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The Infomaniacs: September 3rd 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: A woman has been jailed after driving drunk through a
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  Speaker 1: construction zone and dragging a construction worker after he tried
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  Speaker 1: to stop her. College Station Police responded to the 2400
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  Speaker 1: block of State Highway 6 near Southwest Parkway around 1045
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday night. Workers say 64-year-old Mary McGee was going nearly
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  Speaker 1: 60 miles per hour as she drove past workers while
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  Speaker 1: driving the wrong direction. After workers flagged her down, a
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  Speaker 1: foreman realized she was likely intoxicated and tried to take
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  Speaker 1: the keys from her ignition. McGee put her car in
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  Speaker 1: reverse with the man still partially inside, dragging him approximately
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  Speaker 1: 70 feet until her vehicle was blocked in by an
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  Speaker 1: off-duty officer working security. and other workers on a street sweeper.
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  Speaker 1: CSPD performed a field sobriety test, which she failed. A
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  Speaker 1: blood sample was taken at a local hospital before McGee
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  Speaker 1: was booked into the Brazos County Jail for driving while
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  Speaker 1: intoxicated and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. She is
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  Speaker 1: being held on $ 70, 000 bond. This is McGee's 16th booking
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  Speaker 1: into the Brazos County Jail. Her previous arrests include driving
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  Speaker 1: while intoxicated, evading arrest, criminal trespass, possession of a controlled substance,
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  Speaker 1: and prostitution. Speaking of the Big Six construction project, the
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  Speaker 1: main lanes are scheduled to be closed tonight. Both north
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  Speaker 1: and southbound lanes will be closed between Southwest Parkway and
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  Speaker 1: Briarcrest Drive. The closures start at 7.30 tonight and continue
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  Speaker 1: through 6.30 Friday morning. No road closures are expected to
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  Speaker 1: take place this weekend. Less than a month into the
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  Speaker 1: College Station ISD school year and two students from A
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  Speaker 1: & M Consolidated High School have been arrested in separate
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  Speaker 1: instances of having a THC vape at school. A 17-year-old
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  Speaker 1: student was arrested on Tuesday after the device fell out
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  Speaker 1: of his pocket while being escorted to the office by
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  Speaker 1: the school's resource officer. He was charged with a third-degree felony,
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  Speaker 1: possession of a controlled substance in a drug-free zone. He
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  Speaker 1: is free on a $ 15, 000 bond. The first student was
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  Speaker 1: arrested on August 25th, and he is also free on bond.
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  Speaker 1: The new head of Homeland Security is promising that all
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  Speaker 1: immigration agents will have body cams by the end of September.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Border Congressman Henry Cuellar says that will be huge.
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  Speaker 2: It's good for the agent.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody wants to accuse him of something.
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  Speaker 1: Cuellar says that the cameras are also a benefit to
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  Speaker 1: the community when it comes to government transparency. The technology
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  Speaker 1: has been a huge debate in Texas after the shooting
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  Speaker 1: death of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston. The ICE agents
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  Speaker 1: had not been issued body-worn cameras, and that has only
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  Speaker 1: deepened the debate about what happened that day. A federal
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  Speaker 1: courthouse is likely coming to College Station. The final cog
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  Speaker 1: will fall into place after a signature from President Trump.
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  Speaker 1: A bill that would have added 63 new permanent U.S.
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  Speaker 1: District Court judgeships throughout the United States, including 13 in Texas...
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  Speaker 1: was vetoed by Joe Biden in 2024. New legislation has
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  Speaker 1: passed that doesn't just say that another court will be
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  Speaker 1: added to the Houston district. It specifies that it will
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  Speaker 1: be located in College Station. Adding a courthouse in College
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  Speaker 1: Station means cases involving Brazos County litigants will no longer
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  Speaker 1: be forced to travel to a Houston courtroom to have
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  Speaker 1: their cases heard. News is presented by Pioneer Steel and Pipe.
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  Speaker 1: More news at 830 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 2: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, everyone.
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  Speaker 3: Info Maniacs, 979-695-1620 is our phone number. And will we
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  Speaker 3: get more rain today?
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  Speaker 2: You got a great shot.
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  Speaker 1: Look, if you're east of here just barely, if you're
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  Speaker 1: like out on the Navasota River, you're getting rain right now.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there's some more that looks like it could be
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  Speaker 1: coming this direction.
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  Speaker 3: And for what it's worth, the chance of rain today
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  Speaker 3: looks like it is fairly.
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  Speaker 2: Backloaded into the afternoon.
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  Speaker 3: So at least this is what this forecast says. We'll
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  Speaker 3: also get a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms during
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  Speaker 3: the evening hours. And then crossing over to the overnight
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  Speaker 3: hours tonight, high of 90, low of 74. 91 with
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  Speaker 3: a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: We'd love to see it.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk Brazos County because we have a chance to
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  Speaker 3: have a nice little sit down with our friend, Commissioner
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  Speaker 3: Bentley Nettles.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 6: Good morning. Happy to be here.
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  Speaker 3: So we have been in, you guys have been in
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  Speaker 3: budget season, but we have also felt vicariously disappointed that
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  Speaker 3: we are also in budget season because we were talking county,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking county budget, and then the cities have their budget.
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  Speaker 3: And this past week, obviously, we've had the story that
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  Speaker 3: it was voted to adopt a budget of over $ 400
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  Speaker 3: million for the fiscal year for Brass County and to
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  Speaker 3: add a new tax rate to support that budget.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you were.
