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The Infomaniacs: August 27th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning. From the WTAW newsroom, I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: City of College Station announced a road closure near the
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  Speaker 1: College Station Police Department. Dartmouth Northbound will be closed at
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  Speaker 1: Krennic Tap starting today. The closure is expected to last
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. Aggieland Humane Society says they have seen a
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  Speaker 1: spike in the number of dogs in the shelter with
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  Speaker 1: heartworm disease.
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  Speaker 2: Our normal rate to sit at is about 10% of
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  Speaker 2: our adult dog population at any given time will have
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  Speaker 2: heartworm disease. Currently, in this exact moment, we're closer to 35.
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  Speaker 1: Katrina Ross with the Aggieland Humane Society says heartworms are treatable,
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  Speaker 1: but they need about $ 9, 000 in donation to fund the
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  Speaker 1: treatment for 15 dogs. If you would like to help,
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  Speaker 1: you can visit AggielandHumane.org. The cities of Bryan and College
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  Speaker 1: Station are asking residents to adopt voluntary water restrictions. They
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  Speaker 1: say with high demand, water tower levels can drop, affecting
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  Speaker 1: water pressure and the availability of water during a fire.
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  Speaker 1: Try to limit water during daytime hours and limit watering
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  Speaker 1: to two days per week. Report any suspected leaks immediately.
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  Speaker 1: Texas secured a billion-dollar settlement with Meta, the parent company
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  Speaker 1: of Facebook and Instagram, over child safety issues. Along with
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  Speaker 1: the settlement, Meta has agreed to stricter age verification measures
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  Speaker 1: and a daily two-hour time limit for teens. During school hours,
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  Speaker 1: they will disable all notifications and create a nighttime mode
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  Speaker 1: to restrict access for teens. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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  Speaker 1: calls the agreement historic and a major step forward in
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  Speaker 1: the fight to ensure our kids are protected online. This
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  Speaker 1: follows the $ 1. 4 billion settlement with Meta in 2024 for
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  Speaker 1: unlawfully collecting and using facial recognition data. A student from
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  Speaker 1: A & M Consolidated High School is behind bars after
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  Speaker 1: he was found with a THC vape. The 17-year-old student
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  Speaker 1: was arrested Tuesday after the device fell out of his pocket.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with possession of a controlled substance in
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  Speaker 1: a drug-free zone. He remains jailed on a $ 15, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the latest on the Texas wildfires. Data from the
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  Speaker 1: Texas A & M Forest Service shows that the Ross
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  Speaker 1: wildfire in Palo Pinto County has grown to over 80,000
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  Speaker 1: acres and is only 12% contained. Three other major fires
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  Speaker 1: are still burning and active in other parts of the state. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: 197 counties are under a burn ban. Brazos and Burleson
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  Speaker 1: counties are the last holdouts in the Brazos Valley. A
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  Speaker 1: federal judge in Texas ruled that an ICE agent will
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  Speaker 1: not be extradited to Minnesota.
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  Speaker 3: Christian Castro is charged in Minnesota with assault and falsely
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  Speaker 3: reporting a crime. He allegedly shot through a door of
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  Speaker 3: a home January 14th while pursuing a man he believed
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  Speaker 3: was in the country illegally. The man was wounded. Three
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  Speaker 3: others in the house were not injured. He's also accused
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  Speaker 3: of lying about what led up to the shootings. He's
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  Speaker 3: been in the Cameron County Jail, but under Texas law
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  Speaker 3: and barring extradition, must be released after 90 days of detention,
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  Speaker 3: which comes tomorrow. Minnesota authorities believe Castro could flee to Mexico.
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  Speaker 3: Eric Bushman, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news at 7.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 9: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 6: We're the Infomaniacs, 979-695-1620. Please continue to send in your
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  Speaker 6: weather reports this morning because it's helping us track who
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  Speaker 6: is actually getting... And again, yeah, this is how bad
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  Speaker 6: it is this time of year. We're all celebrating a
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  Speaker 6: little drizzle.
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  Speaker 1: A little drizzle.
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  Speaker 9: We're all celebrating it.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned it earlier, but keep it in mind, man.
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  Speaker 1: The roads have not been washed off in quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: They are going to be slick, slick, slick when you're
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  Speaker 1: out there and this little drizzle gets on it. So
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  Speaker 1: just be aware of that. Yeah. Please.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: So be careful. We'll get up to around 100 degrees
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  Speaker 6: today down to the 70s tonight. Weather is brought to
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  Speaker 6: usually only talked about during times of national presidential.
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  Speaker 9: Elections, right?
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  Speaker 1: The Iowa State Fair.
