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The Infomaniacs: October 26th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: and trade gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, watches, and collectible coins,
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  Speaker 1: the WTAW Newsroom, good morning. I'm Will Welch. The largest
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  Speaker 1: planned development in the city's history is coming to College Station.
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  Speaker 1: Rezoning measures were approved at last week's city council meeting
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  Speaker 1: that will pave the way for Savannah Oaks. It's a
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  Speaker 1: master-planned community located off of Highway 6 between Pebble Creek
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  Speaker 1: and Southern Point. The plan includes nearly 2,700 single-family home
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  Speaker 1: sites and two planned townhome sites. The developers expect Phase
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  Speaker 1: 1 to begin in the first quarter of 2027, with
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  Speaker 1: the first residents moving in in early summer 2028. Two
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  Speaker 1: people were arrested after failing to scan items at the
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  Speaker 1: self-checkout at the West Bryan Walmart. Bryan Police Department responded
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  Speaker 1: to the store on Saturday. Employees say 45-year-old Jessica Hernandez
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  Speaker 1: and 31-year-old Alex Hernandez failed to scan 15 cosmetic and
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  Speaker 1: household items worth $ 132. Both were charged with theft between
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 and $ 750 and are free on $ 3, 000 bond each.
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  Speaker 1: This was Alex Hernandez's 19th booking into the Brazos County Jail.
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  Speaker 1: One week of early voting is in the books. From
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  Speaker 1: Monday through Sunday, 29,965 voters in Brazos County cast their ballots.
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  Speaker 1: The last day of early voting is Friday in advance
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  Speaker 1: of next Tuesday's November 3rd general election. Early voting locations
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  Speaker 1: in Brazos County are the MSC, College Station Utilities, Arena Hall,
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  Speaker 1: Galilee Baptist Church, or the county's election office. A full
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  Speaker 1: list of locations with dates and times can be found
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  Speaker 1: at brazosvotes.org. On election night, tune in to WTAW for
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  Speaker 1: wall-to-wall results coverage. Fox News will keep us updated on
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  Speaker 1: crucial races across the country. Jeanette Munchau will be providing
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  Speaker 1: live updates on local and state races as results are released.
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  Speaker 1: A bill in response to last summer's flooding in the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Hill Country has been signed into law by President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: The Mystic Alerts Act will let cell phone companies work
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  Speaker 1: with satellite companies... to deliver emergency alerts. It's designed for
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  Speaker 1: times when the local cell phone network is disrupted by
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  Speaker 1: bad weather. Senator John Cornyn says that system could have
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  Speaker 1: saved lives last summer, including the 28 people who died
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  Speaker 1: at Camp Mystic.
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  Speaker 2: We will never be able to make things right for
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  Speaker 2: the families that continue to grieve unless we take a
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  Speaker 2: chance to honor the memories of those who lost their
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  Speaker 2: lives and their families and to prevent the horrors from
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  Speaker 2: hopefully ever happening again.
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  Speaker 1: Congressman August Pfluger led this legislation in the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 1: It passed the House in April and the Senate in September.
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  Speaker 1: A former Texas Tech professor has been sentenced to 40
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  Speaker 1: years in prison for making and selling fentanyl.
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  Speaker 3: 51-year-old Daniel Taylor taught supply chain management. He pleaded guilty
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  Speaker 3: to drug charges in July and distributed fentanyl powder throughout
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  Speaker 3: the Lubbock area. He made two types, a potent white
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  Speaker 3: powder known as Ghost and Pink Flamingo, a mix he
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  Speaker 3: dyed pink and packaged with Flamingo-branded stickers and envelopes. Police
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  Speaker 3: caught wind of this last year, and in January, agents
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  Speaker 3: saw Taylor meet with one of his dealers in a
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  Speaker 3: parking lot. Shortly after, a passenger in that car was
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  Speaker 3: hospitalized after an overdose. Taylor also gave multiple women drugs
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  Speaker 3: in exchange for sex. Several were poisoned, including one who
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  Speaker 3: needed multiple doses of Narcan. Eric Bushman, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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  Speaker 1: news at 8.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Turbeville here.
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  Speaker 4: 1620-945-WTAW, Infomaniacs. Good morning. Getting up to 82, 83 today.
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  Speaker 4: Not terrible. Back down to around 60 tonight. And then
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  Speaker 4: for tomorrow, we're going to go right back up to
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  Speaker 4: a high in the low 80s. And, you know, some clouds,
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  Speaker 4: which will make a lot more sense Wednesday when there's
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  Speaker 4: a 40% chance of showers creeping back into the forecast.
