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The Infomaniacs: October 6th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: It never happened. That's what the Texas A & M
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  Speaker 1: University Police Department says about a robbery involving a member
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  Speaker 1: of the Corps of Cadets last week. The freshman cadet
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  Speaker 1: reported that while in the West Campus garage, she was
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  Speaker 1: pepper sprayed before someone stole her fish spurs. UPD Assistant
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  Speaker 1: Chief Bobby Richardson tells WTAW that the information will now
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  Speaker 1: be handed over to the Brazos County District Attorney's Office
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  Speaker 1: for investigation. Her identity is not being released at this time.
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  Speaker 1: only caught about 100 people on the terrorist screening database.
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  Speaker 3: The average annual homeowner premium in Texas has increased from
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  Speaker 3: under $ 2, 000 in 2020 to over $ 3, 500 today.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Insurance Commissioner Amanda Crawford says there are two things
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  Speaker 1: driving the trend. One is that home values are up.
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  Speaker 1: The cost of building supplies is on the rise, too.
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  Speaker 1: She says there's also been more natural disasters. Attorneys for
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  Speaker 1: a Texas death row inmate says the state's death drug
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  Speaker 1: warrants putting Wednesday's scheduled execution on hold, this following the
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  Speaker 1: botched execution of an inmate in Tennessee.
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  Speaker 4: Texas uses pentobarbital. Krista Pike got two doses of that
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  Speaker 4: drug last week in Tennessee and remains in critical condition.
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  Speaker 4: Jamal Howard's execution scheduled for Wednesday. Kristen Cuellar, executive director
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  Speaker 4: of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, says
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  Speaker 4: Howard's attorneys want Governor Abbott to issue a 30-day reprieve.
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  Speaker 5: I have been seeking information from the Texas Department of
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  Speaker 5: use and To date, they have been stymied in that effort.
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  Speaker 4: Howard is condemned for the May 2000 robbery and murder
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  Speaker 4: of a convenience store clerk in the southeast Texas town
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  Speaker 4: of Sillsby. Barbara Schwartz, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More than 150 school districts across Texas have switched to
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  Speaker 1: four-day school weeks. The state legislature is holding a hearing
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  Speaker 1: to get a sense of how it's working for them.
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  Speaker 1: Texas Education Commissioner Mike Morath has made it clear he
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  Speaker 1: hates the idea.
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  Speaker 6: It's bad.
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  Speaker 7: Data is pretty unequivocal.
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  Speaker 1: Morath says districts who have abandoned the five-day school week
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  Speaker 1: now have lower test scores. And families with working parents
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  Speaker 1: would have to foot the bill for a day of
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  Speaker 1: child care. In 2023, a bill in the legislature would
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  Speaker 1: have banned four-day school weeks, but it failed to make
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  Speaker 1: Is Jason offering to fly us over?
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  Speaker 10: Put us up?
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  Speaker 1: I only fly first class.
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  Speaker 9: I'd say I'd accept that, but then again, I'd still
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  Speaker 10: Those guys don't play.
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  Speaker 9: Someone wants to know if I want to retract my
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  Speaker 9: position on finding the guy who was responsible for that
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  Speaker 9: pepper spraying the female corps. student in the face to
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  Speaker 9: steal her fish spurs. And I would say, no, I
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  Speaker 9: don't want to retract that statement because no harm was
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  Speaker 9: done because he didn't exist. He didn't exist.
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  Speaker 1: If he existed, he was an accomplice. What happened here?
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  Speaker 1: How do you spray yourself in the face with pepper spray?
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  Speaker 9: I have so many questions about this story. So many questions.
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  Speaker 1: So the story was a week or so ago, we
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  Speaker 1: were told that there was a fish corps member who
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  Speaker 1: who was attacked for her fish spurs.
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  Speaker 10: Who was like a five-foot-nothing female.
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  Speaker 9: By a 6'5. But football-playing, like, probably male, who just
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  Speaker 9: exploded out of nowhere, emptied a pepper spray can in
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  Speaker 9: her face and took her fish spurs. You know, the
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  Speaker 9: little bottle cap ones they wear.
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  Speaker 10: Used to be before the SPU game.
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  Speaker 1: And usually, I've got a pretty good judgment on these things,
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  Speaker 1: but this didn't sound fishy.
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  Speaker 11: It.
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  Speaker 9: My wife said, no, it seemed odd.
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  Speaker 10: She was like, it seemed odd.
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  Speaker 9: And I said, well, how does it seem odd?
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  Speaker 1: The odd thing was that they said that the perp
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  Speaker 1: was 6'5 and 180.
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  Speaker 9: And I was like, that's a pretty lean gentleman. But yeah,
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  Speaker 9: you know, okay, maybe.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, so as it turns out. None of that happened.
