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The Infomaniacs: August 28th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Friday from the WTAW newsroom. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Will Welch. College Station City Council met last night to
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  Speaker 1: discuss budget and the property tax rate. The tax rate
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  Speaker 1: of 53.02 cents per $ 100 valuation passed by a vote
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  Speaker 1: of 5-2 with Councilman Bob Yancey and David Smith saying no.
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  Speaker 1: Councilwoman Melissa McElhaney says even though the city's property tax
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  Speaker 1: rate is increasing, the city is doing a great job
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  Speaker 1: of making our tax dollars work.
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  Speaker 2: So when we get to the budget, I think we're
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  Speaker 2: doing more with less. We're adding personnel. We are continuing
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  Speaker 2: to provide excellent service level. I also am very proud
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  Speaker 2: of us. We have one of the lowest tax rates,
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  Speaker 2: even at this proposed increase, compared to our sister city
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  Speaker 2: over here, Bryan. I think they're at. 624 right now.
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  Speaker 2: Waco's at.
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  Speaker 3: 755.
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  Speaker 2: That doesn't mean that we're the same. It doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: that the valuations are the same. But we are very
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  Speaker 2: responsible in maintaining a tax rate that covers our basis
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  Speaker 2: without being overly pushy toward it.
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  Speaker 1: Council voted 6-1 in favor of the $ 576 million budget
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  Speaker 1: for fiscal year 2027, with Councilman Bob Yancey being the
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  Speaker 1: only nay. Governor Greg Abbott is continuing his push to
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  Speaker 1: remove Muslim foot washing stations from Texas airports.
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  Speaker 4: Governor Abbott has been asking the Justice Department to investigate
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  Speaker 4: airports in Dallas and Houston for their religious facilities. And
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  Speaker 4: while the feds have not acted yet, he's confident that
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  Speaker 4: they will soon.
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  Speaker 1: We expect them to live up to the standard to ensure.
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  Speaker 1: There's no religious discrimination.
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  Speaker 4: He argues that Muslim-only bathroom spaces in airports are akin
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  Speaker 4: to white-only bathrooms. The mayor of Houston defended the facility,
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  Speaker 4: saying they serve a practical need. And the Texas chapter
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  Speaker 4: of the Council on American Islamic Relations called the push
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  Speaker 4: an anti-Muslim political stunt. In San Antonio, Michael Bord, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The Texas Bicentennial is 10 years away and big crowds
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  Speaker 1: are expected. The head of the Texas Historical Commission says
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  Speaker 1: they're tracking a steady rise in people visiting sites like
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  Speaker 1: the Alamo.
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  Speaker 5: Right now we've got growth that's occurring about 10% to
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  Speaker 5: our historic sites.
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  Speaker 1: That includes another $ 85 million to restore San Jacinto and
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  Speaker 1: finish the museum there. There is also a push to
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  Speaker 1: restore Washington on the Brazos. A mayor in Bexar County
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  Speaker 1: has been arrested and is facing an assault charge against
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  Speaker 1: one of his harshest critics. Court video documents show Balcones
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  Speaker 1: Heights Mayor Johnny Rodriguez deliberately touching the arm of former
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  Speaker 1: council member Lamar Gillian after a fiery council meeting on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: despite being warned not to touch the 78-year-old councilman. On Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez was arrested by the Bexar County Sheriff's Office and
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  Speaker 1: charged with misdemeanor assault on the elderly. He was released
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  Speaker 1: on a $ 5, 000 bond and has been ordered not to
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  Speaker 1: contact Gillian or have any firearms. The cities of Bryan
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  Speaker 1: and College Station are asking residents to adopt voluntary watering restrictions.
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  Speaker 1: They say with high demand, water tower levels can drop,
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  Speaker 1: affecting water pressure, and that can hamper water availability during
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  Speaker 1: a large fire. Avoid watering during daytime hours and limit
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  Speaker 1: watering to two days per week. More news ahead at 6.30
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  Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 6: Celebrate because it's Friday. Don't celebrate because it's going to
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  Speaker 6: be a great weather day. Although it's not a terrible 97.
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  Speaker 1: The scale has been reset as far as great weather
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  Speaker 1: days go.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly. 97 for your high. They're going to give us
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  Speaker 6: a 20% chance of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up this morning, I look at my phone,
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  Speaker 1: and within six minutes of me waking up, I had
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  Speaker 1: a lightning alert within 10 miles of my location, so
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  Speaker 1: I immediately pull up the radar. There's a small little
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  Speaker 1: booger of a storm over Snook.
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  Speaker 6: I saw it coming in. I saw one coming in,
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  Speaker 6: and it was just teasing me from probably about 10
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  Speaker 6: or 15 miles away.
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  Speaker 1: I did everything I could yesterday after the show. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, I did not bring my raincoat up to
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  Speaker 1: the show yesterday, hoping to entice it. And then when
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  Speaker 1: I left the show yesterday, one of the first things
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  Speaker 1: I did was run the truck through the car wash.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I was thinking, okay, man, I'm doing it. I'm doing
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  Speaker 1: everything I possibly can.
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  Speaker 6: You crossed all the T's. You dotted all the I's
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  Speaker 6: and still nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Just shy of sacrificing a possum.