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  Speaker 4: back to the Halloween thing because there was one other
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  Speaker 4: Halloween story that I had. And it has to do with,
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  Speaker 4: I think you had this too. We get a little
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  Speaker 4: bit of a bonus this year for Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: It's the fall back.
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  Speaker 4: Halloween lands on, yeah, Halloween weekend lands on fall back,
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  Speaker 4: which means, guys, you get an extra hour of.
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  Speaker 1: Halloween That's only for the select few that stay up
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  Speaker 1: that late.
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  Speaker 4: A bunch of monsters.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Northgate.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be a big Northgate weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Should be. Let's be real. A Halloween Saturday night hasn't
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  Speaker 1: happened in a long time. It's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: For a long time. It's going to be 11 years, 2037.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it 11 years? Because of a leap year
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  Speaker 1: or something like that, right? So it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: 11 years, 2037 is when we get another Saturday Halloween.
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  Speaker 4: More importantly, yeah, that means fall back is this weekend,
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  Speaker 4: which means we're going to do it again. I thought,
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  Speaker 4: am I crazy that this was supposed to stop?
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  Speaker 1: We all wanted it.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't the president suggest that I don't think it was
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  Speaker 4: a bill.
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  Speaker 1: He was talking about doing it by executive order. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I swear there was a bill that was passed. And
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  Speaker 4: then I I will Google this to find out.
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  Speaker 1: Congress probably went on vacation without taking action.
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  Speaker 4: We've been we are all.
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  Speaker 1: All of us.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, not all of us in agreement. Some people.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, people bring up the same thing. Kids can't
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  Speaker 4: go to the school.
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  Speaker 1: In the dark. Whatever. That's not the way that works.
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  Speaker 1: Kids go to school in the dark all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: Kids go to school in the dark. And no one
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  Speaker 4: walks to school anymore. We've covered that. I look around
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  Speaker 4: my neighborhood. I don't see a bunch of kids just
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  Speaker 4: tripsing down the street, going to class every single day.
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  Speaker 4: I'll load them up in the car, and you drive them.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. Like, we can do this. Everyone has said
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  Speaker 4: we can do this.
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  Speaker 1: This is one of those things where the percentages in
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  Speaker 1: favor of getting rid of it are about the same
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  Speaker 1: percentages that you see for other things that aren't getting
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  Speaker 1: through the government either.
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  Speaker 4: What would you give up to be able to... I mean, because, again,
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  Speaker 4: compromise is what the American system is built on.
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  Speaker 1: I always said the compromise was fine. Let's take a
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  Speaker 1: half hour and reset time.
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  Speaker 6: But.
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  Speaker 8: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Because time is a construct anyway.
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  Speaker 4: It's made up.
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  Speaker 1: It's made up. Senate declined that, by the way. Sam
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  Speaker 1: sent in the... Oh, yeah? What did Sam say? Sam
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  Speaker 1: sent in the link there.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see. What do you mean they declined? They declined
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  Speaker 4: to no clear path forward. How is there not a
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  Speaker 4: clear path forward for this? Senate says there's no consensus
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  Speaker 4: on permanent daylight savings. Name and shame. Name and shame.
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  Speaker 4: Who are the senators that are like, nah, nah, nah, nah?
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  Speaker 4: Because I think I know what the problem is. I
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  Speaker 4: think you have a hot bill. And then they're going
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  Speaker 4: to do the thing that they love to do more
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  Speaker 4: than anything, which is tack on all of your stupid
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  Speaker 4: little pet projects to it. Can we just pass on that?
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  Speaker 4: Can we just take a break on that for one day?
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  Speaker 1: It could be the lobby as well. The big light
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  Speaker 1: bulb lobby.
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  Speaker 4: Big power. Someone texted that in last time this came up,
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  Speaker 4: is that you guys, you don't know what you're asking.
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  Speaker 4: If you do this, it creates more strain on the
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  Speaker 4: grid and You know what? Rail is out there cooking
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  Speaker 4: up nuclear reactors that can fit in the back of
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  Speaker 4: a truck. I think we're at the cusp, y'all. Not
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  Speaker 4: having to worry about that noise anymore. And I would
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  Speaker 4: just like to get ahead of the curve.
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  Speaker 1: We should.
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  Speaker 4: Those are the worst two days of the year. The
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  Speaker 4: day after fall back and the day after spring forward.
