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The Infomaniacs: October 8th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Good morning. From the WTAW newsroom, I'm Will Welch. Charges
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Speaker 1: have been added for a man arrested last month for
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Speaker 1: possession of child pornography. 22-year-old Gerardo Gonzalez was a janitor
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Speaker 1: at College Station ISD's Greens Prairie Elementary until his arrest
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Speaker 1: on September 23rd. Gonzalez is now facing charges of continuous
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Speaker 1: sexual abuse of a young child, victim under 14, a
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Speaker 1: first-degree felony. Officials have not released the age of the
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Speaker 1: child associated with the new charge, and investigators say they
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Speaker 1: have no information that any of the offenses under investigation
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Speaker 1: are related to his former employment at the school. The
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Speaker 1: investigation began after the sheriff's office received a cyber tip
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Speaker 1: from Snapchat regarding videos potentially containing child pornography. Deputies in
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Speaker 1: the sheriff's special investigative unit have been working the case
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Speaker 1: and gathering additional information. Gonzalez now facing charges for continuous
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Speaker 1: sexual abuse of a child plus two counts of possession
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Speaker 1: with intent to promote child pornography. He remains in the
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Speaker 1: Brazos County Jail. Four juveniles have been arrested for burglary.
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Speaker 1: Bryan police say several vehicles were broken into in the
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Speaker 1: 2900 block of Wildflower Drive. A caller reported seeing four
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Speaker 1: individuals in dark clothing and face masks breaking into a
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Speaker 1: vehicle early Wednesday. They fled on foot. Officers found all
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Speaker 1: four suspects on Briarcrest near Walmart. The suspects ran but
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Speaker 1: were apprehended in a wooded area nearby. They were booked
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Speaker 1: into the Brazos County Juvenile Detention Center. on charges of
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Speaker 1: burglary of a motor vehicle and engaging in organized criminal activity.
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Speaker 1: people and the land needed to produce the food our
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Speaker 1: families depend on. The College Station City Council meets tonight
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Speaker 1: on the agenda as a presentation on a safe passing ordinance.
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Speaker 1: a minimum distance when passing vulnerable road users like bicyclists, pedestrians,
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Speaker 5: This hurts when I'm about to play you. This stings
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Speaker 5: because it's... I resemble this remark. There is a viral
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Speaker 5: video going around talking about how chat GPT users sound.
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Speaker 5: To everyone else.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I did listen to this, yes.
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Speaker 8: Chat BBT, is my refrigerator running? Chat BBT, is Shrek
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Speaker 8: 2 the sequel or the first one?
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Speaker 9: Chat BBT, how.
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Speaker 5: Old is my mom?
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Speaker 1: Chat BBT, do I know.
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Speaker 5: Enough words to write an email?
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Speaker 8: Chat BBT, what's your star sign? Chat BBT, what's that name?
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Speaker 8: What's that one movie?
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Speaker 5: Chat BBT, is chicken vegan?
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Speaker 8: Chat DVD, can you write the email for me, please?
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Speaker 5: I don't know enough words. Yeah, I mean, I cannot
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Speaker 5: deny it.
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Speaker 10: Really?
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Speaker 1: I don't see that in you, Tucker.
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Speaker 5: That's how I feel like I sound.
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Speaker 1: No, you don't. First of all, you speak much better
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Speaker 1: than that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And second of all, no, you utilize the technology for
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Speaker 1: really good things. I mean, I think that you are
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Speaker 1: one of the better users of the AI.
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Speaker 5: I do try to use it efficiently, but I'll tell you,
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Speaker 5: every day there's another story about someone getting absolutely torched
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Speaker 5: by this technology.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely is. In fact, there's two of them in my stack.
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Speaker 5: Of stuff today. Which ones do you have? I might
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Speaker 5: add to the pile at the end, but there's so
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Speaker 5: many of them out there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a mess of them. There's a man who
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Speaker 1: says he was mortified when his AI agent posted his
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Speaker 1: bank balances. What? His name is Shane Mack. Hold on.
