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

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Speaker 1: The Bryan City Council is scheduled to hold a public
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Speaker 1: hearing at tonight's council meeting on the proposed tax rate
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Speaker 1: of 0.624 cents per $ 100 valuation. The meeting is slated
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Speaker 1: to start at 5.30 inside council chambers. Bond has been
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Speaker 1: updated for a teenager who discharged a firearm Saturday night
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Speaker 1: at a Northgate bar. 19-year-old Trey Wheeler was originally being
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Speaker 1: held on $ 20, 000 bond, while some charges that had bond
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Speaker 1: amounts were not set until Monday morning. Other amounts that
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Speaker 1: were set previously were also increased. Wheeler is now being
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Speaker 1: held on $ 145, 000 bond on the eight counts he is facing.
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Speaker 1: A man was arrested early Monday after running over a
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Speaker 1: man outside a Bryan Sports Bar. Bryan Police received reports
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Speaker 1: of a hit-and-run involving a vehicle and a pedestrian at
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Speaker 1: the El Centenario Sports Bar in the 1200 block of
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Speaker 1: West William J. Bryan Parkway just after 2 o'clock Monday morning.
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Speaker 1: The victim had been in a fight with two men.
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Speaker 1: Those men, 27-year-old Alex Gayton and 30-year-old John Gayton III,
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Speaker 1: both of Bryan's headed to their pickup to leave. The
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Speaker 1: victim then chased them down and punched the passenger window
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Speaker 1: of their truck. The driver, Alex Gaten, put his truck
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Speaker 1: into reverse where the victim was knocked to the ground
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Speaker 1: by the side view mirror, then run over. Gaten then
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Speaker 1: drove forward, running over the victim a second time before
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Speaker 1: fleeing the scene. The victim's arm and leg were run
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Speaker 1: over and he was transported to St. Joseph's Hospital with
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Speaker 1: non-life-threatening injuries. Video from a nearby business confirmed the events.
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Speaker 1: The men were located about 20 minutes later in the
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Speaker 1: 6400 block of Old Spanish Trail. Alex Gaten was arrested
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Speaker 1: for collision involving serious bodily injury. He was released on $ 15, 000 bond.
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Speaker 1: A North Texas man has been arrested after sending threatening
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Speaker 1: messages to James Tallarico.
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Speaker 2: Investigators say Billy James McFatridge of Fort Worth sent several
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Speaker 2: threats to campaign accounts for state representative and U.S. Senate
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Speaker 2: candidate James Tallarico through email and Instagram. In one of them,
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Speaker 2: they say he threatened to slit Tallarico's throat and drag
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Speaker 2: his body through the street. Staffers for the campaign reported
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Speaker 2: the messages to the DPS. Their investigators say they traced
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Speaker 2: the email and social media accounts back to McFatridge. They
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Speaker 2: questioned him and say he told them he only intended
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Speaker 2: to scare Tallarico. He was arrested last week on charges
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Speaker 2: of making terroristic threats against a public servant. That is
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Speaker 2: a Class A misdemeanor. Stephen Pickering, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Starting this morning, the right lane of Texas Avenue southbound
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Speaker 1: will be closed between 26th and 28th streets as the
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Speaker 1: county remodels the Brazos County Administration Building. Closures are expected
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Speaker 1: to last through the end of the year. Are you
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Speaker 1: ready for President Ted Cruz?
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Speaker 3: The Texas senator is making it painfully clear that he
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Speaker 3: is running again. Experts say there is a path to
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Speaker 3: victory if he runs a Trump-adjacent campaign. That means backing
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Speaker 3: some of the president's plans but dismissing others. He's going
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Speaker 3: to get into the 100% Trump lane, well, that's getting
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Speaker 3: to be a pretty crowded place. Texas GOP strategist Vinny
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Speaker 3: Manchello says the president has not hinted at who he
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Speaker 3: will endorse. It'll likely be either J.D.
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Speaker 1: Vance or Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 3: But in the year 2028, we don't know how much
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Speaker 3: that endorsement will mean. In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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Speaker 5: I'd like you to talk about something that I don't
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Speaker 5: think has come up on the show yet, and that
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Speaker 5: is Burning Man.
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Speaker 1: Okay. I've never been.
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Speaker 5: See, I wasn't sure if you, I'm not going to
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Speaker 5: call you a crunchy guy.
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Speaker 1: No, I have some granola tendencies.
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Speaker 6: You do.
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Speaker 5: Never been to Burning Man?
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Speaker 1: No, and as a matter of fact, about the time
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Speaker 1: I hit probably my mid-30s, festival shows were not my
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Speaker 1: thing anymore. Okay, right on. And the older I get,
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Speaker 1: the more I'm solidified in that. I would say that
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Speaker 1: Burning Man might be its own little slice of hell.
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Speaker 1: In my mind. Why? You force me to go out
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Speaker 1: there in the desert and hang out with dirty, smelly
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Speaker 1: people doing unspeakable things. It's hedonism.
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Speaker 5: Before we get into this, I would, again, no judgment,
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Speaker 5: which I believe is one of the core tenets of
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Speaker 5: The Burning Man. No judgment whatsoever. If you have been
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Speaker 5: to Burning Man by some crazy circumstance and you happen
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Speaker 5: to be listening to the show, we need to know.
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Speaker 6: We need to know.
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Speaker 5: I think it's very long odds. I don't feel like
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Speaker 5: there's a lot of Burning Men aficionados out in the
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Speaker 5: Brazos Valley. But hey, you never know, so I'm just
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Speaker 5: extending the invitation.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you have a Burning Man in your closet.
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Speaker 5: Maybe your kid is a burner. What do I know?
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Speaker 6: 979695.
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Speaker 5: All I know.
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Speaker 1: Is that headlines this morning about a second person at
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Speaker 1: Burning Man found dead.
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Speaker 6: Found dead?
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Speaker 7: A 60-year-old.
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Speaker 1: What are you doing at 60 years old going to
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Speaker 1: Burning Man?
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Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you this, Will. Some of these burners
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Speaker 5: are old. It's hard. I need to, I guess, explain
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Speaker 5: a little bit of this for the audience. To go
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Speaker 5: to Burning Man, you drive out into the middle of
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Speaker 5: literal hell to the desert, and they have a little
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Speaker 5: spot in the desert called Black Rock City. They made
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Speaker 5: it up so they can have their Burning Man festival there.
