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The Infomaniacs: September 22nd 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: News is presented by Pioneer Steel and Pipe, your one-stop
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Speaker 1: Governor Greg Abbott has done a complete about-face on his
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Speaker 1: stance regarding data centers. In November 2025, Abbott celebrated a
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Speaker 1: $ 40 billion investment by Google in Texas.
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Speaker 2: Texas will be the centerpiece for AI data centers for
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Speaker 2: Google in the entire world.
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Speaker 3: Then on Monday, Governor Greg Abbott has sent a letter
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Speaker 3: to the head of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality,
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Speaker 3: telling her to stop all permits.
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Speaker 1: For data centers until an audit wraps up.
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Speaker 3: Abbott had previously ordered audits by the Public Utility Commission
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Speaker 3: and ERCOT to make sure data centers do not put
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Speaker 3: the grid or natural resources at risk, saying data centers
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Speaker 3: cannot use water needed by the community. They must report
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Speaker 3: electricity and water usage and also follow setback requirements. He
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Speaker 3: wants an update from TCEQ a month from now and
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Speaker 3: says lawmakers should eliminate incentives for data centers when they
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Speaker 3: meet back in Austin next year. Alan Skya, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: A man striking a bollard with his pickup at Lake
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Speaker 1: Bryan set off a strange series of events Sunday night.
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Speaker 1: A game warden pulled over the truck after witnessing it
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Speaker 1: strike the pole around 10 p.m. The driver did not
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Speaker 1: have a valid driver's license, so the warden asked him
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Speaker 1: to call someone to drive him and his passenger home.
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Speaker 1: While running records on the passenger, 38-year-old Javier Alvarado Tovar
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Speaker 1: He took off towards the woods. After catching up with
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Speaker 1: the man, he refused to comply and a struggle ensued.
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Speaker 1: She deployed her taser twice. They struggled over the taser
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Speaker 1: before she deployed it twice more. Bryan Police and Brazos
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputies arrived to assist in securing Alvarado Tovar.
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Speaker 1: He was evaluated at a local hospital before being booked
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Speaker 1: into the Brazos County Jail. While being processed, authorities found 1.3
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Speaker 1: grams of cocaine wrapped in a dollar bill inside his wallet.
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Speaker 1: Alvarado Tovar was charged with evading arrest, resisting arrest, attempting
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Speaker 1: to take a weapon from a police officer, and possession
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Speaker 1: of a controlled substance. He is being held on a $ 36, 000
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Speaker 1: bond and an ICE detainer. Attorney General Ken Paxton announced
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Speaker 1: Monday that the state secured a settlement with Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc.,
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Speaker 1: ensuring none of its produce will be misted with a
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Speaker 1: synthetic antimicrobial pesticide. The agreement is effective at all Sprouts
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Speaker 1: locations nationwide. The settlement follows an investigation into grocery stores
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Speaker 1: across Texas earlier this year. The investigation was launched following
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Speaker 1: concerns that a synthetic pesticide called Produce Max was being
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Speaker 1: used on organic produce. It's an EPA-registered antimicrobial pesticide containing
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Speaker 1: a chlorine-based compound. Thousands of grocery stores across the U.S.,
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Speaker 1: have been engaging in the off-label use to control bacteria
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Speaker 1: and extend shelf life. Interesting timing for us as Sprouts
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Speaker 1: opens its doors of its College Station store on Friday.
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Speaker 1: The Justice Department thinks that handgun sales should start at
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Speaker 1: age 18 instead of 21. Gun control groups in Texas
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Speaker 1: think that would be a huge mistake.
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Speaker 4: 18 to 20-year-olds are known to commit gun homicides at
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Speaker 4: nearly three times the rate of adults 21 and older.
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Speaker 1: Nicole Golden with Texas Gun Sense says what the DOJ
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Speaker 1: released is just an opinion, and that, she says, does
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Speaker 1: not change the law. Any modifications must come from the courts.
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Speaker 1: In Texas, you must be 21 years old to buy
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Speaker 1: a pistol, but teenagers can legally carry one at 18.
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Speaker 4: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning. Happy Tuesday. It is just after 8 o'clock,
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Speaker 4: and it's already in the 80s.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
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Speaker 7: And it's going up to almost 100 degrees. It feels
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Speaker 7: like 105 for what it's worth. And you will get
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Speaker 7: a 20% chance of showers. Later on in the afternoon,
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Speaker 1: You know how you know it's too hot for fall?
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Speaker 4: How?
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Speaker 1: People are drinking pumpkin spice Gatorade.
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Speaker 4: I mean, honestly, honestly, that's probably true.
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Speaker 1: Well, I think the longest, the longest, the longest line
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Speaker 1: at your kids fall festival, the snow cone stand.
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Speaker 4: That's also true.
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Speaker 1: That's all true.
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Speaker 4: Um, where's the last time you were looking for a job?
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Speaker 1: Uh, I mean, seriously.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Like, I mean, just really like, Hey, yeah, I need it. Like,
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Speaker 4: cause it's, you know, it's, it's a weird thing.
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Speaker 7: Like now everyone, I feel like everyone's kind of always
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Speaker 7: looking to add a job.
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Speaker 4: And so you kind of.
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Speaker 1: Got the gig economy. You're looking for some part-time gigs
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Speaker 1: and things like that.
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Speaker 4: Try to put a, you put a bunch of halves
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Speaker 4: together to make a whole.
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Speaker 1: I mean, and it's, I probably have blocked it out
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Speaker 1: of my mind because it's always a traumatic experience.
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Speaker 4: It's all.
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Speaker 9: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's never fun.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you apply for something, you wait, you wait,
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Speaker 1: you wait, you don't hear. It's a tough, tough place.
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Speaker 7: Or you get the other side of it where you
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Speaker 7: get an interview, maybe a second interview, maybe a third interview,
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Speaker 7: and you think you're really close, and they just ghost you.
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Speaker 1: Dude, that has happened so many times.
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Speaker 4: It's the way.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: You can't be mad about it. But here's the thing
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Speaker 4: that's crazy.
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Speaker 7: I've heard people, there's recruiters out there, and people are
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Speaker 7: always trying to give you advice.
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Speaker 4: I don't think it actually matters, y'all. I'll be real.
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Speaker 7: I don't think any of the advice someone's going to
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Speaker 7: give you about how to find a job is actually advice.