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  Speaker 6: Down to the 70s tonight. And then after that, I
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  Speaker 6: don't know. We'll see if they keep moving the rain
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  Speaker 6: chants around. That might be just an insurance.
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  Speaker 1: It's gone.
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be a hot weekend. You know the drill.
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  Speaker 6: feel the difference. You know how many people have sent
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  Speaker 6: me the Robot Olympics videos over this? I've been meaning
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  Speaker 6: to tell you about this.
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  Speaker 1: I have not.
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  Speaker 6: I figured you weren't quite aware. Google Robot Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I can do that.
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  Speaker 6: So the Robot Olympics has been everywhere. and I'll try
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  Speaker 6: to put some montage clips on the socials if for
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  Speaker 6: some reason you mark.
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  Speaker 2: Up on this.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I have seen a clip, I think, from this,
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  Speaker 1: and the clip I saw was this robot sprinting.
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And then it crashed.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's the one. And so it's a whole,
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  Speaker 6: they had boxing, they had kickboxing, and they had track
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  Speaker 6: and field, and it's all Chinese robots doing this. Chinese, like,
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  Speaker 6: humanoid robots. The reason it made legitimate news is because
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  Speaker 6: a Humanoid robot named Lightning broke the 100-meter sprint record, 9.32 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Faster than Usain Bolt?
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  Speaker 6: Faster. Just smoked him. Just absolutely smoked him. The robot,
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  Speaker 6: it's not even its most impressive record. It ran the
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  Speaker 6: Beijing half marathon, surrounded by other marathoners and half marathoners,
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  Speaker 6: and knocked out a half in 50 minutes and 26 seconds.
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  Speaker 1: How many people did it kill in its path?
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  Speaker 6: That's the problem, y'all. The videos of this are just.
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  Speaker 6: To me, the literal most terrifying thing I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 6: Because they are so fast. And they are so dumb.
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  Speaker 6: And you know they're going to get smarter and likely faster.
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  Speaker 6: And then you're going to, someone's going to be just
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  Speaker 6: going to put a brain in them and then we're
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  Speaker 6: all going to, we're all going to be done.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just thinking to myself, what caliber would be best
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  Speaker 1: for the defense against robots?
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  Speaker 6: Can you defend? Well, the great part is a lot
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  Speaker 6: of them really just kind of blow up on the tracks,
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  Speaker 6: which is the, that's what, if we ever get a
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  Speaker 6: robot sprint league out there, like it's going to be,
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  Speaker 6: that's the only part that's worth watching. I want to
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  Speaker 6: see the robots just go up in flames because you
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  Speaker 6: probably won't be able to enjoy that for very long either.
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  Speaker 6: They're just going to, they're going.
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  Speaker 1: To, I don't know. One of my guilty pleasure shows
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  Speaker 1: is I do watch the robot wars.
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  Speaker 6: The robot wars are different though. The robot wars are fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Because it's people making something and then kind of, you know, Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And paddling the other robots that look like robots. They're
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  Speaker 1: not humanoid robots.
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  Speaker 6: That don't look like a Terminator.
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  Speaker 1: That don't look like the army of the undead coming
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  Speaker 1: at you.
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  Speaker 6: Just coming at you at lightning speed.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: That's not fun.
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  Speaker 1: World-class speed. Give us a chance.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: Give us a fighting chance.
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  Speaker 6: Why do you need... Well, I know why you need this,
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  Speaker 6: but some people are like, well, think about the applications.
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  Speaker 6: What if you could have a robot that would handle
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  Speaker 6: all of your DoorDash delivery that could move that fast, right? It's...
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  Speaker 6: just runs from one place, runs to the other place,
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  Speaker 6: and it's dropping off packages.
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  Speaker 1: The ones with wheels don't even work well for that.
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  Speaker 6: You're never getting your food.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm never getting my food.
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  Speaker 6: We just talked about Amazon dumping packages in pools. Like,
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  Speaker 6: you're never getting your food. You're never getting it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but speaking of drones, and I think this is
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  Speaker 1: the same way that these humanoid robots are going. Drones
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  Speaker 1: have completely changed the game when it comes to warfare. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they absolutely have. They're one of the primary reasons why
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  Speaker 1: the nation of Ukraine has not been overrun.
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  Speaker 6: That's why Russia's going to lose. Like, the CIA came out.
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  Speaker 6: One of the CIA guys, it was released that they
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  Speaker 6: had an intelligence said Russia needs to cut a deal
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  Speaker 6: because they might collapse if they keep doing this. Ukraine's
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  Speaker 6: got them on the ropes. There's no reason that should happen.
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  Speaker 9: None.
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  Speaker 10: Except.
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  Speaker 6: I'm telling you. And not like our big expensive drones,
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  Speaker 6: like MacGyvered out little drones like your kid has with bombs.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, you know, there's the big nations are
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  Speaker 1: creating the fancy ones.
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  Speaker 11: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Those are great. Not saying they're not, but in a pinch,
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  Speaker 6: apparently the other drones will get it done too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely nuts. So yeah, it's, it's something that's incredible to
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  Speaker 6: see how, how far that has.
