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The Infomaniacs: October 22nd 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: A woman arrested for driving while intoxicated had breathalyzer results
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  Speaker 1: more than two times the legal limit. A Brazos County
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's Deputy reported seeing a vehicle speeding and drifting between
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  Speaker 1: lanes on Highway 6 near Peach Creek around 2.30 Wednesday morning.
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  Speaker 1: Arrest reports say 23-year-old Haley Uelinger was clocked doing 99
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  Speaker 1: miles per hour in a 75-mile-per-hour zone. Officers say her
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  Speaker 1: speech was slurred and she smelled of alcohol. She denied
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  Speaker 1: consuming alcohol but failed a field sobriety test. Breathalyzer test
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  Speaker 1: Jail showed results of 0.168 and 0.170, more than twice
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  Speaker 1: the legal limit of 0.08. Eulinger was charged with driving
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  Speaker 1: while intoxicated with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 or greater.
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  Speaker 1: She is free on $ 9, 000 bond. A new report shows
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  Speaker 1: that data center permitting approvals have continued despite Governor Abbott's
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  Speaker 1: order for state agencies to halt data center activities.
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  Speaker 2: We've all been skeptical about whether this pause is a
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  Speaker 2: real pause, whether it's these rumors we hear from data
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  Speaker 2: center developers saying we're being told that it's not.
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  Speaker 1: A real pause. Sam Law is with the environmental rights
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  Speaker 1: group Fract Trackers. He authored the report documenting 35 data
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  Speaker 1: center permits issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
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  Speaker 1: after the governor ordered the pause.
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  Speaker 2: You don't expect a regulatory agency in Texas granting permission
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  Speaker 2: for crucial steps in data center construction. That's what we
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  Speaker 2: found in 13 different sites across Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Both the TCEQ and the governor's office say the state
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  Speaker 1: agency is in line with the governor's data center pause.
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  Speaker 1: Transgender rights have once again become a focal point in
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  Speaker 1: Texas politics.
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  Speaker 3: Speaking at a rally in the Dallas suburb of Allen,
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  Speaker 3: Governor Greg Abbott accused his opponent of trying to advance
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  Speaker 3: the transgender agenda.
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  Speaker 4: If any parent dared to try to supposedly misgender their
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  Speaker 4: own child, she said those parents should be prosecuted.
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  Speaker 3: His comments come at the same time that a mysterious
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  Speaker 3: pamphlet is showing up in mailboxes. It claims to come
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  Speaker 3: from a transgender rights organization, but a deep dive shows
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  Speaker 3: that it's linked to a post office box in Wyoming,
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  Speaker 3: and it's being used by GOP activists to denounce Democrats' agenda.
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  Speaker 3: In San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: Experts say there will be lots to investigate.
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  Speaker 5: It's in large part due to unrestrained spending at the
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  Speaker 5: local level.
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  Speaker 1: John Bonura at the Texas Public Policy Foundation says that
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  Speaker 1: when local budgets are streamlined, it reduces the taxes that
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  Speaker 1: we're forced to pay. The comptroller has also launched a
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  Speaker 1: deep dive into wasteful spending in public schools that will
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  Speaker 1: focus on DEI and foreign workers. News is presented by
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  Speaker 7: 1620-945-WTAW. Welcome to Thursday, everyone. Infomaniacs. Beautiful day. Starting out
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  Speaker 7: we are because I was about to accidentally force Will
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  Speaker 7: into a 45-second version of jokes with.
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  Speaker 1: Will the auctioneer edition just that.
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  Speaker 7: We did we accidentally did this last week and then
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  Speaker 7: we once again we got too engrossed in a conversation
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  Speaker 7: this week and it's just not fair to to to
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  Speaker 1: I'm not i'm not mad tucker i'm a little disappointed
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  Speaker 1: well that's all right.
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  Speaker 7: With that said let's all kick back and relax because
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  Speaker 7: unrestrained by time itself This is a special, slightly late
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  Speaker 7: edition of Jokes with Will.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Tucker, the other day somebody sent me a
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  Speaker 1: picture of Mount Rushmore before it was carved.
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  Speaker 7: Really?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let me tell you, its natural beauty was unprecedented.
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  Speaker 1: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed?
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  Speaker 7: What do sweet potatoes wear to bed, Will?
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  Speaker 1: Yammy's. Turner, what do you call a spider with ten eyes?
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  Speaker 7: An abomination.
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  Speaker 1: A spider.
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  Speaker 7: So many extra eyes.
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  Speaker 1: I came across a shop selling wigs.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, did you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I went in. Ended up buying a little
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  Speaker 1: one for a buck and a quarter. It was a
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  Speaker 1: small price to pay. What do you call a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of sheep rolling down a hill? I don't know, Will.
