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The Infomaniacs: July 22, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: I'm will welch. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has issued in
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Speaker 1: executive order in his ongoing fight against so called birth tourism.
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Speaker 3: Under the order, agencies must take enforcement action against any
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Speaker 3: licensed or regulated individual found to be advertising, soliciting, or
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Speaker 3: otherwise participating in unlawful birth tourism schemes. Abbot says Texas
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Speaker 3: will not tolerate individuals traveling to the US illegally to
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Speaker 3: give birth and secure citizenship for their child. North Texas
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Speaker 3: Congressman Brandon Gill says these schemes can have grave consequences.
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Speaker 4: You can influence our system of government, our rule of law,
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Speaker 4: how this country functions, and that's not something that we
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Speaker 4: just simply hand out to our geopolitical adversaries or to
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Speaker 4: anybody who just simply crosses the border for the purpose
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Speaker 4: of giving birth.
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Speaker 3: Abbitt has also directed five agencies to investigate claims of
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Speaker 3: birth tourism schemes within the.
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Speaker 2: State's healthcare system.
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Speaker 1: The identities of the victims in last week's murder suicide
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Speaker 1: and the KD Lake subdivision of Caldwell have been released.
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Speaker 1: Authority say thirty eight year old Letitia May Giton was
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Speaker 1: murdered by forty seven year old Everano Armenta before he
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Speaker 1: turned the gun on himself. According to a GoFundMe, Gayton
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Speaker 1: was the mother of three children, ages three, six, and nine.
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Speaker 1: A frequent flyer at the Brass County Jail is making
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Speaker 1: his sixteenth visit. Thirty nine year old Charlie James Manley
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Speaker 1: Junior was arrested just before midnight on Sunday. Arrest records
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Speaker 1: say Manly was riding his bicycle in the two hundred
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Speaker 1: block of Regient Avenue and Brian without a reflector or headlight.
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Speaker 1: When officers asked Manly to stop, he continued to ride
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Speaker 1: for several blocks and told officers he was not going
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Speaker 1: to stop. Officers began a foot pursuit, and after catching
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Speaker 1: up to the suspect, he wrapped his arm around one
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Speaker 1: of the officer's neck. During the struggle, a firearm was
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Speaker 1: located in his pocket after he was arrested. A folding
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Speaker 1: knife was also found, as well as K two synthetic marijuana.
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Speaker 1: Manly was charged with assault of a peace officer, unlawful
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Speaker 1: possession of a firearm by a felon, unlawful caring of
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Speaker 1: a weapon, evading arrest, resisting arrests, possession of a controlled
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Speaker 1: substance under two ounces, and failure to identify. He is
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Speaker 1: being held on a fifty five thousand dollars bond. A
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Speaker 1: man from Herne found himself behind bars after a traffic
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Speaker 1: stop Monday night.
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Speaker 2: Reports from Brian.
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Speaker 1: Police say they saw a vehicle swerving in the twenty
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Speaker 1: one hundred block of South Texas Avenue. When they pulled
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Speaker 1: the vehicle over, the driver was initially unresponsive, with the
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Speaker 1: car in drive and his foot on the brake pedal.
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Speaker 1: Officers made entry to the vehicle to put it in
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Speaker 1: park and noticed a cold to the touch beer in
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Speaker 1: the center console. When forty six year old Jose Bullocks
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Speaker 1: came to they said he seemed surprised and unsure of
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Speaker 1: where he was. The man said he was driving home
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Speaker 1: from at Kinsineia in College Station, where he'd only had
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Speaker 1: one beer over two hours. Breathalyzer tests showed that bullooks
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Speaker 1: at an alcohol concentration level in excess zero point one
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Speaker 1: point five. He was booked for driving while intoxicated and
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Speaker 1: taken to the Brases County Jail. He remains behind bars
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Speaker 1: on an immigration hold. If you were planning to attend
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Speaker 1: tonight's public firefighting demonstration night at Teaks, it has been
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Speaker 1: canceled due to the extreme heat forecast at for today.
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Speaker 1: The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat advisory
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Speaker 1: as the heat index values could reach one hundred and fifteen.
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Speaker 1: I'm will welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty eight ninety four to five WTAA Morning Where
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Speaker 5: the Infomaniacs. Nine sevent ninety six nine five sixteen twenty
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Speaker 5: I'm so glad you were here for this because you
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Speaker 5: were out on the road the last time any Disney
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Speaker 5: content got.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I missed out and all of our listeners
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Speaker 1: missed out on me participating in this sing along, which.
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Speaker 2: Be grateful you did. You would have been right.
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Speaker 1: Usually the Disney tunes are not at an octave range
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Speaker 1: that I am now, I would be significantly under you.
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Speaker 6: Jackson, Good morning, Good morning Jackson. What do you what
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Speaker 6: do you do? What group are you in?
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Speaker 7: I am a performer at the Theater Company with Brian
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Speaker 7: College Station.
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Speaker 5: Oh he's a thanks speech, he said, Okay, what shows
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Speaker 5: have you been in before prior to the one that
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Speaker 5: we're here to promote?
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Speaker 7: And my first show at the company was Titanic, And
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Speaker 7: I've also been featured in Oklahoma and Loves Labors Lost, and.
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Speaker 5: I saw you in Love's Labor's Lost, and I did
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Speaker 5: not see you in Oklahoma. But you can sing, I'm
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Speaker 5: guessing I can.
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Speaker 2: He could carry this here.
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Speaker 5: Look at what we have right here, which is convenient
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Speaker 5: because we're here to talk about the Little Mermaid. Indeed,
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Speaker 5: you are going to be Prince Eric.
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Speaker 7: I am, and I am very excited for it.
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Speaker 6: Okay, tell us about this show. Tell us, tell us
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Speaker 6: about the Little Mermaid. Jackson never experienced this.
