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The Infomaniacs: October 20th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Two
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  Speaker 1: men from North Carolina were arrested in Bryan after a
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  Speaker 1: shoplifting call led to the discovery of drugs and a
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  Speaker 1: loaded handgun. Bryan police responded to a theft in progress
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  Speaker 1: at the West Bryan Walmart on Friday. The suspects fled
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  Speaker 1: the scene in a pickup but were spotted at a
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  Speaker 1: gas station on South College Avenue. The driver was identified
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  Speaker 1: as 31-year-old Austin Brisson of Bladenboro, North Carolina. The passenger
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  Speaker 1: was identified as 31-year-old Brandon Brisson of Dublin, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Surveillance video showed Brandon Brisson taking a headlamp and a
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  Speaker 1: tape measure, and officers also found two broken packages of
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  Speaker 1: food near the shopping cart he used. During a search
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  Speaker 1: of the pickup, officers found a loaded. 22 caliber revolver,
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  Speaker 1: a THC vape, a THC pre-roll, and methamphetamine. Brandon Bisson
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  Speaker 1: was charged with theft under $ 100, possession of a controlled substance,
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  Speaker 1: penalty group one less than one gram, and possession of
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  Speaker 1: a controlled substance, penalty group two. He remains jailed on $ 10, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Brisson was charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon
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  Speaker 1: and possession of drug paraphernalia. He was released on $ 6, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: TxDOT is hosting a public meeting tonight to discuss improvements
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  Speaker 1: to Harvey Road east of Highway 6. The meeting will
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  Speaker 1: be from 5 to 7 at the Bob and Wanda
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  Speaker 1: Meyer Senior and Community Center on Dartmouth. Texas gubernatorial candidates
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  Speaker 1: took advantage of early voting yesterday. TSN's Chris Fox has more.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect day for voting out here could not be any better.
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  Speaker 2: Governor Abbott noticeably pumped up as he addressed reporters shortly
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  Speaker 2: after voting in Del Valle. He's seeking a record fourth
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  Speaker 2: term in office.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, we're facing an election where we have people on
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  Speaker 3: the total crazy side.
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  Speaker 1: People who are in favor of boys and girls sports.
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  Speaker 1: People who are trying to impose higher taxes.
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  Speaker 2: Across town at the Austin Public Library, State Rep Jeannie
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  Speaker 2: Enosa voted. She says her goals for Texans are simple.
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  Speaker 4: You work hard, you can afford to own your own home.
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  Speaker 5: You can afford to put healthy food on the table,
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  Speaker 5: pay your bills, send your kids to a good school
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  Speaker 5: down the street in the neighborhood.
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  Speaker 2: Abbott then took his campaign to Tarrant County. He knows up,
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  Speaker 2: was off to San Antonio. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The FBI is investigating a suspicious letter sent to the
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  Speaker 1: Houston office of Senator Ted Cruz.
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  Speaker 6: The letter had a white powder and was delivered to
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  Speaker 6: Senator Ted Cruz's office in the federal building in downtown Houston.
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  Speaker 6: Cruz says the FBI, Houston Police and Fire Departments, and U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Capitol Police all responded quickly, saying he's grateful for their
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  Speaker 6: professionalism and also to his team members who work tirelessly
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  Speaker 6: on behalf of Texans. Nobody was hurt, but police and
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  Speaker 6: fire did give a shelter-in-place order for all offices in
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  Speaker 6: the building. The FBI says it's working with the U.S.
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  Speaker 6: Postal Inspection Service on the case, saying the letter was
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  Speaker 6: one of a series of suspicious mailings sent to elections
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  Speaker 6: and congressional offices nationwide. Alan Skya, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news on the way at 6.30 or anytime at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 7: Sunny high in the upper 70s today. Pretty nice start
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  Speaker 7: to the day. I wouldn't say not as brisk as yesterday,
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  Speaker 7: but still quite pleasant. Tomorrow, or down to 55 tonight.
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  Speaker 7: Tomorrow we'll get up into the low 80s. Again, weather's
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  Speaker 7: feel the difference. Were you ever a runner?
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 9: Never?
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Never. Never a runner. If I'm running, you should
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  Speaker 1: probably try to run faster.
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  Speaker 7: Were you ever a pugilist?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I took some Krav Maga. Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 7: A little of the combat arts.
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  Speaker 1: A little of the combat arts.
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  Speaker 7: Late night with the Chamber of Commerce's second night of.
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  Speaker 7: the candidate's form.
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  Speaker 1: Are you saying there was running and fighting last night
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  Speaker 1: at the forum?
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  Speaker 10: Almost.
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  Speaker 1: Never miss a candidate's form.
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  Speaker 7: Never miss a candidate's form, man. Never miss it. Never
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  Speaker 7: miss it if Scott's hosting it in general because I
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  Speaker 7: feel like it's just, it's all, but here's the thing.
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  Speaker 7: I got the distinct impression from being there that this
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  Speaker 7: is like, that everyone is hitting the wall. Like, all
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  Speaker 7: of the candidates just have that glazed.
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  Speaker 9: Like, are we still doing this?
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  Speaker 7: They've been doing candidates forums every night, by the way,
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  Speaker 7: for like two weeks. They just go and they are
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  Speaker 7: on a tour of candidates forums. So they show up
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  Speaker 7: and they're just glazed. They got the thousand yard stare
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  Speaker 7: at this point. Can we just give everyone a week off?
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  Speaker 1: That would be nice to have a cooling off period
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  Speaker 1: before voting. A one week silence with no ads, no
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  Speaker 1: text messages. Everything is silent for a week.
