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The Infomaniacs: October 12th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Bryan
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  Speaker 1: ISD Superintendent Ginger Caribbean was named 2026 Texas Superintendent of
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  Speaker 1: the Year over the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Teachers, coaches, administrators, staff believed in me all along the
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  Speaker 2: way and changed my trajectory. I was able to overcome
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  Speaker 2: some obstacles in my life. And as a first-generation high
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  Speaker 2: school graduate, I felt confident. compelled to go back and
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  Speaker 2: to open the doors for others.
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  Speaker 1: The award was announced at the Texas Association of School
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  Speaker 1: Board Conference. Caribbean was given top honors out of the
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  Speaker 1: more than 1,200 districts across the state. Potential college-bound students
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  Speaker 1: and their families can apply to Texas colleges for free
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  Speaker 1: this week. Free College Application Week is a statewide initiative
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  Speaker 1: that helps Texas residents apply to public colleges at no cost.
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  Speaker 1: Created by Senate Bill 2231 during the 89th Texas Legislative Session,
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  Speaker 1: all public colleges and universities in Texas are required to
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  Speaker 1: waive admission application fees for Texas residents who are applying
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  Speaker 1: to undergraduate programs. There are no age restrictions. Free College
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  Speaker 1: Application Week runs through Sunday the 18th. Applications must be
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  Speaker 1: submitted by the deadline to qualify. Applications that are started
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  Speaker 1: but not submitted by the 18th are not eligible. Visit ApplyTexas.org.
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  Speaker 1: Five people were arrested early Sunday after a fight in
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  Speaker 1: Northgate that began inside Hurricane Harry's. Police arrived shortly after 2.30 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: to find two men fighting on the ground in the
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  Speaker 1: emergency vehicle lane near the Northgate Promenade parking lot. An
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  Speaker 1: altercation between 45-year-old Jason Wenzel of Lubbock and 22-year-old Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: Andrews of Universal City began inside Harry's, where Wenzel was ejected.
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  Speaker 1: Two women involved in a physical altercation were also arrested.
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  Speaker 1: 43-year-old Ashley Nicole Raines of Lubbock and 22-year-old Haley Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: Spurlock of Schertz. The four were charged with disorderly conduct fighting.
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  Speaker 1: 22-year-old Riley Nicole Paris of College Station was also detained
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  Speaker 1: after approaching officers and admitting involvement. She was charged with
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  Speaker 1: disorderly conduct involving an offensive gesture after shoving her hands
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  Speaker 1: into Wenzel's face. All were free on $ 300 personal recognizance bonds.
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  Speaker 1: Calls for a debate between Ken Paxton and James Tallarico
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  Speaker 1: now extend all the way to the White House.
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  Speaker 3: President Trump is now urging a debate between the two
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  Speaker 3: Texas Senate candidates. At this week's rally in San Antonio,
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  Speaker 3: Trump and Paxton poked fun at Tallarico's recent absence from
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  Speaker 3: the campaign trail due to a flu diagnosis. Trump called
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  Speaker 3: for Tallarico to show up for a debate on social media.
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  Speaker 3: Tallarico said the ball is in Paxton's court. Tallarico has
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  Speaker 3: agreed to a debate four different times, even urging Paxton
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  Speaker 3: to meet him on Fox News if that's what it takes. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 3: Paxton has not responded to any debate invitations. I'm Kristen Yates,
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  Speaker 3: TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Gas prices dodged a potential bullet from Hurricane Issa Issa.
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  Speaker 4: Hurricane Isaias has come and gone, and the Texas-based oil
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  Speaker 4: companies that evacuated their platforms out in the Gulf are
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  Speaker 4: turning the pumps back on this week.
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  Speaker 5: The offshore industry is very well prepared for these sorts
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  Speaker 5: of shutdowns, turnarounds, and restarts.
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  Speaker 4: University of Houston professor Ed Herz says the storm did
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  Speaker 4: not plow into the part of the Gulf where refineries operate,
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  Speaker 4: so there will not be a ripple effect that hits
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  Speaker 4: the gas pump. In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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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.
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  Speaker 6: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, gang. It's, uh, man, it is a
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  Speaker 6: rough Monday. I don't know what to, it's like a
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  Speaker 6: combination of allergies and football and like.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like a Monday when I was,
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  Speaker 1: you know, young enough to do stupid things and should
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  Speaker 1: have been old enough to know better. Yeah, hangover Monday. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's the way I feel. I didn't drink anything this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: A 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms today. Surprise!
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  Speaker 7: Surprise!
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Mostly sunny other than that with a high near 91.
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  Speaker 6: And then tonight, slight chance of rain low down into
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  Speaker 6: the 70s. We'll keep a 30% chance of showers in
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  Speaker 6: the forecast for tomorrow. Surprise again. Weather is brought to
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  Speaker 6: feel the difference. I was dead yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, completely.
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  Speaker 6: I was wrecked yesterday. I don't know what. And today,
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  Speaker 6: it's somehow worse.
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  Speaker 1: I started out dead yesterday morning and then did a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that made me more dead.
