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The Infomaniacs: September 10th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 4: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, the Infomaniacs. 979-695-1620 is our phone number,
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  Speaker 4: text number. Hit us up. Let's talk theater.
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  Speaker 1: We love the theater. The theater.
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  Speaker 5: The arts.
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  Speaker 4: With the city of Navasota. We have you guys in
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  Speaker 4: every once in a while for Navasota Theater Alliance. Always
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  Speaker 4: like hearing about what you guys are cooking up over.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's amazing. Not only do we have great
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  Speaker 1: theater here in Bryan College Station, but all these surrounding communities, Navasota, Brenham,
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  Speaker 1: They all do fantastic work.
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  Speaker 4: So we have a couple of people. We have Justin
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  Speaker 4: and we have Haley. That's right. Sorry, my brain is
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  Speaker 4: not functioning today. Let's talk about drinking habits.
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  Speaker 6: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not talking about drinking habits.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say, are we the Dr. Phil
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  Speaker 1: show today?
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  Speaker 4: No, this is actually the play that we are going
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  Speaker 4: to be doing. And you direct, I believe.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 8: This is my first time directing here at Navasoda.
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  Speaker 9: Really?
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  Speaker 8: It's actually on the board. And so we are getting
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  Speaker 8: ready to open in about a week. It's a play
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  Speaker 8: about a couple of nuns who, trying to save their convent,
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  Speaker 8: they actually run an underground winery. And so it actually
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  Speaker 8: garners some attention, and people are starting to investigate this winery.
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  Speaker 8: And so a lot of mistaken identity, a lot of
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  Speaker 8: wrong place, wrong time, right place, right time, and then
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  Speaker 8: just a big, really huge Surprise, twist, anything.
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  Speaker 4: Look, nuns doing some bootlegging is.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, look.
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  Speaker 4: That's a heck of a premise.
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  Speaker 1: My question was, are we sure they were Catholic nuns? Because...
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a problem.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it just depends. So, is this.
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  Speaker 4: Whenever we deal with local theaters, sometimes every once in
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  Speaker 4: a while I'll find an original piece that's done for them.
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  Speaker 4: Others it's like, okay, I'm just not familiar with it,
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  Speaker 4: but it has been around. This one's been around for
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  Speaker 4: a while.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, this one's been around. And actually it's one that
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  Speaker 8: a lot of community local theaters do.
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  Speaker 4: Wonderful.
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  Speaker 8: I'm kind of glad.
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  Speaker 4: I am glad.
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  Speaker 8: But I'm glad that we are doing it, and I'm
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  Speaker 8: glad I'm the one that's. directing it because I've seen
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  Speaker 8: it a couple of times before.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful.
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  Speaker 8: And I'll tell you, our cast is really sparking it.
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  Speaker 1: Up, livening it up.
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  Speaker 8: We're doing some really unique things with it, throwing in
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  Speaker 8: some musical numbers and some interactive acting during the intermission
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  Speaker 8: and pre-show.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: So it's going to be. So how's it been doing
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  Speaker 4: the directorial debut for Navasota?
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  Speaker 8: It has been wonderful, actually. One thing about Navasota Theater
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  Speaker 8: Alliance is they're all very supportive. and it's a really
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  Speaker 8: good opening because you kind of set the standard and
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  Speaker 8: you kind of set the precedent for how the season's
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  Speaker 8: going to go. And if this is how the season's
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  Speaker 8: going to go, we've got some great shows coming up
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  Speaker 8: after Drinking Habits that are really going to blow audiences away.
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  Speaker 1: The cast is really setting the standard.
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  Speaker 4: I want to get to those two. First, if they
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  Speaker 4: want to buy tickets because you're down to a week
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  Speaker 4: prior to the show run, which, by the way, September
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  Speaker 4: 18th through October 4th. Is that right? Yes, that is correct.
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  Speaker 8: It's Friday in... Saturday at 7, Sundays at 2.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, perfect. Where can they get tickets?
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  Speaker 8: They can get tickets online at NavasotaTheatreAlliance.com.
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  Speaker 4: Okay. I think is the website. That would make sense. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Also Googleable.
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  Speaker 10: Well, I know.
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  Speaker 8: But also, I wanted to make sure I have them
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  Speaker 8: right because some of them are.
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  Speaker 4: Org. I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'll find a way eventually.
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  Speaker 8: If you go online, we can definitely get you set
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  Speaker 8: up with tickets. Or you call the box office.
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  Speaker 4: They will be able.