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  Speaker 4: And you go, well, one of them, you're getting more sleep.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get any more sleep. When you reach my age,
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  Speaker 1: your time is set. When I sleep in on the weekends,
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  Speaker 1: the most I can get is to like 6 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: If I have to do some journalism on this, I
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  Speaker 4: will do some journalism on this. And y'all better watch
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  Speaker 4: out because, as you know, the Senate, races look for anything,
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  Speaker 4: anything they can do to put in an ad. If
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  Speaker 4: I have to run, if I have to form a
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  Speaker 4: pack to blow up whatever Senator's.
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  Speaker 1: Senate candidate Jim Smith is against time change.
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  Speaker 4: Senate candidate Jim Smith voted against time change. He voted
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  Speaker 4: to make you get up an hour early in the spring.
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  Speaker 4: Can we trust Jim Smith? That's going to sink your battleship, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the tag. Now is not the time for Jim Smith.
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  Speaker 1: Got to send it home, man.
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  Speaker 4: Everyone mark this down. I'm bringing this back in two years,
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  Speaker 4: and it's going to happen. We are not going to
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  Speaker 4: sleep on this issue anymore. See, I can occasionally get
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  Speaker 1: 1620, 94.5, WTAW, good morning, everyone.
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  Speaker 9: Um.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, I'm still hung up on the campaign ads. Like,
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  Speaker 4: how has no one figured out that this is an
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  Speaker 4: 80-20 issue? We love 80-20 issues in politics. If you
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  Speaker 4: can get an 80-20 issue, you just beat them with it.
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  Speaker 4: For months at a time. This is an 80-20 issue.
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  Speaker 4: This is not even close. Most of it just wanted
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  Speaker 4: to be one time. Take it. I genuinely don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Which one it is. Again, if you want to argue
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  Speaker 1: between one or the other, I'm happy to split the
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  Speaker 1: difference with you. We will start on a half hour.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And just recreate the time.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care. I don't care. Just just make it.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Make it when we can.
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  Speaker 1: We can set up it there. We can set up
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  Speaker 1: a telephone line at which you can call. Say a
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  Speaker 1: number like eight, two, two, six, seven, one, two.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it will give you the time. So, yeah, you
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  Speaker 1: know what it is.
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  Speaker 4: I just I very, very, very frustrating. And one day,
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  Speaker 4: one day I'm convinced. We will solve this thing.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe I actually remembered the time and temperature
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  Speaker 1: telephone number.
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  Speaker 4: 822-6712. Yeah, that was before there was, you know, when
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  Speaker 4: you had to synchronize your clocks to things, before they
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  Speaker 4: just did it. I mean, heck, we're talking about time change.
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  Speaker 4: Remember we used to have to run the ads every,
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  Speaker 4: it was one of the things every radio station had
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  Speaker 4: to do. You had to pretty much remind people, hey,
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  Speaker 4: set your clock forward, set your clock back, pfft.
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  Speaker 1: And remember to change your smoke detector batteries at the
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  Speaker 1: same time.
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  Speaker 4: How many clocks do you have that you have to
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  Speaker 4: actually set back anymore in your home today?
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  Speaker 1: How many? In my home, at the home, I don't
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  Speaker 1: have any.
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  Speaker 4: Zero.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe the microwave clock. And maybe the coffee maker clock.
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  Speaker 4: Do you change those?
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  Speaker 1: I don't change them, but I don't look at that
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  Speaker 1: appliance to tell time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've got my phone right here.
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  Speaker 1: I've got an analog watch on my wrist that'll tell
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  Speaker 1: me what the time is.
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  Speaker 4: So you change your watch.
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  Speaker 1: I will change my watch. Okay. Now, and down at
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  Speaker 1: the B & B, I actually have, and I probably
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  Speaker 1: need to move this up to the main house. I've
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  Speaker 1: got a clock. It's just a little like mantle clock
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  Speaker 1: that's designed to hold a firearm in it. Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 1: It's got a little trap door.
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  Speaker 4: On the back of it. But you want to keep
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  Speaker 4: it looking real.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You got to make sure.
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  Speaker 1: So I need to move that up anyway.
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  Speaker 4: I'm always interested. If you actually do have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of clocks you need to change, you might be one
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  Speaker 4: of the last people left out there. So please tell us. 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 4: I genuinely have zero. There's every single device that has
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  Speaker 4: a clock in my home. I'd have to double check you.
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  Speaker 4: On the microwave, but I really don't care about that one.
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  Speaker 4: All the other ones, my car.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does it automatically. I'm just thinking about the
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  Speaker 1: grandfather clock in my parents' home. Oh, yeah. That has
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  Speaker 1: to be changed. Grandfather clocks used to be a big deal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they're a big deal anymore.