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  Speaker 6: I saw you were moving a safe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the wife's cousin-in-law, you know, the wife's family,
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  Speaker 1: large extended Italian Sicilian. So the wife's cousin-in-law. asked a
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  Speaker 1: while back if a bunch of us in the family
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  Speaker 1: could help him out. They had moved from Bernie to
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  Speaker 1: Katie a while back and had some stuff stored at
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  Speaker 1: his mother-in-law's house out at the family compound that we
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  Speaker 1: needed to move. So he, along with the wife's cousin,
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  Speaker 1: my step-cousin-in-law as well, a couple others, another cousin, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the bunch of guys that are in the family. We
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  Speaker 1: got together. I hooked up a trailer to the truck
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. The Thunder Lizard pulled the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: Not bad. We carried, there were four giant potted plants.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the kind that you can't reach around, right?
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  Speaker 8: Trees.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, we call them trees.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it was a lime tree. It was trees.
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  Speaker 1: It was trees.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And big, you know, like clay pots, whatever.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So those were heavy, but not horrible. The freezer, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's a freezer. Then we get to the
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  Speaker 1: gun safe.
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  Speaker 6: The gun, how much the gun safe weigh?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, there's heavier gun safes than
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  Speaker 1: this one was.
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  Speaker 6: I would think by design.
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  Speaker 1: They're fairly heavy.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they make them almost impossible to move.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I put it on the dolly, and I
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  Speaker 1: was trying to get it from the garage to the trailer.
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  Speaker 1: And I made it just about to the trailer, and
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  Speaker 1: I was the one sole person pulling it on the dolly.
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  Speaker 1: And everything was just, no, I'm done. So some people
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  Speaker 1: stepped in. We got it on there. And then on
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  Speaker 1: the loading of the barbecue pit... It wasn't bad because
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  Speaker 1: we could use the tractor and the forks to get
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  Speaker 1: it on the trail.
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  Speaker 6: The tractor and the forks.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big old barbecue pit. But getting it off
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  Speaker 1: and then deciding, after moving it around a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: that there was no gate that it was going to
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  Speaker 1: get through to get it into his backyard. Right. We
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  Speaker 1: put it in his garage. He's going to actually have
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  Speaker 1: to remove a piece of the fence and have us
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  Speaker 1: back over there to get it into the backyard. So, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then we had some good Mexican food and rolled
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  Speaker 1: back here. And I promptly... I mean, the minute I
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  Speaker 1: got home, I'm like, I got to lay down for
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  Speaker 1: a minute. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 6: See, I injured my back getting out of bed yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you're at that age now.
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  Speaker 6: Getting out of bed. I was getting out of bed
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  Speaker 6: to go and see, like, my family, my nieces in town.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, oh, yeah, I'll go meet them for lunch.
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  Speaker 6: Just sticks around to currently. Yeah, can't sleep, can't move.
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  Speaker 6: It's horrible. It's horrible. I wouldn't even pick up a
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  Speaker 6: gun safe. What happens if you're on the dolly and
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  Speaker 6: it just kind of overwhelms you? Does it splat you
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  Speaker 6: like in a Looney Tunes cartoon?
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  Speaker 1: I was heading up the ramp, essentially, to the backside
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  Speaker 1: of the trailer when I was done. So it was
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  Speaker 1: at a good angle where I could lay it down.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, okay. Yeah, because I feel like that's very Wile E. Coyote.
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  Speaker 6: A lot of Wile E. Coyote potential there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, some serious Coyote vibes there.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the safe did not fall on us. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure just about everybody. And we had a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people helping out, thank God. How many humans did you have? One, two, three, four, five,
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  Speaker 1: five or six of us. Six?
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  Speaker 5: Six.
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  Speaker 11: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: We needed every one of us. I salute every single
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  Speaker 6: one of y'all for still attempting to do the thing
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  Speaker 6: that we did in college where it's like, hey, when
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  Speaker 6: you move, you just go help your friends move. Whenever
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  Speaker 6: anyone's been over, I move. I just call.
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  Speaker 1: Call, man.
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  Speaker 6: Call someone else.
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  Speaker 1: After the first time you've done it, you'll never go back.
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  Speaker 6: How much money do you want?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all of it.
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  Speaker 6: Take it. I'll see y'all when it's done.
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  Speaker 12: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning, guys. Infomaniacs. You can call us, call us,
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  Speaker 6: or text 979-695-1620. You went to the game on Friday.
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  Speaker 1: I did. I did go to the game, and I
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  Speaker 1: did catch a 12-minute nap on Friday. Exactly 12-minute nap.
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  Speaker 2: Gross.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just enough to really hurt more than
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  Speaker 1: it helped, I guess. I got there with no problem.
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  Speaker 1: We went out and had a nice dinner. We got
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  Speaker 1: to the game in plenty of time. In fact, we
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  Speaker 1: were fairly early, so we got a pretty good parking spot.
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  Speaker 16: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Which was great for what happened about halftime. When I
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  Speaker 1: looked at my beautiful wife and I said, sweetheart, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to the truck. Because otherwise, if I don't go
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  Speaker 1: catch some sleep, there's going to be a fatality involving
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  Speaker 1: us on the way home.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why that's not your go-to. Just send
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  Speaker 6: them into the stadium and then just pass out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, that's possible. And I may try to
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  Speaker 1: do that again sometime. However, I did not plan this.
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  Speaker 1: But it worked out so that I went to the truck.
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  Speaker 1: I put on our broadcast of the game. Oh, good.
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  Speaker 1: On the app.
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  Speaker 6: I believe it was Jared and Jason.
