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The Infomaniacs: August 19, 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by Opus Season fifty four True Colors.
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  Speaker 1: opustickets dot org. Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm
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  Speaker 1: will welch. At Tuesday's Brasses County Commissioner's meeting, one topic
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  Speaker 1: was the tax rate the county is having to dip
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  Speaker 1: into the fund balance each year to fund maintenance and
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  Speaker 1: operations projects. They didn't adopt the highest amount proposed, instead
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  Speaker 1: opting to go with the second highest rate. That amount
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  Speaker 1: is forty four point eighty four cents, but it won't
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  Speaker 1: be adopted until after public hearings on the tax rate.
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  Speaker 1: Those will take place before the next Commissioner's Court meeting
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday, September first, starting at eight thirty am. They
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  Speaker 1: will discuss both the tax rate and the proposed four
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two million dollars county budget. The Brian
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  Speaker 1: Fire Department responded to a house fire in the thirty
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  Speaker 1: five hundred block of Midwest Drive just before two thirty
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday afternoon. CRUZ found an active fire in the attic
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  Speaker 1: of the home that they were able to quickly they
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  Speaker 1: get under control. The resident was able to exit the
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  Speaker 1: home without injury and no surrounding structures were affected. The
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  Speaker 1: cause of the fire is under investigation. Flock cameras are
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  Speaker 1: being credited with reuniting a missing child from Sabine County
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  Speaker 1: with her family.
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  Speaker 2: Sabine Counties, just east of Lufkin. Authorities there were notified
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  Speaker 2: early Sunday of a missing child and that led to
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  Speaker 2: a multi agency drag net and included officers from both
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  Speaker 2: Texas and Louisiana. Beaumont's KFDM television reporting that flock cameras
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  Speaker 2: and license plate readers led authorities to intercept a car
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  Speaker 2: and rescue that child just before the car reached the
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  Speaker 2: Louisiana Mississippi state line. Sixty year old Roger Smith of Pineland,
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  Speaker 2: Texas was arrested. The child safely returned to her parents
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  Speaker 2: here in Texas. Russell Scott TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The City of Brian announced that the playground at Sue
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  Speaker 1: Haswell Park will be closed for about five weeks. The
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  Speaker 1: city will be installing new shade structures over the playground.
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  Speaker 1: They say, once complete, the shade will enhance safety on
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  Speaker 1: hot days and extend the life of existing equipment. Shade
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  Speaker 1: structures are also being installed at Tanglewood and Greenbriar Parks,
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  Speaker 1: but those areas remain open with safety barricades in place.
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  Speaker 1: The surrogacy drama unfolding here in Texas isn't over yet.
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  Speaker 1: The infant in question received a successful open heart surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Now lawyers for his birth mother and his biological parents
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  Speaker 1: are preparing for a courtroom battle.
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  Speaker 3: When the fetus Mkketta West was carrying was diagnosed with
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  Speaker 3: a serious heart condition, the parents who had hired her
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  Speaker 3: as their surrogate, opted for an abortion. West refused, came
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  Speaker 3: to Texas and gave birth last week.
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  Speaker 4: Even though he's not biologically nine, he knows me and
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  Speaker 4: to him, I am his mother.
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  Speaker 3: The parents' attorney confirmed that the baby, whose legal name
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  Speaker 3: is Roomy, had his first surgery yesterday. Mckhetta West plans
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  Speaker 3: to push for custody of the baby, whom she calls Gabriel.
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  Speaker 1: News is presented by Opus Season fifty four True Colors.
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  Speaker 1: More news at seven thirty or any time at w
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  Speaker 1: t DAW dot com. I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety
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  Speaker 1: four to five WTA.
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  Speaker 5: W sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW. It's Wednesday,
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  Speaker 5: which means if you're in College Station. The school zones
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  Speaker 5: are back on, baby, yeah, so be careful out there.
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  Speaker 5: It's firstday school back for CSID and enjoy it to
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  Speaker 5: all of the families and kids out there. Weather today
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  Speaker 5: is going to be a day where you're going to
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  Speaker 5: be happy to be inside an IC air conditioned school buildings.
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  Speaker 5: Is probably can get to one hundred and one or
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  Speaker 5: one hundred and two down to the seventies tonight and
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  Speaker 5: then by this weekend.
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  Speaker 6: What was it? What were you seeingred?
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  Speaker 1: One hundred and four, that's there.
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  Speaker 5: brand new, well almost brand new. Opus Director Monica Elliott
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  Speaker 5: stop and buy uh to to catch up with how
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  Speaker 5: you doing today?
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  Speaker 1: Phone on you see Monica, you were worried about how
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  Speaker 1: you were going to perform here. Yeah, Tucker just did
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  Speaker 1: that to make you feel.
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  Speaker 5: We have a real casual, casual work environment. First off,
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  Speaker 5: congratulations on the new position. Uh, how's that going so far?
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  Speaker 1: How are you.
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  Speaker 6: Feeling I'm feeling great.
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  Speaker 7: The answer is it's going great. My official position title changes.
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  Speaker 7: We're adjusting the microre the position title changes. September one,
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  Speaker 7: I step into.
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  Speaker 5: The world director beautiful, beautiful and I know opus over I.
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  Speaker 1: Mean, geez, decades and decades.