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  Speaker 7: Can you imagine.
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  Speaker 11: The luxury if we got everybody to shut the hell
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  Speaker 11: up for seven days?
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  Speaker 1: I got my first political text yesterday.
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  Speaker 7: I cannot believe. I know we talked about this earlier.
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  Speaker 7: I cannot believe. That you don't, you aren't drowning in
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  Speaker 7: these like the rest of America is right now.
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  Speaker 1: Got my first one yesterday. It was for a local race.
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  Speaker 6: Was it?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I haven't seen a local. Was it just a candidate
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  Speaker 7: texting you saying.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was an auto text. It did come from
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  Speaker 1: your typical stuff. And I was kind of surprised, actually.
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  Speaker 11: I don't think I've gotten a local one. I need
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  Speaker 11: to go back and check. Has anyone else gotten?
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  Speaker 7: No, no, no. I take it back. I think some
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  Speaker 7: of the, I might have gotten a state race one.
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  Speaker 1: This was a county commissioner race.
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  Speaker 7: For the commissioner's court.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Interesting. You know what? We got to ask next time
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  Speaker 7: someone's in here how you actually get signed up with
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  Speaker 7: a text message service to just. They won't let us
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  Speaker 7: do it, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, can we blast? I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to blast.
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  Speaker 9: They won't.
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  Speaker 7: I swear to you, they haven't let us do it. for,
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  Speaker 7: it has to be 12 years. We used to have
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  Speaker 7: the ability to annoy the brass valley via text on
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  Speaker 7: candy 95. And we would liberally eventually everyone told us, Hey,
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  Speaker 7: this'll get you sued. Don't do it. So as, as
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  Speaker 7: good businessmen and good broadcasters, we just said, all right,
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  Speaker 7: we're going to stop doing it. And for some reason,
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  Speaker 7: And there's a bunch of people that still sell this
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  Speaker 7: service to everyone under the sun, especially politicians. I'm going
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  Speaker 7: to guess because political speech is a different category.
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  Speaker 1: Totally different category.
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  Speaker 7: Than me trying to sell you shoes or something. So
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  Speaker 7: that makes sense. But who do you go to? Who's
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  Speaker 7: the person that's out there being like, I'll sell you
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  Speaker 7: some numbers right now. And how did they get our
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  Speaker 7: numbers back?
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  Speaker 12: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Who did they buy them from?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not certain.
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  Speaker 11: These are the questions that I have.
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  Speaker 1: This one occurred, believe it or not, after I had
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  Speaker 1: actually met the candidate. I had heard of him, but
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  Speaker 1: I'd never... It was strange to me that I'd never
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  Speaker 1: run into him before.
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  Speaker 13: Gotcha.
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  Speaker 1: But I ran into him, and shortly thereafter, I friended
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  Speaker 1: him on Facebook.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I also... liked his campaign page on Facebook, which
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  Speaker 1: I think the liking of the campaign page is what
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  Speaker 1: sent the, which is weird to me, because wouldn't you
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  Speaker 1: want to reach out to people who didn't like your
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  Speaker 1: campaign page? The people who like the campaign page are,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 11: But you feel like they're kind of in the bag,
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  Speaker 11: aren't they?
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  Speaker 1: I would think so.
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  Speaker 7: Or, I mean, who knows? I'll tell you this. This
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  Speaker 7: is the one thing I've learned over and over the years.
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  Speaker 7: It's been continuously impressed in my brain. This year especially.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know how people do this running for office thing.
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  Speaker 7: You want to talk about a job that sounds absolutely exhausting.
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  Speaker 1: I think it weeds out a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: would make really great candidates.
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  Speaker 7: It really does. And, you know, for generally, guys, volunteer.
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  Speaker 7: generally volunteer positions at the local level. Like, you're just
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  Speaker 7: doing it because you got some ideas. That's about it.
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  Speaker 7: You just kind of want to help. It is a gauntlet.
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  Speaker 1: Complete gauntlet.
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  Speaker 9: A gauntlet.
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  Speaker 1: We need to completely redo our elections process, I think.
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  Speaker 7: There's got to be a better way, fam. We're back
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  Speaker 7: after this.
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  Speaker 14: Your grocery bill's up. Your power bill's up. Now they
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  Speaker 14: just voted to raise your property taxes, too. Howard Main
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  Speaker 14: is running to make College Station more affordable. Reserve Deputy
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  Speaker 14: Endorsed by our police officers, firefighters, and the College Station
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  Speaker 14: Association of Neighborhoods. Howard Main will fight to cut taxes
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  Speaker 14: and fees, control spending, and protect the neighborhoods we call home.
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  Speaker 7: Talk about Aggie Glass, and let's talk about the Big Six. Well,
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  Speaker 7: not the Big Six specifically, but certainly can be involved.
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  Speaker 7: as one of those construction zones around town where you
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  Speaker 7: just never know what's going to get kicked up in
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  Speaker 7: the roadway. We all know we're following a lot of
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  Speaker 7: big trucks here, there, and everywhere. And every once in
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  Speaker 7: a while, a rock is going to fly out of
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  Speaker 7: somewhere that's going to chip your windshield. And you need
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  Speaker 7: your windshield because it's attached to your car, which is
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  Speaker 7: how you get places. So what do you do? Do
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  Speaker 7: you just pick someone that can get there fast? Well, yes,
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  Speaker 7: you do. But you also pick someone that's been in
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  Speaker 7: the Brazos Valley for 80 years. You call Acme Glass
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  Speaker 7: because they are your auto glass specialists in addition to
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  Speaker 7: every other kind of glass. And here's the thing. You're
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  Speaker 7: not sacrificing convenience because they have mobile installation trucks. Yes,
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  Speaker 7: when you call Acme Glass. to repair your windshield or
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  Speaker 7: replace your windshield, they can come to you. Doesn't get
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  Speaker 7: any easier than that. If you want to find out more,
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  Speaker 7: check them out online, acmeglass.com. Attention, everybody.
