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The Infomaniacs: August 28th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. College Station
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  Speaker 1: City Council met last night to discuss budget and the
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  Speaker 1: property tax rate.
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  Speaker 2: The tax rate.
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  Speaker 1: Of 53.02 cents per $ 100 valuation passed by a vote
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  Speaker 1: of 5-2, with Councilman Bob Yancey and David Smith saying no.
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  Speaker 1: Councilwoman Melissa McElhaney says even though the city's property tax
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  Speaker 1: rate is increasing, the city is doing a great job
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  Speaker 1: of making our tax dollars work.
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  Speaker 3: So when we get to the budget, I think we're
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  Speaker 3: doing more with less. We're adding personnel. We are continuing
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  Speaker 3: to provide excellent service level. I also am very proud
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  Speaker 3: of us. We have one of the lowest tax rates,
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  Speaker 3: even at this proposed increase, compared to our sister city
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  Speaker 3: over here, Bryan. I think they're at 0.624 right now.
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  Speaker 3: Waco's at 0.755. That doesn't mean that we're the same.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't mean that the valuations are the same. But
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  Speaker 3: we are very responsible in maintaining a tax rate that
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  Speaker 3: covers our basis without being overly taxed.
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  Speaker 4: Pushy toward it.
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  Speaker 1: Council voted 6-1 in favor of the $ 576 million budget
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  Speaker 1: for fiscal year 2027, with Councilman Bob Yancey being the
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  Speaker 1: only nay. Governor Greg Abbott is continuing his push to
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  Speaker 1: remove Muslim foot washing stations from Texas airports.
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  Speaker 5: Governor Abbott has been asking the Justice Department to investigate
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  Speaker 5: airports in Dallas and Houston for their religious facilities. And
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  Speaker 5: while the feds have not acted yet, he's confident that
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  Speaker 5: they will soon.
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  Speaker 1: We expect them to live up to the standard to ensure.
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  Speaker 2: There's no religious discrimination.
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  Speaker 5: He argues that Muslim-only bathroom spaces in airports are akin
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  Speaker 5: to white-only bathrooms. The mayor of Houston defended the facility,
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  Speaker 5: saying they serve a practical need. And the Texas chapter
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  Speaker 5: of the Council on American Islamic Relations called the push
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  Speaker 5: an anti-Muslim political stunt. In San Antonio, Michael Bord, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The Texas Bicentennial is 10 years away and big crowds
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  Speaker 1: are expected. The head of the Texas Historical Commission says
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  Speaker 1: they're tracking a steady rise in people visiting sites like
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  Speaker 1: the Alamo.
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  Speaker 6: Right now we've got growth that's occurring about 10% to
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  Speaker 6: our historic sites.
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  Speaker 1: That includes another $ 85 million to restore San Jacinto and
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  Speaker 1: finish the museum there. There is also a push to
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  Speaker 1: restore Washington on the Brazos. A mayor in Bexar County
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  Speaker 1: has been arrested and is facing an assault charge against
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  Speaker 1: one of his harshest critics. Court video documents show Balcones
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  Speaker 1: Heights Mayor Johnny Rodriguez deliberately touching the arm of former
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  Speaker 1: council member Lamar Gillian after a fiery council meeting on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: despite being warned not to touch the 78-year-old councilman. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez was arrested by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office and
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  Speaker 1: charged with misdemeanor assault on the elderly. He was released
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  Speaker 1: on a $ 5, 000 bond and has been ordered not to
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  Speaker 1: contact Gillian. or have any firearms. The cities of Bryan
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  Speaker 1: and College Station are asking residents to adopt voluntary watering restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: They say with high demand, water tower levels can drop,
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  Speaker 1: affecting water pressure, and that can hamper water availability during
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  Speaker 1: a large fire. Avoid watering during daytime hours and limit
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  Speaker 1: watering to two days per week. News is presented by
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  Speaker 1: David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More news at 830 or
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  Speaker 1: anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 7: Tom Turbeville here. If you're considering selling your jewelry, collectible coins,
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  Speaker 7: gold or silver, bullion, or other unique items, you'll find
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  Speaker 7: to serve you. Selling your items is simple. Just take
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  Speaker 7: take about 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 8: 16-20-94-5-W-T-A-W. I genuinely love it when a plan comes together.
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  Speaker 8: Because we were talking with City of Bryan yesterday about
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  Speaker 8: some of the arts initiatives and the grant that, again,
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  Speaker 8: you should go check out and apply for if you're
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  Speaker 8: someone that, anything. It's like print, paint.
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  Speaker 2: Butter.
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  Speaker 8: Butter could work, dude. Live music. I mean, all sorts
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  Speaker 8: of things. They want to know about your project. And...
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  Speaker 8: One of the things that came up yesterday was a
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  Speaker 8: little thing called Fiber Fest.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and initially when that was mentioned, I was like, what,
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  Speaker 1: we've got some big internet thing going on?
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  Speaker 8: Mm-mm-mm-mm-mm.
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  Speaker 1: You quickly corrected me.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, and one of the things that we kind of
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  Speaker 8: got off on a tangent on was how big Needlepoint
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  Speaker 8: is getting, how big quilting is getting. It's becoming a
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  Speaker 8: very popular thing amongst the youth.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter, who turns 20 on Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Has within the past three months gotten so into needlepointing.
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  Speaker 1: She's ordering frames left and right and got the stuff
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  Speaker 1: up on her walls in her cute little cottage in Oxford.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big deal.
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  Speaker 8: And with that in mind, we have Miriam in to
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  Speaker 8: talk about some Fiberfest action because you emailed me and
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  Speaker 8: told me about this, and I've never heard of this.
