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The Infomaniacs: September 4th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: the WTAW Newsroom, good morning. I'm Will Welch. The Texas
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Speaker 1: A & M Board of Regents made sweeping changes to
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Speaker 1: core curriculum offerings. Some of the classes removed were in
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Speaker 1: the subjects of Women and Gender Studies, African American Studies,
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Speaker 1: and Latinx Studies. Students need to start paying attention on
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Speaker 1: motorized mobility devices. Regents ask that safety on the devices
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Speaker 1: be addressed at their next meeting. Here's Regent Sam Torn.
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Speaker 2: They do not stop at pedestrian walkways. And they're on
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Speaker 2: the sidewalks. We get to observe it in front of
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Speaker 2: the Board of Regents. I nearly ran over my dog.
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Speaker 2: And my wife would not be happy. But, you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to hearing your talk. But the bottom
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Speaker 2: because this is a very old subject, we're going to
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Speaker 2: So we've got to get it fixed or it's out.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of cities now that don't allow it.
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Speaker 2: And that's coming up in my mind. If we don't
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Speaker 2: have it fixed a year from now, we're going to
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Speaker 2: ban them.
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Speaker 1: Blinn in Brenham does not allow them on campus. A
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Speaker 1: woman has been arrested after being found with illegal drugs
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Speaker 1: at a local school. College Station Police responded to IL
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Speaker 1: Texas around 5.15 on Wednesday. An off-duty officer reported that
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Speaker 1: a woman parked crooked in the school's parking lot and
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Speaker 1: that he could smell marijuana coming from the car. 36-year-old
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Speaker 1: Whitney Carson of Navasota told officers she was at the
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Speaker 1: school to pick up her daughter. She failed a field
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Speaker 1: sobriety test and a search revealed a marijuana cigarette and methamphetamine.
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Speaker 1: She was charged with possession of marijuana in a drug-free zone,
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Speaker 1: possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone, and
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Speaker 1: driving while intoxicated. She is being held in the Brazos
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Speaker 1: County Jail on.
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Speaker 3: $ 20, 000 bond.
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Speaker 1: A man charged in the infamous Texas Killing Fields case
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Speaker 1: has been sentenced to the maximum of 20 years. 61-year-old
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Speaker 1: James Elmore Jr. was found guilty of manslaughter yesterday in
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Speaker 1: a Houston court for his role in the 1984 death
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Speaker 1: of Laura Miller. Her father, Tim Miller, founded Texas EquiSearch.
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Speaker 1: Texas DPS is stepping up enforcement this Labor Day weekend
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Speaker 1: with more troopers on the roads looking for dangerous drivers.
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Speaker 1: Operation Crash Awareness Reduction Effort, or CARE, runs Friday through Monday.
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Speaker 1: with Texas Highway Patrol troopers watching for speeding, intoxicated drivers,
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Speaker 1: distracted driving, and other violations. Officials say Labor Day marks
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Speaker 1: the unofficial end of summer, so many Texans will be
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Speaker 1: hitting the road to celebrate with friends and family. During
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Speaker 1: last year's holiday weekend, DPS issued more than 63,000 citations
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Speaker 1: and warnings, so they're reminding drivers to buckle up, slow down,
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Speaker 1: and make a plan for a sober ride if you
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Speaker 1: plan on drinking. An ICE officer who was released from
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Speaker 1: custody in Texas last week is facing new criminal charges
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Speaker 1: in Minnesota.
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Speaker 4: Christian Castro is facing state criminal charges in Minnesota over
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Speaker 4: shooting and injuring Julio Cesar Sosa Saliz in January during
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Speaker 4: an immigration crackdown. Those state charges include assault and falsely
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Speaker 4: reporting a crime related to the shooting. He had been
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Speaker 4: held in Texas until last week when Governor Abbott declined
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Speaker 4: to sign extradition papers to send him back to Minnesota
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Speaker 4: to face charges. so he was released. Now, sources tell
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Speaker 4: the Associated Press that Castro is also facing new charges
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Speaker 4: at the federal level. He's accused of making false statements
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Speaker 4: to federal investigators. Steven Pickering, TSN News.
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Speaker 3: feel the difference. So a few people have asked me
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Speaker 3: a text. You're all doing a show on Monday because
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Speaker 3: it's Labor Day. The answer is yeah, we're going to
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Speaker 3: do a show. I may as well. Some of you
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Speaker 3: guys are going to be working. It's not really a
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Speaker 3: big deal to us. No. We'll show up. And on
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Speaker 3: that show, we are going to be talking to someone
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Speaker 3: who's going to help me out with one of my
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Speaker 3: latest obsessions, and that is the return of bingo.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you were talking about this. It's a pop culture.
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Speaker 1: By the way, the daughter yesterday, apparently one of her
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Speaker 1: roommates for the daughter's birthday had given her a new
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Speaker 1: needlepoint item.
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Speaker 6: Hmm.
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Speaker 1: And my daughter asked my wife if it was appropriate
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Speaker 1: for her to take that to the bingo last night.
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Speaker 3: So at the same time, I want to stack the
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Speaker 3: scene appropriately. It was Ole Miss on a Thursday night,
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Speaker 3: a game day Thursday night, about to go into the weekend.
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Speaker 3: She's at a bar where she is doing needlepoint while
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Speaker 3: playing bingo.
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Speaker 1: I think we discouraged her from taking the needle point
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Speaker 1: with her just for the optics.
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Speaker 7: Right.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, she was at the bingo game last night.
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Speaker 3: How did this happen?
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: How did the kids get back into bingo? So how
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Speaker 3: was bingo night? I don't know how she did.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: All I know is what the grand prize was last night.
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Speaker 1: And that was a library card.
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Speaker 9: Okay.
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Speaker 3: Well, that's silly.
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Speaker 1: No, the library is a bar in Oxford. Right. And, uh, Oxford, Mississippi,
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Speaker 1: the bars there have the most ridiculous cover charges ever.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they're stupid. I have seen them up to $ 80,
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Speaker 1: depending on the night.
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Speaker 3: What do you get for it?
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Speaker 1: Door, door.
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Speaker 3: To hand it to the doorman?
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Speaker 1: Just to get in the bar.
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Speaker 3: To $ 80 to walk in the door before, and you
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Speaker 3: don't get anything for it that's not VIP?
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Speaker 1: Not a thing.
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Speaker 3: That's not bottom service.
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Speaker 1: And they ratchet up the later the night goes.
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Speaker 3: What are you talking about? They go up from $ 80?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 2: No, no.
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Speaker 1: They start lower, but they go up to like $ 80.
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Speaker 1: So the library is a bar there. The library card-
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Speaker 1: which if you were going to go purchase it is
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Speaker 1: an $ 800 value.
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Speaker 3: What do you get for 800 bucks?
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Speaker 1: Lifetime admission, no cover charge.
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Speaker 3: Oh, so you wave the card at them.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: No matter what, no matter what, let you win. Well,
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Speaker 3: maybe my fire code situations, but if they're no.
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Speaker 1: Cover, boom, let me in. So that was the grand
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Speaker 1: prize last night.
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Speaker 3: And kids, do kids buy these?
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss kids? Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely. Is it the only bar in town?
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Speaker 1: No, it's a very popular bar. But not only, I mean,
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Speaker 1: they don't buy them. Their parents buy them. And their
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Speaker 1: parents probably have one, too, because I can't tell you
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Speaker 1: how many, you know, nights I've been out and the
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Speaker 1: parents are getting crazier than the kids.
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Speaker 10: All right.
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Speaker 1: So my kids over there doing needlepoint playing bingo.
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Speaker 3: Follow up question. Is this like the is is this
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Speaker 3: like the Dixie Chicken? Is it's like a legacy old bar?
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Speaker 9: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 1: But there's there's several legacy old bars in the square, especially.
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Speaker 3: OK, that are not big.