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Speaker 5: It's in the middle of the desert, and then you
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Speaker 5: just post up there For a week, that's the festival.
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Speaker 5: There's not a lineup. There's not music.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing.
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Speaker 5: It's just them going out there and hanging out. Some
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Speaker 5: people bring DJ equipment and all these things.
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Speaker 1: I've seen all the big creations, the art cars and
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Speaker 1: things like that.
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Speaker 5: Look, it's impressive. When you see it on video, I
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Speaker 5: think it's cool to watch. Oh, wow, they put that
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Speaker 5: out in the desert. That's kind of dope.
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Speaker 1: Look at those idiots.
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Speaker 5: But yeah, it's not somewhere I would ever necessarily go.
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Speaker 5: But two deaths, and as I look here, it might
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Speaker 5: be three deaths.
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Speaker 1: Three?
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Speaker 5: They're finding bodies everywhere out there.
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Speaker 1: I know that in recent years, they've had weather issues.
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Speaker 5: Burning mud.
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Speaker 1: Burning mud?
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Speaker 6: That's right.
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Speaker 5: That was when burning mud was the year that it
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Speaker 5: rained and trapped everyone there for an extra month.
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Speaker 1: I'm betting that most of the people that attend Burning
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Speaker 1: Man don't have the type of vehicle emergency supplies that
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Speaker 1: our listeners listed off last week.
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Speaker 5: I doubt that they're... I mean, I think some of
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Speaker 5: them are probably very innovative. There's a lot of billionaires
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Speaker 5: going out there at the party.
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Speaker 1: A lot of very rich people. You've got billions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: You could pick anywhere... And anything in the world to do.
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Speaker 5: Hippie chicks will go for the hippie chicks. I mean,
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Speaker 5: that's what it is. Can we just admit that's what
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Speaker 5: it is? It's a bunch of rich dudes that are
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Speaker 5: going to pick up crunchy women.
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Speaker 1: Well, from what I understand, there's not a lot of,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't think that they are really
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Speaker 1: gender specific out there. I think they're trying to pick
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Speaker 1: up everything and anything.
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Speaker 5: I think they're fluid, probably more on the fluid side.
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Speaker 5: Not even the scariest festival that's out there, though.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 5: How much do you know about the Gathering of the Juggalos?
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Speaker 5: That's almost nothing I see.
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Speaker 1: No, I mean, I know a little about the Juggalos.
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Speaker 5: What do you know about the Juggalos?
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Speaker 1: Well, that they're complete freaks.
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Speaker 5: The Insane Clown Posse fan club, the Juggalos, by the way.
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Speaker 1: And I do know that they're a little weird. A little?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 1: There's that one guy that pops up on my social
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Speaker 1: media feed that likes to hurt himself by jumping on
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Speaker 1: a card table full of mouse traps.
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Speaker 5: Are you talking about Steve-O?
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Speaker 1: No, but he's much like Steve-O, but much more.
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Speaker 8: Oh, yes.
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Speaker 1: Brain damage.
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Speaker 9: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 5: He does perform it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he runs into refrigerators and stuff, and then he
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Speaker 1: lays on the ground moaning with a broken collarbone. And
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Speaker 1: that's what our kids are watching on the Internet.
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Speaker 5: The Gathering of the Juggalos also took place very recently.
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Speaker 5: It kind of made news for a second because police
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Speaker 5: arrested the guy who, I guess, distributes all the drugs
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Speaker 5: out there, known as the Blunt Man.
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Speaker 1: The Blunt Man.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. Shockingly, the Blunt Man was running a narcotics trafficking organization.
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Speaker 5: And they were like, hey, Blunt Man, you can't do
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Speaker 5: this legally in the United States of America. We're going
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Speaker 5: to arrest you and take you to jail. The Juggalos
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Speaker 5: were very surprised by this. They thought that the gathering
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Speaker 5: of the Juggalos was like a free space that you
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Speaker 5: could just do whatever you want, literally, without any consequences
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Speaker 5: of the law.
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 1: Wild.
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Speaker 5: So, yeah, just know Burning Man is still on the
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Speaker 5: higher tier of things you can attend.
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Speaker 1: I had my friend Anne texted in.
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Speaker 9: Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 1: No, Anne.
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Speaker 5: No, not Anne.
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Speaker 1: Anne did not go, that I'm aware of. But she says,
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Speaker 1: I could pick up the phone, meaning me.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I can pick up the phone and call two people
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Speaker 1: who I know that have been to Burning Man.
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Speaker 8: Who do you know?
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Speaker 6: I don't know. I can speculate.
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Speaker 5: See, again, I think they're afraid. There's a possibility there
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Speaker 5: are Burners that are listening that are afraid to call
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Speaker 5: in and out themselves as Burners.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they're necessarily afraid.
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Speaker 5: I think afraid is that they– I think this is how.
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Speaker 1: They– I do know at least one of the people
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Speaker 1: that Anna's referring to.
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Speaker 5: How they unwind, do you?
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Speaker 1: I do.
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Speaker 5: And they've been to the.
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Speaker 1: Now that I'm thinking about it, I know who she
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Speaker 1: is referring to, who's an absolute brilliant, unbelievable... Yeah, some
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Speaker 1: of these dudes.
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Speaker 5: Are crazy smart.
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Speaker 1: This is a gal.
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Speaker 6: A gal?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, some of these people are crazy smart.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's... If I'm correct on this, it's an incredibly smart,
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Speaker 1: very bright, and just a class act person.
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Speaker 5: Again, all I'm saying is I am not going to
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Speaker 5: judge you if you have been to Burning Man.
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Speaker 1: I'm not going to do it.
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Speaker 5: I want to know what it's like, what your experience was.
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Speaker 6: It sounds like hell.
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Speaker 1: It sounds horrible. All I can imagine is that it's
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Speaker 1: a lot like the biker rallies I used to have
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Speaker 1: to go to when I was in rock radio and
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Speaker 1: I was working for the Harley dealership.
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Speaker 12: Right.