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  Speaker 1: You mentioned cast. I'm curious, where do you, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there are people from Navasota that are trying out.
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  Speaker 1: Do you find people are auditioning for these plays from elsewhere?
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we've actually had people all over. We've had people
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  Speaker 8: on the other side of Navasota. I can't say that
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  Speaker 8: she's from a specific city because the lady that's kind
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  Speaker 8: of lives in between Navasota and Madisonville.
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  Speaker 4: Got it.
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  Speaker 8: We've got a young lady from Madisonville that is on
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  Speaker 8: our ensemble. We've got several people from Bryan, a lot
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  Speaker 8: of people from Navasota. We actually had 15 people come
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  Speaker 8: and audition. And we were able to cast all 15.
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty dang good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I like that. Yeah. It was really good.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So let's talk the rest of the season. Like what
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  Speaker 4: other shows are on.
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  Speaker 8: Deck for you guys? So up next is Lanterns and Legends.
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  Speaker 8: It's Navasota Theater Alliance's annual... It's basically kind of like
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  Speaker 8: their own historical culture. So what they do is they
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  Speaker 8: kind of time it around Halloween, and they put it
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  Speaker 8: in a cemetery, and people dress up.
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  Speaker 4: Get out.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Get out.
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  Speaker 4: We do a haunted tour, basically.
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  Speaker 1: That's basically what's happening.
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  Speaker 10: Dude.
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  Speaker 12: Wow.
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  Speaker 13: That is fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Mind blown.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about that.
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  Speaker 4: I will be there for that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 8: And it's a great thing. So my first time going
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  Speaker 8: to it was last year, and it was really amazing.
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  Speaker 8: So you have people that are acting with the theaters.
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  Speaker 8: And they are dressing up like or, you know, portraying
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  Speaker 8: people that used to live in Navasota in years prior.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy. There's a lot of history.
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  Speaker 4: There's a lot of stories to tell.
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  Speaker 8: And it's written. It's actually these are it's directed by
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  Speaker 8: our board president, Joyce Yorick. And it's actually written by local,
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  Speaker 8: you know, he's he's he's in education. But he I
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  Speaker 8: love that he is basically a local historian.
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  Speaker 5: So cool.
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  Speaker 8: And he writes these every year.
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  Speaker 4: And it's Mark Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: That's very cool.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely fantastic. What else after that?
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  Speaker 8: After that, we've got Happy Holland Days, also directed by
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  Speaker 8: Mark Taylor. It's a hilarious holiday cooking kind of-esque type
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  Speaker 8: play that really should be one of the funniest plays
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  Speaker 8: people will see. When I was reading it, I was like, man,
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  Speaker 8: I'm going to have to try out for this because
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  Speaker 8: it's going to be amazingly funny. And then after that,
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  Speaker 8: for our winner's show, we've got Sylvia, which is about
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  Speaker 8: a man who brings a dog home. and all kinds
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  Speaker 8: of shenanigans come up. And the dog is actually played
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  Speaker 8: by a, it's supposed to be a cast by, cast
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  Speaker 8: as a, adult male, adult female or adult woman.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: And so they're supposed to kind of, and then be
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  Speaker 8: animated like the doll.
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  Speaker 4: This is like, kind of like, uh, whenever, uh, what's
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  Speaker 4: his name? Andy circus plays an ape or something.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Only in theater form. I love this.
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  Speaker 8: If we had that, if we had that technology.
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  Speaker 4: That budget might need to come up.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: And then closing out the season is, uh, Keith Morocco's
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  Speaker 8: leading ladies in, which is about, uh, two guys down
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  Speaker 8: on their luck and they are trying to find money
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  Speaker 8: because they're down on the look actors. And so they
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  Speaker 8: decide to act and pose as this rich debutantes. Um,
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  Speaker 8: nieces and what ends up happening is one of them
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  Speaker 8: ends up like falling in love with the other niece
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  Speaker 8: and different things and there's all kind of mistaken identities
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  Speaker 8: shenanigans hijinks if you would.
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  Speaker 4: Expect nothing less yeah i would expect that sounds like
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  Speaker 4: a heck of a season.
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  Speaker 8: And then through the summer we've got kids camp and
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  Speaker 8: teens camp.
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  Speaker 4: Which always always uh an episode of theater alliance remember
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  Speaker 4: i assume you can get tickets to any.