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Speaker 7: Well, even if you are very familiar with the animated version,
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Speaker 7: there's still new things in this version. One of the
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Speaker 7: greatest things about the stage version is that they introduced
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Speaker 7: a lot of new songs. Uh, and Prince Eric, who
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Speaker 7: I play, gets several of those songs.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because I feel like I feel like in the
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Speaker 5: movie Eric, we didn't get a lot of Eric. We
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Speaker 5: got kind of a we didn't You didn't You didn't
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Speaker 5: get lots of the character Prince Eric. He was just
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Speaker 5: kind of there, you know he was. He was the
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Speaker 5: crush and and and also honestly, I feel like they
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Speaker 5: kind of short changed to be how many have not
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Speaker 5: figured out like kind of the ins and outs.
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Speaker 1: I got his kisser, I'm trying to remember the plot.
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Speaker 6: Will everyone knows the Little Mermaid.
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Speaker 7: He gets a lot more development in the stage version.
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Speaker 2: I love to see you. That's a good thing. That's
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Speaker 2: a good thing.
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Speaker 6: Mm hmm. Everyone's got there.
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Speaker 5: So we've got new music, do we have the do
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Speaker 5: we have the old faithful.
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Speaker 2: Ones that are in there?
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, so obviously this is see there's some that
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Speaker 5: just feel feel like it's one thing to do the
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Speaker 5: Disney single bit like we do when Alley was here
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Speaker 5: on the radio. Do we get on stage and trying
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Speaker 5: to like, oh, let me tell you know what.
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Speaker 6: I mean, that's a tall ordered dog.
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Speaker 1: Little little known fact about will Welch. Will Welch was
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Speaker 1: a theater minor in college. Will Welch has been on
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Speaker 1: the stage. Will Welch does not do musicals. I did
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Speaker 1: sing on stage one time at A and M Consolidated
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Speaker 1: High School, but I sang you are My Sunshine, So
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Speaker 1: that was an that doesn't count.
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Speaker 6: Where did these where do?
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Speaker 5: Where did these rank in terms of like other musicals
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Speaker 5: in terms of difficulty to sing or like my off days?
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Speaker 6: Is it like, oh yeah, we can crush a Disney song.
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Speaker 6: Don any worry about that.
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Speaker 7: I think it has its challenging moments.
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Speaker 6: But okay, all right, so how many shows are we doing?
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Speaker 2: There will be twelve showings.
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Speaker 7: It starts this Friday, July twenty fourth, and it will
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Speaker 7: run until August twenty ninth, So there's four shows per
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Speaker 7: weekend for eleven.
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Speaker 1: Especially if you're looking for something to get the kiddo's
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, we're in the doldrums the end
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Speaker 1: of summer where.
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Speaker 6: Your company is so good for yes, man, man, bring.
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Speaker 2: The kiddos out there.
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Speaker 1: The last time I took my kids to see a performance,
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Speaker 1: it was a little Shop of Horrors. They weren't even
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Speaker 1: really kids at that point in time, but they were
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Speaker 1: both still in high school.
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Speaker 2: They just really enjoyed it.
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Speaker 6: Did so they did. Y'all just came off a Shrek too, right,
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Speaker 6: like the Shrek. That's correct, Shrek was insane.
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Speaker 2: It was it good.
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Speaker 6: It was insanely good.
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Speaker 5: Like you, you really need to be keeping eye on
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Speaker 5: what they're doing over there, because yeah, it's it's a
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Speaker 5: fantastic time.
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Speaker 1: You do need to do that, because I don't think
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Speaker 1: there's there's not a ton of people that are aware
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Speaker 1: of the quality of performance that gets put on over there.
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Speaker 1: Uh in that in that theater, and it's solid. It
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Speaker 1: is solid theater, great performers, people who who really want
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Speaker 1: to be there and be a part of it.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's a great thing.
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Speaker 5: Okay, So starting this Friday, or starting this week and Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
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Speaker 5: and then we're gonna go for a few weeks.
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Speaker 6: Where can they get tickets so they want them?
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Speaker 7: You can go to a theater to company bcs dot
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Speaker 7: com slash tickets to buy your tickets, or you can
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Speaker 7: buy them at the box office whenever you show up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you go on to the theater company dot
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Speaker 1: com because I'm there now and you you click the
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Speaker 1: link to get tickets, you can choose your seats.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah, yeah. It's just like a movie theater.
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Speaker 2: You can you can find out where you want to sit.
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Speaker 5: And I know, y'all just drop the new season and
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Speaker 5: have some really really cool Do you have one that
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Speaker 5: you're looking forward to?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 7: I think, uh, How to Succeed with Business is the
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Speaker 7: upcoming show, and I think that will be as spectacular
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Speaker 7: as well.
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Speaker 5: Everyone keeps talking about that one. So you've got a
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Speaker 5: lot of options if you if you haven't been or
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Speaker 5: it's been a while or whatever, check out A Little
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Speaker 5: Mermaid for sure, check out some of the future shows
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Speaker 5: and show your support they do.
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Speaker 6: They really do incredible things. Dude, thank you so much
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Speaker 6: for coming in today.
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Speaker 5: So, uh you, she was telling us, I was not
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Speaker 5: aware we had such a robust listening audience and uh
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Speaker 5: in South Texas, Oh we do? How is this possible?
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Speaker 5: Like that, it's just weird that we're the station of choice.
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Speaker 2: Well, the.
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Speaker 4: Is that?
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Speaker 6: What does it?
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Speaker 9: I think?
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Speaker 10: So?
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Speaker 1: Really, I think word got out that a world class
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Speaker 1: at the farm store now at the at the feed
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Speaker 1: store listens in.
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Speaker 6: But they listened. It's you were telling me.
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Speaker 5: They actually like like some people like they listen at
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Speaker 5: where you where you live?
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Speaker 2: What's the name of the store, and the news talk?
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Speaker 6: Uh just in general?
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Speaker 2: Ohd on, you got to give me a minute.
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Speaker 3: You asked me.
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Speaker 11: I could have told you it was on.
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Speaker 6: Okay, that something in the store. But it's seed something
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Speaker 12: It's cross street.
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Speaker 5: And I'm always who do we have a text in?
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Speaker 6: There's some guy named Vernon or no from Vernon.
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Speaker 1: From Vernon texts Yeah, guy text and we I mean
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Speaker 1: you can listen to.
