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The Infomaniacs: September 9th 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: Bryan City Council voted last night to approve the proposed
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  Speaker 1: tax rate of 62.4 cents per $ 100 of a home's valuation.
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  Speaker 1: No one signed up to speak on a public hearing
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  Speaker 1: for the matter. The approved rate is the same tax
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  Speaker 1: rate that has been in place since 2023. Council also
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  Speaker 1: had to officially adopt the city's $ 569 million budget.
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  Speaker 2: Roll call vote.
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  Speaker 3: Councilman Torres? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Councilman Arrington?
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Councilman Salvato?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Councilman Edge? Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Shurtleff?
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  Speaker 4: Yes. Berski?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm a yes as well.
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  Speaker 1: Motion passes unanimous. That's Mayor Bobby Gutierrez. Councilwoman Ewer Shurtleff
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  Speaker 1: shared her optimism over a mid-rise apartment development coming to
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  Speaker 1: the 2.2 acres on 600 Woodson Drive.
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  Speaker 9: That's not just in my district. It's in my neighborhood,
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  Speaker 9: and I think it's going to be a welcome addition
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  Speaker 9: to see some progress there. I know it's been a
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  Speaker 9: long time. For those of you who don't remember, we
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  Speaker 9: approved a PD there. It kind of fizzled out. So
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  Speaker 9: we've got some new life, a very innovative concept. This
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  Speaker 9: is going to be more for higher-level grad students, a
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  Speaker 9: little bit older crowd. A mix of indoor outdoor use.
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  Speaker 9: There's a parking garage. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 9: a great addition, not just to District 5, but to
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  Speaker 9: the city of Bryan.
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  Speaker 1: Police in College Station now say that someone was injured
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night. after a gun went off inside a Northgate bar.
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  Speaker 1: CSPD says a victim with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to
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  Speaker 1: the hand came forward and spoke with investigators on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: They say that the victim and suspect knew each other
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  Speaker 1: and traveled to College Station together. 19-year-old Trey Wheeler remains
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  Speaker 1: jailed on $ 145, 000 bond. He is not yet facing additional charges.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump will headline the Republican midterm convention Wednesday as
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  Speaker 1: he pushes the party to campaign on his achievements. Fox's
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  Speaker 1: Jackie Heinrich is in Dallas with the details.
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  Speaker 10: The president said the event is sold out and organizers
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  Speaker 10: are also, quote, saving the stage for candidates who are
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  Speaker 10: in tight races and that he'll be speaking on both
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  Speaker 10: nights in addition to the vice presidents and cabinet members
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  Speaker 10: and other big names who will be spotlighting legislative wins
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  Speaker 10: that they say helped improve the lives of Americans from
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  Speaker 10: no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security, to border enforcement,
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  Speaker 10: energy and jobs. But House Democrats are counter-programming. They're sending
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  Speaker 10: a delegation here to slam Republicans for, quote, partying with
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  Speaker 10: their super-rich donors amid an affordability crisis. They're also needling
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  Speaker 10: Republicans on absences, saying some Republicans are keeping their distance
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  Speaker 10: from the president's low approval ratings.
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  Speaker 1: Vice President J.D. Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bissett, Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: Todd Blanch, and Donald Trump Jr. will also speak at
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  Speaker 1: the convention. Some candidates, like Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn, plan
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  Speaker 1: to campaign in their home districts. A bipartisan Texas effort
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  Speaker 1: is pushing for a review of the nation's emergency oil
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  Speaker 1: stockpile as it sits at the lowest level since the
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  Speaker 1: early 1980s.
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  Speaker 11: Democrat Lizzie Fletcher of Houston and Republican August Pfluger of
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  Speaker 11: San Angelo have authored the 21st Century Strategic Petroleum Reserve Act.
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  Speaker 11: This would direct the U.S. Secretary of Energy to request
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  Speaker 11: a public report and look at ways to modernize the
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  Speaker 11: reserve's operations. These can include strengthening oil storage facilities to
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  Speaker 11: withstand frequent drawdowns or encourage oil purchases when prices are
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  Speaker 11: lower to keep replenishing the reserve. There would be one
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  Speaker 11: year to submit findings to the Energy Department and Congress
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  Speaker 11: and make the report available to the public. The Strategic
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  Speaker 11: Petroleum Reserve is currently at about 40 percent capacity, holding
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  Speaker 11: 287 million barrels of crude oil during the week that
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  Speaker 11: ended on August 28th. I'm Kristen Yates, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news on the way at 630 or anytime at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: Not kidding, a chance of rain showed up overnight. Like, legit,
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  Speaker 5: not a great one, but 20% every day until the
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  Speaker 5: end of the week. Surprise!
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  Speaker 12: Yay!
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  Speaker 1: There was a little storm that popped up. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just one little thing that was in... You know, the
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  Speaker 1: seven-county region.
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  Speaker 5: You can imagine how surprised I was because I still
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  Speaker 5: get little notifications on my phone from, like, some of
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  Speaker 5: the Houston news stations. And the headline on one of
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  Speaker 5: them was, remember to bring your umbrella. It's like, wait, what?
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  Speaker 1: CB's front, man, this time of year.
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  Speaker 5: I'll take it. 96 for your high today, down to
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  Speaker 5: gotten affliction. And this affliction has been lasting, geez, at
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  Speaker 5: least a week, maybe a week and a half.
