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The Infomaniacs: June 22, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 2: I'm will Welch.
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Speaker 1: Business remains busy at the Brass County Veteran Service Office
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Speaker 1: for the two full time and one part time employee
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Speaker 1: VSOKL Murray reported to County commissioners recently that at the
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Speaker 1: main office inside the downtown Bryan Parking garage, they had
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Speaker 1: thirteen hundred appointments. In the first five months of this year.
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Speaker 3: We had assisted veterans or their families in following three
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Speaker 3: hundred and sixteen VA claims, and we've done nine hundred
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Speaker 3: and eighty four other assists of some sort of attaining
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Speaker 3: missing records, burial survivors, benefits, that types of stuff.
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Speaker 2: Murray said.
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Speaker 1: Since last December they have helped events and their families
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Speaker 1: get more than nine hundred thousand dollars in back pay
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Speaker 1: from the VA, and since January helped get new disability
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Speaker 1: payments from the VA, totally almost one point three million dollars.
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Speaker 2: We're always training.
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Speaker 3: We do lots of mandatory training through the VA, through
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Speaker 3: the Texas Faterans Commission, and we're always looking to improve
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Speaker 3: our stuff.
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Speaker 1: The future of college stations Northgate District is part of
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Speaker 1: the agenda for the next college Station City Council meeting.
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Speaker 1: Councilman Bob Yancey, speaking on our show, supports preserving and
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Speaker 1: enhancing the entertainment area. He expects part of this Thursday's
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Speaker 1: discussion to be about the future of the city owned
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Speaker 1: surface parking lot and these cities parking garage.
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Speaker 4: We have a really nice parking garage over there. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: it's significantly underutilized. We're going to be from a prior agenda,
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Speaker 4: we've approved enhancing that parking garage, So there's probably going
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Speaker 4: to be flexibility and options things we can do right
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Speaker 4: there in the heart of it that will make it special.
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Speaker 1: I hope Thursday's update comes from a study that began
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Speaker 1: in January of last year by a committee of Northgate
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Speaker 1: business owners, other interested parties, and cities staff. Brian ISD
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Speaker 1: School Board members approved the purchase of online monitoring of
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Speaker 1: buses and express no opposition to the administration's plan to
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Speaker 1: schedule the replacement of buses the cost of a pilot
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Speaker 1: program to track buses. More than two hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: one thousand dollars will be paid for surplus money in
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Speaker 1: bisd's twenty twenty bond issue. Bisd's transportation director, Brian Washington
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Speaker 1: says this will benefit students, their parents, and bus drivers
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Speaker 1: who will no longer have to read paper bus routes
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Speaker 1: while they are driving.
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Speaker 5: This morning, we had several subs on buses and it
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Speaker 5: was a challenge driving in the rain five thirty in
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Speaker 5: the morning, trying to figure out which way to go.
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Speaker 1: Washington's proposed bus replacement program is to ensure bisD buses
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Speaker 1: are driven for no more than fifteen years.
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Speaker 5: We currently have a that are either at fifteen years
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Speaker 5: old or over. In twenty twenty nine, we would have
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Speaker 5: twenty two that's at the age of fifteen or over.
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Speaker 1: And Washington says bisD has forty buses that do not
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Speaker 1: have seat belts, which is a state requirement that starts
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Speaker 1: in three years. Following the recent retirement of the longtime
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Speaker 1: director of the College Station ISSD Foundation, an agreement is
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Speaker 1: approved between the foundation and the school board.
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Speaker 6: The three year agreement calls for csscience T to pay
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Speaker 6: fifty five percent of the base salary of the foundation's
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Speaker 6: director and a multimedia specialist, and the foundation page one
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Speaker 6: hundred percent of their office manager's base salary. CS Science
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Speaker 6: t will continue to provide office and meeting space at
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Speaker 6: no charge. The CS Science Tate Board did not have
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Speaker 6: public comments about the agreement prayer to the unanimous vote
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Speaker 6: at this month's meeting. Bill Oliver sixteen twenty ninety four
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Speaker 6: to five.
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Speaker 2: I told you at some point the spic it's going
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Speaker 7: the difference. Always looking for ways to improve, and one
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Speaker 7: of those ways to improve is finding out ways to
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Speaker 7: remind me to turn Riley's microphone on. It's been a struggle, frankly,
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Speaker 7: just remembering because it's I don't get too much of
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Speaker 7: the weeds for getting into the like. But so got
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Speaker 7: buttons here for the microphones. I've got Riley's, which is
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Speaker 7: somehow way over here, and you got to remember to
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Speaker 7: hit that turn it up.
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Speaker 2: And do you need to make you a sign?
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Speaker 7: I could use a sign. I was thinking. One of
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Speaker 7: the most popular accessories in all of radio, and I'm
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Speaker 7: sure you know about this is the dog shot collar.
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Speaker 2: I was about signed collar.
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Speaker 7: I knew you knew Riley. So the way this works
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Speaker 7: in wacky DJ world, A lot of times. What DJs
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Speaker 7: will do is they'll have a trivia contest and then
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Speaker 7: one of the hosts will wear a shock collar made
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Speaker 7: for a large dog, and every time you get a
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Speaker 7: question wrong, they buzz them and yeah, no, no, it's
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Speaker 7: it's wacky and funny. And back in the morning zoo,
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Speaker 7: back in the morning zoos still have just to day.
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Speaker 7: My man, they ain't left that one behind. Now, I
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Speaker 7: think we could use this and give Riley the remote.
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Speaker 7: Oh perfect, and then that way once one time, you
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Speaker 7: will forget it. Like I said, I'm about I'm about
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Speaker 7: fixing the problem.
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Speaker 1: I feel like that would Hey, can we go back
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Speaker 1: to that real quick? To the Chick fil A Jersey
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Speaker 1: Mike Camp.
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Speaker 2: What do you got? Well?
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Speaker 1: Because my sister in law Texas, and she said she
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Speaker 1: was dropping off my nephew at camp and asked if
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Speaker 1: he liked Chick Flay or Jersey Mike's better.
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Speaker 2: He said, I like McDonald's.
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Speaker 7: You know what old ways sometimes.
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Speaker 2: I mean he's a youngster. He's a youngster.