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  Speaker 7: What do you call a bunch of sheep rolling down
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  Speaker 7: a hill?
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  Speaker 1: A lambslide.
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  Speaker 9: knows how dangerous these platforms can be. That's why he
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  Speaker 9: passed a law stopping big tech and predators from targeting
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  Speaker 7: Beautiful 1620-945-WTAW. Morning, gang. Thursday morning. Remember, 979-695-1620 is our
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  Speaker 7: phone number. I know you're more of a Thanksgiving man. And,
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  Speaker 7: you know, again, I enjoy Halloween. It's not my primary
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  Speaker 7: thing anymore, especially since, honestly, I feel like it's kind
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  Speaker 7: of been ruined. Because I feel like trick-or-treating has kind
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  Speaker 7: of gone down.
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  Speaker 1: It's different.
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  Speaker 7: It's different or it's moved on from my neighborhood. I'm
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  Speaker 7: not sure what happened. But I do hate to see
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  Speaker 7: this report that shrinkflation has come for your candy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we knew it was there.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And I know my wife bought some candy the other day.
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  Speaker 1: It was the Reese's pumpkins that have the slurry. Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And they've indicated on there.
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  Speaker 15: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't get those for any trick-or-treaters.
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  Speaker 7: No, those are for homeless.
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  Speaker 1: But I noticed the bag was really small. And so
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, yeah, if you look around, those candy bags
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  Speaker 1: are getting smaller. And the good candies in them are
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  Speaker 1: getting fewer and further between.
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  Speaker 7: I'm going to trademark the term weaponized math because when
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  Speaker 7: I was growing up, we were told that the most
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  Speaker 7: important thing to study was math. Math is in everything.
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  Speaker 7: It's in everything you do. Well, some little demons... heard
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  Speaker 7: that lesson loud and clear, and they really learned them
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  Speaker 7: some math. And then they learned high-level math and algorithmic math.
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  Speaker 7: They used it to hurt us all.
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  Speaker 1: Demons is incredibly accurate.
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  Speaker 7: You know what you can do? No one's going to
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  Speaker 7: be able to figure out if you just shrink the
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  Speaker 7: bag a little bit every single year because no one
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  Speaker 7: will be able to hold it up and compare it
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  Speaker 7: to anything. so it goes in the trash. So why
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  Speaker 7: don't we just try that? And you end up with
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  Speaker 7: things like this. M & M party size, shrink-flated. They
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  Speaker 7: are 10% smaller since 2019. 10% smaller.
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  Speaker 1: And more expensive. That money and more expensive, that money
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  Speaker 1: goes straight in the pockets of Big Candy.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, it does. Big Candy. Willy Wonka himself. Hershey's miniatures.
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  Speaker 1: Probably.
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  Speaker 7: See, this is one of the best bags you can buy.
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  Speaker 7: That is premium candy.
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  Speaker 1: That's the one that's got the Crackle and the Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Good Bar. Yeah, yeah. And the Hershey's Original.
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  Speaker 7: They actually will tell you they took it from 40
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  Speaker 7: ounces down to 35 ounces. Five ounces.
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  Speaker 1: Five ounces. Just take off the top.
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  Speaker 7: Five OZs. Gone. Reese's Miniatures Party Pack, another elite candy offering.
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  Speaker 7: 40 ounces down to 35 ounces. Rolo Party Pack, 40
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  Speaker 7: ounces to 35 ounces. But the real one, the Hershey's
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  Speaker 7: Dark Chocolate assortment, it's almost 20% smaller than it once was.
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  Speaker 7: Almost 20% smaller.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I always felt disappointed if I got
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  Speaker 1: the Hershey's Dark Chocolate. I never was a dark chocolate guy.
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  Speaker 7: And I get it. One of the things is no
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  Speaker 7: one is immune to... the economy that we're in. And
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  Speaker 7: one of the things that's gone up a whole heck
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  Speaker 7: of a lot is cocoa prices. In fact, it's more
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  Speaker 7: than doubled 144% since 2019. And so I get it,
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  Speaker 7: but like, you know what? Sometimes as a company, I
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  Speaker 7: think you guys need to take the loss.
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  Speaker 1: Either that or share the loss.
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  Speaker 13: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And look, if you're a company and you tell me, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: cocoa prices are going up. So here's what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Or even put it out to a poll. Do you
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  Speaker 1: want to pay X more? He wants to shrink the
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  Speaker 1: bags a little bit.
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  Speaker 7: I want you to raise the price, and I want
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  Speaker 7: to know when I buy it, I'm getting the same
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  Speaker 7: amount of candy I was getting last time. That's what
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  Speaker 7: I want.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, but I'm willing to pay a little bit more.
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  Speaker 7: Charge me what you need to charge me.
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  Speaker 1: I am sick in so many ways.
