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The Infomaniacs: October 14th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce held
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  Speaker 1: a candidate forum featuring candidates from many state and local races.
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  Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia asked the candidates for State Representative District 14
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  Speaker 1: candidates How they would help relieve the tax burden on homeowners.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Miller's idea isn't new.
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  Speaker 2: The first thing to say is I support eliminating property
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  Speaker 2: taxes entirely.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks Austin needs to tighten its belt.
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  Speaker 2: We have to reduce what the state budget is that
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  Speaker 2: the county is even responsible for. We've already got that
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  Speaker 2: where the county will blame the state and the state
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  Speaker 2: will blame the county as far as why rates go up.
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  Speaker 1: Janet Dudding says a flaw in property taxes... is how
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  Speaker 1: easy it is for businesses to protest appeals during what
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  Speaker 1: is called POPs law.
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  Speaker 3: It allows corporate entities to pick and choose their own comps,
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  Speaker 3: which lowers their property taxes. You've got to have a
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  Speaker 3: good attorney to be able to do it. We need
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  Speaker 3: to eliminate that. We've been talking about it for years.
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  Speaker 1: Incumbent Paul Dyson floats an idea of sales taxes to
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  Speaker 1: offset property taxes.
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  Speaker 4: Do we allow them to set off a certain amount
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  Speaker 4: of property tax and it'll be a direct offset with
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  Speaker 4: an optional sales tax that would come in, that we
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  Speaker 4: also make sure that there can't be a windfall, because
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  Speaker 4: I'm not trying to increase our tax liability. We all
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  Speaker 4: have to pay it, and we're paying it enough, and
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  Speaker 4: affordability is an issue.
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  Speaker 1: He says right now homestead exemptions are capped at 20%.
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  Speaker 4: 20% is the max that they could do. That's the
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  Speaker 4: relief they're allowed to do. I've asked, and I still
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  Speaker 4: don't have an answer, and I'm trying to figure out,
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  Speaker 4: what's the policy behind that? Why do we limit what
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  Speaker 4: the exemption is that a local county wants to do?
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  Speaker 1: Hear from all the candidates at last night's forum, State
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  Speaker 1: Representative District 12, Commissioner's Court, and Mayor, now streaming at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: The forum next Monday will feature candidates running for City
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  Speaker 1: Council in Bryan and College Station, also at 6 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at the Brazza Center and live on WTAW. The Bryan
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  Speaker 1: City Council announced that it is waiving attorney-client privileges to
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  Speaker 1: allow residents to view a legal opinion about the Texas
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  Speaker 1: Avenue Medians Charter Amendment that will be on the November
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  Speaker 1: 2026 election ballot. The city says that regardless of the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of the election, it is unlikely that the city
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  Speaker 1: has the legal authority to make any modifications to the
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  Speaker 1: medians or remove them completely. It would probably violate the
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  Speaker 1: Texas Transportation Code if done without the Texas Department of
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  Speaker 1: Transportation's written consent or an agreement delegating control over the
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  Speaker 1: medians to the city. The city estimates the financial impact
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  Speaker 1: for median removal is $ 8 million. If the project moves forward,
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  Speaker 1: the city will have to identify a funding source, potentially
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  Speaker 1: limiting what can be spent on other capital projects. Texas
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  Speaker 1: Health and Human Services Commission may cut funding for children's
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  Speaker 1: autism programs.
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  Speaker 5: The program allows some families to pay nothing for autism services.
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  Speaker 5: But because of state budget cuts, the Texas Health and
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  Speaker 5: Human Services Commission is proposing eliminating funding for the children's
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  Speaker 5: autism program entirely. The program, which started in 2008, contracts
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  Speaker 5: with 16 providers across the state to provide focused applied
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  Speaker 5: behavior analysis therapy to autistic children at a reduced cost
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  Speaker 5: based on families' income and insurance coverage. If the legislature
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  Speaker 5: agrees to eliminate the program, children would still receive services
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  Speaker 5: through the end of 2027.
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  Speaker 6: Lisa Lucera, Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: More news at 7.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 7: Howdy, I'm Bob Yancey, proud Aggie grad and Air Force veteran,
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  Speaker 7: two-term councilman and candidate for College Station Mayor. If you
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  Speaker 7: believe City Hall should put citizens, neighborhoods and public safety first...
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  Speaker 7: I hope you'll consider a vote for me, Bob Yancey.
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  Speaker 7: I'll hold the line on taxes and spending, welcome smart
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  Speaker 7: growth and a healthy housing market, and find ways to
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  Speaker 7: work better together supporting transparency and common sense in City Hall.
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  Speaker 7: Please vote Bob Yancey.
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  Speaker 8: Political ad paid for by the Bob Yancey Campaign.
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  Speaker 9: Christy Yancey, Treasurer.
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  Speaker 10: Don't let the scary tantrum accident haunt your Halloween.
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  Speaker 11: At Jack Winslow Body Shop and College.