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Speaker 1: And I've seen things there that are indelibly printed on
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Speaker 1: my mind.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. You don't really walk away from those.
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Speaker 5: Ann Boykin just adding the secrets of the Breast Valley
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Speaker 5: on her text line. She's just dropping burners left and right.
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Speaker 1: Well, now I remember.
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Speaker 5: This was a long time ago.
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Speaker 1: It was, what, 10, 12-plus years ago that I worked
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Speaker 1: with these folks. Sometimes it's hard to remember things.
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Speaker 5: Oh, yeah, no doubt.
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Speaker 1: But, yeah, I know four of these people that I
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Speaker 1: worked with.
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Speaker 5: See, I'm telling you, like a lot of them are academics.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: A lot of them are very intelligent, very like accomplished people.
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Speaker 5: And I think reason I don't know why that is
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Speaker 5: so appealing.
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Speaker 1: I think the Burning Man of a decade plus ago
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Speaker 1: is I think is probably staggeringly different than the Burning
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Speaker 1: Man of today.
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Speaker 5: That's the thing I would have to I would have
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Speaker 5: to ask. I would have some burners.
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't want to really know.
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Speaker 6: Some things you don't want to.
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Speaker 5: Know about your friends.
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Speaker 6: No, no.
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Speaker 1: You really don't. Remembering it now, I saw pictures and
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Speaker 1: videos that they had put together, and I think, again,
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Speaker 1: I think it was a different scene. You know, these
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Speaker 1: sort of things evolve, and typically they devolve.
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Speaker 6: You know?
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Speaker 1: So I'm pretty sure that that has devolved.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 1: I can't imagine that it wouldn't.
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Speaker 5: Let's talk about devolving in a good way. Did you
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Speaker 5: see the TSA might be bringing back your ability to
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Speaker 5: go to the gate? I saw this. Like it was back...
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Speaker 5: I can't say like it was back in the old days.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's a little bit different because this one... Correct
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Speaker 5: me if I'm wrong. The version I heard of this
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Speaker 5: was that if you are TSA pre-check certified.
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Speaker 1: You have to get a couple of things in place.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 1: And then you have to get essentially what is a
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Speaker 1: pass two or three days before you would be going
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Speaker 1: to the gate with your loved ones.
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Speaker 5: But if you did, they would let you go to
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Speaker 5: the gate again.
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Speaker 1: Because we don't have enough problems getting the herds through security...
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Speaker 1: We should add some more people to it.
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Speaker 5: There was another story, and I can't remember when this was,
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Speaker 5: that was a while ago. And it talked about how
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Speaker 5: people are saying there's more and more belief that like, hey,
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Speaker 5: the security stuff at airports is again, we always heard
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Speaker 5: this a little bit for show, for instance.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot for show.
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Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 12: So.
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Speaker 1: It's a lot for show.
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Speaker 5: Because that's the idea. It's like, hey, look, they take
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Speaker 5: your liquids, and then what do they do if they're
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Speaker 5: so dangerous? They don't take them into like a bomb group.
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Speaker 1: No, they put them in the trash can right next
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Speaker 1: to everybody else.
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Speaker 5: And then they just sit there because it doesn't matter
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Speaker 5: if you have liquids in the plane or not. Like,
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Speaker 5: it doesn't.
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Speaker 6: No.
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Speaker 1: A lot of it is for show. I mean, there
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Speaker 1: are some serious security things that happen at airports, but
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Speaker 1: the whole shebang is for the sheeple to make them
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Speaker 1: feel safer.
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Speaker 5: Couldn't we go back to the olden days if we
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Speaker 5: wanted to at this point? No one even remembers this.
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Speaker 5: I mean, half Americans have no point of reference that
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Speaker 5: you used to be able to wander around an airport.
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Speaker 1: When I saw this story, I thought back to old
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Speaker 1: Easter with airport terminal.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 1: And when my father was traveling and we would go
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Speaker 1: either drop him off or pick him up at the airport.
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Speaker 1: And you essentially could walk them onto the plane.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It was right there on the tarmac, and, I mean,
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Speaker 1: everybody was out there. But, of course, I remember after
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Speaker 1: 9-11 happened, everything changed. And then we got the shoe
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Speaker 1: bomber and the underwear bomber and whoever else was trying
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Speaker 1: to light their clothing articles on fire. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 1: know that we can ever go back because I think
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Speaker 1: that there's an expectation now from the gen pop.
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Speaker 5: That this is how you fly.
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Speaker 1: This is how you do it. And if you change it, oh,
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Speaker 1: my gosh, you're making us less safe.
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Speaker 5: Right they'd freak out they probably would they probably would
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Speaker 5: actually freak out if they went back to the way
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Speaker 5: it was i mean keep in mind you ever watch
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Speaker 5: home alone y'all think like y'all do realize that that
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Speaker 5: was plausible at one point.
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Speaker 1: Right you could run up to a ticket counter.
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Speaker 5: And just accidentally end up on the plane yeah happened
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Speaker 5: it happened more than more than you would ever believe
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Speaker 5: uh but yeah just just.
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Speaker 1: Crazy i don't think you could i mean they're in
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Speaker 1: one of the airports i'd love to see it one
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Speaker 1: of the airports is dfw they're gonna test this at
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Speaker 1: dfw yeah sure enough.
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Speaker 5: What what happens i assume they still have to go
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Speaker 5: through it isn't everybody has to go through security exactly
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Speaker 5: my point it's adding more people to the line and.
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Speaker 1: They say they're not going to offer the service during
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Speaker 1: high traffic times right uh you know holiday travel and
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Speaker 1: things like that well then what's the point.
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Speaker 5: Hmm Also, speaking of, again, the reason I think that
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Speaker 5: we might be able to go back is because, again,
18:09
Speaker 5: 25 years ago, when we instituted a lot of these changes,
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Speaker 5: we didn't have technology the.
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Speaker 6: Way it is now.
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Speaker 5: Like Target, for instance. Target, have you ever noticed those
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Speaker 5: little boxes on the side of Target carts?
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Speaker 1: No, because I don't go to Target.