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  Speaker 7: Weaponized math.
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  Speaker 1: Of people trying to pull wool over people's eyes with
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  Speaker 1: fancy party tricks, like sending out mailers or shrinking candy bags.
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  Speaker 7: Just tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Just tell me.
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  Speaker 5: Why.
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  Speaker 7: Why are you lying? Why lie? Can't you just tell the,
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  Speaker 7: can we just all tell the truth?
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  Speaker 1: Don't try to hide it.
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  Speaker 7: Level with me. I know that. I know things suck
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  Speaker 7: as far as buying things. I get it. Just tell
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  Speaker 7: me what's going on. Just tell me.
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  Speaker 1: Don't try to sneak it in.
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  Speaker 7: Pull 20% out of my candy bag.
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  Speaker 1: And it just like, you know, don't be the sneaky kid, man.
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  Speaker 1: I hate the sneaky kid.
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  Speaker 7: And other, uh, people trying to ruin Halloween news. This
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  Speaker 7: story has been everywhere for a month. We haven't gotten
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  Speaker 7: to it yet. And HOA sent out a letter telling,
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  Speaker 7: got stressed. Well, yes, Will just almost fell out. I'll
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  Speaker 7: let you get it, because I'm going to guess you
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  Speaker 7: actually have the email over there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm looking for it right now. I
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  Speaker 1: know it was in my pile.
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  Speaker 7: I am going to give you what I believe to
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  Speaker 7: be the logic behind an HOA sending a letter to
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  Speaker 7: everyone in the neighborhood to not hand out full-size candy
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  Speaker 7: bars at Halloween. It said, don't you dare.
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  Speaker 1: Dare. That's redonkulous. First of all, I'm a free man
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  Speaker 1: and you can't tell me HOA what candy I can
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  Speaker 1: pass out.
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  Speaker 7: You can't tell me nothing.
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  Speaker 1: And I really don't think you can tell me what
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  Speaker 1: I can put in my backyard, but that's a fight
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  Speaker 1: for the other day, right? So here's what happens, right?
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  Speaker 1: The HOA says, we don't want others that are passing
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  Speaker 1: out small candies to feel bad because you're passing out
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  Speaker 1: big candies and you're more popular.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: You know what?
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  Speaker 7: I don't want to have kids feel bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's capitalism, man.
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  Speaker 13: Exactly.
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  Speaker 7: See, you're looking at it. I want to be real.
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  Speaker 7: When it comes to the residents, like if you live
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  Speaker 7: next door to the full bar candy house, cool. It's
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  Speaker 7: not about you.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 7: It's not about you.
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  Speaker 1: It's about the kids. It's about the kids.
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  Speaker 7: And you can't, the whole street can't give out full bars.
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  Speaker 7: That's stupid. It needs to be one or two houses.
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  Speaker 7: Give out the full bars because then everyone gets really excited.
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  Speaker 7: They're still going to come to your house.
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  Speaker 1: They're not going to hate you. They're not going to
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  Speaker 1: hate you near as much as they hate that one
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  Speaker 1: house on the block that's handing out fruit or other
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  Speaker 1: healthy Halloween treats.
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  Speaker 10: Do we?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I don't have time to get into this. I
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  Speaker 7: don't have time to get into this. I will say
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  Speaker 7: we'll save some of this discussion for tomorrow. But I
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  Speaker 7: will tell you this. I that is that is just
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  Speaker 7: straight up communism. I mean, that is more communism than
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  Speaker 7: anything I've heard in an election ad so far this year.
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  Speaker 7: How dare you? How dare you come for these kids'
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  Speaker 7: full bars?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I just, I can't.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like HOAs have a great reputation anyway. There's
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  Speaker 1: some that do.
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  Speaker 7: Why demonize yourself like that? Why become the villain when you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't have to? Because Karens have no self-awareness.
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  Speaker 7: My goodness. For what it's worth, Luke says don't buy
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  Speaker 7: that hype from Big Candy. Cocoa is down 50% from
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  Speaker 7: a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: You see? Thank you, Luke.
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  Speaker 7: So on last year, they're getting it for cheap. And
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  Speaker 7: guess what? It is funny, ain't it? Those prices never
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  Speaker 7: seem to come down.
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  Speaker 1: No, those bag sizes never seem.
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  Speaker 6: To come back up.
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  Speaker 7: They never seem to all of a sudden get fuller now,
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  Speaker 7: do they?
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 7: Now, well, now I don't have to give them as much.
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  Speaker 7: I'll just keep more of the money for us.
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  Speaker 1: The peasants and peons are used to the smaller packaging now.
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  Speaker 1: Let them eat candy.
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  Speaker 7: You know what isn't affected by this? Full-size bars.
