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The Infomaniacs: Sept 2nd 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Good morning. From the WTAW newsroom, I'm Will Welch. Brazos
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Speaker 1: County Commissioner's Court met yesterday to discuss the county's budget
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Speaker 1: and tax rate. Commissioners approved the $ 482 million budget by
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Speaker 1: a vote of 4-1, with Commissioner Bentley Nettles opposing. Here's
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Speaker 1: Commissioner Chuck Condrilla on the tax rate.
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Speaker 2: The county is 25% of your tax bill, and I've
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Speaker 2: seen a yearly approach to budgeting in the past, which
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Speaker 2: can cause a rollercoaster effect. No new revenue was forced
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Speaker 2: on the county, and $ 24 million was pulled out of
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Speaker 2: reserve that year. It wasn't planned for. Where would we
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Speaker 2: be today setting a rate had that not happened, had
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Speaker 2: we prepared for it?
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Speaker 1: Commissioners did not adopt the proposed tax rate of 44.84
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Speaker 1: cents per $ 100 valuation, instead going with Commissioner Condola's motion
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Speaker 1: to adopt a slightly lower tax rate of 44.34. The
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Speaker 1: rate was approved by a vote of 3-2, with Commissioners
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Speaker 1: Nettles and Brown voting against. Commissioners also voted to enact
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Speaker 1: a burn ban. Outdoor burning is prohibited in Brazos County.
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Speaker 1: Burleson County is now the only county in the Brazos
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Speaker 1: Valley to have not adopted a burn ban. The Snook
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Speaker 1: Volunteer Fire Department took to social media to encourage lawmakers
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Speaker 1: to rethink that decision. The family of a Texas A
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Speaker 1: & M pharmacy student who died in May is scheduled
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Speaker 1: to meet with the Brazos County District Attorney's Office this morning.
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Speaker 1: 22-year-old Caden Crowe died on May 2nd. after he was
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Speaker 1: shot in the abdomen by his roommate, 23-year-old Charlie Boggan,
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Speaker 1: in their Bryan apartment. Boggan was never arrested, and a
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Speaker 1: Brazos County grand jury declined to hand down an indictment
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Speaker 1: against him. The Crow family wants to know if all
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Speaker 1: the information was presented to the grand jury. The details
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Speaker 1: around the shooting recently came to light after an investigation
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Speaker 1: by Houston journalist Wayne Dosofino. Bryan police can be heard
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Speaker 1: on body cam discussing how Boggan was super intoxicated that night,
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Speaker 1: Boggan admitted to having several drinks prior to handling the
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Speaker 1: weapon at 3 o'clock in the morning. Despite that, Boggan
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Speaker 1: was never asked to submit a breathalyzer or blood alcohol analysis.
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Speaker 1: He was never even taken into custody for questioning. Crow's
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Speaker 1: family filed a civil lawsuit against Charlie Boggan and his parents,
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Speaker 1: Tricia and Craig Boggan, for wrongful death. An inmate at
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Speaker 1: the Brazos County Jail has a new charge after she
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Speaker 1: was found with contraband in her cell. 41-year-old Christina Allen
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Speaker 1: of Houston has been held on $ 75, 000 bond since February
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Speaker 1: after she was charged with felony mail theft. According to
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Speaker 1: jail records, another inmate reported that Allen was concealing a
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Speaker 1: vape in her bunk. After a search, officers found a vape,
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Speaker 1: a charger, and other prohibited items in her pillow. She
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Speaker 1: claims she found the items near the dumpsters. Allen was
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Speaker 1: charged with possession of a prohibited item in a correctional facility,
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Speaker 1: and another $ 15, 000 was added to her bond. Former Dallas
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Speaker 1: Mavericks owner and Shark Tanker Mark Cuban was at the
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Speaker 1: state capitol Tuesday pushing ways to make pharmaceutical drugs cheaper.
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Speaker 1: Patient-led shopping was step one of his plan.
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Speaker 3: If someone's insurance says a prescription costs $ 500, but they
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Speaker 3: can buy the exact same drug for $ 100 cash, let
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Speaker 3: them buy it for $ 100.
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Speaker 1: This would promote competition and lower prices, but it would
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Speaker 1: also be an incentive.
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Speaker 3: Then credit that $ 100 towards their deductible and out-of-pocket maximum
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Speaker 3: wherever Texas has authority to do so.
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Speaker 1: Cuban testified before the Statehouse Healthcare Affordability Committee. More news
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Speaker 10: Man....
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Speaker 6: I will say this. The reports coming out now about
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Speaker 6: East Texas, like 22 inches in Coon, lots of counties
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Speaker 6: out of power is another thing, and people are reporting
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Speaker 6: water coming into their homes already. It's a big problem.
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Speaker 1: You get that much rain over there, it is a problem.
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Speaker 1: So we don't want to make too much light of
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Speaker 1: the fact that we're not getting any here, taking that
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Speaker 1: into account.
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Speaker 6: But I would not expect a ton of rain out
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Speaker 6: of this system for us personally. They're still saying a
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Speaker 6: 60% chance. Mainly, I'm guessing, because it is moving so
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Speaker 6: A question for the room. In your travels, have you
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Speaker 6: ever been somewhere that did not measure up to the hype?
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Speaker 6: That you got there and it was a, frankly, it
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Speaker 6: was a letdown.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, to an extent.
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Speaker 6: And this goes for you guys, too, if you've got
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Speaker 6: some 979-695-1620. The reason being is there is a new
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Speaker 6: list of the most overrated tour spots in the U.S.
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Speaker 6: Whenever I see a list like this, I get, like,
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Speaker 6: I kind of clinch up. Because I fear one thing
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Speaker 6: being on it.