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  Speaker 9: The Iowa State Fair.
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  Speaker 6: This year it's being talked about for one of the
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  Speaker 6: greatest ideas for a competition I have ever seen. heard
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  Speaker 6: really the state fair mom calling competition oh my god
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  Speaker 6: they get a bunch of kids together try to figure
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  Speaker 6: out who's the best mom.
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  Speaker 1: Caller state fairs are known to have moose calling competitions
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  Speaker 1: uh they can have pig calling competitions yeah cow calling
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  Speaker 1: competitions yeah but you're telling me this is a mom
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  Speaker 1: calling competition mom.
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  Speaker 6: Calling competition and i i would question i'm gonna play
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  Speaker 6: you some audio I would question whether in the car
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  Speaker 6: right now is a potential mom-calling champion.
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  Speaker 1: I think I've raised at least one.
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  Speaker 6: Because I would stand to bet that there is at
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  Speaker 6: least one person in Infomaniac Nation who's driving their kids
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  Speaker 6: to school that could blow.
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  Speaker 9: Every single one of these competitors out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: I think so.
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  Speaker 9: Let's listen.
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  Speaker 2: Mom, you never.
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  Speaker 11: Got my room!
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  Speaker 1: Mom, when's dinner ready?
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  Speaker 12: Mom!
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  Speaker 10: Mom!
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  Speaker 13: Mamacita!
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  Speaker 1: Don't make me call Grandma!
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  Speaker 13: Mom!
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  Speaker 14: I cleaned up my room!
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  Speaker 3: Mom!
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  Speaker 15: Come here!
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  Speaker 16: My PlayStation's not working and the Fortnite update is in
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  Speaker 16: two minutes! Mom!
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  Speaker 1: Mom!
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  Speaker 17: Tina!
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  Speaker 6: That kid at the end. The kid at the end's
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  Speaker 6: got it.
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  Speaker 9: That's the strongest competitor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that is by far the strongest competitor in that competition.
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  Speaker 1: But like I said, I've never heard of this competition before.
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  Speaker 1: If it had existed when my kids were small.
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  Speaker 9: You would have got the trophy.
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  Speaker 1: With a minimum amount of training.
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  Speaker 9: You think your kid would have been this?
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of coaching.
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  Speaker 6: Michael Jordan always raised the bar of mom calling.
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  Speaker 1: The GOAT. The GOAT of mom calling.
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  Speaker 6: If you do have a kid in the back that
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  Speaker 6: you believe. could knock this out of the park.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'd love to hear it.
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  Speaker 9: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 1: Or multiple kids.
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  Speaker 9: Or multiple, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It can be a group project. It can be tag
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  Speaker 6: team mom calling.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: But two ways you can do this. You can call
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  Speaker 6: us straight up. That's fine. If you want to take
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  Speaker 6: video and text to us, that's fine too.
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  Speaker 9: Whatever works for you. But again, I just know that.
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  Speaker 6: The key to mom calling, I think some of it
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  Speaker 6: has to do with just air power.
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  Speaker 9: Like you've got to get some volume on it.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's, it's, it can't, you've got to have diction.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to enunciate.
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  Speaker 10: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: It's got to be clear. It's got to be clear.
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  Speaker 1: It can't just be noise.
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  Speaker 6: But if you can get enough volume, you also have
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  Speaker 6: to have the spirit. You have to have the spirit.
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  Speaker 6: If you're just loud, but you don't have anything to say.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have that it factor.
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  Speaker 6: You got to have, you got to have the ability to,
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  Speaker 6: to put the words together to get mom's attention. And I, I, again,
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  Speaker 6: do we have one out there that can fit that bill?
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  Speaker 16: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: But we will see.
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  Speaker 1: I think I kind of want to go to the
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  Speaker 1: Iowa State Fair, by the way. I could. Why?
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  Speaker 9: What else?
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  Speaker 1: Laney Wilson was headlining. Really? To a crowd of 17,000 plus. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's Iowa.
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  Speaker 9: It's Iowa.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not a lot. The famous massive Ram competition
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  Speaker 1: crowned a new record holder named Big Bad Joe. Weighing
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  Speaker 1: in at an impressive 568 pounds. That's a ram? That's
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  Speaker 1: a sheep.
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  Speaker 9: That's a ram.
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  Speaker 1: All right. And get this, where all the state fairs
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  Speaker 1: have their favorite foods, and this one doesn't sound bad,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. The winner was Porky Parm Noki. Sounds
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. They have a category for the best alcoholic drink,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't think the state of Texas at the
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  Speaker 1: fair does.
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  Speaker 9: No, they do not.
