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The Infomaniacs: October 1st 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Texas
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  Speaker 1: A & M 150 festivities are slated to kick off tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but because of inclement weather, the sesquicentennial opening ceremony will
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  Speaker 1: move indoors. It will now take place in Rudder Auditorium.
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  Speaker 1: The ceremony starts at 4 p.m. on Friday. Free parking
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  Speaker 1: is available in the West Campus Garage. Shuttles will run
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  Speaker 1: from the garage to Rudder starting at 3 p.m. As
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  Speaker 1: of right now, the 9 p.m. yell practice and drone
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  Speaker 1: show is still on as scheduled. Robb Elementary School is
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  Speaker 1: set to become a permanent memorial following the 2022 mass shooting.
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  Speaker 1: Fox's Kristen Goodwin has more.
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  Speaker 2: The Robb Elementary School campus has remained closed since the
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  Speaker 2: May 24, 2022 shooting that killed 19 students and two teachers.
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  Speaker 2: During a recent meeting, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District
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  Speaker 2: revealed it's working to transfer the campus to the city
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  Speaker 2: of Uvalde, clearing the way for a permanent memorial and
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  Speaker 2: community park. The city plans to create a committee to
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  Speaker 2: help design the memorial with input from families and the community.
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  Speaker 2: The district not sharing details, including on a timeline of
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  Speaker 2: when the memorial could be completed. But last year, state
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  Speaker 2: lawmakers set aside $ 10 million for the project. Kristen Goodwin,
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  Speaker 2: Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: The former Uvalde CISD Police Chief Pete Ariando is awaiting
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  Speaker 1: a February trial on child endangerment charges connected to the
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement response to the shooting. Earlier this year, former
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  Speaker 1: Uvalde CISD Officer Adrian Gonzalez was acquitted of related charges.
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  Speaker 1: GOP Senate hopeful Ken Paxton is caught on tape blaming
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  Speaker 1: President Trump's midterm convention in Dallas for hurting his campaign numbers.
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  Speaker 3: We're now hearing the secretly taped audio from a Ken
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  Speaker 3: Paxton fundraiser in Washington, D.C. last Thursday. Paxton can be
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  Speaker 3: heard responding to a moderator asking him if President Trump
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  Speaker 3: has been a drag on his campaign. To be honest
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  Speaker 3: with you, the numbers in Texas, when we did that convention,
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  Speaker 3: after it was found our numbers, everybody's had to be off.
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  Speaker 3: He said, to be honest with you, the numbers when
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  Speaker 3: we did that convention, it dropped our numbers. Everybody's numbers dropped.
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  Speaker 3: Rice University political scientist Mark Jones says one major error is.
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  Speaker 4: Paxton still desperately needs Trump's super PAC to come in
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  Speaker 4: and spend much more than it already has. This could
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  Speaker 4: potentially antagonize the president.
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  Speaker 3: Also that the comments could make President Trump's trip to
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  Speaker 3: Denton on Thursday a much more awkward experience for Paxton.
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  Speaker 3: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The Texas power grid has survived the summer with no problems.
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  Speaker 4: Experts say a big reason we did not see any
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  Speaker 4: rolling outages is due to a rise in battery storage.
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  Speaker 4: The technology is also being eyed by data center developers.
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  Speaker 4: Texas energy policy analyst Giuliana Ghani says that batteries are
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  Speaker 4: cheaper than building a natural gas plant.
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  Speaker 2: So I think the economics do pencil out for battery investment,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why they're doing it.
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  Speaker 4: Since 2023, the amount of battery storage on the state
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  Speaker 4: and provide power as the sun sets. In San Antonio,
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  Speaker 4: Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news ahead at 7.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: too radical to be governor of Texas. Luckily, Governor Greg
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  Speaker 15: We are the Infomaniacs. And by the way, we haven't
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  Speaker 15: mentioned this in a minute. We are on a quest
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  Speaker 15: for pictures of moms, and there's a reason why. Yesterday
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  Speaker 15: was the community homecoming celebration, which you attended.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was all, yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Gave you the chance to see some moms, including the
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  Speaker 15: mom of your own daughter.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Which was.
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  Speaker 15: I will post this at some point to WTAW as
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  Speaker 15: a social so you guys can have a point of reference.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, one, so you can see it, and two,
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  Speaker 1: so you can appreciate the fine work of the person
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  Speaker 1: who created it.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, Queen Mum did a killer job. Now, that said,
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  Speaker 15: this is not the first one. I started seeing these
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  Speaker 15: a few weeks ago, and I was like, well, this
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  Speaker 15: just has to be an outlier. Apparently, it's not an outlier.
