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The Infomaniacs: August 4, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Will Welch. The City of College Station
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  Speaker 1: is asking for your input on the future of the
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  Speaker 1: Harvey Road District. The city is developing the Harvey Road
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  Speaker 1: District Plan to guide future improvements within the area. They
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  Speaker 1: want to know how you use the area today, challenges
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  Speaker 1: you experience, improvements that would matter most, and how you'd
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  Speaker 1: like to see the core door evolve. A public workshop
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  Speaker 1: on the project will take place at the Meyer Senior
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  Speaker 1: Center tomorrow night from six to eight. Visit WTAW dot
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  Speaker 1: Jail passed a recent inspection by the Texas Commission on
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  Speaker 1: Jail Standards. Sheriff Wayne Dickie says the jail remains in
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  Speaker 1: full compliance with the Texas Minimum Jail Standards. The inspection
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  Speaker 1: evaluates various areas of jail operations, voting policies, procedures, documentation,
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  Speaker 1: facility conditions, and compliance with state requirements. BTU and Texas
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  Speaker 1: New Mexico Power are proposing a three hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: five kilovolt transmission line. The line would stretch approximately forty
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  Speaker 1: miles from an existing switching station in Robertson County to
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  Speaker 1: the planned BTU substation at the Rellis Campus. The exact
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  Speaker 1: route of the line has not yet been determined. Landowners
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  Speaker 1: and community members will have opportunities to provide input at
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  Speaker 1: three public meetings. The first meeting will be held tonight
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  Speaker 1: in Franklin from five until seven at the Pridge And
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  Speaker 1: Community Center. On Wednesday and Thursday nights, there will be
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  Speaker 1: meetings at the Brasss County Expo Center five until seven,
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  Speaker 1: both nights. City of College Station Mayor pro Tim William
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  Speaker 1: Wright has announced he will not seek reelection for city
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  Speaker 1: council place two. Wright says he made the decision in
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  Speaker 1: order to allow him to spend more time with his family.
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  Speaker 1: Chandler Arden is the only candidate who has filed his
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  Speaker 1: paperwork for the position. A Texas based trucking company plans
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  Speaker 1: to put more self driving big rigs on the road.
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  Speaker 1: Aurora Innovation Terminals in Dallas and ford Worth currently has
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  Speaker 1: twenty five trucks operating on I thirty five, I forty
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  Speaker 1: five and parts of Interstate twenty. The company's quarterly financial
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  Speaker 1: show they have one point two billion dollars in cash.
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  Speaker 1: Aurora plans to use that money to invest in more
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  Speaker 1: triverless eighteen wheelers, and they hope to have more than
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  Speaker 1: two hundred in their fleet by the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott has directed the PUC and URCAT to audit
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  Speaker 1: data centers before they are hooked up to the grid.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Metzer, director of Environment Texas, wants the governor to
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  Speaker 1: call a special session before the legislature convenes in January
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  Speaker 1: because he fears that audit may take too long.
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  Speaker 2: How rapidly you know, the data centers are moving forward,
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  Speaker 2: just mind bogglingly high levels of the energy of demand
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  Speaker 2: and water demand. We just can't afford to let them
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  Speaker 2: move forward without putting some shafeguard and guardrail into place.
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  Speaker 1: He notes that only seventeen percent of these centers responded
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  Speaker 1: to the Water Development Boards twenty twenty five Annual Water
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  Speaker 1: I'm will Welch sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: Good morning. We are the info maniacs.
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  Speaker 1: Man, We've got it right.
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  Speaker 3: We got it from the city. Brian James Edge, Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 3: Also got Joey Dunn over there in the corner. Morning sir.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to have a little discussion this morning, wow,
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  Speaker 3: because frankly, I always love a good Internet argument, some
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  Speaker 3: of which you read them and you think to yourself, well,
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  Speaker 3: that's obvious that this is going to turn into a
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  Speaker 3: big deal. Some thing's a little bit surprised they turn
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  Speaker 3: into what they turn into. And that is why we
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  Speaker 3: wanted to have you guys in to talk about the
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  Speaker 3: hib situation, What is the story there the overall what
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  Speaker 3: are we looking at in reality from the city of Brian.
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I just want to say that
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  Speaker 5: I think just the fact that this story exists demonstrates
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  Speaker 5: that Brian loves its agbe absolutely true.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not just government you know, speak right there.
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  Speaker 1: That is a fact, but it is.
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  Speaker 3: A brand that the people are passionate about.
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  Speaker 5: The public response to this has demonstrated that. Now that
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  Speaker 5: is actually in my single member district or the property
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  Speaker 5: that we're discussing. Yes, so I've had this conversation with
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  Speaker 5: a lot of folks in my neighborhoods now for a
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  Speaker 5: couple of years. So it is something people are excited about,
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  Speaker 5: and to be honest with you, I'm excited about it.
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  Speaker 5: The development along the east side of Brian has been significant,
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  Speaker 5: and we know that that's going to continue to take
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  Speaker 5: place all up and down that eleven seventy nine corridor
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  Speaker 5: up and down Boonville Road. That entire area on the
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  Speaker 5: east side is growing and there's a demand for retail
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  Speaker 5: that is going to have to be met and the
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  Speaker 5: people that are demanding that. So this project will serve
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  Speaker 5: to to at least serve some of that demand.
