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The Infomaniacs: September 24th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: A custodian at College Station Elementary School was arrested Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: on charges of child pornography. 22-year-old Gerardo Gonzalez has been
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  Speaker 1: a nighttime janitor at Greens Prairie Elementary since February 2025.
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  Speaker 1: He was charged with two counts of possession with intent
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  Speaker 1: to promote child pornography and is being held on $ 100, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: His employment has been terminated by the district. A man
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  Speaker 1: has been charged in connection with Tuesday's deadly shooting in
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  Speaker 1: Grimes County. The Grimes County Sheriff's Office received reports of
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  Speaker 1: a disturbance in possible shooting on County Road 173 around
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  Speaker 1: 5 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. They say 40-year-old Richard Butterworth III
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  Speaker 1: shot and killed 51-year-old Vicente Yanez. Butterworth has been charged
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  Speaker 1: with murder and two counts of aggravated assault with a
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  Speaker 1: deadly weapon. The remains of a college student who went
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  Speaker 1: missing nearly six years ago have been found and identified.
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  Speaker 1: 21-year-old Jason Landry left his apartment in San Marcos on
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  Speaker 1: December 13, 2020, to head home to Missouri City over
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  Speaker 1: the Texas State University Christmas break. His car was found
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  Speaker 1: in the next morning crashed and abandoned in Luling. Exhaustive
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  Speaker 1: searches by the Caldwell County Sheriff's Office, Texas Department of
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  Speaker 1: Public Safety, and Texas Equi-Search using helicopters with infrared cameras, drones,
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  Speaker 1: scent dogs, as well as searchers on foot, ATVs, and
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  Speaker 1: horseback failed to turn up anything. Earlier this month, a
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  Speaker 1: Luling resident found human remains in a heavily wooded area
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  Speaker 1: about three and a half miles from where his car
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  Speaker 1: was found. The remains positively identified at the University of
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  Speaker 1: North Texas Center for Human Identification. The remains do not
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  Speaker 1: provide additional insight into the cause or manner of death.
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  Speaker 1: Investigators have said they have no signs of foul play.
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  Speaker 1: She's not exactly campaigning for him, but Ken Paxton's estranged
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  Speaker 1: wife is talking politics ahead of the midterm election. State Rep.
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  Speaker 1: Angela Paxton is encouraging female Republicans to stick with the party,
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  Speaker 1: even if they are angry at a particular candidate.
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  Speaker 2: State Representative Angela Paxton's been pretty quiet about the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate race between her husband, Ken Paxton, who she filed
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  Speaker 2: for divorce from last year, and Democrat James Tallarico. But
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  Speaker 2: the DeWitt County GOP released a video of her speaking
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  Speaker 2: to board members of the Texas Federation of Republican Women.
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  Speaker 2: In the clip, Paxton tells women to stick with the party,
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  Speaker 2: even if they're mad at the person running for office.
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  Speaker 3: If we lose it to the other team, The nuances
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  Speaker 3: that we want to fix with maybe a certain candidate
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  Speaker 3: are nothing compared to what it's going to.
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  Speaker 4: Take to get it back.
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  Speaker 2: Russell Scott, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk is proposing a unique method of transportation, not
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  Speaker 1: too different from how you send your checks to the
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  Speaker 1: teller at the bank.
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  Speaker 5: The so-called Hyperloop would carry passengers between San Antonio and
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  Speaker 5: Austin through a vacuum-sealed tube at more than 200 miles
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  Speaker 5: per hour. Brandon Wheeler, who heads the Alamo Area Metro
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  Speaker 5: Planning Association, says he's eager to hear the details.
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  Speaker 6: I think as a region, we need to be open
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  Speaker 6: to what's out there because it'll take 20 to 25
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  Speaker 6: years to put in place and really get going.
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  Speaker 5: A tunnel has been talked about for more than one decade.
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  Speaker 5: At one point, Musk's tunneling company proposed a system that
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  Speaker 5: would connect San Antonio's airport in downtown, but That has
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  Speaker 5: since faded away. In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 6: 16, 20, 94, 5, WTAW. We're the Infomaniacs on a
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  Speaker 6: feel the difference. Man, as soon as people get famous here,
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  Speaker 6: they just dip.
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  Speaker 1: They just leave.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, you can, you can do a lot of
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  Speaker 6: great things to start out in Bryan College Station, but
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  Speaker 6: then it's like, we have to say goodbye as you,
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  Speaker 6: you head to the next phase of your career in
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  Speaker 6: the country world. You know, Parker McCollum, Conroe kid was
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  Speaker 6: here almost every weekend. I mean, he's got starred playing shows,
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  Speaker 6: the tap all of a sudden Nashville's calling Cody Johnson,
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  Speaker 6: Cody Johnson, Joe, you'd see here all the time, all
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  Speaker 6: the time. And he said, lives down the road, but,
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  Speaker 6: You know, he's got a global phenomenon.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got other things happening. He can't stick around.
