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The Infomaniacs: October 14th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce held
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  Speaker 1: a candidate forum featuring candidates from many state and local races.
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  Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia asked the candidates for state representative district 14.
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  Speaker 1: How they would help relieve the tax burden on homeowners.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Miller's idea isn't new.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing to say is I support eliminating property
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  Speaker 2: taxes entirely.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks Austin needs to tighten its belt.
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  Speaker 2: We have to reduce what the state budget is that
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  Speaker 2: the county is even responsible for. We've already got that
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  Speaker 2: where the county will blame the state and the state
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  Speaker 2: will blame the county as far as why rates go up.
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  Speaker 1: Janet Dudding says a flaw in property taxes... is how
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  Speaker 1: easy it is for businesses to protest appeals during what
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  Speaker 1: is called Pops Law.
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  Speaker 3: It allows corporate entities to pick and choose their own comps,
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  Speaker 3: which lowers their property taxes. You've got to have a
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  Speaker 3: good attorney to be able to do it. We need
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  Speaker 3: to eliminate that. We've been talking about it for years.
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  Speaker 1: Incumbent Paul Dyson floats an idea of sales taxes to
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  Speaker 1: offset property taxes.
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  Speaker 4: Do we allow them to set off a certain amount
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  Speaker 4: of property tax and it'll be a direct offset with
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  Speaker 4: an optional sales tax that would come in that we
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  Speaker 4: also make sure that there can't be a windfall because
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to increase our tax liability. We all
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  Speaker 4: have to pay it and we're paying enough and affordability
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  Speaker 4: is an issue.
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  Speaker 1: He says right now homestead exemptions are capped at 20%.
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  Speaker 4: 20% is the max that they could do.
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  Speaker 5: That's the relief they're allowed to do. I've asked, and
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  Speaker 5: I still don't.
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  Speaker 4: Have an answer, and I'm trying to figure out, what's
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  Speaker 4: the policy behind that? Why do we limit what the
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  Speaker 4: exemption is that a local county wants to do?
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  Speaker 1: Hear from all the candidates at last night's forum. State
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  Speaker 1: Representative District 12, Commissioner's Court, and Mayor now streaming at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: The forum next Monday will feature candidates running for city
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  Speaker 1: council in Bryan and College Station, also at 6 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at the Brazza Center and live on WTAW. The Bryan
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  Speaker 1: City Council announced that it is waiving attorney-client privileges to
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  Speaker 1: allow residents to view a legal opinion about the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Avenue Medians Charter Amendment that will be on the November
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  Speaker 1: 2026 election ballot. The city says that regardless of the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of the election, it is unlikely that the city
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  Speaker 1: has the legal authority to make any modifications to the
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  Speaker 1: medians or remove them completely. It would probably violate the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Transportation Code. if done without the Texas Department of
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  Speaker 1: Transportation's written consent or an agreement delegating control over the
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  Speaker 1: medians to the city. The city estimates the financial impact
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  Speaker 1: for median removal is $ 8 million. If the project moves forward,
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  Speaker 1: the city will have to identify a funding source, potentially
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  Speaker 1: limiting what can be spent on other capital projects. Texas
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  Speaker 1: Health and Human Services Commission may cut funding for children's
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  Speaker 1: autism programs.
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  Speaker 6: The program allows some families to pay nothing for autism services.
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  Speaker 6: But because of state budget cuts, the Texas Health and
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  Speaker 6: Human Services Commission is proposing eliminating funding for the children's
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  Speaker 6: autism program entirely. The program, which started in 2008, contracts
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  Speaker 6: with 16 providers across the state to provide focused applied
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  Speaker 6: behavior analysis therapy to autistic children at a reduced cost
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  Speaker 6: based on families' income and insurance coverage. If the legislature
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  Speaker 6: agrees to eliminate the program, children would still receive services
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  Speaker 6: through the end of 2027.
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  Speaker 7: Lisa Lucera, Fox 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 5: 1620-945-WTAW, otherwise known as what he said. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: what the weather... I give up. 50% chance of rain today.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 5: 50% chance from out of nowhere. But it's still going
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  Speaker 5: to be feeling very similar to what we experienced yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: High of 91. Heat index values in the 100s. gusty
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  Speaker 5: winds a possibility by the afternoon and by the way
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  Speaker 5: that chance of rain it's kind of all day it's
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  Speaker 5: like an.
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  Speaker 1: Afternoon yeah it's a weird sort of thing and we've
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  Speaker 1: got some very light shower activity i mean it's just
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  Speaker 1: a little bitty that's streaming from south to north uh
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  Speaker 1: if we get any it's going to be very light
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  Speaker 1: from this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I uh yeah i was i my first thought was
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  Speaker 5: okay the cold front's here soon no no it's not
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  Speaker 5: it still doesn't cool down until like friday night as
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  Speaker 5: best i can see I mean, a little bit cooler.
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  Speaker 5: I guess we'll get down to like 70 is what
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  Speaker 5: they're saying for a low tonight, 69, 70, back up
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  Speaker 5: to 91 tomorrow, down to 65 Thursday night, and then
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  Speaker 5: Friday night, 54. That's the tale of the tape. By Saturday,
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  Speaker 5: sunny with a high near 72. How has this affected
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  Speaker 5: your trip? Are you going to need a jacket when
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  Speaker 5: you're going?
