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The Infomaniacs: August 7, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Janette Menchow. News
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  Speaker 1: has signed off on Elon Musk's SpaceX tariff fab facility
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  Speaker 1: in Grimes County. That JETI agreements were approved by the Anderson,
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  Speaker 1: on the Dogtown Ranch Sanctuary. They say they've received several
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  Speaker 1: complaints about the facility near Rock Deal after deputies and
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  Speaker 1: investigators with the SPCA made several surprise inspections at the
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  Speaker 1: facility since April. They have found nothing that supports criminal charges,
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  Speaker 1: although the SPCA did provide the facility with a list
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  Speaker 1: of recommended improvements. Texas attorney well Ken Paxton is investigating
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  Speaker 1: the country's largest group of pediatricians, the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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  Speaker 1: He is accusing them of recommending childhood vaccines for financial gain.
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  Speaker 1: Paxton says the Academy developed a new vaccine schedule different
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  Speaker 1: to change because RFK Junior's recommendations lacked scientific basis. Paxton
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  Speaker 1: at ten thirty. Back to school shoppers can save the
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  Speaker 1: dollars during Texas Tax Free Weekend. The state waves the
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  Speaker 1: tax on applicable items purchased in store or online. The
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  Speaker 1: tax free holiday runs through Sunday. The number of Texas
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  Speaker 1: teachers who say they're considering quitting their profession is going down,
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  Speaker 1: but just barely. A new survey found that sixty three
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  Speaker 1: percent of teachers are seriously thinking about leaving the classroom.
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  Speaker 2: There is still a lot of morale problems and a
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  Speaker 2: lot of this I think has to do with pay.
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  Speaker 1: Clay Robinson with the Texas State Teachers Association says their
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  Speaker 1: survey found that one in three of their members are
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  Speaker 1: moonlighting during the school year in order to make ends meet.
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  Speaker 1: This comes despite historic investments by the state. The average
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  Speaker 1: salary sits at about sixty eight thousand dollars a year,
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  Speaker 1: compared with the national average of more than seventy six thousand.
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  Speaker 2: in schools and also to reduce the fear of math
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  Speaker 2: gone violence in schools. Because we've heard teachers, we've heard
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  Speaker 2: students saying that they worry about people in that classroom.
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  Speaker 2: This is something that ultimately he touched his the majority
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  Speaker 2: of kids across the state.
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  Speaker 1: CEO of Campus Guardian Angel Justin Marston says their pepper
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  Speaker 1: are stationed in schools outside of Texas. For now, the
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  Speaker 1: David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More news at eight thirty
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  Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW dot com. I'm Janette Menschow sixteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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  Speaker 3: NEWSAW sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW, Good Morning, Where
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  Speaker 3: the info Manias Dusty.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry Fox News cut you off.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I just wanted to I'm starting to think
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  Speaker 5: that your dangerous animal story was written by a few.
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  Speaker 3: People texted in then, because again I want to be
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  Speaker 3: clear about this. It makes no sense if you're going
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  Speaker 3: to go most dangerous animals by state.
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  Speaker 4: I think you I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe you can make a case for Gator, but you
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  Speaker 3: can't say like, for instance, in Alaska, where the grizzly
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  Speaker 3: maize exists and people get eaten by the grizzly bears,
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  Speaker 3: that the most dangerous animals dog All right, like, it's
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  Speaker 3: just not that.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't add up.
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  Speaker 5: So and Rhode Island was the tiger shark.
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  Speaker 3: Tiger shark, and someone speculated, what if it's so normal,
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  Speaker 3: they just don't write news stories.
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  Speaker 5: Well, but the truth is, there have been a total
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  Speaker 5: of zero tiger sharks attack in the history of Rhode Island.
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  Speaker 5: Really there since they've been keeping records beginning in eighteen
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  Speaker 5: thirty seven, there have been two shark attacks fatal shark
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  Speaker 5: attacks two in two hundred years. Wow, there have been
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  Speaker 5: eight total shark attacks in those same two hundred years,
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  Speaker 5: only two of those were fatal. There was a surfer
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  Speaker 5: who got it bitten on the foot in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 4: By a shark.
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  Speaker 5: By a shark.
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  Speaker 4: Now so it fence And again, Devil's advocate.
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  Speaker 3: How do we know that that that guy who got
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  Speaker 3: bit on the foot it wasn't a tiger shark.
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  Speaker 5: We don't know that for sure, except for they don't
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  Speaker 5: really live there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that's right, because they're tropical sharks.
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  Speaker 5: Every once in a while one will make its way
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  Speaker 5: up that far north in summer, and so it's possible.
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  Speaker 5: But that's not even their typical shark race.
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  Speaker 3: If you tell me a tiger shark eat someone in Alabama, yeah, sold,
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  Speaker 3: Florida sold. Tell me if someone picks one in Hawaii,
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  Speaker 3: like throw Hawaii Sold. Someone throws a line out on
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  Speaker 3: galves and all of a sudden, an eight pound tiger
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  Speaker 3: shark comes back.
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  Speaker 4: Attached to it. Sold Road Island.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so paw Tucket.
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  Speaker 4: Where where did this happen?
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  Speaker 6: Well, you you have seen in Funnier. So I looked
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  Speaker 6: up just tiger shark attacks in the United States.
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  Speaker 7: In general, they are rare.
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  Speaker 6: There have been a total of twenty five attacks.
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  Speaker 4: Insanely rare.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I mean like Rhode Island, and you know
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  Speaker 6: where they are the most of them happen. Actually, you'd
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  Speaker 6: have thought Florida, I.
