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Speaker 1: News is presented by Pioneer Steel in Pipe, your one
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Speaker 1: Good morning, I'm Will Welch. The Bryan City Council is
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Speaker 1: committed to the completion of the long delayed Midtown Park
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Speaker 1: Entertainment complex.
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Speaker 2: That facility, or the building itself is. I won't say
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Speaker 2: it's largely largely complete, but it is. It is much
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Speaker 2: more substantially completed than what it looks like from the outside.
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Speaker 1: Mayor pro Tim James Edge, visiting on our show, says
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Speaker 1: the original developer of the movie Bowling restaurant complex may
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Speaker 1: or may not be able to keep its agreement with
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Speaker 1: the city.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the Shilman family evidently has got some issues They've
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Speaker 2: got to sort out the city. Myself, I think the council,
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Speaker 2: the mayor, and the city we're all still committed to
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Speaker 2: the project, whether or not the Shilman family is involved
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Speaker 2: in it or not.
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Speaker 1: Edge says the developer has unrelated issues in Waco that
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Speaker 1: impacted the delay in completing the Midtown Park Complex, Texas
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Speaker 1: and in President Susan Baalabina's newest online message includes a
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Speaker 1: leadership update.
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Speaker 3: A search committee's been named to help select Aingam's next provost,
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Speaker 3: who's the university's chief academic officer. Another search committee's been
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Speaker 3: informed to help select the next Dean of the College
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Speaker 3: of Education. Johly First was the first day for the
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Speaker 3: interim dean at that college, who is the former dean
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Speaker 3: of the College of Veterinary Medicine, John August. Doctor Ballabina
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Speaker 3: also provided an update on her review of A and
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Speaker 3: m's Health Science Center. She has what she calls a
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Speaker 3: strategy and business services team that's targeting a completion date
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Speaker 3: of their work for August first. Bill Oliver sixteen twenty
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Speaker 3: ninety four to five wtaw.
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Speaker 1: Bertluson County's Health Resource Center is spending new state grant
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Speaker 1: money to add people to work with children who have
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Speaker 1: substance abuse and mental health issues.
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Speaker 4: Our navigators are going to educate families to help film
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Speaker 4: walk the best life they could possibly live.
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Speaker 1: Director Seawan Edwards says one of the biggest goals of
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Speaker 1: the additional staff is to help those with substance abuse
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Speaker 1: issues achieve recovery goals.
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Speaker 4: Individuals don't have support out there so then they oftentimes
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Speaker 4: just don't follow through with some of their care and treatment,
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Speaker 4: or even relapse.
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Speaker 1: The Burlison Health Resource Center received seven hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars from the Texas Opioid Abatement Council. The council,
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Speaker 1: which is funded by settlements with opioid manufacturers, also awarded
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Speaker 1: eight grants to the Texas A and M Health Science Center.
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Speaker 1: Six of the grants, totaling almost four million dollars, will
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Speaker 1: be spent by the Pharmacy College to support communities around
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Speaker 1: the state to address the opioid crisis. Saturday morning, the
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Speaker 1: Brass Valley Veterans Memorial is hosting an America to fifty
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Speaker 1: event at Veterans Park. The event was promoted on Our
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Speaker 1: show by the Vice president of the Memorial Board and
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Speaker 1: infomaniac alum, Tom Turbyville. He and Brian Broadcasting General Manager
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Speaker 1: Ben Downs will be reading the Declaration of Independence.
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Speaker 5: And it's color coded. I'll read the blue, of course
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Speaker 5: the gold.
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Speaker 1: The event starts Saturday morning at nine at the sight
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Speaker 1: of the American Revolution Memorial. The program also includes fifty
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Speaker 1: six local dignitaries participating in a ceremonial signing that recognizes
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Speaker 1: the fifty six who signed the Declaration of Independence. News
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Speaker 1: is presented by pioneers Steal and Pipe. More news at
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Speaker 1: eight thirty or anytime at WTAW dot com. I'm will
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Speaker 1: Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 6: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW Good morning everyone,
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Speaker 6: We're the infomaniacs. Glad you're here today, and calls for
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Speaker 6: sixteen twenty hot one Today, mid nineties, A slight, slight,
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Speaker 6: slight chance.
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Speaker 1: Of rain in the afternoon.
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Speaker 6: If we're lucky, you get maybe a ten percent chance,
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Speaker 6: and then down to the seventies tonight previous, the same
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Speaker 6: Malick feel the difference. Time to talk. Brases County County
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Speaker 6: Commissioner Chuck Conderla first time to see you in a minute.
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Speaker 7: Man, Hey, good morning, welcome back for you.
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Speaker 1: Though it's good to be back.
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Speaker 6: I would also like to uh it mentioned that that
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Speaker 6: is the best T shirt that I have seen in
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Speaker 6: quite some time, and I almost want to see if
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Speaker 6: we can put you in touch with Ben to see
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Speaker 6: if we can commission this.
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Speaker 1: Where what is?
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Speaker 6: How did you get that?
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Speaker 7: So I'm a regular listener and I was listening to
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Speaker 7: you guys talk about the arresting bear face the other
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Speaker 7: day and I thought, you know, that's hilarious because I
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Speaker 7: didn't mention Ben and Scott and Bill.
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Speaker 6: Also also very serious faces on this, I would say.
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Speaker 7: O g rbs. So uh, I thought, you know, I'm
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Speaker 7: gonna be on there pretty soon. It's going to be
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Speaker 7: Bill's last day because Bill had not announced yet. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: I thought I'm gonna make up a little T shirt
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Speaker 7: there and literally give the sheriff my back to Bill.
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Speaker 7: So that just six were working on my six pack,
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Speaker 7: the six spaces that I just did a little chat
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Speaker 7: GPT action and made them.
