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The Infomaniacs: August 19, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: dot com. Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm will welch.
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  Speaker 1: At Tuesday's Brass's County Commissioner's meeting, one topic was the
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  Speaker 1: tax rate the county is having to dip into the
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  Speaker 1: fund balance each year to fund maintenance and operations projects.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't adopt the highest amount proposed, instead opting to
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  Speaker 1: go with the second highest rate. That amount is forty
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  Speaker 1: four point eighty four cents, but it won't be adopted
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  Speaker 1: until after public hearings on the tax rate. Those will
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  Speaker 1: take place before the next Commissioner's Court meeting on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: September first, starting at eight thirty am. They will discuss
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  Speaker 1: both the tax rate and the proposed four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty two million dollars county budget. The Brian Fire Department
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  Speaker 1: responded to a house fire in the thirty five hundred
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  Speaker 1: block of Midwest Drive just before two thirty Tuesday. After afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: CRUZ found an active fire in the attic of the
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  Speaker 1: home that they were able to quickly get under control.
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  Speaker 1: The resident was able to exit the home without injury,
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  Speaker 1: and no surrounding structures were affected. The cause of the
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  Speaker 1: fire is under investigation. Flock cameras are being credited with
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  Speaker 1: reuniting a missing child from Sabine County with her family.
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  Speaker 2: Sabine Counties, just east of Lufkin. Authorities there were notified
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  Speaker 2: early Sunday of a missing child and that led to
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  Speaker 2: a multi agency drag net and included officers from both
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  Speaker 2: Texas and Louisiana. Beaumont's KFDM television reporting that flock cameras
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  Speaker 2: and license plate readers led authorities to intercept a car
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  Speaker 2: and rescue that child just before the car reached the
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana Mississippi state line. Sixty year old Roger Smith of Pineland,
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  Speaker 2: Texas was arrested. The child safely returned to her parents
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  Speaker 2: here in Texas. Russell Scott TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The City of Brian announced that the playground at Sue
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  Speaker 1: Haswell Park will be closed for about five weeks. The
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  Speaker 1: city will be installing new shade structures over the playground.
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  Speaker 1: They say, once complete, the shade will enhance safety on
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  Speaker 1: hot days and extend the life of existing equipment. Shade
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  Speaker 1: structures are also being installed at Tanglewood and Greenbriar Parks,
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  Speaker 1: but those areas remain open with safety barricades in place.
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  Speaker 1: The surrogacy drama unfolding here in Texas isn't over yet.
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  Speaker 1: The infant in question received a successful open heart surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Now lawyers for his birth mother and his biological parents
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  Speaker 1: are preparing for a court room battle.
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  Speaker 3: When the fetus Mkhetta. West was carrying was diagnosed with
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  Speaker 3: a serious heart condition, the parents who had hired her
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  Speaker 3: as their surrogate, opted for an abortion. West refused, came
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  Speaker 3: to Texas and gave birth last week.
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  Speaker 4: Even though he's not biologically mine, he knows me and
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  Speaker 4: to him, I am his mother.
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  Speaker 3: The parents attorney confirmed that the baby, whose legal name
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  Speaker 3: is Roomy, had his first surgery yesterday. Mckeata West plans
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  Speaker 3: to push for custody of the baby, whom she calls Gabriel.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry end Coin Exchange. More
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  Speaker 1: news today thirty or anytime at WTAW dot com. I'm
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  Speaker 1: will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five.
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  Speaker 5: Wta W sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW, Good morning,
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  Speaker 5: guys with the INFOMANIACX. Let's play the wheel of one
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  Speaker 5: stop on one hundred and one degrees, said, is allegedly
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  Speaker 5: So there is a story that you came. You brought
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  Speaker 5: to the table, and it really resonated with me, and
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  Speaker 5: I think it's it's unfair that I have such a
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  Speaker 5: prejudice in my heart against people who drive bmubles, But
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that might be where you were going.
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  Speaker 5: So, uh, this is a ranker of the best and
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  Speaker 5: worst drivers based on the vehicle that you drive. And
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  Speaker 5: I would ask, for the purposes of this conversation, maybe
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  Speaker 5: take a step back and think if there are any
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  Speaker 5: types of vehicle that indicate poor driving here in Brian
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  Speaker 5: College Station, specifically at this very time of year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I got one.
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  Speaker 5: And if you have it Texas, I want to I
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  Speaker 5: want the real list. It comes from fifteen year old.
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  Speaker 1: Lexus pulling out a pebble Creek with the former Students
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  Speaker 1: twelve man Association.
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  Speaker 5: That's the one you know is going to be a
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  Speaker 5: front and it.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like it just rolled off the showroom floor. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I'm familiar with.
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  Speaker 5: Nine sixteen twenty. Can you tell that the driver is
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  Speaker 5: going to stink based on the car that they drive
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  Speaker 5: here in Brian College Station right now? Riley says.