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Speaker 1: What is that one thing?
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Speaker 6: Well, let's see if it's on it.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Number seven, and I disagree with this. Salem, Massachusetts. They
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Speaker 6: say it's all hype. I have been to Salem. I
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Speaker 6: found it lovely. Is it touristy? Heck yeah, it's touristy.
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Speaker 6: But if you go in the fall... And it's in the,
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Speaker 6: you know.
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Speaker 1: In which season?
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Speaker 6: In which season? In Massachusetts on the coast?
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Speaker 9: Come on.
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Speaker 6: What do you want?
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Speaker 1: So for one season.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's the place to be.
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Speaker 6: Don't go when it's not Halloween.
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Speaker 1: You want to know, my vote did not make the list.
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Speaker 1: And it was not entirely disappointing. I will say that
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Speaker 1: you only need to go to Branson, Missouri once.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Branson.
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Speaker 1: However, we have been twice.
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Speaker 6: It doesn't stack up to a repeat visit.
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Speaker 1: It really didn't. I mean, the Daughters dance team was
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Speaker 1: competing there, so we were not as touristy.
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Speaker 6: Not to say you can't love Branson.
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Speaker 11: No.
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Speaker 6: If you fall in love with one of these places,
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Speaker 6: it just does not count.
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Speaker 1: Look, I had some good meals. I had some fun.
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Speaker 1: It was just meh.
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Speaker 6: The southernmost point in the continental U.S., which is just
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Speaker 6: a statue at the very end of Key West, Florida. Again,
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Speaker 6: I don't agree with that. You're in Key West.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's true, but they're talking specifically about that particular spot.
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Speaker 6: I'll give you that.
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Speaker 1: And they also put on there, in related geography, the
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Speaker 1: Four Corners Monument.
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Speaker 9: Fair.
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Speaker 1: Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: It's a piece of concrete.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's not... And a piece of concrete in the desert,
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Speaker 6: as I recall.
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Speaker 11: Yes.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Not much around it.
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Speaker 6: Bourbon Street, they say.
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Speaker 1: Can confirm.
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Speaker 6: I would not recommend... We were having this discussion yesterday
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Speaker 6: about is New Orleans even a city you'll visit anymore?
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Speaker 6: It's not for me.
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Speaker 1: I've often said the devil may have went down to Georgia,
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Speaker 1: but he maintains a residence in the quarter.
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Speaker 6: Which is a bummer because I love food, love Louisiana.
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Speaker 6: You can get great food.
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Speaker 1: Outside of New Orleans. There's some great food in New Orleans,
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Speaker 1: some really good food. And there's some good times in
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Speaker 1: New Orleans. Those good times, they are not the French Quarter.
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Speaker 1: Certainly not Bourbon Street.
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Speaker 6: Nope, absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: Dangerous. And a little smelly and sticky.
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Speaker 6: If you've got some that you want to share with us, again,
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Speaker 6: places you've been that did not measure up to the hype,
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Speaker 6: call us or text us, 979-695-1620. The one I was
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Speaker 6: afraid of being on the list was the Alamo.
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's not there.
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Speaker 6: It is not there.
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Speaker 1: And underwhelming. Yes. I remember my first experience with the
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Speaker 1: Alamo and I was, I was always into history.
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Speaker 6: I'm not judging on this too. Cause I mean, it's like, no,
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Speaker 6: I get it.
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Speaker 1: I had this mental picture of the Alamo in my
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Speaker 1: head as a kid. And then you walk up and
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Speaker 1: it's this little thing in the city now. Was it
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Speaker 1: still reverent? Yes. Was it still meaningful to me? Absolutely.
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Speaker 13: Right.
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Speaker 1: However, what they're doing with the Alamo now is going
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Speaker 1: to make it better. But I can agree with you.
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Speaker 1: I could see that being on the list. I could.
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Speaker 6: I think if you're not a Texan.
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Speaker 1: For sure.
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Speaker 6: And this is this again, like to me, it's if
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Speaker 6: I get the reaction immediately, like what? If you're not
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Speaker 6: a Texan and you have no connection to it whatsoever
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Speaker 6: and you walk up on it as you again in
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Speaker 6: the past. saunter out of a Ripley's believe it or not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah and you have the Hollywood picture in your.
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Speaker 6: Head and yeah you're thinking and again you don't understand
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Speaker 6: that everything around there for a you know that a
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Speaker 6: while a while is the Alamo sure it can be
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Speaker 6: a little bit I guess underwhelming I just hate seeing
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Speaker 6: people say it.
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Speaker 1: Mount Rushmore is on the list that's what I wanted
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Speaker 1: to ask.
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Speaker 6: I've never been to Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 1: I have not been, but the people who I know
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Speaker 1: who have been to Mount Rushmore love it. They appreciate
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Speaker 1: it for what it is. Right.
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Speaker 6: And it's the Dakotas.
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Speaker 1: Again, it's the Black Hills.
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Speaker 6: Morning, WTAW, you're on the radio. What do you have
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Speaker 6: for us today?
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Speaker 14: Hey, Will, and thanks.
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Speaker 6: Frito, this is Tim from Brenham. Tim, good to hear
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Speaker 6: from you, my man. What you got? Hey, I had
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Speaker 6: to chime in about the Alamo because I heard that
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Speaker 6: they wanted to build some super fancy.
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Speaker 15: Hotel down there.
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Speaker 6: A hotel? Oh, there's already super fancy hotels.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's beautiful hotels around there. The Alamo renovation project
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Speaker 1: is absolutely massive.
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Speaker 16: It is.
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Speaker 1: And they had to buy.
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Speaker 1: Buildings down there and remove them it.
