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The Infomaniacs: November 4th 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: morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Bryan Police
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  Speaker 1: are investigating a shooting at a business last night in
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  Speaker 1: the North Point Business Park in the 2800 block of
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  Speaker 1: North Harvey Mitchell Parkway. Preliminary investigations show that the suspect
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  Speaker 1: and victim were involved in a verbal altercation outside the
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  Speaker 1: business when the suspect pulled a firearm and shot the
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  Speaker 1: victim in the torso. The victim was transported to a
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  Speaker 1: local hospital in unknown condition. The suspect fled the scene
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  Speaker 1: and police are asking anyone with information to contact BPD.
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  Speaker 1: The election cycle isn't exactly over yet. Jeanette Menchow has
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  Speaker 1: more on races in Bryan and College Station.
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  Speaker 2: Of the five city council races we had in our area,
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  Speaker 2: three are going to be headed to a runoff. We'll
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  Speaker 2: start in College Station. First of all, the mayor-elect is
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  Speaker 2: Bob Yancey beating out Elizabeth Kuna. In city council place one,
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  Speaker 2: incumbent Mark Smith will be headed to a runoff with
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  Speaker 2: Howard Mayne. In council place two, Chandler Arden takes that
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  Speaker 2: one over Michael Kidd. And the other runoff will be
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  Speaker 2: in council place five. Trey Watson going to face off
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  Speaker 2: against Peyton Holt. In the city of Bryan, Bobby Gutierrez
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  Speaker 2: will remain the mayor in council. Single member district one,
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  Speaker 2: Paul Torres handily holds on to his seat over Chris Scottie.
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  Speaker 2: And that other runoff is going to be in single-member
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  Speaker 2: District 2. Chrissy Ransom has 44% of the vote. She
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  Speaker 2: is going to run off against Jeanette Mosley, it looks like.
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  Speaker 2: Jeanette Mosley beating Ray Arrington right now by only two votes.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Jeanette Menchal, WTAW News.
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  Speaker 1: The final results in Brazos County showed Janet Dudding with
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  Speaker 1: a 315-vote lead over incumbent Paul Dyson in State Representative
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  Speaker 1: District 14. She tells WTAW about the two things she
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  Speaker 1: wants to champion in Austin. But academic freedom, hopefully peeling
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  Speaker 1: back on the vouchers, and then let's get started on
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  Speaker 1: the property tax. Trey Wharton easily held on to state
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  Speaker 1: representative District 12. Charles Schwartner kept his seat in Senate
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  Speaker 1: District 5. And Chris Gober took U.S. representative District 10.
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  Speaker 1: In Brazos County races, Hezekiah Carter Jr. will remain county constable,
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  Speaker 1: and Wanda Watson will hold onto her seat on commissioner's court.
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  Speaker 1: Voters said no to Vaders in Bryan and Navasota ISDs.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting results in the College Station ISD school board. Current
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  Speaker 1: board president Kim Egg was pummeled at the polls. She
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  Speaker 1: lost her bid for re-election to Michelle Gallagher's 72 to
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  Speaker 1: 28 percent. Heather Simmons will stay on the board. News
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  Speaker 1: is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More news
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  Speaker 1: at 8.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Turbeville here. If you're considering selling your jewelry, collectible coins,
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  Speaker 3: gold or silver, bullion, or other unique items, you'll find
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  Speaker 3: the experienced team at David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange ready
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  Speaker 3: to serve you. Selling your items is simple. Just take
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  Speaker 3: them into the store for a complete evaluation. You then
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  Speaker 3: have the option to sell your items for cash, exchange
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  Speaker 3: them for other pieces from their inventory.
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  Speaker 1: Or take some time to think about the offer.
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  Speaker 3: Visit David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange for a quick, hassle-free
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  Speaker 3: experience that will only take about 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 4: 1620-945-WTAW. We are the Infomaniacs. It is Wednesday. Had an
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  Speaker 4: election yesterday. Maybe you heard. 979-695-1620 is our phone number
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  Speaker 4: today if you have any commentary on that. But you
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  Speaker 4: don't need it right now. You don't need it right now.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to go in a different direction, and I
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  Speaker 4: will explain it coming up. After I tell you, it's
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  Speaker 4: going to be a beautiful day today, weather-wise. It's just
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  Speaker 4: going to be nice. Maybe mid-70s today. Get down to
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  Speaker 4: about 50 tonight. More of the same tomorrow. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: me a pessimist or an.
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  Speaker 5: Optimist, Will?
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  Speaker 1: It'd be tough to call because in some ways you're both.
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  Speaker 4: I think all of us are both in some way.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I really believe that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would lean toward optimism with you.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: With a with a touch of skepticism.
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  Speaker 4: I would label myself as almost a chronic pessimist.
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  Speaker 6: Really?
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  Speaker 4: And part of this has to do with mental health
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  Speaker 4: and things like that. I have obsessive compulsive disorder of anxiety.
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  Speaker 4: I have a history of depression and all kinds of
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  Speaker 4: stuff like that. And many, many years go into making
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  Speaker 4: it something that I can do to get up and
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  Speaker 4: get out the door and appear to be optimistic.
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  Speaker 1: But do you.
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  Speaker 4: Know what the biggest thing was? The biggest change, the
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  Speaker 4: biggest success I had in being able to pull myself
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  Speaker 4: to the extent that you can without being just Pollyanna
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  Speaker 4: about everything out of a spiral and the doldrums on
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  Speaker 4: a particularly bad day.
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  Speaker 1: You know what? I don't know. I can speculate about
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  Speaker 1: the effort that it took.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: Speculate.
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  Speaker 4: There's literally one thing I do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's got to be a daily thing
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  Speaker 1: for you, number one.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 4: It's a daily thing.
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  Speaker 1: And number two, you do it well enough that you
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  Speaker 1: are apparently a quote-unquote normal dude.
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  Speaker 4: Normal dude. Functional dude.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 4: I would say the first thing is, again, maintaining sobriety.
