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The Infomaniacs: October 13th 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: WTAW and the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce are
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  Speaker 1: hosting candidate forums. Scott DeLucia will moderate the first of
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  Speaker 1: two installments at 6 o'clock tonight at the Brazos Center.
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  Speaker 1: If you can't make it out, it will be broadcast
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  Speaker 1: on WTAW and streamed live on WTAW.com. Tonight's candidates will
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  Speaker 1: be for State Representative Districts 12 and 14 Brazos County
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner's Court. and Mayor of College Station in Bryan. The
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  Speaker 1: forum next Monday will feature the Bryan and College Station
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  Speaker 1: City Councils, also at 6 o'clock at the Brazos Center,
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  Speaker 1: and live on WTAW and WTAW.com. The City of College
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  Speaker 1: Station will be making road repairs near Traditions. The city
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  Speaker 1: will begin paving operations in the area beginning this morning,
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  Speaker 1: and it will last for approximately two weeks. They say
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  Speaker 1: access to streets and homes will not be affected. The
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  Speaker 1: 2026 Asphalt Maintenance Project will resurface 67 streets throughout Bryan,
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  Speaker 1: ranging from major roads such as Villa Maria and East
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  Speaker 1: 29th to residential streets like Bluegrass and Crenshaw. The City
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  Speaker 1: of College Station is doing a warrant amnesty right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you have an outstanding warrant with the city, you
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  Speaker 1: can go to the courthouse and take care of the
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  Speaker 1: ticket without an arrest. They'll even waive the $ 75 warrant fee.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Judge Edward Spillane.
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  Speaker 2: Warrant amnesty, if you think you have a warrant or
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  Speaker 2: you know you have a warrant, starting October 12th and
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  Speaker 2: going until Friday, October 30th, if you come to court
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  Speaker 2: and take care of it, you can't just wave and
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  Speaker 2: run out, but if you come in and work with us,
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  Speaker 2: we'll waive the warrant fee.
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  Speaker 3: Which has gone up.
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  Speaker 2: It's $ 75 per case, but most importantly, you'll avoid being arrested.
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  Speaker 1: And the J.P.
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  Speaker 4: Courts.
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  Speaker 2: Always cooperate with us, too, and run it during the
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  Speaker 2: same time.
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  Speaker 1: You can check online to see if you have a
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  Speaker 1: warrant and how much the fines are at CSTX.gov. With
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  Speaker 1: just days away from early voting, Governor Abbott says he's
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  Speaker 1: not worried about the tight race between him and Democrat
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  Speaker 1: Gina Hinojosa. I feel pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: About where things are. I know what's going on under
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  Speaker 5: the surface. I know what trends look like. I feel
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  Speaker 5: pretty good about my positions.
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  Speaker 1: Abbott was in North Texas last week at a law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement roundtable. Early voting runs from October 19th through the 30th.
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  Speaker 1: Election day is November 3rd. News is presented by Pioneer
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  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW, guys.
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  Speaker 8: Welcome.
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  Speaker 7: Tuesday, Infomaniacs. Looking at 90s today and in actual temperatures,
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  Speaker 7: although it's going to feel like 100s because it's thicker
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  Speaker 7: than pea soup, man. You're going to feel it. That
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  Speaker 7: humidity is back with a vengeance. Will dry out, though,
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  Speaker 7: this weekend. We'll get down to, at some point, highs
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  Speaker 7: in the mid-70s, maybe on Saturday. But in the meantime, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: feel the difference. Want to mention again tonight, session number
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  Speaker 7: one with the BCS Chamber of Commerce and the candidates forum.
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  Speaker 7: Scott's going to be hosting. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 7: great time. Highly recommend you go. Lots of stuff on
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  Speaker 7: the ballots. some of which are races, some of which
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  Speaker 7: aren't races. They're just things. They're measures. And one of
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  Speaker 7: these we want to talk about involves our friends at
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  Speaker 7: Bryan ISD. So we called our friend Joel Bryan, president
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  Speaker 7: of the board. Good morning, sir.
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  Speaker 1: How are you doing?
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  Speaker 9: Good morning.
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  Speaker 8: Well, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there we go.
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  Speaker 7: I'm getting this eventually. First of all, before we get
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  Speaker 7: into the business at hand, big congratulations. to the district
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  Speaker 7: on the superintendent of the year thing. That was really
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  Speaker 7: cool to see.
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  Speaker 8: Incredibly proud.
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  Speaker 10: We were at Texas EdCon over the end of last
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  Speaker 10: week doing some board training and it was an opportunity
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  Speaker 10: for our superintendent who's gone through multiple levels of interviews
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  Speaker 10: to reach that point on that stage and was recognized
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  Speaker 10: as Texas superintendent of the year by the Texas Association
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  Speaker 10: of School Boards. And she represented us so well. And
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  Speaker 10: it was just, I was proud just to spotlight her
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  Speaker 10: and her efforts and leadership and just focus on our
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  Speaker 10: children in our school district.
