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The Infomaniacs: September 16th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: Bryan City Council met last night. Council awarded an economic
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  Speaker 1: development grant in the amount of $ 350, 000 for renovations and
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  Speaker 1: rehab at the Bryan Hotel and the Ryan Building. The
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  Speaker 1: city has been hoping the space would be redeveloped for
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  Speaker 1: more than a decade.
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  Speaker 2: The seller of the property. This property was not for sale.
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  Speaker 2: He holds on tightly to his properties. Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: And we have, I guess, wore him down over 12
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  Speaker 2: years to finally give us this opportunity. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you guys know what the market is right now. It's
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  Speaker 2: a scary time to bite off on a big project,
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  Speaker 2: but we feel like it is mission critical. Everything that
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  Speaker 2: we do in downtown Bryan is because we love it
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  Speaker 2: and we want it to be amazing.
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  Speaker 1: That was Katie Williams, senior planner for the city of Bryan.
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  Speaker 1: The buildings will be transformed into lofts and spaces to
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  Speaker 1: generate food traffic. The Brazos County Commissioner's Court also met yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: There were a significant number of final plots approved. We
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  Speaker 1: hope that means new home construction in Milliken Reserve and
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  Speaker 1: Southern Point, plus a new subdivision in Bryan called Whispering
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  Speaker 1: Willows Estates near Old Reliance and Mirka Road. A teen
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  Speaker 1: already behind bars is facing more charges. Bryan Police delivered
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  Speaker 1: two arrest warrants for deadly conduct to a juvenile who
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  Speaker 1: is already in the custody of the Brazos County Juvenile
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  Speaker 1: Detention Center on a probation violation. BPD says the teen
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  Speaker 1: fired shots in the area of West 24th and Brazos
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  Speaker 1: Streets on August 19th. The bullet struck a home and
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  Speaker 1: a vehicle. No injuries were reported. The case is unrelated
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  Speaker 1: to the West 17th Street homicide. College Station Police are
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  Speaker 1: crediting flock cameras with help in apprehending an individual wanted
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  Speaker 1: on felony narcotics warrants. They received a hit on a
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  Speaker 1: vehicle associated with 21-year-old Maki Hammond Tuesday afternoon. Officers located
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  Speaker 1: Hammond inside the vehicle at an apartment complex on Harvey Road.
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  Speaker 1: Hammond was taken into custody on his outstanding warrants for
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  Speaker 1: possession of marijuana and two counts of manufacture and delivery
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  Speaker 1: of a controlled substance. Hammond was found with marijuana during
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  Speaker 1: the arrest and has a new charge of possession. He
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  Speaker 1: is being held in the Brazos County Jail on $ 177, 000 bond.
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  Speaker 1: This is Hammond's 11th booking into the jail. His previous
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  Speaker 1: charges include possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia, theft
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  Speaker 1: of a firearm, disorderly conduct, failure to identify, resisting arrest,
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  Speaker 1: and public intoxication of a minor. A teenager was arrested
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  Speaker 1: Monday after damaging two flock cameras in College Station. Police
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  Speaker 1: say 19-year-old Luke Cordray damaged two cameras near Welburn Road
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  Speaker 1: and Greens Prairie Road on August 28th. He cut the
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  Speaker 1: cameras wiring, draped them with U.S. flags, and placed anti-flock
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  Speaker 1: signs in the ground next to each camera. Those signs
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  Speaker 1: led to Cordray's arrest. They say they tracked barcodes on
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  Speaker 1: the stakes to Lowe's. Their inventory system showed a recent
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  Speaker 1: purchase of a bundle of those stakes and two flags.
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  Speaker 1: The teen's license plate was captured in the parking lot,
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  Speaker 1: and ironically, flock cameras were able to track his movements
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  Speaker 1: and placed him in the area at the time of
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  Speaker 1: the damage. The estimated cost of repairs is $ 400 per camera.
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  Speaker 1: Cordray was charged with criminal mischief involving damages between $ 750
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  Speaker 1: and $ 2, 500. He was released on $ 5, 000 bond. More news
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  Speaker 1: ahead at 7.30 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, guys.
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  Speaker 9: Infomaniacs, it's Wednesday. It's going to be hot, 98 for
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  Speaker 9: your high, 108 for the feels-like temperature today, which is
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  Speaker 9: Adam took us up on that and sends in the following,
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  Speaker 9: which could be good news.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe.
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  Speaker 9: He says the birds have descended on HEB on Fitch.
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  Speaker 9: This means cooler weather is coming, right? At least that's
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  Speaker 9: what I'm telling myself. That's something to look forward to.
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  Speaker 9: And sure enough, he sends a picture to.
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  Speaker 1: We always... We always love proof. Very Alfred Hitchcock. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I don't know that I've, and maybe I just don't notice.
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  Speaker 9: Have you ever seen a bird invasion at an HEB?
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  Speaker 1: Not at the HEB. The bird invasions were typically, historically, Kroger.
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  Speaker 1: Bird invasions. Rock Prairie Kroger. That's a Kroger problem. Why
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  Speaker 1: do we have birds at the HEB all of a sudden?
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, climate change.
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  Speaker 9: Is that what it is?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say it's climate change.