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Speaker 6: Was a it was a 20 year a 20 year
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Speaker 6: headache honestly because yeah they it had gotten to the
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Speaker 6: point where you had so much stuff around there to
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Speaker 6: build a site that was that was honestly worthy of
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Speaker 6: the Alamo You had to convince a lot of people.
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Speaker 6: And there were people that were holdouts. They didn't want
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Speaker 6: to sell it. Now, it doesn't touch things like the Menger,
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Speaker 6: and it doesn't touch some of the other hotels there.
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Speaker 6: But what you're going to get, yeah, it's going to
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Speaker 6: be real.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be really cool.
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Speaker 6: Real nice. But, yeah, I don't know about any other
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Speaker 6: additional hotels.
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard that. No, I don't know either.
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Speaker 6: Tim, thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, appreciate it.
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Speaker 18: All right.
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Speaker 1: Times Square. I'm not going to ever go.
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Speaker 6: I don't care about.
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Speaker 1: There's so many. If I was going to go to
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Speaker 1: New York City, there's so many other things that would
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Speaker 1: be higher on my list to see. Right.
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Speaker 6: Text message from Luke, who has been to Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 6: Mount Rushmore is like the Alamo, for those who have
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Speaker 6: not been. It is smaller than you have pictured in
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Speaker 6: your head. And the first time you see it, that's
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Speaker 6: generally the takeaway. It's like, oh.
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Speaker 1: I've watched so many documentaries on how that fell apart.
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Speaker 1: did that in a family that's still in Maine.
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Speaker 6: It's still incredible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I would be fascinated for it. But
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Speaker 1: like my daughters, they would be like, yeah, okay, what's next?
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Speaker 1: Let's go shopping.
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Speaker 6: Here's the number one thing they say, Las Vegas Strip.
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Speaker 1: I agree.
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 1: I agree with this because, because Fremont street to me
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Speaker 1: is so much better.
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Speaker 6: In what regard? It is.
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Speaker 1: First of all, it's cheaper.
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Speaker 6: That's true.
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Speaker 1: Second of all, I like the old school. I gravitate
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Speaker 1: toward that.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So I loved Fremont.
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Speaker 6: Doesn't it depress you? Like the, it is, it is the,
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Speaker 6: if you walk up and down Fremont street, it is,
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Speaker 6: it is just the, it's, I don't know how to
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Speaker 6: say it without saying that it's like the lowest level
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Speaker 6: of Vegas gamblers, like people who were on their literal
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Speaker 6: last legs. That's why they are in downtown Vegas.
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Speaker 1: All I know is that I ran into a table
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Speaker 1: down there that was doing this mashup of blackjack and poker.
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Speaker 1: So essentially, your cards that you got in blackjack, you
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Speaker 1: could bet on a poker hand that you would get
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Speaker 1: with those cards. I cleaned up. Really? I paid for
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Speaker 1: dinner at Vic and Anthony's. Really? I paid for limos.
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Speaker 6: Well, of course you're going to like it. You hit
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Speaker 6: a giant jackpot, basically.
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Speaker 1: No, it wasn't a giant jackpot. That was steady play.
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Speaker 9: Okay.
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Speaker 6: Hand after hand after hand.
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Speaker 17: Man.
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Speaker 6: 1620-945-WTAW, the Infomaniacs. And we're talking about this list that
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Speaker 6: talks about the most overrated tour spots in America. And
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Speaker 6: we're asking if you've ever been... to somewhere that just
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Speaker 6: did not stack up to the hype.
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Speaker 1: Didn't live up to your expectations.
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Speaker 6: You thought it.
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Speaker 1: Was going to be awesome.
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Speaker 6: You show up and you're like... Yeah, where's the nearest Denny's?
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Speaker 6: 979-695-1620 is our... Okay, we got some good ones. I'm
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Speaker 6: a little surprised by some... I think part of this
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Speaker 6: is because I... And I think you are too. I
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Speaker 6: am a history super dork.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: If you put me somewhere... Where something historically significant happened.
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Speaker 1: I will geek out and I will bore my family.
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Speaker 6: And I'll give you, yeah, we were talking about the
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Speaker 6: Alamo and how a lot of people will say the
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Speaker 6: Alamo is underwhelming. Like, next door, you have the Minger Hotel.
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Speaker 1: I love the Minger.
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Speaker 6: Great hotel. There's a bar in that hotel.
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Speaker 1: Love the Minger Bar.
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Speaker 6: The bar is not a great bar on its own,
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Speaker 6: but Teddy Roosevelt once rode a horse into it To
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Speaker 6: recruit for the Rough Riders. The same bar. I haven't
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Speaker 6: had a bad cocktail there. No, it's great. But it's
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Speaker 6: just one. And so I'm in there. I don't even
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Speaker 6: drink in there. I'm looking around. Oh, yeah, it's fascinating.
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Speaker 6: I've entertained myself for hours.
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Speaker 1: Fascinating.
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Speaker 6: So when Frank texts in, definitely Ford's Theater in D.C.
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Speaker 6: I pictured a majestic place. It was just a small
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Speaker 6: little venue trapped in a tiny part of the city. Now,
16:51
Speaker 6: this was in 1981, though. ford's theater of course where uh.
16:55
Speaker 1: You know abraham lincoln was assassinated.
16:57
Speaker 6: Worst worst play ever yeah some might say uh but
17:01
Speaker 6: uh but yeah i would not have thought that amy
17:03
Speaker 6: texan in regards to vegas i went to vegas for
17:06
Speaker 6: the first time in june this year we stayed on
17:08
Speaker 6: fremont street i will never go again so full of
17:12
Speaker 6: sketchy people it was incredibly overwhelming.
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Speaker 1: Uh amy never go back amy that's vegas That's fair, Amy.
