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The Infomaniacs: October 14th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Last night,
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Speaker 1: WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce held
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Speaker 1: a candidate forum featuring candidates from many state and local races.
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Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia asked the candidates for State Representative District 14
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Speaker 1: how they would help relieve the tax burden on homeowners.
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Speaker 1: Jeff Miller's idea isn't new.
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Speaker 2: The first thing to say is I support eliminating property
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Speaker 2: taxes entirely.
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Speaker 1: He thinks Austin needs to tighten its belt.
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Speaker 2: We have to reduce what the state budget is that
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Speaker 2: the county is even responsible for. We've already got that
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Speaker 2: where the county will blame the state and the state
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Speaker 2: will blame the county as far as why.
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Speaker 1: Rates go up. Janet Dudding says a flaw in property
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Speaker 1: taxes is how easy it is for businesses to protest
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Speaker 1: appeals during what is called POPs law.
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Speaker 3: It allows corporate entities to pick and choose their own comps,
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Speaker 3: which lowers their property taxes. You've got to have a
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Speaker 3: good attorney to be able to do it. We need
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Speaker 3: to eliminate that. We've been talking about it for years.
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Speaker 1: Incumbent Paul Dyson floats an idea of sales taxes to
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Speaker 1: offset property taxes.
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Speaker 4: Do we allow them to set off a certain amount
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Speaker 4: of property tax and there'll be a direct offset with
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Speaker 4: an optional sales tax that would come in that we
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Speaker 4: also make sure that there can't be a windfall because
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Speaker 4: I'm not trying to increase our tax liability. We all
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Speaker 4: have to pay it and we're paying enough and affordability
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Speaker 4: is an issue.
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Speaker 1: He says right now homestead exemptions are capped at 20%.
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Speaker 4: 20% is the max that they could do. That's the
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Speaker 4: relief they're allowed to do. I've asked, and I still
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Speaker 4: don't have an answer, and I'm trying to figure out,
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Speaker 4: what's the policy behind that? Why do we limit what
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Speaker 4: the exemption is that a local county wants to do?
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Speaker 1: Hear from all the candidates at last night's forum. State
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Speaker 1: Representative District 12, Commissioner's Court, and Mayor now streaming at WTAW.com.
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Speaker 1: The forum next Monday will feature candidates running for city
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Speaker 1: council in Bryan and College Station, also at 6 o'clock
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Speaker 1: at the Brazza Center and live on WTAW. The Bryan
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Speaker 1: City Council announced that it is waiving attorney-client privileges to
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Speaker 1: allow residents to view a legal opinion about the Texas
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Speaker 1: Avenue Medians Charter Amendment that will be on the November
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Speaker 1: 2026 election ballot. The city says that regardless of the
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Speaker 1: outcome of the election, it is unlikely that the city
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Speaker 1: has the legal authority to make any modifications to the
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Speaker 1: medians or remove them completely. It would probably violate the
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Speaker 1: Texas Transportation Code. if done without the Texas Department of
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Speaker 1: Transportation's written consent or an agreement delegating control over the
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Speaker 1: medians to the city. The city estimates the financial impact
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Speaker 1: for median removal is $ 8 million. If the project moves forward,
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Speaker 1: the city will have to identify a funding source, potentially
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Speaker 1: limiting what can be spent on other capital projects. Texas
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Speaker 1: Health and Human Services Commission may cut funding for children's
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Speaker 1: autism programs.
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Speaker 5: The program allows some families to pay nothing for autism services.
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Speaker 5: But because of state budget cuts, the Texas Health and
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Speaker 5: Human Services Commission is proposing eliminating funding for the children's
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Speaker 5: autism program entirely. The program, which started in 2008, contracts
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Speaker 5: with 16 providers across the state to provide focused applied
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Speaker 5: behavior analysis therapy to autistic children at a reduced cost
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Speaker 5: based on families' income and insurance coverage. If the legislature
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Speaker 5: agrees to eliminate the program, children would still receive services
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Speaker 5: through the end of 2027.
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Speaker 6: Lisa Lucera, Fox News.
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Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. More
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Speaker 1: news at 830 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys.
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Speaker 9: Happy Wednesday. 979-695-1620 is our phone number. You can also
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Speaker 9: text us.
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Speaker 1: On that number. Works really, really well.
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Speaker 9: 50% chance of showers and thunderstorms today.
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Speaker 8: Partly sunny. High of 91.
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Speaker 9: It's going to feel like low 100s. Down to around
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Speaker 9: 70 tonight. Back up to 90 tomorrow. And just to
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Speaker 9: mark the tape, please, no chance of rain listed tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: That's what it says. None.
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Speaker 10: None.
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Speaker 9: We'll see if that changes in between now and then.
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Speaker 9: Cool down is going to be Friday night into Saturday morning. So, no,
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Speaker 8: Feel the difference. What is this picture? What is this
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Speaker 8: that Glenn is texting us?
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Speaker 1: Glenn Brewer, Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce. Yeah. Send
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Speaker 1: a picture of you and Dusty.
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Speaker 8: Oh, Glenn.
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Speaker 1: And Area Man.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Just relaxing during last night's festivities.
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Speaker 9: Yes, no wasted energy is how he captions this. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: that is what I would refer to as an unfortunate picture.
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Speaker 9: Mostly because I know I'm cultivating the look of someone
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Speaker 9: that is intensely watching and listening to what is going
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Speaker 9: on on stage, but there's no way to do that without.
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Speaker 8: Looking like you're just kind of, you know. Right. I
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Speaker 8: was working very hard, I would like you to know.
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Speaker 3: And.
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Speaker 9: If you would like to check out the candidates forum
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Speaker 9: from last night, if you weren't able to check it
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Speaker 9: out live or listen to it live, it is online.
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Speaker 9: You can consume it right now in its entirety on WTAW.com
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Speaker 9: should be the top story up there. So please go
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Speaker 9: check it out. Lots of good races, lots of good
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Speaker 9: content last night from all the candidates. And we very
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Speaker 9: much hope it's helpful as you choose coming up later
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Speaker 9: on in the beginning of November.
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Speaker 8: How many hobbies do you have, Will?
