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The Infomaniacs: July 17, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Texas Governor Greg Abbott is concerned that rainfall from the
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  Speaker 1: current storms may exceed total's experienced during last year's deadly
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  Speaker 1: Fourth of July floods. At least one fatality has been confirmed.
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  Speaker 2: Between the Curville and Comfort area. If you go downstream
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  Speaker 2: from Curville, and that's all the information I have, I
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  Speaker 2: am told, but I cannot confirm for you that it
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  Speaker 2: was an adult.
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  Speaker 1: A year ago, the area was hit with twenty two
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  Speaker 1: inches of rain, and Amitt says this storm system could
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  Speaker 1: bring over thirty inches. Disaster declarations have been issued in
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  Speaker 1: fifty nine counties.
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  Speaker 2: We have helicopters flying over, we have drones flying over.
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  Speaker 2: We're looking at every square inch of the entire area
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  Speaker 2: for anybody who may be stranded anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Over twenty three hundred first responders are assisting in the
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  Speaker 1: rescue efforts, including many from out of state. Colorado, Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 1: and Alabama have all sent state rescue teams to assist.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller is also declaring an emergency
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  Speaker 1: because of this week's flooding. The heavy rains are going
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  Speaker 1: to impact farmers and ranchers.
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  Speaker 3: Ag Commissioner Sid Miller says the heavy rain in central
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  Speaker 3: and South Texas is having a big impact on farmers
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  Speaker 3: and ranchers. The flooding is damaging crops, plus fences and
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  Speaker 3: other infrastructure, and is disrupting some important transportation routes. Miller
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  Speaker 3: has issued an Agricultural Emergency declaration for more than fifty
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  Speaker 3: counties in South and central Texas, including Bayer and Travis Counties.
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  Speaker 3: He says that activates Texas Department of Agriculture resources for
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  Speaker 3: farmers and business owners in those counties. Man that more
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  Speaker 3: counties could be added as needed. Stephen Pickering ts and News.
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  Speaker 1: A third suspect has been arrested after a shooting last
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  Speaker 1: month at the Southgate Village apartments on Luther Street. Two
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  Speaker 1: people suffered non life threatening injuries after being shot. On
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  Speaker 1: June twenty ninth, eighteen year old Jermari and Anderson Glover
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  Speaker 1: was picked up Tuesday and charged with aggravated assault with
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  Speaker 1: a deadly weapon and deadly conduct discharge of a firearm.
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  Speaker 1: He was released from the Brass County jail Thursday on
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  Speaker 1: one hundred fifty thousand dollars bond. Twenty three year old
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  Speaker 1: Jacavian Johnson was arrested on July eleventh and remains in
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  Speaker 1: the Brasses County Jail on two hundred and eighty five
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bond. Eighteen year old Seth Connorway was also
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  Speaker 1: arrested July eleventh and is being held on a one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty thousand dollars bond. The Brass County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office is warning of a jury duty scam. The scammers
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  Speaker 1: claim you missed jury duty and that a warrant has
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  Speaker 1: been issued for your arrest. The scammers then claim the
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  Speaker 1: only way to avoid being arrested is to make immediate
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  Speaker 1: payment through bitcoin or gift card. Sheriffs say they don't
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  Speaker 1: call when you miss jury duty, and they will never
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  Speaker 1: call you and demand a pay over the phone. A
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  Speaker 1: College station man is jailed after a police chase and
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  Speaker 1: rollover crash Wednesday. Records show that CSPD spotted a vehicle
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  Speaker 1: in the five hundred block of Harvey Road known to
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  Speaker 1: be associated with a wanted man. When the officer attempted
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  Speaker 1: to stop eighteen year old Anthony Jerod Junior, he fled.
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  Speaker 1: Brass County constables later located the suspect vehicle on Live
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  Speaker 1: Oak Street and College Station, and after attempting to initiate
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  Speaker 1: a stop, Jeroad fled again. The suspect was pursued into Brian,
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  Speaker 1: where he crashed on Highway twenty one near Marino Road
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  Speaker 1: after losing control of his vehicle. The vehicle rolled several times,
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  Speaker 1: but he was medically cleared and charged with two counts
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  Speaker 1: of evading arrest and is being held at the Brass
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  Speaker 1: County Jail on just over one hundred thousand dollars bond.
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  Speaker 1: Jerod was arrested last month and Brian for possession of
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  Speaker 1: a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was
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  Speaker 1: also picked up by the Brass County Sheriff's Office in
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  Speaker 1: Hearne in twenty twenty five for possession of a controlled
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  Speaker 1: substance in a drug freeze zone, evading arrest, unlawful carry
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  Speaker 1: of a weapon, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. News
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  Speaker 1: will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four, five WTA.
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  Speaker 4: to ask a question because we talked about this and
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  Speaker 4: we got completely away from it early this morning, and
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  Speaker 4: I would love to hear y'all's opinion on the show
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  Speaker 4: and listening. Remember you can call some texts nine seven, nine, six,
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  Speaker 4: nine five, sixteen twenty. It's a World Emoji Day today,
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  Speaker 4: Yes it is. How do we feel about emojis?
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  Speaker 1: Is there an emoji for men? Because that's how I feel.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, as an adult, I use a lot of emojis.
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  Speaker 1: I'll use them on occasion.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a pretty big emoji emoji consumer, and I just
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  Speaker 4: feel like it takes the it takes the the guessing
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  Speaker 4: out of a lot of text messages. It kind of
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  Speaker 4: difficult to convey emotion through text message, and so that
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  Speaker 4: helps helps lighten the mood. I've had several people tell
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  Speaker 4: me that I really need to stop, really because it's
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  Speaker 4: completely weird and unprofessional even to I.