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  Speaker 12: None.
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  Speaker 10: None of it happened.
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  Speaker 1: It was a figment of a delusion.
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  Speaker 9: The district attorney's office and some people have said, well,
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  Speaker 9: what kind of consequences come for something like this? That's
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  Speaker 9: a great question. I assume you just get booted out
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  Speaker 9: of school because that's embarrassing.
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  Speaker 1: The comments online on certain boards that I'm looking at
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  Speaker 1: are saying, yes, you should be kicked out of the
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  Speaker 1: Corps when, in all honesty, you should be kicked out
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  Speaker 1: of the university.
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  Speaker 9: I think you get kicked out of school for something
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  Speaker 9: like that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's Aggie Honor Code, right?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah. I mean, what are you supposed to say after that?
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  Speaker 6: Did she?
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I am going to assume Will. like you suggested,
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  Speaker 9: that she emptied the pepper spray.
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  Speaker 1: In her face herself. She either had to have somebody
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  Speaker 1: else do it, or it was self-inflicted in either way.
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  Speaker 1: But why, though? Why? Make it sound plausible.
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  Speaker 10: Why would you need it to sound plausible?
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  Speaker 1: Well, because she didn't want to get beaten up, so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, hey, go ahead and hit me so it
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  Speaker 1: can look like it's real.
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  Speaker 9: But why would you need to fake someone stealing your
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  Speaker 9: bottle cap, Spurs, to begin with? Where did this... What's
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  Speaker 9: the incentive to this crime? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What's the penalty if you lose your fish spurs?
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  Speaker 9: That's a great question. I should know this, but that's
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  Speaker 9: a great point. Like, perhaps she looks down. It's like, oh, no,
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  Speaker 9: my fish spurs fell off. What am I going to do?
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  Speaker 9: If there's some kind of dramatic penalty, maybe it does
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  Speaker 9: fly through your head. I need to come up with
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  Speaker 9: a story, make this look good.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a plan.
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  Speaker 6: How much would.
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  Speaker 9: You hate whatever consequence is coming your way to have
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  Speaker 9: to take a full can of pepper spray?
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  Speaker 8: Any.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care if it's just a dash of pepper spray.
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  Speaker 9: Why would you ever, ever go down this road? I
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  Speaker 9: bring this up. Christine texted, Aggies don't lie, cheat, or
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  Speaker 9: steal until they get caught. Christine. Well, we don't like that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Don't pull the curtain aside.
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  Speaker 11: Don't.
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  Speaker 9: We don't like that kind of behavior.
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  Speaker 10: No one does.
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  Speaker 9: It's horrible. But I need to know.
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  Speaker 1: What's the motivation?
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  Speaker 7: I need to know.
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  Speaker 9: And the odds of this girl coming clean about it
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  Speaker 9: are probably very, very low. She's going to lawyer up
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  Speaker 9: and there's going to be some settlement or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Either that or she's just going to disappear, which is
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  Speaker 1: probably the best thing for a transfer situation.
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  Speaker 9: Get a fresh start someplace. It might not be a
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  Speaker 9: good fit for you.
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  Speaker 10: That's fine.
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  Speaker 9: Jason, can the penalty for losing them be worth getting
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  Speaker 9: kicked out of A & M? Again, you have to think.
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  Speaker 9: I would love to sit and be like, well, here's
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  Speaker 9: what happened.
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  Speaker 10: Here's what I was thinking.
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  Speaker 9: The whole thing got, you know, like, you're probably wondering
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  Speaker 9: how I got myself in this position as she sprays
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  Speaker 9: herself in the face with pepper spray.
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  Speaker 10: Like, that's what I need to know the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Misty says perhaps midterm exams.
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  Speaker 9: Had something to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: We got kids calling in threats to schools and things
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  Speaker 1: like that to try to get out of midterms.
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  Speaker 6: It's just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 9: If I just eat a can of pepper spray and
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  Speaker 9: say it was some guy who wanted my fish spurs.
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  Speaker 1: Look, I understand. I get it that the college life
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  Speaker 1: can be incredibly stressful. Oh, super stressful. And you can
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  Speaker 1: make mistakes, and those mistakes can snowball, and you can
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  Speaker 1: feel like there's no way out.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 1: There's a way out.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, there is.
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  Speaker 1: There is a way out.
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  Speaker 14: Fail.
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  Speaker 9: Just fail.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay.
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  Speaker 9: It's fine.
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  Speaker 15: It's okay.
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  Speaker 9: You're not the first. You won't be the last.
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  Speaker 1: You want to try to avoid that, but you need
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  Speaker 1: to learn how to take a failure.
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  Speaker 15: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Learn from that's.
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  Speaker 9: Part of that you get you have to get knocked
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  Speaker 9: down to get back up again and i assure you
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  Speaker 9: it is so much easier to take an f than
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  Speaker 9: a can of pepper spray.
