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Speaker 4: 1620-945-WTAW. Happy Friday, everyone. So, ladies and gentlemen, Louis Bellina
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Speaker 4: picking against Will Welch, picking against Tucker Young. It's a
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Speaker 4: three-way deathmatch in college football.
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Speaker 1: A battle royale.
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Speaker 4: How did we do in week one, you ask?
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Speaker 5: I did ask.
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Speaker 1: I did not.
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Speaker 4: I do have some answers for you guys. In the scores,
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Speaker 4: we have Will Welch with eight points. That is eight points.
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Speaker 4: We have Louie Bellina with 12 points. And we have me.
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Speaker 4: With 13 points. That is a win for week one. Hey,
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Speaker 4: who graded these, by the way?
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Speaker 1: He did.
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Speaker 6: Me.
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Speaker 1: Me, me.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. We can double
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Speaker 4: check it if you want to.
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Speaker 1: But 13-12.
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Speaker 4: Who keeps the sheets, too?
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Speaker 5: He does. He does. No, I'm just... Check it out.
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Speaker 4: We have the sheets publicly pinned to that wall.
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Speaker 5: Do you have any video of you grading these? No.
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Speaker 4: There's no witnesses. I was not running the camera when
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Speaker 4: this was going down, unfortunately.
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Speaker 5: I'm fine with that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything will be all right.
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Speaker 4: So the way this is, is we pick based on
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Speaker 4: the SEC schedule currently on week two.
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Speaker 1: Some interesting spreads, by the way. Yeah, there's some big
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Speaker 1: spreads that... Give me a little trepidation.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but let's get started and see where we end up. Oklahoma-Michigan,
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Speaker 4: they're giving Michigan six and a half points.
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Speaker 1: Not near enough.
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Speaker 4: What on earth is that about?
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Speaker 5: They're also giving them an extra second.
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Speaker 1: Not going to help. They could give them an extra quarter.
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma's going to stomp them. Oklahoma for Will.
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Speaker 7: Oh, I have Oklahoma. I don't even know if Michigan's
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Speaker 7: going to score. I mean, if Michigan has zero.
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Speaker 4: They call easy money.
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Speaker 5: Oklahoma only needs three field goals, so they'll win by
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Speaker 5: at least nine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
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Speaker 4: Also going with Oklahoma. Georgia versus Western Kentucky. They're going
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Speaker 4: to give Georgia 41 points. 41.
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Speaker 1: That's a big spread.
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Speaker 4: 41 is a big spread, but it's against Western Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: Wasn't the A & M game last week a 40-point spread?
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And we covered that. So I think, I think. The
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Speaker 1: spread gets covered by Georgia easily over Western Kentucky, and
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Speaker 1: I'm going with the dogs.
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Speaker 7: Georgia is a historically horrible cover team because Kirby Smart
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Speaker 7: doesn't run the score up because, by definition, he just
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Speaker 7: wants to run.
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Speaker 5: The ball anyway.
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Speaker 4: He'll pull them. He'll pull them.
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Speaker 7: Even with the starters, he likes 20-play drives. I took Georgia, too,
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Speaker 7: and I feel awful about this kind of pick because
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Speaker 7: it's not what they do.
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Speaker 1: They don't really.
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Speaker 5: But Western Kentucky, this is another. They're probably not going
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Speaker 5: to score.
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Speaker 8: That's the thing.
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Speaker 4: It's Western Kentucky does have to put the ball into
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Speaker 4: the end zone or between the uprights to get points
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Speaker 4: at some point.
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Speaker 5: They're not going to score. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And Georgia's cheerleaders could probably run up the score.
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Speaker 5: That'd be 28-0.
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Speaker 4: Favorite moment of last week, by the way, which the
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Speaker 4: LSU game is when Herb Street actually dogged out the
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Speaker 4: cheerleader for LSU for his weak push-up game, which I
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Speaker 4: thought was completely unnecessary because this kid had done at
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Speaker 4: least 250 push-ups at this point, and Herbie's giving him
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Speaker 4: pointers on form. And keep in mind that there were
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Speaker 4: lazy push-ups at the end of the game, and he
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Speaker 4: could barely get himself off the ground.
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Speaker 1: But, like, still.
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Speaker 4: A man does 250 push-ups.
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Speaker 1: I would honestly consider it a badge of honor if
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Speaker 1: Herbie tried to badmouth me.
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Speaker 5: When you have those.
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Speaker 7: Blowout loss games, you get so desperate for stuff to
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Speaker 7: talk about.
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Speaker 4: You are out of content. You are out of material.
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Speaker 7: Cheerleader push-ups, the hot dogs at the concession stand, my
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Speaker 7: drive to work, everything comes eligible content, man.
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Speaker 4: Alabama-Kentucky. Alabama only getting 10.5 points.
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Speaker 1: That is so low. Bama going to easily clear that hurdle.
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Speaker 4: I also say easy money. What say you, Louis Ballin?
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Speaker 7: There's been so much conversation about Alabama's performance. You know,
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Speaker 7: like I do a sports talk show, right?
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Speaker 6: Of course.
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Speaker 7: In between, man, Bama looked brilliant and Bama didn't look brilliant.
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Speaker 7: It's been one of the more fascinating conversations of the week.