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  Speaker 6: Next one on the list. Elizabeth Holmes.
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  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 6: She just got the movie, man! And do you realize
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  Speaker 6: this is the most... People are saying they might win
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  Speaker 6: Oscars for this. You Can See Everything is the name
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  Speaker 6: of the documentary.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were talking about it because of her dead eyes.
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  Speaker 6: Her dead, soulless eyes. Nathan Fielder, by the way, talked about...
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  Speaker 6: People were asking questions in the Chronicle yesterday about, hey,
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  Speaker 6: how did he film this? No one ever saw him.
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  Speaker 6: And Brian, it turns out, I think he was doing...
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  Speaker 6: He was shooting this at the exact same time he
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  Speaker 6: was shooting Ren Faire. Because that's one of his documentaries, too.
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  Speaker 6: But yeah, I've just been alerted that Elizabeth Holmes is
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  Speaker 6: going to be allegedly moving to a halfway house in
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  Speaker 6: 2027 in the city of Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Well, in Del Valle.
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  Speaker 6: You all want to move to Austin, don't you?
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  Speaker 1: The Austin Transitional Center in Del Valle, apparently.
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  Speaker 6: As soon as you get the opportunity to get to Austin,
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  Speaker 6: they just, they flee. Yeah, I I don't like that
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  Speaker 6: one bit.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how how will I how will our community recover?
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  Speaker 6: I don't I don't know. I feel like we never
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  Speaker 6: got to get to know you at all.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Probably because we weren't allowed to. Remember, you can still
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  Speaker 6: call Liz. We have a you have a phone and
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  Speaker 6: we have a phone. I'd love nothing more than to
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  Speaker 6: to to, you know, hear about your life on the inside. 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 6: We will accept the charges. I swear to you, that's
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  Speaker 6: my white whale, is an interview on the show with
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  Speaker 6: Elizabeth Holmes.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that you should call women prisoners white whales,
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  Speaker 1: but if you want to go there, shanking is fine.
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  Speaker 6: What else do we need to get to?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, this is bad news.
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  Speaker 1: JLP1s. GLP-1s.
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  Speaker 6: So everyone was wondering what happens because, again, you take
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  Speaker 6: something and you hail it as a modern miracle. And, again,
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  Speaker 6: I have to agree with them when they say this
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  Speaker 6: because there has not been something that has helped so
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  Speaker 6: many people lose weight. But everyone was like, yeah, but
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  Speaker 6: what's the cost?
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  Speaker 1: And if you're not on it, you know somebody that's
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  Speaker 1: on it. Apparently now they are being sued. GLP-1s like Ozempic, Wagobe, Mongerno, Ojoro, whatever.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They say they're causing vision loss.
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  Speaker 6: Now, okay, so here's my question. And first of all,
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  Speaker 6: here's one of the lawyers who's involved in this.
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  Speaker 10: We have gotten around close to 200 calls. There is
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  Speaker 10: so much fear and unknown, and they want answers. And,
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  Speaker 10: you know, these are not minor side effects.
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  Speaker 6: Well, are they not minor side effects? Because my question is,
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  Speaker 6: how much loss is vision loss? Are we talking I'm blind?
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  Speaker 1: Legally blind.
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  Speaker 6: Legally blind.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Wow. Apparently it causes what is known as non-arteric
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  Speaker 1: anterior ischemic optic neuropathy.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lack of blood flow to the eyeballs, the
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  Speaker 1: optic nerve.
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  Speaker 11: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: It results in rapid onset vision loss or blindness and
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  Speaker 1: currently has no treatment.
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  Speaker 6: So you're not, this isn't a case of like, I'm
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  Speaker 6: just going to need glasses. I was about to say,
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  Speaker 6: lose 20 pounds and have to wear glasses for the
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  Speaker 6: rest of my life? Okay, yeah, that might be a
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  Speaker 6: deal I take. Legally blind is bonkers.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is bonkers. I mean, do you want to
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  Speaker 1: be able to be skinny or do you want to
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  Speaker 1: see things?
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  Speaker 6: That's a tough choice. There's always a cost.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Always a cost. I want to call one of you
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  Speaker 6: who just became available.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. You're going to dial up somebody here? Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Pilot error crashed.
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  Speaker 6: Crashed the phone every single time uh yeah this.
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  Speaker 1: This glp thing worries worries me because we all know
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  Speaker 1: and love somebody who's on them yeah and i don't
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  Speaker 1: know again this is just a lawsuit it might be
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  Speaker 1: one of those things like it might be trash it
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  Speaker 1: might be like roundup it didn't really cause.
