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The Infomaniacs: October 22nd 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
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  Speaker 1: woman arrested for driving while intoxicated had breathalyzer results more
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  Speaker 1: than two times the legal limit. A Brazos County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: deputy reported seeing a vehicle speeding and drifting between lanes
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  Speaker 1: on Highway 6 near Peach Creek around 2.30 Wednesday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Arrest reports say 23-year-old Haley Uelinger was clocked doing 99
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour in a 75-mile-per-hour zone. Officers say her
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  Speaker 1: speech was slurred. and she smelled of alcohol. She denied
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  Speaker 1: consuming alcohol but failed a field sobriety test. Breathalyzer test
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  Speaker 1: administered as she was being booked into the Brazos County
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  Speaker 1: Jail showed results of 0.168 and 0.170. more than twice
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  Speaker 1: the legal limit of 0.08. Eulinger was charged with driving
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  Speaker 1: while intoxicated with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 or greater.
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  Speaker 1: She is free on $ 9, 000 bond. A new report shows
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  Speaker 1: that data center permitting approvals have continued. despite Governor Abbott's
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  Speaker 1: order for state agencies to halt data center activities.
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  Speaker 2: We've all been skeptical about whether this pause is a
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  Speaker 2: real pause, whether it's these rumors we hear from data
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  Speaker 2: center developers saying we're being told that it's not a
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  Speaker 2: real pause.
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  Speaker 1: Sam Law is with the environmental rights group Fract Trackers.
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  Speaker 1: He authored the report documenting 35 data center permits issued
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  Speaker 1: by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. after the governor
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  Speaker 1: ordered the pause.
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  Speaker 2: You don't expect a regulatory agency in Texas granting permission
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  Speaker 2: for crucial steps.
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  Speaker 3: In data center construction.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we found in 13 different sites across Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Both the TCEQ and the governor's office say the state
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  Speaker 1: agency is in line with the governor's data center pause.
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  Speaker 1: Transgender rights have once again become a focal point in
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  Speaker 1: Texas politics.
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  Speaker 4: Speaking at a rally in the Dallas suburb of Allen,
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  Speaker 4: Governor Greg Abbott accused his opponent of trying to advance
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  Speaker 4: the transgender agenda.
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  Speaker 1: If any parent dared to try to supposedly misgender their
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  Speaker 1: own child, she said those parents should be prosecuted.
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  Speaker 4: His comments come at the same time that a mysterious
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  Speaker 4: pamphlet is showing up in mailboxes. It claims to come
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  Speaker 4: from a transgender rights organization, but a deep dive shows
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  Speaker 4: that it's linked to a post office box in Wyoming,
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  Speaker 4: and it's being used by GOP activists to denounce Democrats' agenda.
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  Speaker 1: In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News. Cobb Troller Don
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  Speaker 1: Huffines wants Texans to report suspected fraud, waste, and abuse
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  Speaker 1: involving state tax dollars. Experts say there will be lots
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  Speaker 1: to investigate.
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  Speaker 5: It's in large part due to unrestrained spending at the
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  Speaker 5: local level.
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  Speaker 1: John Bonura at the Texas Public Policy Foundation says that
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  Speaker 1: when local budgets are streamlined, it reduces the taxes that
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  Speaker 1: we're forced to pay. The comptroller has also launched a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive into wasteful spending in public schools that will
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  Speaker 1: focus on DEI and foreign workers. More news on the
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  Speaker 1: way at 7.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 6: Hello, I'm Paul Thomason, and I'm running to be your
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  Speaker 6: state senator. Why am I doing that?
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  Speaker 1: Well, part of it is money.
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  Speaker 6: I am tired of paying too much at the pump.
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  Speaker 6: I'm tired of paying too much in the grocery store.
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  Speaker 6: paying higher electricity costs. With our health care and every
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  Speaker 6: other way we can say it, prices are going up
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  Speaker 6: and nothing is being done about it. One thing I
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  Speaker 6: rail against is billionaire governance out of Austin and the
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  Speaker 6: people we have elected are listening to the billionaires, not
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. I.
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  Speaker 3: like you probably know this story already, but I'm just
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  Speaker 3: going to roll the dice on it. Why am I
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  Speaker 3: setting this up while I have something big to tell you?
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  Speaker 5: Airbnb.
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  Speaker 3: Airbnb.
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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 3: You have a checkout list. I think we've talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 3: What's on your.
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  Speaker 1: My checkout instructions are as follows.
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  Speaker 5: OK.