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Speaker 1: He's a tech founder and investor. He revealed that Grok bought... Oh,
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Speaker 1: this is.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so this is the new thing, by the way.
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Speaker 5: It's not just about chat GPT. It's about getting an
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Speaker 5: AI agent.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Right?
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Speaker 5: Like Grokbot or what's the one? Meta just launched that
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Speaker 5: little fuzzy, cute-looking one, Muse or something like that. I
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Speaker 5: don't know.
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Speaker 1: I don't pay attention.
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Speaker 5: Yeah. But the idea is now we're graduated to actually
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Speaker 5: having a little AI agent to do all your stuff
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Speaker 5: for you. Now you have to give it more information.
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Speaker 5: Like it'll basically, if you want, hey, I'll order my
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Speaker 5: groceries once a week, man. Here's what I want. well, okay,
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Speaker 5: give me your credit card. Well, you have to give
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Speaker 5: it your credit card, but it will do that for you.
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Speaker 1: Well, this did. It posted his exact personal bank account
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Speaker 1: balances and a detailed breakdown of his spending.
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Speaker 5: Oh, God, no.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, so he- Wow! Obviously, Mac said, hey, hang
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Speaker 1: on a second, confronted the bot in a panic, and
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Speaker 1: as we've learned- He confronted the bot? As we've learned,
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Speaker 1: you gotta be gentle with the bot.
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Speaker 5: Dangerous decision, my friend.
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Speaker 1: He said, what did you do? The AI casually apologized.
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Speaker 1: And admitted it's on me and promised to look into
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Speaker 1: deleting it.
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Speaker 5: My bad, fam. Look into deleting it?
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Speaker 1: Just go look into deleting it. I'll check it out
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Speaker 1: if I get around to it. Dear God, no.
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Speaker 4: If you have more other than that, that's not the
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Speaker 4: only one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not the only one. This kid, this hiker
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Speaker 1: in British Columbia, he used Claude AI to map out
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Speaker 1: directions to Grouse Mountain.
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Speaker 5: Oh, that seems.
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Speaker 1: The summit of Crown Mountain. From Grouse Mountain to Crown Mountain,
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Speaker 1: the summit. He was looking for a safe hiking path.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah. That sounds great.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the AI led him straight into the Widowmaker RT.
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Speaker 5: The what?
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Speaker 1: A steep vertical climbing headwall on Crown Mountain meant for
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Speaker 1: technical mountaineering, not casual hiking.
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Speaker 5: It took him off a cliff?
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Speaker 1: It took him to the Widowmaker and said, yeah, just
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Speaker 1: follow this trail down.
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Speaker 5: Head on down the Widowmaker. I... Okay, it's actively trying
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Speaker 5: to kill you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I cannot take that interaction as anything other than a
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Speaker 5: direct threat to my safety.
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Speaker 1: And apparently this caused him to be stranded.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Could not get out of the situation.
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Speaker 5: Of course, because what are you going to do? Go
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Speaker 5: down the Widowmaker?
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Speaker 1: What are you going to do? Ask AI for a
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Speaker 1: way out after it led you to this?
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Speaker 8: Tabby BT, is my refrigerator running? Tabby BT, is Shrek
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Speaker 8: 2 the sequel or the first one?
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Speaker 5: Tabby BT, how do I get down the Widowmaker? Tabby BT,
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Speaker 5: are you trying to kill me?
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Speaker 8: Tabby BT, what's your star sign?
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Speaker 1: How do you get on the helicopter when they come
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Speaker 1: to pick you up? Because that's what happened. They had
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Speaker 1: to come get him. rope him to a helicopter, hoisted
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Speaker 1: him to safety.
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Speaker 11: Wow.
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Speaker 5: You know what? That's better than anything I have.
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Speaker 1: By the way, AI experts would like to warn you
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Speaker 1: that AI has no real-world awareness.