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  Speaker 16: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. We need to do something. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the full-size bars could have shrank.
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  Speaker 7: All right. Well, anyway, we will revisit this before we
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  Speaker 7: get to the Halloween, the official day. Back after this
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  Speaker 6: On this day, October the 22nd in 1960. Thomas Jefferson
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  Speaker 6: Taylor II died in Marshall, Texas. He was the father
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  Speaker 6: of Claudia Lady Bird Taylor, who married Lyndon B. Johnson
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  Speaker 18: I'm Nicole Murray with your Money Now.
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  Speaker 20: American Airlines forecast deeper losses this year as record revenue
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  Speaker 23: In the race for governor, it's chaos versus common sense. First,
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  Speaker 23: the chaos brought to you by Gina Hinojosa. She supports
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  Speaker 23: open border policies so anyone can just walk in illegally.
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  Speaker 18: And once they do, Hinojosa.
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  Speaker 23: Would allow them to vote and get taxpayer funded health care.
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  Speaker 23: Gina Hinojosa favors a state income tax and voted 40
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  Speaker 23: times for higher property taxes. And Hinojosa would threaten your
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  Speaker 24: But don't worry because Governor Greg Abbott leads with common sense.
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  Speaker 24: Abbott secured the border and cracked down on the deadly
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  Speaker 24: drug cartels. He banned a state income tax so you
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  Speaker 24: keep more of your money and Texas remains number one
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  Speaker 24: in job creation. And Governor Abbott keeps you safe by
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  Speaker 1: That's the choice, Texas.
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  Speaker 24: The chaos that Gina Hinojosa would bring or the common
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: Fall Household Hazardous Waste and Computer Collection Event is taking
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  Speaker 1: place on Saturday between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. You
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  Speaker 1: can take paint, thinners, batteries, computers, electronics, pesticides, fertilizers, and
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  Speaker 1: oil and gas to the Texas A & M University
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  Speaker 1: Services Building. The facility's entrance is on Harvey Road, east
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  Speaker 1: of Veterans Park. They will not accept medications, ammunition, firearms,
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  Speaker 1: appliances with Freon, biomedical or radioactive waste, or tires. The
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  Speaker 1: free event is open to all Brazos Valley residents. Officials
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  Speaker 1: ask that you bring your household materials in the original
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  Speaker 1: containers with labels intact and don't mix products. You will
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  Speaker 1: be asked to stay in your vehicle while staff members
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  Speaker 1: unload your items. With hunting season underway, the Texas Parks
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  Speaker 1: and Wildlife Department wants to remind hunters to check their
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  Speaker 1: game for the New World Screw Worm before field dressing
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  Speaker 1: during an inspection of their harvest. Signs of infestation include
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  Speaker 1: You can learn more at screwworm.texas.gov. There's a new website
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  Speaker 1: for Texans to report suspected fraud and waste.
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  Speaker 3: The push is by Comptroller Don Huffines, who wants to
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  Speaker 3: know how state tax dollars are spent and if there's abuse.
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  Speaker 3: John Manura at the Texas Public Policy Foundation predicts there
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  Speaker 3: will be a focus on wasteful spending by local governments.
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  Speaker 5: We can save Texans money by reining in the unnecessary
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  Speaker 5: spending that local governments are doing.
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  Speaker 3: He says that when local budgets are streamlined, it reduces
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  Speaker 3: the taxes that we're forced to pay. The Comptroller has
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  Speaker 3: also launched a deep dive into wasteful spending in public
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  Speaker 3: schools that will focus on DEI and foreign workers. In
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  Speaker 3: San Antonio, Michael Board, TSN News.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: A new report shows that data center permitting approvals have continued,
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  Speaker 1: despite Governor Abbott's directive to state agencies to pause data
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  Speaker 1: center activities.
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  Speaker 2: We've all been skeptical about whether this pause is a
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  Speaker 2: real pause.
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  Speaker 25: Sam Laws with the environmental rights group Fract Trackers, he
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  Speaker 25: authored the report documenting 35 data center permits issued by
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  Speaker 25: the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality after the governor's pause.
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  Speaker 2: You don't expect... a regulatory agency in Texas granting permission
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  Speaker 2: for crucial steps in data center construction. That's what we
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  Speaker 2: found in 13 different sites across Texas.
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  Speaker 25: Law says when the report first came out Monday, the
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  Speaker 25: TCEQ immediately suspended 10 stormwater construction permits for data centers.
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  Speaker 2: Today, those suspensions seem to have been reversed.
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  Speaker 25: Both the TCEQ and a spokesman for Governor Abbott says
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  Speaker 25: the state agency has not approved data center permits since
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  Speaker 25: the pause. In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
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  Speaker 1: A Fox News poll suggests Texas' crucial U.S. Senate race
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  Speaker 1: remains deadlocked.
