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The Infomaniacs: September 21st 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: News is presented by David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange. They buy, sell,
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  Speaker 1: and trade gold, silver, diamonds, jewelry, watches, and collectible coins,
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  Speaker 1: and consistently pay the most. Learn more at davidsjewelryandcoins.com. Good
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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. A Venezuelan
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  Speaker 1: national was shot by ICE agents in Austin Sunday afternoon.
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  Speaker 2: That person was transported to Dale Seton Medical Center with
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  Speaker 2: a gunshot wound, is in stable condition.
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  Speaker 1: That's Austin Mayor Kirk Watson. While holding a press conference
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  Speaker 1: in Austin yesterday, he warned of the dangers of releasing
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  Speaker 1: rumors instead of facts.
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  Speaker 2: People moving too quickly and making assumptions that might be
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  Speaker 2: there in their own heads, what they end up doing
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  Speaker 2: is they enhance the fear. They enhance something being wrong,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's very difficult to rein it back in.
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  Speaker 2: As we have more information, we're going to make that
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  Speaker 2: information available to you, but we wanted to get in
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  Speaker 2: front of of this as quickly as we could, even
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  Speaker 2: though we know it's extremely preliminary, it's extremely early.
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  Speaker 1: 28-year-old Wilbur Rafael Garces Perez had final orders for removal.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Petey was not involved in the operation and do
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  Speaker 1: not typically assist ICE operations in the city. For the
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  Speaker 1: second time in less than a week, a local law
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  Speaker 1: enforcement agency has made a bust for organized retail theft.
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  Speaker 1: College Station police were called to the target in the
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  Speaker 1: 2100 block of Texas Avenue South around 8.30 Thursday evening.
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  Speaker 1: for reports that two women were stealing jewelry. Surveillance video
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  Speaker 1: showed 23-year-old Tanya Cruz Mateo and 20-year-old Brenda Sanchez Hernandez
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  Speaker 1: removing jewelry from its packaging and pocketing the items. The
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  Speaker 1: women were identified using Mexican passports. Cruz Mateo was stopped
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  Speaker 1: by security with nearly $ 200 worth of merchandise. She was
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  Speaker 1: charged with organized retail theft between $ 100 and $ 750 and
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  Speaker 1: is being held on $ 10, 000 bond. Her partner, Sanchez Hernandez,
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  Speaker 1: discarded items in a restroom trash can before leaving the store.
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  Speaker 1: Police recovered just over $ 50 in jewelry. She was charged
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  Speaker 1: with organized theft under $ 100 and tampering with evidence. She's
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  Speaker 1: being held on $ 25, 000 bond. Some construction getting underway in
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  Speaker 1: College Station. Starting today, Marion Pugh will be fully closed
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  Speaker 1: from the Stadium View southern exit to south of Luther Street.
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  Speaker 1: That will last for about two weeks as crews install water, wastewater,
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  Speaker 1: and storm crossings. However, the entire rehab project is expected
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  Speaker 1: to continue until after the first of the year. You
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  Speaker 1: can visit WTAW.com for updates on closures. As always, be patient,
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  Speaker 1: exercise caution, and expect delays when traveling through work zones.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S. military is shooting down cartel-linked drones with lasers
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  Speaker 1: in the Rio Grande Valley. Ali Bradley has more.
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  Speaker 3: The military says 300 drones have been defeated along the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: southern border this year, 100 in August alone. And military
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  Speaker 3: officials have reported a 75 percent decrease in detections of
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  Speaker 3: those cartel-linked drones here along the southern border in the
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  Speaker 3: Rio Grande Valley since that high-energy laser was deployed at
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  Speaker 3: the end of August.
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  Speaker 1: The counter-drone push is being attributed to a rise in
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  Speaker 1: narcotic seizures. because agents now have the resources to pursue
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  Speaker 1: drug smuggling more aggressively. News is presented by David's Jewelry
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  Speaker 1: and Coin Exchange. More news ahead at 8.30 or anytime
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  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 4: Tom Turbeville here. If you're considering selling your jewelry, collectible coins,
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  Speaker 4: gold or silver, bullion, or other unique items, you'll find
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  Speaker 4: the experienced team at David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange ready
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  Speaker 4: to serve you. Selling your items is simple. Just take
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  Speaker 4: them into the store for a complete evaluation. You then
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  Speaker 4: have the option to sell your items for cash, exchange
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  Speaker 4: them for other pieces from their inventory.
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  Speaker 1: or take some time to think about the offer.
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  Speaker 4: Visit David's Jewelry and Coin Exchange for a quick, hassle-free
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  Speaker 4: experience that will only take about 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW. Weather today, 30% chance of rain is the interesting part.
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  Speaker 5: The less interesting part, highs in the upper 90s, feeling
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  Speaker 1: 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 5: Related to Will and absolutely refusing to feed his dog
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  Speaker 5: people food at any point.