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  Speaker 4: They've kind of gone away. People don't like the noise, apparently.
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  Speaker 4: I love the noise. I'd give a lot to have
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  Speaker 4: a grandfather clock in my house.
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  Speaker 1: Really? How much?
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  Speaker 4: Will, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: Afford one now. Make me an offer.
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  Speaker 4: If financial times improve for the young household, I would
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  Speaker 4: love to have one one day. Martha says she's got
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  Speaker 4: seven clocks in her home.
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  Speaker 1: Bob says his smoke detectors have 10-year batteries in them.
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  Speaker 1: What the heck is that?
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  Speaker 4: You plug them in now. You can just run them
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  Speaker 4: into a.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate those, though, because when they go off
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  Speaker 1: and they, you know, when they make an error and
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  Speaker 1: go off, You have to take a broomstick and knock
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  Speaker 1: them out of the ceiling to shut them up. Don't
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  Speaker 1: ask me how I know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm right there with you. Terry, time and temperature doesn't
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  Speaker 4: work any longer. They disconnected it. I tried to explain
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  Speaker 4: to a 20-year-old the other day, and my attempt failed.
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  Speaker 4: It just rang. He thought he was going to, hey, no, no, really,
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  Speaker 4: this is a thing that used to, no, he just
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  Speaker 4: thought he was lying.
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  Speaker 1: How old am I? I'm so old that I dialed
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  Speaker 1: time and temperature on a rotary phone.
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  Speaker 4: 8-2-2-6-7-1-2 was the morning ritual, says John, to know how
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  Speaker 1: gave rain.
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  Speaker 4: Well, John would know better than me. I'm going to guess.
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  Speaker 4: I don't remember getting a forecast from them at all.
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  Speaker 4: You'd get time, you'd get temperature.
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  Speaker 1: Time and temperature. Was it time, temperature, and weather? It
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  Speaker 4: It could tell you the code. I don't know. I
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  Speaker 4: And it was a thing. I mean, there were a
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  Speaker 4: ton of places like that. I mean, you just sit
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  Speaker 1: We would get the forecast from the early days of
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Where it just had like a text file up there.
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  Speaker 1: You know, that came back out. There's a website that
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  Speaker 1: is the next version of that. And it's current weather.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to find that website. We talked about it
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  Speaker 1: last year.
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  Speaker 16: This is Today in Texas History brought to you by
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Bryan
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  Speaker 1: Police found two handguns equipped with devices capable of converting
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  Speaker 1: them into fully automatic weapons during an arrest last week.
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  Speaker 1: BPD stopped a vehicle near North Harvey Mitchell Parkway and
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  Speaker 1: Rock Hollow Loop around 4 p.m. on Thursday after recognizing
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  Speaker 1: the driver from a recent traffic stop where he did
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  Speaker 1: not have a valid driver's license. Officers say they could
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  Speaker 1: smell burnt marijuana coming from the car driven by 20-year-old
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Quincy Nickerson. The passengers, 19-year-old Spencer Caldwell and 32-year-old Jordan Reese,
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  Speaker 1: reportedly appeared nervous. Officers found two 9mm handguns equipped with
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: conversion devices capable of converting the handguns into fully automatic weapons.
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  Speaker 1: One of those guns had no serial number, making it
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  Speaker 1: what is called a ghost gun. Investigators also recovered ammunition
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  Speaker 1: and marijuana. Nickerson was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon,
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  Speaker 1: unlawful carrying of a weapon, possession of marijuana, possession of
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: drug paraphernalia, and driving without a license. He remains jailed
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  Speaker 1: on $ 35, 000 bond. This was his fifth arrest since 2023.
