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The Infomaniacs: October 19th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: and trade gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, watches, and collectible coins
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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A Brenham
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  Speaker 1: police officer is out of a job, accused of abusing
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  Speaker 1: ALPR technology. Officer Gabriel Duran had been on administrative leave
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  Speaker 1: until the outcome of an investigation by the Texas Rangers.
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  Speaker 1: Duran was relieved of duty on Friday. The department recently
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  Speaker 1: upgraded guidelines to access the system, including quarterly audits. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the audits that alerted the department to
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  Speaker 1: the suspicious activity. Brazos County election officials are suggesting that
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  Speaker 1: those with mail-in ballots drop them off at the main
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  Speaker 1: Bryan Post Office. To avoid ballots being routed through Houston,
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  Speaker 1: where all the outbound mail goes, take your ballots to
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  Speaker 1: the counter at the Bryan Post Office on East William
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  Speaker 1: Joel Bryan Parkway. Ballots handed to a clerk will be
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  Speaker 1: delivered directly to the elections office. But you must hand
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  Speaker 1: the ballot to a clerk. If it is dropped into
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  Speaker 1: a drop box in the lobby or parking lot, it
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  Speaker 1: will then travel through Houston. No other post offices in
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  Speaker 1: the area are offering this service. The TxDOT Bryan office
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  Speaker 1: is hosting an open house public meeting on Tuesday to
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  Speaker 1: discuss proposed improvements to State Highway 30 to address current
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  Speaker 1: and future congestion, enhance safety, and provide additional connectivity. The
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  Speaker 1: public meeting on Tuesday will be held from 5 until
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  Speaker 1: 7 at the Bob and Wanda Meyer Senior and Community
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  Speaker 1: Center on Dartmouth. The plan encompasses an approximately 2.1-mile stretch
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  Speaker 1: of RV road on the east side of Highway 6
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  Speaker 1: from Associates Avenue to FM 158. The roadway is currently
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  Speaker 1: one lane in each direction with a center turn lane
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  Speaker 1: and limited pedestrian and bicycle accommodations. A study projects traffic
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  Speaker 1: on that section of the road to increase approximately 60%
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  Speaker 1: by the year 2052. The option that will be discussed
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  Speaker 1: would expand the road to two lanes in each direction
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  Speaker 1: and add roundabouts, and add pedestrian and cyclist accommodations. The
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  Speaker 1: public will be able and is encouraged to provide comments.
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  Speaker 1: Learn more on our website at WTAW.com. The USDA is
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  Speaker 1: sending over $ 2 million to Texas as part of its
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  Speaker 1: Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. $ 86. 6 million will be awarded
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  Speaker 1: in all to fund approximately 609 projects throughout the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Texas will use the grants for projects to enhance competitiveness
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  Speaker 1: of grapes, watermelons, pecans, onions, and spinach. News is presented
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  Speaker 1: by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More news at 830
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  Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Turbeville here. If you're considering selling your jewelry, collectible coins,
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  Speaker 2: gold or silver, bullion, or other unique items, you'll find
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  Speaker 2: the experienced team at David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange ready
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  Speaker 2: to serve you. Selling your items is simple. Just take
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  Speaker 2: them into the store for a complete evaluation. You then
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  Speaker 2: have the option to sell your items for cash, exchange
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  Speaker 3: 1620-945-WTAW. Infomaniacs, good morning. 979-695-1620 is our phone number. You
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  Speaker 3: can also text us. And a pretty beautiful day. Low
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  Speaker 3: 70s for highs. Getting down into the 50s again tonight.
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  Speaker 3: And then just a little bit warmer, maybe chasing 80
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  Speaker 3: degrees by Tuesday or Wednesday. But still, very cool in
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  Speaker 3: the morning and very fall-like. Weather's brought to you by
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  Speaker 3: do we have with us today?
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  Speaker 1: This is Diane from the Bryan Animal Center. Well, hi, Diane.
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  Speaker 3: I know Diane's here, but you seem to be very
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  Speaker 3: interested in the other guests.
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  Speaker 1: The past few weeks, every time we go online and
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  Speaker 1: look at any of the animals that are in our
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  Speaker 1: local shelters, I have picked out a couple of times
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  Speaker 1: I've focused on these Pyrenees. So right now we've got
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  Speaker 1: Lucille that Diane has brought. Diane, tell us about Lucille.
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  Speaker 4: Ceil is a Pyrenees mix. She is seven months old,
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  Speaker 4: and for being so calm, she's still so young. She
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  Speaker 4: is about 50 pounds right now, but she is going
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  Speaker 4: to gain quite a bit of weight.
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  Speaker 1: She's got feet on her, man.
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  Speaker 3: She's got some ham hocks, man. She's got some paws.
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  Speaker 1: She is so chill.
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  Speaker 3: And very slender, but we all know where that leads.
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  Speaker 3: But she is a big, floofy Pyrenees.
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  Speaker 1: Very soft.
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  Speaker 3: Very soft.
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  Speaker 1: This dog is so sweet and just so demure. Lucille
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  Speaker 1: will come up to you. Very sweet. Just lay down
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  Speaker 1: and just say, please, I'm not here to disturb you.