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  Speaker 1: Riley says, yes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to be a biased against the BMW
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  Speaker 4: people either, but I can count on over twenty ish
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  Speaker 4: thirty ish plus times where I've been driving down the
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  Speaker 4: road like here on Texas and a B and ut
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  Speaker 4: three lane a BMW you will fly across no blinker
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  Speaker 4: and just cut me off out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you should have gotten out of their way.
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  Speaker 5: So so the BMW, So you're seeing that the BMW
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  Speaker 5: is in are just as bad. Tess's okay, Tesla being
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  Speaker 5: on the list, will what do we have on the
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  Speaker 5: national list? Like what are the ones that they say
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  Speaker 5: should watch on the.
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  Speaker 1: List that they say BMW, Ram and Tesla, Well.
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  Speaker 5: Ram, I forgot about. I wouldn't go so far as
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  Speaker 5: to impugne the RAM. I would just say, honestly with me,
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  Speaker 5: it has to do with how high that truck. And again,
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  Speaker 5: not all jacked up trucks is not all not all trucks,
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  Speaker 5: So being a not all trucks.
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  Speaker 1: Being a two BMW in one RAM family, Oh lord, no, no, no, no, Look,
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  Speaker 1: my daughter is an outstanding driver. I mean she's really
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  Speaker 1: skilled and talented and actually enjoys it like I do.
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  Speaker 1: Will she drive fast? Absolutely? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, Now how's my record so far?
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  Speaker 1: But she's had one ticket? Oh that's it, no accident.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's outstanding.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, considering considering how much she tends to speed, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's really good. My my wife, who drives a BMW,
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  Speaker 1: uses the lane assist to drive.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I don't like the lane.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate those things. I mean she she drives
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  Speaker 1: it like a self driving car. It drives me nuts.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, not quite the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: And she has been known she has been known to
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of fender benders here in there. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, My youngest two drives what was formerly my ram. Right,
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  Speaker 1: she's a lot like her mom, and she is she
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  Speaker 1: has run into but she was driving the old jeep.
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  Speaker 1: She ran into the back of somebody at a at
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  Speaker 1: a stop light. And uh she she also in the
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  Speaker 1: old jeep took out a row of mailboxes. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 1: so it's.
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  Speaker 5: A row seven.
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  Speaker 1: They were all on like one stand.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, she wasn't didn't do eight tenths of a mile.
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  Speaker 5: And a very important detail.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that you can honestly put a put
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  Speaker 1: a badge on somebody. You know, you drive this, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be a bad driver.
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  Speaker 5: Bruce, by the way, does say that badge is BMW.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bruce says that as well. So on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of this, they say that Chrysler, Cadillac, and Mercury
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  Speaker 1: have the best driver. Not a Mercury left on these
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  Speaker 1: row exactly. That's and if you're driving a chryslurred Cadillac
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  Speaker 1: or Mercury, aside from a few exceptions, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be of a certain age.
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  Speaker 4: I was actually either drive slow as molasses or faster
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  Speaker 4: than anybody on the high.
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  Speaker 5: I think it depends on the Cadillac. Frankly, I think
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  Speaker 5: it depends on I've seen some reckless Caddy driver and.
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  Speaker 1: They make those things. They make a sports car that
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  Speaker 1: sts or whatever, that thing will flop that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say those are are problematic, all right.
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  Speaker 5: LORI text in her her personal uh list of the
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  Speaker 5: worst of the worst, number three Tesla, number two less,
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  Speaker 5: number one BMW. She says, it's more like the more
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  Speaker 5: expensive the vehicle, the worse the driver. Do they not
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  Speaker 5: have blinkers in these cars? It is wild to me
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  Speaker 5: that you would have a car as a BMW like
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  Speaker 5: new BMW's is not cheap, right, I mean.
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  Speaker 1: I mean in today's market, depends on what you're getting.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, you can. You can get in a BMW
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  Speaker 1: under fifty k.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, that's not bad. That's not bad. Tests Teslas, I
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  Speaker 5: guess maybe you get in.
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  Speaker 1: For no idea. Would never look at.
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  Speaker 5: Them, certainly not the truck the truck is like one
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  Speaker 5: hundred and hundred and twenty undred and thirty thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Dollars, depends on the truck. Mine was not. Yeah, mine
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  Speaker 1: was half that that's true.
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  Speaker 5: And then you might have some people who are drive
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  Speaker 5: some you know, if you're nineteen years old driving King Granch.
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  Speaker 1: That happens too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's uh.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a Honda. Yeah, a Honda Civic. Those
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  Speaker 4: people that drive Honda Civics, they are relentlessly horrible on
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  Speaker 4: the road as well.
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  Speaker 5: Are you talking about the late the old models like
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  Speaker 5: five year old use Honda Civic enthusiasts.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Luke's text, and I've said this before, Luke says
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  Speaker 1: blinkers are optional equipment on BMW's That is not a
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  Speaker 1: brand thing. I've seen frequently. I will see somebody that
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  Speaker 1: does not use a blinker. I'm like, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that was optional equipment. So yeah, I get that. That's
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't matter the brand.
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  Speaker 5: Can I say Chevy Equinoxes need to be higher on
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  Speaker 5: this list?
