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The Infomaniacs: October 2nd 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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  Speaker 1: morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. Two people
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  Speaker 1: are dead after a cross-country murder-suicide. The Brazos County Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: Office responded to a welfare check in the 6400 block
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  Speaker 1: of Trace Bend shortly after 9 o'clock Wednesday night. They
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  Speaker 1: found 59-year-old Veronica Tussey Taylor dead of a gunshot wound.
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  Speaker 1: Her car was traced to northern Harris County. The suspect,
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  Speaker 1: 54-year-old John Goodwin of College Station, took his own life
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  Speaker 1: before authorities could enter the property. Investigators say the victim
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  Speaker 1: and suspect knew each other, but they have not specified
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  Speaker 1: the nature of their relationship. Law enforcement in Austin have
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  Speaker 1: stopped what is described as a violent plot to attack
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  Speaker 1: the state capitol. Fox's Jonathan Hunt has the latest.
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  Speaker 2: According to Texas law enforcement officials, the attack was supposed
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  Speaker 2: to happen today, but was stopped thanks to the joint
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  Speaker 2: work of agents with the Texas Department of Public Safety
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  Speaker 2: and the FBI. Culminating with the arrest early Wednesday morning
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  Speaker 2: of 40-year-old Benny Caldera at a home near San Antonio,
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  Speaker 2: officials say they got a tip Tuesday evening that gave them, quote,
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  Speaker 2: credible information about an individual planning a violent attack on
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  Speaker 2: the Texas capital in Austin. The arrest warrant affidavit alleges
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  Speaker 2: Caldera told a friend, quote, I am going to the
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  Speaker 2: capital and I am going to shoot it up, and
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  Speaker 2: that Caldera was angry at the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, saying, quote,
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  Speaker 2: These people have to be exterminated.
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  Speaker 1: Governor Abbott praised law enforcement efforts. 40-year-old Benny Caldera Jr.
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  Speaker 1: is in federal custody. Two notes about today's Texas A
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  Speaker 1: & M Sesquicentennial festivities. The opening ceremony will now take
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  Speaker 1: place at Rudder Auditorium. Welburn Road behind Kyle Field will
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  Speaker 1: be closed starting at 9 p.m. to set up for
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  Speaker 1: the drone show. As of now, the 9 p.m. yell
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  Speaker 1: practice and drone show is still on. Also, on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: Senators Cornyn and Cruz... championed a resolution honoring Texas A
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  Speaker 1: & M. October 4th marks 150 years of service by
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  Speaker 1: Texas A & M University. It sounds like a joke,
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  Speaker 1: but there's talk of Texas annexing parts of New Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: And lawmakers are serious. West Texas Representative Brooks Landgraf says
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  Speaker 1: it was actually their politicians who brought up the idea.
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  Speaker 1: Those in eastern New Mexico feel like the state treats
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  Speaker 1: them like a piggy bank. because of their oil and
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  Speaker 1: gas reserves.
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  Speaker 3: It's a region where it's exploited for its natural resources,
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  Speaker 3: and then the money is taken and spent elsewhere.
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  Speaker 1: The state AG's office says annexation would require approval from
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  Speaker 1: both state legislatures and Congress. News is presented by David's
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  Speaker 1: at WTAW.com. I'm Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
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  Speaker 3: Tom Turbeville here.
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  Speaker 3: 16-20, 94-5, WTAW. It's Friday. Let's talk some ball. Some
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  Speaker 3: SEC ball. College football. Louie Bellina back in the building.
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  Speaker 3: What's up, man? How you doing?
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  Speaker 5: I'll talk any ball as long as it's not A
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  Speaker 5: & M ball.
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  Speaker 3: You want to talk baseball?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 7: I'm an Astros-Cubs fan, and they both got destroyed in
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  Speaker 7: two games out of the playoffs.
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  Speaker 8: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, look, the one thing that jumped out at me,
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we've talked about Mattress Mac yet. Mac
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  Speaker 3: decided to lay half a million on Kalshi because I
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  Speaker 3: guess he gets to be, you know, could have won
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  Speaker 3: $ 13 million or.
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  Speaker 1: Blah, blah, blah. He likes to do that.
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  Speaker 5: Every time.
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  Speaker 3: He's still pretending that this is balanced out by furniture sales.
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  Speaker 3: I don't buy it. I think he's just that big
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  Speaker 3: of a degenerate. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, dude, you're bad-mouthing Matt Schertz-Mack.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not bad-mouthing. Matt Schertz-Mack is an icon and a
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  Speaker 3: hero in the state of Texas and.
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  Speaker 5: A compulsive gambler. It's money laundering.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's no way. Kalshi, it's funny because Kalshi, this
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  Speaker 3: is the first time he's done one of the megabets
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  Speaker 3: with that. And it just, and it seems to me
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  Speaker 3: that this needs to be addressed that, Hey, can we
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  Speaker 3: just admit this is sports betting now? And if you
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  Speaker 3: can legalize sports betting in the state. It's futures, Wade.
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  Speaker 9: It's not betting. Come on now.
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  Speaker 5: You haven't heard the disclaimers?
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  Speaker 3: And Mattress Mac definitely would not try to save some
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  Speaker 3: money on his tax obligation for him. It didn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: He got $ 500, 000. He bet half a million dollars against
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  Speaker 3: a team the Pope was backing. How did you think
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  Speaker 3: that was going.
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  Speaker 1: To play out, homie?
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  Speaker 5: Never go against the Pope. Never, ever go against the Pope.
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  Speaker 5: I learned the hard way.
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  Speaker 3: Last week, I picked up the win 6-4-4, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a pretty brutal week.
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  Speaker 3: It was not a good week. Again, it's not like
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  Speaker 3: we were particularly good at this, so let's be honest.
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  Speaker 9: No, we're not.
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  Speaker 5: We're not. Our picks speak for themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Did that put you in the outright lead there, Tucker?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it does. I am free and clear in the
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  Speaker 3: lead of the Pick'Em contest, but a new week means
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  Speaker 3: hope springs anew.
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  Speaker 5: A new month.
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  Speaker 3: Texas A & M. Then you're hopeless. We're hoping the
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  Speaker 3: end of the season comes sooner and later. Come on, man.
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  Speaker 1: Turn it around.