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  Speaker 15: These things are now taller than your kids and wider
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  Speaker 15: than your kids.
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  Speaker 1: They need heavy equipment to move.
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  Speaker 14: It's a photo wall that they're building. For the kids.
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  Speaker 15: And so I was remembering that, again, I think what
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  Speaker 15: Will mentioned, when you were a kid, they were a
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  Speaker 15: little bit over the top.
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  Speaker 14: You had a dad who was a plant genius.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: So that makes that checks. Ours were, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But they were just a flower mounted on something and it.
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  Speaker 14: Had some streamers. Yeah, that was it.
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  Speaker 15: And we thought those were like over the top. But
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  Speaker 15: we wanted to compare and contrast. So our way of
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  Speaker 15: doing that is going to be you guys who... If
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  Speaker 15: you happen to have pictures of moms that you had
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  Speaker 15: back in the day, please send them to us.
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  Speaker 14: Go through your phone. Send them to us.
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  Speaker 1: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 15: And for those of you high school age kids today,
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  Speaker 15: we want to see pictures of what y'all are cooking
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  Speaker 15: right now.
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  Speaker 14: Show them off. Show them off.
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  Speaker 15: And again, it is a point of pride. We all
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  Speaker 15: know that it's Texas and homecoming season.
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  Speaker 14: But this is. Nuts. This is nuts what.
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  Speaker 1: Y'all are coming up with. Proving the point once again
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  Speaker 1: that things are always bigger in Texas. Bigger.
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  Speaker 14: Good night.
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  Speaker 15: So, yes, and I will reward one person that submits
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  Speaker 14: Guess what is new again, Will?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 14: McDonald's.
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  Speaker 1: McDonald's is new again?
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  Speaker 15: Well, McDonald's is kind of like eggs. You never know
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  Speaker 15: whether they're on their way out or coming back again
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  Speaker 15: is the biggest thing ever. And it seems like they
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  Speaker 15: might be coming back again.
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  Speaker 1: I never lost eggs.
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  Speaker 15: They top a list of brand preferential behavior. for the
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  Speaker 15: youth college students prefer McDonald's over any other fast food restaurant.
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  Speaker 15: And yes, number two, right at the top of the
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  Speaker 15: list under McDonald's is the Chick-fil-A. McDonald's beat out Chick-fil-A
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  Speaker 15: in a preferential contest.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's look at this here. First of all, geographically speaking,
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  Speaker 1: just looking at our own big school over there, McDonald's
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  Speaker 1: has it effectively surrounded.
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  Speaker 14: Uh, so let me, let me, uh, think this through.
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  Speaker 16: Yes.
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  Speaker 14: One on university drive around North.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: One on Welburn, Welburn, the Welburn McDonald's, which is right
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  Speaker 15: across like George Bush and Welburn.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Then there's the other ones on Texas Avenue, obviously. You
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  Speaker 15: can't escape it.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And Chick-fil-A has, number one, fewer locations, and number two, much,
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  Speaker 1: much further away. They might have one on campus these days, though.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about those things. And the other point
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  Speaker 1: of this is why these two things are probably the
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  Speaker 1: most popular in fast food is the price point. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a college kid and you can spend money on
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  Speaker 1: a 12-er of cold snacks, so you spend your money
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  Speaker 1: there and then you've got a little bit of pocket
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  Speaker 1: change left, so I'm going to go to Mickey D's.
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  Speaker 15: You know what I'd love to know is that the
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  Speaker 15: McDonald's on University that's right by the towers, all of
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  Speaker 15: the high-rises, How much money does that McDonald's make?
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  Speaker 14: Because that seems like.
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  Speaker 1: I believe, if I'm not mistaken, I heard this.
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  Speaker 14: That has to be one of the biggest.
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  Speaker 1: I heard it was one of the biggest in the country.
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  Speaker 15: Because, again, you've got a whole skyline of college students,
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  Speaker 15: and all they have to do is.
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  Speaker 14: take the elevator down to the CVS.
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  Speaker 15: To buy their beer and then walk across the parking
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  Speaker 15: lot to McDonald's to get dinner.
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  Speaker 1: Those who aren't door dashing it.
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  Speaker 14: That is printing money.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 14: And you're right.
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  Speaker 15: You could also door dash your way out of this jam.
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  Speaker 14: Uh, but yeah, also doing surprisingly well.
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  Speaker 1: Wendy's. You know what? I used to like Wendy's a
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  Speaker 1: lot and I don't dislike it now. I just haven't
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  Speaker 1: been in decades.
