteen The Infomaniacs on sixteen twenty ninety four to
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Speaker 4: five wtaw Helen text and will tell your daughter any
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Speaker 4: poka dance.
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Speaker 3: Any age can come in. Let me tell you there there.
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Speaker 3: There's a group of kids that just flat love to dance. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and thank god that's still around me.
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Speaker 1: They love that culture of families going out to places
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Speaker 1: and you know, we've been to believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: these sons of Herman Hall and North Bryan, Oh I know, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: once once a month they'll do a country show out there.
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Speaker 1: The first time we went out there and a lot
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Speaker 1: of my daughter's dance team went with them. The family
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Speaker 1: was there, grams and pops were there, everybody was there.
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Speaker 1: I went up to the band. Each of them had
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Speaker 1: their own oxygen bottle. I said, boys, you want to
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Speaker 1: crank that one up to eleven tonight? These kids are
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Speaker 1: about to hit the floor.
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Speaker 3: Some gas in that tank. Gas.
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Speaker 4: And that's saying, all right, let's get back to the Uh,
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Speaker 4: let's get back to the pythons for one second. Because
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Speaker 4: with that said, uh, John textas something I was not expected.
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Speaker 1: He sent a link and uh, probably against better judgment,
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Speaker 1: I clicked on it, Yeah, and it was it went
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Speaker 1: to the pythoncowboy dot com.
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Speaker 3: The Python Cowboy.
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Speaker 1: These are the first words on the page that.
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Speaker 3: Is his website, pythoncowboy dot.
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Speaker 1: Com, Python hunting Florida, get ready for the hunt of
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Speaker 1: your life son.
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Speaker 4: That is the That is the headline on his website.
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Speaker 4: Get ready for the hut of your life?
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Speaker 3: Son?
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you what. Yeah, I don't. No, I
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Speaker 1: don't either.
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Speaker 3: Python Cowboy does.
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Speaker 5: They can have their snake cowboys.
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Speaker 1: I guess I'm good. So Riley, you're saying this would
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Speaker 1: not be a great first date.
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Speaker 3: He's not gonna heart.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: If somebody told me, hey, for your first date, we're
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Speaker 5: in go catch snakes, I'm sorry. There are some people
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Speaker 5: like that'd be so cool. I'd be like, I'm not
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Speaker 5: getting in the water. I will sit from the bank,
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Speaker 5: not near a snake.
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Speaker 3: You're ready, not in Florida.
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Speaker 4: You're ready for the uh the description of what you
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Speaker 4: get with the go forda hunt with Python Cowboy.
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Speaker 3: Join us for a python hunt in the Florida Everglades.
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Speaker 3: Hop on the bow of the boat with our team
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Speaker 3: of professional hunting guys and python dogs.
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Speaker 1: They've got python dogs.
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Speaker 3: They got python dogs.
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Speaker 1: What breed?
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Speaker 2: That is?
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Speaker 4: Hunting invasive pythons on islands in the Florida Everglades. We
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Speaker 4: put our decades of hunting and conservation experience to work
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Speaker 4: to locate and capture snakes in an ethical way.
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Speaker 3: Okay, you have python dogs, my man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if pythons are not your thing. According to the
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Speaker 1: website here, you can also hunt iguanas and gaters.
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Speaker 4: Where I was, where I was going, Will he has
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Speaker 4: he has four kinds of hunts you can go on
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Speaker 4: in Florida and you just roll through all of them.
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Speaker 3: Two of them. Two of them are invasive species. I
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Speaker 3: guess you could say the third maybe.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the only one that I think is you know, native.
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Speaker 5: Also, Labrador retrievers are the dogs that they used to
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Speaker 5: hunt pythons with.
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Speaker 1: The dog of choice, those labs.
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Speaker 3: Man, tell me, that's that's not a laboratory. What is
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Speaker 3: What is that?
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Speaker 1: Will? That? That looks like.
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Speaker 3: A Scottish terrier mixed with a lamb?
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Speaker 1: It could be. It could be my favorite breed, which
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Speaker 1: I one day will have. And and that is the
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Speaker 1: poodle Pointer. My brother wants a pointer so bad. The
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Speaker 1: poodle Pointer is bred from the original hunting poodle along
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Speaker 1: with a German wired haired pointer and they are all
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Speaker 1: around a great hunting.
