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The Infomaniacs: August 5, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 2: More than one hundred and forty Texas businesses and recreation
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  Speaker 2: In the first six months of the year were eighteen
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  Speaker 4: In San Antonio.
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  Speaker 1: A group of Texas and M professors is suing the
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  Speaker 1: Texas filed the suit on behalf of the four professors
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  Speaker 1: and the American Association of University Professors. Here's their attorney,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Busser Clancy.
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  Speaker 3: The Supreme Court has time and again said that free
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  Speaker 1: He calls the policy a clear violation of the First
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  Speaker 3: And the thumb, the government's thumb on the scale of
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  Speaker 3: what can be taught or not taught, is plainly unconstitutional.
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  Speaker 1: Lawsuit seeks to have the policy overturned and reinstatement of
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  Speaker 1: time at WTAW dot com. I'm will Welch sixteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: ninety four to five WTAW.
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  Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW, Good morning for
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  Speaker 5: the infomaniacs. Does the number even matter when it comes
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  Speaker 5: to what the projected temperature is out soide?
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  Speaker 1: Does it? None of this batter?
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  Speaker 5: We know what it's going to feel like. You know
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  Speaker 5: Malik feel the difference. Every job has its own language.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it does.
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  Speaker 6: Like we have a.
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  Speaker 5: Bunch of words that if you're working at a radio station,
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  Speaker 5: don't make any sense to anyone else. Like traffic, for instance,
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  Speaker 5: cars driving up and down the highway do work at
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  Speaker 5: a radio station. It means commercials that the you know,
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  Speaker 5: the messages for money.
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  Speaker 6: Carts.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of places have their own
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  Speaker 1: languages too, like antiques. We called it acrones or acron
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  Speaker 1: or tiks, and and there and literally there were so
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  Speaker 1: many acronyms that you had a part of the new
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  Speaker 1: employee organization orientation was teaching the acronyms.
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  Speaker 5: Now, there are some pieces of corporate jargon that you
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  Speaker 5: probably hear a little bit everywhere, and those are being
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  Speaker 5: called out today in a couple of different threads on TikTok.
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  Speaker 5: People are debating what corporate jargon makes your soul die
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  Speaker 5: a little bit every time you hear it. I'll give
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  Speaker 5: you some examples. If you have some, feel free to
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  Speaker 5: textas sixteen twenty Boots on the ground. Boots on the ground,
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  Speaker 5: we work in finance not the Marines.
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  Speaker 6: Chanis I do? I do?
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  Speaker 5: You know what?
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  Speaker 6: You know what I'm talking about? You get a little cringe.
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  Speaker 1: It's like we heard out of the box or thinking
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  Speaker 1: inside outside of the box so many times that it became.
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  Speaker 5: Ending a team call early with I'll give you back
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  Speaker 5: six minutes, like you know, like hey, it's like.
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  Speaker 1: God early, yeah, you gotta do a finger point.
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  Speaker 5: But I say that you asked and we listened to,
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  Speaker 5: followed by something you've never asked for.
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  Speaker 6: That actually makes your job harder. We're a family, that
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  Speaker 6: one I.
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  Speaker 7: We okay, So that's used. It was used in school
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  Speaker 7: settings like in classrooms and all that, and I'd look
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  Speaker 7: around and go, no, feel like we're really a family here.
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  Speaker 7: You know, there's like there's one hundred of us in here.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think that's the case.
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  Speaker 1: Can you fire your family? Because that's the way it
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  Speaker 1: is at the workplace.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's again, like it's I understand it. I see
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  Speaker 5: what you're trying to do. And I like the nice, warm,
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  Speaker 5: fuzzy feelings. And I do feel a certain way about
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  Speaker 5: many of my coworkers, specifically at this radio station. It
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  Speaker 5: is very familial to me.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, that's it. Yeah, they can fire me.
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  Speaker 1: You can essentially fire family, but it's a lot harder.
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  Speaker 5: Let's put a pin in its circle back. Also very
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  Speaker 5: high on the list. Okay, so another example. But what's
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  Speaker 5: really driving office is crazy. See these days it's gen
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  Speaker 5: z slang.
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  Speaker 1: It's the generation gap.
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  Speaker 5: It's that generation gap because us slaying that they use.
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  Speaker 1: Us old people. We don't use the vernacular that the
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  Speaker 1: hip kids are using.
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  Speaker 5: These seventy five percent of boomer workers. I would say,
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  Speaker 5: you can include gen X and this have no idea
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  Speaker 5: what they're saying. I'll give you an example. Delulu, define
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  Speaker 5: it delusional.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I figured that one out on my own, figured
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  Speaker 1: that one out on my act. Impressed the first time.
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  Speaker 1: The first time I heard that, I was like.
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  Speaker 8: The what?