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  Speaker 15: I can't, I, I kind of swore off Wendy's because
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  Speaker 15: Wendy's is one of those places that decided they wanted
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  Speaker 15: to try at some point programmatic pricing where they were like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 15: If it's rush hour, maybe.
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  Speaker 14: A burger costs a buck more. And I was like,
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  Speaker 14: never again.
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  Speaker 1: Never again. That's a good reason to write them off.
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  Speaker 14: But before that, I don't think I ever had a
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  Speaker 14: good experience.
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  Speaker 18: Really?
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  Speaker 14: I mean, it had been years going back. Back in
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  Speaker 14: the day, yeah, it was great. I thought they were good.
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  Speaker 15: They always seemed mad at me for the audacity of
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  Speaker 15: ordering food at a Wendy's.
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  Speaker 11: Really?
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  Speaker 15: Like, I'd pull up for a Baconator, and you'd get
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  Speaker 15: to the window, and they'd just look at.
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  Speaker 14: You like you'd just kicked their dog. I was like,
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  Speaker 14: what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You have a lot of problems with restaurants.
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  Speaker 14: I'm a choosy man.
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  Speaker 1: I was talking to my wife about Popeye's roulette last night.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, Popeye's, by the way, top five in satisfaction scores.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the deal, Tucker. My wife would like to
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  Speaker 1: take umbrage with your suggestion on Popeye's. Tell me more.
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  Speaker 1: She has never had a bad experience with the one
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  Speaker 1: in College Station. Always get what she wants. It's always hot. I.
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  Speaker 15: Went to Popeye's not two weeks ago and they bought
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  Speaker 15: and they gave me.
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  Speaker 14: A completely different order.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but which one were you at?
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  Speaker 14: I was at the one on Texas Avenue.
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  Speaker 1: In College Station.
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  Speaker 14: Now, was it a problem?
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  Speaker 15: No, because I looked in my bag because I know
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  Speaker 15: Popeye's roulette. And normally for me, I just eat it.
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  Speaker 15: But I have a wife and she wants to get
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  Speaker 15: what she ordered for dinner. So I look and I
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  Speaker 15: was like, oh, well, this is completely wrong. Just did
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  Speaker 15: a little U-turn, went back through. I was like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 15: anything weird about that order?
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  Speaker 14: You just handed it out there.
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  Speaker 19: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 14: We'll fix that for you. Yeah, and they did.
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  Speaker 1: That happens, of course, at any establishment.
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  Speaker 14: But no, I absolutely got Popeye's roulette at the one.
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  Speaker 15: And again, I would like to clarify, because before you
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  Speaker 15: guys think that I'm dogging on Popeye's, I didn't say
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  Speaker 15: it's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: That Popeye's hits me with Popeye's roulette. No, you said
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  Speaker 1: even if it's wrong, you're going to stick it in
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  Speaker 1: your mouth.
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  Speaker 15: Because there's nothing at Popeye's that I don't like. So
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  Speaker 15: give me beans instead of the potatoes.
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 15: Give me fried chicken instead of the tendies. I'm just
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  Speaker 15: not going to have any complaints. Am I going to
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  Speaker 15: get a bag full of sandwiches over a bag full
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  Speaker 15: of drummies?
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  Speaker 1: Great.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: Great, great, great, great.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a fun way to pass the day.
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  Speaker 14: Text messages, 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 15: Christopher, the fact that college kids prefer McDonald's over Chick-fil-A
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  Speaker 15: proves they are not fully Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Still a little soft.
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  Speaker 14: The mature mind.
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  Speaker 1: Certain parts of the brain.
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  Speaker 15: The mature brain can perceive the difference between these two things.
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  Speaker 15: Also starting to get the mum pictures.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, here they come. Keep sending them in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: these are incredible.
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  Speaker 14: We need to acknowledge that, you know, I would.
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  Speaker 1: I'd stack these up with what was.
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  Speaker 14: These are up there, dude. This is some.
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  Speaker 15: And again, please, send us more of these because it's
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  Speaker 15: absolutely worth honoring in a photo gallery later on this morning.
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  Speaker 14: We'll take a break and be back after this.
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  Speaker 14: He's the dude on Bravo. Your wife probably.
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  Speaker 1: Knows who he is. Yeah, I think I know who
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  Speaker 14: So he does a show. He has a talk show, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 15: They were talking about– he was getting dogged for being
• 16:26
  Speaker 15: cheap yesterday apparently. And it has to do with his
• 16:30
  Speaker 15: babysitter rate. And I just realized, like, I have no idea.
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  Speaker 15: You guys are paying for babysitters these days. But what
• 16:36
  Speaker 15: would you consider to be a reasonable amount of money?