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  Speaker 1: Could see it. I mean in a business textorty email.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you don't need any emojis. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I will occasionally include them to, you know, to conversated
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  Speaker 1: or to convey emotions. I'm much more of a gift
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  Speaker 1: guy than I am an emoji guy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh my God, do me and my mom and gifts
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  Speaker 5: to each other all the time.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a gift guy.
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  Speaker 4: I love a good gift.
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  Speaker 6: But to the emojis, what I do is you know
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  Speaker 6: how you can react to text messages, you hold it
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  Speaker 6: down and you have I'll use emojis there, like if
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  Speaker 6: I'm texting close friends, I'll use them within that category.
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  Speaker 5: Or if it's just someone sent me.
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  Speaker 6: Something dumb, I'll use the green emoji where it looks
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  Speaker 6: like he's gonna throw up. I use them in scenarios
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  Speaker 6: where it's a funny conversation, but like professional settings.
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  Speaker 1: I don't use see my One of my big problems
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  Speaker 1: with the emojis is that you know, you send the
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  Speaker 1: text message to somebody and you think that conversation's over,
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  Speaker 1: and you put your phone aside and you get back
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  Speaker 1: to focusing on the real world, and then the next
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  Speaker 1: thing you know, ding it comes like okay, they responded,
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  Speaker 1: you don't know how to end it. They responded with
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  Speaker 1: a thumbs up, no or whatever.
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  Speaker 5: That's worse than being case.
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  Speaker 4: The thumbs up is a bad one, dude, What oh
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  Speaker 4: thumbs up is? I hate when people send me a
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  Speaker 4: thumb If I get a thumb up, I know they're
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  Speaker 4: mad at me.
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  Speaker 1: Did you want?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, That's how I felt.
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  Speaker 5: When someone sends a letter just K, they're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: it's the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: If it's just K, they're mad at you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we have we have reached a generational barrier here
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  Speaker 1: because I had no idea that a thumbs up was
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  Speaker 1: a bad.
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  Speaker 4: If you send me a thumbs up, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 4: take it that way.
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  Speaker 1: You should.
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  Speaker 4: If Riley send me a thumbs up, I'd be like,
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  Speaker 4: what did I do to her? And I need to
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  Speaker 4: find I need to find out and apologize very very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Like if it's if it's the youth, if they send
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  Speaker 4: you a thumbs up, bad news, bad bad, bad news.
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  Speaker 6: If I'm going to win in a conversation, I always
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  Speaker 6: send like the love it, you know what I mean,
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  Speaker 6: like or like it?
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  Speaker 5: I send just a general thumbs up, like I'm done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna have to have a conversation with
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  Speaker 1: my my daughters so they can get.
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  Speaker 4: Your Wait wait wait wait do your daughter send your
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  Speaker 4: thumbs up? No?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm just saying I have to. I have to
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  Speaker 1: get more educated, I guess because I don't.
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  Speaker 7: I did not.
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  Speaker 1: I was not aware that I could be sending them
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  Speaker 1: something that they would think was negative.
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  Speaker 4: Well, okay, sometimes different get you get a whole pass
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  Speaker 4: on everything as a dad. Okay, everything is a dad.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I actually disagree.
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  Speaker 8: You should though, like there's it.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's respectful because if you because again it's just
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  Speaker 4: completely different. But I might be wrong about this. Perhaps
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  Speaker 4: we have moved on and I was. I've been told
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  Speaker 4: for it's like, don't you don't you make that mistake
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  Speaker 4: of sending a thumbs up emoji.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a whole list of people I need to
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  Speaker 1: send thumbs up some emojis to, for instance, like when
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  Speaker 1: you send them.
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  Speaker 6: To me, sometimes I'm just I incorporated as like that's
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  Speaker 6: like my work dad, So I treat it like that.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't she has to take a second to be like, ah, wait, no,
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  Speaker 4: that's what dad.
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  Speaker 1: He's old. It doesn't understand.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly like my mom.
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  Speaker 5: Sends a thumbs up like oh she's mad, what.
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  Speaker 8: Did I do?
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  Speaker 1: Oh? You see. So that's the dividing line is somewhere
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  Speaker 1: between the age of your parents and me and.
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  Speaker 4: If you want chime in nine sev nine six nine five,
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  Speaker 4: sixteen twenty, because of World Emoji Day, if you're looking
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  Speaker 4: for new ones to send in a in place of
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  Speaker 4: the thumbs up, the dreaded thumbs up, we do have
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  Speaker 4: some that are that are going to be dropping. Wait
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  Speaker 4: when what are these dropping? Is it now?
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  Speaker 1: Or it must be so.
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  Speaker 6: Today with it being the world emoji, the new batch's yes,
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  Speaker 6: with the new update on your iPhone, you'll get them.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, find an update.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't have them all right, I'll have to
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  Speaker 1: check the Google.
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  Speaker 7: What do we have?
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  Speaker 1: The Android?
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  Speaker 7: So what they have?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, the last two I'll get. I'll say that.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, you've got a cracked smiling face. They have too
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  Speaker 6: mey smiling faces. I don't know what that one's going
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  Speaker 6: to be.
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  Speaker 1: And some of them are so small that I got
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  Speaker 1: to put on my readers to try to figure out
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  Speaker 1: what they are.
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  Speaker 4: That's a problem. I like a good crack smiling a
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  Speaker 4: crack smile face. Fine, yeah, it's it's the it's the
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  Speaker 4: I'm smiling through the I'm smiling through whatever this is?
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  Speaker 8: That ye sins a.
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  Speaker 4: That sends a very good mess.
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  Speaker 6: You've got a net with a handle that's for Pokemon.