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Speaker 7: And I took Alabama too because I, you know, A
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Speaker 7: & M plays Kentucky next week. So I've been focusing
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Speaker 7: more on Kentucky and their performance and They had a
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Speaker 7: first half so-so, like a lot of teams did week one,
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Speaker 7: and then they looked good in the second half. But
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Speaker 7: a lot of these nobody opponents don't have the depth
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Speaker 7: to play in the second half. I'm not sold on
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Speaker 7: the Kentucky half of this. So I'm taking Alabama to cover,
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Speaker 7: but it's more of a vote against Kentucky than a
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Speaker 7: vote for Alabama.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, same, same. Mississippi State versus Minnesota. Minnesota is going
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Speaker 4: to be the favorite in this by a point and
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Speaker 4: a half.
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Speaker 1: I'm going with State.
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Speaker 4: You're not going with the Gophers?
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Speaker 1: Look, Mississippi State showed me something last week.
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Speaker 4: That they can pick it.
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Speaker 1: They can put up some numbers.
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Speaker 4: They can beat a bad team is what they showed us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but previous Mississippi State teams have not been able
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Speaker 1: to do that. I'm taking Mississippi State.
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Speaker 5: I took Mississippi State, too.
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Speaker 7: This is one of those where the gamblers have a
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Speaker 7: lot of write-up and conversation about it. This is a
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Speaker 7: big gambler's game because Minnesota returns a lot of players, and.
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Speaker 5: They're supposed to be better than last year.
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Speaker 9: Right.
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Speaker 5: No, they're not.
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Speaker 8: Okay?
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Speaker 7: You can sell yourself on this. You want to sound
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Speaker 7: smart and have all your Minnesota stats, okay?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: This is a rock fight. Both these teams are bad, okay?
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Speaker 4: This is horrible football for four quarters.
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Speaker 5: This is to see who hits the over on their
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Speaker 5: four-win totals on the season, okay?
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: This is a key game to see which of these
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Speaker 7: teams might win five games on the year, okay?
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Speaker 5: That's what this game is. I took Mississippi State.
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Speaker 7: This is important for one of them to see who
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Speaker 7: might say, oh, we just missed the bowl game at
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Speaker 7: the end of the year.
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Speaker 5: Yes, yes.
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Speaker 4: Vandy over Delaware, they're going to give it to them.
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Speaker 4: give Vandy 20 and a half points.
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Speaker 1: That spread scares me.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to go Vandy.
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Speaker 1: I went Vandy, but the spread scares me a little bit.
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Speaker 6: Vandy.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah. Florida Campbell. Florida's getting 49 and a half points.
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Speaker 7: Of all the games on this sheet of paper, do
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Speaker 7: you know this is the one I looked at the longest?
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Speaker 5: This is the one I.
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Speaker 1: Me too.
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Speaker 11: Florida.
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Speaker 5: What is my life coming to?
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Speaker 7: I'm struggling on Florida Campbell. This is a detestable spread.
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Speaker 12: Oh, gosh.
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Speaker 4: This is diabolical to give Florida almost 50 points over anyone.
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Speaker 5: Campbell's not even a real team. Florida will want, Summerall
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Speaker 5: wants to run the score up.
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Speaker 7: He, last week, game one he's giving them the end
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Speaker 7: of apocalypse speech before the game he's wasting it against
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Speaker 7: that school right yeah so he wants to early establish
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Speaker 7: a tony so if he can run the score up
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Speaker 7: and win by 50 he'll try and win by 60
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Speaker 7: so i like that when you're trying to pick these
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Speaker 7: kind of games i know he'll try i do like
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Speaker 7: the energy and win by 50 but man it's early
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Speaker 7: in the year to already be playing those kind of
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Speaker 7: games right i'm a little i took florida because i
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Speaker 7: know he's going to try and win by 50 but
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Speaker 7: This game.
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Speaker 1: Without even knowing the mascot, I'm going with Campbell.
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Speaker 4: You're going to go Campbell.
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Speaker 1: I hope it's a camel.
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Speaker 4: I was about to say, if you went Florida, I
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Speaker 4: was going to go Campbell, just so at least one
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Speaker 4: of us did, but I will pick Florida because I can't.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a spread. It's got to be a camel.
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Speaker 4: It's soup.
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Speaker 1: Soup, Louie.
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Speaker 8: I hope it's a camel.
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Speaker 5: It's the Campbell soups.
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Speaker 1: The Campbell chicken noodles.
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Speaker 4: Georgia Tech versus Tennessee. They're going to give Tennessee 12.5 points.
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Speaker 4: What do we think?
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Speaker 5: I took Georgia Tech.
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Speaker 4: I also took Georgia Tech.
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Speaker 1: I'm going Tennessee on that one. It's going to be
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Speaker 1: a very close game. I just think Tennessee is going
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Speaker 1: to outclass Georgia Tech in the long run.
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Speaker 4: Let's go back to the insanity. South Carolina getting 42.5
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Speaker 4: points over Towson. Towson.
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Speaker 5: I didn't know they played football.
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Speaker 4: I don't know what they are.
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Speaker 5: I'll admit that. I'm supposed to be that sports... Towson, Towson.
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Speaker 5: I have no clue what they are. I didn't know.
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Speaker 5: Are they NIA? Are they.
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Speaker 5: Texas 6A, I don't know if they are.
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Speaker 4: Did you just invent a team in AI, throw some
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Speaker 4: jerseys on some kids and throw them out there to
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Speaker 4: fill a hole in the schedule?
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Speaker 14: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I probably insulted a Towson alum. I apologize. I just
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Speaker 5: didn't know.
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Speaker 4: Great deal if you're a student at Towson.
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Speaker 5: Where do they find some of these teams that are
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Speaker 5: playing now?
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Speaker 1: They're going to get paid. They're going to get paid.
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Speaker 1: South Carolina is going to write them a big check.
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Speaker 4: According to this, they're going to get beat by 42.5 points.
