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The Infomaniacs: October 21st 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: and trade gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, watches, and collectible coins
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  Speaker 1: and consistently pay the most. Learn more at davidsjewelryandcoins.com. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A former
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  Speaker 1: firefighter has been indicted for arson. A grand jury in
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  Speaker 1: Washington County handed down an indictment for second-degree felony arson
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  Speaker 1: against 49-year-old Ronald Perry on October 14th, according to the
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  Speaker 1: Texas A & M Forest Service. Perry is being held
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  Speaker 1: on $ 100, 000 bond at the Washington County Jail. He was
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  Speaker 1: a volunteer with Rocky Creek VFD. An investigation began after
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  Speaker 1: the Washington County Sheriff's Office found suspicious wildfires south of
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  Speaker 1: Lake Somerville in 2020. A joint task force was created
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  Speaker 1: between the Texas A & M Forest Service law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: the Washington County Sheriff's Office, and the FBI Central Texas
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  Speaker 1: Joint Terrorism Task Force to investigate. Perry was arrested on
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  Speaker 1: August 12th on suspicion of setting numerous fires between 2020
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  Speaker 1: and 2021. and 2026. A conviction on second-degree felony arson
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  Speaker 1: is punishable by up to 20 years, but no less
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  Speaker 1: than two years in prison and fines up to $ 10, 000.
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  Speaker 1: At Monday's candidates forum, candidates for College Station Place 2
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  Speaker 1: talked flock cameras. Chandler Arden is a proponent of ALPRs,
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  Speaker 1: just not necessarily flock.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have a year to figure it out, fortunately.
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  Speaker 2: I think flock, the company is probably questionable. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that probably in January, February, the state will be telling
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  Speaker 2: us what we think about flock. But having said that,
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  Speaker 2: I did speak in favor of flock, or ALPRs, and
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  Speaker 2: the big reason really is all these numbers that are
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  Speaker 2: talked about, how many cameras there are, how many pictures
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  Speaker 2: they take, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What I'm
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  Speaker 2: really concerned about is one, and it's the one victim
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  Speaker 2: of a crime, the one crime that got prevented, the
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  Speaker 2: one crime that got solved. So the number to me
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  Speaker 2: really is one.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Kidd is not a fan.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like them. I feel like it invades people's privacy.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of cities that use it. Even Houston
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  Speaker 3: uses it as well. And there's been breaches where people
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  Speaker 3: are not doing things that they're not supposed to be doing.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe that police officers should have great technology
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  Speaker 3: to catch criminals. But I feel like even just flock
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  Speaker 3: as a company, you know, I feel like there's some
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  Speaker 3: gray areas there.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear from all the candidates for Bryan and
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  Speaker 1: College Station City Councils, as well as Mayor, Commissioner's Court,
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  Speaker 1: and State Representative at WTAW.com. What started as a petty
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  Speaker 1: theft at the West Bryan Walmart led to an ice
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  Speaker 1: hold for two men on Monday. Bryan Police responded to
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  Speaker 1: the Walmart in the 600 block of North Harvey Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: Parkway just before 6 p.m. for reports of a theft
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  Speaker 1: in progress. 18-year-old Luis Vasquez Hernandez and 20-year-old Juan Garcia
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  Speaker 1: Cortez were detained in the store's asset protection room and
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  Speaker 1: placed under arrest for theft under $ 100. During the arrest,
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  Speaker 1: Vasquez Hernandez attempted to hide a THC vape in the
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  Speaker 1: patrol car, so he was also charged with possession of
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  Speaker 1: a controlled substance, penalty group two less than one gram,
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  Speaker 1: and tampering with evidence. Both men remained behind bars on
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  Speaker 1: an ICE detainer. News is presented by David's Jewelry and
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  Speaker 1: Coin Exchange. More news at 830 or anytime at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Turbeville here. If you're considering selling your jewelry, collectible coins,
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  Speaker 4: to serve you. Selling your items is simple. Just take
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  Speaker 4: them into the store for a complete evaluation. You then
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  Speaker 4: have the option to sell your items for cash, exchange
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  Speaker 1: Some time to think about the offer.
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  Speaker 4: Visit David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange for a quick, hassle-free
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, gang. Infomaniacs on a beautiful Wednesday. Looking at
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  Speaker 6: mid-80s or low-80s.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to cheat you guys. I don't want
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  Speaker 5: to cheat you.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 6: 82, 83 maybe for a high today. Down to the
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  Speaker 6: 50s again tonight and then more of the same all
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  Speaker 6: AC running even in times like these because I can.
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  Speaker 5: Throw on one of those crazy... Have you ever seen
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  Speaker 5: these on the internet?
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  Speaker 1: Those those the blanket hoodie things. My my my my
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  Speaker 1: family loves them.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, did they buy?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they've got I told you they've got collections of them.
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  Speaker 1: I am not. That's not my thing.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to I'm going to post a picture of
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  Speaker 6: one of these somewhere because I started getting served ads
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  Speaker 6: from these things.
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  Speaker 5: It basically looks like a druid's cloak.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a weighted like fleece lined druid's cloak that
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  Speaker 6: they'll sell you for probably way too much money.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they're getting rich off this thing. But holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: When the weighted blankets came out and my wife and
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  Speaker 1: daughters had to have them, then they had the electric
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  Speaker 1: weighted blankets. Now they've got the weighted cloaks.
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  Speaker 6: I will keep the AC blowing cold in the winter
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  Speaker 6: with that thing on and be happy about it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I like occasionally like a little blanket, but
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  Speaker 1: I don't like too much blanket no matter how cold
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  Speaker 1: it gets. I don't know, man. My wife, yeah, she's
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  Speaker 1: got it. Right now she's got what I call her
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  Speaker 1: electric straitjacket. So she gets in bed every night, and
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  Speaker 1: she's got this electric, it's like a heating pad, but
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  Speaker 1: it wraps around her. And that's what she uses every night.
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  Speaker 5: Where did she find that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous to me.
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  Speaker 7: We need to start.
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  Speaker 6: Sharing the things we buy online on a blog somewhere
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  Speaker 6: so we can know.
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  Speaker 1: I rarely buy things.
