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The Infomaniacs: October 19th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
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  Speaker 1: Brenham police officer is out of a job, accused of
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  Speaker 1: abusing ALPR technology. Officer Gabriel Duran had been on administrative
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  Speaker 1: leave until the outcome of an investigation by the Texas Rangers.
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  Speaker 1: Duran was relieved of duty on Friday. The department recently
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  Speaker 1: upgraded guidelines to access the system, including quarterly audits. It
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  Speaker 1: was one of the audits that alerted the department to
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  Speaker 1: the suspicious activity. Brazos County election officials are suggesting that
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  Speaker 1: those with mail-in ballots drop them off at the main
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  Speaker 1: Bryan Post Office. To avoid ballots being routed through Houston,
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  Speaker 1: where all the outbound mail goes, take your ballots to
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  Speaker 1: the counter at the Bryan Post Office on East William
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  Speaker 1: Joel Bryan Parkway. Ballots handed to a clerk will be
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  Speaker 1: delivered directly to the elections office. But you must hand
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  Speaker 1: the ballot to a clerk. If it is dropped into
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  Speaker 1: a drop box in the lobby or parking lot, It
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  Speaker 1: will then travel through Houston. No other post offices in
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  Speaker 1: the area are offering this service. The TxDOT Bryan office
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  Speaker 1: is hosting an open house public meeting on Tuesday to
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  Speaker 1: discuss proposed improvements to State Highway 30 to address current
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  Speaker 1: and future congestion, enhance safety, and provide additional connectivity. The
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  Speaker 1: public meeting on Tuesday will be held from 5 until
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  Speaker 1: 7 at the Bob and Wanda Meyer Senior and Community
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  Speaker 1: Center on Dartmouth. The plan encompasses an approximately 2.1-mile stretch
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  Speaker 1: of RV road on the east side of Highway 6
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  Speaker 1: from Associates Avenue to FM 158. The roadway is currently
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  Speaker 1: one lane in each direction with a center turn lane
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  Speaker 1: and limited pedestrian and bicycle accommodations. A study projects traffic
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  Speaker 1: on that section of the road to increase approximately 60%
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  Speaker 1: by the year 2052. The option that will be discussed
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  Speaker 1: would expand the road to two lanes in each direction
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  Speaker 1: and add roundabouts, and add pedestrian and cyclist accommodations. The
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  Speaker 1: public will be able and is encouraged to provide comments.
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  Speaker 1: Learn more on our website at WTAW.com. The USDA is
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  Speaker 1: sending over $ 2 million to Texas as part of its
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  Speaker 1: Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. $ 86. 6 million will be awarded
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  Speaker 1: in all to fund approximately 609 projects throughout the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Texas will use the grants for projects to enhance competitiveness
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  Speaker 1: of grapes, watermelons, pecans, onions, and spinach. Could Senator John
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  Speaker 1: Cornyn and GOP strategist Karl Rove be to blame if
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton loses?
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  Speaker 2: On a Truth Social post, President Trump accused Cornyn and
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  Speaker 2: Rove of doing everything possible to make it hard for
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  Speaker 2: Paxton to win the upcoming midterm election against Democrat James Tallarico.
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  Speaker 2: Trump claims the two are not doing enough to support
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  Speaker 2: the Paxton campaign. Trump even saying if Paxton loses, it
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  Speaker 2: will be because of weak and ineffective political hacks like
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  Speaker 2: John Cornyn and Karl Rove. In September, Cornyn did admit
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  Speaker 2: he would not help Paxton in fundraising, but has said
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  Speaker 2: he would support the entire Republican ticket. Rove also faced
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  Speaker 2: criticism from Trump for refusing to back Republican candidate Beau
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  Speaker 2: French for railroad commissioner. In Austin, Chris Fox. TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Ken Paxton started an 18-day, 30-stop bus tour on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: No Aggieland stop has been announced. James Tallarico will be
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  Speaker 1: visiting College Station on the 30th, although the venue has
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  Speaker 1: yet to be determined. More news at 7.30 or anytime
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  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: All rise.
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  Speaker 6: The state of Texas versus Juan and Mary Sanchez.
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  Speaker 7: The charge, child abuse for refusing to recognize their son
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  Speaker 7: as a girl.
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  Speaker 8: Sounds insane, right? Well, Gina Hinojosa supports the radical policy
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  Speaker 8: of taxpayers paying for sex change surgery for kids and
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  Speaker 8: the assault on parental rights. And Hinojosa believes schools should
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  Speaker 8: be able to transition children behind their parents' backs.