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  Speaker 1: It was a tie, by the way, between the Depot's
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  Speaker 1: Sour Batch Buddies, watermelon and JR's Cotton Rocket Cooler.
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  Speaker 14: Ooh.
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  Speaker 1: I guarantee you those would hurt the next day.
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  Speaker 9: Those are diabetic shock waiting to happen.
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  Speaker 1: Big anniversaries. Sarah Pratt celebrated 20 years as the iconic
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  Speaker 1: butter cow sculptor.
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  Speaker 9: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: This is the butter fair.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of them.
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  Speaker 9: I always forget that this is one of the butter
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  Speaker 9: sculpting fairs.
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  Speaker 1: So, hey, that's, I mean, pretty. The rest of the lineup,
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  Speaker 1: aside from Laney Wilson, Red Clay Stray's on there. TLC
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  Speaker 1: and Salt-N-Pepa. Ah, it's spushed.
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  Speaker 6: Having been to Iowa, that salt and pepper is literally
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  Speaker 6: 1620-945-WTAW. Again, 979-695-1620 is our phone number today.
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  Speaker 9: You can call us. You can text us.
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  Speaker 6: You can send in your video of your kids doing
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  Speaker 6: their best mom calling. Or you can be like Eric,
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  Speaker 6: who says, man, all the respect in the world for mothers.
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  Speaker 6: But for the love of God, this is a morning show.
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  Speaker 6: And some of us don't have kids and haven't had
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  Speaker 6: enough coffee to listen to their heathen children's cry.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little concerned that we might be encouraging
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  Speaker 1: bad behavior.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe.
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  Speaker 1: But on the other hand, sometimes that's fine.
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  Speaker 6: Mary texted in that Sprinkles near Messina Hoff, which again,
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  Speaker 6: as we track the very meager amount of rain yeah
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  Speaker 6: which is still a reason to reason to be used
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  Speaker 6: to be hyped i.
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  Speaker 1: Don't know it's the last peak i took at it
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  Speaker 1: yeah no it's dwindling.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah yeah uh let's talk about bucky's you told me
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  Speaker 6: about this and this broke my.
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  Speaker 1: Heart yeah i'm terribly sorry to inform you that you
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  Speaker 1: will not be a bucky's employee this is.
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  Speaker 6: This is real there's no chance in there's i am
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  Speaker 6: i am officially today disqualified from employment at Bucky.
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  Speaker 1: Bucky is now strictly prohibiting employees from showing any visible
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  Speaker 1: tattoos while on the clock. So essentially you'd have to
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  Speaker 1: dress like a mummy for you to be able to work.
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  Speaker 6: So basically you'd have to wear, I would have to
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  Speaker 6: wear long sleeves every single day.
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  Speaker 1: Button the shirt up, all of that.
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  Speaker 6: Button the shirt up all the way to the top button.
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  Speaker 6: But if I did all that, I'd be able to
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  Speaker 6: get around it. But that is the, they are saying it.
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  Speaker 6: absolutely nothing visible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently they are enforcing it. Even a brief accidental
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  Speaker 1: glimpse of a tattoo, such as a sleeve rolling up,
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  Speaker 1: can result in being written down or fired on the spot.
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  Speaker 6: Wait, whoa, hold on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're taking it seriously.
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  Speaker 6: So even if I did all of that, and let's
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  Speaker 6: say I'm one of the brisket guys. I'm like, brisket
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  Speaker 6: on the board. I pull up the little chopper, and
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  Speaker 6: because of that, my shirt rides up a little bit
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  Speaker 6: over my collar.
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  Speaker 9: You're going to look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're out.
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  Speaker 9: You're fired.
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  Speaker 1: Done.
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  Speaker 9: You're fired.
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  Speaker 1: Other dress code guidelines. No body piercings or tongue piercings.
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  Speaker 20: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: No unnatural hair colors. No open toed shoes and no
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  Speaker 1: torn or faded clothing.
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  Speaker 6: This is a, this is a interesting point. I haven't
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  Speaker 6: heard a company take this hard of a line.
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks tried a while back.
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  Speaker 9: Starbucks?
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  Speaker 1: Starbucks. That's stupid. I remember that.
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  Speaker 6: How is Starbucks going to ban kids with tattoos?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it was one of those things. Piercings,
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  Speaker 1: purple hair, whatever. But I know they tried to do that.
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  Speaker 6: You don't pay them enough to tell them that.
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  Speaker 9: Buc-ee's, on the other hand, does.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Buc-ee's does.
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  Speaker 9: They absolutely do.