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  Speaker 8: I'm certain it probably occurs in other places, but this
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  Speaker 8: is really cool. We're having one here, so we wanted
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  Speaker 8: to highlight it and pub this. If you are in
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  Speaker 8: to anything in the Fiberscape, they have an event for you.
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  Speaker 8: What are you going to be putting together?
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  Speaker 9: So Fiber Festival is now an annual event under Brazos
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  Speaker 9: Valley Fiber Arts. The last two years basically proved that
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  Speaker 9: there's such a huge niche that wasn't being met that
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  Speaker 9: it went from a weekend thing to a year-round thing.
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  Speaker 8: I know. Where did you have it last year? Refresh
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  Speaker 8: my memory on this.
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  Speaker 9: It's at the Brazos Center. And that's where it'll be
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  Speaker 9: again next year.
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  Speaker 8: I was told, I had some friends when I went
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  Speaker 8: out there, it was packed.
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  Speaker 1: I did not realize the magnitude of what's going on until...
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  Speaker 1: I got back into this business just over a year ago,
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  Speaker 1: and I realized that we've got on the first floor of.
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  Speaker 8: This office building. We have a quilting space.
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  Speaker 2: That's always packed.
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  Speaker 10: Always.
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  Speaker 8: I would say it might be the most trafficked office
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  Speaker 8: in the entire building.
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  Speaker 2: Quite possibly.
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  Speaker 8: So right now, I want to talk about the interdependence
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  Speaker 8: relay side of things, because this is coming up on
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  Speaker 8: October 10th. And this is the part that I had never,
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  Speaker 8: what is an interdependence relay?
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  Speaker 9: So when our current administration took over, there was a
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  Speaker 9: general push for local communities. And Garrett is an individual
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  Speaker 9: who put together the declarations of independence. And his tagline
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  Speaker 9: is 50 states, 50 gatherings. And the idea was to
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  Speaker 9: find common ground and discuss what made us community. And
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  Speaker 9: I had seen it come across my feed on Instagram.
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  Speaker 9: And without really thinking about it, I just flew off
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  Speaker 9: and messaged him and said, hey, this sounds like a
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  Speaker 9: really cool idea, but I noticed that you're not really
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  Speaker 9: tackling arts and culture as part of that conversation. And
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  Speaker 9: he literally fired back, and what do you have to offer?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Next question.
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  Speaker 9: I said, how about a fiber arts organization that is
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  Speaker 9: literally about programming arts and community? And he said, done.
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  Speaker 9: Filed the application. And two weeks later, we got back.
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  Speaker 2: And off you go.
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  Speaker 8: So this is basically everyone gets together and then you
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  Speaker 8: all work. Is it everyone working on a common project?
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  Speaker 11: No, we.
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  Speaker 9: So within crocheting and knitting, we do. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 9: other people. fiber arts, you, we have what's known as
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  Speaker 9: a sit and stitch and it's a social couple of
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  Speaker 9: hours where a bunch of us get together and we
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  Speaker 9: work on our independent projects and we talk about everything, life,
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  Speaker 9: what's going on in our personal lives, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 9: And that is what the core of our hosting gathering
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  Speaker 9: is going to be, is that we are going to
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  Speaker 9: have hopefully 30 ladies sit down and gentlemen, if there's
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  Speaker 9: any out there that want to join, um, and sit
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  Speaker 9: and stitch on our projects individually, but at the same
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  Speaker 9: time discuss that when you're within a sit and stitch
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  Speaker 9: or any kind of art gathering like that, you have
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  Speaker 9: a tendency to not pay attention to any of the
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  Speaker 9: things that currently divide us, that we're really more aware
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  Speaker 9: of who you are and what's going on in your
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  Speaker 9: life and all the other things become irrelevant.
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  Speaker 8: It's a beautiful thing. How can people sign up for this?
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  Speaker 9: So if they reach out on our website, we literally
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  Speaker 9: in the middle of the front page have a thing
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  Speaker 9: that says RSVP to the interdependence relay.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 9: And it's free.
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  Speaker 2: It's free.
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  Speaker 8: So just click it, reserve your spot, go out and
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  Speaker 8: do some fiber work.
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  Speaker 1: And what is that website?
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  Speaker 9: It is BrazosValleyFiberArts.org.
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  Speaker 8: BrazosValleyFiberArts.org. And on FiberFest, when is the dates for that?
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  Speaker 9: March 12th through 14th.
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  Speaker 8: So, yeah, you got you got a minute.
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  Speaker 1: You can start planning your projects now.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 9: We're already sending the call out for teachers, volunteers.
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  Speaker 1: Excellent. Are those needs available on your website as well
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  Speaker 1: for people who want to do that?
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 8: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 9: Fiber Festival has its own website as well. It's BrazosValleyFiberFestival.com.
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  Speaker 8: Miriam, thank you so much for coming in and catching
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  Speaker 8: 90s today, upper 90s. Heat index will be around 103
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  Speaker 8: under the threat, especially us that work in this area.
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  Speaker 8: particular business of getting canceled to cancel for all sorts
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  Speaker 8: of things. Some of them, we know we all, we
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  Speaker 8: all know the big stuff, right?
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  Speaker 17: Yep.
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  Speaker 8: You know, when you're going to roll that dice and
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  Speaker 8: you probably shouldn't, but where is the line of cancellation?
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  Speaker 8: What is the lowest stakes hot take that might get
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  Speaker 8: you canceled?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I, I think I I'm impervious to it
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  Speaker 1: because I don't care.