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  Speaker 18: In the race for governor, it's chaos versus common sense. First,
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  Speaker 18: the chaos brought to you by Gina Hinojosa. She supports
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  Speaker 18: open border policies so anyone can just walk in illegally.
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  Speaker 18: And once they do, Hinojosa would allow them to vote
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  Speaker 18: and get taxpayer funded health care. Gina Hinojosa favors a
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  Speaker 18: state income tax and voted 40 times for higher property taxes.
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  Speaker 18: And Hinojosa would threaten your safety because she supports defunding
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  Speaker 18: the police and letting violent criminals out of jail.
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  Speaker 16: But don't worry, because Governor Greg Abbott leads with common sense.
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  Speaker 16: Abbott secured the border and cracked down on the deadly
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  Speaker 16: drug cartels. He banned a state income tax so you
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  Speaker 16: keep more of your money and Texas remains number one
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  Speaker 16: in job creation. And Governor Abbott keeps you safe by
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  Speaker 16: fully funding the police and keeping violent criminals locked up.
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  Speaker 1: That's the choice, Texas.
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  Speaker 16: The chaos that Gina Hinojosa would bring or the common
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  Speaker 16: sense leadership of Governor Greg Abbott.
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. Nolan says the text messages, he's getting 10 to
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  Speaker 7: 20 political texts a day, Will. It's out of control.
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  Speaker 1: Out of control. I would agree, yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I easily did 20 yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 7: Easily did 20 yesterday. And it's, I mean, it is,
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  Speaker 7: it's oppressive. I don't know. I'm going to guess you're
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  Speaker 7: probably a lot more safe with your data than I am.
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  Speaker 7: Just that's my impression of you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I try to be.
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  Speaker 7: Your phone is probably not on as many lists as
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  Speaker 7: my phone is.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not.
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  Speaker 7: And that probably doesn't help. But he goes on to
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  Speaker 7: say it's borderline harassment. Again, that's what they told us.
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  Speaker 7: That is what they told us in terms of, hey,
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  Speaker 7: don't do this. You could get sued. And so, again,
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  Speaker 7: we stopped. I have no idea how all of these
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  Speaker 7: other companies are getting away with it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe they don't have federal oversight like the FCC.
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  Speaker 1: That's probably likely.
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  Speaker 7: You know, that might be the thing.
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I haven't stopped
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  Speaker 1: when threats of lawsuits come out.
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  Speaker 7: That usually spurs me on. That just makes you break
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  Speaker 7: the law harder.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: All right. It is a beautiful day today, actually. It's
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  Speaker 7: the 20th.
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  Speaker 1: Of October, 2026.
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  Speaker 7: So let's get into a few of the random days.
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  Speaker 7: Of course, I said random days on Community Media Day.
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  Speaker 7: It's Community Media Day, everyone!
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  Speaker 1: It's Community Media Day!
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  Speaker 7: Community radio stations often provide programming overlooked by major commercial broadcasters,
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  Speaker 7: including local government meetings, school events... And and other programming
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  Speaker 7: that that for some reason, you know, can't necessarily attract
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  Speaker 7: sponsorship dollars that the the big boys are so covetous of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. This was written for us.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I would say you might even say that that might
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  Speaker 7: be the most important part of the job.
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 7: Many respects is what makes this a very fun radio
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  Speaker 7: station to work for. Public access television expanded significantly during
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  Speaker 7: the cable television boom of the 70s and 80s, so
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  Speaker 7: they're putting that in there as well. And community media
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  Speaker 7: can play an especially important role during emergencies when local
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  Speaker 7: information matters more than national coverage.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, been proven so many times.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, don't miss it until the hurricane comes through.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: And you don't have it.
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  Speaker 1: I was in Beaumont during, I think it was Rita, perhaps. Right.
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  Speaker 1: We had rolled down there with some emergency support for
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  Speaker 1: our radio stations down there when I was part of
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  Speaker 1: a big, giant company.
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  Speaker 13: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the studio helping to relieve some of
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  Speaker 1: the jocks that had been on the air for quite
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  Speaker 1: some time.
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  Speaker 7: I remember this. Yeah, they were doing 24 hours all
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  Speaker 7: the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got a call from a listener, a guy
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  Speaker 1: who was coming in who was a truck driver. His
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  Speaker 1: question was, what the heck is going on? And our
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  Speaker 1: question to him was, where the hell you been?
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  Speaker 7: Are you on the road right now, sir?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he was listening to satellite radio.
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  Speaker 19: Ah!
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  Speaker 1: And had no concept that there was a hurricane that
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  Speaker 1: had just ripped through the entire area, and that's why
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  Speaker 1: pine trees were laid over highways like matchsticks.
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  Speaker 7: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: That's, again.
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  Speaker 1: Local radio. Local radio, baby.
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  Speaker 7: Hopefully it's around for a while to come. Information overload
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  Speaker 7: awareness day. Did we mention our text message problem?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we did.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's not just that. See, I can't pick on
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  Speaker 7: them because we are information overloaded. You never get away.
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  Speaker 7: You never get away from it.
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  Speaker 1: And typically, it's just like the first sentence of information,
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  Speaker 1: so you never really get into the weeds.
