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The Infomaniacs: October 7th 2026 (6:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Happy
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  Speaker 1: birthday to us. WTAW celebrating 104 years on the air today.
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  Speaker 1: Born out of necessity to broadcast Aggie football games 5XB
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  Speaker 1: as it was known in 1921. was the home of
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  Speaker 1: the first radio broadcast of a football game. Coach Fran
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  Speaker 1: has died.
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  Speaker 2: Dennis Francione spent three decades as a college head coach,
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  Speaker 2: and some of his biggest stops were right here in Texas.
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  Speaker 2: He took over TCU in 1998, helped turn the Horned
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  Speaker 2: Frogs around, leading them to three straight bowl games and
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  Speaker 2: a 10-1 season in 2000 with LaDainian Tomlinson. Francione later
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  Speaker 2: coached at Alabama. before returning to Texas to lead Texas
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  Speaker 2: A & M from 2003 through 2007. He also had
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  Speaker 2: two stints at Texas State and helped guide that program
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  Speaker 2: into the FBS. Francione finished with 213 career wins and
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  Speaker 2: nine conference championships. He had been battling cancer. John Little,
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  Speaker 2: TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Francione was 75. Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is demanding a full
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  Speaker 1: investigation into Texas public school police following reports of widespread
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  Speaker 1: student abuse.
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  Speaker 3: Representative Crockett's call for action comes after a report surfaced
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  Speaker 3: of more than 2,600 incidents of excessive force by police
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  Speaker 3: against students from 2022 through 2025. Crockett sent a letter
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  Speaker 3: to Governor Abbott, Attorney General Ken Paxton, and TEA Commissioner
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  Speaker 3: Mike Morath accusing state leadership of creating an environment of
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  Speaker 3: excessive force against children. According to Crockett, thousands of students,
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  Speaker 3: including children as young as six years old, have reportedly
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  Speaker 3: been handcuffed, hogtied, pepper sprayed, and shocked with tasers. The
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  Speaker 3: Dallas congresswoman believes the number of law enforcement embedded in
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  Speaker 3: Texas public schools is creating a school-to-prison pipeline. In Austin,
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  Speaker 3: Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Texas drivers are getting a little relief at the pump
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  Speaker 1: this week. GasBuddy's Patrick DeHaan says lower fuel taxes and
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  Speaker 1: releases from strategic reserves are helping. but he warns the
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  Speaker 1: drop may not last if tensions with Iran continue.
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  Speaker 4: Certainly, you know, this drawing to a conclusion would be helpful,
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  Speaker 4: but to potentially risk further escalations between the U.S.
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  Speaker 5: And Iran, then without any strategic.
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  Speaker 4: Reserves of significant status globally, that certainly could be a
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  Speaker 4: very bad sign of potentially even more record prices later
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  Speaker 4: this year for gasoline and diesel.
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  Speaker 1: The average price for regular gas in Texas is now $ 3.
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  Speaker 5: 90 a gallon.
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  Speaker 1: Diesel is $ 5.
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  Speaker 6: 74.
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  Speaker 1: There was a fire at the State Fair of Texas
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  Speaker 1: early Tuesday caused by an electrical short. Dallas Fire Rescue
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  Speaker 1: crews were called to the fairgrounds just after 7 a.m.
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  Speaker 1: and found flames coming from a balloon pop gaming stand.
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  Speaker 7: It seems to have been isolated to a couple booths
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  Speaker 7: right here near the greenhouse. So it will not impact
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  Speaker 7: fair operations today.
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  Speaker 5: Thankfully, nobody was hurt during this.
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  Speaker 8: That's the most important thing.
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  Speaker 1: Carissa Kondianis with the State Fair says operations will continue
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  Speaker 1: as normal. More news on the way at 6.30 or
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  Speaker 1: anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW. Are you pretty
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  Speaker 1: good about keeping a calendar? I've gotten better over the
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  Speaker 1: last few years, and simply I put it in my phone.
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  Speaker 5: I've got to have the reminders in my phone. I'll
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  Speaker 5: do the reminders every once in a while, but the
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  Speaker 5: thing is I'm just not consistent enough, and so there's
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  Speaker 5: things that I just flat out space on. And I
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  Speaker 5: woke up this morning and I could not remember. Are
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  Speaker 5: we going to the Texas Renaissance Festival today or tomorrow?
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  Speaker 5: I thought it was tomorrow. Look, I just told you,
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  Speaker 5: don't trust me. My calendar sucks.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was tomorrow. I don't have that email
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  Speaker 1: in front of us. It was moved because of the rain.
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  Speaker 1: We were supposed to go last week.
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  Speaker 5: Second question. How long does it take, similar to ACL,
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  Speaker 5: the Texas Renaissance Festival, to dry out? From, like, a
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  Speaker 5: monsoon-level event. Am I going to have to wear rain
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  Speaker 5: boots tomorrow for this? Do we know?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Looking at, like, the soil around
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  Speaker 1: my house, it's getting there. Like, I'm unfortunately going to
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  Speaker 1: have to mow, and it looks like I could be
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  Speaker 1: able to do that.
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  Speaker 5: Tomorrow or so.
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  Speaker 1: And we've got a lot more at my house than
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  Speaker 1: we've got in a lot of places.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm kind of shocked how green my lawn is, personally.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it came right back, and the rain lilies popping up,
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  Speaker 1: and all the little flowers.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't take five minutes. Is this going to be
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  Speaker 5: the first time, assuming it's tomorrow, because I do believe
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  Speaker 5: that's correct, is this going to be your first time
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  Speaker 5: at the Renaissance Festival in the last decade?
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: The last time I went to the Renaissance Festival was
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  Speaker 1: when I was working at the Harley dealership.
