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The Infomaniacs: October 21st 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
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  Speaker 1: former firefighter has been indicted for arson. A grand jury
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  Speaker 1: in Washington County handed down an indictment for second-degree felony
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  Speaker 1: arson against 49-year-old Ronald Perry on October 14th. according to
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  Speaker 1: the Texas A & M Forest Service. Perry is being
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  Speaker 1: held on $ 100, 000 bond at the Washington County Jail. He
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  Speaker 1: was a volunteer with Rocky Creek VFD. An investigation began
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  Speaker 1: after the Washington County Sheriff's Office found suspicious wildfires south
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  Speaker 1: of Lake Somerville in 2020. A joint task force was
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  Speaker 1: created between the Texas A & M Forest Service law enforcement,
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  Speaker 1: the Washington County Sheriff's Office, and the FBI Central Texas
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  Speaker 1: Joint Terrorism Task Force. to investigate. Perry was arrested on
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  Speaker 1: August 12th on suspicion of setting numerous fires between 2020
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  Speaker 1: and 2026. A conviction on second-degree felony arson is punishable
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  Speaker 1: by up to 20 years, but no less than two
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  Speaker 1: years in prison and fines up to $ 10, 000. At Monday's
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  Speaker 1: candidates forum, candidates for College Station Place 2 talked flock cameras.
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  Speaker 1: Chandler Arden is a proponent of ALPRs, just not necessarily flock.
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  Speaker 2: I think we have a year to figure it out Fortunately,
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  Speaker 2: I think Flock, the company, is probably questionable. I believe
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  Speaker 2: that probably in January, February, the state will be telling
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  Speaker 2: us what we think about Flock. But having said that,
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  Speaker 2: I did speak in favor of Flock, or ALPRs, and
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  Speaker 2: the big reason really is all these numbers that are
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  Speaker 2: talked about, how many cameras there are, how many pictures
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  Speaker 2: they take, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. What I'm
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  Speaker 2: really concerned about is one, And it's the one victim
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  Speaker 2: of a crime, the one crime that got prevented, the
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  Speaker 2: one crime that got solved. So the number to me
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  Speaker 2: really is one.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Kidd is not a fan.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like them. I feel like it invades people's privacy.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of cities that use it. Even Houston
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  Speaker 3: uses it as well. And there's been breaches where people
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  Speaker 3: are not doing things that they're not supposed to be doing.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe that police officers should have great technology
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  Speaker 3: to catch criminals, but I feel like even just Flock
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  Speaker 3: as a company, you know, I feel like there's some
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  Speaker 3: gray areas there.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear from all the candidates for Bryan and
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  Speaker 1: College Station City Councils. as well as Mayor, Commissioner's Court,
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  Speaker 1: and State Representative at WTAW.com. What started as a petty
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  Speaker 1: theft at the West Bryan Walmart led to an ice
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  Speaker 1: hold for two men on Monday. Bryan Police responded to
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  Speaker 1: the Walmart in the 600 block of North Harvey Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: Parkway just before 6 p.m. for reports of a theft
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  Speaker 1: in progress. 18-year-old Luis Vasquez Hernandez and 20-year-old Juan Garcia
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  Speaker 1: Cortez were detained in the store's asset protection room and
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  Speaker 1: placed under arrest for theft under $ 100. During the arrest,
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  Speaker 1: Vasquez Hernandez attempted to hide a THC vape in the
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  Speaker 1: patrol car, so he was also charged with possession of
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  Speaker 1: a controlled substance, penalty group two less than one gram,
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  Speaker 1: and tampering with evidence. Both men remained behind bars on
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  Speaker 1: an ICE detainer. More news on the way at 630
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  Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620, 94.5 WTAW. 1620, 94.5 WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: 50, 70. I just like saying, just acknowledging when we're
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  Speaker 4: looking at temperatures in the 50s. And it feels all
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  Speaker 4: of mid-50s, too.
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  Speaker 1: It's delightful outside this morning. My problem with the forecast
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  Speaker 1: right now is that it's boring. I mean, it's just repetitive.
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  Speaker 1: It's wonderful. Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 4: But see, that's the thing. I also hate a repetitive,
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  Speaker 4: boring forecast because, you know, I mean, when you have
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  Speaker 4: to read something like 100 times a day. You want
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  Speaker 4: it to be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: There's only so many ways that you can vary.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 4: It's varied, and there are very few. But I will
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  Speaker 4: say this. If I had to pick a boring forecast.
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  Speaker 1: This would be the one. This is the guy. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even mind.
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  Speaker 4: When it's in August and the boring is 110, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that stings.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Saying it's going to be starting out in the 50s
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  Speaker 4: and getting up to a high of.
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  Speaker 1: Top of that 80, 82, 83. This is the weather
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  Speaker 1: that I don't mind mowing in.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely not. Tonight, most of the clear, double nickels, 55
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  Speaker 4: for the projected low. More 80, low 80s Sunday. And, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: no chance of rain all the way until early next
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  Speaker 4: week and get a little baby chance of something, something
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  Speaker 4: Monday or Tuesday. But beautiful stuff. Weather brought to you
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  Speaker 4: feel the difference. Start the show with gratitude today. Do
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  Speaker 4: you have anything to.
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  Speaker 1: Be grateful for? Lots of things to be grateful for. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we'll start out. Well, it was a great thing to watch. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: most people don't know this about me, but I'm very empathetic.
