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The Infomaniacs: September 8th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: Bryan City Council is scheduled to hold a public hearing
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  Speaker 1: at tonight's council meeting on the proposed tax rate of 0.624
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  Speaker 1: cents per $ 100 valuation. The meeting is slated to start
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  Speaker 1: at 5.30 inside council chambers. Bond has been updated for
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  Speaker 1: a teenager who discharged a firearm Saturday night at a
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  Speaker 1: Northgate bar. 19-year-old Trey Wheeler was originally being held on $ 20, 000 bond,
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  Speaker 1: while some charges that had bond amounts were not set
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  Speaker 1: until Monday morning. Other amounts that were set previously were
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  Speaker 1: also increased. Wheeler is now being held on $ 145, 000 bond
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  Speaker 1: on the eight counts he is facing. A man was
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  Speaker 1: arrested early Monday after running over a man outside a
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  Speaker 1: Bryan's Sports Bar. Bryan Police received reports of a hit
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  Speaker 1: and run involving a vehicle and a pedestrian at the
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  Speaker 1: El Centario Sports Bar in the 1200 block of West
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  Speaker 1: William J. Bryan Parkway just after 2 o'clock Monday morning.
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  Speaker 1: The victim had been in a fight with two men.
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  Speaker 1: Those men, 27-year-old Alex Gaten and 30-year-old John Gaten III,
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  Speaker 1: both of Bryan, headed to their pickup to leave. The
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  Speaker 1: victim then chased them down and punched the passenger window
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  Speaker 1: of their truck. The driver, Alex Gaten, put his truck
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  Speaker 1: into reverse where the victim was knocked to the ground
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  Speaker 1: by the side view mirror, then run over. Gaten then
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  Speaker 1: drove forward, running over the victim a second time before
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  Speaker 1: fleeing the scene. The victim's arm and leg were run over,
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  Speaker 1: and he was transported to St. Joseph's Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Video from a nearby business confirmed the events. The men
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  Speaker 1: were located about 20 minutes later in the 6400 block
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  Speaker 1: of Old Spanish Trail. Alex Gaten was arrested for collision
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  Speaker 1: involving serious bodily injury. He was released on $ 15, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: A North Texas man has been arrested after sending threatening
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  Speaker 1: messages to James Tallarico.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say Billy James McFatridge of Fort Worth sent several
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  Speaker 2: threats to campaign accounts for state representative and U.S. Senate
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  Speaker 2: candidate James Tallarico through email and Instagram. In one of them,
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  Speaker 2: they say he threatened to slit Tallarico's throat and drag
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  Speaker 2: his body through the street. Staffers for the campaign reported
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  Speaker 2: the messages to the DPS. Their investigators say they traced
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  Speaker 2: the email and social media accounts back to McFatridge. They
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  Speaker 2: questioned him and say he told them he only intended
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  Speaker 2: to scare Tallarico. He was arrested last week on charges
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  Speaker 2: of making terroristic threats against a public servant. That is
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  Speaker 2: a Class A misdemeanor. Stephen Pickering, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Starting this morning, the right lane of Texas Avenue southbound
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  Speaker 1: will be closed between 26th and 28th streets as the
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  Speaker 1: county remodels the Brazos County Administration Building. Closures are expected
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  Speaker 1: to last through the end of the year. Are you
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  Speaker 1: ready for President Ted Cruz?
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  Speaker 3: The Texas senator is making it painfully clear that he
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  Speaker 3: is running again. Experts say there is a path to
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  Speaker 3: victory if he runs a Trump-adjacent campaign. That means backing
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  Speaker 3: some of the president's plans but dismissing others.
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  Speaker 4: He's going to get into the.
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  Speaker 2: 100% Trump lane, well, that's getting to be a pretty
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  Speaker 2: crowded place.
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  Speaker 3: Texas GOP strategist Vinny Manchello says the president has not
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  Speaker 3: hinted at who he will endorse. It'll likely be either J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance or Marco Rubio.
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  Speaker 3: But in the year 2028, we don't know how much
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  Speaker 3: that endorsement will mean.
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  Speaker 1: In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News. More news on
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  Speaker 1: the way at 6.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, another hot one today, which you already knew. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: expect the same thing. Mid-90s feels like 100 and something,
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  Speaker 4: and then down to the 70s tonight. Not much more
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  Speaker 4: to say about that, I don't think.
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  Speaker 1: The microphone's not on. I was going to say something,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No.
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  Speaker 4: Just keeping me down again.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 4: that about 30 minutes ago, we have America's First Mornings,
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  Speaker 4: which is the news show that... pops on before us
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  Speaker 4: right okay they have very eclectic bumper music we choose
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  Speaker 4: not to use bumper music on the show most shows have.