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  Speaker 17: On the call.
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  Speaker 1: It was Jared and Jason on the call Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: And I fell asleep before the end of halftime.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, not bad.
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  Speaker 1: I woke up with just over two minutes left to
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  Speaker 1: go in the game.
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  Speaker 6: Boy, you couldn't have picked a better time to come
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  Speaker 6: back to life, could you?
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  Speaker 1: Not only was my parking spot really convenient to the
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  Speaker 1: front gate, I also had a view of about 95%
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  Speaker 1: of the video board.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 1: So I could listen and watch at the same time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, just sit there and enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Aggie fan in me says that I
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  Speaker 1: have to continue doing that because we won, so I
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  Speaker 1: have to do it again.
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  Speaker 6: So you heard the call? I heard the call, watched it.
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  Speaker 6: I saw this text from Jason Smith when I got in.
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  Speaker 6: Jason Cornelius is such a homer, but it is absolutely
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  Speaker 6: awesome to listen to him calling the College Station Games.
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  Speaker 6: Both of those statements....
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 6: And again, I actually love a good homer.
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  Speaker 1: In high school ball, yeah, you're supposed to be a homer.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I'm looking for. I want to listen to
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  Speaker 6: two dudes who actually are invested in the game, like
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  Speaker 6: calling the team.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 6: But that said, I didn't hear... The call, and if
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  Speaker 6: you are unfamiliar with how Consol won, do you want
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  Speaker 6: a clue?
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  Speaker 1: No, go ahead.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know as much about it. I know that
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  Speaker 6: there were two plays that were incredibly freak plays in
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  Speaker 6: the last minute of the game.
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  Speaker 1: So we were up. We went up with just over
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  Speaker 1: two minutes left. About the time I woke up was
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  Speaker 1: about the time we went up, from what I understand.
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  Speaker 1: And then essentially it was a battle to prevent them
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  Speaker 1: from scoring.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 1: For the last two minutes. And there were some fantastic
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  Speaker 1: defensive plays.
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  Speaker 19: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Some real efforts going on there.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: In those last two minutes. And we held on to win.
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  Speaker 6: On a scale of one to completely unhinged, what was
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  Speaker 6: the final call?
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  Speaker 1: It was pretty unhinged.
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  Speaker 9: Oh.
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  Speaker 6: See, I've been looking for it, and I have no
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  Speaker 6: idea where to find it. It's got to be in
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  Speaker 6: the system somewhere, right?
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  Speaker 1: It has to be.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to try to figure this out, because I
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  Speaker 6: need to know how unglued Jason and Jared would have
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  Speaker 6: come when.
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  Speaker 1: This was going on. I texted them after the end
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  Speaker 1: of the game. uh from the parking lot up to
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  Speaker 1: the press box and i said jared do you know
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  Speaker 1: where the defibrillator.
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  Speaker 6: Is holy cow it was good i need to hear
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  Speaker 6: this thing uh so congrats to consol what else do
• 14:43
  Speaker 6: we have to celebrate today on the 12th of october
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  Speaker 6: 2026 well first off it's a national holiday today just
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  Speaker 6: not the kind that you get off because columbus day
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  Speaker 6: a lot of people do yeah some states.
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  Speaker 1: Some states, it's an.
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  Speaker 6: Banks?
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  Speaker 1: Banks, I think, are probably closed today.
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  Speaker 6: Banks are probably in the.
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  Speaker 1: You know, a bank will take any excuse, right?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. And, yeah, you also have the option of doing
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  Speaker 6: the Indigenous People's Day or whatever, however you choose to.
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  Speaker 1: In Oklahoma, they do it.
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  Speaker 6: They do.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they actually make it a state holiday. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: for the most part, Texas just has never seen fit
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  Speaker 6: to make this a day that you just.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because it's fine.
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: Frankly, I'll take the day somewhere else, which is what
• 15:33
  Speaker 6: a lot of places do. Oh, you're going to give
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: me a day off in the middle of October. OK,
• 15:38
  Speaker 6: that's kind of cool. You know, I'd really like I'd
• 15:40
  Speaker 6: really like that day to fall on like Thanksgiving Friday.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: Right. Yeah.
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: So everyone gets a mandated four day weekend. That would
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: be pretty sweet. But, yeah, celebrate however you you feel
• 15:51
  Speaker 6: fits for for Columbus Day. International Moment of Frustration Scream Day.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Hmm.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: This is a holiday that encourages people to release frustration
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: with a good, loud, primal scream.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: The primal scream therapy has started coming back in the
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: group setting. There are groups that will meet in city parks,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: scenic locations.
• 16:19
  Speaker 6: True.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: They will get together. And they will scream at the
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: top of their lungs.
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: And you'll just get it all out.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: For me, that's not a public thing. I mean, there
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: have been times that I've decided to exercise my right
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: to the primal scream therapy. And I mean, maybe it
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: makes me feel a little better. Typically, it's in the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: car or maybe on the back 40 of the place,
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: you know?
• 16:41
  Speaker 6: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I don't really want it. I don't want it witnessed.
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: That's the thing. If you're going to scream into the void,
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: I think you want to do it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: You need a void.
• 16:48
  Speaker 17: Yeah.
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: It doesn't work if there's people around you.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: It's just garnering attention if you're doing it in a
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: group setting.
