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

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: the WTAW Newsroom, good morning. I'm Will Welch. Austin Stallman,
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  Speaker 1: a senior at Texas A & M, has died after
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  Speaker 1: two weeks in the ICU. Stallman was on a nine-mile
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  Speaker 1: run with a student group on September 15th when he
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  Speaker 1: reportedly became disoriented. He was diagnosed with heat stroke and
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  Speaker 1: rhabdomyosis and was airlifted to San Antonio for specialized care
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  Speaker 1: and spent nearly two weeks in the ICU before his death.
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  Speaker 1: Rhabdo is a serious condition where damaged muscle tissue breaks
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  Speaker 1: down rapidly and releases harmful proteins into the bloodstream. Stallman
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  Speaker 1: is the son of Brazoria County Sheriff Bo Stallman. Charges
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  Speaker 1: have been filed against the Venezuelan man who was shot
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  Speaker 1: by ICE agents in Austin last week. Fox's Jeff Manasso
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  Speaker 1: has the story.
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  Speaker 2: 28-year-old Wilbur Garcia Perez is charged in federal court in
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  Speaker 2: Austin with one count of assaulting, resisting, interfering, and impeding
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  Speaker 2: a federal officer. Federal prosecutors say Perez, an illegal immigrant
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  Speaker 2: with a final order of removal, sideswiped an agent as
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  Speaker 2: he fled a traffic stop last week, then attempted to
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  Speaker 2: hit another officer before he was shot and injured. Perez's
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  Speaker 2: attorney says he didn't know ICE was stopping him. He
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  Speaker 2: faces up to 20 years in prison. If convicted, he
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  Speaker 2: remains in custody with a detention hearing set for Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Manasso, Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: A Texas A & M Corps of Cadets freshman was
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  Speaker 1: pepper sprayed in the West Campus garage on Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: Based on the information currently available, University police think the
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  Speaker 1: victim may have been targeted because of her fish spurs.
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  Speaker 1: The traditional bottle cap spurs were the only item taken
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  Speaker 1: from the victim. She was treated and released. Anyone with
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  Speaker 1: information is encouraged to contact UPD. The owners of Camp
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  Speaker 1: Mystic are looking to sell off the riverfront property where
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  Speaker 1: 27 kids and counselors were killed in a flood. State Rep.
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  Speaker 1: Wes Vertel says this is likely part of a larger
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  Speaker 1: plan to keep the camp open.
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  Speaker 3: I think you'll end up seeing a group of people
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  Speaker 3: come together, purchase the camp, and continue on in the
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  Speaker 3: tradition that it's had for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: President Trump and J.D. Vance are heading back to Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Vance will be in South Texas today and President Trump
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  Speaker 1: in Denton on Thursday.
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  Speaker 4: Their goal is similar to that of the GOP midterm
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  Speaker 4: convention in Dallas earlier this month.
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  Speaker 1: Rally the base.
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  Speaker 5: I would call it the Texas two-step.
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  Speaker 4: Dorinda Randall chairs the Texas Republican Party.
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  Speaker 6: Republicans, we tend to be apathetic when it comes to midterms,
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  Speaker 6: and so we can't be.
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  Speaker 4: President Vance will attend a midterm rally in Harlingen and
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  Speaker 4: then on to the port of Brownsville for the Port
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  Speaker 4: Alpha groundbreaking. President Trump will be at the Peterbilt Motors
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  Speaker 4: factory in Denton on Thursday talking about the growth of
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  Speaker 4: manufacturing jobs.
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  Speaker 6: He's again highlighting the jobs that he's been able to
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  Speaker 6: create for our country.
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  Speaker 4: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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  Speaker 1: news at 8.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. Happy Wednesday, y'all. Made it halfway. Today, mid-90s, 30%
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  Speaker 7: chance of showers and thunderstorms in the afternoon. Tomorrow, lower 90s,
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  Speaker 7: 60% chance of showers and thunderstorms and going up from there.
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  Speaker 7: the difference. Want to get some more of your text
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  Speaker 7: messages because, I mean, quite frankly, they're the most interesting
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 7: In answer to the elephant house, Jason says, these are
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  Speaker 7: the stories that make Bryan and College Station the cities
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  Speaker 7: they are. The history has to be told forward lest
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  Speaker 7: we forget it. We are going to do, at some point,
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  Speaker 7: we're going to do a show about just weird stories
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  Speaker 7: from Bryan and College Station because everyone has them. And
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  Speaker 7: there's a million things.
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  Speaker 1: There's so many things.
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  Speaker 7: That are just bonkers about the cities we call home.
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  Speaker 7: This person texts in, because originally we were talking about
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  Speaker 7: bad roller coaster experiences. Let's not forget that, Will. And
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  Speaker 7: I skipped over this one. I got stuck on the
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  Speaker 7: looping starship at Astroworld for 58 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long time.
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  Speaker 3: 58 minutes.
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  Speaker 7: The ride used the unbalanced weight of the riders on
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  Speaker 7: either side to assist the motors in eventually making the
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  Speaker 7: full loop, which triggered the shutdown process. Unfortunately for me,
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  Speaker 7: they somehow managed to balance the load of riders on
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  Speaker 7: each side within less than five pounds. Because it was
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  Speaker 7: the first time this had ever happened, we were stuck
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  Speaker 7: until they could get a quote-unquote engineer, Carney, that was
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  Speaker 7: at lunch at the time. to come and override it.