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  Speaker 1: Which affliction are we talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Every day you get a different song stuck in your
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  Speaker 5: head that makes no sense whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: No sense whatsoever, and it's not a song that I've
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  Speaker 1: recently heard.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, so these are the questions that I have not
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  Speaker 5: asked so far, but have been curious about. When does
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  Speaker 5: the song get stuck? When is the moment where the
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  Speaker 5: song begins?
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  Speaker 1: It's less about a stuck and more about just the
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  Speaker 1: random thought of the song. It generally is not stuck
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  Speaker 1: for a long time because I have some fail-safe earworm
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  Speaker 1: remedies that.
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  Speaker 5: I can use. We've discussed these on the show. There
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  Speaker 5: are ways to get them out. But of all these
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  Speaker 5: songs to pop up, I hadn't thought it was that
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  Speaker 5: unusual because most of the songs you would bring in,
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  Speaker 5: I'd be like, yeah, you know what? I like that.
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  Speaker 5: I know that song. I like that song. I could
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  Speaker 5: see thinking about that song every once in a while.
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  Speaker 5: Until today. This is the song that Will had in
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  Speaker 5: his head this morning.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember the intro.
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  Speaker 5: This better not be an instrumental.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's an instrumental. Is that necessary? Well, yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Well.
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  Speaker 1: That's a different version.
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  Speaker 5: This is also not the... Why is there a cover.
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  Speaker 1: Version of this and not the actual... Why is there
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  Speaker 1: not a cover version of this?
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  Speaker 5: Good point.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, come on. This was an icon of my childhood.
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  Speaker 1: And I have no idea. I was wrapping things up
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  Speaker 1: down in the newsroom.
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  Speaker 5: And you were thinking Speed Racer.
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  Speaker 1: Is Speed Racer's on just here? He comes, here comes
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  Speaker 1: Speed Racer right in my head, man. I wasn't in
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  Speaker 1: a hurry. There's no reason whatsoever... And I can't even
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  Speaker 1: remember the songs. It's happened two or three times over
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  Speaker 1: the past two weeks. I can't remember what the previous
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  Speaker 1: ones were that I came in here going, that's weird
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  Speaker 1: that that song's in my head.
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  Speaker 5: A bunch of them are like classic rock or 60
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  Speaker 5: to 70. It's just stuff like, oh yeah, Will would
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  Speaker 5: be potentially listening to this at some point. But there's
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  Speaker 5: no point that I know that you would be just
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  Speaker 5: sitting there watching... Old Speed Racer?
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 1: I would watch Old Speed Racer. I'm sure it's on
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  Speaker 1: someplace in some deep, dark resources of the internet.
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  Speaker 5: I genuinely have... It's strange that I have never seen this.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 5: Not never seen an episode. Seen an episode. It's strange
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  Speaker 5: that I have never seen this available to stream anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it probably is. I'm going to find it,
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  Speaker 1: just so people who are curious like me.
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  Speaker 5: If this is a common affliction and you frequently wake
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  Speaker 5: up with some real strange ones stuck in your head,
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  Speaker 5: Please feel free to text us.
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  Speaker 1: We always love your interaction. Is anybody as dysfunctional as
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  Speaker 1: I am?
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  Speaker 5: That's our question today.
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  Speaker 5: And follow-up question. You're woken up with this duck in
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  Speaker 5: your head.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, every day.
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  Speaker 5: Every day.
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  Speaker 1: About the same time.
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  Speaker 5: See, that's weird. I feel like I hear this so often,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't know why it would be just stuck there.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, if you are interested in streaming Speed Racer,
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  Speaker 1: apparently it's on Max.
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  Speaker 5: It's on Max?
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  Speaker 1: You can also rent or purchase on Apple TV, Amazon Prime,
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  Speaker 1: and Fandango at home. You can watch it free with
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  Speaker 1: ads on Tubby, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel. Freebie. A
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  Speaker 5: our phone number today. Mike says, thanks, guys. Now that
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  Speaker 5: speed eraser head is going to be stuck in my
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  Speaker 5: head all day.
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  Speaker 1: Apologies.
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  Speaker 5: Similar afflictions. to this man right here.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was not our intent this morning. And therefore,
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  Speaker 1: I will give you the cure, Mike, and anybody else
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  Speaker 1: who might have Speed Racer stuck in your head. But
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  Speaker 1: sometimes the cure... It's worse than the disease itself.
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  Speaker 5: You know what? But sometimes you just have to get
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  Speaker 5: Speed Racer out of your head.
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  Speaker 1: If you have to get it out of your head,
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  Speaker 1: you can pick two songs that will replace it. Because
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  Speaker 1: the only way to get an earworm out is to
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  Speaker 1: replace it with a stronger earworm. So I will suggest
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  Speaker 1: that you sing the Oscar Mayer song or You Are
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  Speaker 1: My Sunshine. Either one is my go-to when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to getting earworms out.
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  Speaker 5: This is highly, highly effective.
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  Speaker 1: Very effective.
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  Speaker 5: I cannot deny it. All right, let's get to reasons
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  Speaker 5: to celebrate as we kick things off for this Wednesday.
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  Speaker 5: Days that you could celebrate today. There are not a
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  Speaker 5: ton of them that I found particularly interesting today. International
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  Speaker 5: Sudoku Day. Do we still do that particular puzzle?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I never got into the Sudoku myself.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it wasn't my jam, but I know some people
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  Speaker 5: absolutely loved it. It was so popular for a few years.