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  Speaker 6: You know whatever whatever well let's see howdy good morning
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  Speaker 6: jason what's going on man i'm having a great day
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  Speaker 6: we're having a great day uh we wanted to talk
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  Speaker 6: to you because um You were one of the people
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  Speaker 6: that when we were having that conversation about things that
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  Speaker 6: were gone too soon, you brought up KTSR, the rock
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  Speaker 6: radio station we used to have up here in Bryan Broadcasting.
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  Speaker 6: And you were also there for the very last– I
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  Speaker 6: want you to– because there's always people up here that
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  Speaker 6: for some reason are still surprised. that so many people
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  Speaker 6: know exactly where they were when KTSR signed off the air.
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  Speaker 6: So tell me, what was your relationship with KTSR back
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  Speaker 6: in the day?
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  Speaker 12: Well, I was a local radio listener and forth. Came
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  Speaker 12: here to be a student and stayed in town. I've
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  Speaker 12: been in town ever since. I was working at Sears,
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  Speaker 12: and there was a live remote that KTSR did, and
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  Speaker 12: I got a t-shirt from whoever was doing the remote.
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  Speaker 6: Which logo was it? Was it the black and yellow logo?
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  Speaker 12: Black with the white kind of spray-painty KTXR 92.1.
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  Speaker 1: That's the best.
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  Speaker 6: That was the best one.
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  Speaker 1: That's as good as it got.
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  Speaker 6: That is what I consider to be the prime logo. Now, obviously,
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  Speaker 6: as time went by, things change. And Candy 95 needed
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  Speaker 6: a place to live. We needed to be able to
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  Speaker 6: focus our efforts on that, which turned into one of
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  Speaker 6: the biggest radio stations, most successful radio stations in the country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's incredible.
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  Speaker 6: Still to this day, incredibly, incredibly popular radio stations. So
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  Speaker 6: KTSR had.
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  Speaker 9: To go away.
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  Speaker 6: Do you remember the sign-off and how that night was
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  Speaker 6: for you?
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  Speaker 12: I don't remember the DJ's name specifically, but I think
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  Speaker 12: it was Young Lee. I was sitting on the living
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  Speaker 12: room floor in my little duplex on Coast Street near
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  Speaker 12: Nagel and listening to the sounds of Led Zeppelin drifting
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  Speaker 12: off into space as KTSR signed off for the last time.
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  Speaker 6: And I have to.
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  Speaker 12: Thank and appreciate whoever chose that as the last song,
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  Speaker 12: because it's just such an appropriate final song for a
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  Speaker 12: classic rock station.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 6: I don't even know who chose Stairway as the final song.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's appropriate. It's a pretty obvious choice.
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  Speaker 6: With the last.
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  Speaker 12: Lyrics, it said, if you listen very hard, the tune
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  Speaker 12: will come to you at last when all are one
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  Speaker 12: and one is all to be a rock and not...
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  Speaker 12: What a great last line.
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  Speaker 6: That's perfect.
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  Speaker 12: And did you know that KCSR still exists?
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  Speaker 6: I do know that they call letters or something else,
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  Speaker 6: but I don't. I know it's not.
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  Speaker 12: KCSR 92.1 in Southwest Louisiana.
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  Speaker 1: Really?
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  Speaker 11: It's adult contemporary.
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  Speaker 6: It's adult contemporary.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the day, they.
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  Speaker 6: Used to be adult contemporary.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they did that for a minute.
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  Speaker 6: I do want to mention this, though, and this is
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  Speaker 6: one of the People ask, you know, it's 2026. Shouldn't
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  Speaker 6: you move on with your life and do something else
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  Speaker 6: other than radio? Because like, you know, whatever. There is
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  Speaker 6: not another media in this world. that you will have
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  Speaker 6: someone describe the moment they heard it was going away,
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  Speaker 6: sitting in a room in the dark as midnight creeps up,
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  Speaker 6: and it's 30-something years later. This dude still remembers where
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  Speaker 6: he was.
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  Speaker 1: Still has the T-shirt.
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  Speaker 6: Still has the T-shirt, still has the memories. So, no,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not going anywhere. That's why I do this. And, yes,
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  Speaker 6: many of us feel the exact same way about that
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  Speaker 6: radio station. Gone too soon. Maybe one day someone will
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  Speaker 6: be able to do something.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and you can put that along with other legendary
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  Speaker 1: radio stations in the area. The Houston ones, I used
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  Speaker 1: to string wires around my room to pick up K-L-O-L
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  Speaker 1: and 97 Rock out of Houston.
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  Speaker 6: People still talk about K-L-O-L. There's a doc, if you've
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  Speaker 6: never seen it.
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  Speaker 1: The doc is great.