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  Speaker 5: Win the rest of your.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: I'm hoping for a Bull Durham style right now.
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  Speaker 3: Give me your give me your best pitch as to
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  Speaker 3: why we shouldn't just go on to fall activities on
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  Speaker 3: Saturday after watching the last two weeks.
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  Speaker 7: Because of the first, okay, this is not what I believe.
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  Speaker 7: You said give you the best pitch, right?
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  Speaker 1: Sell us on it, Lou.
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  Speaker 7: If you look at the first two years, Coach Elko
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  Speaker 7: and his staff defied what should have happened. In year
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  Speaker 7: number one, what Adam Cushing did with the offensive line
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  Speaker 7: was God's work. In the first two years, Coach Elko
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  Speaker 7: hit perfectly in the portal. Nothing's worked out this year.
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  Speaker 7: Every single decision made in the offseason was wrong. And
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  Speaker 7: it shows on the field. It doesn't mean, That he
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  Speaker 7: won't find the answers. The key is, each week.
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  Speaker 5: It needed to be for Kentucky. Hasn't worked. It needed
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  Speaker 5: to be for LSU.
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  Speaker 9: Right.
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  Speaker 7: The key to this is, when are they going to
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  Speaker 7: figure it out? And they is not the players. They
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  Speaker 7: is the coaching staff. Because obviously what's wrong is everything.
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  Speaker 7: How can everything be wrong? It's the coaching decisions that
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  Speaker 7: were made. Well, you saw like against LSU. They completely
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  Speaker 7: reshuffled the line. Because they realized there were problems.
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  Speaker 5: When the coaches figure it out, the team will magically
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  Speaker 5: look better.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: Well, as each week goes by, obviously the win total
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  Speaker 7: gets lower and lower.
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  Speaker 5: So the reason to.
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  Speaker 7: Be optimistic is this coaching staff did in the first
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  Speaker 7: two seasons figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: So there is– and again– But hope for what?
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  Speaker 5: That's the question I've had to ask this week. Hope
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  Speaker 5: for the CFP? That's kind of done.
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  Speaker 1: I want a salvageable season.
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  Speaker 3: Hope for respect, somewhat respectability in terms of 8-4 would
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  Speaker 3: be a dream to me at this point.
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  Speaker 7: That gives you two losses left to give with Texas, Tennessee, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: If we're 8-4 and beat Texas, I'm cool.
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  Speaker 5: That ended up being what's the best case scenario of
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  Speaker 5: the season, right?
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  Speaker 7: It would be actually 8 and every Aggie Football fan cringes.
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  Speaker 7: Eight is the mediocre number. But the beat Texas part.
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  Speaker 3: That would be a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: From where you are now, to hit eight wins, but, but,
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  Speaker 5: and beat Texas. What has Elko not done yet?
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  Speaker 3: Not beat Texas.
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  Speaker 5: What has not happened since the SEC Texas joint?
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  Speaker 3: I think everyone would have a very relaxed offseason.
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  Speaker 5: It would be.
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  Speaker 7: You could go into the offseason going, this coaching staff
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  Speaker 7: figured it out.
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  Speaker 5: They corrected things. And they beat Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, you're optimistic. Your glass is half full. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to do cartwheels with ever clear, but.
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  Speaker 5: Texas, right? It's something to salvage.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get, I don't know if it's going
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  Speaker 3: to happen. Vanderbilt, Georgia, Georgia lane, 24 and a half points.
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  Speaker 3: That spread scares will to death. It does.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go look. Vandy is covered, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I look for them to lose this game, but
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  Speaker 1: cover the 24.
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  Speaker 10: And a half.
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  Speaker 5: Give me Georgia. I think the number one team in
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  Speaker 5: all the college football, the dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 3: LSU only laying 16 points to Chex Notes McNeese State.
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  Speaker 5: They're wounded. LSU is all dinged up.
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  Speaker 3: They lost so many guys.
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  Speaker 7: Sam Leavitt might play a quarter if at all because
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  Speaker 7: he's still walking on one leg.
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  Speaker 3: He's got one leg. Whit Weeks is out again. He's
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  Speaker 3: on one leg.
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  Speaker 5: He's out for many, many, many games.
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  Speaker 1: I got two words for you. McNeese State.
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  Speaker 5: I thought you were going to go DX.
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  Speaker 11: No.
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't look LSU is wounded. They are certainly
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  Speaker 1: still with the third string, 16 points better than McNeese.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with the tiger tigers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go tigers as well.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: All three Alabama, Mississippi state. And one of the, the
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  Speaker 3: big surprise categories, man, I, the Mississippi state, it continues
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  Speaker 3: to amaze.
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  Speaker 1: If this spread of six, you know, If it was
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  Speaker 1: just slightly bigger, I would take Mississippi State, who I
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  Speaker 1: think is a juggernaut this year. I think they have
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  Speaker 1: improved significantly.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't say juggernaut.
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  Speaker 5: Juggernaut. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Part two.
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  Speaker 5: They're an eight and four team. That's going to face
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  Speaker 5: their destiny. Starting with Alabama. They're going to lose their
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  Speaker 5: next three games. Have you looked at their schedule? Yes.
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  Speaker 1: I have looked at this.
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  Speaker 3: Still going to be an eight.
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  Speaker 5: And 14, which considering Levy start to his career.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Where he hasn't had a winning season yet. Eight and
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  Speaker 5: four is throw a parade and start. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be ringing the cowbell team.
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  Speaker 5: They're a good team. They're not special.
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  Speaker 12: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: But they're special for Mississippi state.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, tallest midget.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So I'm going to go. With Bama, Lou.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going Bama, too. Roll Tide. hype just kind of
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  Speaker 5: kills me a bit. Well, let's go back to this.
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  Speaker 1: I want to root for somebody maroon with hope, okay?
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to the other surprise team, and that is
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  Speaker 3: my god, Florida. I don't even know what to say
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  Speaker 3: about it. I mean, Florida looks natty-worthy. Don't know how
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  Speaker 3: that happened.
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  Speaker 5: Most improved team in America by my oddball definition.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think so too. That Ole Miss game,
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  Speaker 3: that was crazy to watch.
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  Speaker 1: For the rest of the season, minus certain circumstances, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to bet against Florida.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're only laying five points to Mizzou.
