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The Infomaniacs: June 30, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm chin at Menchow.
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Speaker 1: The Brasses County Health District says they've detected the first
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Speaker 1: mosquitos this summer that attested positively bless Now virus. Infected
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Speaker 1: mosquitoes were found in two traps, both in College Station
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Speaker 1: seven seven eight four five. While most people who are
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Speaker 1: exposed to west Now do not get sick, about twenty
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Speaker 1: percent will develop symptoms, including headaches and fatigue. Measures to
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Speaker 1: reduce exposure to mosquitoes include wearing long, loose and light
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Speaker 1: colored clothing went outside, and draining any standing water on
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Speaker 1: the property. A twenty three year old Brownsville man is
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Speaker 1: in the Browss County jail after leading law enforcement on
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Speaker 1: a lengthy pursuit of Highway six over the weekend. That
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Speaker 1: chase started in Brian and ended just south of Marlin.
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Speaker 1: The arrest report from the Sheriff's office says this began
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Speaker 1: Saturday at two in the morning when a deputy attempted
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Speaker 1: to stop the car for tailights that were not working.
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Speaker 1: Several attempts were made to stop the car using spike
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Speaker 1: strips along Highway six in Herne, Calvert, and Reagan, but
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Speaker 1: that proved unsuccessful. When the car eventually came it ame
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Speaker 1: to a stop, three of the four tires were flat,
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Speaker 1: and the driver was arrested for evading law enforcement and DUI.
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Speaker 1: A Brian man admits to sexually assaulting a child multiple
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Speaker 1: times over several years and taking photos of what he did.
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Speaker 1: A family member of the victims says the punishment given
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Speaker 1: to thirty eight year old Jason Wayne Davis was not enough.
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Speaker 1: The Brasses County DA's office said they spoke with the
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Speaker 1: victims family before entering into a plea agreement, but the
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Speaker 1: family told WTAW that they never would have agreed to
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Speaker 1: the forty year sentence. Instead, they thought it would be
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Speaker 1: seventy five years. The family member says, the victim, who
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Speaker 1: was seven years old when the two years of assaults began,
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Speaker 1: will always have to deal with sexual predators. Looking at
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Speaker 1: images and videos that Davis posted online, the College Station
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Speaker 1: City Council learns why staff changed their minds on where
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Speaker 1: to start rebuilding critic tap road from Freeway to Texas
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Speaker 1: to the other way around.
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Speaker 2: The reason for this we originally planned the other way
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Speaker 2: because of timing, which you're trying to make sure that
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Speaker 2: the section over by Central Park and Dartmouth is all
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Speaker 2: complete well ahead of the Christmas time and Christmas Parade.
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Speaker 3: The Christmas Parade will be on that end of it.
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Speaker 4: You'll have both sides done.
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 1: The status of construction on Critic Tap was part of
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Speaker 1: Capital Project's director Jennifer Kaine's semi annual update at the
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Speaker 1: last council meeting.
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Speaker 2: In the coming months, we're going to have maybe some
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Speaker 2: one way traffic going through the Dartmouth intersection as we
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Speaker 2: kind of make those connections with some of the utilities
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Speaker 2: that fall under that, but they are planned to be
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Speaker 2: complete in spring next year.
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Speaker 1: Replacing the pavement and utility lines on Critic Tap is
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Speaker 1: one of sixty nine projects underway in College Station. Brass's
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Speaker 1: County's Boonville Heritage Park is hosting an America two fifty
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Speaker 1: event this Thursday morning. Chairman of the Brass County Historical Commission,
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Speaker 1: Henry Meo says, this is one of the science in
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Speaker 1: nationwide that will plant a liberty tree, a symbol of
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Speaker 1: defiance leading to the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
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Speaker 3: The British cut it down and that actually enforced it
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Speaker 3: being a symbol of defiance of the British rule. And
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Speaker 3: less than a year later, Yeah, the Decoration of Independence
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Speaker 3: was signed.
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Speaker 1: Thursday's participants include members of the local chapter of the
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Speaker 1: Suns of the American Revolution.
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Speaker 3: Fable of Sane Man in Colonial rev the era minute
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Speaker 3: men type uniforms, and that is the Sons of the
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Speaker 3: American Revolution Color Guard.
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Speaker 1: Thursday Mornings program starts at nine. More news at eight
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Speaker 1: thirty or anytime at WTAW dot com. I'm Jeanette Minshaw
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Speaker 1: sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW.
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Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW. Good morning everyone, It's
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Speaker 5: Jeanette Riley Fredo today on the Infomaniacs. We're glad you're here.
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Speaker 5: Your weather today is oddly predictable. Highs in the midnineties.
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Speaker 5: I said, oddly predictable. That's that's a lie. It's it's
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Speaker 5: feel the difference. Let's see what do we still have
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Speaker 5: to talk about?
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Speaker 4: Guys?
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Speaker 5: Oh this? How much would it cost you? Because I
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Speaker 5: believe everything has a price, how much would it cost
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Speaker 5: you for a city to entice you to move there.
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Speaker 5: I'll give you some examples of these cities. But again,
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Speaker 5: like let's say, because this is happening more and more
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Speaker 5: where it used to be kind of rare, Like Alaska
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Speaker 5: is the one that everyone knows, right, Alaska has an
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Speaker 5: incentive to move there. They will pay you to live there.
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Speaker 5: I forget how much it is, but it's not insignificant.
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Speaker 5: Now other states, in other cities are trying to get
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Speaker 5: in on the action. But how much would it cost
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Speaker 5: to actually get you to move?