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Speaker 1: Right. So there's limited capacity.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 11: Right.
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Speaker 1: And and their their heritage bars. There's there's probably a
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Speaker 1: handful of them.
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Speaker 3: I don't know enough about some of the other the
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Speaker 3: other college towns that are out there. Is this unusual?
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Speaker 3: I would think that it is the SEC. That certainly
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Speaker 3: doesn't happen here.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 3: Does it?
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 3: I mean, not 800, but I mean, even... I don't
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Speaker 3: even remember.
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Speaker 1: I remember, you know, I remember there were cover charges
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Speaker 1: at bars here, but I don't remember them being astronomical.
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Speaker 3: I mean, keep in mind, this is, I mean, I'm
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Speaker 3: going back a ways. So if you charged five bucks
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Speaker 3: at the door, you'd get some side eyes. Now, honestly,
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Speaker 3: the bigger deal when I was going to Northgate was
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Speaker 3: the dress code. Some places were like, hey, look, we're
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Speaker 3: gonna try to do a dress code some these were
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Speaker 3: the you know these weren't the bars these were the
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Speaker 3: clubs the clubs right so it's a little bit different
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Speaker 3: here and there but holy.
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Speaker 1: Cow my wife will she'll remember the time and and
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Speaker 1: I do too that you know they would say like
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Speaker 1: women before 10 o'clock get in free They're trying to
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Speaker 1: encourage chicks to be there so that the guys will
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Speaker 1: be there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, because that's the draw.
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Speaker 1: So one girl would volunteer to go. And get stamped.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: And then immediately outside in the parking lot, while it
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Speaker 1: was still wet, they would roll it over.
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Speaker 3: They would try to get the.
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Speaker 1: Onto the next person. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And you could
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Speaker 1: get two or three stamps out of one.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. And then.
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Speaker 1: And then they would go home and get dressed and
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Speaker 1: get ready and then come back to the bar.
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Speaker 3: Hey, I was here earlier. About midnight.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: You got to let me back. Exactly.
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Speaker 1: Loophole.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: But, like, I. We need to. I dread saying that, like. Again,
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Speaker 3: I have no point of reference. I doubt any of
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Speaker 3: our audience has a lot of point of references for, like,
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Speaker 3: if now the bars– it's gotten to that point where
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Speaker 3: it's like a 20, 30– I mean, 20.
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Speaker 9: Bucks, that's like a– That's huge.
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Speaker 3: You only pay 20 bucks to walk in a door.
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Speaker 3: That's insane.
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Speaker 1: Before you drop money on a bar tab.
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Speaker 3: No, absolutely not. Like, it– absolutely not. Is this the
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Speaker 3: problem that we're facing on Northgate? A lot of the
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Speaker 3: kids are getting arrested because they're out in the streets
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Speaker 3: because they can't afford to pay the covers.
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Speaker 1: No, I think at least several of them have definitely
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Speaker 1: been in the bar, if not arrested in the bar,
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Speaker 1: the ones we've covered. But the whole thing goes back.
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Speaker 3: Make Northgate gnarly again. I'm talking about the old days.
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Speaker 1: Old days gnarly.
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Speaker 3: I'm talking about Dixie Chicken. Dudley's. Well, the Dixie Chicken's
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Speaker 3: still gnarly. Dudley's still gnarly. Fitzwillie's. Gnarly. Places like that.
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Speaker 3: I want bathrooms that look like Turkish prisons.
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Speaker 1: That's what you want when you go to Northgate.
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Speaker 12: Matt Hatters.
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Speaker 1: You want to have an authentic experience.
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Speaker 3: Matt Hatters, at the time, was the nice bar.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: That was like, ooh, snazzy.
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Speaker 1: I just, I want the deluxe burger bar back.
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Speaker 3: The deluxe burger bar, y'all.
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Speaker 1: That was so good.
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Speaker 3: And what stands, what sits in its place today is
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Speaker 3: a Chimney's. Again, I can't, Chimney's ain't going anywhere, y'all.
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Speaker 3: They're making money hand over fist, but it's frustrating.
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Speaker 1: So back to this whole needlepoint bingo conversation. In order
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Speaker 1: to help us understand where bingo was, where it went,
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Speaker 1: and where it is now.
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Speaker 3: Where it is going.
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Speaker 1: Because bingo is enjoying a resurgence. We are going to
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Speaker 1: bring in on Monday a professional bingo caller. Yes, we are.
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Speaker 3: And we're going to have all of these discussions.
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Speaker 1: Which is why you should not miss a Labor Day show.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so wake up early with us. It'll be at
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Speaker 3: the same time, same place, you know the drill, 6 a.m.
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Speaker 1: Monday.
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Speaker 3: Oh, look who's... No, no, no. Come on in, sir.
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Speaker 9: Come on.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, walk on in.
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Speaker 9: Come on in.
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Speaker 3: Please welcome one Louie Bellina.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Lou Bellina.
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Speaker 10: Hey.
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Speaker 3: I was told... With a donut. I was told to
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's so bad even AI.
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Speaker 3: Doesn't want it. It wouldn't. So I see Sharpie on
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Speaker 3: about ready to talk some college football today.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I know you came up to me and said
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Speaker 13: needed an expert, and the first three people said no.
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Speaker 3: That's not how I said it. We had talked about
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Speaker 3: you know, it's always good to give yourself an opportunity,
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Speaker 3: as someone who is not a professional sports talker, to
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Speaker 3: beat some professional sports talkers. Not to say it will happen,
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Speaker 3: but it could. You never know.
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Speaker 9: And he couldn't find any, and I was in the hall,
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Speaker 9: and I needed to do it. Exactly. That's exactly how
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Speaker 9: it went down.
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Speaker 3: We're going to take a break. We'll get into this
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Speaker 3: pick along with us today. Louie is in the building
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Speaker 3: because we are going to have ourselves a little contest
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Speaker 3: this season. We're going to try to match minds, figure
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Speaker 3: out who really knows their ball. Will versus Tucker versus
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Speaker 3: Louie versus probably some other people.
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Speaker 9: We need an Old West theme for that.
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Speaker 3: I will prepare actual theme music. It's coming up, I
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Speaker 3: promise you. Let's see. So just to establish the rules, obviously,
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Speaker 3: what we're going to go with for the purposes of
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Speaker 3: this is the SEC schedule.
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Speaker 1: Of the week well only league that matters and we're
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Speaker 1: picking against the spread which i.
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Speaker 9: Didn't know we were going hardcore style i admire that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah i thought we had a pro with us we
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Speaker 1: might as well do it like the degenerate gamblers i
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Speaker 1: think so yeah we're still waiting for him all right
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Speaker 1: so uh.
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Speaker 3: Let's begin uh let's start with uh utep at.
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma oklahoma by the way a 31 and a half
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Speaker 1: point dog on this.
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Speaker 3: One gentlemen what do we have favorite they're the favorite.
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Speaker 9: Well, yeah.
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Speaker 1: Favorite. You tip 31 point dog.
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Speaker 9: So we know we have established who's not the expert. Okay.
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Speaker 9: I'm happy we got that out of the way.
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Speaker 16: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm taking Oklahoma and
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Speaker 1: the points on that.
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Speaker 3: Oklahoma and the points. Louie, what do we got?
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Speaker 9: Oh, you laying the points. Yeah. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 3: I will also, I will also agree.
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Speaker 9: I'm an O few.
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Speaker 13: I'm an Oklahoma confused person this season. Think their defense
17:08
Speaker 13: is top five in the country. And I think their
17:10
Speaker 13: offense is probably trash again. But I do think they
17:14
Speaker 13: cover against UTEP. I think UTEP might not score.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's my point on that.
17:18
Speaker 3: Bama and East Carolina. Alabama, a 27.5-point favorite. Bama.
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Speaker 9: They have a new quarterback.