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Speaker 7: That's time he has time to develop.
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Speaker 2: PA don't have a happy meal, and you one of
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Speaker 2: those other two.
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Speaker 7: Places they're gonna give it, Well, did they give you?
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Speaker 7: I don't know. All right, let's talk prison. We're gonna
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Speaker 7: talk prison this morning.
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Speaker 4: Guy.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, and there's a good reason to do it.
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Speaker 7: I mean, I I'll read is Brian Federal Prison Camp.
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Speaker 7: That's pretty famous now nastly.
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Speaker 2: It is now it used to be.
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Speaker 1: I mean, we've rolled what three sort of big time
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Speaker 1: I want to say celebrities, but certainly people with notoriety, right.
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Speaker 7: And the third recently is the Ketamine Queen, famous.
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Speaker 2: For her killed Matthew Perry.
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Speaker 7: Right, I'd played a part in the death of one
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Speaker 7: of the seven Friends. That'll tend to make people pretty angry.
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Speaker 1: And you could kill one of the seven Dwarfs and
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Speaker 1: not people wouldn't be as upset about.
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Speaker 7: The Ketnemine queen got some real weight and she's going
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Speaker 7: to be serving that time at the Brian Federal Prison
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Speaker 7: Camp now. Also, incurrently, Elizabeth Holmes Gallaine Maxwell right, both
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Speaker 7: serving time right down the road. Elizabeth Holmes made the
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Speaker 7: news recently because she's looking for a way out for
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Speaker 7: a pardon, try to get some of her time cut off.
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Speaker 1: If you're in, I would I would expect that you
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Speaker 1: spend a lot of time looking for a way out.
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Speaker 7: Well, see that's the question I have. And this is
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Speaker 7: I'm sadly uninformed on the ins and outs of this
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Speaker 7: because if I go buy the media, this is a
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Speaker 7: vacation getting into this prison camp. This is literally the
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Speaker 7: easiest time. It's barely even time. But is it really
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Speaker 7: I mean, is it really as easy inside as they
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Speaker 7: say it is? Because I'll tell you this, find pictures
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Speaker 7: of Elizabeth Holmes before she went to prison, and find
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Speaker 7: pictures of Elizabeth Holmes today. One of these things is
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Speaker 7: not like the other. And Elizabeth Holmes she's living her
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Speaker 7: best life in there, like she looks fantastic, is glowing
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Speaker 7: on the inside. And that's made me think to myself,
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Speaker 7: is it is it easy?
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Speaker 8: I'm thinking about that if you're in jail, you don't
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Speaker 8: deserve an easy time or luxury. You should not be
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Speaker 8: looking better than when you go in versus when you
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Speaker 8: come out.
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Speaker 7: Well, yeah, I don't. Again, yeah I would. I think
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Speaker 7: everyone would agree with that, but I am. I am
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Speaker 7: also part of me says prison is prison and I
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Speaker 7: don't know why, but like it's like federal prisons have
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Speaker 7: in the past had this reputation being a little I
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Speaker 7: don't think they're cupcake, No, I don't think.
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Speaker 2: There's such thing as company.
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Speaker 1: Anytime you're you know, free is taken away and then
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Speaker 1: you're limited. I would assume that that's not an easy thing.
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Speaker 1: I would also assume that there's prisons that are not
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Speaker 1: minimum security that are probably very, very difficult. I asked
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Speaker 1: the AI, by the way, Uh, you know, is is
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Speaker 1: it an easy thing?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
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Speaker 1: The Brian prison considered easy, right, And they say it's
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Speaker 1: a subjective term, right, that mass the reality of actually
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Speaker 1: being behind bars.
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Speaker 2: It is minimum security, right. It is a.
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Speaker 1: Campus like setting as we as we all know, that
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Speaker 1: was Allen Academy back in the day, and before that
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Speaker 1: it was as a convent.
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Speaker 2: Wasn't it the Ursuline?
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Speaker 7: Yes, it was the Ursuline. And again they've rebuilt it
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Speaker 7: and and and changed buildings over the years and this
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Speaker 7: and that and the other. But yeah, it's uh, it's
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Speaker 7: gone through a lot of different phases. Now you mentioned
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Speaker 7: relative and that's kind of my things looking through this.
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Speaker 7: They're like, one of the things that goes into the
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Speaker 7: easy category is like, hey, you live in a dorm
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Speaker 7: with a bunch of other inmates in bunk beds. X
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Speaker 7: snay that right off, Man, if you're looking. I want
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Speaker 7: to be in I want to lock me up.
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Speaker 2: If I'm doing.
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Speaker 7: Time, I want a locked sell and I want to
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Speaker 7: be in there by myself. What do they call that
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Speaker 7: the shoe?
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Speaker 2: You want to be in solitary confine.
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Speaker 7: I want to be in the whole.
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Speaker 2: I can see that for you.
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Speaker 7: You are so no, No, I'm not a social butterfly.
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Speaker 8: I need my space to share a room with anyone either.
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Speaker 8: I mean, could you imagine you're just in your bunking
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Speaker 8: and you don't know who your partner like, you don't
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Speaker 8: know who your person is sharing the bed next, in
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Speaker 8: the middle of the I they just show up, put you.
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Speaker 1: In a straight jacket and take you for a psanchevaluation
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Speaker 1: because you will be doing the info maniac show to
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Speaker 1: no audience with no microphone, wall Wallcause you may not be,
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Speaker 1: you know, the social butterfly. You may like to isolate,
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Speaker 1: you may be a bit interesting, you know, introvert. But
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Speaker 1: but you you've got to let this thing out, This
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Speaker 1: free doo has to come out of your soulary something.
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Speaker 7: It's gonna now again. They have a lot of different programming.
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Speaker 7: That's a thing. It's like, hey, you can do a
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Speaker 7: lot of.
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Speaker 1: Education re entry programming is a big thing there where
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Speaker 1: they do some vocational training and that sort of thing
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Speaker 1: and try to, you know, get people ready to be
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Speaker 1: launched back into society.