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  Speaker 1: Just the way it is.
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  Speaker 5: Guests are not allowed to provide Cheez-Its. That is a problem.
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  Speaker 5: We did get a text from Greg. We have outside dogs.
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  Speaker 5: What they find edible poking around our property makes table
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  Speaker 5: scraps gourmet food.
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  Speaker 1: With you. I frequently... Annie likes grasshoppers, butterflies, and toad
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  Speaker 1: jerky from the road.
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  Speaker 5: Toad jerky. Now, this is not related to anything. I
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  Speaker 5: think it was related to the idea that dog treats
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  Speaker 5: are technically, in some cases, human edible.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Susan texts in, as a kid... My brother used to
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  Speaker 5: feed me dog food sandwiches, telling me it was mom's meatloaf.
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  Speaker 5: Dog food sandwiches.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you're aware, Susan, your brother's a psychopath.
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  Speaker 5: My brother is twisted.
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  Speaker 1: I had a neighbor that would, you know, just on
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  Speaker 1: a dare, a standard dare, would eat cat food. You know,
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  Speaker 1: not the wet stuff, just the meow mix.
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  Speaker 5: That is absolutely poor.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now.
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  Speaker 5: Moving on, I do have some sympathy for you, though, Will.
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  Speaker 5: Spoiling a dog is probably not the best idea because
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  Speaker 5: you want your dog to be a hero if the
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  Speaker 5: situation calls for it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not sure that Annie could be a hero.
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  Speaker 5: You don't know. You never know.
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  Speaker 1: She tries to defend us from the Home Depot commercial,
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  Speaker 1: which aired all day on Saturday with a doorbell in it.
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  Speaker 1: That was fun.
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  Speaker 5: That should be illegal, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't even sound like our doorbell.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: Andy never been exposed to another doorbell.
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  Speaker 5: You should not be allowed to put doorbells in commercials.
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  Speaker 1: That was bad.
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  Speaker 5: It's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: No, no.
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  Speaker 5: An intruder broke into a home in San Diego. Homeowners
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  Speaker 5: were not there, but you know who was?
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  Speaker 7: Nash.
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  Speaker 8: Nash.
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  Speaker 5: Nash is their 90-pound golden retriever.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it was all fine after you said 90-pound, and
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  Speaker 1: then you said golden retriever. That dog ain't doing nothing.
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  Speaker 5: He brought the intruder toys trying to get him to
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  Speaker 5: play with them.
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  Speaker 9: I just watched it all happen from my phone. The dogs, like,
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  Speaker 9: we just wanted to make sure that they were safe.
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  Speaker 9: Nash was not the greatest guard dog. We thought that
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  Speaker 9: he was going to be barking at people, and he
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  Speaker 9: did the exact opposite.
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  Speaker 5: Nash is not a guard.
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  Speaker 1: No, he's not. He was a very welcoming dog. This
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  Speaker 1: is great.
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  Speaker 5: This is fun for Nash.
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  Speaker 1: Look, somebody new to play with.
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  Speaker 5: Did the intruder play with him? Do we have video
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  Speaker 5: of that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that. He may have thrown the toy once.
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  Speaker 1: I did watch the video eventually. So they were on
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  Speaker 1: an airplane. The family was on an airplane. They were
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  Speaker 1: connected via Wi-Fi. They got the alert that there was
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  Speaker 1: somebody inside their house. So the police came, and the
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  Speaker 1: dog brought the police a toy. And the guy had
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  Speaker 1: tried to slip out the back. He was... No thanks
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  Speaker 1: to the dog.
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  Speaker 5: Best dog ever.
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  Speaker 1: Best dog.
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  Speaker 5: The goodest boy. I want to talk about this because I, man,
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  Speaker 5: maybe it'll hit you different. Some couples, obviously, if they're
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  Speaker 5: having problems, you get to this point where you just
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  Speaker 5: try and do anything to keep your relationship alive. One
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  Speaker 5: of the new strategies is a food divorce where couples,
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  Speaker 5: if you're trying to cut down on things you argue about,
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  Speaker 5: you have a food divorce. You eat separately, even when
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  Speaker 5: living in the same house.
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  Speaker 1: I can see it.
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  Speaker 5: I saw a moment of realization where you're like, well,
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  Speaker 5: that might make sense. Why does it make sense, you ask? Well,
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  Speaker 5: because when you are planning cooking and eating as a unit,
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  Speaker 5: it can be a source of argument every single meal.
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  Speaker 5: So the idea is simple. Just don't eat with each other.
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  Speaker 5: And it seems to be Catching on. A couple who
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  Speaker 5: were home for every meal realized how much friction three
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  Speaker 5: shared meals a day created once they realized that you
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  Speaker 5: just shouldn't be involved.
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  Speaker 1: It's not the meal itself. It's deciding what the meal is.