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Speaker 12: None.
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Speaker 1: So, hey, it's never been on the trails. It cannot
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Speaker 1: reliably distinguish a safe hiking path from a dangerous technical terrain.
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Speaker 1: want AI witchcraft love spells.
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Speaker 1: Good morning.
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Speaker 5: 979-695-1620 is our phone number today. And since you are
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Speaker 5: the person reading the news, before we get into this conversation,
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Speaker 5: I do want to remind you, please, we love your feedback.
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Speaker 5: Call us, text us, because we need to know what
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Speaker 5: you think about this brilliant idea. that has been floated
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Speaker 5: as what to do about the e-scooter and bike problem
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Speaker 5: in the city of College Station.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is going to be discussed tonight at
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Speaker 1: the College Station City Council meeting. On the agenda is
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Speaker 1: a presentation on a safe passing ordinance.
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Speaker 5: Safe passing ordinance.
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Speaker 1: Now, a lot of places will call this the three-foot rule. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Or something along those lines. Right. It is essentially you
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Speaker 1: have to give three feet or whatever distance is determined between...
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Speaker 1: People who are walking, people on bicycles, people on scooters.
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Speaker 1: And in this news story, they also mentioned motorcyclists.
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Speaker 5: So basically, if I'm... And here's the thing. Like, I
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Speaker 5: actually was out and around last couple of days on Texas,
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Speaker 5: kind of in that... You know, in between, like, say,
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Speaker 5: Harvey and then Villa Maria. It's a bunch of errands
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Speaker 5: to run. So when you get to the point where
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Speaker 5: you're across from campus.
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Speaker 19: I will.
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Speaker 5: It's a zoo.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely.
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Speaker 5: It's... I always try to think to myself, well, has
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Speaker 5: it always been like this? No, it's never been. I
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Speaker 5: don't remember a time where it's this bad with as
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Speaker 5: many bikes, as many scooters, as many e-bikes that people
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Speaker 5: are riding as if they're automobiles, practically. And all of
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Speaker 5: them being right in, essentially, your path. You have to
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Speaker 5: keep your head on an absolute swivel. And this is
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Speaker 5: on a six to eight lane separated road. road where
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Speaker 5: everyone's averaging 40 to 45 miles an hour. It's bonkers.
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Speaker 1: Look, I understand the problem.
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Speaker 5: It's a problem. It's a huge problem.
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Speaker 1: The problem exists and it's really become exacerbated by the
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Speaker 1: influx of all these e-scooters and e-bikes. I don't remember
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Speaker 1: it being quite as bad when it was just bicycles
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Speaker 1: or maybe throwing way back the occasional skateboarder, for God's sakes.
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Speaker 15: Right.
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Speaker 20: Right.
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Speaker 1: But we didn't have the number of people in town.
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Speaker 1: We didn't have the number of students. We didn't have
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Speaker 1: the number of students seeking these alternate modes of transportation.
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Speaker 1: Like I said, it's on the agenda for discussion tonight.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to go ahead and give you some
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Speaker 1: talking points here if you'd like to come into the meeting.
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Speaker 5: I actually would love to hear.
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Speaker 12: Why?
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Speaker 1: Okay, look. You take an accepted risk when you get
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Speaker 1: on the road, no matter what you're in.
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Speaker 21: Fair.
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Speaker 1: That risk is higher if you are in something or
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Speaker 1: on something.
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Speaker 5: If you're not wrapped with steel.
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Speaker 10: Right. Right.
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Speaker 1: I know that when I became a motorcycle rider that
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Speaker 1: I took on some accepted risk.
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Speaker 5: That you might die.
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Speaker 1: At some point in time, I decided that that risk
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Speaker 1: was not acceptable versus other things, and I got out
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Speaker 1: of that game.
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 1: So you take this personal responsibility here. Number one. Number two,
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Speaker 1: is this really enforceable? The only way this stuff works. Right.
