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The Infomaniacs: September 17th 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: A woman was arrested after running out of gas and
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Speaker 1: throwing objects at people who tried to help. Brazos County
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Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputies responded to the call at Welburn and Norwood
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Speaker 1: Drive around 5.30 Tuesday evening. Callers say 41-year-old Carla West
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Speaker 1: was throwing objects at the cars of people who attempted
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Speaker 1: to offer assistance. West claimed she was being followed and
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Speaker 1: chased before running out of gas. Three vehicles were struck
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Speaker 1: in all. She was charged with criminal mischief under $ 100
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Speaker 1: and released on $ 1, 200 bond. Four College Station firefighters were
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Speaker 1: dispatched yesterday to help with the Hydra wildfire in Bosque County.
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Speaker 1: They were activated as part of TIFMAS, Texas Interstate Fire
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Speaker 1: Mutual Aid System, which is maintained by Texas A &
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Speaker 1: M Forest Service. According to the Texas A & M
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Speaker 1: Forest Service, the Hydra Fire has consumed 1,100 acres and
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Speaker 1: is 25% contained. It's not good news from the state
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Speaker 1: capitol for Texans, hoping to see gambling legalized anytime soon.
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Speaker 2: The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee met to study ways
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Speaker 2: to end gambling loopholes, and Kalshi was their main target.
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Speaker 2: State Senator Bob Hall.
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Speaker 3: Open for suggestions from anybody on how we can word
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Speaker 3: this to minimize the experts that thrive on getting around
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Speaker 3: the law.
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Speaker 4: So that we can continue to protect the people of Texas.
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Speaker 2: Trace York of the American Gambling Association had suggestions.
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Speaker 1: The most successful route that we have seen that states
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Speaker 1: have taken against prediction markets offering sports gambling is suing
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Speaker 1: them in state court.
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Speaker 5: Kalshi claims to be a federally regulated exchange.
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Speaker 2: Robert Denault argued that regulating prediction markets is the.
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Speaker 5: Way to go.
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Speaker 6: And come up with consumer protection frameworks, maybe in the
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Speaker 6: marketing and advertising space.
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Speaker 2: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: Deep fakes aren't just a problem for celebrities and politicians.
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Speaker 1: Scammers are now using AI to take advantage of ranchers.
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Speaker 7: This used to be the way to build a herd,
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Speaker 7: but now, says rancher Scott Frazier.
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Speaker 8: Online sales and that sort of thing have become more common,
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Speaker 8: whether it be livestock, household goods, or whatever you're buying.
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Speaker 5: The risk is in buying livestock based on a posted photo.
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Speaker 9: One scam, they got away with about $ 70, 000 from one
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Speaker 9: of our producers.
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Speaker 10: Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller says ranchers have been duped
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Speaker 10: into buying livestock that didn't exist based on images that
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Speaker 10: were AI generated.
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Speaker 1: That's TSN's Jim Ryan reporting. Members of the U.S. Senate
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Speaker 1: are at work this week, and Senator Ted Cruz hopes
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Speaker 1: they will vote on his Protect College Sports Act. He
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Speaker 1: says it would reestablish the old regulation on transfers for athletes.
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Speaker 11: That every athlete is entitled to one free transfer. After that,
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Speaker 11: you can have a transfer in narrow specified circumstances if
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Speaker 11: your coach leaves, if your program is canceled, or if
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Speaker 11: you're the victim of sexual assault or sexual harassment.
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Speaker 1: Cruz also wants to set up rules to block athletes
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Speaker 1: who have played at the professional level from rejoining college teams.
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Speaker 1: He's calling on lawmakers to vote on the bill this month.
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Speaker 13: It's Thursday morning.
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Speaker 12: Glad you guys are here today. And stay cool out
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Speaker 12: there because, man, it's just not great. We were mentioning
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Speaker 12: this earlier. Not only are you getting a really hot
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Speaker 1: The beautiful Big Six project provides you all of the
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Speaker 1: visual stimulation you need. Yeah, it is apparently, yeah, another accident.
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Speaker 1: Earlier today, we had one north of University. Now it
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Speaker 1: looks like, well, about the same place. That one seems
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Speaker 1: to be clearing up some, but the traffic backup is
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Speaker 1: still moving backwards from Harvey Road all the way back to, well, essentially...
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Speaker 1: almost here at the studios.
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Speaker 13: Oh, it's past us now.
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Speaker 1: My man. Oh, is it?
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Speaker 4: Okay.
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Speaker 13: It's way past us.
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Speaker 14: Okay.
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Speaker 12: And also, I'm getting texts that Bill Murray is particularly
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Speaker 12: nasty today, and as County Commissioner Chuck Condrell, who is,
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Speaker 12: in fact, in the building.
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Speaker 4: Morning, Chuck.
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Speaker 15: Good morning.
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Speaker 13: Oh, when I turn your mic on, that helps.
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Speaker 5: Now, you said you're... Good morning, Barbara.
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Speaker 15: I made it. Barbara, I'm here.
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Speaker 13: Thank God.
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Speaker 12: You said that you were dealing with coming in on
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Speaker 12: University today, and it was a.
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Speaker 15: University Drive is a parking lot.
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Speaker 8: That's normally how I come into town from the county,
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Speaker 8: and It was backed up past Veterans Park, people westbound
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Speaker 8: trying to get to Highway 6 and turn north.
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Speaker 12: All the way to Veterans Park. So basically, you got
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Speaker 12: a lot of time hanging out with us today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, just a little bonus time.
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Speaker 15: Everyone wants to be in Precinct 2, what can I say?