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  Speaker 5: Has really become I mean, the evolution of that has
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  Speaker 5: been amazing into what it is today. And you you
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  Speaker 5: are going to be walking into a fairly nice first
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  Speaker 5: seat you want to talk about.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely. So we kick off in our small venue, Rudder
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  Speaker 7: Theater with Behind the Lines on September thirteenth, and it's
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  Speaker 7: the anniversary, the twenty fifth anniversary of nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 7: and it's on an intement gathering series and that's exactly
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  Speaker 7: what it's going to be. It's a it's a fantastic
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  Speaker 7: production with the sole survivor of Rescue Station number five
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  Speaker 7: and combat veteran their stories. There will be storytelling and
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  Speaker 7: some jazz accompaniments, so you're in for a real treat
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  Speaker 7: and it's a great way to commemorate the twenty fifth
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  Speaker 7: anniversary of nine eleven and then we go straight to
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  Speaker 7: main stage kickoff with Aiden Ross his homecoming concert on
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  Speaker 7: September eighteenth. So we're off and running.
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  Speaker 1: Now on the main stage.
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  Speaker 6: Now on the main Aiden Ross and El.
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  Speaker 1: So this first event that you're having, I actually was
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  Speaker 1: looking at it before the show this morning. What a
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  Speaker 1: very unusual but very cool way to present the story,
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  Speaker 1: the personal story of nine to eleven and the soldier
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  Speaker 1: from Afghanistan and that time is this mash up with jazz. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: what a very cool thing to do.
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  Speaker 7: And if you if you go on to the website,
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  Speaker 7: there's a video where you can see the gentlemen as
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  Speaker 7: well as the artist, the trumpet accompany nests in the
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  Speaker 7: background and they talk about the beauty of storytelling through
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  Speaker 7: the power of story and song, which was actually the
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  Speaker 7: obest theme last year, but we're carrying it forward with
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  Speaker 7: this particular production and the narrators, the storytellers talk about
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  Speaker 7: the impact of music as they are telling their stories,
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  Speaker 7: even in the moments of every production that they do.
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  Speaker 5: The If you have not seen the video that you
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  Speaker 5: guys had, like you're mentioning, it's difficult to not get
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  Speaker 5: emotional watching thee I can only imagine what that's going
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  Speaker 5: to look like in the room. Obviously, this is a
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  Speaker 5: show we're very, very excited about for the twenty fifth
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  Speaker 5: anniversary of nine to eleven. There's really not I know,
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  Speaker 5: there's a better way to spin that now. Obviously it's
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  Speaker 5: going to be on Sunday, September thirteenth. Are their tickets
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  Speaker 5: still available for this show? And how how fast do
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  Speaker 5: they have to scoop them up if they want to
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  Speaker 5: get in the room.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, tickets are available opustickets dot org recommend buying your
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  Speaker 7: tickets soon because they are selling We're hoping for a sellout.
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  Speaker 7: We're anticipating a sellout. And I can't think of a
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  Speaker 7: better way, especially you know, I was here working in
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  Speaker 7: college station on nine to eleven, and I can't think
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  Speaker 7: of a better way to celebrate with family and celebrates
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  Speaker 7: the Rover commemoration. Commemorate with family, especially the youth who
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  Speaker 7: were not born at that time.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, I think if you've got if you've got kids
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  Speaker 5: that are under the age of obviously twenty five, and
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  Speaker 5: this pops up a lot. And I'll talk to parents
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  Speaker 5: who are like, you know, like they've got thirteen year old's,
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  Speaker 5: fourteen year olds, they have no point of reference.
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  Speaker 1: Even if you're under the age of thirty. The age
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  Speaker 1: of thirty, yeh, you were five years old when this happened,
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  Speaker 1: like and again you're not supposed to have a point
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  Speaker 1: of reference for that you weren't around. But if you
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  Speaker 1: want to take them to something that will explain why
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  Speaker 1: we're still talking about this twenty five years later, this
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  Speaker 1: is the event and impactful because it's a first hand account.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, first hand account from from the guy that was
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  Speaker 5: there and also a guy who spent time during the
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  Speaker 5: War on Tear and Afghanistan.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's it's a.
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  Speaker 5: Musty and that's saying a lot because the the rest
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  Speaker 5: of the season is also equally must see.
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  Speaker 8: This.
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  Speaker 5: Roll through some more of these after you get there
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  Speaker 5: with Aiden Ross's Homecoming Show, which a whole other thing,
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  Speaker 5: Phil the Phil Collins Story, Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock, Back
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  Speaker 5: to the Rock, Live Churchill and Roosevelt, The Christmas and
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  Speaker 5: Save the World a Beautiful Noise that's the Neil Diamond Musical.
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  Speaker 5: Then you get into Waitress Shucked Clue, Doctor Seus's Cat
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  Speaker 5: and the Hat Live Uh, and you've still got Codo
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  Speaker 5: One Earth Tour. You've got both Sides Now, which is
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  Speaker 5: a piece on the music and lives Johnny Mitchell and
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  Speaker 5: Leonard Cohen and then Mystic Pizza closes it out. That's
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  Speaker 5: that's the strong there are no misses. See how are
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  Speaker 5: season tickets going? And can they still get a season ticket?
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely, that's the that's the beauty of the way that
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  Speaker 7: this season is rolling out, that you absolutely can still
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  Speaker 7: buy season tickets.
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  Speaker 6: That's actually a pretty great thing.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, And if you do want to get single tickets,
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  Speaker 5: you can go to opustickets dot org and I believe
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  Speaker 5: you can get single What are your options there, other
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  Speaker 5: packages or anything or is it just single tickets and season.