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  Speaker 6: You've got the Monarch butterfly. I don't even know we
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  Speaker 6: had didn't have the Monarch butterfly.
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  Speaker 8: Oh we did.
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  Speaker 4: That's fairly surprising.
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  Speaker 6: But okay, you've got a meteor, which we already have
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  Speaker 6: a comment, so I don't really understand why we need another.
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  Speaker 5: One of those.
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  Speaker 1: Most people on the emojis won't be able to tell
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  Speaker 1: the difference.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, everybody out there, you've got a pickle, not a
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  Speaker 6: cucumber anymore.
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  Speaker 5: There's a pickle.
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  Speaker 7: Fine.
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  Speaker 5: Finally, you've got a lighthouse. I think, I mean, I
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  Speaker 5: don't think I'll ever use it, but I guess that's cool.
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  Speaker 6: There's an eraser, which I thought there already was an eraser,
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  Speaker 6: so I'm confused about that one.
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  Speaker 5: Right, and lastly, the last two are a left, sat
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  Speaker 5: leftwards and right words thumbs up signs. So it can
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  Speaker 5: be like the mid sign.
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  Speaker 4: It can be mid yes he got good bad mids,
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  Speaker 4: or if you put him both, it was a smiley
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  Speaker 4: face in between, it could be.
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  Speaker 7: This guy.
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  Speaker 5: This guy, but like mid.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, honestly, I got.
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  Speaker 4: This person text and what are you talking about? The
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  Speaker 4: thumb not a middle finger? I know, dude, I know,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Middle figure emoji does exist.
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  Speaker 7: I found that out.
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  Speaker 1: About six months ago. My brother sends it to me
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  Speaker 1: on yeah college, Why is he even?
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  Speaker 4: Why is he even bothering? Just give you a thumbs up?
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  Speaker 4: Age seventeen on the info maniacs. Good morning, Uh talking
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  Speaker 4: about talking about emojis and and everything and and yeah,
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  Speaker 4: look I did want to address this too before we
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  Speaker 4: got Are you still snacking on that bag of whatever
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  Speaker 4: it was you were saying?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not Riley And I completed the bag of Southwest
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  Speaker 1: Airlines uh cookies.
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  Speaker 4: That I had. What is the name of those of
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  Speaker 4: those cookies particular? It was like it was like gram
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  Speaker 4: crack or something. I cannot remember what it was.
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  Speaker 5: It's like their little checks mix.
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  Speaker 4: But that's I got to put the bag back together.
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  Speaker 7: Here, it's Remy's gram.
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  Speaker 8: Remmy Gram.
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  Speaker 4: How do you feel about the old Remy Gram? I
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  Speaker 4: thought they were.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good for a for an airline snack, and I
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  Speaker 1: was when I got them initially. So I took off.
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  Speaker 1: I got to the airport, left College station at one
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  Speaker 1: thirty in the morning, got to the Austin Airport about
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  Speaker 1: three thirty. I was I was kind of kind of
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  Speaker 1: skimpy on the budget, so I didn't want to buy
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  Speaker 1: any airports.
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  Speaker 8: Two does even if you're high rolling.
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  Speaker 4: No one wants to pay what you gotta pay.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't eat before getting and there wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: lot of right at that time.
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  Speaker 3: Of day.
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  Speaker 4: Also true.
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  Speaker 1: Got on the airplane. The flight left at like five
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, so I'm starving by the time I'm
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  Speaker 1: over Colorado.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh and and well, that first flight was to Denver,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm snacking on whatever they're throwing at me. So
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  Speaker 1: I had a bag of pistachios and a bag of those,
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  Speaker 1: and then on the second flight, I got the second
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  Speaker 1: bag of the remy grams and the second bag of pistachiosisios.
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  Speaker 5: Now not the little chex mix.
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  Speaker 4: I was shocked. You at pistachios. They were already peeled.
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  Speaker 8: I was shocked.
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  Speaker 4: How do you get I thought that was the one.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, anything that's like nut or nut related. I
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  Speaker 4: thought they're not supposed to give you that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe pistachios are a different animal, but
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  Speaker 1: I was. I was glad to have them. I like
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  Speaker 1: a good pistachio. Sometimes my thumbs get sore trying.
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  Speaker 4: It's like crawfish. You only get you go through so
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  Speaker 4: many of them, and all of a sudden, you're like
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  Speaker 4: you're sore for days now.
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  Speaker 1: So I mean, I don't because my crawfish muscles are extraordinary.
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  Speaker 4: Where would you stack the remy grams on the all
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  Speaker 4: time list.
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  Speaker 1: I mean on the all time airplane snacks on what.
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  Speaker 4: Is available for airline sacks. Again, that's a low bar.
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  Speaker 1: I would put it in the top twenty percent.
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  Speaker 4: Top to Okay, okay, I'll give top ten, top ten.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't had airplane snacks in forever because for the
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  Speaker 1: longest time, to say, the last three years or so,
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  Speaker 1: my flights have been a little puddle jumpers to Memphis
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  Speaker 1: to get over to Oxford. That'll passing out snacks.
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  Speaker 4: They're not gonna they're not gonna hook you up with anything.
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  Speaker 6: I'll get those and then they give you the little
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  Speaker 6: checks mix and then you get your little Canadian dry
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  Speaker 6: Oh gosh, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I can't send your ale on the airplane.
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  Speaker 5: When you know you're in there.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be honest with you. I a long time ago,
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  Speaker 4: I just started passing on everything. I don't even want it.
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  Speaker 4: I would have want, but I mean, I I know
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  Speaker 4: there are times when it's like I just need the
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  Speaker 4: But if you bring me that sad, that sad package
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  Speaker 4: of like like checks mix, and even when it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: do you want to beverage, they're not, you could just
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  Speaker 4: give me the can.