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  Speaker 7: You should be proud. I mean, the entire community should
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  Speaker 7: be proud of that. Brian ISD has done some amazing
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  Speaker 7: things in the last several years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's been a lot of corners that have been
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  Speaker 1: turned with BISD, and I love the track that you're on.
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  Speaker 11: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: Now, with that said, what we are here to discuss,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm going to botch the name of this because
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  Speaker 7: I want to call it a vitry.
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  Speaker 8: We call it VADER.
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  Speaker 12: VADER.
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  Speaker 8: Voter Approval Tax Rate Election.
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  Speaker 13: VADER.
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  Speaker 7: See, you've got to get a better name.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of like Darth Vader.
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  Speaker 7: I always remember it that way. So what is this?
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  Speaker 10: This is a call for the community to consider and
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  Speaker 10: support a two cent tax increase, which would translate to $ 5. 5
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  Speaker 10: million of generated revenue to the district. Two and a
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  Speaker 10: half million would come from local tax dollars. And then
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  Speaker 10: this evader allows us to utilize the cents that we
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  Speaker 10: would vote for, would also kick in an additional $ 3
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  Speaker 10: million from state funding. So it's not just local dollars.
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  Speaker 10: It also triggers money from the state.
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  Speaker 1: So it's almost like a matching.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 1: You think about the nonprofit world like a matching donation.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, you get $ 2 million, you get to cash in
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  Speaker 7: on an extra three, bringing your total to $ 5 million.
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  Speaker 7: What would you use this five and change million dollars on?
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  Speaker 10: I think that the top priority is staff compensation to
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  Speaker 10: reward our employees that service very well in Bryan ISD
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  Speaker 10: and also position our district to be more competitive in
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  Speaker 10: the market. If you look down just south of us,
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  Speaker 10: starting pay is $ 13, 000, $ 15, 000 higher than what we offer
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  Speaker 10: in Bryan, and so it's important that we elevate our
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  Speaker 10: pay structures in our district to attract top talent and
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  Speaker 10: retain our talent.
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  Speaker 7: That's a substantial gap.
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  Speaker 1: And I can tell you there's a lot of places
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  Speaker 1: that are kind of like that. I can also tell
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  Speaker 1: you that as the husband of a teacher in BISD,
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  Speaker 1: that the money is important. It's very important. And for many,
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  Speaker 1: it might be the number one thing. For a lot
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  Speaker 1: of them, it's along the lines of the recognition of
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  Speaker 1: the job that they've done as well.
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  Speaker 15: Right, right.
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  Speaker 7: And you've got to remember... A lot of those districts
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  Speaker 7: are in driving range now, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: It is not out of their... I know so many
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  Speaker 7: people that commute to Houston for so many things. I
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  Speaker 7: know so many people that commute to Austin every day
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  Speaker 7: for so many things. Don't think that you're not going
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  Speaker 7: to lose teachers over something like $ 13, 000 or $ 15, 000. That's sizable.
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  Speaker 7: So that's a great use.
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  Speaker 8: It is.
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  Speaker 10: Our student programs, protecting our student programs is another priority.
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  Speaker 8: We offer.
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  Speaker 10: a wide variety of programs in our district. And that
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  Speaker 10: attracts our families and it gets our kids in the
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  Speaker 10: classroom seats because they're excited about going to school to
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  Speaker 10: participate in these programs. And so protecting those programs is
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  Speaker 10: another priority for this funding.
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  Speaker 7: Now, obviously, one of the things you hear most in
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  Speaker 7: ads for whatever campaigns When it comes to state politics,
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  Speaker 7: property taxes, everyone is going to talk about property taxes,
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  Speaker 7: and that's fine. No one likes paying taxes.
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  Speaker 16: No.
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  Speaker 7: I don't like paying taxes. Will doesn't like paying taxes.
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  Speaker 7: That said, this is one of those issues where it's
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  Speaker 7: a pretty critical time as far as public school funding goes.
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  Speaker 8: Without a doubt.
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  Speaker 7: Have you ever encountered a point in time where... there
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  Speaker 7: was this much work that was going into making sure
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  Speaker 7: that we can fund all the things that make our
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  Speaker 7: schools what we want them to be.
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  Speaker 10: I've served, I'm in my third year, actually unopposed going
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  Speaker 10: into the election. So this will be another three-year term
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  Speaker 10: since the beginning of participating on this board. The challenges
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  Speaker 10: have been present and very real. Minimal change to student
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  Speaker 10: allotment since 2019, underfunded mandates, inflation, rising cost of health insurance.
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  Speaker 10: All of these things have impacted schools across our state,
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  Speaker 10: school districts, and they're closing schools, reduction in force, cutting programs.
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  Speaker 10: And so before we wanted to put this in front
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  Speaker 10: of our community, we wanted to be get our house
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  Speaker 10: in order, leverage our attrition, align staffing with enrollment, sale
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  Speaker 10: of property, improve controls over spending, all these things to
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  Speaker 10: balance our budget and to present a balanced budget to
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  Speaker 10: our community so that they understand that as we come
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  Speaker 10: out and seek additional tax dollars, this is going to
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  Speaker 10: build us for the future. It's strengthening our district, and
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  Speaker 10: it's not intended to counter mistakes or areas that we
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  Speaker 10: need to improve.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of school districts that, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to say they were caught unprepared, but it
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  Speaker 1: was hard to prepare for what was coming with school choice.