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  Speaker 14: A Fox News poll of over 2,000 Texas voters finding
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  Speaker 14: both Democrat James Tallarico and Republican Ken Paxton have 49%
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  Speaker 14: support in the state's U.S. Senate race. Voters also sharing
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  Speaker 14: similar levels of concern about the two. 53% say they
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  Speaker 14: are extremely or very concerned that Tallarico's positions are too liberal,
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  Speaker 14: while 50% say they are extremely or very concerned Paxton
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  Speaker 14: is too close to President Trump. 43% of those polled
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  Speaker 14: say they feel they are worse off financially compared to
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  Speaker 14: two years ago. 20% feel they are better off in
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  Speaker 14: the Texas governor's race. 52% say they support GOP incumbent
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  Speaker 14: Governor Greg Abbott, while 47% support his Democratic challenger, Gina Hinojosa.
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  Speaker 14: Kristen Goodwin, Fox News.
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  Speaker 7: A little bit cooler on Sunday morning. We're talking back
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  Speaker 7: So we haven't had you in. This is your first time.
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  Speaker 26: OK.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 11: So Mike Riggins, director of Parks and Recreation, City of Bryan, Texas.
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  Speaker 11: I've been here almost a year now.
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  Speaker 7: Oh where were you.
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  Speaker 11: Before it was the city of conroe so uh yeah
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  Speaker 1: It's good park weather.
• 34:51
  Speaker 11: It is. It's great park weather.
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: This is absolutely the week and the weekend because, again,
• 34:58
  Speaker 7: road games, those are always got to plan something.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: You can take a breath now in our community because
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: it's not overwhelmed.
• 35:05
  Speaker 7: You're going to have some opportunities to get out and
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: enjoy some really nice time outside. Best place to do
• 35:13
  Speaker 7: it is some more parks, of which there are a million.
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: I mean, there's so many. And, see, I'll tell you what, like,
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: every once in a while I'll come across one I
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: haven't been to in a while, like, for whatever reason.
• 35:25
  Speaker 7: I forgot why this was. In the summer I was
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: in Austin's Colony and just kind of wandering around, you know,
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: going to visit some friends. And I'm over in the
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: park back there. And there's an archery range.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Is there an archery range in that park? There is, yeah.
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: There's an archery range and there's climate-controlled indoor tennis. What?
• 35:41
  Speaker 7: And there's paved trails through the woods. Like, there's all
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: kinds of stuff. So I feel like for a lot
• 35:47
  Speaker 7: of people, this probably, frankly, slides under the radar because
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: y'all do make a lot of improvements and updates over
• 35:53
  Speaker 7: the years. And some of these parks, if you haven't
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: been in a few years, you should probably go check
• 36:00
  Speaker 7: them out.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: So can you name, I'm going to put you on
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: the spot, can you name a favorite? And if it's
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: like your kids, you know, you can't name a favorite,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I think probably, I think it's one of the
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: community's favorites is Sue Haswell.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great one.
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: That's what I hear a lot. It's a favorite. Austin's Colony,
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: you know, a lot. And I hear that a lot about,
• 36:17
  Speaker 11: you know, I didn't realize y'all had so many parks
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: because there are so many little neighborhood parks, large community-sized
• 36:24
  Speaker 11: parks as well. So we do hear that as well.
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: So we're trying to get that word out a little
• 36:27
  Speaker 11: bit more that, you know, how many parks, amenities we
• 36:30
  Speaker 11: do have and the improvements that are coming as well.
• 36:32
  Speaker 7: So let's talk about... Let's talk about the improvements that
• 36:35
  Speaker 7: we have already made, like the recently made parks, the
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: recently made improvements to the parks that we have. What
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: are the ones that jump out to you?
• 36:43
  Speaker 14: Sure.
• 36:43
  Speaker 11: So shade, you know, at the playgrounds, we heard the residents,
• 36:46
  Speaker 11: the citizens say that we'd like to see more shade
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: over these playgrounds.
• 36:49
  Speaker 26: You know, it gets.
• 36:50
  Speaker 11: 2,000 degrees over the summer, right?
• 36:52
  Speaker 7: Let's utilize it a little bit longer.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: From the generation of metal slides, I can confirm.
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Crockett Elementary, when I was growing up, we used to
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: walk down and play at that playground all the time.
• 37:02
  Speaker 7: No shade. Everything was steel. And you're like, well, that
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: made me stronger. Yeah, but your kids don't have to
• 37:08
  Speaker 7: live like that anymore, my friend. We've improved. And they
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: can just be comfortable on the playground equipment. And safe.
• 37:17
  Speaker 9: Come on.
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: And not lose an arm.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: There's no risk. What are you doing?
