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The Infomaniacs: September 25 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The College
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Speaker 1: Station City Council voted in favor of renewing the contract
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Speaker 1: with Flock Safety. The vote was split four to two
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Speaker 1: with Councilman Yancey and Smith voting against. It was not
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Speaker 1: an easy decision for those voting in favor.
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Speaker 2: If we can prevent one more aggravated assault of a
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Speaker 2: child or find another missing child from another jurisdiction, that
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Speaker 2: it's worth seeing what happens over the next year. Let
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Speaker 2: the courts work out the privacy issue and determine what
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Speaker 2: we need to do.
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Speaker 1: Councilwoman Melissa McElhaney also speaks on the increase in misuse detections.
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Speaker 2: I actually find that reassuring. To me, that's showing that
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Speaker 2: there are policies and procedures that are online or coming
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Speaker 2: online to help manage this new technology.
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Speaker 1: College Station Police Chief Billy Couch explains that the department
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Speaker 1: can limit who can view CSPD's flock data.
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Speaker 3: So we do.
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Speaker 4: Control the agencies who can search our network. If we
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Speaker 4: have an agency that is no longer a customer or
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Speaker 4: an agency that is committing problems or issues, we can
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Speaker 4: remove them from our search network if needed. And then
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Speaker 4: all searches are retained indefinitely.
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Speaker 1: Councilman Bob Yancey says the flock name is toxic. He
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Speaker 1: says flock is undergoing layoffs, hemorrhaging clients, and potentially shopping
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Speaker 1: for a buyer. Snapchat is being credited for the arrest
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Speaker 1: of a College Station ISD elementary school custodian on child
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Speaker 1: pornography charges. 22-year-old Gerardo Gonzalez, also known as Jerry, was
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Speaker 1: a nighttime janitor at Greens Prairie Elementary. He was arrested
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Speaker 1: Wednesday and charged with two counts of possession with intent
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Speaker 1: to promote child pornography. Arrest records say Snapchat reported the
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Speaker 1: user's IP address to the National Center for Missing and
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Speaker 1: Exploited Children. He remains jailed on $ 115, 000 bond. Attorney General
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Speaker 1: and United States Senate candidate Ken Paxton has so far
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Speaker 1: declined all invitations to debate Democratic nominee James Tallarico. Now
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Speaker 1: the MSC Wiley Lecture Series hopes to change that. Representatives
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Speaker 1: have reached out to both campaigns to extend an invitation
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Speaker 1: to to debate at Rudder Auditorium on October 14th. They
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Speaker 1: say the available U.S. Senate seat is crucial, and the
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Speaker 1: group is actively organizing the event to give Texas voters
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Speaker 1: an opportunity to hear directly from both candidates before casting
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Speaker 1: their ballots. A terrorism charge dropped against a Texas mother
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Speaker 1: accused of helping her son plan a school shooting. Fox's
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Speaker 1: Kristen Goodwin has more.
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Speaker 5: Ashley Pardo was charged last May with aiding in the
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Speaker 5: commission of terrorism. The San Antonio mother was accused of
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Speaker 5: buying ammunition, magazines, and tactical gear for her 13-year-old son
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Speaker 5: with knowledge that he planned to carry out mass acts
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Speaker 5: of violence at his middle school. But Bexar County records
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Speaker 5: reveal the charge was dismissed for insufficient evidence. The teen,
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Speaker 5: who officials say showed up to school in tactical clothing
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Speaker 5: as part of an alleged attack, was initially charged with terrorism,
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Speaker 5: but under a plea agreement received two years of probation
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Speaker 5: in a secured residential facility for a prohibited weapons charge.
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Speaker 5: Ashley Pardo still faces an unrelated charge of abandoning or
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Speaker 5: endangering a child with criminal negligence in a separate incident.
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Speaker 5: Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
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Speaker 1: The city of Navasota is celebrating the grand reopening of
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Speaker 1: the Navasota Animal Shelter. The shelter at 1607 Nolan Street
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Speaker 1: opens this morning at 1030 a.m. It is your chance
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Speaker 1: to tour the facility and meet all the animals currently
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Speaker 1: available for adoption. The Navasota Animal Shelter is a no-kill facility.
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Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning. We're the Infomaniacs today. 95 for your high,
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Speaker 7: Feel the difference. I want to say a big, big
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Speaker 7: thank you. A genuine thank you to our friend, Louis Bellina.
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Speaker 7: Good morning.
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Speaker 9: It's just fantastic to be here. I love hanging out
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Speaker 9: with you guys in the morning.
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Speaker 7: I will pull back the curtain a little bit.
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Speaker 9: I think to myself, there's no other place I'd rather
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Speaker 9: be right now.
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Speaker 7: Well, usually we like to tape this about an hour
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Speaker 7: later on Thursday. That gives Louis a chance to not
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Speaker 7: have to get here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because Louis' typical biological clock is non-functional. At this
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Speaker 1: time of day.
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Speaker 7: So we were going to do it yesterday, and then
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Speaker 7: our wires got crossed, and we had some interviews.
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Speaker 9: I'm a morning hater. Let's just keep this simple. We
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Speaker 9: can fast forward this. I hate mornings with a passion.
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Speaker 7: Can't stand them.
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Speaker 9: I think to myself, what do I hate more than mornings?
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Speaker 9: And the answer comes up, nothing. I mean, if you
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Speaker 9: want to say world hunger, things, we're not talking about
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Speaker 9: the meta.
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Speaker 10: Of the world.
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Speaker 7: No, just things in your day-to-day life. It's a horrible.
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Speaker 9: Maybe shaving. Shaving. Because I tend to bleed a lot.
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Speaker 9: Other than that, I don't know what else I hate
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Speaker 9: more than mornings.