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  Speaker 1: A little they'll do a little bumper music in there
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  Speaker 1: this little that we don't find the need because we
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  Speaker 1: don't need to manipulate your emotions by using music we
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  Speaker 1: can do it just by ourselves they used this as
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  Speaker 1: the uh the bumper music this morning oh some sticks
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  Speaker 1: Name that tune.
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  Speaker 4: That is Fooling Yourself by Styx. The Angry Young Man.
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  Speaker 4: Is it The Angry Young Man?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Fooling Yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, the end of it. Yeah. So the problem is
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  Speaker 4: whenever I hear this song, it immediately takes me back
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  Speaker 4: to being 19.
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  Speaker 1: That's what classic music in general, but classic rock especially,
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  Speaker 1: is all about.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, no, no, not like that. It
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  Speaker 4: takes me back to being 19 working in a Best
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  Speaker 4: Buy electronics department.
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  Speaker 7: Oh!
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  Speaker 4: Because I had gotten a job at 19, part-time, make
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of money, and also get a discount
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  Speaker 4: at said Best Buy. And they would park me in
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  Speaker 4: the back near the TVs, and I would sell TVs
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  Speaker 4: to people. Pretty decent little job. Except for the fact
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  Speaker 4: that they do have a loop. Like, I was in
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  Speaker 4: the 40-year-old version. They made fun of this thing about
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  Speaker 4: Michael McDonald. That's not a joke. Back in the day,
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  Speaker 4: there was a loop, and this song is on the loop.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like a video loop playing on the TV.
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  Speaker 4: It's a video loop of them, of several live performances,
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  Speaker 4: and one of them was Styx doing Fooling Yourself Somewhere
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  Speaker 4: at some amphitheater at the time, early 2000s. And then
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  Speaker 4: there was one of Sting, which I cannot for the life,
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  Speaker 4: if I heard it, I would know it immediately. I
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  Speaker 4: cannot remember what Sting was on there. I know there
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  Speaker 4: were several Michael McDonald songs on there and taking it
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  Speaker 4: to the streets, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Of course.
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  Speaker 4: They're not going to go too deep into it, but
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  Speaker 4: the doobies were on the list. And to this day,
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  Speaker 4: every time I hear that, I can see Dennis D.
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  Speaker 4: Young playing that silly little intro. and it just, it's right,
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  Speaker 4: I am right there in a best spot.
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  Speaker 1: Takes you back. Every time.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing wrong with that. It wasn't a fun enough
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  Speaker 4: job to want to be taken back, Will.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I get that, but it did, in fact, take
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  Speaker 1: you back, and that's what that sort of thing is.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't ever work at a place that did that
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  Speaker 1: sort of, loop music. My exposure to it has been
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  Speaker 1: essentially in elevators and grocery stores.
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  Speaker 4: Grocery store.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: About a year and a half, maybe two years ago,
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  Speaker 1: I'm wandering through a local grocery-atorium. And it was, I think,
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  Speaker 1: fairly late in the evening, if memory serves. I did
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  Speaker 1: hear Black Sabbath on the PA.
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  Speaker 4: Wait a minute. Black Sabbath? Black Sabbath on the PA.
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  Speaker 4: And I can't remember.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. There you go.
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  Speaker 4: In a grocery store?
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  Speaker 1: In a grocery store.
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  Speaker 4: Does it start with an H?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it does.
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  Speaker 4: That is not on brand for the... Have you ever heard...
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  Speaker 4: I find they don't usually go into the classic rock pile.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, they were at that point in time. And
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  Speaker 1: it was... I mean, I would find myself singing along
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  Speaker 1: to songs and going, wait a minute, why is this
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  Speaker 1: playing in a grocery store?
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  Speaker 4: H-E-B music is kind of a fascinating thing because I've
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  Speaker 4: heard some songs that are wild.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Wild like the songs that I have had. And also
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  Speaker 4: the idea is that they try to aim, I think,
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  Speaker 4: intentionally towards. I mean, they're not the music of the kids.
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  Speaker 4: It's not going to be the cool stuff.
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  Speaker 1: No, they might occasionally toss a kid's bop something in there.
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  Speaker 4: It's going to be the stuff that is cool to
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  Speaker 4: like 30 somethings.
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  Speaker 1: I would say 30 to 60-somethings.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they might go that high.
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  Speaker 1: I'm certain of it because I'm recognizing tunes in there
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  Speaker 1: all the time.
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  Speaker 4: The problem is I've gotten to the point where some
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  Speaker 4: of the music in H-E-B is too young for even me.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: Even former pop radio personalities. Like, wow, that's a little.
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  Speaker 1: Even with the last name Young.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 8: No.
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  Speaker 4: No, the H-E-B playlist is too... Mike. I worked at
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  Speaker 4: a Walmart in 1990, he says. They had Tiny Toons. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: that's how I spent my summer vacation on a loop.