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  Speaker 7: Single tickets and season.
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  Speaker 1: Enchilada?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, excellent, excellent, excellent.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, go check it out and uh and congratulations
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  Speaker 5: on the new role starting in September. And this is
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  Speaker 5: going to be a wonderful debut season for you, I know.
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  Speaker 5: And if you would like to you to experience a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of this, I know you were kind enough
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  Speaker 5: to bring us a little treats, which is a pair
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  Speaker 5: of tickets to Aiden ross On.
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  Speaker 1: We are holding that power right now. We have a
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  Speaker 1: pair of tickets. Yes, we are awesome and.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to do it very simply.
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  Speaker 5: Today, We're just gonna do who's listening, So our text
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  Speaker 5: numbers is nine sevent nine, six nine five, sixteen twenty.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to go see Aiden Ross live in
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  Speaker 5: person on the main stage, text us your name and
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  Speaker 5: text us what.
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  Speaker 6: You are doing while you are listening to the show today.
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  Speaker 1: Not many hoops to jump through.
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  Speaker 6: Right there, that's it. We'll go through some of these.
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  Speaker 5: We will randomly select one of you and we will
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  Speaker 5: send you to Aiden Ross. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 5: coming in today. We appreciate it. Thank you, thanks for
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  Speaker 5: having me ninety four to five WTAW on a nice
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  Speaker 5: hundred degree day.
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  Speaker 6: The streak will do our you know, I say, the
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  Speaker 6: street continues through the baby stage of the street.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking about the two thousand and eight street.
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  Speaker 1: We had over one hundred days, over one hundred.
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  Speaker 6: Now we're not going to get that, thank God, I hope.
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  Speaker 6: But still gonna be something.
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  Speaker 1: No, that would put us one hundred into October.
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  Speaker 4: The A and M soccer team concludes that season opening
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  Speaker 4: three game road trip tonight with a seven thirty contest
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  Speaker 4: against Texas State and Law.
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  Speaker 5: All the details coming up doing a little Uh who's
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  Speaker 5: listening today? For Aiden Ross tickets? And again, if you
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  Speaker 5: want to play along with this, all you need to
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  Speaker 5: do to qualify to win these tickets is textus nine
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  Speaker 5: seven nine six nine five sixteen twenty and tell us
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  Speaker 5: your name and what you are doing while you are
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  Speaker 5: listening to the show today. I'll give you an example.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff Wascombe, our old friend. He is listening to the
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  Speaker 5: show drying to work, hopefully the traffic is good, and.
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  Speaker 1: He was using voice to text. I'm sure, yeah, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: very wisely although Eric, yeah, texted in texting and driving
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  Speaker 1: to work.
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  Speaker 6: Don't care.
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  Speaker 1: You do not encourage that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't necessarily go that route, but hey, yeah whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Mary Rose is listening on a five mile walk. You
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  Speaker 5: people make me I love that tired when y'all say
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  Speaker 5: things like this.
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  Speaker 1: I've told you about my next door neighbor, haven't I? No,
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  Speaker 1: she does five to ten miles every morning, uh and
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  Speaker 1: I without fail. And she knows everything that goes on
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  Speaker 1: in our neighborhood. Wow, because she walks.
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  Speaker 5: Because she's there, she's there every morning. You got feet
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  Speaker 5: on the streets. Absolutely, that's a wonderful thing.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: No, I that's incredible and incredible dedication and way to
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  Speaker 5: get it done early.
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  Speaker 6: Good Lord, you have to. There's no other way.
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  Speaker 1: Hot take your life in your hands.
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  Speaker 5: Marilyn is eating a delicious breakfast sandwich made by her
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  Speaker 5: husband Ernie.
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  Speaker 1: Right on, Ernie, Ernie, what's your throw?
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  Speaker 6: What you'll throw on that thing?
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  Speaker 1: What's the I don't know what. We made some breakfast
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  Speaker 1: treats last night. We took some croissant rolls and filled
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  Speaker 1: them up with breakfast sausage, egg and cheese, very nice,
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  Speaker 1: and baked those in the oven last night.
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  Speaker 6: Brad is waiting on the daughter to get ready to.
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  Speaker 5: Take her to her first day of school, first day overall, Brad,
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  Speaker 5: day one of the first day kindergarten.
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  Speaker 6: Or is this is it just just another first day
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  Speaker 6: in a Either way, Brass tell you this is a
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  Speaker 6: is a girl.
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  Speaker 1: Dad of two. Waiting on the daughter period is going
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  Speaker 1: to be part of your life for quite some What.
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  Speaker 5: What's your strategy, by the way, to keep your sanity
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  Speaker 5: while you are waiting on your daughters, because I feel
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  Speaker 5: like you've done you've done this for a.
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  Speaker 1: Sanity is waving the white flag of surrender and just
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  Speaker 1: realizing that you're gonna be late for things and there's
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  Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it. By the way, Kathy
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  Speaker 1: just texted in chef's wife. She says, riding in the
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  Speaker 1: car sending text for you.
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  Speaker 6: Brilliance, brilliance. See that that is a system.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and again we don't like, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: great partnerships. We had a husband and wife they're cooking
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  Speaker 1: for each other. Then we have a husband and wife
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  Speaker 1: texting for each other.
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  Speaker 6: This is the Yeah, this is how it's supposed to
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  Speaker 6: work exactly. You're a team.