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Speaker 7: Sam Texan. Remember when it comes to the inmates that
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Speaker 7: they have no stress in there. Your food, your clothes,
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Speaker 7: everything's provided. All you gotta do is kind of wrap
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Speaker 7: through the schedule. Yeah, bro, but it's still prison.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I could get where that would sound somewhat appealing.
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Speaker 1: It sounds appealing to me most days, just like last night.
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Speaker 1: You know, we get home and I ask, you know,
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Speaker 1: everybody's like, what do you want for dinner? And so
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Speaker 1: that that four hour conversation takes place and ned up
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Speaker 1: with RBS at nine thirty last night.
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Speaker 2: That's not what No, So those choices are all made
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Speaker 2: for you.
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Speaker 7: Look, my bottom line is I know some people know
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Speaker 7: more about this than we do, and I am putting
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Speaker 7: it out right now. I would love to get a
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Speaker 7: tour of that facility.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and if you want to tell us about your
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Speaker 1: experience and a minimum security prison, I.
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Speaker 7: Swear, if no judgment, if you did some time, I'd
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Speaker 7: like to hear about it and want to and want
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Speaker 7: to tell us about life on the inside either there
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Speaker 7: some of the other places or what they say inside
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Speaker 7: like oh everyone and everyone knows, like that's a dream,
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Speaker 7: that's a dream assignment. You can't do better than Brian anyot.
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Speaker 7: We would love to hear from.
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Speaker 2: You, guys. Get the inside tracks.
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Speaker 7: Literally sixteen twenty nine four five wtaw you remember A
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Speaker 7: There are ways to do that. And thank you to
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Speaker 7: whoever decided to do the crawling and sent me the
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Speaker 7: inmate ad mission and orientation and wow or the wow
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Speaker 7: in person how many listeners? Thank you got to impress me.
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Speaker 7: You guys have now keid fairness. They say this is
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Speaker 7: updated in twenty twenty three. I don't know it's changed,
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Speaker 7: but here it is. And uh and and I this
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Speaker 7: is a lengthy, lengthy, lengthy handbook which I will be
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Speaker 7: studying after the show today. My favorite price I did
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Speaker 7: what you did? Will like while we were talking about this,
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Speaker 7: and I was like, you know what, just turn to
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Speaker 7: the internet google it. Surely there's something out there about
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Speaker 7: like you know, how does it rank or whatever? All
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Speaker 7: general Yeah, and and again yeah, you know it gives
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Speaker 7: me this nice little AI overview. But the best part
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Speaker 7: is the bottom. If you're preparing for a stay at
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Speaker 7: FPC Brian or researching for someone else, I can help
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Speaker 7: by providing more details on the self surrendered process, acceptable books, mail,
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Speaker 7: a care package, rules and sentence reduction programs.
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Speaker 2: And textedent.
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Speaker 1: A coworker used to take religious booklets to the inmates
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Speaker 1: at the prison. Is part of a prison ministry.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes at the office we would help him remove all
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Speaker 1: the staples in the booklets, a requirement of the prison.
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Speaker 7: The staple are you all really? I mean okay, I mean,
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Speaker 7: I mean they're crafty.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can build a shit thank out just about it.
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Speaker 2: Beat the booklet together though, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: Just fold yeah, yeah, you know. That's their problem, not yours,
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Speaker 7: not mine. I'm just giving you the material. I would
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Speaker 7: like to know what the acceptable books are, like, what
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Speaker 7: are the what are the popular items? Yeah, the only
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Speaker 7: my only point of reference was the orange is the
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Speaker 7: new black. First.
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Speaker 2: That's not a real point of red. That is not
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Speaker 2: a good point of reference at all.
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Speaker 7: But yes, if you guys, cause.
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Speaker 2: That took Donna from that seventies show and Rector for me.
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Speaker 7: God, wasn't that a wasn't that a? One to eighty?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, as far as characters.
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Speaker 7: Go, So yeah, we will uh, we will do some
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Speaker 7: digging and we will update you. But if you want to,
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Speaker 7: if you want to share your stories, yeah, please call us.
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Speaker 2: Marshall says. It sounds just like the Core but with
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm will welch. The
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Speaker 1: latest meeting of the Brian ISD School Board included two
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Speaker 1: items from the Transportation Department. Board members expressed no opposition
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Speaker 1: to the future replacement schedule of school buses, and the
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Speaker 1: board agrees to purchase online monitoring of bus routes. bisD
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Speaker 1: Transportation Director Brian Washington proposed new buses are used for
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Speaker 1: over a fifteen year period in three different phases depending
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Speaker 1: on the age of the bus.
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Speaker 5: We'll use that bus for a trip bus for the
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Speaker 5: first one to five years. Year six through ten will
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Speaker 5: then move it from the trip line and we'll put
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Speaker 5: it on a route line if we used in town,
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Speaker 5: and then after ten years we would like to then
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Speaker 5: use it as a.
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Speaker 1: Sub bisD has a fleet of one hundred five fifteen buses,
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Speaker 1: of which forty are not equipped with seat belts that
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Speaker 1: will be required by the state in three years. The
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Speaker 1: BID's board unanimously vote to start an online pilot program
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Speaker 1: to track buses. Followed comments from Washington, Superintendent Jinjur Carabine
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Speaker 1: and Deputy Superintendent Brian Merrill about how bus drivers will
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Speaker 1: keep track of students.
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Speaker 5: Trans rat finder take all of the students info from
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Speaker 5: there and that driver can then punch each kid in.
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Speaker 4: So it's like a digital roster.
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Speaker 3: So when kid gets on your punch your man the
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Speaker 3: pusterm off pictures. It has pictures as well, so you
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Speaker 3: can see that kid, you can they've come on the bus. Also,
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Speaker 3: it links with the programs that we already use is
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Speaker 3: so parents will get updates.
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Speaker 1: Surplus money from bisd's twenty twenty bond issue will pay
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Speaker 1: the more than two hundred and sixty one thousand dollars
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Speaker 1: cost of the bus tracking program. The College Station ISD
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Speaker 1: School Board formalizes its relationship with the districts and Education Foundation.
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Speaker 6: Without public comment. The boarding nasally approved a three year
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Speaker 6: agreement at the junior regular meeting. The contract states the foundation,
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Speaker 6: which was created in nineteen ninety nine, serves ten educational
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Speaker 6: public purposes that includes coscience d acknowledging, a continued commitment
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Speaker 6: to the foundation to provide money to the district, which
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Speaker 6: achieves a concurrent psychological and philosophical investment in the district.