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  Speaker 5: Holy what was your impression of it back uh back
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  Speaker 5: in those times that was.
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  Speaker 1: Probably what 12 no that was around uh years ago
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  Speaker 1: 10 years ago it was no that was around 2005
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  Speaker 1: good lord six seven time.
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  Speaker 5: Flies okay so a long stretch yeah been a minute
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  Speaker 5: wow yeah you're in for uh you're in for some
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  Speaker 5: sights to behold my friend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there's always been sights to behold there sites to
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  Speaker 1: look away from.
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  Speaker 5: Was it, was it, was it a bigger, this is
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  Speaker 5: the thing is we're going for a media day. So
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  Speaker 5: we're not going to be able to get a full experience.
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  Speaker 5: I almost want to go later on in the season
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  Speaker 5: because I need to know since you're someone who, and
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  Speaker 5: I believe if, if memory serves, you told me that
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  Speaker 5: you went to what could have been the first Texas Renaissance.
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  Speaker 5: I remember going, at least the first couple.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember going as a, as a small kid and
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  Speaker 1: riding an elephant. And I think that was all there
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  Speaker 1: was to do there.
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  Speaker 5: I'd be the same elephant, dude.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: How long do they live?
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  Speaker 1: A long time.
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  Speaker 5: All that said, I need someone to be able to
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  Speaker 5: tell me whether, and I mean this with love in
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  Speaker 5: my heart, respectfully. Is it a bigger freak show today,
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  Speaker 5: or is it a bigger freak show back in the.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's disrespectful to acknowledge the fact. We
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  Speaker 1: all know that it's a freak show, right? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are people that go there to be freaks.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And there are people that go there to see freaks.
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  Speaker 5: To watch the freaks.
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  Speaker 1: It is people watching at its finest. Maybe some of
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  Speaker 1: the best in America. And some great entertainment. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they got great things going on. Good food.
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  Speaker 5: Great shows. Lord, good food. They are going to feed
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  Speaker 5: you very well tomorrow, by the way. Really? Yeah. So basically,
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  Speaker 5: steak on a steak is kind of like my kryptonite.
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  Speaker 5: If you go during the season, it's not cheap because
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  Speaker 5: it's a steak on a steak, right? Like, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they're going to charge you for that.
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  Speaker 1: That sounds very much like Exhibit in his car show.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you like some steak on your steak. Like, it's
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  Speaker 5: a walk-around sirloin that's on a stick, and you just
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  Speaker 5: gnaw on it. And in years past, they've been, you know,
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  Speaker 5: they vary in terms of size. I feel like there
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  Speaker 5: was one year where it was almost like you could
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  Speaker 5: get a bone-in ribeye, like, out there.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, back when beef was affordable.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and today. So at the media day, it's just
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  Speaker 5: unlimited steak on a steak. The problem is you're going
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  Speaker 5: to be around a bunch of other people. It depends
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  Speaker 5: how much you care about other media people. I really don't.
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  Speaker 1: No, in fact, there's some of them I'd, you know,
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  Speaker 1: get in the ring with.
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  Speaker 5: So I just, I just. I was just going to town.
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  Speaker 5: I was just steak, steak, steak, steak, steak.
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  Speaker 1: We could tag team this year.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I'll block for you.
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  Speaker 5: How many steaks could we, I mean, do you think
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  Speaker 5: it's like we get 72 ounces each down.
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  Speaker 1: Over the course of a course of a two hour,
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  Speaker 1: a two hour presentation? My money is on you easy.
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  Speaker 1: I can't, I can't eat the way I used to.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there was a time when I got kicked
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  Speaker 1: out of all you could eat crawfish places and I
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  Speaker 1: can't do that anymore.
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  Speaker 5: If you're an old-time Texas Renaissance Festival– and by old-time,
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  Speaker 5: I mean you've been in recent times and ancient times.
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  Speaker 5: I'll call them ancient times. Go ahead. Renaissance ancient, but
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  Speaker 5: we know what I'm talking about. Which was the bigger
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  Speaker 5: freak show? And what have you seen out at the
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  Speaker 5: Texas Renaissance Festival that you cannot reasonably explain that wouldn't
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  Speaker 5: make sense in– the rest of society, the rest of
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  Speaker 5: your life.
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  Speaker 1: They all kind of blend together with the biker rallies
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  Speaker 1: that I had to attend.
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  Speaker 5: Which is more colorful, the biker rally or... They're equal.
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  Speaker 1: They are equal. I've seen things at both that I'll
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  Speaker 1: never be able to forget.
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. 68 degrees currently, getting up to, they say, upper 80s,
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  Speaker 5: maybe 90 degrees today, back down to the upper 60s.
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  Speaker 5: No chance of rain, at least all the way through
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  Speaker 5: Columbus Day. And, hey, congratulations. There's a tropical storm in
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  Speaker 5: the Gulf, and it's not going to help us at all.
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  Speaker 5: Not going to get a bit out of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to head in there just kind of east
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  Speaker 1: of New Orleans, right there, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Where they always seem to show up. It's really incredible. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: very disrespectful. You know, you could have shown up any
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  Speaker 5: time this summer, and you chose right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, chose right now.
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  Speaker 5: Like, that's... The first Atlantic hurricane Like it made it
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  Speaker 5: all the way through Every year Oh we're getting more
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  Speaker 5: hurricanes than ever It's been like three years And.
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  Speaker 1: Had like two Yeah it's been pretty Pretty impressive actually
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  Speaker 1: Craziness Well.
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  Speaker 5: We're glad you're here guys It is Wednesday, and we
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  Speaker 5: have a lot of stuff to get through today, including,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, coming up, we're going to have to talk
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  Speaker 5: about your daughter and the roach.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we've got to talk about my daughter and the roach.