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  Speaker 1: No no, they don't.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna give me a little They're gonna give me
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  Speaker 4: a little.
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  Speaker 1: Lady next to worth and over other tomato juice, right,
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  Speaker 1: and and so the the flight attendant said, I'll just
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  Speaker 1: give you the can because nobody else is gonna drink that.
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  Speaker 1: Typically I would I would get a tomato juice or
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  Speaker 1: a bloody Mary back in the day when I flew,
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  Speaker 1: But no, I just I brought my own water. Just
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  Speaker 1: stuck with what I got.
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  Speaker 4: There is a rancor by the way of what are
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  Speaker 4: considered to be the most popular airline snacks that are
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  Speaker 4: out there. Like if you did, like if you were
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  Speaker 4: on a flight, this is this is the stuff that
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  Speaker 4: you want. I did not see remy grams, but did
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  Speaker 4: see a few things that are not bad. They will
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  Speaker 4: give you made good granola bars on some of these fines.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently that's pretty high roll. Sun chips minis Okay, that's insulting.
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  Speaker 1: It is because that's like two chips.
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  Speaker 4: It's two chips, son chips. Again, just give me a
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  Speaker 4: bag of bisc Off cookies on something.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Some people like the bisco Offs.
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, the the best though, it was the cheese.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Its cheese. It's I'm not a huge fan of cheese.
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: You can buy the cheese its you're gonna.
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: I'm I am old enough to remember full service airline.
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: Were you ever you were given full Was it in
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: first class?
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: No?
• 15:25
  Speaker 7: No?
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: In regular regular plane world.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I've only flown first class once, maybe twice in my life.
• 15:34
  Speaker 4: How How would I can't even I can't even wrap
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: my head around them actually offering me real Yeah.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: It was real food back in the day. They'd come
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: through and say, you want the chicken, order the fish
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: or whatever, the chicken or the fish, chicken or the
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: steak whatever, that's that's and then they went to sandwiches,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: and then they've worked their way down to these snacks,
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: which we.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Used to be. We used to be a proper, proper nation.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: We would dress up to go fly.
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you wouldn't be You wouldn't be just sitting there
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: in your sweats.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: And your flip flops.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah no, And you were served in actual meal. You
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: were Do you know what this People don't realize. If
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: they would just bring back food in the air, like
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: actual food or good snatch or whatever, do not be
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: full Mealum were enough to do that, it would take
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: care of the other huge problem the stakes people bringing
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: on Yeah, their own, their own stuff. You don't want that.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: No, And in fact I made I made a decision
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: in San Diego in my twenty five minutes in San
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Diego on Sunday, I was looking for some grub to
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: grab because again, famished it was going to be it
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: was gonna be umpteen hours before I got home.
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: M m uh.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: And so I'm looking at the options and one of
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: them was airport sushi. And I thought to myself, there's
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a million different ways that this could go wrong. But
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: the deciding factor was I'm not gonna bring sushi on
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: the airplane.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Can't bring sushi on it? Can you imagine?
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: And people will do it.
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: People will, I would argue, because there's the whole thing like, well,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: you know you can bring something. I I know you're
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: going to think, okay, just don't bring a tune of
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: fish sandwich. It's not about what. It's any food. I
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: don't want your food next to me while I am
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: flying and I gotta smell it. It could be what
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: a burger.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Do not bring Panda Express on a plane.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Panda Express to be an awful.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: I had a terrible experience one time I was.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: We were in a plane about two years ago and
• 17:25
  Speaker 6: the ac in the back half wasn't working. After the
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: back half bathroom didn't smell out grade either, and then
• 17:30
  Speaker 6: two of my teammates right near me had pan Express
• 17:33
  Speaker 6: and it wasn't like you're just the nice little orange.
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: They had the I want to think about it.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean that kind of smell can can permeate.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's got the.
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Worst experience I ever had. It was like a four
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: hour flight and I sit down and sitting next to
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: me is what only could be described as a fitness
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: bro Oh. I was like, okay, whatever, you know, that's
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: not a big deal. Like, all right, you're gets in
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: your gym.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: Clothes, whatever, you expect a conversation about cross talk a.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Little to say my niceties, and I do my usual
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: thing if put my earbuds in and then just block
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: him out. Then all of a sudden, I realized, what
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: is that? What is that smell? I look over and
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: this dude has pulled out of his bag a tin
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: full of hard boiled eggs.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, No, No, that's the thing that they
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: tell you.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: Boiled eggs, and he's just peeling them.
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: No, peeling him and throwing.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: Them back like it's nothing.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: That's grounds for dismissal from the aircraft.
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: How the way the will on that, that's a rest
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: of all.
• 18:35
  Speaker 8: There's nothing I could do.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Didn't touch the little button I was about.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: I was about, please get the button.
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: I was about to open the emergency door.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: This is a good place for a stick up back
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: after this good morning and happy Friday from the wta
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: W newsroom, I'm will Welch. Texas Governor Greg Abbott is
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: concerned that rainfall from the current store or may exceed
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: totals experienced during last year's deadly Fourth of July floods.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: At least one fatality has been confirmed.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Between the Curville and Comfort area if you go downstream
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: from Cerrville, and that's all the information I have, I
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: am told, but I cannot confirm for you that.
• 19:18
  Speaker 7: It was an adult.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: A year ago, the area was hit with twenty two
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: inches of rain, and Abbott says this storm system could
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: bring over thirty inches. Disaster declarations have been issued in
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: fifty nine counties.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: We have helicopters flying over, we have drones flying over.