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  Speaker 1: There's yeah, you can say that might not be.
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  Speaker 5: That might not. That might just be because they are
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  Speaker 5: so common that there are so many people with that
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  Speaker 5: car right now, that you know, by the law of averages,
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  Speaker 5: some of them are gonna be horrible behind the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw this one out here. I think the
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  Speaker 1: percentage of this particular vehicle that I see without damage
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  Speaker 1: on it is probably about forty to fifty percent. I
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  Speaker 1: think at least half of all Nissan Ultimus have been
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  Speaker 1: in a collision.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that that's the The Nissan Ultima is the crash
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  Speaker 5: test dummy car of America. Like, it's just I don't
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  Speaker 5: know why it is. I don't know how it is,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I never see one that isn't bashed in some way, shape,
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  Speaker 1: or place.
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  Speaker 5: It's been through a mad Max.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it was. You remember what we used
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  Speaker 1: to do at the old high school fairs where you'd
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  Speaker 1: get an old junker car out there and people would
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  Speaker 1: say to hit it with a hammer. Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: Looks like that.
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  Speaker 5: Jason, Texas. I just had to drop a student off
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  Speaker 5: at college station in high school. I'm just blessed made
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  Speaker 5: it out live.
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  Speaker 1: Well, thank god you aren't driving a BMW chasing people
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  Speaker 1: bad mouthing the Bavarian motor works.
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  Speaker 4: Well, see my favorite people on the highway when I'm
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  Speaker 4: driving that Like tend to drive a little bit faster.
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  Speaker 4: Are your Chevy Tahoe drivers. I don't mind the Chevy
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  Speaker 4: Tahoe drivers.
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  Speaker 5: Like a standard Tahoe or a Jack of Z seventy
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  Speaker 5: one tahoes make difference.
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  Speaker 4: The ones that are kind of standard, now.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, standard drivers that be apparent smobile. So you're saying,
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  Speaker 5: solid driver, pretty bitey car likes to go probably five
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  Speaker 5: ten miles an hour over just right in your neck
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  Speaker 5: of the woods, like not a little bit of law breaking,
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  Speaker 5: but not too much law breaking. Okay, all right, Well again,
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  Speaker 5: nine seven nine six nine five sixteen twenty Let's go
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  Speaker 5: back to the text messages and if you want to
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  Speaker 5: join in halfway. We are talking about the theory that
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  Speaker 5: you can tell how bad a driver is based.
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  Speaker 1: On what they drive, what vehicle they drive.
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  Speaker 5: Is there a type of vehicle that makes for a
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  Speaker 5: worse driver on average?
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  Speaker 1: And on this particular survey, this report, it was BMW,
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  Speaker 1: RAM and TENSLA.
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  Speaker 5: Right now, we have asked you specifically for this time
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  Speaker 5: of year, because this is the time of year where
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  Speaker 5: it helps to know what to look out for on
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  Speaker 5: these roads. Is there a local winner for the most
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  Speaker 5: dangerous car on the road, Like if you see if
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  Speaker 5: you see this car, you know they're not going to
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  Speaker 5: know what they're doing behind the wheel. They're just at
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  Speaker 5: a hazard. And if you have that car, please tell
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  Speaker 5: us not own it if you want to out yourself
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  Speaker 5: to do that. Nine sevent sixteen twenty Riley made the
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  Speaker 5: mistake of impuning the punit the Honda Civic and Connie
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  Speaker 5: text it, I beg your pardon, Riley. I drive a
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  Speaker 5: Honda Civic and I'm a very careful driver. By the way,
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  Speaker 5: it's a twenty twelve and still running great. Yeah, this
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  Speaker 5: is a run for Yeah, they will for Yeah, they will.
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  Speaker 5: Connie about Frank.
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  Speaker 1: Frank being in a volunteer fire department, we see a
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  Speaker 1: lot of accidents. On two ninety three separate occasions in
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  Speaker 1: the last eight months, a Volkswagen Atlas has crashed into
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  Speaker 1: the cable barrier. It is always an elderly lady with
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  Speaker 1: good taste in wardrobe but bad driving skills.
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  Speaker 5: The Volkswagon Atlas is the weapon of choice.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it said. Particular, that's what he says.
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  Speaker 5: You know, the firefighters are actually people talk to they
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  Speaker 5: is okay, you guys see all the accidents fire and police.
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  Speaker 5: What is the accident rate? Is there a common theme
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  Speaker 5: to these? Is it all one type of car that
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  Speaker 5: is attracting the worst drivers you could possibly think of?
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  Speaker 1: And looking into this survey, it's not just accidents that
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  Speaker 1: they take into account. A lot of it has to
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  Speaker 1: do with speeding, which is right, yeah, and including d
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  Speaker 1: UI's speeding citations. That's where they're going with that.
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  Speaker 5: A few people have texted in the Dodgs challenge that's
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  Speaker 5: the car gets that car gets ripped on so mercilessly.
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  Speaker 1: Guys.