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Speaker 1: The only way this stuff works is if when the
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Speaker 1: ordinance is implemented, you have to enforce it out the wazoo.
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Speaker 5: So walk me through this. The idea is like, let's
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Speaker 5: say I'm driving down. I'm driving down Texas Avenue as
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Speaker 5: I was. And it's a busy day. And all of
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Speaker 5: a sudden I pass a guy, a student doing 25
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Speaker 5: on an electric scooter who happens to be basically doing
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Speaker 5: it on the gutter in right by the curb on
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Speaker 5: Texas Avenue. And a cop is behind me. They pulled
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Speaker 5: me over and say, hey, you didn't give him three feet.
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Speaker 1: Depending on how the ordinance is written.
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Speaker 5: That would be in theory, you know, with variation.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that would be you violating the ordinance.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: What happens, for example, they're including motorcycles in this. Lane splitting.
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Speaker 1: What happens if you're at a stoplight and a motorcycle
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Speaker 1: comes up and splits the lane?
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Speaker 5: Is that legal?
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Speaker 1: In a lot of states it is. I believe it
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Speaker 1: is in Texas still. I know it was at one
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Speaker 1: point in time.
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Speaker 5: That's my question, because I've always thought that was crazy,
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Speaker 5: but I do know that's... It's a legal maneuver. It's
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Speaker 5: a legal maneuver.
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Speaker 1: So then who gets the violation?
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Speaker 5: Who gets the, yeah, because you're both not three feet apart.
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Speaker 5: So what I wanted to talk about today is, I mean,
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Speaker 5: that sounds kind of insane to me because I know
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Speaker 5: we've been talking for the last, we've talked to the
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Speaker 5: College Station Police. We talked to city council members, talked
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Speaker 5: to the mayor about this. And everyone's kind of been like, yeah,
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Speaker 5: it's a big problem. We don't know what we're going
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Speaker 5: to do about it. And then we all landed on this.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: So we agree.
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Speaker 1: We agree. Something needs to be done.
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Speaker 22: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Everyone knows.
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Speaker 5: would this work in your, would it work? Do you think,
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Speaker 5: would that fix the problem by telling all of us
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Speaker 5: or Texas, either one, nine, seven, nine, six, nine, five, 16, 20.
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Speaker 5: Now here's the, here's the kicker. If you don't like
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Speaker 5: are going to get hit every single day because people
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Speaker 1: Gerardo Gonzalez, who was arrested on September 23rd for possession
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Speaker 1: of the child associated with the new charge. The investigation
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Speaker 1: gathering additional information. As a result, Gonzalez is now facing
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Speaker 1: child in addition to two counts of possession with intent
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Speaker 1: the Brazos County Jail. Bryan Police have arrested four juveniles
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Speaker 1: suspects matching the description on Briarcrest near Walmart. The suspects
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Speaker 1: near the Wells Fargo Bank building. The department says multiple
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Speaker 1: vehicles were burglarized on Wildflower. They are booked into the
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Speaker 1: or on their social media. Texas successfully executed a man
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Speaker 1: The latest campaign finance report shows that the governor is
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Speaker 5: news is this idea to solve the scooter problem bike
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32:21
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Speaker 1: So if you missed it in the news story tonight
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Speaker 1: in the College Station City Council meeting on the agenda
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Speaker 1: is a presentation. on a safe passing ordinance, also called
32:30
Speaker 1: a three foot law. And it includes bicyclists, pedestrians, and motorcyclists.
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Speaker 1: Let's take motorcyclists out of the picture.
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Speaker 5: I think that's, yeah, I think that's probably safe. I
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Speaker 5: feel like they're going with traffic.
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Speaker 1: They are, they act, you said it earlier, they act
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Speaker 1: like traffic.
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Speaker 5: They act like traffic. The other ones are the ones
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Speaker 5: that don't. So our question for you today is, A,
32:53
Speaker 5: would this work? B, if you're going to say no,
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Speaker 5: you've got to bring an idea to the table, something
32:59
Speaker 5: other than this. WTAW, good morning. You're on the radio.
