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The Infomaniacs: September 25 2026 (7:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: College Station City Council voted in favor of renewing the
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  Speaker 1: contract with Flock Safety. The vote was split four to
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  Speaker 1: two with Councilman Yancey and Smith voting against. It was
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  Speaker 1: not an easy decision for those voting in favor.
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  Speaker 2: If we can prevent one more aggravated assault of a
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  Speaker 2: child or find another missing child from another jurisdiction, that
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  Speaker 2: it's worth seeing what happens over the next year. Let
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  Speaker 2: the courts work out the privacy issue and determine what
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  Speaker 2: we need to do.
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  Speaker 1: Councilwoman Melissa McElhaney also speaks on the increase in misuse detections.
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  Speaker 2: I actually find that reassuring. To me, that's showing that
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  Speaker 2: there are policies and procedures that are online or coming
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  Speaker 2: online to help manage this new technology.
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  Speaker 1: College Station Police Chief Billy Couch explains that the department
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  Speaker 1: can limit who can view CSPD's flock data.
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  Speaker 3: So we do control the agencies who can search our network.
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  Speaker 3: If we have an agency that is no longer a
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  Speaker 3: customer or an agency that is committing problems or issues,
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  Speaker 3: we can remove them from our search network if needed.
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  Speaker 3: And then all searches are retained indefinitely.
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  Speaker 1: Councilman Bob Yancey says the flock name is toxic. He
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  Speaker 1: says flock is undergoing layoffs, hemorrhaging clients, and potentially shopping
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  Speaker 1: for a buyer. Snapchat is being credited for the arrest
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  Speaker 1: of a College Station ISD elementary school custodian on child
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  Speaker 1: pornography charges. 22-year-old Gerardo Gonzalez, also known as Jerry, was
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  Speaker 1: a nighttime janitor at Greens Prairie Elementary. He was arrested
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  Speaker 1: Wednesday and charged with two counts of possession with intent
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  Speaker 1: to promote child pornography. Arrest records say Snapchat reported the
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  Speaker 1: user's IP address to the National Center for Missing and
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  Speaker 1: Exploited Children. He remains jailed on $ 115, 000 bond. Attorney General
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  Speaker 1: and United States Senate candidate Ken Paxton has so far
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  Speaker 1: declined all invitations to debate Democratic nominee James Talarico. Now
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  Speaker 1: the MSC Wiley Lecture Series hopes to change that. Representatives
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  Speaker 1: have reached out to both campaigns to extend an invitation
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  Speaker 1: to debate at Rudder Auditorium on October 14th. They say
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  Speaker 1: the available U.S. Senate seat is crucial, and the group
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  Speaker 1: is actively organizing the event to give Texas voters an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to hear directly from both candidates before casting their ballots.
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  Speaker 1: A terrorism charge dropped against a Texas mother accused of
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  Speaker 1: helping her son plan a school shooting. Fox's Kristen Goodwin
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  Speaker 1: has more.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Pardo was charged last May with aiding in the
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  Speaker 4: commission of terrorism. The San Antonio mother was accused of
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  Speaker 4: buying ammunition, magazines, and tactical gear for her 13-year-old son
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  Speaker 4: with knowledge that he planned to carry out mass acts
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  Speaker 4: of violence at his middle school. But Bexar County records
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  Speaker 4: reveal the charge was dismissed for insufficient evidence. The teen,
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  Speaker 4: who officials say showed up to school in tactical clothing
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  Speaker 4: as part of an alleged attack, was initially charged with terrorism,
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  Speaker 4: but under a plea agreement received two years of probation
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  Speaker 4: in a secured residential facility for a prohibited weapons charge.
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  Speaker 4: Ashley Pardo still faces an unrelated charge of abandoning or
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  Speaker 4: endangering a child with criminal negligence in a separate incident.
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  Speaker 4: Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
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  Speaker 1: The city of Navasota is celebrating the grand reopening of
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  Speaker 1: the Navasota Animal Shelter. The shelter at 1607 Nolan Street
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  Speaker 1: opens this morning at 1030 a.m. It is your chance
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  Speaker 1: to tour the facility and meet all the animals currently
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  Speaker 1: available for adoption. The Navasota Animal Shelter is a no-kill facility.
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  Speaker 1: More news at 730 or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 7: What do we really know about James Tallarico? Tallarico said.
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  Speaker 11: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
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  Speaker 12: Tallarico supported using taxpayer dollars for sex change surgeries on
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  Speaker 12: young children, claimed denying your child's gender identity is abusive,
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  Speaker 12: said the trans community needs abortion care too, and even
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  Speaker 12: called Jesus a radical feminist and said God is non-binary.
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  Speaker 11: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
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  Speaker 7: But it gets worse.
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  Speaker 12: James Tallarico voted to allow biological men access to women's
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  Speaker 12: bathrooms in schools and for biological boys to play in
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  Speaker 12: girls' sports, saying some things are more important than fair
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  Speaker 12: competition in sports.
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  Speaker 11: Defending trans Texas is something we have to do every day.
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  Speaker 13: 1620-945-WTAW. We are the Infomaniacs. Good morning. It's Friday. And
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  Speaker 13: it is not offensively hot outside right now. It's only
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  Speaker 13: getting up to 95, which is not cool by any
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  Speaker 13: stretch of the imagination. I'm not telling you to break
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  Speaker 13: out the sweaters, but it should be all right. It's
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  Speaker 13: all right. Down to the maybe upper 60s tonight, maybe 70s.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not done so already, make sure you
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  Speaker 1: have tumbled out of bed, you have stumbled to the kitchen,
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  Speaker 1: and pour yourself that cup of ambition.
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  Speaker 13: That's right. It is 9 to 5 day. Well, it's not.
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  Speaker 13: It's called 9 to 5.
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  Speaker 14: 9 to 5.
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  Speaker 1: 9 to 5.
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  Speaker 13: A day to salute the legendary Dolly Parton, which we thought...