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Speaker 4: Or at least that's what Vegas says.
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Speaker 7: Gamecocks, another team that early on, Kendall Browell's new OC,
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Speaker 7: restoring Lenore Sellers' confidence.
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Speaker 4: Better than you think they are, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: They have outperformed my expectation in this young football season,
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Speaker 1: so yes.
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Speaker 6: One game?
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Speaker 1: Gamecocks.
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Speaker 4: Southern Miss and Auburn. Auburn getting 33.5 points over Southern Miss.
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Speaker 5: I take Southern Miss.
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Speaker 1: I'm taking Southern Miss, too. There's no way.
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Speaker 4: Not after the Baylor game.
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Speaker 7: I just don't know Auburn can score 33.5 in a scrimmage.
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Speaker 4: That would be very, very challenging.
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Speaker 1: Such an embarrassing game.
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Speaker 4: LSU getting a 35-point spread on Louisiana Tech.
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Speaker 5: Guys, I.
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Speaker 4: What a week for LSU.
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Speaker 1: Louisiana Tech, the school for the home of people that
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Speaker 1: can't get into LSU.
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Speaker 4: LSU, this is going to be like that scene in Rocky.
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Speaker 5: I thought you were going to say Cary.
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Speaker 4: Just throw the towel. Yes, LSU is going to win.
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Speaker 1: Unless Bobby Boucher comes off the bench for Louisiana Tech,
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Speaker 1: LSU is going to win this one, and even with
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Speaker 1: the 35 points.
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Speaker 4: It's not even the most interesting thing about LSU right now.
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Speaker 4: LSU is interesting for all the reasons that are not
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Speaker 4: on the field, at least for another week or so,
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Speaker 4: until next week.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be real fun.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I took LSU. But they don't seem to care.
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Speaker 4: They're a freak show. I'm terrified of them, and I
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Speaker 4: don't know what to say.
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Speaker 8: I took LSU.
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Speaker 5: They're going to work out a lot of frustration.
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Speaker 7: Them, the president, the attorney general, the AD, the governor.
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Speaker 4: Ole Miss getting 47 and a half this week, Will.
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Speaker 1: The parish jury is what they say.
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Speaker 4: Ole Miss versus Charlotte. Will you give the running Rebs
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Speaker 4: 47 and a half points?
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Speaker 1: This one was a tough one for me to call
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Speaker 1: just simply because of the spread. But I am going
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss on this.
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Speaker 4: I'm just going to go with it because I like
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Speaker 4: Ole Miss anyway.
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Speaker 5: I go Ole Miss very reluctantly.
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Speaker 6: Really?
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Speaker 5: Because the Ole Miss offense.
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Speaker 4: They didn't look.
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Speaker 1: I think they get some timing back this week. And
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Speaker 1: I think defensively, Charlotte may not score.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if Ole Miss can put up 50.
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Speaker 5: No, no. They'll score. If you watch the Louisville game,
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Speaker 5: the Ole Miss defense. was stunningly atrocious.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 7: Their defense and their head coach is their defensive coordinator.
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Speaker 7: Their defense was shocking.
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Speaker 5: It was all four quarters. They never figured it out.
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Speaker 4: No, never locked in.
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Speaker 5: Atrocious.
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Speaker 7: But their offense, after the first half, Trinidad Shameless looked
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Speaker 7: like a Heisman candidate. They were hitting big plays. And
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Speaker 7: that was even with the top running back in the
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Speaker 7: country out for Ole Miss early. Their offense looked great,
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Speaker 7: but their defense was a nightmare.
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Speaker 4: So you going Charlotte?
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Speaker 5: No, I'm taking Ole Miss.
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Speaker 8: It's just one of those where.
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Speaker 7: You make a pick and you miss it, you'll feel bad.
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Speaker 7: So if Ole Miss doesn't cover, I can live with myself.
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Speaker 7: But to pick Charlotte and then be wrong, I'd feel bad.
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Speaker 4: Utah and Wu-Pig-Archie. Utah getting a 12.5-point favorite.
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Speaker 1: Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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Speaker 5: I won't pick Arkansas for anything in football this year.
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Speaker 1: That was going to be my point.
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Speaker 4: That's a horrible football team.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Utah.
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Speaker 4: As sad as that is.
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Speaker 1: Give me the Utes.
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Speaker 5: Give me the two Utes.
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Speaker 4: Finally, Texas A & M and Arizona State.
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Speaker 5: Did we do Ohio State, Texas?
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Speaker 1: No, we did not.
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Speaker 5: What are you doing?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I was saving it and I forgot.
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Speaker 4: Texas and Ohio State. Texas getting a one and a
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Speaker 4: half point. They're getting the home point favorite.
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Speaker 5: Whatever. Home is three, so they're not even getting it.
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Speaker 4: This is not a spread. This is pick the winner.
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Speaker 4: Who gets it? Texas versus Ohio State.
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Speaker 5: I'll tell you something.
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Speaker 7: I've been thinking college that it's NFL's three. I think
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Speaker 7: college is bigger than three.
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Speaker 1: I think you might be right.
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Speaker 5: So they're not even getting the home Vegas line.
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Speaker 4: They're not getting it.
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Speaker 1: No one's picked.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's basically just who do you like more? Ohio
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Speaker 4: State versus Texas, which I find to be suspicious. Um,
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Speaker 4: because to me, it's clearly, it's clearly Ohio state's game
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Speaker 4: to lose. Uh, and, and I, and Texas looks very,
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Speaker 4: very good, but they don't come on. I have a
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Speaker 4: hard time putting Texas over Ohio state.
