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The Infomaniacs: September 23rd 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Will Welch.
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  Speaker 1: One person is dead after a shooting in Iola Tuesday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: The Grimes County Sheriff's Office confirms that one person is
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  Speaker 1: dead after the shooting that took place around 5 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: near County Road 173. The man's identity and the events
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  Speaker 1: leading up to the incident have not been released. The
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  Speaker 1: man shot by an ICE agent in Austin will not
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  Speaker 1: be deported for now. The attorney for 28-year-old Wilbur Garces
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  Speaker 1: Perez says a federal judge wants him in court next week.
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  Speaker 3: We have filed a federal lawsuit, and the judge has
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  Speaker 3: ordered that he be present at the first hearing, which
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  Speaker 3: is scheduled for Wednesday, September 30th, and that means he
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  Speaker 3: won't be deported in the meantime.
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  Speaker 1: Kate Lincoln Goldfinch says her client is still in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of pain with a bullet lodged in his back.
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  Speaker 1: A college station man is back behind bars for the
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  Speaker 1: third time in five weeks. 36-year-old Bob Esquivel was arrested
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  Speaker 1: at the HTO on Welburn for violating a criminal trespass warning.
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  Speaker 1: During his arrest, Esquivel was found with just under two
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  Speaker 1: grams of marijuana, so he was arrested for possession and
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  Speaker 1: criminal trespass. He is being held at the Brazos County
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  Speaker 1: Jail on $ 5, 000 bond. He was arrested twice in August. First,
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  Speaker 1: he was harassing two girls outside A & M Consolidated
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  Speaker 1: High School. Later, he allegedly tried to talk his way
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  Speaker 1: into a home around 10 o'clock at night, offering to
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  Speaker 1: host Bible study. In both cases, Esquivel was arrested for
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  Speaker 1: public intoxication and released on PR bonds. This is his
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  Speaker 1: 28th booking into the jail. The race for the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Senate seat is beefing up between Texas Attorney General Ken
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  Speaker 1: Paxton and Democratic nominee James Tallarico. Both candidates are weighing
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  Speaker 1: in on rising beef prices in the state.
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  Speaker 4: Beef prices are up nearly 6% from a year ago,
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  Speaker 4: ground beef more than 7%. The Trump administration is temporarily
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  Speaker 4: allowing more imported beef in at a lower tariff rate
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  Speaker 4: to boost supply and bring prices down. But cattle producers
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  Speaker 4: argue it could drive prices lower, forcing more of them out.
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  Speaker 4: And now beef is part of the affordability fight in
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  Speaker 4: the Texas Senate race. Both candidates are backing the cattle ranchers.
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  Speaker 4: You have Tallarico, who says the foreign beef plan would
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  Speaker 4: make it harder for cattlemen to get by. And then
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  Speaker 4: Paxton's campaign, who says Texas ranchers should not be undercut
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  Speaker 4: by imports that have different standards.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump has defended his decision as necessary because U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Ranchers need a little help.
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  Speaker 1: The race could determine which party controls the Senate after
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  Speaker 1: the midterm elections. A federal judge is ordering all Texas
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  Speaker 1: state prisons to have air conditioning by the end of 2029,
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  Speaker 1: saying current efforts aren't enough to keep inmates cool.
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  Speaker 5: According to court documents, U.S. District Judge Robert Pittman says
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  Speaker 5: the Texas Department of Criminal Justice should install system-wide air
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  Speaker 5: conditioning by the end of 2029, saying it's very doable
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  Speaker 5: and not unreasonable. It also states the lack of cooling
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  Speaker 5: violates the Eighth Amendment as thousands of inmates were left
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  Speaker 5: without air conditioning this past summer. Documents also say witnesses
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  Speaker 5: described fellow inmates getting sick, passing out, and going so
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  Speaker 5: far as splashing toilet water on themselves to cool off.
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  Speaker 5: According to its website, TDCJ says it's making progress with
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  Speaker 5: more than 53,000 beds now in air-conditioned housing and thousands
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  Speaker 5: more on the way. Emily Capotillo, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Estimates say 80,000 Texas inmates reside in living areas without
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  Speaker 1: complete air conditioning. More news ahead at 7.30 or anytime
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  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 16: We're the Infomaniacs. Warm day today, getting up to near
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  Speaker 16: 100 degrees in real-life temperatures, and then 106 in the
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  Speaker 2: You're giving me, what was this?
