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The Infomaniacs: October 12th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Bryan ISD
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  Speaker 1: Superintendent Ginger Caribbean was named 2026 Texas Superintendent of the
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  Speaker 1: Year over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Teachers, coaches, administrators, staff. believed in me all along the
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  Speaker 2: way and changed my trajectory. I was able to overcome
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  Speaker 2: some obstacles in my life and as a first generation
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  Speaker 2: high school graduate, I felt compelled to go back and
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  Speaker 2: to open the doors for others.
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  Speaker 1: The award was announced at the Texas Association of School
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  Speaker 1: Board Conference. Caribbean was given top honors out of the
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  Speaker 1: more than 1,200 districts across the state. Potential college-bound students
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  Speaker 1: and their families can apply to Texas colleges for free
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  Speaker 1: this week. Free College Application Week is a statewide initiative
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  Speaker 1: that helps Texas residents apply to public colleges at no cost.
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  Speaker 1: Created by Senate Bill 2231 during the 89th Texas legislative session,
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  Speaker 1: all public colleges and universities in Texas are required to
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  Speaker 1: waive admission application fees for Texas residents who are applying
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  Speaker 1: to undergraduate programs. There are no age restrictions. Free College
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  Speaker 1: Application Week runs through Sunday the 18th. Applications must be
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  Speaker 1: submitted by the deadline to qualify. Applications that are started
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  Speaker 1: but not submitted by the 18th are not eligible. Visit ApplyTexas.org.
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  Speaker 1: Five people were arrested early Sunday after a fight in
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  Speaker 1: Northgate that began inside Hurricane Harry's. Police arrived shortly after 2.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: to find two men fighting on the ground in the
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  Speaker 1: emergency vehicle lane near the Northgate Promenade parking lot. An
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  Speaker 1: altercation between 45-year-old Jason Wenzel of Lubbock and 22-year-old Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: Andrews of Universal City began inside Harry's, where Wenzel was ejected.
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  Speaker 1: Two women involved in a physical altercation were also arrested.
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  Speaker 1: 43-year-old Ashley Nicole Raines of Lubbock and 22-year-old Haley Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Spurlock of Schertz. The four were charged with disorderly conduct fighting.
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  Speaker 1: 22-year-old Riley Nicole Paris of College Station was also detained
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  Speaker 1: after approaching officers and admitting involvement. She was charged with
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  Speaker 1: disorderly conduct involving an offensive gesture after shoving her hands
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  Speaker 1: into Wenzel's face. All were free on $ 300 personal recognizance bonds.
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  Speaker 1: Calls for a debate between Ken Paxton and James Tallarico
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  Speaker 1: now extend all the way to the White House.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump is now urging a debate between the two
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  Speaker 3: Texas Senate candidates. At this week's rally in San Antonio,
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  Speaker 3: Trump and Paxton poked fun at Tallarico's recent absence from
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  Speaker 3: the campaign trail due to a flu diagnosis. Trump called
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  Speaker 3: for Tallarico to show up for a debate on social media.
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico said the ball is in Paxton's court. Tallarico has
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  Speaker 3: agreed to a debate four different times, even urging Paxton
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  Speaker 3: to meet him on Fox News if that's what it takes. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: Paxton has not responded to any debate invitations. I'm Kristen Yates,
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  Speaker 3: TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Gas prices dodged a potential bullet from Hurricane Issa Issa.
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  Speaker 4: Hurricane Isaias has come and gone, and the Texas-based oil
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  Speaker 4: companies that evacuated their platforms out in the Gulf are
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  Speaker 4: turning the pumps back on this week.
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  Speaker 5: The offshore industry is very well prepared for these sorts
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  Speaker 5: of shutdowns, turnarounds.
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  Speaker 6: And restarts.
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  Speaker 4: University of Houston professor Ed Herz says the storm did
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  Speaker 4: not plow into the part of the Gulf where refineries operate,
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  Speaker 4: so there will not be a ripple effect that hits
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  Speaker 4: the gas pump. In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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  Speaker 1: news at 830 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 6: Tom Turbeville here. If you're considering selling your jewelry, collectible coins,
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning. We're the Infomaniacs. 979-695-1620 is our phone number.
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  Speaker 7: You text us, call us. Back to more of that
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  Speaker 7: in a second. Pretty nice day. Could get some rain
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  Speaker 7: by the afternoon. 40% chance showers and thunderstorms. Wouldn't know
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  Speaker 7: it from looking outside. Gorgeous.
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  Speaker 1: Well, there's some clouds out there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, a little something. A little something.
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  Speaker 1: After that glorious sunrise, the sun disappeared.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but getting up to maybe 91 somewhere around there.