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Speaker 5: Okay. Go to Target at some point. You don't have
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Speaker 5: to buy anything, but I want you to go and
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Speaker 5: I want you to examine... The carts, the hand carts
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Speaker 5: and the push carts. You will notice a little box
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Speaker 5: makes no sense why it's there.
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Speaker 1: Was it GPS?
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Speaker 5: Is that absolutely a tracker? Yeah, absolutely. A tracker here.
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Speaker 5: Here's a target kid. Uh, actually he, he, I assume
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Speaker 5: a former target kid talking about this whole thing.
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Speaker 4: These baskets, this thing that's a tracker. So they're now
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Speaker 4: tracking shoppers at target at your local target.
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Speaker 5: Um, for supposedly consumer habits. And I know what you're thinking,
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Speaker 5: very crunchy, or not crunchy, a very conspiracy theory. It's not,
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Speaker 5: it's literally not. So what happens is you take your
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Speaker 5: card around The lights, in the LED lights, they're smart
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Speaker 5: lights that basically will show where the basket is and
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Speaker 5: show how long.
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Speaker 1: Right. They want to track how you are utilizing their
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Speaker 1: store in order to manipulate things.
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Speaker 5: And then they sell the data. Walmart does it, too.
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Speaker 5: Walmart does it. Who was the other one? Kroger, I think,
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Speaker 5: has a piece of this, too. But it's basically they
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Speaker 5: will track you from the moment you walk in. If
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Speaker 5: you have your phone or the app, it gets even
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Speaker 5: more data from you to the point of how long
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Speaker 5: you will stand in front of an item. They'll keep
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Speaker 5: all of that. It all goes into data points. If
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Speaker 5: we can do that in a target, isn't there a
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Speaker 5: more efficient way of figuring out who needs to get
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Speaker 5: on and off of a plane?
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Speaker 1: Probably, but that would involve, you know, an ID planted
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Speaker 1: into your forearm or whatever else.
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Speaker 5: Oh, look what we have here.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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Speaker 5: I feel like this one. Before I ask this question,
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Speaker 5: is this your puppy or no?
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Speaker 15: This is my puppy.
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Speaker 11: Okay.
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Speaker 5: See, I made this mistake before.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you thought there was a dog you could kidnap.
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Speaker 5: Katrina is in from Aggieland, your main site. How you doing?
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Speaker 15: Doing good. How are y'all this morning?
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you have a dog.
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Speaker 15: This is Ruby.
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Speaker 7: Ruby!
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Speaker 15: Ruby is my little girl, a former bottle baby.
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Speaker 5: Look at her.
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Speaker 15: And she's a souvenir from my last animal shelter. So
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Speaker 15: as you can see, she has a funny looking nose.
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Speaker 15: So she has a cleft lip and palate.
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Speaker 1: Oh, look at there. She's very kissy.
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Speaker 15: She's a licker.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 5: And she's excited to be here today, which I absolutely love.
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Speaker 15: Tuesday mornings are her favorite because.
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Speaker 5: She gets to be all her friends. Yes, exactly.
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Speaker 15: Everyone is here. It's Ruby's world, and we're just living
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Speaker 15: in it.
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Speaker 5: I love it. Let's talk what you guys have going on.
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Speaker 1: What do we have?
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Speaker 15: So, you know, it's Bark Leader season.
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Speaker 1: It's what season?
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Speaker 5: You're right. It's Bark Leaders. I... I'm still getting into
20:43
Speaker 5: the leaders.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: So bark leader is our dog to dog or peer
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Speaker 15: to peer fundraiser that we do here at Aggie land
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Speaker 15: humane that runs throughout the fall into November. And it
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Speaker 15: is a way that we raise funds for dogs in
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Speaker 15: need right through the dogs in our own community. So
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Speaker 15: it's super easy. You go on our website, Aggie land, humane.org.
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Speaker 15: It's free to sign up. And then you get to
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Speaker 15: raise funds for the pets participate in fun little challenges
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Speaker 15: and And at the end of the day, if your
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Speaker 15: dog is crowned the top bark leader, like yell leader,
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Speaker 15: not only do they end up in the calendar as
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Speaker 15: one of the months of the year, they also get
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Speaker 15: to be on the back of a t-shirt, which to
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Speaker 15: me is like the coolest thing.
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Speaker 5: Yes, they do.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty cool.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: And you can, you can sign up your dog to
21:29
Speaker 5: be a bark leader.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Annie's still pretty young. She just turned one.
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Speaker 1: I don't want her to be.
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Speaker 5: Hurt by the pageant world. Oh, you're trying to keep her.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: That just means that you have to win.
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Speaker 1: Oh, she would win.
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Speaker 5: Okay. Well, I'm saying like, again, being able to, uh,
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Speaker 5: being able to get your dog recognized as an official
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Speaker 5: bark leader.
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Speaker 1: Is pretty big deal. Put that on the Annie's resume.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, literally.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 15: Our goal is to raise $ 6, 000. So Annie could help
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Speaker 15: be a part of that goal.
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, she's a rescue dog, so she would probably...
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Speaker 1: She has a story to tell, my man. She has
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Speaker 1: a story to tell.
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Speaker 15: There you go.
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Speaker 6: Excellent.
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Speaker 5: And how do they sign up again?
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Speaker 15: On the website, AggielandHumane.org. When you visit our website right now,
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Speaker 15: it's going to be the pop-up, so it's like the
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Speaker 15: first thing you see is to sign up for Bark Leader.
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Speaker 15: So it's early on, so you still have time to decide.
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Speaker 1: Do I have to submit headshots?
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Speaker 15: Just one picture.
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Speaker 1: Just one picture.
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Speaker 15: One picture.
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Speaker 1: You know how hard it's going to be to pick
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Speaker 1: out the one picture of that cute little pup?
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Speaker 5: Always the challenge, man. Yeah. Believe me. Always the challenge.
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Speaker 15: We are asking that, you know, it's one pet per
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Speaker 15: person that signs up. And no AI.
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Speaker 5: Okay, yeah.
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Speaker 15: We want to see your pet in their full glory.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't need the AI.
22:48
Speaker 5: Come on, guys.
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Speaker 15: Look, I have to say it.
22:51
Speaker 5: That is fraudulent.
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Speaker 15: AI for productivity, not creativity.
