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The Infomaniacs: August 14, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 2: I'm will Welch.
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Speaker 1: Last night at the College Station City Council meeting, council
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Speaker 1: paid the way for some new housing projects. Just over
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Speaker 1: thirty five acres on Victoria at William D. Fitch Parkway
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Speaker 1: was rezoned to multifamily and middle housing, making way for
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Speaker 1: a multifamily complex and townhomes.
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Speaker 2: The twelve and a.
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Speaker 1: Half acres at the corner of Rock Prairie and Welburne
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Speaker 1: Road was rezoned and will become student housing. In twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty one, council zone the lot hoping for commercial development,
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Speaker 1: but traffic improvements changed the potential for that. Veronica Mitchell
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Speaker 1: of Morgan and Mitchell Engineers spoke on behalf of developers.
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Speaker 3: In twenty two and twenty three, there was reconstruction on
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Speaker 3: rot Preie Road that added a median and removed old
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Speaker 3: welburn Road from the connection to Rock Prairie. Both of
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Speaker 3: which were good traffic mitigation measures, but it damaged the
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Speaker 3: property in terms of its viability as a commercial property.
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Speaker 1: Council will hold a public hearing at its next meeting
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Speaker 1: on August twenty seventh for the proposed maximum tax rate
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Speaker 1: of approximately fifty three point zero three since per one
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Speaker 1: hundred dollars valuation. A former Madison County deputy has been
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Speaker 1: charged with possession of child pornography and sexual assaults of
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Speaker 1: a child. The Madison County Sheriff's Office announced yesterday that
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Speaker 1: twenty four year old Jerry Wayne Rayes turned himself into
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Speaker 1: the Burlison County Sheriff's Office in Caldwell Thursday morning. He
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Speaker 1: was employed by Madison County from October twenty twenty four
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Speaker 1: through July fourth of this year. Reyes has been released
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Speaker 1: on two hundred thousand dollars bond. Brian Police have released
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Speaker 1: an update on last weekend shooting that killed one and
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Speaker 1: injured three. They say the forty two year old victim
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Speaker 1: has been released from the hospital, but they haven't arrested
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Speaker 1: any suspects. If you have information, please contact the Brian
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Speaker 1: Police Department. BTU is warning of a new scam. They
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Speaker 1: will never contact you in this way or threaten immediate disconnection.
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Speaker 1: The Texas Education Agency may be planning a takeover of
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Speaker 1: the Austin Independent School District. It's because two middle schools
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Speaker 1: in the district have received an F rating for five
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Speaker 1: years in a row. Taking over would see the elected
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Speaker 1: school board replaced with a state appointed board of managers.
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Speaker 1: The superintendent would also be replaced. Should it happen, AISD
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Speaker 1: would be the ninth district taken over by Texas. Interest
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Speaker 1: is searching in a state created curriculum for public education
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Speaker 1: that includes stories.
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Speaker 2: From the Bible.
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Speaker 1: Nearly one in three school systems are using the Blue
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Speaker 1: Bonnet materials for grades K through five.
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Speaker 4: Contains many historical and biblical references.
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Speaker 5: Those students can have a better context for reading comprehension.
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Speaker 1: Mary Elizabeth Castle with conservative group Texas Values says it's
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Speaker 1: been a snowball effect. The materials were used by smaller
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Speaker 1: districts at first, and when they saw results, more districts
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Speaker 1: signed up and it doesn't hurt the districts received forty
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Speaker 6: You can I can't take you anywhere.
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Speaker 2: Why do you say that?
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Speaker 6: Because we have a friend in the studio and she
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Speaker 6: walks into the room and you just you just lazered.
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Speaker 1: You choke that you can read me. Sometimes I allowed
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Speaker 1: my emotions to bubble up to the surface, and with
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Speaker 1: this particular guest, my emotions were sad.
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Speaker 2: Well, just stay too, I'm extremely happy for you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 1: Teresa Mangapora, Executive director Bras's Valley Food Bank. Hey, Teresa,
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Speaker 1: we've had a couple of news stories involving you. First
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Speaker 1: of all, let's let's ask how did the feast of Karsus?
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Speaker 4: You know, it was fantastic because you guys were there.
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Speaker 2: It was really that was the reason it was really fun.
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Speaker 5: It was.
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Speaker 2: It was very crowded.
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Speaker 1: It was I noticed that when we arrived, which you
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Speaker 1: can't keep Tucker away from all you can, bufo.
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Speaker 2: He was the first guy in line. It all opened up. God, no,
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Speaker 2: he was right there, ready to go.
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Speaker 6: Actually I jumped it, you did. I tried to before
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Speaker 6: I had to be pulled back. No, no, no, we
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Speaker 6: have some announcements we need to make.
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Speaker 2: First. The line is not open, sir. He nearly beat
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Speaker 2: these celebrity servers over there. That's fine.
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Speaker 1: But so we got our food and I even told Tucker,
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Speaker 1: I said, this is this is a crazy amount of
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Speaker 1: people for eleven o'clock.
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Speaker 2: It was a really yeah, a really good turnout.
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Speaker 6: And it's always wonderful to see, especially for an event
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Speaker 6: that's been been going on a while.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been a long time. And then immediately after
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Speaker 2: that comes the news. Yeah, well the.
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Speaker 4: News was out before, just not like public public.
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Speaker 2: You've been prepping people for a while.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, staff knew, the board new, but it was important
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Speaker 4: to me that we didn't have that event be derailed by.
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Speaker 2: I get it. Yeah whatever. So for people who don't know,
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Speaker 2: you have announced what Teresa that I'm stepping down.
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Speaker 4: As executive director after twenty when that's a long time.
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Speaker 2: It's a long long time.
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Speaker 4: And prop I want to.
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Speaker 2: Move to Seattle.