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  Speaker 1: They will take that. Florida, Gators.
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  Speaker 7: If we were doing a confidence pick, Peter, that would
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  Speaker 7: be my number one.
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  Speaker 3: Three times that spread, and I'd take Florida right now.
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina, three and a half point favorites over the
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  Speaker 3: Kentucky Wildcats.
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  Speaker 5: Kentucky.
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  Speaker 1: It's a home game, home game for South Carolina. And
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  Speaker 1: the spread indicated at three and a half means that
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  Speaker 1: essentially it's a wash. I went back and forth on
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  Speaker 1: this one. I think Carolina is due. So I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go with Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: I'm also going South Kakalaki. Just, I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: I'm feeling about it.
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  Speaker 5: They just suspended their star at the end.
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  Speaker 13: I know.
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  Speaker 5: Because he swung at the Alabama. He's suspended by the
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  Speaker 5: league office.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: After he got suspended by his own coach.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's fire under, I think they'll have fire
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  Speaker 3: under him.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah. So nobody circles the wagons like Shane Beamer?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, fair.
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  Speaker 3: I just, I don't, I, I'm not, I can't, I
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  Speaker 3: can't do Kentucky this week.
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  Speaker 5: I'm taking Will Stein over Shane Beamer. That's not even
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  Speaker 5: a fair contest.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee-Auburn. Auburn, seven-point favorites after almost knocking off Texas, which honestly.
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  Speaker 5: No, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee. I thought you said Auburn, seven-point favorites. Did I? No, Tennessee,
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  Speaker 3: seven-point favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee, seven-point favorites. Any thoughts?
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  Speaker 3: Tennessee?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with the big orange, Tennessee, on that one.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how great they are, but I think
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  Speaker 1: they're seven points better.
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  Speaker 3: That was my question, and you would be able to
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  Speaker 3: answer this, Lou. Was Tennessee that good, or was Texas
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  Speaker 3: that crappy?
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  Speaker 5: Texas is not the number one team in the country. Fair.
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  Speaker 5: They're very talented.
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  Speaker 14: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Arch.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, I think the problem is Sark. I don't think
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  Speaker 7: Sark's that good of an offensive coordinator. His last three years,
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  Speaker 7: his offensive coordinator grade has went down, down, down each year.
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  Speaker 7: And he has all these weapons and toys, and I
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  Speaker 7: just don't think he's necessarily that great at using them,
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  Speaker 7: to be fair with you.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: The run game... They went and got two-star running backs.
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  Speaker 5: They have Cam Coleman.
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  Speaker 7: They have this incredible potential passing game, and their running
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  Speaker 7: game can't improve.
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  Speaker 5: And that doesn't make sense. Again, I go back to
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  Speaker 5: coaching problems. Little things don't add up necessarily.
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  Speaker 7: So they're good. They're a college football playoff team. I mean,
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  Speaker 7: let's balance it out. They're just not the number one team.
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  Speaker 7: So is Tennessee that good? They're actually always defensive better
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  Speaker 7: than people know because you look at Heupel and his
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  Speaker 7: offensive credentials. So you always forget to look at their Ds.
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  Speaker 5: So their Ds are a little better than most people know.
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  Speaker 5: Tennessee's a... Very good team.
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  Speaker 7: But we always think everything's the best or the worst.
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  Speaker 5: So when you say good and very good, no one
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  Speaker 5: ever sees that. So Tennessee's a good team. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 5: a good team.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if they're an 11-win team. They're good.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Rocky Top on this one.
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  Speaker 9: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: Rocky Top.
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  Speaker 3: All right, going to Tennessee for Lou.
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  Speaker 9: Will?
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  Speaker 5: I think Auburn plays them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Tennessee.
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  Speaker 3: Finally, let's just get down to it. Arkansas and A
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  Speaker 3: & M. A & M, 14-point favorites at home against
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  Speaker 3: the Hogs. That's really a scary spread, man. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I'm having– I'll let you guys go first. What do
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  Speaker 3: we think?
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  Speaker 1: Scary spread. Scary game. You look at this game historically.
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  Speaker 1: Arkansas has always played above their usual level against us
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  Speaker 1: and given us a game that in many years we
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't have had against them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not certain. Things aren't fixed yet. They're not going
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  Speaker 1: to magically change for the Ags in one week. Arkansas,
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  Speaker 1: I hate to pick them, but I'm picking them because
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  Speaker 1: they're I'm not certain that A & M can score
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  Speaker 1: 14 points, much less cover a spread of 14.
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  Speaker 5: This is the battle for the soul for last place
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  Speaker 5: in the SEC.
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  Speaker 3: This is a horrible position to be in as an
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  Speaker 3: Aggie football fan, having to debate whether or not we
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  Speaker 3: can beat I mean, is this the worst Arkansas team
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  Speaker 3: in the last five years?
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  Speaker 12: Oh, no.
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  Speaker 5: They've had teams that are equally bad.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're a little better than they were at
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  Speaker 1: the start of the year.
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  Speaker 5: The loser of this is the worst team in the SEC. Absolutely, yes.
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  Speaker 3: Hands down.
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  Speaker 7: I think you get a defensive touchdown. You get a
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  Speaker 7: punt return for a touchdown. That's your 14 points, Will.
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  Speaker 5: You're fixating on the wrong things. You're thinking about offensive scoring.
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: That's new football. A & M' s old school football. Will
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  Speaker 5: that happen, though? I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm just saying there's other ways to score a touchdown.
• 14:32
  Speaker 7: I mean, Will's just looking at one side of the ball.
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  Speaker 5: Every coach I've ever known said there's three phases of
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: the game. Will's focused on one.
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: No, look, I think that's one of our problems this
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: year is because we scored some defensive touchdowns. And there's more.
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: To come because it's Arkansas.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 15: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm taking the.
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  Speaker 5: Aggies easy cover.
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  Speaker 15: Oh.
• 14:48
  Speaker 16: Easy cover.
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: Three-phase game. All right. You know what?