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  Speaker 1: I just want to be a little petted.
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  Speaker 3: Just like some pets.
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  Speaker 4: She loves people.
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  Speaker 3: And you were telling us that you, for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 3: are just chock full of Pyrenees right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, we have about four or five Pyrenees. It's just
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  Speaker 4: we get in these trends of like different breeds coming in.
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  Speaker 4: And right now it's the Pyrenees. So if you're looking
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  Speaker 4: for a calmer dog, maybe a livestock dog.
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  Speaker 3: Ben Downs, area leader, is coming to examine Miss Lucille. Lucille,
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  Speaker 3: I told you, beautiful dog. Very good girl, very floofy.
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  Speaker 1: She is just so precious.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, man, he's setting the coffee down, too.
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  Speaker 1: This is big time.
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  Speaker 3: Not very many people.
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  Speaker 5: Can do that.
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  Speaker 1: What a glorious dog.
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  Speaker 3: As far as available Pyrenees, have you seen an uptick?
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  Speaker 3: Is that just the way it goes, like just roll
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  Speaker 3: the dice or what?
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  Speaker 4: It's just roll the dice, honestly. We go from breed
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  Speaker 4: to breed. Some months it's German Shepherds, some months it's Huskies,
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  Speaker 4: and this month it seems to be Pyrenees.
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  Speaker 1: They've got fantastic dogs there. You can always go to
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  Speaker 1: the website, right? You guys have a couple of different sections.
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  Speaker 1: Pets that are available for adoption is one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Correct.
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  Speaker 4: We have adoptable pets. And that's going to be on
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  Speaker 4: the website at briananimalcenter.com.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, she's leaving with Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that one's adopted. She's off the list.
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  Speaker 3: Lucille's officially off the list of adoptable animals. See, that's
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  Speaker 3: the thing, too. Occasionally, the animal will choose. Just be like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's who.
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  Speaker 1: Want me to take it to my office?
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  Speaker 3: No, I'm good with that, man. We do need a
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  Speaker 3: good shop dog up here. We haven't had one of
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  Speaker 3: those ever. I think that would be a phenomenal addition.
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  Speaker 1: She is going with.
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  Speaker 1: She wants to be with Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Downs.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what. Lisa texted in. Have him
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  Speaker 1: go ahead and fill out the adoption form now.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do it for him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll take care of that.
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  Speaker 3: We'll make the call. She's still letting me out.
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  Speaker 1: You can adopt. You can look at the pets online
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  Speaker 1: to adopt. You also have the lost and found section, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we have a.
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  Speaker 4: Lost and found section. There's a volunteer section, a foster section,
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  Speaker 4: and then our event section.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Speaking of events, every time you and I get together,
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  Speaker 1: you always shock me with what's coming up in events.
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  Speaker 1: So go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Well, right now we have $ 10 adoptions. $ 10 adoptions.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it.
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  Speaker 4: For dogs and puppies.
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  Speaker 3: That'll do it.
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  Speaker 1: That's awesome. So you could get. And what comes along
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  Speaker 1: with that?
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  Speaker 4: So that comes along with a spay or neuter, a microchip,
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  Speaker 4: and a rabies vaccination.
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  Speaker 3: $ 10.
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  Speaker 4: If they have been with us long enough. And then
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  Speaker 4: also a heartworm test.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. So that covers, man, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 9: That's a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Annie is getting fixed. She got fixed this last week,
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  Speaker 1: and so I'm about to pay that bill today, and
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  Speaker 1: it ain't $ 10.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's not. It's an incredible, incredible deal. And, again,
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  Speaker 3: the amount of quality animals you guys have is nuts.
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  Speaker 3: It really is a great stock of animals if you're
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  Speaker 3: looking for a pet.
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  Speaker 4: We have a great variety, too. If you're looking for
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  Speaker 4: a couch potato, if you're looking for a hiking buddy,
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  Speaker 4: We have all ranges of different personalities and breeds.
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  Speaker 1: Shelter pets make the best pets. $ 10 adoptions going on
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  Speaker 1: until when?
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  Speaker 4: The end of October.
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  Speaker 1: End of October. Anything else coming up for you guys?
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  Speaker 4: So we have the free microchip and rabies vaccination event
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  Speaker 4: coming up November 14th. So if you live within the
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  Speaker 4: city limits of Bryan, just go on our website and register,
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  Speaker 4: and you can come out and get a free microchip
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  Speaker 4: and rabies for your pets.
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  Speaker 1: That's wonderful.
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  Speaker 3: She wants to be on camera, too.
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  Speaker 1: Lucille wants to get up there.
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  Speaker 10: Lucille, go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: Jump up.
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  Speaker 3: Jump up. Be a good girl.
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  Speaker 12: Anyway.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So, yes, please. Go check it out.
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  Speaker 1: This is a good dog. This is a good dog.
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  Speaker 3: That dog is not. Look at that.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that good girl.
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  Speaker 7: There he goes.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that good girl. Oh, my gosh. She's not
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  Speaker 3: going to last long. Such a good girl. But if
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  Speaker 3: you want more info, I'll post some pictures of her
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  Speaker 3: online as well to the Facebook page, give you an
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  Speaker 3: idea of what you're looking at.
