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The Infomaniacs: October 5th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm Will Welch. College Station
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  Speaker 1: Police are investigating gunfire that took place in the 500
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  Speaker 1: block of First Street just before 3 o'clock Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Callers say they heard shots, then saw someone being loaded
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  Speaker 1: into a vehicle and driving off. Hospitals have not reported
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  Speaker 1: any patients with gunshot wounds. Police say an apartment building
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  Speaker 1: and a vehicle were found with bullet holes. It is
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  Speaker 1: an open and active investigation, and anyone with information is
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  Speaker 1: asked to contact CSPD. A man was arrested after hitting
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  Speaker 1: two pedestrians in Northgate, then driving away. College Station police
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  Speaker 1: responded to reports that two people had been injured near
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  Speaker 1: the intersection of Church and Nagel shortly after 1 o'clock
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning. One victim complained of pain in his left hip.
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  Speaker 1: The other said he had pain in the back of
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  Speaker 1: his head and felt numbness in his left hand. The driver,
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  Speaker 1: 26-year-old Michael McDuffie of Montgomery, failed to stop and render
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  Speaker 1: aid but was located a short time later after a
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  Speaker 1: witness captured a picture of his license plate. McDuffie was
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  Speaker 1: charged with collision involving injury, two counts of collision involving
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  Speaker 1: a pedestrian, and driving while intoxicated with a blood alcohol
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  Speaker 1: concentration greater than. 15. He was also booked for driving
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  Speaker 1: with an expired registration and driving with an invalid license.
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  Speaker 1: McDuffie is free on $ 85, 000 bond. One man is hospitalized
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  Speaker 1: and another behind bars after a vehicle collided with a
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  Speaker 1: scooter over the weekend. College Station Police responded to reports
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  Speaker 1: of a major accident on Welburn near Kyle Field just
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  Speaker 1: before 3 o'clock Saturday morning. The victim was thrown from
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  Speaker 1: his scooter and was found bleeding from his head and
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  Speaker 1: throwing up blood. He is said to have suffered a
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  Speaker 1: skull fracture and brain bleed. 21-year-old Truman Davis was arrested
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  Speaker 1: and charged with intoxication assault with a vehicle. He is
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  Speaker 1: free on $ 30, 000 bond. The Grimes County Office of Emergency
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  Speaker 1: Management says the area is experiencing a water issue. As
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  Speaker 1: a result, many Grimes County offices will be closed on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Classes have also been canceled in Anderson-Shiro ISD. Madison and
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  Speaker 1: Washington counties have announced that their burn bans have been lifted,
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  Speaker 1: but they still encourage caution when burning outdoors. It was
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  Speaker 1: a bad weekend for social media influencers in College Station.
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  Speaker 1: Local influencer Malik Salami, known as Salami the Aggie, went
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  Speaker 1: online Saturday to say that he was harassed by Texas
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  Speaker 1: A & M Athletic staff on the sidelines of Saturday's game.
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  Speaker 1: Salami recently posted that it was a dream to be
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  Speaker 1: on the sidelines of an A & M football game.
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  Speaker 1: The A & M senior was granted his wish when
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  Speaker 1: he was gifted a field pass by an unknown contact
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  Speaker 1: for the game. Salami says he was approached by the
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  Speaker 1: assistant athletic director for football communications, Kat Kastner, questioning how
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  Speaker 1: he gained access to the field. He says she told
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  Speaker 1: him that she is in charge of approving credentials, which
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  Speaker 1: is a fact, and that she specifically recalls denying requests
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  Speaker 1: for him in the past. He was not asked to leave,
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  Speaker 1: but Salami says he felt humiliated by the interaction. We
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  Speaker 1: have reached out to Kastner for comment. Salami has 64,000
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  Speaker 1: followers on Facebook, including the official Texas A & M
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  Speaker 1: Facebook account. Also on the sidelines was an influencer from
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  Speaker 1: Miami known as Ben Dadan, whose real name is Benjamin Beard.
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  Speaker 1: TMZ posted a photo of Beard from Saturday's game with
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  Speaker 1: a player's arm around him. Beard was arrested in Northgate
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night after he reportedly failed to comply with a
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  Speaker 1: lawful order. He was also tased during the arrest. He
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  Speaker 1: was charged with resisting arrest and is free on $ 7, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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  Speaker 1: news at 830 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Turbeville here.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning, guys, from the Infomaniacs. It is a beautiful Monday.
