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The Infomaniacs: July 2, 2026 (6:00am) · 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: Bryan City Council is committed to the completion of the
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Speaker 1: long delayed Midtown Park Entertainment complex.
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Speaker 2: That facility, or the building itself is. I won't say
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Speaker 2: it's largely largely complete, but it is.
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Speaker 1: It is much more.
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Speaker 2: Substantially completed than what it looks like from the outside.
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Speaker 1: Mayor pro Tim James Edge, visiting on our show, says
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Speaker 1: the original developer of the movie Bowling restaurant complex may
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Speaker 1: or may not be able to keep its agreement with
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Speaker 1: the city.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, the Shilman family evidently has got some issues They've
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Speaker 2: got to sort out the city. Myself, I think the council,
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Speaker 2: the mayor, and the city we're all still committed to
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Speaker 2: the project, whether or not the Shilman family is involved in.
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Speaker 1: It or not. Edge says the developer has unrelated issues
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Speaker 1: in Waco that impacted the delay in completing the Midtown
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Speaker 1: Park Complex. Texas a and In President Susan Ballabina's newest
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Speaker 1: online message includes a leadership update.
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Speaker 3: A search committee's been named to help select aam's next provost,
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Speaker 3: who's the university's chief academic officer. Another search committee's been
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Speaker 3: informed to help select the next Dean of the College
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Speaker 3: of Education. Johly First was the first day for the
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Speaker 3: interim dean at that college, who is the former Dean
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Speaker 3: of the College of Veterinary Medicine, John August. Doctor Bellabina
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Speaker 3: also provided an update on her review of A and
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Speaker 3: m's Health Science Center. She has what she calls a
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Speaker 3: strategy and business services team that's targeting a completion date
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Speaker 3: of their work for August First. Bill Oliver sixteen twenty
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Speaker 3: ninety four to five wtaw.
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Speaker 1: Bertlinson County's Health Resource Center is spending new state grant
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Speaker 1: money to add people to work with children who have
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Speaker 1: substance abuse and mental health issues.
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Speaker 4: Our navigators are going to educate families to help THELM
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Speaker 4: walk the best life they could possibly live.
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Speaker 1: Director Seawan Edwards says one of the biggest goals of
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Speaker 1: the additional staff is to help those with substance abuse
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Speaker 1: issues achieve recovery goals.
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Speaker 4: Individuals don't have support out there, so then they often
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Speaker 4: times just still't followed through with some of their care
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Speaker 4: and treatment, or even relapse.
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Speaker 1: The Burlison Health Resource Center received seven hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars from the Texas Opioid Abatement Council. The council,
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Speaker 1: which is funded by settlements with opioid manufacturers, also awarded
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Speaker 1: eight grants to the Texas A and M Health Science Center.
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Speaker 1: Six of the grants, totaling almost four million dollars, will
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Speaker 1: be spent by the Pharmacy College to support communities around
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Speaker 1: the state to address the opioid crisis. Saturday morning, the
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Speaker 1: Brass Valley Veterans Memorial is hosting an America to fifty
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Speaker 1: event at Veterans Park. The event was promoted on Our
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Speaker 1: show by the Vice president of the Memorial Board and
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Speaker 1: infomaniac alum, Tom Turbyville. He and Brian Broadcasting General Manager
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Speaker 1: Ben Downs will be reading the Declaration of Independence and
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Speaker 1: it's color coded. I'll read the blue, Ben, of course
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Speaker 1: the gold. The event starts Saturday morning at nine at
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Speaker 1: the Sight of the American Revolution Memorial. The program also
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Speaker 1: includes fifty six local dignity Harry's participating in a ceremonial
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Speaker 1: signing that recognizes the fifty six who signed the Declaration
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Speaker 1: of Independence. More news on the way at six thirty
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Speaker 1: or anytime at WTAW dot com. I'm will Welch sixteen
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Speaker 1: twenty ninety four to five WTA.
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Speaker 5: W Friday vibes, Gang Friday vibes. That helps. Where'd you go?
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Speaker 5: You went to a different micros I did go to
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Speaker 5: a different micross sneaky son of it.
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Speaker 1: I decided to creep on over into the corner here
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Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. First off, that whenever guests
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Speaker 1: come in, I was on the first microphone. As you
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Speaker 1: enter the door, you would have to walk around.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that shuffle you have to do. It's like sitting
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Speaker 5: in up.
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Speaker 1: So I just put baby in the corner over here,
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Speaker 1: and they're not a bad deal.
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Speaker 5: Down to a ten percent chance of rain today after
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Speaker 5: five ninety three for your high tonight in the seventies,
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Speaker 5: and we're looking for another day in the mid nineties
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Speaker 5: on Friday, and then for the fourth upper nineties, so
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Speaker 5: very very very warm fourth of July.
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Speaker 1: I don't if you get a shower between now and Monday,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna be lucky. Yeah, but there's a there's a
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Speaker 1: better shot Monday, Tuesday, next week. Yeah, that's all I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna say about it.
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Speaker 5: That's that's that's that's all we need to say about Frankly,
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Speaker 5: Malet Field, the Difference, Riley Go.