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  Speaker 1: She's gorgeous.
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  Speaker 3: She's gorgeous. What else do we need to get to today?
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  Speaker 14: Anything?
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  Speaker 4: If you want to volunteer, we're always looking for volunteers
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  Speaker 4: to come help with our enrichment of animals. So you
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  Speaker 4: can visit our website at briananimalcenter.com, put in a volunteer application,
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  Speaker 4: and you can come help dogs like Lucille.
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  Speaker 3: You can snuggle dogs like Lucille.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, you can snuggle dogs like Lucille, walk dogs, bathe dogs.
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  Speaker 4: and do everything that it will help to get them adopted.
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  Speaker 1: Amazing.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much for coming in. We appreciate it.
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  Speaker 15: Thank you.
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  Speaker 14: Early voting begins October 19th.
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  Speaker 3: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys. The Infomaniacs. You can call us
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  Speaker 3: or text us anytime at 979-695-1620. I want to talk about,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we see some wild articles every single day.
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  Speaker 3: This one might be the the craziest thing, and explain
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  Speaker 3: this to me if you can come up with a solution.
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  Speaker 3: So Americans, obviously, we're in an election, and the anger
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  Speaker 3: index has never been higher. And I mean it. There's
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  Speaker 3: an anger index. That's because these people aren't petting dogs.
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  Speaker 3: Political fury is what it's called. And here is what
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  Speaker 3: they are willing to do about it. More Americans are
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  Speaker 3: likelier than at any point in the last 25 years
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  Speaker 3: to volunteer for a campaign.
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  Speaker 5: Hmm.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: To donate to a campaign.
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  Speaker 1: That's good.
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  Speaker 3: To canvas on behalf of a candidate. That means door knocking,
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  Speaker 3: going door to door.
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  Speaker 1: For a candidate. Still the most effective way to talk
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  Speaker 1: to somebody about politics. Better than mailers, better than phone calls,
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  Speaker 1: certainly better than robotext.
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  Speaker 3: Because no one expects it. and to post on social
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  Speaker 3: media for a candidate. People are at the highest levels
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  Speaker 3: that it's been in ever.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed a ton of that in local elections.
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  Speaker 3: To post on social their support for a candidate. Yet,
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  Speaker 3: they are less likely to actually vote in this cycle.
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  Speaker 1: So they want to be part of the look at me.
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  Speaker 3: You're willing to do the following things. volunteer canvas post
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  Speaker 3: on your socials knock on literal doors of your neighbors
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  Speaker 3: but when it comes to voting they just say i
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  Speaker 3: don't know if i'm gonna do that no man i
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  Speaker 3: don't know if i'm gonna actually get around to it
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  Speaker 3: what is going on there's no excuse is this just
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  Speaker 3: like You don't like football, and so now politics is
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  Speaker 3: your sport of choice. What is happening?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they're trying to influence the vote for the betting
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  Speaker 1: for the Cal Sheep.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to get your thumb on the scale?
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't get that. I mean, if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: put the work in, then reap the benefit. Exercise your right.
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  Speaker 3: Americans who felt politically capable showed little or less in
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  Speaker 3: terms of their voting plans, but incredibly high in terms
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  Speaker 3: of their personal activism. And this is in Michigan, if
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  Speaker 3: it counts, because it's a goofy state. They talk to
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  Speaker 3: thousands of adults. This is not just like 10 people
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  Speaker 3: they talk to. Thousands of adults. They are more willing
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  Speaker 3: to try to convince you to vote for someone than
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  Speaker 3: they are to actually cast a vote.
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  Speaker 1: I can see this. I can see this, though, because
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of cases now, no matter what side
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  Speaker 1: you're on, the posting, especially on the social media, is
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  Speaker 1: more of a, hey, this is the team I'm on,
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  Speaker 1: and everybody around me should be.
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  Speaker 7: On this team.
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  Speaker 1: Virtue signaling, I agree with that. Yeah, it's a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of that and echo chamber.
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  Speaker 3: It's such a virtue signaling thing. It's completely unnecessary, but
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  Speaker 3: people feel it. It gives you that hit of, okay,
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  Speaker 3: I did something. I went ahead and I influenced today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I got 500 likes on my post.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of likes. It gives you that little dopamine rush.
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  Speaker 1: I don't do that.
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  Speaker 3: And then you just... Space on the day of the vote.
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  Speaker 1: No, you just... Because the vote itself doesn't give you
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  Speaker 1: that dopamine payoff.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you could always test it out. Today, obviously, early voting.
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  Speaker 1: Early voting started.
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  Speaker 3: Open in Brazos County. You have lots of options if
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  Speaker 3: you want to early vote.
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  Speaker 1: The mail-in stuff that you've heard about in the news,
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like to take a look at that in
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  Speaker 1: more detail, just go to the website.
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  Speaker 3: Please do. And again, I'm not knocking. If you want
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  Speaker 3: to mail in, go ahead. I'll say this, though. If
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  Speaker 3: you're mailing in and you're going to drop it off somewhere, just.