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  Speaker 8: No, I don't really care either. It's, it's, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: Go ahead. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Counsel.
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  Speaker 8: It's just.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Don't don't threaten me with a good time.
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  Speaker 18: Right.
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  Speaker 8: But that said, some people have decided to try to
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  Speaker 8: draw the line on some of the once again, low stakes,
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  Speaker 8: hot takes. These are not the big ones, guys. These
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  Speaker 8: are those things that you feel very passionately about. And,
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  Speaker 8: you know, if you have some, you know, the things
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  Speaker 8: that you know that that, oh, I might not want
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  Speaker 8: to say this. This might be a problem. 9-7-9-6-9-5-16-20. I'll
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  Speaker 8: give you some examples of some of the ones they
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  Speaker 8: say could get you canceled. Elected officials and judges should
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  Speaker 8: be mandated to retire by age 75.
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  Speaker 1: I'm down with it.
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  Speaker 8: You don't have a problem with that? That's controversial. Dogs
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  Speaker 8: and pets in general are not people. They are, in fact,
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  Speaker 8: unhygienic and do not belong in restaurants or grocery stores.
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  Speaker 2: Except under certain circumstances.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, because obviously there are service dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not talking about the service dog that
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  Speaker 1: you got on the internet and got a mail order certificate.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of like Tucker's ordained situation over here.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, I am not actually... By ordained minister, which I am,
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  Speaker 8: I mean I just paid 10 bucks on a website online.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I do not have a.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have the theological background.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 8: You should never, never put me in a position of
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  Speaker 8: religious authority. That would be a horrible decision.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But yet, legally, it passes.
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  Speaker 1: Just like the service dog thing.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not sure that that does. Because I know usually
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  Speaker 8: the thing is you go to Amazon and you get
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  Speaker 8: the vest. Because I've been in airports before, man. And
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  Speaker 8: I know what service dogs look like. Service dogs are expensive.
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  Speaker 17: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: They are not cheap.
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  Speaker 1: And they are not... necessarily a toy breed.
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  Speaker 8: They always look very similar. Yeah, there's a couple of
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  Speaker 8: breeds you know, okay, they make pretty good service dogs.
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  Speaker 8: If it's able to be cradled in your arm.
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  Speaker 1: If it has its own purse that you get carried
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  Speaker 1: around in.
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  Speaker 8: That is unlikely to have passed any rigorous scrutiny whatsoever.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm not sure if that's... protected i don't know
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  Speaker 8: i know it used to be a big loophole i
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  Speaker 8: feel like they might have closed that i.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think it's closed uh is in a lot of
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  Speaker 1: circumstances in fact i know at least one person who
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  Speaker 1: still does it today oh um yeah and and look
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  Speaker 1: i i came across this when i was working with
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  Speaker 1: texas a & m task force of the canine handlers
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  Speaker 1: they're really upset about that they should be They should
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  Speaker 1: be upset about it. Because those dogs that get this
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  Speaker 1: certification or whatever, this hall pass to go anywhere as
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  Speaker 1: a service dog, gives their dogs bad reputations.
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  Speaker 8: Because they don't want to start side-eyeing. They're like, okay, well,
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  Speaker 8: is that a real side-eyeing? I assure you, some of
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  Speaker 8: them are very, very real and are practically superhuman in
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  Speaker 8: their abilities. But it's probably not your chi thing.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 8: What can you say? Now, I digress. Next low stakes
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  Speaker 8: hot take that they say could get you canceled. I
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  Speaker 8: can't stand the people who bike on streets. They think
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  Speaker 8: they own the road and don't realize how dangerous it is.
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  Speaker 8: I can see how that would get you canceled.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about canceled. It might get looked at sideways.
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  Speaker 8: It would get you judged. Because you as well, my friend.
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  Speaker 8: are using this road. You just have to be using
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  Speaker 8: it with a motor vehicle. I do not cycle. No
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  Speaker 8: interest in it. But the car is far more dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: It's like riding a motorcycle. Look, if you're on a
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  Speaker 1: bicycle and you're riding on a busy public road with
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  Speaker 1: no shoulder, I mean, you are legitimately... They're taking the.
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  Speaker 8: Life out of your hand.
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  Speaker 2: You are.
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  Speaker 1: And right or wrong, I'm not arguing that, right or wrong,
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  Speaker 1: you still have to contend with the F-350. Yes, you do.
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  Speaker 8: And the F-350 will win.
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  Speaker 2: Every time.
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  Speaker 8: People who genuinely believe in astrology slash tarot reading slash
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  Speaker 8: woo-woo magic shouldn't be taken seriously in any capacity in life.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 20: I'll say it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say it. You genuinely believe in it.
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  Speaker 8: I'll say it.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 8: And another one, just for fun. People should be able...
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  Speaker 8: To have non-lethal duels to settle personal disputes.
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  Speaker 1: You talking about fisticuffs? A Donnybrook?
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  Speaker 8: I think that one is worthy of a discussion.
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  Speaker 1: The way we used to settle it back in school, man.
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  Speaker 8: How do y'all feel about that? Again, non-lethal duels. I'm
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  Speaker 8: not saying Hamilton Burr. I'm saying, I think it is
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  Speaker 8: reasonable to say that life... Would be better if you
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  Speaker 8: knew that you could get punched in the mouth for
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  Speaker 8: saying some of the things that you say.
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  Speaker 2: That's a hot take, Tucker.