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  Speaker 4: By beautiful, I mean it's not going to be hot.
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  Speaker 4: Influencers all over the news this morning. Just an unusually,
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  Speaker 4: unusually busy weekend.
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  Speaker 3: Of influencers.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how often do we get multiple influencers of
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  Speaker 1: any magnitude here?
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  Speaker 3: They're everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: I know they're everywhere, but again, I quantified it of
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  Speaker 1: any magnitude.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah. The heavy hitters.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure, uh, I'm sure we will see more. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: once we get through this road stand, it's just, it's
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  Speaker 4: not going anywhere anytime soon. And there's no shortage of
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  Speaker 4: people that still want to become influencers. And this is
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  Speaker 4: where we warn you to talk to your kids about
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  Speaker 4: the dangers of Tik TOK challenges. And trying to put
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  Speaker 4: together a video for clout like this kid who decided
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  Speaker 4: that he wanted to film himself getting his hair cut
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  Speaker 4: in the middle of a busy road for a TikTok
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  Speaker 4: stunt last week.
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  Speaker 3: When he was hit by a pickup truck and hospitalized.
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  Speaker 5: We don't encourage anyone to use a roadway as their set.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for the kid who's got hit and his family.
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  Speaker 6: We were chilling right there, and I was giving my
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  Speaker 6: boy a haircut.
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  Speaker 7: We were in a whole bunch of cars, like, the
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  Speaker 7: tires screeching.
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  Speaker 1: She was very distraught.
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  Speaker 8: It is a lot to take in.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think he realized the severity of it at first.
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  Speaker 1: Don't put your life or anybody's life at risk for
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  Speaker 1: the likes. It's not worth it. What kind of idiot?
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  Speaker 1: This is what I call chlorine in the gene pool, right?
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  Speaker 1: This is natural selection at its finest.
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  Speaker 3: Here's the only thing I'll say about it. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what age.
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  Speaker 4: That teenager, so obviously he's younger than most, but teenagers
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  Speaker 4: do stupid things. I do feel bad for a kid
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  Speaker 4: who just doesn't understand that you could die doing stupid
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  Speaker 4: things on the internet. I feel bad for that kid
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  Speaker 4: because he hadn't had enough life experience to figure that
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  Speaker 4: out and modify his behavior accordingly.
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  Speaker 3: But my God, that is stupid.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of it falls on parents. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how bad of a parent you have to be
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  Speaker 1: to skip over the raising a kid section where it
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  Speaker 1: says don't play in the street. I mean, that's basic.
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  Speaker 3: You would don't play in the street.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Don't put your back to traffic while you sit in
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  Speaker 3: the middle.
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  Speaker 1: Just stay out of it.
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  Speaker 4: Just don't do it. There's got to be a better bit.
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  Speaker 4: Got to be a better day. I mean, yeah, this
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  Speaker 4: is not the better bit. Continued concern over a new
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  Speaker 4: challenge on tick tock.
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  Speaker 3: The door kick challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 3: It's exactly what you think it is.
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  Speaker 10: I heard this loud boom. Like, I literally thought somebody
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  Speaker 10: was trying to break into the door because it was
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  Speaker 10: really loud.
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  Speaker 11: I worry about the kids that, you know, they might
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  Speaker 11: knock on the wrong house and get something scary behind
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  Speaker 11: that door and what happens after that.
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  Speaker 12: If you're a parent that's watching, we want you to
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  Speaker 12: talk to your kids about that and discourage them from
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  Speaker 12: participating in this type of behavior.
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  Speaker 7: It's not fun and games like they think it is
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  Speaker 7: because somebody could seriously get hurt.
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  Speaker 1: Don't. kick in. Now, this happened in Portland. Oregon.
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  Speaker 3: Don't kick in doors in Oregon. Oregon people are crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Depending on, yeah. Okay, so if you're in the major
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  Speaker 1: metropolitan areas in Oregon and you kick in a criminal's door,
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  Speaker 1: you're getting shot. Yes. Right? If you are in eastern
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  Speaker 1: Oregon and you kick in a rancher's door.