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  Speaker 9: Just go vote.
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  Speaker 1: Just go to the polls. I mean, if you're doing
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  Speaker 1: a mail-in ballot and you have to go through the
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  Speaker 1: Bryan Post Office and hand it to somebody for your mail-in,
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  Speaker 1: you can go vote.
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  Speaker 3: I'll say it because I feel like we're all on
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  Speaker 3: the same page when it comes to this. But just
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  Speaker 3: in case for some reason you don't know how this goes,
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  Speaker 3: it's early voting beginning today. It's going to be packed today.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to wait a little while. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: if it's going to be 30 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: It might.
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  Speaker 3: But you're going to wait because everyone, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: have the early crowd. Tomorrow, you'll be able to show up.
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  Speaker 3: Walk in, be done in five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Depending on your polling place. Those people that want to
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  Speaker 1: get the first sticker of I voted, they can post
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  Speaker 1: on their social media. That needs to happen today.
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  Speaker 3: You want a virtue? I don't care if you do that.
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  Speaker 3: You want virtues? Just vote. Just actually vote.
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  Speaker 6: Do it.
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  Speaker 3: Good God. It's not that hard.
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  Speaker 1: And inform yourself. I mean, don't just look at the
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  Speaker 1: social media stuff. We have posted for your intelligence, the
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  Speaker 1: ability to go and look at all the candidates in depth.
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  Speaker 1: I would say.
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  Speaker 3: Again, personally, I would be waiting probably a couple of
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  Speaker 3: days to get past all of the chaos. But also,
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  Speaker 3: you've got a candidates forum tonight.
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  Speaker 1: You do. Another chance to listen to people.
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  Speaker 3: If you're still not really decided, yeah, give it a
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  Speaker 3: All of the local city council elections that are contested
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  Speaker 3: are out there. It's going to be a full house
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  Speaker 3: of candidates. It's going to be a wonderful time for
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  Speaker 3: you to figure out where your vote should fall over
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  Speaker 3: the city stuff. And then, yeah, learn about some more
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  Speaker 3: of the candidates you aren't familiar with on WTAW.com, Candidate Conversations.
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  Speaker 3: I've never seen that many interviews posted.
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  Speaker 1: Never seen that many. And I don't know of a
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty rare, but it's a great thing. And the
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  Speaker 3: bottom line is you really have no excuse in between
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  Speaker 3: you guys are maniacs, and you actually do like to
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  Speaker 3: wait to vote on day of because it– Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: to be in you're going to be in a line
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  Speaker 3: know it's like it's going to be, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: So, again, WTAW dot com and please come to the
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  Speaker 19: This is Today in Texas History brought to you by
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  Speaker 18: On this day, October the 19th in 1919, the League
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  Speaker 20: Hi, I'm Heather Simmons. To continue building on the successes
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  Speaker 21: I'm Nicole Murray with your Money Now. Anthropix said it
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  Speaker 23: I'm sure you saw Elon Musk's supercar fly last week.
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  Speaker 11: AI, big tech, and online predators are creating new threats
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  Speaker 1: the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Early voting starts today
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  Speaker 1: at six o'clock tonight. You can hear from the candidates
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  Speaker 1: for city councils of Bryan and College Station. The forum
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  Speaker 1: hosted by WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of
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  Speaker 1: Commerce will take place at the Brazos Center. moderated by
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  Speaker 1: our very own Scott DeLucia. If you can't make it out,
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  Speaker 1: it will be broadcast live on WTAW starting at 6.
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  Speaker 1: If you missed last week's forum with the candidates for Mayor, Commissioners,
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  Speaker 1: Court Precinct 4, and State Representatives, Districts 12 and 14,
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  Speaker 1: that is available for streaming on WTAW.com. Scott DeLucia also
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: sat down with each candidate for a one-on-one conversation. Look
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  Speaker 1: for Candidate Conversations on Facebook and WTAW.com. There's now a
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  Speaker 1: safer way to make sure your mail-in ballot gets to
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  Speaker 1: the right place. Officials in Brazos County have worked out
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  Speaker 1: an arrangement with the local post office in Bryan. Outbound
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  Speaker 1: mail is normally routed through Houston, even if you're mailing
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  Speaker 1: something to someone across the street. To keep ballots from
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  Speaker 1: traveling through Houston, Brazos County Elections Administrator Trudy Hancock encourages
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  Speaker 1: voters to take their ballots to the counter at the
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  Speaker 1: Bryan Post Office on East William Joel Bryan Parkway. Ballots
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  Speaker 1: handed directly to a clerk will be delivered directly to
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  Speaker 1: the elections office. To qualify, you must hand the ballot
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  Speaker 1: to the clerk. If it is dropped in a drop
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  Speaker 1: box in the lobby or parking lot, then they will
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  Speaker 1: still travel through Houston. No other post offices in the
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  Speaker 1: area are offering this service. The Texas Secretary of State,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Howden, announced that Texas has a record 19 million
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  Speaker 1: voters registered ahead of the November 3rd general election. That's
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  Speaker 1: an increase of 2% from the March primary and a 2.2%
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  Speaker 1: increase from the November 2024 general election. Tomorrow is Brazos
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  Speaker 1: Valley Gives. You can support one of 200 nonprofits throughout
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  Speaker 1: the Brazos Valley participating in the program. This year, nonprofits
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  Speaker 1: will compete each hour to win additional monies from an
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  Speaker 1: hourly sponsorship. Here's Julie Porter with Brazos Valley Gives.