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  Speaker 5: It's the decision.
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  Speaker 1: If I could open up a restaurant that was named
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  Speaker 1: I don't know or I don't care, that restaurant would
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  Speaker 1: be all the time because.
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  Speaker 5: Why is that so hard?
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  Speaker 1: It's not hard for me because... Because you're you. I
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  Speaker 1: will find what works or I will create what works.
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  Speaker 1: Not necessarily what I would want, but it's what's available
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  Speaker 1: for sustenance.
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  Speaker 5: This makes the most sense to eat right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll do that. The rest of my family is
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  Speaker 1: incredibly picky. They rarely eat leftovers unless it's the ones
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  Speaker 1: that I threw out. Then those were the ones they want. Right?
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  Speaker 1: So that's problem number one. Number two... my wife, bless
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  Speaker 1: her heart, she doesn't eat much at all. I mean, literally,
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  Speaker 1: not much at all. But yet, she is, she has
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate veto power on food.
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  Speaker 5: If she didn't want to eat it, it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 5: we're not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: So, sweetheart, what do you want? I mean, and the
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  Speaker 1: other problem is schedules because she's a school teacher. She's
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  Speaker 1: getting home. You're waking up at 6, 7 o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the evening. I will want to eat by about 5. So,
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  Speaker 1: that's all the problems there. Finding something that All of
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  Speaker 1: everybody will eat is so tough. And I capitulate all
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  Speaker 1: the time. I swear, just pick something. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what it is. I don't care what restaurant. it is
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  Speaker 1: I will find something there that I can get.
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  Speaker 5: Through I know like I for me I've had the
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  Speaker 5: reverse of this to where like generally if you're asking
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  Speaker 5: me what I want to eat I can always find
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  Speaker 5: something and it's because it's just I don't put that
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  Speaker 5: much thought into it problem as soon as rain asks
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  Speaker 5: me what what do you want to eat then for
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  Speaker 5: whatever reason I just go I lock up Oh.
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  Speaker 1: I will throw it out, answer out instantly, and then
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  Speaker 1: comes the response. No, I don't want that.
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  Speaker 5: Do you know what a great solution for this is?
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  Speaker 5: It takes a little bit of prep, but I would
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  Speaker 5: like to introduce you to the wheel of dinner.
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  Speaker 1: It's great in concept.
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  Speaker 5: Ha ha ha!
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  Speaker 1: However, I can assure you, if it landed on anything
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  Speaker 1: that was not exactly what.
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  Speaker 5: But that's the idea. You try to get the things
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  Speaker 5: that they're not going to say no to, and you
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  Speaker 5: put those.
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  Speaker 1: Onto the wheel of dinner. Does it matter? Even if
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  Speaker 1: it's her favorite thing, if I suggest it, at that moment,
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  Speaker 1: she won't touch it.
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  Speaker 10: Oh!
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  Speaker 5: This is... That is a wrinkle. That is a wrinkle.
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  Speaker 1: I feel strongly about that.
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  Speaker 5: Wow. Text messages. Most of these actually will have to
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  Speaker 5: do with... Have to do with the dog.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Back to Nash, the hero who just wanted to play
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  Speaker 5: with the intruder. Lori texted Nash, kept the intruder busy
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  Speaker 5: for the cops to have time to arrive. This is
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  Speaker 5: 4D chess by Nash.
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  Speaker 11: It is.
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  Speaker 5: This is he was like, you know what? If I'm
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  Speaker 5: a good boy, they're going to want to pet Nash
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  Speaker 5: and play with Nash. And that's going to be better
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  Speaker 5: for everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Don Ellen says something similar, beg to differ. Nash kept
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  Speaker 1: the intruder there by begging him to play.
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  Speaker 5: Amazing.
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  Speaker 1: What's worse is that the police did not play with Nash,
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  Speaker 1: who was a good boy.
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  Speaker 12: What?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, come on. Well, the police were busy kind of
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  Speaker 1: clearing the house for their own safety, so I can
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  Speaker 1: see where they weren't distracted at the moment.
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  Speaker 5: You've got to go back to Nash.
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  Speaker 1: And what training would you have to have in order
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  Speaker 1: to resist a golden with a toy?
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  Speaker 5: It's like, how cold is your.
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  Speaker 1: Heart, officer?
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  Speaker 5: Finally, Jason wants to know how Annie does when other
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  Speaker 5: dogs come on the television since she is so reactive
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  Speaker 5: to the Home Depot Nick Saban doorbell.
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  Speaker 1: If there's barks or, you know, there's animal noises on
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  Speaker 1: the television, it will get her a little bit. After
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  Speaker 1: reading the article last week, we didn't get to it,
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  Speaker 1: but I had it in prep, that apparently chihuahuas are
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  Speaker 1: 3% to 4% identical in their DNA to coyotes.
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry?