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Speaker 6: I am aware that this is a audio medium, but
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Speaker 6: don't worry, these pictures are going to be online.
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Speaker 7: I'm not gonna lie as giggling the whole time was
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Speaker 7: making it.
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Speaker 6: Well, let's talk county man. Uh, there's a lot going on.
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Speaker 6: What do you want to start with today?
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Speaker 7: Well, I think we'll hit a couple of things. The
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Speaker 7: administration building renovations, because this will concern people shortly, even
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Speaker 7: if you're aware. The building obviously was an old church. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: and standards for building an inspection was We're a little
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Speaker 7: different back when that was built. So now as we
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Speaker 7: tear into that thing, we're trying to make the north
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Speaker 7: wing spaces usable for county business as well as the
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Speaker 7: old sanctuary area. So there's a massive construction on that.
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Speaker 7: Then the envelope itself needs a lot of work. And
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Speaker 7: every time they move a wall, they are not every time.
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Speaker 7: A lot of the times they've moved the wall, they've
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Speaker 7: found more issues water damage, structural instability, things that an
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Speaker 7: old building surprised you with.
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Speaker 6: Maybe the bigger the old building, the more issues it
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Speaker 6: can have. I agree, that's the other thing. Yeah, they
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Speaker 6: just they just they just get worse and worse.
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Speaker 7: You know, cheaper than building a new one, for sure,
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Speaker 7: but definitely gonna cost a little more than what we
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Speaker 7: thought it would be.
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Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 7: But but they're you know, had we not been proactively
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Speaker 7: making these repairs, we'd be dealing with much bigger issues.
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Speaker 7: So when we're done, the building should be able to
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Speaker 7: serve the citizens of Brazes County for years to come.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 7: But I will say when the exterior work moves over
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Speaker 7: to Texas Avenue, this is the park everybo he needs
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Speaker 7: to hear. They will be closing a single lane of
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Speaker 7: traffic closest to the building and that's going to begin
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Speaker 7: in August. So, oh, just planning your routes through downtown
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Speaker 7: with a little more time. Go to the new Waterburger,
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Speaker 7: but you're gonna need a little more time to get there. Yeah,
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Speaker 7: you can also drive through historic downtown Brian and shop
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Speaker 7: and spend some money and patronize that.
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Speaker 6: That's what I was about say. It's like that could
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Speaker 6: actually be very convenient for a lot of people. Like
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Speaker 6: why don't you just throw a throw a full closure
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Speaker 6: up there and direct them through downtown.
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Speaker 7: That's what Ronnie the pre kept asking.
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Speaker 1: I was like, maybe he'll lot to drive for you'd
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Speaker 1: have to punch a hole in a mural. Though I
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Speaker 1: can't do that. I can't do that.
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Speaker 7: Well because of the construction. Though Commissioner's Court and the
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Speaker 7: upcoming budget workshops will be moved off site for the
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Speaker 7: months of August and September, most likely taking place in
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Speaker 7: the training room of the new Medical Examiner's Office. But
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Speaker 7: the official announcement will be made this coming Tuesday in court. Okay,
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Speaker 7: And speaking of the Medical Examiner's Office, substantial construction is complete.
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Speaker 7: Crews are working on a punch list of items to
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Speaker 7: finish up, and we're planning on a chamber of ribbon,
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Speaker 7: a chamber of commerce ribbon really, yes, August eighteenth for.
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Speaker 1: The form that might be the first Medical Examiner's Office
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Speaker 1: ribbon cutting. And only I ever get to get to I.
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Speaker 9: Don't Yeah, I don't think i've ever heard that?
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Speaker 6: Is that is a cool I'll go I like that.
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Speaker 7: I'm going to stop and not say about nine jokes
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Speaker 7: that's popped into my head. The building will be open
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Speaker 7: to the public for tours on Augus nineteenth. This is
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Speaker 7: before they actually start accepting the snitts though, so this
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Speaker 7: will be the only opportunity for the public to tour
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Speaker 7: the building if you're interested, and we'll share more details
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Speaker 7: about that as it approaches.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, after that, people will just be dying to get in.
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Speaker 7: That's among the nine that I myself.
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Speaker 6: Didn't even have your music ready.
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Speaker 1: That was though. I had to take that one for you.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, thank you. That's Cathartic. The courthouse and X.
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Speaker 7: If you drive by the new courthouse and X, that's
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Speaker 7: the big construction side across from the courthouse, one on
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Speaker 7: one North Avenue, North Texas Avenue. The fencing's in place,
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Speaker 7: works underway, everything's on schedule at this point. Expected completion
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Speaker 7: September twenty eighth. Build Let them in, build, Oh County.
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Speaker 6: We can see what we can see. What your favorite was?
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Speaker 7: That's right, No, that last hour radio I could the
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Speaker 7: resounding sound of people switching the station is amazing.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've had several text mess people ask
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Speaker 6: me what on earth I was thinking with that segment,
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Speaker 6: But yeah.
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Speaker 7: Trying to bring them back the shirt. So you can
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Speaker 7: actually go to Brass County dot gov. In the top
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Speaker 7: right corner, you can see a tab that says county projects,
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Speaker 7: and when you click on that tab, it takes you
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Speaker 7: to a page where you can actually see the construction live.
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Speaker 7: There's live cameras up there, really live cameras. You can
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Speaker 7: watch them. You can coach them. They can't hear you,
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Speaker 7: but you can make suggestions and now kind of thing.
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Speaker 1: Now that would be next level that Yeah, put the
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Speaker 1: speaker of it considered.