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  Speaker 5: Family purchases would be ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: There's days where I just... The Tucker's.
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  Speaker 5: Wife purchases would be epic. The Tucker's purchases would be epic.
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  Speaker 1: Will's purchases aren't that epic.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like you buy regular things. You're like regular people.
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  Speaker 1: Regular Joe.
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  Speaker 6: Do any of you guys have a product that you
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  Speaker 6: were influenced on recently? And by influenced on, I mean
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  Speaker 6: very specifically, it came across your feed and you were like,
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  Speaker 6: holy crap, I need that in my life, and you
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  Speaker 6: bought it. And do you have one of those that
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  Speaker 6: actually worked out that you really, really love?
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  Speaker 5: Because... It's real hit and miss. Some of them are.
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  Speaker 6: I bought some real trash, and then I bought some
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  Speaker 6: stuff that's like, I don't know, no, no.
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  Speaker 5: This is the.
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  Speaker 6: And the Free the Sheep cloak thing is... That's... I
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  Speaker 6: cannot speak highly enough about it. It will change your life.
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  Speaker 6: I just don't like the product in general. Well, I
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  Speaker 6: can't see you walking to the farm looking like a
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  Speaker 6: druid either.
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  Speaker 5: It's probably just not good for anyone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some people probably do that, but it's not me.
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  Speaker 6: Let's talk about some other wild ideas. San Francisco has
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  Speaker 6: a new one. And see, this is a good one
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  Speaker 6: because I feel like, again, you at least have a
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  Speaker 6: history of plants and things like that. So you can
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  Speaker 6: tell me if this is worth anything or if this
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  Speaker 6: is just stupid. But to me, it definitely caught my attention.
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  Speaker 5: Check this out.
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  Speaker 8: We have tens of thousands of trees in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 8: so that's a huge resource that we could tap into
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  Speaker 8: to provide food.
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  Speaker 9: But the guerrilla grafters are like, nah, we want fruit-bearing
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  Speaker 9: trees all around the city so the homeless can eat
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  Speaker 9: the fruit and people can go and grab.
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  Speaker 7: Fruit when they need it.
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  Speaker 8: So what we are doing is we only graft trees
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  Speaker 8: that have stewards that promise to take care of them
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  Speaker 8: and that will come and monitor.
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  Speaker 6: In San Francisco, people are going around guerrilla grafting branches.
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  Speaker 6: to existing trees to make those trees fruit-bearing trees so
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  Speaker 6: that the homeless will have something to eat.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you can graft trees. I'm not sure about grafting
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  Speaker 1: a fruit-bearing tree to a non-fruit-bearing tree. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: how that works.
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  Speaker 5: I have no idea how that works. It's the first
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  Speaker 5: time I've ever heard of it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, tree grafting's a thing.
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  Speaker 6: No, tree grafting, yes, but if I had an orange
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  Speaker 6: branch and put it on an oak tree.
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  Speaker 5: Is it going to grow oranges?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I know who to call, but I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe we need to get our boy Neil on the
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  Speaker 5: phone to answer some questions about this one.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I won't call Neil, but I'll make a
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  Speaker 1: call and find this out. Here's my biggest problem with it.
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  Speaker 1: If you could execute the grafting, and you could in
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  Speaker 1: that climate... Grow fruit.
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  Speaker 5: Grow an actual edible fruit, which is difficult.
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  Speaker 1: And in that particular shade that you would get in
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  Speaker 1: that urban environment, plus the temperature, the climate, everything else.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: If you could get fruit grown there, do you honestly
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  Speaker 1: think that you're going to make a difference? in feeding
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  Speaker 1: the homeless with that effort.
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  Speaker 5: Do you think the homeless are going to be happy
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  Speaker 5: eating street fruit? It's what it comes down to.
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  Speaker 1: I guess it depends.
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  Speaker 5: Well, it can help anyone.
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  Speaker 6: If times are tough, you can just pick some street
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  Speaker 6: fruit and take it back to your apartment, which you
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  Speaker 6: pay $ 200, 000 a year in rent in.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a scurvy epidemic going on that we need
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  Speaker 1: more fruit? Is that a problem?
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  Speaker 5: It's really for the vitamin C. That's what this is.
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  Speaker 6: Guys, there's so many problems in y'all's city. San Francisco
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  Speaker 6: is a wildly, wildly bizarre city. And I know, it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 6: you Texans joke about No.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 6: We take some liberties with the state of California. A
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  Speaker 6: lot of California is fairly normal. San Francisco ain't that. Also,
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you this too, because I am also with you, Will,
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  Speaker 6: I feel fairly confident that there are zero people that
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  Speaker 6: are going to be comfortable eating street fruit. What you're
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  Speaker 6: going to get is all of that fruit is going
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  Speaker 6: to rot thus adding to the smell of San Francisco,
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  Speaker 6: which is already not good.
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  Speaker 1: Before that, what is that street fruit taking in for nutrients?
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  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the way I'm going to put that.
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  Speaker 5: The San Francisco street elements.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you get diseases in regular fields. You
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  Speaker 1: can have outbreaks of diarrhea lettuce. What are you going
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  Speaker 1: to get from street fruit in San Francisco?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Know what they're gonna develop a new disease you.
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  Speaker 6: Know what it's gonna be used for street hooch you're
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  Speaker 6: gonna have at best homeless people your best case scenario
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  Speaker 6: is they're going to take it off of the tree
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  Speaker 6: and make prison wine with.
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  Speaker 1: It that's best case that's actually.
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  Speaker 6: That's actually fairly genius i can see that i could
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  Speaker 6: see that actually having.
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  Speaker 5: Some some benefits good night uh Wow.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And we need to, we need to find out this
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  Speaker 6: is even possible. I also want to acknowledge Jason who
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  Speaker 6: texted in on a product. He was, or James texted
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  Speaker 6: in a product he was influenced by recently.
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  Speaker 5: We'll take a look at that little, little gizmo.
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  Speaker 1: Men's concealed carry Maplewood hooded shirt jacket.
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  Speaker 5: Look at this.
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  Speaker 1: This thing actually, because a lot of the problems I
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  Speaker 1: have with clothing that is designed for concealed carry is
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  Speaker 1: that it ends up, It's not as concealed as you
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  Speaker 1: want it to, and it's not really comfortable. This looks like.
