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The Infomaniacs: July 10, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Good morning from the wta W newsroom. I'm Jeanette Minshaw.
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Speaker 1: The City of College Station has reached the highest financial
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Speaker 1: status awarded by Moody's.
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Speaker 2: Moody is a.
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Speaker 1: Global credit rating agency that assesses the financial health and
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Speaker 1: credit worthiness of borrowers, governments, and corporations. It helps investors
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Speaker 1: evaluate the risk of a debt obligation. Their Triple A
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Speaker 1: rating is the highest tier, and obligations are judged to
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Speaker 1: be of the highest quality subject to the lowest level
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Speaker 1: of credit risk. Here's Bob Yancey from last night's city
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Speaker 1: council meeting.
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Speaker 3: We did it yesterday. They did it, and I want
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Speaker 3: to congratulate the city manager, the finance team, the executive
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Speaker 3: corps that I know puts so much work into that,
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Speaker 3: or the taxpayer. What does that mean? You're going to
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Speaker 3: say five to fifteen basis points on every bond issuance
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Speaker 3: from now on.
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Speaker 1: College Station is now only one of twelve cities in
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Speaker 1: Texas to have their premier rating. The College Station City
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Speaker 1: Council met for nearly three hours last night. The majority
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Speaker 1: of the evening was spent on the presentation and discussion
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Speaker 1: of incentives to increase housing density. The council hoped to
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Speaker 1: make an impact that would allow for more people to
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Speaker 1: own homes within the city.
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Speaker 4: Once you break really beyond into triplexes and onward, you're
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Speaker 4: talking less home ownership opportunities necessarily, So that's kind of
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Speaker 4: that rub there. But middle housing go up to twelve
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Speaker 4: units in a structure.
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Speaker 1: The council settled in on the idea of town homes.
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Speaker 5: So if we're offering incentives to build the types of
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Speaker 5: product that we want to see in middle housing, then
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Speaker 5: it may spur that happening more quickly.
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Speaker 3: And to you, that product is town homes.
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Speaker 5: Usually is townhomes.
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Speaker 1: What was decided upon is a pilot program to encourage
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Speaker 1: townhome development. Because townhomes require a smaller footprint than a
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Speaker 1: traditional single family home, it allows for more living quarters
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Speaker 1: utilizing less acreage. They hope the townhomes will be owner
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Speaker 1: occupied Bapligan. Lawmakers in Texas are divided over the use
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Speaker 1: of IVF. Some are calling for limits on the practice.
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Speaker 1: Here's TSN's Michael Board with more.
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Speaker 6: The debate is dividing the GOP State Center.
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Speaker 7: Lois cole Course says the law is unclear about what
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Speaker 7: happens to unused embryos after a successful IVF treatment.
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Speaker 5: What happens to fertilize embryos that go unused after a
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Speaker 5: successful IVF treatment? Who owns those embryos?
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Speaker 8: Can they be sold?
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Speaker 7: Some people believe the destruction of those unused embryos amount
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Speaker 7: to mass abortion. At the party's convention, one of the
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Speaker 7: legislative priorities was to protect feed the life from destructive practices.
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Speaker 7: But that goes against the goals of President Trump, who
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Speaker 7: struck deals with pharmaceutical companies to expand access to IVF
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Speaker 7: in San Antonio. Michael Board TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Texas Instruments will be receiving a thirty three point six
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Speaker 1: million dollar grant from the Texas Semiconductor Innovation Fund. The
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Speaker 1: Fortune five hundred company and developer of the first integrated
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Speaker 1: circuit in nineteen fifty eight, will use the to expand
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Speaker 1: capacity and technology investments at their semiconductor plant in Richardson.
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Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott made the announcement Thursday, saying, this long
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Speaker 1: term investment in our great state advances Texas leadership and
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Speaker 1: semiconductor manufacturing doctors and Texas are warning parents about these
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Speaker 1: so called Bena drill challenge. That's when kids and teenagers
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Speaker 1: take high doses of the over the counter drug in
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Speaker 1: an attempt to induce hallucinations or a feeling of a high.
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Speaker 1: The challenge started back in twenty twenty and has resulted
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Speaker 1: in hospital visits and now even some deaths in the state.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Stephanie Felton with Cook Children's in Fort Worth says,
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Speaker 1: there's been a surgeon cases over the past year, and
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Speaker 1: here's why it's so dangerous.
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Speaker 9: Sometimes they will have like a little bit of sleepiness
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Speaker 9: from it, and that can even cause respiratory drive to decrease,
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Speaker 9: having them have a hard time breathing. It can also
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Speaker 9: cause seizures, It can cause heart arrhythmias.
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Speaker 1: Felt and says teens carry around ziploc bags full of
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Speaker 1: the pills and take them by the handful. She says
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Speaker 1: preventions charts with open and clare communication between parents and
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Speaker 1: children about the risks of taking the drug. Congratulations to
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Speaker 1: the head of the vocational nursing program at Blenn College.
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Speaker 1: She has been tapped to serve on the Texas Workforce
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Speaker 1: Commission's Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board. Doctor Michelle Marberger is the
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Speaker 1: program director for Vocational Nursing at the Blenn College District.
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Speaker 1: She is one of thirteen appointees. The Workforce Commission's Advisory
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Speaker 1: Board is a statewide panel created to address healthcare workforce
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Speaker 1: shortages and strengthen partnerships between healthcare providers and higher education institutions.