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Speaker 7: I think they're just making it up. And that's, I mean,
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Speaker 7: prove me wrong, but that is my feeling about it,
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Speaker 7: and that's kind of how I feel about this person.
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Speaker 7: I'm just going to play this audio. The idea is
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Speaker 7: a recruiter... was saying like, Hey, here's something that could
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Speaker 7: be keeping you from getting a job. Like if you
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Speaker 7: walk into that interview and you're like, Hey, I'm getting
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Speaker 7: a ton of interviews, but I'm just not getting any callbacks.
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Speaker 4: This could be why.
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Speaker 11: My Gen Z candidates are showing up to their interviews
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Speaker 11: with iced coffee, iced latte in hand. And here's how
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Speaker 11: I perceive that as a recruiter with 16 years of
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Speaker 11: experience that deals with mostly fortune 500 super buttoned up corporations. It,
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Speaker 11: is perceived that when you show up with an iced
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Speaker 11: coffee or an iced latte that this interview is just
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Speaker 11: like a stop on your list of errands for the day.
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Speaker 11: It looks like you went to Target, then you went
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Speaker 11: to Starbucks, now you're stopping by your interview, then you're
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Speaker 11: on to the next thing. Don't show up with iced
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Speaker 11: coffee or the iced latte.
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Speaker 7: Because it is just another thing that you're doing that day.
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Speaker 4: You psycho.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I get it.
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Speaker 7: You're not going to hire if you don't get hired
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Speaker 7: because you brought in a beverage.
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Speaker 1: Well, and she was very specific. An iced coffee or
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Speaker 1: an iced latte, does that mean if you're drinking the
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Speaker 1: hot bevvies that everything is fine?
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Speaker 4: Does that mean.
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Speaker 1: Does that speak more toward I'm here to work?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: I'm drinking coffee black, I'm serious. Coffee's for closers. That's right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, if you're here for business, you drink your coffee hot.
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Speaker 1: That's a little militant. I mean, I agree, don't take
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Speaker 1: your emotional support mug into your interview.
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Speaker 5: Really?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, don't do that. They're going to offer you a water.
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Speaker 1: They're going to offer you a coffee.
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Speaker 4: Fair point.
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Speaker 7: That is part of the exchange when you walk into
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Speaker 7: a place of business.
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Speaker 1: Legitimately, if you know what you're doing in an interview
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Speaker 1: as an interviewee, you walk in and you accept that
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Speaker 1: because that's a conversation starter. And you can get things
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Speaker 1: right to that natural level pretty quick.
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Speaker 4: Correct.
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Speaker 7: It allows you to break the proverbial ice.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Oh, what brand are you using? Oh, you
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Speaker 1: got your own marketed bottle of water. You know, you
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Speaker 1: can open things up that way.
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Speaker 7: If this woman is correct and people are actually getting
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Speaker 7: downgraded because of coffee, then again, I'll tell you, none
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Speaker 7: of us have any hope.
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Speaker 1: Going back to what she said as well, she has
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Speaker 1: 16 years of experience working for the button downs, right?
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Speaker 1: I don't want to work for you button-down guys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I've been there.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's different.
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Speaker 1: I don't like button-downs.
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Speaker 4: Different game.
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Speaker 7: But also, like, I'll tell you, like, so what you're
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Speaker 7: telling me, based button-down lady, is if I come in
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Speaker 7: with a master's in finance from Mays to your button-down
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Speaker 7: Fortune 500, they're going to walk you over.
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Speaker 4: I find that hard to believe.
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Speaker 6: I do.
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Speaker 4: I find that hard to believe. I think that if
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Speaker 4: you're good enough, they don't care what you're drinking.
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Speaker 12: Right.
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Speaker 4: That is insane to me.
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Speaker 1: Sam Texan, only things to bring into an interview. Sharply dressed,
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Speaker 1: something to write on, and a positive attitude.
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Speaker 7: I've been told recently that overdressing in an interview is
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Speaker 7: also a negative.
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Speaker 1: It's a delicate balance.
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Speaker 4: That's the thing.
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Speaker 7: It's like you tell people. I was always under the impression, guys,
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Speaker 7: I know, I've had a lot of jobs. I haven't
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Speaker 7: really been on a job search for a minute. But
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Speaker 7: I was always like, hey, you wear suits everywhere.
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Speaker 4: To the interview.
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Speaker 1: Here's what you got to do. You got to scout
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Speaker 1: the situation, right? So you set up outside of the
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Speaker 1: business a couple of days in advance with some surveillance equipment.
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Speaker 1: And you find out what people are wearing, right? Maybe
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Speaker 1: survey them. Hey, what do you wear to office on
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Speaker 1: a daily basis? Who are you, stranger? Why are you
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Speaker 1: asking me what I wear to the office? apply yeah
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Speaker 1: you find out what they're wearing and you try to
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Speaker 1: match that.
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Speaker 7: Level right uh tangentially related from a professor uh this
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Speaker 7: is from one of you guys pro tip if you
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Speaker 7: walk into class late but you have it to go
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Speaker 7: coffee in your hand it sends a message you don't
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Speaker 7: want to send you're exactly right about that Yeah, I
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Speaker 7: can't deny that. I guess I'm just one of those people.
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Speaker 4: It's like, look, the world is hard. The world's hard.
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Speaker 4: As long as they're there, I'm happy. As long as
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Speaker 4: she's caffeinated, I'm happy.
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Speaker 1: You and I both are very much punctual people. We
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Speaker 1: believe in punctuality is key. So we're not going to
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Speaker 1: show up. I'm not going to be late. Skip the coffee.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to be on time.
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Speaker 4: Trust me.
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Speaker 7: I'm not going to be late. Bob, when you go
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Speaker 7: to an interview, the key is dressing the way you
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Speaker 7: would intend.
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Speaker 4: To work there.
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Speaker 1: I think yes and no. You still have to balance.
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Speaker 1: I mean, surprise later, I come to work in pajamas, right?
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Speaker 4: wear pants. That's it. That's the dressed up look for
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Speaker 7: Sorry, I'm just dying at some of the text messages
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Speaker 7: we're getting.
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Speaker 4: About the interview.
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Speaker 7: If security is worth their salt, they will call the
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Speaker 7: police when they see you and outside.
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Speaker 4: Again, when you go outside with your surveillance equipment.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's the key.
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Speaker 4: That's how you introduce yourself.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, the key is.
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Speaker 4: Again, it's a hey.