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  Speaker 9: But that's just the beginning.
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  Speaker 8: Gina Hinojosa supports allowing boys and girls sports and in
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  Speaker 8: their locker rooms. It's gross, unfair, and harmful to girls.
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  Speaker 8: And what does Gina Hinojosa say about it?
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  Speaker 9: Listen to this.
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  Speaker 10: I really don't understand how girls would be hurt by this.
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  Speaker 11: A threat to our little girls that doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 8: Gina Hinojosa, radical, dangerous. We cannot allow her to become
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  Speaker 8: governor of Texas.
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  Speaker 6: over every corner of our lives as to the biggest
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  Speaker 6: issue in America. what time your coffee shop opens.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's huge. I can't believe we're not rioting over this.
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  Speaker 6: I'll tell you this, I've never been more undecided on
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  Speaker 6: an issue in my life. And yeah, I'm surprised this
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  Speaker 6: hasn't been the straw that broke the camel's back.
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  Speaker 1: I've been very decided.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going to play a TikTok for you. This seems
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  Speaker 6: to be, this is what I am led to believe
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  Speaker 6: is the video that kind of started all of the
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  Speaker 6: fervor online assessing that we are being underserved by our
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  Speaker 6: coffee place.
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  Speaker 5: I'm so confused because I need a coffee shop to
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  Speaker 5: explain to.
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  Speaker 13: Me why you're open at 9 a.m. You know who
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  Speaker 13: wants to get coffee? People who are tired.
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  Speaker 6: You know who's tired?
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  Speaker 13: People up before 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 14: Because they have to get to their 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 15: Job.
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  Speaker 1: 9 a.m. job. 9 a.m.
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  Speaker 15: Job.
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  Speaker 1: They're a little tired. A little tuckered. They can't get
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  Speaker 1: themselves up in places by 9 a.m. Oh, shut up!
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  Speaker 1: And your coffee, nobody's there to make your coffee.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, my sister in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: People used to have to start a fire before they
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  Speaker 1: made coffee.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So you, Little Miss Inconvenience... Because your little coffee shop's
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  Speaker 1: not open.
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  Speaker 6: I got a problem with you. I've been reading these
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  Speaker 6: comments on blogs and stuff. I mean, since I got
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  Speaker 6: here this morning, I had no idea this was a thing.
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  Speaker 6: And now I'm just absolutely obsessed. And people are saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: this is ridiculous. I mean, just open early. We have
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  Speaker 6: to get up early. Why isn't our... Because they can't
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  Speaker 6: sell enough coffee to make it worth their while.
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  Speaker 1: At that hour, sister. First of all, take just a
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  Speaker 1: little basics of business class.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, a little economics lesson.
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  Speaker 1: So you know how businesses work, and they're not there
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  Speaker 1: to serve you, the individual.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to have a crew.
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  Speaker 1: You're right.
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  Speaker 6: You've got to have a posse of people that is
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  Speaker 6: going to go, and especially for... A mom, like I'm
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  Speaker 6: assuming what she's talking about is like a little mom
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  Speaker 6: and pop coffee shop.
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  Speaker 1: They like the little mom and poppers.
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  Speaker 6: You like to be able to walk into a nice,
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  Speaker 6: because again, you hate corporate anything. So you want to
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  Speaker 6: walk into a little, and I love that too.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 6: And you want to be able to sit and enjoy
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  Speaker 6: your coffee at eight o'clock or get your coffee at
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  Speaker 6: eight o'clock before you go to work. Okay, cool. If
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  Speaker 6: there aren't a thousand of you, they're not going to
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  Speaker 6: do it.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 6: And trust me, there's nothing they'd like more. than to
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  Speaker 6: make more money with their coffee shop.
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  Speaker 1: The point of business.
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  Speaker 6: I assure you. And I don't know. Also, I didn't
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  Speaker 6: know this was even a problem because like, don't you
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  Speaker 6: just tell me if I'm wrong on this, but Starbucks
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  Speaker 6: opens pretty stinking early.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the Starbucks that they're, I mean, they're saying, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we admit the Starbucks is open.
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  Speaker 6: We could go to Starbucks.
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  Speaker 1: We want our little mom and pop.