17:26
Speaker 13: DeBoer's an offensive coordinator. First game, he wants to establish
17:30
Speaker 13: why he picked the starter. He's probably going to leave
17:32
Speaker 13: his offense in longer than he should.
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Speaker 9: Bama will lay the points.
17:35
Speaker 8: Okay.
17:35
Speaker 9: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Carolina, and I'm taking the points. East Carolina.
17:39
Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
17:40
Speaker 9: Do you have family there? No.
17:41
Speaker 15: Okay.
17:41
Speaker 8: All right.
17:42
Speaker 1: I like pirates.
17:43
Speaker 9: Me too. Me too.
17:46
Speaker 3: I'm going to go Alabama as well.
17:48
Speaker 6: All right.
17:48
Speaker 9: The Pirates of Bedlam are some of my favorite pirates.
17:51
Speaker 3: Kent State at South Carolina. And again, I apologize for
17:55
Speaker 3: this week one. This is going to be kind of
17:57
Speaker 3: a warm-up because this is the most atrocious week one
17:59
Speaker 3: I think I've seen. Is this not... Do you remember
18:02
Speaker 3: a time where there has been a worst week one
18:03
Speaker 3: of college football?
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Speaker 13: This is, I've said it all week long, the worst
18:07
Speaker 13: week one in the history of college football. This has
18:09
Speaker 13: to do with the new college football playoff committee not
18:12
Speaker 13: rewarding teams for good wins. They're only looking at the
18:14
Speaker 13: record of WNLs. This has to do with the SEC
18:17
Speaker 13: itself going to the nine-game conference schedule. And teams are
18:21
Speaker 13: scared to play tough opponents because they have an extra
18:23
Speaker 13: first year.
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Speaker 9: They have a nine-game schedule. There's a lot of things
18:26
Speaker 9: that tie into this because we're looking at the SEC only.
18:29
Speaker 13: If you take a look at the Power Four conferences only,
18:32
Speaker 13: I believe there's five or four total games that have a.
18:36
Speaker 9: Single-digit Vegas line across all of P4.
18:39
Speaker 13: And week one normally has been one of the– it's
18:42
Speaker 13: the most– it's not only the first game back up
18:44
Speaker 13: to eight months. Best schedule on most of the year
18:46
Speaker 13: outside of like November– No, it's awful across all of
18:50
Speaker 13: college football, and it's the college football playoff committee's fault.
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Speaker 1: This is why we bring the sports pro.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's abysmal for the first couple of weeks, guys.
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Speaker 9: It is bad.
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Speaker 3: Kent State, South Carolina. South Carolina, 24 and a half
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Speaker 3: point favorites.
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Speaker 1: What do we like? Kent State.
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Speaker 3: Kent State. I'm taking Kent State as well.
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Speaker 13: South Carolina, new offensive coordinator in Kendall Browse, runs the
19:09
Speaker 13: up-tempo offense, wants to show.
19:11
Speaker 9: Off that Lenore Solis is back.
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Speaker 13: Certain teams in week one, I think, want to send
19:14
Speaker 13: messages and have things to work on so they're going
19:17
Speaker 13: to play their starters more.
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Speaker 9: South Carolina is one of them.
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Speaker 1: I don't think South Carolina is going to be able
19:21
Speaker 1: to run the ball, and I think they are decimated
19:23
Speaker 1: by injury in the wide receiver core. So I don't
19:26
Speaker 1: think that North Sellers is going to be able to
19:28
Speaker 1: hit anybody.
19:29
Speaker 9: I think he'll run for 500 yards.
19:30
Speaker 1: There's the variable right there.
19:32
Speaker 3: Kentucky and Youngstown State. Kentucky, 28-point favorites. Youngstown. You're going
19:37
Speaker 3: to go Youngstown. I'm going to go Kentucky. I went
19:39
Speaker 3: Youngstown State, actually. You did as well. Okay.
19:41
Speaker 9: I think they cover.
19:42
Speaker 1: They cover.
19:43
Speaker 9: Remember, we're not picking wins here. Yeah, this is coverage.
19:45
Speaker 13: I think Kentucky's going to have trouble establishing their offense early.
19:49
Speaker 13: Will Stein will want to, but he does not have
19:52
Speaker 13: the players he wants this year.
19:53
Speaker 1: No, he doesn't.
19:54
Speaker 3: Texas versus Texas State. You skipped one. Oh, did I?
19:57
Speaker 1: Tennessee State or Georgia?
19:58
Speaker 3: Tennessee State, Georgia. Georgia, 38 and a half.
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Speaker 1: Georgia.
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Speaker 17: Georgia.
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Speaker 9: Georgia.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
20:03
Speaker 1: All the way around.
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Speaker 3: That's ridiculous.
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Speaker 9: That doesn't need a lot of work on that one.
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Speaker 3: Crime scene.
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Speaker 13: Will they even score? That would be a tougher question.
20:10
Speaker 13: Will Tennessee State score?
20:11
Speaker 3: Will they finish the game?
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Speaker 9: Their walk-ons will.
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Speaker 1: Their walk-ons are going to be carry-offs.
20:17
Speaker 3: Good Lord. Texas versus Texas State. This is a 22.5
20:21
Speaker 3: favorite on Texas, which frankly is kind of insulting as
20:25
Speaker 3: it is. I'm going to go ahead and... If Texas
20:28
Speaker 3: can't put up 22.5 points over.
20:31
Speaker 9: But can they hold them scoreless? The cover part.
20:33
Speaker 3: Good Lord.
20:34
Speaker 13: The whole question for the Texas season is Will Muschamp,
20:38
Speaker 13: was it a mistake?
20:39
Speaker 9: They never should have fired their defensive coordinator last year.
20:42
Speaker 9: He was a scapegoat.
20:43
Speaker 13: Will Muschamp, some of the experts I talked to, are
20:47
Speaker 13: saying that's the one.
20:49
Speaker 9: Thing that can stand between them and their dreams and
20:51
Speaker 9: goals is Will Muschamp.
20:52
Speaker 3: It's just Will.
20:53
Speaker 13: He's their biggest question mark of the year because he
20:56
Speaker 13: was done when he was done.
20:57
Speaker 3: He was once good and then became really not good.
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Speaker 9: What, 20 years ago? Yes, exactly. It was 20 years ago, Louie.
21:03
Speaker 1: It was about that long. I think 22.5 on the
21:09
Speaker 1: spread is an insult.
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Speaker 9: That's how many years ago it was?
21:11
Speaker 1: No. On the game, I think that's an insult to Texas,
21:15
Speaker 1: and I'm here for it.
21:16
Speaker 18: State?
21:17
Speaker 1: No, I think Texas should be, if they're the powerhouse,
21:22
Speaker 1: should be a 40-point favorite over Texas State.
21:24
Speaker 3: I'm going to bet on Texas on this one, but
21:26
Speaker 3: I'm also not going to be surprised. Are you going
21:27
Speaker 3: to take it?
21:28
Speaker 9: I've got Texas to cover.
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Speaker 1: Texas is going to cover, yeah.
21:30
Speaker 3: Baylor-Auburn. Auburn only at a 3.5-point favorite. Auburn.
21:36
Speaker 1: Covers all day. Auburn?
21:38
Speaker 9: I won't pick Waco and I don't Baylor. No, I
21:41
Speaker 9: don't care what it is. You don't have to ask me.
21:43
Speaker 1: It's a neutral site game.
21:45
Speaker 9: Anything versus Baylor.
21:46
Speaker 3: Baylor straight up.
21:48
Speaker 1: Really?
21:48
Speaker 3: I do. Yeah. Yeah.
21:49
Speaker 1: Good luck.
21:50
Speaker 9: I got Auburn. I got anything versus anything. Baylor Waco.
21:54
Speaker 9: I don't care what we're talking about.
21:55
Speaker 3: Tennessee 34 point favorite over Furman.
21:59
Speaker 1: Go Vols.
22:00
Speaker 3: Go Vols.