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  Speaker 1: They have updated the temperatures for Oxford, Mississippi, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: we are now packing heavier gear. We will experience highs
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  Speaker 1: in the 60s.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, Lord, yes.
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  Speaker 1: And we will hit some 40 degrees temperatures. Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 1: Lows on Saturday and Sunday in the upper 40s.
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  Speaker 5: That is the dream.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait.
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  Speaker 5: you straight up. Hold on to your butts. We have
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  Speaker 5: so much stuff to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: So much.
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  Speaker 5: So much stuff to talk about. Some of it's news.
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  Speaker 5: Some of it's legitimately newsy. Some of it's just craziness.
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  Speaker 5: I forgot to talk about the Kelly Clarkson thing again yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: And then today, it's so much better.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: It's so much better.
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  Speaker 1: We let that marinate for a day, and it got better.
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  Speaker 5: But what I wanted to talk about now is something
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  Speaker 5: that I had seen, and I didn't know what the
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  Speaker 5: timeline for it was. Amelia Earhart.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. One of the biggest mysteries. I remember watching
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Nimoy on In Search Of back when I was
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  Speaker 1: a kid, and that was one of the big ones
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  Speaker 1: on there. Everybody's always wondered what has happened to her.
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  Speaker 1: There are some theories and so forth. There's an expedition
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  Speaker 1: out of Purdue University.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That has hit the island, and now they're going to
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  Speaker 1: go a-searching.
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's a particular island that satellite photos, it showed
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  Speaker 1: something in a lagoon that could, might or might not
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  Speaker 1: be a plane.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And it's in the area of their last radio transmission,
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  Speaker 1: so it's plausible. So there they're looking. There's just one
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  Speaker 1: giant issue.
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  Speaker 5: What is the issue that they are running into?
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  Speaker 1: The issue is that they kind of have to hack
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  Speaker 1: their way through the jungle to get there, and then
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  Speaker 1: they have to work there, but they can't sleep on
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  Speaker 1: the island.
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  Speaker 5: No, they can't. They have to return to their boat.
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  Speaker 1: Every single night.
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  Speaker 5: Which seems like kind of weak sauce. It's like, come on, guys.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you just throw a tent out there and
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  Speaker 5: keep it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, hammocks, man. Come on, hammocks.
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  Speaker 5: Please.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, there's these things known as giant coconut something crabs.
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  Speaker 5: The coconut crab, Will.
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  Speaker 1: And that sounds like a great dish.
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  Speaker 5: It does, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: These are called the coconut crabs because they are big
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  Speaker 1: enough and strong enough to break through a coconut husk.
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  Speaker 5: That's right. That's right.
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  Speaker 1: And eat the crab. It's not only coconuts that they eat.
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  Speaker 5: No, they don't.
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  Speaker 1: They're carnivorous, too.
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  Speaker 5: They're flesh-eating crabs. And they're big. They are bigger than
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  Speaker 5: you would ever believe. Have you Googled this crab?
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  Speaker 1: I have. And they're looking. They can have like a
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  Speaker 1: three-foot leg span.
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  Speaker 5: This is a.
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  Speaker 5: It's the crab of your nightmares.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 5: And it's a land-crawling crab. So it's like if a
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  Speaker 5: king crab... could get out of the sea and start
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  Speaker 5: running around on land and also stripped carcasses for meat.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a bigger, thicker sort of king crab.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, like a tank. And by the way, it's not
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  Speaker 5: like there's one or two. There's a ton of them.
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  Speaker 1: The island is overrun.
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  Speaker 5: Dripping with coconut crabs. Which, by the way, I'd like
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  Speaker 5: to add, perhaps is why we never found Amelia Earhart.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe so. They found some bones that are possible.
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  Speaker 5: What the bones would be, in fact, what would be
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  Speaker 5: left if you ended up hanging out on an island
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  Speaker 5: with coconut crabs for too long?
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  Speaker 1: You know, when you're doing an expedition of this type,
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  Speaker 1: and I actually, in an odd story, back when I
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  Speaker 1: was a teenager and sacking groceries and stocking at the
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  Speaker 1: Winn-Dixie at the corner of Southwest Parkway and Texas Avenue,
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  Speaker 1: the same Winn-Dixie I was working when then Fred Brown...
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  Speaker 1: came through and tipped me $ 20 for carrying out a
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  Speaker 1: sack of bananas.
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  Speaker 5: In the BMW Z3, as I recall.
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  Speaker 1: We had an expedition come through, leaving from A & M,
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  Speaker 1: and they had a panel truck outside, and we loaded
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  Speaker 1: 20-some-odd carts of groceries in their forward. So you do
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  Speaker 1: a lot of planning when it comes to an expedition. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're hauling stuff out. Yeah, I mean, you've got to
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  Speaker 1: get it down to a science, right?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know what they left off of this expedition?
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  Speaker 5: What was that?
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  Speaker 1: A Cajun.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Because a Cajun would have had a recipe somewhere that
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  Speaker 1: would fit. And not only would these crabs no longer
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  Speaker 1: be a problem, they would be an asset.
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  Speaker 5: Got great news, Will. I just Googled to see, are
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  Speaker 5: these giant crabs edible, coconut crabs? Absolutely yes.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure.