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  Speaker 1: Leave all the beds that were used unmade. Put all
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  Speaker 1: the towels in the washing machine and start them. Load
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  Speaker 1: all dirty dishes in the dishwasher and start it.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a call. Let me know you're out.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. That's the list.
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  Speaker 1: That's the... Oh, no, no.
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  Speaker 14: One more. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Take all the garbage to the dumpster.
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  Speaker 3: Give it to them one more time so they can
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  Speaker 3: hear it because we're going to... This is important.
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  Speaker 1: Leave all the beds that were used unmade.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Put the towels that were used in the washing machine.
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  Speaker 1: Start it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Load all the dirty dishes. Start them.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Take all the garbage to the dumpster. Walk away. Walk away.
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  Speaker 1: Give me a call. Text if you can.
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  Speaker 3: Airbnb is allegedly cracking down on hosts' elaborate cleanup quote-unquote
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  Speaker 3: checklists for guests. They are... making changes to ensure that
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  Speaker 3: hosts don't go too far with their checkout lists. Now,
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you, I have had way more stringent
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  Speaker 3: checkout lists than what.
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  Speaker 1: You just gave me. I have too. Far more. And
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  Speaker 1: I've also had happen this past weekend, an Airbnb that
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  Speaker 1: we were staying in. We did not get the checkout
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  Speaker 1: list until an hour after we left.
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  Speaker 8: Cool.
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  Speaker 1: We did our best, right?
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  Speaker 3: And I know Airbnb is a thing that you do,
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  Speaker 3: but I feel like it's a lot of our listeners also.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a ton of us out here.
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  Speaker 3: And so for those of you that also maybe have
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  Speaker 3: a property that you make a little money on with Airbnb,
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  Speaker 3: I'm interested to know how you feel about this. Because
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  Speaker 3: to me, it feels a little bit like a slap
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  Speaker 3: in the face to the property owner. that you're not
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  Speaker 3: allowed to, they're not being particularly helpful with where the
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  Speaker 3: line is because there's asked, you know, you're not allowed
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  Speaker 3: to ask guests to complete tasks that require significant effort
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  Speaker 3: or time. What does that mean? Or would typically be
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  Speaker 3: performed by a cleaner, including stripping the bed, taking trash
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  Speaker 3: off site or washing or putting away dishes. Why is
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  Speaker 3: that not reasonable to do in a.
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  Speaker 1: That's something that we try to do when we stay places.
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  Speaker 1: I set up my Airbnb on one simple principle.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: This is a place that I want to stay. If
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  Speaker 1: this is a place that I want to stay, that
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  Speaker 1: I want to experience as an Airbnb guest, that's what
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  Speaker 1: I want to deliver.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 16: Right?
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  Speaker 1: I don't want hassles. I want it easy. I want
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  Speaker 1: good communication. That's just what I try to do.
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  Speaker 3: And again, I would like to mention, you know, so
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  Speaker 3: you've heard Will's list and- How many, what's.
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  Speaker 1: Your ratings again? Like four, four or five things.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 15: Four or five things.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And almost a flawless, flawless.
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  Speaker 1: I just throw it through. Yeah. My, my ratings is
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  Speaker 1: I'm up to 62, 62, five star reviews. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't have any other reviews.
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  Speaker 3: So the problem is there've been some of these lists
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  Speaker 3: that have gone viral and they think it's a bad
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  Speaker 3: look where people are, have these real eight page long things,
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  Speaker 3: which are stupid, frankly. So this is Airbnb's attempt to
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  Speaker 3: reign everything in. Um, And I get how no one
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  Speaker 3: wants to spend the last day of their vacation cleaning
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  Speaker 3: a house.
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  Speaker 17: No.
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  Speaker 3: And then paying a fee on top of that. But
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  Speaker 3: look at the host's perspective, right? The other option is,
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  Speaker 3: isn't it a good thing to have a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of a thing in your head that says, I should
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  Speaker 3: probably clean up before I leave?
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  Speaker 1: So an average, a good guest will do that anyway.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't have that in your head, isn't it
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  Speaker 3: more likely- that you unintentionally kind of trash the person's house.