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Speaker 4: Oh so people here probably like why whatever. So I've
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Speaker 4: lived in Michigan, New York, Georgia, Texas. I've not lived
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Speaker 4: anywhere on the other side of the country.
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Speaker 6: Wow.
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Speaker 4: And every single place that I've lived, I've learned a
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Speaker 4: lot about myself and about our country and about how
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Speaker 4: people are different people, you know, just cultures and all that.
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Speaker 4: And I really like that. So yeah, and I've got
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Speaker 4: friends there.
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Speaker 2: So you're just taking off going to Seattle.
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Speaker 4: I don't have a job.
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Speaker 7: Don't have a job.
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Speaker 2: No, hopefully everything works out, okay, faith, Wow, I know
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Speaker 2: that's that's sometimes that's what you do. You just say,
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Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to try this, but see how
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Speaker 2: it goes.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but also I'm a firm believer that organizations, especially nonprofits,
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Speaker 4: but also you know business or profit busines, this is
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Speaker 4: need to shake it up a little bit. You know,
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Speaker 4: new leadership is not always it's usually a very good thing,
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Speaker 4: new ideas, new perspectives. Twenty one years, you can be.
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Speaker 2: Like, this is how we do it, this is this
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Speaker 2: is what I know, this is the way it's always
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Speaker 2: been done. And that's not a good thing, right, I
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Speaker 2: recognize that that's. Yeah, there's there's some truth to that.
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Speaker 1: But understand that the twenty one years that you have
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Speaker 1: been here with the Brasses Valley Food Bank, it has
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Speaker 1: gone from what it was, which was a bursting old
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Speaker 1: building to the new, pre owned but new facilities that
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Speaker 1: you guys are in now.
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Speaker 2: So phenomenal twenty one years of growth. Growth has been unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: To watch the things that you have done in the
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Speaker 1: community and for the community deserve recognition.
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Speaker 2: You know, you know, I a lot of people don't
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Speaker 2: know this. I spent about nine.
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Speaker 1: Years on the board of directors at the Food Bank, right,
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Speaker 1: and so that's the dirty look. Hence the dirty look,
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Speaker 1: and so almost half of your existence I was a
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Speaker 1: part of the food Bank with you.
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Speaker 2: So that's why personally I'm upset. I'm looking forward to
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Speaker 2: what's coming.
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Speaker 1: I think the board has probably got some great ideas
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Speaker 1: on the future and and I think that's going to
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Speaker 1: be great, and I agree with you, but personally I'm going.
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Speaker 2: To miss you. Yeah, that's that's that's so twenty one years.
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Speaker 2: What are the what are the biggest memories you have?
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Speaker 4: You guys are gonna laugh because this is so specific.
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Speaker 4: We used to not take donations online.
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Speaker 2: I know that's not a good memory. Like I've been
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Speaker 2: around long enough that you didn't have online donations predated
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Speaker 2: the Internet era.
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Speaker 5: Like when I.
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Speaker 4: Started in two thousand and five, we didn't even do
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Speaker 4: email at the food Bank. We didn't have a voicemail
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Speaker 4: like people can't. Holy cow, that's crazy business.
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Speaker 2: But that's not a memory.
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Speaker 4: Memories, you know, there's been a few stories of people
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Speaker 4: who have come in to volunteer at the food Bank
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Speaker 4: who once had visited food pantries. Yes, without me saying,
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Speaker 4: there's actually been people who have been in that circumstance.
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Speaker 4: That have ended up being.
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Speaker 2: Employees at the food bank is amazing.
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Speaker 4: So those are fantastic success stories, right, But I don't
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Speaker 4: talk about them in success of the work that we do.
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Speaker 4: I talk about them as the resilience of those individuals
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Speaker 4: and their resourcefulness and in a way for us all
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Speaker 4: to remember that food insecurity, being unhoused, what those are
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Speaker 4: temporary situations and they don't define us, true, and if
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Speaker 4: we're all going to be honest with ourselves, or those
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Speaker 4: circumstances could happen to us or they can't.
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Speaker 6: Any given any given month is for most a couple
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Speaker 6: of paychecks, a what if if?
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Speaker 4: That?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's how close most Americans live to the line.
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Speaker 6: And yeah, thank god we have some resources in this
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Speaker 6: community that can help you if you fall on hard times.
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Speaker 6: But that's something that has grown over again over several
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Speaker 6: decades here in the Brass Valley to it being just
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Speaker 6: the organization that it is today.
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Speaker 1: Asigned from implementing online donations and email I know, I
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Speaker 1: mean some of the programs, some of the programs that
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Speaker 1: I'm familiar with with the Brasses Valley Food Bank, for example,
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Speaker 1: the backpack program.
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Speaker 2: We're back to school right now? Yeah, how has that
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Speaker 2: backpack program grown from its start and where are you
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Speaker 2: guys now with that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so two thousand and five, number one school with
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Speaker 4: twenty five kids getting backpacks with a bunch of granola
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Speaker 4: bars in them. I'm not gonna lie hotly, cat water bottle,
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Speaker 4: bottle of water, like we didn't have the budget to
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Speaker 4: every public elementary school in the six counties that wants
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Speaker 4: it can have it. So I think we're at abound
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Speaker 4: fourty school.
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Speaker 2: Wow, wild, that's nuts, you know.
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Speaker 4: And some schools have enough kids that all the kids
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Speaker 4: almost could qualify for the program. So that's a little
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Speaker 4: overwhelming for us and for the schools. So there's still
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Speaker 4: there are still kiddos that don't get it that could
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Speaker 4: use it, but the system is in place for the
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Speaker 4: highest risk kids to get.
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Speaker 1: Let's backtrack a little bit on the backpack program and
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Speaker 1: explain a little bit about what it is.
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Speaker 4: So it's not school supplies, which is also very important.