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  Speaker 6: If you like rock radio and you remember K-L-O-L, Runaway Radio,
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  Speaker 6: you can stream it for, I think, like a buck
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  Speaker 6: on Amazon. It is one of the best documentaries I've
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  Speaker 6: ever seen about radio. It's just amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Perfect.
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  Speaker 6: It's flawless. And it will absolutely give you the nostalgia
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  Speaker 6: bug this weekend. But Jason, thank you for taking this.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Jason.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. All right. Let's see. We're going to take a break.
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  Speaker 6: We'll be back right after this on the Info Mania.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I get a little choked up here talking about KCSR. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I was almost thinking that you were going to come
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  Speaker 1: out of the break and do it like a jock,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, the boss jock. See, this is another side of,
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  Speaker 6: this is too inside baseball, and I think probably no
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  Speaker 6: one cares about this, but there are two types of DJs.
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  Speaker 6: DJ number one, who I was never able to be,
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  Speaker 6: was like Will Welch. Roger Garrett.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: The pipes and the ability to just like punch through
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  Speaker 6: a break. I am the other kind of DJ, which
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  Speaker 6: is just the dork who sounds like someone you know
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  Speaker 6: that for whatever reason got to have a job. And
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  Speaker 6: I do have a bad voice, but I also, I
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  Speaker 6: can't do, I can't, if we're doing DJ competitions, I'm
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  Speaker 6: going to lose all day long. Text messages from a
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  Speaker 6: lot of you guys who are kind of in the
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  Speaker 6: same situation today. Bradley, KTSR memory. I once told a
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  Speaker 6: lengthy joke to the lunchtime DJ. Shout out Roxanne Rolls.
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  Speaker 1: Roxanne Rolls.
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  Speaker 6: I then went about my business. Imagine my surprise about
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  Speaker 6: a half hour later. When I heard my own voice
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  Speaker 6: on the radio when I was having lunch at Sabisa
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  Speaker 6: Dining Hall, I went to tell someone, hey, I'm on
• 16:32
  Speaker 6: the radio right now, but I was too stunned to respond.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: I wish I could remember the joke.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you, Bradley, that that was recorded on a
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: reel-to-reel recorder. If it needed editing, it was chopped up
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: with a razor blade and put back together with a
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: specialized tape. Oh, man. Mike.
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: 101 K.L.O.L., Steve Zipruit, River Uncle Waldo, consider bringing that
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: radio drama back. There's a lot of things that I
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: think might be, that you might need to bring back
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: about K.L.O.L.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's— It was a juggernaut, man.
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: It was a legend. Again, I cannot recommend that, Doc.
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: If you love radio, many of you guys do, obviously.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: Or you just have some curiosity about kind of what
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: it was like.
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: I think a lot of people, if you grew up
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: in Houston and you're in our generation, you absolutely have
• 17:20
  Speaker 6: to watch that. Again, Amazon streams. I think Apple might
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: have it somewhere, but Amazon's where I've always found it.
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: Todd Craig still have two KTSR shirts, one in red
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: and one in black.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: I don't even remember the red ones.
• 17:34
  Speaker 6: The red one was a limited edition. I think I
• 17:36
  Speaker 6: want to say that was a street teamer shirt.
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: Todd, did you work.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: For us at some point? Anyway, that is neither here
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: nor there. Do you have regrets in your life?
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think everybody's got regrets. Do you? I don't
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: know that there are. I don't know that they're– I
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: don't focus on them, right? I tend to move on from, hey,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: that's the way it was, that's the way it is,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: that's the way it shall be.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: Well, let's ask someone who's lived a little bit longer
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: than us.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I beg your pardon?
• 18:06
  Speaker 6: General Manager Ben Downs. We're talking about regrets, but I
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: will ask you, do you regret turning off KTSR?
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Well, it was a business decision. It was. It was,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: very much so.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: Worked out pretty well in the long run financially.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Sometimes the right choice doesn't feel great.
• 18:31
  Speaker 18: No one talks about us having the tie-dye down the hall.
• 18:36
  Speaker 18: We have the tie-dye t-shirt. The KTSR t-shirt down the hall.
• 18:40
  Speaker 18: I know the black and white logo. I know all
• 18:43
  Speaker 18: the logos, sorry. I know the black and white logo
• 18:46
  Speaker 18: the guy's talking about, but we had it on a
• 18:49
  Speaker 18: tie-dye for a while, just For the heck of it.
• 18:53
  Speaker 18: The thing is, I don't remember the circumstances where Roxanne
• 18:58
  Speaker 18: Rolls was on the.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Air when we turned it off. That was Eli's shift.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: I thought it was Eli, too, but I didn't want
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: to get it wrong.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: To be fair, I can attest to the fact that
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: memories 30-plus years ago can get a little foggy.
