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The Infomaniacs: October 20th 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Yes, here's news.
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Speaker 2: He'll go to North Carolina today. I'm Dave Anthony, Fox News.
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Speaker 2: As President Trump keeps rallying Republicans before the elections, Kansas
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Speaker 2: last night.
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Speaker 3: You can defeat the Democrat communists and vote.
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Speaker 1: For more money in your pockets.
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Speaker 2: Democrats are running against him and low Trump approval poll numbers,
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Speaker 2: especially on inflation in the economy. But the president also
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Speaker 2: brought up the destructive weekend protests across France.
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Speaker 3: When you see burning steeples and raging fires in France,
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Speaker 3: just remember that is what the radical Democrats want to.
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Speaker 4: Do to America.
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Speaker 2: It was a calm night in France after curfews in
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Speaker 2: Paris and other cities. Those curfews have been extended. Russia
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Speaker 2: hit Ukraine with another deadly attack overnight as Ukraine's leaders
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Speaker 2: in Norway for talks with several European leaders. But President
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Speaker 2: Trump has suggested it's time for someone new to negotiate
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Speaker 2: for Ukraine. Vladimir Zelensky called dangerous, the U.S. pausing new
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Speaker 2: sanctions on Russia and allowing Russia to export diesel. Secretary
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Speaker 2: of State Marco Rubio is in Mumbai, but talked to
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Speaker 2: Zelensky this morning saying media reports about eroding U.S. support
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Speaker 2: are inaccurate.
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Speaker 5: So let me clear those up.
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Speaker 6: And as I did in my conversation with him, number
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Speaker 6: one is the Department of War, everything they've been doing
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Speaker 6: with Ukraine remains the same.
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Speaker 7: That has not changed.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of the War Department, the Secretary's in Israel.
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Speaker 4: Pete Hegseth met Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on this
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Speaker 4: unannounced visit. Reuters cites three Israeli officials as saying the
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Speaker 4: main topic of conversation was Iran. Although tensions remain high,
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Speaker 4: both Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Trump have said they
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Speaker 4: don't intend to attack Iran. before either the Israeli general
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Speaker 4: election next week or the midterms on November 3rd.
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Speaker 1: That's Fox's Jonathan Savage.
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Speaker 2: Oil prices surging today, up almost more than 5%.
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Speaker 11: Here he comes surprise there's an avocado shortage now half
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Two
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Speaker 1: men from North Carolina were arrested in Bryan after a
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Speaker 1: shoplifting call led to the discovery of drugs and a
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Speaker 1: loaded handgun. Bryan police responded to a theft in progress
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Speaker 1: at the West Bryan Walmart on Friday. The suspects fled
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Speaker 1: the scene in a pickup but were spotted at a
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Speaker 1: gas station on South College Avenue. The driver was identified
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Speaker 1: as 31-year-old Austin Brisson of Bladenboro, North Carolina. The passenger
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Speaker 1: was identified as 31-year-old Brandon Brisson of Dublin, North Carolina.
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Speaker 1: Surveillance video showed Brandon Brisson taking a headlamp and a
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Speaker 1: tape measure and officers also found two broken packages of
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Speaker 1: food near the shopping cart he used. During a search
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Speaker 1: of the pickup, officers found a loaded. 22 caliber revolver,
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Speaker 1: a THC vape, a THC pre-roll, and methamphetamine. Brandon Brisson
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Speaker 1: was charged with theft under $ 100, possession of a controlled substance,
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Speaker 1: penalty group one less than one gram, and possession of
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Speaker 1: a controlled substance, penalty group two. He remains jailed on $ 10, 000 bond.
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Speaker 1: Austin Brisson was charged with unlawful carrying of a weapon,
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Speaker 1: and possession of drug paraphernalia, he was released on $ 6, 000 bond.
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Speaker 1: TxDOT is hosting a public meeting tonight to discuss improvements
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Speaker 1: to Harvey Road east of Highway 6. The meeting will
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Speaker 1: be from 5 to 7 at the Bob and Wanda
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Speaker 1: Meyer Senior and Community Center on Dartmouth. Texas gubernatorial candidates
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Speaker 1: took advantage of early voting yesterday. TSN's Chris Fox has more.
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Speaker 1: Perfect day for voting out here could not be any better.
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Speaker 14: Governor Abbott noticeably pumped up as he addressed reporters shortly
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Speaker 14: after voting in Del Valle. He's seeking a record fourth
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Speaker 14: term in office.
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Speaker 15: Listen, we're facing an election where we have people on
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Speaker 15: the total crazy side.
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Speaker 10: People who are in favor of boys and girls sports.
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Speaker 1: People who are trying to impose higher taxes.
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Speaker 14: Across town at the Austin Public Library, State Rep Jeannie
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Speaker 14: Enosa voted. She says her goals for Texans are simple.