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  Speaker 1: And the consequence christine texts in she's going to face
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  Speaker 1: charges for making a false police report that's up to
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  Speaker 1: the district attorney For sure.
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  Speaker 10: True, true. They'll make a decision.
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  Speaker 1: I will say that I may or may not have
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  Speaker 1: texted somebody in the DA's office and said, can we
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  Speaker 1: bring back tarn feathering? No! Public shaming?
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  Speaker 7: No!
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  Speaker 1: Why not? That was a great deterrent.
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  Speaker 9: She already took a can of pepper spray to the face.
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  Speaker 1: That was self-inflicted. That doesn't count.
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  Speaker 9: On a text message, I think we should find a 6'5,
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  Speaker 9: 180-pound guy to sue her for defamation and emotional distress.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe that guy can afford a sandwich and get
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  Speaker 1: over 180.
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  Speaker 8: Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 7: Glad to have you here.
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  Speaker 9: Man, it's hard out there if you're looking for jobs.
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  Speaker 9: I mean, AI is coming for everybody. We all know that.
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  Speaker 9: And I wasn't expecting them to come for the school photographers.
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  Speaker 1: What?
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  Speaker 9: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know about this.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, so I'm going to.
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  Speaker 9: And this is.
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  Speaker 9: I know y'all probably feel a certain way about school pictures, one,
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  Speaker 9: because they're expensive, and two, because they're not usually very...
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  Speaker 9: I always hated them. Yeah, hated them.
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  Speaker 10: Did you ever have a bad school.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I'm sure.
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  Speaker 10: Photo?
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  Speaker 9: We might all have to get together and share some,
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  Speaker 9: because I had so many of them. I don't think
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  Speaker 9: I took a good photo in my entire schooling career.
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  Speaker 9: I just couldn't do it. I'd kind of freak out,
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  Speaker 9: because it's like you're kind of on the spot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. A lot of people like the one
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  Speaker 1: that's in the high school yearbook.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, no, you took a great picture in that one.
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  Speaker 1: But I just didn't care.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I just wouldn't care. But now what people have
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  Speaker 9: realized is spreading around the Internet, what you do is
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  Speaker 9: you take a good picture of your kid, and then
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  Speaker 9: you put it into the chat GPT, and you say
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  Speaker 9: the following prompt. You say, don't change this picture. Just
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  Speaker 9: make it look like it's a school picture. photo and
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  Speaker 9: what it spits out is in fact the perfect school
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  Speaker 9: photo of your kid that's awesome and the photographers are
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  Speaker 9: losing their minds over.
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  Speaker 1: This and yeah i get it i understand learn how
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  Speaker 1: to take pictures of something else i mean that's the
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  Speaker 1: that's just that sounds mean but that's coming.
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  Speaker 9: Right you're right it does sound mean it does sound
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  Speaker 9: out of line but you're not wrong Like that's absolutely
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  Speaker 9: the direction it's going to head. And you can either
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  Speaker 9: figure it out early or you can figure it out late.
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  Speaker 9: But my thing is like, I kind of, I was
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  Speaker 9: reading this. I almost felt sad. And the reason I
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  Speaker 9: felt sad was what you're going to get. If you
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  Speaker 9: do this, if you're going to get like, let's say
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  Speaker 9: you started in first grade, you can get 12 years
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  Speaker 9: of pristine pictures of your kid. They're going to be,
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  Speaker 9: they're going to be perfect, suitable for framing. They're going
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  Speaker 9: to hang in your house. And no one is going
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  Speaker 9: to look at them ever again. The reason school pictures
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  Speaker 9: are good, I think, is because they're bad.
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  Speaker 1: You think?
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  Speaker 9: The only ones I look for whenever I go home,
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  Speaker 9: my mom still has all of them. The only ones
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  Speaker 9: that get pointed out to guests are the ones where,
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  Speaker 9: you know, you get to that uncomfortable age, like maybe
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  Speaker 9: second or third grade. where you've lost a few teeth,
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  Speaker 9: and you're permanently disheveled. And those are the ones we
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  Speaker 9: look at and laugh and laugh and laugh. If I
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  Speaker 9: had any generic ones, I don't care. I think the
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  Speaker 9: fact that I enjoy them so much is because they're bad.
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  Speaker 9: You're robbing yourself of this because you want good pictures
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  Speaker 9: is what I'm saying. You need to accept the fact
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  Speaker 9: that that is the best case scenario is your kid
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  Speaker 9: looking just A wreck.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Texas
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  Speaker 1: A & M University police say the reports of a
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  Speaker 1: Chief Bobby Richardson told WTAW that the information will now
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  Speaker 1: be referred to the Brazos County District Attorney. Her identity
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  Speaker 1: is not being released. Three people have been arrested in
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  Speaker 1: belonged to 36-year-old Vicenta Castillo and her son, 17-year-old Jacob Melendez,
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  Speaker 1: both of whom have recent drug-related arrests. A search warrant
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  Speaker 1: uncovered over 26 ounces of marijuana, just under 30 grams
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  Speaker 1: of methamphetamine and THC weighing in at just over 12 grams.