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  Speaker 6: Have you ever considered, like you mentioned, Will, I think
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  Speaker 6: you were, hinting around this just getting a coffee machine
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  Speaker 6: yeah at your house and if you don't like just
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  Speaker 6: i'd say i'd say get a mug but you already
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  Speaker 6: have one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah you don't you know if you like stuff other
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  Speaker 1: than just plain old good old coffee yeah right you
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  Speaker 1: like the frou-frou stuff yeah you can get i mean
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  Speaker 1: we've got a machine at the house that satisfies the
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  Speaker 1: daughters they they they get there they they get their
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  Speaker 1: froth and whatever else.
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  Speaker 6: You know james texts in the following You know what
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  Speaker 6: makes a really good cup of coffee at any time
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  Speaker 6: of the day? That little machine with the beans in
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  Speaker 6: it at 7-Eleven. One of the best cups of coffee
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  Speaker 6: I've ever had. Foam on top and everything when it's done,
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  Speaker 6: plus all the additives. You can get whatever you want
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  Speaker 6: put in there. Yeah, no, no, that's a good... Gas
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  Speaker 6: station coffee to me is highly... I know several people
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  Speaker 6: that only get gas station coffee at this point on
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  Speaker 6: their commute. Wherever it is they pass, and they swear
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  Speaker 6: that it is better... Then Starbucks better than anything I
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  Speaker 6: can get. And I am, I am curious if any
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  Speaker 6: of you guys are in that pile.
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  Speaker 1: I like the, I like the Bucky's coffee.
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  Speaker 6: I do.
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  Speaker 1: And I like it specifically because they have so many
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  Speaker 1: things like rare is the occasion that I will use
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  Speaker 1: half and half anymore, but they've got a, they got
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  Speaker 1: a bucket of half and halves in there. Not the creamers.
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  Speaker 6: Michael says, gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, you are yelling at the
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  Speaker 6: clouds with this topic. Admit it. We were just old
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  Speaker 6: and cranky about these sort of things. I, I don't
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  Speaker 6: think so, man. And here's how I know. I have
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  Speaker 6: lived my life waking up at a stupid hour in
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  Speaker 6: the morning. Stupid hour in the morning. So early that, like,
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  Speaker 6: it would boggle your mind because for many years I
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  Speaker 6: would have to drive all the way into some big
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  Speaker 6: city to do a radio morning show.
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  Speaker 17: And.
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  Speaker 6: Starbucks was not open because I was getting there before
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  Speaker 6: Starbucks would open. Do you know what I never did?
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  Speaker 6: Got mad at Starbucks.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: Well, of course they're not open this early. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: what kind of a maniac.
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  Speaker 1: Would be open at 3 in the morning? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of self-serving sort of person do you have to be
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  Speaker 1: to say, hey, you giant corporation, make sure and open
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  Speaker 1: up for me.
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  Speaker 6: It hits me weird. Chris says, well, guys, there ain't
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  Speaker 6: no Starbucks in Caldwell. This is a problem out in
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  Speaker 6: some of the cities, Kent.
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  Speaker 1: Again, just make— Nearly stopped in Caldwell yesterday, by the way. Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Allison texts in TXB for the win, baby.
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  Speaker 1: They got the coffee.
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  Speaker 6: TXB, I have heard a lot of good things about
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  Speaker 6: that gas station coffee.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people like the McDonald's coffee, too.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying not the time frame, but just one
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  Speaker 1: of those things that's kind of out of the blue.
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  Speaker 6: Dunkin' coffee. Or, I mean, take your... Or... Shipley's coffee.
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  Speaker 13: Take your pick.
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  Speaker 1: Your own personal pot at the house. You can make
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  Speaker 1: it any way you want to.
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  Speaker 6: Again, options exist. I'm going to take a break. We'll
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  Speaker 16: the pump and cut costs for small businesses. These aren't promises.
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  Speaker 13: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
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  Speaker 6: 1620-945-WTAW-979-695-1620. I actually waited to talk about this until you
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  Speaker 6: were back, partially because I figured you would do some
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  Speaker 6: unintentional research into these subjects. while you were in Oxford, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 6: And I think this is going to be something that
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  Speaker 6: many of you might have something to say about based
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  Speaker 6: on your experiences outside of the city of College Station.
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  Speaker 6: I will explain.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, please do, because I'm curious.
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  Speaker 6: So Thursday night, I go to Northgate. Now, keep in mind,
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  Speaker 6: I don't go to Northgate anymore. I don't drink. And
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  Speaker 6: so if you don't drink, then really kind of what's
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  Speaker 6: the point? Unless there's an event.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: And there was an event.