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: Now, that said, if you want to try, I will
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: be willing to give anyone a full 10 seconds to
• 17:01
  Speaker 6: scream into the void of the airwaves and let everybody
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: hear it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Now, look, that's pretty heady. That's pretty rare that you
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: get to do a primal scream that is broadcast.
• 17:12
  Speaker 6: To the world. Exactly. We will enhance your primal scream
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: with however many thousands of watts that we pump out
• 17:18
  Speaker 6: through this thing every single day. 979-695-1620. No, no problem
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: if you're cool with it.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: If you're not, that's fine. And if you want to
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: tell us what the straw that broke the camel's back
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: was that gets you, yeah, that's fine, too. You don't
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: have to.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: I would be interested to know what level of frustration
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: would push you to go into primal scream territory. But, look,
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: feel free. The phone lines are always open for you guys.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: National Farmers Day, a day to salute the people who
• 17:44
  Speaker 6: produce America's food and fiber and agricultural commodities. It's a
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: very appropriate month to celebrate, obviously, somewhat coinciding with harvest.
• 17:54
  Speaker 6: It is harvest in some parts of the country. But, yeah, it's, again.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Thank a farmer every day.
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: Get a load of this. According to the 2022 Census
• 18:03
  Speaker 6: of Agriculture, the United States has over 1.9 million farms
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: operating today. 1.9 million farms. Not the people that work
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: on them. That just the farm.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Which is probably a lower number than it was a
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: couple of decades ago.
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: Sadly true. Family farms account for roughly 95% to this day.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: Salute.
• 18:30
  Speaker 6: Of American farms. And Texas leads the nation in the
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: total number of farms and ranches. Now you're going to
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: be like, well, you guys are cheating because you're so
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: dang big. So what, man? Still a win.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Very cool. And, of course, never forget, agriculture encompasses way
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: more than food. Cotton, it's agriculture. Timber, agriculture. Animal feed, agriculture. Biofuels, agriculture.
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: And numerous industrial products all depend on the process and production.
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: the stability of the American farmer. So like you said, Will, solid.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Without the farmer, I could not enjoy tofu later.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Absolutely true. National Gumbo Day.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I was hoping you were going to include that.
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: I certainly am. One of Louisiana's signature dishes. That's... Just
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: trying to be subtle here. It's the signature dish.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I will say it's one of them.
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: There are other treasures. I mean, you've got to make touffee. Yeah,
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: from Louisiana. But gumbo is on another level. And, you know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: where do you get the best gumbo?
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: My house.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Probably, yeah. It's probably some dude you know.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Chances are good.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: It's like, we don't really have a go-to gumbo spot here.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: There's some good gumbos here.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: There's a couple I've been to. but it's one of
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: the only foods that you stand a way better chance
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: of knowing somebody that could make gumbo better than you'll be.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Able to get anywhere else in the world. That's right.
• 19:58
  Speaker 6: And, Will, I don't know why you're not taking advantage
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: of Canadian Thanksgiving, but it is. It's literally the same thing.
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: Just in Canada. Did you know they've been celebrating Canadian
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: Thanksgiving on this day since like 1578?
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: So they've been wrong that long. Well, yeah.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: Think about the genius of this, though. Christmas can't overrun Thanksgiving.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's that. And I have a problem with that.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: If you put Thanksgiving before Halloween. That's true. I mean,
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: there's way too much distance between it. And there's nothing
• 20:28
  Speaker 6: saying you can't celebrate Thanksgiving twice. There really isn't. Celebrate
• 20:33
  Speaker 6: Canadian Thanksgiving and give thanks you're not a Canadian.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: There it is.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: Mind blown.
• 20:38
  Speaker 6: Turkey, dressing, all the usual stuff.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: They eat the same things for their Thanksgiving?
• 20:43
  Speaker 6: Not a chance. They have poutine or butter tarts. Tour
• 20:48
  Speaker 6: de France. I'm not sure what any of these things are,
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: but they do have turkey stuff and potatoes.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Okay. So they got the basics.
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: Let's talk birthdays.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Let's talk birthdays today. Celebrating a birthday today, College Station
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: City Councilman and mayoral candidate Bob Yancey.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: Happy birthday, Bob.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Celebrating a birthday today.
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Salute.
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Josh Hutcherson is 34. PETA in The Hunger Games.
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Mike Schmidt in Five Nights at Freddy's movies. Tyler Blackburn
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: is 40. Caleb on Pretty Little Liars. The Wife Inc.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: daughters got into that show i think over the summer
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: no doubt marion jones is 51 you will remember the
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: track and field athlete admitted steroid injector she returned the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: five gold medals she won in the sydney olympics in
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: 2000 i remember this kurt cameron is 56 years old
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: today Best known as Mike Seaver on Growing Pains.
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: And also got super rich making Christian movies.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he really went into that genre. We're all in.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And is he working with the Angel Network, too? I
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: think he is.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: I believe he has a piece of that, which, again, his... Jeez.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: What a great thing that is.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, like a very cool model.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very cool. He's celebrating today. Marty McGuire is 56
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: of the Dixie Chicks. Correct. Hugh Jackman is 58. Mm-hmm.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: We've heard of that guy, right?
• 22:05
  Speaker 8: Crazy.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Is he more appreciated for Wolverine or for the musical?