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  Speaker 9: It's making them all askew?
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  Speaker 1: It has moved them a half mile south.
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  Speaker 9: See, that's how it goes, dude.
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  Speaker 1: Little changes. But if it was climate change, wouldn't they
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  Speaker 1: be moving north? I don't know. Does it mean cold weather?
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  Speaker 1: It does not necessarily mean cold weather. According to what
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  Speaker 1: I have researched, it looks like it could mean a
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  Speaker 1: change in weather.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 1: A seasonal type of change. Okay. They are very sensitive
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  Speaker 1: as well to the barometric pressure. All right. So it
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  Speaker 1: could be an impending front. I don't know.
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  Speaker 9: I'll take that as a maybe, Adam. Thank you for
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  Speaker 9: submitting that. And you should listen to Will when he
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  Speaker 9: talks about animals because this fool knows way more than
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  Speaker 9: you guys are giving.
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  Speaker 1: Him credit for.
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  Speaker 9: I'm going to post the pictures you shared to the
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  Speaker 9: WTAW Facebook page. Will texted me these two images simply with, well,
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  Speaker 9: this just happened. I will describe these images to you. Actually,
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  Speaker 9: I only need to describe one. It is a fence.
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  Speaker 1: Very nice fence, by the way. Thank you. I like it.
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  Speaker 9: It's the kind of slatted steel thing. It's great preserved scenery,
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  Speaker 9: all that.
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  Speaker 1: Very, very, very nice.
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  Speaker 9: In this fence, all I see is the butt of
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  Speaker 9: a deer. And sure enough, on the other side of
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  Speaker 9: the fence, there is the head and torso of a deer,
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  Speaker 9: meaning a deer somehow... jammed itself into your metal fence
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  Speaker 9: yesterday it did it was you want to explain how
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  Speaker 9: this happened.
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  Speaker 1: So i was down at smokehouse studio down at the
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  Speaker 1: bnb and i was working on some voiceover stuff and
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  Speaker 1: i came outside to commune with nature and outside there
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  Speaker 1: were five deer in the yard Three of them jumped
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  Speaker 1: the fence, leaving two, which are... This is the typical
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  Speaker 1: little doe herd that hangs around in my place. That's
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  Speaker 1: a pretty high fence, man. It's not that high. It's
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  Speaker 1: about four, four and a half feet, maybe. It's not
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  Speaker 1: that high. Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 9: And this is a little baby. Still got spots.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, these were two fawns. These are twins that were
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  Speaker 1: on my place out there. Okay. And so two of
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  Speaker 1: them could not jump the fence and ran around the
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  Speaker 1: side of the house. So I went and opened up
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  Speaker 1: the largest of the gates... And I started walking back
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  Speaker 1: around the other side of the house thinking that I
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  Speaker 1: could herd them back gently towards where the opening was created. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I get you. And as per every dealing with animals
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  Speaker 1: and especially wildlife, it does not go as planned. So
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  Speaker 1: they split. One of them goes over the fence and
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  Speaker 1: the other one cam scataboos right into. Lead with your face, dear.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, right between. Lead with your face.
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  Speaker 9: When in doubt, hit something.
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  Speaker 1: Gets right up to the hips and then the hips
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  Speaker 1: ain't going through. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: I was actually terrified of what I was going to
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  Speaker 9: get back when I said, hey, were you able to
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  Speaker 9: free the deer? I thought you might have. Dude, this
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  Speaker 9: thing is jammed.
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  Speaker 1: In your fence. It's stuck, yeah. So I immediately start
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  Speaker 1: working the problem. I'm thinking, okay, how can I extradite
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  Speaker 1: this little fawn here? And I went, okay, I can
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  Speaker 1: perhaps pry. Went and got a shovel, long-handled shovel. Angle
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  Speaker 1: wasn't right to pry.
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  Speaker 9: What is the deer doing while you're coming at it
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  Speaker 9: with a shovel?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, when you get close, it freaks a little, right?
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  Speaker 1: So I was actually testing it just down from the deer. Smart, smart, smart.
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: So I was not right on top of it with
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  Speaker 1: a shovel. That wasn't going to work. I also looked
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  Speaker 1: at how I could disconnect it. I was trying to
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  Speaker 1: think to myself, okay, in case I need it, where
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  Speaker 1: is my tools so I can cut through it? And then, okay,
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  Speaker 1: think about this a little more. You're going to need
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  Speaker 1: some help. So I texted, well, I called my Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Major neighbor. Oh, okay. Yeah. Call a pro?
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Sergeant Major looks down the road from me. Sergeant
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  Speaker 1: Major's a good guy to have around.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Major looks just like he sounds. Sergeant Major's about
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  Speaker 1: five foot high and five foot wide. Oh, Lord. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he is Sergeant Major, right?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So Sergeant Major comes tooling down, and I get the
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  Speaker 1: deer by the hind legs, and I get my hand
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  Speaker 1: underneath its chest.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And essentially, I pick it up to the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the bars where it's more flexible. Right. Where Sergeant Major...
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  Speaker 1: Gets in there and stretches them just enough. He just
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  Speaker 1: hulks it? He just Popeye'd it just enough.