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  Speaker 15: To get a babysitter.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's fluctuated so quickly. Just in the time
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  Speaker 1: when my kids were of babysitting age.
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  Speaker 23: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And actually, my daughter texted us last night. She just
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: picked up a babysitting job in Oxford.
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  Speaker 24: Oh, lit.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Had a little nine-month-old boy who was just adorable.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, that's awesome. How much does she get compensated for
• 16:57
  Speaker 14: this activity?
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Previously, I think, and sometimes they got seriously paid. I
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: know she and a friend would babysit for a local
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: couple that had multiple children. And I think they were
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: getting something like $ 20 per hour per kid.
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  Speaker 14: See, $ 20 per hour. Yeah, yeah, okay. I could see that.
• 17:19
  Speaker 14: Per kid.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Per kid. And these folks had a lot of kids,
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: and they were making billions.
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  Speaker 15: Bike see but that's the thing is like so they
• 17:26
  Speaker 15: were he was getting dogged for paying 30 an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Oh heck no especially because he's probably in a major
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: metropolitan he's in new york dude.
• 17:33
  Speaker 15: Like i mean come on like i that's that's gonna
• 17:35
  Speaker 15: that's gonna raise the price of poker quite a bit
• 17:38
  Speaker 15: and let.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Me tell you what when it comes to my babysitter
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: i'm willing to pay a premium.
• 17:44
  Speaker 14: Isn't that what you want?
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:46
  Speaker 14: I want the higher end. Isn't that what you're looking for?
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: I want the nanny, you know, from- The au pair? Yeah.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: You want the real deal. I want the one that
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: did the TV show.
• 17:56
  Speaker 14: You want super nanny.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Super nanny.
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  Speaker 14: Like she was, you ain't getting her for 30 bucks
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  Speaker 14: an hour.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that if I had the means and
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I had a kid, my little darling is- is absolutely
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: the the sunshine of my life in the light of
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: my eye i want to.
• 18:10
  Speaker 15: Make sure that she has the best what do you
• 18:12
  Speaker 15: get for okay so let's say you pay and this
• 18:14
  Speaker 15: is a question for you guys too and again if
• 18:16
  Speaker 15: you some of you guys are dealing with this some
• 18:18
  Speaker 15: of you guys have child care issues how.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Much some of you have kids that are babysitting.
• 18:22
  Speaker 15: Or how much does your kid get paid that's the
• 18:24
  Speaker 15: question 979-695-1620 you can call us you can text us
• 18:28
  Speaker 15: whatever what do you expect to get for $ 20 an hour,
• 18:33
  Speaker 15: if you're paying $ 20 an hour? Is it just, again,
• 18:37
  Speaker 15: know who to call if there's an emergency, sit on
• 18:39
  Speaker 15: the couch, maybe eat some of my food, or is there...
• 18:43
  Speaker 15: a greater responsibility?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's a greater responsibility. For my kids, when
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: they began babysitting, I wanted to make sure that they
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: had some basic first aid skills. I wanted to make
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: sure that they had the ability to do CPR, that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: sort of thing. And just to know that they knew
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: what to do in the event of crisis.
• 19:06
  Speaker 15: So that's the expectation level then. You're going to give
• 19:10
  Speaker 15: them $ 20 an hour, but they are going to have
• 19:11
  Speaker 15: to have invested in some dang life skills. Like, again,
• 19:16
  Speaker 15: first aid training, CPR, in case something jumps off or
• 19:19
  Speaker 15: something goes wrong. Because, see, I would even wonder if
• 19:22
  Speaker 15: that pushes you higher, closer to like, and again, Texas prices,
• 19:26
  Speaker 15: not New York.
• 19:27
  Speaker 14: Does that push you higher to $ 40 or $ 50 an hour?
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: $ 50 an hour.
• 19:33
  Speaker 14: Very easy. How do y'all leave the home?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 19:35
  Speaker 14: How do y'all leave the home?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I've just texted. So I want to get more information
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: about this. I have a good friend who I knew
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: growing up here and he was a neighbor of mine
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: and he has used both of my daughters as babysitters.
• 19:47
  Speaker 25: Okay.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So I want to, I just texted him. So if
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: he rings on the studio line over there.
• 19:51
  Speaker 15: No i'd love to pick him up because that's my
• 19:53
  Speaker 15: thing if in fact if in fact if you're a
• 19:57
  Speaker 15: high school age girl and or a college age girl
• 20:01
  Speaker 15: and can go and get basic skills.
• 20:05
  Speaker 14: Training and first aid in an emergency, you know, just quick,
• 20:10
  Speaker 14: just the basic CPR. I'm sure there's what you would get.