17:20
Speaker 1: That's Vegas.
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Speaker 6: Amy, I will tell you this. If that was your
17:22
Speaker 6: experience in Vegas, what I would recommend doing, go to
17:25
Speaker 6: the Strip, pick a hotel, and don't leave. Because you
17:29
Speaker 6: can kind of mitigate it.
17:31
Speaker 1: You can venture out every so often.
17:32
Speaker 6: Maybe go out for dinner. Take an Uber or a
17:36
Speaker 6: Waymo somewhere nice. Go hotel to hotel. But the Strip
17:39
Speaker 6: is fairly disgusting. It's all disgusting. As soon as you
17:44
Speaker 6: get away from where all the money is, it's a problem.
17:46
Speaker 6: But I will say this.
17:47
Speaker 1: And June in Vegas.
17:49
Speaker 6: That Cirque Hotel.
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Speaker 1: Cirque School.
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Speaker 6: Cirque and what was the other one? Oh, Golden Nugget.
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Speaker 6: Tillman's Spot. Those are pretty.
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Speaker 1: I like that. I like the old school stuff there.
17:58
Speaker 1: And I haven't been in a number of years.
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Speaker 6: Sandra, Plymouth Rock. Completely underwhelming.
18:02
Speaker 1: I'm guessing it's just a rock.
18:04
Speaker 6: It is literally just a rock. You're not missing anything.
18:06
Speaker 6: Eric says, speaking of San Antonio. The Riverwalk is very
18:12
Speaker 6: underwhelming and much dirtier than expected. Yeah, dude.
18:16
Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:17
Speaker 6: Love it for what it is.
18:20
Speaker 1: You're not going to get the best food on the Riverwalk.
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Speaker 6: She ain't a 10, but she's a solid 6, and
18:26
Speaker 6: she's fun.
18:27
Speaker 1: And being old enough to remember before they really, really
18:31
Speaker 1: redid it.
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Speaker 20: Yes.
18:35
Speaker 1: I mean, they're pulling a lot higher quality bicycles out
18:38
Speaker 1: of that river now than they used to.
18:39
Speaker 6: Yes, it was not quite. Whenever they dredge it, not
18:43
Speaker 6: quite as tragic. Gary, a couple of them. Gary says
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Speaker 6: he agrees with Plymouth Rock. He agrees with the Alamo
18:51
Speaker 6: being underwhelming, but he totally disagrees about Mount Rushmore.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
18:54
Speaker 6: Which, again, like I said, man, I find it hard
18:57
Speaker 6: to believe you wouldn't have a good time in Mount
18:59
Speaker 6: Rushmore just because of the scenery. The University of Texas
19:02
Speaker 6: at Austin from Jim Singleton says, show up, and it's
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Speaker 6: just the University of Texas at Austin. Can you really
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Speaker 6: say it's underwhelming, Jim?
19:10
Speaker 1: The 40 acres.
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Speaker 6: I feel like you know what you're getting with the
19:12
Speaker 6: 40 acres.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you've never been over there and
19:15
Speaker 1: seen it. Yeah, I don't know. What about Larry?
19:19
Speaker 6: What do you got?
19:19
Speaker 1: Graceland.
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Speaker 20: Wow.
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Speaker 6: I have never been, and I have the TCB tattooed
19:26
Speaker 6: on my chest. I'm that big of an Elvis fan.
19:28
Speaker 6: I've never been to Graceland.
19:29
Speaker 1: I've driven by it. Is it? And I've been I
19:32
Speaker 1: went to the Memphis Zoo, which is it's very, very close.
19:36
Speaker 6: That doesn't seem like a great place. It's a part
19:38
Speaker 6: of town.
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Speaker 1: It is the absolute. It is one of the worst parts.
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Speaker 6: Not to say there's a nice place in Memphis.
19:43
Speaker 1: There are Germantown.
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Speaker 9: Oh, okay.
19:46
Speaker 1: Outside of Memphis.
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Speaker 11: Yeah.
19:47
Speaker 1: But, yeah, Memphis, I mean, you don't, you better come
19:51
Speaker 1: strapped if you're going to Graceland.
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Speaker 6: I'll tell you. Wow, that bad.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I mean, okay, fair.
19:57
Speaker 6: Waukeek, who texted in Waukeek Beach? They grew up in
20:03
Speaker 6: New Orleans and loved Florida white sand beaches, but not
20:05
Speaker 6: volcanic ash.
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Speaker 1: Waikiki Beach? I don't know. I was actually underwhelmed by Hawaii. Now,
20:11
Speaker 1: I was there for work. I was there for work.
20:14
Speaker 1: All I really saw was the hotel and the road
20:16
Speaker 1: between the hotel and the training site.
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Speaker 6: I've heard people say Honolulu is a little bit.
20:20
Speaker 1: It's just a city.
20:21
Speaker 6: Yeah, just a city.
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Speaker 1: It's a city surrounded by, I mean, it's pretty. Yeah.
20:26
Speaker 1: The beaches are nice, but I just did not like it.
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 6: Uh, let's see what else we got.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
20:33
Speaker 6: No, that's all. I just, I, that's, I was not
20:35
Speaker 6: expecting it. Uh, rocks in general says this texture, Howard's
20:39
Speaker 6: rock at Clemson totally didn't get it. Well, you know, I,
20:42
Speaker 6: I don't know that I even get the Howard's rock.
20:45
Speaker 18: Yeah.
20:45
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that.
20:47
Speaker 6: I mean, not to look people in glass houses should
20:51
Speaker 6: not throw rocks.
20:52
Speaker 3: No.