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  Speaker 7: Very, very true.
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  Speaker 1: And so a lot of districts weren't ready to find
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  Speaker 1: themselves in a competitive environment. I want to congratulate and
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  Speaker 1: commend BISD, I think, was more prepared than most. Ran
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  Speaker 1: advertising here on our station, by the way. I thought
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  Speaker 1: that was key in preparing for that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 7: It's such a different... Yeah, you can call it unprecedented,
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  Speaker 7: because there's never been a time where... there's been competition
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  Speaker 7: between your school districts for the funding that they need
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  Speaker 7: to survive for the students. It's just, again, I would just,
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  Speaker 7: the reason I think it's important to come in and
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  Speaker 7: talk about this is because I understand the reaction that
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  Speaker 7: people have. If people didn't have this reaction, they wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: be yelling at you at high volumes about property tax
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  Speaker 7: and how much you hate They know it's a key.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone knows that.
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  Speaker 3: It's a trigger issue.
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  Speaker 7: Everyone is going to have to decide what is worth
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  Speaker 7: spending money on when it comes to your taxes. And
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  Speaker 7: everyone says it all the time. Elections have consequences. Right now,
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  Speaker 7: you're sitting on a pretty good thing with Brian ISD.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I want to go back to what you
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  Speaker 1: guys are actually asking for. That's a two cent. Is
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  Speaker 1: that per valuation or is it how does that two cent?
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  Speaker 7: How does it break down?
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  Speaker 10: It's two cents per $ 100 valuation. So if we took
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  Speaker 10: an average home value of $ 350, 000 with a homestead tax exemption,
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  Speaker 10: the annual increase equates to about $ 42 per year. So
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  Speaker 10: we don't influence property values in Bryan ISD. That's county appraisals.
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  Speaker 10: That's the state. And I don't think a lot of
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  Speaker 10: people know that our tax rate has decreased 36% since 2018.
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  Speaker 10: Our tax rate has continuously gone down over the last
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  Speaker 10: 10 years. And so two cents for us is a
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  Speaker 10: meaningful amount of funding to support what we're talking about,
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  Speaker 10: staff compensation, student programs, and safety and security.
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  Speaker 7: Y'all's bus is run on diesel.
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  Speaker 17: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 10: And I, you know... This is a very loose term,
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  Speaker 10: but I think on a daily basis, it costs about $ 25, 000
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  Speaker 10: to run our buses in Bryan ISD.
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  Speaker 7: That's what I wanted. The costs that are affecting everyone
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  Speaker 7: are absolutely going to affect you guys. Food, transportation, access
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  Speaker 7: to materials. Heck, if you're doing contracting work to repair
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  Speaker 7: a facility. building costs all these.
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  Speaker 1: All just daily operations of electrician and utility electrical and utilities.
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  Speaker 7: Does that suck yes you know what sucks worse getting
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  Speaker 7: a funding cut shoved down your throat every opportunity because
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  Speaker 7: it possibly is politically expedient for some people i hate
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  Speaker 7: it but uh this is one chance that we have
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  Speaker 7: to hopefully make a decision about you know, decide whether
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  Speaker 7: or not it's worth a couple extra.
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  Speaker 1: As long as you're making an educated decision.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: We're happy.
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  Speaker 7: That's all it takes. Consider it. That's what I should say.
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  Speaker 7: Consider it. Because again, anything else we're missing on this
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  Speaker 7: that we need to get to?
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  Speaker 10: No, I just, when you talk about competition, I think
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  Speaker 10: our view to look out and see what's happening at
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  Speaker 10: the state level in terms of school funding is We
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  Speaker 10: recognize that this is an opportunity to become stronger and
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  Speaker 10: more efficient, and so we rolled up our sleeves and
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  Speaker 10: did a significant amount of work over the last several
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  Speaker 10: years to do business better and educate our kids and Brian.
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  Speaker 7: I've got to say this. Y'all really are kind of
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  Speaker 7: a template. I would tell a lot of school districts
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  Speaker 7: to study what Brian ISD has done to offer value
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  Speaker 7: that has been created in the last couple of years.
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  Speaker 7: It's really extraordinary.
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  Speaker 10: We're getting stronger, and I know that success in Bryan
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  Speaker 10: ISD translates to growth and success in Bryan, Texas. And
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  Speaker 10: so it's an important initiative, and I'm incredibly optimistic about
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  Speaker 10: where we're headed for the future.
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  Speaker 13: Same, brother.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you for coming in today. We appreciate it. We
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  Speaker 7: are going to post this online. Please share it around. Again,
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  Speaker 7: it's going to be an issue that we want people
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  Speaker 7: going informed about. The last thing you want to see
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  Speaker 7: is someone surprised when they see that pop up and
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  Speaker 7: not know what they're picking. So yeah, share this. It'll
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  Speaker 7: be up online later today. We're back right after this.
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  Speaker 8: The charge?