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Speaker 1: Bingo.
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Speaker 5: A true bark leader doesn't need AI to stand out.
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Speaker 5: It's like putting barbecue sauce on subpar Q. It's like
23:06
Speaker 5: sometimes you need it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, to kind of cover up.
23:09
Speaker 5: Yeah, to cover up. If it's real, you don't need
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Speaker 5: any sauce. You don't need any AI.
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Speaker 6: No, you don't.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that is disheartening.
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Speaker 1: I'm fascinated by Ruby.
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Speaker 5: I know she's so she's such a cutie. What else
23:22
Speaker 5: do we have to get to today?
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Speaker 15: You know, we are looking for more foster families to
23:28
Speaker 15: sign up to become a foster. I still have my
23:30
Speaker 15: little kitten. We're almost ready. We're almost there to make weight. But,
23:34
Speaker 15: you know, kitten season never ends here in Texas. We
23:37
Speaker 15: might get a reprieve for like six weeks in December.
23:40
Speaker 18: Right.
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Speaker 15: Um, but we really, we're still getting in last week
23:45
Speaker 15: on Thursday and Friday, two days, we got in moms
23:48
Speaker 15: with large litters, like six kittens each. And it's better
23:53
Speaker 15: when they have a mom, right? Cause mom does all
23:55
Speaker 15: the work.
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Speaker 16: Oh yeah.
23:56
Speaker 15: It's a lot easier, but they still need a place
23:58
Speaker 15: to go. That's not the shelter. The shelter is not ideal.
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Speaker 15: It's stressful. There is, you know, the possibility for contagious disease.
24:05
Speaker 15: And when you have little tiny, tiny kittens that are
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Speaker 15: just a couple of days old, we want to see
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Speaker 15: those guys go into foster care.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 5: It's not ideal if you're looking for good quality cats
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Speaker 5: to have them growing up through those weeks in a shelter.
24:20
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this. Once you get them past the
24:23
Speaker 5: bottle baby stage, it's a breeze. You can foster cats
24:28
Speaker 5: like crazy. And they basically take care of that all
24:31
Speaker 5: but take care of themselves. You just need to make
24:33
Speaker 5: sure you have even contact with them. You don't want
24:35
Speaker 5: to go feral like, you know, you want them to
24:36
Speaker 5: be really snuggly and everything else like that. But but
24:39
Speaker 5: it can be done. It can be easily done and all.
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Speaker 5: And you provide everything for them if they want.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, we provide everything. It's free to sign up. It's
24:46
Speaker 15: a great way to, you know, if you have kiddos
24:48
Speaker 15: and they want to learn more about what it takes
24:50
Speaker 15: to care for pets. get the kids involved. It does
24:52
Speaker 15: not have to be, you know, just you, although it can, right?
24:56
Speaker 15: I will say it's also a really easy thing to do.
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Speaker 15: You know, when I was in undergrad, I would foster
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Speaker 15: bottle babies a lot because I kept a really weird
25:04
Speaker 15: sleep schedule. I was up kind of at all hours anyways.
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Speaker 15: So I was like, Might as well.
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Speaker 5: Why not?
25:09
Speaker 1: Might as well.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Take care of a kitten.
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Speaker 15: I would bring my kittens to class with me. I'd
25:14
Speaker 15: bring them to labs. Granted, I would say I'm Galveston.
25:16
Speaker 15: So I think things are a little more, a little
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Speaker 15: more lax. Maybe up here they might give you.
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Speaker 1: Now you just have to call up a service kitten
25:23
Speaker 1: and you can take them everywhere.
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Speaker 5: People are people are cool with that. And, you know,
25:27
Speaker 5: you don't even have to commit to actually like it
25:29
Speaker 5: can be a once in a while thing.
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Speaker 6: Get on the list.
25:31
Speaker 5: Because there was a story about and I forgot where
25:35
Speaker 5: this was. some shelter pulled 101 cats, 100 cats out
25:38
Speaker 5: of a house, right? Like crazy story. And they all
25:42
Speaker 5: went to one shelter. So one shelter all of a
25:44
Speaker 5: sudden ended up with a cat count of 500 animals overnight. Overnight.
25:49
Speaker 5: What do you do in a situation like that? You
25:51
Speaker 5: have to have a foster list. People you can call
25:53
Speaker 5: and say, hey, can you take five? Can you take six?
25:55
Speaker 5: Can you take two? And so to accomplish that, it's
25:59
Speaker 5: important to Get those names in advance. Sign up in advance.
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Speaker 15: It takes a village.
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Speaker 5: It does. It does. And it's, again, incredibly easy, incredibly fulfilling.
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Speaker 5: You will probably acquire some extra animals. Chances are. You
26:11
Speaker 5: will fail in a couple of these, and that's fine, too.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: That's fine, too.
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Speaker 15: And then you get a little ruby out of it.
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Speaker 5: Yes, you do. Aggielandhumane.org is their website. Anything else we
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Speaker 5: need to hit today? That's all.
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Speaker 15: Thank you all so much.
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Speaker 5: Oh, thank you. News next.
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Speaker 1: both of Bryan. As the Gatons were leaving the parking lot,
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Speaker 1: the victim punched the window of their truck. The driver,
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Speaker 1: Alex Gaton, put his truck into reverse where the victim
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Speaker 1: was knocked to the ground, then run over. He then
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Speaker 1: drove forward, running over the man a second time before
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Speaker 1: fleeing the scene. The victim's arm and leg were run over.
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Speaker 1: He was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The
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Speaker 1: men were located about 20 minutes later. Alex Gaten was
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Speaker 1: arrested for collision involving serious bodily injury. He was released
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Speaker 1: on $ 15, 000 bond. The Bryan City Council is scheduled to
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Speaker 1: hold four public hearings at tonight's council meeting. One will
34:13
Speaker 1: discuss the proposed tax rate of $ 0. 624 per $ 100 of
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Speaker 1: a home's value. The other three hearings are for rezoning items.