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  Speaker 1: Or you want a good burger.
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  Speaker 6: Or you want to hit the chicken. Many times I've
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  Speaker 6: hit the chicken because, you know, come on. Everyone goes
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  Speaker 6: to the chicken to hang out. It doesn't matter. But
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  Speaker 6: I show up because there's a pub crawl to raise
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  Speaker 6: money for the Alzheimer's Association that is hosted by the
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  Speaker 6: Texas Renaissance Festival. And so a bunch of people are
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  Speaker 6: just going bar to bar, hanging out, meeting some people and,
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  Speaker 6: you know, making some money for a good cause. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm like, yeah, I'll go do that for a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: And so it was my first experience in Northgate, like
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  Speaker 6: that area, that quadrant of Northgate specifically. It has to
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  Speaker 6: be in 10 years, right, easily. And I just noticed
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  Speaker 6: something about it that was interesting to me, and it
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  Speaker 6: was the smell of Northgate. And again, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 6: behind the parking lot.
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  Speaker 1: Right, in the alley sort of thing.
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  Speaker 6: Along that street that kind of goes past Rough Draft.
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  Speaker 6: Church Street.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Church Street.
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  Speaker 6: Is that an abnormal smell? Is it just because I'm
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  Speaker 6: not used to it?
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  Speaker 1: I think it may be because you're not used to it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they do have some different, like, Areas back
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  Speaker 1: there now that are a little different, right? Right. You've
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  Speaker 1: got a public restroom back there.
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  Speaker 6: That is not helping anything. There's some dumpsters back there.
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  Speaker 6: That's really not helping anything. Because it smells like, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: I'm sorry, it's straight garbage. To the point where I
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: was like walking, I was like, these people are sitting
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: out here and like, how are y'all dealing with this?
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: Plus, parking garages sometimes have their very own scent. Yes,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: they do. Yes, they do.
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  Speaker 6: So, you were just in a very high-density bar district.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Is that just what you have to accept now? I
• 17:38
  Speaker 6: think so. So you were getting, were y'all, did it
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: smell like garbage, like rotting garbage in the city of Oxford?
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: It probably did on Sunday morning. It did not.
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: See, that's my other thing, too, is like, can I
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: really be mad at them? For the smell on a
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Thursday night, because really you're playing for Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: It depends on when they're picking up stuff. It depends
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: on what hit the trash. Oxford is... I mean, they
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: pride themselves on being a very clean city. I noted that.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I was like, this thing is akin to Disney in
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a number of ways. The fact that I feel overwhelmed
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and claustrophobic by the number of people and the fact
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: that it seems a little fake. But there's very little
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: garbage blowing around, which is cool.
• 18:19
  Speaker 13: But.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: You generate a ton of it. There were those bars
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: and stuff. Oh, you have to. But I didn't smell anything.
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  Speaker 1: But I guarantee you, Sunday morning, it was probably fresh.
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  Speaker 6: And the only thing is, I'm asking, and this might
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• 18:41
  Speaker 6: check anything out at this point. But for those of
• 18:44
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  Speaker 1: I just don't. You know what area I can absolutely
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• 18:53
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I could tell you when New Orleans popped up.
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  Speaker 16: God.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see, New Orleans is a very special.
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  Speaker 6: New Orleans is the... And it's not... It wasn't New
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: Orleans smell, because you're right. The New Orleans smell only
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: exists in New Orleans. It is putrid.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: But, like.
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: It's a combination of a lot of different things.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: So many things.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: So there weren't as many ingredients in this particular.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: It's a simpler formula.
• 19:21
  Speaker 6: It's just, I don't, anyway. If you have any thoughts, 979-695-1620.
