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The Infomaniacs: September 22nd 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Governor
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  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott has done a complete about-face on his stance
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  Speaker 1: regarding data centers. In November 2025, Abbott celebrated a $ 40
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  Speaker 1: billion investment by Google in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Texas will be the centerpiece for AI data centers for
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  Speaker 2: Google in the entire world.
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  Speaker 1: Then on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Governor Greg Abbott has sent a letter to the head
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  Speaker 3: of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, telling her to
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  Speaker 3: stop all permits for data centers until an audit wraps up.
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  Speaker 3: Abbott had previously ordered audits by the Public Utility Commission
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  Speaker 3: and ERCOT to make sure data centers do not put
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  Speaker 3: the grid or natural resources at risk, saying data centers
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  Speaker 3: cannot use water needed by the community, they must report
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  Speaker 3: electricity and water usage, and also follow setback requirements. He
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  Speaker 3: wants an update from TCEQ a month from now and
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  Speaker 3: says lawmakers should eliminate incentives for data centers when they
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  Speaker 3: meet back in Austin next year. Alan Skya, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: A man striking a bollard with his pickup at Lake
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  Speaker 1: Bryan set off a strange series of events Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: A game warden pulled over the truck after witnessing it
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  Speaker 1: strike the pole around 10 p.m. The driver did not
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  Speaker 1: have a valid driver's license, so the warden asked him
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  Speaker 1: to call someone to drive him and his passenger home.
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  Speaker 1: While running records on the passenger, 38-year-old Javier Alvarado Tovar,
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  Speaker 1: he took off towards the woods. After catching up with
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  Speaker 1: the man, he refused to comply, and a struggle ensued.
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  Speaker 1: She deployed her taser twice. They struggled over the taser
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  Speaker 1: before she deployed it twice more. Bryan Police and Brazos
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  Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputies arrived to assist in securing Alvarado Tovar.
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  Speaker 1: He was evaluated at a local hospital before being booked
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  Speaker 1: into the Brazos County Jail. While being processed, authorities found 1.3
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  Speaker 1: grams of cocaine wrapped in a dollar bill inside his wallet.
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  Speaker 1: Alvarado Tovar was charged with evading arrest, resisting arrest, attempting
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  Speaker 1: to take a weapon from a police officer, and possession
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  Speaker 1: of a controlled substance. He is being held on $ 36, 000
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  Speaker 1: bond and an ICE detainer. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced
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  Speaker 1: Monday that the state secured a settlement with Sprouts Farmers
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  Speaker 1: Market Incorporated, ensuring none of its produce will be misted
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  Speaker 1: with a synthetic antimicrobial pesticide. The agreement is effective at
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  Speaker 1: all Sprouts locations nationwide. The settlement follows an investigation into
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  Speaker 1: grocery stores across Texas earlier this year. The investigation was
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  Speaker 1: launched following concerns that a synthetic pesticide called Produce Max
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  Speaker 1: was being used on organic produce. It's an EPA-registered antimicrobial
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  Speaker 1: pesticide containing a chlorine-based compound. Thousands of grocery stores across
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. have been engaging in the off-label use to
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  Speaker 1: control bacteria and extend shelf life. Interesting timing for us
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  Speaker 1: as Sprouts opens its doors of its College Station store
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  Speaker 1: on Friday. The Justice Department thinks that handgun sales should
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  Speaker 1: start at age 18 instead of 21. Gun control groups
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  Speaker 1: in Texas think that would be a huge mistake.
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  Speaker 4: 18 to 20-year-olds are known to commit gun homicides at
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  Speaker 4: nearly three times the rate of adults 21 and older.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Golden with Texas Gun Sense says what the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: released is just an opinion, and that, she says, does
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  Speaker 1: not change the law. Any modifications must come from the courts.
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  Speaker 1: In Texas, you must be 21 years old to buy
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  Speaker 1: a pistol, but teenagers can legally carry one at 18.
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  Speaker 1: More news on the way at 6.30 or anytime at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW. I hear you right, Sprouts is
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  Speaker 1: on Friday.
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  Speaker 5: Is that the.
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  Speaker 1: That's the rumor.
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  Speaker 5: The grocery wars can officially begin.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been inside of a Sprouts.
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  Speaker 5: Has anyone ever been inside of a Sprouts?
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I had my first Trader Joe's experience within the past
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  Speaker 1: five or six months or so.
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  Speaker 5: What is the hype over Trader Joe's?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: The one I went into, I've been told, is not
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  Speaker 1: like the others. The one I went into was outside
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  Speaker 1: of Memphis in Germantown.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And it was underwhelming, to say the least.
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  Speaker 5: I know I'm aware that everyone wants to get themselves
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  Speaker 5: a Trader Joe's up in here.
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  Speaker 8: I get it.
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  Speaker 5: And all I can say is having lived with a
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  Speaker 5: Trader Joe's in proximity, I would go there pretty once
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  Speaker 5: in a while, whenever I was in that.
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  Speaker 8: That particular locale.
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  Speaker 5: And I didn't get it. I'm not saying there's nothing
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  Speaker 5: good in Trader Joe's. There's a lot of good stuff
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  Speaker 5: in Trader Joe's.
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  Speaker 1: Just the hype has been crazy.
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  Speaker 5: It felt like a froofy convenience store to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Is that the vibe you got? Which I was like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: so throw some gas pumps out in front of it,
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  Speaker 5: or maybe some Tesla chargers. That seems more like the crowd,
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  Speaker 5: but like.
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  Speaker 5: I would make it all right, but I have no...
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  Speaker 5: That is not the same thing as an ATB.