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  Speaker 1: Castillo was charged with the manufactured delivery of a controlled substance.
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  Speaker 1: possession of a controlled substance and possession of marijuana. She
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  Speaker 1: He is being held on $ 65, 000 bond. 39-year-old Carlos Sanchez
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  Speaker 1: 56-year-old David Pennington of Conroe was sentenced to 25 years
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  Speaker 1: with three or more previous convictions. On March 10th, Pennington
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  Speaker 1: contacted College Station Police to say that he felt unsafe
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  Speaker 1: driving because he was seeing double, but he said he
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  Speaker 1: would not stop unless an officer stopped him. Pennington admitted
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  Speaker 1: to drinking nine 16-ounce beers on his drive from Temple.
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  Speaker 1: A breathalyzer showed an alcohol concentration of 0.125. At the
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  Speaker 1: For a prior DWI offense, he was convicted of felony
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  Speaker 1: driving while intoxicated in 2016 and sentenced to 20 years
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  Speaker 1: in prison. Brazos County announced Monday that the burn ban
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  Speaker 1: They expect the water to be off from 10 until 3.
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  Speaker 1: The state is set to execute Jamal Howard on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: The execution would be the first in the country since
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  Speaker 1: last week's botched execution attempt in Tennessee. Two doses of
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  Speaker 1: the normally lethal drug pentobarbital were administered to Krista Pike,
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  Speaker 1: Texas also uses pentobarbital. Howard's attorneys are asking Governor Abbott
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  Speaker 1: for a 30-day reprieve to get more information about the drug.
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  Speaker 5: There's a tremendous amount of secrecy that shrouds lethal injections
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  Speaker 1: Howard is condemned for the May 2000 robbery and murder
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  Speaker 9: Posted some pictures from our buddy Randy. He runs Randy's
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  Speaker 9: Muffler Shop on 6th.
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  Speaker 1: In Hearn, yeah.
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  Speaker 9: In Hearn. Now, he is right on the side of 6,
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  Speaker 9: so he was good enough to walk outside and take
• 35:41
  Speaker 9: a couple of pictures of the traffic.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's stacked all morning.
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  Speaker 9: All morning it's been like this, and it's going to
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  Speaker 9: be like this for a while. Don't go through Hearn
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  Speaker 9: on Highway 6 today. Not until you hear that it's cleared.
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  Speaker 9: Because you're not going to be going anywhere. You're going
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: to be sitting in all of that traffic. Which you
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: can see at our social.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Let's double down on this, by the way, because Christine
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: just texted in and said, oversized load headed north on
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  Speaker 1: Highway 6 near Fitch.
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  Speaker 9: You've got to be kidding me, Christine. This is not
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  Speaker 9: the day for that noise.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Turn off someplace.
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  Speaker 10: Let's call it a day. Tuesday's canceled.
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  Speaker 1: We're done.
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  Speaker 10: If you have business on 6, congratulations.
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  Speaker 9: It's your lucky day.
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  Speaker 1: Bring snacks.
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  Speaker 9: Weather will be great today, mid-80s. Perfect for sitting in
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  Speaker 9: your car listening to the show for a lengthy amount
• 36:35
  Speaker 9: of time and probably glint back after because you're going
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  Speaker 9: to be stuck either behind an oversized load or you're
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  Speaker 1: Glenn!
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  Speaker 7: Glenn!
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  Speaker 10: Glenn!
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  Speaker 7: Glenn!
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  Speaker 15: Glenn! Glenn!
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  Speaker 6: Glenn!
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  Speaker 7: What happened?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Didn't we have a theme song for him?
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: I did, and I was going to punch it, and
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: I realized I hadn't.
• 37:08
  Speaker 10: I didn't push the other button.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: We've got to make a note for next week. We've
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: got to have theme songs for somebody as important as Glenn.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: I just hope.
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  Speaker 2: Christine didn't confuse me for the oversize load. Because I
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: was driving into the show a few minutes ago, and.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: I made it here, Christine. I'm all right.
• 37:22
  Speaker 10: Fine and dandy. Let's talk chamber business.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: Got some cool stuff coming up.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: One thing everybody always asks me everywhere I go about
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: business after hours, and we've got one.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: Coming up this Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: That's the October the 8th. If you don't have a
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: calendar handy, 530 to 7 at Hilton Garden Inn. Sponsored
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  Speaker 2: by Frost Bank. Not Hilton Bryan College Station. Hilton Garden Inn.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, these are two completely separate entities.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: Two different properties.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: These guys, I understand, have done a complete remodel.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: They're anxious to show it off. Very cool. There's going
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: to be food, beverage, friends, and family. Come on out.