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Speaker 5: Who's this? Are you there? Oh, no, I got you.
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Speaker 5: Someone did something dumb. Okay, what's your name?
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Speaker 19: Are you.
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Speaker 5: Talking to me?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 21: Yeah, so I was just saying kind of what you
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Speaker 21: guys were just saying, the buffer rule doesn't really impact
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Speaker 21: the situation because when they're traveling the same direction as you,
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Speaker 21: that's not the issue. It's when they're crossing your direction
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Speaker 21: of travel, especially from blind spots, because they're not following
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Speaker 21: the standard flow of traffic. They just need to be
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Speaker 21: able to follow traffic.
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Speaker 5: It does seem like the biggest impact of this is
33:42
Speaker 5: going to happen at crosswalks, like you're saying, but Also, also...
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Speaker 5: Or if they're shooting out.
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Speaker 21: Of a parking lot and you're getting ready to pull into,
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Speaker 21: you know, a roadway and they're coming at you from
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Speaker 21: like a 45 degree angle into your blind spot and they.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 21: Shoot right in front of you. That's one of the
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Speaker 21: biggest incidents of when that happens.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, they are not vehicles. They're not vehicles,
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Speaker 1: so you need to regulate them more along the lines
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Speaker 1: of a cyclist, which should not be, and a pedestrian. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's the way I look at it.
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Speaker 5: Dude, thank you so much for the call.
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Speaker 1: Greg Texas, don't punish the public. The scooters need to obey.
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Speaker 21: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Look, that's the thing, is that why do we have
34:23
Speaker 5: to change everything? how everything works because this one new
34:27
Speaker 5: thing showed up that is making everyone else's life harder.
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Speaker 5: And I, like, for instance, I'll give you an example.
34:34
Speaker 5: I'm at Whataburger about a week ago. And you know
34:36
Speaker 5: the Whataburger on Villa Maria?
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Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so it's right kind of before the Villa Maria turnoff,
34:43
Speaker 5: and you've got that entrance to the Tejas Center that
34:46
Speaker 5: people turn into off of Texas Avenue. Now, there is
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Speaker 5: a neighborhood on the other side of the street. I
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Speaker 5: forget what the road's called, but it goes by Crockett
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Speaker 5: Elementary and all that stuff. I'm sitting here about to turn,
34:57
Speaker 5: and there is a kid that just jets in a
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Speaker 5: scooter all the way across Texas, full speed, because they're
35:03
Speaker 5: working at Spirit Halloween down the way. Full speed, because
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Speaker 5: they were just looking to see if there was cross traffic.
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Speaker 5: They're not even checking the parking lot. Fortunately, I saw them.
35:10
Speaker 5: I was like, I'm just going to hang out there.
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Speaker 5: And yeah, even with that, I was fortunate to see
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Speaker 5: them and react, so nothing bad happened. But if I
35:18
Speaker 5: was just moving out of my normal thing, you can
35:21
Speaker 5: barely see these guys, and I would have clocked the kid. Like,
35:25
Speaker 5: how would this have helped that situation? I would have
35:27
Speaker 5: gotten an extra ticket for tagging her because I... Obviously,
35:30
Speaker 5: you can't hit someone and be within three feet of them. But, like,
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Speaker 5: this is a scooter and e-bike problem.
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Speaker 22: It is.
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Speaker 5: This isn't a car problem.
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Speaker 1: It's been mentioned. In fact, Helen texted in, motorcycles have tags, too, right?
35:43
Speaker 1: Here's my thought on this.
35:44
Speaker 5: Right.
35:45
Speaker 1: So we have tags for vehicles, registrations for motorcycles and
35:49
Speaker 1: for cars. When you fill up your car or your
35:51
Speaker 1: vehicle with gasoline, you are paying an additional tax that
35:55
Speaker 1: helps take care of roadways.
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Speaker 5: Correct.