• 37:20
  Speaker 11: Back in the day, yeah, fall surface was dirt or rocks.
• 37:24
  Speaker 11: Fall surface.
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: I did fall surface. What's the fall surface now?
• 37:28
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so it's a mulch or a bonded shredded mulch.
• 37:31
  Speaker 11: Or a porn place. But back in the day, right,
• 37:34
  Speaker 11: it wasn't something that was really thought about.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: It was rocks.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: It was pea gravel.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: Because it would get stuck. Yeah, you'd come out of
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: the gravel.
• 37:40
  Speaker 13: Oh, yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: It'd be in your shoes. You'd be dumping your shoes
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: out in the classroom.
• 37:44
  Speaker 11: So believe it or not, Williamson Park has pea gravel still.
• 37:47
  Speaker 11: So that's one that was just approved by city council
• 37:49
  Speaker 11: to get replaced. So we'll be replacing that playground.
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: Wonderful.
• 37:52
  Speaker 11: And come back with the mulch.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: All right. Awesome.
• 37:54
  Speaker 7: Okay, so let's talk about improvements that are on the
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: way to come moving forward.
• 37:59
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so Villa West, if you all know where that
• 38:01
  Speaker 11: park is.
• 38:02
  Speaker 29: I do.
• 38:02
  Speaker 11: So two new playgrounds going in there, a 5 to 12.
• 38:05
  Speaker 11: age group, and three to five. So shade as well.
• 38:08
  Speaker 11: So listening to the citizens about the shade and just
• 38:11
  Speaker 11: went in and replaced all the lights with LEDs. So,
• 38:14
  Speaker 11: you know, more efficient and will last a lot longer
• 38:17
  Speaker 11: there as well.
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: Very nice. Copperfield Park was on the list. And I've
• 38:21
  Speaker 7: actually seen a lot of your guys out at Copperfield
• 38:24
  Speaker 7: Park over the last... year, couple of years. It just
• 38:27
  Speaker 7: seems like there's some work going in there.
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so that was a new playground unit that we
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: put in.
• 38:31
  Speaker 29: Oh, cool.
• 38:31
  Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And look for some other things maybe
• 38:33
  Speaker 11: coming this fiscal year as well.
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: There's also... See, that's one, because it's in my neighborhood,
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: I've always thought it's really cool. You have a tennis
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: court back there, lit. You have a playground. You have
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: an area for gatherings and like a pavilion and everything
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: else like that. And I love the fact that it
• 38:52
  Speaker 7: gets as much use as it does.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: That's the best thing. When you can see... Your efforts
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: being utilized in the community, I think it's worthwhile.
• 38:59
  Speaker 7: Because I drive by, any given weekend, there is someone
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: that is utilizing that particular park for a gathering. It
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: could be a kid's party, or it could just be
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: a barbecue, or just family gathering, whatever they just want
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: to get. Maybe just the neighborhood kids on the block
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: want to go play, and parents want to hang out
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: and bring a cooler and chill out for a bit.
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: It's great. What is the process currently? If you want to.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: Host a gathering at one of these events. Is this
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: a permitted thing? Is it, does it vary? park to park?
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: How do they what do they need to do and
• 39:33
  Speaker 7: how do they need to do it if they want
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: to take advantage of some of the facilities outdoors in
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: this beautiful weather? Yeah, great question.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 39:41
  Speaker 11: So like you mentioned, you know, drive by on any weekend,
• 39:44
  Speaker 11: you'll see the parks being used, pavilions, athletic facilities, that
• 39:48
  Speaker 11: type of thing. So To reserve a pavilion, you know,
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: it is first come, first serve unless you want exclusive use.
• 39:53
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 39:54
  Speaker 11: If you want exclusive use for a birthday party, quinceanera,
• 39:57
  Speaker 11: you know, any kind of family gathering, you would call
• 39:58
  Speaker 11: the Parks and Recreation Office and pay for a permit
• 40:01
  Speaker 11: is what you would do.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: Is it very park-to-park on the Permacross, or is it
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: a flat fee?
• 40:06
  Speaker 11: It's a flat fee.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: How much is it?
• 40:07
  Speaker 11: It's based on how many hours you'd like it as well,
• 40:09
  Speaker 11: so it's kind of a sliding fee.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I understand.
• 40:11
  Speaker 11: We have a lot on the website, or give us
• 40:13
  Speaker 11: a call. I'd be happy to walk you through that
• 40:14
  Speaker 11: process as well.
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: If you want to discover some of the parks that
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: are in Bryan that are available, again, anytime, what is
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: the website?
• 40:22
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so it's citybryantx.gov.
• 40:26
  Speaker 7: Okay brian tx and go to.
• 40:28
  Speaker 11: Parks and recreation and we've got a great listing our
• 40:30
  Speaker 11: communications team has put out there for you to investigate
• 40:33
  Speaker 11: discover the parks we.