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Speaker 1: It really depends on what type of amenities and restaurants
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Speaker 1: and stuff like that that the city has.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so it's going to be situational. You might find
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Speaker 5: the perfect place and then okay, you know, a little
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Speaker 5: bit little action. But then you might find somewhere that
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Speaker 5: has literally nothing, and that's a completely different story. There
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Speaker 5: is a website called makemi Move dot com and the
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Speaker 5: reason this exists is because it's an aggregator for people
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Speaker 5: who are basically work at Homer's right, like, you know,
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Speaker 5: you could do remote work or whatever, so you can
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Speaker 5: do your job anywhere.
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Speaker 3: Cool.
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Speaker 5: So they're thinking, Okay, what if we could get you
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Speaker 5: to move and do your job here. And the most
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Speaker 5: recent example of this is Fond de Lac, Wisconsin, which
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Speaker 5: I have been to fond'lactis, Wisconsin and you never of it.
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Speaker 5: It's not bad, it's very pretty in the summer. So
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Speaker 5: they want to offer nine five hundred dollars in cash
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Speaker 5: and perks if you will move and you know, be
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Speaker 5: based out of their tiny little town. Ninety five hundred dollars.
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Speaker 1: That's a one time payment.
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Speaker 5: That's the question is would it have to be an
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Speaker 5: annual I think it would have to be an annual
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Speaker 5: You'd have to supplement my income ninety five hundred dollars. Uh,
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Speaker 5: They'll give you fifty five hundred dollars in cash as
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Speaker 5: a relocation stipend. Then YMCA membership's local dining experiences, golf packages,
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Speaker 5: and access to family activities. There's only forty four thousand
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Speaker 5: people that live in Fond lact but it's on the
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Speaker 5: southern tip of Lake Winnebago, forty miles west of Lake Michigan.
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Speaker 5: It's lake country. Okay, it's gorgeous. If that's not going
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Speaker 5: to do it for you, maybe you will consider Manhattan, Kansas.
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Speaker 5: Seven thousand dollars and incentives to move to the Little Apple.
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Speaker 1: Okay, it's it's it's like here.
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Speaker 5: It's kind of CLO's. It's similar to College station. It's
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Speaker 5: it's got a massive university. And that's about it. But
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Speaker 5: you know, it's got I'd say it's got some scenery.
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Speaker 5: I'm sure it does. I always think of Kansas and
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Speaker 5: just nothing. Yeah, but so I'm taking it. That's a
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Speaker 5: note from both of you on on what is Okay Okay, Monsey,
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Speaker 5: Indiana the magic city since the eighteen hundreds, since the
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Speaker 5: gas boom months, the Indiana has been a big thing
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Speaker 5: where industrial grit meets small town lifestyle. Sixty five hundred
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Speaker 5: dollars to get it done, I'm gonna pass.
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Speaker 6: I only think the only one that actually sounds enticing
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Speaker 6: was the Michigan one.
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Speaker 5: The Michigan one done sound bad? Or the Fond de Lac,
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Speaker 5: wisconsant Okay one more. Maybe you need a larger city.
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Speaker 5: I do Indianapolis, Oh.
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Speaker 1: But see then you have to live in Indianapolis.
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Speaker 5: Seventy five hundred dollars. They have a great zoo, great
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Speaker 5: got Caitlyn Clark. Yes, a lot of the Fever games.
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Speaker 1: I could not be a Colts fan. Although their mascot
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Speaker 1: Blue is awesome.
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Speaker 5: They do have a quality mascot. Honestly, the two states
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Speaker 5: I see the most here are Indiana and Kansas. That
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Speaker 5: seems to be just like their jam. But there is
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Speaker 5: an opportunity to make about twelve thousand dollars if you
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Speaker 5: move to Ponka City, Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: Nope, you just said Oklahoma.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so it's just a no, it's in Oklahoma. In general,
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Speaker 5: what they even give you? What do they give you?
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Speaker 5: That's eleven thousand? How much of this is cash? Okay,
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Speaker 5: six thousand dollars towards the purchase of a home or
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Speaker 5: four thousand dollars for renters. They are already losing me
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Speaker 5: on this. It needs to be splat out. You give
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Speaker 5: me the you give me the money. They just give
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Speaker 5: it to me in cash. Then there's mentorship programs. They'll
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Speaker 5: give you a Chamber of Commerce membership. They'll give you
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Speaker 5: access to the City Central co working space. There's a
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Speaker 5: City Central co working space. Gee, what do you think
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Speaker 5: that looks like?
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Speaker 6: I just love the comment of we'll give you six
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Speaker 6: thousand towards your housing. Oh yeah, so what's that gonna do?
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Speaker 6: Maybe fix something if there's something wrong with it because
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Speaker 6: it's in Oklahoma.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely yes, eight eighteen The Infomaniac sixteen twenty ninety four
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Speaker 5: five WTAW, good morning, y'all. Our phone number is nine
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Speaker 5: seventy nine six nine five sixteen twenty. I was not
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Speaker 5: alive in nineteen seventy six. I missed this by five years, Okay,
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Speaker 5: I was okay, excellent. This will be very helpful. I
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Speaker 5: don't think.
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Speaker 1: Because I was only one.
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Speaker 5: Were you not born in I was not alive in
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Speaker 5: seventy six now.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know that's thirty years before me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I have seen this article probably
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Speaker 5: five or six times. I've seen news stories on the
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Speaker 5: article over the last twenty four hours, and it's it's
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Speaker 5: confusing to me because again I don't think I have
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Speaker 5: a point of reference for this. And so if you
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Speaker 5: are someone who remembers nineteen seventy six and what life
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Speaker 5: was like back then, please we will probably need you
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Speaker 5: to participate with this conversation, and you can do it
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Speaker 5: by phone, you can do it by text. Doesn't matter.