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  Speaker 10: Station, they turn those frightful dings and collisions back into
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  Speaker 13: Jack Winslow Body Shop.
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  Speaker 14: Nothing should scare you more than a bad body job.
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  Speaker 11: Happy Halloween from Jack Winslow Body Shop.
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  Speaker 9: All rise.
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  Speaker 6: The state of Texas versus Juan and Mary Sanchez.
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  Speaker 15: The charge, child abuse for refusing to recognize their son
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  Speaker 15: as a girl.
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  Speaker 16: Sounds insane, right? Well, Gina Hinojosa supports the radical policy
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  Speaker 16: of taxpayers paying for sex change surgery for kids and
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  Speaker 16: the assault on parental rights. And Hinojosa believes schools should
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  Speaker 16: be able to transition children behind their parents' backs. But
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  Speaker 16: that's just the beginning. Gina Hinojosa supports allowing boys and
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  Speaker 16: girls sports and in their locker rooms. It's gross, unfair,
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  Speaker 16: and harmful to girls. And what does Gina Hinojosa say
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  Speaker 16: about it?
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  Speaker 1: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 17: I really don't understand how girls would be hurt by this.
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  Speaker 18: A threat to our little girls that doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 16: Gina Hinojosa, radical, dangerous. We cannot allow her to become
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  Speaker 16: governor of Texas.
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  Speaker 19: Weather today, yeah, the rain is going to be a possibility.
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  Speaker 19: 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms. That snuck up on
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  Speaker 19: me completely, and I can't go back to look and
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  Speaker 19: see if that was my bad or if it just— No.
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  Speaker 1: The forecast is all over the place.
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  Speaker 19: Partly sunny outside of that with a high near 91.
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  Speaker 19: It's going to feel like the low 100s, but you'll
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  Speaker 19: get 20-mile-an-hour winds today, so a little breezy should keep
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  Speaker 19: it nice down to around 70 tonight.
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  Speaker 1: I'm holding my hand up because I have a question.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker, don't we usually have a sunrise before now?
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  Speaker 6: I believe so, Will. It's usually, well, we're getting a
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  Speaker 6: little piece of it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: A little bit.
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  Speaker 1: I know the day is getting shorter.
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  Speaker 6: Here, let me just do this for today.
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  Speaker 20: Okay.
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  Speaker 12: I did like having the sunrise visible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just thought it was, I was thinking it
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  Speaker 1: seemed a little dark out there. There are some clouds.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, we're getting a good amount of clouds, and I
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  Speaker 19: would assume based on the radar that we were discussing,
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  Speaker 19: we'll probably see some pop-up showers.
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  Speaker 1: I think the heating, yeah, as the heating gets in,
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  Speaker 1: that energy will build, and we'll get some precipitation, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see.
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  Speaker 19: Back to the medians, just because Terry had texted in,
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  Speaker 19: we didn't get time to go. It's a long text.
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  Speaker 19: I did want to read this. For one, I don't
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  Speaker 19: know why they needed to pay an independent attorney, whatever
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  Speaker 19: the taxpayer paid hired city attorney should have been able
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  Speaker 19: to interpret the law, the government state roads and regulations
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  Speaker 19: surrounding them, which is.
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  Speaker 1: And be able to be impartial in this.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 19: And, you know, again, if you're dealing with attorneys in Austin,
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  Speaker 19: my first assumption is attorneys that are dialed into state politics,
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  Speaker 19: state process. And you know how lawyers be. You've got
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  Speaker 19: to get ones that know exactly what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 19: And some of those are going to be specialists.
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  Speaker 6: I trust.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what we're speculating.
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  Speaker 19: And again, this is related to the waiving of attorney-client
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  Speaker 19: privilege to release a memo that says basically, hey, we
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  Speaker 19: can't touch these things. We can't touch them no matter
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  Speaker 19: what you vote.
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  Speaker 1: Only under very specific circumstances, and then it would be costly.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah, and you might have to call the attorney general
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  Speaker 19: to even see. But he goes on. Also, in the 80s,
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  Speaker 19: whenever my dad was TxDOT area engineer of the city
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  Speaker 19: of Bryan, They tried to change the speed limit on
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  Speaker 19: William Joel Bryan without state approval and in violation of
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  Speaker 19: uniform codes that set speed limits. If you do not
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  Speaker 19: abide by state regulations on state roads that run through
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  Speaker 19: your city, then you could lose all state funding associated
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  Speaker 19: with that road that is in violation of the law
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  Speaker 19: slash regulations.
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  Speaker 6: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: He explains.
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  Speaker 19: So remove the medians without approval or agreement from TxDOT
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  Speaker 19: and possibly suffer the loss of funding to maintain that road, period,
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  Speaker 19: which is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Very valid point.
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  Speaker 6: That's a great point.
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  Speaker 19: There's absolutely money that we use that is tied up
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  Speaker 19: with doing what TxDOT does. regulation state, which is why
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  Speaker 19: TxDOT regulations are important.