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  Speaker 2: person who voted against these.
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  Speaker 1: I did.
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  Speaker 2: What were your thoughts behind this?
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  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I want to say, you know,
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  Speaker 6: our county auditor, our county budget officer do a tremendous
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  Speaker 6: job for us. They do great work. The challenge I
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  Speaker 6: see is that I'm a property owner. I don't like
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  Speaker 6: taxes going up. But I also don't think that if
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  Speaker 6: your valuation goes up, that necessarily means the government gets
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  Speaker 6: more money. I think they need to find a way
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  Speaker 6: to put some of that back in your pocket. Here,
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  Speaker 6: in this case, so the new rate, tax rate is
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  Speaker 6: going to generate a little over $ 10 million, $ 5 million
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  Speaker 6: of that coming from new growth, and we're pulling $ 7
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  Speaker 6: million from our savings, fund balance. If we simply pulled
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  Speaker 6: another $ 7 million from fund balance, make $ 14 million, the $ 3. 7
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  Speaker 6: million that would have been generated from new growth would
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  Speaker 6: have meant that we could have obtained a no new
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  Speaker 6: revenue rate, which I think we need to, you know,
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  Speaker 6: bust the myth that that's going to be a financial
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  Speaker 6: calamity because it is possible. We need to find a
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  Speaker 6: way to make it possible and sustainable for Brazos County.
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  Speaker 3: The argument you mentioned that it's basically a financial calamity
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  Speaker 3: because it's one we've heard a lot. It's like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we do not want to tap into that. Why is
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  Speaker 3: that such a sticking point?
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  Speaker 6: I think it's leadership. I mean, if you look at
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  Speaker 6: the last 10 years of the county budget, we pulled
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  Speaker 6: from our general fund balance every single year in order
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  Speaker 6: to balance the books. So, now, in defense of my
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  Speaker 6: fellow commissioners, we did have some new expenses coming on
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  Speaker 6: board that were going to be recurring, like funding, staffing,
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  Speaker 6: and operating the new medical examiner's office. Funding, staffing, a
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  Speaker 6: new associate felony court, and the judge and the staff
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  Speaker 6: that go along with that, plus... the taxpayers paying for
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  Speaker 6: additional $ 2 million for health care for our county employees,
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  Speaker 6: that it went up dramatically, as did everybody's. But those
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  Speaker 6: are things that came into this year's budget calculation that
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  Speaker 6: we didn't have last year.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I wanted to change gears because, again, we're talking about
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  Speaker 3: the county has so much going on right now.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 6: I'd like to talk about something other than budget.
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  Speaker 1: Done with it.
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  Speaker 2: We're done.
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  Speaker 3: Budget-free conversation for the rest of the morning. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: let's talk about the county administration building. I know the
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  Speaker 3: renovations are continuing. Normally, there's not a lot of effect.
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  Speaker 3: It's just workers working hard to try to figure this
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  Speaker 3: thing out. Now, coming up, though, there are some issues
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  Speaker 3: that could affect the public a little bit, specifically getting
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  Speaker 3: close to Texas Avenue.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely. So they've now moved all the way around the building,
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  Speaker 6: and they're starting to take the facade off of the
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  Speaker 6: Texas Avenue side. And because of that, they're going to
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  Speaker 6: block a lane out in front of the county administration building.
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  Speaker 6: So if you're heading downtown, and this will begin next Tuesday,
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  Speaker 6: for a jury summons or to do business in the
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  Speaker 6: courthouse or for the county administration building or really anywhere
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  Speaker 6: in downtown Bryan, you're going to have, you probably need
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  Speaker 6: to leave earlier and prepare for a little bit more
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  Speaker 6: time in your daily commute.
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  Speaker 2: So expect a little construction-related delays.
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  Speaker 1: Which is, look, you don't want construction materials dropping on
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  Speaker 1: you while you're driving down Texas Avenue. It's a safety thing.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. All right, so now we're done with traffic, too.
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  Speaker 3: About to be Brass Valley Fair.
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  Speaker 2: And Rodeo season.
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  Speaker 6: Isn't it great?
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm such a big fan of this.
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  Speaker 6: The best kept jewel of Brazos County.
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  Speaker 7: It is.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, really, you can go out there and attend
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  Speaker 6: the fair for $ 10. Be there all day. And now
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  Speaker 6: you got to pay for food and drink, but you
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  Speaker 6: can ride the ride, see the exhibits for $ 10. If
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  Speaker 6: you want to go to the rodeo and see a
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  Speaker 6: really nice musical performance, we're talking $ 30.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: You can't even approach going to the Aggie game for that.
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  Speaker 3: You can't even approach going to a lot of rodeos
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  Speaker 3: for that commission. There's something wonderful about a nice community
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  Speaker 3: fair and rodeo.
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  Speaker 2: It's Americana.
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  Speaker 3: I've seen i've seen a lot of them it you
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  Speaker 3: know over the last several years working in in country
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  Speaker 3: radio we go out to a ton of these there's
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  Speaker 3: something wonderful about it And it is an amazing experience
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  Speaker 3: to take the kids to. It's also incredible to support
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  Speaker 3: some of the kids that are out there.
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  Speaker 1: The ag projects and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Getting into ag, which is a massive thing for the
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  Speaker 3: kids of our community. And I continue to be so
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  Speaker 3: impressed with what they're putting together out there. Let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about some of the other, like, it is a big
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  Speaker 3: deal for Brazos County.
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  Speaker 9: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: What makes it so important?