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  Speaker 12: Child abuse for refusing to recognize their son as a girl.
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  Speaker 3: Sounds insane, right?
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  Speaker 16: Well, Gina Hinojosa supports the radical policy of taxpayers paying
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  Speaker 16: for sex change surgery for kids and the assault on
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  Speaker 16: parental rights. And Hinojosa believes schools should be able to
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  Speaker 16: transition children behind their parents' backs.
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  Speaker 3: But that's just the beginning.
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  Speaker 16: Gina Hinojosa supports allowing boys and girls sports and in
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  Speaker 16: their locker rooms. It's gross, unfair, and harmful to girls.
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  Speaker 20: I really don't understand how girls would be hurt by this.
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  Speaker 23: A threat to our little girls that doesn't exist.
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  Speaker 6: In 1845, the voters of the Republic of Texas approved
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  Speaker 6: an ordinance to accept annexation by a vote of 4,200 votes.
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  Speaker 7: Please welcome a couple of friends. We have Katrina N.
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  Speaker 7: from Aggieland Humane Society. Now, who did you bring with us?
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  Speaker 20: So I have Carly here with me today.
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  Speaker 7: Now, Carly is trying really hard to get over to me,
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  Speaker 7: but she's on a leash. But Carly is not up
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  Speaker 7: for adoption.
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  Speaker 15: No.
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  Speaker 4: So Carly is technically my mom's dog. And so I
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  Speaker 4: have her today. She is going to help pull a
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  Speaker 4: little scaredy dog.
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  Speaker 20: Out of his shell.
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  Speaker 4: Oh. And so, you know, sometimes it can really help
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  Speaker 4: other dogs when they're trying to socialize with humans to see...
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  Speaker 4: a really confident, easygoing dog interacting with people, you know,
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  Speaker 4: kind of monkey see, monkey do.
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  Speaker 20: So that's Carly's shop today.
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  Speaker 1: Carly's trying to interact with the garbage can over here,
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  Speaker 1: and that's my fault. I put a wrapper from my
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  Speaker 1: protein bar in there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, she may be 10 years old, but she
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  Speaker 4: still is going to tear up a trash can.
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  Speaker 1: Dogs are dogs. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 7: And that's the thing, though, is I really enjoy the
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  Speaker 7: fact of how much work you guys put in to
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  Speaker 7: try to enhance the lives of the animals that end
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  Speaker 7: up in your care. Because it's a hard thing. Shelters
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  Speaker 7: are not easy on dogs. I feel like you guys
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  Speaker 7: really go a long ways to try to keep them
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  Speaker 7: socialized and keep them in the right frame of mind.
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  Speaker 4: It's really the goal, you know, is to treat each
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  Speaker 4: pet like an individual and give them whatever it is
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  Speaker 4: that they need.
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  Speaker 20: You know, and some pets, they need... really not a lot.
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  Speaker 4: They just need to get spayed and neutered and then
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  Speaker 4: they're good to go out the door. Other pets need
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  Speaker 4: some TLC, you know, and they need play groups and
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  Speaker 4: they need to just get that really good one-on-one and
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  Speaker 4: maybe even foster care. And so, and the community is
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  Speaker 4: really who makes all that possible.
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  Speaker 7: So what are we talking about today?
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  Speaker 6: What do we got?
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  Speaker 4: So this Saturday, busy day, we are going to be
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  Speaker 4: at Sterling Subaru from 10 a.m.
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  Speaker 20: To 2 p.m.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, this is one of the adoption events.
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  Speaker 15: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: These are fun.
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  Speaker 20: It's really cool. We take over the entire showroom.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. And we are going to bring some really great
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  Speaker 4: dogs and some super cute puppies that are going to
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  Speaker 4: make their debut this Saturday.
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  Speaker 7: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 4: So there are these just like, I don't know, Heinz
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  Speaker 4: 57 little Texas road dog.
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  Speaker 20: You know, fluffy. I'm sure they're going to grow up
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  Speaker 20: to be like 50 ish pounds. Who knows?
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  Speaker 7: Holy cow.
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  Speaker 20: They look like little baby bear cubs. So cute.
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  Speaker 1: That's so hard to resist.
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  Speaker 13: I know.
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  Speaker 4: You'll have to come on Saturday to come and see
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  Speaker 4: them because, like I said, they're stowed away specifically to
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  Speaker 4: make their debut this Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to get a preview or if you
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  Speaker 1: can't make it out Saturday, do what I just did
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  Speaker 1: and go to angulanehumanesociety.org. And you can see pictures of
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  Speaker 1: corn dogs.
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  Speaker 20: Corn dog's amazing.
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  Speaker 1: Corn dog is, God, that face.
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  Speaker 7: What is corn dog?
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  Speaker 1: It's a black mouth cur retriever mix.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I love the BMCs.
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  Speaker 14: Yes.
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  Speaker 4: And corn dog just got treated for heartworm disease. So
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  Speaker 4: we are ready to start our new chapter in life.
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  Speaker 4: Can go home, I mean, today.
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  Speaker 18: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Corn dog. Somebody go get corn dog for me, please,
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  Speaker 1: before I do.