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  Speaker 8: That's for me as well.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: It keeps you honest.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: When you know that, again, I'm not not condoning violence.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just saying that some of the things that we
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  Speaker 8: all throw out on the Internet, maybe they wouldn't. happen
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  Speaker 8: quite as much if you knew there was potential consequences
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  Speaker 8: someone might find you and knock you out right like
• 19:27
  Speaker 8: mama said like mama said and and again will like
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: you said that used to be a component of how
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  Speaker 8: uh how things were resolved back in the day you
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  Speaker 8: got into a scrum you got into a scrap and.
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  Speaker 1: Then when it was over you you know shook hands
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  Speaker 8: Was over You knew the beef had been squashed.
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  Speaker 1: And you moved on we don't have that anymore no
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I mean and I took my share of whoopings I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: gave my share of weapons.
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  Speaker 8: And if we need to call it a duel of
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: some sort, call it whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 8: Show up here and let's get it on.
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  Speaker 1: Allison texted in when you said non-lethal duel. The first
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  Speaker 1: thing that came to mind was paintball or Nerf gun. Allison, honestly, same.
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  Speaker 2: Gettysburg.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, Gettysburg.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And I see that, but I just don't see
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  Speaker 1: paintball as being a painful enough resolution.
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: What are those things that Hannity's always hawking? The little
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: pepper ball guns?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the pepper balls. That would work better.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, so if you guys weren't listening, go back to
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  Speaker 8: the podcast. One of the listeners came up with, when
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  Speaker 8: he was at Childhood Game, we were talking about that, Gettysburg.
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  Speaker 8: Everyone would line up and then take a shot and
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  Speaker 8: then move a foot closer and take a shot. Do
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: it with pepper balls.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, works for me.
• 20:39
  Speaker 8: Put some bear spray in them and then just, you know,
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: until eventually someone's going to get hit and have a
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: really bad day.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 8: That's a duel.
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  Speaker 21: This is Today in Texas History, brought to you by
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  Speaker 11: On this day, August the 28th in 1945, Edwina Dealey,
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  Speaker 11: dangerous maneuver sank five Japanese destroyers in four days. Dealey
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  Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Friday. From the WTAW newsroom, I'm
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  Speaker 1: Will Welch. Before the regular session of last night's College
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  Speaker 1: Station City Council meeting got underway, Mayor John Nichols had
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  Speaker 17: Council directs staff to amend the real estate contract with
• 30:21
  Speaker 17: the Corinth Group to sell approximately half of the city's
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  Speaker 17: 28 acres next to Costco to the Corinth Group and
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  Speaker 17: the remaining approximate half to Bass Pro for one of
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  Speaker 1: The final sale must still be approved, but we finally
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  Speaker 1: have an idea of what will be happening with the
• 30:40
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• 30:44
  Speaker 1: of $ 576 million and the property tax rate of $ 53. 02
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: per $ 100 valuation. Two men are jailed after a drug
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: bust Wednesday. Bryan Police conducted surveillance of suspected cocaine sales
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  Speaker 1: in the 1300 block of Moon Street. Officers say they
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  Speaker 1: observed men repeatedly walking between a fence and vehicles as
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  Speaker 2: The men were.
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  Speaker 1: Identified as 68-year-old Bobby Perry and 38-year-old Quentin McMiller. A
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: bag discovered at the fence contained 7.4 grams of white
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  Speaker 1: powder and 0.15 grams of rock cocaine. Perry was found
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: to have just over 20 grams of crack cocaine inside
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  Speaker 1: his car and was arrested for manufactured delivery of a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: controlled substance. He is being held on $ 50, 000 bond and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: it was his 17th time at the Brazos County Jail.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: McMiller had just under 2 grams of crack cocaine and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: more than 10 grams of marijuana. He was charged with
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: manufactured delivery of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He is being held on $ 50, 000 bond and it was
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: his 29th booking into the Brazos County Jail. After a
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: federal judge in Texas ordered that ICE agent Christian Castro
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: would not be extradited to Minnesota, he is now free
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: from jail. Castro was released from the Brownsville jail at
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: dawn Thursday. He waved to reporters, got into an SUV,
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  Speaker 1: and drove off. It was an apparent victory for Governor
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, who did not sign the extradition papers to
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: send Castro to Minnesota, where he is facing four counts
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: of felony assault after authorities there said he fired through
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the front door of a home, hitting a man in
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the leg. Minnesota authorities say jailhouse phone logs give them
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: reason to believe he will flee to Mexico, where he
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: owns a home and was planning to retire. A spokesman
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: for Abbott released a statement saying if their investigation determines
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that Castro is a fugitive, they will track him down
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: and arrest him. Some college students in Texas could have
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a degree in hand one year sooner.
• 32:39
  Speaker 24: There's a push to create three-year bachelor degree options for
• 32:43
  Speaker 24: certain high demand job fields. Governor Abbott says this would
• 32:46
  Speaker 24: lower tuition costs and hopefully give students an incentive to
• 32:50
  Speaker 24: finish school.
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  Speaker 1: We want to make sure all those students are going
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  Speaker 1: to have access to the best education they can get
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  Speaker 1: at an affordable price.
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  Speaker 24: Abbott says information technology, IT, is likely to be one
• 33:00
  Speaker 24: field eligible for a three-year bachelor's program. Others have yet
• 33:04
  Speaker 24: to be decided. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will
• 33:07
  Speaker 24: work with state lawmakers to draft a bill to go
• 33:10
  Speaker 24: before the legislature in January. Abbott says he is confident
• 33:13
  Speaker 24: the program will pass and that by next fall, students
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• 33:21
  Speaker 1: One witness is still being held in the Houston ice
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Araujo was killed while driving his construction work van July 7th.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: Two others in that van have been released from federal custody.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Harris County District Attorney Sean Teer tells Hello Houston his
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: office is now free to interview them.