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  Speaker 8: Of these yes absolutely same website perfect and anything else
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  Speaker 4: You can't escape it. But the amount of people that
• 15:43
  Speaker 4: say they never use it has fallen the last six
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: months from 60% down to a flat 50%. Lost 10%.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: It's half and half. The amount of people that say
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: they use AI weekly is now getting up to close
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: to 20% of people say. Every single week they're using AI. Again,
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  Speaker 4: I assume they're talking about the big ones. They're using
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  Speaker 4: that at least once a week. Um, and there's a
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  Speaker 4: whole debate over who uses it most now. And people
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  Speaker 4: have always assumed, especially with like college kids and high
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  Speaker 4: school kids, that the people that use AI are the
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: people that do like that. They're the worst writers. Like
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  Speaker 4: if you know that you write poorly, you will use
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  Speaker 4: AI to compensate for that. Right now they're finding apparently
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  Speaker 4: it's the opposite. The people who write a lot, uh,
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  Speaker 4: or the ones that use it, and they believe that
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  Speaker 4: it makes them better.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's possible. What was it that, I can't
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And now I'm going
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, that's my fault. That's me. But I remember what
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  Speaker 1: she said. We were having a conversation, and she said,
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  Speaker 1: use AI for productivity, not creativity.
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  Speaker 21: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: That's the idea. And that's that's one of the things
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  Speaker 4: that I've seen. This is I don't know if it
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  Speaker 4: makes you better or not. I know that I use
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: it a lot for productivity because if you need to
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  Speaker 4: do a million different things and it's kind of. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it can do it for you. But I don't know
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  Speaker 4: if that actually makes me better.
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  Speaker 1: Better first of all they can't do without supervision and
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  Speaker 1: if you're not smart enough if you're not smart enough
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  Speaker 1: to go look at it and say hey i gotta
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  Speaker 1: double check this then then you know maybe you're you're
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  Speaker 1: in the former rather than the latter.
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  Speaker 4: I mean does anyone feel really if you feel really
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  Speaker 4: confident about it i mean i'm interested what people think
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  Speaker 4: about this do you feel that it for those of
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: you that use it improves your skills Because I'm kind
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  Speaker 4: of leaning towards not.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I lean that way, too.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I feel like it makes me dumber. And not in
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  Speaker 4: a derogatory sense, but in the same sense that I
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: can't remember anyone's phone number anymore, right? If you don't
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: have to do something, you kind of forget how to
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  Speaker 4: do it. And maps. I use Google Maps everywhere. Do
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: I have to? No, certainly not here. Do I still
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: do it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And have you forgotten routes? And if you just.
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  Speaker 4: Told me an address, would I be able to find
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  Speaker 4: it anymore?
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: You could go back to the way back. You could
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  Speaker 1: print yourself out a MapQuest.
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  Speaker 4: That's right. I could open up an atlas.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: You could do that.
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: I could guide myself.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: By the stars. Did you see that guy? He was
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: a former AI researcher that has come out and said
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  Speaker 1: there's a 10% chance that AI destroys the world.
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  Speaker 4: That's mad low.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Mad low.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: I think that's mad low as well.
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a lot of interesting articles about how AI
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: would choose to destroy the world, which is fascinating. But
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: I think the general consensus... is that if it does,
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  Speaker 4: it's going to be completely by accident. There's this thing
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  Speaker 4: called the paperclip example. And the idea is like, okay,
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  Speaker 4: here's what would happen in this scenario. You go to
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: AI and say, hey, AI, I want to open a
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  Speaker 4: paperclip business. So I need you to make me some paperclips.
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  Speaker 4: AI goes through, figures out how, and makes you some
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: beautiful paperclips. And you say, hey, great. Your job is
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: to keep making paperclips so I can grow my paperclip business.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: And so AI obliges, and it goes, and it goes,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: and it goes. But eventually, it runs out of metal
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: to make the paperclips or the metal that you use,
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: and it thinks to itself, well, where am I going
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: to get more of that? Then it thinks to itself, oh,
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: you know what I'll do? I'll go to scrapyards, like
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: places you know you know the the when a car
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: gets junked it goes in there it's like i'll just
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: buy up those and i'll use those for metal and
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: it works you know still making beautiful paper clips and
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: on and on and on um after a certain point
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: it runs out of the cars in the scrapyard and
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: it's thinking geez i still need to make paper clips
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: and that's when it decides what if I just decided
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: to hack into the traffic systems and the stoplights and
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: change it up so that people have more wrecks. And
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: then when they have more wrecks, I'll get more scrap
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: metal at the scrapyard and then I can make more paperclips.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: And so on and so forth until it accidentally destroys
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: all life on Earth because it just wanted to make
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: more paperclips. They don't even know what it did. It's like, well,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I'm just doing my job.