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  Speaker 5: A fall dream.
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  Speaker 6: It's like a plaid shacket kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And it's almost got a built-in shoulder harness sort of thing,
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  Speaker 1: which will take some of the weight off the magazine
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  Speaker 1: and firearm into your pockets.
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  Speaker 6: It looks like it carries several different mags, a couple
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  Speaker 6: of firearms. If you want to head through an apple
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  Speaker 6: orchard for some apple pickin', And you still need to
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  Speaker 6: carry a heater with you?
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  Speaker 5: That's the.
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  Speaker 1: Well, always be carrying.
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  Speaker 7: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Apple orchard or not.
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  Speaker 5: What good does it do you otherwise?
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  Speaker 1: But this... Man, you may have just.
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  Speaker 5: Sold me on this. I think you influenced Will! I
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  Speaker 5: think you influenced Will, James. He's clicking through to the links.
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  Speaker 5: He might be picking one of these up.
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  Speaker 1: No, I want to investigate it. I've got, in fact,
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  Speaker 1: the vest I've got right now has built-in concealed carry.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And you can, but I find that it works best
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  Speaker 1: with a very light firearm.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: No, that doesn't look like a light firearm to me. No,
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  Speaker 1: it looks like I can carry my 1911 there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that looks very robust.
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  Speaker 6: Anyway, if you guys have some more, and we're looking
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  Speaker 6: for internet products that you got served an ad for,
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  Speaker 6: and you're like, I'm going to take a look at this.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to order me a few of these. If
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  Speaker 6: you've got some, tell us about them.
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  Speaker 7: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 5: We're back right after this.
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  Speaker 7: I'm Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. Brian has something special. We're growing,
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  Speaker 7: but we haven't lost who we are. We have historic
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  Speaker 7: downtown Brian, incredible local restaurants, live music, arts, entertainment, parks, neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 7: and a community that still knows how to come together.
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  Speaker 7: I want us to grow responsibly while protecting the character
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  Speaker 7: and quality of life that makes Brian different. Because progress
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  Speaker 7: isn't about becoming somebody else. It's about becoming an even
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  Speaker 7: better Brian. I'm Bobby Gutierrez, and I'd appreciate your support
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  Speaker 7: for Mayor.
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  Speaker 14: Jason Bianski, Treasurer.
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  Speaker 9: Charles Schwertner has a record of fighting for Texas and
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  Speaker 9: delivering results. He took on human traffickers and protected our kids.
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  Speaker 9: He passed safeguards against dangerous uses of AI, and he
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  Speaker 9: fought for Texas energy production to bring down prices at
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  Speaker 9: the pump and cut costs for small businesses. These aren't promises.
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  Speaker 9: They're results that make a difference for Texas families.
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  Speaker 1: Dr.
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  Speaker 9: Charles Schwertner, a proven leader for Texas. Political ad paid
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  Speaker 15: Your grocer bills up, your power bills up. Now they
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  Speaker 15: just voted to raise your property taxes too. Howard Maine
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  Speaker 6: Howdy, it's me, the.
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  Speaker 5: 16, 20, 94, 5, WTNW. Punch it in your order
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  Speaker 5: right there?
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  Speaker 1: No, I haven't gotten to it yet because I was
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  Speaker 1: texting one of my favorite horticulturists.
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  Speaker 6: San Francisco Street Fruit, bro. San Francisco Street Fruit. If
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  Speaker 6: it works in San Francisco, I fully expect. I fully
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  Speaker 6: expect to be able to try this in Houston. Well,
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  Speaker 6: it's not going to work in any of those places.
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  Speaker 5: What's Houston Street Fruit going to look like?
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just plant the fruit trees?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it seems like, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on.
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  Speaker 5: There's easier ways to the goal line here.
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  Speaker 7: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 5: We're inching closer to the biggest day of the year.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, November is.
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  Speaker 6: November has been the goal line for people for a long,
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  Speaker 6: long time.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, years. Years and years.
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  Speaker 1: Years and waiting.
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  Speaker 6: And we've been counting down the days until we get
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  Speaker 6: to November when life might finally become normal again. because
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  Speaker 6: grand theft auto is being released.
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  Speaker 1: Actually i watched the south park episode that mentioned i.
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  Speaker 6: Love it's it's been a recurring theme yeah and i
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  Speaker 6: i fully expect to continue every time so yeah it's
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  Speaker 6: gonna life's gonna suck until november when gta comes out
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  Speaker 6: right and uh.
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  Speaker 5: And i you know i yeah what can you say.
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  Speaker 6: It's kind of a big deal so this is this
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  Speaker 6: is the sum Well, this is important for, I think,
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  Speaker 6: specifically for our radio audience. I want to discuss this
• 16:27
  Speaker 6: because what we're going to tell you is going to
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  Speaker 6: sound ridiculous. In fact, it's going to sound stupid. But
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  Speaker 6: that said, I fully believe this is true. An economics
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  Speaker 6: professor says he's done the math and that Grand Theft
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  Speaker 6: Auto 6 could have a monumental effect on the economic
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: conditions in the United States. The drop is November 19th,
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  Speaker 6: which I don't expect anyone here to know because why
• 16:51
  Speaker 6: would you? But they say that Thursday, which is the
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  Speaker 6: day that it drops, and then Friday, which is the
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  Speaker 6: day after, they expect that there will be enough people
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  Speaker 6: blowing off work so they can just sit at home
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: and play Grand Theft Auto 6, that it will cause 1.5
• 17:11
  Speaker 6: million people to skip, 1.5 million, and that the Economic
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: impact of that will cost businesses $ 1 billion-plus.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know what their definition of skip is,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: because I feel like most of the people that are
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: going to take a lot of time on this date
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  Speaker 1: to play this game, either A, don't have a job,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: or B, they work from home, or C, they work
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  Speaker 1: from their parents' basement.
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  Speaker 5: Right, right. No, I get that. The problem is.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: You have to understand how big of a deal video
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: games are to the world. And people don't get this.
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: So just the pre-sales of this.
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  Speaker 5: Game, you're talking $ 3 billion.