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Speaker 6: The agreement calls for the foundation to pay one hundred
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Speaker 6: percent of the cost of their office manager's space salary
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Speaker 6: and the district to pay fifty five percent of the
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Speaker 6: base salary of the director and a multimedia specialist. CSCIENCED
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Speaker 6: will continue to provide office and meeting space at no charge.
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Speaker 6: Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 1: It's been one and a half years since the College
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Speaker 1: Station City Council voted against selling the city on surface
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Speaker 1: parking lot in the Northgate district. Since then, there has
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Speaker 1: been a study on the district's future development. This Thursday,
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Speaker 1: the council receives a staff update which could lead to
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Speaker 1: some sort of action. Councilman Bob Yancy shared during his
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Speaker 1: visit on our show that Northgate is the most expensive
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Speaker 1: commercial real estate in College Station.
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Speaker 4: I think it's important to preserve and enhance, going all
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Speaker 4: the way back to when I worked at City Hall
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Speaker 4: in the nineties. Yeah, we're talking about it. Northgate just
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Speaker 4: needs to be our history is more important than money,
18:18
Speaker 4: that's the bottom line.
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Speaker 1: Yancey also brought up the future of the city on
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Speaker 1: Northgate surface parking lot.
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Speaker 4: We're going to be talking about what its future is.
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Speaker 4: We have a really nice parking garage over there, it's
18:31
Speaker 4: significantly underutilized.
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Speaker 1: The Northgate Plan has been the work of business owners
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Speaker 1: in the district, along with other interested parties and city staff.
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Speaker 1: Brasis County's new veteran Service Officer provided an update at
18:43
Speaker 1: the last County Commission meeting. Cal Murray, who was promoted
18:47
Speaker 1: in March and has an assistant VSO and an administrative assistant,
18:51
Speaker 1: gave examples of their public outreach.
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Speaker 3: We have a coalition of veteran services organizations in the area.
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Speaker 3: We meet monthly month a recent senior expo over at
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Speaker 3: the Press. We try to attend as many of those
19:02
Speaker 3: types of events as well, and we do lots of
19:03
Speaker 3: public speaking and so forth. For instance, been participated in
19:07
Speaker 3: a Veterans Day at Welborn Middle School recently. We have
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Speaker 3: a what's called VET camp every semester when new students
19:13
Speaker 3: come in. We have a big power if you will,
19:16
Speaker 3: and we get together and brief all the new students
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Speaker 3: on all the things going on and where we can
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Speaker 3: assist them.
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Speaker 1: The primary VSO office is at the downtown Brian Parking Garage.
19:25
Speaker 1: There's a branch VSO office at Texas A and M
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Speaker 1: that has opened Wednesdays from eight until five to serve
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Speaker 1: four thousand Aggie veterans. Between the two offices, they had
19:34
Speaker 1: almost fifteen hundred appointments in the first five months of
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Speaker 1: this year. The Brass County Historical Commission has presented a
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Speaker 1: state award to a seventy six year old Brian business.
19:45
Speaker 1: Sam's Shoe Service was established in nineteen fifty by Sam
19:49
Speaker 1: Decharo and is now owned by his son Ronnie. The
19:52
Speaker 1: Texas Historical Commissions. Texas Treasure Business Award recognizes businesses in
19:57
Speaker 1: continuous operation for at least fifty Over seven hundred businesses
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Speaker 1: have been honored since the award began in two.
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Speaker 2: Thousand and five.
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Speaker 1: A Grimes County man is accused by federal authorities of
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Speaker 1: making threats against federal officials on social media. A news
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Speaker 1: release from the US Attorney's Office in Houston says thirty
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Speaker 1: five year old Peter James Bloomfield of Iola posted on
20:19
Speaker 1: x killing federal agents and spending money to blow up
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Speaker 1: the White House. On Facebook, Bloomfield is accused of making
20:26
Speaker 1: a hit list of federal agents and other notable figures,
20:30
Speaker 1: and the news release made a reference to a search
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Speaker 1: warrant at an undisclosed location where law enforcement led by
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Speaker 1: the FBI office in Brian found more than twenty guns
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Speaker 1: and what was described as a significant amount of ammunition.
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Speaker 1: College Station motorists dealing with road construction on Marion two
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Speaker 1: Drive have a new round of changes. Reopening is the
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Speaker 7: the difference Text messages nine seventy nine, six nine five,
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Speaker 7: sixteen twenty. We were talking about the prison camp.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, federal prison camp there and Brian.
22:17
Speaker 7: Jay text in we are spoiled. I know an electrician
22:21
Speaker 7: communications manager that worked at the Brian unit. He said
22:24
Speaker 7: there were many times that many of the inmates did
22:28
Speaker 7: not want to leave. They grew up poor utilities turned
22:32
Speaker 7: off constantly and with little food, even developed great relationships
22:36
Speaker 7: on the inside. Count our blessings as from Jay. Again
22:40
Speaker 7: for sure, Jay, that's a great perspective.
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Speaker 1: It's got to be completely different, Yeah, than anything that
22:46
Speaker 1: most people have ever experienced.
22:47
Speaker 7: Oh, I mean yes, but I mean in a million
22:52
Speaker 7: different ways. But again, like I said, that is why
22:57
Speaker 7: we would like to learn on the show Safe Distance.
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Speaker 7: Not we're not yet.
23:02
Speaker 2: We're not sellacious with this.
23:03
Speaker 1: We're not trying to we're not trying to dig up
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Speaker 1: any dirt on anybody that might be there.
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Speaker 2: I just want to.
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Speaker 7: Fascinated by it. And so yeah, we would love to
23:11
Speaker 7: hear from you guys, And I know you can listen
23:13
Speaker 7: in science So you holler at your boys.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I used to get requests from the you'd pick up
23:17
Speaker 1: the phone radio state shows that is like, uh, you
23:21
Speaker 1: have a collect call from play some rush dude and
23:23
Speaker 1: inmate that the Tucker Maximum Security always played them every time.
