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The Infomaniacs: July 7, 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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Speaker 1: College Station City Council met last night to hear a
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Speaker 1: presentation of the proposed budget for fiscal year twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: The approximately five hundred and sixty seven million dollar budget
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Speaker 1: is broken down into two major categories and will go
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Speaker 1: mostly towards daily operations and maintenance.
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Speaker 2: Fifty percent of the general fund goes for public safety,
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Speaker 2: that is, police and fire, So essentially half of this
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Speaker 2: money is for police and fire.
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Speaker 1: That was Mary Ellen Leonard, director of Fiscal Services for
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Speaker 1: the City of College Station. She says a property tax
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Speaker 1: increase will be necessary to keep the budget balanced, but
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Speaker 1: the rate will be dependent on values determined by the
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Speaker 1: Brasss County Appraisal District. The average College Station resident will
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Speaker 1: also see an increase of a dollar eighty eight per
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Speaker 1: month on utility bills. Metered electric, water and wastewater services
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Speaker 1: will not increase, but roadway and drainage maintenance, and solid
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Speaker 1: waste services will see increases three and five percent, respectively.
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Speaker 1: The budget also includes adding six new police officers and
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Speaker 1: no increase in healthcare premiums for city employees. The city
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Speaker 1: council will host budget workshops July thirteenth through fifteenth in
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Speaker 1: advance of a public hearing on the budget scheduled for
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Speaker 1: July twenty third at six pm in Council Chambers. If approved,
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Speaker 1: the final tax rate and budget adoption will take place
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Speaker 1: on August twenty seventh, and the new fiscal year would
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Speaker 1: begin on October first, twenty twenty six. You might have
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Speaker 1: seen heavy smoke coming from near Highway six in Highway
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Speaker 1: twenty one in Brian. Yesterday afternoon. The Brian Fire Department
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Speaker 1: received several calls from people reporting heavy black smoke in
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Speaker 1: that area around three o'clock. Officers say an individual failed
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Speaker 1: to obtain apertmit to burn trash and that there was
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Speaker 1: no risk to people or property. A woman from Plantersville
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Speaker 1: is out of jail after stealing what she thought was
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Speaker 1: a Louis Vauton wallet. The victim went to the College
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Speaker 1: Station Police Department to report that her knockoff wallet containing
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Speaker 1: several credit cards, give cards, a child support debit card,
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Speaker 1: and one hundred fifty dollars cash, was stolen from her
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Speaker 1: shopping cart at the Walmart on Brothers Boulevard. The loss
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Speaker 1: prevention team in Walmart was able to retrieve surveillance video
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Speaker 1: that showed thirty nine year old Ashley Nicole White taking
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Speaker 1: the wallet. White was able to be identified because footage
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Speaker 1: from the parking lot showed her walking to her vehicle
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Speaker 1: and was able to capture her license plate number. She
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Speaker 1: was later arrested for theft of property of less than
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Speaker 1: twenty five hundred dollars with two or more previous convictions.
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Speaker 1: White posted bond in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: This was her ninth arrest since twenty seventeen. The Texas
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Speaker 1: Department of Transportation is asking for your input on future projects.
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Speaker 1: Text dot is developing its ten year transportation plan as
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Speaker 1: the population and economy in Texas continues to grow. Your
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Speaker 1: feedback will help prioritize funding over the next decade. Text
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Speaker 1: dot is developing its twenty twenty seven United Transportation Program
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Speaker 1: that includes more than ninety five billion dollars for projects
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Speaker 1: throughout the state. Executive Director Mark Williams says hearing from
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Speaker 1: the public is vital to helping connect to communities, jobs,
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Speaker 1: and family, and will enhance safety and quality of life.
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Speaker 1: Feedback will be accepted through August third at TxDOT dot gov.
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Speaker 1: A mcclennan County man landed himself in the Brass County
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Speaker 1: jail after he tried shoplifting from the Walmart on Briercrest Drive.
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Speaker 1: Brian police caught up with thirty five year old William
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Speaker 1: Paul Collins at the nearby Lows after he fled Walmart
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Speaker 1: without paying for a dozen or so items totaling two
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars, including a rechargeable headlamp, gummy bears, a chocolate bar, suspenders,
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Speaker 1: and deondorant. According to arrest records, Collins told officers he
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Speaker 1: was hungry but could not afford to pay for the merchandise.
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Speaker 1: He was arrested for theft or property less than twenty
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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars with two or more previous convictions, a
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Speaker 1: state jail felony. More news on the way at six
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Speaker 1: thirty or any time at WTAW dot com. I'm will
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Speaker 1: Welch sixteen twenty ninety four five wta.
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Speaker 3: W haven't even opened the forecast today? Have you not
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Speaker 3: going to learn about it together?
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Speaker 1: You want me to read it?
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Speaker 3: Give me your take on it.