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  Speaker 5: It'll all make sense. It'll all add up, we promise.
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  Speaker 11: Take a break.
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  Speaker 5: We'll be back with reasons to celebrate right after this.
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  Speaker 5: You can call us. You can text us. We love
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  Speaker 5: hearing from you either way. David says, you know, the
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  Speaker 5: problem with steak on a steak is it's all-cap sirloin.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a problem. I mean, first of all, for us.
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  Speaker 5: It's... It's a champagne problem, Steve.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you're talking about fair food, right?
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  Speaker 18: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can give me beef in most forms
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  Speaker 1: on a stick, as long as it's not overcooked.
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  Speaker 5: Because I can walk around.
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  Speaker 1: As long as a good Aggie vet still has a
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  Speaker 1: chance to revive it, I can do it.
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  Speaker 5: It's very drippy. But you would think that there's a
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  Speaker 5: possibility to be dry. No, no, no. Never had that problem. Really?
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  Speaker 1: On a steak.
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  Speaker 5: Okay. All for that. He also says his last trip
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  Speaker 5: to Renfest was year seven. Holy cow.
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  Speaker 1: That's a long time ago.
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  Speaker 5: That's a little bit of a stretch, my friend.
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  Speaker 19: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Let's get to reasons to celebrate today. And I'm going
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  Speaker 5: to fly through. There are a lot of days, significant birthdays,
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  Speaker 5: things like that. The ones that are the national days
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  Speaker 5: are not really the high point today, but there are
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  Speaker 5: a couple that probably bear some level of mentioning. And
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  Speaker 5: we will start with Propane Day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: You know it. Recognizing the propane industry. Salute. Particularly the
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  Speaker 5: local providers. The local propane.
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  Speaker 1: I love my propane people. I love my propane people.
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  Speaker 1: They are wonderful.
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  Speaker 5: They provide fuel for homes, agriculture, business, and emergency needs.
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  Speaker 5: Thank your propane and propane accessory man for everything they do.
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  Speaker 5: Maybe watch a little King of the Hill. International Walk
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  Speaker 5: to School Day held on the first Wednesday of October
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  Speaker 5: designed to encourage kids and families to walk or bike
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  Speaker 5: while drawing attention to physical activity on their way to school.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know anyone that lets their kids walk to
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  Speaker 5: school anymore? I don't, but I don't know that many
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  Speaker 5: school kids that are driving. When I grew up.
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  Speaker 1: It was a walk and ride your bike, so much
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  Speaker 1: so that the house I grew up in was essentially
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  Speaker 1: at A & M Consolidated High School.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I would ride my bike to what was the
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  Speaker 1: junior high on Jersey.
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  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, that was a daily bike ride for me.
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  Speaker 1: So the.
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  Speaker 5: I remember it being... And again, if you could pull
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  Speaker 5: it off, and by pull it off, I mean within
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  Speaker 5: a mile, maybe a mile and a half, you were
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  Speaker 5: absolutely walking yourself to school and you were absolutely riding
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  Speaker 5: a bike to school. Like, all my friends... rode their
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  Speaker 5: bikes to the elementary, like Crockett Elementary. Right.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's different because Bryan is a little bit more,
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  Speaker 1: they do more like neighborhood schools than what College Station does.
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  Speaker 5: They do, like where I live now. It's Copperfield, so
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  Speaker 5: there's that school, like Sam Houston Elementary, it's right in
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  Speaker 5: the middle of everything. Right. And so I never, ever,
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  Speaker 5: ever see kids... that are walking to school, riding a
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  Speaker 5: bike to school, or riding a bike home. The parents will,
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  Speaker 5: even if I know, I will drive by neighbors of
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  Speaker 5: mine who I know have their kids. I'll see them.
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  Speaker 5: I'll look at them. They'll just be standing there to
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  Speaker 5: pick them up and put them in the car and
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  Speaker 5: drive them the four blocks back to the house. What happened?
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  Speaker 1: It is foreign to me. First of all, news happened, right?
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  Speaker 1: So everybody's more aware of the bad things out there
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  Speaker 1: that can happen.
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  Speaker 5: And let's be real, more aware. The 80s were so
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  Speaker 5: much more dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, my God. So being a latchkey kid, meaning one
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  Speaker 1: who would come home, both parents were working. So I
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  Speaker 1: would come home by myself from junior high on.
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  Speaker 5: From junior high?
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: No, from fifth and sixth grade on.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: That's elementary school.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it was middle school back then for us,
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: but essentially. And twice when I came home, I came
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: into my house shortly after it had been burglarized.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Will how.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: College station yeah but it wasn't a big deal right
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: you know i it.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Was just what happened back in.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: The day i walked in i saw things that were
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: not in place the first time i walked to my
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: next door neighbor's house and uh and mrs claiborne called
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the law and and i think one of the boys
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: two of the boys maybe dr claiborne if he was
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: there you know we went and Cleared the house.
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: Is anyone in here? Anyone that could kill us as children?
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: We were ready to kill them. But that's... I'm laughing
• 17:26
  Speaker 5: because that's not an abnormal story from that point in time.
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, our parents couldn't track us on our cell phones.
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: You had no clue. You had no clue where your
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: kids were back then. You just had to hope. And
• 17:40
  Speaker 5: the school would just, again... I think part of it is,
• 17:42
  Speaker 5: like you said, news.
• 17:43
  Speaker 20: It's now.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: The school isn't going to let you just breeze on
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: out the door and go home. That seems like an
• 17:52
  Speaker 5: insurance nightmare.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I think when my wife taught in Bryan, so they
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: would spread out through the neighborhood. So some of the
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: teachers would spread out through the neighborhood.
