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The Infomaniacs: Sept 2nd 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Brazos County
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Speaker 1: Commissioner's Court met yesterday to discuss the county's budget and
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Speaker 1: tax rate. Commissioners approved the $ 482 million budget by a
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Speaker 1: vote of 4-1, with Commissioner Bentley Nettles opposing. Here's Commissioner
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Speaker 1: Chuck Condola on the tax rate.
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Speaker 2: The county is 25% of your tax bill, and I've
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Speaker 2: seen a yearly approach to budgeting in the past, which
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Speaker 2: can cause a rollercoaster effect. No new revenue was forced
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Speaker 2: on the county, and $ 24 million was pulled out of
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Speaker 2: reserve that year. It wasn't planned for. Where would we
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Speaker 2: be today setting a rate had that not happened, had
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Speaker 2: we prepared for it?
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Speaker 1: Commissioners did not adopt the proposed tax rate of 44.84
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Speaker 1: cents per $ 100 valuation. instead going with Commissioner Condola's motion
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Speaker 1: to adopt a slightly lower tax rate of 44.34. The
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Speaker 1: rate was approved by a vote of 3-2, with Commissioners
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Speaker 1: Nettles and Brown voting against. Commissioners also voted to enact
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Speaker 1: a burn ban. Outdoor burning is prohibited in Brazos County.
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Speaker 1: Burleson County is now the only county in the Brazos
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Speaker 1: Valley to have not adopted a burn ban. The Snook
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Speaker 1: Volunteer Fire Department took to social media to encourage lawmakers
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Speaker 1: to rethink that decision. The family of a Texas A
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Speaker 1: & M pharmacy student who died in May is scheduled
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Speaker 1: to meet with the Brazos County District Attorney's Office this morning.
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Speaker 1: 22-year-old Caden Crowe died on May 2nd. after he was
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Speaker 1: shot in the abdomen by his roommate, 23-year-old Charlie Boggan,
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Speaker 1: in their Bryan apartment. Boggan was never arrested, and a
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Speaker 1: Brazos County grand jury declined to hand down an indictment
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Speaker 1: against him. The Crow family wants to know if all
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Speaker 1: the information was presented to the grand jury. The details
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Speaker 1: around the shooting recently came to light after an investigation
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Speaker 1: by Houston journalist Wayne Dosofino. Bryan police can be heard
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Speaker 1: on body cam discussing how Boggan was super intoxicated that night.
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Speaker 1: Boggan admitted to having several drinks prior to handling the
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Speaker 1: weapon at 3 o'clock in the morning. Despite that, Boggan
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Speaker 1: was never asked to submit a breathalyzer or blood alcohol analysis.
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Speaker 1: He was never even taken into custody for questioning. Crow's
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Speaker 1: family filed a civil lawsuit against Charlie Boggan and his parents,
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Speaker 1: Tricia and Craig Boggan, for wrongful death. An inmate at
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Speaker 1: the Brazos County Jail has a new charge after she
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Speaker 1: was found with contraband in her cell. 41-year-old Christina Allen
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Speaker 1: of Houston has been held on $ 75, 000 bond since February
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Speaker 1: after she was charged with felony mail theft. According to
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Speaker 1: jail records, another inmate reported that Allen was concealing a
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Speaker 1: vape in her bunk. After a search, officers found a vape,
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Speaker 1: a charger, and other prohibited items in her pillow. She
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Speaker 1: claims she found the items near the dumpsters. Allen was
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Speaker 1: charged with possession of a prohibited item in a correctional facility,
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Speaker 1: and another $ 15, 000 was added to her bond. Former Dallas
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Speaker 1: Mavericks owner and Shark Tanker Mark Cuban was at the
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Speaker 1: state capitol Tuesday pushing ways to make pharmaceutical drugs cheaper.
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Speaker 1: Patient-led shopping was step one of his plan.
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Speaker 3: If someone's insurance says a prescription costs $ 500, but they
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Speaker 3: can buy the exact same drug for $ 100 cash, let
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Speaker 3: them buy it for $ 100.
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Speaker 1: This would promote competition and lower prices, but it would
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Speaker 1: also be an incentive.
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Speaker 3: Then credit that $ 100 towards their deductible and out-of-pocket maximum
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Speaker 3: wherever Texas has authority to do so.
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Speaker 1: Cuban testified before the Statehouse Healthcare Affordability Committee. News is
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Speaker 1: 830 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW. You
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Speaker 1: Morning, guys.
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Speaker 1: Man, it's hard to.
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Speaker 5: Say don't expect rain when there's a 60% chance in
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Speaker 5: the forecast, but I just don't see it. Down to
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Speaker 5: about a 50% chance tonight is what they're saying now,
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Speaker 5: and lows in the low 70s, highs today in the mid-90s,
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Speaker 5: which is great to be a little breezy, which also
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Speaker 5: great uh and we'll keep a pretty substantial chance and
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Speaker 5: by substantial i mean look it's it's the early september
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Speaker 5: thing if you're getting 40 50 percent substantial chance of
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Speaker 5: rain i just don't see how that's going to affect
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Speaker 1: I really wish that they would just tell us that
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Speaker 1: there was no chance of rain and then we would
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Speaker 1: be pleasantly surprised i would be okay even yeah if
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Speaker 1: i got caught without my slicker and galoshes.
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Speaker 5: Galoshes Well, Will is wearing new white shoes today. New
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Speaker 5: white Brooks running shoes. And so he's saying bring it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: We'll see if that happens.
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Speaker 5: the difference. College football all over the news. This story
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Speaker 5: somehow has slipped past the radar a little bit. there's
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Speaker 5: a 47-year-old man playing college football this season.
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Speaker 1: Was it the same guy playing for the small school
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Speaker 1: he tried out last year?
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Up there in the Northeast? Like in the Bay Area
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Speaker 5: in California. No, no, different guy.
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Speaker 1: Maybe a different guy.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so he was inspired by the guy you're talking about.
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Speaker 1: Okay. There's a movie out about that guy, I think. Yeah.
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Speaker 5: He said, he's like, you know what, if he can
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Speaker 5: do it, what if I called San Jose City College
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Speaker 5: and said, at 47 years old, I got all my eligibility.