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  Speaker 4: That's been a big thing for me for a long,
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  Speaker 4: long time. But minus that, my wife made a point
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  Speaker 4: years ago to remind me that no matter how crappy
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  Speaker 4: things were going, that I really need to pencil in
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  Speaker 4: at least five to ten minutes every single day to
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  Speaker 4: just display gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: The wise and great rain speaks truth.
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  Speaker 4: That's why she is a PhD. That's why she is
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  Speaker 4: the smart one in our family. So every day.
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  Speaker 4: I spend at least five minutes mentally at some point
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes a couple of times a day whenever it's
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  Speaker 4: a bad day. And I take some time to list
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  Speaker 4: a few things that I am grateful for, even if
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  Speaker 4: it's just one thing. And then I think about that
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  Speaker 4: one thing and how lucky I am to have it
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  Speaker 4: in my life.
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  Speaker 1: Right. How appropriate to do this as we are approaching
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  Speaker 1: the Thanksgiving season. We are getting close. That's what you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to do.
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  Speaker 4: That is the idea of the holiday, to give thanks
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  Speaker 4: for the abundance in our lives, even when it does
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  Speaker 4: not feel like there is abundance in our lives. There
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  Speaker 4: always is. And you always have a litany of things
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  Speaker 4: that you can be thanked for, no matter who you are.
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  Speaker 4: So today, we are going to work on a group
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  Speaker 4: version of of gratitude. I have four tickets to the
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  Speaker 4: Texas Renaissance Festival right here, right here in my hand.
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  Speaker 4: And your job, if you want to win them, is
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  Speaker 4: to text us one thing this morning that you are
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  Speaker 4: grateful for. That's it. 979-695-1620 is our phone number. We
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  Speaker 4: will read some of the things that you guys are
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  Speaker 4: grateful for, and we will randomly take one of you
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  Speaker 4: And we will send you to the Texas Renaissance Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Which will then be another thing that you can be
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  Speaker 1: grateful for.
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  Speaker 4: You know what? Lift up your cares. That's the idea.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, hey, I can leave it all behind and
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  Speaker 4: pretend like I'm back in old timey times for a minute.
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  Speaker 4: As a bonus, there's mead.
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  Speaker 1: Mead.
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  Speaker 4: If you're really having problems and the gratitude didn't get
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  Speaker 4: you over it, for many of you, mead will do
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  Speaker 4: the trick.
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  Speaker 1: Walking mead, even, which is something that you introduced me to.
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  Speaker 4: Walking mead, y'all. 979-695-1620 is our phone number. So think
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  Speaker 4: about it for a few minutes and come up with something.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what it is. It can be big.
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  Speaker 4: It can be small. Some days when I'm doing this,
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  Speaker 4: it's real small. Like I remember to wear a coat
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  Speaker 4: if it's cold.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, little victories.
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  Speaker 6: Little victories.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what it is. It's amazing how fast
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  Speaker 4: you can start stacking these together. once you start listing one.
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  Speaker 4: So if you want to list more, feel free. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not going to stop you. We'll read as many of
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  Speaker 4: them as we can coming up. But send us your
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  Speaker 4: text of gratitude, whatever it's for, to 979-695-1620. We'll be
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  Speaker 4: back after this.
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  Speaker 4: 16, 20, 94, 5, WTAW. Again, beautiful day, man. There's
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  Speaker 4: something to be grateful for. Indeed. We're getting up to
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  Speaker 4: the mid-70s, sunny skies, down to about 50 degrees tonight.
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  Speaker 4: hard night for a lot of people.
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  Speaker 15: It is.
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  Speaker 4: Every two years, it is. You go through this whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: This whole rigmarole, months and months and months of just
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  Speaker 4: getting hit with every single message you can, and then
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  Speaker 4: it goes some people's way and it doesn't go other
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  Speaker 4: people's way. And you take it personally and you worry
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  Speaker 4: and you spiral. So the way to break that is
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  Speaker 4: to just express gratitude for the things that are going
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  Speaker 4: on in your life. Really believe that. So we're going
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  Speaker 4: to read your texts of things that you are grateful for.
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  Speaker 4: If you have one, send it to us now, 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 4: And you could win a four-pack of tickets to the
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  Speaker 4: Texas Renaissance Festival.
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  Speaker 1: Jason texts in, Tucker, you're obviously a smart man for
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  Speaker 1: marrying your wife and keeping her happy in your life.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was rain that suggested you do this.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: So put that into your grateful bucket.
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  Speaker 4: Always grateful for that one. Jason, thank you so much
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  Speaker 4: for that. Chrissy texts in that she is grateful for
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  Speaker 4: her three boys. It's always hard to imagine not being
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  Speaker 4: able to find something to be grateful for when you
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  Speaker 4: have a child or kids or if you don't cats
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  Speaker 4: dog i not say it's the same thing but i
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  Speaker 4: i i go to the cats quite frequently.
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  Speaker 1: A texter whose name we don't have yet i woke
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  Speaker 1: up on this side of the dirt and have the
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  Speaker 1: privilege to serve and help others another day yeah i
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  Speaker 1: actually i had a boss that i didn't really like
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  Speaker 1: much uh and he every time i would say hello
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  Speaker 1: he would say i'd say how you doing he'd say
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  Speaker 1: Every day above ground is a good day. Every breath
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  Speaker 1: is fresh air. Every meal a feast fit for a king.
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  Speaker 4: Heck yeah, man.
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  Speaker 1: He took that last part seriously. He went by the
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  Speaker 1: rotund one on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Classic.
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  Speaker 1: Classic.
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  Speaker 4: Jay Texan, I'm so grateful for my eyes opening one
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  Speaker 4: more day every morning. Whatever happens after that is just
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  Speaker 4: icing on the cake. Very similar thing, but don't forget. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that is a... That is a surprise.