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  Speaker 9: Just Popeye'd it?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they weren't bent, but he was able to just
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  Speaker 1: move them enough that I was able to slide the
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  Speaker 1: rib cage and shoulders through back my direction and examine
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  Speaker 1: the deer a little bit. A little scuff set her
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  Speaker 1: kind of on the ground. She was actually pretty calm
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  Speaker 1: at that point and got up and ran off. She was...
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  Speaker 1: Pretty scuffed up. I've seen deer survive much, much worse.
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  Speaker 9: That is bonkers.
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  Speaker 1: That is wild. I was really disappointed, though, Tucker, because
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  Speaker 1: I expected immediately afterwards for small birds to land on
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  Speaker 1: my shoulders.
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  Speaker 13: That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: For squirrels to come up and applaud.
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  Speaker 9: No appreciation for the animal kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: The roadrunners that live down there, none of them. None
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 9: No one cared. It was just like, well, yeah, see
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  Speaker 9: you later, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was led by all the Disney cartoons of
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  Speaker 1: my youth to believe that if that happened... That would
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  Speaker 1: be the aftermath.
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  Speaker 9: I was led to believe that deer is now your
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  Speaker 9: deer for life.
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  Speaker 1: It may be. It may be. Very cool. The twin
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  Speaker 1: would not go too far off. It was just inside
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  Speaker 1: the tree line, not far from me. And mama was
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  Speaker 1: just on the other side of that. They would not
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  Speaker 1: run off. They waited for.
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  Speaker 9: You to resolve the situation.
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  Speaker 1: And they were a little frantic at first. But once
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  Speaker 1: the little baby, little doe got out there, out of
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  Speaker 1: the yard, I think all was well. I'm waiting for
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  Speaker 1: my karma, please.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 9: Snow White right here, man. Friend of all creation. Be
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  Speaker 9: back right after this.
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  Speaker 1: State government. Nice try, but no.
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  Speaker 14: Local governments.
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  Speaker 15: Correct.
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  Speaker 1: And we have a winner.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Governor Greg Abbott on his plan to control property taxes.
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  Speaker 16: The state of Texas does not impose a property tax.
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  Speaker 16: Only local governments impose property taxes. One of the reasons
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  Speaker 16: why your property taxes are going up is because local
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  Speaker 16: governments are increasing their spending. So the first thing we
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  Speaker 16: whether or not your property taxes go up. It should
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  Speaker 16: be a vote that requires two-thirds vote before any property
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  Speaker 16: tax increase can ever be imposed on our fellow Texans.
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  Speaker 9: 1620-945-WTAW. It's the Infomaniacs, Tucker and Snow White over here
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  Speaker 9: just saving deer left and right. I mean, I'm impressed, man.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 9: Usually when we talk about you and animals, it's like
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  Speaker 9: your truck.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, or they're on my pit or something like that. Exactly, exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But you took the time to save a baby deer. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it would probably be bad for my ratings
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  Speaker 1: if I left a deer carcass in the fence this weekend.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: My next guest showed.
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  Speaker 9: Up at the B & B. WTAW, you're on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning. What do you have for us today?
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  Speaker 18: Good morning, guys. Morning. Will, I just wanted to put
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  Speaker 18: something on your radar. Since the woodland creatures did not
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  Speaker 18: give you your Disney Snow White reward for saving the fawn,
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  Speaker 18: I might be a little wary when you go to
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  Speaker 18: sleep tonight because you might be awakened by the sweet
• 16:39
  Speaker 18: kiss of a prince instead.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Lord have mercy. We don't want to get all Disney
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: confused here, all right? I would rather just skip the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: animals and the karma. Let's just, life will go on.
• 16:56
  Speaker 9: Life will go on. Thank you for the call, sir.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you had to get it done. It was
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: just one of those things that you look at and
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: you go, okay, this is a problem. It needs to
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: be solved quickly. And so, therefore, how can I get
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: this done in a manner that's not going to harm
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: the animal? And you just do it. You just do it.
• 17:17
  Speaker 9: I absolutely love to see it. I did want to
• 17:21
  Speaker 9: talk about the... I'm confused about this. Walk me through
• 17:25
  Speaker 9: this driver's license thing. Because... I've always thought when you
• 17:29
  Speaker 9: get a driver's license, it's a pretty cut-and-dry thing. It
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: is a pretty cut.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Generally speaking, it is a million cuts and a whole
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: lot of dry when you're getting a driver's license. And
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: then you get the ID. Yeah, it takes forever to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: do that. You've got to have all the paperwork and this, that,
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: or the other. Apparently, in a community in, I believe
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: it was in Michigan, 8,000 residents who recently applied for
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: a new driver's license, their ID had a photo of
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: somebody else on it. And they also had the same
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: birth date of January 12, 1967. Okay. It reminds me
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of when we made fake IDs in college.
• 18:11
  Speaker 9: See, this is what I was going to ask. Is
• 18:13
  Speaker 9: this just the biggest goldmine ever for the fake ID industry?
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, fake IDs, like when I
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: was a kid, were easily done, number one. And number two,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: there were not hardcore federal charges involved. For, you know,
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: faking an ID.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: So.