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying bring it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm ready. Oh, you're prepared.
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready. I'm like on the balls of my feet.
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  Speaker 1: You're prepared.
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  Speaker 6: I'm ready.
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  Speaker 2: You're in a defensive stance.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know what's coming from you, Tucker, and I've
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  Speaker 1: got to be ready to react.
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  Speaker 16: So here's what I wanted to get to. There's an
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  Speaker 16: article that came out yesterday that we probably should have
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  Speaker 16: spent some amount of time on. And I think we're
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  Speaker 16: both surprised this slipped through the cracks in the Texas
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  Speaker 16: A & M University police Twitter. Although I don't think
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  Speaker 16: this gentleman interacted with Texas A & M police.
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  Speaker 1: No, I think it was purely with College Station police.
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  Speaker 16: A 27-year-old man was arrested Saturday night after the troubling
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  Speaker 16: Texas A & M incident. University of Kentucky matchup after
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  Speaker 16: police say he urinated on another patron and then repeatedly
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  Speaker 16: punched him inside the restroom of a Northgate bar.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what would have prevented that, Will? A
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  Speaker 2: nice 10-minute warning in Mom Johnny's New York.
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  Speaker 10: The door is opening now.
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  Speaker 2: That would have fixed it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but no, this was a urinal there. So, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's more of a little public gathering spot for specific
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  Speaker 1: people and so forth. Yeah, so he was standing there
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  Speaker 1: at said urinal. Kentucky fan said something. Along the lines of,
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  Speaker 1: you know.
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  Speaker 2: Go Cats. Go Cats. Yeah, let's go Kentucky. Rah, rah.
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  Speaker 1: So this young man, I guess, just turned to pay
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  Speaker 1: attention to the person that was speaking to him.
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  Speaker 2: He was just being polite. Wanted to make eye contact
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  Speaker 2: with the conversation. And of course, you know.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so it did what he did. And then proceeded,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, to zip up and start throwing.
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  Speaker 16: Just started swinging. He says that it was a lot
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  Speaker 16: of punches. It wasn't like just one.
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  Speaker 18: No.
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  Speaker 2: He was just... He beat this dude.
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  Speaker 1: He was working out some frustrations from Saturday's experience at
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Field.
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  Speaker 16: Officers noted the victim was bleeding from the mouth, had
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  Speaker 16: an injury to his right eye, while the gentleman in
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  Speaker 16: question had bloody knuckles, the old bloody knucks. He also
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  Speaker 16: had red-eye slurred speech and admitted a strong odor of
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  Speaker 16: alcohol because he was wasted.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You don't do this sober.
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  Speaker 16: Let me tell you something else you don't do sober.
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  Speaker 16: speak to another man at a urinal.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. That's also... That's off limits. This is the thing.
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  Speaker 2: I am not a.
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  Speaker 2: Never a fan of violence. Period.
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  Speaker 16: That said, I am also not a fan of people
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  Speaker 16: poking bears.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't think it's to be done. You know?
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  Speaker 16: Hey, you're here. You got this amazing win. You're having
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  Speaker 16: the best time ever.
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  Speaker 11: Why.
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  Speaker 2: Why.
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  Speaker 16: Just give him a little poke, poke, poke there with
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  Speaker 16: the go-cats?
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  Speaker 2: Why do that?
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  Speaker 16: What do you expect he's going to do in that?
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  Speaker 2: He's clearly wasted. He's clearly angry.
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  Speaker 16: Turns out he's a former Special Forces guy for the
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  Speaker 16: British Army.
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  Speaker 2: Is he really?
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  Speaker 16: He just is not the guy you want to talk.
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 17: And.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, and then back to your point. He's grieving, sir.
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  Speaker 2: He's grieving.
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  Speaker 1: It's an unwritten rule. You don't speak to somebody in
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  Speaker 1: that environment. You don't have conversations there.
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  Speaker 2: Have you ever known someone who's been a conversational? Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Have you guys ever faced this problem? other men out
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  Speaker 2: there there's one here we do have one.