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  Speaker 5: 100% yes. The meat is sweet, dense, stringy, and rich,
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  Speaker 5: often compared to a combination of lobster, king crab, With
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  Speaker 5: natural coconut flavoring.
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 5: Why aren't we eating these things?
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you, if they brought a Cajun along, the
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  Speaker 1: fire would have been cranked up, the pot would have
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  Speaker 1: been on, the boil would have been going.
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  Speaker 5: He wouldn't have been able to get on the beach
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  Speaker 5: soon enough. Hell yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Sprinkle some Tony C's on that and you're good to go.
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  Speaker 5: What we cooking today?
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  Speaker 10: Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what a dream. The fat, the yellow fatty brown
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  Speaker 5: paste inside the abdomen is like a natural foie gras
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  Speaker 5: or enriched coconut cream. These things... What, what... Bring them back, boys.
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  Speaker 1: This could be the next invasive species in Florida if
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  Speaker 1: we give it a chance. Oh, yes. Do they eat pythons?
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  Speaker 5: Use it however you see fit. Let's talk reasons to
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  Speaker 5: celebrate for today. Before we get into the usuals, today
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  Speaker 5: is kind of a day of distinction here in the
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  Speaker 5: state of Texas.
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  Speaker 17: Is it?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, if you look back in history, occasionally, we don't
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  Speaker 5: back and review stuff.
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  Speaker 1: What happened on this date in history.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, we do have what, you know, today in
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  Speaker 5: Texas history. I was late on the show. But this
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  Speaker 5: should probably be in today's history.
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  Speaker 1: It should. In fact, in future episodes, it might. It
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  Speaker 1: was 39 years ago today.
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  Speaker 15: 1987.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I was still in high school. 18-month-old Jessica McClure fell
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  Speaker 1: 22 feet down a well in Midland, Texas.
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  Speaker 18: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Man, that was wall-to-wall news coverage.
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  Speaker 5: Guys, there is not. A way to make you understand,
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  Speaker 5: if you were born in the 90s, 2000s, whatever, how
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  Speaker 5: unavoidable baby Jessica falling down the well was.
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  Speaker 1: It was the OJ coverage before OJ.
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  Speaker 5: It was 24-7, wire to wire, how are they going
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  Speaker 5: to get this kid out of this stupid well?
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  Speaker 1: And it went on for 58 hours.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not an easy. We're going to lower
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  Speaker 1: a rope down there and pull her out.
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  Speaker 5: It transfixed the gaze of the entire country, if not
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  Speaker 5: a good chunk of the world. Every channel, every newspaper,
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  Speaker 5: all of them trying to figure out not just if
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  Speaker 5: they would get her, how you would get her, because.
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  Speaker 5: It was a well that was one of those wells
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  Speaker 5: that was surprisingly hard to fall down.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's a very small pipe.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like you see.
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  Speaker 5: It's not a wishing well like from a Disney movie.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Jack and Jill.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 5: It's just like a pipe that goes off to the side.
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  Speaker 5: And they're like, well, what are we supposed to do?
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  Speaker 5: They were able to recover her.
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  Speaker 1: And not only that. This in the days before the
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  Speaker 1: GoFundMes and things like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, it was.
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  Speaker 1: People sent money.
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  Speaker 5: Just cash.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So she inherited a trust fund of $ 1 million. To
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  Speaker 1: this day, however.
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  Speaker 5: Quite substantial at that time.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: To this day, she does not remember the incident at all.
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  Speaker 5: That's bonkers. Do we know what she's even up to today?
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  Speaker 1: I think she kind of stays out of the... I
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: think I saw an update a few years ago.
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: Is she just a random lady in Midland?
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think she's just... And I don't think she's
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: McClure anymore. I think she's... Kids, maybe grandkids by this point.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: A text message from Michael. When they got her out,
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: we were playing a high school football game. I was
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: 30 miles from Odessa. They made an announcement over the
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: intercom that baby Jessica was free. And the entire stadium
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: went up in a collective roar.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I can believe it.
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: The entire stadium exploded with joy.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Didn't matter if you were home fans or away fans.
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: We were all united.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: We were all fans of Jessica.
• 16:26
  Speaker 5: Get that baby out of that well. And we did.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: It was a great moment to be alive.
• 16:32
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Holidays today. A wonderful one. Be bald and be free day.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: You do great at both of those.
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I try. I try my best. I've tried for
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: many years.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: It looks effortless just from this side. Let me tell you.
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you. I'll tell you this. I haven't had
• 16:51
  Speaker 5: hair since I was probably, I don't know, 28, 27,
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: something like that. It was starting to go and I
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: made the decision to fire it before it quit. People
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: looked at me like I was like, hey, man, you
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: might you might still have some good years. Left with
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: your hair. I said, no, you don't. So the thing is,
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: you can lie to yourself when you look in the mirror.
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: But like. Other people can tell you're losing your hair.