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  Speaker 13: It's making paperclips.
• 20:32
  Speaker 14: Oh, yeah.
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: Well, you didn't say it. You didn't say to not
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: kill everything to make these paper clips. I thought it
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: was important.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: Jeez.
• 20:43
  Speaker 13: Sorry, I guess.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: So that's the idea. And so if you look at
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: it that way, 10% is shallow odds.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Pardon me while I go lock myself in my bunker
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: after that description.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Now, so what are, you know, there are some uses.
• 21:02
  Speaker 18: Maybe, maybe.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Could be really good things people have trouble meeting people
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: in life and becoming you know become close with sparking
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: up romantic relationships you never end up in the same
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: place anymore right in the same place at the same
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: time uh and then you have to you have to
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: kind of trust that they're not a sociopath yeah but
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: what if ai could run background checks on all of
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: your potential first dates.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Will what if Doesn't that take some of the fun
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: out of it?
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: You could just enter it in and it would say, hey,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: watch out for this person. Complete sociopath. You should probably
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: ghost them or turn them into the police or whatever.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: That takes, I mean, removing all of the risk.
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: You know, that's the thing. It's just not fun. It
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: just it feels like it. But anyway, so, yes, this
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: is happening. New service called Stud or Dud uses a
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: stud or dud.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: It's a great name.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Uses AI to help daters dig up dirt on their
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: potential matches using data from all over the Internet. Now,
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: is that that different than Googling? They say yes. Because
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: these are real-life background checks. These are deep-dive background checks.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: And you do have to pay for the service. It
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: is not free. But you can get, now, via StutterDud,
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: everything you want to know.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Dig up all the dirt. Everything you want to know.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: There's no way this could go wrong. There's all kinds
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: of ways this could go wrong.
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: Similar to the maps thing. If you lose the ability
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: to kind of suss someone out across the table from you,
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: is that a skill that is.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Going to get worse? You are getting rid of one
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of your survival basic instincts.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, you need to know how to do this.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You need to know how to fly your own red flags.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: Yes, your brain needs to be a red flag detector,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: not just for dating, but for life. You don't want
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: to outsource that to the computer. It's like a horrible idea.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Aside from the fact that, I mean, there are legendary
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: stories that you get from, you know, these sort of encounters, right?
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: What are you going to talk about years later?
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  Speaker 4: What are you going to share with your friends?
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: You remember that crazy, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Protecting homeowners, lowering property taxes. That's Governor Greg Abbott. Political
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  Speaker 1: from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Bryan police have
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  Speaker 1: released official details regarding a deadly crash on State Highway
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  Speaker 1: 6 in Bryan Tuesday evening. BPD was on the scene
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: of a major crash in the 2700 block of State
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Highway 6 southbound lanes just before 6.30 p.m. Tuesday. Investigations
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  Speaker 1: revealed that an SUV was approaching the traffic backup associated
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: with the crash but was unable to stop in time.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: The SUV collided with a tractor trailer who was stopped
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: in the backup, and the SUV rolled. The driver, 59-year-old
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Adam Reeder of Burnett, was pronounced dead on the scene.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: The passenger was lifelighted in critical condition. The crash is
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: under investigation. Drugs or alcohol do not appear to be
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: a factor. Reeder was a deacon at the Vandiver Street
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Church of Christ in Burnett. A woman was arrested Monday
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: night after she left her nine-month-old godson alone inside a
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: running vehicle in a Walmart parking lot. Officers responded to
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a welfare concern at the Walmart in the 2200 block
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  Speaker 1: of Briarcrest Drive around 9.30 p.m. A caller said there
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: was an infant alone and crying inside a vehicle in
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the parking lot. 44-year-old Tasha Martin returned to the vehicle
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: and was about to leave when officers arrived. The child
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: was in a safety seat, but he was not restrained
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: in the seat, nor was the seat secured to the vehicle.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Martin told police she had gone inside Walmart and been
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: in the store for less than five minutes. Dispatch records
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: showed that seven minutes had passed between the initial call