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  Speaker 1: Man, 58 minutes. 58 minutes. That engineer finished his lunch.
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  Speaker 9: You said loop, which.
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  Speaker 7: Makes me think that you may have been upside down.
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  Speaker 1: I hope not. That's very unhealthy to be upside down
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  Speaker 1: for an hour.
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  Speaker 9: Bad, bad, bad.
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  Speaker 7: Tony texts in regards to exotic animals in Bryan College Station, which, again,
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  Speaker 7: is where the conversation eventually went. He's like, I love
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  Speaker 7: exotic animals. We put them on the wall. And proceeds
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  Speaker 7: to send us, Will, check that out.
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  Speaker 1: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight pictures.
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  Speaker 7: This is going on WTAW's Facebook page as soon as
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  Speaker 7: I can get it up there. This is one of
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  Speaker 7: the wildest trophy rooms. And I have a lot of
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  Speaker 7: hunters in my family. This is truly one of the
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  Speaker 7: wildest trophy rooms.
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  Speaker 1: I have ever seen. There's a whole lot of taxidermy.
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  Speaker 7: There is a whole giraffe in this trophy room, dog.
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  Speaker 7: Did you see that?
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  Speaker 1: I missed the giraffe.
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  Speaker 7: He'll get by you because he's in the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody puts giraffe in a corner.
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  Speaker 7: Right by the grizzly bear.
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  Speaker 1: Those two things don't live together.
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  Speaker 7: Man, I bet there's some stories that you have. Anyway,
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  Speaker 7: so yes, please hit us up anytime. Also, I want
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  Speaker 7: to remind you guys again. that obviously the election is
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  Speaker 7: coming up soon. We talk about the door knockers and
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  Speaker 7: everything else. Because, look, you can't vote educated unless you
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  Speaker 7: educate yourself on the candidates. And there's only a few ways.
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  Speaker 7: You can talk to people about them.
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  Speaker 1: You can do a Google search or whatever.
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  Speaker 7: You can watch a newscast and get like a minute
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  Speaker 7: with them talking about something, which is what it is.
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  Speaker 7: What we wanted to do was do something a little
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  Speaker 7: bit extra about And that's why Scott DeLucia has returned
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  Speaker 7: to WTAW after a whole six months of retirement to
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  Speaker 7: bless us with a candidate conversation. So this is a
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  Speaker 7: web series online, WTAW.com. You can also find it on YouTube.
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  Speaker 7: You can find it on Spotify, maybe. I need to
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  Speaker 7: confirm that. It's in audio and video form. And every
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  Speaker 7: candidate that would allow us to sit down with them
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  Speaker 7: for a half hour– We brought them in, and we
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  Speaker 7: will probably still add some. I think there's still a
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  Speaker 7: few that are going to come in that we'll post
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  Speaker 7: on the page. So if you are looking to get
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  Speaker 7: to know candidates in a way that really is not normal.
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  Speaker 1: Look, a lot of times you walk into a voting
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  Speaker 1: booth and you see a name and all the names
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  Speaker 1: on that particular race or you're like, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who these people are. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. No, don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. No, you can educate yourself quickly by just
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  Speaker 1: looking at the YouTube channel. And you're right, Tucker, every
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  Speaker 1: single candidate that would come in and there's a ton
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  Speaker 1: of them. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Some of them were like, you know, and I get that. Whatever.
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  Speaker 7: That's fine. But everyone that was willing to sit with
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  Speaker 7: Scott for 30 minutes and talk about whatever got in
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  Speaker 7: here and got an interview online at WTAW.com. And hopefully
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  Speaker 7: we still get some. Because, I mean, scheduling is scheduling.
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  Speaker 7: And we get that. But I think it's pretty complete.
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  Speaker 7: Having listened to all the interviews that I was in here,
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell you, like, it's incredible. The caliber of people
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  Speaker 7: we have running here. for a lot of these races
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  Speaker 7: at the local level and a lot of them at
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  Speaker 7: the state level. I'll be real. I didn't encounter any losers.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't encounter anyone in those rooms for several of
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  Speaker 7: these races where I was like, oh man, if this
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  Speaker 7: person wins, it's going to be a problem. All of them,
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  Speaker 7: sharp as anything. And go see for yourself.
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  Speaker 7: 817 on WTAW. You know, weather-wise, we're all counting down
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  Speaker 7: to hopefully getting some rain. Maybe it'll be today, 30% chance.
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  Speaker 7: We told you that. We also told you pretty much
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  Speaker 7: all weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, through the weekend. It's a really good.
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  Speaker 7: Chance of getting some rain. And as long as we're
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  Speaker 7: talking weather, would you like to dive down this rabbit
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  Speaker 7: hole of the worst weather states in America?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I do want to dive down this rabbit hole.
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  Speaker 7: Now, these are the worst of the worst. These are
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  Speaker 7: the most dangerous, awful, wicked weather locations in the United
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  Speaker 7: States of America. The worst of the worst.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so what they're looking at. Is things like tornadoes, hurricanes, hailstorms, derachos, wildfires,
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  Speaker 1: droughts and flash flooding.
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  Speaker 7: So anything that can mess you up.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Essentially, they put on this list and they're going based
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  Speaker 7: off of like billion dollar incidents.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Like when a weather situation pops off. And it causes
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  Speaker 7: a billion dollars in damage.
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  Speaker 1: So number 10 on the list, North Carolina.
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  Speaker 7: Flooding is a big problem out there.