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Speaker 13: It's the hottest real estate in the county. So thanks
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Speaker 13: for coming in today, man. I know there's a few things. Well,
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Speaker 13: there's a lot going on in the county.
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Speaker 12: One of the things that we haven't really had a
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Speaker 12: chance to talk about is the position you guys added.
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Speaker 12: And correct me if I'm wrong, I want to say
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Speaker 12: it might be less than a year old, but I
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Speaker 12: saw this on a list and I was fascinated by it.
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Speaker 12: The role is that of the chief juvenile defender.
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Speaker 15: That's right.
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Speaker 8: So the new juvenile public defender is Amanda Binger. And
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Speaker 8: why is that role important?
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Speaker 12: I'm guessing I know what it's about, but I've never
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Speaker 12: actually heard of someone having a chief public defender for juveniles.
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Speaker 15: You get that. I mean, we get that question.
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Speaker 8: So you got to remember many of the children that
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Speaker 8: the county encounters in juvenile justice system, they've experienced significant trauma,
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Speaker 8: adverse childhood experiences that fundamentally affect how a child develops,
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Speaker 8: makes decisions, regulates emotions, responds to authority. How would we
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Speaker 8: have behaved had been, had we been raised in the
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Speaker 8: situation they were raised in?
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Speaker 14: Right.
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Speaker 15: And then they come to us and they're, you know,
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Speaker 15: when they come to.
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Speaker 8: Us, they're, headed down a trail sometimes that we really
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Speaker 8: want to change that trajectory. So at the Juvenile Division
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Speaker 8: of the Public Defender's Office, our team of attorneys and caseworkers,
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Speaker 8: the juvenile investigators, they all work together to create a
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Speaker 8: holistic trauma-informed model of representation to address not only the
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Speaker 8: behavior that brought the child into the system, but also
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Speaker 8: the underlying traumas and instabilities or unmet needs at the
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Speaker 8: root of the behavior. And this approach looks like interventions
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Speaker 8: to make the child safer, healthier, Prevent involvement in the
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Speaker 8: criminal justice system in the future.
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Speaker 12: So this sounds like more of a, is this an
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Speaker 12: advocate role or is this a criminal case role or
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Speaker 12: is it a combination of both?
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 16: Both.
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Speaker 15: It's all those things.
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Speaker 13: All of those things.
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Speaker 15: So it's not, you know, it's not CASA.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: But it's not, oh, this kid misbehaved and therefore we've
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Speaker 15: got to bring the hammer.
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Speaker 6: Right.
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Speaker 8: It's more of a trauma-informed approach. This is a person
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Speaker 8: that's a young person. They haven't fully developed all those,
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Speaker 8: you know, parts of the brain yet. But they've maybe
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Speaker 8: come from trauma, instability and just a terrible environment.
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Speaker 12: How do you hire for that? What's the candidate search
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Speaker 12: for that? That strikes me as two incredibly difficult jobs
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Speaker 12: to hold.
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Speaker 13: At the same time. And neither of them. I mean,
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Speaker 13: they're just not like you have.
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Speaker 12: One on the advocacy side and then one on the
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Speaker 12: case where they're coming in because laws have been broken.
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Speaker 12: You need to make you navigate their case through the
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Speaker 12: justice system.
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Speaker 13: How do you find someone that does both of those?
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Speaker 8: Well, I would, you know, if you look at the
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Speaker 8: approach of just justice, right, you're going to have prosecutors,
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Speaker 8: you're going to have defenders. The state says you've got
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Speaker 8: to have indigent defense as well, which often we deal
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Speaker 8: with with youth.
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Speaker 5: Right.
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Speaker 8: But the juvenile division of the public defender's office, it's
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Speaker 8: a great question. I think it'd probably be worth its
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Speaker 8: own segment to bring Nathan in.
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Speaker 15: Sorry, Nathan.
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Speaker 8: And talk to him more about that. But I think
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Speaker 8: if you meet Nathan, our... the head of that department.
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Speaker 8: I mean, that is, uh, that is who he is.
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Speaker 8: It's not just about you're defending a kid, but you're
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Speaker 8: defending a kid against your part of the defense of
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Speaker 8: that kid is understanding where they come from and what
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Speaker 8: he or she has been through. And it's not like
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Speaker 8: you or I decided to, uh, use the DPS turnaround
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Speaker 8: lane on highway six, but it's more of a, it's
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Speaker 8: more of.
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Speaker 12: A, yeah, no, it's, it's, it's becoming more and more
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Speaker 12: of a, it's going to be a more and more
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Speaker 12: of an issue, especially more city grows. Um, And you
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Speaker 12: do hope people treat those cases with, you don't want
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Speaker 12: to say a softer hand, because sometimes kids get up.
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Speaker 1: Some wild things. Well, it's more of a specialized hand.
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Speaker 13: Specialized hand is a great way to put it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you have this broad public defender's office. Right.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of times, and correct me if I'm wrong, Chuck,
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Speaker 1: that the juvenile justice system operates just a little bit
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Speaker 1: differently than perhaps the justice system of the adult system.
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Speaker 1: You have to understand maybe some different laws, some different punishments.
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Speaker 13: Oh, there's a whole list.
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Speaker 1: There's got to be a whole list. A whole other thing.
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Speaker 1: So having a specialization there is akin to me to
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Speaker 1: the department that I believe was set up not too
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Speaker 1: long ago for veterans. Was that part of it?
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Speaker 15: It's not a... a department.
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Speaker 1: Not a department, but a specialization.
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Speaker 15: A specialization.