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Speaker 1: Marburger joined BLYNN in nineteen ninety eight and became the
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Speaker 1: program director in two thousand and five. She also serves
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Speaker 1: as the president of the Texas Association of Vocational Nurse
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Speaker 1: Educator's Board of Directors. More News at eight thirty or
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Speaker 1: any time at WTAW dot com. I'm Janette Menchow sixteen,
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Speaker 1: twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 8: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW, Good Morning. Where
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Speaker 8: the infomaniacs weather today? Dust He made astute observation that
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Speaker 8: our best chance of any kind of rain is going
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Speaker 8: to be what Monday and two Tuesday, Yeah, something like that.
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Speaker 8: The rest of these chances of rain, you believe to
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Speaker 8: be just there hedging your bets.
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Speaker 6: Yes, And I.
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Speaker 10: Believe Monday is far enough out we can still take
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Speaker 10: it away.
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Speaker 6: There's still time to change that.
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Speaker 8: Austin a lot of hell, I would say, justifiably.
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Speaker 10: So I'm about to say, just name the topic, and yeah,
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Speaker 10: they're probably right.
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Speaker 8: You've we've both been around for a minute. And the
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Speaker 8: thing is, like Austin's gone through these these phases of
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Speaker 8: where people rip on them for things that are back
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Speaker 8: in the day is because it was a weird city
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Speaker 8: with weird people. Now it's an obnoxious city with rich
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Speaker 8: people that are also kind of weird, but really more
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Speaker 8: obnoxious because they just have they're tech people from the
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Speaker 8: West Coast now not quite the same, but in the
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Speaker 8: traffic and it's too big and all this other stuff
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Speaker 8: doesn't hold a candle to San Francisco, not as a
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Speaker 8: candle to the city of San Francisco.
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Speaker 10: Well, they're only taking the fringe from San Francisco and
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Speaker 10: moving them to Austin.
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Speaker 8: I cannot, I cannot overstate what a nightmare that city is.
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Speaker 8: If you ever end up in a situation where you're
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Speaker 8: forced to live in Austin you're not happy about It's that, okay,
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Speaker 8: I feel you, But take a trip to San Francisco
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Speaker 8: and it will change your life. You'll be glad to
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Speaker 8: be in Austin, or maybe not. Because the San Francisco
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Speaker 8: Board Supervisors just made it San Francis. How do I
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Speaker 8: They basically made it Amsterdam. They voted Tuesday to while
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Speaker 8: Amsterdam style cannabis cafes in the city of San Francisco,
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Speaker 8: just like Amsterdam, only in San Francisco.
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Speaker 11: Amsterdam, does you know a lot of tourism business has
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Speaker 11: a lot of benefits from having the cannabis cafes. San
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Speaker 11: Francisco is not Amsterdam. I don't know that's what we're
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Speaker 11: going to see, but there may be elements of that here,
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Speaker 11: and you know that again could be part of our recovery.
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Speaker 11: This will help them, we hope, find a more competitive
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Speaker 11: business model to help them sustain themselves over time.
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Speaker 1: What I don't like about this legislation is that it
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Speaker 1: permits indoor smoking, and I think that is going backward
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Speaker 1: on our public health.
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Speaker 8: San Fransterdam, ladies and gentlemen, we got there So.
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Speaker 6: The problem is the indoor smoking. That's it. That's the
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Speaker 6: only issue.
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Speaker 8: Well, you know what, I don't like all of that
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Speaker 8: indoor smoke. That's going to set us backwards on our health.
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Speaker 12: Ald.
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Speaker 6: Yes, it's not what we're smoking.
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Speaker 8: It's not the the piles of drugs, the literal the
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Speaker 8: piles of drugs. I don't know. Bringing your guys back
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Speaker 8: around the sixties, can you defind it? Can someone definitively
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Speaker 8: say that we have finally passed the nineteen sixties in
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Speaker 8: terms of the amount of drugs that are out there
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Speaker 8: for people to consume, because.
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Speaker 6: It's earned bonkers, crazy.
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Speaker 8: It's nuts. So again, count your blessings as long as
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Speaker 8: we're on the plant kick. An Antique mal in Kansas
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Speaker 8: is dealing with a real problem, a repeat plant thief
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Speaker 8: who has been stealing pots of flowers from the planters,
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Speaker 8: and they're hoping someone will recognize the woman who's doing it.
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Speaker 13: I really want to know why flowers. I mean, there's
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Speaker 13: things in the world that people need, and I don't
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Speaker 13: think flowers is one of them. But you know, for her,
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Speaker 13: I guess it's something she just really wanted, that she
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Speaker 13: was desperate enough to come steal them. And risk getting in.
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Speaker 8: Trouble for that's random. Mall bro Jackson Nilus Jackson with
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Speaker 8: two x's, by the way, Uh he is. He is
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Speaker 8: confused because he's never met a plant person in his life.
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Speaker 8: Now he's never Jackson talked to some talk to some
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Speaker 8: women there, and I'm taking women, not just my age.
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Speaker 8: Like in the gen Z range. There are some plant
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Speaker 8: people out there right.
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Speaker 6: Now, but they don't steal them.
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Speaker 8: Uh no, well do they or don't they? I I
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Speaker 8: feel like I know some plant people who have gotten
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Speaker 8: real sneaky. Maybe not stole a plant, but seed. Yeah,
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Speaker 8: stole a seed. I would call it stealing a clipping.
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Speaker 8: But I think they look at it as I'm taking
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Speaker 8: a clipping from this plant to use it another plant. Y'all.
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Speaker 8: That's stealing. That is not your plant clipping. That is
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Speaker 8: someone else's plan. Are you a plant person, Riley? Do
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Speaker 8: you know any plant people your age?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 14: My mom's a huge plant person. Oh my gosh, it's
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Speaker 14: incredible what she can do. Pretty I don't know how
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Speaker 14: she does what she does. I kill plants.