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  Speaker 13: I mean, I assumed this was going to end up
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  Speaker 13: being a pretty big deal.
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  Speaker 15: And it is.
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  Speaker 1: Like, some of the.
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  Speaker 13: There's cities that are going to be doing things for this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Like, New Orleans is going to have a celebration of
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  Speaker 13: Life Parade today, which... No one does a parade like
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  Speaker 13: New Orleans.
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  Speaker 1: They are pretty good at the parades. Parades, pickpocketing, and
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  Speaker 1: petty crime.
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  Speaker 13: Nashville is going to do pink lights and dolly posters
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  Speaker 13: all around the city.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that tracks.
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  Speaker 13: Garth Brooks, his bar, Friends in Low Place, will donate
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  Speaker 13: all their proceeds to the Imagination Library, which is her
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  Speaker 13: charity of choice. And San Francisco will have a daytime
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  Speaker 13: celebration with live music.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I want to go back to the Garth.
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  Speaker 1: So drinking for Dolly is a thing.
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  Speaker 13: Drinking for Dolly is a thing. So if you go
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  Speaker 13: and spend a lot of money in Garth's Mega Bar,
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  Speaker 13: then that will translate to books for kids, which, I mean,
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  Speaker 13: come on, that's a beautiful thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it.
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  Speaker 13: What did I see yesterday about Disney Plus?
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  Speaker 1: Disney Plus and Hulu?
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  Speaker 13: They're going back. I feel like we just had the
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  Speaker 13: story about them. raising their rates. Like, I mean, just
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  Speaker 13: had it. Or maybe it was one of the other ones.
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  Speaker 13: I can't even keep track anymore.
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  Speaker 1: They seem to be doing it annually these days.
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  Speaker 13: Everyone is. At every single streaming service, they start, and
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  Speaker 13: it's like, hey, okay, this is a pretty good price
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  Speaker 13: for all the content. But then, you know, 10 years
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  Speaker 13: down the road, you're paying crazy amounts of money.
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  Speaker 1: For these things. Crazy amounts. And every single year, I
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  Speaker 1: threaten to drop Disney Hulu. Yeah. And every single year,
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  Speaker 1: something will pop up on Hulu saying, That I can
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  Speaker 1: only watch on Hulu.
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  Speaker 13: That keeps you. And that keeps me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So this year may be the year. Because, yeah, it
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  Speaker 1: is going up. It looks like they've increased Hulu Premium
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  Speaker 1: from $ 18. 99 to $ 21.
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  Speaker 16: 49.
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  Speaker 13: $ 21. 49 for Hulu?
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  Speaker 17: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Disney Plus Premium and Hulu Premium.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: So that's a bundle. So you get both.
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  Speaker 18: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. The bundle of Disney Plus Premium. And it
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  Speaker 1: went up $ 2. 00. From $ 19. 99 to $ 21. 99 per month.
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  Speaker 3: Yikes.
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  Speaker 1: Disney Plus and Hulu with ads did not get an increase.
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  Speaker 17: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It's still $ 12. 99 a month.
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  Speaker 19: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: The ad-supported Disney and Hulu also got an increase. It's
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  Speaker 1: up to $ 12.
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  Speaker 13: 49. So this reminds me of something I saw on
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  Speaker 13: Reddit the other day where they were talking about things
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  Speaker 13: similar to Disney Plus and Hulu. That didn't used to
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  Speaker 13: be expensive.
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  Speaker 1: This was supposed to be the cheap way to go. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All the cable monopolies were going to be kicked to
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  Speaker 1: the curb. You were going to cut the cord.
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  Speaker 13: But yeah, but now you pay way more.
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  Speaker 1: Way more.
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  Speaker 13: Than anyone reasonably should. And the way they framed it
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  Speaker 13: on this thread was the $ 20 burrito example. This is
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  Speaker 13: also another famous thing. Someone walked into a Chipotle or
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  Speaker 13: a burrito, double meat, whatever, and then all of a sudden, oh,
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  Speaker 13: it's a $ 20 burrito. How is that possible? How is
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  Speaker 13: it a $ 20 burrito? Because everything has gotten more expensive,
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  Speaker 13: and people can talk about, well, inflation is going up 0.08%
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  Speaker 13: or 3% or whatever. No, you look at it in
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  Speaker 13: terms of things that you used to buy that were
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  Speaker 13: not expensive but today are expensive. Hence— The $ 20 burrito.
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  Speaker 13: Chipotle did not always have a burrito. You couldn't even
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  Speaker 13: get to a $ 20 burrito. There's no way. It wasn't
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  Speaker 13: mathematically possible.
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  Speaker 1: You had to get two.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah, now it's just the way it is. So I wonder.
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  Speaker 13: and I do have a list of examples, but I
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  Speaker 13: wanted to know if you guys had any that came
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  Speaker 13: to mind immediately of the $ 20 burrito. What is the
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  Speaker 13: thing that didn't used to be expensive in your life
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  Speaker 13: that was just kind of, meh, yeah, alright, not a
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  Speaker 13: big deal, but now it's, it's, Crazy expensive. It's insane.
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  Speaker 13: What is that item in your life? If you have
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  Speaker 13: one that you want to share with us, 979-695-1620, do
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  Speaker 13: you have one that comes to mind?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right off the top of my head, and I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you it is going to be in a solid
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  Speaker 1: percentage of the text.
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  Speaker 13: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Gas. Gas.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when it was less than a dollar.
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  Speaker 13: What does it cost to fill up your tank right now?
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  Speaker 1: It's $ 100.
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  Speaker 20: $ 100.
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  Speaker 1: I would have thought more.
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  Speaker 13: Good Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 21: $ 100.
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  Speaker 1: It's right there.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 16: Okay.
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  Speaker 13: Another one that is being texted in already, and again,
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  Speaker 13: please text us yours. We're going to get to those
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  Speaker 13: coming up. Oil changes. Used to be $ 70 for a
• 10:55
  Speaker 13: high mileage synthetic oil change. Got an oil change a
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  Speaker 13: few days ago.