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  Speaker 3: So now, what is this project in general, because I
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  Speaker 3: think the big thing is that it's is it or
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  Speaker 3: isn't it? Because there's a well are they coming or
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  Speaker 3: are they not coming? What is the project? What is
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  Speaker 3: the partnership that exists right now?
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  Speaker 5: There is the city bron has a three eighty agreement
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  Speaker 5: with a developer it is Boonville Center LLC, and Boonville
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  Speaker 5: Center LLC is working with an additional developer. They on
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  Speaker 5: three tracts of land that in that area that is
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  Speaker 5: effectively on Boonville Road, just to the south of the
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  Speaker 5: Briarcrest intersection, right sort of across from where the Mermont
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  Speaker 5: Drive or Meremont Bulevard is. That is like I say,
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  Speaker 5: three tracks. There's a thirteen point three acre track that
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  Speaker 5: is owned by HIB that they purchased I want to say,
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  Speaker 5: about two years ago, and it is slated for an
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  Speaker 5: upscale grocery retailer. So we know that HIB purchased the property,
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  Speaker 5: they own the property and it is going to be
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  Speaker 5: used for an upscale retailer. There are additional retail properties
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  Speaker 5: adjacent to that that are separate from that, but they
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  Speaker 5: are part of this overall development.
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  Speaker 3: Because when you're putting together an organization like a project
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  Speaker 3: like this, everyone's going to have a piece of it.
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  Speaker 3: AGB has their piece, Retail is going to have their piece.
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  Speaker 3: If you happen to have residential associated with these, as
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  Speaker 3: some of them do, you will have that piece. And
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  Speaker 3: then there's the City of Brian, right correct, and the
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  Speaker 3: organization is coordinating all those pieces would be.
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  Speaker 1: The boom Billson. So James am I correct in this
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  Speaker 1: that this is essentially standard operating procedure. This sort of
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  Speaker 1: thing has existed and will continue to exist, not just
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  Speaker 1: in the City of Brian, but in any municipality. Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: As a matter of fact, the project just to the
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  Speaker 5: west of that, the Target Center that is at the
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  Speaker 5: corner of Bridcrest and the bypass right, it went through
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  Speaker 5: a very similar situation wherein you had a developer that
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  Speaker 5: had an agreement that Target was proposed, but it was not.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we didn't sign a contract with Target to
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  Speaker 5: get Target there. Similarly, on the west side you had
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  Speaker 5: the Walmart shopping center over there I guess at twenty
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  Speaker 5: at eighteen and Villa Maria. Very very similar situation there.
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  Speaker 5: So we don't have a specific contract with hib but
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  Speaker 5: we do know that ChB is interested in that property
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  Speaker 5: sufficient that they purchased it.
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  Speaker 1: So a developer will come along and it is their
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  Speaker 1: responsibility to get somebody in. That's like an anchor location
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  Speaker 1: is what you would call something like that. And the
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  Speaker 1: city does not necessarily have any contact with any individual
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  Speaker 1: entity within that development. They con they have a contact
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  Speaker 1: with the developer, and that developer is responsible for bringing
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  Speaker 1: these other businesses in. You have types like we want
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  Speaker 1: an anchor, upscale grocery store. In this case HB, much
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  Speaker 1: like any other a lot of other businesses that are
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  Speaker 1: also into real estate on the side will purchase tracks,
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  Speaker 1: may or may not use those tracks, may sell them
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  Speaker 1: eventually to something else. Am I correct in all of that?
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  Speaker 5: That is correct, And as a matter of fact, there
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  Speaker 5: is residential component to this. Just to the south of
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  Speaker 5: this property, there is a residential component which would include
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  Speaker 5: I think some multi family properties. When this story came out,
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  Speaker 5: there's been a lot of confusion, I think because I
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  Speaker 5: think some signage was recently put up, and I think
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  Speaker 5: the signage was put up because they've done some road
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  Speaker 5: construction over there wherein they pulled the signage down, they
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  Speaker 5: put it back up, and I think people misunderstood that
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  Speaker 5: that meant that the property was there, something was changing hands.
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  Speaker 3: And also I can see misunderstanding the idea to what
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  Speaker 3: will set of just how a development like that works.
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  Speaker 3: You think an hb's coming, Well, that means the only
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  Speaker 3: person that's doing anything in regards to the build as AGIB,
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  Speaker 3: which is sometimes true if they have every part of it,
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  Speaker 3: but frequently it's, as you said, not the case, they're one.
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  Speaker 4: Part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I'll put it like this, and again I think
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  Speaker 3: you did an excellent job of explaining it. This sounds
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  Speaker 3: exceptionally boring to me. Why is this a story? What happened?
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  Speaker 3: Why did this turn.
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  Speaker 4: Into such a big thing over the weekend?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think it has to do. Like I say,
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  Speaker 5: there's some just some misunderstandings. I think there was a
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  Speaker 5: specific reference to the fact that HB did not own
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  Speaker 5: that property and that they have never owned that property.