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  Speaker 1: And I have emotions sometimes that can't be turned off.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday brought me to tears.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 1: With the Brazos Valley Gives. Just because when I start
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  Speaker 1: thinking about the need, number one, and then I start
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  Speaker 1: thinking and seeing the turnout of our community.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That brings me to joyful tears on most occasions. $ 1.
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  Speaker 4: 352 million raised as of.
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  Speaker 1: Last night. Yeah, and they're still making some final tabulations.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 4: They're still counting up checks. And no one, to be
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  Speaker 4: clear about this, if for some reason you just didn't
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  Speaker 4: get around to this or you weren't around the radio
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  Speaker 4: or the internet when we're talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: Or you were in a coma, unconscious, whatever.
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  Speaker 4: Any number of things. No one's going to turn your
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  Speaker 4: money down if you decide to add to that total
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  Speaker 4: by any stretch of the imagination.
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  Speaker 1: No, the organizations that exceeded their ask Yesterday, and we
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  Speaker 1: have a list of those in the news, and the
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  Speaker 1: list is on the website, too. Amazing. Actually, yeah, where
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  Speaker 1: is that list?
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to talk, because that was.
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  Speaker 1: The cool part. It's on the BrazosValleyGives.org website. I was
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  Speaker 1: looking at it. I know the Brazos Valley Food Bank
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  Speaker 1: exceeded their goal. That was a big one, man. A
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  Speaker 1: huge one.
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  Speaker 4: And that was when we had talked to Teresa, and
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  Speaker 4: any amount of money that they can get is real solid. Man, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of big numbers. Man, the bee community coming through.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was really not aware of the bee
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  Speaker 1: community until, and that's one of the great things about
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  Speaker 1: Brazos Valley Gives, you get to see things that you're
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  Speaker 1: not familiar with. Yeah, they came up huge.
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  Speaker 4: Handcrafting high-quality products like soaps, candles, dog treats, stationery, jewelry,
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  Speaker 4: and fudge. Providing meaningful work and place belonging for adults
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  Speaker 4: with intellectual disability. That's such a cool thing.
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  Speaker 1: Very cool.
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  Speaker 4: And, yeah, if you're not familiar with it, I would
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  Speaker 4: wager to say a lot of people got familiar with
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  Speaker 4: that one yesterday. Aggieland Humane clocking in on $ 70, 000.
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  Speaker 9: Huge.
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  Speaker 1: Hope Gathering, Inc.
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  Speaker 4: $ 105, 000 raised yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: $ 105, 000. What a big deal that is.
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  Speaker 4: That's a huge thing.
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  Speaker 1: Other reasons, perhaps?
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's go back and forth. I'll give you something
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  Speaker 4: I'm grateful for now.
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  Speaker 10: Please.
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  Speaker 4: I'm grateful for Brookshire Brothers Fried Chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, you toured the Brookshire Brothers over there for the
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  Speaker 1: first time.
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  Speaker 4: I've never actually been into the Brookshire Brothers.
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  Speaker 1: And I love that little store. I think it's a cool...
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  Speaker 1: It's so cool. Yeah, it's totally set.
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  Speaker 11: Up for that.
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  Speaker 4: If I had been in college... and had essentially a
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  Speaker 4: full mini grocery store that had not only my groceries,
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  Speaker 4: but if I needed to go get takeout, boom, there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the full deli. Yeah, a full deli, coffee, place
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  Speaker 1: to study. Taps. You can get yourself a cold pop
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  Speaker 1: while you're grocery shopping. Fill up the keg if you're
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  Speaker 1: so inclined.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's all there. Homeware.
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  Speaker 4: It's just such a cool store. But the one thing
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  Speaker 4: I've always known Brookshire Brothers for was fried chicken. So
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  Speaker 4: in relation to Brass Valley Gives, they have like a
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  Speaker 4: quick lunch. Everyone gets together, and you get to hang
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  Speaker 4: out and talk about– meet some of the groups that
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  Speaker 4: are out there.
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  Speaker 1: And they feed you. They feed you a sandwich tray,
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  Speaker 1: which is great. Yeah, fantastic. A great sandwich tray. You
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  Speaker 1: didn't shy away from it.
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  Speaker 4: But I knew going in there, I was like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: on my way out of here, dang it, I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be picking up some Berkshire Brothers fried chicken.
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  Speaker 1: I still haven't– it looked delicious. I still have not
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  Speaker 1: had Berkshire Brothers. It delivers.
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  Speaker 4: It delivers at a level that there's no reason. they
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  Speaker 4: should have as good a fried chicken as they have
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  Speaker 4: at Brookshire Brothers. So, yeah, that was a wonderful, wonderful
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  Speaker 4: little little excursion yesterday. I'm very grateful that I had
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity to house some Brookshire Brothers chicken.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have another one? I do have another one.
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  Speaker 1: My oldest daughter accepted to grad school. What?
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  Speaker 9: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: We got the notification yesterday.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 1: Not a chip off the old block, apparently. Holy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She's going to finish Ole Miss in three years. So
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  Speaker 1: she will graduate Ole Miss in May. Yeah. I'm knocking
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  Speaker 1: on wood here. Just because of my own personal experiences.
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  Speaker 1: And then she will start grad school in June.
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  Speaker 4: I'd love to see it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Very excited about that.
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  Speaker 4: How does a child announce that they have been accepted
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  Speaker 4: into grad school? Do they call you, scream?