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  Speaker 7: Now, that is a Saturday Sterling Subaru. And obviously, you
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  Speaker 7: want to go check out all the available animals out there.
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  Speaker 7: What else we got?
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  Speaker 20: We're still doing the Halloween costume contest.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, we are.
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  Speaker 20: Carly is actually in fourth place. The last I checked.
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  Speaker 6: Carly!
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  Speaker 20: Look at you! The competition is really fierce.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of pets that are all
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  Speaker 4: just within, you know, a couple votes of each other.
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  Speaker 4: So it really, it still could be anyone's game. There
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  Speaker 4: is still time to sign up. It goes on now
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  Speaker 4: through October 31st. And again, really a great cause. All
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  Speaker 4: of the funds raised will go directly into Spey Neuter.
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  Speaker 20: And making it possible.
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  Speaker 4: For pets to have a better quality of life by
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  Speaker 4: being spayed and neutered.
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  Speaker 7: That's a great thing. That's a great thing. Anything else today?
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  Speaker 20: Those are big things. Thank you all.
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  Speaker 7: Aggielandhumane.org is the website. And, yeah, participate however you can.
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  Speaker 7: If you're looking to adopt, they obviously have a large
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  Speaker 7: selection for you. What was the story last week about
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  Speaker 7: the intake? Y'all had some crazy intake over like two days.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah, we had a total of 46 pets come in. 46?
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  Speaker 7: Yes.
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  Speaker 20: So, you know, we are what's.
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  Speaker 4: Considered in like the jargon and shelter terms, we are
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  Speaker 4: an open intake, municipally contracted nonprofit shelter. And so that
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  Speaker 4: means we have to take in the pets that come
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  Speaker 4: from animal control with Brazos County and the City of
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  Speaker 4: College Station.
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  Speaker 28: Right.
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  Speaker 20: So we'll have these days.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes where we just get, And it's like cat after
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  Speaker 4: cat after cat, litter of six kittens, five dogs.
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  Speaker 20: Like it is, it's nonstop. And a lot of these
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  Speaker 20: are just lost pets.
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  Speaker 4: Right. That either they weren't microchipped, didn't have their tag.
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  Speaker 4: And so it, yeah, these things happen. Fortunately, we got
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  Speaker 4: a lot of pets back home, which is amazing.
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  Speaker 20: That's the goal.
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  Speaker 7: Beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 20: And, you know, the stray hold is pretty quick.
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  Speaker 4: So if they don't go back home after that 72
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  Speaker 4: hour stray hold, then they're up for adoption.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 7: Well, this is why they need your support. So feel
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  Speaker 7: free to check them out online. Aggielandumain.org. Thank you so
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  Speaker 7: much for coming in.
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  Speaker 20: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. WTAW
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  Speaker 1: and the Bryan College Station Chamber of Commerce are hosting
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  Speaker 2: you know you have a warrant, starting October 12th and
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  Speaker 2: going until Friday, October 30th, if you come to court
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  Speaker 2: and take care of it, you can't just wave and
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  Speaker 2: run out, but if you come in and work with us,
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  Speaker 2: we'll waive the warrant fee, which has gone up. It's
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  Speaker 2: $ 75 per case, but most importantly, you'll avoid being arrested
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  Speaker 2: and arrested. The JP courts always cooperate with us, too,
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: and run it during the same time.
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  Speaker 1: You can check online to see if you have a
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  Speaker 1: warrant and how much the fines are at CSTX.gov. A
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: crash in Milam County claimed the life of a firefighter
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend.
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  Speaker 30: A single rollover crash in Milan County, about 70 miles
• 34:54
  Speaker 30: northeast of Austin, involving a Buchholz Fire Department vehicle. Investigators
• 34:59
  Speaker 30: say 26-year-old Rick Joseph Fuentes was responding to a call
• 35:03
  Speaker 30: when the vehicle left the roadway and crashed. That firefighter
• 35:06
  Speaker 30: Fuentes suffered fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
• 35:10
  Speaker 30: The crash remains under investigation. Jeff Manasso, Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: As part of Texas A & M' s sesquicentennial, the university
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: is hosting a speaker series called The second installment will
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: take place Wednesday morning with former Senator Phil Graham. He
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: will reflect on his journey from academia to public service,
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: sharing how a career grounded in scholarship, teaching and higher
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: education can evolve into one of national leadership and lasting
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: public impact. Graham was a Texas A & M economics
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: professor who went on to serve in both the U.S.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: House of Representatives and the United States Senate. Senator Graham
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: brings a unique perspective on leadership, public policy and civic engagement.
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  Speaker 1: His career illustrates the far-reaching influence of Aggies beyond the
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: classroom and reflects Texas A & M' s commitment to developing
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: principled leaders who shape communities and make a meaningful difference
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: in the world. The public is invited to attend and
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: will take place at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center tomorrow
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: morning at 930. It is free, but you will need
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: to reserve a seat. Visit grad.tamu.edu and scroll to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the page. The next speaker will be Arch Applin,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: the founder of Buc-ee's, on November 3rd. After being out
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: nine days sick, U.S. Senate candidate James Tallarico returned to
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the campaign over the weekend. He made public appearances in
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Austin and in Dallas.