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: Wolverine.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I think so, too. Believe it or not, there's some
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: people out there that don't like musicals.
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: I think that's sad.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: It is sad.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: I can't imagine living a life like that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: On to the stiffs, shall we? Sam Moore was born
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: on this date in 1935. You know him as Sam
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: of Sam and Dave.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: The R & B Legends Hall of Famers. Dick Gregory
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: was born on this date in 1932, before Richard Pryor,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: before Eddie Murphy, before Martin Lawrence, Chris Rock, and all
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: these guys.
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: There was Dick Gregory.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: There was Dick Gregory. And born on this date in 1935,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Luciano Pavarotti. Holy moly. Really the first opera singer that
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I was ever really aware of.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah. You call him... He was kind of an opera superstar.
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: I'm not an opera guy. I would say the goat
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: of opera.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Because he's... Like you said... I just don't know that.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, now after him, you, you know, there's a
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: few of them out there that you'll, you.
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: Could recognize, but like, keep in mind, he also, I
• 23:04
  Speaker 6: think what really helps, he looks like he should be
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: an opera.
• 23:07
  Speaker 20: Oh yeah.
• 23:07
  Speaker 6: Back in the day, he looked like the dude who
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: would be out there belting it out on stage.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Like, yeah, yeah.
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: He can't do better than that guy. All right, we're
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: going to take a break. We'll talk news coming up
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: next on WTAW.
• 23:18
  Speaker 21: Charles Schwartner has a record of fighting for Texas and
• 23:22
  Speaker 21: delivering results. He took on human traffickers and protected our kids.
• 23:26
  Speaker 21: He passed safeguards against dangerous uses of AI, and he
• 23:30
  Speaker 21: fought for Texas energy production to bring down prices at
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• 23:40
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  Speaker 21: Charles Schwartner, a proven leader for Texas. political ad paid
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  Speaker 20: $ 2 million of taxpayer money. In 24, Mayor Gutierrez voted
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  Speaker 20: to approve a $ 2 million loan for the Shulman Project
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  Speaker 20: at Midtown Park. At the time, he said, we're going
• 23:57
  Speaker 20: to get the money back and then some. Well, the
• 23:59
  Speaker 20: loan came due July, and it wasn't paid back. When
• 24:02
  Speaker 20: taxpayer money is on the line, promises aren't enough. We
• 24:04
  Speaker 20: need performance benchmarks and strong clawback provisions. City Hall is
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  Speaker 25: A.I.
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  Speaker 19: And online predators are creating new threats for our children
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  Speaker 19: every day. As a father, Paul Dyson knows how dangerous
• 26:26
  Speaker 19: these platforms can be. That's why he passed a law
• 26:29
  Speaker 19: stopping big tech and predators from targeting Texas children. And
• 26:33
  Speaker 19: he passed legislation blocking AI from being used as a
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  Speaker 19: weapon against our kids. State Representative Paul Dyson is protecting
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• 26:47
  Speaker 26: Before you drive on the highways and back roads to
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  Speaker 26: follow your favorite team this fall, stop by Sevchek Service Center.
• 26:53
  Speaker 26: Sevchek's been keeping Brazos Valley residents safe on the road
• 26:56
  Speaker 26: for well over 50 years. Whether it's a road safety check, tires,
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• 27:02
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  Speaker 24: Aggieland Roofing is proud to promote Breast Cancer Awareness Month
• 27:22
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  Speaker 24: month of October to Pink Alliance, Brazos Valley's very own
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• 27:29
  Speaker 24: local women and urge every woman to get a mammogram.
• 27:31
  Speaker 24: Commercial or residential, make Aggieland Roofing your roofer. And remember,
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  Speaker 24: during the month of October, Aggieland Roofing is donating a
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  Speaker 24: portion of every roof sold to Pink Alliance, Brazos Valley.
• 27:40
  Speaker 24: Thank you for your support. Shop local, shop licensed, and
• 27:42
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• 27:45
  Speaker 19: AI, big tech, and online predators are creating new threats
• 27:49
  Speaker 19: for our children every day. As a father, Paul Dyson
• 27:53
  Speaker 19: knows how dangerous these platforms can be. That's why he
• 27:56
  Speaker 19: passed a law stopping big tech and predators from targeting
• 28:00
  Speaker 19: Texas children. And he passed legislation blocking AI from being
• 28:03
  Speaker 19: used as a weapon against our kids. State Representative Paul
• 28:07
  Speaker 19: Dyson is protecting our kids and keeping Texas strong and safe.
• 28:11
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• 28:14
  Speaker 26: Before you drive on the highways and back roads to
• 28:17
  Speaker 26: follow your favorite team this fall, stop by Sevchek Service Center.
• 28:21
  Speaker 26: Sevchek's been keeping Brazos Valley residents safe on the road
• 28:24
  Speaker 26: for well over 50 years. Whether it's a road safety check, tires,
• 28:28
  Speaker 26: oil changes, or something.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: A little more complicated.