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  Speaker 5: It did get an International Day in 2013. They say
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  Speaker 5: it is not really a math puzzle. They don't really
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  Speaker 5: know how to clarify, or I guess put it in
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  Speaker 5: a box, but it is highly addictive, and they say
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  Speaker 5: people still play it. to this day. It is National
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  Speaker 5: I Love Food Day. Do you love food?
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  Speaker 1: I do love food.
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  Speaker 5: My congratulations. Today is for you. There doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 5: be any description over this whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: It's a broad category.
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  Speaker 5: No prescribed food to eat to celebrate today. But yeah, just.
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  Speaker 1: We can all come together with the celebration of food, period.
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  Speaker 5: It is also Steak-a-Poix Day.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that. That one's on my list. The first
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  Speaker 1: two are not on my list.
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  Speaker 5: That's a good one to... That's a.
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  Speaker 1: French pepper steak.
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  Speaker 5: It's hard to miss with some nice French pepper steak.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not a huge pepper guy. You've got
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  Speaker 1: to have a little bit. But I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: I want the entire thing crusted. At least not on
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  Speaker 1: my steak.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. What's that? Steak frites? There used to be a restaurant.
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  Speaker 5: I think it still exists. It's like a chain. The
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  Speaker 5: only thing they serve is steak frites. It's literally the
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  Speaker 5: only thing on their menu. You show up, you eat
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  Speaker 5: steak frites. And they do. But the thing is, if
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  Speaker 5: you get your plate of steak and fries... Finish it.
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  Speaker 5: They bring you another one for free. It's like it's
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  Speaker 5: baked in.
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  Speaker 1: I think that is your version of heaven.
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  Speaker 5: I have yet to eat at one of these, but
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  Speaker 5: I've always been fascinated.
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  Speaker 1: I bet they're glad that you have not been there.
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  Speaker 5: Teddy Bear Day today.
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  Speaker 1: I've got that one on my list, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The origins of the teddy bear, I feel like many
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  Speaker 5: of us may know it, but it is fascinating. In 1902,
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  Speaker 5: President Theodore Roosevelt went on a hunting trip in Mississippi,
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  Speaker 5: as he was wont to do because that man loved
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  Speaker 5: to hunt. His companions cornered and restrained a bear and said, Hey, hey, Teddy,
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  Speaker 5: you want to shoot this thing? And he said, No!
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  Speaker 5: Because it's unsportsmanlike. Because Teddy Roosevelt wasn't going to shoot
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  Speaker 5: a bear unless that bear had the same chance of
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  Speaker 5: taking him down as he did the bear, which I
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  Speaker 5: absolutely love. So this was like a moment for the
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  Speaker 5: guy he was with. Now, did this really happen?
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  Speaker 1: I think probably so.
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  Speaker 5: I could see it. I could see it happening because
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  Speaker 5: he was fairly insane in all the wonderful ways that
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  Speaker 5: Teddy Roosevelt was insane. Also, maybe not. Maybe it's a
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  Speaker 5: cherry tree incident. It doesn't matter because a cartoonist picked
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  Speaker 5: it up and the story became famous. Then Teddy's bears
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  Speaker 5: became big things. And then the teddy bear became the
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  Speaker 5: international child, children's toy forever and ever.
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  Speaker 1: What did children do before teddy bears? Did they sleep
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  Speaker 1: with really creepy-looking dolls?
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  Speaker 5: You gave them a creepy-looking doll or you gave them
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  Speaker 5: a stick? Because it was 1900, Will.
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  Speaker 1: Corn shuck doll?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, corn. You gave your kid a cob of corn
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  Speaker 5: to play with.
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  Speaker 1: And you liked it.
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  Speaker 5: Now here's another one today. And I would not be.
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  Speaker 5: Highlighting this day unless I thought it was particularly interesting
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  Speaker 5: to us more than probably anywhere else in the world.
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  Speaker 5: It's Wienerschnitzel Day today.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 5: Now, not a hot dog. It's a day to celebrate
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  Speaker 5: actual Wienerschnitzel.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, not the restaurant. Not that there's anything wrong with
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  Speaker 1: that because actually I've been craving a good hot dog
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  Speaker 1: for quite some time.
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  Speaker 5: That is the interesting thing is the fact that you
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  Speaker 5: have to say it's not about hot dogs means... That
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  Speaker 5: the first thing people think of when you say Wiener
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  Speaker 5: schnitzel is, in fact, hot dogs, as Will mentioned, is.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think in most parts of the United
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  Speaker 1: States that that is pretty ubiquitous.
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  Speaker 5: And I am certain has been documented on this show
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  Speaker 5: that there are not a lot of Wiener schnitzels out there.
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Very, very few to the point where ours could legitimately be.
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  Speaker 5: The highest grossing Wienerschnitzel left in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Quite possibly. And it's located right there in an area
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  Speaker 1: that needs a hot dog centric name. Because you've got
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  Speaker 1: not only Der Wienerschnitzel, but you've got hot dogs, etc.
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  Speaker 5: HDE right down the block.
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  Speaker 12: Right?
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  Speaker 1: So is this some economic development zone that the city's
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  Speaker 1: not talked to us about? The hot dog development zone?
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  Speaker 5: Well, what timeline have we landed in where the two
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  Speaker 5: hot dog places that we have... The two... And again,
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  Speaker 5: I'm not talking about gourmet frou-frou dogs. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 5: your standard. I want a bag of hot dogs. The
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  Speaker 5: two restaurants that service that clientele are within three quarters
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  Speaker 5: of a mile. And both of them thrive. And yet.