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  Speaker 5: A team in the morning because God knows you need
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  Speaker 5: some help getting out the door every single day.
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  Speaker 6: You know what, we will. I will give you guys
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  Speaker 6: a few extra.
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  Speaker 5: Minutes to get these in just because again, like to
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  Speaker 5: be accommodating, right, and we'll pick a winter coming up soon.
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  Speaker 5: Do we want to talk about the state Fair Texas
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  Speaker 5: because I was perusing this you saw it first. These
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  Speaker 5: are the winners of the Big Tax Awards, and if
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  Speaker 5: you're not familiar with Big Text Awards, they are the
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  Speaker 5: basically the Krim dela Krim of Texas food.
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  Speaker 1: Like the food, yeah, the food creations that they always
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  Speaker 1: make for the for the State Fair of Texas.
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  Speaker 5: And it's always it always goes viral every single year
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  Speaker 5: because they're insane.
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  Speaker 6: Go ahead, what do we have over there?
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  Speaker 9: Well?
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  Speaker 1: The number four spot is the bury me in Macha.
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  Speaker 1: It's a dessert cheesecake slice hand dipped in silky Belgian
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  Speaker 1: white chocolate.
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  Speaker 6: We were literally just discussing macha.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, where was the mucha in all that?
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  Speaker 1: Then it's rolled and crushed macha cookie.
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  Speaker 6: This delicious.
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  Speaker 5: They roll this delicious thing in macha dust, thus ruining
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  Speaker 5: it forever exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But number three in the sipper category tropical Cocoa Fresca.
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  Speaker 1: They say it's designed to beat the brutal Texas heat.
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  Speaker 1: It's a massive refreshing drink that layers pineapple, watermelon aguas
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  Speaker 1: frescas inside a cup rimmed with chamoy lava. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean that sounds disgusting.
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  Speaker 6: It's a lot there's a lot going on there, and
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  Speaker 6: it's got.
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  Speaker 1: A heavy scoop of icy coconut snow that slowly melts.
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  Speaker 1: That directly lost me.
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  Speaker 6: That's where you lost me.
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  Speaker 1: You start putting the chamoy and the ta heena on there,
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  Speaker 1: It's just not you.
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  Speaker 6: No, no, all right, that's fine.
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  Speaker 5: I'll say this, though, I think it's a little look
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  Speaker 5: that's a little snooty for what it actually is. You're
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  Speaker 5: giving me this nice tropical beverage and trying to make
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  Speaker 5: me forget them in fair Park.
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  Speaker 1: And not putting any rum er vanka.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, dude, it's I appreciate it, But if I
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  Speaker 5: can't see the beach while I'm drinking that.
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  Speaker 6: What's the point.
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  Speaker 1: You're a long way a lot, dude.
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  Speaker 5: I'm a long way from the Closes beach is the
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  Speaker 5: Trinity River, that's.
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  Speaker 6: Not it's not the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: In the sweets category. Fletchers a name, you know for
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  Speaker 1: corner Fletcher's Chocolate, Corny Dog.
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  Speaker 6: Stop it. What does this mean?
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  Speaker 1: This means is that the legendary family the Fletchers put
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  Speaker 1: this together. It is a thick core of smooth milk
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: chocolate fudge, hand dipped it. Fletcher's signature original corny dog
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: batter Okay, then deep fried to a golden crisp. It's
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: drizzled with yellow vanilla icing to mimic the mustard, and
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: served with a side of raspberry compote to mimic the
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: kensup good.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: I can't I can't hate on this one.
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: This might be this might be your winner, This might
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: be the coolest thing to get, because again Fletcher, corny
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: dogs are kind of the thing.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: And if you're gonna include price in your rakings, yes
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: it's a seven dollars item. That's not bad at all.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: You can't get a cup of water now tap a.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Fair Yes, that is by by comparison.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: So number one nice entry point savory category. Burger chop
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: tater tacos. What is okay?
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: What is that?
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of words there that all all individually
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: sound great. Burger chopped tater tacos. This is you swap
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: out the traditional taco shell for a structural marvel made
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: of cheddar, cheese and tater tots mashed together, and then
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: fry it until crispy.
• 18:18
  Speaker 5: So they mash up a bunch of tater totts and cheddar,
• 18:20
  Speaker 5: turn it into a taco.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: Shell and then you stuff it with freshly seared burger patty.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: It's chopped up and tossed with sauteed onions and halapinos.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: It's loaded with buffalo buttermilk, ranch coleslaw, and a rich
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: garlic parmesan buffalo sauce.
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: I mean, that's that sounds that sounds good.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd eat it. If I didn't have to go
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: to the fair to eat it, i'd eat it.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Here's the here's the walking around that would hard.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah. I mean they're gonna say that's that's walking food.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: That's not.
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: I don't buy that being walking food. I always wonder
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: because I used to. Again, every year this goes so viral.
• 18:57
  Speaker 5: It's such a big deal. People look at it like,
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: I mean, ever since they were doing fried coke and
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: fried butter. If people look to the State Fair of Texas,
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: I think it's actually losing to the Houston Rodeo.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: I will concur I think, honestly, the State Fair of
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Texas in all categories, Yeah, has lost to the Houston
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Lifestyle Show.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: The same thing. It's not. I would say it's not
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: even in the same and they are.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of apple and orange there, But
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: I mean just as far as they're both big, major
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: state fair type events. Yeah, yeah, Houston Rodeo.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Just now, whenever I say this, people are, well, you
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: you grew up in Brian College station, so you're yeah,
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: obviously you're going to think Rodeo is better.