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  Speaker 1: They absolutely do. And I think that just as the
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  Speaker 1: story we had yesterday about Bucky Alpin himself saying that
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: they were trying, they focused on opening stores, new stores
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: in conservative states. Perhaps that's what they're trying to do
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: is make the store itself and therefore the staff more palatable. However,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the people walking around the Buc-ee's
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  Speaker 1: that you happen to pop into, they're not following this.
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  Speaker 6: That's my question. A lot of you guys are... The
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  Speaker 6: Infomaniacs audience is going to have a lot of business owners.
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  Speaker 9: We know that.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of you guys have been in this situation
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  Speaker 6: where you've had to manage employees, had to figure out
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  Speaker 6: what the standards are, where.
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  Speaker 9: You operate.
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  Speaker 6: A business in all different sectors, some in office settings,
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  Speaker 6: some in forward facing positions, whatever. Does it really matter
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  Speaker 6: in 2026 if they have tattoos?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it does.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm not I'm not I don't have a side
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: on this.
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  Speaker 9: I genuinely don't, even though I'm covered in them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think the tattoos, as long as they're
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: not like neck and face tattoos. I think that's I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to I wouldn't fire anybody for that
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: or not hire them. Unless it was one of those things.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: The facial piercings and that sort of thing, that sort
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: of stuff bugs me. Yeah. But if you want to
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  Speaker 1: walk around with a fishing lure in your face, you
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  Speaker 6: 979-695-1620. And genuinely, I don't know if it matters or not.
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  Speaker 6: I can tell you that as someone who went from
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• 17:43
  Speaker 6: still trying to find other jobs... It is something that
• 17:47
  Speaker 6: has crossed my mind many times that I might be
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: unemployable because of the amount of tattoos that I have.
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  Speaker 1: It is certainly a limiting factor in certain situations.
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  Speaker 6: And that's the thing. I don't know that it should be.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know that it shouldn't be. I know that
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  Speaker 6: it very possibly is. I just don't know how much
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  Speaker 6: business owners care anymore.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Now that you and I are spending a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more time together, like when we are out in public,
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  Speaker 1: on two occasions, I have seen what I would refer
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  Speaker 1: to as.
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  Speaker 1: Little old ladies or little old lady adjacent that have
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: come up to you and said, your tattoos are beautiful.
• 18:23
  Speaker 6: That's true. I get a lot of compliments on them
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: from people who you would not expect to compliment tattoos.
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: So is it that big of a deal?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Here's the other question I have, and
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: this is for employees in their store, right? Yeah. Is
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: anybody in the corporate office under the same guidelines?
• 18:43
  Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a good question.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: I mean, if you look at the numbers, most people
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: that are under a certain age, and I would guess
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: that age is probably 40 at this point, have at
• 18:55
  Speaker 6: least one tattoo. If it's not most, it's half. It's
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: absolutely half. Are some of them visible? Probably more of
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: them than not are visible. And again, I just don't know.
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: I think you're taking a whole lot of people out
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: of the pool. But then again, if it's that... And also,
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: I don't live in Missouri. Maybe people in Missouri freak
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: out when they see someone's tattoos, although having been to
• 19:19
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• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not that state. Not that state. Anyway.
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• 19:35
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• 19:38
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  Speaker 1: the WTAW Newsroom, good morning. I'm Will Welch. The cities
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  Speaker 1: of Bryan and College Station are asking residents to adopt
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: voluntary water restrictions. They say with high demand, water tower
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: levels can drop, affecting water pressure and the availability of
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  Speaker 1: Report any suspected leaks immediately. A man who was arrested
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  Speaker 1: last week for public intoxication after harassing two female students
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  Speaker 1: outside A & M Consolidated High School on August 18th,
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  Speaker 1: has been arrested again. 36-year-old Bob Esquivel was picked up
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  Speaker 1: again by College Station Police Tuesday night. Reports say Esquivel
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  Speaker 1: approached a home in the 1200 block of Carolina Street
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  Speaker 1: around 10.30 p.m. and tried to talk his way into
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  Speaker 1: the residence. He reportedly asked the residents if they liked
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  Speaker 1: cookies and offered to conduct Bible study with them. He
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: smelled of alcohol and had trouble walking. He was booked
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  Speaker 1: into the Brazos County Jail for public intoxication and was
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: again released on a personal recognizance bond of $ 300, the
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: same as last week. This was Esquivel's 27th booking into
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: the jail and his 10th arrest for public intoxication. He
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: also has numerous arrests for criminal trespass, as well as
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: assault of EMS personnel and possession of a controlled substance.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: A stolen skid steer has been recovered thanks to GPS.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: The Burleson County Sheriff's Office said the John Deere skid steer,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: worth about $ 115, 000, was being used to install fiber optic
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  Speaker 1: rental company, Equipment Share, led officers to the equipment in
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  Speaker 1: a wooded piece of private property in the Clay community
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  Speaker 1: near Snook. They say the equipment was visible from the road.