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  Speaker 5: It's a nice car. It's a sports car. People who
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  Speaker 5: drive sports cars do sports car things sometimes that sometimes
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  Speaker 5: that that said, that said, it's a menace.
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  Speaker 1: It's a wonderful, incredible, very powerful menace.
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  Speaker 5: Sean, You Banks Texas And when I was riding motorcycles,
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  Speaker 5: I would.
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  Speaker 1: Avoid Ford Explorers at all costs, the exploders because it.
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  Speaker 5: Seemed like their mission in life was to run me over.
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  Speaker 1: Sean. To be fair, as as a fellow biker, everybody's
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  Speaker 1: mission in life was to run you over.
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  Speaker 5: I'll tell you. Yeah, Man, I cannot imagine. It's hard
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  Speaker 5: enough being out on these streets right now with all
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  Speaker 5: the students.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I gave it up. Man.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you rode forever. You also knew a lot of
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  Speaker 5: dudes that rode like. I don't understand how that's even
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  Speaker 5: a relaxing thing anymore, because, yeah, everyone's trying.
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  Speaker 1: To kill you. You got to you gotta get out someplace,
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  Speaker 1: go for a ride out, you know, third ninety out
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  Speaker 1: of Navisota. But he's getting to and.
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  Speaker 5: From me to and from thirty and nineties. Brother dude,
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  Speaker 5: It's yeah, it'd always take time to check for your
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  Speaker 5: bikers out there. Man. Who else? Oh? Any pickup where
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  Speaker 5: the wheels are sticking out a bit wider than the
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  Speaker 5: body of the truck, they drive like, you know what's universally.
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  Speaker 1: Just so you know, not all hashtag, not all trucks. Well,
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  Speaker 1: my truck is tall, but it has narrow tires, so
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  Speaker 1: mine don't stick out.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm still good, Jason says, not a current one,
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  Speaker 5: but when the H two Hummer was first introduced, those
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  Speaker 5: were universally terrible terrible.
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  Speaker 1: Drug can confirm nobody could control those things. You just
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  Speaker 1: held on and hoped for the best.
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  Speaker 5: I we used to. We made quite a living here
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  Speaker 5: Brian Broadcasting, putting college students behind the wheels of those
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  Speaker 5: menaces for many years. Yes, and I am amazed to
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  Speaker 5: this day. And Ben, if you're listening, you might if
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  Speaker 5: I'm wrong on this, correct me. I don't think we
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  Speaker 5: had a single accent. Wow, and we wow, we had
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  Speaker 5: nothing but eighteen nineteen twenty year old kids whipping these
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  Speaker 5: things around campus for had to be fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: You could be Mario Andretti and have a hard time
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  Speaker 1: whipping an H two around all of averages.
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  Speaker 5: Says we should have. We should have totaled every one
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  Speaker 5: of those vehicles. And yet Mark Martin would have put
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  Speaker 5: it into the wall. Yet I think as I look
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  Speaker 5: I look down there, I think that the same bodies
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  Speaker 5: on them, same everything. I don't think we even had
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  Speaker 5: a fender bender in them, not one. So, uh, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know. Are we the outliers?
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  Speaker 1: Possible?
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  Speaker 5: Probably? So, all right, we'll take a break back at
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  Speaker 5: the news right after this on the Info Maniacs.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the wta W newsroom. I'm will well,
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  Speaker 1: where as this County Commissioner's Court approved yesterday a plan
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  Speaker 1: to get the Relis Campus Data and Research Center back
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: on track. This way, Global Incorporated says they'll comply with
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: the laws, current and future. Here's Commissioner Chuck conderlaw.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: So they're agreeing right now to the current laws, to
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: what we've requested, which largely mirror Governor Abbott's requests, and
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: to future legislation for this coming legislative session. They will
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: be following all of those, or I wouldn't feel good
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: about this.
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Fred Brown understands that Texas A and M would
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: find a way to make the project a reality, with
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: or without the county.
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: The elephant in the room that we didn't discuss is
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: Texas A and M R, and they're going to do
• 17:39
  Speaker 7: this no matter what, whether we're involved or Brian's involved.
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: It's an A and M project, and we would be foolish
• 17:47
  Speaker 7: to not be a part of it and to not
• 17:50
  Speaker 7: take advantage of the potential taxes that they will pay.
