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The Infomaniacs: October 9th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A Brazos
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  Speaker 1: County grand jury handed down two indictments for the man
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  Speaker 1: who struck and killed a bicyclist in July. 31-year-old Charles
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  Speaker 1: Medina struck and killed local boxer Hannah Rapp as she
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  Speaker 1: rode along FM 159 on July 18th. After passing the couple,
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  Speaker 1: Medina backed up and sped towards Rapp and her fiancé.
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  Speaker 1: Medina was initially charged with only manslaughter. The DA's office
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  Speaker 1: later added a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly
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  Speaker 1: weapon for reversing towards the couple. Medina will now be
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  Speaker 1: tried for murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 1: Newly released numbers show big changes in Texas public schools.
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  Speaker 1: More students are being identified as special needs than ever before.
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  Speaker 1: That's according to Education Commissioner Mike Morath, who said the
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  Speaker 1: number of kids receiving specialized services is significant.
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  Speaker 2: Nearly 17% of all students enrolled in public education are
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  Speaker 2: receiving individualized education programs.
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  Speaker 1: There is also a rise in the number of kids
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  Speaker 1: identified as on the autism spectrum. That mirrors a national trend.
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  Speaker 1: The Secretary of War says the execution of the man
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  Speaker 1: who killed 13 people at Fort Hood will be public.
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  Speaker 3: Nidal Hassan opened fire at the military base in Killeen
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  Speaker 3: in 2009. He's been convicted in that case and sentenced
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  Speaker 3: to death. The military announced this week death would be
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  Speaker 3: by firing squad and the sentence would be carried out
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  Speaker 3: in December. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth now says it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be public. The Pentagon says it'll be live streamed.
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  Speaker 3: They have not announced details about a website. This will
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  Speaker 3: be the first U.S. military execution by firing squad since
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  Speaker 3: World War II and the first public execution in the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: since the 1930s. Iran, North Korea, and Somalia all currently
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  Speaker 3: have public executions. Stephen Pickering, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Four Houston police officers are transferred after misidentifying a bomb
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  Speaker 1: at an airport. The officers were on duty at Bush
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  Speaker 1: Intercontinental Airport on September 11th. A custodian alerted them to
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  Speaker 1: a device he found cleaning a restroom. A four-inch red-colored
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  Speaker 1: cardboard tube with paper stuffed in both ends and a fuse.
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  Speaker 1: It was, in fact, a bomb. Larry Wainsley is the
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  Speaker 1: former head of global security for American Airlines.
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  Speaker 4: They made an assumption, which is something that you should
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  Speaker 4: never do. Assumed that it was merely a firecracker and
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  Speaker 4: then proceeded in a very, very casual way.
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  Speaker 1: Officers took it out into a crowded terminal. Bomb technicians
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  Speaker 1: described the device as, quote, violently energetic. Wainsley says the
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  Speaker 1: officer should have immediately secured and cleared the area. A
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  Speaker 1: new Texas law that slaps restrictions on college protest is
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  Speaker 1: being tested at a federal appeals court.
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  Speaker 2: The Campus Protection Act prohibits expressive activity on campus from
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  Speaker 2: 10 at night until 8 in the morning. It was
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  Speaker 2: in response to the 2024 pro-Palestinian protests. But opponents say
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  Speaker 2: it's so broad that it could ban evening student prayer meetings.
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  Speaker 5: One-on-one morning prayer meetings.
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  Speaker 1: They have to wait until 8 a.m.
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  Speaker 6: To do that.
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  Speaker 2: Attorney Adam Steinbaugh represents several student groups, and he's backed
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  Speaker 2: by at least one judge on the Fifth Circuit Court
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  Speaker 2: of Appeals who expressed concerns about free speech violations. In
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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  Speaker 1: news at 8.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 1: I've got to go to Pflugerville and hang out with
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  Speaker 1: the Pflugers.
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  Speaker 8: You were just there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the third time that you were playing. There's so
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  Speaker 1: many high schools, and all of those high schools are
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  Speaker 1: in our district currently for console. So, yeah, I hate
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  Speaker 1: that drive. It's just bad.
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  Speaker 8: Well, it's just not ideal, you know, if you have
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  Speaker 8: to go somewhere on a Friday night. But it'll give
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  Speaker 8: you lots of time to think about the picks that
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  Speaker 8: you're about to make. Now, normally, this is where we
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  Speaker 8: bring Louie Bellina into the show. But Louie has been
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  Speaker 8: under the weather. Now, I want to say under the
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  Speaker 8: weather in terms of he doesn't feel bad. But for
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  Speaker 8: some reason, Louie's voice has bit the big one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yesterday he said he felt like he could fight
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  Speaker 1: a bear. He just couldn't talk.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, which is unfortunate considering what Louie does for a living.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: But that's okay. He will email us his pics.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he can always fight bears for a living.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's plenty of them to fight up an aspen,
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  Speaker 8: they say.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So every week we pick against the spread on the
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  Speaker 8: SEC schedule to figure out which one of us is
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  Speaker 8: the least awful pick. at picking at college football.