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  Speaker 1: Lots of similar text to the wonderful surprise to the
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  Speaker 1: one that Laurie sent in. I'm thankful that God is
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  Speaker 1: in control and I am not.
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  Speaker 4: I love that one, Laurie. And this is another thing
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  Speaker 4: that I think is, you know, we go you go
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  Speaker 4: through an election cycle. I think the sheer volume of
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  Speaker 4: messaging that you get thrown at you can somewhat distort
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  Speaker 4: what you think you are in control of and not
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  Speaker 4: in control of. And one of the things that I
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  Speaker 4: think is very important is you're really in control of
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  Speaker 4: almost literally nothing when it comes to life. Almost nothing.
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  Speaker 4: You can control your reaction to things.
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  Speaker 1: Very much.
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  Speaker 4: That's what you get. But as far as being able,
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, sure, you can probably see something coming over
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  Speaker 4: the horizon occasionally and be able to head it off
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  Speaker 4: if you're lucky.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, some people suffer from this, myself included. The
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  Speaker 1: illusion of control.
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  Speaker 4: The illusion of control. Everyone suffers from that. And you
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  Speaker 4: have an election that doesn't go your way, if that
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  Speaker 4: was the case last night. And when that control is,
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  Speaker 4: you feel that control is taken away, although it wasn't.
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  Speaker 4: You get one vote. You get to go in. You
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  Speaker 4: get to vote. We tally them all up, and whoever wins, wins.
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  Speaker 4: Makes you feel kind of like you're lost. What's going
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  Speaker 4: to happen? And the answer to that is probably not
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  Speaker 4: what you're afraid of. And I don't mean that specifically.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's rarely what you're afraid of that gets you.
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  Speaker 4: It just is. If you think that something is going
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  Speaker 4: to happen, the catastrophe is probably the one you never
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  Speaker 4: saw coming. And you're going to have to deal with that.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the last several years, I've lost jobs with
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  Speaker 4: a moment's notice when I was about to close on
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  Speaker 4: a house two days later. Well, didn't see it coming.
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  Speaker 4: Had to deal with it. And, you know, but remember,
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  Speaker 4: and several people have also texted that in, Will, that
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  Speaker 4: control is an illusion. And I'm not saying it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: have to change your emotions. It also doesn't have to
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  Speaker 4: change preparing. You should prepare for things. Absolutely. That would
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  Speaker 4: be stupid not to. But just be aware that there
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  Speaker 4: is a control in life. But you just don't have it.
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 4: And you probably never will. And if you are, please
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  Speaker 4: let me know because you become a wizard.
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  Speaker 1: And you probably will never understand it. You know, it's
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  Speaker 1: just the ride, man. It's just the ride.
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  Speaker 4: That is the ride. Everybody should be grateful every day
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  Speaker 4: for a smart woman in their life. That is from Brett. Brett, yes, absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: Or man.
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  Speaker 12: Amen.
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  Speaker 4: If you're, you know, if the other side of it,
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  Speaker 4: if you're grateful for your husband, he's like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: he's not horrible. There's a reason to not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Which is not all I can say for me.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to kill him today.
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  Speaker 4: Well, he got something right. So yeah, some of us
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  Speaker 4: end up being grateful for a lot more than others
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  Speaker 4: in these relationships. So yeah, we still have time. If
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  Speaker 4: you want to text some in, again, it can be
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  Speaker 4: literally anything. I'll give you another one. I was just
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  Speaker 4: telling Will this. I'm grateful for this light. And again,
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  Speaker 4: bad for business. Bad for business. And normally I'd be like, ooh,
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  Speaker 4: wish we had some more commercials. Because commercials is how
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  Speaker 4: radio stations make money.
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  Speaker 1: And if radio stations make money, we get to keep
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  Speaker 1: our job.
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  Speaker 4: I don't get fired with two days left closing on
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  Speaker 4: a house. That's right. I'd like to not do that twice.
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  Speaker 4: But with that said, today and today only, I am
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  Speaker 4: grateful for a very, very light stack of these commercials
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  Speaker 4: here today. It's just a wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 17: So.
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  Speaker 18: This is Today in Texas History brought to you by
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  Speaker 5: On this day, November the 4th in 1906. Gussie Nell
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  Speaker 5: Davis was born in Farmersville, Texas. She went on to
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  Speaker 5: gain fame as the organizer and leader of the Kilgore Rangerettes,
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  Speaker 5: and appeared at such herald events as President Dwight D.
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  Speaker 5: Eisenhower's inauguration and several Macy's Thanksgiving Day parades. The Rangerettes
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  Speaker 5: graced the covers of Life, Newsweek, the Saturday Evening Post,
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  Speaker 5: in 1979, and she served as a consultant for drill
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  Speaker 5: teams across the nation. This drill team pioneer was honored
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  Speaker 5: with induction into the Texas Women's Hall of Fame in 1989.
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  Speaker 5: I bet you didn't know that.
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  Speaker 21: Wayfair said its sales jumped 10 percent in the third
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  Speaker 21: Advanced micro devices reported third quarter earnings that beat Wall
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Let's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: get started with some election results with Jeanette Munchau.
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  Speaker 2: To say that we had some close races last night
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: might be the understatement of the year. We are going
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: to start in Bryan. Single member district two. That is
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: going to go to a runoff. We had three candidates.