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  Speaker 1: They've done $ 121 billion in disasters since 1980. And, of course,
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  Speaker 1: we all saw what happened in that region the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years.
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  Speaker 7: And they can get a straight-up hurricane to hit North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: And park on. Yeah, that can be a problem. Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: they've had $ 128 billion in disasters since 1980. What disaster?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, winter things?
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  Speaker 1: Chicago.
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  Speaker 7: Is Chicago itself a natural disaster? Have we designated it yet?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who knows? Shockingly, on the list at number eight
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  Speaker 1: is Georgia. Leads the country in raw billion-dollar disaster frequency.
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  Speaker 1: 134 events since 1980. Accumulative damage exceeds $ 150 billion. Missouri.
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  Speaker 14: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Also, is that Tornado Country? That's Tornado Country. That's Tornado Country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been a Joplin got hammered a few years back.
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  Speaker 1: There's a documentary on that one. Task Force was up
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  Speaker 1: there for that one.
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  Speaker 7: Have you seen the Joplin documentary? Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I saw. I was in kind of a support center
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  Speaker 1: role when Task Force was there.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And so all of the images that they were taking
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  Speaker 1: were flowing back through us.
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  Speaker 16: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: And all of the stories and everything else.
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  Speaker 7: I'll tell you, like, I had friends that were up
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  Speaker 7: there during that incident. But the documentary is one of
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  Speaker 7: the most insane tornadoes. I mean, please, it's on Netflix.
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  Speaker 7: Go watch it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's tornadoes and flooding up there in Missouri. Colorado
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  Speaker 1: in at number six.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to guess. Can I guess on this one?
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  Speaker 9: Sure. Hail.
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  Speaker 1: Hail is it.
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  Speaker 7: Yes!
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  Speaker 1: All hail Colorado. They average about 94 hail events a year,
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  Speaker 1: $ 151 million annual hail damage, and they've also seen a
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  Speaker 1: $ 38 billion in hail storms since 1980.
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  Speaker 7: My brother-in-law has totaled out two vehicles in his time
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  Speaker 7: living in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: Related to the hay man you need to get one
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  Speaker 1: of those little things first of all park in a
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  Speaker 1: garage yeah that's what i've told him as well or
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  Speaker 1: you know along with your air pump that you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be getting soon he needs to get one of
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  Speaker 1: those inflatable things that goes over.
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  Speaker 7: Your car oh yeah the crash uh the crash vest
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  Speaker 7: for your uh okay all right continue.
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma, of course, we know 68 tornadoes a year.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: The headquarters of tornado activity in the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Kansas in at number four. Again, tornadoes.
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  Speaker 7: They average 96 a year. Since the house dropped on
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  Speaker 7: that witch back in the day. We've all known about Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: The third world country next door, Louisiana. They have logged
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  Speaker 1: $ 10 billion flood events since 1980. The highest count of
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  Speaker 1: any state. On top of repeated Cat 3 and 4 hurricanes.
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  Speaker 7: That's right. Yeah, it's a real recent leader, I would say.
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  Speaker 1: How can you tell if, like, Louisiana's flooded? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because it's typically underwater. Number two on the list.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Florida.
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  Speaker 5: Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Holds the national record for hurricane landfalls with more than
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  Speaker 1: 120 documented since 1851. And are we ready for number one.
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  Speaker 4: On the list?
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  Speaker 7: Okay, so again, just to recap, if you are just
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  Speaker 7: joining us today, what we are talking about is the
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  Speaker 7: worst states, the worst states weather-wise that you can reside in.
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  Speaker 7: So yes, we'll. What do we have?
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  Speaker 1: The top spot goes to the great state of Texas.
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  Speaker 7: We did it, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: The worst. 155 tornadoes a year. Now, keep in mind,
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  Speaker 1: we have some geographic size that enables us to land
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  Speaker 1: all these tornadoes. Well, let's be honest.
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  Speaker 7: It is a continue.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It's a monster state. That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. We've racked up $ 190 distinct billion-dollar weather and climate
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  Speaker 1: disaster since 1980.
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  Speaker 7: That means $ 190 billion plus. The billion is the floor.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: A lot more than that. I mean, you take Harvey.
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  Speaker 1: You take Rita, Ike.
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  Speaker 9: All of those.
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  Speaker 7: And let's not forget the floods. Let's not forget the
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  Speaker 7: ice incidents. The ice. When we nearly blew up our
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  Speaker 7: own power grid a few years ago. We all still
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  Speaker 7: remember that. Anything that can kill you weather-wise, minus a volcano...
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  Speaker 7: Yet can happen in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: What do you mean yet? You think we're going to
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  Speaker 1: have a caldera here or something?
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  Speaker 7: It just wouldn't surprise me if all of a sudden
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  Speaker 7: there's a, you know.
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  Speaker 1: We do have fault lines in Texas.
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  Speaker 7: If all of a sudden out and around the Big Bend,
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  Speaker 7: if one just popped out of the ground and started
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  Speaker 7: Vesuvius-ing all over the place, you know, what else would
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  Speaker 12: Tallarico said, Defending trans Texas is something we have to
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  Speaker 13: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries.
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  Speaker 5: On young children.
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  Speaker 13: Claimed denying your child's gender identity is abusive. Said the
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A
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  Speaker 1: likely prank left a Corps of Cadets member pepper sprayed.