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Speaker 1: Give me your take on it, Give me your take
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Speaker 1: all right? Are you ready? Go? Okay? So pulling up
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Speaker 1: the ten day forecast looks like a high of eighty No,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's Bend, Oregon. That's where I'm going at
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Speaker 1: the end of the week.
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Speaker 3: Will. We'll get into this later, but great, A giant
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Speaker 3: portion of my day right now is listening to Will
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Speaker 3: remind me that he's going to be in the Pacific
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Speaker 3: Northwest where the highs are maybe maybe touching eighty degrees.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, it'll be a little warmer than that. They're
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Speaker 1: in a heat wave. I think eighty seven will be
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Speaker 1: the high. Of course, the relative humidity will be thirty
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Speaker 1: seven percent if you want. The forecast for today going
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Speaker 1: to behind the mid ninety sunshine, overnight low in the
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Speaker 1: upper seventies, ninety six for our high tomorrow, hot and
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Speaker 1: humid for sure. So nothing change, nothing changing. I was
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Speaker 1: hopeful that's what you. Well, there there are some things
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Speaker 1: that you're looking at. Maybe on the w maybe, uh
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Speaker 1: I know, Okay, weather.
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Speaker 4: We'll have all the game scores and updates from the
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Speaker 4: FIFA World Cup games from last night in sports.
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Speaker 3: Poor dying in there is she? Yeah, what happened? Can
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Speaker 3: you can you speak?
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Speaker 1: How is?
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Speaker 3: How is speaking right now? On scale? When it give
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Speaker 3: me attend being this? This is awful and I don't
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Speaker 3: want to do it to like where.
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Speaker 1: We have Wow. Yeah, So I mean I checked on
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Speaker 1: her at about four this morning and she said she
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Speaker 1: was feeling a little bit better.
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Speaker 3: Oh no you have no Yeah, the post.
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Speaker 4: The deadcat up and kind of taking some stuff, and
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Speaker 4: I was like, man, I'm feeling good after that.
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Speaker 1: Oh we go.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, blame it on the heat. Everyone else. You can
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Speaker 3: blame anything on the heat.
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Speaker 1: Apparently you can, like chickens, chickens.
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Speaker 3: So this is crazy, like explained this.
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Speaker 1: Well, apparently over in France they've had some high temperatures
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Speaker 1: there and really high. Uh. I mean, I know that
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Speaker 1: one hundred and five degrees is pretty extraorg one hundred
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Speaker 1: and five is insane, Yeah, especially for France.
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Speaker 3: For yeah, for Europe. They don't know that. Their minds
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Speaker 3: can't comprehend that temperature. Yeah, they just can't. They're just
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Speaker 3: not prepared for it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we consider that stupid hot here, but we've
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Speaker 1: we've been there and done that, we lived through it. Apparently,
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Speaker 1: the record setting heat over there in June and France
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Speaker 1: killed between two and a half and three million chickens.
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Speaker 3: If you've known chickens to be particularly heat sensitive in
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Speaker 3: your experience.
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Speaker 1: In my experience, chickens from the moment they hatch are
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Speaker 1: looking for ways to die.
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Speaker 3: No, that is true, A lot of yeah. I just
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, I guess, just like anything,
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Speaker 3: if are our chickens super chickens because they're acclimated, I'm
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Speaker 3: sure climated? Is that the thing as I acclamation I
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Speaker 3: guess is what the and our.
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Speaker 1: Chicken facilities, you know, in a commercial setting, probably a
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Speaker 1: little bit better than than what they're a little bit
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Speaker 1: more prepared for it over there. But you know, all
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Speaker 1: my neighbors keep chickens. I know, they don't lay as
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Speaker 1: much during the summertime if it gets stupid hot. But
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Speaker 1: I haven't I haven't seen anybody, you know, piling chickens
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Speaker 1: up on the side of the road or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: Why Why aren't people demanding air conditioning over there?
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Speaker 1: Because they don't have guns?
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Speaker 3: It is a thing you could have. It's a thing
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Speaker 3: that exists there. You're how many people you realise how
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Speaker 3: many American HVAC people would be on a plane? Oh yeah,
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Speaker 3: in five we could send them help in five minutes.
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Speaker 3: They said, hey, boys, France is open. Dude, it would
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Speaker 3: be a rush.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you would.
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Speaker 3: Have that entire nation at seventy five degrees in about
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Speaker 3: a month.
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Speaker 1: Here's my big issue with all of this over there
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Speaker 1: in Europe. In France, they're pushing everybody to get rid
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Speaker 1: of air conditioning, right yeah, for one reason that they
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Speaker 1: you know, they have not enough power, right right, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 3: I'll admit, I'll admit it comes at a cost.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. But on the other hand, they're forcing people to
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Speaker 1: drive electric vehicles, which de mand a lot of power.
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Speaker 3: IBE. Again, seems like a simple solution, and I will
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Speaker 3: say this, when you have air conditioning, it makes it
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Speaker 3: that much easier to survive out in whatever the temperatures are.