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• 19:31
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  Speaker 21: This is Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. One of the things
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• 24:56
  Speaker 21: the arts and small business can thrive and where there's
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  Speaker 21: always something bringing people together. That doesn't just improve our economy,
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  Speaker 21: that improves our quality of life. I'm proud of what
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  Speaker 21: Brian has become, and we're just getting started. I'm Bobby Gutierrez,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Early
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: voting starts today at six o'clock tonight. You can hear
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: from the candidates for city councils of Bryan and College Station.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: The forum hosted by WTAW and the Bryan College Station
• 26:09
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• 26:12
  Speaker 1: moderated by our very own Scott DeLucia. If you can't
• 26:15
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  Speaker 1: starting at 6. If you missed last week's forum with
• 26:21
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• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Districts 12 and 14, that is available for streaming on WTAW.com.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia also sat down with each candidate for a
• 26:34
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• 26:41
  Speaker 1: There's now a safer way to make sure your mail-in
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: ballot gets to the right place. Officials in Brazos County
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: have worked out an arrangement with the local post office
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: in Bryan. Outbound mail is normally routed through Houston, even
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: if you're mailing something to someone across the street. To
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: keep ballots from traveling through Houston... Brazos County Elections Administrator
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Trudy Hancock encourages voters to take their ballots to the
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  Speaker 1: counter at the Bryan Post Office on East William Joel
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  Speaker 1: Bryan Parkway. Ballots handed directly to a clerk will be
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: delivered directly to the elections office. To qualify, you must
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: hand the ballot to the clerk. If it is dropped
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: in a drop box in the lobby or parking lot,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: then they will still travel through Houston. No other post
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: offices in the area are offering this service. The Texas
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Secretary of State, Robert Howden, announced that Texas has a
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: record 19 million voters registered ahead of the November 3rd
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: general election. That's an increase of 2% from the March
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: primary and a 2.2% increase from the November 2024 general election.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is Brazos Valley Gives. You can support one of
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: 200 nonprofits throughout the Brazos Valley participating in the program.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: This year, nonprofits will compete each hour to win additional
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: monies from an hourly sponsorship. Here's Julie Porter with Brazos
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Valley Gives.
• 28:04
  Speaker 22: Sponsorship for each of the 18 hours on Giving Day.
• 28:08
  Speaker 22: So like from 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. is sponsored
• 28:11
  Speaker 22: by somebody for $ 1, 000. And the nice thing is what
• 28:16
  Speaker 22: we have done as in the past is we have
• 28:19
  Speaker 22: assigned a certain game to each hour and the nonprofits
• 28:24
  Speaker 22: compete for that sponsorship.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Early giving ends at midnight. The day of giving starts
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: at 5 a.m. tomorrow. You can give in person at
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: the Brookshire Brothers locations in College Station and Caldwell or
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: at the Washington County Chamber of Commerce or give online
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: at bvgives.org. TxDOT is reporting an increase in fatal crashes
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: in the Brazos Valley. From January 1st through October 1st,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: 78 people lost their lives on roadways across the Bryan District.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: 20 of those happened in the last 60 days. They
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: ask everyone to slow down, stay alert, and wear your
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: seatbelt every trip, every time. Job growth in Texas is
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: leading the nation. Texas employers added over 154,000 non-farm jobs
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: over the last 12 months for an annual growth rate
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of 1.1%. That outpaces the national rate by 0.8 percentage points.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: The manufacturing sector experienced the largest jobs increase in September,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: adding 4,700 jobs. Government services saw the largest decline. Chinese
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: online retailer Timu has reached a settlement with Texas over
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: accusations of sharing personal information with the Chinese Communist Party.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: The Texas Attorney General's office sued Timu, claiming it unlawfully deceived...
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: consumers by exposing Texans' personal data to the Chinese Communist Party.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Reports also surfaced that products sold on the platform, like clothing,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: children's toys, and baby products, may contain harmful chemicals. Under
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: the settlement, Timu will be required to overhaul its data
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: security and product safety practices that include storing Texans' personal
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: data on American-owned and controlled servers located in the United States.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Timu has also agreed to conduct independent product safety testing
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: to identify products containing dangerous chemicals. Timu will also pay
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: Texas $ 3 million. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Members of the New York Army National Guard have been
• 30:22
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  Speaker 23: The 204th Engineer Battalion is taking part in Operation Ardent Vanguard.
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  Speaker 23: It supports border defense and infrastructure. They had their official
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  Speaker 23: send-off earlier this month. Their forward support company provides logistics support,
• 30:36
  Speaker 23: including maintenance and transportation of fuel, supply, and materials. About
• 30:41
  Speaker 23: 120 soldiers from New York are taking part in the mission.
• 30:44
  Speaker 23: They spent 12 months preparing. and expect to be along
• 30:47
  Speaker 23: the Texas-Mexico border for the next year. Steven Pickering, TSN News.
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  Speaker 6: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys. Infomaniacs, 979-695-1620. A few text messages
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  Speaker 6: about the Northgate thing. Interesting that Michael texted. One, my
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  Speaker 6: opinion on the issues regarding Northgate is a direct reflection
• 33:54
  Speaker 6: of the dense population that has increased into that area.
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  Speaker 6: That's a good point.
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  Speaker 10: It is.