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Speaker 2: I guess my jobs.
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Speaker 8: Okay, right on the same same, same, same do you?
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Speaker 8: But no friends that are are are equally as passionate
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Speaker 8: about about the the the gardening and such. No, not really,
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Speaker 8: give it time, give it time. Finally, have either of
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Speaker 8: you taken one of those twenty three meters tests, the
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Speaker 8: DNA test?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 8: No, okay, is there a reason why neither of you
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Speaker 8: have done that? I know what my reason is.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, me too.
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Speaker 8: They're just things you don't want to know, things you
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Speaker 8: don't want to find out.
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Speaker 6: And I don't want to be in a DNA database
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Speaker 6: over there.
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Speaker 8: I don't either. I don't want to be in a
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Speaker 8: tube somewhere. I don't. I mean, we have a robot
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Speaker 8: cops happening, and I'm sure, I'm sure someone will find
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Speaker 8: a way to make that make me regret doing that,
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Speaker 8: but you could. All this just goes into the pile.
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Speaker 8: Hulu's got a new documentary about a woman who found
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Speaker 8: out who your grandfather is.
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Speaker 13: So this all started because you never knew your dad.
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Speaker 14: Who's your dad, Charles Manson, I've always spent the kid
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Speaker 14: with head screwed on, right, and then you find out
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Speaker 14: your grandfather's man.
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Speaker 8: She submitted my DNA to unlock my grandfather's sealed records.
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Speaker 8: I need to understand what happened, no matter where it
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Speaker 8: takes me.
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Speaker 6: All right, First of all, i'd ask for a second opinion.
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Speaker 6: My first off.
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Speaker 2: Is one, it does not matter.
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Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: In second you had you not done this, you would
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Speaker 2: have gone your whole life and never.
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Speaker 8: Never would have had to know girls because you know.
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Speaker 2: Now doesn't mean you're gonna change dramatically.
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Speaker 6: Do you know?
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Speaker 10: Or do they send that out every one hundred thousand
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Speaker 10: just to see reacts.
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Speaker 6: I'm just saying everyone.
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Speaker 8: Wants to be related to someone famous.
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Speaker 2: She wants she wants.
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Speaker 14: To become TikTok er famous in some form or fashion,
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Speaker 14: and this is her way.
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Speaker 8: In hey, man, that's that's a pretty good one. Sixteen
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Speaker 8: twenty ninety four to five WTA W Good Morning, Where
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Speaker 8: the infom Acts nine seventy nine six nine five sixteen
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Speaker 8: twenty Mark Texan, her world has gone helter skelter. Well done.
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Speaker 8: But don Mark, you were asking me if I actually
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Speaker 8: believe that. I mean, if she submitted her DNA to
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Speaker 8: court to say, hey, look I'm Charlie's granddaughter, surprise, surprise,
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Speaker 8: I would like to see his files that have never
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Speaker 8: been released, I would think that that would indicate that
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Speaker 8: she probably probably actually is, but you just never know
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Speaker 8: because you can't trust anyone anymore.
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Speaker 10: Oh really, because if the person who wants to see
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Speaker 10: files that have never been released must be telling you
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Speaker 10: the truth about why they want them.
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Speaker 6: That's with me? Is that your conjecture? People areous?
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Speaker 8: I mean you could run her DNA again against I
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Speaker 8: guess some manson DNA think whatever, How is it that she.
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Speaker 14: Can request those doc just because you're related to him?
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Speaker 14: She probably wasn't even alive.
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Speaker 2: When half of it happens.
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Speaker 8: There's not a chance. There's not a chance. I'm gonna
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Speaker 8: get it. I don't know how that works. I I
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Speaker 8: really don't. Maybe if you're maybe, if you're related, you
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Speaker 8: would have some type of But then why would you
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Speaker 8: because it's not your crime. Yeah, it's not gonna affect you,
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Speaker 8: you're not actually, I mean, do you have a case
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Speaker 8: pending or something? Why would you need the files?
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Speaker 12: Hell?
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Speaker 8: Why would you want to know the files? Mine is
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Speaker 8: selling them to Hulu. I get that part. That's very profitable.
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Speaker 2: She wants to make money.
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Speaker 6: I mean she is a filmmaker.
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Speaker 2: That's Oh, there you go.
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Speaker 8: I gotta have a project, my man, you gotta have
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Speaker 8: a project. Documentaries are. Documentaries are big, big business these days. Hell,
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Speaker 8: it's one of the only things that you can It's
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Speaker 8: like that in football, the only two things you can
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Speaker 8: guarantee a hit. If you can find a documentary, specifically
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Speaker 8: a documentary about a serial killer, you can get it done. Donna,
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Speaker 8: back onto the plant thing. Around seven years ago, stole
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Speaker 8: some plant from yards in Bryan. I had several taken.
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Speaker 8: I think this guy was a landscaper and he was caught.
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Speaker 8: Oh so I thought you said you were stealing him, Donna,
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Speaker 8: you were. You were the victim of a thief who
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Speaker 8: was a landscaper that was coming in and u and
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Speaker 8: plying them out.
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Speaker 6: Of That makes sense because making a little money off.
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Speaker 8: Make Yeah, maybe you need a very you're looking man,
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Speaker 8: that one looks pretty good. I think I'll just, uh
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Speaker 8: you know, just just see what I can get here.
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Speaker 8: Uh so yeah, uh so so Sorry, I'm still in
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Speaker 8: the Manson thing. It's hard to hard to get out
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Speaker 8: of my head. Uh quite frankly, But I don't know.