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  Speaker 1: We want to go over last week's results.
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  Speaker 6: I would.
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  Speaker 8: Me and you tied.
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  Speaker 9: Oh.
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  Speaker 8: You tied with four correct picks.
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  Speaker 1: Another pitiful week.
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  Speaker 8: Four correct picks. Louie Bellina beat us out with five
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  Speaker 8: correct picks, giving Louie his first win of the season.
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  Speaker 8: So will we be able to redeem ourselves? Not likely,
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  Speaker 8: but we're going to try anyway. So here's what we
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  Speaker 8: have to look forward to on Saturday. Let's start with
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  Speaker 8: South Carolina versus Florida. Florida being a 13 and a
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  Speaker 8: half point favorite.
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  Speaker 1: And angry coming off the loss to Missouri.
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  Speaker 8: That is a problem.
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina is currently under the Beamer thing, you know.
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  Speaker 1: just doing Beamer things.
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  Speaker 8: Look, it's actually kind of, it's kind of good. I'm
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  Speaker 8: glad we've got a team that is tanking, that is
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  Speaker 8: on the Aggies schedule.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. They'll always get it back together right before
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  Speaker 1: they play us.
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  Speaker 8: We'll see, but they look awful and they are anticipated
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  Speaker 8: to not really have a whole lot going for them.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 8: Florida, on the other hand, looked like world killers, and
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  Speaker 8: then they got stomped out by Mizzou.
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  Speaker 1: And it was really, it was a heck of a
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  Speaker 1: defensive performance for Mizzou in that game, too. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that South Carolina can stack up to that one.
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  Speaker 1: If you're wanting my pick, it's the Gators.
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  Speaker 8: Going Gators. I'm also going to go Gators on this one. Oh,
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  Speaker 8: here's one for you, Will. Ole Miss versus Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 1: In Nashville.
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  Speaker 8: Only giving Ole Miss nine and a half.
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  Speaker 10: Points.
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  Speaker 1: Vanderbilt's not as favorites. Ole Miss. Are they, are they,
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  Speaker 1: are they sour after the loss? You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. They, they were so high after they
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  Speaker 1: beat LSU. Yeah. Then they came crashing down.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And, and, but it is Ole Miss at Vandy. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: despite the fact that I've got, you know, I've got
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  Speaker 1: skin in the game on both sides of this with
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  Speaker 1: personal connections to both universities. I got to go with
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  Speaker 1: Ole Miss on this one.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to go Vandy.
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  Speaker 1: Really? Taking the points, huh?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is just on points. I just feel like
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  Speaker 8: there's a chance they could get within 10.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Vegas knows things. Yeah. So, yeah, I think you're
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  Speaker 1: pretty safe with that one. It could go either way.
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  Speaker 8: Next up, we all got a really good look at Arkansas.
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  Speaker 8: This week, they're playing Tennessee. Similar to the Ags, they're
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  Speaker 8: only giving Tennessee about 14 points to beat them by. Like,
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  Speaker 8: they're 13.5-point favorites, Tennessee is, over that team, which is, again,
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  Speaker 8: an abysmally bad Arkansas team. The question is, will Tennessee
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  Speaker 8: win by more than 13.5 points?
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  Speaker 1: And my answer is yes, that they will.
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  Speaker 8: After what I saw, I cannot dispute that it's going
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  Speaker 8: to be Tennessee.
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  Speaker 1: Wondering how packed the fans are going to, the stands
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  Speaker 1: are going to be in Fayetteville.
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  Speaker 8: Also good for the Ags is the fact that Kentucky
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  Speaker 8: does not look horrible. Kentucky actually looks like they can.
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  Speaker 1: They look better than what they were expected to be
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 8: They look like they can put a couple of things together, man.
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  Speaker 8: And they're playing LSU. LSU is going to Kentucky. And
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  Speaker 8: LSU is going to start as an eight and a
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  Speaker 8: half point favorite. Not a lot of confidence in the Tigers.
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  Speaker 8: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Go Tigers.
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  Speaker 8: You're going to go LSU?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's LSU on that one. It's 7 o'clock. It's
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  Speaker 1: a night game at Kentucky. Kentucky is decent this year. However,
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  Speaker 1: I think LSU will travel just fine. And the Fighting
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffins, at least this year's edition, will take the
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  Speaker 1: victory by more than 8.5.
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  Speaker 8: I am going to take Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: Because I like what I've seen from Kentucky. And I
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  Speaker 8: would like to see them play. This is picking with
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  Speaker 8: my heart. I would like to see Kentucky get a
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  Speaker 8: win over LSU. We'll see if that happens in real life. Finally,
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  Speaker 8: Game of the Week. This week in the SEC, Georgia-Bama.
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  Speaker 8: Alabama one and a half point favorites. So it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 8: It doesn't matter. It's a pick them. Who wins out
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  Speaker 8: of Georgia at Alabama this week?
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  Speaker 1: Alabama has shown signs, right? They've shown signs. However, this
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  Speaker 1: Georgia team is simply dominant and I am going Georgia.