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  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: You don't really know what's going on. You just get
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: furious at the headline.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Chicken and waffles day, one of America's favorite sweet
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  Speaker 7: and savory combinations. Now, I see you shake your head.
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  Speaker 1: I shake my head.
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  Speaker 12: I also.
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  Speaker 7: Don't care about chicken and waffles.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I love chicken.
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  Speaker 15: Same.
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  Speaker 1: Dark meat chicken.
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  Speaker 7: Same.
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  Speaker 1: I love waffles. I don't eat as much chicken, but
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  Speaker 1: I like a waffle every so often. I have never
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  Speaker 1: had the combination of the two, to me, that has
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  Speaker 1: lived up to any kind of hype.
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  Speaker 7: Well, Supper Club in Harlem credited with popularizing the combination
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  Speaker 7: for late-night entertainers, for the bands that would play to
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  Speaker 7: get off. They were like, hey, we need something to eat.
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  Speaker 7: So they did Chicken and Waffles.
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  Speaker 20: Killed.
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  Speaker 7: Did really well.
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  Speaker 1: I had Chicken and Waffles on Saturday morning.
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  Speaker 21: Did you? Meh.
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  Speaker 7: See, that's the thing. I could do so many other things.
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  Speaker 1: So many other things.
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  Speaker 7: But if you're into it, today's a great day. Roscoe's
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  Speaker 7: House of Chicken and Waffles. This is how I know
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  Speaker 7: it from L.A. Started back in 1975. Got popular. popular
• 16:36
  Speaker 7: the entire time, but in the 90s it kind of
• 16:38
  Speaker 7: started branching out to other parts of the country and
• 16:40
  Speaker 7: we never got away from it since. National Day of Writing.
• 16:43
  Speaker 7: The National Council of Teachers of English say writing should
• 16:47
  Speaker 7: be an important part of our daily lives.
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  Speaker 1: You said writing. For a second I thought you said rioting.
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  Speaker 7: That's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, I'm in.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I... By the way, they say, hey, writing isn't
• 16:58
  Speaker 7: limited to novels and essays. Text messages, emails, social media
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  Speaker 7: posts all count. No, they don't. That's not what we're
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: talking about here.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: Well, it does if you're like a punctuation person and
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: somebody sends you a text and there's one thing that's
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: off and you've got to correct them. The people that
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: do that on social media posts, I'm raising my hand.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: I will do it for fun. But, yeah, those people
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: that correct you, that's sometimes me.
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: That's one of those things. All right. Also, the biggest
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: one by far. And we're going to talk about this
• 17:25
  Speaker 7: a lot during the show today. Brazos Valley Gives Day.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: This is a huge day. So it is live online
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: right now at BrazosValleyGives.org. So it's a collective day of
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: giving for our area nonprofits. And it's a lot of nonprofits.
• 17:42
  Speaker 7: Don't believe us? Go to BrazosValleyGives.com and start scrolling through
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: some of these organizations. It never ends. All of them
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: are raising money today. And a lot of them are
• 17:54
  Speaker 7: dealing with matching donations. It'll be a little badge on
• 17:56
  Speaker 7: each one of the organizations if you can double your
• 17:58
  Speaker 7: money or get extra money.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fantastic thing.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: It's so great. So please, go check it out. And again,
• 18:04
  Speaker 7: we'll be talking to some of the organizations kind of
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: throughout the morning. Candy95, you just got startled. What's so shocking?
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Well, I just pulled up the webpage here, Brazos Valley Gives.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: And I'm looking. It's got a rolling total. Yes, it does.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm a little... I want to say shocked because
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: we're just getting started on this. But again, we started
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: talking about it yesterday. Yes, we did. It's at $ 435, 500.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: I also was impressed by this.
• 18:31
  Speaker 7: I think some of that's early giving and matching. So again,
• 18:34
  Speaker 7: like the goal with this is to get. around $ 2
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: million is the goal. So that's, that's not a bad start.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Good start. I feel good about this. And there's so
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: much need out there and you can, it's unbelievable. You can,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: you can really make a difference for so many organizations
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that are making a difference here. It's so local and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: it's so good.
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: And again, we'll circle back to this in a few
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: minutes at birthdays.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Birthdays for today. John Krasinski is 47. Of course he
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: played Jack Ryan, uh, Jim on The Office. Maybe my
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: favorite role that he played was in 13 Hours. I
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: watched that movie at least once a year. Dan Fogler
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: is 50 years old today. He was in the Fantastic
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Beasts movies. He's also joining the cast of House of
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the Dragon next season. Here's the big one for today.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg is 55. Wow, I thought older.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: I know he started when he was like 17. I
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: would have thought 60s by now. Happy birthday to our
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: national treasure.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. Snoop D-O-double G. He had no concept when he
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: was a 17-year-old gangster rapper that he would become America's sweetheart.
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: One day, they're going to make a movie about his life,
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: and it's going to win all the Oscars.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: He's going to make the movie about it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 7: His life. He's going to take a shot at it
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: at some point because he really has. In no universe
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: should that have happened. And yeah, now he's universally beloved.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think? Did Martha Stewart get him into
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the grand scheme of America? Or was it happening before that?
• 20:08
  Speaker 7: No, it was happening before that. Because he he started
• 20:12
  Speaker 7: he started a youth football league. And and that was
• 20:16
  Speaker 7: kind of the point where I think people were kind
• 20:18
  Speaker 7: of like, OK, because he was he was such a
• 20:20
  Speaker 7: great football coach and he was such he was so
• 20:22
  Speaker 7: great with the kids. And it did so much to
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: give back. People kind of start. But yeah, Martha Stewart
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: went a long way. Because that's funny.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like they met in the middle, though,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: because she went to prison and he's a gangster rapper.