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  Speaker 5: I think that was referenced by some source early on
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  Speaker 5: in this, and I know that when it came to
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  Speaker 5: my attention, I knew that that was not the case,
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  Speaker 5: and I wanted to try to try to clear that
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  Speaker 5: up a little bit, right, And so I think we've
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  Speaker 5: done that. Uh, you know, we don't.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have a specific timeline.
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  Speaker 5: UH. You know one of the things you mentioned, we
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  Speaker 5: have been in touch with agib Our city staff.
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  Speaker 1: As a result of this. We we have had.
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  Speaker 5: Some conversations with representatives from agib and UH. I think
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  Speaker 5: they referenced that in one of the city the communicates,
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  Speaker 5: I guess, and it was basically, nothing has changed from
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  Speaker 5: the perspective of agib Nothing has changed from the perspective
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  Speaker 5: of the city.
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  Speaker 3: UH.
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  Speaker 5: With the three eight agreement that we had with the developer,
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  Speaker 5: we we have completed most of those projects right now.
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  Speaker 5: We're also doing a signaling at the corner of Green
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  Speaker 5: Valley Drive and Briarcrest, as well as Miremont Boulevard and
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  Speaker 5: Booneville Road. Those are all part of both this development
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  Speaker 5: but also part of an overall UH improvement along that
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  Speaker 5: east side core.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get a base explanation of what a three
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  Speaker 1: eighty agreement is and what it kind of looks like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, three eighty agreement is effectively, and I might defer
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  Speaker 5: to the good doctor here, it basically is an economic
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  Speaker 5: agreement where we are agreeing to provide some service to
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  Speaker 5: a developer in return for something that they're going to
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  Speaker 5: be doing, and they've done, for instance, they've installed some
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  Speaker 5: deceleration lanes along that Booneville.
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  Speaker 1: Road area right at their cost.
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  Speaker 5: And we're also doing some things that are water related,
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  Speaker 5: that are drainage related to help that property in the
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  Speaker 5: process of its development.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a possibility that the like one of the
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  Speaker 3: other things is again, you have that one sector of
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  Speaker 3: town which is obviously going to get developed. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: good lord, the last ten years of where it was,
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  Speaker 3: where it's blowing up out, there is some of the
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  Speaker 3: confusion that like, and I can see it's from AGB
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  Speaker 3: standpoint too. Could they put the HB in a different
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  Speaker 3: plot on Boonville because I know they have a fee
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  Speaker 3: if I'm correct, if I have a couple of locations,
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  Speaker 3: that could drop one.
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  Speaker 5: Well, as far as I'm my understanding is ATV only
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  Speaker 5: owns one piece of property in Brass County.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the one that piece of Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 5: As I understand it, they don't own any other property here.
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  Speaker 5: You know, they are obviously a growing company. I was
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  Speaker 5: in the metroplexus last week.
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  Speaker 4: Oh lord, yeah, they are.
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  Speaker 5: They have entered that market, so they've got a lot
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  Speaker 5: of things on their plate, and we are a piece
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  Speaker 5: of that puzzle. Unfortunately, sometimes you have to be patient,
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  Speaker 5: you have to you have to wait your turn. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm confident that at some point we're going to have
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  Speaker 5: a little bit different conversation related to this.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's interesting and i think everyone that
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  Speaker 3: lives out there is again excited. Yes, the prospect of
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  Speaker 3: a couple of minutes drive as opposed to going all
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  Speaker 3: the way across town. But also, you know, these are
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  Speaker 3: years projects that are in the years. You're not going
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  Speaker 3: to pop this thing up in thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, that's one of one of the most frustrating things
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  Speaker 5: about involved in government in general is the fact that
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  Speaker 5: these things don't happen with the you know, the snap
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  Speaker 5: of a finger. These things take some time, they take
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  Speaker 5: some time to put together, and then just a construction
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  Speaker 5: process is significant, so extreme, and we can see that
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  Speaker 5: right along the road here as we're looking out the
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  Speaker 5: window at a highway six. You know, it's hard to imagine,
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  Speaker 5: but about the time my driving days are over with,
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  Speaker 5: we're going to finish this podcast.
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  Speaker 4: No, the answer is no, it will still be going on.
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  Speaker 1: You're probably right, guys.
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  Speaker 4: Thank y'all. So much for coming in.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly, we really appreciate it, and we love taking the
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  Speaker 3: opportunity to just get the details of the project out
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  Speaker 3: there so that people can understand what's going on outside
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  Speaker 3: of the noise.
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  Speaker 5: Well, we appreciate the opportunity to come on, and anytime
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  Speaker 5: you have any questions you're you know, one of us
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  Speaker 5: is certainly willing to come on and straighten anything up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I know y'all are if you've missed any of this,
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  Speaker 3: if you just jumped in halfway and you want to
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  Speaker 3: catch up, this will be online shortly at w t
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  Speaker 3: AW dot com back at sixteen twenty ninety four to
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  Speaker 4: We are the infomaniacs. Glad you're here.
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  Speaker 3: Nine sevent nine sixty nine five sixteen twenty is our
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  Speaker 3: phone number and our text number Will is multitask man.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you what the amount of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: we can do while still while fing you a great
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  Speaker 1: interview with city leaders, while entertaining you is is amazing.
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  Speaker 4: What is what is going on?