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  Speaker 1: And we know Terry is very bright and knows a
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  Speaker 1: lot because in his next statement, he says, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are very wise and have common sense beyond your years. Oh, Terry. Oh, Terry.
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  Speaker 19: The moment this was put on the ballot, he goes
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  Speaker 19: on to say, I knew it was nothing more than
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  Speaker 19: a political move. Yes, they have whispered that it didn't
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  Speaker 19: mean anything while yelling, I am fighting for the people.
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  Speaker 19: By getting a vote to remove those evil medians, but
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  Speaker 19: never stating both in the same statement.
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  Speaker 6: They were always separate.
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  Speaker 19: In one message, the one to remove the medians was
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  Speaker 19: always louder, and more often than the message of this
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  Speaker 19: vote doesn't actually do anything. i we we did mention
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  Speaker 19: that if you if you join is there have always
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  Speaker 19: been the following questions surrounding medians on texas avenue biggest
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  Speaker 19: question is once they go in do you actually have
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  Speaker 19: the authority to pull them up even if you want
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  Speaker 19: to And that's always been one that's out there. Most
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  Speaker 19: people agreed, hey, probably not. Now, the second tier of
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  Speaker 19: this is what we were discussing about when it comes
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  Speaker 19: to the price tag.
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  Speaker 12: Even if you could, even if you could, it's $ 8 million.
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  Speaker 19: It's $ 8 million that you have to come up with
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  Speaker 19: to strip them out completely.
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  Speaker 6: And honestly, a.
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  Speaker 19: I would imagine this is not addressed, but I'm just
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  Speaker 19: going to guess a lengthy, lengthy process.
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  Speaker 1: Which will cost you a lot of money in and
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  Speaker 1: of itself.
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  Speaker 19: If it even runs on time and on budget. And
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  Speaker 19: so I think maybe they factor that into the $ 8 million.
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  Speaker 19: But honestly, from the totals that they were kicking around
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  Speaker 19: before this memo. I was actually struck that the $ 8
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  Speaker 19: million was.
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  Speaker 1: As low as it was. I thought it was a
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  Speaker 1: little light.
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  Speaker 19: Honestly, I thought it was about 30% higher than that
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  Speaker 19: from what people had guesstimated around.
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  Speaker 6: So that's the latest.
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  Speaker 19: If you want to review it, if you want to
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  Speaker 19: get the exact terminology or the exact nature of what
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  Speaker 19: they released last night, we do have it online at WTAW.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's one of the great things about this
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  Speaker 1: place and what this place does and stands for. is
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  Speaker 1: Tucker and I, we may or may not tell you
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  Speaker 1: our opinions. We will never tell you what you need
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  Speaker 1: to think. What we are here to do is to
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  Speaker 1: provide you information that can allow you to make your
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  Speaker 1: own choices and decisions, such as with everything that we're
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  Speaker 1: doing with the politician interviews.
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  Speaker 6: And so forth like that.
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  Speaker 19: We get the ability to put this stuff out there
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  Speaker 19: unedited in long form.
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  Speaker 6: It's a real luxury.
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  Speaker 19: One of the reasons I like working here doing this
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  Speaker 19: side of things is there's not a lot of hey
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  Speaker 19: this if you can't get it the the quote in
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  Speaker 19: 20 seconds we're not going to use it or we
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  Speaker 19: just we just don't care we're just going to put
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  Speaker 19: it out there you can go and listen to however
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  Speaker 19: much you want watch however much you want and if
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  Speaker 19: it helps you find out what you need to know
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  Speaker 19: that's the point um and so with that in mind
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  Speaker 19: Go check it out. A fascinating drop, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 19: we'll be discussing it more with the City of Bryan
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  Speaker 19: coming up tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe so.
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  Speaker 19: Because I want to say Jared Salvato. Yeah, we'll have
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  Speaker 19: Jared in, so he'll have a lot to say, I think.
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  Speaker 6: Hopefully, anyway.
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  Speaker 12: Also from Woody, Will, sunrise 727 today, boys.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: 727.
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  Speaker 1: I noticed it last night. It was actually getting dark
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  Speaker 1: when I got into bed, which was nice.
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  Speaker 19: I enjoy that quite a bit. This is what Daylight
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  Speaker 19: Savings gets you in fall and winter. Possibly, just going
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  Speaker 19: to say it. Because of the cloud cover, possibly we'll
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  Speaker 19: have a very nice sunrise.
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  Speaker 1: It's possible. If it hits just right, it could be spectacular.
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  Speaker 6: We've got to take a break. Back after this.
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  Speaker 15: I'm Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. Brian has something special. We're growing,
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  Speaker 15: downtown Brian, incredible local restaurants, live music, arts, entertainment, parks, neighborhoods,
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  Speaker 15: and a community that still knows how to come together.