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Speaker 16: You work hard.
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Speaker 17: You can afford to own your own home.
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Speaker 18: You can afford to put healthy food on the table,
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Speaker 18: pay your bills.
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Speaker 19: Send your kids to a good school down the street
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Speaker 19: in the neighborhood.
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Speaker 14: Abbott then took his campaign to Tarrant County. He knows up,
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Speaker 14: was off to San Antonio. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: The FBI is investigating a suspicious letter sent to the
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Speaker 1: Houston office of Senator Ted Cruz.
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Speaker 6: The letter had a white powder and was delivered to
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Speaker 6: Senator Ted Cruz's office in the federal building in downtown Houston.
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Speaker 6: Cruz says the FBI, Houston Police and Fire Departments, and U.S.
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Speaker 6: Capitol Police all responded quickly. saying he's grateful for their
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Speaker 6: professionalism and also to his team members who work tirelessly
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Speaker 6: on behalf of Texans. Nobody was hurt, but police and
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Speaker 6: fire did give a shelter-in-place order for all offices in
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Speaker 6: the building. The FBI says it's working with the U.S.
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Speaker 6: Postal Inspection Service on the case, saying the letter was
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Speaker 6: one of a series of suspicious mailings sent to elections
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Speaker 6: and congressional offices nationwide. Alan Skya, TSN News.
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Speaker 1: More news on the way at 7.30 or anytime at WTAW.com.
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Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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Speaker 11: In the race for governor, it's chaos versus common sense. First,
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Speaker 11: the chaos brought to you by Gina Hinojosa. She supports
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Speaker 11: open border policies so anyone can just walk in illegally.
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Speaker 11: And once they do, Hinojosa would allow them to vote
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Speaker 11: and get taxpayer funded health care. Gina Hinojosa favors a
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Speaker 11: state income tax and voted 40 times for higher property taxes.
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Speaker 11: And Hinojosa would threaten your safety because she supports defunding
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Speaker 11: the police and letting violent criminals out of jail.
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Speaker 20: But don't worry, because Governor Greg Abbott leads with common sense.
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Speaker 20: Abbott secured the border and cracked down on the deadly
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Speaker 20: drug cartels.
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Speaker 1: He banned a state income tax.
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Speaker 20: So you keep more of your money and Texas remains
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Speaker 20: number one in job creation. And Governor Abbott keeps you
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Speaker 20: safe by fully funding the police and keeping violent criminals
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Speaker 20: locked up.
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Speaker 1: That's the choice, Texas.
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Speaker 20: The chaos that Gina Hinojosa would bring or the common
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Speaker 20: sense leadership of Governor Greg Abbott.
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Speaker 10: 1620-945-WTAW. Happy Brazos Valley Gives Day. BrazosValleyGives.org is the website.
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Speaker 10: And humming right along as far as donations, which is
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Speaker 10: exactly what we want to see, because there's a ton
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Speaker 10: of organizations that would Appreciate your support. 147 is what
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Speaker 10: the official total is on the website, which, man, it's
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Speaker 10: going to be a lot of work today. But the
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Speaker 10: this is a community day of giving, community-wide.
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Speaker 1: That's right.
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Speaker 10: We have, as I mentioned, all of the organizations. There
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Speaker 10: are a lot of sponsors and businesses that are coming
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Speaker 10: to the table to help as well, which we will need.
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Speaker 10: to be able to hopefully fund these asks. Each business
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Speaker 10: or each nonprofit has their own individual ask. You can
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Speaker 10: see how close they are, if they have matching dollars,
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Speaker 10: all of that stuff. One that is particularly close to
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Speaker 10: both of our hearts is Brass Valley Food Bank. And
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Speaker 10: on the phone somewhere is Teresa Mangaport. Where are you today,
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Speaker 10: by the way?
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Speaker 1: Where are you at?
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Speaker 22: Okay.
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Speaker 8: I'm at my house still.
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Speaker 10: Oh, you're at the house.
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Speaker 16: Okay.
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Speaker 10: I didn't know if you were, like, I know Ted
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Speaker 10: and Riley are at the Brasses Valley Gives hub, and
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Speaker 10: I thought to myself, maybe she's there. but it's all good.
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Speaker 18: No, I believe I have a staff person that's going
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Speaker 18: to be hanging out with Ted today, yes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, look at that, that's great.
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Speaker 22: Alright, alright.
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Speaker 14: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: Alright, well, one of the, we just heard from the
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Speaker 10: Salvation Army, obviously, about specifically with Angel Tree. their need
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Speaker 10: grew one-third this year, and they're still going. They're already
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Speaker 10: up 33% on the amount of kids that are coming
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Speaker 10: to them saying, you know, Christmas isn't going to happen
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Speaker 10: unless someone else steps up. I would imagine, and tell
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Speaker 10: me if I'm wrong, that this is a similar situation
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Speaker 10: to what you guys are facing this year in 2026?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, it's... We all are dealing with higher
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Speaker 8: prices in everything that we do.