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: Stepping out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to go Aggs. I'm going to go Aggs
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: because I can't bear the thought of, losing to Arkansas
• 14:59
  Speaker 3: or not being able to beat them by two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: Because if that happens. If that happens, we don't need
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  Speaker 5: It's a maroon and white world you don't want to
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  Speaker 3: David reminds us that with all of the SEC competition
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: being what it is, lots of good teams will have
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  Speaker 3: two losses. Lots of good teams will have two losses,
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  Speaker 3: so we don't need to be as desperate Gloom and doom.
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  Speaker 1: But we're not going to be one of those.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just going to play Salami again. Salami the ag.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: We talked about this earlier in the week. I'm going
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: to play his take again.
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  Speaker 5: Man, we only lost two games, bro.
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  Speaker 23: That basically means 10-2 still.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: That means if we go undefeated.
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  Speaker 23: We still have a chance for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Out of death valley.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not certain what they slipped him at the tailgates.
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  Speaker 9: Can really still win Heisman.
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  Speaker 3: He's double downed on this.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: He's obviously hallucinating.
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  Speaker 23: And then win the championship. And then after all that,
• 21:29
  Speaker 23: You know what I'm saying? We still got potential. Like,
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  Speaker 23: two games does not define us. Two games does not
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  Speaker 23: define us, bro.
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  Speaker 15: Right.
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  Speaker 23: Just wait till next week when we play Arkansas, bro.
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  Speaker 23: We're going to show them who the top of the
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  Speaker 23: SEC is for real.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to lie.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: You're right, Salami. Two games does not define us. Unfortunately,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: even our two victories. Yeah. says the same thing in
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the definition as our two losses. They weren't good.
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: Absolutely fair.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: If A & M ends up 10-2, you're going to
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: be hearing that clip a lot from me.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, send it. I'll take every piece of abuse that
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: you can possibly give me if A & M goes 10-2.
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  Speaker 3: I will own that L, and he's going to look
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  Speaker 3: people just to, hey, we tried to tell him.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: But it's Louis.
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  Speaker 11: You know.
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: It's loop weather today. We're looking at a rainy day, 70,
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: 80 percent chance of rain today. And then we're looking
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: at a high in the mid 80s of most of
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: the rain.
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  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: What are we seeing on radar? I know there was
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: I was saying this after.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Same old, same old as I was talking about this morning.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: For the most part, we do have some small drizzlets
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: that are moving into the eastern part of the county
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: right now. So that is underway. However, the main event,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: as we called it yesterday, line of thundershowers lined up
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  Speaker 1: just west of I-35, but they are not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, no.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: They are really just sitting there. And it's not a giant,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: huge wide band that runs north-south, but it's not going anywhere.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: Oh, that's not good.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: So hopefully something will come and push that through.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Give it a little bit of a nudge.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: By the way, it looks like if you're trying to
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: to ballpark this, it looks like we get a break tonight.
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: Like once it gets later on where they're not really
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: calling for it. So maybe a midnight slash 9 PM yell.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Maybe, maybe so they haven't called it yet.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: Uh, 80% chance with most of that 80% chance on
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Saturday happening in the afternoon and evening. So Arkansas game
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: less so, but you know.
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  Speaker 24: The Labor Department reports that initial claims for state unemployment
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  Speaker 17: The crinkling of a candy wrapper.
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  Speaker 18: The magic of a day most sweet.
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  Speaker 16: It can only mean one thing.
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  Speaker 17: The time draws near for Trick-or-Treat Street in Downtown.
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  Speaker 16: Yes, join Brian Broadcasting and Destination Brian Sunday, October 25th
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  Speaker 16: from 3 to 6 p.m.
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  Speaker 18: When the streets of Downtown Brian transform into a land
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  Speaker 16: Show off your marvelous disguises in the Gothdom contest, underwritten
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  Speaker 18: Cast your frightful delight at the Smile Station photo booth,
• 28:30
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• 28:32
  Speaker 17: Do your monster mash! The kids' dance floor powered by PowerSport!
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  Speaker 16: And of course, trick-or-treat along Main Street thanks in part
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  Speaker 22: She was 14 years old for sale in a motel
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  Speaker 22: 40 years for the trafficker, 20 years for the woman
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  Speaker 22: Ken Paxton walks their traffickers directly to prison.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning from the WTAW newsroom. I'm Will Welch. The
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  Speaker 1: Brazos County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting death of
• 30:10
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  Speaker 1: a home in the 6400 block of Trace Bend shortly
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: after 9 o'clock Wednesday night and found 59-year-old Veronica Tussey
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Taylor dead from a gunshot wound. The woman's vehicle was missing.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Using flock cameras, her vehicle was traced to northern Harris County.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Before authorities could enter the property... The suspect, 54-year-old John
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Goodwin of College Station, took his own life. Investigators say
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the victim and the suspect were acquainted. Today's kickoff of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the Texas A & M 150 festivities are getting an
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: adjustment due to weather. The sesquicentennial opening ceremony that was
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: slated to take place on the steps of the Williams
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Administration Building will now move indoors to Rudder Auditorium. The
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: ceremony starts at 4 o'clock. Free parking is available in
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the West Campus Garage. and shuttles start running at 3 p.m.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: As of right now, the university says the 9 p.m.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: yell practice and pyro drone show is still on schedule.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: The man accused of plotting an attack on the state
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: capitol is facing even more legal troubles.
• 31:12
  Speaker 26: The suspect, Benny Caldera Jr., originally faced state charges of
• 31:16
  Speaker 26: making a terroristic threat, and he was about to be
• 31:18
  Speaker 26: released on bond. Governor Greg Abbott says DPS worked with
• 31:21
  Speaker 26: the FBI to get him booked on federal charges of
• 31:24
  Speaker 26: possessing a gun with an obliterated serial number.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: We need to recognize that we live in a time
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: when there are people who make these types of threats.