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  Speaker 13: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Chihuahuas, 3% to 4% identical DNA as a coyote.
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  Speaker 5: That seems strange.
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  Speaker 1: Explains a lot.
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  Speaker 5: It's just temperament.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And Annie being half Chihuahua, therefore, she got a
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  Speaker 1: little wild.
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  Speaker 5: She got a little bit of that dog in her. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Got a little bit of that dog in her.
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  Speaker 1: So I started over the weekend. I was like, I
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  Speaker 1: wonder what she would do if I howled.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, no, Will.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Did she respond?
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  Speaker 1: She did not howl back, but it did freak her
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  Speaker 1: out a little bit. She was like, that sound has
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  Speaker 1: never come from you.
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  Speaker 5: Sounds like the song of my people.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it did distract her from what she was doing.
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  Speaker 5: We got to take a break. We'll be back right
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  Speaker 5: after this.
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  Speaker 16: Telerico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
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  Speaker 8: But it gets worse.
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  Speaker 5: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning, Infomaniacs. Monday. Glad you're here. Remember, 979-695-1620
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  Speaker 5: is our text number. Connie says, my mom had six
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  Speaker 5: kids and she always gave us a choice at mealtime.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 5: That's nice. The choices were take it or leave it,
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  Speaker 5: and it was a final decision.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I have to go back to both Don Allen and
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  Speaker 1: Lori who texted in essentially the same thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And then Lori texted back. She's like, Don Allen is
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  Speaker 1: my sister. Great minds. I don't know. They can't be
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  Speaker 1: twins because today is actually Don Ellen's birthday, according to
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  Speaker 1: her sister, Lori. So if it was if they were twins,
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  Speaker 1: then it would be Lori's birthday as well. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they're twins. But happy birthday, Don Ellen.
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  Speaker 5: Do people ever confront you and say that their moments
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  Speaker 5: were it? I'm not saying this. I don't believe it.
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  Speaker 5: But I've had people say that come off as condescending occasionally.
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  Speaker 10: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: So you get that.
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  Speaker 18: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Especially like all of my wife's family. The first time
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  Speaker 1: they met me, all of the cousins were coming up
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  Speaker 1: to Mandy. He's kind of a jerk.
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  Speaker 5: But that's part of it for me. I think it's
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  Speaker 5: my face. My face just looks like this. And I'm
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  Speaker 5: really I'm really not unhappy. It's just I have this
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  Speaker 5: face and also I'm a little bit dry. So it
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  Speaker 5: makes people think that I'm like you.
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  Speaker 1: Said, you have one of the biggest hearts ever.
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  Speaker 5: I would like to think I mean, not saying that.
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  Speaker 5: Some probably have much bigger. And I would like to
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  Speaker 1: certain parts of my heart that are that are thought. Oh, OK.
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  Speaker 5: So that's that's all you need is a couple of chambers.
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  Speaker 5: That's it. I did want to examine. This article, which
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  Speaker 5: basically if you end up being in kind of our
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  Speaker 5: situation where people think you're condescending and you're not, you're not.
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  Speaker 5: That is a big similarity.
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  Speaker 1: article reminded me of.
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  Speaker 5: If you've got some that you want to share, please, 979-695-1620.
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  Speaker 5: Let's start working our way through these, shall we? You
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't understand is one that I, see, I've said that.
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  Speaker 1: That one feels condescending just from the get-go. Yeah, you
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  Speaker 5: You're not cool enough.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way it comes off.
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  Speaker 1: I could see that one.
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  Speaker 5: What if it's a big deal to them? You should
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  Speaker 1: You're still a failure.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: That's encouraging.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: It could be.
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  Speaker 4: You're trying your best.
• 18:45
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  Speaker 5: Don't have enough. All you can ask is your best.
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  Speaker 1: That's kind of like your boss telling you sending you
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  Speaker 1: home is like laying off my two best workers. What?
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: I think it's keeping you here is like laying off
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  Speaker 5: Here's the one that gets people all the time. Well, actually,
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: this one drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, that.
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  Speaker 5: And I will call it out because there's a, like, well, actually, like,
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: it's a voice I do.
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  Speaker 1: Actually. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Pushes glasses up on nose. It's an obnoxious thing.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: It is. That one's... Well, actually. That one is obnoxious.
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: There's an explanation coming that is probably wrong. Probably wrong.
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  Speaker 5: And finally.
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  Speaker 1: We can call that one the Cliff Clavin.
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: The Cliff... That's cute. It can come off as belittling
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: or patronizing.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: That all depends on how you say it. Because, I mean,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: if my daughter comes out, she's wearing something nice. that's cute.
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  Speaker 5: See, what if it is cute?
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: See, that's the thing. It always comes down to how
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: you say it.
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  Speaker 1: The women in my life will tell me this. There's
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  Speaker 1: two iterations of this phrase, and they will say each
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  Speaker 1: of them in two different ways Meaning two different things.