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  Speaker 1: Caldwell admitted to owning one of the guns, saying he
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  Speaker 1: bought it from a friend for approximately $ 500 about a
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  Speaker 1: week earlier, but denied knowing the weapon had a conversion device.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, unlawful
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  Speaker 1: carrying of a weapon, and possession of marijuana. He is
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: free on $ 22, 000 bond. It was his third arrest since
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  Speaker 1: September 2025. Reese was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: He is free on $ 350 bond. It was his third
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: arrest since 2014. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Explosives was contacted because of the possibility of federal charges
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: involving the conversion devices. A College Station woman was arrested
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: after causing nearly $ 6, 500 in damages to her ex-boyfriend's car
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: and motorcycle. Police say 36-year-old Irma Smith admitted to damaging
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the vehicles at an apartment on Luther Street after an
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: argument in March. Police say Smith keyed his 2024 Nissan Altima,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: causing approximately $ 1, 300 in damages. She also pushed over his
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: 2001 Suzuki Hayabusa motorcycle, causing nearly $ 5, 200 in damages. Smith
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  Speaker 1: was arrested on Wednesday. She was charged with criminal mischief
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: involving property damage valued between $ 2, 500 and $ 30, 000. Smith is
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: free on $ 5, 000 bond. Nearly 2,700 new single-family homes are
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: planned for South College Station. Savannah Oaks is a more
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: than 1,200-acre master plan community. and will be the largest
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: development in the city's history. Located off Highway 6, it
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: will span the gap between Pebble Creek and Southern Point.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to the nearly 2,700 single-family home sites, there
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  Speaker 1: are two planned townhome sites. There will be more than
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  Speaker 1: 285 acres of parkland and open space, plus a 162-acre
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: mixed-use district along Highway 6. A builder lineup will be
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: released soon. The developers, Silverfin Land Development, anticipate phase one
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  Speaker 1: to begin in the first quarter of 2027. Model homes
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and the first residents are targeted for the summer of 2028.
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: It's the last week of warrant amnesty in College Station.
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  Speaker 1: If you have an outstanding municipal warrant, You can go
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  Speaker 1: to the courthouse and take care of the ticket without
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  Speaker 1: an arrest. They'll even waive the $ 75 warrant fee. You
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  Speaker 1: can check online to see if you have a warrant
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  Speaker 1: and how much the fines are at cstx.gov. It is
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  Speaker 1: recommended to take care of the warrants on your own
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  Speaker 1: terms this week because warrant roundups will soon follow. Join
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  Speaker 1: the College Station Police Department tonight for Cops and Goblins
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  Speaker 1: at Wolf Penn Creek Park from 5 to 8 p.m.
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  Speaker 1: Bring out the whole family for trunk-or-treating, games, crafts, bounce houses,
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  Speaker 1: train rides, and plenty of Halloween fun. The College Station
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Fire Department was asked to assist with a gas leak
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: near the Texas Renaissance Festival this weekend. The Todd Mission
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: VFD responded to a leak around 9 a.m. Saturday. An
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: underground propane tank containing about 300 gallons of propane had
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: a leak. and the shutoff valve was broken. Homes around
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Tulip Tree Lane were evacuated, and campfires at the Ren
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Faire were asked to be extinguished, but no guests were evacuated.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: CSFD was called in to help with the burn-off. Authorities
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: in Canton have released more information on a pair of
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: tragedies that left five people dead. It's been a tough
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: week in Van Zandt County.
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  Speaker 21: First Deputy Adam Al-Sharifi was shot and killed while serving
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  Speaker 21: a warrant Tuesday night. The man wanted began shooting when
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  Speaker 21: officers showed up. He fired a barrage of 800 shots.
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  Speaker 21: Then a house fire claimed a 27-year-old woman and four children.
• 32:28
  Speaker 21: Sheriff Kevin Bridger.
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  Speaker 27: The mother of those children was the daughter of one
• 32:34
  Speaker 27: of our investigators. The four precious children that we lost
• 32:39
  Speaker 27: were his grandchildren.
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  Speaker 21: Sheriff says the entire community is grieving and it's just
• 32:44
  Speaker 21: been a terrible week.
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  Speaker 27: We're a very close family here. Right now, it just sucks.
• 32:49
  Speaker 21: Russell Scott, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Little while ago. Which one of the many fantastic business ideas?
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: This one had to do with the fact that we
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: still have not gotten a viable replacement in town to
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  Speaker 4: Harvey Wash Bank.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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  Speaker 4: We had the idea of trying to bring something similar
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  Speaker 4: to that to the market. Maybe not a restaurant. Don't know.
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: But kind of you just hear it different.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: The food bar laundromat experience.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, real food bar laundromat experience. Probably the best way
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: to do it is just to make it a monthly club.
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  Speaker 4: You pay and then you can come in and use.
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  Speaker 1: That's a different idea. Oh, that's a different one? No,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: that's a different idea than what the standard business plan
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: would call for.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Have you seen the hype that's going on around laundromats?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I have not.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Okay, so there's two sides to this. Side number one,
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: last week I started getting this on my radar, and
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: probably because I said something about laundromats. I kept getting
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: all these laundromat stories about how everyone wants a laundromat
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: right now. It's the best estimates you can make, apparently.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: So they say. So here, I'll give it to you
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: this way. Buying a laundromat, $ 300, 000 to $ 3 million, depending
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: on where you are and how big it is. 24%
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: average profit margin.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: 24%.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty good return.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: And side hustles, too. Like one St. Louis couple found
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: they had a great extra income stream associated with their laundromat.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: They just filmed, like YouTubed. them cleaning the dryer lint
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: screens for the dryer.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, if that's a thing, I need to get on it.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: They make five grand a month, dude. On a good month,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: they make five grand off of cleaning dryer lint.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Because nobody in the house except for me will clean
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: the lint filter.