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  Speaker 1: After matching the identification numbers, the skid steer was returned
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  Speaker 1: to the rental company without damage. Anyone with information regarding
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  Speaker 1: the theft is asked to contact the Burleson County Sheriff's Office.
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  Speaker 1: Less than a week into the College Station ISD school
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  Speaker 1: year and a student has been arrested for having a
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: THC vape at school. Arrest records say the 17-year-old student
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  Speaker 1: from A & M Consolidated High School was arrested on
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday after the device fell out of his pocket. We
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: are withholding his name due to his age. He was
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: charged with possession of a controlled substance penalty group two
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: under one gram in a drug-free zone. He remains jailed
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: on $ 15, 000 bond. Aggieland Humane Society says they have three
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: and a half times the normal number of dogs in
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the shelter with heartworm disease. Katrina Ross says heartworms are treatable,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: but they are in need of donations to fund the treatment.
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  Speaker 2: We were looking to raise around $ 9, 000 to cover the
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: treatment for, it comes out to be about 15 dogs.
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  Speaker 2: And so currently we're about halfway there.
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  Speaker 1: If you would like to help, you can visit AggielandHumane.org.
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  Speaker 1: The central Texas city of Pflugerville near Austin has ended
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: its relationship with flock. The city covered up all 28
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  Speaker 1: cameras Tuesday in advance of their city council meeting. Pflugerville
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  Speaker 1: announced on Facebook Wednesday that council voted unanimously to end
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  Speaker 1: the agreement with Flock. The city authorized 80 agencies to
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  Speaker 1: access their data, only to discover that nearly 480 agencies
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: were tapping into the system. Concerns from Pflugerville residents caused
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the city to pause renewal of the contract that expired
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: last month. But after new revelations came to light, Councilmember
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Kaufman says the decision was easy.
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  Speaker 27: You know, I'm not sure if we would have uncovered
• 29:39
  Speaker 27: this evidence. and this situation had we gone ahead and
• 29:43
  Speaker 27: voted last time. But certainly this made it abundantly clear
• 29:46
  Speaker 27: to all of us that that change was needed.
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  Speaker 1: There's a tentative settlement agreement between Meta and dozens of
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  Speaker 28: This is not just Instagram and Facebook. We have also
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• 30:28
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  Speaker 6: the difference. Shall we take our shot? I think we
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  Speaker 6: have to. With some of these long-haul submissions.
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• 34:54
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  Speaker 1: And they had a mom calling competition. Right. Not unlike
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  Speaker 1: the pig calling competition or the cow calling competition or
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're calling, duck calling. But they have a mom caller.
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  Speaker 6: It's pretty great and shows potential, quite frankly, because my
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  Speaker 6: thought is you got some pretty loud kids around here.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, come on. You were saying your daughter.
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  Speaker 1: I think my kids would have stacked up. I know
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  Speaker 1: some other kids in the family that would have stacked up.
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  Speaker 1: I've seen kids in public.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I think we've all seen that.
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  Speaker 16: All right.
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  Speaker 6: This first submission comes from Chase. He says, my daughter
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  Speaker 6: is in the truck with me listening to you guys.
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  Speaker 6: And she insisted that she give it a try.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Let's hear it.
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  Speaker 7: Go.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, the tone is.
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  Speaker 1: That's got a certain shrill to it that just.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's real.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's kind of twist like in my back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 9: Jay, what do we got here?
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  Speaker 28: Mom, Mommy, Daddy missed the possum twice.
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  Speaker 29: He missed his dinner.
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  Speaker 9: What are we going to eat?
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  Speaker 1: I think that was a Jay's kid. That's Jay.
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  Speaker 6: That's very possible. You had me at the start, Jay.
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  Speaker 6: I was all on board.
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  Speaker 1: I think you're faking it, Jay.
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  Speaker 6: It's either that or your kid is Towley from South Park.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure which one is true.
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  Speaker 9: But, yeah, if you've got a kid that can stand up.
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  Speaker 6: Two South Park references in a very short amount of time.
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  Speaker 6: We're about to talk the Canada trade war, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, dear God.
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  Speaker 6: That needs theme music. I've been watching this a little bit,
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  Speaker 6: and I've been wondering how this would possibly go well
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  Speaker 6: for the nation of Canada. Because Canada... economically is about
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: 1 13th the size of the u.s economically which makes.