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  Speaker 5: No competitors have popped up in the last... How long
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  Speaker 5: has it been since he... Both those have been... Wienerschnitzel
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  Speaker 5: is old. My dad, H-D-E, I do not remember a time.
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  Speaker 1: Wienerschnitzel is old as Scott DeLucia.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. It goes back. It goes back. Hot dogs, et cetera.
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  Speaker 5: I don't remember a time.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a long, long time.
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  Speaker 5: Where I was about hot dogs, et cetera. So perhaps
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  Speaker 5: instead of celebrating with like a fried cutlet, you just
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  Speaker 5: go and hit up some hot dogs.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to say that, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that South College Station... or College Station as a whole,
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  Speaker 1: but especially South College Station, has this dearth of hot dog.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have a hot dog fast food restaurant anyplace
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: down here.
• 16:38
  Speaker 16: Yeah, how?
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: I would hit it.
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: How is there not one place? There's not one guy
• 16:44
  Speaker 5: out there.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the fast food ones, because I know
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Angry Elephants got....
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: It's not a knock to call them gourmet frou-frou dogs.
• 16:53
  Speaker 5: I love those hot dogs. But I'm talking about a
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: place where you pull up and you say, like, bag
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: of chili dogs, please.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Or, in my case, a Chicago dog, which is apparently
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: impossible to find here.
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: Or, like, hey, I give you $ 10. You give me
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: two Chicago dogs and some fries. Oh, yeah. No one
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: has thought that that might be not only popular, but
• 17:20
  Speaker 5: also exceedingly profitable for them?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: I know that we've got a lot.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: You don't even need a building. Put in a truck.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: I know that we've probably got a lot of entrepreneurs,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that are capable of funding ideas
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: that are listening right now.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: 100%, yes.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: So, hey, again, we're the idea guys. It is your
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: opportunity to take these ideas and run with them. If
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: you don't, well, you're missing out on million-dollar ideas.
• 17:45
  Speaker 5: I think you're missing out. Yeah, you're missing out on
• 17:47
  Speaker 5: a legacy business, guys. There is nothing, nothing between downtown
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: Bryan and Houston that does your standard pile of hot dogs.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: And people love those places. I mean, there's a Chicago
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: dog place you'd eat at how many times a week?
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Look, here recently, I've been thinking about a Chicago dog
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: for well over a month. Probably two.
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: If it was a special, it was good.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Because we talked about it because there's no place to
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: find a Chicago dog.
• 18:15
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: What you could just do the Chicago dogs and like,
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: and the, the beef. The whatever they call that.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I just really crave the celery. Come on.
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: Michael says, come on, guys. You know that all we
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: need is a bunch more chicken tender restaurants in this town.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: And nail salons.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: Again, we're giving you an alternate way today. Birthdays. What
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: do we have?
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Birthdays for today. We've got Kelsey Asbill. Asbilly? I don't know.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: She's Monica Dutton on Yellowstone. So you know her from that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: She was also Teen Wolf. on Teen Wolf and Pair
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: of Kings back in the day with Disney. Michelle Williams
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: is 46. She's Anne Weying on the Venom movies. Glinda
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: in Oz the Great and Powerful. She's probably best known
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: as Heath Ledger's wife on The Brokeback Mountain and unofficial
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: widow in real life. By the way, their daughter Matilda
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Rose turns 21 next week.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: Holy moly!
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Yep, we're old. Michael Bublé is 51 years old today.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Eric Stonestreet is 55. Cameron on Modern Family. Henry Thomas.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Elliot on E.T. 55 years old today. Adam Sandler is
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: 60 years old today. And probably enjoying elderly discounts at
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the restaurants.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: That man has got a fun life, and he also
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: looks great for 60.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, he's got it pretty good. Hugh Grant
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: is 66 years old today. Angela Cartwright is 74. Penny
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Robertson on the original Lost in Space. Let's see here.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Dave Stewart from the Arrhythmics, 74. years old today. Luke Duke,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Tom Wolpat is 75 today.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Joe Theismann is 77. I would have thought that Tom
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Wopat was a lot younger than Joe Theismann.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: I also would have thought those two things did not
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: line up as.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Closely as they did. No, apparently they do.
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: Here we are.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: From the stiffs category, Otis Redding is born on this
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: date in 1941. Died in a plane crash during the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: time he was recording, sitting on the dock of the bay,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: by the way. He was only 26 years old.
• 20:19
  Speaker 17: Yep.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Topol was born on this date in 1935. You're going,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: who the heck is Topol? Well, he was the fiddler
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: on the roof originally.
• 20:28
  Speaker 18: Hey.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And he played Dr. Hans Zarkov. Do you remember the name? Dr.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Hans Zarkov. We talked about this movie not long ago.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: Holy cow, barely.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Flash. Yeah, the Flash Gordon movie. Yeah, that one.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Another song stuck in your head. You're welcome. Neil Hamilton
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: was born on this date in 1899. Commissioner Gordon on
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the 1960s Batman series.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: The original Commissioner.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: The OG. Love it. And speaking of OGs, born on
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: this date in 1890. Colonel Sanders.
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: Chicken King.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: The King of the Chickens.
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: The Chicken King, ladies and gentlemen. Text message from Jarrett.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: There was a wiener schnitzel across from Tom Light Chevrolet
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: when it was on Texas Avenue, Brian.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: That's a million years ago, man.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: My brother. It's the same wiener schnitzel.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: There's only one.