• 18:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: So legitimately, we had we had this board that you
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: stood in front of and you just changed the letters. Right.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: And the A.V. department. Wow, you were pretty in a system.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: And then you would take a picture in front of it.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: You'd change the letters. The next guy would come up.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: And then eventually down the line after about eight or
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: ten of them, you just forgot to change the letters
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: and everybody had the same address and phone number. That's interesting.
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: Or address and birthday.
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: And I'm interested, again, like, look, text us.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: We won't use names for this.
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: But I feel like for most of us, the statute
• 19:00
  Speaker 9: of limitations has expired.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's why I'm willing to talk about that.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:04
  Speaker 9: What was your strategy with fake IDs? Because mine wasn't that.
• 19:07
  Speaker 9: Mine was just you found someone who would kick you
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: down theirs, and then you assumed their identity once they
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: got a new idea. Now, the trick was you had
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: to find people that you looked like. So you kind
• 19:23
  Speaker 9: of eyeballed your doppelgangers around the community.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Older cousins were big in my wife's family.
• 19:29
  Speaker 9: Older cousins were fantastic.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Fantastic. I didn't have a.
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: Lot of them, though, so it was kind of tricky.
• 19:35
  Speaker 9: But what was your strategy, if you don't mind sharing
• 19:39
  Speaker 9: with us?
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'd like to hear it. Ours was very simple,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: but it was very effective. I remember I gave mine
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: when I turned 21 years old. I gave it to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the owner of Ship and Shore Liquor just outside of
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Hot Springs.
• 19:49
  Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Was like, Rocky, all these years you've known me as so-and-so.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: You retired it. I retired it.
• 19:53
  Speaker 15: Wow.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Retired it. Nowadays, though, it's big business.
• 19:57
  Speaker 9: That's what I was going to ask you. I am
• 19:59
  Speaker 9: now so far removed. I don't have kids. I don't
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: have teens, for sure. I have no clue if it's
• 20:05
  Speaker 9: still a big deal. It's still a big industry to.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Get fake IDs. It's a huge, huge deal. I'm not
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: so sure about here, but I can tell you that
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: my daughter's experiences over in Oxford, Mississippi, everybody has at
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: least one. Really? At least one.
• 20:20
  Speaker 9: Why do you need at least?
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: At least.
• 20:23
  Speaker 9: What's the purpose? Just in case you lose the one?
• 20:26
  Speaker 9: Or do certain work better at certain locations?
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Certain ones work better at certain locations. Some of them
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: will scan. I mean, these guys have gotten high tech
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 20:36
  Speaker 9: I'm not trying to vote with it, Will. I just
• 20:38
  Speaker 9: need to buy a six or a Milwaukee best.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: And over there, they're just trying to get in the bars, right? Oh,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: that's crazy. And I tell my daughter all the time,
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I'm like, look, just do not do this. Today, in
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: today's time, that's, I mean, you could get a serious,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: serious trouble.
• 20:52
  Speaker 9: Yeah, now is not the time to be in the
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: production of fake ID business.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And I tell all of her friends, I'm like, look,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: if you get, if somebody comes up, law enforcement comes
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: up and asks for your ID, do not hand them
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the fake one.
• 21:03
  Speaker 20: Right.
• 21:05
  Speaker 9: If law enforcement asks for the ID, you're done.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: You're cooked. Give them all the cooperation.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Oh, yeah. You got me.
• 21:16
  Speaker 9: It is far better.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: It's far better to spend a night in jail than
• 21:20
  Speaker 9: have them realize you have forged a federal document. Yeah.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't want homeland security coming down on
• 21:27
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW Newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Tuesday
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: was a busy day in local government. Both the Brazos
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: County Commissioner's Court and the Bryan City Council met yesterday.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Commissioner Fred Brown had concerns about contracting with a grant
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  Speaker 1: writer out of state.
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  Speaker 24: And for the last several years, we've used a local
• 28:29
  Speaker 24: grant writer. that has brought millions of dollars worth of
• 28:32
  Speaker 24: business into Brazos County, and we pay him $ 48, 000 a year.
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  Speaker 24: And now, again, we're asking to take a company in Illinois,
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  Speaker 24: which we would just be a phone number to them,
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  Speaker 24: and pay them double.
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Chuck Condola said there were problems last time they
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: used a writer who was not local.
• 28:53
  Speaker 25: Obviously, like Fred said, there's a big price difference there
• 28:55
  Speaker 25: for local versus out of town. Our experience when I
• 28:59
  Speaker 25: first came on to Commissioner's Court was that we had
• 29:03
  Speaker 25: an out-of-town writer who was sending us responses for grants
• 29:08
  Speaker 25: that had closed already that wasn't timely in its responses.