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Speaker 6: You know, you can get those. You can get cameras
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Speaker 6: that talk back, like many of us happen in our home,
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Speaker 6: like yeah, the door. It's like if I want to
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Speaker 6: yell at the person who's dropping off the Amazon packages,
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Speaker 6: I could do that.
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Speaker 1: Would never do it, but I could.
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Speaker 7: So why not?
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Speaker 1: Well, there's many reasons.
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Speaker 7: Tucker, but I'm pretty sure they RFP would have never
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Speaker 7: been answered if that would have been on the table. Now,
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Speaker 7: with regard to the budget, that's a big one. Budget
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Speaker 7: Officer has met with the departments and we'll be presenting
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Speaker 7: their budgets to the court. So milestone dates July twenty
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Speaker 7: eight through August fourteenth. The Budget Officer will hold budget
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Speaker 7: work budget workshops to the Commissioner's Court tentatively scheduled August eighteenth.
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Speaker 7: Budget Officer files the proposed f Y twenty seven budget
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Speaker 7: with the County Clerk and Unitor. September first, Commissioner's Court
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Speaker 7: adopts the f Y twenty seven budget and sets a
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Speaker 7: tax rate, and October one through September thirst excuse me,
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Speaker 7: October one, twenty sixth through September thirtieth, twenty twenty seven.
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Speaker 7: That is the fy fiscal f y twenty seven fiscal year. Right,
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Speaker 7: So that's pretty pretty dull stuff, but pretty important stuff.
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Speaker 1: Mark all those dates on your calendar that this is
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Speaker 1: the time when we will start being you know, of
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Speaker 1: course our news department, Jeanette will be covering this sort
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Speaker 1: of thing. So there's there's going to be a number
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Speaker 1: of questions as these budget items come out, as you
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Speaker 1: guys are work shopping them and putting them together, you
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Speaker 1: can expect some questions from it, certainly.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, total, I'd be disappointed if Bill left in those questions.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, right, but I'll tell you, I know, I know.
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Speaker 6: The one I saw earlier this week was just even
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Speaker 6: even things that you don't really necessarily think about, which
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Speaker 6: the amount of lawyers that.
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Speaker 1: That are needed. The public defenders had Defender's office.
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Speaker 7: Yes, Nathan's been going with the skeleton crew over there
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Speaker 7: for a minute, and that's a big job.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 7: It's one of those kind of what we call unfunded
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Speaker 7: mandates where the state says you've got to do these things,
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Speaker 7: and no money for it. So that's where your budget
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Speaker 7: is very tricky.
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Speaker 1: And the other the other side of that is the
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Speaker 1: fewer you operate.
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Speaker 6: With if you happen to catch good ones, the faster
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Speaker 6: they're gone because they it's it's a big deal. Public defenders,
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Speaker 6: they burn out. So you act, you know, if you
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Speaker 6: want quality, quality representation out there for people, Yeah, you
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Speaker 6: have to keep keep adding to that staff. And so yeah,
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Speaker 6: things like that pop up and you just you know,
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Speaker 6: fly through. So it will be interesting to see kind
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Speaker 6: of what's on there and what pops up, and then
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Speaker 6: the larger projects too, So I know, y'all stay busy,
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Speaker 6: as busy as anything it will.
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Speaker 7: And of course one of the biggest expenses.
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Speaker 1: Is payroll, right every time.
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Speaker 7: So our recent compensation and benefits study has some people
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Speaker 7: on social media stirred up. That's right, clear up a
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Speaker 7: few things. The study was absolutely needed. The old compensation
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Speaker 7: plan was around longer I think than Dwayne Peters can remember.
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Speaker 10: And was very unique, dying essentially essentially, in case you
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Speaker 10: missed it, if if somebody left the county, uh, the
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Speaker 10: person that they hired in their place was starting at
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Speaker 10: the finishing salary of the person that they were replacing
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Speaker 10: am I correct on that.
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Speaker 7: Yes, and that's just like, oh wait, nowhere on the
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Speaker 7: planet does that happen. Yes, that's right. So we're looking
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Speaker 7: at and these are taxpayers that are paying for these positions, right,
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Speaker 7: all of us here, So everybody listening. So we've we've
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Speaker 7: got to look at that where the pay is fair equitable,
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Speaker 7: where you can go across the county and see that
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Speaker 7: a certain role in a certain department is paid across
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Speaker 7: the county that way. We've hired a consultant to look
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Speaker 7: at that. We'll be looking at their findings as well.
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Speaker 7: But we're just trying to make it so the employees
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Speaker 7: are fairly compensated and prospective employees want to come work
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Speaker 7: with us. Taxpayers know what, We're being good stewards of
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Speaker 7: their money. That's the biggest thing to And Happy two
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Speaker 7: hundred and fiftieth America.
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Speaker 6: Happy to America, fiftieth, to this great nation of ours.
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Speaker 7: You guys have.
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Speaker 6: Give you little music, that's right, sing it Lee still slap.
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Speaker 9: Didn't mean to cut you off.
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Speaker 7: There come. We offer that anytime, love it. So you know,
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Speaker 7: obviously there's a few things going on. I just encourage
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Speaker 7: everyone to go out and celebrate. I mean, how often
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Speaker 7: does your country turn tw hundred and fifty years old?
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Speaker 1: That's right. I remember of the age that I remembered
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Speaker 1: the two hundredth I remember going to Old Tiger Stadium,
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Speaker 1: which was at the Junior High and that's where the
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Speaker 1: fireworks show was. We walked from our home which was
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Speaker 1: nearby there. So yeah, I have other peers that remember
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Speaker 1: that as well. Incredible.
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Speaker 6: It isn't a great opportunity and you have so many
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Speaker 6: events that are that are happening over today, Tomorrow, Saturday
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Speaker 6: that you really should go and check at least some
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Speaker 6: of them out.