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Speaker 8: Lou.
22:02
Speaker 13: Very reluctantly, it's probably the pick I feel the worst about,
22:05
Speaker 13: but I am taking Tennessee, but I don't want to
22:07
Speaker 13: take Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: It's just the spread that scares me on that one.
22:10
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of question marks for Tennessee, but
22:12
Speaker 1: I think they're going to answer it.
22:13
Speaker 9: They never knew who their quarterback was, even in mid-fall.
22:16
Speaker 3: Again, Furman. I know NIL changes a lot. I don't
22:20
Speaker 3: think it changes a lot from Furman.
22:23
Speaker 9: My age kind of kicks in. I keep thinking Mark Furman.
22:25
Speaker 3: That's the same thing.
22:26
Speaker 9: I don't want to touch that.
22:28
Speaker 1: I want to know if their mascot is the furries.
22:29
Speaker 9: It's a glove.
22:31
Speaker 3: It's a glove. the missing gloves love it uh arkansas
22:35
Speaker 3: north alabama ark you coming in at a 31 point.
22:37
Speaker 1: Favorite you see this one was tough for me too
22:39
Speaker 1: because arkie is going to be so bad but north
22:42
Speaker 1: alabama i'm taking north alabama.
22:46
Speaker 3: North alabama i'm going to take north alabama as well
22:48
Speaker 3: arkansas is abysmal yeah so.
22:50
Speaker 1: They are 31 giving up.
22:52
Speaker 13: 31 arkansas to win anything via line via games themselves
22:56
Speaker 13: they are a awful Awful college football team.
23:00
Speaker 3: Now we come to Texas A & M University versus
23:03
Speaker 3: Missouri State. Ags are a 29.5 point favorites against the
23:08
Speaker 3: whoever they are's. How do we feel about it?
23:11
Speaker 1: Gig them. Oh, does that mean you pick A & M?
23:15
Speaker 1: Taking the Ags.
23:16
Speaker 9: A & M. And I think A & M kind
23:18
Speaker 9: of easily.
23:19
Speaker 13: This line should be closer to about 40 plus.
23:22
Speaker 9: To be fair yeah i think so i think there's.
23:25
Speaker 13: Even a cushion in this 29 and a half yeah
23:27
Speaker 13: i think a and m might be up at the
23:29
Speaker 13: half at by 28 and i don't think the second
23:32
Speaker 13: teams will be letting up i expect the starters to
23:34
Speaker 13: do the one drive each in the second half only
23:38
Speaker 13: thing that's.
23:38
Speaker 3: The kind of game it is yeah see my i
23:40
Speaker 3: was because of that i was wanting to pick missouri
23:45
Speaker 3: state because again 34.
23:47
Speaker 1: It's a big point spread, and Ags aren't great about covering.
23:49
Speaker 3: They're not great about the first game, to be honest
23:52
Speaker 3: with you.
23:53
Speaker 13: A & M has a history that can be hesitant
23:56
Speaker 13: to start, but that's A & M history. Mike Elko
24:00
Speaker 13: has done a beautiful thing through his first two years.
24:02
Speaker 13: He's establishing Mike Elko history. And I know, because I
24:05
Speaker 13: have to speak daily about this kind of stuff. I'm
24:08
Speaker 13: not using A & M history when I talk about.
24:10
Speaker 9: Mike Elko teams. I'm using Mike Elko history. He doesn't
24:13
Speaker 9: care about A & M' s past.
24:14
Speaker 13: He's establishing Mike Elko Aggie football history, and he doesn't
24:19
Speaker 13: prepare that way. He wants to win every possession, every quarter,
24:23
Speaker 13: every half, every game. They don't come out and look.
24:26
Speaker 9: Like they didn't practice in the fall or practice during.
24:28
Speaker 13: A week, other than first half South Carolina last year.
24:31
Speaker 9: Let's go.
24:32
Speaker 3: I think 29.5 is horrifically low.
24:33
Speaker 18: Okay.
24:38
Speaker 3: Vandy Austin Peay. I'm going Austin Peay because I know
24:41
Speaker 3: the dude that calls their games, and I just don't
24:43
Speaker 3: care about Vandy. You know what?
24:44
Speaker 9: When you need a reason to pick a game, that's
24:46
Speaker 9: as good as any reason I've heard.
24:47
Speaker 1: Anchor down, baby. Vandy. Vandy.
24:50
Speaker 9: I went Austin Peay.
24:52
Speaker 3: All right. I'm going to jump. We'll discuss this now.
24:56
Speaker 3: LSU and Clemson. It's two and a half points. It's
24:58
Speaker 3: basically a toss-up. So what are we going with, Lou?
25:02
Speaker 13: I am going with LSU because there's one thing about
25:06
Speaker 13: Lane Kiffin.
25:07
Speaker 11: Hmm.
25:07
Speaker 13: He's going to come out, and in the fourth quarter
25:09
Speaker 13: of 30, he's going to throw bombs to score more. Clemson,
25:14
Speaker 13: I think that Dabo is cooked. He is about five
25:17
Speaker 13: years out of his prime. Every year has been a decline. Clemson,
25:20
Speaker 13: only reason the line would even be close is based
25:22
Speaker 13: upon what Clemson was when they were winning natties, what,
25:24
Speaker 13: five years ago or so?
25:26
Speaker 9: Clemson is a nobody. Last year, they disappointed. Two years ago,
25:29
Speaker 9: they disappointed. Dabo's lost touch with the current game.
25:33
Speaker 13: LSU, I know they have the 47 new players. And
25:37
Speaker 13: most of them are five stars. They're a really good team.
25:40
Speaker 13: So I think the Clemson name skewers the line. I'm
25:43
Speaker 13: not telling you.
25:44
Speaker 9: LSU is going to win the national championship. LSU is
25:47
Speaker 9: going to cover. Will?
25:49
Speaker 1: I cannot stomach picking Lane Kiffin in anything. I can
25:53
Speaker 1: barely stomach picking LSU in anything. And I'm not going to.
25:57
Speaker 1: Should have picked them in court. They already have one
26:01
Speaker 1: win this week. So far.
26:03
Speaker 3: The biggest 1-0 you'll find.
26:04
Speaker 1: But I agree with you completely. Clemson is not what
26:07
Speaker 1: they were by any stretch of the imagination. But I
26:11
Speaker 1: think there's too much chaos on the LSU side.
26:13
Speaker 3: My heart, because similar to you.
26:15
Speaker 9: You don't think they have chaos daily there? They have casinos.
26:19
Speaker 3: Their head coach is laying chaos. They live in chaos.
26:21
Speaker 1: I get it, but there's a limit.
26:23
Speaker 3: This is going to be the Russian versus Apollo Creed
26:26
Speaker 3: moment for the season. I think they're going to absolutely
26:29
Speaker 3: obliterate Clemson, and it's just going to make everyone madder.
26:32
Speaker 3: And yeah, it's going to be a... I cannot wait...
26:36
Speaker 3: To see how this all plays out. Because I've got
26:39
Speaker 3: about one more week before I'm sick to death of
26:41
Speaker 3: hearing of Lane Kiffin, but I'm still not there yet.
26:43
Speaker 9: You're kind of going to know today.
26:44
Speaker 13: You know that football teams have to set their rosters
26:48
Speaker 13: today for the entire season. Yeah, either it's all-out war,
26:52
Speaker 13: and they put those NFL players on the roster, or
26:55
Speaker 13: LSU has to go, well, we looked at it.
26:57
Speaker 9: You know, they're not really. Today's the day.
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Speaker 3: And then if they do, what then, boys?
27:03
Speaker 9: They're not. And they never were.
27:05
Speaker 16: Yeah.
27:06
Speaker 9: They weren't thinking that others were going to back down.
27:08
Speaker 9: They're not.
27:09
Speaker 3: Mississippi State, UL Monroe, Mississippi State, 18.5.