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Speaker 1: All the pressure in this game is on Texas. Ohio,
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Speaker 1: Ohio state will obliterate them.
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Speaker 6: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Texas has to win. You go into sec, play with
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Speaker 5: a loss and then you have, and they have.
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Speaker 7: The toughest schedule in the country. If not, it's one
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Speaker 7: of the top three toughest.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you take a loss.
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Speaker 5: Like preseason, they play seven, eight ranked teams.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 5: And then in SEC play, that's where the other six,
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Speaker 5: seven are. And you go in with a loss.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, it's bad.
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Speaker 5: Plus, they went in with the whole show me, prove
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Speaker 5: me chip. And they know they have to. Sark knows.
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Speaker 5: They gave him the roster 45 mil right about.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they gave him the protein.
16:42
Speaker 1: They're all pressures on him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
16:43
Speaker 1: So here's, correct me if I'm wrong. Hmm. Texas State
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Speaker 1: had 250 yards of total offense in the first half
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Speaker 1: against Texas.
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Speaker 5: Texas State moved the ball consistently.
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Speaker 7: It was the turnovers and two turnovers on downs that
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Speaker 7: really stopped them.
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Speaker 4: It wasn't really like Texas defense. Texas State looked pretty decent.
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Speaker 1: Ohio State is significantly better than Texas.
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Speaker 5: Are you sure?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, really sure on that one.
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Speaker 4: So I'm going to go Ohio State. Gentlemen, are we
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Speaker 4: all in it?
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Speaker 1: Ohio State.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, Ohio State. Yeah, Ohio State.
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Speaker 8: All right.
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Speaker 5: But if Texas wins.
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Speaker 7: A lot of people are going to have to start
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Speaker 7: giving Texas their credit.
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Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: If they beat Ohio State, it's a different game.
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Speaker 4: But we'll see. Finally, Texas A & M University, Arizona
17:22
Speaker 4: State at Kyle Field. Red, white, and blue out, and
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Speaker 4: they're giving us 14.5 points. How do we feel?
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Speaker 1: That's a good spread. The game is going to be
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Speaker 1: decided pretty much. It's going to be that 14-point difference.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be right there. I am taking the
17:35
Speaker 1: Axe at home. Red, white, and blue game. Lots going on.
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Speaker 1: Respect Arizona State, but I think we clear the 15-point
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Speaker 1: difference in this one.
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Speaker 7: Yesterday, I took a look at a site I tend
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Speaker 7: to look at for A & M stuff, and they have.
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Speaker 5: Two experts that pick against the spread.
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Speaker 7: One had the spread A & M by 15, and
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Speaker 7: the other one had A & M by 13, just
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Speaker 7: to give you an example of exactly how that 14.5
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Speaker 7: plays out. Because even at margin that out, it's 14.
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Speaker 5: So that's how on the money 14.5 is for this game.
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Speaker 4: Very dialed in.
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Speaker 7: I'm taking A & M. I think A & M
18:08
Speaker 7: defense was real. The strength of Arizona State's wide receiving core.
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Speaker 7: A & M has one of the top secondaries, regardless
18:16
Speaker 7: of Missouri State, in the country. So their strength goes
18:19
Speaker 7: against A & M' s strength. And A & M' s strength
18:22
Speaker 7: is good for the nation. Where Arizona State's strength is
18:25
Speaker 7: good for them kind of thing.
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Speaker 15: Right.
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Speaker 5: So I love the matchup pro A & M on
18:30
Speaker 5: this one.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So, yeah, I take the Aggies. 14 and a half.
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Speaker 5: A & M I have by three scores, which, by
18:34
Speaker 5: the way, you think 21.
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Speaker 7: I think closer to 17. Yeah, I'm right there, too. So, yeah,
18:37
Speaker 7: I got A & M to cover.
18:38
Speaker 4: Also taking the Ags.
18:39
Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
18:40
Speaker 1: Book it.
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Speaker 4: I think it's going to be the second half won
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Speaker 4: me over. I saw what I needed to see. So
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Speaker 4: we're good to go. What will transpire tomorrow? No one knows.
18:50
Speaker 4: But we gave you a pretty good idea. We'll circle
18:53
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: It's high school football season again in the Brazos Valley.
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Speaker 1: City Council met Thursday night. They approved funding in the
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Speaker 1: amount of $ 25 million for the Carter Creek Wastewater Treatment
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Speaker 1: Plant's enhanced filtration project. They also approved a citywide flood
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Speaker 1: hazard assessment. And Councilman Yancey asked City Engineer Carol Cotter,
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Speaker 1: if redrawing FEMA floodplain maps could have a negative impact
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Speaker 19: How might it affect people's properties if at the conclusion
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Speaker 19: in a floodplain where it had not been before?
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Speaker 1: Affect their insurance, maybe?
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Speaker 24: It could affect their insurance, but typically if you have
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Speaker 1: Several residents signed up to speak at the meeting. The
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Speaker 1: two topics were impervious cover and flock cameras. Residents in
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood around Park Place and Dexter say they have
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Speaker 1: seen a sharp rise in street flooding and rapid street
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Speaker 1: flooding as well as water approaching foundations where it used
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Speaker 16: We also see that the flood waters are rising higher
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Speaker 1: Councilwoman McElhaney asked that the issue of impervious cover be
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Speaker 1: looked into and addressed in an upcoming meeting. A man
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Speaker 1: speaking out against flock cameras cites a recent Overton Insights
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Speaker 13: 63% of likely Texas voters oppose local government's use of
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Speaker 1: A discussion on flock cameras and their data is scheduled
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Speaker 1: to take place at the next council meeting. There are
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Speaker 1: several events today honoring the 25th anniversary of 9-11. You
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Speaker 1: The major community ceremony will take place at 530 this
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Speaker 1: at the War on Terror site at the park, which
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Speaker 1: features a beam from the World Trade Center. The ceremony
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Speaker 1: includes the 555 bell ringing, a wreath laying, a 21-gun salute,
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Speaker 1: and silver taps. Tomorrow is the A & M Red, White,
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Speaker 1: Attendees are asked to wear blue in the lower bowl,
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Speaker 1: red in the upper bowl, and white in the middle.