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: That's what you went to growing up. True. True, I'm
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: not a Dallas guy, but you.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Know, I've been to both so many times, especially recently.
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: The food at Rodeo Houston is insane, insane. They're throwing
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: out things that that I've never even thought of. And
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: and again, if I had to put to it, Look,
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: if you are someone that has gone to both a lot,
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: what's your take on this? Who actually has the best
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: food in the fair game?
• 20:05
  Speaker 6: At this point?
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: Is it Rodeo Houston or is it still the State
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: Fair of Texas? Because again, that's not bad.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: You might have started a food fight. Wait, weird, Tucker.
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: I mean I called Chip and ask him Chip is
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: the biggest state fair of Texas?
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Guy, Yeah, state Fair Ballparks. Chip knows his food.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: All right, we'll take a break, we'll be back do
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  Speaker 5: news and we'll get a winner for these aiden ross tickets.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: News is presented by west Web All Britain and Gentry
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  Speaker 1: law firm, the experienced legal team for the things you
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: value most. Good morning from the wta W newsroom. I'm
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: will welch Bras. This County Commissioner's Court approved yesterday a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: plan to get the Rellis Campus Data and Research Center
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: back on track. This way, Global Incorporated says they'll comply
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: with the laws, current and future. Here's Commissioner Chuck CONDERLA.
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: So they're agreeing right now to the current laws, to
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: what we've requested, which largely mirror Governor Abbott's requests, and
• 21:04
  Speaker 10: to future legislation for this coming legislative session. They will
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: be following all of those, or I wouldn't feel good
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: about this.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Commissioner Fred Brown understands that Texas A and M would
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: find a way to make the project a reality, with
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: or without the county.
• 21:18
  Speaker 11: The elephant in the room that we didn't discuss is
• 21:20
  Speaker 11: Texas A and M. And they're going to do this
• 21:22
  Speaker 11: no matter what, whether we're involved or Brian's involved. It's
• 21:27
  Speaker 11: an A and M project, and we would be foolish
• 21:30
  Speaker 11: to not be a part of it and to not
• 21:33
  Speaker 11: take advantage of the potential taxes that they will pay.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Public concerns over data centers always center around drawing too
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: much electricity from the grid or residents seeing higher rates.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Condola and Commissioner Wanda Watson discuss.
• 21:47
  Speaker 10: And BTU has given all of us a letter saying
• 21:50
  Speaker 10: they have the capacity, it will not affect anyone's power
• 21:52
  Speaker 10: delivery or rates. So I do want that one thing
• 21:55
  Speaker 10: clarified here before we vote.
• 21:57
  Speaker 7: So, but I was, I guess going back to the
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: creation of those mini reactors that Brian was being a.
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: Part of, and yeah, when those are online, that's going
• 22:06
  Speaker 10: to be that's going to be a game changer for
• 22:07
  Speaker 10: a lot of things, not just this agreement.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Condola continues with all.
• 22:11
  Speaker 10: Our concerns about data centers in this agreement covered and
• 22:16
  Speaker 10: future laws being applicable to them, and they're ready to
• 22:20
  Speaker 10: sign that. I'm in favor of.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: It's a forty year land lease between the university and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: this way Global Brass County would be unable to collect
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: taxes on land owned by an m but that changes
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: once this way Global takes over. The county is offering
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: fifty percent in tax abatements for each of the first
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: ten years. For the remaining thirty years of the lease,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the county would receive one hundred percent of property taxes.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Commissioners unanimously approved the item. The Brian College Station Chamber
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of Commerce held a ribbon cutting Tuesday for the new
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Brass County Medical Examiner's Office. It was standing room only
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: inside the facility as attendees heard presentations from many including
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: County Judge to Ay Peters and doctor Jennifer Dierkson, who
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: will be named the county's first medical examiner after the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: facility opens. Construction on the twenty one thousand square foot
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: facility on East twenty ninth Street and Brian began in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: December twenty twenty four and will officially be open and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: ready to start receiving cases on September first. Public tours
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: are being held today from ten until three and again
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: on Saturday, August twenty ninth, from ten until two. A
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: man is being held on an Ice detainer after he
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: tried shoplifting from the West Brian Walmart. Police were called
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to the walmart on North Harvey Mitchell Parkway after receiving
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: reports of a theft in progress. Asset Protection told police
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: that a man tried walking out of the store with
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: a cart full of merchandise. Reports say twenty five year
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: old Nelson Jimenez Santa Maria admitted to not paying for
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the roughly eleven hundred dollars worth of items, including pet supplies, clothing,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and four Lego sets. Santa Maria was charged with theft
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: of property greater than seven hundred and fifty dollars but
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: less than twenty five hundred dollars. Tex Dot is hosting
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a community meeting this afternoon in Navisota to discuss Interstate
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: fourteen and Loop two fourteen, find out where the roadways
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: are planned, and provide feedback from four thirty until six
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: thirty at the Grimes County Fairgrounds. A Brian woman was
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: arrested for driving while intoxicated after crashing into a tree
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: early Monday. Brian police were dispatched to the crash near
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: North Earl Rudder Freeway, East Frontage Road and North Harvey
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Mitchell Parkway just before three am on Monday. A witness
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: told police he saw a vehicle speeding down Harvey Mitchell
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Parkway toward Highway six before it ended up in a
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: field near the twenty four hundred block of North Harvey
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Mitchell Parkway. When BPD arrived, they found twenty year old
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Hailey Isabel Jmenez standing next to the car. She told
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: officers she was traveling to a friend's home a few
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: minutes away, but when she showed police the location on
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the map, the officer reported that the residence was in Franklin,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and in his failed field sobriety test, she was arrested
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: for DWI. Agreed to provide a breath specimen. Two tests
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: showed alcohol concentrations of zero point one sixty three and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: zero point one sixty six. She was arrested for DWI
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: with BAC greater than zero point one point five. The
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: state of Minnesota is suing Governor Abbot over the extradition
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: of an ICE agent that DPS helped to arrest. ICE
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: agent Christian Castro, faces four counts of felony assault after
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: he's said to have fired a gun at the front
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: door of a Minnesota home in January, injuring one person.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: In May, Castro was found in Texas and arrested by DPS.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Minnesota Governor Tim Watts has taken legal action against a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbot to force him to sign the extradition warrant.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Abbot says he has his own demands.