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  Speaker 6: Brings a lot of people into our community that wouldn't
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  Speaker 6: be here otherwise. They, they have an economic impact on
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  Speaker 6: our economy and it's an opportunity for the community to
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  Speaker 6: come together. Not only the exhibitors, the sponsors, the tons
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  Speaker 6: of volunteers at work to try to make this thing
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  Speaker 6: a success. And then they raise money and give away scholarships.
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  Speaker 1: You bet it.
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  Speaker 6: So it's, it's a great, it literally is a well
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  Speaker 6: hidden secret. Unfortunately, we need more and more people to
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  Speaker 6: know about it and get out there and.
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  Speaker 1: So one more thing that came out of the county
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  Speaker 1: this week, a burn ban. Thank you for doing that.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Because that, I think, incited our rain last night.
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  Speaker 3: That might have done more than anyone. We're always trying
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  Speaker 3: to find the voodoo that it takes to break the
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  Speaker 3: Aggie Dome. And washing cars and new shoes and leaving
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  Speaker 3: your sprinklers on wasn't working.
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  Speaker 2: That worked.
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  Speaker 1: Good job.
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  Speaker 6: And, you know, a lot of people said, why didn't
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  Speaker 6: y'all do it sooner? I mean, those folks have a
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  Speaker 6: scientific approach of approaching it. We literally did not enter
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  Speaker 6: into a drought until about a week and a half ago.
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  Speaker 6: And then our emergency management folks, they talked to all
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  Speaker 6: the fire chiefs around the county and kind of take
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  Speaker 6: a poll. And they finally all said, yeah, we need this.
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  Speaker 6: And even with this rain, the half inch rain is
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  Speaker 6: not going to get us out of the drought or
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  Speaker 6: out of the burn ban, unfortunately.
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  Speaker 2: No, no doubt.
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  Speaker 1: But hey, we've hit a burn ban so late this season.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I was about to say. I think
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  Speaker 2: that people.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know people have really short-term memories, right?
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  Speaker 3: And I think that last year, which was like one
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  Speaker 3: of the most glorious summers that we have had here.
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  Speaker 1: Green forever.
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  Speaker 3: Never got crispy. It makes people all of a sudden...
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  Speaker 3: forget the fact that there are years.
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  Speaker 2: Where it's like that.
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  Speaker 1: The year before that, there were no fireworks for the
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  Speaker 1: 4th of July.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we got all the way into the end of
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  Speaker 3: August this year, guys, where we needed a burn ban.
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  Speaker 3: And yeah, like we mentioned, it's not going to fix
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  Speaker 3: it just with what we got last night. fall rains
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  Speaker 3: will do their thing and and i'd say it's a
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  Speaker 3: pretty i'll take that as a win for the summer.
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  Speaker 1: For sure but just keep in mind there are some
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  Speaker 1: restrictions about what you can do yeah uh for a
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  Speaker 1: burn ban being in effect.
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  Speaker 6: Keep an eye out for fire if you see it
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  Speaker 6: report it so they're gonna get out of.
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  Speaker 3: Control yes absolutely commissioner bentley nettles thank you so much
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  Speaker 3: for coming.
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  Speaker 2: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for being here. 979-695-1620 is our phone number.
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  Speaker 3: We always encourage participation, texting, calling, all that stuff. Terry texted,
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  Speaker 3: and I agree with that idea of letting the stupid
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  Speaker 3: people get locked up.
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  Speaker 2: He said it's a plus.
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  Speaker 3: As long as they allow me to continue to listen
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  Speaker 3: to the infomaniacs.
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  Speaker 2: Terry, don't worry. Don't worry. We'll be right in there
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  Speaker 2: with you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Do the show for each other.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Well, you can sit in the circle, the share circle,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll just do the show.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. I mean, they're probably not going to let us
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  Speaker 2: take Tony the rabbit in.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 1: Tony would be a great therapy rabbit in there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I want to fly through a few things. Can you
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: explain to me Fat Marmot Week?
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  Speaker 1: Did you see this?
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  Speaker 2: What is happening?
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  Speaker 1: So you know about Bear Week, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Fat Bear Week.
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  Speaker 1: Fat Bear Week is a thing. Well, apparently there's now
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  Speaker 1: Fat Marmot Week.
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  Speaker 2: Fat Marmot Week.
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  Speaker 1: And it's because the marmots, the study of them, the
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  Speaker 1: programs and everything else, they're losing money and they don't
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  Speaker 1: have funding. So they decided to give this thing a try. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So they've got the marmots out there. They take the
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  Speaker 1: pictures of them. They post them online and people can
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  Speaker 1: vote for them. So we've got a winner this week
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  Speaker 1: of the Fat Marmot. And I've... His name is Don,
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  Speaker 1: and it's him, and it's a Don. But it's spelled D-A-W-N,
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  Speaker 1: which is.
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm sure there was a theme there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there was as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so these are the grad students that created the competition.
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  Speaker 2: So this is them giving us the.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: We ran Fat Marmot Week to see who's the fattest.
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  Speaker 14: Marmots have to gain this much weight because they hibernate
• 16:35
  Speaker 14: for up to seven to eight months out of the year.
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  Speaker 5: It is a competition between the largest true hibernators, marmots.
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  Speaker 1: It started mostly as a science communication project.
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  Speaker 15: We wanted to get people excited about marmots, to learn
• 16:50
  Speaker 15: what a marmot was because a lot of people don't
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  Speaker 15: know that.
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  Speaker 16: All of the marmots were incredibly fat, but eventually the
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  Speaker 16: public chose.