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Speaker 5: How big of a deal was the two hundredth birthday
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Speaker 5: of America? Like, was it a bigger deal than what
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Speaker 5: we are seeing now for the two hundred and fiftieth,
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Speaker 5: Because this is what this article has been alleging. It's like,
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Speaker 5: this is not nearly as big of a deal to
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Speaker 5: people here in twenty twenty six as it was in
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Speaker 5: nineteen seventy six. Say, it was impossible to escape it.
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Speaker 5: You couldn't go anywhere or do anything without having something
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Speaker 5: about the bi centennial. Merch is a big thing, they
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Speaker 5: say that you used to It was every store you
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Speaker 5: would go into was merchandise. The legend, Bill Oliver, the
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Speaker 5: news goat Good morning, sir, How we do it today?
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Speaker 7: I had just finished my junior year in high school.
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Speaker 5: This is perfect. You are the man we need to
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Speaker 5: talk to. What was it like celebrating America's bi centennial?
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Speaker 7: Well, I was blessed living in wester Mooines, Iowa, on
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Speaker 7: the path of the Freedom Train.
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Speaker 5: Holy cow. Okay, you'll have to explain the Freedom Train
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Speaker 5: to people.
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Speaker 7: I don't remember it, y, yeah, but it was you
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Speaker 7: know an example of the history of the United States
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Speaker 7: rolling down the tracks on the final trains rolling through
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Speaker 7: what was the Valley Junction portion of wester Mooines, Iowa.
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Speaker 5: Okay, Okay, it would be.
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Speaker 7: I would compare it to maybe big Boy, Yeah coming here.
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Speaker 5: A big thing. People would come out and see it.
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Speaker 5: So there was there was that.
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Speaker 7: But now and I think because I was sixteen or
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Speaker 7: seventeen years old, I think it was a bigger deal
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Speaker 7: because I was not exposed to the political climate as much. Oh,
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Speaker 7: because I have because I don't have a point of
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Speaker 7: reference as a high school junior becoming a senior.
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Speaker 5: And we'll get back to that in a second. Wtaw,
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Speaker 5: good morning, what do you have for us?
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Speaker 8: Good morning?
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Speaker 9: So nineteen seventy six, I was in junior high school, okay,
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Speaker 9: and managed to qualify to be in the bi centennial
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Speaker 9: band for the city of Austin.
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Speaker 5: Holy cow, that's awesome.
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Speaker 9: Was a massive deal.
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Speaker 8: It was multiple days of celebrations going on. It was
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Speaker 8: huge compared to even what's going on today with the
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Speaker 8: two fifthyeth.
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Speaker 5: So, I'll ask you this, and then I'll ask Bill,
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Speaker 5: so you do feel that this isn't it? It's not
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Speaker 5: quite as big of a deal culturally as it was
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Speaker 5: back in seventy six.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm not seeing the call it widespread support, the
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Speaker 8: broadness of the people that are participating in it. And unfortunately,
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Speaker 8: I'd say it's probably something long political lines, because there
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Speaker 8: seemed to be a lot of people complaining about the
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Speaker 8: money being spent for celebrating the two fiftieth birthday.
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Speaker 5: This is this is what's wild to me though, because
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Speaker 5: if we look back in seventy six, you're coming off watergates, right, yep,
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Speaker 5: you're coming off a pretty significant time of like national tumult. Right.
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Speaker 7: Well, not only that, but economically, ye were not We're
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Speaker 7: not great. But also I think technology has a lot
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Speaker 7: to do with the diminished enthusiasm in two fifty verses
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Speaker 7: house up two hundred, fewer distractions, you.
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Speaker 5: Had less you could, you have three channels and all
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Speaker 5: of had America and possibly as thing, and then you
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Speaker 5: would you would go outside and there would be a
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Speaker 5: neighborhood celebration.
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Speaker 7: Well yeah, my house was along the main parade route.
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Speaker 7: Every parade that they held in west of mooint I
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Speaker 7: was like we jumped in our bike and did the red,
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Speaker 7: white and blue streamers and interesting even at sixteen or seventeen,
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Speaker 7: you just really felt more caught up in the enthusiasm
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Speaker 7: of making it to two hundred.
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Speaker 5: Hey, thank you so much for the call man. We
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Speaker 5: appreciate it. I yeah, it's it's it's. This actually starts
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Speaker 5: to compare it to the fact that, okay, you could
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Speaker 5: you could just walk into a store and then just
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Speaker 5: everything there is patriotic, right, yeah, baby blankets like born
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Speaker 5: in seventy six baby blankets and things like that, And
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Speaker 5: today the best that we could do is Mountain Dew
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Speaker 5: temporarily became American Dew, which is like, okay, at least
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Speaker 5: they're trying.
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Speaker 4: Well.
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Speaker 7: The two fifty logo is everywhere on everything. Yeah, I
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Speaker 7: mean I stopped Bucky's Amazineville a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 7: and there's and there's the big inflatable Bucky Beaver for
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Speaker 7: two fifty.
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Speaker 5: Let's see text messages at nine seven, nine, six, nine five,
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Speaker 5: sixteen twenty. This person was yeah in college station in
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Speaker 5: nineteen seventy six, and they say it was not so
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Speaker 5: big a deal as this year comparatively. Now, the high
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Speaker 5: station was real small back in seventy six exactly. Now
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Speaker 5: we have more stuff going on as possible. Cynthia says,
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Speaker 5: I lived in Colorado in nineteen seventy six. It was
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Speaker 5: their centennial. Was a massive deal. We had festivities at
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Speaker 5: my elementary school where we wore costumes and learned pioneer
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Speaker 5: crafts and activities, which sounds incredible.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 5: Deanna says she remembers it well because they had a
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Speaker 5: massive parade. My mom sewed me a red bonnet and
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Speaker 5: matching shawl. All the children were given American flags and
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Speaker 5: waved them proudly. I was eight years old and I
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Speaker 5: was supposed to be Betsy Ross like in the parade,
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Speaker 5: which I think. All I will say is that I
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Speaker 5: think there's something to what you said that because we
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Speaker 5: have so many distractions, and we have so many different
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Speaker 5: competing interests of media that come at you that you
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Speaker 5: probably have to be pretty intentional if you want to
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Speaker 5: get the feeling of all of that energy, like the
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Speaker 5: and it's possible you really just have to go and
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Speaker 5: start attending some of these events.