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  Speaker 1: I think it depends on the person, right? And it
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  Speaker 1: all goes down to who the person is. I've stayed
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  Speaker 1: in B & Bs where the ownership or whoever is
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  Speaker 1: managing the property are probably people that I would not
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  Speaker 1: like to sit down and have a visit with. They're
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  Speaker 1: not going to be my friends. I can tell they're
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  Speaker 1: just they're not my people.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 1: OK, so they're jerks.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I know that I've stayed places like that. I've had
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  Speaker 1: correspondence with Airbnb managements over things that indicated to me
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  Speaker 1: that they were hairy jerk faces.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I get that.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And so Airbnb has to rein that in. I think
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  Speaker 1: the real the real thing that should weigh that in,
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  Speaker 1: rein that in is if you're staying there and you
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  Speaker 1: write the review and said, this guy's a hairy jerk
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  Speaker 1: face and he's requesting on his checkout procedures, this, this
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  Speaker 1: and this. And we think it's it's over too much.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're going to give him a one star.
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  Speaker 3: This person texts in, I stopped using Airbnb because I'm
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  Speaker 3: not going on a trip to then clean someone else's
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  Speaker 3: house when I leave. That said, Will's list is reasonable.
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  Speaker 3: Many of them are not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there probably are some. I have not
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  Speaker 1: stayed in one where the checkout list was unreasonable, but
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  Speaker 1: I could see some of the people that manage those properties.
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  Speaker 1: putting something together like that.
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  Speaker 3: I know a lot of people are going to have
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  Speaker 3: thoughts about this. I really would like to hear from
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  Speaker 3: some of you guys that actually own Airbnb properties. How
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  Speaker 3: do you feel about these limitations?
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  Speaker 1: Or your experience if you've been a guest someplace.
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  Speaker 3: 1620-945-WTAW. Back to the Airbnb thing where my friends texted me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why... this is such a big deal.
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  Speaker 3: Why don't you just ignore the list if it's too long?
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  Speaker 3: What are they going to do? Leave you a bad review?
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  Speaker 3: Leave them one worse. So the way.
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  Speaker 1: The review system is set up, essentially, people can review me.
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  Speaker 1: I will not see their review until I review them.
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  Speaker 3: They blind it so you can't take measures against them
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  Speaker 3: and burn them into the ground.
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  Speaker 19: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But I do think that, you know, You do need to.
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  Speaker 1: I feel a responsibility if I've gone someplace that's had
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  Speaker 1: some issues. I feel a responsibility to tell others about them.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of the only answer. You've got to police yourself. Otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: none of this works. Speaking of self-policing, have any of
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  Speaker 3: you had any experience with peacocks?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me about it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so it was a year, year and a half ago.
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  Speaker 1: I heard something outside. ridiculous noise, unrecognizable. I look up,
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  Speaker 1: there's a peacock on my patio.
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  Speaker 3: How would you describe this noise?
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  Speaker 1: It sounded like a woman getting stabbed.
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  Speaker 3: That's about right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Was it loud?
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  Speaker 1: Very loud. Right. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 11: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And this is a peacock.
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  Speaker 1: It was a peacock and he hung around for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks. I do hear at sunset just about
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  Speaker 1: every evening, I hear noises that I can't recognize. They're
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  Speaker 1: in the distance, somewhere in the trees around my place.
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  Speaker 1: And I hear it, and it sounds sort of like
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  Speaker 1: a mix between a donkey and something canine and a bird.
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  Speaker 1: I suspect that that's the peacocks as well. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: not familiar enough with the noises they make.
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  Speaker 3: I've had some friends that had some land out a
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  Speaker 3: bit north of town, and their neighbor on the property
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  Speaker 3: boarded it up to them. They're a pretty big property.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: They kept a couple of peacocks. The house is not
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: near the property line. The house is probably, I don't know, 25,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: 30 acres back. That's usually where the peacocks stayed. You
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: could hear it clear as day. At all hours. It's
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: just a horrible, horrible noise, which is why there is
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: a huge dispute right now in a neighborhood. And this
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: isn't this isn't here. I believe this is in Florida.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: I need to double check that. I think this one
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: is in Florida where the peacocks have invaded a neighborhood
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: and they can't do anything about it because guess what?
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Peacocks are also a protected species in Florida.
• 16:55
  Speaker 20: They've become a continuing source of property damage, sanitation concerns, noise, expense,
• 17:01
  Speaker 20: and a loss of peace in.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: Our own homes.
• 17:03
  Speaker 21: I respectfully request that the rule protecting the peafowl be
• 17:06
  Speaker 21: removed from the current ordinance so residents are no longer
• 17:10
  Speaker 21: forced to choose between protecting their property and complying with
• 17:14
  Speaker 21: city code.
• 17:14
  Speaker 17: I do not want the city to make any changes
• 17:18
  Speaker 17: to their protected species.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I want the peacock to be protected.