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  Speaker 1: It less than the economic size of texas.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah it's not how because the only way you win
• 37:01
  Speaker 6: one of these trade wars is you have to make
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  Speaker 6: it real painful for the consumers on the other side
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  Speaker 6: of the of the border that you're you're trading with
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  Speaker 6: now I guess, do.
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  Speaker 9: You consume a lot of Canadian whiskey? Are you a
• 37:15
  Speaker 9: Canadian whiskey guy?
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  Speaker 1: No, no, in fact, Canadian whiskeys I have not really
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  Speaker 1: consumed since I was in college, and that was the
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  Speaker 1: thing to do.
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  Speaker 6: Because you got good American bourbon here.
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: You don't need that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need that maple syrup-flavored Canada sweet nastiness.
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  Speaker 6: So I guess maple syrup, if you're really into that,
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: maybe that could hurt you. But I have been tearing
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  Speaker 6: what little hair I have out of my head trying
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: to figure out what product... that would possibly be the
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: product that could get Americans to flinch. And then I
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: see this, and I think we almost need to just
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: admit that we've been beaten. We need to tap out,
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: because they figured it out, y'all. They got to us.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: They got to us.
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  Speaker 1: I think they hit us where they hurt with this one.
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  Speaker 9: Any guess?
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Well, you know. I know, but I'll tell you, my
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: first guess was whiskey. Yeah. My second guess was syrup.
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  Speaker 9: It was the maple syrup.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my third guess may be a province.
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Because people in Canada want to be part of the
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  Speaker 1: United States, certain people in Canada. I don't know anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the United States that's saying, I think we should
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  Speaker 1: be Canadian.
• 38:20
  Speaker 9: It's the toilet paper.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know that you should have said that.
• 38:23
  Speaker 9: It's the toilet paper.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I was reticent to mention this, lest we pull the
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: pin on another run on toilet paper grenade. The U.S.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: And Canada and the trade war following the breakdown of
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: means they have tariffed toilet paper.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: 25 to 50%. Yeah, 50%. Yeah.
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: And you might be thinking, well, How much toilet paper
• 38:46
  Speaker 6: do we import from Canada? Y'all, they're our largest supplier
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: of toilet paper.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: That stuns me. Did you?
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: I would never have thought. I knew that from an
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  Speaker 1: electronic standpoint, from a pharmaceutical standpoint, that the United States
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: had lost its manufacturing capabilities.
• 39:04
  Speaker 6: We outsourced all that, and that probably wasn't wise.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: No, and we're bringing a lot of that back in.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, but toilet paper?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Look, I don't know how long it'll take to spin
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  Speaker 1: up The U.S. toilet paper manufacturing machine.
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: Who's going to start making freedom paper out there? Georgia Pacific, man.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: Let's get to it. Procter & Gamble, who owns Charmin,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: have already said we are hosed. They have already said.
• 39:30
  Speaker 6: that you're going to get increases very soon based on
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: the tariffs. We imported 328 million worth of toilet paper
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: from Canada in 2024.
• 39:41
  Speaker 9: 2025 stats are very similar to that.
• 39:43
  Speaker 23: So, oof.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: You know who's going to benefit most from this?
• 39:51
  Speaker 9: Who makes family cloths?
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Well, no, not even that.
• 39:55
  Speaker 10: Not that.
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: And we don't have catalogs anymore, but what we do have.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Bidets.
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  Speaker 9: This could be.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: This is the answer, and I'm not a bidet guy.
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: My word, Will.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: This could be the thing that turns us. Bidet people
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: are like CrossFitters and IPA drinkers. They can't talk enough
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: about their bidets and how much they love them.
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: Is there anyone listening who has a bidet?
• 40:20
  Speaker 21: Oh, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: I think we've talked about it before.
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  Speaker 9: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 1: And they swear by them.
• 40:26
  Speaker 9: Please, if you've got a bidet, we need to hear
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  Speaker 9: from you this morning.
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  Speaker 1: So this might be the answer.
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: Because this might be the thing that saves us.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, America's saved by plumbing toilet apparatus.
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: That's right.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: You've been sitting on these things thinking, okay, this is
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: just a great... No, this could be what wins the
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: trade war, is if we can all figure out the bidet.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Take your toilet paper. But here's the other issue with that.
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  Speaker 23: Right.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: You think data centers use a lot of water. If
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: we suddenly are all a country of bidets, how's our
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  Speaker 1: water supply going to be?
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  Speaker 9: Solutions are going to have to be found.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Which I.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: We'll see. I think it's a multi-pronged approach. I think
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: before we resort to corn cobs, I think that what
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: we really need to do is increase the manufacturing capability
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: of toilet paper here in the United States.