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  Speaker 1: Texas A & M University police responded to a reported
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  Speaker 1: robbery that occurred in the West Campus garage on Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: The victim, a member of the Texas A & M
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  Speaker 1: Corps of Cadets, reported that she was pepper sprayed and
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  Speaker 1: the assailant took her fish spurs. It's a Corps of
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  Speaker 1: Cadets tradition that freshman cadets wear the spurs made of
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  Speaker 1: wire and a bottle cap during the week of the
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas game. Non-core students and social fraternity pledges have a
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  Speaker 1: playful tradition of attempting to steal the spurs off the
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  Speaker 1: boots of unsuspecting freshmen. If a pledge or civilian tries
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  Speaker 1: to swipe a spur, nearby cadets are expected to intervene
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  Speaker 1: and shout, to defend the freshmen and protect the tradition.
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  Speaker 1: The victim received medical treatment and was released. The suspect
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  Speaker 1: is described as an 18-year-old white male, approximately 6 feet
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  Speaker 1: 5 inches tall, 180 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Based on the information currently available, investigators believe the suspect
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  Speaker 1: targeted Corps of Cadets members wearing bottle cap spurs. Anyone
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  Speaker 1: with information is encouraged to contact UPD. A woman was
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: arrested after College Station Police said she pointed a handgun
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  Speaker 1: at two people at a local dog park. Officers responded
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  Speaker 1: to the University Dog Park in the 400 block of
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  Speaker 1: Park Road around 1 p.m. Sunday afternoon after a couple
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  Speaker 1: walking their dog claimed that a woman threatened to kick
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  Speaker 1: their dog and pulled a gun on them. 26-year-old Jada
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  Speaker 1: Terry of College Station was found in possession of a
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  Speaker 1: Ruger 9mm handgun. Terry claims she pulled her gun after
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  Speaker 1: one of the people ran up on her. Terry was
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  Speaker 1: charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
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  Speaker 1: She is free on $ 100, 000 bond. Three people were arrested
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  Speaker 1: after they were found inside a condemned apartment building. The
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  Speaker 1: complex in the 200 block of Marion Pugh Drive is
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for demolition because of black mold. College Station police
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  Speaker 1: were called to the property just before 10.30 a.m. Monday
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  Speaker 1: after a caller reported seeing people going in and out
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  Speaker 1: of units at the abandoned complex. 36-year-old Aaron Brewer was
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  Speaker 1: found inside one of the units. He had a small
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  Speaker 1: bag containing a white powder that field-tested positive for cocaine
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and and a bottle containing 13.6 grams of the prescription
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: drug of gabapentin in another person's name. Brewer allegedly told
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  Speaker 1: officers he knew the complex was abandoned and had property
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  Speaker 1: inside the unit. Brewer was arrested on charges of possession
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  Speaker 1: of a controlled substance, possession of a dangerous drug, and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: criminal trespass. He remains jailed on $ 13, 000 bond. It was
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  Speaker 1: his 16th time in the Brazos County Jail. Officers located
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  Speaker 1: two more people inside a nearby unit, 36-year-old Aaron Tacker
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and 44-year-old Randall King II gained access to the unit
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  Speaker 1: by taking keys from the abandoned front office. Tacker was
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  Speaker 1: charged with criminal trespass and forfeited bond on arrest for
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: possession of marijuana in August of this year. She remains
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  Speaker 1: jailed on $ 5, 000 bond. King was charged with criminal trespass
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  Speaker 1: and is free on $ 3, 000 bond. It was King's sixth
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  Speaker 1: time in the Brazos County Jail. He was arrested earlier
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  Speaker 1: this month for driving with an invalid license. A teenager
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: was arrested for driving while intoxicated after the vehicle he
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: was driving ended up in a pond. The Texas Department
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: of Public Safety was dispatched to a crash on FM
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  Speaker 1: 2154 near Milliken around 3 a.m. on September 26th. The vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: driven by 18-year-old Keontre Merchant, left the roadway, traveled down
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  Speaker 1: an embankment, and ended up in a small pond. Merchant
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  Speaker 1: told the trooper he consumed a harder lemonade about 30
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: minutes before getting behind the wheel. He was charged with
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: driving while intoxicated as a minor. Merchant is free on $ 3, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: The Burleson County Sheriff's Office received reports of a burglary
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  Speaker 1: in progress on County Road 415 in Somerville around 1
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  Speaker 1: o'clock Tuesday afternoon. They say the suspects had already fled
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  Speaker 1: the scene and deputies are investigating. It is a reminder
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  Speaker 1: for residents to double-check your security and keep your valuables
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  Speaker 1: locked up and out of sight. If you will be
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: away for an extended period of time, have a neighbor
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  Speaker 1: check on your property and gather your mail. Don't give
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  Speaker 1: thieves the green light. Plus, you can call the sheriff's
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: office for a closed patrol while you are away. The
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: owners of Camp Mystic are reportedly looking to sell.
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  Speaker 14: The riverfront property where 27 kids and counselors were killed
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  Speaker 14: in a flood is divided into two parts.
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  Speaker 1: State Rep.
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  Speaker 14: Wes Verdell says that one is by the Guadalupe River,
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  Speaker 14: and that could be sold by the Eastland family.
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  Speaker 3: And then you have what they call the Cypress Lakeside,
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  Speaker 3: and my guess is they'll just focus on the Cypress Lakeside.
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  Speaker 14: That's where Mystic might be moved, and he says those
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  Speaker 14: living in the district wanted to survive, but any changes
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  Speaker 14: will likely need to be approved by a bankruptcy court judge.