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  Speaker 1: No, they had some funky, hard-to-find foods, I guess, in there.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Some weird stuff. I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Everything's frozen. Or prepackaged or whatever, which is kind of cool,
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  Speaker 5: I guess, if you don't like to actually cook. But
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  Speaker 5: it still feels like TV dinners to me. why are
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  Speaker 5: y'all so crazy?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Is that what sprouts is?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. I've never been inside the sprout.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I have not, like my wife has been like, Oh,
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  Speaker 5: they were getting a sprouts. And I just assumed that she, that,
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  Speaker 5: that there's something cool about it. But then I started,
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  Speaker 5: when you mentioned you'd never been inside one, I realized,
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  Speaker 5: Holy cow, I have no idea what's in that store. I, I, I, anyway,
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  Speaker 5: for those of you that, uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it does open Friday on a 1913 Texas Avenue South, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Well, if our track record of absolutely making chain businesses
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  Speaker 5: the biggest thing ever, like, I mean, we have several
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  Speaker 5: of them in town that are the highest performing locations
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  Speaker 5: in their entire brand.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
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  Speaker 5: I would expect that is going to be an absolute smash.
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  Speaker 1: So according to the AI, the Sprouts Farmer's Market sets
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  Speaker 1: itself apart from the conventional through its distinct farmer's market
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  Speaker 1: style layout. Natural and organic foods. It is a produce-centric layout.
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  Speaker 5: A farmer's market layout.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: So a grocery store.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's, I mean.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have a guy behind every kiosk?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. They've got the bulk foods, specially
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  Speaker 1: meat and seafood.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got, if you want some specially produce layout,
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  Speaker 1: we've got the farm patch. Been here for centuries.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That's an actual farmer's market. And then we have the
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  Speaker 5: other farmer's market.
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  Speaker 1: That's an actual farmer's market.
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  Speaker 5: It's an actual farmer's market in the park. You have
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  Speaker 5: so many. Why do you need an indoor fake farmer's
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  Speaker 5: market in this particular locale?
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  Speaker 1: No idea. Jacob texting in. Howdy.
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  Speaker 11: Howdy.
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  Speaker 1: Relocated Brianite here living in the Phoenix area.
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  Speaker 10: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Trader Joe's down the street. Sprouts a mile away. I'd
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  Speaker 1: rather go to Sprouts. Selections just seem a little bit better.
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  Speaker 1: A regular healthy grocery store with a very good selection.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Trader Joe's seems prepackaged and frozen.
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  Speaker 5: I'm glad.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, Jacob. I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: Seriously, out in Phoenix.
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  Speaker 1: Phoenix, yeah.
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  Speaker 12: How?
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  Speaker 5: Dog, isn't it like four o'clock in the morning in Phoenix?
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  Speaker 8: What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: Might well be. That's maybe the only time you can
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  Speaker 1: exist out there.
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  Speaker 5: I'd say you're out mowing your lawn, but there's no
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  Speaker 5: lawn to mow.
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  Speaker 1: There's no lawn to mow.
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  Speaker 5: Jacob. Yeah, I guess that would be the best, that's
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  Speaker 5: the only place you can go where it doesn't feel like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, you're actually getting lit on fire every single.
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  Speaker 1: No kidding. Yesterday afternoon before the rains came, which I
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  Speaker 1: did get a drop of.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It was a little scorching.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it was a heater. A heater again today. They're
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  Speaker 5: going to give us a 20% chance of courtesy rain,
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  Speaker 5: you know, kind of like, you know.
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  Speaker 1: It blew up yesterday.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday it got nice for some of y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Not for me.
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  Speaker 5: No, not for me either.
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  Speaker 1: I got a little outflow boundary, and that was it.
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  Speaker 5: to think of the staff of Sprouts, which is right
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  Speaker 5: across from... The original H-E-B we got, you know, on
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  Speaker 5: Texas and Holloman.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: I like to think of that as like a border war.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I like to think the staff are going to be
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  Speaker 5: really antagonistic towards each other.
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  Speaker 8: Managers looking with goggles.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, got the glasses, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Across the way to see who's doing what.
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  Speaker 5: Like the Cold War.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 8: Only with produce.
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  Speaker 1: In addition to that, I really picture them all, as
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  Speaker 1: you know, the Jolly Green Giants little partner, Sprout. That's
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  Speaker 1: the way I picture them.
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  Speaker 5: Very nicely.
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  Speaker 5: Will, poor Will. How are you going to make it today?
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea, Tucker.
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  Speaker 5: We're sitting here doing the radio show, listening to commercials.
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  Speaker 5: All of a sudden, hey, we've got a couple of
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  Speaker 5: papers over here. The papers drop on the ground, and
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  Speaker 5: then it becomes a production.
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  Speaker 1: It does. I'm a little down in the back today.
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  Speaker 5: Explain what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Just every so often, I'll kind of overdo it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and this weekend- I did a lot of
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  Speaker 1: mowing on Saturday, and then I did a lot of
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  Speaker 1: spraying of various chemicals around the property on Sunday morning,
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  Speaker 1: turning it into a Superfund site. killing weeds and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: And so I had the, I had the, the sprayer
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  Speaker 1: strapped to the back with, you know, what, five gallons
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  Speaker 1: of liquid.
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  Speaker 8: In it and whatnot.
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  Speaker 5: Pretty sizable.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty, pretty good load. And then of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: what you don't do when you have a load on
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  Speaker 1: your back is attempt to, you know, twist at the waist.
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  Speaker 1: And of course that's all I'm doing spring.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: You tried to try to rotate.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The rotation. It's always the rotation.
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  Speaker 9: Good.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I just dropped some papers here on the floor and, uh,
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  Speaker 1: In the five minutes it took me to bend down,
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  Speaker 1: pick them up, get back up to standing position, and
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  Speaker 1: then crawl into my chair.
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  Speaker 5: That was the entire commercial break.
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  Speaker 14: It was.
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  Speaker 5: That was literally the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing.
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  Speaker 5: From start to finish. But do you need a different chair?
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  Speaker 5: Do you want to do a.
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  Speaker 1: No, I might lay down on the floor later.
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  Speaker 5: We have a mic cable extension in here for no
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  Speaker 5: apparent reason.
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  Speaker 1: For some reason.
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  Speaker 5: So we could take you all the way to the
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  Speaker 5: break room probably.