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Speaker 1: Louie's a bleeder.
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Speaker 7: So I will say this. I appreciate the commitment to
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Speaker 7: the bit. We are picking week four of the SEC.
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Speaker 7: Week one, won by me. Week two, won by Will.
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Speaker 7: Week three was a tie. Uh-oh. With four points, Louie Bellina.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 7: And then six points each, Tucker and Will.
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Speaker 1: How about that?
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Speaker 7: So it's neck and neck as it can be between
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Speaker 7: You too. And again, Louis could turn it around today.
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Speaker 1: Could.
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Speaker 7: So let's talk some.
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Speaker 9: Of the- I didn't win?
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Speaker 1: You didn't win. You were in third.
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Speaker 9: What are we trying to do? I thought you wanted
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Speaker 9: to have the low points.
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Speaker 1: No, no, no.
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Speaker 7: The less points?
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Speaker 9: Isn't that what we're trying to do?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 7: We ain't shooting at Miramont, man.
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Speaker 1: You misread the rules.
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Speaker 4: Oh.
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Speaker 9: That's okay.
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Speaker 2: That's okay.
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Speaker 9: No one told me what we're doing here.
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Speaker 4: You know what, dude?
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Speaker 7: Like I said, time to turn it around.
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Speaker 9: It's too early for me to understand.
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Speaker 7: You're trying to- All.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 7: Let's get started. We will start with Kentucky and South Alabama.
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Speaker 7: I know. Kentucky is probably a sore subject, but they're
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Speaker 7: laying 24 points to South Alabama. Do you think they
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Speaker 7: can pull it off?
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Speaker 1: I'm going with Kentucky. I think they pull it off,
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Speaker 1: the 24 points. They're certainly on a high. They have
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Speaker 1: no reason to dip against South Alabama.
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Speaker 11: Lou?
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Speaker 9: Roll cats.
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Speaker 7: Roll cats, okay. I am going to also take Kentucky.
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Speaker 1: Scary spread, though.
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Speaker 3: Scary spread.
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Speaker 9: They could have an emotional letdown, breakout win. I mean,
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Speaker 9: they're going to win, but we're talking about the cover.
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Speaker 7: We picked the spread here. Florida is hosting Ole Miss,
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Speaker 7: and Ole Miss is... Only a seven point favorite after
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Speaker 7: last week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: And this could have an emotional.
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Speaker 1: They could have an emotional.
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Speaker 7: Is that the idea? Like that adrenaline?
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Speaker 9: They just won their Super Bowl.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: You beat Lane Kiffin.
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Speaker 9: They conquered even Karnan.
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Speaker 7: And now you're going to just just exhale. And then
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Speaker 7: Florida creeps up on you.
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Speaker 9: I don't know. Team on the rise.
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Speaker 12: Right.
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Speaker 1: Sort of.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, they are.
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Speaker 1: They are.
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Speaker 9: They won the battle of the new coaches in the
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Speaker 9: League Bowl.
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Speaker 4: They did.
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Speaker 1: So I don't think that the effort drops from Ole Miss.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that LSU was their only game that
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Speaker 1: they were focused on. I think now that they have
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Speaker 1: beaten LSU, that they may have a bigger target in
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Speaker 1: sight because legitimately they proved that they can play with anybody, right?
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Speaker 1: So I see Ole Miss carrying on, winning. I don't
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Speaker 1: think it's a lot, but they will cover the seven.
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Speaker 7: Okay. All right. So Ole Miss. I am also going
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Speaker 7: to go Ole Miss because that just looks silly to me.
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Speaker 2: Ole Miss.
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Speaker 10: Ole Miss.
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Speaker 9: I turned to that Chandler when the Heisman.
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Speaker 1: I think so. I think he was good last week. Well,
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Speaker 1: I think after last week.
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Speaker 7: He nailed it. He was so good last week. Georgia,
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Speaker 7: 14-point favorite against Oklahoma. They are hosting the Sooners. I
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Speaker 7: could not be happier about Oklahoma being this. bad as
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Speaker 7: they are this year it really brings me a lot
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Speaker 7: of pleasure.
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Speaker 1: It is probably you know if there was one other
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Speaker 1: team of course that was doing worse i would be
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Speaker 1: happy right it does it does bring me some joy
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Speaker 1: that oklahoma is horrible and they are certainly going to
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Speaker 1: lose to georgia by more than 14 points go dogs
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Speaker 1: 14 points at georgia.
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Speaker 9: Yeah so is ou number two on y'all behind texas
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Speaker 9: because lsu is my number two Uh, in.
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Speaker 7: Terms of, so you're talking about rivalry. Hey, so we, we,
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Speaker 7: we take Texas off the list completely because we all
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Speaker 7: know Texas one.
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Speaker 1: And then I don't have teams that I want to
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Speaker 1: see do so poorly that they don't exist anymore. That's
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Speaker 1: not LSU in that category. I always want to beat them.
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Speaker 7: I always would rather take a win against Oklahoma.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 13: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: There's a, there's a level of, I'd love to see
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Speaker 9: LSU go home 12 every year.
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Speaker 1: It would be nice.
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Speaker 3: Really?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think we got bad.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: Is there a reason? Just too many bad experiences?
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Speaker 9: Going back to when I was a student... Is it
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Speaker 9: Tiger fans? No, I actually enjoy myself when I go
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Speaker 9: across the border. They have casinos. They have great food.
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Speaker 7: They have great accents.
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Speaker 9: Even when you don't know what they're saying, it's entertaining.
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Speaker 9: That kind of thing, right? But going back to when
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Speaker 9: I was a student, A & M LSU was a thing.