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to take Alabama just, and this is this,
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  Speaker 8: I think you're correct. I think you're correct, but I
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  Speaker 8: need something to differentiate my picks. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 8: bet on Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. You're putting it all on the line.
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 1: One more game to go.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is the, uh, this is the one. And again,
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  Speaker 8: if you guys want to weigh in on this one,
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  Speaker 8: this is really an opportunity to call your shot. Nine, seven, nine, six, nine, five, 16, 20.
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  Speaker 8: A & M at Missouri, 12 PM kick. And again,
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  Speaker 8: Missouri at a three and a half point favorite. That's
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  Speaker 8: bonkers to me.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so essentially they're calling that even because they give
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  Speaker 1: you three points for being the home team.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's, that's, But Vegas knows Vegas thinks.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they do.
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  Speaker 8: So maybe that informs your decision. They do not feel
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  Speaker 8: very good about Mizzou as far as looking as good
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  Speaker 8: as they did last week. That's for sure. What do
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  Speaker 8: you think?
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  Speaker 11: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: There's two schools of thought on this. Did Mizzou sell
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  Speaker 1: out to beat Florida?
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  Speaker 12: Did they?
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  Speaker 1: Did they? Did they shoot everything in their arsenal?
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  Speaker 8: Are they looking at it like it's a trap game?
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  Speaker 8: Or are they physically gassed from all of the effort
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  Speaker 8: that went into that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think at home, Missouri wins close.
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  Speaker 8: Missouri wins a close game. Missouri winning a close game,
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  Speaker 8: at this point, I would actually call that. If they
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  Speaker 8: can keep it from one touchdown, I'd feel all right
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  Speaker 8: about that.
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  Speaker 1: As long as it's not seven to nothing.
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  Speaker 8: I don't like encouraging gambling, but this is one that
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  Speaker 8: might actually get me to place a substantial wager on
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  Speaker 8: Missouri to beat this spread. Because I do not see
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  Speaker 8: how on earth they only said they were going to
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  Speaker 8: beat A & M by three and a half points.
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  Speaker 8: And you know what? This is the one that I
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  Speaker 8: would love to be. love to be wrong on absolutely
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  Speaker 8: that this would make a lot of things a lot
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  Speaker 8: better if i had made.
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  Speaker 1: If i had made a serious cash bet on missouri
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  Speaker 1: i still would love to be.
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  Speaker 8: Wrong i would pay i would pay good money to
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  Speaker 8: be wrong yes on this one so there we have
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  Speaker 8: it you can keep track of these uh these picks
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  Speaker 8: if you uh or or you know use them to
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  Speaker 8: make your own picks we don't care You can find them.
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  Speaker 8: We post them after the show every single week on WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 8: And next week we anticipate a return of Louie Bellina.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, assuming, assuming, assuming we don't really know. But yeah,
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  Speaker 8: check it out. We'll post that later. We're back. right
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  Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys. Infomaniacs, 979-695-1620. How much has life
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  Speaker 8: changed since you were young, Will?
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  Speaker 1: Significantly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I mean, there's big ways that we talk about all time,
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  Speaker 8: like technology obviously changes. There's lots of things, but there's
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  Speaker 8: this really fascinating thread that's going on where people are
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  Speaker 8: talking about the societal shifts over your particular lifetimes. That
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  Speaker 8: just happened and no one really talks about anymore. Just
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  Speaker 8: things that were different.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 8: And again, there's a ton of them. We were talking
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  Speaker 8: earlier this week about it had been National Walk to
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  Speaker 8: School Day. And one of the things you brought up
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  Speaker 8: was like, you just don't see that anymore. It just
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  Speaker 8: doesn't happen. Even if you're in a neighborhood, kids don't
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  Speaker 8: walk to school anymore. And there's a whole list of
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  Speaker 8: them that people are contributing. So before we got into this,
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  Speaker 8: I wanted to See if you guys had any that
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  Speaker 8: you wanted to share. 979-695-1620. What are the big differences
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  Speaker 8: in life today versus life when you were growing up?
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  Speaker 1: So, for example, one of the ones they list, going
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  Speaker 1: to the gym, used to be pretty rare.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely not what it is today.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when the bodybuilding scene took off and the
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  Speaker 1: stuff out in California on Venice Beach and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Before that, I remember early memories of my mother going to, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe there was some jazzercise around. I
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  Speaker 1: think that came out later.
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  Speaker 8: There was, the 80s, there was, like, jazzercise. God, what
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  Speaker 8: was the other one? It was aerobics.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: It was aerobics, because that's what aerofit came from.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 8: And you have to think back. There really weren't that
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  Speaker 8: many gyms in Bryan College Station. There was aerofit. There
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  Speaker 8: was the Royal Oaks Racquet Club for a while, and
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  Speaker 8: that might be it.
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  Speaker 1: I seem to remember... Going with my mom to a
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  Speaker 1: place that was sort of like a gym, but it
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  Speaker 1: had the old school stuff, like the band that you
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  Speaker 1: would put around you that was attached to the machine
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  Speaker 1: that would shake your stomach.