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  Speaker 1: No, no. I'll lay down on the floor if I
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  Speaker 1: have to. That nice flat surface.
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  Speaker 14: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 5: Well, let's give you some reasons to celebrate today. You know,
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  Speaker 5: more on this one coming up in a few minutes
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  Speaker 5: because we don't really have time to adequately address it.
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  Speaker 20: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: But believe it or not, it's the very first day
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  Speaker 5: of fall.
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  Speaker 1: I have noticed that it is getting darker a little
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  Speaker 1: bit earlier, which is nice.
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  Speaker 8: No, I like that.
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  Speaker 5: I don't like the all the way until nine o'clock
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  Speaker 5: at night type thing.
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  Speaker 8: It's kind of aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But still, anyway, like I said, more on that in
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  Speaker 5: a bit.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, the Infomaniacs.
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  Speaker 5: You're on the radio. What you got?
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  Speaker 21: Hey, you guys are really bad about Sprouts. Sprouts is
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  Speaker 21: a wonderful place to shop. I lived in Arizona for
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  Speaker 21: a number of years. I only shopped at Sprouts and TJ's,
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  Speaker 21: Trader Joe's, and Walmart.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, tell me. I mean, honestly, I have no point
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  Speaker 5: of reference.
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  Speaker 21: Shut up and let me tell you. Shut up and
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  Speaker 21: let me tell you.
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  Speaker 22: Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 21: You've got all these bins that you can take as
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  Speaker 21: little bit or as much as you want out of.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 23: What?
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  Speaker 21: No, they're all the same. Anyway, if you're doing cereals,
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  Speaker 21: if you're doing nuts, if you're doing any of those
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  Speaker 21: types of dry things, you can get it out of
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  Speaker 21: a bin. You don't have to buy a whole package.
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  Speaker 21: You can just buy a little bit and put it
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  Speaker 21: in your plastic bag. and write the number on it,
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  Speaker 21: and they'll weigh it at the checkout.
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  Speaker 5: So you kind of just.
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  Speaker 1: Scoop and go. Okay, that's great. You gave them a
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  Speaker 1: pocketful of cereal.
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  Speaker 5: If you will.
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  Speaker 24: On top of that, they have plenty of vitamins and
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  Speaker 24: supplements and everything organic. Same way with teas and coffee.
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  Speaker 24: I did all my shopping at Sprouts, and I never
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  Speaker 24: went into a regular grocery store there in Arizona. I
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  Speaker 24: shopped at Sprouts. And Trader Joe's.
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  Speaker 21: They did everything. If I needed big things, I went
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  Speaker 21: to Sam's Club and bought them in bulk.
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  Speaker 5: Nice.
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  Speaker 21: Those were the three places I bought. And the vegetables
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  Speaker 21: and the fruits in our sprouts was absolutely awesome.
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  Speaker 8: So you're psyched.
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  Speaker 21: Or you could buy organic.
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  Speaker 5: So you're ready.
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  Speaker 21: You have to go in. It's an experience. Don't knock
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  Speaker 21: until you drive.
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  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 5: I'll see you there.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and to be fair, we didn't badmouth Sprouts. Nor
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: should we, I guess.
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: The Sprouts mafia, dude.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, we were badmouthing Trader Joe's if we
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: were badmouthing anybody. We weren't. We were just talking about
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: our experiences. But shut up, Tucker.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Hey, man. Like, that's passion. That's fandom.
• 15:56
  Speaker 17: It is.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Apparently, people passionate about the Sprouts.
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  Speaker 5: If you can get people that passionate about a grocery store.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Like I said, I thought it was the Jolly Green
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: Giant's little sidekick.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: We're going to have some fun around here.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Apparently militant.
• 16:10
  Speaker 8: It is also.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: Falls Prevention Awareness Day. It's not the first day of fall.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: This is please don't fall because I like that.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I like that. That's that's that's kind of a fun
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: little play on words.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: I kind of dig that as well. And on top
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: of all of these things, it's also Elephant Appreciation Day,
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: a day to appreciate one of the largest creatures on
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: the planet, September 22nd, and to remember that we should
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  Speaker 5: protect them out in the wild. Also one of the
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: most dangerous animals out there.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Yes, they will mess you up.
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: You know how we think of hogs as a nuisance animal?
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: So it's the same over there for a lot of cases.
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: Only they're elephants.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Well, that, and you always find the circus elephant that
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: finally has had enough.
• 16:56
  Speaker 8: Oh, I love that elephant.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:57
  Speaker 8: That elephant is my jam.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then he decides to destroy everything in his path.
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: I love to see it.
• 17:03
  Speaker 5: It brings a smile to my face. State and Capitals Day,
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: a newer educational observance founded by Dick and Jane Educational Snacks,
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: decided to get people reacquainted with the 50 states and
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: their capitals.
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  Speaker 8: Nifty 50, if you will.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Can you name all 50 states' capitals?
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 8: Could you?
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  Speaker 1: I could get close.
• 17:23
  Speaker 8: You really could?
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 8: We're going to try this.
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: We're going to do something with this later on in
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: the show today.
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: Also, Hobbit Day.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: Just because Bill Bowen and Frodo Baggins shared the same birthday,
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: which was September 22nd, has become an official holiday for
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: the people.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: Never been into the Hobbits.
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: Never once.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: No, I haven't read the books.
• 17:40
  Speaker 8: Not the movies.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: No, none of it.
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: Birthdays. Birthdays. Tom Felton is 39. He's Draco Malfoy in
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter movies.
• 17:47
  Speaker 25: Ah, yes.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: There you go. Also was in Rise of the Planet
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of the Apes. Bonnie Hunt is 65. Sarah Whittle in Jumanji.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Also the voice of Sally in Cars and Renee Zellweger's
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: disapproving sister in Jerry Maguire. Scott Baio is 66. Chachi
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: from Happy Days. Of course, Charles in Charge. Absolutely. Joan
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Jett still rocking at 68 years old, the Rock and
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Roll Hall of Famer. Yes, she is. Andrea Bocelli is 60.