• 33:39
  Speaker 20: Where they're not concerned that someone else is overhearing them,
• 33:42
  Speaker 20: they can be free to speak and give us their
• 33:45
  Speaker 20: actual rendition. We intend to get them in front of
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• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Araujo's brother, Victor Salgado Araujo, who is in the passenger
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: seat still in custody, his office has sent a letter
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  Speaker 4: to be presented in open court that the brother is
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  Speaker 4: a material witness and should be released. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott was in Dallas to celebrate the grand opening
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: of the New York Stock Exchange Texas headquarters on the
• 34:10
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• 34:13
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• 34:17
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  Speaker 19: More NYSE companies are based in Texas than any other
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  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott pointed out how they've been building toward this
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  Speaker 8: in the building. What's going on, man?
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  Speaker 26: Always glad to be here.
• 36:57
  Speaker 8: Who did you bring with you this week?
• 36:58
  Speaker 17: Let me think.
• 36:59
  Speaker 25: Oh, yeah.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: This is Brian Wood.
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: The city manager.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Welcome back, man.
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: It's good to have you here. By the way, I
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: want to get this out of the way because we
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: had so many people that were like, when are y'all
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: going to talk about it? You knew we were going
• 37:12
  Speaker 8: to talk about Bass Pro. We had a college station
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: coming in. We just figured we'd wait until we had
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: the people that could actually answer questions about it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Not just the speculation because I had all the speculation
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: this morning.
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: I could yap about it all day long. That doesn't
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: get us anywhere.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: My first thought this morning, actually yesterday, when this news broke,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: was why?
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Ask Pro Shops, why are you coming here? Not from
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the City of College Station's perspective, because we want big
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: businesses like that to come here.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: No, it's a monster.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: We even discussed that one. I was genuinely surprised by
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: this news. And the reason is, like Will's alluding to,
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: everything we've ever been told By a lot of large
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: operating businesses is, oh, well, yeah, College Chase is great,
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: but market size is a little small for us to
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: be able to pull this off. Bass Pro is a
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: monster business. I mean, I forget how big they are,
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: but you can see them from space.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: And here's the deal.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: They don't. They don't go blind into a market. This
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: is my thought process.
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: They don't build a lot of them at all.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: After I was like the initial shock of why are
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: they coming here? Then I realized, well, first of all,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: they do a lot of research. And second of all,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: this is going to be a fantastic anchor for Midtown.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
• 38:30
  Speaker 27: I mean, we're very excited about it. And I mean,
• 38:33
  Speaker 27: quite honestly, and we haven't gotten there yet, but the
• 38:36
  Speaker 27: other half of the property that we're working with Corinth
• 38:39
  Speaker 27: on has got some really exciting stuff that is being
• 38:42
  Speaker 27: lined up there too. And I think it'll only be
• 38:44
  Speaker 27: amplified now that obviously you've got Bass Pro as an anchor. But,
• 38:48
  Speaker 27: I mean, you guys brought it up. I think it's
• 38:50
  Speaker 27: something that we talk about all the time. So, you know,
• 38:53
  Speaker 27: we got AAA rated this year, 12th city in the state.
• 38:57
  Speaker 27: If you go look at those other cities, major metros
• 39:00
  Speaker 27: and those kind of things, you see a Bass Pro,
• 39:02
  Speaker 27: a major retailer coming in here. I mean, I think
• 39:04
  Speaker 27: what people are realizing is just not only how big
• 39:07
  Speaker 27: a market and how stable a market we are, but
• 39:10
  Speaker 27: we're a great investment. I mean, and... We talk to
• 39:14
  Speaker 27: folks all the time. Obviously, these kind of deals are
• 39:16
  Speaker 27: a long time in the making on both sides. And
• 39:20
  Speaker 27: there's other ones out there that are these major retailers
• 39:23
  Speaker 27: that really want to be in this market.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: But you look at the Midtown area there, and of
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: course it has gone from, oh, this is kind of
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: what we want to do, and now we actually have
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: some things that are kind of almost set in stone.
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: The pieces are coming together fairly quickly.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in a delightful way. I don't know, Brian, have
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you ever been to Branson, Missouri?
• 39:43
  Speaker 27: I have not been to Branson.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, it's a total apple oranges thing, right?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: You can't compare Branson, Missouri to College Station, Texas. However,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: they have a Bass Pro Shop, and it anchors an
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: area that is designed for shopping, restaurants, and tourist activities.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: You know, people coming to town. And I picture this
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the same way without a beautiful Missouri river flowing by it.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: But other than that.
• 40:07
  Speaker 27: Yeah, I mean, I will just say we're very fortunate
• 40:09
  Speaker 27: in my area. aunt and uncle lived in Crested Butte
• 40:12
  Speaker 27: basically my whole life. And I took my family up
• 40:14
  Speaker 27: there this summer and we, we drove and flew from, uh,
• 40:18
  Speaker 27: from Dallas. Um, but my kids wanted to stop at
• 40:22
  Speaker 27: Bass Pro on the way up to go to Colorado. So,
• 40:26
  Speaker 27: I mean, it is, it is a draw.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: It is a huge draw. Outside of just being a retailer.
• 40:30
  Speaker 27: The other thing that we look at, which is, you know, just,
• 40:33
  Speaker 27: I think important for people to know is when, when
• 40:35
  Speaker 27: people are coming in, whether it's a business, um, a
• 40:37
  Speaker 27: retailer or jobs when we look at is it going
• 40:40
  Speaker 27: to be incentivized if it's our land that we're selling
• 40:41
  Speaker 27: anything we try to look and make sure that we're
• 40:43
  Speaker 27: not bringing someone in that is a direct competitor with
• 40:46
  Speaker 27: other people right of course there are things that bass
• 40:48
  Speaker 27: pro sells and does that's a.