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: Keep eyes on the route. Keep eyes on the kids
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: on the route, yeah. But that's the thing. Copper, and again,
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I assume, I'm not saying it's the
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: world's nicest neighborhood.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: It's a safe neighborhood.
• 18:14
  Speaker 5: Copperfield, Oakmont, Miramont, crime is low.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Pretty low.
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: Crime is low. I would think that is the ideal
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: situation to have your kids walk in. I'm not saying
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: let them walk home from.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Like I did from the junior high six miles away.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the junior high on Highway 6 and cut all
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: the way back and down William Joel Bryan past the
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: abandoned gas station into Austin's College. I'm not saying that.
• 18:41
  Speaker 5: I'm saying, why in elementary school does that never happen?
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, and I think kids are missing out.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's hard for me to disagree. And yeah,
• 18:53
  Speaker 5: so maybe today's the day to make an exception. Birthdays.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Birthdays for today. Mookie Betts is 34, the Dodgers outfielder.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Apparently he wants to sing a duet with Morgan Wallen.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: I don't know anything about that.
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: He loves the country music.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Does he?
• 19:06
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Bree Olsen is 40. She was tied to Charlie Sheen.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: During his meltdown.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Oh, she was.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Actually, Charlie Sheen, fully on the comeback trail. He's about
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: to put out a show with him and his father.
• 19:20
  Speaker 21: He is.
• 19:20
  Speaker 5: Martin Sheen. He's doing well. He's doing some cool stuff.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: I think so. So you can recover from Charlie Sheen.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: Let's see.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Omar Miller is 48. Charles Green on HBO's Ballers. Taylor Hicks, 50,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the American Idol, the gray-haired one.
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: I remember this dude.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Season five winner.
• 19:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Tom York is 58, a radio head. Tony Braxton is 59,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the singer. Simon Cowell is 67 years old. Simon is
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: really kind of, he's softened in his older age.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: He has, you know, times have changed.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: It's not really appropriate to break kids on TV. Yeah,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I only used to watch the American Idol, the first
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: part of it, just to see Simon beat people down.
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: Well, that was the thing. I think it was everyone,
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: they were always the highest rated episodes. Everyone loved that part.
• 20:04
  Speaker 5: And then it became kind of, I mean, they're just
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: teenagers who are trying to trying to sing and you're
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: just telling it's like, yeah, it just doesn't feel, it
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: didn't feel great, but, but I liked it. Great entertainment.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yo-Yo Ma is 71. The cello virtuoso Tico Torres from
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Bon Jovi is get this 73 years old today. Wow.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Boy's been around for a minute.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: He's a year younger than Vladimir Putin, who is 74 today.
• 20:32
  Speaker 15: Wow.
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: That's a, put that in perspective. That's dark.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And Vladimir is a year younger than, Then John, don't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: call him Cougar Mellencamp, 75 years old.
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: It is the Cougar's birthday.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: And hard to believe that that guy made it to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: 75 because he still smokes like a chimney.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: That's what I recall. I recall him being like a
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: prolific smoker.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: They have a special shack on top of Indiana Stadium
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: where he goes to watch football games and sit and smoke.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: That's.
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: You realize how crazy that is? That's crazy. He's 75
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: and still in pretty good shape. I guess.
• 21:11
  Speaker 18: Who knows?
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Oliver North is 83 years old today and one from
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the stiffs category. Born on this date in 1931, Desmond Tutu,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the South African archbishop and civil rights leader.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Also, turning a brisk 104 years old.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I was going to bring this up.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, absolutely. 104 years old. That's a long time.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: That's a huge long time.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: That's older than, that's way many more years than I
• 21:36
  Speaker 5: will ever see on this earth. W-T-A-W. Cool story. Like,
• 21:44
  Speaker 5: everyone thinks about, like, okay, well, there's got to be,
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: there's really not that many radio stations that are still
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: operational over 100 years. We were older than WSB, which
• 21:53
  Speaker 5: is the station that originates the Grand Ole Opry by
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: a solid four years. We are older than call letters. Yeah.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: They hadn't come up with putting letters on a radio station.
• 22:06
  Speaker 5: And actually, if you it's. We call it 104 because
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: that's when the license was given to us from the FCC, which, frankly,
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: I was trying to read it and was struggling because
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: it's incursive. And that's a lost art. Yeah. But it's, yeah,
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: they count it there. But you could actually tack on another,
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: I want to say, 10 or 12 years.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Originally, the station started doing radio things in 1912 as
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: an experimental radio.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Including the the first ever broadcast of a play by
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: play game, which is a little, you know. a little
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: spotty but it worked.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: For the time it worked for the time if i
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: remember correctly essentially they were they had like a ticker
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: tape yeah and they fed that ticker tape from the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: stadium back to the studio yeah and then you had
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a guy in the studio that was calling the play-by-play
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: off a ticker tape.
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: Bingo you just read what was coming off of the
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: feed and then you could sit there and then basically
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: listen to it and uh and that was as good
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: as it got frankly game wasn't very good either it
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: was a zero zero.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Time Man, you imagine having to come up with stuff
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to talk about in a 0-0 tie?
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Well, the good news is everything had to be on tape,
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: so you kept your words to a minimum.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: I will say this. A lot of content was made
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: for the 100th anniversary of WTAW, and that content still
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: lives today. on WTAW.com. And by a lot, I mean
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: so much. I was going through the playlist today. I'll
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: share this to our Facebook page. But if you want
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: to take a few minutes and go back through the
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: history of the radio station, the 100-anniversary podcasts are absolutely incredible.