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Speaker 1: Fewer than I used to. Do your hobbies.
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Speaker 8: Bring you pleasure? Or do your hobbies bring you stress?
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Speaker 1: I would say that escapism is a pleasure. And so
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Speaker 1: my hobbies provide some escape. Play a little golf.
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Speaker 8: So when you go out on the golf course, I'm
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Speaker 8: not a golfer. I should be.
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Speaker 1: You should be.
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Speaker 10: But I'm not.
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Speaker 9: Do you get relaxed when you play golf, or are
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Speaker 9: you one of those rage golfers?
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Speaker 1: I was a rage golfer.
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Speaker 10: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Very much so. I didn't pick up the game until
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Speaker 1: I was 27. And I should have done it a
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Speaker 1: decade before that easy.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 1: And when I was a young golfer, I was very angry.
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Speaker 1: I would throw clubs. I would scream. And a couple
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Speaker 1: of things happened simultaneously that really legitimately changed my life.
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Speaker 10: Right.
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Speaker 1: First of all, I read Harvey Penick's Little Red Book.
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Speaker 1: Harvey Penick, old golf coach out of Austin, taught players
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Speaker 1: like Ben Crenshaw and Tom Kite.
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Speaker 8: All the Austin.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all the Austin golfers. And it was really more
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Speaker 1: of a homespun zen of golf sort of thing. But very,
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Speaker 1: very much about the inner self as much as the
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Speaker 1: outer game.
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Speaker 8: I love it.
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Speaker 1: I also discovered that I was cheaper than I was angry.
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Speaker 1: because I bought my first expensive set of clubs, and
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Speaker 1: when I went to chunk that 7-iron that I had
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Speaker 1: just dumped, it just would not come out of my hand.
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Speaker 8: That's a great solution.
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Speaker 1: At the same time, one of my best friends and
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Speaker 1: mentors in this business told me, that he was not
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Speaker 1: going to play golf with me anymore until I learned
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Speaker 1: how to control myself on the course.
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Speaker 11: Wow.
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Speaker 8: It was so bad. He was like, I'm not even
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Speaker 8: going to, I'm not.
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Speaker 1: A little embarrassing. I was an angry young man.
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Speaker 12: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And so all three of those things kind of happened
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Speaker 1: at once.
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Speaker 8: Fun to me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, it is now. It is now. Okay. Literally
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Speaker 1: now golf has taught me so much. If you're going
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Speaker 1: to hit a bad shot, it's going to go off
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Speaker 1: in the weeds. You have two options, right? You can
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Speaker 1: get angry and therefore have no chance of recovering from
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Speaker 1: your errant shot, or you can just go figure out
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Speaker 1: how to get out of the weeds.
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Speaker 8: See, that's the life lessons in golf, right?
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Speaker 1: Very, very, very many life lessons in golf.
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Speaker 8: That's the life lessons of the game.
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Speaker 1: So, yeah, that's one of them. I like to barbecue,
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Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 9: There is a whole list of hobbies that apparently, again,
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Speaker 9: look very peaceful, very relaxing, right? but in reality are
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Speaker 9: just giant little stress magnets. Like, they're just stressful as hell,
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Speaker 9: and you would never.
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Speaker 8: Think that they are. And we'll get to these coming
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Speaker 8: up in a second.
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Speaker 9: But before we do, I wanted to give you guys
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Speaker 9: the opportunity to share with us your hobby that stresses
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Speaker 9: you the hell out. If you have a hobby that
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Speaker 9: just causes you an immense amount of stress, you have
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Speaker 9: no idea why you keep doing it, but you do
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Speaker 9: it anyway.
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Speaker 8: You love it. It's just what you do. a hobby
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Speaker 8: that does.
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Speaker 9: Not make you feel peaceful and relaxed, but one that
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Speaker 9: fills you with anxiety, then we want to hear about it.
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Speaker 10: Nice.
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Speaker 9: Any of the remaining magical weekends on the calendar. So
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Speaker 9: we'll give you guys a couple of seconds to get
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Speaker 9: your thoughts together and text them in to 979-695-1620.
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Speaker 8: What is it about your.
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Speaker 9: Hobby, your personal time, your happy place that just stresses
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Speaker 9: you out?
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Speaker 1: Share it with us.
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Speaker 9: We'll see what y'all have. coming up right after this.
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Speaker 8: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning.
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Speaker 9: 979-695-1620 is our phone number today, and we are talking
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Speaker 9: about your hobbies. They're supposed to bring you joy. They're
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Speaker 9: supposed to bring you relaxation, a break, a diversion. from
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Speaker 9: your everyday life. But we're talking about why those hobbies
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Speaker 9: stress you out so much. Because apparently, the most peaceful
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Speaker 9: ones are also the most stressful. We talked about Will's
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Speaker 9: golf early years in the golf game.
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Speaker 1: They were stressful.
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Speaker 8: He was a rage monster on the course.
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Speaker 1: I was a rage monster in general.
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Speaker 9: But he figured out how to be zen.
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Speaker 1: He taught me so much about life, helped me become
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Speaker 1: a better person.
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Speaker 9: Steve Smith, a bad day playing golf beats a good
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Speaker 9: day doing... Most anything else.
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Speaker 1: Can confirm.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's a state of mind, man. So we're asking you,
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Speaker 9: do you have a hobby? And what about that hobby
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Speaker 9: stresses you out? If you have one, 979-695-1620. One of you,
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Speaker 9: for texting in, will win tickets to the Texas Renaissance Festival. Now,
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Speaker 9: we do have a list of some of the most.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we do.
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Speaker 8: Like, the most zen holidays. And the reason, holidays. Zen hobbies.
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Speaker 8: And why they are so stressful. And interestingly enough, Will,
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Speaker 8: I think you do probably about five of them.
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Speaker 1: You think I do five of them? Which five do
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Speaker 1: you think I do?
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Speaker 8: Well, we'll go through them here. Telescopes.
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Speaker 7: How?
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Speaker 8: How is telescopes stressful? Like, if you drop it?
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Speaker 1: Because they're expensive?
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: They're expensive. I never had good luck with telescopes. I
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Speaker 1: could never find what I was trying to find. And
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Speaker 1: I wasn't that interested.