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Speaker 3: You were seeing some people digging post holes the other day.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday, yesterday I left the house to go pick up
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Speaker 1: some stuff for the wife one of my neighbors, maybe
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Speaker 1: half mile from the house. I've met them before, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know them. Well, I look over on the
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Speaker 1: side of the road and they're repairing fence. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not talking about it looked like, you know, maybe a
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Speaker 1: car gone through it or something like that. It was
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Speaker 1: a stretch of a good fifty yards of fence that
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Speaker 1: they were putting back up, complete with digging postals with
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Speaker 1: a post old digger, not the good old hydraulic on
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Speaker 1: the back of the tractor hooking up to the PTO
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Speaker 1: and corkscrew that baby. No, No, they were using the
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Speaker 1: old school post old.
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Speaker 3: They were just driving it into the ground.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And so I one hundred and two degrees. Yeah, out
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Speaker 3: there just doing their thing. Man.
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Speaker 1: And when I drove by on the way out, I
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Speaker 1: saw what looked like a father and teenage older teenage son.
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Speaker 3: The worst assignment ever when the old man do some
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Speaker 3: workouts side. It took me back to my day's work
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Speaker 3: outside today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and on the way back there was a female
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Speaker 1: there and I could not tell if it was the
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Speaker 1: mom or maybe a sister, but they were all out
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Speaker 1: there and they were working. And props to you you
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Speaker 1: get out in this heat doing something that needs to
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Speaker 1: be done. All those people that I've done it, I'm
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Speaker 1: glad to be working and air conditioning for the most part. Now, yeah,
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Speaker 1: props to you, But I was just thinking to myself, man,
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Speaker 1: that kid's going to grow up to be something.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that kid's gonna be that get harder than
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Speaker 3: a two dollars steak. Yeah, tougher than a two dollars steak.
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Speaker 3: Mixed metaphors whatever. With that said, you know what makes
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Speaker 3: that possible?
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Speaker 1: What's that?
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Speaker 3: I was going to say, Ac, but that's not that's
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Speaker 3: not that's not going to change it. That's not going
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Speaker 3: to get a French guy to do that. No, No,
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Speaker 3: I don't care what you do. Info Mason.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't understand why they don't go this mac
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Speaker 1: over there. And you're right if if they said we
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Speaker 1: need international help the volunteers.
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Speaker 3: Well we would, we would save them. We would save them.
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Speaker 3: I mean, hell, can't just plug up a hoose into
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Speaker 3: a fan or something like that. You can make it
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Speaker 3: a missing.
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Speaker 1: Space swamp cooler out there.
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Speaker 3: There are solutions, we promise. Sixteen twenty ninety four to
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Speaker 3: five W T A W. Good morning the Info Maniacs
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Speaker 3: on a Tuesday, nine seven ninety six nine five sixteen
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Speaker 3: twenty is our phone number. Uh, this person the text
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Speaker 3: in that Bend, Oregon seems a little granola for will
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Speaker 3: it does will surprise you though, Man.
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Speaker 1: I've got a granola sign.
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Speaker 3: He does. He does have more of a granola sign
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Speaker 3: than you would imagine. They'll say great trails and coffee
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Speaker 3: shops and been absolutely yeah.
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Speaker 1: They do. Looking forward to it more than anything else.
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Speaker 1: I get to see a friend I haven't seen in
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Speaker 1: three years, in family I haven't seen in over ten.
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Speaker 3: Good night. Okay. We're talking about the the the lack
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Speaker 3: of air conditioning in Europe, and I guess again, any
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Speaker 3: option is an option. Yeah, that includes.
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Speaker 1: The fashion world is stepping up for this.
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Speaker 3: This is this is, this is silly.
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Speaker 1: There's a new line of luxury track suits. It debuted
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Speaker 1: in Paris at the fashion show, featuring built in air conditioning.
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Speaker 3: It looks like the nineties. Kids will get it. It
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Speaker 3: looks like you're in a Missy Elliott video. Do that
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Speaker 3: makes sense?
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Speaker 1: It does?
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Speaker 3: And I'm supposed to play this. Do we have a
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Speaker 3: you said there's a sound?
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Speaker 1: There's a yeah, Because I looked at the story this
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Speaker 1: morning and then I looked at I saw the video
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Speaker 1: in still form and it looked like some I mean
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Speaker 1: they have pants and they have the full track suit.
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Speaker 3: He's walking down looking like legitimately.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like the boy in the bubble, But it
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Speaker 1: sounds like you're wearing a leaf float.
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Speaker 3: That's the noise. Yeah, get out, get out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. If they could only make them chicken size, they
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Speaker 1: would solve a problem.
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Speaker 3: We'd be good to go.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Day one, all right? Day today is seven July seventy seven.
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Speaker 3: Are you celebrating something today?
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Speaker 1: You should be.
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Speaker 3: If you have anything you watch, shout out text to
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Speaker 3: us Max, I'm nine six nine five sixteen twenty Riley
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Speaker 3: as best you can do. We have any celebratable days today?