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  Speaker 1: Come, which, you know, If you're a fan of the
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  Speaker 1: show Lioness, this current season involves a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 6: All drones.
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  Speaker 1: There's some drone warfare in the Ukraine that is part
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  Speaker 1: of this season. I'm not going to spoil it for anybody.
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  Speaker 6: So let's just go through this again. The robots are
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  Speaker 6: fighting all of our wars. with drones yes and now
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  Speaker 6: they are fast enough to run a half marathon and
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  Speaker 6: uh under right at 50.
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  Speaker 1: Minutes and 100 and 100 meters at just over nine
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  Speaker 1: seconds they.
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  Speaker 6: Have dog versions too which are even scarier.
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  Speaker 1: Can they play linebacker that's what i really can we
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  Speaker 1: can we get one that's that close robot football i
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  Speaker 1: mean seriously that was a thought in my head with
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  Speaker 1: cte and everything else and The fact that they're canceling,
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  Speaker 1: even the Pro Bowl has canceled the flag football game.
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  Speaker 12: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: They just give you a trophy now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think football, as we know it, is kind
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  Speaker 1: of in limited supply right now.
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  Speaker 6: What would the NIL look like for that?
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  Speaker 13: For robots?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, for robots.
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  Speaker 6: Who do you pay? You've got to give money to someone.
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  Speaker 1: The company, right? So whoever can afford the biggest company
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  Speaker 1: and the best company. to get the most incredible robots.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like we're pretty well situated for that. Have
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  Speaker 6: you ever seen that missile ball we invented out here?
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you. If that occurs, suddenly MIT will be
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  Speaker 1: a football powerhouse.
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  Speaker 6: Dynasty like you've never seen, y'all. Like you've never seen.
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  Speaker 1: On today's episode of Days of Our Eyes, presented by
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  Speaker 1: Urban Optics.
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  Speaker 7: Mary!
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  Speaker 6: What could be the matter, hmm?
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  Speaker 10: Oh, James!
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  Speaker 15: The Beauty in Sight eyeball was a dream!
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  Speaker 7: Yes!
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  Speaker 16: The glitz!
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  Speaker 1: The glamour!
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  Speaker 6: The money raised for children's eye care services! It was
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  Speaker 6: just so dazzling, and now I can't believe it's over!
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my darling! Don't despair! The eyeball will return again
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  Speaker 1: next year, huh?
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  Speaker 17: James!
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  Speaker 18: You're right!
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  Speaker 1: I can See it now.
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  Speaker 6: Look at it.
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  Speaker 18: Oh, I must start rehearsing my entrance.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, dear.
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  Speaker 19: fifth annual Beauty Inside Eyeball such a success. Your participation
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  Speaker 19: and support provide essential eye care services to those in
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  Speaker 19: need in the Brazos Valley. We'd like to thank our
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  Speaker 19: Bryan Broadcasting, and.
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  Speaker 1: And X's Pipe and Tube.
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  Speaker 19: See you next year at the Beauty Inside Eyeball.
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  Speaker 9: Welcome back to school, everyone. This is Vice Principal Smith
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  Speaker 9: here to go over the school zone rules. Now, parents,
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  Speaker 9: let's remember to stop and yield for people walking in crosswalks.
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  Speaker 9: Obey school zone speed limits. Watch for kids who may
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  Speaker 9: dart into the street. And please put your phone away.
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  Speaker 9: And again, please don't honk at me in the carpool line.
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  Speaker 9: We're all trying our best out here.
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  Speaker 20: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: 1620945WTAW. 979-695-1620. Deanna texting, you know AI is going to
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  Speaker 6: end up being the brains of these robots, right?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's already there. It's already there. I watched the age
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  Speaker 1: of Ultron.
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  Speaker 6: Like, I know exactly how this is going to go.
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  Speaker 6: It's horrifying. But maybe not as horrifying as we think
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  Speaker 6: in the here and now because Frank, Frank figured it out.
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  Speaker 1: He did.
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  Speaker 6: The ultimate application for these wild Chinese robots that can
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  Speaker 6: run 100 meters in like 9.3 seconds and half marathons
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  Speaker 6: and everything else like that. Frank says... Finally, we may
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  Speaker 6: have a defense against the feral hog.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, idea. Well, that's a fantastic one. But seeing how
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  Speaker 1: we have the Army Futures Command right out here. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez was talking about it just the
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  Speaker 1: other day.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, we were.
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  Speaker 1: What a great test for a robot. All right, robot.
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  Speaker 6: Bring me a hog.
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  Speaker 1: Private robot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Go get me a hog.
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  Speaker 6: Every one of my robots owes me 100 feral hogs.
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  Speaker 1: And I want my hogs.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, they got more than to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: See a platoon of robots out there chasing down hogs?
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  Speaker 1: That's must-see TV.
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  Speaker 6: Elon, if you are listening this morning down in Grimes County,
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  Speaker 6: that's how you sell some of those old Optimus units.
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  Speaker 6: Make them capable of killing a hog. You'll move a
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  Speaker 6: ton of units. Imagine just walking through the woods and
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  Speaker 6: all of a sudden you see a hog and five robots.