• 25:45
  Speaker 9: And that is is time for Minnesota to step up
• 25:48
  Speaker 9: and repay the United States of America and Americans for
• 25:50
  Speaker 9: all the fraud that they've committed in their state under
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: federal programs, and I will not respond to them at all.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Abbot was speaking at a campaign event. The lawsuit came
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: nearly a week after the Minnesota Attorney General sent a
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: letter asking Abbott to sign the extradition papers. News is
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  Speaker 1: welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW. All right, let's get
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  Speaker 5: down of business. Got to select a winner for these
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: aiden Ross tickets. Do you want to salute anyone else?
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: Before I call the randomly selected winner.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I will salute a couple. Let's salute Mike. Mike this
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: morning me two goldens and an orange cat, sitting on
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the deck being an info maniac, sipping iced tea and
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: enjoying the only tolerable part of the day.
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  Speaker 6: What Mike, You're a You're an all star.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And I will also salute Christy. Christy is a she's
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: listening every morning while on patrol. She's a deputy constable.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for what you do, totally cow.
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Yes, thank you so much.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: And there are our kads, other great ones like.
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  Speaker 5: A great pack today. Thank you'll so much for spending
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: your morning with us. Now, let us call this gentleman
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  Speaker 5: here and order him some tickets to aid and Rows.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: All right, if we can work the phones correctly.
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: That is always a giffy prospect. Will.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Let's be real, hey, sometimes, you know, it's not often
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: that we call.
• 27:22
  Speaker 6: Out no, no, I mean wireland.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Remember you dials changed?
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: Okay, let's try this one more time because I probably
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: messed that up.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess you did pilot error. That's why I
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: call that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: This would be a lot easier if I could hear
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: the tones, but I like to respect your privacy.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: You know, is anybody really capable of doing that? Well?
• 27:46
  Speaker 6: You know, doesn't it become more important in these trying times?
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Yes, in these uncertain times.
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: K Kirk, what's up? It's uh, it's freedo. Will and
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: Riley from the Info.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Kurt, Good morning to Yelle.
• 28:03
  Speaker 12: How's everybody doing doing?
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: Good man?
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: So, so we're calling you because you were randomly selected
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: as the winner for today's tickets to Aiden Ross playing
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: m sc Opus next month.
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: Gonna be a great show.
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: You can still get the tickets online and please do.
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Uh So what are you up to today?
• 28:19
  Speaker 12: Man?
• 28:19
  Speaker 6: What do you do when you listen to the show?
• 28:21
  Speaker 12: I'm walking the Biloxi Bay Bridge in between Ocean Springs
• 28:26
  Speaker 12: and Biloxi, Mississippi this morning.
• 28:27
  Speaker 6: Get out of here?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Why does your car break down or something?
• 28:32
  Speaker 12: Self self inflicted punishment, trying to get into shape for
• 28:35
  Speaker 12: a daughter's wedding down and Brian palastation in October?
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: How about that? Congratulations?
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: By the way, How's how's the How's the scenery out
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: there in the in Biloxi Bay?
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: It's nice and hot. Sunrise was awesome and but it's
• 28:49
  Speaker 12: also very peaceful before I get back to work.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: I love it. Wow. What do you do for work, Kurt?
• 28:56
  Speaker 12: I'm in the industrial sales space dealing with chemical plant
• 29:00
  Speaker 12: and the nasty word data centers.
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: Oh no, wow, I say, oh no, because yeah, we're
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: mache We're making a head for you to be in
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: these uh in these these times that we are.
• 29:14
  Speaker 12: But love love listening to the show and a faithful
• 29:18
  Speaker 12: listener for sure.
• 29:19
  Speaker 5: Well, man, we love avenue and uh we love being
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: able to give you a little bit as it. Well,
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't say we're giving you the z in. I
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: would say that beautiful lug, you know, that beautiful view.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: And we're always grateful to have international listeners, people in
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: other countries like Mississippi.
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: Do you ever get up to Oxford while you're out there?
• 29:38
  Speaker 12: So full disclosure, I live in East Texas. I live
• 29:41
  Speaker 12: in Texture, Cana right behind the A and M textare
• 29:43
  Speaker 12: Canna campus. Oh nice, so I just cover multiple states.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Awesome, excellent, Kirk. We appreciate you, man, and I hope
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: you're going to enjoy the show.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: Kirk will text you some details and and get you
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: hooked up with these tickets and uh yeah, enjoy it man,
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: and enjoy the rest of your day.