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  Speaker 1: $ 140.
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  Speaker 13: Absolutely. That has gone up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, my little baby SUV cost.
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  Speaker 13: Me like almost $ 150 to do an oil change on.
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  Speaker 1: It's insane.
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  Speaker 13: But the list goes on, and we will get to
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  Speaker 13: some of those coming up.
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  Speaker 1: One more before we fly.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Brisket. Brisket. From Luke.
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  Speaker 2: Oh!
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  Speaker 13: Maybe the best example. You know, some barbecue places are,
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  Speaker 13: this is a real story I saw yesterday. Some of
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  Speaker 13: the barbecue places, and that's it. No more. We cannot
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  Speaker 13: do brisket.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to Beef Cheek. And a couple other cuts.
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  Speaker 22: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to get that. Yeah, it's tough, man. It's tough.
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  Speaker 13: We'll give you a few minutes to text yours in.
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  Speaker 13: You can also call us either way, 979-695-1620 back after this.
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  Speaker 7: What kind of home do you live in?
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  Speaker 1: We live in a two-bedroom high-rise condo.
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  Speaker 23: A three-bedroom family home.
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  Speaker 24: In the suburbs.
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  Speaker 1: A farmhouse on our family ranch passed down through generations.
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  Speaker 25: It doesn't matter where you live or what kind of
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  Speaker 25: home you have. You all have one thing in common.
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  Speaker 25: Gina Hinojosa voted to increase your property taxes. Not once,
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  Speaker 25: not twice, but 40 different times Gina Hinojosa voted to
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  Speaker 25: raise your property taxes. If she has her way, you'll
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  Speaker 25: be priced out of your own home. Gina Hinojosa is
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  Speaker 25: too radical to be governor of Texas. Luckily, Governor Greg
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  Speaker 25: Abbott has a better plan.
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  Speaker 26: We have to stop the insanity and instead give you
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  Speaker 26: a different property tax relief that will do more than
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  Speaker 26: cut your property tax bill in half forever. You're going
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  Speaker 26: to be able to live in your home for the
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  Speaker 26: rest of your lives without being priced.
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  Speaker 2: Out of it.
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  Speaker 25: Greg Abbott, governor.
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  Speaker 13: 1620-945-WTAW. Yes, I am sorry for this triggering conversation. But, like,
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  Speaker 13: I do get lost. And it's part of it because
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  Speaker 13: I stink at math. I'm just bad at math. I
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  Speaker 13: don't do percentages well. And you tell me inflation sucks.
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  Speaker 13: It does. I know it. I can see it coming
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  Speaker 13: out of my bank account. But let's put it in
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  Speaker 13: terms of the $ 20 burrito. Or the Disney Plus bundle,
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  Speaker 13: whichever you prefer. What was the thing that didn't used
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  Speaker 13: to be expensive, the item that did not used to
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  Speaker 13: cost you so much money that now you look at
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  Speaker 13: it and you're like, how am I paying this kind
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  Speaker 13: of money for this product that used to be just nothing?
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  Speaker 13: And we are getting your text messages, so please keep
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  Speaker 13: them coming. You can get those in at 979-695-1620. Another suggestion,
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  Speaker 13: greeting cards. This made the Reddit list. Why is no
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  Speaker 13: one talking about the fact that most greeting cards are
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  Speaker 13: between seven and eight dollars now?
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  Speaker 1: You don't even look at the price on a greeting
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  Speaker 1: card most of the time, at least when I'm shopping
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  Speaker 1: for them. So, yeah, I haven't noticed that, but I
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  Speaker 1: have noticed that.
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  Speaker 13: Thrift shopping. Goodwill now charging full prices for clothes. You
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  Speaker 13: used to be able to go there and get a
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  Speaker 13: shirt for $ 1 each. I cannot say if that is
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  Speaker 13: true or not. I know I have raided a Goodwill
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  Speaker 13: many times.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been through it, but it's been a minute.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that might be because of the rise
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  Speaker 1: of the thrift shopping that's coming. There are two places
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  Speaker 1: here in town you can do that.
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  Speaker 13: $ 18 gourmet smash burger food truck without fries, says this post.
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  Speaker 13: Sidewall fries add $ 8. And the best post I've seen
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  Speaker 13: on this thread so far, and I'm continuing to scroll
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  Speaker 13: through it just to refresh my memory, $ 5 foot long.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I used to be a connoisseur of the $ 5
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  Speaker 1: foot long.
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  Speaker 13: The $ 5 foot long was the, and again, sounds about,
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  Speaker 13: you know what, honestly, bro? That's about right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 13: That's about what I'd expect to pay for what I'm
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  Speaker 13: getting at Subway. You can't be close to that.
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  Speaker 1: Double easy.
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  Speaker 3: Easy.
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  Speaker 13: All right, let's go to the test.
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  Speaker 1: Lori says a drink at Sonic. Can confirm. Even my
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  Speaker 1: wife's drink that she gets in her emotional support mug
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  Speaker 1: at the Chicken Express. She's off the Sonic. She's on
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  Speaker 1: the Chicken Express. Even that's gone up.
• 15:36
  Speaker 13: So Sonic, Sonic. Sonic outpriced her?
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: That wasn't a price thing. I'm not sure exactly. I
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: think she just decided that the Dr. Pepper juice was
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: better at the Chicken Express. And she likes the ice
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: from one. She likes the ice from one of the
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: machines at the Chicken Express on Welburn because one of
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the machines makes the ice a little softer.
• 15:58
  Speaker 13: Brian says, how about a haircut? You used to be
• 16:00
  Speaker 13: able to go to Great Clips and get a haircut
• 16:01
  Speaker 13: for $ 12. It's time to get a haircut with me
• 16:05
  Speaker 13: this week. $ 100? Yeah, Blake.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I hear you, Blake. That, for sure. My haircuts,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: you know, I get a beard trim with them after
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: tip at $ 60.