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Public concerns over data centers always center around drawing too
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: much electricity from the grid or residents seeing higher rates.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Condola and Commissioner Wanda Watson discuss.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: And BTU has given all of us a letter saying
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: they have the capacity. It will't to affect anyone's power
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: delivery or rates. So I do want that one thing
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: clarified here before we vote.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: So but I was, I guess going back to the
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: creation of those many reactors that Brian was being a
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: part of, and I think.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Yeah, when those are online, that's going to be that's
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: going to be a game changer for a lot of things,
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: not just this agreement.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Condola continues with.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: All our concerns about data centers in this agreement covered
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: and future laws being applicable to them, and they're ready
• 18:37
  Speaker 6: to sign that. I'm in favor of it.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: It's a forty year land lease between the university and
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: this way Global, Brads's County would be unable to collect
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: taxes on land owned by an M but that changes
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: once this way Global takes over. The county is offering
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: fifty percent in tax abatements for each of the first
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: ten years. For the remaining thirty years of the lease,
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the county would receive one hundred percent of property taxes.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Commissioners unanimously approved the item. The Brian College Station Chamber
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: of Commerce held a ribbon cutting Tuesday for the new
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Brass County Medical Examiner's Office. It was standing room only
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: inside the facility as attendees heard presentations for many including
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: County Judge Dwayne Peters and doctor Jennifer Dierkson, who will
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: be named the county's first medical examiner after the facility opens.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Construction on the twenty one thousand square foot facility on
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: each twenty ninth Street and Brian began in December twenty
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: twenty four and will officially be open and ready to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: start receiving cases on September first. Public tours are being
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: held today from ten until three and again on Saturday,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: August twenty ninth, from ten until two. A man is
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: being held on an Ice detainer after he tried shoplifting
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: from the West Brian Walmart. Police were called to the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: walmart on North Harvey Mitchell Parkway after receiving reports of
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: a theft in progress. Asset Protection told police that a
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: man tried walking out of the store with a cart
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: full of merchandise. Reports say twenty five year old Nelson
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Jimenez Santa Maria admitted to not paying for the roughly
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: eleven hundred dollars worth of items including pet supplies, clothing,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and four Lego sets. Santa Maria was charged with theft
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of property greater than seven hundred and fifty dollars but
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: less than twenty five hundred dollars. Tex Dot is hosting
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a community meeting this afternoon in Navsota to discuss Interstate
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: fourteen and Loop two fourteen, find out where the roadways
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: are planned, and provide feedback from four thirty until six
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: thirty at the Grimes County Fairgrounds. A Brian woman was
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: arrested for driving while intoxicated after crashing into a tree
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: early Monday. Brian police were dispatched to the crash near
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: North Earl Rudder Freeway, East Frontage Road and North Harvey
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Mitchell Parkway just before three am on Monday. A witness
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: told police he saw a vehicle speeding down Harvey Mitchell
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Parkway toward Highway six before it ended up in a
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: field near the twenty four hundred block of North Harvey
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Mitchell Parkway. When BPD arrived, they found twenty year old
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Haley is All Jmenez standing next to the car. She
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: told officers she was traveling to a friend's home a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: few minutes away, but when she showed police the location
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: on the map. The officer reported that the residence was
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: in Franklin him in his failed field sobriety test. She
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: was arrested for DWI and agreed to provide a breath specimen.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Two tests showed alcohol concentrations of zero point one sixty
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: three and zero point one sixty six. She was arrested
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: for DWI with BAC greater than zero point one point five.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: The state of Minnesota is suing Governor Abbot over the
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: extradition of an ICE agent that DPS helped to arrest.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: ICE agent Christian Castro, faces four counts of felony assault
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: after he's said to have fired a gun at the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: front door of a Minnesota home in January, injuring one person.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: In May, Castro was found in Texas and arrested by DPS.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Governor Tim Watts has taken legal action against a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbot to force him to sign the extradition warrant.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Abbot says he has his own demands and that is
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: is time for Minnesota to step up and repay the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: United States of America and Americans for all the fraud
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that they've committed in their state. Under federal programs, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I will not respond to them at all. Abbot was
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: speaking at a campaign event. The lawsuit came nearly a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: week after the Minnesota Attorney General said a letter asking
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Abbott to sign the extradition papers. More news throughout the
• 22:25
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• 22:32
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• 22:36
  Speaker 5: one for your high today. Sorry about you if you're
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: moving kids in like a poor guys right now? Yeah,
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: one hundred and one, one hundred and one, and the
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: heat in next will be like one hundred and six.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: And I want to say, my buddy is telling me
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: helping a friend move the kid in and which I
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: that was your first mistake, pl Yeah, that was your
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: first mistake. I'm trying to bring a U hole. No
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: that I don't think I got the email. But thoughts
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• 23:15
  Speaker 5: Mary John Nichols. Good morning, Thank you, happy to be here,
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: Happy to have you here. So what do we want
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: to start with today?
• 23:21
  Speaker 8: I just want to give a shout out to College
• 23:24
  Speaker 8: Station School District or number one welcoming to students back.