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: They just can tell. And some people, that's no big deal.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: Some people, it's not a good look for me. It
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: wasn't a great look. I made the decision. I never
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: looked back. And I mean, never looked back. back bald
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: is beautiful on you by the way and that's another
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: side of it a lot of people will say well
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: my head's kind of lumpy and there are some people
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: oh yeah i've got all kinds of divots in my
• 17:43
  Speaker 5: skull but uh i will tell you this like it's
• 17:48
  Speaker 5: incredibly freeing to never have to go for a haircut
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: to never have to worry about how your hair looks
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: had never have a bad hair day And I respect
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: my brothers. There are some that are more bold than me,
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: like the ones that leave the side. So you can,
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: you know, you can absolutely, absolutely, yes, I am 100% bald.
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: Look at me. Like, if you shave everything, you're still
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: kind of keeping them guessing.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: You still got some edge to you.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: Could he grow? Is it a choice? Or is it
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: just he can't grow hair? But I say this to
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: let you know. If you are a man who is
• 18:29
  Speaker 5: sitting there worrying and like trying to doing everything possible
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: to try to hold on, just try to, it's like,
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: I know I can still kind of comb it over.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: I can still kind of make it look like I
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: let go. Just let go. I promise you it is
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: better on the other side.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I will probably, I mean, I'm, Looking at my family,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: there was nobody that was completely bald.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I would say you still have good hair.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's some thinning hair. I'm certainly, my hair is thinning.
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: Your version of thinning hair is not the same as
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: what I, there are people who, again, will go to
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: links where it's just comical. Where, like, I mean, it's insane.
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: I would name names, but they'd probably get offended, so
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: I won't.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: We can all think of one.
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: You see them walking around every single day. That's who
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: I mean. You don't have to live like this.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: You don't. I tell you what, though, if I am
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: heading that same direction, if I'm traveling the same road
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that you travel and I make the decision, the bold,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: brave decision to shave.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: It all off. It is a bold decision.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Before I do that, I'm going to sport the skullet
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: for a minute.
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: Heck yes.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Just because.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: My brother, also a proud, bald man, he legitimately grew
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: the Hulk Hogan skullet and kept it for a year.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: You see?
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: It was the wildest hair I've ever seen in my life.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: I would try it.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: I you know that's i'm not brave enough to do
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: that so again i i i i have not tread
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: there yet in my life.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah just to me that's That's just giving the fisticuffs
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: to it, you know? That's saying I'm in control.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: That's establishing dominance.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what that is.
• 20:07
  Speaker 5: Emergency Nurses Day, observed on the second Wednesday in October
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: as part of Emergency Nurses Week. They do have an
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: entire week, and they should get an entire week.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: Salute.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Good Lord. One of the wildest jobs that you can have,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: and I know many ER nurses, and I am never
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: unimpressed by what they make it through on a light day.
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: So if you know one, yeah, absolutely. Show them some
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: love today. Bring your teddy bear to work in school day.
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: How about not?
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: How about not? I appreciate the teddy bear named after
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: President Theodore Roosevelt following a 1902 hunting incident where he
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: wouldn't shoot a tiny little bear that had been tied
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: up for him. He was like, nah, that's not hunting.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: I need to catch it on the run. So everyone...
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: you know, started selling little stuffed bears and, and one
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: of the most popular toys in the world was born.
• 20:58
  Speaker 13: Yeah.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: But bringing it to, uh, to work, I mean, there's
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: a certain age where that just gets weird.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: Oh boy. That, yeah. Yeah. National fossil day, day to observe. Uh,
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: if you want fossils, I'll tell you, there's great places
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: to get them here.
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: Under the bridge on highway 21.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Really? That's a, that's a fossil hunting, uh, Brad Braz river.
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: Uh, they call it fossil bridge. In fact, you can find, uh,
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: all sorts of, you can do a lot of climbing, uh,
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: And you got to wait till the river's dry. But like, yeah,
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: it's it's if you enjoy it, that's a great place
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: to hunt.
• 21:30
  Speaker 12: All right.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: What do we have on birthdays?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Ben Wishaw is 46. He's Q in the latest James
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Bond movies. He was also in Fargo and he's the
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: voice of Paddington Bear. By the way, Stacy Keebler is 47.
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: I know Stacy personally. No, not personally.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: She's a, she's a, the WWE back.
• 21:51
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Usher is 48. Natalie mains of the Dixie chicks is 52.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Steve Coogan is 61. He was in night at the
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: museum is the tiny Roman soldier.
• 22:03
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I know him best as the director of, In Tropic Thunder.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Which is one of my favorite movies of all time.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: One of the best movies, best comedies of the last
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: 25 years.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: No debate.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Lori Petty is 63. She was in Orange is the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: New Black.
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I remember her best from A League of Their Own.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: She was Kit Keller. Thomas Dolby is 68. He was
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: blinded by science. I guess he's recovered. Greg Ivegan is 73.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: We mentioned this show the other day, and it was
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: one of my childhood shows. I need to go back
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and see just how bad it was. B.J. and the Bear.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: I also need to revisit B.J. and the Bear.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Back in that ape craze, it really hit hard with
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: chimps in television, and that was probably the best example. Yeah.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Justin Hayward is 80, lead singer of the Moody Blues.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Ralph Lauren, 87. Good night. To the stiffs today, Sir
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Roger Moore, born on this date in 1927. He was
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: James Bond from 73 to 85 in the last century.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He was after Connery, before Dalton, Brosnan, and Daniel Craig.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Harry Anderson was born on this date in 1952. Judge
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Stone from Night Court. You talk about one of my
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: favorite shows.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: That was fantastic. The reboot, eh. Dwight Eisenhower was born
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: on this date in 1890.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: And born on this date in 1993. He should have
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: been 33 years old today. Charlie Kirk.