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: Let's go to you guys.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: And then maybe we also get some price breaks from
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the U.S. government on bidets. We'll see.
• 41:22
  Speaker 9: WTAW, good morning. You're on the radio. What do you
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  Speaker 9: have for us today?
• 41:27
  Speaker 10: You wanted to talk about bidets a little bit.
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: I certainly do.
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  Speaker 10: I think they are one of the best inventions on
• 41:34
  Speaker 10: this planet, better than CrossFit.
• 41:37
  Speaker 9: Wow, an enthusiast.
• 41:39
  Speaker 10: And the thing that I tell the septic guy is
• 41:45
  Speaker 10: we don't use very much toilet paper. And he says,
• 41:49
  Speaker 10: you know, I can tell. And this was when he
• 41:51
  Speaker 10: drained the septic system first. Four and a half years ago.
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  Speaker 6: So it showed real-life impact.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: It does on the septic system.
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  Speaker 9: On the septic system.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: Now let me ask you this. As a man, how
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: long have you had a bidet?
• 42:05
  Speaker 10: About four and a half, five years.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: Would you ever dream of going back to living without
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: your bidet?
• 42:13
  Speaker 10: No, no, no, no, no, no. See?
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I'm telling you.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Just like CrossFitters, cyclists.
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  Speaker 10: And in fact, we gave... as a Christmas gift, a
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: full bidet set up to our son and his wife,
• 42:30
  Speaker 10: and they too are now converts.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: How awkward was that?
• 42:37
  Speaker 10: Well, there's all kinds of evangelism.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. And I understand your passion for it.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I'm just picturing... You know, the kids under the Christmas tree.
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  Speaker 6: It doesn't seem like something you would want Santa to
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: bring you.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: Unwrapping the gift. It's kind of like when I got
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: under ruse when I was 13. No, no.
• 42:55
  Speaker 10: They were very, very pleased.
• 42:58
  Speaker 9: You know what?
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: Keep spreading the good word, man. I think we need
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: to step it up.
• 43:00
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: We got to, for America, for God.
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: And country, we need to adopt a, we need to
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: be very strong on bidets.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 10: Can I close with this?
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  Speaker 30: at Ellis Field as they return for their second home
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  Speaker 30: game contest against the unbeaten Air Force Falcons. Head coach
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  Speaker 30: Bobby Shuttleworth reflected back on the Aggies' shutout win against
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  Speaker 30: Sam Houston and the team's development over the past few games.
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  Speaker 12: I think shutout first and foremost. I think it looked
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  Speaker 12: like a group that was connected and together and solving
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  Speaker 12: the game. I think that was the biggest thing. We
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  Speaker 12: were all kind of had a plan moving together and
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  Speaker 12: solving the game. Obviously, anytime you get a win, it's
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  Speaker 12: I spoke to our team about when you win, you're
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  Speaker 12: You know, I look at our play throughout the four
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  Speaker 12: games and, you know, I think we haven't been consistent enough.
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  Speaker 12: And I think there's been moments where we've shown we
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  Speaker 12: can be a really good team. And then there's been
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  Speaker 12: you know, so. I spoke a lot with them about
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  Speaker 12: a great win, but now we need to move forward
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  Speaker 12: because we're going to be playing against another good team.
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  Speaker 30: Coach Shuttleworth also shared thoughts ahead of tonight's game against
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  Speaker 30: Air Force and what the team has been focusing on
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  Speaker 30: ahead of the match.
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  Speaker 12: I think we're playing against a good team. Obviously, like
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  Speaker 12: you said, undefeated, and they've scored a lot of goals.
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  Speaker 12: So we're just working on staying connected with each other
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  Speaker 12: and making sure that we're doing the work to support
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  Speaker 12: one another both in attack and in defense. and then
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  Speaker 12: continuing to just be good with the ball and making
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  Speaker 12: sure that our technical execution is consistent.
• 48:59
  Speaker 30: The Aggies contest against Air Force starts tonight at 7 o'clock.
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  Speaker 30: Texas A & M Volleyball's Taylor Humphrey recently signed her
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  Speaker 30: player from A & M' s 2025 National Championship roster to
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  Speaker 30: Aggie women's tennis Luciana Perez, the reigning Intercollegiate Tennis Association
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  Speaker 30: National Player of the Year, headlined a group of six
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  Speaker 30: Aggies highlighting the preseason 2026-27 ITA rankings. The women's squad
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  Speaker 30: had five players named to the ITA singles ranking, along
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  Speaker 30: M men's tennis team earned seven spots in the ITA
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  Speaker 30: running back Reuben Owens, and quarterback Marcel Reed. The award
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  Speaker 30: finalist for last season. The Manning Award is the only
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  Speaker 6: 1620, 94.5 WTAW. They're still keeping a chance of rain
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  Speaker 6: 100 degrees. It'll feel much hotter than that. Today, I
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  Speaker 9: They're calling it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we got this humidity that was almost rain.