27:15
Speaker 1: I picked Mississippi State on this one, but you know what?
27:17
Speaker 1: I don't feel comfortable about that spread, but I'm going
27:19
Speaker 1: to stick with it.
27:20
Speaker 13: If we were confidence pick wagering, because y'all know about
27:23
Speaker 13: those kind of things. This would be my second lowest,
27:25
Speaker 13: but Mississippi State.
27:26
Speaker 9: Mississippi State.
27:28
Speaker 13: Should cover yeah they don't have to even win i'm
27:30
Speaker 13: giving it okay they don't have to win this game
27:32
Speaker 13: to be fair they got it.
27:33
Speaker 3: Uh florida versus florida atlantic florida coming in at uh 20.5
27:37
Speaker 3: point favorites gators gators gators and louisville old miss only
27:42
Speaker 3: a seven and a half point spread benefiting old miss
27:45
Speaker 3: on this one.
27:45
Speaker 1: My daughter will be at that game on sunday yeah
27:48
Speaker 1: and uh it's in nashville And I'm taking the Rebs,
27:52
Speaker 1: Ole Miss. That's right.
27:53
Speaker 9: Do you know, this is my favorite game of the weekend.
27:55
Speaker 1: I think so.
27:56
Speaker 9: It is opening week one, but this is the best
27:58
Speaker 9: game of the weekend.
27:59
Speaker 13: Louisville is that dark horse, the true dark horse tier
28:03
Speaker 13: of college football playoff contenders. The top teams are pretty
28:07
Speaker 13: locked in for the first four or five slots.
28:09
Speaker 3: But they can end up in easily.
28:11
Speaker 11: Yeah.
28:12
Speaker 13: Last year, Louisville got off to a start where they
28:13
Speaker 13: were already in that position.
28:15
Speaker 9: And then over the last third of their schedule, kind
28:17
Speaker 9: of leaked some losses.
28:18
Speaker 2: Yeah.
28:19
Speaker 13: And they're returning a really great team. So don't sit
28:21
Speaker 13: there and think, oh, no, it's Louisville. This is a
28:24
Speaker 13: great game. Ole Miss has the Pete Golding question. That
28:27
Speaker 13: under fire he took over.
28:29
Speaker 9: And they went on a run in the CFP.
28:31
Speaker 18: But.
28:32
Speaker 9: What is he like every day?
28:33
Speaker 3: What is he like in his spring practice?
28:35
Speaker 1: Players love him. Players love him. School loves him.
28:37
Speaker 9: And he had a team that was built by someone else.
28:39
Speaker 9: Can he build his own team?
28:40
Speaker 13: So, Golding is the only thing that stands between Ole
28:43
Speaker 13: Miss and actually being like maybe a top five team.
28:46
Speaker 13: They might have the best offense in the country. They
28:48
Speaker 13: have the top three quarterback, the number one running back.
28:51
Speaker 1: So good.
28:52
Speaker 13: So, Ole Miss is this fully loaded team whose question
28:56
Speaker 13: mark is their head coach, but not in a negative way.
28:58
Speaker 9: He's just truly a question mark.
28:59
Speaker 3: You just don't understand it.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah.
29:01
Speaker 13: And he's a defensive coordinator who went out and all
29:04
Speaker 13: their money in the NIL was buying defensive players.
29:07
Speaker 1: Well, offense is pretty stacked at this point.
29:08
Speaker 15: Yeah.
29:09
Speaker 3: No, no.
29:09
Speaker 9: It's one of the most loaded offense.
29:11
Speaker 13: Ole Miss is this bizarre X-factor team in the SEC
29:15
Speaker 13: slash the country.
29:16
Speaker 9: So this is the best, probably the best week one game.
29:19
Speaker 1: I'll be watching.
29:20
Speaker 9: That wasn't your question. I apologize. But I took Ole Miss.
29:24
Speaker 13: I'm going to be fascinated all season by Ole Miss.
29:26
Speaker 9: They might be one of those that.
29:27
Speaker 13: In the first month play completely uneven and till they
29:31
Speaker 13: get their feet under them and could be the scariest
29:33
Speaker 13: team in the second half of the season.
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Speaker 3: I'm going Louisville straight up.
29:35
Speaker 1: Just because there you go.
29:37
Speaker 9: That's awesome.
29:38
Speaker 7: Yeah.
29:38
Speaker 19: Yeah.
29:38
Speaker 16: All right.
29:39
Speaker 1: So we got some differences.
29:40
Speaker 3: All right. We'll check it out on Monday. Review under total.
29:44
Speaker 9: Oh, Lord.
29:44
Speaker 3: I already put all night.
29:46
Speaker 9: Was I supposed to fill that? I put all, all,
29:50
Speaker 9: all my graded mine.
29:52
Speaker 3: Unbelievable. All right, guys.
29:54
Speaker 5: Louie.
29:55
Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
29:56
Speaker 9: Yeah, man. I look forward to it.
29:57
Speaker 3: All right. Well, back after this.
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Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Friday from the WTAW newsroom. I'm
33:26
Speaker 1: Will Welch. The Texas A & M Board of Regents
33:30
Speaker 1: voted Thursday to adopt sweeping changes across the university system
33:34
Speaker 1: regarding classes offered to meet core curriculum requirements. While a
33:38
Speaker 1: small number of classes were added, the majority of the
33:40
Speaker 1: changes were to remove offerings. Classes removed involved subjects in
33:44
Speaker 1: women and gender studies, African American studies, Latinx studies, plus
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Speaker 1: women's Classes like religious and ethnic foods, the history of
33:52
Speaker 1: blacks in the U.S., and climate change. A comprehensive course-by-course
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Speaker 1: review was required by Senate Bill 37. It requires governing
34:00
Speaker 1: boards to review general education curricula at least once every
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Speaker 1: five years. The board certified that the approved general education
34:07
Speaker 1: courses comply with Texas Education Code. Tarleton is losing classes
34:11
Speaker 1: like Monsters in Literature, Crime Fiction, Texas Literature, Death and
34:15
Speaker 1: Dying in Literature, and Comics and Games as Literature. Regent
34:20
Speaker 1: John Bellinger has questions about the lack of awareness of
34:23
Speaker 1: students on scooters and other motorized vehicles.
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Speaker 17: First, no one, and I mean no one, wears a helmet.
34:32
Speaker 17: Why not is one of my questions to you is. Second,
34:36
Speaker 17: almost everyone on a scooter was either A, talking on
34:40
Speaker 17: their phone, or B, listening to something on their headphone
34:44
Speaker 17: while paying little, if any, attention to their immediate surroundings. Again,
34:49
Speaker 17: why is this not regulated? And finally, virtually none of
34:53
Speaker 17: these operating scooters obeyed any basic traffic laws. They didn't
35:00
Speaker 17: stay where they were supposed to stay. They constantly cut
35:02
Speaker 17: in front of both automobiles and pedestrians. and they virtually
35:06
Speaker 17: never paid attention to things as routine as a stop sign.
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Speaker 1: The board also named John Barton vice chancellor for business affairs.
35:13
Speaker 1: The veteran engineer and public sector leader has served in
35:16
Speaker 1: an interim role since January, overseeing the offices responsible for
35:20
Speaker 1: facilities planning and construction, risk management, real estate, land management,
35:24
Speaker 1: and system training. Brazos County Crime Stoppers announced a $ 5, 000
35:29
Speaker 1: reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in
35:32
Speaker 1: the death of a teenager last month. 14-year-old DeAntoine Miles
35:36
Speaker 1: died after suffering a gunshot wound during a party in
35:39
Speaker 1: Bryan on August 8th. Three others were injured in that shooting.