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Speaker 18: So imagine if you're paycheck to paycheck what kind of
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Speaker 18: squeeze that is at the household. So, yeah, thinking about
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Speaker 18: making sure that you have all your basic needs met
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Speaker 18: usually means that families right here in the Brazos Valley
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Speaker 18: across the six counties that we serve have to make
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Speaker 18: difficult choices, maybe not every day, maybe not every month,
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Speaker 18: but they have to make difficult choices and have to
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Speaker 18: give some things up. And we're not talking about glamorous things.
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Speaker 18: We're talking about basic things like food. Food is one
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Speaker 18: of those things that people find easier to give up.
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Speaker 18: It's easier to make up for it. You can go
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Speaker 18: to a pantry, which is part of our network, which
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Speaker 18: is great. But you can't, you know, you give up
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Speaker 18: your house, it's really hard to get back into being housed,
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Speaker 18: things like that. Give up a car, it's hard to.
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Speaker 18: So for right now, you know, I've been at the
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Speaker 18: food bank for over 20 years, 22 years. This is
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Speaker 18: by far the deepest need.
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Speaker 8: And let me explain what I mean by that.
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Speaker 18: So if someone needs to go visit a food pantry once,
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Speaker 18: I remember when I started, the pantries that we would
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Speaker 18: work with would say, you know, I haven't seen so-and-so
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Speaker 18: in five years, but she's back. That meant something happened
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Speaker 18: in her life that made difficult choices coming, so she
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Speaker 18: needs to go visit a food pantry. Now the food
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Speaker 18: pantries are seeing people every month, and they're visiting multiple pantries,
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Speaker 18: which is fine. We don't call it double dipping. It's
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Speaker 18: not a big deal. Everyone's being resourceful, trying to make
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Speaker 18: sure there's food on the table, and It's really okay
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Speaker 18: to visit as many pantries as possible. That's something that
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Speaker 18: we encourage because each pantry is giving out maybe 30
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Speaker 18: or 40 pounds of food, which, you know, lasts a
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Speaker 18: couple days. So this isn't like cheating the system or anything.
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Speaker 18: So that's depth. That's people having to visit pantries multiple
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Speaker 18: times in a month, every month. This is a crazy
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Speaker 18: strategy to survive.
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Speaker 8: That's basically how I describe it.
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Speaker 10: That's terrifying. I know a lot of people, and, well,
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Speaker 10: there's a lot of people that would say, how is
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Speaker 10: that possible that it's getting this bad out there when
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Speaker 10: it doesn't? I don't really see it. I don't really
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Speaker 10: notice this in my day-to-day life. And my response to
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Speaker 10: that is always you just wouldn't. The amount of people
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Speaker 10: that are close to the edge right now is astounding.
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Speaker 10: It's just so, so, so high.
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Speaker 1: I can guarantee you, just about no matter who you are,
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Speaker 1: that you know somebody who is at least considered whether
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Speaker 1: or not they are going to have to go to
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Speaker 1: a food pantry, and probably somebody who has been to
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Speaker 1: a food pantry. It's not something that, as a person,
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Speaker 1: you wave the flag.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 1: Hey, I had to go do this this month.
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Speaker 10: I kind of wish people would, just because there's nothing
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Speaker 10: wrong with it.
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Speaker 1: No, there's no stigma that should belong there.
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Speaker 10: There's no stigma that should exist when it comes to that.
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Speaker 10: That's literally what the Brass Valley Food Bank is there for.
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Speaker 10: You mentioned something else, that obviously the cost of everything
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Speaker 10: is going up. Cost of fuel is going up. cost
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Speaker 10: of groceries, that has to have an effect on you
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Speaker 10: guys primarily as much as it would a household because
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Speaker 10: of the amount of trucks, the amount of produce. I mean,
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Speaker 10: what's the effect been on the food bank with rising prices?
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Speaker 18: Yeah, I use the term squeeze. I mean, we're being
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Speaker 18: asked to do more with less. That's just the reality.
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Speaker 18: I think the last time I was with the two
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Speaker 18: of you, we talked about how we had As a
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Speaker 18: lot of nonprofits, higher ed, lots of organizations don't have
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Speaker 18: as much government funding right now. So we're asking the
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Speaker 18: community to make that up. That's a lot for us
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Speaker 18: that we went from 24% to 4% government funding. That's
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Speaker 18: quite a bit of money.
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Speaker 10: Just in case that slid by.
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Speaker 1: 24%.