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: I guess they start today they do. I read in
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: the paper the superintendent saying, well, you know all that
• 23:34
  Speaker 8: construction this summer, we kind of held off for a
• 23:36
  Speaker 8: week so we could get everything closed up as much
• 23:39
  Speaker 8: as they could. But I'll tell you I would walk
• 23:41
  Speaker 8: through the new Career Technical Education Building and down on
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: South Dowling on Sunday afternoon. It is a fantastic facility.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: I just congratulate to citizens of College Station who Collegeation
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: School District, who voted the bill for that building.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Absolutely they're going to be able to turn out collar
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: building something like that, to be able to turn out
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: kids out of school with with careers.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's the thing that's going to pay. That
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: was going to pay dividends big over the years because
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: the facilities like that, like you mentioned, the idea of
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: being able to be an eighteen year old kid and
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: walking out with certifications and skills. Yeah, to be able
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: to have an entire career laid out for them, or
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: they want to get entrepreneurial about it, they can have
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: whole companies based around what they've what they've learned. And
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: it's the one thing that you can't replace. Yeah, you're
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: never going to be able to replace those jobs, no
• 24:38
  Speaker 5: matter how many data centers you drop. And it's a
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: beautiful thing that CSI SD is offering that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: Now absolutely and it you know, mimics a bit of
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: the brandan ped school district which has had a facility,
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: but it now doubles the space, are more than doubles
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: the space, and it's it's laid out in a really
• 24:57
  Speaker 8: u easy to follow a pattern. Out there, got a
• 25:00
  Speaker 8: lot of facilly built for future. And I love to
• 25:03
  Speaker 8: see that career and technol education program getting it's due.
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: Which this is a tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade. They'll
• 25:12
  Speaker 8: still do some at the ninth grade level in the
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: high schools until the kids decide. But a lot of
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: these career techno education training and certification programs are three
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: years of cosmetology for example, right three separate units out
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: there for the sophomores, juniors and seniors to move through.
• 25:30
  Speaker 8: And then when you get to be a senior, you
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: can actually be in a facility where they're going to
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: allow a small payment for a haircut or manicure or
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: whatever it is.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: Well points of me like I can do anything about
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: the other You're going to go get a haircut out
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: the guys save money paid forever. No, it's it's not.
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: It's not hyperbolics state. It's going to change lives. Get
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: it's a it's an amazingly forward thinking thing to start
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: having facilities like that and operating and and you wait
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: five ten years and watch how much that's going to
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: make a difference.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: But you go from big things like that to small
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: things like the book drop that we celebrated yesterday now
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: by the tower point h g b uh you know,
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: a few thousand dollars to wonderful provide a place. Now
• 26:14
  Speaker 8: this is the third independent book drop in college stations,
• 26:18
  Speaker 8: separate from the library itself.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: Dedicated to that and great turnout of Friends of the
• 26:24
  Speaker 8: Library board members, city staff, families brought books to drop
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: in that that book black on One family had I said,
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: these books are overdue. The head library and Baa was
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: there said well, don't worry about that. For this event,
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: we'll we'll take the books.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And a little waiver.
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: There was absolutely.
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: Group and William Welch Bill William right, I'm sorry, you know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: to give credit to the right William council member and
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: mayor Protam William Wright was the guy that kind of
• 27:05
  Speaker 8: moved the agenda forward for the city to to get
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: that done and for the city to pay for it.
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: Some of it came from CDGB money, some of it
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: from general revenue. It was a good, good project and
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: but a small one.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: But nonetheless I love it did very impactful and I
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: know it had a lot of support. A lot of
• 27:21
  Speaker 5: people were talking about that and uh and yeah, hopefully
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: that'll continue. It's a great thing. Holomon, Do we want
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: to talk about the fun on Holloman over the past
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: couple of years.
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: I needed some work done and I guess the staff
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: all summer long been backed up doing work and that
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: one came closer to to the movie date. Uh. In
• 27:42
  Speaker 8: classes don't start till a week from next Monday, so
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: I think they just got had to schedule at some time,
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: and better the schedule before classes start than when when
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: everybody arrives in town a week from next Monday.
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: We got a lot of people coming in town.
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: Now, yeah they're freshmen moving day and the dormitories on campus.
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: But the week from this weekend you'll see even a
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: greater flood. So we want to get in and get
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: out on a lot of those projects. So that's what
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: caused a bit of a problem there at Holloman, But
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: sometimes those things happen.
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: The same thing.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: Over at Marion Pew, which we're rebuilding, required a water
• 28:19
  Speaker 8: line shore line replacement earlier in the year. They're still
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: waiting on some of the parts to be delivered for
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: some of that infrastructure, but they're pouring concrete out there
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: this week and making them a lot of noise. You
• 28:32
  Speaker 8: poor concrete before six am.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have to it. Yeah, when you got.
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: One hundred hundred and one degree temperatures, you got to
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: have it cured by ten am, which means you got
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: to start about two or three in the morning. So yeah,
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: there's a there's a number of infrastructure issues that you
• 28:47
  Speaker 8: just deal with with the city, and it's not always convenient,
• 28:51
  Speaker 8: and sometimes.
• 28:52
  Speaker 5: There really isn't a convenient time to do. I mean,
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: it just doesn't need.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: No matter when you did it, somebody was going to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: have a problem.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: And I get, I get the idea that used to be. Well,
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: you know you have all summer, Like the amount stuff's
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: going on in the summer in this town, it's not
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: like it used to be extremely inflated at this point.
• 29:10
  Speaker 5: And yeah, you're getting to a point where there are
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: just there're just not any convenient times to try to
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: put in roadwork. There's not And you know, I like
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: you were saying, they're definitely more inconvenient times, like once
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: you start getting into the fall. But you know, life
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: is life.
• 29:28
  Speaker 9: Well, it's a two.