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  Speaker 15: Sponsorship for each of the 18 hours on Giving Day.
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  Speaker 15: So like from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. is sponsored
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  Speaker 15: by somebody for $ 1, 000. And the nice thing is what
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  Speaker 15: we have done as in the past is we have
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  Speaker 15: assigned a certain game to each hour and the nonprofits
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  Speaker 15: compete for that sponsorship.
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  Speaker 1: Early giving ends at midnight. The day of giving starts
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  Speaker 1: at 5 a.m. tomorrow. You can give in person at
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  Speaker 1: the Brookshire Brothers locations in College Station and Caldwell or
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  Speaker 1: at the Washington County Chamber of Commerce or give online
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  Speaker 1: at bvgives.org. TxDOT is reporting an increase in fatal crashes
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  Speaker 1: in the Brazos Valley. From January 1st through October 1st,
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  Speaker 1: 78 people lost their lives on roadways across the Bryan District.
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  Speaker 1: 20 of those happened in the last 60 days. They
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  Speaker 1: ask everyone to slow down, stay alert, and wear your
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  Speaker 1: seatbelt every trip, every time. Job growth in Texas is
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  Speaker 1: leading the nation. Texas employers added over 154,000 non-farm jobs
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  Speaker 1: over the last 12 months for an annual growth rate
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  Speaker 1: of 1.1%. That outpaces the national rate by 0.8 percentage points.
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  Speaker 1: The manufacturing sector experienced the largest jobs increase in September,
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  Speaker 1: adding 4,700 jobs. Government services saw the largest decline. Chinese
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  Speaker 1: online retailer Timu has reached a settlement with Texas over
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  Speaker 1: accusations of sharing personal information with the Chinese Communist Party.
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  Speaker 24: The Texas Attorney General's office sued Timu, claiming it unlawfully.
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  Speaker 24: deceived consumers by exposing Texans' personal data to the Chinese
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  Speaker 24: Communist Party. Reports also surfaced that products sold on the platform,
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  Speaker 24: like clothing, children's toys, and baby products, may contain harmful chemicals.
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  Speaker 24: Under the settlement, Timu will be required to overhaul its
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  Speaker 24: data security and product safety practices that include storing Texans'
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  Speaker 24: personal data on American-owned and controlled servers located in the
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  Speaker 24: United States. Timu has also agreed to conduct independent product
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  Speaker 24: safety testing to identify products containing dangerous chemicals. Timu will
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  Speaker 24: also pay Texas $ 3 million. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Members of the New York Army National Guard have been
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  Speaker 1: deployed to Texas.
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  Speaker 25: The 204th Engineer Battalion is taking part in Operation Ardent Vanguard.
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  Speaker 25: It supports border defense and infrastructure. They had their official
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  Speaker 25: send-off earlier this month. Their forward support company provides logistics support,
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  Speaker 25: including maintenance and transportation of fuel, supply, and materials. About
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  Speaker 25: 120 soldiers from New York are taking part in the mission.
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  Speaker 25: They spent 12 months preparing. and expect to be along
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  Speaker 25: the Texas-Mexico border for the next year. Stephen Pickering, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news throughout the day or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm
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  Speaker 29: Tis time for the Texas Renaissance Festival. Over 400 artisans
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• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Good morning. How are you doing?
• 34:19
  Speaker 13: Good morning. Thank you so much for having me. I'm
• 34:20
  Speaker 13: really excited to be here.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: I'm really excited to have you here today. So what
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: we want to talk about was the South Knoll rezoning
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: questions that people have. related to uh i guess it
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: would have been discussed last council meeting about a couple
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: i guess you could probably take the lead on this
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: for people who haven't been following it what's going on
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: out there and why has this been popping up as
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: much as it has recently on chat boards message boards
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: and radio shows.
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  Speaker 13: Absolutely so I'm really happy that I'm able to be
• 34:53
  Speaker 13: here so that I can touch on those questions and
• 34:56
  Speaker 13: kind of get the word out on what exactly people
• 34:58
  Speaker 13: are seeing when they get those mailers, whenever they look
• 35:01
  Speaker 13: into the social media posts.
• 35:02
  Speaker 28: And see some concern.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, holy cow, I got a letter.
• 35:05
  Speaker 20: Exactly, from the city.
• 35:06
  Speaker 13: Like, can this be good news? The answer is yes.
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: Yes, it can.
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: So.
