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The Infomaniacs: August 5, 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 2: More than one hundred and forty Texas businesses and recreation
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Speaker 2: a Big Ben Tours in My Lines, called it tragic.
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Speaker 3: Under's this kind of unsaid message that.
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Speaker 4: The area is unsafe, and that's not true.
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Speaker 2: In the first six months of the year, there were
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Speaker 2: eighteen apprehensions made in the sector. All five sheriffs in
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Speaker 2: the Big Border region opposed the border construction, saying there's
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Speaker 2: a natural Wall.
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Speaker 1: In San Antonio.
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Speaker 2: Michael Board at TSM News.
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Speaker 1: A group of Texas and M professors is suing the
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Speaker 1: Board of Regents for what they say is censorship. New
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Speaker 1: policies put in place by the university last November prohibit
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Speaker 1: courses that advocate for racer gender ideology or contain topics
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Speaker 1: related to sexual orientation and gender identity. The ACLU of
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Speaker 1: Texas filed the suit on behalf of the four professors
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Speaker 1: and the American Association of University Professors. Here's their attorney,
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Speaker 1: Tommy Busser Clancy.
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Speaker 3: The Supreme Court has time and again said that free
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Speaker 3: speech in college classrooms occupies a special niche in our
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Speaker 3: constitution and that the First Amendment protects that academic freedom.
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Speaker 1: He calls the policy a clear violation of the First
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Speaker 1: and fourteenth Amendments.
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Speaker 3: And the thumb, the government's thumb on the scale of
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Speaker 3: what can be taught or not taught, is plainly unconstitutional.
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Speaker 1: The lawsuit seeks to have the policy overturned and reinstatement
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Speaker 1: of the six canceled court. Texas, A and M released
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Speaker 1: a statement saying the lawsuit is without merit and the
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Speaker 1: system will vigorously defend its policies and procedures. Swing by
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Speaker 4: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five. WTAW Guys, It's Wednesday,
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Speaker 5: Yesterday, Aggie football had their report back date and head
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Speaker 5: coach Mike Elco met with the media to talk about
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Speaker 5: up in sports.
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Speaker 1: So ready for this, every little nugget you know over there, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: so and so Marcel Reid took a breath today.
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Speaker 4: That's this time of year though, this time ed you
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Speaker 4: know what it's that's fine.
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Speaker 1: It show up. Everybody shows up to that. Just show up,
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Speaker 1: get a couple of reps. You'll be fine. Have a
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Speaker 1: press conference.
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Speaker 5: Is if Damian Sanford will be back?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is the big headline there. I just hope
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Speaker 1: they all have fun. That's just everybody have a good time,
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Speaker 1: all right.
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Speaker 4: So we were talking earlier about random celebrity encounters. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: because because we've obviously had a few of these, but
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Speaker 4: you guys have probably had just as many because you
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Speaker 4: just never know who's coming through college station. I was
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Speaker 4: telling Riley, she got very excited that I met theo
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Speaker 4: Von back when the Salty Dog was here before he
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Speaker 4: well he was still theo Vonn. He was like real
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Speaker 4: world THEO Von and MTV would just shop him around
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Speaker 4: to college campuses. No one knew he was going to
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Speaker 4: turn into that guy. Uh but cool dude, right And
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Speaker 4: speaking of wayback interactions, Oh gosh, this text message from
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Speaker 4: m Kelly. My husband and I were at the Albertsons
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Speaker 4: on University Drive that was a minute ago. We rounded
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Speaker 4: a corner and there was President George HW. Bush with
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Speaker 4: his detail behind him, pushing a cart.
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Speaker 1: He asked us where the crackers were, just to mention that.
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Speaker 4: It's too good, Frank text and I met John Cornan
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Speaker 4: at the Hobby Airport back in two thousand and nine.
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Speaker 4: I was waiting with my stepdaughter to catch a flight
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Speaker 4: to Las Vegas, nev autumn. He was arriving from El Paso.
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Speaker 4: He sat and talked with us for about twenty minutes. Sports, weather, tech, history,
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Speaker 4: and yes, politics.
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Speaker 1: Cool dude, you noticed they didn't talk about brisket. For
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Speaker 1: those of you who know, two years ago, John Connold
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Speaker 1: posted a picture of brisket and a braggadocious sort of
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Speaker 1: what it.
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Speaker 4: Was really flexing on that brisket and it was not
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Speaker 4: a flexx I I this is the guy in me
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Speaker 4: that wants to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
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Speaker 4: I'm still trying to figure out how it made sense
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Speaker 4: to be proud of that brisket, right, I'm still trying,
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Speaker 4: But well, was there something I did? Is there context
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Speaker 4: to it? Is it a different type? Do I not
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Speaker 4: understand brisket? Why would you post that in the state
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Speaker 4: of Texas he's a good briskets.