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  Speaker 6: Now, it's not just bars. Remember, it's not just bars.
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  Speaker 6: They've got, like, towers.
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  Speaker 1: You've got restaurants. You've got all kinds of corporate garbage
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  Speaker 1: back there. Then, I mean, it's... The smell has changed.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's different. It's not more intense or
• 34:12
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  Speaker 6: I'm not so sure the infrastructure cleanup that area is
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: as robust as it needs to be based on the
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: number of people that are in that area each week.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: That's a good point, Michael. Let's talk about the most
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: dangerous animals in Texas, the most deadly animals in Texas,
• 34:26
  Speaker 6: if we're being specific on that. Do you have a
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: thought in your mind of what the deadliest animal might be?
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: We have a lot of deadly animals.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: In the state. I can tell you that more people
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: in the state of Texas are killed by.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Than anything else.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: You are very close to the top of the pile. Technically,
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  Speaker 6: they say bees, wasps, hornets, and fire ants all cause
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  Speaker 1: A fire ant fatality? Come on.
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  Speaker 6: Well, they say that's a venom-related death, so they lumped
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• 35:00
  Speaker 6: people get killed by wasps than rattlesnake bites. That was
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• 35:08
  Speaker 6: like cattle and horses make up the single largest category
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: of deaths via variety issues, crushing, trampling, kick injuries. No
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: one ever thinks about the cows being a deadly animal.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: But you do if you've ever worked them before. Hell yeah,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: you do. There's not too many years to go by
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: that we don't have a serious injury or fatality in
• 35:29
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• 35:30
  Speaker 6: And also keep in mind, when you're out with the.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Cows, you're in the middle of nowhere.
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: Who else is out there with you? Is there a
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: hospital close to you when you are dealing with these cows?
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: No.
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: Probably the most dangerous situation.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: You could be.
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: Right near the top, though, is the other killer.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, what's this?
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  Speaker 6: That is the white-tailed deer.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: They say it's an indirect cause because technically it's vehicle collisions.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: But when you add injury and death, the white-tailed deer
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  Speaker 6: is right there as the deadliest animal in the state.
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  Speaker 1: They're wild animals, and they're going to kill you by
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: coming through your windshield when you hit them. See a
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: lot of bucks out there right now. Yeah, I think
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: the rut's kind of really picking up. Over the past
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks, I've seen three... Good size bucks in
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: my area.
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  Speaker 6: I saw a monster buck just chilling, laying down in
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: the grass as I was coming in, in my neighborhood,
• 36:30
  Speaker 6: in one of the little parts, just sitting there, whatever.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was one outside just as soon as I
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: make the first turn out of my driveway.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There was one standing on the side of the road
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: this morning that may have been the nicest looking buck
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: I've ever seen in that area. I've been there, what,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: three years or so. Yeah, that's pretty good. And I
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: haven't seen many. I have not seen many bucks in
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  Speaker 1: our place in the last three years, two and a half,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: three years. But, yeah, I've seen three different ones, I think,
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  Speaker 1: the past two weeks. You ever spike a deer with
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: a car? I've never hit a deer with a car.
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  Speaker 24: Really?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Never hit it, despite my reputation.
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: That's what I mean. And it's not because of your reputation.
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: I just, strange as it is, I have never hit
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: a deer. I've never had a deer hit me. I've
• 37:16
  Speaker 6: never had an incident with a deer in a vehicle
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: in my life.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: 17 years old.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Driving around Texas.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Highway 16 between uh curvil and hunt.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah oh god middle middle of the night it's easy
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: how do you not hit a deer.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: I could not i could not answer that because all
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: i did when i came around the corner and there
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: was a herd there yeah was hit the brakes and
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: closed my eyes and i ended up on the other
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: side what no idea yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: That's that buy a lottery ticket that day my man
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: i was so i don't know if it's on you
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: i i have always led to been led to believe
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: that it's fairly unusual to get a certain number of
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: years through a driving career in the state of texas
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: and not at least hit a deer.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I think the odds are in that favor hit.
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  Speaker 6: By a deer have a deer land on your car
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: from some auxiliary impact whatever it may be but now
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: i'm not so sure because if you can avoid them
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: and i can avoid.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: Them I don't know. Statistically speaking, I mean, there's somebody
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: out there that's hit 17 of them to make support.