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Speaker 4: Yes, it is World Chocolate Day. Love Chocolate is Father
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Speaker 4: Daughter take a Walk Together Day, Global Forgiveness Day, National
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Speaker 4: Dive Bar Day. If I was feeling better, I would
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Speaker 4: definitely partake in that.
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Speaker 3: Many many people do.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I do. I missed pizza.
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Speaker 3: I saw. There's a story that's kind of floating around
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Speaker 3: about how the amount of bars has decreased, some some dramatic.
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Speaker 1: It's a stupid amount like that.
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Speaker 3: You don't you don't have and you certainly don't have.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned p tar, you don't have that anymore. In
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Speaker 3: a lot of places you might have a bar, but
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Speaker 3: you don't have that that grimy looks like it's and
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Speaker 3: I mean, this is not a knock on piza, you
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Speaker 3: know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, stick to the floor a little bit.
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Speaker 3: It's scary. You walk in and pizar. You don't mean
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Speaker 3: it's scary. You didn't know what was going to happen.
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Speaker 3: It was a great bar.
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Speaker 1: It was a fantastic break bar.
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Speaker 3: But it is kind of a bummer that a lot
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Speaker 3: of the dive spots are just the people are like,
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Speaker 3: there's no money in it, you can't do it.
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Speaker 1: And real estate gets high, property taxes get high margin's
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Speaker 1: DC the whole thing all that.
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Speaker 4: It's also National Macaroni Day. I love macaroni. So that
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Speaker 4: also National Strawberry Sunday Day. So will you may have
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Speaker 4: to break your ice cream?
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Speaker 1: No, nope, nope, nope, not gonna do it.
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Speaker 4: And lastly, tell the Truth Day. It encourages everyone to
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Speaker 4: be honest for twenty four.
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Speaker 1: Whole I want that, Yeah, you're gonna want that. I
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Speaker 1: just don't know.
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Speaker 3: You don't you don't want that.
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Speaker 1: You don't have to say anything. You just keep your
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Speaker 1: mouth shut. People will will realize that you're a little
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Speaker 1: smarter than that. I just want to point out the
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Speaker 1: fact that Riley, I'm terribly sorry that you're feeling bad,
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Speaker 1: but your voice sounds, I say, a little bit more
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Speaker 1: mature at this point in time. Oh yeah, you're getting
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Speaker 1: into more radio voice there say.
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Speaker 3: People say that it's like, oh, well, your radio voice
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Speaker 3: is so good. Yeah, but it's it feels like I'm
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Speaker 3: being stabbed in the throat.
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Speaker 1: There's that. We got on a bird Birthday's Ringo Star
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Speaker 1: is eighty six years old. Lord yeah, and kicking off
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Speaker 1: a tour. By the way, just announce Eve Houston is
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Speaker 1: thirty five. This is Bono's daughter. I had no idea
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Speaker 1: who she was.
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Speaker 2: Hu.
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Speaker 1: She's Daniel's girlfriend Jane in Disclosure Day made Marion and
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Speaker 1: Jamie Fox's Robin Hood and a nurse named Lucy on
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Speaker 1: the nick Hotly. There you go. She's done some things.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, she's done some work.
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Speaker 1: Michelle Kwan is forty six, figure skater Olympic silver medallist,
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Speaker 1: Chres Summer is fifty seven. Freddy in a different world.
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Speaker 1: She's mostly been doing voice acting for cartoons. She was
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Speaker 1: the voice of Penny on Inspector Gadget My Favorite Cartoons
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Speaker 1: and several others. Georgia Fox is fifty eight. She's Sarah
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Speaker 1: on CSI. Jim Gaffigan is sixty guys. Funny Billy Campbell
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Speaker 1: sixty seven years old, leader of the CDC team sent
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Speaker 1: to the Arctic to control the outbreak on Sci Fi's Helix.
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Speaker 1: But apparently he was also the rocketeer. I remember the rocket, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I remember the day.
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Speaker 3: Underrated.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember him, Doc Severn said, is ninety nine,
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Speaker 1: of course, the band leader on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.
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Speaker 1: Shelley Duvall was born on this date in nineteen forty nine,
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Speaker 1: Jack Nicholson's wife in the Shining and of coross Olive
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Speaker 1: Oil and Sell Revall.
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Speaker 3: I just passed away. She was living out in burn
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Speaker 3: It really, I'm not kidding. She would have been for
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Speaker 3: like ten years. Just decided she was going to go
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Speaker 3: to the Texas Hill Country. No one knew about it.
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Speaker 3: I certainly didn't know. The only reason when she passed
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Speaker 3: it was in Burnett's.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 3: Crazy? Never know who your neighbors are?
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Speaker 1: Man Satchel Paige was born on this day in nineteen
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Speaker 1: oh six. The Hall of Fame Pitcher and very wise man.