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: Bring some business card. Free to attend Thursday, 530 to 7.
• 37:59
  Speaker 6: And then we got a lot.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if you don't get enough networking and fun Thursday, Friday...
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: We have our Leadership Brazos All-Class Reunion sponsored by City
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: of Bryan and LBAA. We've got over 2,000 LBers in town.
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  Speaker 9: That's crazy.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: Come see your fellow classmates. Come see all the lesser
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: classes that you would assume. The lesser classes? They all
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: say their class is the best ever.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: Oh, right.
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: Just historically said. That's true. So you can see the
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: lesser classes there, too.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Do you guys have a class ranking? Because we need that.
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: Do you have a trash year that you were just like, man,
• 38:33
  Speaker 9: these guys are just not up to par?
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: Well, if Julie Schultz is listening, she says that there
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: was the lame-o year one time that she felt that
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: the class was And I feel like I can actually
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: say that because that was actually my class.
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: The class of 2001, she said, did not have any fun.
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: See that right there.
• 38:53
  Speaker 9: Was Julie in the 2001 class?
• 38:54
  Speaker 6: No, but she was helping to organize it, I guess.
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: Julie, explain yourself. I know you listen.
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: To this show. We don't know what the best class is.
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: But evidently we know what the worst class is. Of
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: all of the ones to pick, Glenn.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: Well, it's this century is what I tell people.
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: A lot of them.
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: We've got about.
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: 20 classes that went through this in the last century.
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: Oh, man.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: But here's something that you guys are going to help
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: us out with. Our local candidates forum is coming up
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: right after that.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Heck, yeah.
• 39:22
  Speaker 9: And if you have not gone to pre-study the candidates
• 39:28
  Speaker 9: online at WTAW.com. please do.
• 39:30
  Speaker 10: So this is the candidates forum.
• 39:33
  Speaker 9: A big reason why we did candidate conversations was because
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: of the candidates forum. Candidates forum is hands down the
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: best way within a two-hour window to to sit and
• 39:46
  Speaker 9: educate yourself on the local elections, state elections that are
• 39:50
  Speaker 9: coming up that you're going to be voting on. But
• 39:53
  Speaker 9: the candidates only usually get a couple of minutes to
• 39:56
  Speaker 9: be able to– you've got to get your spots in.
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: Got a lot of people to run through there, yeah.
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: So we wanted to put this together as a complement
• 40:04
  Speaker 9: to what you guys are going to be doing out
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: at the candidates' forum. You get the opportunity to go
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: to WTW.com, see a full conversation with candidates and Scott
• 40:14
  Speaker 9: DeLucia and see as many as you want. And then
• 40:17
  Speaker 9: you have a little background going in to the candidates
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: forum when they'll be dealing with follow up.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: You can't say you can't use the excuse that you're
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: an uninformed voter because literally it takes just a little
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: bit of effort for you to get informed.
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, but it is a must.
• 40:31
  Speaker 10: This is a must see.
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: Event.
• 40:33
  Speaker 10: I think most people know it is.
• 40:36
  Speaker 9: It's on a lot of people's calendar to go and
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: check this out, but you have two days that you
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: will be able to go.
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: Because there's 10 races.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there's a couple of races
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: people are going to see.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: They're not hyper-local because we had so many, we don't
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: even normally do two days. There'll be some races that
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: Scott will have on the website that are not even
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: featured in our race.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: For instance, on the 13th, we'll have Both state representative races,
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  Speaker 2: county commissioner race, both mayoral.
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: Races will be held on the 13th.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: And then on Monday the 19th, the same time, 6-8
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: at the Brazos Center, we'll have five uh, local city
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: council races.
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  Speaker 9: Because they're, because the city council races are stacked three
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: deep on a lot of them.
• 41:20
  Speaker 10: I mean, it's, it's going to be a, it's going
• 41:22
  Speaker 10: to be a heck of a time.
• 41:23
  Speaker 6: Uh, it'll be good.
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: And then you can watch it.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: If you can't make it, it'll be simulcast on kbtx.com.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: It will be broadcast on WTAW live as we're, uh,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: having the forum. And then we want you to come
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: out there and submit questions and, and see, uh, Scott
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: does a great job about bringing out, uh, the philosophies
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: and the way these candidates think. And he asked all
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: the questions that's in your mind. He will ask at
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: the candidates forum.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: Then on October 27th, community outreach, small business forum. We
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: want you to come out for that.