• 31:32
  Speaker 26: It was one of Caldera's friends who called the cops
• 31:34
  Speaker 26: after hearing the 40-year-old was going to Austin. Court papers
• 31:37
  Speaker 26: show he was angry at the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee
• 31:40
  Speaker 26: and reportedly wanted them exterminated. In San Antonio, Michael Board,
• 31:45
  Speaker 26: TSN News.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: A recent traffic stop in Bryan led to the arrest
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: of a man on drug charges. A car was pulled
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: over in the 1600 block of North Earl Rudder Freeway
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: after the driver was observed crossing the center line. Officers
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: say they could smell marijuana coming from the vehicle. The
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: occupants refused a search of the vehicle, so a canine
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: unit was brought in from College Station. The passenger, 40-year-old
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Jerome Gordine of Pasadena, was found with various THC and
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: marijuana products. He had gummies and a vape with a
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: combined THC weight of just over 260 grams, and the
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: marijuana weighed in at just under 5 grams. Gordine allegedly
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: told police he had forgotten about the marijuana and did
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: not know about the THC vape because it belonged to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: a friend. He was charged with possession of a controlled
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: substance and possession of marijuana. President Trump returned to the
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Lone Star State Thursday. He was in Denton to highlight
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: the manufacturing growth of truck builder Peterbilt. but mostly to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: campaign for Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: Despite the leaked audio tape of Paxton saying President Trump's
• 32:48
  Speaker 6: midterm convention hurt his campaign, the two seem closer than
• 32:51
  Speaker 6: ever in Denton.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: One of the most loyal people.
• 32:54
  Speaker 15: When I was being hit by the radical left very hard,
• 32:57
  Speaker 15: Ken Paxton was at my side. And I have to
• 33:00
  Speaker 15: always remember that because he could be a pain in
• 33:02
  Speaker 15: the ass sometimes, I'll be honest.
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: Is he here, by the way?
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, there he is.
• 33:06
  Speaker 6: Trump also celebrated the growth of Peterbilt, a thousand new
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: jobs at their Denton facility.
• 33:12
  Speaker 15: We need Ken so badly, and that's why I'm here.
• 33:15
  Speaker 15: I wanted to stop here. I wanted to also say
• 33:16
  Speaker 15: you build a nice truck.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: Trump also had a third message.
• 33:19
  Speaker 15: We have the greatest numbers of any president in the
• 33:23
  Speaker 15: history of our country, and I can't get the word out.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: In Austin, Chris Fox, TSN News.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: A blue alert has been called off after a man
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: who shot a law enforcement officer Wednesday night has been caught.
• 33:35
  Speaker 27: A Harris County, Texas sheriff's deputy is recovering after being
• 33:38
  Speaker 27: shot Wednesday and is said to be in fair condition.
• 33:41
  Speaker 27: The man accused of shooting that deputy is now captured
• 33:44
  Speaker 27: after a night-long pursuit. Sheriff Ed Gonzalez.
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: He was struck in the lower half of his body.
• 33:50
  Speaker 28: The preliminary information we have is that the alleged suspect
• 33:53
  Speaker 28: I fled the location in the patrol car.
• 33:55
  Speaker 27: And now Chase Lynn Patton is in jail. The sheriff
• 33:59
  Speaker 27: says he has a long criminal history. The shooting occurred
• 34:02
  Speaker 27: when the deputy responded to a family disturbance call. Eben Brown,
• 34:06
  Speaker 27: Fox News.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Several Houston area hotels are facing a federal lawsuit. claiming
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: they enabled and benefited from sex trafficking of minors.
• 34:15
  Speaker 29: Among the operators named as defendants are Budget Inn, Palace Inn,
• 34:19
  Speaker 29: Days Inn, Camelot Inn, and Wyndham Hotels and Resorts. The
• 34:23
  Speaker 29: lawsuit claims traffickers use the hotel rooms for sexual exploitation.
• 34:28
  Speaker 29: and that hotel operators made money in renting out the rooms.
• 34:31
  Speaker 29: Hotel employees, meanwhile, are accused of not intervening. An attorney
• 34:35
  Speaker 29: for the trafficking victim says the lawsuit is intended to
• 34:38
  Speaker 29: provide them financial compensation. I'm Kristen Yates, TSN News.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: More news throughout the day or anytime at WTAW.com. I'm
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Will Welch, 1620-945-WTAW.
• 34:53
  Speaker 20: Friends of Chamber Music presents the American Patchwork Quartet, Friday,
• 34:57
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• 35:00
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• 35:06
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• 35:10
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• 35:17
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• 35:22
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• 35:26
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• 35:30
  Speaker 3: 1620-945-WTAW. Hey, for what it's worth, if you're driving to
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Houston today, it's not as bad as they're actually saying.
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: I feel like they kind of got a break. It's
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: similar to here. You get some more tonight. But they're
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: saying they're reevaluating whether or not where the flood risk is,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: where it isn't. But I know some people were. As
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: one is when you have people. that commute to Houston
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: every day. And if you've been to Houston once, you
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: know how it goes.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Somebody spills a cup of water out on 610 and
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the city floods.
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: 70% chance of rain today, mainly in the afternoon. And
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: then maybe we get a break this evening and up
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: to evening tomorrow. But, yeah, it's going to be a
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: rainy weekend overall. It's only going to get out of
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: the mid-80s. It's not going to get out of the mid-80s.
• 36:10
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• 36:24
  Speaker 5: All rise!
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: The judge is in the building. Ed Spillane. Ed, good morning.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Good morning, good morning.
• 36:31
  Speaker 9: You can sit down.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Well, I didn't really.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: That was more for effect. I guess I should have.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Colin Killian.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Don't make me exercise my duties, all right?
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: Well, we're doing a College Station update, and this is
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: a great time to get you in because this is
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: the season.
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: Yes.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: Of warrant amnesty. Yes.
• 36:54
  Speaker 30: It seems like we should have like a separate court
• 36:56
  Speaker 30: for Northgate because we get a lot of cases out
• 36:59
  Speaker 30: of Northgate.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: We're going to come back to that. Yeah, we're going
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: to look back around.
• 37:01
  Speaker 9: Okay, good.
• 37:02
  Speaker 30: But yes, warrant amnesty, if you think you have a
• 37:07
  Speaker 30: warrant or you know you have a warrant, starting October
• 37:10
  Speaker 30: 12th and going until Friday, October 30th, if you come
• 37:14
  Speaker 30: to court and take care of it, you can't just
• 37:17
  Speaker 30: wave and run out, but if you come in and
• 37:19
  Speaker 30: work with us, We'll waive the warrant fee, which has
• 37:22
  Speaker 30: gone up. It's $ 75 per case. But most importantly, you'll
• 37:26
  Speaker 30: avoid being arrested. And the JP courts always cooperate with us, too,
• 37:32
  Speaker 30: and run it during the same time.