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Speaker 4: We have other groups that do that. It's actually shelf
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Speaker 4: stable food items in a bag that gets put into
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Speaker 4: a backpack for a kid when they go home for
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Speaker 4: the weekend. So the assumption is that the kids are
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Speaker 4: getting fed at school. It's fantastic that lifeline of food
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Speaker 4: at school, but when they're at home on the weekends,
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Speaker 4: they don't have that connection or even in the evening.
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Speaker 4: So I was a latch key kid. I don't know,
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Speaker 4: like when I would get home from school, my parents
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Speaker 4: were at work, they were not there. Think about circumstances
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Speaker 4: where people have that, but there's not a whole lot
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Speaker 4: of food.
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Speaker 6: Actually, right, there's so many gaps that you can get
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Speaker 6: into it where hunger can become a problem, specifically with
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Speaker 6: kids too. As you think about it, like, well, what
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Speaker 6: are parents going to be doing if they're trying to
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Speaker 6: make ends meet, Well, they're going to be working one
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Speaker 6: or more jobs, one or more jobs. If there's one
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Speaker 6: parent in the home, two parents on them, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 6: They are not going to be home as much as
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Speaker 6: and so you think to yourself. Everyone relates it to
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Speaker 6: kind of their own experience. So for a lot of people,
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Speaker 6: it's like, well, I come home from school.
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Speaker 2: I'm snacks. Who gets you a snack?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Who gets you? Who gets you? Who gets you food?
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Speaker 8: You know?
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Speaker 6: Who boils water for your ram and all of these
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Speaker 6: things like you you run into these these things that
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Speaker 6: you just don't think about summers.
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Speaker 2: Another part of it too, it's like, oh, when school
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Speaker 2: lets out, well, how are they eating?
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Speaker 6: Then oh oh oh, and then you that's how you
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Speaker 6: end up with these numbers of how many kids.
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Speaker 1: Well, and we mentioned it the last time you were here,
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Speaker 1: and the number is still the same for children in
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Speaker 1: our seven county region. It's one in four correct, one
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Speaker 1: in four facing food insecurity.
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Speaker 2: So it's but that backpack program is an incredible, incredible thing.
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Speaker 7: It is.
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Speaker 4: It's across the country. Like all I did was read
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Speaker 4: about it and say this community deserves to have it
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Speaker 4: as well. It was happening in other food banks and
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Speaker 4: larger areas. But you know, granted I did make it
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Speaker 4: happen and grow it. This community has very much supported
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Speaker 4: the program, the donations for it. It's it's completely privately
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Speaker 4: there's no government funding. It's completely privately funded.
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Speaker 2: Exactly wild. I've always said that this community will turn
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Speaker 2: out insanely generous.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, in terms of need. Anytime we did the Food
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Speaker 1: for Families, food drive or anything with the food bank
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Speaker 1: or other charitable organizations in the community, people just turn out.
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Speaker 1: And it's it's not necessarily the whales the people coming
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Speaker 1: out writing big checks.
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Speaker 2: It's everyday people that are donating from a few dollars
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Speaker 2: to a few hundred dollars and that really.
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Speaker 6: The need is still there and they can still continue
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Speaker 6: and they do take donations online.
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Speaker 2: You can do that online. Now. So you are you're here.
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Speaker 1: You're going to remain in place and transition to new
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Speaker 1: leadership coming early next year.
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Speaker 8: Correct?
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Speaker 3: Correct?
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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, So what is going on between now
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Speaker 2: and then? What are you what are you pushing?
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Speaker 4: Well, so we just went through a really intense strategic
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Speaker 4: planning process.
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Speaker 2: So we have a new three year plan.
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Speaker 4: And it's not so much about growing what we do,
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Speaker 4: it's it's a little bit more about the depth of
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Speaker 4: what we do. So let me explain that a little bit.
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Speaker 4: So every time we're giving food out to someone, there's
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Speaker 4: an opportunity to connect with that person about their other needs.
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Speaker 4: Instead of making somebody who has a need for housing,
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Speaker 4: a need for childcare, a need for food all at once,
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Speaker 4: to have to go around to a bunch of different
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Speaker 4: organizations and tell their story over and over and over again.
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Speaker 2: It's traumatic.
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Speaker 4: It's honestly traumatic to tell strangers most personal whatever you
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Speaker 4: feel as your failure or whatever the case may be
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Speaker 4: And so we're looking to see if there's opportunities to
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Speaker 4: do more collaboration and connection and depth of services, which
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Speaker 4: is something I've cared about from the very very beginning.
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Speaker 4: My background is social work. I don't even know there's
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Speaker 4: very few of us in the food banking network. Most
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Speaker 4: people are business people, so it's about pounds of food,
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Speaker 4: pounds of food, which is important, it's really important. But
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Speaker 4: for me, it's always been about the people. So how
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Speaker 4: can we do more comprehensive, better services with what we
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Speaker 4: already do?
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Speaker 2: How can we collaborate.
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Speaker 4: Across what we already do? And it's a little bit
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Speaker 4: of a new perspective. So I'm getting a lot of
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Speaker 4: people like, hmmm, we're kind of stretched then already we
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Speaker 4: can't do anymore.
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Speaker 2: How we're going to do this probably.
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Speaker 4: Will take some more resources, maybe different resources, hard to say,
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Speaker 4: but that's definitely something that is in the works for sure.
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Speaker 4: And putting metrics to it all they or you know,
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Speaker 4: organizational stuff, so we know if it's actually.
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Speaker 6: Worth right, all of those things for what is worth
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Speaker 6: If you end up in Seattle, there is a island
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Speaker 6: that is basically Orca Island. It's the talks about this
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Speaker 6: all the time, right up to the boat docks. It's
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Speaker 6: just that's where they live.
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Speaker 2: And if you end up in Seattle, you might be
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Speaker 2: able to live there, just just planting that seed, and
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Speaker 2: then I would have someone to visit on Orca Island. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: if you give me an.
