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The Infomaniacs: July 21, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 4: the difference. Do I need to do an introduction?
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  Speaker 1: I think so, Ladies and gentlemen, caw okay, the gardening
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  Speaker 1: Guru of Texas. Yes, published author award winner, Family Friend. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. Neil Sperry, Neil, good morning, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: We're so glad you get We're doing great.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is such a pleasure to talk to you again.
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  Speaker 5: Neil.
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  Speaker 1: I had the conversation with you last month, and I
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  Speaker 1: just I've been thinking about you.
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  Speaker 6: How are you doing.
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  Speaker 7: I'm doing quite well. I was just doing the math
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  Speaker 7: on this and it was sixty eight years ago that
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  Speaker 7: I did my first radio interview on w t a
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  Speaker 7: W in the Systems Administration building. That's right at the
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  Speaker 7: long time, guys.
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  Speaker 5: And he's been on what you were doing sixty eight
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  Speaker 5: years ago.
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  Speaker 6: But well, none of us here, we're alive.
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  Speaker 8: Neil.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, well you're you're.
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  Speaker 4: You're a Texas legend, especially in the in the gardening world.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously the best seller of Neil Sperry's Complete Guide to
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  Speaker 4: texta Gardening, which is.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's the book.
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  Speaker 6: It is.
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  Speaker 4: That's the book, thank you and uh and and to
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  Speaker 4: this day still one that that everyone who loves plants
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  Speaker 4: probably has a copy of.
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  Speaker 6: Probably if not by it today you can't get it.
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  Speaker 1: So we were talking last week Riley, one of our
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  Speaker 1: co hosts here Yes, she was having an issue with
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  Speaker 1: some parts of her lawn, and she asked me, because
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  Speaker 1: of my direct association with my father, whether or not
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  Speaker 1: I could help her out. I don't think what I
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  Speaker 1: told her was good enough, except for the very end.
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  Speaker 6: I said. What we should do is talk to Neil
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  Speaker 6: about this.
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  Speaker 1: Said he yes, So, Riley, what was go back and
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  Speaker 1: describe your issue.
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  Speaker 9: So in my backyard, I have two big trees, and
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  Speaker 9: over the years I've been there, they've been growing more
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  Speaker 9: and more. Well in between, they've cast a shade between
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  Speaker 9: the two where they kind of connect at the top.
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  Speaker 9: And in that patch of the lawn now it's just
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  Speaker 9: dirt because no sun gets there. And I was thinking,
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  Speaker 9: what do I do to get grass to grow there? Again?
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  Speaker 9: Should I?
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  Speaker 6: What should I do now?
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  Speaker 1: To keep keep this in mind, Neil, she is a renter, right,
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  Speaker 1: So what I told her first of all was that
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  Speaker 1: she needed to get her landlord involved in this. Now, Neil,
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  Speaker 1: I want to put out there what I told her,
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  Speaker 1: and I want your evaluation.
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  Speaker 6: On Oh lord, wow, okay, okay okay.
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  Speaker 1: So what I told her was that number one that
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  Speaker 1: talked to the landlord about perhaps pruning the canopy.
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  Speaker 6: Number two.
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  Speaker 1: If that was not possible, then what she should do
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  Speaker 1: is go with what's there. She's not going to replace
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  Speaker 1: it with a variety of grass that's going to match
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  Speaker 1: everything else in her backyard. So I suggested that perhaps
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  Speaker 1: she builds some beds there and put in some some
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  Speaker 1: plants and perhaps a shrubbery that is more shade tolerant,
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  Speaker 1: and use that as a as a bed area.
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  Speaker 6: Now, Neil, was that sound advice?
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  Speaker 7: It's it's part way there. It's a good way I'll take.
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  Speaker 7: I'll blurt it out. Let me blurt out some comments.
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  Speaker 7: Number one, Will's dad Bill Weld was one of the
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  Speaker 7: five or six guys that always referred to as being
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  Speaker 7: my go to horticulturist estate for various topics, one of
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  Speaker 7: my most respected friends that aside, and then we miss
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  Speaker 7: him dearly. I will tell you, in terms of shade
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  Speaker 7: and turf grass issues, it's the number one question I get.
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  Speaker 7: I keep a record of all the calls I get,
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  Speaker 7: all the questions I get through my Q and A columns,
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  Speaker 7: and nothing outranks that one. Because we all plant trees,
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  Speaker 7: we all want shade. The most shade tolerant grass that
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  Speaker 7: we have is Saint Augustine and it does well in
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  Speaker 7: College Station. I grew up in College Station, and it
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  Speaker 7: was the turf grass the choice and still is when
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  Speaker 7: you have shades. But it must have in College Station
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  Speaker 7: five hours of sunshine, direct hot afternoon summertime sun or
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  Speaker 7: it's not going to survive. It just can't make it.
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  Speaker 7: I got to watch the tests when the Asterdom opened opened.