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Speaker 8: And so, again, it's more of an informed response to
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Speaker 8: what you're doing. You're there defending the juvenile.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 15: They did this thing that they're in there for, or things.
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Speaker 15: How did they get to that point? So if you're
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Speaker 15: going to defend them, it's probably wise to think, how
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Speaker 15: did they get to that point? And what can we
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Speaker 15: do as a county with services?
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Speaker 13: Can you still intercede?
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Speaker 15: Potentially to help them, right?
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Speaker 8: Because what we don't want, we don't want them to
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Speaker 8: go across the street.
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Speaker 15: We don't want them at the sheriff's office. We don't
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Speaker 15: want them in our county jail. And no one does.
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Speaker 8: Even if you're a small government guy and you want
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Speaker 8: lower taxes than everyone does, you definitely don't want them
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Speaker 8: across the street.
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Speaker 13: Because it's expensive.
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Speaker 15: It's expensive.
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Speaker 13: So expensive.
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Speaker 8: And it's a life. Let's be cognizant of the fact
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Speaker 8: that that's a life. And maybe they're here now. Maybe
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Speaker 8: we can put them on a different path.
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Speaker 17: Right.
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Speaker 12: Let's talk about the– well, you guys are in the
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Speaker 12: middle of all sorts. I think we talked about this
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Speaker 12: with Bentley. Commissioner's Court, you guys are changing offices for
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Speaker 12: a little bit.
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Speaker 15: We are. We're changing offices.
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Speaker 8: So starting on October 5th, a Monday, we'll be holding
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Speaker 8: court that week and that week only on a Monday.
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Speaker 15: Excuse me.
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Speaker 8: The only Monday we'll have is October 5th. But beyond that,
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Speaker 8: we'll have court through the end of the year at
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Speaker 8: the training room of the new medical examiner's office. So
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Speaker 8: that's at 3037 East 29th and Bryan.
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Speaker 12: Did y'all just do this because it's fancy and new
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Speaker 12: and bright and everyone wants to go check that place out?
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Speaker 8: We did this because we've got a lot of space
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Speaker 8: being used providing the services for the county that the
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Speaker 8: people of the county need. But one of the only
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Speaker 8: places that was open big enough and able for us
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Speaker 8: to hold court and have an audience and be able
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Speaker 8: to do the Facebook Live and everything that we do
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Speaker 8: for transparency was that location. Now, I just hope the
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Speaker 8: air conditioner is working better than it was on the
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Speaker 8: day that we cut the ribbon.
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Speaker 15: Oh, goodness.
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Speaker 1: I did not know about this. This did not make
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Speaker 1: the news.
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Speaker 8: No, it's probably about 250 people in a room.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a thing. And 250 degrees.
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Speaker 15: Yeah, it was like 104. All right.
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Speaker 13: So let's talk.
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Speaker 12: I know we're kind of asking each of you guys
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Speaker 12: when you're coming about the Brass Valley Fair and Rodeo
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Speaker 12: just because it's on its way.
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Speaker 13: It's such a cool thing.
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Speaker 12: And I know it's something that's a passion product project
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Speaker 12: of everyone over at County. Um, let's talk a little
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Speaker 12: bit about the agricultural side of this, because I know
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Speaker 12: people think that I guess the community grows and maybe
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Speaker 12: people were a little less dialed in with ag as
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Speaker 12: far as how the heritage of it and everything else
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Speaker 12: like that. Uh, why is it so important to keep
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Speaker 12: that connection to agriculture for our kids?
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Speaker 15: It's everything. It's the clothes you're wearing.
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Speaker 8: It's the fuel that was made for you to drive
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Speaker 8: the vehicles full of agriculturally produced products that drove you
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Speaker 8: here today, slowly, if you were on Highway 6.
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Speaker 15: I mean, it's what you ate. It's everything.
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Speaker 8: So agricultural affects every person in our community in so
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Speaker 8: many aspects. It is what my degree is, Agricultural Economics
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Speaker 8: from A & M, because I knew that was going
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Speaker 8: to be something that I would always be able to
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Speaker 8: find employment with. Whether you live on a ranch or
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Speaker 8: in the middle of town, agricultural affects you. And the
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Speaker 8: fair gives us an opportunity to connect families with agriculture,
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Speaker 8: and then also to help young people understand where their
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Speaker 8: food and fiber come from.
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Speaker 12: No, it's a huge thing. And keep in mind, if
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Speaker 12: you want to see some kids that are some of
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Speaker 12: the hardest working kids you'll ever... Go and then check
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Speaker 12: out the animal showing.
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Speaker 15: Sure.
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Speaker 13: Because, like, holy cow.
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Speaker 1: Just about every kid I know in that program is, like, quality.
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Speaker 1: They're just... It teaches them so much.
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Speaker 13: Yeah. It really is amazing.
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Speaker 15: Even when they come before court. Yeah. Stand out. Stand out.
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Speaker 13: Now, they're... It's incredible how much of that.
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Speaker 1: Not juvenile.
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Speaker 15: Not juvenile.
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Speaker 1: I know what you mean. You know what I mean. Like.
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Speaker 12: But no, it's a great way to set a framework
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Speaker 12: if you can get your kids, if they're looking for
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Speaker 12: activities and get involved with 4-H, get involved with FFA.
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Speaker 15: And, you know, they're learning a lot more than just
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Speaker 15: how to show an animal.
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Speaker 8: They're learning responsibilities, time management, work ethic, sportsmanship, how to
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Speaker 8: communicate with people. And those are all skills that, of course,
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Speaker 8: will carry them long after the show is over, long.