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  Speaker 16: Here that is absolutely a bathroom conversationalist and i don't
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  Speaker 16: know how to break him of that.
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  Speaker 1: Habit fortunately for him it's so bad he is also.
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  Speaker 2: The really great guy great guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's also the person that can very easily have a
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  Speaker 1: conversation with himself lasting minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes.
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  Speaker 1: So that fits because I will not answer.
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  Speaker 16: And, again, I'm not saying that there's ever a reason
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  Speaker 16: to escalate something to violence.
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  Speaker 2: But, again, there's just behavior. There's too many lines crossed here, Tucker.
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  Speaker 16: There are behavior standards. Yes, do not talk to someone
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  Speaker 16: where you're at the urinal. Do not taunt someone in
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  Speaker 16: a bar the day after a major athletic upset.
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  Speaker 2: Don't do that. Don't do it. It's not good. Not good.
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  Speaker 16: But, yes, again, here we are, and I don't know
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  Speaker 16: how we missed that one.
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  Speaker 2: We will try harder next week.
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  Speaker 16: Actually, this is very useful, Will, because the next stop
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  Speaker 16: for the Aggies is Baton Rouge, Louisiana. So if, if,
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  Speaker 16: you end up in a similar situation where the Ags
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  Speaker 16: have just done the impossible on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like we have illustrated what not to do.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't want to do that. And I think
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  Speaker 2: Good morning. 979-695-1620 is our phone number. We do need to.
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  Speaker 2: Michael called our attention to this.
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  Speaker 16: And now the guy who peed and punched the other
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  Speaker 16: guy said it didn't happen.
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  Speaker 2: You're right, Michael. Yeah, and we needed to add allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't there.
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  Speaker 16: I have no, all I'm doing is reading this story
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  Speaker 16: off of the internet like anyone else.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, according to this story, the defense attorney.
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  Speaker 6: This is great.
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  Speaker 25: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Deer did absolutely not urinate on another individual.
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  Speaker 16: See, that's how I read it too, even though I
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  Speaker 16: know this defense attorney sounds nothing like this, but it's
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  Speaker 16: still how.
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  Speaker 2: I read it.
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  Speaker 1: Claim is false.
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  Speaker 2: One of these egregious allegations will be made. They're circulating online.
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  Speaker 1: They're sensationalized and inconsistent with physical evidence.
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  Speaker 2: My client is the one who has been wronged here.
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  Speaker 16: You will notice he had lacerations on his knuckles.
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  Speaker 2: How did he? Why would he injure him so?
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  Speaker 1: You see, Your Honor, there's two Utes.
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  Speaker 16: The Kentucky fan should have had a softer face, Your Honor.
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  Speaker 2: That's what should have gone down. I need to say
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  Speaker 2: I need to salute.
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  Speaker 16: One of these days I'm just going to make a
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  Speaker 16: list and salute some of our criminal defense lawyers here
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  Speaker 16: by name because some of you guys have.
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  Speaker 2: Too much fun.
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  Speaker 1: They do.
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  Speaker 2: You have too much fun.
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  Speaker 16: Either on your Instagram accounts or in some of your
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  Speaker 16: press releases. And I just want y'all to know, I
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  Speaker 16: see it.
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  Speaker 2: I see it. And I know y'all are having a
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  Speaker 2: lot of fun and salutes.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we take it to the next level here, Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe we start writing out some potential scripts for BCS Law.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: BCS law and order.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Jason is foghorned. That's the problem.
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  Speaker 16: This is a good lawyer. He is not foghorned like that.
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  Speaker 2: That is the voice in my head.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 16: Whenever I read a lawyer saying that my client claims
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  Speaker 16: he urinated, who would have done that?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the physics don't add up.
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  Speaker 16: Lawyer is a great career to have and you can
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  Speaker 16: make a lot of money at it. The problem is
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  Speaker 16: if you don't have a degree, you ain't getting it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 16: there is an article which I find a little bit
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  Speaker 16: dubious that talks about a look. It's a look at
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  Speaker 16: six figure jobs don't require a degree. And what they
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  Speaker 16: say is these are so rare. They say that only
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  Speaker 16: like point three percent point three percent of job openings
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  Speaker 16: that land you in the six digit category or even
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  Speaker 16: available to someone who does not have a college degree.