35:43
Speaker 1: Anyone with first-hand knowledge of the individual or individuals responsible
35:47
Speaker 1: and or the incident itself is encouraged to reach out
35:50
Speaker 1: to Brazos Valley Crime Stoppers or Bryan PD. A woman
35:54
Speaker 1: has been arrested on several charges after she was reportedly
35:57
Speaker 1: intoxicated at a local school. College Station police were called
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Speaker 1: to IL Texas in the 3600 block of Longmire Drive
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Speaker 1: around 5.15 p.m. on Wednesday after an off-duty officer reported
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Speaker 1: that a woman parked crooked in the school's parking lot.
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Speaker 1: The officer said he could smell marijuana coming from the car.
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Speaker 1: 36-year-old Whitney Carson of Navasota told officers she was at
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Speaker 1: the school to pick up her daughter. Officers say she
36:20
Speaker 1: was unsteady on her feet with delayed and slurred speech.
36:23
Speaker 1: She failed a field sobriety test. A search of Carson's
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Speaker 1: car revealed a marijuana cigarette and officers found methamphetamine in
36:30
Speaker 1: her purse. She claims that she had taken prescription medication
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Speaker 1: at 7 o'clock that morning and blamed her condition on
36:36
Speaker 1: those medications. Because the drugs were found within 1,000 feet
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Speaker 1: of the school, Carson was charged with possession of marijuana
36:43
Speaker 1: in a drug-free zone and possession of a Penalty Group
36:46
Speaker 1: 1 controlled substance in a drug-free zone. She was also
36:50
Speaker 1: arrested for driving while intoxicated. A blood sample was obtained
36:53
Speaker 1: before she was booked into the Brazos County Jail. where
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Speaker 1: she is being held on $ 20, 000 bond. There's a federal
37:00
Speaker 1: crackdown on commercial truck driving schools and some of the
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Speaker 1: drivers they're turning out.
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Speaker 10: It's all about safety on roadways. The crackdown is over
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Speaker 10: commercial truck drivers that don't speak or read English. The
37:12
Speaker 10: Department of Transportation says that's a problem. Thirteen driving schools
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Speaker 10: here in Texas are accused of knowingly passing drivers through
37:20
Speaker 10: that are not proficient in English. Texas Trucking Association CEO
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Speaker 10: John Esparza supports the move.
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Speaker 1: It's a new opportunity to ensure that we're putting that.
37:29
Speaker 10: Information ahead of those safety professionals so that our.
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Speaker 8: Most professionalists of individuals out there, they work to continue
37:37
Speaker 8: to maintain that certification, and that makes them attractive to
37:41
Speaker 8: any trucking company.
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Speaker 10: DOT says nationwide over the past 18 months, thousands of
37:45
Speaker 10: commercial truck drivers have been taken off of the road
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Speaker 10: for not being able to communicate in English. Russell Scott,
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Speaker 10: TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Completely extinguishing the Ross Fire in North Texas could take
37:58
Speaker 1: two more weeks. That's according to the Texas Department of
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Speaker 1: Emergency Management.
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Speaker 13: Governor Abbott credited the fact that there have been no
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Speaker 13: deaths or injuries due to the Ross Fire to the
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Speaker 13: advanced preparation and quick response of state and local authorities.
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Speaker 1: We knew that weather conditions in this area were such
38:14
Speaker 1: that this was a possible location for a fire. As
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Speaker 1: a result of that, we were able to pre-position... both
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Speaker 1: firefighters as well as equipment.
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Speaker 10: The state provided over 1,000 firefighters and other personnel, but
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Speaker 10: the fire is still burning.
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Speaker 13: Texas Department of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd.
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Speaker 7: We're looking at up to two more weeks before we
38:32
Speaker 7: get this completely buttoned up so that we have every
38:34
Speaker 7: hot spot and smoldering ember out.
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Speaker 5: Palo Pinto County Judge Shane Long says the cause of
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Speaker 5: the fire is listed as undetermined roadside start.
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Speaker 3: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: The Ross Wildfire has claimed over 90,000 acres of Palo
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Speaker 1: Pinto and Jack counties and is currently listed at 38% contained.
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Speaker 1: Not bad.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, mid-90s. Still got a chance of rain hanging around
40:03
Speaker 3: out there. Still have a chance of rain hanging around tonight,
40:05
Speaker 3: but they're saying that's going to burn off by 7 p.m. Look,
40:07
Speaker 3: it's a.
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Speaker 1: Little humid, but it ain't a hundy, you know.
40:10
Speaker 3: So, with that said, enjoy it. And for game day tomorrow, yeah,
40:15
Speaker 3: pretty much that. Same thing. And then we'll dry out
40:18
Speaker 3: a little bit after the weekend is over. Let's talk
40:21
Speaker 3: City of College Station. As long as we're on the
40:23
Speaker 3: football game day bandwagon, we've got Colin Killian. Morning, Colin.
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Speaker 9: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: I got Chief Billy Couch. What's up, man?
40:29
Speaker 6: How you doing?
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Speaker 9: Good morning.
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Speaker 3: So let's start with one of the things I know
40:33
Speaker 3: is I cannot imagine, by the way, the amount of
40:36
Speaker 3: prep that you guys have to do prior to a
40:42
Speaker 3: game day to just deal with the logistics of one
40:45
Speaker 3: hundred and I don't know.
40:48
Speaker 1: I think they've got the system pretty well down.
40:52
Speaker 3: Is it reflex now?
40:54
Speaker 6: It's pretty consistent each year. You know it's coming, and
40:57
Speaker 6: we've come to expect it. I think the troops get
41:00
Speaker 6: ready to roll, and we pull out all the stops
41:02
Speaker 6: and do our best to keep everybody safe so they
41:04
Speaker 6: can come into town, have a good time, and hopefully
41:06
Speaker 6: win a football game.
41:07
Speaker 3: Now, while you are an old hat at this, there
41:11
Speaker 3: are plenty of people who, who are coming to town
41:13
Speaker 3: or maybe just don't go out on game days a lot.
41:16
Speaker 3: What is your advice to everyone in terms of not
41:19
Speaker 3: making this a disaster? Yeah.
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Speaker 6: I just come in early and be patient, you know, uh,
41:23
Speaker 6: trying to get there, uh, you know, enjoy the game. Uh,
41:26
Speaker 6: like you said, it's not going to be too hot,
41:27
Speaker 6: maybe humid, humid, but not too hot. So that helps
41:29
Speaker 6: us a little bit, but, uh, and then post game,
41:31
Speaker 6: you know, after the game's over, you know, some people
41:33
Speaker 6: stick around town and continue to enjoy the celebration, uh,
41:37
Speaker 6: do that safely.
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Speaker 1: And, uh, you know, uh, pay attention to your surroundings.
41:42
Speaker 9: Yeah.
41:42
Speaker 1: You know, I imagine the answer to this question, but I'm,
41:46
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's a pretty good uptick of the amount
41:48
Speaker 1: of officers you have on patrol on a game night
41:50
Speaker 1: in Northgate.
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Speaker 6: You know, it is, we, we do have a few
41:53
Speaker 6: more resources applied to Northgate on the home game weekends
41:58
Speaker 6: as well as medical support. Cause we would expect to
42:01
Speaker 6: have potentially more issues there. So yeah, we, We're probably
42:04
Speaker 6: fully staffed, if you want to say, when we have
42:06
Speaker 6: a home game weekend. We fully staff Northgate and the
42:08
Speaker 6: rest of the city as well. I mean, there's just
42:10
Speaker 6: a lot of people that flow out of the football
42:12
Speaker 6: game into our community. So there's a lot of things
42:14
Speaker 6: that come up. So we do have a lot of
42:16
Speaker 6: staff prepared to deal with that this weekend.
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Speaker 3: Love it. General advice, don't do dumb things.
42:21
Speaker 1: Yeah. Don't be stupid.
42:24
Speaker 3: Yeah. If you think you're going to get creative and
42:27
Speaker 3: try to get around something, either traffic-wise or you know, party-wise, don't.
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Speaker 5: No.
42:32
Speaker 6: Don't.
42:33
Speaker 1: It's not hard. It's not hard these days.