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Speaker 15: After the fair is done.
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Speaker 13: Anything else you want to get to today?
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Speaker 15: Some survival tips for the fair?
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Speaker 1: Yes, please.
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Speaker 15: Just a quick question.
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Speaker 8: If you're ever being chased by a tiger with a
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Speaker 8: lion on your left, and a terribly angry rhinoceros on
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Speaker 8: your right. You're going as fast on your horse as
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Speaker 8: you can. And the next decision you make determines.
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Speaker 15: Whether you live or die. What do you do?
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Speaker 1: No idea.
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Speaker 13: I have no clue. That's horrible.
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Speaker 8: I would get off that carousel and go to a
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Speaker 8: different attraction at the fair because there's so many things there.
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Speaker 1: Stealing my thunder.
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Speaker 15: There you go.
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Speaker 1: Stealing my thunder.
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Speaker 12: Ladies and gentlemen, another round of Jokes with Chuck.
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Speaker 15: As a hats off to Will on Thursday.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: Thank you very much.
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Speaker 13: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 15: Just if I could mention one more thing.
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Speaker 8: We do have leadership and volunteer opportunities like Junior Ambassador Program,
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Speaker 8: educational activities, competitive events, our scholarship program, youth development.
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Speaker 15: It's a big part of our mission. It's all part
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Speaker 15: of the fair. You can get involved.
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Speaker 8: It's BrazosValleyFair.com. Ticket some more information there. And it's our
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Speaker 8: 15th year of the fair and rodeo. So it's October
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Speaker 8: 23rd through the 25th.
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Speaker 15: Come on out.
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Bryant
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Speaker 1: police apprehending a fugitive Tuesday said he was found with
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Speaker 1: a handgun with an ultra high capacity magazine. investigators received
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Speaker 1: a tip that 18-year-old Kiwan Crawford was at a home
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Speaker 1: in the 1100 block of North Sims Avenue. They saw
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Speaker 1: that had a drum-style magazine. The gun was identified in
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Speaker 1: had an outstanding warrant for continuous violence against family and
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Speaker 1: was arrested on the outstanding warrant and additionally charged with
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Speaker 1: On Monday, the Hearn ISD School Board voted to terminate
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Speaker 1: the employment of a district principal. The board voted unanimously
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Speaker 1: to terminate the employment of Hearn Elementary School Principal Marsha Scheiko.
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Speaker 1: The board came back from executive session and made a
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Speaker 1: Hearn Elementary Special Service Campus Liaison, will now serve as
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Speaker 1: interim principal. Texas released its first state-specific nutrition guidelines.
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Speaker 27: Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller helped develop the recommendations as a
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Speaker 27: Miller says the recommendations bring nutrition back to the basics,
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Speaker 1: Texas has taken... steps to shore up the state's scandal-plagued
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Speaker 1: lottery system. The bulk buying of tickets, which has been
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Speaker 23: Lottery tickets must be purchased in person at a licensed
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Speaker 1: Courtney Arbor, the head of Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation,
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Speaker 1: told lawmakers that the goal is to instill trust in
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Speaker 1: used online lottery ticket resellers to rig a $ 95 million jackpot.
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Speaker 1: The former head of the Texas Lottery Commission has since
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Speaker 1: Abbott said in a news release earlier this week that
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Speaker 2: Reports that ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas had been approved to
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Speaker 2: At least that's according to Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. Earlier
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Speaker 2: this week, ERCOT did agree to the raise, but now
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Speaker 3: To $ 4 million.
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Speaker 1: Voter registration of teenagers is down in America, but it's
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Speaker 1: down nationwide all year by about 30%. And a new
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Speaker 1: Tufts University nonpartisan survey analysis released Monday shows that Texas
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Speaker 1: registered 47% fewer 18- and 19-year-olds than they did compared
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Speaker 1: M Forest Service announced that $ 145, 000 in grants are headed
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Speaker 1: Also in Leon County, Hilltop Lakes VFD will receive $ 25, 000
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Speaker 12: Yeah, most of the way through our commute today. It's
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Speaker 1: We did.
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Speaker 4: Well, Tuesday night.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, Tuesday night.
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Speaker 22: I didn't realize this, but the city of Bryan has
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Speaker 4: Since 1999. That was the year I graduated high school.
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Speaker 12: were anywhere close to being alive in 1999, and you
36:02
Speaker 12: all have maintained.
36:03
Speaker 13: A tax rate for that long.
36:04
Speaker 1: We have.
36:04
Speaker 22: Since I've been on council, we've lowered it once. And
36:08
Speaker 22: I will say, you know, it's a difficult thing. We've
36:10
Speaker 22: got our neighbors to the south in the county. They
36:12
Speaker 22: both look like they're raising their rates slightly. And I'm
36:16
Speaker 22: not disparaging that because they're in a very difficult position.
36:20
Speaker 4: I'll give you an example.
36:21
Speaker 22: You know, we talked about our our animal shelter that
36:24
Speaker 22: we're in the process of planning and building.
36:26
Speaker 14: Right.
36:27
Speaker 22: And since we started this project, construction costs have increased
36:30
Speaker 22: by 50 percent.
36:31
Speaker 4: Wow.
36:32
Speaker 19: Yeah.
36:33
Speaker 12: So I remember I remember that happening originally in the
36:35
Speaker 12: pandemic where it was like 2020. All of a sudden
36:38
Speaker 12: building costs went up and the thought was, hey, you
36:40
Speaker 12: know what? What's great about this? Eventually we'll get through
36:44
Speaker 12: this and those prices will come down.