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Speaker 5: I'd like to play some ball. And they said, come
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Speaker 5: on out, son.
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Speaker 1: And he he's on the roster.
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Speaker 5: He's going to play some ball this fall.
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Speaker 1: All of us, all of us who played high school ball,
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Speaker 1: all of us, you know, everyone's had that dream who think,
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Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, I could throw a
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Speaker 1: football over that there mountain.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right.
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Speaker 1: You know, we had that dream. My dude. And I
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Speaker 1: might have had it at 47. It is long gone
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Speaker 1: at 56.
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Speaker 5: I'm 45 years old, and there is no illusion.
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Speaker 1: In my mind. I'll give you one, maybe two snaps.
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Speaker 5: Once I would fall.
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Speaker 1: And then my leg would snap.
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Speaker 5: It would be tragic. Like, I'd have no business.
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Speaker 6: None.
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Speaker 5: No business on that field. But he thinks he does.
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Speaker 1: To be fair, I never really had too much business
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Speaker 1: on the field. You know, it occurs to me.
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Speaker 5: We're not sure how to solve this situation with how
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Speaker 5: long you let them stay in college.
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Speaker 1: What if we just gave.
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Speaker 5: Up and said, let them stay for as long as
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Speaker 5: they want, just like regular college students, if they can
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Speaker 5: still get on that field? I mean, can you imagine
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Speaker 5: 20 years of Johnny Manziel?
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Speaker 8: Right.
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Speaker 1: Well, but even Johnny at age 47, maybe especially Johnny
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Speaker 1: at 47. I don't know. Johnny at 47 might be,
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Speaker 1: I might buy a ticket to watch that. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how it would turn out. I'm just going to
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Speaker 1: picture this, Johnny at a pot-bellied, balding 47. I want
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Speaker 1: Uncle Rico era, Johnny. Taking a drag on a lung
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Speaker 1: dart out there on the field.
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Speaker 5: That's what I'm here for.
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Speaker 1: That's what I'm signing up for, Will. It is kind
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Speaker 1: of throwback. Diego Pavi is halfway there. He'd come back
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Speaker 1: in a heartbeat. Three quarters of the way there. How's
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Speaker 1: Diego Pavia not been signed, by the way? I thought
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Speaker 1: we could just take anyone now. Well, I mean, LSU
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Speaker 1: probably tried. Yeah, well.
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Speaker 5: Also, I don't really keep up with the U.S. Open
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Speaker 5: all that much. The thing that crossed my mind.
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Speaker 1: No, because it's tennis.
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Speaker 5: It's tennis and it's football season.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: But the thing with the U.S. Open that actually weirds
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Speaker 5: me out is I'm flipping through Instagram yesterday and I
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Speaker 5: see a couple people, like influencers and such, posting the,
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Speaker 5: once again, The Chicken Nugget Caviar Box. If you missed
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Speaker 5: this last year.
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Speaker 1: They had it. It's a thing.
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Speaker 5: They give you a caviar service, but instead of the
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Speaker 5: little crackers thing, they give you chicken nuggets. And everyone
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Speaker 5: thought that was cute. And so they made it go
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Speaker 5: viral last year. I mean, McDonald's offered one, I think,
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Speaker 5: for a second.
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Speaker 1: McDonald's had one out. They were like, we'll give you
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Speaker 1: some caviar. I think the quality may have been slightly different.
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Speaker 5: I cannot imagine going to anything, any event where that
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Speaker 5: is served, just does not sound like somewhere where I belong.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, certainly not my crowd.
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Speaker 6: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: And we're all used to paying high dollars at sports concessions.
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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine how much that costs. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how much that one costs. Well, wait a minute. Yes,
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: What do we got? The $ 100 box.
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Speaker 9: $ 100, dude.
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Speaker 1: Topped with Petro-Rezian caviar, creme fraiche, and chives.
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Speaker 5: Guys, you can go to some NFL stadiums right now
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Speaker 5: and get a 40-ounce tomahawk steak. with potatoes and chimichurri.
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Speaker 5: They give it to you in a box. It's super weird,
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Speaker 5: but it's not that much more than $ 100.
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Speaker 1: If you don't like the caviar, you can also get
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Speaker 1: the black gold nugget box, a six-piece box for truffle lovers.
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Speaker 1: The crispy nuggets are topped with shaved seasonal black truffles
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Speaker 1: and truffle mayo. Get this, though. I'm looking at this
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Speaker 1: right now. So those are $ 100 boxes. So you pay $ 100.
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Speaker 5: For a nugget box is what you get.
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Speaker 1: For the fancy nugget box. Get out of here. You
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Speaker 1: want to know what the standard $ 6. nugget box is
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Speaker 1: going for at the US Open? So there's a regular
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Speaker 1: version of this. You can get the regular. Okay, which
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Speaker 1: is just nuggets. There's nothing else? A six-piece box of
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Speaker 1: plain crispy nuggets. Nothing else? Well, their signature house dipping sauces,
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Speaker 1: such as honey mustard.
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Speaker 5: Get out of here. You get a cup of sauce
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Speaker 5: and some nuggets.
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Speaker 1: 26 bucks for just the nuggets, dude. You are almost
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Speaker 1: spending a Lincoln per nugget. That is, you're right. That's
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Speaker 1: more than $ 4 and 33 cents.
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Speaker 5: You know, these are the same nuggets that are in
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Speaker 5: your kids, like little dino bag.
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Speaker 1: Like, you know, it's, it's just, it's a lunchable.
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Speaker 5: $ 5, $ 4 a nugget.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Does it even come with fries? No, no. You can
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Speaker 1: upscale that. Okay, so I can make it a meal for...
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Speaker 1: For $ 29, you can get the tender and fried combo.
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Speaker 1: It's $ 30. $ 15 empanadas. How big's the empanada? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: You can also get things like Peruvian ceviche.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is why.
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Speaker 1: Shrimp cocktails.
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Speaker 5: This is why whenever you watch the U.S. Open, it's only...
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Speaker 5: Only celebrities. Have you ever noticed that?
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Speaker 1: No, because I've never watched the U.S. Only famous people.