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Speaker 3: So here's Rogue the dog right here. Rogue is the
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Speaker 3: backup a.
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Speaker 1: Quanta dog, backup Trouble, Trouble the dog and also Stag
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Speaker 1: so they're holding like it was a duck.
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Speaker 5: When I was in Puerto Rico, we were pul vaulting
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Speaker 5: and they have a lot of iguanas out there. Well,
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Speaker 5: there was one underneath the pull vault pit and that
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Speaker 5: thing came barreling out towards me and my teammate. Never
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Speaker 5: screamed so loud in my life, never run so fast
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Speaker 5: in my life.
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Speaker 3: Then things get huge.
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Speaker 1: They did.
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Speaker 3: That's the problem Florida, Florida's biggest problem.
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Speaker 4: For those of you who haven't been to Florida, maybe
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Speaker 4: you don't spend like like well, I mean you go
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Speaker 4: to Orlando, you go to Deskin or smelling like that's fine.
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Speaker 6: I'm talking Florida.
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Speaker 3: I'm talking Okaala, Okay, I'm talking getting in, getting into
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Speaker 3: the nast and especially the glades. It's it's it's under
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Speaker 3: invasion by everything.
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Speaker 1: Everything.
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Speaker 3: There is a.
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Speaker 4: Chimp island somewhere in the Everglades. I need to look
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Speaker 4: at this up so I can have more information about it.
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Speaker 4: But basically, people would keep chimps as pets.
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Speaker 1: Or they would escape from metal.
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Speaker 4: They just escaped from Medical City, I think it was
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Speaker 4: around Miami. Get off into the swamp and they built
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Speaker 4: a Chimp Society on an island.
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Speaker 5: Are they snake food?
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. Chimps are pretty yo.
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Speaker 3: You don't want to mess with the chimp.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty hard.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, chimps are not to be played with. By the way,
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Speaker 4: Will there is merch, Yes, there absolutely is merch. Tithon
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Speaker 4: Cowboy hunts hats, auto Legends never de t shirt which
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Speaker 4: indicates that auto might be might be up in good
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Speaker 4: Boy Heaven.
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Speaker 3: Not sure about that, but I would love to know more.
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Speaker 4: Lots of T shirts and you can even get will
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Speaker 4: the Python Cowboy Hey dudes, a top layer of genuine
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Speaker 4: Florida python, coming in at two hundred and eighty five
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Speaker 4: dollars a pair.
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Speaker 3: By the way, they have multiple color ways.
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Speaker 1: My crocs may be higher end crocs, but when you
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Speaker 1: get into exotic animal skin crocs or day dudes, you've
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Speaker 1: gone way, way too far.
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Speaker 4: These these are the people that want to take cowboys back.
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Speaker 1: You know that?
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: All right?
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Speaker 4: Sixteen twenty ninety four five wtaw on a steamy I
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Speaker 4: guess we can call it steamy Wednesday. I'd be as
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Speaker 4: far as the heat goes ninety six heat in Dex
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Speaker 4: one hundred and five. That says Steamy to me down
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Speaker 4: to the seventies. Tonight, twenty percent chance you might catch astray.