• 36:32
  Speaker 34: James Tallarico is in a neck-and-neck race with Ken Paxton
• 36:35
  Speaker 34: for U.S. Senate. While there's been some speculation on why
• 36:38
  Speaker 34: Tallarico was out, he tells NBC5 it was simply a
• 36:42
  Speaker 34: case of the flu.
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  Speaker 26: So I was in bed and, you know, drinking lots
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  Speaker 26: of liquids.
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  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the campaign made me work.
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  Speaker 3: From home, so I didn't even get full days off.
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  Speaker 30: But, you know, didn't want to be out on the
• 36:51
  Speaker 30: trail and didn't want to get anyone else sick.
• 36:53
  Speaker 34: Paxton telling Fox News he's surprised Tallarico was away from
• 36:56
  Speaker 34: the campaign, even if it was the flu. Paxton then
• 36:59
  Speaker 34: was asked about trailing Tallarico in the polls.
• 37:02
  Speaker 35: We were behind because we had a three-month runoff, and
• 37:05
  Speaker 35: he had three months to go out to California and
• 37:07
  Speaker 35: New York and raise his money, which he's been doing.
• 37:09
  Speaker 34: He did it just before he disappeared. Early voting for
• 37:12
  Speaker 34: the midterm election gets underway a week from today. Russell Scott,
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  Speaker 34: TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Tallarico first appeared in the crowd at the Austin City
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Limits Festival on Friday, then a Casey Musgraves concert in
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Dallas on Saturday. He will be part of a CNN
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: town hall from Dallas on Wednesday. Governor Abbott was in
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: North Texas last week where he pointed to the recent
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: trips President Trump has made to the Lone Star State,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: saying having him visit only boosts his reelection.
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  Speaker 5: For one, he made clear early on that he was
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: going to be in Texas a whole lot. This goes
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: back to the springtime. Second, wherever he shows up, he
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: really causes Republicans and others. to be very enthusiastic about
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: going to vote. We always see an increase in the
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: desire of Republicans and others to go vote whenever he
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: shows up.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: This comes after Texas Attorney General and Republican U.S. Senate
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: nominee Ken Paxton said Trump's GOP convention in Dallas last
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: month hurt his campaign. Early voting for the midterms starts
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: on October 19th. More news throughout the day or anytime
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 35: Every game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of
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  Speaker 35: all briskets. The greatest of all cornhole shots. The greatest
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  Speaker 35: of all cooler holes. But the Toyota trucks that carry
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  Speaker 35: the whole tailgate, now that's the real goat.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, buddy.
• 39:09
  Speaker 35: Not everything's about you.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 28: You're pretty great, too.
• 39:13
  Speaker 35: Score a great deal on the Tundra and Tacoma at
• 39:16
  Speaker 35: the Toyota Trucks game day sales event. But hurry, these
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  Speaker 35: deals won't last forever.
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  Speaker 1: Toyota, let's go places.
• 39:22
  Speaker 35: See packages and options at toyota.com for feature availability. Every
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  Speaker 35: game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of all briskets.
• 39:30
  Speaker 35: the greatest of all cornhole shots the greatest of all
• 39:33
  Speaker 35: cooler holes but the toyota trucks that carry the whole
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  Speaker 35: tailgate now that's the real goat sorry buddy not everything's
• 39:40
  Speaker 35: about you okay fine you're pretty great too score a
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  Speaker 35: great deal on the tundra in tacoma at the toyota
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  Speaker 35: trucks game day sales event but hurry these deals won't
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  Speaker 35: last forever toyota let's go places see packages and options
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  Speaker 35: at toyota.com for feature availability Charles Schwartner has a record
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  Speaker 35: of fighting for Texas and delivering results.
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  Speaker 28: He took on human traffickers and protected our kids. He
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  Speaker 28: passed safeguards against dangerous uses of AI, and he fought
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  Speaker 28: for Texas energy production to bring down prices at the
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  Speaker 28: pump and cut costs for small businesses. These aren't promises.
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  Speaker 28: They're results that make a difference for Texas families.
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  Speaker 7: Deal with the heat. It will eventually subside. Hopefully by Thursday, Friday,
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  Speaker 7: somewhere around there.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, shelter in place.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, please do. 90s for highs today. It's going to
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  Speaker 7: feel like in the 100s. and it's not going to
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  Speaker 8: Just waiting for the weekend.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, dude. Very fruitful hour of interviews today. And you're
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  Speaker 7: the main event, my friend.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm served up. Sometimes that's not a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: That dog was pretty cute.
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: Well, there's a lot to discuss because tonight is the
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  Speaker 7: first Candidates Forum. Traditionally, one of the best events you
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: can go to to get prepared.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It is the event to go to.