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Speaker 8: I if you had to be related to someone famous,
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Speaker 8: I mean, I don't think anyone's gonna want to be
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Speaker 8: related to someone infamous. But is that somehow better?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 8: And someone is scary, maybe you can.
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Speaker 2: Make you more famous quicker if that's your in goal.
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Speaker 8: Does it make you get a little bit and people
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Speaker 8: love a bad guy right sadly?
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 10: Look, if you're trying to differenterentiate yourself out there in
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Speaker 10: the world of streaming.
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Speaker 8: Can you get a TikTok audience based on this niche? I?
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Speaker 8: You know, that's what we're looking at today.
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Jeanette Menshaw. The
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Speaker 1: City of College Station has reached the highest financial status
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Speaker 1: awarded by Moody's. Moody is a global credit rating agency
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Speaker 1: that assesses the financial health and credit worthiness of borrowers, governments,
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Speaker 1: and corporations. It helps investors evaluate the risk of a
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Speaker 1: debt obligation. Their Triple A rating is the highest tier,
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Speaker 1: and obligations are judged to be of the highest quality
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Speaker 1: subject to the lowest level of credit risk. Councilman Bob
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Speaker 1: Yancy explains why it's important.
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Speaker 3: It's an economic development tool. Really, it tells potential investors
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Speaker 3: in our community. It says that that city College Station,
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Speaker 3: Texas is a good bet that they keep their promises,
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Speaker 3: that they manage their money.
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Speaker 1: College Station is now one of only twelve cities in
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Speaker 1: Texas to have the premier rating. The College Station City
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Speaker 1: Council met last night and made some zoning and ordnance changes.
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Speaker 1: The council voted seven to zero in favor of changing
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Speaker 1: the land use designation for the seven point two acres
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Speaker 1: on Harvey Mitchell South between Dartmouth Street and the Earl
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Speaker 1: Rutter Freeway. It was changed from general commercial to urban residential.
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Speaker 1: The council again voted unanimously in favor of changing zoning
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Speaker 1: for that area from general commercial and a corridor overlay
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Speaker 1: to multifamily and natural areas protected. A request to change
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Speaker 1: an ordnance in the Wolfpen Creek zoning district. A micro
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Speaker 1: mobility retailer was requesting the change to allow for the
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Speaker 1: display of vehicles in front of their business. The council
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Speaker 1: was split, but the change was approved four to three.
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Speaker 1: I think Councilman Bob Yancy says it best.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I say, let him do business.
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Speaker 1: The head of the Vocational nursing program at Blynn College
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Speaker 1: has been tapped to serve on the Texas Workforce Commission's
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Speaker 1: Healthcare Workforce Advisory Board. Doctor Michelle Marble is the program
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Speaker 1: director for Vocational nursing at the Blank College District and
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Speaker 1: is one of thirteen appointees. The Workforce Commission's Advisory Board
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Speaker 1: is a statewide panel created to address healthcare workforce shortages
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Speaker 1: and strengthen partnerships between healthcare providers and higher education institutions.
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Speaker 1: Marburger joined BLYNN in nineteen ninety eight and became the
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Speaker 1: program director in two thousand and five. She also serves
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Speaker 1: as the president of the Texas Association of Vocational Nurse
17:25
Speaker 1: Educator's Board of Directors. Doctors and Texas are warning parents
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Speaker 1: about the so called Bena drill challenge. Kids and teens
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Speaker 1: are taking high doses of the over the counter drug
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Speaker 1: in an attempt to induce hallucinations or a high. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Stephanie Felton with Cook Children's in Fort Worth says there's
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Speaker 1: been a surge in cases over the past year and
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Speaker 1: here's why it's so dangerous.
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Speaker 9: Sometimes they will have like a little bit of sleepiness
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Speaker 9: from it, and that can even cause respiratory drive to decrease,
17:54
Speaker 9: having them have a hard time breathing. It can also
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Speaker 9: cause seizures, It can cause heart as.
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Speaker 1: Felton systeens are carrying around bags full of the pills
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Speaker 1: and sometimes take them by the handful. She says parents
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Speaker 1: have to have open dialogue with their children about the
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Speaker 1: risks of taking the drug. More news throughout the day
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Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW dot com. I'm Jenette Minschell sixteen,
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Speaker 1: twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 8: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW. Happy Friday and
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Speaker 8: being great?
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Speaker 6: Nice to be here.
18:58
Speaker 8: Oh, it's good to have you here.
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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 8: Y'all have had a busy week. So what do we
19:02
Speaker 8: want to talk about today.
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Speaker 15: Well, we have got as our guest, our Assistant city
19:07
Speaker 15: Manager and Chief Financial Officer, Jeff Kerston. He's here to
19:09
Speaker 15: talk about the budget and that bond rating that everybody
19:12
Speaker 15: is buzzing about.
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Speaker 8: I did want to I did want to get some
19:14
Speaker 8: clarification on the bond rating, but I know the budget
19:17
Speaker 8: is the budget has been the big I hate to
19:21
Speaker 8: say big ticket item, but it's been the most discussed
19:24
Speaker 8: thing that's come out in the last couple of weeks.
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Speaker 8: And we talked about with Mayor Nichols on Wednesday a
19:29
Speaker 8: little bit. But what's your perspective on this? I know,
19:32
Speaker 8: I know the top line is fairly eye popping to
19:34
Speaker 8: people when you start to look at the amount of
19:37
Speaker 8: growth and expenditure and it's like, how are we getting here?
19:40
Speaker 8: But give me your perspective on.