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Speaker 4: Excuse to see them, decide, I'm not coming out.
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Speaker 6: Theresa, thank you so much for coming in, and thank
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Speaker 6: you so much for your subservice, said everything you've done
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Speaker 6: over over this run and h and yeah, I'm very
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Speaker 6: glad we get you for a few more months to
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Speaker 6: be able to bump into your things before before the
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Speaker 6: next chapter.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, thank you, Thank you.
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Speaker 6: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five wt a W. You
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Speaker 6: can text us or calls anytime at nine seven nine
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Speaker 6: six nine five, sixteen twent I am so so relate believed.
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Speaker 6: I'm so relieved by this story. Like, we get a
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Speaker 6: lot of flak here in the United States for being.
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Speaker 2: Stubborn. You know, occasionally it's not just us. Europe's just
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Speaker 2: as bad.
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Speaker 1: I would say that Europe is worse. Europe's just because
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Speaker 1: at least we're right.
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Speaker 6: This is the warning that was put out ahead of
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Speaker 6: the eclipse by Metro oh God.
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Speaker 2: You know that that I play it for you.
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Speaker 9: You wouldn't start at the sun on any other day,
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Speaker 9: and an eclipse is no different. Looking at it can
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Speaker 9: damage your retina, causing solar retinopathy, which can lead to
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Speaker 9: blurred vision, blind spots, and even permanent vision loss. I
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Speaker 9: know your normal sunglasses won't protect you, not even multiple pairs.
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Speaker 9: You need certified eclipse glasses that meet that IO one
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Speaker 9: two three one two two safety standard. So whatever you do,
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Speaker 9: don't just look up.
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Speaker 2: You remember everyone clowning us like the retinas. Well, I
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Speaker 2: don't think, I don't think per cab, but that we
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Speaker 2: burned near the amount of retinas that they have apparently
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Speaker 2: burned over there. They absolutely cooked themselves. Really, they cooked themselves.
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Speaker 6: They are going through an unprecedented surge, in fact, a
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Speaker 6: five thousand percent uptick in people trying to figure out
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Speaker 6: what to do about the fact that my eyes hurt
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Speaker 6: because I was staring at the eclipse.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well I started thinking about why. And there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of parts of Europe that not only was it.
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Speaker 1: You know, you rarely get an eclipse, you rarely see
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Speaker 1: the sun in general.
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Speaker 2: Well they have well right now in some parts of
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Speaker 2: the country or the continent.
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Speaker 6: There is midnight sun, right, It's like this is the
18:40
Speaker 6: time when when it never the sun doesn't or it
18:42
Speaker 6: only sets for a couple of hours. So maybe you
18:45
Speaker 6: that you should have more awareness than you should have
18:49
Speaker 6: more awareness.
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Speaker 2: And it's not like we're in the Stone ages.
18:52
Speaker 1: I mean, there's plenty of information out there about how
18:56
Speaker 1: you should and should not view an eclipse.
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Speaker 10: Absolutely, it was on the metro, his ad he was
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Speaker 10: on the subway when you were where you were going,
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Speaker 10: where you were going, like, hey, don't do this thing
19:07
Speaker 10: that just put on a little cardboard glasses like everyone else.
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Speaker 2: But no, no, no, no, uh yeah, they're so they
19:15
Speaker 2: really don't know what to do.
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Speaker 6: They're they're kind of like, okay, what were we supposed
19:19
Speaker 6: to you know, everyone's looking for eye appointments at the
19:21
Speaker 6: exact same time now because they solarly burned their eyes.
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Speaker 2: I'm just like I said, they're at.
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Speaker 1: Least it's socialized medicine, so they can get a poor
19:30
Speaker 1: quality of care along way.
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Speaker 6: Bail see you sometime in twenty twenty eight, friends, or.
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Speaker 2: They won't because they looked at the sun and they
19:37
Speaker 2: can't see either. You will see it any.
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Speaker 1: Good morning, and Happy Friday from the wta W Newsroom.
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Speaker 1: I'm will Welch. College Station Sydney Council met last night.
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Speaker 1: While on the topic of the twenty twenty seven budget,
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Speaker 1: Councilwoman Melissa mclaney discussed the urgency of tackling the new
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Speaker 1: public works facility before resources are drawn to terra fab.
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Speaker 5: Construction costs are going to go up because every concrete
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Speaker 5: truck in town is going to be redirected to Grimes
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Speaker 5: County and so Chandler, you and I when we're sitting
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Speaker 5: down budgeting out of house, things are going to cost
20:13
Speaker 5: are going to go up. Construction colls. So mine would
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Speaker 5: advocate that we get this public works for somebody going
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Speaker 5: as soon as possible.
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Speaker 1: And the next step in getting the budget approved is
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Speaker 1: a public hearing.
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Speaker 11: Move to hold a public hearing on the twenty twenty
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Speaker 11: seven City of College Station tax rate.
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Speaker 2: At fifty three point two five four.
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Speaker 11: On Thursday August twenty seventh, twenty twenty six, at six
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Speaker 11: pm in City Hall Council Chambers.