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: Isn't that bonkers, though? I mean, when was that? It
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: was 2002 or 2003, so that's 23, 24 years ago,
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: and people still talk about this radio station.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I sat there, and I was the one who flipped
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the switch. I gave up. you know, on trying to
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: figure out how it was all going.
• 19:31
  Speaker 18: So I went over to the transmitter site, and I
• 19:35
  Speaker 18: stood there and listened to Stairway to Heaven, and when
• 19:39
  Speaker 18: it faded out, I flipped the switch to turn the
• 19:41
  Speaker 18: transmitter off, and it didn't go off. Oh!
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: It was fighting to the last minute. It was.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: I would expect nothing less.
• 19:49
  Speaker 18: I got to tell you, that throws you just a
• 19:51
  Speaker 18: little bit.
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: Maybe, is this it?
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe this isn't it.
• 19:55
  Speaker 18: Then I remember, oh, yeah, you've got to flip the
• 19:57
  Speaker 18: switch that says local control, not remote control. So I
• 20:01
  Speaker 18: flipped it to local control, and then it took the
• 20:04
  Speaker 18: hint and signed off. We still got the transmitter over there,
• 20:07
  Speaker 18: as it turned out. We were getting ready to move
• 20:09
  Speaker 18: it out in the intervening time between when we put
• 20:12
  Speaker 18: it all on and when we were getting ready to
• 20:14
  Speaker 18: take it off. There had been some carpentry work done,
• 20:17
  Speaker 18: and it won't fit through any of the doors.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Okay. So for life.
• 20:22
  Speaker 18: It's permanently there. It's sitting back there on transmitter row
• 20:28
  Speaker 18: at our transmitter site. We've got the zone, KWBC. We've
• 20:32
  Speaker 18: got the backups of both of them. We've got the
• 20:34
  Speaker 18: old good old 1152. tube-type transmitter that's still sitting over there.
• 20:39
  Speaker 18: Of course, I love playing with that one, but The
• 20:42
  Speaker 18: KTSR transmitter is just sitting there.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 20:44
  Speaker 18: So if we ever have an EMP, tune to 92.1
• 20:47
  Speaker 18: because that one will survive.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: That one will work.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: When we need to kill AI, when eventually that comes
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: to pass, you will still have at least one radio store.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It'll be right there.
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: By the way, he's not going to brag about this.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: He won't either, but we need to say this.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: Top 20 managers in the broadcast game, Ben Downs, which
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: I could not agree with more. But because he's one
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: of the elite minds in the radio business, I will
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: ask you this. And you don't have to commit. but
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: I just be for the sake of conversation.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Is there a time limit on this? Okay.
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: It is, is there a possibility at any point that
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: you see in the future where you might bring a
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: rock station back?
• 21:26
  Speaker 15: No.
• 21:27
  Speaker 18: Uh, it's the, uh, you know, it's, um, it's, it's
• 21:37
  Speaker 18: a tough format. People, um, people generally look, it's, it,
• 21:41
  Speaker 18: Love the music. When I'm in the car, sometimes I'll
• 21:46
  Speaker 18: go over to the dark side and listen to my
• 21:48
  Speaker 18: friends at Sirius X. No, I won't.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But anyway, I like the rock and roll. It's my era.
• 21:56
  Speaker 18: It's what was there when I grew up and banged
• 22:00
  Speaker 18: our heads and called it good. But it's just not supported,
• 22:05
  Speaker 18: if you will, in the business community.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: It is difficult to make money with these things. Find one.
• 22:10
  Speaker 18: There really isn't one. That's the thing, man.
• 22:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the biggest, there are still a few out there.
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: They're very rare, and it's a challenging format.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You mentioned K-L-O-L.
• 22:22
  Speaker 9: I'm sorry, let me do that right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: K-L-O-L, K-1-0-1.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 22:27
  Speaker 18: You mentioned that, but it was the headbanging rock and
• 22:30
  Speaker 18: roll station of all time, and now It's El Grande.
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: No, no, no.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: It is Mega.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Mega?
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: It was in my building, Boren. I was there. I
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: was right down the hall from the old KLOL studios.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: If you want.
• 22:46
  Speaker 18: To get people talking on the radio, just mention Crash.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Crash. It's Crash with you.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: Holy cow.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Do the news. I'll go. All right. Thank you. Ben Downs,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen.
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: We will talk news. That's coming up next.
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  Speaker 29: South Korea reached an agreement with the U.S. last year
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  Speaker 1: Texas drivers are still feeling the pain at the pump.
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  Speaker 5: Gas prices statewide are on the verge of $ 4 a gallon.
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  Speaker 5: Governor Abbott says the only thing that will bring the
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  Speaker 1: When that war ends, fuel is going to go back down.