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Speaker 12: It, sure, so you know again, really this budget that
19:46
Speaker 12: we have is one that is really reflecting what the
19:52
Speaker 12: City Council has identified in the last year or two
19:56
Speaker 12: since we started with with our strategic planning, and and
20:01
Speaker 12: and really what we're seeing in terms of the significan
20:04
Speaker 12: significant investment is on the capital project side, the infrastructure side,
20:09
Speaker 12: and and and and that's where we're We're we're seeing
20:12
Speaker 12: where where the council has you know, talked about wanting
20:16
Speaker 12: to do a number of things, whether it's at Wolfpin
20:18
Speaker 12: Creek or North Gate or public works facility or uh
20:22
Speaker 12: uh streets in midtown and and growth uh you know,
20:26
Speaker 12: to address some of the growth and infrastructure needs in
20:29
Speaker 12: some of the areas areas of the city. And so
20:32
Speaker 12: that that's really where we're seeing a again, uh, this
20:36
Speaker 12: budget is reflecting those priorities, which is what a budget
20:40
Speaker 12: should do. It should be reflecting the priorities of the
20:44
Speaker 12: governing body, of the leadership, and ultimately of the of
20:48
Speaker 12: the citizens of College Station.
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Speaker 8: Right. And again I think we we talked about this
20:52
Speaker 8: a little bit on Wednesday, but the amount of when
20:54
Speaker 8: you talk about infrastructure, obviously talk about big ticket items,
20:56
Speaker 8: talking about the fact that you do have to do
20:58
Speaker 8: it at some point. Frankly, you're talking it's not going
21:00
Speaker 8: to get any cheaper to do infrastructure, so you have
21:03
Speaker 8: to worry about that as well. Absolutely, But then there's
21:06
Speaker 8: some other things, uh that are that are like adding
21:09
Speaker 8: six new police officers was on that.
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Speaker 12: You know, And and so we're just really talking about
21:15
Speaker 12: the capital side of the budget before. What you're referring
21:17
Speaker 12: to is on what we call the operating side of
21:19
Speaker 12: the budget, operations and maintenance component of the budget. Overall
21:23
Speaker 12: for the organization, we're going up overall with with all
21:27
Speaker 12: parts of the operations and maintenance gone up about one percent.
21:30
Speaker 12: And it's not a not a huge amount of growth
21:33
Speaker 12: that we're seeing there, but we are certainly seeing investments
21:37
Speaker 12: in public safety. As you mentioned the with with the
21:42
Speaker 12: six additional police officers are included in this proposed budget,
21:46
Speaker 12: and that's been part of a plan we we we've
21:48
Speaker 12: talked over the last couple of years with the city
21:50
Speaker 12: council about at the need to add to the additional
21:53
Speaker 12: UH police officers, and the council has has been very
21:57
Speaker 12: supportive and and and has also been advocating for that
22:02
Speaker 12: kind of thing. We added six in the current year
22:05
Speaker 12: and so we're we're continuing that program of as as
22:11
Speaker 12: the community grows, as the city grows, we have to
22:14
Speaker 12: make sure we're keeping up with that. And one of
22:17
Speaker 12: the core things we do is public safety. It's one
22:20
Speaker 12: of the very basic things we do, and so that
22:23
Speaker 12: we spend about fifty percent of our general fund on
22:25
Speaker 12: police and fire, and this just shows that we are
22:29
Speaker 12: as we continue to grow, we're continuing to make strategic
22:32
Speaker 12: investments in that.
22:33
Speaker 8: Obviously, budgets go up there for every they're going to
22:36
Speaker 8: go up a lot more, they're going to go down.
22:38
Speaker 8: Where does College Station sit in terms of you mentioned
22:42
Speaker 8: that in some aspects it's x percent of growth in
22:45
Speaker 8: operations maybe okay one percent of growth when you compare
22:49
Speaker 8: that to the amount of growth the city has every year?
22:53
Speaker 8: Five sure, where does College Station sit in terms of
22:56
Speaker 8: how much we spend compared to the percentage of growth
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Speaker 8: that we have here over.
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Speaker 12: So you know, so you know, we're probably seeing growth
23:05
Speaker 12: in our population of anywhere from you know, two to
23:08
Speaker 12: three to four percent something in that in that range probably,
23:14
Speaker 12: And so you know, again this year we're seeing overall
23:17
Speaker 12: the operations and maintenance part of the budget going up
23:19
Speaker 12: about one percent. It's and that includes everything from our
23:23
Speaker 12: general fund, where over the growth may be a bit
23:27
Speaker 12: more our utilities, our electric, water, wastewater and so on.
23:32
Speaker 12: And so as the community grows, is we have more population,
23:35
Speaker 12: come as Texas A and M continues.
23:37
Speaker 8: To because that's awesome. Any smaller, good lord.
23:40
Speaker 12: Absolutely, And even though they're doing some things to manage enrollment.
23:44
Speaker 12: We are continuing to see growth coming. You can see
23:49
Speaker 12: it in in in a lot of the new multi
23:53
Speaker 12: family that's being built. Just take a look at Northgate.
23:55
Speaker 12: Look look at all the cranes that are still up
23:57
Speaker 12: over there.
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Speaker 8: I mean, we're talking about we're having ser discussions about
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Speaker 8: density and how how we're going to deal with density
24:03
Speaker 8: because there's limitations on what you guys can do with
24:06
Speaker 8: the city and what land you have with the city,
24:08
Speaker 8: and that's obviously going to be expensive. There's a lot
24:10
Speaker 8: of things to go into it. Uh it is. It
24:13
Speaker 8: is fascinating how how much has changed in ten twenty years.
24:19
Speaker 8: But you know, how much has the city changed in
24:21
Speaker 8: ten twenty years.