• 29:14
  Speaker 25: And the local grant writer with a phone call was
• 29:17
  Speaker 25: able to jump on things a little quicker. At least
• 29:19
  Speaker 25: that was my experience.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Contracts are awarded on a point system, and commissioners questioned
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: if the current system is the most effective. As we
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: understand from the court's comments, the current holder of the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: contract hand wrote his proposal as was specified in the
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: RFP and was in turn docked points for actually complying
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: with their request. Commissioners also suggested that points be added
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: in cases where someone has a track record of success
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: under current contracts. The Bryan City Council met last night.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Among their business was the city's tax rate. They adopted
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: the tax rate of 62.4 cents per $ 100 of a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: home's value. The consent agenda approved just over $ 5 million
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: in spending. Some of those monies will be spent on
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: new vehicles, vehicle expenses, and tree trimming and landscaping. Just
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: over $ 3 million is being allocated to Destination Bryan. Council
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: also paved the way for redevelopment of an adjacent building
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: on Main Street. They approved an economic development grant in
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the amount of $ 350, 000 for renovations and rehab for the
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Bryan Hotel and Ryan Building. The upper floors will become
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: residential lofts and are expected to be available in late 2028.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: The ground floors will become flexible micro-business spaces and three-
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: to five-year leases to generate food traffic and sales taxes.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: should be completed by the end of 2030. College Station
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Police are crediting flock cameras with assisting in the arrest
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: of an individual wanted on multiple felony narcotics warrants. The
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: department received a flock alert Tuesday afternoon on a vehicle
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: associated with 21-year-old Maki Hammond of Bryan. Officers found Hammond
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: inside his vehicle at an apartment complex on Harvey Road.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Hammond was taken into custody on his outstanding warrants for
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: two counts of manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: and possession of marijuana. During his arrest, Hammond was found
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: with marijuana and is facing a new charge of possession
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: of marijuana. He is being held in the Brazos County
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Jail on $ 177, 000 bond. A teenager is facing criminal mischief
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: charges after damaging flock cameras near Welburn Road and Greens
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Prairie Road. College Station police say that on August 28th,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Two cameras had their wiring cut and were then draped
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: with American flags. Anti-flock signs were also staked in the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: ground next to each camera. Barcodes on those stakes led
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: to the arrest of 19-year-old Luke Cordray of College Station.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: They traced back to Lowe's and police found three purchases
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of those stakes in the days surrounding the investigation. One
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of those purchases also included two American flags. Surveillance video
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: captured the teen making the purchase and walking to a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: vehicle where they were able to view his license plate. Ironically,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: flock cameras tracked his vehicle's movements and placed him in
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the area at the time of the damage. The estimated
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: cost of repairs is $ 400 per camera. Cordray was arrested
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: on Monday and charged with criminal mischief involving damages between
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: $ 750 and $ 2, 500. He is out on $ 5, 000 bond. The
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Blinn College District is facing a lawsuit after a whistleblower
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: claims retaliation. A law firm in Houston announced yesterday that
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the suit is against the Blinn Junior College District, the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Blinn College Police Department, Police Chief John Chancellor and District
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Chancellor Mary Hensley. The whistleblower reported to the Texas Commission
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: on Law Enforcement. that a civilian employee impersonated a police
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: officer during the arrest of a student in August 2023.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: That employee serves as the district's safety and risk manager,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a non-law enforcement position. He surrendered his peace officer license
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: in 2018 as part of a plea agreement with the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Montgomery County District Attorney's Office in a domestic violence case.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: The complaint further alleges that years of body camera evidence
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: from the college, including footage from the August 2023 student arrest,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: had been destroyed by an unknown person. The lawsuit follows
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: a Title IX complaint filed with the district where the
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: whistleblower was then investigated and dismissed by Blinn's then Human
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Resources Director, Mary Kirby. Kirby was recently the subject of
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: an investigation into her criminal background and inquiry into whether
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: or not Blinn leadership hired Kirby knowing of her criminal
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: prosecution for a sex crime with a minor and subsequent
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: revocation of her teaching license in 1998. Traffic alert near
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  Speaker 1: Texas Avenue and University. The right lane of Texas Avenue
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: southbound is closed before University today for a waterline repair.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Hensel Street will also be closed between Texas Avenue and
• 33:39
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  Speaker 9: Let's change gears and talk about What is happening on
• 37:05
  Speaker 9: Highway 6 today?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: Change gears. I get it. I see what you did.
• 37:09
  Speaker 9: What is going on?
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: It looks like if you are south of essentially Emerald Parkway, 2818,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: and you're trying to go north, you're going to have
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a little bit of an issue. Google Maps is indicating
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: a crash just north of Emerald Parkway. It looks like
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: traffic is backed up all the way past Baylor, Scott,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and White. It is ugly. And the access roads are
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: backed up, too. So don't think that perhaps you can
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: get on the access road and get around it quickly.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: We did open up our blinds because we did not
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: need the news chopper to see this one. And it
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: does look pretty bad.
• 37:45
  Speaker 9: Have we considered investing in a news drone for the
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: show or bringing on someone who is a drone pilot
• 37:53
  Speaker 9: to just kind of meme?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, the drones are kind of annoying, though. Could we get, perhaps,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: a new Zeppelin?
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: What, a big floating? How big of a Zeppelin?
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Not a big one, like the smaller ones, right? They
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: don't carry people. Where do I find them? They're just
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: like the drones, except they're a Zeppelin.
• 38:12
  Speaker 9: With a balloon attached to it. See, that's good, but
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: here's the problem with a drone. I can't slap a logo.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: On the drone. You can't brand it. I can throw
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: a WTAW on the side of a Zeppelin. You could
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: light up a WTAW scroll and sell advertising on the
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: side of it. Yes, you could.