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: So go check that out. Do we get a cake
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: or anything today? I don't know.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Nobody's mentioned it.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: 104 years of history, and it ends in us. What,
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: ends in us? Well, I mean, it gets to us.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It gets to us.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: The progression of broadcasting legends. And then you got me in, Will.
• 24:20
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  Speaker 25: Every game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of
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• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Good morning from the wtaw newsroom i'm will welch County
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  Speaker 1: Judge Dwayne Peters had an announcement at Monday's commissioner's court meeting.
• 29:52
  Speaker 23: I am going to retire a little early. My plan
• 29:55
  Speaker 23: is to work December the 1st and hold court that day.
• 30:00
  Speaker 23: I'll be willing to turn it over to Kyle Cassell
• 30:04
  Speaker 23: December the 2nd.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Peters' term expires December 31st. Kyle Cassell, who served in
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: the role for six months in 2025 while Peters was
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: on a medical leave of absence, is running unopposed for
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: county judge on the November 3rd ballot. Texas A &
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: M is mourning the loss of former head football coach
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Dennis Coach Fran Francione, who passed away Tuesday at age 75.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Francione began his career as an assistant at Kansas State
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: in 1978. He served as the Texas A & M
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: head football coach from 2003 to 2007. He guided the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Aggies to three bowl games. He also served as head
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: coach for Alabama and TCU and led the Horned Frogs
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: to three straight bowl games and a 10-1 season in
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: 2000 with LaDainian Tomlinson. In his second time at the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: helm in San Marcos, he helped bring Texas State into
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the FBS. Franchione was diagnosed with cancer in 2016 and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: again in 2021, but had been in remission. According to
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the cancer returned earlier this year,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: and he was in hospice care. Francione's record was 213-135-2,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: including nine conference championships. Sixty-nine-year-old Angela Serra, the owner and
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: operator of the Dogtown Ranch in Rockdale, is facing new
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: charges of animal cruelty. After a grand jury declined to
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: indict her in September, today the Milam County Sheriff's Office
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: served an arrest warrant on Serra for a single charge.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: of cruelty to non-livestock animals, a Class A misdemeanor. Last week,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the Brandywine Valley SPCA took in 82 animals from the facility.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: The current charge stems from one of the animals surrendered,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: a pit bull-terrier mix. A vet said the dog had
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a number of issues, including worms, dehydration, fleas, ticks, and malnutrition.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: They also noted substantial and long-standing unmet medical and nutritional needs.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Milam County Sheriff Mike Clore said we are grateful for
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: the generous assistance of Brandywine Valley SPCA. Their expertise and
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: willingness to take in these animals made all the difference.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: An execution date of December 3rd has been set for
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Nadal Hassan in the 2009 shooting deaths of 13 people
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: at Fort Hood. More than 30 others were wounded. President
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Trump signed off on having Hassan put to death by
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: firing squad. Professor Jeffrey Korn is director of the Center
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: for Military Law and Policy at Texas Tech. He says
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the military regulation authorizes death by lethal injection or any
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: other lawful means.
• 32:26
  Speaker 16: And with all of the nightmare of this case in
• 32:30
  Speaker 16: Tennessee where the lethal injection failed to produce the result,
• 32:33
  Speaker 16: there may be some logic in an execution method that
• 32:37
  Speaker 16: has no risk of failure.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Corn says he went to Hassan's court-martial and the former
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Army major showed no remorse. He said in some ways
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Hassan is the military equivalent of Timothy McVeigh.
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: The U.S.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Military has not executed a service member since 1961. Governor
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: Greg Abbott ordered the United States and Texas flags at
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: all state buildings lowered to half-staff today as a symbol
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: of standing in solidarity with the state of Israel, honoring
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the men, women, and children murdered in the brutal October
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: 7th Hamas terrorist attacks. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced yesterday
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: that since its inception, the Fugitive Apprehension Unit has made
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: over 18,000 arrests, That includes 68 individuals on the Texas
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Department of Public Safety's top 10 most wanted list. The
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: unit has also recovered 186 missing and endangered children throughout
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the state. The AG's Child Exploitation Unit has made nearly
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: 300 arrests for online solicitation of a minor and over
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: 600 arrests for possession of child pornography. The human trafficking
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: unit has made nearly 400 human trafficking arrests. President Trump
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: will be making his second trip to Texas in a week.
• 33:47
  Speaker 26: The president hosting a rally tonight in San Antonio. Governor
• 33:50
  Speaker 26: Greg Abbott says that Trump is committed to rallying the
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  Speaker 26: troops in Texas.
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  Speaker 1: He does a good job of getting the base organized.
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  Speaker 5: And turning out.
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  Speaker 26: The presidential visit also seen as a boost to fundraising.
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  Speaker 26: The latest campaign finance report shows that the governor is
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  Speaker 26: burning through cash in his bid for re-election. Around $ 70
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  Speaker 26: million was spent in the last quarter. That's five times
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  Speaker 26: his Democratic opponent. In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett is calling for an investigation of
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  Speaker 1: public school police after reports surfaced of more than 2,600
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  Speaker 1: incidents of excessive force used against public school students.
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  Speaker 3: Representative Crockett sent a letter to Governor Abbott, Attorney General
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  Speaker 3: Ken Paxton, and TEA Commissioner Mike Morath, accusing them of
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  Speaker 3: creating a disturbing normalization of excessive force against children in
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  Speaker 3: circumstances that aren't a threat to school safety. She added
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  Speaker 3: that thousands of students, including children as young as six,
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  Speaker 3: have reportedly been handcuffed, hogtied, pepper sprayed, and shocked with tasers.