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Speaker 1: That was Mayor pro Tim william Wright and Mary Ellen Leonard,
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Speaker 1: director of Fiscal Services for the city. Council approved approximately
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Speaker 1: five point three million dollars in spending for items including
20:48
Speaker 1: a new columbarium at the Angie Field of Honor, improvements
20:52
Speaker 1: to the Northgate Patricia Street promenade, and software licensing. Twelve
20:56
Speaker 1: and a half acres at the corner of rob Prairie
20:58
Speaker 1: and Welburn Road in front of the barracks was rezoned
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Speaker 1: to multifamily. After old Welborne Road was demolished and medians
21:05
Speaker 1: were added along Rock Prairie, limited access to a potential
21:09
Speaker 1: commercial site was no longer practical. That location will become
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Speaker 1: student housing. Council also paved the way for a multi
21:16
Speaker 1: family complex and townhomes near College Station High School. Just
21:20
Speaker 1: over thirty five acres on Victoria at William D. Fitch
21:24
Speaker 1: Parkway was rezoned to multifamily and middle housing. The Madison
21:28
Speaker 1: County Sheriff's Office announced yesterday that a former Madison County
21:32
Speaker 1: deputy has been charged with possession of child pornography and
21:36
Speaker 1: sexual assault of a child. Jerry Wayne Rayes turned himself
21:39
Speaker 1: into the Berlison County Sheriff's Office in Caldwell Thursday morning.
21:44
Speaker 1: The twenty four year old was employed by the department
21:46
Speaker 1: from October twenty twenty four through July fourth, of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six. The investigation is being conducted by the Texas Rangers.
21:54
Speaker 1: Rayes was released after posting bond in the amount of
21:57
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand DOLLARSU took to Twitter x on Thursday's
22:02
Speaker 1: warm customers of a new scam. They say customers have
22:05
Speaker 1: reported receiving phone calls from a local number with a
22:08
Speaker 1: nine to seven nine area code. That person is impersonating
22:11
Speaker 1: be to you and demanding immediate payment or services will
22:15
Speaker 1: be terminated. B to you will never contact you in
22:18
Speaker 1: this way or threaten immediate disconnection. If you receive a
22:22
Speaker 1: similar call, hang up and report it. The inaugural year
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Speaker 1: for the state's school choice voucher program hits an historic milestone.
22:30
Speaker 1: That milestone being the one hundred thousand student mark. It
22:34
Speaker 1: jumped from eighty five thousand last week. Acting Texas Comptroller
22:38
Speaker 1: Don Huffines calls the education Savings account program a massive success.
22:43
Speaker 2: Shows how thursday and hungry Texans are to get out
22:47
Speaker 2: of the government school system to have the best education
22:51
Speaker 2: they can get.
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Speaker 1: Those fifteen thousand additional students now have four weeks to
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Speaker 1: find a private school from the state's approved list. Laura
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Speaker 1: Collin Jello is the executive director of the Private Schools Association.
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Speaker 11: A lot of schools have open enrollment throughout the year
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Speaker 11: for students that find a way.
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Speaker 2: There are still openings in private schools.
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Speaker 1: Students accepted into the program receive over ten thousand dollars
23:16
Speaker 1: to pay for private school tuition. Students with disabilities could
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Speaker 1: receive up to thirty thousand. Mexican cartels are shifting gears.
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Speaker 12: Drone technology is cheap and easy, and that's being exploited
23:29
Speaker 12: by the cartels. Texas lawmakers this week getting a wake
23:32
Speaker 12: up call from experts about their use here.
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Speaker 1: Cartels fly drones every day, surveilling law enforcement partners, smuggling
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Speaker 1: narcotics and contraband across the border and into prisons.
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Speaker 8: You to have.
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Speaker 12: Professor Michael McGee says that during the World Cup more
23:45
Speaker 12: than six hundred drones were spotted over stadiums. Most, he says,
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Speaker 12: are harmless, but it's impossible to pick out the ones
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Speaker 12: that are not. He told lawmakers that more FBI training
23:54
Speaker 12: is needed here in San Antonio. Michael Board TSN.
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Speaker 1: News California is turning to Texas for help with getting
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Speaker 1: fuel to their state. Investors have given the green light
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Speaker 1: for the Western Gateway pipeline that will send gasoline from
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Speaker 1: Texas to California. Experts say this is a huge deal
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Speaker 1: because Western states are running low on fuel.
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Speaker 3: A good portion of the refineries in that area are
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Speaker 3: being shut down.
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Speaker 1: Bruce Bullock at SMU's McGuire Energy Institute says, on top
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Speaker 1: of that, Middle Eastern oil is not currently an option.
24:27
Speaker 1: The nine hundred mile pipeline will send two hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty thousand barrels per day. He says it won't solve
24:33
Speaker 1: their problems, but it will help until they can develop
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Speaker 1: a strategy to survive. Traffic changes coming up this weekend
24:40
Speaker 1: at Texas Avenue and Deacon begetting Sunday, traffic exiting from
24:45
Speaker 1: Highway six onto Texas will not be able to make
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Speaker 1: the left turn onto Deacon. The southbound frontage of Highway
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Speaker 1: six will be able to proceed across Texas. Tex Dot
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Speaker 1: expects the detour to be in place through mid September.
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Speaker 1: Another traffic on Monday and Tuesday, Holloman will be closed
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Speaker 1: between Texas Avenue and Village Drive from seven thirty am
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Speaker 1: until five pm.
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Speaker 2: The only way to.
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Speaker 1: Access ChB and adjacent businesses will be from Texas Avenue.
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Speaker 1: I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTA.
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Speaker 6: W sixteen twenty ninety four to five WTAW Happy Friday,
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Speaker 6: and yeah, just give some thanks for your AC today,
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Speaker 6: to make.
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Speaker 2: A sacrifice that it lasts. Yeah, oh, do whatever you
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Speaker 2: need to do.
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Speaker 6: Hundreds today, Maybe showers afternoon, but very doubtful, and then
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25:57
Speaker 6: welcome Colin Killian back with this the collegetation.
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Speaker 7: Colin.
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Speaker 2: Colin, we have a question for you. What is the
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Speaker 2: city of College Station doing to lower the temperatures? Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Oh, we were praying day. That's about the best I
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Speaker 8: can do.
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Speaker 2: That's all we can ask. All right, who'd you bring
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Speaker 2: this week?
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Speaker 8: We're very happy to have our chief of staff Ross Brady.