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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of things that you can
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Speaker 1: you can you know, claim that you're good at in
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Speaker 1: the state of Texas, or there's lots of things that
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Speaker 1: you can claim in the state of Texas. If you're
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Speaker 1: putting brisket out there and claiming it is looking great
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Speaker 1: and the best thing ever in this state and it's not.
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Speaker 4: I'm I'm still I'm still not sold that I'm going
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Speaker 4: to be a success in this particular format. Because if
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Speaker 4: I got John corn And in a room, the first
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Speaker 4: question that would have was brisket related.
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Speaker 1: That's why you would be a success, because it's the
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Speaker 1: question everybody wants to ask.
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Speaker 4: If I got in a room with Ted Cruz, my
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Speaker 4: first question would be about losing a caso battle to
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Speaker 4: the state of Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: Look, Arkansas claims that they invented.
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Speaker 4: Well, now they beat us because Ted couldn't be bothered.
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Speaker 1: Man, if you do you know this story, I don't
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Speaker 1: know the story. I'm guessing that somebody from Arkansas, could
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Speaker 1: he or somebody?
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Speaker 4: It was Tom Cotton, Oh, Tom so Tom Cotton. They
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Speaker 4: do this and to amuse themselves because quite frankly, they
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Speaker 4: don't work a lot in the Senate, and they want
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Speaker 4: to have a food battle in Arkansas as well mentioned
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Speaker 4: and call it Caso's cheese dip.
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Speaker 1: It's different.
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Speaker 4: He said, this same thing in ours is better than yours.
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Speaker 4: And Ted said, we will settle this like men. We
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Speaker 4: will have a taste contest. Bring your best cheese dip.
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Speaker 4: Tom chartered a flight, flew a kid down to Arkansas,
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Speaker 4: found a way to get the best cheese dip that
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Speaker 4: he believed to be the best cheese dip in Arkansas.
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Speaker 4: Put it on a plane, send it back, maintain it,
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Speaker 4: beat you know, consistency, figured out how to reheat it,
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Speaker 4: all that stuff, brought back everything you need to give
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Speaker 4: it the best, put in the rics, be put in
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Speaker 4: a lot of effort to this.
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Speaker 1: Ted forgot about.
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Speaker 4: It, and then on the day of the competition sent
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Speaker 4: a kid down the street to a tex Mex spot
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Speaker 4: in Washington, DC. That shall remain nameless.
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Speaker 1: A text mech.
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Speaker 4: Spot in Washington, d C Ted Ted, Ted, you're from Houston, Ted,
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Speaker 4: you could have gone to it.
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Speaker 1: You could have gone to L. L. Tempo, you could
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Speaker 1: have you could have gone original, you could have gone
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Speaker 1: to the grocery store. Because everybody from Texas should know
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Speaker 1: how to make a decent case though portray of that case.
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Speaker 1: So you're throwing the oven for ten. But you could
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Speaker 1: have done any of these things.
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Speaker 4: And you spaced Tom Cotton one until the end of time.
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Speaker 4: There's gonna be a check mark on Arkansas defeating us
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Speaker 4: in a caso battle. That is to me and again,
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Speaker 4: do you see how the do you see how my
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Speaker 4: voice is real?
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Speaker 1: Emotional? Well emotional.
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Speaker 4: If Ted walked in that room right now, there a
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Speaker 4: million things that probably that the audience would rather hear
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Speaker 4: me talk Ted crew. You talked Ted Cruise about, rightly,
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Speaker 4: talk to Ted Cruz about I would spend an hour
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Speaker 4: berating him over caso.
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Speaker 1: And deservedly so. Uh he did. He did not recognize
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Speaker 1: it as what it should.
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Speaker 4: There's a dark day in Texas history. Let me tell
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Speaker 4: you it could be an interesting day in Texas history
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Speaker 4: because today is SpaceX Moonstrike Day.
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Speaker 1: It happened. It happened, okay, just after midnight last night here.
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Speaker 4: Because I was, I know, everyone had a lot of
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Speaker 4: the astronomers out there and like the like the people
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Speaker 4: would telescopes like at the Hobbyist. Everyone was looking at
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Speaker 4: the moon last night to see if you would see it,
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Speaker 4: you know, like a literal dustof and where this thing
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Speaker 4: hit the moon.
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Speaker 1: So many people were excited about it, and so many
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Speaker 1: people were like, oh, there's so much space junk in
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Speaker 1: this that and whatever. I don't disagree. Fluke thing right,
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Speaker 1: So it was a four ton SpaceX Falcon nine rocket
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Speaker 1: upper stage. It officially crashed into the Moon early this
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Speaker 1: morning two thirty five am Eastern time, so uh, just
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Speaker 1: about twelve thirty five am R time. It collided near
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Speaker 1: the Einstein Crater. It hit the speed hit the Moon
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Speaker 1: at a blistering speed of five four hundred miles per
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Speaker 1: ounce for twice the speed of sound. Yeah, that is
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Speaker 1: a that is a missile. And just to give you
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Speaker 1: some reference, the booster was the size of a school bus. Right,
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Speaker 1: So it hit the moon. Three tons of TNT is
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Speaker 1: the equivalent blast, which is the grand scheme of things.