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: Holy cow. Wow. On this day. All right, guys, hang out.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: We're going to get caught up with news. That's next.
• 23:37
  Speaker 20: Hi, this is Logan Lipscomb with Aggieland Golf Cars. We
• 23:40
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  Speaker 7: Let's get you rolling.
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  Speaker 21: AI, big tech, and online predators are creating new threats
• 24:13
  Speaker 21: for our children every day. As a father, Paul Dyson
• 24:16
  Speaker 21: knows how dangerous these platforms can be. That's why he
• 24:19
  Speaker 21: passed a law stopping big tech and predators from targeting
• 24:23
  Speaker 21: Texas children. And he passed legislation blocking AI from being
• 24:27
  Speaker 21: used as a weapon against our kids. State Representative Paul
• 24:30
  Speaker 21: Dyson is protecting our kids and keeping Texas strong and safe.
• 24:34
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• 24:38
  Speaker 22: The midterm elections are heating up. Congressional control and President
• 24:41
  Speaker 22: Trump's agenda hang in the balance. Every headline has the
• 24:44
  Speaker 22: potential to shift the odds. According to Kalshi's new midterms hub,
• 24:49
  Speaker 22: Democrats have a 62% chance to control the Senate. And
• 24:53
  Speaker 22: in a key Senate race, James Tallarico is currently trading
• 24:56
  Speaker 22: at 59% to beat Ken Paxton. That means a $ 100
• 25:01
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• 25:03
  Speaker 1: With a win.
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  Speaker 22: Is Texas going blue? Republicans cannot take this race for granted,
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  Speaker 11: Hello, Brazos Valley. This is Brandon Eisman with Dean &
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  Speaker 11: Draper Insurance. I don't know about you, but it seems
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• 26:20
  Speaker 11: feels like everything has increased, from groceries to vehicles and
• 26:24
  Speaker 11: from property taxes to, yes, insurance. And speaking of insurance,
• 26:29
  Speaker 11: the cost of home and auto insurance has risen more
• 26:32
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• 27:04
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• 28:07
  Speaker 7: What do we really know about James Tallarico?
• 28:10
  Speaker 12: Tallarico said, Defending trans Texas is something we have to
• 28:13
  Speaker 12: do every day.
• 28:14
  Speaker 25: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
• 28:18
  Speaker 25: young children, claimed denying your child's gender identity is abusive,
• 28:23
  Speaker 25: said the trans community needs abortion care too, and even
• 28:26
  Speaker 25: called Jesus a radical feminist and said God is non-binary.
• 28:31
  Speaker 9: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
• 28:35
  Speaker 7: But it gets worse. James Tallarico voted to allow biological.
• 28:39
  Speaker 25: Men access to women's bathrooms in schools and for biological
• 28:43
  Speaker 25: boys to play in girls' sports, saying some things are
• 28:46
  Speaker 25: more important than fair competition in sports.
• 28:50
  Speaker 26: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
• 28:53
  Speaker 7: Radical liberal James Tallarico. For they, them, not you. Texas
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• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Last night,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce held
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: a candidate forum featuring candidates from many state and local races.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia asked the candidates for State Representative District 12
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: candidates how they would relieve the tax burden on homeowners.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Representative Trey Wharton said he's against the idea of making
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: indefinite payments on a home.
• 29:35
  Speaker 13: I don't believe someone should continue to pay rent on
• 29:38
  Speaker 13: their house for the rest of their life, and so
• 29:39
  Speaker 13: we need to keep... moving in the path we are
• 29:42
  Speaker 13: in order to eliminate the property tax.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He says efforts were made at the state level to
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: cut the burden that was negated at the county level.
• 29:49
  Speaker 13: The local county appraisal districts upped the rates, the value
• 29:53
  Speaker 13: so high that it kind of wiped out what we did.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: His opponent Andy Ho believes there is a different path.
• 29:59
  Speaker 27: The problem is property taxes are dictated by local appraisal districts,
• 30:02
  Speaker 27: not by the state, and I would be reluctant to
• 30:05
  Speaker 27: take that power from local areas. What we could do
• 30:09
  Speaker 27: is provide relief in other areas, making sure that there
• 30:12
  Speaker 27: are funding sources other than property taxes.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: The candidates were also asked what they thought about Medicaid
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: expansion in the state.
• 30:20
  Speaker 27: Forty states have taken it. Texas is one of the
• 30:22
  Speaker 27: ten that hasn't. The result is that we have 600,000
• 30:27
  Speaker 27: Texans who are left without health insurance because they make
• 30:31
  Speaker 27: too much money to qualify for Medicaid and too little
• 30:33
  Speaker 27: to qualify for the Affordable Care Act. So I do
• 30:37
  Speaker 27: advocate for taking the Medicaid expansion.
• 30:39
  Speaker 24: To fix that gap.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Wharton explains why Texas is holding out on expansion.
• 30:44
  Speaker 13: That's a federal program that comes with a whole lot
• 30:46
  Speaker 13: of strings, which would be the reason why Texas has
• 30:48
  Speaker 13: not expanded Medicaid in the state.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: He says he has been working to address the underlying
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: issue of unaffordable health care.