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: Hard one with them because they are so broad right
• 40:53
  Speaker 8: they sell a little bit of everything like if it's
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: outdoors related obviously you know they got that but i
• 41:01
  Speaker 8: mean they they've got everything in those stores.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: I can tell you this, that those stores here in
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: town that I currently frequent that might carry some of
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: the same things, I'm going to continue to frequent. I'm
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: also going to go to Bass Pro Shop.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: Yeah. I mean, that's true. It doesn't have to be
• 41:15
  Speaker 8: one or the other.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: No.
• 41:15
  Speaker 20: Right.
• 41:16
  Speaker 27: That's really what we're looking at is you're trying to add.
• 41:18
  Speaker 27: There's always going to be crossover. And quite honestly, people,
• 41:22
  Speaker 27: I don't know that they know, but some of our,
• 41:25
  Speaker 27: I'm not going to name drop them because I'll miss
• 41:27
  Speaker 27: some of them, but We have several retailers, restaurants that
• 41:30
  Speaker 27: are the number one performing in the state of their brand.
• 41:34
  Speaker 27: I mean, that's the reason the market is coming here.
• 41:38
  Speaker 27: And there are going to be people that, again, there's
• 41:41
  Speaker 27: some crossover between them. But I think something like Bass
• 41:44
  Speaker 27: Pro is different than what we have here, and it'll
• 41:47
  Speaker 27: bring additional value. Just from a citizen standpoint, from a
• 41:51
  Speaker 27: city standpoint, we also don't want to bring in something
• 41:54
  Speaker 27: that is just going to move revenue from one side
• 41:57
  Speaker 27: to the other. So outside of how it affects those
• 42:00
  Speaker 27: retailers or business owners, which is really important, we want
• 42:03
  Speaker 27: to see a growth in revenue from it coming into
• 42:06
  Speaker 27: the city. That sales tax coming up is how you
• 42:09
  Speaker 27: help to keep property taxes down. And so if you're
• 42:11
  Speaker 27: just transferring it from business A to business B, it
• 42:15
  Speaker 27: doesn't do you any good. What you want to see
• 42:16
  Speaker 27: is a growth. And somewhere like Bass Pro is a
• 42:19
  Speaker 27: regional draw. And that's what we want from a college
• 42:21
  Speaker 27: station taxpayer perspective. We want people coming in from outside
• 42:25
  Speaker 27: who don't necessarily utilize the services that we have to
• 42:27
  Speaker 27: pay for but are helping to generate some of that
• 42:29
  Speaker 27: revenue that does.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Well, kudos.
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: Yeah, big get. And I would not have seen that coming.
• 42:37
  Speaker 8: It's going to be an incredible thing to see one
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: of those open up.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Big store.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, essentially 100,000 square feet. It's an apartment shy
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of 100,000 square feet. That's absolutely crazy and very cool.
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: Next question I had for you, because I asked Will.
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: He didn't know. What is plug-and-play? The other thing that
• 42:57
  Speaker 8: popped up yesterday was kind of unexpected. The city terminating
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: the contract for plug-and-play.
• 43:00
  Speaker 27: Yeah, plug-and-play is they're kind of an incubator, accelerator type
• 43:06
  Speaker 27: of a model. It was something that we had been
• 43:08
  Speaker 27: in a partnership in with A & M, Brazos County,
• 43:12
  Speaker 27: and Bryan. And the idea, without going into all of it,
• 43:16
  Speaker 27: is they have kind of this national network, and they're
• 43:18
  Speaker 27: plugged into these companies. And their goal is to help
• 43:22
  Speaker 27: kind of grow businesses in your region. There was a
• 43:25
  Speaker 27: big push a few years ago from the state to
• 43:28
  Speaker 27: do this and, again, partnering with A & M.
• 43:30
  Speaker 20: Right.
• 43:30
  Speaker 27: And from a College Station perspective, it just hasn't gone
• 43:34
  Speaker 27: the way we'd hoped. And, you know, it's a significant
• 43:37
  Speaker 27: amount of money for us putting into it, $ 250, 000 a year.
• 43:42
  Speaker 27: And some discussion last night about that, we actually kept
• 43:44
  Speaker 27: it in what we call one-time money because we basically–
• 43:48
  Speaker 27: we're using it as a trial period, which I think
• 43:50
  Speaker 27: is a great way to do things like this as
• 43:52
  Speaker 27: a government. Hey, let's look, let's see if these people
• 43:54
  Speaker 27: can bring value. But then you have to analyze that.
• 43:57
  Speaker 27: I mean, as was done last night in the budget,
• 43:59
  Speaker 27: we are always having to look at what is the
• 44:02
  Speaker 27: money that we're spending. And so council, I think, put
• 44:04
  Speaker 27: a lot of thought into it and working with our partners,
• 44:06
  Speaker 27: some who are going to continue their relationship with Plug
• 44:09
  Speaker 27: and Play for a But we just decided that for
• 44:15
  Speaker 27: us it was better to go a different direction.
• 44:17
  Speaker 17: Okay.
• 44:17
  Speaker 16: Okay.
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: Finally, as long as it's semi, not the same thing,
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: but techie, kind of. We talked about this yesterday about,
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: or maybe it was the day before, Pflugerville.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: City of Pflugerville, city council decided no more on the
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: flock cameras.