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Speaker 6: Last night, the United States won their Round thirty two
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Speaker 6: knockout game.
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Speaker 7: Love all the info coming up in sports.
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Speaker 1: Well, that bandwagon's getting full, isn't it it.
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Speaker 5: I got thoughts, I got a lot of thoughts. Well,
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Speaker 5: we'll get to that. We'll get to that later in
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Speaker 5: the show today, because yeah, but yeah, it is. The
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Speaker 5: these scenes outside the stadium were insane.
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Speaker 1: It's great.
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Speaker 5: I love. I could not love that anymore. That was
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Speaker 5: that was hype. But yeah, well we will definitely break
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Speaker 5: that down coming up later on the show today. I
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Speaker 5: know we've talked about ice cream a few times. I
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Speaker 5: don't know why it's popping up so much. I genuinely don't.
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Speaker 1: It's our algorithm, but I.
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Speaker 5: But I also really wanted to get to this because
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Speaker 5: I even asked you when I was like, did I
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Speaker 5: read this right about about our ice cream consumption?
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Speaker 1: Apparently so. A new survey found that during the summer,
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Speaker 1: average person eats eleven scoops of ice cream a week
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Speaker 1: eleven eleven. I yeah, no, even even in my worst
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Speaker 1: of my ice cream addiction, which there was one. Right,
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Speaker 1: It depends on what you're counting as a scoop. That's okay.
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Speaker 1: So that's that's because sitting down, I would go two
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Speaker 1: to three scoops.
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Speaker 5: How many scoops are in a pint? Do we know?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but I could. I could kill a
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Speaker 1: pint with no problem. So maybe maybe maybe two sittings
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Speaker 1: if I if I rationed so.
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Speaker 5: And is a scoop? Is they are defining it the
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Speaker 5: same thing as a scoop, like if I go to
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Speaker 5: cold Stone.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, because there's still smaller.
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Speaker 5: That's that's what I mean. Is it like? Is it
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Speaker 5: is it that tiny that scoop that you have at
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Speaker 5: home that's really sad that we all have? Is one
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Speaker 5: of those truly a scoop?
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Speaker 1: You only have one scoop?
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Speaker 7: Are you ready?
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Speaker 6: So for a pint of ice cream it is two
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Speaker 6: to three standard scoops, can't That's what the Google Gemini
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Speaker 6: is saying.
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Speaker 5: Okay, so two to three scoops in a pint, two
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Speaker 5: to three scoops in a pint.
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Speaker 1: If you're eating eleven a week. Yeah, you're eating several
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Speaker 1: pints a week.
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Speaker 5: Several pints four four, And keep in mind that's the
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Speaker 5: average ship.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so there's people eating more.
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Speaker 5: The average American would be eating, eating four pints a week.
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Speaker 5: How many pints are in a gallon? Half gallon? Actually,
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Speaker 5: let's go Bluebell standard. How many pints and a half gallon?
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Speaker 1: My fad it.
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Speaker 5: I can't. I don't do conversions.
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Speaker 1: If I was just gonna guestimate, I'm gonna say that
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Speaker 1: there's four.
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Speaker 5: That seems safe on packaging.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm over here googling.
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Speaker 6: I'm using Gemini for this, because oh, there's eight pints
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Speaker 6: in a.
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Speaker 5: Gallon, eight and a half four four all right, all right,
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Speaker 5: all right, so that's not bad. Four and a half.
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Speaker 5: That's that's so much ice cream.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot of ice cream.
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Speaker 5: That's ice cream every day.
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Speaker 1: That's mainlining ice cream.
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Speaker 5: Not only ice cream every day, but like a significant
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Speaker 5: amount of ice cream every single day.
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Speaker 1: I think I just got the gut rumbles thinking about it.
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Speaker 5: Does anyone live up to that? I don't know, because
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Speaker 5: I could, I could buy it. Someone just made this up.
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Speaker 5: It's like, yeah, yeah, sure, all right, I tell them
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Speaker 5: it's eleven scoops a week and we'll call it good.
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Speaker 5: But like, there has to be some methodology.
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Speaker 1: This has to be. According to this survey, eleven point
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Speaker 1: four billion pounds of ice cream over the course of
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Speaker 1: the summer is what American needs, enough to fill one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirteen football stadiums.
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Speaker 7: I think that's the right one.
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Speaker 1: I know that is the right One's.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely proud.
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Speaker 1: Get your strawberry, get your oyster.
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Speaker 5: That's that is what. Yeah, get your get your uh
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Speaker 5: whatever combination that they'll they'll throw together at some of
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Speaker 5: the stores. That is uh, that is impressive.
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Speaker 1: Settling settling another important debate here. Also, according to this survey,
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Speaker 1: most people would rather eat their ice cream from a
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Speaker 1: bowl or a cup rather than a cone.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely true. I agree, no one wants to the cone
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Speaker 5: is for a fact, it's a necessity.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: You ever got a cup though, and put a cone
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Speaker 6: on top of it just so you could break it
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Speaker 6: and use the cone kind of as a spoon Because
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Speaker 6: I have well I.