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: And that is where it remains, Jarrett. That is where
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: it remains.
• 21:24
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• 23:32
  Speaker 5: We have several fast food establishments that serve bulk quantities
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: of hot dogs. They are called Sonics. Have you seen Fandango?
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: They order hot dogs at the Sonic in Alpine.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Look, I get it.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: No, you can get a hot dog. I'm not saying
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: you can't get a hot dog at Sonic. I'm saying
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: that that is different.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: You can get a hot dog at Sonic. You can
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: get a hot dog at Freddy's. Those are restaurants.
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that happen to offer a hot dog.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Those are not hot dog restaurants.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: No, they are two different things.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Very different. And none of them have a Chicago dog.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: And the reason we are so confused by this differentiation,
• 24:07
  Speaker 5: because again, we really know, you know, if in South
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: College Station, they don't, anything south of, anything south of
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: Villa Maria, it doesn't exist. Again, opportunities to a a
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: willing entrepreneur. Weather for today, yes, 20% chance of showers.
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: It's not going to really affect the temperature. It's going
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: to be sitting in the upper to mid-90s, so 95
• 24:29
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• 24:32
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• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Good morning from the wtaw newsroom i'm will welch the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: bryan city council held a regularly scheduled meeting last night
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the main focus was the proposed tax rate of 62.4
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: cents per 100 of the home's value Mayor Bobby Gutierrez
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: asked Alisa Kenney, the city's interim chief financial officer, what
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the lowest rate could be that would allow the city
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: to maintain its services and bond ratings.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: So really to keep at that 100 days of cash without.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Dipping below it, it would be.
• 28:20
  Speaker 9: 6235.
• 28:21
  Speaker 23: So it would be a very small, small adjustment.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Gutierrez was in favor of adopting the lowest possible rate,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: but a motion to do so did not pass. Councilwoman Marka,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: your shirt lift weighs in.
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: Where we're coming from, in my perspective at least, the
• 28:39
  Speaker 9: Texas legislature is a bit unpredictable for our municipal bodies
• 28:42
  Speaker 9: right now. I think that, Brian, we're holding the rate steady.
• 28:46
  Speaker 9: We're not increasing it, but we're still responsible for police
• 28:49
  Speaker 9: and fires. We continue to grow, and I really do
• 28:52
  Speaker 9: admire the mayor for being willing to put a motion
• 28:55
  Speaker 9: in front of this council that would lower it. But
• 28:57
  Speaker 9: from my perspective, given the unpredictability and the obligations we
• 29:01
  Speaker 9: have to maintain our Public safety, which as y'all know
• 29:04
  Speaker 9: is about 85% of our budget, I'm comfortable staying with
• 29:07
  Speaker 9: not raising it but not lowering it.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: The difference between 62.4 cents and the 62.35 cents would
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: have been the difference of $ 1. 25 per year for the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: homeowner whose value is.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: $ 250, 000.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: The now approved rate of 62.4 cents per $ 100 is
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the same tax rate that has been in place since 2023.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: One person is dead and another injured in a single
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: car crash in Bryan Tuesday afternoon. The accident took place
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: around 630 on Highway 6 southbound near Tabor Road. Bryan
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: police said that the driver was pronounced dead on scene
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and a passenger was transported to a local hospital. The
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: cause of the crash is under investigation. The Brazos Valley
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Food Bank has received some significant contributions recently. Last week,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Producers Cooperative Association presented the organization with a check for $ 5, 000.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: On Tuesday, nearly $ 6, 000 was awarded to the group as
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: part of College Station's inaugural Restaurant Week. The funds will
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: be used to help the BVFB reach their goal of
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: ending hunger in the Brazos Valley. The College Station Police
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Department released more information Tuesday about the weekend shooting in Northgate.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: They say they received reports on Saturday that someone had
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: been shot inside the 115 bar, but a victim was
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: unable to be located. CSPD now says a victim with
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the hand came forward and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: spoke with investigators on Sunday. Investigators say that the victim
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and suspect were acquainted and traveled to College Station together.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: It's been one year since Texas implemented a ban on
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: cell phones in schools. Experts are reflecting on the changes
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: seen in classroom behavior.
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: You know, across the board, there was just initial tension
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: in the air. And a lot of teachers that we
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: spoke to and even personal colleagues of mine who are
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: psychologists and speech pathologists, they also just kind of felt
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: this tension in the air initially.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: School psychologist Dr. Israel Arivalo with Texas A & M
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Telehealth says while there was initial anxiety among students, parents,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and staff, things have since settled back to a normal routine.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: He says teachers are reporting fewer classroom distractions and students
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: are engaging in more face-to-face interactions. Arivalo says while the
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: new law has been positive, it will take a few
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: more years before experts can say if the benefits are
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: true results of the ban. Another traffic project is getting
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: underway today. Starting this afternoon, the City of College Station
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: begins work on the final section of rehabilitation of William D.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Fitch Parkway from Williams Creek Drive to Rock Prairie Road.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Alternating one-way traffic will shift to continuous two-way traffic, which
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: will also be maintained for access to and from Williams
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Creek Drive at the entrance to the Williams Creek subdivision.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: The project is expected to be completed by mid-December. There's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: pushback to a request to increase the budget for the
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: state's private school voucher program.