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  Speaker 2: Chrissy Ransom took the majority of the votes with 44%
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  Speaker 2: of the vote. Ray Arrington and Jeanette Mosley separated by
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: only two votes. Right now, Mosley ahead of Arrington. By
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: those two votes, if that stands, it will be Ransom
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  Speaker 2: and Mosley heading to the runoff. In Bryant single-member District 1,
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  Speaker 2: Paul Torres handily holds on to his seat with a
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: sweeping victory over Chris Scotti, 71-29%. And Mayor Brian Gutierrez
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  Speaker 2: will retain the title, beating Rafael Pena 57 to 43.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: In College Station, the new mayor will be Bob Yancey.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: He beat Elizabeth Kuna 59 to 41 percent. And in
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the three council races in College Station, we are going
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: to have two runoffs. In place two, Chandler Arden beat
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Michael Kidd with 63 percent of the vote. In Council
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Place 1, we're going to see a runoff between Mark
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: Smith and Howard Main. And in Place 5, we've got
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: a runoff between Trey Watson and Peyton Holt. Another close
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: one we've got to talk about is State Representative District 14.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Only 315 votes separating first from second place as it
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: stands right now. That 315 vote lead is held by
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Janet Dunning. If that does hold, Paul Dyson going to
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: lose his reelection bid. In State Rep District 12, Trey
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: Wharton is going to hold on to his seat. Charles
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Schwertner is going to hold on to State Senate District 5,
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: and it looks like Chris Gober is going to take U.S.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Representative District 10. I'm Jeanette Minchow, WTAW.
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  Speaker 1: 78% of voters in Bryan want to remove the Texas
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Avenue medians. The city issued a statement late Tuesday reminding
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: residents that the vote doesn't make it so. The road
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: is controlled by TxDOT, and they will have to give
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: final approval. They have other items in the works in
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: hopes of improving mobility, including removing a section of median
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: at Brookside Drive and adding a traffic signal, evaluating potential
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: changes at additional locations along Texas Avenue through collaboration between
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: city engineering staff and TxDOT, and seeking funding to install
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: loons at intersections along Texas Avenue. They're expanded paved areas
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: to create extra space. for safer U-turns. TxDOT says they're
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: aware of the dirt and debris along the Big Six
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: construction project. They're working with the contractor to address the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: issue and increase sweeping efforts. TxDOT is also reminding drivers
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  Speaker 1: to slow down or move over when you pass an
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  Speaker 1: emergency vehicle on the shoulder. You must slow down to
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: 25 miles per hour less than the speed limit or
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: move over and leave them a clear lane. BTU is
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: reminding customers that they have started to replace power meters. 50,000
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: in all over the next five years. If you see
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: a worker, contact BTU to see if they are working
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: in your area before calling 911. They say customers should
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: receive notification via text or email when their meters are
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: on the schedule. Aggie Softball is collecting items for the
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: 12th can. There are two remaining exhibition games at Davis
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Diamond today and Friday, and they're asking fans to donate
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: while taking in the free games. They'll play Grayson College
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: at 5.30 today and Texas at 6 o'clock Friday. The
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  Speaker 1: most needed items are pasta, rice, nuts, canned fruits, canned vegetables,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: and dental care items. If you are heading out, they
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: want to let you know that the concession stands are
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: closed so you can bring your own snacks. The issue
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of allowing hemp-derived THC products is back in the hands
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: of a Travis County judge.
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  Speaker 25: Judge Maria Hexel heard arguments Monday about why hemp store
• 29:30
  Speaker 25: owners believe the current ban on popular hemp products like
• 29:33
  Speaker 25: Delta-8 and Delta-10 is not legal. The problem dates back
• 29:37
  Speaker 25: to May when the state Supreme Court decided that trace
• 29:40
  Speaker 25: amounts of naturally grown THC could still be legal. Attorney
• 29:43
  Speaker 25: David Sergi represents the hemp store owners. He argued that
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  Speaker 25: there is no definition of trace.
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  Speaker 3: It was ill-defined. It did not allow manufacturers to know
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  Speaker 3: with certainty what parts per million.
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  Speaker 4: Could or could not be utilized in the manufacturing process.
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  Speaker 25: Sergi says so far more than a dozen smoke shops
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  Speaker 25: have been raided by the state. The hemp store owners
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  Speaker 25: want the judge to throw out the old rules and
• 30:05
  Speaker 25: start over again. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 18: Hilco Metal Supply in Navasota supplies builders, contractors, and do-it-yourselfers.
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  Speaker 19: Tis time for the Texas Renaissance Festival.
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  Speaker 1: It's high school football season again in the Brazos Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and now that I hear it, I can instantly
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: understand why.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: I'm going to guess a lot of you guys have
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: heard this term because it's been around for a while.
• 34:41
  Speaker 24: Really?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: It wasn't until this morning that I heard it.
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: No, no, no.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: So this is an interesting thing about how the Internet works.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: The Internet.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: just tends to find things and bring it back around again.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: And I wouldn't say, it's not a long-term thing, but
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: I'd say this term has been around for, correct me
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: if I'm wrong, a year-ish.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Somewhere around there. A fridge cigarette is the colloquial term
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: for a Diet Coke.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Could you shorten that into a frigerette?
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: A fridge cigarette. No, I think that's actually something, but
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: maybe I'm wrong. Fridge cig. And so the internet, geez,
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: maybe a month or two ago, I started noticing it
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: was really on someone had decided to push this to
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: the moon. Like whatever, it landed in the algorithm just right.
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: And then everyone said, hey, that's the perfect thing to
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: call a Diet Coke. Because to be real, it's kind
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: of what you use a Diet Coke for.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Now, you're a Diet Coke person, aren't you?
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: I didn't used to be. I used to not drink
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: any at all, but then my routine became such that
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: there are points in the day where I'm in proximity
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: to free Diet Coke, and there is something about going
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: to the fridge, getting a Diet Coke.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: It hits. It's the ritual.
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: It hits very, very similar. Now, because it's gotten so big,
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: Coca-Cola's CEO had to answer questions about whether or not
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: they might actually just start using FridgeSig. as the nomenclature.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: For Diet Coke. I think that might hit with a
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: certain part of your demographic. However, I don't think that's
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: a broad category that I would want to apply to
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: my product.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: All right, here's his answer to the question.
• 36:30
  Speaker 21: Enrique, I have to ask, do you like this nickname
• 36:33
  Speaker 21: that Americans have given a Diet Coke, the nickname being
• 36:36
  Speaker 21: a fridge cigarette?