• 18:15
  Speaker 8: Bocelli, oh, the tenor.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, blind operatic singer.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Debbie Boone is 70 years old today. Pat's daughter, she
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: had a little hit called You Light Up My Life.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: David Coverdale, who I met at a Starbucks in Austin,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: is 75 years old today. Singer for Deep Purple and Whitesnake.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: I love it. Yeah. He was just there.
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: Just kicking it.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Just kicking it. South by Southwest going on. A record
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: rep that was with him that I knew walked up
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: and said hello to the record rep. He goes, hey,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: meet David. It was kind of cool.
• 18:43
  Speaker 14: Hey, David.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: How you doing?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Tony Basil.
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: Get a scone.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: He was like, I could tell in his mind. He
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: was saying in his mind. He was telepathically communicating with me.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: He said, don't ask about Tony Katane. That was the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: whole thing there. Tony Basil is 83 years old today.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Biggest hit, 1982, Mickey.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Oh, Mickey, you're so fine. Tony is 83.
• 19:05
  Speaker 8: I was trying to place it.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: And a single entry from the stiffs category, Tommy Lasorda
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: was born on this date in 1927. Oh, man. The
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: baseball manager. He was just the guy, man.
• 19:17
  Speaker 8: He was a good dude.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Just the dude. Text messages from you guys at 979-695-1620.
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Mike says, geez, lady, you can do the same thing
• 19:27
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• 19:27
  Speaker 8: Don't poke the bear, Mike.
• 19:29
  Speaker 10: No, no.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Don't poke the bear. I don't want to go through
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: that conversation again.
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: It is clear.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Clear. Clear. People feel strongly.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Nolan says, I look forward to going to Sprouts next
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: summer once the hype wears off.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And the school kids are gone.
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: Uh easy sprouts lady easy go get your seventh cup
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: of coffee and uh mani pedi on tucker i know
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: no well i'd if i had a gift certificate yeah
• 19:56
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Anti-ice
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: protests erupted in Austin last night after 28-year-old Venezuelan national
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Wilbur Garces Perez was shot. Fox's Brooke Taylor has more.
• 27:38
  Speaker 33: About 100 people showed up. Local reporters on the ground
• 27:42
  Speaker 33: say rocks and water bottles were even thrown at law
• 27:45
  Speaker 33: enforcement officers. Protesters, they blocked the streets and officers eventually
• 27:51
  Speaker 33: had to use tear gas to break up the crowd. Now,
• 27:53
  Speaker 33: sources tell me that ICE officers ran the vehicle's license
• 27:57
  Speaker 33: plate inside. and they found it was registered to a
• 27:59
  Speaker 33: Venezuelan illegal migrant with a final deportation order. They then
• 28:04
  Speaker 33: tried to stop the driver. Now, DHS hasn't shared.
• 28:07
  Speaker 23: What happened next.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Perez was released into ICE custody with the bullet still
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: lodged in his back. New charges have been levied against
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a man who drove from Katy to meet up with
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: a 14-year-old girl in Bryan. 28-year-old Daniel Salgado and the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: girl were found inside his vehicle at the back of
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Sue Haswell Park just before midnight on September 3rd. The
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: windows of the vehicle were obscured. Officers recovered a handgun, condoms,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: a new package of girls' underwear, sports bras, and a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: rabbit costume of a sexual nature. An investigation that night
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: revealed that the child had left her home without her
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: mother's knowledge. The mother said she learned of her daughter's
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: interactions with the man via Snapchat starting in 2024 and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: repeatedly told Salgado not to contact her daughter. The mother
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: also reported that the girl had previously run away to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: be with the man. According to records, detectives in Harris
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: County conducted a welfare check at Salgado's home in June
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: of 2025 in an attempt to find the girl. Both
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Salgado and the girl denied having an inappropriate relationship, claiming
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he was a father figure. At the time, Salgado could
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: only be charged with a part curfew violation, unlawful carrying
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: of a weapon, and enticing a child. He posted $ 46, 000
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: bond and was released on September 8th. Because of the
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: sensitive nature of the crime, investigators asked that we not
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: release information about the suspect or the investigation until it
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: was complete. Now, newly released records detail explicit conversations and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: videos the pair exchanged dating back to January 2025. Explicit
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: videos were even sent by both parties in the hours
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: leading up to Salgado's arrest on September 3rd. Bryan Police
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: have now added charges for possessing visual material, video of
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a child younger than 18 years of age, and intentionally
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: distributing sexually explicit material over the Internet. Both felonies. A
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: warrant has been issued for his arrest. Officials in Bryan
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: released statistics Monday that show crime has dropped in the
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: city compared to this time last year. Only one murder
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: has taken place in 2026. Robberies are down 35% and
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: vehicle thefts are down 34%. In 1991, Bryan experienced an
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: all-time high of nearly 4,900 of what the FBI considers
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: the most serious crimes. In 2025, that number was under 1,300,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a reduction of almost 74%. Big money is being poured
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: into Ken Paxton's race for U.S. Senate. You're seeing that
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: in the volume of TV and radio commercials being aired.
• 30:37
  Speaker 23: The real avalanche is coming from outside groups, heavy-hitting super
• 30:41
  Speaker 23: PACs and Trump-aligned groups like MAGA, Inc., They're flooding tens
• 30:45
  Speaker 23: of millions of dollars into statewide media markets to back
• 30:48
  Speaker 23: Paxton and attack his opponent, James Tallarico.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: A surprise?
• 30:52
  Speaker 23: Not really, says SMU political scientist Cal Gilson.
• 30:55
  Speaker 14: I'm not surprised that it's coming in. I'm surprised that
• 30:59
  Speaker 14: it took so long for it to come in because
• 31:03
  Speaker 14: James Tallarico has raised more money than Paxton by a
• 31:06
  Speaker 14: long ways.
• 31:07
  Speaker 23: What about all of the negative ads on both sides?