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: Or three day project on Holloman, So I'm assuming in
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: a couple of days that'll be over with and we'll
• 29:33
  Speaker 8: move on.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: I love to see it.
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I think the budget and tax rate thing is
• 29:38
  Speaker 8: the main issue to facing colencils.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we haven't had a chance to We haven't had
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: since the council meeting.
• 29:44
  Speaker 8: What are your thoughts, Well, we've got a we got
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: the actual public engagement in public hearing on the twenty
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: seventh that are regular meeting both on the budget and.
• 29:53
  Speaker 9: The tax rate. So the tax rate's going up.
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: Proposed to go up, but we'll see how the council
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: feels about it. That that meeting to about the voter
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: approval rate about one point eight cents above current about
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: fifty three cents a little bit over fifty three cents
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: per hundred, and that you know, reflects number one inflation.
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: Without that, we would not be doing pay raises. We
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: wouldn't be adding six new sworn officers and a couple
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: of other positions in the police department. So we lost
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: revenue partly because of course, existing homes went up some,
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: but overall the appraisal district evaluations weren't up by five
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: or six or seven or ten percent like they have
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: been in previous years. But the big issues are the
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: amount of arbitration losses, both the ones that are go
• 30:50
  Speaker 8: to court, the big ones and others. So our tax
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: rolls dropped because of that compared to last year, but
• 30:57
  Speaker 8: that almost lost almost a million in the state mandated
• 31:04
  Speaker 8: increase in the waiver of business personal property taxes. So
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: every business has personal property inside of it, this business does.
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: There used to be a twenty thousand dollars waiver. Now
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: it's one hundred and twenty thousand something like that, right,
• 31:18
  Speaker 8: So we lost about a million off the tax roll
• 31:20
  Speaker 8: on that just wipe it out. So you've got to
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: make up for inflation of three and a half four percent,
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: which I've long standing argument that I've had and not
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: an argument but position I've had with the with the
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: council and others that criticize the city, that you know,
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: you've got somebody got to pay for that gasoline for
• 31:43
  Speaker 8: the fleet of vehicles. We've got what's that, what's what's
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: gasoline going up?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: It's not cheap.
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: It's not cheap.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: So I'm probably twenty or thirty or forty percent even
• 31:52
  Speaker 8: under contract, which is how we buy that jointly with
• 31:55
  Speaker 8: the university. So you've got inflationary forces. Households have issues
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: as well. We want to maintain a top quality staff,
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: so you've got to give regular pay raises averaging three
• 32:07
  Speaker 8: percent colon one percent roughly for the market adjustments and
• 32:12
  Speaker 8: and uh merit raises. So you had that with the
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: police addition, you pretty much have tapped things out. So
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: if you don't want to do the voter approval rate,
• 32:25
  Speaker 8: you want to drop back to the no revenue rate,
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: you just wipe out all of those all of those
• 32:31
  Speaker 8: opportunities to maintain top quality staff and add size to
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: your multiplayer force and police.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: I know we're talking about a lot of there's a
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: lot of projects, a lot of public corse projects, a
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: lot of a lot of high ticket items. Has any
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: thought gone into how this is going to be affected
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: by terrifab Are we expecting it to get even more expensive?
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: We're going to hear a little more from Tom Johnson
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: at the Greater Partnership today at the Chamber luncheon and
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: tomorrow morning at eight thirty at the TWELVEO seven Events
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: Center we have business over breakfast. He will speak again.
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: He's got some modeling information on that. We believe that
• 33:17
  Speaker 8: we are putting money into our infrastructure and if you
• 33:20
  Speaker 8: look at the five year capital plan you will see
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: items there. Next the next council that comes in in
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: November will have every opportunity to move some of that
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: around if they wish, and if they see that that
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: demand impact use. Right now, it's kind of hard to.
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: Say how that same will effect, Yeah, but it is.
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: I think it's crossed a lot of people.
• 33:43
  Speaker 8: Obviously effect housing, I think, and effect positively retail also cruise.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: You know, like you need some people to do a project.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: You know, you're gonna have to bid them out and
• 33:55
  Speaker 5: hard out bid that guy that.
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: Building that big building is probably a special Yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: He does that.
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: But they've got to find workers and they aren't going
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: to call them come off from Houston. So yeah, there'll
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: be a competition for concrete, steel, plumbers, uh, electricians and
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: others here in this community. They're they're building up sat
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: multi family buildings or other business buildings. They're going to
• 34:23
  Speaker 8: have an opportunity to do to work under contracts for three.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Or four years over there, no doubt. Yeah, there'll be uh.
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: There'll be pressures upward pressures and that will affect the
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: city as well because we want to build some things.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: To thing or two.
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, anything else you want to get to.
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: This week, well, I just want to welcome the Aggie's back,
• 34:39
  Speaker 8: the ones that came into town over they're coming into town.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: I noticed on TV last night the cars parked everywhere
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: around their dormitories. A great time for the freshmen and
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: early arrivs.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 8: The late arrivers will come in probably Monday. As I
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  Speaker 8: recall when I taught, sometimes they didn't show up till
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  Speaker 8: Tuesday or Thursday of the first week. Of class, if
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  Speaker 8: they were juniors or seniors.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you want to Yeah, yeah, we appreciate you.