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there are neighbors that say, hey, no, no, we
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: still need to maintain.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Why would you protect a species that's not native? Since when?
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Since when are they? Y'all are. Yeah, exactly. Well, you
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: are the kings of nuisance animals in that in that state.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: If if I'm correct and that this is a Florida story,
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: which I still believe it is.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Florida neighborhood.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: They are protected as a non-native species in Florida.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: Well, what do y'all do? Y'all have python harvest now.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: What do you want to wait to let it get
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: to that point? You have iguanas falling out of the sky.
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: They just set a record for the amount of lionfish
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: that they pulled out of their water.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Hashtag chimp island.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: It's real.
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: Google it. Y'all have a lot of how, how, who
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: is the person that said that they need it? And
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: who is the maniac? It was like, you know what
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: I love about my neighborhood? Full of peacocks.
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: Full of peafowl.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: For those of you that have peacock stories, seriously, please
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: join the conversation because it's a fascinating nuisance. Just a
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: terrifying animal. WTAW, you're on the radio. What do you
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: have for us today? WTAW, hello. Going once, going twice.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: I would love to hear your stories. I'm certain some
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: of you have them.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, got to be.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Bottom line.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I grew up, so I went to preschool here.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I think it was St. Thomas Preschool. It was right
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: on what was Jersey, George Bush, right across the street
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: from the campus. And they had a peacock there at
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the school. That's my earliest memory of a peacock.
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: Charles, we're going to need to hear from you directly
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: because we have questions. Why do we have questions for Charles?
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Charles says he has nine peacocks. He has a lot
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: of peafowl on his land.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Sounds like it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I would like to hear from you, Charles. I would
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: like to hear about that experience. Assuming since you have nine,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: you're a fan of these birds. And I would honestly
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: like to know why. It's just, and if you were
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: a neighbor, if you were a neighbor, how do you
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: negotiate that complication? Because again, like barking dogs are one thing.
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: Peacocks are a second thing, a completely different thing. But
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: there's a couple of neighborhoods in Houston that have been
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: overrun by peacocks.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: You mentioned that. We've talked about peacocks before, and you
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: were telling me.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: And again, no one really knows what to do with them.
• 19:50
  Speaker 22: At all.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Because they're beautiful, but they're also peacocks.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I do have a recipe here.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: WTAW. Good morning. You're on the radio. What do you
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: have for us today?
• 20:00
  Speaker 23: Well, you wanted to know more about peacocks.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Charles, thank you for weighing in. All right, so you
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: have nine peacocks.
• 20:08
  Speaker 23: That's correct.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Tell me about your experiences with these birds.
• 20:13
  Speaker 23: Well, our first one, he just showed up in our
• 20:17
  Speaker 23: chicks coop one morning. What do you mean he just
• 20:20
  Speaker 23: showed up?
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: That would make me question what I had done the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: night before. If I walked out that morning to collect
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the eggs and there's a peacock.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: That's like Flamingo Man in Vegas we were talking about. Okay,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: so he showed up.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Continue.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: I didn't mean to cut you off.
• 20:35
  Speaker 23: Well, he just showed up, and he decided he liked it,
• 20:38
  Speaker 23: so he stayed around. And he's a male, blue, and
• 20:45
  Speaker 23: beautiful bird. All the neighbors loved him, even though he'd
• 20:49
  Speaker 23: get up on their roos and scream bloody murder. You know,
• 20:57
  Speaker 23: they just liked having him around because he was pretty.
• 21:01
  Speaker 23: We decided... We wanted to get some more, so we
• 21:04
  Speaker 23: got in touch with a gentleman over in Fredericksburg, and
• 21:07
  Speaker 23: we started buying eggs.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: And you picked up nine. You went to nine peacocks
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: at the peak of your peacock experience.
• 21:15
  Speaker 23: It took a while, because the hatch rate off of
• 21:21
  Speaker 23: just buying eggs is not real good. But my wife
• 21:24
  Speaker 23: got pretty good at it, so now we have two
• 21:27
  Speaker 23: full-grown birds, and we've got seven juveniles. And they just
• 21:33
  Speaker 23: roam around.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: And your neighbors are, again, are your neighbors still cool?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Do they enjoy having the peacocks around? Because, again, some
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: people do. Some people do.
• 21:42
  Speaker 23: Yeah. Well, they do have a benefit. They keep the
• 21:50
  Speaker 23: snakes down because our chickens, you know, they have a tendency,
• 21:55
  Speaker 23: snakes want to get in there. Well, no.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Holy cow.