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: about finding the child and Martin's return to the vehicle.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Police contacted the child's parents who came to the scene
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: and took custody of the infant. Martin was arrested for
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: abandonment of a child with intent to return. She was
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: booked into the Brazos County Jail and has been released
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: on $ 10, 000 bond. A woman was arrested for public intoxication
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Monday night after College Station Police said she fled an
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: emergency room wearing a hospital gown. Officers were called to
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Baylor Scott & White Medical Center around 8.30 p.m. on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: September 7th, after hospital staff reported that 47-year-old Carrie Adel
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Sharp of Anacoco, Louisiana, had run out of the emergency room.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Sharp was located nearby, partially dressed in a hospital gown
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: and wearing only one shoe. Staff told police that the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: woman had been brought in by Grimes County EMS for
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: suspected narcotics use. According to arrest records, staff found a
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: used syringe containing what they believe to be heroin inside
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: her bra. Officers gave Sharp an opportunity to return to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: the ER voluntarily, but she refused. Police say she was
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: intoxicated in a public place to the point that she
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: could be a danger to herself. Sharp was arrested for
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: public intoxication and booked into the Brazos County Jail. While
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: her identification says she is from Louisiana, this is her
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: 17th booking into the jail. She has six previous arrests
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: for forgery of a financial instrument and theft. She was
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: released on $ 300 personal recognizance bond. A woman was jailed
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: after stealing more than $ 125 worth of merchandise from the
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: West Bryan Walmart. Police were called to the Walmart at
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: 643 North Harvey Mitchell Parkway just before 2 o'clock on
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Tuesday after asset protection said a woman was concealing items
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: in her purse. 69-year-old Arlene Elizabeth Hamblett paid for items
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: in her shopping cart, but not those in her purse,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: including a Mickey Mouse pop socket, facial moisturizer, clothing, beef jerky,
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: and Halloween-themed earrings. Hamblett told officers she was willing to
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: go back and pay for the items. She was charged
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: with theft between $ 100 and $ 750 and is free on $ 3, 000 bond.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Dallas police not only have to deal with the influx
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: of attendees in town for the GOP's midterm convention, There's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: going to be protesters, and DPD Chief Devin Palk says
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: they're ready.
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  Speaker 26: Managing and working with protests is something we do quite
• 36:56
  Speaker 26: frequently here in Dallas. As a department, we work to
• 37:00
  Speaker 26: allow folks to be able to express their First Amendment rights,
• 37:04
  Speaker 26: but also be able to do it safely.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Palk says they have already been in contact with some
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: of the groups that are planning demonstrations during the convention. Meanwhile,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Dallas City Council members want to make sure they're reimbursed
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: for the cost of additional law enforcement. Estimates show that
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the city will have to pay about $ 2 million for security.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: City Councilwoman Kara Mendelson says there will be costs that
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: they will not recover, but they must ensure that everyone
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: is protected.
• 37:30
  Speaker 27: I hope we will be reimbursed, especially because the convention
• 37:33
  Speaker 27: is essentially a fundraiser. And the folks that lobbied to
• 37:38
  Speaker 27: get this in Dallas, you know, not all of them
• 37:40
  Speaker 27: live in Dallas. Some of them are in Highland Park
• 37:42
  Speaker 27: and University Park. And I hope they will make the
• 37:45
  Speaker 27: city whole. We deserve to be whole.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: The convention co-chair said this week that he didn't think
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: the city would be on the hook for any of it.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Riding on the coattails of the Republican convention, Democrats like
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker have made their way down to
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Texas to complain.
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  Speaker 18: This bizarre Republican midterm convention here.
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  Speaker 2: Can't paper over the fact that Republicans have done nothing
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: to earn your vote.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: While calling it an empty spectacle, Pritzker launched a new
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: political action committee. The Ready for the Fight Pack has
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: about $ 20 million. More news throughout the day or anytime
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: feel the difference. City of Bryan, time to check in
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  Speaker 4: with some more friends from over there. And today, we're
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  Speaker 4: checking in with the libraries, because libraries always have something
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: really cool going on. So we've got Bea and Derek,
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: and good morning, how are y'all? Thank y'all for coming in. Oh,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: this helps if I turn you on.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There we go. Now we got it. So we've mentioned
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  Speaker 4: this before. Y'all really do keep an incredibly packed calendar
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: of events that people can take advantage of.
• 40:27
  Speaker 14: Oh, we have all kinds of things. Actually, this month
• 40:30
  Speaker 14: is library car sign-up month, so we're encouraging y'all, if
• 40:32
  Speaker 14: you don't have a library car, stop by. Claire B. Mounts,
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  Speaker 6: Ringer.
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  Speaker 11: Free.
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  Speaker 2: Free.
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  Speaker 8: Free.