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Speaker 7: Well, and and that's why I did the visit with
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Speaker 7: with Henry Mail. I'll play that in the entirety of
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Speaker 7: the same after which.
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Speaker 5: Is a great piece.
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Speaker 7: Yes, it's Thursday morning nine o'clock. It really is a
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Speaker 7: wonderful way to get this thing officially started. Yeah, you're
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Speaker 7: gonna have people in colonial dress. You have the opportunity
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Speaker 7: to visit with the descendants of those who fought in
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Speaker 7: the revolution, which is a big deal to which is
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Speaker 7: wild to those to that generation.
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Speaker 5: It is. And all you have to do is go
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Speaker 5: and attend some of these things. Look up some of
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Speaker 5: the America two fifty events around town because they are
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Speaker 5: there are so many of them. Yes, and they are
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Speaker 5: going to be running, like you said, from Thursday. All
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Speaker 5: some stuff has already, some stuff's been happening. Yeah, but yeah,
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Speaker 5: get out get involved in some of these things. I
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Speaker 5: guarantee you that.
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Speaker 7: Will help become a spectator.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: I found I found a my fishing hat from BUCkies
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Speaker 7: that has the flag on one yeah, and the beaver
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Speaker 7: on the other. And so just to you know, if
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Speaker 7: you come out to the Booneville Park on on Thursday morning,
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Speaker 7: just look for the guy with the with the red,
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Speaker 7: white and blue star hat.
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Speaker 5: I love it. Back after this.
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the wta W newsroom. I'm Jeanette Menchow.
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Speaker 1: It's been two years and one week since we're building
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Speaker 1: on College stations Lincoln Avenue began. City Council is now
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Speaker 1: being told that the more than nine million dollar project
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Speaker 1: is nearing completion.
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Speaker 2: There's a section right past the alf Hotel by where
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Speaker 2: the new Hobby's restaurant is until that intersection at at University,
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Speaker 2: and so they actually paved this week on one side
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Speaker 2: of the roadway, and so we finished in the other
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Speaker 2: side hopefully here in the next couple of weeks as
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Speaker 2: hopefully the rain will hold off so we can get
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Speaker 2: that completed.
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Speaker 1: An update from Capital Projects Director Jennifer Kin included remarks
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Speaker 1: from Councilwoman Melissa mclhaney about the small roundabout and Lincoln
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Speaker 1: and Munson. If you can get past the little roundabout,
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Speaker 1: the striping looks like my eight year old took a
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Speaker 1: can of yellow paint and just kind.
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Speaker 8: Of sprayed around it.
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Speaker 2: Can we look at that Some of that is actually
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Speaker 2: temporary striving that we put in place to get it
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Speaker 2: down before they do the final striping, just for a
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Speaker 2: safety aspect, because it's in there. But yes, we will
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Speaker 2: definitely be sure that it looks finished incomplete in all.
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Speaker 1: College Station currently has sixty nine active capital projects. Four
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Speaker 1: young men playing in last weekend seven on seven football
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Speaker 1: tournament in College Station and one adult say they were propositioned.
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Speaker 1: College Station police say it happened Friday night in the
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Speaker 1: elevator of a local hotel, and arrest report says an
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Speaker 1: intoxicated man offered the players five hundred dollars each. An
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Speaker 1: adult had video of the proposition she provided to officers
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Speaker 1: on scene, and when they showed the video to the man,
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Speaker 1: he said the boys seduced him and argued that he
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Speaker 1: had done nothing wrong because the boys did not accept
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Speaker 1: his offer. The fifty two year old man from Roswell,
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Speaker 1: New Mexico, was charged with five counts of solicitation and
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Speaker 1: jailed in lieu of bonds totaling ninety thousand dollars. When
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Speaker 1: stocking up on your Fourth of July supplies, don't forget
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Speaker 1: the mosquito repellent. Yesterday, the Brass's County Health District announced
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Speaker 1: the first mosquitoes infected with the west Now virus were
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Speaker 1: found in traps located in the College Station area zip
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Speaker 1: codes seven, seven, eight, four five. No humans have been
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Speaker 1: identified to have the virus, just the mosquitoes carrying the
19:36
Speaker 1: virus have been found in the county from May through
19:38
Speaker 1: October of each year. The Health District sets and monitors
19:41
Speaker 1: traps to track the presence of various viruses. About twenty
19:44
Speaker 1: percent of people who get bit by a mosquito with
19:46
Speaker 1: the virus developed symptoms that include body aches and nausea.
19:49
Speaker 1: The Health District suggests using repellents containing deet and limiting
19:53
Speaker 1: outdoor time when mosquitoes are most active. You can wear loose,
19:57
Speaker 1: light colored clothing and be sure to remove any standing
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Speaker 1: water from your property. The Brass County District Attorney's Office
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Speaker 1: announces that A Brian Mann has been sentenced to forty
20:06
Speaker 1: years in prison for the aggravated sexual assault of a child.