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Speaker 10: You used to have 24% of your money, your income,
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Speaker 10: coming into the organization to feed people in the brass valley.
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Speaker 10: 24% of that coming from the government. Now it's 4%.
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Speaker 8: That's correct.
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Speaker 10: It's 4%.
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Speaker 8: And then there's the other part.
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Speaker 18: The government food that we get is probably 20% of
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Speaker 18: our food.
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Speaker 8: But that amount of food has not been as....
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Speaker 18: I'll put it that way, this year as well. So
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Speaker 18: less government money, less reliable government food has meant everyone
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Speaker 18: else has to pitch in a whole bunch more. But,
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Speaker 18: you know, that's kind of what today is.
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Speaker 8: About, right?
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Speaker 10: That is exactly what today is about.
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Speaker 1: That's the point. I mean, there's lots of people who,
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Speaker 1: you know, whatever your political affiliation or beliefs are, there
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Speaker 1: are people that have said, hey, we don't want our
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Speaker 1: government to spend X amount of money on X.
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Speaker 10: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But that is an indicator. Those people are, if they're
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Speaker 1: like me, they believe that it is our job as
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Speaker 1: citizens of a community, when we can, to step up
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Speaker 1: and help out.
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Speaker 10: That is the critical second part of that argument that
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Speaker 10: frequently gets left out, at least in the public dialogue.
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Speaker 10: I see no problem believing that the government should not
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Speaker 10: be giving money, but you have to find it. Someone
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Speaker 10: has to generate that money. Someone does. So then you
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Speaker 10: start looking around the community and you find people that, again,
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Speaker 10: like you said, Will, I do believe that there are
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Speaker 10: a lot of organizations, a lot of businesses, a lot
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Speaker 10: of individuals, a lot of families, a lot of trusts
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Speaker 10: that are more than okay with stepping up and filling
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Speaker 10: that gap. And that is what today is about. We're
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Speaker 10: going to find out. Because I want to say your
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Speaker 10: ask for today, Teresa, you're looking for $ 30, 000 and hopefully more, frankly,
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Speaker 10: hopefully more. But your thermometer here is set at $ 30, 000.
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Speaker 10: Is that correct?
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Speaker 18: That's correct. And I needed to give a shout out
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Speaker 18: to Dee Grimm, who is our matching sponsor.
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Speaker 10: You beat me to it. What is Dee Grimm doing
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Speaker 10: for us today, Teresa?
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Speaker 18: So they are a matching donor. And what I love about,
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Speaker 18: there's several things that I love about this. This has
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Speaker 18: been an organization that's been very quietly donating to the
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Speaker 18: Brazos Valley Food Bank. They're relatively new.
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Speaker 8: I mean, newish.
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Speaker 18: They started in 2000 and they're in Navasota, which is
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Speaker 18: even fantastic because they're not right here in Bryan College Station.
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Speaker 18: We're showing that we have support regionally. And they do
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Speaker 18: energy services and land development and just really got excited
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Speaker 18: about this opportunity to help us out.
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Speaker 8: So great partnership.
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Speaker 10: I love this. They are matching donations up to $ 15, 000 today,
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Speaker 10: which means whatever you give up to $ 15, 000 gets doubled. Doubled.
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Speaker 1: That is, yeah. That is, thank you, D.
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Speaker 10: Grimm, for that. I, I, I, that, absolutely thank you.
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Speaker 10: And I like how, like you said, very quietly giving.
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Speaker 10: I know you've got a list, Teresa. If you want
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Speaker 10: to throw any more of them out there, feel free
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Speaker 10: to shine a light on some of these. You do
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Speaker 10: have an amazing amount of support here in the community
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Speaker 10: that's been helping over the stretch. Historically, we live in
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Speaker 10: a wonderful community that loves to give.
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Speaker 8: Right, we do.
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Speaker 18: There's a couple of things I want to say about that.
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Speaker 18: Number one, the food bank is only as strong as
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Speaker 18: the agencies that help us get the food out. So
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Speaker 18: what is so great to me about today is that
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Speaker 18: you're going to see a lot of the food pantries
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Speaker 18: as part of this Razzle Valley Gives Day. And this
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Speaker 18: is going to be a major fundraising day for them.
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Speaker 18: And we have to support them as well. You know,
18:55
Speaker 18: there are pantries in Navasota. There are pantries in Iola.
18:59
Speaker 18: There are pantries in Brenham. They all are doing this
19:03
Speaker 18: work with us, and so supporting them as well on
19:06
Speaker 18: a day like this, like I said, this could be their.
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Speaker 8: Biggest fundraiser for the year, is really important.