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  Speaker 4: Say, I'd have said Hawaii.
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  Speaker 3: I've said Hawaii, Florida and Cali would be my three
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  Speaker 3: where you might see.
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  Speaker 4: And it might get tagged.
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  Speaker 5: And back to my This is why I don't go
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  Speaker 5: in the ocean. I'll stay at the lake.
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  Speaker 3: Baby, you know where there ain't no tiger sharks at
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  Speaker 3: the lake. The lake, the lake, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I did want to discuss this.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine, like I like my car I've never owned, Well, no,
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  Speaker 3: I did. I own a Cadillac for a few years.
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  Speaker 3: Loved that car too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've never was it a connected car.
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  Speaker 3: It was a connected car. It's actually the first connected
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  Speaker 3: car I ever I ever drove. It's probably like back
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  Speaker 3: out of twenty sixteen or whatever. Now I've never owned
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  Speaker 3: a Mercedes and are in a BMW or like the
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  Speaker 3: high end high end vehicles, So I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Know what it's like to drive. I know if I drove.
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  Speaker 3: One and this happened, I would have opinions about it.
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  Speaker 3: But the BMW, apparently last week you got into your
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  Speaker 3: BMW on Friday. You're about to drive wherever it is
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  Speaker 3: on your commute to your job which pays you rich
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  Speaker 3: person money, and you boot it up and then on.
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  Speaker 5: The boot your car, yeah, or you turn the key.
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  Speaker 3: And then all of a sudden, a Spider Man commercial
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  Speaker 3: place in the in the driver's display like some webs
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  Speaker 3: fly out, the theme music and all of this Spider
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  Speaker 3: Man content gets served to you.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so to be fair, what what came to you.
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  Speaker 5: Was they added a Spider Man icon to your dashboard
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  Speaker 5: without you knowing about it? Right? Because these cars are connected,
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  Speaker 5: they could just update software. They did a little deal
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  Speaker 5: with Sony Pictures. Yep, they said, hey, all those beamers
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  Speaker 5: that can do it, let's throw a Spider Man on gone.
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  Speaker 3: On and you and people will look at it, go
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  Speaker 3: wonder what that does?
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  Speaker 5: And bang you get a commercial.
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  Speaker 4: How did this go over Dusty with the luxury car crowd?
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  Speaker 5: Was it?
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  Speaker 4: Were they surprised and delighted?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, development, these animations, visuals, the music, the
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  Speaker 5: ambient lighting that suddenly turned on were not the happiest customers.
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  Speaker 6: Could you imagine You're just get in your car and
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  Speaker 6: it's like Spider Man and all the all.
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  Speaker 4: The lights go red.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be myself remember to take your BMW to the
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  Speaker 3: theater today to watch spider I'm surprised they haven't gone
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  Speaker 3: to Tesla and just navigated your car directly to the
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  Speaker 3: theater to forced you to want time.
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  Speaker 4: That's the thing. It's not so much I.
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  Speaker 3: Like Spider love Spider Man, I love Marvel movies. I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be mad about the content. It's like when.
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  Speaker 4: Apple gave you a free U two album.
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  Speaker 3: It's just the knowledge that again they are absolutely going
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  Speaker 3: to do this again. They're one that, look one thousand
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  Speaker 3: percon going to do this again.
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  Speaker 5: BMW has been on you know, they they've been on
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  Speaker 5: the cutting edge of their entertainment stuff. You know, I
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  Speaker 5: mean that they've been our test pilot for you know,
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  Speaker 5: we're there industry things that are working.
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  Speaker 4: On German engineering Man that's what they.
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  Speaker 5: Do connected cars, right, So one of the one of
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  Speaker 5: the pieces of it if it ever actually happens, and
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  Speaker 5: the BMW was the first one. I think you and
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  Speaker 5: I looked at it in Vegas. We did. We sat
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  Speaker 5: in that car in Vegas and one of the one
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  Speaker 5: of the cool things that you know, I kind of
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  Speaker 5: liked about it was, Hey, you're listening to w t
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  Speaker 5: A w Okay, you're out on it. You're driving that's
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  Speaker 5: you're going on a road trip. When the car senses
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  Speaker 5: that you don't have enough signal anymore to hear clearly, it.
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  Speaker 4: Switches to the stream, jumps right over to the app like.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's got so many cool features, Like it's got
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  Speaker 3: all that was years ago, right, this is not new
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  Speaker 3: now they've got I mean, you can do a lot
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  Speaker 3: of great things.
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  Speaker 5: So and they're they're working on some other things. It's
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  Speaker 5: just it hasn't taken off across the industry. But but
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  Speaker 5: BMW has been kind of the test. They'll in some
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  Speaker 5: of their hiring cars, they'll they'll do this stuff. And
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  Speaker 5: you know, one of the other things about that car,
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  Speaker 5: speaking of AI, which was kind of freaky, was this
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  Speaker 5: car had I don't know, five six seven internal cameras
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  Speaker 5: in the cab that were paying attention to you. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It would suggest music on your dad, on your uh,
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  Speaker 5: on your display based on what it felt your facial expressions,
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  Speaker 5: and what your mood was.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, try to read your thoughts, try to anticipate whether
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  Speaker 3: you wanted some rage music or if you're sad, maybe
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  Speaker 3: it says, hey, would you like to hear George Jones
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  Speaker 3: playlist today?
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  Speaker 5: Like that? You know whatever.
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  Speaker 6: Mine probably playing a lot of calming music because I
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  Speaker 6: get angry at people when they drive stupid.