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  Speaker 8: You've got to be kidding me.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: That was real?
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: And the thing with the wooden dowels on it that
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: you put your butt on and it would rotate.
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  Speaker 8: I assumed those were made up.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I remember those.
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  Speaker 10: Wow.
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  Speaker 8: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably, I mean, talk about dangerous.
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: That's a good one. And again, if you have some, Forrest, Texas, 979-695-1620.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: Tattoos made the list.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did. Used to be, unless you were in
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the military.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Or, you know, a merchant marine or something like that.
• 17:18
  Speaker 8: You were either, yeah, a sailor in the military or
• 17:22
  Speaker 8: a dangerous individual.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: Those were the only people you would see with tattoos
• 17:30
  Speaker 8: and substantial amounts of tattoos.
• 17:32
  Speaker 15: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone. Exhibit A is sitting across the console.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: Exhibit A is sitting across the console. Exhibit B is
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: making me a nice frittata with a side of creme
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: fraiche probably at brunch later. I mean, everyone has tattoos.
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: Kids sports as an industry.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: No kidding. You remember, I mean, Little League just used
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to be Little League.
• 17:55
  Speaker 8: You would go, you would sign up. If you were good...
• 17:59
  Speaker 8: You would probably make the, you know, the upper round
• 18:02
  Speaker 8: that they, you know, there weren't even, I don't even
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: know if they'd had.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: The beginning of, they didn't have those. I remember I
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: was on board of the early days of the college
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: station soccer club, right? You just, you played on Saturday mornings.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: You didn't travel anywhere. That whole travel ball thing. And
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the elite teams and things like that?
• 18:22
  Speaker 8: Well, I'll tell you what, there certainly wasn't. Well, I'm
• 18:25
  Speaker 8: sure you had to pay a little bit for Little League.
• 18:27
  Speaker 8: It's like, okay, you got to pay maybe $ 100 or
• 18:29
  Speaker 8: whatever it was. Something to cover the trophy and the
• 18:32
  Speaker 8: pizza parties. But for the most part, it certainly wasn't
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: the cost of a college education.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: It's not the tens of thousands of dollars that I
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: personally spent on competitive cheer.
• 18:46
  Speaker 8: Tens of thousands of dollars. And it never ends. It
• 18:49
  Speaker 8: goes year round now. Uh, not talking on the phone.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when that was an art, you know, you would,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: you would get the phone.
• 18:58
  Speaker 16: Uh, if you.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Were lucky enough as a teenager to have one in
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: your own room, if not, you hope, you hope that
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the one in the hallway had that 50 foot curly
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: cord that you could get the handset into your room.
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  Speaker 8: That's one that I use. I mean, I think everyone
• 19:15
  Speaker 8: that grew up in that range and it, And maybe
• 19:18
  Speaker 8: they still do now on FaceTimers. I don't know what
• 19:21
  Speaker 8: you kids do. But, yeah, we used to talk on
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: those phones for hours.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: It's just an age thing for me.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: Hours.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that I don't have the long conversations.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of economy of language. If you've
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: got something to tell me or if I've got something
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to tell you. Two minutes or less on the phone, man.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give it to you.
• 19:38
  Speaker 8: Unless it's my wife.
• 19:40
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Even with the wife.
• 19:41
  Speaker 8: Even with the wife.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Well, the thing is that she tends to drift off.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and have other conversations with other people around her. I'm like,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: are you supposed to be talking to me? Because if
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: we're done talking, I got to go.
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: You're ready for one that's going to hurt.
• 19:56
  Speaker 17: Sure.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: Knowing your neighbors.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: This one, I'm not certain. This is one. This may
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: be more of an urban area and certainly not in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the South. Well, hmm.
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: And this. This is one that we might have to
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: bring up on another day where we have more time.
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: And I think that the people that definitely people listen
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: to us listen to WTL regularly. I think you guys
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: probably do know your neighbors more than average. If we
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: took this down the hall to Candy 95.
• 20:27
  Speaker 10: I'm.
• 20:30
  Speaker 8: I'm fairly sure you'd be amazed at the amount of
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: people that do not know their neighbors or have had
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: maybe no interactions with them whatsoever.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: The college-age kid is what you're talking about. Young adults.
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: All the way up to the 30s.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: I know mine, and I love my neighbor, and I
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: love the neighbor that's one down from them. I don't
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: know the ones that are across the street from me.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: I've never met them.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: You'll always have some isolationist within any neighborhood. That's true.
• 20:57
  Speaker 8: But in other places I've lived, yeah, there are places
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: where I legitimately never, I just never encountered them. It
• 21:02
  Speaker 8: wasn't that I was trying to avoid them either. I
• 21:04
  Speaker 8: just never encountered them.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I've always made it a point to try to meet neighbors.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Number one, I like meeting people. Number two, where I
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: live now. You know, it's important that you have in
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the county. Yeah, it's important that you have a lifeline,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: people that you can call on to rescue deer and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: whatever else.