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Speaker 2: Us anywhere, Yeah, at any time.
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Speaker 5: It like wt W dot Cow works great, radio, ag
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Speaker 5: Land works great. Where Okay. So that's again, I don't
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Speaker 5: know what the odds of this are. I would love
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Speaker 5: to know who the furthest away person listening this morning is,
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Speaker 5: Oh me too.
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Speaker 1: Well, Hey, a couple of like months ago, we had
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Speaker 1: someone like from the Netherlands listen.
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Speaker 6: They were like the Netherlands listening from.
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Speaker 1: The Netherlands, probably somebody Scott had run into on his track.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly. It's like, hey, check out my show. And
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Speaker 5: then they just kind of.
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Speaker 1: I've got a friend. I've got a friend in Thailand
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Speaker 1: and another one in UH in Japan. They listened, they
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Speaker 1: have on occasion they wow. Okay, so I do know
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Speaker 1: that that sort of thing happens. It's weird now from
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Speaker 1: you know, the difference between now and my first stint
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Speaker 1: in radio when there was no internet.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just you had to be in the city
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Speaker 5: and then you listen and if you weren't, you weren't.
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Speaker 2: And now you can listen globally and people.
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Speaker 5: Do text number nine seven nine six sixteen twenty or
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Speaker 5: Good morning.
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Speaker 6: What you got for us today?
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Speaker 9: Hey, mourning in from Mainax. This is Tim again, Tim
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Speaker 9: and from UH And I tell you how I listen, y'all.
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Speaker 2: I have.
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Speaker 9: My AM and FM app and I can pick up
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Speaker 9: your station all over the country, all over the world.
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Speaker 6: That's a beautiful thing.
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Speaker 2: It is Tim, It's Tim's Are you the one that
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Speaker 2: was in Vernon that we.
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Speaker 11: Yes?
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Speaker 5: Yes, Tim is the guy that Brendam brick. Okay, So
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Speaker 5: what's the furthest away you have listened to us?
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Speaker 6: Tim?
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Speaker 5: Where on the globe was the furthest point from college
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Speaker 5: station when you were listening to the show.
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Speaker 9: Well, since technology is barely new with this application process,
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Speaker 9: I've listened to it down in Arkansas, Florida, Northeast, all
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Speaker 9: over the country. Now the airplanes that airlines have Wi
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Speaker 9: Fi and stuff, so anywhere there's Wi Fi, you can.
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Speaker 6: Listen to that's true.
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Speaker 1: I did listen, in fact, texted the show when I
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Speaker 1: was on my trip in the air in the air,
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Speaker 1: which just blew my mind.
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Speaker 6: I'd love to see it.
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Speaker 2: Tim.
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much. Man.
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Speaker 5: We'll catch up with you next time. So if you
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Speaker 5: have to be listening and you are just for whatever reason.
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Speaker 2: Whatever far flung place, just not in.
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Speaker 6: The Brass Valley right now, tell us where you are.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're always curious, and you can pull that stuff up.
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Speaker 1: I mean the analytics that you can tell you where
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Speaker 1: people are listening.
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 1: I have great memories of the feed store and that
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Speaker 1: sort of thing from the farming community that that our family.
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Speaker 2: Farm was in.
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Speaker 1: All the old farmers, especially dinnering the winter, you know,
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Speaker 1: would sit around the old pot belly stove there in
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Speaker 1: the store and just swap.
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Speaker 5: Yarns uh and yeah, we'll see what you guys have
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Speaker 5: this morning. I want I did want to talk about money,
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Speaker 5: because we we have gotten rid of the penny, or
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Speaker 5: we're getting rid of the penny.
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Speaker 2: All that jenny's gone.
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Speaker 5: Yeah it's gone, and now we're we're reaping the whorldwind,
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Speaker 5: the whirlwind. We're having issues with the penny because now
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Speaker 5: we're having to deal with our rounding problem.
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Speaker 6: Right, what do you what do you round it to?
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Speaker 6: How do you do it?
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Speaker 10: Be?
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Speaker 2: Round down, buddy, round down?
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Speaker 5: Well that's the probably round down riley be costing someone
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Speaker 5: some money, not.
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Speaker 2: That much money, and they're they're snagging it anyway.
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Speaker 1: And it's not like this has not been solved, you
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Speaker 1: know internationally before. Canada got rid of the penny a
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Speaker 1: long time ago, and and they did that, they phased
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Speaker 1: out the penny over a decade ago, and then they
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Speaker 1: did this rounding thing. So Now Congress is having to
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Speaker 1: come up with an act. And you know, when Congress
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Speaker 1: comes up with an.
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Speaker 5: Act, it's gonna they're gonna crush it.
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Speaker 2: They've gotta have some name.
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Speaker 6: It's gonna be perfect.
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Speaker 1: This is the Common Sense Act spelled.
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Speaker 2: Spelled with a C.
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Speaker 1: Now that's because there are some state laws that regulate
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Speaker 1: whether you know how to how you have to.
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Speaker 2: Pay people, and it's convoluted. It shouldn't be this hard.
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Speaker 5: It seems like it would just be ye simple, like
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Speaker 5: why why just round up?
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Speaker 6: You should have got round down.
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Speaker 1: You should have gotten used to it when everybody asks
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Speaker 1: you if you'd like to round up to support whatever.
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Speaker 2: Yeah right, yeah, just you know, just knock it out, man,
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Speaker 2: it's not hard use math.
17:09
Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So the way here Now we're going to allow businesses
17:14
Speaker 5: the option to round cash to the nearest nickel.
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Speaker 6: So it's not just like wane to see we're going
17:19
Speaker 6: up to the going.
17:19
Speaker 5: Up to the five or going up to the zero
17:22
Speaker 5: or down to the five or the zero depending on
17:25
Speaker 5: if his otter and even.
17:26
Speaker 1: Or Whatevery soon it's not gonna matter because I cannot
17:29
Speaker 1: tell you. I pulled up to Waterburger yesterday morning and
17:34
Speaker 1: my bill was nineteen dollars in change, and the guy
17:37
Speaker 1: as I pull up to the window, hands the credit
17:41
Speaker 1: card scanner through the window to me, and I'm like, no,
17:44
Speaker 1: this is a twenty dollars bill.