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  Speaker 2: I don't actually believe that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't for a second because we all know high-end
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  Speaker 1: diesel mechanics, welders, electricians, plumbers that are making bank, and
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  Speaker 1: deservedly so.
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  Speaker 2: So I disagree with that. And that's the thing.
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  Speaker 16: That's where I wanted to, because this list gets a
• 16:27
  Speaker 16: little bit weird, and we're going to get into it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 16: But before we do, I wanted to ask, and again,
• 16:34
  Speaker 16: I don't need to know how much you make, but
• 16:36
  Speaker 16: remember the line for this conversation is six digits. So-
• 16:40
  Speaker 16: You're making $ 100, 000 a year. Does anyone have a job
• 16:44
  Speaker 16: like that in town that did not get a college degree?
• 16:48
  Speaker 16: And if so, what's that job?
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:51
  Speaker 16: And I'm just curious because I'm going to suspect that
• 16:55
  Speaker 16: it's actually quite a lot of our listeners. A, make
• 17:00
  Speaker 16: that kind of money. And B, make that kind of
• 17:03
  Speaker 16: money in a job that.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: Their degree was not a prerequisite for.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I think that's what you mentioned at the very beginning
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: of the article was that this person was, you know,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: it's hard to be an attorney without having a degree.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Right.
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: So it's possible.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: It can happen. And I think that's the same.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: I actually have a dear friend who is one of
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: the best doctors that I know.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: He's an ER doc up in the St. Louis area.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: He does not have an undergraduate degree. Stop it.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: He did not finish college before starting med school.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Oh, he didn't walk. He didn't actually clock it out.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: He got admitted. They said, great, go on. He went
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: to medical school. He got his doctorate.
• 17:45
  Speaker 26: Yes.
• 17:45
  Speaker 16: And then he's off to practicing, but he does not
• 17:48
  Speaker 16: have an undergraduate degree.
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: That's wild. That's wild. And he's one of the smartest
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: cats I know.
• 17:52
  Speaker 16: That's probably how he pulled it off. I'll give you
• 17:54
  Speaker 16: some of the jobs that they list and the stats.
• 17:57
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: Again, I think they're wrong on this. They say welders. Welders.
• 18:02
  Speaker 16: is not one of those jobs. They say the average
• 18:05
  Speaker 16: welding salary you can expect is $ 53, 750.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: You see, that's taking an average.
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: That's taking somebody who might be a welder at a
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: small machine shop versus somebody who's underwater deep sea welding.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, those guys?
• 18:20
  Speaker 16: Well, those guys, number one, are insane. That's an extremely
• 18:23
  Speaker 16: dangerous job. But yeah, those guys are millionaires. But see,
• 18:27
  Speaker 16: I've always thought that welders in general... That's one of
• 18:30
  Speaker 16: the jobs that immediately pops to mind. It probably has
• 18:32
  Speaker 16: to do with the fact that we live in Texas.
• 18:33
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Because you can work as a welder for oil and gas,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and then it's off to the races.
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of like when Von Miller destroyed the
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: average salary for a chicken graduate at A & M.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 18:45
  Speaker 16: Because he, yeah, that'll happen every once in a while.
• 18:48
  Speaker 16: HVAC tech's average salary is $ 61, 000.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: You know, again, I know.
• 18:57
  Speaker 16: One of the examples I use of this, a friend
• 18:59
  Speaker 16: of mine in Fort Worth, no degree, got out of
• 19:04
  Speaker 16: high school. He got into HVAC. He teched for a
• 19:07
  Speaker 16: little while. Decided he was going to open up his
• 19:09
  Speaker 16: own company.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the path.
• 19:11
  Speaker 16: He's got about 200 acres and cattle and horses and,
• 19:16
  Speaker 16: you know, just lives a ridiculous life.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Hard work, but, man, the payoff is good. Ridiculous life.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Joseph is texted in here. What do you got?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: As a mail carrier, I made six figures for the
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: last 10 years.
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: My dude.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Due to 50K in overtime working 60-plus hours a week.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: My man.