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  Speaker 4: That is wild. Do you remember that show?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 4: It was like Warner Brothers characters if they were small
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  Speaker 4: and on a loop.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm familiar with that now, but 1990 was not
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  Speaker 1: my peak cartoon watching era.
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  Speaker 4: Very good point. It says he has every... He has
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  Speaker 4: the entire movie memorized from having to watch that loop.
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  Speaker 4: We might have to get into a discussion about the
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  Speaker 4: H-E-B playlist because I know some of you guys have noticed.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd love to hear what stuck out.
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  Speaker 4: What's the weirdest song?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it just stopped you in the aisle and you went, whoa.
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  Speaker 4: We have all had this happen where you will be
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  Speaker 4: mid-shopping at H-E-B and you'll just... Who put this in there?
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  Speaker 1: You'll be looking for a packet of ranch dressing powder
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  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden... Bam. You'll realize.
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  Speaker 4: Just hits you out of nowhere. Like a meteor of nostalgia.
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  Speaker 4: There has to be someone who's plugging these in.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: There's either companies that do that or sometimes a company
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  Speaker 1: will have an internal person to do that.
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  Speaker 4: Who's the guy in San Antonio that gets to... Do
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  Speaker 4: you think it's one dude that gets inside or do
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  Speaker 4: you think it's like the local store's discretion? Like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we need a little bit of.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they have choices or not. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I know... I know some HEB people who can reach out.
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  Speaker 4: That'll take you down a rabbit hole. Tuesday. or Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What song jumped out at you at the grocery store?
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  Speaker 4: Because it's HEB music.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a Black Sabbath tune for me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And again, if you have one, you want to
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  Speaker 4: share 979-695-1620. It's not just HEB either.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 1: Text lisa texted in she said sweet child oh mine
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  Speaker 1: at kroger.
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  Speaker 4: This seems like this seems like a good solid red
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  Speaker 4: meat song.
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  Speaker 1: To rotate in a grocery store yeah and i think
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  Speaker 1: guns and roses was not really a regional sort of
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  Speaker 1: thing so you.
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  Speaker 4: Could universally no one's gonna yeah yeah everyone i mean
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  Speaker 4: you hear the guitar everyone knows this song they do
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  Speaker 4: I mean, similarly, everyone knows Sabbath, too. Classic rock might
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  Speaker 4: be the play. But then the Googling began, and we
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  Speaker 4: think we have answers.
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  Speaker 1: Because we had questions. We were like, who picks the music, right? Well,
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  Speaker 1: according to what I have found, the selectors are, to
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  Speaker 1: an extent, store leadership. The store leadership, like the top
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  Speaker 1: store leader, the unit director, or store manager, has final
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  Speaker 1: say on which.
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  Speaker 4: You said store.
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  Speaker 1: Store leadership.
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  Speaker 4: It's individual stores?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but they are not picking individual songs.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So the song selection comes from pre-approved channels provided by
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  Speaker 1: commercial background music systems.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You have heard all of them. You know, Muzak, Mood Media,
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  Speaker 1: all of that. So the store managers get to select...
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  Speaker 1: from a curated list of corporate-approved genre stations. So they're
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  Speaker 1: not picking individual songs. They can pick, like, 70s or
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  Speaker 1: 80s hits or 90s pop or classic rock.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 1: All of it is tailor-fit to a family-friendly shopping environment.
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  Speaker 4: I went ahead and Googled while you were talking about this,
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  Speaker 4: and the obsession level of the Internet for HEB store
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  Speaker 4: music is very high. You can find people who have
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  Speaker 4: kind of ex-employees who have built their own HEB playlist.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 4: That exists. There's some fans of HEB playlists. Some people
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  Speaker 4: have asked vocally, what would it take to get you
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  Speaker 4: guys to export this music into a format where I
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  Speaker 4: can stream it wherever I go?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that would be up to Muzak or the Mood
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  Speaker 1: people or whichever.
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  Speaker 4: A Reddit thread. And this is a little bit older
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  Speaker 4: Does in fact say, like you said Mood something.
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  Speaker 1: Or other Mood and Muzak Mood, media.
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  Speaker 4: And Muzak They say, my store cycles through The 90s station,
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  Speaker 4: decades Hot FM And classic hits And yeah, several people
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  Speaker 4: say For 10 years at their store It was the
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  Speaker 4: local He left it on country Decided, yeah, country is
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  Speaker 4: what's going to do it At our store And on
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  Speaker 4: our store, we're going to blast the heck out of it.
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  Speaker 4: And they also, similar to what I was talking about,
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  Speaker 4: said they had a suspiciously high rotation, which drove the
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  Speaker 4: employees crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, if you're working there, it's not designed for
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  Speaker 1: you employees.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: It's designed for the people that are spending a pretty
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  Speaker 1: set amount of time and they're not 8 to 12 hours.