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  Speaker 7: A man who was doing the testing of turf grasses
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  Speaker 7: for the Asterdom, trying to find something it would grow
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  Speaker 7: when they had to do some shading for the outfield
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  Speaker 7: because it was too bright and I couldn't find a
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  Speaker 7: grass that would grow with a little bit of shade.
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  Speaker 7: So I'm well aware. I've been watching all my career.
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  Speaker 7: So what you do. You can prune trees, but unless
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  Speaker 7: you prune a lower branch and remove it entirely, it's
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  Speaker 7: going to grow right back, and so you're back where
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  Speaker 7: you were a year later. So the second thing is
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  Speaker 7: you remove any trees you don't have to have. If
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  Speaker 7: there's some scraggly trees over there that you can take
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  Speaker 7: away and get more early morning light or late afternoon light,
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  Speaker 7: than maybe that will work. I live in a Pecan
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  Speaker 7: forest and I've gone to straight groundcovers their ground level.
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  Speaker 7: They're not raised beds, but they are. I use Mondo
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  Speaker 7: grass monkey grass, and it makes a good substitute crusade.
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  Speaker 7: And maybe you could talk to the landlord and letting
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  Speaker 7: you I'll do the work you feel by the plants
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  Speaker 7: and supply the raw materials. Kind of a deal if
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  Speaker 7: you're going to be there for a length at time.
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  Speaker 6: Not bad.
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  Speaker 7: And it makes a beautiful substitute for grass because it
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  Speaker 7: looks like grass. You can't play croquet on it, but
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  Speaker 7: nobody plays croquet, and so that gives you a nice
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  Speaker 7: cooling look. And very attractive. You don't have to mow it,
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  Speaker 7: you don't have the issues.
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  Speaker 6: I like all of that including.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, so so those are those are possibilities. You mentioned
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  Speaker 7: my first two books that I did, those are our
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  Speaker 7: way out of date now and they are available, I
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  Speaker 7: think in bookstores. But I self published a book a
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  Speaker 7: few years ago, a Lone Star Gardening. It's available through
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  Speaker 7: my website. I am not turning this into a sales pitch,
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  Speaker 7: but I have a lot of photos of our yard
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  Speaker 7: and the shade in our yard is available only through
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  Speaker 7: my website. And I won't have it much longer because
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  Speaker 7: I'm closing it out right now. But but but it's available,
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  Speaker 7: and that's at Neilsperry dot com.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, did we need to mention that the key part
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  Speaker 4: is that in part yes, it's not going to be
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  Speaker 4: there forever. If you ever wanted this book, yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: absolutely need to stroke Neil.
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  Speaker 1: And I still write that on request, you will lotograph
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  Speaker 1: those those books.
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  Speaker 7: I signed every book. That's why I chose to self published,
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  Speaker 7: and we sold one hundred thousand copies with the money
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  Speaker 7: back guarantee. Nobody's asked for their money back.
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  Speaker 5: I cannot imagine that I name.
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  Speaker 7: Currently it was the book covers thirty eight ninety five.
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  Speaker 7: This is becoming an ad I don't want to talk
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  Speaker 7: about it.
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  Speaker 1: Anything, Okay, So I'll move on to very dot.
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  Speaker 7: Com and make their But I have probably have probably
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  Speaker 7: one hundred photos taken in our yard because I was
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  Speaker 7: doing it right at this desk, right here, and I'd
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  Speaker 7: go out and take a photo and put it in
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  Speaker 7: the book. And so then see what I'm talking about
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  Speaker 7: with this shade and all the things you do. Shade
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  Speaker 7: is not a frustration. It need not be a detriment
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  Speaker 7: to a landscape. It just changes the dynamics. You have
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  Speaker 7: to do something different and it makes it beautiful. Just different.
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  Speaker 5: Is that is so much better than your advice?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Neil has a few more degrees than I do
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  Speaker 1: when it comes by comparison.
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  Speaker 7: I have learned fifteen different ways, and I keep a
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  Speaker 7: record of them so I don't do them again to
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  Speaker 7: shut myself off my broadcast accidentally by stupidity. So we'll
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  Speaker 7: understand the engineering. Neil understands nothing about engineering.
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  Speaker 6: Neil.
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  Speaker 1: We did have a question from a listener, this one
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  Speaker 1: real quick. This year the gold land Tana all around
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  Speaker 1: our neighborhood. That is always amazing looks burned. Is there
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  Speaker 1: something happening across the area.
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  Speaker 7: Look at the backs of the leaves and if you
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  Speaker 7: see little black specs, then there's an insect called lacebugs
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  Speaker 7: that are on it. And what you're what you're actually
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  Speaker 7: seeing is the excrement of the lacebugs, happy breakfast everything.