20:53
Speaker 6: And, and God knows a lot of the stuff we
20:55
Speaker 6: do does not necessarily translate. to every single college fan
20:58
Speaker 6: base in the world. But yeah, the rock is just nuts.
21:03
Speaker 1: Not my thing either.
21:04
Speaker 6: All right, guys, like we said, if you've got any more,
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Speaker 6: text us, call us. Have you broken the seal on
21:09
Speaker 6: pumpkin spice lattes yet?
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Speaker 1: I do not. I do not drink pumpkin smoke.
21:14
Speaker 6: You don't imbibe?
21:15
Speaker 1: Not even a little bit.
21:16
Speaker 6: Not even one?
21:17
Speaker 1: Honestly, the only pumpkin stuff in general that I like
21:21
Speaker 1: is that my step-aunt, I guess. No, no, aunt-in-law. My aunt-in-law.
21:26
Speaker 1: Aunt Polly, who's a wonderful, wonderful person. Aunt Polly makes
21:30
Speaker 1: a pumpkin pie for the fall holidays.
21:33
Speaker 6: Oh, well, Lord, if your aunt makes a pumpkin, you
21:35
Speaker 6: must really be mid on pumpkin.
21:38
Speaker 1: I'm very mid on pumpkin.
21:39
Speaker 6: I'm not even a big pumpkin guy, but I do
21:44
Speaker 6: find myself wanting a pumpkin spice latte.
21:47
Speaker 21: Really?
21:48
Speaker 6: Now, the question is, I usually get it hot and
21:51
Speaker 6: people look at me like I'm insane because I usually
21:53
Speaker 6: get it around this time when it drops. But it
21:55
Speaker 6: kind of primes me for the fall.
21:57
Speaker 1: It's just one of those, it's kind of like a.
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Speaker 6: It primes me for the fall.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just, what's the word I'm looking for here?
22:05
Speaker 1: It is a ritual.
22:06
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's something that you have to check off your
22:09
Speaker 6: list to make, yeah, to keep things moving.
22:12
Speaker 1: The pumpkin spice latte is a talisman.
22:15
Speaker 6: For the fall. Yes, and honestly, it takes your mind
22:18
Speaker 6: off of the misery of the late summer months. I'm
22:23
Speaker 6: not saying it's the same. It probably doesn't hit the
22:25
Speaker 6: same as if I was in the Northeast or whatever,
22:27
Speaker 6: and it's all still starting to get a little crisp.
22:29
Speaker 6: But it'll, you know.
22:30
Speaker 1: We have a whole different definition of crisp around here.
22:33
Speaker 6: Tell me I'm wrong. Meanwhile, here come the new pumpkin
22:38
Speaker 6: spice menu offerings. Not from Starbucks, just from people that
22:42
Speaker 6: are trying to gravy train onto that bad boy.
22:44
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah? How about this one?
22:45
Speaker 6: What do you got?
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Speaker 1: Pumpkin spice Mylanta. That's right.
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Speaker 6: When's the last time you used Mylanta for anything?
22:56
Speaker 1: I mean, I will chew up some heartburn medicine.
22:58
Speaker 17: Oh, I do.
22:59
Speaker 6: I go through Tums like a son of a gun.
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Speaker 1: But no, Mylanta, it's been a while. I mean, I'll
23:05
Speaker 1: hear some people say on occasion, oh, Mylanta.
23:09
Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
23:11
Speaker 1: So they've got actually two limited edition flavors out.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
23:14
Speaker 1: The fall harvest liquids are pumpkin spice and spiced apple cider.
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Speaker 9: Really?
23:24
Speaker 1: I would think that spiced apple cider would give you heartburn.
23:27
Speaker 6: That doesn't, that's not going to do any, yeah, that's bad.
23:31
Speaker 1: 12-ounce bottles are available.
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Speaker 6: How much do I have to pay for this?
23:34
Speaker 1: It looks like about $ 10 each on Amazon.
23:37
Speaker 6: You know, it could be. At first, I thought the
23:40
Speaker 6: worst we could get was, and again, maybe this is
23:43
Speaker 6: not that bad.
23:43
Speaker 9: Perhaps it is.
23:44
Speaker 6: You know, pumpkin spice laxatives, you don't even have to
23:48
Speaker 6: change the PSL, still works.
23:50
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Brazos
29:50
Speaker 1: County Commissioner's Court met Tuesday to discuss the county's budget
29:53
Speaker 1: and tax rate. County Judge Dwayne Peters calls for the
29:57
Speaker 1: vote on the proposed budget at $ 482 million.
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Speaker 2: We've got a motion and a second to approve the
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Speaker 2: budget as proposed.
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Speaker 1: All in favor, raise your right hand.
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Speaker 20: Opposed?
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Speaker 1: So we've got, it's four to one. Commissioner Bentley Nettles
30:15
Speaker 1: was the only nay. The proposed tax rate before the
30:18
Speaker 1: court was 44.84 cents per $ 100 valuation. This is what
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Speaker 1: Commissioner Fred Brown had to say.
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Speaker 24: I've been diametrically opposed to to anything more than the
30:29
Speaker 24: no new revenue rate. And I will continue to be
30:32
Speaker 24: that way.
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Speaker 1: And, you know, I'm lucky.
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Speaker 24: I'm a benefactor of my own legislation as far as
30:37
Speaker 24: the senior tax freeze is concerned. And that saves my
30:40
Speaker 24: wife and I some money because our taxes are frozen
30:43
Speaker 24: for the county and the city. But it doesn't help
30:46
Speaker 24: my kids.
30:47
Speaker 1: It doesn't help my neighbors.
30:48
Speaker 24: It doesn't help a lot of people in this county
30:50
Speaker 24: that every year they see their taxes go up.