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Speaker 1: Proceeds from the Standing for America shirts will go towards
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31:52
Speaker 1: full list of events taking place throughout the weekend is
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Speaker 1: available at WTAW.com. Visit College Station was honored with two
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32:41
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Speaker 16: By the way, our capital two years ago was one
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Speaker 1: And now for the bonus round.
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Speaker 4: Who imposes property taxes?
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Speaker 1: State government. Nice try, but no.
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Speaker 3: Local governments.
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Speaker 1: Correct. And we have a winner.
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Speaker 11: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
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Speaker 10: Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Glad to have you here. And the other one is
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Speaker 4: Pat McIntyre.
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Speaker 5: Good morning, Pat.
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Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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Speaker 6: I'm doing good. Thanks for having us.
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Speaker 4: Now, Pat is involved in energy.
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Speaker 13: Yes, I'm energy coordinator since 2012 in Key Accounts.
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Speaker 4: What does that job entail?
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Speaker 13: So we do the energy rebates, which is we have
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Speaker 13: six programs, a good sense home program for builders. We
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Speaker 13: have the Energy Back 2, which is HVAC rebate, LED
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Speaker 13: lighting rebates.
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Speaker 6: Energy audits.
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Speaker 13: We have the solar program and also have a commercial
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Speaker 13: lighting program.
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Speaker 4: So you are someone who's intimately connected with energy, how
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Speaker 4: we use it, how much we use it, how much
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Speaker 13: I'm connected to it on the residential commercial level for
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Speaker 13: the retail customer.
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Speaker 16: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Now, with that said, obviously, we're getting to the fall.
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Speaker 4: Or if you look at a calendar, we're getting to
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Speaker 4: the fall. That's key.
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Speaker 6: We're trying to get there.
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Speaker 4: I'm trying to get there.
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Speaker 1: Our five or six scattered days of fall will be delicious.
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Speaker 4: But here we know that, I mean, it's still functionally
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Speaker 4: means you're going to be using a lot of juice.
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Speaker 4: So we want to talk to you a little bit
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Speaker 4: about energy conservation. And from your eyes and your perspective,
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Speaker 4: what can be done to help with that process?
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Speaker 13: Well, one of our two really popular programs right now
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Speaker 13: are the energy audits. That's a free energy audit to
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Speaker 13: any college station utility customer, electric customer. Then the EB2s rebates,
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Speaker 13: which is Interject 2 for HVAC replacement. So anything you
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Speaker 6: With water hose. Yeah.
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Speaker 13: Have a smart thermostat, so if you leave your house,
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Speaker 13: you know, you can check on your temperature. If you
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Speaker 13: the season, you can do it remotely with your phone.
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Speaker 13: We have a connected thermostat rebate as well. I left
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Speaker 13: that one out on the first go around.
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Speaker 4: So tell me a little bit about these rebates, because
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Speaker 4: if you are someone that's been sitting, as I've been
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Speaker 4: in this situation where it's like, you know, it's summer,
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Speaker 4: it's August, and you're just praying. You're like, oh, dear God,
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Speaker 4: please don't make me replace this AC, because they're expensive
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Speaker 4: as anything.
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Speaker 1: They're so expensive. But any kind of rebate, that's a
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Speaker 1: big deal. Yeah, my question is this, because two weeks
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Speaker 1: ago I replaced an air conditioning unit. Yes, he did.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, by sympathy.
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Speaker 1: I'm in the ETJ, essentially. Does that qualify? But I'm
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Speaker 1: not a College Station Utilities customer.
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Speaker 6: No, you're probably getting your electric from another provider.
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Speaker 1: I am.
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Speaker 6: So you have to be a College Station Utilities electrician.
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Speaker 1: That's unfortunate.
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Speaker 4: But if you are a College Station customer... there are
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Speaker 4: opportunities to where you can at least take some of
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Speaker 4: the sting out of that cost.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, so the rebate starts at a 16 SEER. The
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Speaker 13: Fed's mandated 15 SEER as the minimum, I think, back
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Speaker 13: in 19. So 16 SEER is our first year on
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Speaker 13: the rebates. That's a $ 600 rebate.
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Speaker 6: You get a check in the mail.
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Speaker 16: 17, 700.
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Speaker 6: 18 or above is 800.
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Speaker 4: That's not mine.
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Speaker 1: Trust me, I could use that kind of kickback after
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Speaker 1: what I spent on that system.
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Speaker 5: Yes, you can.
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Speaker 6: Take some of this thing out.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely. And with smart thermostats, similar, or is that rolled
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Speaker 4: into the same?
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Speaker 6: It's similar. It's $ 30, but it's a credit on your
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Speaker 6: utility bill.
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Speaker 5: Very nice.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Some ways to save money on top of electricity.
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Speaker 4: What are some other tips, like if you're looking to say, look,
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Speaker 4: I just want to try to be as smart as
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Speaker 4: I can?
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Speaker 13: Well, in the heat, So we consider the cooling season
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Speaker 13: where you're using the AC is from May to October.