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  Speaker 3: Also getting equally shot.
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  Speaker 1: If you are in Texas and you kick in anybody's door.
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  Speaker 4: You're getting shot and they're allowed to do it.
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  Speaker 3: They're allowed to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Man, again, again, don't do stupid stuff. Joseph texts in.
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  Speaker 1: I made some kids move out of the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the Walmart entrance driveway who were stopped blocking the driveway
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  Speaker 1: to make a video.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Call us, text us anytime, 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 3: I just, I just, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I get that there's something very appealing about the idea
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  Speaker 4: of having a career, just making content and having fun.
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  Speaker 3: It's very rare to see that pay off. But like, again,
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  Speaker 3: you just have.
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  Speaker 1: To be careful.
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  Speaker 4: But the thing is, you have half of the kids
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  Speaker 4: that are out there trying to become influencers. And then
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  Speaker 4: the other half of the kids that are actively trying
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  Speaker 4: to hide from any camera that's out there.
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  Speaker 3: There's a whole study on this.
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  Speaker 1: Those are my favorite kids.
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  Speaker 4: 47% of people, this is overall, Gen Z, it's like 80%,
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  Speaker 4: say they are afraid of being themselves in public because
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  Speaker 4: they are trying not to.
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  Speaker 3: To go viral.
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  Speaker 1: They think that they are so If they were their
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  Speaker 1: true selves And it was on video.
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  Speaker 4: That they could all of a sudden To the moon
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  Speaker 4: And become the next meme Or the next little viral
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  Speaker 4: clip And Gen Z is terrified of this Because you
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  Speaker 4: got cameras everywhere Everyone's got a camera Anything you do
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  Speaker 4: Someone can accidentally tape it Or just tape it on
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  Speaker 4: purpose You don't even know And all of a sudden
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  Speaker 4: you open up your Oh that's.
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  Speaker 1: Me I think the majority of those people might have
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  Speaker 1: an overinflated sense of self because, let me tell you what,
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  Speaker 1: you're not that interesting.
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  Speaker 4: So they say, again, 47% of people say the possibility
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  Speaker 4: of them becoming online content has reduced their ability to
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  Speaker 4: relax and be themselves in public.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what you're avoiding, by the way.
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  Speaker 4: 31% say they avoid showing strong emotions or opinions, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's actually probably smart.
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  Speaker 4: 30% say they avoid dancing.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't care if there's no cameras. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to avoid dancing.
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  Speaker 4: Best practice. A little sad, but yeah, you're right, Will.
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  Speaker 4: I grew up and you grew up before any of
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  Speaker 4: this happened. And I was the first one to realize that, okay,
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  Speaker 4: me dancing in any.
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  Speaker 3: Public air, not good.
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  Speaker 4: Just not good. Do people notice me? Probably not. Do
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  Speaker 4: I want to test that theory? Absolutely not. Twenty nine
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  Speaker 4: percent say they actively avoid being silly or telling jokes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 4: You can't be silly anymore because you're silly. You might
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  Speaker 4: end up going viral for being silly.
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  Speaker 1: If we didn't do all of this stuff, Tucker, this
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  Speaker 1: show would be insanely boring.
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  Speaker 3: Some some might say even with all this stuff.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: It's a you know, it just it just depends. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: like you have to look.
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  Speaker 4: That part makes me sad is like if you can't.
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  Speaker 4: If you can't just kind of be goofy because you
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  Speaker 4: think someone's going to film you.
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  Speaker 3: And put you online.
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  Speaker 1: That's a terrible way to live.
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  Speaker 3: That's a bummer.
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  Speaker 1: Terrible way. Be yourselves. Don't be afraid. You have to
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  Speaker 1: live life fearless.
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  Speaker 4: We have nothing.
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  Speaker 16: Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly. Don't live life afraid. If it happens, it happens.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that singing on the air, as I
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  Speaker 1: did Friday with the fight song, look, I don't sing
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  Speaker 1: in front of my family. It is not my favorite
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  Speaker 1: thing to do. What am I going to do on
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  Speaker 1: a Friday? I'm going to bust out of the Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: Razorback fight song because that's what the job calls for.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the job calls for.