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  Speaker 1: Imagine the TV rights on that, man.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: I think about it. You'd blow up YouTube.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely incredible. So, yeah, it's not all bad.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 6: The world may end as we know it. We're going
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  Speaker 6: to have some fun before we get there.
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  Speaker 1: And fewer hogs.
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  Speaker 6: Fewer hogs is always a great thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 6: Reasons to celebrate. We mentioned it's Friday, the 28th of August, 2026.
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  Speaker 9: So.
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  Speaker 6: Let's get down to business, because there are a few
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  Speaker 6: days of note here. Honestly, a few that are trash,
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  Speaker 6: which I am going to filter through, because there's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of trash, but there's a little bit of trash.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of little nuggets in there.
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  Speaker 6: The first one I will give you today is Bowtie Day.
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  Speaker 1: National Bowtie Day.
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  Speaker 6: That's right. Developed from the original cravat, which was fashionable
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  Speaker 6: for men centuries ago, but famous bowtie devotees include Winston Churchill,
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  Speaker 6: Bill Nye the Science Guy, Orville Redenbacher, Pee Wee Herman,
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  Speaker 6: Tucker Carlson, and do not forget.
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  Speaker 1: Bowen Lofton.
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  Speaker 6: The king of the bow tie. Bowen stinking Lofton. I
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  Speaker 6: would say right up there with men who have worn
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  Speaker 6: a bow tie in the most impressive way.
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  Speaker 1: I'm seeing a lot of bow ties coming back.
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  Speaker 21: They are.
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  Speaker 1: My daughter's boyfriend's father. He's the best of the Brazos winner,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. Hey, congrats, my man. He's been putting
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  Speaker 1: out some social media videos, and he's sporting a bow
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  Speaker 1: tie in all of them.
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  Speaker 6: It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 6: Second is Power Rangers Day, you guys. A day to
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  Speaker 6: salute the mighty Morphin Power Rangers, also known as one
• 15:08
  Speaker 6: of the early shows from the, well, no, they've always
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  Speaker 6: been shows that took over the world as far as
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  Speaker 6: kids' TV goes, but this one was unique. I remember
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  Speaker 6: seeing it the first time. I was probably 13 or something,
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  Speaker 6: and I was like, wow, this show is awful. This
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  Speaker 6: is really not very good. Now, my brother, who was
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  Speaker 6: eight years younger than me.
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  Speaker 1: Bet he loved it.
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  Speaker 6: He was alive for the first time when he saw
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  Speaker 6: that show. And it's also one of the shows that
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  Speaker 6: they had to warn schools about because everyone wanted to
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: get into Power Rangers fights. They thought that was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, fights, really? Come on. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Come on.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Now, speaking of, and it's not the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: but need to mention Peter Cullen yesterday passing away.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: We do.
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  Speaker 1: The voice of Optimus Prime.
• 15:50
  Speaker 7: We do.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: The Transformers franchise.
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  Speaker 6: Transformers legend. It is Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day.
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  Speaker 6: This is something for office people who kill time by
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: taking your mouse and timing how fast you can. It's
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  Speaker 6: like barrel racing, but with your icons.
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  Speaker 1: On your desktop. I was picturing an actual mouse and
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  Speaker 1: some celebrities.
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  Speaker 6: Finally, the last one I want to get to today.
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  Speaker 6: Radio Commercial Day.
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  Speaker 1: Is it really?
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  Speaker 6: Do you know why it's radio commercial?
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  Speaker 1: I do not.
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  Speaker 6: On August 28, 1922, the first paid radio commercial ever.
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  Speaker 6: occurred in the United States of America on New York
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  Speaker 6: station WEAF. It was a 10-minute paid ad.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to ever hear y'all complain. No, do
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: not complain.
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  Speaker 6: From the Queensborough Corporation, it was promoting apartments in Jackson Heights, Queens.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine a 1920s 10-minute ad?
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  Speaker 6: I need to hear it. I need to hear it.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to hear it.
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  Speaker 6: The company paid 50 bucks for that airtime, which sounds...
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  Speaker 6: About right, in some circumstances. But I will say this.
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  Speaker 6: In 1922, it would roughly have been about $ 1, 000.
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  Speaker 1: For 10 minutes?
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  Speaker 6: For 10 minutes, which is actually quite a steal if
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  Speaker 6: it was being broadcast in New York City. And then
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  Speaker 6: it was off to the races because it was the
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  Speaker 6: first time people realized, hey, we can figure out how
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: to get money coming in, thusly pay for all the
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  Speaker 6: cool things that we did. So all of you guys
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: that gripe about commercials, I will tell you this. If
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  Speaker 6: you enjoy the radio station, you enjoy WTAW, you enjoy news,
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: and you enjoy marginally us every once in a while,
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: you enjoy when we go out and interview candidates during
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: election season, it is those guys that make it possible.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: They are less advertisers as much as they are underwriters
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: and sponsors and partners that just happen to get some
• 17:51
  Speaker 6: plugs for their time.
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  Speaker 1: And quite honestly, I mean, when you need something from somebody,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: using one of our advertisers is a good bet.
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  Speaker 6: It's a great bet.