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  Speaker 15: I want us to grow responsibly while protecting the character
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  Speaker 15: isn't about becoming somebody else. It's about becoming an even
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  Speaker 6: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys. Should we talk about the Kelly
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  Speaker 6: Clarkson thing?
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  Speaker 12: I've waited this long. I can't wait no longer.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this popped up in news yesterday. And yesterday, I mean, look,
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  Speaker 1: our pile of things that we can talk about, is huge.
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  Speaker 1: So we didn't get to it yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: No, we had like a million interviews and everything else
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  Speaker 6: like that.
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  Speaker 19: I'll give you the background.
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  Speaker 1: Give us the synopsis.
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  Speaker 6: So a few days ago.
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  Speaker 19: And I think it was over the weekend, it was
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  Speaker 19: like Friday, Kelly Clarkson absolutely went scorched earth on this
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  Speaker 19: toy store in Brooklyn.
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  Speaker 6: It's like a bougie toy store. Yeah, apparently she walked
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  Speaker 6: on it. Toy store for rich people.
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  Speaker 1: She walked in. She saw something on the wall. She
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  Speaker 1: claims that it had a price tag on it.
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  Speaker 6: Of $ 15, 000. It's like a robot bird.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and she wanted it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, she wanted it.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: And they said, according to her, they treated her like
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: pretty woman.
• 16:38
  Speaker 19: Yeah, they basically insinuated that, oh, why don't you look
• 16:42
  Speaker 19: over here at this? Maybe this is more your speed.
• 16:45
  Speaker 19: And she was offended. It's like, well, how dare you
• 16:47
  Speaker 19: just cost yourself a sale? And then immediately, obviously, something
• 16:54
  Speaker 19: like that tends to attract a lot of attention. And
• 16:58
  Speaker 19: all of these people... started bombarding this store like all
• 17:03
  Speaker 19: of the kelly yeah do they have a name they
• 17:06
  Speaker 19: do it's like kelly celebrity celebrities collaborate kelly like kelly
• 17:12
  Speaker 19: and celebrities all okay i.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: Don't know but whatever the army of of kelly clarkson zombies.
• 17:17
  Speaker 19: So the uh the the store put out a response
• 17:19
  Speaker 19: and said hey look Well.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Their first response was that wasn't for sale It's not.
• 17:24
  Speaker 19: For sale This is why That bird takes six years.
• 17:29
  Speaker 6: To make It's a one of a kind item It's kind.
• 17:31
  Speaker 19: Of their mascot So it attracts attention People actually really
• 17:36
  Speaker 19: do care about this bird And will come in to
• 17:38
  Speaker 19: see this bird Thusly maybe buying something at the store.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: But why do they have a price tag on it?
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Why do they?
• 17:44
  Speaker 19: The artist said it would take about $ 15, 000 To make
• 17:46
  Speaker 19: one in about six years So in.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: You've said this before. Everything's for sale.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, everything I've got is for sale. None of it
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: is on sale.
• 17:55
  Speaker 19: Yeah, so if the price is right, I assume they
• 18:00
  Speaker 19: would have. But again, this is a discussion that you
• 18:03
  Speaker 19: would have.
• 18:05
  Speaker 23: Right.
• 18:05
  Speaker 6: Now, so Kelly.
• 18:07
  Speaker 19: then responds to this tweet with like a gotcha thing
• 18:10
  Speaker 19: where she screen capped the price tag from a reel
• 18:13
  Speaker 19: that was on.
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: It's like, no, look, it's got a price.
• 18:14
  Speaker 19: Sure, it's got a price tag, but he's also saying
• 18:16
  Speaker 19: they're not interested in selling it. And again, the people
• 18:20
  Speaker 19: who were getting, this was very one-sided at the first
• 18:24
  Speaker 19: outset because Kelly Clarkson has a million billion fans and
• 18:29
  Speaker 19: they're really, really serious about making this thing shop owner's
• 18:34
  Speaker 19: life a living hell.
• 18:35
  Speaker 21: We are afraid for the safety of our shopkeepers. Kelly
• 18:37
  Speaker 21: Clarkson has put us in danger. This is an insane misunderstanding.
• 18:41
  Speaker 21: Nothing happened in this shop to justify her scolding our
• 18:45
  Speaker 21: shopkeeper on the way out. If it is this intense
• 18:47
  Speaker 21: to be merely mentioned by Kelly Clarkson, I can only
• 18:50
  Speaker 21: imagine how intense it is to be Kelly Clarkson. every
• 18:53
  Speaker 21: single day, but things changed when she used her platform
• 18:56
  Speaker 21: to attack us. When Kelly came in, the shop was crowded.
• 18:59
  Speaker 21: We treated her like a normal person, but apparently that
• 19:01
  Speaker 21: did not live up to her expectations.
• 19:03
  Speaker 23: See?
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Actually, a very measured response.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I thought so. There were a couple little small jabs
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: in there. Here's the deal. Kelly Clarkson did not mandate
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: to her zombie followers to attack these people.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: And if you are a shop owner in New York
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: City and you say your life is being threatened because
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: of Kelly Clarkson fans, are you really tough enough to
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: live in New York City?