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: He started cooking. He started putting out cookbooks.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the cookbook for my daughter. I also
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: got some of the wine for her. If you had
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Stoops wine, it's pretty solid.
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: But then the Olympics really are what.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Put him in the... I think he was there.
• 20:50
  Speaker 7: He was a big deal, but now he's a national ambassador.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: He is.
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: Now he is a minister of culture for the United
• 20:57
  Speaker 7: States of America.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I dig it.
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I love Snoop.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Jimmy Westbrook from Little Big Town is 55 today. William Zabka,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: 61 years old today. Johnny Lawrence on The Karate Kid
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and Cobra Kai.
• 21:11
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: If you've ever seen the episodes where he is on,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: as a guest star of How I Met Your Mother...
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: So funny. Gives you a totally different perspective. Kamala Harris
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: is 62 today, inventor of the word salad. Keith Hernandez
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: is 73, former New York Mets Hall star. Tom Petty,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: as we get to the stiffs, born on this date
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: in 1950. Only one of two concerts that I have
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: ever had to leave early.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: The one and only time I got to see Tom Petty,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: my guy that I was with at a medical emergency.
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's a bummer.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And I had to haul him out of the drum
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: in Austin.
• 21:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, I hate that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Very bad. Mickey Mantle was born on this date in 1931.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Bela Lugosi was born on this date in 1882, the
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: original OG Dracula. And born on this date in 1935,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Jerry Orbach, Lenny Briscoe in Law and Order. He was
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: also a luminaire in Beauty and the Beast, been in
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: so many different things. Yes, he was.
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: All right, weather today looking, getting up to about 80 degrees,
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: currently starting around 60. Clear, a little bit of breeze,
• 22:16
  Speaker 7: no chance of rain. Covered that yesterday. It's going to
• 22:18
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• 22:20
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• 22:22
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• 22:32
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• 22:34
  Speaker 7: talk to one of the organizations, hopefully, that will be
• 22:37
  Speaker 7: raising a little money today. That's coming up after news.
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  Speaker 3: For years, Bryan residents have heard about HEB coming to
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  Speaker 3: Booneville Road, but HEB never announced a construction timeline for
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  Speaker 3: a new store at that location. When City Hall speaks,
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  Speaker 3: residents should know what's confirmed, what isn't, and what's actually
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  Speaker 3: in writing. I'm Rafael Pena. As mayor, I'll verify the
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  Speaker 3: that speaks plainly. That's effective communication. That's good governance. I'm
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• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Things
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: got a little chippy at last night's candidate forum. In
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the contest for Bryan City Council District 2, Chris Scotti
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: accused incumbent Paul Torres of engaging in shady campaigning.
• 28:04
  Speaker 26: I've heard troubling accounts of voters feeling intimidated, concerns that
• 28:07
  Speaker 26: were raised publicly at a recent council meeting. A First
• 28:10
  Speaker 26: Amendment right to free speech means people must be able
• 28:12
  Speaker 26: to express their views without fear of government retaliation.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Torres fired back.
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  Speaker 27: I don't intimidate my constituents. My supporters support me because
• 28:21
  Speaker 27: I've been in this district for a long, long time.
• 28:24
  Speaker 27: I'm not from South College Station.
• 28:25
  Speaker 7: I'm from Bryan.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Three Bryan residents made comments during the Hear Visitors portion
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: of the October 13th City Council meeting. They claimed campaign
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: signs supporting Scottie had been removed and replaced with Torres signs.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And a volunteer for the Scottie campaign says she was
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: followed by Torres while canvassing. In regards to the issues,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the two agree that the Texas Avenue medians need to go.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Torres says the $ 8 million price tag is worth it
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to help first responders who have been delayed getting to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: an emergency.
• 28:55
  Speaker 27: First responders are having trouble making the turns on all
• 28:58
  Speaker 27: these medians, and I'd rather... somehow or another find the
• 29:02
  Speaker 27: funds with our NPO funding to be able to save
• 29:05
  Speaker 27: a life.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Scottie says an economic impact study could help justify the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: cost of removal.
• 29:10
  Speaker 26: Looking at the loss of tax income, the closure of businesses,
• 29:14
  Speaker 26: the lower property values from businesses that have had to
• 29:18
  Speaker 26: close or move because of the medians, and use it
• 29:21
  Speaker 26: as a justification to remove as many of the medians
• 29:24
  Speaker 26: as possible.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: You can hear from all the candidates for Bryan and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: College Station City Council's From Last Night's Forum, at WTAW.com.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: A man was arrested twice following separate incidents over the weekend.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Bryan Police first responded to the 3900 block of College
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Main on Saturday to arrest 41-year-old Gary Dugas after he
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: allegedly made several false emergency calls to 911. According to
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: police records, Dugas fabricated reports of a woman screaming and
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: domestic assaults. He was charged with making abusive calls to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: 911 and was released on $ 5, 000 bond. On Sunday afternoon,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Bryan police were back at the complex after receiving a
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: report that Dugas shot through the wall of a neighboring apartment.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Dugas told police he was cleaning a handgun when it
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: accidentally discharged. He said he removed the magazine from the
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: gun but did not realize there was still a bullet
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: in the chamber. Police say the bullet went through the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: wall and into a neighboring apartment where two people were
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: inside at the time. Police recovered a. 45 caliber handgun
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: from the trunk of Dugas' vehicle. He was charged with
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: deadly conduct and remains jailed on $ 15, 000 bond. Giving is underway.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Brazos Valley Gives is your chance to support one of
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: 200 nonprofits throughout the Brazos Valley. You can give online
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: at bvgives.org, or if you prefer to make donations in person,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: you can do so at the Brookshire Brothers locations in
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: College Station and Caldwell, or at the Washington County Chamber
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: of Commerce. Following a tumultuous campaign filled with attacks and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: harsh words, early voting begins in Texas.