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Speaker 9: I know why 11 is stressed. Rock hounding. Because my
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Speaker 9: wife likes rocks. It's not rock hounding. It's rock hoarding.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 8: And they're heavy.
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Speaker 18: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: Like, if we ever have to move everything in our house,
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Speaker 9: the rocks will come with us. And it's got to be.
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Speaker 9: I don't even want to know how much that's going
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Speaker 9: to weigh.
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Speaker 8: Like, it's insane. Painting as in Bob Rossing it up.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not me. I don't like any kind of painting.
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Speaker 9: They say you want every single stroke to turn out
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Speaker 9: perfect because there's no simple undo button you can apply.
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Speaker 8: Happy little trees, man. Growing roses, Will.
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Speaker 1: I don't do it. I'm not a gardener. By any
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Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination.
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Speaker 19: Really?
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Speaker 8: I thought you got involved.
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Speaker 1: You dabbled a little bit. Well, look, I was raised
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Speaker 1: by a world-renowned landscape horticulturist. Plants were his life.
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Speaker 8: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: That was probably the reason why I gravitated away from it.
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Speaker 20: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: I respect it. He was a rock star in the
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Speaker 1: industry and I like plants. I just, honestly, I don't
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Speaker 1: have the time and effort to put into them and the,
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Speaker 1: and the resources.
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Speaker 8: Well, I can understand that. It's like, again, it's a,
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Speaker 8: it's a, yeah, you got to keep them alive.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you and I were talking roses earlier and
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Speaker 1: I was talking about planting some wild rose thickets in
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Speaker 1: some of the areas around my property to help out
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Speaker 1: with the bees. That's not growing roses. That's, Putting some
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Speaker 1: plants out there.
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Speaker 8: Creating a pollinator.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let them go. I'm not going to water them
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Speaker 1: or fertilize them or anything like that.
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Speaker 18: Dancing.
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Speaker 9: Now they list swing dancing. I'm going to add western
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Speaker 9: dancing to that.
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Speaker 1: Western dancing to that. I can tell you that it
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Speaker 1: is my daughter's hobby. And she's a competitor in it.
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Speaker 1: And it is not... brought anything but joy to her life.
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Speaker 8: They say it gets competitive and clicky.
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Speaker 1: Well, she likes the competition. Right. And they may be
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Speaker 1: talking more about the swing.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, like some other, yeah.
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Speaker 1: For her, she loves competing. She loves dancing with her partner.
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Speaker 1: Her partner, her original partner, who's now in college, they're
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Speaker 1: still like brother and sister.
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Speaker 10: Wow.
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Speaker 1: And he will occasionally, when he wants to impress a girl,
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Speaker 1: he'll sneak Ella. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Into the Country
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Speaker 1: and Western Dance Club to show off.
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Speaker 8: It's a showing woman for him.
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Speaker 10: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 1: So, I mean, I don't put that there, but I
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Speaker 1: could see it.
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Speaker 8: Roasting and crafting specialty coffee.
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Speaker 10: Who would do that?
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Speaker 1: Who would do that? Yeah, no way.
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Speaker 8: Raising chickens.
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Speaker 1: I don't raise chickens. I've often thought about it, and
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Speaker 1: there's some work on the horizon that may go toward
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Speaker 1: that end. What I really like is neighbors with chickens.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's pretty fun.
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Speaker 1: It's great.
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Speaker 8: By the way, they say they're chaotic and vicious.
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Speaker 1: They are. They're baby dinosaurs.
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Speaker 9: Exactly what they are. They're also just intent on dying. Yeah,
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Speaker 9: they're kind of like any given point.
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Speaker 1: Like goats.
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Speaker 8: Yeah. Sewing.
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Speaker 9: One person said sewing is great as long as you
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Speaker 9: don't tell anyone you sew.
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Speaker 10: Beekeeping.
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Speaker 8: Does beekeeping bring you stress?
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Speaker 1: No, because I have a guy.
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Speaker 8: Apiarist Will Welch. Oh, I got a guy.
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Speaker 1: You offloaded.
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Speaker 8: I offloaded.
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Speaker 10: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's had some stressful times, and I've felt a
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Speaker 1: little bit of that. I had some bees abscond. I
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Speaker 10: I didn't birth the bees.
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Speaker 8: That's true.
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Speaker 10: That's true.
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Speaker 1: So my bee guy may feel that way.
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Speaker 8: Having a bee guy really helps.
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Speaker 9: Surfing, they say it's not pure stress, but surfers can
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Speaker 8: Fish tanks.
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Speaker 10: Yes.
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Speaker 9: Reef tanks, planted ones in saltwater tanks. They'll go bad
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Speaker 9: in a hurry, and you're always worried about them.
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Speaker 8: Finally, bonsai. I had an uncle who was into bonsai,
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Speaker 8: and yeah, he was always stressed out by them trees.
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Speaker 1: I thought that was supposed to be the whole peaceful thing.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: It is, but as soon as you know a guy
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Speaker 9: that bonds eyes, you figure they get very detail-oriented.
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Speaker 8: It's a real serious business.
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Speaker 9: Let's get to yours at 979-695-1620. Again, what is your hobby,
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Speaker 9: and why does it stress you out? Well, Wes says— Wes,
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Speaker 9: that's not a hobby.
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Speaker 1: Stock trading.
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Speaker 10: Wes!
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Speaker 1: Some people consider it a hobby.
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Speaker 9: Wes, that's your hobby? I mean, that's hardcore.
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Speaker 1: It is hardcore. You need to find, I don't know—
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Speaker 1: Something less stressful like snake handling.
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Speaker 10: Let's see.
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Speaker 8: Tracy, sewing. I love sewing.
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Speaker 9: But sometimes I just have to walk away from that
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Speaker 9: stupid machine. Yeah, you just get fed up with it.
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Speaker 10: I can see that.
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Speaker 1: I dig that. I can see that because my daughter's
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Speaker 8: Yeah, a little bit.
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Speaker 1: That's a great little peaceful thing for her. I have
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Speaker 9: Our pal Brian Woods from the City of College Station
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Speaker 9: with Brian.
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Speaker 10: Brian.