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: We're looking at every square inch of the entire area.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: For anybody who may be stranded anywhere.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Over twenty three hundred first responders are assisting in the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: rescue efforts, including many from out of state. Colorado, Missouri, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and Alabama have all sent state rescue teams to assist.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Texas Agricultural Commissioner Sid Miller is also declaring an emergency
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: because of this week's flooding. The heavy rains are going
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to impact farmers ranchers.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Ag Commissioner Sid Miller says the heavy rain in central
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: and South Texas is having a big impact on farmers
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: and ranchers. The flooding is damaging crops, plus fences, and
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: other infrastructure, and is disrupting some important transportation routes. Miller
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: has issued an agricultural emergency declaration for more than fifty
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: counties in South and central Texas, including Bayer and Travis Counties.
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: He says that activates Texas Department of Agriculture resources for
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: farmers and business owners in those counties. Man that more
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: counties could be added as needed. Stephen Pickering TSM News.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: A third suspect has been arrested after a shooting last
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: month at the Southgate village apartments on Luther Street. According
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: to College Station police, officers found two victims injured in
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the shooting on June twenty ninth. Both were transported to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: local hospitals with non life threatening injuries. Eighteen year old
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: jer Murray and Anderson Glover was picked up on Tuesday
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: and charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: deadly conduct discharge of a firearm. Was released from the
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Brass County jail Wednesday on one hundred and fifty thousand
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: dollars bond. Twenty three year old Jacavian Johnson was arrested
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: on July eleventh and remains in the Brass County jail.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: He has been charged with robbery, unlawful carrying of a firearm,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, deadly conduct, discharge of
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a firearm, and unlawful use of a criminal instrument. Johnson
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: has three previous arrests, including aggravated robbery in twenty twenty
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: one and unlawful carrying of a weapon in twenty twenty four.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Johnson is being held on two hundred and eighty five
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bond. Eighteen year old Seth Connorway was also
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: arrested July eleventh. He is charged with deadly conduct, discharge
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: of a firearm, and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and remains in jail on a one hundred and fifty
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bond. These states pro business policies may pay
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: off again. Here's Michael Board with the details.
• 21:51
  Speaker 9: The media giant Paramount is threatening to leave California over
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: the stage challenge to their billion dollar merger with Warner Brothers,
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: and some are suggesting that they could to Texas.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Texas has the most fortune five hundred locations of any
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: state already.
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: The economist Array Pairyman says that legislature hast made changes
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: to make the state more business friendly. Corporations can now
• 22:09
  Speaker 9: have their internal disputes resolved by the newly established Texas
• 22:12
  Speaker 9: Business Court. As a result, in the past few years, Chevron, Oracle,
• 22:16
  Speaker 9: and Tesla have all packed up and come here. In
• 22:19
  Speaker 9: San Antonio, Michael Board TSN News.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: The Brses County Sheriff's Office is warning of a jury
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: duty scam. The scammers claim you missed jury duty and
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that a warrant has been issued for your arrest. The
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: scammers then claim the only way to avoid being arrested
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: is to make immediate payment through bitcoin or gift card.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Sheriffs say they don't call when you miss jury duty,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: and they will never call you and demand a payment
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: over the phone. A College Station man is jailed after
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a police chase and rollover crash Wednesday. Records show that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: CSPDS spotted a vehicle in the five hundred block of
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Harvey Road known to be associated with a wanted man.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: When the officer attempted to stop eighteen year old Anthony
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Jerrod Jujunior, he fled. Brass County costables later located the
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: suspect vehicle on Live Oak Street and College Station and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: after attempting to initiate a stop to road, fled again.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: The suspect was pursued into Brian, where he crashed on
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Highway twenty one near Marino Road after losing control of
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: his vehicle. The vehicle rolled several times, but he was
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: medically cleared and charged with two counts of evading arrest
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: and is being held at the Brass County Jail on
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: just over one hundred thousand dollars. Bond Deroad was arrested
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: last month and Brian for possession of a controlled substance
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was also picked up
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: by the Brass County Sheriff's Office in Hearne in twenty
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: twenty five for possession of a controlled substance in a
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: drug free zone, evading arrest, unlawful carry of a weapon,
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: and unauthorized use of a vehicle. More news throughout the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: day or any time at WTAW dot com. I'm will
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Sixteen twenty nine four five WTAW, Good morning, Welcome to Friday.
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: It's the info Maniacs and should be a warm one today.
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: Hi's in the load of mid nineties. Feel a lot
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: warm in the ax. It's still gonna be muggy as anything,
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: but we will not be dealing with any showers or thunderstorms,
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: at least not what they're predicting down to the seventies
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  Speaker 4: Colin Keilly in Good morning, sir, and there's your microphone.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Good morning, good week, glad to be here.
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: Where do you land on the emojis? Y'all are a
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: professional operation over there? Do you do you do you
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: like to send a nice emoji in a in a
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: text or a work email or not often? How would
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: you interpret a thumbs up emoji if it was sent
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: to you?
• 24:55
  Speaker 10: Well, I found that thumbs up emoji. You got to
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: be real careful because you know, I've got to wear
• 24:59
  Speaker 10: glasses and sometimes and there's one time I hit that
• 25:03
  Speaker 10: that middle digit and yeah.
• 25:06
  Speaker 7: That was very similar.
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: Who do we have with us today?
• 25:13
  Speaker 10: We're very happy to have our place to city Councilman,
• 25:16
  Speaker 10: William right.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: Yes we do, William h. Glad to have you on
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: the show this morning.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 25:20
  Speaker 11: I will say a thumbs up emoji as a millennial
• 25:22
  Speaker 11: is very passive aggressive.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: That's what I guess.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: See your your wasted to chime in very passive aggressive.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: You catch it and it just hits you, It hits
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: your wrong. Would you ever dream of sending a thumbs
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: up emoji other than if it was a intended message
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: passive aggression.