• 40:34
  Speaker 7: Have i love i love again this is the perfect
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: time to bring you in because uh the weather you
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: are you're absolutely insane if you're not planning something for
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: this weekend to to do something outside and and and
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: soak up some of this because you you live through
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: such a miserable summer already guys like just.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: Take a breath and get up. Something's popping in the
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: top of my head. You've been here for a year.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: What park has and what piece of a park shocked
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: you or surprised you the most in a positive way?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: What did you find at a park when you first
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: got here? You went, wow. Give me an example.
• 41:09
  Speaker 11: Yeah, probably just, you know, Sue Haswell going out there
• 41:11
  Speaker 11: on a weekend, just seeing how many people are using
• 41:14
  Speaker 11: the parks, right? You don't realize until you get out
• 41:16
  Speaker 11: there and see how many are actually using the parks,
• 41:18
  Speaker 11: driving around. Another one, if I can add another one.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Sure.
• 41:22
  Speaker 11: Austin's Colony, you had mentioned. The tennis facility.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 41:25
  Speaker 11: Who would have ever thought? In a park, a tennis facility.
• 41:27
  Speaker 11: A covered tennis facility.
• 41:29
  Speaker 7: I'm dead serious. I've lived here most of my life.
• 41:33
  Speaker 7: Vast majority of my life. It was not until I
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: was walking by and peeked through the grates in the
• 41:40
  Speaker 7: fence that I was like, oh my goodness, there's a
• 41:44
  Speaker 7: full indoor tennis facility with fans and... No clue. No
• 41:51
  Speaker 7: idea that that was there the entire time.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Can, can people play the pickleball on that?
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: We've got the tennis court stripe for pickleball.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Okay. You got to do that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: Everyone's thinking ahead, man. Everyone's thinking ahead. And yeah, Haswell
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: is a, um, all the work that's gone into that has, uh,
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: has really, really made that a special place. So what
• 42:09
  Speaker 7: else do we need to get to today?
• 42:11
  Speaker 11: No, that's it. Get out, enjoy the parks. Uh, enjoy
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: what amenities, you know, the city council has, uh, you know,
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: continue to fund, uh, appreciate city council and investing in
• 42:19
  Speaker 11: the infrastructure and new, new parks and, uh, renovations as well.
• 42:23
  Speaker 11: So we have a parks and recreation advisory board who
• 42:26
  Speaker 11: support that as well. So we're looking for some improvements, uh,
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: this fiscal year as well.
• 42:29
  Speaker 26: I love it.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Outstanding.
• 42:30
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  Speaker 13: Oh, my. Hey.
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  Speaker 1: The playground was a death trap, and we never knew it.
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  Speaker 1: 1970s South Knoll survivor right here.
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  Speaker 7: Walk me through the South Knoll Thunderdome.
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  Speaker 1: There was no such thing as shade. I think some
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: of the apparatus had pea gravel. Some had concrete. Everything
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: was metal.
• 47:24
  Speaker 7: A lot of concrete and metal, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Everything was metal. It was just designed to last. It
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: didn't matter if it was going to sever a limb
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: or give you a third-degree burn. Just those things we
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: had to survive as kids.
• 47:36
  Speaker 7: Also, no shade.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Not a shade, not a drop of shade.
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: Now, did you have an actual Thunderdome at the South Knoll? No. Okay,
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: so we had a Thunderdome.
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: What's a Thunderdome?
• 47:46
  Speaker 7: You know what a Thunderdome is. You've seen Mad Max.
• 47:49
  Speaker 7: It's a Thunderdome.
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: I don't recall a Thunderdome.
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: It's a monkey bar contraption. that is in fact a
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: full dome.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I remember those but of course that was before mad
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: max back.
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: When i was in school so i'm sure it's what
• 48:04
  Speaker 7: inspired him they're like look at this nightmare what if
• 48:08
  Speaker 7: we used it in a post-apocalyptic universe as a two-minute
• 48:12
  Speaker 7: or one-man lead because that's how we were treating it
• 48:14
  Speaker 7: in elementary school we were treating it like a cage
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: that you would climb up You would either do two things.
• 48:21
  Speaker 7: There are two ways you could get wrecked on this thing.
• 48:24
  Speaker 7: The first one is if you climbed up on the
• 48:25
  Speaker 7: outside to get up high on the thing. Keep in mind,
• 48:28
  Speaker 7: we're tiny, like second, third grade. You could either fall
• 48:33
  Speaker 7: and then roll down the exterior.
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Hitting your head on the metal bars on the weight
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: of the pea gravel.