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  Speaker 1: Calls for me to be fearless. I put my fear aside,
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  Speaker 1: put on my helmet, jump in.
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  Speaker 3: I have another one for you. Nicest fans in the SEC.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you believe they are?
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  Speaker 1: Nicest fan?
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  Speaker 3: Nicest.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The nicest fans you can find in the SEC.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the Aggies have to be in the conversation.
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  Speaker 4: A & M is being credited at this point as
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  Speaker 4: having the nicest slash friendliest fans in the SEC. Y'all,
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  Speaker 4: we finally made it.
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  Speaker 1: We're number one.
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  Speaker 3: It's midnight now. friendliest fans. Has anyone offered you food today? Yes, everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You are not answering this without eating.
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  Speaker 3: One of the 10 largest stadiums in the world. There's
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  Speaker 3: no game day in America like Texas.
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  Speaker 17: A & M.
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  Speaker 4: This is like a whole like TV show talking about like,
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  Speaker 4: you can't not go to Texas.
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  Speaker 13: A & M.
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  Speaker 1: It's a point of pride. It's a point of pride
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  Speaker 1: for Aggies to, to be welcoming To put it out
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  Speaker 1: there that you are here and we look at you
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  Speaker 1: as our guest.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, Jared texted in, it's Auburn and it's
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  Speaker 4: not even close. And I've been to every other, almost
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  Speaker 4: every other SEC stadium. Auburn actually did, Auburn and Vandy
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  Speaker 4: are the other two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was going to mention, I was actually going
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  Speaker 1: to mention Vandy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Vandy people, because again, Vandy just doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of like A & M. We haven't
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  Speaker 1: won anything in so long. Of magnitude that we have
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  Speaker 1: to stand on something.
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  Speaker 9: All right.
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  Speaker 4: So that's the first half of this. So this is
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  Speaker 4: great news for us. I take pride in the fact
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  Speaker 4: that whenever I am in some other part of the
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  Speaker 4: country and someone says, hey, where are you from?
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  Speaker 3: Bryan College Station. Where's that? Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 1: Bing, then they know.
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  Speaker 18: Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I need to come see a football game here. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: you do, because you will have a great time.
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  Speaker 3: Unless you're an influencer and get tased on North.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You're going to have a great time. People are going
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  Speaker 4: to be great. You're going to meet some friends. You're
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  Speaker 4: going to enjoy some great food. You're going to see
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  Speaker 4: a football game, and then, you know, off to the races.
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  Speaker 3: Flip side. Which fans are the worst?
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  Speaker 1: LSU.
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  Speaker 3: You say LSU.
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  Speaker 1: Texas. Okay.
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  Speaker 10: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that I'd go in the SEC.
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  Speaker 4: In the SEC, worst fans. And this is where you
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  Speaker 4: guys can chime in. Because we all agree we are great.
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  Speaker 4: What is the worst group of fans to encounter in
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  Speaker 4: the SEC?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's personal for me with LSU because I remember
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  Speaker 1: back in the 80s when my grandfather... Yes, yes, yes. Bottles, batteries, bottles, cans. Yeah,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: all of the above. And I was like, you know, nine.
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  Speaker 4: Nine, seven, nine, six, nine, five, 16, 20. I.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think it's the Cajuns. I think that LSU
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  Speaker 4: fans are a problem. They're definitely in the bottom of
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  Speaker 4: the pile. I don't know that it's not the University
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  Speaker 4: of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, I threw them out there, too.
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  Speaker 3: I know you did.
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  Speaker 4: But I think they, having been on both sides of this,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: went to college there, so I've been a football fan
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  Speaker 4: of the University of Texas as a student.
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  Speaker 3: And I have also.
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  Speaker 4: Seen how the students and the fans treat opposing fans
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  Speaker 4: having a hard time not saying it's Texas.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, at least at the LSU tailgate, they're going
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to feed you something that you don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 1: but it's going to be good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they will.
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  Speaker 1: There is some hospitality.
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  Speaker 3: It'll soften. It'll soften the misery of having to put
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  Speaker 3: up with them for four quarters. The tailgates are that good.