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Speaker 1: As even was.
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Speaker 4: Looking at this because they're like, we might be able
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Speaker 4: to learn something about the surface of the Moon because
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Speaker 4: we've never been able to track what happens when a
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Speaker 4: school bus hits it.
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Speaker 1: Well, what the moon? The moon has it. You're not
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Speaker 1: going to be able to distinguish this crater from the
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Speaker 1: millions of others that are on the moon.
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Speaker 5: Right, they got a free science experiment.
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Speaker 4: I'm just saying, yeah, free science, free science was accomplished today,
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Speaker 4: and yeah, I'm not going to turn it down. Sixteen
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Speaker 4: twenty ninety four to five wtaw you good morning.
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Speaker 1: Wow.
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Speaker 4: Let's get back to the caso. That's what chase your
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Speaker 4: standard operating procedure for making keso belvida and a can
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Speaker 4: of rotel and a little bit of milk. That is
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Speaker 4: your base. The story you told about Ted Cruz is
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Speaker 4: absolutely upsetting.
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Speaker 1: Yes, you see, people would love you to ask Ted
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Speaker 1: Cruz these questions about the case. I don't think Ted
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Speaker 1: is ready to talk about this.
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Speaker 4: He strikes me as prickly when a question could be
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Speaker 4: I think that might be a harder question for him
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Speaker 4: to answer than all lot of the ones he gets
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Speaker 4: from CNN.
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Speaker 1: I bet Ted would answer that question for you.
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Speaker 4: I would love to you know what if you just
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Speaker 4: want to come and be like, yeah, I'm messed up, dude, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: but you know what, I'm a senator, I'm busy. I
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Speaker 4: just I didn't take it seriously and it okay, dude,
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Speaker 4: do better, that's fine. But I gotta know, I gotta
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Speaker 4: know why we took an l to Arkansas.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he just didn't think it would be as big
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Speaker 1: a deal as what it is. Do you have a
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Speaker 1: desk at home?
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Speaker 4: Like I know we we don't really have offices up
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Speaker 4: here at the radio stage.
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Speaker 1: Riley does.
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Speaker 4: Riley has a dedicated office space, which must be nice,
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Speaker 4: must be real.
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Speaker 5: It is nice. I'm not gonna lie, but it's a
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Speaker 5: bit for me.
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Speaker 1: I use it.
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Speaker 5: Wait and give me like two or three days when
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Speaker 5: it's really going to be put to use when I
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Speaker 5: have every single A and M sporting event schedule on
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Speaker 5: the wall.
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Speaker 1: Okay, wait a minute, she got an office. Yes, your studio.
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Speaker 4: I thought there was something technically have a you and
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Speaker 4: share it and it's not really.
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Speaker 1: But at home, you have a recording suit do you
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Speaker 1: have so I've got a dedicated I've got a dedicated
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Speaker 1: in but I mean my recording equipment is on it.
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Speaker 1: But it also has some desk based down in the studio,
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Speaker 1: and then we do have an office at the house too.
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Speaker 1: What's the coolest thing you got on your desk? On
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Speaker 1: my desk?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, because I mean I just assume you
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Speaker 4: have cool stuff. Some of it might have ended up
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Speaker 4: on your desk because, like I just like having this
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Speaker 4: on here.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of well, the desk is. Yeah, the desk
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Speaker 1: is pretty full with the recording equipment. Now. On the
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Speaker 1: walls in the studio, I've got pictures from nine to
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Speaker 1: eleven the World Trade Center that we're taken by members
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Speaker 1: of Task Force one when they deployed there. I have
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Speaker 1: a chunk of the building, the Murrow Building in Oklahoma City. Wow,
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Speaker 1: I've got a pin made by Neil Sperry from cherrywood
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Speaker 1: off of our farm in Louisia. Shout out to Neil,
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Speaker 1: Shout out to Neil. I have I have a Van
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Speaker 1: Halen gold record. Hey, oh, roach one. I believe it
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Speaker 1: was Fan Halen's greatest hits. So no, I take it.
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Speaker 1: That's great. Yeah, just one of those things. And let
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Speaker 1: me see what else is on the wall down there. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I found my grandfather and both of my parents worked
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Speaker 1: for extension and my grandfather at LSU, both of my
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Speaker 1: parents at A and M. So I found in my
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Speaker 1: grandfather's things the extension creed and it's this beautiful like
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Speaker 1: on parchment script and written in it's this beautiful creed
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Speaker 1: that I have framed in on the wall. I love that.
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Speaker 1: And then a picture of me and my wife up there.
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Speaker 1: It's cool. I see. I love this because I do.