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Speaker 5: There's not normal people that go to the U.S.
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Speaker 6: Open.
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Speaker 1: I don't think I've watched the U.S. Open since it
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Speaker 1: was like McEnroe and. Bjorg.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: That's that's you bring back that Andre Agassi. That's what
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Speaker 5: we need.
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Speaker 1: And we need attitude. The attitude era of tennis. Yes.
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Speaker 5: I need the WWE to influence, start influencing the tennis game.
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Speaker 1: They've got rackets in their hands. I mean, there's a start.
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Speaker 5: I think, I think we were onto something televised felonies.
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Speaker 5: It must be real nice to wear a t-shirt and
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Speaker 5: jeans to your job, to your place of employment.
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Speaker 1: do this for the love of it this is legitimately.
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Speaker 5: Legitimately yes this is for the fun this is because
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Speaker 5: it's entertaining uh but it is one of those jobs
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Speaker 5: that everyone feels that they're pretty.
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Speaker 1: Good at Yeah, there's people out there that, oh, I
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Speaker 1: could do that better.
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Speaker 5: Everyone thinks they are an expert and can absolutely crush it.
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Speaker 5: And the truth is, there's some truth to that. Maybe
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Speaker 5: you are awesome at it. I don't know you.
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Speaker 1: I don't know your life. But it sometimes is more
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You stick a microphone in front of their face, it's
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Speaker 1: complete freeze. Yeah, it is an acquired skill.
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Speaker 5: I'm not bringing this up to say we do anything really.
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Speaker 5: It's not special.
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Speaker 1: We're just gifted. But there is a.
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Speaker 5: List of things that has surfaced that are skills that
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Speaker 5: everybody thinks they're good at. Everybody thinks they're good at
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Speaker 5: until they meet someone who's great at it.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Let's review.
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Speaker 5: And, again, if you've got some that you think, again,
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Speaker 5: everybody believes they're good at this until they meet someone
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Speaker 5: who's great at it. And then, then they become humbled.
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Speaker 5: What are some of these skills?
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Speaker 1: So, like, one of them is doing makeup. Now, to
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Speaker 1: be fair, for a dude, I can do some makeup.
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Speaker 1: For a dude.
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Speaker 5: But that is interesting because, again, there are people who
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Speaker 5: are makeup professionals.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not a makeup professional. I'm pretty good for
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Speaker 1: just your average white guy.
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Speaker 5: I'm amazed if you can even get it decent.
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Speaker 1: It's because I was a theater minor.
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Speaker 5: You were a theater kid. You're a girl dad. These
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Speaker 5: things will up your skill.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you that. Photography... I'm pretty good at.
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Speaker 5: Oh, I'm trash at taking pictures.
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Speaker 1: Well, nowadays you just shoot all the pictures and one,
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Speaker 1: it's the blind hog and acorn theory of photography. One
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Speaker 1: eventually will be okay. Back in my day when it
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Speaker 1: was film, you had to really, you know, focus in
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Speaker 1: on that. And I'm pretty good at it. Am I
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Speaker 1: as good as, you know, some of the professionals? Not
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Speaker 1: even close.
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Speaker 6: Right. All right.
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Speaker 5: And that's the thing is whenever you meet a professional photographer,
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Speaker 5: there's like, there's just the lighting and the different angles
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Speaker 5: and everything. It's it is not that we are not
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Speaker 5: the same.
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Speaker 1: No. Evaluating the authenticity of information and advice.
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Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
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Speaker 1: Oh, there's a lot of that's humbling. There's a lot
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Speaker 1: of people that think they're good at that. And then
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Speaker 1: they get schooled.
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Speaker 5: I do think you should always that's one you should
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Speaker 5: always probably assume you're not very good.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And it's I mean, Always. Just because worst case scenario.
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Speaker 1: It's getting harder to determine that. It is.
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Speaker 5: Even if you are really good at it, it's acting.
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Speaker 1: How about acting?
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Speaker 5: There are so few people who can act.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So few. You might think you can. I've gone to.
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Speaker 5: It's interesting when you see it. I'll go to a
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Speaker 5: lot of the theater company stuff. And again, everyone does
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Speaker 5: a great job there. And they occasionally will come through
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Speaker 5: and you're like.
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Speaker 11: Oh lord.
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Speaker 1: That's a talent.
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Speaker 5: And because it's not only just the lines, it's the
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Speaker 5: body position.
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Speaker 1: It's the emotion.
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Speaker 5: If you can make someone forget that you're not that person,
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Speaker 5: that's good acting.
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Speaker 1: And that's a very... Select skill.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Very, very limited. Oh, anything that is played casually.
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Speaker 1: Bowling i'll freely admit right now i'm not i'm not
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Speaker 1: i will you're you're better than me i don't care
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Speaker 1: who you are even at cornhole yeah even at cornhole.
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Speaker 5: I feel like i get i'm pretty good yeah i
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Speaker 5: i need to meet someone that's like a pro level
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Speaker 5: cornholer i mean i need to meet the steph curry of.
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Speaker 1: Cornhole man the the thing that got me from anywhere
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Speaker 1: that i knew that i was bad at cornhole was
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Speaker 1: that guy last year the cornhole champion that is, uh,
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Speaker 1: he's a quadruple amputee. Oh yeah. And he got busted
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Speaker 1: for murder for shooting somebody as a quadruple amputee. That
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Speaker 1: guy's better at a lot of things than I am.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy. Uh, writing that's on the list.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Pretty good writer.
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Speaker 5: I'm pretty, yeah, it's getting, that skill is getting worse.
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Speaker 5: We are, we are, we are losing that one. Driving's
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Speaker 5: on there, man.
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Speaker 1: I'm, I'm a really, I mean, from the technical position,
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Speaker 1: I'm a really good driver. There are people out there
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Speaker 1: that just school you. Some guys that have professional stuff.
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Speaker 1: Who is the driver?
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Speaker 5: What kind of driver would I run into that would
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Speaker 5: be like?
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Speaker 1: Those guys that do the Red Bull stunt driving stuff,
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Speaker 1: the drifting. Okay, all right. The guys that run rally cars?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know how to double clutch, but I'd
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Speaker 1: spin those in a heartbeat. This one hits close to home.