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm will Welch. Texas
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Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott is asking the Texas Health and Human
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Speaker 1: Services Commission to investigate reports that a South Texas hospital
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Speaker 1: is offering so called birth packages to foreign nationals. On Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: Abbitt sent a letter to Executive Commissioner Stephanie Mooth directing
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Speaker 1: her to look into reports that the Mission Regional Medical Center,
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Speaker 1: a facility regulated by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission,
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Speaker 1: is advertising the packages in an apparent effort to profit
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Speaker 1: from securing United States citizenship for their children. The hospital,
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Speaker 1: located in Mission, is less than six miles from the
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Speaker 1: Texas Mexico border, and allegedly had billboards and a website
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Speaker 1: advertising the packages. Birth tourism refers to the practice of
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Speaker 1: foreign travelers coming to the United States to give birth
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Speaker 1: and secure citizenship for their children. In his letter, Abbott
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Speaker 1: says citizenship is not for sale and Texas will not
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Speaker 1: permit our healthcare system to be used as a magnet
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Speaker 1: for birth tourism. He also says he plans to work
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Speaker 1: with the Texas legislature next session to strengthen laws and
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Speaker 1: eliminate birth tourism in Texas. The State Commission on Judicial
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Speaker 1: Conduct announced yesterday that two Texas judges have been stripped
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Speaker 1: of their duties, at least for now. Brandon Wayne Berera,
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Speaker 1: Justice of the Peace in Cleebird County, has been suspended
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Speaker 1: without pay after being charged with one count of possession
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Speaker 1: of a controlled substance, a third degree felony. Barrera was
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Speaker 1: arrested in Kingsville in January after he was found with
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Speaker 1: more than one gram of methnphetamine. The Democrat took to
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Speaker 1: his Facebook page in May to announce that he completed rehab,
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Speaker 1: saying I'm committed to being the best leader in person
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Speaker 1: I can be for our community. The Commission also suspended
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Speaker 1: Judge Donald Joseph Clark, a JP in Colorado County after
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Speaker 1: he was indicted on three charges, one count of official
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Speaker 1: oppression a Class A misdemeanor, one count of false report
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Speaker 1: to a peace officer, a Class B misdemeanor, and one
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Speaker 1: count of a false report to induce emergency response, a
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Speaker 1: Class B misdemeanor. The indictment against Clark says he knowingly
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Speaker 1: made an arrest that was unlawful, then called nine to
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Speaker 1: one one with a false report of an emergency to
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Speaker 1: cover up the arrest. The Commission says the suspensions will
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Speaker 1: remain in effect until charges are dismissed, the men are acquitted,
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Speaker 1: or upon further order of the Commission. Texas Land Commissioner
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Speaker 1: Sid Miller urges all Texans to remain vigilant against the
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Speaker 1: New World screw worm. The state has its thirty first
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Speaker 1: reported case of screwworm infection, and so far the Brass
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Speaker 1: Valley has been spared. Miller says there won't be enough
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Speaker 1: sterile flies available for at least two years and suggests
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Speaker 1: using bait.
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Speaker 2: We have a flybait we've used in the past. We
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Speaker 2: need to use that and eliminate this past. We could
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Speaker 2: actually do it with just a flybaight alone. It's a
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Speaker 2: USDA program. They used it for eight or ten years successfully.
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Speaker 2: It's time we brought it back and protect our farmers
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Speaker 2: and ranchers.
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Speaker 1: Miller adds that infections are not limited to livestock.
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Speaker 2: Like remind everybody to be diligent look out for this
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Speaker 2: screwworm pest. The number one species is cattle, but the
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Speaker 2: number two species is dogs and pets.
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Speaker 1: A and M is receiving more than six million dollars
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Speaker 1: six point three every million dollars will study of alcohol
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Speaker 1: and cocaine can dull cognition. Yun Wang with the College
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Speaker 1: What's up.
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Speaker 3: Happy to have you here.
21:52
Speaker 7: I heard your comments earlier about the ice cream, and
21:55
Speaker 7: I don't really know what kind they're going to have,
21:57
Speaker 7: but on the afternoon, I think it is an I
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Speaker 7: haven't got the exact time. At the Senior Center. The
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Speaker 7: Senior Center over on Dartmouth, they're going to the police
22:07
Speaker 7: are going to have free ice cream for people over fifty.
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Speaker 6: Five, which only accounts for one or two of us
22:13
Speaker 6: in the room.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just why you looked over at me. I'm
22:16
Speaker 1: telling you about the old people ice cream social because
22:18
Speaker 1: you're over fifty five.
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Speaker 6: Thanks, the police.
22:21
Speaker 7: Are going to hand out free ice cream and all
22:23
Speaker 7: you got to do is show up and amazing, they're
22:25
Speaker 7: going to talk about all of these scams and the
22:29
Speaker 7: I won't say elderly, but I guess that's the word
22:31
Speaker 7: people over fifty five.
22:33
Speaker 6: Are targeted with.