• 31:10
  Speaker 23: Gilson says research shows that Those stick with voters a
• 31:14
  Speaker 23: lot more than good-spirited ads will. Russell Scott, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The governor has been telling us Texas is growing as
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a destination for tech firms, but now some of that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: tech will have to pump the brakes.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Governor Greg Abbott told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: to stop all permits for data centers. He ordered an
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: audit of data center proposals back in August by the
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Public Utility Commission and ERCOT. He now says data centers
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: must pay their own way, protect our grid and water,
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  Speaker 3: and complete those audits. He says the audits aim to
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  Speaker 3: less reliable, saying they must cover all their own electrical
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• 31:52
  Speaker 3: data centers. Abbott says he wants state lawmakers to eliminate
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: those incentives when they head back to Austin next year.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Alan Skya, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news ahead at 7 o'clock or anytime at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 22: Every game day tailgate has its goats.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: The greatest of all briskets.
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  Speaker 22: The greatest of all cornhole shots.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: The greatest of all cooler holes.
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  Speaker 22: But the Toyota trucks that carry the whole tailgate, now
• 32:20
  Speaker 22: that's the real goat.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, buddy.
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  Speaker 13: Not everything's about you.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, fine.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: You're pretty great, too.
• 32:27
  Speaker 22: Score a great deal on the Tundra in Tacoma at
• 32:29
  Speaker 22: the Toyota Trucks Game Day sales event. But hurry, these
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  Speaker 22: deals won't last forever. Toyota, let's go places. See packages
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  Speaker 22: and options at toyota.com for future availability.
• 32:42
  Speaker 20: From the initial downbeat to the closing cymbal choke, the
• 32:46
  Speaker 20: beat goes on with the Phil Collins story. From his
• 32:50
  Speaker 20: remarkable chart-topping time with Genesis to his multi-Grammy winning solo career,
• 32:55
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  Speaker 20: one of music's greatest icons. Presented by Opus, Wednesday, October
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• 33:09
  Speaker 18: WTAW is your home for Aggie sports. If the Aggies
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  Speaker 18: Listen to the games live on the flagship of Aggie athletics.
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  Speaker 10: 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, it's Jenny from your local big deal store.
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  Speaker 19: If you've never visited our website, you're missing out because
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  Speaker 5: Some of the best local businesses in town.
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  Speaker 4: Dozens of gift certificates, all discounted, ready for you to
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  Speaker 23: Here are just a few of the businesses you'll find.
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  Speaker 17: Texas Burger, Academy of Modern Martial Arts, Main Street Barbershop,
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW or.
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  Speaker 8: The Infomaniacs.
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  Speaker 5: You can call us or text us, 979-695-1620. Weather today,
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: a lot like yesterday. Very, very hot with a chance
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: of it maybe not feeling so hot for a couple
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: of minutes. 98 for the high heat index, 105 and
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: a 20% chance of the same thing yesterday. It was
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: like a pop-up shower, might cool you off a little bit.
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: down to the 70s tonight and back up to a
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: 100-degree high tomorrow, according to this. Okay. Weather is brought
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  Speaker 5: to you by Malik's Service Company. The Texas Heat air
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  Speaker 5: conditioner works overtime, but a well-tuned AC will save you
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  Speaker 5: feel the difference. I did not intend to start a
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: literal war over Sprouts and HEB amongst infomaniac nations.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: People have drawn some very firm, bold lines around their
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: particular grocery store chain.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Barbara texts in, I shop at HEB, but they don't
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: have many of the things that Sprouts has. They are
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: much different, cannot compare the two. One does much more
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: of the natural and organic stuff, while HEB supplies to
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: the masses. Sprouts is a niche store, as is Trader Joe's.
• 35:36
  Speaker 30: Right on.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I dig it.
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: It's going to be a fight on Texas Avenue.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: If we get a Trader Joe's here, I might pop
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in on occasion. When the Sprouts opens up, I'll pop in.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: You never know.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: You might find something you dig there.
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. Mike texts in. Speaking of the 50 states and
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: their capitals, the Animaniacs did a brilliant video song, which
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: gets stuck in your head. I always refer back to
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: this if I need to know What state has what capital?
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: Interesting.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Very, yeah. Very interesting. Animaniacs, no relation to the infomaniacs.
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: That is incorrect, Will.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Highly related to the infomaniacs.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Are we cousins? What's up?
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: Distant cousins.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: So, according to Scott... Really?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: I thought you were being silly.
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: According to Scott, they didn't really have a name and
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: a listener back when they first got started, which was
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: in the 90s. and the Animaniacs were a kids' show.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: And I said, hey, my kids always watch the Animaniacs.
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: Why don't we call y'all the Infomaniacs? I don't know
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: why I'm saying that on the radio, because I feel
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: like it's a copyright issue.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm expecting the cease and desist here shortly.
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: But, allegedly, that is where they got the name.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: That's just legend. That doesn't have any basis in fact.
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: Yeah, exactly. Allegedly. Allegedly.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: I wasn't there. What do I know?
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: Now, With that said, I did find this song. Would
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: you like to check it out?
• 37:04
  Speaker 27: Well, of course.
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: Let's see what we got here.
• 37:06
  Speaker 9: Why do we have a British guy singing about America?
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: I never understood why he had an accent, to be
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: honest with you. I had no idea.
• 37:32
  Speaker 8: The other two don't.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got a country, hillbilly sort of song.
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: Also, much in the tradition of Warner Brothers cartoons.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: Very much.
• 37:39
  Speaker 9: Don't watch it today, because you'll see a bunch of jokes.
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: That went way over your head and makes you very
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: uncomfortable today. It's interesting.
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: And there's Lincoln in Nebraska, and it's Raleigh out in
• 38:03
  Speaker 9: North Carolina. And then there's Madison, Wisconsin, and Olympia in Washington, Phoenix, Arizona,
• 38:09
  Speaker 9: and Lansing, Michigan. Here's Honolulu, Hawaii's a joy, Jackson, Mississippi,
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: and Springfield, Illinois. South Carolina with Columbia down the way,
• 38:18
  Speaker 9: and Annapolis and Maryland on Chesapeake Bay.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is part of my afternoon along with, like,
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: Darkwing Duck and the Rescue Rangers.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I'm familiar with Rescue Rangers.