• 30:56
  Speaker 13: One of the things we're trying to get done is
• 30:58
  Speaker 13: some other products and plans out there for people that
• 31:01
  Speaker 13: they can afford to take care of the big things
• 31:03
  Speaker 13: and they can choose the type of health care that
• 31:05
  Speaker 13: they want to have. We're also dealing with the hospitals
• 31:08
  Speaker 13: and the doctors in order to kind of proved the
• 31:11
  Speaker 13: point that most of them are charging too much.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Hear from all the candidates at last night's forum, including
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: State Representative District 14, Commissioner's Court and Mayor, now streaming
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. The forum next Monday will feature candidates running
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: for City Council and Bryan and College Station. Also at
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: 6 o'clock at the Brazos Center and live on WTAW.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Tonight at the Brazos Center, go inside the firehouse. Learn
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: about emergency service districts and volunteer fire departments. Find out
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: who responds to your home when you live outside the
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: city limits of Bryan and College Station. ESD 2 Fire
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Chief Trad Mills talks about what you can expect. You're
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: going to get to meet your chiefs.
• 31:51
  Speaker 26: You're going to get to meet your crew members that
• 31:53
  Speaker 26: are going to be able to attend that event. You're
• 31:55
  Speaker 26: going to see the apparatus that they work with. You're
• 31:57
  Speaker 26: going to see the tools that they work with. You
• 31:59
  Speaker 26: can actually put hands on a lot of this equipment
• 32:01
  Speaker 26: to see what it costs, what the district has to
• 32:04
  Speaker 26: pay or what the ESD has to pay in order
• 32:05
  Speaker 26: to keep these districts operational. You're going to have your
• 32:09
  Speaker 26: chance to ask questions as to how does this happen.
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: What does ESD mean?
• 32:14
  Speaker 26: What does the BFD mean?
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: All Brazos County residents are welcome inside the city limits
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: or not. Bring the kids dressed in firefighter costumes. See
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: and touch all the apparatus. That's tonight at the Brazos
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Center from 6 until 8. The Trump administration has invoked
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: the Defense Production Act in order to churn out more
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: fuel in Texas.
• 32:34
  Speaker 24: Vice President J.D. Vance made the announcement in Tyler while
• 32:37
  Speaker 24: campaigning for Ken Paxton. The act will expand capacity at
• 32:41
  Speaker 24: the Delic Refinery in Tyler. He says they want millions
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  Speaker 24: more gallons of commercial-grade and military-spec fuel to come out
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  Speaker 24: of the refinery, and he says that will translate into
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  Speaker 28: It means a more reliable energy supply, but also a
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  Speaker 28: stronger national defense, and it will also mean.
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  Speaker 1: Hundreds of good-paying new jobs.
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  Speaker 24: The Defense Production Act of 1950 is a federal law
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  Speaker 24: that grants the present authority to compel or incentivize private
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  Speaker 24: industry to produce essential goods and services for national defense
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  Speaker 24: and security. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: As more opposition comes up to the idea of publicizing
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  Speaker 1: the Fort Hood shooter's planned execution, President Trump says he'll
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  Speaker 1: have the final say. So far, no formal decision has
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  Speaker 1: been made on live streaming the firing squad execution of
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  Speaker 1: Nadal Hassan. It's a tricky situation for streaming services.
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  Speaker 29: The debate has YouTube in an uncomfortable spot. Many government
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  Speaker 29: agencies use that service to stream their live and pre-recorded events.
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  Speaker 29: but YouTube has policies prohibiting violent or gory content unless
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  Speaker 29: the video is deemed to be in the public interest.
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  Speaker 29: The compromise might be to make the firing squad execution
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  Speaker 29: of Nidal Hassan an age-restricted event.
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  Speaker 1: That's Jim Ryan reporting. More news on the way at
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  Speaker 1: 7 o'clock or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 12: This is Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. One of the things
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  Speaker 12: I love most about Brian is that we have our
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  Speaker 12: own identity. Come to downtown for First Friday, hear live music,
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  Speaker 12: enjoy our restaurants, festivals, arts, and entertainment, and you can
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  Speaker 12: always something bringing people together. That doesn't just improve our economy.
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  Speaker 12: That improves our quality of life. I'm proud of what
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  Speaker 12: Bryan has become, and we're just getting started. I'm Bobby Gutierrez,
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  Speaker 3: Brazos County is our home, but right now, big data
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  Speaker 1: could be rainy today because either i just didn't read
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  Speaker 1: it right yesterday or it surprised me but now we
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  Speaker 1: got a 50 chance of showers all day today uh.
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  Speaker 5: Radar showed a couple of things creeping will's checking that
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  Speaker 5: but it's all day it's like an all day it's
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  Speaker 5: not just afternoon so you could catch a Stray shower,
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  Speaker 5: thunderstorm today. Gusty winds up to 20 miles an hour. No,
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  Speaker 1: Radar's still showing some of that very light, very scattered stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and it's pretty far to our south, but it is
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  Speaker 1: screaming south to north, so obviously there's some upper-level winds
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  Speaker 1: that are really ripping up there. Looking at the hourly forecast,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're more likely to find rain in middle
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  Speaker 1: of the day from the hours of about 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 5: Let's talk candidates for them. Great, great, great session last
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  Speaker 5: night with the BCS Chamber of Commerce. It's really fun
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  Speaker 5: watching Scott put those together. He's just the best at it.