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  Speaker 1: it means. I know what it means. And they will
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  Speaker 1: also say, you're not funny. And I'm like, which one
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: do you? It's so confusing.
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  Speaker 5: They cannot be true at the same time. Jason says,
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  Speaker 5: Was that condescending? I didn't take it as condescending at all.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it looks like there is an accident just south
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Immigrations
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  Speaker 1: and custom enforcement agents have been involved in another shooting
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  Speaker 1: in Texas.
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  Speaker 11: One individual was identified suffering from a gunshot wound. The
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  Speaker 11: patient was stable, vital sensor stable, but in serious condition.
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  Speaker 11: They were transported off the scene within nine minutes of
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  Speaker 11: as I said, in serious but stable condition.
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  Speaker 1: That was Austin-Travis County EMS Chief Rob Lucris at a
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  Speaker 1: press conference held yesterday in Austin. 28-year-old Wilbur Rafael Gracias
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  Speaker 1: Perez of Venezuela was shot just after noon on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Fox News said he had been issued final orders for removal.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Austin Mayor Kirk Watson says they've seen a dramatic increase
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  Speaker 1: in ICE enforcement in their city.
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  Speaker 2: I think in one week we saw it go from
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: kind of on one hand to in the 30s, and
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  Speaker 2: that happened in less than a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: The identity of the agent has not been released. A
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  Speaker 1: shoplifter is facing a lot more than theft charges after
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  Speaker 1: 32-year-old Alcario Villarreal of Louisville left the store without paying
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  Speaker 1: During his arrest, he was found with a THC vape
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  Speaker 1: for at least a portion of the money the state
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  Speaker 18: Governor Abbott announced Texas will receive $ 7. 5 billion through the U.S.
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  Speaker 18: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: The busiest port on the southern border for livestock inspections,
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  Speaker 1: which is near El Paso, is back open. Ag Secretary
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  Speaker 1: Brooke Rollins says this is part of a phased reopening
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  Speaker 1: as cases of an invasive flesh-eating fly are on the decline.
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  Speaker 3: We have contained, we're not yet at eradication, so I
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  Speaker 22: We have two active cases.
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  Speaker 1: Rollins admitted that closing the port created financial challenges for
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  Speaker 1: the Texas agriculture industry. But now that it's reopening... She
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  Speaker 1: says it will help ease pressure on the cattle supply
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  Speaker 1: Texas Department of Transportation is halting flock camera permits on
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  Speaker 25: At the direction of Governor Abbott, TxDOTA suspended permits for
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  Speaker 25: along state highways and roads, although some 900 are already
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  Speaker 25: in use. State Senator Charles Perry of Lubbock tells KXAN
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  Speaker 25: he wants stronger misuse consequences for cops like termination and
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  Speaker 18: It is incumbent that they are punished, not internally to
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  Speaker 1: Eric Lankham, TSN News. The suspension also applies to cameras
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  Speaker 1: approved but not yet installed. Big changes are happening at
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  Speaker 1: Most of the classes dropped deal with race, gender, and sexuality.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Sherry Sylvester with the Texas Public Policy Foundation says this
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  Speaker 5: It feels like about 106, actually less than 100, but
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  Speaker 1: Looking like late afternoon, early evening on that timing.
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  Speaker 5: Usually when we talk to the Salvation Army, this is
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  Speaker 5: a two-person job. But today, Kathy's handling the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck, Kathy. We're all counting on you.
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  Speaker 5: Yes. So let's talk. There's several things we need to
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: talk about with you guys. And all of them have
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: to do with the fall. Because this is... I didn't
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: realize that we were right on the cusp today. of
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: where y'all's busy season begins. I thought you still had
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  Speaker 5: a few more weeks to ease into it, but this
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  Speaker 5: is not the case, apparently.
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  Speaker 13: No, sir. Our Angel Tree applications opened up today.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Today!
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: Angel Tree is officially open.
• 37:45
  Speaker 21: It is.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Well, there was a.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: We went sub-100 days a little while ago, which is,
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: when you think about it, it's still almost like a
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: quarter of the year, but.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: We all know that the Christmas decorations will be in
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: there the day after Halloween, if not before.
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: If not already. It's creeping up fast. Angel Tree, of course,
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: if you're not familiar, is it your biggest undertaking every
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: single year?
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  Speaker 13: Between, well.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, in terms of all the stuff that has
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: to happen for it.
• 38:22
  Speaker 13: It's kind of a toss-up between that and the kettles.
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Both happening concurrently.
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: At the exact same time, of course. So when it
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: comes to a play, what do people need to know
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: if they are thinking they might be able to, that
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: this would be a blessing to their holidays, be able
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: to utilize some of the services you guys have?