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  Speaker 1: I think my wife messed it up for her.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Because my wife called, which when she calls in the
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  Speaker 1: middle of the school day, typically it's for one of
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  Speaker 1: two things.
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  Speaker 12: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, she's having a meltdown.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Because she teaches kids.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 1: As to be expected. Or number two, she wants me
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  Speaker 1: to bring her something. So that's usually what the phone
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  Speaker 1: call is. So I get the call yesterday. I'm like, hey, sweetheart,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on? And she announced it to me.
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  Speaker 14: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Immediately afterwards, I call my daughter and, and she says,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, dad? I was like, you got into grad school.
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  Speaker 1: She's got what? Yeah. So my wife, that's, stinks i
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  Speaker 1: can understand why i you know.
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  Speaker 4: Well you can't really fault fault mom for being excited
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  Speaker 4: that the kids you know all the way to the.
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  Speaker 1: Next uh just incredible life we're so fortunate so fortunate
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  Speaker 1: both our kids yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Man what what a great thing but yeah lots to
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  Speaker 4: be grateful for today uh and except for the tuition
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  Speaker 4: you're like are you paying tuition to this or is this.
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  Speaker 1: Like yeah we'll be paying tuition But hey, she got
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  Speaker 1: through undergrad in three, so... That's true. Maybe you get
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a... Not so shabby. Not so shabby.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit of a discount. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: what we budgeted for four years, right? Oh, nice. Nice. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it would be more expensive. It's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a little more expensive, but we budgeted pretty good
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  Speaker 1: because she was going out of state to school.
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  Speaker 4: Taking a quarter off of it is going to.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be all right. Make it nice. Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Wednesday.
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  Speaker 14: the pump and cut costs for small businesses. These aren't promises.
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  Speaker 14: They're results that make a difference for Texas families.
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  Speaker 17: Every game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of
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  Speaker 17: all briskets. The greatest of all cornhole shots. The greatest
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  Speaker 17: of all cooler holes. But the Toyota trucks that carry
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  Speaker 17: the whole tailgate, now that's the real goat.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, buddy.
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  Speaker 18: Not everything's about you. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: You're pretty great, too.
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  Speaker 17: Score a great deal on the Tundra in Tacoma at
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  Speaker 17: the Toyota Trucks game day sales event.
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  Speaker 18: But hurry, these deals won't last forever.
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  Speaker 1: Toyota, let's go places.
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  Speaker 17: See packages and options at toyota.com for future availability. Every
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  Speaker 17: game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of all briskets.
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  Speaker 17: The greatest of all cornhole shots. The greatest of all
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  Speaker 17: cooler holes. But the Toyota trucks that carry the whole tailgate,
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  Speaker 17: now that's the real goat.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, buddy.
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  Speaker 18: Not everything's about you. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: You're pretty great, too.
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  Speaker 17: Score a great deal on the Tundra in Tacoma at
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  Speaker 17: the Toyota Trucks Game Day sales event.
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  Speaker 1: But hurry.
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  Speaker 18: These deals won't last forever.
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  Speaker 1: Toyota. Let's go places.
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  Speaker 18: See packages and options at toyota.com for future availability.
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  Speaker 19: Did you know that paint, pesticides, automotive fluids, home cleaning agents,
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  Speaker 19: and electronics are considered household hazardous waste, also known as HHW?
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  Speaker 19: It seems harmless, but improper disposal of these everyday household
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  Speaker 19: items pose fire risk, environmental threats, and definitely do not
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  Speaker 19: belong in your regular garbage.
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  Speaker 6: So what should you do with them?
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  Speaker 10: Easy.
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  Speaker 19: Each year, the Twin Oaks Landfill, along with the cities
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  Speaker 19: of Bryan and College Station, offer two household hazardous waste
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  Speaker 19: drop-off events for residents of the Brazos Valley. The next
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  Speaker 19: HHW collection event is scheduled for Saturday, October 24th, 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 19: to 2 p.m. at the University Services Building on Harvey
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  Speaker 19: Road next to Veterans Park. Two household hazardous waste drop-off
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  Speaker 19: events for residents of the Brazos Valley. So gather your waste,
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  Speaker 19: stay in your vehicle, and our team will handle the rest.
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  Speaker 19: Still not sure what's considered hazardous waste? Visit TwinOaksHHW.com for
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  Speaker 19: event details.
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  Speaker 12: And a list of accepted materials.
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  Speaker 19: Rain or shine, we hope to see you there.
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  Speaker 10: This is Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. A great city isn't
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  Speaker 10: only measured by the business we create or the buildings
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  Speaker 10: we construct.
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  Speaker 1: It's about quality of life.
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  Speaker 10: It's our parks, our neighborhoods, our restaurants, our music, our festivals,
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  Speaker 10: and having amazing places where families and friends can come together.
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  Speaker 10: That's what Brian is continuing to build, a city where
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  Speaker 10: people want to live, work, raise a family, and enjoy life.
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  Speaker 10: Economic opportunity and.
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  Speaker 1: Quality of life go hand in hand.
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  Speaker 10: With your vote, together, we can make Brian an even
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  Speaker 10: better place to call home.
• 14:34
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, gang. Infomaniacs.
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  Speaker 1: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 4: And I was rude just then. I didn't ask any
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  Speaker 4: of you guys if you had anything to be grateful
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  Speaker 4: for in your life. Like me. Is this me, even?