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Speaker 12: You know, and and and you know, so we we
24:25
Speaker 12: try to keep certainly try to keep up and where
24:28
Speaker 12: we can stay ahead of some of those things, and
24:30
Speaker 12: and that can be you know, certainly certainly a challenge,
24:33
Speaker 12: you know, given some of the constraints we may have
24:35
Speaker 12: on revenues and and and those sorts of things. But
24:39
Speaker 12: you know, again, as as we we see population, we
24:42
Speaker 12: just you know, look outside the window here at Highway
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Speaker 12: six and and and all that, all the traffic that's
24:48
Speaker 12: going up and down there.
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Speaker 8: No one's adding new lanes for fun.
24:51
Speaker 12: That's absolutely right, and you know, and and and so
24:57
Speaker 12: all of that requires some of you know, thistional infrastructure,
25:00
Speaker 12: but we do need to do it in a in
25:02
Speaker 12: a prudent, in a responsible manner exactly.
25:07
Speaker 8: I think one of the things that actually reflects really
25:09
Speaker 8: really well. And I did not know, I don't know
25:13
Speaker 8: a lot about what does the Moodies thing just happen?
25:17
Speaker 8: Is it a project? It walked me through from the
25:20
Speaker 8: city's perspective.
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Speaker 12: Well, the first thing I say is the Moodies thing
25:23
Speaker 12: does not just happen.
25:24
Speaker 8: I assume I assumed this is something that this is
25:27
Speaker 8: something you guys work on every.
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Speaker 12: Single ye you know, it's it is, and you know
25:35
Speaker 12: we have been every year. We strive to make sure
25:40
Speaker 12: that we are doing things to show that we are
25:42
Speaker 12: are being a financial response, financially responsible, financially prudent. You know,
25:48
Speaker 12: it takes time to build up some of the healthy
25:50
Speaker 12: reserves that we have, which is one of the things
25:52
Speaker 12: that Moody's has has commented on it that that takes
25:55
Speaker 12: a number of years to do that and to do
25:57
Speaker 12: it consistently, and that's part of what they look at
26:00
Speaker 12: is not just one year that all of a sudden,
26:04
Speaker 12: maybe you have some.
26:05
Speaker 8: Extra reserves exactly.
26:06
Speaker 12: They're they're looking at things over the last several years
26:09
Speaker 12: seeing if you are, uh, you know, if if your
26:15
Speaker 12: budget results and your financial results are you know, you're
26:20
Speaker 12: you're you're you're coming in better than you expected on
26:25
Speaker 12: your revenues, you're you're controlling your budgets and not and
26:29
Speaker 12: not exceeding the budgets. That those are some of the
26:31
Speaker 12: things they're looking at. And that takes the work of
26:35
Speaker 12: throughout the organization, from the city Council and and their oversight,
26:39
Speaker 12: to City management, uh, to all the different department heads
26:43
Speaker 12: and and and to the finance department. We spend a
26:46
Speaker 12: lot of time forecasting out what we think is gonna
26:50
Speaker 12: is going to happen in the future and and and
26:52
Speaker 12: that's one of the more challenging things one of the
26:54
Speaker 12: but it's also one of the fun things to do too,
26:56
Speaker 12: is is is you get to, you know, try to
27:01
Speaker 12: try to understand what do we think is going to
27:03
Speaker 12: happen with our key revenue streams, property values, sales, tax,
27:09
Speaker 12: utility revenues and all and all those kind of things.
27:13
Speaker 12: And and then what are we going to need in
27:15
Speaker 12: the future in terms of expenditures. Are we're going to
27:17
Speaker 12: be able to uh attract and retain a good personnel.
27:21
Speaker 12: If we're going to do that, we're going to have
27:23
Speaker 12: to make sure we have, you know, a a good
27:27
Speaker 12: h compensation plan and a benefits plan and so and
27:30
Speaker 12: you have to balance all of those things. We also
27:33
Speaker 12: have to manage our debt levels that that's one of
27:36
Speaker 12: the things that Moody's we'll also look at is is
27:40
Speaker 12: how much debt do you have? How much debt are
27:42
Speaker 12: you taking on? And we have to be responsible with
27:44
Speaker 12: that and and manage that, uh to make sure we're
27:48
Speaker 12: not uh getting getting to a spot where where they
27:53
Speaker 12: feel we're going to have a problem or an issue
27:55
Speaker 12: with that.
27:56
Speaker 8: Now, my I don't know that people understand how big
27:59
Speaker 8: of a deal it is to be able to have
28:01
Speaker 8: this rating. Can you speak to that. How rare is
28:03
Speaker 8: it to be able to get to this height?
28:05
Speaker 12: So there are so we are the twelfth city in
28:09
Speaker 12: Texas to get the triple A rating. As my finance
28:13
Speaker 12: director kind of pointed out, it's kind of kind of
28:16
Speaker 12: fitting that worthy twelfth.
28:17
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's convenience here at the home.
28:20
Speaker 12: We multiple absolutely and and most of those other cities
28:27
Speaker 12: are in the kind of in the Dallasport Worth area,
28:30
Speaker 12: right and San Antonio is also a Triple A rated city.
28:37
Speaker 6: But it.
28:40
Speaker 12: One of the things our financial advisor also pointed out
28:42
Speaker 12: to us yesterday, twenty some years ago, there were only
28:47
Speaker 12: five triple A rated cities, and and and and and
28:52
Speaker 12: it really is h It really truly is a great
28:58
Speaker 12: accomplishment for the organization and for the community because ultimately
29:02
Speaker 12: it's going to help lower our borrowing cost as we
29:08
Speaker 12: in terms of as we work on capital projects moving
29:10
Speaker 12: into the future. It also sends a message out to
29:16
Speaker 12: others who may want to come in and invest here,
29:18
Speaker 12: that that we're a we're a good bet if you will.