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Speaker 7: There was a time, Riley, about fifteen years ago. We
23:31
Speaker 7: used to get jail mail fairly regularly from uh inside
23:34
Speaker 7: the walls of walls in Huntsville. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
23:39
Speaker 7: the Big House baby holy cow. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
23:42
Speaker 7: Sometimes it would be what they they would do, drawings,
23:44
Speaker 7: what they thought we looked like, Uh, they they would
23:47
Speaker 7: they would send us. I mean they would send us
23:49
Speaker 7: everything from recipes for prison wine down to just random
23:54
Speaker 7: requests and the stories and whatever. It was a regular thing.
23:57
Speaker 7: I think I still have I need to bring some
23:59
Speaker 7: of it in. I think I still have a stash
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Speaker 7: of that.
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Speaker 2: Of prison wine. Well not prison wine, but the rest.
24:05
Speaker 7: I feel like, yeah that we still some documents that
24:08
Speaker 7: we could post and it's crazy stuff. All right, Let's
24:11
Speaker 7: talk fireworks, because tis the season. What percentage fam, what
24:16
Speaker 7: percentage of Americans plan to purchase fireworks at some point
24:21
Speaker 7: in the next week, week and a half. What do
24:23
Speaker 7: you think it is?
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Speaker 2: I'm going to say thirty.
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Speaker 7: Forty five percent from Riley very close will about twenty
24:34
Speaker 7: five percent of Americans are going to at some point
24:37
Speaker 7: by at least one explosive device to use to celebrate
24:42
Speaker 7: the Fourth of July.
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Speaker 1: There is either a much bigger percentage in my neighborhood
24:46
Speaker 1: or there is a handful of people that buy everything.
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Speaker 7: I feel like it is. It is clustered in neighborhoods.
24:52
Speaker 1: It's it's artillery in my neighborhood. I mean, it's crazy.
24:56
Speaker 7: Now in San Antonio. It's every neighborhood and every If
25:00
Speaker 7: you have never been in San Antonio on January first
25:04
Speaker 7: or the fourth of July, it will shock you how
25:09
Speaker 7: many fireworks go off in the city. There are videos
25:12
Speaker 7: you can find on line if you want to see
25:13
Speaker 7: if like drone footage the entire city, the entire city
25:19
Speaker 7: to the point where they have air quality problems the
25:22
Speaker 7: next day. I'm not making this up. I had to
25:25
Speaker 7: fly out somewhere on New Year's Day. I wake up early,
25:30
Speaker 7: get to the airport, and my phone it's like, hey,
25:33
Speaker 7: better watch out, that air quality is bad today. I
25:36
Speaker 7: was like, oh yeah, sure, sure. I walked outside again.
25:39
Speaker 7: It's like five in the morning, there was a I
25:40
Speaker 7: mean it was a haze. Still smell like sulfur.
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Speaker 2: You thought you stepped out into the seventh level of
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Speaker 2: war zone. War zone, I would.
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Speaker 1: I love fireworks and I love shooting them. Unfortunately, the
25:53
Speaker 1: older I get, the cheaper I am. And I'm like,
25:55
Speaker 1: Man's that's a lot of money to be gone in
25:58
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty minutes, and.
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Speaker 7: Said, it's a little bit of expense. So Riley, I'm
26:01
Speaker 7: going to a gas based on you. Forty y'all are
26:03
Speaker 7: a firework family.
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Speaker 8: No, no, really, so with us having so much live stock,
26:09
Speaker 8: with the horses and the donkeys and everything, and also
26:13
Speaker 8: just our dogs, the fireworks scare them to no end.
26:16
Speaker 7: Is scared.
26:16
Speaker 8: They're up all night long, running and running. They make
26:18
Speaker 8: themselves sick to the point of it's actually kind of scary.
26:21
Speaker 8: And me and my mom and my dad and brothers
26:24
Speaker 8: stay out in the pastures half the night making sure
26:26
Speaker 8: no one gets hurt or hurts themselves. Wow, due to
26:29
Speaker 8: the fireworks going off right above them.
26:31
Speaker 7: What about So what about your neighbors? I assume from
26:33
Speaker 7: that your neighbors were the firework people. You know, we're
26:35
Speaker 7: just trying to hang out to your life Oh. Yes.
26:37
Speaker 8: New Year's and fourth of July is like the worst
26:40
Speaker 8: time to be any type of animal, honestly, because they're
26:43
Speaker 8: scared of it.
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Speaker 1: Interesting, some aren't, and those that have animals that are
26:48
Speaker 1: are scared of fireworks, I completely empathize with you, right,
26:53
Speaker 1: because that's tough. You love your animals and that sort
26:55
Speaker 1: of thing. But man, I love a good fireworks I
26:58
Speaker 1: just love it. And like I said, they are going off.
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Speaker 1: There was a few years ago, and I think it
27:03
Speaker 1: was a New Year's Eve wedding. We've got a wedding
27:05
Speaker 1: venue behind us and on occasion you people as part
27:10
Speaker 1: of their ceremony, well, the host of fireworks show over there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we invited.
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Speaker 1: We had one hundred hundred and fifty people at the
27:17
Speaker 1: house for a New Year's and this is at the
27:20
Speaker 1: at the B and B H. When they set off
27:23
Speaker 1: their fireworks show, we waited until it was over and
27:26
Speaker 1: then we were turned fire.
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Speaker 2: It's like one hundred yards.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, this is how it starts.
27:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is how I loved that. I loved that.
27:34
Speaker 7: It's an arms race.
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Speaker 8: There was one year for July fourth, we went over
27:38
Speaker 8: to a friend's house and the dads were kind of
27:41
Speaker 8: in charge of it. My dad was like, I am
27:42
Speaker 8: not going out there. I don't want to get my
27:43
Speaker 8: hand blown offically dumb with good reason.
27:46
Speaker 7: We're all sitting on.
27:47
Speaker 8: The patio right and these fireworks are not one hundred
27:50
Speaker 8: feet from us, They're just, you know, right there, and
27:52
Speaker 8: everyone's running back into the patio. One of the men
27:54
Speaker 8: knocked over the box and shot the fireworks at us
27:57
Speaker 8: and the house in coming. Oh my gosh, I've never
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Speaker 8: run so fast in my life and laughed so hard
28:04
Speaker 8: because everyone was panicking and half the people there at
28:07
Speaker 8: that point are too drunk to know what's going on. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no no.