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  Speaker 20: Early voting officially underway with a record 19 million plus
• 31:05
  Speaker 20: Texans registered to vote, up 2.2% from the 2024 presidential election.
• 31:11
  Speaker 20: And in one of the country's most closely watched Senate races,
• 31:14
  Speaker 20: both candidates are making their final push. Republican Ken Paxton
• 31:19
  Speaker 20: crisscrossing the state on his come and take it tour,
• 31:21
  Speaker 20: including a stop in Allen, Texas, where he's painting his
• 31:24
  Speaker 20: Democratic opponent as a far left liberal out of step
• 31:28
  Speaker 20: with Texas voters.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to transition our kids.
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  Speaker 24: He wants to transition Texas off of oil and gas.
• 31:35
  Speaker 14: How about we transition him and his crazy ideas right
• 31:39
  Speaker 14: out of Texas?
• 31:39
  Speaker 20: Meanwhile, Democrat James Tallarico making his own push across Texas
• 31:44
  Speaker 20: as part of his clear eyes, full hearts tour.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: That's Fox's Brooke Taylor. An Italian court has agreed to
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: send a man back to Texas to face trial for
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the death of his wife.
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  Speaker 28: Lee Gilkey will be brought back to Texas to face
• 31:58
  Speaker 28: charges in the death of his pregnant wife two years ago.
• 32:01
  Speaker 28: Police say Gilkey claimed in a 911 call that Krista
• 32:05
  Speaker 28: Gilkey committed suicide. Doctors found her death was caused by
• 32:09
  Speaker 28: pressure to her neck and back by another person. Gilkey
• 32:13
  Speaker 28: was arrested but posted a $ 1 million bond. Prosecutors say
• 32:17
  Speaker 28: after that, Gilkey cut off an ankle monitor and fled
• 32:20
  Speaker 28: to Italy, which would not allow extradition if the death
• 32:23
  Speaker 28: penalty was sought. The Harris County DA dropped the death
• 32:27
  Speaker 28: penalty in September, leading an Italian court to allow Gilkey
• 32:30
  Speaker 28: to be brought back to the U.S. Gilkey denies he
• 32:33
  Speaker 28: killed his wife. Grinnell Scott, Fox News.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: More news on the way at 7 o'clock or anytime
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
• 32:48
  Speaker 29: This is Bryan Mayor Bobby Gutierrez. I'm incredibly proud of
• 32:50
  Speaker 29: what we are accomplishing together. We're bringing new investment and
• 32:53
  Speaker 29: jobs to Bryan, growing our infrastructure, supporting public safety, and
• 32:57
  Speaker 29: preparing our community for opportunities coming our way. There's real
• 33:01
  Speaker 29: energy and momentum in Bryan today, and people are noticing.
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  Speaker 29: But we're not finished. I'm asking for your vote and
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  Speaker 29: support to keep Brian working, keep growing, and keep Brian rising.
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  Speaker 29: I'm Bobby Gutierrez, and I'd appreciate your support for Mayor.
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  Speaker 1: Paid for by the Bobby Gutierrez Campaign. Jason Bianski, Treasurer.
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  Speaker 7: the Salvation Army today.
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  Speaker 5: Kathy?
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  Speaker 19: Kathy?
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  Speaker 7: David, how are we doing?
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  Speaker 12: We're doing really good. How are y'all doing today?
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  Speaker 1: We're doing good.
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  Speaker 7: It is a good day, and we'll get to some
• 35:24
  Speaker 7: of that coming up. We always have a lot to
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: discuss with you guys, so let's go through the list.
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: What's big in y'all's world currently?
• 35:31
  Speaker 12: Right now, Christmas and Thanksgiving.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Man, coming up.
• 35:35
  Speaker 12: I don't even have to really think hard about that.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: This is deceptive. So we are, as the calendar falls
• 35:43
  Speaker 7: on the 20th of October, until... Days ago, it did
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: not feel like it was late in the month of October.
• 35:52
  Speaker 7: It just didn't. And that made it so that when
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: I was talking to people, I was like, hey, what
• 35:58
  Speaker 7: are we doing for Thanksgiving? I was like, what are
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: you talking about? I got so much time between now
• 36:02
  Speaker 7: and Thanksgiving. You don't.
• 36:04
  Speaker 13: No.
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: You don't.
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: We're in the middle of our registration for our Angel
• 36:08
  Speaker 12: Tree program. We still have a week. It ends on Friday.
• 36:11
  Speaker 12: We have more kids signed up so far as of
• 36:14
  Speaker 12: today than we did all of last year.
• 36:15
  Speaker 7: By how many? I mean, don't, I'm just saying.
• 36:19
  Speaker 12: We'll probably finish at 3,000.
• 36:22
  Speaker 7: 3,000.
• 36:23
  Speaker 12: So it'd be, you know, 33% more this year than.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: 3,000 and a 33% increase. Yeah, 3,000 and 33%.
• 36:29
  Speaker 12: Yeah, that's what we're looking at.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: You're a third higher on kids from Angel Tree.
• 36:35
  Speaker 12: We are. But, you know, I've been here four months.
• 36:37
  Speaker 12: I'll say this, that you know this. Brian Costation is
• 36:41
  Speaker 12: a giving community.
• 36:42
  Speaker 15: It is.