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Speaker 18: The other thing I want to say is, while the
19:16
Speaker 18: economy itself has been challenging for most of us, some
19:23
Speaker 18: people are doing okay with their retirement and stocks and
19:28
Speaker 18: things like that. One of the things that a lot
19:32
Speaker 18: of folks that are in the higher income bracket are
19:35
Speaker 18: doing lately is donor advised funds.
19:38
Speaker 23: Really?
19:39
Speaker 18: Yeah, and it's a great way for them to have
19:43
Speaker 18: money set aside if there's a tax benefit, and then
19:46
Speaker 18: they can release funds from it like a grant to nonprofits.
19:51
Speaker 18: And sometimes those gifts are fairly large. So I would
19:54
Speaker 18: really encourage anyone that's trying to figure out, you know,
19:58
Speaker 18: you've got money, you're trying to figure out how to
20:01
Speaker 18: work things out with taxes, you want to help the
20:03
Speaker 18: community to look at donor advised funds and then find
20:06
Speaker 18: out which charities can accept those. They tend to come
20:10
Speaker 18: in electronic format, so you have to have that sophistication
20:13
Speaker 18: in your organization. But the Brazos Valley Food Bank has
20:16
Speaker 18: definitely benefited from donor-advised funds. We got one yesterday from
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Speaker 18: an anonymous donor for $ 25, 000, completely unexpected.
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Speaker 10: That's a blessing. Good Lord.
20:28
Speaker 8: So what I'm.
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Speaker 18: Saying is there's people out there that are doing really
20:33
Speaker 18: great support and partnership for nonprofits like through donor-advised funds
20:38
Speaker 18: in very silent ways. And they're really helping keeping a
20:41
Speaker 18: lot of nonprofits going. And I think that we'll see
20:45
Speaker 18: some of those kinds of gifts today is my expectation
20:48
Speaker 18: at the food bank and across President Valley Gives.
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Speaker 10: I think so, too.
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Speaker 1: And it doesn't matter. I mean, there's a lot of
20:54
Speaker 1: people that are in that situation that have that ability
20:56
Speaker 1: to do that. If you're in a situation where you
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Speaker 1: can go online and give $ 5 and there are 20,000
21:03
Speaker 1: of you. Oh, yeah.
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Speaker 24: Yeah.
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Speaker 17: Do that.
21:06
Speaker 10: Equally impactful. It doesn't matter. The amount, it's just the
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Speaker 10: act of giving. I do think this is the year
21:14
Speaker 10: to stretch, like maybe find some way to make a
21:18
Speaker 10: donation if this has come and gone in years past
21:20
Speaker 10: and you haven't, because every story we are hearing is
21:24
Speaker 10: similar to what Teresa is telling us, is that these
21:27
Speaker 10: organizations that are so critical here in the Browse Valley
21:31
Speaker 10: really need the support. BrassValleyGives.org is the website. I will
21:35
Speaker 10: post a link to the Food Bank subpage here shortly
21:41
Speaker 10: if you just want to go straight to it. That'll
21:42
Speaker 10: be on the WTAW Facebook page. Anything else you want
21:45
Speaker 10: to get to today, Teresa?
21:48
Speaker 8: Just everybody, don't think about coming out. Just do it.
21:52
Speaker 18: What's so great about this is that you.
21:54
Speaker 8: Don't have to actually go somewhere.
21:56
Speaker 18: There's a lot of people who really like events, and
21:58
Speaker 18: I love those people, and there's a lot of people
22:00
Speaker 18: who like to just you know, take care of business
22:03
Speaker 18: and then continue their day. And today is one of
22:05
Speaker 18: those days where you can make a great impact from
22:08
Speaker 18: your desktop and support an organization that you love and
22:13
Speaker 18: make sure that they can continue to do.
22:15
Speaker 8: What they do.
22:16
Speaker 10: Absolutely. Hey, thank you so much for taking a few
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Speaker 10: minutes today.
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Speaker 1: We really appreciate you, Teresa.
22:19
Speaker 10: We're hoping for a big day for you guys.
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Speaker 8: Thank you.
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Speaker 18: I hope it's a great day for everybody. And I
22:24
Speaker 18: love to you guys for, you know, promoting this.
22:28
Speaker 8: It really helps.
22:29
Speaker 22: All right.
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Speaker 10: Well, we'll talk to you soon, okay?
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Speaker 22: Okay.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, what a wonderful visit with her. I do have
25:47
Speaker 1: a correction to make on my own, what I said
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Speaker 1: earlier about if you've got $ 5 to give, you should
25:52
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25:54
Speaker 1: $ 10 because that is the minimum.
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Speaker 10: Gift on the website there.
25:57
Speaker 1: Thanks for sending that.
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Speaker 8: In, Polly.