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Speaker 13: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Teaching. I just saw it. Teaching. I just saw it.
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Speaker 1: My wife tells me all the time, you could not
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Speaker 1: do this. And I admit it's true.
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Speaker 5: There is a part of me that believes, and again,
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Speaker 5: I don't think it's, I am fully aware that I
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Speaker 5: would make it about one day teaching these kids. Now,
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Speaker 5: would it, Matt, could I walk into a high school
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Speaker 5: level history class and have content and have curriculum? sure
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Speaker 5: yeah do that that's not the job anymore.
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Speaker 1: Every single day no no no.
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Speaker 5: And that's then and again like that's then.
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Speaker 1: You bring up the fact that today it's different yeah
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Speaker 1: i will tell my wife all the time and this
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Speaker 1: is one of the reasons why she says i can't
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Speaker 1: be a teacher whenever she's mentioning a discipline problem very
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Speaker 1: easy at the beginning of the school year take that
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Speaker 1: talkative kid rip his larynx out and show it to
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Speaker 1: the rest of the class kick him right in the
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Speaker 1: teeth you will not have a problem for the rest
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Speaker 5: Oh by the way number one on the list is
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Speaker 5: fighting by the way.
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Speaker 1: Brother When I got into Krav Maga, I fully realized
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Speaker 1: how much I did not know. I thought I was
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Speaker 1: a tough guy.
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Speaker 5: I'm the rare exam people admit I will probably never
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Speaker 5: be able to win. I don't know who I would beat.
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Speaker 6: In a fight.
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Speaker 1: It's hard. It's hard to beat someone in a fight, Will.
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Speaker 1: If you've never been punched, you don't know how you're
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Speaker 1: going to react. You don't know. And that was one
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Speaker 1: of the great things about that class is we got punched.
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Speaker 1: So you knew how you were going to react. One
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Speaker 1: of the things that I realized during that though, was
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Speaker 1: that I, if I get into a fight, it will
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Speaker 1: never be fair, right? If there's something that I can
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Speaker 1: pick up and use, I'm going to do it. It will. That's,
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Speaker 1: that's how a fight goes. Pocket sand. I'll throw pocket
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Speaker 1: sand at you.
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Speaker 5: No rules, no rules, no rules in fight club. Well,
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Speaker 14: On this day, September the 2nd in 1945, Fleet Admiral
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Speaker 14: and also served as a roving ambassador for the United
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Speaker 14: and Individual Rights. He died in 1966. In 1964, a
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Brazos
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Speaker 1: County Commissioner's Court met Tuesday to discuss the county's budget
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Speaker 1: and tax rate. County Judge Dwayne Peters calls for the
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Speaker 1: vote on the proposed budget at $ 482 million.
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Speaker 2: We've got a motion and a second to approve the
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Speaker 2: budget as proposed.
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Speaker 11: All in favor, raise your right hand.
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Speaker 13: Opposed?
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Speaker 11: Opposed. So we've got, it's four to one.
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Speaker 1: Commissioner Bentley Nettles was the only nay. The proposed tax
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Speaker 1: rate before the court was 44.84 cents per $ 100 valuation.
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Speaker 1: This is what Commissioner Fred Brown had to say.
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Speaker 23: I've been diametrically opposed to anything more than the no
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Speaker 23: new revenue rate.
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Speaker 6: And I will continue to be that way. And, you know,
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Speaker 6: I'm lucky.
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Speaker 23: I'm a benefactor of my own legislation as far as
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Speaker 23: the senior tax freeze is concerned. And that saves my
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Speaker 23: wife and I some money because our Taxes are frozen
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Speaker 23: for the county and the city, but it doesn't help
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Speaker 23: my kids, it doesn't help my neighbors, it doesn't help
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Speaker 23: a lot of people in this county that every year
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Speaker 23: they see their taxes go up.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Condolo moved to adopt a slightly lower tax rate
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Speaker 1: of 44.34. That rate was approved by a vote of
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Speaker 1: 3-2 with Commissioners Nettles and Brown voting against. Commissioners also
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Speaker 1: voted to enact a burn ban. Outdoor burning is prohibited
31:47
Speaker 1: in Brazos County. Burleson County is now the only county
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Speaker 1: in the Brazos Valley to have not adopted a burn ban.
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Speaker 1: And the Snook Volunteer Fire Department took to social media
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Speaker 1: to encourage lawmakers to rethink that decision. The family of
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Speaker 1: Caden Crow, a 22-year-old Texas A & M pharmacy student
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Speaker 1: who died after suffering a gunshot wound to his abdomen,
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Speaker 1: held a press conference yesterday. The press conference was hosted
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Speaker 1: by longtime investigative journalist Wayne Dulcefino.
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Speaker 6: It's weird because there was no coverage of it in
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Speaker 6: the local media. One of the weird reactions is I
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Speaker 6: had no idea this had happened.
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Speaker 1: And he's right. We, the media, had no way of
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Speaker 1: knowing about Crowe's death because the man who shot him
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Speaker 1: was never arrested. Dulcifino recently released the results of his investigation.
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Speaker 1: Crowe was shot by his roommate, Charlie Boggin. who said
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Speaker 1: he was cleaning his gun at 3 o'clock in the
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Speaker 1: morning on May 2nd after admittedly drinking. Had Boggan been arrested,
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Speaker 1: all of the local media outlets would have seen the
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Speaker 1: arrest record and reported the newsworthy story accordingly. The Crow
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Speaker 1: family wants justice for Caden after a grand jury declined
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Speaker 1: to indict Boggan. They want to know if all the
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Speaker 1: currently available evidence was presented. They are scheduled to meet
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Speaker 1: with the Brazos County District Attorney's Office at 9 o'clock
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Speaker 1: this morning. Crowe was honored alongside eight other Aggies at
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Speaker 1: last night's Silver Taps. Texas A & M University police
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Speaker 1: are warning fans about buying sports passes from third parties.
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Speaker 1: They say to be wary if someone asks for a
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Speaker 1: picture of your student ID or other IDs. The 12-Man
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Speaker 1: official reseller. Another police officer has been charged with misuse
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Speaker 1: of flock camera data. The officer from Amarillo has been
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Speaker 1: charged with 78 counts of tampering.