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: There's opportunities there. It doesn't have to. All it needs
• 38:31
  Speaker 9: to do is kind of float around with a camera.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Just give us a picture. And you know what?
• 38:35
  Speaker 9: This is the great part about living in Bryan College Station.
• 38:37
  Speaker 9: It's not a big footprint as far as the traffic
• 38:39
  Speaker 9: problems go. All you need to do is kind of
• 38:41
  Speaker 9: float it up that way and back this way.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Pretty much.
• 38:44
  Speaker 9: Occasionally, you might float it over to Wellburn and then
• 38:47
  Speaker 9: float it all.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Every so often you've got to get out 21 or
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: something like that. Yeah, go on, Brian. Idea, drone Zeppelin fleet. Oh, well,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: when you.
• 38:57
  Speaker 9: Start getting into fleet, it starts to get kind of,
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: you start, well, look, that can pay for itself, too,
• 39:01
  Speaker 9: because if you get more than five of them, you
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: can do a drone show.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: The little five can make a shape or something, and
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: then you can charge weddings and people like that. Dang,
• 39:10
  Speaker 9: I had a drone show.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: We could open up our own drone delivery service with
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the drone Zeppelins. Just spitballing, guys. We could bring you guacamole.
• 39:17
  Speaker 9: If you're interested, hit us up, 979-695-1620 is our phone
• 39:19
  Speaker 9: number and our text number. Back to the fake ID conversation.
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: Frederick says the fake IDs are massive in college stations
• 39:36
  Speaker 9: still to this day. Although the ID verification process, many
• 39:40
  Speaker 9: of the bars become much more sophisticated. Whatever old school
• 39:44
  Speaker 9: methods you boys were working back in the day. Wouldn't
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: work today, my friends.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Ours would not work for a library card these days.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: But nowadays, I mean, I know my daughter's friends have
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: some that scan. I mean, good Lord. Yeah. I'm just saying.
• 40:01
  Speaker 9: Chris Texan didn't have a strategy turned 18 in the
• 40:05
  Speaker 9: middle of my senior year in high school and could
• 40:07
  Speaker 9: stop and buy beer after school.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: That's a dazed and confused. I remember, I remember I
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: was about, I was about, I just missed the grandfathering
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: in on that. I was, I think it was about
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: 16 when the drinking age went from 18 to 21. Uh,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I do remember that. And, uh, I think about my
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: poor daughter who's going to graduate college before she's 21.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Without a legal drink. Without a legal drink.
• 40:29
  Speaker 9: Which is wild!
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Crazy, isn't it?
• 40:31
  Speaker 9: Wild! And that's just the way it is these days.
• 40:35
  Speaker 9: Jordan texts in. Hey, how do I make an order
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: with the guac drone?
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: Still setting up the logistics here.
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: Still working on it. Still working on that and the
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: Infomaniac certified pure guacamole, which apparently is becoming more and
• 40:49
  Speaker 9: more of an issue every single day.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Randy.
• 40:52
  Speaker 9: How can we count that you guys will not take
• 40:53
  Speaker 9: hits of helium on the air?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Will wouldn't do that. I would do that in a heartbeat.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Would you? I mean, you did it when you were
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: a kid and whatnot.
• 41:00
  Speaker 9: I just feel like I don't want to mess my
• 41:03
  Speaker 9: voice up.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: There's consequences there.
• 41:06
  Speaker 9: But anyway, again, I'm not opposed to a new Zeppelin.
• 41:11
  Speaker 9: because you can put a camera on anything. God knows.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: You can.
• 41:15
  Speaker 9: Including a pole in the middle of town.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can put flock on the back of it.
• 41:19
  Speaker 9: Okay, so this has been in news, and if for
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: some reason you're just joining us and you're not going
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: to be sticking around, I'm sorry. Yes, we are going
• 41:26
  Speaker 9: to cover it again in news, but it deserves a
• 41:28
  Speaker 9: conversation right now about this kid who... Wanted to take
• 41:32
  Speaker 9: down some flock cameras in town.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: He felt strongly.
• 41:35
  Speaker 9: He did it. And then he paid for it because
• 41:38
  Speaker 9: he got caught by flock cameras.
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah. He got caught by flock cameras.
• 41:42
  Speaker 9: And even if you're like, oh, man, that's a bird.
• 41:44
  Speaker 9: It wasn't just the flock cameras that got him. There
• 41:46
  Speaker 9: were so many things.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: The detective work on this was pretty stellar.
• 41:50
  Speaker 9: The lengths that the police went to to nab this perp.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 41:54
  Speaker 9: Is really something.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: Young fellow went and cut some power cables on some
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: flock cameras. Greenspray Road and Welburn Road, my hood, and
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I was completely unaware of this.
• 42:04
  Speaker 9: Put some American flags all over the place.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Covered them with American flags, had some little signs on
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: some stakes.
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: Because, frankly, what he wanted to do, he wanted to
• 42:10
  Speaker 9: spike the football.
• 42:11
  Speaker 19: Yeah.
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: He was like, you know what?
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: For America, right? For America. All right. So, there... The
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: mistakes he made, he left the tags on the stakes
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: that he used. Yeah. They were able to trace those
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: back to Lowe's.