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  Speaker 7: Down to the 70s tonight. And 30% chance tomorrow if
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  Speaker 7: the difference. Techs keep coming in, and they're incredible for
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  Speaker 7: y'all's genealogy stuff. And I'm so impressed by the amount
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  Speaker 7: that you guys do know about your family's history. John Texan,
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  Speaker 7: his wife came to Texas as one of Stephen F.
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  Speaker 7: Austin's 100. I want to.
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  Speaker 1: Clarify, his wife's family.
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  Speaker 7: Wife's family. His wife came to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: John, what's in the water out there, man? But he
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  Speaker 7: also says his dad's family has been traced all the
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  Speaker 7: way back. to Jamestown. Nice. About as far back. Fairly extraordinary.
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  Speaker 7: Let's see. I can't really go much further back than Jamestown,
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  Speaker 7: my man. Not for white people in America. Unless America
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  Speaker 7: is Spanish. Spaniards can maybe give you a run for
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  Speaker 7: your money.
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  Speaker 1: Indigenous peoples, of course.
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  Speaker 7: Indigenous people, obviously. You can track that, but that's a
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  Speaker 7: long way.
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  Speaker 1: I would watch those shows frequently where, I can't remember
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  Speaker 1: the name of the show, but it's associated with ancestry.com
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  Speaker 1: and they take celebrities and they go back and trace
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  Speaker 1: their lineage and they'll go all the way back to
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  Speaker 1: Europe and things like that. Some of that's really cool.
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  Speaker 7: It's very, it's just, I dork out over that.
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  Speaker 1: There was a celebrity within the past couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: that was in our show prep. that she traced some
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  Speaker 1: of her, I guess she did the DNA thing.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was Sidney Sweeney.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, and yeah, they found out that shockingly, this is
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  Speaker 7: fairly shocking that you can take her back to Marilyn Monroe. Well,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, yes and no.
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  Speaker 1: Yes and no.
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  Speaker 7: Temperament breeds temperament. Yes, it does. As they say. Jason,
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  Speaker 7: my great, great, great grandfather was Elder Moses Hampton Denman.
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  Speaker 7: That's a hell of a name. It is. We need
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  Speaker 7: to bring that stuff back. I mean, you walk into
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  Speaker 7: a room as Elder Moses Hampton Denman people tend to.
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  Speaker 1: You got some riz going on right there.
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  Speaker 7: Born in Georgia in 1803. Built a business in Marietta, Georgia.
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  Speaker 7: Moved his family and possessions to Texas in 1848 and 1849.
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  Speaker 7: Settled first in Cherokee County, then Houston County. Finally, Bell
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  Speaker 7: County around 1867, married three times with 12, 4, and
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  Speaker 7: 10 children by those wives. That's a total of.
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  Speaker 1: 24, Will. No wonder the first two perished.
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  Speaker 7: Good night. He built a cabin in Bell County in
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  Speaker 7: 1867 that was fortunately moved, not by him or even
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  Speaker 7: a family member, before his community in Sparta was flooded
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  Speaker 7: by Lake Belton in 1955. Cabin is still on display
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  Speaker 7: in a park in Salado, Texas, and he's good enough.
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  Speaker 7: to send us a couple of pictures of that homestead.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you look at that cabin, and you continue to
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  Speaker 1: realize the people that settled here.
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  Speaker 7: Guys, there is one of my, one of the books that, geez,
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  Speaker 7: and as soon as I say it, I always forget
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  Speaker 7: the title. It's about the Comanches. Is it, oh, geez,
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  Speaker 7: I will think of it. But it's just, it does
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  Speaker 7: the best job of laying out what it was like
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  Speaker 7: to be a settler on Texas soil in the 1800s.
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  Speaker 7: And it sucked.
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  Speaker 1: So curious about that. In fact, I texted you on
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  Speaker 1: Friday after I drove to the game.
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  Speaker 7: This is a group. We're definitely going to do this.
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  Speaker 1: So, uh, Part of the drive over there was on
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  Speaker 1: the El Camino Real, right? One of the earliest roads,
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  Speaker 1: if not the earliest road in Texas.
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  Speaker 7: Now, I refer to that as the crappy part of 21,
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  Speaker 7: but its real.
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  Speaker 1: Name is the El Camino Real. Yeah, and this was
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of that.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, this is the back end of it.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 7: So you've got the pretty side.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's got the nicer end of it.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm always, nobody in my family wants to do this,
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  Speaker 1: and they won't allow me to, but there's so many
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  Speaker 1: historical places and historical markers on that route.
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  Speaker 7: It's just chock full of them.
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  Speaker 1: So the idea man in me popped out, and I said, Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: what we need to do is we need to do
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  Speaker 1: a YouTube episode. We can call it, what did I say,
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  Speaker 1: Tripped Texas?