• 36:38
  Speaker 17: The nickname that consumers call it the way they want
• 36:42
  Speaker 17: to call it, the most important thing to us, is
• 36:45
  Speaker 17: that we don't position Diet Coke that way. What we
• 36:48
  Speaker 17: do is that it's a great tasting product.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: One calorie, just for the taste.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Living with somebody who is a soda addict, and she's
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: not on the Diet Coke, she hasn't gotten to the
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: hard stuff yet, she still sticks to the Dr. Pepper.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: I understand it's very similar.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Diet Coke is a divisive thing, because they have Coke Zero,
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: so they're kind of, I don't know. which I knew
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: more about Coca-Cola, but I feel like you're phasing it out.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Or at least trying to find some other way. People
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: are like, oh, the chemicals. There's a certain part of
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: the population that wants the chemicals. You know what that
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: population is? Consider Red Bull. What does that taste like?
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: What's the flavor of Red Bull?
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: From what I recall, it's one of the few things
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: that's actually, the taste is improved by Jägermeister.
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: That's a small list.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: A very small list.
• 37:40
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: Back to business on Brass Ballet on the Record. Please welcome. See,
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: I called Bob mayor-elect. I don't call you mayor-elect. You're
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: just the mayor still.
• 37:49
  Speaker 23: Still the mayor.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Is that right?
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: I guess so. Congratulations, Bobby Gutierrez.
• 37:54
  Speaker 23: Thank you so much.
• 37:55
  Speaker 4: I'll ask you the same startup question we kicked off.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: How late was your night last night?
• 38:00
  Speaker 23: You know, I don't know.
• 38:01
  Speaker 16: Wow.
• 38:02
  Speaker 23: I actually stayed at the LaSalle Hotel in downtown Bryan
• 38:05
  Speaker 23: because I knew that it was, you know, we're two
• 38:07
  Speaker 23: doors down. We did our thing at the Stafford, and
• 38:10
  Speaker 23: I didn't know I was going to have to get
• 38:11
  Speaker 23: up this early to come over here and do this.
• 38:13
  Speaker 23: I figured I would sleep in, and that was going
• 38:15
  Speaker 23: to be part.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Of the whole thing. That's relaxing, you know, maybe a
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: Diet Coke.
• 38:19
  Speaker 23: You know, I'm a Boots beverage guy now.
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: I know you're a Boots man.
• 38:22
  Speaker 23: We're a Christian distributor. We're doing the expansion. They stayed
• 38:25
  Speaker 23: here because of the expansion of Boots beverage, and they're
• 38:28
  Speaker 23: killing it. And if you hadn't had their boots, the
• 38:31
  Speaker 23: cola and stuff like that, we're talking about that. I
• 38:34
  Speaker 23: have Coca-Cola in my refrigerator. I'm a little ADD. My
• 38:38
  Speaker 23: stuff is lined up.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 38:40
  Speaker 23: Everything. And you open the door, and here's this, here's that.
• 38:44
  Speaker 23: Everything has to have its place. And the Coca-Cola aisle
• 38:48
  Speaker 23: is big. The boots beverage aisle is small because I
• 38:51
  Speaker 23: actually like them better.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: Every one of them.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: That's the ones you reach for.
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Root beer is incredible. A lot of people are big fans, yeah.
• 38:57
  Speaker 23: But they stayed in Bryan because their expansion. to the
• 39:00
  Speaker 23: West and to Waco and everything else. They had originally
• 39:02
  Speaker 23: talked about moving to Navasota and, you know, Mark and
• 39:04
  Speaker 23: John and I, it was heartbreaking for them to even
• 39:09
  Speaker 23: think about that. And now they're expanding in our area
• 39:11
  Speaker 23: because of the expansion of Boost Beverage. So, you know,
• 39:13
  Speaker 23: kudos to them and thank you for staying here in
• 39:15
  Speaker 23: Bryan College Station and here we are.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: Love to see it. So, let's start with What were
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: your takeaways from last night now that we've gone through?
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: I still count a few things here and there, but
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: we've seen the slate. As mayor, what are your takeaways
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: for the city of Baltimore?
• 39:32
  Speaker 23: You know, I think we have an opportunity. I think
• 39:35
  Speaker 23: the word of the day now is going to be moderation.
• 39:37
  Speaker 23: We can't have these extremes anymore. We can't have the extreme.
• 39:40
  Speaker 23: You can't have the far right and the far left
• 39:41
  Speaker 23: dictating everything that happens because the country's in the middle.
• 39:45
  Speaker 23: You know, majority of the people, what, just 50% is
• 39:46
  Speaker 23: in the middle. somewhere. So how do we come to agreements?
• 39:51
  Speaker 23: I mean, politics and politicians, the name just makes my
• 39:57
  Speaker 23: hair stand up because nobody wants to be called a politician.
• 40:01
  Speaker 23: But it's the ability to agree, the ability to compromise,
• 40:05
  Speaker 23: the ability to make things happen. You give a little bit,
• 40:08
  Speaker 23: give a little bit, and you figure out at some
• 40:09
  Speaker 23: point you're going to be in the middle. And if
• 40:11
  Speaker 23: you're in the middle, everybody will be happy, or a majority,
• 40:14
  Speaker 23: 50% of the people will be happy. And We've got
• 40:17
  Speaker 23: to be able to come to an agreement somewhere. We
• 40:19
  Speaker 23: can't just bat it across. So I think we have
• 40:21
  Speaker 23: an opportunity. We just need to take a deep breath.
• 40:24
  Speaker 23: You know, the world's going to keep going. The state
• 40:28
  Speaker 23: will continue to grow. You know, the country will continue
• 40:30
  Speaker 23: to do good. I think we just need to step
• 40:33
  Speaker 23: back and understand that, you know, it's exactly what, you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 23: Mayor Lex said. It's like, you know, people, they're hurting.
• 40:40
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 40:40
  Speaker 23: I'm hurting. You know, personally, our business, it hurts. I mean, things...