17:46
Speaker 2: This is cash.
17:47
Speaker 1: And I can't tell you how many places there's places
17:50
Speaker 1: that don't accept cash. The concert venue I was at
17:53
Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest cash concert, cash free.
17:57
Speaker 6: So you're still a cash payer?
17:59
Speaker 2: Very much? Wow, very much?
18:01
Speaker 5: You said that, And I had to think to my
18:04
Speaker 5: because I'm not I never cared cash just to I
18:06
Speaker 5: don't know why.
18:07
Speaker 6: I don't have a reason.
18:08
Speaker 2: But what happens when the credit card machine goes down? Tucker?
18:12
Speaker 2: Then what are you gonna do?
18:13
Speaker 6: Then I'm gonna starve?
18:14
Speaker 5: But now you you mentioned that, I don't know the
18:18
Speaker 5: last time I didn't have someone preemptively just hand me
18:21
Speaker 5: the card machine.
18:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, people expected these days.
18:23
Speaker 6: They've immediately handed me.
18:25
Speaker 1: A lot of people in the cashier position sometimes have
18:30
Speaker 1: difficulty counting change.
18:32
Speaker 2: Now do any of you?
18:33
Speaker 6: Okay, so we need to hear for more cash payers.
18:35
Speaker 6: And you see that. I assume you see this all
18:36
Speaker 6: the time.
18:37
Speaker 5: So yeah, who's gonna know how to give you change?
18:39
Speaker 2: Will you know? I'm who's going to.
18:41
Speaker 5: Even know what the change is, what the coins.
18:44
Speaker 1: I've had to I've had to I've had to tell
18:46
Speaker 1: people that should that should be three dollars and fifteen
18:49
Speaker 1: cents in change? Oh yeah, whatever. Yeah, it's people can't.
18:53
Speaker 1: I mean they they've lost the ability to do.
18:55
Speaker 5: So if you're are there that maybe that's still that
18:58
Speaker 5: still do the cash pay thing, like you still carry
19:02
Speaker 5: cash and you still use cash, or has it becomes
19:04
Speaker 5: enraging or it's become enraging to the point where you're going.
19:07
Speaker 6: To just give it up and go card? Would you
19:09
Speaker 6: ever just get to be like, Okay.
19:10
Speaker 1: I use use I use the debit card, I do
19:13
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, like if I'm filling up with gas. Well,
19:16
Speaker 1: let me put it to you this way, right, my
19:18
Speaker 1: debit card is barely hanging on from a physical perspective,
19:22
Speaker 1: the same They don't build those like they used to
19:25
Speaker 1: be apart. So I use the I use the phone
19:29
Speaker 1: app thing to pay. On occasion when I have to
19:31
Speaker 1: pull the card out, I put on like the gloves
19:34
Speaker 1: you see when people are you know, looking at archive
19:36
Speaker 1: books or that sort of thing, take it out of
19:39
Speaker 1: my wallet and carefully try to Yeah, but cash is
19:41
Speaker 1: the way that I tend to go unless I'm at
19:44
Speaker 1: the gas station or the grocery store.
19:46
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like I don't pay with a card.
19:48
Speaker 5: Susan text and I try to always always pay in cash.
19:53
Speaker 10: Uh.
19:54
Speaker 5: Several people texted, Yeah, cash is king, or at least
19:56
Speaker 5: it used to be. So for those of you that
19:58
Speaker 5: are like, are you noticing this? Is it is a problem? Ever,
20:01
Speaker 5: because again, like I said, if you had not said
20:03
Speaker 5: that about the card machine, I don't think there's been
20:06
Speaker 5: a point go to Starbucks and try to pay in cash.
20:08
Speaker 6: Oh no, No, they'll let you.
20:09
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they should because it's legal tender. If you
20:12
Speaker 1: tell me you don't accept cash, I'm gonna get angry.
20:14
Speaker 6: Now, do you not accept cash somewhere? I think there
20:17
Speaker 6: are a lot of places, Yeah.
20:19
Speaker 1: Which is silly because those businesses they earn more off
20:23
Speaker 1: of a cash transaction than they do off of a
20:26
Speaker 1: credit card transaction.
20:27
Speaker 6: Also, riddle me this, Riddle me this.
20:31
Speaker 5: How are you gonna not accept cash and still charge
20:33
Speaker 5: me a fee to take my card?
20:35
Speaker 6: Yeah, which is another thing that people will do.
20:37
Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
20:38
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of places possible, have a lot
20:41
Speaker 1: of places where you know you you get a serve
20:43
Speaker 1: charge if you're using your card. Yes, I will do
20:46
Speaker 1: business with places that have the sign in the window
20:49
Speaker 1: that said cash is appreciated.
20:51
Speaker 2: Right over some place that does not take cash any
20:54
Speaker 2: day of the week.
20:55
Speaker 5: This birth of texts. And to all the gentlemen out there,
20:57
Speaker 5: use cash. You don't want your wife to know what
20:59
Speaker 5: your person that all that.
21:01
Speaker 1: That's still the chase, Chase, don't you too, Chase?
21:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, oh yeah, they're doing it to you too, my friend.
21:12
Speaker 1: Good morning from the wta W newsroom. I'm will welch.
21:16
Speaker 1: The identities of the victims in last week's murder suicide
21:20
Speaker 1: and Caldwell have been released. Authority save forty seven year
21:23
Speaker 1: old el Dorado Armenta murdered thirty eight year old Latitia
21:26
Speaker 1: May Gayton before turning the gun on himself on July fifteenth.
21:30
Speaker 1: According to a gofund me, Gayton was the mother of
21:33
Speaker 1: three children, ages three, six, and nine. An investigation is
21:37
Speaker 1: underway after a man drowned near Rockdale over the weekend.
21:40
Speaker 1: The Myelam County Sheriff's Office reports that thirty one year
21:43
Speaker 1: old Andrew Jenkins drowned after falling off his horse in
21:46
Speaker 1: the six hundred block of County Road three, toh three
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Speaker 1: on Saturday afternoon. Officials say Jenkins was crossing a pond
21:53
Speaker 1: on horseback when the pair became separated and Jenkins never resurfaced.