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  Speaker 8: Something.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tripped or something.
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  Speaker 7: But either way, I love the concept of where we
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  Speaker 7: just go.
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  Speaker 1: We just go and we stop at every roadside marker
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  Speaker 1: and every historical site.
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  Speaker 7: And then we eat at all those roadside places where
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  Speaker 7: you can get crazy good food that are all up
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  Speaker 7: and down that trail, too.
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  Speaker 1: I say we do it.
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  Speaker 7: It's definitely happening.
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  Speaker 1: You guys would watch that, wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 7: I would certainly hope so. Yeah, see? I mean, show
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  Speaker 7: us some love. Maybe we'll put the gas on a
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  Speaker 7: little bit harder on that project, but it definitely needs
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  Speaker 7: to occur. Man, I really want to talk about the
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  Speaker 7: Flock thing. Do you have enough time to talk about the.
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  Speaker 1: You're in charge of pushing the buttons over there, so
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  Speaker 1: you can take all the time you want.
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  Speaker 7: The latest on Flock, and again, there's always something new
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  Speaker 7: on Flock. The anti-flock people are, again, very loudly talking
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  Speaker 7: about– it's just– it's never going to go away because
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  Speaker 7: it's such a divisive issue. that the people that are
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  Speaker 7: okay with it generally don't even come close to the
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  Speaker 7: volume of people that are anti it. And a lot
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  Speaker 7: of the people that are anti are bringing up this
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  Speaker 7: argument like, well, you know, now what are we going
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  Speaker 7: to do? What's the next play to be able to
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  Speaker 7: get the flock cameras? And I actually get that. But
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  Speaker 7: I don't get it for one reason. Y'all really think
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  Speaker 7: Flock is going to make it another six months as
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  Speaker 7: a company?
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  Speaker 1: They're not, but that doesn't matter. Here's what I equate
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  Speaker 1: this to.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is like everybody saying Coca-Cola is evil and getting
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  Speaker 1: rid of Coca-Cola and not taking out any of the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the soda industry.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but Pepsi fine, Sprite fine.
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  Speaker 1: Flock is not the only one out there.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a million. No, not a million, but there's
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  Speaker 7: a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: But Flock recently... They're going through it, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 7: They're not a healthy company at this point.
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  Speaker 1: No, the founders of that never, I don't think they
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  Speaker 1: ever foresaw what this could possibly turn into.
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  Speaker 12: No.
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  Speaker 1: And right now, they're hurting, laying off 18% of their workforce.
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  Speaker 7: 18% layoffs over at Flock. You might remember we discovered
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  Speaker 7: they were looking for a new, like, vice president of PR.
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  Speaker 1: The communications director.
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  Speaker 7: They just listed it on the internet like it was
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  Speaker 7: a regular job. That doesn't pay really probably anywhere in
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  Speaker 7: the neighborhood of what you would need to pay to
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  Speaker 7: get someone to take the flock job. And so that
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  Speaker 7: was the first thing it kind of told us, hey,
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  Speaker 7: I think it might be an issue here. But the
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  Speaker 7: only reason the company is profitable is you have to
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  Speaker 7: get like 200,000 cities, whatever it is. If it's just
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  Speaker 7: like 25 cities.
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  Speaker 7: No one cares. Again, there's a college station about every
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  Speaker 7: 20 miles in this community, and it's about a 50-50
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  Speaker 7: shot at whether or not they're going to turn flock
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  Speaker 7: off or keep it going. There's no way it's going
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  Speaker 7: to be around in six months. Dead man walking. We
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  Speaker 7: share this to hopefully give some of you guys some
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  Speaker 7: peace that they will at least be going away. Now,
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  Speaker 7: the biggest question I've had, and no one's really answered
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  Speaker 7: this for me, But I'm certain there is an answer
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  Speaker 7: out there. And when it comes to pass and they
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  Speaker 7: finally do crater that company, it'll probably be the first
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  Speaker 7: thing I ask when we bring people in here is,
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  Speaker 7: who gets those cameras? Who gets them? Because once they
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  Speaker 7: go bankrupt, you think they're going to be coming around
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  Speaker 7: like pulling them up and then throwing them in the
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  Speaker 7: back of the truck?
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  Speaker 1: Who owns the database?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. When a company goes bankrupt, usually it's like if
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  Speaker 7: a restaurant goes bankrupt, they sell the kitchen gear to
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  Speaker 7: someone else that's going to open up a restaurant. Who's
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  Speaker 7: going to get all that stuff? Like, that's, that's, that's
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  Speaker 7: the fascinating part.
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  Speaker 1: You might knock down the hornet's nest, but they're still buzzing.