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  Speaker 4: If you just have raging face, some of us have
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  Speaker 4: raging faces. Yeah, so you never get any metal.
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  Speaker 5: So they're they're on the cutting edge of this. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm telling you, when car manufacturers will figure out that
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  Speaker 5: they can sell their customers an ad.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're doing it. There they're doing It's gonna be all, Oh.
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  Speaker 5: They don't if you're bad.
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  Speaker 4: Nope.
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  Speaker 5: Hey you clicked on fault.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that's sorry, that's you. Yeah, bought a car, thought
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  Speaker 4: you had to, thought you had a safe space. No,
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  Speaker 4: no ads everywhere all of the time.
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  Speaker 5: Do we have to look through to find that?
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember we're talking about the timelines, like you know,
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  Speaker 3: once again going back to the Marble cinematic universe, Doctor Strange,
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  Speaker 3: how many timelines do you have? How many forecasts? Show
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  Speaker 3: one one forecasts? But I'm going with it because it
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  Speaker 3: gives me something to say.
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  Speaker 6: Well, your forecast is that with the one I'm looking
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  Speaker 6: at this is just you know, the Apple one. It
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  Speaker 6: says we have a thirty percent chance tomorrow and a
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  Speaker 6: thirty five percent chance on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: living out of but not at your parents' home for
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  Speaker 3: how many years now?
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  Speaker 7: Since twenty nineteen?
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 7: That's almost six seven years?
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  Speaker 4: Seven years, Dusty, A few more than that. But you
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  Speaker 4: also have kids, true?
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  Speaker 3: How long have the kids been living outside of the home?
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  Speaker 5: Last kid? That three years? Since a kid has lived
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  Speaker 5: a hell three years?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, it's been a while for me too. I
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  Speaker 3: was reading the story about a plague that our generation
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  Speaker 3: is causing our parents, and that plague is how much
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  Speaker 3: stuff of ours that they still.
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  Speaker 4: Have a lot of their home A bunch? So I
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  Speaker 4: ask you, Dusty.
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  Speaker 3: Let's ask well still before before we get to that,
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  Speaker 3: I do want to guess in boxes in box amounts
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  Speaker 3: like it's as you know, just so we can count this,
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  Speaker 3: how many boxes full.
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  Speaker 4: Of your stuff do you believe is in it?
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  Speaker 9: Or?
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  Speaker 5: Sorry?
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  Speaker 3: How much does the average parent have in their home
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  Speaker 3: of their kids stuff who has already moved out gone
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  Speaker 3: on with their life?
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  Speaker 5: Twelve?
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  Speaker 6: I was gonna say at least a hole, and I'm
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  Speaker 6: talking like top to bottom closet, full closetful. But if
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  Speaker 6: you're gonna do boxes of like old clothes like I'm
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  Speaker 6: talking about from over there, entil entire childhood, like from
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  Speaker 6: clothes when they're little, to toys, this and that and
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  Speaker 6: the other, probably can fill an entire her closet.
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  Speaker 4: We're not far off.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's nine boxes, which, by the way, if you
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  Speaker 3: break it down as a mover, it's all that's almost
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  Speaker 3: a one bedroom apartment full of stuff now.
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  Speaker 5: That got left behind, the stuff that they didn't want
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  Speaker 5: to take, that wasn't worth taking with them to live
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  Speaker 5: that they've lived with. So Riley's thinking of a full
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  Speaker 5: closet and she hasn't been there in seven years.
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  Speaker 4: It's got to be more than that.
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  Speaker 3: I refuse to believe because we've talked about your collections
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  Speaker 3: that are there.
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  Speaker 6: Mine's probably bigger, but a lot of that stuff. For instance,
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  Speaker 6: my mom kept a bunch of me and my brother's
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  Speaker 6: stuff because when she has grandkids and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 6: she wants.
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  Speaker 7: It for them and.
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  Speaker 4: Items.
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  Speaker 6: And my parents also like when we go home, we
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  Speaker 6: have our own rooms, so they're like they kept it
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  Speaker 6: like it's obviously.
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  Speaker 7: Grown as we've gotten older. There's things have changed about.
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  Speaker 4: Hill Riley's spots. Yes, keep it in Riley's.
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  Speaker 6: Right, like that's Riley's room, that's Hunter's room. Like they
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  Speaker 6: still have our stuff in there.
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  Speaker 5: So you're that'll change that.
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  Speaker 7: I know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't even know you're gonna pop back in one
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  Speaker 5: day and go, hey.
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  Speaker 3: What I feel like my amount when I go over
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  Speaker 3: to my parents' house has reduced dramatically, but I still
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  Speaker 3: feel guilty about the amount of my stuff that's over.
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  Speaker 3: It's got to be. It's gotta be more than nine bocks, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: gotta be. There's no way around it.
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  Speaker 4: What about you? How much are you holding?
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  Speaker 5: How much am I holding on my kids stuff? A ton?
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  Speaker 5: To be fair? Two of them are still in college.
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  Speaker 5: They don't live there.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, given their college doesn't count because it's when
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  Speaker 3: your permanent address changes, right, So that's when you can
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  Speaker 3: debate it.
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  Speaker 5: They had they don't live there, but you know, they're
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  Speaker 5: they're college kids, so they that. But like the amount
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  Speaker 5: of things that my mom's house at my parents house
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  Speaker 5: of mine is zero?
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  Speaker 3: Now was that intentional or were you just a good kid?
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  Speaker 3: It was like getting the stuff out here.