21:58
Speaker 1: Divers from the Williamson County and Milam County Sheriff's Office
22:02
Speaker 1: dive teams recovered the man's body around eight pm, and
22:05
Speaker 1: autopsy has been ordered, although no foul play is suspected.
22:10
Speaker 1: If you were planning to attend tonight's public firefighting demonstration
22:13
Speaker 1: at Tiaks, it has been canceled due to the extreme
22:16
Speaker 1: heat forecast at for today. The National Weather Service has
22:20
Speaker 1: issued an extreme heat advisory as the heat index values
22:24
Speaker 1: could reach one hundred and fifteen. A man from Herne
22:27
Speaker 1: is behind bars after a traffic stop Monday. Brian police
22:31
Speaker 1: say they saw a vehicle swerving in the twenty one
22:33
Speaker 1: hundred block of South Texas Avenue. The driver, forty six
22:37
Speaker 1: year old Jose Bullocks, was initially unresponsive with his car
22:41
Speaker 1: in drive and his foot on the brake pedal. Officers
22:44
Speaker 1: spotted an open beer in the center console. The man
22:47
Speaker 1: says he was driving home from Atkinsinera in College Station
22:51
Speaker 1: and claims to have had only.
22:52
Speaker 2: One beer over two hours.
22:54
Speaker 1: Breathalyzer tests showed that Bullocks had an alcohol concentration level
22:59
Speaker 1: higher than point two one. He was booked for driving
23:02
Speaker 1: while intoxicated and taken to the Branss County Jail. He
23:05
Speaker 1: remains behind bars on an ice detainer. Texas Governor Greg
23:09
Speaker 1: Abbott isn't backing down on birth tourism.
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Speaker 3: Abbott says Texas will not tolerate individuals traveling to the
23:15
Speaker 3: US he legally to give birth and secure citizenship for
23:18
Speaker 3: their child. He has directed five agencies to investigate claims
23:22
Speaker 3: of birth tourism schemes within the state's healthcare industry. North
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Speaker 3: Texas Congressman Brandon Gill says this is happening at an
23:29
Speaker 3: alarming rate.
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Speaker 11: The idea that you could have Chinese coming into the
23:33
Speaker 11: country as tourists solely for the purpose of having a baby,
23:37
Speaker 11: that baby growing up in China being an American citizen
23:40
Speaker 11: with voting rights in the US is so idiotic.
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Speaker 3: The order also allows state agencies to partner with federal
23:46
Speaker 3: prosecutors to share information about possible violations. Austin Yorke ts
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Speaker 3: and News.
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Speaker 1: The Brian Police Department is helping to raise money for
23:54
Speaker 1: Special Olympics with Tip a Coop this week.
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Speaker 2: At Texas Roadhouse.
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Speaker 1: Stop by Texas Roadhouse between three and ten tonight or
24:01
Speaker 1: Thursday to support the fundraiser. Officers will be helping serve drinks,
24:06
Speaker 1: rolls and butter. Tonight's theme is Cops and Robbers and
24:09
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night is Torch Night. A Grimes County man is
24:13
Speaker 1: jailed charged with multiple counts of possession of a controlled substance.
24:17
Speaker 1: Deputies were called to Shiftlet Lane in beat Ice in
24:20
Speaker 1: regards to a stolen motorcycle out of Brass County. They
24:23
Speaker 1: say thirty six year old Mitchell Zagrafos led authorities on
24:27
Speaker 1: a brief chase before ditching the motorcycle. He was located
24:31
Speaker 1: on foot and charged with five counts of possession of
24:33
Speaker 1: a controlled substance and two counts of evading arrest. A
24:37
Speaker 1: frequent flyer at the Brass County Jail is making his
24:40
Speaker 1: sixteenth visit. Thirty nine year old Charlie Manley Junior was
24:44
Speaker 1: arrested just before midnight on Sunday. Arrest records say Manly
24:48
Speaker 1: was riding his bicycle in the two hundred block of
24:51
Speaker 1: Regient Avenue in Brian without a reflector or headlight. When
24:55
Speaker 1: officers asked Manly to stop, he continued to ride for
24:58
Speaker 1: several blocks and told officers he was not.
25:01
Speaker 2: Going to stop.
25:02
Speaker 1: Officers began a foot pursuit, and after catching up to
25:05
Speaker 1: the suspect, he wrapped his arms around one of the
25:07
Speaker 1: officers necks during the struggle. Of firearm was located in
25:11
Speaker 1: the man's pocket after he was arrested. A folding knife
25:15
Speaker 1: was also found on the man, as well as K
25:17
Speaker 1: two synthetic marijuana. Manly was charged with assault of a
25:21
Speaker 1: peace officer, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon,
25:25
Speaker 1: unlawful carrying of a weapon, evading arrest, resisting arrest, possession
25:29
Speaker 1: of a controlled substance under two ounces, and failure to identify.
25:34
Speaker 1: He is being held on fifty five thousand dollars bond.
25:37
Speaker 1: His previous charges include several for possession of a controlled substance,
25:41
Speaker 1: multiple arrests for family violence, assault causing bodily injury plus
25:45
Speaker 1: criminal mischief, reckless driving, driving with an invalid license, and
25:49
Speaker 1: failure to identify.
25:51
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Speaker 1: Time at WTAW dot com. I'm will Welch sixteen, twenty
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Speaker 1: ninety four to five.
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Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTA w very warm today.
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Speaker 6: Some might even say hot.
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Speaker 5: I think we could say hots one hundred and change
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Speaker 5: one hundred and fourteen as far as the heat index goes,
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Speaker 5: and be grateful because it's gonna be worse down south
26:18
Speaker 5: than us, be absolutely disgusting day down.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they look at it one hundred and four actual
26:22
Speaker 1: temperature and nothing to stop it from cooling off.
26:27
Speaker 2: Just humidity on top of.