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  Speaker 7: They're still, they're, yeah. And now you have so many
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  Speaker 7: of them. You couldn't, you couldn't take them all down
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  Speaker 7: if you had to.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 7: So, again, just an update. We'll take a break. We'll
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  Speaker 7: be back right after this.
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW, guys. Good morning. Thank you for being here on
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  Speaker 7: a Monday. But we're glad you're here. 979-695-1620 is our
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  Speaker 7: text number. Shout out to Charlie, who has a much
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  Speaker 7: better memory than me. Tucker, the Comanche book I think
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  Speaker 7: you're referring to is Empire of the Summer Moon. Incredible
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  Speaker 7: book about Texas during that period. Have you read it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic book.
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  Speaker 7: So you got the same. I.
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  Speaker 7: Loved that. If you, if you have not read this
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  Speaker 7: book and want to get an idea of what it
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  Speaker 7: was like to actually, because again, a lot of that
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  Speaker 7: just kind of flight, you just don't sit there and
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  Speaker 7: think about what life would have actually been to go
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  Speaker 7: West and settle in pre Texas revolutionary war, Texas. It
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  Speaker 7: would have been an, it would have been a I mean,
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  Speaker 7: we would call it a hellscape.
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  Speaker 1: It's a constant struggle.
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  Speaker 7: On both sides. They do an amazing job of documenting
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  Speaker 7: the history of the Comanche. They do an amazing job
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  Speaker 7: at documenting the history of the settlers and where those
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  Speaker 7: two things intersect. And also the Mexican state and Mexican
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  Speaker 7: settlers and where that intersects. And it was just like
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  Speaker 7: Wild West doesn't describe it.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that that would make an outstanding movie,
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 16: It does.
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  Speaker 7: Look, I have no idea why they.
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  Speaker 1: It's in development.
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  Speaker 7: No, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: It is in development. Tell me more. Director and writer,
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  Speaker 7: Sheridan's doing the movie.
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  Speaker 17: Version of this?
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  Speaker 1: It looks like it. It looks like it.
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  Speaker 7: Take my money.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, that's... Yeah, if that comes to fruition, again, it's
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  Speaker 7: I'll forgive a lot of... A lot of long lines
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  Speaker 7: in between seasons of Landman, if you give me one
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  Speaker 7: of those.
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  Speaker 1: I will forgive the horrible stuff I saw on... What's
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  Speaker 1: the show that's the spinoff of Yellowstone where he's a marshal? Marshals, right?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's... Right? I think that well's run dry, brother. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because I'm watching that last week, and they've got the
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  Speaker 1: lead character, whatever his name is.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That guy. And he's supposedly a Navy SEAL, former Navy
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  Speaker 1: He has to pause to load a magazine.
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  Speaker 7: I understand that you need to squeeze every drop out
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  Speaker 7: Because you forget that he did that movie, which is
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  Speaker 7: off from that to Marshall's is a long, long ride down.
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  Speaker 1: By that point in time, the genealogy is washed out.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Let's see.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Someone else, Kyle, also shares that, yeah, we can look
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  Speaker 7: forward to hopefully one day seeing a Taylor version of Empire,
• 18:17
  Speaker 7: which I can't wait. I want to go back to
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: we got a lot of emails over the weekend about
• 18:22
  Speaker 7: the safe passing ordinance. And some of them were fairly confused. Like, guys,
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  Speaker 7: what's the big deal? Don't we, isn't this just the
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  Speaker 7: normal thing to do to make sure it's illegal to
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  Speaker 7: everyone to be safe on the road. The problem is,
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  Speaker 7: it logistically doesn't really make sense. to propose a three
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  Speaker 7: foot to six foot barrier, like a halo.
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  Speaker 1: Right. The proposed ordinance says three feet for a regular vehicle.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right. And up to nine feet for a commercial vehicle. Well,
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  Speaker 1: commercial vehicle, I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, how do you define it? That's its own issue.
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  Speaker 1: That's its own issue.
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  Speaker 7: But with that said.
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  Speaker 1: With that said, and this was a post from a
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  Speaker 7: Is it cesspool-y?
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  Speaker 1: It is cesspool-y.
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  Speaker 19: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: And the point is this. Most urban thoroughfares measure approximately
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  Speaker 1: 26 to 30 feet in width. Okay. When bicycle lanes
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  Speaker 1: are absent. A commercial vehicle occupies roughly nine feet of
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  Speaker 1: the roadway.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When such a vehicle overtakes a cyclist on a residential street,
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  Speaker 1: this ordinance would require you to enter the opposing traffic lane.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you'd have to pass, again, three feet plus nine
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  Speaker 7: feet and the three feet also. So you got to
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  Speaker 7: give them an extra foot on the side because, you know,
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  Speaker 7: they're not in the car. not there. They've got a
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  Speaker 7: little room on the right, too. But point is, it
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  Speaker 7: makes it almost physically impossible to actually pass a vehicle.