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  Speaker 4: Completely, completely free.
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  Speaker 1: If it's free, it's for me. That's what I've always said.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly. And I know we've got two events specifically that
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: we want to talk about. The first off is, and
• 40:50
  Speaker 4: I'm not familiar, very familiar with this, this is the
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: Observe the Moon Night.
• 40:53
  Speaker 16: It's International Observe the Moon Night, and that's going to
• 40:56
  Speaker 16: be on Saturday, September 19th, from 7 to 8.30 p.m.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: So the actual library.
• 41:02
  Speaker 16: Itself will be closed, but we will have the meeting
• 41:04
  Speaker 16: room open, and then in the back parking lot, we
• 41:06
  Speaker 16: will turn off all of the lights, and the Brazos
• 41:11
  Speaker 16: Valley Astronomy Club will be out there with their telescopes.
• 41:14
  Speaker 16: And so everybody can come and observe the moon.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: That's very cool.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: That is very cool.
• 41:18
  Speaker 16: And it's a really neat experience. If you've never done it,
• 41:19
  Speaker 16: I highly encourage you all to come out. It's a
• 41:21
  Speaker 16: family event.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Kids, adults, all ages are welcome. That's one of the
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: cool things. If you follow what they do, they'll have
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: these events that are things that you– wouldn't necessarily think to,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: or even know how to do it.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Or have the resources. Not everybody can afford a telescope.
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: It's a professional telescope.
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Exactly. It's really neat.
• 41:41
  Speaker 8: And it's free.
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: And it's free. Let's not miss that part. Just something
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: to do that is completely free, and you can learn
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: a little bit about the moon and be able to
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: see it through a vantage point that, frankly, I don't
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: even think I've looked through some of these telescopes and
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: seen it that close up. It's very, very cool. So
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: that is Observe the Moon Night, which is going to
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: be not this Saturday, but next Saturday. And then we
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: have Hometown Heroes.
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  Speaker 14: Yes, indeed. So come celebrate our local Hometown Heroes and
• 42:10
  Speaker 14: Big Rigs. It's happening on Saturday, September 26th from 9
• 42:14
  Speaker 14: to 11 a.m.
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  Speaker 4: At the Clary B.
• 42:16
  Speaker 14: Mounds Library at Downtown Bryan. It's going to include City
• 42:19
  Speaker 14: of Bryan's Fire. Trucks, police, garbage water trucks, all of
• 42:24
  Speaker 14: the fun stuff.
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Oh, Lord, you're bringing all of the trucks.
• 42:26
  Speaker 13: We're bringing the big rig.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: Literally all of the trucks are going to be showing
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: up for this.
• 42:30
  Speaker 14: We are bringing them to come for the community to
• 42:33
  Speaker 14: come over to see the inside and see what it's
• 42:36
  Speaker 14: all about. Also, Health Point is a community medical van
• 42:41
  Speaker 14: that meets you where you're at. It takes you to
• 42:44
  Speaker 14: wherever the need is. So they'll be there. United Way
• 42:46
  Speaker 14: will be giving away free books. We'll also have 1,000
• 42:49
  Speaker 14: books before kindergarten unveiling. Our Friends of the Library has
• 42:53
  Speaker 14: donated funds to us, and we've created 100 backpacks, 10
• 42:57
  Speaker 14: books in each backpack, to get kids excited about reading.
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  Speaker 13: That's incredible.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: That is incredible. And so that's at 10 o'clock in
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: the morning.
• 43:04
  Speaker 14: So between 9 to 11 and 10 is dedicated for
• 43:06
  Speaker 14: the unveiling.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: You think those fire trucks and police vehicles and garbage
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: trucks and water trucks, you think those are popular with kids?
• 43:16
  Speaker 15: Oh, yes.
• 43:18
  Speaker 14: It just allows people to.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: You can't peel a kid off of one of those.
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: That is, yeah. Any opportunity... There's one thing I know
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: about kids. If you can get them in proximity to
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: a bunch of these trucks, you just put it on
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: your calendar and go.
• 43:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: Because there's no way they're going to have a bad day.
• 43:34
  Speaker 25: No.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: It's not possible. And then, obviously, all these activities on
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: top of that.
• 43:39
  Speaker 14: Celebrating local heroes.
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  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: I love it. Where can they go to find out
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: more about these?
• 43:43
  Speaker 14: BCSLibrary.org.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Bcslibrary.org.
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  Speaker 1: Very easy.