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  Speaker 5: I want to say, maybe maybe about the time I
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  Speaker 5: turned thirty, Mom showed up with a few boxes of
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  Speaker 5: stuff that she's cleaning down the room. Go hey, these
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  Speaker 5: are yours your problem now?
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  Speaker 3: Text message at nine seven nine, six nine five, sixteen
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  Speaker 3: twenty and again if you want to if you want
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  Speaker 3: to chime in, either from the kid's perspective or from
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  Speaker 3: the Paris perspective, how much stuff are you still in
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  Speaker 3: possession of from your adult kids?
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  Speaker 4: Marcus says when I left to go to college.
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  Speaker 3: Within a week my room was redecorated into an office
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  Speaker 3: for my father and they changed the locks on the house.
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  Speaker 5: Don't come back, buddy.
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  Speaker 3: I said, you're out. Burn the ships, baby, you're moving on.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to push stuff out the door every time
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  Speaker 5: I say, hey, I got something for you.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: But Marshall says, I've told my parents to throw my
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: crap out. They won't because they want to show my
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: stuff to my kids one day.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: They're holding on to its desire to be like, hey, look.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: At what your your parents were into when they were
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: your age, which I kind of I kind of get.
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: I will say, there is a closet at my parents'
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: house that has toys.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so like when.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: My grandkids go to my mom's house, they know where
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: the toy closet is and they go get stuff. That's
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: pretty cool we played with when we were kids.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: That's pretty cool. I like that. The stuff that I have,
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: I think most of it is most of it is
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: still closed, Like high school letter jacket is still in
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: there for some reason. Just again it's like no idea,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: why no idea, it's still there. Uh and then yeah,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: I need to go do But yeah, it's it's you
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: start getting into the stuff from kids age like you.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: My have nieces and nephews. So yeah, there's some toys
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: and whatever.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: There's a bunch of stuff that could definitely be thrown
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: in the trash or and.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: I I'm not gonna.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: I don't want it in my I don't really have
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: a you know, it's like, I I look, if I
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: haven't seen it, look in ten years.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Can I really that it's important to save?
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: Exactly it's not.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: And you know you don't have space for it. You
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: got cats.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: That's a very good point. Back after this.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Good Morning from the WTAW Newsroom, I'm Jeanette minchow elon
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Musk's SpaceX Terrifound facility is a Gopher launch. Texas Governor
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott's office announced yesterday that he has in fact
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: signed off on the project. We've been waiting for that
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: announcement since the Anderson, Shiro and Iola school boards approved
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: of the tax abatements in Mitchely. They're expected to break
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: ground on the Grimes facility almost immediately, with production to
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: begin in twenty twenty seven. The northbound frontage of Highway
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: six was jammed up in College Station most of yesterday afternoon.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: CSPD says an eighteen wheeler lost a wheel, which then
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: crashed into a Mercedes on the dealership lot. The Mylm
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's office released a statement on the Dogtown Ranch Sanctuary.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: They say they've received several complaints about the facility near Rockdale.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Deputies and investigators with the SPCA have made several surprise
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: inspections at the facility since April, and while the SPCA
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: has a list of recommended improvements, no evidence has been
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: found that would support criminal charges. It's Texas tax Free weekend.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: The state will waive taxes on the purchase of most
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: clothing and school supplies under one hundred dollars. The tax
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: free holiday runs through Sunday. An Austin based company says
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: its school safety drones are already stationed at campuses in
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: three states. The company is hoping to bring the technology
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: to Texas schools.
• 19:31
  Speaker 10: Campus guardian Agel says its drones are designed to provide
• 19:34
  Speaker 10: a quick response during an active threat, with the goal
• 19:36
  Speaker 10: of giving schools another layer of protection. CEO Justin Marson
• 19:39
  Speaker 10: says nine schools across Florida, Georgia, and Colorado have about
• 19:42
  Speaker 10: twenty to sixty drones, each equipped with a sirens, speaker
• 19:46
  Speaker 10: and pepper spray.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: We have Austin PD Hall of Famers, the Director of
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Special Tactics, and all the special operations within APD. We
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: have pac metics, have nine on one operators, and then
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: we have the pilots. We respond to an event as
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: a team of eleven people who are responding.
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: He says. They're controlled remote from pilots in Austin and
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: can be deployed in seconds. Marson says the company has
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: demonstrated the technology for Texas school officials and is working
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: with the state lawmaker to expand the drone system to
• 20:15
  Speaker 10: campuses across the state. Em Lily c up A theo
• 20:17
  Speaker 10: TSN News.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched a formal investigation into
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: the country's largest pediatric organization. The probe targets the American
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Academy of Pediatrics over its childhood vaccine guidance. Paxton issued
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: a civil investigative demand to the group to determine whether
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: the group's medical recommendations for childhood vaccines are being influenced
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: by its financial ties to big pharma. The Academy says
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the changes were made because RFK Junior's modifications to the
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: CDC vaccine schedule lacks scientific basis. Paxton says his office
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: will fight to protect kids' health and uphold transparency in
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: the medical industry, alongside President Trump and Secretary Kennedy. A
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: newly released education study is painting a bleak picture.
• 20:59
  Speaker 11: The number of Texas teachers who are considering quitting the
• 21:02
  Speaker 11: profession is going down, but just barely. A new survey
• 21:05
  Speaker 11: found that sixty three percent are seriously thinking about leaving
• 21:08
  Speaker 11: the classroom.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: The salaries they're getting from the state just are not
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: meeting their needs.