• 40:45
  Speaker 23: People can't afford to buy tires because you're going to
• 40:48
  Speaker 23: have to buy used tires. You have to buy whatever
• 40:50
  Speaker 23: just to get you by through this stuff. I mean,
• 40:52
  Speaker 23: it's a real thing out there.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: We talked about this at length early in the show,
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: and there's so many. I mean, there's so many pointers
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: that I think all of us could give in terms of, hey,
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: what would be a way to move forward? And most
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: of them are in line with with what you said.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: I wanted I'm not a you know, you remember that
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: Ed Koch, the mayor of New York? I don't think
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: he invented this quote, but he used to say, if
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: you agree with me on on eight out of 12
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: things and a great vote for me, if you agree
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: with me, a 12 out of 12, get your head examined.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: And I know that's become a kind of the thing
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: is like you have to agree with every single person,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: every single thing. I've got to get rid of that.
• 41:35
  Speaker 4: I will hold to my biggest takeaway of this being
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: fire the consultants. Because I think that part of this
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: industry that's been built around political campaigns, because there's so
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: much money in it, is you have people that are
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: not giving you all the best ideas when it comes
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: to campaigning. They're not appealing, another old quote, Abraham Lincoln,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: to your better angels in terms of how you campaign
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: and what you focus on.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: It's a flat inability to read the room.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: It occurs to me that sometimes maybe you just have
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: to be okay with losing. You have to kind of
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: have 100 percent.
• 42:09
  Speaker 23: You know, I walked in last night going, I don't
• 42:12
  Speaker 23: I don't know. And I will tell you, I did
• 42:16
  Speaker 23: talk to consultant and I said, look, hey, I want
• 42:18
  Speaker 23: to do a poll and see what this what's where
• 42:21
  Speaker 23: am I at?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know where I'm at.
• 42:22
  Speaker 23: I mean, I know what I've done. I know where
• 42:24
  Speaker 23: I'm at. And the guy goes, Bobby, you have more
• 42:26
  Speaker 23: name recognition than the congressman, than both the state reps,
• 42:30
  Speaker 23: than any of the other people that are on the
• 42:32
  Speaker 23: ticket right now. You just need to just lie low
• 42:35
  Speaker 23: and don't do anything at this point.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: You built.
• 42:37
  Speaker 23: Your credibility up over the years of what you've been doing.
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: Just let the people, let the people vote based on
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: your record.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: What is this? You can run on your record. You
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: can accomplish things in office and let people decide whether
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: or not they're beneficial.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: There are, there are worse.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Things than that.
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: And again, I say this is all the sympathy in
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: the world of how much you put yourself out there in, in,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: in the political sphere for as a candidate, it's, it's
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: gotta be insane. I would never do it, but there
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: are worse things than losing an election. And at some
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: point you can push it too far. And I think
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: that we've been pushing it too far for quite a
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: long time. I think it finally just caught up.
• 43:09
  Speaker 23: Well, I say this all the time. I don't know
• 43:11
  Speaker 23: what I've done in this world to deserve the life
• 43:14
  Speaker 23: that I have. I've worked very hard. We've worked ourself lucky.
• 43:19
  Speaker 23: You know, we're not lucky. You work yourself lucky. That's
• 43:21
  Speaker 23: just blood, sweat, and tears kind of thing. And, you know,
• 43:24
  Speaker 23: because Becky and I, we don't have kids. This is
• 43:27
  Speaker 23: our baby. And I want to make sure that my
• 43:30
  Speaker 23: life has been relevant. And that we do good things,
• 43:33
  Speaker 23: that we pass that on to the next generation. Like
• 43:35
  Speaker 23: my granddad always said, leave it better than you found it.
• 43:38
  Speaker 23: And I just want to know that at this point,
• 43:41
  Speaker 23: we've done something that will leave a legacy.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: So let's talk new term. What's the thing that excites
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: you the most on the horizon moving forward?
• 43:53
  Speaker 23: The thing that scares me and the thing that excites
• 43:54
  Speaker 23: me are kind of the same thing right now. fundamentally
• 43:59
  Speaker 23: we're going to change in the state of Texas, how
• 44:00
  Speaker 23: we're doing things from the top to the bottom. The
• 44:04
  Speaker 23: driving force for me has always been I will continue
• 44:06
  Speaker 23: to do economic development, bringing jobs, bringing things, bringing quality
• 44:09
  Speaker 23: of life, trying to figure out how do we have
• 44:13
  Speaker 23: the next generation have those meaningful jobs that can bring
• 44:16
  Speaker 23: quality of life and can bring the American dream. And
• 44:19
  Speaker 23: I don't know what that's going to be in the
• 44:20
  Speaker 23: state of Texas because from the top bottom they've always
• 44:23
  Speaker 23: pushed it, you know, come here, what's going to happen?
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: We don't know.
• 44:27
  Speaker 23: I'm going to continue to do what I do, and
• 44:29
  Speaker 23: it's going to continue to be for the citizens of
• 44:31
  Speaker 23: Bryan and Bryan and Call Station. We're one town. It
• 44:35
  Speaker 23: doesn't matter where it goes. If it goes to Call Station,
• 44:37
  Speaker 23: if it goes to Bryan, it's truly we're one town.
• 44:39
  Speaker 23: They don't know when they come by a tire from
• 44:41
  Speaker 23: me where their dividing line is. That's what old people do.
• 44:45
  Speaker 23: So hopefully one day, you know, call it BCS, best
• 44:48
  Speaker 23: case scenario, and this is truly the best place you
• 44:51
  Speaker 23: can be. If you live in Texas, what better place
• 44:54
  Speaker 23: can you be than Bryan Call Station?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Going back to the one-town concept, what are your thoughts?
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Are you looking forward to working with Mayor-elect Bob Yancey?