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Speaker 1: He was the one who once said, work like you
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Speaker 1: don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt,
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Speaker 1: danced like nobody's watching, and age is a question of
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Speaker 1: mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter legend.
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Speaker 3: All right, Good morning guys, sixteen twenty ninety four to
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Speaker 3: five WTAW were the infomaniacs, all right, most of the
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Speaker 3: Sinney hinty ninety six Heatondeck's values of one hundred and
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Speaker 3: four or hotter. But tonight just appearing on my little
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Speaker 3: thing over here, something which I'm not going to say,
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Speaker 3: might be a twenty percent chance of something.
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Speaker 1: Twenty percent chance is something something?
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Speaker 3: Is that a breeze? Is that a meteor? I don't know,
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Speaker 3: twenty percent chance we don't find out tomorrow in your
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Speaker 3: ninety seven Uh and the hot hot highs are going
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Speaker 3: to be for a minute, but uh yeah, we'll see
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW news room. I'm will Welch
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Speaker 1: the College Station City council met for just over thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes Monday night to hear a presentation of the proposed
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Speaker 1: budget for fiscal year twenty twenty seven. The approximately five
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Speaker 1: hundred and sixty seven million dollar budget is broken down
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Speaker 1: into two major categories, three hundred ninety five million for
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Speaker 1: daily operation and maintenance and one hundred eighty two million
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Speaker 1: dollars for capital improvements. One hundred and sixty nine million
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Speaker 1: will go towards new projects, including a new public works facility,
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Speaker 1: improvements in the Northgate Entertainment district, Midtown, including Phase two
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Speaker 1: of Texas Independence Park, and neighborhood parks. Mary Ellen Leonard,
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Speaker 1: director of fiscal Services for the City of College Station,
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Speaker 1: made the presentation to the council and says a property
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Speaker 1: tax increase will be required, but the exact rate is
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Speaker 1: dependent on the Brass County Appraisal District's values, which have
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Speaker 1: yet to be determined. Leonard says there will be no
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Speaker 1: rate increase for water this year, but that is likely
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Speaker 1: to change in the future.
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Speaker 2: We do not believe that we need to increase the
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Speaker 2: water rates right now because we don't have a need
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Speaker 2: to have to make that debt payment. We do believe
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Speaker 2: that based on the amount of debt that is needed
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Speaker 2: to build these water wells, that we will have to
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Speaker 2: increase the rates either in f y twenty eight or
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Speaker 2: f y twenty nine.
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Speaker 1: While water, wastewater and metered electric won't increase, roadway and drainage,
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Speaker 1: maintenance and solid waste fees will increase. It is estimated
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Speaker 1: that residents will see an increase of about eight dollars
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Speaker 1: eighty eight per month. The budget added six new police officers,
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Speaker 1: a cost of living adjustment for public safety personnel of
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Speaker 1: three percent, and no increase in healthcare premiums for city employees.
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Speaker 1: Budget workshops will take place next week in advance of
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Speaker 1: the public hearing scheduled for Thursday, July twenty third at
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Speaker 1: six pm in Council chambers. Brian Fire Department responded to
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Speaker 1: several calls from people reporting heavy plumes of smoke to
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Speaker 1: the north and east of Highway six in Highway twenty
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Speaker 1: one around three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Officials say an individual
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Speaker 1: failed to obtain a permit to burn trash and that
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Speaker 1: there was no risk to people or property. A woman
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Speaker 1: from Plantersville is out of jail after stealing what she
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Speaker 1: thought was a Louis Vuitton wallet. The victim went to
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Speaker 1: the College Station Police department to report that her knockoff
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Speaker 1: wallet containing several credit cards, gift cards, a child support
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Speaker 1: debit card, and one hundred fifty dollars AC cash, was
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Speaker 1: stolen from her shopping cart at the Walmart on Brothers Boulevard.
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Speaker 1: The lost prevention team in Walmart was able to retrieve
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Speaker 1: surveillance video that showed thirty nine year old Ashley Nicole
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Speaker 1: White taking the wallet. White was able to be identified
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Speaker 1: because footage from the parking lot showed her walking to
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Speaker 1: her vehicle and was able to capture her license plate number.
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Speaker 1: She was later arrested for theft of property of less
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Speaker 1: than twenty five hundred dollars with two or more previous convictions.
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Speaker 1: White posted bond in the amount of fifteen thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: This was her ninth arrest since twenty seventeen. The Texas
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Speaker 1: Department of Transportation is asking for your input on future projects.