• 16:14
  Speaker 13: Yeah, I mean, I had to cut a hair on
• 16:17
  Speaker 13: my head.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: For a long, long time. I do remember going to
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: the Redmond Terrace Barbershop and getting the $ 10 haircut, for sure.
• 16:24
  Speaker 13: Insurance from Stephanie, all of them, home, car, health. For
• 16:29
  Speaker 13: all three, I pay over $ 2, 000 a month and barely
• 16:33
  Speaker 13: ever use them. Well, you know, until you need it,
• 16:38
  Speaker 13: I guess.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:39
  Speaker 13: Diesel's been texted in a whole lot. A whole lot.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's for sure. Jeremy says restaurant tea.
• 16:46
  Speaker 13: Restaurant tea.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: So you can pay up to four bucks, just a
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: little bit more for it now. Oh, yeah. And they'll
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: get you on the refills, too.
• 16:53
  Speaker 15: Oh, what?
• 16:54
  Speaker 16: What?
• 16:55
  Speaker 22: Yeah.
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Sometimes.
• 16:56
  Speaker 13: Are you telling me they charge you refills?
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I've been charged for refills at a restaurant in the
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Brazos Valley.
• 17:03
  Speaker 13: For tea. I'll give you the, you know.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the sodas, we get it. I get it.
• 17:08
  Speaker 13: For tea.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: For tea. I'm almost sticking with water every time I
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: go out now. And, of course, the wife has her
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: emotional support mug that fits in her purse somehow.
• 17:18
  Speaker 13: Holy cow.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: Like it's the TARDIS or something. I mean, she whips
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: things out of the purse.
• 17:24
  Speaker 13: Frozen yogurt.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 17:26
  Speaker 13: Well, frozen yogurt, the frozen yogurt craze back in the
• 17:29
  Speaker 13: day taught several businessmen, several wise businessmen that that costs
• 17:33
  Speaker 13: nothing and they can make all of them. It's incredibly high.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: One of the first the first full time radio gig
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: that I had broadcasted live from the top of the T.C.B.Y.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Tower in downtown Little Rock.
• 17:50
  Speaker 13: Oh, my word. Yeah, that's... Anyway, keep them coming, guys.
• 17:54
  Speaker 13: We'll get to more of these as they show up.
• 17:58
  Speaker 13: I know I'm missing some.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. I mean, there's a million examples. Right now, though,
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: I saw an infographic on this within the past couple
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: of days. Right now, we're paying less for eggs than
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: we have in quite, quite some time.
• 18:11
  Speaker 13: That's okay. See, that's good. That's good. At least we're getting...
• 18:15
  Speaker 13: I like the stories of things that are on their
• 18:18
  Speaker 13: way back down.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:20
  Speaker 13: Because Lord knows that's not common.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that, aside from the issues with
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz and Iran, that our fuel prices
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: would probably be okay.
• 18:33
  Speaker 13: I think that's just a fact.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, Tad coming in strong.
• 18:38
  Speaker 13: Tad, what do you got?
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: Well, he says six flags over Texas.
• 18:41
  Speaker 17: Oh, wow.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Any theme park.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: Okay. Right?
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Any theme park.
• 18:45
  Speaker 13: Well, let's see. He breaks this down.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: He said paid one hour, paid a dollar an hour. Okay.
• 18:50
  Speaker 13: If you didn't drive others there from Dallas, you were
• 18:52
  Speaker 13: losing money, even if gas was less than a dollar.
• 18:54
  Speaker 13: So things not so bad today comparing to gas.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: He's talking about minimum wage.
• 18:59
  Speaker 13: Oh, minimum wage.
• 19:00
  Speaker 17: Oh, Lord.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Okay. We're picking up what you're putting down.
• 19:03
  Speaker 13: I see. I see.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Frank says ammo.
• 19:06
  Speaker 14: Ammo.
• 19:07
  Speaker 13: What does ammo cost?
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Well, it depends on what kind of rounds you're getting.
• 19:10
  Speaker 13: But I do know, yeah, between shortages and... There's fluctuations
• 19:14
  Speaker 13: that happen every now and again. At some point in
• 19:17
  Speaker 13: time when it was cheap, I might or might not
• 19:19
  Speaker 13: have loaded up on plenty at that point in time. Crazy. Also,
• 19:24
  Speaker 13: a text from Jeanette that I want to read. How
• 19:27
  Speaker 13: far will dollars go at Sprouts today in College Station?
• 19:32
  Speaker 13: Don't make me go down this road again, Jeanette. We
• 19:36
  Speaker 13: already angered the Sprouts Mafia once this week.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: We are not going to be discussing pocket cereal anymore.
• 19:41
  Speaker 13: Pocket sand. But Jeanette says, furthermore, anyone in line waiting
• 19:47
  Speaker 13: for the doors to open? Because... it is one of
• 19:50
  Speaker 13: those type of things. that they expected today and tomorrow
• 19:54
  Speaker 13: there to be a line. I think they're giving out
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: a tote bag.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: They're giving out a tote bag to the first 200,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and I saw a post yesterday, according to Boss Rob,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Boss Rob was going to be in line down there.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: He thought he was going to show up at 7
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and actually get a bag.
• 20:09
  Speaker 13: So the door's open. So the door's just open. So
• 20:11
  Speaker 13: there's no waiting in line anymore.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if you were the first 200, you're done.
• 20:16
  Speaker 13: If anyone wants to call and give us an update,
• 20:18
  Speaker 13: the very first look inside the Sprouts experience here in
• 20:22
  Speaker 13: Bryan College Station, if you're just getting out or you're
• 20:24
  Speaker 13: on your way there, please call us. WTAW, you're on
• 20:27
  Speaker 13: the radio. What you got?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Hello.
• 20:33
  Speaker 28: Hello.