• 45:01
  Speaker 23: You know, Bob is a dear friend and has been
• 45:04
  Speaker 23: a dear friend for a long time. We've talked about
• 45:07
  Speaker 23: all kinds of things for many, many years. This just
• 45:10
  Speaker 23: brings a hope. You know, I will just say he
• 45:12
  Speaker 23: can be the mayor of Ryan Call Station. I'll be
• 45:14
  Speaker 23: the mayor of Pro Tem because Call Station is bigger.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 45:18
  Speaker 23: And, you know, I'm going to still represent Brian with
• 45:20
  Speaker 23: everything that I have. But we both win together. And
• 45:24
  Speaker 23: we know... in a few years, Brian's going to be bigger.
• 45:27
  Speaker 23: He's going to switch. So hopefully they'll acquiesce and say,
• 45:29
  Speaker 23: you know, this is the mayor of Brian College Station.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: Come to an agreement.
• 45:33
  Speaker 23: But if we can't live on those lines, we shouldn't
• 45:36
  Speaker 23: be adversarial. We should be complimentary to each other for
• 45:40
  Speaker 23: every single thing that we do. We have big projects.
• 45:42
  Speaker 23: I mean, there are projects that we can't ever talk about.
• 45:48
  Speaker 23: You know, you see me pent up and going like,
• 45:49
  Speaker 23: I want to spill the beans, but we can't. But
• 45:52
  Speaker 23: there are big projects happening right now that are going
• 45:55
  Speaker 23: to be life-changing for our community, for everybody here. There
• 45:57
  Speaker 23: will be such positive changes. I don't know how it's
• 46:00
  Speaker 23: going to happen with the new administration, but we're going
• 46:03
  Speaker 23: to continue this.
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: That's what I was curious about, and I meant to
• 46:06
  Speaker 4: ask Bob this, but I'll ask you this, and we'll
• 46:08
  Speaker 4: ask him next time he comes around. I don't want
• 46:12
  Speaker 4: to say anyone except— I don't think it was a
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: surprise to a lot of people that Kim Paxton lost.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: That's one thing. Let's take that out of the equation.
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: I also don't think a lot of people were expecting
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: Gina Hinojosa to get the win over Governor Abbott. But really,
• 46:27
  Speaker 4: I think it's a very, very slim amount of people
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: that thought that everyone else would get voted out.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: So, again, you have a complete flipknot. This isn't just
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: going back to Texas history. Hey, the lieutenant governor is important.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: They set the agenda. That's what they do. The governor
• 46:43
  Speaker 4: does this. You got all new everything. Being that no
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: one really expected this. I can't ask you what the
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: preparations are for dealing with a completely different administration. But
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: what what are have you had any thoughts in terms
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: of here's what we could do? Here's how we could
• 47:05
  Speaker 4: reach out to them. Here's what I think they'll be
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: interested in or no. Is that premature?
• 47:10
  Speaker 23: No, it's not, because I will tell you, first of all,
• 47:13
  Speaker 23: you know, Gina and Hoso, you know, governor elect. is
• 47:16
  Speaker 23: from South Texas. So my roots go way deep in
• 47:18
  Speaker 23: South Texas. We have a lot of family that's involved,
• 47:21
  Speaker 23: very involved on both sides of the aisle. I will
• 47:24
  Speaker 23: say this because it was thrown in my face multiple times.
• 47:28
  Speaker 23: You know, my brother-in-law, clearly, you know James, Mayor Pro Tem.
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 47:33
  Speaker 23: And what he did in the middle of my campaign,
• 47:35
  Speaker 23: it's like, oh my gosh, James, really? Can you just
• 47:38
  Speaker 23: not do this right now? But, you know, we have
• 47:41
  Speaker 23: fought battles and we have shed blood. for our ability
• 47:46
  Speaker 23: to vote, our ability to have freedom of speech. Nobody
• 47:49
  Speaker 23: should come to me and say, what do you think
• 47:50
  Speaker 23: about this? I love my brother-in-law. We were best friends
• 47:55
  Speaker 23: before he was my brother-in-law. I didn't know he was
• 47:57
  Speaker 23: after my sister the whole time.
• 48:00
  Speaker 4: Sometimes it just happens that way.
• 48:02
  Speaker 23: It's just the way it is. But I love my brother.
• 48:05
  Speaker 23: I respect everything that he's done. I expect his conviction
• 48:07
  Speaker 23: for it. But me as the mayor, people say, you
• 48:10
  Speaker 23: have to draw the line. It's like, can't. I have
• 48:13
  Speaker 23: to work with whoever wins, whether it's Paxton or Tallarico.
• 48:15
  Speaker 23: If I walk in, represent the city of Bryan as
• 48:20
  Speaker 23: the losing part of that thing, then I walk in
• 48:24
  Speaker 23: with not that ability to go, hey, because there's already preconceptions.
• 48:28
  Speaker 23: And my job is to be nonpartisan. My job is
• 48:32
  Speaker 23: to serve the people, the 95,000 people who elect me.
• 48:36
  Speaker 23: Whatever the percentage they elect me, I have to serve
• 48:39
  Speaker 23: all of them. And I'm going to give deference to
• 48:42
  Speaker 23: them because it wasn't as, you know, I think with
• 48:47
  Speaker 23: my resume in the last 20, 30 years, it should
• 48:51
  Speaker 23: have been more because of what I've done. And I
• 48:55
  Speaker 23: say that with a lot of humility. People call me
• 48:59
  Speaker 23: because they want to raise money. They want to raise
• 49:00
  Speaker 23: money for their organization, for their nonprofit, for this, for that,
• 49:03
  Speaker 23: for whatever. My ability, my gift is to be able
• 49:06
  Speaker 23: to help people raise money and to get people together.
• 49:09
  Speaker 23: And Now it's just different. So I have to do
• 49:14
  Speaker 23: it for everybody. And you know, everybody has my phone number.