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  Speaker 3: Not so in Austin.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 3: Austin tailgating is, it's horrible. I can't, I can't.
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  Speaker 4: Find anything good to say about it. Now, nationally, Alabama
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: ended up very, very high. I actually don't have a
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: problem with Alabama fans. I, I'm, Have you ever had.
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  Speaker 18: An issue with them?
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  Speaker 3: They've been here enough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I haven't really been that close to them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know some Alabama fans, and I don't necessarily like them.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: But it's not because they're Alabama fans.
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  Speaker 4: University of Florida fans have been texting a few times. Yeah, Florida,
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  Speaker 4: we don't get them a whole lot.
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  Speaker 3: When you do, they're not as bad as Miami fans,
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  Speaker 3: but they're not in the SEC.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, they're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're not, I don't know. Again, I, I think A
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: & M is, is a clear favorite and that's not
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  Speaker 1: being a homer on that. I mean, that's just because
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: it's a point of pride.
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  Speaker 4: And again, it's been, I forget how many years it's been.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a minute now. I think about 13, 12,
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  Speaker 4: 13 years of being in the SEC. And, and finally,
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  Speaker 4: finally that work is paying off. We got to get
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  Speaker 4: first place in something.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a trophy? Bottom line? No, we need a trophy.
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  Speaker 18: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: We need something in that case.
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  Speaker 20: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: We need something to hang our hats on quite frankly.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, unless, uh, unless some miracle happens for the rest
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  Speaker 4: of the season, which, uh, Who knows? We'll talk news.
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  Speaker 1: man is in critical condition after being hit by a
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  Speaker 1: John Webb Elementary School is in trouble for taking a
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  Speaker 1: the Owl Cafe. It appears as though data centers are
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  Speaker 15: Data centers are about as popular as root canals and
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  Speaker 1: Eric Lycum, TSN News. It's still a close Senate race
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  Speaker 18: That is obviously way outside of the margin of error,
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  Speaker 18: and that's despite the fact that Tallarico has said a
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• 34:05
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  Speaker 8: They've just not been as open as to what they've done.
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  Speaker 4: the difference is being discussed. What the perfect time to
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  Speaker 4: eat breakfast is online. Do you have an opinion on this?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I don't have an opinion on it. I will tell
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: you that I believe. That in things like eating and sleeping,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that consistency is key.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: You just got to do it at the same time.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: Right. I think so, because not everybody's clocks are the same.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Not everybody's careers are the same. But we have to
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: get up and hear very early in the morning.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: They talked to 31,000 adults about when they ate breakfast.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: That's what it said, adults over the age of 40.
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: They got a healthiest time.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m., that had what they
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: call the lowest mortality risk.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: I'm glad you picked up on that, Will, because that
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: is how they put it. The lowest mortality risk of breakfast.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Let's keep in mind. Statistics can tell you anything that
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: they want to tell you, right? So they say waiting
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: until 8 o'clock to 10 o'clock linked to a 10%
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: higher risk of death.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: A 10% higher risk of death.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Eating between 10 a.m. and noon raised that number to 19%.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: That is almost, wow. For people who did not eat
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: their first meal until afternoon, that risk went up to 29%.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: That means not eating breakfast at all.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Means you have a 30% chance, higher chance to die?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: What this means is that if you're laying around being
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: lazy and don't get up until noon and then you
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: eat something, chances are you're going to die because you're
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: a lazy... Fat sack, right?
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Man, bums live longer than anyone, Will.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: That's called not exerting energy as probably for the best.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying that there's other contributing factors that aren't
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: listed in this survey.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: See, this is the other thing, though.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: I never eat breakfast. People talk about, like, I've never
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: eaten breakfast. This isn't, like, just something I adapted later
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: in life. As a kid, I did. It's like, what's
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: the point? If I'm going to wake up, I've got
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: somewhere to be.
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Like that place is probably school when I was young
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: and it turns into work.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: I want to get up.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: I want to get to the place I need to
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: be and fulfill that task. And then at some point
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: later in the day.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: I will worry about food.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: And the other thing that you're not mentioning is that
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: you want to sleep until the last possible second.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: That's exactly right.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not that guy. I've got to get up. I've
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: got to get everything ready to go. And part of that,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: for me, is having something to eat. I don't eat
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: a real... Breakfast, breakfast until after we get off the air.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: But I will have a daily protein bar before we
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: start the show.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: That's practically lunch for you. By the time we get off,
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: that's a different, like it's a completely different meal.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: And sometimes it'll be the only meal I eat of
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the day.