• 19:37
  Speaker 16: That is impressive. Brad, Texan construction project management. No degree,
• 19:45
  Speaker 16: 20 year career.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: And yep. Good money. I imagine it is, sir.
• 19:51
  Speaker 16: Again, if you've got some if you've got some jobs
• 19:53
  Speaker 16: to check this box, let us know. And again, because, again,
• 19:58
  Speaker 16: I don't believe that that's. Someone did the math-a-mathing. Someone
• 20:02
  Speaker 16: got this wrong. The math was done by somebody who
• 20:05
  Speaker 16: went to college. Electrician, 63,000. Plumber, 63,000. Elevator, escalator, installers.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Now you get into the 100,000.
• 20:12
  Speaker 16: See, this is where it gets weird. Now, here is
• 20:15
  Speaker 16: the job. Again, they give this as a job that
• 20:17
  Speaker 16: you don't need a college degree to do. Nuclear reactor.
• 20:24
  Speaker 16: operator that's true is that true that's true 122 grand.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: So i i had i had a another college buddy
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: who left school uh his 0.02 gpa just wasn't going
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to get him there joined the military went into the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: navy He worked on a sub, no doubt. He worked
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on nuclear reactors.
• 20:45
  Speaker 27: Right.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Because he was brilliant.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: He just wasn't a student. Then all of a sudden,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: you know how to work a nuclear reactor. He punched
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: his ticket, man.
• 20:52
  Speaker 16: You rotate back out, and as it turns out, there
• 20:55
  Speaker 16: ain't a lot of those guys out there.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Someone will pay you for that knowledge.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Plus, there's the most famous example of that, Homer Simpson.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: That's the other one. It wasn't a joke, y'all.
• 21:06
  Speaker 17: Nope.
• 21:07
  Speaker 16: It wasn't a joke. That was how he afforded that house. Frederick,
• 21:11
  Speaker 16: six figures, not near that uncommon. Journeyman Lineman, well over $ 100, 000.
• 21:19
  Speaker 16: Public record worked for the city, so you can look
• 21:21
  Speaker 16: it up if you want to. There's so many city
• 21:23
  Speaker 16: employees that make over $ 100, 000.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: It's not just this. All these Journeyman Linemen, first of all,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: they're making... If you're attached to a company like Mid-South
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: or somebody like that, Blue Bonnet, somebody like that, you're
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: making great money. And the training program to get you
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: there is actually offered here through TEEX.
• 21:41
  Speaker 10: Really?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can get you there real quick. So you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: get in that job, you become a journeyman lineman, you
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: work for a company, and then on top of that,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: you get sent out and do these disaster jobs?
• 21:52
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 21:52
  Speaker 28: Ooh, buddy.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Good money, man. Concrete salesman.
• 21:57
  Speaker 16: Jake says, yeah, he didn't get a degree for it,
• 22:02
  Speaker 16: but he's definitely filling his bank account.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Just about any sales gig, you can.
• 22:06
  Speaker 16: Sales, the ultimate example. If you are good at selling,
• 22:10
  Speaker 16: it doesn't matter. There's not school required if you're good
• 22:14
  Speaker 16: at selling, and you can make more money than you
• 22:16
  Speaker 16: would ever... I just say this because I feel like
• 22:20
  Speaker 16: there's always, to this day... A lot of people are
• 22:25
  Speaker 16: having to work overtime to try to remind people that
• 22:29
  Speaker 16: college is not the only way to have a sustainable life.
• 22:34
  Speaker 16: It's a great way if you're getting a degree in
• 22:37
  Speaker 16: something that's.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: Going to work out for you. That's fantastic. It's not
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: the only way, dog. It's not the only way. You
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: can go to work. You can make some money.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I attend the church of Mike Rowe when it comes
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: to that, for sure. And speaking of sales gigs, should
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: we mention that if you're, hey, we've got an opening here.
• 22:54
  Speaker 16: To this day, if you want to work at Bryan
• 22:58
  Speaker 16: Broadcasting doing a little sales, yeah, holler at us.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: You've got to be the person, though.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: You've got to bring it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: If you can bring it, bring it. You're going to
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: have to work with some real weirdos. Yeah, the list
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: is long there. Back after this, guys.