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  Speaker 6: That's more than almost every movie that's been released in
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: the last two years combined. Video games are the biggest
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  Speaker 6: driver of money in the entertainment industry. More than streaming services...
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: more than television, more than movies, all of them. Video
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: games beat them.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know guys that make, and gals, that make
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of money doing voiceovers.
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  Speaker 5: For video games.
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: You can have a bigger career, potentially, as a voiceover
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: actor for a fame.
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  Speaker 5: If you get a good.
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: Role, you can make $ 20, $ 30 million over a career
• 18:43
  Speaker 6: playing that character. And it just flies by because we
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: all think the same thing. Oh, it's a bunch of
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: kids and people playing in their basements. No, no, friends. Again,
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: the pre-sales. The pre-sales are two Spider-Mans, all right? The
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: pre-sales are two Avengers Endgames, like in terms of how
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: much money they've made, of just people paying it before
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: the game even comes out. Once it drops, then you
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: got a whole other pile of billions. that they'll get
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: off of this.
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  Speaker 5: That is so many people.
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  Speaker 1: In my peak video game playing days, I never would
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  Speaker 1: miss work to play a video game.
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  Speaker 5: I guess the question.
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: Would be, if you work with young people, and by
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: young people I'm going to say 20s, like college students
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: maybe a little bit after that, do you know any
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: of them are actually going to call in sick? Have
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: you actually confirmed that there are people in your life
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: Because that's the only thing I haven't now, keep in mind,
• 19:42
  Speaker 6: I don't have a lot of people in that demographic.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: I do play a lot of video games. I have
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: yet to find the person who's like admitting to, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: I'm going to get it. this thing and I'm going
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: to lock myself in a room for a week playing
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: through game like that's so that's that's the part that
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: I don't necessarily buy because I feel like if it's
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: that many people 1.5 million people are just gonna say
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: oh no I'm taking the week off because I want
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: to play GTA I feel like I would know one
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: of them Yeah, I.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Don't know any of them.
• 20:11
  Speaker 6: That's the one thing that theoretically this checks out, but
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: you actually do have to have. And you know every
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: boss in America already knows this. They're like, don't you dare.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I'll have to ask.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: Don't you dare.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I'll have to ask the daughter's boyfriend if he has,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: because he's more likely to have friends that college age.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, if you have a college student that maybe, like
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: in your case, the daughter's boyfriend, or if your kid
• 20:36
  Speaker 6: is a college student, Please, do us a favor on this.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Figure out, ask them if any of their friends are
• 20:44
  Speaker 6: actually going to do this, and then let us know.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: I would ask my daughter, but all of her friends
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: are too busy gambling.
• 20:52
  Speaker 6: Oh, let's talk about the second biggest spender when it
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: comes to entertainment.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Video games and gambling and nothing else.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: We have an update to Street Fruit from my favorite horticulturist.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so the question, if you missed this.
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: There was a question.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: San Francisco believes that you can graft regular fruit branches
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  Speaker 6: to non-fruit-bearing trees, and if you did it to all
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: of the trees in the city of San Francisco, you
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: would produce enough fruit to feed their homeless.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: That's the big idea.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I personally think San Francisco has produced enough fruit as
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: it is, but.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: According to my favorite horticulturist... Okay, okay. No, they have
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to be closely related. Now, I think I knew this,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: and that's why I asked him. Like peach, plum, and apricot, right?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So you can graft fruit trees to closely related fruit trees.
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: But if they're in a family, and you're in an orchard.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Right, so they will take a heartily growing apple that
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: does not produce perhaps the best-tasting fruit, and they will
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: graft a better-tasting apple to that apple tree.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So unless you got that going on, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to tell you.
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  Speaker 5: You know what? Good to know.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Good to know.
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  Speaker 5: Good to know. Back after this.
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  Speaker 14: This is Today in Texas History brought to you by
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  Speaker 11: On this day, October the 21st in 1822, the Banco
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  Speaker 11: Nacional de Tejas, or the Texas National Bank, was established
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  Speaker 11: as a bank of issue. the first in Texas by
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: Governor Jose Felix in San Antonio. Shortly after arriving in
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  Speaker 11: Texas in August, Felix hit upon the idea of issuing
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  Speaker 11: paper money as wages to the province's demoralized soldiers. Members
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  Speaker 11: and four soldiers were given the task of hand-producing the notes.
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  Speaker 11: Just under 12,000 pesos was issued in two installments on
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  Speaker 11: November 1st and December 1st, 1822. The short-lived experiment in
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  Speaker 11: emergency financing proved costly to most note holders who had
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  Speaker 11: to wait until 1830 for redemption of the Texas money
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  Speaker 11: by the Mexican government. Despite its failure, the institution claims
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  Speaker 13: In the race for governor, it's chaos versus common sense. First,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. At
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  Speaker 1: Monday night's candidates forum, the candidates for College Station Place
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  Speaker 1: 1 discussed overnight street parking in Southside and Eastgate. Incumbent
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  Speaker 1: Mark Smith acknowledges it's a problem but doesn't offer a solution.
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  Speaker 1: I think that we need to look at public safety.
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  Speaker 2: It should be our number one criteria when we look
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  Speaker 2: at removing parking.
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  Speaker 1: The Southside area.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there are people who live there who don't
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  Speaker 2: want their parking removed overnight.
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  Speaker 1: Howard Main suggests limiting parking to a single side of
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  Speaker 1: the street or issuing permits to residents for safety.
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  Speaker 17: I've had some firsthand experience with this as in a
• 28:00
  Speaker 17: law enforcement role. When I was working as a deputy
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  Speaker 17: one night, we were responding to an officer assist and
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  Speaker 17: there was police. parking on both sides of the street,
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  Speaker 17: and it was very hard for me to get.
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  Speaker 5: Through there in an Explorer.
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  Speaker 17: And, you know, so then you go back and think, hey,
• 28:14
  Speaker 17: could a fire truck get through here? And I don't
• 28:16
  Speaker 17: think they can.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Roy May says parking enforcement is a good start.