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  Speaker 4: we'll go into almost get struck by lightning two days.
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  Speaker 5: In a row.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take one for the team. Give us some rain.
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: 90s for highs, 70s for lows, and then the same
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  Speaker 4: thing coming up tomorrow. We were talking a little bit
• 46:53
  Speaker 4: off air. about some classic rock news, because obviously Dallas
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: is having a minute, y'all.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: They are.
• 46:59
  Speaker 4: And they've got the convention happening up there, but they
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: also had Guns N' Stinking Roses at Jerry World last night.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Apparently so, and apparently it was a good show.
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: We were watching some clips, and Axl can go.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Look, there was a time post- post guns and roses
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: yeah peak.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: Oh it was dark days yeah really dark days.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: But the clip i saw axl was on key voice
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: sounded healthy the band looked good the set looked good
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: and uh by the account that i read a solid
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: show i love it a little bit scary though because
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: it was 38 years ago today 1988 The chart looked
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: like this. Van Halen, When It's Love, number five on
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the singles chart.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Robert Palmer's Simply Irresistible at number two.
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: Great track.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child of Mine hit number one. No.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: 38 years ago today.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: That is absolutely horrible to hear. Oh, you know what's funny?
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: This kind of falls into the same vein. When was
• 47:58
  Speaker 4: the last time you watched the MTV Video Music Awards?
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: I've not watched them since Jethro Tull beat Metallica.
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: No, no, that's the Grammys.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Was that the Grammys?
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: The VMAs.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: They all lumped together.
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: It's all the same award show, but there was a
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: time when the VMAs used to be a very big deal.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: That was back when MTV played videos.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, or I'll even give you back the boy band craze.
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, we all used to line up to watch MTV.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: You never knew what was going to happen. It was
• 48:22
  Speaker 4: crazy things, and you might miss a VMA moment. And
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: I saw earlier, maybe a month or so ago, that
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: the person leading the nomination pack for this year's VMAs, Madonna,
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: was 19.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: How?
• 48:36
  Speaker 4: What content is Madonna? Okay, so Madonna's leading the nominations,
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: but they have something they call the Video Vanguard Award,
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: which is like the Lifetime Achievement. Go into Nirvana.
• 48:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 48:47
  Speaker 16: Which, yes.
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: Deserved.
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: Deserved. Don't we think this should have been a, like,
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: who are you angling this show for? Do the kids
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: even know what Nirvana is?
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Does anybody have the capability of recognizing Madonna these days?
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Because the pictures and images I've seen.
• 49:06
  Speaker 4: I saw her at the World Cup. It was, I mean, look,
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: I hope I'm that vibrant.
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: She made Kenny Rogers, plastic surgeon, look like a... An idiot.
• 49:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's a lot of money, a lot of time.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: and a lot of anesthesia went into everything there. But yeah,
• 49:24
  Speaker 4: if you are interested in watching this, it's not even
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: on MTV anymore. I think it's on CBS and streaming
• 49:28
  Speaker 4: or something.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: Really? They don't even air it on MTV?
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Well, they don't air anything on MTV. It's wild because
• 49:35
  Speaker 4: MTV used to be such a big deal.
• 49:37
  Speaker 5: And.
• 49:39
  Speaker 4: Not just for content. Reality TV was essentially born on MTV.
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: And then you've got the Osbournes and Jersey Shore. And
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: then music shows and Spring Break. I wasn't going to
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: Spring Break. No, I watched all the Road Rules. But
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: I sure as heck watched it every year for a
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: whole week. Just park yourself in front of it and
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: watch all the chaos. It was great.
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: MTV was never bigger than when they... Early after they launched,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: and we could not get it here in Bryan College Station,
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: and there was actually a giant protest.
• 50:13
  Speaker 4: I remember.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: Martha Quinn came to town shouting, I want my MTV.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: Martha Quinn showed up?
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: Martha Quinn.
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: That's a big deal.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: That's a serious thing. But yeah, how the mighty have fallen.
• 50:27
  Speaker 4: Just for those of you that are following along, and
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: that is not will. The Apple event yesterday. The folding
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: iPhone is officially coming. Now, the question is, how much
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: will it cost?
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: About $ 1, 400. Am I right on that?
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: Wrong.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: Yeah, keep it going.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: $ 1, 700.
• 50:48
  Speaker 4: Keep it going.
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: $ 2, 000?
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Starting at too greasy.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: No.
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: Starting at $ 2, 000.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: Just because you can fold it?
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: Because you can fold it. Well, it's got.