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  Speaker 1: And then I was like, oh, I get it. You're
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  Speaker 1: too lazy to say delusional in its entirety, so you
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  Speaker 1: had to shorten it to delul.
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  Speaker 7: No you just the Lulu bro?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, no, you just Delulu bro.
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  Speaker 7: You know how many times I said to me on
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  Speaker 7: the track team and I'd look at him and go,
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  Speaker 7: just say delusional.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Riz, define it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's kind of your karma or charisma. It's it's
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  Speaker 1: chariz Risthma again for two. The only reason I know
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  Speaker 1: these is because I was working with young people when
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  Speaker 1: I got back into radio that were over here at
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  Speaker 1: the sports talk STRIZ.
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  Speaker 7: Is that but Riz is more of you dress kind
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  Speaker 7: of like you own it when you walk in, like
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  Speaker 7: you own it. The way you dress.
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  Speaker 6: Aura that it's your aura aura.
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  Speaker 5: So basically, like if you can command a room without
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  Speaker 5: doing VID, everyone looks at you.
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  Speaker 6: You got you? Yeah dripping with Riz, yes, no cap.
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  Speaker 1: I had no idea what this is?
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  Speaker 6: Do you need me to help?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I've got it in front of me, so I can.
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  Speaker 1: But I had no idea what this is. And apparently,
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  Speaker 1: and I like with de Lulu and with Riz, you
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  Speaker 1: can kind of get to them because they are shortened.
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  Speaker 1: Words are part of words right. With no cap, I
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  Speaker 1: have no idea why it means, honestly or no lot.
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  Speaker 7: I heard no cap. I always hear cap. Like cap,
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  Speaker 7: that's what you just say. Someone have a conversation, say
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  Speaker 7: something ego cap.
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  Speaker 1: Back in my day, when you capped on somebody, that
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  Speaker 1: was you know, you were you were slamming them, You're
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  Speaker 1: you know, putting them down.
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  Speaker 5: Today it is yeah, today it's like you are you're
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  Speaker 5: accusing them of flying, lying, accusing them of being less trustworthy.
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  Speaker 5: Did you know there is a feature where you can
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  Speaker 5: paste dialogue from an email or a text into work
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  Speaker 5: gen Translate, which will render it into the everyday language
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  Speaker 5: of whichever generation you select.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like Google Translate for Old for.
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  Speaker 6: Old or also because it goes the other way it does.
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  Speaker 5: Gen Z has no idea what the boomers are talking
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  Speaker 5: about either, and frankly, some.
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  Speaker 6: Of these threw me for a loose.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea what these are.
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  Speaker 6: Boil the ocean, never really define it.
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  Speaker 7: I've never heard that in my life.
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  Speaker 6: Take your best shot. Boil the ocean like you're heated.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, Apparently boil the ocean means to attempt
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  Speaker 5: something unnecessarily complicated or impossible.
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  Speaker 1: I have also understand never heard that, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: I've always said, and I still use it, when you
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  Speaker 1: have an impossible task like that, the only way to
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  Speaker 1: do it is you got to eat the elephant, one
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  Speaker 1: by at a time.
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  Speaker 6: The elephant one see I've.
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  Speaker 7: Heard w My least favorite slang that's used to me
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  Speaker 7: by every coach I've ever met in my life. Never
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  Speaker 7: say can't someone says that to me, I look at me, go,
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  Speaker 7: there's lots of things I cannot do.
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  Speaker 6: You should say can't often.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. In fact, why when anybody has ever told me that?
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you can't tell me to.
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  Speaker 6: Do that, my coach.
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  Speaker 7: If you say the word can't, you're limiting yourself, like, well,
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  Speaker 7: I can't fly.
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  Speaker 1: With one of my kids, who often and still does
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  Speaker 1: on occasion say I can't, and when it's clearly something
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  Speaker 1: that she can. When she was a kid, I would
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  Speaker 1: always say, I don't want to hear cant from you,
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  Speaker 1: but I get it, Riley. I get it.
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  Speaker 5: Blue sky thinking, Riley, define it, blue sky thinking, I'll help.
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  Speaker 7: You out, thinking I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: Actually that's close. Brain create a brainstorm with a practical.
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  Speaker 1: I've never heard any of those, and I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Move the needle, of course, we've heard that.
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  Speaker 6: The needle.
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  Speaker 5: You know that if you've got any that you want
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  Speaker 5: to share with us, try a few bonkers please.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, text, I must be between.
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  Speaker 6: You really well, like you will. Honestly, you're practically one
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  Speaker 6: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Almost. It wasn't for the Gray in My.
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  Speaker 5: Beard sixteen twenty ninety four five W T A W
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  Speaker 5: I forget that we're country out here, and some of
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  Speaker 5: these things are throwing me for I don't think I
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  Speaker 5: can read Dewey's read that on thescribes.