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  Speaker 1: We've got fantastic companies that we're involved with.
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  Speaker 7: We do.
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  Speaker 6: And it works. They are as much a part of
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: what we do. As me and as Will and as
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Ben and as Jeanette and as everyone else. So whenever
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: you hear people complaining about too many commercials on the radio,
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: remind them that whatever their radio station is would not
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: exist if it were not for those sponsors. And spend
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  Speaker 6: your money. With those businesses.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: We highly encourage that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: Birthdays.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Birthdays. Alana Thompson is 21 years old today. Do you
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: know the name? No. I'll give you her better known
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: as Honey Boo Boo. Oh, wow. That's exactly the reaction
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that you should have. Never watched an episode.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: I watched a couple of episodes. It has gotten darker
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: since the show ended.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: It's gotten so dark with that family. And I would
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: like to say that it's a surprise.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: No, not a shock.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: And here's the other thing, too, that I need. One
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: of these days, one of these days, the chickens are
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: going to come home to roost for TLC. Because most
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: of the the tragic, tragic. Reality shows all come from
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: the same place. And it's them.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: So the circle of life is TLC creates a reality show.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: Out of some absolute nightmare they plucked out of the
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: woods somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: Tragedy occurs.
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  Speaker 6: They are a criminal and commit unspeakable crimes or befall
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: some kind of criminal. of awful tragedy because they're not
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: supposed to be famous.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Here's the full circle moment.
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: That becomes a Netflix documentary.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: And the sun rises again.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Indeed. Cassidy Pope is 37, voice winner turned country star.
• 20:05
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Florence Welch is 40.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: No relation. No relation. Leader of Florence and the Machine.
• 20:10
  Speaker 6: Incredible voice.
• 20:11
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Leanne Rimes is 44 years old today, speaking of incredible voices. Absolutely.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Jake Owen is 45, the country singer.
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: Love Jake.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Jack Black. I guess some people would say he has
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: an incredible voice, too.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: He can belt. If you've ever seen him live, he
• 20:26
  Speaker 6: can belt.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: I've seen Tenacious D twice live, actually.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: He can legitimately sing.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: 57 years old today. Jason Priestley is also 57. Best
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: known as Brandon Walsh on the Beverly Hills 90210. Another
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: voice for you. Shania Twain is 61 years old today.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Jennifer Coolidge is 65. Stifler's mom in the American Pie movies.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: You've seen her in a million other things.
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: Among other things, yeah. TV commercials all over the place.
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: One of the funniest women on the planet.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: She is.
• 20:55
  Speaker 6: I love her stuff.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Emma Sams is 66. She was Holly Sutton on General Hospital.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I had fraternity brothers that would schedule classes around watching
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: soap operas. Every time I hear a soap opera General
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Hospital thing, I think of them. Scott Hamilton, the old
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: school Olympic gold medal winning figure skater, 68 years old today.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Daniel Stern, 69 years old today. He was in City Slickers.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: He was also in Home Alone. He was Joe Pesci's
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: bumbling partner there. And he is the adult voice of
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Kevin on The Wonder Years.
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Luke Guzman is 70. Gomez Adams on Wednesday.
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Wayne Osmond would have been 75 as we get to
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the stiffs. He was born on this date in 1951
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: and a member of the famous Osmond's family. David Soule
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: was born on this date in 1943. Hutch of Starsky
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and Hutch, also star of the classic 1979 horror miniseries
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Sailor's Lot. Roxy Roker, born on this date in 1929.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: She was Helen Willis on The Jeffersons. She's also the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: mother of Lenny Kravitz. I love it. And finally, born
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: on this date in 1921, Nancy Culp. She was Jane
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Hathaway on The Beverly Hillbillies.
• 22:07
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  Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Friday from the WTAW newsroom. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Will Welch. Before the regular session of last night's College
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  Speaker 1: Station City Council meeting got underway, Mayor John Nichols had
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: an announcement of some business from the executive session.
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  Speaker 7: Council directs staff to amend the real estate contract with
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  Speaker 7: the Corinth Group to sell approximately half of the city's
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  Speaker 7: 28 acres next to Costco to the Corinth Group and
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  Speaker 7: the remaining approximate half to Bass Pro for one of
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  Speaker 1: The final sale must still be approved, but we finally
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  Speaker 1: have an idea of what will be happening with the
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  Speaker 1: land around Costco. Council adopted the 2027 fiscal year budget
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: of $ 576 million and the property tax rate of $ 53. 02
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  Speaker 1: per $ 100 valuation. Two men are jailed after a drug
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: bust Wednesday. Bryan Police conducted surveillance of suspected cocaine sales
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in the 1300 block of Moon Street. Officers say they
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: observed men repeatedly walking between a fence and vehicles as
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the vehicles briefly stopped at the address. The men were
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: identified as 68-year-old Bobby Perry and 38-year-old Quinton McMiller. A
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: bag discovered at the fence contained 7.4 grams of white
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: powder and 0.15 grams of rock cocaine. Perry was found
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to have just over 20 grams of crack cocaine inside
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: his car and was arrested for manufactured delivery of a
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: controlled substance. He is being held on $ 50, 000 bond and
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: it was his 17th time at the Brazos County Jail.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: McMiller had just under 2 grams of crack cocaine and
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: more than 10 grams of marijuana. He was charged with
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: manufactured delivery of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: He is being held on a $ 50, 000 bond, and it
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: was his 29th booking into the Brazos County Jail. After
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: a federal judge in Texas ordered that ICE agent Christian
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Castro would not be extradited to Minnesota, he is now
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: free from jail. Castro was released from the Brownsville Jail
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: at dawn Thursday. He waved to reporters, got into an SUV,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and drove off. It was an apparent victory for Governor
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott, who did not sign the extradition papers to
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: send Castro to Minnesota, where he is facing four counts
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: of felony assault after authorities there said he fired through
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the front door of a home, hitting a man in
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the leg. Minnesota authorities say jailhouse phone logs give them
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: reason to believe he will flee to Mexico, where he
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: owns a home and was planning to retire. A spokesman
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: for Abbott released a statement saying if their investigation determines
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: That Castro is a fugitive, they will track him down
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and arrest him. Some college students in Texas could have
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: a degree in hand one year sooner.