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  Speaker 1: In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News. Houston businessman Tillman
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  Speaker 30: A Las Vegas landmark, Caesars, is a step closer to
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• 36:56
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• 37:17
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• 37:23
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  Speaker 6: 1620, 94.5 WTAW. Another hot one today. Feels like temperature
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  Speaker 6: Officer Gonzalez, good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Got to turn this mic on. There we go.
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  Speaker 6: Problem solved. A couple of things we want to talk
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: to you about. First off is new officer recruitment. Y'all
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: are looking to hire.
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  Speaker 32: Yes, we currently are. We are looking to hire. Actually,
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  Speaker 32: right now, our application is open. The deadline will be
• 40:11
  Speaker 32: October 16th.
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  Speaker 33: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: You still have time to sign up, Tucker, because all fair.
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  Speaker 6: That's what I said. I made a joke about Like, hey,
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  Speaker 6: if this doesn't work out, I'm too old to be
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: a police officer. And then he said, not anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Not anymore.
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  Speaker 32: So a couple years ago, I believe Greg Abbott changed
• 40:30
  Speaker 32: the laws behind that.
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  Speaker 6: You are allowed to hire someone like that.
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  Speaker 1: You got the right.
• 40:38
  Speaker 12: Guy, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: This is me not knowing a lot. You probably know
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  Speaker 6: more about this than me. Can you hire someone directly into, like,
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: you know, detective work? like go from zero to murder cop.
• 40:51
  Speaker 32: For our agency no you will start out on patrol
• 40:54
  Speaker 32: you have to do a minimum of two years that's
• 40:55
  Speaker 32: what i figured the patrol is what would get that's that.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Tucker has watched so many episodes of svu that.
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  Speaker 6: You don't want me anywhere near it no i i
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  Speaker 6: honestly i wanted to talk to you about um Number
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: one about the process of hiring, what do you go
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: through if you're interested? What does that hiring process look like?
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: That's a great question.
• 41:17
  Speaker 32: I actually always tell people it's unlike any other interview process.
• 41:20
  Speaker 32: It's going to start out by coming to tests. You're
• 41:23
  Speaker 32: going to take an exam where it's going to be
• 41:25
  Speaker 32: basic math, English, some moral questions, and you'll move into
• 41:29
  Speaker 32: a physical fitness test. After that, we'll send you home
• 41:32
  Speaker 32: with a packet. You're going to tell us all about yourself,
• 41:34
  Speaker 32: the good, the bad, the ugly. and then we're going
• 41:37
  Speaker 32: to sit you down into a preliminary interview. That's where
• 41:40
  Speaker 32: you sit down with the background investigator. That one can
• 41:42
  Speaker 32: kind of feel like an interrogation, but we are wanting
• 41:45
  Speaker 32: to know everything.
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Well, it has to be.
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: Yes, you're right.
• 41:47
  Speaker 32: We're wanting to know everything you've ever done in your life.
• 41:50
  Speaker 32: After that, you'll move into what's called a polygraph exam.
• 41:53
  Speaker 32: Lie detector is what people will call it, and essentially
• 41:56
  Speaker 32: it's the same interview, just under that polygraph. Once you
• 41:59
  Speaker 32: pass through that, you'll get officially sent to a background
• 42:01
  Speaker 32: investigator like myself. I'll investigate you. I'll call your mom,
• 42:04
  Speaker 32: your dad, your aunts, your uncle. sisters, brothers, everybody in
• 42:08
  Speaker 32: your family, friends, jobs you've ever worked for. And then
• 42:12
  Speaker 32: once you pass through that, we know you're being true
• 42:14
  Speaker 32: and honest with us. We're going to send you over
• 42:15
  Speaker 32: to an oral board interview. So you sit down at
• 42:18
  Speaker 32: a long table, a bunch of police officers on the
• 42:20
  Speaker 32: other side, civilians on the other side, and they're going
• 42:22
  Speaker 32: to ask you every question that they possibly can about
• 42:24
  Speaker 32: why you want to be in law enforcement. Once you
• 42:26
  Speaker 32: pass through that, you'll go into our chief's exam. After that,
• 42:28
  Speaker 32: you'll go into a psychological exam at Texas A & M.
• 42:31
  Speaker 12: Wow.
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: And then a physical exam.
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  Speaker 6: Now, it sounds intensive. Like I said, it has to
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: be intensive. I would expect it to be nothing less
• 42:39
  Speaker 6: than that intensive. But I do know this is one
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: of those jobs where you'll be a kid and you'll
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: grow up and what a lot of guys, hey, I
• 42:47
  Speaker 6: want to be a police officer one day. And then
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: maybe you get into other things. Like when you're talking
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: to people that are perspective, like, hey, I've thought about this.
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  Speaker 6: I've given it some consideration. What do you look for
• 43:02
  Speaker 6: in someone that would be a really outstanding officer?
• 43:07
  Speaker 9: That's an awesome question.