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Speaker 1: An item on the consent agenda is to approve an
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Speaker 1: amendment that would increase the fiscal year 2026 budget by
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Speaker 1: $ 32 million. Documents show the city needs to add the
34:32
Speaker 1: $ 32 million in unbudgeted expenses for items such as employee benefits, BTU,
34:37
Speaker 1: and the American Rescue Plan Act Fund. The meeting will
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Speaker 1: convene at 530 inside council chambers. Brazos County Precinct 4
34:45
Speaker 1: Volunteer Fire Department added a new engine Monday. Engine 421
34:49
Speaker 1: was placed in service at Station 1. This brings their
34:53
Speaker 1: fleet to four frontline engines plus a reserve. According to
34:57
Speaker 1: arrest records received from law enforcement in Brazos County, there
34:59
Speaker 1: were a total of 28 arrests on opening day of
35:02
Speaker 1: the A & M football season on Saturday. Over the
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Speaker 1: holiday weekend as a whole, Thursday night through Sunday morning,
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Speaker 1: there were 39 alcohol-related arrests, 11 arrests over the weekend
35:13
Speaker 1: involved underage drinkers, 10 public intoxication, and one DWI. Eight
35:18
Speaker 1: of those underage arrests were in or near Northgate. There
35:22
Speaker 1: was a small plane crash in Brenham Monday. The single
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Speaker 1: engine plane experienced engine failure and was able to land
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Speaker 1: successfully in a field west of Highway 50. One person
35:32
Speaker 1: was injured and was transported to a local hospital. Texas
35:35
Speaker 1: Senator Ted Cruz is making it clear that he will
35:38
Speaker 1: be running for president again. Experts say there is a
35:41
Speaker 1: path to victory if he runs a Trump adjacent campaign.
35:46
Speaker 2: In 2016, he showed his differences with President Trump, and
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Speaker 2: I think that's where he's comfortable being.
35:52
Speaker 1: Texas GOP strategist Vinnie Menchillo says the president has not
35:56
Speaker 1: hinted at who he will endorse, but it is likely
35:59
Speaker 1: to either be J.D. Vance or Marco Rubio. In order
36:02
Speaker 1: to stand out, Cruz will have to endorse some Trump priorities,
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Speaker 1: but also present his own ideas for the country. NFL
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Emmett Smith is being sued over a
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Speaker 1: wind farm project. Fox's Lisa Brady reports.
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Speaker 21: An investor in Project Exodus claims in the lawsuit that
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Speaker 21: former Cowboys running back Emmett Smith and his longtime business
36:22
Speaker 21: partner misrepresented efforts to secure a federal loan and made
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Speaker 21: excuses about lack of progress.
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Speaker 5: On the wind farm.
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Speaker 21: Ketua LLC, which makes investments for the Eastern Band of
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Speaker 21: Cherokee Indians, says a $ 2. 5 million loan that was supposed
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Speaker 21: to fund the project in Texas... was instead used to
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Speaker 21: pay a different investor from previous dealings with Smith's company.
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Speaker 21: Ketua says it had expected to be paid back within
36:45
Speaker 21: months for an investment in the wind farm project made
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Speaker 21: in 2023. They're now also seeking damages. Lisa Brady, Fox News.
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Speaker 1: There's pushback to a request to increase the budget for
36:56
Speaker 1: the state's private school voucher program.
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Speaker 22: Acting Comptroller and GOP nominee for the job, Don Huffines,
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Speaker 22: has requested $ 2, 226, 000, 000 for the next two years. The first
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Speaker 22: year cost a billion. Clay Robeson with the Texas State
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Speaker 22: Teachers Association says his group has opposed vouchers for years
37:14
Speaker 22: and says any increase is too much.
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Speaker 2: This is not a sustainable program.
37:19
Speaker 5: Or they can sustain it, but they're going.
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Speaker 2: To basically close many more public schools.
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Speaker 22: There's data from the state that shows 7 in 10
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Speaker 22: families in or trying to get into the program already
37:29
Speaker 22: had kids in private schools. Texas touts the program as
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Speaker 22: giving parents the power to choose the best education for
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Speaker 22: their children. Over 100,000 Texas kids are currently enrolled. Barbara Schwartz,
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Speaker 1: The feds have extended the construction pause on the $ 1. 7
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Speaker 1: billion Big Bend border security project until September 30th.
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Speaker 23: The feds' pause comes thanks to the lawsuit filed by
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Speaker 23: the Lippon Apache community. State Senator Roland Gutierrez filed the
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Speaker 23: suit that claims the homeland security construction in and around
37:59
Speaker 23: Big Bend National Park violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
38:03
Speaker 23: physically altering, destroying and blocking access to sacred ancestral, ceremonial
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Speaker 23: and burial sites.
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Speaker 13: What we came out with was an agreement from the
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Speaker 13: government that there would be no construction until September the
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Speaker 13: 15th in both Big Bend 2 and 4, the entire region.
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Speaker 23: The feds have since sent a letter extending that pause
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Speaker 23: until September 30th.
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Speaker 16: If by September the 30th the demands of our clients
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Speaker 16: are not met and of this community are not met,
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Speaker 16: We will ask this court to continue along with our
38:29
Speaker 16: temporary restraining order.
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Speaker 23: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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Speaker 5: Please welcome to the show noted Burning Man, Glenn Brewer
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Speaker 5: from the BCS Chamber of Commerce.
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Speaker 1: Glenn, you been to Burning Man?
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Speaker 6: Well, I went to South Padre this summer and became
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Speaker 6: the Burning Man.
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Speaker 1: Oh, the Burnt Man.
41:12
Speaker 6: The Burnt Man.
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Speaker 5: Different Burning Man, but very pale. We'll allow it.
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Speaker 6: Also, I do appreciate no last names, please, today. I'm
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Speaker 6: currently in the Witness Protection Program.
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Speaker 5: Just Glenn.
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Speaker 6: Yeah. Evidently, I ran over a made rabbit last week.
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Speaker 11: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 6: Tony the rabbit. I had no earthly idea.
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Speaker 18: Any of this.
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Speaker 6: Well, there he is right there. There he is. He's
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Speaker 6: right here. I guess that blows the witness protection.
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Speaker 5: He's looking at you in the eye, Glenn.
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Speaker 1: I've been waiting for you to come in, by the way.
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Speaker 5: I got a little bone to pick with you.
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Speaker 6: I gave you a new career, Tony.