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Speaker 24: Christian Eder is accused of using the system to track
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Speaker 24: a man who had dated a fellow officer, an officer
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Speaker 24: whom Eder was also interested in. According to KVII, that
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Speaker 24: man and the female officer had stopped seeing each other
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Speaker 24: when Eder began tracking him through the flock system. Eder
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Speaker 24: allegedly searched the cameras 76 times for the victim's license
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Speaker 24: plate between February and June, and with no police cases
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Speaker 24: or assignments connected to any of the searches. He was
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Speaker 24: fired from the Amarillo department in July. Each count of
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Speaker 24: tampering is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to
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Speaker 24: a year in jail, a $ 4, 000 fine, or both. I'm
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Speaker 24: Kristen Yates, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Texas cattlemen are strongly pushing back against the president's plan
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Speaker 1: to temporarily waive tariffs on up to 300,000 metric tons
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Speaker 1: of imported ground beef.
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Speaker 7: The going rate for ground beef, according to federal figures,
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Speaker 7: is $ 6. 89 per pound. On the American ranches where that
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Speaker 7: meat comes from.
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Speaker 5: There's definitely a crisis when it comes to cattle right now.
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Speaker 7: Michigan cattle raiser Kevin Minney says that allowing cheaper imported
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Speaker 7: beef into the market may eventually lower prices for consumers.
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Speaker 5: But at the same time, the overall herd size in
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Speaker 5: the United States is the lowest that has been since 1951.
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Speaker 7: He says the imports may hamper efforts to grow that herd.
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Speaker 1: That's TSN's Jim Ryan reporting. Texas is kicking the tires
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Speaker 1: on its new immigration law that has been found unconstitutional
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Speaker 1: by a federal judge twice. Texas Senate Bill 4 makes
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Speaker 1: unauthorized entry from a foreign country a state misdemeanor. and
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Speaker 1: gives local judges power to deport those found guilty.
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Speaker 7: We have seen some enforcement.
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Speaker 6: I would say a small number of cases, mostly in
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Speaker 6: border counties.
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Speaker 5: These cases appear to be initiated by DPS.
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Speaker 1: Caro Rivera Nelson is an attorney with the ACLU of Texas.
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Speaker 1: She disagrees with Governor Abbott's claim that allowing local police
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Speaker 1: to arrest those suspected of entering illegally will make Texans safer.
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Speaker 5: It actually takes police officers away from their actual job,
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Speaker 5: which is keep criminals off the streets, and instead puts
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Speaker 5: them in the hands of playing pretend ICE officers.
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Speaker 1: Senate Bill 4 was struck down twice in federal court,
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Speaker 1: but reinstated on appeal. That appeals court will hear arguments
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Speaker 1: on the latest ACLU lawsuit next year. More news throughout
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Speaker 1: the day or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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37:05
Speaker 5: It's Wednesday, and look, I will see.
37:08
Speaker 1: It'll be cooler than it should be.
37:10
Speaker 5: Like, let's just.
37:11
Speaker 1: Call it that.
37:12
Speaker 5: You will get a nice non-100 degree day. Maybe some shade,
37:17
Speaker 5: because you'll get a lot of clouds in the sky.
37:19
Speaker 5: Don't know if they'll have any rain in them, but
37:21
Speaker 5: it shouldn't be a bad day. And you do have
37:24
Speaker 5: a 60% chance of a shower popping up, so there's that.
37:27
Speaker 5: And then down to the 70s tonight, and then we'll
37:29
Speaker 5: do it all over again tomorrow and keep a chance
37:31
Speaker 5: of rain in the forecast until tomorrow. saturday uh and
37:34
Speaker 5: i know what everyone's going to be watching is uh
37:36
Speaker 5: how fast we can get that system out of east texas.
37:38
Speaker 1: Yeah i cannot imagine over there right now.
37:40
Speaker 5: I cannot imagine how that's going to look in 24
37:44
Speaker 5: hours from now two feet of rain is nuts and
37:47
Speaker 5: it's got it's not stopping no they're gonna have a
37:50
Speaker 5: whole it's like harvey only worse than harvey From what
37:54
Speaker 5: I can gather.
37:55
Speaker 1: Well, the only benefit is that it's not over the
37:57
Speaker 1: most majorly populated area in the state and one of
38:00
Speaker 1: the biggest in the country.
38:01
Speaker 6: True.
38:01
Speaker 5: But, yeah, we'll definitely all be keeping an eye on that.
38:05
Speaker 6: Did you notice the nighttime temperature never dropped below 77?
38:08
Speaker 6: I did notice that.
38:09
Speaker 5: I did notice that.
38:10
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter whether the daytime temperature drops.
38:13
Speaker 1: As long as we're not in the 80s overnight, I'm fine.
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38:33
Speaker 1: John Nichols is here to let us know if it's
38:34
Speaker 1: going to rain.
38:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, what do you think?
38:36
Speaker 6: Howdy. It's going to rain a little bit.
38:38
Speaker 1: Oh, you're going to give.
38:40
Speaker 6: Us a sign? Mark him down. 20% chance, maybe a
38:43
Speaker 6: quarter of an inch tonight and tomorrow.
38:46
Speaker 1: Okay.
38:46
Speaker 11: Hey.
38:47
Speaker 1: That's the official?
38:48
Speaker 6: That's not going to stop the drought, I'll tell you.
38:51
Speaker 9: No.
38:51
Speaker 6: I need about two or three inches over a couple days.
38:54
Speaker 6: I know you're not going to get that.
38:56
Speaker 1: I know you're not county, but brass is now just
38:58
Speaker 1: under a burn ban as of last night.
39:00
Speaker 6: Well, I think they are very optimistic about a heavy rain.
39:04
Speaker 1: They're they're realists, as they should be.
39:07
Speaker 6: Well, I'm happy to be here.
39:08
Speaker 1: I'm happy to be here.
39:09
Speaker 5: And it's been we do the way we do this
39:11
Speaker 5: every week. We get to talk to we get to
39:13
Speaker 5: talk to you. And then every other week from there,
39:17
Speaker 5: we talk to Brian. And I feel like it's been
39:18
Speaker 5: a busy two weeks since we saw you last.