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Speaker 1: Check some of them out and either I mean, get
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Speaker 1: together with some neighbors, you know, just just shake a
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Speaker 1: little patriotic hand here in the.
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Speaker 7: Yeah hundred percent and you know Curtin does their event.
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Speaker 7: That's that's a big event.
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Speaker 1: Gosh.
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Speaker 7: I would encourage everyone to consider that. One city of
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Speaker 7: Brian and BTU is doing the Travis Major Field after
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Speaker 7: the Brian yard Dogs game. They'll be doing fireworks which
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Speaker 7: you can see from the new Midtown Park City College stations,
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Speaker 7: the iHeart America at Wolf Creek and then of course
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Speaker 7: the Veterans park our guys here reading the Constitution. So yeah,
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Speaker 7: get out there, get out there. And I like your
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Speaker 7: idea too. Will If you don't want to get out there,
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Speaker 7: just go next door and ye make friends with your
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Speaker 7: neighbor if you.
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Speaker 1: Crack a cold one in the alley, just like the
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Speaker 1: guys on King of the Hill. That's right, oh man,
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Speaker 1: the dream.
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Speaker 7: Anything else this week, just two real quick Tuesday Night,
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Speaker 7: we had aquifers one oh one. We get we get
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Speaker 7: a report every year from the Brasses Groundwater Conservation District Water.
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Speaker 7: In my opinions, the commissioners when we were top three,
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Speaker 7: it's gotta.
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Speaker 1: Be absolutely getting more important every day.
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Speaker 7: And so we had about seventy five people come out
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Speaker 7: and listening to Alan day and give a presentation. That
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Speaker 7: was fantastic. We may do that again next year as well,
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Speaker 7: because I think people are interested, they want to learn
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Speaker 7: more about it.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, He's full of facts.
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Speaker 7: And information and it's a great way to cut through
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Speaker 7: the noise on social media.
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Speaker 6: And there's so much of it. Yeah, it's and it
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Speaker 6: depends like it's hard because you hear stories from parts
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Speaker 6: of the country where it really is a completely different
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Speaker 6: tale and is here necessarily corpus.
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Speaker 7: Christy, I mean my goodness, right down the road exactly.
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Speaker 7: And then mowing. We have our contractors are out here now.
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Speaker 7: Obviously we've had a lot of rain, so there's been
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Speaker 7: a lot of water growing grass past and it's hard
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Speaker 7: to mote. So we've got our mowers out there catching up.
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Speaker 7: They're working the way around the county. They go precinct
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Speaker 7: by precinct, So I do get calls, hey, I'd like
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Speaker 7: to get my mowing down my road. Well, they might
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Speaker 7: be two miles from you working their way to you,
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Speaker 7: or they might be twelve miles from you working their
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Speaker 7: way to you. But it doesn't make sense for them
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Speaker 7: to hop around. So we've got to have them patience,
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Speaker 7: patients and mowing and then just yeah thinking Bill Oliver,
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Speaker 7: unbiased reporting and storytelling, getting it right. Many phone calls
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Speaker 7: with Bill, and I really always appreciated his thoroughness and.
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Speaker 1: Accuracy as good as you will find anywhere.
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Speaker 7: Fanjason, Yeah, we're gonna miss him in the county. I
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Speaker 7: think I speak for every commissioner without breaking quorum. I
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Speaker 7: speak for every commissioner that we are going to miss Bill.
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Speaker 7: He's a one hard one to follow. Good luck to
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Speaker 7: those that are following them. We will look forward to
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Speaker 7: talking with them and working with them as well.
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Speaker 6: Absolutely man, Happy fourth July, Happy fourth, Thanks bless you guys.
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Speaker 6: If you want to catch up, if you missed any
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Speaker 6: of that, please we'll have it online. Listen to anytime
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Speaker 6: WTAW dot com sixteen twenty ninety four five WTAW or
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Speaker 6: the Infomaniacs Good morning nine seven nine six nine five
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Speaker 6: sixteen twenty is our phone number. Oh man, the show
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Speaker 6: is flying by today. Every day today specifically, has been
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Speaker 6: been fast. I didn't want to let another show get
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Speaker 6: by without talking about this, this issue that you brought
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Speaker 6: to my attention. I keep seeing it pop up more
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Speaker 6: and more and more, and honestly, I don't know what
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Speaker 6: the story is behind it.
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Speaker 9: I just know that it potentially is going to wreck
16:56
Speaker 9: your weekend.
16:57
Speaker 1: Possibly. We're talking about the cyclos spora cyclos spir I
17:02
Speaker 1: practice that no, go ahead, take your cyclo sporiasis outbreak. Okay,
17:06
Speaker 1: it's oh about this. It's the explosive diarrhea outbreak. Okay.
17:12
Speaker 1: It's a parasitic infection. It comes from food or water contaminated, right,
17:18
Speaker 1: and it's characterized by sometimes explosive instrument.
17:23
Speaker 6: This is the the part of every story that seems
17:27
Speaker 6: to get the headline. Explosive, Yeah, is the term that
17:31
Speaker 6: they use.
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Speaker 1: You know how the media likes to get their boiler
17:34
Speaker 1: plate where they say the same thing from the from
17:36
Speaker 1: different outlets. Every every one of.
17:38
Speaker 6: Them state it's on the same thing, and it's the
17:41
Speaker 6: explosive parts.
17:42
Speaker 1: You know. What's really crazy is that the documentation from
17:46
Speaker 1: the CDC says there's one hundred and forty five domestically
17:49
Speaker 1: acquired cases across seventeen states, including Texas as of mid June. Right,
17:55
Speaker 1: how many people live in the United States, Oh, that's
17:58
Speaker 1: three hundred million, and we're talking about one hundred and
18:02
Speaker 1: forty five. Yeah, so it's either incredibly bad or they're
18:06
Speaker 1: looking for the headline. Right, And essentially, let's let's spring,
18:10
Speaker 1: let's bring hundreds of thousands of people from other countries
18:14
Speaker 1: into our country.