• 21:58
  Speaker 23: I did not know that.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I would figure that.
• 22:01
  Speaker 23: And mice. All right. You know, trying to get in
• 22:05
  Speaker 23: the chicken feed all the time. You have mice problems.
• 22:09
  Speaker 23: And just overall picking up all the bugs and everything
• 22:14
  Speaker 23: throughout the yard. I mean, that's what they constantly do
• 22:17
  Speaker 23: is they just walk around and they eat bugs.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Interesting.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: So they actually can be beneficial.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: They have some benefits, yeah.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: That's amazing.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I just looked up some recipes.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Don't tell him that. Those are companion animals. Also, I
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: need to mention that Tom Texan, he grew up next
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: to a neighbor that had a fairly large amount of peacocks.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: They were beautiful birds. Haunting calls. And actually, owls are
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: a natural predator to peacocks, is what it says.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: I did not know this.
• 22:46
  Speaker 17: Owls.
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Which, I mean, great barn owls are big birds, but
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: never would have thought. Hey, brother, thank you so much
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: for the call.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Charles.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: We appreciate it. More text messages from you guys in
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: relation to the peacock infestation that apparently is just taking
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: over Florida. Yeah, several people have thoughts on this, and.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: It's... Bubba sent us a video. First of all, he
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: said he took out three on Highway 36 just outside
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: North Fort Worth. That's the thing, is they're so.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Big that it just seems like.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, wait, that was a previous conversation with Bubba. Yeah,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the new one is he sent us a video of
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Bernie from San Marcos. He's sister-in-law's neighborhood, a male peacock
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: named Bernie. Bernie beats himself up. on his shiny chrome
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: bumper of his truck along with my brother-in-law's bumper he
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: will join their chicken sometimes and eat their food along
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: with any cat food that's left out.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: This person says you never know the weird uh weird
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: sounds can be peacocks are often misidentified uh the people
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: misidentify coyotes uh cries for peacock.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah you know but i'm fairly familiar with i mean
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: i've Spent a lot of time.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: I feel like you know what a coyote sounds like.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Well, we've got calls that are supposed to attract them.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: You listen to coyotes. I'm fairly familiar with what a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: coyote sounds like. The sound I hear every evening, most
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: evenings at sunset. is something that's so bizarre that I
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: think it can only come from a peacock.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I need you to share that recipe with me.
• 24:21
  Speaker 24: Okay.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: At some point.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: At some point.
• 24:22
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• 24:24
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• 24:26
  Speaker 1: What you can do. Peacock thigh confit.
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  Speaker 3: I want to get back to some of the peacock
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  Speaker 3: discussion before we move on too far onto other things. Because, indeed,
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  Speaker 3: we were given the excuse of how owls would be
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  Speaker 3: a natural predator to.
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  Speaker 17: Peacocks.
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  Speaker 3: Seems like that's a pretty big bird for an owl
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  Speaker 3: to take down.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I guess the owls eat the babies, kind of
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  Speaker 1: like the dingoes. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He goes on to say, didn't they use that recipe
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  Speaker 3: that Will found? Which, again, is worth talking about because
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  Speaker 3: I never would have thought you'd have a recipe for
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  Speaker 3: peacock out there, but it exists.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I didn't specify. I'm sure Cajun does as well,
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  Speaker 1: but this is French style, which is Cajun.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Cajun adjacent.
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  Speaker 1: Peacock thigh confit. It uses two peacock thighs or legs,
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  Speaker 1: skin on. Use rendered lard, duck fat, or olive oil.
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  Speaker 1: You want to submerge the meat in that. Use some garlic,
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  Speaker 1: some aromatics, some thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, kosher salt, freshly
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  Speaker 1: cracked black pepper. And for serving, you want some sliced leeks,
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  Speaker 1: some chanterelle or wild mushrooms. Sounds really good with this, actually.
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  Speaker 1: A splash of dry white wine.
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  Speaker 3: That sounds very froofy.
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  Speaker 1: You want to cure the meat a little bit, then
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  Speaker 1: slow cook it, crisp up the skin, saute the sides,
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  Speaker 1: that sort of thing. You can also make Peacock meatballs.
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  Speaker 1: There's another recipe there. You have to add a little
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  Speaker 1: fat to it because the breast meat's pretty lean.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'd turn to the Cajun.
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  Speaker 14: Obviously.
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  Speaker 3: It feels like a gumbo bird.