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  Speaker 1: It describes rain, yes and uses a bow vine and
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  Speaker 1: a flat rock. Yeah, I was trying to be tellicate Riley,
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  Speaker 1: thank you.
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  Speaker 6: That's not even bad the info maniacs.
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  Speaker 1: And that comes from Dewey, by the way, which is
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  Speaker 1: the peri name to give us that you know, somebody
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  Speaker 1: named Dewey's saying raining like a cow Dewey.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that is absolutely on on brand. Infomaniacs just
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  Speaker 5: just dripping and dripping and dripping with rizz to riz.
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  Speaker 1: We got all the rizz, the dripping, the riz. That sounds.
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  Speaker 7: I hate the word riz.
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily like it.
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  Speaker 7: Started becoming a popular thing and they're like, I got
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  Speaker 7: the rizz. If you're saying you've got it, you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't claim the riz. The RIZ claims you your
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  Speaker 1: real wrizzler.
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  Speaker 6: Dude.
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  Speaker 7: The fact that you said it just like that is
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  Speaker 7: alarming because that is a literal phrase that's used.
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  Speaker 1: Is it really, Yeah, that's exactly the RIZ used.
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  Speaker 7: What everyone says.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I did not know this, all right, let's talk
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  Speaker 5: about a really uncomfortable way to eat dinner at Florida
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  Speaker 5: restaurant offering new dining experiences. Only if it was one
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  Speaker 5: of those dark dining experiences.
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  Speaker 4: In the dark.
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  Speaker 6: That's fun it pretty much here.
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  Speaker 8: Please allow people to express themselves at our place.
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  Speaker 7: It's more so of a gathering to get to know people,
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  Speaker 7: new people in the city and the lifestyle.
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  Speaker 5: Two hundred and fifty dollars for men, one hundred and
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  Speaker 5: fifty dollars for women.
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  Speaker 6: Look, I'm confused.
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  Speaker 7: What do they do.
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  Speaker 1: They get naked and they have dinner.
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  Speaker 6: They give you a towel. Sorry I missed that whole part.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, they give you a towel, and they also
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  Speaker 5: give you a seat cover.
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  Speaker 1: Once Againice, the.
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  Speaker 6: Nudists love them.
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  Speaker 5: Some seat covers well, very important and it's very courteous
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  Speaker 5: for the rest of the next person that comes along.
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  Speaker 5: Because but yeah, they do not They don't make you
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  Speaker 5: get naked. They're just saying, if you choose, you can
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  Speaker 5: absolutely get naked while you eat this steak.
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  Speaker 7: You're coming from somewhere a different country, and you're like,
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  Speaker 7: I'm just want to go try this restaurant. It looks
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  Speaker 7: kind of cool now, that all the.
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  Speaker 6: Sudden, not that you walk any like.
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  Speaker 7: Man, I guess the United States is built.
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  Speaker 6: Different we know is built.
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  Speaker 1: I just don't know. I don't know, and you hate
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  Speaker 1: to assign.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: You imagine what people look like by the way that
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  Speaker 1: they sound in that sound bite right there, I'm I
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear anything that would be appetizing.
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  Speaker 5: I look the the the fundamental rule that I've always
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  Speaker 5: been taught about people that like to express their nudity
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  Speaker 5: in public, which again I don't care go crazy. The
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  Speaker 5: fundamental rule is they will never look the way you
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  Speaker 5: think they look.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 5: They and it doesn't matter where that universally, they will
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  Speaker 5: never look the way you think they know they're never
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  Speaker 5: going to be They're never going to clear that bar man.
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  Speaker 1: About a decade ago, we were looking for some rule
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  Speaker 1: properties Washington, Grimes County, that sort of thing, right, and
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  Speaker 1: I came upon one that was very reasonably priced. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: and it was it was a good looking right. I
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  Speaker 1: was like, Okay, this property looks great, the pictures are great.
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  Speaker 1: It's not far from Washington onto the brasses. I love
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  Speaker 1: the history. That pulled it up on Google Maps. It
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  Speaker 1: was within sight of that newdest colony out there, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, wait.
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  Speaker 6: Why wye there is there's a newdest colleague.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, the one in the one in Grimes County is
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  Speaker 5: actually fairly large. It's a larger nudist colony and people
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  Speaker 5: live there. They'll they'll buy a trailer and they'll live
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  Speaker 5: life as a nudist that They'll have gatherings and they'll
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  Speaker 5: play sports, and.
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  Speaker 6: They'll go place. They'll play, yes, they will.
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  Speaker 5: They'll play pickleball and tennis, and they love the.
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  Speaker 6: They love the badminton.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know why they love the badminton so much,
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  Speaker 5: but it's it again.
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  Speaker 6: I don't care go crazy logistic, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 7: The part is you're running like that. There's no way
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  Speaker 7: you're comfortable. Look support, That's what I'm saying that.