• 36:43
  Speaker 12: And last year, TikTok went famous with Angel Tree.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, it did.
• 36:47
  Speaker 12: And the Salvation Army really benefited. Forget that. The kids
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: really benefited. And, you know, our thought is let's keep
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: the mystery of Christmas alive in the eyes of children.
• 36:57
  Speaker 12: And so we're feeling real good about where we are.
• 36:59
  Speaker 12: We've got our Angel Trees going out earlier this year.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 37:02
  Speaker 12: That you can adopt a lot of angels at one time.
• 37:05
  Speaker 12: And so we feel real good about where we are
• 37:08
  Speaker 12: and the community we live in.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: So right now you're looking for... You're still asking for
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: kids to sign up. And then I'm assuming shortly then
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: we'll start targeting. And of course, we'll be talking about
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: it here.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Hell yes, we will.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Non-stop. You're not going to be able to miss it.
• 37:23
  Speaker 12: Yeah. So we are starting to print our tags right now.
• 37:27
  Speaker 12: So if there's any groups out there that want to
• 37:28
  Speaker 12: take a bulk number, we can have them printed tags
• 37:31
  Speaker 12: with the bags attached to them ready to go by
• 37:33
  Speaker 12: the end of the week while we're still taking.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Wow. Holy cow. Efficiencies.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: All right. So that's a plus. man, 33%, a third higher. It's,
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: it's wild.
• 37:44
  Speaker 12: And I would love to say that I'm helping no one.
• 37:47
  Speaker 12: That means that the world and everybody's good.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 37:49
  Speaker 12: That's just not the world we live in right now.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: It makes sense. So we're obviously got an election coming up. And, um,
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: one of the things that, um, you learn when you,
• 37:57
  Speaker 7: you do candidate forums with Scott DeLucia is, uh, he
• 38:02
  Speaker 7: prepares and he does deep dives. And by the way,
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: if you want to hear last night's form, please brilliant.
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: You can check it out online, www.com. Um, He pulled
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: a bunch of demographic information from Brass County from the census.
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: Census was a while ago, fam. It ain't happened recently.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: You're talking COVID. The COVID census.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: The COVID census.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: What's the percentage of households living under the age of poverty?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Under the poverty?
• 38:26
  Speaker 7: And keep in mind, the students are not included.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: They're not included.
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: Not included.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: This is countywide.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Countywide. I'm going to say that 40%.
• 38:36
  Speaker 13: 40%.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: No, not quite that high.
• 38:37
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Well, I do know all of my knowledge of that
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: subject really comes from my years with the food bank.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: And we talk about the fact that there's a quarter
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: of children here in the Brazos Valley.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: 25% of kids live below the poverty line.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Food insecure. So you correlate that with that.
• 38:57
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: No, it's an astounding number. I don't actually want to
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: do the next. I need to go pull the doubt.
• 39:02
  Speaker 12: You know what?
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: I'll do it later in the show. But it's a
• 39:05
  Speaker 7: shocking number because if you think about Brazos County, you
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: don't think. about a high poverty index. It is what
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: I would call a shocking poverty index for the community
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: that we have.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: You used to say that always skewed because of the students,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: but the students are out of the survey.
• 39:21
  Speaker 7: No, that has nothing to do with the students.
• 39:23
  Speaker 12: We're actually doing a study right now. We've been contacted
• 39:25
  Speaker 12: by the university, and a grad level class is doing
• 39:29
  Speaker 12: a study on the needs of the student they asked
• 39:31
  Speaker 12: us what we wanted to know and i don't think
• 39:34
  Speaker 12: i can say for sure establishment army never asked the
• 39:36
  Speaker 12: question what do the students need yeah And there's 37
• 39:41
  Speaker 12: questions that this group has come up with. They're about
• 39:43
  Speaker 12: to send it out to the students.
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: Oh, with the students?
• 39:45
  Speaker 12: With the students themselves. So then we're going to get back,
• 39:48
  Speaker 12: you know, if you take the 80,000 students and say
• 39:50
  Speaker 12: we get back 10%, that's a great number that we
• 39:52
  Speaker 12: can get a quantitative bill for where we are in
• 39:55
  Speaker 12: this community with the students.
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: It is dicey times financially. And the thing is, you
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: wouldn't ever see it unless you are in that situation.
• 40:06
  Speaker 7: You'd be shocked at the amount of people that can't
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: put necessarily with confidence meals on the table.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: You'd be shocked at the number of people that live
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: paycheck to paycheck.
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: You'd be amazed.
• 40:16
  Speaker 12: You'd be amazed how many people live one missed day
• 40:19
  Speaker 12: of work in a paycheck from having to come see us.
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: So if you have kids and you're in that environment
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: and everything costs more, everything does cost more, what do
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: you think gets sacrificed? Christmas first.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: Because you've got to eat. You've got to pay the gas.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: You've got to pay the utilities on. You've got to
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: you've got to eat.
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: You've got to you've got to. It's it's. It's I
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: am and I am zero percent shocked. I am very
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: sad to hear that they're 33 percent up, but I'm
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: zero percent.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: So there's a great deal of need out there. David,
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: you you mentioned the fact that this community is a
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: given community and where we can show a need. This
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: community will come out and fill those gaps. So obviously
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: we're showing a need here. So folks can get more
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: information about this.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: That's you.
• 41:05
  Speaker 12: Yeah, back to me. And David, we're waiting for you.
• 41:10
  Speaker 12: And so, yeah, I've been doing this a long time.
• 41:14
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 41:17
  Speaker 12: And I would love to have no one knock on
• 41:20
  Speaker 12: my door, but that's not the world we live in.