• 20:13
  Speaker 18: In a life.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that there's places that just do a babysitting class, right?
• 20:17
  Speaker 15: If you got that, how are y'all not all doing this?
• 20:23
  Speaker 14: How is that not?
• 20:24
  Speaker 15: That's a, that guys, if you're getting 50, 60 bucks
• 20:27
  Speaker 15: an hour, That's a job.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you the reason.
• 20:31
  Speaker 14: That is a whole job.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: My youngest daughter does not frequently babysit anymore, and that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: is simply because her schedule is impossible.
• 20:39
  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, just impossible.
• 20:43
  Speaker 14: It requires the hours.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Literally, in the last 36 hours, I've spent 30 minutes
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: with my daughter.
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  Speaker 26: Dang.
• 20:52
  Speaker 15: I just, again, if this is to be believed, And again, $ 30,
• 20:57
  Speaker 15: the cheapskate rate. And if, and again, if, because I'm
• 21:01
  Speaker 15: still waiting to see what you guys have. And if you, again,
• 21:03
  Speaker 15: if you have prices on what you pay or what
• 21:06
  Speaker 15: your kids make when they babysit, 979-695-1620. I am inclined
• 21:11
  Speaker 15: to say this is how we beat AI.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: John just texted in, and it's a good point. I'm sorry,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Joan just texted in, and it's a good point. She said,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: why just girls?
• 21:21
  Speaker 14: Well, I don't know that it needs to be just girls.
• 21:25
  Speaker 14: I had a.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Male babysitter that was a neighbor when I was a
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: small kid.
• 21:29
  Speaker 14: The greatest babysitter in history was Alfred in Batman. Am
• 21:32
  Speaker 14: I wrong?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
• 21:34
  Speaker 14: Am I wrong?
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• 21:36
  Speaker 14: I just, again, text us your thoughts, 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 1: From the WTAW Newsroom, good morning. I'm Will Welch. Tomorrow's
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  Speaker 1: kickoff of the Texas A & M 150 festivities are
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  Speaker 1: getting an adjustment due to weather. The sesquicentennial opening ceremony
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• 28:25
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• 28:28
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• 28:32
  Speaker 1: No bail for the man shot in Austin by an
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: ICE agent on September 20th. Earlier this week, the federal
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: government charged 28-year-old Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez with one count
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: of assaulting, resisting, and impeding a federal officer. He appeared
• 28:45
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• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Kate Lincoln Goldfinch.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: This is the retaliatory charge that the government uses against resistors,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: against protesters, against the guy who threw a sandwich at
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: CBP in D.C.
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  Speaker 20: Who later got acquitted.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: This is the charge that they use.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Garces Perez, who is from Venezuela, was shot in the
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: back while driving for DoorDash. Prosecutors showed body-worn camera footage
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  Speaker 1: of the interaction where Garces Perez allegedly struck a U.S.
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• 29:18
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• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Goldfinch says her client is in pain and needs
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: surgery to remove the bullet lodged in his back. Dogtown
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Ranch in Rockdale voluntarily surrendered 52 animals to the Brandywine
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• 29:38
  Speaker 1: A team of more than a dozen staff members traveled
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  Speaker 1: to Texas to work on site. The team worked to
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• 29:46
  Speaker 1: they are caring for the dogs and preparing them for
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: their next step toward adoption. Milam County Sheriff Mike Clore
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: says his office will continue to monitor conditions and respond
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to new credible and verifiable evidence of animal cruelty or abuse.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Vice President J.D. Vance touted manufacturing while making stops in
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Texas to campaign for Republicans. Fox's Kristen Goodwin has more.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: The vice president speaking at a groundbreaking ceremony for Saronic
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Technologies Port Alpha manufacturing facility at the port of Brownsville.
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: As you start seeing ships roll off the lines, know
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• 30:31
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  Speaker 2: The facility is expected to create thousands of jobs, producing
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: autonomous vessels for the U.S.
• 30:37
  Speaker 26: Navy.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: Vice President Vance has been on an economic tour of
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: the U.S., speaking to workers about the Trump administration's priorities
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: ahead of the midterm elections, touting investments in American workers
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: and a focus on family values. Christine Goodwin, Fox News.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: The vice president is also headlining a GOP midterm rally
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in Harlingen, campaigning for Republican candidate Eric Flores, who is
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: challenging incumbent Democratic Representative Vicente Gonzalez in Texas' 34th congressional district.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: There's heightened security at the state capitol after a planned attack.
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  Speaker 1: was thwarted by the FBI and state troopers.