• 38:27
  Speaker 11: What?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Holy cow.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: I'm not familiar with Darkwing Duck.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, can you cook it? Aaron texted in.
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: By the way, apparently the reason he's singing.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: This way is he's a fan of the Beatles.
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah. Charleston, West Virginia, and Nevada, Carson City. That's
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: all the capitals there are.
• 38:50
  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: It still wouldn't help me.
• 38:54
  Speaker 11: No?
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: It still wouldn't help me.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I could rattle them all off,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: but if you ask me one, I think chances are good,
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: 90% or higher, that I'd be all right with it. Very,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: very strong. I actually won a geography award when I
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: was in high school. I didn't even know I was
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: up for it.
• 39:09
  Speaker 25: Why?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Are you serious? Yeah. My teacher, Mrs. Lang, or Miss Lang, rather,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: she put me up for a geography award, and apparently
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I placed nationally.
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: You just say surprise.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Any academic success stories in my history are surprises.
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about the first day of fall, Will.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about that.
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: It is the first day of fall. fall, believe it
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: or not.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: I mean, we all roll our eyes to this.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: Because our scattered four or five days of fall generally
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: happen much later in the year.
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: So I have an aunt that lives in up in
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: Cape Cod and was talking to her a little while ago.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: And now they they have the fall. It's like 70
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: degrees tops there.
• 39:51
  Speaker 27: Wow.
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, the leaves start to turn. It's gorgeous. So
• 39:55
  Speaker 5: whenever I see something about why the fall is the
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: very best season, I don't know how to take it.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have this list. And by the way, I'm
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: going to regret just briefly here because we just received
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: a text from Bill Oliver.
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  Speaker 11: Bill!
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Asking us to now play an episode of Schoolhouse Rock.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: If I was going to make a request, it would
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: be Conjunction Junction.
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  Speaker 5: Bill also in a part of the country that has a.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: Little bit of fall.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Bill's enjoying some fall right now, I bet, indeed. So apparently,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: according to this, there's some places in our nation where
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: it is sweater weather already.
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: Jeez, can you imagine?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's really the number one thing they say
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: to look forward to.
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: The luxury of being able to put on like a
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: sweater or a hoodie.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: Or open your windows at night.
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: And not die.
• 40:44
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 40:45
  Speaker 27: What is that?
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: Apple picking is on the list as well.
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Horse apple picking may be around here. I don't know.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Visiting a pumpkin patch.
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: Oh, you can technically do that here.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Well, but we kind of import the pumpkins and stack
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: them on hay bales and call it a pumpkin patch.
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not the same thing.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All the yummy fall foods, apple cider donuts and
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: pumpkin spice, of course.
• 41:08
  Speaker 24: Wow.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Leaf peeping yep um taking a drive in the country
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: checking out the fall foliage.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: I don't want yeah we have that it's just one.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Color it's brown yeah we go brown and that's it
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: that's the fall smells what's that what's that like simmer
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: pots with cinnamon apples oranges and vanilla right actually fall
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: smells for me uh are mostly in the kitchen right
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: oh yeah because we don't our fall smells may be Nothing,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: maybe burning leaves.
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah.
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: If you're lucky.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: If you're lucky.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: If you're lucky, that's the best you can get. A
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: cold front comes through and takes the temperature down to
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: not 100 degrees, and then... You go outside in the morning,
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: it's a little bit crisp, and someone is burning some leaves.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, because we've had enough rain to get rid of
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the burn.
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: Then you get a little bit of that smoke in
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: your face. That's as good as you can get in
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: Texas in the fall. There is not anything else.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know, sitting around a fire pit at night.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: Also nice.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's nice. Visiting corn mazes on the list. We
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: do have occasionally some mazes here in town.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: Every once in a while.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Every once in a while.
• 42:13
  Speaker 27: Halloween, it's great.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: I can't wrap my head around it because Halloween is
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: just Halloween. I can't imagine Halloween where you walked outside
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: and it was cool and crisp.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: It's happened here.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: The leaves are different colors.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: I remember.
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: Everyone had some cider in their hands. That sounds wonderful.
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: I remember occasional Halloweens here in Bryan College Station where
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: a jacket was necessary. Rare, but in my 56 years,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: it has happened a couple of times, right? And number
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: 10 on this list, but it would probably be number
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: one on mine, all the relaxed vibes that come with
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: a rainy and cozy fall day. I do like that. Man,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, I was looking at my fireplace last night,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: and I was thinking to myself, it would sure be
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: nice to have a cold, rainy day, put the fire
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: in the fireplace.
• 43:06
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: That would be good.
• 43:06
  Speaker 8: That's never going to happen, Will.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: You're just going to have to turn your AC down
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: to 50 and pretend.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not going to do that. It's close enough
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: as it is. I mean, around here, you mentioned the
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: brown leaves, right?
• 43:18
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: A lot of places they're turning orange and yellow. Here
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: they're turning brown or they're orange and yellow because they're
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: on fire.
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: Back after this, guys.
• 43:27
  Speaker 13: Hi, this is Neil Sperry, and I'll be back with
• 43:29
  Speaker 13: today's Plant Talk Texas right after a word from our
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  Speaker 13: Many of our gardening tasks are rather specific to the fall.
• 44:08
  Speaker 13: Good gardeners know ahead of time that these things need
• 44:11
  Speaker 13: to be done. I have some of the most pressing
• 44:13
  Speaker 13: of the fall gardening tasks. I'll have them right after
• 44:16
  Speaker 13: this important message.