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  Speaker 7: In many of the cars and trucks that are on
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've got a lot of problems with this ordinance,
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  Speaker 1: the ordinance.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'm certain it's going to continue to come up.
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  Speaker 1: people are dead and three others injured after a head-on
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  Speaker 1: Hospital with serious injuries. Bryan ISD Superintendent Ginger Karabin has
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  Speaker 7: Ms.
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  Speaker 7: So I will go down the line. And I don't
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  Speaker 7: know if we're going to hear a whole lot from
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  Speaker 7: And also, the two people are going to be doing
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  Speaker 7: past president of Brazos County ESD 3.
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  Speaker 23: Morning, sir.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning. And also, going along with him, we have
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  Speaker 7: got Trad Mills, fire chief for the Brazos County ESD
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  Speaker 7: 2 and District 2 VFD. What's up? So, let's get
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  Speaker 7: down to business. Can you explain for people who aren't
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: super dialed in what an esd is and how it's
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: dipped well you just got giddy yeah over there look i.
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  Speaker 1: Think the emergency service districts and firefighters as a whole
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  Speaker 1: yeah correct me if i'm wrong still 75 plus firefighters
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: in the state of texas come from volunteer departments yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Holy okay so let's talk esd and again for those
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  Speaker 7: of you that don't have a ton of experience in
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: in emergency services what's the difference between that and what
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  Speaker 30: So morning again tucker So I'll give you kind of
• 39:44
  Speaker 30: a breakdown of the difference between the ESD and the
• 39:47
  Speaker 30: Volunteer Fire Department. So ESDs were created in Texas. They're
• 39:52
  Speaker 30: their own political subdivision, local entity. They're created by Texas voters.
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  Speaker 30: And what they do is they exist as a five-member
• 40:00
  Speaker 30: board appointed by the local judge. And they are responsible
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  Speaker 30: for setting the tax rate, setting the budget for the
• 40:08
  Speaker 30: fire department. They control the infrastructure, equipment, and really oversee
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  Speaker 30: that piece of the fire department. ESDs don't really have
• 40:16
  Speaker 30: a lot to do with firefighting. That's become the whole
• 40:21
  Speaker 30: job of the fire department, which it should be. And ESDs, again,
• 40:25
  Speaker 30: they're a five-member board. There's four precincts here in Brazos County, non-paid,
• 40:30
  Speaker 30: they're all volunteers. And we all support the fire department
• 40:34
  Speaker 30: for each of our districts.
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  Speaker 7: Now, what does it take to keep... rural fire departments
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: ready to respond? What does it take to, or what
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: do you have to organize to make sure everyone is
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: at peak readiness?
• 40:48
  Speaker 29: It's far more than just putting a fire truck in
• 40:49
  Speaker 29: a building and calling it fire protection.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 40:52
  Speaker 23: It's a, there's a tremendous amount of time.
• 40:54
  Speaker 29: Effort, and energy that goes into annual training, response, pre-planning,
• 41:01
  Speaker 29: you know, knowing your district, knowing your equipment, knowing your apparatus,
• 41:05
  Speaker 29: and the guys that volunteer, the guys that work part-time
• 41:08
  Speaker 29: for these departments, they put in a tremendous amount of
• 41:10
  Speaker 29: time and effort into making sure that the district is
• 41:14
  Speaker 29: well-protected and well-served.
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  Speaker 7: Nice. So in that vein, we're going to do an event,
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: which I believe is called Inside the Firehouse.
• 41:23
  Speaker 23: Correct.
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  Speaker 7: What can people expect at this particular event?
• 41:26
  Speaker 23: You're going to get to meet your chiefs.
• 41:28
  Speaker 29: You're going to get to meet your crew members that
• 41:29
  Speaker 29: are going to be able to attend that event. You're
• 41:32
  Speaker 29: going to see the apparatus that they work with. You're
• 41:34
  Speaker 29: going to see the tools that they work with. You
• 41:35
  Speaker 29: can actually put hands on a lot of this equipment
• 41:37
  Speaker 29: to see what it costs, what the district has to
• 41:42
  Speaker 29: pay or what the ESD has to pay in order
• 41:43
  Speaker 29: to keep these districts operational. And you're going to have
• 41:47
  Speaker 29: your chance to ask questions as to, you know, how
• 41:51
  Speaker 29: does this happen? You know, what does the ESD mean?
• 41:53
  Speaker 23: What does the VFD mean? So you can actually interact
• 41:56
  Speaker 23: with It's pretty dang cool.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: It is cool. And a lot of times you'll see,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: especially municipal departments, we'll open up a firehouse or something
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: like that for you to go visit. And they encourage you,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: like my daughters used to bake cookies and we would
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: take them to the neighborhood firehouse.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: It's a great thing.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: You don't see that, I don't feel, as often in
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the volunteer departments. However, I think that's changing rapidly, especially
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: with the fact that we are getting new, very nicely
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: equipped firemen. Volunteer fire departments in a lot of areas
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: here in Brazos County.