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Speaker 13: So if you can grill outside, keep the heat out
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Speaker 13: of the kitchen, if you can uh, do full loads
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Speaker 13: on washing dishwasher, do those at night after the sun's
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Speaker 13: gone down, that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 6: Uh, you know, the, if you got kids, you're the,
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Speaker 6: they're in and out.
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Speaker 13: And so, yeah, that kind of stuff, but any kind
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Speaker 13: of weather stripping, uh, ceiling, that kind of stuff, uh,
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Speaker 13: Take care of your AC, LED lights, because wattage is
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Speaker 13: an element of heat. So if you have less wattage,
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Speaker 13: then it helps your AC overcome the heat, that kind
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Speaker 13: of thing.
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Speaker 4: Never sleep on that idea of just closing your blinds, man.
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Speaker 1: No kidding.
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Speaker 4: I know we like natural light.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I put curtains at the B & B, and
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Speaker 1: they made a huge difference.
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Speaker 4: Live in a cave. If you can do it, live
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Speaker 4: in a cave.
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Speaker 1: Not a bad idea.
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Speaker 4: Sunshine is for the fall and beyond.
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Speaker 1: Maybe we can spring.
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Speaker 13: We've got lots of good tips on the website. So cstx.gov
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Speaker 13: backslash energy.
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Speaker 6: We have the.
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Speaker 13: Residential customer guide that Colin produced for us. He's got
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Speaker 13: lots of good information in there about utility bills. All
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Speaker 13: of our little snapshots on all of our programs, that
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Speaker 13: kind of stuff.
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Speaker 4: Take advantage of that. Like, yeah, there's a lot of
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Speaker 4: things you can do to not only help you, you know, Obviously,
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Speaker 4: we want to help our bill, but again, smart, conservative energy.
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Speaker 4: We know power is going to be a lot of
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Speaker 4: different places. We hear about it every single day, so
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Speaker 4: we need to be smart about it, and this is
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Speaker 4: a great way to do it. Anything else you want
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Speaker 4: to get to this week?
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Speaker 6: I think that covers most of it. All right.
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Speaker 4: Colin, you're up.
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Speaker 9: Today is the day, and very fitting being 9-11, that
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Speaker 9: we are opening Fire Station No.
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Speaker 8: 7 on Greensbury Road.
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Speaker 4: This is a big deal.
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Speaker 1: A huge deal.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: And that's located at 2981 Greens Prairie. Public tours of
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Speaker 9: the station will begin at 10 a.m., followed by the
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Speaker 9: official ribbon-cutting ceremony at 11. Parking is extremely limited out there. Carpool,
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Speaker 9: if you can, if you plan on coming, you can
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Speaker 9: park along Greens Prairie Road. They're going to have some
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Speaker 9: of that marked off, so be prepared to walk a
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Speaker 9: little bit if you don't get there early.
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Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 9: But again, just very fitting on the 25th anniversary of
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Speaker 9: 9-11 to be opening our new fire station.
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Speaker 4: I think it's a great thing and a great way
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Speaker 4: to salute. Again, we talked about very early in the
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Speaker 4: show today that there are so many designations for days
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Speaker 4: of remembrance that are involved. 9-11 is Patriots Day and
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Speaker 4: then several others.
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Speaker 1: First Responders Day.
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Speaker 4: First Responders Day was the one that always jumps out
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Speaker 4: at me because it is a day to thank God.
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Speaker 4: The people that do those jobs for their willingness to
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Speaker 4: be prepared in situations that most of us can never imagine.
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Speaker 1: Those guys that choose to run in rather than run away.
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Speaker 4: And so if you have an opportunity to go out
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Speaker 4: and interact with some firefighters, say like at this open house,
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Speaker 4: thank them for their service. It's an amazing opportunity and
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Speaker 4: you should absolutely take advantage of it today. What else
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Speaker 4: do we have?
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Speaker 8: Well, you guys will be excited about this.
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Speaker 16: Okay.
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Speaker 9: We are a little over a week away from Mud
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Speaker 9: Day at the Gary Halter Nature Center.
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Speaker 8: We have that every year.
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Speaker 9: It'll be on Saturday, September 19th from 8 to 11 a.m.
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Speaker 9: You're going to have to fill me in on this.
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Speaker 1: I'm not familiar.
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Speaker 8: Kids can come out and get their hands dirty.
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Speaker 5: What?
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Speaker 9: They learn how mud collects to plants, animals, soil, and
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Speaker 9: their shoes.
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Speaker 4: Wait, you just.
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Speaker 5: To track through mom's house.
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Speaker 4: Okay, what do you do for Mud Day? What are
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Speaker 4: the activities associated here?
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Speaker 1: First of all, you get some dirt wet.
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Speaker 4: Okay, that's a good start.
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Speaker 1: Second of all, you turn the youth of the community loose.
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Speaker 5: Holy cow!
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Speaker 9: Basically, it's mom's permission to go out and play in
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Speaker 9: the mud and get as dirty as you can.
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Speaker 1: Kids need to get dirty.
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Speaker 4: Do you find this to be popular?
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Speaker 8: It has become unbelievably popular.
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Speaker 6: Oh, my word.
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Speaker 8: Wow. It's free. It's family-friendly.
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Speaker 9: Come-and-go event, 8 to 11... A week from tomorrow at
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Speaker 9: the Gary Halter Nature Center.
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Speaker 1: That's fantastic. You guys work on the consistency of the mud.
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Speaker 1: You try to get a consistent product across the entire puddle.
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Speaker 4: Are we talking Chili Fest mud?
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Speaker 1: Ooh. Nobody wants to talk Chili Fest mud.