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  Speaker 1: I get it.
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  Speaker 6: I understand that that's the thing there. Well, all of
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  Speaker 6: the questions.
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  Speaker 5: I've always had questions about that because it's just the logistical.
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  Speaker 6: You got to mow your lawn, right, yeah, Well what
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  Speaker 6: do you do? How do you pull that off?
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  Speaker 1: When and when it comes to the sports. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that many of them are like in peak athletic conditions,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't know how fast they're running.
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  Speaker 6: Any Yeah, I think it's just you know, moving their body.
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  Speaker 1: But you're right. I mean when you start, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to weed, eat, you wear jeans when you're weedy.
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  Speaker 5: Exactly like, they're just things that aren't functionally right.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have some personal protective art.
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  Speaker 7: Some things could physically cause you.
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  Speaker 5: All.
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  Speaker 1: There's lots of things.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's what I'm getting at in this Well,
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  Speaker 7: I want to ask someone.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: Like to be fair. To be fair, it makes it
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: a lot easier to spot ticks. Got to be aware
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: of those that lone Star Tech non that is a
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: real vibe killer. Absolutely. Good morning from the WTAW newsroom.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch. The ACLU has filed a lawsuit against
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: the Texas A and M Board of Regents on behalf of
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: the American Association of University Professors and for Texas A
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: and M professors. Leonard Bright teaches ethics at the Bush
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: School of Government and Public Service. Vanita Reddy is an
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: associate professor of English and core faculty in Women's and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: Gender Studies. Landon Sandler is a lecturer in the College
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: of Arts and Sciences. Aaron George is an assistant professor
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: of History, at Tarleton State. The complaint for declaratory and
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: injunctive relief was filed Monday in US District Court, Southern
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: District in Houston. It argues that the university's censorship policy
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: is uncom institutionally vague and violates the First Amendment by
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: discriminating against certain viewpoints. Professors say they are prohibited from
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: discussing certain topics and viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation,
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: and gender. College Station police investigated a serious injury crash
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in the southbound lanes of Highway six between Rock Prairie
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: and Barren Road last night. Callers reported an individual was
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: running in the main lanes of travel on Highway six
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: and was struck by a vehicle, caught up and walked
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: away in an unknown condition. The individual was later located
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: with a serious leg injury and transported to a local hospital.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Texas Governor Greg Abbott has been touring Texas promoting his
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: Keep Texas Affordable plan. On Tuesday, he discussed electricity services,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: specifically municipalities that don't allow for choice when it comes
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to electric providers. Abbot says more than five million Texans
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: reside in areas with a single municipal power provider. Eliminating
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: the possibility of shopping for cheaper electricity rates. Sixty percent
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: of those are in Austin and San Antonio, but Governor
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Abbott suggested that all Texans should be able to choose
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: their plan and open up city monopolies to retail electric competition.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: He says residential customers in Austin and San Antonio would
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: save an average of ten to thirteen percent on their
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: electric pill. Abbot says he would also ban city utilities
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: from imposing charges upon customers unrelated to electric delivery. The
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: first of three public meetings was held last night to
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: discuss a proposed high power transmission line. BTU and Texas
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: New Mexico Power want to run some forty miles of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the three hundred and forty five kilobolt transmission line between
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: Robertson County and a planned BTU substation at the Rellis Campus.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Landowners and community members still have two opportunities to provide
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: input Tonight and tomorrow at the Brass County Expo Center
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: from five until seven. Contractors in College station struck a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: gas line near Southwest Parkway and Welsh Avenue Tuesday afternoon,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: causing road closures and temporary evacuations of some nearby residents.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: The line was repaired by early Tuesday evening and residents
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: given the all clear. There is a growing push to
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: rein in the emerging world of prediction markets.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: Sites like calci let users bet on just about anything.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: Some states have instituted bans. In Texas maybe next State
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Representative Michela Plaza says it's disturbing to see these sites
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: popularity with teenagers.
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: They're gambling on whether or not countries are going to war,
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: and I think that these are completely out of the
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: scope of gambling and or stock training.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: The sites allow for betting on politics, and at a
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: hearing this week, lawmakers were warned that could have the
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: ability to sway elections in San Antonio. Michael Board at
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: TSM News.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: A Milem County man is out of jail after being
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: arrested for sexual assaults of a child. Thirty five year
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: old Ebodio d'orte Buckoltz was arrested in Bell County on
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: July twenty ninth. He was processed through the Milam County
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Jail and posted one hundred thousand dollars bond. He is
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child under the
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: age of fourteen. It looks all like Governor Greg Abbott
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: is finally putting his foot down when it comes to
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: data centers mooching off the Texas power grid and water supplies.
• 21:07
  Speaker 9: Governor Abbott now says no new data centers in Texas
• 21:10
  Speaker 9: that would connect to the power grid can be built
• 21:12
  Speaker 9: until state regulators audit and sign off on them. Developers
• 21:17
  Speaker 9: must show the tax breaks they're getting from the government.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: And that's not all.