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  Speaker 3: Crockett believes the sheer scale of law enforcement embedded within
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  Speaker 3: Texas public schools is placing students at greater risk of
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  Speaker 3: entering the school-to-prison pipeline. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news ahead at 7 o'clock or anytime at WTAW.com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 14: What do we really know about James Tallarico? Tallarico said.
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  Speaker 21: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
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  Speaker 14: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
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  Speaker 14: young children, claimed denying your child's gender identity is abusive,
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  Speaker 14: said the trans community needs abortion care too, and even
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  Speaker 14: called Jesus a radical feminist and said God is non-binary.
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  Speaker 21: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
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  Speaker 14: But it gets worse. James Tallarico voted to allow biological
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  Speaker 14: men access to women's bathrooms in schools and for biological
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  Speaker 14: boys to play in girls' sports, saying some things are
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  Speaker 14: more important than fair competition in sports.
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys, we're the Infomaniacs. A little bit
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: warmer than yesterday, 90, 91 is what they're calling for.
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  Speaker 5: And once again, down to the 60s tonight. It's glorious.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday was a perfect day.
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  Speaker 1: It was just about as good as it gets.
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• 37:15
  Speaker 5: turning 104 years old. Don't feel a day over 100.
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  Speaker 5: And it could be older. Because it's counted from the
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: time that the original WTAW license was issued back in 1922, right,
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  Speaker 5: on this day, October 7th. But there's still an additional
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  Speaker 5: 10 years of history that happened before that, that is
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  Speaker 5: direct lineage. And that has to do with the experimental
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: station that predated call letters, which was W5AC or W5,
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  Speaker 5: I forget what it is. But one of our, one
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: of you guys. Called in the fact that they're actually,
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  Speaker 5: that still exists. W5AC, the Texas A & M Amateur
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  Speaker 5: Radio Club.
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  Speaker 1: Founded in 1912.
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  Speaker 5: 1912. It's still out there today. And they are doing
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  Speaker 5: content for the 150th year of Texas A & M
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  Speaker 5: University and obviously today. you know, a monumentous day in
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  Speaker 5: the history of radio and especially Texas A & M Radio.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, the whole station was built by students that
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: were in the electrical engineering program.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that incredible?
• 38:24
  Speaker 23: And then props.
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  Speaker 5: It's really, really cool.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of history with a lot of different
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: radio stations. I think ours is pretty unique.
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  Speaker 12: It is.
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  Speaker 23: It is.
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  Speaker 5: So find them on Facebook. I'll try to throw a
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  Speaker 5: link up there for any of you guys that are interested,
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: but I just think that is the coolest thing ever.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: Less cool when you find a nice, big, fat roach
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: in your house.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, so my daughter called me yesterday. First thing
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: she said, by the way, and this was about 10 a.m.,
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  Speaker 1: it's 63 degrees in Oxford, Mississippi.
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  Speaker 2: Oh!
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  Speaker 1: And that was glorious.
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  Speaker 5: Love that.
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  Speaker 1: Dad, you won't believe what happened to me. Yes, I'm like, okay, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: She found a huge roach in her bathroom.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, well, why didn't you smack it? Hmm.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: So I didn't have anything to smack it with.
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: That is always a.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: In that case, you just grab some toilet paper and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: you give it the old squeeze.
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: Or don't even worry. Just ball it up and then
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: into the toilet.
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  Speaker 1: No, because those things.
• 39:23
  Speaker 5: Oh, because they can survive that.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: They can. I like to go ahead and give them
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: the final death Well, you, you want, you want to be, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you want to be sure that. Yeah, that's what I typically, but,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously the daughter not into that, uh, solution.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: She didn't strike me as a type of gun. She's
• 39:39
  Speaker 5: that level of violence.
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 1: So she, yeah, she, uh, she lost it as she
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: was trying to find something to, to smack it with.
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  Speaker 11: Right.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: It ran away to its little home. Uh, A little
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: bit later, 5, 6 o'clock yesterday evening, my daughter sends
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  Speaker 1: us a video titled, Found the Roach.
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  Speaker 5: Listen to this. This is captured on a Ring doorbell cam.
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  Speaker 9: It's nice, isn't it?
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  Speaker 19: I know.
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  Speaker 1: I thought.
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  Speaker 19: That.
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  Speaker 5: You know, that sound is so... Every guy knows that sound.
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  Speaker 5: Every man knows that sound.
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  Speaker 27: I thought that.
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  Speaker 5: There it is. It's right there. It's not a scream
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: as much as it's like an inhaled scream. I don't
• 40:25
  Speaker 5: understand why. And they retreat in, and to my... Did
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: I catch them locking the door? It may be.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: To prevent the roach from coming in?
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: From returning.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: She was incredibly mortified when I told her that it was...
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: highly unlikely that that was the same roach. And I said,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: call your landlord. They'll come out there and spray. They're
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: on annual quarterly spraying anyway. Get Dale's dead bug out there.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: We'll take care of that. But no, they didn't even
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: wait for that. One of the roommate's boyfriends was dispatched
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  Speaker 1: to Walmart to go get all the chemical he could
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: find and lay it out there in the house.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: So that was what I was going to ask you,
• 41:10
  Speaker 5: because this is a house full of girls. Yes. Who
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: is the... frequently there is a designated bug killer um
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: and it's the man who lives in the home if
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: it's a male that is dating one of the kids just.
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: Not saying that women can't i'm just saying given the
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: option for the most part.
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  Speaker 5: I know women can if women know women can but
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: there's a.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Man handy though they're gonna they're gonna do that that's
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: what my it's my wife calls blue work.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: It's just So who is it? Is there have they
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: have they taken a like they all draw straws? And
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: I don't know. And this boyfriend is the guy, I guess.