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Speaker 20: No.
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Speaker 1: Let's just say, keep an eye over your shoulder.
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 5: Some would say. Glenn is the man to blame for Tony.
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Speaker 1: I think all should say that.
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Speaker 6: Tony would say that.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: He's still got some tire marks on his. On his tail.
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Speaker 5: Would the listeners say that is the question?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: Would the listeners blame Glenn?
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Speaker 1: Possibly. Well, we're short on time today, so I'm going
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Speaker 1: to put Tony the Rabbit up.
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Speaker 6: I think they would know who to blame out of
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Speaker 6: the three people in this video.
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Speaker 5: It's an icy stare he is shooting you, Glenn. That
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Speaker 5: rabbit does not like you.
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Speaker 6: Well, he probably doesn't like sitting on that post the
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Speaker 6: way you got him on there either.
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Speaker 9: Who would?
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Speaker 6: All right. What do we have on this show? On
42:34
Speaker 6: much more, I said, well, you know, in case Tony
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Speaker 6: the Rabbit wanted to know about employee benefits... This is
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Speaker 6: your last chance. I talked about it last week. Colonial
42:42
Speaker 6: Life Barker Insurance Agency next Monday is going to do
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Speaker 6: Employee Benefits 101. It's a free lunch and learn. You
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Speaker 6: guys can show up. You need to RSVP. It's going
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Speaker 6: to be at the Brazos Valley Cog Monday, 1130 to 1.
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Speaker 6: And we'd like everybody who wants to learn about employee benefits,
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Speaker 6: things that are available, just the entire spectrum. You can
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Speaker 6: come out and learn that for free on Monday. But
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Speaker 6: what I really want to talk about is one of
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Speaker 6: the biggest things we do at the Chamber. It's our
43:11
Speaker 6: primary fundraiser. This is how we fund the Chamber. Oh, yes.
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Speaker 6: For all of our programs that we do and all
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Speaker 6: of the events. We do a lot of fundraising where
43:20
Speaker 6: we share with some other agencies, the Restaurant Association, the
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Speaker 6: 100 Club. But this, Golf and Lobster, is the Chamber's
43:28
Speaker 6: primary fundraiser. Sponsored by Frost Bank. It's going to be
43:31
Speaker 6: Friday the 18th, Lobster Fest. $ 100 a ticket, which, you know,
43:37
Speaker 6: used to sound like a lot.
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Speaker 1: No, actually, you said that.
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Speaker 5: I was like, hmm. Not bad for some lobster.
43:44
Speaker 6: Steak and lobster. And the price of beef nowadays, it
43:47
Speaker 6: used to be the draw was the lobster, and now
43:50
Speaker 6: it might be the steak. But steak and lobster, $ 100,
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Speaker 6: live and silent auction, 500-plus of your favorite friends, and
43:56
Speaker 6: your future friends will be there. Come on out to
43:59
Speaker 6: Lobster Fest and help support the chamber. You don't have
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Speaker 6: to be a chamber member to come. Then on Monday,
44:03
Speaker 6: Golf Classic, 56 teams out at Pebble Creek, There are just,
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Speaker 6: there are less than a handful, frankly, of teams available.
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Speaker 6: Sells out every year. Call the chamber if you want
44:13
Speaker 6: to get a team in. It is not too late
44:16
Speaker 6: as of today. Next business hour, after hours, is the
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Speaker 6: September the 24th. It's also at Frost Bank. Oddly enough,
44:23
Speaker 6: that's free to attend for everyone. And mark your calendar
44:26
Speaker 6: October 7th for Youth to Career Fair. But Tony, I know,
44:31
Speaker 6: likes to go to ribbon cuttings. Yeah, everyone does.
44:34
Speaker 1: Donnie likes to cut a lot of things.
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Speaker 5: He likes to go to ribbon cutting so he can
44:38
Speaker 5: lean on the business owners.
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Speaker 1: The security. He pitches his business security program.
44:45
Speaker 6: Put our fingers in his ear so we don't want
44:46
Speaker 6: him to know that Tuesday, which is today, Liberty Hearing Center,
44:50
Speaker 6: it's a deluxe ribbon cutting, 1130 to 12 on Texas Avenue.
44:54
Speaker 6: We want to come out here free to attend ribbon
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Speaker 6: cuttings a full week. Wednesday, we have Club 4 Fitness,
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Speaker 6: ribbon-cutting 1130 to 12. Thursday, J.D. Ranch Boutique, 1130 to 12.
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Speaker 6: And then on Friday, everybody's favorite donuts, we have Shipley's
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Speaker 6: Donuts is having a ribbon-cutting on their Villa Maria location.
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Speaker 5: Love to see it.
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Speaker 6: Next Thursday, we have Deluxe for Benjamin Knox. They're having
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Speaker 6: a book release there. Platinum Member Spotlight, Texas A &
45:22
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Speaker 6: here on WTAW.
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Speaker 5: Glenn, thank you so much.
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Speaker 6: Thank you, guys.
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Speaker 5: and ends. People are kind of fascinated by Carrie Underwood
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Speaker 5: doing a cover of the 90s band Limp Bizkit. Would
49:20
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Speaker 1: Well, how could I not like to hear that?
49:29
Speaker 9: Remember this?
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Speaker 6: Vaguely.
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Speaker 10: Oh, I remember this.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I never was the biggest Limp Bizkit fan.
49:42
Speaker 1: Aware of it, but, you know.
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Speaker 5: Yes, so, Carrie is also, I know I see you
49:47
Speaker 5: stressing over there, Carrie is the queen of self-editing. I
49:50
Speaker 5: know she's not going to sing. the naughty words.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, yeah, we don't have
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Speaker 1: a drop button here. A lot of stations have got
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Speaker 1: that button where you can bail out and dump eight seconds.
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Speaker 1: We don't have a.
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Speaker 5: Drop button here. You might be unaware of Carrie. I
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Speaker 5: think you might know this. Carrie Underwood is a massive
50:09
Speaker 5: fan of the rageous metal that you know. She's a
50:14
Speaker 5: monster metalhead.