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: It really is. And I would say pregame for it
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: by jumping over to WTAW.com and listen to some of
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: the candidate conversations, kind of get prepared, because that's been
• 41:43
  Speaker 7: an amazing thing. And that's been getting a ton of
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: traffic through it, because I think a lot of people
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: are very invested in trying to figure out, where do
• 41:52
  Speaker 7: I go on some of these local races, some of
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: these state races, right? But even if you don't have
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: time to pregame and you just want to get the
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: speed round version, you cannot do better than this event
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: coming up tonight.
• 42:04
  Speaker 36: Yeah, and if you're there, then you can fill out
• 42:06
  Speaker 36: your questions. You're going to submit them in to Scott DeLucia.
• 42:10
  Speaker 36: And as you guys know, he just does such a
• 42:12
  Speaker 36: fantastic job of drawing out. They don't just ask a
• 42:17
  Speaker 36: question and then answer something else. Scott will make his
• 42:20
  Speaker 36: questions be answered. He'll draw out their thoughts, their positions,
• 42:24
  Speaker 36: and then we believe in letting the audience themselves.
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: You can decide. You hear that, and then you make
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: your decision when you go in.
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: I genuinely did. I would listen to these when I
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: was not in town. I was in San Antonio and
• 42:37
  Speaker 7: Houston because you just don't get as substantial a look
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: into a candidate in the amount of time that you're
• 42:45
  Speaker 7: talking about. Like two hours, you will absolutely know who
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: everybody is by the time you walk out of there.
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and they're up on the stage. But when they're
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: not on the stage, they're out in the audience.
• 42:56
  Speaker 10: Yes, they are.
• 42:56
  Speaker 36: So you can walk right up and shake their hand
• 42:58
  Speaker 36: and talk to them in person also.
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: Now, when do they need to show up? Where do
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: they need to show up?
• 43:03
  Speaker 36: 6 to 8 o'clock. I say 8-ish because sometimes we've
• 43:06
  Speaker 36: gone to 8-15. But 6 o'clock at the Brazos Center.
• 43:09
  Speaker 36: Absolutely free to attend. Come in there, write your questions down,
• 43:13
  Speaker 36: or just come and listen to the questions Scott asked
• 43:15
  Speaker 36: because when you leave there, you'll have a much better
• 43:18
  Speaker 36: idea of where everyone stands on the issues, on the
• 43:21
  Speaker 36: local issues.
• 43:22
  Speaker 7: Also, if you cannot make it out, all good. We
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: will obviously be broadcasting it live WTAW. streaming it on WTAW.com,
• 43:31
  Speaker 7: and it will also be posted as a podcast on
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: the Candidate Conversations feed coming up probably tomorrow morning. So
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: you have a lot of options to check out.
• 43:40
  Speaker 36: Yeah, and as you guys know, I mean, we're doing
• 43:42
  Speaker 36: 10 races this year, but there's more than 10 races.
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, there are.
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: There are a lot more than 10 races on the ballot.
• 43:47
  Speaker 36: So, Scott, also, if the people that do not make
• 43:50
  Speaker 36: our candidates form, some of the other races that may
• 43:53
  Speaker 36: or may not affect our businesses as much as these,
• 43:56
  Speaker 36: Scott interviews those guys and has them on their long
• 43:58
  Speaker 36: form interview also on the radio station.
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  Speaker 7: It's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely.
• 44:04
  Speaker 7: I look forward to seeing a lot of you guys
• 44:05
  Speaker 7: out there. What else we got?
• 44:06
  Speaker 36: Well, after we get done with that, our next event
• 44:08
  Speaker 36: is going to be our new member orientation sponsored by
• 44:11
  Speaker 36: ABC Home and Commercial Services.
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: And that's something we do every quarter.
• 44:14
  Speaker 36: If you're a brand new member, if you're a prospective member,
• 44:17
  Speaker 36: if you're a member that has been around a while
• 44:19
  Speaker 36: and just doesn't really know exactly what all we do,
• 44:21
  Speaker 36: You can come out to Cooper's Old Time Pit Barbecue,
• 44:25
  Speaker 36: 12 to 2, October the 26th.
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: That's a Monday.
• 44:27
  Speaker 36: Free to attend, but let us know that you're coming.
• 44:30
  Speaker 36: Come on out there, and then we've got about an
• 44:32
  Speaker 36: hour to eat and about an hour to talk. We'll
• 44:34
  Speaker 36: let you know, or we'll touch on, because we do
• 44:37
  Speaker 36: a lot of stuff at the Chamber, everything that we do.
• 44:39
  Speaker 36: And maybe you can find a place to get plugged
• 44:41
  Speaker 36: in or just learn a little bit more about what's
• 44:43
  Speaker 36: going on in the Chamber world. Then if you, after,
• 44:48
  Speaker 36: actually the very next day, on Tuesday the 27th, 6
• 44:51
  Speaker 36: to 830 at the Brazos Center, the Community Small Business Forum.
• 44:56
  Speaker 36: That's put on by our Community Outreach Committee for Minority
• 45:00
  Speaker 36: Small Businesses. So these are minority businesses and small businesses.