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Speaker 9: It's the middle of the World Cup.
18:16
Speaker 1: So there's gonna be some things that are are spread.
18:19
Speaker 1: That sort of thing happens. Now, this is not apparently
18:22
Speaker 1: person to person. It's food born or water born. Symptoms
18:27
Speaker 1: start twelve to fourteen days after exposure.
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Speaker 6: Twelve because after.
18:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's gonna sit there for a minute, minute,
18:34
Speaker 1: and then the symptoms can last from a few days
18:38
Speaker 1: to over a month if I'm true.
18:41
Speaker 6: Can you imagine? Can you even imagine having that level
18:47
Speaker 6: of stomach problems for that long?
18:51
Speaker 1: Yes, as a matter of fact.
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Speaker 8: I can. Oh.
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Speaker 5: Can I say something and you'll not be like, oh
18:55
Speaker 5: that's terrible or fine?
18:56
Speaker 7: Well, at least you'll be skinny at the end.
18:59
Speaker 1: There's a bonus weight loss tips. Forget the GLP ones.
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Speaker 1: We're going for the explosive excrement.
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Speaker 6: Howbots can we charge for this parasite? Can we charge.
19:10
Speaker 1: Get an FDA approval on the parasite? That'll be great. Look,
19:13
Speaker 1: wash your food, wash your hands right, making sure that
19:16
Speaker 1: anything that's like treated like Monta Zuma's revenge essentially, Yeah,
19:21
Speaker 1: which is where my experience got.
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Speaker 6: That's never scared anyone away from a good time.
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Speaker 1: No, but I can tell you that some cases will
19:29
Speaker 1: absolutely make you much more cautious.
19:32
Speaker 6: Yes, it will. We have nothing to fear except fear
19:37
Speaker 6: because America, and that's how we roll.
19:41
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that sounds awful. Now, you don't want to
19:43
Speaker 1: catch this and then getting caught up a surprise firework
19:45
Speaker 1: or something like that.
19:49
Speaker 6: Do you know what? And I hate to dovetail of this.
19:51
Speaker 6: How many stories like this, can we have Have you
19:53
Speaker 6: heard about the diaper controversy resents?
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Speaker 1: I have not.
19:55
Speaker 6: Okay, so there's a huge there's actually several diaper stories,
19:57
Speaker 6: but the ones.
19:58
Speaker 1: Come out recently as a new issue that has.
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Speaker 6: Popped up at concerts that people are wearing diapers to
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Speaker 6: the concerts because they don't they pay so much money,
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Speaker 6: they don't want to miss any of the show, so
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Speaker 6: you end up going to like Olivia Rodrigo, big pop star,
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Speaker 6: she had to tell people, hey, please stop wearing diapers,
20:20
Speaker 6: that it's a problem.
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Speaker 1: Crazy.
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Speaker 6: Noah Khn recently chie to a fan who decided to
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Speaker 6: I guess a diaper had malfunctioned and caused a spill
20:31
Speaker 6: on a seats, And this is this is taking off
20:34
Speaker 6: because again people were like, I spend two thousand dollars
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Speaker 6: these tickets. It takes forever for me to get from
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Speaker 6: the floor to the restroom or wherever I need to go.
20:43
Speaker 6: So I'm just gonna wear diapers.
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Speaker 1: That's ridiculous.
20:47
Speaker 6: That is that is it's a real thing and people
20:50
Speaker 6: are having to caution against it.
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Speaker 1: One week from tomorrow, I'm traveling to see my favorite band.
20:55
Speaker 1: Yes you are my favorite band, puts on an hour
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Speaker 1: to an hour and twenty four set break, they come
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Speaker 1: back to another hour to hour and a half. That
21:04
Speaker 1: set break is critical, and then they hit an encore
21:08
Speaker 1: that's generally two to three songs, right, so you're going, well,
21:12
Speaker 1: two and a half three hours at you're of music,
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Speaker 1: pay for yourself right pace. But you have the set
21:18
Speaker 1: break and they also do drums much like The Grateful
21:21
Speaker 1: Dead did, where it's just you know, a ten or
21:23
Speaker 1: fifteen minute drum percussion interlude. Yeah, you gotta time your
21:27
Speaker 1: breaks up with wow.
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Speaker 6: You know, if you have any big play. If you're
21:32
Speaker 6: going to Taylor Swiss wedding this weekend, which is scheduled to.
21:34
Speaker 1: Be ten hour, is Taylor outlawed diapers? Not? Well, we'll
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Speaker 1: find out. Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch.
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Speaker 1: Bransis County Sheriff's deputies help locate a missing elderly man
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Speaker 1: from Henderson County. The Bransis County Sheriff's Department's Facebook page
21:52
Speaker 1: says concerned citizens called after spotting the eighty year old
21:55
Speaker 1: man walking along Highway thirty near William D. Fitch Parkway
21:59
Speaker 1: appear in confus used and struggling to walk. Thanks to
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Speaker 1: a license plate reader, deputies located the man's abandoned car,
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Speaker 1: alerting them to the fact that the man had been
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Speaker 1: reported missing and had medical concerns. As it turns out,
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Speaker 1: a passer by had picked up the man to get
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Speaker 1: gas and returned him to his car. He was evaluated
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Speaker 1: by EMS and has been reunited with his family. College
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Speaker 1: Station police is looking for those responsible for gunfire that
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Speaker 1: injured two people. A CSPD Facebook post did not give
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Speaker 1: the date or time of the gunfire at Southgate Village
22:30
Speaker 1: Apartments on Luther Street. Two gunshot victims were taken to
22:34
Speaker 1: local hospitals for treatment of non life threatening injuries. CSPD
22:38
Speaker 1: has also not released anything that investigators have learned about
22:42
Speaker 1: what led to the gunfire. Anyone with information is asked
22:45
Speaker 1: to call CSPD. Deadlines are looming, according to Brian's mayor
22:50
Speaker 1: pro tim for the original developer of the Midtown Park
22:53
Speaker 1: Entertainment complex to resume long delayed construction of the Movie
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Speaker 1: Bowling restaurant facility.