22:35
Speaker 7: And there's a lot of them out there, as you
22:37
Speaker 7: guys know, and you talk about it a lot. But anyway,
22:39
Speaker 7: free ice cream for those that want to think they're
22:41
Speaker 7: over fifty five and want to come by and listen.
22:45
Speaker 7: On the ninth in the afternoon, I think it's in
22:47
Speaker 7: the afternoon. Stop by.
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Speaker 4: You'll be like, that's not a bad that's not a
22:52
Speaker 4: bad time. Just listen to the ways people are trying.
22:54
Speaker 4: They're creative. Yeah, they're scamming these days.
22:57
Speaker 1: And I'm pretty fortunate. You say it's the night, so
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Speaker 1: tomorrow afternoon, right, yeah, it's not.
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Speaker 7: Today, tomorrow afternoon tomorrow and tomorrow is council meeting, so
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Speaker 7: I'll remember.
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Speaker 6: I remember that.
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Speaker 1: I'll be out of town, so I won't be able
23:08
Speaker 1: to go to the ice cream social free.
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Speaker 6: Ice cream, but it won't be in a yellow box.
23:12
Speaker 1: With the word.
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Speaker 4: So let's before we get into budget, which I'm glad
23:18
Speaker 4: we had you here because I know that's that's a
23:20
Speaker 4: topic everyone's looking into right now. But I want to
23:23
Speaker 4: say congrats on everything for the fourth of July Man
23:25
Speaker 4: the the iHeart America festivities were wild.
23:30
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that the crowd grew tremendously well. Without
23:34
Speaker 7: the Rellis Campus event, there were other opportunities, and people
23:38
Speaker 7: probably took advantage of those.
23:40
Speaker 6: We hosted a very large crowd.
23:41
Speaker 7: I would I haven't got any official numbers, but I
23:43
Speaker 7: would guess it's right on the grounds and over and
23:46
Speaker 7: around the parking lot, because we did close off Holloman Street,
23:49
Speaker 7: which I think was a really great idea.
23:51
Speaker 3: I don't know what would happen if y'all hadn't done.
23:52
Speaker 7: That, well, you'd have you'd have a lot more traffic
23:56
Speaker 7: with people over there. I think that's a good idea.
23:58
Speaker 7: That's probably one that they will carry forward in the
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Speaker 7: future years. But I think is around twelve thousand probably,
24:04
Speaker 7: but all over the neighborhoods. As I was driving home,
24:07
Speaker 7: I saw gas station parking lots of people pulled up.
24:11
Speaker 7: They were close enough to see and frankly, we're shooting
24:13
Speaker 7: those from the festival grounds, which is fairly elevated anyway,
24:17
Speaker 7: so you could see those fireworks.
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Speaker 6: All around town.
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Speaker 3: Massive success.
24:22
Speaker 7: Unfortunately, it takes up the whole festival grounds to protect
24:24
Speaker 7: the fire. Security there, but that that really worked out well.
24:28
Speaker 7: We had a great time, the band apparently everybody appreciated
24:32
Speaker 7: and the crowd was The Amphitheater was full at eight o'clock.
24:36
Speaker 6: Yes, when they started the thing, people came early and
24:38
Speaker 6: they started right off.
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Speaker 3: They knew exactly what to do, get there, get seats,
24:42
Speaker 3: watch great show, and then did enjoy the festivities. A
24:45
Speaker 3: great thing, man, and it's one of the.
24:49
Speaker 7: Two signature events of the city. So we'll see it
24:51
Speaker 7: again next year. I'm sure staff and those that are
24:54
Speaker 7: around will be very busy in planning that.
24:58
Speaker 3: Well, let's talk about uh, let's talk about next year.
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Speaker 4: Budget is the big item, mainly the numbers associated with it,
25:06
Speaker 4: obviously talking about a pretty big increase. Walk us through
25:09
Speaker 4: this from your perspective.
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Speaker 7: Well, it's a big increase, and as we've tried to
25:13
Speaker 7: tell everybody, it's a big increase mainly because we have
25:17
Speaker 7: finally decided to not finally decided, but we've gotten to
25:21
Speaker 7: the stage where we are going to be investing in
25:24
Speaker 7: a lot of infrastructure, both vertical and the horizontal stuff
25:29
Speaker 7: in the ground stuff. So if you look at that
25:31
Speaker 7: one hundred and eighty four million dollars in that budget.