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  Speaker 1: He's so gifted. So gifted. I mean, he's good at
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things. He's really good at that.
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  Speaker 5: Several people are like, so you're going to do this
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  Speaker 5: help it.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 5: My God. I think it's so much more fun to
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  Speaker 5: sit here and watch Scott do it because you cannot
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  Speaker 5: get a better two hours if you're trying to actually
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  Speaker 5: figure out what people are about in a candidate's form.
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  Speaker 1: I think we talked about that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 5: It is humbling.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about the fact that you think you're
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  Speaker 1: good at something and then you see somebody who's really
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  Speaker 1: good at something.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, man.
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  Speaker 5: That's nailed that.
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  Speaker 3: 100%.
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  Speaker 5: That is the prime example. Thank you to all the
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  Speaker 5: candidates that showed up. I know a lot of you
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  Speaker 5: from the text line were listening via just the radio,
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  Speaker 5: the live stream last night. But I also know that
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  Speaker 5: it's incredibly hard to get free for two hours and
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  Speaker 5: change to go to the Brazos Center and sit and
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: you still want to, you know, get the information. If
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  Speaker 5: you go to WTAW.com. It is posted as the very
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  Speaker 5: top story, the entire audio of last night, which covers
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: a total of five races. We have State House Representative
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: for District 14, State House Representative District 12, County Commissioner's
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: Race for Precinct 4, and then we have the College
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Station Mayoral Race and the Bryan Mayoral Race. So those
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: are the five that we got in that file. Listen
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: to it. Enjoy it. Still working to try to get
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: a few more elements for it and see if we
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: can get a video feed somehow, as I did some
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: questions about that. We'll talk more about it later, I'm sure.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: But you can also find it if you've been following
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  Speaker 5: the Candidate Conversations feed. It is also posted in the
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  Speaker 5: Candidate Conversations page as well, so you can just go
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: all to the same place, listen to the whole thing,
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  Speaker 5: and then find some of the candidates if you want
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  Speaker 5: to learn more. That's all online at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 12: And.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: Monday, we will do it all again for the city councils.
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  Speaker 5: So we have that. Do we want to get into the,
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: as long as we're talking newsy things, do we want
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  Speaker 5: to discuss the release of the median's legal opinion?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think we should. It's an interesting thing that
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  Speaker 1: you sent me, I call it late last night.
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  Speaker 5: What was it it was late it was it was
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: late for me look how about this i'm gonna take
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: a break okay talk about that coming up but yeah
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  Speaker 5: we do have median news if you were unaware and
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  Speaker 5: it's something Stick around. That's next.
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys. 979-695-1620 is our phone number and
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  Speaker 5: our text number. You will need it if you want
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: to talk medians, which we are about to do right now.
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  Speaker 5: If you were unaware, Cindy O'Brien dropped a press release
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  Speaker 5: pretty late in the day. I mean, it was obviously
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  Speaker 5: after the meeting. They were just like, okay, let's send
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  Speaker 5: this out. If you want to follow along, it's online
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  Speaker 5: at WTAW.com. I would highly recommend that you read the entirety.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: We will try to get to the bigger points. Now,
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  Speaker 5: the idea is they're waiving attorney-client privilege to allow residents
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  Speaker 5: to view a legal opinion about the Texas Avenue Medians
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  Speaker 5: Charter Amendment that is obviously... very famously on the November
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  Speaker 5: ballot in the election about removing the media.
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  Speaker 1: And that's one point that I'm interested in is the
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: point that they're pointing out. We are waiving attorney-client privilege. Yeah, yeah.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, okay, duh.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, you know, you want to state it.
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: It is stating the obvious a little bit. That said,
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: the legal opinion itself I'll read just this as it's written.
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: The initiative petition regarding the Charter Amendment is complete and valid. Therefore,
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  Speaker 5: the City of Brian, Council of Brian, otherwise known as
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  Speaker 5: the Council, was obligated to order the special election and
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  Speaker 5: the City of Brian, the City, must conduct the election
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  Speaker 5: on November 3rd, 2026. Regardless of the outcome of the
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: special election, It is unlikely the city of Bryan has
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  Speaker 5: the legal authority to unilaterally make any modifications to the
• 48:02
  Speaker 5: medians on Texas Avenue or to remove them completely. The
• 48:07
  Speaker 5: city would probably violate the Texas Transportation Code if it
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: attempted to remove or alter the medians. on Texas Avenue
• 48:18
  Speaker 5: without the Texas Department of Transportation's written consent or an
• 48:24
  Speaker 5: agreement delegating control over the medians to the city. If
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: the charter amendment is passed by voters, it is unclear
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: that the city has lawful capacity to ultimately effectuate the
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: removal of the relevant medians on Texas Avenue. It is
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: probable that the duty imposed by the Charter Amendment conflicts
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: with state law absent an express grant of authority by TxDOT. Accordingly,
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: litigation or an opinion from the Office of the Attorney
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: General of Texas might be necessary to determine if the
• 49:07
  Speaker 5: city has the authority to comply with the Charter Agreement,
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: and if so, how to reconcile that authority with state law.