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Speaker 1: Will now well, I don't like to hold a cone
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Speaker 1: because it get all over your hands, sogusting. You eat
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Speaker 1: it as fast as I do, that cone is gone. Look,
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Speaker 1: I've i mentioned it. Uh what last week we're talking
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Speaker 1: a little bit about ice cream. Maybe earlier this week. Uh,
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Speaker 1: the drumstick Man was my chance.
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Speaker 5: Well the drumstick is did drumstick.
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Speaker 1: It's a different animal.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm talking about like, Hey, i'd like some ice cream.
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Speaker 5: Can you put multiple? Because the more scoops you put
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Speaker 5: in a cone, more dangerous that cone gets.
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Speaker 1: Their structural integrity issues.
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Speaker 5: Just put it in a ball, engineering put it in
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Speaker 5: a bowl. I don't have to worry about it. But yeah,
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Speaker 5: you're kind of you're you're playing like the most dangerous
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Speaker 5: game of jinga at some point with that thing. And
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Speaker 5: it's just, yeah, there's some things you don't need to
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Speaker 5: because there's not the worse than if you messed that up.
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Speaker 1: I got to get started on my eleventh scoop. It's
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Speaker 1: a short week.
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Speaker 5: Do we have any of the bridge or stock and
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Speaker 5: I don't love here.
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Speaker 7: I have no idea.
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Speaker 5: All right, I'll take the bulletmotion.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Every time one of these new ice creams comes
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Speaker 1: out and it comes up here, I'm like, oh, I
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Speaker 1: wish she goes you run the other one on the
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Speaker 1: other way, flee the temptation.
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Speaker 5: I can't say that's uh that's not the wise way.
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Speaker 5: Apparently have some real leeway there will eleven scoop. Well night,
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Speaker 5: all right, Welcome to Thursday, sixteen, twenty ninety four five
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Speaker 5: was told yesterday that A and M's doing a half
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Speaker 5: day on Friday?
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Speaker 1: Is that no idea?
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Speaker 5: Do you realize how rare that would be for us
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Speaker 5: to have a full day off and A and M
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Speaker 5: to be doing a.
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Speaker 1: Half that would be that would be kind of crazy.
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Speaker 5: I've had three people be like, oh no, no, no,
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Speaker 5: we got to go in for like is that? How
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Speaker 5: did that happen? Who you know?
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Speaker 1: Like?
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Speaker 5: There are four days? Is my recollection in the HR
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Speaker 5: world that you have to give them off. It's like
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Speaker 5: Christmas Day, New Year's Day, Thanksgiving and fourth of July
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Speaker 5: and if it falls on a weekend, you get the
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Speaker 5: day before. I think or that is that? Is that correct?
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Speaker 1: That's correct? A and M observes an early release tomorrow.
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Speaker 7: I think the.
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Speaker 6: Reason though they are in school during the summer, during
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Speaker 6: this week is because it's six week week increments, so
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Speaker 6: they're only they have a certain number of days they
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Speaker 6: have to get in because it lines up perfectly for
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Speaker 6: the start of the fall semester.
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Speaker 5: Oh no, I'm sure it does. Do you know who
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Speaker 5: didn't have didn't have rules like that? The founding father
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Speaker 5: the founding fathers. That's fundamentally it's a player. Your freedom
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Speaker 5: from work tomorrow?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, remember throw off.
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Speaker 5: Your chains for the sweet warmth of freedom. Good lord.
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Speaker 1: If I remember my time with the NM university system,
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Speaker 1: frequently when there was a half day, you would end
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Speaker 1: up getting, you know, an email the day before maybe
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Speaker 1: or that morning that just says go home or whatever.
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Speaker 5: We're going to hope for the best for all you guys,
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Speaker 5: for the rest of us. Basically Friday, He's second of
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Speaker 5: July two thousand and twenty six. What are we celebrating today, Ryley?
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Speaker 6: Freedom from Fear of Speaking Day, a day dedicated to
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Speaker 6: helping people overcome their fear of public speaking and finding
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Speaker 6: your voice. Also, I for good day, the perfect excuse
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Speaker 6: to make amends for all the birthdays, anniversary and loosens
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Speaker 6: you might have actually let slip through the cracks mid year. Okay,
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Speaker 6: the opsis, Yes, it is it's World Sports Journalist Day.
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Speaker 7: I think that's awesome.
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Speaker 1: Of course you do that.
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Speaker 5: That is one that I would, yeah, personally celebrate if
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Speaker 5: you as well.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Riley, it's also I've known we've celebrated this one,
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Speaker 6: but supposedly it is World UFO Day again.
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Speaker 1: I think it was maybe National UFO Day, their several
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Speaker 1: world Yeah, do you know why it's World UFO Day?
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Speaker 5: Riley? Don't worry because I do.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 5: Today is the anniversary of the famous Roswell, New Mexico
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Speaker 5: crash that spawned generations of UFO conspiracy theorists out there
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Speaker 5: to question whether we were alone in the universe or not.
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Speaker 5: I want to say, there's actually a festival in Roswell.