25:35
Speaker 7: That's more than double last year's commitment.
25:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, now that doesn't mean it's all.
25:39
Speaker 7: That just means that we've appropriated it this year. It'll
25:42
Speaker 7: roll forward a two or three years.
25:44
Speaker 6: Some of those.
25:44
Speaker 7: Items, like the fifty five million or sixty million that's
25:50
Speaker 7: set aside and now budgeted for the maintenance fleet maintenance facility,
25:55
Speaker 7: that probably won't get finished for two or.
25:57
Speaker 3: Three years exactly.
25:58
Speaker 7: A matter of fact, we haven't made the final decision
26:00
Speaker 7: and a location. But in that one hundred and eighty
26:03
Speaker 7: four million, we have sixty million set aside for building
26:09
Speaker 7: that fleet maintains. And the city Council met a couple
26:13
Speaker 7: of times once in special session in the spring, where
26:17
Speaker 7: we decided we have a very large fund balance, and
26:21
Speaker 7: we've been building that fund balance with the idea we're
26:23
Speaker 7: going to build some things. We finally prioritized that list
26:26
Speaker 7: and made that list available to staff. That's what they
26:29
Speaker 7: put in the budget. So keep in mind that you
26:32
Speaker 7: don't want to just sit on cash forever because you're
26:35
Speaker 7: losing purchasing power, and so there are things we need
26:38
Speaker 7: to do that we've now shifted into that capital budget,
26:41
Speaker 7: and I think that makes a lot of sense. But yes,
26:43
Speaker 7: the five hundred and seventy five million is much bigger
26:47
Speaker 7: than last year. If you look at just the operating budget,
26:50
Speaker 7: it's up one or two percent, and that includes a
26:54
Speaker 7: sour adjustment for staff. Great people doing great job at
26:59
Speaker 7: the city.
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Speaker 4: That's an important member to remember the operating budget as
27:02
Speaker 4: opposed to some of the big I get that. I
27:05
Speaker 4: get that if you when you start factoring in infrastructure improvements,
27:08
Speaker 4: construction project, I know, thirty six million was attached midtown.
27:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, more.
27:13
Speaker 7: Than that, counting the park and and the ball field.
27:16
Speaker 7: The commitment that we have on our side. We've committed
27:19
Speaker 7: twenty million to that the ball field project, but private
27:24
Speaker 7: sector is going to build the rest of it. Also
27:26
Speaker 7: the big park out there.
27:28
Speaker 3: And also keep in mind six new police officers. I
27:29
Speaker 3: want to say was in there? Is that?
27:30
Speaker 6: Six new police officers plus two other staff.
27:33
Speaker 7: One in gosh, evidence, I guess evidence analysis and one
27:40
Speaker 7: in something else. So yeah, like eight new staff members,
27:43
Speaker 7: four new vehicles in the police department.
27:45
Speaker 6: So that's one of the areas.
27:46
Speaker 7: If you look at the overall budget, the police and
27:50
Speaker 7: fire together take more than half of the operating budget,
27:53
Speaker 7: more than half, and have been for several years. So
27:56
Speaker 7: you see property taxes increase a little bit. Although actually
28:01
Speaker 7: one of the things we don't know yet is that, well,
28:04
Speaker 7: we do know that the appraisal the praise value of
28:06
Speaker 7: our tax roles is actually down for existing property. New property,
28:11
Speaker 7: the North Gate high rises so forth is a big
28:13
Speaker 7: addition that doesn't get counted. But the existing property, well
28:17
Speaker 7: it does get counting to the budget, but I mean
28:19
Speaker 7: it doesn't get penalized, let's put it that way.
28:22
Speaker 6: But the actual.
28:23
Speaker 7: Valuation of existing properties is down based on a number
28:28
Speaker 7: of factors that include a lot of lawsuits at the
28:33
Speaker 7: Brasis District beakad as still underway that we don't know
28:39
Speaker 7: about that. What we do know in general that they
28:41
Speaker 7: got that commitment to fight those cases. But we're going
28:45
Speaker 7: to lose money there. The state legislature took away the
28:48
Speaker 7: business personal property tax this year, but a big, big
28:51
Speaker 7: waiver jumped it tremendously, So we're losing almost a million
28:55
Speaker 7: in tax revenue off of that. So there's a number
28:58
Speaker 7: of limitations and waivers that actually helped. Plus the fact
29:03
Speaker 7: that they were apparently not very aggressive in in evaluating
29:08
Speaker 7: properties this year, and particularly the commercial properties that are.