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: establishing text dots exclusive authority over the state highway system.
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah so the petition's good that's good every all signatures
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: were good uh the call for the vote from the
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: city council check that box is checked uh now the
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: issue is this the medians are owned by text dot
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: right bottom line not your median can't mess with them.
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: Which we always knew because if you listen to those, like, hey, well,
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: we'll try to get to the ones where we can't.
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: They say you can't touch any of them.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: And this was all stuff that was known, right?
• 49:45
  Speaker 5: I don't think it's, yeah, it's not breaking news. It
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: just hasn't ever been concretely written and legally used yet.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: And now we've got it in pure legalese. So essentially,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: if the vote passes, there's still nothing that can be
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: done unless TxDOT deeds responsibility of the medians to the
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: city of Bryan or grants them permission to do so.
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: Now, here's the other wrinkle to this that is very
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: interesting within the original press release. I'm trying to make
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: sure we put this on the WTAW story. If not,
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: I will add it. A price tag was revealed in
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: the memo.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: What did it cost? $ 8 million is what they say
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: it's going to cost. And they go on to say
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: if that were to happen, that may take away funds
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: from other highway projects and city programs and infrastructure.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: Which is fair. $ 8 million doesn't just fall out of
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: a tree.
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: It doesn't, but when you're talking about a total budget
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: of almost $ 570 million....
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, seems reasonable.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: You might be able to nickel and dime eight mil
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: out of it.
• 50:45
  Speaker 5: Like you mentioned, you're talking half a billy. You need
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: eight milli. So if you wanted to follow, if you
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: were really... I'll put it this way. If you wanted
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: to do it at all, because that's clear that this
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: just reads as, hey, we... It's going to be really expensive.
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: Do you really want to tell? We don't know if
• 51:05
  Speaker 5: we can leak. You know, it's just like, it's very
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: much a, we don't want to do this. If you
• 51:11
  Speaker 5: wanted to, could you find $ 8 million out of several
• 51:15
  Speaker 5: different pots? I'm not, I know people will be tight,
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: but money's tight. How do you, it's a half billion.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: Brother, you could find $ 8 million in private donations.
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: That has been my guess is that there would be,
• 51:31
  Speaker 5: if you can find some people to buy out a college.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Football coach, you can probably buy a business. How many
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: businesses that were affected by the media?
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: Oh, good Lord. Would immediately.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Chip in a little bit, man.
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: Commit. I know probably a few business owners would go
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: to the bank right now and just pull it and
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: spread it around and everyone pays the note.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Over a few years. I think the GoFundMe would be epic.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: The GoFundMe is another way to do it. Although, at
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: some level, even if.
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: The frustrating part for a lot of people, and I
• 52:00
  Speaker 5: know this is going to be the frustrating part for
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: a lot of people, is you spent all of this
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: time campaigning, organizing, gathering signatures, getting it on the ballot,
• 52:11
  Speaker 5: and now what you have is shrugged.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Well, I think that should have been known the whole time.
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: Maybe we should have thought about that.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: From the get-go on this, there was the big question of, look,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: they're not ours. They belong to TxDOT. I know Mayor
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: Gutierrez has said that on the show. Other city council
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: members have done that as well. So, I mean, there's
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the rub. There's where we're at. Yeah, we don't know
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: if we can do it. If we can do it,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: it's going to cost more.
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: Text messages. Let's see. Curtis. So if the citizens vote
• 52:41
  Speaker 5: that it needs to be changed, does that mean that
• 52:43
  Speaker 5: the random people like me can just show up with
• 52:44
  Speaker 5: our bulldozer and start? Oh, God, not this again. Curtis,
• 52:48
  Speaker 5: you'll go to jail.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: It's been tried.
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you'll go to jail and you'd be destroying state
• 52:52
  Speaker 5: property and not not local property. And they would debate
• 52:55
  Speaker 5: based on that legal opinion. The the highway patrol or
• 52:58
  Speaker 5: the Rangers would be who would be coming.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And and you might be a brief hero.
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: You would be very popular for a moment. Yeah. Eric,
• 53:07
  Speaker 5: tech stock don't own those medians. Tech stock doesn't make
• 53:10
  Speaker 5: its own money to own anything. They're paid for with
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: tax dollars from the public. They belong to the public.
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: I get it, and I sympathize. Yes, they are the
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: citizens' medians, but legally... They belong to those particular citizens
• 53:28
  Speaker 5: known as TxDOT. Now, the question is, could you lobby
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: TxDOT for something like that? And I don't know. We
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: have friends at TxDOT. We know people at TxDOT. I'm
• 53:37
  Speaker 5: sure they could if they wanted to issue an opinion
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: and clarify some of this stuff.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: Maybe they will.
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: But that's wild to just drop as, again, in legalese
• 53:47
  Speaker 5: that no matter what happens in November the 3rd, Very
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: little chance you can do anything about it.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: I think there's some interesting timing with the drop of
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: this press release as well.
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: It is curious. It's very close to November the 3rd
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: and seems like a topic that is capturing a lot
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: of attention. We'll get back to this if we need
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: to later on this morning. We're 1620, 94.5 WTAW College Station.