29:23
Speaker 8: Is absolutely the the like I was saying earlier, I
29:27
Speaker 8: think that that speaks incredibly highly like if you're coming
29:29
Speaker 8: into it and you're looking at the story, hey, the
29:33
Speaker 8: budget is very large. The fact that you were teaming
29:35
Speaker 8: these two things or the buddy, the budgets increased. But
29:38
Speaker 8: you're also getting that nod from Moody's that that says,
29:42
Speaker 8: I think, I says wonderful things about what you guys
29:43
Speaker 8: are doing over there.
29:44
Speaker 12: And absolutely it affirms and confirms a lot of things
29:50
Speaker 12: that that we felt we have known about our organization.
29:54
Speaker 12: And again, it does take work. It is not something
29:57
Speaker 12: that just happens overnight. It is a multi your thing.
30:01
Speaker 12: It's something our city manager has been talking about since,
30:04
Speaker 12: probably since about the time he got here, was, you know,
30:07
Speaker 12: trying to strive to hit that triple A mark. And
30:11
Speaker 12: we're real pleased that we have done that.
30:13
Speaker 8: Well, congratulations and we love to see it. Anything else
30:16
Speaker 8: you need to get to.
30:17
Speaker 12: This week, do me everything I would point out, But
30:21
Speaker 12: talking about the budget, we do have our budget workshops
30:23
Speaker 12: coming up starting Monday. They will be at one o'clock
30:29
Speaker 12: in the afternoon at City Hall on We have them
30:32
Speaker 12: scheduled for Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. We block out three days.
30:36
Speaker 12: We may only need two days. Well, that'll be up
30:39
Speaker 12: to the city council. We also have a public hearing
30:43
Speaker 12: on the budget where residents can certainly come in and
30:46
Speaker 12: comment on what the budget is. That will be on Thursday,
30:49
Speaker 12: July the twenty third. So I just wanted to mention
30:51
Speaker 12: those couple of items.
30:52
Speaker 8: Wonderful. Anything else on your side, Colin, Yeah, we.
30:56
Speaker 15: Have our new July issue of the Ihearts news letter
31:00
Speaker 15: this posted on our website on the front at cst
31:03
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31:05
Speaker 15: the latest episode of the What's Up College Station podcast
31:09
Speaker 15: keep featuring Water Resource Coordinator Jennifer Nations.
31:12
Speaker 8: That's going to be a good one, yes, sir, a
31:13
Speaker 8: lot of people talking about water. This is the this
31:16
Speaker 8: is the time to have that discussion.
31:18
Speaker 15: We've had a lot of water lately, but I think
31:19
Speaker 15: it's going to start diminishing.
31:21
Speaker 8: Yeah, oh, it always does, gentlemen, Thank you so much.
31:24
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Speaker 8: hundreds for the heat in decks is what they're projecting.
31:43
Speaker 6: But'll just ignore that. Nobody wants to hear that.
31:46
Speaker 8: Don't worry about that. Mid nineties, maybe a few clouds,
31:49
Speaker 8: maybe a little something in those clouds. About thirty percent
31:51
Speaker 8: chances at that this afternoon, and then our best chance
31:53
Speaker 8: at rain happening Monday Tuesday. As Dusty mentioned, they could
31:57
Speaker 8: take it away at any time.
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32:14
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32:18
Speaker 8: it to a great extent. During your work.
32:20
Speaker 6: Day, have a have a project to go to? Centensis
32:24
Speaker 6: is over?
32:24
Speaker 8: Where's your project?
32:26
Speaker 6: I've got a tower light sensor that's gone back.
32:28
Speaker 8: Okay, okay, what's the worst? What's the worst You've ever
32:32
Speaker 8: hurt yourself while making repairs? And it can be anything.
32:36
Speaker 8: It could be around yourself. Oh well, it could be
32:39
Speaker 8: power related. It could be maybe you're playing with me
32:41
Speaker 8: doing something with a saw and a little you know,
32:43
Speaker 8: one of the one of the fingers.
32:45
Speaker 10: I've got all. I've got all my fingers and toes.
32:48
Speaker 10: I I haven't hit myself with too much electricity. I mean,
32:53
Speaker 10: everyone's popped themselves with a little bit and.
32:55
Speaker 8: Nothing I can't walk away from so far.
32:58
Speaker 10: Haven't haven't pried myself, you know, I mean maybe a
33:01
Speaker 10: cutter scrape.
33:02
Speaker 8: Okay, nothing crazy. Yeah, mental health has a list on
33:07
Speaker 8: how many men get injured, and I mean injured every
33:12
Speaker 8: year doing repairs around the house.
33:16
Speaker 6: Okay.
33:16
Speaker 8: Ninety eight thousand, six hundred and eighty two men were
33:19
Speaker 8: injured last year using hand tools, another eighty four thousand,
33:24
Speaker 8: six hundred and thirty nine using power saws.
33:26
Speaker 6: I mean, what are we considered injured?
33:29
Speaker 8: A power saw injury puts you in the yard. I'm
33:31
Speaker 8: saying you better. If you come to me with a
33:34
Speaker 8: saw injury, I better see something to miss it. That's
33:38
Speaker 8: an injury.
33:38
Speaker 10: But all right, a hand tool injury, I bang my knuckles,
33:41
Speaker 10: does that count?
33:42
Speaker 6: I mean, what are we talking?
33:43
Speaker 10: Right?
33:43
Speaker 8: It has It would have to be went to a doctor.
33:47
Speaker 14: Okay, Right, So you want to hear a crazy story,
33:49
Speaker 14: Yeah you got another one.