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  Speaker 1: I think so. Just like I do with a turkey.
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  Speaker 3: It just feels like a gumbo bird. Just for fun,
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  Speaker 3: if I had several to experiment on, I'd try to
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  Speaker 3: smoke one. If you wanted to do like you do
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  Speaker 3: with beer can chicken, you'd have to get a keg
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  Speaker 3: and cut the top off.
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  Speaker 1: I'd give it a try.
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  Speaker 3: I'd try a 40 and Mickey's in there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, the big mouth.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about this a little bit. See, I'm of
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  Speaker 3: a slightly different, we're probably pretty close generationally, but I
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: was a little bit off. And one of the things
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  Speaker 3: I remember when I was watching TV growing up was
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  Speaker 3: Cartoon Network was kind of launching during my childhood. And
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  Speaker 3: so I guess that's probably why when they put out
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  Speaker 3: the list of the best Cartoon Network shows of all time,
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  Speaker 3: I was interested. Because it had Dexter's Laboratory on it.
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  Speaker 3: It had Powerpuff Girls. It had Space Ghost. Space Ghost.
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  Speaker 3: You know Space Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: I know the Space Ghost.
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  Speaker 3: I would say Space Ghost is one of the best
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  Speaker 3: things that's been in cartoons, period. And it goes on
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  Speaker 3: from there. I don't know how many people really have
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  Speaker 3: that many of the Cartoon Network shows in their personal bag.
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  Speaker 3: For me, really, the ones that hit more were the Nicktoons. Like,
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  Speaker 3: that was a big, and still is a big deal
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  Speaker 3: to this day. Kids still love them some SpongeBob. But
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  Speaker 3: they don't know nothing about the Rugrats.
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  Speaker 1: Well, generationally speaking, what you're talking about is foreign to me.
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  Speaker 1: Because we didn't have specific networks. I grew up in
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  Speaker 1: the three-channel era.
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  Speaker 3: This was a totally different universe.
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  Speaker 1: Saturday morning, you had cartoons, right? And if you got
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  Speaker 1: up early enough, you saw some really cool and crazy ones.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and I remember the earliest cartoons that I
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  Speaker 1: can remember and ones that I'd love to see come back.
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  Speaker 1: Speed Racer was one of my favorites. Space Ghost was
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  Speaker 1: on that list. I got into a conversation with some
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  Speaker 1: buddies last night about this, and they threw out Hong
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  Speaker 1: Kong Phooey.
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  Speaker 3: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: You couldn't even make Hong Kong Fooey these days.
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  Speaker 3: So this is from the Hanna-Barbera catalog we're talking about.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: And of course, even the Looney Tunes still had violence
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  Speaker 1: in my day. And the Super Friends, it was long
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  Speaker 1: before you wrecked it with those Wonder Twins.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Lord. The Super Friends. One of the first merchandising
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  Speaker 3: cash grabs of its era.
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  Speaker 1: You remember the caveman? I can't even remember what it
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  Speaker 1: was called.
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't even tell you.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 3: The character?
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  Speaker 26: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember the name, but I remember. Was it Larry?
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  Speaker 14: No.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. There was a whole caveman cartoon, and
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember the name of it. I see him
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  Speaker 3: in my head. I know exactly who you're talking about.
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  Speaker 3: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: One of my friends pulled out, and it's not a
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  Speaker 1: cartoon itself.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But it is a character on a cartoon that no
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  Speaker 1: longer exists. Okay. You remember Speedy Gonzalez from the Looney Tunes, right?
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  Speaker 1: Of course I do. So he had a cousin. Do
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  Speaker 1: you remember Speedy's cousin?
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  Speaker 11: I don't.
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  Speaker 1: He had a cousin whose name was Slowpoke Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, he was the one. He was like the other.
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  Speaker 3: I do remember this.
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  Speaker 1: And there's, you know, I can do a couple of impersonations.
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  Speaker 3: Please don't. Not in this day and age. Not in
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  Speaker 3: this day and age, Will.
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  Speaker 1: Just say I can actually.
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  Speaker 3: Not in this day and age.
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  Speaker 1: I can actually do a pretty good Slowpoke Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 3: Captain Caveman was named.
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  Speaker 1: Captain Caveman. That's the one. Three people texted that in.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, guys. So if you had to pick a cartoon
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  Speaker 3: kids really got into that era of the Jetsons. and
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  Speaker 3: the Flintstones and everything. They used to run them on
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  Speaker 1: I used to watch those when I was a kid,
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  Speaker 1: but they weren't, they didn't have the, I mean, to me,
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  Speaker 1: it was some of those that I mentioned. I hesitate
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  Speaker 1: to mention, but I was a big fan of Fat Albert's.