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Speaker 5: There is.
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Speaker 1: I had a radio engineer in Little Rock who would
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Speaker 1: attend it every single year.
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Speaker 5: What was that like?
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Speaker 1: Dude? He was an incredible engineer, but he would norm
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Speaker 1: was one weird cat, right. He was not attractive, but
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Speaker 1: he had a very attractive wife. He went to the
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Speaker 1: UFO press.
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Speaker 7: I had to throw that in there.
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Speaker 1: Let me just say the guy could wear a collared
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Speaker 1: shirt and and the hair on his back was coming up.
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Speaker 5: That's the thing, Riley, is if you run into a
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Speaker 5: dude like this, and you will frequently if you work
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Speaker 5: in radio long enough. It boggles boggles the mind. Someone
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Speaker 5: say I am that guy. No, I would say you
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Speaker 5: are rock and roll works. I am, that's work Lurch exactly.
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Speaker 5: And yet you get a smoking hot wife that nobody.
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Speaker 5: It doesn't make any sense, but yet yet.
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Speaker 1: It happens, and we're grateful for it. Are so one
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Speaker 1: interesting thing about norm that I have to throw out there.
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Speaker 1: He spoke fluent kling On.
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Speaker 7: I don't even know what that is.
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Speaker 5: So Riley. There was a television franchise and movie franchise
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Speaker 5: known as Star Trek, and there are aliens on this uh,
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Speaker 5: and the aliens because Geene Roddenberry, who was the guy
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Speaker 5: that came up with this universe, who literally wrote languages
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Speaker 5: for all of them, much kind of like I guess J. R.
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Speaker 5: Tolkien did the same thing. But you can learn how
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Speaker 5: to speak kling On and it's still to this day
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Speaker 5: one of the dorkiest things you can do.
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Speaker 1: The guy is on the Big Bang Theory. I think
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Speaker 1: they spoke clinging On.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's just like, because you know, there's so many
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Speaker 5: languages on Earth humans actually speak, why would you learn
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Speaker 5: kling On.
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Speaker 1: Well, but yeah, yeah, he was fluent.
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Speaker 5: These are my brothers and sisters who were all celebrating today,
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Speaker 5: and so yeah, I just remember the truth is out there.
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Speaker 5: We are not allowing all that good stuff.
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Speaker 6: And last but we are a little more made in
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Speaker 6: the Usaay, we kind of celebrated a little bit, but
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Speaker 6: it's celebrating and promoting America manufactured goods, craftsmanship in local industries.
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Speaker 5: One. You need to celebrate every day, every single day.
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Speaker 5: All right, jump the gun. But now we go to birthday.
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Speaker 1: Margot Robbie is thirty six. Barbie and Harley Queen is not.
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Speaker 5: She is not thirty six. When did she get famous
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Speaker 5: when she was five?
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Speaker 1: She's thirty six?
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Lindsay Lohan is forty speaking of getting famous when you're five.
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Speaker 5: Also also surprisingly young.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, okay, Yeah, there's been.
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Speaker 7: A lot happened to her.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, heck of a forty. There was a time in
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Speaker 1: her forty years when she looks sixty five. I think
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Speaker 1: she's kind of on a comeback.
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Speaker 5: She was great now, Yeah, it was fantastic.
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Speaker 1: Ashley Tisdale is forty one.
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Speaker 6: Love her high school musical one of the greatest.
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Speaker 1: There you go, Jose Conseco sixty two years old.
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Speaker 5: Today man another man had a wild ride.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the home run off the forehead. That
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Speaker 1: was a great one. Yeah. And of course he shot
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Speaker 1: off his finger while cleaning a gun in twenty fourteen.
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Speaker 5: Yes he did.
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Speaker 1: He was. He was one that was fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: Here you go. Tucker Breath the hit Man Heart sixty
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Speaker 1: nine years old.
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Speaker 5: Oh man, one of the one of the just angriest
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Speaker 5: men on the planet, and with good reason. Some would say,
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Speaker 5: I think he's a little uh, I think he takes
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Speaker 5: it a little too far, but like it some people
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Speaker 5: find grace in their old years. Yeah, you know, like
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Speaker 5: they just wantch his partner die, his brother.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was that.
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Speaker 5: Yes, Yeah, he had a lot of stuff during his
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Speaker 5: wrestling career that that tends to make a man bitter,
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Speaker 5: a little little jaded towards the industry.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of jaded, Jerry Hall is seventy Mick Jagger's ex wife. Wow,
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Speaker 1: seventy years old, okay and mix what one hundred and
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Speaker 1: three hundred and twelve, Yeah, something like that. Larry David
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Speaker 1: Is seventy nine from Curby Your Enthusiasm seventy nine, also
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Speaker 1: co creator of This Whole show called Seinfeld. Richard Petty
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Speaker 1: is eighty nine years old today, the NASCAR legend good Lord.
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Speaker 1: And on this date in nineteen thirty seven, Polly Holliday
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Speaker 1: was born. She would have been eighty nine years old.