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: They say the meal's timing can affect the body's internal clock,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: which plays a role in circadian rhythm and metabolism. They
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: also said you eat your dinner between 7 and 8 p.m.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: If you don't want to die. That's similar.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I disagree with that one because 7 or 8 o'clock,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bed. And if I eat at 8
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: o'clock and go lay down, I'm not going to get
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: any rest because I'll have acid reflux all night.
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: Guys, one day, whether you host a morning radio show
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: or not, You're going to get old enough to learn
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: the magic of, like, 4 p.m.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: Dinner.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Dude.
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: That's where it's at.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: If you can get your life centered around eating dinner
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: around 4 or 5 p.m., good lord.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: I love it. Absolutely love it.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: Ten best grocery stores in the U.S.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Have been announced. We have two of them in the
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: state of Texas.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: But they're not what you think.
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: They're certainly not!
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: I did not print off this list.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Because it seems fake, doesn't it?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: It does seem fake.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Again, this is the nation's best grocery stores.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: All across the country.
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: All the ones you've heard of are very well represented. Kroger,
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: number 10. Stu Leonard's, which it's a New York thing.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Why would I know?
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: Number nine. Wegmans. I know Wegmans.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: We've heard of it, yeah.
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Number eight. Fresh Time Market, number seven. Publix.
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: Heard of it.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: Publix, also referred to as the HEB of Florida because
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: it's very, very similar. Number five, the fifth best grocery
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: store in America is Albertsons.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: You see? I mean, not that I.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: We used to have Albertsons.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: But it didn't hold a candle to what other stores
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: have brought.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: See, that's the thing is I.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: I remember going into Albertsons quite a lot as a
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: kid shopping fine store. Nothing wrong with that.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: No, but it was basic.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: But it's not what we have today. Aldi.
• 41:39
  Speaker 20: Aldi.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Number four. Scratch that.
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: We have three.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we do have an Aldi.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Because we have an Aldi. People lose their minds over Aldi.
• 41:46
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: And rightfully so.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: If it was anywhere close to where I lived, I
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: would probably go there.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Did you know there's another Aldi called Lidl?
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Is that the same company?
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Has to be. It's similar.
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: It's the same weird thing. Hy-Vee, number two, and the
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: Fresh Market, number one.
• 42:02
  Speaker 9: No Sprouts?
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: No Sprouts. That's dangerous. None of the TJs? No Trader Joe's?
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: No Trader Joe's, no Sprouts, no.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: The Trader Joe people, Sprouts people will come after you
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: for not being.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: On that list. Who did y'all anger? How did you
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: come up with this?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: How is HEB not in the top ten?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: How is HEB not in the top three?
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: Exactly.
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: Is that like Texan? Is that just us blowing smoke
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: because it's our team? grocery store.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: In other similar lists from other similar organizations, HEP has
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: been ranked. And highly.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: It absolutely has to be.
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: And I've been to Publix.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: I've been to Publix a few times. I'm in Florida.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: I've been to Hy-Vee.
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with them. Same thing as like, what's
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: the super froofy one? Not Central Market, the real Whole Foods.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Whole Foods is great. It's not the same as H-E-B.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: You like vegan bacon?
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not the same as H-E-B.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Holy cow.
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: But yeah, so that's, I would love to know, I
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: would love to know how they came.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Up with that. Well, I think probably these, you look
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: at a couple of the entries there, they're in the Northeast.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Absolutely criminal. Yeah.
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, so how many guests were at your wedding?
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: How many guests were at my wedding? Over 400 guests. Yeah.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: That's monstrous.
• 43:35
  Speaker 21: Yeah.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: That is an insane amount of people.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: It is an insane amount of people, and we had
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: whittled that down.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: Whittled it down?
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: We had whittled it down. And when my mother was
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: given the number that she could invite, she said she
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: was going to have to make some tough choices. Oh, boy. Now,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: get this. So all of my mother's bridesmaids from her
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: wedding were at my wedding.