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  Speaker 16: 16-20, 94-5, WTAW. Jason just texted in in regards to
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• 24:17
  Speaker 2: Who didn't graduate college. Yeah, that went into the Navy,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: dropped out of school. Yeah, dropped out, kicked out. You know,
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: slight difference.
• 24:22
  Speaker 16: But now operates our nuclear reactors. Ed, great job.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: If you can get it.
• 24:27
  Speaker 16: Jason says his brother went the same route. One unsuccessful
• 24:32
  Speaker 16: year of college, then 24 years in the Navy on
• 24:35
  Speaker 16: nuclear subs. I can imagine doing 24 years on a sub,
• 24:39
  Speaker 16: number one.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: But.
• 24:41
  Speaker 16: Today, six figs in Florida managing nuclear plants.
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  Speaker 2: Plus a Navy retirement on top of that.
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• 26:29
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  Speaker 19: It doesn't matter where you live or what kind of
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  Speaker 19: Gina Hinojosa voted to increase your property taxes. Not once,
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  Speaker 19: not twice, but 40 different times Gina Hinojosa voted to
• 29:08
  Speaker 19: raise your property taxes. If she has her way, you'll
• 29:11
  Speaker 19: be priced out of your own home. Gina Hinojosa is
• 29:15
  Speaker 19: too radical to be governor of Texas. Luckily, Governor Greg
• 29:19
  Speaker 19: Abbott has a better plan.
• 29:21
  Speaker 30: We have to stop the insanity and instead give you
• 29:26
  Speaker 30: a different property tax relief that will do more than
• 29:29
  Speaker 30: cut your property tax bill in half forever. You're going
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  Speaker 9: Out of it.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Will Welch.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: One person is dead after a shooting in Iola yesterday afternoon.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: The Grimes County Sheriff's Office confirms that one person is
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: dead after the shooting that took place around 5 o'clock
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: near County Road 173. The man's identity and the events
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: leading up to the incident have not been released. Details
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: are still limited in Sunday's shooting of a Venezuelan national
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: shot during an ICE operation in Austin. Fox's Jeff Manasso reports.
• 30:20
  Speaker 20: DHS says the 28-year-old illegal immigrant, who was the subject
• 30:24
  Speaker 20: of a final removal order, was shot during immigration action
• 30:28
  Speaker 20: in Austin Sunday, with Latin American civil rights group LULAC
• 30:31
  Speaker 20: and its president Ramon Palomares calling on Congress.
• 30:34
  Speaker 32: To create a body outside of DHS, outside of ICE,
• 30:39
  Speaker 32: and outside of the Department of Justice with the power
• 30:42
  Speaker 32: to investigate every use of force by immigration agents.
• 30:47
  Speaker 20: ICE has said the shooting occurred during a foot chase.
• 30:50
  Speaker 20: Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the FBI, says it's
• 30:54
  Speaker 20: leading the investigation, with separate probes by the Texas Rangers
• 30:57
  Speaker 20: and Austin Police. Jeff Manasso, Fox News.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: A man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: following an investigation that began when a teenager discovered a
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: hidden camera in a bathroom. 46-year-old Justin Elliott Lee pled
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: guilty on Monday to five counts involving illegal images of
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: a minor. Prosecutors say Lee also admitted guilt to five
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: additional counts and an aggravated offense involving a child. The
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: investigation began in August 2024 when the Madison County Sheriff's
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Office responded to a home in North Zulch after a
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: 15-year-old discovered a hidden camera in a family bathroom. Investigators
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: discovered images and recordings of the teenager on Lee's phone.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: District Judge David Moorman's sentence leads to a total of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: 50 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. He
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: must serve half of the sentence before becoming eligible for
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: parole and will be required to register as a sex
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: offender for life. BTU is conducting aerial inspections of their
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: transmission and distribution systems. Contractors will be using drones, so
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: residents in Brazos and Burleson counties should not panic if
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: they see the low-flying aircraft. Inspections run through next Tuesday.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: A College Station man is making his 28th visit to
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the Brazos County Jail. 36-year-old Bob Esquivel was picked up
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: for criminal trespassing at the HTO on Welburn. Employees called
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: to report that Esquivel was inside the store despite an
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: active criminal trespass warning. Officers detected the smell of marijuana
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: on the man and found 1.8 grams of marijuana in
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: his shorts. Escobel was charged with criminal trespass and possession
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: of marijuana under two ounces. He is being held at
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: the Brazos County Jail on $ 5, 000 bond. He was arrested
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: twice in a single week last month. On August 18th,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: he harassed two girls outside A & M Consolidated High
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: School as they painted their parking spots. On August 25th,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he was allegedly trying to talk his way into a
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: home around 10 p.m. offering to host Bible study. In
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: both of those cases, Escobel was arrested for public intoxication
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and and released on personal recognizance bonds. A federal judge
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: has ordered that Texas must air condition every state prison
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: by the end of 2029.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: According to court documents, a judge found that extreme heat
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: inside prisons without adequate air conditioning violates inmates' constitutional rights.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: The ruling follows a trial over conditions inside Texas prisons
• 33:15
  Speaker 5: where temperatures can climb into the 90s and higher during
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: the summer. Court documents say the Texas Department of Criminal
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Justice's current efforts, including fans, cold showers, water and limited
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: air conditioning, aren't enough to protect inmates from dangerous heat.