• 21:22
  Speaker 8: Well, that was one of the things like back then
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: you did used to rely on the people in your particular,
• 21:27
  Speaker 8: you know, in your particular.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Well, when I was growing up, my neighbors were essentially
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: in loco parenti. They were they were additional parents.
• 21:33
  Speaker 17: Right.
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: Michael texts in, fold up maps in the glove box
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: as compared to Google Maps. You could simplify that just
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: knowing where you're going instinctively. Because, like, that's gone, too. But, yeah.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I remember I went from fold up maps and map
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: orienteering to MapQuest.
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: Then it was over.
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: To Google Maps.
• 21:52
  Speaker 8: Smoking in public places.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Big one.
• 21:55
  Speaker 8: Smoking at all. When was the last time you saw
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: someone actually smoking a cigarette? Honestly, did you see me yesterday?
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: Yesterday morning.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: You and I both saw it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 8: Oh, Lord, there's one person.
• 22:03
  Speaker 17: You're right.
• 22:04
  Speaker 8: There's still one person that goes outside.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I think there's two, but her partner wasn't there.
• 22:08
  Speaker 8: That is rare. That is absolutely rare. The biggest one's
• 22:12
  Speaker 8: less interaction because you can walk past someone they don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: notice because they're locked into their device and always in
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: a rush, so you don't actually even notice other people
• 22:21
  Speaker 8: are there. And I know we're missing some. Again, if
• 22:23
  Speaker 8: you have them, text them at 979-695-1620.
• 22:27
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: We got to take a break. We'll talk news coming up.
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  Speaker 10: Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado,
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  Speaker 10: nature often landed him in hot water. He lost his
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  Speaker 10: job at UT shortly after becoming chairman of the anti-Roosevelt
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  Speaker 10: Democrats of Texas in 1936.
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  Speaker 1: In the early 1940s, he sided with the.
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  Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTAW, what's up? Infomaniacs, 979-695-1620. Sandra texted in when she
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: was growing up. I knew everybody on the street, and
• 24:56
  Speaker 8: the neighbors were... are extended babysitters. That's where you got
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: child care from.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: They knew us, and we knew them. Everybody knew everybody.
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: And today, yeah, Sandra, I mean, again, it varies wildly,
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: I think, by how old you are, how old your
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: neighbors are, what neighborhood you are in. But they're legitimately,
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: and I think it would amaze you, the amount of
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: people that are under the age of 40 that could
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: not name one. First name and last name of their neighbors.
• 25:27
  Speaker 8: I'd even say 50% or higher of people can't name one.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Skipper texts in, as a kid living in a bunkhouse,
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: you didn't have a phone and you had to use
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: the ranch phone. You had three minutes because it was
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: a party line. You were living that wild ranch life.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: Were you a working cowboy, Skipper?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Must have been.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: Holy cow.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Over there in the bunkhouse.
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: Oh, living that bunkhouse life.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I remember party lines. I remember my great aunt.
• 25:57
  Speaker 8: I remember hearing about party lines.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I remember picking it up and having to check and
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: see if there was somebody on the line already. Because
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: when I went to Yoakum, I always wanted to call
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: my great uncle because he would go put me on
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: horseback and we'd go riding around his ranch.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: Literally everyone sharing the same phone line. Today, weather-wise, should
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: be very nice. Low 90s for highs, getting down to
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: the 60s. Sunny and really pleasant all week and long.
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  Speaker 8: Don't have a chance of rain, as you can tell
• 26:25
  Speaker 8: because of the hurricane that's going the opposite direction. Yeah,
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: it's going to be very pleasant. They believe they call
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: that the dry side.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's going to be a bit of a booger
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: over there for people that are going to be impacted
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: by that.
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: What was the, it strengthened again?
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like it.
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: Three, are we going to get to a three on this?
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It looks like we could get to a three. They're
• 26:46
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  Speaker 24: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. At
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  Speaker 1: last night's College Station City Council meeting, there was discussion
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  Speaker 5: In July, my fiance, Hannah Rapp, was killed during an
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  Speaker 5: what used to be an incredible life with her.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: That was Will Polalis. Hannah's mother, Angie Rapgrimes, also spoke
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to the council.