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  Speaker 3: Because you've been on like there's the phone to your
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  Speaker 3: ear and then I'll because you do the talk to
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  Speaker 3: text thing and I'll hear like, I what is what
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  Speaker 3: has happening.
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  Speaker 1: So apparently somebody who is supposed to be at work
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  Speaker 1: in my household this morning overslept and as per as
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  Speaker 1: per usual, nobody answers a telephone in my house. I've
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  Speaker 1: had to remove my wife from the in case of
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  Speaker 1: emergency call list. What Yeah, I had to get a
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  Speaker 1: friend and we both agree because we're both in the
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  Speaker 1: same circumstance that our wives will not answer their phones
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  Speaker 1: and therefore they cannot serve in the ice the in
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  Speaker 1: case of emergency function. So we now, why is this?
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  Speaker 4: Why is this universal? My wife is also I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't ever answer.
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  Speaker 1: It, but if you need me to step up and
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  Speaker 1: be your ice contact, I will do it. Tucker, I always.
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  Speaker 3: Answered that if I, yeah, I'm not that concerned, will
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  Speaker 3: in case of emergency?
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  Speaker 4: They'll find out when they find out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm much more strung, a lot tighter than that. I
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  Speaker 1: guess so.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because I think I might have some solutions for you,
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  Speaker 3: because I've been in these situations that you're in right now.
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  Speaker 4: So continue. Where are we at in this well?
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  Speaker 1: Where we're at is I had? And I you know
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  Speaker 1: I'm a problem solver. I don't I enjoyed the the
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  Speaker 1: you know the art of problems, the logistical. Yeah, after
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  Speaker 1: after calling each of the people that are asleep at
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  Speaker 1: my home or that were asleep until a few moments ago,
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  Speaker 1: I would call. Probably I put in at least four
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  Speaker 1: to each of their phones. Nobody answering. So I thought
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  Speaker 1: to myself, you know what I've got. I've got a
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  Speaker 1: neighbor who is an avid walker. Oh nice, and she
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  Speaker 1: walks every morning of this time. So I texted her
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  Speaker 1: and I said, Tracy, are you out walking? And if
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  Speaker 1: you're near my house, can you go ring the doorbell
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  Speaker 1: until somebody answers? Oh lord? And she said, mission accomplished.
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  Speaker 1: Did it worked? It worked. That's not bad, dude, No,
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  Speaker 1: not bad at all. That's not bad.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say, my backup solution has been
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  Speaker 3: and I haven't had to use this yet, but I
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  Speaker 3: got an Alexa specifically so I can override it and
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  Speaker 3: use the speaker on the Alexa to wake rain up. Well,
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  Speaker 3: that is my in case of emergency is log in.
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  Speaker 3: I also have the ability to log in and fire
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  Speaker 3: off the smoke detector if that doesn't work. So those
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  Speaker 3: are the logistically, I.
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  Speaker 6: Think they're detector that would anybody.
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  Speaker 1: That's my that is my my wife, because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: certain that that would do the trick.
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  Speaker 3: That's my atomic strategy right there.
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  Speaker 4: That is the button. That'sular. It's if it's that important,
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  Speaker 4: I can jump in.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's I think that's truly amazing, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm impressed with that. Here's my problem. I will never
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  Speaker 1: have an Alexa and I will never have a home
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  Speaker 1: that is connected to the internet, to the outside world.
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  Speaker 7: Zero.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: You're never letting letting that not that evil in my house.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I don't like to speak.
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: I can get behind the technology with the smoke detective thing, though,
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: because I've okay, I've slept through a Category five hurricane.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: I can sleep through almost anything in this world, but
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: a smoke detector alarm. En elf, someone had their phone
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: connected and that's what you needed to wake me up.
• 17:37
  Speaker 8: It give me up.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: I'm see, I I don't. I sleep like the dead.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: But when it's time to get up for whatever reason,
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: it's like one alarm and I'm I'm I don't know
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: if it's just been seared into my brain.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think so. I think so, because if we're late, everybody.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Knows it's a whole thing.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: But but yeah, I don't know any other creative solutions
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: you guys have, of of of.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: Getting of waking up your wife or.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: Getting the phone.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Is this a me and will problem?
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Or is this something that I think?
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Are there any wives out.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: There that have to have creative solutions to wake up
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: their husbands? Is that?
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: Does it work? On the opposite side to do you
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: have to have.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Some way And you're talking about betting them out of bed,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: you're talking about just getting out of bed. I just
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: want somebody to answer the dang phone. Answer the phone,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: to answer the phone.
• 18:32
  Speaker 6: Three people and all three no one.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Aw Nobody answers the phone. They turn their ringers off,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: then they lose their phone, then they can't find their.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: Phone, and I have to ask because again I get
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: no one wants your phone to make noise. It's obnoxious,
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: But dude, the.
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: Point of it is to be reached a ring and
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: then when it rings, I pick it up, or.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: You at least look at it and decide whether or
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: not you want to.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Drop the hammer on it.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: And but like, I can't do that if it's actually
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: making noises.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: That hurts my feelings because I sometimes feel like they're
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: they're screening the call and I didn't make the cut, right?
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: Do you know that they're not doing that.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I know that they're not doing that because the fury
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: that I have unleashed when I'm trying to get a
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: hold of somebody and nobody will answer the phone. I
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: literally So my wife has a coworker who's like her,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: her work sister, right right right, and that person answers
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the phone when people call. She's normal, r she's so typically.