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Speaker 2: It's regretful that they've got some issues unrelated to that
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Speaker 2: specific project that they're dealing with.
23:04
Speaker 1: I think up in Waco. James Edge provided an update
23:07
Speaker 1: during his latest visit on our show.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to jinx anything, and I certainly don't
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Speaker 2: want to take anything away from the Shulman family. But
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Speaker 2: we have to do what's right for the citizens and
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Speaker 2: the taxpayers of Brian and that may or may not
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Speaker 2: include the Shulman family. But I will tell you that
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Speaker 2: will be a destination entertainment venue of some sort.
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Speaker 1: Edge also says he is anticipating the Midtown Park lake
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Speaker 1: being filled and the completion of the park's signature playground.
23:32
Speaker 1: The Brian College Station. Salvation Army announces on its Facebook
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Speaker 1: page a new commanding officer, Major David Swiers is a
23:39
Speaker 1: Texas native. According to the Galveston Salvation Army website, where
23:43
Speaker 1: he held a similar position. BCS is his fifth stop
23:47
Speaker 1: in Texas as part of a twenty six year career
23:50
Speaker 1: where he's also served in three other states. The newest
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Speaker 1: message on the website of Texas and In President Susan
23:56
Speaker 1: Ballabina begins with sharing three priorities that she recently gave
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Speaker 1: to her senior leaders.
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Speaker 3: The first priority, restore trust, is defined as providing study leadership,
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Speaker 3: strengthening relationships with internal and external stakeholders through transparency, and
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Speaker 3: engagement and building confidence in A and M through decisions
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Speaker 3: that advances the university's mission and reflects core values. Second,
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Speaker 3: turning challenges into opportunities is defined as tackling complex issues,
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Speaker 3: drive operational excellence, reduce bureaucracy, and executing on big ideas.
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Speaker 3: Third is celebrate and Innovate, which is defined as leveraging
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Speaker 3: the momentum of A and M's one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 3: year history to honor the university's past while advancing a
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Speaker 3: shared vision for the future. Ballabini says she'll expand on
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Speaker 3: her three priorities as a A and M Sesqui Centennial year continues.
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Speaker 3: Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 1: WTAW News has received more information about grant money coming
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Speaker 1: to two Prexas Valley recipients from the Texas Opioid Debatement Fund.
24:58
Speaker 1: Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is going to Burlison
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Speaker 1: County's Health Resource Center to hire additional people to work
25:04
Speaker 1: in local schools with students and their families.
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Speaker 8: To work with families where they are, and to link
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Speaker 8: the family, not just kids, to think the kids, the parents,
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Speaker 8: to the broad range of services that we're already working with.
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Speaker 1: The Retired Health Center director Albert Ramerez says, the additional
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Speaker 1: people will reduce their alliance on out of town agencies.
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Speaker 8: They're based in Brian College Station. They might have a
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Speaker 8: day or two when they can come to Burleston County
25:34
Speaker 8: and work with us in our referrals. Then they are
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Speaker 8: off to Washington County and then they're off to Grimes County,
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Speaker 8: or they're back in Brian serving the large numbers of
25:42
Speaker 8: folks in the Brian College Station area.
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Speaker 1: The State Opioid Grant Fund also awarded eight grants to
25:48
Speaker 1: Texas A and M's Health Science Center. Six of the
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Speaker 1: eight grants, totaling almost four million dollars, will be spent
25:54
Speaker 1: by the Pharmacy College to support communities around the state
25:57
Speaker 1: to address the opioid crisis. Meeting of the Declaration of
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Speaker 1: Independence will take place Saturday morning at nine in Veterans
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Speaker 1: Park at the Process Valley Veterans Memorial. The vice president
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Speaker 1: of the Memorial Board, Tom Turbyville, says that will be
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Speaker 1: followed by a ceremonial signing recognizing the fifty six who
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Speaker 1: signed the declaration of independence.
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Speaker 5: We have fifty six signers to represent those fifty six
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Speaker 5: original signers really and those people are going to be
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Speaker 5: community leaders and their fifty six of them are going
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Speaker 5: to sign their name to a special document.
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Speaker 1: Reading the Declaration of Independence. Will be Turbyville, an alum
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Speaker 1: of our show and Brian Broadcasting General manager Ben Downs.
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Speaker 1: More news throughout the day or anytime MIDWTAW dot com.
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Speaker 1: I'm will WELCH sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 6: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five wta W Good morning,
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Speaker 6: City of Brian, Brian Police Sergeant Scott Jones and I
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Speaker 6: need to before we get into the meat of this.
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Speaker 6: Who does y'all's social media?
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Speaker 11: Well, we started something about a year ago a partnership
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Speaker 11: with A and M.
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Speaker 1: And we have.
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Speaker 11: A social media intern.
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Speaker 1: Okay, we had, we had one.
27:37
Speaker 11: She graduated in May and so we just picked up
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Speaker 11: a new social media intern and they're doing a great
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Speaker 11: job for us.