20:09
Speaker 1: Thirty eight year old Jason Wayne Davis admitted to the
20:12
Speaker 1: abuse and possession of child pornography. The news release says,
20:15
Speaker 1: in order to protect the victim from the trauma of
20:17
Speaker 1: a trial, a play agreement was reached after speaking with
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Speaker 1: the victim's family. However, the family reached out to us
20:23
Speaker 1: to say they would have never agreed to only forty
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Speaker 1: years and thought the sentence would be seventy five years.
20:28
Speaker 1: The assaults took place over two years and began when
20:30
Speaker 1: the victim was only seven years old. The sentence means
20:33
Speaker 1: Davis could be eligible for parole in just twenty years.
20:37
Speaker 1: Among the events leading up to the signing of the
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Speaker 1: Declaration of Independence was the British cutting down a symbol
20:41
Speaker 1: of defiance. A one hundred year old elm tree in Boston.
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Speaker 3: Cut down by the British in August of seventeen seventy
20:48
Speaker 3: five because it was being used as a rallying point. Physically,
20:53
Speaker 3: plus is a symbol of defiance of British rule.
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Speaker 1: The chairman of the Brass County Historical Henry Meyo, says
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Speaker 1: Booneville Heritage Park and Brian is one of the locations
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Speaker 1: nationwide where a Liberty tree will be planted to commemorate
21:07
Speaker 1: America two fifty to suit the local climate, and oak
21:10
Speaker 1: tree will be planted in a public ceremony Thursday morning.
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Speaker 3: That was a decision we made for practicality. The es
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Speaker 3: the elm trees do seem not to live as well
21:20
Speaker 3: plus be in Texas. We had to put our own
21:22
Speaker 3: little twist on it and use something native here. So
21:26
Speaker 3: we're gonna use a live oak tree.
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Speaker 1: The event starts Thursday morning at nine and includes members
21:31
Speaker 1: of the local chapter of the Sons of the American
21:33
Speaker 1: Revolution in Colonial era close. A twenty two year old
21:37
Speaker 1: man from League City returns to the Brownsis County jail
21:39
Speaker 1: for the second time in six months. That's after police
21:42
Speaker 1: patrolling in downtown Brian after bars closed Sunday morning were
21:45
Speaker 1: flagged down by a woman who said she was hid
21:47
Speaker 1: in the face with the muzzle of the man's handgun.
21:50
Speaker 1: BPD arrest reports say the man threatened officers as well
21:52
Speaker 1: as the woman. The man had three outstanding warrants, one
21:55
Speaker 1: related to an arrest in December for endangering a child
21:58
Speaker 1: and two warrants for undisclosed charges from the Brian Municipal Court.
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Speaker 1: More news throughout the day or anytime at WTAW dot com.
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Speaker 1: I'm Janette Minshaw sixteen twenty ninety four five WTA.
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Speaker 5: W Newshaw sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW. Good
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Speaker 5: morning everyone again, hot today, ninety five for your high
22:16
Speaker 5: hundreds for the heat in decks and down to the
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Speaker 5: seventies tonight. And that is what we are looking at
22:21
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Speaker 5: of week, so let's welcome to the show. Glynn Brewer
22:43
Speaker 5: he can't hear his intro music so he didn't have
22:45
Speaker 5: headphones on.
22:46
Speaker 4: We love that guy.
22:47
Speaker 5: Yeah, Man, Chamber of Commerce, I want to give you
22:51
Speaker 5: a shout out because that was a that was a
22:54
Speaker 5: blast for founders. Founders in my great, great great time. Absolutely,
22:59
Speaker 5: I will say this, I did not do well on
23:02
Speaker 5: the tables, and I think it's that. I'm not blaming
23:06
Speaker 5: you for that. I'm blaming me for that. But yeah,
23:09
Speaker 5: I would have thought I would have had a little
23:11
Speaker 5: more luck with blackjack than I had.
23:13
Speaker 4: Well, you looked good for you to at the table.
23:15
Speaker 4: I won't by there. You look like you belong.
23:17
Speaker 5: I looked like a I looked like a real degenerate gamble.
23:20
Speaker 4: Well you're missing everything but a cigarette and an oxygen
23:23
Speaker 4: tank behind you. I see those sometimes when I go
23:25
Speaker 4: to the to the the gambling boats.
23:28
Speaker 5: When I when I when I was headed out, I
23:31
Speaker 5: noticed the poker taps I I had gotten there, and
23:33
Speaker 5: y'all had poker had roulette, Yes, you had blackjack, Yes,
23:37
Speaker 5: poker table, craps craps?
23:38
Speaker 3: Was it?
23:38
Speaker 4: Do you have a craps table? About that? Yeah?
23:41
Speaker 5: Lotteria, which I thought I should have gone in and
23:43
Speaker 5: done Lotteria, but I get there and there wasn't any
23:47
Speaker 5: poker action happening, so I was like, okay, I'll go
23:49
Speaker 5: to Blackjack. I get back. It's like the World Series
23:52
Speaker 5: of Poker. Every seat is full, there's spectators behind them,
23:56
Speaker 5: like it's action for days. How do you get them
23:58
Speaker 5: to leave?
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Speaker 4: You stop selling alcohol? Okay, at the cutoff time, at
24:05
Speaker 4: the designated nine thirtieth last call and ten o'clock, you
24:09
Speaker 4: gotta be out. But you you're exactly right, and it's
24:13
Speaker 4: it's almost it's as fun to watch sometime and you
24:16
Speaker 4: hear the roars is as people are hitting their roulette
24:19
Speaker 4: or something.
24:20
Speaker 5: Someone someone takes a bad beat or like it catches
24:22
Speaker 5: a flush or something out. It was, it was. It
24:25
Speaker 5: was a great. If you haven't been to Founders Night,
24:27
Speaker 5: I bring this up to say this next time will
24:29
Speaker 5: come around again. Yes, don't miss out on this event.