36:46
Speaker 13: And they do. They never came down. They never came down.
36:49
Speaker 22: Everything is getting just, I mean, for the consumers, for
36:52
Speaker 22: the citizens, everyone is feeling the pinch of higher prices
36:56
Speaker 22: on everything.
36:57
Speaker 12: But that is a wild amount of overage on a project.
37:02
Speaker 22: We've seen that with everything that we deal with, whether
37:04
Speaker 22: it's public works projects, all the material that we need
37:08
Speaker 22: for these projects, all those things are going up. And
37:10
Speaker 22: it's not, you know, I hear about these inflation rates
37:12
Speaker 22: of 2 point something percent. Nothing's 2 point something percent.
37:14
Speaker 22: It's 30 percent. It's 40 percent.
37:16
Speaker 4: It's 50 percent.
37:17
Speaker 22: It's getting much more difficult, and as another matter, we've
37:21
Speaker 22: got the legislature that's trying to restrict any ability that
37:25
Speaker 22: we can have to raise revenue. So it's just putting
37:28
Speaker 22: cities and counties in a major pinch to provide the
37:32
Speaker 22: services that people expect, and those services primarily are public safety.
37:37
Speaker 22: And as you said, the crime rate in the cities
37:41
Speaker 22: has dramatically reduced over the last couple of decades. And
37:44
Speaker 22: that's partly because of the fact that we've dedicated so
37:47
Speaker 22: much of our resources to public safety. So we're hopeful
37:51
Speaker 22: that we can make it through this. Like I say,
37:53
Speaker 22: the city of Bryan, we're very proud that we didn't
37:55
Speaker 22: raise rates. And moving forward, as we move forward, we'll
37:59
Speaker 22: see what we have to deal with. But we're also
38:01
Speaker 22: trying to maintain our credit rating. The credit rating we've
38:04
Speaker 22: got in Bryan is stellar. And that allows us, when
38:08
Speaker 22: we do have the projects, the debt service that we incur,
38:12
Speaker 22: It requires that we have a good credit rating or
38:15
Speaker 22: else we would be having to pay these high interest
38:17
Speaker 22: rates and it would just get more and more death spiral.
38:19
Speaker 12: The other side of this is like you mentioned the
38:22
Speaker 12: last time there was an increase in 1999. The fact that,
38:25
Speaker 12: I mean, how many people were even in Bryan in 1999?
38:28
Speaker 12: It was like 20,000, 30,000 less, if not more.
38:32
Speaker 1: I'm guessing, yeah.
38:33
Speaker 13: Yeah, if not dramatically more than that.
38:35
Speaker 12: To be able to still be dealing with the increases
38:38
Speaker 12: in spend and be able to keep that rate, What
38:41
Speaker 12: it's been is fairly unusual, I would think.
38:44
Speaker 22: Well, we've had some, obviously, the benefit of the growth
38:46
Speaker 22: of retail has helped because we do get some ability
38:49
Speaker 22: to raise revenue through sales tax. And that's another thing
38:52
Speaker 22: we're trying to work on is recruiting more and more
38:54
Speaker 22: retail that can kind of assist that. In addition to that,
38:57
Speaker 22: you know, the hotel, motel with the money we're spending
39:01
Speaker 22: on tourism to bring people into Bryan, Texas to spend
39:03
Speaker 22: money and raise tax rates or, excuse me, raise tax revenue.
39:08
Speaker 22: You know, that's that's part of the master plan. And
39:11
Speaker 22: I feel really, really privileged to be a part of
39:13
Speaker 22: a council that is and not just this council, but
39:16
Speaker 22: previous council that has seen fit to govern responsibly and
39:21
Speaker 22: certainly fiscally responsibly.
39:23
Speaker 13: Beautiful thing. What else we got this week?
39:25
Speaker 4: Well, we had kind of a happy thing.
39:27
Speaker 22: We also discussed a grant that we're providing to the
39:30
Speaker 22: renovation wranglers to basically restore and remodel and use the
39:36
Speaker 22: old Hotel Bryan building.
39:38
Speaker 13: I was going to.
39:39
Speaker 1: I had questions about this. This is a piece of
39:41
Speaker 1: property you guys have been after for a while, and
39:43
Speaker 1: you managed to acquire it.
39:45
Speaker 22: Well, the city hasn't acquired it, but we're going to
39:48
Speaker 22: work with... with a couple that have been thankfully successful
39:53
Speaker 22: in gaining access to the property. We've provided basically a
39:57
Speaker 22: grant that's going to be paid off in three separate installments.
40:01
Speaker 22: It's performance-based, so they have to meet certain metrics, and
40:04
Speaker 22: those metrics basically require, you know, they're going to do lofts.
40:07
Speaker 22: I think it's a three-story property.
40:10
Speaker 12: If I'm recalling correctly, because this is the property, I
40:13
Speaker 12: think we've all had this thought walking past downtown, walking
40:16
Speaker 12: through downtown Bryan. is that that particular building is basically,
40:21
Speaker 12: how has that not been renovated into lofts at this point?
40:26
Speaker 13: Because, yeah, you have retail.
40:26
Speaker 1: With everything else going down there. Retail floor one. The
40:29
Speaker 1: magical job that is happening in downtown Bryant.
40:31
Speaker 12: Yeah, the facade's incredible. The location is incredible. It's just,
40:37
Speaker 12: it's built for that type of thing. How big of
40:43
Speaker 12: a project do we anticipate that being?
40:46
Speaker 13: For the rebuild?