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Speaker 1: You don't know the name, you do know the character
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Speaker 1: if you're of a certain age, I'll just say kiss.
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Speaker 1: My grits really flow from Alice and it's spin off flow.
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Speaker 5: I love to see it. Twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 5: Just looking at the forecast one more time, see if
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Speaker 5: it changed. It didn't. Ten percent chance of brain this
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Speaker 5: afternoon is about as good as we get for the
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Speaker 5: Fourth of July weekend, which you know, ninety three for
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Speaker 5: the high It's gonna feel little bit warmer than that
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Speaker 5: down to the seventies tonight, than back up to the
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Speaker 5: mid nineties tomorrow, and slightly warmer than that for Independence
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Speaker 5: Day and then Sunday. So yeah, it's gonna be a
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Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm will Welch. Bransis
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Speaker 1: County Sheriff's deputies helped locate a missing elderly man from
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Speaker 1: Henderson County. The Bransis County Sheriff's Department's Facebook page says
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Speaker 1: concerned citizens called after spotting the eighty year old man
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Speaker 1: walking along Highway thirty near William D. Fitch Parkway, appearing
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Speaker 1: confused and struggling to walk thanks to a license played reader.
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Speaker 1: Deputies located the man's abandoned car, alerting them to the
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Speaker 1: fact that the man had been reported missing and had
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Speaker 1: medical concerns. As it turns out, a passer by had
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Speaker 1: picked up the man to get gas and returned him
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Speaker 1: to his car. He was evaluated by EMS and has
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Speaker 1: been reunited with his family. College Station police is looking
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Speaker 1: for those responsible for gunfire that injured two people. A
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Speaker 1: CSPD Facebook post did not give the date or time
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Speaker 1: of the gunfire at Southgate Village Apartments on Luther Street.
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Speaker 1: Two gunshot victims were taken to local hospitals for treatment
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Speaker 1: of non life threatening injuries. CSPD has also not released
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Speaker 1: anything that investigators have learned about what led to the gunfire.
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Speaker 1: Anyone with information is asked to call CSPD. Deadlines are looming,
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Speaker 1: according to Brian's mayor pro Tim for the original developer
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Speaker 1: of the Midtown Park entertainment complex to resume long delayed
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Speaker 1: construction of the Movie Bowling restaurant facility.
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Speaker 2: It's regretful that they've got some issues unrelated to that
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Speaker 2: specific project that they're dealing with.
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Speaker 1: I think up in Waco. James Edge provided an update
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Speaker 1: during his latest visit on our show.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to jinx anything, and I certainly don't
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Speaker 2: want to take anything away from the Shulman family, but
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Speaker 2: we have to do what's right for the citizens and
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Speaker 2: the taxpayers of Brian, and that may or may not
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Speaker 2: include the Shulman family, but I will tell you that
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Speaker 2: will be a destination entertainment venue of some sort.
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Speaker 1: Edge also says he is anticipating the Midtown Park lake
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Speaker 1: being filled and the completion of the park's signature playground.
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Speaker 1: The Brian College Station. Salvation Army announces on its Facebook
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Speaker 1: page a new commanding Officer, Major David Swiers, is a
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Speaker 1: Texas native. According to the Galveston Salvation Army website, where
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Speaker 1: he held a similar position. BCS is his fifth stop
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Speaker 1: in Texas as part of a twenty six year career
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Speaker 1: where he's also served in three other states. The newest
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Speaker 1: message on the website of Texas and in President Susan
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Speaker 1: Ballabina begins with sharing three priorities that she recently gave
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Speaker 1: to her senior leaders.
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Speaker 3: The first priority, restored trust, is defined as providing study leadership,
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Speaker 3: strengthening relationships with internal and external stakeholders through transparency and engagement,
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Speaker 3: and building confidence in A and M through decisions that
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Speaker 3: advances the university's mission and reflects core values. Second, turning
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Speaker 3: challenges into opportunities is defined as tackling complex issues, drive
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Speaker 3: operational excellence, reduce bureaucracy, and executing on big ideas. Third
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Speaker 3: is celebrate and Innovate, which is defined as leveraging the
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Speaker 3: momentum of A and M's one hundred and fifty year
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Speaker 3: history to honor the university's past while advancing a shared
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Speaker 3: vision for the future. Ballabini so she'll expand on her
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Speaker 3: three priorities as a A and M Sesqui Centennial Year continues.
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Speaker 3: Bill Oliver sixteen, twenty ninety four to five WTAW.
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Speaker 1: WTAW News has received more information about grant money coming
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Speaker 1: to two Press Valley recipients from the Texas Opioid Debatement Fund.
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Speaker 1: Seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars is going to Burlison
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Speaker 1: County's Health Resource Center to hire addition people to work
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Speaker 1: in local schools with students and their families, to.
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Speaker 8: Work with families where they are, and to link the family,
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Speaker 8: not just kids, to think the kids, the parents, to
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Speaker 8: the broad range of services that we're already working with.
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Speaker 1: The retired Health Center director Albert Ramerez says the additional
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Speaker 1: people will reduce their reliance on out of town agencies.