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  Speaker 7: They will suck on the plants and turn them tan color,
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  Speaker 7: kind of kind of an anemic tan. And all you
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  Speaker 7: have to do is is spray with almost any general
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  Speaker 7: purpose and sect de side. You rarely will see the
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  Speaker 7: lacebugs themselves, but you see those black specs all over
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  Speaker 7: the leaves, and they'll bounce back. You can you can
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  Speaker 7: do a light trim on them and put a nitrogen
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  Speaker 7: fertilizer on them to boost them back into this new growth.
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  Speaker 7: Have a lot of different plants that get that same look.
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  Speaker 7: Boston ivy and and even sycamore trees are trying to
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  Speaker 7: out loud as alias and it's always the lace bugs.
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  Speaker 6: That do that. I am. I'm simply always amazed, it
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  Speaker 6: really is.
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  Speaker 1: And what the brain of Neil Sperry and my father
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  Speaker 1: and these people, how they come out with this knowledge.
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  Speaker 6: They just spit it out. Yeah, just like secondly it's a.
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  Speaker 4: Reflex and and again, uh, Neil, it is absolute pleasure.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, so have you on the show today.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, we're all big fans and uh and thank
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  Speaker 4: you for everything you've you've kicked down over the years.
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  Speaker 5: And remember you can still hear here on Neil's.
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  Speaker 6: Updates every single weekday.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we do them every day on the Infomaniacs. Have
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  Speaker 4: a fantastic day, man, Thank you so much for being on.
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  Speaker 5: With you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you you have a good one.
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  Speaker 8: By bye bye.
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  Speaker 4: Sixteen twenty ninety four five WTA W Good morning, where
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  Speaker 4: We're getting into heat advisory territory, y'all, so make sure
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  Speaker 4: want your h want your honest answers something that's dividing
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  Speaker 4: this nation of ours currently. Let's say you and I
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  Speaker 4: are walking, maybe just go to get a cup of coffee, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and I am walking faster than you, doubtful?
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  Speaker 5: All right, let's reverse that.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Well, if anyone's walking faster with you, what do
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  Speaker 4: you do?
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  Speaker 5: Speed up?
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  Speaker 6: You say, I don't know, and I look.
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  Speaker 1: I if somebody's walking, yeah, if somebody is walking. So
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  Speaker 1: for example, and there is there is an exception to
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  Speaker 1: this rule, and that exception is shopping, because trying to
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  Speaker 1: get from one store to another, say in a mall setting,
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  Speaker 1: I have a hard time keeping up with the wife
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  Speaker 1: and kids.
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  Speaker 5: She's faster than you.
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  Speaker 1: Every single other example of walking, I have to stop
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  Speaker 1: and wait for not just my wife and kids.
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  Speaker 6: I guess I'm a fast walker.
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  Speaker 4: And you stop and we will get ahead and just
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  Speaker 4: kind of stop and wait for them to catch it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if I don't, they'll get distracted by something and
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  Speaker 1: will never make it.
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  Speaker 5: And if you lose them, you lose them completely.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So yeah, I have to stop and keep eyes
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  Speaker 1: on them otherwise I'll leave them far behind it.
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  Speaker 6: And I don't realize it. I'm not. I don't think
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  Speaker 6: I'm an exceptionally fast walker.
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  Speaker 1: I just know that that's if I'm trying to get
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  Speaker 1: from point A to point B, I'm going to do
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  Speaker 1: it as expeditionally, as expeditiously as possible.
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  Speaker 4: I can't see on any point of reference because I
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  Speaker 4: have not been in a situation where we walked long
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  Speaker 4: enough to see you kind of shoot off into the
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  Speaker 4: distance like that. Like I I'm I believe that I'm
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  Speaker 4: a normal walker, but I don't know that I'm I'm
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  Speaker 4: a normal Well.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you've got six lines, you've got six foot
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  Speaker 1: of legs, so you shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 5: I like to amble.
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  Speaker 6: I am.
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  Speaker 5: I am a thirty scene, so you're flying.
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  Speaker 1: I'm built like a wee bowl, so my little legs,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, are churning. But and what's funny is I'm
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  Speaker 1: nowhere in my life have I ever been.
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  Speaker 6: A fast runner. But I can walk.
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  Speaker 5: The question is, so.
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  Speaker 4: What do you do when you're walking with someone who
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  Speaker 4: is going faster than you.
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  Speaker 5: You keep up with okay, so don't talk to me.
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  Speaker 5: Track star left behind me.
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  Speaker 9: Her name was Savannah. I was a normal walker. I
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  Speaker 9: walked faster on the faster end, but I was a
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  Speaker 9: normal walker. Savannah is a speed walker and that's her
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  Speaker 9: normal pace. I had to learn to keep up with her.
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  Speaker 6: She wasn't cutting any slash.
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  Speaker 5: You make haste, So you make haste. It's on you,
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  Speaker 5: as the slower person, to start hoofing it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, and I would I would think that was somebody
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  Speaker 1: who was not my wife or children, that I would
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  Speaker 1: probably expect them to keep up.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: For example, when I went to the Pacific Northwest where
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  Speaker 1: the temperatures were so much nicer a couple of weeks ago. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and we were walking to and from the concerts that
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  Speaker 1: we were going to. One of my friends is a
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  Speaker 1: very slow walker, and so, uh, we would have to
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  Speaker 1: pause and wait for him to catch up.