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Speaker 10: I wouldn't correct it too much because I really do
26:02
Speaker 10: believe it does not matter how much you give. Obviously,
26:04
Speaker 10: there's a $ 10 minimum for gifts. That's fine. If you
26:08
Speaker 10: are like, again, times are hard. If you are financially
26:12
Speaker 10: strapped and you have time on your hands as opposed
26:17
Speaker 10: to money, please go to the website anyway, brassvalleygifts.org. Find
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Speaker 10: an organization that speaks to you that you can volunteer for.
26:25
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
26:26
Speaker 10: That's just as good.
26:28
Speaker 1: It can be in many ways for sure. But again,
26:31
Speaker 1: there's people out there that can make massive donations, which
26:35
Speaker 1: is wonderful. And we can't get by without them. There
26:38
Speaker 1: are also tens of thousands of people that can make
26:41
Speaker 1: small donations. And having been involved deeply in the nonprofit
26:46
Speaker 1: world in this community, I can tell you that you
26:49
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26:52
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Speaker 10: Larry, you're on the radio. You had some thoughts and
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Speaker 10: some strategies to bless us with this morning. What do
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Speaker 10: you got?
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Speaker 16: Sure.
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Speaker 22: Sure.
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Speaker 13: As I was listening to Teresa and representatives of all
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Speaker 13: of these wonderful charities in the I was reminded not
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Speaker 13: of the whales or the small donations, but of the
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Speaker 13: mid-level donations. In last year's tax bill, there was a
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27:23
Speaker 13: of the 92% of us who do not itemize on
27:26
Speaker 13: our taxes.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
27:28
Speaker 13: And this is brand new. So if you are looking
27:31
Speaker 13: for a target amount to give, you can actually get
27:34
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27:38
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Speaker 1: That is wonderful information.
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Speaker 10: That is incredible information, Larry. Thank you so much. Yeah,
27:44
Speaker 10: that would have slipped by me completely.
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Speaker 13: The only thing I'd say, this is donations to legitimate
27:50
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Speaker 27: Right.
27:52
Speaker 13: Your local candidate. And as always with all of this information,
27:57
Speaker 13: check it out for yourself just to be sure and
27:59
Speaker 13: check with your tax advisor. Or just go to the
28:01
Speaker 13: IRS website just to confirm all of this. But I
28:04
Speaker 13: don't think this has gotten enough play in the news.
28:07
Speaker 13: So thanks for the opportunity to spread it out.
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Speaker 10: Larry, thank you so much. And we will absolutely repeat
28:12
Speaker 10: that probably several times.
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Speaker 1: Solid advice, yeah.
28:14
Speaker 10: That is great advice. We'll talk to you later, man. So, yeah, BrazosValleyGives.org
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28:21
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28:24
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Speaker 10: to be able to get to the totals. And, again,
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Speaker 10: There's a massive amount of need out there. BrazosValleyGifts.org is
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Speaker 10: This is why I think all of us are hopefully
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Speaker 10: giving today and then watching to see what that total
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Speaker 10: is going to be. From Brazos Valley Gives HQ, I
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Speaker 22: I'm doing great, and it's a beautiful day to give
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41:41
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Speaker 10: That's a great thing.
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Speaker 22: But if you want to stay home and shop, get
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Speaker 22: online at BrazosValleyGives.org, and you can search by children or
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Speaker 22: you can search by location and you will have your
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Speaker 22: choice of 200 nonprofits that desperately need your help.
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Speaker 14: 200.
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Speaker 10: Goodness.
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Speaker 25: Sorry.
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Speaker 10: I was looking at 147, that too.
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Speaker 1: 147, 200, whatever.
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Speaker 22: And you know, you were, I was listening to you
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Speaker 22: as you were talking and, and the need is, is
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Speaker 22: really out there. These, a lot of the nonprofits depend
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Speaker 22: on this fundraiser as their major fundraiser. especially if they're
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Speaker 22: a smaller one and they don't have a staff to
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Speaker 22: help put on a big event. This is how they
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Speaker 22: make it throughout the next year. Funding is critical, and
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Speaker 22: anybody can be a philanthropist. The smallest gift accepted is $ 10,
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Speaker 22: and that's easy to do. Of course, we don't have
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Speaker 22: a maximum gift out there. You can give as much
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Speaker 22: as you'd like.
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Speaker 10: Thank goodness for that.
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Speaker 22: Yes, yes. So as I'm sitting here talking to you,
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Speaker 22: I'm watching the numbers go up. We're almost to 450,000. Wonderful.
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Speaker 22: So far, which is great, but we still have a
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Speaker 22: long way to go. And every dollar counts and helps.
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Speaker 10: What is the overall goal at the end of the
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Speaker 10: day today?
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Speaker 22: We would like to see us raise somewhere between a
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Speaker 22: million and a million five. And What I really want
43:20
Speaker 22: to stress with this is that this is the community
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Speaker 22: foundation's gift to the community. We partner this. We sponsor this.