• 21:13
  Speaker 11: Ley Robinson with the Texas State Teachers Association says their
• 21:15
  Speaker 11: survey found that one in three of their members are
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: moonlighting during the school year. This comes despite historic investments
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: by the state. The average salary sits at sixty eight
• 21:24
  Speaker 11: thousand dollars a year, compared with the national average of
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: more than seventy six thousand. Michael Board TSN News.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The state's oil and gas sector continues to boom. There
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: have been four straight months of job growth in the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: energy sector. Experts say a lot of this has to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: do with tensions in the Middle East and a push
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: to build up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve so that it will.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: Provide a cushion should any future situation arise that would
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: disrupt the natural flow of oil and gas.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Around the world.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Todd Staples with the Texas Oil and Gas Association, says
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: that to keep the momentum going, lawmakers need to address
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the state's aging power grit. He says, the permian base
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and needs increased transmission to power their operations. Brian ISD
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: is hosting a community pemp rolly tonight. The district returns
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: to class on Wednesday, but first the district wants to
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: spotlight various student groups and host a fireworks show before
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: kicking off the new school year. The event is free
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and open to the public. Gates open at seven pm
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: at Meryll Green Stadium. Even though the fall semester is
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: about to start, it's still going to be summer hot
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: for a while. Brian firefighter Chrystal amb shares the differences
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: between heat exhaustion and heat stroke.
• 22:30
  Speaker 12: Heat exhaustion, you're going to see things like, you know,
• 22:32
  Speaker 12: your excessive sweating, maybe some slight dizziness from going from
• 22:36
  Speaker 12: a sitting position to a standing position. Things that say, hey,
• 22:38
  Speaker 12: you need water, you need to cool down, and when
• 22:40
  Speaker 12: you get those, you need to take heat to that
• 22:42
  Speaker 12: very rapidly.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Now, heat stroke is totally different.
• 22:45
  Speaker 12: You see somebody who has altered mental status, They're not
• 22:47
  Speaker 12: acting like themselves. Are they not sweating when they should
• 22:50
  Speaker 12: or just loss of consciousness.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Heat stroke is a medical emergency. If you suspect heat stroke,
• 22:55
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• 22:58
  Speaker 1: or anytime at wt dot com. I'm Janette Minshaw on
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW sixteen.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Twenty ninety four to five WTAW. On one hand, very
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: very hot today. On the other hand, maybe a twenty
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: percent chance of rain. It's better than we're gonna get
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: most days, so we'll take it. Whether it's brought to
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• 23:29
  Speaker 4: It's Friday.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: Let's talk with the City of College Station Colin Killian.
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: What's going on? Man? Now we're doing I'm doing great.
• 23:35
  Speaker 9: I'm great, glad.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: To be here.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Who do we have with us today?
• 23:38
  Speaker 9: We're very pleased as always to have Straight from the
• 23:41
  Speaker 9: Gary Halter Nature Center out at Lake Creek Park.
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: Lori Brown Lourie, Welcome to the show. I love it
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: when a plan comes together. Because we were talking about
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: the most dangerous animals in the in the state of Texas,
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: which I guess gators is what they gave us. I
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: feel that's baby not well thought out. What's the most
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: dangerous animal? They got it Lake Creek Park.
• 24:05
  Speaker 13: You know, I mean the obvious answer or people very true,
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: But I think dangerous is relative, you know, when we're
• 24:17
  Speaker 13: looking at it, all of our parks are very safe,
• 24:19
  Speaker 13: but like Creek Park is a is a wild park
• 24:21
  Speaker 13: where we welcome all wildlife. I think that we do have.
• 24:25
  Speaker 13: We have quite a few significantly venomous snakes, the one
• 24:29
  Speaker 13: being the copperheads. And we also have the threatens, the
• 24:34
  Speaker 13: threatened timber rattlers.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: That's right, you're there as well. That's right.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: We do have some rattlers around here.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: We do.
• 24:40
  Speaker 13: We do in at like Creek Park. You know, you'll
• 24:42
  Speaker 13: see them sometimes sunning in the middle of the they
• 24:44
  Speaker 13: love this type of weather. You'll see them sunning out
• 24:46
  Speaker 13: the middle of a pathway. All of our snakes there
• 24:49
  Speaker 13: are I wouldn't say Docile's not quite the word, but
• 24:52
  Speaker 13: you know, not aggressive. So as long as you leave
• 24:54
  Speaker 13: them alone, they'll leave you alone.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I love Lake Creek Park and it's so great.
• 24:58
  Speaker 13: They're threatened species, so they're protected. So want to make sure,
• 25:00
  Speaker 13: you know, people know to leave them.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: But what about big cats.
• 25:03
  Speaker 13: You know, we don't have any big big cats at
• 25:06
  Speaker 13: Lick Creek Park, but we have seen bobcats recently, which
• 25:09
  Speaker 13: is kind of cool. So if you need your cat fix,
• 25:11
  Speaker 13: you know, on the trail and take a look.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: All right, so let's talk.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Let's talk some of the other stuff you got going on.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: I know we just got off of the I mean
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: shockingly large Purple Martin event, which was incredible to see.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: I know Mayor Nichols talked about it on the show
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: a couple of times, and the idea being we need
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: to find a way to highlight these birds and highlight
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: these you know, their migration as opposed to just kind
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: of I'm doing whatever we were doing in the past.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: How many people showed up for that, you.