40:46
Speaker 12: Because I don't know what's been done or what hasn't
40:49
Speaker 12: been done in there.
40:50
Speaker 22: You know, I don't actually have an answer to that.
40:52
Speaker 22: I suspect it's going to be a pretty significant investment.
40:55
Speaker 22: I know they're planning on doing residential lofts, everything but
40:58
Speaker 22: the first floor. First floor, they're going to reserve for
41:00
Speaker 22: a kind of a unique concept in retail. We're going
41:04
Speaker 22: to be sort of micro spaces. So smaller businesses, for instance,
41:08
Speaker 22: let's just say if you had a winery in town
41:11
Speaker 22: and you wanted to try out a tasting room, And
41:13
Speaker 22: you didn't necessarily need 1,500 square feet. You could utilize
41:17
Speaker 22: a smaller footprint. And they're going to try that, which
41:21
Speaker 22: I feel like that's going to be really successful.
41:25
Speaker 4: The residential lofts, the.
41:29
Speaker 22: Residential projects in downtown Bryan have been very, very successful,
41:34
Speaker 22: irrespective of the fact that obviously there's some issues related
41:36
Speaker 22: to parking. In this case, there's quite a bit of
41:39
Speaker 22: parking in and around this particular property, even behind it.
41:43
Speaker 4: So I don't think that's going to be an issue.
41:46
Speaker 22: We've been working to try to resolve the parking problems
41:49
Speaker 22: of downtown Bryan now for a couple of years. But
41:51
Speaker 22: I think that, you know, the Hotel Bryan is I
41:54
Speaker 22: can remember seeing a homeless person crawling in a window
41:57
Speaker 22: off of the fire escape about 45 years ago. This
42:00
Speaker 22: building is as long as I've been in Bryan. For
42:03
Speaker 22: the most part, I think it has been vacant.
42:04
Speaker 1: It has been about 50 years.
42:07
Speaker 12: I've never known anything to be in it. Except, I mean,
42:09
Speaker 12: you know, and again, it's the one that I think
42:12
Speaker 12: everyone walks through downtown. It's like, well, how has that
42:14
Speaker 12: not been snapped up?
42:16
Speaker 4: Oh, it's directly across from LaSalle.
42:17
Speaker 13: It's the best view.
42:18
Speaker 12: Whenever you get done with the condos or the flats
42:21
Speaker 12: or lofts or whatever you want to call them, it's
42:22
Speaker 12: going to.
42:23
Speaker 13: Be the best view in Bryant.
42:24
Speaker 12: Because it's going to look out immediately on LaSalle, the Queen,
42:27
Speaker 12: everything on that main strip. It's just like, I'm thrilled.
42:31
Speaker 12: that someone is finally doing something.
42:32
Speaker 1: We are as well.
42:33
Speaker 22: And, and like I said, the, the, what we can
42:35
Speaker 22: be proud of too is that we've got an agreement
42:37
Speaker 22: with the developers that is a win-win for both sides. Uh,
42:41
Speaker 22: they're getting some additional funding that's going to allow them
42:44
Speaker 22: to move forward. And, uh, not that, like I say,
42:46
Speaker 22: this is a three, three part investment. Uh, the first, uh,
42:49
Speaker 22: installments of $ 100, 000 grant, there's actually two properties, the property
42:53
Speaker 22: that's the hotel Brian, and then there's a small single story, uh,
42:57
Speaker 22: retail property that's immediately to the right of it.
42:59
Speaker 4: There is.
42:59
Speaker 22: I think there's a payday loan.
43:02
Speaker 9: Yeah.
43:02
Speaker 1: One or two payday loans in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
43:04
Speaker 4: And one of the.
43:05
Speaker 22: Issues is they have long-term leases that must be honored.
43:10
Speaker 22: And so that aspect of it might take a little
43:14
Speaker 22: while longer. It's why there's a 10-year agreement that we
43:16
Speaker 22: have with the developer.
43:17
Speaker 4: All right. So we will get through that.
43:19
Speaker 22: But the lofts and that construction part of it is
43:22
Speaker 22: going to start almost immediately. I think for downtown Bryan,
43:25
Speaker 22: it's really going to be the final project in the
43:30
Speaker 22: southern end of downtown Bryan. We've got some projects planned
43:33
Speaker 22: for the northern end, but this part of downtown Bryan,
43:35
Speaker 22: that area around the LaSalle, around the Carnegie Library, this
43:38
Speaker 22: is the last big project that's going to finish off that.
43:41
Speaker 13: It's got to be such a cool experience living down
43:43
Speaker 13: there for the people that do. And again, you're right.
43:45
Speaker 12: The residential developments that people have done thus far have
43:50
Speaker 12: all been amazingly successful.
43:52
Speaker 4: Wildly successful.
43:54
Speaker 13: It's got to be a really cool experience. More of that, please. Absolutely.
43:58
Speaker 13: What else do we need to get to today?
44:00
Speaker 22: Well, you know, we were talking a little bit about
44:03
Speaker 22: Midtown Park. We've got the boardwalks finished. We're about to
44:07
Speaker 22: open that, the trails in and around the park. The
44:12
Speaker 22: spillway is just about ready to be finished. They've got
44:15
Speaker 22: a few other things before they're going to. theoretically fill
44:18
Speaker 22: the lake with water. That'll have a little rain for that. Uh, and, uh,
44:22
Speaker 22: and then we also, the project over there, the, uh,
44:24
Speaker 22: the signature park is, uh, the playground I should say is, uh, in,
44:28
Speaker 22: in progress.
44:29
Speaker 4: They've done a lot already.