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: And the discussion we were having was for Pflugerville in particular,
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: they had that situation that they had signed up thinking, okay,
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: we can deal with 80 agencies to be able to
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: see this data. And they found it was close, closer
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: to 500 agencies that see that data. The other flock
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: stories that have come out. And again, there have been
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: some good ones too, because we're talking about a kid
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: got rescued from a dangerous situation because of flock cameras.
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: But the other one are, are bad actors in police
• 45:03
  Speaker 8: forces and things like that. The CEO is, doing an
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: apology tour on Fox. Is there a point where the
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: brand becomes so toxic that you guys are just going
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: to have to get away from it? Or is that
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: not factoring into any of these discussions with the city
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: at all?
• 45:24
  Speaker 27: Well, I'll say it from a city manager standpoint, obviously,
• 45:26
  Speaker 27: because ultimately this is a policy decision from the council
• 45:28
  Speaker 27: and a tough one. Because I want to make it
• 45:32
  Speaker 27: clear in talking with our law enforcement, seeing it, it
• 45:35
  Speaker 27: is a... extremely effective technology. I mean, I cannot tell
• 45:40
  Speaker 27: you how many people it has positively impacted. And I
• 45:44
  Speaker 27: have real concerns about the loss of that. And I've
• 45:48
  Speaker 27: heard people say, oh, well, you were doing investigating before
• 45:51
  Speaker 27: this and you were doing that.
• 45:53
  Speaker 17: Yes, of course.
• 45:53
  Speaker 27: And we will continue to do whatever we have to
• 45:57
  Speaker 27: with the tools that we have. But the degree to
• 46:00
  Speaker 27: which it allows us to prevent crime, stop really bad
• 46:05
  Speaker 27: things from happening, and solve crime. I mean, it is
• 46:08
  Speaker 27: an effective tool. And that is why this is a conversation.
• 46:11
  Speaker 27: Because if this was just something that was new, and
• 46:14
  Speaker 27: you saw some of these challenges, then it wouldn't be
• 46:16
  Speaker 27: that hard. I think what we have been fortunate in,
• 46:20
  Speaker 27: like a lot of cities that have kind of gone
• 46:22
  Speaker 27: through it, yes, you're going to have bad actors. I
• 46:24
  Speaker 27: think we have really good policies and procedures in place
• 46:28
  Speaker 27: to prevent that. I mean, if you're obviously familiar with
• 46:32
  Speaker 27: police and a lot of what we do, There are
• 46:34
  Speaker 27: a lot of ways that if you're a bad actor
• 46:37
  Speaker 27: in a city that you could do some real damage.
• 46:39
  Speaker 8: That is not a new, yeah, that's not a new situation.
• 46:42
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 46:42
  Speaker 27: So, but I think one thing that makes this unique
• 46:45
  Speaker 27: is the power of the tool is the network that
• 46:49
  Speaker 27: Flock has. So that when we're looking for someone, it's
• 46:52
  Speaker 27: not confined to our geography. You know, again, we find
• 46:55
  Speaker 27: people in College Station who weren't people that were doing
• 46:58
  Speaker 27: anything bad here because of that network. So that's the
• 47:00
  Speaker 27: power of it. But in order to have that, you
• 47:03
  Speaker 27: have people who have access to it. And one of
• 47:05
  Speaker 27: the points that keeps getting said, which I appreciate, is, hey,
• 47:08
  Speaker 27: we trust you guys. We see you guys. But what
• 47:10
  Speaker 27: about these other folks? And those are the questions we have, too.
• 47:12
  Speaker 27: And what I will say is we are constantly, not
• 47:15
  Speaker 27: just with Flock, although it catches more of the news,
• 47:20
  Speaker 27: we look at these systems that we use in the
• 47:22
  Speaker 27: city for anything, our financial software, all the time for
• 47:26
  Speaker 27: these reasons. And our police chief is at a national
• 47:29
  Speaker 27: conference right now And they are talking about how do
• 47:32
  Speaker 27: we do, if this is going to be a connected network,
• 47:35
  Speaker 27: what policies can we put in place widespread? So I
• 47:38
  Speaker 27: think like a lot of technologies that have a lot
• 47:42
  Speaker 27: of benefit, you are trying to get the guardrails on
• 47:46
  Speaker 27: it to match that. And that's where the difference is.
• 47:50
  Speaker 27: So I really hope we take a very hard look
• 47:55
  Speaker 27: before we give this up. Because I do know it is,
• 47:57
  Speaker 27: I mean, there's a lot of people have real concerns
• 47:59
  Speaker 27: and Privacy should be a real concern. But I'm just
• 48:03
  Speaker 27: here to tell you that if you give it up,
• 48:05
  Speaker 27: you are definitely losing a really, really important tool.
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: That's the thing is I write about every week because
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: now it's such a big national topic of conversation. is
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: I get to the point where I'm like, well, okay, great,
• 48:20
  Speaker 8: we're almost done with this. And then you will get
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: these stories of, hey, this saved a life here. Hey,
• 48:26
  Speaker 8: this saved a life here. Hey, this solved a case here. Hey,
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: this found someone that we had no idea where they were.
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: And obviously that balance makes it a very hard conversation.