• 44:01
  Speaker 16: Yeah.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: My mom made lifelong friends, and all of them came.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: How did you feel about that many people being at
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: the wedding?
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: My mother also invited my wife and I to elope
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: and get married in the Mediterranean.
• 44:19
  Speaker 4: That's where it is, my dude.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: Because my wife wanted to go to Italy one day.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: That's where it's at.
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: But she said, no, I've got to walk down the
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: aisle with my dad. And I said, there's two of
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: them on the airplane.
• 44:29
  Speaker 18: Okay.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: A couple was getting married last week in Outer Banks,
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: North Carolina. Very popular place for weddings. But they had
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: had some stormy weather. And it cut off access to
• 44:41
  Speaker 4: the highway. No one could get in or out. It
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: means most of their friends and family couldn't even make it.
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: They had a list of 400 people that were supposed
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: to attend.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: Big wedding. So all of a sudden, what do we do?
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: They put an open invitation on social media and just said,
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Happen to be at Outer Banks. You want to come
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: to a wedding? More than 400 people showed up to
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: watch these clowns walk.
• 45:04
  Speaker 6: Down the aisle.
• 45:05
  Speaker 19: I think that the wedding that we had was better
• 45:07
  Speaker 19: than the one we had planned.
• 45:09
  Speaker 11: This whole thing just came together, and within 24 hours,
• 45:12
  Speaker 11: you would have thought the Queen of England was getting married.
• 45:15
  Speaker 18: Where was.
• 45:16
  Speaker 11: 400 cars at least.
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there were families.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: Of 30 people, 14 people all showing up.
• 45:23
  Speaker 22: There were families, so many people stuck here. We met
• 45:26
  Speaker 22: people from, what, Ohio, California.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: New Jersey, Florida, everywhere.
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: I mean, the entire island really showed up. We plan
• 45:34
  Speaker 8: to come.
• 45:35
  Speaker 11: Back every year for our anniversary and stay at the campground.
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: How bored would you have to be? to show up.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: How bored would you have to be? But these were
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: vacationers that were also stuck on the island.
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, everyone was stranded.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Right? So they said, what the heck, it's a party.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: I gotta give huge credit to the bride. She could
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: have come completely unglued.
• 45:54
  Speaker 17: Oh! Right?
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: And with the groom there was talking, I was like,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: let's hear from the bride. What does she have to say?
• 46:00
  Speaker 16: Yes.
• 46:01
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: But it seems like she took it in stride.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently, they do, and it is in the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 4: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: So August and September mark the mating season for giant
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: house spiders. It kind of peaks.
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  Speaker 3: How big is a giant house spider?
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: They're big.
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: Like the banana spiders that we have around here?
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: I think they're kind of banana spider size.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe slightly smaller than that. Okay, that's not fair. So
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: the mating season, you know, it kind of peaks and
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: then ends in October.
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  Speaker 18: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So all those big spiders, they come out and they
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: start hanging out in your house. Now, they're there most
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: of the time. of the year.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They've been quiet.
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  Speaker 3: They've just been behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: Now they're chasing some legs.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so now they need to get out there. They
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  Speaker 1: Do their thing.
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• 49:34
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• 49:37
  Speaker 1: like that up there in that area.
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  Speaker 3: They're just uncomfortable to almost walk into.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: They are. And apparently... If you think a spider is
• 49:46
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  Speaker 17: Right.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: So they see your shadow.
• 49:57
  Speaker 23: What?
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: And they're trying to get in your shadow.
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: So basically they're like, oh, I got to go there.
• 50:01
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: It keeps moving. It's freaking them out. So they're running.
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: You're seeing the spider come right after you, and you're thinking, ah,
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: you're making the problem worse.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: It's a giant snowball effect of spiders.
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: So if you stomp, the spider will stomp.
• 50:15
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: That's wild. And if you hold really still, then you
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: get to stomp on it.
• 50:19
  Speaker 4: Someone told me we have a spider season. I'm not
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: sure if that.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: Well, we got a season for everything. There's June bug
• 50:25
  Speaker 1: season and.
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. It's like North of here.