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Speaker 2: Ross and this is our first time, it is my
26:19
Speaker 2: first I'd be the same. It's good to meet you.
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Speaker 7: It's nice to meet you.
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Speaker 6: So do we want to just jump right into the
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Speaker 6: city council stuffer or other things?
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Speaker 2: What do you want to get to first?
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Speaker 7: You tell me, I'll let you.
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Speaker 2: Oh oh, obviously, I guess.
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Speaker 6: We finally got our tax rate last night, which a
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Speaker 6: fifty point five three two five.
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Speaker 11: Four, yeah, which I should say, so we don't officially
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Speaker 11: have our tax rate. What council did last night was
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Speaker 11: they called a public hearing to discuss the tax rate
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Speaker 11: and then they will vote on that at the next
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Speaker 11: council meeting August twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, so that's the proposed tax rate, which they
26:52
Speaker 1: had to wait on the county to get the numbers
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Speaker 1: from them in order to set.
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Speaker 2: So that's what's been going on in.
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Speaker 7: The process to really get in the weeds with you.
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Speaker 11: What they did night was they called the highest rate
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Speaker 11: they could have the tax rates. So on the twenty seventh,
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Speaker 11: they can't go any higher than the rate they called
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Speaker 11: last night, but they could go lower.
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Speaker 7: But the budget has been designed with this tax rate
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Speaker 7: in mind.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so what does the budget look like?
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Speaker 11: Oh, I think y'all have heard and seen a lot
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Speaker 11: of that before. We have some great additions in the
27:21
Speaker 11: budget for public safety. The thing that most people have
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Speaker 11: been talking about with this budget is that it's it's
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Speaker 11: the largest one the city has seen.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 11: One thing to remember about that is that, you know,
27:36
Speaker 11: the budgets kind of increase and decrease each year. So
27:39
Speaker 11: one thing that wasn't talked about a lot last year,
27:42
Speaker 11: it was last year's budget was a decrease from the
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Speaker 11: year before. So when you look at the change from
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Speaker 11: the f y twenty five budget to this budget, the
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Speaker 11: f twenty seven budget, it is is not a significant
27:52
Speaker 11: increase than you would normally have and in kind of
27:54
Speaker 11: like year to year different.
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Speaker 1: So some of the things that were increased greatly within
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Speaker 1: this current budget had a lot to do with public
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Speaker 1: right and some stuff that in North Gate area to
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Speaker 1: put some some money into that. And then I saw
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Speaker 1: some numbers involving brush and debris, tree trimming and utility
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Speaker 1: power lines.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, sort of thing. Is that what it to walk
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Speaker 2: us through that?
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Speaker 11: What are we yeah, so to hit on the first
28:19
Speaker 11: couple of things you're talking out there. So that's all
28:21
Speaker 11: on the capital side of the budget. One thing that
28:24
Speaker 11: we have seen over the last couple of years is
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Speaker 11: that council has been considering a lot of really big
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Speaker 11: projects and has been wigh like what's the best thing
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Speaker 11: for the city to do with its money. And those
28:35
Speaker 11: are everything from a public works facility to a rec
28:37
Speaker 11: center to a convention center, so just trying to figure
28:41
Speaker 11: out what.
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Speaker 7: Is the best thing to do with the limited resources
28:43
Speaker 7: we have.
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Speaker 11: And so we spent a lot of time with the
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Speaker 11: City council this winter going through some special meetings where
28:49
Speaker 11: they looked at each one of those projects. And this
28:52
Speaker 11: is a very similar thing to what we did about
28:54
Speaker 11: five years ago when the city was going to go
28:56
Speaker 11: out to the public for a bond in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 11: At that point, we created a Citizens Bond Advisory Committee
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Speaker 11: that did the same process.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 11: We presented a lot of projects to them, more than
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Speaker 11: we would have been able to afford to do in
29:07
Speaker 11: any any period of time, and let them kind of
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Speaker 11: weigh and consider which were the right ones for to do.
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Speaker 11: So the City Council went through that same exercise as winter.
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Speaker 11: They came out with a list which is what the
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Speaker 11: capital budget has been based on.
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Speaker 2: In this budget, Okay, what is a columbarium?
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Speaker 4: Why?
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Speaker 11: It is the niche that is usually seen in the wall,
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Speaker 11: but it's where the ashes of somebody who's been cated.
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Speaker 1: So that's uh, you know where you have a mausoleum,
29:33
Speaker 1: I guess is like the bodies and then the columbarrium
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Speaker 1: is different than that, just the.
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Speaker 2: The the Yeah did you put the ashes in? And
29:42
Speaker 2: then just kind of like you think about it, you
29:44
Speaker 2: think about it as housing density for cemetery. Oh god,
29:48
Speaker 2: I didn't think we were here. Yeah, that's that's exactly
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Speaker 2: what it is.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, any other any other things that that you
29:56
Speaker 6: think either people need to understand more about or maybe
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Speaker 6: or not getting the attention they need in relation to
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Speaker 6: this budget.
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Speaker 7: So in relation to this budget, No, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I don't have any other things that otherwise didn't know.
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Speaker 11: But one thing I would like to talk about that
30:14
Speaker 11: we talked about the council meeting last night was the
30:16
Speaker 11: city's legislative Engagement Plan. So what council did last night
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Speaker 11: was approve a document which is authorizing staff to engage
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Speaker 11: with elected officials at the state level and with other
30:29
Speaker 11: citizens and people around here on items related to state legislation.
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Speaker 11: We do this for a couple of reasons. So first,
30:37
Speaker 11: because we are a council manager form of government, how
30:39
Speaker 11: you guys know, and so staff does not create policy
30:42
Speaker 11: on their own. We take direction from the council, So
30:46
Speaker 11: we need counsel to kind of like approve these guidelines.