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: Every single time. Exactly. That was option A. Option B,
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: you could just slip and go down. partially or straight
• 48:48
  Speaker 7: through the gaps, taking about a five to six foot
• 48:52
  Speaker 7: fall into the P gravel in the interior. Or you
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: could just lose your grip when you were trying to
• 48:59
  Speaker 7: climb on the interiors. Usually, you just kind of climb
• 49:02
  Speaker 7: upside down, try to defy gravity. You could just fall
• 49:04
  Speaker 7: and just take a straight up back bump into the gravel.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: A million ways to die.
• 49:08
  Speaker 7: Dude, there were a million ways you could wreck yourself
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: on that particular device. That stayed there. I don't know
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: when they got rid of it. but it wasn't as
• 49:18
  Speaker 7: soon as they should have gotten rid of it. And yeah,
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: it was a great time. We had to ride our
• 49:22
  Speaker 7: bikes there every day, play.
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: I just thought about it.
• 49:25
  Speaker 7: Swing sets that were.
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, swing sets that you could jump off of.
• 49:28
  Speaker 7: Swing sets that were so far beyond the height restrictions
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: they have them on today. Like, I'm talking... 15 foot
• 49:38
  Speaker 7: swing set.
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: The bigger, the better.
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: Chain swings.
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: Anchored in concrete.
• 49:42
  Speaker 7: And, and yes, yes, we would do the absolutely anchored
• 49:46
  Speaker 7: in concrete. And yes, we would get as high as
• 49:49
  Speaker 7: we possibly could. And then we would have our friends
• 49:52
  Speaker 7: run the gauntlets. That's a horrible idea. Don't ever do that.
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: Like running lengthwise. Oh, wow.
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: Your job, much like Frogger. was to avoid your friends
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: that were swinging as you went and got in between
• 50:11
  Speaker 7: the swings and tried to make it through to the end.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: You mentioned we're talking about all the pea gravel, right?
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: And I think I remember now getting in some occasional
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: little scraps, right, where you'd pick up a handful of
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: pea gravel. Before pocket sand, there was pocket pea gravel.
• 50:29
  Speaker 7: Yes, there was.
• 50:30
  Speaker 19: Right?
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: You'd pull out a pocket full of pea gravel, shove
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: it in somebody's face.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: Yes, there was.
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: Will texts in. They still have the Thunderdome at Crockett.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: No, they don't, Will. You've got to be joking.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Is it like on display? Is it like a museum piece?
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: Okay, I'm going to go examine this today on the way.
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: My parents still live in that neighborhood. I'm going to
• 50:50
  Speaker 7: find my way over to Crockett. And in the least
• 50:53
  Speaker 7: creepy way possible.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: That's the problem.
• 50:56
  Speaker 7: I might not be able to document. My thought was
• 50:58
  Speaker 7: I'm just going to go over and take a picture
• 50:59
  Speaker 7: of the Thunderdome.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Wait until after hours.
• 51:01
  Speaker 7: Maybe after everyone.
• 51:04
  Speaker 9: Wow.
• 51:04
  Speaker 7: Marcus says asphalt, dirt, and metal were the only three elements.
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: that were in the part of the year.
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, don't forget the occasional tree root that was coming
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: out of your trip over.
• 51:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, because you had a field. That was the other thing,
• 51:19
  Speaker 7: is you always had a very large field of play,
• 51:22
  Speaker 7: which you could use for anything. And, I mean, there's
• 51:28
  Speaker 7: a million versions of just get up to full speed
• 51:31
  Speaker 7: and hit another kid.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: Red Rover was one of my favorites.
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: We would play any number of variations on that. So
• 51:37
  Speaker 7: you'd just be watching an NFL hit reel every given day.
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: I miss it.
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: You know, because again, you have wild variations in size,
• 51:45
  Speaker 7: you know, depending on the kids. It's like you can't...
• 51:48
  Speaker 7: I mean.
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: There's nothing like the feeling of clotheslining a kid in
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Red Rover.
• 51:52
  Speaker 7: There's nothing like being seven years old and wondering if
• 51:55
  Speaker 7: it's your time to go home. Looking up at the sky,
• 51:59
  Speaker 7: you know, like.
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: Flat on your back.
• 52:01
  Speaker 7: Flat on your back. You know what it teaches you?
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Trying to remember how to breathe.
• 52:03
  Speaker 7: It teaches you a few things about life. It teaches
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: you a few things about.
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: It teaches you how to get back up, rub some
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: dirt on it, and get back in the game.
• 52:10
  Speaker 7: It teaches you a few things about durability.
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: You can sit there and cry, or you can get
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: over it.
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: Resilience. You want to teach your kids resilience? There is
• 52:19
  Speaker 7: nothing that will do that like an old-school playground.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: With old-school playmates, right? Oh, good Lord.
• 52:28
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• 52:30
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• 52:46
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