• 37:59
  Speaker 14: Right.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: And when I do, it looks like... You could stuff
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: a queen mattress with it.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Brother, you need to start running tape on these and
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: then just upload the video and let it do its
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: thing on YouTube.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: There is something very satisfying about peeling off that inch-thick layer.
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: I'll get it when I do quilts or blankets.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: I washed some brand new towels a couple of weeks
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: ago at the B & B.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Just packed.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: It was, yeah.
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Exploding out of that thing. There's nothing better than just
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: kind of peeling that off, and there's a nice, like,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: inch layer of fluff. Like, I mean, that's serious.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Wait a minute.
• 38:36
  Speaker 15: What?
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: What do you got? We have a text message.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: From Helen. Helen, what do you have for us? On 2818,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: there is a laundromat that has margaritas. What?
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: What is this laundromat?
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I know there's one over there that's kind of, it's
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: in the old 7-Eleven.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: Is that the one? I'm guessing. I don't know of
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: a laundromat on 2818, but 2818 is a lot more
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: road than it was when I was young.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: I'd be interested to see. I think you can do...
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: It's hard because I always assume, and this is stupid,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: don't assume things. I assume that most people have access
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: to a washer or dryer where they live now. But
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: that's not necessarily the case. Even if it is, can
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: you give people an experience... that makes them want to
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: haul their laundry over to you?
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: And I think the answer is yes. of being able
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: to dry my clothes in one cycle.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: One cycle and in peace. Like if you, especially again,
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: when Hammer is home, Will's got a family. So if
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: the family wants to do a bunch of laundry, Will
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: is out in the cold. And getting your stuff done.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Many times I've taken laundry down to the B & B.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: All the way down somewhere else. Yeah, you could go
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: to the B & B or you could go somewhere fun, right?
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Like somewhere where there's activities and drinks and food. Rowena,
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: why is Harvey Washbangers not being rebuilt in its original spot?
• 40:05
  Speaker 4: You'd have to ask the... They have a reason.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I think there was some cost issues with that. The
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: rebuild and so forth.
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so like, you know, that's just one of those things, man.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Okay, now this is not what I was thinking of.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Helen says that that one... is across from the Budweiser distributor.
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: So that's up in Bryan. Oh, that's all the way
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: in Bryan.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: Okay. All right, Helen.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: We'll check that out.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Now, the other side of this is after that first
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: batch of news stories started cycling around last week, there's
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: a whole other group of news stories from people that
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: own laundromats. And they're like, dude, We ain't getting 24%.
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: You guys forgot to factor in some costs.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, utility costs have to be huge. Maintenance
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: costs have to be huge.
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: Massive costs. Maintenance is what they brought up first. They're like, hey,
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: this is the thing. These break just like everything else.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: And generally what you'll want to do is try to
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: figure out how to fix it yourself, try to get
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: mechanically inclined. Because otherwise, you're calling in the pros to
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: fix industrial-strength washers and dryers every month. You're just going
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: to go under. You're not going to be able to
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: afford that. So, I choose to take them at their
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: word for now. Part of me thinks... You're just trying
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: to scare off the new crop.
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: That might be it.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: Like, oh, no, no.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Kind of like, I won't tell you where I found
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: the enchiladas.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: You don't want to get into the laundromat game. Oh,
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: laundromat game's expensive. Try to gatekeep my success from me.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: Gatekeep Will's success from him. We don't appreciate that.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Not at all. I'm opening up. I'm opening up. I'm
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: learning to share.
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: Get a Speed Queen dryer.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I didn't even talk about this. We talked about that.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I wanted one of those. Unfortunately, it didn't have enough
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: bells and whistles for the wife who now cusses it.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Because she crams as much as possible into the washer
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: and therefore into the dryer.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: I'm so close to just getting an industrial washer and
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: dryer for my house.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with all the pet stuff that you have.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Hotel caliber. I want that thing to be hotter than
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: the sun. as far as the dryer goes. Whatever it
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: takes to get however many clothes I throw into it
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: dry when those clothes are coming out.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: I'm beginning to feel like the clothesline is a better
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: option for me because it just takes so many cycles.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: It might be.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: The clothesline used to be my... I had an aunt
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: that used a clothesline all the time.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing wrong with a clothesline.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: No, man. Maybe that's what we need to bring back.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe not aesthetically pleasing in the backyard, but.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: Going back to Halloween things, because we chronicled the fact
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: that Halloween candy is as expensive as it could possibly
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: be this year, to the point where no one's buying it.