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  Speaker 9: And down to the 70s tonight.
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  Speaker 6: Flats like 97, 98 for the high tomorrow, though.
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  Speaker 6: A country that gave us yoga pants could be so
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking about... You're telling me, fella. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about Canadians. Because they're jumping the toilet paper tariff to
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  Speaker 1: respond to Trump's... That's right.
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  Speaker 30: Tariffs.
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  Speaker 9: That's one of the reciprocal tariffs. It's toilet paper.
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  Speaker 6: Someone told me my data is flawed and we produce
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  Speaker 6: plenty of toilet paper.
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  Speaker 9: Well, tell it to Charmin.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: They're the ones saying they're about to raise prices on you.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: Well, they might be just saying that. But regardless, we've gone...
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  Speaker 1: To the fact that it is your patriotic duty.
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  Speaker 9: It absolutely is.
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  Speaker 1: Get it?
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  Speaker 15: Duty?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, stop.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. Patriotic duty to ramp up the toilet
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  Speaker 1: paper stuff here in the production.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's right.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: And Robert reminds us, tell the people of BCS not
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: to empty the shelves of toilet paper. And as I predicted,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: there are... Dozens of people who have come to the
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  Speaker 1: forefront defending their bidets.
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  Speaker 6: And I love this. I love this because, again, I
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: think it's your patriotic duty to make the switch to
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: a bidet.
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  Speaker 9: Forget energy independence.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: You said duty again.
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  Speaker 25: I did.
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  Speaker 9: I want toilet paper independence in this country.
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: We need it.
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: We do not need a weakness like that hanging out
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  Speaker 6: there to where a.
• 53:52
  Speaker 9: Country can exploit us because we need TP. It's ridiculous.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Ridiculous.
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: Maybe we'll get some of these reviews. A lot of
• 53:59
  Speaker 6: you guys are big fans.
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: Big, big bidet fans.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: You can tell that Will is warming up over there
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: with these duty jokes.
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  Speaker 26: I am.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: I am what I am.
• 54:06
  Speaker 9: And that is because it is Thursday.
• 54:09
  Speaker 6: And on Thursday, we take a pause from our lives
• 54:14
  Speaker 6: to enjoy a moment of levity, a moment of cheers.
• 54:18
  Speaker 9: A moment of laughter.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: A moment of groans.
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: It is time for Jokes with Will.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: My wife said, you really have no sense of direction,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: do you? I said, where did that come from? Did
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: you hear about the giant Lego sale? No. People were
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: lined up for blocks. What do you call a man
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: with a rubber toe?
• 54:44
  Speaker 6: What do you call a man with.
• 54:46
  Speaker 9: A rubber toe, Will?
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  Speaker 1: Roberto.
• 54:51
  Speaker 6: That's a groaner.
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: It's good. I woke up this morning. I found stir
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: fry all over my bed. I guess I was sleepwalking.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: What do you call octopuses that all look the same?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: What do you call octopuses that all look the same?
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  Speaker 1: A tentacle.
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  Speaker 9: Because it's a tentacle.
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  Speaker 1: A tentacle.
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  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Doctor said I might lose three fingers from my hand.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: He said I might be able to write with it,
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  Speaker 1: but don't count on it.
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  Speaker 9: Always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 6: Back to your text messages at 979-695. Jared says you
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  Speaker 6: guys are on a roll.
• 55:36
  Speaker 9: Thank you.
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. We do
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: one more text about the bidets and so forth. Well,
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: we had this guy checked in there, Frank. He said bidets. Hell,
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: we just got used to chamber pots over here in
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Washington County.
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  Speaker 21: Hell yeah.
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  Speaker 10: That's that.
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: Independence.
• 55:53
  Speaker 10: That's right.
• 55:53
  Speaker 19: Independence.
• 55:54
  Speaker 9: We never should have gotten away from.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: The chamber pots. 1776, our founding fathers used the chamber pots.
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: If it was good.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: Enough for John Adams and George Washington, it's good enough
• 56:03
  Speaker 5: for us.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 56:04
  Speaker 6: Respect the founding fathers.
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure George Washington carved one out of a
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: cherry tree. I think that's historically accurate.
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: I don't know. That sort of thing, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and I know it's octopi.
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  Speaker 17: Brian.