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: That's the other thing. You mentioned how much some of
• 42:29
  Speaker 7: this stuff costs. How much does it cost to equip?
• 42:32
  Speaker 29: It would probably shock you to realize that a fire engine,
• 42:36
  Speaker 29: a modern fire engine, is usually starting around a million
• 42:39
  Speaker 29: dollars right now.
• 42:40
  Speaker 22: A million?
• 42:41
  Speaker 23: And that's on the low end.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: A milli.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: And is that, what kind of a fire engine do
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: we get for a million on the low end? Like,
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: I mean, I'll be talking, is it like the massive
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: ladder truck? Is it? Oh, no.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Those are a lot higher.
• 42:53
  Speaker 23: Ladder truck's going to be around $ 2 million.
• 42:54
  Speaker 7: $ 2 million. Per truck. And that doesn't count, by the way. Like,
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: that's just the trucks.
• 43:01
  Speaker 23: That's just the trucks.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: So they're talking pumper trucks, brush firefighting vehicles, some specialized
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: equipment for that sort of thing. And the state of
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: Texas does a great job in issuing some grants and
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: that sort of thing for trucks. Fire departments, but you
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: still have to manage it. You still have to find
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: those pieces of equipment. You still have to fund at
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: least portions of those pieces of equipment, and you have
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: to maintain those pieces of equipment.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: Now, you mentioned that the ESDs obviously kind of manage,
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: put together the volunteer fire departments, and it's the firefighter's
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: job to fight the fire. What other situations, like what
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: other calls do they respond to, or do other organizations
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: within your stead respond to?
• 43:44
  Speaker 29: I know for my district alone, ESD2, and I want
• 43:46
  Speaker 29: to say ESD3 is relatively the same. We run around
• 43:50
  Speaker 29: 62% to 65% of our calls are medical. So we're
• 43:54
  Speaker 29: going to run emergency medical calls. The other are you're
• 43:57
  Speaker 29: going to break down the hazmat calls. We have quite
• 43:59
  Speaker 29: a few fires on the oil pads that are out
• 44:01
  Speaker 29: in our area. We have a large portion of grass fires,
• 44:04
  Speaker 29: especially during this season right here. You'll see a lot
• 44:06
  Speaker 29: of grass fires breaking out in the area, either being
• 44:08
  Speaker 29: from dry lightning strikes or just the the low humidity,
• 44:13
  Speaker 29: you know, the friction of the grass will start a fire.
• 44:15
  Speaker 29: I mean, a lot of people don't realize that. And
• 44:17
  Speaker 29: so we have to be prepared for all of that.
• 44:18
  Speaker 29: But aside from the medical, the grass fires, the hazmat calls,
• 44:21
  Speaker 29: you're going to have.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: You guys work a ton of hours.
• 44:26
  Speaker 7: In other words, y'all stay busy. Yeah.
• 44:30
  Speaker 23: We stay busy.
• 44:30
  Speaker 7: Good night.
• 44:32
  Speaker 30: And there's a lot of cooperation between the precincts and
• 44:35
  Speaker 30: between the cities as well. So primarily the precinct will
• 44:38
  Speaker 30: get called out, you know, to an event. But if
• 44:42
  Speaker 30: they need assistance, there's assistance from the city.
• 44:45
  Speaker 7: Now, what trucks are they going to– are you bringing
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: trucks to Inside the Fire?
• 44:48
  Speaker 29: Every ESD is going to bring a different apparatus. Precinct
• 44:52
  Speaker 29: 4 is going to be bringing one of their brand-new engines.
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: Our district is going.
• 44:55
  Speaker 29: To be bringing our tender, as well as some firefighting
• 44:58
  Speaker 29: turnout gear and other tools like the SCBA, the self-contained
• 45:02
  Speaker 29: breathing apparatus that we wear. And you're going to get
• 45:04
  Speaker 29: to see how much each individual piece of equipment costs.
• 45:07
  Speaker 19: Okay.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Look, outfitting a firefighter to be safe.
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it's a have to. You have to spend money
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: on this type of thing. Government spends money on a
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: lot of things. This is one of those things that
• 45:22
  Speaker 7: your local government, there is no other way. You have
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: to have that gear.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: In addition, I believe you brought it up, in addition
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: to the apparatus, in addition to the station house, in
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: addition to everything else, equipping these people, you also have
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: to equip them with training because a volunteer firefighter will
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: do just an exorbitant amount of training, just like your
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: municipal guys.