• 41:23
  Speaker 12: And things are at a point where we've got to
• 41:26
  Speaker 12: figure them out in a real transformative way. And when
• 41:31
  Speaker 12: people knock on your door and you can see in
• 41:33
  Speaker 12: their eyes there's no hope, we need to be that
• 41:36
  Speaker 12: light that brings hope back to them somehow. And that, that,
• 41:40
  Speaker 12: that takes all of us.
• 41:41
  Speaker 7: If they want more information on how to get involved
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: again this week, if, if you need a little help
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: for the Christmas season, where did they go?
• 41:50
  Speaker 12: Everything is on the website. So if you want to
• 41:52
  Speaker 12: sign up for getting on the angel tree, you can
• 41:55
  Speaker 12: go to the website. There's a link. Kathy puts everything
• 41:57
  Speaker 12: on our website, all our events that are coming up.
• 42:00
  Speaker 12: If you want to adopt angels, you can reach out
• 42:02
  Speaker 12: to our main line. You can, Text or call Caroline.
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, no reason to not figure that out sooner than later.
• 42:10
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and we've got a great computer package, which makes
• 42:13
  Speaker 12: sure that we help more people in the community instead
• 42:16
  Speaker 12: of people getting multiple helps from different agencies.
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: Yes, can confirm.
• 42:21
  Speaker 12: Yeah, everybody gets help.
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: So that's down the road. Obviously, we're going to be
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: talking a lot about the angel adoptions all the way
• 42:31
  Speaker 7: from when the season begins to when the season ends.
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: What else you got going on?
• 42:35
  Speaker 12: I'm going to let Kathleen do some talking now because
• 42:37
  Speaker 12: she put all this together and she knows it better
• 42:41
  Speaker 12: than I would.
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: Go ahead.
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: Well, November 7th, we're going to have a food drive
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: slash family fun day. Yeah, it's called Stuff the Sanctuary.
• 42:51
  Speaker 14: Oh, yes.
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: So just show up, bring a couple canned food, drive
• 42:56
  Speaker 8: food and stay and just have a good time. Jump
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: on the bounce house. which I think you mentioned before,
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: and I need to check into that and see if
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: you can do that.
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: There is a bounce house. That's all you need to say.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: That's all you need to say.
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: That's all you need to say.
• 43:07
  Speaker 8: Get your face painted, have some fun, make some memories.
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: That's a wonderful thing.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Wonderful thing.
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: Anything else we need to get to today?
• 43:15
  Speaker 8: Our Christmas kickoff. Our Christmas kickoff is November 13th, and
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: that's whenever we officially begin our Christmas. We will begin
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: ringing our bells the first week in November, but we
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: officially begin our Christmas celebration in November. It all really
• 43:30
  Speaker 8: begins that day.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 43:32
  Speaker 8: That's when we celebrate it.
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: Obviously, today, Brass Valley Gives, we've been talking about that
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: a lot.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a huge thing.
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: We're going to see you talk about that a lot
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: during the show today. And we've just talked a lot
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: about the need, which, again, we've mentioned it before, but
• 43:45
  Speaker 7: these are trying times. And the amount of funding that
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: is available, the amount of donations, what that there is
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: that goes to groups like the Salvation Army and a
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: lot of the other nonprofits in the area. It's not
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: just like, oh, that's nice. This is a critical year.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Very critical.
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: Critical year. I assume you guys are, I think you
• 44:03
  Speaker 7: guys are involved with Gibbs, correct?
• 44:04
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: Okay, so they can donate to you right now if
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: they want to.
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: Yes, if they want to. We would really appreciate it.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: So they're among many here in the Brazos Valley of
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: charitable nonprofit organizations that are going to be receiving funds
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: today through this incredible program. And there's many others, too.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: So we want to encourage you to get online and
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: make those donations.
• 44:25
  Speaker 7: You'll be talking to a few other ones throughout the
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: show today. Anything else you want to get to?
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: You can even, if you would like to give to us,
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: to get Brazos Valley Gives, you can even text. You
• 44:34
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• 44:38
  Speaker 7: Holy cow.
• 44:39
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• 44:39
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• 44:42
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• 44:44
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• 44:48
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• 44:50
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  Speaker 32: If you're looking for privacy, the first decision needs to
• 46:51
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• 47:00
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• 47:15
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• 47:17
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• 47:27
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 32: Eliagnus ebengi. Now, you may be familiar with more spreading
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  Speaker 32: types of Eliagnus. This one grows into a taller screen,
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  Speaker 32: 8 or 10 feet tall. It has distinctive gray-green foliage.
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  Speaker 32: No pest problems. Oh, and wonderful fragrance when it blooms
• 47:48
  Speaker 32: in the fall. I'm still a fan of Waxleaf Lugustrum,
• 47:51
  Speaker 32: even though they have had some winter damage in several
• 47:54
  Speaker 32: years in my career. but they're still very good 8
• 47:58
  Speaker 32: to 10 foot shrubs, waxleaf ligustrums. Willow leaf holly is
• 48:02
  Speaker 32: one of my favorites. I've used it at my home.
• 48:04
  Speaker 32: It gets 6 to 8, maybe 10 feet tall. It'd
• 48:06
  Speaker 32: take a long time to get to 10 feet. It's
• 48:09
  Speaker 32: a showy holly. It bears large red fruit every winter.
• 48:13
  Speaker 32: I like yaupon holly very much. The shrub form is
• 48:16
  Speaker 32: standard yaupon. Most of the yaupons you see in nurseries
• 48:19
  Speaker 32: have already been trained into tree form habits, but your
• 48:22
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• 48:26
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