• 43:09
  Speaker 32: So people always think we're looking for the military veteran
• 43:13
  Speaker 32: only or the person who's worked security or in jails
• 43:16
  Speaker 32: their whole life. We're actually looking for people who come
• 43:19
  Speaker 32: from all walks of life. If you've worked the cash
• 43:22
  Speaker 32: register at HEB, or you've sold cars, or you've sold insurance, anything,
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  Speaker 32: you've worked with children, you have the skills to become
• 43:30
  Speaker 32: a police officer because the majority of the time, I'd
• 43:32
  Speaker 32: say 98% of the time, as a police officer, it's
• 43:35
  Speaker 32: just solving someone's problems and speaking to those people. It's
• 43:39
  Speaker 32: very rare that it actually gets violent or you have
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  Speaker 32: to put hands on somebody or anything like that. It's
• 43:45
  Speaker 32: just problem solving. And again, anyone from all walks of life,
• 43:50
  Speaker 32: people solve problems differently. And so when we have different
• 43:54
  Speaker 32: types of people when we come together as a team,
• 43:56
  Speaker 32: we're more effective as a team.
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: What can you expect from the career? Like if you're,
• 44:00
  Speaker 6: if again, if you're coming in with no background, what,
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: what does it, what does the cop's life look like?
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: It's a pretty fun.
• 44:06
  Speaker 32: Honestly, the patrol schedule is really nice. Um, you, you
• 44:10
  Speaker 32: work 12 hour shifts. Um, so if you work a Monday, Tuesday,
• 44:13
  Speaker 32: you'll be off Wednesday, Thursday, then you'll go in and
• 44:15
  Speaker 32: work Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and then the schedule will reverse.
• 44:19
  Speaker 9: And you'll be off from that weekend.
• 44:21
  Speaker 32: Um, seeing the things on a day-to-day basis, it's actually
• 44:24
  Speaker 32: kind of exciting. You know, helping people and their problems
• 44:27
  Speaker 32: gives you a good sense, you know, good feeling afterwards,
• 44:31
  Speaker 32: feel good about that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: You learn a lot. You learn about a lot about
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: different cultures.
• 44:37
  Speaker 32: And then on top of that, when things are exciting
• 44:39
  Speaker 32: in law enforcement, they're, they're very exciting, you know, getting
• 44:42
  Speaker 32: into the foot pursuits or, you know, having to arrest
• 44:44
  Speaker 32: a bad guy. You know, Putting someone in jail who
• 44:48
  Speaker 32: actually deserves to be in jail is a rewarding career.
• 44:50
  Speaker 6: I mean, I know it's, I say, I know, I
• 44:52
  Speaker 6: don't know. I'm told it's hard work, really hard work,
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: but very fulfilling. We're very grateful that there are a
• 44:59
  Speaker 6: lot of people that want to do this. And, you know,
• 45:01
  Speaker 6: if you are someone that feels called, you know, maybe.
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: Go talk to them. Hey, it's worth investigating, right?
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's absolutely worth investigating. On to something else. National
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  Speaker 6: night out, mercifully, not in the middle of summer. You
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: guys wait.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 45:18
  Speaker 6: But it's coming up.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, it is.
• 45:20
  Speaker 32: So National Light Out is going to take place on
• 45:22
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  Speaker 9: And then tomorrow, the registration closes by tomorrow.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
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  Speaker 32: September 25th is when registration closes at 5 p.m. So
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• 45:37
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  Speaker 32: some block parties all grouped together. You get to meet
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• 45:45
  Speaker 6: It's a really cool excuse if you're a neighborhood or
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  Speaker 1: When I lived in a neighborhood, it was one of
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: the highlights of that. The fire folks would come out.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: The police would come out. The kids would ignore the
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  Speaker 6: No, it's an amazing thing. But you've got to jump
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  Speaker 9: Yes, if you want to be in it, you've got
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Anything else we need to get to today?
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  Speaker 8: No, sir.
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  Speaker 9: That's everything. Thank you all so much for your time.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for your time.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I have one more thing. Jason texted in. Said
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  Speaker 6: 268-ROOF or go to unitedroofingpros.com. I told you, Will, we
• 50:56
  Speaker 6: were going to go back to the regrets that you have.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Brian, the most regrets.
• 51:02
  Speaker 6: Really, it was just an opportunity for me to play
• 51:05
  Speaker 6: some more Frank Sinatra.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Some more blue eyes.
• 51:07
  Speaker 6: And that's great. But then we got distracted and we
• 51:12
  Speaker 6: started talking about something that honestly is much more interesting.
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: So we will close the show talking about Robot Wars.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes.
• 51:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah. So if you haven't seen this yet, we have
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: had our very first man versus machine cage match.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: It was a YouTube influencer.