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Speaker 9: Before LSU called it off because A & M owned
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Speaker 9: their souls and things like that, right? So they're not
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Speaker 9: very hospitable and They're whining. There's a million reasons to
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Speaker 9: hate LSU.
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Speaker 1: Completely hate lsu but i have some sneaking suspicion that
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Speaker 1: they got some voodoo priestess down in the quarter that
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Speaker 1: has got them on you know no matter what they
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Speaker 1: do they're always going to have a decent season.
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Speaker 7: There was a guy uh who there's a guy i
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Speaker 7: forget he's a podcast i should know so i can
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Speaker 7: credit him i don't care that much all i know
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Speaker 7: is he was doing a call-in show After the LSU
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Speaker 7: Ole Miss game and the LSU fan calls in and
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Speaker 7: he's just livid and he's like, I can't believe this
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Speaker 7: is happening.
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Speaker 10: Why?
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Speaker 7: I can't believe I'm paying this much money to LSU.
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Speaker 7: And then so he asks him, he's like, son, what?
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Speaker 9: Almost 50 mil.
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Speaker 7: How much money are you chipping into this? And he's like,
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Speaker 7: I'm paying 25% of my income to LSU. And he says, well,
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Speaker 7: how much do you make? He makes $ 80, 000 a year,
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Speaker 7: and he's giving 25% of that $ 80, 000 To LSU.
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Speaker 1: That's a disease.
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Speaker 7: That is a toxic relationship.
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Speaker 1: Very much so.
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Speaker 7: That is a toxic, toxic relationship.
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Speaker 9: You make it 80K and he's giving 25%?
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Speaker 7: He's giving 25% of his money.
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Speaker 1: Allegedly.
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Speaker 7: To the Tigers.
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Speaker 1: It was after a very poor performance. We don't know
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Speaker 1: how deep in the Bayou bottle he was.
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Speaker 7: We did not examine his financials. All I know is
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Speaker 7: he said it on the internet.
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Speaker 9: You drink enough and that 2%, the numbers start blurring.
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Speaker 1: It does. What game are we on now?
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Speaker 7: We're moving to Auburn, hosting Vandy. Auburn is a 6.5-point favorite.
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Speaker 7: What say you, Louie Bellina?
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Speaker 9: I think that the Auburn quarterback can hold on to
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Speaker 9: the ball, so I'm going to take Auburn to cover.
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Speaker 9: I don't think Vandy can get that kind of break
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Speaker 9: twice in a week.
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Speaker 7: Will, what do you think?
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Speaker 1: I'm going Vandy with this one.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm also going Vandy.
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Speaker 1: To cover.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I just think I like Vandy.
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Speaker 9: Auburn has no defense. Vanderbilt quarterback is the real deal.
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Speaker 9: I get it. That was the struggle debate for me.
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Speaker 7: Alabama hosting South Carolina and coming in at a 12.5
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Speaker 7: point favorite. Yeah, got it right the first time. It
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Speaker 7: is a weird Alabama team and also a weird South
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Speaker 7: Carolina team.
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Speaker 1: To be fair, South Carolina is always a weird team.
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Speaker 9: Because they're Shane Beamer-led.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: So how do we feel?
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Speaker 1: I'm going... South Carolina.
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Speaker 4: Really?
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Speaker 1: South Kakalaka, not to win, but to cover.
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Speaker 7: To cover, okay.
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Speaker 1: Because of the 12.5 points.
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Speaker 7: Closer than 12.
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Speaker 9: Roll Tide.
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Speaker 7: Roll Tide. I'm Roll Tide.
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Speaker 9: The beginning of the end of Shane Beamer's years in
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Speaker 9: the making.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And again, I don't think that South Carolina is going
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Speaker 1: to win. I do think they cover.
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Speaker 7: Missouri coming into Mississippi State, 6.5 point favorites.
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Speaker 1: Louie, you laughed at me when I took Mississippi State
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Speaker 1: last week. I'm going Mississippi State again.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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Speaker 9: I laugh again.
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Speaker 7: I take a Missouri.
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Speaker 1: Missouri is a good team. Mississippi State is putting it together.
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Speaker 7: I have a good feeling about Mississippi State. I'm going
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Speaker 7: to take Mississippi State. This could pay off for Lou.
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Speaker 7: Tulsa at Arkansas. Arkansas is getting 17. Arkansas is laying
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Speaker 7: 17 and a half points to Tulsa.
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Speaker 1: And I have no idea why.
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Speaker 14: And I feel like this is a bet the farm
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Speaker 14: type situation.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Give me Tulsa.
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Speaker 7: Give me Tulsa.
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Speaker 1: Golden hurricane all the way.
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Speaker 7: Give me the hurricanes.
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Speaker 9: You ride her until she bucks you. And right now
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Speaker 9: you go against Arkansas every chance you get.
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Speaker 1: That's right. That pig has not bucked me yet.
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Speaker 7: SEC game of the week is the battle of the
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Speaker 7: obnoxious orange teams.
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Speaker 1: Dear God.
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Speaker 7: And I mean this. You don't like Rocky Top?
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Speaker 2: Oh.
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Speaker 1: Can I turn down the hue on my TV? Does
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Speaker 1: that still work?
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Speaker 7: Were you at the Cotton Bowl the year we played Tennessee?
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Speaker 7: I can't remember.
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Speaker 15: Of course I was.
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Speaker 9: You're talking about the Fran year.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Fran year. I knew that game was.
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Speaker 9: Over in the pregame warm-ups. Both teams were on the field.
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Speaker 16: Scary.
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Speaker 9: And you just saw them side by side.
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Speaker 1: I was as high up in that Cotton Bowl as
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Speaker 1: you could be.