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  Speaker 24: I would start with enforcement, absolutely, because so for two falls,
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  Speaker 24: every Saturday, every Friday, I drove from Southwood Valley to campus,
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  Speaker 24: and I knew how to shortcut through Southgate. And you
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  Speaker 24: run into people parking, like you said, on both sides
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  Speaker 24: of the street. On game day, you drive on the
• 28:35
  Speaker 24: streets and you're basically just doing your best not to
• 28:37
  Speaker 24: hit a pedestrian.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear from all the candidates for Bryan and
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: College Station City Councils at WTAW.com. It was a pretty
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: successful day of giving in yesterday's Brazos Valley Gives. The
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: final totals aren't in, but it looks like over $ 1. 3
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  Speaker 1: million was raised. Organizations that met their goals include the
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  Speaker 1: Brazos Valley Food Bank, the College Station and Bryan ISD
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  Speaker 1: Education Foundations, Twin City Mission, and Aggieland Pregnancy Outreach. The
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  Speaker 1: Aggieland Humane Society exceeded their goal of $ 65, 000. Hope Gathering
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  Speaker 1: exceeded their.
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  Speaker 5: Goal of $ 100, 000.
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  Speaker 1: The Boys and Girls Club of the Brazos Valley is
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  Speaker 1: about $ 18, 000 short of their $ 50, 000 goal for a new van.
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  Speaker 1: Two women were arrested for shoplifting at the College Station
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  Speaker 1: Target on Monday. College Station police responded to a theft
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  Speaker 1: in progress around 4 o'clock. Two subjects were being detained
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  Speaker 1: in the loss prevention room. 17-year-old Ariane Oriana Garcia of
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  Speaker 1: Hockley was captured on video concealing 17 clothing items. into
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  Speaker 1: her bag before attempting to leave the store. The value
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  Speaker 1: of the items was $ 282. She was charged with theft
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: between $ 100 and $ 750 and was released.
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  Speaker 22: On a $ 4, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: 21-year-old Ingrid Moran Rodriguez of College Station was captured stuffing
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  Speaker 1: approximately 12 items of clothing into her backpack at a
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  Speaker 1: value of $ 265. She was charged with theft between $ 100
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: and $ 750 and is being held on a $ 3, 000 bond
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  Speaker 1: and an ICE detainer. Early voters are turned out in
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  Speaker 1: record numbers for the opening day of early voting on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Fox's Brooke Taylor is in Dallas with more.
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  Speaker 25: The first day of early voting, and let me tell you,
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  Speaker 25: voters here in Texas, they are showing up big time.
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  Speaker 25: We saw a record-breaking number of voters showing up to
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  Speaker 25: the polls today. You have Dallas County, 76,000 people cast
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  Speaker 25: ballots on Monday. That's shattering the previous record and nearly 20,000
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  Speaker 25: more than on opening day of the 2024 presidential election.
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  Speaker 25: Then in Harris County, which includes Houston, you have more
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  Speaker 25: than 104,000 voters, breaking the county's previous first day midterm
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  Speaker 25: record of roughly 63,000.
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  Speaker 1: In Brazos County, 4,560 voters cast their ballots on the
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  Speaker 1: first day of early voting. President Trump is expected to
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: return to Texas to do more campaigning for Paxton ahead
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of Election Day. Speaking of President Trump, he announced a
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: program that should help farmers shoulder the high cost of
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: diesel fuel. The Department of Agriculture.
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  Speaker 21: We'll be launching a new harvest fuel relief program.
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  Speaker 9: Providing our farmers with $ 8 billion in support to offset
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  Speaker 9: diesel costs during this harvest season.
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  Speaker 1: The USDA will announce payment rates next month. Farmers will
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: not need crop insurance to qualify. Statewide gas prices in
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  Speaker 1: Texas today average $ 5. 78 per gallon for diesel and $ 3. 78
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  Speaker 1: per gallon for regular. A lawsuit has been filed in
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  Speaker 26: In the complaint, Texas State Representative Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic
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  Speaker 26: nominee for governor, accuses incumbent GOP Governor Greg Abbott of
• 31:53
  Speaker 26: violating state public records law by refusing to provide her
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  Speaker 26: with documents of his exchanges with Tesla and SpaceX CEO
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  Speaker 26: Elon Musk. The governor's office is sharing nearly 1,400 pages
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  Speaker 26: of communications with Musk with the publication The Texas Newsroom
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  Speaker 26: last year. Hinojosa, who filed a public information request, says
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  Speaker 26: all but about 200 were redacted or completely blacked out,
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  Speaker 26: claiming Musk, a donor of Abbott, is getting tax breaks
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  Speaker 26: for his businesses. Abbott and Musk fought the release, arguing
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  Speaker 26: they'd reveal private details. Abbott's campaign calls the lawsuit baseless,
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  Speaker 26: noting it's working to have it dismissed. Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
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  Speaker 6: save you money and keep you comfortable. Turn to the
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: experts at Malik & Carey to keep your AC running properly. Malik,
• 34:43
  Speaker 6: feel the difference. Can we get some of the text messages?
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: We've got a wide range of topics we were just covering.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Huge range of topics.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: One of which being street fruit in the city of
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: San Francisco.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the city of San Francisco. Somebody was talking about
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: grafting trees. fruit trees to existing trees in San Francisco,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: which does not work from a nature perspective. It really doesn't.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: You talk about apples and oranges. If you're going to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: graft things to apples and oranges, they better be apples
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: and oranges. You can't graft... Fruit trees to non-bearing fruit trees,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: it just does not work.
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's what they tell me anyway.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's according to a great Aggie horticulturist that's a
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: good friend of mine.
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Stephen says, so no peach cones?
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: No peach cones.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Plum corn?
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: No, no plum corns.
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: I was looking forward to some nice cherry elms coming
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: in next year. No, none of those, Stephen. Fantastic.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: How about a peach nut, though? You could do a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: peach pecan peach nut.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: You could put an apple in an acorn. There you go. Again,
• 35:34
  Speaker 5: some abomination to God himself.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: Let's come up with that. Jennifer says, Very interesting text message.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: My brother runs four departments at the A & M
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: Vet School, managing many millions of dollars in grant money.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Lots of people.
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: I guarantee you he's taken off those days to play GTA.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: And that is, again, she.
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: Goes on to say Elon has made comments about the
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: minds of really good gamers that are very interesting, and
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: it's true.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I can't deny that.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: I believe that they're, again.