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Speaker 4: People do find some amazing things to drop on their
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Speaker 4: desk as a little kind of ornaments or whatever. I
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Speaker 4: was going to ask you, is anything in that room
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Speaker 4: cooler than a live twenty pound shell from the Civil War?
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Speaker 1: No, I would say, yours is up there. It's up there.
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Speaker 1: You've got cool. So I know what a live twenty
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Speaker 1: pound shell can do. I'm not keeping it on my desk.
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Speaker 1: Here's a guy that was right here in the state
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Speaker 1: of Texas.
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Speaker 4: Turns out a souvenir that said on Steve Martin's desk
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Speaker 4: for years wasn't just a conversation starter. It was a
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Speaker 4: legitimate Civil War bomb that still worked.
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Speaker 1: He says.
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Speaker 4: Visitors constantly picked up and handled the twenty pound shell,
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Speaker 4: which his son found fishing along the Guadaloupe River. And
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Speaker 4: brought home. He assumed it was a replica. That is
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Speaker 4: a lie. You absolutely knew what that was. Probably so
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Speaker 4: you knew exactly what that was. You just thought it
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Speaker 4: was a nerd and safe exactly.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is from today.
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Speaker 5: When was the shell?
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Speaker 1: Civil War?
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Speaker 4: Civil War eighteen stable.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that much about it. The age on
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Speaker 1: it would cause some instability. You don't know if it's
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Speaker 1: you know, gone dut or if it's super delicate.
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Speaker 4: Martin called sheriff's officer brought an Air Force Explosive Ordnance Team.
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Speaker 1: You gotta have the UXO confirmed.
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Speaker 4: It was a live parrot round, a type of artillery
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Speaker 4: shell used by the Union, and detonated it safely at
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Speaker 4: Camp Bullets, fifty miles away in the great city of
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Speaker 4: San Antonio, Texas.
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Speaker 1: You know, when they blow those things up, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of fun to watch, you know.
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Speaker 4: They have a great time doing that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like I mean, and you know that was a
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Speaker 1: fun one too. Like, wait, we're gonna do they teach?
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Speaker 1: They teach an unexploded ordnance course out here at the
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Speaker 1: Rellis campus. So this is why I ask.
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Speaker 4: And again I know people have cool stuff on their desk.
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Speaker 4: As we talked about the billy the kid got, which
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Speaker 4: was on someone's home office desk here for literally ever,
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Speaker 4: unbeknownst to most humans, that's where the gun was, just
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Speaker 4: hanging around in college station. If you happen to want
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Speaker 4: to talk about some of the stuff that you guys
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Speaker 4: have and your collection.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd love to hear it. I don't know that.
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Speaker 4: People are gonna bite with this because I feel like
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Speaker 4: a lot of people the coolest thing they have on
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Speaker 4: their desk might be something like that, which is patently
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Speaker 4: wrong to have.
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Speaker 1: team for the things you value most. Good morning from
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Speaker 1: the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The ACLU has filed
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Speaker 1: a lawsuit against the Texas A and M Board of
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Speaker 1: Regents on behalf of the American Association of University Professors
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Speaker 1: and for Texas A and m professors. Leonard Bright teaches
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Speaker 1: ethics at the Bush School of Government and Public Service.
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Speaker 1: Vanita Reddy is an associate professor of English and core
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Speaker 1: faculty in Women's and Gender Studies. Landon Sandler is a
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Speaker 1: lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences. Aaron George
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Speaker 1: is an assistant professor of history at Tarleton State. The
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Speaker 1: complaint for declaratory and injunctive relief was filed Monday in
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Speaker 1: US District Court, Southern District in Houston. It argues that
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Speaker 1: two opportunities to provide input tonight and tomorrow at the
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Speaker 1: Brasses County Expo Center. From five until seven, Contractors in
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Speaker 1: Tuesday evening and residents given the all CLI. There is
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Speaker 1: a growing push to rein in the emerging world of
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Speaker 2: Sites like calci let users bet on just about anything.
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Speaker 2: Representative Michela Plaza says it's disturbing to see these sites
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Speaker 4: They're gambling on whether or not countries are going to war,
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Speaker 1: Can deliver the forecast and three words go brutal, tolerable, brutal.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 4: There you go, Yeah, that's it. That's all we need
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Speaker 4: to say. Just saved ourselves a lot of effort there,
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Speaker 4: brutally tolerable.
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Speaker 1: I like it. You know.
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Speaker 4: I know that we're in in news radio and talk radio,
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Speaker 4: and I try not to be divisive. But today I'm
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Speaker 4: just going to dive right in. We're going to get
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Speaker 4: real divisive recast and again nine seven nine sixteen twenty.
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Speaker 4: So our PHONEO, Brinda is going to have to do
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Speaker 4: with our forecast brutal, tolerable, brutal. I want to talk
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Speaker 4: about the average temperature that we like to sleep at,
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Speaker 4: which has a story that has crawled across I think
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Speaker 4: all three of our screens this morning, and I did
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Speaker 4: not want to let this opportunity slip by America's preferred
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Speaker 4: sleep temperature has been identified, and the ideal temperature is what.