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: Acting Comptroller and GOP nominee for the job, Don Huffines,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: has requested $ 2, 226, 000, 000 for the next two years. The first
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: year cost a billion. Clay Robeson with the Texas State
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: Teachers Association says his group has opposed vouchers for years
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: and says any increase is too much.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: This is not a sustainable program. Or they can sustain it,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: but they're going to basically close many more public schools.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: There's data from the state that shows 7 in 10
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: families in or trying to get into the program already
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: had kids in private schools. Texas touts the program as
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: giving parents the power to choose the best education for
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: their children. Over 100,000 Texas kids are currently enrolled. Barbara Schwartz,
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: TSN News.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: More news on the way at 7 o'clock or anytime
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
• 32:54
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  Speaker 5: Now, I will bet you, considering they did the sign
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  Speaker 5: episode is probably going to have to do with Canada.
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  Speaker 1: I would think so.
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  Speaker 5: And if I had thought ahead for five seconds, I
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  Speaker 5: That is risky. But we did want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: a lot of items.
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  Speaker 5: From Canada from entering the U.S. because we're in a
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  Speaker 1: It's tit-for-tat tariffs. It is now what they say it
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  Speaker 5: Oh, a trade conflict.
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  Speaker 1: A trade conflict.
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  Speaker 5: A trade conflict.
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  Speaker 14: Okay, cool.
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  Speaker 1: So our administration imposed 50% tariffs on things like steel, aluminum,
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: and various manufactured products. Some broader import bans on Canadian dairy, motorcycles, and...
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: most alcoholic beverages.
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  Speaker 5: And that was one that, uh, I think we discussed
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• 36:55
  Speaker 5: a little rough for some people.
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  Speaker 1: I think it hurts them a lot more than it
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: hurts us.
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  Speaker 5: It really does. I, I, again, I'm really iffy on
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  Speaker 5: how on earth you would think that the U S
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: would not be able to, you know, sweat this out
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  Speaker 5: longer than you, but here we are now. Canada came
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  Speaker 5: back with a whole list of things that they were
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  Speaker 5: going to tariff. And then almost like within 24 hours,
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  Speaker 5: Trump was like, okay, well, how about this? We're just
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: not going to accept any of these products anymore in
• 37:26
  Speaker 5: the U.S. So Canadian items banned from entering the U.S.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: And there's categories, but I thought we would get into
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: the specifics. Popular spirits and whiskey, that was the first
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: thing that he said. You ain't getting any of these
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: from Canada.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: And I'm really okay with that.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: I will give you a list of some of the
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: popular alcoholic beverages that emerge from our neighbor to the north.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: And you tell me if this is critical to you.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: First one, Crystal Head Vodka. This is the vodka that
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: comes in a skull.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: All vodka tastes like jet fuel, so no. No effect
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: on me.
• 37:59
  Speaker 5: Not a problem.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: And I've had, I mean, I've had like the new
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Shiner vodka, pretty good. There's a local couple of vodkas
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: that I like, but no, it's all good.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Black velvet whiskey.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. I'm trying to remember. I might have
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: had that from Ship and Shore Liquor. On the county line,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: just outside of Hot Springs.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, seriously.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: On some weekend that budget was a concern.
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: I can't. The last time I saw a black velvet
• 38:29
  Speaker 5: label in a place where I was drinking had to
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: have been, number one, a very dark day.
• 38:36
  Speaker 27: Yeah.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: And number two. A long time ago.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: I was trying to think of what was the bottom
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: shelf Canadian whiskey for us.
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: There has to be one below Black Velvet, and I can't.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Think of it. I don't know, but I think we
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: went as low as Canadian Mist.
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: Canadian Mist!
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: I believe was, yeah.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: I remember Canadian Mist.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: If you could not afford the Crown, you went for
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: the Canadian Mist.
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: No, no, if you couldn't afford the Crown, you went
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: for another one, which is also on the list. Actually,
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: a very popular line, Canadian Club.
• 39:05
  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Yes the cc club.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Cc is respectable that is a respectable well.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: You could get that well you could get that at
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the country club a cc and stoda cc and soda
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: yeah and.
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: If you've ever ever wondered why would it be in
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: a country club because that's how rich people stay rich
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: my friends.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah and i guess also seagram's 7 would be in
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: that list, too.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Seagram's is... A 7 and 7. Yeah, Seagram's would be,
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: although not listed here, I would suspect that Seagram's is
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: also very much on this list. And, of course, the
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: big N, Crown Royal.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, Mike just texted in, Crown Royal, isn't that a
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Canadian product? It's the Canadian product. Yes, Mike, we were
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: saving the, you know, whatever for last. I drank a
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: lot of Crown Royal... Between, you know, college and early
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: after college. And then I hit this, I guess, maturity level. Oh.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Because I drank Crown and Diet Coke all the time.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: And I guess I hit this maturity level where I
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: was like, you know what? I knew I'd become a
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: man when I quit drinking mixed. Just put it on ice.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: And Crown and all the Canadian products, for that matter,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: mostly taste too sweet for me.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Well, I know, it's been a long time since I drank.
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: I know Crown Royal mainly at this point, back in
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: the day, oh yeah, man, barrels of it. Now, today,
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: one of the highest advertisers in the liquor game A
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: lot of activations at big name events, a lot of
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: brand deals with other major influencers and things like that
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: because they really try to lean on it. They lean
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: on it because it isn't something we drink a lot.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: I don't know. So I did wonder, not kidding, no
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: more Crown Royal, y'all. That's it until this thing is resolved.