24:32
Speaker 4: The numbers go up every single year. We have got
24:34
Speaker 4: three new tables.
24:34
Speaker 7: This year.
24:35
Speaker 4: It goes up An, You're right, it's not just playing,
24:37
Speaker 4: it's it's the people you're sitting at the table with
24:39
Speaker 4: and the interactions back and forth, and it's a whole
24:41
Speaker 4: lot of fun. It's very, very successful, and I appreciate
24:44
Speaker 4: to y'all support. And uh, if you didn't get enough
24:48
Speaker 4: of chamber stuff, I got something else you could do
24:50
Speaker 4: for you don't. This is a little bit warmer. It's
24:53
Speaker 4: not inside, but it's actually tomorrow night, that's right. It
24:59
Speaker 4: is community saw ball classic fire versus the police. I
25:02
Speaker 4: guarantee you they will leave some skin out on the
25:04
Speaker 4: artificial turf of Travis.
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Speaker 5: Park day one thousand percent. Will they play for keeps.
25:10
Speaker 4: They play for keys. Alan Honda is our title sponsor
25:12
Speaker 4: for thirty six o'clock. It's only ten dollars, and our
25:15
Speaker 4: businesses pay tribute to our first responders. We understand how
25:18
Speaker 4: important they are to our businesses, to our community. They're essential,
25:22
Speaker 4: and so we'll go out there, we recognize the first responders.
25:25
Speaker 4: We give proceeds to the one hundred club well with
25:27
Speaker 4: the big old check out there and it'll be a
25:29
Speaker 4: lot of fun and you come in ten dollars help
25:32
Speaker 4: support the Chamber and first responders and you get to
25:34
Speaker 4: stick around for a yard Dogs game for free.
25:37
Speaker 5: It's a really cool thing.
25:38
Speaker 4: It's a good night and we'll see there. It's a
25:40
Speaker 4: four thirty six thirty for us and then the yard
25:43
Speaker 4: Dogs after that, then the next business after hours. I
25:46
Speaker 4: don't know if you can see it from here. It'll
25:48
Speaker 4: be July the ninth at Mercedes Benz of College Station.
25:52
Speaker 5: And confirm I can see it from here.
25:53
Speaker 4: You can ride a bike to the business after hours
25:56
Speaker 4: and drive home in a Mercedes Benz. It's gonna be
25:59
Speaker 4: a lot of fun. I'm free to attend five thirty
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Speaker 4: to seven. Love to see you out there. Mark the
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Speaker 4: calendar of July thirteenth. Go to the Chamber of Websites
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Speaker 4: to figure all this out because it's pretty intense. It's
26:09
Speaker 4: a lunch and learn absolutely free. You can get du
26:11
Speaker 4: need an RSVP. Lake Retreats is putting it on six
26:16
Speaker 4: types of Working Genius. Freedo could probably.
26:20
Speaker 5: Teach that that is a lie. What is this about?
26:23
Speaker 4: Six types of working geniuses are going to discover how
26:26
Speaker 4: to work naturally, a natural process from idea execution, and
26:30
Speaker 4: how to energize people while training others. It's an intense deal.
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Speaker 4: It's absolutely free out, but you've got an RSVP. It's
26:36
Speaker 4: at the COG on the thirteenth. And then it's always
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Speaker 4: my favorite of some ribbon cuttings. Freedom. Let's go, and
26:43
Speaker 4: I think you'll like this first one because the Good
26:45
Speaker 4: and Family has put together a juice bar and at
26:48
Speaker 4: four thirty today we'll do a ribbon cutting for juicing
26:51
Speaker 4: to be good and fit juice bar.
26:53
Speaker 5: Where is this.
26:54
Speaker 4: It's on Texas Avenue right near Taz Indian Cuisine. Another
26:58
Speaker 4: remember juicing juice seemed to be good and fit four
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Speaker 4: thirty to day, come on out and I love to
27:04
Speaker 4: celebrate that. Then July first, well that's Wednesday, the American
27:08
Speaker 4: Red Cross is having one out on Boonville at eleven thirty.
27:11
Speaker 4: And then Thursday, July the second, the George Bush Presidential
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Speaker 4: Library and Museum having a ribbon cutting. It's a deluxe
27:19
Speaker 4: eleven thirty to twelve America two fifty e plurbus unum,
27:23
Speaker 4: which of course.
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Speaker 5: We all know means out of many one.
27:26
Speaker 4: That's exactly right, Fredo, you're a genius.
27:28
Speaker 5: That's a again, that is an absolute lie.
27:31
Speaker 4: You probably remember that from the bi centennial.
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Speaker 7: You were around for the Bible was around.
27:36
Speaker 4: It was a big deal. It was a great, big deal.
27:40
Speaker 4: It was the biggest deal of the moment.
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Speaker 5: Many people are saying, yeah, that was my I've talked
27:45
Speaker 5: to some people that were there, and it's it was
27:47
Speaker 5: like a It was a total immersion a year.
27:51
Speaker 4: It's definitely six months beforehand, but a full year. Coins
27:54
Speaker 4: were printed. It was our minted. It was in all
27:58
Speaker 4: the stores.
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Speaker 5: Everything I buy, Freedom sales joints, I complete because I
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Speaker 5: was still getting them in the eighthies. Just his allowance right, like, oh, people.
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Speaker 4: Were collecting them because they were going to be valuable,
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Speaker 4: but they didn't know they minted trillions of them. How
28:13
Speaker 4: that work out for so I still probably have some
28:16
Speaker 4: uncirculated coins in the back of my closet.