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: It's such a, it's such a amazing time commitment. And, uh,
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: it's so here, one more question. Does it ever get, does,
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: does it ever get not, uh, cool for when you
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: show up at one of these events and you roll
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: out the trucks and you get all the gear, And
• 46:04
  Speaker 7: then you put it in front of a bunch of
• 46:06
  Speaker 7: kids and watch them lose their mind.
• 46:08
  Speaker 29: I've been doing it for 32 years now, and I
• 46:10
  Speaker 29: still get excited.
• 46:11
  Speaker 23: About being a fire engine.
• 46:12
  Speaker 7: See, that was my question. I didn't feel like it
• 46:16
  Speaker 7: would ever get old.
• 46:17
  Speaker 23: It never did.
• 46:18
  Speaker 7: It never gets old. Do people our age still freak
• 46:20
  Speaker 7: out over the gear, too? Is it similar?
• 46:23
  Speaker 23: I'm looking at you, and you're smiling right now.
• 46:25
  Speaker 7: Nothing would make me happier.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Tucker, did you not ever get to take part in
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: what I used to call the burning of the media
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: at TEEX?
• 46:31
  Speaker 7: No, you took me to burning of the media, and
• 46:33
  Speaker 7: it was great. It was a great time. We had
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: a blast out of that thing. You never get to
• 46:40
  Speaker 7: play in that world all that much, but this is
• 46:42
  Speaker 7: a great opportunity to do it. it's a great opportunity to, again,
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: meet some of the people that are intimately, intimately involved
• 46:49
  Speaker 7: in making sure all of our property stays safe on
• 46:52
  Speaker 7: the county and medically we stay safe out.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 46:56
  Speaker 7: Where, if they want more information on this, where, where
• 46:58
  Speaker 7: can they go? Where should they go?
• 46:59
  Speaker 23: Every ESD has their own website.
• 47:01
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 47:02
  Speaker 29: And so you can visit the websites. You can actually come,
• 47:05
  Speaker 29: please come to the event. That's where you're going to
• 47:07
  Speaker 29: learn the most. And you're going to get to see
• 47:09
  Speaker 29: with your own eyes, you can touch it with your
• 47:11
  Speaker 29: own hands. And that's, That's going to be the biggest
• 47:13
  Speaker 29: learning opportunity in this area for right now.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: We will include the date and time for the event,
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: but go over it one more time. Date, time, location,
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: where we need to be.
• 47:21
  Speaker 18: So Wednesday evening from 6 to 8 at the Brazos Center.
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 47:26
  Speaker 18: We start at 6, have an open house, and we'll
• 47:28
  Speaker 18: have a presentation starting around 6.30. And afterwards will be
• 47:31
  Speaker 18: Q & A and time to interact with the guys
• 47:33
  Speaker 18: and learn from the people who actually do it.
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: Guys, thank you all so much for coming in today.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: We appreciate it. We will post this interview coming up
• 47:40
  Speaker 7: later today on WTAW.com so you can get all the details.
• 47:43
  Speaker 7: And yes, we will include date, time, links, all that stuff.
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: But go check it out. It's going to be a
• 47:46
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  Speaker 1: you and your equipment working.
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  Speaker 9: Don't.
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  Speaker 21: Let the scary tantrum accident haunt your Halloween.
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  Speaker 15: At Jack Winslow Body Shop and College Station.
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  Speaker 21: They turn those frightful dings and collisions back into something
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  Speaker 21: you can be proud of. Family owned since 1958, they
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  Speaker 21: fix it like it's their own.
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  Speaker 7: Experienced tax and free estimates.
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  Speaker 21: They work with most insurance companies.
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  Speaker 7: Stop by 1845 Graham Road or call, what's the phone number?
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  Speaker 20: 979-690-1487.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Winslow Body Shop.
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  Speaker 11: Nothing should scare you more than a bad body job.
• 49:46
  Speaker 21: Happy Halloween from Jack Winslow Body Shop.
• 49:50
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• 50:19
  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning. We're the Infomaniacs. It's going to be
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: a possibility. Get a rainy afternoon. We'll see. 40% chance
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: of some pop-up showers and thunderstorms. Much muggier than it
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: has been for the last week or so. And then
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: tonight down to the 70s. Once again, tomorrow we're going
• 50:36
  Speaker 7: to back up to a high of around 91 with
• 50:38
  Speaker 7: another 30% chance of rain. Weather's brought to you by
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  Speaker 7: United Roofing and Sheet Metal, home of the Duralast Roof System,
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  Speaker 7: the world's best roof. Give them a call at 268-ROOF
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: or go to unitedroofingpros.com. I want to clean up a
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: few text messages we got that jumped out. One of
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: them is from Luke, who sends us a picture of
• 50:57
  Speaker 7: what he refers to as his family history cheat book.