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: Well, Will, it's Brooklyn.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I thought Brooklyn was tough.
• 19:29
  Speaker 12: No, Will. Will, Brooklyn is not tough anymore.
• 19:33
  Speaker 15: Used to be.
• 19:33
  Speaker 19: Brooklyn is very much not tough. Brooklyn is very, very
• 19:38
  Speaker 19: wealthy and very, very frail. A lot of skinny jeans
• 19:43
  Speaker 19: out there in Brooklyn.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: My friend.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: On my list of things that I'm concerned about, needing
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to defend myself from, Kelly Clarkson Vans is not the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: highest on the list.
• 19:53
  Speaker 19: Now that said, there is a development that I just
• 19:57
  Speaker 19: found out about this morning.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: There is.
• 20:01
  Speaker 19: security camera footage of the entire interaction on multiple Kelly Clarkson.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I believe in the interview with the shop owner yeah
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: he was asked about that and he kind of dodged it.
• 20:12
  Speaker 19: He kind of dodged it because he'd already given it
• 20:14
  Speaker 19: away to Pablo Torre do you know who Pablo Torre.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Is I don't know is is he a Colombian drug
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: lord he sounds like that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 19: Well no Pablo Torre is maybe having he might at
• 20:26
  Speaker 19: this point be the Michael Jordan of sports journalism he's
• 20:29
  Speaker 19: on tear He is on a tear. In the last year,
• 20:32
  Speaker 19: he's won a Pulitzer Prize and got Steve Ballmer, the
• 20:38
  Speaker 19: richest owner in sports, kicked out of the NBA for
• 20:42
  Speaker 19: a calendar year for violating the salary cap. In addition
• 20:46
  Speaker 19: to that, he's also broken about 50 other stories that
• 20:50
  Speaker 19: are like front page headline, multi-cycle news stories.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: He is on fire. There is a whole.
• 20:58
  Speaker 19: Episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, which is his podcast,
• 21:02
  Speaker 19: that just dropped overnight, which talks all about it. It
• 21:07
  Speaker 19: includes the security footage and breaks down the whole thing.
• 21:11
  Speaker 19: And yes, Lisa texts, and I think the truth of
• 21:13
  Speaker 19: this incident is somewhere in the middle.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: As usual.
• 21:15
  Speaker 19: Probably, but I'll also say this. There is a difference
• 21:19
  Speaker 19: between Kelly Clarkson and you and me. I have many times...
• 21:25
  Speaker 19: walked into a store looking like absolute death, looking completely
• 21:29
  Speaker 19: apart from the usual clientele, and gotten big-timed by the staff.
• 21:35
  Speaker 19: I'm just going, eh, okay, move on with my life.
• 21:37
  Speaker 19: The reason being is that thing happens, and it makes
• 21:40
  Speaker 19: you feel horrible. It makes you feel bad when that occurs. Now,
• 21:45
  Speaker 19: that said, Kelly Clarkson, that happens to her This is
• 21:52
  Speaker 19: probably the only time within 20 years and probably for
• 21:56
  Speaker 19: 20 years in the future where she will encounter someone
• 22:00
  Speaker 19: who is not going to treat her exponentially better than
• 22:03
  Speaker 19: they would treat me or you.
• 22:07
  Speaker 6: Because she's Kelly Clarkson.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: It's a fair point.
• 22:09
  Speaker 19: It's the only time, which is, of course, why I
• 22:13
  Speaker 19: think that it would be so shocking if you were
• 22:16
  Speaker 19: Kelly Clarkson to all of a sudden get treated like,
• 22:18
  Speaker 19: dare I say, A normal person.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know that her response, she didn't go,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: do you know who I am? I mean, I think
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: her response was she got angry.
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: She got angry.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: And then she left.
• 22:31
  Speaker 19: But it wasn't, it's not, I think that because, again,
• 22:35
  Speaker 19: this is, and tell me if I'm wrong, guys. Have
• 22:37
  Speaker 19: you ever been, you ever gotten bad service? You ever
• 22:40
  Speaker 19: gotten kind of snobbed out at a store you went into?
• 22:42
  Speaker 19: You ever have a moment where you thought they really
• 22:44
  Speaker 19: didn't want you there? Didn't want to take your money?
• 22:46
  Speaker 19: That type of a thing? Has that ever occurred to you?
• 22:49
  Speaker 19: I'll answer yes because, again, it happens a lot to
• 22:52
  Speaker 19: a lot of people.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's bad customer service. It's bad
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: customer service. Bad customer service I've certainly experienced. I don't
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: know that I've walked into some place and had this
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: exact experience where they're like, what are you doing here?
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: You can't afford this.
• 23:05
  Speaker 6: I was trying to buy.