• 48:40
  Speaker 27: Yeah, and I think I just, I mean, as much
• 48:42
  Speaker 27: as I'm saying that too, I also want to, again,
• 48:46
  Speaker 27: say on the other side of it, we totally understand
• 48:49
  Speaker 27: and we have the same concerns about how do we
• 48:52
  Speaker 27: use this effectively. Again, I mean, this has gotten more,
• 48:56
  Speaker 27: I think, been more nationally, but body-worn cameras went through
• 48:59
  Speaker 27: a similar look. It's just as technology changes, your ability
• 49:05
  Speaker 27: to collect data and your ability to process data kind
• 49:08
  Speaker 27: of come in waves. And as those align, which is
• 49:10
  Speaker 27: what has happened now between you know, the ability to
• 49:14
  Speaker 27: get this data through these cameras and the ability to
• 49:17
  Speaker 27: process it at such a rapid rate and at rapid
• 49:20
  Speaker 27: It's created a tool that has just not been there before,
• 49:22
  Speaker 27: which is incredibly useful, but comes with, you know, a
• 49:25
  Speaker 27: lot of responsibility. And again, being interconnected means that you
• 49:30
  Speaker 27: are not just able to control it with your policy.
• 49:34
  Speaker 27: And I think that's the real challenge.
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah. Colin. Let's get to you. Anything else that we
• 49:40
  Speaker 8: need to hit this week?
• 49:41
  Speaker 26: Yeah, just briefly, there's another interactive pop-up event for the
• 49:44
  Speaker 26: Harvey Road plan process. That is from 9 a.m. to
• 49:48
  Speaker 26: 1 p.m. tomorrow at the Aguiland Farmer's Market at Post
• 49:51
  Speaker 26: Oak Mall.
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 49:53
  Speaker 8: Guys, thank you all so much for coming in today.
• 49:55
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  Speaker 8: to me which is someone who has lived in austin
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  Speaker 8: this is uh I don't get it. Austin police ID
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  Speaker 8: man killed while riding a scooter on Mopac.
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  Speaker 18: Dude.
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  Speaker 8: On Mopac.
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  Speaker 1: I was terrified on Mopac back around the turn of
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  Speaker 1: the century in a Tahoe with a bull guard, a
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  Speaker 1: ranch hand bumper on it.
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  Speaker 8: Can you imagine, imagine any circumstance where, like, say you're
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  Speaker 8: on a moped, like just a little, you know, little scooter,
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  Speaker 8: gas powered scooter. Can you imagine any circumstance that you
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  Speaker 8: would take that onto one of the most famously awful
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  Speaker 8: highway stretches in Texas?
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  Speaker 1: No, but again, I'm guessing maybe the 32-year-old that was
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  Speaker 1: riding it might not have been in his right mind
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  Speaker 1: at the time.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, because it was like late night, late night, early morning.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone looked at it. I'm not sure when it was,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever it was, he fought the truck and the
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  Speaker 1: truck won.
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  Speaker 12: Good night.
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  Speaker 8: I just, it's... I started to think, well, maybe he
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  Speaker 8: didn't know. But if you live in Austin, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 8: If you live in Texas, you know that that's a mess.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's certainly bad judgment. A little chlorine in the
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  Speaker 1: gene pool, if you ask me.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, we forgot to ask Brian to update us on
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  Speaker 8: the legalese.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, that's right.
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  Speaker 8: Now, keep in mind, he just threw this out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and he's not a law enforcement professional.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he always consults a lawyer.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But we were told that if two unarmed Texans... agree
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  Speaker 8: to meet on private property to settle their disputes that's
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  Speaker 8: legal now again consult a lawyer yeah and unarmed but.
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  Speaker 1: Uh it probably doesn't prevent you from uh from a
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  Speaker 1: civil penalty say you oh say you beat somebody's face
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  Speaker 1: in and they've got to have i don't know nasal
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  Speaker 1: surgery afterwards you might get a lawsuit yeah however You know,
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  Speaker 1: from a legal standpoint, you're not going to get arrested.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: So if we ever have beef, Tucker, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: invite you over to the place and we'll have a
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  Speaker 1: little Donnybrook.
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  Speaker 8: Don't need to. Private property right here, my man. Just
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  Speaker 8: take it down to the atrium. Or I guess we'd
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  Speaker 8: have to consult the building.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we did. They're the building owners.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, son of a... Yeah, so it's got to be...
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  Speaker 8: It's got to be owned by one of you.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have to flip a coin to see who gets
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  Speaker 1: home turf.
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  Speaker 8: You got a pool.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We can afterwards, after our little scrap.
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  Speaker 8: That's the idea.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have some cue, sit in the pool. Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Finally, I always like when computers or artificial intelligence can't
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  Speaker 8: do something, and this is one of the first instances
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  Speaker 8: I've seen of this in a while. Did you know
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  Speaker 8: AI cannot fathom what the sound of a car horn.
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  Speaker 1: Is i saw that okay i'm gonna play this for
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  Speaker 1: you this.
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  Speaker 8: Is someone's interaction with chat gpt.
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  Speaker 29: There's a car driving at me but my horn's not
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  Speaker 29: working can you just make a honk noise don't just
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  Speaker 29: say honk make a car honk no just like make
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  Speaker 29: a honk noise at them not a clown horn What
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  Speaker 29: was that noise? A quick horn blast. No, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 29: See the car honk? They're coming right at me.
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  Speaker 8: Pop!
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  Speaker 29: Pop!
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  Speaker 10: Pop!
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  Speaker 8: Explain that.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair, if that was going outside the car,
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  Speaker 1: it would probably be effective.
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  Speaker 8: At high volume, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: However, no. That is not a honk AI.
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  Speaker 8: Those always make me smile.
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  Speaker 2: They do.
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  Speaker 8: Makes me realize we have a little more time left
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  Speaker 8: before the end.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: AI is still stupid at the moment.
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  Speaker 8: It is occasionally still as dumb as you think it
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  Speaker 8: could possibly be. All right, guys. Thank you all for
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  Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTOW College Station. Brian, we'll see you back on the radio.