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Speaker 8: I was like seventeen years old, like, this is not
28:13
Speaker 8: a good deal.
28:14
Speaker 7: If any of you have stories when bad, we'd love
28:16
Speaker 7: to hear.
28:17
Speaker 1: A week ago today I recounted the story about my
28:20
Speaker 1: friend Kevin on the fraternity float trip right, the pickle
28:23
Speaker 1: bucket blow up between his legs. Kevin was there this
28:26
Speaker 1: past week. Kevin was with you, yes, and he brought fireworks,
28:29
Speaker 1: son of a gun and he threw one into one
28:32
Speaker 1: of the houses that we were staying in.
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Speaker 2: And he's what he does not drink. He is stone
28:38
Speaker 2: called sober.
28:39
Speaker 7: This is just what he does to keep you on
28:42
Speaker 7: your tongue.
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Speaker 2: He's one of those guys that I mean.
28:45
Speaker 7: By secretly a pyro.
28:46
Speaker 1: Yes, no, it's not a secret, not a secret at all.
28:49
Speaker 1: So you will laugh so hard that your abs will
28:51
Speaker 1: hurt when you're around Kevin, and then by the end
28:53
Speaker 1: of the trip, you're praying that there's one person that
28:56
Speaker 1: will spare his life and save him from the wrath
28:59
Speaker 1: of everybody else.
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Speaker 7: So he's a friend that basically there's a shelf life
29:02
Speaker 7: on how much time you can spend it.
29:04
Speaker 1: I was in a I was got stuck in a
29:06
Speaker 1: canoe with him, and when I'm paddling, I'm gonna drive.
29:08
Speaker 2: So he was up he was up front.
29:10
Speaker 1: He fell inside the canoe three times, just randomly would
29:13
Speaker 1: stand up and fall inside the canoe. It was some
29:17
Speaker 1: of my best technique ever to keep us from going over.
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Speaker 7: I absolutely love it. Yeah, guys, if you have any
29:22
Speaker 7: any stories you want to share if you were a
29:25
Speaker 7: a if you're planning on partaking, first of all, congrats
29:28
Speaker 7: on your wealth because those things more spent every single
29:31
Speaker 7: year so much fun. What is the average cost if
29:33
Speaker 7: you're going to I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know what We've got a neighborhood fireworks stand over there,
29:36
Speaker 1: and I remember back in the day how.
29:39
Speaker 7: Much they made.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know.
29:41
Speaker 1: Back in the day, I would remember my grandfather, would
29:44
Speaker 1: you know, he would take each of the cousins or whatever.
29:47
Speaker 1: He'd give us one hundred dollars bill and we could
29:50
Speaker 1: at a lot of a lot of serious fireworks. Now
29:54
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars bill, it seems like you get one
29:56
Speaker 1: mortar with eight shots exactly. I think those were about
29:59
Speaker 1: forty maybe on the cheap end, those mortars.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: So fountains and novelties, I don't know what those are.
30:06
Speaker 8: They just that's what a category. They are three dollars
30:08
Speaker 8: to twenty dollars for small items since stars come on,
30:11
Speaker 8: Oh no, I've not done yet. You've got multi shot cakes.
30:14
Speaker 8: They are the aerial repeaters. They cost all the way
30:17
Speaker 8: up to one hundred and fifty dollars a firework.
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Speaker 7: Yes, hey again it's in multi rine's like, okay, well
30:23
Speaker 7: you technically several booms, dude, that's a fire yeah. Yes.
30:26
Speaker 8: And so artillery shells start the lower end is on
30:30
Speaker 8: eighty all the way up to one hundred plus, and
30:32
Speaker 8: that's for the large five inch extra large set in.
30:35
Speaker 1: This economy, this economy, I know, hey, let's get on
30:40
Speaker 1: the AI and find out how to make her own.
30:42
Speaker 8: And then also, small community shows that are going to
30:45
Speaker 8: last around ten to twenty minutes are going to cost
30:48
Speaker 8: anywhere from five thousand to fifteen thousand dollars city main events. Yeah,
30:53
Speaker 8: those large ones about one thousand to two thousand dollars
30:56
Speaker 8: per minute, generally exceeding twenty.
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Speaker 7: Thousand dollars thround a tip jar at the end of
31:02
Speaker 7: these things. Sixteen twenty ninety four, five wtaw really hot,
31:07
Speaker 7: really hot, really hot, really hot. That's today and tomorrow,
31:10
Speaker 7: the next day, in the day.
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Speaker 2: After that for those foreseeable future.
31:13
Speaker 7: For the foreseeable future, we're looking at mid nineties heating
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31:30
Speaker 7: couple of things we still need to get to. I
31:31
Speaker 7: know we talked World Cup earlier, but were you aware
31:34
Speaker 7: that the city of Houston suddenly grew a mountain range
31:37
Speaker 7: over the ice.
31:39
Speaker 8: I saw this too, and the amount of people that
31:41
Speaker 8: I've been commenting on it is hilarious.
31:44
Speaker 1: So the BBC apparently does this right. They will, they
31:47
Speaker 1: will artificially enhance imadchants that they're using as backdrop.
31:52
Speaker 7: Because what they're doing is you have to have a
31:55
Speaker 7: backdrop for all the soccer analysts, right, and so they
31:57
Speaker 7: wanted to be attractive as they can. And it's like
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Speaker 7: one of the things. Look, I'll be real having seen
32:02
Speaker 7: that backdrop. They didn't just enhance the mountains. They enhanced
32:07
Speaker 7: a lot of things.
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Speaker 2: There was a lot, a lot.
32:09
Speaker 7: That was in Houston. It's very I mean, it's lovely.
32:12
Speaker 7: I wish I wish Houston looked like that, but it
32:16
Speaker 7: absolutely does not.
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Speaker 2: No, I mean any way, shape.
32:19
Speaker 1: Or for There was nothing negative about that image that
32:23
Speaker 1: was put up there. You could see no bodies floating
32:25
Speaker 1: in the Bayous. There's this beautiful green mountain range.