• 20:34
  Speaker 13: Overcome by the magic of Sprouts.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 20:37
  Speaker 13: But yeah, so we'll keep an eye on that because
• 20:40
  Speaker 13: good Lord. I'm going to guess that it's a little
• 20:42
  Speaker 13: bit pricey. Just a hair.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 20:46
  Speaker 13: I don't know.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Don't badmouth the sprouts, dude. Don't badmouth them. We don't
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: want to bring that voodoo back on us.
• 20:52
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• 24:12
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• 26:34
  Speaker 15: The folks at Schulte guided me every step of the way.
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• 26:39
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• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. It
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: was a night to talk about renewing or canceling the
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: city's contract with Flock Safety. College Station Police Chief Billy
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Couch tells council that Flock is invaluable and revolutionary. It's
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: an incredible tool.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: We have had things come along in law enforcement that
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: really made a difference. The introduction of DNA evidence is
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: on this level. What it can do, what this system
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: is capable of to help with criminal activity is incredible.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: It would take, you can't afford the number of cops
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: it would take to do what this system is doing.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Couch says the recent uptick in the discovery of misuse
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: incidents is because of an internal audit failsafe launched by
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Flock in April. And CSPD Detective Steve Shulman says condemning
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: a product just because it decreased its likelihood of misuse
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: makes no sense.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I have access to more law enforcement databases than I
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: can count, okay?
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: None of them proactively audit like Flock does.
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: Why would we point to a system catching bad cops
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: as a reason to get rid of it?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Mayor Pro Tem William Wright, who presided over the meeting,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: spoke his mind before calling for the vote.
• 28:47
  Speaker 31: Ultimately elected up here at large to represent 135,000 people.
• 28:50
  Speaker 31: And while y'all are a slice of it, you do
• 28:53
  Speaker 31: not represent 135,000 people. And I have to be able
• 28:58
  Speaker 31: to go home and look at myself and said, I
• 29:00
  Speaker 31: gave the police the tools they could to stop things happening.
• 29:04
  Speaker 31: when they happen in our area. Maybe not prevent. I'm
• 29:07
  Speaker 31: not necessarily sold it necessarily 100% prevents, but it is
• 29:11
  Speaker 31: a tool that can be used when crime has happened
• 29:13
  Speaker 31: to figure out what to do next quickly.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: The vote was 4-2 in favor of giving Flock a
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: one-year contract. Mark Smith and Bob Yancey voted no. Bryan
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Police are reporting an increase in tire and rim thefts.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Vehicles most targeted are newer GMC, Chevrolet, and Toyota models.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Thefts are most common between midnight and 7 a.m. As
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: far as recommendations from the Bryan PD, report suspicious activity immediately.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: to 911. Park in well-lit areas, install locking lug nuts
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: on your rims, and make sure surveillance equipment is in
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: working condition. If you have any information about these thefts,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: report it to BPD. A Bryan teenager was arrested after
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a dispute over his final paycheck. College Station police say
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: 17-year-old Sean Woods went to the Five Guys in the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: 700 block of University just after 5 p.m. on Tuesday,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: demanding his final paycheck. The manager told Woods that he
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: would need to return his uniform before the check would
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: be released. Woods then went on a rampage, knocking over
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: a tea machine, tossing condiment dispensers, and overturning tables. Woods
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: was arrested for criminal mischief and criminal trespass. He was
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: released on $ 8, 000 bond. prosecutors in Texas are taking the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: death penalty off the table in order to get Lee
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Gilley back to the states to face trial in the
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: murder of his pregnant wife. Fox's Brooke Taylor explains.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: The 39-year-old, he's charged with capital murder. He is accused
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: of killing his wife, Krista, inside their Houston home back
• 30:45
  Speaker 6: in 2024. Gilley pleaded not guilty and was released on
• 30:48
  Speaker 6: a $ 1 million bond. Then, right before his trial, officials
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: say he managed to cut off his ankle monitor and
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: fled to Italy using a fake name and forged travel documents.
• 31:00
  Speaker 6: He was arrested at a Milan airport, but bringing him
• 31:03
  Speaker 6: back to Texas... It's been complicated. An Italian court blocked
• 31:07
  Speaker 6: his extradition because Italy does not allow the death penalty
• 31:10
  Speaker 6: and wanted guarantees that he would not face execution here. Well,
• 31:14
  Speaker 6: now Harris County prosecutors are trying to remove that roadblock,
• 31:17
  Speaker 6: formally telling the court they will not seek the death penalty.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Counties across the state are getting thousands of new voter
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: registrations that may have been sitting in Austin for almost
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: a year.
• 31:29
  Speaker 19: More than six million Texans use the Department of Public
• 31:31
  Speaker 19: Safety driver's license portal to register to vote, but some
• 31:33
  Speaker 19: of those may have never been sent to county elections departments.
• 31:37
  Speaker 19: The Texas Association of County Elections Officials says counties are
• 31:40
  Speaker 19: now receiving anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of
• 31:42
  Speaker 19: records dating back to October of last year. They cite
• 31:45
  Speaker 19: a technological error at the state level, but they say
• 31:48
  Speaker 19: voters should stay confident. County elections officials are working around
• 31:50
  Speaker 19: the clock to make sure registrations turned in before the
• 31:53
  Speaker 19: deadline October 5th will be processed for the November election.