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: you have a bunch of really highly qualified, in many cases,
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: very wealthy, very powerful people that play a lot of
• 36:10
  Speaker 6: video games all the way through their adult years. And
• 36:13
  Speaker 6: some of them are like doofuses like me. But that
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: is not here nor there. Like I am not surprised
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: that you could run four departments and still be the type.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: So if you missed the beginning of the story, there's
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: a study out by an economist who says that we
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: will lose $ 1 billion in lost productivity.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: $ 1 billion over the two days.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Billy, over the two days that that comes out. So
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: our question to the mayor of the city of Bryan
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: is how much productivity are you going to be losing
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: to Grand Theft Auto?
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: I have no idea. I do not play video games.
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: My brother is like a professional gamer. Your brother's a
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: professional gamer? What's his game of choice? He does, what's
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: it called?
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: Fortnite.
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: Tanks. Some kind of tanks game.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: I know what you're talking about. I can't think of
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: the name, though.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: I mean, people from all over the world doing this thing.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: It's a big deal, dude. They give him money to
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: do it. It's like, you've got to be kidding me.
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: They give you money to play a game?
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: There's money in it if you're good.
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: And he's like, yep, that's the thing. When they give
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: me money, it's like, Okay. I clearly chose the wrong pathway.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: You've had to work for a living.
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Let's welcome Bobby to the show. Braz Valant, The Record,
• 37:14
  Speaker 6: brought to you by Baker Insurance Agency. And today, City
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: Bride Mayor Bobby Gutierrez.
• 37:18
  Speaker 23: Good morning.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Sir, and I should mention this. I've been asking every
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: one of you guys when I've run into you. On
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: a personal level, how are you holding up? Because this
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: is the last leg of... Of the season. Two more weeks.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: Two more weeks, man.
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: It's like 13 days. Clearly, you can look at me
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: and tell I'm tired. You're stressed. You're worried. You never
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: take anything for granted. This is the time that you
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: take the pounding to. That everything that anybody that doesn't
• 37:52
  Speaker 7: like you will just jump on board and say it.
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: These things can get very personal. Families look at them
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: and it's just like, You know, you guys have known
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: me for 30 years, and this is what it comes
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: down to. And the same people who call and ask
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: you to do favors and the same people who call
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: and ask you to, hey, support my cause, come raise money,
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: do things like this, that have happened for the last 25,
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: 30 years. And then one bad decision that affects their life,
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: you know, and I say a bad decision, a decision
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: made for the 95,000 people who will benefit from it,
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: and you affect two, three, five people. and then you're
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: enemy number one forever.
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: The thing I've said to everyone that's running this year,
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: and I've had the opportunity to say it to them,
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: is that regardless of anything else, whether, you know, how
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: it pans out, I'm just grateful people still want to
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: run in any capacity for a public-facing office.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Because it takes a personal toll. It legitimately does.
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: So we do a very.
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: Low level public facing job. And I say, they're not
• 38:59
  Speaker 6: saying that people, I mean, this is a great radio station.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: A lot of people listen to it on the scale of,
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: you know, catching flack for things. You can catch a
• 39:11
  Speaker 6: lot of flack for working at a radio station. I've,
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: I've Lord, I've worked for somewhere. I definitely had more
• 39:18
  Speaker 6: than my fair share to where it was uncomfortable. It's like,
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: I'm really sick of people just saying things about me
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: just because for an article, for a blog, uh, for
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: content in general, that does not hold a candle to
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: even the, like, like again, city politics. I'm not talking
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: about James Tallarico and Ken Paxton. I'm talking city politics,
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: the amount of people that will.
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: Where you see each other every day, in the grocery store,
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: at the convenience store, filling up for gas and things
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: like that.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: So having, again, sampled some of it, there's no way
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: in hell I would sign up for this.
• 39:52
  Speaker 15: Nope.
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: Well, and I would tell everybody, every candidate who's out there,
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: no matter what side they're on, you know, thank you
• 39:57
  Speaker 7: for your service. Thank you for your willingness to do
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: this because it is, it never ends. I would say,
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: you know, I sleep very well at night because I
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: make the best decision based on the mass of the population.
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: Know that you're going to make people upset with every
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: decision you make, but I sleep well, but these are
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: those two weeks that you don't sleep well.
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's universal. Everyone I've talked to is like,
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: my God, I'm just really tired.
• 40:22
  Speaker 6: And a lot of y'all love doing this, and I'm
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: thankful that y'all do. God knows I'm thankful that y'all
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: do because, once again, you could not pay me to
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: give up months of my life to just get beat
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: over the face and head every day.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: It was very, very different being, you know, I was
• 40:37
  Speaker 7: on Bride Business Council for all those years and all
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: the different things. rvp or now it's the gbp the
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: economic development part of is the part that i really
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: that is my jam and and i was always more
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: behind the scenes you know you get put up in
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: the front and it's literally different you know it's it's
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: eight days a week 36 hours a day as a
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: mayor yeah and council you know you you spend a
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: lot of time knowing what you need to do and
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: i've got a very good council so i'm very blessed
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: with that too but truly you do get beat up.
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: And I guess probably one of the most hurtful things
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: I ever said is the mayor only does one thing
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: that's preside over a meeting. And I'm like, that's not true.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: That's, that's a bold statement.
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: And here I am right now. Yeah.
• 41:18
  Speaker 6: It's you're, you're at eight in the morning hanging out
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: with it. So there were, there were a couple of
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: things I wanted to ask you about. Um, one of
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: which obviously medians are back in, in, we haven't seen
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: you since the legal opinion drop, which said, uh, that,
• 41:32
  Speaker 6: Hey guys, regardless, it, Regardless of everything, this is not
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: going to be as easy as vote yes, medians go.
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: Exactly. And we've done great. I mean, we have been
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: working hard to figure out and mitigate some of those areas.
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: We're putting in lights, taking some out. We're moving stuff.
• 41:49
  Speaker 7: We've been working with TxDOT quite a bit. But the
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: problem is right now to take all the medians out, yeah,
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: you can vote it and potentially it could happen. But
• 42:01
  Speaker 7: you have to find, and we've been working on this
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: for almost two years now, You have to find an
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: engineer who's going to stamp it and say it's going
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: to be safer without the medians there.