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you've got 30 minutes. Yeah. You've got 30 minutes.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: I want to hear a few hits. I want to
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: hear some bangers.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: David takes in UB40 red wine. Oh, wow. Now, if
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: that happened in the section when you were in the
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: wine section, that was on purpose.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: David, I have heard red, red wine.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Of course you have.
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: Popping a few times at the HEB. Look, we'll get
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: back to this because there's got to be more to
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: dig through here. But, man, yeah, I mean, we could
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: go on. I could go on about.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: This for quite some time. Again, sorry. Apologies for the
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: rabbit hole.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: No, good. Reasons to celebrate for the 8th of September, 2026.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Let's begin International Literacy Day today. Big one.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: It is big. Pronounced in 1966.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: First celebration took place in 1967. uh sadly we are
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: at a point where i think it's a quarter of
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: americans are functionally illiterate if not more.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: That's a very very scary statistic.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: If you take it down to uh below a high
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: school reading level i think it's closer to 40 or
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: 50 percent of americans we ain't good at reading man
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: uh we used to be read by third in schools
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: now it's kind of just Yeah, there.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Are some states that have taken away reading and writing
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and arithmetic on standardized testing.
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. Standardized testing is kind of ridiculous anyway.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: Oh, my goodness, yes. What else do we have today?
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: It is Star Trek Day.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: Star Trek Day.
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: September 8th, 1966 is the day that Star Trek aired
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: on American television for the very first time, making it
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: Star Trek's kind of sort of birthday. And so we
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: observe it as such.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Without Star Trek, would we have had a flip phone?
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: It's reasonable to think that no one would have come
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: up with that. Most people had that idea from Star
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: Trek back in the day. September 8th is also Pardon Day,
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: celebrating or acknowledging when Gerald Ford granted Richard Nixon a full, free,
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: and absolute pardon for offenses he may have committed against
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: the United States while president in connection with the Watergate era.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting how Watergate today... would be a non-story almost.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I mean, that caused the impeachment and the resignation of
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a president. Since then, we have had so many things
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: that are worse that have happened, and yet nobody's walking
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: out of the office.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: I have thought about this many times and why it
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: is different. And I think part of it is because
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: we don't have a monoculture anymore in America. If something
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: was a big news story back in the 70s, it
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: was impossible to miss it. You turned on a TV.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: there were only four channels right and all of them
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: were probably talking about watergate picked up a newspaper which
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: was your only way to read the news they were
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: probably talking about watergate nowadays it's fairly easy to ignore
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: the news.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I think there's two things. You have a brutally fast
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: news cycle.
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: People have no attention span.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: People have no attention span, and you touched on it earlier.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: We're functionally illiterate as a society.
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: How can you read the news when you can't actually read? No,
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: all you can do is listen, and then you get opinions. Yeah,
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: it used to be a lot lower threshold for giving
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: someone the boot. out of an elected office. I'm not
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: just saying president. Yeah. I mean, the stuff you pull
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: as a congressman now.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Or as, I mean, mayors, city councilmen. It goes all
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: the way down to the local level.
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: You don't even have to be elected. One of the
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: stories that's in news this morning is someone who was
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: running for office in Missouri had a great plan to
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: get elected. He was going to plant some cocaine and
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: Adderall on his opponent's In a primary, I believe. He
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: was like, that's what I'm going to do. All I
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: need to do is lay some cocaine on this guy.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: And then I'm going to cakewalk. To a victory. Now,
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: is that an extreme story? Heck yes. Will you or
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: I remember it in 24 hours? Absolutely not.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Probably not. Now we will because we've talked about it.
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Let's go to birthdays.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Birthdays. Let's celebrate David Bogart, local bingo expert.
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: David!
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Who appeared on our show yesterday. If you missed that,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: by the way, we were talking bingo with our local
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: bingo caller. It is on the show, which you can
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: find streaming at WTAW.com.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Highly recommended. Very fun interview.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Gaten Matrazo is 24.
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: He's one of the Stranger Things kids.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: I watched Stranger Things for like 45 minutes. Watched the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: first season, essentially. I just couldn't do it anymore. Jonathan
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Taylor Thomas is 45. Randy Taylor on Home Improvement.
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: Oh, Lord.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Pink is 47 years old.
• 21:58
  Speaker 17: Really?
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Incredibly talented.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Hyper-athletic pop singer.
• 22:02
  Speaker 15: Yes.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Kennedy is 54. Rolling Stone Magazine voted her as the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: most hated MTV VJ of the 90s. Now she's on
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Fox News. Martin Freeman is 55. Bilbo Baggins in the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Hobbit movies. He was also in the MCU.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Dr.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: Watson on BBC's Sherlock.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: And let's not forget the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, can't forget that. The answer is 42. David Arquette
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: is 55. The fool who let Courtney Cox get away.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, missed out on that one. Brooke Burke is 55.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Former Dancing with the Stars co-host. She won the seventh season.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Now she is hosting Penn & Teller Fool Us. Amy
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Mann is 66. I was a huge fan of Till
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Tuesday back in the day. She's the lead singer there.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The song voice is Carrie. Bernie Sanders, 85 years old today.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Everybody knows who Bernie is.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: Lord, he's... That man is getting old. That man's getting
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: a little long.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: In the tooth. He has seemed old for the last
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: 30 years, though.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: That's true. He's never been a particularly young man.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: No, he hasn't.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: But, wow.