• 31:56
  Speaker 19: Counties urge people to check VoteTexas.gov to check their own
• 31:59
  Speaker 19: registration status. Alan Skya, TSN News.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: As part of National Child Passenger Safety Week, there is
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: a free car seat safety event taking place tomorrow in Bryan.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Trained technicians will teach parents how to correctly install car seats.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: provide a replacement if needed, and ensure every child leaves
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: safer than they arrive. Texas A & M AgriLife Extension
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Office and TxDOT are helping to put on the event
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: at the Brazos Center from 830 until 11. Walk-ins are
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: welcome and served on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Children must be present to receive a car seat, and
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: expectant parents must be in their last trimester to qualify
• 32:38
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  Speaker 13: feel the difference. I'll be honest. I thought the flock
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  Speaker 13: I thought it was going to be unanimous.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 13: I just, that was my gut. And part of it
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  Speaker 13: was because for about, I mean, how, months now, every
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  Speaker 13: time we have representative in from uh from the city
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  Speaker 13: college station usually we'll ask them like hey at what
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  Speaker 1: From it yeah no matter like how good the product
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  Speaker 1: is yeah.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah it's just it's it's too hot people are too
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  Speaker 13: mad about it whether it's good or bad you got
• 35:36
  Speaker 13: to get rid of it um and i i was
• 35:40
  Speaker 13: i woke up Opened my little file of things I
• 35:43
  Speaker 13: look at every single morning, and my jaw hit the floor.
• 35:45
  Speaker 13: I was shocked. Now, that said, I got to hear
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  Speaker 13: a lot of the quotes this morning, and obviously you've
• 35:51
  Speaker 13: seen a lot.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Of the stuff.
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  Speaker 13: You're doing the news.
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  Speaker 1: And, I mean, let's face it. Like you mentioned, we've
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: talked to all of the city council members that have
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: been here in studio about their thoughts on the project.
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  Speaker 1: The vote was 4-2 in favor of keeping the flock
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  Speaker 1: cameras open. Bob Yancey and Mark Smith were the vote against.
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  Speaker 1: And I can see why both of them did that.
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  Speaker 1: And you can find places online where they have kind
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: of walked through their their thought processes involving this. Right.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: And we heard, of course, from the police chief and
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a detective as well. It's a tough question. It's a
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: really tough question.
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  Speaker 22: It is.
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  Speaker 13: It's extremely difficult. And the William Wright quote I thought
• 36:32
  Speaker 13: was pretty great because sometimes people forget that. It's like, okay,
• 36:34
  Speaker 13: so you can have a council chamber full of people
• 36:37
  Speaker 13: that all are screaming mad over an issue. Does that
• 36:40
  Speaker 13: represent– does that mean that all 135,000 people in a
• 36:43
  Speaker 13: city feel that way? It's kind of a light sample,
• 36:48
  Speaker 13: but we have a better sample.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we do.
• 36:51
  Speaker 13: So my question– is now that we have a decision,
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  Speaker 13: from your perspective, from people in College Station, did they
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: get it right? What do you think? I dread going
• 37:05
  Speaker 13: to the phones over this because I feel like.
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  Speaker 1: It's too impassioned of an issue.
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  Speaker 13: That's an FCC issue waiting to happen.
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  Speaker 29: It is.
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  Speaker 15: But.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have the dump button installed here in
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: the studio.
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  Speaker 13: That would be nice, but we do not have that.
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: But we do have text messages. So if you want
• 37:20
  Speaker 13: to weigh in, 9-7-9-6-9-5-16-20. Do you feel comfortable telling whether
• 37:25
  Speaker 13: you thought they got it right or not?
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: I do feel comfortable saying this. And again, it's something
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: that is wrestled around in my head. And this is
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: just one infomaniac's opinion.
• 37:35
  Speaker 32: Right.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: I think they got it right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 13: They got it right.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I think they got it right. And it went to me.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: It hit me in this final place. And it hit,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: I think, some of our city council in this final
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: place as well. What would happen should it not be
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: available today? And we have a situation where a child
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: is endangered and we cannot get that get that solved
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: in time. That's how do you how do you go
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: back and face somebody and say, yeah, I was the
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: guy that got rid of the cameras.
• 38:03
  Speaker 13: And that's not that's not hyperbole. No, that's not an exaggeration.
• 38:09
  Speaker 13: I think that it's been made abundantly clear that this
• 38:15
  Speaker 13: does actually. you know, perversely, you can save lives with
• 38:19
  Speaker 13: these cameras.
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: And I think it was, uh, the CSPD detective that
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: brought up in the quote is in the news, uh, that, uh,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: let's face it. There are 20 other databases that we
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: can access, right? And those databases don't have fail safes
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: in place. Like flock is instituted since April. And the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: other thing he said, uh, was something that may have
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: been the police chief. I may be, uh, crediting the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: wrong person with this. Uh, but, uh, The other thing
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: that he said was something along the lines of this tool. Now,
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: you know, you're hearing that cops have been busted misusing it.
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  Speaker 13: Right.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: So this detective stated, why would you take something away
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: that can identify a bad cop to me and we
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: can't get rid of him?
• 39:05
  Speaker 13: Because clearly they are going back and looking at the
• 39:07
  Speaker 13: searches and trying to identify people who are doing things.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: That you don't want to do. And in turn, they
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: are identifying people that should not be in law enforcement
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: and getting rid of them.
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: So a lot of you maybe agree, maybe you disagree.
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  Speaker 13: Text us, 979-695-1620. Obviously, Flock's going to stick around College
• 39:23
  Speaker 13: Station for another year for to vote in council. Um,
• 39:27
  Speaker 13: did they get it right? We'll see what you guys
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  Speaker 16: The challenge on us now is to respond and we've
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  Speaker 16: get back out there and moving on to the next
• 43:58
  Speaker 16: step for us.
• 43:59
  Speaker 35: Kickoff for tomorrow night's game is set for 6.30. The
• 44:03
  Speaker 35: A & M soccer team was on the losing end
• 44:06
  Speaker 35: of a 1-0 decision against the 7th ranked Alabama last
• 44:09
  Speaker 35: night at Ellis Field. Head coach Bobby Shuttleworth shared thoughts
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  Speaker 35: on the team's performance.
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  Speaker 24: That was one of our better performances of the year.
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  Speaker 24: I thought we did a really good job of being
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  Speaker 24: connected and kept possession of the ball for long periods
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  Speaker 24: of time. Defensively, I thought we caused them a lot
• 44:25
  Speaker 24: of problems that didn't really have a ton of chances.