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Speaker 8: They're based in Brian College Station. They might have a
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Speaker 8: day or two and they can come to Berston County
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Speaker 8: and work with us in our referrals. Then they are
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Speaker 8: off to Washington County and then they're off to Grimes County,
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Speaker 8: or they're back in Brian, serving the large numbers of
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Speaker 8: folks in the Brian College Station area.
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Speaker 1: The State Opioid Grant Fund also awarded eight grants to
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Speaker 1: Texas A and M's Health Science Center. Six of the
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Speaker 1: eight grants, totaling almost four million dollars, will be spent
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Speaker 1: by the Pharmacy College to support communities around the state
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Speaker 1: to address the opioid crisis. The reading of the Declaration
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Speaker 1: of Independence will take place Saturday morning at non In
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Speaker 1: Veterans Park at the Press Valley Veterans Memorial. The vice
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Speaker 1: president of the Memorial Board, Tom Turbyville, says that will
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Speaker 1: be followed by a ceremonial signing recognizing the fifty six
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Speaker 1: who signed the declaration of independence.
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Speaker 9: We have fifty six signers to represent those fifty six
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Speaker 9: original signers, really, and those people are going to be
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Speaker 9: community leaders and their fifty six of them are going
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Speaker 9: to sign their name to a special document.
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Speaker 1: Reading the Declaration of Independence will be Turbyville, an alum
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Speaker 1: of our show, and Brian Broadcasting General manager Ben downs
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Speaker 1: More News ahead at seven o'clock or anytime at WTAW
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Speaker 5: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW or the Infomaniacs Collis,
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Speaker 6: Well here for Rangers manager Skip Schumacher as he recaps
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Speaker 6: the Rangers lost to the Cleveland Guardians.
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Speaker 5: In sports, Riley just discovered probably about ten to fifteen
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Speaker 5: minutes ago, the Empire State Building. She just saw this
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Speaker 5: from yesterdays to these two guys went King Kong on.
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Speaker 1: That yeah guy in the gal They climbed up the
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Speaker 1: on top of the observation deck. You've got that radio
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Speaker 1: tower out there. They climbed up it all the way
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Speaker 1: all the way to the top.
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Speaker 6: The comments about it is what's hilarious to me is
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Speaker 6: they go we still fox goes.
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Speaker 7: And they reported this eighteen hours ago.
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Speaker 6: So I don't know if they know now, but headline,
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Speaker 6: we still don't know how they.
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Speaker 7: Got up there.
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Speaker 1: Well, they climbed, I.
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Speaker 6: Would obviously they climbed, but they don't know which way
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Speaker 6: they climbed up it.
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Speaker 5: I said, the King Kong thing. They obviously didn't start
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Speaker 5: at the street and shimmy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe maybe it is amazing. Well because this is
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Speaker 1: not their first time to scale a building, that's right. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they've done the tallest stuff in the in the world.
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Speaker 1: They scaled the Bay Bridge in San Francisco. Yeah, the
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Speaker 1: Murdecca went eighteen the world's second tallest building in Kuala Lumpur.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, this this was not the tallest. I'm speculating
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Speaker 1: that they got up, you know, because there's the public
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Speaker 1: observation deck. I'm speculating that they got the.
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Speaker 5: Founder, found a found a hole in a fence or
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Speaker 5: something something like that, kind of just did the rest
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Speaker 5: of it, which that's the part that would make sense
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Speaker 5: to me. And it was like, why why are they
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Speaker 5: doing it?
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Speaker 7: Is it?
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Speaker 5: Is it a political statement? No?
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Speaker 1: No, no, well it was a little bit. I mean
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Speaker 1: the banner did read, yeah, the one that there's a
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Speaker 1: million memes out there.
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Speaker 5: Can't you can't go by just the first rice.
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Speaker 1: See, so apparently the banner said, when the power of
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Speaker 1: love beats the power the war, or beats the of
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Speaker 1: the power the world knows peace, right, Which that's a
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Speaker 1: nice sentiment, that's cute. Yeah, are you sure to.
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Speaker 7: Say saw them off? Because I'm seeing saw them off.
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying I saw one roofing company that that
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Speaker 1: did it. They replaced the language with it, like let
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Speaker 1: us inspect a roof, you know, just absolute genius. But
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Speaker 1: when they got down, apparently, uh, the gentleman asked the
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Speaker 1: lady for her hand in marriage.
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Speaker 6: All right, before they become fuge It is right, Well
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Speaker 6: know they were.
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Speaker 1: They were arrested immediately after.
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Speaker 5: There wasn't much of us.
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Speaker 1: There wasn't much of a spread away. I fair got
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Speaker 1: to give some props. At least NYPD did not. They
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Speaker 1: allowed the guy to drop to a knee and make
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Speaker 1: and asked the question and present the ring before they
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Speaker 1: were cuffed and stuff.
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Speaker 6: Well, because they're not like they were going to climb
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Speaker 6: up there.
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Speaker 5: They were still in the air.