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  Speaker 27: There's a push to create three-year bachelor degree options for
• 31:02
  Speaker 27: certain high-demand job fields. Governor Abbott says this would lower
• 31:05
  Speaker 27: tuition costs and hopefully give students an incentive to finish school.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: We want to make sure all those students are going
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: to have access to the best education they can get
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: at an affordable price.
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  Speaker 27: Abbott says information technology, IT, is likely to be one
• 31:19
  Speaker 27: field eligible for a three-year bachelor's program. Others have yet
• 31:22
  Speaker 27: to be decided. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board will
• 31:26
  Speaker 27: work with state lawmakers to draft a bill to go
• 31:29
  Speaker 27: before the legislature in January. Abbott says he is confident
• 31:32
  Speaker 27: the program will pass and that by next fall, students
• 31:35
  Speaker 27: could be starting to earn a three-year degree. I'm Kristen Yates,
• 31:38
  Speaker 27: TSN News.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: One witness is still being held in the Houston ice,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: shooting death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo.
• 31:45
  Speaker 22: Araujo was killed while driving his construction work van July 7th.
• 31:49
  Speaker 22: Two others in that van have been released from federal custody.
• 31:53
  Speaker 22: Harris County District Attorney Sean Teer tells Hello Houston his
• 31:56
  Speaker 22: office is now free to interview them.
• 31:57
  Speaker 15: Where they're not concerned that someone else is overhearing them,
• 32:01
  Speaker 15: they can be free to speak and give us their
• 32:04
  Speaker 15: actual rendition. We intend to get them in front of
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  Speaker 15: a grand jury at some point relatively soon.
• 32:10
  Speaker 22: Araujo's brother, Victor Salgado Araujo, who is in the passenger
• 32:13
  Speaker 22: seat still in custody, his office has sent a letter
• 32:16
  Speaker 22: to be presented in open court that the brother is
• 32:18
  Speaker 22: a material witness and should be released. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott was in Dallas to celebrate the grand opening
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: of the New York Stock Exchange Texas headquarters on the
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: historic Old Parkland campus. He rang the closing bell of
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the exchange from the New Dallas headquarters surrounded by Jerry Jones,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a large group of Texas CEOs, lawmakers, and Lynn Martin,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: the president of the New York Stock Exchange Group.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: More NYSE companies are based in Texas than any other
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: state in this great nation.
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  Speaker 6: our complaining segment for today. You know Poncho, the shirt company?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm looking at the website right now.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I know you know them.
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  Speaker 1: You're talking to everybody.
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  Speaker 6: I own probably 10 of those shirts.
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  Speaker 1: When they first started coming out, I noticed a lot
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: of my radio friends in larger markets.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: They were getting the Poncho sponsorships. Wait a minute. The sponsorships? Well,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: they were talking about the Ponchos. And they were getting
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: free gear.
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  Speaker 6: What cities were your friends in?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, Bob Pickett over in Austin.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Dang it. Well, they're an Austin company, so that makes
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: sense that Bob would have a deal. I was right
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: down the road and I was paying retail. I was
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: right down the road and my show was popular. What
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: are y'all doing?
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  Speaker 1: Look, everybody, don't go out and buy a poncho shirt
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: until they get us our endorsement deal on this, please.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: Although it's going to be hard because I'm looking at
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: this new Aggie collection that they've got.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Now- I just can't stomach paying that price for it.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: Okay, so that's where I was headed with this. So
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: I used to buy these shirts. They used to be about,
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: I'd say about $ 60 pop. They're fantastic. I mean, if
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: you've never seen them, it's a pearl snap kind of
• 36:04
  Speaker 6: fit athletic version of like a fishing shirt. It looks great.
• 36:07
  Speaker 6: They all look great. And I love them. It's probably
• 36:12
  Speaker 6: the brand of shirts that I wear the most if
• 36:14
  Speaker 6: I need to look somewhat presentable. But I also don't
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: want to dress presentable.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And you want to dress for 100 degrees.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly. But I've noticed the price creeping up. I
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: go to look because they just dropped a South Texas
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: camo line. They look great. I was like, oh, snag
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: a couple of these. $ 96 a shirt. They've gone up
• 36:36
  Speaker 6: to almost $ 100.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Here's something I'm seeing on the website, though.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: And this is on the Aggie football apparel page.