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: And maybe if you have a booth that you want
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: to be a sponsor, we'll talk more about that later.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Then of course, I always say we wouldn't be the
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: chamber if we didn't have ribbon cuttings. And I know
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: you both guys last week got excited. It is actually today.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Mojo Tortilla.
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  Speaker 9: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: Ribbon Cutting, 430 to 530. It's a deluxe. That's South
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: Texas Avenue and College Station. And then tomorrow, David Gardner's Jewelers.
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  Speaker 9: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: 430 to 530.
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  Speaker 6: I heard y'all talking about them earlier.
• 42:19
  Speaker 10: Always love a good opportunity to go check them out.
• 42:21
  Speaker 6: So you can come see what they have. The next
• 42:23
  Speaker 6: week on the 15th, Thursday.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Bright Star Care, 430 to 530. And then Friday, Kerr Surveying,
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  Speaker 2: 1 to 2 p.m.
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  Speaker 6: Is a deluxe. Platinum Member Spotlight, visit College Station.
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  Speaker 2: We certainly appreciate what they do for the Chamber of Commerce,
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  Speaker 6: Plus, the rabbit told me to say it or he
• 42:46
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• 42:50
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• 42:50
  Speaker 10: It's that unsettling stare that gets me every single time.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, poor Tony. Gets a bad rap.
• 42:55
  Speaker 9: Hey, Glenn, can you do me a favor and look
• 42:56
  Speaker 9: out and see if Katrina is sitting on the couch?
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Just yell and say, hey, Katrina.
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  Speaker 10: Nobody's out there.
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  Speaker 1: We'll take a break.
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  Speaker 10: We'll get her lined up. Thank you so much for
• 43:04
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  Speaker 16: Bye, guys.
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  Speaker 3: 40 years for the trafficker, 20 years for the woman
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  Speaker 9: 979-695-1620 is our phone number. Let's get to some text messages,
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  Speaker 9: starting with This one, which I could not love this anymore.
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  Speaker 9: Got a sixth grader working on setting up word problems
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  Speaker 15: You are.
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  Speaker 1: So many maths that you can do within that one paragraph.
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  Speaker 9: Misty would like us to get a picture of the
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  Speaker 9: ginormous piece of equipment with a police escort coming up
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  Speaker 9: Highway 6 North.
• 46:25
  Speaker 10: It is traffic backed up to Millican or further.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, last we heard, this was in the vicinity of Fitch,
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: and that was a minute ago. We don't see it outside.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: You ought to take a peek.
• 46:34
  Speaker 9: I was craning my neck to see. I don't see
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: it making its way.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: That's just what we need because if that gets to
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  Speaker 1: Hearn where 6 is still closed.
• 46:44
  Speaker 9: For the love of God, tell me y'all aren't taking
• 46:46
  Speaker 9: that all the way past Hearn because you're going to
• 46:50
  Speaker 9: end us all.
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 9: That's just not the day for that. The delay is
• 46:54
  Speaker 9: still in place in Hearn, by the way. Do not
• 46:56
  Speaker 9: go north on 6 up through Hearn. You're going to
• 46:58
  Speaker 9: be there for a day. It's that bad. It's related
• 47:02
  Speaker 9: to a multiple fatality accident that happened at 5 a.m.
• 47:05
  Speaker 9: this morning, and it's just going to take them a while. Now,
• 47:08
  Speaker 9: weather today, looking great.
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  Speaker 10: Mid-80s.
• 47:12
  Speaker 9: Down to the 60s tonight. Mid-80s tomorrow. Abundant sunshine.
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  Speaker 1: Chamber of Commerce weather.
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  Speaker 6: Exactly.
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  Speaker 9: You know this song. Everyone knows this song.
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  Speaker 15: It's Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Rogers. It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
• 47:39
  Speaker 10: Some would say the most neighborly neighborhood.
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: Mr.
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  Speaker 6: McFeely?
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  Speaker 1: Mr.
• 47:44
  Speaker 9: McFeely was the delivery man, I believe, that would bring
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: his packages.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: That's a little... thinking back on it. Let's not think
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: too deep on it.
• 47:53
  Speaker 10: It's a feeling.
• 47:53
  Speaker 9: It's like feelings. We talk about feelings. We don't talk
• 47:56
  Speaker 9: about feelings until Mr.
• 47:56
  Speaker 10: Rogers. He'd had this house.
• 47:58
  Speaker 9: He'd come home, I presume, from work, and then he'd
• 48:00
  Speaker 9: welcome everybody in and sing.
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: Gotta take his work sweater off.
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: No, the work coat.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: The house sweater.
• 48:08
  Speaker 10: Was what came on.
• 48:09
  Speaker 9: And also take off his shoes and put on house shoes.
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: Classiest dude I've ever.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: Seen in my life.
• 48:13
  Speaker 10: All class, Fred Rogers.