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: He's got a responsibility safety that she's Typically.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: When I'm trying to reach my wife and it's after
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: hours and they're still up there, Gabin, I will be
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: able to reach her work wife before I can reach her.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: And when I get to that point, I'm already frustrated
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: and a little furious, fuming.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: If you will, You're doing an.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Excellent John, Thank you. I just trying to survive back
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: after this. Guys, Good morning from the wta W new
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: news room. I'm Will Welch. BTU and Texas New Mexico
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Power are proposing a three hundred and forty five kilovolt
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: transmission line. The line would stretch approximately forty miles from
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: an existing switching station in Robertson County to the planned
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: BTU substation at the Rellis Campus. The exact route of
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the line has not yet been determined. Landowners and community
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: members will have opportunities to provide input at three public meetings.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: The first meeting will be held tonight in Franklin from
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: five until seven at the pridge In Community Center. On
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Wednesday and Thursday nights, there will be meetings at the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Brass County Expo Center five until seven, both nights. New
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: polling in the race for Texas Senate is not looking
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: good for Ken Paxton.
• 20:43
  Speaker 9: There's been a number of polls showing the Democrat James
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: Telrico neck and neck or leading Republican Ken Paxton. They've
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: been criticized as partisan, but now there's a Fox News
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: poll showing tall Rico up fifty one to forty eight percent.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Paxson doing very poorly among women, very poorly among people,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: and thirty years old.
• 21:01
  Speaker 9: In Texas GOP consultant Vinie Michello says the pulling indicates
• 21:04
  Speaker 9: the so called independence are breaking towards the Democrat. He
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: says there's not a path for Paxton to win them over,
• 21:11
  Speaker 9: so he needs to focus on getting as many Republicans
• 21:13
  Speaker 9: to the ballot box as possible in San Antonio. Michael
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: Boord TSN News.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: The Brass County Sheriff's Office announced the results of a
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: recent inspection of the Brass County Detention Center by the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Texas Commission on Jail Standards. A press release from Sheriff
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Wayne Dickey says the jail remains in full compliance with
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the Texas Minimum Jail Standards. The inspection evaluates various areas
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: of jail operations, including policies, procedures, documentation, facility conditions, and
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: compliance with state requirements. The City of College Station is
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: asking for your input on the future of the Harvey
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Road District. The city is developing the Harvey District Plan
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to guide future improvements within the area. They want to
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: know how you use the area today, challenges you experience
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: improved that would matter most, and how you'd like to
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: see the corridor evolve. The Harvey District planning area covers
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Harvey Road from Texas Avenue to State Highway six, with
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: various areas between Dominic Drive and Holloman Drive. A public
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: workshop on the project will take place at the Meyer
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Senior Senator tomorrow night from six to eight. Visit WTAW
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: dot com for more information on the survey. City of
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: College Station Mayor pro Tim william Wright confirmed that he
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: will not be seeking re election in November. He says
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: he made the decision in order to allow him to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: spend more time with his family. This means city council
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: place two is up for grabs. Only one candidate, Chandler Arden,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: has announced his intention to run. Still just two names
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: on the ballot for mayor, current Councilman Bob Yancy and
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: former Councilwoman Elizabeth Kuonha. Former state Senator Don Huffines has
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: been sworn in as the state's new comptroller. Call it
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a ninety day trial period. Governor Abbott appointed humph Fines
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: late last month, and in November vote will decide if
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: he gets to keep the job. Huffine says he works
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: for the people and not for the government.
• 23:06
  Speaker 7: As my first official act as Comptroller, I will formally
• 23:10
  Speaker 7: decline any salary or benefits associated with this office because
• 23:15
  Speaker 7: you see, I did not come here for a paycheck.
• 23:17
  Speaker 7: I'm here because of my love for Texas.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Huffine says he intends to focus on local government spending.
• 23:24
  Speaker 7: Texans deserve transparency, they deserve accountability and confidence that every
• 23:30
  Speaker 7: public dollar is being used responsibly.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: He will face Democrats Sarah Edgards in November. Texas will
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: soon have more driverless eighteen wheelers on the road. Aurora
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Innovation currently has twenty five trucks operating on I thirty
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: five I forty five in parts of Interstate twenty. The
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: company released their quarterly financials showing they have one point
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: two billion dollars cash. CEO Chris Earmson says much of
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that will be spent on the new generation trucks.
• 23:58
  Speaker 9: Simolestone A stage moves Aurora into the start of our
• 24:01
  Speaker 9: commercial scaling phase.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Back.
• 24:03
  Speaker 9: By this momentum, we are fully allocated to exit the
• 24:06
  Speaker 9: year with two hundred travelist trucks in operation.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Aurora currently has truck terminals in Dallas and ford Worth.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott is trying to slow down the process of
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: taxes bringing more data centers onto the state's power grid.