• 25:46
  Speaker 13: Know, we had a little over three hundred and seventy
• 25:48
  Speaker 13: folks between the two areas. We had a deck on
• 25:50
  Speaker 13: top and the deck on bottom at A and M. So, yeah,
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: it's pretty really exciting. And they're still here. Yeah, I
• 25:57
  Speaker 13: think that's something that's really exciting is that we got
• 25:59
  Speaker 13: about two weeks, probably about two to three weeks left
• 26:04
  Speaker 13: of the Purple Martins being here. So, you know, if
• 26:06
  Speaker 13: you missed the Purple Martin party, you know, head on
• 26:08
  Speaker 13: over to West Campus, you know, either the Read Arena
• 26:11
  Speaker 13: parking lot facing the parking garage and take a look
• 26:14
  Speaker 13: at those oak trees in the front and you will
• 26:16
  Speaker 13: start to see them land or on top of the
• 26:18
  Speaker 13: West Campus garage. There is a slight parking face, so
• 26:21
  Speaker 13: letting everybody know, hey to you know, pay a and
• 26:24
  Speaker 13: m what they're doing here.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: I mean, we all know how it works.
• 26:28
  Speaker 13: We all know how they are doing a great job
• 26:31
  Speaker 13: of cleaning and taking care of the birds that are there.
• 26:34
  Speaker 13: So we're really excited and really proud of them for
• 26:36
  Speaker 13: doing this. But absolutely it's an amazing event. If you've
• 26:40
  Speaker 13: never seen anything like it, it is fifty thousand purple Martins.
• 26:45
  Speaker 13: And especially if you're up on top of the West
• 26:47
  Speaker 13: Campus garage, you are inside of that sight.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: The video and I'll reshare the video from the event
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: if you're just well, okay, I watch some birds.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: It is.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: It is jaw dropping. How cool it is? Now?
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: Is it always around sunset?
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: Is that the best time?
• 27:07
  Speaker 13: The best time to really see them is get there
• 27:09
  Speaker 13: about eight fifteen, eight twenty and stay to about nine,
• 27:13
  Speaker 13: just before it gets dark. And it's their behavior changes.
• 27:17
  Speaker 13: You know, first they start to gather, then they start
• 27:19
  Speaker 13: to land in trees, and then they all start coming
• 27:22
  Speaker 13: down from the sky, which looks like you know, thousands
• 27:25
  Speaker 13: of little falling stars. I mean, they are amazing, and
• 27:28
  Speaker 13: it's they're just so fast and so cool to watch that,
• 27:32
  Speaker 13: and it's a you know, forty five minute spectacle, you know,
• 27:34
  Speaker 13: right in your own backyard.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: So it's a great show.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: And so you were saying about two more weeks much
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: before they start to move on. So if you were
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: going to go check this out again, any given night
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: on top of the garage is a pretty strong viewing point.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: And yeah, just just enjoy it.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: So there's not.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Many cooler things you can see during the summer than
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: fifty thousand birds off locking.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: At the same time.
• 27:58
  Speaker 13: Exactly, go get yourself some dinner, you know, make a day,
• 28:01
  Speaker 13: make a night of it. They'll get some dinner, you know. Go,
• 28:04
  Speaker 13: you know, go watch your Purple Martins.
• 28:05
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 28:06
  Speaker 13: Get the kids in bed before you know, before ten o'clocks.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: What else do you want to talk about today?
• 28:10
  Speaker 13: You know, we've got a lot of programs coming up.
• 28:12
  Speaker 13: We like to say that, you know, the summers for
• 28:14
  Speaker 13: the birds looked at it. So we have our Birding
• 28:19
  Speaker 13: one oh one class, which is every every first Saturday
• 28:24
  Speaker 13: of the month.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: I did not know this.
• 28:26
  Speaker 13: It's very cool. So eight thirty meet at the Gary
• 28:28
  Speaker 13: Halter Nature Center and volunteers from the Rio Brasis Audubon
• 28:31
  Speaker 13: Society will be out there to you know, uh, tour
• 28:35
  Speaker 13: people around and show them about birds. And I think
• 28:37
  Speaker 13: The coolest new fact that we're talking that's been you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 13: blowing up social media is Birding is the new gen
• 28:43
  Speaker 13: z hobby.
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Birding has gotten extremely popular. And what's good is because
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: you guys actually show off your I know this is
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: a radio show, but for the purposes of the camera.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Where do I get that shirt? By the way, the
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: bird City the.
• 28:58
  Speaker 13: Bird City New Purple Martin shirt, which is pretty awesome.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: Is that online?
• 29:02
  Speaker 13: You can you can get it by calling the Parks
• 29:04
  Speaker 13: and Records or park or popping in you know, Monday
• 29:08
  Speaker 13: through Friday eight to five at Central Park and they
• 29:10
  Speaker 13: will get you this one. We also have the Mayor's
• 29:12
  Speaker 13: Monarch Pledge shirt. That's right, So that's the Stay Fly shirt,
• 29:15
  Speaker 13: which is really awesome.
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: So I need it.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I will be in touch.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: Now you mentioned that again, Birding becoming very popular with
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: the kids, which is great because if you're not really
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: plugged in, and I'm not incredibly plugged into that world,
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: but I can tell you that the amount of birds
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: that you will see here that you don't necessarily think
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: you're going to see here is fairly shocking. Like you
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: will you will run into some things that you don't
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: normally expect in Brian College.
• 29:46
  Speaker 13: Absolutely. I know. One of the things that is always
• 29:48
  Speaker 13: shocking people is that we have bald eagles here. Yes,
• 29:51
  Speaker 13: we have great horned owls, Yes.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: You do, great blue herons.
• 29:54
  Speaker 13: I mean, we've got spoon bills and all kinds of
• 29:57
  Speaker 13: amazing things.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Nothing will, nothing will about at you more than driving
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: to work at five o'clock in the morning and having
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: a great horned owl just buzz you because he wasn't
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: expecting you to be walking out of the house at
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: that time.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: And it's just it's it's great.