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Speaker 6: I was in Houston, and obviously, you know, being being
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Speaker 6: from here, it's at home, still follow everyone you would
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Speaker 6: follow around here. Last year was a point where I
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Speaker 6: started seeing posts from you guys about academy and like
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Speaker 6: recruiting and things like that. And I had never seen
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Speaker 6: anything like that from Brian PD in my life.
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Speaker 1: No, it had always been somewhat of a button down
28:09
Speaker 1: like a lot of departments. Yeah, you didn't have you
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Speaker 1: didn't have the social media platform that was being utilized.
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Speaker 6: It is so creative, so fast. And so then when
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Speaker 6: we were we're talking about bringing you in to talk
28:23
Speaker 6: to you about this as like, holy cow, that's been
28:25
Speaker 6: a year ago and it is time to talk recruiting again.
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Speaker 1: It is it is.
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Speaker 6: So let's start at the basics. What do people need
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Speaker 6: to know if they are looking in any capacity at
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Speaker 6: police work as a career option.
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Speaker 11: That's a great profession, it's an honest work. You're you're
28:46
Speaker 11: never going to be a millionaire being a police officer.
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Speaker 11: But you're serving your city and you're doing it because
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Speaker 11: you care about giving back to the community that you
28:53
Speaker 11: that you serve and that you live in. Okay, so
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Speaker 11: right now we're I'm here today because o're hiring to
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Speaker 11: opened on Monday.
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Speaker 1: It certainly did.
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Speaker 6: I was alerted to it by an amazing video from
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Speaker 6: the City of Brian social media.
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Speaker 1: So talk about the hiring test.
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Speaker 8: What is that.
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Speaker 11: So we're a civil service agency, so we have a
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Speaker 11: written test. That written test gets you on a list
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Speaker 11: based on score if you pass it. If you pass
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Speaker 11: the written test, then you move on to our physical
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Speaker 11: fitness test, and if you move on from that, then
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Speaker 11: we start your background investigation.
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Speaker 6: Okay, so the first this is basically the very first step.
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Speaker 6: What kind of material do you cover on a written test?
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Speaker 11: The written test is pretty much a high school equivalency
29:32
Speaker 11: test to make sure that they understand. The candidates understand
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Speaker 11: how to read, write, do some basic math, some understanding.
29:41
Speaker 11: It's really important that police officers know how to read
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Speaker 11: and write and can write a report documenting what happened.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, And so this is the literal first step, and
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Speaker 6: it is kind of a window thing, so it comes
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Speaker 6: open yes, sir, if you are, if you've thought about
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Speaker 6: in the past or something you've considered or are consider currently,
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Speaker 6: now is the time, like right now to get in
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Speaker 6: with you guys, then start.
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Speaker 1: The process now. Does it cost anything to take the test? Right? Costs?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely no. So if you've ever been considering a career
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Speaker 1: in law enforcement, yeah, BPD is a great department to
30:14
Speaker 1: work for. Yes, take the test, not gonna hurt you,
30:17
Speaker 1: don't cost you anything. How many officers do you hire a.
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Speaker 11: Here we hire somewhere between ten and eighteen.
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Speaker 1: It's a good number of jobs, it is. It's a
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Speaker 1: good number of jobs.
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Speaker 6: So let's say you take the test, you pass the test,
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Speaker 6: like you said, Next thing up, physical fitness test.
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Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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Speaker 6: What goes into the physical fitness requirements for Brian police officers?
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Speaker 11: This is just the beginning to get in the door.
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Speaker 11: It's a two thousand meters row. It's based on age,
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Speaker 11: gender and weight. What you have to row so it's
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Speaker 11: relatively challenging, but it's also something that's very doable for
30:52
Speaker 11: most people.
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Speaker 6: I'm forty five and I'm not trying and ply because
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Speaker 6: y'all don't need a forty five year old met on
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Speaker 6: the force. But how fast would have to row to
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Speaker 6: you meters to get in?
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Speaker 1: Well, we'd have to base that on your your weight
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Speaker 1: as well.
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Speaker 6: Okay, I'm going to call myself a polite two twenty five.
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Speaker 11: Okay, So you're probably looking at around maybe a and
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Speaker 11: I'm just ballparking this without putting in the calculator, maybe
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Speaker 11: a eight thirty two thousand meter okay.
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Speaker 6: Okay, all right, okay, but still something you will you
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Speaker 6: will again.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Look, your.
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Speaker 9: Conditioning is going to have to be a part of this.
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Speaker 1: And this is like like Scott said, this is this
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Speaker 1: is a starting point I can I can assure you
31:33
Speaker 1: throughout the recruiting process when you are a police recruit,
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Speaker 1: your physical condition will be much improved. End of the recruiting, Yes,
31:41
Speaker 1: it will one hundred.
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Speaker 6: When you when you talk to people who I guess
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Speaker 6: are looking at a job in policing, what do y'all
31:50
Speaker 6: look for? Like, is there a candidate that has a
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Speaker 6: background that you're like, Okay, that's perfect, that's what we're
31:56
Speaker 6: aiming for, or is it is it?
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Speaker 1: Is it a wide variety.
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Speaker 11: In today's we're the policing Really there's not any one
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Speaker 11: person that is the perfect mold for a police officer. Okay,
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Speaker 11: people come from all different backgrounds and that's very helpful
32:10
Speaker 11: in law enforcement. The most important thing is that they
32:12
Speaker 11: have integrity and that they want to do the job
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Speaker 11: of being a police officer and serving their community.
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Speaker 1: Okay, excellent.
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Speaker 6: Now if they if they're hearing this, how do they
32:21
Speaker 6: get in touch with you? And if they have questions?
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Speaker 6: Because I imagine a lot of people are, that's probably
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Speaker 6: more of a big thing, because I'd have a million.