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Speaker 9: Do you remember years ago, I don't know if they
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Speaker 9: still have him at the Renaissance Festival, the mud guy?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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Speaker 8: He would eat mud, do all kinds of things with
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Speaker 8: the mud.
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Speaker 17: Of course.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, that's kind of what this reminds me of. I
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Speaker 9: don't think they're encouraged to eat.
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Speaker 4: No, don't eat dirt. That's right in the middle of
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Speaker 4: where you want that mud, I think.
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Speaker 1: Consistency is key in a number of things. Mud is
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Speaker 4: Thick enough to stick on you and then get tracked
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Speaker 4: all over the place back and on your way home.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful.
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Speaker 4: Colin, thank you so much. Pat, thank you. Anything else
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Speaker 4: we need to get to this week before we all
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Speaker 4: head out?
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Speaker 8: No, we're good.
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Speaker 4: understand how it is a magnet... A literal magnet for
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Speaker 4: this type of a thing.
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Speaker 1: I don't think it is a literal magnet for this
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Speaker 1: type of thing. I think the fact that it is
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Speaker 1: a 24-hour restaurant and some of the locations are in
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Speaker 1: areas that... Tend to get a little rowdy. That might
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Speaker 1: have a little crazy.
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Speaker 4: That tend to get a little hot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so apparently in Florida.
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Speaker 4: In Florida!
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Speaker 1: Shocker. Three young men arrested... following a chaotic late-night disturbance
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Speaker 1: at the Waffle House. Mostly unclothed, by the way.
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Speaker 8: See, that's the other thing, too.
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Speaker 4: The mostly unclothed is particularly unsettling about this story.
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Speaker 1: That's the thing that's unsettling?
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Speaker 15: No, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: One of the things. One of the things.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Because what they were doing was pelting the Waffle House
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Speaker 1: itself and its patrons with beef sticks. With beef sticks.
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Speaker 1: They were just trying to step into a Slim Jim, baby.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. That's what I was going to say. Do
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Speaker 4: we know what, was it Jack Links or was it
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Speaker 4: Slim Jim?
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Speaker 1: Jack Links. Jack Links. I don't know what brand it was.
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Speaker 1: It was Jack Links and it was in Florida. Then
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Speaker 1: you got to watch out for the Sasquatch.
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Speaker 4: You don't really, you don't be throwing a bunch of
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Speaker 4: beef sticks around in Florida anyway, because beef sticks are
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Speaker 4: just like a click away from dog treats. I mean,
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Speaker 4: there's a click away.
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Speaker 1: Or gator treats.
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Speaker 4: Or exactly, Will. There's a lot of animals that just
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Speaker 4: kind of hang around in Florida that will absolutely ruin
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Speaker 4: your day if they start smelling meat around.
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Speaker 1: They got bears.
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Speaker 4: They do.
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Speaker 1: They got pythons.
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Speaker 4: They got iguanas. Very large. Not iguanas like the one
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Speaker 4: you remember from your fifth grade class. I'm talking about
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Speaker 4: iguanas the size of a man.
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Speaker 1: They make you change your shorts.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: And then let's not let's not even bring the chimps
49:41
Speaker 4: into it. Although I guess that's Chimp Island. That's not quite.
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Speaker 1: They're going to get off of Chimp Island before long.
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Speaker 1: So three guys taken into custody.
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Speaker 4: Can you imagine that call to like police show up
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Speaker 4: like did they get. It's Florida.
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Speaker 1: That's that's a that's a Thursday night.
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Speaker 4: Is that a light call?
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Speaker 1: I think so.
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Speaker 9: OK.
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Speaker 17: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: We're just dealing with the beef stick crowd.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't think you're going to get tased for
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Speaker 1: threatening an officer with a beef stick.
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Speaker 4: Wouldn't you, though? I mean, I'd take the opportunity.
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Speaker 1: If you were an officer, you'd take the opportunity.
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Speaker 4: If I was an officer and showed up to a
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Speaker 4: Waffle House and saw a gentleman. With barely any clothes on.
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Speaker 1: Three of them.
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Speaker 4: Three of them. And they're throwing beef sticks at me.
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Speaker 4: I am not thinking twice about lighting him up with
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Speaker 4: a taser. If anything, you'd ask... That is the preferred
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Speaker 4: method of dealing with beef stick, man. You gotta put
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Speaker 4: that guy down. If he's capable of that, what else
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Speaker 4: is he capable of?
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Speaker 1: You just never know.
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Speaker 4: I don't want any part of that.
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Speaker 1: So anything non-lethal. You'll pepper spray him.
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Speaker 4: Non-lethal, yeah, exactly. It does not need to be a...
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Speaker 4: it doesn't need to be all the way escalation.
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Speaker 5: Definitely.
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Speaker 4: I want to make sure that person is not, is
50:48
Speaker 4: not in capacity to give me any kind of problem.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, a pepper spray is great.
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Speaker 5: Rubber, rubber bullets.
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Speaker 4: I think will be fine. If you have one of
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Speaker 4: those riot guns.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
50:57
Speaker 4: Pop him somewhere with that. I don't know. The taser
51:01
Speaker 4: is just.
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Speaker 1: I think the taser would be my weapon of choice there.
51:06
Speaker 1: Simply because some of those people in Florida, if you
51:09
Speaker 1: hit those beef sticks with a pepper spray, they just
51:11
Speaker 1: look at that as seasoning.
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Speaker 4: Exactly. Yeah.
51:14
Speaker 1: Once again... This is spicy.
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Speaker 4: Oh, this is... Yes.
51:17
Speaker 1: Yes, he might have improved.