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Speaker 22: We man it, but we don't take any money from it.
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Speaker 22: We give it directly back to the nonprofit. So you
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Speaker 22: know that if you choose a nonprofit, that money goes
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Speaker 22: to them. It does not come to us as a
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Speaker 22: community foundation, which is really nice.
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Speaker 8: I think it's a.
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Speaker 10: It's such a cool interface that, number one, like you said,
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Speaker 10: the money goes directly to the nonprofits. But I do
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Speaker 10: also love the fact that, like you said, I think
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Speaker 10: we all have things that are near and dear to Mark.
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Speaker 10: I'm more of an animal guy. I love charities to
44:04
Speaker 10: deal with animals. I love charities to deal with hunger.
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Speaker 10: I love charities to deal with literacy. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 10: what you're passionate about. There is an organization in Brazza
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Speaker 10: Valley Gives that fits that. So search for something that
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Speaker 10: you feel really is a need that speaks to you
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Speaker 10: because everyone has one and they don't have to be
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Speaker 10: the same.
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Speaker 1: And you might discover something new. I guarantee you that
44:24
Speaker 1: you're going to see a nonprofit there that you're not
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Speaker 1: familiar with and do a little research on them. Figure
44:29
Speaker 1: out if that if that's where you want to put
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Speaker 1: your donation.
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Speaker 10: Julie, the other thing I want to ask you was
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Speaker 10: because you've been so involved with this and there are
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Speaker 10: so many charities, the ones that we have talked to
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Speaker 10: so far and the ones we've talked to at other
44:42
Speaker 10: points in the year have said that this year is
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Speaker 10: especially difficult. Like the need being extremely high and funding
44:52
Speaker 10: being less certain than it has been or donations being
44:56
Speaker 10: less certain than they have been. Have you heard that
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Speaker 10: echoed by the majority of the people that you're working
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Speaker 10: with this year?
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Speaker 22: We have, and we've also, you know, this particular campaign
45:06
Speaker 22: is social media driven. And so with the help of
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Speaker 22: Brian Broadcasting and KPTX and then, of course, platforms like
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Speaker 22: Instagram and Facebook, we've really seen all of the nonprofits
45:17
Speaker 22: ramp it up. They're all really trying to reach anybody
45:22
Speaker 22: they can to help give and help them grow. get
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Speaker 22: over that, just to get through the hump of trying
45:29
Speaker 22: to raise money and to be sustainable. One thing also
45:32
Speaker 22: I'd like to mention that's a little bit new this
45:35
Speaker 22: year when you're searching and you think, you know, I
45:37
Speaker 22: really don't have discretionary income to give, but I do
45:41
Speaker 22: have some time. There are organizations that have listed that
45:44
Speaker 22: need volunteers. And so that's also very crucial. So look
45:48
Speaker 22: at that tab too. And if you have some time
45:51
Speaker 22: to volunteer, do it. It's It's life changing to volunteer
45:56
Speaker 22: for an organization that needs your help.
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Speaker 10: And keep in mind, like it can be just as
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Speaker 10: important as the money for a lot of these organizations. Absolutely.
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Speaker 10: And it's an amazing way to get connected to your community.
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Speaker 10: I would highly recommend it. Don't feel like that. Obviously,
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Speaker 10: we're looking to raise money today. But if you cannot
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Speaker 10: give financially, do not feel like this. takes you out
46:16
Speaker 10: of being able to participate in the spirit of this
46:19
Speaker 10: day uh and and again the volunteering aspect of it
46:22
Speaker 10: is huge and i would encourage everyone to at a
46:26
Speaker 10: minimum try to find some of these people that are
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Speaker 10: doing some incredible things it's my favorite part of the
46:31
Speaker 10: day because i will always find a new two or
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Speaker 10: three groups that are just uh just doing amazing.
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Speaker 22: So as Yes, and as we're sitting here talking, we
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Speaker 22: just reached $ 450, 000.
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Speaker 20: Yeah.
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Speaker 22: Some of our listeners are hopefully donating to us, so
46:43
Speaker 22: that's great.
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Speaker 10: That's the goal, and again, we've got a long way
46:46
Speaker 10: to go. BrazosValleyGives.org is the website. I do want to
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46:56
Speaker 10: make your donation go the extra mile. You guys have
46:58
Speaker 10: a lot of businesses that are coming in to add
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Speaker 10: some incentives. Do you want to explain that?
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Speaker 8: Yes.
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Speaker 22: So if you go, there's also a site that you
47:08
Speaker 22: can click and you can see everybody that has matching dollars.