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Speaker 1: If you're good at surveillance, you're not going to get caught.
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Speaker 1: I mean, come on. Watch a couple of movies.
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Speaker 4: This is very interesting.
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Speaker 7: Garrett says, always show up with a clean, orderly vehicle.
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Speaker 7: It's part of what I look for. He goes and
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Speaker 7: he looks at the car.
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Speaker 1: That is great.
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Speaker 4: Because a clean vehicle. symbolize someone who's organized. I mean,
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Speaker 4: you know how it is. You walk outside, you look
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Speaker 4: at some people's car and it's just a wreck.
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Speaker 1: Are you walking them out there after the interview to
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Speaker 1: check it out, or are you meeting them in the
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Speaker 1: parking lot when they show up?
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Speaker 7: He goes on to say, if you can't take care
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Speaker 7: of your equipment... Why would I think you can take
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Speaker 4: Garrett, that's next level.
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Speaker 1: It's wise. Very wise.
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Speaker 6: 979-695-1620.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're talking how hot it is out here. On
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Speaker 1: the first day of fall. First day of fall, right?
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Speaker 4: It's hot.
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Speaker 1: It's a hot fall if your candy corn is popping.
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Speaker 1: That's how you know it's a hot fall. If you
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Speaker 1: have to wring the sweat out of your scarf, it's
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Speaker 1: a hot fall. It's tough, y'all. Speaking of the candy corn...
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Speaker 1: Do we.
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Speaker 4: Have to speak of candy corn?
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Speaker 19: We do.
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Speaker 4: Okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 1: Well, because now there is a candy corn beer.
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Speaker 18: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I just said that. A candy corn beer.
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Speaker 4: Does the beer.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 7: Does it taste like candy corn or is it made
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Speaker 7: with candy corn? Because I feel like those could be
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Speaker 7: two different things.
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Speaker 1: According to the people who have tried it, the sweetness
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Speaker 1: is a little restrained while still very much tasting like
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Speaker 1: a wheat beer. It comes from Shock Top, and it's
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Speaker 1: called candy corn wheat.
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Speaker 7: You know, as soon as you said wheat, it kind
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Speaker 7: of made sense because that's already kind of a sweeter beer. And,
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Speaker 7: you know, Shock Tops are obviously a little lighter, a little,
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Speaker 7: you know.
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Speaker 1: So they said that it's okay.
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Speaker 20: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Some people said that's the promo. It's great. It's okay.
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Speaker 1: I used that one time actually for Carnival Cruises as
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Speaker 1: their new slug line because they would come by and
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Speaker 1: ask you at the table, hey, how is everything? It's okay.
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Speaker 20: Great.
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Speaker 1: Carnival Cruise, it's okay. So people said this is diabolical. Bro,
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Speaker 1: I'm so ready to try this. Another said I needed
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Speaker 1: to try it.
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Speaker 4: No, you're not.
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Speaker 1: And then there was plenty of grimacing and vomiting gifts
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Speaker 1: that nobody knew what was going on.
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Speaker 7: Again, tell me the person in your life. And this
16:44
Speaker 7: is a thought exercise for all of us. Tell me
16:47
Speaker 7: the person in your life that likes candy corn.
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Speaker 4: Name them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Can you? I can.
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Speaker 1: If you know people in the state of Mississippi, because
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Speaker 1: apparently Mississippi eats more candy corn per capita. than any
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Speaker 1: other state in our country.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, that checks. That is the exact state that would
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Speaker 7: eat a ton of candy corn.
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Speaker 1: By the way, this mashup is between Shock Top and
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Speaker 1: Spirit Halloween.
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Speaker 4: Get out of here. It's a collab.
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Speaker 1: It's a collab.
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Speaker 7: Basically, Spirit Halloween had the opportunity to make their own beer,
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Speaker 7: and they made one that tasted like candy corn.
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Speaker 1: Candy corn, right.
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Speaker 4: Come on.
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Speaker 1: And you can get... The Wedgehead costume, the Shock Top mascot,
17:26
Speaker 1: it's Spirit Halloween's website.
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Speaker 7: So now you can dress up like the weird thing
17:31
Speaker 7: with the orange as its head.
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Speaker 1: And then you can claim to law enforcement that you
17:36
Speaker 1: drinking this Shock Top is actually part of your costume.
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Speaker 1: You know, it should not contribute to public intoxication.
17:42
Speaker 4: You know what? Get the shock top costume and wear
17:44
Speaker 4: it to the interview.
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Speaker 1: It'll stand.
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Speaker 19: Yeah, exactly.
17:45
Speaker 4: Because you're the fun guy. Yeah, you're the fun guy.
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Speaker 1: I double dog dare you.
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Speaker 4: Every office needs a fun guy. You know, it's true.
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Speaker 7: By the way, this is kind of back to the
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Speaker 7: interview thing, because I did think this is somewhat related.
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Speaker 4: I mean, it's pretty loose.
18:02
Speaker 7: When you meet someone for the very first time, how
18:06
Speaker 7: do you greet them?
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Speaker 1: Well, I know how I greet them.
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Speaker 4: How do you greet them?
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to shake their hand.
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Speaker 4: You're going to shake. They're going to nice, firm handshake.
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Speaker 1: Nice, firm, not overly firm.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Okay. Would you go with the fist bump?
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Speaker 1: Depending if they reach out with a fist bump, because
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Speaker 1: some people are.
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Speaker 4: You would match their energy.
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Speaker 11: Right.
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Speaker 1: You don't know if you're meeting Howie Mandel and he
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Speaker 1: won't shake your hand.
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Speaker 4: That's true.
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Speaker 1: He'll give you the fist bump.
18:27
Speaker 4: The president also not a big fan of handshaking if
18:30
Speaker 4: he can avoid it, apparently.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Well, you shake so many hands.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. And frankly, it's. you know yeah yeah i there's a.
18:37
Speaker 1: Prez likes to dab you up i like i.
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Speaker 4: Like the good dab up yeah now um with that said.
18:43
Speaker 7: Would you maybe consider just a little hey i do
18:46
Speaker 7: like a wave and a point i'm a big fan
18:47
Speaker 7: of the wave and the point what about no physical contact.
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Speaker 1: What about the double pistols that love that too you
18:53
Speaker 1: know that's the shooter mcgabb that too would you go
18:55
Speaker 1: with a hug what First time meeting someone?
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Speaker 7: First time meeting someone. The first meeting, would you go
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Speaker 7: with a hug?