26:29
Speaker 5: That heat on top of heat on top of heat
26:30
Speaker 5: eighty five for your low tonights, and then we'll do
26:33
Speaker 5: it again tomorrow. And at this point you're just gonna
26:36
Speaker 5: be hoping, hoping that whatever Bertha is just gives us
26:41
Speaker 5: some relief.
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Speaker 2: It's not which it's not.
26:44
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26:58
Speaker 5: Let's talk the City of College Station, Mayor Nichols.
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Speaker 6: Good morning, good morning.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, you know we're two thirds of the way through
27:06
Speaker 10: July and we haven't today I'll be the first one
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Speaker 10: hundred degree day.
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Speaker 6: That's pretty good.
27:11
Speaker 10: But what the real problem is is the nighttime temperatures. Yes,
27:15
Speaker 10: if we just aren't getting we got too much humidity
27:19
Speaker 10: and so you don't get the overnight drop off. So
27:21
Speaker 10: if you look at the nighttime temperatures over twenty years,
27:24
Speaker 10: that's what's really crept up. Only one day at one
27:27
Speaker 10: hundred degrees, that's not a bad deal for college station.
27:31
Speaker 10: I remember where we had thirty or forty.
27:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, you would.
27:34
Speaker 5: Go, yeah, I mean this is I'll take any whatever.
27:37
Speaker 5: It hits one hundred anytime. If it's in the back
27:41
Speaker 5: half of July, you call it a win. If you
27:44
Speaker 5: have a year like last year where it didn't hit
27:46
Speaker 5: one hundred, it's like winning the lottery, right, Because there
27:50
Speaker 5: have been some you know from.
27:52
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I recall brutal summers here that those long
27:55
Speaker 1: stretches of a full month or more with one hundred
27:57
Speaker 1: degree days, you just give up at the point in time,
28:01
Speaker 1: just stay inside.
28:02
Speaker 5: Well, let's get started this because we were talking about
28:04
Speaker 5: this and I wasn't in town for it, but the
28:07
Speaker 5: Purple Martin thing is back. Yeah, it is as happens
28:11
Speaker 5: with birds.
28:12
Speaker 10: As it is. They're apparently organizing themselves into flocks. They
28:17
Speaker 10: head off to the south, down into South America or
28:20
Speaker 10: Mexico or wherever they spend the winter. But they are
28:23
Speaker 10: on the campus currently and there is a watch party
28:27
Speaker 10: starting at seven o'clock tonight at the Wildlife Fishery Sciences
28:30
Speaker 10: Department over in the West Campus, and from there they
28:33
Speaker 10: will walk somewhere on the West Campus and observe these
28:37
Speaker 10: purple martins. The city last year had to deal with
28:41
Speaker 10: this problem. It was a problem in Northgate because they
28:44
Speaker 10: congregated in those live oak trees and make quite a mess.
28:49
Speaker 10: But the Autumn Society has given us heads up that
28:53
Speaker 10: we really need to be a little more friendly and
28:55
Speaker 10: frankly we understand and we are a bird city. So
28:59
Speaker 10: we're working with it at about Society this year to
29:02
Speaker 10: get out in front of this issue and turned into
29:05
Speaker 10: a positive. But at the same time, you got to
29:08
Speaker 10: move them along.
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Speaker 12: They got to be somewhere, because yeah, somewhere, and they
29:11
Speaker 12: like the trees, and those live oat trees are nice
29:14
Speaker 12: and dense and so they enjoy of course on campus.
29:19
Speaker 10: So they moved them off campus last year chased them
29:21
Speaker 10: off and then wound up in Northgate and so then
29:23
Speaker 10: we had to chase them out of north Gate and
29:24
Speaker 10: that was not a good look.
29:26
Speaker 5: And again there it's not like it's one or two
29:28
Speaker 5: of them.
29:31
Speaker 10: They're big, big flocks and that's just how they congregate.
29:34
Speaker 10: That's their social life.
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Speaker 6: Crazy. I do.
29:36
Speaker 5: I do love that you will get an opportunity to
29:38
Speaker 5: go and uh and see some of this if if
29:40
Speaker 5: you're looking to get out and observe tonight eleven o'clock
29:43
Speaker 5: to night.
29:43
Speaker 1: It always shocks me that And you mentioned the fact
29:46
Speaker 1: that we are a bird city, how many birders, we
29:48
Speaker 1: have a lot about.
29:50
Speaker 10: Society is quite active here in the community. I mean,
29:52
Speaker 10: that's how they engage. That's the society that represents the birders.
29:57
Speaker 10: But you know, we we've built out at the at
30:00
Speaker 10: the big parks out of town a couple or three
30:06
Speaker 10: observation stations too, observation stations, and so we're on a
30:10
Speaker 10: flyway and during the winter months you'll get a lot
30:14
Speaker 10: of birds moving through here that people wouldn't see. It's
30:18
Speaker 10: part of the Gulf Coast absolutely, and so we we
30:23
Speaker 10: host for tourism purposes, if nothing else, people to come
30:28
Speaker 10: through here, and we've got those observation stations in the
30:32
Speaker 10: in the park down there, Lick Creek Park that are
30:34
Speaker 10: designed to provide a space for people to sort of
30:38
Speaker 10: hide out a little bit. But there's wind windows, there
30:41
Speaker 10: are ways to see through and they can bring their
30:42
Speaker 10: binoculars and and of course there's a lot of local
30:45
Speaker 10: folks to but the university has got quite a few
30:48
Speaker 10: people that are interested.
30:49
Speaker 2: In that love it.
30:51
Speaker 5: Let's talk about council. I know we got another meeting
30:53
Speaker 5: coming up and a long agenda.