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: So with that said. Does that affect you? Who's drinking
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: the Crown Royal?
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: Whose go-to is the Crown Royal? I do know some
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: people whose go-to is Crown Royal. And I would bet
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: that they find a way around it.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: You think we're going to go back to the The
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: olden times.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: We're going to be bootlegging some liquor now.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: You think there's going to be people coming across the bridge?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: As fun of a thought as that is. As fun
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: of a thought as that is. No, I think that
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: this person will just switch to something else.
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: Now, let's move on to whey protein. That's right, ladies
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: and gentlemen. They're coming after the bros. Ain't no getting
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: more Canadian whey protein.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Is the Canadian whey protein significantly better than the whey
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: protein from the rest of the countries around the world?
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: I didn't know we import whey and protein supps from
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: our neighbor to the north. This is news to me.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: But just know that is on the list, and it's
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: not even allowed in the country anymore, so that might
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: be a problem.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: There's going to be a black market for whey protein.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: If there's not already.
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: Beer and cider. Now, we talked about this yesterday. Ain't
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: no one drinking Labatt Blue. There's not no one drinking Molson.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: There was a time when Canadian beers were kind of
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: a thing for a minute. Were respectable. Yeah.
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: Not anymore.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Now, the only Canadian beer I want is the one,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: and it may be fictitious, that is on one of
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: our shared favorite... Puppers. Puppers.
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: Puppers.
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 42:26
  Speaker 5: And honestly, they have not stepped up and made that beer,
• 42:28
  Speaker 5: so y'all's lost.
• 42:30
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: Finally, mopeds. Mopeds.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: I got stuck behind a classic moped the other day.
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: We're going to have to hear from our friends at
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: Scoots because if this is true, they're sweating. But yeah,
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: so you got stuck behind one.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute. And it's, I mean, because of other tariffs,
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not as not as cheap to import
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: them from China. But I can assure you that there
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: are other Southeast Asian countries that will step up.
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: There are plenty of countries that are known for mopeds.
• 43:00
  Speaker 5: And yes, you're right, Will. None of them are Canada.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: None of them are Canada.
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: All right. Anyway, you've been warned. We're back after this.
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  Speaker 27: The very best of our silverleaf plants are perennials and
• 45:10
  Speaker 27: there are many of them. Artemisia has come to mind first.
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  Speaker 27: There are four or five common Artemisia's and all of
• 45:16
  Speaker 27: them are gray. Common wormwood is an old type producing
• 45:20
  Speaker 27: woody stems to 24 to 30 inches tall. Keep it
• 45:23
  Speaker 27: sheared to keep it compact. It has a wonderful texture
• 45:26
  Speaker 27: and it stands both our cold and blazing hot sun perfectly.
• 45:30
  Speaker 27: Silver king Artemisia grows to about 30 inches tall but
• 45:34
  Speaker 27: you're going to have to keep it sheared to Keep
• 45:36
  Speaker 27: it from sprawling all over your garden. Silver mound is
• 45:39
  Speaker 27: the smallest, growing only 12 inches tall and wide. Give
• 45:42
  Speaker 27: it perfect drainage and afternoon shade, and you may be
• 45:44
  Speaker 27: able to keep it alive during the heat of the summer.
• 45:47
  Speaker 27: Most times, however, it's going to give up and play out.
• 45:50
  Speaker 27: Best of the bunch, however, is a comparative newcomer called
• 45:53
  Speaker 27: Powis Castle, P-O-W-I-S-C-A-S-T-L-E. It's a frilly little thing that grows
• 46:00
  Speaker 27: somewhat like wormwood. It's one of our very best gray
• 46:02
  Speaker 27: perennials in Texas today. It requires very little management. All
• 46:06
  Speaker 27: it asks is full sun, heat, and moisture, and we
• 46:08
  Speaker 27: can provide all of those. Dusty Millers come in several
• 46:12
  Speaker 27: different leaf shapes and sizes. From a management standpoint, the large-leafed,
• 46:16
  Speaker 27: coarse-textured types grow best. They remain full the longest. They're
• 46:20
  Speaker 27: best treated as annuals, even though many folks expect them
• 46:23
  Speaker 27: to hang on almost forever. There are many different herbal
• 46:26
  Speaker 27: sages that you might consider for your gray foliage. Some
• 46:29
  Speaker 27: are large-leafed, others have small leaves. Some have a purplish
• 46:33
  Speaker 27: tint to their leaves, and others are simply gray. There's
• 46:36
  Speaker 27: truly a sage for any garden, any look.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: They get 12.
• 46:39
  Speaker 27: To 18 inches tall, depending on the type. Several of
• 46:42
  Speaker 27: the yarrow's have gray-green leaves. They're also texturally interesting with
• 46:46
  Speaker 27: their highly incised, ferny leaves. The plants are topped with
• 46:50
  Speaker 27: flattened clusters of yellow, red, pink, white, or orchid flowers. These, too,
• 46:55
  Speaker 27: stand the heat really well. Sedums come in all shades
• 46:59
  Speaker 27: and shapes. Most types are succulent. Many produce gray leaves.