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  Speaker 1: Well, my daughter's boyfriend is here. So, yeah, he can't.
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  Speaker 5: He can't help as you are. He probably got a
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  Speaker 5: telephone call, but no, we did. Yeah, I do. I'm
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: not sure.
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  Speaker 1: I know one of the roommates does have a boyfriend.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that the other one does. So that
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  Speaker 1: would narrow it down.
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  Speaker 5: Well, you know, that's good work. That's good. That's good.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: Solid work. I have always wondered if, you know, you
• 42:17
  Speaker 5: teach it, you fish for someone, you know, they eat
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: for a day, you teach them to fish. Is the
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: better play not to just refuse? Just be like, I'm
• 42:25
  Speaker 5: not going to do it. I'm not going to not
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: going to kill this bug. You got to you got
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  Speaker 5: to put your own worker in here.
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  Speaker 16: Yeah, me.
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  Speaker 1: No, look, my girls can they can snake a drain.
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  Speaker 11: Hmm.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: They can plunge a toilet.
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  Speaker 5: That's impressive.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: They can change a tire.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: They can jump a car. Will, that's a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Given the option, they will pass that work off to
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  Speaker 1: anybody else available.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely fascinating.
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  Speaker 29: Good morning. I'm Riley Flurkey with your morning sports update
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  Speaker 29: on 1620-945-WTAW. The 12th ranked Aggie volleyball team is gearing
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  Speaker 29: up for its first conference road game tonight as the
• 44:41
  Speaker 29: Maroon and White takes on the Oklahoma Sooners. The Aggies
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  Speaker 29: look to build on their perfect start to SEC conference
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  Speaker 29: play after sweeping their first three opponents. Head coach Jamie
• 44:51
  Speaker 29: Morrison spoke about the recent injuries the team has been
• 44:53
  Speaker 29: dealing with and how the depth of the roster has
• 44:56
  Speaker 29: excelled over the six straight wins.
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  Speaker 5: The depth that we have.
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  Speaker 13: And, again, this program is going to be about development.
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  Speaker 13: It doesn't matter if you're one of the seven, eight,
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  Speaker 13: nine people that's going to be on the floor on
• 45:05
  Speaker 13: Fridays and Sundays or if it's the person that's not.
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  Speaker 13: We're going to develop people across the board because the
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  Speaker 13: rising tide carries the ship. And I think that's the
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  Speaker 13: thing I'm fired up on is regardless of what lineup.
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  Speaker 13: And I just took myself back to my national team days.
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  Speaker 13: And when we were there, I remember at one point
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  Speaker 13: we won. I think it was VNL. It might have
• 45:20
  Speaker 13: been Grand Prix back when it was that. But we
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  Speaker 13: won the finals of that with our second team. We
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  Speaker 13: sent our first team home to prepare for the Olympics,
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  Speaker 13: sent our second team. And that was one of the
• 45:27
  Speaker 13: most prideful things that I had is that we were
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  Speaker 13: so good at coaching that we could develop the second
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  Speaker 13: group to go out there and win one of the
• 45:32
  Speaker 13: world's hardest competitions. So I think I carry that here,
• 45:35
  Speaker 13: and I really do mean it when I say it.
• 45:37
  Speaker 13: This program is about developing people, and the championships come
• 45:39
  Speaker 13: as a byproduct of that. So I think I'm proud
• 45:42
  Speaker 13: of myself, our staff, our players for being able to
• 45:44
  Speaker 13: put in the work to make sure that any combination
• 45:46
  Speaker 13: of people out there can go out there and win
• 45:47
  Speaker 13: a volleyball match.
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  Speaker 29: First serve for tonight's game is set for 6 o'clock,
• 45:51
  Speaker 29: and you can watch the game on SEC Network. The
• 45:54
  Speaker 29: Aggie football team is three days out from hitting the
• 45:56
  Speaker 29: road again for their next conference game against Missouri on
• 45:59
  Speaker 29: Saturday afternoon. Head coach Mike Elko spoke about his personal
• 46:03
  Speaker 29: relationship with Missouri's head coach.
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  Speaker 17: I've known Drink for a long time. A ton of
• 46:07
  Speaker 17: respect for him. I think he does a phenomenal job.
• 46:09
  Speaker 17: I think he's done a great job building that program.
• 46:12
  Speaker 17: He's been at it for a long time. They're consistently
• 46:16
  Speaker 17: one of the best teams in the conference and certainly
• 46:18
  Speaker 17: present a lot of challenges in every aspect of the game.
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  Speaker 29: Coach Elko also spoke about the offensive challenges that Missouri's
• 46:24
  Speaker 29: quarterback brings to the table.
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  Speaker 17: He's really good. He delivers the ball really accurately. He's
• 46:29
  Speaker 17: comfortable throwing it into tight windows. Got a lot of
• 46:32
  Speaker 17: confidence in his arm and his ability to make throws.
• 46:35
  Speaker 17: And then he obviously has a ton of comfortability with
• 46:37
  Speaker 17: Caden Lee, who came over from Ole Miss with him.
• 46:40
  Speaker 17: And so you see that connection operate.
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  Speaker 26: At a really, really high level.
• 46:44
  Speaker 17: And they've got a lot of really talented outside receivers
• 46:47
  Speaker 17: as well that can really stretch the field. And so
• 46:49
  Speaker 17: he's playing really, really good football.