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  Speaker 3: Fat Albert was dope.
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  Speaker 1: There's another show that for many reasons.
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  Speaker 3: Fat Albert was so good.
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  Speaker 1: You can't bring back today.
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  Speaker 3: Shame today. Well, also because The Voice is kind of
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  Speaker 3: busy with jail. Oh, he isn't in jail.
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  Speaker 9: Cosby.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he's still Bill Cosby. You don't want to hear
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  Speaker 3: that guy anymore. Oh, Johnny Quest.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: Johnny Quest is a Thundercats.
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  Speaker 3: Thundercats being submitted. G.I. Joe. Transformers. And I believe that
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  Speaker 3: there was a WWF cartoon. back then.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Hulk had a cartoon.
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  Speaker 3: It was the Hulk Hogan. They absolutely had a Hulk
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  Speaker 30: Community College Highlanders tonight as their fall exhibition action continues.
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  Speaker 30: Earth's pitch for tonight's game is set for 6 o'clock
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  Speaker 30: at Davis Diamond. The Aggie soccer team is on the
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  Speaker 30: road tonight preparing to play its final road match of
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  Speaker 30: the season. The Ags are gearing up to battle the
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  Speaker 30: 8 o'clock. The Aggie football team is just two days
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  Speaker 30: Head coach Mike Elko spoke about the progress the defense
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  Speaker 30: has made to improve their side of the ball over
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  Speaker 30: the past month.
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  Speaker 14: I think that we had two bad games. in back-to-back weeks.
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  Speaker 14: I think outside of that, when we function and play
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  Speaker 14: the way that we're capable of, we have been a
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  Speaker 14: good unit. We've probably gotten a little bit more consistent defensively.
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  Speaker 14: Over the last couple weeks, that's obviously the biggest thing
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  Speaker 14: with us on defense, has been going all the way back,
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  Speaker 14: it seems like, for years. But I do think when
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  Speaker 14: we play consistent the way we're capable of, we have
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  Speaker 14: played pretty solid defense at times.
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  Speaker 30: Coach Elko also spoke about the importance of creating turnovers
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  Speaker 30: and how Tennessee affected Alabama because of their strong defensive performance.
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  Speaker 14: I think it's always important, regardless of where you play,
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  Speaker 14: I think the road amplifies it for sure. There's a
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  Speaker 14: think it's the number one thing that indicates success. If
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  Speaker 14: you want to go win a football game, a really
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  Speaker 14: good starting point is protecting the football and taking it away.
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  Speaker 14: That's something we preach, and obviously will play a big
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  Speaker 14: role in our success on Saturday. I just think they've
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  Speaker 14: got a really talented quarterback. They've got a really good
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  Speaker 14: offensive line. They've got really explosive players on the outside.
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  Speaker 14: Tennessee maybe did a better job than most of affecting
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  Speaker 14: the quarterback with the D-line and the pass rush, but
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  Speaker 14: I'm sure that's something that they'll rectify. It's a really
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  Speaker 3: a brief diversion talking about the cartoons you wish would
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  Speaker 3: come back or your favorite cartoons from back in your generation.
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  Speaker 3: It varies wildly. You know, just depending on how old
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  Speaker 3: you are. You have a whole set. Whole set. They're
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  Speaker 3: very personal to you. And I know that because I'm
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  Speaker 3: reading the text messages.
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  Speaker 1: The 3,000 text messages.
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  Speaker 3: Ridiculous amount of text messages.
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  Speaker 1: What do we got? Well, we got the Roadrunner. Yes.
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  Speaker 1: From Charles. Chuck says, Foghorn Leghorn. One of my favorites.
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  Speaker 1: And I do want to also mention in the same
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  Speaker 1: vein as Foghorn Leghorn, one of my favorites is the
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  Speaker 1: Chicken Hawk.
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  Speaker 23: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: That was always trying. You're a chicken and I'm a
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  Speaker 1: chicken hawk. Y'all say, I'll say, I'll say, boy. Say, Belvedere,
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  Speaker 1: come here, boy.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. Tennessee Tuxedo with Professor Whoopi. Darkwing Duck.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know anything about Darkwing Duck?
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  Speaker 1: I know that.