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Speaker 7: Okay, so you were up and tying the bowl. Were
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Speaker 7: you in press box? I was press. Okay, I was
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Speaker 7: regular seats, regular bum seats, just because I wanted to
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Speaker 7: go with my friends.
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Speaker 16: Okay.
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Speaker 7: Bum seats.
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Speaker 9: Bum seats.
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Speaker 7: I still can't get that song out of my head.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 7: They heard it.
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Speaker 14: Good old Rocky Top. It's the worst song. It's the
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Speaker 14: worst song.
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Speaker 9: Just because they scored like five times in the first quarter,
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Speaker 9: so you got to hear a couple extra times.
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Speaker 1: Before halftime, we had taken a bus from the radio
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Speaker 1: station that I was working at at the time, and
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Speaker 1: we went there. Before halftime, I had gone back to
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Speaker 1: the bus because there were jello shots.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, these were my drinking days, too.
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Speaker 7: And trust me, I went out to reload several times.
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Speaker 1: Several times.
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Speaker 7: And you know what?
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Speaker 9: That game called for it.
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Speaker 7: I will not watch College Game Day this weekend because
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Speaker 7: I will hear Rocky Top too much. I can't take
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Speaker 7: that stupid song. I can't take it. Anyway, Texas, five-and-a-half-point favorites.
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Speaker 7: Which UT are we going with, guys?
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Speaker 3: Longhorns.
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Speaker 7: Going Horns, five-and-a-half.
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Speaker 9: Lou? You know, now that most of A & M' s
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Speaker 9: upper-level goals seem to be up in ashes, I can
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Speaker 9: switch to one of my upper-level goals is to dream
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Speaker 9: of all-thing Longhorn going up in ashes.
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Speaker 17: But.
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Speaker 9: Because really, it's one of two, right?
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: You dream of all things Aggie succeeding. That doesn't feel
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Speaker 9: so much right now. I'd like to see all things
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Speaker 9: Longhorn go up in ashes, but I don't think it's
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Speaker 9: this week. Yeah, I'm also... I'm taking Tennessee. You know
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Speaker 9: what's fascinating?
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Speaker 7: You're taking Tennessee?
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Speaker 9: No, I'm taking Texas.
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Speaker 10: Okay, all right.
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Speaker 9: The interesting thing about this matchup, Texas is only allowed
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Speaker 9: four sacks through the first games, and Tennessee... Tennessee's gotten 13.
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Speaker 1: So it's going to match up there.
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Speaker 9: Battle of the line.
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Speaker 7: I'm going to go Texas. I actually think Tennessee could
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Speaker 7: pull the upset pretty easily.
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong. I would be very grateful to
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Speaker 1: be wrong on this.
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Speaker 9: Five and a half point line means it's a one-score game.
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Speaker 7: And finally, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in Death Valley, after
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Speaker 7: I haven't even talked to you all week, on a
15:45
Speaker 7: scale of one to embarrassing, how bad is the Kentucky
15:47
Speaker 7: loss right now?
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Speaker 3: Nuclear. Nuclear.
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Speaker 7: As bad as it gets.
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Speaker 9: It's as bad as it gets. I mean, you were
15:52
Speaker 9: 14 and a half, went out 16 and a half
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Speaker 9: point favorite. You had all the momentum in the world.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: You were coming off the great season. It's an incomprehensible
16:02
Speaker 9: kind of loss.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: To be fair with you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: So, with that said.
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Speaker 1: Nuclear.
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Speaker 7: As bad as now. Can you bounce back, go into
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Speaker 7: Death Valley at night, and get a win over LSU? LSU,
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Speaker 7: not a crazy favorite. Eight and a half points.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: They're very injured. They have to deal with an extreme
16:22
Speaker 9: hangover after losing their Super Bowl.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, they also had an absolute dogfight.
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Speaker 9: Well, they're physically banged up. Again, they're injured with other
16:30
Speaker 9: just players banged up. Mentally, how long did it take
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Speaker 9: them to move on from a game that was, you know, again,
16:37
Speaker 9: a Super Bowl, the Lane Kiffin Bowl. Half their players
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Speaker 9: are from Ole Miss, too, so it wasn't just Lane
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Speaker 9: Kiffin himself. There's a lot that goes into this from
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Speaker 9: the LSU side. This isn't all about A & M
16:46
Speaker 9: getting up. You have two teams... Which team actually got
16:49
Speaker 9: to move on from the loss the week before and
16:52
Speaker 9: practice for this game.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
16:54
Speaker 9: And focus on the game.
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 12: Right.
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Speaker 9: And for A & M, the number one problem you
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Speaker 9: have is that your quarterback is in his own head.
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Speaker 9: And that's been the storyline of the week is Marcel Reed.
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Speaker 9: There's more problems. The defense a week ago.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: All three levels were atrocious. Inconceivably. That was the shock.
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Speaker 7: It didn't make any sense.
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Speaker 9: No, it didn't. Until you heard that they were practicing
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Speaker 9: a new defense that never quite grasped. And that can
17:18
Speaker 9: explain a lot of the busted assignments that you saw.
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Speaker 9: They were trying to execute things they didn't understand.
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Speaker 3: Okay, whatever.
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Speaker 1: I don't buy it.
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Speaker 2: I'm just.
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Speaker 7: The storylines of the week. This is what we have
17:28
Speaker 7: been told.
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Speaker 9: But the Marcel Reed thing, if it's in his head,
17:32
Speaker 9: if he gets over it, he can go back to
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Speaker 9: being Marcel Reed of last year, which won 11 games.
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Speaker 9: If not, how long does it take to get over it?
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Speaker 9: I mean, how do you measure that? You're trying to
17:41
Speaker 9: pick games. You're trying to figure out when can A
17:43
Speaker 9: & M get back on track.