• 23:03
  Speaker 14: Okay.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Born on the state onto the stiffs here. Peter Sellers
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was born on this date in 1925. Inspector Clouseau in
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: the Pink Panther movies.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: That's right.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Sid Caesar, the old school comedian, born on this date
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: in 1922. Ron Pigpen McKernan, co-founder of the Grateful Dead,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: born on this date in 1945. Patsy Cline was born
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: on this date in 1932. Jimmy Rogers, born on this
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: date in 1897. Basically the father of country music. I mean,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: we're talking old school stuff here.
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, the originals.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in the jailhouse now, probably familiar to you.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: And born on the state in 1947, Benjamin Orr, the
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: bass player for the Cars. He co-founded the band with
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Riddick Okasik in 1976, sang lead on many of the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: band's most recognizable songs.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Very nice. Take a break. We'll talk news that is
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: coming up next. And now for the bonus round. Who
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: imposes property taxes?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: State government. Nice try, but no.
• 24:03
  Speaker 7: Local governments.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Correct. And we have a winner.
• 24:07
  Speaker 18: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: Only local governments impose property taxes.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: One of the.
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: Reasons why your property taxes are going up is because
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: local governments are increasing their spending.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: So the first thing we got to do.
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: Is to stop the spending that leads to property tax increases.
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: You should have a say on whether or not your
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: property taxes go up. It should be a vote that
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: requires two-thirds vote before any property tax increase can ever
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: be imposed on our fellow Texans. You're going to be
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: able to live in your home for the rest of
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: your lives without being priced out of it.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Protecting homeowners, lowering property taxes. That's Governor Greg Abbott.
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  Speaker 19: feels like everything has increased, from groceries to vehicles and
• 25:09
  Speaker 19: from property taxes to, yes, insurance. And speaking of insurance,
• 25:14
  Speaker 19: the cost of home and auto insurance has risen more
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: man is lucky to be alive after being run over
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: twice outside a Bryan bar just after 2 o'clock Monday morning.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Bryan Police responded to the El Centro Sports Bar in
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the 1200 block of West William J. Bryan Parkway for
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: reports of a hit and run involving a vehicle and
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: a pedestrian. The victim had been in a fight with
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: two men, 27-year-old Alex Gaten and 30-year-old John Gaten III,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: both of Bryan. As the Gatens were leaving the parking lot,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the victim punched the window of their truck. The driver,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Alex Gaten, put his truck into reverse where the victim
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: was knocked to the ground, then run over. He then
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: drove forward, running over the man a second time before
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: fleeing the scene. The victim's arm and leg were run over.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: He was transported to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. The
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: men were located about 20 minutes later. Alex Gaten was
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: arrested for collision involving serious bodily injury. He was released
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: on $ 15, 000 bond. The Bryan City Council is scheduled to
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: hold four public hearings at tonight's council meeting. One will
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: discuss the proposed tax rate of $ 0. 624 per $ 100 of
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: a home's value. The other three hearings are for rezoning items.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: An item on the consent agenda is to approve an
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: amendment that would increase the fiscal year 2026 budget by
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: $ 32 million. Documents show the city needs to add the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: $ 32 million in unbudgeted expenses for items such as employee benefits, BTU,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and the American Rescue Plan Act Fund. The meeting will
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: convene at 530 inside council chambers. Brazos County Precinct 4
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Volunteer Fire Department added a new engine Monday. Engine 421
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: was placed in service at Station 1. This brings their
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: fleet to four frontline engines plus a reserve. According to
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: arrest records received from law enforcement in Brazos County, there
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: were a total of 28 arrests on opening day of
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the A & M football season on Saturday. Over the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: holiday weekend as a whole, Thursday night through Sunday morning,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: there were 39 alcohol-related arrests, 11 arrests over the weekend
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: involved underage drinkers, 10 public intoxication, and one DWI. Eight
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: of those underage arrests were in or near Northgate. There
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: was a small plane crash in Brenham Monday. The single
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: engine plane experienced engine failure and was able to land
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: successfully in a field west of Highway 50. One person
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: was injured and was transported to a local hospital. Texas
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Senator Ted Cruz is making it clear that he will
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: be running for president again. Experts say there is a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: path to victory if he runs a Trump adjacent campaign.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: In 2016, he showed his differences with President Trump, and
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: I think that's where he's comfortable being.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Texas GOP strategist Vinnie Menchillo says the president has not
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  Speaker 1: hinted at who he will endorse, but it is likely
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer Emmett Smith is being sued over a
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  Speaker 24: An investor in Project Exodus claims in the lawsuit that
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  Speaker 24: former Cowboys running back Emmett Smith and his longtime business
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  Speaker 24: partner misrepresented efforts to secure a federal loan and made
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  Speaker 4: On the wind farm.