32:29
Speaker 7: It wasn't there. There wasn't the the twenty five lanes
32:32
Speaker 7: of Ien backed up to the the the absolute ends
32:35
Speaker 7: of the earth.
32:35
Speaker 2: Yeah it was.
32:37
Speaker 1: And you and I were talking about there's no there's
32:39
Speaker 1: no place that you can view Houston from a distance
32:42
Speaker 1: and then make it look attractive.
32:44
Speaker 7: I hate I hate saying that.
32:48
Speaker 2: I truly people do love Houston. Love Houston.
32:50
Speaker 1: They love and there are beautiful spots within Houston. But
32:53
Speaker 1: when you take the thing as a whole.
32:55
Speaker 7: I don't know that you can't even take the thing
32:57
Speaker 7: as a whole, because what does the hole look like?
33:00
Speaker 2: This is the size of Rhode Island.
33:02
Speaker 7: It's so big. It's got five or six different looks.
33:04
Speaker 7: Like if you go down towards the coast, you get
33:07
Speaker 7: to like refinery Land. If you go north you get
33:11
Speaker 7: to these really pretty piney woods. If you go east,
33:15
Speaker 7: more woods and refineries, and if you go west just
33:18
Speaker 7: turns into Texas. Yeah, like, and it's all in the
33:21
Speaker 7: same pile. So what is the look? I challenge try
33:25
Speaker 7: to narrow that one down. Skyscrapers, I don't know more
33:28
Speaker 7: World Cup News. Guess what, guys, Haggis is legal.
33:34
Speaker 2: I never knew Haas was illy.
33:36
Speaker 7: Haggis is very much illegal. Get ready, rightley, we.
33:39
Speaker 2: Won't tell you all about it. I've had hagis, so
33:41
Speaker 2: have I?
33:42
Speaker 7: Have you had haggis in the States, No, neither have I.
33:46
Speaker 7: So haggis has traditionally been illegal from coast to coast, because.
33:50
Speaker 2: I want to well hear, yeah, I'm on it now.
33:53
Speaker 7: I was going to ask the question, what is the
33:56
Speaker 7: there's only one state that made it legal, only one state.
34:00
Speaker 7: Do we want to guess what state decided to make
34:03
Speaker 7: hagis legal?
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Speaker 2: Louisiana.
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Speaker 7: That's where I would have gone. It wasn't Louisiana.
34:10
Speaker 8: What about Alabama?
34:11
Speaker 7: Alabama also would have been strong contender. Not Alabama. It
34:16
Speaker 7: was Massachusetts. Here's the governor signing a bill to let
34:21
Speaker 7: haggis happen in Massachuseta. In Massachusetts especially, even everyone's surprised
34:30
Speaker 7: by He's like, where'd this come from. They want to
34:32
Speaker 7: be able to serve to the Scotts and the Brits
34:33
Speaker 7: come over here, they get.
34:34
Speaker 1: Them some haggis traditional recipe and yeah it's a little gross, right.
34:38
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:38
Speaker 1: The reason it was banned was because of the inclusion
34:41
Speaker 1: of sheep's lung.
34:43
Speaker 2: Yeah.
34:43
Speaker 1: USCA ruled in nineteen seventy one that all livestock lungs
34:47
Speaker 1: are unfit for human consumption, primarily due to concerns that
34:50
Speaker 1: they can contain stomach fluid and carry a higher risk
34:53
Speaker 1: of food borne illnesses.
34:54
Speaker 2: So rightly.
34:55
Speaker 7: What they do is they throw all the organs into
34:56
Speaker 7: a grinder, grind it down, and then stuff all of
34:59
Speaker 7: that inside. I had a stomach, and then they bake it.
35:03
Speaker 7: I get boil it, boil it, toil it something, and
35:05
Speaker 7: that is what you get as hackis.
35:07
Speaker 8: I'm very very glad that haggis is not legal in Texas,
35:11
Speaker 8: and I also I am glad I now know what it is,
35:13
Speaker 8: so when I go to a restaurant, I'm not confused.
35:15
Speaker 8: Like I had my Rocky Mountain confusion on air a
35:18
Speaker 8: couple of years.
35:19
Speaker 7: Months ago, you had a Rocky Mountain oyster.
35:21
Speaker 6: I didn't know what it was.
35:22
Speaker 7: Did this happen on air?
35:26
Speaker 8: Scott were trying so hard not to laugh.
35:30
Speaker 2: I actually I've had some incredibly delicious.
35:32
Speaker 7: The calf ry is is still the calf ry still
35:35
Speaker 7: lives is something that people traditionally do.
35:38
Speaker 1: I hate some of the place called Oli's Ina, Nebraska.
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Speaker 1: Oh lord, they they were fantastic, fantastic.
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Speaker 7: Oh my goodness, are expensive.
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Speaker 8: Rocky Mountain oysters.
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Speaker 7: Same thing, Yeah, calf ries, Rocky Mountain oysters all the same,
35:56
Speaker 7: all the same reference to the same awful thing to eat.
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Speaker 7: But whatever you can, you can do it apparently, you
36:05
Speaker 7: know whatever it's it's the same as Haggis.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this organ meets.
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Speaker 7: You know, we heard this story early this morning, and
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Speaker 7: I was confused about why these people were confused. Elderly
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Speaker 7: man has pulled over. Actually a couple elderly men pulled
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Speaker 7: over in Florida street racing at like one hundred and
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Speaker 7: ten miles. Now they're flying down.
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Speaker 2: He could play football for Georgia.
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Speaker 7: Here is William Bosworth after being pulled over.
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Speaker 5: So is there any reason you guys are street racing
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Speaker 5: because you're one te and he's won twenty five.
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Speaker 2: That guy he swimed with me, and he shouldn't have
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Speaker 2: done that.
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Speaker 9: Okay, I ab out just having a little ride in
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Speaker 9: my favorite car.
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Speaker 2: I'm just having a little rode in my favorite I.
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Speaker 8: Don't think he should be behind the wheel.
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Speaker 7: Well, Riley, everyone thought the same thing. They're like, you
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Speaker 7: know what, how are these two old people out there
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Speaker 7: street racing? And then I looked up where it happened,
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Speaker 7: Lake County, Florida.