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  Speaker 2: Dawn as the winner.
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  Speaker 3: Keep in mind, this is the second very viral Marmot
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: story we have had.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: On the show. It's the same group that started Only Marms.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Only Marms.
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  Speaker 3: They made an Only Fans for Marmots, and now they've
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: hit again with Fat Marmot Week. These kids, Katie Adler
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: and Emily Rinke, are about to be rich.
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  Speaker 1: I think so. They're going to have lots of opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: Every company on this planet is going to be knocking
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: down their door to try to get that sweet, sweet
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Kind of like Don is trying to get to those sweet,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: sweet rocks. Don apparently likes to, they say he's a
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  Speaker 1: special boy who likes to eat rocks. He doesn't actually
• 17:37
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• 17:40
  Speaker 1: that are in them. And he loves his rocks. He's
• 17:43
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  Speaker 2: Of course he has.
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  Speaker 1: Going from two and a half kilograms to almost six.
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  Speaker 2: That's not hard if you're eating rocks.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. Might be swallowing a few of those. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: Times are hard, and this is a great distraction, is
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: a nice batch of fat marmots. Because you need something
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: to take your mind off of the mansion shortage.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. san francisco this is apparently horrific there
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: are people with really incredible jobs and make lots of
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: money and they cannot.
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  Speaker 2: They cannot find housing a mansion pacific.
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  Speaker 7: Heights mansion sold for 56 million a few months ago
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  Speaker 7: after multiple offers atherton already the most expensive zip code
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: in america just hit a median home price over 10
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: million dollars brokers are calling it a mansion shortage There
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  Speaker 7: just aren't enough trophy homes for the amount of AI
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  Speaker 7: money chasing them. So if you're active anywhere in the
• 18:36
  Speaker 7: luxury tier, not just the $ 70 million tier, but $ 3 million,
• 18:40
  Speaker 7: $ 5 million, $ 8 million, this is the wave that's pulling
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: your market upward, too.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, a two-bedroom place in the right
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: neighborhood in San Francisco is going for a couple of mil. Oh, yeah. Right?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: It's impossible to live in San Francisco.
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Absolutely impossible.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: You can't do it.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Look, you got enough money that you're having to struggle
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: to find a mansion. Or there's others that are struggling
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: to find high-end apartments costing about $ 10, 000 a month. $ 10, 000
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: a month.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: $ 10, 000 a month.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: So my experience in San Francisco, I don't have a
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: lot of it. But I do have a close friend
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: who did radio. And she did radio here.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Worked for us. And she got an offer.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: To go to san francisco and be an assistant program.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Director right so she got management yeah.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Management and she was so psyched because they had offered
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: her a grand total of like 150 000.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Sounds huge radio man i mean come on.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: Dang girl she had to have two roommates yeah two
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: roommates who could not live in the city And that
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: was years ago. Now, again, imagine paying $ 10, 000 in rent.
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: And now imagine these clowns. Well, I don't want to
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: buy it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: $ 10 million mansion.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: What's the fun in that? I need to get me
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: one of them $ 50 million. Define mansion, too.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Pretty soon, those two-bedroom homes are going to be a
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: $ 50 million mansion the way prices are going. I think
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: it's not sustainable.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: You cannot tell me that there's something genuine. And it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: been like this for a long time in California. But
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: you cannot tell me this is going to be a...
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  Speaker 3: How is that not going to be a problem at
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: some point?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: It is a problem. It's already a problem. It's going
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: to continue to be a problem. And it's their problem.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And it's also, to an extent... Austin's problem. Because that's coming.
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Dude, where California goes, Austin follows. And yeah, if you
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: thought that you were getting a little bit of a
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: price break moving to Austin.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Not anymore.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: It's about to go right back down the toilet, guys.
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: Right back down the toilet.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: I want to discuss a little bit the party schools list.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Have you seen this?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I have not seen this.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Every year they release the top 50 party schools.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Number one this year, Florida State.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They're typically up there, I'm guessing.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're usually pretty. I mean, there's nothing else to
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: do in Tallahassee, let's be honest. Tulane is number two. Wisconsin, always.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Tulane is number two?
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Tulane.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I get it.
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's New Orleans.
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  Speaker 2: New Orleans, but Tulane is a hard school.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not easy.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's not like people can just afford to just
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: be trashed the entire time, but I guess they're trying.
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  Speaker 3: University of Wisconsin's in there. USC at number five. The
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: first Texas institution we get. is the University of Texas
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: at number 12.
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  Speaker 2: Right above Alabama, a little bit below West Virginia.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Which West Virginia should have been way higher.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Look, if you burn furniture for fun, yeah, you should
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: be up there on the list.
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  Speaker 2: I'll say that.
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  Speaker 3: I'm kind of ashamed. I would have expected a Texas
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: school in the top five. It would not have been
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: the University of Texas. It would be the school that
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: fell at number 46, which is Texas Tech.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Texas Tech at 46 on the party list.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Texas Tech has kind of done a great job in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: shifting not only their image, but their actuals. There's a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: lot of people out there that would argue right now
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: that Texas Tech is the second most conservative school in Texas.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: They have a law school.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: They've got a great nursing school now.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: They have a vet school.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Vet school now.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Nursing school.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and they have billionaires that are buying them a
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: football team.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: What else can you ask for?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Now, it's still in Lubbock, so you get that, right?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: As far as TU goes, they're too busy protesting to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: party these days. They're all burned out.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Number 12 is still mad high.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: It's just not high enough. They are right above Texas Tech,
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: the University of Florida. And Ford is right above Texas State,
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: another perennial on this list.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: But again, another one that has kind of changed their
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: tune a little. Yeah, a little bit. They've cleaned up
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the image a little bit.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: Dino is not on this at all, unless I am
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: just missing him. Arizona State.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: They didn't even make the top 50, unless I am just.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: For a decade or more, they were the party school.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: They were the Boston Celtics in the 60s.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: They were, yeah, the party school. And somehow they are
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: nowhere to be seen. Did that, what happened? What happened, boys?