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Speaker 1: Sixty seven degrees?
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Speaker 5: Yes, that's how I sleep.
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Speaker 1: It tell me that's if my wife, if she got
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Speaker 1: her way, it would be sixty seven. I I I've
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Speaker 1: put my foot down at sixty nine.
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Speaker 4: Okay, all right, so sixty eight sixty nine because seventy
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Speaker 4: feels too.
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Speaker 1: It's not a feeling thing for me, right, it's a price.
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Speaker 1: It's a price thing for me.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So we're gonna we'll get into a little bit
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Speaker 4: of this. But I did want to mention that Florida
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Speaker 4: likes it the warmest, followed by the state of Texas.
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Speaker 4: So they broke out states and apparently we like it warm,
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Speaker 4: like it in the seventies. And I'm not sure that
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Speaker 4: that's true.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's factual. I don't know who they
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Speaker 1: talked to.
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Speaker 5: I don't either, because every single person I know when
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Speaker 5: I we would go to hotel rooms, we'd say the
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Speaker 5: track meets or they'd come over, like you go to
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Speaker 5: people's houses, everyone's like it's sixty eight or below. And
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Speaker 5: you sleep at night, don't touch If you do touch
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Speaker 5: a thermostat, that is a rule of you're getting kicked
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Speaker 5: out the house first.
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Speaker 1: Time the wife does we walk into a hotel room
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Speaker 1: cranks it down as far as like, because the expense
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Speaker 1: is a real thing.
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Speaker 4: Everyone knows it's an expensive time to be in Texas
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Speaker 4: during the summer because you're going to pay for it
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Speaker 4: with your AC bill. But with that said, if you're
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Speaker 4: talking about preference, look at what people do when they
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Speaker 4: go to a hotel, and look at what people do
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Speaker 4: when they go to an airbnb. And you're right, if
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Speaker 4: it's a hotel, the first thing you do is you
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Speaker 4: grab that thing and you try to break it off
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Speaker 4: as far down as it'll go, and you you you
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Speaker 4: just frost the windows.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely. That's why I think that the idea that the
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Speaker 1: state average of being like seventy one seventy two is nonsense.
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Speaker 5: Maybe throughout the day, but there's no way people sleep
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Speaker 5: in it.
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Speaker 4: But we could be dead wrong as well. Maybe some
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Speaker 4: people don't like to be cold when they sleep, and
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Speaker 4: that is what we are going to try to find
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Speaker 4: out today. And again this is where we turn to
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Speaker 4: you guys. Nine seventy nine, six nine five, sixteen twenty,
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Speaker 4: what is your sleeping temperature?
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Speaker 1: Garrett says, seventy degrees fahrenheit is the magic number. Really,
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Speaker 1: I can see that that's a compromise.
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Speaker 4: If I have to it's seventy, I'm not under the covers,
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Speaker 4: it's seventy. I'm like, no, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: That's way too hot. Well, our our sixty eight sixty
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Speaker 1: nine has the ceiling fan on high. You know, so
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Speaker 1: I get it now.
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Speaker 4: Bonus points if you really want to, just to get interesting,
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Speaker 4: who actually gets to decide in your house? Who is
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Speaker 4: the person that gets to regulate how everyone else sleeps?
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Speaker 4: Because I don't believe that it's a compromise. There's always
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Speaker 4: one human that is deciding.
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Speaker 5: My dad is all the other un if I'm paying
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Speaker 5: for it, I'm buying. I see that it's one of
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Speaker 5: those people. I will say this. I I obviously thought
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Speaker 5: him because he sleeps at sixty eight degrees a night.
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Speaker 5: But if he's like, man, I'm feeling hot, he'll drop
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Speaker 5: it a little lower so he doesn't sleep hot. He
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Speaker 5: will not sleep in seventy degrees at all whatsoever. And
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Speaker 5: if there's a place he has to stay, he would
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Speaker 5: rather go sleep in a hotel room than sleep somewhere
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Speaker 5: that it's seventy degrees or hotter. So I didn't disagree
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Speaker 5: with them, and I didn't care. I was fine with it.
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Speaker 1: In our house, we currently have separate zones, so like
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Speaker 1: separate also the kids area right, they can set their
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Speaker 1: temperature where they want, and then mama can set hers
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Speaker 1: where she wants.
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Speaker 4: Okay, So is there a differential between your dads?
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Speaker 1: Is significantly warmer than mama's warmer? Yeah?
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 1: Do you sleep in the inn? No, we're still talking
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Speaker 1: for seventy We're still talking seventy but the wife will
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Speaker 1: chill it up. It's absolutely insane.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's get to some early text messages, and
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Speaker 4: again you can call us or text us at nine
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Speaker 4: seventy nine, six, nine, five, sixteen twenty.
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Speaker 1: I will even sweeten the pot.