• 48:15
  Speaker 15: But....
• 48:18
  Speaker 9: Where are the neighborliest cities in the United States? Well,
• 48:23
  Speaker 9: I alleged most neighborly cities in the United States. And
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: keep in mind, we're talking big cities. We're talking big cities.
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: So there's large cities and medium cities. And small cities
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: are included. But still, I think the small cities are
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: even bigger than us.
• 48:39
  Speaker 9: All right.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: So in the large category, and again, they didn't even
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: put who put this survey out. It doesn't say.
• 48:48
  Speaker 9: There's a lot that's weird about it.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Neighbor.com.
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  Speaker 9: Neighbor.com?
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 9: What's the purpose of that?
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: Apparently it is to spread misinformation because they are saying
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the top five most neighborly large cities are San Francisco,
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: San Diego.
• 49:06
  Speaker 10: Well, that's a nice one.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: Seattle.
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  Speaker 10: Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Boston.
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  Speaker 10: Here's the big one.
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  Speaker 1: And Washington, D.C.
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  Speaker 9: Washington, D.C. is the friendliest, the neighborliest, where everyone kind of... hey, neighbor,
• 49:21
  Speaker 9: good to see you, neighbor. Can I borrow a couple
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: of eggs, neighbor?
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: Would you like to come over for the barbecue? That
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't happen there.
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  Speaker 9: Has anyone actually been to Washington, D.C.? I've been to Washington, D.C.
• 49:31
  Speaker 10: I know you have several times. I've been several times.
• 49:34
  Speaker 9: Guys, there is not a meaner group of humans in America.
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: Not nice.
• 49:41
  Speaker 9: The nicest person you find in Washington, D.C., it will
• 49:45
  Speaker 9: throw you for a loop because they're... You feel like
• 49:48
  Speaker 9: they're being rude to you. You feel like they don't
• 49:50
  Speaker 9: want you around. And that's the nice ones.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think they do want you around.
• 49:54
  Speaker 9: It's because it's a soul-sucking city.
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 9: Can you imagine having to live in that environment and
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: do that for a job?
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 9: And not just the politicians, like the support staff. It
• 50:05
  Speaker 9: would destroy you.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: Medium cities.
• 50:08
  Speaker 10: You ready for these?
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: Let's try this.
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: Boise, Idaho. I could put that one on there. I.
• 50:14
  Speaker 10: Boise is a great– I like Boise.
• 50:15
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 50:16
  Speaker 9: Boise is a great place to check out. I highly
• 50:17
  Speaker 9: recommend if you want to go visit Boise.
• 50:19
  Speaker 16: For sure.
• 50:20
  Speaker 9: Because it's– holy cow is that city.
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: It's beautiful.
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: That is– it's a sleeper. It's not one that pops
• 50:25
  Speaker 9: up on tourism lists, but it will blow you away
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: with how pretty it is.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Madison, Wisconsin. People say that, and that's– Oh, Wisconsin's generally friendly,
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: I guess.
• 50:36
  Speaker 9: The Midwest is friendly, but Madison, I would say, is
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: a fairly obnoxious city.
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: Two in Virginia. Virginia Beach and Richmond. Never been to either.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: Neither have I. I mean, I assume Virginia Beach.
• 50:49
  Speaker 9: Virginia Beach is a military town, right?
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, probably worth checking out.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Cape Coral, Florida wraps up the... Medium cities.
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: Because they're all 100 years old down there. Everyone's got
• 50:59
  Speaker 9: nice grandparents.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: As far as the small towns go.
• 51:01
  Speaker 10: Okay, let's talk small towns.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Provo, Utah. Which actually ranked number one when everything was combined.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 51:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, Utah, man.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: Also.
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: Utah.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Ogden, Utah. And Salt Lake City, Utah.
• 51:15
  Speaker 9: Son of a gun.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Three out of the top five.
• 51:19
  Speaker 11: What?
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: In the small cities.
• 51:20
  Speaker 15: Wait.
• 51:21
  Speaker 9: Salt Lake and.
• 51:23
  Speaker 10: As a small, that's not a small.
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: That's, that's what they have here. And again, they didn't
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: put out any criteria, nothing about the rankings.
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: I can't disagree with, if you go to Utah, everyone
• 51:34
  Speaker 9: is going to be super nice to you.
• 51:37
  Speaker 10: They're going to be really, really nice.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: Too nice.
• 51:41
  Speaker 9: To the point where, yeah, it doesn't feel, it doesn't
• 51:43
  Speaker 9: feel real.
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: It's not.
• 51:44
  Speaker 9: It's just, and it's, They're all super rich because those
• 51:48
  Speaker 9: are all mountain towns, and it's just, it's not, that's
• 51:50
  Speaker 9: not what you want. I don't want, where, what, did the,
• 51:52
  Speaker 9: how did the South not do better in this?