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  Speaker 20: I don't know that that was me.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know? Maybe sticky buttons? I think the studio
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  Speaker 1: is starting to fail us at this point. I think
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  Speaker 1: the studio may be... Realizing that it's close to Halloween
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  Speaker 1: and that there's a ghost in the machine.
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: Ghosts in the machine is always a very real possibility.
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  Speaker 1: And a pretty good police album, too.
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  Speaker 14: Not bad.
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  Speaker 4: So, you've got some. You can text us.
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  Speaker 8: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 4: Other reasons to celebrate today. And there are several. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to start out with one that is near and
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  Speaker 4: dear to my heart. Today is, again, October 21st. That
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  Speaker 4: is known across the.
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  Speaker 1: World as back Did.
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  Speaker 6: You forget what day it is?
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  Speaker 4: Of course not.
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  Speaker 14: The future day is now precisely October 21st.
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  Speaker 1: October 21st. It's October 21st. Back to the future day.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: I'm from the future.
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  Speaker 6: I think the actual day was on October 21st, 2015.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. No, friend.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, 2015.
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  Speaker 1: You're correct.
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  Speaker 8: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I got 1915 in my head for a second. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: 2015 was where they went to the future. Yeah, that
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: was future day. uh and which is a little scary
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: when you think about it it.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: Is i remember when future day came to pass which
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: was again 11 years ago and uh there were some
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: things that had happened or were close to happening like
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: the cubbies winning a world series yes you know that's
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: great hoverboards hoverboards was a hoverboards was close i i
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: don't count those as hoverboards we we were we did
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: have something that was referred to as hoverboards self-lacing shoes
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: it kind of happened and You know, TVs that you
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: could have like a million screens going at the same time,
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: that definitely occurred. But there was a lot of stuff
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: that wasn't the way we remember or were sold.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: And one, the biggest thing, obviously, was the flying car.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Well, until recently. Until now.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: I swear he made that thing look like, that was
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: a conscious, conscious decision to make.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: The flying car look like the DeLorean.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Look like the DeLorean.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I truly believe that. Yeah, I can easily see that,
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: knowing Elon's personality.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: I feel like Elon loves him some Back to the Future.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: I think Elon loves a lot of different sci-fi movies.
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: If a flying DeLorean landed in your garage today with
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: a flux capacitor and the ability to time travel back to,
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: and I'm not going to say all time, I'm just
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: going to say in keeping with the Back to the
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Future universe.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: Take about 40, 50 years in the past, somewhere in that.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: You can go back and find past you. What would
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: you do to give past you an edge if you
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: could go back and do it?
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, there's all kinds of stock tips, right?
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: See, that was, and again, first thing.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: And the betting stuff. Biff did the betting.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the sports almanac. It would be hard for me
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: not to go back. I think I would actually, I
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: would do the Sports Almanac because sports gambling became so superfluous.
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: And you're a degenerate.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Stock tips would be great.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: It's like, hey, that Amazon thing is going to be
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: pretty big. You should probably get onto that sometime around 2004.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: That Apple thing probably turned out okay. That's pretty big.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Maybe get onto that. I know you're going to think,
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Wait until it comes down and no one knows. They're like,
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: no one cares about it anymore. Maybe that's the.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Time to buy. I'm going to the garage and buying stock.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: You're going Steve Wozniak level. Hey, Woz, let me buy in. Yeah,
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: you want in, right? Steve Jobs, just pure crazy. You
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: want that level of Apple success.
• 18:43
  Speaker 8: I do.
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: You want that level of stock. That's pretty good. That's
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: pretty good. That's, that's pretty solid. But yeah, most of
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: them would be money moves. Frankly, I don't have a
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: lot else that I would, I don't know. I don't
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: think I would tell you past me a lot past me.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: You would be terrified of, of, of current timeline me.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Like if you showed up at a private Christian school, like, and, and,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: you know, there's me like with like road, uh, like
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: road weary and covered in tattoos said, Hey son, I'm
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: future you. I think that's a bad idea.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Probably.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: He's going to be like, oh, no, everything went wrong.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: I'd be like, you know what, son? Yes.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: Most of it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Most of it.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: There are some high points, but.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I think I feel a lot of sports almanac. Have fun.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: I think I wouldn't go back. When you think about it,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: would you go back and change anything?
• 19:35
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: I think current me is a sum of all the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: negatives and positives that have happened. You can't.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: That's the thing. It's insane to change anything because where
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: you are is.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: The ups and downs. Have I had tough times? Have
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I made mistakes? Absolutely.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: If everything went perfect for you and you were a billionaire,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: you might be a sociopath.
• 19:49
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: You never know. I might be a poor sociopath now.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: You never know.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: What else do we have to get to?
• 19:56
  Speaker 23: Ah, yes.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Let's not skip over this guy right here. In addition
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: to Back to the Future Day. It is also the
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: International Day of the Nacho.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: Let's take a trip back in the time machines. 1943,
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Piedras Negras, Mexico, just across the border from Eagle Pass,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: when a bunch of gringos walked into a bar, which
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: was being managed by Ignacio Nacho Anaya. And they said,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: we're hungry. And he said, I don't have any food.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: And they're like, I don't think you're here. I'm hungry,
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: and we are here for something to eat.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We have pesos.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: So he said, all right, and goes to the back
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: and fried up some tortilla chips, melted cheese, and dropped
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: some sliced jalapenos on them, and the nachos special was born.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: After that, you know, to the moon. Yes, it never stopped. Now,
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: the question that is always debated, are nachos better when
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: every chip is individually loaded? Or when everything is piled
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: on top of it like one big nasty mess. I
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: have had fights with dear, dear friends over this very debate.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I think, I don't know, from a culinary perspective, you
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: want the perfect bite every time as many times as
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you can. So from that perspective, the individually dressed chip
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: from a culinary perspective might be the thing. But from
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: an experiential perspective.