• 28:31
  Speaker 26: Pat and his staff have the experience and commitment that
• 28:34
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• 28:37
  Speaker 26: across town or across the country. SEPTEC Service Center, 2200 Longmire,
• 28:42
  Speaker 26: just down from the post office in College Station.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: We're in the CC Electric studio, powering your peace of mind,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: powering all of the Brazos Valley. CCElectricBCS.com. Good morning from
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Three people are dead
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: and three others injured after a head-on crash on Highway 105.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Two cars collided on 105 just west of the Brazos
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: River around 5.30 p.m. Thursday when a vehicle attempted to
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: pass in a no-passing zone. The driver and passenger in
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: the car that were hit were pronounced dead on scene.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: They've been identified as 70-year-old Wallace Perry and 70-year-old Gloria Sanders,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: both of Washington. A passenger in the car that made
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the illegal pass was also pronounced dead on scene. She
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was identified as 18-year-old Brooklyn Amini of Cyprus, the driver
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: 19-year-old Kayla Bravo of Cyprus, and two additional passengers, 18-year-old
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Catherine Atwell of Montgomery and 18-year-old Layla Aljaoudi of Cyprus,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: were airlifted to Memorial Hermann Hospital with serious injuries. Bryan
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: ISD Superintendent Ginger Karabin has been named the 2026 Texas
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Superintendent of the Year.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Ms.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Karabin was recognized at the Texas Association of School Boards
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: conference on Saturday. Karabin was one of five finalists from
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: more than 1,200 public school district superintendents throughout the state.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: The comment period to submit comments to TxDOT on the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: proposed routes of I-14 and Loop 214 ends today. I-14
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: through our area will run from Rogers in Bell County
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: to Huntsville in Walker County. When visiting the corridor study website,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: you can enter your address and it will zoom into
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the exact address and location, showing an overlay of the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: route in relation to your address. You can also view
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: others' online comments. You can submit comments through mail, email, phone,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: or online. We've got all the information on our website
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. If you notice less traffic on the roadways
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: this week, it's because it's fall break for many public schools,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: including Bryan and College Station ISDs. It may be particularly
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: quiet today as most government offices are closed in observance
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: of Columbus Day. Starting today, you can apply to all
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: public colleges in Texas without an application fee.
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: Because this week, applying won't cost a thing. David Troutman
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: at the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board says most applications
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: are usually $ 75 each, so it's a great week to
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: apply to more than one university. UT, Texas A & M,
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: and Texas Tech are just some of the state's public schools.
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: He says last year.
• 31:18
  Speaker 6: We had over 260,000 applications submitted just in that one week.
• 31:23
  Speaker 6: That resulted in saving Texas families millions of dollars.
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: Submit applications at applytexas.org. The deadline to take advantage ends
• 31:32
  Speaker 7: Sunday at midnight. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: If you don't have the time to commit to a
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: role on the City Council, but you still want to
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: make a difference, now is the time. The City of
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: College Station is hosting a seminar this evening on how
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  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. The Pentagon is receiving bipartisan pushback to its
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  Speaker 6: You can also text us. One thing that you guys
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  Speaker 6: don't really do a lot of, which I wish, if
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  Speaker 6: I could just make a small note.
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  Speaker 1: A little suggestion.
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  Speaker 6: Voice notes?
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  Speaker 27: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I get to hear you.
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  Speaker 6: I know. Like, I can read your text message and
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Will can read your text message. We can't do it.
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  Speaker 6: And we can't do it with your passion. Send us
• 37:27
  Speaker 6: a voice note via text. And it works. It works great.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: I can hit play. And we were talking about basically
• 37:37
  Speaker 6: the holiday of screaming into the abyss, which is going
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: on today. And Jay said he he wanted the opportunity.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: He took advantage.
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  Speaker 10: So Saturday morning, just finished watching game day. Everything was cool.
• 37:52
  Speaker 10: I'm really calm. And 11 o'clock came. Aggie kickoff. Good interception.
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  Speaker 10: And then for the next 10 minutes of the game
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  Speaker 10: till the final.
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  Speaker 1: Whistle, it was.
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  Speaker 20: No!
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  Speaker 10: No!
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  Speaker 17: No!
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  Speaker 24: Why?
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  Speaker 20: Why?
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  Speaker 27: No!
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  Speaker 6: You see, I... Can't debate it.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Jay was holding back in his recreation.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: And I don't want you to do that. I mean,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: we want it as real as possible.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't want the recreation. I want the actual primal.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Jay, for sharing.
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: We greatly appreciate it. And feel free. Send us send
• 38:41
  Speaker 6: us yours. As long as you're talking Aggie football, do
• 38:43
  Speaker 6: you want to talk about the you want to talk
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: about the and I quote, not me, not my personal quote,
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: but Mike Elko's quote, Billy cesspool.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So the quote, the quote during the press conference
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: here from Coach Elko. There's a difference to me between
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: fan base and social media. There's one group I don't
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: care much about. You know, Billy's cesspool can be Billy's cesspool.
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  Speaker 1: Our fan base, stay with us, be behind us. And
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I get it. I understand. He's in a really tough spot.
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  Speaker 1: And I respect Mike Elko as a man. I think
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: he's a great person. He has a great family. And
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I respect him as a football coach, but any great
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: football coach can find themselves in some pretty untenable situations.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: And admittedly, some of those are of his own making.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's part of the... You'll hear every coach say, yeah,
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: it's all on me.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: And a lot of times, in the back of their mind,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: they're going, yeah, well, it's not really. In this case,
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I think he actually feels it. I.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: Okay, so there's upsides and downsides of doing any job.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: The job he's particularly doing, I'll give you the upside first.