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  Speaker 17: I know no ordinance can bring my daughter back, but
• 33:23
  Speaker 17: maybe it can give another family more birthdays, more holidays,
• 33:27
  Speaker 17: more photographs, and more ordinary days together. That's what I
• 33:31
  Speaker 17: want Hannah's legacy to be. And I would ask the
• 33:34
  Speaker 17: council to consider naming this ordinance in Hannah's honor.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: The man who struck and killed Rapp during her ride
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: along FM 159 has been indicted for murder. On Thursday,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Brazos County Grand Jury handed down the indictment against 31-year-old
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Charles Medina. On July 18th, Medina passed Rapp and her fiancé,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: but then put his car into reverse and sped towards
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the couple. In addition to the indictment for murder, Medina
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: was also indicted for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: A man in Bryan was arrested after climbing on top
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: of a garbage truck. Police received a call from the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: driver with the City of Bryan Solid Waste Department who
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: was on her route on Providence Avenue a little before 5.30 a.m.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. The driver reported that a man was yelling
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: that his friend was inside the truck. and scaled the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: vehicle to try to open the hatch. 32-year-old Jeffrey Evans
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: then tried to enter the cab. He was arrested for
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: criminal trespass of a vehicle and remains jailed on $ 3, 000 bond.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Police confirmed that no one was inside the dumpster. A
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: man was arrested for DWI after his alcohol concentration registered
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: at two and a half times the legal limit. College
• 34:42
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• 34:45
  Speaker 1: of Southwest Parkway after employees say an intoxicated man was
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: trying to find his car keys and drive away. 46-year-old
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Scott Hanna was found stumbling with a strong odor of
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: alcohol and a can of beer on the roof of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: his car. Hanna failed a field sobriety test. His breathalyzer
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: test registered concentrations of 0.202 and 0.203. During the arrest,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: police found a THC vape inside his vehicle. Hanna was
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: charged with possession of a controlled substance and DWI with
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: a concentration of. 15 or higher. He was released on $ 13, 000 bond.
• 35:23
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• 35:26
  Speaker 1: or if a neighbor does it to you, it's a crime.
• 35:29
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• 35:38
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• 36:32
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• 36:35
  Speaker 25: by omission. The couple, who are Christian authors and public speakers,
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• 36:45
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• 40:01
  Speaker 8: We obviously have Colin Killian. What's up, Colin?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Hey, good morning.
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: Good morning. And we have Jeff Capps coming in today.
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: Deputy City Manager Jeff Capps in here.
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: How are you doing today? I'm doing well. So there's
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: we can talk about a whole lot of things before
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: I go through several. But I know one of the
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: big things people have been talking about this morning is
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: the three foot rule, which we were discussing.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: As the safe passing ordinance, as it's called.
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: Which and and this when we brought it up early
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: in the show, I guess part of it was I
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: was just. I have a little bit of confusion over
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: where this came from and why and how it's going
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: to help.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: And what it's encompassing, because initially we thought it was
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: probably geared much more toward e-bikes and scooters.
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, trying to.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: When we first heard about it before the discussion last night.
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: But it feels more like a cyclist, or maybe we
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: look at them the same way. I'm really not sure,
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: but maybe you could walk us through the idea here,
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: how this came to be a topic of discussion and
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: where we think it's going.
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, so I think this topic has come up several
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: times throughout the years. We've had people approach the council
• 41:09
  Speaker 6: and talk about it. Robert Rose in one particular, he
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: managed a cycling place here in town. So he's always
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: brought it up. And then I think with the death
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: of Hannah Rapp this year, obviously it brought things to
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: the forefront again. And so our council asked to kind
• 41:27
  Speaker 6: of hear about it. And so we did a presentation
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: last night, kind of went through that. Several speakers spoke
• 41:33
  Speaker 6: on it, and I think the thought is we do
• 41:36
  Speaker 6: have tons of cyclists here in town and different type
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: of micro mobility. So looking for ways to try to
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: make that safer for them as well. Council kind of
• 41:45
  Speaker 6: gave us direction last night to go look and create
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: an ordinance that would allow people to or have people
• 41:53
  Speaker 6: move over and give them some additional room when passing.
• 41:56
  Speaker 6: I think what they're looking at is three foot for
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: a regular type vehicle and six foot for a commercial vehicle.
• 42:03
  Speaker 6: So we'll come back and we'll draft something and work
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: through legal, bring that back. And I think the council,
• 42:09
  Speaker 6: from what we heard last night, they're very supportive.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Well, some of the things that we heard with council,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: and I think you can speak to this a lot
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: because of your former role as police chief here as well,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: that it was, number one, difficult to enforce. And number two,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: that it seems like it is not that much of
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: a deterrent. The hands-free law was brought up as an example.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: It is an ordinance that you have to use a
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: hands-free device in your vehicle. However, since the inception of
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: that ordinance, I don't know that we've seen a difference.
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, TTI and A & M made national
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: news today dropping a study saying that we're as distracted
• 42:50
  Speaker 8: as ever by our mobile devices. And, you know, it's
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: hard to argue that that probably has a an impact
• 42:57
  Speaker 8: if you see a police officer behind you, but maybe,
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: maybe not other times. Do we think, well, like, I
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: guess the question, do we think it's going to accomplish anything?
• 43:06
  Speaker 6: I think the biggest thing, uh, if you have an
• 43:09
  Speaker 6: ordinance in place that, I mean, the biggest thing is,
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: is to push that information out and the education and
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: just reminding people what we're trying to accomplish. Uh, I
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: think there, there, there will be, I mean, we'll, we'll,
• 43:21
  Speaker 6: we'll find ways to be able to, um, enforce it.