33:50
Speaker 2: I had the bare one and I've got this one.
33:52
Speaker 6: What you got?
33:53
Speaker 14: So my Paul, he's my mom's dad on that side
33:56
Speaker 14: of my grandpa mm hm. When I was about six,
33:59
Speaker 14: I was up my grandparents house because you go visit him,
34:01
Speaker 14: and my brother was young. So it's just me by
34:03
Speaker 14: myself with my girl, my grandma, right, and he is
34:07
Speaker 14: an He is a air conditioned all that electrician everything.
34:11
Speaker 14: And he was out back in his little workspace using
34:15
Speaker 14: a like one of those saws you know that you
34:17
Speaker 14: cut wood with that, it's the electric one.
34:19
Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, fan saw he wasn't.
34:22
Speaker 2: Paying attention and he cut half his.
34:24
Speaker 8: Thumb off, the top half. Yeah, that's that's a dumb
34:28
Speaker 8: question me, okay, all.
34:30
Speaker 14: Right, And he casually like we hear a yell and like,
34:33
Speaker 14: oh no, he must have dropped wood or something. And
34:35
Speaker 14: all of a sudden he comes walking in with Italian.
34:38
Speaker 14: He goes, I've cut my thumb off.
34:40
Speaker 2: We need to go to the er. He just non
34:43
Speaker 2: chalantly drops that on both of us.
34:45
Speaker 5: Did we go?
34:46
Speaker 8: Did he do that little magic trick where you know, okay,
34:51
Speaker 8: there's you know there it is. There's So it was
34:55
Speaker 8: what happened to the thumb after he went back to
34:57
Speaker 8: the doctors. He's holding it in his hand, you know,
35:00
Speaker 8: obviously not attached anymore.
35:02
Speaker 2: Well, they just sewed the toughest thumb together and he
35:04
Speaker 2: has half thumb.
35:05
Speaker 8: Oh okay, so okay that was the end. Yes, yeah, man,
35:09
Speaker 8: that's a hard one to lose, just like a that's
35:11
Speaker 8: a hard one to lose.
35:12
Speaker 10: It's like Billy Bob pulls out his knife in the
35:14
Speaker 10: hospital cuts it off.
35:15
Speaker 8: So that's what I'm saying. It's a pinky eah, you know, Okay, Yeah,
35:20
Speaker 8: I can lose that.
35:21
Speaker 6: The thumb is a that's a tough one.
35:23
Speaker 8: That's an MVP. Thumb is a serious player. By the way,
35:27
Speaker 8: ten thousand, five hundred and forty three men were injured
35:32
Speaker 8: doing laundry last year. Now, come on, remember I said
35:38
Speaker 8: that I'm not going to count it as an injury
35:40
Speaker 8: unless you reported to the doctor for it. What kind
35:44
Speaker 8: of injury are you gonna get doing laundry?
35:48
Speaker 10: My back went out bending over pulling stuff out of
35:51
Speaker 10: the geez.
35:53
Speaker 8: They're like, I how on earth I get the saws?
35:58
Speaker 8: I get the climbing the ladder. Hundred and twenty six
36:00
Speaker 8: thousand dudes fall up a ladder every single year. That
36:03
Speaker 8: that that's gravity.
36:05
Speaker 6: That's gravity, and it wins every time.
36:07
Speaker 8: Yeah, ironing clothes seven thousand, eight hundred and seventy men
36:16
Speaker 8: last year. I'm question blocked an injury. I'm ironing.
36:21
Speaker 6: I'm thinking this is a survey and they're like.
36:23
Speaker 8: Dude, still irons, haven't you heard it? You don't have
36:26
Speaker 8: to iron a fishing shirt.
36:27
Speaker 10: My man, it depends on the material. Some of them
36:33
Speaker 10: will wrinkle pretty good.
36:34
Speaker 8: They'll yeah, but that's you know, like throwing the again,
36:37
Speaker 8: once again, throwing the dryer, run it for twenty minutes,
36:39
Speaker 8: don't herniate your back while you're trying to get it out,
36:43
Speaker 8: and then your come.
36:44
Speaker 6: I'm trying to figure Yeah, I'm trying to figure some
36:46
Speaker 6: of these injuries out.
36:47
Speaker 8: Cleaning Thirty two thousand, four hundred and forty five men
36:51
Speaker 8: were injured using cleaning aces and cleaning equipment.
36:55
Speaker 6: This sounds like an excuse.
36:56
Speaker 10: Sorry, sorry, I was going to but I'm I was
37:01
Speaker 10: gonna do, you know, do the kitchen floor.
37:03
Speaker 6: But I can't. No, you start.
37:05
Speaker 8: What do you do is you start the job and
37:07
Speaker 8: then you claim your injury a wall, But yeah, what
37:10
Speaker 8: is I supposed to do? I injured myself using this sponge.
37:19
Speaker 8: I mean, there is that whole idea that if you're
37:22
Speaker 8: a dude, guys will do chores badly in order not
37:26
Speaker 8: to be asked to do them in the future. I
37:30
Speaker 8: just don't know that I've ever witnessed someone that's.
37:32
Speaker 14: When you don't do his laundry and you leave it
37:34
Speaker 14: in the washroom forget to move it to the dryer.
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Speaker 8: Why are you gonna set him up for injury like that.
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Speaker 2: Because if he's gonna be lazy, I can. I can
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Speaker 2: contribute the exact same energy you're giving me.
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Speaker 8: Guys, have a great weekend. We'll see well, Riley's gonna
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Speaker 8: be on the road, but we'll see you back on
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Speaker 8: the radio on Monday sixteen twenty ww