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  Speaker 24: You know, I don't really, other than the goal, I
• 44:30
  Speaker 24: don't really have really much recollection of them having really,
• 44:33
  Speaker 24: you know, any opportunities or Addy having to make a save.
• 44:37
  Speaker 24: So overall, happy with the performance, disappointed with the result.
• 44:42
  Speaker 35: Up next, the Aggies return to Ellis Field Sunday afternoon
• 44:45
  Speaker 35: and host the Florida Gators with a 2 o'clock kick.
• 44:48
  Speaker 35: The A & M volleyball team is two days away
• 44:50
  Speaker 35: from starting SEC play at Reed Arena, where the Aggies
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  Speaker 35: will take on South Carolina for their first conference game
• 44:57
  Speaker 35: of the season. Head coach Jamie Morrison recapped the team's
• 45:00
  Speaker 35: performance in the non-conference schedule and how it prepared their
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  Speaker 9: Overall, I'm just proud of our team. The schedule that
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  Speaker 9: we went through and the way that it kind of
• 45:10
  Speaker 9: went down with injuries and things that happened along those lines,
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  Speaker 9: I thought we adapted. I thought we learned.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we got better. I think our team's gotten
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  Speaker 9: I was just talking to one of our players and
• 45:18
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  Speaker 9: in the middle of the rice match, I asked for
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  Speaker 9: to go make the change. So I think overall pride,
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  Speaker 9: back at two or three of those matches and want
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  Speaker 9: those come out with a W, but, Overall, in terms of,
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• 45:50
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• 45:52
  Speaker 35: First serve is set for Sunday afternoon at 2.30. The
• 45:56
  Speaker 35: Aggie men's basketball team wrapped up week one of practice yesterday.
• 46:00
  Speaker 35: Head coach Bucky McMillan met with the media to talk
• 46:03
  Speaker 35: about how the first week went and the chemistry within
• 46:05
  Speaker 35: his team.
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  Speaker 21: It's good. It's good. I mean, it helped that we
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  Speaker 21: had the... Tore down the Bahamas, obviously. You know, so
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  Speaker 21: we're probably a little ahead of where you'd be if
• 46:14
  Speaker 21: you didn't have it. So glad to get them back
• 46:17
  Speaker 21: out there working. Had some good practices and got a
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  Speaker 21: long way to go, though. You kind of know your
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  Speaker 21: team more because you've been able to practice more. You
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  Speaker 21: know the league. You know, I do like our group.
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  Speaker 21: I do think that I like a lot of the
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  Speaker 21: teams in SEC. It's going to be like an awesome
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  Speaker 21: league this year. But anytime you've gone through something, whether
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  Speaker 21: it's just small things like travel, the duration of the season,
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  Speaker 21: it always helps. And being with the team all summer
• 46:40
  Speaker 21: helps probably more than anything.
• 46:42
  Speaker 35: The Maroon and White's first exhibition game of the season
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  Speaker 35: In high school football, last night Rudder beat Elgin 63-19. Tonight,
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• 47:04
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  Speaker 13: 16, 20, 94, 5 WTAW. Yes, we are talking flock cameras.
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  Speaker 13: lines for this. 9, 7, 9, 6, 9, 5, 16, 20.
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  Speaker 13: 4-2 was the vote to keep flock cameras. I'm surprised
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  Speaker 13: by this, but the question is, did they get it right?
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  Speaker 13: We have had a lot of quotes in the news,
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  Speaker 13: and some of the ones that you shared, too. They're
• 49:00
  Speaker 13: incredibly compelling. I mean, we've said this for months. It
• 49:03
  Speaker 13: is an incredibly hard decision.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: Very tough decision.
• 49:06
  Speaker 13: So did they get it right is what we're asking.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Nolan texts in, once you give up your rights and
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  Speaker 1: privacy to the government, it's near impossible to get it back.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I completely agree, Nolan. That horse has been out of
• 49:18
  Speaker 1: the barn for quite some time.
• 49:19
  Speaker 13: That is important to note. And it is. It's fascinating
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  Speaker 13: to me. With the amount of ways that you are
• 49:28
  Speaker 13: tracked today, some by your own design, like, let's say,
• 49:34
  Speaker 13: you know, all of the various share my location apps,
• 49:37
  Speaker 13: things like that. There's a company behind those that also
• 49:41
  Speaker 13: knows where you're going.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Your car knows where you're going.
• 49:44
  Speaker 13: Your car knows. Your car, I hate to tell you
• 49:46
  Speaker 13: all this, your car probably knows what you're listening to.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: It does.
• 49:51
  Speaker 13: And where is that data going? Google, Facebook, Instagram, everyone
• 49:57
  Speaker 13: already has your stuff. Amazon has your stuff. Your robot
• 50:01
  Speaker 13: vacuum cleaner maps your house and sends the stuff.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: It's TikTok.
• 50:06
  Speaker 4: TikTok.
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  Speaker 13: It was owned by China, and they had your stuff
• 50:11
  Speaker 13: for a while. So all that said, and I don't
• 50:14
  Speaker 13: think it's a secret. I say this on the radio,
• 50:17
  Speaker 13: and I don't think anyone is all of a sudden
• 50:21
  Speaker 13: learning that you're being surveilled constantly, and your data is
• 50:26
  Speaker 13: being monetized constantly.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: It's just one of those things that people don't want
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: to think about it, so they don't.
• 50:30
  Speaker 13: But when it's your car all of a sudden, Then
• 50:35
  Speaker 13: it's like it's a huge I don't know why that is,
• 50:38
  Speaker 13: but it but it is. And you're right. It's hard
• 50:41
  Speaker 13: to get your rights back once you give them up.
• 50:43
  Speaker 13: But but, yeah, Flock is not the first. They're not
• 50:46
  Speaker 13: even the hundred and first company that's been pulling your information.
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: Sam says College Station PD has a much better data
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: control policy than most police departments. Phil says CS got
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: it right.