• 38:44
  Speaker 13: Well, if they would like to, if they need help
• 38:46
  Speaker 13: with Angel Tree, for their children, They can go online
• 38:50
  Speaker 13: and find the resources for that and apply. But if
• 38:53
  Speaker 13: they think they would like to volunteer, they can also
• 38:56
  Speaker 13: go through our website and volunteer through our website or
• 38:59
  Speaker 13: they can just contact me.
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  Speaker 5: How has volunteering been the last couple of years organizationally?
• 39:07
  Speaker 13: We can always improve.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: We can always improve and we can always use more.
• 39:12
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: What kind of jobs are people volunteering for? What do
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: you have to offer them there?
• 39:18
  Speaker 13: For Angel Tree, we have organization and distribution things. So basically,
• 39:24
  Speaker 13: they would just go to the warehouse, which that opens
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: up towards the end of November, early December. And they
• 39:30
  Speaker 13: would go to the warehouse and they would organize the toys.
• 39:34
  Speaker 13: And then once distribution day happens, then they would gift
• 39:36
  Speaker 13: those toys to those families.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Wonderful. Very cool. That's a very cool.
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: This is another great thing too, for Pete. I think
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: a lot of times you think, okay, well, I would,
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: I love what they're doing. I want to help out.
• 39:48
  Speaker 5: the first thing you think for a lot of people
• 39:50
  Speaker 5: financially is, okay, I'm going to donate to this. Volunteering
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: can sometimes be a bigger deal than a financial contribution
• 40:01
  Speaker 5: because unless you have people, it doesn't really matter how
• 40:03
  Speaker 5: much money you have.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: And the return on investment for volunteering, I can tell
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: you in similar circumstances, is amazing.
• 40:10
  Speaker 5: It's a wonderful thing. It's also a great thing if
• 40:15
  Speaker 5: you struggle to get into the christmas spirit uh it
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: is hard to not get into the frame of mind
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: of the holidays when you're working to give uh presents
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: to kids at christmas that would not normally or ring
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: a bell or ring a bell at a kettle i
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: mean that that's such a fun time like that's that's
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: really a great a great thing so we're already talking
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: about that and uh and if you would like to
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: get involved please uh they would love to love to
• 40:43
  Speaker 5: talk to you what else do.
• 40:43
  Speaker 13: We have going on Well, this week we have our
• 40:46
  Speaker 13: Behind the Red Shield event.
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 40:48
  Speaker 13: And we're actually asking people if you bring in paper
• 40:51
  Speaker 13: products or a friend, you get an extra ticket for
• 40:53
  Speaker 13: a raffle.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: What is paper?
• 40:54
  Speaker 5: It's a paper product.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: What are you looking for?
• 40:56
  Speaker 13: Just things like paper plates, paper towels, hygiene products, things
• 41:01
  Speaker 13: of that nature for our food pantry.
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 41:04
  Speaker 21: All right.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: So you get an extra raffle ticket.
• 41:07
  Speaker 22: Yes.
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 41:08
  Speaker 20: Yeah.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Maybe. What are some of the items that you're giving away?
• 41:11
  Speaker 13: 55-inch television. And that's courtesy of Signature Care.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 41:16
  Speaker 21: Wonderful. All right.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Just in time for more football games.
• 41:20
  Speaker 5: Just in time for more football games that are just
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: going to make you just as angry as the.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Not if you're watching the Ole Miss game.
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: That's true. That's true. It's a programming problem. Anything else
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: you want to get to?
• 41:31
  Speaker 13: We do have two events in November. I'll just kind
• 41:34
  Speaker 13: of mention those really fast. That's November 7th. We have
• 41:39
  Speaker 13: a Stuff the Chapel event. And that's a food drive.
• 41:41
  Speaker 14: Oh.
• 41:42
  Speaker 13: Because we are needing food for our food pantry.
• 41:45
  Speaker 26: Okay.
• 41:46
  Speaker 13: But we're going to make that a family event so
• 41:48
  Speaker 13: that people can feel like they're participating and make memories
• 41:52
  Speaker 13: as they're getting food for the food pantry.
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: Pantry so what are you what are y'all gonna do
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: i mean stuff the chapel obviously bring as much food
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: as you can that's.
• 41:59
  Speaker 13: The idea we're gonna it's similar to our uh back
• 42:03
  Speaker 13: to school bash where we had that's.
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: Right yeah all the extra stuff there i love that
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: yeah making an.
• 42:09
  Speaker 13: Event yeah we're gonna have games bounce house things of
• 42:12
  Speaker 13: that nature and um then our christmas kickoff november 13th.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Tucker is too shy to ask but what he really
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: wants to know is there an age limit on the
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: bounce house That is always a very serious question.
• 42:25
  Speaker 13: Well, I'm not the one renting it, but I can
• 42:28
  Speaker 13: find out.