• 21:20
  Speaker 10: They must provide their own power, not taking power off
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: the power grid. That actually must be additive to the
• 21:26
  Speaker 10: power grid.
• 21:27
  Speaker 9: Not only that, they must make it cheaper for local customers. Also,
• 21:31
  Speaker 9: it is hands off the local water supplies.
• 21:34
  Speaker 10: They must reuse their own water. They cannot be sapping
• 21:38
  Speaker 10: the water from our communities.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Eric Lykham TSM News. The Feast of Caring will be
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: held later this morning to benefit the Brass Valley Food Bank.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: The buffet style of beans, rice, Slavatic sausage and Bluebelt
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: ice cream cups is free of charge. Donations will be accepted.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Local celebrity servers include the mayors of Brian and College Station,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: numerous local com unity leaders and broadcasters, including Brian Broadcasting's
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Chip Howard Alberta Vega, Corlis McCallister, and former infomaniac Scott DeLucia.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It's from eleven to one at the Brass Center. More
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: news throughout the day or anytime at WTAW dot com.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTA.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: W sixteen twenty ninety four five WTA W.
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: Good morning.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: We're the infomaniacs, and not a lot to talk about
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: with weather, so we're not talking a lot about weather.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: Are there to tell you? Yeah, just drink a lot
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: of water and the AC is your friend. Close to
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: one hundred degrees today and that's going to be what
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: we're dealing with for the rest of the week. Whether
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: it's brought to you by our friends at Malick Serves
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: Company and the Texas heat Era Conditioner works overtime at
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  Speaker 5: to keep your AC running properly. Malick feel the difference.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: And we are joined this week by College Station Mayor
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: John Nichols.
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: How we doing today?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I'm happy to be here, rappy to have you here.
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: Man, You guys have always had a lot of fun
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: on your program. And you had some comments this morning
• 23:04
  Speaker 8: about the offices, and I know it's a Lamantha or not.
• 23:08
  Speaker 8: You said, Riley is the only one who has an
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: office here in the building. True, and uh, and then
• 23:12
  Speaker 8: I heard we'll talk about.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: We're talking about the stuff Will had because there was
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: a guy if he missed this, there was a guy
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: who somehow, oh.
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: The bomb found a bomb.
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: He was his kids out fishing in the Guadaloup found
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: a Civil War era unexploded ordinance, a twenty pound shell artillery.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: It was like, this is cool. I'm gonna pop this
• 23:35
  Speaker 6: on my desk. Us this a little conversation starting.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: That isn't that illegal?
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: It has to be, it has to But that was
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: his thing.
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: He had an excuse, He said, no, no, I thought
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: it was a replica. There's no universe where you would
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: think that's the whole point of it being on your
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: desk is because it's not a replica, Like that's.
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: The only reason it's cool. But regardless, that was the
• 23:58
  Speaker 6: h Yeah, having.
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: That conversation with my wife about now that I'm retiring
• 24:05
  Speaker 8: from the city offices, the you know, I'll be hanging
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: around the house, probably too much. She has she we
• 24:13
  Speaker 8: have an we have a home office, a very small one,
• 24:15
  Speaker 8: but not big enough to have two desks, two chairs,
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: two computer setups.
• 24:21
  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: So I'm sort of trying to figure out. You know,
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: I retired from university and and but I kept an
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: office over there because I had projects for a decade
• 24:30
  Speaker 8: after that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: Well I've lost that office.
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: But that's okay, Yeah, you're are you So you're going
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: to be out of office space.
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: Offices entirely with the you know, the city. The Mayor's
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: office is nice. I got a great staff saries and
• 24:44
  Speaker 8: her staff are superb, and so I've got quote people,
• 24:48
  Speaker 8: and so I can I can operate out of that office.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: Got a computer, got private space, I got a table,
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: the conference table and all that in there.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: Well I'm going to be without any of that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: Okay, there needs to be a space they would give
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: you at.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Least I don't know.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: In the city, you just go cold turkey.
• 25:07
  Speaker 8: And so that means we got to figure out something
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: at home where I can be out of her way
• 25:13
  Speaker 8: and still have access to what I need.
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: And so we haven't sorted that out. Feel extra bedrooms,
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Do you have bedrooms?
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: That's so yes.
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: Upstairs, which we don't turn the air conditioning down very often,
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: and I could probably take over one of those bedrooms
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: and add a desk and garages.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Oh no, no no. On my garage, we do park
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: our cars in the garage.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: A lot of people don't, don't use it for a
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: little bit of storage, but we park both cars and
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: I'm not moving into the garage.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Just gives you a good garden shed and one of
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: those many split A c's and put some insulation in there,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: you'll be just fine.