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Yeah, how many of you guys have actually been in
• 38:22
  Speaker 6: a situation where you've hit a, like, you popped a deer?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: I forgot about the flying deer that you mentioned. That
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: reminds me when I was about 16 interstate out near
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: San Angelo. I saw a Winnebago, one of those with
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: a flat front. Oh!
• 38:38
  Speaker 12: No!
• 38:40
  Speaker 14: No!
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: The aerials were just spectacular. No!
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: That's a horrible situation to be in. 979-695-1620 is our
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• 38:55
  Speaker 6: doesn't really prove anything, but have you ever hit a deer?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Jason says on the subject, we're seeing this many deer
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: because they crossed the road illegally. They should cross at
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: the deer crossing sites. You're right about that.
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  Speaker 6: Got a million things to do today, but before we
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  Speaker 6: most deadly animals in the state of Texas. Deer, shockingly,
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  Speaker 6: right next to cows. And think about it, guys. What
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  Speaker 1: Even if you don't hit the deer, you swerve, run
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  Speaker 1: off the wharf, go to the cliff.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, the whole thing. So it makes them incredibly dangerous animals,
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: and tis the sea. to hit a.
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  Speaker 1: Deer rut is coming on i'm seeing a lot of
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: bucks out there.
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  Speaker 6: Something that will and i have never.
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: Done remarkably for me because i tend to take out
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of different animals.
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  Speaker 6: It's pretty it's it's pretty shocking Sam would like to
• 49:35
  Speaker 6: know in regards to both your buck and my buck,
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: what neighborhood do you fellas live in? Because I have
• 49:39
  Speaker 6: a night vision and a bow.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Not telling Sam. Because I also have night vision and
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: a bow. And I've got a daughter who's itching to
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: kill her first deer. Oh, is she?
• 49:47
  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah.
• 49:48
  Speaker 6: Is she going? Is she going to try to cross
• 49:50
  Speaker 6: off with us?
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: We put her on a couple before, and she made
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: the very conscious choice of saying, I'm not ready to
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: do this.
• 49:55
  Speaker 6: I got you.
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: This year, she says she wants to do it. Look
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: at these absolute units that Susan has texted us. Wow.
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: Let's see, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,
• 50:06
  Speaker 6: 10 points on this particular buck. And a thick neck. Oh, yeah,
• 50:10
  Speaker 6: he's got that linebacker. That's good stuff. Anton, I took
• 50:16
  Speaker 6: out three on Highway 36 North outside of Fort Hood
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: in 1990 with a Humvee. So, I mean, that's probably
• 50:27
  Speaker 6: the best vehicle to pop some in.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: An up-armored Humvee. Yeah, not bad. Although a lot of people, though,
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  Speaker 1: have the big trucks and the grill guards and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan texted in, went two decades of driving big lifted
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: trucks with grill guards, never hit a deer. One month
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: after buying a $ 60, 000 new luxury truck, hit one. That's
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: the way that go.
• 50:49
  Speaker 6: Several people said, yo, really, we're not talking about hitting deer.
• 50:52
  Speaker 6: It's the deer that hit you. Matt says he's hit
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: one deer. One deer has hit me. So it's going
• 50:58
  Speaker 6: to call it even.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they will run smack dab in the side of you.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: Murray's got got multiple counts that are that are going
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: currently because he says he's taken one out or he's
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: taken three out. His wife's taken one out for a
• 51:13
  Speaker 6: total of four.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Four for the family.
• 51:15
  Speaker 6: In the household, but still leading three to one.
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  Speaker 1: Pam with a great one here. Oh, no. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Good thing the deer could not ride motorized scooters. If so,
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: there would be more collisions.
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  Speaker 6: Just give them time.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Give them time.
• 51:29
  Speaker 6: Just give them time. They'll figure it out eventually.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I was shocked. There's not that many of them. There's
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: some of the motorized scooters. There's a lot more of
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the e-bikes in Oxford.
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: That was the other thing. I was really surprised to
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: find that out. But again, smaller school, but noticeably less
• 51:50
  Speaker 6: of the electronic mobility devices.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: You have a ton of people living on campus. Now,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: the off-campus people actually probably live far enough away and
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: in hazardous traffic. That they that's too far for a scooter.
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: So it may be far too far for an e-bike.
• 52:06
  Speaker 6: It's just outside of the range where it makes sense.
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: You have to get on highways, right, to get to
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: anything there unless you live right in the old school
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: area around the square.
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  Speaker 6: I have been interested about that because I I feel
• 52:21
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• 52:25
  Speaker 6: the kids will just kind of fold up the scooter.