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They have something called the Natty Back Guarantee.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: What is that?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Buy an eligible college logo poncho. If your team wins
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the national championship, you get a full refund.
• 36:57
  Speaker 6: Okay, well, how much do they want me to pay
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: for one of these?
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  Speaker 1: About $ 125.
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: $ 125?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Guys. It's got the big school on it, though.
• 37:07
  Speaker 6: It does, dude.
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  Speaker 1: It's officially licensed.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: What other teams? They have all the SECs.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking. I don't know.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: So you got a pretty good chance of maybe, well, no,
• 37:15
  Speaker 6: A & M' s.
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  Speaker 7: Okay. All right.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: $ 125 on a shirt. We do need to get a
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: deal from these guys.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: You can also get them in orange.
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the Texas ones.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: You can get them in purple. For the LSUs.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, the Tigers. Go Tigers.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: You can get them in the Fayetteville.
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, well, there's no chance of them winning that.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: It's very, very close to the Gamecock, which in color-wise.
• 37:42
  Speaker 6: Also equally hopeless.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: You can get the Oklahoma or the Boomer.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: No, that's trash.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: You can get the Bryant.
• 37:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, Bama.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get the Seminole.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Florida State. Florida State.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: The Dawg. The tortilla. Oh, the guns up there.
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: To make a killing off of this. Yeah, it's just
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: gotten it's gotten out of control with with how much
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: these things cost. Like, I mean, again, it's just a shirt.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: But I say that we're going to go down a
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: rabbit hole for a second. Are you this is another
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: one for all of you guys. And I keep getting
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: sent Mahjong days.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: I think.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: So one of our salespeople is going to a Mahjong
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: night this weekend, and so she sent me an invite.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: I don't think she was inviting me. She was like, hey,
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: if you like Mahjong, come out. It was like the
• 38:29
  Speaker 6: fifth time this week someone's been like, hey, I'm going
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: to go do Mahjong.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: The wife has been, and one of our best friends especially,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: has been part of a Mahjong group, a group of
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: ladies that get together. And play this game.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: How long have they been together?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: For a while now.
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's growing in popularity.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: When did you first hear about this?
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord.
• 38:50
  Speaker 6: See, here's the thing. I almost know nothing about the
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: game of Mahjong. The only thing I know about it,
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: and please, this is just where I know it from,
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: it's old Asian aunties.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: My friends were Asian when I was growing up. Their
• 39:02
  Speaker 6: aunties get together and play Mahjong. I never asked what
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: the game was. It looked like Domino's being moved on.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I had gotten out of radio in Austin, and I
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: picked up a job with a moving and storage company
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: in their marketing and so forth. They sent me to
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Seattle for training. The company was based in a small
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: town outside of Seattle.
• 39:20
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: They put me up in a hotel that is the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: second worst I ever stayed in. uh next the only
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: winner and it was close the only one worse than
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: that was the bozer inn in bozer city louisiana.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: That sounds uh risky it would that that.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Room was with risky i believe it had been non-smoking
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: for a good 10 or 15 minutes before we got
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: in there But so across from that hotel in this
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: small town outside of Seattle was a casino. And all
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I saw pouring out of the doors was smoke and
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: small ladies.
• 39:55
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: And I was like, what are they doing over there?
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: And somebody said, that's the Mahjong. And that's all I knew.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: About the Mahjong. But now it's taking over.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: My daughter is playing. Aside from being into needlepoint, my
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: 20 year old daughter is. Ole Miss sorority girl is
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: playing the Mahjong.
• 40:14
  Speaker 6: Do all of her friends play Mahjong?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I guess so. Her boyfriend, because her birthday is Sunday,
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: by the way.
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, happy birthday.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Her boyfriend got her a more expensive than a poncho shirt.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: Mahjong board.
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: Okay, so this is something that I have become aware of,
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: that it's not just mahjong anymore. There's luxury mahjong.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: Apparently.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: So this one that I'm seeing up here, this is
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: a popular one that's called, geez, what are these? Oh
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: My Mahjong.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Oh My Mahjong.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Oh My Mahjong. They sell them in Nordstrom's.
• 40:47
  Speaker 15: What?
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah.
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, they sell them at Neiman Marcus.
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: What?
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: They sell them at Anthropologie. They've been featured on Good
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: Morning America.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: So this game is no longer the game of the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: common people.
• 40:59
  Speaker 6: The Tallulah starter kit, including tiles, a Mahjong mat, and
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: then a carrying bag and such. How much do you
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: think that's going to go for? No idea.
• 41:08
  Speaker 20: $ 740.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Are you serious?
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: For a Mahjong set.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: People are spending three quarters of a grand. On Mahjong.
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: That's not the most expensive one. I'm not going to
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: go into the Hermes Mahjong because that's like a $ 20, 000 Hermes.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: It's Hermes Hermes.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
• 41:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 41:25
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: Whatever.
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: Um, but no Williams and Sonoma sells one for about $ 700.