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: An obscene amount of money.
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: Like money to where your kids.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: Generationally life-changing money.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: It'll change your family's life for a hundred years or more,
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: the amount of money that you can make. Also, the
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: fact that when you make that amount of money, they
• 40:16
  Speaker 6: actually have to pay it to you. It's not like, oh, well,
• 40:18
  Speaker 6: this next year might get dicey.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: No.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: For whatever reason, we've chosen just to cart Blanche back
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: up the Brinks truck to every coach that does this
• 40:27
  Speaker 6: at this level's house and make them a wealthy man
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: beyond what most of us can comprehend as well. That's
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: the upside. The downside is.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: If you aren't winning football games, I would imagine your
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: life becomes an unmitigated hell on earth. It has to.
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: Every time you walk out of your house, God knows,
• 40:57
  Speaker 6: for previous coaches, you had people that would stick signs
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: in their yard.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: It's been known to happen.
• 41:02
  Speaker 6: For sale signs. I believe that happened to Coach Fran
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: a couple of times. Maybe some of the other ones, too.
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: I mean, and look. He's out of line, but, and
• 41:14
  Speaker 6: I mean this with love in my heart, fellas. He's
• 41:16
  Speaker 6: not wrong. He's like, I, it, I'm not saying it's,
• 41:22
  Speaker 6: I'm not saying that, that the people on techs actually
• 41:25
  Speaker 6: bad people i'm saying they're probably the most passionate texas
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: you can you're.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Free to think that but when you're in the coach's
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: position like that yeah it's a you file that under
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the the category of don't believe i just said that
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: no no you think about because you and i were
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: talking about it and and look coach elko would not
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: be coaching here had it not been for texas.
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: This is important and for those of you that don't
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: live on the boards you must You must remember this.
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Mark Stoops was the original hire.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: He was on the way.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: It was locked and loaded. It was done. Tex-Ax posters
• 41:58
  Speaker 6: found out about it, and they started raising hell.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: And rightfully so.
• 42:02
  Speaker 6: Because it seemed like that was not the pick that
• 42:05
  Speaker 6: we wanted. It was not the hire that we wanted.
• 42:07
  Speaker 6: And they got him unhired. Unhired. A dude who they
• 42:12
  Speaker 6: basically said, okay, we're going to bring you in. We're
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: going to give you millions and millions of dollars. They
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: had to re- If you can do that as a
• 42:19
  Speaker 6: website audience, that's a pretty powerful fan base. And I
• 42:24
  Speaker 6: would also say this. I fully believe that unless you
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: actually matter as a college football program, you're not going
• 42:34
  Speaker 6: to have one of those. Most programs don't have a Tex-Ex.
• 42:38
  Speaker 6: All the ones that you want to be, Michigan, Alabama,
• 42:43
  Speaker 6: Notre Dame.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: LSU has a big board.
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: LSU.
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: All of them have a message board online or some
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: version of that.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: But none of them hold a candle to Tex-Ax.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: The Tex-Ax is the biggest, shiniest one.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: It's an 800-pound gorilla in that world.
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: You know, again, I don't think you can separate that
• 43:03
  Speaker 6: from what your real life— I mean, that's your— I' m sorry.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: That's your fan base. That's the core. The P1s, as
• 43:13
  Speaker 6: we say in the broadcasting world. What does he do
• 43:17
  Speaker 6: about this now?
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: I suspect that we will see pretty early this week
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: an apology coming from Coach.
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: That's the move right there. Just say you were having
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: a bad day. Absolutely. Everyone will understand that.
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: I do.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean that you still aren't accountable for
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: what's going on.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I think that the coach knows parts of what's going
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: on at least, but he can't publicly talk about them.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: He could if he was a different man.
• 43:43
  Speaker 6: But it's not to be done. I think we can
• 43:45
  Speaker 6: all agree.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: You don't throw anybody else under the bus publicly.
• 43:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's no reason to get in front of a
• 43:51
  Speaker 6: mic and tell every single person that's screwing up and why.
• 43:54
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: You just said, we're working on it. But there also
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: might not be a solution that you can.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Put into play. I don't think there is a solution
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: this year.
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: I don't. I'd be amazed.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: I mean. It would be a miraculous sort of thing.
• 44:09
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• 44:11
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• 46:16
  Speaker 8: They're out there just waiting to be rediscovered, but until
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  Speaker 8: see behind you and your relatives in all those family photos.
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  Speaker 8: We're going to start with Italian Jasmine. This is one
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: of the most durable of all landscaping shrubs in Texas.
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  Speaker 8: It grows to four to five feet tall and five
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  Speaker 8: or six or seven feet wide. Its leaves are the
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  Speaker 8: darkest dark green of any landscaping shrub and it's almost
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  Speaker 8: never bothered by insect disease, soil or climatic problems. I've
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  Speaker 8: seen a problem with it. It's a wonderfully soft arching
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: plant visually so it works well in covering sloping areas,
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  Speaker 8: also as a relief to taller, coarse textured shrubs. It
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  Speaker 8: grows quickly and it tolerates everything from full sun to
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  Speaker 8: moderately heavy shade. It produces multitudes of small yellow blossoms
• 47:12
  Speaker 8: from late winter on. It's not showy, but it's always gorgeous.