• 35:11
  Speaker 13: What we're doing is we are following through with the
• 35:15
  Speaker 13: affordable housing action plan that was approved by council. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 13: they also appointed the housing plan advisory committee. And one
• 35:24
  Speaker 13: of the priorities that came from the plan and was
• 35:26
  Speaker 13: prioritized by the committee was to have some city initiated
• 35:31
  Speaker 13: rezonings to help promote density for that more affordable and
• 35:35
  Speaker 13: workforce housing right and what people are seeing when they
• 35:38
  Speaker 13: get those mailers is either they're the property owner or
• 35:41
  Speaker 13: they live within 200 feet of the property affected and
• 35:45
  Speaker 13: it is the city proactively rezoning or potentially proactively rezoning
• 35:49
  Speaker 13: the area everyone has a say in this and that's
• 35:53
  Speaker 13: what this engagement period is about.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Okay and this this is not the first time that
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: this particular thing has been brought up is that correct
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: this is this is.
• 36:02
  Speaker 13: True So we have seen other city-initiated rezonings in the past,
• 36:07
  Speaker 13: and this one is different in that it comes from
• 36:11
  Speaker 13: the Housing Action Plan, but there are some similarities in
• 36:15
  Speaker 13: that we see there are letters, and some people will
• 36:17
  Speaker 13: also see that they're being asked again. They've gotten a
• 36:21
  Speaker 13: letter before, and maybe there was some pushback for that property,
• 36:25
  Speaker 13: and maybe it was taken off the list, and it
• 36:27
  Speaker 13: could be startling.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: To see that.
• 36:30
  Speaker 13: It's back on some list.
• 36:31
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 36:32
  Speaker 13: And the reasoning behind that is we are looking at
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: a list of criteria and every property that falls in
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: that criteria is included. And that includes it has the
• 36:44
  Speaker 13: future land use of mixed residential, which means that it
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: has the infrastructure for higher density. And it's also an
• 36:53
  Speaker 13: area that's not already middle housing. It wouldn't be a
• 36:56
  Speaker 13: down zoning. And this would just really only increase what
• 36:58
  Speaker 13: a property owner could do with their land.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Which is a valid point.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 37:03
  Speaker 13: Right.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Like you're looking to sell a property.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah. It's kind of scary. You get this and you're
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: like rezoning. What does it all mean?
• 37:08
  Speaker 28: Right.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: We have questions about it. Or like you said, the
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: city at this point in time is simply collecting information
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: and collecting opinion. And you guys have a meeting tonight
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: about that. Is that correct?
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: This is perfect advertisement for it.
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: I know.
• 37:23
  Speaker 13: We have a virtual meeting tonight from 6 to 8 p.m.
• 37:26
  Speaker 13: And you can find it by going to the city's website,
• 37:29
  Speaker 13: looking at middle housing and all the information and links
• 37:31
  Speaker 13: to that are online. We also have an in-person meeting
• 37:34
  Speaker 13: tomorrow from 6 to 8 p.m. at 1101 Texas Avenue
• 37:38
  Speaker 13: City Hall. And, yeah, our hope right now and really
• 37:43
  Speaker 13: always is to get the opinion of residents to hear
• 37:47
  Speaker 13: what they have to say because we're looking at it
• 37:49
  Speaker 13: from the technical side of, okay, These areas have the infrastructure.
• 37:53
  Speaker 13: They have the future land use for it. They can
• 37:55
  Speaker 13: be this. But should they?
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: I think we're listening. I think that's the if you're
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: if you're living in a situation, if you're living in
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: a neighborhood and all of a sudden you get this letter,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: it can feel somewhat random because you think, why on
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: earth would they be picking? Well, what you're telling us,
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: there is a list of criteria not just related to
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: that neighborhood, but I'm guessing a variety of neighborhoods across
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: city college stations.
• 38:18
  Speaker 13: Exactly, there's 32 properties, or 32 areas.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: 32 areas that might fit the bill. To determine whether
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: or not they truly do fit the bill, they are
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: going to allow you, the neighborhood, to go ahead and
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: explain why or why not this makes sense to where
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: you live. The problem is, and by problem, it's not
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: a problem, you're just going to have to go to
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: a meeting. You're going to have to go to a meeting.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Or watch one online doing the virtual thing. Or watch
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: one online virtually, whatever.
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: But that's how you decide where these type of decisions happen.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: It's much like voting. If you don't let your input
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: be known, then, yeah. That's the thing, man. They have
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: done everything that they can to get this out in
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: front of you and have given you dates on which
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: you can go and make your opinions known, as many
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: of you want to do when it comes to any
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: matter with City Hall. Go out, tell them your thoughts,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: and then go from there. And again, like we said,
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: not just really to one neighborhood, really to a lot
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: of different areas, and it's all just for comment. So comment.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Do that indeed. Again, the virtual meeting is tonight. You
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: can find the information on the city's website. And what
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: was the time on that again?
• 39:29
  Speaker 13: It is from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: In-person meeting tomorrow night at City Hall, 6 until 8.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: And we will post all of this again online at WTAW.com.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Make sure everyone has a chance to share it around
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: and everything. Anything else we want to get to today?
• 39:44
  Speaker 13: One thing I really want to make sure people know
• 39:46
  Speaker 13: is that their voices are being heard. We have a
• 39:49
  Speaker 13: hub site up right now, and we're getting lots of comments.