• 25:41
  Speaker 7: No, it's very weaponized for me.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: If you get a thumbs up and not like liking
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: the bubble right, No, no, No, that's that's different.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: That's if I.
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: Send you a thumbs up, that means I'm very terse
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: purse lips.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I'm saying. I was, I was telling
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: us saying, if Riley was to send me a thumbs
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: up emoji, wouldn't even have registered to will because why again, yeah, hey,
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: thumbs up, But if I got one, I would feel
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: the need to call her and apologize for whatever it
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: was that I had done to wrong her. At this point,
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: learn something new on this show every day. Let's get
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: down to business. Budgets still a big deal and still
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: a big topic of conversation. And since we have not
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: had a chance to have you on, I'm gonna just
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: give you the chance to weigh in on this pros cons.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: How does it hit you at this point?
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: So, I you know, I think the only con is
• 26:32
  Speaker 11: that there's never you know, enough money obviously to do
• 26:35
  Speaker 11: everything you want to do.
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: Like, we live in a fantastic city.
• 26:37
  Speaker 11: It's it's so efficient and very well run and you
• 26:40
  Speaker 11: really only have as much money as you have to
• 26:42
  Speaker 11: really plan out into the future. So in a perfect world,
• 26:45
  Speaker 11: we'd be able to tackle every project we need, every
• 26:47
  Speaker 11: road we need right now.
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: But instead, like that's the part of this process is
• 26:51
  Speaker 7: planning out.
• 26:51
  Speaker 11: What the next five years are going to look like,
• 26:53
  Speaker 11: which is really what this budget is mostly all about,
• 26:56
  Speaker 11: is what the next five.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: Years look like.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: And I think this is what we talked about four
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: was that that might be that that's part of why
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: a little bit of it, you know, there is a
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: little bit of sticker shock people see the increase, but
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: the amount of projects we're talking about for five years
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: down the road, you know, those aren't cheap.
• 27:11
  Speaker 7: No, and they're not.
• 27:12
  Speaker 11: And I think an important thing you know that we
• 27:15
  Speaker 11: all had to come to terms with and for the
• 27:16
  Speaker 11: public realized too to a certain extent, is this is
• 27:18
  Speaker 11: allocated funds.
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: It's not necessarily spent moneys.
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: Wow, those can be the same thing.
• 27:23
  Speaker 11: If something is on the horizon that we can't foresee
• 27:25
  Speaker 11: in the next three years, something that we've allocated for
• 27:28
  Speaker 11: five years from now, that money can be shifted around.
• 27:30
  Speaker 11: So we're kind of hard penciling a lot of things
• 27:33
  Speaker 11: in so we can start making preparations for but it's
• 27:36
  Speaker 11: not done deals. Those moneies aren't spent, so we have
• 27:39
  Speaker 11: room to pivot if emergency arises or we need to.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: There's been a question that's come up that I've gotten
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: several times from people. People can text us anything any time,
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: and the question of station four out at Easterwood losing
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: that to privatization. Is there a plan to cover Northwest
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: College station if that comes to pass, and how are
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: y'all factoring that end?
• 28:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's just part of it, like ongoing
• 28:08
  Speaker 7: conversations with A and M.
• 28:10
  Speaker 11: Obviously, our relationship with the city's relationship with text A
• 28:12
  Speaker 11: and M has improved greatly. I think in my time
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: on council over the last four years. We have the
• 28:18
  Speaker 11: new fire contract with them that I think we're just
• 28:20
  Speaker 11: completing our first year, so that the fire conversations are
• 28:24
  Speaker 11: always like a topic at hand with TEXTA, A and
• 28:26
  Speaker 11: M because we need each other to a certain extent.
• 28:30
  Speaker 11: I think fire Station four is a good example of that.
• 28:33
  Speaker 11: As they move to certain privatizations, especially the Eastern Port
• 28:36
  Speaker 11: easter Wood Airport area, we will just be ongoing and
• 28:40
  Speaker 11: talking about how best for us to handle it. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 11: then I firmly believe that we will be given enough
• 28:45
  Speaker 11: lead time should we need to build a different fire
• 28:48
  Speaker 11: station elsewhere. And there's been some sites that I know
• 28:50
  Speaker 11: have already been sort of looked at in terms of Okay,
• 28:53
  Speaker 11: if we had to, we would go here, and that
• 28:55
  Speaker 11: would still be with A and.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: M on board. So we're eyeballing a few things contingency wise,
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: as you know, as as one does, and I know
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: y'all were talking about it. We're still going through workshops
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: on this. We're still going through the process of nailing
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: this down correct.
• 29:10
  Speaker 11: So we are refinished with like the council's portion of
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: really digging in and looking at it. And so the
• 29:15
  Speaker 11: next opportunity we have is next week Thursday at our
• 29:17
  Speaker 11: council meeting is when it's the public hearing. So if
• 29:19
  Speaker 11: the public has as to come talk to us about
• 29:21
  Speaker 11: the budget, they can sign up to the City Secretary's
• 29:23
  Speaker 11: office and let us know their thoughts and feelings about it.
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: I know you probably you get a lot more of
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: it being on counsel than probably we do. Even what
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: are the biggest what are the biggest concerns people are
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: bringing to your attention as far as the budget goes
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: so far.
• 29:37
  Speaker 11: I think that that idea of out there that it's
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: uh that like, for the next five years we're kind
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: of maxing out what we can what we can spend.