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Speaker 1: Chuck Condolo moved to adopt a slightly lower tax rate
30:57
Speaker 1: of 44.34. That rate was approved by a vote of
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Speaker 1: 3-2 with Commissioners Nettles and Brown voting against. Commissioners also
31:06
Speaker 1: voted to enact a burn ban. Outdoor burning is prohibited
31:09
Speaker 1: in Brazos County. Burleson County is now the only county
31:13
Speaker 1: in the Brazos Valley to have not adopted a burn ban.
31:16
Speaker 1: And the Snook Volunteer Fire Department took to social media
31:19
Speaker 1: to encourage lawmakers to rethink that decision. The family of
31:23
Speaker 1: Caden Crow, a 22-year-old Texas A & M pharmacy student
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Speaker 1: who died after suffering a gunshot wound to his abdomen,
31:30
Speaker 1: held a press conference yesterday. The press conference was hosted
31:33
Speaker 1: by longtime investigative journalist Wayne Dulcefino.
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Speaker 14: It's weird because there was no coverage of it in
31:41
Speaker 14: the local media.
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Speaker 1: One of the weird reactions is I had no idea
31:45
Speaker 1: this had happened. And he's right. We, the media, had
31:49
Speaker 1: no way of knowing about Crow's death because the man
31:51
Speaker 1: who shot him was never arrested. Dulcifino recently released the
31:56
Speaker 1: results of his investigation. Crow was shot by his roommate,
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Speaker 1: Charlie Boggan, who said he was cleaning his gun at
32:02
Speaker 1: 3 o'clock in the morning on May 2nd after admittedly drinking.
32:06
Speaker 1: Had Boggan been arrested, all of the local media outlets
32:08
Speaker 1: would have seen the arrest record and reported the newsworthy
32:11
Speaker 1: story accordingly. The Crow family wants justice for Caden after
32:15
Speaker 1: a grand jury declined to indict Boggan. They want to
32:18
Speaker 1: know if all the currently available evidence was presented. They
32:22
Speaker 1: are scheduled to meet with the Brazos County District Attorney's
32:24
Speaker 1: Office at 9 o'clock this morning. Crow was honored alongside
32:28
Speaker 1: eight other Aggies at last night's Silver Taps. Texas A
32:32
Speaker 1: & M University police are warning fans about buying sports
32:35
Speaker 1: passes from third parties. They say to be wary if
32:38
Speaker 1: someone asks for a picture of your student ID or
32:41
Speaker 1: other IDs. The 12-Man Foundation is the official ticket seller
32:45
Speaker 1: and SeatGeek is the official reseller. Another police officer has
32:49
Speaker 1: been charged with misuse of flock camera data. The officer
32:53
Speaker 1: from Amarillo has been charged with 78 counts of tampering.
32:57
Speaker 16: Christian Eder is accused of using the system to track
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Speaker 16: a man who had dated a fellow officer, an officer
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Speaker 16: whom Eder was also interested in. According to KVII, that
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Speaker 16: man and the female officer had stopped seeing each other
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Speaker 16: when Eder began tracking him through the flock system. Eder
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Speaker 16: allegedly searched the cameras 76 times for the victim's license
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Speaker 16: plate between February and June, and with no police cases
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Speaker 16: or assignments connected to any of the searches. He was
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Speaker 16: fired from the Amarillo department in July. Each count of
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Speaker 16: tampering is a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to
33:30
Speaker 16: a year in jail, a $ 4, 000 fine, or both. I'm
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Speaker 16: Kristen Yates, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Texas cattlemen are strongly pushing back against the president's plan
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Speaker 1: to temporarily waive tariffs on up to 300,000 metric tons
33:43
Speaker 1: of imported ground beef.
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Speaker 18: The going rate for ground beef, according to federal figures,
33:48
Speaker 18: is $ 6. 89 per pound. On the American ranches where that
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Speaker 18: meat comes from.
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Speaker 6: There's definitely a crisis when it comes to cattle right now.
33:56
Speaker 18: Michigan cattle raiser Kevin Minney says that allowing cheaper imported
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Speaker 18: beef into the market may eventually lower prices for consumers.
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Speaker 14: But at the same time, the overall herd size in
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Speaker 14: the United States is the lowest that has been since 1951.
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Speaker 18: He says the imports may hamper efforts to grow that herd.
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Speaker 1: That's TSN's Jim Ryan reporting. Texas is kicking the tires
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Speaker 1: on its new immigration law that has been found unconstitutional
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Speaker 1: by a federal judge twice. Texas Senate Bill 4 makes
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Speaker 1: unauthorized entry from a foreign country a state misdemeanor. and
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Speaker 1: gives local judges power to deport those found guilty.
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Speaker 11: We have seen some enforcement.
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Speaker 6: I would say a small number of cases, mostly in
34:35
Speaker 6: border counties.
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Speaker 7: These cases appear to be initiated by DPS.
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Speaker 1: Caro Rivera Nelson is an attorney with the ACLU of Texas.
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Speaker 1: She disagrees with Governor Abbott's claim that allowing local police
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Speaker 1: to arrest those suspected of entering illegally will make Texans safer.
34:51
Speaker 11: It actually takes police officers away from their actual job,
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Speaker 11: which is keep criminals off the streets, and instead puts
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Speaker 11: them in the hands of playing pretend ICE officers.
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Speaker 1: Senate Bill 4 was struck down twice in federal court,
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Speaker 1: but reinstated on appeal. That appeals court will hear arguments
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Speaker 1: Oh, I hate that.
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Speaker 1: who do a lot more online shopping than I do.
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Speaker 6: So you think it's the online shopping?
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Speaker 6: So she has a theory. And I was fascinated by this.
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Speaker 1: Oh, they got hacked here.