47:12
Speaker 22: And what that means typically is if you give a dollar,
47:15
Speaker 22: someone else is giving a dollar. So your dollar basically
47:19
Speaker 22: becomes $ 2 that you're giving to the organization. And then
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Speaker 22: Education Foundation. And for all of the education foundations or
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Speaker 22: school districts in the Brazos Valley that are participating, they're
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Speaker 22: actually providing a two for one. So you give a dollar,
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Speaker 33: Wow.
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Speaker 1: That's wild.
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Speaker 1: Really?
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Speaker 22: That's really great. Up to $ 2, 500. So if they raise $ 2, 500,
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Speaker 22: they get $ 5, 000 from the Greater Texas Foundation.
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Speaker 15: Wow.
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Speaker 22: Which is incredible, an incredible match.
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Speaker 10: That is huge. Again, the website is chock full of
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Speaker 10: some of these things, so please explore it. If you
48:04
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Speaker 39: of all cooler holes. But the Toyota trucks that carry
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Speaker 39: the whole tailgate, now that's the real goat.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, buddy.
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Speaker 39: Not everything's about you.
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Speaker 1: Okay, fine.
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Speaker 33: You're pretty great, too.
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Speaker 39: Score a great deal on the Tundra in Tacoma at
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Speaker 39: the Toyota Trucks game day sales event. But hurry, these
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Speaker 39: deals won't last forever.
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Speaker 1: Toyota, let's go places.
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Speaker 39: See packages and options at toyota.com for future availability. Every
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Speaker 39: game day tailgate has its goats. The greatest of all briskets.
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Speaker 39: The greatest of all cornhole shots. The greatest of all
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Speaker 39: cooler holes. But the Toyota trucks that carry the whole tailgate,
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Speaker 39: now that's the real goat.
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Speaker 1: Sorry, buddy.
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Speaker 39: Not everything's about you.
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Speaker 1: Okay, fine.
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Speaker 18: You're pretty great, too.
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Speaker 39: Score a great deal on the Tundra and Tacoma at
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Speaker 39: the Toyota Trucks game day sales event.
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Speaker 1: But hurry, these deals won't last forever. Toyota, let's go places.
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Speaker 39: See packages and options at toyota.com for future availability.
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Speaker 10: 1620-945-WTAW. Good morning. We're the Infomaniacs. Beautiful weather today. Sunny,
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Speaker 10: high near 80 degrees. Down to the 50s tonight and
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Speaker 10: then back up to the low 80s tomorrow. Weather brought
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Speaker 10: or go to UnitedRoofingPros.com. Will just looks at me, he's like, hey,
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Speaker 10: you need cowhide?
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 10: It's something I didn't expect to get asked today.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't either. You know, I'm a fan of
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Speaker 1: the Rosenthal Meat Science and Technology Center because I've gotten
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Speaker 1: some good deals on some good meats over there.
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Speaker 16: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I was a fan when I was a kid. I
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Speaker 1: used to go to the creamery over there. This week,
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Speaker 1: their weekly special, $ 40 cowhides.
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Speaker 10: That's, what?
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Speaker 1: $ 40 cowhides.
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Speaker 11: Really?
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Speaker 1: Untanned, unsalted, unscraped. 50 pounds each you got to load
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Speaker 1: them yourselves but yeah if you need a cowhide for
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Speaker 1: whatever reason you want to get into some leather making
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Speaker 1: or whatever that.
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Speaker 10: Said it actually sounds like a heck of a deal i.
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Speaker 1: Would think so that's uh i would think those people
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Speaker 1: that need cowhides that's probably not a.
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Speaker 10: Bad idea 40 bucks a hide yeah.
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Speaker 1: We do have a wreck we need to talk about
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Speaker 1: FM 2818, it is right near A & M Consolidated
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Speaker 1: High School.
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Speaker 12: Oh, Lord.
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Speaker 1: And it looks like especially the outbound lanes, I guess
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Speaker 1: I will call it, because I don't know if that's
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Speaker 1: north or west or what it is.
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Speaker 22: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: But right there, it is by the Woodlands Apartments and
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Speaker 1: the Campus Village Apartments right there.
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Speaker 24: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: There's a wreck. just before Holloman, and it's got traffic
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Speaker 1: backed up all the way to A & M Consolidated
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Speaker 1: High School.
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Speaker 10: Avoid, avoid, avoid if you have the ability. Hey, by
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Speaker 10: the way, for those of you that missed the candidates
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Speaker 10: forum last night or you just want to review it.
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Speaker 1: Got a little spicy.
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Speaker 10: It got a little spicy. A little spicier than I
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Speaker 10: was expecting, but all of the audio is online currently, WTAW.com.
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Speaker 10: You can also find it in the Candidate Conversations with
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Speaker 10: Scott DeLucia blog, WTAWcollege.com.