• 29:59
  Speaker 12: That sounds good. Giga bags, and beat the heck out
• 30:01
  Speaker 12: of Missouri.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: State, beat the hell out of the world.
• 30:04
  Speaker 6: You know the drill. We'll talk to you soon, man.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I have a good day you too.
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: I was gonna see if he could run a care
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: package up to the kid.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Oh, I appreciate you.
• 30:12
  Speaker 6: In the he was in the woods.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: That's you know, that's surprisingly a long way is it.
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: How far is it from the coast to Oxford?
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Well, think about this. Oxford is about forty five minutes
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: south of Memphis.
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: Oh dang, that's right.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: So it's a really long state. You can get across
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: it pretty quick.
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: So I go the other direction. Yeah, on itin and
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: you don't see a lot of Mississippi if you're doing it.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: It's just you know, like, what's that cut?
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Zoo?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm in Georgia, Alabama. Whatever's next? Alabama?
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Good morning, I'm Riley Blurke you with your morning sports
• 30:49
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  Speaker 4: the A and M soccer team concludes its season opening
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: three game trip through Texas when the Aggies travel to
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: Bobcats Soccer Complex tonight for a seven thirty contest against
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Texas State. Head coach Bobby Sheltleworth talked about what he
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: saw from his team and what they can build off
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: of from the Baylor match ahead of tonight's game.
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: Every game that we get this group together, playing another
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: game is important. I think the second half showed, you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: a little bit more grittiness from us, a little our determination, aggressiveness.
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: So that's got to be the standard for us in
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: this program is those things are non negotiable. So I
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: think with this team, if you see that and we're
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: gonna have some success.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: Tonight's match is the first time that the teams will
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: face off in San Marcus and is the aggie second
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: road trip contest against a team that played in the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: twenty twenty five in CUAA tournament. Admission for the game
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: is free for Texas State contests, and fans can watch
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: the broadcast live on the PAC twelve YouTube page. The
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: Aggie football team is a couple of weeks into ball camp,
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: as well as ranked at number eight in the preseason.
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: AP and Coaches Poll.
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: Yesterday, head coach Mike Elkom met with the media to
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: talk about what the new offense and defense has been
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: showing him in practices.
• 32:16
  Speaker 13: I think you could see a lot of things in practice, obviously.
• 32:18
  Speaker 13: I think you can identify a lot of things just
• 32:22
  Speaker 13: from years of experience doing it and knowing what it
• 32:24
  Speaker 13: should look like. I think the biggest challenge you always
• 32:27
  Speaker 13: have in fall camp, and this is, I think is
• 32:29
  Speaker 13: our biggest as we're battling through. This is is there's
• 32:33
  Speaker 13: not a lot of relative comparison that you've played with
• 32:36
  Speaker 13: on a field in sec football, right, And that's where
• 32:39
  Speaker 13: you know, if you had just lost the old line
• 32:41
  Speaker 13: and you knew what the D line was, or you
• 32:43
  Speaker 13: just lost the D line and you knew what the
• 32:44
  Speaker 13: old line was, We've got two groups battling that are
• 32:47
  Speaker 13: all relative unknowns Ryton. So I think until you get
• 32:51
  Speaker 13: to September fifth and start rolling it out there against
• 32:53
  Speaker 13: competitive people's it'll be a little bit.
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: Of a wait and see.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Offensive coordinator Home and Wiggins also met with the media
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: yesterday to talk about what the offense has been working
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: on ahead of the start of the season.
• 33:05
  Speaker 14: We got to be consistent, right when you sit there
• 33:06
  Speaker 14: and talk about what I learned from those guys, Like
• 33:08
  Speaker 14: the biggest focus that we've had is you know, turnovers,
• 33:11
  Speaker 14: penalties and being able to run the ball consistently. And
• 33:14
  Speaker 14: we're still not where we need to be, right, the
• 33:16
  Speaker 14: standard's going to be that that standard is excellent. So
• 33:19
  Speaker 14: we got a chance to you know, sit there and
• 33:21
  Speaker 14: peel back the curtain a little bit, kind of show
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: our guys. And we talk about having two mentalities, right,
• 33:25
  Speaker 14: mirror mentality or window mentality, and we want to look
• 33:27
  Speaker 14: in the mirror and see here's where we're at and
• 33:29
  Speaker 14: here's where we need to get better at. So that's
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  Speaker 14: what we're working on for the rest of.
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  Speaker 1: This fall camp.
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  Speaker 4: Coach Wiggins also talked about what he saw from the
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  Speaker 4: offense during their recent scrimmage.
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  Speaker 14: I love the fact of the way those guys approached it.
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  Speaker 14: I think the sun kind of s appti a little
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  Speaker 14: bit right, So our championship strain and our competitive stamma
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  Speaker 14: wasn't anywhere close to where it should be. But there
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  Speaker 14: were plays made. But also right, we negated a ton
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  Speaker 14: of those plays with you know, false starts or holdings
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  Speaker 14: or any of those things from that nature. So I
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  Speaker 14: want to get to the point, or we want to
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  Speaker 14: get to the point where we can go in there
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  Speaker 14: and put on the tape and say here's where we are.
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  Speaker 14: Not if we would have did this, we would have
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  Speaker 14: you know, here's the result. Right, So we got to
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  Speaker 14: make sure that we continue to be process driven and
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  Speaker 14: out outcome oriented and make sure that we continue to
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  Speaker 14: put the right things in place so we can have
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  Speaker 14: that championship execution that we're looking for.