42:35
Speaker 3: No.
42:36
Speaker 1: It's not hard. I mean, come on. You can arrange
42:39
Speaker 1: for a safe ride. Absolutely.
42:41
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
42:41
Speaker 1: You are available. That's correct.
42:43
Speaker 3: Now, speaking of rides, safe rides and everything else, one
42:46
Speaker 3: of the biggest, one of the times, this came up
42:48
Speaker 3: yesterday just because, I don't even remember why we were
42:52
Speaker 3: talking about pedestrians and How?
42:56
Speaker 1: Well, it was because we were talking about the story
42:58
Speaker 1: out of Italy where they outlawed looking at your device
43:03
Speaker 1: or wearing headphones in crosswalks.
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Speaker 3: And I suggested we have a new law where you
43:10
Speaker 3: guys would be able to find someone immediately if they
43:15
Speaker 3: walk across the road looking at their phone, like $ 100.
43:17
Speaker 3: If they did so wearing earbuds, $ 200. If they did so,
43:26
Speaker 3: looking at their phone on a scooter, $ 300. Three binges.
43:31
Speaker 3: And knock out all three of those things. And it
43:34
Speaker 3: was widely... Yeah.
43:36
Speaker 1: The listeners responded.
43:37
Speaker 3: People said, this is a great idea.
43:38
Speaker 1: And then the board of regents comes up talking about
43:41
Speaker 1: it after we talked about it on our show.
43:43
Speaker 3: Now, I think that's a wonderful idea, but neither here
43:47
Speaker 3: nor there. We do still have to talk about the
43:51
Speaker 3: nightmare that is just how pedestrians treat.
43:56
Speaker 3: You know, these incredibly dangerous crossings every single day.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, our community is unique in that aspect.
44:03
Speaker 6: We got that many pedestrians, right?
44:05
Speaker 15: Yeah.
44:06
Speaker 6: And when I was in school way back when, we
44:08
Speaker 6: walked everywhere we went. Well, now, I mean, the scooters,
44:10
Speaker 6: they're fast, they're convenient. So a lot more of those are,
44:14
Speaker 6: you know, on the roads as well as people still,
44:16
Speaker 6: you know, walking. But yeah, we didn't have the distractions
44:18
Speaker 6: of the headphones and And the cell phones. But, yeah,
44:22
Speaker 6: it is a problem. I don't know that we could
44:24
Speaker 6: ever police our way out of that problem. I think
44:25
Speaker 6: it's going to be educating the community as to the risk.
44:29
Speaker 6: We do see some pretty significant accident numbers each year
44:32
Speaker 6: with pedestrians.
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Speaker 1: I've got a way we can police our way out
44:36
Speaker 1: of the problem. Deputize me and Tucker and several others.
44:39
Speaker 1: And when we see it, we'll take care of it
44:41
Speaker 1: for you.
44:41
Speaker 3: I'll knock it out right now. No, but show up
44:44
Speaker 3: to Northgate this evening.
44:45
Speaker 8: All right.
44:45
Speaker 1: What do you think about that?
44:47
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not bad. Not bad. But seriously, accident-wise, you
44:51
Speaker 3: are seeing, like I've been told there's an uptick. There is, absolutely.
44:54
Speaker 3: Every year over year, and this year is actually pretty dramatic.
44:56
Speaker 6: Yeah, and we've done some things to try and, you know,
44:59
Speaker 6: just some operations to enforce it more, just to bring
45:02
Speaker 6: attention to the problem. It's just overwhelming. It's throughout, not
45:07
Speaker 6: just campus, but throughout the community.
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Speaker 3: It's really something. And I get that everyone walks around
45:12
Speaker 3: with earbuds in and it's just a thing now, but
45:14
Speaker 3: those are noise-canceling. You need to be able to hear
45:18
Speaker 3: what's around you.
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Speaker 1: I thought for the longest, and I might be mistaken
45:21
Speaker 1: on this, that it was illegal to wear headphones while
45:23
Speaker 1: you were driving. Is that the case? No, absolutely not.
45:26
Speaker 1: I believe that was a myth as well. Okay. Well,
45:28
Speaker 1: it should be because you can't hear emergency vehicles.
45:30
Speaker 3: But you're right.
45:31
Speaker 6: You make a good point. That would make a difference.
45:33
Speaker 6: But the young people today often do use the headphones frequently.
45:36
Speaker 3: It's just they live with them in. And, again, it's
45:40
Speaker 3: not unusual for kids to want to listen to music
45:42
Speaker 3: or entertainment or whatever while they're walking around. I had
45:45
Speaker 3: headphones on when I was walking around college back in, like,
45:49
Speaker 3: year 2000.
45:49
Speaker 1: You had to plug them in.
45:50
Speaker 3: Yeah, you had to plug them in. You had a
45:51
Speaker 3: CD player. They weren't noise canceling. They don't mute the
45:55
Speaker 3: world around you. If there was a car that suddenly
45:58
Speaker 3: jumped the curb and was coming right at me, I
46:00
Speaker 3: would still hear it no matter how loud my music was.
46:03
Speaker 3: There is nothing that gets through those earbuds, and it
46:07
Speaker 3: can lead to some problems. And then there's the scooter
46:09
Speaker 3: issue as well. How do you guys look at scooters?
46:13
Speaker 3: Are you still a pedestrian on a scooter or no?
46:16
Speaker 10: Well, no.
46:17
Speaker 3: I mean, there are some.
46:19
Speaker 6: Allowances that are consistent with pedestrians, but there are other
46:22
Speaker 6: things where they just abuse the, it's not like a bicycle.
46:26
Speaker 9: Yeah.
46:27
Speaker 6: It is different in that regard, but yeah, there are
46:30
Speaker 6: times where we need to see them, you know, more
46:33
Speaker 6: using pedestrian walkways and stuff, but sometimes we have the
46:37
Speaker 6: wide sidewalks where they get by and they can freely pass,
46:39
Speaker 6: and that works really well, but What happens, they come
46:42
Speaker 6: in and out of parking lots and across.
46:44
Speaker 1: Intersections and stuff when they're not really paying attention.
46:47
Speaker 3: Hard to see, fast.
46:49
Speaker 1: They would just follow the rules of the road. We'd
46:53
Speaker 1: probably have.
46:53
Speaker 6: Less issues, but that's what they're just using it as
46:55
Speaker 6: a mechanism to get through town and not paying attention.
46:58
Speaker 3: Yeah, crazy. What else do we want to get to today?
47:01
Speaker 6: I mean, I've got a few things I wanted to mention. Upcoming,
47:04
Speaker 6: we have a few events, some of our signature events
47:07
Speaker 6: here in the police department. National Night Out is something
47:09
Speaker 6: you guys are familiar with.
47:10
Speaker 3: That's right.
47:10
Speaker 1: We talked about that because it was back in the
47:13
Speaker 1: summer earlier. In the summer, we're nationwide. I was like,
47:16
Speaker 1: I bet we don't have ours in the summer because
47:18
Speaker 1: we're smarter than that.
47:19
Speaker 3: Which is legitimately insane for us.
47:21
Speaker 6: For the temperature reasons, we do ours October, the first.
47:24
Speaker 9: Weekend of October.
47:25
Speaker 3: Love it.
47:25
Speaker 1: It still gets hot, but not death defying.
47:27
Speaker 9: Not always, yeah. October 6th.
47:29
Speaker 6: So if neighborhoods in the city want to host a party,
47:32
Speaker 6: let us know. We'll send resources by. We can kind
47:35
Speaker 6: of interact with the neighborhoods, answer any questions. We have
47:38
Speaker 6: an event called Cops and Goblins. It's a Halloween event
47:40
Speaker 6: for kids. We're in our third year of that.
47:43
Speaker 1: It's October 26th.