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Speaker 1: This is when they got on the ground. They let
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Speaker 1: them get on the ground and then they did that,
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Speaker 1: which I thought pretty class. I asked, you know, you
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Speaker 1: have to in New York City, especially right now, if
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Speaker 1: you want to make any new regarding weddings or engagement
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Speaker 1: so you have to make a splash.
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Speaker 5: This is my thing. This is why I resent this whole,
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Speaker 5: this whole line of discussion so much, because all that
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Speaker 5: what we're going to get into does is exactly what
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Speaker 5: you're talking about. It makes other people decide they need.
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Speaker 1: To go bigger, right, I could top it.
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Speaker 5: They need And that's the thing with weddings is that's
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Speaker 5: why weddings are so insane. It is because everyone's got
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Speaker 5: a friend that did this cool thing.
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Speaker 1: I gotta have it in my parents, so I got
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Speaker 1: to add it.
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Speaker 5: Or at it plus something else. So my wedding is
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Speaker 5: a little doper. And of course we are talking about
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Speaker 5: the Swift Kelsey wedding, which at this point I'm sick
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Speaker 5: of pretending that it's not going to happen on the
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Speaker 5: fourth of July at Madison. Look, we did we already
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Speaker 5: probably today going on.
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Speaker 1: We broke, we broke the news that it was. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we were early on this one that they were gonna
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Speaker 1: get married at Madison Square Garden. You can thank us
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Speaker 1: here at the Infomaniacs for that, right. It's our our reporting,
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Speaker 1: that's our contribution.
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Speaker 5: The right thing I said. All we didn't get to
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Speaker 5: yesterday was the castle there, Yeah, erecting a castle.
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Speaker 1: There's video two large white staircase banisters being loaded into
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Speaker 1: the arena yesterday. There are also trucks labeled garden party
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Speaker 1: whatever that means. Of course, everybody's gotten in da right.
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Speaker 1: Nobody knows what's going on, but apparently, yeah, they're gonna
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Speaker 1: build a castle in there.
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Speaker 5: That is so obnoxious.
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Speaker 1: Coming out today, a source revealed the wedding schedule tonight.
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Speaker 1: The rehearsal dinner. One hundred guests. That's it. Okay, So that's.
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Speaker 7: That's why does need a castle.
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Speaker 5: Well, that's the rehearsal dinner. That's for the core. That's
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Speaker 5: that's the you know, the the that's the circle of trust. Right,
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Speaker 5: there is one hundred people.
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Speaker 7: One hundred people can be trusted.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if if your Taylor Swift and
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Speaker 1: your daddy is a big time entertainment lawyer. Yeah he's
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Speaker 1: a guy. Yeah, I'm just saying she's got a legal
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Speaker 1: team that could could make it pretty iron Allegedly.
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Speaker 5: She watermarked each individual individual invitation so that if any
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Speaker 5: of it got out, she would know exactly which again
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Speaker 5: I need say it again, it's obnoxious.
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Speaker 1: That's like Cia operational security.
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Speaker 5: You're going to just have your wedding. Yeah, I don't
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Speaker 5: need to have you black out all the vendors, trucks contacted.
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Speaker 5: Just have your continue I'm okay. Off topic.
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Speaker 1: One hundred guests and that will be at the Infosis
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Speaker 1: Theater six to ten thirty Eastern. If you're planning to
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Speaker 1: attend tomorrow, apparently Madison Square Garden doors will open at
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Speaker 1: three thirty Get ready for the math three thirty PM
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Speaker 1: for over a thousand guests, with a cocktail hour beginning
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Speaker 1: at four on the sixth floor concourse in case you're looking.
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Speaker 1: Then the ceremony will start at five thirty on the
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Speaker 1: arena floor reception six thirty, ending around two am. You're
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Speaker 1: looking at over ten hours.
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Speaker 5: That's a ten hour wedding.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a ten hour.
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Speaker 6: She is inviting a thousand people to her wedding.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, she's okay, I know that's just the cocktail hour.
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Speaker 6: What I'm trying to say here is like I'm not
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Speaker 6: taking anything away from it.
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Speaker 7: I think it's awesome.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, they are not friends with a thousand people.
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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, And I feel like this is.
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Speaker 6: More of a how big can we make?
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Speaker 8: This?
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Speaker 6: Not really about the actual wedding of being married to
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Speaker 6: one another. This is becoming a spectacle instead of actual wedding.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's look at you want to reach a thousand people.
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Speaker 1: Let's look at the Kelsey family, right, I mean there's
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Speaker 1: a lot that's an extended family.
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Speaker 5: The chief say, yeah, there's work colleagues. So I could see.
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Speaker 5: I could see you getting to a thousand. But I
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Speaker 5: do and I don't know. This probably makes me bad.
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Speaker 5: I do judge when a wedding gets over a certain point.
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Speaker 5: Even once I go.
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Speaker 1: To I when.
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Speaker 5: I walk in and look around, I'm like, well, who
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Speaker 5: is this for? Yeah, like what is And that's probably wrong.
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Speaker 5: But again, I know you guys, you don't have to
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Speaker 5: go to Taylor Swift's talk over the top weddings. I
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Speaker 5: guarantee you some of you guys have some over the
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Speaker 5: top wedding wedding a long.