20:36
Speaker 1: Tex DOT is developing its ten year transportation plan. As
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Speaker 1: the population in economy and Texas continues to grow. Your
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Speaker 1: feedback will help prioritize funding over the next decade. Tex
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Speaker 1: DOT is developing its twenty twenty seven unified Transportation program
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Speaker 1: that includes more than ninety five billion dollars for projects
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Speaker 1: throughout the state. Executive Director Mark Williams says hearing from
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Speaker 1: the public is vital to helping connect to commune of
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Speaker 1: these jobs at family and will enhance safety and quality
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Speaker 1: of life. Feedback will be accepted through August third at
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Speaker 1: TxDOT dot gov. A mcclennan County man landed himself in
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Speaker 1: the Brasses County jail after he tried shoplifting from Walmart
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Speaker 1: on Briarcrest Drive. Brian police caught up with thirty five
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Speaker 1: year old William Paul Collins at the nearby Lows after
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Speaker 1: he fled Walmart without paying for a dozen or so
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Speaker 1: items totaling two hundred dollars, including a rechargeable headlamp, gummy bears,
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Speaker 1: a chocolate bar, suspenders, and deodorant. According to arrest records,
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Speaker 1: Collins told officers he was hungry but could not afford
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Speaker 1: to pay for the merchandise. He was arrested for a
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Speaker 1: theft of property less than twenty five hundred dollars with
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Speaker 1: two or more previous convictions, a state jail felony. More
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Speaker 3: Now, Riley, what can we do? Guys. Let's let's let's pause,
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Speaker 3: have ourselves emost selves a little team meeting. Okay that
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Speaker 3: includes all of you out there. Suddle up, everybody, nine seven,
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Speaker 3: nine six nine five sixteen twenty Uh, I'm gonna relay
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Speaker 3: your symptoms as best I can go for it? So
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Speaker 3: did it'll save your voice? Crazy, sore throat okay, swollen tonsils,
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Speaker 3: things like that voice is going away? What should Riley
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Speaker 3: do at this point? Like are there remedies either home
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Speaker 3: or or not? Like what's your advice to try to
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Speaker 3: And you can tell you you're a you're an old
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Speaker 3: school radio salt with and you've got the you've got
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Speaker 3: the golden pipes. I never had a voice like that.
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Speaker 3: How what what would you recommend?
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Speaker 1: So Riley, first of all, are you do you think
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Speaker 1: you're running any fever at all?
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Speaker 4: I went to the doctor yesterday and they ruled out
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Speaker 4: everything like sickness wise, they think it's just really bad allergies.
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Speaker 1: So it is allergies. So first of all, you've got
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Speaker 1: to stem the tide of the allergies. You need to
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Speaker 1: take allegra, plain allegra. And you need to get some flonaise.
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Speaker 5: Okay, oh yeah, yeahs yea, it burns, it does, it'll
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Speaker 5: do the trick right, and and you don't you know
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Speaker 5: you use that once a day whatever.
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Speaker 1: So those two things, as far as the symptoms are
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Speaker 1: right now, there is nothing better than a hot toddy. However,
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Speaker 1: do we have any bourbon up here, that's the issue.
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Speaker 1: Not sure. There were times, there was times where radio
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Speaker 1: stations will low it.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. I could tell you, I could tell you five
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Speaker 3: or six desks where we could find ourselves a nice bottle.
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Speaker 1: And in my previous radio career, my desk would have
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Speaker 1: been one of them. It would. However, hell, my desk
24:28
Speaker 1: was one of them. However that that that doesn't exist anymore,
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Speaker 1: and I no longer carry a bottle in my tool
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Speaker 1: truck of my in my toolbox of my truck. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and it's not a good idea. The FCC frowns if
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Speaker 1: you're drinking while live on there.
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Speaker 3: But no, no, only if you're pushing the buttons. I thought,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't hold me to this, and
24:51
Speaker 3: Ben feel free to call in. He would know more
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Speaker 3: than we do. I think it's only I think I'm
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Speaker 3: the only one that has to be sober. I think
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Speaker 3: you can you can go ham as long as you're
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Speaker 3: not on.
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Speaker 1: Just again, you don't say.
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Speaker 3: Continue, I didn't.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, so hot tea and honey works at which
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Speaker 1: I have a cup of every morning just as a
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Speaker 1: preventative thing, and I really enjoy it.
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Speaker 2: Uh.
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Speaker 1: There are some gargles. You can use.
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Speaker 3: Warm water with salts, and several people.
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Speaker 1: Of that and Charlie both texted that in and they
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Speaker 1: are very wise people. So those are a couple of
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Speaker 1: things that I would try. I do know that there
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Speaker 1: are some somebody somewhere in some room one of the
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Speaker 1: studios has a tea bag of throat coat and.
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Speaker 3: All that's elite tea.
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Speaker 1: Do you see I don't see it.
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Speaker 4: In that cabinet besides you, I used to sit by it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, cabinet, Yeah, there's I did not know that in there.
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Speaker 1: I'll take a look. I'll take a look, all right.
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Speaker 3: Okay, sore and again, any any pointers you have? Riley,
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Speaker 3: who is who was in the trenches?
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Speaker 4: Oh man, it's come. It's crazy. It sounds worse when
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Speaker 4: I don't talk for like a long pitch, like we
26:05
Speaker 4: had our break right there and I wasn't talking, and
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Speaker 4: then I tried to come back.