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  Speaker 6: But that was we wanted to be with him.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't like we were, you know, trying to trying
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  Speaker 1: to get from point A to point being fast as possible.
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  Speaker 4: Forty percent of people say in that situation, as the
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: slower person, it is on you to speed up, say that, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: forty percent of people. Twenty percent of people say ask
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  Speaker 4: the person to slow down.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, oh, you have to slow down. I'm leaving you
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  Speaker 9: in the dust.
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  Speaker 4: Thirty three percent of people or like me, and I'm
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: just going to let you go this.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: We'll all get there eventually.
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: We'll all get there eventually.
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  Speaker 4: I'm one of like, it's fairly I've I've I have
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  Speaker 4: spent my life around a lot of fast walkers, and
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: I learned a long time ago. But it's like, you
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: know what, take off, just that's fine, and you know
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: you want to get there. You want you want to
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: expend all of that already of vascular energy to get
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: to where we are both going.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm gonna be five minutes behind it. You go
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: right ahead.
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I need the exercise exact. Take
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: a breather.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Take a breather when you get there, because I'm gonna
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: be showing up and be like yeah, yeah, whatever.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: But if you're one of those people that says the
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: eighteen percent that will ask the other person to slow down, yeah,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: if you're one of my friends, you're about to get roasted.
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, on earth would do that.
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: I don't know, but I'm gonna make fun of you.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: That's that's yeah, that's a horrible idea.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: Come on, camplow down.
• 17:35
  Speaker 9: Oh someone texted in my pet peeve is people in
• 17:38
  Speaker 9: the middle lane in the parking lot of a store
• 17:40
  Speaker 9: taking their time while they're entering the parking lot.
• 17:43
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, well I think you're in this community.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: We have the issue that, especially among students, that they
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: think that because of the on campus rules where the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: pedestrian has the right of way in almost every circumstance,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: they think that that's the case everywhere in town.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: Pedestrians are baby basically, you know, they they oh no, no, I.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Mean it's still no. But do you really want to
• 18:07
  Speaker 5: test it?
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean. That's the thing. It's like
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: you just kind of have to.
• 18:11
  Speaker 6: Yeah, But most of them aren't even paying attention.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: They're looking at their phone coming out of the store,
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: or they're wrestling with a kid or something like that,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: which I completely understand the kid, see right, but you've
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: got to have the situational awareness not to step in
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: front of my f two fifty.
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: It's not even the vehicle, it's it's in h GB
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: or places like this. This becomes a real issue the
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: fast walker versus the slow walker. Then you're in a
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: different set of you're a whole different world. This is
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: not trying to get somewhere. This is I got me
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: who's trying to sit there and poke around pick some
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: stuff off of the shelf. And then there's Will who's
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: flying down that aisle, and then you know he's stuck
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: behind me, because well, I'm.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Stuck behind you because you put your cart in the
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: middle of the aisle and there's somebody else just on
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the other side who's part and neither one of you
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: are paying any attention. It's selfish, Tucker, it is so yes,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 19:01
  Speaker 9: Or the people that they'll have a conversation and there's
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: one person in your way for the bread. Yeah, then
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: the other person's talking to them and you're standing there
• 19:09
  Speaker 9: staring at him, and there they keep going on.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: You can only cost so many times you're that arrested.
• 19:15
  Speaker 9: For moving someone's cart.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: That is how you tell if you're a fast walker.
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: How annoyed do you get when you go to a TV?
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Because if you're listening to be like, oh, I don't
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: know what they're talking about, then you are the slow walker. Yeah,
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: these two who are who.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Are foaming at the bath right now thinking about slow
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Walker without situational awareness.
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: Even that's where it's at.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Good morning, guys, Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: will Welch. If you've considered running for office, now is
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the time. Three positions will be up for grabs on
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the November ballot in both College station and Brian four
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: year terms for mayor and two city council positions will
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: be on the ballot during the November third general election.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Applicants must be at least eighteen years of age, age,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: a United States citizen, be a registered voter, and have
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: resided in the district for the last twelve months. The
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: application window is opened through August seventeenth. A new school
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: system ranking places Texas thirty second out of the fifty
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  Speaker 1: states and.
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: Washington d C.
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  Speaker 2: Wallet Hub's report finds Texas performs better on some safety
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and retention measures than it does academically.