• 29:46
  Speaker 11: But for my four years on council, there's been this
• 29:49
  Speaker 11: giant pot of money that we haven't spent, right, So
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: it's actually kind of nice to sit down and be like,
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: these are the projects that we care about, and this
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: is where we are wanting to move the city. And
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: like I said, there's still opportun three years from now
• 30:00
  Speaker 11: we need to build or two years from now we
• 30:02
  Speaker 11: need to build fire station, a new fire station four
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: like that just means projects from twenty thirty come off
• 30:07
  Speaker 11: and we focus on that instead. So this is really
• 30:10
  Speaker 11: just an outlined for us to be moving because we
• 30:12
  Speaker 11: just had a large allocation of money that we weren't spending.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: One of the other things comes up frequently is the
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: idea of density in the city and what we're what
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: we're doing to cope with that, the limited space that
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: we have, and how we're going to treat that with
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: housing moving forward. Do you have any thoughts?
• 30:31
  Speaker 11: Oh, yeah, I'm a huge proponent of density. I mean,
• 30:34
  Speaker 11: I going back to what I said earlier.
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: I'm a millennial and so to.
• 30:36
  Speaker 11: Me, to me, density like runs through my blood a
• 30:39
  Speaker 11: little bit, where it's like I think, I think the
• 30:41
  Speaker 11: idea of a single family detached is a little lost
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  Speaker 11: on my generation because it's just like we just want
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  Speaker 11: a place, yeah, And I think that's hard for a
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  Speaker 11: lot of people to reconcile with. And I don't speak
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  Speaker 11: for the entire generation, but I think a lot of
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  Speaker 11: folks would be perfectly fine in a town home or
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  Speaker 11: something like that.
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  Speaker 7: So what the city can do is kind.
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  Speaker 11: Of grease those wheels and like make that easier for
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  Speaker 11: those types of products to come online. And we can
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  Speaker 11: we can incentivize that as well, which we talked about
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  Speaker 11: last Thursday about incentivizing certain forms of affordable housing or
• 31:12
  Speaker 11: cheaper housing like townhomes or something like that.
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  Speaker 4: What is the timelines? I should know this because I
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: had some experience in home building in the past, just
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: knowing builders, Like, what is the spin up time on
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  Speaker 4: town homes as opposed to.
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  Speaker 7: That's a good question, That's a great question. I'm not
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  Speaker 7: terribly sure.
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  Speaker 11: I'm assuming somewhere around a single family home is probably
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  Speaker 11: like three ish months to build from start to finish.
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  Speaker 11: So I'm suming townhome it is somewhere around nine months
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  Speaker 11: from start to finish to do a stretch of those.
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  Speaker 11: I could be completely wrong, but I think that. I
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: think the market is going to dictate that more than
• 31:42
  Speaker 11: anything the city can do. And people want to live
• 31:45
  Speaker 11: in Calsation and we're landlocked. Yeah, so I think it's
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: it's going to naturally give way to that orty.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is one of the things. Once you get
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: into that position, you grow to that point, it does
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  Speaker 4: kind of, it does kind of just happen.
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  Speaker 11: And so I think the city, what the city is
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  Speaker 11: doing now is just not inhibiting that, just making sure
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  Speaker 11: that those products are available and that the process is
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  Speaker 11: easy to get those out there.
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  Speaker 7: Very good.
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  Speaker 4: Anything else you want to get to today.
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: I think it's probably been talked about, but I just
• 32:09
  Speaker 11: wanted to mention again the iHeart the America celebration on
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  Speaker 11: July fourth was amazing, and I've been a huge advocate
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  Speaker 11: for Wolfpen Creek in terms of having programming out there,
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: and Parks has done a wonderful job programming that area
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  Speaker 11: for us after like council has really been asking for it.
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  Speaker 11: So it was nice to see seven thousand plus people
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  Speaker 11: sitting around Wolfin. I've never I grew up here, I've
• 32:31
  Speaker 11: never seen that many people there.
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  Speaker 4: It was nuts. It was really an amazing And that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: the thing, like you talk about amphitheaters like that, that's
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: such a nice thing to have in your bag. As
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: far as a venue where you can get everybody, Yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: I get it. It's outdoors, this and that and whatever.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: That is a great venue. And when you program it,
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: when you put something there, people want to see.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Usually it does really well, really really well.
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  Speaker 11: And it was great to see that kind of dream
• 33:03
  Speaker 11: come to Fruition and then to see the budget and
• 33:05
  Speaker 11: a couple weeks later have seven million dollars allocated for
• 33:08
  Speaker 11: improvements there. So hopefully that's not a one off and
• 33:11
  Speaker 11: that is something that we can do four times a year,
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  Speaker 11: you know, That's what my hope is.
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  Speaker 4: Would love to see it. William Wright City Council, Place two,
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  Speaker 4: Mayor pro Tim, thank you for being here, man, Thank
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: you Colin.
• 33:21
  Speaker 10: What else we got today, Well, we have a brand
• 33:23
  Speaker 10: new episode of What's Up College Station our City podcast
• 33:25
  Speaker 10: that drives later this morning on the city website at
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: CSTX dot gov. This week guest is Principal planner Heather Wade,
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: and it sh'll be giving an inside look at the
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: upcoming Harvey Road District plan and how the city is
• 33:36
  Speaker 10: planning for the future growth along that major quarter.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: I do want to I do want to give some
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: flowers to that podcast. I've really been enjoying that. Yeah,
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: thank you very much. So it's a great thing. All right, guys,
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: thank y'all so much for coming in. If you want
• 33:49
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• 33:51
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• 34:27
  Speaker 4: couple of text messages because people are still weighing in
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: on the emoji thing. We had one part of text
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: in that says, does making your own smiley facing, you know,
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: using the keyboard count as an emoji?