• 42:10
  Speaker 6: Talk about that process. It's because, again, you're it's a
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: pretty big hill to climb. I know that's that's been
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: the agreement. How would you how do you go about
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: that if you're in a situation where, again, let's let's
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: assume that.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Assume TxDOT is signed off on it. Let's assume you've
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: got all the money lined up to do it.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: Now, who do you, how do you find, so like,
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: do you just go engineer to engineer?
• 42:32
  Speaker 7: You go to engineer to engineer.
• 42:33
  Speaker 5: Have y'all spoken to engineers already?
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: For two years we've spoken to engineers, but nobody is
• 42:38
  Speaker 7: going to put their license on the line and their
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: potential liability to say it's safer because, you know, TxDOT
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: had the data. Now, I've always said this, whoever controls
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: the data controls the project because I could have submitted,
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: here's a study and this is what I like the
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: outcome to be and you can make that data happen. And,
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: you know, there's two ways around it. Is it safer,
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: you know, with the medians? Is it not safer with
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: the medians? A lot of people are telling me, hey,
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: I've gotten used to it now. It's not as bad
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: as it was. I know my route. I still cannot
• 43:09
  Speaker 7: stand it. It's hurt my business personally. And I've lost
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: most of my ranchers and farmers who can't get in
• 43:14
  Speaker 7: with the big trucks and trailers because it's just inconvenient.
• 43:18
  Speaker 5: Well, yeah, there's no way to turn in.
• 43:19
  Speaker 7: Exactly. And I'm on a corner.
• 43:21
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: And, I mean, mine is... Probably the best case scenario
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: for what it is. And, you know, it goes back to,
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: you know, what is what is convenience? And that's where
• 43:28
  Speaker 7: convenience society. And if it's not convenient, we're not going
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: to do it.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: What do you what do you in an environment because
• 43:33
  Speaker 6: we're having an election? Let's assume that you have a
• 43:36
  Speaker 6: couple of people that come in that they're going to
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: say no, no, no. In that instance, the people voted.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: We need to honor the will of the people. What's
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: the compromise, or is there any compromise between the two
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: positions of we can't actually touch these and they all
• 43:52
  Speaker 6: need to go? Is it possible to identify some that
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: maybe you take out or maybe you don't?
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: Well, we've already identified some that we're taking out. And
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: we are taking them out. But every one we take out,
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: we have to put a light there.
• 44:01
  Speaker 15: Right.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: And lights are expensive, too. You're close to a million dollars,
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: $ 750 to a million dollars for a light. So now
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: taking them out is one thing. And then actually getting
• 44:09
  Speaker 7: someone to sign off on them. So do you put
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: a light at every block all the way down Texas
• 44:13
  Speaker 7: Avenue to appease people? whoever that's going to sign off
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: on them.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: And then who does that make angry? Cause you got
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: to park it every light.
• 44:19
  Speaker 7: Exactly. I mean, it goes back to the, you know,
• 44:21
  Speaker 7: to the roundabouts, you know, in other words, controversial, right.
• 44:24
  Speaker 7: You know, I, I actually like him now. I, you know,
• 44:28
  Speaker 7: I was, I was one of those guys that's skeptical
• 44:29
  Speaker 7: and everything, but now you never have to stop. You
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: just go, you might have to tap on your brakes
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: and let someone to yield to somebody to go around there.
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Might have to use some sign language.
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: Exactly. Exactly. But you don't stop. And you know, I've
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: got two of them by my house so that I
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: have to, you know, navigate every day.
• 44:45
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: And it's better than having a light there.
• 44:48
  Speaker 5: It's a tall, it's a tall ask.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: I think it'll be interesting to see what the, what
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: the actual votes, we mentioned that last week too. We
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: don't really know what the split is on people in
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: the medians. There are some people that are very vocal
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: and some people that are very not vocal.
• 45:00
  Speaker 7: I think it's going to be, it'll, it'll pass 100%.
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: I mean, close to 100%.
• 45:05
  Speaker 5: I'd also, and that's just.
• 45:06
  Speaker 7: A feeling vote. You're going to feel, because I'm the
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: same way, you know, it's, I'll vote for it.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: No one's a fan. Yeah. Who's going to be a
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: fan of that?
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: You know what I equate it to? Right. When the
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: grocery store changes up the location of items.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: And for about a week, you're like, can't find anything.
• 45:24
  Speaker 6: And I'm sympathetic to the... Again, it has a real
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: effect on business, but also like I don't... I also...
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: Like you said, when you look at all of the
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: hurdles to taking them out, I don't know how you
• 45:36
  Speaker 6: do that.
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: Well, and I remember in those conversations with TxDOT, and
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: one of the things that they were saying is like, okay,
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: our job is to get people from point A to
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: point B safely. And their point A to point B,
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: take Texas Avenue or Highway 6, is from, you know,
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: Waco to Hampstead.
• 45:52
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: And our job as a city is to get... you know,
• 45:55
  Speaker 7: people from point A to point B. Our point A
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: to point B is from one store to the next.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: I'm just trying to turn it to Jose's.
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: You know, we're trying to revenue, you know, generate sales tax.
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: Bingo.
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: And so that's what ours is. So we have two
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: completely competitive things. And when you say safety, I mean,
• 46:10
  Speaker 7: we lived with no mediums for many, many years. Now,
• 46:13
  Speaker 7: is it safer? I don't know, man. I've lived here
• 46:17
  Speaker 7: my whole life.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Depends on what the definition of safe is.
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: I've never had a wreck in the middle of the
• 46:23
  Speaker 7: road there on Texas Avenue anywhere.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: Second thing.
• 46:29
  Speaker 6: I know it came up in your forum. I know
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: it's come up with a few other people. It has
• 46:34
  Speaker 6: to do with the council meetings and stacking them, double
• 46:37
  Speaker 6: stacking them, as opposed to having multiple meetings. Can you
• 46:40
  Speaker 6: explain the thought process and why you guys have lined
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: it up? currently the way it is.