• 20:24
  Speaker 6: The state comes in twelfth for its.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: Dropout rate and sixth for bullying incidents, but Texas comes
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: in fortieth for the share of high school students who
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: report being threatened or injured at school. Texas also ranks
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: forty second in reading scores thirty fifth in median ACT
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: scores in twenty third in the percentage of public school
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: teachers who are licensed or certified. John Little tsn.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: News Brian ISD wants to remind all families that today
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is their in person registration event for all new students
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: to the district, all ages, all programs. They'll have transportation
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: personnel on site, plus nurse and the Health Department bilingual
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: assistants and testing is available. They'll also be offering physicals
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and free snow cones. Bring your child's birth certificate, immunization record,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: and proof of residency. That's today from ten until seven
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: at the Bryan ISD Administration building on South Enns. A
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: teenager from Texas was among service members killed in the
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: war with Iran over the weekend. She was from a
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: town just north of Dallas.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: The Department of War says Isabela Gonzalez was just nineteen
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: years old. She was from Carrollton and killed in an
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: attack Friday at a base in Jordan. The attack also
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: killed a twenty five year old from Hawaii. Gonzales was
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: assigned to a unit in Germany, and the military says
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: the attack also injured four others. Seventeen Americans have now
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: died in the war with Iran militaries, as a third
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: service member also died in a separate attack over the weekend.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: Alanskaya TSN News Tropical storm Birthday is still brewing in
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: the Gulf.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: She has taken a turn to the south, but is
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: still anticipated to head west. Current predictions show the eye
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: of the storm staying south of the main land as
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: it makes its way toward Texas. Experts predict the storm
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: will be downgraded to a depression before making landfall south
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: of Galveston on Friday evening. Governor Greg Abbott wants to
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: remind Texans that just because the rain has stopped, it
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: does not mean that flood dangers are over.
• 22:17
  Speaker 10: Just because the skies may be clear here right now,
• 22:21
  Speaker 10: does it mean that the aggregation of water that's flowing
• 22:24
  Speaker 10: downstream has peaked downstream. The waters will continue to rise
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: and continue to pose dangers for those local communities.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Abbot took a thirty minute helicopter tour to survey the
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: damage to communities along the Guadalupe River in the Texas
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Hill Country. Abbot issued a state disaster declaration for fifty
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: nine counties.
• 22:44
  Speaker 6: Last week.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: President Trump issued a Federal Disaster declaration for twenty eight
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of those counties.
• 22:49
  Speaker 6: It's another win for the.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Texas economy as Samsung announces the closure of their New
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Jersey office to move its corporate headquarters to the Lone
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Star state.
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  Speaker 11: Samsung Electronics America has offices in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey,
• 23:04
  Speaker 11: and says that more than seven hundred positions there have
• 23:07
  Speaker 11: been affected by its announcement that it will relocate its
• 23:09
  Speaker 11: corporate headquarters to Plano. The company says most of those
• 23:13
  Speaker 11: New Jersey employees did receive offers to move to Texas,
• 23:16
  Speaker 11: but some of them were simply let go. The company
• 23:19
  Speaker 11: says the cuts are specifically related to its consumer electronics
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: operations in the United States. Samsung has semiconductor manufacturing operations
• 23:28
  Speaker 11: in Texas, and the hub for its mobile focused business
• 23:31
  Speaker 11: operations is in Plano. It's moving its US corporate headquarters
• 23:35
  Speaker 11: to Plano from New Jersey by the end of this year.
• 23:37
  Speaker 11: Stephen Pickering TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: More news throughout the day or anytime at WTAW dot com.
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  Speaker 1: I'm will welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW Mourning Everyone the infomaniacs.
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  Speaker 4: Happy Tuesday, Hot Tuesday, so hot, so hot.
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  Speaker 1: Walked outside yesterday afternoon to take the dog outside.
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  Speaker 6: I did not want to be there.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Someone I don't remember who The text is from. Someone.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: When we're having that milk discussion, someone texted anything Milk's crazy.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: I like a nice hot cup of coffee while I'm
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: mowing the lawn.
• 24:14
  Speaker 6: That's what you know.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: My grandfather used to drink coffee, and my in laws
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: will drink coffee right up until the point where they
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: go to bed.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Insane.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Oh there's a different generation, man.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: But yeah, ninety eight for your high today, maybe hotter.
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: It's gonna feel a lot odder down to around eighty
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: one tonight and back up to one hundred and one tomorrow.
• 24:33
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  Speaker 4: don't know what lottery ticket we were scratching today. I
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: don't guess we got Neil Sperry on the show early
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: in this is this hour, and now we got Royce
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Hickman topping in just as a legend a roy sighting
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  Speaker 4: this morning.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: So how are you doing?
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 25:01
  Speaker 12: It's good to be with you, Tuck. It's good to
• 25:03
  Speaker 12: have you and will behave yourself.
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: Only thing I have whatever, all right?
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: And by the way, uh, my speed of walking dependent.
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: Upon my age, gotcha, Yeah, I got you.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: When I was younger, I was pretty fast walker.
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: They move, Yeah.
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Would you ever tell someone to slow down at this point?
• 25:20
  Speaker 12: No, No, I have strongly suggested it by lagging way
• 25:25
  Speaker 12: behind them.
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: Exactly, just a test to see they care about it.