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Speaker 7: And someone.
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Speaker 9: read too much of the criticism he's trying to prove
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Speaker 9: people wrong he's put too much pressure on himself and
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Speaker 9: that's not an x and a o that's what makes
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Speaker 9: this so hard.
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Speaker 7: Yeah that's how i mean it's i i think it's
17:56
Speaker 7: an exceedingly hard game to pick it is now i
18:00
Speaker 7: would like to say a and m rise to the
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Speaker 7: the challenge but at baton rouge at night i just
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Speaker 7: don't see it happening especially because Lane Kiffin is pure evil,
18:13
Speaker 7: and he is bleeding that toxicity into his players.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's busted enough blood vessels in his skull this week.
18:18
Speaker 7: Evil never dies. He would love nothing more than to
18:22
Speaker 7: hang 100 on the Ags. I think he will be able,
18:26
Speaker 7: I don't know about that much, I think he will
18:27
Speaker 7: hang more than 8.5 points by the final buzzer, so
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Speaker 7: I'm going to go LSU.
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Speaker 1: Both these teams are desperate for a win. It is
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Speaker 1: make or break. this early in the season for both
18:37
Speaker 1: of them.
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Speaker 9: CFP Eliminator.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, pretty much. And something is dreadfully wrong with the Ags.
18:43
Speaker 1: I saw a flat football team last week. It doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter that they didn't know where they were going because
18:48
Speaker 1: of new defense. No, that team was not ready to play.
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Speaker 7: There was something up, and I, yeah, it just didn't
18:53
Speaker 7: look good.
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Speaker 1: Which is very unusual because I'm a huge Mike Elko fan,
18:56
Speaker 1: and I think he is the answer. However, when there's
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Speaker 1: something that wrong and you've got a week to fix
19:02
Speaker 1: it before LSU.
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Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: No matter what LSU is coming off of. And I
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Speaker 1: hate to do this. I'm going LSU.
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Speaker 3: Luke?
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Speaker 9: I'm going LSU.
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Speaker 1: Good morning and happy Friday. From the WTAW newsroom, I'm
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Speaker 1: Will Welch. It was a night to talk about renewing
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Speaker 23: I have access to more law enforcement databases than I
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Speaker 7: the difference. City of College Station's in. We got a
37:52
Speaker 7: lot of stuff to talk about, but it's not all
37:56
Speaker 7: one topic. And I want to start with our guest,
37:59
Speaker 7: and I'm going to butcher your name first. So, Brian Pischacek.
38:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's... I mean, right on the money.
38:08
Speaker 7: Was it on the money?
38:09
Speaker 1: Pretty solid.
38:11
Speaker 7: Okay, Brian, with economic development. How are you doing, man?
38:14
Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Thanks.
38:16
Speaker 1: Just shove Colin out the way there. We'll get to
38:19
Speaker 1: him later.
38:19
Speaker 7: My wife does it every day.
38:20
Speaker 3: He's coming back.
38:21
Speaker 7: Trust me. So let's talk economic development. First of all,
38:25
Speaker 7: did you line up with the Sprouts people this morning?
38:30
Speaker 32: Some members of our team did. Yeah, I drove past it.
38:32
Speaker 32: It looks like an absolute bonanza. I'm going to have
38:34
Speaker 32: to stop by today and check it out.
38:35
Speaker 7: Have you talked to the squad to get an evaluation
38:37
Speaker 7: of how it was inside? Because I'll tell you, we
38:41
Speaker 7: made the mistake on Wednesday of saying something, not even
38:43
Speaker 7: negative about Sprouts. It was like, I don't really get Sprouts.
38:45
Speaker 7: And I was told to shut up.
38:47
Speaker 1: He was chastised.
38:48
Speaker 7: And let me explain to you why Sprouts is so great.
38:51
Speaker 7: And then five minutes later, I got the full rundown
38:54
Speaker 7: of everything. That is a passionate group of fans.
38:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get a pocket full of cereal there
39:00
Speaker 1: if you want.
39:01
Speaker 7: One of our employees was timing it out so he
39:04
Speaker 7: could get one of those tote bags. It's absolutely crazy.
39:07
Speaker 7: So have you heard from any of them yet? Did
39:09
Speaker 7: they survive?
39:11
Speaker 9: I hope so.
39:11
Speaker 32: You know, what I'm here to talk about, too, is
39:13
Speaker 32: about our Shape Call Station survey, which is really about
39:16
Speaker 32: like a kind of feedback tool.
39:17
Speaker 3: And what's incredible is that I guarantee you that Sprouts.
39:20
Speaker 32: Would have been toward the top of the list had
39:22
Speaker 32: we asked about, needing a natural grocery store.
39:25
Speaker 7: This is a really cool survey. I can't remember when
39:27
Speaker 7: we talked about it.
39:28
Speaker 1: It's a while back.
39:29
Speaker 7: It's amazing. This is a great chance for you to
39:33
Speaker 7: share your feedback because similar to what you were talking
39:35
Speaker 7: about with Sprouts, there are a lot of businesses that
39:38
Speaker 7: don't exist in Bryan College Station people have been clamoring for.
39:44
Speaker 7: And you get to actually make your voice heard about
39:45
Speaker 7: which one you think should be at the top of
39:48
Speaker 7: the pile.
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Speaker 3: That's right, we do.
39:50
Speaker 32: We focus a lot on commercial retail recruitment in College Station.
39:54
Speaker 32: This was just an extra, an added tool where we
39:58
Speaker 32: thought it would give residents a direct voice on what
40:00
Speaker 32: they want to see in their community. It gives us
40:02
Speaker 32: a piece of, again, real-world information that we can use
40:05
Speaker 32: alongside market data to shape the economic future and our
40:09
Speaker 32: recruitment tactics when we go after retail.