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: I know a guy that did that. So so during
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: the during the pandemic.
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: Uh, he was doing doing a little voice work and
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: again he and have an office go to and he
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: was like, you know what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: I'm just going to go to home depot and buy
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: one of those sheds. I'm gonna I'm gonna pop the
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: window unit in and then I'm going to just deal
• 26:10
  Speaker 5: with a couple of projects on the shed. And he
• 26:12
  Speaker 5: had he had an escape hatch that he's the greatest like.
• 26:15
  Speaker 8: But you know, if I put do that, somebody don't
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: expect me to produce something, to write a book or
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: some damn thing and.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want to.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I don't have to, John, I don't want to have
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: to justify this. I just want to escape. We'll figure
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: it out. That's fun. Let's tell you guys doing what
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: we want to talk about.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: But you know, it's it's really up to you.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: I know, I know there's a lot of items that
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: that have been popping up, and I'm sure there's some
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: things on your radar.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: You want to have Just a couple of things that
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: I do want to mention. You know.
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: We've we've gone through some small area planning things North
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: Gate and then we did one along Texas Avenue from
• 26:49
  Speaker 8: about where City Hall is all the way back to
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: University and around the corner, mainly just to lay out
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: what could be and what people think might be.
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: Actually that one.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: Now you've got some interest in accumulating some of that land,
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: so that's going to be an interesting development, take five
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: ten years for it to come to fruition. We're currently
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: working on something called the Harvey District Plan, which is
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: anchored by the mall at one corner and the shopping
• 27:17
  Speaker 8: center on Texas and Harvey at the other end, with
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: the business and apartment complexes along the corridor. In between
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: Tonight at the Senior Center on Dartmouth will be a
• 27:31
  Speaker 8: public engagement session. I encourage people to come out and
• 27:34
  Speaker 8: share their thoughts. There is no real preconceived idea that
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: this has to be X, Y or Z, but we
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: want to know what people think. And there is a
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: separate effort by staff to engage with the separately with
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: the business owners and managers of all the businesses along
• 27:51
  Speaker 8: that section of Harvey and the mall as well to
• 27:55
  Speaker 8: get their input independent maybe of just general public and games.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: But public engagement will.
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: Be tonight at the Meyers Senior Center on Dartmouth. I
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: think it's seven o'clock or something like that. They can
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: drop by and just share their thoughts with folks about
• 28:13
  Speaker 8: what I know.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: We've been talking about these a lot, but I think
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: it's important to talk about it because again, when you're
• 28:19
  Speaker 5: talking about six to eight, when you're talking about an
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: area that's that large, in that traffic and there's so
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: many people have businesses on site, like this is your
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: opportunity to get in and be a part of the planning.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Struct especially because you're not at a point where there
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: is a preconceived idea of what's coming. You have the
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: opportunity to influence that to a great extent.
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: The mall is the big anchor at the going in
• 28:42
  Speaker 8: and that is evolving and some new businesses coming in there.
• 28:46
  Speaker 8: Dave and Buster is supposed to be opening this wall.
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: That's right.
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: They've been working on their redevelopment of that old con store.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: So there are some there's some activities already developing, but
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: I think the sky is the limit. The the rest
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: of Harvey Road out from from Earl Rudder to one
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: is being redesigned by texaot for widening to four lane,
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: So that thinking about people adding homes and stuff on
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: the east side of Bryan, the east side of College
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: Station over into Grahams County, coming in on a Highway thirty.
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: Who knows what that to be. And once we open
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: that that outer section to four lanes, you'll have more traffic.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: And so it's a kind of an.
• 29:31
  Speaker 8: Underdeveloped, underutilized area that could be could be redeveloped and
• 29:35
  Speaker 8: we'll just see how that plans.
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: There was a time not long ago where it was
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: legitimately woods pretty much until you got right up to
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: Highway thirty. Now we've already seen apartment complexes. It filled
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: out a good chunk of it. Obviously, Veterans Park is
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: a good chunk of it. But it is, it is,
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: it is getting chipped away at. And the more that,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: like you mentioned, people keep moving down thirty, which the
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: there is no shortage. People is going to keep on
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: building and developing communities down Highway thirty. And that's going
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: regardless of regardless of terror fab That's the direction everything
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: is going to head. And at that point Harvey becomes
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: that specifically that part of Harvey becomes your outlet back
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: into town for everything. And so yeah, the thought processes
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: around it, how it's going to look and what we
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: want to look like in the future is going to
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: be very important because it's not going to stop getting bigger,
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: especially in that part of town.
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: That's going to be a very critical road.
• 30:35
  Speaker 8: Anyway, we really invite the citizens to engage with that
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: process starting tonight at six pm, and there'll be another
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: session later on for public engagement plus the business interests.