• 39:51
  Speaker 13: And everything that we hear is being included in the
• 39:54
  Speaker 13: engagement report, which will be seen by the committee, which
• 39:58
  Speaker 13: will be seen by Planning and Zoning Commission and City Council.
• 40:01
  Speaker 13: So your voice will not go unheard, and we really
• 40:03
  Speaker 13: are listening.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: In other news, did you know it was the birthday
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: for the city of College Station?
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Today?
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Did you know it was the birthday.
• 40:12
  Speaker 13: Of the city of College Station?
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: I did indeed.
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: You did.
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  Speaker 4: I'm very delighted.
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: I assumed they would have sent an email around.
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  Speaker 30: This is exciting.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: We got a picture from Ann Boykin, who is our
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: local premier historian. These men are the first city council
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: of College Station. On this day in 1938, citizens voted
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: 217 to 39. to incorporate City of College Station. Can
• 40:33
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• 40:34
  Speaker 1: That's what I had a question. Isn't that funny? Where's
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the 39?
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Pictured left to right. John S. Hopper, City Marshal, Lector P. Gabbard,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: George P. Wilcox, John H. Binney, Ernest Langford, Alva Mitchell,
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: and Luther Jones. I will be reposting this to the
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: WTAW Facebook page. So, from us to all of you
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: guys over at City Hall, happy 88th birthday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 3: anything to celebrate Halloween anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I hear.
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  Speaker 3: What on earth?
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  Speaker 1: They're too cool for it, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: That's not cool. It's not the cool factor. It's got
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  Speaker 3: to be something else. When I was... Ages ago, when
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  Speaker 3: I was growing up, you would have two types of
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: households in the neighborhood when it came to Halloween. You
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  Speaker 3: would have the families with... Kids, they would be the
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  Speaker 3: ones that are trick-or-treating. They're going out.
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  Speaker 1: Or they would split, like we always used to leave
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: me behind at the house.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: That's one way to do it. One way to do it.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: You might have a combo. But we had mom, dad,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: all the kids, and we would all walk the neighborhood
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: with the rest of the families with kids, and we
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: would go door-to-door trick-or-treating. Second family, second household. And we're
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: talking in the 80s and early 90s, but we had
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: a fair density of older people in our neighborhoods, old
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: neighborhood in general. So you had people that have lived
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: in those houses forever. And every one of them would
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: be at home with a thing of candy, and they
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: would hand it out of the door.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. I used to love doing it.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: Now, the question is, Does that happen anymore? And I
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: would wager the reason that, again, almost all of the
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: boomer generation has gotten away from handing out candy is
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: because no one comes to the door anymore to ask
• 47:56
  Speaker 3: for the candy. They have just done it enough. We're like, well,
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: no one cares. I'm not going to do anything.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, either that or, I know we lived in a
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: neighborhood where there were kids from all over the area
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: would flock in.
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: We all know that there are, well, I say... are,
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: maybe it have been, neighborhoods that are historically monster neighborhoods
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: for trick-or-treating.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Nice pun for Halloween with a monster there.
• 48:23
  Speaker 3: I live in one of those neighborhoods now. I will
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: tell you that having lived there for, jeez, 12 years,
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: 10 years, whatever it's been, the decay of the amount
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: of kids that are trick-or-treating has been dramatic. Now, they
• 48:42
  Speaker 3: might just not go all the way back to my area.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: They might just stay in the front zone and then
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: maybe go through a few side streets and go home.
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: But it used to be you did not have the
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: ability to not trick-or-treat.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was everywhere.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: You had to have candy for the kids. Now, I
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: don't know that it's even something people do. You also
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: didn't have as many trunk-or-treats.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a big thing these days.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: You didn't have Trick or Treat Street in downtown Bryan,
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: which the K95 and WTW and all radio stations are
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: going to be doing this coming weekend. So I don't know.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: I'm looking into this survey a little deeper here. Yes, continue.
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: I think it's less about the art of trick-or-treating and
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: passing out candy and trick-or-treating itself and more along the
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: lines because they talk about Halloween costumes in here too.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: So maybe their level of celebration is are you going
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: to put on a costume?
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Ain't no boomers putting on costumes.
• 49:36
  Speaker 27: No.
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: Who's going to?
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: I haven't worn a Halloween costume in, I don't know.
• 49:39
  Speaker 16: Three years.
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: What are you going to do with it?
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: Wear it around the house? Wear it to the golf course?
• 49:43
  Speaker 14: You're not.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: No, if I'm in a costume, it's going to be something.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: We've talked about this before. It's going to be something
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: that is kind of low-key.
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: Like, I think the last costume I wore, I was
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: Han Solo.
• 49:53
  Speaker 28: Right.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: How tough is that?
• 49:55
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• 49:57
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• 49:58
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• 50:00
  Speaker 1: I had a leather motorcycle vest I.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Used back then. Yeah, that'll get it done. the costume
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: thing is a young person's definitely the kids. And I
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: will give you all the way up.