• 21:15
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: A nacho is supposed to be a little sloppy.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: It's supposed to be a mess. And the thing is,
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: I do understand the argument that they only ever get
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: max coverage on the top layer of chips. So at
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: the end of The chips, that layer, you end up
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: just with a bunch of chips and nothing on them.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Or those that have remained at the bottom and are
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: now dusty. They're like paper.
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, not the same. They're just greasy. I do get that.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: That said, I feel like whenever... You give me six
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: chips with a bunch of stuff on them that really
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: only benefits the restaurant. You can't tell me that's the
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: same number of ingredients that is made to make sure
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: you don't give me as much as I want. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: I give you more money than I want to give you.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: And I don't approve of that.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Well, I can see both sides.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: But feel free to weigh in. Also, Mezcal Day, which
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: is unfortunate to have on. It's come back in style.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Hipsters love them.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Look, I have been a Mezcal guy.
• 22:18
  Speaker 22: Are you?
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And look, tequilas at Mezcal have gone the same
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: direction as bourbons in that they've become a very craft.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: craft business. So you can get some really distinct mezcals
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and tequilas now that have tasting notes and just incredible
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: body and flavor and depth.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: The game might have changed in the time where I
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: consumed mezcal.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's come a long way. My college roommate and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: I At Ouachita Baptist University. Used to go to Ship
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and Shore Liquor. That was a cry for help back then.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: And we would always get the Dos Gusanos. Dos Gusanos.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: That was the mezcal with two worms so that we
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: didn't have to fight over the worm.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Why would you do this to yourself?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Because we were idiots.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: See, the thing is, I have friends who have also
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: tried mezcal. Again, it's just the fact that mezcal is
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: more of a punishing thing.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Not anymore.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: Not anymore.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: There's a huaca old-fashioned that is made with mezcal and
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: tequila that is delicious.
• 23:19
  Speaker 24: All right.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: Celebrate however you see fit. All right, what do we
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: have on birthdays?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: What do we got on birthdays today? Doja Cat is 31.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Doja had a moment. Is Doja still having a moment?
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: Kind of, sort of. Kind of internet famous for complaining
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: these days.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Less music, more whining.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: That's unfortunate.
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: That's all right.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Kane Brown is 33, the country singer. Glenn Powell is 38. Ah,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Texas icon. Yeah, the running man, Top Gun Maverick. Doing
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the Chad Powers thing now, which I kind of liked
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the first season. I have become awash in the second
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: season and just kind of given up on it. Amber
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Rose is 43, Kanye's ex. Kim Kardashian is 46, Kanye's ex. Man,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: did he pick the same birthday so that he could
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: try to remember the birthday? No chance. Charlotte Caffey is 73.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: She's the Go-Go's guitarist that wrote We Got the Beat. Oh, yeah.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Great documentary on the Go-Go's, by the way, if you
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: can find that one. I watched it sometime in the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: last six months. Benjamin Netanyahu is 77 years old today,
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the Israeli prime minister. Judge Judy.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: He's 84.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: She just abdicated her throne to her son. Her son
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is doing it now. He's kind of the spitting image.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He's the male version.
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: It's not as great unless it's a Judge Judy, though.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: That's the thing. You can just be behind a bench
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: and be horrible to people and yell at them. That's
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: nothing new. When it's a tiny, tiny New York grandma,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: that's where the magic is made.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Manfred Mann is 86 years old today of Earth Band
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: fame and only one in the stiffs category. What do
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: you got? Carrie Fisher, born on this date in 1956.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Princess Leia.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Rest in peace. Today, yeah, you're getting up to the
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: low 80s, and that's not a bad place to be.
• 25:11
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  Speaker 14: He passed safeguards against dangerous uses of AI, and he
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. At
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: Monday night's candidates forum, the candidates for College Station Place
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: 1 discussed overnight street parking in Southside and Eastgate. Incumbent
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Mark Smith acknowledges it's a problem, but doesn't offer a solution.
• 28:05
  Speaker 26: I think that we need to look at public safety
• 28:08
  Speaker 26: as should be our number one criteria when we look
• 28:12
  Speaker 26: at removing parking. The Southside area.
• 28:18
  Speaker 26: There are people who live there who don't want their
• 28:21
  Speaker 26: parking removed overnight.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Howard Main suggests limiting parking to a single side of
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the street or issuing permits to residents for safety.
• 28:29
  Speaker 12: I've had some firsthand experience with this in a law
• 28:33
  Speaker 12: enforcement role. When I was working as a deputy one night,
• 28:36
  Speaker 12: we were responding to an officer assist, and there was
• 28:40
  Speaker 12: parking on both sides of the street, and it was
• 28:42
  Speaker 12: very hard for me to get through there in an Explorer. And,
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: you know, so then you go back and think, hey,
• 28:47
  Speaker 12: could a fire truck get here, get through here? And
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: I don't think they can.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Roy May says parking enforcement is a good start.
• 28:53
  Speaker 18: So I would start with enforcement.
• 28:55
  Speaker 12: Absolutely.