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Speaker 9: Brian says, the Navy Reserve is my hobby, and it
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Speaker 9: can be a bit stressful, mostly because it means I
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Speaker 9: don't have time for any actual hobbies.
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Speaker 8: You know what, Brian? I'll allow it. That's pretty good.
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Speaker 9: Also, and text of the morning, not even close. Number
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Speaker 9: one is watching Aggie football.
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Speaker 8: I break stuff. Not kidding.
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Speaker 1: Jay, I was once you.
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Speaker 10: Jay.
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Speaker 1: I watched football with a group where one member of
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Speaker 1: the group almost, if we had not stopped her, almost
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Speaker 10: Jay.
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Speaker 1: You got to back up, man.
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Speaker 8: Jay. Jay is all of us this season. Also, Andy triathlons.
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Speaker 1: It's not a hobby.
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Speaker 10: Triathlons.
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Speaker 1: Masochism is what that is.
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Speaker 8: Is self-torture an actual listed hobby?
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Last night,
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Speaker 1: WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce held
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Speaker 1: Scott DeLucia asked the candidates for State Representative District 12
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Speaker 1: how they would relieve the tax burden on homeowners. Representative
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Speaker 1: Trey Wharton said he's against the idea of making indefinite
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Speaker 1: payments on a home.
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Speaker 18: I don't believe someone should continue to pay rent on
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Speaker 18: their house for the rest of their life, and so
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Speaker 18: we need to keep moving in the path we are
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Speaker 18: in order to eliminate the property tax.
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Speaker 1: He says efforts were made at the state level to
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Speaker 1: cut the burden that was negated at the county level.
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Speaker 18: The local county appraisal districts upped the rates, the value
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Speaker 18: so high that it kind of wiped out what we did.
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Speaker 1: His opponent Andy Ho believes there is a different path.
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Speaker 28: The problem is property taxes are dictated by local appraisal districts,
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Speaker 28: not by the state, and I would be reluctant to
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Speaker 28: take that power from local areas. What we could do
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Speaker 28: is provide relief in other areas, making sure that there
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Speaker 1: The candidates were also asked what they thought about Medicaid
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Speaker 28: Forty states have taken it. Texas is one of the
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Speaker 28: to qualify for the Affordable Care Act. So I do
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Speaker 1: Wharton explains why Texas is holding out on expansion.
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Speaker 18: That's a federal program that comes with a whole lot
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Speaker 1: He says he has been working to address the underlying issue.
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Speaker 18: One of the things we're trying to get done is
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Speaker 1: Hear from all the candidates at last night's forum, including
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Speaker 1: Tonight at the Brazos Center, go inside the firehouse. Learn
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Speaker 1: Center from 6 until 8. The Trump administration has invoked
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Speaker 27: Vice President J.D. Vance made the announcement in Tyler while
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Speaker 30: It means a more reliable energy supply, but also a
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Speaker 29: And it will also mean hundreds of good paying new jobs.
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Speaker 27: The Defense Production Act of 1950 is a federal law
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Speaker 1: As more opposition comes up to the idea of publicizing
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Speaker 1: the Fort Hood shooter's planned execution, President Trump says he'll
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Speaker 31: The debate has YouTube in an uncomfortable spot. Many government
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Speaker 1: You can't quite see the humidity, but it's there.
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Speaker 9: Lord, it's definitely there. It's a steamy, steamy Wednesday. down
34:50
Speaker 9: to around 70 tonight, back up to the 90s tomorrow.
34:52
Speaker 9: They say no chance of rain, but they said no
34:54
Speaker 9: chance today, yesterday.
34:56
Speaker 1: We'll find out.
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35:09
Speaker 9: I want to get to a few more of the
35:10
Speaker 9: text messages for hobbies before we move off of this thing.
35:15
Speaker 8: It's Wendell. This is a new one.
35:17
Speaker 9: I have a friend that's into this too, 3D printing.
35:20
Speaker 9: He says, when a 25-hour print fails at 24 hours,
35:25
Speaker 9: that's stress.
35:26
Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: I'm fascinated by you guys that are into this.
35:30
Speaker 1: I don't want to put myself in that situation. It's
35:31
Speaker 1: way too.
35:32
Speaker 8: Smart for me. I don't know how. I'm amazed.
35:37
Speaker 9: James, this is a good one. Shooting, going out and shooting,
35:40
Speaker 9: because ammo prices.
35:41
Speaker 1: Are murdering you. Yeah, you've got to basically... What I've
35:44
Speaker 1: done is I've just taken to training with. 22. And
35:48
Speaker 1: that way I'm still getting... You get some reps. You
35:50
Speaker 1: get some reps.
35:51
Speaker 8: The ammo's a little cheaper. Let's see.
35:56
Speaker 9: Yes, we need to talk about Sprouse's Valley on the record,
36:00
Speaker 9: brought to you by the Baker Insurance Group. And joining
36:04
Speaker 9: us today for the Mayor's Update is not the mayor
36:06
Speaker 9: of College Station, although... Is he doing well?
36:09
Speaker 1: He's back off of IR.
36:11
Speaker 10: That's right. He's limited availability at the moment.
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Speaker 30: He led the meeting on last Thursday, but I think
36:18
Speaker 30: some of the extracurricular stuff I still get to fill in.
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Speaker 1: I love it.
36:21
Speaker 10: I'm excited.
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Speaker 8: We love seeing you. I appreciate that. It's always a
36:26
Speaker 8: fun chat.
36:27
Speaker 1: You're a short timer, so we can get all the
36:29
Speaker 1: juice from you.
36:30
Speaker 8: Is it like.
36:32
Speaker 9: Whenever you're in high school, do you get senioritis when
36:36
Speaker 9: you're timing it out?
36:37
Speaker 8: Like, okay, I've got a couple of months left. Just like, ah, whatever.
36:40
Speaker 10: A little bit. You still have to do a good job.
36:43
Speaker 30: But I think some of the stuff that I think
36:44
Speaker 30: you go into, maybe you have the pressure because you're
36:46
Speaker 30: thinking about the future.
36:47
Speaker 10: You're thinking, how can this come back on me? It's like,
36:49
Speaker 10: it's not going to matter. Just enjoy it now. It's like,
36:53
Speaker 10: don't read the comments and just kind of do whatever.