• 23:06
  Speaker 19: This wasn't here, but it was in another city. I
• 23:09
  Speaker 19: was trying to buy some jewelry at a pretty nice
• 23:12
  Speaker 19: jewelry store, and it absolutely happened. Like, to the point
• 23:15
  Speaker 19: where they had to follow me around the store and
• 23:17
  Speaker 19: wanted me... Because I was in shorts, I was in
• 23:19
  Speaker 19: a t-shirt, I'm covered in tattoos, I look like the
• 23:22
  Speaker 19: type of person who's going to rob you. I know
• 23:25
  Speaker 19: how I look. And they want me to leave.
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: Oh, okay, alright, well, whatever.
• 23:29
  Speaker 19: I'll go pay someone else for these diamonds. That was
• 23:32
  Speaker 19: where I left it.
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: Because it happens enough. If it only happens to.
• 23:37
  Speaker 19: You that one time, it would be so enraging, you'd
• 23:39
  Speaker 19: immediately run to the internet. Now, the problem with that is,
• 23:42
  Speaker 19: because you're famous... And I put that at any level,
• 23:46
  Speaker 19: by the way, because you're at any level, even the
• 23:48
  Speaker 19: most slight level of local fame.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Like local radio morning show.
• 23:54
  Speaker 19: The pond scum that we are. If we were to
• 23:56
  Speaker 19: start naming names of people that had wronged us, someone
• 24:02
  Speaker 19: could make someone's life less cool because of that.
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: That's why I don't do it.
• 24:08
  Speaker 19: Because that's part of the business. I get paid for
• 24:10
  Speaker 19: doing a relatively silly job. You get paid for doing
• 24:14
  Speaker 19: a relatively silly job. Part of the cost of that
• 24:16
  Speaker 19: job is sometimes you got to take an L. Sometimes
• 24:19
  Speaker 19: you got to eat some pride. That's okay. If you're
• 24:23
  Speaker 19: Kelly Clarkson, you got to eat a lot of pride.
• 24:25
  Speaker 19: You are compensated for eating that pride with the quarter
• 24:30
  Speaker 19: of a billion dollars that you are worth.
• 24:33
  Speaker 24: Oh, wow.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: Someone didn't treat you like an absolute goddess on earth.
• 24:36
  Speaker 25: Okay.
• 24:37
  Speaker 19: You might have to eat this one. Because you can't
• 24:40
  Speaker 19: ruin a person's life. You can ruin a person's livelihood
• 24:43
  Speaker 19: over a tweet.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You can.
• 24:46
  Speaker 12: Anyone can. You guys out there, half of y'all can
• 24:49
  Speaker 12: ruin someone's livelihood over a tweet.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I think what Kelly should have done, and maybe she
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: has the opportunity to still go back and do this,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is WWDD. What would Dolly do?
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: What would Dolly do, man?
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: How would she handle it?
• 25:04
  Speaker 19: How would Dolly Parton have handled the situation? That's absolutely true.
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: You know Dolly. She knew Dolly.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very close.
• 25:11
  Speaker 19: How would Dolly have dealt with it? You know, like
• 25:14
  Speaker 19: it's it's it's just it's absolutely. Again, I completely blame
• 25:19
  Speaker 19: Kelly Clarkson for this interaction, even if the shopkeeper was rude.
• 25:22
  Speaker 19: I blame Kelly Clarkson because I'm sorry you can't do that.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: She I don't know that reckless. It's hard to be.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: It's hard to be self-aware enough to realize that your
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: natural reaction can cause this.
• 25:33
  Speaker 19: So it's so hard. I know it's not. It's a
• 25:36
  Speaker 19: it's a leap for a lot of people. A text
• 25:39
  Speaker 19: message from Michael. That's the problem, Tucker. Most celebrities, or
• 25:43
  Speaker 19: with most celebrities, do not take, they don't take the
• 25:46
  Speaker 19: stance that celebrity status comes with a price the way
• 25:50
  Speaker 19: that you're describing.
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: It does.
• 25:51
  Speaker 19: The reason, look what Elko did this week. He said,
• 25:56
  Speaker 19: he popped off at the mouth in a press conference.
• 25:59
  Speaker 19: He apologized a couple of days later.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: He said, my bad.
• 26:03
  Speaker 19: I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm not saying it
• 26:06
  Speaker 19: makes you an irredeemable person. It is on you to
• 26:10
  Speaker 19: go and apologize and make it right for that shop
• 26:12
  Speaker 19: owner because what you did to them is so much
• 26:13
  Speaker 19: worse than what.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: They did to you.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Even unintentional.
• 26:16
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 26:17
  Speaker 19: And I'm absolutely going to listen to that podcast and
• 26:20
  Speaker 19: see this footage.
• 26:21
  Speaker 12: I haven't seen it yet. And if I'm wrong, I
• 26:23
  Speaker 12: will be the first person on here.
• 26:25
  Speaker 19: Tomorrow morning apologizing to Kelly Clarkson.