51:18
Speaker 4: His experience, which is not what we're going for.
51:21
Speaker 1: I'm shocked that, I don't know if these people, this trio,
51:25
Speaker 1: are beef stick connoisseurs themselves. If they were eating the
51:29
Speaker 1: beef sticks. I'm surprised they had enough teeth to chew
51:32
Speaker 1: the beef sticks.
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Speaker 4: Text message. Nothing good happens after midnight. Lots of things
51:38
Speaker 4: that are entertaining happen after midnight, but none of them
51:40
Speaker 4: are good. You're absolutely correct, sir. Absolutely correct.
51:43
Speaker 1: And that's not just at the Waffle House.
51:45
Speaker 4: No, but I will tell you, I think Waffle House
51:47
Speaker 4: is one of the things, the few exceptions to the rule,
51:50
Speaker 4: things that are good that happen after midnight. Because if
51:53
Speaker 4: you need food after midnight.
51:55
Speaker 1: I've had some good food at the Waffle House after midnight.
51:57
Speaker 4: There's not many things in this world that hit like
52:01
Speaker 4: a late night Waffle House run. Now, you might have
52:03
Speaker 4: to keep your head on a swivel and dodge a
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Speaker 4: beef stick or two or worse.
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Speaker 1: But, you know. Great risk, great reward. I'm thinking to
52:12
Speaker 1: myself right now. I'm thinking, you know what? Waffle House
52:17
Speaker 1: is a candidate to be my hypothetical last meal. If
52:21
Speaker 1: I was on death row, it might be.
52:24
Speaker 4: One day we're going to discuss this because, yeah, it's
52:26
Speaker 4: hard to pick. It doesn't rise to that level for me.
52:29
Speaker 1: It's not the greatest food. I'm not talking about that.
52:31
Speaker 1: But if I was about to be put down.
52:33
Speaker 4: It doesn't have to be the greatest food. Because for me,
52:36
Speaker 4: one of the ones that pops up for me is
52:38
Speaker 4: Jose's on Texas Avenue.
52:40
Speaker 1: It's all about the heritage.
52:41
Speaker 8: There's no reason.
52:42
Speaker 4: I should love Jose's so much, but I do.
52:45
Speaker 1: It's because you went there as a kid.
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Speaker 4: I went there as a girl, yeah. I have to
52:50
Speaker 4: have eaten there thousands of times. And so for me, yeah,
52:55
Speaker 4: you know, it gets in the category. Waffle House is
52:58
Speaker 4: just below.
52:59
Speaker 1: It's a sentimental attachment for me.
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Speaker 20: Yeah.
53:01
Speaker 1: And we've talked about that before. I can see it.
53:04
Speaker 1: I love the food, but it's the sentimental attachment. And again,
53:07
Speaker 1: if I was about to be put down, I would
53:09
Speaker 1: like those positive memories of my friends and I sitting
53:13
Speaker 1: in the booth at the Waffle House.
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Speaker 4: That's how you'd want to.
53:15
Speaker 1: I would like to remember them for the first time
53:17
Speaker 1: because I don't remember them.
53:20
Speaker 4: You beat me to it. You said I have memories
53:24
Speaker 4: and I was like, do you really? Do you really though?
53:29
Speaker 1: I have impressions of what happened there.
53:32
Speaker 5: Good.
53:36
Speaker 4: Real quick on the way out the door, what is
53:37
Speaker 4: this Sons of Anarchy thing? Because I saw it, too,
53:41
Speaker 4: and I thought it was a spinoff, and then you
53:42
Speaker 4: told me this is not a Sons of Anarchy spinoff.
53:44
Speaker 1: I was a big fan of Sons of Anarchy.
53:47
Speaker 10: Why?
53:47
Speaker 1: How is it not a spinoff? Because it's in a
53:50
Speaker 1: totally different thing, and they're not actually playing their characters.
53:53
Speaker 1: They're playing themselves. Charlie Hunnam came out and said, and
53:56
Speaker 1: apparently they wanted to keep this thing secret, but it
53:59
Speaker 1: started to come out.
53:59
Speaker 10: Okay.
54:00
Speaker 1: They're talking about it now. This show is not Sons
54:04
Speaker 1: of Anarchy.
54:05
Speaker 5: Okay.
54:06
Speaker 1: It is essentially a meta-series where they play fictionalized versions
54:11
Speaker 1: of themselves at a real-world threat more dangerous than anything
54:16
Speaker 1: they've ever faced on the show comes to fruition at
54:19
Speaker 1: a fan convention.
54:21
Speaker 4: So basically, the premise is they are.
54:23
Speaker 1: At a fan convention.
54:24
Speaker 4: Again, the cast is together because they have all been
54:27
Speaker 4: on Sons of Anarchy.
54:28
Speaker 1: And so they would.
54:30
Speaker 4: be around each other quite a lot. And then what
54:33
Speaker 4: happens if chaos unfolds around the dudes that played in
54:37
Speaker 4: Sons of Anarchy?
54:38
Speaker 1: So it's Ron Perlman, Katie Seagal, Maggie Siff, Mark Boone Jr.,
54:42
Speaker 1: Tommy Flanagan, Kim Coates, and Theo Rossi.
54:44
Speaker 4: People forget about, with that cast, that a lot of
54:48
Speaker 4: them are insanely funny people too. So that could be
54:53
Speaker 4: extraordinarily funny.
54:55
Speaker 1: I'm going to watch it.
54:56
Speaker 14: Interesting.
54:56
Speaker 1: Interesting. All right, guys, have a great weekend.
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Speaker 4: See you Monday, 1620, 94.5 WTW.