36:56
Speaker 10: Do you.
36:57
Speaker 1: I love it.
36:57
Speaker 8: All right, let's fly through a few things.
37:00
Speaker 9: The first one, because it's been discussed a few different
37:02
Speaker 9: times since we've talked to you, I wanted to talk
37:08
Speaker 9: about the idea of the safe passing ordinance slash Hannah's
37:11
Speaker 9: Law and maybe see if you could fill in some gaps.
37:15
Speaker 9: Because the thing that was confusing us the most about
37:19
Speaker 9: this was it seems like this is actually going to
37:22
Speaker 9: either A, I mean, it's going to impede traffic more.
37:26
Speaker 9: It seems like on a lot of city streets, it's
37:27
Speaker 9: actually kind of impossible to maybe provide the halo that
37:31
Speaker 9: would be legally required.
37:34
Speaker 1: My biggest question is, are you going to be utilizing
37:37
Speaker 1: the flock cameras to measure the different distance between bicycles
37:40
Speaker 1: and automobiles?
37:42
Speaker 10: Oh, man.
37:44
Speaker 9: But no, but in all seriousness, give us some insight
37:48
Speaker 9: into what we're thinking with this.
37:50
Speaker 30: Yeah, so I think that, you know, it's three feet,
37:53
Speaker 30: you know, and so, yeah, I think there are probably
37:54
Speaker 30: some places where it's going to be tight, and I
37:58
Speaker 30: think to the letter of law, it's three feet. I
38:00
Speaker 30: think it's, like, it's going to be hard to enforce.
38:02
Speaker 30: We even talked about that. It's going to be hard
38:04
Speaker 30: to eyeball that kind of stuff. It's really just an awareness.
38:07
Speaker 10: I mean, it is a law.
38:08
Speaker 30: We want to see it being enforced, but it's also,
38:10
Speaker 30: I think, just to really push the public awareness of,
38:12
Speaker 30: you know, share the road. And like, there are consequences
38:16
Speaker 30: that can happen when, you know, a car that's two
38:19
Speaker 30: tons is out there next to someone on a bike
38:20
Speaker 30: or on, uh, micromobility or anything like that. So I
38:23
Speaker 30: think it's just a good way to, to kind of
38:25
Speaker 30: get back into the public consciousness.
38:26
Speaker 10: Hey, like we need to share the road with these folks.
38:28
Speaker 30: Um, but yeah, when it comes down to actual enforcement
38:30
Speaker 30: on some of the skinnier city streets, uh, yeah, it's
38:33
Speaker 30: going to be, I'm sure.
38:34
Speaker 1: It'll be a little, you say, you say it's, it's
38:36
Speaker 1: incumbent for us to share the road, uh, with them. However,
38:40
Speaker 1: What about the flip side of that? Why aren't we regulating,
38:44
Speaker 1: putting more regulation on bicycles, putting more opportunities for bicycles
38:48
Speaker 1: to be out of the way of traffic, and also
38:50
Speaker 1: including in this the scooters and the electric bikes?
38:53
Speaker 10: Right.
38:53
Speaker 30: So I know that we've talked about the micromobility before,
38:56
Speaker 30: and I think the PD is going to come back
38:58
Speaker 30: with some recommendations they have for us and for the
39:00
Speaker 30: next council. as far as adding more opportunities for bikes
39:06
Speaker 30: and bike safety, every time we rehab a road or
39:08
Speaker 30: anything in call station, we're adding bike lanes, improving sidewalks,
39:11
Speaker 30: so that's just a step-by-step process that the city's.
39:13
Speaker 10: Going through, so that does work. But I'm with you.
39:16
Speaker 30: I think sharing the road goes both ways also, and
39:18
Speaker 30: I think making sure that bike folks, and especially micro-mobility,
39:23
Speaker 30: are really following the laws just as much.
39:26
Speaker 10: Obviously, we've talked about it before.
39:27
Speaker 30: It's personal responsibility at some point, and at some that
39:30
Speaker 30: walked around campus when I was there at A & M,
39:33
Speaker 30: bikes do tend to dominate that.
39:35
Speaker 10: And it's like, hey, share the road with us. So
39:37
Speaker 10: it's obviously back and forth.
39:38
Speaker 30: A lot more of that falls to the personal responsibility
39:41
Speaker 30: that people have.
39:43
Speaker 9: My expectation, and I think if your expectation is there's
39:46
Speaker 9: going to be one ordinance that's going to just solve
39:48
Speaker 9: all of this, like, I think it's going to be
39:50
Speaker 9: a multiple, multiple, multiple, multiple different looks are going to
39:54
Speaker 9: need to happen to, to try to rein in some
39:57
Speaker 9: of the insanity around, because I look, the micro mobility
39:59
Speaker 9: thing is, is real. I know we've always had bikes, the,
40:03
Speaker 9: the manner of vehicles that, that they, that we, you know,
40:07
Speaker 9: see on the roads is just different than what we
40:09
Speaker 9: had when, when even five years ago, you know, like
40:12
Speaker 9: even the little, the little hoverboards, it's not the same
40:15
Speaker 9: as what they've got now. It's, it's, it's really dialed
40:17
Speaker 9: up and It's going to take some time. Was it
40:22
Speaker 9: this past meeting where the South Noel residents were talking
40:26
Speaker 9: about their concerns? My recollection of this was they were
40:33
Speaker 9: concerned about regular family homes, existing family homes being torn
40:36
Speaker 9: down and replaced with the student rental properties, which are
40:39
Speaker 9: so prevalent. How much of a problem is this continuing
40:44
Speaker 9: to become?
40:46
Speaker 28: Um.
40:48
Speaker 30: That's a difficult, honestly, question to answer because really I
40:51
Speaker 30: think what their complaints were were some of the parts
40:54
Speaker 30: of South Knoll were going to be proactively rezoned to
40:57
Speaker 30: middle housing, which middle housing allows for those types of products,
41:00
Speaker 30: sort of like what you envision in an ag shack. Now,
41:03
Speaker 30: sort of the stealth storms coming into neighborhoods and building
41:06
Speaker 30: and single-family residents, that happens significantly less. Some of the
41:10
Speaker 30: stuff we did over the last four years in my
41:12
Speaker 30: term– has really attacked that.