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a long time since I've been
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Speaker 1: drunk enough to do that. But, I mean, I guess
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Speaker 1: it's possible. It would not be my first choice.
19:10
Speaker 7: I think I have the reason behind this. But 5%
19:14
Speaker 7: of people, they asked a bunch of people at first
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Speaker 7: time greetings. 5% of people said their go-to greeting is
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Speaker 7: a hug. The first time they meet you, your go-to.
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Speaker 4: It's a hug. They will greet a stranger first.
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Speaker 1: With a hug okay i'm gonna just go out on
19:30
Speaker 1: a limb here and and this is not sexist they
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Speaker 1: that five percent has to be women i think so
19:35
Speaker 1: because if you're a guy it's assault it's a little
19:37
Speaker 1: yeah it's an assault it's a little threatening that's.
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Speaker 7: It's very the thing is the thing with greetings is
19:42
Speaker 7: you mentioned this earlier i'm a big believer that you
19:45
Speaker 7: you have to watch now this will get you in
19:47
Speaker 7: trouble because the other person might be doing it too
19:49
Speaker 7: you have to watch them to see what the energy is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're right. You can get caught in the
19:56
Speaker 1: infinity loop.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's kind of both of you staring at
19:59
Speaker 4: each other, and then you have to commit. It's like
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Speaker 4: the worst game of paper, rock, scissors ever.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: There have been moments where I've had someone meet me and,
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Speaker 7: and they go for a hug.
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Speaker 4: And so I just, you know, I'm going to quick
20:09
Speaker 4: little hug and, you know, whatever.
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Speaker 7: And so, uh, I don't know, like at some point,
20:13
Speaker 7: maybe perhaps you just start saying, I just want to
20:17
Speaker 7: make this simple.
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Speaker 4: I'm going to hug everybody.
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Speaker 1: I mean, hugs without permission.
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Speaker 4: I feel like you could get.
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Speaker 7: In trouble for that. Like legitimately you get in trouble
20:24
Speaker 7: for that. Some people really don't like hugs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. As a guy, I would never approach somebody like that.
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Speaker 21: How?
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Speaker 4: How on earth have you survived if you're hugging every stranger?
20:39
Speaker 4: Or maybe you just don't meet a lot of people.
20:41
Speaker 4: That's possible.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that sounds like it tracks. Yeah, you're isolated, and
20:46
Speaker 1: so then you're craving the physical touch. It's just something that's...
20:51
Speaker 1: I haven't been held in five years.
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Speaker 4: The finger-pointing is actually quite popular, Will. About 70... Sorry,
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Speaker 4: 17% of people say they always opt for the.
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21:13
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Speaker 19: Howdy, I'm Bob Yancey, proud Aggie grad and Air Force veteran,
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Speaker 7: Let's talk animal stuff with Aggieland Humane Society and a
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Speaker 7: multitude of guests. First of all, always. We have Katrina,
28:45
Speaker 7: but who do we have with us today?
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Speaker 8: This is Ruby.
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Speaker 4: Ruby comes to many of these.
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Speaker 18: Yes.
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Speaker 8: Y'all know Ruby is my little kiddo. She was a
28:53
Speaker 8: foster fail, which I have to tell you, I.
28:58
Speaker 8: I foster failed on my little black kitten.
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Speaker 21: We knew it.
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Speaker 1: We saw it.
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Speaker 4: Congratulations.
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Speaker 6: Thank you.
29:05
Speaker 4: That's wonderful news.
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Speaker 8: You know, it was... So there was someone who was
29:09
Speaker 8: lined up to adopt her. And they were supposed to...
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Speaker 8: Their bottom line was Saturday at 5 p.m. And I
29:14
Speaker 8: was like, okay. I was like, well, if it's meant
29:15
Speaker 8: to be, they're going to come and they'll adopt her.
29:18
Speaker 8: And it's, like, 4 o'clock, and they still haven't showed.
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Speaker 8: And they, like, called, and they left messages and all
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Speaker 8: the things. And then 5 o'clock rolls around, and they
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Speaker 8: never showed up. And I was like, okay, well.
29:27
Speaker 4: The universe has decided.
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Speaker 16: Exactly.
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Speaker 1: 4.59 came around, and she's like, mine!
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Speaker 4: I love it. And they match, too.
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Speaker 8: They do. We all match aesthetics now.
29:36
Speaker 4: This is great.
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Speaker 7: So my question to you is, you obviously have a
29:42
Speaker 7: dog you care about very, very much. And you also
29:47
Speaker 7: are in charge over at Aggieland Humane Society. Do you
29:51
Speaker 7: enter your dog in the Bark Leader contest or is
29:54
Speaker 7: that a conflict of interest?
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Speaker 8: Okay, so I actually think I'm going to enter... My Skippy,
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Speaker 8: my yellow lab that I adopted. So, you know, at Aggieland,
30:05
Speaker 8: we get purebred dogs.
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Speaker 4: Yes, you do.
30:06
Speaker 8: We it's not just like pit bulls and chihuahuas. So
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Speaker 8: Skippy came into the shelter and about after Christmas time,
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Speaker 8: a purebred yellow lab, like a gorgeous, gorgeous dog. He
30:18
Speaker 8: had he went and he was adopted once and then
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Speaker 8: he came back like a week later. And so then
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Speaker 8: that second time I was like, you know what? I'm
30:23
Speaker 8: just going to foster him. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Are you like me? What's your number? How many animals
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Speaker 4: are you up to?
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Speaker 8: I have now four dogs and now two cats. But
30:38
Speaker 8: I live on 12 acres. I have the room. I
30:41
Speaker 8: don't live in town. I don't have to abide by
30:43
Speaker 8: the four or more limit.
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Speaker 1: The laws that Tucker ignores.
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Speaker 4: That's the suggestion.
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Speaker 8: Thank you. That's my thought. If you take good care
30:52
Speaker 8: of your pets... You know what I mean?
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Speaker 4: That's generally it, yeah. As long as you're not a nuisance.
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Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I mean, pets kill to get
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Speaker 1: into Tucker's house.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, they do. It's like the Harvard.
31:04
Speaker 1: Word on the street is like, yeah, that's where you
31:06
Speaker 1: want to go.
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Speaker 4: You can get past the gatekeepers, man. They will take
31:11
Speaker 4: care of you. Uh, but yeah, you do like what's great.
31:14
Speaker 4: And this is the thing.