• 30:46
  Speaker 8: The other thing I want to mention is on April
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: August thirteenth, I'm sorry, August thirteenth, which is our next
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: regular meeting. I haven't the agenda still coming together be
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: published on Thursday but one of the things for sure
• 30:58
  Speaker 8: is we will look.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: At the tax rate.
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: We haven't had the data until just last week from
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: the taccessor collector calculating what the no new revenue.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: Rate is and what the voter approval rate is.
• 31:11
  Speaker 8: So we can't adopt the tax rate, but we will
• 31:13
  Speaker 8: be announcing a public hearing and a discussion of the
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: tax rate and the budget for the second meeting in August.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: But it'll we'll have to talk about it, and this
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: council will have that way in on it on the thirteenth.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: So the tax rate is always a It's interesting because
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: it's a very important component of what the city's public
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: finance structure is. You get a lot of complaints because
• 31:42
  Speaker 8: the taxes are always too high. Well, of course, taxes
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: are too high, everybody agrees to that. However, our tax
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: rate for the city College Station has always been relatively
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: low compared to a lot of other cities. And we'll
• 31:53
  Speaker 8: have to decide how we're going to cover our budget,
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: what will adopt as a tax rate. So that'll be
• 31:58
  Speaker 8: coming up on the thirteenth, and people need to need
• 32:01
  Speaker 8: to be aware of that. The new issue of iHeart
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: College Station is out that monthly newsletter that Colin and
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: his staff put together, which is fantastic, really a great,
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: great public product that we do, and I encourage people
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: go online. It's the STX do go to Public Communications.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: You can sign up to have it automatically dropped in
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: your mailbox. It's an electronic magazine that's not anything else
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: but forty or fifty pages and they highlight departments, people,
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: programs of interest in the community every month.
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: So I hope people will look at that nice.
• 32:37
  Speaker 6: I did want to ask last council meeting.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: Obviously the flock cameras are still still the big thing,
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: and that was a giant It was a fairly large
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: turnout right of people. Did that Do you have any
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: thoughts based on the amount of interest? Were you expecting
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: that level of interaction?
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I was. I was a matter of fact. There
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: were empty seats that was not there could have been
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: more people where. But I would say we had a
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: great discussion. Staff listened, I mean a council listened to
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: both the staff presentation and police chief and then the
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: public engagement, and you know, we generally agreed across council
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: as I under as the massive jig out for the
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: rest of Council and myself was that there's a lot
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: of concern about Flock as a company. I think probably
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: any of the other providers of these license plate readers
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: would have similar issues regarding security access and so forth,
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: so one needs to be concerned about that. I believe
• 33:41
  Speaker 8: that our police department has got a good internal audit
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: and control over that.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: There is no.
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: Evidence with nobody that spoke about an example of a
• 33:53
  Speaker 8: clear violation of protocol in the City College station with
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: regard to access to this data for policing. Use. Lots
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: of stories about bad cops here and there that do
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: bad things.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Yes, that happens.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: That happens in procedures and protocols in every institutional structure,
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: from the corporate world to the academic world to cities,
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: and it's certainly you have to be guarding against that
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: and you have to have a lot of internal controls.
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: Right now, our focus is on is the internal controls.
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: Adequate and we.
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: Believe a good protocol in place at the Police Chief
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: audits on a regular basis and is available for auditing.
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  Speaker 4: So right now.
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  Speaker 8: We're staying with the licensed plate readers, with the art
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  Speaker 8: contract with Flock, but that doesn't mean it over time,
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  Speaker 8: we won't be reviewing the protocols and the procedures to
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  Speaker 8: make sure that the council's comfortable in the I don't
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  Speaker 8: think the public will ever be totally comfortable with anything
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  Speaker 8: like this. I mean, you drive around town and leave
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  Speaker 8: your cell phone on, Well, there's a lot of people
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  Speaker 8: that know where you are in town and you can
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  Speaker 8: try that data.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, tracking your movements is not anything.
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  Speaker 8: We do that for football games where people are coming
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  Speaker 8: from and where they're going out to, so we can
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  Speaker 8: better manage the traffic flow uh and the road closures
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  Speaker 8: and the police uh and and traffic lights that you
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: got to manage and all of that. Some of that
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: information comes from from cell phone data. So you know,
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  Speaker 8: there's a lot of issues there that I certainly applaud
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  Speaker 8: the public for coming and speaking to us. We had
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  Speaker 8: a really good discussion. I'm glad we had it. It
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: was long and and not not all pleasant because a
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: lot of people people tend to come to speak to
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: council because they don't like something.
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  Speaker 4: That's seldom do we come.
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  Speaker 8: Do you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, how every one hundred people does someone ever show up?
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  Speaker 5: And it's just like y'all are killing it. You know,
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  Speaker 5: y'all are doing so great. Does that ever happen?