41:14
Speaker 8: You've been able to dial that back.
41:15
Speaker 10: You've been able to dial.
41:16
Speaker 30: That back to different ordinances and different zoning things that
41:19
Speaker 30: we've chosen, especially with middle housing. What they're saying is
41:21
Speaker 30: that by proactively rezoning parts of South Knoll, which is
41:25
Speaker 30: the area of town that I grew up in, essentially
41:28
Speaker 30: that would incentivize developers to go in, buy up those
41:31
Speaker 30: single-family homes, tear them down, to be able to put
41:33
Speaker 30: something else there that doesn't necessarily.
41:38
Speaker 10: It's not compatible with what the neighborhood is. Yeah.
41:40
Speaker 30: That's definitely not the spirit of those rezonings. And so
41:44
Speaker 30: I'm sure that it'll actually come up for the next
41:46
Speaker 30: council to really look at some of those areas they
41:48
Speaker 30: want for rezoning.
41:50
Speaker 10: That's going to proactively happen, meaning the city is actually
41:53
Speaker 10: putting this forward.
41:54
Speaker 30: Usually when those happen, though, it is the city responding
41:56
Speaker 30: to a market demand or responding to a place in
42:00
Speaker 30: the city that has already succumbed to that.
42:02
Speaker 15: Right.
42:02
Speaker 30: We're just making the zoning match the product and usually
42:06
Speaker 30: not the other way around. In certain specific instances like that,
42:10
Speaker 30: I'm not sure which part of South Knoll they're talking about.
42:13
Speaker 30: But that's typically what the push and pull is.
42:16
Speaker 10: It will affect the neighborhood.
42:18
Speaker 9: Limiting the building heights has come up a few times.
42:20
Speaker 9: I don't know how far we've gotten into that on
42:24
Speaker 9: the show. So I figured that we might because it
42:26
Speaker 9: came up in some conversations.
42:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, and is that a cow out of the barn already?
42:30
Speaker 8: It's because it has already turned into essentially... The canyons
42:34
Speaker 8: of Northgate.
42:35
Speaker 9: The Austin skyline light. Which, what's gained by curtailing that
42:42
Speaker 9: at this point?
42:44
Speaker 30: Really what it came down to is when we tried
42:45
Speaker 30: to sell, when the city tried to sell the parking
42:48
Speaker 30: lot a few years ago now, the pushback against that was,
42:53
Speaker 30: you know, we were going to destroy Northgate doing that.
42:55
Speaker 30: We need to preserve the historic Northgate, which we finally
42:59
Speaker 30: kind of settled on from New Harry's to the corner
43:02
Speaker 30: is what people are talking about. Maybe a little past
43:04
Speaker 30: the corner, but that Starbucks is sold, that'll probably be
43:07
Speaker 30: a high rise, eventually nothing we can do about that.
43:09
Speaker 10: So it's really preserving that.
43:11
Speaker 30: So all we as a council have done is respond
43:13
Speaker 30: to the public saying, we need to preserve this. What
43:16
Speaker 30: can you do? Well, identifying what we think is historic Northgate, right?
43:20
Speaker 30: Core Northgate is what we refer to it as. And then, okay,
43:22
Speaker 30: here is what we can actually do. And what we
43:24
Speaker 30: can actually do to preserve that is limit the ability
43:28
Speaker 30: for an investor to.
43:29
Speaker 8: Really- Just put the cap on it at that point.
43:32
Speaker 30: Put a cap on it so that if it even
43:33
Speaker 30: goes to the five stories, you're likely going to keep
43:36
Speaker 30: that facade there. because all those bars don't own their land.
43:39
Speaker 30: So as much as people love them, they're subject to
43:42
Speaker 30: the folks that own the land, and the folks that
43:44
Speaker 30: own the land, rightfully so, likely want to return on
43:46
Speaker 30: their investment. And this would prohibit that significantly. But we've
43:51
Speaker 30: been talking about it for a while, and it's what
43:53
Speaker 30: the public.
43:54
Speaker 10: Has asked of us.
43:54
Speaker 30: So after this last workshop session talking about it, we decided, oh,
44:00
Speaker 30: I recommend it, and I think it's going to come back.
44:02
Speaker 10: It's something to vote on to limit that.
44:05
Speaker 30: Some ordinance that says, hey, we're going to limit um
44:08
Speaker 30: the height of that of that specific core northgate okay
44:12
Speaker 30: so it'll be for a different council to vote on
44:13
Speaker 30: and for a different set of public to weigh in on.
44:16
Speaker 9: Do you believe that it's kind of making core northgate
44:20
Speaker 9: appear like the house in up before he attached the
44:24
Speaker 9: balloons to it and why Yeah.
44:28
Speaker 10: Oh, I definitely think that it could have that.
44:29
Speaker 9: Okay, just make sure it's not just me because I
44:32
Speaker 9: see it already. It freaks me out.
44:34
Speaker 30: Yeah, I definitely think that it can have that look
44:37
Speaker 30: to it. And so, you know, really, you know, you
44:41
Speaker 30: hope there's a thread that you can, you know, just
44:45
Speaker 30: something that it can have that look that you want.
44:48
Speaker 8: A little bit of taper, a little bit of taper,
44:52
Speaker 8: which I.
44:52
Speaker 30: Think is what the five stories that we're recommending would
44:54
Speaker 30: kind of do, you know, it's scale up from there.
44:57
Speaker 30: And then ostensibly, I would think that along with that,
45:00
Speaker 30: the city would probably not sell the parking lot and
45:04
Speaker 30: do something more proactive there, more programming there.
45:07
Speaker 10: That's what I would say.
45:08
Speaker 1: You know what?
45:08
Speaker 9: Thank God, because I don't know where else 40-year-olds from
45:11
Speaker 9: Lubbock would get in a throwdown.
45:12
Speaker 1: That's right.
45:13
Speaker 8: We've got to provide that service for our visitors.
45:16
Speaker 1: Visit College Station is all over that.