• 45:03
  Speaker 36: If you are a brand new business, you're thinking about
• 45:06
  Speaker 36: being a business, you want to learn what you need
• 45:08
  Speaker 36: to do as a business owner, there'll be sessions on advertising,
• 45:13
  Speaker 36: legal issues, banking, all the different things that you might
• 45:16
  Speaker 36: need to know. There'll be people there you can talk
• 45:18
  Speaker 36: to that can help you out and help you plan
• 45:20
  Speaker 36: to be successful.
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: Love it.
• 45:22
  Speaker 36: And once again, free to attend. And gosh, a string
• 45:26
  Speaker 36: of free to attend events. Our next one, Business After Hours.
• 45:28
  Speaker 36: We had a great one at Hilton Garden Inn. The
• 45:31
  Speaker 36: next one is that very close to you guys. First
• 45:33
  Speaker 36: Financial Bank, October the 29th. That will be 530 to 7.
• 45:38
  Speaker 36: We'd love to see everybody out there.
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: Is it going to be spooky since you're doing it
• 45:42
  Speaker 7: so Halloween?
• 45:42
  Speaker 8: I imagine it will be, but only if you have
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: to apply for a loan. But not with these guys.
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: Not with these guys.
• 45:48
  Speaker 7: They'll make it very easy for you. They'll give you
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  Speaker 7: a great deal.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: What costume are you wearing?
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: They probably give out the good candy. I'm going to
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: come as the rabbit man.
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: Okay. Tony the rabbit.
• 45:58
  Speaker 7: Dude, that would be epic.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: That's an underground Halloween costume this year.
• 46:02
  Speaker 7: Underrated. The ones that need to get the reference will
• 46:05
  Speaker 7: get the reference.
• 46:07
  Speaker 36: If you're one of the cool guys or gals, you
• 46:10
  Speaker 36: listen to the Infomaniacs. Then a lot of people tell me,
• 46:14
  Speaker 36: and this is more and more that they hear about
• 46:16
  Speaker 36: our ribbon cuttings on WTW and the Infomaniacs.
• 46:19
  Speaker 7: Love to see it.
• 46:21
  Speaker 36: Get your pin out because we've got a slew coming
• 46:23
  Speaker 36: up as the weather gets nice. We have one today,
• 46:26
  Speaker 36: River of Life Chiropractic. 1130 to 12 at Park Mill Circle.
• 46:30
  Speaker 36: Love to see you out there in just a little while.
• 46:33
  Speaker 36: Then tomorrow, Caring Transitions of Brazos Valley, 430 to 5.
• 46:38
  Speaker 36: That's at the Parker Astin building downtown. Then we have
• 46:40
  Speaker 36: Deluxe Ribbon Cutting on Thursday, Bright Star Care.
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: That's 430 to 530 on Main Street in Bryan.
• 46:46
  Speaker 36: Friday, there's Kerr Surveying, 1 to 2 o'clock on their
• 46:49
  Speaker 36: broadcast location.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 46:52
  Speaker 36: And then Deluxe River Cuttings next week, Buck Realty Group, 4.30
• 46:56
  Speaker 36: to 5.30. And then Hutton Distribution, the other half of
• 47:00
  Speaker 36: the new Hutton buildings south of town, that's going to
• 47:04
  Speaker 36: be on the 22nd, as I said, 12.30 to 1.30.
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: A lot of things coming up.
• 47:08
  Speaker 7: Is the Bach Realty one going to deal with the
• 47:11
  Speaker 7: game day suites? I need to know. It feels like
• 47:13
  Speaker 7: it might be dealing with the groundbreaking for the game
• 47:16
  Speaker 7: day suites.
• 47:16
  Speaker 8: We might have to have a live remote. You guys
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: may have to show up. Hey, we'll do anything for money.
• 47:21
  Speaker 7: I'll move some dirt with Gabe.
• 47:23
  Speaker 37: I don't care.
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: Yeah, holler at us. I'd love to check that out.
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: Well, we'd love to see you and all.
• 47:28
  Speaker 36: The listeners coming out because all the ribbon cuttings are
• 47:30
  Speaker 36: free to attend and help us celebrate new businesses and new,
• 47:35
  Speaker 36: sometimes there's just new products, new game day events that
• 47:40
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  Speaker 27: AI, big tech, and online predators are creating new threats
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  Speaker 27: for our children every day. As a father, Paul Dyson
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  Speaker 27: knows how dangerous these platforms can be. That's why he
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  Speaker 27: passed a law stopping big tech and predators from targeting
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  Speaker 27: Texas children. And he passed legislation blocking AI from being
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  Speaker 27: Dyson is protecting our kids and keeping Texas strong and safe.
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  Speaker 17: Sale time at Capstone Auction Partners. Whether you're cleaning up
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  Speaker 17: the farm, making room in the yard, or turning unused
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  Speaker 17: equipment into cash before year end, now is the time
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  Speaker 11: Howdy, I'm Bob Yancey, proud Aggie grad and Air Force veteran,
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  Speaker 11: two-term councilman, and candidate for College Station Mayor. If you
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  Speaker 11: I hope you'll consider a vote for me, Bob Yancey.
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  Speaker 11: I'll hold the line on taxes and spending, welcome smart
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  Speaker 7: Would you walk through a cemetery without a flashlight or
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