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: Forgot to take the tags.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: And at Lowe's, they said, hey, on this day, we
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: sold some stakes and American flags.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: So now let's go and look at the surveillance camera.
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: On our Lowe's because of course it's a retail business.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: It was everywhere. So they had him buying it. They
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: got a picture of his license plate in the parking lot.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Oh, lit.
• 42:44
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 42:44
  Speaker 9: So now we have his license plate. What could we
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: do with that license.
• 42:47
  Speaker 12: Plate, Will?
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Well, they could prove that he was in the area
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: of the flock cameras when that happened. Because the flock cameras.
• 42:54
  Speaker 9: Just move him around and there he is. Yeah.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Now he's going to jail.
• 43:01
  Speaker 9: Are they going to make a GoFundMe for this kid?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Look, I mean... This kid's.
• 43:04
  Speaker 9: Going to be... And I'm not saying.
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: It's not a huge amount of bail. And I mean,
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: the kid's going to be okay, right? And I get it, man.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: I get it. I remember being 19 years old and
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: wanting to make a difference. We think back to the
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: guy that was trying to sledgehammer.
• 43:20
  Speaker 9: That was the next thing that was at.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: The medians.
• 43:22
  Speaker 9: Yo, he became.
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: A local hero. At least to some.
• 43:27
  Speaker 9: Like, for a minute, people were like, that guy.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: Is our guy.
• 43:32
  Speaker 9: So is Flock Kid going to be that?
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know, but I like Flock Kid as a nomiker.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: Flock Kid? Flock Kid.
• 43:40
  Speaker 15: You know, use it, kid.
• 43:42
  Speaker 9: You know, turn lemons into lemonade. Yeah, you caught a
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: charge yesterday. That's unfortunate.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: Took it like a man.
• 43:51
  Speaker 9: Going to be back on the streets. just start an
• 43:54
  Speaker 9: Instagram or something like you, you can, you can make
• 43:56
  Speaker 9: this work for you. Don't keep cutting down flock hammer.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: No statement has been made.
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: Statement has been made. Now, now it's.
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: Time to capitalize, turn it into a positive flock kid.
• 44:08
  Speaker 9: Nine, seven, nine. Boom.
• 44:10
  Speaker 22: There it is.
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: Hey, genius off to the races and, uh, use your
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: voice for good perhaps. But, uh, Just a wild story.
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: Not the only flock story we have in the news today.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: There's like a bunch of them. Yeah, there was another
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: known felon, a drug dealer, that was popped in College Station.
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: He's from Bryan, and the flocks got him, too. Yeah,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: flocks got him. Dead flocks.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: Again, like.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got those two flock cameras, then we've
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: got the flock of grackles, apparently, this morning over at
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: the HEB. Yeah, that's... There's flocks everywhere. Everywhere you turn.
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  Speaker 30: Aggie volleyball team got back into the win column last
• 49:01
  Speaker 30: night after sweeping Stephen F. Austin at Reed Arena. The
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  Speaker 30: Aggies also got back to. 500 on the year following
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  Speaker 30: a dominant showing against SFA where they outscored the Lady
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  Speaker 30: Jacks by 31 points across the three sets of action.
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  Speaker 30: Head coach Jamie Morrison recapped the match and areas the
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  Speaker 30: team needs to improve on ahead of their second match
• 49:21
  Speaker 30: this week ups and.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: Downs i think it was what i told her team
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: and then the warham started so i send them off
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: to uh celebrate with our amazing fans but i think
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: if you look at the second set there was a
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: lot of good and then i thought it got sloppy
• 49:32
  Speaker 3: in the beginning of the first and then the end
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: of or throughout the third probably So I'm happy with
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: the win. I'm happy that we figured out a way
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: to do that. But one of the things we talked
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: about before the match was holding ourselves to a high standard,
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: regardless of who we're playing. And I thought we did
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: it at times, but it needs to be more consistent.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: And I thought our offense was really clunky in the first,
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: but I just thought we couldn't get into a rhythm
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: from the passing standpoint was OK. It was just constantly
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  Speaker 3: like 13 feet. And then defensively, that's where I was
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  Speaker 3: really frustrated was just the easy balls were being sprayed
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  Speaker 3: super low or they're being sprayed left or right. And
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  Speaker 3: it just made Kira's life a little bit harder to
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  Speaker 3: get us into a rhythm. So I think just making
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  Speaker 3: sure that piece is settled, that it's consistent, that if
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  Speaker 3: it's easy, you know where it's going to go, et cetera,
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  Speaker 3: was probably the first and, I don't know, probably the
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  Speaker 3: most frustrating thing to me throughout the match.
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  Speaker 30: Up next, the Aggies hit the road to Nebraska to
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  Speaker 30: take on the 20th-ranked Creighton on Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock.
• 50:18
  Speaker 30: The A & M football team is three days away
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  Speaker 30: from kicking off SEC play against Kentucky at Kyle Field,
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  Speaker 30: where the Aggies are looking to start a campaign of
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  Speaker 30: 3-0 and back-to-back seasons for the first time since the
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  Speaker 30: 2014-2016 seasons. Head coach Mike Elko met with the media
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  Speaker 30: earlier this week to preview the upcoming game against the
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  Speaker 30: Wildcats and the challenges they pose.