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: Interesting. Sometimes they'll slow down, but some of them they
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: just keep just down.
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: Tucker will leave you behind, I'll know.
• 25:35
  Speaker 12: Yeah, you'll do your thing man, like I'm I'm I'll
• 25:39
  Speaker 12: be waiting for you up here at the dish exactly.
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: I'll show up.
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: I'll be fine, we'll get there. We'll be in the
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: same place at some point in time.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: What we got today, man, Okay, Well listen.
• 25:49
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 25:49
  Speaker 12: First of all, we've got this coming Monday the twenty seventh.
• 25:55
  Speaker 12: We have a new member orientation, and we really ought
• 25:58
  Speaker 12: to call that a new member in expective member orientation
• 26:01
  Speaker 12: because if you're thinking about joining the Chamber, it's a
• 26:03
  Speaker 12: great time for you to come out and learn about it.
• 26:07
  Speaker 12: And we don't put any pressure on you. We just
• 26:09
  Speaker 12: explained to you what the Chambers all about, how you
• 26:13
  Speaker 12: can take advantage of it, and if you decide you
• 26:17
  Speaker 12: want to do it, fine, if you don't, we won't
• 26:19
  Speaker 12: harass you.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: And you get to meet some of the people that
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: are involved already.
• 26:22
  Speaker 12: Absolutely, it's a good chance. You know, the President Glenn
• 26:25
  Speaker 12: will be there and a number of others. But it's
• 26:26
  Speaker 12: Monday the twenty seventh, that Cooper's Old Time Barbecue not
• 26:29
  Speaker 12: far from you here, and it's running from twelve to two.
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: It is a free event.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I forgot you were doing it at Cooper's. Good Lord,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: like you need another reason to show up.
• 26:37
  Speaker 12: Ryeah right, Just hang right on over there, dude, And
• 26:40
  Speaker 12: then our business after hours this month is Thursday, July
• 26:43
  Speaker 12: the thirtieth, and it's the Physician Center in Central Texas
• 26:47
  Speaker 12: Sports Medicine and it'll actually be at their offices on
• 26:50
  Speaker 12: thirty one twenty one University Drive Ease. Doctor JP Bramhall
• 26:54
  Speaker 12: and his staff.
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: Absolutely incredible people.
• 26:56
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and they do some incredible.
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: Work, highly conation wide.
• 27:01
  Speaker 8: Yeah, a big deal that there really are.
• 27:03
  Speaker 12: And you know a lot of people don't realize he
• 27:06
  Speaker 12: was a big baseball player.
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: At AY And that's right, that's right.
• 27:10
  Speaker 12: But that's our normal five thirty to seven o'clock time frame.
• 27:14
  Speaker 12: And I always tell people bring a stack of business
• 27:17
  Speaker 12: cards and leave with a stack, just a different stack
• 27:19
  Speaker 12: than you came with.
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: That's a good call.
• 27:21
  Speaker 12: It's an incredible opportunity to network. And then ribbon cuttings
• 27:26
  Speaker 12: coming up. We have one this Thursday, July the twenty third,
• 27:30
  Speaker 12: that's a standard driven cutting at Vital Carrying Home Health
• 27:34
  Speaker 12: and Hospice. That's at four thirty to five. They're at
• 27:37
  Speaker 12: eleven o three Rock Prairie Road Sweep two.
• 27:39
  Speaker 8: Oh one to A.
• 27:40
  Speaker 12: And then we have three deluxe ribbon cuttings this week
• 27:43
  Speaker 12: and one of them's today four thirty to five thirty
• 27:48
  Speaker 12: Boardwalk Homes. They're at two o eight Richard Street and
• 27:52
  Speaker 12: College Station and public's invited to come out and celebrate
• 27:56
  Speaker 12: with us.
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: Now, correct me if I'm wrong.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: This is this is that large A lot of town
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: homes think it's it's a big stretch.
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, like it's kind of different town right.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Really, if you haven't seen it, it's worth driving over there.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: But there it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: People have done town homes here, but it's it's just
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: this long.
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: I think I pictures of that or something.
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: Yeah, bench some out recently.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're if you're into if you're into the
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: building world, or you're just into just kind of seeing, I.
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: Don't want to see what what you know? The high
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: density housing.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: Looks exactly like it's.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: It's it's always interesting to me how people come up
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: with a solution to to like you were mentioning the
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: high density thing, and this is one solution. It's it's
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: it's really interesting having seen a little bit about it,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: this might be something that that's a very educational look.