40:12
Speaker 7: Now, what do you do once you... have the, like, I,
40:15
Speaker 7: you know, people go, they vote. What do you do
40:18
Speaker 7: with that material once it comes in? Like, how does
40:20
Speaker 7: that help you guys in what you're trying to do?
40:22
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's, that's a great, that's a great question.
40:24
Speaker 32: So, um, you know, the, the genesis of the survey was,
40:27
Speaker 32: you know, we, we've got a sense of, you know,
40:29
Speaker 32: we work with a retail consultant. We have generally like, okay,
40:31
Speaker 32: we know we want to go after some destination retailers. Um,
40:34
Speaker 32: you know, as, as call station is sort of, you know,
40:36
Speaker 32: in this, in this emerging market, we want to look at,
40:38
Speaker 32: you know, maybe restaurants and not presently are in Brazos County.
40:41
Speaker 3: Um, This was a tool that was a partnership.
40:43
Speaker 32: That we created with our public communications department in IT.
40:49
Speaker 3: Basically, it's easy to fill out. We ask a list.
40:53
Speaker 32: The way that we work this is that every quarter
40:56
Speaker 32: we're going to ask a question. This past one was
40:58
Speaker 32: what restaurant do you want to see? They'll be successive.
41:00
Speaker 32: Every quarter will be something else where it's what entertainment
41:04
Speaker 32: user do you want to see? What retailer do you want?
41:07
Speaker 32: And it gives us just another sense of a sense
41:10
Speaker 32: of what is out there in the market that we're
41:13
Speaker 32: relying on our best guests and market trends and those.
41:17
Speaker 3: Sort of things.
41:19
Speaker 32: But it gives us another tool to go after these, uh,
41:22
Speaker 32: these businesses, they may be looking to expand. They may
41:25
Speaker 32: be looking into College Station. This is another chance for
41:27
Speaker 32: us to do additional outreach and get a better sense of, hey,
41:30
Speaker 32: did you know, you guys are on the, on top 10,
41:32
Speaker 32: you guys are number one. This is a, there's an
41:33
Speaker 32: incredible demand here that perhaps is untapped that you may
41:36
Speaker 32: not even know.
41:36
Speaker 7: So you could take this and basically go to like,
41:38
Speaker 7: let's say, I'll say Bass Pro, since that's the one
41:40
Speaker 7: we recently, you know, we all know is you, you could,
41:43
Speaker 7: if Bass Pro was not coming here and they were
41:45
Speaker 7: at the top of the list, you'd go to them
41:46
Speaker 7: and say, they are, they are knocking down our doors
41:48
Speaker 7: in the city of College Station, begging for a Bass Pro.
41:51
Speaker 7: what can we do to make this happen? That's pretty effective.
41:54
Speaker 1: Or a Waffle House.
41:56
Speaker 7: Or a Waffle House.
41:57
Speaker 32: So Waffle House is number one. We've got an incredible
42:01
Speaker 32: amount of response. We've had this out for the last
42:02
Speaker 32: couple of months. We'll be doing a new one. We're
42:05
Speaker 32: going to, again, try to follow the quarter. So there'll
42:06
Speaker 32: be another one coming up in October. So certainly be
42:09
Speaker 32: on the lookout for that. But we've gotten over 3,100 votes.
42:11
Speaker 32: We've received 148 businesses.
42:13
Speaker 3: That's a great sample, man. Yeah, man.
42:20
Speaker 32: And yeah, number one is Waffle House. Number two is
42:24
Speaker 32: In-N-Out Burger. And number three is Hat Creek Burger Company.
42:27
Speaker 7: I saw Hat Creek. I was shocked.
42:30
Speaker 1: I don't even know about it.
42:31
Speaker 7: So Hat Creek, we had a bunch of them in
42:33
Speaker 7: San Antonio, Austin. And it's all right.
42:36
Speaker 15: It's good.
42:38
Speaker 7: They're kind of cool because they have playgrounds, which used
42:41
Speaker 7: to be the go-to when you had fast food. And
42:43
Speaker 7: it's kind of people gotten away from it. But yeah,
42:45
Speaker 7: it's more of a chill place. Kind of family vibe.
42:47
Speaker 7: Burgers are pretty good. But I did not expect that
42:50
Speaker 7: one to be top three by any stretch of the imagination.
42:52
Speaker 1: Well, you said 3,100 have responded to this thus far.
42:55
Speaker 1: And that's a pretty good turnout. But you could use
42:57
Speaker 1: a lot more.
42:58
Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely.
42:58
Speaker 1: And you have your opportunity. Look, if you don't go speak,
43:01
Speaker 1: if you don't put it on the website, if you
43:02
Speaker 1: don't make your voice heard, too bad. Yeah.
43:05
Speaker 3: Okay.
43:06
Speaker 7: What's next? What's the next one?
43:07
Speaker 15: Do we know?
43:07
Speaker 7: I mean, you don't have to say if you don't
43:08
Speaker 7: want to.
43:09
Speaker 3: Yeah. We'll be trying to push it out next week.
43:11
Speaker 7: Next week.
43:12
Speaker 32: Again, trying to get a better sense of just retailers and,
43:15
Speaker 32: you know, other opportunities that are out there. You know,
43:17
Speaker 32: what this demonstrates, real-time feedback, we set it up in
43:20
Speaker 32: a way where, you know, you're.
43:22
Speaker 3: Able to respond.
43:22
Speaker 32: And then there's a little bit of quality assurance on
43:25
Speaker 32: the back end to make sure that everything's spelled right
43:27
Speaker 32: and all of that. But it updates every 24 hours.