29:12
Speaker 6: Under lawsuits and frankly, the whole.
29:14
Speaker 7: Industry filing a request for reconsideration the at the at
29:22
Speaker 7: the appraisal district is a big deal these days, a
29:25
Speaker 7: lot of people doing it.
29:26
Speaker 4: Are you Are you concerned about about that aspect that
29:29
Speaker 4: commercial is at this point them?
29:34
Speaker 7: I am concerned in that it drags on because they're
29:37
Speaker 7: still fighting cases that are three or four years old,
29:40
Speaker 7: and that that is uh, just a real problem. At
29:46
Speaker 7: some point, you would think that the people that adjudicate
29:51
Speaker 7: this finally, the in the in the court cases would
29:54
Speaker 7: finally recognize that, you know, at.
29:56
Speaker 6: Some point they got to catch up. Yeah, and and I'm.
29:59
Speaker 7: Hope hoping that this would stabilize or we'll know in
30:02
Speaker 7: advance every year that there's there's always going to be
30:05
Speaker 7: a certain amount in question. No, and that's reasonable, I
30:08
Speaker 7: understand that. But when you get a very large, multi
30:11
Speaker 7: billion dollar problem with the property taxes tied up in court,
30:18
Speaker 7: which of course the county is the biggest. They have
30:21
Speaker 7: everything in the county, so they're impacted, but every entity
30:25
Speaker 7: is equally impacted in somewhere or another. We certainly are.
30:29
Speaker 4: I know, it's a wild time in that sector. As
30:31
Speaker 4: far as owning real estate or leasing real estate. It's
30:35
Speaker 4: it's it's in flux as well.
30:37
Speaker 7: And but in this town, you know, with the growth
30:40
Speaker 7: and fairly stable growth that we've had, you would think
30:44
Speaker 7: that they could appraise a hotel or apartment complex or
30:49
Speaker 7: some big property with some reasonable right logic that couldn't
30:54
Speaker 7: be very easily attacked in court.
30:57
Speaker 3: But yet, but here we are.
30:58
Speaker 7: But there is an industry out there, and there are
31:00
Speaker 7: people that are that are specializing studying the very detailed
31:05
Speaker 7: trends and they're willing to for a fee take that on,
31:09
Speaker 7: and they do it for residential properties as well.
31:11
Speaker 3: What else you got cooking over there?
31:13
Speaker 7: Well, we got a council meeting coming up on Thursday
31:16
Speaker 7: night that is including well, I don't know, of general interest,
31:21
Speaker 7: probably the discussion of density. I'm gonna have two workshop items.
31:26
Speaker 7: One will be the semi annual report from our Kelsey Heyden,
31:30
Speaker 7: our Parks and Recreation director, chill Up Data send some things.
31:35
Speaker 7: I've got some questions that I want to explore with
31:37
Speaker 7: her as well, that I will do tomorrow night, and
31:40
Speaker 7: David Brower will talk about our process of figuring out
31:46
Speaker 7: how to incentivize density, because density is the future college station.
31:51
Speaker 7: Given that we are not going to be able to annex,
31:53
Speaker 7: and and we've got issues related to building more.
31:58
Speaker 6: Homes and how are we going to get it done?
32:00
Speaker 1: Yep.
32:01
Speaker 6: And then we got a couple.
32:02
Speaker 7: Of land use in the rezoning issues which are kind
32:06
Speaker 7: of interesting. One on twenty to eighteen down right right
32:11
Speaker 7: near this building that will be requested to change from
32:15
Speaker 7: general commercial to residential so they can build some town homes.
32:19
Speaker 7: There'll be an interesting discussion. And another one over on
32:22
Speaker 7: a wolf pen over on Harvey Road, rezoning a church there.