• 30:12
  Speaker 13: They're they're absolutely phenomenal.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: Let's talk monarchs, though, because that's another thing that's become
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: really popular is again trying to be somewhat conscious about
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: creating habitats for our butterflies. It's my wife is huge
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: in pollinator gardens. It's like her one. It's one of
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: the things makes her happiest in life. What do people
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: need to know or where can they get educated on
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: if they want to get in to the world of
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: trying to provide safe habitats for monarchs?
• 30:41
  Speaker 13: Wonderful sing your stars, that's a great question. So if
• 30:45
  Speaker 13: they go to CSTX dot go slash backslash parks. They can,
• 30:53
  Speaker 13: you know, come find our Mayor's Monarch pledge page. We do,
• 30:57
  Speaker 13: and they're also opome to come to Gary Halter Nature
• 30:59
  Speaker 13: Center at anytime. We're actually passing out free seeds. So
• 31:04
  Speaker 13: if they want free natively sourced pollinator plant seeds, we
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: gardens at Lick Creek Park.
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: What what plants?
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: What plants are if they could come get the seeds,
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: what are you what are.
• 31:14
  Speaker 13: They getting right now? I think one of the best
• 31:16
  Speaker 13: ones that you know, planting in October is the best time.
• 31:19
  Speaker 13: So we're looking at firewheels, which are absolutely beautiful. They're
• 31:22
  Speaker 13: a favorite of large butterflies, but they are also fireflies
• 31:27
  Speaker 13: which are really cool pollinators.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: And they do and they do exist.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Yes, they don't see them often, but when you do,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: they're amazing.
• 31:33
  Speaker 13: Absolutely, And so we're speaking of fireflies. We have a
• 31:36
  Speaker 13: grow zone or a no mozone, a grow zone going
• 31:39
  Speaker 13: on at Wolfpin Creek and we have started to see
• 31:41
  Speaker 13: fireflies return, which is pretty exciting. That's conservation going on
• 31:46
  Speaker 13: all over the place in parks, but getting folks in
• 31:48
  Speaker 13: in monarchs. We also have the Post Oak Chapter of
• 31:50
  Speaker 13: the Plant Society that will greet anybody coming out when
• 31:54
  Speaker 13: you're out of the park. They're often volunteering and we
• 31:57
  Speaker 13: can talk to anyone that they want about monarchs and
• 32:00
  Speaker 13: you involved, get you some plants and uh, you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 13: get you going the right way and something that will
• 32:05
  Speaker 13: grow here.
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Absolutely Yet, look you need you know, you need landscaping.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Hell, native plants go.
• 32:10
  Speaker 11: A long way.
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: Oh that makes your life.
• 32:12
  Speaker 13: A lot easier, saves you water, saves wildlife. You get
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: all the best things.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: What else we want to get to.
• 32:19
  Speaker 13: I think that you know, looking at the other thing
• 32:21
  Speaker 13: that we've got coming up next week, that's really exciting
• 32:23
  Speaker 13: as we have a hummingbird class really so next Wednesday
• 32:27
  Speaker 13: at ten o'clock at the Gary Halter Nature Center. We're
• 32:29
  Speaker 13: teaching people how to responsibly feed hummingbirds because with your
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  Speaker 13: feeders you can either do really great work where you
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  Speaker 13: can uh you know, harm hummingbirds.
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  Speaker 4: That is yeah, that is a problem.
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  Speaker 3: And I know, I know people have gotten into this
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  Speaker 3: too because now you have the camera rigs that you
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  Speaker 3: can set up. It's like the feeder and the camera
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  Speaker 3: that goes on your Wi Fi and all this. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're they're I mean, birds are fragile little creatures. They
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: can be durable, but they can also be real get
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  Speaker 3: o tempera middle and you want to make sure they're
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  Speaker 3: not getting fed something or too much or whatever the
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  Speaker 3: wrong thing. So yeah, you definitely want to do a
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  Speaker 3: little research before you get into that, and.
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  Speaker 4: They can do that with you. Guys. You'll give the
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  Speaker 4: whole walk through.
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  Speaker 13: Oh, the whole walkthrough. The class is gonna be taught
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  Speaker 13: by John Mims who is the owner of wild Birds
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  Speaker 13: Unlimited Kingwood and they they sell feeders that they do
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  Speaker 13: all kinds of great things, but also to talk about
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  Speaker 13: you know, like a moldy feeder actually does more harm
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  Speaker 13: than good. So that's a great way to look at
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  Speaker 13: it too.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, excellent, Thank you so much for coming in again.
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  Speaker 3: The website on your end, CSTX dot gov slash parks.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Colin, what else you have for us this week?
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  Speaker 9: Well, we've been talking a lot about the Harvey District Plan.
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  Speaker 9: You know, we had a big meeting on Wednesday that
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: was for the public. We've got three of those visioning
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  Speaker 9: workshops next week Monday and Wednesday at the Meyers Senior
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  Speaker 9: and Community Center from six to eight pm. Those are
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: for business and property owners in the area. And then
• 33:58
  Speaker 9: there's another final workshop will be for the general public
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  Speaker 9: next Thursday at the Myers Center and that'll be from
• 34:02
  Speaker 9: two to four pm. For more information on that, you
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  Speaker 9: can go to CSTX dot go slash Calendar or CSTX
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  Speaker 9: dot go slash Harvey Road. There's also a survey that
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  Speaker 9: you can take about that plan to provide some input
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  Speaker 9: in in that way, available at CSTX dot gov. We've
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  Speaker 9: launched our August edition of the city's iHeart College Station
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  Speaker 9: monthly newsletter that's available at CSTX dot go. Broken record there.