45:19
Speaker 9: If you can't get in an absolute open fistfight with
45:22
Speaker 9: a 40-year-old married couple from Lubbock, then what is the point?
45:25
Speaker 1: What is the point?
45:26
Speaker 10: Not until we have a Waffle House.
45:29
Speaker 1: Preach.
45:30
Speaker 8: God willing. God willing. One more question. How much do
45:33
Speaker 8: you want from Macy's? And I mean this.
45:35
Speaker 9: How much do I want? What's an attractive offer if
45:38
Speaker 9: me and Will were to buy Macy's from you guys?
45:41
Speaker 30: An attractive offer is probably not to sell. An attractive
45:43
Speaker 30: offer is to come in with a business that will
45:49
Speaker 30: return on sales tax.
45:51
Speaker 10: Okay.
45:52
Speaker 30: But it would put the improvements in at Macy's that
45:56
Speaker 30: we don't necessarily have to.
45:57
Speaker 13: Yeah.
45:58
Speaker 10: We'd have to replace the HVAC probably, but they would
46:00
Speaker 10: do the improvements.
46:01
Speaker 8: There'd be a little give and take there.
46:02
Speaker 18: Right.
46:02
Speaker 10: They would do the improvements. They would large sales tax
46:05
Speaker 10: and they would, we would lease it to them.
46:07
Speaker 8: Pitch the good man.
46:08
Speaker 1: So we have come up with the, the waffle house
46:12
Speaker 1: sort of, I can't use the branding. So a waffle
46:15
Speaker 1: type establishment, laundromat, cigar lounge bar.
46:20
Speaker 10: Yeah.
46:21
Speaker 9: Like, so the, the thought is will has a problem
46:24
Speaker 9: and many other guys do too. of where you need
46:28
Speaker 9: to do your laundry because you need to get on
46:29
Speaker 9: the road and go on the road of a business trip.
46:31
Speaker 9: Your wife and your kids have made this impossible. So
46:34
Speaker 9: what do you do? We used to take the Harvey Washbangers,
46:36
Speaker 9: have a burger, a couple of beers, let it do
46:38
Speaker 9: its thing, and then you go home. Well, that doesn't
46:40
Speaker 9: happen anymore. So we need to replace that vacuum in
46:44
Speaker 9: this community. What better way than basically making a launderatorium
46:50
Speaker 9: that also is an entertainment venue?
46:52
Speaker 1: We started with a waffle mat.
46:54
Speaker 10: Yeah.
46:54
Speaker 1: And then... Wash and waffles. Wash and waffles, right? And
46:58
Speaker 1: then Tucker tacked on, we need the cigar bar, we
47:01
Speaker 1: need the lounge.
47:02
Speaker 9: Even if it's the e-gaming thing, I could see a
47:04
Speaker 9: world where you had a bunch of PlayStation fives and
47:08
Speaker 9: we all got together and I played Madden for a
47:10
Speaker 9: few hours and like, dude, this is, this is potentially
47:12
Speaker 9: a gold mine.
47:14
Speaker 1: That's right.
47:14
Speaker 10: I don't know.
47:15
Speaker 1: I think it's big. I don't know that it's as
47:17
Speaker 1: big as Santa's water park. Cause I still think that one,
47:21
Speaker 1: that one is, is the end all.
47:22
Speaker 8: I just didn't want to miss.
47:23
Speaker 10: I don't disagree with you.
47:24
Speaker 30: I think that eventually you'll have something bigger down South,
47:26
Speaker 30: but I do want to reiterate it more serious. So
47:28
Speaker 30: I love y'all's idea, but I think the public, you know,
47:30
Speaker 30: at the council's office can change over. So things could change,
47:33
Speaker 30: but yeah, the, the, the lease of that is going
47:36
Speaker 30: to be what's important because the way that the state
47:39
Speaker 30: will start limiting the way that the city can collect revenue,
47:43
Speaker 30: it's going to be important that that's leased.
47:45
Speaker 10: Right. And like, you want to make your return back.
47:47
Speaker 10: You want that huge chunk.
47:48
Speaker 30: I think that's what people are hungry for, but the
47:50
Speaker 30: recurring revenue is so much harder to get.
47:53
Speaker 9: What you're saying is you don't want to paper hands
47:55
Speaker 9: this deal. You don't want to just dump this asset
47:57
Speaker 9: because it's uncomfortable.
47:59
Speaker 10: Right.
47:59
Speaker 9: Because there is, and again, if I hear you correctly,
48:02
Speaker 9: There is an upside that can be determined now that
48:05
Speaker 9: it is in the possession of College Station as a
48:08
Speaker 9: city that we can cash in on in the future.
48:11
Speaker 1: My question is this, Councilman, right? Why hasn't this been
48:14
Speaker 1: stated since the get-go? I mean, why not, when all
48:19
Speaker 1: the brouhaha came out about Macy's, why didn't somebody come
48:22
Speaker 1: forth and say, hey, this is our plan. This is
48:23
Speaker 1: what we want. We want recurring income. We want to
48:26
Speaker 1: own this property and lease it, and they're better there.
48:30
Speaker 1: That would have been a pretty good explanation to have
48:31
Speaker 1: in hand.
48:32
Speaker 10: That's pretty good. I think so, too.
48:33
Speaker 30: It was purchased when I was on council, and I
48:35
Speaker 30: don't think that's a cop-out on my part. I've been
48:38
Speaker 30: in favor of it. I think that it's changed. I
48:40
Speaker 30: think the intent for what we want to do with
48:42
Speaker 30: it has changed. And now as it's left, I mean, like,
48:45
Speaker 30: you don't hear this council talk about a rec center at.
48:48
Speaker 10: All anymore or a convention center. I think we've moved
48:50
Speaker 10: on from that.
48:50
Speaker 30: The presidents at A & M have changed, so we've
48:52
Speaker 30: moved on from some of their plans. We have consistent
48:55
Speaker 30: interest in that site. We're waiting for the right thing.
48:58
Speaker 30: But we take questions. We meet with folks all the time.
49:02
Speaker 30: Economic development does. But now I think, you know, it
49:05
Speaker 30: shifts from this is what it could be used for
49:06
Speaker 30: to this is the reality of what it will probably be.