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  Speaker 3: This is a specific lineup from Afternoon Cartoons. I believe
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  Speaker 3: it was Fox. here in town, they would always do
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  Speaker 3: every afternoon, starting around three, they would run the same
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  Speaker 3: lineup every day because it's been texted in a few
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  Speaker 3: times and they got it spot on, on this text
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  Speaker 3: at least. It was, yeah, geez, where's that text? So
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  Speaker 3: many of these stinking things. It was a combination in
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  Speaker 3: some order of Darkwing Duck, the Animaniacs, Tailspin, and Chippendale's
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  Speaker 3: Rescue Rangers. Dude, that was every day.
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  Speaker 1: Every day.
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  Speaker 3: Every day, Monday through Friday, and it was the best ever. Also,
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  Speaker 3: it goes in the list to me, of some of
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  Speaker 3: the best theme music for a cartoon. which is its own.
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  Speaker 3: And I'd say it was a generational thing where the
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  Speaker 3: theme music got really, really good in the early 90s,
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  Speaker 3: but no, that's not true, because Hong Kong Foo is
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  Speaker 3: one you mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Hong Kong Foo, yeah, so did Fat Albert, for that matter.
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  Speaker 1: Hong Kong Foo sticks out in my head.
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  Speaker 3: Hong Kong Foo, if you've never heard it, if you're
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  Speaker 3: close to my age.
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  Speaker 1: Number one super guy, Hong Kong Foo.
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  Speaker 3: Jetsons comes to mind.
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  Speaker 1: Quicker than the human eye.
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  Speaker 3: Quicker than the human eye, boy.
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  Speaker 1: What else we got? Some good stuff out there. We've
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  Speaker 1: got Heckle and Jekyll Crows. You know, one that's not
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  Speaker 1: on the list that I just popped into my head.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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  Speaker 3: Rocky and Bullwinkle needs to be on there. Jetsons needs
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  Speaker 3: to be on there.
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  Speaker 1: Underdog needs to be on there. Oh, God.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of themes, I'm not going to play the underdog theme.
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  Speaker 3: What I'm going to play for you is a better
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  Speaker 3: version of the underdog theme, which occurred probably... 30 years
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  Speaker 3: later on Scrubs.
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  Speaker 8: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking of cash grabs.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's one that's still here.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Gary, Gary texted with Grape Ape, man.
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  Speaker 8: I love Grape Ape.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many of them.
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  Speaker 3: Any love for the Smurfs, asks Tom. And also, Brad,
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  Speaker 3: don't forget about good old Huckleberry Howl.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot do that.
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  Speaker 3: Good night. Good stuff. We might have to revisit this.
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  Speaker 1: I think this one's going to continue.
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  Speaker 3: Coming up after we get done with news. Yeah, someone
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  Speaker 3: brought up DuckTales as well. Oh, DuckTales.
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  Speaker 11: Jeez.
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  Speaker 1: You almost did it again. Jeez, Will, I'm sorry. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: you've nearly done it again.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, man. Let's get back to it. It's Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes we just have a little bit too much fun,
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  Speaker 3: and we forget that we have the most fun right
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  Speaker 3: here with Jokes with Will.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you another abbreviated version.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 17: No. Save it.
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  Speaker 3: We will put Jokes with Will off because last week
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I cut you out of like eight
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  Speaker 3: or nine jokes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we only got three quickies in last week.
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  Speaker 3: Just know that Jokes with Will, we're going to get
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  Speaker 3: through news.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get all that out of the way,
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  Speaker 3: and then we are going to have.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's really, it's my thing.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not taking a tight five to a tight one.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: That seems rude.
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  Speaker 15: All right.
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  Speaker 3: That seems.
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  Speaker 1: Not two weeks in a row. That seems unacceptable.
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  Speaker 3: We don't want to shortchange you.
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  Speaker 17: No!
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  Speaker 3: I hate for people to be... People would rather stick
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  Speaker 3: around for ten minutes and just be like, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: that was like two jokes. What's the point of that?
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  Speaker 1: What's the point?
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  Speaker 3: We're going to honor this segment by giving it the
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  Speaker 3: appropriate amount of time that.
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  Speaker 1: It Okay, well, I feel better now.
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  Speaker 3: And then we'll get to more of your cartoon memories.
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  Speaker 1: We never have enough time. No, it's a talk show
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  Speaker 1: that goes.
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  Speaker 3: Three hours, and rarely we... We.
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  Speaker 1: Never run out of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We never actually get to the bottom of the pile,
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  Speaker 3: but here we are. Happy Thursday, everyone. 1620, 94.5, WTAW,
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