32:28
Speaker 7: But it's in the Wolfpenn district, which means is very
32:31
Speaker 7: unique because there's an overlay along there to protect those
32:35
Speaker 7: trails behind the behind the buildings there. So that it
32:39
Speaker 7: shouldn't be a really long meeting. But it's going to
32:41
Speaker 7: be another summertime meeting, so I won't have to wear
32:44
Speaker 7: necktie until scept every one, I'll put my neck gie
32:48
Speaker 7: back on. But that I'm one of those older guys
32:51
Speaker 7: that still wears a neck tie at most of the
32:54
Speaker 7: meetings in a jacket.
32:55
Speaker 4: Well, don't don't, don't go crazy, Like we said, this
32:58
Speaker 4: is the time, This is not the time too.
33:00
Speaker 7: I know I'm not gonna do it in the summertime
33:02
Speaker 7: I can show up without that, well.
33:05
Speaker 4: I'll tell you this, I'd look forward to hearing hearing
33:07
Speaker 4: some more and we'll have conversations about the density. Thing
33:09
Speaker 4: that's one of the most fascinating issues to me is
33:11
Speaker 4: where you go.
33:12
Speaker 7: That will certainly be coming up. And I may not
33:15
Speaker 7: be around long enough to see it all implemented, but
33:17
Speaker 7: clearly College Station is moving in that direction and has
33:20
Speaker 7: to all right.
33:22
Speaker 4: Always a pleasure, Mayor, Mayor John New City of College Station.
33:25
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34:00
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34:06
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34:09
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34:15
Speaker 5: Support, and they make my feet hurt so bad that
34:18
Speaker 5: I stopped wearing them.
34:19
Speaker 1: I need to at best their house shoes.
34:20
Speaker 4: I need to find a different shoe game, because I too.
34:24
Speaker 4: I've got about six pairs of these things, and I'm
34:27
Speaker 4: getting to the point where I hate them more every
34:30
Speaker 4: time I put them on.
34:31
Speaker 1: They're stepping up in years. They're Tuckers joined the dark
34:34
Speaker 1: side and get this sketcher slip off.
34:36
Speaker 3: Dude, I am so close to getting them sketchers slip on.
34:39
Speaker 1: Nothing wrong with them, nothing wrong with them.
34:41
Speaker 3: Let's talk. Let's talk another type of snake that's out
34:44
Speaker 3: there today.
34:45
Speaker 1: Snake snake, the bigfoot hunter.
34:48
Speaker 3: Snake, the bigfoot hunter.
34:50
Speaker 1: The minute I saw this, I was like, this is
34:52
Speaker 1: got Tucker's name written all of them, and yeah, there
34:56
Speaker 1: we go. She's a fan of the squatch. Snake is
34:58
Speaker 1: not his real name. By the way, Charles Stewart, Snake
35:04
Speaker 1: sounds a little cooler, So he went by by snake.
35:07
Speaker 1: He says, Charlie here, Charlie Snake. The bigfoot hunter. Stewart
35:13
Speaker 1: says he has found sasquatches remains in New York.
35:18
Speaker 3: In New York, New York, Stall, not Seattle, not Oklahoma.
35:23
Speaker 1: No claims. He went to Cornell and got the DNA tested,
35:27
Speaker 1: and the results show that it's half Neanderthal and half human.
35:31
Speaker 1: He even gave the alleged sasquatch a name. The sasquatch
35:36
Speaker 1: in question is named Dak. Now for some reason, Da Daka.
35:43
Speaker 1: There's obviously a few people out there that are saying
35:46
Speaker 1: this is bull hockey. They've dismissed the claims. Cornell has
35:50
Speaker 1: not imagined why. Cornell is not confirmed that the DNA
35:54
Speaker 1: testing took place. Mister Stewart still plans to put Dak
35:58
Speaker 1: on display at the New York State Fair later this summer.
36:02
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it'll be like in the expo
36:05
Speaker 1: hall or if he's going to have it in a
36:06
Speaker 1: trailer in the parking lot.
36:08
Speaker 3: Oh, it's going to be. That's a trailer.
36:10
Speaker 1: Trailer.