• 42:59
  Speaker 4: It's 10% down in sales in October, and more than
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: that in September. People are just avoiding it because the
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: price is so high. So if you did get in
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: a situation where you were buying a bunch of it,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: and you had leftovers, could you? Save that Halloween candy
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: for the next time around.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I'm assuming so.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Well, that's what everyone is wondering, and so now people
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: are actually posting the shelf life of candy by type.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Good, because I was going to look it up, but
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: now I don't have to.
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: Here you go. Chocolate can last 8 to 10 months
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: if wrapped in foil and stored in a cool, dark,
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: and dry place. 8 to 10 months.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: That won't quite get you to the next Halloween.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Dark chocolate... lasts up to two years. Now, older chocolate
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: will develop a white and hazy coating known as a
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: chocolate bloom.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: That's a chocolate bloom. Yeah. I've had chocolate bloomed chocolate before.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: See, I just thought it was.
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: I guess it's not harmful.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: No, it's not. It's still edible. Chocolate that is really
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: too old to consume, you won't be able to get
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: it down because it tastes so bitter. Hard candy, one
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: year when packaged, so lollipops and butterscotch candies. Guys, come on.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: That lasts longer than that.
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: Caramel, 69 months. Candy corn. Candy corn.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, that has a shelf life, like, that has a
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: half life.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: What do you think?
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: Candy corn, I'm going to say three years.
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: They say nine months.
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: No. You can't tell me that you can taste the difference.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Nine months. I was thinking, okay, maybe they meant an open.
• 44:46
  Speaker 13: No.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: Candy corn will last about nine months when unopened before
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: it hardens from staleness. You only get a year out
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: of candy.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: But it just hardens. It wasn't like it was soft
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: to begin with.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: Still candy corn. Good Lord.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Tastes like a candle.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: I don't think that I think that what they're doing
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: is they're putting it purposefully under.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: That's what they do for a lot of things. That's
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: what they do.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: In reality, bro, that stuff will last. Forever.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: I don't see any reason to assume that, especially like
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: lollipops or Werther's Originals.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: What's to go bad? What's in there that could possibly
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: go bad? That's your strategy. Just don't listen to this.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Just save it. Just don't. But then again, if you
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: save it, you've got to make sure you save it somewhere.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Look, if I'm post-Armageddon.
• 45:39
  Speaker 13: Yep.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: And I'm stumbling across a butterscotch, I'm going to give
• 45:43
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• 45:44
  Speaker 4: You're giving zero, zero thought to that being a, what
• 45:48
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• 45:52
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  Speaker 1: Big difference.
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  Speaker 4: Consumed date. For candy corn, the best buy date is
• 48:41
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  Speaker 1: I think it's about six months before they made it.
• 48:46
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• 48:50
  Speaker 4: my sister about this. There's a little town in Colorado
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: that's getting in some... getting in some hot water. I'm
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  Speaker 15: Bomar, which is as affluent as it is tiny, next
• 49:01
  Speaker 15: month it'll be putting up controlled access gates at entrances
• 49:04
  Speaker 15: to town, closing off publicly funded streets in hopes of
• 49:08
  Speaker 15: keeping outsiders from driving through town. Or as we said
• 49:12
  Speaker 15: on the news, that.
• 49:13
  Speaker 3: Fancy little town in the metro area doesn't want us
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: peasants driving through anymore.
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: They want to put up entry gates.
• 49:18
  Speaker 15: Home our neighbors didn't love being on our newscast with
• 49:21
  Speaker 15: kyle clark back in june.
• 49:23
  Speaker 20: I guess my concern has been with the kyle guy
• 49:26
  Speaker 20: saying that we don't want peasants coming for our neighborhood yeah.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: That's disgraceful it is well which part is disgraceful oh
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: kyle kyle's man kyle yeah.
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: Like listen this isn't i'm sorry this.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: Isn't What, a newsman said something disgraceful?
• 49:40
  Speaker 15: Or as we said on the news.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: That fancy little town in the metro area doesn't want
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: us peasants driving through anymore.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: They want to put up entry gates. There's nothing wrong
• 49:48
  Speaker 4: with that, Kyle. Do you have any business in Bomar, Kyle?