• 24:19
  Speaker 10: Governor Abbit directed the Public Utility Commission and Ercott to
• 24:22
  Speaker 10: conduct audits on all two thousand data center applications currently
• 24:27
  Speaker 10: in the systems and effort to make sure that they're
• 24:29
  Speaker 10: all fully up on the latest requirements called for by
• 24:32
  Speaker 10: Governor Abbit.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Any AI data center even thinking about coming here. They've
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: got to.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Bring their own money, bring their own power. We use
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: to own water, and do it in a way that
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: reduces the costs of electricity for residents across our state.
• 24:46
  Speaker 10: This comes after Urcott's pent months developing a new system
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: of quickly approving large groups of data center applications called
• 24:53
  Speaker 10: Batch zero habbits. People are now telling me this new
• 24:56
  Speaker 10: order puts Batch zero on hold. In Austin, Horris Fox
• 25:01
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• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I'm will welch sixteen twenty ninety four five WTA w.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTA do w oh yeah,
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: just getting down to the pits of of you know,
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: a nice fifty degree high for today and then down
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: to almost freezing tonight, and.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Have you suddenly gone delusional?
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: I was waiting to see if anyone was actually paying
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: attention when I'd read these, and I'm not saying you should.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: I think it's cool because it's August.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: It's cruel for you to say things like.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred degrees today. It is somewhere somewhere where
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: where's that?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Where do I get it's sixty degrees? Somewhere.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, weather, It's brought to you by Malix Service Company.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: The text heat air conditioner works over time at a
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: well tuned day, sealed, save you money and keep you comfortable.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Turn to the experts at MALC and carry to keep
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: your AC running properly. Malick, feel the difference. You hurt
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: him because he's here. Glenn Glynn, Glenn, Chamber of Commerce.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: What's something.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: It's been a minute, Glenn, welcome back.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: It's it's it's cool in the Chamber of Commerce buildings,
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: so you can come by and see us and cool off.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: Coach a little bit of that AC.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well you got your conditioning? Do you?
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: See my again?
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: One of the things my dad will tell me about
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: because I was too young for this. There was a
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: time air conditioning was.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: A real draw.
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: You would have a whole business based on whether or
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: not you had AC during the summer.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: It was on your vehicle. If you didn't have it,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: you had the two sixty air conditioner. Back then, it
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: was the two seventy seventy five air conditions.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: The old movie theaters they still have. You'll see air condition.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, ice cold AC and and that was the thing
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: is like, well you know, I might not want to
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: see this movie, but I sure like to avoid sweating
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: for five minutes. And and that's yeah, that was a
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: thing back in the day. Thank god that's changed.
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, well because only because there's air conditioning everywhere.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: But never take it for granted.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Not everywhere. I want to have a Pacific North, we
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: take it for granted. I didn't have a lot.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: We're in Texas, so that's one way that we enjoy
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: living here. I'll tell you what, guys, if you got
• 27:14
  Speaker 8: a second, I got something I would love to share
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: with you.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, we'll take that.
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: And it's a pretty cool thing. I think we talked
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: about it last week. But our Economic Outlook Briefing is
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: finally here around the corner on the nineteenth. If anyone
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: out there listening has not got their tickets to it's
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: our biggest Chamber luncheon of the year. We'll have around
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: five hundred people there at the Hilton College station and
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: it's it's a great luncheon because we're halfway through the year.
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: We have our Economic Outlook Conference in the beginning of
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: the year. Well why are we doing? What's happening? So
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: we got Tom Johnson coming in from the Greater Brass Partnership.
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: He's going to share some local economic numbers for us,
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: maybe even tell us a few of the latest things
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: on Tera Fab. And then we're very fortunate to have
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: former Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, former
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Congressman Kevin Brady.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Is that's right, you know, that's right, Very cool to
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: see Kevin out.
• 28:08
  Speaker 8: A great speaker, and he'll have great information for us.
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: And so that's eleven thirty to one on the nineteenth.
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: That's a Wednesday, sixty dollars per a ticket. Tables are available,
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: could possibly sell out. I think it did last year.
• 28:21
  Speaker 8: So don't dawdle, as we say, call the Chamber and
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: get your tickets to the Economic Outlok briefing. Next Business
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: after Hours August the twenty seventh, that's going to be
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: Parket Traditions by thirty to seven. As always, people love
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: Parket Traditions. They do a great job on the Business
• 28:38
  Speaker 8: after Hours. And then you guys teach things to everybody.
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: You should do your own infomaniac lunch and learn. We're
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: gonna have a lunch and learn on August the thirty first.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: If you want to book us for a lunch and learn.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: We've been talking about taking the show on the road.
• 28:52
  Speaker 8: Start.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: We would be happy to provide the contents.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: The list of what that y'all cover would be a
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: page as long.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: What No, here's what I can expect. There would be
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: no itinerary, there would be no outline. We just bed no.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: I could do, I could do an hour, and we
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: could even frame it in terms of a lunch and learn.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: Here's that, here's the topic. Fake it till you make
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: it exactly. Tend like you're interesting long enough, and maybe
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: maybe you can dupe some people.
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Into thinking that this.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, don't beside skill. Don't try this at home, kids.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: We've practiced this for a long time. Its real. Otherwise
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: you can get on stage and need to go blank.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: We can just be mindless information Brown.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: You don't know what this takes out of us every take.