• 44:18
  Speaker 12: Winter rye grass rescue grass annual bluegrass and others even
• 44:22
  Speaker 12: many of the broad-leafed weeds this is your time to
• 44:25
  Speaker 12: prevent them with high yield turf and ornamental weed and
• 44:28
  Speaker 12: grass stopper containing dimension spread it over your lawn now
• 44:31
  Speaker 12: before the weed seeds sprout and be weed free for
• 44:34
  Speaker 12: the season apply it to your flower beds and around
• 44:37
  Speaker 12: shrubs it's even safe on any type of lawn grass
• 44:41
  Speaker 12: as long as it's been through its first winter water
• 44:43
  Speaker 12: it into the soil and you'll be done but get
• 44:46
  Speaker 12: it done now apply it again in the spring and
• 44:49
  Speaker 12: early summer to prevent crab grass and grass High-yield turf
• 44:53
  Speaker 12: and ornamental weed and grass stopper containing Dimension. Fertilome and
• 44:56
  Speaker 12: high-yield products are available only at independent retail garden centers
• 45:00
  Speaker 12: and feed stores, places where you can get help from
• 45:03
  Speaker 12: local experts who care about your community. For more than
• 45:06
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• 45:10
  Speaker 12: weed-free lawns. Find your local dealer at Fertilome.com. High-yield turf
• 45:15
  Speaker 12: and ornamental weed and grass stopper containing Dimension. See the
• 45:18
  Speaker 12: label for full directions.
• 45:21
  Speaker 13: If you're trying to keep ahead of the game with
• 45:22
  Speaker 13: your fall gardening activities, look through your trees to see
• 45:25
  Speaker 13: if any limbs are dead. If so, remove them now
• 45:28
  Speaker 13: while you can easily distinguish them from the living limbs
• 45:31
  Speaker 13: that still have foliage. Look closely at your lawn. If
• 45:34
  Speaker 13: the grass seems to have stopped growing earlier than usual
• 45:37
  Speaker 13: this year, and especially if it's a lighter shade of green,
• 45:41
  Speaker 13: you want to make sure that grub worms are not involved.
• 45:44
  Speaker 13: Pull on some of the affected areas. If the grass
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: comes up very easily, runners and all, You need to
• 45:49
  Speaker 13: suspect and check for grub worms. If you find more
• 45:52
  Speaker 13: than four per square foot, you need to treat with
• 45:54
  Speaker 13: an appropriate insecticide, followed by a thorough watering to penetrate
• 45:58
  Speaker 13: to the grub zone. I will tell you that grubs
• 46:01
  Speaker 13: are not the problem they used to be. You also
• 46:03
  Speaker 13: need to be looking for brown patch in your St.
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: Augustine.
• 46:06
  Speaker 13: If that's what's turning it yellow, then that is a
• 46:09
  Speaker 13: different story altogether. If the blades pull loose easily from
• 46:13
  Speaker 13: the runners, in this case the runners remain attached to
• 46:16
  Speaker 13: the soil, Whereas with grub worms, the runners come loose easily.
• 46:20
  Speaker 13: If they remain attached, if the leaves are rotted at
• 46:23
  Speaker 13: their bases where they attach to those runners, that's brown patch.
• 46:26
  Speaker 13: If you get a handful of leaves when you pull
• 46:30
  Speaker 13: on St. Augustine that's yellowed, then that's brown patch. You
• 46:33
  Speaker 13: want to apply an appropriate fungicide. Talk to your independent
• 46:37
  Speaker 13: retail garden center. You want to check roots of your
• 46:41
  Speaker 13: flower and vegetable crops closely for signs of nematode damage
• 46:44
  Speaker 13: as you remove them. They're the microscopic worms that sting
• 46:47
  Speaker 13: the plant's roots and cause abnormal galls to develop. If
• 46:50
  Speaker 13: you find them, plant Elbon Rye by mid-October. It entraps
• 46:55
  Speaker 13: the nematodes within its root systems. By the time you
• 46:57
  Speaker 13: plow it under in January or February, the nematodes, for
• 47:00
  Speaker 13: the most part, are entrapped and dead. If you're a
• 47:04
  Speaker 13: perennial gardener, you need to take time to clean your
• 47:06
  Speaker 13: beds now. Prune off all the dead and dying stems
• 47:09
  Speaker 13: and remove spent flower and seed heads. Dig and divide
• 47:13
  Speaker 13: crowded plants. Set them into freshly prepared garden soil. Keep
• 47:18
  Speaker 13: mowing your turf right up to frost. There's no truth
• 47:20
  Speaker 13: to the theory that long grass is better protected from
• 47:23
  Speaker 13: the ravages of wintertime. In fact, if you keep your
• 47:26
  Speaker 13: grass too tall, it really weakens. Mow at the recommended
• 47:30
  Speaker 13: height all through the season. You want to plant lots
• 47:33
  Speaker 13: of color. Nurseries feature cool season annuals every fall. They're
• 47:37
  Speaker 13: beginning to arrive. You want to wait until it turns
• 47:39
  Speaker 13: just a little bit cooler to plant pansies. Pansies rank
• 47:42
  Speaker 13: at the very top of all of our annual plant
• 47:44
  Speaker 13: popularity charts, but there are others to consider as well.
• 47:48
  Speaker 13: Pinks and snapdragons, also ornamental poppies, English daisies, flowering cabbage
• 47:53
  Speaker 13: and kale, all great candidates. I'm Neal Sperry. We're going
• 47:57
  Speaker 13: to talk about super results with fall plantings in our
• 48:00
  Speaker 13: next Plant Talk Texas. Until then, happy gardening.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: It was after a hailstorm a few years back.
• 48:06
  Speaker 8: I needed a new roof.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I shopped around, and then I found Schulte Roofing,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: and boy, I'm glad I did. The folks at Schulte
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: guided me every step of the way. They showed me
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: my options. They told me what my out-of-pocket cost would
• 48:17
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  Speaker 35: Good morning. I'm Riley Flurkey with your morning sports update.
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  Speaker 1: On 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 35: The A & M football team hits the road for
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  Speaker 35: the first time this season when they travel to Baton
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  Speaker 35: Rouge this Saturday to take on the 10th-ranked LSU Tigers.