• 28:55
  Speaker 22: Because so for two falls, every Saturday, every Friday, I
• 28:59
  Speaker 22: drove from Southwood Valley to campus and I knew how
• 29:01
  Speaker 22: to shortcut through Southgate. And you run into people parking,
• 29:05
  Speaker 22: like you said, on both sides of the street. On
• 29:07
  Speaker 22: game day, you drive on the streets and you're basically
• 29:09
  Speaker 22: just doing your best not to hit a pedestrian.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: You can hear from all the candidates for Bryan and
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: College Station City Councils at WTAW.com. It was a pretty
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: successful day of giving in yesterday's Brazos Valley Gives. The
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: final totals aren't in, but it looks like over $ 1. 3
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: million was raised. Organizations that met their goals include the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Brazos Valley Food Bank, the College Station and Bryan ISD
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Education Foundations, Twin City Mission and Aggieland Pregnancy Outreach, the
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Aggieland Humane Society, exceeded their goal of $ 65, 000. Hope Gathering
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: exceeded their goal of $ 100, 000. The Boys and Girls Club
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: of the Brazos Valley is about $ 18, 000 short of their $ 50, 000
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: goal for a new van. Two women were arrested for
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: shoplifting at the College Station Target on Monday. College Station
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: police responded to a theft in progress around 4 o'clock.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: Two subjects were being detained in the loss prevention room.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: 17-year-old Ariane Oriana Garcia of Hockley was captured on video
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: concealing 17 clothing items into her bag before attempting to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: leave the store. The value of the items was $ 282.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: She was charged with theft between $ 100 and $ 750 and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: was released on a $ 4, 000 bond. 21-year-old Ingrid Moran Rodriguez
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: of College Station was captured stuffing approximately 12 items of
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: clothing into her backpack. at a value of $ 265. She
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: was charged with theft between $ 100 and $ 750 and is
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: being held on a $ 3, 000 bond and an ICE detainer.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Early voters are turned out in record numbers for the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: opening day of early voting on Monday. Fox's Brooke Taylor
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: is in Dallas with more.
• 30:53
  Speaker 27: The first day of early voting. And let me tell you,
• 30:55
  Speaker 27: voters here in Texas, they are showing up big time.
• 30:59
  Speaker 27: We saw a record-breaking number of voters showing up to
• 31:02
  Speaker 27: the polls. You have Dallas County, 76,000 people cast ballots
• 31:08
  Speaker 27: on Monday. That's shattering the previous record and nearly 20,000
• 31:11
  Speaker 27: more than on opening day of the 2024 presidential election.
• 31:17
  Speaker 27: that in Harris County, which includes Houston, you have more
• 31:21
  Speaker 27: than 104,000 voters, breaking the county's previous first-day midterm record
• 31:25
  Speaker 27: of roughly 63,000.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: In Brazos County, 4,560 voters cast their ballots on the
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: first day of early voting. President Trump is expected to
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: return to Texas to do more campaigning for Paxton ahead
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: of Election Day. Speaking of President Trump, he announced a
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: program that should help farmers shoulder the high cost of
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: diesel fuel. The Department of Agriculture.
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: We'll be launching a new harvest fuel relief program providing
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: our farmers.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: With $ 8.
• 31:55
  Speaker 24: Billion in support to offset diesel costs during this harvest season.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: The USDA will announce payment rates next month. Farmers will
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: not need crop insurance to qualify. Statewide gas prices in
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Texas today average $ 5. 78 per gallon for diesel and $ 3. 78
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: per gallon for regular. A lawsuit has been filed in
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: the race for governor of Texas.
• 32:19
  Speaker 28: In the complaint, Texas State Representative Gina Hinojosa, the Democratic
• 32:23
  Speaker 28: nominee for governor, accuses incumbent GOP Governor Greg Abbott of
• 32:27
  Speaker 28: violating state public records law by refusing to provide her
• 32:30
  Speaker 28: with documents of his exchanges with Tesla and SpaceX CEO
• 32:34
  Speaker 28: Elon Musk. The governor's office is sharing nearly 1,400 pages
• 32:37
  Speaker 28: of communications with Musk with the publication The Texas Newsroom
• 32:41
  Speaker 28: last year. Hinojosa, who filed a public information request, says
• 32:44
  Speaker 28: all but about 200 were redacted or completely blacked out,
• 32:48
  Speaker 28: claiming Musk, a donor of Abbott, is getting tax breaks
• 32:50
  Speaker 28: for his businesses. Abbott and Musk fought the release, arguing
• 32:53
  Speaker 28: they'd reveal private details. Abbott's campaign calls the lawsuit baseless,
• 32:58
  Speaker 28: noting it's working to have it dismissed. Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: More news on the way at 7 o'clock or anytime
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: feel the difference. We were talking before we got into this.
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  Speaker 4: I think we both heard the same thing about early voting.
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  Speaker 4: We're in day number three of early voting.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: Things kicked off Monday. And I keep hearing about the
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  Speaker 4: amount of people that are already coming through. in terms
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  Speaker 4: of crowds.
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  Speaker 1: From social media to different message boards to news stories.
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  Speaker 4: Now, what are you saying?
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  Speaker 1: What are they saying? Is it statewide?
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  Speaker 4: It can't just be here because the ones I've seen
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  Speaker 4: were friends on campus who were like, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, some that work there.
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  Speaker 4: Like, I'm going to go do some early voting or
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: they're thinking about doing early voting. So they walk over
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  Speaker 4: to the MSC and they see the lines and they're like,
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  Speaker 4: I'll do it tomorrow because the lines have been historic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like, historically long there.