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Speaker 6: Well, she thinks because she has looked at it and said, no, no, no.
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Speaker 6: Every time I order from there, I feel like, and
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Speaker 1: I'll take out places. As many of the best Chinese
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Speaker 6: If it has a really cool one, it's probably not
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Speaker 1: Probably not.
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Speaker 6: And it's happened enough to where she thinks it's this
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 6: No, it's not.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 6: She says it is worth it to continue ordering. But
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Speaker 6: you know, okay, that's, suspicious. But what else have you
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Speaker 6: been buying? And, you know, again, a lot of online
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Speaker 6: shopping is in there. And also, she eats a phenomenal, like,
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Speaker 6: she is the biggest fan of takeout Chinese food, probably
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Speaker 6: That's her jam.
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Speaker 17: So.
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Speaker 6: Can you really say that it's this one place? But
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Speaker 1: It depends on what it is. Like I had a
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Speaker 1: credit card number that was stolen at a small restaurant
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Speaker 1: when that had happened because that was a credit card
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Speaker 20: Right.
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Speaker 1: So we knew exactly.
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Speaker 6: I only whipped this thing out.
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Speaker 1: Knew exactly when that happened. Right. Occasionally you'll get the
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Speaker 1: fraud alerts on the phone. Nowadays, it's very easy to,
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Speaker 1: you know, they'll text you, you text them back, no,
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Speaker 1: that wasn't me.
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Speaker 6: It's so fast.
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Speaker 1: Or you can turn your card off.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely. It's like, boom, it's done. Text message. You
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Speaker 6: can go into the credit card machine at the end
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Speaker 6: of the day and have it print out a report.
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Speaker 6: It'll print everyone's name and their credit card numbers. So
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Speaker 6: all it is could be one unscrupulous employee that pushes
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Speaker 6: that button and doesn't get caught.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I mean, no, I assume that is a possibility.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 6: That's how it could happen. But also, I don't see
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Speaker 6: a lot of... And I would never read the name
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Speaker 6: of the business, just in case.
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Speaker 1: Right, of course.
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Speaker 6: But if you want to text us in and be like,
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Speaker 6: you've got some suspicions, you know, then maybe I'll be
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Speaker 6: on the right track.
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Speaker 1: Shockingly, I don't think it happens as much as it could.
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Speaker 6: I don't think.
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Speaker 1: I mean, our data is so out there.
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Speaker 6: Do you realize how many times I use a debit
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Speaker 6: card in a week?
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Speaker 17: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 6: Like, it's incre... Like... The fact that it only happens
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Speaker 6: once every so often to where it's a really annoying
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Speaker 6: thing and it sucks. I've only been hacked in my
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Speaker 6: entire financial history, I think, once.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: And it has not happened since I've been at this
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Speaker 6: bank that I've been at for the last eight or
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Speaker 6: nine years.
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Speaker 1: I've had friends whose accounts were cleaned out.
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Speaker 9: Oh, I know.
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Speaker 1: It can absolutely happen. It can get very bad. And,
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Speaker 1: of course, you don't want that to happen. Funny little coincidence.
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Speaker 1: debit card story here. I have my debit card number
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Speaker 1: memorized and I did it accidentally.
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Speaker 11: What?
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Speaker 13: Really?
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Speaker 1: My wife and daughters ask for it so often.
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Speaker 6: It just happened that way.
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Speaker 1: That I now have my debit card number memorized. Which
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Speaker 1: is good because my debit card is barely hanging on
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Speaker 1: the physical presence of it and the numbers you can't
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Speaker 1: really read. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, but
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Speaker 1: I can just rattle it off.
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Speaker 6: Phyllis, text in. I do know Phyllis. Tucker, your wife
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Speaker 6: is the smartest person I know. Phyllis, she is also
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Speaker 6: the smartest person I know. Anyway, she goes on to say,
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Speaker 6: if she thinks it's that one place, my vote's with Rain.
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Speaker 9: Again, I don't know. I don't know.
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Speaker 6: This is why I bring it to you guys. If
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Speaker 6: you have been in this situation, have you ever gotten
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Speaker 6: hacked and kind of were able to track it down?
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Speaker 6: Because I've always thought it's impossible.
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Speaker 1: It takes a little forensics.
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Speaker 6: It's 100% impossible. And, you know, could it be as
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Speaker 6: simple as a restaurant?
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it's a restaurant. I will say it's
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Speaker 1: the restaurant employee. Just like I am not blaming DoorDash
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Speaker 6: DoorDash didn't make that happen, y'all. That was someone that
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Speaker 6: took some serious liberties.
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Speaker 1: Serious.
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Speaker 6: Serious, serious liberties. I finally... Man, I cannot tell you
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Speaker 6: how happy I was to see Hawaiian shirts getting into
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Speaker 6: the news.
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Speaker 1: Oh, isn't that great?
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Speaker 6: Will and I both love a Hawaiian shirt.
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Speaker 1: We've got our share, and your collection is wild.
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Speaker 6: I love a Hawaiian shirt, and I know there's some
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Speaker 6: of my people out there that do as well, and
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Speaker 6: holler if you hear me.
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Speaker 1: Well, even if Hawaiian is not your jam, what this
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Speaker 1: guy has come up with, isn't necessarily, it doesn't have
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Speaker 1: to be Hawaiian shirt. So what is happening is a
43:46
Speaker 1: German designer has created this summer Hawaiian shirt.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
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Speaker 1: And it's got this abstract pattern on it that supposedly
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Speaker 1: absolutely freaks out AI-powered surveillance cameras.
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Speaker 6: From what I've seen, this is pretty cool. It can't
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Speaker 6: see you. You're like John Cena if you wear this thing.