• 52:28
  Speaker 6: throw it in the car, they'll drive to their designated
• 52:31
  Speaker 6: parking location, and then they're zipping around on that thing
• 52:34
  Speaker 6: all over the place. But that arrangement is kind of
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: unique to College Station. Other colleges don't necessarily have that thing.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: And once you get parked on campus at Ole Miss,
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: it's a walkable place. The problem is spending, like this weekend...
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: 250 bucks for a parking spot.
• 52:51
  Speaker 6: How we didn't talk how much how much did you spend.
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: 250 this is a.
• 52:56
  Speaker 6: One day thing am i right.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: One day one day saturday at the ford center 200
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: which was still a mile walk to the.
• 53:05
  Speaker 6: Grove what and see i i haven't bought parking here
• 53:08
  Speaker 6: for a long time i just haven't it's not.
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: That i It's not that.
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: That's not close. A one-day park. Because I can get
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: to a garage for the nicest garage in campus for probably, what,
• 53:21
  Speaker 6: 50 bucks?
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: Probably so. And that's what Mandy does to me. She
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: always throws out the most expensive. So then when she
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: comes down a little bit on it, she thinks she's
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: saving me money.
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: Is that how this went down?
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: The most expensive one was over five bills.
• 53:34
  Speaker 6: Where do you get, where do you, where do they
• 53:37
  Speaker 6: give you parking for $ 500?
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: I didn't even look. I just said move on.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: What comes with the parking?
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: It would have had to be a buffet.
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: Do they give you, well, I mean, it's Oxford. Like,
• 53:45
  Speaker 6: do they give you access to, like, any of the
• 53:48
  Speaker 6: cool tents?
• 53:49
  Speaker 20: No.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: Not that I was aware of.
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: Nothing on the Grove?
• 53:51
  Speaker 13: Mm-mm.
• 53:52
  Speaker 6: Five hundred dollars for a parking space they make money
• 53:57
  Speaker 6: off of parking and cover charges who are the p
• 54:00
  Speaker 6: is that why oxford is so rich they're bleeding it
• 54:03
  Speaker 6: off of like the parent oh.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah there's a whole industry.
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: Are we doing it wrong as residents of brian college
• 54:11
  Speaker 6: should we be absolutely fleecing these kids we.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: We need to do things the way that aggies do
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: things and they need to do things the way that
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: what are they these days, Rebels or Sharks or whatever,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: Land Sharks, whatever. They've got to do things the way
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: they do. Ties, I don't know. It's a bizarre place,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: and they do it different. And, yeah, they are absolutely
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: this whole industry that are fleecing parents, and they set
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: this expectation. You have to have this kind of car
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: to be in. You have to be in this particular dorm.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: You have to have interior designers come in. When we
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: moved our kid in, There were people there that had
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: spent 20K plus on interior decorators.
• 54:47
  Speaker 6: For a dorm. This is a focus from the community
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: that they're building. They're living that high on the hog
• 54:54
  Speaker 6: lifestyle they live because they are. pulling that money off
• 54:57
  Speaker 6: of the college students. There ain't any other industry in Oxford, y'all.
• 55:00
  Speaker 6: That's the only way to get rich.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: There are a few, actually. Are there? Yes. There's a
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: cardboard box industry there that a guy I know sends
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: boxes all over the place.
• 55:09
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: There's a gin distillery there that a distant family member owns, actually.
• 55:14
  Speaker 23: Oh, really?
• 55:14
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 55:14
  Speaker 6: Okay, so a couple of the laws.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: There's people that are popping up things like that.
• 55:17
  Speaker 6: I don't know that it's more lucrative than fleecing a
• 55:20
  Speaker 6: college student for 20 grr to design a dorm room decor.
• 55:25
  Speaker 6: That seems like great work.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: And they pay it with a smile on their face.
• 55:30
  Speaker 6: Hey, one quick reminder, guys. Candidate Forum No. 2 tonight.
• 55:35
  Speaker 6: All city council action, and we've got a lot of races.
• 55:38
  Speaker 6: You can get more details online at WTAW.com. Brazos Center tonight.
• 55:44
  Speaker 6: Very much hope to see you guys in attendance. But
• 55:46
  Speaker 6: if we can't, remember, we will have it live, WTAW,
• 55:50
  Speaker 6: and streaming at WTAW.com. We are 1620, 945 WTAW College Station. Brian,
• 55:58
  Speaker 6: good morning. It's 8 o'clock.