44:30
Speaker 22: Uh, we've got a lot of park projects going out
44:33
Speaker 22: throughout the city. I, and I was looking at all
44:35
Speaker 22: of them this morning.
44:36
Speaker 4: Most of them are related to bringing shade.
44:39
Speaker 15: To the parks.
44:40
Speaker 1: Like shade.
44:41
Speaker 13: Shade's a big thing.
44:42
Speaker 22: Uh, so other than that, uh, you know, we're just
44:44
Speaker 22: rock and roll and moving forward.
44:45
Speaker 4: And, uh, and looking forward to hopefully a little bit
44:48
Speaker 4: of rain and a little bit of cooler weather.
44:50
Speaker 12: I know everyone talks about it when we talk about
44:51
Speaker 12: Midtown again, and we've talked about it, obviously, the theater,
44:54
Speaker 12: the movie ball and grill. And I know you guys
44:57
Speaker 12: have plans, and I know you guys are working. It's
45:00
Speaker 12: a very fluid situation. But should all of those somehow.
45:05
Speaker 13: Fall through, we have a suggestion for you.
45:07
Speaker 10: Okay.
45:07
Speaker 13: Would you entertain an opportunity for a business in there?
45:12
Speaker 22: Well, you know, it's not my property necessarily, but I
45:15
Speaker 22: was certainly... I suspect we would entertain it.
45:17
Speaker 4: What do you have in mind?
45:18
Speaker 13: I'm thinking we could turn it into an avocado farm.
45:22
Speaker 1: That's what we were talking about.
45:24
Speaker 13: Just hear me out.
45:25
Speaker 3: All right.
45:26
Speaker 12: This goes down to a belief that we have on
45:28
Speaker 12: this radio program that it is a fundamental crime to
45:33
Speaker 12: serve guacamole that is not 100% avocado-based. And we are
45:39
Speaker 12: working on our front to... offer certification for restaurants in
45:44
Speaker 12: town that they do not, in fact, cut their guacamole
45:46
Speaker 12: with English peas, and if so, we provide you a certificate,
45:48
Speaker 12: we provide you a sticker, a seal you can place
45:50
Speaker 12: on your business.
45:51
Speaker 1: Something you know so that you have the infomaniac seal
45:54
Speaker 1: of approval on the guac.
45:55
Speaker 13: But Will thought to himself, you know, how hard would
45:57
Speaker 13: it be to grow... avocado trees here i looked it
45:59
Speaker 13: up in brian and you.
46:01
Speaker 1: Do need some cold protection which walls and fences provide
46:04
Speaker 1: and you also need some light of course so we
46:06
Speaker 1: just take the roof off the place and put some
46:08
Speaker 1: of that that clear stuff up there yeah and you
46:10
Speaker 1: get containers and you plant individual avocado trees in each container.
46:14
Speaker 12: You have a grove you have a grove you have
46:16
Speaker 12: a grove maybe maybe that's a fun place to hang
46:19
Speaker 12: out too you know i mean i would hang out
46:20
Speaker 12: there and then you have avocados.
46:23
Speaker 22: Revenue from Brian. Sell the avocados. Well, you'd have to
46:26
Speaker 22: have a margarita machine somewhere.
46:27
Speaker 1: Oh, of course.
46:28
Speaker 5: It's unspoken.
46:29
Speaker 13: Absolutely. But boutique bespoke avocados.
46:33
Speaker 15: Bespoke.
46:34
Speaker 13: From the city of Brian.
46:35
Speaker 1: City of Brian.
46:36
Speaker 4: Well, you know.
46:37
Speaker 1: The good avocados.
46:38
Speaker 22: If you've taken the tour of the river walk over
46:42
Speaker 22: in San Antonio ridden on the boat, I think they
46:44
Speaker 22: go underneath an avocado tree. And it's like the highlight
46:48
Speaker 22: of the boat tour for everyone.
46:49
Speaker 14: Yeah.
46:49
Speaker 4: So this is obviously.
46:51
Speaker 22: Americans, Texans are passionate about their guacamole. I had no
46:54
Speaker 22: idea that there was such a thing as a English
46:57
Speaker 22: pea cut avocado.
46:58
Speaker 13: It's disgraceful.
47:00
Speaker 1: And Tucker will not release the list of his suspects.
47:04
Speaker 12: Of the restaurants that are square in the tar. But it's,
47:07
Speaker 12: you know, life's expensive.
47:09
Speaker 15: Avocados are expensive.
47:09
Speaker 1: We're idea men, and we like to throw ideas out
47:12
Speaker 1: there and see what sticks.
47:13
Speaker 13: Can't execute anything, but we can at least.
47:15
Speaker 1: We can give you the start.
47:16
Speaker 15: We'll give you that.
47:17
Speaker 13: Maybe that brainstorming session.
47:18
Speaker 22: Well, I'll see if I can get another council member
47:20
Speaker 22: to put it on the agenda, and we'll see if
47:22
Speaker 22: we can make that happen.
47:23
Speaker 13: All right.
47:24
Speaker 1: That's all we can ask.
47:25
Speaker 22: I would just add that if people want to stay
47:27
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47:32
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47:38
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47:42
Speaker 22: all of our agenda software. So there's a lot of
47:44
Speaker 22: information on there, and it gives you an opportunity to
47:47
Speaker 22: know if you, for instance, want to come to city council,
47:49
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47:51
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47:54
Speaker 22: a part of what we do.
47:55
Speaker 17: Beautiful.
47:56
Speaker 5: James, thank you so much.