30:49
Speaker 11: But of course the legislature moves very quickly once the
30:52
Speaker 11: session begins, and so it needs to be kind of
30:54
Speaker 11: this broad thing that like generally counsel says we do
30:57
Speaker 11: support this, we are opposed to that right, so that
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Speaker 11: author's stuff to do that. The other reason we do
31:01
Speaker 11: this is for transparency and to make sure that the
31:04
Speaker 11: citizens know what we are interested in and what we
31:07
Speaker 11: are going to be advocating for throughout the year. And
31:09
Speaker 11: why we took this to council earlier than we normally
31:11
Speaker 11: do is that we want to spend a lot of
31:13
Speaker 11: time over these next couple of months leading into the
31:15
Speaker 11: session engaging with our citizens, meeting with different groups and
31:19
Speaker 11: kind of you know, explaining the issues the city thinks
31:22
Speaker 11: that we will be facing over the coming session.
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Speaker 2: That's absolutely wonderful, Yeah, take advantage of that.
31:26
Speaker 6: Sure.
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Speaker 2: Also a big shout out on combining the combining the
31:32
Speaker 2: single school zone thing on on site. Did you see this?
31:36
Speaker 2: I did not.
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Speaker 6: Cypress Grove Intermediate School in Cypress Career or Creekview Elementary
31:40
Speaker 6: have been combined into a single school zone, so.
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Speaker 1: You don't have that slow down to twenty, speed up
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Speaker 1: to forty five, slow down to twenty.
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Speaker 2: I have seen this and it drives me nuts. Why
31:51
Speaker 2: are you speeding up? You know the other ones coming,
31:54
Speaker 2: you know it's coming. It's one of those common sense things.
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Speaker 2: Just anyway, Sorry, that's that track. Thank you so much, man.
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Speaker 2: Anything else we need you to get to today.
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Speaker 7: Yeah.
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Speaker 11: So one other thing that I am excited about is
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Speaker 11: the city of College Station the City of Brian have
32:09
Speaker 11: had a shared library system for many years. Absolutely, it's
32:12
Speaker 11: a great example of the two cities working together. On
32:15
Speaker 11: Tuesday this week of next week, we will have a
32:18
Speaker 11: ribbon cutting for library book drops. There are going to
32:20
Speaker 11: be three locations of those throughout College Station, Soesard places
32:24
Speaker 11: where a post office mailbox where you can just drive
32:28
Speaker 11: through drop off a book. You don't have to go
32:29
Speaker 11: back to the physical library to drop it off. And
32:32
Speaker 11: so we're doing a ribbon cutting for that. Tower Point HGV,
32:35
Speaker 11: which is another great example of a partnership where a
32:37
Speaker 11: private company has agreed to partner of the city so
32:39
Speaker 11: that we can host.
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Speaker 7: This this book drop there.
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Speaker 11: So that's at eleven thirty on Tuesday, and hope so
32:44
Speaker 11: many people will come out for that is excellent.
32:46
Speaker 2: Yeah, man, that's a great thing. Colin. What else we got?
32:49
Speaker 8: Okay, I got a text for rating me why from
32:51
Speaker 8: my boss Brian Wood.
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Speaker 2: What happened?
32:54
Speaker 8: He said, praying wen't enough on the hotway.
32:57
Speaker 13: You guys, we have been doing the Julian College Station
33:01
Speaker 13: program for several years and as part of that we
33:03
Speaker 13: hand out and plant thousands of trees.
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Speaker 2: That's true.
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Speaker 8: That helped pool the community. So I've had my tongue
33:10
Speaker 8: lashing for the time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was not just but that's good. Yeah,
33:14
Speaker 2: now help people know.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we are all working as hard as getting Specially
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Speaker 6: I didn't plant in trees.
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Speaker 2: I college stations that are trying to help us out.
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Speaker 2: I asked a silly question and get a serious answer.
33:24
Speaker 2: That's a beautiful thing. That's a great thing.
33:26
Speaker 8: Well I gave you a silly answer.
33:31
Speaker 13: Well, with all the hot weather, speaking of that, that
33:33
Speaker 13: means our water system has been working extremely hard. We've
33:36
Speaker 13: been pumping over twenty million gallons of water every single
33:39
Speaker 13: day since late July. In June, by comparison, when it
33:43
Speaker 13: was raining a lot more, we fluctuated between eleven and
33:46
Speaker 13: fourteen million gallons a day. So our hard working water
33:48
Speaker 13: services folks are encouraging everyone to limit their lawn water
33:52
Speaker 13: into no more than two days a week.
33:54
Speaker 8: That's that's voluntary, not mandatory.
33:56
Speaker 2: Yeah, but a courteous thing.
33:58
Speaker 13: But what that'll do pumping less water, that allows our
34:00
Speaker 13: water tires to refill overnight, and that ensures that everyone
34:03
Speaker 13: has sufficient water pressure.
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm, there you go. That's right. Don't go crazy. No,
34:07
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't water my grass because if I did,
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Speaker 2: I'd have to mow it. Right, that's exactly. I mean.
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Speaker 6: I was coming out of San Antonio, where they would die.
34:14
Speaker 6: I don't even want to know what they wouldn't do.
34:16
Speaker 6: I'd ever tested them.
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Speaker 2: We just don't water, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well we don't want to get into the situation where
34:22
Speaker 1: we've got the water restriction, so just you know, go life.
34:25
Speaker 2: Be really easy.
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Speaker 2: When you were kids to do baseball cards or basketball cars,
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Speaker 2: I did not.
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Speaker 1: I wasn't much of a card collector. With the sports stuff,
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Speaker 1: I had a few. What we used to buy was
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Speaker 1: what were they called the garbage pail garbage pail kids kids?
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Speaker 1: I remember, yeah, yeah, absolutely. I used to sneak before
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Speaker 1: school at South Knowle. I used to sneak under the
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Speaker 1: fence by the drainage ditch.