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: No idea.
• 23:19
  Speaker 18: Embarrassing.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: But yeah, perennial champion.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: A & M, by the way, a few people have
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: texted in. Where is Texas A & M? Texas A
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: & M, I'm proud to report, is not on the
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: top 50.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: There you go. Which if you look at the police
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: blotter from the last couple of weeks from Northgate, you
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: don't understand why you're not there.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: There's a large group of students that would disagree.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, putting your hands on officers running into fire trucks,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: that's a party.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: No, that is not a party, Will.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Sarcasm, Tucker.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: It's the opposite of a party.
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  Speaker 1: seven counties in the Brazos Valley are now under a
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: burn ban. Brazos County announced the ban Tuesday and Burleson
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  Speaker 1: County rounded things out on Wednesday. All outdoor burning is
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  Speaker 1: prohibited and there are limits on outdoor welding and cooking.
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  Speaker 1: Getting rainfall does not automatically reverse a ban. A ban
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  Speaker 1: remains in effect until local government repeals it or it expires.
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  Speaker 1: A Bryan woman is behind bars after driving drunk through
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  Speaker 1: the Big Six construction zone, then dragging a construction worker
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  Speaker 1: some 70 feet after he tried to stop her. College
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  Speaker 1: Station police were called to the 2400 block of State
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  Speaker 1: Highway 6 southbound near Southwest Parkway around 1045 Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Reports say that 64-year-old Mary McGee is accused of speeding
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  Speaker 1: while driving the wrong way through the construction zone with
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  Speaker 1: workers present. Workers estimate McGee was traveling at about 60
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  Speaker 1: miles an hour before they were able to flag her down.
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  Speaker 1: A foreman then reached into her vehicle in an attempt
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  Speaker 1: to take the keys from the ignition. That's when McGee
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  Speaker 1: threw her car into reverse with the man still partially
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  Speaker 1: inside the vehicle, dragging him approximately 70 feet until her
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  Speaker 1: vehicle was blocked in by an off-duty officer working security
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  Speaker 1: and other workers in a street sweeper. CSPD performed a
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  Speaker 1: field sobriety test, which she failed. McGee says she had
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  Speaker 1: one wine cooler that evening. A blood sample was taken
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  Speaker 1: at a local hospital. Then McGee was booked into the
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  Speaker 1: Brazos County Jail. for driving while intoxicated and aggravated assault
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  Speaker 1: with a deadly weapon. She's being held on $ 70, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: This is McGee's 16th booking into the Brazos County Jail.
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  Speaker 1: Her previous arrests include driving while intoxicated, evading arrest, criminal trespass,
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  Speaker 1: possession of a controlled substance, and prostitution. In the span
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: of eight days, two students at A & M Consolidated
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  Speaker 1: High School have found themselves behind bars after being caught
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday after a vape fell out of his pocket
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  Speaker 1: while being escorted to the office by a school resource officer.
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  Speaker 1: A field test showed a positive result for THC above 0.03%.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with possession of a controlled substance in
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: a drug-free zone, a third-degree felony. That student is free
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  Speaker 1: on $ 15, 000 bond. Another student was arrested at AMCHS on
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: August 25th for having a THC vape. The race for
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: governor is proving to be closer than many expected.
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  Speaker 22: Governor Greg Abbott, who has sailed to victory in three
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  Speaker 22: straight elections, facing a situation where he's virtually tied with
• 33:20
  Speaker 22: Democrat Gina Inouye. That's according to another poll out this week.
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  Speaker 3: Abbott is an establishment Republican without a ton of baggage,
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  Speaker 3: so I.
• 33:28
  Speaker 12: Do think that was interesting.
• 33:28
  Speaker 22: Pollster Mark Cunningham with Overton Insight says the race for
• 33:31
  Speaker 22: Senate is also deadlocked. The Democrat James Tallarico is up
• 33:34
  Speaker 22: by 1% over his Republican opponent Ken Paxton. There's a
• 33:38
  Speaker 22: whopping 12% who are undecided in that race. In San Antonio,
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  Speaker 22: Michael Board, TSN News.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: The shooting death of an undocumented migrant in Houston is
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: helping to initiate procedural changes within the Department of Homeland Security.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: The ICE agents who shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado O'Rahu
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: were not wearing body cameras, frustrating investigators and the public.
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  Speaker 1: Now Mark Wayne Mullen, the head of Homeland Security, says
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that all immigration agents will be wearing cameras by the
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: end of September.
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  Speaker 23: But I feel like we're on track by the end
• 34:08
  Speaker 23: of September to have everybody that's in the field. That
• 34:12
  Speaker 23: doesn't mean every ICE agent, everybody that's in the field
• 34:14
  Speaker 23: will have a body of war camera. It's for our
• 34:16
  Speaker 23: safety and the public's safety, too.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar says... This should be embraced by agents,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: but that wearing body cams is not enough. He says
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: there needs to be written rules and training for agents
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: concerning when cameras are turned on and how long the
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: data is kept. A man charged in the infamous Texas
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Killing Fields case just outside of Houston has been found guilty.