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: The only problem I have with it is that they
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: are publicly funded streets by the citizenry.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: And I think that's what a lot of people are saying.
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: They're saying, like, well, you know, my tax dollars are
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: paying people. for this through street, I should be able
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: to access it, which I, you know, they got, they
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: got a point there, but like, is this the first
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: time you've ever seen a gated community, Kyle?
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: Like that's, that's, it happens.
• 50:16
  Speaker 4: Every San Antonio.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: One of the.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Weirdest things when I moved there was realizing that every
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: neighborhood almost is a gated neighborhood. So everywhere has a gate.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: It's wild. Didn't have that here growing up. I mean,
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: a couple of places. Yeah, there's a few. There's still
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: a few in town if you're really rich. Definitely throw
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: a gate up there. But who cares? They don't want
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: you there. Why do you want to be there if
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: they don't want you there? It's not like it's the
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: only pretty suburb of Denver.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: If it's good enough for Antifa, it's good enough for me.
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Antifa.
• 50:59
  Speaker 17: Right?
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: If they can blockade the streets and declare their own law,
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: why can't I do it?
• 51:05
  Speaker 4: Why can't I build a barricade around my nice little
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: Colorado town? I don't see a problem with that.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can understand why they want to do it.
• 51:13
  Speaker 4: Good fences make good neighbors, man.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I think so. Can we take that also and maybe
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: build gates, a gated fence around communities where That we
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: want to isolate?
• 51:23
  Speaker 4: I think so.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: There's always been a thing if we could just build
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: a gate around or a wall around Travis County.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: Now you have to encompass Williamson. Just make sure they
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: have to check in when they leave.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: That's just as good. That helps.
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: By the way, I have to, in case people aren't
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: catching the sarcasm here, we're not actually suggesting that we
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: build a wall around Travis County.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: Are we not?
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: Are we not?
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: I don't have a problem with that. It might be
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: as popular as sticking with one time.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: I think it's an 80-20 issue.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: 80-20 issue.
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: For most of the state of Texas, I think that's
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: an 80-20 issue. That's quite genius.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, I can see an affluent community, especially there
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: in Denver, probably wants to control the businesses that go
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: up there, probably pretty tight on On the dispensaries and
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: the adult-oriented businesses.
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, any number of things, man.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: Especially when you get towards that part of Denver, it
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: gets real, I mean, it gets expensive.
• 52:27
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: And it varies wildly in terms of, like, what you,
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: you know, it's like, again, I totally understand it. It's
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: going to be a nightmare for Halloween, though. You guys
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: got to. figure that out.
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's why they're trying to put it in place
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: now because we've all lived places where oh yeah where
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: people you know gravitate to those neighborhoods for halloween.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah never had a problem with that some people huge
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: problem with that some people hate it i don't.
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: Hate it yeah i mean i actually liked it when
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: we had additional kids that would you know, transport into
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: our subdivision.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: If I'm going to do Halloween, what I write, I
• 53:02
  Speaker 4: want to be busy. And that was what we had until,
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: until everyone stopped coming to Copperfield. But like I used
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: to be just kind of be by the door. Problem
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: is when there's not enough people to command that kind
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: of response, you can go sit on the couch.
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: You get a little drowsy.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: You forget that it's Halloween. Then all of a sudden
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: your doorbell rings.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Your dog goes nuts. Yeah.
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: You know, it's just, you want a good little stockpiler.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: Gen Z job hunters are now getting help from their
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: parents with everything from resumes and networking to interview prep.
• 53:33
  Speaker 4: And all the way up to if an employer ghosts
• 53:37
  Speaker 4: their precious little angel, sometimes the parents will call to
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: figure out what happened.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: No, there's a clear line that you jump over there.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: My daughter's asked me to look at her resume. You
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: should honestly, you know, the one she sent me was
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: better than anything I ever created for myself. Great. Great.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Who's going to give a better good to go?
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: I when she asked for interview tips, happy to give them.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Am I calling somebody that turned her down for employment?
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Not a chance.
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: Some parents have even tried to pre-interview with the employer
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: before their precious little.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Angel comes in. Man, if I'm that hiring person, automatic scratch.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: I'd absolutely take the meeting, though. I'd love to see
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: what that... I'd love to see how that goes. That
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: would be... That would make my whole year.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: You would do that once. Yeah.
• 54:25
  Speaker 4: I do that to get out every time, but just
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: once or twice. That would be a spectacular time. If
• 54:32
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• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Boo!
• 54:35
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• 54:38
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• 54:40
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• 54:45
  Speaker 4: have a great day.