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: It's like kind of the tarantula tarantula season. And I
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: don't remember when that, when.
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: That used to have them out in about the same time.
• 50:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: We used to have them. We had a place in
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: Washington County and I would rescue them on occasion from
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: the swimming pool. And I taught the daughters how to
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: do that too. We would see them all the time
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: out there.
• 50:45
  Speaker 18: It's it.
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: That's that is a spider season because I don't care
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: how like, okay. Large house spiders.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Kind of gross, not fun. tarantula they are a scary
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: looking spider and they're they mean you no harm i.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Get it they're very gentle but.
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: Holy cow this is not something you want to see
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: running at you no crossing a field and falling out
• 51:06
  Speaker 4: of trees and literally every.
• 51:08
  Speaker 1: Other we do want to bust the myth however okay
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: this is included in that story the myth that humans
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: swallow up to eight spiders a year in their sleep
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: that is false apparently the vibrations from breathing are enough
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: to scare them away Now, how many spiders you eat
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: in your daily breakfast cereal, you don't want to count.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: They're completely different. You don't want to count.
• 51:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's some things you're better off not knowing.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: They suggest if these spiders are in your house there
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: in the Pacific Northwest, that you relocate it to the
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: garage or a crawl space rather than harming it. It's
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: only fair. It's only fair.
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they're your friends.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: They eat things like flies and mosquitoes and moths.
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: I'll tell you this.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: The only bad spider experience I have had was enough to,
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: and I don't know if it really had a lot
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: to do with the spiders or whatever, where I was
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: moving at the time. And so we just moved into
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: this house, and I had a bunch of furniture that
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: was in storage, pulled it out, you know, whatever. And
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: I was sitting down, finally finished a move, and all
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: of a sudden I just see these little specks kind
• 52:07
  Speaker 4: of in the air, and I'm not sure what's going on.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: I'm like, am I crazy?
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: Am I nuts? Well, it turns out that at some
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: point spiders had gotten into the couch that I was
• 52:16
  Speaker 4: sitting on and had just laid a colony of, A colony.
• 52:19
  Speaker 4: And they have decided it was time to start hatching
• 52:22
  Speaker 4: and just firing little spiders all over the room.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, thousands. Yeah, there's so many of them.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: Thousands of spiders pouring out of the back of this.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: And I don't know what clued.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: Them in that said now it's go time. But something
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: told them we are in a new place and now
• 52:42
  Speaker 4: is the time to proliferate.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: And I need to find pictures. If I can find them,
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: I'll post them.
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: But yeah, webs, webs everywhere coming out of this hole.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Now, how did you start the fire to get rid
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: of them? Did you burn the furniture to the ground?
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: That was.
• 53:02
  Speaker 3: I ran out of that house so fast.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: And I had a moment where I just had to
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: sit in the driveway and like, okay, like you said, Will,
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: do I just burn this down and start over?
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Like, do I.
• 53:12
  Speaker 4: Do I just live in the yard for the rest
• 53:15
  Speaker 4: of my life? What do I do? I don't mind
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: the big banana spiders and things like that. I actually
• 53:20
  Speaker 4: think they're pretty cool. I think they're cool when I
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: see them coming is when you turn a corner and
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden it's two inches.
• 53:27
  Speaker 3: From your face.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: The spiders that bother me are the black widows and
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: the brown recluses. In fact, I have a neighbor who
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: is recovering after being in the hospital after getting bit
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: by a brown recluse.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Don't play with those, man.
• 53:40
  Speaker 6: No.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: Like, some people will be like, oh, I got a
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: spider bite, whatever, and, you know, just.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Try to man up. That gets infected real quick, sepsis,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: next thing you know.
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, or worse.
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're not to be trifled with.
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: But yeah, so our spider season coming soon. If you're
• 53:56
  Speaker 4: afraid of tarantulas, just start running now.
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: They'll be coming after you.
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: They're on the way. Just in time for Christmas.
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: Just in time for Christmas, fam. Enjoy the weather. It
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: really is going to be nice out there today.
• 54:09
  Speaker 4: And any day where it doesn't hit 90 degrees, we're
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: all going to take that as a win. We're 1620, 94.5
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: WTW College Station. Brian, see you back on the radio tomorrow.