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Speaker 4: One of you, just for playing along is going to
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Speaker 4: win a four pack if tickets to Hawaiian Falls water parks.
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Speaker 4: I still need to get these out the door, and
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Speaker 4: I'm sitting on a ton of them.
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Speaker 1: So, so, some of you people who like to sleep hot,
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Speaker 1: like Charles at seventy two degrees, you can cool off, Carls,
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Speaker 1: you can cool off at the water park. Charles at
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Speaker 1: seventy do you feel comfortable at seventy two, you might
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Speaker 1: you have to feel comfortable. Either that or you listen
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Speaker 1: to the you know, the people from the conservation agencies.
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Speaker 1: They say you should be sleeping at seventy five and above,
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Speaker 1: or keep your temperature seventy eight.
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Speaker 4: No, okay, seventy degrees at night with the yeah, okay,
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Speaker 4: ceiling fan bling right on me.
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Speaker 5: Wait to see the most recent My family sleeps at
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Speaker 5: seventy seven.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, seventy seven. Come on, No, it's not
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Speaker 1: How do they, Ryan? How well? People sit down?
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Speaker 6: Down?
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Speaker 4: I want to fly past seventy How do you get
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Speaker 4: to so you said my family sleeps at seventy seven?
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Speaker 1: Are they all cool with this and you're just living miserable?
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Speaker 1: Are they hostager?
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Speaker 8: You know?
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Speaker 1: How did you get to seventies seven? Ryan? Again? Same thing,
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Speaker 1: Like whole house is seventy five. I prefer I prefer.
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Speaker 4: Seventy seven, but the seventy five was a compromise.
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Speaker 1: Turn a fan on at night, He says, it's not
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Speaker 1: the same. No, Ryan, I'm sorry, Ryan. I would I
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Speaker 1: would if I was your spouse, Ryan, I would leave you.
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Speaker 5: I would have first met him, Like, what do you
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Speaker 5: That's my first question actually on fun fact, now, when
29:29
Speaker 5: I go on dates like oh, what do you sleep
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Speaker 5: with your temperature at night? That is the first thing
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Speaker 5: I ask. I think it's important they say anything higher
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Speaker 5: than seventy I think it's seventy seventy two. I'm out
29:38
Speaker 5: of my.
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Speaker 9: Round.
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Speaker 5: That's one thing in life I will not mess around with,
29:43
Speaker 5: and it is my sleep. And if I'm sweating in
29:46
Speaker 5: my sleep, I'm going to be the most miserable person
29:48
Speaker 5: you've ever been around in your life.
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Speaker 4: Wow, this, this is, this is intensely interesting because yeah,
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Speaker 4: we are leaning seriously warmer on these text messages so far. Now,
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Speaker 4: we do want to give you time to get some
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Speaker 4: of them in.
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Speaker 1: They're flooding.
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Speaker 4: The they're flooding, and we'll get back to this. If
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Speaker 4: you want to call us, that's fine too. Nine sepent
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Speaker 4: nine six nine five sixteen twenty. Hell, call and explain
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Speaker 4: yourself if you're one of the seventy seven people, because
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Speaker 4: that that's blowing my mind.
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Speaker 1: How you could pop? I don't doubt to see it.
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Speaker 1: They're probably that family's probably better acclimated to the Texas
30:20
Speaker 1: heat than anybody. Maybe, all right, we'll take a break
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Speaker 1: back after this.
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Speaker 5: Aggie Football had their report day where they were able
30:49
Speaker 5: to knock out a lot of organizational aspects ahead of
30:52
Speaker 5: getting the opportunity to finally get back on the field tonight.
30:55
Speaker 5: Since the news of the court injunctions regarding changes to
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Speaker 5: rules for the roster, how head coach Mike Elko talked
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Speaker 5: about the importance of competition within the team.
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Speaker 8: I think it's really important. You know, there's you have
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Speaker 8: so many conversations about what's the right way to do
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Speaker 8: roster management because this is all new and there's not
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Speaker 8: massive sample sizes to study of what the right way
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Speaker 8: to put these rosters together. And I'm just still a
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Speaker 8: firm believer that when you have eighteen to twenty one
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Speaker 8: year olds, competition is better. The desire to have to
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Speaker 8: get up every day and fight to earn things is
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Speaker 8: what will ultimately create the development that you need. You
31:33
Speaker 8: still want to create that competitive mindset in these young kids,
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Speaker 8: and so I think that's what we have strived for
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Speaker 8: in roster creation, even to say, you know, we're not
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Speaker 8: bringing in the starting tackle, We're going to have a
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Speaker 8: handful of guys that we think are really good that
31:50
Speaker 8: can compete to earn that spot, because through that competition,
31:54
Speaker 8: everybody gets better.