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Speaker 6: Everyone else can see you on the street because it's loud.
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Speaker 6: It's deliciously loud. But it seems like it can, you know,
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Speaker 6: keep you off the grid.
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Speaker 1: It's bright colors. The pattern is, they say, closer to
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Speaker 1: random shapes than something floral and fun. But it can
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Speaker 1: make you invisible to many AI-powered cameras. However, AI learns.
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Speaker 6: Son of a gun.
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Speaker 1: Of course it does. So beat it while you can.
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Speaker 6: Of course it does. So today... Might get you by.
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Speaker 1: Might get you by. But this is not the first
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Speaker 1: I've heard of this.
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Speaker 11: Really?
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Speaker 1: There are a bunch of different patterns that apparently fool
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Speaker 1: the AI camera.
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Speaker 6: Seriously?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I've never heard this.
44:42
Speaker 1: So what we have to do is realize those and
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Speaker 1: then don't post them on social media. Word of mouth, people.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: Let's get together and share this information.
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Speaker 6: Share it with another human.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Not the machine.
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Speaker 1: Or just don't tell anybody.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That would be the best. Put out an AI shirt
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Speaker 1: and don't tell anybody that it doesn't do that. Exactly.
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Speaker 11: The No.
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Speaker 5: 8 Aggie football team is three days away from hosting
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Speaker 5: the Missouri State Bears for the first time in the
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Speaker 5: two programs' histories. Head coach Mike Elko spoke about how
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Speaker 5: much he can learn from his team during Game 1
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Speaker 5: of the 2026 season.
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Speaker 20: I think we want to go out and we want
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Speaker 20: to see where we are, knowing that what we're going
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Speaker 20: to be is going to be way better than that
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Speaker 20: each week we go out there. And so I don't
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Speaker 20: know that you have these things that you're looking for
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Speaker 20: because I'm not trying to– I feel like sometimes in openers,
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Speaker 20: everyone's trying to identify, is this team going to be
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Speaker 20: good enough? I know we're good enough to compete. I
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Speaker 20: is be a team that focuses on what is important
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Speaker 20: to play winning football, and then that grows week to week.
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Speaker 20: And so for me, I want to go out there.
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Speaker 20: I want to play somebody. I want to see where
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Speaker 20: we're at. And then from there, it's going to be
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Speaker 20: really important, wherever that is, that we grow coming out
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Speaker 20: of it. And that, to me, is what makes really,
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Speaker 5: On the offense, A & M returns five starters with
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Speaker 7: For week one.
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Speaker 5: on saturday night at kyle field with kickoff set for
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Speaker 5: six o'clock The No. 12 Aggie volleyball team continues their
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Speaker 5: & M women's golf team was ranked No. 4 on
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Speaker 5: The A & M soccer team is continuing their home
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Speaker 5: set to face the TCU Horned Frogs. Head coach Bobby
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Speaker 5: Shuttleworth recapped the team's recent games and what the team's
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Speaker 26: Two wins in a row now, so the team's feeling
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Speaker 26: that and feeling confident, but we talked about after the
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Speaker 26: game a lot of things that we did really well
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Speaker 26: need to improve upon, so They had the weekend off
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Speaker 26: back in and then start looking at TCU and think
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Speaker 26: we have the best environment in the country, game environment.
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Speaker 1: So obviously that.
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Speaker 26: Helps us a lot, gives us a lot of energy.
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Speaker 26: It's a young team, so starting three in a row
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Speaker 26: step at a time, you know, against a good TCU team.
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Speaker 6: 1620, 94.5 WTAW. Mid-90s today for highs. And, yeah, still
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Speaker 6: watching to see if we'll get any rain off of Edouard.
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Speaker 6: But it does not look likely here. But they're keeping
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Speaker 6: a 60% chance in the forecast. The further east you go,
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Speaker 6: the better chances get. You know the drill. Down to
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Speaker 6: the 70s tonight and back up to the mid-90s tomorrow,
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Speaker 6: which is, I'm sorry, I don't care. That is a
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Speaker 6: to address a text message here from Sam. Must be
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Speaker 6: nice to wear Hawaiian shirts and dress for radio every day. Sam,
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Speaker 6: it is.
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Speaker 1: It is fantastic.
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Speaker 6: But I'll tell you this. There's nothing stopping you, Sam.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: From living that life as well. And again, feel free.
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Speaker 6: If I am overstepping in any capacity, let us know.
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Speaker 6: I think Hawaiian shirt is formal. If you do it right.
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Speaker 6: Not formal, but definitely work attire.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you.
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Speaker 6: Pair it with some nice slack.
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Speaker 1: If the fishing shirt, which it has, has become ubiquitous,
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Speaker 1: you know, business casual, why can't the Hawaiian shirt be
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Speaker 1: business casual?
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Speaker 6: Can you tell me you can't put on a Tommy Bahama?
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Speaker 6: That's a fine, fancy shirt. And some pants and some
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Speaker 6: nice shoes and walk into any office in this fair country.
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Speaker 1: Even the subtle ones. Even the subtle Tommy Bahamas. Not
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Speaker 1: with a lot of colors. The owner of this radio station.
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Speaker 6: He is the king of Hawaiian shirts. No one rocks
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Speaker 6: a Tommy Bahama like our boss.
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Speaker 1: No one.
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Speaker 6: Not one person have yet to meet him. So again,
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Speaker 6: don't limit yourself, Sam. Don't limit yourself. No man is limited.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 6: Wear a Hawaiian shirt today to work if you want to.
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Speaker 1: See what happens.
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Speaker 6: Good things.
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Speaker 1: Let us know.
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Speaker 6: Good things are on the horizon for you, Sam.
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