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• 32:33
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• 32:37
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• 32:40
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• 33:06
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• 33:09
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  Speaker 19: Just shows flying by today it is and we there's
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  Speaker 19: so many things we still have to talk about uh
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  Speaker 19: one of which involves your your laundry debacle which i
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  Speaker 19: don't know if we have enough time to do this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah i don't know if i have enough time to
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  Speaker 19: Like that's that's the problem like we're talking about kind
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  Speaker 19: of what we're doing after the show and will's like
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  Speaker 19: i gotta i hope it rains today because i gotta
• 41:16
  Speaker 19: be folding like 18 000 towels i'm like well geez
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  Speaker 19: that's still going on and it is still going on
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  Speaker 19: And you're even adding to that laundry pile.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because I still haven't washed my clothes that I
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  Speaker 22: Right.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to do that yesterday, and the washing machine
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  Speaker 1: and dryer were taken up by the two women that
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  Speaker 1: I currently live with. And therefore, I may have to
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  Speaker 19: But the wife and daughter, they need to do their laundry,
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  Speaker 19: so it's going to put your behind. You can't just
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  Speaker 6: It's going to take forever.
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  Speaker 1: No, it'll take forever.
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  Speaker 6: So you're going to have to evacuate the premises to
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 19: Why have we not replaced Harvey Washbangers with something similar
• 41:57
  Speaker 19: to Harvey Washbangers yet?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I was thinking about it last night
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: because I mentioned my combination waffle house laundromat concept.
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  Speaker 20: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And I was wondering, you know, what we should call that.
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Is that a waffle mat?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's perfect.
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  Speaker 1: A waffley mat. Or laundry house?
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  Speaker 19: Either one of those two things. But look, there's so
• 42:17
  Speaker 19: many other ways you could do this. It could be
• 42:18
  Speaker 19: a Washbangers was a bar and a restaurant.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: You could just do the bar part.
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  Speaker 19: You just do the bar and TVs everywhere and just
• 42:25
  Speaker 19: let people kind of sit around.
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  Speaker 12: You could make it a cigar lounge if you wanted to.
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  Speaker 6: Well, Tucker, I guess that could affect the clients.
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  Speaker 1: Why limit ourselves?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we should have the cigar lounge bar, Waffle
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: House type concept laundromat.
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  Speaker 6: Let me do you one more. What if it was
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: just a membership club? A club, a private club for dudes.
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  Speaker 1: To do laundry?
• 42:48
  Speaker 6: This is my thoughts.
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  Speaker 19: You're probably not the only guy that gets forced out
• 42:53
  Speaker 19: of doing his laundry because of.
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  Speaker 6: His wife and kids.
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  Speaker 19: What if you could just go somewhere and do your
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  Speaker 19: laundry and you just paid, you got a membership every month.
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  Speaker 19: It was, you had your card and everything. You walk in,
• 43:06
  Speaker 19: you just get to use the washing machines, use the dryers,
• 43:09
  Speaker 19: but also in there, there's stuff that would be in
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  Speaker 19: a normal social club, like a bar, maybe some, you know, TVs,
• 43:17
  Speaker 19: you know, maybe, you know, maybe some food every once
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  Speaker 19: in a while, maybe catering, whatever. But it was just
• 43:21
  Speaker 19: a hang spot, a hangout spot where you could leave
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  Speaker 19: your home, bring your laundry there and get some peace
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  Speaker 19: while you do your laundry and hang out with your bros.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: Why does that not exist?
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It even exists. We found it at
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: the Renaissance Festival when we were on our tour. Oh,
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: the cigar.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: There is a place.
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: The Rennie's Cigar Lounge.
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  Speaker 1: There's a place. If you're not, if that's not your thing,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: you're forced to go.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: If you're not at the Rennie's, yeah.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: There's a place in back of the cigar shop that
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: is a private lounge that you can pay a membership
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: for that has air conditioning.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: Imagine that, fellas.
• 43:56
  Speaker 19: By the way, Jason texts in. Of course, Canada, there
• 43:59
  Speaker 19: is a laundromat connected to a donut shop.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. Which is great.
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  Speaker 6: It's getting closer.
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: Getting closer.
• 44:05
  Speaker 19: Allison, former Bryan Broadcasting salesperson extraordinaire, says the branding would
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  Speaker 19: be Washington. waffle that's a good one wash and waffle
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  Speaker 19: which i think is the ultimate.
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  Speaker 1: Wash and waffle your favorite waffle matt.
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  Speaker 19: Tad says uh yeah i'm he says you could go
• 44:23
  Speaker 19: to a laundromat they have those there's one that's around
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  Speaker 19: the wings and more south uh there's also some in
• 44:30
  Speaker 19: gas stations that's no vibe there's tacos in the gas
• 44:33
  Speaker 19: station that's no vibe that's what i'm saying it's like
• 44:36
  Speaker 19: i i feel like we're just hitting around the around
• 44:39
  Speaker 19: the opportunity. We're not really capitalizing on it. I think
• 44:43
  Speaker 19: that there's something big here.