• 28:45
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and again that's today at four thirty and then
• 28:48
  Speaker 12: uh winsday to tomorrow at eleven thirty. First Choice Collision,
• 28:54
  Speaker 12: they're at thirty one thirty eight days Philla Maria Road
• 28:56
  Speaker 12: and Brian and it'll be eleven thirty to eleven thirty
• 28:59
  Speaker 12: twelve and then the fourth the fourth one is for
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  Speaker 12: Padel Club there that's Friday the twenty fourth, fourth thirty
• 29:10
  Speaker 12: to five thirty and there twenty twelve, six oh one
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  Speaker 12: State Highway thirty in College Station. So you know, obviously
• 29:17
  Speaker 12: the public's invited to any of those come out and
• 29:19
  Speaker 12: celebrate and see what the business is about. And our
• 29:22
  Speaker 12: platinum member spotlight this week is Texam University Office of
• 29:26
  Speaker 12: Vice President for Financial Administration. We do thank them, and
• 29:31
  Speaker 12: you know, fortunately we have good relationship with A and M,
• 29:35
  Speaker 12: and it's very important because that's where most of our
• 29:37
  Speaker 12: well not most of them, but they're they're the largest news.
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: It's big old chunk, yeah, big old chunk. Yeah.
• 29:43
  Speaker 12: And you know, I always like to take the opportunity
• 29:46
  Speaker 12: to thank Brian Broadcasting for what you do in the community.
• 29:51
  Speaker 12: I mean, it's it's far beyond just your normal job
• 29:54
  Speaker 12: and the way you support events and the way you
• 29:58
  Speaker 12: support charitable opera rations here, it's something to be admired.
• 30:02
  Speaker 12: And the Chamber certainly appreciates opportunity we have to come
• 30:05
  Speaker 12: in and visit with thank you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: We appreciate the chance to get you to come in.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Man, whatever, I'll come back again.
• 30:14
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  Speaker 4: Just it's heat advisory season, y'all. I feel bad even
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: saying heat advisor.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I know we need to, but.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: You're week, you're July, it's Texas.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly as soon as we get to this point in
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  Speaker 4: the year, it should be a constant heatedvice.
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  Speaker 6: We should have it. It's cooler than usual advisory those.
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  Speaker 4: Exactly if and we mean if, because probably not happening
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  Speaker 4: anytime soon. Today it's going to be around ninety eight,
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  Speaker 4: uh tomorrow, look at one on one and overnight lows.
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  Speaker 4: We're in that eighties and the ad night thing. And
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  Speaker 4: it's just not that it's not great, but this is, uh,
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  Speaker 4: this is what we can.
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  Speaker 1: Expept to have somebody come out and lay hands on
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  Speaker 1: my AC units. You make sure that some prayer, some
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  Speaker 4: to do with how we can all eat less meat. Right,
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: A lot of people are going to save money. Maybe
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: you're looking a little healthier, but probably trying to save
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  Speaker 4: some money.
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  Speaker 5: What would you sum in if you needed to swap out?
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Maybe let's just say once a week, one meat a week,
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  Speaker 4: yet swamp out, what would you substitute?
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  Speaker 6: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Beans, beans, that's.
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  Speaker 1: Right, usually just at what I consider a side to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: my meat. But if you had to swamp it out.
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  Speaker 1: So for years I was associated with the Brasses Valley
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Food Bank and every year do the feast of caring.
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  Speaker 6: Where it is beans and rice.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: That's a meal, it is boy, and look, I like
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I can eat some red beans and rice.
• 32:24
  Speaker 6: I like some meat in my red beans and rice.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Even if you like this is the thing.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Beans are having a big moment right now because a
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: lot of Americans are discovering, Holy cow, I can make
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: a pot of beans for almost nothing, throw in some
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: rice and eat on that for like an entire week.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Let me tell you I've got a great bean recipe,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and I love making the beans.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: Only one of.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: The people in my house will occasionally eat beans besides me,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: and I'll eat them till they're done.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: Who does eat beans?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: My wife does not eat beans, and one of my
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: daughters does not eat Why they just don't.
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  Speaker 6: They're persnickety.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Really, they go to text mes.
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but they want to eat the beans. No, refried nothing.
• 33:08
  Speaker 9: Refried beans are so good.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've never met I don't think I've met anyone
• 33:13
  Speaker 4: that doesn't eat refri.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Now, my youngest daughter, when she was very little, she
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: didn't want to eat meat, so we had to get
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: a lot of beans and tortillas for her, and that
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: was her thing when we would go eat the Mexican food.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Like I, I swear similar to you. I. We've all been,
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: you know, in times when it's like, oh dang, it's
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: close to the end of the month. Yeah, but I
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: don't want to eat ramen. What do I do? Red
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: beans and rice? And then dude, if you go and
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: you buy a link of an dewey, oh.
• 33:47
  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's good and expensive meals or.
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: Ice chicken thighs, drop those up. You know, it's like
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: that's that's that's you can toss.
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: Beans are a lot like wind, They're a lot like gumbo.
• 33:57
  Speaker 6: You can throw just about anything in the pot, you know.
• 34:00
  Speaker 6: I always keep some.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: I'll always keep like a hand bone or something from
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: from a ham and throw that in the pot and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: use it that way.