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  Speaker 5: Not yeah, you appreciate giving us a few extra days.
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  Speaker 8: But the ones in the dormitories are moving in and
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  Speaker 8: I certainly welcome them. There's a big event. The student
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  Speaker 8: government puts on an event at twelve o seven. I
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  Speaker 8: think it's Sunday night. It's a kind of a festival
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  Speaker 8: and they do a lot of fun things. They're kind
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  Speaker 8: of meet the city, know where the city government is,
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  Speaker 8: and reflect on what their future life is here. And
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  Speaker 8: we welcome them town. We hope that they will remember
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  Speaker 8: what good residents should do in this town.
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  Speaker 5: It's the most wonderful time.
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  Speaker 1: Of the year.
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  Speaker 9: It is. Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 8: It's rejuvenation. Yeah, that's one of the reasons why we're
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  Speaker 8: excited about.
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  Speaker 5: As it makes it fun every single week.
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  Speaker 9: Great, well, appreciate time here.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, appreciate you. Sixteen twenty ninety four to five
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  Speaker 5: You want to talk about some new words today? New
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  Speaker 5: words new words. These are from The Guardian. They came
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  Speaker 5: up with a list of words to describe the current
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  Speaker 5: tech dystopia that we spend our lives in.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, this could be good.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think these. I'm going to roll and pass you.
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  Speaker 5: You think if it's you tell me if it's something
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  Speaker 5: that you would use in your day to day life.
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  Speaker 5: Bag irrivation bag revation baggravation. Baggravation the specific frustration and
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  Speaker 5: anger caused by malfunctioning or difficult self checkout kiosks in
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  Speaker 5: retail stores. Bag irrivation.
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  Speaker 1: I like that.
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  Speaker 5: I felt it. I felt it, I could I could
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  Speaker 5: see that appload the experience being forced to download a
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  Speaker 5: dedicated mobile app simply to perform a basic every day
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  Speaker 5: task that irritates me.
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  Speaker 1: God, I hate that.
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  Speaker 5: There is no Yeah, there's nothing worse than Hey, I
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  Speaker 5: need to do this, this one thing, calling a company
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  Speaker 5: about it. I need to take care of this and
• 37:10
  Speaker 5: then hey, we can eat all the How about not?
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  Speaker 5: Now about how about no doom scroll itis, the mental
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  Speaker 5: and physical exhaustion caused by endlessly scrolling through negative online
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  Speaker 5: news and social media.
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  Speaker 1: I like the I like the I like pointing out
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  Speaker 1: that that that is a horrible thing. So I think
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  Speaker 1: doom scroll itis is a little clumsy.
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  Speaker 4: It's just called doom scrolling.
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  Speaker 5: That's what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: See you can't really replace that one. It's and it
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  Speaker 5: rolls off the tongue. So yeah, dooms scroll.
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  Speaker 1: You have the itis and it just goes all wrong itis.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like you're trying to like label it like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna get authoritis from this, like.
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  Speaker 5: Trying to Yeah, infobesity the overwhelming state of cognitive overload
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  Speaker 5: resulting from consuming excessive amounts of digital information day.
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  Speaker 1: People can't be the city. If it was, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: give you a canceled true story. If it wasn't just
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: digital information, it was just total information, then I would
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  Speaker 1: say that perhaps infobesity could be a problem amongst our listeners.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly, because we feed you alle y'all good and
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: y'all eat greedy. I you think we could do that,
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: like for his T shirt? Like once again, I think
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  Speaker 5: we'd get too many people can ye canceled.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got a number of great T shirt ideas
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  Speaker 1: that will never see a light of day because canceled.
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: Will Some of your ideas would hurt some people's feelings unintentionally,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: but the rest of us would laugh.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And the great thing about that is I don't care.
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: Vampire ware smart devices are wearables that drain battery life
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  Speaker 5: rapidly or caring, constant recharging. Vampire wear. So your Apple Watch,
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: vampire war. I don't have your little other risk things
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: vampire ware. Your rings? Do you have to?
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  Speaker 7: No?
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: I don't. But the oldest daughter wants the ring.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: What's what do you get for that?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: What's the purpose of the ring? Well, for her, her
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: issue is that she has headaches and they they have
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: a hard time figuring out what the cause is. So
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: that's going to give her more data to present to
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: a physician about sleep and about other biometric things.
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  Speaker 5: You can actually show up and just drop a file
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: on them and be like, hey, well.
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  Speaker 1: So in that case, I'm like cool, I just don't
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  Speaker 1: want it for me.
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: Zombie cam a camera or webcam left running unintentionally by
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: a user after a video conference or stream has all
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: three of these are zombie cams?
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Are they really? Just? Where can we dialog?
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: This roll on?
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: But one of these days we're going to get Wiise
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: just put the whole thing on YouTube and along with
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: our lives.
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  Speaker 1: I think so anyway,