47:57
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Speaker 1: Once again, we throw an idea out there, and you
51:07
Speaker 1: as the infomaniac family are all over it.
51:10
Speaker 13: I think we should have our own.
51:11
Speaker 12: I do think we should investigate the idea of turning
51:14
Speaker 12: Brian into the avocado capital of Texas.
51:18
Speaker 1: I think, I mean. I think it's a natural fit.
51:21
Speaker 14: Oh, boy.
51:21
Speaker 13: Marshall texts in.
51:22
Speaker 12: If y'all are serious about the indoor avocado farm I
51:24
Speaker 12: want in, I am a plant scientist.
51:26
Speaker 13: Let's go.
51:26
Speaker 1: It can be done. It can be done.
51:29
Speaker 13: Marshall, Marshall, tell us. Yeah, exactly. We need we don't
51:32
Speaker 13: need help on on. We need help on the execution.
51:35
Speaker 12: We need to know how many avocado trees can we
51:38
Speaker 12: fit in a given space.
51:40
Speaker 14: Right.
51:40
Speaker 12: Then at that point, does building X become attractive building Y?
51:43
Speaker 12: Because it's got to be indoors. We're not going to
51:45
Speaker 12: leave our own. We want climate-controlled, again, bespoke avocados. I
51:49
Speaker 12: want avocados so good that you have to pay twice,
51:51
Speaker 12: triple the market value for Brian.
51:53
Speaker 1: And you'll do it and be happy.
51:54
Speaker 13: And you'll be thrilled. I want an avocado tasting room
51:58
Speaker 13: in that particular zone.
51:59
Speaker 1: We could use the ones that Mayor Pro Tem Edge
52:01
Speaker 1: was just talking about, the little spaces there.
52:03
Speaker 12: I want to see Guac Live, like they used to
52:06
Speaker 12: back it on the border.
52:07
Speaker 13: At the table.
52:09
Speaker 12: Making it table side with Brian avocados. Does that not
52:13
Speaker 12: fill you?
52:14
Speaker 13: With a sense of civic pride.
52:15
Speaker 14: It does.
52:16
Speaker 12: And again, like we said, if you are a restaurant
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Speaker 12: that's ready to allow us to certify that you have
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Speaker 12: all 100% avocado in your guacamole, texting us works.
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Speaker 17: 979-695-1620.
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Speaker 13: All we need is an invitation.
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Speaker 12: We will handle the rest, and we will provide you
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Speaker 12: with the resources to let your customers know the Infomaniacs
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Speaker 12: have certified that there are no peas in your guacamole.
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Speaker 12: We have a plan for this, and we are going
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Speaker 12: to salute the establishments in this community that believe in
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Speaker 12: quality enough to not even think about putting peas.
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Speaker 13: How is this something we're having to talk about?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd never heard of this until you
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Speaker 1: brought it up. What was it, last week?
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Speaker 13: Absolutely criminal. But we are doing our part.
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Speaker 1: We're trying. We're giving it the old guac try.
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Speaker 13: All you Tex-Mex people out there, hit us up.
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Speaker 12: We will do our part to make sure everyone knows
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Speaker 12: that you are not the problem when it comes to peas.
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Speaker 1: You even put together a certificate.
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Speaker 13: I've got a certificate right now. I've got a sticker
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Speaker 13: right now. Peter Madden of Guacamoles with peas is an abomination.
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Speaker 13: I am down for certification. Peter, tell us when, tell
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Speaker 13: us where.
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Speaker 1: We'll be there. We will be there.
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Speaker 15: I would love to.
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Speaker 12: I would love to let the first certificate go to
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Speaker 12: the great local chef.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean.
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Speaker 13: Peter Madden.
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Speaker 1: It's almost, it's fate.
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Speaker 13: It is, man.
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Speaker 12: We're going to chip away at this one Tex-Mex staple
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Speaker 12: of time. One bowl of delicious all avocado guacamole at-
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Speaker 12: A time.
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Speaker 1: After we solve the guacamole issue. What is our next
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Speaker 1: windmill to tilt at?
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Speaker 14: I don't know.
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Speaker 12: I think, honestly, for me right now, guacamole is front
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Speaker 12: and center. Median seems like it might handle itself. So
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Speaker 12: I'm not I don't feel.
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Speaker 13: Too terribly worried about that one.
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Speaker 1: We're not going to jump on the flock camera destruction
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Speaker 1: bandwagon either.
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Speaker 12: Not yet, although I need to mention the comments on
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Speaker 12: that news story yesterday have been fantastic.
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Speaker 13: Very I am Spartacus vibes.
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Speaker 1: Lots of people claiming that that person was helping them
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Speaker 1: save the whales at that point in time.
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Speaker 13: This person was.
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Speaker 12: was with me helping feed the homeless in Austin.
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Speaker 1: We were all the way across the state. Another person
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Speaker 1: said they were at a church service with them.
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Speaker 13: Exactly.
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Speaker 12: This person says he was proposing marriage to my daughter
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Speaker 12: is what I had heard from. So again, I don't know.
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Speaker 12: It looks like you're going to have to have a
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Speaker 12: pretty open and shut case. But again, I just say,
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Speaker 12: I like fighting the battles that are not. There seems
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Speaker 12: like a lot of people that are already engaged in
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Speaker 12: that one. We're going to look for the underdogs.
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Speaker 13: The guacamole side of things. But that's why we are here.
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Speaker 12: Remember, if you missed any of the show today, including
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Speaker 12: great discussions with both James Edge from City of Bryan
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Speaker 12: and Chuck Conner of County, catch up online, WTW.com, 1620-945-WTW.