49:09
Speaker 30: So I imagine some store you really want, That's going
49:12
Speaker 30: to get good sales tax and we'll lease it.
49:15
Speaker 1: If not, the waffle mat's still there.
49:17
Speaker 8: But that's an incredibly encouraging thing. It is.
49:20
Speaker 9: That there's upside and at least it's been identified and
49:23
Speaker 9: we know.
49:23
Speaker 1: And I completely get that. I mean, it's understandable with
49:26
Speaker 1: the fact that we are limited as a city. to
49:28
Speaker 1: how you can generate recurring income, that's not a bad idea.
49:31
Speaker 8: Absolutely. Brother, always a pleasure.
49:33
Speaker 10: Yeah, well, I have a couple things. Oh, good Lord.
49:35
Speaker 1: I'm sorry. No, go ahead.
49:37
Speaker 30: You know, sometimes if Godzilla's not... Wrecking the city sometimes.
49:41
Speaker 30: It's like you forget that, you know, we have other
49:43
Speaker 30: things to do. We have other things going on. And thankfully,
49:45
Speaker 30: Godzilla's never wrecked our city.
49:47
Speaker 8: Yeah, so far. Not yet.
49:49
Speaker 30: Macy's is not Godzilla or Mothra or any of those things.
49:53
Speaker 10: In my time on council, I kept Godzilla from attacking us.
49:57
Speaker 1: Yes, you did.
49:57
Speaker 8: Hang your hat on that.
49:58
Speaker 10: That's right. Absolutely.
50:00
Speaker 7: All right.
50:00
Speaker 10: We got some fun Halloween events coming up.
50:02
Speaker 1: Yes.
50:03
Speaker 30: On Friday, Call Station Parks and Rec Haunted Hike returns
50:06
Speaker 30: for its third year from 6.30 to 9.30 p.m. at
50:09
Speaker 30: The Gary Halter Nature Center, that's at Lick Creek Park.
50:12
Speaker 30: Come and go event, ages 13 and older. Christmas parade,
50:15
Speaker 30: we're taking those entries. The deadline for that is November 6th,
50:18
Speaker 30: and that parade is December 5th.
50:20
Speaker 10: Very excited.
50:21
Speaker 30: And then always, if you would like to join in
50:23
Speaker 30: with city boards, committees, and commissions, city secretary's website or
50:27
Speaker 30: the call station website, you can apply for those.
50:29
Speaker 10: And I highly recommend it.
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Speaker 8: Ah, tis the season, too. All right, we'll be back
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Speaker 8: right after this.
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Speaker 33: This is Brian Mayer, Bobby Gutierrez. When I make a decision,
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Speaker 33: I try to think beyond today. I ask myself, what
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Speaker 33: will this mean for Brian 10, 20, even 50 years
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Speaker 33: from now? That's why we're investing in infrastructure, public safety,
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Speaker 33: economic development, and opportunities for the next generation. We have
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Speaker 33: a responsibility to leave Brian better than we found it,
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Speaker 33: and that's what I've tried to do every day as mayor.
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Speaker 33: I'm asking for your vote and the opportunity to continue.
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Speaker 33: Let's keep building Brian's future together. I'm Bobby Gutierrez, and
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Speaker 33: I'd appreciate your support for Mayor.
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Speaker 20: As a Texan, you deserve your court system to deliver
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Speaker 20: Jimmy Blacklock says that starts with judges applying the law
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Speaker 20: as written, so the rules don't change depending on who
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Speaker 20: walks into the courtroom. But fairness also means a court system.
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Speaker 1: That works for the people it serves.
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Speaker 20: Blacklock has called for reducing unnecessary delays and expenses, simplifying
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Speaker 1: Those who rely on it.
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Speaker 20: For Blacklock, equal justice.
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Speaker 9: I realized halfway through that conversation that you were getting
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Speaker 9: absolutely like.
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Speaker 8: Flame of God blinded by, like, the sun.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's all right. I'm not going to see much
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Speaker 1: of it today, so I might as well get some now.
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Speaker 8: 50% chance of showers. Pretty muggy, pretty cloudy.
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Speaker 9: And, yeah, you could catch some rain this afternoon or
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Speaker 9: even before then. Getting up to around 91 or 92
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Speaker 9: is going to feel like low hundreds. And then we're
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Speaker 9: going to get down to around 70 tonight. The cool
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Speaker 9: down is not now. I can't explain the rain thing.
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Speaker 9: It's just the cool down is still this weekend. This
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Speaker 8: I want to mention it again.
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Speaker 9: If you didn't get to attend the candidates forum with
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Speaker 9: the BCS Chamber of Commerce last night.
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Speaker 1: How was the attendance, by the way?
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Speaker 8: It was not good. It was not as heavy as
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Speaker 8: I would have thought it would be.
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Speaker 7: Really?
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Speaker 9: I was actually somewhat surprised it was light. Now, I'm
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Speaker 9: not shocked by it, and here's the reason why. They
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Speaker 9: are doing one of these, like, every night. They are
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Speaker 9: going from the candidates are doing so many of them.
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Speaker 9: There are a lot of opportunities for people to go
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Speaker 9: and get a little introduction into.
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Speaker 8: Who they are, what they're about. But also, I mean,
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Speaker 8: who knows?
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Speaker 9: Now, the thing is, there are a million reasons why
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Speaker 9: you couldn't have made that event last night. That's why
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Speaker 9: we podcast the entire thing on WTAW.com. No matter what,
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Speaker 9: it's like, oh, I couldn't make it in. I got
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Speaker 9: stuck in traffic. Oh, I couldn't make it in.
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Speaker 8: I had some plans. No big deal, dude.
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Speaker 9: It's up and online right now. Just go to WTAW.com
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Speaker 9: and make your plans. Round two is going to happen
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Speaker 9: this Monday, and it's going to be all the city
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Speaker 9: council people. This one was mayors, state reps, county commissioners.
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Speaker 9: Fascinating discussions. An amazing range of topics are covered. So
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Speaker 9: if you have some time today, check it out, WTAW.com. There,
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Speaker 9: I have said my piece.
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Speaker 7: You have.
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Speaker 1: Getting ready for Thursday, man. Never miss the Thursday show.