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Speaker 5: Coach Elco also commented on the talent of the secondary
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Speaker 5: this season and feeling as though they're going into the
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Speaker 5: season with an sec level secondary. Safety Dalton Brooks commented
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Speaker 5: on the coaching staff's praise of the secondary this offseason
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Speaker 5: and what the defense brings to the field this season
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Speaker 5: compared to those in the past.
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Speaker 9: You know, we have an older secondary, so it kind
32:17
Speaker 9: of means more this year, and we have a lot
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Speaker 9: of the same people coming back, so we kind of
32:20
Speaker 9: have a stronger bond even more than last year. And
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Speaker 9: with that, I mean, it just means more this year
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Speaker 9: to us. I feel like we bring aggression, you know,
32:27
Speaker 9: I mean, as a defense, you need aggression, and like
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Speaker 9: as DBS, that's the most thing needed, you know, on
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Speaker 9: the edge, playing the edge, playing the field and all
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Speaker 9: of that. You need aggression everywhere and I feel like
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Speaker 9: that's what we're bringing this year on both sides of
32:38
Speaker 9: the ball.
32:39
Speaker 5: Today marks the one month countdown to the start of
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Speaker 5: the A and M football season, where the Aggies will
32:44
Speaker 5: hit the field at six o'clock on September fifth at
32:46
Speaker 5: Kyle Field against Missouri State. As we are getting closer
32:50
Speaker 5: and closer to the start of the fall semester here
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Speaker 5: in Agiland, many sports have already reported back and started
32:56
Speaker 5: practice to get ready for their upcoming seasons. One team
33:00
Speaker 5: everyone is itching to see hit the court in less
33:02
Speaker 5: than one week is the defending national championship A and
33:05
Speaker 5: in volleyball program head coach Jamie Morrison met with the
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Speaker 5: media yesterday to talk about the anticipation ahead of the
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Speaker 5: start of the season.
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Speaker 1: Who We're excited.
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Speaker 10: I think the thing we've been talking about is just
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Speaker 10: this team's story that it's going to tell over the
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Speaker 10: course of this season, and I think we're excited to
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Speaker 10: get that started. And we've had three really really good
33:22
Speaker 10: days of practice, four really good days of practice, while
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Speaker 10: have our fifth later on this afternoon. But so far
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Speaker 10: it's been kind of the same head down approach till
33:28
Speaker 10: we have to work and we have to catch up
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Speaker 10: and we have to, I don't know, get better. And
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Speaker 10: we've talked a lot about we have what is ten
33:34
Speaker 10: practices now left before we step on the courting in
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Speaker 10: at Louisville, and we have seventeen weeks of practice until
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Speaker 10: we're tournament ready and ready to go make another potion
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Speaker 10: to the NCAA tournament. And I think our group has
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Speaker 10: taken that really seriously, have put their heads down and
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Speaker 10: gotten to work.
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Speaker 6: Yaggies.
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Speaker 5: We'll start the season with the Maroon and White Scrimmage
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Speaker 5: at Rita Arena on August eleventh, with first serve set
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Speaker 5: for five point thirty in the evening. For their exhibition match,
33:55
Speaker 5: they will travel to Waco to take on the Baylor
33:58
Speaker 5: Bears on August sixteenth, the start time for the match
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Speaker 5: at six o'clock. The A and M men's basketball team
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Speaker 5: dominated from start to finish, topping a professional team from
34:08
Speaker 5: Columbia one hundred and forty one to sixty one last
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Speaker 4: the national sleep temperature is sixty seven degrees. Nationally, it's
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Speaker 4: sixty seven degrees. So immediately our thought was high low.
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Speaker 4: They did say Texas likes it. Second hottest.
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Speaker 1: Florida apparently beats us out Hawaii. Hawaii's number one. Hawaii
35:19
Speaker 1: was number one. That's Hawaii.
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Speaker 5: They don't have a lot of ac over there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't see it a lot of Yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's pretty constant temperature. Yeah, fair, what do we have
35:27
Speaker 1: on text message? Let's go text messages. Let's see. Charlie says,
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Speaker 1: sixty seven degrees. Used to do seventy to save money,
35:33
Speaker 1: but couldn't do it anymore. Yes, my people, Yep, there
35:35
Speaker 1: we go. Let's see here. This one in John says,
35:38
Speaker 1: when I was a kid, the AC did not come
35:40
Speaker 1: on at all until after the fourth of July. Is
35:43
Speaker 1: that is diabolical? Kelly's diabolical. Sixty nine or seventy? I
35:48
Speaker 1: want it lower, but I don't like the bill. And
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Speaker 1: we all know women control the thermometer in the house.
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Speaker 4: That's that's my thing is if there is a person
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Speaker 4: to decide, I'm a guess ninety percent of the time
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Speaker 4: it's the female.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think, so, I would think. Let's see.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of people have texted in.