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  Speaker 1: There are reports from just about every voting location here
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  Speaker 1: in Bryan College Station that says that they're up. The
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  Speaker 1: news that we are reporting right now, our news stories
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  Speaker 1: are saying that the turnouts in the major metropolitan areas
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  Speaker 1: are historic.
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  Speaker 4: And you wonder, we were kicking around, what do you,
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  Speaker 4: because I mean, everyone does this because it's in early
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  Speaker 4: voting and you're like, you know, you want to know
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  Speaker 4: how it ends. And so you start to think, okay,
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  Speaker 4: what does that mean?
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You try to read into things, which You know, I'm
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  Speaker 1: is popped out in my head is that the political
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  Speaker 1: science is a misnomer because it's not a science.
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  Speaker 4: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: Politics is all theory. Yeah, it's all it's all made up. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there are historical trends that you can get, but
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  Speaker 1: there are very few concrete things.
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  Speaker 4: In politics what happens is you get past the election
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  Speaker 4: and everyone acts like they knew it was going to
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  Speaker 4: happen tries to pick the data and like.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a fabulous book which by the way
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• 39:43
  Speaker 1: halfway through it right now but uh it is very
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  Speaker 1: much about the balance right and and so He says
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  Speaker 1: there's no way that you can read into these sort
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  Speaker 1: know what my gut tells me. What is your gut? Well,
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  Speaker 1: my gut tells me that with a historic turnout in
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  Speaker 1: the major metropolitan areas, right, that traditionally lean left, that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have a very, very close race. Because
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, you and I in conversation off air
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  Speaker 1: here in the state of Texas, the rural areas are.
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  Speaker 1: Still have the ability to balance.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's– because I keep seeing a lot
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  Speaker 4: of people saying like, oh, man, big voting in big
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  Speaker 4: cities means big year for the Democrats, which could be.
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  Speaker 1: Could be.
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  Speaker 4: But I think the most– we had a story about
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: it the other day. I firmly believe the most important
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  Speaker 4: factor when it comes to Texas politics– are the rural areas.
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  Speaker 4: It shouldn't make sense because, again, you've got the biggest
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  Speaker 4: cities in the country. The problem is every other state
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  Speaker 4: in America, and I mean every other state in America,
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  Speaker 4: doesn't have big cities and then a whole nation's worth
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  Speaker 4: of small towns and counties and land.
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  Speaker 1: Populated small towns because Alaska has plenty of land but
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  Speaker 1: no population.
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  Speaker 4: So you do, and I, again, I'm certain some theorists
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  Speaker 4: will tell me I'm wrong about this, I believe that
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  Speaker 4: that's actually more along the lines of why Texas has
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  Speaker 4: been red as long as it has, because it's two different, well,
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  Speaker 4: way up near the red river.
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  Speaker 1: And then East Texas, these.
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  Speaker 4: Are not, they all have their own makeups. They all
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  Speaker 4: have their own values. And, and, you know, it's, it, I,
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  Speaker 4: So I really don't know. My gut is that I
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  Speaker 4: don't know that the major metro areas are going to
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  Speaker 4: be as big of a story as, again, I just
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  Speaker 4: think that's the way it goes.
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  Speaker 1: But that said, I could be surprised. My firm takeaway
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  Speaker 1: from this is this, that when you have a turnout
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  Speaker 1: like this, your vote is more important than ever, right?
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  Speaker 1: Because there are so many voices speaking, you want to
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  Speaker 1: agree with that.
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  Speaker 4: People tend to have this idea.
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  Speaker 1: Your vote is always important.
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  Speaker 4: Because it's your vote. You don't vote because you're going
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• 42:25
  Speaker 4: always I the idea of only like, well, I'm not
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• 42:31
  Speaker 4: not like, no, you.
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  Speaker 1: Have to go.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I hate to say you can sit out,
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  Speaker 4: but you should probably just go and vote regardless. You
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  Speaker 4: have some options. You should you should punch it. It's
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: it's ridiculous to me. The idea of just like, oh,
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: I'm not excited about the election. I'm going to sit
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  Speaker 4: it out.
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  Speaker 1: Go in there and do what you need to do.
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  Speaker 4: You have candidates. And if you're not informed on the candidates,
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  Speaker 4: get informed on the candidates.
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  Speaker 1: Pick the best option that's on the board, whichever that
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  Speaker 1: may be. You know how many times I've picked the
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  Speaker 1: can make you nauseous too. Absolutely, yes. Most of the time.
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  Speaker 1: Most of the time.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like it's rare to get someone that you
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  Speaker 4: really actually are like 100% excited about. I mean, you
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  Speaker 4: don't vote.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And also, for those of you that are like, oh, God,
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  Speaker 4: what means I'm going to be there all day? It's
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  Speaker 4: not like that. They move you pretty fast.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, things are moving fine.
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  Speaker 4: And also, if you want to do it, just give
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  Speaker 4: it a few more days. That will also be the thing.
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  Speaker 4: If the record setting turnout continues for a full two weeks, okay,
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  Speaker 4: that might mean something. But normally, right about the end
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  Speaker 4: of this week, the beginning of next week, you should
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  Speaker 4: be able to make that trip down there. And again, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I think everyone's really interested to see what happens. Good Lord.
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  Speaker 4: But the amount of people turning out is fairly extraordinary
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  Speaker 4: this early in the game.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to take a break.