31:14
Speaker 7: Like if you're looking for a specific dog and you're
31:17
Speaker 7: really have your heart set on even something like one
31:20
Speaker 7: of the, the, the, you.
31:22
Speaker 4: Know, the poodle, the.
31:24
Speaker 7: Doodles and everything else, uh, you can go to them
31:27
Speaker 7: and you can say, Hey, look, if something pops up,
31:29
Speaker 7: hit me up.
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Speaker 4: I'm looking for this.
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Speaker 7: And they will, because that dog will end up in
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Speaker 7: the shelter at some point.
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Speaker 4: There's no way around it.
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Speaker 8: And, you know, and watching the website because our pets
31:39
Speaker 8: come in, we get new pets in daily and we
31:42
Speaker 8: post those in real time in the, they're, they're first
31:45
Speaker 8: going to go on the lost and found section because
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Speaker 8: of course our goal overall is to get pets back home.
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Speaker 6: Yes.
31:50
Speaker 8: You know, but if we can't, we exhaust those options
31:53
Speaker 8: and Texas only has a 72 hour stray hold.
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Speaker 13: True.
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Speaker 8: Unless you have your Brazos County license and your pet
31:59
Speaker 8: comes in wearing that tag, then they get a 10
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Speaker 8: day hold. Otherwise it's just three business days and then
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Speaker 8: your pet goes up for adoption.
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Speaker 4: That's right, man.
32:06
Speaker 8: So if you've lost your pet, you've got to come
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Speaker 8: and look.
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Speaker 1: I have not looked at the lost and found. I've
32:12
Speaker 1: always been focused on the dogs. Now I'm going to
32:15
Speaker 1: go over here and find something that I need in
32:17
Speaker 1: the lost and found.
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Speaker 7: Start counting it down. So you are going to enter
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Speaker 7: one of your dogs.
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Speaker 14: Yes.
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Speaker 4: How is that not a conflict of interest?
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Speaker 8: I think as long as I am not soliciting, you know.
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Speaker 7: If you're not actively, so you could not come on
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Speaker 7: the show and be like, vote for my dog.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's unfair. We're talking about it right now.
32:37
Speaker 4: That doesn't seem right either.
32:38
Speaker 8: I mean, I think I would let my dog and
32:40
Speaker 8: his campaign speak for himself. He is a beautiful Goober,
32:45
Speaker 8: you know.
32:47
Speaker 1: I'll have to enter Annie and then we know Annie
32:50
Speaker 1: will win.
32:51
Speaker 7: Now, if you're unfamiliar what we're talking about, explain Bark
32:53
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32:54
Speaker 8: So Bark Leader is our dog to dog or peer
32:56
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Speaker 8: Our goal is to raise at least $ 6, 000 for the
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33:05
Speaker 8: it is all in good fun. There's a lot of
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Speaker 8: perks that go with it beyond the life-saving. If your
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Speaker 8: pet wins, then they will end up on the back
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Speaker 8: of a T-shirt. They'll be in the calendar. They get
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Speaker 8: a photo shoot. Like, there's lots of great goodies that
33:17
Speaker 8: go with it. And, of course, the warm and fuzzy
33:20
Speaker 8: feeling knowing that your pet has saved dozens of dogs.
33:23
Speaker 4: Can't beat that.
33:24
Speaker 1: That's it. I'm going to enter Annie.
33:26
Speaker 4: I'm telling you.
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Speaker 8: Right now.
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Speaker 4: Sign her up. Make it happen.
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Speaker 1: Got to go find the best picture.
33:30
Speaker 4: What else do we have going on?
33:31
Speaker 8: You know, we have lots of kittens. It's like kitten
33:34
Speaker 8: season 2.0 right now.
33:36
Speaker 4: So you got another wave? Oh, man.
33:38
Speaker 8: And it just like isn't ending. Every day, almost every
33:42
Speaker 8: single day, we are getting in either single kittens or
33:45
Speaker 8: we're getting in moms and babies.
33:46
Speaker 4: Holy cow.
33:47
Speaker 8: And so we need more fosters because a lot of fosters,
33:51
Speaker 8: they're tired.
33:51
Speaker 4: They're tired.
33:52
Speaker 8: They're burnt out. They've gone through the whole season, which
33:54
Speaker 8: starts in about March for us. And so having, you know,
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Speaker 8: back-to-back litters, the beauty of fostering with Aggieland Humane is
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Speaker 8: we're going to give you whatever supplies you need for free.
34:04
Speaker 8: And there's a sense of community. We have a Facebook page.
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Speaker 8: We have all sorts of resources. So that way you're
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Speaker 8: not in it by yourself. And we'll set you up
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Speaker 8: that way. You have everything you need from food, medication,
34:16
Speaker 8: that community. everything, the vet care. So it's a great
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Speaker 8: program and very easy to sign up. You just go
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Speaker 8: to our website, AggielandHumane.org and fill out an application.
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Speaker 1: So Katrina, how many of these, of the new litters
34:29
Speaker 1: are you expecting to adopt yourself?
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Speaker 8: Oh, well, now I'm full. I'm going to slow my
34:36
Speaker 8: roll for a little bit.
34:37
Speaker 4: Yeah, you just take a break. You know, take a break.
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Speaker 1: You got to skip a litter.
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Speaker 7: If you're looking to, if you've never fostered, please at
34:44
Speaker 7: least take a look at it. It's such an easy thing,
34:47
Speaker 7: especially with cats and kittens. It's very low impact and
34:51
Speaker 7: makes a really big difference.
34:52
Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the kitten season that never ends.
34:55
Speaker 8: I mean, in Texas, it really, we'll get a reprieve
34:57
Speaker 8: maybe like December through February, but And then it just
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Speaker 8: will pick right back up.
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Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 4: Beautiful thing. Anything else we need to get to this week?
35:05
Speaker 8: That's the big thing, so thank you all so much.
35:07
Speaker 8: Thanks for having us.
35:08
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Anti-ice
35:48
Speaker 1: protests erupted in Austin last night after 28-year-old Venezuelan national
35:53
Speaker 1: Wilbur Garces Perez was shot. Fox's Brooke Taylor has more.