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  Speaker 14: In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 7: Sauna today, a little bit better tomorrow. Low 90s. Probably
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• 34:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and I made an offhand comment that every type
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: of natural disaster minus a volcano can happen in Texas.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Todd texts in. Look up Pilot's Knob in Austin, Texas,
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: a small incorporated town built on a thought-to-be extinct volcano.
• 34:20
  Speaker 18: Oh.
• 34:20
  Speaker 7: I mean, if that's takeout of any city, you know,
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: that's fair.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: That's Austin. Travis County.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: You know, we'll deal with it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: We'll get over it.
• 34:27
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: Sorry about that, William.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: Thank God I'm not the mayor pro tem of Pilot's Knob.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Pilot's Knob.
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: What a name.
• 34:35
  Speaker 9: What a great one.
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: Here, come around here.
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: Look at it.
• 34:38
  Speaker 7: I'll show you City Hall.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 34:39
  Speaker 9: Sorry.
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: That's the VFW post. That's the only building there is
• 34:43
  Speaker 7: a VFW.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: There's the VFW post right there.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: Settled sometime after the American Civil War. Churches and a
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: few scattered houses still visible in the 1940s.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 34:51
  Speaker 7: The pilot's knob still hanging out there in South Austin.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: So, I'm glad we got you in today. Because last
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: week was the council meeting. And the day after, I
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: think we were already booked to talk some other city
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: of College Station stuff. But people are still talking about
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: the flock decision, easily the most talked about thing with
• 35:16
  Speaker 7: College Station government right now. Really interesting comments from people
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: on all sides. A week, you know, almost a week
• 35:28
  Speaker 7: after that meeting, how are you feeling? And, you know,
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: what have you had time to reflect on that? What
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: comments have you heard?
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: Well, I don't I haven't been reading the comments.
• 35:41
  Speaker 26: I've had people close to me kind of reach out
• 35:44
  Speaker 26: and let them know that there's a lot of discourse
• 35:46
  Speaker 26: online about myself and sort of what and some of the,
• 35:49
  Speaker 26: you know, the I would say the outcome of the vote.
• 35:53
  Speaker 26: I think that the process has been handled really well.
• 35:56
  Speaker 26: And I tried to lay it out at the council meeting, too.
• 35:58
  Speaker 26: We've been talking about this for a while now. And
• 36:00
  Speaker 26: while we've had folks come and sign up to speak
• 36:03
  Speaker 26: during the Hear Visitors portion, we had a workshop about
• 36:06
  Speaker 26: a month ago to talk about this, that folks were
• 36:08
  Speaker 26: able to ask the chief everything they wanted to ask.
• 36:10
  Speaker 26: And we told everyone that was going to be on
• 36:12
  Speaker 26: the agenda. We had a lot of people show up.
• 36:14
  Speaker 26: About 30 people show up to speak. So I feel
• 36:16
  Speaker 26: like it's been... it has not been in the shadows.
• 36:19
  Speaker 16: Right.
• 36:19
  Speaker 26: And so like some of the emails that we were
• 36:20
  Speaker 26: getting was like, none of this has been in public.
• 36:22
  Speaker 26: And I really tried to push back against that because it's,
• 36:24
  Speaker 26: it's all in public. You just kind of got to
• 36:26
  Speaker 26: pay attention that it's in public.
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 36:28
  Speaker 25: Fair.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: For some, that's asking a lot.
• 36:30
  Speaker 12: Right.
• 36:30
  Speaker 26: And so, and that's understandable. Um, so it's like, I
• 36:33
  Speaker 26: feel like we've had the chance to discuss it. And
• 36:35
  Speaker 26: I think that ultimately it's, it's a, it's a technology
• 36:38
  Speaker 26: that's very useful. I think, and I, and I've said
• 36:41
  Speaker 26: as such, I think the ceiling for its benefit is
• 36:44
  Speaker 26: higher than the ceiling for its abuse.
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: And so, Um, and we still have a lot to
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: figure out.
• 36:50
  Speaker 26: We are going to be very proactive at making sure
• 36:52
  Speaker 26: our parameters are in place to make sure there's no
• 36:54
  Speaker 26: abuse locally. And then I think the state and probably
• 36:57
  Speaker 26: nationally will do something to put more guardrails in place
• 36:59
  Speaker 26: as well.
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: We did, we discussed this obviously on, on Friday, along
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: with everyone else in the city. And, um, one of
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: the things you had said was that, uh, you know,
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: part of this is just because you have everyone in
• 37:10
  Speaker 7: the room being very, very, very much against flock that
• 37:15
  Speaker 7: that's not the entire community. And we did test that out.
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: We asked for text messages from people and there were
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: overwhelmingly people agreed with the decision for what it's worth.
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Percentage wise, what we got essentially was the four to
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: two vote from council.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: It was.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was it was about that that lopsided.
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: The two the two candidates up for reelection are both
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: are up for elected office this this go around. Both
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: voted no. Any thoughts on that?
• 37:47
  Speaker 26: Uh, no, I mean, I don't want to like say
• 37:49
  Speaker 26: anything bad about either of them as they're running for reelection,
• 37:51
  Speaker 26: but I think, I think everyone agreed to a certain extent.