• 34:39
  Speaker 24: The so-called Killing Fields is an isolated 25-acre space in
• 34:42
  Speaker 24: League City, and it's where the bodies of four young
• 34:45
  Speaker 24: women connected to this case were found between 1984 and 1991.
• 34:49
  Speaker 24: Jurors in Galveston County needed less than an hour to
• 34:52
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• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Of manslaughter.
• 34:55
  Speaker 24: In 1984, Elmore loaded a syringe with cocaine, which was
• 35:00
  Speaker 24: used by and killed 16-year-old Laura Miller. Elmore's attorney tried
• 35:03
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• 35:06
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• 35:11
  Speaker 24: The punishment phase gets underway this morning, and Miller's father,
• 35:14
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  Speaker 1: 61-year-old Elmore faces a maximum prison sentence of up to
• 35:23
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  Speaker 2: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys. We're the Infomaniacs. A little bit
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: of a shower whipping past right.
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  Speaker 3: Now, in fact. Love to see it. 50% chance of
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: rain today. Getting up to a high of 90 degrees,
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  Speaker 2: Brother, I'm telling you.
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  Speaker 3: 40% chance of more rain tonight, low around 75, and
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  Speaker 3: back up to around 90 tomorrow with another 40% chance
• 36:37
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  Speaker 3: of Bryan time. I got you some theme music, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: You won't be able to hear it because you're not
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I will turn this off so he'll be
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: able to appreciate it. But first, let me remind you
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: that this is Kyle McCain, Solid Waste. and fleet operations
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  Speaker 3: manager for the city of Bryan.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning.
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  Speaker 26: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: So you're in solid waste. Do you know anybody in
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: sanitation named Tony the Rabbit?
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  Speaker 10: No.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know Tony the Rabbit?
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  Speaker 26: I just met Tony the Rabbit this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks, Will.
• 37:12
  Speaker 26: Love the introduction.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: So, guys, we're here, and we're going to talk a
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: little bit of trash today.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Oh, I love trash. Anything 30 or 50 or dusty.
• 37:26
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• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know this song. You don't?
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  Speaker 25: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: This is Oscar.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Oscar Grouch. Okay.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm getting confusion. That did not land at all.
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  Speaker 2: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 1: Oscar's an icon. Just been a minute since I've heard it.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So we wanted to talk about a few different things.
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  Speaker 3: We all, the city of Bryan, are very grateful. uh
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: for our solid waste people because good lord my household
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: generates a lot of it uh even with recycling and
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: it's always picked up it's always done well bags laying
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: on the street they don't miss my house they show
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: up and they're supposed to show up.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: They're great this is one of those things that you
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: never hear about them and that's a good.
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: Thing exactly right i never i mean i'm sure you
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: have some people complain which is fine but i i've
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: never complained with brian solid waste so i ask What
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: are the things that we need to know to make
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: your lives easier?
• 38:28
  Speaker 26: For us, it's just make sure you bag and tie
• 38:30
  Speaker 26: your trash. When we start getting stuff just thrown in
• 38:34
  Speaker 26: the can loose, that turns into windblown litter. So that's
• 38:38
  Speaker 26: the importance of bagging it. And then having your can
• 38:42
  Speaker 26: out at 7 a.m. or before on your scheduled service day.
• 38:47
  Speaker 26: And you can go to our website. solid waste webpage,
• 38:49
  Speaker 26: and verify your collection day. Just enter in your address,
• 38:53
  Speaker 26: and it'll tell you not only your bulk cart, garbage can,
• 38:57
  Speaker 26: but also when your brush and bulky service day is
• 39:00
  Speaker 26: as well.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so keep track of that. Make sure you know. Now,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: how prolific is a problem of people not bagging their
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: trash at this point?
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: Every once in a while?
• 39:12
  Speaker 26: It's going to happen.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: There's no way to avoid it every time.
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: No, no.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: Not terribly.
• 39:17
  Speaker 26: You may pick something up, and it goes there, and
• 39:19
  Speaker 26: you just throw it in the garbage can.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm.
• 39:21
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 25: Yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 39:23
  Speaker 26: So that's one thing. Another thing is just making sure
• 39:26
  Speaker 26: you have, like, five foot spacing from the nearest fixed object.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: See, that was what I was going to ask you is,
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: is space limitations.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Those fancy can grabbers that they got these days.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Those are, those are a lot of fun to watch,
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: but they are fun to watch. You gotta, you gotta
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: keep in mind that they need a little space to operate.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Are they fun to run?
• 39:45
  Speaker 26: They are fun to run.
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: I imagine.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Is there some sort of informal competition that you guys
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: have to see who can.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Open a bottle? A skills contest?
• 39:59
  Speaker 26: Not for solid waste that I'm aware of, but there's these,
• 40:03
  Speaker 26: they call them backhoe rodeos.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've seen those.
• 40:07
  Speaker 26: Tractors, excavators, all that stuff. But I haven't really seen
• 40:10
  Speaker 26: one for.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Well, it's an idea for development.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Maybe we should start. Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Now, what else do we need to talk about? Wait,
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: I know the thing that always comes up with a
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: lot of people is hazardous waste.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 40:22
  Speaker 26: So paint, tires, batteries, cleaners, and ammonia. And I'm glad
• 40:29
  Speaker 26: you brought that up because we do have a HHW company.