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: I do that.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: The og amos the original it's like, yeah, make a
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: smiley face, it's all you me. Yep, you can. You
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: absolutely can still find a few ways to play along
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: with that, and we encourage it. Person texted. Sometimes the
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: thumbs up emoji is for the person who has to
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: have the last word in every time conversation. It means nothing,
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: not necessarily passive aggressive as we heard could.
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: Be in But even people on council.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Know, yeah, like it just did their I'm floored because
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I'm usually hip to the latest trend.
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  Speaker 7: That's that's the thing.
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  Speaker 4: But they say it means nothing, But it makes that
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: person feel better to be able to have something to
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: kind of you know, because you used to have the
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: when we used to speak on the telephone, you had
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: the ability to just be like all right later, you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: hang up right. You don't get that anymore, no, not necessarily,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: you don't get anything to close the conversation with, which.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Is Joseph said to me the thumbs up can be
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: an impersonal compout, either intentional or unintentional. For sometimes I'm
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: having a text conversation with my wife because we're at work.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: I'm expecting connection and information and I get a thumbs up.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I was expecting information, not a blank thumbs up.
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  Speaker 9: There.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you, man, I did I you know
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: you go back to actual conversations. I had an actual
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: conversation with my wife, which, by the way, it's our
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: twenty second anniversary today, Happy anniversary, Darling anniversary.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: Will.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: So I was having a conversation with her, and she
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: is the most undiagnosed and unmedicated add person you will
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: ever meet on occasion. So she really was not paying
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: attention to the telephone call. And I closed it out
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: with the standard I love you as you do. And
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: she's not responding, and she says thank you and hang up.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Man, that's worse than a thumbs up for a thank you,
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: much worse. I'll way out now.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Now it's become now it's become sort of a bit,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: and we will close a text conversation or an email
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: or a phone conversation with thank you instead of I
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: love you just as a little jab But.
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: That is absolutely amazing.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: We do need to plug a really cool event happening
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: this weekend. If you have been out to the Brass
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Family expone last couple of years, this is this is
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: a great, great time and we were doing it again
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: this Saturday from ten am to four pm at the
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  Speaker 4: brazz Is Center, Riley. Are you familiar with the Brass
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  Speaker 4: Family Expo?
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  Speaker 7: No?
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Okay, so this is great. If you've got kids, bring
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: them out because everyone knows who has kids, especially young kids,
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: you need to figure out what to do with them, right.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: You need to figure out they need activities, They need
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: activities and things.
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  Speaker 4: And here's the thing you might not even you might
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: not even be thinking in your head of some of
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: the things you actually do need related to your kids.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it's things like uh like like like insurance. Sometimes
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: it's things like medical. You know what I find?
• 37:36
  Speaker 8: Where do I find a primary care position?
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Especially if you're new to town. Yeah, you're you know
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: your doctor's retired. I know that happens a lot.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: My kid needs glasses, Where do I go?
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  Speaker 1: Right?
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  Speaker 8: A good Dennis. These are all things that we can
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  Speaker 8: answer for you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we keep them all in one place, contained.
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  Speaker 4: At the Family Expo, So swing out. We've got exhibitors,
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: vendors at like a swim school, We've got we've got
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: maide services.
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  Speaker 8: Costco is going.
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  Speaker 7: To be there.
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  Speaker 1: This is it's a really cool event, and it is
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: it's an annual event and every year it is very
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: well attended and everybody has a good time and they
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: learn a lot.
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: It's also super funny. We have entertainment, we have shows,
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: we have stuff for the kids, we have food trucks.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great time. So the kids will have a
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: good time and we will be able to all help
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: each other figure out what to do with these kids.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: A month and a half, a rising tide lifts all boats,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: and we are here to rise. Raise the time the month.
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: Some schools are starting on my birthday on August seventeen.
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: You need a month, you need a month of things
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: to do.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: And it's not just during the summertime. I'm all in
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: the fall, dude.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: You got to keep them occupy those those that's you know,
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: it's how you keep the kids on the street. There's
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: all kinds of great programs, Devil's Play things, all that stuff.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: There's all kinds of great things you could do with kids.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: A lot of times you're not aware of those things,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: even if you're somebody who's been here for up teen years.
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: Oh said, stuff pops up every always do stuff and
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: you think to yourself, oh, that's amazing. Why didn't I
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: find out about this sooner? We're giving you that opportunity.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: So again, the brass Is Center is where we're going
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: to do this. We're gonna be doing it from ten
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  Speaker 4: until four. A lot of the radio stations will be
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: out there tomorrow tomorrow until four and U yeah, hopefully,
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: hopefully we will see you guys out there. It should
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: be a very very very good time. Plus face painting
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: plus shopping, plus performances, all all these goods.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Always love the face painting. Always been a big fan
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: of the face.
• 39:35
  Speaker 4: I guess, likeway, are you a face painter?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not artistic in many ways at all, but if
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: you ever, kids have always enjoyed getting their faces paint.
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I do it for the kids. I was
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: about to say, have you ever gotten a nice like, oh,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: sparkling tiger or something.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not really a sparkling tiger, and I can't recall
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: the last time my face was painted.
• 39:55
  Speaker 4: Mask?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Now, could you give them paint that on there, probably
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: that I prefer the real that.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, yeah.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: There's one very studio next door.
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, I know I've been I've been eyeballing that one
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: for years. Is actually halfa branded.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: I don't know it's it's a maroon mask and they've
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: got it under a maroon sombrero.
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: What do I need to do to get an infomaniac
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: lucha door mask or.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: An infomaniac sombrero. I would wear that.
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: I can get you the sombrero. The lucha door mask
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: has been kind of a challenge. That's an immune style.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: I know, I'm not in the luche door community.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I prefer the summer sombrero. That's just I don't want
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: to film.
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  Speaker 4: Have great weekend sixteen twenty wtw