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  Speaker 3: A bit of a scare at the Texas state capitol.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: According to a notice sent to all state senators, Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 3: the Department of Public Safety learned of a credible threat,
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: that a main suspect and co-conspirators had planned some sort
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: of attack on the state capitol for Thursday. What we
• 31:28
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• 31:31
  Speaker 3: and a SWAT team joined forces to arrest the main suspect,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: The notice also goes on to say that there's an
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: ongoing investigation and there's now an enhanced law enforcement presence
• 31:41
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• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Vice President J.D. Vance says he is hopeful the GOP
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: will hold on to a key Senate seat in Texas
• 31:51
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• 31:58
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  Speaker 22: Vice President J.D. Vance speaking exclusively with Fox after touching
• 32:04
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• 32:07
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• 32:10
  Speaker 22: vice president predicts a Paxton win despite the New York
• 32:13
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• 32:18
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• 32:28
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• 32:29
  Speaker 22: But Vance came to South Texas with another fight in focus,
• 32:32
  Speaker 22: rebuilding America's shipbuilding power. As Geronic broke ground on its
• 32:36
  Speaker 22: new $ 3. 2 billion Port Alpha shipyard, part of a push
• 32:40
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• 32:41
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• 32:44
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  Speaker 1: Okay, let me pull that up. Talk a minute. I'll
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  Speaker 15: Weather today, as far as temperatures, only 93 or 92
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  Speaker 15: for the very low 90s. And you get an 80%
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  Speaker 14: 80s gang the mid.
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  Speaker 1: You want the radar thing here that's what i'm saying
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  Speaker 1: here locally well pretty much sos on the radar meaning
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  Speaker 1: same old situation so we currently have a storm that
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  Speaker 1: the western edge of Brazos County with some rain. Now,
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  Speaker 1: moving north. The front itself, the main event, is still...
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  Speaker 1: west of I-35, and it is not really progressing east
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  Speaker 1: that fast. So it's a creeper. It's a creeper.
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  Speaker 1: That real quick. That should do as well. And, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, best of luck to the members of Texas
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  Speaker 15: thing because, again, the question, how much do you pay
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  Speaker 15: for babysitting and how much would you pay for babysitting?
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  Speaker 14: The reason we're asking this, there's a point to this
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  Speaker 14: whole thing.
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  Speaker 15: If you have a kid, how are you not getting
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  Speaker 15: them into the babysitting hustle? If it's $ 50- something an hour, potentially,
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  Speaker 15: they could be kidding.
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  Speaker 14: Justin texts in, what's the going rate for a Mary Poppins?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question. Greg, I mentioned Supernanny. Mary Poppins
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  Speaker 1: would work, too.
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  Speaker 15: Jennifer texts in, Red Cross is babysitting classes. All my
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  Speaker 15: kids are taking the course. Basic life-saving skills. My oldest
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  Speaker 15: is in college and wants to be a kindergarten teacher,
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  Speaker 15: so it's actually.
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  Speaker 1: You know, check the two boxes. You should do that
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  Speaker 1: no matter what you're doing. Everybody should have some basic skills.
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  Speaker 1: First aid and life-saving skills.
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  Speaker 15: That's always just smart. She babysits pretty regularly for several families,
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  Speaker 15: this says. Does pay pretty well, but isn't regularly, you know, beneficial.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't count on it as steady income.
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  Speaker 14: Also a student worker at the vet school and Target.
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  Speaker 14: That's three jobs.
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer, congratulations. That's a good one. You have raised somebody
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  Speaker 1: with work ethic.
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  Speaker 15: A couple of my friends have texted me and were like,
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  Speaker 15: I don't know what you're talking about. I never pay
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  Speaker 15: for babysitting. They just rely on the family, rely on
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  Speaker 15: the parents.
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  Speaker 1: Or take it over on the granny's house.
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  Speaker 14: Granny, grandpa.
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  Speaker 15: They say they've never once paid a babysitting bill, and
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  Speaker 15: it has never come up.
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  Speaker 1: I always wonder about that. My in-laws would always love
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  Speaker 1: to take. our kids at any point in time.
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  Speaker 14: Did you ever compensate them?
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 1: If there was something that happened that needed to be repaid,
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  Speaker 1: then yeah. But they wouldn't accept it, number one. And
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  Speaker 1: number two, there are issues with leaving your children with
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  Speaker 1: their grandparents. Those issues are there are no rules at
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  Speaker 1: Nani's house. And when you get those wild things back,
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  Speaker 1: all jacked up on sugar and Mountain Dew, Then you
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  Speaker 1: have some issues to deal with. Oh, holy cow. All right.