• 50:58
  Speaker 3: Frank.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: I think the good outweighs the bad on fly cameras.
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: Very slippery slope here, guys. How much of our privacy
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: do we have to relinquish? But I still say the
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: positive things are overwhelming.
• 51:10
  Speaker 13: And what else do we have here? What happens if
• 51:12
  Speaker 13: College Station has another quote-unquote data breach? I live in Bryan.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Always a concern.
• 51:18
  Speaker 13: Yeah, it's true.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: There are safeguards in place, but let's face it, AI
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: can get into anything.
• 51:25
  Speaker 13: You guys want to say I live in Bryan. I
• 51:27
  Speaker 13: think they got it wrong. The person that stated the
• 51:31
  Speaker 13: people that show up to say no is only a
• 51:32
  Speaker 13: slight population, that's true. But that also means that by absence,
• 51:37
  Speaker 13: the rest of it's stained. To the matter of getting
• 51:39
  Speaker 13: rid of the bad cops, that is the department's job.
• 51:42
  Speaker 13: We are getting closer to a police state. This is
• 51:43
  Speaker 13: just one small step in that direction. Unwanted surveillance is unconstitutional.
• 51:49
  Speaker 13: The only crimes that can be solved by this are
• 51:51
  Speaker 13: those that involve vehicles. I just want to jump in there.
• 51:56
  Speaker 13: It's a shockingly high amount of crimes, by the way.
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, shockingly high.
• 52:00
  Speaker 13: This means that the public is now aware of that,
• 52:02
  Speaker 13: including criminals. They'll commit more crimes on foot. I don't know.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: No, never on foot. Maybe on horseback.
• 52:09
  Speaker 13: That will then lead to facial recognition cameras and more
• 52:12
  Speaker 13: unwanted surveillance. Go to New York. They already have them.
• 52:16
  Speaker 13: Go to Boston. They already have them. Go to Disney World.
• 52:22
  Speaker 13: They already have them. Again, I'm not saying it's right.
• 52:26
  Speaker 13: I'm just saying it's already there.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: And I think this was part of the consideration, at
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: least by some, of the College Station City Council. The
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: state's going to be taking up this issue. Florida, as
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: a state, has taken up this issue and gotten rid
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: of flock cameras.
• 52:43
  Speaker 13: You're right. That is a huge, complicating situation, is that
• 52:47
  Speaker 13: no matter what the City College Station votes, the state
• 52:50
  Speaker 13: of Texas might have something to say about it. The
• 52:52
  Speaker 13: federal government might have something to say about it. Which
• 52:55
  Speaker 13: would then, again, and if you look around, Flock is
• 52:58
  Speaker 13: shedding employees. We talked about that they were hiring a
• 53:03
  Speaker 13: new head for comms. Yeah, although you haven't heard back, though. No, well,
• 53:06
  Speaker 13: it's because they're not going to hire anyone. They know
• 53:08
  Speaker 13: they're in trouble. They're taking on water fast. Can you
• 53:10
  Speaker 13: imagine how many? We're College Station, Texas. There's a thousand
• 53:14
  Speaker 13: other cities that are having this same meeting around the country.
• 53:18
  Speaker 13: And every time they lose, it's bad for flock. Like I, this,
• 53:22
  Speaker 13: this is a problem that could solve itself.
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: Was it Hutto or Taylor? One of the surrounding Austin
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: communities got rid of them. So it's there. And that's that.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I think the fact that it is a one-year contract
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: will enable us to take some time to find out
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: what's next, whether or not it's, we pulled away from
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: flock or flock ceases to exist.
• 53:43
  Speaker 13: Yes, exactly. And, and, and will that happen in the next, I, Yeah,
• 53:47
  Speaker 13: I think it's going to happen sooner than later. But
• 53:50
  Speaker 13: a fascinating conversation. Remember, if you want to hear more
• 53:53
  Speaker 13: about this, you can get a lot of the recaps
• 53:55
  Speaker 13: and news and on WTAW.com.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the place to go, WTAW.com. We've got all
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: of that up there for you.
• 54:01
  Speaker 13: Or our city council material. But, yeah, it is interesting
• 54:05
  Speaker 13: and a lot of opinions. And, honestly, as far as
• 54:08
  Speaker 13: the sample goes, because that was the question, it's like, well,
• 54:11
  Speaker 13: can we get a bigger sample? We can, number one.
• 54:15
  Speaker 13: And number two, most of them, most of them are
• 54:18
  Speaker 13: kind of all right with it because of the fact
• 54:21
  Speaker 13: that it is a transformative tool for law enforcement.
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: You are much more motivated to show up and speak
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: before city council if you are vehemently opposed to something
• 54:29
  Speaker 1: rather than supporting something.
• 54:30
  Speaker 13: That's true.
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: That's just the way it is.
• 54:32
  Speaker 13: That's absolutely true. Eric texting in.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Remember, it can be used to prove innocence as well
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: as guilt.
• 54:41
  Speaker 13: You know what? You're right. No one talks about that.
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 54:45
  Speaker 13: It can give you an alibi if you're not somewhere
• 54:48
  Speaker 13: where a crime is being committed. But yeah, thank you
• 54:53
  Speaker 13: all for the text messages. Alan wants us to remember
• 54:56
  Speaker 13: to mention that today is Dolly Day to brighten everyone's.
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: It is 925.
• 55:00
  Speaker 13: Donate to the Imagination Library. Actually, if you go to
• 55:02
  Speaker 13: their website, I think Dolly, they're running a whole day
• 55:04
  Speaker 13: of giving thing. to continue to keep that charity alive.
• 55:08
  Speaker 13: Garth Brooks is doing the easier thing, as we talked
• 55:10
  Speaker 13: about earlier, and he's just donating his bar proceeds to it.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: Drinks for Dolly.
• 55:13
  Speaker 13: Drinks for our queen. Remember, we do podcasts the entire
• 55:18
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• 55:21
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• 55:24
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