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Speaker 4: That they that for whatever reason, that it will be
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Speaker 4: just frozen in their house and everyone is just walking
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Speaker 4: around in hoodies.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's what happens in my house. Oh you're
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Speaker 1: one of these two. Yeah, we have this, you know,
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Speaker 1: incredibly low temperature so that all the women in the house,
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Speaker 1: including the dog, can get under blankets. My wife, my
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Speaker 1: wife will keep it so incredibly cold in the bedroom
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Speaker 1: and then use an electric blanket and two regular blankets.
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Speaker 5: I do the same to you.
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Speaker 9: I know.
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Speaker 5: The best part, my favorite time. So when we start
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Speaker 5: getting into the colder months, when it decides in Texas
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Speaker 5: it wants to be cold, and you know you have
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Speaker 5: to turn on your heat very very selectively. Yes, I'll
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Speaker 5: turn that thing on sixty five, and I'll be like,
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Speaker 5: all right, it can stay sixty five here, fine by me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah that's good deal too, because it's better for you economically. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's when it works out best.
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Speaker 5: I bundle up, like how your kids and your wife.
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Speaker 5: I'm full hoodie sweatpants, but buzzy socks, the blanket on
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Speaker 5: before I'm gonna be sweating.
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Speaker 4: Bert'say seventy eight with a ceiling fan, good lord. Bert
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Speaker 4: Bruce says. We go to my dad's for a week
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Speaker 4: every summer. He keeps his on seventy eight in Arizona,
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Speaker 4: and it's crazy.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I get it.
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Speaker 4: It's kind of different in the desert, but not not.
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Speaker 1: That different that it's cooler to diet at least Roy
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Speaker 1: sixty eight with a ceiling fan on hot. There you go, Sean,
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Speaker 1: how about this seventy four and the wife freezes to
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Speaker 1: death and he's sweating.
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Speaker 4: You have to take into account from James that some
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Speaker 4: of us work outside in this triple digit heat all
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Speaker 4: day long, so we're acclimated to the heat. So seventy
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Speaker 4: seven to seventy five bus is like sixty eight to you.
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Speaker 1: We're a lot more comfortable. That's that's fair. It is fair. Look,
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Speaker 1: when I've been because I keep with nobody's anthem being
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Speaker 1: be I'll crank the AC temperature up so that it
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Speaker 1: is not running and I'm not wasting money. But even
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Speaker 1: if I have it set seventy five plus, when I
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Speaker 1: come in out of the heat, my initial thought is, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's cold in here. That lasts about thirty minutes.
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Speaker 4: But if you are that person, if you are that person,
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Speaker 4: it probably is better for your body. If you're not,
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Speaker 4: you know, yeah, you want to acclimate. You want to
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Speaker 4: be sleeping warmer because during the day you're going to
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Speaker 4: be get out.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to Like me, I have to wake
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Speaker 1: up early in the morning and go outside and my
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Speaker 1: eyeballs fog up.
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Speaker 4: We have a programmable thermostat zoned areas, and temperatures are
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Speaker 4: slightly elevated and occupied areas or during time periods when
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Speaker 4: we are not there. But the maxim um setting is
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Speaker 4: seventy six. Went home and once returning it goes to
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Speaker 4: seventy two. With fads circulating around the bedroom, it goes
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Speaker 4: to sixty eight approximately two hours for so you have
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Speaker 4: a you have a system, Terry.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the modern systems, the modern systems and spray and
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Speaker 1: foam insulation have done a magical thing.
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Speaker 3: True.
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Speaker 1: Bruce is texted and we go to my dad's for
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Speaker 1: a week every summer. He keeps his on seventy eight. Right,
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Speaker 1: you mentioned that one, and that's just seventy eight.
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Speaker 4: It's got a lot of seventy eight nuts, right, a
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Speaker 4: lot of seventy eighths.
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Speaker 1: Was a fan. A lot of people are saying that
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Speaker 1: it's an age thing too. My father and my wife's grandmother.
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Speaker 1: Any place they were, they were cold. It didn't matter.
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Speaker 4: I know you were telling us before we got into
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Speaker 4: this that your grandparents were How did this work? Your
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Speaker 4: grandparents liked it so hot you just decided to start
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Speaker 4: sleeping out.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Briefly, what happened was was my grandparents said it
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Speaker 5: like seventy eight to eighty degrees is what it said
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Speaker 5: that basically, it was eighty degrees US and this is
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Speaker 5: during Thanksgiving wintery time, and it was going to be
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Speaker 5: cold outside, so it was going to be like fifty
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Speaker 5: to almost forty that night. And all my aunt, her
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Speaker 5: whole group, my mom, our whole group, we all ate
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Speaker 5: slept out like in the little patio covering area because
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Speaker 5: it was colder out there.
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Speaker 1: They used to call that and sleeping porch.
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Speaker 5: So confused as to why we did that, And I'm like,
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Speaker 5: we can't sleep in eighty degrees guys, it's so hot.
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Speaker 5: We were sweating throughout the whole day. I just I
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Speaker 5: couldn't do it.
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Speaker 1: The sleeping porch for the wind.
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