39:23
Speaker 6: Yeah, it has. We had a really uh full full
39:26
Speaker 6: uh meeting uh list last week we uh announced the
39:30
Speaker 6: uh uh work that city directed city staff to work
39:34
Speaker 6: on the uh finalization of the bass pro agreement uh
39:38
Speaker 6: hopefully the incentive side of that will be uh out
39:41
Speaker 6: in a week or so and we'll if all goes
39:45
Speaker 6: well we'll vote on that at the 24th meeting to
39:47
Speaker 6: uh Assuming they sign their end of it, we'll sign
39:50
Speaker 6: our end of it, and then we'll be off and
39:52
Speaker 6: running with them and with Corinth, who will own the
39:56
Speaker 6: other half. We've already agreed with them to buy that
39:59
Speaker 6: other half.
40:00
Speaker 5: I was driving past that site just because I was
40:03
Speaker 5: coming back from dinner down in Fitch and was looking
40:07
Speaker 5: at Costco, and I was thinking to myself, how, like,
40:12
Speaker 5: a Bass Pro is such a big building.
40:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, footprint's almost 99,000 square feet.
40:19
Speaker 5: Can I imagine what that's going to look like?
40:20
Speaker 6: Well, it's a 100,000-square-foot building and 14 acres of land.
40:25
Speaker 6: But Bass Pro, they merchandise a fair amount of the
40:28
Speaker 6: boats and things are outdoors. True, yeah. You can buy
40:31
Speaker 6: one of them. It's a destination. It is. It's not
40:33
Speaker 6: just a retailer. That's the reason we're excited about it
40:36
Speaker 6: is that they add something to the regional shopping experience.
40:40
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
40:41
Speaker 6: And they will draw people to just look. as well
40:46
Speaker 6: as SHOP. So we're very excited about the pending agreement
40:51
Speaker 6: with DASPRO. We hope that develops. But the other big item,
40:55
Speaker 6: of course, at that meeting was the budget tax rate.
40:57
Speaker 13: Right.
40:58
Speaker 6: And I think we settled on a tax rate of 53.0254.
41:05
Speaker 6: Citizens may not remember that we were above that back
41:08
Speaker 6: in 2021. So the tax rate is not... totally out
41:15
Speaker 6: of line, but frankly, what I found to be most interesting,
41:19
Speaker 6: and I got positive feedback on the discussion, not necessarily outcome,
41:23
Speaker 6: because people have disagreements on that, but it really boiled
41:27
Speaker 6: down to, and I think the learning experience here is
41:30
Speaker 6: the philosophical differences that people hold about the no new
41:35
Speaker 6: revenue rate, which some council members held to, or something
41:39
Speaker 6: close to that, versus the voter approval rate, which is
41:44
Speaker 6: not quite what we adopted, but something close to it
41:48
Speaker 6: at that 53 cents. There's really a difference between whether
41:52
Speaker 6: we should skip the tax increase this year and draw
41:56
Speaker 6: down fund balances one time, or should we pay as
42:01
Speaker 6: we go, meaning that the fund balances are important and
42:06
Speaker 6: something that needs to be maintained, and that by drawing
42:09
Speaker 6: down a fund balance one time, you never get that back.
42:12
Speaker 6: So it was a Judgment call, and I don't fault
42:16
Speaker 6: anybody for how they voted on the council. It was
42:19
Speaker 6: an interesting five to two vote, five to one, depending
42:21
Speaker 6: on the, or six to one on the part of it,
42:24
Speaker 6: but five to two on the other. It was really
42:28
Speaker 6: come down to that balancing that, and I came down
42:32
Speaker 6: to the side of, hey, we need to maintain our
42:34
Speaker 6: fund balances. You dip into them one time, and you've
42:37
Speaker 6: lost your opportunity, because those are one-time funds, but you're
42:43
Speaker 6: paying for recurring expenses. The one big issue I've always
42:47
Speaker 6: had is that people ignore inflation, and inflation affects the
42:52
Speaker 6: city's operations every bit as much as it does the
42:55
Speaker 6: household operations. I don't know what your ad rates are here,
42:58
Speaker 6: but I bet you they're not the same as they
42:59
Speaker 6: were five years ago, the rate per minute for ads.
43:02
Speaker 1: That's a great question, and we should look into that. No,
43:06
Speaker 1: you make a good point.
43:07
Speaker 5: It's because everything gets more expensive all of the time,
43:10
Speaker 5: and especially right now where it's not. In other points
43:15
Speaker 5: in our recent history, it has been something that you
43:19
Speaker 5: can factor around. It seems like the swings are such
43:23
Speaker 5: today and in the past eight, nine years, let's be real,
43:26
Speaker 5: it's gone back a ways. But the swings are such
43:29
Speaker 5: now where it's difficult to forecast out how much more
43:34
Speaker 5: complicated that's going to get in a year, two years.
43:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, well, as a representative of democracy, I'm elected by
43:41
Speaker 6: the citizens of the city of College Station. I have
43:44
Speaker 6: to think about it. I make those decisions based on
43:46
Speaker 6: what I think is good for the city as a
43:48
Speaker 6: whole in the long run. And I think maintaining good
43:51
Speaker 6: fund balances is important. Others can argue, well, it's only
43:55
Speaker 6: one time we can dip into them. The fund balance
43:58
Speaker 6: is too high anyway. Well, it may be, but you
44:01
Speaker 6: dip into it now. How are you going to make
44:03
Speaker 6: that up next year? And so going out of this year,
44:07
Speaker 6: I believe that whoever the new council is, they will
44:10
Speaker 6: find the city to be well-funded, appropriately funded and looking
44:15
Speaker 6: to the future to maintain a fund balance. You know,
44:18
Speaker 6: we get questions about, well, what are you doing to
44:20
Speaker 6: get ready for the big TerraFab impact here and all
44:24
Speaker 6: the infrastructure you're going to have to build? Well, we
44:27
Speaker 6: maintain a general fund balance unassigned of $ 42 million. Well,
44:32
Speaker 6: we can use that for certain one-time expenses if we
44:36
Speaker 6: see during this next fiscal year that there is something
44:39
Speaker 6: we have to do to meet the needs of any kind,
44:42
Speaker 6: whether it's A & M' s growth or whether it's a
44:45
Speaker 6: new industrial growth or whatever it is. So I think
44:48
Speaker 6: ignoring inflation impact on public sector operations is a mistake.