• 40:33
  Speaker 26: event coming up on October 24th.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: Is it already that time?
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: I live for household hazardous waste. I'm serious.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: To get rid of it or collect it?
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  Speaker 9: The National Weather Service in Fort Worth has issued a
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: flash flood warning for Leon County in Central Texas until
• 41:09
  Speaker 9: 1130 a.m. Central Daylight Time. At 837 a.m. Central Daylight Time,
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: Up to three inches of rain have fallen. Additional rainfall
• 41:25
  Speaker 9: amounts up to two inches are possible in the warned area.
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: Flash flooding is ongoing or expected to begin shortly. Flash
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: flooding caused by thunderstorms. Radar indicated. Flash flooding of small
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: creeks and streams, urban areas, highways, streets and underpasses as
• 41:48
  Speaker 9: well as other poor drainage and low-lying areas. Some locations
• 41:53
  Speaker 9: that will experience flash flooding include Buffalo, Centerville, Fort Boggy
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: State Park, Corinth, Jewett, Redland, Marquez, Leona, Pleasant Springs, Flo, Eunice, Robins,
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  Speaker 9: Centerville and Flynn. This includes Interstate 45 between mile markers
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  Speaker 9: Most of flood deaths occur in vehicles. Be aware of
• 42:22
  Speaker 9: your surroundings and do not drive on flooded roads.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: So that warning is for look, Centerville is getting hammered
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: right now. Leona, Centerville, all that area up there getting
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: hammered with some rain. So, yeah, it's raining. Be aware.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, be aware and definitely if you're heading east, similar
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: to what we've told you the last couple of days,
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: that's where it's going to get dicier throughout, you know,
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: in general.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Right. I don't think it's going to, it can't do
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: what it did yesterday.
• 42:57
  Speaker 27: No, no.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think we're going to see those numbers. You'll
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: see some flooding out there.
• 42:59
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: Getting back to it, we're talking about household hazardous waste,
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: and I love collecting it.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: I do.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: There's something very satisfying about, like, loading up your car
• 43:06
  Speaker 3: with a bunch of stuff and then taking it and
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: watching them dispose of it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: It's great. A lot of people wonder... I feel like
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: People know that it's a thing, but they don't necessarily
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: know the items that are on that list, which is
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: probably worth repeating again. We mentioned some of them before
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: the announcement. What are some of the things that you
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: are not supposed to put, just the full list that
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: you have, that you're not supposed to put into your trash?
• 43:31
  Speaker 26: Into your trash?
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: So what are the things you're collecting out there that
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: hazardous waste?
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, hazardous waste.
• 43:37
  Speaker 26: So batteries, like, things with aerosol, like aerosol cans that
• 43:43
  Speaker 26: are still loaded, because those things will start mixing. And
• 43:48
  Speaker 26: then we've had a few, but you will get a
• 43:52
  Speaker 26: fire in the back of a garbage truck, and then
• 43:56
  Speaker 26: we've got a big mess on our hands.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: That's not optimal. That is horrible.
• 43:58
  Speaker 26: So that's the importance of not putting those items in
• 44:01
  Speaker 26: the truck.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: It's not just for the environment. It's actually for the
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: physical safety of the people handling it.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Can you imagine that?
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: I think if you're driving the thing and all of
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: a sudden you're like, wait, now there's a giant truck
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: full of flaming garbage behind you.
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, help these guys out.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, please. So when is the household event again? It's
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: in October, right? Next month?
• 44:23
  Speaker 26: It is October 24th. It's a Saturday. It'll be from
• 44:26
  Speaker 26: 7 a.m. to 2 p.m.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Outstanding.
• 44:29
  Speaker 26: And there will be quite a few volunteers out there.
• 44:35
  Speaker 26: From experience, you pull up. One of the volunteers will
• 44:37
  Speaker 26: actually try and help you get the material. You don't
• 44:40
  Speaker 26: even have to get out of the vehicle.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: It's outstanding.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: It's such a breeze.
• 44:43
  Speaker 26: They've got it organized very well. You tell them what
• 44:46
  Speaker 26: you have, and they'll direct you in the right lane
• 44:48
  Speaker 26: to get the materials in the proper collection point.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Love to see it. That's absolutely perfect.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: By the way, Jason Texan, to pass along, thank you
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: to you and your staff for all you do for
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: the community.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: Could not agree more.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Anything else we need to get to today?
• 45:04
  Speaker 26: No, I think we've kind of covered it.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Perfect. Love to see it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Outstanding.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, always love an opportunity.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Again, thank you guys for everything that you do.
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: It's a hard job.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: And we don't notice it, which means you guys are
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: doing a great job.
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: That's absolutely true.
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: We'll catch you up with a full posting of this
• 45:23
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: They made a golden ticket.
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: So everyone who went to the game, they're like, I mean,
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: everyone got a Jimothy card. Now, was that Jimothy card
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: a regular old Jimothy card?
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Was it a silver?
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: Or was it the gold? One kid got the gold,
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: and he sold it on eBay.
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: For $ 21, 000. That's solid. $ 21, 000 for a one-of-one gold Jimothy.
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: And here's the thing about the card trade.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know if he sold light.
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: That one, you go about six months down the road.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You see, in regular trading cards, I
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: would say absolutely the longer you hang on to it,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: the more valuable it gets.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: It just depends on the more popular, the more Jimothy
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: stories that happen.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: You see, I think Jimothy's waning.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: Well, that's, I mean, I'm.