30:55
Speaker 10: Yeah, at a fairly long agenda. I don't think the well,
31:00
Speaker 10: to me, the big item is the budget hearing. Yeah,
31:04
Speaker 10: we talked about the budget last time. Five and seventy
31:06
Speaker 10: six million, one hundred and eighty million of that is
31:11
Speaker 10: a large number, and that's the capital projects. We will
31:15
Speaker 10: have a public hearing Thursday night. I assume that we'll
31:18
Speaker 10: hear from some citizens, maybe even a non citizen there too,
31:21
Speaker 10: will show up to provide their input and advice and
31:25
Speaker 10: council on the budget. We are not adopting a tax
31:29
Speaker 10: rate at this point because we still haven't gotten the
31:31
Speaker 10: information back from the tax sessor collector and ultimately it
31:34
Speaker 10: has to be the final data from the appraisal district
31:38
Speaker 10: and they're still working that through in August. We'll get
31:40
Speaker 10: that early August, and so we'll have another shot at
31:43
Speaker 10: it late in August. But this is a big deal
31:46
Speaker 10: and I'm kind of happy that people are willing to
31:49
Speaker 10: come out provide some advice and council. We've heard from
31:51
Speaker 10: a couple during here visitors at earlier meetings, so that's
31:56
Speaker 10: probably on my book, that's the biggest item. The other
32:00
Speaker 10: important item that I think will probably get more attention
32:03
Speaker 10: from individuals is the automated license plate reading cameras that
32:08
Speaker 10: we haven't fund black Flock. We're flocked contract with Flock Corporation,
32:12
Speaker 10: and they're going to have a person there but the city,
32:16
Speaker 10: our Chief of Police, Billy Couch, will be making the presentation.
32:20
Speaker 10: We'll be able to ask him questions and get more
32:22
Speaker 10: feel for how we're actually using him and what the
32:25
Speaker 10: privacy protections are. Then we'll hear from some citizens. I'm
32:30
Speaker 10: getting emails from a number of them that are again
32:33
Speaker 10: citizens and non citizens. Frankly, it's kind of increased increased
32:37
Speaker 10: interesting to me that the non citizens arrive at College
32:41
Speaker 10: Station to let us know what they believe. I mean
32:43
Speaker 10: they're CITs in the community generally. Frankly, it just means
32:48
Speaker 10: that City College Station is a place that you can
32:51
Speaker 10: go to and be heard.
32:52
Speaker 6: I think that part of it.
32:54
Speaker 10: And I think we're leading citizen in the in the
32:56
Speaker 10: in the area and leading city in the area. And
33:00
Speaker 10: we got our finances in great shape, were triple a
33:06
Speaker 10: city in terms of our bond ratings. So you know,
33:10
Speaker 10: we're a good place for people to let somebody know
33:13
Speaker 10: that they have a concern, whether they're a citizen or not.
33:15
Speaker 5: It is It is interesting because flow cameras have become
33:19
Speaker 5: in the last year or so one of the bigger
33:21
Speaker 5: issues that you'll see.
33:23
Speaker 2: Just under data centers. I mean, it's right, it's right there.
33:25
Speaker 1: A lot of people are concerned about their privacy when
33:27
Speaker 1: it comes to the flog cameras, and of course law
33:30
Speaker 1: enforcement utilizes it as a fantastic tool in their job.
33:34
Speaker 2: So how do you balance that?
33:36
Speaker 10: So that's that's what our job is as council members
33:38
Speaker 10: is to balance that. And and you know, as I
33:42
Speaker 10: listen to the arguments about keep in mind the privacy
33:45
Speaker 10: arguments as you'll hear tomorrow night, if if if it's
33:49
Speaker 10: in plain view, and I stand on a street corner,
33:51
Speaker 10: I can read your license plate. That's fair game that there.
33:54
Speaker 10: You have no right to privacy if you're on a
33:57
Speaker 10: public right away and and and you have view of that.
34:01
Speaker 10: So we've been told over and over that doesn't necessarily
34:04
Speaker 10: negate the overarching kind of feeling that people have about
34:11
Speaker 10: privacy in general, and that's nationwide about everything.
34:15
Speaker 5: But if you're in a situation where you've read a
34:18
Speaker 5: lot of things, where you've seen a lot of things
34:20
Speaker 5: about or heard a lot of things about it, this
34:21
Speaker 5: is a great opportunity for you to get in a room,
34:26
Speaker 5: listen to the police department how they're using it, Listen
34:28
Speaker 5: to the limitations from flock and and and where those
34:32
Speaker 5: where those guardrails are, and educate yourself. And also if
34:36
Speaker 5: you still have concerns and great, pass them along.
34:39
Speaker 2: Right right and.
34:41
Speaker 10: It's on the workshop. It's not on a regular agenda,
34:43
Speaker 10: so we'll take no formal action on them. We've got
34:47
Speaker 10: quite a few in the community. We'll hear more about
34:50
Speaker 10: the numbers in college station, uh City, Brian has them.
34:54
Speaker 10: Private sector businesses also have the same technology on their
34:59
Speaker 10: private property that we can't do anything about except if
35:02
Speaker 10: they file a police report about a theft or a burglary,
35:05
Speaker 10: or an accident or something on their property. Right, then
35:08
Speaker 10: we've got an accident report or a theft report. Then
35:12
Speaker 10: we can we can access their data. They will give
35:15
Speaker 10: us their data to help them help us.
35:17
Speaker 5: I don't think it's going to stop being in bad
35:19
Speaker 5: anytime soon, but I do think you get a lot
35:21
Speaker 5: further in a situation like where you can actually get
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Speaker 5: in front council and send some of the players, some
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Speaker 5: of the stakeholders and discuss it as opposed to just
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Speaker 5: griping about it online.
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Speaker 1: At the very least, you're cutting out links in the
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Speaker 1: communication chain. You can go straight to the source, ask
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Speaker 1: your question, find out the information, and it's not being
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Speaker 1: filtered through anything else.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. Well, like a lot of our workshop items, this
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Speaker 10: will take a while, and so it may may be
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Speaker 10: a late night. I'm trying to fly out of town
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Speaker 10: at five o'clock on Friday morning for a brief vacation,
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Speaker 10: and that I may not not get home in time
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Speaker 10: to do anything other than packed suitcase. But it'll be
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Speaker 10: already packed.
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Speaker 5: The go to, I hope type situation you can get
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Speaker 5: it as a coffee court.
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Speaker 10: We'll wind up the airport in Dallas for a couple hours.
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Speaker 10: I'm hoping that we can get breakfast there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go before we get on the next flight.