44:54
Speaker 6: I think the whole argument about no new revenue, yes,
44:57
Speaker 6: it sounds great, but in the long term, you eat
45:01
Speaker 6: up your seed corn and you really aren't going to
45:04
Speaker 6: be able to fund the budget in the future the
45:08
Speaker 6: way that I think the citizens of College Station in
45:10
Speaker 6: general want to see it funded. But it was an
45:13
Speaker 6: interesting philosophical argument, different approaches to things, and I thought
45:18
Speaker 6: it was really a useful discussion, and we came out
45:22
Speaker 6: with the current tax rate, and that funds the budget structurally,
45:27
Speaker 6: and so we're good. We have some funds to increase salaries,
45:33
Speaker 6: to help households that are employed by the city to...
45:37
Speaker 6: to cover their expenses as well. Okay. So we want
45:40
Speaker 6: to maintain top-quality employees. That's number one.
45:43
Speaker 5: Very good.
45:44
Speaker 14: Yeah.
45:45
Speaker 5: What else are you working on?
45:46
Speaker 6: Well, an announcement that I don't know whether I haven't
45:48
Speaker 6: looked this morning to see if WTAW has picked it up,
45:51
Speaker 6: but KBTX announced that the House of Representatives in D.C.
45:56
Speaker 6: voted to approve the next federal district court in College Station.
46:01
Speaker 1: How about that?
46:01
Speaker 5: I was just reading that about 30 minutes ago, which is,
46:05
Speaker 5: if I recall, in... This is a long time, a
46:09
Speaker 5: long time in the making.
46:11
Speaker 6: Right.
46:11
Speaker 1: But anyone that's ever.
46:12
Speaker 5: I was eating dinner with one of our co-workers over
46:17
Speaker 5: the weekend, and we were actually talking about the fun...
46:21
Speaker 5: that is getting summoned to federal jury duty living at
46:24
Speaker 5: Bryan College Station.
46:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you have to go to Houston. You have
46:27
Speaker 1: to go to Houston. You have to go all the
46:29
Speaker 1: way in. Downtown.
46:31
Speaker 5: Downtown, and frequently, you know, you're coming all the way
46:34
Speaker 5: back immediately because it's just a headache, and we are
46:39
Speaker 5: now moving closer to those days, hopefully, being remedied.
46:45
Speaker 6: It's a strong bipartisan bill. I give... Senator Cruz and
46:50
Speaker 6: Congressman McCaul, all the credit. But actually the credit goes
46:53
Speaker 6: to Gaines West, a local attorney who works out of
46:57
Speaker 6: that court on appellate stuff all the time, and he
47:00
Speaker 6: knows the issues.
47:01
Speaker 1: Gaines is going to be thrilled. He will be excited.
47:04
Speaker 6: I've heard that presentation four or five times. He's thought
47:07
Speaker 6: it through a lot. He's made the case over and over,
47:10
Speaker 6: and I'm pleased to see that it was strong bipartisan,
47:14
Speaker 6: and it goes to the president, and he'll sign it.
47:17
Speaker 6: presumably because it's a pretty routine kind of bill and
47:21
Speaker 6: uh in a couple of weeks hopefully we'll we'll have
47:23
Speaker 6: that signed and then i've been in touch with the
47:25
Speaker 6: chief justice in houston uh they will be looking for
47:29
Speaker 6: a temporary and then long-term.
47:31
Speaker 1: I was about to say does that mean we're going
47:33
Speaker 1: to get construction on a new federal courthouse here at
47:35
Speaker 1: some point in time.
47:37
Speaker 6: Yeah well probably within two or three years as i
47:39
Speaker 6: understand it and uh earlier discussion not from current discussions
47:43
Speaker 6: that The funding of the federal court system is pretty guaranteed.
47:48
Speaker 6: It's pretty isolated. They've got substantial funds. They have to
47:52
Speaker 6: work through government services agency, GSA, to identify a location
47:57
Speaker 6: and oversee all the contracting and that. But the money
48:01
Speaker 6: is there. So they've got to renovate a current building
48:05
Speaker 6: for temporary location, and then they'll have to spend $ 100 million,
48:09
Speaker 6: $ 150 million. To build a permanent courthouse.
48:12
Speaker 1: Federal courthouse ain't cheap.
48:14
Speaker 5: There's a lot of specifics to go into it.
48:17
Speaker 1: Security, glass.
48:19
Speaker 6: I mean, there'll be a lot of people coming and
48:20
Speaker 6: going in and out of that building. And so I
48:23
Speaker 6: think just the security alone. Plus, it's a substantial building
48:27
Speaker 6: that has a federal presence that makes a statement in
48:30
Speaker 6: and of itself. We'll leave that up to them. Obviously,
48:36
Speaker 6: I've suggested a couple of locations for temporary use. We'll see.
48:40
Speaker 6: if that works out, but they, they've already been working
48:42
Speaker 6: with the university on that. So that was another exciting, um, exciting, uh, new, uh, event, uh,
48:49
Speaker 6: on top of the Bass Pro and, uh, Corinth is
48:52
Speaker 6: a partner in the rest of that 28 acres down there.
48:55
Speaker 6: So they're bringing in some, some interest.
48:58
Speaker 5: We were talking with, uh, with Brian Woods about, uh,
49:01
Speaker 5: he's very excited too about some heavy hitting, uh, things
49:03
Speaker 5: that will be coming on that side.
49:04
Speaker 1: Of the property.
49:05
Speaker 6: Absolutely.
49:06
Speaker 5: And looking forward to hearing about those.
49:07
Speaker 6: Yeah. And actually they're trying to recruit. We're discussing a
49:11
Speaker 6: small green space kind of like Century Square has on
49:15
Speaker 6: the Corinth side of it and they're recruiting some of
49:20
Speaker 6: the local businesses to add another retail spot in addition
49:26
Speaker 6: to something that I already have in Bryan or College
49:28
Speaker 6: Station so it would make a second location but it
49:31
Speaker 6: would add not just national franchise operators but some local
49:36
Speaker 6: people that might be able to afford to get into
49:38
Speaker 6: some of the smaller spaces right around that green space.