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: I know it's going to be, I know it's going
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: to be an adventure. And, again, I know, like you said,
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: figuring out what the direction is, I think, is going
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: to be very intriguing. I think from the city perspective,
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: because like you mentioned, you said this several times, you're
• 49:36
  Speaker 4: kind of always looking to a project down the road.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: if you're in city government. It might not be something
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: you actually see the completion of, but you've got stuff cooking.
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: And again, Texas has not had a shift like this
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: in Since 1990, 94 was Bush when he came, or
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: it was 96, one of those two.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: I think it was four. I'm just trying to remember
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: the cover of the Texas Monthly with Ann Richards on
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the Harley Davidson. That's all I can picture.
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: But it's been that long.
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  Speaker 23: I think that we have so much going on right
• 50:09
  Speaker 23: now in Texas in general, and hopefully that trend will continue.
• 50:12
  Speaker 23: And I hope with our region, this will continue on.
• 50:15
  Speaker 23: I feel like me and my council, we're ready. We're
• 50:20
  Speaker 23: going to continue on doing the good work that we
• 50:22
  Speaker 23: can do. And I think probably the most hurtful thing
• 50:26
  Speaker 23: that ever was told to me was what Scott DeLucia
• 50:28
  Speaker 23: said in our deal. It's like the mayor doesn't do
• 50:30
  Speaker 23: anything but preside over a meeting. And that's not true.
• 50:34
  Speaker 23: I'm probably the only full-time mayor the city of Brine
• 50:36
  Speaker 23: has ever had. And I take it very serious because
• 50:39
  Speaker 23: I don't, like I said, I don't know what I've
• 50:41
  Speaker 23: done to deserve the life that I have, but I
• 50:43
  Speaker 23: take it very serious. All the credit goes to Becky. Becky,
• 50:47
  Speaker 23: you know, she does all the work. I get all
• 50:48
  Speaker 23: the credit. And you know, our life is hard. I mean,
• 50:52
  Speaker 23: our business, there's a lot of competition is things that
• 50:56
  Speaker 23: are happening, but she's truly doing all the work and,
• 50:59
  Speaker 23: you know, well, you're on the take, no matter what
• 51:01
  Speaker 23: decision you make, you're this, you're that, whatever. It's like,
• 51:03
  Speaker 23: you know, you should look at my bank account 20
• 51:05
  Speaker 23: years ago and look at my bank account today. That
• 51:09
  Speaker 23: money has gone into the city of Brian. It's gone
• 51:12
  Speaker 23: into the citizens, gone into hopefully making new jobs for people,
• 51:15
  Speaker 23: making new, you know, abilities for people to do things
• 51:17
  Speaker 23: for the kids, for the next generation. Uh, You know,
• 51:21
  Speaker 23: I rest easy at night knowing even though you have
• 51:24
  Speaker 23: the people who are saying all the things and whatever,
• 51:27
  Speaker 23: the good old boy system, all the stuff that they
• 51:30
  Speaker 23: say about us, we've been a group of people who
• 51:32
  Speaker 23: have consistently put Brian first and take yourself out, make
• 51:37
  Speaker 23: things better, and just keep on going. And we'll continue
• 51:41
  Speaker 23: to do that. Now, I look forward to what I
• 51:43
  Speaker 23: really do look forward now. I mean, it's changing constantly.
• 51:46
  Speaker 23: it's not going to be so extreme anymore.
• 51:48
  Speaker 4: I hope so.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: I hope that's the case.
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: I am. I'm interested to see, because again, I think
• 51:53
  Speaker 4: everyone has the, the, the, the best part about it
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: being so definitive, uh, with Texas and how everything turned
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: out is we all have a chance to kind of
• 52:01
  Speaker 4: evaluate how we want to do our politics moving forward.
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: Because I don't think there's a single person in the
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: state that said this was working. This was what we want.
• 52:10
  Speaker 21: Exactly.
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: Uh, in terms of how we campaign and how we, uh,
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: we go about the business, but you know, it's, We'll see.
• 52:18
  Speaker 23: I just want to say, first and foremost, thank you
• 52:22
  Speaker 23: for everybody who helped me. All the people who voted
• 52:25
  Speaker 23: for me and put their trust in me. I, you know,
• 52:29
  Speaker 23: I'm very humbled by that. It's truly, you know, you
• 52:31
  Speaker 23: have that aha moment. We don't know what's going to happen.
• 52:36
  Speaker 23: You go into this thing very.
• 52:39
  Speaker 12: Open.
• 52:39
  Speaker 23: You open yourself up. And, you know, there's a good
• 52:42
  Speaker 23: chance that I could have lost. and look what happened
• 52:44
  Speaker 23: last night. I mean, it's a good chance.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: Wild, wild stuff.
• 52:48
  Speaker 23: So, you know, last man standing or whatever you want
• 52:50
  Speaker 23: to call it. It's, I'm very humbled. I'm very, you know,
• 52:55
  Speaker 23: the gratitude you can't even, you can't even speak about it.
• 52:57
  Speaker 23: I mean, truly when you wake up and you only
• 52:59
  Speaker 23: start looking down the roster and like.
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, crazy night. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's going
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: to be something we're going to be talking about for,
• 53:07
  Speaker 4: for obviously for a, for a long, long time. But, um, uh, again,
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: thank you so much for coming in. Uh, On a
• 53:14
  Speaker 4: morning that you could have just taken a little extra
• 53:17
  Speaker 4: time to catch up on sleep.
• 53:18
  Speaker 23: You know, it doesn't stop for me, and it wasn't
• 53:20
  Speaker 23: going to stop me. I've got to drive to Houston.
• 53:22
  Speaker 23: I'm working on another project in Houston. I'm leaving here
• 53:26
  Speaker 23: with toothpicks in my eyes. And then just go do
• 53:30
  Speaker 23: that and keep on going because, you know, the city
• 53:32
  Speaker 23: deserves it. And we all deserve it.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Well, congratulations, man.
• 53:36
  Speaker 23: Thank you so much.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Thanks for coming in, Bobby.
• 53:37
  Speaker 23: Appreciate you guys.
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