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  Speaker 15: So I want to talk about Halloween stuff a little
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  Speaker 15: bit because we can now talk about Halloween stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's October now.
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  Speaker 15: October yeah we're almost there boy and it means you
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  Speaker 15: gotta start thinking about what you are going to be
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  Speaker 15: for halloween and uh we do have the first list
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  Speaker 15: of pop culture halloween costumes the most popular pop culture
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  Speaker 15: halloween costumes for 2026 now we can do this two
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  Speaker 15: different ways We could do this where we just give
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  Speaker 15: them to people or see if anyone can guess the
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  Speaker 15: top one.
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  Speaker 1: See if anybody can guess the top one. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: this is pop culture. So when I started looking at
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  Speaker 1: this list, I was reminded how woefully inadequate I am
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  Speaker 1: at pop culture.
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  Speaker 15: Okay, so a couple of things to guide your guests.
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  Speaker 15: is 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 25: 695-1620.
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  Speaker 15: Just to give you some points to guide yourself on here. Will,
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  Speaker 15: how many out of the 18 that are here do
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  Speaker 15: you know what these are?
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  Speaker 14: Just look them over.
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  Speaker 1: I would say out of the 20, I would probably,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with somewhere between 8 and 12
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  Speaker 1: that I know.
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  Speaker 28: 8 and 12?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: Will, that's pretty high. That's pretty dang good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to count it. I mean, not great
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  Speaker 1: familiarity with. Okay. But one, two, three, four, five. Okay. Six-ish.
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  Speaker 19: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Seven.
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  Speaker 14: All right.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 11: Eight. Eight.
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  Speaker 1: Eight right there.
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  Speaker 11: Eight.
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  Speaker 14: All right.
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  Speaker 15: Now, remember, you're trying to guess the top, what they
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  Speaker 15: consider to be the top pop culture costume that is
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  Speaker 15: one costume and one costume alone that comes from the
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  Speaker 15: pop culture universe they're saying is the top one that
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  Speaker 15: people are going to be dressing up as for Halloween
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  Speaker 15: this year.
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  Speaker 1: Walter is texted in.
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  Speaker 14: Walter, what do you got?
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  Speaker 1: Walter has got K-pop Demon Hunters.
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  Speaker 14: Walter, that is incorrect.
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  Speaker 11: No, it is.
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  Speaker 14: No, no, they're on there.
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  Speaker 1: It's on there. It's not the top one.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, they are on there, but they are not the top.
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  Speaker 15: Where did K-pop Demon Hunters fall by the way?
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  Speaker 1: Number 11.
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  Speaker 15: Number 11. Okay, Walter, that's pretty dang good.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good.
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  Speaker 15: Everyone is texting in K-pop. There's a reason for that.
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  Speaker 15: I get that your kids are obsessed, but again, you're
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  Speaker 15: not close.
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  Speaker 1: No, you're not. And think about the fact that these
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  Speaker 1: sort of things are flash in the pants, right? So
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  Speaker 1: you have a time frame. Their 15 minutes is just
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  Speaker 1: about up.
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  Speaker 15: Next guess, and I believe this is from Curtis.
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  Speaker 14: Curtis says, Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 15: Is Taylor Swift the top pop culture costume for 2026 will?
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  Speaker 1: No, Taylor Swift is not the top. However she is in.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: At number four.
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  Speaker 14: Number four. Okay, we're getting closer. We're getting closer.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and James in with a good guess.
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  Speaker 15: James says Dolly Parton. Is Dolly Parton?
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  Speaker 1: A very timely choice.
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  Speaker 15: And I would say this might vary by portion of
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  Speaker 15: the country that you're in. In the south, I think
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  Speaker 15: Dolly is going to have a very good year in
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  Speaker 15: people paying tribute via costume.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: Where does she fall?
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  Speaker 1: Number eight on the list.
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  Speaker 14: Number eight on the list.
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  Speaker 15: Donald Trump. President Donald Trump from Susan. Do we have
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  Speaker 15: Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 1: On the list? We do not have Donald Trump on
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  Speaker 1: the list.
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  Speaker 14: That's crazy to me.
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  Speaker 15: Ella Langley from Martha. Ella Langley from Martha.
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  Speaker 1: Not on the list.
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  Speaker 14: Okay, look, we're going to take a break because we
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  Speaker 14: need to.
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  Speaker 15: You can keep texting these in if you want to.
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  Speaker 15: The first person to get it correct is going to
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  Speaker 15: the Texas Renaissance Festival, 979-695-1620. And again, you are looking
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  Speaker 15: to guess the top pop culture. related Halloween costume that
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  Speaker 15: they're projecting for 2026 back in a minute.