• 37:53
  Speaker 26: I think their votes were against the company less than
• 37:56
  Speaker 26: the technology. I think, and you can hear that in
• 37:58
  Speaker 26: their statement. And I tried to, I tried to make
• 38:00
  Speaker 26: that statement as well. Even if we had not renewed
• 38:02
  Speaker 26: the contract with flock, these cameras are, and this technology
• 38:05
  Speaker 26: is on every police cruiser. There is that we have
• 38:07
  Speaker 26: in the city. Like this technology is in the city.
• 38:10
  Speaker 26: It's just sort of, um, The flock is the company
• 38:13
  Speaker 26: that we have the larger one with. And they're the
• 38:14
  Speaker 26: largest company, most effective for what you're trying to use
• 38:17
  Speaker 26: it for.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: Is there any anticipation of a timeline? And, you know,
• 38:20
  Speaker 7: this would I don't know what's obviously planned. We are
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: coming up on an election. Is there any news on
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: when the state might actually step in and make this
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: decision for? Because the reason I ask you is because
• 38:34
  Speaker 7: College Station is not the only city. No, that is
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: that is dealing with this is not dealing with the.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Some cities have kicked them out. Some states, Florida, Florida
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: kicked them one.
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: Way or another. It's it's happening all over the place.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Is there any indication the state or or federal government
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: will eventually step in and solve this for everyone?
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: I well, I can only read the tea leaves that
• 38:54
  Speaker 9: hold my own cup, I guess.
• 38:55
  Speaker 26: And I think that it's very toxic in an election
• 38:58
  Speaker 26: year where a lot of the statewide races are closer
• 39:00
  Speaker 26: than I think the folks in office thought that they
• 39:03
  Speaker 26: would be. And so I think no one wants to
• 39:05
  Speaker 26: touch it right now. And nationally, they don't want to
• 39:07
  Speaker 26: touch it. But as soon as the elections are over
• 39:09
  Speaker 26: in November, you're going to see legislation put forward for
• 39:12
  Speaker 26: the January session for the state. And I think they'll
• 39:14
  Speaker 26: have something in place. That's based off of nothing. That's
• 39:16
  Speaker 26: just me. The amount of investment the state has in
• 39:20
  Speaker 26: this company and these cameras, they're backing off because it's
• 39:22
  Speaker 26: an election year. I think that once the legislative session
• 39:25
  Speaker 26: starts in January, they're going to introduce something that I
• 39:28
  Speaker 26: think they'll make penalties for abuse.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: Harsher.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: That is one way you could do it, is try
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: to have some type of oversight to rein it in.
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: Because again, this happens with AI too. It's so new,
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: no one has any laws based around this yet. And
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: like 10 years ago, this wasn't something that people thought
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: was just going to be able to happen. Hey, I
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: can just punch in and see every time this car
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: is driven anywhere in front of a camera in the
• 39:53
  Speaker 7: state of Texas.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: It's wild.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: You know, it takes time. And as we know, government
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: moves slow. So will that happen?
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: Are you surprised at all that Brian's been able to
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: avoid literally all of this?
• 40:08
  Speaker 25: No.
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: I heard a laugh because there's Block and Brian and
• 40:13
  Speaker 7: it has never come up.
• 40:15
  Speaker 9: I do not understand. My time on council is running down,
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: so I will say this.
• 40:18
  Speaker 26: I do not understand how I feel like the city
• 40:20
  Speaker 26: of College Station, we get a brunt of the discourse
• 40:25
  Speaker 26: and upsetness when both cities typically do the same thing.
• 40:28
  Speaker 9: A lot of like the no more than four.
• 40:30
  Speaker 26: We got so much discourse and flack about that. We
• 40:34
  Speaker 26: were targeted by the legislator for that, and that's fine.
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: The flock stuff.
• 40:37
  Speaker 26: There's a lot of stuff that we do that citizens
• 40:39
  Speaker 26: get really upset about that is similar in the other city.
• 40:42
  Speaker 9: So I'm not sure.
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: It's interesting to me.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Well, Brian has its own set of issues.
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: It does, and it's fascinating to me because as someone
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: that drives past at least three of those cameras once
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: a day, I see them. I know exactly what they are,
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: and I know they're the flock cameras, and I know
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: why they're there. It's never been something that a lot
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: of people have raised the level of volume of concern over.
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: as opposed to College Station, but maybe it'll pop up later.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Kind of a weird thing.
• 41:17
  Speaker 7: Very, very interesting.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: I wanted to ask about the mayor. How's the mayor doing?
• 41:22
  Speaker 26: The mayor's good. He's recovering well. I think we have
• 41:25
  Speaker 26: a council meeting next week, and he anticipates to.
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: participate in some fashion there.
• 41:30
  Speaker 26: Nice. I believe I'll still be leading that as of
• 41:32
  Speaker 26: right now, but he's going to definitely try to participate.
• 41:34
  Speaker 9: So I think he's on the up and up.
• 41:35
  Speaker 15: Good.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Glad to hear that.
• 41:36
  Speaker 7: Send him our, send him our thoughts or prayers, wishes.
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: You know, obviously we'd want him to get back, back
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: up and run soon. Anything else you want to get
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: to this week?
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: Yes. Colin has given me a stack of things to
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: talk about. Let's go. All right. So bike-tober is coming up.
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: It's not spooky season. It's bike season. Mark your calendars
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: for Saturday, October 10th. The city is.
• 41:56
  Speaker 26: Partnering with Bryan College Station Sister Cities International Association to
• 42:01
  Speaker 26: host Biketober, a free 8.6-mile community bike ride celebrating cycling
• 42:06
  Speaker 26: and local culture.