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Speaker 6: Who do they get in touch with?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely?
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Speaker 11: They can. They can call me at at work. It's
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Speaker 11: nine seven nine two zero nine five three two three.
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Speaker 11: If they go to the Brian Police Department's website it's
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Speaker 11: briant x dot gov slash police, they can register for
32:43
Speaker 11: the test or from there they'll also have the opportunity
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Speaker 11: to find my contact information beautiful in touch with me
32:50
Speaker 11: or our lead recruiter.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
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Speaker 6: I love it, and like we said, good number of
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Speaker 6: jobs and a good career, and it is a it
32:57
Speaker 6: is one of the most important careers that you can undertake.
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Speaker 6: And it's it's a I'm sure it is a road
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Speaker 6: to travel to get in and get but it is
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Speaker 6: like anything that's worth while, like anything that is worthwhile.
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Speaker 1: If you, if you, if you feel called to serve
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Speaker 1: your community that you live on, then then this is
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Speaker 1: a great way to do it. Absolutely, yes, anything else
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Speaker 1: we need to get to.
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Speaker 11: The registration is open until August fourteenth.
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Speaker 6: God, it's a big thing to get to, okay.
33:22
Speaker 11: And then the test date for our first test this
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Speaker 11: year is August twenty first.
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Speaker 1: All right, hey, thank you so much for coming in, thank.
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Speaker 6: You for letting me be here, and please any literally anytime,
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Speaker 6: any place.
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Speaker 1: We love talking to you guys.
33:34
Speaker 6: And also kudos to the social media intern because I
33:37
Speaker 6: that's there.
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Speaker 1: They're absolutely killing it over there. I love it. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 6: If you missed any of that, please catch up online.
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Speaker 6: some ways to socialize. My wife's in a running club.
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Speaker 6: I think she might be in a book club still too.
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Speaker 6: Did a couple of news. The clubs are great.
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Speaker 1: I'm a fan.
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Speaker 6: But do you are you in need of any of
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Speaker 6: these things to join?
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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna lie.
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Speaker 1: I've been having a difficult time reading.
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Speaker 7: I'm kind of burned out on reading.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if this will help or not.
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Speaker 1: Probably not. It's kind of a different thing. And what
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Speaker 1: we're talking about is occurring in New York City, So
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Speaker 1: stick that in the back of your mind. Okay, all right,
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Speaker 1: that it's in New York City. This is called club
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Speaker 1: rest stop right. Apparently it is the hottest new social activity.
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Speaker 1: It is lying down.
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Speaker 5: space for people who just want to lie.
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Speaker 7: Down and have a break. This is good for the
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Speaker 7: people who are retired from hustle culture. If your nervous
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Speaker 7: system is shot and you feel overwhelmed, come to cure breasto.
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Speaker 9: Here's some reasons why you should you win. You're tired
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Speaker 9: of every social.
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Speaker 1: Activity revolving around productivity.
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Speaker 7: You miss third spaces that don't require spending money. You
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Speaker 7: want to soil down without feeling guilty about it, and.
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Speaker 2: You want a free activity that leaves you feeling better
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Speaker 2: than when you started.
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Speaker 6: She keeps saying this thing, third space.
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Speaker 1: What is a third you know? Third space? I think
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Speaker 1: it's something that the city people made up because you
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Speaker 1: have home, you have work.
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Speaker 6: Oh, that's what it is. It's like a New York
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Speaker 6: thing because they their third space is the because you
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Speaker 6: live in You live in a shoe box, right, and
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Speaker 6: then you go to your job if you even don't
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Speaker 6: remote in and then the third spaces the public spaces
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Speaker 6: that you occupy to have a life right in New York.
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Speaker 1: Well or a nap. Apparently forty people show up for
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Speaker 1: the first one. Seven hundred signed up for future events.
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Speaker 9: One hundred humans.
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Speaker 1: Look whatever happened to a barstool. I'm gonna put a
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Speaker 1: barstool club. It's my third space. That's where I want
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Speaker 1: to rest.
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Speaker 9: Is that traditionally where it is?
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Speaker 1: That is traditionally These kids, these stays.
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Speaker 9: Don't happen to the American pub. Oh that's right, people don't.
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Speaker 1: I get people don't drink anymore. But you can still
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Speaker 1: have a pub for social activities though. You don't have
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Speaker 1: to go to a pub and get slaughtered.
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Speaker 6: What maniac goes to have a nap in public.
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Speaker 1: In a park in New York in a park.
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Speaker 9: In a park in New York City, You just go
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Speaker 9: and lay down somewhere so they can rob you and
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Speaker 9: take a nap.
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Speaker 1: Well, how do you tell the difference between somebody who's
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Speaker 1: paying to participate in this and somebody who does not
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Speaker 1: have a home.
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Speaker 6: Well, that's that is also that's not their third space.
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Speaker 1: No, it's not there. You don't have space.
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Speaker 6: You don't have third space everywhere.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to get to my third space later today.
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Speaker 6: I think fair necessity. I don't know why that's always
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Speaker 6: the song that comes to mind.
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Speaker 1: I don't know either.
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Speaker 6: Anyway, guys, thank you all for being here today. We
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Speaker 6: will be off tomorrow. Hopefully some of you guys will
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Speaker 6: be as well to enjoy the three day weekend.
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Speaker 1: They have a happy and safe and patriotic weekend.
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Speaker 6: Happy fourth of July, enjoy a little bit of the
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Speaker 6: freedom that makes our nation something completely individual in the
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Speaker 6: world and truly truly great. And we will see you
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Speaker 6: back on the radio on Monday, I say.
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Speaker 1: Quizzically, yeah, that's if we don't have any fireworks.
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Speaker 6: In sixteen twenty wa