• 51:32
  Speaker 6: Because of course it was.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: Who decided to take on the robot.
• 51:36
  Speaker 6: A six foot tall fighting android robot.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Who looks pure evil.
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: I'm just going to, yeah, they put a T-800 head
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: on him because it's, you know, ha ha. I don't
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: think they needed to do that, but they made their choice,
• 51:48
  Speaker 6: and that's fine. I will jump to the conclusion. The
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: human lost badly.
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 51:54
  Speaker 6: It took one stiff kick to the chest, and he
• 51:57
  Speaker 6: went flying. Across the octagon and into the cage. Flying
• 52:01
  Speaker 6: backwards and was unable to continue. So that said, Will,
• 52:05
  Speaker 6: since it's a thing, I thought we would take a
• 52:07
  Speaker 6: couple of minutes at the end of the show to
• 52:09
  Speaker 6: talk about if you ended up in a situation where
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: you had to fight back. a six-foot-tall Terminator-style robot, which
• 52:17
  Speaker 6: apparently is something that we do now in 2026. What's
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: your play?
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: My play is, first of all, there are no rules
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: in robot fighting.
• 52:26
  Speaker 6: No, this is a battle to survive.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: It is. There are no limiting factors. Forget about gloves.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: Forget about, you know, tapping out. No, there are no
• 52:34
  Speaker 1: rules in robot fighting.
• 52:35
  Speaker 6: This is two men going, well, one man and one robot.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, in this example, the guy had headgear on and
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: he had boxing gloves on. No, scrap all of that. Mm-hmm.
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: Grab whatever you can and smack the robot with it.
• 52:46
  Speaker 6: So you're going blunt force is what you're going with.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Well, and I'm going for, it is a bipedial robot,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: so it's on two legs.
• 52:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's not one of the robo-dogs.
• 52:55
  Speaker 17: Right?
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: So if you can take out a leg, you can win. True.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: So that's where I would go first.
• 53:00
  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, okay. So you disable one leg.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: And you win.
• 53:03
  Speaker 6: And then hopefully it can no longer, yeah. and it's
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: going to be struggling on the ground.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: Then you can stand apart from it and pummel it
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: about the body and the head.
• 53:12
  Speaker 6: I would also say don't be fooled by the head
• 53:16
  Speaker 6: because you don't know where the sensors are that keep
• 53:18
  Speaker 6: it alive. It could be the chest for all you know.
• 53:22
  Speaker 6: You have no idea what's telling the.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: You don't have the schematics.
• 53:25
  Speaker 6: Disable it.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you got to disable it.
• 53:28
  Speaker 6: Okay, so in a situation where you don't have any
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: object around, like where you don't have... Because again, if
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: you have a heavy object, yeah, maybe that helps you out.
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: I don't know, pick the leg? Maybe just try to
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: sweep through and trip it?
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think you're going to do it with
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: a leg kick.
• 53:43
  Speaker 20: No, no, no.
• 53:43
  Speaker 6: I'm saying do it like a wrestling move.
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: I think you're going to have to, which is why
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: I said no gloves. You're going to have to grapple
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: with it, I think, if you're going for the leg.
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Either that or you can go for the good old,
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to hit you on the side
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: of the knee like I was going to take out
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: your interior crew shape.
• 53:58
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: I would try to impact there.
• 54:01
  Speaker 6: You know what stinks about a robot fight? I was
• 54:04
  Speaker 6: going to say, okay, groin kick, but then robots don't
• 54:07
  Speaker 6: feel pain. There's nothing there. You have to break something.
• 54:10
  Speaker 6: It's going to hurt your foot. Every punch you throw,
• 54:15
  Speaker 6: it's not going to do anything. It's pointless.
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, you might try, instead of a prison shiv,
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: maybe a screwdriver in the right spot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, no, no, no, wait.
• 54:25
  Speaker 6: Just throw water on it. Would that work? Is that
• 54:28
  Speaker 6: like the Wicked Witch of the West thing?
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: They would fix that for the next fight, though, I
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: guarantee you. They would correct that quickly. You don't need it.
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: I don't care about the next fight. I care about
• 54:36
  Speaker 6: this fight.
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: Right, but then you have to come up with something
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: new for the next one.
• 54:39
  Speaker 6: I cannot believe we did this. You had at least
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: five years until they got sentience and tried to kill
• 54:48
  Speaker 6: us all. Why are you rushing it?
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Well, because we have to find out where their weaknesses are.
• 54:52
  Speaker 6: All right, all right, fair. Yeah, Greg says try and
• 54:56
  Speaker 6: get the robot to follow you to a body of water.
• 54:59
  Speaker 6: Like try to just maybe, yeah, run.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: See if it chases you. That's genius. Run.
• 55:04
  Speaker 6: You might be able to beat it. WTAW.