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, you'll look for ways. There's ways that that
• 43:29
  Speaker 6: can be done. I think the biggest thing, though, that
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: I see and the benefit is once you have an
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: ordinance in place, there's going to be a lot of
• 43:35
  Speaker 6: education and you're going to be pushing that message out.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: And it just makes people think, I think, when they're
• 43:40
  Speaker 6: approaching a vehicle like that. I mean, I think there'll
• 43:44
  Speaker 6: be a debate as to whether you'll see a reduction
• 43:46
  Speaker 6: in things. But I think just getting that education out
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: can help folks and help.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Them feel a.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: We live in a town where that education can't stop
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: after one year. You're constantly got new folks coming in.
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: So we're going to be constantly having to push that message.
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: And I love the idea of people being able to
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: not have to fear their lives and their cycling. My
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: other concern with this is the fact that you mentioned
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: every year you get new people here. The difference between
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: people who are cyclists, cyclists, cyclists, and people who are
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: students who are on a bike that happens to just
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: propel you at 30 miles an hour down a city
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: street are pretty dramatic right and i think we've all
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: that we've all gotten stuck in some situations where we've
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: seen people on scooters on on e-bikes that are just
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: doing things that don't make sense driving in the middle
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: of traffic lanes cutting across traffic doing all kinds of
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: crazy stuff um are we worried at all that this
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: might give them i was like make them more emboldened
• 44:51
  Speaker 8: but make them more emboldened essentially to continue to not
• 44:55
  Speaker 8: worry about the, the, the, the perils of, of riding
• 44:59
  Speaker 8: these things.
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: I'm safe because the law says you have to stay
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: three feet.
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: Now, you know, yeah, they're, they're blocking me off.
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, I think that's some things that we have
• 45:06
  Speaker 6: to look at too. You talked a little bit about
• 45:09
  Speaker 6: the micro mobility stuff and those, their ability to go,
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: you know, 30 miles an hour is, is dangerous. And so,
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: I think we're looking at things to, to maybe find ways. And,
• 45:21
  Speaker 6: and I know Texas A & M as well too.
• 45:24
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Uh, one of their board of regents mentioned it. So
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: everybody's looking at this.
• 45:28
  Speaker 6: Um, obviously it's a valuable mode of transportation is getting
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: more cars off the street. And so, uh, you see
• 45:34
  Speaker 6: that and, and, uh, that's another way to get onto
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: the campus and off the campus, but there's gotta be, uh, some,
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: some regulations in place. And I think the main thing
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: is probably just slowing people down.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 45:46
  Speaker 6: Uh, not wearing headphones, different things like that, to be
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: able to see their surroundings and try to make it as.
• 45:53
  Speaker 12: Safe as possible.
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: That was my other question you brought up about getting
• 45:56
  Speaker 8: cars off the road. Senator Elizabeth Kuhn brought this up, too.
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: The idea that, hey, well, it will help with traffic congestion.
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: Do we have any studies or is there any... It
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: just feels like it's not ever going to be something
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: that is going to replace... how you get from home
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: to work or home to HEB or home to wherever.
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: And if it does, does that create more traffic issues?
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: But is there any study that exists that shows if
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: you give people some leeway or put measures like this
• 46:23
  Speaker 8: on the books, that they actually will start biking places?
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: Because I haven't seen it.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, I mean, through the years, through transportation
• 46:33
  Speaker 6: division and different things, there have been studies, and we
• 46:36
  Speaker 6: try to look at that and try to figure out
• 46:38
  Speaker 6: best ways. I think you see that some with some
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: of the high-rises that we've seen over in Northgate.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: There's a high concentration.
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: Those are cars that are not driving back and forth.
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: People can walk to and from, and that reduces that
• 46:55
  Speaker 6: vehicular traffic, and so there's always ways to look at that. And,
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: you know, closer proximity to campus is one way of
• 47:02
  Speaker 6: looking at it. You're always going to have, you know,
• 47:07
  Speaker 6: basically student housing and different things out in the city.
• 47:10
  Speaker 6: And we've looked at things, and I think we'll continue
• 47:12
  Speaker 6: to look at things, is whether you would have some
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: kind of a hub where people could drive to and
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: park there and then busing or something to get them in.
• 47:21
  Speaker 6: So I think you'll continue to see that as we
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: continue to grow and move forward and try to see
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: what's going to be best to get that transferred.
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: You bring up a good point. The more density you
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: have in an area, the more it becomes a factor,
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: hence why you see so many of them around A
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: & M and then why you see all the kids
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: at Northgate. So if the more you head in that direction,
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: I think it makes more sense. I think the thing
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: to me is like that you have this one little
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: corridor and then everyone else is obviously not dense in
• 47:48
  Speaker 8: any way, shape or form. But yeah, it's fascinating. What's
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: the timeline when you like, typically when, like you mentioned,
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: you go back, you draft, you go to legal, how
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: long of a process is this to put together?
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: You know, I would think it's probably a couple of
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: weeks just to make sure that you get all the
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: legal definitions right and everything. But I think we'll be
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: able to bring something back in a couple of weeks.
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: We'll have several new members of council at that point.