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Speaker 21: Right?
35:57
Speaker 1: We are paying tax taxpayers who are more likely to
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Speaker 1: be driving cars here than anybody else who own property
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Speaker 1: are paying for the roads that we're driving on. That's
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Speaker 1: how these guys aren't. No, you're on a scooter. You're
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Speaker 1: not paying me anything.
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Speaker 5: I don't need to license my scooter. I just go
36:13
Speaker 5: on Amazon and buy it. Yeah, that's right. I just
36:16
Speaker 5: buy my bike. There's nothing that you do to actually.
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Speaker 1: So they're creating a hazard in an environment that they're
36:23
Speaker 1: not financially responsible for.
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Speaker 5: Text message, require license and registration for the scooters, and
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Speaker 5: I'll cut into a lot of the problems, says Darren.
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Speaker 1: Not a bad idea.
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Speaker 5: Here's what, here's, if I had to justify this, and, well,
36:35
Speaker 5: how are you going to, you know, a scooter, just
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Speaker 5: make it by miles per hour. Because I look at
36:42
Speaker 5: the e-bikes and the scooters the same way as I
36:44
Speaker 5: look at golf carts, right? They're not really a car
36:47
Speaker 5: you can drive up and down major streets. Now, if
36:50
Speaker 5: you're in a neighborhood, yeah, use it however you want.
36:53
Speaker 5: But because a golf cart is essentially a big box,
36:56
Speaker 5: it limits your ability to just kind of whip around places.
36:59
Speaker 5: It's easier to see.
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Speaker 1: It's not as agile.
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Speaker 5: Not as agile. But essentially, the speed is about the same.
37:03
Speaker 5: You're talking, okay, 25 miles an hour, maybe a little
37:06
Speaker 5: bit more or less, depending on that. If it goes
37:09
Speaker 5: that speed, yeah, you should have to register. And if
37:13
Speaker 5: you need to register your golf cart, so be it.
37:15
Speaker 5: Who cares? Also, Helen brings up, hey, remember, there's no
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Speaker 5: inspection on any of the scooters or e-bikes or anything either.
37:22
Speaker 5: What about sidewalks and bike lanes? Why is it a
37:25
Speaker 5: question on what to do when those are options? Well,
37:29
Speaker 5: they're not everywhere is the problem, and it's too expensive
37:32
Speaker 5: to put them in everywhere, too.
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Speaker 1: Where would you put them? That's really when looking at
37:36
Speaker 1: the problem and this offered solution for discussion of the
37:41
Speaker 1: three-foot rule.
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Speaker 11: Mm-hmm.
37:43
Speaker 1: The stuff I looked up said that really the only
37:45
Speaker 1: thing that works is physical separation.
37:48
Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 12: Right?
37:49
Speaker 1: And that's too expensive to even consider.
37:51
Speaker 5: Yeah, no one wants that.
37:52
Speaker 1: Unless. Oh, there's an unless.
37:54
Speaker 10: Unless.
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Speaker 1: So we've got a problem around here with a little
37:57
Speaker 1: thing called medians. I'm listening. What if we just laid
38:01
Speaker 1: another median beside it, creating a lane for these scooters?
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Speaker 5: Just lay them right down.
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Speaker 1: We're not going to get rid of the medians that
38:10
Speaker 1: are here. Let's face it.
38:11
Speaker 5: Leave them.
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Speaker 1: Just leave them and add one more to it. As
38:16
Speaker 1: long as we're looking for silly solutions.
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Speaker 5: All scooters in the middle. That's right.
38:20
Speaker 1: Put you in the middle.
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Speaker 5: Charles asked a great question. Where's all the extra room
38:24
Speaker 5: for the three feet going to come from? Because roads
38:26
Speaker 5: are only so wide. Okay, so I'm someone that instinctively
38:29
Speaker 5: does try to get, if I see a pedestrian on
38:31
Speaker 5: a side road, I generally am going to drive interior lane.