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: Yeah absolutely i mean so our staff pays has a
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: lot of time just preparing for meetings right so when
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: you know every time you're meeting and we have a
• 46:54
  Speaker 7: lot of stuff going on right now so city brian
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: we always say we want to be efficient we want
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: to be the most efficient city you can possibly do
• 47:00
  Speaker 7: however that's going to happen we're going to continually work
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: towards those efficiencies well when you have a staff member
• 47:05
  Speaker 7: who is a key staff member who's doing whether they're
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: doing economic development whether they're doing you know site development
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: whether they're on the When people are trying to do
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: this stuff, they've got to stop, and they've got to
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: take two days out of their days to write up
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: all the analysis for all of the stuff that's happening.
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: And we have, you know, some meetings are just cleanup stuff,
• 47:25
  Speaker 7: and some meetings are actual we need to take to
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: the public. Those haven't really scaled up, and if you
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: look at what we've done, we've been able to combine
• 47:32
  Speaker 7: all that into one day, make it more efficient so
• 47:35
  Speaker 7: we can produce and we can turn around all those
• 47:37
  Speaker 7: projects way faster than they could ever be turned around before.
• 47:41
  Speaker 7: At the very first, we had a few people. We
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: have a few that still contend. But most people understand
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: that time is fast. So the difference between two weeks
• 47:51
  Speaker 7: and four weeks is not that amount of time. And
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: it gives people more time to prepare. It gives them
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: time to get their jobs fulfilled. And, you know, obviously
• 47:59
  Speaker 7: they get paid for that. But that efficiency converts back
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: to our customer. Now, we do what we call passionate
• 48:05
  Speaker 7: customer service at the City of Brown.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: And it is a great way to describe it.
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: And we truly work as one as one team. I mean,
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: you know, our city manager now, we have converted everything.
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: The things cities do is safety and services and the
• 48:22
  Speaker 7: services is has to take the forefront. So that's it's
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: always going to be so that services is going to.
• 48:27
  Speaker 6: So to summarize, though, what you what you're saying is
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: you have seen. You have seen that this leads to efficiency,
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: thusly allowing you to complete tasks on a faster timeline?
• 48:40
  Speaker 7: Way faster timeline because you see now our staff is
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: more relaxed because they're under the gun for everything. And
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: we also work with a very efficient staff. If you
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: look at the numbers that we run our city on
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: doing the same jobs that other cities like size do,
• 48:55
  Speaker 7: We're pretty dang efficient.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: That's what my question was. Yeah, if you can show
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  Speaker 5: it data-wise.
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  Speaker 7: Data-wise, absolutely we can show it. And, you know, every
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  Speaker 7: one of the council members, myself included, everyone's staff, you know,
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  Speaker 7: there is a phone number, there's an email, there's multiple
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  Speaker 7: ways to get a hold of us, to talk to us.
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  Speaker 7: And everybody knows I might not answer my phone that second,
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  Speaker 7: but I'll return the call or I'll return the text
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  Speaker 7: or I'll return. the emails. I'm not so good at it.
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  Speaker 7: I got 5,000 emails all the time. But I will,
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  Speaker 5: Okay. What else do you want to get to today?
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  Speaker 7: No, just, you know, we got.
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  Speaker 5: A nap. Seriously.
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  Speaker 7: Seriously. Beautiful weather. Everything's happening. We had a little bit
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, time to mow.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, man.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, so one last question before we get done with
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  Speaker 6: the show today.
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  Speaker 1: How are you.
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  Speaker 6: Decorating your porch or how are you decorating your house
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  Speaker 6: for Christmas?
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  Speaker 5: Do you do it yourself?
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  Speaker 1: For Christmas?
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  Speaker 5: For Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Because we still have the fall slash Halloween slash Thanksgiving stuff.
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  Speaker 6: I hesitated to bring this up now because it feels infringy,
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  Speaker 6: but I have a point to it.
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  Speaker 5: Are you a do-it-yourselfer or do you hire someone?
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  Speaker 1: I make my wife and children do it because, honestly,
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  Speaker 1: I just can't stand it. It's so inefficient. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to get out these decorations. I'm going to pack up
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  Speaker 1: these decorations, haul these to the attic, put these out.
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  Speaker 1: I hate that.
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  Speaker 5: Now, you're a man who loves Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: I do love my Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 5: Do you decorate a fallscape?
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: I don't, but the house is in the fallscape right now.
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  Speaker 5: But someone does it.
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  Speaker 6: Would you hire someone to do a fallscape at your home?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I did not hire people to put up
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  Speaker 1: Christmas lights for me. I might pay like an intern
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  Speaker 1: or somebody, a young person that I knew, but I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't get one of the big companies. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that I would do it for this just because
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  Speaker 1: I'm cheaper than I am angry about having to do it.
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  Speaker 6: What's the price on the fallscaping that we found this morning?
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: About $ 1, 000. $ 1, 000. But we talked about this, I think,
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  Speaker 1: last year in one of the early shows that I
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  Speaker 1: was on.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we talked about it a little bit
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  Speaker 1: a few weeks ago that there was a business that
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  Speaker 1: does this, and it is based here in Texas.
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  Speaker 26: It is.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is a Texas business. Here, check it.
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  Speaker 12: I lay some, like, as they come, but then I
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  Speaker 12: also will turn some on their sides. We will cross
• 54:09
  Speaker 12: over the 1,000 threshold today, actually. And those are 1,000
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  Speaker 12: different porches. Friends have been asking me, like, would you
• 54:17
  Speaker 12: do a pumpkin display like yours for my home? No,
• 54:20
  Speaker 12: I was not born with a love of pumpkins, but
• 54:24
  Speaker 12: I have loved them ever since I was a mom.
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  Speaker 6: She has 1,000 clients that are paying her, again, not
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: all the same, but upwards of 1,000 bucks.
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: They range from $ 350 to $ 1, 650. Her name is Heather Torres.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: She does more than 1,300 homes per year. 1,300 homes
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: a year, dog.
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: I don't want to do that math, but that's some money.
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: That is, I can't knock the hustle.
• 54:47
  Speaker 8: No.
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: I cannot knock the hustle, but that is, that is wild.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: Hey, you see a need, you fill it, you charge
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  Speaker 1: for it. Love to see it.
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  Speaker 5: Love to see it. All right, that's going to do
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  Speaker 5: it for today.
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