• 50:24
  Speaker 3: Sure someone, can you imagine if someone would have given
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: you an opportunity for a one-of-one Harambe before it happened?
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: Are you suggesting that bad fates are about to bestow
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: on Jimothy? I cannot tell you there will not be
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: a Jimothy-related tragedy.
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: So if Jiminy gets hit by a car, then this
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: card goes.
• 50:47
  Speaker 15: Through the roof.
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: This card is worth millions.
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: If we have flat Jiminy.
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Jimothy is... I hate saying it. The longer Jimothy lives...
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: the less likelihood this gentleman is going to be able
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: to cash in. If Jimothy meets an unfortunate fate, that
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: gentleman is going to be really glad he sunk $ 21, 000
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: into that card. And that kid is going to be
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: kicking himself.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: What you're saying is Jimothy is worth more dead than alive.
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: I don't, I didn't, I purposefully didn't want to say that.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: But you said it.
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: But that is what I am implying. Do you watch
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Dancing with the Stars?
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: I have not. I mean, maybe early in one of
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: its first seasons. Maybe I watched a couple of episodes.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Of course, the girls in my house.
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: That's the follow up I had.
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: The ladies like it.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: They did. I don't think they're still on it, though.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: OK.
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: We have a new cast list for for the Dancing
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: with the Stars.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: This might be a big one here because I think
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: I think I know of five of them.
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: See, you're going to have to give me these, and
• 51:57
  Speaker 3: I will tell you if I can identify any of them.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: And I never have.
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: I was getting to the point where when Dancing with
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: the Stars first showed up, it was Dancing with.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: The stars.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: Now it's just dancing with whoever they can get on
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: that show.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: They've gone down the alphabet from A-listers to probably D-listers.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Let's go through it.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, this is not a D-lister. Julia Stiles.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: Julia Stiles?
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: From Save the Last Dance?
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: Julia Stiles. Jenna Dewan. I don't know who she is,
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: but apparently she's a dancer.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: Oh, she's married to Channing Tatum.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, is she?
• 52:38
  Speaker 6: Is that who that is?
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Apparently she's a dancer, so people are
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: saying that she's a ringer.
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: Okay.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: Tatiana Ali.
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, Fresh Prince.
• 52:45
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: Okay, three for three. Okay. Taylor Hanson.
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: Taylor Hanson. Boy band?
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: Boy band. Hanson? Hanson.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, four for four. Four for four.
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: Paralympic gold medalist Ezra Freck. I... No, I don't. But
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: figure skating Olympic gold medalist Amber Glenn.
• 53:02
  Speaker 2: Oh, the nervous one.
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: Is she the nervous one?
• 53:04
  Speaker 2: Do you know who I'm talking about?
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: No idea.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: OK, no. So there were there were three. There was
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: Alyssa Liu, right? Who's the one that won the gold?
• 53:12
  Speaker 3: There was the kid who's like 17. I forget her
• 53:16
  Speaker 3: name is something wild. And then Amber Glenn, who perpetually
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: looked like she was about to have a panic attack.
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: So, okay.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: That'll be fun to watch.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: And she'll be able to dance, I'll tell you that much.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: Podcaster and comedian Connor Wood.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: No clue.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: He's also known as Fibula.
• 53:30
  Speaker 7: Sure.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Right. Sarah Jane Nader from the reality series Love
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: Thy Nader.
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: They have a Love Thy Nader. What are you famous
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: for besides that?
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Tyler Cameron from The Bachelorette, season 15. Right. Okay.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: Chef Giada De Laurentiis. Giada?
• 53:50
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 53:50
  Speaker 27: Yes.
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, John is getting the spin on that.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Okay, I like it. Yeah. Again, one I know. Harry
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Shum Jr. from Glee and Grey's Anatomy.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: No clue.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: No idea. Whitney Levitt's husband, Connor Levitt, from The Secret
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: Lives of Mormon Wives.
• 54:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, God.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: God, we still have to deal with that.
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they've dug deep here. Guillermo Rodriguez from the Jimmy
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: Kimmel Live Show.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, Jimmy Kimmel Guillermo.
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: Yes. Okay, got it. Mara Higgins from Love Island and Traitors.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: No idea. Sierra Miller from Summer House. No idea. And finally,
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: last but not least, one who I don't necessarily know him,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: but I know who he's associated with, It's Jackson Olsen.
• 54:34
  Speaker 2: I know this guy.
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: He's a second baseman for the Savannah Bananas.
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: I assure you, you will recognize him, and he might
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: do quite well. I like how they put Guillermo in there,
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: which tells me that they had one spot they could
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: not fill. And that's not not just Guillermo. Every person
• 54:51
  Speaker 3: that is an ABC employee is a star they couldn't
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: populate with someone else.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: I promise you.
• 55:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: I know they have a couple that it's like it's
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: a promo where they're like, OK, you have to go
• 55:04
  Speaker 3: on this show. But I guarantee you Guillermo is not
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: on that list. Someone backed out. Now it's Guillermo's problem.
• 55:12
  Speaker 11: Wow.
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: Bless his heart.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: Bless his tiny little hearts.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: It will be fun to watch, though. I mean, I
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: watched the highlights.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: Were you watching?
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: No, if they pop up on social media, I'll give
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: it an eyeball. That's about the extent of it.
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: I don't know how much time I would have to
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: have to spend watching Dancing with the Stars.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: It's way, way down on the list. Way down.
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: It is not a priority as far as I am concerned.
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: All right, that's going to do it for us. Podcast
• 55:43
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• 55:44
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• 55:50
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