• 37:34
  Speaker 9: And we help you. Sometimes people don't know what court
• 37:36
  Speaker 9: or where to go. Yeah. And I'll be real.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: That can be confusing. If something has jumped off and
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: you're thinking to yourself, whatever happened with that? I need
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: to take a look into that. This is the time
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: of year to do that. And, you know, I know
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: some people like, well, it's always a scam whenever they'll
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: call you. It is. That's because they have a warrant
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: amnesty period that, you know, that you can.
• 37:59
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we do text people and all that. But, yeah,
• 38:01
  Speaker 9: always check.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: You mentioned you mentioned the fact that if you have
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: a warrant or you think you have a warrant and
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: asking for a friend, what if you just don't know?
• 38:10
  Speaker 30: Well, you can look online, cstx.gov slash courts, and we
• 38:15
  Speaker 30: actually list the actions. You can look to see if
• 38:16
  Speaker 30: a family, friend, neighbor, or your son have a warrant,
• 38:19
  Speaker 30: or you can call. But yeah, we update that and
• 38:23
  Speaker 30: list all our warrants on there, at least from our court.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: That's fairly exciting. If we can just search for other people,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: I feel we could turn this into a game for
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: the radio.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: If you have a warrant for free tickets to jail, uh.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: And, uh, Halloween will be the beginning of the other
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: side of this.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: You have the amnesty period and then you have the
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: warrant roundup.
• 38:44
  Speaker 30: Um, chances are, if you didn't come up, come in
• 38:46
  Speaker 30: during the amnesty, uh, law enforcement will, uh, prioritize and
• 38:51
  Speaker 30: look at those warrants and, uh, Starting Halloween and going
• 38:55
  Speaker 30: until November 8th. is a Warrant Roundup, and we do
• 38:58
  Speaker 30: that as an incentive to get people to come in.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Trick or treat, baby. Come on.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: It couldn't be any. That has got to be the
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: best time ever.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: I think so.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: Start the Warrant Roundup on Halloween.
• 39:09
  Speaker 9: Halloween on a Saturday.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: On a Saturday night.
• 39:12
  Speaker 9: Get them all.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Get them all, baby.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: It's like The Purge. No, it's not like The Purge.
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: No, it's just going to make a fun mugshot run
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: with everyone.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there will be some people in costumes. Yeah, that'd
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: be great.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: So yeah, if you want more information on that, cstx.gov.
• 39:31
  Speaker 9: That's a great place to go.
• 39:32
  Speaker 30: 979-764-3683 is our direct court number and we will help
• 39:38
  Speaker 30: you and really it's contact, you know, if you contact us,
• 39:42
  Speaker 30: it's always good for you.
• 39:43
  Speaker 9: We'll help you out. We look at your financial situation,
• 39:47
  Speaker 9: all that.
• 39:47
  Speaker 30: It's always best for you to contact the court instead
• 39:51
  Speaker 30: of just ignoring it and making it worse.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely true.
• 39:54
  Speaker 5: For sure.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Let's talk Northgate. We haven't had a chance to have
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: you in to talk about this.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: So all of these texts, these tweets that we read
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: around Aggie football games, you get to see the majority
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: of those, right?
• 40:05
  Speaker 30: Yes, yeah. We see now over 2,000. Most of them
• 40:10
  Speaker 30: are minor in possession, but public intoxication. We see about 2,000
• 40:14
  Speaker 30: a year. The city of Bryan had two files. So
• 40:17
  Speaker 30: that's a comparison.
• 40:19
  Speaker 9: Lubbock had 200.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Go, College Station!
• 40:23
  Speaker 5: See, this is the thing.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Whenever, for someone that doesn't really follow it all that much,
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: I expect the number to be high in a college town.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: But again, comparison, Bryan had two.
• 40:38
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: And Lubbock had 200.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: About 200.
• 40:40
  Speaker 9: Waco, maybe 40.
• 40:43
  Speaker 30: Austin and Houston have almost zero because they have sobriety
• 40:46
  Speaker 30: centers and other things. And, you know, of course, I
• 40:49
  Speaker 30: don't know all the reasons, but it's really Northgate has become,
• 40:51
  Speaker 30: I think, kind of a perfect storm about six different things.
• 40:55
  Speaker 30: You have about 30,000 or 40,000 that live around there.
• 40:57
  Speaker 30: You have many places that let underage kids. I had
• 41:00
  Speaker 30: a bench trial yesterday where a place let people in,
• 41:04
  Speaker 30: and I guess people can sit at the bar at
• 41:06
  Speaker 30: age 19, according to the defendant. But anyway, you know,
• 41:10
  Speaker 30: you have that. Then you have lots of police. who
• 41:12
  Speaker 30: are there for all sorts of things. And obviously it
• 41:15
  Speaker 30: gets more, their attention gets taken on more serious things
• 41:19
  Speaker 30: around 2 a.m. So I've told, you know, it's almost
• 41:22
  Speaker 30: like drinking in the police parking lot because there.
• 41:24
  Speaker 9: Are lots of police there.
• 41:25
  Speaker 30: And the cases I get, even though it's a lot,
• 41:28
  Speaker 30: there's not a lot of people pleading not guilty.
• 41:30
  Speaker 9: I mean, they're underage drinking. And then also, and I'm
• 41:34
  Speaker 9: not sure, and I.
• 41:34
  Speaker 30: Have nothing to do with this, but you would think
• 41:36
  Speaker 30: that some of the places, if they had so many offenses,
• 41:39
  Speaker 30: that TABC would, you know look at or something and
• 41:42
  Speaker 30: i don't know the whole.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: I guess i guess that's why why i'm confused is
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: because again you have this staggering and it's not i'd
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: have to go back and look but it's not a
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: new thing there's always been no.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: I recall when hurricane harry's lost their license yeah you
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: know the death penalty.
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah but that said when it's that dramatic and it
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: is you just look at the math it's it's a
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: crazy high amount of kids getting uh catching cases off
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: of off of party crimes at Northgate you would think
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: there would be more of a an answer like what
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: did you can't just make it 21 and up do
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: you just say unilaterally the district is now a 21
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: and up zone if you can't get into the club
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: until you're 21 so you eliminate that problem would that
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: even help would the businesses be able to you would
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: think think that it wouldn't put that much of a
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: dent in.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Certainly not in sales.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: In sales.