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: So you can look for more of that on the website, cstx.gov
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: slash biketober.
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: And if we're lucky, it'll actually be cool enough to
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: where it'll be an enjoyable thing to kind.
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: Of take the bikes out.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know, we may get our second summer by
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: that point in time.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: Don't talk about second summer, man.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: That usually happens around Halloween.
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: If that's still floating around there, okay, continue.
• 42:26
  Speaker 26: We'll bring it full circle. We talked about South Park
• 42:28
  Speaker 26: last time and those bike gangs. Yeah, look out for
• 42:30
  Speaker 26: these bike gangs for biketober. Uh, Christmas parade entries.
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: Heck yes. I'm excited. I love Christmas.
• 42:40
  Speaker 26: Uh, that the Christmas parade will be, uh, 4 PM
• 42:42
  Speaker 26: on Saturday, December 5th. Um, entry deadline entry is November 6th.
• 42:47
  Speaker 26: Then you can sign up at CSTS, CSTX.gov slash parade.
• 42:51
  Speaker 26: And as I brought up last time, we have lots
• 42:53
  Speaker 26: of city boards, commissions and committees to sign up for
• 42:56
  Speaker 26: that's at CSTX.gov slash committees. And there's a, there's a
• 42:59
  Speaker 26: meeting on October 12th at 6 PM, kind of going
• 43:02
  Speaker 26: over what it's like to serve on a committee and,
• 43:04
  Speaker 26: I highly recommend it.
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: Just to pile onto the committees thing for those of
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: you that do like to jump in the comments section,
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: it's wide open.
• 43:11
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: Wide open. And a great way to honestly feel a
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: lot better about government.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you want to get involved.
• 43:18
  Speaker 7: Yeah, get involved at the city level and get behind
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: the scenes on some of this stuff. Highly encourage it. Dude,
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: thank you so much for coming in. We appreciate it.
• 43:27
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 7: Because now I'm obsessed.
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: I am too.
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  Speaker 7: I'm obsessed.
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  Speaker 1: I was completely unaware.
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  Speaker 7: Pilot Knob, Texas.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And we're talking about an area that's right by McKinney
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: Falls State Park in Austin-Bergstrom.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: Apparently 120 million years ago. This was an incredibly active volcano.
• 47:29
  Speaker 7: Crazy active.
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: Crazy active.
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  Speaker 7: Like the biggest volcano you know.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was certainly the biggest in Texas. They considered it,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: it was a underwater volcano that was above sea level.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: And so it would occasionally- Think Hawaii. Yeah, occasionally it
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: would erupt and the steam coming from it would shoot
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: volcanic matter throughout the state. Throughout the state.
• 47:50
  Speaker 26: Yeah.
• 47:53
  Speaker 7: So this wasn't just like a play around volcano. This
• 47:55
  Speaker 7: was a wreck your day volcano.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: Now it is essentially a 150, 200 foot hill out there.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: You can see it.
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: Now it's a VFW.
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: Pretty much. Pretty much.
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: So you can still go out there and take a
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: look at this thing that. Again, and when was the
• 48:11
  Speaker 7: last time it erupted?
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: 120 million years.
• 48:13
  Speaker 7: Sounds like a dude to me.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they are saying it is now in the extinct category,
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: not the dormant category, but who knows?
• 48:20
  Speaker 7: So far.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Who knows?
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: Apparently, there's lots of volcanoes in the state of Texas.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a whole mess of them, as a
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: matter of fact.
• 48:26
  Speaker 7: It was a highly active volcanic threshold back millions and
• 48:30
  Speaker 7: millions of years ago. So, yeah, you know, I mean,
• 48:34
  Speaker 7: that would really, I think, solidify solidify us at the
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: top of that list. If we could just add some volcanoes.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: Nobody, nobody could touch us in the top 10 list
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: of state disasters. If we had a volcano.
• 48:47
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: Uh, book it.
• 48:49
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• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 48:51
  Speaker 7: Uh, you would go in and, uh, what do you
• 48:53
  Speaker 7: remember about it?
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, you, you would, is that the thing,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the summer reading program, the summer reading program will you go,
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: you go read and then you turn in what you
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: read and you could get a personal pan pizza and
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: it would burn the roof of your mouth off.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, but was that not the sweetest trophy?
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you tried to cool it off with a mouthful
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: of Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Pepper.
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  Speaker 27: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: In the little red cup.
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah the red cup.
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: Keep my dine in so they would bring you this
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: cast iron yeah the thing out of the skillet it
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: was a skillet out of the oven and you would
• 49:26
  Speaker 7: yeah you would eat the pizza you had earned yeah
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: by reading and uh since then um it's kind of
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: gone away and they're trying to bring it back i
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: remember last.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Year they're trying to bring it back this summer too.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah this summer this i'm going to try to bring
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: it back as well and it's a great idea i
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: wish they would october is national pizza month and national
• 49:43
  Speaker 7: book month so guess what's guess guess what that is
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: oh what are they doing marketing opportunity it is uh
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: to celebrate pizza hut is launching little hut libraries so
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: these are You know those little libraries you'll see every
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: once in a while?
• 49:58
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 49:58
  Speaker 7: Like a little pole, like a mailbox?
• 50:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: You'll see them in neighborhoods, yeah. With the iconic red roof.
• 50:06
  Speaker 10: Oh.
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: Now, here's where you messed up, fam. None of these kids...