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Speaker 2: Do you know anything abou?
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Speaker 7: She said, Oh, I bet you douch about Florida.
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Speaker 8: But from what I've heard from police reports, I do
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Speaker 8: on chip shows.
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Speaker 2: General, Yeah, Florida men.
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Speaker 7: Definitely two Florida men right here.
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Speaker 1: But I'm betting they were transplants to Florida because Lake
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Speaker 1: County is known for one particular place.
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Speaker 2: But I'm sure there's others.
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Speaker 7: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Will One of the biggest retirement communities on the.
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Speaker 7: Planet, the Villages, and not just one of the biggest
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Speaker 7: retirement communities on the planet, one of the wildest party
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Speaker 7: towns you've ever seen.
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Speaker 9: These people have to lose, guys, if you have not
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Speaker 9: heard about the Villages, and I know several of you have,
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Speaker 9: because again, people get older, your parents get older, and
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Speaker 9: every once in a while someone I've I've lost a.
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Speaker 7: Couple of relatives to the Villages over the a couple
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Speaker 7: of couple of dads, cousins, they were living here. All
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Speaker 7: of a sudden, Hey we're leaving. Where we're going the Villages.
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Speaker 7: Couldn't look at them the same way again, No, because
37:56
Speaker 7: I've been to some party towns. I would play I
37:58
Speaker 7: was a college town right here. People like to get down.
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Speaker 7: The place is like, uh, like, well geez uh, I
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Speaker 7: don't know you. You have a kid that went to Oxford,
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Speaker 7: Oxford class party town. Yeah, Morgantown, West Virginia, Hide your wife,
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Speaker 7: hyde your kids, burn your couches, burn your couches. That's
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Speaker 7: bad place to that's bad. Place gets stuck on Saturday nights,
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Speaker 7: New Orleans a part of town. Nothing holds a candle
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Speaker 7: to the Villages. They are frooks like they love a
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Speaker 7: good party and uh and yeah, one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 7: miles an hour the Villages. There's dude, that's that doesn't
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Speaker 7: surprise me.
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Speaker 1: They are grasping at the manna of life, right right, dude,
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Speaker 1: live life.
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Speaker 8: You know, nothing to lose.
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Speaker 2: You might as well just do what you want.
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Speaker 7: I guess you served at me. I had to do
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Speaker 7: what I needed to do. Yeah, exactly that show them
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Speaker 7: what was what? Absolutely love it, man, absolutely love it.
38:50
Speaker 7: But yeah, there's something to uh to to research after
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Speaker 7: the show today. Yeah, the Villages, it's it's it's what
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Speaker 7: and again it's like one of the biggest retirement communities
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Speaker 7: in America.
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Speaker 8: I think you have an age limit.
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Speaker 7: I guess us on there too to live. I don't
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Speaker 7: know what the age limit is because five and older,
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Speaker 7: fifty five and older? Do they make exceptions to that?
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Speaker 7: I'm not saying the Villages not sure as hell moved
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Speaker 7: to a Dell Web.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, look, come on, my wife is already.
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Speaker 1: She's like, she's looking at those kind of communities here,
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Speaker 1: and she's like, you know, they do everything for you.
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Speaker 1: I guess it's kind of like being in federal prison.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 8: So I found that villages in Florida is primarily fifty five.
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Speaker 7: And older, primarily primary community.
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Speaker 8: At least one permanent resident household must be fifty five
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Speaker 8: and older. No one under the age of nineteen is
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Speaker 8: permitted to live there full time. However, visitors under nineteen
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Speaker 8: are generally allowed to stay up to thirty days. So
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Speaker 8: your household has to have someone fifty five or older
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Speaker 8: in it.
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Speaker 7: So you got to have one ringer, Yeah, what you're telling.
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Speaker 1: Me, and I would be just so my wife would
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Speaker 1: be the ringer. Okay, She's like, you're of age. I'm
39:50
Speaker 1: contractually obligated by the marriage valves so that she's seven
39:54
Speaker 1: years younger than I. So yeah, so she's like you
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Speaker 1: can go in there. Then look, they'll take you via
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Speaker 1: shuttle to get.
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Speaker 2: Your hair appointments. Right, they have massages, they have activities.
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Speaker 7: Activities every day in the Yeah, they're yeah, just part
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Speaker 7: of how would you how would you not not want
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Speaker 7: to live there.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like a cruise.
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Speaker 7: I've got ten years to go. I am counting down
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Speaker 7: everything again. Not say the villages, don't get me wrong,
40:17
Speaker 7: but the dream, a dream is real. Ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: Okay, now now I'm looking it up, give me, give
40:25
Speaker 1: me some brochures exactly.
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Speaker 8: I have talked about this place about one day.
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Speaker 6: Moving there.
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Speaker 7: You're gonna lose your grandparents in the village.
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Speaker 8: Really they have if they go, I'm gonna go visit them.
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Speaker 1: Seventy thousand homes and a vast network of golf cart paths.
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Speaker 2: I would terrorize those.
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Speaker 7: Those golf carts. Yeah, they they soop those boys up. Man,
40:45
Speaker 7: those are barely those are barely golf carts. They're a
40:48
Speaker 7: lot closer to all one hundred and twenty mile an
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Speaker 7: hour McGee over there, if you, if you, if you
40:54
Speaker 7: dig into it. All right, guys, thank y'all for being
40:57
Speaker 7: here today. It's a brand new week. It's a brand
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Speaker 7: new season because summer is here, which obviously you know
41:04
Speaker 7: you can tell if you step outside if you missed
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Speaker 7: any of the show today. Riley is furiously editing, furiously
41:11
Speaker 7: editing over there to get the podcast up We tried
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Speaker 7: to do as quokes we can every day, so check
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Speaker 7: it out. Will is back for vacation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, loving it.
41:18
Speaker 1: So sad that I missed the sword play of last week,
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Speaker 1: but I know I might have to have some duels
41:22
Speaker 1: or something this week.
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Speaker 7: We make paper one. Jeanett's here somewhere. I'm sure we
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Speaker 7: have a we can we can get some of this product.
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