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: But then you're looking at the whole fake ID trade
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: and everything else like that.
• 42:42
  Speaker 30: You never know how much the bars make on people
• 42:45
  Speaker 30: under 21.
• 42:46
  Speaker 9: I know they charge. According to what I hear, they charge.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: And they're not having a great time. It's hard being
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: a bar owner today. It just is. I'm not seeing
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: you guys are getting rich off of this. I'm just
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: saying that.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: $ 2, 000.
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: Here versus $ 200 in in Lubbock by God, Texas is, uh.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: It's pretty staggering.
• 43:09
  Speaker 30: I'm sure the good ones do not want all these
• 43:12
  Speaker 30: offenses and police.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: So judge, are you seeing a difference? How long have
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: you been doing this, this area?
• 43:18
  Speaker 9: 2002.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So since 2002, have you seen a difference in the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: types of crimes that you're having to adjudicate there?
• 43:24
  Speaker 30: Um, yeah, well definitely the minor possession and all that
• 43:28
  Speaker 30: have gone way up and, and we were down at
• 43:31
  Speaker 30: one point to about 400. Um, I've also seen a difference.
• 43:34
  Speaker 30: You know, we have more people living in closed end apartments.
• 43:37
  Speaker 30: So it used to be the open end. They would
• 43:39
  Speaker 30: actually invite the bicycle officers to ride through the swimming pool.
• 43:43
  Speaker 30: So we used to see much, you know, more kind
• 43:45
  Speaker 30: of disorderly conduct noise and.
• 43:47
  Speaker 9: Have a lot come out of that. It was spread
• 43:49
  Speaker 9: around the city.
• 43:50
  Speaker 30: Now it's a lot of Northgate when it comes to
• 43:52
  Speaker 30: the alcohol and those things. Um, you know, we do
• 43:55
  Speaker 30: see a different drug paraphernalia, other things, and we see
• 43:59
  Speaker 30: fighting and all sorts of other assaults.
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: But, um, That is the big thing. I mean, lately
• 44:04
  Speaker 9: this past two years, no surprise, we see a lot
• 44:06
  Speaker 9: of construction.
• 44:08
  Speaker 30: And the other thing since COVID, very high speed. I mean,
• 44:13
  Speaker 30: people going well over 25 over the speed limit, which
• 44:17
  Speaker 30: I used to see maybe once a month.
• 44:19
  Speaker 9: Now it's every day. We get about four or five
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: or six.
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: 25 over?
• 44:22
  Speaker 9: 25 over.
• 44:23
  Speaker 30: And, you know, sometimes it's, you know, and in construction zones.
• 44:28
  Speaker 9: But a lot of times it's over 100 miles, you know,
• 44:31
  Speaker 9: on Highway 6.
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: Oh, wow.
• 44:32
  Speaker 30: Yeah, no, that is, and that's not, we're not different
• 44:35
  Speaker 30: in that. That, you know, you mentioned driving to Houston.
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 44:38
  Speaker 9: Driving to Houston enough, you'll see the one or two
• 44:40
  Speaker 9: knuckleheads who are really just going crazy.
• 44:42
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 44:42
  Speaker 30: And that, you know, I'm not saying it's COVID, but
• 44:45
  Speaker 30: I kind of, pre-COVID, post-COVID, that's when we saw a
• 44:49
  Speaker 30: lot of that.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: That's interesting.
• 44:50
  Speaker 30: That kind of law-breaking, you know, we see city ordinance violations.
• 44:55
  Speaker 30: have risen, just where people are. A certain number of
• 44:58
  Speaker 30: people just don't want to follow certain rules.
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: The other one is obviously the vape cartridges, synthetic weed,
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: whatever y'all call it.
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: Whatever's being sold now versus.
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: What was once free and legal and now is exceptionally illegal.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: How much is that coming through with kids just... I
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: have a question with that is I could see a
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: world where the kids literally don't know that the law changed.
• 45:30
  Speaker 30: Yes, that's what we've all seen, that the laws, especially
• 45:34
  Speaker 30: with marijuana, are being enforced very differently. And obviously, we
• 45:39
  Speaker 30: get a lot of kids who come from all over
• 45:42
  Speaker 30: and from Harris County. And so that is, and you know,
• 45:45
  Speaker 30: you get, you come here and get arrested with a vape,
• 45:48
  Speaker 30: and you get arrested on a felony.
• 45:51
  Speaker 9: Nowadays these data centers, all those are real. Those things
• 45:55
  Speaker 9: will follow you for 20, 30 years. And so it's
• 45:59
  Speaker 9: a big concern. It's mostly legislatively.
• 46:02
  Speaker 30: Has been the Texas Senate that, because there have, I mean,
• 46:05
  Speaker 30: the last, I've followed the legislature. There's been make it
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  Speaker 30: a class C misdemeanor, fine only.
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  Speaker 4: Oh my God.
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  Speaker 3: We've been talking about this.
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  Speaker 9: Those have gone through the house.
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  Speaker 20: Yeah.
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  Speaker 30: And you look, every state around, I grew up in Missouri.
• 46:16
  Speaker 30: That is not a liberal state. They legalize, I mean,
• 46:19
  Speaker 30: all these states around us, But I think what a
• 46:22
  Speaker 30: lot of people looking at, no matter what your view is,
• 46:24
  Speaker 30: you really want a law, if it's going to be
• 46:26
  Speaker 30: a law, to be enforced and enforced kind of evenly.
• 46:31
  Speaker 30: If it's wildly not, then there's a problem with that law.
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  Speaker 3: To where it's clear.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: For everybody involved, for the citizens, for the law enforcement,
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: you want it to be simple and straightforward to where
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: there's not these... I mean, genuine confusion. And keep in mind,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: like you assume, like we talk about it from time
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: to time. We have some college students that listen to
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: the show, but a lot of college students don't. And
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: a lot of young adults don't. And so could they
• 47:01
  Speaker 3: just not?
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they absolutely could.
• 47:03
  Speaker 9: Yeah, that THC thing kicked in at a weird time.
• 47:06
  Speaker 11: It did.
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would think there would be some additional
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: cost involved because now if you have a vape, You
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: guys have to send it off to be tested, right?