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: According to its website, TDCJ is already working to expand
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: air conditioning across the prison system with thousands of additional
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: cool beds or beds close to air conditioning now under
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: construction or in the planning stages. Emily Capotillo, TSN News.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Roughly one-third of the state's 104 facilities are fully air conditioned.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Acting Comptroller Don Huffines is hoping his agency layoffs will
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: help him win the job full-time in November. In one
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of his first moves since being appointed to the job
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: by Governor Abbott, Huffines called for his nearly 3,000 employees
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: to submit lists of those they would let go first.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Huffines then laid off 41 people. SMU political scientist Matthew
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Wilson calls this a savvy campaign move.
• 34:09
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  Speaker 2: I've always thought that that's something you want. Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I think so.
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  Speaker 2: It's not.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of people that are living in this state
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  Speaker 16: And again, if you want to chime in, hit us up.
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  Speaker 16: And here's why. Number one, for the incentive thing. But
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  Speaker 2: Like, so when it gets hot outside, ain't nobody right. No,
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  Speaker 16: It's, it's, it's just, well, they, they, they become, it
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  Speaker 2: In urban areas. I think that's where it is. Urban area.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. That's a good question.
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  Speaker 16: Well, it's hard to say it's a cruel and unusual
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  Speaker 30: No.
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  Speaker 31: Teresa.
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  Speaker 2: An idea. Don't break the law and you can live
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  Speaker 16: That is the is the idea. I was surprised the
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  Speaker 16: of the state. prison again that might be i don't
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  Speaker 16: know maybe maybe you just have a hot zone well
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  Speaker 16: you know that would mean you're not in the 30
• 43:30
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  Speaker 16: Bob says don't forget the guards are also having to
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  Speaker 36: volleyball team closed its non-conference slate sweeping Rice last night
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  Speaker 36: at Reed Arena. Head coach Jamie Morrison shared thoughts on
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  Speaker 26: I feel like it snuck up on us like we'd
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  Speaker 26: to go adjust within it. And immediately we were up
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  Speaker 26: The second set and third set, I thought we were
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  Speaker 2: So proud.
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  Speaker 35: In last night's game, the Aggies also were a season
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  Speaker 35: high 54 kills in a three set match coach morrison
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  Speaker 26: Think of the game in four phases and you have
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  Speaker 35: Up next, the Maroon and White open their conference slate
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  Speaker 18: I think it's probably a little bit of both. I
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  Speaker 18: think there's times where you make decisions early in the
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  Speaker 18: week and you're trying to move some guys around and
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  Speaker 18: get people comfortable in new settings. And then there's times
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  Speaker 18: where you're challenging a spot to say this spot needs
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  Speaker 18: to play better. And the two guys that are competing
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  Speaker 18: for it, we're going to give it to whoever practices better.
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  Speaker 18: And so I think sometimes it happens both ways. Obviously,
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  Speaker 18: I think that's something we're always looking at and always evaluating.