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Speaker 5: Clyn, thank you so much. Enjoying it in brother. We'll
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Speaker 5: catch up with you next time. BCS Chamber dot org
28:25
Speaker 5: is the website back after this sixteen twenty ninety four
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Speaker 5: to five WTAW just about ten minutes four nine o'clock
28:32
Speaker 5: in morning. We're the info maniacs and we love getting
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Speaker 5: your text messages nine seven nine six nine five sixteen
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Speaker 5: twenty like text messages like this one right here. Fredo
28:42
Speaker 5: just pouring salt on the open wound, reminding his coworkers
28:46
Speaker 5: that he has a window when they don't. Yeah, I'm sorry, right,
28:50
Speaker 5: what's it?
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Speaker 2: I see it.
28:51
Speaker 5: I do feel bad that you end up in in
28:56
Speaker 5: you know, one of the interior studios, and then I
28:59
Speaker 5: end up with all of this natural, natural sunlight. You
29:02
Speaker 5: are welcome to do the show in here. I have
29:05
Speaker 5: asked her if she wants to do the show in there,
29:06
Speaker 5: and it's like nah na na na.
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Speaker 1: She doesn't like us. She just doesn't want to put
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Speaker 1: that out there publicly.
29:11
Speaker 5: I that is so not No, I understand I would not.
29:16
Speaker 5: It's either it's either I'm a big sit in a
29:18
Speaker 5: room by myself fan too, so I can't understand where
29:21
Speaker 5: you're coming from here. Also, I don't want to bring
29:22
Speaker 5: up trauma from earlier in the show. We started the
29:25
Speaker 5: show because I had some story about seagulls. I forget
29:29
Speaker 5: what it even was. And Riley shared the origins of
29:33
Speaker 5: why she can't stand seagulls, and as it turns out,
29:36
Speaker 5: she has a really good reason why she can't stand seagulls.
29:42
Speaker 5: One ruined her first grade field day her first grade
29:47
Speaker 5: field day by doing what seagulls do right in the right,
29:52
Speaker 5: right on the head and yeah, so if you want
29:55
Speaker 5: to relive that in the podcast, please do. But I
29:57
Speaker 5: wanted to mention that there is going to be a
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Speaker 5: family field day here in Brian. I want to say
30:05
Speaker 5: it's this week. I'm looking this up as we go
30:07
Speaker 5: because I saw something it yesterday. It is Saturday, ten
30:11
Speaker 5: am Austin's Colony Park, which is a great park in Brian.
30:15
Speaker 5: You can go. No preregistration required, although you could register
30:20
Speaker 5: online that would probably help them get a good headcount.
30:22
Speaker 5: But there's gonna be all kinds of the traditional field
30:26
Speaker 5: day events from ten until one. You can compete in
30:29
Speaker 5: all sorts of things. Hit me like, there's a obs
30:33
Speaker 5: there's obstacle courses for families to enjoy. There's a Ninja run,
30:35
Speaker 5: a jostling arena, and a seventy five foot obstacle course.
30:39
Speaker 5: Kids can compete in three legged races, sack races, and
30:42
Speaker 5: the egg race, and then yeah, obstacle courses for the
30:45
Speaker 5: younger kids. And if you want to compete as a family,
30:48
Speaker 5: they will have kickball tournaments, oh, volleyball tournaments, pickleball tournaments,
30:54
Speaker 5: Capture the Flag tournaments and more.
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Speaker 6: I'm down for all the tournament, but pickleball, would you
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Speaker 6: really would you really team with your family members to
31:05
Speaker 6: compete in something like this? Dude, my chair is competitive,
31:09
Speaker 6: so yes.
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Speaker 5: My family is competitive, but not like that. And there's
31:14
Speaker 5: and there's just part of me that knows that being
31:19
Speaker 5: on a team in a tournament with my family would
31:23
Speaker 5: be bad news. We would turn on each other. So
31:27
Speaker 5: we would come in guns, blaze.
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Speaker 1: Your fault, we los?
31:30
Speaker 5: Exactly where were we on that one? And yeah, it's
31:33
Speaker 5: just that's that's a problem.
31:35
Speaker 6: That's how it'd be with me and my brother. We
31:37
Speaker 6: would be I would look at him and even now
31:38
Speaker 6: my sister in law, it would us three would be like, Hunter,
31:41
Speaker 6: what the hecker you do?
31:44
Speaker 5: I mean, that's what I mean. So why no pickleball?
31:46
Speaker 5: What's the what's your hate for pickleball? And I've never
31:51
Speaker 5: been it was impossible not to be good at pickleball.
31:53
Speaker 5: I thought that was the point.
31:54
Speaker 6: There's two okay. So I was taught by my cousin
31:59
Speaker 6: and my aunt and uncol They love to go pick
32:01
Speaker 6: a ball. I got on the court. I did not
32:04
Speaker 6: play tennis growing up. First, my first interaction with tennis
32:07
Speaker 6: was not good. So I want to grow up doing it.
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Speaker 6: Did play it and then tried pickleball. I just couldn't
32:14
Speaker 6: keep it in the course. And then there's rules of oh,
32:16
Speaker 6: you can't spike it and stuff like that, you have
32:18
Speaker 6: to underhand this, that and the other. And I'm like,
32:21
Speaker 6: why can't I kill it like I can play volleyball.
32:23
Speaker 6: So I just I'm out.
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Speaker 5: That was my one advantage in tennis. I played tennis
32:27
Speaker 5: in like junior high and I had already gotten to
32:30
Speaker 5: like six foot. I was a freak, so I could
32:33
Speaker 5: spike the living heck out anything. It didn't matter what
32:36
Speaker 5: you said over the net. It was coming back at
32:38
Speaker 5: you like a lightning bolt. And yes, it made me
32:42
Speaker 5: very good at tennis until everyone caught up and then
32:45
Speaker 5: I was yeah. Then I was onto others things. So yeah, anyway,
32:49
Speaker 5: if you are interested in having a seagull free field day,
32:52
Speaker 5: experience seagull free. To my knowledge, I don't know.