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: know what that roof means.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: No, but their parents do.
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: Oh, yeah. And you could tell them, just like we're
• 50:16
  Speaker 7: telling you about a 100-million-year-old volcano.
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: And a house full of elephants.
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: Back in prehistoric times, we used to go to the
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: Pizza Hut, eat a buffet, and play some video games.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: My wife sees a Pizza Hut buffet anywhere in a vicinity.
• 50:30
  Speaker 7: She's going, I think there's one in Hempstead. If I
• 50:34
  Speaker 7: end up passing, next time I'm on 290, I'm going
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: to stop off, I'm going to investigate. If I see it,
• 50:39
  Speaker 7: I'll probably cry. I'll probably cry because it meant that
• 50:44
  Speaker 7: much to us.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was great.
• 50:46
  Speaker 7: Also, another thing that they didn't think of because what
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: they're doing is saying if you want to host one
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: of these libraries, you can hit them up and you
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: can put it in front of your– it's got to
• 50:55
  Speaker 7: be a safe location and all that stuff. As fans
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: of the television show King of the Hill– I have
• 51:02
  Speaker 7: to bring up the time Peggy Hill, in fact, did
• 51:06
  Speaker 7: host a library.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: She did.
• 51:07
  Speaker 7: You remember the consequences of those actions, Will?
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: Bedbugs.
• 51:10
  Speaker 9: Bedbugs.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 51:12
  Speaker 7: Which is actually... That's one of my favorite episodes, man.
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: It's so good.
• 51:18
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: And so real.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: Like, that's absolutely a risk. It's all fun and games.
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: Until all of a sudden, bedbugs.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: I have watched the entire series. At least three times.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: And every episode still hits, man. Still hits.
• 51:33
  Speaker 7: We were talking about the hundred grand.
• 51:35
  Speaker 15: I would.
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: 100 Greatest Shows of 2000, I put it in there
• 51:38
  Speaker 7: if it didn't start in the late 90s. I mean, honestly,
• 51:41
  Speaker 7: I struggle to find a better television show.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: The only problem with it is that it hit less
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: hard in areas outside of Texas.
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it did. I mean, there were people.
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: That watched it that kind of understood, but not the
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: way we did here. No, no.
• 51:56
  Speaker 7: It's a Texas-specific thing. It's probably very good other places,
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: but here it's practically gossip.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: Susan says there is a Pizza Hut buffet in Caldwell.
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: Stop it, Susan.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:08
  Speaker 9: Is it?
• 52:09
  Speaker 7: Okay, we will do some. Yeah, several people.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Hearn and Madisonville still have pizza.
• 52:13
  Speaker 7: I'm going to Hearn after the show today.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Are you really?
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I got to drop off a vehicle. Remember my
• 52:18
  Speaker 7: car didn't have AC?
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: Yeah, shout out to my friends at the dealership up there.
• 52:23
  Speaker 7: They were able to get me in. I will report
• 52:26
  Speaker 7: back on how my experience goes.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: You're going to the buffet.
• 52:29
  Speaker 7: Tomorrow on the show, and I will absolutely get in.
• 52:31
  Speaker 7: Y'all have Ubers in Hearn? Because I'm probably going to
• 52:34
  Speaker 7: need one, but I'm.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: We've got some listeners up there, maybe.
• 52:38
  Speaker 7: Boy, if I can get in and get to a
• 52:40
  Speaker 7: Pizza Hut buffet this afternoon, there will be video evidence
• 52:43
  Speaker 7: of this.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: There's actually like two or three places in Hearn that
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: I would have to wrestle with.
• 52:49
  Speaker 7: There are some good spots in Hearn.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I haven't been up there in a while. I mean,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: there's a place there, what is it, the Dixie Cafe?
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: Dixie Cafe is legendary.
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: Real quick, I know we've got a lot of time. WTAW,
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: you're on the radio.
• 52:58
  Speaker 9: What you got?
• 53:00
  Speaker 22: Caldwell has the best pizza in the surrounding area.
• 53:04
  Speaker 26: Six or eight counties.
• 53:05
  Speaker 7: Does it have a salad bar, too, or is it
• 53:06
  Speaker 7: just the pizza?
• 53:07
  Speaker 12: It has a salad bar and it has a buffet
• 53:10
  Speaker 12: at lunch.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, man.
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know about the evening, but it's always fresh.
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: Caldwell, man. Okay.
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: Caldwell.
• 53:16
  Speaker 7: You know what?
• 53:17
  Speaker 18: Okay.
• 53:17
  Speaker 7: I'm telling you what we're doing here today. We will
• 53:19
  Speaker 7: do Caldwell before the week is up. We're going to
• 53:22
  Speaker 7: do a pizza hut. We're going to do a pizza
• 53:24
  Speaker 7: hut tour. I would love nothing more than to highlight
• 53:26
  Speaker 7: every single pizza hut that still has a buffet. Brother,
• 53:28
  Speaker 7: thank you so much and have a great day. That's
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: what this show is here for. We have to remind
• 53:33
  Speaker 7: people that you still can get into a Pizza Hut
• 53:35
  Speaker 7: and still have that experience. Because when a day is hard,
• 53:38
  Speaker 7: you can still get that personal pizza.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: And it'll still take the roof off of your mouth
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: just like it did when you were a kid.
• 53:44
  Speaker 10: 1620-945-WTAW.
• 53:44
  Speaker 7: Have a great day.