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  Speaker 31: Big.
• 44:46
  Speaker 19: We have enough commercial real estate in this town where
• 44:48
  Speaker 19: someone should be interested in putting our brains together.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: And I would start simple. I would start with the
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: wash and waffle and then maybe add on. You were
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: talking about the fact that the cigar lounge may not
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: could be included because of the laundry thing. A little
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: separate outbuilding.
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, put it... Or just.
• 45:02
  Speaker 19: There are ways around this. We have the biggest engineering
• 45:06
  Speaker 19: school in dang America. We can build nuclear reactors here.
• 45:09
  Speaker 19: We can figure out a way to put a cigar
• 45:10
  Speaker 19: lounge in a laundry shop.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And a breakfast place. And a bar.
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  Speaker 12: Or anything.
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  Speaker 22: Anything.
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: There's... Why not put it in the theater of question?
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: The theater of question. Or to be fair, the department
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: store of question.
• 45:31
  Speaker 6: The department.
• 45:32
  Speaker 19: Yeah, if College Station wants in. You know, you tell
• 45:34
  Speaker 19: me that isn't somewhere where you'd go once in a while.
• 45:36
  Speaker 19: That'd drum up some traffic.
• 45:38
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I'm just saying there are options. We'll table this for
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: right now.
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: But.
• 45:44
  Speaker 6: Keep in mind, this might be the biggest idea we've
• 45:46
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  Speaker 27: On the show.
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  Speaker 35: Aggie football team is three days out from returning to
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  Speaker 35: Kyle Field to host the Citadel on Saturday afternoon. This
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  Speaker 35: will be the second time in program history that the
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  Speaker 35: Maroon and White will play against the Citadel. And if
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  Speaker 35: the Aggies win in Saturday's game, they will complete a
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  Speaker 35: perfect non-conference regular season for the second straight season. Ahead
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  Speaker 35: of this week's game, head coach Mike Elko spoke about
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  Speaker 35: when major changes are going to need to be made offensively.
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  Speaker 11: I think.
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  Speaker 25: everything has to be on the table for sure. I
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  Speaker 25: think we're, we're at that point for sure. I just
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  Speaker 25: think it's hard to make revolutionary changes in our current
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  Speaker 25: situation because you have to allow the kids an opportunity
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  Speaker 25: to have success and massive shifts are going to create
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  Speaker 25: execution issues. And so we have to continue to explore
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  Speaker 25: every option, whether that's personnel, whether that's philosophy, whether that's tempo,
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  Speaker 25: whether that's pace, whether like Everything has to be on
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  Speaker 25: the table, and it has been. It's not new, but
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  Speaker 25: everything has to be on the table, and we've got
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  Speaker 25: to just try to identify what we can do to
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  Speaker 25: be successful.
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  Speaker 35: Kickoff for the A & M vs. Citadel game is
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  Speaker 35: set for Saturday at noon. The Aggie soccer team has
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  Speaker 35: had a bit of a rocky road this season so
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  Speaker 35: far throughout SEC play, dealing with six straight losses in
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  Speaker 35: conference play and head coach Bobby Shuttleworth serving a suspension
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  Speaker 35: during last week's game against Mississippi State. Coach Shutterworth met
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  Speaker 35: with the media to recap the Mississippi State game and
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  Speaker 35: where he was during the game.
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  Speaker 8: I watched from a coffee shop down the street, which
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  Speaker 8: was not easy, but got through it.
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  Speaker 28: I thought it was.
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  Speaker 8: Really kind of a tale of two halves. I thought
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  Speaker 8: we started well.
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  Speaker 25: I thought the.
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  Speaker 8: First 10, 15 minutes were pretty good on the front foot.
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  Speaker 8: And then I thought we became pretty reactionary and they
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  Speaker 8: really started to take control of the game. And then
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  Speaker 8: I thought the second half was a good response and
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  Speaker 8: started to do the things that I think We know
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  Speaker 8: we need to do when we're trying to get a
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  Speaker 8: result and playing well and I think we created a
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  Speaker 8: lot of chances in the second half and unfortunately just
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  Speaker 8: wasn't enough, too big.
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  Speaker 3: Of a hole.
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  Speaker 35: Tomorrow night the team is preparing to host South Carolina
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  Speaker 35: and Coach Shuttleworth spoke about what a win would mean
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  Speaker 35: to the team.
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  Speaker 8: Obviously we're going into every game trying to do everything
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  Speaker 8: we can to try to win and we haven't gotten
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  Speaker 8: a point in the SEC play yet so No different
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  Speaker 8: this weekend. Obviously two big games at home. Nice to
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  Speaker 8: get back home and be able to sleep in our
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  Speaker 8: own beds and all of that. So obviously we're approaching
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  Speaker 8: Thursday against a tough South Carolina team trying to get
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  Speaker 8: a result.
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  Speaker 35: First kick for Thursday night's game is set for 7 o'clock.
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