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  Speaker 24: change from that relative to what's happening obviously aware of
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  Speaker 24: it and know what you're talking about but I just
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  Speaker 24: think for us it's just going out tomorrow and having
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  Speaker 24: a great Tuesday and continuing to get.
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  Speaker 34: Better you know you're just talking about at the end
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  Speaker 34: of the day you got to play football right and
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  Speaker 34: that's the most important thing and I think they have
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  Speaker 34: to experience that every week to some degree I just
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  Speaker 34: think it is it's just always a little bit special
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  Speaker 34: when you're returning home there's usually more family there's more
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  Speaker 34: ticket requests there's more people there watching you I just
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  Speaker 34: feel like those games are a little bit more meaningful for.
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  Speaker 33: Guys Tied in, Mike O'Reilly also met with the media
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  Speaker 33: to talk about heading to Alabama to play in some
• 50:26
  Speaker 33: of the players' home state and how they'll have another
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  Speaker 33: opportunity as a program to play this weekend.
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  Speaker 35: I'm just excited for another opportunity. I think we all are,
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  Speaker 35: and obviously we've got some guys from Bama too, so
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  Speaker 35: this will be good for a homecoming for all of us.
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  Speaker 35: Another opportunity, so it's pretty fun. We all know it's
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  Speaker 35: going to be a great game, and they're a really
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  Speaker 35: good football team. We're a really good football team as well,
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  Speaker 35: so I think just staying calm and collected going into
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  Speaker 35: the week, understanding your preparation while we're doing certain things
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  Speaker 35: on offense and defense, and just calming yourself down before
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  Speaker 35: the game is the main thing.
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  Speaker 33: Kickoff for the game is set for 2.30 on Saturday afternoon.
• 51:00
  Speaker 33: The 7th-ranked Aggie women's golf team extended its lead to
• 51:03
  Speaker 33: nine strokes after round two of the Fin at the
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  Speaker 33: Freestone Lake and Golf Club yesterday. The Marina White returns
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  Speaker 33: to the course this morning at 9.30 a.m. with a
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  Speaker 33: shotgun start. The A & M men's golf team extended
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  Speaker 33: its lead at the Abilene Christian Intercollegiate yesterday, carting a
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  Speaker 33: 10-under par 278 in the second round to reach 15-under
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  Speaker 33: 561 through 36 holes at the Halbert National. The Aggies
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  Speaker 33: currently hold a seven-stroke advantage over second-place Arizona and will
• 51:32
  Speaker 33: continue play today with the final round. The Aggie men's
• 51:35
  Speaker 33: tennis team announced its SEC schedule and will have seven
• 51:39
  Speaker 33: home contests at the Mitchell Tennis Center.
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  Speaker 1: The Marina White.
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  Speaker 33: Will open league play at home in front of the
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  Speaker 33: 12th man Sunday, February 28th, and will take on South Carolina.
• 51:49
  Speaker 33: In the NBA last night, the San Antonio Spurs lost
• 51:52
  Speaker 33: 116-104 to the Oklahoma City Thunder. And tonight, the Houston
• 51:57
  Speaker 33: Rockets will host the Dallas Mavericks with tip-off set for 730.
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  Speaker 33: In the NHL last night, the Dallas Stars beat the
• 52:03
  Speaker 33: Boston Bruins 3-2. That's your morning sports update on 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 33: I'm Riley Flurkey.
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  Speaker 6: For years, Bryan residents have heard about HEB coming to
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  Speaker 6: Booneville Road, but HEB never announced a construction timeline for
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  Speaker 6: a new store at that location. When City Hall speaks,
• 52:20
  Speaker 6: residents should know what's confirmed, what isn't, and what's actually
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  Speaker 6: in writing. I'm Rafael Pena. As mayor, I'll verify the
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  Speaker 6: facts before making announcements and communicate clearly with the people
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  Speaker 6: of Bryan. The citizens of Bryan deserve a City Hall
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  Speaker 6: that speaks plainly. That's effective communication. That's good governance. I'm
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  Speaker 6: Rafael Pena, and I'm running for Bryan mayor, putting Bryan
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  Speaker 5: It's fall and it's sale time at Capstone Auction Partners.
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  Speaker 5: Whether you're cleaning up the farm, making room in the yard,
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  Speaker 5: or turning unused equipment into cash before year end, now
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  Speaker 8: Who should decide what your child learns in the classroom?
• 53:47
  Speaker 8: You and the teacher or a politician in Austin? Representative
• 53:50
  Speaker 8: Dyson didn't just vote to ban books. He voted to
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  Speaker 8: put politicians in charge of the curriculum. Since when did
• 53:56
  Speaker 8: the government get to be the headmaster of our schools?
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  Speaker 8: I'm Janet Dudding. I will leave in local control and
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  Speaker 4: Political ad paid for by the Janet Dunning campaign. 1620-945-WTAW.
• 54:18
  Speaker 4: Phyllis says, I wanted to hear the rest of Neil.
• 54:19
  Speaker 4: So did I.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: No idea what happened there. That is not a Tucker error.
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: I just want to be clear about there are a
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: lot of Tucker errors. Tucker, you screwed up several times
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: this morning already.
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  Speaker 10: Heck yeah.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: That one was not one of them.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: Not a particularly smooth start to the show this morning.
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  Speaker 4: But that is, sir, we will look into that, Phyllis.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: But thank you for loving Neil as much as the
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  Speaker 4: rest of us do.
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  Speaker 14: 1620.