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Speaker 3: And many and again it's allergy seasons happens, it does.
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Speaker 3: We will, we will all try to help each other. Also.
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Speaker 3: Some other pointers, coloriseptic spray, the texting. Several times you
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Speaker 3: try that. I never found that.
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Speaker 1: I don't like the numbing that that does because it
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Speaker 1: gets on your tongue and then you don't talk well,
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Speaker 1: you talk like you just got done with the dentist
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Speaker 1: and getting a filling.
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Speaker 3: Frank says, one shot of whiskey with lemon juice and
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Speaker 3: one bite of the oyster ice.
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Speaker 1: Brother, Frank, that is cure right there. That'll get you there, man.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember there was one that I used to do.
26:42
Speaker 3: That was you take a you take a like a
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Speaker 3: teaspoon of honey. Honey, hack it with cayenne pepper. You
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Speaker 3: just you just.
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Speaker 1: Don't know about them.
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Speaker 3: Just basically coat that thing until it looks like a
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Speaker 3: like a little candy, and then you eat that and
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Speaker 3: then you chase it with basically a shot of image juice.
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Speaker 3: And that's supposed to I don't know if that is
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Speaker 3: I have a voice, or she's gonna be dead by
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Speaker 3: the Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think that's one of those things that I designed
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Speaker 1: to distract you from what's really going on, you know.
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Speaker 3: Will, Let's talk about your vacation. Okay, how about you
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Speaker 3: strike me as a man who prepares for a vacation.
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Speaker 1: I do prepare for a vacation. I've been in that
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Speaker 1: My brain is now ticking from about yesterday until I
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Speaker 1: get at my gate at the airport, I will be
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Speaker 1: a nervous wreck on the inside.
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Speaker 3: Do you know why that is? I don't know, which
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Speaker 3: is not a negative, but I suspect it's because of
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Speaker 3: lists like this eight things to do twenty four hours
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Speaker 3: before you go on vacation. I'm going to run a
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Speaker 3: few of these by you, Okay. Number one, clean up
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Speaker 3: both at home and at your desk at work. It's
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Speaker 3: a lot nicer if you don't have to come back
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Speaker 3: to a mess.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't really have a desk, and I pick
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Speaker 1: up the studio every day.
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Speaker 3: Set up your out of office message. I hate those.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I used to do it in the corporate world,
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Speaker 1: in the state world.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, they make you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The thing is, no one really knows what to put
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Speaker 3: in there. Less is more. I'm gone, Yeah, I'm back
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Speaker 3: on this day.
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Speaker 1: I don't need to hear.
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Speaker 3: I don't need to hear a rundown the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: That's obnoxious. Nothing worse than that. I refuse to do it.
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Speaker 3: Double check all your reservations like flight times in hotel days.
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Speaker 1: I tried to do this. We want to get into
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Speaker 1: this now or later we.
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Speaker 3: Might Yeah, so let's get into it now, because I've
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Speaker 3: never heard of anything. So you this is one that
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Speaker 3: you did yesterday.
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Speaker 1: I reached out to a little late, but I was
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Speaker 1: going through my checklist. I was like, okay, I forgot
28:44
Speaker 1: to secure parking there in Austin bergstrom R. So I
28:47
Speaker 1: reached out on the website, which the last time we
28:50
Speaker 1: flew out of there, which was the first time in forever,
28:52
Speaker 1: I got online got a parking spot. It was fairly easy. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: certainly easier than getting out in and out of Houston
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Speaker 1: right now. So I go on the website, I look
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Speaker 1: at it, I try to book, and it won't let
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Speaker 1: me book online, and it says they're not accepting reservations
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Speaker 1: between May thirty first and August seth.
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Speaker 3: What is that about? So I called the parking lot
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Speaker 3: at the airport.
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Speaker 1: Because I'm an old man, I was like, well, I'm
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Speaker 1: going to call up and see what's going on. Right,
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Speaker 1: they say this, please be advised that the reservation blackout
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Speaker 1: period is in effect. They black out the capability of
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Speaker 1: making a reservation at the airport parking during this time.
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Speaker 1: He said, during busy travel. Well, isn't that the time
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Speaker 1: that you want to make credit?
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Speaker 3: That's exactly what it's important. Yes, if it's busy, you'd
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Speaker 3: want reservations.
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Speaker 1: They did say that the website is live so that
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Speaker 1: if you look at it, and like when I show
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Speaker 1: up at three o'clock on Thursday morning, when you look
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Speaker 1: at it, it will tell you what garages have vacancy.
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Speaker 3: Have you ever considered I think that I kind of
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Speaker 3: envy the way you're very prepared. I'm not. But I
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Speaker 3: also don't get stressed when I travel because I'm king
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Speaker 3: wing it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Have you ever tried that.
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be easier for me because I'm by myself
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Speaker 1: this time. Yeah, And anything that I make a bad
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Speaker 1: decision on it's only going to affect to me whatever,
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Speaker 1: So I think it'll be fine. Really, it's just for me.