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Speaker 27: About 100 people showed up. Local reporters on the ground
36:01
Speaker 27: say rocks and water bottles were even thrown at law
36:04
Speaker 27: enforcement officers. Protesters, they blocked the streets, and officers eventually
36:09
Speaker 27: had to use tear gas to break up the crowd. Now,
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Speaker 27: sources tell me that ICE officers ran the vehicle's license plate,
36:16
Speaker 27: and they found it was registered to a Venezuelan illegal
36:19
Speaker 27: migrant with a final deportation order. They then tried to
36:23
Speaker 27: stop the driver. Now, DHS hasn't shared.
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Speaker 22: What happened next.
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Speaker 1: Perez was released into ICE custody with the bullet still
36:30
Speaker 1: lodged in his back. New charges have been levied against
36:33
Speaker 1: a man who drove from Katy to meet up with
36:35
Speaker 1: a 14-year-old girl in Bryan. 28-year-old Daniel Salgado and the
36:40
Speaker 1: girl were found inside his vehicle at the back of
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Speaker 1: Sue Haswell Park just before midnight on September 3rd. The
36:45
Speaker 1: windows of the vehicle were obscured. Officers recovered a handgun, condoms,
36:50
Speaker 1: a new package of girls' underwear, sports bras, and a
36:53
Speaker 1: rabbit costume of a sexual nature. An investigation that night
36:57
Speaker 1: revealed that the child had left her home without her
36:59
Speaker 1: mother's knowledge. The mother said she learned of her daughter's
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Speaker 1: interactions with the man via Snapchat starting in 2024 and
37:06
Speaker 1: repeatedly told Salgado not to contact her daughter. The mother
37:10
Speaker 1: also reported that the girl had previously run away to
37:13
Speaker 1: be with the man. According to records, detectives in Harris
37:16
Speaker 1: County conducted a welfare check at Salgado's home in June
37:19
Speaker 1: of 2025 in an attempt to find the girl. Both
37:23
Speaker 1: Salgado and the girl denied having an inappropriate relationship, claiming
37:27
Speaker 1: he was a father figure. At the time, Salgado could
37:30
Speaker 1: only be charged with a park curfew violation, unlawful carrying
37:33
Speaker 1: of a weapon, and enticing a child. He posted $ 46, 000
37:36
Speaker 1: bond and was released on September 8th. Because of the
37:41
Speaker 1: sensitive nature of the crime, investigators asked that we not
37:44
Speaker 1: release information about the suspect or the investigation until it
37:47
Speaker 1: was complete. Now, newly released records detail explicit conversations and
37:52
Speaker 1: videos the pair exchanged dating back to January 2025. Explicit
37:57
Speaker 1: videos were even sent by both parties in the hours
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Speaker 1: leading up to Salgado's arrest on September 3rd. Bryan Police
38:04
Speaker 1: have now added charges for possessing visual material, video of
38:08
Speaker 1: a child younger than 18 years of age, and intentionally
38:10
Speaker 1: distributing sexually explicit material over the Internet. Both felonies. A
38:15
Speaker 1: warrant has been issued for his arrest. Officials in Bryan
38:19
Speaker 1: released statistics Monday that show crime has dropped in the
38:21
Speaker 1: city compared to this time last year. Only one murder
38:25
Speaker 1: has taken place in 2026. Robberies are down 35% and
38:27
Speaker 1: vehicle thefts are down 34%. In 1991, Brian experienced an
38:34
Speaker 1: all-time high of nearly 4,900 of what the FBI considers
38:38
Speaker 1: the most serious crimes. In 2025, that number was under 1,300,
38:43
Speaker 1: a reduction of almost 74%. Big money is being poured
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Speaker 1: into Ken Paxton's race for U.S.
38:51
Speaker 4: Senate.
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Speaker 1: You're seeing that in the volume of TV and radio
38:54
Speaker 1: commercials being aired.
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Speaker 25: The real avalanche is coming from outside groups, heavy-hitting super
39:00
Speaker 25: PACs and Trump-aligned groups like MAGA Inc. They're flooding tens
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Speaker 25: of millions of dollars into statewide media markets to back
39:07
Speaker 25: Paxton and attack his opponent, James Tallarico.
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Speaker 1: A surprise?
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Speaker 25: Not really, says SMU political scientist Cal Gilson.
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Speaker 18: I'm not surprised that it's coming in. I'm surprised that
39:18
Speaker 18: it took so long for it to come in because...
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Speaker 18: James Tallarico has raised more money than Paxton by.
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Speaker 14: A long ways.
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Speaker 25: What about all of the negative ads on both sides?
39:29
Speaker 25: Gilson says. research shows that those stick with voters a
39:32
Speaker 25: lot more than good-spirited ads will. Russell Scott, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: The governor has been telling us Texas is growing as
39:40
Speaker 1: a destination for tech firms. But now some of that
39:43
Speaker 1: tech will have to pump the brakes.
39:46
Speaker 3: Governor Greg Abbott told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
39:48
Speaker 3: to stop all permits for data centers. He ordered an
39:51
Speaker 3: audit of data center proposals back in August by the
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Speaker 3: Public Utility Commission and ERCOT. He now says data centers
39:57
Speaker 3: must pay their own way, protect our grid and water,
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Speaker 3: and complete those audits. He says the audits aim to
40:02
Speaker 3: make sure data centers do not make the power grid
40:04
Speaker 3: less reliable, saying they must cover all their own electrical
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Speaker 3: infrastructure costs. Right now, the state offers tax incentives for
40:10
Speaker 3: data centers. Abbott says he wants state lawmakers to eliminate
40:13
Speaker 3: those incentives when they head back to Austin next year.
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Speaker 1: Alan Skia, TSN News. More news throughout the day or
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Speaker 1: anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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Speaker 4: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, guys. Welcome, Glenn Brewer for the BCS
41:42
Speaker 4: Chamber of Commerce. Glenn.
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Speaker 15: Glenn.
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Speaker 14: Glenn.
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Speaker 6: Glenn.
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Speaker 21: Glenn.
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Speaker 4: Glenn. Huzzah. Huzzah.
41:46
Speaker 18: Howdy.
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Speaker 4: Excuse me.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I just realized. Where is Tony?
41:51
Speaker 4: Tony is over.
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Speaker 7: We've had to remove Tony because we've been doing the
41:55
Speaker 7: political interviews in here.
41:57
Speaker 1: And nobody sticks Tony in a corner.
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Speaker 7: This is why Tony gets put in the corner. It's
42:02
Speaker 7: because I can't be having a big serious interview and
42:05
Speaker 7: all of a sudden Tony says China.