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: We want to make sure we educate them, kind of
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: get them up to speed on the discussions prior.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: But I think we'll be able to do that.
• 48:21
  Speaker 9: Nice.
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: What else do we want to get to today?
• 48:24
  Speaker 6: I'm open, but.
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: Did you see how fast Colin put on the glasses? Like,
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: I got stuff.
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 48:30
  Speaker 8: I got stuff.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Go to the bullpen, bring in the right answer.
• 48:32
  Speaker 8: At least I remembered my glasses. What do you got, Matt?
• 48:36
  Speaker 30: Well, of course, we've been talking about Biketober. That's tomorrow.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: That's right!
• 48:39
  Speaker 30: If you still want to ride, registration opens at 8.30
• 48:43
  Speaker 30: at College Station City Hall. The ride starts at 9.30.
• 48:46
  Speaker 30: It's about eight and a half miles. It goes from
• 48:48
  Speaker 30: College Station City Hall to Bryan Midtown and back. We're
• 48:52
  Speaker 30: going to have a lot of German-themed games and food
• 48:55
  Speaker 30: trucks at City Hall from 9 until 1. So bring
• 48:58
  Speaker 30: the family out.
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: What is a German-themed? I didn't know we had German-themed
• 49:02
  Speaker 8: food trucks. Well, I guess German-inspired.
• 49:03
  Speaker 30: They're going to be, you know, it's like me trying
• 49:05
  Speaker 30: to make sauerkraut. Hey, if they had schnitzel in a food.
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: Truck, I'd want to know. Okay, I like it. I
• 49:11
  Speaker 8: like it.
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: But it'll definitely have a German theme.
• 49:13
  Speaker 30: We've even got the deputy mayor of Griesewald, Germany, who's
• 49:18
  Speaker 30: one of our sister cities, coming in to ride in
• 49:21
  Speaker 30: this ride to Midtown.
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: I didn't know we had a German contingency showing up
• 49:25
  Speaker 8: for this.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: That's fun. And even though it's going to be fairly
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: temperate tomorrow, is he aware that he's going to be
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: needing some deodorant, some antiperspirant, because it's still going to
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: be a little warm.
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: It ain't Germany temperatures, that's for sure.
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  Speaker 30: You think being German, he might, you know, branch off
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  Speaker 8: And then come back. He very well might. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: feel the difference. We were talking earlier about things that
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  Speaker 1: Societal shifts.
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  Speaker 8: That's what you call it. It's a societal shift. One
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  Speaker 8: of the ones people, a few people have texted in
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  Speaker 8: is the amount of casual cursing people do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: When they were kids, this was like not, it was only.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 8: Only when it was needed. But now it's just a,
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  Speaker 8: it's just another adjective.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the common vernacular.
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  Speaker 8: And so there's a lot of them. And yeah, there's a,
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  Speaker 8: there's a ton. And most of them don't make you
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  Speaker 8: feel very good.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 8: But, but here we are.
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  Speaker 1: But there's some perhaps that we should consider maybe bringing back. Okay.
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  Speaker 26: Right.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Things along the lines of flying kites.
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  Speaker 8: When was the last time, Will?
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  Speaker 1: Been a minute.
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  Speaker 8: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: Usually only if you're going to the beach or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: But as a kid, we would fly kites more than occasionally.
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  Speaker 8: You could go into a park and fly a kite?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, go to the parking lot behind the house. Taking
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  Speaker 1: pictures with actual cameras.
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  Speaker 8: That has.
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  Speaker 1: Started to come back.
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  Speaker 8: Weirdly enough, I think that is on its way back.
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  Speaker 1: This one I'm not so sure about wearing top hats.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 8: Wait, no, don't, don't, don't just, it's not just for
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  Speaker 8: the millionaires and the billionaires, Will.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: And the societal elites.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I'd look like the Monopoly guy. Slash.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: Slash did bring that back.
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  Speaker 8: Now he had the hair to pull it off, but
• 54:30
  Speaker 8: that man, that man could rock a top hat.
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  Speaker 1: What about waking up to an actual alarm clock, not
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  Speaker 1: your phone?
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  Speaker 8: If you are one of those people who struggles to
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  Speaker 8: get out of bed in the mornings, Go find an
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  Speaker 8: old school alarm clock, put it in the corner of
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  Speaker 8: the room the furthest away you can. It will fix
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  Speaker 8: your problem.
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  Speaker 1: One I think we should definitely bring back. Gathering around
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: the radio as a family to listen. Gathering around the radio.
• 54:59
  Speaker 8: to listen what y'all don't do that every morning from
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  Speaker 8: six until.
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  Speaker 1: Nine you should i thought that's i thought.
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  Speaker 8: That's what we're what are we even doing.
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  Speaker 1: Here my mental picture of our audience is just gone
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  Speaker 1: i i.
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  Speaker 8: Always thought we just got the entire family together in
• 55:13
  Speaker 8: my head yeah fireside chat yeah that's what we do
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  Speaker 8: bring it back have a great weekend 16 20 94
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