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: It's always good to ask. You just never know. So
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: that's a lot. And obviously, there's a million ways you
• 42:38
  Speaker 5: can plug in if you want to help through volunteering.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: And financially, there's always a lot of opportunities to donate
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: as well, especially during the holiday season. We will be
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: talking about most of those a whole lot. Anything else
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: you want to get to today?
• 42:53
  Speaker 13: I just want to thank everybody. Thank you for having me,
• 42:55
  Speaker 13: and thank you all for anyone who contributes in any way.
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  Speaker 5: You do have a 30% chance of showers and thunderstorms
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: this afternoon. That's really the only thing making it interesting.
• 45:52
  Speaker 5: Other than that, 100-ish, 98, somewhere around there, I feel
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: like 106. Now, as we look forward into the future,
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: is there anything... Anything different? And the answer is kind of.
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: By Friday, maybe mid-90s is what we're talking about. Lows
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: maybe dipping below 70. Not sure. But mid-90s weekend, that's
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I am.
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  Speaker 9: Sorry.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: As a beekeeper, you're passionate about honey.
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I am.
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: I was passionate about honey long before I became a beekeeper,
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: but I am, I'm passionate about the honey.
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: Are you passionate about hot honey?
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: I don't have enough experience to make a judgment. I
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: have tried very few things with the hot honey.
• 46:55
  Speaker 24: Yeah.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: So far it's been okay.
• 46:57
  Speaker 21: All right.
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: Um, I don't have enough experience with it.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: I like honey. I like my honey to taste like honey.
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: I don't understand the hot honey fixation. Even Subway is
• 47:11
  Speaker 5: doing Doritos nachos where they're hitting them with hot honey.
• 47:16
  Speaker 5: Hot honey does not need to be on everything.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: No, it's kind of like everybody's looking for the next
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: pumpkin spice.
• 47:22
  Speaker 5: I think it is going to, if we look into
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: the future, there's a really good chance that Pumpkin spice
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: is going to be replaced by an obsession with hot honey.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Lots of people like it. My daughter likes it.
• 47:36
  Speaker 5: Now, it already may be getting to the point where
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: we need to dial it back. Again, I feel that way,
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: but that's an unpopular opinion. But I challenge you. I
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: challenge you to tell me why we would need hot
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: honey spam.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: It's a good question. Spam is coming out with the
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: hot honey varieties to add to the teriyaki, the barbecue,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: and everything else. And it's not a limited time thing.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: They're coming out with it immediately.
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: Hot honey spam.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: Full bore, full-time flavor.
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: Which is the more shocking part of this for me
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: because usually whenever you hear a story like this, it's like, okay,
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: for a month, maybe you'll have to go to their
• 48:15
  Speaker 5: website and you can order a can of hot honey spam.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Sometimes they'll test that. They'll use that as a test marker.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: They don't need that.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: By the way, Fifteen different flavors of Spam.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: There are.
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: Fifteen. And yeah, you name most of them, but there's
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: also bacon. There's an oven-roasted turkey.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: Spam. I don't understand.
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: What does that have to... Hickory smoked Spam?
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe.
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: Jalapeno Spam?
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not so much.
• 48:43
  Speaker 5: I get that it's not necessarily popular everywhere and that
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: there are parts of the country and the world, mainly Hawaii...
• 48:52
  Speaker 5: Where spam is.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: It's king.
• 48:54
  Speaker 5: It's a big deal. People love it. It is not
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: necessarily something that translates here in Texas.
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: And I think that's... But... I don't think it's a
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: taste thing because people in the South especially eat a
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: lot of things that taste worse than spam.
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: You really do. But I don't... I just... I'll never
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: understand spam.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I haven't had it in decades.
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's been forever.
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: But I'm not opposed to it.
• 49:20
  Speaker 20: I mean, I.
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: And again, I'm open to it being a great thing.
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: I just... I.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: It's not going to be the first thing I reach
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: for on the survival shelf, but it probably won't be
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: the last.
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: Before you die, you'll find the spam.
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: Before I get to MREs, I'll hit the spam.
• 49:37
  Speaker 7: Wow.
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: That says more about MREs, really, than anything. Speaking of
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: honey and hot honey, we've got a lot of bear
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: news out there today.
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: Is there? Yeah.
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: First off, Fat Bear Week starts this week.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Does it?
• 49:51
  Speaker 5: Oh, I love Fat Bear Week. Fat Bear Week is
• 49:54
  Speaker 5: the best. Even if you just need something extra to
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: bet on on Couchy, Fat Bear Week will get the
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: job done.
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: For you degenerates out there, yeah. That'll handle it.
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: There's something new to gamble on this week. So the
• 50:04
  Speaker 5: idea is bears, obviously, they come out of hibernation and
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: they spend an entire season eating. And they eat as
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: much as they can. So they get super, super fat
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: in time to go back into hibernation.