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  Speaker 20: Now we turn our attention ahead to SEC week, Kentucky
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  Speaker 20: coming in here. Obviously, anytime you bring in an SEC game,
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  Speaker 20: it's going to be a big challenge. A lot of
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  Speaker 20: respect for Will Stein and the job that he does
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  Speaker 20: as an offensive coach has been one of the best
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  Speaker 20: in the country for the last few years. Did a
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  Speaker 20: really phenomenal job at Oregon. Combined him with Coach Sloan,
• 51:02
  Speaker 20: and it's going to be another formidable offensive attack. And
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  Speaker 20: then obviously have a ton of respect for Jay Bateman
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  Speaker 20: and the job that he does on defense. And certainly
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  Speaker 20: they'll have an intricate working of who we are and
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  Speaker 20: what we're all about. And so that creates its own challenges.
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  Speaker 20: And so we'll have our hands full with Kentucky, and
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  Speaker 20: it'll be another big, big game and big challenge for us.
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  Speaker 20: And so looking forward to getting ready for it.
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  Speaker 30: Like Coach Elko said, a challenge that could cause many
• 51:25
  Speaker 30: disruptions for the Aggies is that former A & M
• 51:28
  Speaker 30: defensive coordinator Jay Bateman decided to move programs in the offseason,
• 51:32
  Speaker 30: becoming Kentucky's new defensive coordinator. Coach Elko spoke about the
• 51:36
  Speaker 30: familiarity of facing Bateman this week and the changes the
• 51:39
  Speaker 30: Aggies have made in the program ahead of this matchup.
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  Speaker 20: Probably a mixed bag. Certainly some philosophical things that were
• 51:46
  Speaker 20: important to me that we ran here on defense that
• 51:48
  Speaker 20: maybe weren't things that Jay had, some things that we
• 51:51
  Speaker 20: did that maybe Jay liked. And so I think you
• 51:54
  Speaker 20: have kind of a mixed bag of what Jay has
• 51:56
  Speaker 20: maybe traditionally been or wanted to be in his career
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  Speaker 20: combined with maybe a couple things that he picked up
• 52:02
  Speaker 20: here that he liked and thought fit. And so it's
• 52:04
  Speaker 20: probably a little bit of a mixed bag. People would
• 52:06
  Speaker 20: tell you I'm probably on the– extreme paranoid end when
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  Speaker 20: it comes to things like that and so I think
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  Speaker 20: I'm on probably like the seventh version of terminology in
• 52:17
  Speaker 20: the last eight years and probably the third or fourth
• 52:21
  Speaker 20: version of offensive terminology in my four years as a
• 52:24
  Speaker 20: head coach so I probably live on the the uber
• 52:27
  Speaker 20: paranoid side of that and so then you factor in
• 52:30
  Speaker 20: a coach is leaving this building going to multiple programs
• 52:33
  Speaker 20: last offseason and you can imagine quite a few things
• 52:36
  Speaker 20: around here I've had to change.
• 52:38
  Speaker 30: Saturday afternoon's kickoff time is set for 2.30. The Aggie
• 52:42
  Speaker 30: men's golf team wrapped up stroke play at the Jackson T.
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  Speaker 30: Stevens Cup yesterday, closing with an even par round to
• 52:48
  Speaker 30: finish 54 holes.
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  Speaker 1: And the Aggies will.
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  Speaker 30: Carry the No. 2 seed into match play, which begins today.
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  Speaker 9: 1620-945-WTAW. On this day in history, some wild stuff went down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was actually, I think it was yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: I just saw this post. In 1896, the celebrated crash
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  Speaker 1: at Crush.
• 53:54
  Speaker 9: The crash at Crush in 1896.
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  Speaker 1: 1896, just north of Waco, a publicity stunt for the
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  Speaker 1: Katy Railroad. Two railroad engines deliberately crashed head-on. At a
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  Speaker 1: non-existent town that they called Crush.
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  Speaker 9: So they're like, this is going to get the people talking.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it got the people out. It did it. 40,000
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  Speaker 1: people showed up in 1896. 40,000 humans. Two mile run
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  Speaker 1: for the trains to collide. Apparently, the flying debris killed
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  Speaker 1: three people and injured six more. This is entertainment in 1896, folks.
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  Speaker 9: I just need to say it again. They did not
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  Speaker 9: have smartphones.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 9: You had to do. What you had to do.
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  Speaker 1: To capture the public's attention.
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  Speaker 9: This is how hard it was to get 40,000 humans
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  Speaker 9: in one place for anything in 1896.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, word had to travel.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: By train.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: Which is now not there because you just crashed two
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  Speaker 9: of them into each other.
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  Speaker 1: Crazy.
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  Speaker 9: So please go check that out. And also, stay hydrated.
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  Speaker 9: Very hot outside today.
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  Speaker 1: But we love it. We love it.
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  Speaker 22: We love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's the best, best time of the year.
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  Speaker 22: It really is.
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  Speaker 9: It really is. Getting up to feels like 108 today
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  Speaker 9: and down to the 70s tonight. We're 1620, 945 WTAW
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  Speaker 1: Brian, good morning.