43:29
Speaker 32: So it's relatively real-time feedback. It also demonstrates like sustained demand.
43:33
Speaker 32: And we can ask this question this time next year
43:35
Speaker 32: and kind of compare and see maybe market trends and
43:37
Speaker 32: how things are changing. And again, it helps validate what
43:40
Speaker 32: we're hearing elsewhere. And again, gives us something tangible to
43:44
Speaker 32: take into other business conversations.
43:45
Speaker 7: That's a beautiful thing. What else do we need to
43:47
Speaker 7: get to from your end?
43:50
Speaker 32: Again, I would just encourage folks that, you know, the
43:55
Speaker 32: survey is not necessarily a Guarantee that we go after it,
43:59
Speaker 32: but it gives us a chance to research the company,
44:02
Speaker 32: evaluate the market fit. If the company is expanding and
44:06
Speaker 32: then they're looking into College Station, it just creates another
44:08
Speaker 32: opportunity to have a conversation. So I would just encourage
44:10
Speaker 32: people to participate in the survey, keep an eye out
44:13
Speaker 32: every quarter. And again, we love and appreciate the feedback
44:15
Speaker 32: that we can get.
44:15
Speaker 7: Help Brian help you. Help the team help you guys.
44:19
Speaker 1: Brian and the team at the Economic Development folks at
44:22
Speaker 1: the City of College Station.
44:23
Speaker 7: All right, Colin, welcome back. Um, before we get into, uh,
44:27
Speaker 7: the dude, were you at the council last night?
44:29
Speaker 4: I was.
44:30
Speaker 7: Do you have any thoughts on, on, on, on flock
44:34
Speaker 7: or any of that?
44:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's over for now.
44:39
Speaker 1: For now.
44:41
Speaker 7: I know it was a, I know it's a continuously
44:43
Speaker 7: hot button issue. Uh, and I know the crowd was, um,
44:47
Speaker 7: crowd was good. Uh, but yeah, it was.
44:49
Speaker 33: Very spirited crowd. Uh, they had a great turnout and
44:51
Speaker 33: I think the council definitely appreciated that they, heard what
44:55
Speaker 33: everyone had to say and they made their decision. It
44:57
Speaker 33: wasn't a very easy decision.
44:58
Speaker 3: It was a pretty.
45:00
Speaker 33: Tough deliberation, but, uh, they landed on a four, two
45:03
Speaker 33: vote in favor of keeping the cameras for now.
45:06
Speaker 7: It is a, it is a, a, I mean, again,
45:08
Speaker 7: they'll say it again because we, we talked, we already
45:10
Speaker 7: did a half hour on it earlier this morning, but it,
45:14
Speaker 7: it is a wildly difficult decision.
45:16
Speaker 3: Yeah.
45:16
Speaker 7: And I, I, uh, I'm sure we'll hear from some
45:19
Speaker 7: of the council members moving forward and, and, and talk
45:21
Speaker 7: to them and kind of get more of their, their
45:23
Speaker 7: insight around this. But, It's a hard call. It's a
45:26
Speaker 7: really hard call. But, yeah, we'll see where it goes.
45:30
Speaker 7: What else do we have to talk about today, sir?
45:32
Speaker 33: Well, mark your calendars for Saturday, October 10th for Bike-tober.
45:37
Speaker 33: It's going to be hosted by the Bryan College Station
45:39
Speaker 33: Sister Cities International Association, along with the cities of College
45:43
Speaker 33: Station and Bryan. It's a free 8.6-mile community bike ride
45:46
Speaker 33: that celebrates cycling, local custom, culture, and international friendship.
45:51
Speaker 7: Holy cow!
45:52
Speaker 33: You can register on-site at 8.30 at City Hall. The
45:55
Speaker 33: ride rolls out at 9.30. They'll go all the way
45:57
Speaker 33: to Bryan Midtown Park Farmer's Market, where they'll have a
46:00
Speaker 33: wellness stop with live German music, and then return to
46:03
Speaker 33: City Hall at 11 a.m.
46:04
Speaker 1: I love it.
46:05
Speaker 33: From 9 a.m.
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Speaker 3: To 1 p.m. at City Hall.
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Speaker 33: For people that don't ride, they're going to have German-inspired
46:10
Speaker 33: food trucks, lawn games, storytelling, art expositions, and a children's
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Speaker 33: cycling training youth.
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Speaker 7: Dare I ask, is this pedal bikes or e-bikes or both?
46:24
Speaker 9: Pedal bike.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Oh, we're excluding those for cycle and shizzle.
46:29
Speaker 9: You've got to actually sweat, okay?
46:31
Speaker 7: Oh, I like it.
46:32
Speaker 3: Cycle and shizzle.
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Speaker 7: I love to see it. I'm a big fan. Yeah,
46:35
Speaker 7: these are two different things.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
46:37
Speaker 33: Registration is free. You can sign up at cstx.gov slash biketober.
46:42
Speaker 33: I also want to say that registration is underway for
46:44
Speaker 33: the annual College Station Christmas Parade on December 5th.
46:47
Speaker 7: Yes.
46:48
Speaker 33: Entries are accepted through November 6th. For more information and
46:51
Speaker 33: to register your entry, go to cstx.gov slash parade.
46:54
Speaker 1: Get on that now.
46:55
Speaker 7: And before you start to think, it's the end of September, King.
47:00
Speaker 7: It's the end of September. Spooky month is right there.
47:02
Speaker 7: You've got to get on the ball. Gentlemen, thank you
47:06
Speaker 7: all so much.
47:06
Speaker 9: Thank you.
47:07
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50:00
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Speaker 7: Yeah, because Sam texts in. Was that the 2004 Cotton Bowl?