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  Speaker 35: This will be the second straight season that the Aggies
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  Speaker 35: play in the Bayou, and this will be the first
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  Speaker 35: head-to-head matchup between Mike Elko and Lane Kiffin. Head coach
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  Speaker 35: Mike Elko met with the media to recap everything from
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  Speaker 35: the weekend and share thoughts ahead of this week's game.
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  Speaker 25: You know, wrapping up the game, I don't think there's
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  Speaker 25: much to add. Obviously, it wasn't up to the standard
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  Speaker 25: that we want it to be, and the challenge on
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  Speaker 25: us now is to respond, and we've got a great
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  Speaker 25: opportunity this week to go on the road and play
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  Speaker 25: a top 10 team in an environment that's going to
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  Speaker 25: be electric and we have to respond and that's what
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  Speaker 25: this program was built on and certainly that'll be the
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  Speaker 25: challenge that's been laid out to the staff and the
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  Speaker 25: guys this week and to myself and I fully expect
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  Speaker 25: that we'll go out into Tiger Stadium and do that
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  Speaker 25: and so looking forward for the opportunity, looking forward to
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  Speaker 25: the challenge and just looking forward to get back out
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  Speaker 25: there and moving on to the next step for us.
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  Speaker 25: And so the only other thing that I'll add, just
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  Speaker 25: an injury update. Unfortunately, Terry Bussey will be out for
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  Speaker 25: the season. We kind of thought that was going to
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  Speaker 25: be the case and that was that way. So it's
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  Speaker 25: a lower body injury and, you know, we'll look forward
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  Speaker 25: to him recovering and be back with us next year.
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  Speaker 35: Saturday night's kickoff time is set for 630. The Aggie
• 50:40
  Speaker 35: volleyball team concludes its non-conference schedule at home tonight as
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  Speaker 35: they host Rice at Reed Arena. The team returns home
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  Speaker 35: after claiming their second-ranked win of the season as they
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  Speaker 35: down the then-20th-ranked Creighton in four sets behind a standout
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  Speaker 35: showing from Kendall Stowers. Stowers logged a game-high of 21
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  Speaker 35: kills and 15 digs defensively to secure her fourth straight
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  Speaker 35: double-double of the season. Head coach Jamie Morrison met with
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  Speaker 35: the media to talk about his excitement for coach Joni
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  Speaker 35: Taylor opening up practice this week and the growth of
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  Speaker 35: his team ahead of tonight's game.
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  Speaker 36: First off, just seeing Joni here, just wishing her good
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  Speaker 36: luck in her season as they kick things off shortly. Overall,
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  Speaker 36: just happy with the progress of our team.
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  Speaker 9: And I think.
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  Speaker 36: Just the way that we've grown across the non-conference slate
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  Speaker 36: and it's not over yet has been really, really impressive.
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  Speaker 36: And I think it's something I'm proud of, that the
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  Speaker 36: 12th men should be proud of, that our administration should
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  Speaker 36: be proud of. So just want to start off with that.
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  Speaker 35: Coach Morrison also spoke about how the team has developed
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  Speaker 35: over the non-conference slate of games.
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  Speaker 36: I think it's interesting because you don't want to lose matches.
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  Speaker 36: But I think in order for people to grow to
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  Speaker 36: their full potential, they have to be put in the
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  Speaker 36: tough situations where they're forced to grow towards the edges
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  Speaker 36: of what they need to go do. And I think
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  Speaker 36: when you play a tough schedule and you're playing against
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  Speaker 36: really good opponents, there's this stretching that happens that like, oh,
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  Speaker 36: I need to go be that good. And then if
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  Speaker 36: you do it over time, all of a sudden that
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  Speaker 36: becomes a habit of I have to be good like
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  Speaker 36: that over time. So I just think that piece, I
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  Speaker 36: think we're in a really good spot right now. Again,
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  Speaker 36: like barring health. I think we're in a really good
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  Speaker 36: spot playing a really, really, I don't know, high level
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  Speaker 36: of volleyball competing in the right way. We're getting more
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  Speaker 36: and more consistent with the way that we practice and
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  Speaker 36: the way that we play. And I'm really excited for
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  Speaker 36: what's going to happen in conference play.
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  Speaker 35: First serve for tonight's game is set for 6 o'clock.
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  Speaker 35: Head coach of the Aggie women's basketball team, Joni Taylor,
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  Speaker 35: begins her fifth year here in Aggieland as the team
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  Speaker 35: opened practice for the 2026-27 season yesterday. Coach Taylor met
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  Speaker 35: with the media to talk about this year's team.
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  Speaker 10: We've always wanted to play fast. Different things dictate that
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  Speaker 10: from year to year, injuries and whatnot, but we are
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  Speaker 10: definitely playing faster. We are elite in transition and we
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  Speaker 10: have multiple guards who can bring you down the floor.
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  Speaker 10: So our style will definitely look different to start, especially because,
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  Speaker 10: as I said, we are a guard led team right now.
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  Speaker 10: And as if that changes, we'll change with it. But
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  Speaker 10: right now we're going to put the ball in the
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  Speaker 10: hands of our guards and let them make decisions for us.
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  Speaker 35: The Aggies first game of the season is set for Monday,
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  Speaker 35: November 2nd at Reed Arena against UAPB. A & M
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  Speaker 35: women's tennis player Lexington Reed secured a win in her
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  Speaker 35: first match of the 2026-27 season in the qualifying draw
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  Speaker 35: of the ITA All-American Championships yesterday. Reed defeated LSU's Tegan
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  Speaker 35: Bush to advance to the round of 32 of the
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  Speaker 35: qualifying draw. The fourth-ranked Aggie women's golf team blitzed the
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  Speaker 35: front nine of the Golf Week Red Sky Classic yesterday
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  Speaker 35: and finished the day in third with a score of
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  Speaker 35: 10 under 278. The Marina White returned to the course
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  Speaker 35: for the second round today with a tee time set
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  Speaker 35: for 12.40 p.m. That's your morning sports update on 1620-945-WTAW.
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