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: That cheat book is a literal book. Family came to
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: America from England in the 1720s to Texas in the 1850s.
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  Speaker 7: Every descendant down to my grandfather is listed in a
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  Speaker 7: bound version of the family history that is right here.
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  Speaker 7: And he can go review whenever he wants.
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  Speaker 1: That's so cool. That's better than a lot of people
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: will have an old family Bible.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that had some of the genealogy.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: But a lot of that is written in some very
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  Speaker 1: flourished handwriting.
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we don't do cursive anymore, man.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Hard to read.
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: Sam texting, and always, don't forget, Billy the Kid died
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: after texting him open. It wasn't that long ago when
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: things were still a bit wild.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you think about that. It kind of is mind-blowing.
• 51:44
  Speaker 7: It really is. How much sleep does your dog cost
• 51:47
  Speaker 7: you in a week?
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: Some, depending.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: She had a little stomach issue last week.
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  Speaker 19: Right.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: And was kind of uncomfortable. She's kenneled at night.
• 51:57
  Speaker 24: Oh, okay.
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: So I've slept with dogs before.
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: Well, this probably doesn't apply to you then, because this
• 52:03
  Speaker 7: is for people that let the dogs sleep with the people.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: For the most part, yeah, with them. Yeah, which my
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: wife has said no, and Annie's so tiny, chances are
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: it could roll over and kill her.
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah, someone's going to get squooshed. As it turns out,
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: people usually think when they sleep with their pets, their
• 52:14
  Speaker 7: pets are costing them a great deal of sleep. And
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: I can attest, my cats cost me all of the sleep.
• 52:24
  Speaker 7: All of the sleep.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: To be fair, you know, any given day could either
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: be a half dozen if you're a good.
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: Night that are causing you problems. I don't know if
• 52:34
  Speaker 7: it's the changing season or what, but they're in full on.
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: We sprint around the house from about 10 p.m. to
• 52:41
  Speaker 7: about 2 a.m. every night. Knock over stuff, run over
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: your face, everything. They say that we should actually be
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: pitying our dogs because we're the ones costing them their sleep.
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: Now, okay. I know that while I'm at work and
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: the girls are at schools, that dog is doing nothing
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: but napping.
• 53:05
  Speaker 7: Because they have to. Because they can't get sleep during
• 53:08
  Speaker 7: the night because if they sleep with you... Dogs sleep light,
• 53:11
  Speaker 7: like all animals minus humans. They don't understand sleeping heavy.
• 53:15
  Speaker 7: One thing, any noise, it wakes them up. So every
• 53:18
  Speaker 7: time you move, the dog wakes up. Every time you
• 53:21
  Speaker 7: shift a little bit, the dog wakes up. Snoring, dog's
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: going to wake up. Apparently, you're costing your dog all
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: of the sleep, like literally all of it. They can't
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: sleep because they're sleeping with you.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Here's my problem with this study. Nobody can ask the dog, right?
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Number one. But if you were to read the signs
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: picking up the context clues, you ain't kicking that dog
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: out of your bed. That dog wants to be there.
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: That's true. If it wasn't the best case scenario for
• 53:48
  Speaker 7: your dog to be sleeping with the people, your dog
• 53:51
  Speaker 7: would just die. Go anywhere else.
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: Got the whole rest of the house.
• 53:55
  Speaker 7: Go anywhere else.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: It's not like you're chaining them to the bed.
• 53:58
  Speaker 7: Lock the door tonight and see what happens.
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, go.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bad.
• 54:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they're not going to... They're going to sit there
• 54:06
  Speaker 7: and make your life a living hell until you let
• 54:08
  Speaker 7: them in. That's what they want.
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't feel any pity for the pups.
• 54:11
  Speaker 7: You shouldn't. And again, I don't care what y'all say.
• 54:16
  Speaker 7: Perhaps it is different with cats. I don't know. But
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: cats are.
• 54:21
  Speaker 7: I can't get a good night's sleep right now.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: Cats are designed to destroy your life.
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: They're just biologically R.
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: They want to kill you.
• 54:30
  Speaker 7: Cats, the only saving grace we have for cats is
• 54:34
  Speaker 7: that they're barely eight inches tall. You know, that's the
• 54:38
  Speaker 7: only thing that saves us. Because any bigger than that
• 54:42
  Speaker 7: and they would be an absolute liability.
• 54:45
  Speaker 19: Oh, goodness.
• 54:45
  Speaker 7: All right. Have a great day, guys. We'll see you
• 54:47
  Speaker 7: back on the radio tomorrow.
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  Speaker 23: 1620, 94.5 WCW College.
• 54:48
  Speaker 7: Thanks, Brian.