50:41
Speaker 7: I watched that one from Iraq. And my CO... was
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Speaker 7: from Tennessee. He made me do push-ups while singing that
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Speaker 7: Rocky Top song. Y'all are bringing back PTSD. To me,
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Speaker 7: my friends. Sam, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 1: On behalf of America, I would like to apologize.
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Speaker 7: I'd absolutely like to apologize for the sake of.
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Speaker 3: That's awful.
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Speaker 31: Awful.
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Speaker 1: That CO should have been put up on charges.
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Speaker 7: And again, I'll say it, I never have to hear
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Speaker 7: that song again.
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Speaker 1: Now, to be fair, I'm going to assume that as
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Speaker 1: far as brass in the military goes... We've got a
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Speaker 1: lot more Aggie officers out there than we do Tennessee officers.
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Speaker 7: I feel like there might have been someone higher up
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Speaker 7: in the chain that could have got a receipt for you, Sam.
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Speaker 7: If not, I'm sorry about that, too. Someone should have
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Speaker 7: had your back.
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Speaker 1: And you should have just caught him in the urinal.
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Speaker 1: That's all I'm going to say.
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Speaker 3: I did.
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Speaker 7: Were you aware that we're getting a biopic on John Madden?
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 3: Okay.
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Speaker 7: And are you aware of who is playing John Madden?
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Speaker 1: I believe I am.
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Speaker 3: Who is that?
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Speaker 1: Nicolas Cage.
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Speaker 7: I've been fascinated by this movie since the day it
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Speaker 7: was announced.
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Speaker 1: It may be the first time that Nick Cage is
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Speaker 1: playing somebody in a movie other than Nick Cage.
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Speaker 7: Well, don't speak too soon. Before you think that this
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Speaker 7: is some minor thing, this movie not only stars Nicolas
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Speaker 7: Cage as John Madden, Christian Bale plays Al Davis, Catherine
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Speaker 7: Han's in it, Sienna Miller's in it, John Mulaney and
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Speaker 7: Shane Gillis are all in this film. It will get
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Speaker 7: a theatrical release on November 11th, but not very long.
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Speaker 7: It's going to go to Prime on November 18th. Why
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Speaker 7: am I talking about this? I'm talking about it because
52:21
Speaker 7: we have our very first trailer, which means you will
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Speaker 7: get your very first check of Nick Cage playing the
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Speaker 7: legendary John Madden.
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Speaker 1: It's a, yeah, tough role.
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Speaker 7: And I'm going to play the audio for you right now.
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Speaker 9: John Madden.
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Speaker 1: John Madden.
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Speaker 31: John Madden.
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Speaker 7: Madden football.
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Speaker 12: What is this? You only have seven men on a team,
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Speaker 12: and I'm out. Here's my playbook. Every play I ever coached,
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Speaker 12: every play I ever drew, let's get to work.
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Speaker 7: That's horrible. What's that?
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Speaker 1: That's horrible.
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Speaker 9: What is that?
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Speaker 7: What is that?
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Speaker 1: That is Nick Cage. That's not John Madden. There's no
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Speaker 1: suspense of reality there. I cannot listen to that and
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Speaker 1: say that's John Madden. Why did you not get Frank
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Speaker 1: Caliendo to play John Madden? He sounds just like John Madden.
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Speaker 7: Is Frank still with us?
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Speaker 1: I think so.
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Speaker 7: Surely nothing as bad has befallen Frank Caliendo.
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Speaker 1: At least you could have taken Frank and said, hey, Frank,
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Speaker 1: will you teach Nick Cage how to speak like John Madden?
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Speaker 7: That is.
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Speaker 1: It's horrible. Bonkers.
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Speaker 7: I wonder if Nick has ever actually laid eyes on
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Speaker 7: a John Madden tape. Because, I mean, he didn't sound
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Speaker 7: like that.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 7: He didn't sound like that.
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Speaker 1: And it's not, I mean, as far as impersonations go,
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Speaker 1: Madden is not that tough. A little effort, you can
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Speaker 1: get Madden.
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Speaker 7: I keep thinking back to Joaquin Phoenix and Johnny Cash,
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Speaker 7: or as Johnny Cash.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, the.
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Speaker 7: The prime example is Jamie Foxx playing Ray Charles.
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Speaker 1: I will go back even further than that.
53:57
Speaker 7: You forget that it's even Jamie Foxx.
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Speaker 1: And Iceman playing the Doors lead singer.
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Speaker 7: Val Kilmer's Jim is also very, very, very high on
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Speaker 7: the list. That is abysmal.
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Speaker 1: It's horrid.
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Speaker 7: That is insanely abysmal. comical maybe they're going for that i.
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Speaker 1: Don't know i i think that maybe they put so
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Speaker 1: much money into it at this point they just got
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Speaker 1: to release it they can't recast it uh it was
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Speaker 1: yeah that's horrible.
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Speaker 7: Can i play it one more time do it we
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Speaker 7: can let the sink.
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Speaker 9: In john matt john madden.
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Speaker 12: Madden football what is this you only have seven men
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Speaker 12: on a team and i'm out what are you talking
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Speaker 12: about that's horrible that's why i ever coached every play
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Speaker 12: i ever drew let's get to work no.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 7: I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Jason suggests they should have dubbed Caliendo over Cage.
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Speaker 7: Absolutely. You could have done that. You could have gone
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Speaker 7: that route.
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Speaker 1: AI could have done something.
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Speaker 7: He's a great physical actor. Maybe Caliendo couldn't pull it off.
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Speaker 9: I know.
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Speaker 1: You can do.
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Speaker 7: A thing, but not in this instance. Guys, have a
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Speaker 7: great weekend. We'll see you back on the radio on Monday,
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