42:07
Speaker 1: I can see that. Just realize he wasn't on his
42:10
Speaker 1: usual perch.
42:11
Speaker 4: He'll be back. He's getting his spot back. We're wrapping this.
42:15
Speaker 18: Whole thing up.
42:17
Speaker 4: How are you doing, man? Man, recovering.
42:19
Speaker 12: Yesterday, Friday, Lobster Fest.
42:21
Speaker 4: I was about to ask. Long day on the course
42:24
Speaker 4: for you.
42:24
Speaker 12: Biggest fundraiser of the year for us.
42:27
Speaker 4: Long day on the course.
42:29
Speaker 1: How'd you shoot? How'd you shoot, Glenn? You about three under?
42:33
Speaker 12: I'm like the king of the golf tournament.
42:35
Speaker 1: I get driven around in the golf cart.
42:37
Speaker 4: You're there to encourage. We had tents up in trees.
42:41
Speaker 1: Tents and trees.
42:43
Speaker 4: Tents and trees. The wind blew in.
42:45
Speaker 1: That happens. Those pop-up tents are sales, man.
42:49
Speaker 12: My understanding is one ended up in a tree. Several
42:52
Speaker 12: ended up on the golf course. But it made for
42:55
Speaker 12: some excitement.
42:56
Speaker 4: That's right.
42:57
Speaker 1: How do you score that? Is that a movable hazard?
43:01
Speaker 4: You play where it lies.
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Speaker 12: Of course, it's a chamber. Someone probably kicked their ball.
43:07
Speaker 1: A little foot wedge.
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Speaker 4: Probably not. No one cheats.
43:11
Speaker 12: If you guys are listening, no one does that. But
43:14
Speaker 12: it was a lot of fun. Lobster Fest was great.
43:16
Speaker 12: Golf was fantastic. Today's probably a day of recovery for
43:20
Speaker 12: most of the chamber staff that didn't get carted around
43:23
Speaker 12: in a golf course.
43:24
Speaker 7: I was about to say, man, even if you did
43:26
Speaker 7: get carted around in a golf cart, that is a
43:28
Speaker 7: lot of time out in the sun.
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Speaker 1: It is, yeah.
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Speaker 12: And it was a wonderful time.
43:32
Speaker 4: But we don't stop.
43:33
Speaker 12: That's the thing about the Chamber.
43:34
Speaker 1: Can't stop, won't stop.
43:35
Speaker 12: There's always something else. And the next thing we've got
43:38
Speaker 12: is just Thursday, our next Business After Hours. And it's
43:42
Speaker 12: at Frost Bank. They were the sponsor of Golf and Lofts.
43:46
Speaker 12: They're having a Business After Hours, 530 to 7.
43:49
Speaker 4: You know the drill.
43:50
Speaker 1: It's always free to attend.
43:51
Speaker 12: We'd love to see everybody out at Frost Bank for
43:53
Speaker 12: that business after hours. And I will say then our
43:57
Speaker 12: next event that's coming up is one of the different
44:00
Speaker 12: ones we do because we're looking at identifying and training
44:03
Speaker 12: really future business owners and employees of Bryan College Station because.
44:09
Speaker 4: We're going to have eight.
44:11
Speaker 12: Eight would be something. About 3,000 eighth graders out at
44:15
Speaker 12: the Expo Center where we're going to do our Youth
44:17
Speaker 12: Career Fair sponsored by.
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Speaker 10: A & M.
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Speaker 4: I have done this a time or 12.
44:21
Speaker 12: I was wondering if you guys would go out there.
44:23
Speaker 12: We'll have 50 to 75, uh, booths for businesses to
44:26
Speaker 12: come out and inspire these kids.
44:29
Speaker 7: It's I, I don't, I always like talking to the, uh,
44:32
Speaker 7: talking to the youth. Um, I find that now more
44:34
Speaker 7: and more of the youth are genuinely confused about what,
44:38
Speaker 7: what it is that we do. I just have to
44:40
Speaker 7: tell them like, it's a, it's like a live podcast.
44:43
Speaker 1: And they're like, they get it. They get it when
44:44
Speaker 1: you do that.
44:45
Speaker 4: And they're, they're all into it. But, uh, It's a
44:47
Speaker 4: great time.
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Speaker 7: If you're a business owner in town, it is actually
44:51
Speaker 7: a very encouraging thing as someone who participates in the
44:55
Speaker 7: business community because those kids think what you do is cool.
45:00
Speaker 4: And nothing.
45:01
Speaker 7: Makes you feel better than a bunch of people who think.
45:04
Speaker 4: What you're doing with your career is cool.
45:06
Speaker 7: Because you forget that you have cool things about your
45:08
Speaker 7: job because it just becomes your job over the years.
45:10
Speaker 12: And they want to know what do I have to
45:13
Speaker 12: do to be like you?
45:14
Speaker 4: How do I get to be like you, man? They
45:15
Speaker 4: want to know how they get in your spot.
45:16
Speaker 18: Yeah.
45:16
Speaker 4: And it's free.
45:17
Speaker 12: So if you want to put a, if you're a business,
45:19
Speaker 12: you want to go out there, it's absolutely free to
45:21
Speaker 12: do that and help raise the next generation of Bryan
45:25
Speaker 12: College Station. After that, then we've got to coming up
45:28
Speaker 12: on October the 9th, our Leadership Brazos All-Class Reunion sponsored
45:32
Speaker 12: by City of Bryan and Leadership Brazos Alumni Association. We've
45:36
Speaker 12: got about 12,000 LB graduates. 12,000.
45:39
Speaker 4: My brother. Heat stroke day. About 2,000. Y'all got prolific
45:43
Speaker 4: all of a sudden.
45:44
Speaker 12: They seem like 12 because they're so active, but there's
45:46
Speaker 12: only 2,000 graduates out there. They're all invited to the
45:50
Speaker 12: all-class reunion, and that will be at Phillips Event Center.
45:54
Speaker 12: We want you to RSVP for that. And then I
45:57
Speaker 12: know you guys have probably, well, you mentioned Tony. We're
46:01
Speaker 12: having our local candidates for him. In fact, there's so
46:04
Speaker 12: many races. We're covering about 10 races. We're going to
46:06
Speaker 12: have to split it into two days.
46:08
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's become kind of like WrestleMania. You have to
46:10
Speaker 7: do a two-day program.