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: I can tell you, as I've told many people, it's
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: not a bad gig. If you can talk for a living, yeah,
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: it's better.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: It is if you can, If you can yap. There
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: is air conditioning and there.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: That's why they call it. They call it the gift
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: of gat. That's right, right, It's not the curse of get.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: It's a blessing.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: We actually could even do a show if we did
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: it in the morning. This one, though, is understanding senior
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: living options and it's going to be It's always free
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: to attend it to Hudson Oaks on the thirty first,
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: but you're going to need to call and make a
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: reservation for that lunch and learn. Save the date for
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: golf and lobster that's in September. The golf teams always
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: sell out, so once again, don't wait around for that. Then.
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: I always say we would be the chamber if we
• 30:17
  Speaker 8: didn't have ribbon cuttings. We've got one Thursday, Express Oil
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: Change Entire Entire Engineers that's in Brian eleven thirty to
• 30:25
  Speaker 8: twelve on Harvey Mitchell Parkway, Old College Station and then
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: on Deluxe Ribbon Cutting two point oh salon Boutique on
• 30:32
  Speaker 8: Friday this Friday, four thirty to five thirty on long
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: Mire Drive. Platinum member Spotlight is Texas and University Club.
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: We sure appreciate what they do through the Chamber. We
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: really appreciate what the infomaniax WTAW does for the Chamber
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: all day in day out. Truth sharing the information is
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: important and the interviews that we're doing today are very
• 30:54
  Speaker 8: very good, and I can tell you that as a citizen,
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: we appreciate it.
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Well, feel free to book us for a lunch and
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: learn because I've told it comes with lunch and that's all.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: That's the only thing you gotta do.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you feed us, Yeah, you feed us.
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: We will. We'll learn something.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: You built buffet, learn something. I don't know what it is.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: You'll learn something hotelling you build a buffet though, Tucker
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: will be there.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: It'll be there with bells on BCS Chamber dot Org
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: is the website.
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Glynn, Thank you so much.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Thanks you guys, sixteen twenty nine for five WTA double.
• 31:23
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• 31:27
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• 31:51
  Speaker 4: Uh did you did you see this.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Giveaway that Zach Brown did. I've got the audio, so
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: I want to play this. This is from his concerts.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I assumed the last couple of nights I have.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Well, So he sold out Finway Park like eight or ten.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: I mean just did a straight run of sellouts.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Part because Zach Brown can do that, he'd like he's
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: got he's got up. He's one of those bands that
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: has a fan base that will follow him around. Yeah,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: and just go to ten shows in a row. So
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: here's how he surprised everyone on the show on Sunday nights. Tonight,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: We're gonna do something that even Jimmy would say is crazy.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: I'm buying every single person here a cruise for two
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: people on the boat.
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: He's serious.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: Every single person here gets a cruise for themselves and
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: a loved one to go on the boat.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: This is the biggest giveaway in history.
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: Ladies and gentlemen here tonight at Fayway Park. Make sure
• 32:51
  Speaker 8: he gets a ticket and you hit the code and
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: we'll see you out.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: On the water for sure.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: This is crazy.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Oh boy gave away a cruise to every single person
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: at the concert with the new Margharitaville Cruise.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Line a cruise for two, So this is thirty seven thousand.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Is this his wife's money because he's married to a billionaire? Now,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: Like people at that slide on the radar, guys were like.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: Oh, Travis Mary Taylor Swift, you know she's a billionaire.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Kendrick Scott's a billionaire too, don't Yeah, do it fairly well?
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: The same billions.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's doing really well. I don't think I don't
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: think that they use any personal money for this because
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: this is a new cruise ship and really they're trying
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: to it's called the Beachcomber by the way, the Margaritaville
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: at Sea is trying to promote themselves. So essentially what
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: they gave away was a value of about forty million dollars.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Forty million you look at a at a national advertising campaign, though,
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  Speaker 1: that's easily reachable. You can get that kind of number
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  Speaker 1: out of a good, average tizing nationwide campaign. So what
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  Speaker 1: they did was instead of putting that into traditional advertising,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: they're doing this stunt and.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's gonna get it done.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I now have interest in perhaps a Margaritaville at Sea
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Beachcomber cruise.
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  Speaker 3: Your Margaritaville because it's it's a tedious time now that
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Jimmy is gone. Tough, Yeah, tough to make because he
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: was Mark. He's the guy, he's the brand. How do
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: you keep people remembering to go to your restaurants, go
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: to your resorts, getting your boats. If Jimmy isn't there
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: to tell them, you got to find a way to
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: keep the parrot heads interested.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's got to be a next thing good night,
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  Speaker 1: like you know other bands have done. They you know,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: go to the next thing. But this is big, I
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: mean huge, forty million dollars forty a get I mean
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Oprah used to give away some stuff, but not like this.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Not Oprah's studio was a lot smaller than Finway Park.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, just saying.
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  Speaker 3: I was watching, uh this, this interviewer reading this interview
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  Speaker 3: with Did either of you guys see the Ed Green
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  Speaker 3: Show on Netflix? I know you you didn't. Riley is
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: a true crime like super fan? How did you not
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  Speaker 3: see the Ed Green Show?
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  Speaker 6: So I've been reading a lot here recently.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, you know that's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: She was at home, Dad had the remote. She couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do that. I know exactly what it was.