• 34:07
  Speaker 6: Wait.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, the most popular beans right now are black beans.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Black beans that are seeing researchers. There's some health benefits
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: there as opposed to others.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Are you serious? I am unaware of this.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: You can get the black beans in a lot of
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: specially Mexican food restaurants here.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, definitely don't. Definitely, I don't mind
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: the black bean means. I just can't. I'm not going
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: to make me a mess of black No.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: If I'm making beans, it's gonna be pentos or red beans.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Oh you like the you like the good old bushes
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: baked beans?
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: Now, I could pass on those. You lost me at
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: baked beans.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the deal though, with the I mean, we
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: gotta we got to keep in mind that if Americans
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: are swapping out more beans for meat, that perhaps we
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: will start going in the way of the cows, where
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: they're saying that the cows producing all those.
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: Stop eds out. Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, methane. I'm just saying somebody's to say that that's.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: Is going to say that's an issue.
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: It can be an issue on my in my house
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: on occasion.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: I agree, Yeah, you load up, You're gonna pay the price.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Chickpeas garbonzo beans also in there, which I've never really
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: considered beans, but yeah, I guess that's the case. You also,
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: I guess hummus at this point.
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: Is Greek what Greek reef ried beans something like that.
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: We could call it that.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: And you don't realize one of my.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: Very of the hummus if we tried like a like
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: a red pepper hummus or.
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: That looks like have.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: You ever gone over to a Century Square yellows Century
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Square and walked into that all you can eat buffet
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: that's there?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Which I wait a minute, there's an all you can
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: eat buffet?
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: It why? And I'm blanking on the no.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: I cannot I cannot see, I cannot hit and all
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: you can eat buffet.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: The way I can't eat Greek and Mediterranean?
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: Okay, fo I like a hero, dude, you can have.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: Many heroes as you want. It's the best deal. And
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: it's not right. It's the best.
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: Any any all you can eat, the best deal for
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: me because the house always loses.
• 36:08
  Speaker 6: Well used to be, I was like, it's me versus you.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I've been kicked out of all you could eat craws,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: fish places have you back back in my college days,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: they said enough, Yeah, you hit fifteen pounds, you're out
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: of here.
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: No, that is false. Advertised to give me my money back. Yeah,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: well give me my money back.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: I couldn't afford it. I could not afford a lawyer
• 36:28
  Speaker 6: at that point in time. I might have taken them out.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: What a shame, What an absolute shame that is? That
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: is disrespectful.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: You dishonor the rules of the buffet to kick someone out.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Well, we're just gonna have to go talk to the
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: fish net outside of Cattle Valley, Arkansas.
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: I wish someone would I wish someone would try to
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: kick me out.
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: Of and All you can eat buffet.
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: You're gonna throw a hissy, You're gonna make a public scene.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: I've been waiting for this fight my whole I've been waiting.
• 36:57
  Speaker 4: I'm making a name for myself.
• 36:59
  Speaker 6: Just I can't take advance of that anymore.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I just I can't eat that quantity of food, So
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter to me anymore. The all you can
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: eat buffet, you know, believe it or not. And this
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: is part of my love of the waffle house. The
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: waffle house in Arkadelphia, Catto Valley, Arkansas metro area used
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to have I think it was Sunday evenings from between
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: like ten or eleven until one or two o'clock in
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the morning, they had on all you could eat get
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: out of it and we would sit in there and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: study and just get plate after plate of scattered kind
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: of smother.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Kind of world is this where it was.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: A glorious horse. It was how have.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: We let that slip? I don't know, I don't know,
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: how have we let that slip through our fingers? America?
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: This was something that we used to do. It's ten
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: o'clock at a waffle house. Just be like, let's go,
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: let's go, let's let's go.
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: I had I had a set up stop.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: I start with a Paddy Melt and I would end
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: and I would end with the waffle.
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, I can't even I can't coffee that lunch.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: I physically I can't anymore. But there was a time
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: when I could shovel it in and I.
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: Don't wish there was a time.
• 38:09
  Speaker 6: There was a time for me.
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: Too, and it was Tuesday last week.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: Man, we got a waffle house. That's you know what,
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: you want to stop the waffle House? All you brunch
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: places out there, I'll be like, mah wait, I gotten
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: those emails too, don't don't you got tone down?
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: There's room enough for every different animal.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you guys, y'all could do this to egg
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: you know, there's all needs of all you can eat brunch.
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: We'll, we'll, there's a mass take my money.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: There's a big argument people who either love waffle house
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: or they hate it.
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: There's nobody who's ambivalent about the house.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: That's polarizing, very polarizing life.
• 38:45
  Speaker 9: And both times I liked it, I've never actually sat
• 38:48
  Speaker 9: there and got to enjoy. Does it track me?
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Well, you know, one day, one day, one day, Well
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: day I sat here.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: In good old Brian College day.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: I have to ask the mayor's or city council about that.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: This week, we've got a long list of quick got
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: a long yeah.
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: Long list. We're making up. But we'll get to that tomorrow.
• 39:06
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• 39:09
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