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: Then there's primrose jasmine. If you want something just a
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: little bit larger, go with this evergreen shrub. Like its sister,
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: Italian jasmine, primrose jasmine is arching. But it gets five
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: or six feet tall and six or seven feet wide,
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: a little bit bigger than Italian Jasmine. It has larger,
• 47:32
  Speaker 8: lighter green foliage, and the flowers are considerably larger and double.
• 47:36
  Speaker 8: More than one row of petals, it's reliably winter hardy
• 47:39
  Speaker 8: in the southern two-thirds of the state. It deserves much
• 47:42
  Speaker 8: wider planting. Its flowers really are showy. Oh, one of
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: my favorites of all time is Chinese Photinia. Just when
• 47:49
  Speaker 8: you thought you'd give up on Photinias forever because of
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: the disease problems, you realize there's been an old standby
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: waiting in the wings. Chinese Fotenia has been in our
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: landscapes for a century or more. It doesn't have the
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: coppery new growth that red tip does, but it also
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: doesn't have those problems. It grows best in full or
• 48:07
  Speaker 8: nearly full sun. It'll get 15 to 20 feet tall.
• 48:10
  Speaker 8: The main problem is availability. Your best bet would be
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: to find chance seedlings and then grow your own. It
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: does have powdery mildew problems in the spring that red
• 48:18
  Speaker 8: tip doesn't have, But the fungal leaf spot that's just
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: killing red-tipped photinias does not bother Chinese photinia. Oh, and
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: a couple of plants that I like a lot, and
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: I don't really have much time to talk about them,
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: standard nandina, the old-fashioned standard nandina, and glossy abelia. I'm
• 48:34
  Speaker 8: Neal Sperry, the least planned part of your landscape, probably.
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: I'll have details in our next Plant Talk Texas. Until then,
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: happy gardening.
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  Speaker 28: Good morning, I'm Riley Flurkey with your morning sports update
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  Speaker 28: the weekend, the Aggie football team fell 27-6 to Missouri.
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  Speaker 28: All six of the Aggies' points came from kicker David Alano,
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  Speaker 28: who kicked his third field goal over 50 yards. Head
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  Speaker 28: coach Mike Elko recapped the game.
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  Speaker 9: Just another extremely disappointing road performance. You know, completely unable
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  Speaker 9: to get anything going on offense. Couldn't consistently establish any
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  Speaker 9: facet of the game, and that made it really hard.
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  Speaker 9: You know, thought the defense hung in there for a
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  Speaker 9: while and played, you know, solid football for a while, but,
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  Speaker 9: you know, ultimately I think we wore down, and that's
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  Speaker 9: the story of the game. And so we've got to
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  Speaker 9: We've got to go back to the drawing board and
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  Speaker 9: figure this out because it's not nearly good enough, and
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  Speaker 9: that's me. Again, I own every part of this, and
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  Speaker 9: so it's where we're at.
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  Speaker 28: Up next, the Maroon and White are back at Kyle
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  Speaker 28: Field on Saturday afternoon for their final non-conference game of
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  Speaker 28: the season against the Citadel with kickoff set for noon.
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  Speaker 28: The 12th-ranked Aggie volleyball team dropped a four-set decision versus
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  Speaker 28: Arkansas yesterday afternoon. After Arkansas came out as the aggressors
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  Speaker 28: in the game, winning the first two sets, staying close
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  Speaker 28: within the third, and ultimately winning the fourth set to
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  Speaker 28: beat the Ags. Up next, the Aggies return to Reed
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  Speaker 28: Arena to host the Florida Gators on Friday night with
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  Speaker 28: first serve set for 6 o'clock. The A & M
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  Speaker 28: baseball team dropped a 9-5 decision to Rice in Friday's
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  Speaker 28: 14-inning scrimmage from Olsen Field. The Aggies used 15 position
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  Speaker 28: players and 14 pitchers. Clayton Freshcorn earned the starting nod,
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  Speaker 28: punching out four batters while only allowing one run in
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  Speaker 28: two innings of work. The Marin and White also tallied
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  Speaker 28: 10 hits and drew six walks. Up next, the Aggies
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  Speaker 28: will conclude their fall exhibition slate on Friday night, hosting
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  Speaker 28: McNeese with first serve set for 7 o'clock. The A
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  Speaker 28: & M softball team turned in a 9-1 win in
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  Speaker 28: their second fall exhibition game over Temple College on Friday
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  Speaker 28: at Davis Diamond. The Aggies collected nine hits in the
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  Speaker 28: 10-inning victory, including five extra base hits with four home runs,
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  Speaker 28: while five pitchers limited the Leopards to four hits and
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  Speaker 28: struck 12. Up next, the Maroon and White returned to
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  Speaker 28: action on Thursday, October 22nd for a matchup with McLennan
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  Speaker 28: Community College with first pitch set for 6 p.m. In
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  Speaker 28: high school football, A & M Consolidated won their game 49-47.
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  Speaker 28: College Station beat Killeen 57-38. Bryan lost their game 62-10
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  Speaker 28: against Midway. Rudder fell in their game to Belton.
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  Speaker 6: Losing 42-15.
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  Speaker 28: Navasota beat Royal 21-13. Brazos Christian won their game 49-6.
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  Speaker 28: Caldwell winded up pulling off a double overtime win against
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  Speaker 28: McGregor with the final score being 42-40, and Franklin won
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