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  Speaker 24: Katua LLC, which makes investments for the Eastern Band of
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  Speaker 24: Ketua says it had expected to be paid back within
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  Speaker 24: months for an investment in the wind farm project made
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  Speaker 24: in 2023. They're now also seeking damages. Lisa Brady, Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: There's pushback to a request to increase the budget for
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  Speaker 1: the state's private school voucher program.
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  Speaker 12: Acting Comptroller and GOP nominee for the job, Don Huffines,
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  Speaker 12: has requested $ 2, 226, 000, 000 for the next two years. The first
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  Speaker 12: year cost a billion. Clay Robeson with the Texas State
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  Speaker 12: Teachers Association says his group has opposed vouchers for years
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  Speaker 12: and says any increase is too much.
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  Speaker 4: This is not a sustainable program.
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  Speaker 2: Or they can sustain it, but they're going to basically
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  Speaker 12: There's data from the state that shows 7 in 10
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  Speaker 1: The feds have extended the construction pause on the $ 1. 7
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  Speaker 9: The feds' pause comes thanks to the lawsuit filed by
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  Speaker 9: suit that claims the homeland security construction in and around
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  Speaker 9: Big Bend National Park violates the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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  Speaker 8: What we came out with was an agreement from the
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  Speaker 8: 15th in both Big Bend 2 and 4, the entire region.
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  Speaker 9: The feds have since sent a letter extending that pause
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  Speaker 9: until September 30th.
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  Speaker 8: If by September the 30th the demands of our clients
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  Speaker 9: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pretty long list.
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  Speaker 4: It is. Alex Caruso, a couple of rings, a couple
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  Speaker 4: of NBA championships, almost got himself third. He probably will
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  Speaker 1: I could rattle off like a dozen of them.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Emily Pulley, who's of course an incredible operatic singer.
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  Speaker 1: We've got, what's his name, Manny?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We've got that.
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  Speaker 19: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: There was some other guy with high school just behind
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  Speaker 1: me who's also an actor. We've got, of course, Aiden Ross.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Aiden Ross, winner of The Voice.
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  Speaker 1: You could go on and on and on. The gal
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  Speaker 1: that was Negasonic Teenage Warhead. That's right. I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: a million of them.
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  Speaker 4: I love it. Now it's Elizabeth Holtz.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, I wouldn't call her local. She's, well.
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  Speaker 1: She's currently local.
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  Speaker 4: She's local for quite some time. She is a Brianite.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna claim her. I'm gonna claim her. Because the
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  Speaker 4: hottest movie trailer... I mean, people are losing their mind.
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  Speaker 1: Have you watched the trailer for this? I just stumbled
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  Speaker 1: onto this story this morning, and I have yet to
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  Speaker 1: watch the trailer.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna play the audio for you, and I need
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  Speaker 4: you to know that it's going to be less impactful
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  Speaker 4: unless you are watching the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Because the trailer itself is haunting... And it's haunting because
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  Speaker 4: she is so off. Always has been. She's just off-putting
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  Speaker 4: because she has a blink. She has a blink.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying the actress that plays her?
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  Speaker 4: No, it's Liz.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's Liz.
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  Speaker 4: It's Liz.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like a documentary.
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  Speaker 4: It is a documentary.
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  Speaker 1: It's a documentary.
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  Speaker 4: So here's what happens. Nathan Fielder, who's a documentarian, some
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  Speaker 4: people are into him. He has been filming this movie
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  Speaker 4: for three years in secret. He says what started as
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  Speaker 4: what was going to be a couple month project has
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  Speaker 4: turned into, and I quote, three years of staring into
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  Speaker 4: the abyss. It's going to drop in October. And again,
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  Speaker 4: here's the trailer.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not that person. I can promise you that. I
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  Speaker 7: don't have anything to deceive you on. Of course, I'm
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  Speaker 7: not deceiving you. I'm engaging with you as a human being.
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  Speaker 7: Why would I deceive you? There's no reason for me
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  Speaker 7: to do that. Okay, good chat.
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  Speaker 4: You're being real right now?
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  Speaker 7: I'm always being real.
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  Speaker 1: Now, I can't see that.
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  Speaker 4: That's not exactly. If you listen to it, it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: do it justice.
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  Speaker 1: But the voice itself, and I spend a lot of
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  Speaker 1: time listening to voice, a lot of time listening to audio,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time, you know, I did acting back
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  Speaker 1: in the day.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So I understand what emoting is in voice.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: She does not emote dude she does not has no.