32:55
Speaker 1: I was going to say, don't make promises you can't keep.
32:58
Speaker 5: I mean, there might be some egrets around who that's
33:00
Speaker 5: going to be at Austin's Colony Park Saturday, ten am
33:04
Speaker 5: to one pm. That I mean, legitimately sounds like a
33:07
Speaker 5: sounds like a really cool time now moving on, So,
33:11
Speaker 5: waymos are becoming more and more common, and not only
33:14
Speaker 5: way mo's, but if you drive through the city of
33:16
Speaker 5: Houston now, the robo taxi is starting to get tested there.
33:20
Speaker 5: So it's a pretty common thing to a Austin they're everywhere,
33:24
Speaker 5: but now Houston they're kind of getting to be where
33:25
Speaker 5: there Ever we're too. You can't really catch waymos except
33:28
Speaker 5: unless like you're around Montrose or a couple, like around
33:31
Speaker 5: around Greenway. You might be able to catch a couple,
33:33
Speaker 5: but you see them everywhere. How do you feel on
33:38
Speaker 5: the roads if you see automated vehicles?
33:42
Speaker 6: Then I think how someone said about the eighteen wheelers earlier.
33:45
Speaker 6: Stay away from them. I stay away from them.
33:47
Speaker 5: So a lot of people are asking, Okay, how do
33:50
Speaker 5: we you know again, are we comfortable sharing the road
33:54
Speaker 5: with automated vehicles? No? And as it turns out, yeah,
33:58
Speaker 5: the answer is no, absolutely not. It's like eighty percent
34:01
Speaker 5: of people are terrified, that is the word they use,
34:05
Speaker 5: terrified when they see one on the road with them.
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Speaker 1: You don't know that they cause accidents or collisions per se.
34:12
Speaker 1: All I know is that they always stall out. You know,
34:14
Speaker 1: they get scared to move.
34:16
Speaker 5: They do weird things. Yeah, they do odd things. They
34:19
Speaker 5: just they get confused. Thirteen percent of consumers thirteen that
34:27
Speaker 5: is the number that believe that developing self driving technology
34:32
Speaker 5: should be something we continue to pursue. Okay, thirteen percent.
34:39
Speaker 5: That's it, which is incredible to me.
34:42
Speaker 1: Do not take my advice. But I was talking to
34:44
Speaker 1: my husband the other day. He goes, you know what,
34:45
Speaker 1: if you get mad at somebody that's driving a Tesla
34:47
Speaker 1: and they've got road rage, you just pull up in
34:50
Speaker 1: front of them and slam on your brakes. They can't
34:52
Speaker 1: they can't physically hit the back of your car because
34:55
Speaker 1: the automation and it would cause them to break. I
34:57
Speaker 1: don't know if that's true or not, but.
34:59
Speaker 5: Don't try to, y, don't try that. Holy cow. Uh.
35:06
Speaker 5: Sixty of drivers say they intend on never riding in
35:11
Speaker 5: a fully autonomous vehicle.
35:13
Speaker 1: Yeah.
35:14
Speaker 6: I will never get in one unless it is literally
35:18
Speaker 6: my only option and I'm in a dangerous part of
35:21
Speaker 6: town that I'm trying.
35:22
Speaker 5: To get out of there. If it's your if it's
35:23
Speaker 5: if it's the only way out, you will you will
35:26
Speaker 5: summon one.
35:27
Speaker 1: The cars won't always let you out either, they'll be like,
35:30
Speaker 1: this isn't a safe area and you will be locked
35:32
Speaker 1: in having to call.
35:34
Speaker 5: Yes, there are a lot of things. Oh so here's
35:37
Speaker 5: the other thing, though, there is one exception to this,
35:40
Speaker 5: and it's teens. Tanes love these things because teens don't
35:45
Speaker 5: want to they do they? Yeah, they don't. That's that.
35:48
Speaker 5: We might need to get back to that at some point.
35:50
Speaker 5: But if you look at just like keep under the
35:53
Speaker 5: age of twenty one, it's the exact opposite. It's like
35:56
Speaker 5: eighty percent. Oh yeah, give me a way, mom, Please
36:00
Speaker 5: give me the opportunity to have a robot drive me around,
36:02
Speaker 5: which is get out.
36:04
Speaker 1: Times are changing.
36:05
Speaker 5: Times, they are a changing Remember hydrates. It's important on
36:11
Speaker 5: days like today because it's gonna be in the nineties.
36:14
Speaker 5: It's gonna feel hotter than that, so you know, do
36:18
Speaker 5: what you need to do up to the nineties for
36:21
Speaker 5: a high, down to the seventies tonight for a low.
36:24
Speaker 5: If you missed any of the show, please go back
36:28
Speaker 5: and revisit it online. We'll have a podcast up shortly
36:30
Speaker 5: on WTAW dot comment but we checked. July the fifth
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Speaker 5: is the final day you can vote in Best of
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Speaker 5: the Brasses, which means you still have a couple of
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Speaker 5: days to punch in all those pots for us for
36:41
Speaker 5: best radio show or everything else that is. We don't
36:44
Speaker 5: care who you vote for. We just care that shift
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36:52
Speaker 5: out to Jeanette for penciling in a few hours to
36:55
Speaker 5: join us today amongst all of her duties of the radio.
36:58
Speaker 5: Thank you for having me, and yeah, you guys, have
37:01
Speaker 5: a great rest of your day and we will see
37:03
Speaker 5: you back on the radio tomorrow morning, sixteen, twenty ninety
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Speaker 5: four five WTAW College Station, Brian, have a fantastic day.