47:44
Speaker 6: In the past, we hosted that on the plaza at
47:46
Speaker 6: the police department, but we, you know, we have road
47:48
Speaker 6: construction on Crittentown, so that'll be in Wolfman Creek.
47:51
Speaker 16: Oh, nice.
47:51
Speaker 1: Perfect.
47:51
Speaker 6: And then the final one, Blue Santa, is an event
47:53
Speaker 6: we hold every year, and it's on December the 5th,
47:55
Speaker 6: where we bring in kids into the police department to
47:57
Speaker 6: make sure that that every kid in the community receives
47:59
Speaker 6: a gift.
48:00
Speaker 1: If we want to be a part of that, just
48:02
Speaker 1: let us know.
48:02
Speaker 3: It's an absolutely wonderful tradition.
48:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, Chief, thank you, and thank everybody who has the
48:08
Speaker 1: duty to wear a badge here of any type of
48:11
Speaker 1: emergency service. We appreciate everything you guys do.
48:13
Speaker 9: Thank you.
48:14
Speaker 3: And God be with you because it's football season. Colin,
48:18
Speaker 3: what else are we going to get to today?
48:19
Speaker 12: Let us remind everybody that most City of College Station
48:22
Speaker 12: offices and facilities will be closed on Monday.
48:25
Speaker 9: For Labor Day.
48:26
Speaker 1: Which means nothing can disrupt you from listening to our
48:28
Speaker 1: show in its entirety.
48:29
Speaker 9: That's right. Absolutely. I'll hang on every word that you say,
48:33
Speaker 9: just like every day.
48:34
Speaker 12: But Solid Waste and Recycling Collections will operate on the
48:37
Speaker 12: normal schedule. And Adamson Lagoon, this is for you, Will,
48:41
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48:43
Speaker 2: Hey!
48:43
Speaker 1: I haven't been there since before they named it Adamson.
48:47
Speaker 3: I like a good Adamson.
48:48
Speaker 1: Back when it was Bee Creek.
48:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, dude. That's right.
48:51
Speaker 1: Used to ride my bicycle there.
48:53
Speaker 3: Some of us remember the old times. We'll post all
48:54
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48:58
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Speaker 3: We told y'all it was going to be a busy
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Speaker 3: show today. Yeah. Very busy show. I mean, in fact,
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Speaker 3: I'm just now getting... You were telling me about the
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Speaker 3: tradition you guys have on the show.
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Speaker 17: Right, yeah.
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Speaker 1: The Infomaniacs typically before a game during football season, we
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Speaker 1: would look up the fight song for our opponent and
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Speaker 1: play it.
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Speaker 3: I love this idea. It would be my pleasure to
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Speaker 3: keep this going. So with that said... This is my
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Speaker 3: fight song. This is fight song. This week, we are
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Speaker 3: going to examine... I should know immediately who's at Missouri.
51:04
Speaker 3: It's just Missouri State.
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Speaker 1: Missouri State.
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Speaker 3: I want to call them Missouri Valley State or.
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Speaker 1: Something like that. Well, the Missouri Valley Conference.
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Speaker 3: Oh, that's okay. And according to Mike Elko, they're really
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Speaker 3: not horrible, we promise. But come on. Come on. Now,
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Speaker 3: with that said, what do they use for a fight song?
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Speaker 3: And we have answers for you this morning. What I'm
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Speaker 3: going to play is what Will tells me. is the
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Speaker 3: fight song. It is called The Scotsman. Is that right?
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 3: This is The Scotsman. This is the fight song.
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Speaker 1: And I'll try to do the lyrics along with it.
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Speaker 3: Okay, here we go.
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Speaker 1: I think there's a prelude before you get to lyrics.
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Speaker 3: Is this the Olympics?
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Speaker 1: Sounds like it.
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Speaker 3: What is this?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I kind of dig it, actually.
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Speaker 3: That's the Olympics, Will.
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Speaker 1: Maybe the Olympics ripped them off. This is a 50-year-old
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Speaker 1: fight song. Uphold tradition. Our school we hold so dear.
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Speaker 1: We will be loyal throughout our college years.
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Speaker 3: Right.
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Speaker 1: Not after. Fight for victory while we stand up and cheer.
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Speaker 3: Oh, now we're spelling.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear it for the Bears.
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Speaker 3: B-E-A-R-S.
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Speaker 1: They spell Bears and then they say it.
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Speaker 7: Bears.
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Speaker 6: Bears.
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Speaker 3: Bears, M-I-S-S-O-U-R-I State. Oh, you have to spell Missouri State, too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that you have to be able to
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Speaker 1: spell Bears and Missouri in order. That's the college entrance exam.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I mean, you can't ask, oh, Lord, look
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Speaker 3: at this. They have some of the students. There's all
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Speaker 3: of 10 of them that are sitting here and doing
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Speaker 3: the little spelling out Bears. This is not a big.
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Speaker 1: School, guys. I'm wondering how many people are going to
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Speaker 1: show up. From on the road. How many visitors are
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Speaker 1: we going to have from Missouri?
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Speaker 3: I'm going to say a solid, I'm going to say
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Speaker 3: they're going to have almost universal traveling power, which means
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Speaker 3: almost anyone that is able to get into a car
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Speaker 3: and drive down from the Ozarks to us is probably
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Speaker 3: going to be here. And considering the size of the school,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to say a fat 30 people. 30 Missourians.
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Speaker 1: Hang on. Hang on. We are discounting this.
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Speaker 5: Am I?
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Speaker 1: They are the second largest state university by enrollment in Missouri. 23,418 students.
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Speaker 3: How is that possible? How is that possible?
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Speaker 1: You know, it's Missouri State. So it's a state university system.
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Speaker 3: Right. I'm going to hold to my guess of 30 Missourians.
53:44
Speaker 3: That's what I'm holding. 30. If you find one, they
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Speaker 3: should give you a prize, to be honest with you.
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Speaker 3: They'll also be really hard to find because their colors
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Speaker 3: are also maroon. Yeah. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That way they can switch teams in mid-stride if they
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Speaker 1: want to. Formally, this was Southwest Missouri State.
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay. They need to change it up a little bit. So, Will,
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Speaker 3: on a scale of one to five, rate that fight song.
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Speaker 1: Look, I like the fight song. I'm going to give
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Speaker 1: it a solid four.
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Speaker 13: Ugh.
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Speaker 3: See, I would, I want to save the fours for
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Speaker 3: later in the year because I think I'll probably get
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Speaker 3: some good ones.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's not mutually exclusive.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, but I see.
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Speaker 1: So you're leaving a ceiling room there.
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Speaker 14: Exactly.
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Speaker 3: I'm leaving a ceiling for my picks later on in
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Speaker 3: the year.
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Speaker 1: Okay, with the understanding that this is the first fight
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Speaker 1: song pick of the year, or rating of the year,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to still give it a four.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to four.
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Speaker 1: Because I think three is average, right? That's above average.
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Speaker 3: Three is right down the middle.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's above average.
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Speaker 3: Got to give it four. They ripped off the Olympics, possibly.
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Speaker 1: No, no, I think that song is older than the Olympics.
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Speaker 3: How old is Missouri State?
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Speaker 1: Well, that fight song is 50 years old.
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Speaker 3: Dog, the Olympics are old.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but they haven't been using that song the whole time.
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Speaker 9: For the Olympics.
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Speaker 3: Did they have a song in the Olympics before?
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Speaker 1: If you saw it, it was on.
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Speaker 3: Harp. What's a liar?
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's a pan flute, Olympics.
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Speaker 3: All right. Well, we will see how this turns out. Zamfear.
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Speaker 3: You didn't think.
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Speaker 1: We were going to get a Zamfear reference today, did you?
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Speaker 3: How did you find a way to fit a Zamfear
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Speaker 3: into your radio show today? I asked you. Okay, guys, remember,
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Speaker 3: but enjoy some nice high school football tonight. It's the
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Speaker 1: Preach.
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Speaker 18: Brian?