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  Speaker 9: We actually want to state award for that last year,
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  Speaker 9: and we're up for a national award this year this year,
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  Speaker 9: which one just the newsletter in general.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, but it's the award, like what do you get?
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  Speaker 4: What's trophy do you get?
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  Speaker 5: It's called a Savvy Award.
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  Speaker 9: It's from a national organization of pr types government pr
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  Speaker 4: A love well, you know, we love us.
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  Speaker 9: Some awards absolutely, and then we also oh you can
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• 34:57
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  Speaker 3: A forecast I found in the depths of the internet
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  Speaker 3: difference We had did you catch the other rattlers? We
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: got rattlers out in the like Creek Park. I learned
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  Speaker 3: something here today as as as one anyway.
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  Speaker 5: Second most deadliest animal in the US snake, the snack.
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  Speaker 6: And I knew we had timber rattlers here because we
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: also had an up in Nacadochius. And you know we're
• 36:22
  Speaker 6: on campus at SFA. The trees and the like, the
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: trails you can go walking in probably the most beautiful place.
• 36:28
  Speaker 7: I've probably ever got to like walk through. But the
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: snakes man during certain times of the year.
• 36:33
  Speaker 6: Really when you would walk the trails, they had signs.
• 36:36
  Speaker 7: That go up, you had to be careful.
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  Speaker 13: I would.
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: I would normally go walk them just for fun.
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: There's one morning is like five am, so it was
• 36:42
  Speaker 6: kind of still dark out and it was that point
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: where the sun was going to be coming out within
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: the next hour, but animals are moving. There was a
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: six foot it was either a rattle. It's probably was
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: a timber rattler or a rattlesnake.
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: I can't tell the difference. I don't think I've ever
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: screamed and ran that mast in my life.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: If anyone was else out there, they probably thought I
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: was being chased by a.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Pair of boots Riley.
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  Speaker 7: He was huge. I looked at him and I go, nope,
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: just ran, I just turn and ran.
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  Speaker 4: I'm an idiot.
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: I see snakes. I kind of get hypnotized and try
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: to figure out what it is and like, oh, do
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: I need to you know, be you know, freaked out
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: by this or not. By the time I'd realized it
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: was a rattler, I'd probably be bitting a dead So yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: But we were talking about the most dangerous animals in
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: the state of Texas, and it was trash. So we
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: decided that Dusty should look up some actual animal stats.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: So Texas. This is over a twenty year period. This
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: is a couple of years old, this story, but by
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: CDC data over a twenty year period, five hundred and
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: twenty deaths in the state of Texas by animal seems high.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: Number one in the country.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Oh, we're number one, number one in the country, number one.
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: Who would I mean, you would have thought Florida.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: Right, I would have easily said Florida number one with them.
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: So we had five twenty. Florida came in at third
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  Speaker 5: to forty seven.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Well, who was second?
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: California? Oh, Okay, I mean no way, but way way.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: See calif Textas are also full of idiots like me
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: that will try to pet literally anything they come across.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: In the home of the dangerous tiger shark that doesn't
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: exist there and has never actually been anyone in the
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: state of Rhode Island came in at fifty. They didn't
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: over the twenty Over the twenty years survey period, they
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: did not have an animal death.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Dusty asked me about an update on the the rescue kittens.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: I posted a video to our to wtw's facebook pages. Okay,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: they are they are becoming very dimunicated. I know, very domesticated.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Uh and I think I have homes for at this
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: point three or four of them, which would take me
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: down to two. Not that all right, But I did
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: want to share, Dusty, because I got the vibe I
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: was being portrayed as a crazy cat person by your end,
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Will Okay, Florida seventy seven year old woman was arrested
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: after authorities pulled eighty cats.
• 39:06
  Speaker 14: I saw her home.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: Now, where did she get eighty cats?
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Hey, it only takes two?
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no no.
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: She was not raising her own colony. She was acquiring them.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: She was acquiring them because she was a postal worker
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: and had been catnapping them from across her roots for
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: you way, she was just wandering the streets of Florida.
• 39:32
  Speaker 14: I saw one of the rescuers animal control officers bring
• 39:36
  Speaker 14: out a cage with the tiny white cat in it.
• 39:39
  Speaker 14: I know there's other white cats in the world, but man,
• 39:41
  Speaker 14: something just hit me. It's just absolutely horrifying.
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: Yesterday, I didn't really even know about the news story
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: until about two random people called me and said, you
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: lived next to Sundrime mobileles right, the male lady got arrested,
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: and I looked on the news and saw a video
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: of one of the toughs cats inside of the keys
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: so that they were taking out of the house. And
• 40:03
  Speaker 8: I'm very hopeful that it's my cat.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: A lot of the neighbors say they had been missing
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: cats for years.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: She was outstealing.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: She was out stalled because I was about to.
• 40:13
  Speaker 5: Say, you're only like two steps away from getting to
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: this number, but I don't think you're out stealing them.
• 40:18
  Speaker 5: Although you kind of did nap these six.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Kids, right, I know they were peaceful in some barn
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: and you went and stole I would love to make
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: jokes at this poor woman's expense.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: But you're right, I'm not that far off.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: My my behavior is not that different from her.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: Slightly terrifying, but something to aspire to for.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: You know, my my grandkids always claim that the ups
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: man stole their dog. Hey they and now now maybe
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: I'll believe them.