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Speaker 2: Run down the road, round upon. As I run down
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Speaker 1: Grab my my garbage pail kids cards from the convenience
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Speaker 1: store on the corner, and then run back. I'm sure,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I was talked into it by nefarious people
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Speaker 1: who were just trying.
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Speaker 2: To get me in trouble.
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Speaker 6: So that was your Pokemon, basically, I guess, but I
35:39
Speaker 6: didn't get that into not the same. No, it has
35:43
Speaker 6: turned into this insanity that I can't like.
35:46
Speaker 1: Everyone is just I see auctions for cards that go
35:50
Speaker 1: for millions, and I just don't understand a Riley generation thing.
35:54
Speaker 2: I've never card collected in my life, and I don't.
35:57
Speaker 2: I mean, I've had friends that do it, but I
35:58
Speaker 2: didn't see it till like I was in high school.
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Speaker 4: I didn't really see many kids do it.
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Speaker 2: But I got to college it became a thing, big deal, big, big,
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Speaker 2: big money in it. Well there, So this is I was.
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Speaker 6: I was reading the story and then I clicked the
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Speaker 6: link and the picture in it right here. As basically,
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Speaker 6: we all know the Nintendo Entertainment System, the original Nintendo.
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Speaker 2: What game came in it? I don't recall you.
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Speaker 6: I a it was two games and one cartridge, that's right, right, Well,
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Speaker 6: a box full of games brought into a Wisconsin store
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Speaker 6: contained almost one hundred unused copies of an unknown variant
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Speaker 6: of the Super Mario Brothers Duck Hunt Combo for the
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Speaker 6: original Nintendo one hundred cards.
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Speaker 14: These were printed about two years after the last known
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Speaker 14: printing of these games, so no one really understands fully
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Speaker 14: why Nintendo made a box of one hundred of these.
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Speaker 14: Backsticker on the cartridge is different, the screws are different,
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Speaker 14: the manual is different, even the motherboard for the game
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Speaker 14: is different. So this is one of the most documented
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Speaker 14: games in the history of video game preservation, and nobody
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Speaker 14: has ever seen these specific carts before.
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Speaker 2: That sounds like gibberish to you. It does, and it
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Speaker 2: does to me as well.
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Speaker 6: Just think very expensive, so every little change that's like
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Speaker 6: that makes the price go up. And also the only
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Speaker 6: perfect versions of this game that exist, the only ten rated,
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Speaker 6: which whatever that means some of you guys know, uh yeah,
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Speaker 6: they're they're basically pristine, untouched variant versions of Mario and Duckhount,
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Speaker 6: and no one even has any idea how expensive they
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Speaker 6: will be in auctions.
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Speaker 1: So Nintendo created a hundred of these and just lost
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Speaker 1: them a little stuck them away some point.
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Speaker 6: Disorted, they said they sent them somewhere because they're like, hey,
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Speaker 6: we're not going to use these for whatever reason. Maybe
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Speaker 6: you could just you know, get the gold out of
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Speaker 6: the chips for us and you know, use it for
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Speaker 6: something else. And I guess someone just forgot and so
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Speaker 6: in the box is sitting in a box for.
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Speaker 2: Like, I don't know yours. I think they did it
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Speaker 2: on purpose and they just snag them. Just keep a
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Speaker 2: hold of these, I think put it. I mean, why
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Speaker 2: do you create just one hundred of these?
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Speaker 7: No idea?
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Speaker 2: It's so weird. I think they did that. I think
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Speaker 2: they did it on purpose. It's kind of like an
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Speaker 2: easter egg. But how would you know they were gonna
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Speaker 2: be worth that much money? Like, it's kind of po
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Speaker 2: I don't think anyone thought Pokemon were going to be
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Speaker 2: like what they are today. I think they was like,
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Speaker 2: they were just gonna a couple of cool Well, you
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Speaker 2: knew Nintendo was huge.
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Speaker 8: You knew that.
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Speaker 2: By this point in time, you had had years to
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Speaker 2: think about.
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Speaker 1: Right, So you create these things, you just set them aside,
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Speaker 1: let's forget about them. Yeah, just we never know what
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Speaker 1: what might Unlike a baseball card, when you make somebody's
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Speaker 1: you know, image out there, you don't know if they're
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Speaker 1: going to turn out or not for their rookie card.
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Speaker 2: With this, you didn't have a rookie people pay the
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Speaker 2: cards that they put them in the whole plastinated. It's crazy. Hey,
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Speaker 2: you gotta give me thirty thousand for this rookie card.
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Speaker 2: So if you get, if you get one of these
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Speaker 2: hundred games, oh you're gonna be ready, break it out
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Speaker 2: of the plastic and play it. If you're if you're
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Speaker 2: a real one, you do. Yeah, that's the old that's
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Speaker 2: the ultimate flex.
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Speaker 6: Get one of those games, open it, blow in the
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Speaker 6: cards you got because you know you ain't gonna work
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Speaker 6: in a Nintendo other than that, and then then pop
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Speaker 6: that sucker in and have the play of your life.
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Speaker 2: The play of your life. I don't even I remember
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Speaker 2: Duck Hunt. I was not a giant Mario. No really,
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Speaker 2: Duck Hunt, Frogger, the space games I went through.
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Speaker 6: I went through so many. I went through several of
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Speaker 6: those cartridges. I played those things until they were dust.
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Speaker 4: Now I was.
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Speaker 2: I was an old Atari twenty six hundred Pong Frogger.
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Speaker 2: You know that's what I had packed. Man, that was it. Kids,
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Speaker 2: Google it.
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Speaker 6: You would be amazed at what we had to deal
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Speaker 6: with back in the day. That was the best we
39:36
Speaker 6: could do. Yeah, there wasn't a Fortnite, No, no,