• 47:03
  Speaker 27: Some will have very tiny leaves while others are large
• 47:06
  Speaker 27: and rounded. Some trail while others are rounded. Some have
• 47:09
  Speaker 27: showy flowers. Others do not. Ask your nurseryman for the
• 47:12
  Speaker 27: best sedums for your specific landscaping goals. Lamb's ear is
• 47:17
  Speaker 27: botanically Stachys byzantina. Horticulturally, it's an extremely soft leaf plant
• 47:22
  Speaker 27: that you can use as a gray ground cover.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
• 47:25
  Speaker 27: Gray santalina is good. And there are pinks, the perennial
• 47:29
  Speaker 27: and annual carnations that have gray foliage as well. Taming
• 47:33
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• 47:36
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  Speaker 16: really are people wanting to go have a sense of
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  Speaker 16: urgency and we're going to go make this change right now.
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  Speaker 16: And this group is capable of doing great things. It's
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  Speaker 16: just we got to make things click faster and faster
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  Speaker 16: and faster. And it can't be, again, that meeting was
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  Speaker 16: a little bit along the lines of it can't be
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  Speaker 16: waiting for a loss to go learn a lesson. It's
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  Speaker 16: got to be some trust that the lessons that we're
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  Speaker 16: trying to teach are put into action right away that
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  Speaker 16: we're going out on the floor. And hopefully, again, some
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  Speaker 16: of the things that we're pushing right now, you're going
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  Speaker 16: to see against Stanford with us necessarily having to go
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  Speaker 16: out and, I don't know, learn from something bad that happens.
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  Speaker 1: So I think it's a little bit of both.
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  Speaker 16: Again, I've always said talent takes time. It's one of
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  Speaker 16: the things you do have to be patient to have
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  Speaker 16: true talent to not put Band-Aids and shoestring and duct
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  Speaker 16: tape on this thing to make it kind of not
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  Speaker 16: work and be where it needs to be to have
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  Speaker 16: true talent. It's going to last beyond their time here
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  Speaker 16: at Texas A & M to go off and play
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  Speaker 16: professional and play.
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  Speaker 1: For a national team.
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  Speaker 16: But if there's a sense of urgency and a sense
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  Speaker 16: of having mindful practice, you can do it a lot faster.
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  Speaker 23: First serve for tonight's match between the Aggies and Stanford
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  Speaker 23: is set for 8 o'clock, and you can watch the
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  Speaker 23: game on ESPN2. The A & M football team moved
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  Speaker 23: down two spots in the AP poll rankings yesterday afternoon,
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  Speaker 23: falling behind LSU and Ole Miss. In the Aggies' Week
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  Speaker 23: 1 game, the defense played a strong game, allowing Missouri
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  Speaker 23: State to only 67 total yards on offense, which is
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  Speaker 23: the lowest total the program has allowed since 1978. However,
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  Speaker 23: on the offensive side, things were a little bit slower
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  Speaker 23: to get rolling in the first half. Head coach Mike
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  Speaker 23: Elko spoke about what the team will be doing ahead
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  Speaker 23: of the Arizona State game to clean up that side.
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  Speaker 5: Of the ball.
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  Speaker 17: It's hard now because of the iPad. There was times
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  Speaker 17: where you were doing so much of it off of
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  Speaker 17: feel and off of the video board. Now you actually
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  Speaker 17: have the iPad. So for the most part, you've got
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  Speaker 17: a pretty good feel for what it looks like as
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  Speaker 17: you're going through it. I think maybe just to the
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  Speaker 17: naked eye, I thought the way we grew into the
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  Speaker 17: game on offense, especially on the offensive line, I think
• 51:37
  Speaker 17: is something that It was really good to see. I
• 51:39
  Speaker 17: think there were some guys out there really anxious in
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  Speaker 17: the beginning, certainly the two young guards, Blake and Tyler Thomas.
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  Speaker 17: It was their first time going out there and playing
• 51:49
  Speaker 17: meaningful snaps in a meaningful game, and Lamont Rogers threw
• 51:53
  Speaker 17: him into that category as well. I thought when they
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  Speaker 17: got into their second series, third series, fourth series, you
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  Speaker 17: could really see them slowing down and playing the game
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  Speaker 17: the way we've seen them play throughout fall camp. I
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  Speaker 17: thought that was really encouraging as we moved through it.
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  Speaker 23: Coach Elko also spoke about the growth of the offensive line.
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  Speaker 17: I thought there was a lot of good, certainly some
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  Speaker 17: things that we had to clean up. I think it
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  Speaker 17: was a little bit of a storm in that it
• 52:18
  Speaker 17: was a lot of things that we hadn't practiced with
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  Speaker 17: a lot of guys out there playing together. You had
• 52:23
  Speaker 17: no idea what to predict the scheme was going to
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  Speaker 17: look like, and so we certainly didn't play to the
• 52:28
  Speaker 17: level or standard we need to early in the game.
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  Speaker 17: I think everybody's aware of that. But again, I think
• 52:33
  Speaker 17: it was good to see us adjust, settle in, and
• 52:36
  Speaker 17: start to make better plays as we move forward from
• 52:39
  Speaker 17: an O-line standpoint. And again, there's big challenges coming up,
• 52:42
  Speaker 17: and we're going to have to continue to get better.
• 52:44
  Speaker 17: And that group is going to have to continue to
• 52:46
  Speaker 17: work really hard to get better every time they go
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  Speaker 17: out there.
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  Speaker 23: The Marin and White are set to kick off on
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  Speaker 23: Saturday at 11 a.m. In the MLB last night, the
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  Speaker 23: Houston Astros came away with a 6-5 win against the
• 52:58
  Speaker 23: Philadelphia Phillies, while the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 10-5.
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