• 51:54
  Speaker 1: Well, Sarasota, Florida, and Providence, Rhode Island wrap out, wrap
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: up those two.
• 51:58
  Speaker 9: This is supposed to be our jam. This is supposed
• 52:01
  Speaker 9: to be where we shine.
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: I think it is. I think this was put together
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: by some group of, you know, Neighbor.com is probably headquartered
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: either in the Northeast or Pacific Northwest. I don't know
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: what their criteria were.
• 52:12
  Speaker 9: Susan says she lived in D.C. People would come home
• 52:16
  Speaker 9: on Friday, drive straight into the garage, just straight into
• 52:21
  Speaker 9: the garage, drop the door, and you never saw them
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: until they left for work Monday morning. Never a wave, even.
• 52:31
  Speaker 9: Not even a wave.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: If you're not waving, you don't qualify.
• 52:34
  Speaker 10: Not even a wave.
• 52:36
  Speaker 9: The little neighborly way.
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: Not even the head talks.
• 52:39
  Speaker 9: Nothing? Just straight into the.
• 52:42
  Speaker 6: Just.
• 52:42
  Speaker 9: That's what I'm talking about.
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: That's not friendly.
• 52:44
  Speaker 9: Washington, D.C.
• 52:46
  Speaker 10: Is a massive... There are lots of massive cities.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Atlanta.
• 52:49
  Speaker 10: People are fairly friendly in Atlanta. If you'd said Atlanta,
• 52:53
  Speaker 10: I would have been... Yeah, man.
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sure.
• 52:55
  Speaker 7: If you would have said.
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: You would have said Pittsburgh. I probably would have looked
• 52:59
  Speaker 9: at you weird and been like, I guess.
• 53:01
  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: If I'm nice to them, they'll be nice to me.
• 53:04
  Speaker 10: Keep in mind, we've got.
• 53:06
  Speaker 9: Three of the biggest cities in the world, like within
• 53:09
  Speaker 9: two and a half hours of us. And none of those.
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: I did have a question.
• 53:14
  Speaker 9: We don't do friendly here in Texas?
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: What would you consider to be the most friendly overall
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: community in Texas?
• 53:21
  Speaker 10: Overall community, large or small?
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: I'm saying all.
• 53:24
  Speaker 10: Also everything.
• 53:25
  Speaker 9: Man, I.
• 53:27
  Speaker 10: I'll break it down again. Major cities, San Antonio, Texas.
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 53:30
  Speaker 9: That's Antonio is.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Uh, I put Fort Worth in there to best people.
• 53:33
  Speaker 9: I put Fort Worth also full of the best people, uh, medium.
• 53:37
  Speaker 9: I'll put us in medium because we're not really small town.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: But yeah, everybody's friendly here.
• 53:40
  Speaker 10: I'd say here we're, we're very high on the list.
• 53:43
  Speaker 9: I'd, I'd even say, um, You know, probably there are
• 53:46
  Speaker 9: a couple cities like our size that are that are
• 53:49
  Speaker 9: probably right up there with us.
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: But I feel like we do a killer job of
• 53:52
  Speaker 10: being friendly.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: And I don't know of any real mean places in
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: Texas in general. There might be some codgers in West Texas.
• 53:59
  Speaker 9: West where it turns into it just turns into hard
• 54:02
  Speaker 9: country that produces hard men.
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: And and so I don't hold.
• 54:06
  Speaker 10: It against them. But West Texas is its own beast.
• 54:09
  Speaker 9: It's its own animal. And again, if I had to
• 54:13
  Speaker 9: live in a sandblaster for my entire life, I'd be
• 54:17
  Speaker 9: a little bit bitter, be a little bit angry. So
• 54:21
  Speaker 9: I don't hold it against them. But, yeah, I think
• 54:23
  Speaker 9: most of the I say the friendliness core of Texas
• 54:26
  Speaker 9: is kind of like you draw about a draw about
• 54:28
  Speaker 9: a couple hour circle around us and. you're probably going
• 54:32
  Speaker 9: to be all right.
• 54:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, aren't we known as the friendly state anyway?
• 54:35
  Speaker 17: We are.
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: And we didn't show up on the list.
• 54:36
  Speaker 9: That's what I mean.
• 54:37
  Speaker 10: We got absolutely cooked.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Come on.
• 54:39
  Speaker 10: Absolutely robbed.
• 54:40
  Speaker 9: I just expect better. I expect you to at least
• 54:43
  Speaker 9: give us credit for the things that we do right.
• 54:46
  Speaker 9: God knows you talk about all the things we do wrong.
• 54:48
  Speaker 9: Good Lord.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: I don't care.
• 54:49
  Speaker 9: I'd rather go.