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: They look so cuddly during this stage.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they are the cutest you will get When it
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: comes to bears, there's nothing terrifying about these grizzlies, except,
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: of course, the fact they are grizzlies and they are
• 50:31
  Speaker 5: hungry as anything. And you don't want to run into
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: one during fat bear season because that bear is really
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: looking to eat anything in its path to get more fat.
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: I eat you. But go check about a wonderful crop.
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that voting starts tomorrow, noon to 9 p.m. Eastern time.
• 50:52
  Speaker 21: Right.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: At explore.org slash fat dash bear slash week. I'm sure
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: you can just Google it and it'll take you there.
• 51:00
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: If you're betting last year, the defending champ, 32 chunk.
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: I remember wearing his crown after taking on the title.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: Other bracket regulars like four-time champ 480 Otis and back-to-back
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: queen 128 Grazer.
• 51:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Also part of the lore, the history of Fat Bear Week.
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: It's the best time of year.
• 51:24
  Speaker 24: Oh, yes.
• 51:25
  Speaker 5: And as long as we're talking about fat bears, we
• 51:28
  Speaker 5: need to talk about the other bears that are out there.
• 51:30
  Speaker 5: And that is the bears involved in the bear invasion.
• 51:33
  Speaker 5: By the way, it's getting worse in Tahoe. Tahoe, it's
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: a real serious problem with the black bears.
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: Very much so.
• 51:39
  Speaker 5: But now it has crossed over, Will, and Denver, Colorado,
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: and Colorado in general is feeling the weight of the
• 51:45
  Speaker 5: invading black bears. Sleeping teen and camper hurts recently by
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: black bear encounters. They say, as far as wildlife officials, yeah,
• 51:58
  Speaker 5: this is just a really, really bad year. Because usually
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: we don't get any bear attacks, but in separate incidents
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: just a day apart, a black bear bit a woman
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: on Friday through her tent!
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: Through her tent! These bears are hanging out in places
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: where people are giving them people food just like my
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: friend giving Cheez-Its to my dog.
• 52:21
  Speaker 5: You know what? You're making a powerful argument because you
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: give a bear a Cheez-It, then the bear is like, hey,
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: if I go and find these weird little creatures these
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: humans they'll give me treats they'll give me more cheez-its
• 52:34
  Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden you don't give them
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: a cheese it and the bear gets mad.
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: Or they just takes your leave their food or their
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: garbage out and the bears become desynthesized to people yeah
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: and then you can't scare them off and then the
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: bear goes well you know how would tucker taste with
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: a little barbecue sauce.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: I don't know better than cheese it By the way,
• 52:54
  Speaker 5: later in the week, another bear approached a home. This
• 52:57
  Speaker 5: home had a window that was a little bit ajar.
• 53:01
  Speaker 5: Someone wanted to let in some of that nice fall
• 53:04
  Speaker 5: mountain air. It ripped the window out of the frame
• 53:08
  Speaker 5: and made its way into the 17-year-old girl's bedroom where
• 53:12
  Speaker 5: it scratched her as she hid under the blankets and
• 53:16
  Speaker 5: hid under the blankets from the bear. What else are
• 53:19
  Speaker 5: you going to do?
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: Get under the bed, maybe. Get out of the room.
• 53:23
  Speaker 7: I don't know.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: The blankets aren't going to do anything. That's fight or flight,
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: left the room, and freeze. Nothing!
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: For what it's worth, my sister lives in the Denver suburbs,
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: and she confirms that she is a prisoner in her
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: own home many afternoons and evenings. Because of the bears.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: And you can't take care of them in the way
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: you should. No, you can't. Because all the environmentalists and
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: whatnot can't kill the bear. They're too cute.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: It's great because her husband is a pretty prolific hunter.
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: He goes out and does big game hunts all the time.
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: And so she tried to kind of float the idea,
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: kind of like, wouldn't it be nice if someone just
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: kind of, and the neighbors got mad. They got real mad.
• 54:04
  Speaker 5: Don't you touch our Bears. Don't you touch our Bears.
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: We'll see how you feel. We'll see how you feel
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: when one comes through your window in a couple of weeks.
• 54:12
  Speaker 5: But yeah, it's crazy out there.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: If you are looking for something nature to watch, I
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: just started exploring this. It's called Lister's a glimpse into
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: extreme birdwatching. You can find it on YouTube.
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: We need to talk about this in depth tomorrow.
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I need to. I only got part of the
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: way through it.
• 54:30
  Speaker 5: Well, go watch some more of it because the birdwatching
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: thing is becoming a problem.
• 54:35
  Speaker 21: It is.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: A real issue. And I don't know if you guys
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: are aware of this or not, but your kids certainly are.
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you have this assignment as well. You guys
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: watch Listers at Home on YouTube. We'll talk about it tomorrow.
• 54:48
  Speaker 5: 16-20, 94-5, WTAW College Station. Brian, have a great day.