• 50:58
  Speaker 18: It actually.
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 51:00
  Speaker 9: It.
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: I don't know why people get excited over the folding
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: phones because it's too much screen. And there's a there.
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: I already feel like I'm going to break this any
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: given day. Like I'm going to drop it. It's going
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: to crack. Well, it's an Apple.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: That's a legitimate fear. Stop it.
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: But now there's a there's a crease in the middle
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: of it. And you've got a phone on the front.
• 51:19
  Speaker 4: How do you make a phone case for this? I
• 51:21
  Speaker 4: ask you.
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, somebody will. And they'll charge an astronomical amount of
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: money for it.
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: So the idea is it's the biggest iPhone screen ever
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: because it's foldable. It's like maybe a third bigger, 50%
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: bigger than like the biggest phone you have. But since
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: you can fold it, it becomes pocket size, which frankly
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: is appealing to females who we don't give pockets to.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: I have no idea.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: My girls will flip out if they find a cute
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: dress and it's got a pocket.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: Pockets are so valuable.
• 51:52
  Speaker 13: So valuable.
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: That's why cargo shorts will never go away.
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, cargo shorts. That was my thing, too. It was like, OK,
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: I got a big phone. Well, guess what? I got
• 52:00
  Speaker 4: big pants, and those pants have big pockets.
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: And I don't care about fashion. I'm going to do
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: it anyway.
• 52:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but if you have a big phone, you need
• 52:08
  Speaker 4: a tiny little phone, this will fold up, which, of course,
• 52:11
  Speaker 4: I don't know why you want stuff to be tiny.
• 52:12
  Speaker 4: Tiny means losable. Tiny means I can set it, and
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: it can fall into a crack in my sofa.
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: That's kind of like putting on a camouflaged phone case
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: before you go hunting. You know you're going to drop it.
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: You know you're never going to find it.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: You sound like someone that might have experimented with this
• 52:29
  Speaker 4: at some point.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: No, no, I've just seen it happen.
• 52:32
  Speaker 4: Good lord. But yeah, other items, the new Apple Watches,
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: which are $ 800, I think. I have no idea. And
• 52:41
  Speaker 4: then some of the new... It's all the same thing.
• 52:44
  Speaker 4: It does what your old phone does, just a little
• 52:47
  Speaker 4: bit better. And it does what your old earbuds do,
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: just a little bit better. And it does what your
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: watch does, just a little bit better. And, yes, I'll
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: probably buy two out of the three.
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: Plus a built-in feature that it will break in a
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: set period of time or become inadequate.
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: Guaranteed.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: And you'll have to upgrade.
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: Guaranteed that it will be absolutely worthless within three years
• 53:08
  Speaker 4: on the dot. Right about that time when that upgrade
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: kicks in, you'll be like, wait a second. What's happening?
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: My phone is a little glitchy.
• 53:16
  Speaker 4: Something's odd. Something strange is occurring. And, yeah, some people
• 53:21
  Speaker 4: still believe that that's not true. I don't know how
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: at this point.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: Go and look at a refrigerator or a washing machine
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: that was built before this planned obsolescence wave came to pass.
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: They would last forever, y'all. It would last forever. Before
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: we get out of here, I want to remind you again,
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: tomorrow's a big day. 25th anniversary of 9-11. Anyone that
• 53:47
  Speaker 4: was alive in 2001 with the capability to remember it.
• 53:52
  Speaker 4: It's very defined memories of that day. And we want
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: to hear what yours are. And what we would like
• 53:58
  Speaker 4: you to do is to text us, hopefully a voice note. Yeah,
• 54:03
  Speaker 4: it's not hard to do if you haven't done it before.
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: Of where you were on September 11th, 2001. If you
• 54:10
  Speaker 4: want to write it out, you can text us. We're
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: going to be sharing some of these throughout the day tomorrow.
• 54:15
  Speaker 4: Definitely a lot of them during the 5 o'clock hour.
• 54:17
  Speaker 4: And we would like to remember your memories today. along
• 54:21
  Speaker 4: with everything else that we'll be doing tomorrow. So if
• 54:22
  Speaker 4: you get a chance today at any point to lay
• 54:26
  Speaker 4: some of that down, we would love to see it,
• 54:27
  Speaker 4: read it, hear it, whatever. Whatever version you want to
• 54:30
  Speaker 4: get to us, please get it to us. Text it
• 54:33
  Speaker 4: to 979-695-1620. And looking forward to seeing what you guys
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: send in.