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: To the, to the daughters already have their Halloween costumes.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: They take it seriously. And then they go out and
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: they party and that's great. Once you get above that threshold,
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: if you don't have kids, you are not doing a
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: costume unless you, unless you do some crazy Halloween thing
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: with your, your, your trick or treating to where like
• 50:27
  Speaker 3: you have a, haunted house and you need to you
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: know be in theme or something which is.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Great it's just not my jam anymore.
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know i don't know anyone that does that
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: but yeah we'll probably bring this back up what.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Are you what are you got any plans for halloween.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Night honestly i probably won't do anything because again it
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: there aren't enough trick-or-treaters.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: There aren't any in my neighborhood.
• 50:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah but you of course not you go down the
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: county it's it's even more sparse but i i'm dead
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: serious It used to be an every year thing. Before
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: I lived in this neighborhood, I lived in like close
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: off to downtown Bryan, like in that historic district. Every
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: year it was packed. And about COVID, right around COVID.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Those uncertain times.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: It just stopped. And so now none of my neighbors
• 51:20
  Speaker 3: hand out candy, which means no kids come down to
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: get candy. Which means what's the point of having candy?
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Well, it's a bummer, but leftovers are a point. I
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: know I know the wife and maybe one of the
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: daughters has already laid in a supply that they're hoping last.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: I'm like, we're not going to get any trick or treaters. Oh,
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: we have to have some there, but it's their favorites.
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: Speaking of candy, you see this nightmare from Wingstop.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. That thing.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: Can you explain this to me? I think you showed
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: this to me and I just, I instinctively vomited and
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: threw it in the trash.
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: It was incredibly.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, here it is.
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: I'll give you the headline.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: Here it is.
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: And then you can fill in the gaps.
• 51:58
  Speaker 18: Yeah.
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: Wingstop introduces new Sour Patch Kids Wicked Punch wings.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: I just threw up a little.
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: Same reactions I had last week. What is this?
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: It's one of those mashups that everybody likes to do
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: the mashups these days. So they're calling it Wicked Punch.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: It's Sour Patch Kids. A sour than sweet red berry
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: wing glaze topped off with actual Sour Patch Kids bits.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: You can order them at Wingstop now. No, early access
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: is October 23rd. They're available nationwide on the 27th, and
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: then they leave on November the 5th.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: Better yet, don't. Better yet, just don't pay any attention
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: to this.
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I saw one review, and of course it could be
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: one of those influencers that's just doing it.
• 52:51
  Speaker 9: To do it.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: That's paid, man. No regular person.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: He didn't vomit, which, you know, he put a good
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: face on it. Sometimes the sweet with the spicy works
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: really well. The sweet and savory works really well.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: But sour, no. You're right. A lot of the wing
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: glazes are sweet. I find them offensive. I'm not trying
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: to get teriyaki wings. I'm trying to burn a hole
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: in my sinuses. That's what I'm trying to go for
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: with my wings.
• 53:18
  Speaker 26: I want.
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: I want. You're going to need to hurt me.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: You like the punishment.
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: I don't want any. I can order dessert just fine.
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: I don't need it on my chicken.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I occasionally like the sweet and savory, but I'm sorry.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not a Sour Patch.
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: Is it chunks of Sour Patch, or is it the
• 53:35
  Speaker 3: Sour Patch dust? No, it looks a little.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Chunky, the Sour Patch bits.
• 53:41
  Speaker 3: If you just tossed them in some of the dust,
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: I might even understand it.
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: That is so chemical, though. I just don't know that
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: I want that on my wings.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: It's absolutely offensive.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: Had some smoked wings at Moe's Barbecue.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: Now, those are... Now, that's that's where it's at. I
• 53:55
  Speaker 3: don't know if anyone's figured that out here. You can
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: smoke some really. Oh, I have smoked wings as a
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: as a whole. Well, it's barbecue restaurants like this is
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: a really weird place, right? It's not too far off
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: the square.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: They actually have no brisket on the menu. It's turkey.
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: I don't hate it.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: It was brisket. So it was so expensive. Is it turkey,
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: pulled pork, smoked wings and chicken? I like it. That's solid.
• 54:16
  Speaker 3: I'm I'd stop by.
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: Backed up with a bushwhacker.
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: All right, so just another reminder. Two things are happening
• 54:23
  Speaker 3: in town today. Obviously, early voting is open. You can
• 54:27
  Speaker 3: go cast a ballot at any of the locations that
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: you usually cast early voting ballots around College Station and Bryan. Second,
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: we are having a candidates forum tonight. Our second candidates
• 54:37
  Speaker 3: forum in conjunction with the BCS Chamber of Commerce. We
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: are doing all of the... Council races tonight. So, Bryan
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: City Council will be having forums with all the candidates
• 54:50
  Speaker 3: from those seats, and then all of the candidates from
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: the College Station seats, and hopefully everyone, well, there's no
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: hopefully about it. You will leave more informed.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because Scott DeLucia is hosting it.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Scott's hosting it. What else do you want? And,
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: if for some reason, 6 o'clock at the Brazos Center
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: is difficult for you to make, that's okay. You can
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: stream it online at WTAW.com, or you can listen to
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: it at WTAW. We try to cover all of our
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: bases for you guys. 1620, 94.5 WTAW College Station. Brian,
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: we will see you tomorrow.