46:12
Speaker 12: It could be, and bring in Scott back to do
46:14
Speaker 12: the hosting, and we'll see what happens. But it'll be
46:17
Speaker 12: on the 13th and the 19th, and people are always,
46:21
Speaker 12: what race is on which? We're putting it together now.
46:23
Speaker 12: All the candidates are being in touch with them, and
46:25
Speaker 12: we're scheduling that. We'll let you know real soon. But
46:28
Speaker 12: on the 13th and the 19th, it will be at
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Speaker 12: Brazza Center, and you'll be able to come and hear
46:32
Speaker 12: the thoughts and positions of the guys running for your
46:37
Speaker 12: local candidates.
46:37
Speaker 7: If you've never seen a— well, I assume most people that
46:41
Speaker 7: are listening to this particular show have at least listened
46:44
Speaker 7: to one or two of them. If for some reason
46:47
Speaker 7: you've never seen it live— Scott hosting a candidates forum
46:51
Speaker 7: is one of the real treats that exists as a
46:56
Speaker 7: resident of Bryan College Station. I would stream them when
46:59
Speaker 7: I was when I was other plays. Oh, there's a
47:02
Speaker 7: candidates forum tonight. Scott's going to be it's it's the
47:04
Speaker 7: literal best.
47:05
Speaker 12: And it will be live on WTAW while it's there.
47:08
Speaker 12: And kptx.com will live stream it on their website. But
47:13
Speaker 12: you're right. Scott is one of the media guys. You
47:15
Speaker 12: see him on TV to ask a question. They don't
47:17
Speaker 12: answer the question. And then the person asks them another question.
47:20
Speaker 12: Scott doesn't do that.
47:21
Speaker 4: He does not do that. And it's my favorite part.
47:24
Speaker 4: And I can't wait. Glenn, I can't wait.
47:27
Speaker 12: That's not what I ask you.
47:28
Speaker 4: And he will go back and he will get an answer.
47:30
Speaker 1: He's firm.
47:31
Speaker 4: He's firm. Firm, but fair. But fair.
47:34
Speaker 1: Resolute he is.
47:35
Speaker 9: Yeah.
47:36
Speaker 4: Anything else we can get to?
47:37
Speaker 18: All right.
47:37
Speaker 12: Well, mark your calendar on the 27th of October, Community
47:40
Speaker 12: Outreach Small Business Forum, also sponsored by Frost Bank.
47:44
Speaker 1: And then for all the ribbon-cutting groupies, which there are
47:47
Speaker 1: some out there.
47:47
Speaker 6: There are.
47:48
Speaker 12: They told me again last week, someone said they heard
47:50
Speaker 12: about it on the radio, that little radio show.
47:53
Speaker 4: That little old radio show from Texas.
47:56
Speaker 12: We've got one today, Vital Care of College Station, 430
48:00
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48:04
Speaker 12: Rudder Freeway. Then we have one Friday. It's a regular
48:07
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48:10
Speaker 12: 1130 to 12.
48:12
Speaker 4: Oh, and then Deluxe next week, everybody's going to want
48:15
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48:16
Speaker 12: 4.30 to 5.30, I guess we're going to see their
48:19
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Speaker 4: It's fancy.
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Speaker 1: It's fancy.
48:21
Speaker 4: It's very nice.
48:22
Speaker 1: I know, that's where Will shops.
48:24
Speaker 4: Very nice. It is where I shop. No, you're not kidding. Yeah,
48:27
Speaker 4: not at all. He was in there the other day, actually.
48:30
Speaker 12: We'll see that on Wednesday. And then next Friday, Zeal
48:33
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48:35
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48:36
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48:41
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48:43
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Speaker 1: I don't know, coach. It's like I can't see the
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Speaker 18: All right. Okay.
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Speaker 7: to unitedroofingpros.com. I'm a little bit concerned. at the level
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Speaker 7: of effort that it's taking for you to sign up for, uh,
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to pop. I, yeah, I'm thinking that maybe
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Speaker 1: Katrina now has it rigged because when she left, I said,
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Speaker 1: I'm signing up my dog.
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Speaker 19: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And of course she said she was signing up her dog.
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Speaker 1: She did say, which we thought was a little unfair.
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Speaker 1: You know, it just makes, you know, I, you know,
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Speaker 1: what do I know? I think, I think there should
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Speaker 1: be some clear delineation though. There should be.
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Speaker 7: I mean, the head of the, uh, Aggieland Humane Society,
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Speaker 7: you know, and then, then everyone else that's competing, uh,
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Speaker 7: But maybe her dog's just that good.
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Speaker 1: How do I know? Well, I think Annie's being blocked
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Speaker 1: because I showed you some of the pictures I was
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Speaker 1: going to submit.
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Speaker 7: I think Annie, honestly, if we're going for Bark Leader,
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Speaker 7: which is what you're signing up for to benefit Aggieland
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Speaker 7: Humane Society.
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Speaker 4: If you're going for Bark Leader, the pictures you showed me.
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Speaker 1: Clear winner.
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Speaker 4: Very strong.
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Speaker 12: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Very, very strong. So you're trying to sign up on
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Speaker 4: the website and you cannot find a way to... Upload
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Speaker 4: these pictures.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'll have to get back with Katrina. Very suspicious. Very suspicious.
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Speaker 1: I'm thinking that maybe she instantly, when she left here,
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Speaker 1: she got on her device, her phone, and managed to
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Speaker 1: block it, lock it down. Not playing fair, Katrina.
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Speaker 7: I just want to have some eyes on it, man.
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Speaker 7: Can we do voter integrity questions?
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Speaker 1: Possibly.
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Speaker 4: Do we need to have someone watching?
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Speaker 1: I could send the pictures to you, Tucker. You could
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Speaker 1: post them on our Facebook page. And people can vote there.
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Speaker 4: You know what? Let's start there. Send me your pictures.
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Speaker 1: I'll send you the pictures.
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Speaker 4: And then what I'm going to do.
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Speaker 7: Is I'm going to post them and let the listeners,
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Speaker 7: they might have one. Maybe we're looking at it wrong.
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Speaker 7: Maybe they will.
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Speaker 4: Pick different pictures than we think.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they will respond with their own puppy pictures or
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Speaker 1: animal pictures and we can have ourselves a little vote there.
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Speaker 4: That's a great thing.
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Speaker 1: We can do it ourselves.
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Speaker 4: We want to raise money. That's the idea. We'll figure
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Speaker 4: it out. Shoot first, ask questions later.
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