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  Speaker 1: That is the most soulless voice i've ever heard.
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  Speaker 4: She has no emotion now they're gonna premiere this in
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  Speaker 4: october the question is can we get the premiere here
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  Speaker 4: oh the queen come on can the queen do the
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  Speaker 4: and if so can we can we get liz to
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  Speaker 4: her own premiere.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know does orange go with the red carpet.
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  Speaker 4: Heck yes it does I mean, can't we make an exception?
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  Speaker 4: How often do you get a movie made about you?
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  Speaker 4: I think if they're making a movie about you, you
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  Speaker 4: should be able to go and see your movie.
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  Speaker 1: Tucker, I understand your enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 4: It's Camp Cupcake.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to say that there's probably a portion,
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  Speaker 1: at least, of local government officials that are going to
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  Speaker 1: really frown on that. And your theory of celebrating her
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: is now a honorary citizen of Bryan.
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  Speaker 4: She is a citizen. At some point... You live in Brian.
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  Speaker 4: You're a Brianite. And she lives in Brian and is
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  Speaker 4: going to be living in Brian.
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  Speaker 10: For, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I believe quite a few more years, if math serves me.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even remember how many years she got. I'm
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  Speaker 4: going to send you the link, and we'll post the
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  Speaker 4: link to this. The visual version of the trailer is
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  Speaker 4: the one you will need to see. And yes, please,
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  Speaker 4: dear Lord, someone bring this to the Queen.
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  Speaker 6: made in Texas for Texas lawns and gardens. Berms enter
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  Speaker 6: the picture when we're on prairie land and we want
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  Speaker 6: often man-made, that create a natural rise and fall to
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  Speaker 6: the garden. Unfortunately, in the hands and shovels of untrained gardeners,
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  Speaker 6: berms can be just the opposite, unsettling and unnatural. If
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  Speaker 6: you're interested in adding a berm or two to your landscape,
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  Speaker 6: I have some very important points to remember. First, you
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  Speaker 6: need to know what you're trying to accomplish with the berm.
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  Speaker 6: berm will, to a very large degree, determine its placement, size,
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  Speaker 6: putting the berm where it would be.
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  Speaker 1: Most visually appealing.
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  Speaker 6: probably won't make much sense if the periodic floods still
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  Speaker 6: By the same token, if headlights from oncoming traffic are
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  Speaker 6: your main reason for building the berm, there will be
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  Speaker 6: For most of us, however, berms are primarily aesthetic. We
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  Speaker 6: build and plant them because they look good. They also
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  Speaker 6: let us compartmentalize our landscapes into smaller parcels or outdoor rooms.
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  Speaker 6: Most of the comments that follow address the sorts of berms,
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  Speaker 6: the ones that have more form than function. That's the
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  Speaker 6: ones I enjoy the most. Berms usually look most natural
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  Speaker 6: if they sweep across the landscape in gentle curves rather
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  Speaker 6: than long straight lines. They should look like they occur
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  Speaker 6: naturally and that our houses just happen to be built
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  Speaker 6: alongside them. It may be easier to blend a berm
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  Speaker 6: into its surroundings if you actually dig down a few
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  Speaker 6: inches alongside it rather than merely piling it on top
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  Speaker 6: of the existing earth. Those slightly sunken areas are called
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  Speaker 6: swales and they have their purposes as well. You can
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  Speaker 6: move on with your berm building as soon as the
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  Speaker 6: vegetation has turned completely brown, usually within about a week
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  Speaker 6: or two. Now there are lots of things you need
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  Speaker 29: on 1620-945-WTAW. The A & M football team meets up
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  Speaker 29: with Arizona State for the second time in program history
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  Speaker 29: this Saturday and will be the first time that the
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  Speaker 29: Sun Devils come to Aggieland. Ahead of this week's matchup,
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  Speaker 29: head coach Mike Elko has been reflecting back on what
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  Speaker 14: I think it's probably why I was very anxious in
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  Speaker 29: Arizona State will be the first Big 12 opponent to
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  Speaker 29: the Big 12 in 2011. Since joining the SEC, the
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  Speaker 29: Aggies are 3-2 against Big 12 opponents with all five
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  Speaker 29: contests coming in a bowl game. Coach Elko spoke about
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  Speaker 29: the challenges that Arizona State brings to the table this week.
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  Speaker 14: I'd like to win every game, and so I don't
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  Speaker 14: be a huge challenge for us. I think this is
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  Speaker 14: of people like to look at logos and think logos
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  Speaker 29: This week's game will be the Maroon and White's second
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  Speaker 29: Kickoff is set for 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: On Saturday.