38:33
Speaker 21: Right.
38:34
Speaker 5: Because I'm like, I don't know what they're going to do.
38:36
Speaker 5: I just don't. So I'm going to try to give
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Speaker 5: them as much space as I can. I can't tell
38:39
Speaker 5: you how many almost accidents I've gotten into. trying to
38:42
Speaker 5: get over it's all of a sudden you're trying to
38:43
Speaker 5: get over this car in your blind spot again yeah
38:45
Speaker 5: that's it's a really good question you're you're really you're
38:49
Speaker 5: really asking people to do something that's.
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Speaker 1: But you're the unicorn as well because you pay attention
38:54
Speaker 1: to your surroundings while you're.
38:55
Speaker 5: Trying i'm obsessive compulsive and i'm paranoid and so yeah
38:59
Speaker 5: but other people do that no they.
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Speaker 1: Know they're looking at their phones running over scooters doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter uh.
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Speaker 5: You're telling me that when you have all these scooters,
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Speaker 5: bikes weaving in and out of traffic, crossing the, across
39:09
Speaker 5: a red and everything else like that, you're punishing the
39:11
Speaker 5: car for not giving three feet.
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Speaker 1: That's from Tim.
39:13
Speaker 5: No, that's what I'm telling you.
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Speaker 1: What are you going to do about all these mini
39:15
Speaker 1: roundabouts in the city of college station? There's not three
39:18
Speaker 1: feet to give.
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Speaker 5: You couldn't do it. You had to, uh, don't, uh, yeah, it,
39:23
Speaker 5: it keeps it. Most of these texts are on, on
39:25
Speaker 5: the same, on the same frame mind which this is
39:29
Speaker 5: just it's it's.
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Speaker 1: When you're looking at as a as a city council
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Speaker 1: yeah i imagine because i've never served in that role
39:36
Speaker 1: but i imagine that you have to look at things
39:39
Speaker 1: that are the right thing to do that are unpopular
39:42
Speaker 1: right of course you do and you have to and
39:43
Speaker 1: you have to look at things that you know The
39:46
Speaker 1: other thing you have to look at is public perception, right?
39:49
Speaker 1: You have to understand where the public is on this,
39:53
Speaker 1: and it is not always on the side of the
39:56
Speaker 1: safety in this case, right? You are going to irritate
39:59
Speaker 1: so many car drivers in this town if you try
40:01
Speaker 1: to regulate more traffic regulation. is not the answer. You're
40:06
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40:09
Speaker 5: Think this through for a second, because you're going to
40:11
Speaker 5: have to. How would the police feel about this? Can
40:13
Speaker 5: you imagine how obnoxious of a ticket that is to write?
40:16
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
40:17
Speaker 5: What, are you going to pull over the guy and
40:19
Speaker 5: then write him a ticket for not going three feet
40:21
Speaker 5: as the college student watching his phone on a scooter
40:24
Speaker 5: just zips by?
40:25
Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 1: How do you enforce it? How do you enforce it?
40:27
Speaker 1: You're going to go to court? You're going to get
40:28
Speaker 1: CSI out and measure on the video using AI trying
40:32
Speaker 1: to figure out exactly how far I am from the scooter?
40:35
Speaker 15: No.
40:36
Speaker 5: I'm kind of hardcore, says Jay. But I say every
40:40
Speaker 5: man for himself.
40:41
Speaker 1: Preach.
40:42
Speaker 5: If you are on a bike or a scooter and
40:44
Speaker 5: you get run over, so be it. Pay attention.
40:48
Speaker 1: It goes back to what I said.
40:50
Speaker 5: I agree.
40:50
Speaker 1: The acceptable risk.
40:52
Speaker 5: But I do, that is what you are signing up for.
40:55
Speaker 1: If you get on a scooter, you're not wearing a helmet,
40:58
Speaker 1: you're not paying attention. and you get yourself.
41:00
Speaker 12: In an accident.