• 46:51
  Speaker 29: Kickoff for the A & M versus Missouri game is
• 46:54
  Speaker 29: set for 11 a.m. Saturday. Texas A & M is
• 46:57
  Speaker 29: also mourning the loss of former head football coach Dennis Franchione,
• 47:01
  Speaker 29: who passed away yesterday at the age of 75. Franchione
• 47:05
  Speaker 29: served as A & M' s head football coach for five
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  Speaker 29: seasons from 2003 to 2005 and compiled a 32-28 record
• 47:09
  Speaker 29: during his time in College Station. as well as guided
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW. A little warmer than yesterday, but still not. I
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't call it. I would call it sit-out-on-the-porch weather, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, in the evening especially. Because with the dry air,
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  Speaker 1: the temperature cools off a little quicker in the evening.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: And 91s, what they're calling 480s. Sorry, 60s for the low.
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• 50:04
  Speaker 5: whatever you want. Over my entire marriage, I have killed... 99.9%
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: of the insects in the home. I am curious if
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: you guys have ever gotten pictures from your spouse whenever
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: they were brave enough to kill an insect to show
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: that they are capable.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Can confirm.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: I have had that experience. The thing is, it's very
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: rare because my wife, some of you might have a
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: wife like I have, doesn't want them killed. She wants
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: them relocated. Oh, you know what I'm talking about? Yeah.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: Any of you guys, any of y'all in the same boat?
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Not in that boat. Wouldn't, wouldn't want to go sailing
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: in that boat. I, I oblige because happy wife, happy life. Absolutely.
• 50:53
  Speaker 5: But when, when I get the call for something that
• 50:57
  Speaker 5: is in the house, it is never a, a smash
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: it type scenario. It is, Hey, I would like this
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: put preferably in in the woods back there. And so
• 51:08
  Speaker 5: I have to gather it up and then, you know,
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: off to the, off to the woods. And then, you know,
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: life springs. And now do you do that with all pests?
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: I I'll give you, I need to go back and
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: see if I can find video of this. There is
• 51:23
  Speaker 5: a video that I believe that exists of my wife,
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: free handing a snake, big snake, not a, Not a
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: water moccasin.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: Not a poisonous snake.
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: But a snake that would freak out 99% of the
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: WCAW audience.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: Non-poisonous snakes. They'll still mess you up, boy. Yeah, it's
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: not comfortable.
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: We were sitting in the house, and one of the
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: dogs was barking at air, which she tends to do.
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: But it was just the frequency of it. Something different.
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: I got to go take a look at this. I
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: was like, what are you barking at? I looked down.
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: There's at least a five-foot snake. I was like, move
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: it around. And Rain just comes in. He's like, well,
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: do you want to do it? And I was like, no. No,
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: I don't. You don't care about the man car?
• 52:09
  Speaker 9: No.
• 52:10
  Speaker 5: You're asking me if I want to pick up a
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: random snake and then move it somewhere. And she just
• 52:16
  Speaker 5: jumps right, like she was the crocodile hunter. And over
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: to the fence. And then, you know, you would think, like,
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: if it was me, I'd toss it. No, no, just
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: gently toss. gently guides the snake over the fence and
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: into the woods behind the house. That's the other side
• 52:35
  Speaker 5: of this.
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: Reign queen of the jungle. Reign queen of all life. Now,
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: did she grow up in the country?
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, she's a country girl.
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, so she's a country girl.
• 52:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, she had a ranch in South Texas. Yeah,
• 52:45
  Speaker 5: that's nothing for her. If it had fangs, she probably
• 52:49
  Speaker 5: still would have done it.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I have a good friend, former neighbor, who is our
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: snake guy. and any snake anywhere, anytime, if he's available,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: he's going to come get it for you, poisonous or not.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: He's pulled some big ones out. Pulled one out of
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: our fireplace at the B & B when we were
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: redoing it. The guy, the young Latino boy who was
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: working on the stucco, he squealed just like my daughter did.
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: See, I'm the one in the relationship more likely to
• 53:18
  Speaker 5: make that noise.
• 53:20
  Speaker 6: It's nice, isn't it?
• 53:22
  Speaker 21: I know.
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: I thought that.
• 53:24
  Speaker 5: I think that is the sound I made when I
• 53:25
  Speaker 5: saw the snake. She's picked up a snapping turtle, like
• 53:29
  Speaker 5: an alligator snapping off the side of the road, put
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: it in the back of her truck, drove it across
• 53:35
  Speaker 5: town to Research Park, and just go into the pond
• 53:38
  Speaker 5: it goes. I have a confession.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: I fished a big turtle out of the pool a
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: few weeks ago.
• 53:42
  Speaker 6: Oh, Lord.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: And it happens on occasion because our pool is not
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: far from our pond. And so I took him down
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: to the pond to release him.
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: Did not.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Do it as gently as I want to. He kind
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: of squirmed at the last second.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: Oh, yeah.
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Took a tumble out of my hands and landed on
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: a big rock.
• 53:57
  Speaker 23: Oh, God.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I tried, Rain.
• 54:00
  Speaker 5: I tried. My friend, I have done that, too. I
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: just choose not to tell those stories. He's fine.
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: It's an accident, I swear.
• 54:05
  Speaker 5: He's living his best life.
• 54:06
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: Trust me.
• 54:08
  Speaker 7: Again.
• 54:08
  Speaker 5: 104 years old for WTAW today. And if you're into history,
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: maybe not as much radio history as us because we're dorks.
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: It's cool stuff.
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: But if you want to relive the history of 100
• 54:19
  Speaker 5: years of WTAW, we do have a section for that online.
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: Amazing amount of interviews, podcasts, details, all that stuff. Go
• 54:26
  Speaker 5: check it out. WTAW.com. And yeah, enjoy. It really is
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: something to go through. We're 1620, 94.5 WTAW College Station. Brian,
• 54:38
  Speaker 5: good morning, everyone.