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  Speaker 18: And no, that's no different this week.
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  Speaker 35: Coach Elko also spoke about what it's like playing in
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  Speaker 35: the environment of Tiger Stadium.
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  Speaker 18: I think in some ways it does. In some ways
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  Speaker 18: there's a lot of new starters again making their first
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  Speaker 18: road trip and certainly a lot of easier venues I
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  Speaker 18: would choose to do that in. But no, I think
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  Speaker 18: you draw from a little bit of the confidence we've
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  Speaker 18: had over the two years and being able to win
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  Speaker 18: some games on the road in some of these hostile environments.
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  Speaker 18: But certainly Saturday night is going to be an extreme
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  Speaker 18: challenge for us, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 35: Throughout Coach Elko's coaching career so far, he has only
• 51:39
  Speaker 35: faced a Lane Kiffin offense once, so he briefly spoke
• 51:43
  Speaker 35: about the experience of playing against a Kiffin offense.
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  Speaker 18: So I haven't had a ton of experience going against it,
• 51:49
  Speaker 18: and I think it's changed dramatically from where it was
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  Speaker 18: back then, and so I don't have a ton of
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  Speaker 18: experience against Lane.
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  Speaker 35: Saturday night's kickoff is set for 6.30. In the MLB
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  Speaker 35: last night, the Houston Astros beat the Seattle Mariners 7-0,
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  Speaker 16: I want to go back to some of these text
• 53:44
  Speaker 16: messages before we wrap this on the prison AC. Interesting
• 53:48
  Speaker 16: text from Kelly. Why not use that money to bring
• 53:50
  Speaker 16: those not in prison air conditioning rather than rewarding those
• 53:54
  Speaker 16: who broke the law?
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  Speaker 2: 1.5 Billy would buy a lot of AC.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's some window units right there.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of units.
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  Speaker 16: Another text message from Corey. I was in prison.
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  Speaker 2: For four years. And it's not as bad as they're
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: making it out to be. You have fans! You got
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: a fan? Yeah.
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  Speaker 16: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.
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  Speaker 16: No one in prison deserves AC or phones. They also
• 54:16
  Speaker 16: need to take the phones out. Prison is... which is
• 54:20
  Speaker 16: a good point and.
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  Speaker 2: A good perspective, Corey. Yeah, thank you for that. Appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about this.
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  Speaker 16: You're kind of obsessed with social over there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not quite sure what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: I've got my fingers on the pulse of the emergency
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  Speaker 1: response community around here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I saw a Facebook post from Brazos County Precinct
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: 3 Volunteer Fire Department, as we're well aware because we
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: covered it earlier in the week.
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  Speaker 2: It is Fat Bear Week. Yes, it is. Best week
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  Speaker 2: of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Best week of the year. These folks at Brazos County
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: Precinct 3 posted this yesterday. We saw CHI St. Joseph
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: Health EMS publicly endorse Bear 910 for Fat Bear Week.
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  Speaker 28: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 2: Respectfully, we disagree.
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  Speaker 8: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: We would like to present our contender, 164 Bucky. He
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: has spent the summer committed to the bulk, eating like
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: he just got off a 48-hour shift with no break
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  Speaker 1: and no fully stocked EMS room in sight.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like a contender.
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  Speaker 14: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: They say Bear 910 is a worthy opponent, but Bucky
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  Speaker 1: has the bulk, the appetite, and the championship physique to
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  Speaker 1: bring this one home.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they thought it through. I like it.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: They thought it through, and they took an additional step.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: They said, what does this have to do with fire EMS?
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: Absolutely nothing. We saw that CHI St. Joseph picked a bear,
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: and we couldn't let them have all the fun. So, also,
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: nobody tagged the chief. If he asks, it was an
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: educational post about not approaching or feeding wildlife. There are
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: responses I encourage you to follow.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: CHI, St. Joseph Health EMS. Brazos County Precinct 3 Volunteer
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  Speaker 1: Fire Department.
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  Speaker 2: Things are afoot.
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  Speaker 16: I'm just going to jump over to DraftKings and see
• 55:50
  Speaker 16: if we can lay some odds on some beers.
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  Speaker 28: Calchi.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm sure Calchi.
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