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: Just the tiles. Uh, there's several of them that are
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: upwards of a thousand dollars. Just the tiles, uh, And
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: the tables from Mahjong also are starting to get expensive.
• 41:43
  Speaker 6: Even the Wayfair ones are a couple grand from what
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: I'm seeing here. But it doesn't hold a candle to
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: the Ming Mahjong table from Cassoni, which can be yours
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: for the price of $ 21, 353. I don't understand the game.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I don't understand the cost.
• 42:01
  Speaker 6: How are you guys living?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, you asked the Frito Economic Fridge Index. Now
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: we're going to have to have the Mahjong Board Index.
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: That's absolutely where it's headed.
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  Speaker 18: on 1620-945-WTAW. The Aggie soccer team secured its second consecutive
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  Speaker 18: victory in a 2-1 win against Air Force last night
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  Speaker 18: and gave insight on some of the in-game mistakes that
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  Speaker 12: I think we had a bunch of chances to go
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  Speaker 12: our defending around the box and give away a silly penalty.
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  Speaker 12: in way too often. And then I think they picked
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  Speaker 12: up a lot of second balls in the second half.
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  Speaker 12: So I think a lot of stuff that we can
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  Speaker 12: control and I think stuff that we have to improve on.
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  Speaker 18: Up next, the Aggies continue their home slate on Thursday,
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  Speaker 18: September 3rd, when they host TCU for a 7 p.m. contest.
• 48:57
  Speaker 18: The A & M volleyball team returns to Reed Arena
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  Speaker 18: to host the Texas A & M Invitational, featuring games
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  Speaker 18: against GCU, Arkansas State, and Cal Poly. The two-day Invitational
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  Speaker 18: starts the Aggies' home openers with them facing three opponents.
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  Speaker 18: two of which made last year's NCAA tournament, and it
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  Speaker 18: unveils the 2025 National Championship banner before the start of
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  Speaker 18: Friday evening's game against Arkansas State. Head coach Jamie Morrison
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  Speaker 18: talked about the competition level of the tournament.
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  Speaker 11: They're good I think he's number one and again going
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  Speaker 11: through scouting it's just I'm trying to I think my
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  Speaker 11: challenge this year is I think the quote expectation is
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  Speaker 11: the thief of joy of making sure that I don't
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  Speaker 11: like I don't get too hung up on these teams
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  Speaker 11: are really good and just go enjoy competing against them.
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  Speaker 11: But I think that's number one, first and foremost, that
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  Speaker 11: just because they aren't from a powerful conference doesn't mean
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  Speaker 11: they're not good. And I got asked, I think, at
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  Speaker 11: the end of our last press conference, do you think
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  Speaker 11: this is how the top is going to be that
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  Speaker 11: it's going to be a dogfight against everybody? I don't
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  Speaker 11: think it's just the top 10 teams. I think it's
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  Speaker 11: the entire country. And our sport is blowing up. I
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  Speaker 11: just did some stuff and I sent it off to ESPN.
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  Speaker 11: But the number two most participated girls sport in the
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  Speaker 11: United States, women's volleyball. So I think it's soccer, track
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  Speaker 11: and field one, and then us. So we're just getting
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  Speaker 11: this influx of really high end athletes that are able
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  Speaker 11: to go play the game at a really high level.
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  Speaker 11: And you're seeing it across all sports or all teams.
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  Speaker 18: Coach Morrison also gave a scouting report of the three
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  Speaker 18: teams that the Aggies are facing over the course of
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  Speaker 18: the next two days.
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  Speaker 11: I think they all have their own identity and play
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  Speaker 11: in some different ways. Grand Canyon is going to be
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  Speaker 11: a lot different than what we had last year. So
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  Speaker 11: there's a combination of 87 people that could probably step
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  Speaker 11: on the floor. They got a lot of new. So
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  Speaker 11: you're going to see, for example, like they picked up
• 50:35
  Speaker 11: the starting opposite from Tennessee is playing for Grand Canyon.
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  Speaker 11: So like they have some athleticism, they have some talent
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  Speaker 11: on their team. And then Arkansas State has traditionally been really,
• 50:45
  Speaker 11: really good. And they've won that conference. They've been at
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  Speaker 11: the top of it for a lot of years. So
• 50:49
  Speaker 11: they play really, really good volleyball. They have some unique
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  Speaker 11: systems that we're going to have to adjust to. And
• 50:54
  Speaker 11: then you get Cal Poly to wrap things up and
• 50:55
  Speaker 11: put a Sweet 16 team. And they upset two teams
• 50:58
  Speaker 11: to get to there, and it wasn't an accident. They
• 51:00
  Speaker 11: did really well in the Big West. They got some
• 51:02
  Speaker 11: really big arms on the outside and a pretty good
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  Speaker 11: jump spinner that we'll have to adjust to and add
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  Speaker 11: some excitement for the crowd. So I think it will
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  Speaker 11: be three really good volleyball matches.
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  Speaker 18: The Aggies will hit the court this morning with their
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  Speaker 18: first game of the Invitational against GCU with first serve
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  Speaker 18: set for 11 o'clock. That's your morning sports update on 1620-945-WTAW.
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