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Speaker 1: It's just getting to the airport. If I can just
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Speaker 1: get to the airport and get through security and get
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Speaker 1: to my gate, I will chill at that moment in
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Speaker 1: time there it is, and then I won't have many cares.
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Speaker 3: It be a lot easier if you had parking.
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Speaker 1: Is the airport bar open at four in the morning,
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Speaker 1: I can I can a good question.
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Speaker 4: Good morning, I'm Riley Flirk you good morning sports update
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Speaker 4: on sixteen, twenty ninety four five WTA W and MLB.
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Speaker 4: Last night, Washington Nationals James Woods Grand Slam helped power
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Speaker 4: the Nationals to a twelve to eleven win over the
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Speaker 4: Houston Astros. The Kansas City Royals slugged four homers, tagged
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Speaker 4: Philadelphia Phillies Ace Christopher Sanchez for a career worst nine
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Speaker 4: earned runs in fifteen to one victory. Cristiano Ronaldo's World
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Speaker 4: Cup career ended as Spain beat Portugal one to zero
31:19
Speaker 4: and the United States lost four to one to Belgium
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Speaker 4: in last night's game. In NHL news, Alex Obechkin, the
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Speaker 4: NHL's career leader in goals, has decided to return for
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Speaker 4: the twenty twenty six twenty twenty seven season. For his
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Speaker 4: twenty second season with the Washington Capitals, the Capitals announced
31:38
Speaker 4: that Obuchkin has signed a one year contract with an
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Speaker 4: average annual of four point twenty five million. Obechkin's new
31:45
Speaker 4: deal carries a one million base salary and a three
31:48
Speaker 4: point twenty five million signing bonus. Obechkin, who led the
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Speaker 4: Capitals to the Stanley Cup in twenty eighteen, had said
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Speaker 4: he would decide his future this offseason after Consulting with
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Speaker 4: his fan and the Capital's Texas A and M Letterman's Association,
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Speaker 4: announced that the university's Athletic Hall of Fame class of
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Speaker 4: twenty twenty six will be honoring two Hall of Fame
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Speaker 4: and Lifetime Achievement recognitions. Today, we will be honoring the
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Speaker 4: last individual that earned this Hall of Fame status, which
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Speaker 4: is reserved for individuals who have gone above and beyond
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Speaker 4: in contributions and supports of athletic programs at Texas A
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Speaker 4: and M. The Lifetime Achievement recognizes letter winners who after
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Speaker 4: graduation have gone on to gain promise through his or
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Speaker 4: her efforts in industry, technology, athletics, the professionals, or other
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Speaker 4: worthy endeavors. The next athlete we will be highlighting is
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Speaker 4: Kelly Crosscall. Kelly lettered for Texas A and M women's
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Speaker 4: basketball team from nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty three
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Speaker 4: and served as a team captain during the nineteen eighty
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Speaker 4: two to nineteen eighty three campaign. The Corpus Christie native
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Speaker 4: is a pioneer of the game, having gained nearly thirty
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Speaker 4: years of experience in professional basketball and the WNBA and NBA.
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Speaker 4: Kelly began her career after graduating with her bachelor's degree
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Speaker 4: in journalism from Texas A and M by joining her
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Speaker 4: alma mater as the assistant Athletic director for Women's Sports
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Speaker 4: and Marketing from nineteen eighty three to nineteen ninety. She
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Speaker 4: then joined the Southwest Conference as the assistant Commissioner. In
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Speaker 4: nineteen eighty seven, Kelly began her career in pro hoops,
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Speaker 4: joining the WNBA's League office as the director of Operations,
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Speaker 4: where she held that position till two thousand. At the
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Speaker 4: turn of the century, she became the Indian Fever's first
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Speaker 4: ever general manager and was promoted to president in twenty twelve.
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Speaker 4: With the Fever, Kelly led the team to thirteen WNBA
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Speaker 4: playoff appearances, three Eastern Conference Championships, and a twenty twelve
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Speaker 4: w NBA title. In twenty nineteen, Kelly became one of
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Speaker 4: the first women to hold a front office role in
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Speaker 4: the NBA franchise when she was hired as assistant general
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Speaker 4: manager of the Indiana Pacers. After six years with the Pacers,
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Speaker 4: she returned to fill the role of Presents of the
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Speaker 4: Indiana Fever in twenty twenty five, where she currently works.
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Speaker 4: Kelly is a guardian of the game, and she's become
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Speaker 4: a beacon of hope for young women hoping to break
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Speaker 4: into the industry. Her hard work and commitment to the
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Speaker 4: game of basketball will last forever and will always be remembered.
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Speaker 4: That's your morning sports update on sixteen, twenty ninety four
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Speaker 4: five WTAW. I'm Riley Flerkey.
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Speaker 3: Sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW. Good morning, Hot, Hot, hot,
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Speaker 3: mid nineties, maybe a little warmer than that, and then
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