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Speaker 6: Well, let's talk about it.
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about some of the offices coming up and
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Speaker 5: everything else like that. And we want to talk about
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Speaker 5: the openings or a lack thereof catch us up.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, the filing period is open for this year every
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Speaker 10: two years. Now we're on a four year cycle. So
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Speaker 10: you have the Place one in Place two are open,
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Speaker 10: and the mayor's race is open. As of yesterday, I
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Speaker 10: think three people have filed for Place one and two.
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Speaker 10: Nobody has filed for mayor. I'd like to share my
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Speaker 10: views on that. After thirty years of volunteering for the
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Speaker 10: city and all kinds of commissions, committees, boards, and elected
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Speaker 10: positions over the last twelve fourteen years, I've decided not
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Speaker 10: to file. At least that's my intent. I'm assuming that
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Speaker 10: the qualified people will file for mayor, but I don't
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Speaker 10: plan to. I plan to finish my volunteer service with
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Speaker 10: the city at the end of some time in November,
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Speaker 10: whenever the canvassing vote is and and I move on
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Speaker 10: to the next phase of my life. It's been a
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Speaker 10: great run for thirty years, but I think it's time
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Speaker 10: to turn this over to the next generation and see
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Speaker 10: what they do. But we're in great shape the city wise,
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Speaker 10: and I could certainly serve another term, but four years
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Speaker 10: out of the rest of my life, it's probably not
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Speaker 10: the highest for me and my family at this time
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Speaker 10: and myself personally.
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Speaker 6: We've definitely earned a break.
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Speaker 10: I think thirty years enough And I told city manager
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Speaker 10: all I want is a thirty year pen and I
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Speaker 10: can ride off into the sunset. They'll be good people,
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Speaker 10: I'm sure we'll that are signing up to run for
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Speaker 10: council positions and probably the same will be true for mayor,
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Speaker 10: and we'll see how that turns out.
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Speaker 6: Thirty years man.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, well, you know, some of that overlapped my university.
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Speaker 10: I've spent forty four years working at the university after
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Speaker 10: graduate school, but the last ten or fifteen years I
38:02
Speaker 10: was also on parks board, planning and zoning and you
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Speaker 10: name it looks look I got elected, looks.
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Speaker 6: A little bit different than that it did back in
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Speaker 6: the data.
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Speaker 10: Oh yeah, well that's part of it. You know, by
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Speaker 10: the time some of these debates are having this is
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Speaker 10: the third time I've debated this, and well, I still
38:21
Speaker 10: have strong priors and preferences. I have to allow the
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Speaker 10: other people to learn and and and shape their own
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Speaker 10: opinions and things and and and you know, at some
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Speaker 10: point it's time for other people to weigh in and
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Speaker 10: I get a heck out of the way.
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Speaker 5: Well, we're grateful for the time, and grateful for the
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Speaker 5: thirty years and uh, and also happy you'll get to
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Speaker 5: do what is next?
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Speaker 6: Do you have any idea?
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 10: You know, they're just a little a little less daily grind.
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Speaker 10: Not it's a real grind. But there's an awful lot
38:52
Speaker 10: of meetings, Yeah, things that are not not scheduled. But
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Speaker 10: you got all the committees and for the council workshops, Yeah,
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Speaker 10: and a few last workshops. And I'll sit at home,
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Speaker 10: and if I want to watch it, i'll have My
39:04
Speaker 10: wife won't let me watch it from the living room,
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Speaker 10: I'm sure, because she'll be busy on something else. I
39:08
Speaker 10: won't want to listen to city Council. I may have
39:10
Speaker 10: to go back to another TV or online and watch
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Speaker 10: what's going on.
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Speaker 6: But I'll find we'll get you some pods.
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Speaker 10: I'll find some opportunities to serve the community in one
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Speaker 10: way or another and look forward to that. I'm like,
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Speaker 10: as I said, I could serve another four years, but
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Speaker 10: that's that's probably not the best use of my next
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Speaker 10: four years and probably not the best thing for the city.
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Speaker 6: Well, thank you.
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Speaker 10: We'll have time to over the fall we can talk
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Speaker 10: about what's happened over the last forty years. But a
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Speaker 10: lot of good things have happened, and the city's in
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Speaker 10: great shape and happy to see other people pick up
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Speaker 10: the traces.
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Speaker 6: That's certainly certainly a heck of a run man.
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Speaker 10: Yeah. And one other thing I want to mention that
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Speaker 10: we do have a consent agenda items and one of
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Speaker 10: those is Independence Park and that is the first big
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Speaker 10: trunch about seven million dollars funding to actually a contract
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Speaker 10: to it to do the initial phases of Independence Park. Obviously,
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Speaker 10: we've already done some things out there because we were
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Speaker 10: playing to build ballfield, but that everybody knows went by
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Speaker 10: the wayside. But we're now moving ahead with a true
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Speaker 10: regional community park and the first phase that's about seven million,
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Speaker 10: So we'll be voting on that as part of the
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Speaker 10: consent agenda. That's an item that's attracted a lot of
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Speaker 10: attention over the last couple of three years. I want
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Speaker 10: to let people know that we're moving ahead with it.
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Speaker 6: I love it.
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much for coming in, thank you for
40:37
Speaker 5: spending some timeless this morning.
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Speaker 10: I'm happy to be here. I hope folks will pay
40:41
Speaker 10: attention to the agenda for tomorrow night and well, I'm
40:45
Speaker 10: sure have some folks signing up to speak and either
40:47
Speaker 10: the flock cameras or on the budget. Hopefully the budget.
40:52
Speaker 10: I want, definitely want people to share with us their thoughts.
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Speaker 10: We can make some adjustments in it over the next
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Speaker 10: month or so. Frankly, without knowing the tax rate, the
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Speaker 10: known in revenue rate, and the voter approval rate, it's
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Speaker 10: kind of hard for us to finalize anything. But we've
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Speaker 10: got a budget in place, and I think I'm pretty
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Speaker 10: comfortable with it.
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Speaker 2: I love it.
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Speaker 6: Well back after this on WTAW