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  Speaker 19: I think looking back at it, obviously the first half,
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  Speaker 19: not a good performance. I thought second half we did
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  Speaker 19: a much better job fighting, competing, being in good spots,
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  Speaker 12: coach Mike Elko shared thoughts on the evaluation process of
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  Speaker 12: the program's performance over the first four games of the season.
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  Speaker 25: I think every evaluation has to start internal. I think
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  Speaker 25: we start with who we are, what we're asking these
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  Speaker 25: kids to do. I don't think, you know, it doesn't
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  Speaker 25: continue trying. To do it better. That's the obvious statement.
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  Speaker 25: But like, yeah, you try to look at, OK, what
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  Speaker 25: are we doing? How can we create confidence? How can
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  Speaker 25: can't recreate the wheel because that will cause more damage?
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  Speaker 25: confusion and lack of execution if all of a sudden
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  Speaker 25: but i do think there's there's answers that we've got to.
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  Speaker 12: Come up with coach elko also spoke about the position
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  Speaker 25: I think the rest of it is a work in progress.
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  Speaker 15: We're trying to see who can guess the top. pop
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  Speaker 15: culture halloween costume predicted at least of 2026 we'll go
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  Speaker 15: through some more of those text messages all right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at these text messages here yeah olivia rodrigo
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  Speaker 1: was mentioned in there as well olivia rodrigo yes and
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  Speaker 1: she came in at number nine okay all right michael
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  Speaker 1: jackson was mentioned on the list come.
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  Speaker 15: On that's silly why would michael is michael on there
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  Speaker 15: number look.
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  Speaker 1: 18 It's been a weird year. Yeah, very weird year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: a couple more on there if you like. But no,
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  Speaker 1: let's go ahead and see who nailed this one.
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  Speaker 15: Because we did get a correct guess, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm actually shocked about that.
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  Speaker 14: Do you know what this is, though?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, okay, good. This will be fun. And I hope
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  Speaker 14: I got that right.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise, we're just going to try it again. Well, it's ringing.
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  Speaker 3: Hello?
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  Speaker 15: Sam!
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  Speaker 17: Sam!
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 14: Good morning, Sam. How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Doing good.
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  Speaker 15: Sam, what's the top performing Halloween costume for this year
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  Speaker 15: in the pop culture realm?
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  Speaker 3: Nikki from Obsession.
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  Speaker 14: Crazy Nikki from Obsession.
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  Speaker 1: What is Obsession?
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  Speaker 14: Sam, I assume you've seen Obsession?
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  Speaker 3: I've seen it once or twice, but I overheard the
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  Speaker 3: student workers talking yesterday about the costume.
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  Speaker 1: You're picking up spy info from the hip kids.
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  Speaker 15: That's what you do, but I'll tell you this. It
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  Speaker 15: is a fantastic costume for the kids because it's easy,
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  Speaker 15: and it's just playing a crazy college-age female.
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  Speaker 14: That's it. You're going to have to get some wild
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  Speaker 14: facial expressions.
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  Speaker 1: There's some typecasting out there. Some people have natural talent
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  Speaker 1: for this.
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  Speaker 14: Sam, you got your ear to the street, and we
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  Speaker 14: love to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, great job, Sam.
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  Speaker 14: We'll text you details on how to pick up your prize, dude.
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  Speaker 14: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. I'll have to look that up.
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  Speaker 14: That's a wild movie.
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  Speaker 15: By the way, I have now seen Obsession no less
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  Speaker 15: than six times.
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  Speaker 25: Really?
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  Speaker 14: It's so good. I mean, it's as good as any
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  Speaker 14: horror movie there's been in.
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  Speaker 1: Quite, quite, quite some time. Well, okay, there we go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not typically a horror movie guy. Oh, jeez. There
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  Speaker 1: are some that have stepped out on me that I like.
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  Speaker 14: I'll tell you what he is.
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  Speaker 1: sing us a song. You're right there.
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  Speaker 25: Yes!
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  Speaker 1: The chickpeas can hum us one.
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  Speaker 14: Nailed it.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 14: That's an extra layer that I wasn't expecting. Will, thank
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  Speaker 14: you for that.
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  Speaker 1: What do you call Darth Vader when he's freaking out?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Panic and Skywalker.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: What do you call a woman who burns all of
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  Speaker 1: her bills? I don't know, Will. Bernadette.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to throw some cheesy ones in there
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  Speaker 14: Oh, that's a great question. What did he say?
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  Speaker 1: They've cut me hours.
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  Speaker 15: That's, okay, that's a joke based on an accent.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go.
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