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Speaker 1: It's always fascinating to me. You run into people who
50:19
Speaker 1: you don't expect that to be into death metal. And
50:23
Speaker 1: they are. When I was at Teaks, our director, you know,
50:27
Speaker 1: I mean, upstanding guy, right? Running one of the most
50:31
Speaker 1: major portions of the A & M University system.
50:34
Speaker 5: He was into rage music.
50:35
Speaker 1: Rage music. When he would get into his car at
50:37
Speaker 1: the end of the day, you knew it.
50:40
Speaker 5: We might need to talk about this at some other
50:42
Speaker 5: point where there's more time, but I'm always fascinated by
50:45
Speaker 5: people that can drive around. Like, I've known several people
50:47
Speaker 5: in my life that when they drive, They have to
50:50
Speaker 5: listen to the angriest music. Like, again, hardcore metal. Like,
50:55
Speaker 5: gangster rap, whatever. Because that's what they need to psych
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Speaker 5: them up for whatever reason.
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I can understand it.
51:01
Speaker 5: I can't do it.
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Speaker 1: You lived in Houston. You can understand that.
51:03
Speaker 5: I can't do it. I have to have a chill. Like,
51:06
Speaker 5: I'm in the car. I need to calm myself down.
51:09
Speaker 5: This is my... This is like an area where I
51:13
Speaker 5: need zen.
51:14
Speaker 1: I can see both sides of this because, I mean... Again,
51:17
Speaker 1: driving in Houston, I want to be as on edge
51:19
Speaker 1: as I possibly can be.
51:20
Speaker 5: I think there's something to that as well. Again, you
51:24
Speaker 5: have to keep your head on a swivel. Specifically in
51:27
Speaker 5: the city of Houston, you need to keep your head
51:29
Speaker 5: on a swivel. You have no idea what they're going
51:31
Speaker 5: to do out on those roads.
51:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you need a helmet most of the time, too.
51:34
Speaker 5: Good night. In other news of rich people. Ed Sheeran,
51:39
Speaker 5: who I... You know Ed Sheeran.
51:41
Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: We all know Ed Sheeran.
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Speaker 9: Ed.
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Speaker 5: He's a very famous pop star, I believe.
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Speaker 6: Is this Ed?
51:47
Speaker 5: Do I have some Ed here? Yeah, this guy. Ed
51:52
Speaker 5: Sheeran's interesting because he's really the only person in his band. Like,
51:55
Speaker 5: he does kind of everything.
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Speaker 1: He's very stripped down, which I dig. And he got
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Speaker 1: real rich.
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Speaker 5: He has so much money.
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Speaker 1: Very rich.
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Speaker 5: Like, so much money.
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Speaker 1: But he does a lot of good things, too. I've
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Speaker 1: seen him, you know, playing with school children and that
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Speaker 1: sort of thing.
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Speaker 5: He's a good dude. Everyone likes Ed.
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Speaker 13: Um.
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Speaker 5: He has recently been talking about some of the things
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Speaker 5: he owns, specifically props from movies.
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Speaker 1: He owns props from movies.
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Speaker 5: The Batman and Robin nipple suits from Batman Forever.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 5: Sorry, I should have waited. I should have waited to
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Speaker 5: drop that one on you.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things I don't expect to talk
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Speaker 1: about on our show. The Batman nipple suits is in
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Speaker 1: that category.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he owns both of them, Batman and Robin. He
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Speaker 5: owns Rufio's sword from hook. He bought it straight up
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Speaker 5: the Jumanji board game and Joe Pesci's knife from Goodfellas.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 5: All of which owned by Ed Sheeran and they just
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Speaker 5: hang out in his house.
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering, you know, I think back to when I
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Speaker 1: was in college and I had some disposable income and, and, and,
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Speaker 1: and a lot of boredom. And we would watch the
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Speaker 1: Home Shopping Network at night.
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Speaker 6: Lord.
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Speaker 1: And we played a sort of drinking game to go
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Speaker 1: along with that. And occasionally, we would have things show
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Speaker 1: up in our mailbox that were like, did I order that? Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I'm wondering if that's the same for Ed. Did he
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Speaker 1: just wake up in the morning?
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Speaker 5: It wouldn't surprise me if that's like, he's just, yeah. Like, oh, crap.
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Speaker 5: I bought the nipple suit. The teddy bear. Teddy bear.
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Speaker 5: from AI, artificial intelligence. The movie back in the day
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Speaker 5: was like living, Haley Joel Osment was a robot. It's
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Speaker 5: kind of like Pinocchio, but for our times. And he
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Speaker 5: had a little friend that was an AI teddy bear. Well,
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Speaker 5: he owns that. Probably because his name's Ed, Ted.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it would be nice to have all
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Speaker 1: that stuff and nice to have a big enough place
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Speaker 1: to store it all.
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Speaker 5: You know what? He didn't have to pay all that
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Speaker 5: much for the nipple suit. The George Clooney version, the
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Speaker 5: Batman suit, $ 57, 500.
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Speaker 1: That's pretty reasonable.
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Speaker 5: For a Batman suit?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking that might not be a bad investment.
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Speaker 5: For a Batman suit, that's a pretty.
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Speaker 1: A movie-worn Batman suit, yeah, that's heavy.
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Speaker 5: And keep in mind, this is Ed Sheeran. He has
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Speaker 5: all the money in the world. He doesn't need to
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Speaker 5: worry about $ 57, 000. The Rufio sword, though, that's... Is it
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Speaker 5: the golden one?
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Speaker 6: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: The one that pan.
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Speaker 1: The picture in my head is that he shows up
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Speaker 1: on Pawn Stars and asks Rick about it and... Rick's
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Speaker 1: got an expert.
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Speaker 6: I know a guy.
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Speaker 5: Best I can do is 100 bucks for.
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Speaker 1: The nipple suits.
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Speaker 5: Hands down. Thank you all for listening today. I hope
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Speaker 5: this isn't too horrible of a Monday experience for a
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Speaker 5: lot of you guys.
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Speaker 1: Well, Monday on a Tuesday. You can't miss a Monday.
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Speaker 1: Just expect it.
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Speaker 5: The weekend will show up faster, trust me. It eventually
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Speaker 5: evens out. But we will see you back on the
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Speaker 5: radio tomorrow for 1620, 94.5 WTAW.