36:10
Speaker 4: That's a trailer for sure. All right, let's listen to
36:13
Speaker 4: him talk about this. I have not heard this, but
36:15
Speaker 4: I'm hoping, hoping we get some insights.
36:17
Speaker 8: After doing a DNA test at Cornell Veterinarian Bio DNA Lab,
36:21
Speaker 8: we found that this is fifty eight point five percent
36:25
Speaker 8: Neanderthal slash Dennis sobin, which is europe And Neanderthal mixing
36:29
Speaker 8: with Asian Neanderthal, and then this forty one point five
36:33
Speaker 8: percent remaining that is human.
36:36
Speaker 3: Come on, man, how do they know bigfoot DNA?
36:39
Speaker 1: Well, they don't know bigfoot DNA. They know Neanderthal DNA,
36:43
Speaker 1: and it's mixed with this other DNA that's early human.
36:48
Speaker 3: A bigfoot hunters.
36:50
Speaker 1: Well, he's saying, this.
36:50
Speaker 3: Is the bigfoot Yeah, yeah, so it should be it's
36:53
Speaker 3: bigfoot DN. Shouldn't it be independent DNA. Shouldn't it be
36:56
Speaker 3: a foreign DN?
36:57
Speaker 2: Yeah?
36:58
Speaker 4: I think that's probably obviously that would be the case
37:00
Speaker 4: one hundred percent. The thing is, I think what he's
37:03
Speaker 4: trying to do is compare the similarities kind of like
37:04
Speaker 4: you know, they say we're ninety nine percent compatible or
37:07
Speaker 4: we're nine nine percent into the primate range with our DNA.
37:11
Speaker 4: He's saying that this Bigfoot DNA is like, got got
37:15
Speaker 4: a little bit of the Neanderthal, a lot of the
37:17
Speaker 4: Neanderthal and like a fifty to fifty cut with Neanderthals
37:21
Speaker 4: and humans, which still doesn't explain how it looks like
37:24
Speaker 4: a bigfoot.
37:25
Speaker 1: Well he's okay. You don't need DNA testing, You don't
37:29
Speaker 1: need to sequence the genome to figure this out. All
37:32
Speaker 1: you need to do is look at it and if
37:34
Speaker 1: it's blurry, chances are good it's bigfoot.
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Speaker 3: What do you think he actually has, because you know
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Speaker 3: he's got he's got some kind of he's got something
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Speaker 3: that he is claiming to be able to pull DNA from.
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Speaker 3: What did he find out.
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Speaker 1: The bear with like Rady's or something with mange?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, mange, That's what I was.
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Speaker 5: Coming up trying to say.
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Speaker 1: Jason Is texted and said sasquad would never live in
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Speaker 1: New York, Texas or too High.
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Speaker 3: Well, no, absolutely, guys.
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Speaker 4: You tell me he survived this long without those kind
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Speaker 4: of smart It's like he knows what he knows.
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Speaker 3: He didn't want to pay every single year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's got that soap business, he's got that jerky business.
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Speaker 3: He's got he's got concerns.
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Speaker 4: That's why I would say to Sasquatch, time to come
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Speaker 4: down here to Texas.
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Speaker 3: That's no personal income tax. Make your next move, you know,
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Speaker 3: best move, friend, Come to Texas be a cowboy. Everyone else.
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Speaker 1: The Sasquatch cowboy.
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Speaker 4: Oh my word, Yeah, I just I can't get behind
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Speaker 4: this at all the butt, But there you go. I'm
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Speaker 4: sure we'll find out more about it coming up in
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Speaker 4: the next the next few weeks or months.
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Speaker 3: I didn't even know New York had a state fair,
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Speaker 3: my dude.
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Speaker 1: Beyond every state has a state fair. Everybody got one
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Speaker 1: of those.
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Speaker 4: All right, Remember, guys, if you are just joining us,
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Speaker 4: we appreciate this few seconds you're spending this before we
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Speaker 4: Comriiley is just about to hit publish on today's Infomaniac.
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Speaker 3: Podcast, So yeah, go check that.
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Speaker 1: Out, enjoy it. Yeah, y'all, have a great weekend. I'm
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Speaker 1: out of here.
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Speaker 3: Travel safe, my friend. I not wait to hear how
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Speaker 3: the West is