49:42
Speaker 6: As that develops, and that's several years out, we'll see
49:46
Speaker 6: how that goes, but it's gonna be a gathering point,
49:48
Speaker 6: plus the Bass Pro is obviously a destination. That's great.
49:52
Speaker 6: September 11th, brand new fire station that we've been building
49:57
Speaker 6: on for a year.
49:59
Speaker 1: Public tours, right? We're gonna be able to see it?
50:01
Speaker 6: 10 o'clock in the morning, public tours, and then the
50:04
Speaker 6: ribbon cutting is at 11. It's quite a nice facility,
50:08
Speaker 6: built using plans from an already established fire station down
50:14
Speaker 6: somewhere around West Houston. But they adapted it to our use,
50:18
Speaker 6: our needs here, and so the architectural cost wasn't that great.
50:23
Speaker 6: But the overall building is about $ 18 million. Four bays,
50:29
Speaker 6: lots of space for equipment.
50:31
Speaker 5: And a great way to spend some time with some
50:32
Speaker 5: first responders.
50:33
Speaker 1: Absolutely. On the anniversary.
50:35
Speaker 6: That's right. It's the 25th anniversary of 9-1-1. And, of course,
50:39
Speaker 6: I think it's 5 o'clock in the afternoon. The Veterans
50:42
Speaker 6: Memorial Group holds their remembrance ceremony at 5 o'clock out there. But, again,
50:49
Speaker 6: 25 years is a good time to remember the significance
50:52
Speaker 6: of our first responders and firemen in particular that committed
50:57
Speaker 6: so much of their life and legacy to– dealing with
51:02
Speaker 6: the 9-1-1 event.
51:03
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
51:04
Speaker 6: So we're happy to open that up.
51:07
Speaker 1: Love it. Can't wait.
51:08
Speaker 6: Hispanic month is this month. Our new edition of iHeart
51:14
Speaker 6: College Station Magazine is out, available online, www.whateveritis.
51:19
Speaker 1: CSTX.gov. Nailed it.
51:23
Speaker 6: Got it. Colin will remind you again on Friday when
51:26
Speaker 6: he's in, but that's available, but it's dedicated to Hispanic month.
51:30
Speaker 6: and we're happy that we can highlight that in that magazine.
51:33
Speaker 1: I love it.
51:34
Speaker 5: John Nichols, always a pleasure.
51:36
Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
51:37
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Speaker 5: are many things you shouldn't do on an airplane, Will.
53:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, in the airport and on the airplane.
53:55
Speaker 5: There's one that I think we all know.
53:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't make stupid jokes about explosive devices.
54:00
Speaker 6: Firearms.
54:01
Speaker 1: It's the most famous thing. It's like the one thing
54:04
Speaker 1: you know. Because they don't joke about it. There's no joking.
54:07
Speaker 1: If you say it, they're going to take you at
54:10
Speaker 1: your word. TSA has no sense of humor. I mean,
54:14
Speaker 1: I can make some dark jokes and even I refrain
54:17
Speaker 1: from doing this.
54:18
Speaker 5: Not to be done.
54:18
Speaker 1: Apparently in Orlando, was it? No, it was Miami. Of
54:22
Speaker 1: course this is from Miami. Miami. Of course it is.
54:25
Speaker 1: twice over a period of about 24 hours. The first one,
54:29
Speaker 1: 52-year-old man arrested on Sunday after making a joke to
54:33
Speaker 1: an American Airlines employee. He said, he was asked, do
54:36
Speaker 1: you have any dangerous goods? He said, no. But then
54:39
Speaker 1: he said, I have a grenade and started laughing.
54:43
Speaker 5: They're going to search you for that, my dude, and
54:46
Speaker 5: it's not going to be fun.
54:47
Speaker 1: They're going to search you for that. Charged with making
54:49
Speaker 1: a false report. And then one day later, a 33-year-old Who,
54:54
Speaker 1: by the way, I just looked at his photo. This
54:57
Speaker 1: is a guy whose appearance is such that you should
55:00
Speaker 1: not make a bomb joke. My brother in Christ.
55:02
Speaker 6: Yes.
55:02
Speaker 5: You have to know they're not going.
55:04
Speaker 1: To laugh at your joke. No.
55:07
Speaker 5: That is tragic.
55:08
Speaker 1: A gate agent said, do you have any lithium batteries
55:10
Speaker 1: or incendiary devices in the bag? He said, no. But
55:13
Speaker 1: I have a bomb. Yeah, they have to ask you
55:17
Speaker 1: that question, man.
55:18
Speaker 20: Yeah, they have to ask.
55:19
Speaker 1: Just say no and move on. There are there are
55:21
Speaker 1: times when humor is called for and there are times
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Speaker 1: when you should just suppress that little voice in your head.
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Speaker 1: Tell him to shut up. Slap him down if you
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Speaker 1: have to.
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Speaker 5: Let's stay in Florida for a minute because Florida police
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Speaker 5: have arrested a woman for robbing a police officer. Not
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Speaker 5: in the sense that you think.
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Speaker 1: Jessica, and I quote, Crooked Jess Strobel. Crooked Jess.
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Speaker 5: She took 60 bucks from a cop who wanted her
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Speaker 5: to go and buy some crack cocaine with it.
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Speaker 1: One of those things.
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Speaker 5: And Crooked Jess took the money and ran.
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Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Didn't come back.
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Speaker 5: Crooked Jess, you say, was not a reliable witness. Took
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Speaker 5: them months to find her again. She has since been
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Speaker 5: turned into jail. Had to pay $ 650. That's unfortunate.
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Speaker 1: She was just trying to keep that poor guy from
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Speaker 1: having crack to smoke. You know what?
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Speaker 5: Her name's Crooked Jessie. I have a reputation to maintain.
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Speaker 5: I would expect nothing less.
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Speaker 12: Probably.
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Speaker 5: 1620 WTW College Station.