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  Speaker 29: The A & M baseball team announced that Olsen Field
• 50:25
  Speaker 29: will host a pair of fall exhibition scrimmages, starting with
• 50:29
  Speaker 29: Rice on Friday night of October 2nd with first pitch
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  Speaker 29: slated for 6 o'clock. The second scrimmage will be against
• 50:36
  Speaker 29: McNeese on Friday, October 16th with first pitch set for
• 50:39
  Speaker 29: 7 p.m. Both exhibition games are scheduled the night prior
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  Speaker 29: to a pair of home Texas A & M football
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  Speaker 29: games against Arkansas in the Citadel, with admission to both
• 50:49
  Speaker 29: games at Bluebell Park being free. The Aggie volleyball team
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  Speaker 29: has had the last week off to regroup ahead of
• 50:55
  Speaker 29: the Shiner Children's Showdown at the net that the team
• 50:58
  Speaker 29: is headed to tomorrow night. Head coach Jamie Morrison shared
• 51:01
  Speaker 29: thoughts on the Aggies' recent games and losses.
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  Speaker 30: I think we're capable of beating both of those teams.
• 51:07
  Speaker 30: If you look at the Purdue match, we're up four
• 51:09
  Speaker 30: points in two of the sets. Not being able to
• 51:11
  Speaker 30: close was frustrating, and there were different things and different matches.
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  Speaker 30: I told our team, I remember having the thought last year,
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  Speaker 30: if all of this clicks at the same time, I
• 51:17
  Speaker 30: guess it One night, this is going well and this isn't.
• 51:20
  Speaker 30: And I always equate it to you feel like you're,
• 51:21
  Speaker 30: I don't know, on a ship that has a bunch
• 51:23
  Speaker 30: of holes and water's coming in.
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  Speaker 4: And you're like, oh, I'm going to go plug this one.
• 51:25
  Speaker 30: And then it's like the cartoon where that one goes.
• 51:26
  Speaker 30: And you're like, and then you have a tow in this.
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  Speaker 30: And hopefully by the end of the season, you got
• 51:30
  Speaker 30: them plugged and you're, I don't know, floating and flowing
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  Speaker 30: the way you should be. So I think it was
• 51:33
  Speaker 30: a little bit of that. And again, similar since last
• 51:36
  Speaker 30: year at times. So there's encouraging thoughts there, but it's frustrating.
• 51:39
  Speaker 30: and obviously you don't like losing. It's a tough schedule
• 51:42
  Speaker 30: to put together, so there's a piece of it that
• 51:44
  Speaker 30: comes with that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 51:46
  Speaker 30: I said at the very beginning of the season I
• 51:48
  Speaker 30: didn't think we'd come through unscathed, but I did think
• 51:50
  Speaker 30: we'd win some of these. So, yeah, encouraged and frustrated
• 51:54
  Speaker 30: all at the same time.
• 51:55
  Speaker 29: The Marin and White hit the road for tomorrow night's
• 51:57
  Speaker 29: match against Stanford with first serve set for 8 o'clock.
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  Speaker 29: That's your morning sports update on 1620-945-WTAW. I'm Riley Flurkey.
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  Speaker 4: that in my excitement, I forgot to tell you what
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  Speaker 4: this movie is actually called. I don't know if it
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  Speaker 4: was excitement or if it was... I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: Well, but you were just watching that video. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Matt, before we forget to answer again, it's
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  Speaker 1: called You Can See Everything.
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  Speaker 4: You Can See Everything. Going to be debuting at Telluride, apparently.
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  Speaker 4: I think it did. It did debut at Telluride. Some
• 53:18
  Speaker 4: people have seen it already.
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  Speaker 1: So we will find out more about that for sure.
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  Speaker 4: One of the reviews, as I quote, what the hell
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  Speaker 4: did I just watch?
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  Speaker 1: Literally, I cannot encourage you enough to watch that trailer
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: because as creepy as it sounded, Tucker made me watch it.
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, so much worse.
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: You've heard of RBF. Everybody knows what RBF is.
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, we do.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: This woman has RCF. She has resting crazy face. And
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: maybe not just when she's resting.
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  Speaker 4: No, I think it's all day. Well, you couldn't tell
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  Speaker 4: because she never closes her eyes. I think she sleeps
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  Speaker 4: like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm creeped out right now.
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  Speaker 4: It's incredible. And again, I cannot wait to see it.
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: We need to get a local premiere. Has he been
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: shooting this? Has anyone seen Camera Cruiser? How has he
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: secret shot this in town?
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: There were always reports of paparazzi and stuff over there.
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: Maybe he was snuck in with the rest of them.
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe he dressed up like a paparazzi.
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  Speaker 1: We'll keep it secret.
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: I need to know how they made a movie over
• 54:32
  Speaker 4: three years without anyone seeing them here.
• 54:34
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't all here.
• 54:36
  Speaker 4: A lot of it was elsewhere, too.
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  Speaker 1: That's true.
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