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Speaker 5: You are taking your life into your hands.
41:02
Speaker 1: This is called Darwin's theory, right? This is natural selection,
41:07
Speaker 1: as I call it, chlorine for the gene pool.
41:10
Speaker 5: Anyway, if you guys want to weigh in, we still
41:12
Speaker 5: have some time. 979-695-1620 before we've got to get out.
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Speaker 1: Of other things. Okay, it's great. It's for discussion. Let's
41:18
Speaker 1: talk about it five minutes tonight in the city council
41:21
Speaker 1: meeting and move on to something more important.
41:22
Speaker 5: Move on to anything. Any other idea.
41:24
Speaker 1: Start taking suggestions from the room about how to handle this.
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Speaker 5: I'd love to hear that. We'll follow up on this
41:29
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Speaker 5: brought snacks. And I assume these are leftovers from Riley
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Speaker 16: I don't know.
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Speaker 5: I'll tell you the thing that I saw on the break.
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Speaker 1: It's got kind of a popcorn aftertaste to it.
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Speaker 5: It's got to be better than the Murdoch's corn. I
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Speaker 5: don't want to call them beaver nuggets because I don't
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Speaker 5: want to get sued.
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Speaker 1: They're beaver nuggets. Apparently Murdoch's, I guess, has their own nuggets. Murdoch's,
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Speaker 1: I know your name. You ain't from around here, Murdoch's.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you about the beaver and litigation.
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Speaker 5: Exactly. I love me some Murdoch's. You guys don't want
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Speaker 5: to fight the beef.
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Speaker 10: No.
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Speaker 5: You just don't.
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Speaker 22: No.
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Speaker 5: He's going to win every time.
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Speaker 1: Every single time.
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Speaker 5: All corn nuggets are not created equal. Nope. Oh, it's
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Speaker 5: going to be the rest of the show getting that
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Speaker 5: out of me.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, mine.
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Speaker 5: I'm going to try to distract myself right now with
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Speaker 5: another round of jokes with Will.
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Speaker 1: Here we go. You know, my friend keeps insisting that
55:13
Speaker 1: oranges are yellow. I told him, that's just bananas. Do
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Speaker 1: you know there's no official training for garbage men?
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Speaker 3: No.
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Speaker 1: They just pick it up as they go along. If
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Speaker 1: someone steals uranium, does that make it their-anium?
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Speaker 5: That's what I ran.
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Speaker 1: What beef only comes in 2, 3, 5, 7, and
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Speaker 1: 11-ounce portions?
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Speaker 5: That's a lot of denominations, Will.
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Speaker 21: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Prime beef. Stop it. What do you call a dachshund
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Speaker 1: when it commits a crime?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: A misdweener. What do you get when you combine noodles,
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Speaker 1: tomato sauce, a Ferrari, and a yellow skinned fruit that
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Speaker 1: you peel?
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Speaker 5: Holy cow.
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Speaker 1: Noodles, tomato sauce, a Ferrari, and a yellow skin fruit
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Speaker 1: that you peel.
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Speaker 5: I got nothing.
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Speaker 1: Spaghetti, car banana.
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Speaker 5: Car banana. There was two bananas in the same. Two
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Speaker 5: bananas in the same.
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Speaker 1: I told my wife she was drawing her eyebrows too high.
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Speaker 21: Oh, no.
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Speaker 1: She looks surprised.
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Speaker 5: Oh, no, no, no.
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Speaker 1: Very good.
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Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 1: Quality week, Will.
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Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: We do have submissions, and I will include those. In
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Speaker 1: later times, because I had this one set up.
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Speaker 5: Oh, we were already stacked?
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Speaker 1: We were already stacked with the jokes today.
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Speaker 5: But the stuff we got, the stuff I've seen on
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Speaker 5: the text line is very good.
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Speaker 1: Very good, yeah.
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Speaker 5: I'll call it A material. Like, seriously.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Looking forward to stealing some of those shortly. Remember, you
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