• 47:13
  Speaker 12: Yeah.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Because there's a slight difference. There's no visual difference between
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: something that's legal and illegal.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: But there's additional costs.
• 47:21
  Speaker 30: And testing has to be. But I feel bad for
• 47:25
  Speaker 30: people who get arrested and they didn't know. And then
• 47:29
  Speaker 30: what they go through, even when the case is over.
• 47:32
  Speaker 30: It's the collateral consequence of having that.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: It's being treated as a serious crime because it's written
• 47:40
  Speaker 3: as a serious crime. And before then, it was just
• 47:43
  Speaker 3: walk into a store and buy it.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 30: I try to educate them as much about expunction. And
• 47:49
  Speaker 30: it's kind of an incentive because a lot of them
• 47:50
  Speaker 30: are going to be good. At least the nice thing
• 47:52
  Speaker 30: about the people I see in my court, I see everyone.
• 47:54
  Speaker 9: They're going to be good citizens.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: They want to do the right thing.
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  Speaker 10: Right.
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  Speaker 30: And eventually they will. You know, maybe at 18 they
• 47:58
  Speaker 30: do something. They're different people at 21. But either way,
• 48:01
  Speaker 30: they want to do the right thing. And it really,
• 48:04
  Speaker 30: I mean, I'm not giving them legal advice, but it
• 48:06
  Speaker 30: really probably is in their interest to get that expunged,
• 48:09
  Speaker 30: get it done. It's a very different world today with
• 48:12
  Speaker 30: what happens in my court floating out there.
• 48:14
  Speaker 9: Than it used to be.
• 48:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the truth. That's the truth. Ed, dude, thank
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: you so much.
• 48:19
  Speaker 9: We've got to make this a regular day.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: And we really appreciate what you do because I know
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: that you look at your court as an opportunity rather
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: than something to punish somebody.
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  Speaker 9: I just want to keep them out of a court
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  Speaker 9: in the future.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: That's right.
• 48:30
  Speaker 9: That's a big deal.
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: Colin, what do we have to hit still?
• 48:34
  Speaker 8: Hey, it's October. It's getting cooler outside, and October is
• 48:37
  Speaker 8: always a fun month, right? We have got a full
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: schedule of fun events planned in the city of College Station.
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: Throughout the month, we've got a new blog up that
• 48:46
  Speaker 8: we posted yesterday that has all the details on these.
• 48:49
  Speaker 8: You can find that at blog.cstx.gov. I'll quickly run down
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: the list without giving a lot of detail on them.
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: We've talked about Biketober. That's a week from tomorrow, Saturday,
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: October 10th. 9 to 1 a.m. starts at College Station
• 49:01
  Speaker 8: City Hall. The annual Fall Fest and Haunted House is
• 49:04
  Speaker 8: October 15th at the Lincoln Rec Center. A haunted hike
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: for people 13 and older.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: We say a haunted hike.
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: Which is a night hike at Flick Creek Park.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: That's spooky enough.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: That I like.
• 49:15
  Speaker 8: That is very cool. So, yeah, it's been very popular
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: in past years, expected. to be that way again. But, again,
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: that's Friday, October 16th, 630 to 930 at Lick Creek.
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: The Senior Autumn Fest is Thursday, October 22nd. Trunk or
• 49:30
  Speaker 8: Treat is Friday, October 23rd. Cops and Goblins is October
• 49:36
  Speaker 8: 26th at Wolfpen Creek Park. and that's with the College
• 49:39
  Speaker 8: Station Police Department. And then in my office, we always
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: have Halloween on 19, which on our cable TV channel,
• 49:46
  Speaker 8: we run classic public domain scary movies.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Just cause.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: How cool.
• 49:51
  Speaker 8: For two straight days.
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: This is so great. I love it every single year.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: And yeah, I know you're not a scary movie fan.
• 49:58
  Speaker 8: No, but I'll watch some of the classics. Yeah, it's
• 50:01
  Speaker 8: things like Nosferatu, which was kind of the predecessor, I guess,
• 50:05
  Speaker 8: to Dracula.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 50:06
  Speaker 8: And then you had The Phantom of the Opera, a
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: lot of Vincent Price movies.
• 50:09
  Speaker 9: Oh, Vincent.
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: It's a fun deal.
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  Speaker 3: Amazing.
• 50:11
  Speaker 8: And that is October 30th and 31st.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 50:14
  Speaker 3: I love it. CSTX.gov if you want to see it.
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: You can find it at that, and you can also
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: go to blog.cstx.gov.
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: Heck yeah. Gentlemen, thank you all so much for coming in.
• 50:24
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  Speaker 30: A.I.
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  Speaker 32: And online predators are creating new threats for our children
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  Speaker 3: watch college football and get bombarded by that commercial from
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  Speaker 3: the Kelsey's. Have you seen this?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen it.
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  Speaker 3: Is that the most annoying commercial that's on?
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: It's one of them. But currently, for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: most commercials are at least somewhat annoying.
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  Speaker 3: Someone tracked this. One hundred and ninety one runs of
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  Speaker 3: the Jason and Kylie Kelsey commercial. arguing over, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what happens if they can't watch all the end. It's,
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  Speaker 3: it's everywhere. It's, it's, it's getting more run than political
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  Speaker 3: commercials right now, which is hard to believe. Peyton Manning's
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  Speaker 3: obviously got two, three, I believe he's got Cintas nationwide
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  Speaker 3: and Bud Light. How much is Peyton worth now? Have
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  Speaker 3: we tracked that stat?
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: I have not tracked that stat, but I can assure
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: you the number is staggering. He's got car dealerships. He
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  Speaker 1: owns a a bunch of Papa John's.
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  Speaker 3: He has restaurants. He has a production house at this point.
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  Speaker 5: Is he a billionaire yet?
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's a billionaire, but I think
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  Speaker 1: He will be comfortable, and his family will be comfortable
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  Speaker 3: Guys, take it easy out there, obviously. Home game, a
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  Speaker 3: We just had Ed Spillane on. Don't do anything stupid
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  Speaker 3: this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do stupid things.
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  Speaker 5: Come on.
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  Speaker 1: And watch out for hillbillies driving things that look like
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  Speaker 3: Dang right. The Arkansans are coming.
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  Speaker 3: have a great day.