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  Speaker 4: I was not arguing it.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Was not speculation. I know what that would be at
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  Speaker 1: my house.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Charlie Hunting played ed Gano. Do you know who ed
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Geen is?
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  Speaker 4: I'm familiar is the serial killer kind of serial killer.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: He's the guy that inspired Silence of the Lamb Psycho
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: like all these other movies. They did a whole season
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: of the Netflix show about him. Charlie Huntum played him,
• 35:49
  Speaker 3: and they asked him, Charlie, how do you how do
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: you deal with that in post?
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Because it's very it's very method.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: He he really tried to become what he believed ed
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Geen was, his goofy boys, his weird just kind of
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: general oddness. He said, Yeah, it took a while for
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: me to decompress. He decompressed by adopting two kittens. Ladies
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: and gentlemen, you're back on the day And it was
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: the kittens that brought him back from the dark place
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: of having to portray a serial killer to an audience
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: of millions.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: Scout him right.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder what he did after having to
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: play Jax Teller on Sons of Anarchy.
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  Speaker 4: He adopted more kittens.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Hi, does this guy have a dozen kittens? Because we
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: all know that's the barrier. If you've got a dozen
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: cats in your house, you've hit the limit.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Kitten decompression is a real thing.
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Again thinking side gigs, I believe that if the subscription
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: service for kitten footage, which by the way, you can
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: find just find me on Instagram. Currently, Hey, it's freedo
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: and you can see a sample sample of what you're.
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Why you crinkling your nose?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Wait till I wait till I show you the baby goats.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like goats.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: You'd like these goats and diapers trotting around the floor?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: Going to do we combine our forces? I gotta come
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: back to this. You get the goats, I'm gonna get
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: the kittens. And then what we do is people book
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: a session where they show up like they would for
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: a massage or spa service, and then I dump a
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: box of kittens on.
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  Speaker 6: Them, or just do kitten and goat yoga.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Kitten and goat yoga, Yes, that's what I'm saying. Will
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: people goat yoga? I do box of kittens therapy? Everyone wins.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a brilliant idea to me.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: Why would we not be doing something like that? And again,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: best part of this that. Wow, you really don't like
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: go Why.
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: Don't you like goats?
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: How can you not like a baby goat yard and
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: farm of goats? Yeah, and I just don't like I
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: thought that.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Would make I would think, Yeah, dudes, don't. They're tipped inside.
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  Speaker 4: Also their house goats, these are baby gat.
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  Speaker 6: Goats are not meant to be inside.
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: These have to be.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, these particular goats have to be inside because they
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: all had issues in their in their birthing processes. One
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: of them is called wobbles because it's it had some issues.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: So you are correct, little ghosts? Do you turned into
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: big goats?
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: The thing about goats is when I I okay, so
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: I have like a sab story. When I was little,
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: they were little goats are being born, and there was
• 38:23
  Speaker 6: a twin pair of goats. Well, my brother has a
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: little male goat. I had a little female goat. My
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: goat fell on a hole head first. That's a calm thing,
• 38:30
  Speaker 6: and it died.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: It is Yeah, when goats are born, they typically tried
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: to die in every way.
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  Speaker 6: I don't like goats.
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: I feel like that wasn't Also a scene in Silence
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: of the Lambs.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we also.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: Do you still here? The goats. Do you still hear
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: the goat scream?
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  Speaker 6: No, but my neighbors had goats that would attack you
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: when you tried to be a good.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Old home defence goat man.
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: The keep going back to the greatest goat who's ever lived,
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: Black Philip in the movie The Witch.
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  Speaker 4: That's a bad goat. And and you know there are
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: there are more like him.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Riley, just always remember that no matter no matter
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: how much you don't care for the goat, it can
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: always end up as cabrito. And that's a good thing.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: That's that is that they they are.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: They are a delicious, delicious treat once.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: I don't think of Willingly eight goat or the eight goat.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. Stuff fell in a hole.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: It just fell in. They just and it didn't have
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: the sense to stand up.
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: I guess it got stuck. I don't know. We had
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: like goat dogs, like those big ones.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Oh you had the big shepherd dogs.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Had to try to keep them alive.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: It's you got to put them on life support for
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: the minute they're born.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: You Oh my goodness, absolutely absolutely yet though, but hey,
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: if you.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Didn't these didn't see them?
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: These are these? Are they?
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: Well? Cared for baby goats. These are as cute as
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: they will get. And again, my kittens are as as
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: they'll get. We only have about a month to strike
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: on this. It's after that they're just cats and goats.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: It's the tiger king thing. You're only interested in petting
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: the cubs, right exactly, And when they become adults, they
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: become a liability.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: That's the thing.
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: Like I think I could make money of dumping a
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: box of like kittens on you. I don't think i'd
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: make the same money of just dumping a box of cats.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I think that's a salt it is. I think that's
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: something that crazy people do. The kittens though that you know,
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: there might be a might be a buck in this.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: It's another vote for the goat though, because when the
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: when the cats grow up, they can.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: Take care of themselves themselves.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: You can't. You can't, you can't eat them, right, And
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: but when the goats grow up and they don't have
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: another purpose, you can, you can.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: Why are you trying to sell me on goats. I'm
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: already sungr, I'm already sold. You don't need to sell
• 40:47
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• 40:50
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