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Speaker 1: You have seen large percentage of my parenting as a
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Speaker 1: father is trying to modify, and the expectations of the
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Speaker 1: princess wedding up to yes, oh yes, wow.
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Speaker 5: Look if you if you've seen some things you want
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Speaker 6: Good morning, I'm Riley Blerky with your morning sports update
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Speaker 6: on sixteen to twenty ninety four five WTA W in
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Speaker 6: the MLB. Last night, the Cleveland Guardians defeated the Texas
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Speaker 6: Rangers nine to four to snap the Rangers six game
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Speaker 6: winning streak. Rangers manager Skip Schumacher recap the game.
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Speaker 10: These guys played hard. It was hot out there, hot
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Speaker 10: for both teams, and not making an excuse or anything,
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Speaker 10: but after a long road trip like that, to come
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Speaker 10: away with seven wins on this trip, I think we
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Speaker 10: would have signed up for that end day of the week.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 10: We we put up.
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Speaker 1: A fight too.
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Speaker 10: That was not just a you know, roll them over
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Speaker 10: type of game. We put up a fight to the end.
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Speaker 10: And it's just the team is really coming together at
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Speaker 10: the right time, and especially with all the injuries that
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Speaker 10: we've had, you wouldn't know what the way they're going
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Speaker 10: about it. But yeah, we have a few games left
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Speaker 10: obviously before the break, some really important games, some weird
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Speaker 10: off days in the middle of them. But I think,
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Speaker 10: you know, it's I still feel like we're in a
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Speaker 10: good spot and our bullpen is kind of reset now
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Speaker 10: because of MATC going five in Santos, providing a couple innings,
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Speaker 10: so we should be in a better spot tomorrow.
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Speaker 6: Minnesota Twins pitcher Taj Bradley struck out eleven to tie
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Speaker 6: his career high in the twins eight to three win
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Speaker 6: over the Houston Astros.
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Speaker 7: Chicago Cubs.
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Speaker 6: Danzby Swanson had three homers and eight RBIs as the
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Speaker 6: Cubs pounded the San Diego Padres twenty.
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Speaker 7: Three to three in last night's game.
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Speaker 6: Yesterday was day four of the round thirty two knockout
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Speaker 6: rounds in the FIFA World Cup. To start off the day,
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Speaker 6: Harry Kane double saves England against Congo d R as
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Speaker 6: England came away with a two.
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Speaker 7: To one victory.
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Speaker 6: Belgium also stayed alive yesterday in the thirty two knockout round,
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Speaker 6: beating Senegal three to two, and last, but not least,
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Speaker 6: the United States beat Bosnia Hertzegovina to reach World Cup
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Speaker 6: Round sixteen. Following the United States two to zero win,
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Speaker 6: Mauricia Pocatino spoke about the mentality and the atmosphere of
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Speaker 6: the game.
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Speaker 11: Well, first of all, I think congra today, the player
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Speaker 11: and the stuff, all the people that may possible, you know,
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Speaker 11: to perform in the way that we will performed today
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Speaker 11: and then saying go to the fans, they were amazing
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Speaker 11: one more time. We are so proud in behalf all
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Speaker 11: the stuff, all the people up.
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Speaker 6: Next to the US will take the field again on
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Speaker 6: July sixth against Belgium in the Round of sixteen. Aggie
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Speaker 6: football safety Marcus Radcliffe has been named to the Walter
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Speaker 6: Camp Preseason FBS All American Second Team. The honor Marx
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Speaker 6: Ratcliffe's second preseason All American recognition, as he was also
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Speaker 6: selected to the Athlon Sports Preseason All Americans Second Team
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Speaker 6: earlier this month. Ratcliffe returns for his third season in
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Speaker 6: Agiland after transfer from San Diego State. In thirty eight
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Speaker 6: career games, he's had thirty five starts, totaled one hundred
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Speaker 6: and sixty three tackles, seven point five tackles, four loss,
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Speaker 6: four interceptions, four pass breakups, one force fumble, four quarterback hurries,
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Speaker 6: and one blocked kick. Ratcliffe has recorded three plus tackles
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Speaker 6: in thirty games and five plus tackles in eighteen contests,
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Speaker 6: including a career high eight tackles on three occasions against
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Speaker 6: Texas in twenty twenty four and Notre Dame in Mississippi
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Speaker 6: State in twenty twenty five. During the twenty twenty five season,
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Speaker 6: Ratcliffe ranked second on the team and seventh among SEC
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Speaker 6: safeties with sixty five tackles while adding three tackles for loss,
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Speaker 6: three pass breakups, and two quarterback.
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Speaker 7: Hurries in thirteen games.
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Speaker 6: He recorded three plus tackles in eleven contests and five
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Speaker 6: plus tackles eight times during the season. He also posted
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Speaker 6: an eighty point three grade from Pro Football Focus, ranking
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Speaker 6: sixth among SEC safeties. That's your morning sport. It's update
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Speaker 6: on sixteen, twenty ninety four. Five WTA W. I'm Riley
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Speaker 6: Flurke