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  Speaker 8: Well, I mean positives, we did, Yeah, we the I
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  Speaker 8: guess a half a dozen of the speakers maybe well,
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  Speaker 8: maybe three or four, ten percent of the speakers that
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  Speaker 8: actually well, but keep in mind some of those are
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  Speaker 8: police families and they understand the value of that information
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  Speaker 8: to solving crimes. And so we had several people that
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  Speaker 8: spoke in favor of it because they believed that the
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: actual data that that for official policing use is valuable.
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  Speaker 6: It was a fast question, fascinating discussion.
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: Question is do you have bad apples, bad bad people,
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: and you and every institution, every protocol in finance, park use,
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: swimming pools, you name it, you're going to have problems.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: And if you aren't as an institution setting up internal controls.
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: You know, we have an internal auditing group in the
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: department in the city of this fantastic and does a
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: lot of work on not necessarily this problem, although it
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: might come to them eventually. We are a number one
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  Speaker 8: transparent city. We've got a lot of good internal auditing
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  Speaker 8: going on. And uh, yeah, well we may have a
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: bad apple. We'll catch that person and they will be
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: they'll be treated accordingly.
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  Speaker 5: I know it's gonna it's gonna be something that probably
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  Speaker 5: keeps coming up. But it was if you can find it,
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  Speaker 5: if you watched it or stream did it, it was
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: a fascinating amounts and and uh, there were a lot
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: of different arguments from a lot different people come.
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  Speaker 8: Down and it won't go away, and will we'll I've
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: gotten a couple of emails that were more or less
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: form emails, but we'll have people speak. I assume that
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: here visitors on a regular basis on this. All we
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: can say is that we are auditing and monitoring the
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: use of it in the City College station. If we
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: find an error or a bad, bad situation, just like
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: any other policing activity, there's internal investigation and there's an
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: external investigation, and then the city council will decide whether
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: or not this is a valued, useful tool or.
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  Speaker 1: Not very good.
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  Speaker 5: And I want, I want to let you know we
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  Speaker 5: are going to do our part to audit you up
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: as shed at some points before you know, just get
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: him a space.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: You have a space, okay, well you can.
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: You can check with me later on. I don't think
• 38:10
  Speaker 8: I'll be buying the shed in the backyard.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: Come on, although we got plenty of room backs a
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  Speaker 4: bad idea.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Man, it's going to grow up.
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: I could build a mother in law's apartment back Yes
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: you could. And uh you know I could lease out
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: believe they call of it and take over a part
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  Speaker 4: of it.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: For an office and there you go, turn us into
• 38:26
  Speaker 8: an income property if I wanted to, but my ho
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  Speaker 8: A wouldn't.
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  Speaker 1: I was about to say, you got to look at
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  Speaker 1: the h o A.
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  Speaker 6: Haters anywhere may thank you so much.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Fast of Carrying at noon today?
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  Speaker 6: Are you got your you are?
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: I'm on a twell o'clock because I got another meeting afterwards,
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: wondering before, But yeah, that's Feast of Carrying is a
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: great opportunity for fundraising for the food Bank, and it's
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: a great service. I always enjoy seeing people.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: There and that's always part of certain So I'll be there.
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: From twelve twelve thirty along with a host of others.
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  Speaker 5: about the newest discussion Like, I don't understand how.
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  Speaker 6: This would possibly work.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, volleyball came up because that I brought up that
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  Speaker 5: that's a sport. They tend to play out there and
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  Speaker 5: brad techs in once they invited the youth pastor from
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  Speaker 5: First Baptist to reft a volleyball game because it used
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  Speaker 6: He drove out there then realized what it was. He
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  Speaker 6: had to decline.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, volleyball is not that, that is not a s
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: There is sand in.
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  Speaker 7: Volleyball and jumping up and down.
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  Speaker 5: There's there's a lot of reasons why volleyball I would assume.
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  Speaker 6: It's not a not a sport. You want to take
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: it particularly newdy friendly.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I mean you want to try to avoid abrasions at
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: all costs.
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  Speaker 5: Right, Yes, you absolutely anything like skin is things can
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  Speaker 5: go wrong. It's what I'm saying. Like, I mean, it's
• 40:22
  Speaker 5: not it's not flat out football, but you know they
• 40:27
  Speaker 5: like you can't have a CrossFit competition either out there.
• 40:30
  Speaker 5: It's too many things, you know, dropping weights and everything.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, I don't know. I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to put any limitations.
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  Speaker 7: Could not imagine. You know when you do a power
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: clean you have to hit your hits every time.
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a there's a popping thing that you want
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  Speaker 6: to do.
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  Speaker 1: Again, I don't. I don't know. The CrossFit and heavy
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: weightlifting are big out there at that place. But it
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: could do it can't will it's it can't take it.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't say it can't, did not know.
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  Speaker 6: No, man, is limited?
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: You know you do you booth, Yes, you get your reason.
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