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  Speaker 4: As of today, we are seventeen days out of seeing
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  Speaker 4: the Aggies hit the field and kicking off the start
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  Speaker 4: of the twenty twenty six season at Kyle Field, where
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  Speaker 4: A and M will be taking on Missouri State at
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: six o'clock on September fifth. Former A and M consolidated
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: quarterback Jeff Watson has passed away at the age of fifty.
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  Speaker 4: As a sophomore in nineteen ninety one, Watson led the
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  Speaker 4: Tigers to their only state football championship, where they defeated
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Carthage in the Astrodome. On the team was his favorite receiver,
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  Speaker 4: his younger brother Jason. In his three years as a starter,
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  Speaker 4: the Tigers went forty to six. Jeff went on to
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  Speaker 4: earn the starting quarterback job at Baylor and later coached
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• 34:57
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  Speaker 6: Today.
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  Speaker 4: On sixteen, twenty ninety four, five WTAW I'm Riley Flurkey.
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  Speaker 5: Sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW, Good morning, where
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: the f omaiacs we I meant to talk about the
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  Speaker 5: penn State issue?
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  Speaker 6: Oh my god, for Riley, do you know about this?
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  Speaker 11: No?
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  Speaker 6: Okay, will walk.
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  Speaker 5: Us through the basics, because this is I've heard some
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: wild stories out of college, but this.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: Is a new one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think back to my fraternal pledging and there
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: were some crazy things that went on, but but nothing
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  Speaker 1: like this. There are authorities in Pennsylvania have dismantled this
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: alleged drug trafficking operation that was being run out of
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  Speaker 1: two off campus fraternity houses at Penn State, Sigma Kai
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  Speaker 1: and Delta Upsilon. Investigators are saying that the pledges were
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: being made to cut up and bag the cocaine.
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  Speaker 5: It turned a frat house into a cocaine packaging and
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  Speaker 5: distribution system to house. So you would show up as
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  Speaker 5: a pledge and they would say, here's your job, pledge.
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  Speaker 5: You're gonna cut up this cocaine and bag it so
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  Speaker 5: that we can sell it, and the pledges just went
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  Speaker 5: with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Why would the pledges just roll with that? I don't
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  Speaker 6: not one of them snitched. One of them, was like, Hey,
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  Speaker 6: maybe we shouldn't be cutting up cocaine.
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  Speaker 1: Went on for a couple of years, twenty three and
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. They got the drugs from contacts in New
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  Speaker 1: York and Philly.
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  Speaker 6: It went years. They had years of kids doing this, dude.
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  Speaker 5: So my thing is, if you're in that situation, do
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  Speaker 5: they is the assumption from the pledges, Hey surely this
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  Speaker 5: is not real.
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  Speaker 6: Surely this is some kind of a test. And I'm
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  Speaker 6: just and it's like it's protein.
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  Speaker 1: During that process. You know, as a pledge, you're not
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  Speaker 1: You're not You're not all mentally there, all right, But
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  Speaker 1: I do recall during my pledging, and it's a different thing.
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  Speaker 1: I went to Washington Baptist University.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, not the same.
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  Speaker 1: My fraternity was founded over a bottle of four Ros's
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  Speaker 1: whiskey in a poker game in nineteen thirty two, and
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  Speaker 1: our dues were twenty dollars a semester. It was a
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: different thing, but the mentality, the mentality is still the same.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
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  Speaker 1: So I recall that somebody had accused our members of
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: doing some very ugly things to us, right, and the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: dean put us all in a room and he questioned
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  Speaker 1: us and We stood up and looked at the dean
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  Speaker 1: and said, look, buddy, if they had tried to do
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  Speaker 1: what you think they did, do you really think they
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  Speaker 1: could pull that off because we were a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: big boys. No, no, so no, you have the mentality.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're going to do some things that aren't
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  Speaker 1: really necessarily right. But that's but it ain't chopping up cocaine.
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  Speaker 6: Again, I cannot emphasize enough.
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  Speaker 5: Walked into a room full of cocaine and they said,
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  Speaker 5: cut this up and bag it thusly, thusly, basically making
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  Speaker 5: you if I.
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  Speaker 6: Mean, why not just have chop up a body.
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  Speaker 1: That's next?
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  Speaker 6: Are you just gonna go through with that too?
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  Speaker 1: I'm wondering if they were just trying to get the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Pablo Escobar School of Business, said Penn.
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  Speaker 5: This is the school that brings you the world's most
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  Speaker 5: famous white outs every single year.
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  Speaker 6: A coincidence? A coincidence?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but we just have to we have
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: to ask the question, have you seen the picture of
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the main kid? Go look up the picture of the
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: main kid. Let's see this, I mean Agostino Abotellio, And yeah,
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: he looks just like Agostino Abbotellio. He looks like walk
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: straight off the set of the Godfather.
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  Speaker 4: This guy, this, that's who they're claiming is the ring ringler.
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  Speaker 6: Sir, we all want what this has been going on
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  Speaker 6: for years?
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  Speaker 4: How is he the ring leader? Is he the ringleader?
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  Speaker 4: Right now?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: I don't right now.
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  Speaker 5: It's gonna be a it's gonna be a long few
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  Speaker 5: years for Augustino Penn state to the to the state pen.
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  Speaker 6: Have they used that as an article?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that. You just created a headline.